The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-14 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE FRI

DM PARIS. I LATEST INTELL LGENCE.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY, Jan. 13.
I was right, after all, in saying that it s the state of
his health that took Count Goltz to Born at the com-
mencement of the year. That statement has been ridi-
culed and denied over and over again, and when the
Ambassador returned to Paris it was thought a very good
joke to talk of the rapid cure that had been effected. The
fact is, some people will persist in thinking that a canloi
matic personage has no existence apart from his official
duties. Count Goltz couldn't be going to the
Prussian capital to consult his physician ; the object of
his journey must be to receive some special instructions
from his Royal master. Yet, what do we find? No sooner
is Count Goltz back in Paris than the services of our cele-
brated N6la,ton are called in, and a consultation with other
eminent doctors is held, which results in the performance
of an operation for abscess under the tongue, which, I am
glad to say, has proved effectual. The patient was finder
the influence of chloroform, which, however, lost its
power before the surgical arrangements were completed.
I am told that Count Goltz, immediately taking a slate,
wrote upon. it the words, " Morel ! Are you satisfied?"
and handed it to his medical attendants. The bulletins
that have been issued, signed by M. Neaton and Dr.
Yobb, the physician to the Prussian Embassy, announce
that the general health of the Count has not suffered from
the effects of the operation.
The interest in railways and their returns is so general
that I have decided to give you the traffic receipts for last
year on six of our systems. Take, first of all, the raris
and Mediterranean Railway. The receipts on that line
amounted, on 2,331 miles, to £8,338,386, against 27,336,183
on 2,183 miles, shewing an increase of E 302,203 over the
preceding year. The traffic receipts on the Paris and
Orleans Railway amounted, on 1,851 miles, to £4,213,372,
against £4,062,049 on 1,812 miles, shewing an increase
of £151,323 ; on the Eastern of France Railway
the traffic receipts amounted, on 1,650 miles,
to £4,182,782, against £3,923,443 on 1,594 miles,
shewing an increase of £2„59,339 ; on the Northern of
France the traffic receipts amounted, on 870 miles, to
0,721,951, against £3,297,496 on 788 miles, showing an
increase of £524,455 ; on the Western of France Railway
the traffic receipts amounted, on 1,301 miles, to £3,370,272,
against £2,986,093, on 1,245 miles, shewing an increase of
£384,179 ; Und on the Southern of France the traffic re
ceipts amounted, on 1,062 miles, to £1,766,634, arming:
£1,707,903 on 1,010 miles, showing an increase of £ F I
Thus I find that the whole traffic receipts of the si qui
tons shewed an increase of £1,880,236, and of 433 miles Li.
1867 over the year 1866.

There is a lady here who just now is creating a sensa-
tion, but in a manner much less harmful than that by
which many of her sisters in Paris have acquired
notoriety. Walking daily in the garden of the Tuileries,
Madame, by influences unknown, attracts flights of wild
pigeons, sparrows, and other birds. Some hover around
her ; others, bolder than their companions, perch upon her
shoulders and her head, and nearly the whole of them accom-
pany her to the door of her dwelling, when they return to
the gardens.

If there be anything new under the sun, it is the
manner of advertising goods. An enterprising tradesman
in Lyons pushes the sale of his polishing powder by the
following ingenious address, which he distributes whole.
sale in the streets :—" Cooks, Angels of the Hearth !
Soldiers, Defenders of France !—Do you wish to shine,
polish, brighten— easily—your helmets, breastplates, sauce-
pans, and kettles ? Then take the Chemical Tripoli—
nothing but Chemical Tripoli." (Here follow name and
address.)
In all likelihood M. Louis Blanc will come out as a
candidate at the next Marseilles election in opposition to
M. Maire, who is at present in disfavour with the working
classes owing to his having consented to become a patron
of the Fusion Marseilles.

Great distress continues in all parts of the country. In-
formation reaches me from Lyons that the manufactures
are almost paralysed, owing to the uncertainty of the
political future. At Nantes, Rouen, Roubaix, and even
in Bordeaux, many of the inhabitants are reduced to the
greatest straits. The same may be said of Lille. The
thaw which has set in will alleviate in some degree the
suffering which has prevailed here.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The Secretary of State for India has received a
telegram from Colonel Stanton at Cairo, under date
Jan. 11, 1868, embodying the following message
from Colonel Merewether

" SENAFE, Dec. 28.

" Have visited Attegerat, distance 30 miles. Road
can be made easy thither for mules and camels in
a few days. Large market there every Monday.
Water and grass abundant. Well received by
population. Reported latest, 13th, that Theodorus
has approached Lasta , the Wagshum advanced to
oppose him, and that they are close to one another ;
Menelek 25 miles south-east of Magdala. Many
reports, but none trustworthy. Epidemic among
cavalry horses has disappeared. No further letters
from captives."
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
(By Malta and Alexandria Telegraph.)
SUEZ, Jan. 13.

Advices received here from Annesley Bay state
that the Chief of the Tigre was friendly towards the
expeditionary force. He had offered to victual
them, and had already sent 2,000 bullocks for their
use.

The supply of water at Annesley was abundant.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, Jan. 14.

The Official Gazette of this morning announces
that the Emperor has ordered that the persons ap-
pointed to the posts of Ministers shall be styled
" Your Excellency" during the continuance of their
official functions, and shall rank at Court with
actual Privy Councillors.

The Reichsrath will resume its sittings upon the
10th February.

Deputy Muhlfeld is dangerously ill.

Rumours are current that Field-Marshal Lieute-
nant Baron von John is about to resign his post a►s
Minister of War for the Empire, and will be suc-
ceeded by Field-Marshal Lieutenant von Kuhn,

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 14.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's ship
Atrato, from the West Indies, &c., arrived here at
3.15 a.m. this day, all well, and proceeded thence
for Southampton at 4.30 a.m. She brings 21 adult
passengers, specie $161,030, and 2,215 packages of
cargo. Also late captain and crew of the Corsica,
screw steamer, purchased by the company.

The Douro arrived out at St. Thomas's, with
mails of 17th ult., at daylight on the 31st ; and the
Mersey proceeded down the islands, and the Douro
to Jamaica, the same day.
The Atrato's ship papers are coming to London
by special train from Plymouth, at 5.15 a.m. this
day.
The Atrato was detained outside the harbour,
first waiting for the pilot, and subsequently through
losing the boatswain overboard, who fell from the
jibboom, when a boat was lowered and search made
for him, but ineffectually.
Her dates are :—Greytown, Dec. 15 ; Demerara
and Tobago, 23d ; Trinidad, 24th ; Grenada and
St. Vincent, 25th ; St. Lucia and Barbadoes, 26th ;
Jamaica, Martinique, Guadaloupe, and Dominique,
27th ; Jacmel, Antigua, and St. Kitt's, 28th ; and
St. Thomas, 31st.
At St. Thomas's commercial affairs were still in
au unsettled state, owing to the continuance of
the earthquake. Severe shocks were felt on the
29th and following days, up to the time of the
Atrato leaving, keeping the inhabitants in a state
of great. anxiety. The island was then healthy, but
private advices state that the water in the harbour
was more putrid than ever through the number of
sunken vessels with provisions, &c., ou board. The
slightest movement among the shipping caused the
exhalations to become insufferable, and it was ap-
prehended that before long some serious sickness
would be the result.

The second session of the new Jamaica Legisla-
ture was opened on December 17. The Financial
Secretary reported a deficit in the revenue of the
past year of £56,000, arising from the Customs and
rum duties. A bill had been introduced levying
an additional 10 per cent upon the amount of duties
paid into the Customs on all imported articles from
December 16.

The Council has been adjourned till the 14th of
January.
A day of thanksgiving was observed on the 20th
December for deliverance from earthquakes and
hurricanes. _ .

At Barbadoes political matters had lapsed into
quietness, and rumour was busy speculating there
as to the probable successor of the Governor, whose
term of office had almost expired.
At Demerara the deficiency in the revenue this
year was expected to be very considerable.
Towards the close of the last fortnight a good
deal of rain had fallen at Trinidad all over the
island, and there was every indication of a wet
season having set in at last.
H.M.S. Royal Alfred left St. John's, Antigua,
on Dec. 26, for Barbadoes, and the Sphinx for
Grenada. The Terror, Favourite, Doris, Nimble, and
Constance were left at Bermuda on December 17.
The Doris was to leave for Barbadoes on the 26th,
and the Aboukir, Phoebe, Barracouta, and the Cor-
delia were left at Port Royal, Jamaica, on Dec em-
ber 27. The Urgent arrived there on the 23d for
Bermuda, and was to leave 'on December 31st for
Colon, with seamen and marines for the Pacific
squadron.
There was no fresh news of much importance
from the Central American States.

The new volcano that broke out at Leon, in
Nic,aragua, lasted for 16 days and then ceased.

The Atrato's mails were not sorted on board.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

GIBRALTAR, Jan. 13.

The Massilia leaves at 2 a.m. to-day for South-
ampton, where she may be expected early on the
morning of the 18th inst.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, JAN. 13, Three o'clock..—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of mouth 6B 97f
Credit Mobilier
End of month 163 75
Credit Foncier 1355
Eud.of month 1355 -
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 3295
Itrd'an Loan
End of month 42 37i
Mexican Loan 15i
Do. Bonds
Spa❑ish Threes 37 50
Rome Debt 3li
Deferred

Account
Orleans
... 870
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 5361
Western
Eashan . 535
Sardinian
Austrian

5021

3411
-- 61

Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Itoman 5O

THE INCREASE OF THE POLICE FORCE.—The pro-
posed addition of 1,000 men to the metropolitan police
force is not likely to be long in being made up, so rapidly
aro eligible candidates for admission to the force present-
ing themselves at Scotland-yard. The recruits come, in
almost every instance, as may be supposed, from the pro-
vinces, and the utmost care is taken to select not merely
those most physically fit, but those who combine the ne-
cessary bodily strength with fair educational qualifica-
tions. Yesterday a large number of fine young men
passed at Scotland-yard, and received their uniforms. AF.
a general rule, the newly appointed constables are not re-
markable for their high stature, but are all strong and
healthy lookiug,

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TIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Jan. 13.
The Queen walked in the grounds this morning,
attended by the Duchess of Roxburghe ; and their
Royal Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice also went out.

His Excellency M. and Madame Van de Weyer
and the Misses Van de Weyer left Osborne to-day.

Prince and Princess Christian,with Princess lien-
riette of Schleswig-Holstein and Prince Arthur,
returned to Frogmore ou Saturday from visiting
Lord and Lady Derby at Knowsley.