The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-21 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM wart OWN CORRESPONDEIN

PARIS, TUESDAY, October 20.
The aspect of affairs at present is decidedly pacific. A
few warlike symptoms may still be observed, but the
balance is much on the other side. The Danish question
has not quite subsided, the Prussian (Cross) Gazette having
by an intemperate, not to say foolish article, again stirred
up some little agitation here. This paper says that
Prussia " will never consent to give up the position of
Duppel-Alsen, which implies the possession of Flensburg.
" We have never dreamed of such a renunciation, and the
Danish Government, we hope, would not seriously ask it of
us. If such a proposition were made, it would provoke a
war to the last extremity." Fortunately, the public are
beginning to learn that even continental Governments
cannot always be answerable for the opinions expressed by
their newspapers, and so the fire of the Gazette falls rather
dead just now. Better news comes from Berlin. It is
said that the furlough granted to a portion of the
French army is there considered one of the best of
signs. Further, the reports of an alliance between
Holland and France are falling into discredit. A corre-
spondent of the Temps writes to prove that such an
alliance in practically impossible, and succeeds so far
as anything can be proved to be impossible. Everything
at present looks peaceful. Even the East is comparatively
quiet. The open countenance which the Roumanian
authorities have given the insurrectionary bands of
Bulgaria has been made the subject of a very mild and
temperate note from the Porte. It is long since a coup
d'ceil cast upon the aspect of European affairs could have
so reasuring a result.

The duel said to have been fought between Senor Mar-
fori and M. Rochefort, the editor of La Lanterne, has not
yet come off. People here are ranch disappointed. Such
an encounter would have been the most exciting of late
years.

The state of Algeria must be of the most deplorable
Lind. A horrible case of cannibalism has just come to
light. On the house of an Arab who was suspected of
stealing a cow being searched, a basket full of pieces of
human flesh was discovered. Three heads were afterwards
found. 'rho remains were recognised as those of a woman
and her two children. The wife of the Arab whose house
was searched confessed the crime, saying they had been
persuaded to it by two twin brothers. She said : " The
three murders consummated, we cut the bodies up. The
twin brothers I have already named took a part and
left us the remainder, the heads, feet, and hands being
comprised in our portion. Assisted by my children, I
forthwith took the part allotted me home. I boiled a part,
which we ate, and put the rest aside in order not
to exhaust all our provisions in one day. I also flayed
the three heads, and put them where they have just been
found,"

Risk Allah is now in Paris. He makes his appearance
frequently on the Boulevards with his second wife, an
Eng'ish blonde.

The news respecting the inundations is more reassuring.
The waters of the Loire are sinking.
The report that M. Emile Girardin is going to apaln
this week increases in strength. Unable to convert the
Spaniards to Republicanism by the agency of La Liberte,
he is going to attempt to do so personally.
The Nouvelliste de Rouen mentions a case of quadruple
birth at Noueville-Coppegeuele. A woman there, named
Quillent, has just given birth to four female children,
three of whom are now alive. The mother is 22 years
of age.