The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-27 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE PROM FARM

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PARIS, WEDNZSDAY, August 26.
The Zibertif has received from a correspondent "who is
well acquainted with all that passes in the Court of the King
of Prussia" some information on the subject of the Schwal-
bail interview. Since the temporary retirement of Count
Bismarck, says the informant of the Liberte, the old Prussian
Conservatives and their policy have reappeared at Court.
This party do not altogether approve of the events of 1866,
and have accepted the results of the seven weeks' war only
through the predominating influence of Count Bismarck.
The prime object of their policy is a friendship or a species
of Holy Alliance between Austria, Russia, and Prussia,
which would result in the isolation of France. It is this
party which, having regained some of its lost influence,
has instigated the interview at Schwalbach. On that occa-
sion the King of Prussia offered the Czar, his nephew,
his aid in bringing about once more the friendly relations
which formerly existed between the Cabinets of Vienna
and St. Petersburg. The Emperor did not repel, if he did
not accept, this proposal. In consequence, the King of
Prussia is now playing the part of conciliator, and she wing
every attention to the monarch who two years ago opposed
him in battle. The communications between the two are ,
more frequent than they have been since Sadowa. The

correspondent adds that the French diplomatists are fully
aware of what is going on ; but the relations between
France and Prussia are ostensibly cordial, whilst between
France and Russia they are remarkably cold. At the
official dinner, given by M. de Moustier on the occasion of
the Emperor's Fête, the Minister proposed the toast of all
the Sovereigns represented at Paris. Upon which, a diplo-
matist remarked, loud enough to be heard by everybody,
" M. de Moustier gives this toast with all the more zest on
this occasion because the Russian Ambassador is absent."
All these details are of course " guaranteed."

Count von Goltz is no better. The treatment of Dr.
Gerard van Schmitt, from which such marvels were ex-
pected, has hitherto done little or nothing to mitigate the
sufferings of the diplomatist.
The Figaro states that the Spanish Ambassador at Paris
has requested an interview between the Queen of Spain
and the Emperor Napoleon at Biarritz, but that the Em-
neror, entirely from private motives, bas politely declined.
A pistol duel has recently taken place between M. F—
and M. Jolivet, who is said to be the son of the deputy
who was killed on the Place de la Concorde, on the 23rd of
February, 1848, and whose corpse was found under a heap
of sand near the Tuileries three or four days later. The
fate of this family has been strange. The great-grand-
father of the M. Jolivet who has just stood fire was shot in
a pistol duel, his grandfather was killed in one of the battles
of the Empire, and his father met his death in the manner I
have just mentioned. M. Jolivet has so far escaped the
general rule, for though he received a wound in the
stomach which was considered mortal, he is now deemed
to be in a fair way to recovery.
The sort of inspiration with which the official papers
are endowed is a mystery at present ; for whilst the
Constitutionnel argues in favour of peace, the Pays pro-
nounces for war. As the latteris the better credited paper, it
has thus some advantage over its adversary; so thatperhaps
the inspiration is pacific, or at least cannot be very warlike, if
the Constitutionnel has no share in the utterances of the
oracle. The Constitutionnel is the centre of attraction at
present. Yesterday it published a short note announcing
that the Emperor and Empress would postpone their
departure for Biarritz until they had received a visit
from the Count and Countess of Girgenti. The
Parisian public is even more mystified by this state-
ment than by the discrepancy between the Pays and
its colleague. Why the Emperor and Empress should
delay their plans on account of a visit from two members
of the House of Bourbon—for the Count de Girgenti is
brother to the ex-King of Naples—is a problem which
puzzles even the gossips of Paris. The House of Bourbon
does not, as a writer satirically remarks, exercise a pre-
ponderating influence in Europe, and the interview might
have taken place, one would think, at riarritz. The
most enterprising inventor cannot deduce a war rumour
from this statement. It is therefore concluded that some
modifications of the system of home administration are con-
templated. What ground tLere is for this conclusion lam
unable to divine.

There is further trouble in the Republic of Andorre.
Indeed it would seem that revolution had established its
headquarters in the little valley which constitutes the
smallest State in the world. A provost had been appointed
by the Bishop of Urget, but the Council• General would
not accept the nomination. Public ire was at length so
much excited against the unhappy provost that he was
besieged in his house, and was in danger of his life. The
Council• General has been dissolved, but anarchy still
reigns in the Happy Valley.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

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