The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-29 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PiUM

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONPENT.)
kARIS, Ntomit, Septeralsei 20.
The Men of the second Empire are dying off with
startling :rapidity. Morny and Thouvenel, and many
others of lesser note, have been followed by Walewski,
one of the most respected of the Imperial councillors: The
Moniteur announces his death in the shortest of para-
graphs. The Etendard gives a very few details. It
appears that the Count had arrived at Stras-
bourg from Evian, on the Lake of Geneva, and
had gone to the hotel La Ville de Paris. As soon as
he entered his room he began to change his linen,
and while doing that was struck by apoplexy, and died
apparently almost immediately. The news has been
received here with profound regret, for Walewski was
popular on account of his Liberal views. He V 79.8 too
Liberal, indeed, for his master, and only a few months ago
resigned the presidency of the Corps Legislatif because his
sympathies were too wide.

The French papers have almost ceased to be French, so
far as their news is concerned. They are well nigh filled with
telegrams and despatches from Spain. These are read in
Paris with an eagerness of which you in England can have
little idea. This is not surprising, perhaps, considering
that the Spanish frontier adjoins ours—that Spain is our
next-door neighbour. This being so, it is natural that
the journals should take Fides. The Government organs,
unmindful of the fact that the Emperor represents the
principle of the Revolution as opposed to dynastic claims,
take the side of the Queen ; the Opposition journals take
the side of the insurgents. The first have done their
best to extinguish the insurrection —on paper ; but
at last they arc reuotantly coming to admit :that the
matter is serious. To-night there is a report that the
insurgents have retaken Santander, and that the whole
country has risen. Meanwhile the Queen remains at San
Sebastian, close to the frontier. It has been rumoured
that she has had a private interview with the Empress,
but this is denied in an official communiqta addressed to
she Paris journals.
Spanish affairs have almost entirely diverted our atten-
tion from other foreign matters. But the Liberti informs
its readers, in prominent type, that an interview has just
taken place at Potsdam between the Czar Alexander and
his uncle, the King of Prussia. The first sovereign is on
his way to Warsaw, where an enthusiastic reception is
being got up to order. The meeting of the two sovereigns
is supposed in some quarters to have had an important
political object, and to be a virtual contradiction to the
pacific announcements of the King of Prussia at Kiel and
Hamburg.

Next to the Spanish insurrection, the event of the aay
is the duel between M. Henri Rochefort, of La Lantcrne,
and M. Ernest Baroche, son of the Minister of Public
Worship. The first, in a recent number of his paper,
referred to a letter written by the Duc de Persigny
respecting the candidature of the second during the elec-
tions of five years ago. A letter from a Minister of State
about a candidate for the Corps Ldgislatif was, one
might have thought, a public document. Not so
thought M. Baroche. He summoned M. Rochefort,
and as the challenged could not return to France,
where he has been sentenced to imprisonment,
the meeting took place upon the Belgian-Mitch frontier
on Saturday, at 9.30 a.m. Baroche chose the sword for
weapon, and it was agreed that the duel should continue
until one of the two combatants was declared by the
surgeons hors de combat. Rochefort had for seconds the
two sons of Victor Hugo. Baroche had Adolphe Belot and
E. de Loyne. The duel lasted a quarter of an hour, and
there were five encounters. At the first Baroche was slightly
wounded in the stomach ; at the third he received a slice
on the right thigh. He insisted, however, that the duel
should continue. At the fifth round the combatants fought
close together, and with great fierceness. Baroche re-
ceived a third wound, this time in the side, and Rochefort's
right arm got slashed. The two surgeons then inter-
posed, and declared that the wounds prevented another
encounter. Whether M. Baroche felt his honour healed
by the hurts which his body received is not stated.
He will scarcely care to meet the man with the lantern
again.

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