The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-28 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The Indian and China mail, received at Paris by
way of Suez, has brought some particulars respect-
ing the expedition under Admiral Rose, with the

view of obtaining satisfaction from the King of
Corea for the murder of several French missionaries.
It was reported in Paris a day or two ago that orders
had been despatched by the Government to post-
pone his mission, but that these orders had not
reached him until after the squadron had sailed. Be
this as it may, at all events Admiral hose had
arrived at the mouth of the river which leads to the
capital. The King offered to negotiate upon the
matter in the capital itself. This request was re-
fused by Admiral Rose, who, it is believed, had
reason to suspect some treachery was intended.
The Illoniteur, in its official part, states that the
Emperor has received the reply of the Federal Coun-
cil to the letters of his Majesty accrediting the
Marquis de Banneville as ambassador to the Swiss
Confederation.
The evening Moniteur, in its weekly review of
latest political incidents, says :--" Baron de Beust,
Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Emperor of
Austria, Francis Joseph, has passed a few days at
Pesth, where he had numerous conferences with the
principal members of the Hungarian Diet. He ex-

pressed the most conciliatory views, and gave the

assurance that if an agreement should be effected in
regard to the local and general limits of the empire
the city of Pesth would shortly have a special

Minister for Hungary."

Some disturbances took place a few days ago at
Trieste, on the occasion of the funeral of a young
man of that city, a Garibaldian volunteer, who was
killed during the last war against Austria. A few
arrests were made, and tranquillity was soon re-
stored.

The Indicateur d'llazebrouck records an extra-
ordinary fact which it attributes to the rage preva-
lent among ladies for ornamenting the back of the
head with a chignon, or mass of hair manufactured
so as to resemble a tolerably-sized cabbage. It
says that a child has been born at Morbarque with
a natural excrescence suspended from the back ex-
actly resembling the chignon, both in shape, size,
and appearance, only that it is of " too, too solid
flesh," instead of being fabricated from the human
hair. A Paris paper which notices this strange
phenomenon hints that the mother of the child had
perhaps longed for a chignon, and that her husband
would not let her wear one.

The steamer Dix-Decembre has returned to
Toulon after the successful immersion of the sub-
marine cable between the island of lAreins (gulf of
Jouan) and the island of Hyeres, thus considerably

facilitating the communication between the south
of France and ports of the Mediterranean.

At the recommendation of the Minister of the

Fine Arts, M. Hebert, historical painter, has been
appointed Director of the Imperial Academy of
France at Rome, in the room of M. Robert Fleury,
who resigned that post in consequence of ill-health.
An artfully arranged plan of robbery has been
successfully carried into effect. The victim is a
gentleman, M. G--, who resides on the Boule-
vard Magenta. He received an anonymous letter,
signed " A Friend," intimating that his wife was
unfaithful, and advising him that he had important
business at Rouen, and that if he went and re-
turned home suddenly he would surprise his guilty
wife with her lover. M. did not believe the im-
putation, but he took the "friend's" advice. Two
days afterwards the lady also received an anony-
mous letter telling her that her husband had no
business to transact at Rouen, but that he was only
gone there to enjoy himself with his mistress. As
the letter mentioned the hotel where her husband
was stopping at Rouen, the lady immediately pro-
ceeded thither, and was agreeably surprised to find
that there was no " lady in the case." Au explana-

tion ensued and each produced the anonymous letter
which was written by the same hand. They thought
they had only been subjected to a malicious hoax
and returned back to Paris together. On entering
his apartment, however, he found that his secre-
tary had been broken open,
,and that the valuables
It had contained had been stolen. Madame G—
fotind that she had been robbed of her jewelry. The
value of the articles stolen is estimated at 40,000 f.
The skilful thief and accomplished letter writer is as
yet undiscovered by the police.
Death has been rather active among eminent per-
sonages in France during the year 1866. Among
those who died were members of the Senate, of the
Council of State, military and naval officers,
bishops, magistrates, public functionaries, bar-
risters, doctors, literary and scientific men and