The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-21 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.
Yesterday in the Legislative body, in answer
to the attacks of the Opposition against the
policy of the Emperor and his Government, M.
Rouher, the Minister, made a forcible and triumphant
reply. I could not give a better analysis of this
defence than that made by the Constitutionnel to-
day. That paper says :—" M. Rouher led the As-
sembly into the region of principles, and illustrated
the Constitution of 1852 in its truth and spirit.
Since 1815 the two monarchies which had governed
France had tried in different ways to resolve the
same problem, and both had failed, The two
Governments had failed in an essential point ; they
had not established political equality for all. That
.
political equality now existed with all its conse-
quences. The Empire was a monarchy founded
upon universal suffrage. This order of things was
great, new, and fecund. It did not have to resort
to fictions ; realities sufficed for it. Under the
Parliamentary regime, liberty is in:words ; under the
Government of the Emperor it is in things. The
partizans of the past contend that no control over
the Government exists. There is, however, under
the present system, a serious, efficacious, and com-
plete control over the Government. Ministerial
crises and disputes have been succeeded by the
incessant development of prosperity within, great-
ness without, and progress in all its forms. The
country will be of the same opinion as the Legis-
lative body, and will be happy at having confided
its destinies to a power which represents at once
order and Democracy, which knows how to make
Europe respect it, and which advances always in
the path of reform and progress."
A man named Louis Bonhier, who was born in

1760 at Venansault, and was consequently 106
years old, has just died at Nieul-le-Dolent, in La
Vend Ce. He was married at 30, and had 17 chil-
dren, all of whom are living. He had the full pos-
session of all his intellectual faculties at his death.
Only a month ago, at the wedding of one of his
grand-children, he sang and danced almost with the
vivacity of youth.
The Consistory of Paris, it appears, is not willing

to bow to the decision of the Minister of Public
Worship in the case of the Protestant Minister, M.
Paschoud. They have addressed to him a fornal
demand claiming the dismissal of M. Paschoud on
the ground that the doctrines he preaches are con-
trary to the dogmas of the Protestant Religion. The
Consistory is determined to persist in the opposition
to M. Paschoud, and if the Minister of Public In-
struction should not agree to the demand for his
dismissal a direct appeal will be made to the Empe-
ror. M. Paschoud, in his letter of thanks to M.
Baroehe, expresses his great joy and satisfaction at
his decision, and says he will redouble his zeal for
the Church, and increase his fraternal sentiments
towards all his colleagues for being enabled " to
continue the humble and peaceable exercise of the
functions of his ministry."
Already the French artists have sent many pic-
tures to the great Exhibition, some of which are
pronounced to be exquisite specimens of art, and
worthy of the occasion.
Prince Napoleon has returned to Paris sooner
than was expected, but I believe that he intends to
depart shortly on another scientific expedition. The
vessel which brought the Prince from Leghorn, the
Jerome Napoleon, experienced terrible weather, and
could not anchor at Marseilles, but was forced to
take refuge at the Antibes, and the passengers pro-
ceeded to Paris by rail.
Although the garotte season is over, the Presse
announces that the nocturnal attacks continue in
Paris. Three bricklayers, on crossing the Rue
St. Maur, the night before last, were attacked by
about 20 men. Knives were drawn, and one of the
men was mortally wounded. A young girl em-
ployed at a linen factory, while passing near the

Pont Neuf, was struck on the head with a stick by
a man who attempted to rob her, and was found
insensible on the ground by the police. A man
who lives in the same house with her has been ar-
rested.

A man, named Pierre Harnois, 37 years old, has
been convicted of the murder of his mother, an old
woman of 70. The trial took place before the Court
of Assize of the Loire Inferieure at Nantes. His
mother having refused to give him money, the
wretch struck her several blows on the head with a
chopper, and death was instantaneous. This time
the jury did not discover any " extenuating circum-
stances," and the murderer was condemned to death,
a sentence which will, no doubt, be executed.
The Moniteur, under the head of Bucharest, gives
an account of the financial malversations in the
Danubian provinces during the administration of
Prince Couza. The interest of the debt which had
not been paid amounted to 23,175,480 piastres ; the
Government cheques payable at sight, to 12 mil-
lions ; Treasury bonds, 23 millions; tobacco bonds,
23 millions. A special committee had been ap-
pointed to inquire into these financial frauds.
The " Amendment of the 46," which I have de-
scribed, was negatived by 206 against 63. It needs
"DO ghost from the grave" to prove that this ma-
jority shows the hopelessness of the Opposition.
How happy would Earl Russell be if he had such a
majority. The French Opposition are not• dis-
pirited, for, according to their chief organ, this re-
sult is most important, as proving that "it will at-
tract additional attention to the most essential
points of our internal policy." Be it so. But it
will also prove that the " internal policy" has the
sanction and support of the vast majority of the
Chamber.

The weather continues beautiful. It has been
bright, warm, and enlivening to-day.

A NEW PRINTING TELEGRAPH is announced that
is to transmit through a single line of wire, and print in
Roman letters, the enormous number of 300 words in a
minute. It is the joint production of MM. Bonelli and
Hipp, of Neufchatel.
AN ECCENTRIC HOST.—Lord Dudley and Ward
was so absent that he unconsciously uttered aloud
his private thoughts ; in a manner, too, that was often
embarrassing to the object of them, who was of course pre-
sent and within healing. The hos: would enter the room
where his guests were assembled, and, without addressing
either, proceed to count them over in a stage whisper,
muttering—" One, two, three—Ah! there's the Colonel
with his mulberry nose !—Four„ five—that's Jones ! don't
seem much put out by that awkward affair about his wife !
—Six, seven, eight—Old Billy, the silly—Nine, ten —I
wonder if that fellow has paid Truefitt for his wig!—
Eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen—The Baronet ! His
lady don't know about that little French girl of his, I'll
lay a guinea !" Having in this original way ascertained
that all had arrived who had been invited, the too com-
municative host would break the painful silence by sing-
ling out some one for a viva voce welcome, invariably
accompanied by an "aside" that as much confused the
friend he thus distinguished as it amused the rest. " How
do, Rogers ? Glad to see you. Very glad—very glad.
Devilish yellow about the gills ! By Jove, his face looks
as if it had been modelled in beeswax !"—Mr. Grantley
Berkley's Life and Recollections.
AN AMERICAN EPITAPH.—The following is the
conclusion of an epitaph on a tombstone in East Ten-
nessee :--" She lived a life of virtue, and died of cholera
morbus, caused by eating green fruit in the full hope of a
blessed immortality, at the early age of 21 years, 7 months'
and 16 days. Reader, go thou and do likewise."