The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-11 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
It is said that the Marquis de la Valette, the
Minister of the Interior, who temporarily occupies
the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs, is about to
issue a circular to the Representatives of France at
the various foreign Courts which will give a review
of the important political events of the last two or
three months, and trace the views and policy of the
present French Government. I prepared you some
days ago for the publication of such a document.
'I he tenour of it, I am informed, will be essentially
pacific, and altogether it will be calculated to dispel
uneasy feelings which still prevail in some quarters.
There was rather an important erratum the other
day in my notice of the appointment of M,
Moustier as Minister of Foreign Affairs in
the room of M. Drouyn de I said
that M. Monstier was no tyro in diplo-
matic affairs and not a tyro, as was printed.
M. de Moustier has been very zealous and success-
ful in his diplomatic efforts, particularly at Berlin

in 1859, when mainly through his tact and skill
Prussia was prevented from allying herself with
Austria against France. M. Drouyn de l'Huys has
been four times Minister of Foreign Affairs since
1818. The present appointment of M. Moustier
makes the twelfth appointment of Minister of Fo-
reign Affairs since December, 1848. His prede-
cessors, reckoning from that period, were M.
Drouyn de l'Huys, M. de Tocqueville, June 2, 1849,
M. Lahitte, November 19 of that year ; M. Drouyu
de l'Huy s, January 9, 1851 ; M. Brenier, January
24 of that year ; M. Baroche, April 10, 1851 ; M.
Turgot, 26th of October of that year, M. Drouyn
de l'Huys, July 28, 1852 ; M. Walewski, May 8,
1855 ; M. Thouvenel, Jan. 4, 1861; and M. Drouyn
de L'Huys, October, 15, 1862.
The only news of importance in the Government
despatches from Mexico to the 10th inst. is the con-
firmation of the report of the capture of Tampico by
the Republicans.
The Journal des Debats, in reference to electoral
corruption in England, says :—" It would require a
volume at least to give the disclosures, at once in-
structive and amusing, which are made daily before
the Parliamentary Commissions sitting at Yarmouth
and Totnes, in order to prove the existence of cor-
ruption at elections. Some of these depositions have
equal interest for the moralist and the politician,
and afford striking illustrations of the various mo-

Lives which influence the human heart." After
giving some of the evidence, the Journal des Debats
concludes by arguing that it is most important for
England to repress and destroy electoral corruption.
The great circular nave of the International
Exhibition is nearly completed, and the small inter-
mediate naves are being proceeded with rapidly.
Round the central garden galleries are being built
for promenade in bad weather. The aquariums are
being constructed in the south-east angle of the
Champ de Mars, opposite the Ecole Militaire.
Near the Pont d'Jena a small palace, with an
Asiatic dome, is being built. This is the pavilion
of the Emperor of Russia. Workmen are engaged
in macadamizing the park and the avenues.

Four new branch establishments for the manu-
facture of arms have recently been brought into
activity. They are at Vincennes, Versailles,
Puteaux, and St. Germain. It is the new Chasse-
pota gun which is chiefly in progress of manufacture.
There
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yesterday
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.fete.
I regret to learn that rather a serious accident took
place at the Circus erected for the performance of
horses in the park. Some of the upper benches gave
way, and a great many persons were precipitated
upon those who occupied the lower benches. No.
deaths are mentioned, but there were some c2ses of
broken limbs and severe contusions. The
portions of the fete are peculiarly interesting. Some
700 pilgrims, belonging to various religious orders,
went in procession in honour of St. Klodoald (St.
Cloud), grandson of Sainte Clotilde, the wife of the
great Merovingian chief Clovis. The beautiful new
ogival church, where some imposing ceremonies
have been performed, should be visited by all
strangers. The interior is simple, but in very good
taste. The two chapels are beautifully ornamented.
A new ballet is about to be produced at the
Opera, called " La Source," in which marvellous
effects are to be produced. The chief is the view of
a mountain not only painted, but which by mecha-
nical aid will appear like a real mountain. The
source of water will flow from its sides in the first act
clear and transparent, and the mountain will be
covered with verdure sparkling from the effects of
the sun. In the third act the source will be changed
to an arid waste at the foot of a rugged rock.

Jean Michel Bussiere, a man of forty-five, has
been convicted before the Court of Assize of La
Seine, of murdering and robbing a woman named