The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-26 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sunday Evening.

The papers are still occupied almost exclusively,
I might say entirely, with the subject of Mexico,
for they abound in news and conjectures respecting

it. The opinion most in credence seems to be that
the Emperor Maximilian has not abdicated. Some
of the papers, indeed, even disbelieve the report
that he has left the Empire.
he Journal des Debats says :—" Persons whom
we have reason to believe to be well-informed
affirm that Maximilian is determined to leave
Mexico, and, indeed, that he is now on his way to
Europe. We give this news, however, under the
most express reserve, although it comes from a source
which inspires us with confidence."

The Pattie seems to disbelieve the report.

The Avenir National asserts that the Emperor
was detained at Orizaba, and that the French troops
instead of preparing for departure had received
orders to concentrate themselves, and to fortify
their positions upon several points.
On the other hand, the illessager Franco-A merican
states positively that Maximilian only took the re-
solution of returning to Mirama upon learning that
General Castelnau had not only received orders to
embark the French expeditionary corps, but also to
send home the officers, sub-officers, and soldiers
who had entered the Mexican army. Marshal
Bazaine, it says, strongly urged the Emperor to
change his resolution to depart, or at all events that
he should defer his departure until the Marshal
should be able to confer with General Castelnau
upon the subject.

The inauguration of the railway from Ciudad
Real to Badajoz, which establishes a railway com-
munication between central Spain and Portugal,
has just taken place with great solemnity. The
Ministers of the two Governments of Spain and
and Portugal were present at the ceremony. At
the banquet which followed toasts were reciprocally
drank to the health of her Catholic Majesty and his
Most Faithful Majesty. The speeches made upon
the occasion bore testimony to the benefits which
would result from a rapid mode of communication
between the two kingdoms, by developing their
mutual prosperity and advantage.
In Russia, also, there is an increasing develop-
ment of railway communication. The line from
Roustchouk to Varna has just been opened. Trains
starting twice a-day connect the extreme points of
the line, and the arrival at Varna corresponds twice
a week with the departure for Constantinople of an
Austrian Lloyd steamer.
The Spanish Government has appointed a Com-
mission, the President of which is M. Benavides, for-
merly Minister of Foreign Affairs, to examine with
scrupulous attention the question of money circula-
tion, and particularly with the object of ascertaining
if it be advantageous for Spain, who has already
adopted the metrical system, to adhere to the mone-
tary convention concluded on 23d December,:lB6s,
between France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Italy.
There are some difficulties in reference to this im-
portant question as regards Spain arising from frac-
tional differences in the value of Spanish coins, but
the belief is that the obstacles are not insurmount-
able.

The total amount of the subscriptions for the re-
lief of the sufferers by the late inundations in France
now reaches 3,221,155 f.
Baron de Barante, a member of the French
chateau neacrliTedhieyre:terldnayhiastumt.the ahgeeploafyeBd4,
aant
Academy,his
im-
portant part both as a diplomatist and a politician,
but perhaps he acquired more fame as historian.'
The last work of M. Barante was " L'Hastoire de la
Vie et des Euvres de Royer Collard." The Baron
was married in 1814 to INldlle. d, lloudetot and the
first Napoleon signed the contract of m' arriage.
The most eminent artist in his line the John
Leech of Paris, Gavarni, is also dead. Gavarni was
65. his real name was Sulpice Paul Chevalier.
Forsome years he had been a hypochondria; the sole
cause of which is stated to be that he had been
compelled to leave the house belonging to him at the
Point du Jour, near Auteuil, it being required for
the construction of the Circular Railway. At first
Gavarni was engaged in mechanical pursuits, and
he only began his labours with the pencil in 1834,
when he made drawings of the fashions. The
Chevalier assumed the name of Gavarni after a visit
to the peaks of the Pyrenees known by that name,
just as Moliere took his after a village of Languedoc.
Gavarni sketched types and manners admirably.
Among the works which he illustrated were " Les
Enfants Terribles," "Les Fourberies des Femmes,"
Londres et les Anglais," "Le Juif Errant," and
" Le Diable a Paris."

Madame Gassier, the celebrated Spanish singer,
has just died at Madrid of a nervous affection. She
was 45.

Baroness Volant lately left a valuable bracelet in
a hackney-carriage, but the coachman was honest
enough to take it to her house without delay. The