The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Sunday Evening.
The Moniteur contains the following telegram to
the French Government :—" Nikolsburg, July 26.
--The Plenipotentiaries of Austria and Prussia have
to-day signed an armistice for four weeks and the
bases of peace. Baron von der Pfordten acceded
to the armistice on the part of Bavaria and the
other Southern States of Germany." The Emperor
held a Cabinet Council yesterday at St. Cloud, at
which the Empress was present. Soon after the
sitting of the Cabinet was concluded the Emperor
left St. Cloud for Vichy. His Majesty arrived
there at 7 in the evening, and was received with
great enthusiasm. The town was in a state of re-
joicing, and the windows were ornamented with
flags and banners. The popular demonstrations
were continued during the evening.
The Minister of the Colonies has received from
Vice-Admiral de la Grandiere a despatch, dated
June 12, which states that a large number of Cam-
bodgians, to whom the French had given refuge at
the time of the revolt of Snongso, had assembled
tumultuously in the environs of the port of Tay-
minti, which was under the command of Captain
de Larclause. That officer having advanced (says
the despatch) with too much confidence towards
the insurrectionists, whom he had admitted with
great kindness upon the French territory, wished
to make them hear reason ; but, surrounded
by an infuriated mob, he was assassinated,
and also Sub-Lieutenant Lesaga, and some offi-
cers who accompanied him. Lieutenant-Colonel
Mavihasse was sent from Saigon with a company to
re-establish tranquillity atTay-ninh. The Governor,
who immediately directed an inquiry into the cir-
cumstances, had not ascertained, at the departure
of the mail the real causes of the hostile demon-
stration.

It is announced officially at Paris that there will
be an interruption in the private telegraphic com-
munications with Prussia in the countries occupied
by the Prussian troops until further orders.
The official part of the Afoniteur contains a decree
regulating the rate of postage for letters and printed
papers between France and Portugal. The postage
of an ordinary letter, which may be paid in advance
or not, is to be the same as that of a letter from
France to England, viz., 4d., should it not exceed
10 grammes. (There are 500 grammes in a pound.)
The letter to England, however, must not exceed 7i
grammes, but 10 grammes may be sent from France
to Portugal for 40 centimes or 4d. While speaking
of French postage, it may be information to some to
explain that letters not exceeding half an ounce may
be sent from England to France for 4d., but from
France to England the weight allowed for 4d. is
but 71 grammes, or about a quarter of an ounce.
The minimum postage of a letter from Paris to the
provinces is 4 sous or 2d. Newspapers are charged
by weight also.
The Journal des Debats devotes a long article to
the question of the legality of meetings in Hyde
Park, and says it is not a new point, for a Whig
Ministry in 1855 decided that the park, which was
a public promenade, was not intended for political
meetings. This opinion had the sanction of Lord
Cockburn and Mr. Bethel (Lord Westbury). The
Journal des Debats proceeds to contrast the differ-
ence between England and France in this respect.
" Proceedings such as those in Hyde Park could
not take place in France without a danger of quite
another description, because they would probably
result in a sanguinary collision. This difference
arises not only, as is often said in France with sin-
gularly placid vanity, from our more excitable
character or our more military spirit. It arises
more particularly from the feeling, so different from
ours which exists among an English mob who
abandons itself to tumult, and the Government
which represses it. England has not seen a single
revolution brought about by the victory of a mob
in the streets of London. The Revolution of 1648
was the result of a civil war supported by Parlia-
ment against the Crown. That Revolution was
effected without a combat by a simple Parliamen-
tary resolution. There has been no case of a
surprise or triumph of a popular insurrection
in the capital. There is therefore no encouraging
example for English agitators which can
give them the hope of obtaining possession
of London by a coup de main. A disturbance in
London is, therefore, less alarming than at Paris,
because it has not the pretension of becoming a
Revolution. On the other hand, the repression of
a disturbance is relatively a moderate affair, be-
cause it does not inspire anybody with serious
alarm, and because from the destruction of the gates
of Hyde Park to the overthrow of the English Con-
stitution there is an abyss which no attempt has
been made to traverse, whilst in France such an
obstacle is overcome again and again with marvel-
lous facility. The tumults in London, therefore,
differ entirely from ours."

The cholera is still prevalent at Marseilles, but
the mortality is not alarming. At Amiens, on Fri-
day, the number of deaths from cholera was 22,
showing an increase. There ig a report that the
cholera has reappeared in Paris.

The Opinion Nationale is naturally very much
ashamed at the idea very prevalent in Paris that it
is the defender—even the solitary defender—of the
reckless cenduct of the Prussians at Frankfort. It,
therefore, has a laboured article to prove that its
supposed sanction of the conduct of the Prussians
was not founded upon its own views, but was sup-
ported by the writers upon the law of nations.

The Siecle states from its private correspondence
that at the battle of Lissa 12 officers and 157
marines, or soldiers, who were on board the Re
d'ltalia, were saved. Out of 350 men who were on
board the Palestro one officer and 17 marines were
picked up ; they were thrown into the sea a few
seconds before the explosion of the vessel.

HAYMARKET TIIEATRE.—Mr. Buckstone will take
his benefit on Wednesday evening, when the season will
be brought to a close. It is hoped that Mr. Sothern will
be sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to
take his original character in " The Favourite of Fortune."
Mr. Sims Reeves will sing "The Bay of Biscay," Mr. Weiss
The Village Blacksmith," and Madame Weiss "Ever
thine." Mr. Buckstone will deliver his customary address,
which is always so attractive a feature of this pleasant
anniversary ; and the entertainments will conclude with
the comedietta of " Three Weeks after Marriage."
TIIE Ho USE OF C OMMONS. —ln all 32 new mem-
bers have been returned to the House of Commons
this year. The new members are—Lord J. Hay, Mr. Cand-
lish, Mr. R. Arkwright, the Hon. G. Denman, the Earl of
Brecknock, Mr. M. Wyvill, Mr. H. A. Herbert, Mr. M.
Staniland, Mr. H. Whitmore, Sir E. Lechmere, Mr. Ekers-
ley, Mr. J. Goldsmid, Mr-J. E. Gorst, Mr. C. Capper, Sir
J. Hay, the Hon. Mr. Lascelles, Mr. Eykyn, Mr. Edwards,
Mr. B. Osborne, Lord Amberley, Mr D. Fordyce, Lord
Eliot, Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. T. B. Hildyard, Mr. R.
Dimsdale, Mr. R. B. Brett, Mr. A. Smith, Mr. Nicholson
the Hon. J. Henniker-Major, Mr. P. Vanderbyl, and the
Hon. G. W. Barrington. After allowing for the vacancies
at Lancaster, Reigate, and Totues, which tell against the
Liberals, the Conservatives appear to have lost one vote by
these changes,
commencement of the session which is now about to close.
while they were in a minority of 75 at the
We have much pleasure in announcing that Mr.
Napier has declined to accept the office of Lord
Justice of Appeal in Ireland, and for reasons which do him
the highest honour. If we are rightly informed, a letter
from Mr. Napier will be read in the House of Commons
this evening, in which, while expressing his own opinion
and that of many friends that his infirmity is not such as
to disable him from the discharge of duties which consist
almost exclusively in the examination of written docu-
ments, he declares that ho is unwilling his appointment
should afford the slightest ground for a suspicion that
justice will not be adequately administered, and accordingly
declines the high office which Lord Derby had offered for
his acceptance. Baron Fitzgerald will probably be the new
Lord Justice of Appeal. - Tinzeg.
MONETARY UNION BETWEEN FRANCE, BELGIUM,
ITALY, AND SWITZERLAND.—The Moniteur of yes-
terday publishes an imperial decree, promulgating the terms
of a monetary union concluded on the 23d Dec., 1865, be-
tween France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland. The con-
vention is to remain in force until Jan. 1, 1880 ; and if no
notice to terminate it be given a year previously, it will be
renewed for 15 years, and so on every succeeding 15 years.
The object of the union, as stated in the preamble, is to
establish more complete harmony between the monetary
legislation of the countries forming such union, and thus
to remedy the inconvenience resulting from the differences
between their currency. The coinage of the four con-
tracting Powers will be accepted at the public treasury of
each of those Powers, subject to conditions respecting the
amount issued, which are specified in the convention.