The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-05 00:00:00

CORRESPONDENCE. PROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

)ARIS, SVNDA.; October 4.
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The remains of Count Colonna Walewski, member of
the Privy Council, senator, member of the Institute, suc-
cessively Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, President of
the Legislative Body, and, Ambassador at tho English
Court, were interred in the beautiful church of the Mada-
leine yesterday. The obsequies were as far as possible
rendered worthy of one of the moat upright statesman that
France has yet seen. Troops of various reghnents, Chas-
seurs, Hussars, Municipal Guards, and Zouaves, p: e
the mourning coaches ; then came the hut- se, drawn by
six richlycaparisoned horses, then one o!. the Em-
peror's State carriages, next a very large number
of private carriages, then more guards an I mere carriages
still. The spectacle was grand, though not of excep'..onal
magnificence, and, of course, a very large number o!spec-
tators assembled. General regret is felt at this untimely
death ; the more so as, whatever may have been Count
Walewski's abilities, his character was such as France can
111 afford to lose.

Spain still occupies public attention here ; the journalists
write of nothing else, and at the Bourse Spanish matters
are assuming greater and greater importance. It is merely
a truism to say that the country is without money.
Always at a low cbb, her finances have sunk to the most
deplorable condition under the Government which has just
fallen. Some time ago a few of the Paris bankers had
seriously offered Queen Isabella's Ministry the extensive
loan of £2,800,000, but it was refused on the pretext that
the terms were too exorbitant. As if Spain was in a
condition to conclude any advantageous bargain. Had
the offerbeen accepted, and the treasure hadremainedin the
coffers of the State, the position of those who are now mas-
ters of the Government would have been rendered much
More easy. As it is, the exchequer is merely a name, and
the new Government will experience much difficulty in
making it a reality. In time of civil trouble soldiers
must always be paid, and woe to the party which finds itself
incompetent in this respect. When they cannot be paid
they pay themselves. The position of the Spanish stock
here is hardly so good as it was a short time ago.
The Independance Beige says that Count Girgeuti re-
ceived a safe conduct from Marshal Serrano, and has
one to Gibraltar. What he proposes to do it is impossible
to divine.

Letters from Prussia state that the military party
around the King has already collapsed, so far as its
influence is concerned, through one solitary circum-
stance. Count Bismarck is coming back to re-assume the
direction of affairs at Berlin.

M. Boutet, engineer and inventor of the, proposed inter-
national bridge between Dover and Calais, has been holding
a conference at Arres, with a view to putting his idea in

execution.

The electric light is coming into use at Paris. On
Friday evening it was employed to aid the workmen in
the construction of a house on the Quai Voltaire, ncar the
Pont Royal. The light shed on the street was so powerful
that the horses, terrified at such an unusual illumination,
refused to go forward. It has therefore become necessary
to concentrate the light up)n the work to prevent it
escaping to the street.
Dtid de Valmy, Who is just dead, was son of the
General Kelieunann who rained such a reputation in the
wars of the Republic and the First Empire. The Due de
Valmy was 69 ye-tra of age.

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