The Sun. — 1866-05-18 (London, England)

GARIBALDI." The following is from the Constitutionnel :—" The armaments proceed with extreme energy, both in Germany and Italy. The armies approach the frontiers. From instant to instant war seems imminent. But in proportion as the situation is aggravated, in the midst of those levies en masse and reports of guns, public opinion in Europe is occupied in considering, with a feeling becoming more and more earnest, more and more pressing, what means can be adopted to preserve peace." Another eminent politician and man of letters has been " gathered to his fathers"—M. Ferdinand Flocon. He died in exile at Lausanne, after a long and painful illness, in his 67th year. M. Flocon took an active part in the Revolution of 1830, and the Democratic patty confided to him the editorship of a Radical paper, the Tribune. He was afterwards chief editor of La Refoi me, during which period he steadily opposed Louis Philippe and his Government. At the Revolution of 1848 the people hurried him from the office of the Reforme and proclaimed him a member of the Provisional Government. He became Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, in which capacity his labours were well appreciated. Popular feeling, however, changed and turned against him ; and although he had, in 1848, 128,000 votes for the Legislative Assembly, he was afterwards rejected, upou which he retired to Colmar, where the malady which caused his death first made its appearance soon after the coup d'etat. In his retirement, however, he wrote many works which have increased his literary reputation.  The following are the arrangements for the ensuing races. The Versailles races are fixed for Sunday next. On Monday next the Military Steeplechase will take place at La Marche. On the 26th and 27th inst. the races will take place in the Bois de Boulogne, on which days the grand prize of £4,000 sterling will be run for.  The Journal des Debuts says it has no news about the war, but adds :—" In the States of the Confederation there appears to be little sympathy for Prussian policy, and public opinion pronounces itself against it."  I am sorry tosay that the cholera has re-appeared in France. It has made several victims at Guerande, in the department of the Loire, and has since broken out at Nantes. The cases at the hospital, however, are not numerous. In general the patients are women, whose indulgence in drink rendered them susceptible of the disease. In the Rue de la Bastille, at Nantes, a workman died in two or three hours after the attack.  The trial has commenced, before the Court of Toulouse, of M. Aspe, the keeper of a drinking house in that city, for the murder and mutilation of his servant woman, named Marie Guillonet. I gave you some particulars of the case at the time. The murder took place in January. The head was severed from the body, and portions of the trunk were found in the Canal du Midi. The prisoner Aspe is a married man. The supposed motive for the crime is that being in embarrassed circumstances he wished to get rid of the woman, who had lent him money to the amount of between £3O and £4O.  The weather is becoming gradually more settled, and the wind has abated ; but it has been very cold, although the sun has been shining brightly all day. This morning the gardens in Paris and the fields in the country were covered with white frost.  There have been races at Angouleme and Poitiers, but they are hardly worth notice, except that at the latter Viscount Talon's Grand Clos was killed in jumping a bank.