The Sun. — 1866-06-14 (London, England)

FRANCE.  The Prefect of the Seine has published a notice to the effect that an enquete has been opened at the Mairie of the 6th Arrondissement on the proposed alterations in the gardens of the Luxembourg. The plans, showing the suggested changes, will be open to the public for a fortnight. The transformations contemplated are the opening of 11 new public thoroughfares on ground detached from the gardens ; the enlarging of a portion of the Rue Bonaparte, and the conversion of the central avenue of the Observatory into a public promenade. After the exhibition of the plans, the authorities will receive during the three following days all remarks or suggestions which may be made on the advantages of the project or the contrary. • The third and last ballot for assigning the grand medal of the Exhibition of Living Artists took place yesterday at the Palace of Industry. The number of voters was 174, and the votes given were-50 to M. Bonnat, 49 to M. Carpeaux, 32 to M. Corot, 36 black bulletins, and seven so irregular as to be void. No artist having obtained the requisite number of votes, the medal will not be awarded this year.  The murderer Aspe, on his arrival at the hulks of Toulon, made a new statement as to the manner in which he had made away with the missing head of his victim, the girl Guillouet. He now says that after having burnt it in a manner to render it unrecognisable, he threw it into the wheel of a mill, where it was ground to pieces. The Semaphore of Marseilles announces the arrival at that port, from the East, of Lady Franklin, widow of the explorer of the polar regions. Her ladyship soon after embarked for Bastia, with the intention of visiting Corsica and Sardinia. She is in her 83d year, and enjoys excellent health. A Naples letter says :—" M. Thalberg's time has not been spent in vain ; the great musician has become a large grower of grapes, and, what is more, a first-rate maker of wines. What he • produces is something more than ordinary table The spot he has chosen on the corniche of Posilipo is highly congenial to the grape, and the produce is far before many wines imported from Bordeaux. He makes from the Bordeaux grape, which appears to thrive just as well at Posilipo as in its native clime. The wine is better than half the Bordeaux we drink, for it is pure, sound, wholesome, and palatable, and at the price one may get it at is one of the most pleasing liquids one could possibly put upon the table." The bulletin of the Paris Observatory gives the following as the atmospheric situation yesterday : " Bad weather is speading in Europe. A gale is passing over the north, the centre of which was yesterday towards Finland. Another is following closely at a little lower latitude. The sky is stormy or variable over Spain, Western France, and the British Isles. Storms are occurring daily in Italy." At Paris, yesterday, the early part of the day was fine, but towards 5 o'clock a thunderstorm broke over the city, which, however, was not very violent or of long duration. At 3 in the afternoon the thermometer marked 28.7 cent. (83 3-5 Fah.)  The Lombardia of Milan publishes the following declaration addressed by Kossuth to the Hun garians :  Turin, June 6.  A great number of my fellow-countrymen, from different parts of Italy, having asked me what they ought to do under the present circumstances, and it being impossible for me to reply personally to all, I declare, by these presents, that in my opinion all those of my fellow-country'men employed in military service or any other duty would do well to remain where they are and await patiently the course of events. Those, on the contrary, who have no occupation, who are fit for military service, and have a wish to enter it, will do well to enlist in the Hungarian legion. They may besides be all convinced that if affairs become developed so far as to offer a field of action to their patriotic zeal, due notice shall be given them.  L.