The Sun. — 1866-06-16 (London, England)

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS.  (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDMT.)  PARIS, Friday Evening.  The .3loniteur confines itself to a summary of telegraphic news respecting Austria and Prussia. It contains, however, a letter from Frankfort, dated June 12, which has some significant passages. The letter says that " everything leads to the anticipation of a decisive crisis between the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets, and even for the Confederation. The occupation of Altona by the Prussians, and the retreat of the Austrians to the other side of the Elbe, precipitated the crisis' Some Cabinets spoke of the Federal execution to force Prussia to convoke the States, but this proceeding would have entailed only delay without increasing the chances of conciliation. The motion of Austria in the sitting of yesterday would compel the Diet to take its course immediately. Austria defends her policy by the discord which results from the entrance of the Prussians into Holstein. She declares that she considers this movement as a menace against Federal peace, and that in consequence it is necessary to place under arms the resources of all the corps, so that the army may be ready to march in a fortnight."  The course adopted by the Legislative Body shows that the Opposition, however desirous to cavil on minor points, is prepared to support the Government through any eventuality in case of war, as it has agreed to grant all the supplementary credits asked for by the Minister of War. M. Rouher confirmed the satisfactory statemeut in regard to French finances, to which I have alluded, and said that at present there was no reason to suppose that the warlike aspect of affairs would render necessary any change in the Budget of 1866, to which the Chambers had agreed. If, however, events should take such a turn as to induce the Government to make any change in its financial proposals, it would be its duty; to have recourse to a fresh session of the Legislative Body to provide for any emergency. This declaration was received with great applause, expressive of the satisfaction of the Chamber with its present financial position. A murder and suicide has just taken place at the barracks at Valenciennes. Brigadier Riffeld having sentenced a trumpeter of the 7th Hussars to be confined for two days for an infraction of military regulations, the offender was so irritated that he fired a pistol at him. The murderer then shot himself with a pistol, and fell down dead close to his victim.  The cholera has disappeared from Nantes ; at least it is to be hoped so. There have not been any fresh cases for the last day or two, and the patients in the hospital seem to be also recovering. The official railway tables show that the total receipts of all the railways for the first three months of the year amount to 29,088,170 f., against 24,007,646 f. during the first three months of 1865, being a total increase of more than 5 millions.  The Fontainebleau Races will conclude on Sunday, when the silver cup, presented by the Emperor, and 5000 f. in money, given by the Administrator des Havas will be run for. Seven horses are entered for this race.  On the 16th of November last the wife of a butcher residing in the Rue St. Victor disappeared, and nothing was known about her until the day before yesterday, when her body, in a state of decomposition, was found in the Seine near the pont de I'Archeveche and taken to the usual receptacle. It was impossible to recognise the features, but a gold brooch was still attached to the fragments of her dress, and her husband has identified this article as having belonged to his wife. The police imagine that the woman was thrown into the Seine, because the husband states that there had not been any quarrel, and that no reason existed that she should absent herself from home.  A:woman, to whom public attention was directed some thirty years ago, has just died in an abject state of poverty in the Rue des Postes. She was the daughter of Morey, the accomplice of Fieschi, in endeavouring to murder Louis Phillipe by means of an infernal machine, as he was riding in his carriage along the Boulevard du Temple in 1835, to review the National Guard. After the execution of her father this woman retired into Burgundy to live with her aunt, who kept a small inn. The aunt died and left her the furniture and a few hundred francs. She returned to Paris, and in the name of Rose Flamand she opened a little wine and spirit shop in the Rue Dauphine. In 1818, however, the shop was broken open and the thieves took away all the property the woman possessed. Reduced to very great poverty she latterly obtained a scanty subsistence as a charwoman. W hen the body was found at the woman's miserable lodging, there was a portrait round her neck, and from the inscription underneath it is known that Fieschi, the intended regicide, was her father. There is really no news this afternoon, but plenty of reports have been current throughout the day of an alarming tendency, the consequence of which was to produce much depression at the Bourse. The 3 per Cents. closed at a decline of half a franc, and there was about the same fate in the 41 per Cents. In many securities the decline was very great. The Credit Agricole fell 12f., and the Credit Mobilier, 10f.  The evening lloniteur is unusually destitute of news, and the absence of it is so calculated to throw discredit upon the made-up rumours of some of the other evening papers that I do not think it worth while to notice them.