The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-04 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, December 3.

The opening of the Corps I.6gislatif is finally fixed, I
am informed, for the 4th of January. The Government
would have preferred a later date, but it was absolutely
necessary to begin early, in order to make up arrears 01

The demonstration of to-day has been meagre, and hail
been confined entirely to the cemetery of Montmartre.
Several hundred people went to the scene of the expected
agitation, but the crowd which assembled was doubtless
actuated chiefly by a feeling of curiosity. Tho cemetery
7/.4s closed in the morning, none but a few workmen
being admitted. A force of cavalry and infantry had been
assembled in the old debtors' prison, and strong bodies of
aergents de vale were stationed in the immediate neigh-
tourhood. But nothing worth recording has hitherto
transpired. The crowd was peaceful, orderly, and small.
Yesterday a number of pe vie went to deposit wreaths on
the tomb of the newly-immortalised Baudil. but the
demonstration on the anniversary was even less than that
of to-day.
The Avenir of Auch appeared with a mourning border
on the anniversary of the coup &acct. It has been seized
both at the post office and at the place of publication.
The Queen of Spain is still excluded from the Imperial
Court. It is not known how long her residence here is to
be prolonged, but Paris must soon become monotonous
with the diminished glories of a Court the occupations of
which are limited to theatre-going and mass-hearing.
The Memorial Diplomatique says that political reasons
alone prevent the visit of the Queen to Compigne. "It
is easy to understand that a feeling of delicacy prevents
the Emperor and Empress of the French from inviting
Queen Isabella, as well as hinders her Catholic Majesty
from accepting such an invitation at the moment when
the Peninsula is hastening towards a terrible crisis of
which no one can foresee the issue. The enemies of the
Queen would not fail to attribute to her as a crime any
indulgence in amusement, and to accuse her of remaining
insensible to the disaster of her country." The ordinary
mind will experience considerable difficulty in compre-
hending the logic of this last sentence. Fier Majesty
indulges now in all the amusement she can find.

The funeral of M. Berryer will take place on Monday.
The body has been embalmed, and now lies exposed in a
state bed. The deceased orator expended £4OO a year for
the relief of the poor in his neighbourhood—a large sum for
a man who, like most politicians, had barely enough to
make ends meet. The last ceremony will be one of great
simplicity.
The Newgate calendar of to-day is heavy. The pro.
prietor of the People of Marseilles has been find £4O, with
three months' imprisonment and loss of civil rights. The
Progress Liberal of Toulouse has been acquitted, but the
Emancipation, of the same city, has been condemned in a
small fine. Both committed the same offence, were tried
at the same time, and by the same judges. Perhaps the
text of the judgment may clear up this affair, which is
inexplicable at this distance. The acquittal of the Indi.
pendant du Centre has been reversed upon appeal, and a
slight fine inflicted.
A strange instance of official arrogance is adduced by
the Sentinelle Toulonnaiee. M. Dupre, a trader of Paris,
recently left Toulon for Cochin China. When off Messina
he demanded permission of the officer on duty to have a
certain trunk given to him, in order that he might get a
change of linen. Having kept his hat on whilst
speaking to this functionary, he received from him a
tap on the side of the head, which knocked off
that article of dress. M. Dupre responded by a slap in
the face. For this he was put in a boat and taken on
shore, and the vessel sailed without him. He was sent to
Marseilles, and then to Toulon. At last be was released
by the intervention of a distinguished Paris lawyer. The
Administration of Marine has in a measure confessed the
error of its official by giving directions for the restoration
of the passage money ; but M. Dupr6 is not satisfied with
this. He has commenced an action for damages.

An exceedingly neat robbery has been effected in the
Rue de la Pais. Two men stopped before the window of
a jeweller's shop, and having ascertained that the assistant
was alone, one of them entered and asked to be
shown an article that was exposed for sale.
The shopman opened the glass-case to reach the object
pointed to by the confederate remaining outside, and
the pretended customer then, adroitly passing his hand
behind the salesman's back, abstracted, unperceived, a
diamond necklace placed just inside the window. The
thieves got clear off, and the loss was not discovered until
late in the evening. Both necklace and its abstractors are
wanting.
On the Boulevard do Sebastopol a sewing machine
worked by electricity may be seen. This ingenious con-
trivance does away with the labour of working the pedal
with the foot. 'no Seamstress has now only to direct the
needle.

The printers' strike has terminated. The last of the
forty-five empl9yers has announced that he consents to the
increased rate of wages. The only consequence of this
little affair was the appearance of the Avcnir .National
with half the usual dimensions.

THE LATE ARCHBISHOP'S LAST CITARGE

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Mr. henry Longley publishes the following note, which
preceded his father's charge :—" The following charge was
originally intended for oral delivery by its author. But
as it progressed under his hands his medical attendant
ordered him to abstain from study, and go abroad ; he
was therefore compelled to forego much labour that he
would otherwise have bestowed upon it. Soon after his
return from the Tyrol, in the middle of last September, the
archbishop determined to publish instead of delivering the
charge, though at that time he intended to finish its com-
position. But as he grew more feeble he purposed to put
it forth in an unfinished state, expressing his design
in the following memorandum, written a few days
before his death :--` To be considered rather as a
draft of a charge ; but I felt very anxious to let my
opinions be on record at this critical period.' There is no
doubt that he intended to express his views on the
Eucharist at greater length, and to treat in detail several
topics of diocesan interest. The best thanks of those who
have published this charge are due and are here tendered
to the Rev. William Benham, vicar of Addington, as well
for the assistance rendered to its author in its compilation,
and in verifying references, as for its services in carrying
these sheets through the press—a task which the incom-
plete state of the manuscript rendered one of much diffi-
culty and responsibility."

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.