The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVii,Ntl%, MAY 2, 1866.

CORRESPO

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

The ltloniteur does not contain any political news
of importance to-day, official or unofficial. It
copies from the Invalide Russe some further par-
ticulars relative to the attempt to assassinate the
Emperor of Russia. The Commission of Inquiry
have ascertained that, in spite of the obstinate
denials of the assassin, he was born in the Govern-
ment of Saratow, and that his real name is Dimitri
Vladimirow Karakozow. (What's in a name ?)
His father had a little property in the district of
Serdobsk. The assassin, who followed a course of
study at the University of Moscow, was always of
a melancholy and hypochondriacal disposition, and
had been *under medical treatment. He wrote a
letter to a fellow-student, asking him to procure
some opium, as he wanted to put an end
to his sufferings. Karakozow has made two visits
to St. Petersburg this year, once in February and
at Easter. He is an advanced Socialist. The Com-
mission are pursuing their inquiries with a view to
ascertain if he has any accomplices among the
Socialists, which is believed to be very probable.
The Emperor and Empress are about to leave
Paris for some time on a tour in the provinces, to
their usual sojourn at Fontainebleau. Their Ma-
jesties will leave Paris on Sunday next, and are
going in the first instance to Auxerre. I believe
that the Imperial Prince will remain at home for
the present, but this point is not yet decided, so at
least says my Court informant.
in regard to the
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summary
The Siecle, whose opinions carry great weight in
pPoalirits,
ahl
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apstihtiefo:ll24inhg e
French press is completely
divided, whilst the greater portion of our journals
accepts the facts as they are so lucidly illustrated by
General de la Marmora, all the habitual supporters
of the right divine, of Legitimacy, and of Ultra-
montane ideas make, in imitation of the Gazette de

Vienne, a formal accusation against Italy. From
her, they argue, comes all the evil ; she it is who,
by her intemperate armaments, has compelled un-
fortunate Austria to fortify herself in the Quadrila-
teral and to concentrate 200,000 men in Venetia.
There is no longer question of Schleswig nor of Hol-
stein, nor of the opposite pretensions of the Cabinets
of Vienna and Berlin. If Austria should take up
arms, it would Le because she is urged to extremi-
ties by the provocation of King Victor Emmanuel

and M. de la Alarmora, his accomplice."
An illustrious foreigner has just arrived at the
hulks of Toulon, a real Chinese, born at Canton,
who has been condemned to hard labour for a seri-
ous offence committed in one of the French posses-
sions in Cochin China. As this is the first instance

of a Chinese coming to take up his residence at the
hulks, his arrival (so says the quaint account) has
produced a certain sensation among his companions
in chains.

The Prussian papers state that on Sunday last
while the troops were defiling before the King at
the Palais Royal, Berlin, a madman threw his .stick
at his Majesty, -which was weighted with lead like
a life preserver. The miscreant is a man named,
Slaw. Happily, his Majesty was not touched by
this dangerous weapon.
The Paris papers seem pleased at the idea of tell-
ing their readers almost daily that there is an
unusual abundance of clever English pickpockets in
the capital at the present time, and that they were
very active at the races on Sunday, a great deal of
property having illegitimately changed hands. One
instance is mentioned as the unkindest cut of all, an
unfeeling English pickpocket having robbed a police
officer (sergeant de ville) of his watch and purse.
The stormy weather continues at Paris. It has
been rather cold and very rainy to-day, and the
accounts from the ports mention heavy weather at
sea. It was so boisterous in the Channel yesterday
that the usual morning mail did not arrive in Paris
last night.
The Paris papers are singularly indifferent about
the fate of the Reform Bill. They published the
result of the division on Sunday morning, and with
the exception of one remark, that the majority of
five was " rather a small one," I have not met with
any comment worth mentioning.
_ _ .

A man who attained rather a bad eminence in
1830, M. G ucrnon 3e Ranville, has just died at his
chateau of Banville, in the department of Calvados,
at the age of 80. Ile was then one of the Ministers
of Charles the Tenth, and his signature was attached
to those fatal ordonnances against the Press which
led to the Revolution, and drove that monarch
ignominiously from the throne.
In a few days the election will take place of a
member to fill the seat at the Academy of the Fine
Arts, vacant by the death of the musician Cla-
pisson, of whom I sent you a short memoir
at the time. It was in 1795, the time of the forma-
tion of the five classes of the Academy of the Fine
Arts, thatthe seat of Clapisson was for the first time
occupied by Mehul, the author of " Joseph." From
1817, the period of the death of that great composer,
till 1834, the chair was occupied by Boieldieu, the com-
poser of the beautiful opera of the " Dame Blanche.'
From thence until 1854 Halevy occupied it. The
section of music is formed of 14 members—Auber,
admitted in 1829 ; Cavafa, 1837 ; Ambroise Thomas,
1851; H. Reber, 1853 ; H. Berlioz, 1856. Although
the section of classics is composed of but six mem-
bers, that of painting includes 14, and those of
sculpture and architecture, 8 each.
The exhibition of paintings of living artists was
opened to-day, and, considering the unfavourable
weather, was well attended. I shall take an early
opportunity of giving a notice of it. The Emperor
went to the private view yesterday and made a
choice of several articles. His Majesty expressed
to Count Nieurweske, the superintendent of the
fine arts, his extreme satisfaction at the exhibition.

LIGHT DINES.--In 1865 the quantity of wine
entered for home consumption was 12,061,000
gallons, of which about 9,310,000 were strong wines, and
only 2,750,000 light; and if the customs duties upon the
latter were reduced to 6d. the gallon (one penny the
bottle) instead of ls.—decided upon by the Govern-
ment—the loss to the revenue would be only £68,750
per annum, and this inappreciable amount would every
month become less until the revenue had not only re-
covered itself but showed an increase. The wino is
frequently obliged to be imported in bottlo ; it is either
too weak or the flavour too delicate to bear the journey
in cask ; and one penny is the highest amount the light
cheap wines can pay, in consequence of the expense of
transport, which from the wine districts in the interior of
France to domicile in London cannot be considered less
than 6d. the bottle, the original cost of the wine, which
is thus necessarily, without the duty, doubled in value.
From Paris alone to the Regent's-park the author paid for
the transport of a case of 12 dozen of wino sd. per bottle ;
for another case of eight dozen, nd. and for a third case
of four dozen, 4d. the bottle. In the reign of James I. one
farthing per dozen bottles was considered a sufficient duty,
and wheat then averaged 325. the quarter.—Mr. IV. Ray
Smee on French Wines. Fourth Edition.
RAINE'S MARRIAGE PORTION OF £lO0—Yesterday
being the Ist of May, the parish of St. George's-in-
the-East, Wapping, was in a state of great liveliness—the
cause being the marriage of one of the "Hundred pound
girls," as the successful candidates are called, who was
brought up, educated, and trained in the asylum founded
by Mr. Henry Raine, an eminent brewer in that locality,
in the year 1719, and the celebration of other ceremonies
in connection therewith, in accordance with the will of the
donor. The fortunate young woman was Elizabeth Ann
Beddington, and the happy man Charles Daniels. The
ceremony was performed in an impressive manner by the
rector in the great room of the asylum, Charles-street, Old
Gravel-lane.

A YOUNG WOMAN BURNED TO PEATII.—Y ester-
day an inquest was held on the body of Maria Alston, aged
19 years. On Friday last the family were alarmed by loud
shrieks, and the deceased was found with the bedding
burning around her, and the bed clothes on fire. Tho
flames were promptly extinguished, but the injuries sus-
tained by the deceased wero most extensive, terminating
fatally on Sunday. The jury returned a verdict of acci-
dental death.
TILE CINQUE PORTS.—At a meeting of the Cor-
poration of Dover yesterday a communication was
read from Earl Granville, intimating that in consequence
of the death of his brother-in-law and sister, Lord and
Lady Rivers, it would be exceedingly painful for him to
receive at present so great an honour as the ceremony of
his installation as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, and
suggesting the postponement of the inauguration, which
was to take place on the 22d inst. It was resolved that the
Town Council sympathises with his Lordship under the
painful circumstances which called for the postponement,
in which they willingly acquiesced, but desired that the
Lord Wara,4ll
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA.

VIENNA, MAY 1 (Evening).

The Archduke Heinrich will, it is announced,
shortly proceed to Verona to take command of the
Division of the Army in Venetia. Prince Alexander
of Hesse will also receive a command. The jour-
nals of this city continue to publish intelligence of
Italian armaments.

The .1 resse asserts that in the Prussian despatch
summoning Saxony to disarm, Count Bismarck
demands explanations respecting the Saxon arma-
ments, and threatens to take measures against
Saxony in case she should return an unsatisfactory
reply or refuse to disarm.

The inhabitants of the fortified towns in Bohemia
have recieved notice some time back to lay in pro-
visions for a considerable period in consequence of

the imminence of war.

It is stated that the Prussian reply delivered here
yesterday to the Austrian note of the 26th ult. de-
clares the Austrian proposals for disarmament to be
completely nullified by the military measures she
has taken against Italy.
The Vorsdadt Zeitung says that Austria addressed
a second note to Prussia on the 26th ult., in which
she repeated her proposal that the Duke of Augus-
tenburg, having the best title to the Schleswig-Hol-
stein throne, should be installed Duke of those
Duchies.

It is rumoured that a courier has arrived with an
autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the
Emperor of Austria.
According to the Fremdenblatt, the intention of
holding an universal exhibition in this city has been
relinquished, on account of the threatening appear-
ance of public, affairs.
The Vienna Chamber of Commerce proposes
sending a deputation to the Emperor to beg him
shortly to convoke the Reichsrath.

PRUSSIA.
BERLIN, MAY 2.

On the 27th ult. the Prussian Government .ad-
dressed a circular note to the German Governments
declaring that the essence of the Prussian proposal
for reform, made on the 9th April, was that a period
should be fixed for the assembling of a German
Parliament before the different Governments en-
tered upon a discussion of the reform propositions.

Prussia will consider the rejection of this point
by the different Governments of Germany as a
virtual refusal seriously to entertain the question of
reforming the Federal Constitution.
The Saxon despatch, in reply to the Prussian
note requesting the disarmament of Saxony, which
was delivered here yesterday, explains that the
armaments in question were made in preparation
for the event of Saxony being called upon by the
Federal Diet to furnish her contingant. The de-
spatch further states that the Saxon Minister of
the Interior is preparing the division of the electoral
districts for the return of deputies to the German
Parliament.

SPAIN.
MADRID, MAY 1 (Evening).

The Patria of this evening says :—" It is in vain
that the Bank of Spain claims the maintenance of
its monopoly. We begin to understand that the
principles of free trade in banking can alone save
the embarassed finances and the trade of the
country."

PRINCE ALFRED.
BRUSSELS, MAY 2.

Prince Alfred arrived here yesterday from Coburg.
A court carriage, in waiting at the station, con-
veyed his Royal Highness to the Palace.

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 2.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida
has arrived here this morning with the above mail,
138 passengers, £52,651 in specie, four packages of
diamonds—value not stated—and 3,217 packages of
cargo, chiefly coffee and cotton. On the 16th ult.
she spoke the English barque Governor ; on the
21st, the steamers Kepler and Thales, and•thc ship
Montrose ; and on the 25th, the ships Robert Pul-
ford and Wallace, and the barque Birch Grove.
The English, squadron was at Montevideo.