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Ta-lioßnow.-Morning, 911. 40.n.—Afternoon, 1011.17 m tt• dr - - - LONDON, SATURDAYi JULY 27, 1867 The Atlantic Telegraph brings us news that the body of the Emperor MAXIMILIAN has been em balmed, and has been brought to Vera Cruz, so that the family and friends of the gallant but un- fortunate Prince will at least have the consolation of receiving his remains. Possibly JUAREZ has already seen reason to repent his crime, and per ceives that it was a political blunder. In spite of the bombast which tells us that Mexico has attracted the attention and admiration of the world—in spite of the approval of such men as STEVENS and CHANDLER in the American Congress—JUAßEZ must have sufficiently ample sources of information to be well aware of the effect produced by the execution of MAXIMILIAN in Europe and America. If he wants substantial assistance, the noisy orators of the House of Representatives will not be able to grant it. Notwithstanding all their encroachments on the Constitution, the PRESIDENT is still Com mander-in-Chief, and the Washington Cabinet, so far from approving of the establishment of a reign of terror iu Mexico, is known to favour active intervention. The inclinations of the masses of the people in the States have long pointed towards Mexico, and it is more than probable that some part at least of Mexico will be incorporated with its more powerful neighbour. The Mexicans them selves seem only too likely to afford an excuse for interference by the barbarity of their conduct. If the advices received yesterday in New York be true, the same savage spirit of slaughter continues to prevail, for ten more Imperialist Generals have been shot by the victorious party. Such a state of things can scarcely be suffered to continue in the midst of a civilised continent. Stern and even cruel reprisals may be a natural part of civil war, and much may be inevitable in the heat of conflict which the principal parties themselves may subsequently regret, but the con dition of lawlessness and desolation to which Mexico is reduced, the brutalities committed with official sanction, the total insecurity of life and property which has completely desolated the State, combine to form a picture of such horror and such danger that few can regard it unmoved. If the American people favour the idea of armed intervention in Mexico an excuse will not long be wanting. If the treatment of SANTA ANNA does not afford it there will be plenty of other opportunities. The lives and property of American citizens in Mexico are endangered by the turbulence of the factious, while the Juarists seem bent on disregarding all the recognised laws of modern warfare. The execution of MAXIMILIAN, so far from putting a stop to the strife which has lately raged so hotly, has only given it fresh vigour, and will probably tend to the ultimate discomfiture of the very party who sanc tioned it. Meanwhile, in tha States, there is plenty of civil discordance. The Senate has passed the Sup plementary Reconstruction Bill in all its mischievous entirety by 31 votes against 6, and the House of Representatives by 111 against 30. The relative strength of the parties is not to be altogether cal culated from these figures, as some of the Demo crats have held aloof this Session under the im pression that it would be better to allow the full stigma of dangerous and unconstitutional legisla tion to rest upon the opposite party. This is in some respects a mistake, as they might have exercised some influence in checking the wholesale subversion of the Constitution by the Radicals. At any rate, they have suffered the Congress to look upon the Presidential veto, as on the Supplemental Reconstruction Bill, as a mere matter of course, to be overridden with as little delay as possible. The cautions of the Secretary to the Treasury have failed to teach the dominant party circumspection. Congress appropriated $1,000,000 for the execution of the Reconstruction Act. The PRESIDENT has sent a message to the Senate, quietly informing them that it will require theappropriation of $14,000,000! He advises Congress to consider whether by abro gating the civil Governments in ten States, the Na tional Government will not become responsible for the debts of those States, incurred before the rebel lion, which amount to $100,000,000. The refusal of Congress to guarantee those debts would, says the PRESIDENT, be a violation of good faith and a repudiation of the legal State debts by the National Legislature. Here is unwelcome news for New England I One hundred million dollars added to the National Debt will not be pleasant news for the tax-payers, while injury to the national credit would be inflicted by the repudiation of these State debts, which the North cannot refuse to recognise like the rebel debt, as they call it, incurred during the war. The Radicals, however, are restrained by no such ordinary considerations as money or credit, and it is difficult to see what can arrest their headlong course, unless the common sense of the country can really be aroused to reduce them from their present mischievous supremacy. The sad fate of the Abyssinian captives has for so long a period occupied attention that it is no wonder that particular allusion should be made to it. Last night the subject engaged the notice of the House of Commons for some time, and great interest was excited by its consideration. Mr. H. SEY3IOUR moved an address to her MAJESTY pray ing that steps might be taken to release these un fortunate captives by force of arms if necessary. The hon. member entered at great length into the question, which indeed is a very complicated one, and considered the many objections that bad been made as to the sending out an expedition on account of the dangers that will be incurred, and the risk of precipitating the death of the sufferers, added to which are the expenses of such an expedition. That he declared to be greatly overrated, and he con sidered that the correct mode to adopt was to send an ultimatum to demand their release within a given period, and- then if this demand be not complied with, to despatch an armed force, which he declared might speedily reach King THEODORE. After some other remarks form Sir H. RAwLINSON, to the effect that it was quite impossible to put up any longer with the indignity King THEODORE put upon us, Mr. LAYARD said that he had hitherto been against such an expedition as that now discussed ; lie was now strongly of opinion that it must take place, because there was no other means left of rescuing the captives. Lord STANLEY made a long speech, in the course of which he gave satisfactory explana tions regarding the affair, though he very wisely refused to pledge the Government to the adoption of a particular course. The noble lord assured the House that almost from the first day that the present Government came in until now the question of what could be done about those unfortunate captives had occupied Of course it is idle now to take a re trospective glance, and inquire as to whether or not it was wise to have sent a mission to Abyssinia. That was done for the best, and, as the noble lord very truly said, the detention of these ill-fated in dividuals was an event quite out of ordinary calcu lation. In his usually practical style Lord STANLEY summed up the arguments upon the topic, by say ing that " our business now is to get those men out, and if that can be done I imagine that there will be very little inclination on the part of the House or of the Government to trouble themselves further with Abyssinian politics." As to the means whereby their liberation can be effected there are two, conciliation and force, and it is unquestionably wiser to try the former just before resorting to the latter, The reason attention. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 27, 1867. Rhic h induced the Government to try peaceable mem 3ures were numerous. They were fully eon vino 3d of the certainty that an expedition to reset to these men would be expensive, and attended with heavy loss of life by climate, even if not by nilitary operations, and it might lead to a massacre of the prisoners. Besides the imprisonment from whi ch they suffer being an act of caprice, that capr:ce might at any time as suddenly release them , so that all these risks might be run, and these losses incurred for no result. We think that the Foreign Office was quite right in its policy in de clining the offers of those who sought to lead new emissaries into the Abyssinian territory, for, as the noble lord observed, it was evidently the policy of King THEODORE to get as many Euro peans as possible into his hands, no matter what had been his first idea in detaining these men. Great care was taken in sending out the artizans that well required by the KING, and as it was found out that he was treating the captives worse, and wished to get hold of the presents and the artisans at once, it was wisely determined not to let him have them until he released the prisoners. Lord STANLEY afterwards wrote, without using any menace, but reminding the KING that he must not rely upon the friendship of the British Govern ment if he failed to comply with their demand for the liberation of the prisoners. The noble lord now admits, however, that the policy of conciliation has been fairly tried, and has failed. He said that he agreed with those who had spoken on the subject that nothing could be " more 'repugnant to our feel ings as a nation, nothing less creditable to us as a matter of honour," than to leave in the hands of a half savage those who are our fellow-coun trymen, and also envoys who have been commis sioned by the head of the Executive. Still the difficulties are great in the way of obtaining a re lease by force. Inquiries are being made into the matter. The Secretary for India has tele graphed to the Indian Government to send all officers they can rely upon to meet Colonel MEREWETHER, at Aden, and to examine into these points which it was important to ascertain. While the noble lord declared, on the part of the Govern ment, that they could not leave these men to their fate without attempting a means of rescue, they could not act with precipitation. All things consi dered, we think the House may follow the advice of Lord STANLEY, and leave the decision where the responsibility rests, for the Government seem quite in earnest about the matter. CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, Friday Evening. The following is all the news of to-day's Moniteur :—" The Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved up to article 15 of the project of law relative to the liquidation of Ecclesiastical patri- mony." Yesterday there was an anniversary service in the Church of Napoleon St. Leu, for the repose of the soul of the King of Holland, the Emperor's father. The Mayor, the Municipal authorities, the Minister of the Emperor's Household, and most of the inhabitants of the town., attended the pious and interesting ceremony. The Constitutionnel states that M. Bismark will shortly proceed to Ems to confer with the King of Prussia upon several important questions before he takes a longer leave of absence. The Legislative Session was commenced on the 14th of February, and lasted five months and two days. During that time the Legislative Body had 89 sittings, appointed 131 committees, met 38 times in its bureaux, and examined 151 projects of law-117 of local interest, and 34 of general im portance. The projects of law which were adopted referred to the following essential subjects : Primary instruction, imprisonment for debt, the repression of frauds in the sale of manures, the re vision of criminal and correctional proceedings, naturalisation, municipal councils, societies, the regulation of the commerce of Algeria, the guarantee of inventions (exceptible of being p E a x t h e i n h t i e t d i 0 , n a ) n , d t t h h e e d v e i s e i g t o u r s o fabrics E f t nman uel destined n ai lf Railway, ayo the C th u e st e o o m m s p , a a ny n o a f ti t o h n e al pe Th r e e r c ra om eso n f s p e i t o o na l‘ tiu h l ie . rLs,atmhaerpore tion of the annual expense to be contributed by the State accountstowards canalisationof olftBh6te3h, the at Moselle,hi n e t e n s u a p u p c e lt ehme of er ne t t h g a u e r l t i l e o i po :n e e t f s T t o h h f e e 1866, the rectificatory budget of 1867, the new credits of 1867, and the ordinary and extraordinary budgets of 1868. Among the important projects ofTl The ebl postponedailwsG, project ta tillrede . l f na u et r xiT t vt h he e set r e os session, iatowho consideration fAaorrrem ttyhheae nthdror regulation geh w uef lo h aNl which was was of public ri a g m t h e e e t p i r n o g g s the r , e sso of law the r s e e l a s s t i i o v n e t t h o e the h P e r r e s of amendments f amendments made in various proposed laws was 400. Several projects of law having for' object embellishments and improvements in the city of P a n a Ad r i swbstandbanquet ea f tr o a r i cs ct talkedeorni s s i t d i e e s r o a mf t onion a n p e se x eca t ulle s i e au s r s lo i t o ria n ean . t a e n n y s i v o e f modern or even ancient times. A plan is under organisation for the banquet of the Exhibition, and the day proposed for it is the 30th of this month. It is to be a dinner for the exhibtors, and, as there are 45,000, of course that number will partake of it. The Hippodrome is the locality proposed for this grand celebration. As even a Paris restaurateur would not undertake to provide a hot dinner for 45,000 customers the viands will be cold. One innovation is seriously proposed—that each exhibi bitor should bring his dish. Should this be so, the various dishes would form another Exhibition—a kind of gastronomical competition. 'The banquet promises to be a spectacle as charming as it is novel. The exhibitors will be at tables classed in groups according to their countries, and over the tables will float banners in the same style as at the distribution of prizes at the Palace of Industry. The ladies will not be forgotten. Each exhibitor will be allowed to bring a lady. The ladies, how ever, will not be introduced until after the banquet. Thus nothing will be wanting to give eclat to the fete, for it has been always said that a repast with out women is a garden without flowers. It is even intended that there shall be various amusements and a sort of fancy fair on the race course of the Hippodrome, which is well calculated for the purpose. The Imperial Commission have reduced the price of a ticket to the Exhibition for the remainder of the season from 60f. to 40f. There is now in the reserved garden of the Ex hibition the most splendid mass of flowers ever s t e e e n s ,. c o , n r si h i s s t in h o g of hcih e t t h e i s m aos present t and from e beautiful so roseei Society of Rose Growers of Brie-Comte Robert to the Empress. Her Majesty has deigned to become the r F ep r r e c a s e e i n t ts ho o rt n i e eu o l- f p th a e tro m u o e s s t s o i Lo f o t o h r is ta s o o t ci e b t r ) a. ' e w h l o i f t m u i r l e l n a s s tohfercoasne-ttorneeoafofßrvizeiricouhlstivspaeteesieasb. out three nal l' Union, has just died in P aris, Mr. M'Sheehy, managing proprietor age o d f t B h i e . joHure was of Irish origin. Under Louis XIV. his family followed, James 11. in his exile when the deposed Monarch came to France. lie served in the army under the first Republic, was wounded at Leipsic, and promoted to the rank of lieut.-colonel for his services at the battle of Wagram. Mr. M'Sheehy I was an officer of the Legion of Honour. According to a parochial record respecting the arrondissement of Fresnay le Grand, near St. Quentin, a man named Savigny and his wife are now living there who have no less than 219 nephews or grand nephews. The weather to-day has been more like one in April than July—very showery, very stormy, and rather disagreeable. But the Parisians nevertheless, like Mark Tapley, seem determined to be jolly, and every vehicle to the Exhibition has been filled. Pleasure reigns at Paris. The result of the trial of Sallot, before the Court of Assize of the Ariege at St. Foix on the charge of being an accomplice in the four murders to which I alluded, was the acquittal of the prisoner. The evidence was circumstantial, and the jury believed the witnesses who came to support the alibi, which formed the prisoner's defence. The fete at the Hotel de Ville last night in hon our of the King of Portugal was much upon the same scale cf splendour as the recent entertainments to the other Sovereigns. His Majesty was received on entrance by the Baroness Haussrnan, the wife of the Prefect of the Seine. The Queen of Portugal did not arrive till a late hour of the evening. At departure Baron Haussman proposed the health of his Majesty, which the King appropriately acknow ledged. The Pope's Nuncio, the Archbishop of d P i a p r l i o s m , some ai p Arabs erso n 3 w o f were re distinction, and many eminent present. By a curious coincidence the day of this fete was one of the grand anniversaries of the Portuguese Monarchy. It was on the 25th of Ju1y,1139, that the battle of Ourique took place. King Alphonse the First on that day fought against five Moorish Kings, and obtained the great victory which led to the foundation of the Portuguese Monarchy. The King of Prussia has conferred the order of the Black Eagle upon the Marquis de Moustier, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, and also upon Marshal CanrolSert and Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely. Some new cases of cattle plague have occurred near Antwerp, in consequence of whi c h th e B e l g i an Government have ordered additional precautions. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) DEATH OF KING OTHO. BAMBERG, July 27. King Otho of Greece died here at 6.15 yesterday ovening. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25. Lord Lyons leaves here this morning in the steamer Caradoc for Varna en route for Paris and London. His lordship will travel via Vienna, where he expects to meet the Sultan. The English community of Constantinople have presented a very complimentary address to Lord Lyons. MEXICO. A Galveston despatch says :—The following ad dition particulars of the execution of Maximilian have been received :—When leaving the convent Maximilian exclaimed, " What a beautiful, clear heaven. It is such as I desired for the hour of death." All three were dressed with scrupulous care. The officer of the firing party begged Maximilian's for giveness, saying he disapproved the execution, but was a soldier and must obey orders. Maximilian replied, " A soldier must always comply with his orders. I thank you with all my heart for your kind sentiments, but exact that you comply with the orders given you." Maximilian gave Miramon the centre as his post. Alejia's wife ran distracted through the streets just before the execution, carrying a new-born babe. There was great antipathy towards Americans because they asked Maximilian's life. The Princess Salm-Salm devised means for the escape of the Emperor, but was betrayed by an officer. She was ordered to leave Queretaro. A fight was probable between Cortina and Ber riozable. for the Governorship of Tamaulipas. Cortina has been ordered to occupy the Rio Grande, with an army of observation of 15,000 men." The State Department at Washington had pub lished a very lengthy document of Mr. Seward's, giving the decision arrived at by the American Cabinet relative to the case of Santa Anna's cap ture, the action of Commander Roe, and the alleged forcible boarding of the steamer Virginia by the Mexican authorities. Mr. Seward, after reviewing the facts, states his opinion that Santa Anna was really a filibuster, and that the Virginia was not in the service of the United States, being at the time under the absolute control of Santa Anna, and en gaged in a military expedition of bis own, in viola tion of the laws of the United States. Ile further says that Santa Anna voluntarily disembarked at Sisal, and he approves of the action of Commander Roe. The Philadelphia correspondent of the New York Times, under date July 15, says :—" I have met several Nicaraguayans and Mexican Imperialists here to-day. I know them personally, and have had a lengthened conversation with them. It is their intent to organise an expedition to Mexico. Ten regiments are to be raised in New Orleans, 20 in New York, five in Philadelphia, and in other cities in like proportion. They are confident of success." TUE TRI.IL OF MAXIMILIAN. The following further details have been received of the trial of the Emperor Maximilian and his generals : The three days of prorogation granted by the Supreme Government to the counsel of the criminals for their defence having expired, an order from head-quarters organised the court martial, and in virtue of the orders from head quarters, the Adjutant-General issued his orders as follows : "Army Corps of the North, Adjutant- General's Office, Queretaro, Mexico. " General Order of the Division, for the 12th and 13th of June, 1867. " At eight o'clock on the 13th court-martial will organise, and be composed of the following officers : " President, Lieutenant-Colonel Platon Sanchez ; members, Captain Jose V. Ramirez, Captain Miguel Lojero, Captain Ignacio Jurado, Captain Juan Bueday Ausa, Captain Jose Verastigue, Captain Lucas Villagran. " This court-martial will meet at the appointed hour, at the Theatre of Iturbide, in conformity with article 8 and paragraph 5 of General Orders of army regulations No. 37. All officers not on duty will attend punctually on the court-martial at the place and time mentioned. At 6 o'clock a.m. will be formed, in front of the temple of Capuchinas, fifty mounted riflemen, of Galeana, with their cor responding officers, armed and equipped ; and fifty men of the Battalion of the Guard " of the supreme powers," likewise with their arms, equipments, and officers, both of which detachments will place themselves under orders of Colonel Miguel Pala- cios. (Signed) 6t SIERRA. " Countersigned Mediaa." At eight o'clock a.m. on the 13th of June the court-martial assembled at the Theatre of Iturbide, and the audience was very large. The stage was occupied by the Court, leaving the rest of the theatre to the spectators. The right of the stage was occupied by the members of the court, and on the left, and immediately opposite, were placed three tools for the criminals and seats for their counsel. The most profound emotion was depicted in the countenances of all, and the silence that reigned in the circle could almost be felt. m es srs. Miramon and Mejia were brought to the theatre at 9 o'clock in the morning, in a coach escorted by a company of riflemen. The President opened the Court. The members and the counsel took their seats, all being in strict unifnrm. The Judge-Advocate, Lieut.-Colonol Manuel Aspiroz, read the charges. The previously taken declarations of the prisoner, first, Maximilian, then Miramon and Meija were read. Next followed the confession and charges, after which there were some slight unavoidable in terruptions, such as for example, Maximilian asked that he be permitted to call three lawyers of Mexico to defend him. He also desired Baron Magnus to be called, that he had matters of his family to ar range, and also matters of a national character touching Venice, Italy, and Austria, of the utmost importance to those countries. The general-in-chief granted the prayer of Maximilian, forwarding his despatch to General Porfirio Diaz. The latter, however, would not allow the telegram to pass into that city, on account of its being besieged, stating that he must have a special permit from the supreme Government for the same, which was granted. Maximilian named as his counsel Mr. Jesus Var quez, of this city, Mr. Eulalio Ortega, 'Mariano Riva Palacia, and Rafael Martinez de la Torre, of the City of Mexico. Miramon nominated Messrs. Jaurique, of San Luis Paosi, 'and AMbrosio Mo reno, of Queretaro. Mejia nominated Mr. Prospero C. Vega, also of Queretaro. The counsel having read the acceptathin of the defence, other documents of a preliminary character were presented and read. Among the documents regarding Maximilian,outside of the petitions aforesaid, there was one protesting against the jurisdiction of the court-martial, claim ing it to be an illegal proceeding against his person, inasmuch ash was based upon the law of the 25th of January, 1862, decreeing against traitors to the country ; and that he, being a foreigner, could not be a traitor to the country that is not his o pin ; and further, that it was a country over which he exer cised such high functions that he believed himself unamenable to the law. There was also a pe tition directed by Maximilian to the Presi dent, asking for an interview, and the answer of the President, stating that the inter view could not be granted because of the limited time allowed by law for his trial, but that he could address him in writing anything he chose to say. An order from headquarters also advised the Judge Advocate that any protest or exceptions taken by the accused shall be properly certified, and a copy of it given to those interested. Mention was also made of the certificates of illness of Maxi milian, arguing in favour of the prisoner being removed to some other place, for the change of air. Next was read the protest of Miramon and Mejia, against the jurisdiction of the Court, which being refused they again excepted to because they were denied the right to appeal, there being no supreme court in the nation, and they asked only that they be furnished with a certified copy of the rulings of the court. These proceedings having been gone through with, the accused Thomas Mejia was brought into court and was seated on a stool, guarded on each side by an escort of the " supreme powers." Mr: Prospero commenced the defence. The points of the defence were three. Jfirst, the tionality. The counsel held that the law of January 25 is only applicable from 6 to 11, inclusive, because the balance conflicts with the rights of man, and cannot subject the accused to the penalties of said law. In sketching the political status of the accused, in a brilliant biography, he reviewed his military career up to the present time, showing conclusively that he had not allied himself with the intervention, said Mr. Vega Mejia offered from the Sierra an armed neutrality to Doblado, which he observed until the General Government abandoned the ca pital. He insisted that the defendant was not an interventionist ; that in all of his campaigns he limited himself to defence and never to attack, remaining faithful to his flag and complying with bis military duties. He especially claimed as the best point for defence that Mejia never spilt. the blood of prisoners ; that he had very frequently in his power many of the coutnanders, chiefs, and officers of the Liberal army ; that he always treated them with humanity, to which, said the counsel, Generals Escobedo and Trevipo could testify. He touched upon the political character of the accused, and showed that he was deceived by the promises of the empire which he believed was established by the will of the Mexican people, and finally address ing himself to the council of war, counsel spoke in those affecting terms which never fail to move the heart of the young and brave, calling their attention to the humane principles laid down in the Consti tution of 1857, which abolished capital punish ment, and conjuring them not to stain the laurels of . triumph with the blood spilt upon the scaffold. Mr. Vega spoke in a happy train, and the ob scure lawyer made himself famous before the bar of Mexico. The President asked the accused if he had any thing to say in his defence. lie answered no, that all was said by his counsel, but that if anything was forgotten the counsel would state it in proper time. Mejia was then led out, and immediately Miguel Miramon was introduced. Messrs. Jaurequi and Morono read successively the defence of the accused with but slight difference in the legal part of the defence, the same points being claimed as were made in► the defence of Mejia, regarding the incompetency of the Court and the refusal of the right of appeal. A great many authorities were read touching the case, but the main point of defence was that the law •f January 25th could not be applied to Miramon, as many of the acts with which he was charged had been committed before the pas sage of the law, and for which ho had already suffered legal punishment. The counsel then went over the entire ground of the invasion and establish ment of the empire, and showed that Miramon, while in a foreign country, had offered his sword to Juarez, who had accepted it, but through circum stances beyond his control he was unable to render those services to his country. His banishment by Maximilian and subsequent return when it appeared to him that the Empire was firmly established in Mexico was then narrated, and counsel next touched upon his personal character, and cited his clemency to prisoners as a claim for mercy to be shown to himself. Miramon was then led out, and the trial of the Archduke followed next. He was unable from sickness to appear in Court. His counsel read the defence denying the legality of the Court and its incompetence to try the cases. The Court overruled the position taken and forced the defence to trial, the counsel declaring that they could but wo u ld not k eep s il ent, i n v i ew o f t h e in competency of the Court and illegality of the law, and then commenced giving the history of the pri soner. Mr. Ortega, who was then speaking, said that he would answer to the charges made against the prisoner, because he was forced to do so, not because there existed any proof sustaining the charges. lle ran over the history of the accused, his arrival in Mexico, answering to the charge made against him as an usurper. He said, Maximilian being at Miramar received a delegation of Mexicans, presented to him by a high functionary of the Court of his brother, who came to offer him the crown of Mexico. He• hesitated, but finally accepted, not believing himself a usurper, but, on the contrary, the legitimate Sovereign of the country, and his belief was strengthened by the ovations he received on his arrival in the country, and' n subsequent occasions. Counsel denied that Maximilian was there as an instrument of France, whose demands and pretensions he constantly op posed. When Maximilian perceived the first symp toms of general discontent he withdrew from the capital, and in Orizaba and Cunernavaca he called around him his Ministers of State and consulted with them about the legitimacy of his election and the will of the people, and they represented to him the entire fidelity of the people. The charge of cruelty was then met and ably refuted, and Mr. Ortega said that the law of the 3d October was intended only as a terror, and a petition for pardon was never presented or refused ; and, besides, one of tha articles of that law was dictated by the Commander-in-Chief. Finally, the counsel argued the unconstitutionality of the law of 1862, it being incompatible with the spirit of the Liberal party and the rights of the nation, inas much as 'the conqueror is made the judge of the conquered. The counsel closed with a stirring ap peal for clemency for his distinguished client, and that the Government might for ever receive the plaudits of coming generations for crowning the greatest victories with the greatest pardons. It being then 9 o'clock at night, the Court ad- journed till next day, June 14, when counsel for each of the prisoners were asked if they had any thing further to say. They replied, not at present. They would reserve further argument until a later period in the trial. Mr. Manuel Aspiroz, the Judge-Advocate, then read the charges against the accused, sustaining the same by certr.in official documents emanating from the so-called Imperial Government. Among the accusations against Maximilian was found that ter rible charge of having attempted to prolong the war by his celebrated decree of March 7. To rebut the effort made by Mr. Vega to over throw the charges by reason of the absence of any proof of the same, the Judge-Advocate said that all the charges were founded upon the notoriety of the acts, and that notoriety was sufficient to establish the accusation. That, ac cording to article 28, of the law of January 25, it would have been sufficient to establish it as a capital offence then, previous to the identification of their persons. The absence of those records and testimony which the counsel deem so strange amount to no thing. They are not needed. The prisoners were captured with arms in their hands, and their names are known to the whole world. He concluded by asking that capital punishment be adjudged the accused. Messrs. Vazquez and Ortega then suc cessively addressed the court for the defence. The first of these gentlemen carefully refuted charges, and concluded with these memorable words addressed to the court If you condemn the archduke to death I am not uneasy about a coalition in Europe, or the threatening attitude which the United states may assume towards the Republic. I have confidence in the Liberal armies that have rooted out the French from its soil, but I fear the universal reproach that will fall upon our country, as an anathema, more than even the sentence of death, because of the nullity of the proceedings of this court." Mr. Jaurequi having closed for the defence, Mr. Moreno presented a protest based upon three pro positions, energetically protesting against the ad mission of evidence subsequent to the trial, inasmuch as the prosecution had been closed up, and the Judge Advocate had ample notification of the de fence. Without anything further transpiring the court went into secret session for the purpose of passing the sentence, which is now before the world. ----- THE RETURN OF THE SULTAN. —The Sultan will return to Constantinople by way of the Varna and Rust chuk Railway, Djemil Pacha, • the chamberlain, having arranged with this company to provide suitable accommo dation for his Imperial Majesty and suite of 80 persons. A state carriage, consisting of an inner saloon and two:open compartments, constructed expressly for the Sultan, will be used oil this spocazion. SPAIN. MADRID, July 26. Reductions to the amount of fifty millions of reals have already been effected in the current war and marine budgets, and further economies to the amount of twenty millions of reals will be carried out in the other departments of the Government. FRANCE. PARIS, July 26. BOURSE, July 26, Two o'clock.—The tone of the market is much better. Many operators having undersold their accounts yesterday are desirous of buying in :—French Threes have advanced 10c., to 68f. 75e. ; Italian Fives 15c., to 49f. ; Credit Mob , 13f. 75c., to 333 f. 75c. ; Spanish Mobilier 7f. 50c., to 223 f. 75c. ; Credit Foncier 10f., to 1 , 372 f. 50 c. ; Comptoir d'Escompte 5f., to 723 f. 50c.; Paris Gas 7f. 50c., to 1,540 f. ; Suez Canal 2f. 50c., to 300 f. ; the reaction is most apparent in Immobiliere shares, which have gained no less than 20f., at 167 f. 50c. There is likewise an advance on railway shares. From London the telegraph announces a decline on Consols of one-eighth. Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cents 99 25 Do. end month — 3 per Cents. 6B 85 Do. end month 6B 82} Credit Mobilior Do. end month Bank Shares 3355 Italian Loan 49 Do. end month 49 15 Mexican Loan — Do. Bonds Spanish Threes Horne Debt — Deferred ,W&YS. Credit Foncier — Do. end month 1377 50 RAIL For Account. Orleans ................................ ... 880 Northern ................................. 1150 Lyons and blediterrauean ........... 880 Southern ................................. 517 50 Wostena .................................. 565 Eastern ................................... 537 50 Sardinian ................................. Austrian ...........• 457 50 Lombard 376 25 North of Spain SaragosEa Roman. AMERICA. (Per the Java.) NEW YORK, July 10. The bill introduced by Mr. Stevens, of Pennsyl vania, in the House of Representatives, to enable the inhabitants of the late rebel States conquered by the United States to form a State Government, declares that all the Governments and pretended Governments in the Southern territory are null and void, and of no effect other than that which they shall derive from the action of Congress ; existing corporations and officers existing de facto for local purposes, to be continued until Congress, or those authorised by Congres s, shall det ermine their exist ence, with proper co nstitutions . Until admitted into the governedet chosen e b Union, n ti i l o e n ,bj joint i a n c tt l district, arcetei o n commissioners, onlmissioners, civilians, as now existi ng , s hall of Congres s . Th e pre sent registration is to be continued, with a view to the foundation of a State Constitution, which must be submitted to the approval of Congress. The bill declares the admission of new States into the Union, and the reconstruction of the old one is the sole duty and work o f C ongress, and neither of department, nor Congress. right to interfere t j h ud e ie P ia r r e y si , d n en o t r , nnliolritaarynyhahveead any -General upon any in T s u h c e h o m p i a n t i t o e n r s o u f n t l h e s e s A required y by point connected with the admission of new States, or the reconstruction of destroyed ones, is unau thorised, and ought not to be obtruded upon Go vernment. of this city, just returned from a protra c ted visit to The St. Louis Despatch says ;_u A Alabama and Georgia, informs us th a t the crops in those States thus far fulfil all th e expec t a ti ons that their appearance in the sprin g i nsp i re d . Th e wheat gentleman harvest is over, and proved to be unexpectedly fine. Many counties had raised two hundred thousand bushels. The corn a l so promised we ll, an d what with their good crop s of these articles the pe o p le of the South will b e at least ha lf su pplied. The cotton is waist hi g h, t h r i fty, an d p ro mising. An unusual freedom. of fi e l ds from i nsec t s is noticeable. Many estimate the coming crop at a full average, and the moderate estimates do not place it under three million bales. Th e people are contented w ith their material condition, an d greatly re li ev ed by the grain harvests and the p rospects of a g ood cotton crop. The negroes are now working on shares with the as a general thing, planters, and, are working as faithfully and efficiently as they did before the war." A Galveston (Texa s ) d es p a tch of the 15 th inst. says :—" Owing t o th e cont i nue d rain the cotton prospect is rather p oor. Th e ca terpillar and army worm are doing g rea t d amage. " Arizona advices state that the Colorado River was so high that the break;vater at Gilla was overflowed, causing the entire destruction of Ari zona city, only two b u ildi ngs re maining uninjured on the Fort Yuma s id e. Th e fl o od had completely wrecked the overl an d ma il com pany's quarter 6. The United Stat es gun b oat Peoria had arrived from St. Tho mas . Sh e reports that on the night of the 3d iust. th e t own o f B as seterre,,St. Kitt's, was destroyed by fire. All the business portion of the place, and most of the dwellings and churches, were reduced to ashes. The Peoria was lying at the time at the neighbouring island of St. Martin's, and the United States Consul despatched a sailboat for the Peoria to come to the assistance of the town. On her arrival she was unable to do anything towards saving the place, but Commander Badger supplied the destitute inhabitants with ship stores, and then proceeded to Antona for further supplies. The Governor of Autona immediately despatched a provisioned vessel to St, Kitti, FiYO liyea wero lost during the fire. Large quantities of provisions and sugar, ready for shipment, were consumed. A telegram states that every effort had been made to recover the remains of General Meagher, lately drowned at Fort Benton, but without success. meaning of the law of January 25. Second, its application to the defendant. Third, its constitu- tin rt 4'41 Tat HER MAJESTY, &c. OSBORNE, July 26. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, walked out yesterday afternoon, and her Majesty and Princess Louise rode on ponies in the grounds this morning. WILLS AND BEQUESTS. (Front the Illustrated London News.) The will of the Right lion. Sarah Albinia Louisa, Dowager Countess of Ripon, of Nocton Hail,Lin colnshire, was administered to in her Majesty's Court of Probate, by her son, the Right Hon. George Frederick Samuel, Earl De Grey and Ripon, the sole acting executor, the other executors appointed—namely, the Rev. W. Percival Ward and Philip Henry Pepys, Esq., eldest son of the Right Rev. Henry Pepys, late Bishop of Wor cester—having first renounced the grant. The pereonaity was sworn under £50,000. Her lady ship was the only child of Robert, fourth Earl of Buckinghamshire, and married, in 1814, Frederick John, first Earl of Ripon, P.C., a distinguished statesman, who died in 1859. Her lady ship executed her will July 11, 1865, and a codicil July 2, 1866, and died April 9, Aged 74, leaving her son, the present earl, her only sur viving child. Her ladyship left liberal bequests to several of her friends, and annuities and legacies to her servants. She bequeaths the sum of £1,500 for the erection of a school at Nocton, and directs her executors to complete the church at Nocton by building a south aisle ; also to erect three new lodges in the grounds at Nocton. Her ladyship leaves her set of pearls to devolve as heirlooms with the Nocton estate. The residue of her pro perty she leaves to her son and executor, the pre sent earl. The will of Miss Elizabeth Harriett Barnett, for merly of Langham House, Portland-place, and late of Ashurst Lodge, Sunninghill, Berks, was proved in London, on the 2d inst., by her cousins, the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Murray and John Clerk, Esq., the joint acting executors. The personalty was sworn under £12,000. The will is dated March 19, 1855 ; with three codicils, 1855-61 and April 17, 1867 ; and she died April, 19, 1867, aged 68. The testa trix bequeaths numerous specific legacies to her nephews, nieces, cousins, and other relatives. To the Countess of Mansfield, besides other bequests, she leaves all articles of furniture not otherwise disposed of. ller Spanish books she leaves to Jane Banks Stanhope ; the books given to her by her father she leaves to her brother William ; all other books she leaves to her niece, Frederica Sophia Barnett. To her nephews and nieces, the children of her late brother Lieut.-Colonel John Barnett, she leaves as follows :—To John Barnett, captain in the Austrian service, and Lieut.-Colonel William Townsend Barnett, Royal Artillery, each £l,OOO ; and the residue of her property equally between her nieces Frederica, Maria, and Elizabeth Barnett. The will of John Gott, Esq., formerly of %Vyther, and late of Armley House, both in Leeds, wasproved at the Court at Wakefield, and the personalty sworn under £350,000. The surviving executor is William Allan, Esq., the testator's brother-in-law ; the other executors were William Gott, his brother, and William Maitland, both since deceased. The will is dated June 26, 1852, and two codicils, 1852 and 1856 and the testator died April 1, 1867. He has devised all his land and freehold estate at Wood hall to his nephew, John Gott. He bequeaths to his wife an annuity of £1,200, in addition to all property under settlement or that may have been left to her. He leaves to each of his six sisters a legacy of £lO,OOO. He bequeaths to the General Infirmary, Leeds, £.200; to the House of Recovery and Leeds Dispensary, each £lOO, free of duty. The residue, real and personal, he bequeaths to his brother William Gott, since deceased. Letters of administration of the personal estate and effects of the late Right Hon. Lady Charlotte Sarah Hetley, Dowager Baroness Braybrooke, have been taken out in the principal registry in her Ma jesty's Court of Probate by her husband, Frederic Hetley, Eq., M.D., of Norbury Lodge, upper Norwood. The personalty was sworn under £1,500. Her ladyship was the fifth daughter of the second Earl of Norbury. The late Samuel Adolph Jonas, Esq., of Clifton gardens, Maida-hill, and Bow-lane, Cheapside, merchant, died possessed of personalty sworn under £30,000. He has left to the German Jews' Hospital at Norwood, the Jews' Free School, Bell lane, Jews' Orphan Asylum, Tenter-ground, each £lOO ; and to his brother John and his sister Rebecca each the sum of £lOO for them to distribute in chari table uses as they may think proper. He bequeaths to the great Synagogue, Duke's-place, and to the fund for decayed members thereof ; also to the Jews' institution for the relief of the indigent blind, and the Jews' Infant School, Commercial-road, each £5O. The late James C. Hyde, Esq., whose personalty was sworn under £16,000, has left the following charitable bequests, payable after the death of his sister, Charlotte Hyde:—To the Foundling Hospital, £2,000 ; London Missionary Society, £l,OOO ; the Church Missionaryand Chiidren's Home, the British and Foreign Bible Society, Colonial Church and School Society, Church Building Fund for India, Metropolitan Training School, Islington ; Bishop's College, Calcutta ; Shipwrecked Seamen's Society, each £5OO ; Earlswood Institution for Teaching the Blind to Read, £250 ; Idiots' Asylum, National Temperance League, Ragged School Union, each £100; the Rupture Society, Soldiers' Daughters' Home, and Destitute Girls' itefuge, Hampstead, each £l5O. THE QUEEN OF HANOVER.—Several of the German journals have stated that the Queen of Hanover has been repeatedly invited to leave the Chateau of .ISlariee burg and the country, or to accept the following condi tions:—First, to discharge the persons of her suite, and her domestic servants, and to accept a household chosen b 7 the Prussian Government ; secondly, to hoist the royal Prussian flag on the chateau ; and, thirdly, to allow a de tachment of Prussian troops to mount guard at the palace. Her Majesty vainly remonstrated, and showed that she was residing in her own house ; the-King of- Prussia, at length intimated, by a formal order from Ems, that t b Queen must leave the country and her chateau if she re fused to accept the conditions. Three days were given be for consideration. In consequence the Queen and the youthful Princess Mary left Marienburg on Wednesdal morning for Vienna, by way of Cassel. B,U3IOURED ELOPEMENT.—A very painful rumour has been current through this city concerning some partie s who have been recent visitors to it. It is said that a la d y who is the wife of a member of one of the wealthiest families in Ireland has loft her husband in company with l a cavalry officer. The fugitives have, it is said, been traced to Glasgow by the lady's father, who is a gentleman hold" ing an important public position, in which he is deserved respected. The lady mentioned is, we regret to add, the mother of three children.— Cork Examiner. A GENTLEMAN SHOT BY HIS BROTHER.—A 11 1 ° 8 t distressing accident occurred to Mr. Robert Austen, son 0" Mr. R. A. C. Godwin-Austen, J.P., of Chilworth near Guildford, on Wednesday last. Early on that worn' ing Mr. Robert Austen,. accompanied by his brother, fir. Robert Austen, went out rabbit shooting. About fi o'clock, when the brothers wore in close proximity to eel other, loading their guns, the piece held in the ban d Edward went off by accident as he turned round to se" some one approaching, and the discharge lodged in tl ,l groin of Robert, making a fearful wound right through t; thigh and laying bare the femoral artery. Tho party who Ed ward had heard approaching happened to be a boy unwed the farm, who ran to procure assistanco, and the wourid e s gentleman was conveyed to the manor. Althoug h h°Pe t are entertained of his recovery, his life will be in iuunie sti peril for at least a fortnight. Fri' SERIOUS LOSS FROM LIGHTNING. —Early on. day morning a terrific thunderstorm burst ov er the chl-7_ of Canterbury and neighbourhood, accompanied by li , g rue ning, resulting in serious damage to property, &°. T, ,r, lightning struck a flock of sheep in the grounds of AU' n , G. Peckham, Hall-place, Harbledown, situate a rails f , ro 0 , Canterbury, killing 18 ewes and 14 lambs. The 61`e ware stated to be of a very superior breed. THE LATE SIR ARCHIBALD ALISON.—A- Pr °v : cial grand funeral Lodge of Freemasons, in mem or y ° L a . Archibald Alison, was held in Glasgow on Thurs da y iug. All the dignitaries of the craft in. Scotland wel° p re sent. The Earl of Dalhousie delivered the oration solenui occasion.