The Sun. — 1866-05-21 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Sunday Evening.  There was a Cabinet Council on Friday, at which the Empress and the members of the Privy Council were prevent, and also a Cabinet Council yesterday, at which the Emperor presided. I have reason to rely upon the statement made to me in an official quarter that the chief subject of discussion yesterday related to the order and the exact points to be submitted to the proposed Congress. After all, the information of The Sun upon this subject has turned out to be perfectly correct, as well as the comments of those Paris papers which I noticed. A letter from Florence, in the Moniteur, gives some explanations relative to corps of Volunteers to be commanded by Garibaldi, which diminish the importance of that step, and take from it the aggresive character which has been attributed to it. The letter says that " the enrolment has not the revolutionary character of the spontaneous enrolment connected with the expedition of 1860. If the precautions and reserve of the decree, and the conditions of the engagements be considered; if it be corroborated that General Garibaldi, appointed by the decree to the command of the National Volunteers, belonged up to the day of his retirement to the regular army, it will be acknowledged thatin fact the enrolment of Volunteers amounts to little else than the creation of a regular supplemental corps, to be distinguished from the other corps only for its having been called into service by another mode than the annual levy of contingents, and by there being more restraint in regard to the time of its duration. Thus the hopes of peace are still not seriously disturbed, and the reports in regard to the Congress are still more favourably received by the public. At all events the field is open for diplomatic arrangements, although there is no doubt that if the Venetia quest tion do not receive a speedy, amicable solution, Italy will be irresistibly hurried into the chances of war." According to another account from Florence, the King of Italy, who was to have left the palace on the 15th for the head quarters of the army, was still there, and another favourable augury is drawn from this celay i n the King's departure.  The Siecle from- its own information, and that of the Independance Beige, a well-informed Brussels paper, says that the French Government has not given up the idea of European arbitration with a programme limited to three points—Venetia, Schleswig Holstein, and German Reform. This programme was formally proposed to the English Government by the French Ambassador, the Prince de la Tour D'Auvergne, on the 9th of this month, and probably on the same day an identical communication was made by Baron Talleyrand to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg.  The trial of Aspe for the murder and mutilation of the woman at Toulouse is not concluded. Yesterday a singular incident took place. The jury all visited the wine shop where the murder was committed.  An interesting discussion has taken place in the Legislative Body on the important subject of local government and centralisation. In the course of it the Count de la Tour said it was the Revolution 'which struck the last blow at our system of provincial liberty which was almost destroyed in the reign of Louis