The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-21 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN COIMESPONDENT.)
PARTS, Tuesday Evening.
The address of the Legislative Body in answer to
the Emperor's Speech, like that of the Senate, has
been very satisfactorily received. When read yes-
terday in the Secret Committee by Count Walewski
several passages were loudly and unanimously ap-
plauded. I may particularise the following :—That
declaring to be indispensable the maintenance of the
spiritual and temporal power of the Pope. The
proceedings of France in regard to Mexico. The
sentences having reference to the United States.
The condition of Algeria. The expression of the
thanks of the Legislative Body for the various ame-
liorations made under the auspices of the Emperor,
which " drew closer the ties uniting France to the
person and dynasty of his Majesty," was marked
by vociferous approbation. Upon the suggestion of
the President, Monday next was appointed for the
discussion of the answer to the address.

A disease among pigs in France seems likely to
create as much interest and alarm as the cattle
plague in England. The malady is called trichinose
or trichinas. The attention of the Academy of
Medicine was called to it, at the suggestion of the
Minister of Agriculture, at the commencement of
1865, and in the course of last January it was pro-
posed to send Dr. Delpech, a medical man of great
repute, to Germany to make investigations into the
matter, although the disease had not then mani-
fested itself in France. Recently, however, many
pigs have been attacked with it, and although care
has been taken not to excite unnecessary alarm, yet
I believe I am correct in stating that many mem-
bers of the Academy of Medicine now recommend
abstinence from the use of pork, in the belief that it
cannot be eaten without danger. Pork is never
considered to be nourishing, and is very indigestible
unless well cooked. At the same time, the subject
is environed with great difficulty, for the consump-
tion of pork is very large in Paris. There is hardly
a street without a pork-shop, and in some streets
there are several. It is kept cooked in various
forms, and at certain hours the shops are so crowded
with working people, men and women, who come
for it hot, that it is difficult to get entrance. To
create a panic upon the subject suddenly would
therefore inflict great injury upon a large body of
tradesmen, and bring into disrepute a viand which is
much to the taste of the masses. The Government
Iherefore is obliged to act with much caution. It
has now considered it necessary to send Dr. Delpech
to Germany to inquire into this dangerous disease.
M. Raynal, professor at the Veterinary School
at Alfort, will accompany Dr. Delpech to
Germany, and they will also visit Belgium.
The malady is supposed to have first manifested
itself at Huy, in that country. The gentlemen in
question will immediately communicate to the Go-
vernment all the facts they can obtain respecting
the malady. I have alluded to the manifestation
of the disease iu France as a hypothetical case, but
I am sorry to say that facts which have transpired
recently would warrant me in using the word cer-
tainty rather than hypothesis.
The papers publish a long answer from M. Ber-
mudez de Castro, Spanish Minister, to the note of
General La Marmora, which I duly noticed. The
chief point to describe of this answer is that M.
Bermudez, in very moderate language, reiterates
the assurance that the Cabinet of Madrid recognised
the independence of Italy in good faith. At the
same time, the Spanish Minister says that Spain is
not bound down to entire approval of the whole of
the policy of Italy, particularly as regards his Holi-
ness the Pope.
The speech of General La Marmora in the Italian
Parliament (of which you have no doubt received a
telegraphic account) has created much sensation
here. Some of the passages given in the full text of
the speech breathe open defiance to Austria. Thus,
iu one part of it, the General, after declaring that
he should have deprecated war with that empire a
few years ago, says, " under present eirounlztanccs
Italy might suffer those military reverses which all
wars may entail, but it would be with the full con-
fidence of being able to avenge them."

According to au Italian paper, the Precursore,
there is little doubt that Joseph Mazzini will be
elected as a deputy for the second college of Messina.
Spain is still in so disturbed a condition that the
official paper of Madrid admits that under present
circumstances the Government does not consider it
safe or expedient to release the capital from the state
of siege.

Among the luxuries of the season are green peas,
which come chiefly from Algeria. The quantity is
not yet abundant, but they are to be procured at
the central markets at a reasonable price. By rapid
boats and railway they reach Paris from Algiers in
about GO hours, and being carefully packed they are
as fresh as if newly gathered. A year or two ago
it was complained that the Algerian peas were hard
and had no flavour, but great improvements have
taken place in their mode of culture, and those
which I have tasted this season were as nice as can
be generally procured at Covent Garden market
when the supply is abundant.

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The rough cold wind of yesterday and to-day,
and the frosts of the last two nights, have excited
apprehensions of serious injury to vegetation, so
unprecedentedly forward. The Paris papers take
up the subject as one of much importance. The
Patrie confirms my accounts of the early budding of
trees. It says—" In the Champs Elysees there is
in full blossom what was called by old gardeners a
wild apple tree, but which botanists call pyrrhus
japonica. The blossom is red and the petals yellow.
It looks like a field rose. It is in full leaf though
in the open air. The fruit trees in the neighbour-
hood of Paris are ready to burst into blossom. (I
mentioned this fact some days ago.) The apricot
trees, which now show signs of blossoming, did not
blossom last year till towards the end of March.
The recent frosts will no doubt arrest this too pre-
cocious commencement of blossoming."
The Siecle puts two or three significant questions
about Prussia. It says, "M. Bismark is driven to
his last intrenchments. Will he reply by a coup
d'etat to the patriotic resistance of the represen-
tatives of the nation ? Will he give the last blow
to the Constitution, so many times violated ?
Braving Austria and the Germanic Confederation,
will he solve the difficulty about the Duchies by an
audacious spoliation ? In such a case, what atti-
tude will Europe assume?" I

Rather Cruel Joking.

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In the first number of The Owl for this season,
just published (No. 1,029), we find the following
facctia), at which we might suppose John Bull
laughing at the wrong side of his mouth:—
A Fenian Fire—How best put out ? By a Cold-

stream.
Why are Piesse and Lubin Fenians? Because they
are llead-S-centers.
Catch your Hare—}V
vernmeut. In Doublin-g.
here Stephens .beats the Go-

The Late T. L. Peacock.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Slll,—ln this author's stanzas, published by you
last evening, the word " it" was omitted before the
word " not" in the fifth line. Also, " Prior's
march" should
.have been " Ruin's march" in order
to make good sense. Grose in the third volume of
his Antiquities
(1775) and the Penny Magazine for
the month of October, 1844, well described the
former and latter steps of the " march," between
the years 1761 and 1844.
It is remarkable that William Cobbett, neither
in his charming " Rural Rides," nor in his " His-
tory of the Protestant Reformation," ever alluded
to Newark, or Ncwstead Priory, although he has
described at length the other doings of the like
kind in Surrey and elsewhere, in burning language.
•
—Yours, &c.,

CHIT. COM.

London, 17th Feb., 1866.