The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

(FROlit OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
)ARIS, SUNDAY, October 4.
The remains of Count Celonna Walewslci, member of
the Privy Council, senator, member of the Institute, suc-
cessively Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, President of
the Legislative Body, and Ambassador at the English
Court, were interred in the beautiful church of the Mada-
leine yesterday. The obsequies were as far as possible
rendered worthy of one of the most upright statesman that
France has yet seen. Troops of various regiments, Chas-
seurs, Hussars, Municipal Guards, and Zouaves, e lede 1
the mourning coaches ; then came the Is a se, drawn by
six richly•caparisonecl horses, then one o! the Em-
peror's State carriages, next a very large numb ‘r
of private carriages, then more guards an I n.cre carri: geB
_. The spectacle was grand. thosgh not of xc. p".on&
magnificence, and, of course, a v,.ry large numb..r o • pee-
tators assembled. General re._;set is felt at this ust:n ely
death ; the more so as, whatever may have been Couut
Walewski's abilities, his cbarscter was such as Franca can
' afford to lose.

Spain still occupies public atent7on here ; the journalists
write of nothing else, and at the B. uric Spanish matters
are assuming greater and greater importance. It is merely
a truism to say that the country is wi,hout money.
Always at a low ebb, her finances have sunk to the most
deplorable condition under the Government which has just
fallen. Some time ago a few of the Paris bankers had
seriously offered Queen Isabella's Ministry the exten3ive
loan of £2,800,000, but it was refused on the pretext that
the terms were too exorbitant. As if Spain was in a
condition to conclude any advantageous bargain. Had
the offer been accepted, and the treasure had remained in the
coffers of the State, the position of those who are now mas-
ters of the Government would have been rendered much
,more easy. As it is, the exchequer is merely a name, and
the new Government will experience much difficulty in
making it a reality. In time of civil trouble soldiers
must always be paid, and woe to the party which finds itself
incompetent in this respect. When they cannot be paid
they pay themselves. The position of the Spanish stock
hero is hardly so good as it was a short time ago.
The Indepenclance Beige says that Count Girgenti re-
ceived a safe conduct from Marshal Serrano, and has
One to Gibraltar. What he proposes to do it is impossible
to divine.

Letters from Prussia state that the military party
around the King has already collapsed, so far as its
influence is concerned, through one solitary circum•
stance. Count Bismarck is coming back to re-assume the
direction of affairs at Berlin.

M. Boutet, engineer and inventor of the proposed inter-
national bridge between Dover and Calais, has been holding
a conference at Arres, with a view to putting his idea in

execution.

The electric light is coming into use at Paris. On
Friday evening it was employed to aid the workmen in
the construction of a house on the Qual Voltaire, n ar the
Pont Royal. The light shed on the street was so powerful
that the horses, terrified at such an unusual illumination,
refused to go forward. It has therefore become necessary
to concentrate the light upon the work to prevent it
escnping, to the street.
The Dud (16 Vainly, Who is just dead, was son of thb
General Kellahlann who gained such a reputation in the
s oftile Republic and the First Empire. The Due de
Valmy was 6) yelrs of age.

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