The Sun. — 1869-10-14 (London, England)

PARIS CORRESPONDENCE.  The event of the elvvis the publication in the Journal Officiel of this morning of 0, note, reminding the public that, by the terms of the 13th article of the law of the 6th of June, 1868, the prefect of police has the right of adjourning any public meeting which seems likely to disturb the public order, and that the Government, in consequence of recent disturbances at public meetings, has decided on putting this law in force. As you may easily suppose, this note has excited some commotion, and has not improved the public feeling towards the ruling powers. The Patrie, it is true, attempts to mitigate the effect, and cautions the public not to attach undue importance to a measure intended merely as a warning to disorderly spirits not to provoke the Government to use its full powers. There is no idea, it avers, of suspending the right of public meeting. The Con stitutionnel also endeavours to explain away the unfavouralle impression produced by the note. Like the Patric', it believes the Government will not exercise ti o right it claims to possess, excepting in regard to rioters, li: e those of Belleville. " When madmen menace the passers-by they arc confined until they are no longer dangerous." Other journals are less easily satiifieel. The Journal cies D ,bals regrets the announcement. Public liberty is its ownbest safeguard,and the good sense of the peoplcwould be a better preservative against the dangers of seditious meetings than an arbitrary interference, which converts demagogues into martyrs. Supposing the manifestation of the 26th October, instead of being openly discussed long before the time, had been matured in secret, and suddenly burst upon the Government. Might not the result, asks the Dalts, have been very different? To give and to withhold at the same time, satirically observes the Siecle, is now more than ever the characteristic of the Liberals of the Second Empire. It believes the note betrays the official hostility to all public meetings, though it is unable to understand why free speech is more dangerous than a free press. The Liberti considers this discrepancy in the policy of the Government as a fresh inconsequence, but observes that a few days since a similar note addressed to the journals was in contemplation. A hundred and twenty thousand men, adds M. Odysse-Barot, met on Sunday near Dublin, and at the same time 40,000 more assembled in London, yet in spite of seditious language not a single excess was committed, though no prefects appeared to forbid the meetings. If instead of being merely on sufferance the freedom of public meeting was a right in France as in England, disorder° would, in the opinion of this writer, be equally rare in both countries, and he quotes the old illust:ation of the dangers of compressed steam. It must be confessed that all this harmonises very badly with an anecdote told by the LiZert(' this morning. The last Ministerial Council was a somewhat stormy one. The Emperor alone remained calm, and expressed neither approbation nor disapprobation of the measures proposed. At the close of the meeting he said, smilingly, " We will resume this conversation at Compiegne, but we must all remember that the Constitution which rules us to-day has been modified by the Senatus-Consultum vote of the 2nd September." Those words were much discussed at St. Cloud, and it is gathered from them that the Emperor having entered the path of parliamentary government intends to proceed in it unhesitatingly. So runs the story, but, as I have said, the official note furnishes astrange commentary upon it. A rumour was afloat yesterday to the effect that the Ministers intend to send in their resignations prior to the 26th October. The report that M. Rouher intends to exchange the Presidency of the Senate for the direction of a new Cabinet is still current.  The delegates of the electoral committees for Paris held meeting yesterday to decide what course to take with respect to the inaction of the Parisian deputies. It was settled that a commission should wait on the Deputies of the Seine and demand from them an immediate explanation of the course they will pursue on the 26th of October. The Independance Belge furnishes some frightful details concerning the mortality at Cayenne. Edmund Dolcourt, a political offender, has just returned from that country after an imprisonment of eleven years. He was taken to Cayenne with 530 comrades, all sentenced for political crimes. Of these only twelve have returned ; all the others have died of follow fever, or sought in suicide a refuge from the miseries of their position.  General Fleury accompanied the Emperor to Compiegne. ft appears that he takes the place of General Lepic, who is ill. No doubt the Emperor is glad to avail himself of the opportunity of further conversation with the new ambassador prior to his departure. The Imperial residence at Compiegne is very inconvenient to the Ministers when they have to pay two visits there a week, and they make many complaints about it. The trouble might be avoided by their remaining several days at Compiegne, but their business in Paris is not likely to allow of their absence for any length of time. Tho Empress is not likely to prolong her journey, and the Ladies in Waiting havebeen instructed to be in readiness to resume their duties before the date fixed for the opening of the session. It is said that the Sultan, in order to do honour to the Empress, the Emperor of Austria, and other distinguished persons who have decided to go to Egypt, has resolved to officiate in person at the opening of the Suez Canal. In that case he will be accompanied by the Grand Vizier and a numerous suite. The Crown Prince of Prussia, on his return from the Suez Canal inauguration, will, it is believed, pass through Paris, and pay a visit to the Emperor.  Prince Charles of Roumania will stay at Compiegne previous to quitting France. The Emperor has been much struck with his general knowledge and his political intelligence, and has shewn him many proofs of goodwill and kindly foglinif•