The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR 01.1rN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The ilioniteur to-day has no actual news about
Germany, and the articles of the other Paris papers
are written in a pacific mood. The German papers
seem most desirous of war. They state that there
is no cessation in the armaments. Prussia has
ordered, says the Silesian Gazette, the formation of
four armies—but in a spirit " purely defensive."
The first is to protect the Rhenish provinces. The
second is to protect Saxony. The third is to remain
near Berlin and Frankfort in order to protect the
capital, and, if necessary, to rejoin the army of
Silesia. The other and more numerous body of
troops will be so concentrated as to protect Silesia,
which appears to be the more especially menaced
by the Austrian troops assembled at 011mutz.
An account has been received at Paris of the
death of Garibaldi's brother Michel at Milan on
Friday last. He had been ill for several days, and
the General's son and daughter, who travelled to
Nice by express on receipt of a telegraphic despatch,
arrived too late to witness the last moments of their
uncle.

Another terrific murder has taken place. The
body of a woman has been found in a wood near
Villeguif. It has been recognised as that of
Madame G—, the keeper of a wine shop in the
commune. The murderer is supposed to be a man
with whom she is known to have been on very
intimate terms. The police have arrested him.
Free trade is decidedly in the ascendant in Paris.
Latterly theatrical monopoly was destroyed, and
what is called the liberty of the theatres was estab-
lished. Now the authorities have made regulations
respecting cabs and hackney carriages for hire in
the streets, which will be acceptable as well to
foreigners as Parisians. These vehicles are divided
into three classes—the fiacre, or voiture de place,
the voiture de renise, and the voiture de grande de-
mise. For some time past only what are called the
voiture de place had the right of being stationed
in the streets. A company had the monopoly—that
of Dueroix and Co. In 1863 they had 2,250
vehicles, in 1864 they had 2,500, in 1865 2,750, and
on Ist January of this year they had3,ooo vehicles.
The voiture de regieorlicensed carriages, the 2d class,
is a more handsome conveyance and has better
horses. The proprietors had not the right of station-
ing them on the public stands, but they were to be
found at theportes cocheres, or gates of houses. They
have a red number. The voitures de grandes remises
are only to be hired for the day. A man could not
be a coachman before without permission. Now any
one can drive a vehicle for hire after making a sim-
ens .t h vehicleseAsltlreets o n mayfh
ofe authorities
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have thought it right for
pay-
ment of a certain sum perthaennun
protection
that there should be a fixed price. To have the
public streets, the charge is
right of station in the
are to be the prices in future :
365 f. per annum, a franc a clay. The fol-
lowing Vehicles with two places, a franc and a half
cs the hour
the journey (long or short) ; 2 fran