The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1868.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

FROM NM OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Su AY, Feb.

The Avenir National appears to-day with the remark,
" We cannot speak of the sittings of the Corps Legislatif,
but we can read the debates. We could not without ex-
posing ourselves to the risk of appearing before the sixth
chamber ' appreciate ' the discourse of Jules Favre, but
we can announce to him the admiration and the gratitude
of liberal and democratic France." Jules Favre made a
long and eloquent speech. In many respects Eugene
Pelletan had anticipated him ; but on the ques-
tion of the moment, the comptes - rendus, he
spoke with unequalled effect. In the course
of it he remarked : " Now, while I am speaking,
journals, whose good faith has never been questioned
have been doomed to silence. We are ostracised. We
are treated as though we were excommunicated by the
pres.; like pestiferous beings. They cannot speak of our
debates without exposing themselves to fines and impri-
sonment." As if it were to give the lie to Jules Favre,
the Constitutionncl and the Etcnci«rd, the Ministerial
organs, have been discussing the speech of M. Pinard,
praising it and making extracts. If the dependent press
may do this for the Minister of the Interior, why may not
the independent press do the same for Pelletan, Simon,
Thiers, and Favre ? We must, however, wait to see
whether the Minister of the Interior will summon his own
organ for appreciating his own speech?

It is not to be concealed that there are in France, as well
as in the Corps L6gislatif, a large number of persons who
have a great fear of a free press producing anarchy.
Granier de Cassagnac, who followed Jules Favre, was the
spokesman of this party. In his eyes the press has liberty
enough, and there ought to be no more concessions till
political parties have ceased to be bitter against each
other. Now, Granier de Cassagnac is the directeur of the
Palm, the journal of the Empire, and his speech gave rise
to the most diverse interpretations, and very considerable
curiosity. Had the Emperor told him to hint that the law had
better be withdrawn, inasmuch as the Opposition appeared to
prefer the status quo ? He was cheered loudly by the
Right, and when he finished, the France tells us, there was
the liveliest emotion in the lobbies of the Chamber. The
reactionary club in the Rue d'Arcade have, it is said, de-
termined to have the law withdrawn if possible, while the
extreme Liberals will, it is understood, vote against it unless
amendments are carried to make it worth having. The
first of these is to be moved by 111. 011ivier, who has
sufficiently recovered from his late serious fall to be able
to do so. The Ftew?ard denies that there is any likeli-
hood of the bill being withdrawn. Ido not think that the
Opposition press care much for it as it stands.
It is a noticeable fact that several of our provincial
papers have refused to publish the official resume of the
debates, and giVen merely the names of the speakers. It
is a question whether this is not azttionable.

It is well for you to know how English institutions are
regarded abroad. Tie Etenclard, I observe, appears rather
anxious to.depreciatt them. Here is its latest attempt :
" England owes the great but precarious advantages of its
governmental regime to its social institutions and habits—
that is to say, to the absence of absolute equality and real
liberty—and not to its political forms." What these pre-
carious advantages are the Etendard does not say, and I
do not know.

We have very emphatic denials of the alleged negotia-
tions between France and Italy for a fresh convention. It
must not be forgotten, however, that the same sort of
official denial, equally emphatic, preceded the campaign
of 1559.

From Rome we learn that the decree of the Papal Go.
vernment of the 30th November, which se pestrated the
property of persons who were compromis:d in the Gari-
baldian invasion, has been withdrawn, entirely, it is said,
through the personal favour of the Pope.

It has been stated that portions of the expeditionary
force to Rome were being withdrawn. It may to as well
to say that there still remain a battalion of chasseurs,
four regiments of infantry, three battalions of artillery,
and two squadrons of mounted chasseurs.

Further Mexican revelations are said to be preparing for
us. Really they are not wanted. M. de Mentlonry, chief
of Maximilian's staff, is to be the writer of a work to
appear at Stuttgard and at New York. It is rumoured that
Maximilian's Minister of Foreign Affairs is about to pub-
lish the correspondence whizh passed between the two
Emperors.

It appears that Prussia has been favouring amongst the
Poles a German propagandism of late., M. Bismarck has
sounded the emigrants in Paris .on this .subject. The
latter, it is reported, have replied very much as follows :
First, that the Poles do not entertain a chronic hostility
to Prussia ; second, that if M. Bismarck really desires to
range them among his friends, he . has only to follow in
Posen the example which Austria has set him in Gallicia.
Surely the Western Powers are going to revolutionise
ready.
M. finding
Turkey. The last invasion is that of the Snider rifle. It
is reported here that two battalions of the line at Constan-
tinople have been supplied with this arm.and
by
Belgian
firm
it impossible at that figure,
firm had, it is said, convertundertalt:lienrtoorteis
week.
of pieces into rifles at the rate of lrif. e,baeclrie,
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rtagone edsutiuvamibl will besehr
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M. G-oltz, the Minister of the North German Confede-
raalltoilovne,ahbays , inD a
Nnizstioi measure,
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or erceoc\e'ezdvliisiistosrpse
this week.
The effect of the severe weather we had in January is
shewn in the railway returns just published. Most of
them spew a decline.

would resign if defeated
have entered, like Austria, upon a
thoroughly constitutional course. The announcement of
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the threat that the Liberals could not govern the country
six months. This is the first recognition of the principle
that the Ministers must be in accord with Parliament.
Hitherto it has been held that they were the servants of the
Crown, and independent of any vote of the Legislature.

France has shewn goodwill towards Prussia in allowing
her treaty with King William to override the treaty she
had with Mecklenburg. By the latter the duty en French
wine was only Bf. per tun. The Zollverein duty was 16f.
per tun. France, however, gains by the transaction, the
throughout the Zollverein. being now reduced
duttoly Of.

The Austrian Minister of Public Instruction is about to
introduce a bill on the subject of public schools, providing
for the application of the system which prevails in Bel-
gium and Switzerland. The same Minister has introduced
a bill on the subject of the confessional. Both these mea-
sures are a direct condemnation of the Concordat.

The Government of Finland has concluded a loan of 5
million thalers with the house of Erlanger and Co. The
rankfort.
loan will be issued at Berlin, Hamburg, anl F

Indianwant oduitsbtrrei
cat
It appears that the
among the ryot indigo
compulsory contract system under which indigo is culti-
vated has become unremunerative, and the ryots have re-
aaivnice thse report
Tirh
re-
fused to continue sowing.
cultivators

The act for the better government of India will have
been ten years in operation on the Ist of September next.
The revision of the Act being regarded one of the cer-
tainties of the next session, the East India Association are
beginning to consider what antondnaents they can suggest
to Parliament. A paper has been read by Mr. Eastwick,
C. 8., on the representation of India. The writer argued
that the dependency might be directly represented in the
them
House of Commons by removing the restriction upon
members of the Indian Council which prevents
sitting in Parliament. At present our only choice in India,
as Mr. Mill has said, is a choice of despotisms ; but Mr.
Eastwick holds that the people might be gradually trained
to understand elective institutions, and that it is time to
begin the experiment

According to a Brazilian telegram, President Lopez is
attempting to open up a route to the West through the
Chaco. The Brazilian forces are manoeuvring to prevent
this. A general attack on the Paraguayans,
who were
short of provisions, Was said to be imminent. If it suc-
ceeds, this useless and sanguinary strife will probably
come to an end.

The Lord-Advocate of Scotland has informed a deputa-
tion from Glasgow that the Government had been giving
their most anxious consideration to the subject of educa-
tion, and that he was in hopes he would be able to intro-
duce an Education Bill for Scotland very early in the
present session of Parliament.

Mr. J. W. Miles, the Conservative candidate for the
representation of Bristol, has issued his address to the elec-
tors of that city. He is prepared to support the present
Government, who have "" done well for their country" in
having passed a Reform Bill with a basis of a ratepaying
household suffrage in the boroughs. He would assist the
Administration by all means in his power "to complete
their Reform measures for the three kingdoms."

- With a Miles in the field on the Conservative side, it
will now be for the Liberals to settle their differences
and close up their ranks for a contest. On four occa-
sions since the passing- of the Reform Act has a
member of that well-known banking house been re-
turned for Bristol, and three times out of the four he
was at the head of the poll. In 1859, the late Sir F. W.
Slade polled over 4,200 votes, and ran within eighty of the
second Liberal candidate. In 1865, however, Mr. Free-
mantle, the Conservative, was nearly 1,000 votes behind
Sir Morton Pet% the second on the uolL