The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

MOH OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.
The Gazette de Vienne says that the Treaty of
Peace between Austria and Italy makes no men-
tion either of rectification of frontiers, compensa-
tion, or abandonment of territory. Venetia has
been surrendered, with its present administrative
frontiers to France, who has given it up to Italy,
whose limits by this act becomes international, just
as those of the West were before.
A letter from Venice, dated Sept. 20, says :
" Lieut.-General Count Petiti, aide-de-camp Gene-
ral of Victor Emmanuel, arrived here suddenly yes-
terday, and had a long interview with the Austrian
Plenipotentiary, General deMering, and the French
Commissioner, General Lebceuf, after which he will
return to Mestre, and from thence to Padua. It is
said that the Count's mission had reference to the
surrender of the fortresses and the materiel of war.
In order to avoid the long operation of a formal
estimate and a detailed note of the surrender of the
fortresses and materiel, it was arranged that a round
sum should be paid to Austria for these fortresses,
and as soon as the amount should be paid the sur-
render of the fortresses should immediately take
place. By this mode much time will be gained, and
the solution so much desired of the question will be
hastened and facilitated."
The Clio, a Greek journal, published at Trieste,
says that Russia has proposed to the Cabinets of
London and Paris the united intervention of the
protecting Powers, who signed the protocols of
1830 in favour of the Cretaus. These Powers were
France, England, and Russia. These protocols of
1830 concern not only the Cretans, but the whole
of Greece, to whom the protection of the three
Powers extend. By the terms of the I'rotecol of the
Conference of the 3d of February, 1830, the Sub-
lime Porte having already adhered to the Treaty of
London, of July 6, 1826, " promises, and engages
besides with the representatives of the Powers who
signed the said Treaty, to consent to all the arrange-
ments which shall be made by the Conference of
London relative to the execution of the Treaty."
The papers contain long details of the damage
done by the inundations. The Emperor, Empress,
and the Imperial Prince have sent 35,000 f. to the
Minister of the Interior, to be distributed among
those who have suffered from these inundations.
The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of
Public Works have also sent assistance from the
funds at their disposal. The Seine is still at an
unexampled height, and rushes like a torrent.
Navigation in the vicinity of Paris is likely to be
stopped for some time. Much injury has been done
to the craft on the river. On some parts of the
river between the Pont de Grenelle and Sevres the
banks are overflowed, and at Billancourt, near
Sevres, the water has rushed up the lanes and
avenues. The Loire has inundated various districts
of Nevers, and people have been compelled to leave
their houses. The road from Nevers to Moulins is
covered with water. The communications are
stopped, and works suspended. The Allier has
risen alarmingly, and one of the bridges across it
has been carried away. At Orleans and on the
Upper Loire the same danger is reported. The
Saone and the Rhone have overflowed, and all the
confluents of the Seine are in the same condition.
At Sens the water ro,3e a metre high in the streets.
In the valley of the Lot bridges and highways are
much damaged. Great injury has been done in the
department of the Corrieze. In Savoy the water
rose to a great height, and it will take a long time
to repair the damage done to the railway between
St. Jean and St. Michel. Military engineers have
been despatched from Paris with the requisite ma

terials to repair bridges and other constructions in
the inundated districts.

On Monday next another section of railway will
be opened from Dreux (Euro et Loire) to Laigle
(Orne).

A certain Thomas Nicolas Cohn, aged 55, who
wishes to inaugurate a new system of reform, has
brought himseif within the Correctional Tribunal of

the Seine on a charge which English lawyers would
call assault and battery. In the accusation was
also included Francois Claude Bordey, aged 30, a
returned convict. Both prisoners are mechanics,
and although Bordey calls himself a house agent he
is in fact a servant of Colin. The Reform Asso-
ciation which Colin wishes to establish is with a
view to the formation of society upon an entirely
new bases. Ile wants society to be overthrown
and " reformed altogether." The first step is to
do away with private property and make it na-
tional. Everybody knows his own business best.
Here is Colin's mode of obtaining members of the
association, or, as he calls them, " neophites." The
evidence given before the court was to the effect
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and was gagged and put in a sack by
the prisoners, who also tied his wrists. He
was compelled to remain in the subterranean room
for about two hours, while the prisoners detailed

their plan of Reform, and tried to persuade the
neophite to become a member of the association.
They told him they had a great many houses of the

same kind, and that the association was very mime-
When questioned by the President, the pri-
soners did not deny the charge. Colin, in a wild
strain, advocated the principles of the association,
and said he had an " idea," and, naturally, he en-
deavoured to carry out this idea in the mode which
he thought the most efficacious. The prosecutor

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said that no injury was done to him, but he was
much alarmed, but was fortunately able to cv.t open
the sack with a knife which he had in his pocket.

Bordcy, in defence, said he had only done his duty

by obeying 111.3 master's orders. The President did

not give any opinion upon the principles of the