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Tug Royal Speech yesterday announced formally that " the benefit of the extended system of re " presentation," and the people's " expression of " opinion upon the great questions of public " policy," yet undecided, are to be sought on the earliest possible day. In other words, the general election will be in November, and the members elected will assemble in the following month. No new Parliament has met in December since 1806, and then as now, the affairs of Ireland were among the chief cares of English statesmen. The insurrection, which culminated in the murder of the best of the Irish judges, Lord EILWARDMV, and in the execution of Ex mitrr, was still smoulder ing in the land. The claims of the Irish Ca tholics had been dangerously revived by the un accountable publication of some private letters written by Lord REDESCOALE, the Chancellor, to Lord Posam.L. Their insults to the Catholic body and the doubts expressed in them of the loyalty of the most eminent Catholic gentlemen had exaspe rated the people almost to madness. In conside ration of the anxieties of the State the leading Catholics had agreed not to press their claims for the present; but the knowledge that the second functionary in Ireland had so expressed himself concerning the majority of its population fanned the sense of oppression into a flame and it needed all Lord NARDWICEVS conciliatory tact to prevent another outbreak. There was little currency. Metals were hoarded up secretly while the land was flooded with paper-money. A spurious coinage was given and received until suddenly refused by the government offices and the tradesmen. Riots followed, and the bakers' shops had to be guarded by the military. The local banks issued notes for as small a Sum as half a crown ; and the continued suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act was affirmed by large ma 'Titles in Parliament. It was when a French don was dreaded, when the Continent was • under NAPOLEON, when the lessons of and Jena were teaching men to ask , what next and next ? and when the TIE petitions of the Irish Catholics had been•igain're jected, that the last November electieir fbe a new parliament took place. Prrr had died in the pre lims Jannery without seeing the Catholics righted, and the sullen clisoontect with whioh the Irish asked how far the Union had ful filled its promises, caused the gravest fears that they would make common cause with France. Snob was the state of Irish politics the last time a new parliament met in December, and a pa rallel might be drawn by the curious between many of the election pledges of that period, the refereneee to suppressed disaffection, and the hopes of loyalty, and those to be given from the hustings next November. That tho Edintanyk Review for 1806 should insist that the Volunteer force of the day was " too " good to be parted with," but that it needed training, and to "bo carefully exorcised " in firing at marks, and in suddenly dispersing " and assembling in small bodies, as well as in " accomplishing considerable journeys," points another analogy between that time and this. But " 'tis sixty years since," and what is really implied by an election in November is as unfamiliar to the people of to-day as the incidents in " Waverley " wore to the generation which read thorn first. Other circumstances have not been fully eon isidered. It will be dark before the polls are closed. It may be foggy while they are open. The anti thesis between the fall of the leaf and the budding of new political life is complete. The character of the season, the diminishing light, the decay around, the dulness and the gloom, are all strangely at variance with the uproarious gaiety, the reckless mirth, the ambitious hopes, and the turbulent disorder of an election. Fancy the can didates addressing their constituents in the dark ! Fancy rival mobs shouting against each other through a dripping autumn mist. Think of the impersonations, the false swearing, the con fusion possible under such circumstances. A conventional November in England is the time above all others for secret deeds. There are, of course, bright, crisp days then, just as there are dull and gloomy ones in Spring ; but the pro cess of returning members to Parliament in this month is so unusual, that it is fair to speculate upon the anomalies it may cause. The atmo sphere may hang over the proceedings like a pall ; and may give to open voting the privacy of the ballot. It may confuse friends and foes. It may lead enthusiastic believers in Mr. DISK ELI and the maintenance of the Irish Church into the Liberal fold. It may send the supporters of Mr. Gurorroza to Tory voting booths. The splendour of election favours may be dimmed, and crowds be so mixed np that their component parts are united against their will. We know how often electioneering eloquence is reduced to dumb show. Take away the element of material light, and what is there wherewith to appeal to electoral intelligence ? When sight is unable to supplement hearing, Dzmosrmanis himself would be puzzled to sway an audience. Candidates must be prepared with special blan dishments, agents will find their astuteness taxed, committee men must provide themselves against the exigencies of the season. An election in No vember! it is like a wedding ceremony at night with the candles burning low. The ceremony, tho guests, the preparations for festivity, the love of the couple about to plight their froth, may be all there, but the time is inappropriate, and the pro ceedings seem to read backwards. Londoners who know what " a dark day before Christmas" means, can picture to themselves its effect when the hustings are up at Guildhall or Covent garden. Dwellers in maritime towns who have frequent experience of a sea fog can guess its operation when their polling places are busy. Few autumns pass in the metropolis in which there are not days when ordinary traffic has to be suspended, when the ancient " links" are necessary, and when in spite of every precaution lives are lost and damage caused by the accidents of the hour. Imagine an election suddenly enveloped in an atmosphere of pea-soup, cabs unable to run, pedes trians helplessly at fault, and polling clerks blear ing at each other, helpless and unemployed. May not the returns be seriously affected ? Are there not lukewarm or valetudinarian politicians who will prefer their fireside to the polling-booth P It becomes a nice question as to the relative stamina and courage of the respective parties; for it is certain that the ordinary machinery of an election may easily become useless, that fresh requirements may assert themselves, and that the clerk of the weather may exercise an embarrassing influence over the clerk of the poll. The worthy gentlemen who are already can vassing and who are sanguinely counting promises should remember how easily the elements can de feat calculation. Again, to take another view, what arithmetical mistakes may not be brought about by the meteorological obfuscations of the month ? A false return would be an almost pardonable error, and a mistake in addition be attributed to the difficulties of the time. As for the humours of an election—the personal squibs, the jests, the caricatures, the indiscriminate wassail—they must be all tinged with autumnal melancholy. Chair ing the members will suggest another ceremony, when men are carried by human bearers for the last time ; the brightest rosettes and party colours will assume a sable hue, and the banner-carriers and organised followers will be like so many hired mourners at a public wake. An election in No vember ! It suggests a masked ball by daylight, or a pie-nie in the rain. "RECIT D'UNE Sffi.7ll." A ROOK with the title " A Sister's Story" has recently been translated from the French. The subject of it is the history of a family of Roman Catholics. Few of our critical journals have paid much heed to it, notwithstanding its great popu larity in France. A few months after publication there, 17 editions were called for. Its merits were formally and emphatically recognised and rewarded by the French Academy. Among the English journals which thought it worthy of special notice the Saturday Review has been conspicuous, for not only was the work reviewed in its columns, but was lauded as one of rare and almost unique excellence. This month, both Blackwood and Fraser contain articles upon it, and these arc worthy of special note. They illustrate in a striking way the amazing divergence which may exist between the estimates of the same work by different critics. In Blackwood everything that is complimentary is said about a " Sister's Story." The book is pronounced interesting " because the " incidents and characters are alike distinguished " by grace of manner and a romantic charm ; " because there is something special in their gifts "of nature, mind, and fortune." The critic in Fraser, on the other hand, remarks that "with " common sense scarcely anyone in the book has " even a speaking acquaintance ; one fools, indeed, " that is almost as inapplicable and unreasonable " as in a fairy tale; men and women alike, all live " iA a miraculous atmosphere—relics, pilgrimages, " offers of vicarious suffering are the resources ~~ df~eo• two articl4 volumes to trust--whother the eulogy of Blackwood or tho condemnation of Fraser ; For our own part we agree with the able exposure made by the latter of the miserable creed which is pro fessed with a view to save souls at the expense of all that is enjoyable in existence. A better example it would be hard to find of the supremacy usurped over sensitive natures by a dominating priesteraft than is to be met with in " A Sister's Story." The perusal of it will load unbiassed minds to the conclusion that the " sentimental religion " professed by the personages is one half a delusion and one half a snare. % :t•g..- LESS, S4I 7 U ! I X; L gv. .. \ !,. . AIJGIT , -- •-,<›- ,40 ~. Vt.' ' ' for Moil( the sickOthey .. • • ted.liwre, soil mnchnOcs notakliployerl, or who ma ii an d isoaratitianar Tb' r ' i g is r ine. ,emplord tg or beinetrof the Government ( fiction • might be - %need • ~ • • t t4O , fit Ates, enalbst tanks or parte of arta Mew articles. Whoevet has not I" th° .: of . the army hmet be sad other. in h ere by il" te re pealed. se * must be puzzled which critique civilian labourer., workmen, and mach FRIGHTENED CROWDS. THE terrible calamity at Manchester suggests some grave questions respecting our London low many of them would allow a frightened crowd to escapo without a positive sacrifice of life P In how many of thorn aro the means of egress sufficient for their purpose ? There is something painfully suggestive in the details of the Manchester accident. The lads standing on the seats, in their eagerness to see the whole of the stage, their holding by the gas pendants to save themselves from falling, the escape of gas, the mad cry of " Hire," the wild rush to the doors, the screams and struggles of the affrighted women and men, the fall of the staircase, and the indiscriminate mass of dead and dying figures, conjure up a scene which might be repeated in London any night in the year. It is useless to tell people that the safest plan is to sit still, bo the alarm what it may, and that to swell tho flying crowd is to multiply the chances of disaster and death. Directly the occasion arises common sense and sanity are thrown to the winds; an abject terror seizes upon those present, and to fight for the door with a savage disregard for aught but per sonal escape is the instinct before which all other considerations give way. This being so, what provision have the architects of our London music halls made for the casualty to which all places of public amusement are liable ? Long narrow passages, in which three people could not walk abreast ; entrances from the street with no width to speak of, but opening out into spacious balls in which thousands can be accommodated ; tortuous paths, with high walls on either side, and pitfalls in the shape of bar-doors and staircases at every few yards ; such are the characteristics of many of the London music halls. With one striking and praiseworthy exception they seem without adequate means for discharging an audience in a hurry. As a general rule it may be said that every esta blishment of this character which is without a frontage is perilously unsafe. Yet how many of them have what may be called a front door ? A side passage to a public-horse, an ordinary shop window converted into an entrance, a swing-door in a back street, are the common modes of admis sion. These things are overlooked until a catas trophe comes, but it is only too probable that the first night an alarm of fire is raised in one of its great music-halls, London will be horror-struck with just such a catastrophe as Manchester is mourning now. REMOVING TOLL OATES. Am animated contest is in course of progress at Dunkeld, N. B. The populations of Birnam and Dunkeld are on the one side, the representatives of the Duke of ATHOLZ on the other, the course of fray some obnoxious toll-gates, and the place of battle a bridge. When a former Duke of Anima erected the present bridge of Dunkeld, it was with the understanding ensured by Act of Parliament, that he should levy tolls until its coat had been de frayed. This, it is maintained, has been done long ago. The accumulated sums received from horses, carriages, and pedestrians since the bridge was built, have, it is insisted, re-cooped its coat, and left a handsome margin over, notwithstanding which the toll continues to be levied. It is this alleged breach of faith which has produced a small civil war. The once dreaded name of REBZOCA has made its ap pearance in the north. The bridge gates have been destroyed by an indignant mob, and have been replaced and guarded by the determined bridge trustees. The leader of the destroying party is a fugitive among the hills, but, thanks to the encourage ment and sympathy of the entire district, is able to laugh at the police. Meanwhile the people are passing over Dunkeld-bridge by thousands, and flatly refusing to pay toll. They ask to be prose cuted, and that the assumed power to levy a fine may be enforced. The new toll-gates just put up have been repeatedly threatened by a cla morous crowd; and were only saved a few evenings since by the personal interposition of a popular local magnate. The case of the public is simply that when the Duke of ArnoLz of his day determined to erect the present family residence, he thought it necessary to shut up a right of way the Dunkeldiana had enjoyed from time immemorial. In compensation, he built this bridge over the Tay continuing the road southward, and formingthe mail route to the north. The people of Dunkeld complain that they can obtain no state ment of accounts from the agents of the present duke, and that, as the bridge has long since paid for itself, it is now public property by law. The last stage of the quarrel is that a threatening crowd was dispersed by the promise that these accounts should be forthcoming. If, say these sturdy Scots, the balance is seen to be against us, we will pay toll peaceably until it is wiped out. But if, as we believe, the bridge receipts are in our favour, we will continue to destroy its gates and refuse its tolls until the question is settled by law. To this end vast crowds meet almost nightly, and it will be curious to see whether the public or the duke has to give in. Ix the course of the Parliamentary Session which closed yesterday, the House of Commons " divided" 168 times. The measure respecting which this last appeal was ofteneet made, was the Election Petitions Bill, the discussions thereon leading to no less than 32 divisions. Thirteen times did the House vote upon the Metropolitan Foreign Cattle Bill before the measure was withdrawn. The Scotch Reform Bill sent hon. gentlemen into the lobbies on ten occasions ; the Irish Reform Bill on nine. The divisions at the various stages of the Esta blished Church (Ireland) Bill were seven in all. THE Eight Hours' Act is now in force in the Government establishments of the United States. On the 20th instant the following order from the War Department was published at Washington : Congress having enacted June 26, 1868, that "eight hours shall constitute a day's work for aU labourers, work. ~~. OM Government of tWileiteir parte of seta inompidtamitrit • hereby repealed," OS alciery the military services having-. ....bowers, workmen, and mechanics under their charge will be governed accordingly. The hours shall be so regulated as to agree as far as possible with the hours established in civil employment in each locality. Watchmen, clerks, managers, and others, whose time may be necessary at any or all hours, are not considered to be embraced within the terms of the law. In cases of great necessity, as in military operations, where men are on extra duty, they must per form the neoeserry service regardless of hours ; but in estimating their extra :uty pay eight hours will be counted as • working day. Extra hours of men on extra duty pay will be required only in cases of urgent public necessity. By command of General Grant. B. I). Townsmen), Assistant Adjt. General. (Signed) Inc court. OSBORNE, Amy 31. The Queen drovo out yesterday afternoon, ac companied by Prince Leopold and attended by Lady Augusta Stanley ; and her Majesty walked in the grounds this morning accompanied by Princess Louise. The Duke of Edinburgh, attended by the Ilon. Eliot Yorke, went to Goodwood this morning, to be present at the races. The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta Stanley have left Osborne. The Hon. Emily Cathcart has arrived as Kaid of Honour in Waiting. The Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince Albert Victor and Prince George, dross out yesterday, attended by the Hon. Mrs. Hardinge. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday, at the official residence of the First Lord of the Trsury, in Downing-street. The Ministers present were the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Marlborough, the Earl of Malmes bury, the Right Hon. (fathoms Hardy, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Sir J. na ington, Sir S. Northcote, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, Lord John Manners, and the Earl of Mayo. A committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy Council-office, Whitehall, on the subject of the cattle plague. The lords present were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of Ceylon, Hong Kong, Labuan, the Straits Settlements, Gibraltar, and Malta. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Ward Hunt left town yesterday for Loch Litter, Drumnadrochit, Inverness. Lord Robert Montagu has left town for Sandgate. The Queen will leave Osborne on Wednesday, for a short residence in Switzerland, under the advice of Sir William Jenner, who will accompany her Majesty. Lord Stanley will leave London a few days afterwards, and be at her Majesty's commands. Her Majesty will maintain a strict incognita during her residence, so that her Majesty may be enabled to command a few weeks of comparative repose, which, with change of air, are deemed highly necessary for her Majesty's health. The Earl and Countess de Grey and Viscount Goderich left Carlton-gardens yesterday for Studley Royal, near Ripon, Yorkshire, and in a few days go to the noble earl's shooting quarters in Scotland. The Earl Forteecue and Ladies Forteecue have left their residence in Lowndes square, for Castle Hifi, Devon. Viscount and Viscountess Halifax and the Hon. Mile Wood are at Hickleton Hall, Yorkshire. Lord and Lady Lyveden leave town to-day for their seat, Farming Woods, Northamp tonshire. Lord and Lady Chelmsford and Hon. Miss Thesiger left town yesterday for Titworth Park, Berks. Lady Molesworth has left town for Pencarrow, her seat in Cornwall. The Right Hon. H. T. L. Corry, M.P., has returned to his of residence at the Admiralty from Dover. The right hon. gentleman is better, but has not yet recovered from his illness. _ The Right Hon. W. E. Gladatone, M.P., and }ha. Gladstone and family have left town for Hawarden Castle, Flintshire. Mr. Reverdy Johnson, the United States minis ter to England, le expected to arrive at Southampton about the 16th inst., in the Bremen steamer Baltimore, from Baltimore. Tuft Lan LOAD CRarrsvOßTß.—The mortal remains of Lord Cranworth were yesterday deposited in the churchyard of Keeton, a retired village a few miles beyond Bromley in Kent, and close to his lordship's seat, Bolwood-park. No member of the Cabinet which brought in the great Reform Bill, observes theTtoiss, survives. "A few who held subordinate places as young and rising men in Lord Grey's Ministry are still among us, but they have, so far as we know ' without exception, retired to that haven of rest the Upper Chamber of the Legis lature. Lord John Russell is an earl, and sits opposite to the Mr. Stanley of former days. Sir John Cara Hobhouae, the revolutionary member for Westminster, has, as Lord Broughton, retired from political life, and is now, indeed, by a common caprice of fame, remembered as the friend of Byron rather than as Secretary at War or Minister for India. Mr. Charles Wood is a peer on the front opposition bench, Mr. Vernon Smith is a peer on a back opposition bench, and Lord Howick has inherited the name and title of his father only to sit on the cross benches, a vigilant critic of the labours of others." The Dean of Westminster, having invited the honorary seeretaries of the Working lien's Club and Insti tute Union to organise a party of working men to view the various objects of interest in Westminster Abbey, a large party of working men visited the abbey yesterday after noon. They were received by the dean, who conducted them over the building, explaining the historical associa tions in which it is so rich. On leaving, the party found provisions provided for them by the dean in one of the smaller courts. A cordial vote of thanks to Dr. Stanley and his lady concluded a very pleasant evening. ETON COLLEGE.—Yegfertlay the school closed for the Midsummer vacation, which will last upwards of seven weeks. In the course of the morning most of the scholars left Eton for their homes, the Great Western and London and South Western Railway Companies running special trains for their accommodation. The streets of Windsor and Eton presented an unusually busy aspect during the departure of the boys, every available fly and public vehicle being used for their conveyance to the rail way stations. An extra week's holiday has been granted the Etonian, who return to the college towards the close of September. The school this half has been most pros perous, a large number of pupils having been in residence at the college. - - Tam SALE OF Po soxs Acr.—A measure has just passed through parliament which, we think, a very im portant and highly - essential addition to our legislative code. We allude to the "Sale of Poisons Act." The provisions of this act are sufficiently stringent to carry out the purposes for which it has been trammed awhilst, at the same time, • due regard has been pasd to the convenience of the public and to " vested in terests." The object of the act is of a twofold character; first, to prevent persona from calling themselves chemists and drugsgista, and keeping open shop as such, who have no special qualifications or education for the business ; and, second, to enforce a great amount of caution in the sale of such preparations u are fatal to human life. All men who are established in business as chemists and druggists at the present time are to be registered ; and in future no one can embark in the business without having passed such an examination as would show his com petency, and the " special " qualifications so es sential for the public safety in • man who has the manipulation and sale of the "mysterious and deadly" articles we see ranged on the shelves of a chemist's shop. The act provides that poisonous articles shall be distinctly labelled, and certain of the most deadly poisons can only be procured by the purchaser fillmg up a certi ficate, which must be witnessed by a third person. In fact every reasonable precaution is now enforced under penalty of fine ; and we believe the public generally will hail this act with much satisfaction and a feeling of relief, arising from the comforting assurance that the chances of being poisoned through ignorance or carelessness are (if not quite obviated) very materially diminished.—Mersis/ Herald. NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF ART, AT Laus, 1868.—Beturu of admiasions:—Friday, July 31 —By MOWS tickets, 1,002; by payment of 24. ed. each, 808; total, 1,870. /CC •- •', / .4 , 71"-' is , .1...-• ': ► _t___ • FTOREIGN NEWS. (THIS DAY.) MORE WAIL NOTES. lu an article occupying 71 columns of La , Liberte, M. E. de dirardin exhibits the present situation of Franco, and concludes by indicating • declaration of war against Prussia as the neces sary preliminary to a general disarmament. It is impossible, he urges, that France can disarm in tho presence of an aggressive power like Prussia, and it is equally impossible that France can con tinue to endure the burdens which a situation of armed peace imposes on her. He imagines a letter from the Emperor to his Minister of Foreign Affairs, requiring him to ask Prussia to call a Congress to discuss the state of Europe, and in case of non-compliance be puts into the mouth of the Emperor "an ad dress to the French nation," which would be equi valent to a declaration of war against Prussia. Supposing, be concludes, that instead of those two documents being tho production of a journalist they wore the bons-fide work of the Sovereign himself ; if, instead of appearing in La Libern, they appeared in the Moniteur Uniserset, wh a t would be thought of thorn The Berlin correspondent of the North Mist Cor respondence writes : Count Beraidorff, the Prussian Ambassador at London, having passed a few days at Ems, and the views of the British cabinet became naturally the subject of conversa tion between him and the King of Prussia. The count assured his Majesty of the friendly and sincere feeling of England towards Prussia and Germany. Lord Stanley admitted the right of Germany to work out her own des tiny without any foreign interference, and was of the same opinion as Prussia that all intervention in German affairs from abroad ought to be repelled. Count Bern.storff also expressed his belief that England would employ her in fluence in preventing any attitude of hostility towards Prussia from any quarter. On all sides there are assurances and declarations of peace; and yet, strange u it may seem, there is nothing but apprehensions of war in all diplomatic and military circles. I have had opportunity of being convinced of this several times lately, and the declarations of Marshal Niel and of M. Rouber have put the climax to these ap prehensions. THE POLISH MONUMENT AT RA.PPERRegyim The monument to be erected in commemoration of the Confederation of Bar at Rapperschwyl is now finished. Count Ladislas Plater, in the following letter, invites the friends of liberty and of Polish nationality to participate in its inauguration on the 16th of this month : On the 16th August will take place, ou the borders of the Lake of Zurich, in Rapperschwyl, the inauguration of the monument erected to perpetuate the memory of Poland's everlasting struggle. It is an homage of the friends of liberty to the principle of indepen dence, to the vitality of Poland, and to its martyrdom. It is an " international " protest against a century of injustice. A protestation of right against force. At the very moment when a blind and im placable policy is endeavouring to annihilate Polish na tionality and to take away from millions their religious faith and even their language, a monumental protest of public opinion cannot fail to be highly significant. This international solemnity will be honoured by the presence of illustrious persons from all countries, and it gives us hope that it will contribute to gain fresh sympathy for the cause of Poland. A well-known writer in Germany has already published a work with the title : " The re storationof Poland regarded as the strength of Germany." The light begins to dawn, and the adversaries of yester day may become the allies of to-morrow. Having made arrangements with the municipal authorities of Rapper schwyb who have given me proof of noble sympathy, I feel bound, in the name of the subscribers of the different nations whom I have the honour to represent, to invite to the solemnity of the 16th all those to whom liberty and national independence are dear. In the name of the subscribers to the national Polish monument, Count LAMMAS PLATER. (Timm Nunrifra's AGENCY.) SPAIN. MADRID, JULY 31. It is stated that the French government has given permission to General Prim to reside at Vichy. Senor Gonzales Bravo has arrived at La Granja. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE CUBA. QUEESTOWN, AIMS! 1. The royal mail steamship Cuba, from New York arrived here at 3.15 a.m. to-day, with 68 cabin passengers and 203,000 dole in specie. She landed 104 sacks of mails and seven passengers, and pro ceeded for Liverpool at 5.30 a.m. All well. (Va. Queenstown.) NEW YORK, Jul.: 22, Noon. The House of Representatives by 79 to 68 votes has passed a bill as a substitute for the Senate Funding Bill, providing for the issue of Bonds free of taxation and redeemable in coin at the option of the Government after 40 years, and bearing interest at the rate of 3 63-100 per cent.; the issue to be sufficient to cover all outstanding obligations and exchangeable at the option of the holders for all bonds other than 3 per cent.' Congress has passed a concurrent resolution declaring the fourteenth constitutional amendment fully ratified. The House of Representatives committee on elections report favourably upon the credentials of the Alabama representatives. The Lousiana Legislature has passed a resolu tion asking the aid of national troops to repress the lawlessness of the Northern parishes. • The Bill passed by Congress on the 27th July, as an nounced by cable, dealt specially with the 5-20 Bonds. (Per the Hammon* Mel Southampton.) NEW YORK, Jtrrn 21, NooN. President Johnson has vetoed the bill pro viding that such lately rebellious states as had not been restored to representation in Congress, under the Reconstruction Act, shall not partici pate in the presidential election. He declares the bill to be revolutionary and unconstitutional, being based on the assumption that several of the States were out of the Union. The bill might enable Congress to control the approaching presi dential election, and Congress had no authority to exclude from the electoral college any State because a portion of the inhabitants had joined the rebellion. The Senate, by 4,5 to 48, and the House of Representative, by 134 to 36 passed the bill over the veto. President Johnson has sent a message to Con gress, recommending a constitutional amendment, providing that the President be elected by direct popular vote for a term of six years, and be ineligible a second time, and that Senators be elected by the people instead of by a vote of the Legislature. The Senate have passed the Bill reducing the standing army, and have rejected the nomination of Mr. Smyth as Minister to Vienna. Five Louisiana and two South Carolina members have been admitted to seats in the House of Re presentatives. President Johnson has nominated Henry M. Watts Minister to Austria, General Roommate to Spain, and General McClernand to Mexico. ham fourtee leir. Bnethlmoodist ificlauo tional ilY sm 4nn°unced endmunt htthoett ratified by the requisite number of fitatos, and now part of the constitution. Negro riots in Millican, TfiX/K continua. The rioters an+ entrenched, and defy tint oivd s a l military authorities. THE BRAZIL AND RIVER PLATE kIA SOUTHAMPTON, euuun I. The Royal Mail steamer Seine, with the otho‘.. mails, has arrived here, with 72 passengers,l.7lv in specie, 4 packages of dianiond.i (vsl.. • n stated), and 3,469 packages cargo. BUENOS AYRES. The fall of 'tumults is considered 21 tiCII of time, and the deserters state that Lope, ordered its evacuation, :aid was preparing fi. put(' the passage of the river Tehiptary. ditionary force sent to pierce the enemy'.; routitl and reconnoitre the position of Lope, . 1 without achieving its object. A strung, fi e:ing pro% :ail heie fi ni „ n4 , t partied agrinst Re :di tiIICA. with linvtl. A terrific Ktutm paseied ov , r the cauAng much daroa-:4o. lbo j tessidi nt:al clictiong nn• .•‘p. 4 ,1 in a majority for Smor artniento. The di turbanets in Corrientes ksv.• • I serious dimensions. Towns hsve s:selosi i estanciss pillaged by soldiery whi,li tos..r country. A severe monetary crlsi4 w r .•,uJt of the financial difficulty at Mont.. &- change closed 49:. It was reported that the Minister of Fiume. intended to introduce a measure authoriAin; further issue of 60,000,000 dols. for paying .4 ti,. Treasury bills in circulation. Thu buiabariu wa t at Humaita was maintained with consideral.l.-h -stinacy both by the Paraguayans and a11i,.. A reconnaissance round the Paraguayans in fur.... upon the Tebiquary, and armed heavy works from the Paraguay to some distance along the n..rtli bank of the Tebiquary had been construete.l Trade was in an unsatisfactory state both in th.• import and export markets, and financial opera tions were hampered by the uncertainty of affairs. OUR PARIS LETTER. (PUOM OUR OWN CORIIFSPONTRNT.) PARIS, FRIDAY v It is amusing now to read the various tions of the Paris papers of the beginnin g , .4 t h . week as to how many days it would 1 11,•• Senate to "deliberate" upon the loan, and a it could possibly be brought out before the 1 - e: ! of August. The Loan Bill passed by the Ge l - Legislatif just before it broke up on Tuesday w presented to the Senate on Wednesday :eel voted unanimously on Thursday, and iiun diately after the unanimous vote M. Iteu6r pulled from his pocket tut imperial tbs-r. dated Plombii:res, which proclaimed the close of the Senate's session. The imperial govern ment can go ahead when it pleases, and in spit, of renewed rumours at the Bourse to-day of :t postponement till September or a:6,1.T. I have not the least doubt that the mo n ey retell will be clutched as soon as possible. It i, bitkrly observed that " loan"—the ultima tabs of the empire and its leading characteristic—was tie last word both of the Corps Legislatif and Senate. The senators—worthy successors of those valets who did the bidding of the First Empire when it was powerful, and tumble! over each other in haste to abandon it when evil days came—had not a word of even formal criticism to :make upon the loan. Not a minister wai in his place to answer an inquiry, it 13..iie,.; well known that President Troplong's tree!, is too well disciplined to ask any imperti nent questions. Here is literally all that was SAO about the fresh opening of the " Great Bonk" which M. Fould boasted but a little while ago was to be in principle shut. The Marquis d'Audriffet, who stood forward as the reporter of a committee which is supposed to have deli berated for twenty-four hours, sleeping time in cluded, had the hardihood to say: Gentlemen Senators,—Yon will doubtless share the confidence with which our excellent financial situation inspires ua in the success of this new appeal to the power of public credit, which has never failed to lend us its support in difficult moments, and which will respond, we are firmly con vinced, by the patriotic rush of lenders to the appeal which we now make amidst a settled peace. and in days favoured by every gift of ease and well being to ous laborious populations, in order to provide the means for our political security, the s trengthening of our military forces, and the maintenance of public prosperity. No nation can offer such guaran tees as we can for our public debts, which represent, but a fifth of our annual revenue, and which the ince,vit progress of our income cannot fail to payoff hy a siukucA fund. We, therefore, propose that you -lioubl %melee , the bill authorising the Finance Minister to a ban vi 450,500,000 in Three per Cent. Mentes. • ' " This speech—a dissertation on that reckless tekt of an imperialist minister—" The rtwarees of France are inexhaustible," was at once followed by a ballot. Senators present, 91—Ayes, 91 ; noes, 0. Total, a unanimous vote without discus sion. Five rEmpereur ! and a prorogation was td, next thing. And now that the Chambers are out of the —and Heaven only knows when they may I,: again embodied—rumours of war are more rifo than ever. I do not like to prophecy evil and strive to give a fair credence to the solemn assertions of public men against vague and unauthenticated rumours. When M. Rouher and Marshal Niel re peatedly said that peace, at one time endangered, was now " certain," I, while always thinking that the Emperor ruminated war at some time, with the large army he was raising, did think that he might go ou hesitating for a long while, and I formed the opinion which I expressed, that there would be no war this year. lam much less confident now. It is impossible to shut one's ears to the nuuours which crop up in all directions, of war abroad, and a coup d'egat at home. Emile d" Girardin's violent war articles may be merely :‘ pilot baleen. The Mbate, one of the most cau tious of French journals, says, in its leading' column to day, that its Florence correspondent speaks of the relations between France and Press"` as :very delicate (iris tendon). It is scarcely doubtful that General La Manners, who is the creature of France, was prompted by the French minister at Florence to take the extraordinary course he did in reading M. Usedom's de spatch to the Chamber for the purpose of creatin. , a bad feeling between Prussia and Italy. prating Paris semi-official journals boast Ui unison that this end has been attained. That is not certain—but the attempt, as a symptom, is most alarming, especially when coupled with 'the mysterious news, by no means sufficiently cou traclicted, of the project of France to draw Holland and Belgium into its wake. The Marquis and the Marquise de Caux leave Paris to-day for Switzerland. The Figaro says the Emperor has written to the Marquis that he cannot bear the title of imperial chamberlain ea PP ~~. I