The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

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COIaLSEONDEI:CE FROM PARIS;

(FROM OLT. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, November 27.

The Etendarcl a day or two ago announced that the
" example of the three judges of Clermont would find no
imitators." It has found imitators. The Indepcndant du
Tarn, summoned before the Correctional Tribunal
of Castres on the charge of " manoeuvres " against
the Government by publishing a list of the Baudin
subscriptions, has been acquitted in the same way as
the Independant du Centre. The magistrates of Castres
have agreed with those of Clermont, that the prosecution
in the Baudin affair hardly preserves the letter of the
French law, and certainly violates its spirit. This
double acquittal will have more than twice the
effect of one. The judgment at Clermont might have
been deemed an accidental check to the Govern-
ment ; but the two acquittals cannot be interpreted other-
wise than as a decisive censure. There is some chance
now that the other prosecutions, at least those in the
provinces, may have the same result.
The Eclipse has been forbidden to publish likenesses of
the five advocates who undertook the defence in the first
Baudin trial ! What next ? The Government may be
expected to forbid the advocates to have their likenesses
taken in any form.
France and Austria must be on the best of terms. The
Gaulois and some of the German papers have stated that
the French gun factories were to furnish the Emperor
Francis Joseph with 600,000 muskets by the Ist of April.
This statement has not yet been contradicted.
It is said that the three millions of francs which have
been paid into the Roman treasury on account of the
Italian share in the Pontifical debt never came out of the
coffers at Florence. The money has been paid by France
as a liquidation of the debt incurrred by the annexation of
Savoy and Nice.

Baron Beust has recovered his stolen decorations. They
were pledged with an old curiosity dealer for 250 florins ;
but as a larger reward was offered for the discovery of the
thief, the dealer gave information. None of the decora-
tions are wanting, but the thief is.
The Prince Imperial has acquired a confirmed taste for
the French national sport. He has become a very pro-
mising velocipedist, and has succeeded in rendering this
exercise more than ever the rage.
The bulletin of distinguished invalids is altogether favour-
able. M. Berryer is no worse ; the Duke of Brabant is
rather better; and Serrano is recovering, though he is still
incapable of attending to public business, leaving Prim in
undisputed possession. The Marquis of Novaliches is
convalescent. It is even thought by some that ho may
regain speech, though part of his tongue has been carried
away, and as yet he can hold communication only by
writing. _ _

One day a young woman, giving the name of Josephine
D-, presented herself at the atelier of an artist
sculptor. She unfolded a pitiful tale, saying that her
husband, who was a shopkeeper, had been ruined by
giving too much credit, had fallen ill, and that both
were in extreme misery. She prayed that the
sculptor would assist them by employing her as a
model. The sculptor was moved to pity, introduced the
unfortunate woman to his wife, who employed her in
various ways and paid her sufficiently to keep the ruined
pair from starvation. One day the sculptor set aside a
sum of £2O in order to make the customary New Year's
present to his wife. The money disappeared, and, suspi-
ciously enough, so did the "model woman." She vanished,
her residence had never been known, and she was not
found. Fifteen years, as the story-books say, passed,
and this piece of model behaviour had long re•
lapsed into obscurity. One day, however, the
sculptor entered one of the finest cafes in Paris, and there,
sitting at the receipt of custom, as mistress of the house,
was the uierly miserable, but now prosperous Josephine.
The two recognised each other at once. Sub rosa, the
sculptor was informed that the 500 f. had been stolen in a
fit of desperation ; that the husband was informed that
the wife had found it in the street; and that the sum had
served to raise them from misery to affluence. The
sculptor, it is added, did not call in the aid of the police.

THE TVEAT.HEB TABLE.-THIS DAY.

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