The Sun. — 1867-03-04 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.  PARIS, Sunday Evening. _ _  There was another Cabinet Council yesterday afternoon at the Tuileries, at which, as usual, the Emperor presided.  The Moniteur says :—"The Gazette de l'Allemagne du Nord, the official organ of the Cabinet of Berlin, renews its contradiction in reply to the assertions of the Independance Belge and other papers which have spoken of pretended demands addressed by the Cabinet of Berlin to the Dutch Government. On the other hand, a private telegram from the Hague mentions the categorical assertions made upon two occasions by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in the Chamber of Deputies, from which it -appears that the report is inexact that Prussia has addressed any representation to the Government of the Netherlands relative to the disarmament of the Dutch fortresses of Maestricht and Venloo."  The Illoniteur Prussten contains an account of a banquet which took place at the chateau after the opening sitting of the Reichstag of Northern Germany, at which the King of Prussia gave the following toast—" To the health of the Princes, my high allies, who concluded with me the Confederation of the North, and to the hope that our peoples and their representatives will regard the work in the same sense and in the same spirit in which we offer it to them." The Plenipotentiary of the King of Saxony, the Minister of State, Baron de Friesen, replicd—" I respectfully beg your Majesty to permit me to return thanks in the name of the German Princes united in the Confederation of the North for the toast which has.just been given, and to give in return The health of his Majesty the King of Prussia. Long live his Majesty.'"  A decree of the Queen of Spain has just authorised the Minister of Marine to conclude a treaty for laying a telegraphic cable between Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Panama. Contradiction is given to the repert that the Minister of Foreign Affairs in Paris had sent a note to the Government of Greece relative to Candia. The Memorial Diplomatique asserts, positively that France, England, and Russia, in their characters of protectors of Greece, have come to an agreement to give full support to the principle of the independence of the Cretans.  The Italie says that the Mediterranean squadron of evolution, under the orders of Admiral Ribotti, will sail about the 15th inst. to the waters of the Levant, in order to insure the protection of Italian citizens in case of need.  The cattle plague has manifested itself in Lower Austria. The cattle have been attacked with it in 72 localities, and 1,773 arrivals have been slaughtered, and 252 others died from the disease ; so that the total number of animals lost from this disease amounted, up to Feb. 26, to 2,025. Charles Lcmaire, the murderer, seems determined to die what is called game. He has refused to appeal to the Court of Cassation, which might have given him a chance, but he says he would rather die than work. His counsel, however, has sent a petition to the Emperor for clemency. Lemaire has been transferred from the Conciergerie to La Roquette, where executions take place, so that the petition probably will not be attended to. Lemaire is continually singing, and from time to time expresses his satisfaction at his sentence of death. An imposing ceremony took place on Friday at Amiens Cathedral. The high dignitaries of the Church assembled there to render homage to the memory of Monseigneur Daveluy, who with other missionaries was murdered in Corea. The makers of the procession left the Church of St. Leu arrayed in white and red. All the clergy of the department of La Somme were present ; among them were no less than 12 bishops. Cardinals Bonnechose and Donnet, and the Archbishops of Nancy, Cambrai, and Algiers were present, as well as Monseigneur Chigi, the Pope's Nuncio. After the ceremony the prelates were re-conducted with great pomp to the Episcopal Palace. Garibaldi has cent the following letter to the chief editor of the Siecle, who inaugurated a subscription for a statue to Voltaire:—  " Gaprera, Feb. 19.  " A monument to Voltaire in Franco signifies the return of that noble country to its post as the advanced guard cf human progress towards the fraternity of tho peoples. This is of good augury for the whole world of which the great man was.a citizen, and a terrible shock to the coalition of despotism and lies. Accept my mite, and all my gratitude.—Yours, " G.