The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-18 00:00:00

THE 4.BYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Full details of the surrender of the prisoners, the eagagament of Good Friday, the capture of Magdala, and the destruction of that fortress, have been received. The letter of the Times special correspondent is seven columns in length, and from it we make the following ex tracts : THE SUERENLEE OF THE CAPTIVES, It requites (says the writer, on April 12) a life-long faith in figures and almanacks to believe that barely a day and a half have elapsed since we were looking for ward to the safe delivery of the captives as a doubtful event, and to the possibility of another year of absence from home and roughing it in Abyssinia, supposing Theo dore escaped. Measured not by minutes, but by variety and intensity of sensations, as psychologists tell us time should be measured, there are in a life few months that would not pass more quickly than these short hours. 11 -, ,:u1,1 that any description of mine could do justice to them ! But, so far from this, I have to ask the indul gc-nee of your readers for a report that must be written, not only against time, but in such a Babel of questions, answers, congratulations, kissings, ha.ndshakings, tears, runours, contradictions, and counter contradic tions as only the present occasion could create, and to which nothing short of utter blindness, deafness, and heartlessness could make even a special correspondent impervious. Within four yard 3 of the little tente d'abri under which I have to lying at my length on the ground, Mrs. Flad, who was prevented by illness from coming into camp last night, is at this very moment exchanging greetings and congratu lations with Mrs. Rosenthal, both happy and free at last, after so many weary months of well-nigh hopeless cap tivity ; a group of small children are carrying on an animated conversation in a strange patois, compounded possibly- of German and Abyssinian ; and a strong-lunged baby is performing, in the universal baby language, a solo of its own. Exactly twenty-four hours ago these people entary fear of a cruel death, at the wrlt w 're in mir 3 :32y of a ; rciless tyrant, who two days before had in c i blood I .tchered over 300 innocent captives, slaying s , wine with his own hand, and who, mad with rage and Ltrong thernately threatened and flattered them as ft , ,lr or ~redominated. Just twenty-four hours ago their ,ere literally not worth a moment's purchase. are as safe as five thousand gallant hearts ready 1, s)e every drop of blood in their defence can make hem, th friendly faces and friendly voices on all sides Oni, and big, rough men—the sailors of the Rocket Brigade, of course, as conspicuous as they were in the f • ' of Friday—almost crying over their children. THE ENGAGESIENT ON GOOD FRIDAY. main body of the British army had drawn near to when King Theodore, misinformed by spies, t' it only a small pioneer force was advancing with bagzagz , to find a camping ground for the rest of the tro pl. His niiitalce was immediately confirmed by the sl p3-_irance at the top of the Arogee Pass of Colonel blil.vard'A men, more especially as the mules of the battery and the Rocket Brigade looked to 7 -, ii.:2xp...•rienced eye like ordinary baggage animals. few minutes more one of the guns on Fahla poured fo7ll. • 1. heavy booming sound, evidently in preconcerted cign7.l, and almost simultaneously the steep road leading clown from the heights, and the hilly, broken ground below them, wore alive with armed men, horse and foot, r,,-.1,:c impetuously to battle. A finer or more spirit s 7 -ring sight it is difficult to imagine, not more, how from tlio. bold, martial bearing of the men—some them, tn, splendid horsemen—although they came t:i ir:th the proud, triumphant confidence of med to conqu2st, than from the magnificent sce:itry in which the action was carried on, Magdala and the adjoining maintains forming, as it were, a n;-and natni.al amphitheatre, and a spacious terrace at the .4, of 1 7 .1.1,13 making an admirable stage on which to give effect. to the brilliant game of war. The effect on our troop.; was magical. They had scarcely ever dared to believe fiat the AbyKinians would fight even behind walls, and in.l them rushing on in this gallant style to do battle in was, indeed, an unlooked-for taste of tin " Stern joy which warriors feel " In foemen worthy of their steel." A Te e ing cheer broke from their ranks, and the two aredes hastened to close. Up to the moment when the first battle-gun from Fahla sounded the prelude to the battle, the 4th were crawling listlessly along, constantly falling out of the ranks to lie down, utterly knocked up by a terribly trying march, and imploring anyone who passed for a drop of water, which on that day was as pre cious and rare a commodity as champagne. No hallowed rag of saint or winking virgin ever wrought such a miracle upon halt- or lame as did the sound or. that one Abjssinian gun upon the dead-beat men of the 4th. In five minutes they were to the front, dressing up, and hurrying past the Beloochees —not that the Belooches were a whit the less eager, but the) had not the deadly Snider to recommend them, and in a very few minutes more—though to anxious eyes abov it may have appeared a longer time—they emerged from he hollow into which they had disappeared on leav ing tb. '-'ll, ae,l began steadily to mount the step which the eneu._ had at first so dauntlessly made their own, and to take it I m them inch by inch. To describe the fight after the St came into play would be only to describe a ltattue. Its :harp, short cracks, following each other in breathless Si; es ;ion, were the death knell of the Abys sinian cause. The unfortunate foe had no longer even the shadow of a chance, but went down like grass before the scythe. v they kept their ground at all when Sid leis, mountain guns, and rockets had begun to get fairly at them is a marvel, and says a good deal fur their national " pluck," notwithstanding that they never managed to hold even for a few minutes after the first impetuous onset any ground from which it was attempted to dislodge them. That they came on so pluckity is accounted for by their mistaking the character of the force, but this mistake, soon dis c wered, could only have contributed to their confusion, as yet to the very last, though they had left, it is thought, some 500 comrades dead on the field, among them their leader, Theodore's favourite general, and must have had at least three times that number wounded, they kept up some show of resistance, rallied to make a few faint charges, and mustered up spirits enough for a mock victorious cheer when Sir Charles Staveley, as night was coining on, and nothing more was to be ggined by useless butchery, sounded the retreat. Their Theodore's famous guns gave them no assistance whatever ; on the contrary, killed it is said, oe CI en. The big gun burst at the first explosion, the rest—there were about seven, I believe, altogether posted on Fahla—kept up a steady cannonade easily distinguishable by its dull, heavy sound, ascribed to the slow ignition of bad powder, from the quick rattle of the mountain guns, but did not even touch one of our Yuen. Not cne man on our side, strange to say, was killed, an 1 only nineteen were wounded, among them one officer, Captain Roberts, of the 4th, who was bit by a bullet in the elbow joint. artillcry THE CAPTURE OF MAGDALA. Disheartened by a crushing defeat, and finding his troops utterly demoralised and deserting in large numbers, Theodore endeavoured to obtain terms of peace. Bat having given up the captives, he was told that he must surrender himself, and was allowed twenty-four hours to consider his position. He made no reply, but early next moming the camp was full of rumours, as usual, contra dictory, of his flight by night from Magdala, and of a a holesale massacre of the Abyssinian hostages. Some of his leading men came early into camp to give themselves up as prisoners, and to surrender Selassee, the to peak which on the north commands Magdala, and reported that nearly all Theodore's army had deserted Lim. Before eight o'clock it was known, on trustworthy authority, that Theodore had indeed fled from Magdala, but had returned almost immediately, probably on find ing his retreat cut off by the fierce Wollo Gallas, his batter foes, who since his defeat on Friday had been swarming eagerly round km, like bloodhounds oa the scent of wounded prey. Driven to desperation lie W 33 now standing savagely at bay, prepared to defend Magdala itself to the last, and sell his life as dearly as he could. Before ten, all the troop 3 here (except a small baggage guard)—two brigades, ;tering about 5,000 men, were marshalled in order of ,cic, under Sir Charles Staveley, on the terrace which foeincd the principal scene of Friday's encounter, imme diately under Fahla, prepared to ascend the road up to it, net le by Theodore for his guns, and carried through Ishimg.2o (his camp) to Selassee, which projects, about a „l e f ur th er o n, slightly north-east, and to Magdala, al;out the same distance, which projects slightly south-west. The task of taking the place was mere child's play. Althou g h the enemy had every advanta g e of position, and might lave fired with their eyes shut upon the troops ina.;:ied in tile narrow path below, not one of our men was k;iled, and only about ten wounded in t he path, a few being t niched by stray shots elsewhere. Even of these ten two or three—among them Major Pritchard, who led the Engineers—were, it is believed, struck by I:rlCsli bullets', the men keeping up am objectless fire to of the interference of their own officers icral in command, Sir Charles Staveley, irst the perfect fee d'enfer raised by the Sailers, as the head of the storming column moved up the path, did, no doubt, admirable service. Volley followed volley with a blinding, deafening vehemence and rapidity, and shovers of bullets rattled, without an instant's inter ,:,:en; round every crack and crevice of the gate and a.l J,aning stockade, leaving scarcely an inch of wall f rock unexplored f rom w hi c h an oppos i ng s h ot coul d sa f e l y flre , l, such . as might w e ll h ave s h a k en a f ar cooler mul snore eNpenenced foe than the Abyssinian. • THE SCENE WITHIN THE FORTRESS. Only a small number of Theodore's troops stood by him to the last, It is said that eighty dead bodies have been jlli4i 111:n3c - if. At I fcarad within Alagdala. If so, I fear that many of the slain were not fighting men, for I myself counted the bodies near the gateway, at which nearly all the fighting occurred, and I could not find more than ten, and at least half of these were Theodore's chiefs, dis tinguished from the common soldiers by their shirts of coloured silk. These few men stood by him to the last with desperate devotion, but the rest must have made a very poor stand, or our troops would have suffered far more. As it is, it is little short of miraculous that even six men, bent on selling their lives dearly, and with good arms in their hands (nearly a dozen English breech-loaders have been found in Magdala) should have failed to kill one man out of a dense column advancing up such an ascent as that to Magdala—it would have been less surprising if they had between them killed a hundred men than that they should have failed to kill one. Theodore's body was found, not near those of his chiefs in the gateway, but alone on the hill above. I happened to be near Dr. Lumsdaine when he examined the body, then still warm, and was told by him that he believed Theodore to have committed suicide. This theory is so exactly in accordance with what is known of the man's character and his conduct up to the last moment that lam inclined still to think it the right one. His face seemed to me rather a disappointing one after all that has been said about it, but then it was impossible to judge pro perly after death, especially as the eye was said to be, from its fire and expression, the most remarkable feature. There was a look of bloated, sensual indulgence about the cheeks by no means heroic or kingly, but the forehead was intellectual, and the mouth singularly deter mined and cruel. A very strange smile still lingered about the lips, as if even in the death-throe his last thought had been one of triumph at having baulked his conquerors by dying a king. His death is universally regarded with unmixed satisfaction. It would be affectation to pity a tyrant who himself knew no pity, who was as unscru pulous, and crafty as he was cruel, and who had indeed every reason to style himself the Scourge of God sent to punish the people. He has met with a death far more merciful than he dealt out to better men, and far more honourable than any trait in his character, except, per haps, his dauntless bravery and invincible determination, deserved. Those few to whom these qualities recom mended him to some sort of mercy had only to look for a moment into the fearful charnel-house, the loathsome human shambles which was exposed to our horrified gaze as we neared Magdala, and every lingering trace of compas sion at once disappeared. We had been told by his prisoners, our fellow-countrymen, that the day before the arrival of the British army Theodore had summoned all the prisoners to his presence, and had in cold blood butchered over 300 of them, some with his own hand, almost within sight and hearing of the rest, who momentarily expected the same fate. But though details of this kind make one shudder, the mind of a civilised man, whose whole expe rience runs counter to a vivid faith in the actual existence of such atrocities, somehow cannot fully realise them, or take in their whole terrible import. On Easter Monday, however, nothing was left to the imagination, the tragedy was forced in all its naked horror upon our revolted senses. A strange smell, for which there was no apparent cause, made some of our party look over the edge of a steep cliff, almost within a few yards of the spot from which the guns were beginning to play upon Magdala, and there, on a ledge about fifty feet below them, lay two large heaps of mangled human bodies, closely piled upon each other in ghastly confusion, their limbs protruding from the mass in all sorts of repulsive attitudes and contortions, and presenting altogether a scene of horror such as no pen could adequately describe, could any pen be found to undertake the task. Here was the latest, though not by any means the worst, specimen of the pious handiwork of the self-elected Scourge of God. More commonly he mutilated and disabled his victims, leaving them to die of their wounds, or to the more tender mercy of the hyena. On Dalanta one of the force picked up two human hands, evidently not long cut off. The only ex ceptionally cruel feature in this last massacre was its un usual wantonness. The victims were, many of them, prisoners for very slight offences, and men of no im portance, who might with perfect safety have been set free. Theodore feared the expense of keeping them during a siege, and considered it perhaps derogatory to his dignity to let them go ;so he massacred them. It is impossible to feel pity for such a man. THE DESTRUCTION OF DIAGDALA. Writing on April 17, the correspondent Thus speaks of destruction of Magdala :—The town itself was unin teresting, save from its accidental associations as the prison of our fellow-countrymen and other Europeans, even for Abyssinia a charge so grave that no man, it is to be hoped, would lightly bring it against any town calling itself Christian. It consisted of the ordinary col lection of huts, most of them built of grass and wood, with thatched conical roofs, and did not boast even one building of exceptional beauty or importance. The church was one of the meanest and dirtiest that we have seen in Abyssinia, while the palace of the great Emperor Theodore differed only from the surrounding huts of his humblest subjects i❑ being larger, two-storied, and with a thatched roof, not conical, but oblong, giving it much the appear ance of an English barn, except that no decent English farmer would allow any animal that he valued to live in a building so dark, dirty, and ill ventilated. After all that one had heard and read of this undoubtedly great man, of his immeasurable superiority to his people and the country upon which, unhappily for him, his lot was thrown, of his enlightened appreciation of the institutions of more civilised nations, and of his penetrating practical insight into whatever was most valuable in those of his own, it seemed strange, almost beyond belief, to find that he had lived the squalid, grace less life of a savage, to stand in his so-called palace—a rude, dirty cabin—and look everywhere around in vain for even one slight trace of a refined or accomplished mind. In the workshop of his European artisans there were, of course, many signs of modern civilisation, though nearly all of a practical, very few of a strictly ornamental or luxurious kind. Workmen's tools and huge glass tumblers; apparently of English make, seemed the prin cipal articles of import, drinking being, next to fighting, the great business of a wealthy Abyssinian's life, and these mixed up with crosses, censers, mitres, bells—the spoils of Gondar churches—Amharic bibles, stray copies of the Record, odd volumes of encyclopaedias, foolscap paper, old matchlocks, pistols, swords, powder-flasks, and percus sion caps, formed altogether as strange a jumble as it would be easy to find anywhere. The ' loot,' on the whole, has rather disappointed the captors. They did not expect much, but still it was believed that Theodore had both gold and silver treasure. If he had, it has somehow disappeared. By an oversight no orders were given nor any precautions taken against looting, and there is little doubt that the moment the place was forced many Abyssinians, who knew best where to look, began to search for plunder. Next day an order was issued that everything taken should be given back, but, as many things had already changed hands and handsome prices been paid for them as curiosi ties and relics of Magclala rather than for their intrinsic value, the order was unpopular, and I question whether it has been very strictly obeyed. The late Emperor, too, appears to have behaved to his prisoners and artisans with a generosity which must have left him nearly bankrupt. Scarcely an article of real value has been found which is not declared to have been at some time or other presented by him to some one of them, which, therefore, does not go into the general fund to be raised, by the sale of all loot, for the benefit of the non-commissioned officers and men of the force. All these deductions will, I fear, make the proceeds of the sale very small. However, a few curious and valuable relics have been found. Mr. Holmes, for instance, who came out here as archaeologist for the British Museum, and who has hitherto had a singularly disappointing and unfruitful journey, was lucky enough to rescue a handsome crown, probably an archbishop's, and a gold chalice, bear ing the following inscription in Amharic : "The chalice of King Adam Segud, called Yasoo, the son of Queen Brain: Mogussa, presented to Kwoskwan Sanctuary (Gondar). May my body and soul be purified ! Weight twenty-five wokkits of pure gold, value five hun dred dollars. Made by Waldo Georgis." The Emperor's own crown has also been found, and is, I believe, to be sent home to the Queen. I saw in the hands of a British soldier what, under the circumstances, was certainly a very singular and interesting bit of hot, a six-barrelled revolver, with an inscription declaring that it was presented by the Queen to the Emperor Theo dore, in token of her gratitude for " the kindness shewn by him to her servant Plowden." The soldier told me that he had seen five pistols with this inscription, and had had a bard fight to get one for himself, but, so far, only one has been given up to the prize-agents. TILE LATE FATAL ACCIDENTS AT O.X.FORD.—On Saturday morning last the mortal remains of the two un• fortunate gentlemen who were killed on the previous Thursday— viz., Mr. C. Marriott, of Christ Church, and Alr. W. Barne, of Exeter College —were conveyed foi interment, by railroad, the former to near Tiverton, and the latter to Butterworth. On Saturday Prince Arthur, attended by Major Elphinstone, 0.13., V. 0., m 14]. , paid a visit to Chatham. His Royal Highness inspected the ironclads now building, the mould-loft, and model•room. The official residence of the Capta:u-Superintendent in Chatham Docl:yard is, it i 3 understood, to be set apart as a residence for Prince Arthur and his suite during a course of study in military engineering. The Prince took luncheon with Major- C eneral Simmons, and returned to town in the afternoon. lie is expected to join the corps of Engineers during the lusuing month. -- . ROMAN AFFAIRS. ,Fram the Roman Correspondent of the Westminster Gazette.) ROME, May 2. You may be interested to hear some inci dents of the late farewell audiences of forestieri, which escaped me at the time when detailing more important matter. At one of them, the Holy Father, who has in many instances shown a great fondness, after the model of our Divine Lord, for young children, observed as he passed round the kneeling ranks who had come to venerate him, a group of little ones who had been brought to him by their friends. As he passed back, he took one little girl by the hand and led her all the way up the Sala to the throne prepared for him at the far end. The phild, full of the confidence she had been taught to repose in him, accompanied him with out fear or hesitation, or even looking back to her father, but only blushing with pleasure at the great favour of which she was the object. Then he placed her by him to be as an emblem of simplicity and love, while he delivered his magnificent exhortation to unity and mutual accord. At its close, he inquired for her mother, and finding she had none, delivered her tenderly, and with a gentle caress, to the care of a young aunt. The de - votions of the Mese Mariano have of course commenced, and are well attended as usual in numbers of churches ; at the Gesit in the morning, but at most others in the after noon or rather evening, for the Ave is now at 7.30. I am confidently informed that the Council will take place this year, the work in the hands of the various commissions cannot possibly be got through in time. Among other points of discipline, seventeen in number, to be brought under consideration during its deliberations, are the question of mixed marriages, of the measure of submission due from priests to their diocesan, the limit to the language of preachers in expounding the gospel. A blind school, which among the multifari ous charities of Rome has been hitherto the least flourishing, is just being started on a large and permanent basis, chiefly through the exer tions of Cardinal Milesi-Ferretti. It has two branches at present, one near S. Onofrio, and the other in part of the building devoted for the deaf and dumb at the Termini. A sepa rate house will shortly be assigned to them, when I shall take occasion to return to the subject. • The return of Lord Beaumont to the re ligion of his fathers, to which I alluded a week or two ago, is now a matter of such general congratulation that there is no longer any reason of delicacy in withholding his name. As we all know, it is not the first time he has shown his desire to take this step. The same resolution which in boyish earnestness took him from Eton to the gates of the Jesuit college at Beaumont Lodge, had upheld him against all opposition, and now that he has attained an age when it can no longer be gainsaid, he has openly made it good. This abjuration was re ceived on Thursday by Cardinal Reisach, but he was not baptized, as Cardinal Wiseman baptized him in infancy. Prince and Princess Borghese stood his sponsors at Confirmation, and he made his first Communion on Saturday. The 13th is now fixed for the marriage of the brother of the King of Naples with the Infanta of Spain. A Naples journal has I see built upon the melancholy but simple acci dent, which I told you occurred to the work men lighting up the trophy in the Piazza SS. Apostolic, an event of superstitious signifi cance and political importance. Instead of a ladder, it represents that it was the column of the Pope's statue itself which gave way, and that it fell amid the thundering applause of the assembled crowd ; while the workmen to whose carelessness the contretemps might be ascribed, were hurried off to prison. This is how contemporary history is written ! Two Sicilians, forced by the conscription into the ranks of the Italian army, having de serted from its ranks, applied last week to be admitted into the Zouaves. They were dressed as civilians, but still wore their military shoes, and carried thele bribingirbayon which etsw has them.th been going icy had heard te inducet tthat h Papal at so e l y di w er e s u t l o d d b e e s desert, nevern r d eeeived in on to doubd bu return by the Papalini. They were some what surprised when they found themselves placed under arrest and sent up to the capital to have their case inquired into, after the manner of civilized nations. ROME, May 9. The Holy Father went on Sunday (the In vention,of the Cross) to the Basilica of Sta. Croce, according to custom, to prepare the Agnus Dei wax. This is done within the convent enclosure. The extent of the venera tion of Catholics for the use of the Agnus Dei may be gathered from the fact that some 25,000 pounds of wax are employed in its composi tion. He afterwards exposed the great relics from the Loggia, and gave the Benediction with them. On Thursday, being the Feast of S. Pius V., he went to Sta. Maria Maggiore, to vene rate the body of that Pontiff, which is preserved in one of the chapels, and is vested in a lace rochet, given by Napoleon I. to Pius VII., on the occasion of his coronation. In the afternoon of the same day there was a grand assemblage of Zouaves and Gendarmi in the Vatican gardens, to receive at the hands of the Holy Father the colours destined for the former by the ladies of America, and for the latter by the ladies of Spain—the Queen being at the head of the list. They were first presented to the Pope by General Kanzler. That of the American ladies is white and yellow, embroidered in gold raised-work, with the Pontifical arms, and bearing the inscrip tion Americae Matronarum obsequium an. MDCCCLXVII. The staff is surmounted by a statuette of S. Michael. That from Spain is of red velvet, with the tiara in gold embroidery on one side, and the Madonna of Monserrato on the other. The staff bears a bust of Pius IX. The little ceremony was very impressive. Representative corps of the various regiments were drawn up to witness the fete of their brethren in arms, and a crowd of some three or four thousand spectators closed round them in the form of a living amphitheatre. The Pope pronounced a prayer, calling on the Lord of Hosts mighty in battle to bless the banners, that they might be terrible to the enemies of the Christian people, and a certain earnest of victory. Then he handed them to the respec tive standard-bearers, invoking on them the grace to bear then , aloft through the midst of the adversary in the name and to the glory of God, concluding with Pax tibi. Be fore the assembly broke up he addressed the troops before him in his novel, simple, and paternal manner. He alluded to the triumph at Lepanto of the troops blessed by the saint that day celebrated by the Church, S. Pius V. Just as that Pontiff had been called to struggle with and overcome the special adversaries of the Church in his century, so it was the work assigned to the Pope of to-day to struggle with, and, he added, after a pause and with peculiar feeling as if waiting for an interior inspiration to ratify the word overcome, the special adver saries of the church in this century, who rage no less furiously than those of the sixteenth. " These two standards," he continued, " sent us, the one from the kingdom which in old times received the title of ' Most Catholic,' and the other from a young and thriving commu nity of the new world, are an earnest of the respect and sympathy your prowess has drawn on you from all parts of Christendom. Seconded by your arms, I continue without hesitation to uphold the sacred rights deposited to my keep ing ; though your numbers be small, I know that your faith and your courage is invincible. I know that I can rely on you to the last drop of your blood, to support me to the uttermost in resisting the yoke of the adversary. Strong in the might of our God, you will break in sunder the bonds he would fling around us, and cast away his cords from us, and thus con tinue to call down on you the praise of your THE SUN, LONDO . i, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 1868. brethren, in the faith of the blessing of our Lord, which is the earnest of life eternal." There was another sentence, for which I will not venture to trust my memory, as some im portance has been attached to it, and the im pression many have received, is that it pre dicated a proximate call to arms, and a certain and decisive victory. The frenzy of enthusiasm which his few but burning words excited was with difficulty , repressed, while at the loud stern word of mili tary command fulfilling the scarcely necessary , formula, the men bent the knee for the Bene diction, and that over, it broke out in a long and thrilling vibration, not easy to be forgot ten. It is said the Holy Father is much affected by the death of Count Crivelli, for whom he entertained a sincere regard. It was most un expected ; he had gone to take a ride on horseback outside the walls. Later in the after noon the Countess, who was to have driven him home in the carriage from the Porta del Popolo, met his horse careering towards home with the saddle empty. She drove on of course in all haste, and found the Count lying by the road side. Imagining he had been thrown, she immediately had him placed in the carriage; but it is thought that feeling ill, he had alighted and died subsequentlyfrom an apoplectic stroke. The body which will be sent to Milan, to which town his family belongs, has been lying in state in the Palazzo di Venezia since Wednesday. It was carried thence to the German Church of the Anima, making a great detour last night at 8.30 by one of the most stately processions I ever remember to have seen in Rome. First came a detachment of dragoons, then muffled drums, then a company of the line, next twenty or thirty footmen in coloured liveries bearing torches, then a score of dignitaries, among whom I recognised Mgr. Nardi, and an Aus trian, Auditore di Rota, on foot, and then the body in a handsome carriage, open behind, with the parish priest and an acolyte bearing a light sitting on each side of the coffin, which rested on a cushion, and was covered by a pall of black velvet embroidered with gold, the scarlet uniform of the deceased and his de corations lying on it. Following this, and each preceded by a couple of dragoons, came above sixty carriages, two footmen bearing huge flaming torches walking by the side of each. At the solemn obsequies this morning, Mgr. Vice- geren t e C aste ll an i sang M ass an d gave the absolution. After the Mass flags were placed on either side of the catafalque, bearing the arms of the defunct—an eagle in chief; and a sieve (crivello) below. The church was very full, and a distinct palco was assigned to the corps diplomatique, as well as to the Papal and F renc h o ffi cers. Mgr. Sto nor re t urne d last night from his mission to Madrid. Lord Northesk has just presented the Eng lish College with a portrait of Cardinal B eetoun, completin g th e ser i es co ll ec t e d here o f por traits of E ng li s h car di na l s f rom the Reforma tion to th e p resen t ti me, c hiefly contributed, I believ e , by Mgr. Stonor. THE ENGLISH CONS7I7 UTION. The deb a t e on th e disestablishment of the Irish Church has been prolific in the birth of many monstrous oddities ; but, perhaps, the greatest curiosity of Parliamentary literature is the theory engendered in the fertile brain of Mr. Disraeli, viz., that " the Royal Supre macy is the corner stone of the Constitution, the only security for religious liberty, and one of the main guarantees for our civil rights." We had always thought that our Constitu tion was of more ancient date than the Royal Supremacy, whi c h wa s only introduced into English law under Henry VIII., and that its corner -ston e was l a id b y th e B aron s, headed by Langton, A rc hbi shop of C an t er b ur y, w h en they wru ng the Magna Charta from the fears of King John. The Royal Supremacy cannot rightly be called even a part of the Constitu tion ; it is a la w on l y par ti a l i n it s o p era tion ; it affects vitally the constitution of the Church of England and of Ireland, of which it may truly be called the corner-stone, but not the constitution of the realm. The Established Church of Scotland repudiates the Royal Supremacy; it is rejected by the Catholics of Ireland and of Great Britain, and by the Dis senters of England ; but neither Scotland nor , the Catholics of the empire nor the Dissenters are living beyond the pale of the Constitution. Ifthe itoyal of Supremacythe were, indeed, the corner-stone Constitution, we should witness the singular spectacle of the Consti tution surviving after its corner-stone had been rejected by the majority of those who live un der the Constitution. Parliament and the Crown, moreover, cannot give their sanction to the violation of the Constitution ; and yet the law in the case of the Established Church in Scotland co-operates in setting aside the Royal Supremacy, and.provides for its rejec tion in the case of Dissenters and Catholics by the Tests and Corporation Acts, and by the Act of Catholic Emancipation. But Mr. Disraeli, not content witli this first fallacy, which we are surprised, amidst all the adverse criticisms on his famous sp e ech, has hitherto escaped notice, perpetrates another still more preposterous. What can we think of a leader among men, who passes for a thinker free from the narrowness of insular bigotry, deliberately affirming the Royal Supre macy to be the only security for religious liberty, and one of the main guarantees for our civil rights ? If we may not now appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober, we at least appeal to the records of the past against this strange dictum of Mr. Disraeli's. What has religious liberty not suffered in England and Ireland from the effects of the Royal Supremacy ? We thought it was our business in the present day to throw a veil over the iniquitous penal laws, which in the name of the Royal Supremacy waged so cruel a war in England and in Ire land against religious liberty. Why, then, by extolling that sanguinary gift of Henry VIII, that fetal assumption by the Crown of reli gious supremacy, awaken painful memories which it is the interest of every Englishman to bury in oblivion ? And as for the Royal Supremacy being a guarantee of our civil rights, why, are we not even now struggling for the remnant of our civil rights, too long withheld ? The Catholic Emancipation is too recent and too incomplete fOr Catholics to listen in patience to Hr. Disraeli's ill-judged lauda tion of that pow er — a li e n to the . spirit as to the letter of o ur C ons tit u ti on —which far from guaranteeing our civil rights, is even now ob stinately put f orwar d as a rea son for still in flicting an unjust Establishment on the people of Ireland. Instead of being allowed to die a natural death with the religious system which it created, or at least of being kept, if no longer as a rod of iron, yet as a sceptre of gold to rule that religious denomination which alone in the realm has accepted its authority, it is now again thrust forward as a party watchword. Long synonymous with Tudor tyranny, the Royal Supremacy must not again become the symbol of religious strife. Neither the Crown nor the Constit u ti on oug ht to be involved in party fights, or to become party cries on the hustings. So much at least is clear, that our Constitution exist e d-f or m any centuries before the Royal Supremacy was known to our laws, and we believe, i n sp it e o f Mr. Disraeli's pre diction, that it will long survive the fall of the Royal Supremacy and the Tudor religion. —Westminster Gazette. The commanding generals of the Southern sea board have been ordered to tac every precaution against the importation of yellow fever and cholera. AumensEatExT.]—Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Sound Lungs.—Unless the blood be purified from the foul matters which enter it in its passage through the chest the strongest lungs will often be inconvenienced, and the de licate chest will assume positive disease. Holloway's re medies exert the most wholesome power in cleansing the air tubes, dislodging accumulated mucus, and clearing the blood. When there is any congestion of the chest, stitch, or heavy pe c t ora l pain, soaao of this ointment well rubbed over the seat of suffering will speedily remove the evil, and certainly prevent worse consequences. In c.mamon colds, Shortness of breath, wheezing, and chronic or spas modic cauglis, Holloway's ointment and pills will give present comfort and avezt future danger. 711 E STATE TRIAL. (From the Anglo-American 2 imes.) " The Senate Court agreed to-day to postpone the final vote upon the Impeachment of President JOHNSON until Saturday. The Court then ad journed till that day." Such was the telegram from Washington on the 12th inst. If the Senate succeeds to-day in agreeing upon a Verdict, we pre sume it will be known this evening. But it may be de ferred till next week, and the debate recommence on Monday with as much eagerness and volubility as if what was then sail was new to the hearers and the conception of the speaker's mind. The trial of WARREN HASTINGS was spun out through many years, and though that of ANDREW JOHNSON only occupied as many weeks, yet far more has bean said and written on the trial of the PRESIDENT than on that of the Indian Viceroy. These are days of steam, and nothing less than steam men, with a good supply of fuel and vapour, will be able to get through the spouting now in vogue at Wash ington. We are atnazed to see how THAD. SrEvENs survives, but he fell on the fluor of the chamber a short time since, and when delivering his speech on the 27th April, after a few minutes he was com pelled to sit, and in a few more his voice grew so faint that Gewral BUTLER had to finish the read ing. Mr. WILLIAMS, who followed the prosecution, did little to strengthen the Managers' case. His address is described as " being filled with rhetori cal abominations and nuisances." The speech that most surprised was that of Mr. GROESBECK, who, being little known to the E tst, though famous in the West, carried away the assembly by his unexpected eloquence. He is a brother-in law of General JOSEPH HOOKER, a war Democrat, and hails from Cincinnati, though a New Yorker by birth. His professional success has elevated him above the necessity to practise. Notwithstanding a bad cold, the effect he produced was striking, and at once established his fame. Mr. EVART'S speech of four days, although a brilliant forensic effort, has not done much to increase the renown of the orator. All knew his power of sarcasm, and his ability to produce fine rhetorical flourishes, and that he succeeded caused no surprise. But he failed in argumentative force and in skilful legal dissec tion. He acknowledges that he made no effort in this direction, as he could but again outline the sub jects already minutely sketched by his colleagues. Indeed, the preceding Managers and counsel left but little that was new for any one to say, and the Press had even forestalled the lawyers. The satire of EVARTS produced an effect for which he had not long to wait. General BUTLER, against whom it was mainly directed, denounced him in the House " as au apostate who bad stolen the livery of Heaven in which to serve the devil," as he—Mr. EVARTS, not the devil—belonged to the Republican party. The late Attorney-General, Mr. STANBERY, who had resigned his post to defend his friend AN DREW JOHNSON, spoke for a short time. He looked very ill, and appeared prostrated by the attack, realing only for about 20 minutes. He said that he had made this effort to protest against a giant wrong, and he assured the Senate the strong arm of the people would right Mr. JOHNSON if he were wronged by them, lifting up the victim and punishing the oppressor. There appears to be more doubt at Washington about Mr. JOHNSON'S con viction than anywhere else in the Union. That city is the focus of all political intrigue, and all the undercurrents invisible to the citizens elsewhere are discernible there. Mon run about with the latest on dits —" F ESSENDEN declares he will not perjure himself to please his party, ,, " STEVENS is in despair," " ANDREW JOHNSON is jubilant." What the power Chief Justice CHASE can exercise, and how he will use it, are fertile subjects of conjecture; but the great disturbing cause is jealousy of BEN WADE. That gentleman looks with a more earnest hope to being elected Vice-President than to serve for eight to ten months as acting PRESIDENT. It is notorious that if he succeeds ANDREW JOHNSON he will use the patronage to insure the object ha has in view. Many of the Senators are rival candidates, and they cannot be eager to advance the object which would tend so much towards their own defeat. The jealousy is excessive, and gives rise among the ex treme opponents of ANDREW JOHNSON to complica tions in the highest degree favourable to the PRESI DENT. Were the case less urgent there is reason to be lieve that an open split would be the result; but it is held by the party that the acquittal of ANDREW JOHNSON would be viewed as a vindication of his policy, and the danger is so great., that as usual with the Republicans it will knit them together to meet the emergency. Ahhough such questions have no right to enter into the Senate's decision as a Court of Justice, they must necessarily arise out of the situation which makes the Senate, as Mr. EVARTS said, the Judges of the PRESIDENT upon issues between themselves and him. This may be abhorrent to justice, but it is abso lutely unavoidable ; and under these extremely difficult circumstances it is everywhere admitted that the Senate have acted with great dignity and impartiality. Indeed, it is not improbable that some Senators may be carried beyond impartiality, and favour Mr. JOHNSON, from the kno sledge that in their hearts they desire his removal. The say ing that an acquittal would ruin the Republican par ty is now exploded. Instead of ruin, it might u ltimately be beneficial, taking from the shoulders of the party the responsibility of failure in Recon struction, the whole weight of which would fall on the Radicals if Mr. JOHNSON were removed. It would convey to the public mind the idea of equity and impartiality, and enable the party' to cast at least a part of the odium of the corruption which pre vails in the collection of the revenue on the PRE SIDENT. The danger, too, would cease of sending ANDREW JOHNSON a martyr abroad to stump the country as an interesting individual, who risked all —endured all—and lost all in the interests of his fellow-citizens, and in defence of the Constitution. While discussing the subjects that most occupy the minds of men at Washington, our opinion remains unchanged, that ANDREW JOHNSON will be con victed on some of the counts, and deposed, but we doubt whether the sentence:will extend to rendering him thenceforth unqualified for office. NEW YORK MARKETS. MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From Me Springfield Republican.) NEW YORK, Friday Evening, May 1. . _ At Boston, during the week, the money market has been without change. This feature is noticed, which is spoken of elsewhere, that some banks report currency plenty and others scarce. The difficulty probably originates in o.e fact that a great discrimination is being exercised both as to borrowers and as to collaterals. A t Chicago the supply of loanable funds is increasing. Short loans can be had on Government Securities at 8 per cent. At Cincinnati there is a tendency towards an easier money market, while some of the banks still report currency low, and a demand for loans beyond their ability to accommodate. Rates of interest are 8 to 10 per cent. to regular cus tomers, most of the business being done at 10. At New York the market has been growing easier all the week i until a condition of moderato comfort has been reached. While money is not plenty, yet, it is iu fair supply, and can bo had on something like reasonable terms. The business done is mostly on call at 6 per cent. The demand for discount is limited. Seven per cent, is charged for prime paper at the banks, and from that to 8 per cent, on the street. A little poorer sort has to pay 9 per cent., but nothing is done at any higher figures. The extensive Treasury disbursements of the present month will tend to give the community the relief which it needs. $21,000,000 of gold are to be paid out in New York this week for the 5-20 coupons. A considerable export however, anticipated during the first weeks of May, and the tendency of exchange is lower. It has been up at exporting point long enough, and the flow of gold cannot fail to follow. Advices from Europe in licate still greater accumulations of treasure at the bank of Prance, while the abrupt termination of the Abyssinian war has already given greater ease iu the London money market. Ex change is barely supported, and best names are held at 110 with sales at 1091. The rates as quoted are, London, 60 days, 1091 to 110; ditto at sight, 1101 to 110: ; Paris, long, 5 134 to 5 121 ; .short, 5 11f to 5 1U ; Antwerp, 5 15 to 5 134 ; Swiss, 5 15 to 5 131 ; Hamburg, 361 to 364 ; Am sterdam, 401 to ilk; Frankfort, 41 to 41i ; Bremen, 79i to 80 ; Berlin, 71:. to 72. The New York Stock Market for the last week has suf fered from none of those wholesale catastrophes which have been almast a matter of course the past month, but considerable changes have taken place in the positions of the most important stocks. Pacific mail sold . down to 894 on Wednesday, on a report that ono of its steamers had been lost at sea, rising, however, later in the day to 91. Rock Island w - mt down to 931 on Monday, and the Sun declared that the existing complications are such that no dividends can be declared for two years. without a com promise between the hostile parties, and that their attitude is such that little hope is entertained of a satisfactory ar rangement. Advices later in the week indicate a better feeling and greatly increased probability of a friendly ad justment. The New York roads have fluctuated greatly, Central being at 124 Friday, 125 s;aturday, 130: Monday, 127! Tuesday, 126} Wednesday; Erie 701 Friday, 711 Sa turday, rising to 73 on Monday on a report that Drew had taken a large ariount from Vanderbilt at 75, on their little account, going back to 70 , 3- Tuesday ; Hudson 136 Friday, 133 Saturday, 126 Tuesday, 1371 Wednesday; but thou nobody evor pretends to explain a rise or fall iu Hud son, Boston, Hartford, and Erie not b3ing anything in itself, sympathized with something and went up to 15 at Boston ou Wednesday; only the New Yorkers couldn't see it. It is given out that a largo force of men are actually being employed on this line, and that in some sections progress is perceptible. This unwonted " smart ing-up" is probably due to th fidelity of the State Com missioners. The report during the week that Eldridge and his associates had movod to B 'stou excited consider able curiosity; but the interest did not take a speculative turn. The immigrations and transmigrations of the Erie directors have ceased to affect the public greatly, or the value of the stock at all. " Wachuset" writes to the Boston Advertiser as follows regarding the supposed settle ment of the Erie controversy :—" The facts in relation to the 'Drew and Vanderbilt war' have not yot aleitranspired, and what the newspapers, Albany correspondents, and others, have said and written, is almost pure fiction. There has been a controversy, fierce and deadly, fought with a bitterness rarely surpassed in legislation or litigation. The bill which passed the Legislature was contested step by step till Vanderbilt was defeated. It was not opposed in the Assembly, because the Erie party would have then de feated the city tax levy, and so have left the Now York city ring without money for a corruption fund during the ensuing political campaign. Accordingly, the bill was rushed through, and the Vanderbilt men beleaguered the Executive Chamber to get the Governor to veto it. They were mortified beyond measure that he did not." And the New York Sun says : —" There has never been such a mud dle in Wall-street. The Vanderbilt party represent nearly three-fourths of the Erie stock, having made their pur chases at prices varying from $7O to $BO per share, in vesting nearly twenty millVms of dollars: yet they are not represented as stockholders, and a largo portion of the certificates aro in the names of parties hostile to their interest, and the transfer books will not be opened in time for use at the annual election. The same is true of Rock Island. The majority of stock held by parties hostile to the present management has been declared by the courts an illegal isstp, and of course this stock cannot be made available to the holders in the elections." The import entries for the past week amount to $5,556,564, against $8,510,820 same week last year. The export clearances •of domestic produce amount to $4,111,405, against $4,473,811. The export of spec i e amounts to $1,867,231, against $710,397. The gold values of import entries (exclusive of foreign specie) of foreign merchandise at New York since July, 1867, have been $195,660,021, a decrease of $29,735,521 from same period of the year before. The export of specie since July 1, 1867, has been $17,915,476, an increase of $17,742,441 over the same term the preceding year. The Indianapolis, Cincinnati, and Lafayette railway has concluded a negotia tion, by which the north end of the Louisville, New Albany, and Chicago Railway, that part of the road be tween Lafayette and Michigan City—passes into its hands. This will give the Baltimore and Ohio Railway a connection with Chicago via Marietta, Cincinnati, and Lafayette. The trade of the week improved in the line of dry goods, both domestic and foreign, but buyers aro still backward, and goods are going off very slowly in the hands of the country merchants. From week to week we have had excuses given for trade not opening as expected, but it might just as well be confessed now as later that this was not likely to be a very good shopping year. There is a blind feeling everywhere that prices ought to come down to meet the reduced incomes of the people, and this is exerting a very strong influence on the market. Of course, in addition, there is the singular backwardness of the season, which would have put the community out of conceit with buying had it been the most prosperous of years. We may expect a considerable movement of goods the coming week, of which indication is given in the re ports of the week just past, but it will take a more lively demand than we aro likely to have to make good the defi ciencies of the past mouth. Altogether, the retrospect of the spring trade is not likely to be very agreeable. Sales must continue slow unless the market breaks. Some styles of goods, however, are already doing very well. Denims, tickings, cottonades, grey printing cloths, the better ginghams, are reported active, but invariably accom panied with the expianation of " light stocks." Muslin delalnes aro low and weak, and, though perhaps the cheapest goods in the market, their place is being largely supplied by other fabrics. British dress goods are popular, and the importations are large. Carpets are in very strong demand, and rule high. This is about the only article which is in unusual request. Merrimac prints were re duced for a single day in New York, bat the advance in cotton brought them back to their old pine , . Cotton has varied during the weak, standing at 321 c on Friday, 331 c on Monday, 33c on Tuesday, and back again to 321,; o n Wednesday. Reports from the South confirm the impres sion that the rise, occurring just NV:tell it did, has given a decided stimulus to planting, though dreary accounts come from some of the States about high water and a late spring. An association, styled the Cotton Manufacturers' Associa tion, was organised in Now York, on Wednesday, and Mr. A. A. Lawrence, of Boston, was chosen president. It purpose is announced to be to secure harmony be tween cotton growers and manufacturers, and to pro mote generally the interests of this branch of industry. Fortunately the cotton growers and cotton manufacturers do not find so many obstacles to a friendly understanding as their brethren in wool. The conflict of interests in the latter industry seems to be hopeless and irreconcileable, unless with a degree of protection which it will be found difficult to secure at Washington or to sustain before the country. In breadstuffs and provisions the condition of trade is far more satisfactory. Pork has outdone itself, now mess having risen S 2 to $2.25 during the week. Beef is quite, active, and firm, particularly in the lower grades. The flour market is active and buoyant, especi ally for western and state. The demand for shipment both to Europe and the West Indies has improved. Wheat has risen under a good export demand, and prices tend upward still. Speaking generally, the whole line of things to eat is advancing, and is likely to advance. In fact, with the single exception of butter, every al tide on the list is higher than a week ago, or else firmer at the highest quotations of that date. (Frond the Wall-street Journal.) Gold has shown very little variation to-day, having opened at 139 a, thence rising to 139 a, and closing at 1391. American Silver is in moderate demand at 6 to 7 cents below the price of gold. Mexican dollars are worth 103 to 1031 in gold. Foreign Exchange is quiet, thero being littlo demand from importers. The New York Stock Exchange, by a vote of 111 to 6, rescinded, on April 25th, the clause in their constitution which prohibits members from visiting other boards. The Open Board of Brokers at. once invited them, and a large number accepted the invitation, and have been daily pre sent. Railroad Stocks are generally firm, especially New York Central, Erie, and Rock Island, but Fort Wayne and Illi nois Central aro selling at lower prices. In Miscellaneous Stocks the business is principally in Pacific Mail and Canton. Exrress Stocks are lower, and we quote : Adams American United States Wells, Fargo, and Co. Merchants' Union, 33 per cent 3l- to 31f Mining Stocks show very little animation, the transac tions being principally in Consolidated Gregory and Smith and Parmelee, the former of which has advanced to $2 95c. and the latter is firm at $2 20c. Petroleum Stocks are in fair demand, and a large busi hess has been done in United States up to $1 75c., at Which price but little stock is offered. Mrs. Isabel Thorne, of 18, Charles-street, Gros venor-square, presented herself in the recent arts exami nation at Apothecaries'-hall, in company with sixty-six gentlemen. Out of the sixty-seven candidates forty seven passed. Mrs. Thorne came out among the first six, and her papers were so good that the usual viva rove exa mination was dispensed with. Last May Mrs. Thorne finished the curriculum at the Ladies' Medical College in Fitzroy-square by carrying off double first honours iu the medical and obstetrical classes. Sho has since been prac tising as an aecoucheuse. LADVERTISEm ENT.]--.-Avoid Medicines: t 1,13, always aggravate chronic complidnts: but Du Barry's delicious health-resturin,, ,, Revalenta Amides. Food, which yields i three times the nourish ment of the best meat, saves 50 times its cost in other r eme di es, and invariably restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, ant' energy to the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 68.000 cures ;—" The Pope's health restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68.413.—"R0me, July 21, 1866. —The health o: the Holy Father is excellent, especially since abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entire]; to Du Barry's .Revalenta Arabic:, Fot:d, of which he consumes a plateful at es ery meal. It hr.s proauced a surprisingly bene ficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excel lent food too highly." From the "Gazette du Midi, July 25 Cure No. 58,216, of the 70 archioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerab,e nervous agitation.." Cure No. 1,771; Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agar. , from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flattilency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. — Maria Joly."—Cure No. 46,270: Mr. lames Roterts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lunge, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness. Important Caution.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is Most audaciously attached. lu tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. ; 5 lbs. lls. ' • 121b5., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY DU BARRY and Co., N o . 77 Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly : and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150 ; and 298, Oxford-street 330, Strand ; and all grocers and chemists. - MISCELLANEOUS NETV,S. .4.-- -- (From the Anglo-American Times) On the 3d instant, the equipage of Colonel Law rence, Consul-General of the United States for the kingdom of Italy, was conspicuous in the beauty and elegance of its appointments in the Corso di Gala, which took place that afternoon in Florence, although surrounded with those of prioce.3. We are glad to learn that the United States in this as in other respects are so well repre sented by the Envoy to Italy. Those who have the money should act liberally, and give their coun try the benefit of a tasteful a❑ 1 well-directed ex penditure, It is a farce, which only amuses people, for Americans to profess a Republican simplicity, when they are well known in Europe for extrava gant expenditure, It is not the expenditure to which their countrymen object in those who can afford it, but a vulgar display and boast of wealth. The Pall-Mall Gazette has a right to express its own opinions, and make its own coujeztures about public men, but not to attribute to them intentions they dhtinctly disavow. Like all rules, this is of course subject to exceptions; such, for iostance, as when a man states his motive to be one thing, while his acts clearly contradict what he says. Mr, Wade has economical sins enough to answer for, but he has expressly disavowed any desire to defraud the creditors of the United States. Once he talked when in the wilds of Kansas of an equal re-distri bution of property ; but as usual when the imagina.. tions of public men in the States carry them away, the reporter was declared to have misunderstood what he said. Mr. Wade is a strong Protectionist, his opinions on finance are supposed to be none of the clearest ; but he does not hold with Thad. Stevens, that it is honest or wise to break faith with the men who, in the day of the trial, put faith in Uncle Sam's honesty, and in his ability to fulfil the stipulation on which they then lent him their money. On Wednesday afternoon his Excellency Charles Francis Adams had an audience of her Majesty to take leave on his retirement from Great Britain. On the following day Mr. Adams left the Bruns wick House Hotel, Hanover-square, for Paris. For many years past that hotel has been the point of arrival and departure of the successive American Ministers, and Mr. Adams is too closely associated with the past customs of his countrymen to break through any time-honoured habit. We know nothing of the intentions of this distinguished American, but we believe that his presence in. the United States will now be even more beneficial to the growing intimacy of international relations than his resi dence in London. We look to see him take a pro minent place in the administration of affairs at Washington, and we will be disappointed if ser vices so valuable at such a juncture should not he at the disposal of his country. The Secretary of Legation, Mr. Benjamin Moran, has assumed charge of the Embassy, and we are glad to know that these important affairs are in such trustworthy hands. Mr. L. Dickenson has a portrait of Mr. George Peabody, now in Exhibition at the Royal Academy. The painting is a very beautiful likeness, and has been Pe" sentod by the philanthropist to Sir James Emerson Ten nant. The Princess Louise has by permission of the Queen sent to the Exhibition a bust of her brother, Prince Arthur, which the President of the Academy, Sir Francis Grant, has pronounced to be "a work of infinite talent, an admirable likeness, and a production full of refinement and taste." This opinion of its merits Sir Francis " knows to be shared in by all the members of the Royal Aca demy." Horace Greeley is said to bo in favour of ap pointing Senator Nye Secretary of the Treasury, because " Jim Nyo can borrow money and pay back less than any other man in the United States." Stephen S. Foster spoke eloquently in defence of woman suffrage on Tuesday evening, April 21, at Wor cester, Massachusetts, and held a brief conversational dis cussion at the close of his address. Henry Chapin, in his remarks on taking the chair, said that among his acquaint ances he found many intelligent and uneducated women who dreaded the responsibility of the b tllot, and this caused him to waver in his faith in the practical applica ticn of this new movement. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appAntment of Mr. Elector uis Langeviu, one of the delegates for the province of Quebec to attend tie conference in this country on the subject of the con federation of the British North American Provinces, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third. Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. A woman named Juana Preston had just died at Santiago, aged 130. The American prisoner William C. Nugent has been released from Mountjoy prison, and his Pas sage-money, like that of Nagle and Leonard, has been paid by the United States Government. The passages taken for these prisoners, Nagle's included, are third-class. Count Stackelberg's appointment as Russian Ambassador at Paris was confirmed by the Emperor last Saturday. Mr. Reed, the superintendent of the Hartford and New Haven Railroad, Mr. Pond, son of its late presi dent, and Mr. Henry C. White, of Hartford, are to sail for Europe in the French steamer Ville de Paris to-day from America, and,Ourn in August. The second trial of John H. Surratt was to Com monce on Tuesday, May 12. General Rousseau reached Washington, from California, too late to bear testimony in the President's favour. He had been offered the command of the Depart ment of Washiugton, vice General Emory, to be transfer red elsewhere. Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa, wife of the Irish patriots now undergoing his sentence of fifteen years' penal ser vitude, is about to make her appearance at the Cooper Institute, Now York, as a reader of Irish poetry. She is described as young and beautiful, with a rich and musi cal voice, highly cultivated, and with good delivery. sb o is also said to be a poetess of no mean pretensions. Mr. Haverty, of Barclay-street, New York, has just published a volume of her poems. Mr. George Jones, of the New York: 7 lines, has returned from Europe. The Springfield Republican, May 2, says :—The Delotwaro Republicans had their State Convention last week, nominate .1 Joshua T. Heald, Lewis Thompson, R. B. Smithers, Thomas B. Coursey, C. S. Layton, and Isaac J. Jenkins as delegates to the Chicago Convention, and adopted resolutions favouring the nomination of Gen. Grant, and indorsing itnpeachment.--Seuator Yates of Illinois pleads guilty to the charge of drunkenness, says he will do better in the future, but that he won't resign. R. Parsons, lately Supreme Court marshal, is notninatA for Congress in the 18th Ohio district, in place of Judge Spaulding, who declines re-election. The Democrats of California met la convention on Wednesday, and indicated that their ehoica for President was Governor Haight. The trial of Jeff. Davis is appointed to begin to-day (Saturday) at Rich mond, Va." Professor Agassiz, of Cambridge, Massachusetts , has now put in his annual appearance, in the shape of 3 report concerning his museum of comparative zoology' , and a complaint that he is restricted in his plans for want of money. He asks to have his yearly $lO,OOO doubled. On the forenoon of the 30th April the Legislature paid 0 , visit to his museum, and ho took the opportunity of fa pounding the beauties of science and the necessity of smoothing the road by an appropriation towards the pro secution of his labours. Mr. Anthony Trollope is the guest of the British Minister at Washington, and Las already begun his busl ness with the Post-office department. Births. HAnms—On the 15th inst., at Great Central House, 80/v- common, the wifo of R. Harris, Esq., of a daughter. SHARP —On wife of F. Inman Sharp, Esq., of a daughter. WATTS—On the 15th inst., at 47, Green-street, Grosvenor" square, the wife of Major E. R. Watts, of a daughter. Marriages. KEN WARD TUBLE— On the 11th fast., at St. Mary 3 ,145 4 .7 dalene's, Taunton, T. Ken ward, eldest son Of Re bel ' lieuward, Esq., of New Place, Icklesham, S us sex, to Ellen, youngest daughter of J. Tuble, Esq., of 'Taunton. LEE —COCKRELL—Ou the 14th inst., at Matthias', mond, S.W., Frederick, youngest son of Jas. Lee, of Clapham-common, to Margaret Louisa, young daughter of the late John Cockrell, Esq. Deaths. COLEMAN—On the 14th inst., at Camberwell, Thos. 0 " 1 1 - man, of 7, Idol-lane, City, and 2, Stanton Villas, Lilfor,- road, Camberwell, aged 55. Gonnox—On the 14th inst., at Sandown, Isle of Wight' Alexander Gordon, Esq., C.E., aged 56. Wales, ITELLYER - - On the 14th inst.., at Bettws-y-Coel, N. Win. V. Ilellyer, Esq., barrister-at-law, aged 82. LEVINGE.— On the 15th inst at Levington Par k, West meath, Ireland, C. W. Levinge, Esq., J.P., aged SO. PATEtIiALL—On the 16th inst., at Allensmore Cow t, fordshiro, Milborough, relict of the late Edward 13urn Pateshall, Esq., aged 85. WART— On th 14th inst., at The Ferns, near Cheltenln°' Win. V. Wart, E-,xj., of Birmingham, aged 53. ---------- Loudon : Printed and Published by WILLIAM A.NDILEY''; of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tits SUN Oinco, No Strtnd, in the Precinct of the Ss voy, in the Couity 0 4 Middlesex.—Monday, May 18, 1868.