The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, AUG, 22.
The Dayblabet of to-day says :
" The King of the Greeks will soon take his de-
parture for Athens. His Majesty will arrive in
Greece in the latter half of October, after the vote
for th© annexation of the lonian Islands by the
lonian Parliament.

" The King will stay at London 10 days, and a
similar time in Paris."

The King of Denmark Will preside at the sitting
of the Privy Council to-day, to resolve upon the
reply to be given by Denmark to the resolution of
the Federal Diet of the 9th July.

THE CONGRESS AT MALINES.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.)

MALINES, AUG. 20.
There are a good many things worth noting in a
Congress like the present besides what actually
takes place in the hall of the meetings. For the
gathering of three thousand strangers in such a
town as Malines somewhat disturbs its wonted
Flemish placidity. It is a fine old town, and a
clean one too ; but its accommodation is restricted,
and on the f rat daya nearly the whole of those who
had come up to take their tickets of admission had
to disperse through the cluster of neighbouring
towns, such as Brussels, Ghent, Louvain, Antwerp,
&c. I put up with two companions at an hotel
in Brussels; but we have now progressed, as well
as congressed; and, thanks to a Malines acquaint-
ance, we are settled in the city itself in a genuine
Flemish inn,
where the meals at the table d'hôte,

round which clupter a whole band of congressmen,
form delightful reunions of men of all countries,
considerably amused at the process of being done
Flemish.

We arrived in :Vannes yesterday morning in time
for the first morning séance, which from 10 to half-
past 12 consisted of the group of five meetings of
the sections on religious works, works of charity,
Christian art, Christian education, the press, &c.
I walked into the hall of the fifth section, i. e., the
press, which had been also the day before my point
of attraction, But, as compared with the anima-
tion of the first day, it was very quietly going on
under the presidency of the veteran of the Catholic
press in Belgium,
M. Armand Neut. The question
treated was that of petitioning for the reform of the
state of the law which prevents the right of asso-
ciation, granted by the 20th article of the Belgian
Constitution, from having its full force. Some op-
posed any move in that direction as being too gene-
ral) end affecting commercial interests rather than
religious ones; but in the end it was resolved on,
as the best means of securing by supporting gene-
ral rights those of religious communities and other
property for religious purposes from the vexatious
and wasting interference of Government officials.
It was also resolved, after a very short discussion,
to farm a central committee in Belgium to keep up
an international correspondence with committees in
other countries for all matters relating to the
works which occupy the attention of the Congress.
At three o'clock in the afternoon the members met

in general assembly
in the great ball of the Petit
Seminaire, the Minister of State, Count de Then;
taking the chair as vice-president. The two Car-
dinal Archbishops of Malines and of Westminster,
and the various bishops and prelates, were present.
The proceedings began by a report on the Pius Verein,
or Society of Pius IX., which ever since 1848 has
organised annual congresses of Catholics in various
towns of Germany, so as to be the model of the
The
report
society now constituting itself in Belgium.
was read in French by Here Linden, secre-
tary of the German Pius Verein, and described the
progress made year after year by the society, and
its drawing to its meetings, first the Swiss, who
began in 1857 to hold a congress of their own;
and, finally, the Belgians, who are now doing the

same.
The President of the Swiss Pius Verein, Count
a kind of poem-speech, hailing the
Sherer, then came forward, and truly electrified the
assembly by
and giving expression by way of
Swiss Verein,
Congress iu the name of the 127 sections of the
salutation to three truths, as he said by way of tele-
grams. "We are brothers," he exclaimed, " because,
though we have not the same fatherland, we have
the same Mother, the Catholic Church, and we
want to be united— Volutions !" He then announced
that the sixth meeting of the Swiss Verein would
take place
during the following
week, on
the 26th and 27th inst., at the Monastery
at Eisledein.
He spoke of the possibility,
therefore, of some of the persons present contri-
buting still more to cement Catholic union for good
worksby
of their
presence at Eisledein, and alluded to
the power Catholic association as making the
word a impossible " not Catholic, except in the
of op
position to evil and wrong, when the
head and front of Catholicity uttered the Non
Possunztcs. As for the children of the Church their
union led to the second telegram of the Swiss
Verein
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He spoke of the Catholic family, the most ancient
in Europe, as able by its agitation to water all na-
tions with the waters of Catholic spirit, and ended
by summing up his three telegrams as, " Volumus!
Possumus ! Fiat ! Amen.e This was the model
address of that day. A report on the Catholic
University of Louvain was read in a very low tone
by one of its youngest professors, a M. Dasfosses ;
and from a rather long statement, not very distinct,
we were enabled, however, to gather the interesting
facts that, daring its 30 years of existence, the pre-
sent university had educated 18,262 students, while
its Anglo-American college during a few years'
existence, has sent forth from its walls 23 mis-
sionary priests.
A young avocat, of the name of Verspeyen, then
addressed the meeting on the St. Peter's pence orga-
nisation, and described in a most interesting
and eloquent manner the progress of that
organisation, and its success noc only in Bel-
gium, but in Poland, Ireland, and Italy itself.
He told, with great effect, the story of the
Polish peasant who came on foot from his
village to Rome to console the Holy Father, as he
naively sad, and bring him the Peter's Pence of
his neighbours " in twenty-five new florins," which
the Piedmontese robbed him of; " but they cannot
rob you of our hearts, Holy Father !" added he ;
and the Pope blessed in him the people of Poland,
and his blessing will boar its fruit. Alluding next
to Ireland, the speaker told of the £B,OOO gathered
in one day in Dublin for the Holy Father, and of the
blood of its children having been shed for him at
Spoleto, Perugia, Ancona, and Castelfidardo. He
called also attention to the immense sum and con-
tributions of jewels gathered in Turin by the exer-
tions of the editor of the Armonia, and he proposed
that the Congress should proclaim that the Abbate
Margotti had well deserved of Catholics. I cannot
follow the young orator further than to say that he
delighted his audience by describing the religions
spirit which animates the youth of Belgium, as
proved by the numbers which went forth to defend
the cause of the Pope, and who are still engaged
in his service.
The Viscomte de Melun then read, in a mono-
tonous tone, his report on the part of the
second section of the Congress, on chari-
table works and the freedom of making be-
quests for the support of such works. The
general meeting was suspended at about a
quarter past five, and resumed its proceedings at a•
quarter past six as a public meeting, at which
le,dies and other persons paying 4 small contribu-

tion to the expenses of the Congress were admitted.
This part of the proceedings is devoted exclusively
to the addresses of the various orators of distinction
who have consented to entertain the Congress with
their eloquent demonstrations of the various ques-
tions of interest now being agitated, and the first
speaker, a Belgian, the Vicomte de Kerckhove,
formerly Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople,
led off worthily the list of brilliant speakers with a
speech on the duties and hopes of Catholics. He
was followed by a young avocat of the name of
Woeste, who gave us a rather eloquent but rather
useless sketch of the history of the Church, under
the heading of "The Struggles and Triumphs of
the Cuurch." His allusions to the present state of
politics, which came at the end of his speech, were
the most interesting part of it, The proceedings
of the day concluded with a most interesting
address of M, Adolphe Dechamps, Minister of
State, on the triple object of the Congress—namely,
" Union, Publicity, and Liberty."
One of the most interesting parts of the
Congress, is the gathering in the great
courtyard of the Petit Seminarie during the
intervals of the sittings, when the mass of
3,000 visitors can meet as on 'Change, and form
groups of acquaintances, old and new, of the most
international kind. Thus, besides meeting former
friends from Syria, Italy, and France, as well as
Belgium and Switzerland, I am acquiring daily
new friends from Holland, Germany, and Portugal.
I find, besides, England, very numerously repre-
sented by bishops, priests, and laymen, among
whom figure Monsignor Manning, the Rev. Dr.
Vaughan, and Father Bede Vaughan, 0.5.8., Wegg
Prosser, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Clifford, Charles
Audley, Esq,, &c. We are in the pleasant expec-
tation of listening, to-day, to the celebrated Count
de Montalcmbert ; while his Eminence, Cardinal
Wiseman, is to speak to-morrow. The town, mean-
while, is keeping up a week's festival, in honour of
the dedication of its church of Notre Dame d'Hans-
wyck ; and to-day, if the weather permits it, we
are to witness the defile of a grand cavalcade, repre-
senting religious subjects, and including in its
ranks children and young men belonging to the
first families of the town.

FRANCE.

THE REPLIES OF THE THREE POWERS

TO RUSSIA.
PARIS, AUG. 22.

The Courser du Dinzanche of to-day believes
itself able to guarantee that the Notes of the
three Po Hers contain an identical conclusion,
couched in the following terms :
"One imperious duty now remains to be ful-
filled by the Government. This is to call the
most serious attention of Prince Gortschakoff to the
gravity of the situation, and the responsibility it
imposes upon Russia.

"Austria, France, and England have pointed out
the urgency of putting an end to a deplorable con-
dition of affairs, filled with peril to Europe. They
have indicated the means which it appears to them
their duty to be employed to attain this end. If
Russia does not do all that depends upon her to
realise the moderate and conciliatory intentions of
the three Powers, if she does not enter upon the
course indicated by their friendly counsels, she will
become responsible for the serious consequences
which the prolongation of disorder in Poland may
bring about.'

BOURSE, Aug. 21.—Stock has been offered, and
prices have receded. Threes, for the Account, are
now at 67f. 70e. The Railway Share Market is
heavy, and many of the lines lower. The market
closed as follows
per Cents. 96 65
Do. end
3 per Cents
Do. end month 67 55
Credit Mobilier 1103 75
Do. end month 1102 50
Bank Shares 3380 --

Italian Loan 72 75
Do. end month 72 55
DTe w ditto oo
Do..end month.... 72 75
Russian
Austrian
Spanish Threes. n
Home Debt . . 51 25

Credit F oucier ....1275

RA ILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lO2O 25 .. 1022 50
Northern ....
New ditto
Lyons and AleditGrranean 1028 75 .. 1027 50
Geneva 493 75 .. 492 50
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
ion-hard
North of Spain
Saragossa .. 685 .. 681 25
Ditto to Barcelona .... 355 • •

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

The following is President Lincoln's reply to the
letter of Governor Seymour, of New York, concern-
ing the draft.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.
His Excellency Horatio Seymour, Governor of
New York, Albany, N.Y.:—

" Your communication of the 3d instant, has been
received and attentively considered. I cannot con-
sent to suspend the draft in New York, as you re-
quest, because among other reasons, time is too im-
portant. By the figures you send, which I presume
are correct, the twelve districts represented fall in
two classes of eight and four respectively.
" The disparity of the quotas for the draft, in
these two classes is certainly very striking, being
r the difference between an average of 2,200 in one
class, and 4,864 in the other. Assuming that the
districts are equal one to another in entire popula-
tion, as required by the plan on which they were
made, this disparity is such as to require attention.
Much of it, however, I suppose, will be accounted
for by the fact that so many more persons fit for
soldiers are in the city than are in the country, who
have too recently arrived from other parts of the
United States, and from Europe, to be either in-
cluded in the census of 1860, or to have voted in
1862. Still, makibg due allowance for this, lam
yet unwilling w stand upon it as an entirely suffi-
cient explanation of the great disparity. I shall
direct the draft to proceed in all the districts,
drawing, however, at first from each of the
four districts—to wit :—the second, fourth,
sixth, and eighth—only 2,200 being the average
quota of the other class. After this drawing, these
four districts, and also 17th and 29th, shall be care-
fully re-enrolled; and, if you please, agents of yours
may witness every step of the process. Any defi-
ciency which may appear by the new enrolment
will be supplied by a special draft for that object,
allowing due credit for volunteers who may be ob-
tained from districts respectively during the inter-
val ; and, at all points, so far as consistent with
practical convenience, due credit shall be given for
volunteers, and your Excellency shall be
the time fixed for commencing a draft notified of
in each die-
trict.

" I do not object to abide a decision of the United
States Supreme Court, or of the judges thereof, on
the constitutionality of the draft law. In fact, I
should be willing to facilitate the obtaining of it ;
but I cannot consent to lose the time while it is
being obtained. We are contending with an enemy
who, as 1 understand, drives every able-bodied man
he
can reach into his ranks, very much as a
butcher drives bullocks into a slaughter pen
—no tuna is wasted, no argument is used.
This produces an army which will soon turn upon
our victorioua soldiers already in the field, if they
shall not be sustained by recruits as they should be.
It produces an army with a rapidity not to be
matched on our side, if we first waste time to re-
experiment with the volunteer system, already
deemed by Congress, and palpably, in fact, so far
exhausted to be inadequate; and then more time to
obtain a Court decision as to whether a law is con-
stitutional which requires a part of those net now
in the service to go to the aid of those who are
already in it; and still more time to determine with
absolute certainty that we are to get those who are
to go in the precisely legal proportion to those who
are not to go. My purpose is to be in my action
just and constitutional, and yet practical, in per-
forming the important duty with which I am
charged, of maintaining the unify and the free

principles of our common country.—Your obedient
servant,

"A. LINCOLN."
The Washington correspondent of the New York,
Herald writes as follows concerning the relations of
Russia with the Federal Government :
" The receipt of advices from abroad by the
Arabia has set the occupant of the White House
and the head of the State Department in a flutter.
Most singular rumours are prevailing here with
reference to a complication of the United States
with the imbroglio now prevailing in Europe
touching the affairs of Russia with Poland. Confe-
rences have been held between Mr. Seward and the
President concerning the matter, and in the inner
circles of the Republican leaders there is a very
unusual ferment.
"It would appear, from all that can be learned by
entsiders, that Minister Plenipotentiary Extraordi-
nary Cassius M. Clay has been making for himself
a very extensive chapter in the history of European
politics, end that, with his usual indiscretion, be
has managed to embroil the United States in the
troubles between Russia and the Western Powers.
The secret of the remarkable change of base of
Prince Gortschakoff, from a tone of peace to one
of war, was brought about, it is understood, by no
less a person than our eccentric and hot-headed
Minister in Russia. It will be remembered that
in all the early diplomatic papers touching the
troubles of Poland and Russia, the tone of the Rus-
sian Government was eminently peaceful and con-
ciliatory. In answer to the several representations
from Austria, France, and England respecting the
inviolability of the Treaties of 1815, the Foreign
Minister of Russia condescended to explain matters
to the Western Powers, and to defend the
conduct of his Government by argument.
The joint note of the three great Powers
produced a very different effect, and the
recent reply of Prince Gortschakoff shows
that Russia contemplates the possibility of a war
with equanimity. The puzzle was, what created
this change of feeling; and it now appears, if the
reports that reach Washington may be relied upon,
that it was no less a person than Minister Clay who
has entered into a treaty—so the rumours go on to
say—with Russia, offensive and defensive, assuring
her that, in the event of the Western Powers de-
claring war against her, the United States would
declare against England and France. Russians were
aware from their own ministers in this country, and
from the tone of our public press, that the utmost
irritation existed in the United States against
France, on account of the desire of Napoleon to re-
cognise the South, and because of the conquest of
Mexico; and against England On account of the
sympathy that nation had felt for the insurgents,
and the aid and comfort it had given them in the
war in arms, and especially in ships to prey upon
American commerce. With these facts patent to
the Russian Government, it was compelled to credit
the announcements of Minister Clay that the
American people only wanted opportunity to de-
clare war against England and France, especially
if there was a fair prospect that the rebellion would
be quelled. Hence tha courage of Gortschakoff and
the Russian Government. O❑ land Russia has very
little to fear from the Western Powers, partly
on account of the inaccessibility of its
more important' cities and seats of power,
but mainly because its armies, since the result of
the Crimea campaign, have been remodelled and
regenerated and are expected now to be able to
vie in discipline and valour with even the best
troops of France. By an alliance with the United
States Russia hopes to be able to humilitate England
en the high seas, as well as seriously to damage the
growing maritime power of France. In short, the
Russians on the strength of the representation of
Minister Clay, hope to be able to create a fire in the
rear of England and France which they little dream
of. Hence the boldness of tone and the gauge of
battle which has been thrown down by Prince
Gortschakoff in the recent reply to the note of the
great Powers.
"There is another reason which has decided Russia

in the course she has taken. The winter season
is approaching, and before war could be declared
and fleets prepared the Baltic would be inaccessible
to the English on account of the cold and ice. As
for the Black Sea, there is no commerce there which
could be broken up to injure Russia which would
not injure England still more—to wit, the great
wheat crops of Southern Russia, which are now
the mainstay for the breadstuffs for France and
England.

"One of thesreasons, it ;s said, why Clay has urged
upon the Russian Government to take the course
it has done, is that a war between Russia and the
Western Powers will be popular in America, from
the experience of 1854 and 1855, when the stop-
page of the Russian grain trade caused an im-
mense exportation of grain from the United States
and enriched our western farmers beyond measure.
Russia, therefore, had every reason to believe that
Clay was authorised in the treaty, or rather under-
standing, which he was anxious to secure between
himself, on the part of the United States, and
Gortschakoff, on the part of the Russian Govern-
ment.

" Of course this news has set Washington agog, at
least such circles as are enrapt with the State De-
partment and the White House. There are those
who believe that Mr. Seward has had a finger in
the pie. He is not the man to forget an enemy.
It will be remembered that Mr. Seward strongly
urged the appointment of Clay to Russia in the
very teeth of the fact that Clay had the impudence
and indiscretion to publish a letter in a New York
paper strongly censuring Mr. Seward for his diplo.
matic correspondence, and complaining that Mr.
Seward had given too much of his own correspon-
dence and too little of his (Clay's) to the public. In
the face of this Mr. Seward urged his appointment
upon the Senate. It is believed by some here that
the position that Clay has taken, while not exactly
recommended or approved by the State Depart-
ment, has been winked at by Mr. Seward, partly
with the hope of paying off Clay for his contemp-
tuous letter by the excitement his objectionable
course will create, and partly to seriously embroil
France and England with Russia, so as to prevent
England from the talked of interference in our
affairs. If this is true, it will show most dexterous
management on the part of our Secretary of State.
If he shall have succeeded in creating war between
Russia and France and England by such an instru-
ment as Cassius M. Clay, it will be a stroke of
statecraft and finesse worthy of a Machiavelli.
"Of course the future of our Government is very
clear. There will be no war with England and
France at present, unless the rebellion should im-
mediately collapse, and the temptation be afforded
for our President to pay off old scores with those
nations. The pro'nability is, if the war is finished
by Christmas, that by the coming spring our people
will be tempted to try the virtue of the new iron-
clads, and which should not be built without a prac-
tical test of their capacities. The Puritan, Dic-
tator, and Dunderberg, and the other large vessels
of our ironclad fleet, ought to have a chance with
the Warrior and Gloire, and unless the people here

are very much mistaken in the sentiments of the
country at large, the temptation fora war with
England or Franco, or both combined, will be too
strong to be resisted before many years are over.
In the event of a war between Russia and the

Western Powers, and in case our Government should

not feel strong enough to contest the supremacy of
the seas with those great naval nations, the course
of President Lincoln is clear. It would be to recall

Clay, and disavow the proceeding which he is said

to have assented to."

SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT FLAMBRo%
—On Monday, a young man in the employ of tilr.
Harrington, of the North Star Inn, Flambro', went to a
field to catch and bring up a horse. Not returning in pro-
per tame search was made, and he was discovered dead in
a recumbent position, having his feet in a ditch of water,
with a large quantity of blood near him. The deceased
had a cancer of a dangerous kind on his lip, and for its cure
he had some time previously been partially operated on,
but owing to the peculiar nature of the cancer the knife
could not be used from fear of the patient bleeding to death.
It is suppoSed that the horse had hit his lip with its head,
and finding blood flowing rapidly from his lip, and know:
ing the danger attending it, he had hastened to the water
in the ditch to stop the bleeding or wash lvs face, and soon
died of exhaustion. The man's name was George Dob.ton.
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HER MAJESTY.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)
BERLIN, Aug. 22.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria will proceed to Pots-
dam for a few days in consequence of an invitation
received from the Crown Prince and Crown Princess
of Prussia.

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