The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-18 00:00:00

mates the entire nation, but in especial the com-
mune of the royal free city of Pesth, while it receives
your Majesty with the deepest and most respect-
ful devotion the capital of the country, and bids
you welceme from the bottom of its heart. The day
when your Majesty visited your faithful Hungarian
people with the gracious intention of opening, in
conformity with your promise, in person that Diet
whose mission it is, by confirming the good under-
standing between King and people, to restore their
constitutional life—this day will ever remain im-
printed on our hearts. And should Divine Provi-
dence lead your Majesty's princely efforts, under
the co-operation of this faithful nation, to the de-
sired end, later generations in Hungary will look
back with grateful thanks to that brilliant page of
history upon which your Majesty's famous work
will shine forth as the restorer of the constitutional
fredom of the nation cherished for 800 years."
The Emperor replied—
" I am glad to be now able to fulfil the intention
I expressed here some months ago, and it affords
me especial pleasure again to receive the assurances
of your fidelity and attachment. I have come to
you in confidence, and I expect confidence, and be-
cause I feel convinced of meeting it, you may rest
assured of my royal grace." _ _

The Emperor and his brilliant suite then left the
station, and drove in court carriages, escorted by
a strong troop of horsemen with drawn sabres,
along the route to the suspension bridge. Through-
out the road his Majesty was most enthusiastically
cheered by the enormous masses lining the streets.
Upon reaching the Buda side of the bridge the
Emperor was received by the burgermeister and
' municipality of the town, who delivered an address
of welcome, to which the Emperor replied :
" Hearty as is your greeting I accept its expres-
sion with feelings of equal pleasure. Buda, as the
dwelling of my ancestors, has always been an agree-
able place of sojourn, and I am glad to repose
within its walls. Assure those who have sent you
that my royal grace will always correspond to your
faithful attachment."

The procession then continued its route to the
Castle of Buda, where his Majesty was received by
the grand dignitaries of the country, the magnates,
nobles, members of the Diet, &c., with loud and
repeated cheers and shouts of welcome. The Em-
peror warmly thanked those assembled for the en-
thusiasm of their reception, and, after attending a
Te Deum in the chapel, performed by the Prince
Primate, retired to his apartment?.

Death of a Roman Catholic Bishop.

The Glasgow Evening Citizen of Friday says :
"Much regret will be felt by the entire Catholic
community throughout Scotland at the news of the
decease of the esteemed Bishop Murdoch, of Glas-
gow, which took. place at his residence in Great
Clyde-street, this morning, at a quarter before 3
o'clock. Though not, comparatively, an old man
—for he bad accomplished the period of threescore
and ten—the bishop had latterly appeared to age
considerably, and to feel the effects on his system of
about 40 years of constant and devoted labour in
the exercise of his sacred calling. Especially during
the first visitation of cholera in this country in 1832,
and the fever epidemics of 1837 and 1847, and the
cholera period of 1849, were hi 9 labours among the
poor of his flock protracted and indefatigable, to the
positive impairing of his own health. Frequently
at these periods, for nights together, he never un-
dressed or went to bed, but took what brief snatches
of rest were allowed him reclined on a sofa, with a
cloak around him, in readiness to attend the
bad-
side of any one whatever who desired to see him
on any mission. Almost the last, if not indeed the
very last, time he preached in St. Andrew's,
was on the occasion of the funeral of Bishop
Smith, fully two years ago ; but although unable for
public or active exertion, it is only a week or two
ago that fears were entertained of the end being
near. It is about a fortnight ago that he took to
his bed, never to rise from it again ; and during the
time which has since elapsed, the number of inquiries
as to his condition, and of visitors to his bedside,
has been great. Amongst the latter, it may be re-
corded, were some who came to implore his forgive-
ness for wrongs which it is generally believed, which
he believed himself, materially assisted to shorten
his days. We need scarcely add that they received
it, and with it let us hope they imbibed a life-long
lesson to eschew the foul vice of slander. The Right
Rev. John Murdoch, vicar apostolic of the western
district of Scotland, was a native of Enzie, in Banff-
shire, where he was born on the 11th Nov., 1796.
He was ordained priest on the 19th March, 1821,
and consecrated bishop on 20th October, 1833. Al-
most the whole of his life has been spent in Glas-
gow, and few pastors of any denomination have been
more generally esteemed and beloved by their flock,
or we may add, have done more to deserve it. To
every charity in the city he was a contributor; and
almost so long as strength was given him, his time
and personal services were ever at the disposal of
the humblest of his co-religionists, or available for
any good work whatever.

The Negro and the Freedmen's Bureau•

We regret to discover 'in the tone of certain influential

lournalsa disposition to misrepresent and do great injus-

tico to the freedmen of the South. For the sake of poli-
tical capital assertions are made in regard to the state of
affairs here for which there is not the slightest foundation.
It is not deemed of the slightest consideration that this
disregard for the truth may prove of injury to the negro.

He has been talked about so much that almost every one
has come to look upon him as common property, and it is
hardly possible to say anything about him that will not
find approval somewhere. Circumstances over which he
mild have no control have placed him between the crosss
fire of parties for years, and the result has been that he
has suffered as well through the zeal of those who made
pretensions of being his friends as the embittered hostility
of his enemies. While he was under the protecting care
of his master, whose interest in him and oftentimes his love
for him, made him shield him from abuse, it did not make
so much difference what was said or done. Now that he
is free, and thrown thus suddenly on his own resources,
the case is very different, and it should bo remembered that
whatever obstacle is placed in his way has a direct ten-
dency to dispirit him in his efforts to accomplish something
for himself. There are those who urge that this class of
people, whom our chief magistrate quite recently addressed
as fellow-citizens, are on the eve of insurrection, and are
liable, at any moment, to break out into excesses too brutal
and horrible to contemplate. This is used as an argument
in favor of a speedy restoration of Georgia and other
States to all their rights, that they may find within them-
selves the means of repressing such threatening evils. We
feel, perhaps, as deep an interest in this matter of restora_
tion as any one. We would be glad if our State could
pass under the control of our properly-elected officials, and
be relieved from this quasi-territorial Government under
which we are living every day. It would quicken the life
of our people—shake off that feeling of lethargy and
despair which clouds the prospects of so many, and infuse
new energy into all branches of industry. But we would
not resort to the mean subterfuge of lying, or disparage
the efforts of these unfortunate blacks, in order to give
efficacy to our reasons for entertaining such laudable de-
sires. There are many instances in which the Freedmen
—the worthless portion of them—have behaved badly, and
have overlooked the fact that they are amenable to the
laws. We do not hold them blameless by any means, but

that as a class they are lawless or inclined to be so, we
stoutly deny. The statements, but one example of which
we have given, which these journals would palm off on
the people as true, are utterly false, manufactured out of
whole cloth to suit the purposes for which they were in-
tended.

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We have taken the trouble to say this much on a sub

ject we know to be very distasteful to our citizens in
general, because, in our opinion, there appeared good
reason why such things should be refuted, and nothing
was to be gained by covering up the truth. The prac-
tical workings of the Freedmen's Bureau, viewed from
our stand-point, with but a few exceptional cases, the re-
sult of incompetency or unfitness of officials have been
satisfactory everywhere, and the Bureau is meeting with
encouragement and support throughout the North. We
deem it indispensable to secure that harmony of action
and mutual confidence between our planters and the
Freedmen, without which, the freedom of the latter would
indeed prove a curse to all, and we would not have it, or
any other association that looks to the improvement of the
negroes for their good and ours, lose one particle of their
force through such gross fabrications as that to which we
have alluded.—From the Savannah (Georgia) Republican.

A Berlin letter in the Cologne Gazette says :
" Tho jewellery from the Royal Treasury worn by the
Princess Alexandrine on the evening of her wedding-day
was worth 1,500,000 thalers (5,625,000 f.), and is only taken
out on grand occasions and with certain formalities. The
crown called the Princesses' is only worn on one single
occasion, that of their wedding. The necklace is com-
posed of diamonds varying in value from 20,000 to 80,000
thalers (75,000 fr. to 300,000 fr.) each. The central pend-
ant is the famous Regent or Pitt diamond, which is re-
garded as the most valuable of the jewels of the Prupian
crown."