The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-16 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.
There being no real news about the armistice,
the Paris papers each day resort to the most con-
tradictory fabrications upon the subject. The
Moniteur has directed its attention to the matter,

and remarks upon the absurdity of pretending to
give accounts of what has taken place with the Em-
peror
and in the cabinet of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. It also hints to certain journals that they
are liable to be punished for these inventions, which
have a very injurious effect. here is the actual po-
sition, according to the illoniteur of last evening :
" We should remark that it is only nine days
since the mediation was proposed, that the discus-
sions which it necessitates cannot be entirely com-
municated by telegraph, and that it requires throe
days and three nights for a courier from Paris to
reach the head-quarters of the King of Prussia. All
that we can say is, that the negotiations proceed,
and that the best relations have not ceased to exist
between the Emperor Napoleon and the King of
Prussia."

A Cabinet Council was held early yesterday
morning at the Tuileries, at which the Emperor pre-
sided. In the course of the morning the Empress
and the Imperial Prince left Paris.
The Moniteur contradicts the report, freely cir-
culated in Paris, that the cholera had broken out at
Lille. The sanitary state of that town is very satis-
factory. That paper also confirms, almost in my
words, the devices resorted to in order to supply
the rage for news. It says—" Public opinion, im-
patient to know the progress of the mgotiations on
the subject of the mediation between thebelligerents,
seeks for news everywhere, and thus compels, as it
were, the journalist to fabricate it at their taste to
satisfy the general curiosity." In short, little if
any reliance is to be placed upon the news
of the evening papers. Before the time for
their publication crowds collect around the
stations where they are sold. People will
have them for fighting, love or money. They read
their startling and mendacious reports with greed
and avidity on one day, and devour the contradic-
tion next day with equal pleasure and satisfaction.
I have closely watched the evening papers for the
last three weeks or so, and though I cannot say
they have been " all barren," I can assure you that
their attractive metal of the Monday proves to be
dross on the Tuesday. Marshal Benedek was a
great card last week. All Paris has been in tears
because they were informed that the Marshal's de-
feat induced him to blow out his brains, and I be-
lieve they are now almost as sorry at learning that

his brains are intact.
The greatest secrecy is observed regarding the
manufacture of weapons of war. None but work-
men are allowed to enter the manufactories ; and if

secrecy be not enjoined as to the operations, it is

kept. In addition to the new description of guns
spv-Iken of a la six coups are in course of construc-
tion. Six discharges are made at the same instant
cf for, nidable projectiles. I have not seen the
cannon, but Z heard the firing.
The operatio.ns now in progress on the part of the
Prussians have fot. chief object the passage of the

in which Vienna
r attack is
with
valley of the Danube,
Their determination ,to make their
energy is confirmed by .the fact that the 10th corps
d'arniee, which had held Saxony, has received
orders
to join the mass of tro ops on march in Moravia.
The new contingents are .forming round Dresden to
replace those who leave. The combats in Bavaria,
sustained on both sides w ith great vigour, and pro-
longed for several successi. ie days, have resulted in
,a,ve retired to Schwein-
the fact that the Bavarians 1.
furth, on the valley of the -MA ine. This movement
in rear renders free the api )roaohes of Frankfort by
definitively separating the army of Prince Charles
of Bavaria from that of P cince Alexader of llesse.
The Bavarian army is comi nanded by Prince Charles
Theodore, now in his 71st y tar, and has begn Inspec-