The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-11-17
OUR PARIS LETTER.

EVEhlhu TbbhCSbAPb bPECIAL CORRRBPONDENCE.
Day of MOurning-An Saints Day.
PARIS, November 5.
To-day is the day of the dead. All Paris has
put on mourning, and thousands throng to the
cemeteries to place nosegay or garland Of
flowers on the grave of a departed relative OF
friend. Yesterday being All Saints Day, very
few Paris papers appeared; however, they were
not missed, as they have of late been sterile OF
news.
Health of Louis Napoleon.
The health of the Emperot is still cause of
anxiety to the partlsans OF the present dynasty.
His Majesty is no longer the man he was. 1t is
asserted that he will not be able to spend the
winter in Paris, but that he will be Obliged to
seek more genial climate.
The French Defenses.
commission has just been named by the
Emperor to consider what should be done to
place the national forces of the country in
situation to assure the defense OF our terri.
tory and. the maintenance.of our political inhu-
enCe. The general opinion is that the Prussian
landwehr system, with some slight modifca-
ton, Is that of all others most adapted to the
French nation. 1t is calculated that, should
the Commission adopt the Prussian system, the
Government will, at any given moment, be able
To place more than million men under arms.
The Austrian Prime Minister.
The great event of the day in foreign politics
the nomination of Baron Won Beust as Prime
Minister by the Emperor of Austria. This mea-
sure, it is feared, is likely to cause some unpleas.
antnes5 between the Courts OF Vienna and Berlin,
as it is a well-knOwn fact that the Baron is, and
has always been, antagonistic to the policy of
Herr Won Bismark. Baron Won Beust is a man
in the prime of life, and served his late master,
the King of SaXony, at the courts of the Tuile-
ries, st. James, and Bavaria. In the times of
political reaction which followed the Revolu-
tion Of l848, he showed himself a bitter adyer-
sary OF liberal aspirations, and peopled the cells
OF the famous dungeons of Veldheim with
political prisoners. He was tue instgator of
the celebrated conferences of Dresden, which
remained without result, and contributed much
to the diplomatic defeat of Prussia at 0lmutz.
Since 1862 the Baron succeeded, more particu-
arly by his energetic attitude in the affairs of
the Blbe Duchies, in efacing his reactionary
past, until at last, becoming martyr to the
system of small States, he was overthrown by
the tendencies to uni6cation.
Relations Between France and Austria
The journals of Berlin and Vienna are filled
with controversial articles, some of which are
not without interest. For instance, the follow.
ing curious manifest appears in the Cologne
Gazette, the paper most favorable TO annexation
of the PruSsian prints:-
'"rhe acclamatioDs with which the Prussian
press has welcomed the wise policy followed
by the Emperor Napoleon in the Austro-Prus-
sian quarrel, have not failed to excite the re-
prOVI and outrageous banter of the Austrian
-9..A1 In
peated in the Vienna journals, OF a secret con-
Venti0n between France and Prussia, with the
object of securing French neutrality at tine
price of concessions of German territory, has
been recognized by all to be pure invention.
The Emperor Napoleon, in rendering justice
to the natural aspirations of Prusslan policy,
has placed himself with respect to Germany in a
point of view the elevation of which no former
Government has ever been able to attain. This
emlnently superior policy possesses the more
importance and smerlt, when the obstacles and
preiUdices OF every sort are called to mind
which the Emperor has had to overcome in
his own country before he could proclaim 1t.
In Prussia, the natural consequence of the mani
sestation of such policy is a unanimous desire
to see more and more consolidated and
strengthened French dynasty which, fol
the brst time, has known now TO establish rela
tions so symp athletic with the national aspra
tiOns of Germany. The reply of the Cabinet o
Berlin to the circular OF Monsieur de Laval
lptte was the expression of this sentiment o
grautudei ahuilt Is preclsely because the Vlenn
Journals do not cease to assail this Prussial
state paper with their most violent attacks, tina
we believe 1t our duty 10 declare ourselve
anew in the same sense"
If the Emperor is not satisfied with this in
cense of the German paper, he Is, indeed,
very difficult man to please.
The Kingdom OF SaxOny.
The King of saxony has at last returned to hi
capital, after an absence of one hundred an
hirty-four days. The Saxon Majesty has bee
received by his loving subjects, not with enthl
siasm, but with frenzy. In default of flower
the considerable provision of which was to
speedily exhausted, the crowds rushed to tn
meadows and hedges, and'plucked away armfu
OF green branches, to strew them before th
royal carriage as 1t rolled along The member
oy the Board Of Public Works and the functio