The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-18 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.
A private despatch from Pesth announces the
adoption, pure and simple, by the Lower Chamber
of Hungary, of the project of the address to the
Emperor of Austria.
It is stated from Florence that M. Fondles,
charged with a mission from the Italian Govern-
ment to the Pope, has already been received by his
Holiness. The Italie says that its information from
Rome enables it to augur favourably of the result of
M. Tonello's mission.
A private telegram from Berlin gives some par-
ticulars of the project of the constitution to be com-
mon to the States of the Confederation of the North
which is to be submitted to the envoys of the dif-
ferent States assembled in that capital. The Diet
(Reichstag), which will be convoked periodically,
will be composed of 22 States. Out of a total of
43 votes, Prussia is to have 17, Saxony 4, Meek-
lenbourg, the Duchies of Oldenbourg and Bruns-
wick, each 2, and the rest of the other States, each
1. The decisions of the States will be taken by a
majority. The Hanseatic towns are to preserve
their privileges of free ports. The soldiers com-
posing the Federal army are to take the oath of
fidelity to the King of Prussia.

The papers are much occupied with the speech
of Victor Emmanuel. The articles which have yet
appeared respecting it speak of it as a calm, mode-
rate, and conciliatory document.
Several of the journals express deep dissatisfac-
tion at the analysis supplied to them through the
Havas agency of the speech of President Johnson.
The complaint is, that although this analysis is
explanatory enough in regard to the relations of the
Union with England, it does not say a word about
the point most important to France--the affairs of
Mexico, and the view of the President in regard to
the mutual feelings of that country and the United
States.

On placing the remains of Cardinal Richelieu at

the disposal of the Archbishop of Paris, the Minister
of Public Instruction, M. Duruy, made the follow-
ing speech :
" Monseigneur—l place in your hands what re-
mains to us of a great man, whose name is always
here present, because he pacified and aggrandised
France, honoured letters, and constructed this
house (the Sorbonne), which
.has become the sanc-
tuary of the highest studies. The University and
the Academy accomplish a filial duty in joining
their homage at the foot of this tomb, which will
never again be violated."

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The Archbishop replied—" Monsieur le Ministre,
I thank the Government of the Emperor for having
had the idea of restoring to the Sorbonne the
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gratulate you, Monsieur le Ministre, for
having attached your name to this work of repara-
tion, and I am happy at the task which I fulfil at
this moment. lam not astonished that so many
personages of eminence have thought it an honour
to be in attendance at this expiatory ceremonial.
It is the wisdom of the present which comes to pro-
test against the inexperience and the errors of the
past. It is an act of high morality
social act of policy. It is good to show that vio-
lence does not succeed in the end, but that right
always finishes by succeeding in right. What the
fathers overthrow the sons restore. Man tou rages,
but time avenges. Great example for the present
generation, which will not refuse to understand that
it ought to perform the good work of good sense
and moderation, and not the work of anger and
blind violence. I ask of God that it may be thus,
and that the destinies of France maybe for ever pro-
tected against those unhappy vicissitudes when
strength insults and proscribes, without right being
able to make itself recognised, and to establish

liberty, and without men being able to increase in
moral grandeur."
Arrangements are already being made at Warsaw
to organise pleasure trains from that city to Paris on
the occasion of the Great Exhibition. The railway
company undertake all the details of the journey at
a moderate price. _ .

Mr. Charles Goodwin, who has an establishment
for the sale of sewing machines at Paris, has muni-
ficently placed at the disposal of the Empress no
less than 178 of those useful and excellent machines,
to be distributed under her Majesty's supervision
among poor workmen. The idea is that a work-