The Sun. — 1867-08-10 (London, England)

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) illuminated. M. Rodolphe Cuvier, a relative of the illustrious Curier the naturalist, has just died in his 84th year, at his country house at Montbeliard, Cuvier's birthplace. Private accounts from Madrid continue to record insurrectionary movements and excitement in Spain. The arrests of suspected persons are very numerous, particularly in the provinces of Cadiz, Andalusia, Xeres, and Tarifa. Among the persons of note arrested is Pablo-Gornerz a Moure, a violent Democrat, who it is supposed will be summarily shot. It is evident that there will shortly be an important insurrectionary demonstration in Spain. There is a wicked mystification in Paris just now. The men who sell photographs in the street offer a portrait of M. Peak, the Hungarian statesman, as a genuine likeness of the traitor Lopez. The portrait they sell of the Emperor Maximilian is probably an equally good likeness of somebody else. The Gazette du Florence says it has received with the post-mark of Milan a republican proclamation from. Mazzini headed " Universal Republican Alliance," from which it is evident that there is no foundation for the alleged concert between him and Garibaldi, with a view to create an insurrectionary movement at Rome. In this circular it is stated that the party are not satisfied with the movement which is under organisation for an outbreak in Italy. They disclaim any participation with the present movement " with the elements which divert it," or with the " Ancient National Committee." What Mazzini seems to want is a Republican insurrection, but, according to the latest accounts from Rome, the late agitation is all over. A circumstance may be mentioned in reference to the Exhibition, which of itself proves very convincingly that vast progress has been made in France in works of art, taste, and industry. At many stands are articles marked " hors concours " —out of competition, meaning' that the manufacturers of them having obtained the highest possible rewards it was useless to compete for more. This is the case as regards the beautiful manufacturing showbein it was business ess o f commen this circumstances tea eetrucii loasi nlacnria. e icnt te edr e swt t h display of Messrs. Christopher and Co. There aro Itthawtasesttahbelifishrsmtentot .xtenFt called yo erfme ev nr ites auap/ upon an n thee,ig tt E an inidn gi t twoonndeprrfouclesse unerringly the establishment.eed Since , 1845,igoufresh thew the amount of its b • usiness is in round numbers 107,160,000 francs • The amount for the year 1866 alone was nearly eight millions of francs. It has manufactured something like eight millions of covers, and the silver employed upon the metal would weigh 77,692 kilogrammes, or more than double that number of English pounds. The establishments of Messrs. Christophe and Co., at Paris and at Carlsruhe, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, employ 1,418 persons, of whom 400 are women. These gentlemen are philanthropists as well as manufacturers, for they have organised a fund for sick or disabled workmen, and lend them money without interest under certain circumstances. In short, the establishments are like one family. Although some of the articles are most costly and beautiful, yet the million may be provided with covers and other articles at a wonderfully cheap rate. In addition to the assistance to workmen just spoken of, Messrs. Christofle and Co. give pensions to their widows. They have rendered inestimable services to art and artists—to art by encouraging its development in every possible shape in the execution of their manufactures ; to artists by encouraging draughtsmen, designers, architects, modellers, engravers, chasers, and statuaries—in fact, workmen in all the multifarious branches of art. These services have been appreciated, for, in addition to gold medals given to the establishment, one of its chiefs has been deservedly rewarded with the cross of the Legion of Honour. If all employers were to act like these amiable and enlightened gentlemen there would be very few " strikes." Upon various exceptional occasions—for instance, when provisions become unusually dear—they spontaneously increase the wages of their workmen. Of all the wonders of the Exhibition their department is pronounced by all to be the most wonderful, and the arrangements they have adopted for the comfort and prosperity of their workmen in the precious metals deserve to be recorded in letters of gold. The negociations between France and the Holy See for a literary convention have been attended with success, and a treaty of that kind was signed on the 21st of July by M. Sartiges, on the part o France, and by Cardinal Antonelli for the Pope. It is expected also that the two Governments will agree to a treaty of commerce and navigation. The Emperor has sent a letter to the Marquis du Chasseloup Laubat, President of the Geographical Society, with a sum of 50,000 francs towards the expenses of the French expedition to the North Pole, which I described. His Majesty also expresses a hope for the success of the expedition, " so interesting for science and so deserving of the greatest encouragement." The Russian Prince Nicolas Tabowski has com #ted suicide at Turin.  STArE OF