The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-26 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

Fllom OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, June 25.
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The Patrie assures us that all the journals aro wrong,
and that the elections have not been discussed at the meet-
ings of the Council for the past - six months. It is very
strange, as the Avenir National remarks, that the Council
should not concern itself with a matter which is occupying
all the rest of France. So general is the belief that a dis-
solution is imminent, that throughout the departments the
candidates are alreadypreparin,g for the campaign. More-
over,the Patric does to a certain extent contradict itself, for it
says that in a few days the prefects will come up to Paris,
in order to confer with the Government about the elections.
Now it is quite clear that these eighty-nine gentlemenwould
not have left their departments simultaneously unless they
had been ordered to do so, nor would they have been
ordered without some previous deliberation on the part of
their superiors. It seems to me, therefore, more and
more probable that we shall shortly see the electors invited
to do their duty.
No one doubts that the result of the elections will be
the return of a large majority of members favourable to
the Bonaparte dynasty. At the same time it is nearly
certain that the Opposition will be materially strengthened.
The number of new Liberal journals which are starting up
on every side is a sign of the strong anti-despotic
feeling which prevails, and will strengthen that feeling.
To-day, for instance, there has appeared the first number
of the new Opposition journal l'Electeur. Its editors are
Jules Favre, Picard, and ll6nothree of the most distin-
guished members of the Left. It is brought out espe-
cially to influence the elections, and protests against
the system of official candidates. M. Glais-Bizoin,
another member of the same party, has just
issued the first number of his journal, the Ma
du Nord, published at Saint-Brieuc. The Emperor
is said to have been profoundly impressed by the enormous
sale of Henri Rochefort's La Lanterne (above 80,000 a
number) contrasting so remarkably with the very limited
sale of journals which, like the Etendard, are devoted .to
the Government. In some quarters it is said that this cir-
cumstance has so influenced Napoleon that he contemplates
a further crowning of the edifice in the shape of some fresh

concessions. On the other hand, there is a rumour of
exactly the opposite purport, viz., that the Emperor is so
disquited at the prospect of,...the elections that he means

to issue a senatus-consultunt, by which he will modify the
rule requiring a candidate to poll an absolute majority of
more than a half of the electors, and substitute one-
fourth.

The Emperor arrived at Chalons yesterday afternowa
about six o'clock. He wore the uniform of a general Or
division, and was attended by Generals Fleury and Douay,
and three other officers. Received by the General-in-
Chief at the station, he mounted and rode through the
midst of a double line of troops. On the right were three
divisions of infantry, on the left were the cavalry and the
artillery. Subsequently there was a grand dinner laid for
fifty persons. To-day there is to be a grand manmuvre, arid
to-morrow a review, at which medals and crosses will be
distributed. It is expected also that the Emperor will
assist at the shooting match with the new arms. The
weather at the camp last night was magnificent, and a
welcome shower just before his Majesty's arrival, had
laid the dust. I should mention that before the Emperor
left Paris for Chalons he received M. Emile Pereire,

of the Credit Mobilier, who complains bitterly of the way
in which he has been treated by M. Pouyer-Quertier with
respect to the Transatlantic mail packet contract.
There is again much talk of diplomatic changes, and the

appointments, which in a former letter I mentioned had

been suggested, are again spoken of. It is also said that
the Due de Persigny will be provided for abroad,
as it is found that his ambition is too great

to render his residence in France just now de-

sirable. Poor Count von Goltz, the Prussian Minister,
is still very unwell. It is feared that he is suf-
fering from cancer of the tongue. He will not put himself
under Naaton again, but has been persuaded to try a
certain Van Smidt, whom the Paris doctors call a Dutch
quack, but who claims to have found in the East Indies a
certain cure for cancer. Our faculty say that if the Count's
disease be cancer it is incurable ; if it be not, there is no
need to go so far as India for a cure. This may be logic,
but it is not surgery.
There are some further particulars about Prince Napo-
leon's journey. A letter from Vienna gives the following.
The Duke of Baden desires to enter the North German
Confederation. The Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt is
bring pressed by his son and daughter-in-law (your
Princess Alice) to do the same thing. Should they take
this step, Bavaria and Wiirtemberg would then be the
only States of any importance outside the Confederation,
and they could not possibly remain aloof long. It has
been Prince Napoleon's object in visiting Vienna to prevent
this fusion. He has endeavoured to persuade Baron
von Beust to take measures in accord with France, in
order to carry out his policy. The Austrian Premier has
evaded any pledge on the subject, but the Prince is not
without hope of eventually winning him over. Mean-
while, the papers are careful to inform us that the Austrian
army is being rapidly reorganised, and that a large number
of Chassepot rifles are being manufactured in this country
for Austrian use. At Bucharest Prince Napoleon has had
' a very warm welcome. He was received by Prince
Charles and his Ministers, who led him through streets
gay with flags and triumphal arches. In the evening the
city was illuminated, and there was a fete in honour of
the Imperial visitor.
The Etendard confirms the news that Menotti Gari-
baldi is enrolling volunteers in Italy, and makes the im-
portant addition that the Italian Government is offering
no opposition. This is serious news. It is impossible to
believe that a fresh Garibaldian attempt could be
successful now that the French troops are in
Papal territory, remembering that it failed last
year. But though there is not the smallest
chance of the Garibaldians being successful in overthrow-
ing the Pope, it is by no means so certain that they will
not excite a revolutionary movement which will over-
throw Victor Emmanuel. There is no doubt that
Menotti Garibaldi is doing the work of the Bourbons even
more effectually than if he were in the pay of Francis of
Naples.
There are two remarkable leaders in to-day's Liberte.
In one M. Emile de Girardin points out that
while the Temps is so anxious to put down
capital punishments, of which there were only nine in
1860, it has nothing to say to the 101,767 imprisonments
milich took place that year. In the other article, entitled
" La France est Sage," M. L6on Cahnn savagely attacks
the foreign policy of this country, pointing out with
terrible sarcasm how it has failed in every single parti-
cular. M. Calmn says there is not a country in Europe,
save France, which has not won something during the last
fifteen years. England, by disentangling herself from ambi-
tious foreign diplomacy, has developed her political liberty
and her commerce. Germany has obtained unity. So has
Italy. Austria has, by wise concessions, restored harmony
to her once mongrel empire. Even the " sick man" is
recovering. But France has acquired Nice and Savoy,
and thereby estranged Italy. She has demanded Saarlouis
and Landau, and been refused. She has protected Turkey
against Russia,and thereby raised difficulties in Montenegro,
Servia, and Candia which she cannot overcome. Of Poland
the less said the better. France has been in Mexico, and
it was in Mexico that Maximilian was murdered a year
ago. Where, then, are her acquisitions—her allies?
Where is her internal prosperity, with the manufacturers
crying out famine ; the bank choked with gold ; the great
financial institutions tottering ; Algeria desolated with
famine? As for science, all the rest of the world
is advancing, save France. True, France is tranquil
at home ; but she is so like the dervish who,
having in a fit of passion killed an animal that
he loved, prayed heaven to liberate him from his passions,
and was then left without any impulse towards good or
evil, a living corpse.

Great excitement has been caused at Limoges by the
discovery, on Tuesday morning, of two dead bodies in a
field, close to the most populous part of the town. The
one was that of a man, the other that of a woman, %nd
both were cut into numerous pieces.

The hot weather has returned. To-day the thermometer
has been 83 deg. Fahrenheit in the shade.

The reorganisation of the Austrian army is going on
rapidly. A large number of Chassepot rifles are being
ma le in France.for the use of the Austrian troops. '
The Post's Paris correspondent, referring to the general
impression which prevails concerning the decision of the
Emperor to call upon the people of France to elect new
Chambers soon after the close of the present session, sup-
poses the Emperor looks forward to the result with con-
siderable anxiety, as when some time since general elections
were contemplated, it will be remembered that a pamphlet
appeared from the cabinet of his Majesty's secretary, remind.
ing the nation of the services Napoleon 111. had rendered
society, and the prosperitywhich had characterised his reign.
No doubt, says the correspondent, a change has taken
place in the feelings of the people since they last sent
deputies to Paris. Frenchmen have recovered from
that alarm which the anarchy of the last revolution
created. They do not any longer exclaim, "Let the
Emperor do what he pleases ;he knows best !" There is
a desire to exercise more control over the acts and policy
of the sovereign. As far as observers can see, the next
elections will chew a very large dynastic majority, for
universal suffrage as exercised in France under actual cir.
cumstances is a dynastic vote ; it is a vote for sovereign,
Constitution—in fact, Imperialism. The Roman Catholic
priests will take a very active share in returning deputies
to the legislative body. They have received diner cgan
from Itorh2 on the gakilit