The Sun. — 1867-08-24 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Friday Evening.  To believe the announcement of the Spanish Government would be to imagine that the insurrection in Spain is suppressed. It is difficult to obtain information upon the subject, as for two or three days no Spanish papers have been allowed to penetrate to Paris, and letters are opened. • However, it is a significant fact that official accounts describe the movement as " serious." There have been several conflicts, all of which, of course, according to Ministerial authority, have turned to the advantage of the royal troops. The plain fact is, as I gather from authentic sources, that the insurrection is not confined to Catalonia, but has spread to Arragon and Andalusia. In the province of Castellon, formerly belonging to Valencia, important insurrectional movements have taken place. Tarragona its in the power of Escoda, a very influential General of Catalonia. General Pierrad has been joined by a numerous revolutionary force in Upper Arragon. Gen. Contreras, with a numerous body of revolutionists, is marching in the direction of Lerida. Already some very sanguinary encounters have taken place at Rens, in Catalonia ; at Villanuova, a small port between Barcelona and Tarragona ; and in the mountains and woods of Catalonia. There is great confidence in General Contreras, whose appeals rally the villagers in his support, so that important movements may anticipated. It seems certain that General Prim has passed the frontier, near Somport on the Lower Pyrenees, and is advancing without difficulty in Arragon at the head of a numerous body of insurgents. In short, in spite of the complacent announcements of the Government, the revolution assumes formidable proportions.  Another case of poisoning has occurred, which has occasioned great excitement in the locality, 13eaulieu-sous-Parthenay. M. T., proprietor of the Chateau de la Meillevai, died a few days ago in great agony. In consequence of the rumours in the neighbourhood the magistrate of the town ordered a post-mortem examination, the result of which was that Madame T., the sister-in-law of the deceased, and M. C., the father of Madame T., have been arrested, and committed to the prison of Parthenay. A few years ago, M. Auguste T., the brother of the gentleman just deceased, died under similar circumstances, and his body will be exhumed to aid the inquiry. M. C., one of the accused, was formerly a partner of M. Reau, of Niort, who was recently executed for poisoning several persons of his family. I gave you the particulars at the time of the occurrence.  A man named Boulanger, condemned to death for murder, has been executed at Moulins. The prisoner did not utter a word on his way to the scaffold.  There are now at the Invalides about 1,900 pensioned soldiers, the majority of whom served under the First Empire. The number of companions in arms of the First Napoleon is 960. Of this number more than 150 have had a limb or limbs amputated. One has lost both his arms, but he has a mechanical apparatus by means of which Ile scarcely misses his hands. A thousand soldiers have the St. Helena Cross, sixty are decorated with the military medal of the present Emperor, and nearly 200 have the Legion of honour; many of them obtained this reward under the Second Empire for services rendered to the first. Among the old soldiers at the Invalides there are 30 whose services date from the first Republic. Among others is one who, in 1793, was a sailor on board the Scipion. Ile was blown out of his ship, and both legs were amputated. He is now about 92. Another, a volunteer in 1792, when twelve years of age, remained in service till the end of the wars of the Empire. When he entered the Invalides he had seen 33 years service and had been in 16 campaigns. Forty invalids were soldiers under the Empire, several of whom were at the battle of Marengo. More than 100 made the campaigns of Ulm and Austerlitz. Only 20 were in Prussia and Poland (1806-7). The survivors of Waterloo are comparatively rather numerous. There are but six or seven soldiers who were at the campaigns of Russia (1812), having escaped from the horrors of that most ,disastrous retreat. The won= Trigard, who throughout thQ trial