The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-02 00:00:00

EPPING FOREST.

Mr COX moved a resolution that her Majesty's Govern-
ment should at once take the necessary steps to carry into
effect the recommendation of the Select Committee on Royal
Forests (Essex) in Session 1863,—" To obtain the sanction
of Parliament for the enclosure of the remaining portion of
the forest, to ascertain the rights of the parties interested,
and to make provision for securing an adequate portion of
the forest for purposes of health and recreation, from time
immemorial enjoyed by the inhabitants of the neighbour-
hood and the metropolis."

The SPEAKER. ruled that the motion could not be put.
Mr PEEL replied to the speech of Mr. Cox, justifying
the course taken by the Government with reference to the
recommendations of the select committee, observing that
the Government would have no objection to the adoption
of a resolution similar in effect to the afc.regoing—and he
stated a proposition made by the Treasury to the Metropo-
litan Board of Works for carry;36, out the suggestion of
the Committee.

EARL RUSSELL AND THE CONE ERP;
Lord BURG now resated the qur scE.
had asked in a-
.alien which he
.. earlier part of the ever:dig.
Lord P&IMERSTON—Sir, there is no inconsistency in
the assr.rance of my noble friend and the course which he
took, This statement is not absolutely correct. It is very
easy to substitute one word for another, and so to alter the
meaning. My noble friend did not say he would make no
proposal. What he stated was that if the Danes would agree
to the line of the Schlei he would not himself propose any
other line, or support any other lino if it was proposed by
any other Power—and to that engagement he adhered. But
when at last it was found that the Danes would not consent
to any other line north of the Schlei, aid that the Germans
would not consent to any line south of Apenrade, it then
became necessary either to give up the whole thing in de-
spair, or to make the proposal which, in concert with the
other neutral Powers, my noble friend made—not for
another line, but that an arbiter should be appointed to
whom should be referred the question pending between the
parties. That arbiter might have determined on the line of
the Schlei or the line of Apenrade, or he might have deter-
mined on some other line ; but, unless my noble friend had
been prepared to abdicate his functions, it was impossible
for him to say that he would not propose any other new
line, I may take advantage of this question to explain
another misunderstandin,-; which has arisen. My noble
friend stated in another place the other day that hencefor-
ward no trust could be reposed in the German Powers. That
statement has
and has been interpreted in a way not intended by my noble
hurt the feelings of the persons concerned,
friend. He by no
means intended to Pay that any assertion
and any declaration of the German Powers was not trust-
worthy, inasmuch as it was not given truthfully or with a
sincare intention; but what he meant as the context of his
s'atemeut clearly shows, was that the German Powers have
,
upon more than one occasion been driven from their origi-
nal intention by a pressure which they were unable to re-
sist, and that therefore you could not be sure that any in-
tention, however sincerely and truthfully stated at the time,
was one that the German Powers Would be able to main-
tain against the pressure which might be brought to bear

stand that the line of the Schlei and the Dannewerko, was
the line proposed by Lord Russell and suppor'oci by the
neutral Powers.
Lord PALMERSTON—Yes ;
iAat appears from the
Protocols.

The house thr.o2 went into committee of supply, and
agreed to the Votes in Class 7 of the civil service estimates,

THAMES EMBANKMENT.
In a committee of the whole house on the Thames Em-
bankment and Metropolis Improvement (Loans) Bill,
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
resolutions, authorizing the Commissioners of the Treasury
to guarantee the repayment of any money that may be
borrowed under the Thames Embankment and Metropolis
Improvement Acts, with the interest thereon, and to cause
advances to be made out of the Consolidated Fund of such
sums as may be necessary for the repayment of such prin-
cipal and in serest ; and that the Commissioners for the
Reductioa of the National Debt be authorised to advance
the re'Jney which the Metropolitan Board of Works is
auiltorized to raise. He explained the object and effect of
...Lie resolutions.

I IA discussion followed, in which Lord R. Montagu, Lord
J. Manners, Mr T. Miller, Mr Kinnah d, and Mr Alderman
Salomons took part.
The resolutions were ultimately agreed to.
The Factory Acts Extension Bill, the Enclosure (No 2)
Bill, and the Railways (Ireland) Acts Amendment Bill
were read the third time and passed.
The Cranbourne-street Bill passed the committee.
The report of the committee of supply was brought up
and agreed to.

On, the order for the Becond reading of the Indemnity
Bill,

Mr HADFIELD moved, as an amendment, for a select
committee to consider and report whether a complete and
effectual indemnity can be given by Parliament for all
omissions to the present time; and whether the time has
not arrived to repeal so many of the requirements as are
useless and no longer required for the present times.

Mr PEEL did not believe that the oaths and declarations
to which the bill referred were any security, but the bill
went in the same direction as Mr Hadfield desired to go.
He should have no objection, he said, to the appointment
of a select committee, but not in connexion with this bill.
Ultimately the amendment was withdrawn, and the bill
was read a second time.

The Drainage and Improvement of Lands (Ireland) Bill
passed the committee, with amendments.
TESTS ABOLITION (OXFORD) BILL.

On the order of the day for the third reading of this bill,
Sir W. HEATHCOTE moved as an amendment that the
bill be read a third time that day three months. In doing so
he reminded hon. members that the amendmente which they
expected had not been made, and on that ground he claimed
their support against the third reading of the bill. He
hoped the hon. gentleman who had introduced this bill
would be induced to withdraw it, and to provide a bill next
session in a more modified form.

No hon. member rising to continue the discussion, the
SPEAKER put the question, and the house aivided—

For the amendment .. 140
Against
Majority against —lo
The announcement of the numbers was received with
loud cheers on the Ministerial side of the house.

On the motion that the bill be read a third time,
Lord R. CECIL rose and said the house had come to a
division rather more rapidly than was expected, in conse-
quence of the remarkable policy which was pursued by her
Majesty'. Government. (Opposition cheers.) The house
would remember that her Majesty's Government was in a
condition of some embarrassment, in consequence of the
course which this bill had taken. (Cheers,) When the bill
was passing the second reading, the right hon. gentleman
the Secretary of State for the Home Department—who he
saw had returned to the house—(laughter)—had given the
house to understand that he would, representing the Go-
vernment, propose an amendment on the third reading ; but
now he would not give an opinion, either one way or the
other,but walked out of the house. He thought that an opi-
nion ought to be given on this bill by a responsible Minis-
ter. The noble lord went on to say that what the Govern-
ment appeared to understand by a discriminating resistance
was making a promise when a parry struggle was not in
prospect, and not keeping it when that struggle was immi-
nent. (Conservative cheers).

Sir G. GIi,EY defended the course he had taken by
saying that the opinion he had expressed on the bill was
his own individual opinion, and not that of the Govern-
ment. He had done his best to induce the hon. member
who introduced the bill to agree to amendments which
would place Oxford on the same footing as Cambridge, and
would have made the bill a great improvement cn the ex-
isting law. Not having succeeded, he thought he had only
taken the course which had became him in abstaining from
recording his vote.

Lord J. MANNERS said that if the right hon. gen-
tleman had spoken only in his individual capacity, the
house had not been favoured with the opinion of the Go-
vernment on this most important bill. Such a state of
things was very little creditable to her Majesty's Govern-
ment.

Sir M. FARQUHAR expressed his astonishment at
the course which had been pursued by the hon. member for
Oxford.

Mr NEATE, amid continued cries of " Divide," gave
some explanations which were inaudible in the gallery.
Mr COLLINS, who spoke amid great uproar and loud
cries of "Divide," and for the purpose of gaining time,
opposed the third reading.

The house divided--
For the third reading
Against it

The equality of the numbers on the division caused loud
cheers'and laughter:
The SPEAKER, having declared the numbers, said—
After the course of voting which has occurred this evening,
the house will not be surprised that I should desire to give
the house another opportunity of taking another vote on the
motion that this bill do now pass; and, in order to do that,
I give my vote with the "ayes."
The right hon. gentleman then put the question that the
bill do pass, when there appeared—
Ayes l7l
Noes
_ _ _

Majority
The result was hailed with deafening cheers on the Oppo-
sition benches; and the bill was thrown out,

STREET MUSIC BILL.
The house went into committee again upon the Street
Music) (Metropolis) Bill.

Mr AYRTON moved to add to clause 1 a proviso that
the musician shall be truly informed by the person making
the charge of the circumstances under which he is required
to depart.

This amendment was negatived, upon a division, by 98
to 67.

Sir G. GREY moved a proviso, that the person making
a charge shall accompany the constable who shall take into
custody any person offending to the nearest police station-
house and sign the charge•sheet, which was agreed to.
A new clause, moved by Sir G. GREY, as to the treat-
ment of a charge brought to the police court when it was
shut, was likewise agreed to.
The remaining orders were disposed of, and the house
adjourned at half-past two o'clock.

against them. That was my noble friend's meaning, and I Prosecution under the Foreign Enlistment i
he, like myself, is very sorry that words spoken should Act,
have been interpreted in a different sense, and should have
given pain to parties for whom my noble friend and the
Government are naturally disposed to show the greatest
possible consideration and respect. (Hear, hear.)
Mr NE WDEGATE asked whether he was to under-

Yesterday afternoor
court, John -, at the Bow-street police.
oeyrnour, of 32, Weliclose-square,
..icechapel, was placed at the bar before Mr
Henry, to answer the charge of having unlawfully
attempted to hire one Robert Sadd and others to
serve by sea "in the employment of certain persons
assuming to exercise the powers of Government in
a foreign country."

The prisoner, who appeared to be about 45 years
of ege, was described in the charge-sheet as a
boarding-house keeper, and a native of Cephalonia
in Greece.

He was defended by Mr G. Lewis, sen., of Ely.
place.

Mr Giffard, instructed by Mr Pollard of the Trea-
sury, conducted the prosecution, and stated that the
facts of the case had been taken so carefully and
minutely by Mr Burnaby, the chief clerk, that he
thought it would be sufficient to request that the
depositions of the various witnesses might be for.
mally read over.

Mr Giffard stated that the warrant against the
prisoner had been obtained by direction of the
Crown under the 59th Geo. 111., chap. 69, an act
which was passed for the purpose of preventing the
enlistment of men or the fitting out of vessels in
the service of a foreign country without the licence
of the Crown. It appeared from the evidence which
he was aboat to lay before the Court that there was
a vessel now lying in Calais harbour, called the
Rappahannock, for the purpose of collecting man to
serve under the flag of the Confederate States of
America, and the charge against the prisoner was
that he had been engaged in hiring several persons
to assist in warlike operations against a country
with which we were on peaceful relations. He had,
in fact, bargained with a number of men to go on
board the Rappahannock on certain terms and for
a certain period of service, in express defiance of
the law of this country, with which he must
have been to some extent acquainted. It had been
always held to be a punishable offence to engage
recruits for foreign service, and thus to embroil us
probably with nations with which we were at
peace; but, in order that the matter might be ren-
dered more imperative upon us, the Act of George
111. was passed to make the offence a penal one.
Now, it was quite clear that the prisoner knew he
was performing an illegal act, because his move•
merits were conducted in secrecy, and he had shown
a constant disposition to avoid the observations
especially of the officers of justice in all his trans-
actions with the witnesses. It would be very diffi-
cult, therefore, to resist the conclusion that he had
been duly cautioned and informed of the probable
results if his operations became known. At any
rate, it was desirable that the illegality of the pri-
soner's proceedings should be well understood ;
and, if the facts he had stated were proved in evi•
deuce, he should ask the magistrate to commit the
prisoner for trial.

The depositions of the witnesses were then read,
as follows :

Robert Sadd, examined—l live at 16, Baker's-
row, West Ham, Essex, when lam on shore. I
am a fireman, at present on board the East Anglian
steamer, trading between Liverpool and London.
Oa the 7th of April last I saw a man (the prisoner
at the bar) at his house in Wellclose-square. I
asked him if he wanted a fireman. He said he had
got too many, and asked me to call the next day. I
went again the next morning (April 8), and he was
there. He said he was just going out, and asked
me to call at three o'clock. I returned to him at
three, and then he asked me if I bad got a new
discharge, as be wanted me. I replied "Yes," and
I gave a new one and an old one also. He
told mo that he was going to take them to an
office in the city, but he did not say where. He
said ho would return them to me at five o'clock.
I went back to him at 5, and he gave me the dis-
charges, and said he wanted mo to join a snip at
Calais as fireman. I asked him what my wages
were to be. He replied 4s a day and my victuals
while the ship lay in dock, and when she sailed I
was to have £5 16s a month and £lO bounty, and a
day's liberty after being three days aboard. The
bounty money and wages were to be paid by a check
upon a Liverpool bank, so that I might send it home
to my friends, 1 asked him how I was to get to
Calais. He said, " My man will lend you the money,
and I will pay him again, for I must not be seen in
the job." I was to meet him at his house on Satur-
day morning, the 9t of April. I went there at
half-p,st one o'clock after midnight, and I saw a
frienl of mine, and from what he said to me I re-
used to go to Calais. I saw all the three witnesses
now present—Connell, Smith, and Grace—at the
prisoner's house two or three times. They are all
firemen.

Edward Smith, examined---I am a fireman, and
live at 21, King-street, Rotherhithe. I am on board
a steam vessel when I am in employment. I went
to the prisoner's house on the 7th of April last. The
prisoner is a boarding-house keeper, and he ships
men for vessels going abroad. Re asked me if I
would go to Calais to work on board the Rappahan-
nock for 4s a day and my board and lodging. I
said I would. Connell, Grace, and many others were
there. Ho asked them all for their discharges, and
they were given to him. He selected six from amoag
them, and mine was one of them, He told us to
meet him at his house at a quarter before 6 o'clock,
to go to London-bridge, and take the train for Dover,
and thence proceed by boat to o,lois. The next
morning I accordingly went to his house, and met
the 5 men there, and we all proceeded to London-
bridge station together. The prisoner said he had not
got enough money to pay for us
all down, it being
an express train; but he had enough to pay for four
of us, and he wanted the other two to go by the boat.
We refused to be separated, and then he desired its
to wait till the 9 o'clock train next morning- We
went to the station as again proposed, and Sey-
mour's man met us in a cart and drove us all to the
prisoner's house. 'We saw him, and it was arranged
for us all to go by the Hinever steamer from Lon-
don-bridge at 12 o'clock at night, He produced a
written agreement to go to Calais and work on board
the Rappahannock at 4s, a day, with board and
!:.aging, and all expenses to
be paid. We all signed
the agreement, and at night we sailed for Calais,
arriving there at half-past 1 o'clock the following
afternoon. On getting there we found a steam yes•
sel called the Rappahannock in the harbour, with
the Confederate flag. I - met one of the officers of
that ship, and he asked who had sent me there. I
told him John Seymour (the prisoner). He asked
me what grounds I came upon. I told him I came
to work on board the Pit
--appahannock at 43. per day
and my board, &C. He said he knew nothing about
4s. a day, and he desired me to go on board and see
the first lieutenant. I went on board and saw that
officer, and he asked me similar questions, and I
gave the same answers, but he would not have any-
thing to do with us) more than to sign on board the
ship for three years at £5 16s. a month, and £lO
bounty. I refused to join on these terms, and, after
being there till Monday, my passage was paid back
to London by the first-lieutenant. When I returned
to London I called several times at the prisoner's
house, but was unable to see him till the expiration
of eight or nine days, when I asked for the discharge
I had left with him before going to Calais. He said
he had not got it. I asked him who was to pay for
my lost time. He said I must see him at 12 o'clock
the next day, and in the meantime he would see a
gentleman in the city about it. I asked him why
he had not told me that the Rappahan-
nock was a privateer at 14-'4' He laughed, and
said I was a fool that I did not join her, as I shculd
have had £lO bouuty, The day after I went again,
and he paid me 153, for my loss of time.
James Grace corroborated the evidence of the
two preceding witnesses. The prisoner had also
called him a fool for not joining the Rappahannock,
as he would have had the £lO bounty and prize
money besides.
James Connell, anotha• fireman, gave precisely
similar evidence, and Inspector Clarke, of the
Thames police, deposed to apprehending prisoner.
Mr. Giffard said the case for the prosecution was
no w closed. •
Mr. Lewis presumed that his worship, whatever
mi ght fall from him, had made up his mind to send
th a case before another tribunal, and if so, he should
pt efer to reserve the prisoner's defence.
Mr, Henry—lt is my present intention to send

case for trial, but I shall be happy to hear you,
Mr. Lewis.

Mr. Lewis had no doubt of the intention of the
Court, and for this very reason he would postpone
the prisoner's defence. There was a perfect answer
to this charge, but it had better be submitted to the
final tribunal.

The prisoner seemed anxious to address the Court,
but was checked by his solicitor.
Mr. Lewis presumed that low bail would be ac-
cepted. The prisoner, although in a very humble
condition of life, was very respectable, and well
known in his district.

In answer to the Court, Inspector Clarke said the
prisoner lived by shipping men for foreign vessels
chiefly.

Mr. Henry asked the prisoner if he had any
friends to bail him. He would take two sureties of
£4O each.

Here several of the prisoner's friends stepped
forward, and two sureties of the required amount
were readily found.

The prisoner was then committed for trial.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TIMES.—The gleam of success which brightened
the prospects of the Federals in Virginia has been
already obscured. Fresh intelligence contradicts
the most important of the late reports, and leaves
the Northern army in a position of as little promise
as before. General Grant, aLer trying his strength
against General Lee on the Chickahommy, aban-
doned that attempt as he had abandoned others,
ana, by a sudden movement to his left, which was
so far successful as to be unmoleszed, transported
his whole force to the southern side of Richmond,
where his colleague, General Butler, was already
encamped. After the junction of the two armies the
Federal commander marched upon Petersburg, a
town of considerable importance, lying about 20
miles due south of Richmond on the right bank of
the James River. The capture of this place would
have given him command of the railway running
into Richmond from the south, while the capture of
Lynchburg, which was threatened by another Fe-
deral General at the same time, would have cut off
the communication of the Confederate capital with
the west. Thus, even if no success had been ob-
tained against General Lee, Richmond might have
beau menaced with a species of blockage, and these
operations appeared the more promising to the
people of the North, inasmuch as they recalled the
successful matoauvres of the same commander
against Vicksburg. Grant, after assailing that
town in vain from the west, suddenly skirted its
defences by a flank march, invested it on the
eastern side, and starved the garrison into surrender.
What, then, if he should be repealing this strategy
before Richmond ? True it was, that in any case
the resort to this plan at the eleventh hour con-
victed all his previous strategy of error; but if it
gave him possession of Richmond, his mistakes
would be condoned, his losses forgotten, and his
, victory hailed as en unqualified triumph. Now,
the late despatches not only stated truly that an
important work in the defences of Petersburg had
been stormed by the combined armies of the North,
but reported that the town itself had been taken.
They announced also that Hunter, the Federal
General charged with the operations against
Lynchburg, had received considerable reinforce-
ments, and had advanced within some 30 miles of
his destination. These rumours obtained credence
as well as currency in New Yolk, and they certainly
represented the prospects of the Federals as more
promising than usual. The intelligence, however,
which has since reached us dispels all these views.
Petersburg is not taken; on the contrary, Grant's
assault upon that place has miscarried as fearfully
and as characteristically as if Lee himself had been
still before him. It is quite true that on the 17th
of Juue the Federals succeeded in carrying by
storm a portion of the outer fortifications, and
capturing some prisoners and guns. On the next
day, too, Grunt, with his usual promptitude, attecked
the inner line of defences, but in this attempt he
was repulsed with tremendous slaughter. Twice
during the same day was this desperate assault re-
newed, but all the attacks failed in succession, and
at length even this obstinate commander desisted
from the attempt. His losses in that one day's
battles are adniitted to have been 8,000, but are
believed to have been far heavier. Hencock's corps
alone, we are told, lett 4,200 men on the field.
From that time up to the 23d the Federal General
had made no movement. He reports himself as
" intrenched" about a mile and a half from the
town, and the latest despatch represents him as
medit sting an exact repetition of his previous ma-
ncouvres in this sanguinzry campaign. He first
fights with the utmost determination to force his
way, and then, after sacrificing thonsands of lives
to no purpose, he executes a flank movement,
and plays precisely the same game at an-
iw her point to as little purpose as before. Once
more, accordingly, General f.irant is believed to be
engaged in another flanking operation ; and once
more "Mr Stanton announces that important move-
ments are in progress, which cannot yet be made
public." The operations of Gen. Hunter against
Lynchburg are not quite so clearly reported, bur it
is certain that Gen. Sheridan, who was depatched
to reinforce him, has been compelled to return with
considerable loss, and it is rumoured that Hunter
himself has been repulsed in an attack upon the
town. Feats are even entertained for his ultimate
safety and his line of retreat, so that the prospects
of the campaign in this quarter are not tench
brighter than they are elsewhere. In every direc
lion, in short, the Federals have been hitherto
foiled. We do not attribute to these circumstances
exclusively the prodigious rise in the price of gold,
which had actually at one moment, on the 22d,
jumped to 245. No doubt the intelligence from the
army is discouraging enough to effect the markets,
but t he confusion and panic are probably due in the
main to the interference of the Legislature in com-
mercial transactions, and to the measures by which
it has been vainly sought to bring the course of
such aff,irs into greater conformity with the wishes
of Government. It remains, however, to be seen
what events may yet occur before Richmond. The
campaign is not over, nor is Grant, after all his
losses, reduced to the necessity of inaction or retreat.
An incredible immigration from Europe enables the
Government to feed his army, and his own uncon-
querable tenacity of purpose carries him through
his reverses. It may be anticipated with confidence
that he will try his strength again and again upon
the Confederate defences before he throws up the
game. If there be a weak point in the ramparts of
ltichmond, he will find it out. He feels one place
after another in the Confederate lines exactly like
the beleaguring captain depicted by Virgil—
" None hoe, none illos aditus, omnemque pererrat
Arte locum, et variis assultibus irritus urget,"
It is hard to withhold a certain admiration from
such stubborn and invincible resolution, but though
it is all wonderful, it is not war. War is not made in
this fashion by skilful generals, nor is victory likely
to Tie won by accident or luck if it cannot be won
be purposs Itaid plan. Every successive manoeuvre
of in tnfLl eventful campaign has been made
because a forma; maneauvre failed. It is quite im-
possible to give him credit for any
consequences strategy except
such as' consists in escaping from the
fresh chance. It
of miscalculation, and securing e
his position to the south of Richmond 12 really more
favourable than his former position to the: north,
that is only so much evidence convicting him of m.
judgment in advancing by the northern line at all.
Still, for all this, there he stands, close to Richmond,
with an army not inferior in numbers or bravery
to that of his antagonist, and with so obstinate and
unyielding a will that it may serve him instead
of more perfect generalship. All this while, how.
ever, there stands Lee, too, and there is something
ominous about the recent inactivity of this for.
midable soldier. He did not deign to interrupt the
last "flank march" of the Federals, though such a
movement gave him obvious opportunities, He
had parried every blow of the enemy, but at the
moment he struck none in return. There was un-
easiness in New York about the matter. Nobody
could tell where Lee was, or what he might be
meditating. If he was not within the lines of
Petersburg himself it is clear that he has colleagues
who can deal with Grant es successfully as their
chief; and if he and his army should be thus set
free, what might be the fate of Washington ? These
are the speculations and the questions which cir-
culate in the great cities of the North is the fourth
year of the war and the second month of the grand
Virginian campaign. Events alone can furnish the
solution, but even the Federals themselves are now
beginning to fear that no turn of fortune, however
unexpected, will bring this terrible contest to the
desired cud.

POST.—The arrival of the Emperor Maximilian
in his new country has occurred, by a happy coin-
cidence, at the moment of the apparently final dis-
persion of the disorderly binds that had mucked
the name of republican government. When, there-
fore, the Emperor reached his capital, now just a
month ago, it is fair to presume that he found his
Mexican empire generally acknowledging his
authority. To watch his progress and career in the
arts of peaceful administration will be from this
time an object of curious attention among politicians
of every country. The adventure is, after all, more
a safe than a splendid one; for, between the
general policy on which Maximilian is said to have
resolved, and the means which he has secured
for carrying it into effect, it would seem contrary
to probability to entertain any serious doubt of his
success. We believe he more than once, when in
London, ezprek-sed his intention to govern Mexico

as nearly as possible on the principle which his
father-in-law, King Leopold, has applied to Belgium
—to rule as a constitutional Sovereign; to develop
the best elements of society in the government of the
country ; to restrain within the limits of spiritual
affairs the undue influence of the clergy ; and at the
same time to retain in his own hands the military
and administrative supremacy which ought to be-
long to the Sovereign of a newly-constituted State.
If he should be found to fulfil this programme there
can be no doubt of his enlisting the moral support
of all those classes which really constitute public
opinion in Mexico; and he has at the same time
provided, by means of the Austrian and Belgian
'levies whicit ate following him to Mexico, for the
maintenance, in any event, of his sovereign autho-
rity. As soon as the political organisation of the
empire shall have been completed, and the relations
of the Church to the state shell have been defined
and brought into harmohye we atvrehend it will
become the duty of the new Emperor to db-ect his
attention to the productive capabilities of t;,:e
country. It is well known that Mexico is the richest
country either in the New World or in the tild—in
respect both of vegetable and of mineral produce.
In the best days of the Republic its mineral wealth
was so far developed that two thirds of the silver
current in the world were declared by old Hum-
boldt to be Mexican. But it does not appear that
a similar attention has been at any time bestowed
on the cereal and other crops of the country. It is
calculated by the highly-respectable staticians
who have accompanied, or followed, the French
expedition thht Mexico is capable of growing suffi-
cient sugar, coffee, and cotton for the supply of
the greater part of the world—and that, too,
of an equal quality and at as low a price as
any competing country. They tell us that one bee.
tare of land yields on an average 5,6001 b. of sugar,
which, they remark, is double the average yield
in Cuba. At present there has been no exportation
of sugar from Mexico, though the French and the
Belgians have been largely engaged in the manufac-
ture of sugar from beetroot ; and it is thought that
the profits of cultivation on the State lands, or the
yield of a small export duty, would in itself go a
good way towards defraying the expenses of go-
vernment. It appears also that the table-lands are
scarcely less adapted for cotton than the plantations
of South Carolina ; and these table-lands, being
beyond the reach of malaria, are capable of being
cultivated by whites. We are promised also a con-
siderable export of Mexican tobacco, which is pro-
nounced by connoisseurs not inferior to that of
Flavana, while there is a strong disposition to pro-
mote the cultivation of coffee, flax, and hemp. In
the meantime, we have to enquire what are the
materials with which the Emperor Maximilian and
the immediate supporters of his Government will
have to work. There is no doubt the better classes
throughout Mexico hail the restoration of social
order which they now see around them, and possess,
too, great moral authority over the Indians. They
are ansious.to improve the great opportunity which
presents itself to teem. But the whole population
of Mexico, under the last censns,was only 8,236,000,
and this for a country more than equal in area to
France and the Netherlands. There is therefore a
door very widely opened to emigration from Eu-
rope. The Germans, who are flocking to New York
only to be absorbed in American armies, would find
in Mexico a country restored to peace, with far
greater resources before them than the United
States, if only because Mexico is more fertile and
less populous. The acres contingently promised
by Mr. Lincoln to the survivors of his beaten
armies from the territory of the South might be at
once given to emigrants to Mexico out of " No-
man's land." It would be strange if the French
Emperor's project of establishing " a Latin
monarchy" between the Republics of North and
South America should ever be defeated by the
preponderating Girmanisation of Mexico ; yet
with the present German Sovereign, the resources
of the country, and the emigrating tendencies of
the Germans, such a result is not impossible, nor
perhaps, in course of time, very unlikely. There
is no doubt that Mexico would thrive under a popu-
lation of fifty millions. It is computed that the
unexplored mines of Sonora and Mexican California
might in themselves give occupation to several mil-
lion inhabitants; and the soil, though so fertile as
to require less proportionate cultivation than most
countries of Europe, actually demands at least
double its present inhabitants. We look therefore
to incentives to European colonisation as among the
most important incidents of the new Emperor's
policy when his government is fully settled. The
statistics just published by the French authorities
already evince, however, a remarkable increase of
commerce on the Gulf of Mexico since the re-
establishment of order and security. This growth
dates from the commencement of the present year;
and it may fairly fill all those who have joined in
the great enterprise which France has now accom-
plished with good and well-grounded hopes for the
results of peace and wise administration in a re-
claimed and inexhaustible country.

Law TlMES.—lmpeachment of Ministers has gone
out of fashion. The modern procedure is a vote of
censure, in the shape either of a resolution express-
ing the condemnatory opiriou of the House, or of
an address to the Crown, embodying a censure on
its advisers. Apart, therefore, from the general
Interest which the profession nes in the coming
Parliamentary trial on Monday, on account of the
legal reforms, the la w courts scheme, and other mea-
sures mixed up in fact, though not of necessity, with
the continuance Lord Palmeratott's Government,
lawyers may look with a critical eye at the indict.
merit itself., Is it good or bad ? Her Majesty's
Ministers are to be accused, if not in Westminster-
hall, yet in the great court at one side of it, of
having pursued a course which, "while it has
failed to maintain their avowed policy of upholding
the integrity and independence of Denmark, has
lowered the just influenc,' of this country in the
councils of Europe, and the:eby diminished the
securities for peace." We are ntl`t going to follow
the example of a great journal, in re,iBjeg
a petty
cavil about the impossibity of loweritZr the
just
influence of a country, for that a country wiliLliwaYs
have the influence, be it more or less, to whicL it,
is justly entitled ; particularly as the same journal
admits that the just influence of a country may be
lost, which, logically, is the same thing as lowered.
There is a far 'more important question that nay
be raised. What is the evidence in support of the
indictment ? Is the indictment really speculative
and incapable of proof, its language being merely
equivalent to " calculated to lower and to diminish ;"
or is the indictment intended, according to its pur-
port, to express facts ? But if the lowering and
diminishing are facts, what other evidence of them
can be adduced but the proceedings themselves
which have taken place in relation to the Danish
question, namely, the acts of the Conference, and
ttie continued aggression of the allies ? Tnen ought
not the censure to be pointed directly at the part
which the Ministry has played in respect of these
proceedings, rather thwat the effects of the pro.
csedings upen the character of this country? What
has the Ministry done? is the first question. This
it is which Parliament should first declare to
the Queen. The effect on the country and on
Europe, whether or not to lower the one
and diminish the securities for the peace of the
other, is matter of conclusion, As the terms of the
address now stand, the house would pass by the
premisee, and present only a consequence. Might
not the Queen fairly answer, "You do not tell me
what my Ministers have done to lower the intim-
ende of the country, and diminish the securities for
peLsce." The indictment, in our thinking, would
be more:
ad rem, if it ran in this shape : " That
while her Is:
a):jesty's Ministers avowed their policy
to uphold the
grity and independence of Den-
mark, their course in relation to the aggression on
Denmark has, by pliancy and vacillation, operated
to disappoint and falsify the einectations raised by
them in favour of that kingdon2." The conse-
quences might be expressed in an additienai para-
graph.

THE TAMEURINI Row.—The famous omnibus
boxes were filled towards the conclusion of the
opera with the fashionable allies of the coalition, and it was
from this quarter that, on the fall of the curtain, the uproar
first commenced. Shouts of " Tamburini 1" " Laporte 1"
" Tamburini 1" were taken up and echoed by partisans
and easily led public clamourers, in various parts of the
house; whilst many of the genuine public raised the counter
cries of " Shame I" "No intimidation I " " on't be bul-
lied 1" and even evidenced their sense of the real cause of
the disturbance by shouting " Turn out the omnibus "
responded to by the occupants with cries of "You had
better try," Several times M. Laporte appeared, and en-
deavoured to address the audience, but the deafening
clamour rendered him inaudible. Yells, hisses, shouts,
overpowered every other sound. A sort of stormy confer-
ence took place, during this scene of confusion between
the manager and the tenants of the omnibus boxes,
whose rage seemed to increase as the row warmed their
blood. The curtain at last rose upon the ballet. Cerito
was that evening to have made her first appear-
ance. For more than an hour tho scared " coryphees
stood ready to begin. In vain ! For the fourth time M.
Laporte appeared, Ho seemed to have succumbed, for, in
answer to direct appeals on the point, he promised to make
propositions to Taralenrini. taut even this did not appear
sufficient to the originators of the row. They still hooted,
and at last the whole of the noble and fashionable occu-
pants of the omnibus boxes leaped on the stage, among
them a young Prince of the Blood. The curtain now fell
definitively, and amidst the sympathetic cheers of ono por-
tion of the house and the hootings of another, the gallant
chevaliers of the omnibus waved their hats triumphantly,
and shouted "'Victory I."—lumley's Reminiscences of the
Opera.