The Sun. — 1866-11-05 (London, England)

ENIN G, NOVEMBER 5, 1866.  March, 1852. Since June, 1863, the Count, in concert with General Caller, fulfilled the duties of Plenipotentiary for the negociations relative to the arrangement of the limits of the frontiers of France and Spain. The weather continues splendid. Bright, warm, genial, and cloudless. It has been a summer day. One of the most exciting and interesting portions of the history of France in the 16th century has formed the foundation of a high-class drama just produced at the Odeon. It is in five acts. The author is M. Louis Bouillett. Under the title of the " Conjuration d'Amboise," a very stirring illustration is presented of the plot of Amboise, which was organised in 1560. The object of it was to remove the young King Francis I. from the domination of the Guise who aspired to the throne. The avowed master-spirit of this plot was George Barre la Itenaudie, who was appointed at the very commencement of the machinations, but the soul of the enterprise was the Prince de Conde. These political intrigues are enlivened, or, at all events, varied, by a skilfully imagined amorous intrigue. Conde saves from immediate death Madame de Brisson, the wife of an old gentleman devoted to the Duke of Guise. He conceives a violent passion for the lady, which she is indisposed to. return, but in order to see her Conde returns to the Court, where his enemies govern. Catherine de Medicis seeks to retain him there, desirous to oppose the Prince as an obstacle to the Guise, and with this object she contrives to ingratiate herself into the goodwill of Madame de Brisson. It was, however, dangerous for the Prince de Conde to remain at Court, for the jealous husband sought his life. Conde, however, manages to get free by the aid o f some of the conspirators who escaped from the gibbet, and an interview is arranged between him and Madame do Brisson in a lonely hotel. Madame de Brisson confessed that she loves the Prince, but her duty makes her resist him. Afterwards, hoivever, when the Prince is thrown into prison, she wishes to prove her love by bringing poison that they may die together. Conde repudiates the idea of suicide, but would rather die upon the scaffold if only to bring shame and disgrace upon his enemies for his death. Madame de Brisson alone swallows the poison, and throws herself at the feet of her husband, who, receiving private information, comes to surprise her with the Prince. Ultimately the death of Francis the Second restores the Prince to liberty; and it is Catherine de Medicis who is the medium of his deliverance. This drama is of a high character. It is in lofty and impassioned verse, gratifying to the ear, and adding interest to the stirring composition of the plot. Berton played the Prince de Conde very effectively, and Madame Laurence Gerard was charming as Marie Stuart. The author was called upon clamorously by the whole audience, but he modestly abstained from presenting himself. Wonderful progress is made with the various constructions for the Great Exhibition. Five thousand workmen are bu3ily engaged, and even from day to day something new seems to spring up as if by magic, like Aladdin's palace. The constructions of the magician are less rapid and not so marvellous as the structure now being raised by the genius, skill, and industry of Frenchmen, the Champ de Mars.  There has been a very frightful affair at a wine shop, where lodgings are to be had, at Levallois Perret, near Paris. Two soldiers who had been drinking during the evening went away, but returned in two or three hours and asked for a bed. The landlord said that all the beds were occupied, but he would make them one up in the shop. When he came down stairs with the sheets he saw that an attempt had been made to break open the till. lle tried to put the soldiers out, but the soldiers struck him with their swords. A lodger came to his assistance on hearing his cries, but one of the soldiers cut out his eye with his sword. The landlord's wife hurried down, but she also was wounded with the sword. The brother-in-law was served in the same way. It is feared that the landlord's, wounds are mortal. The injuries received by the other persons are not so serious. The soldiers have been arrested.  The Siecle says that the impression produced at Vienna by the nomination of M. Bust as Minister of Foreign Affairs in Austria is that hisentry.into fluence on the relations of that Power with foreign countries, particularly with Prussia and Southern Germany. The Siede, however, adds that people who take great interest in the affairs of Austria fear that the German predilections of M. Beust will render the solution of purely Austrian questions still more difficult.