The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-29 00:00:00

Prix de Mendon (Handicap).

Czar
Mercedes

Plutus 3
Amount of the prize, 10,500 f., 500 f, to the
second.

Grand Prix de Paris. A work of Art presented
by the Emperor, worth 10,000 f., and 100,000 f.,
half given by the City of Paris and hall by the
five principal railway companies, for homes foaled
in 1863 of any country. The second to receive
10,000 f., and the third 5,000 f. Weight, about
901bs. Distance, 3,000 metres. 95 horses en-
tered.
Duke of Beaufort's Ceylon, by Idle Boy—Pearl
(Cannon) 1
Mr. Merry's Primate
Count Batthyany's Mazeppa 3
Count Lagrange's Auguste
Betting-5 to 4 agst Ceylon. Thofraca was a
splendid one. Auguste led at first, but was soon
distanced at the ascent ; Fernand Cortes, Mlzeppa,
and Maravedis were ahead, but it was soon evident
that the chance was between Ceylon and Prituate.
Ceylon won by a length. Amount of the prize,
182,600 f. I have already described the cup pre-
sented by the Emperor. 11 ran.
Prix du Conseil General, 4,000 f., for entered horses
and mares of three years and upwards of any
country. The winner to be demanded for 7,300 f.
Distance, about 2,800 metres. 12 ran.
Sala mbo II 1
Equivoque
Chantilly

Betting—Even agst Salambo 11., 6 to, 4 agst
Chantilly, and sto 1 agst Equivoque. Equivoque
beat Chantilly by half a length for second place.
The races in the Bois de Boulogne on Saturday
were not very well attended. The following i 3 the
order of the running :
Prix du Mont Valerien, 2,000 f.

Virilia
Gaulois
Prix de la Neva, 5,000 f.

Maravedis
Fleurette (Count Lagrange) 2
Prix de la Ville de Paris, 6,000 f.
Solitaire .
Matamore
Prix de l'Empereur, 4,000 f
Vertugadin
Baiounette

... 2

Paris is very full of foreigners just now, and pick-
pockets appear to be even more abundant than
usual. The Paris papers seem to take a malicious
pleasure in attributing all the pocket abstractions to
English artists. They certainly abound now, and
generally speaking do what is called a pod stroke
of business. Their favourite haunts are the stations
where people wait for places in the omnibus. On
Saturday the Police who are on the watch at the
Palais Royal in plain clothes arrested three of the
fraternity. Two are English and one Italian. A
vast number of purses were found upon them, many
filled with gold. A pocket-book found on one of
the Englishmen contained 7,800 f. in bank notes.
The Paris evening papers at the present time
compete with each other very actively in the publi-
cation of supposed facts and surmises respecting
war. People rush to the stalls and buy them with
great avidity. This accounts for the multiplication
of false rumours. Paris politicians will have news
of some sort, and the evening papers can hardly
avoid giving it to them. The most prominent lie
of the day is a supposed treaty between France,
Prussia, and Italy. The Moniteur has thought this
report worth contradiction. It is stated that the
despatches of the three Governments speak of the
Venetian question as " the Italian differences."
The present railway traffic in France seems to be
enormous. It appears from the table of the Western
Railway Company, just issued, that in 1865 the
number of travellers who went from the Paris
station to various towns was no less than 13,645,592,
or more than a third of the population of France.
Probably a greater number travelled by the
Northern Railway.
A mechanic of Lyons has applied the principle of
the mechanism of the Jacquard loom to musical in-
struments. His first experiment was with the
accordion, and it was quite successful. Pasteboard
is used to change the tunes, in the same way, as in
the manufacture of stuff to vary the patterns, and
thus any one may play in the same manner as with
the hand-organs. The Jacquard Accordion will
figure at the Exhibition.

Two remarkable pictures have
just been pur-
chased on account of the city of Paris from M.
Boittelle, Senator, formerly Prefect of Police. One
is a view of the Hotel de Ville in 1751, at the time
of the fetes given by the municipality in celebration
of the marriage of the Duke de Bourgogne, son of
Louis XV. The other is a representation of the
Palace of the Tuileries in 1753. They are both the
production of a French artist, M. Raguanet.
Shakspere is rather in the ascendant in Paris.
" Richard the Third" has been done into a three-
act drama, by M. Victor Sejour, for the Porte St.
Martin ; but those best versed in the tragedy would
find it most difficult to recognise as our great bard's
delineation of the " crooked-backed tyrant." The
French dramatist, however, retains one incident—
Richard is killed on the battle-field. Although
Richard, however, is not exactly " himself again"
ou the French stage, M. Sejour's drama has for the
moment caused the withdrawal of the " Biche de
Bois," which has been the rage for some 400 nights.
The other version of Shakspere is at the 'Theatre
Lyrique, in the shape of a comic opera., words by
M. Jules Barbier, music by Nicolai. The " Merry
Wives of Windsor," under the title of '° Les Joyeuses
Conuneres," highly delights the Paris audiences.
The laughter was fast and furious, on the first night
particularly,
to Falstaff. In an interesting part of the opera,
Falstaff's stuffing gave way bodily, and would have
in consequence of an additional mishap
fallen on the stage but for the hasty retreat of the
actor, Ismael, who, however, eventually Made, the
beet of the incident, by an exclamation to the effect
4 that it was- another trick of these WOMell'