The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LO I ON, MON VA Y E v ENIN G, NOVEMBER 5, 1866.

March, 1852. Since June, 1863, the Count, in
concert with General Caller, fulfilled the duties of
Plenipotentiary for the negociations relative to the
arrangement of the limits of the frontiers of France
and Spain.
The weather continues splendid. Bright, warm,
genial, and cloudless. It has been a summer day.
One of the most exciting and interesting portions
of the history of France in the 16th century has
formed the foundation of a high-class drama just
produced at the Odeon. It is in five acts. The
author is M. Louis Bouillett. Under the title of
the " Conjuration d'Amboise," a very stirring illus-
tration is presented of the plot of Amboise, which
was organised in 1560. The object of it was to re-
move the young King Francis I. from the domina-
tion of the Guise who aspired to the throne. The
avowed master-spirit of this plot was George Barre
la Itenaudie, who was appointed at the very com-
mencement of the machinations, but the soul of the
enterprise was the Prince de Conde. These political
intrigues are enlivened, or, at all events, varied, by
a skilfully imagined amorous intrigue. Conde saves
from immediate death Madame de Brisson, the wife
of an old gentleman devoted to the Duke of Guise.
He conceives a violent passion for the lady, which
she is indisposed to. return, but in order to see
her Conde returns to the Court, where his enemies
govern. Catherine de Medicis seeks to retain him
there, desirous to oppose the Prince as an obstacle
to the Guise, and with this object she contrives to
ingratiate herself into the goodwill of Madame de
Brisson. It was, however, dangerous for the Prince
de Conde to remain at Court, for the jealous hus-
band sought his life. Conde, however, manages to
get free by the aid o f some of the conspirators who
escaped from the gibbet, and an interview is ar-
ranged between him and Madame do Brisson in a
lonely hotel. Madame de Brisson confessed that she
loves the Prince, but her duty makes her resist
him. Afterwards, hoivever, when the Prince is
thrown into prison, she wishes to prove her love
by bringing poison that they may die together.
Conde repudiates the idea of suicide, but
would rather die upon the scaffold if only to bring
shame and disgrace upon his enemies for his death.
Madame de Brisson alone swallows the poison, and
throws herself at the feet of her husband, who, re-
ceiving private information, comes to surprise her
with the Prince. Ultimately the death of Francis
the Second restores the Prince to liberty; and it is
Catherine de Medicis who is the medium of his de-
liverance. This drama is of a high character. It
is in lofty and impassioned verse, gratifying to the
ear, and adding interest to the stirring composition
of the plot. Berton played the Prince de Conde
very effectively, and Madame Laurence Gerard was
charming as Marie Stuart. The author was called
upon clamorously by the whole audience, but he
modestly abstained from presenting himself.
Wonderful progress is made with the various
constructions for the Great Exhibition. Five thou-
sand workmen are bu3ily engaged, and even from
day to day something new seems to spring up as if
by magic, like Aladdin's palace. The constructions
of the magician are less rapid and not so marvellous
as the structure now being raised by the genius,
skill, and industry of Frenchmen, the Champ de
Mars.

There has been a very frightful affair at a wine shop,
where lodgings are to be had, at Levallois Perret,
near Paris. Two soldiers who had been drinking
during the evening went away, but returned in two
or three hours and asked for a bed. The landlord
said that all the beds were occupied, but he would
make them one up in the shop. When he came
down stairs with the sheets he saw that an attempt
had been made to break open the till. lle tried to
put the soldiers out, but the soldiers struck him
with their swords. A lodger came to his assistance
on hearing his cries, but one of the soldiers cut out
his eye with his sword. The landlord's wife hurried
down, but she also was wounded with the sword.
The brother-in-law was served in the same way. It
is feared that the landlord's, wounds are mortal.
The injuries received by the other persons are not
so serious. The soldiers have been arrested.

The Siecle says that the impression produced at
Vienna by the nomination of M. Bust as Minister
of Foreign Affairs in Austria is that hisentry.into
fluence on the relations of that Power with foreign
countries, particularly with Prussia and Southern
Germany. The Siede, however, adds that people
who take great interest in the affairs of Austria fear
that the German predilections of M. Beust will ren-
der the solution of purely Austrian questions still
more difficult.