The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

REMARKS.

The greatest change in the atmospherical pressures during the last
twenty-four hours has been in the north-western districts, where
readings are about two-tenths of an inch lower, but on other coasts
the difference shewn is very slight : this change has occurred chiefly
during the night. The difference of readings between Penzance and
Nairn is about four-tenths of an Inch. Temperature Is nearly the
same as yesterday: a small rise,• however, has taken place in the
south of England. On the Channel coast the wind has continued
steady from the N.W. ; on other coasts the wind has backed, and is
now prevalent from the westward, and moderate. The weather is
generally cloudy.

A letter from Berlin states that Prince Napoleon's visit
to Vienna is not viewed with much satisfaction at the Prus-
sian Court, and that, by way of counteracting it, the King
of Prussia will probably go to Ischl during the summer,
and have an interview with the Emperor of Austria.

It is clear that the Prussian Premier is completely
knocked up. For some three years past he has been
suffering from ner4us debility, brought about by over-
work. Latterly he has had a severe attack of plearisy, and
although he is recovering from this disease, the Nord-
deutsche Zeitung says that complete restoration will require
considerable time. For the present he is incapacitated for
work, and will leave for his Pomeranian estates as soon as
he can be removed.

M. Horn's pamphlet, " Le Bilan de l'Empire," which
has gone through eight editions in six weeks, stated that
the Emperor had expended £1,240,000,000 in fifteen years.
M. Vitu, of the Etendard, in a reply, entitled " Les
Finances (or, as by a ludicrous printer's blunder it was
spelt, Finaces ') de l'Empire," declared that M. Horn
had exaggerated the amount by £8,000,000. M. Horn has
now published a rejoinder, in which he maintains his
original figures, and adds some very severe remarks. He
says : " By the continuance of the anti-liberal and anti-
democratic system of cuirassed peace, by the extravagance
of expeditions more or less distant, by the wild exaggera-
tion of works of public inutility, in Paris, in the depart-
ments, in the communes, we have raised to 3,000 millions
of frarics a year the public charges imposed, under divers
forms and names, on the French taxpayers. This im-
mense amount is taken from a total revenue which, as its
maximum, attains tha sum of 15,000 millions. Thus the
public services take from the nation en masse one-fifth
of its resources. Thanks to our regime of imposts,
the reverse of progressive, the amount levied is one-
fourth and more of their incomes, from the class less
easy in their circumstances, looked at separately. Obliged
to comply with exigencies so exhausting, the country
claims in vain the liberty which alone can give a new im-
pulse to its producing activity ; in vain it demands the
positive guarantees of durable peace which would at least
enlarge its international exchanges. How, then, can
anyone feel astonished at the sufferings which undermine
the physical and moral health of the social body ? And
can anyone combat the supreme urgency of a general and
complete reform of our political, administrative, and
financial 71‘,. intc l"