The Sun. — 1867-11-13 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)  PARIS, Tuesday Evening.  The facts to be collected to-day respecting Italy are few, and not of particular importance. One of the despatches from Rome states that the Cabinet of the Vatican has drawn up a note, addressed to the Diplomatic Body, the object of which is to prove that the Papal army only took part in the late combat at Montana against the Garibaldians, and that it was superfluous to send a French brigade to the assistance of the Papal troops. It is denied that the French troops have taken upon themselves the administration of the city of Rome. On the contrary, according to this authority, they are about to leave Rome, and will be concentrated at Civita Vecchia.  The report about the Congress assumes more consistency, and it is said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is very much occupied with arranging the preliminary formalities for the convocation of such a Congress, the object of which would be to come to a settled arrangement relative to the future relations between Italy and the Holy See. All the Powers of Europe, it is asserted, will be invited to take part in this Congress. It is even said that many letters have been despatched for the convocation of such a Congress. It was reported at Florence that a note has been despatched by the Italian Government to the Cabinet of France, in which, after officially announcing the defeat of Garibaldi and the disarmament of his volunteers, General Menabrea urges the French Government to effect a prompt cessation of the occupation of Rome by the French troops, in conformity with the terms used by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Marquis de Moustier, in his recent important despatch. It is believed at Florence that the French troops will very shortly be withdrawn from Italy. Another statement from Florence is that the question has been seriously mooted at a Council of Ministers, at which the representative of France was present, that Garibaldi should be confined in the Island of Elba. This would, perhaps, be a very good way of getting rid of him. At present no intimation has been made to Garibaldi of the intentions of the Government respecting him. There is no doubt that extensive military preparations are being made in Italy. I have already mentioned the proposed formation of a camp. The Italian army is likely to be increased to 400,000 men. The entrenched camp of Bologna is to be increased in strength. Some cannon and ammunition have recently been sent there. This position is now the strongest in the kingdom, with the exception of the Quadrilateral.  No time has yet been fixed for the convocation of the Italian Parliament, and the belief is that the day of meeting will be delayed in order, if possible, to allow the new Ministry the opportunity of stating to the Assembly that the occupation of Rome by the French troops has ceased. The report of the intervention of Austrian troops in the Tyrol and in the Frioul probably arises out of the intention of Italy to increase her army. Almost every day adds to the ornamentation of Paris. Two lions have just been placed on their pedestals at the Emperor's gate at the Tuileries, where the splendid constructions are iu progress for connecting the Tuileries with the Louvre. They are in bronze antique, of the size of nature, and are much admired for their grand and artistic execution. The sculptor is M. Barze. Francois Romano, a postilion of 38, a native of Nice, has just been folial guilty by the Court of Assize of the Var of assassinating his wife in a very barbarous manner. He inflicted a wound on her neck and let the blood flow, as if killing a pig. He then made a slight incision under his own ear, to simulate a wound occasioning death, as if he meant to commit suicide, and rolled himself in the poor woman's blood, with which he was covered. The report states that the horror created in the neighbourhood of Nice by this ferocious murder is indescribable.  The two Poles whom I noticed as having been arrested at Ilavre, on the charge of forging Russian bank notes to a large amount, are named Szumoski and Yankowski. The name of the Englishman is Vickers. Yankowski is a very skilful engraver. The amount of the forged notes would be several millions if they were real. The prisoners say these notes were submitted to a seventh impression before they were put into circulation. The Englishman is young.  Mr. Peyrat, the manager of the Avenir National, is cited to appear before the Sixth Tribunal of Conrectional Police, on Friday next, to answer to the charge of having inserted an article on Oct. 19 " tending to bring the Government into hatred and contempt." It seems as if summer had the serious intention of coming back again. The sun rose with great brilliancy, and it was not obscured for a single instant until the time for setting. Indeed a splendid blue sky, with very unusual heat for the season, gave the day the aspect of midsummer. A letter from Rome in La Liberte, dated Nov. 7, says—" The Pontincal Government has resumed strength and vigour at Frosinone, the city which is the most hostile to the temporal power of the whole province of Ca.mpagna. This morning, when the Italian troops had hardly turned their backs to return to the north of the'Terre de Lebon, the municipal authorities and the leading personages of the locality sent an address of devotion and attachment to the Pope. The same thing has taken place in all the cities where the sway of the Pope is resumed. If this be not an indubitable proof of the wish of the Pontifical populations to remain for ever under the dominion of the Holy Father, it at.all events does not evince any desire on their part to be absorbed by Italy." The latest information received at Vienna from Mexico confirms the statement of the continued refusal of the Mexican Government to place the remains of the Emperor Maximilian at the disposal of Admiral Tegethoff. The latter, in spite of earnest applications to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has not yet succeeded in his mission. The body of the Emperor was so imperfectly embalmed that it will have to undergo the process again.