The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-15 00:00:00

—This Bay.

Letter of the Emperor Maximilian of

Mexico,

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PARIS, July 13.
The last French mail from Mexico brings the
following letter, addressed by the Emperor Maxi-
milian to the new Minister of the Interior, Senor
Esteva, tracing out the programme which his
Majesty desires him to follow :
" Puebla, June 7, 1865.
" My dear Minister Esteva,—Confiding in your
intelligence and patriotism, I have to-day appointed
you my Minister of the Interior. You will under-
take a difficult task, and it cannot be doubted that
you will have to contend against many obstacles.
To triumph over all you will have to act with jus-
tice, firmness, and the most complete impartiality,
thus following the line of policy pursued by the

empire.
" The work of the empire and its most sacred
duty is to unite all parties, since it is only in union
that we shall find the strength to be independent,
and to develope all the material and physical gifts
with which God has endowed our beautiful country.
" With me I expect you to use the most sincere
candour. Never disguise from me the faults that
my Government may commit, nor the desires of the
people, based upon justice:
" With your subordinates you will always be firm,
and you will compel them to follow the same course
of justice and impartiality. You will check and
punish them if they deviate from this line of conduct
and act with partiality or caprice.
" One of your most essential duties will be to
produce uniformity throughout the country in the
course of government, and the development of the
administration as of the unity of principles. Very
precise instructions in this sense will be ncessary for
all the departments;

to you.

"To put these instructions into practice you will
have to seek capable and loyal men,,wholly devoted
to the new principles, in order to place them at the
head of the departments. If you have good pre-
fects matters will proceed immediately with regula-
rity, and we shall see the spirit of the Government
extend into the most distant districts.

" Once good chiefs are placed at all points, it
will be easy for you, by uniting the good regula-
tions already existing, and adding those yet defi-
cient, to establish a complete and universal system
of political administration.

" It is a grave fault on the part of the Govern-
ment officers to act under the sole guidance of their
goodwill, and not upon previously fixed principles;
this fault ought to be checked as soon as possible,
for goodwill constitutes a rather dangerous state of
things, and affords no durable guarantee to the
governed.

" I also call your attention to another essential
point in political life, that is, a good-and definite
municipal organisation.

" After individual liberty, which is ordinarily
the principle of the development of sound liberty, a
just municipal self-government benefits the people
and extends political spirit. An evil under which
all our municipal districts are suffering is the com-
plete want of resources. Hence the decadence of
our magnificent. cities ,and the desertion of our vil-
lages. The settlement of this question will be a
great step towards bettering the condition of our
country. I request you, therefore, to lay before
me, as soon as possible, propositions to that effect.
" You will propose to me henceforth the recom-
pences merited by the prefects, sub-prefects, and
alcades in the departments and districts where in-

clividual security and public order is best preserved,
in order to extirpate the terrible scourge of the
bands of malefactors who, under a political banner,
are the greatest evil afflicting our dear country.
" Tell your subalterns also that with such there
must be no compromise. It is an evil which must

be cut off at the root, without any compassio

That it is possible and easy to accomplish this has
already been proved to us in those departments
presided over by intelligent and energetic prefects.

—I am, &c.,

<< MAXI3IILIAN."

Railway Traffic Returns for the Week,

Railways.

Miles Opened. Receipts
1865. 1864.

1865 1864

2,:439 1.913
1,134 1, 13
2,631 2,112
7,016 6,385
19.173 18,891
2,399 1,779
411
331 273
423 407
233 341
625 510
1,767 1.716

Belfast and N. Counties . 921
Belfast and County Down.... 49
Blyth and Tyne 2B
Bristol and Exeter l2ll
Caledonian2Bll
Cambrian • .... 13)
Cockermouth K & Penrali 311
Cockermouth and Workin .. 9 9
Cork and Bandon . . ......... 20 20
Cork, Blackrock, & Yassage... 64 et
Cork and Youghal .......... 3.4 321
Cornwall 6s} 655
Deeside l7 17,,
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63
Dublin and Drogheda 75 75
Dublin and Meath .... ex
. . 35 35
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid: 1071 914
Forth and Clyde Junction .. go 30
Furness, &a .... . .. .. .. ..
Glasgow & South-Western l9B 198
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.Union
Great Northern ... .. , .. .
Great North of Scotland ... . 99 99
Gt. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7li 711
Gt.Southn. & Westn.(lrind.) 387 8871
Great Western
Bull & Hornsea ... ... 13
Inverness & Aberdeen:June ll7l 1171
Inverness & Perth Junction 119} 1191
Irish North-Western........ 145 145
Kent Coast . .. . .. . , ......
Lancashire & Y orishire ........ 403 403
Limerick and Ennis--
Limerick and Foynes ......
Llanelly . .
Llynvi Valley . .
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall
London & South-Western ... 4901 454
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast... 272 2571
6,1
London, Chatham, & Dover,
all Metropolitan Extension 127} 127
Lon., Tilbury, & Southend .. 42} 421
Man.,Sheffield, & Lincoinsh .. 246 2421
Manch. S.Jun.& Altrincham.. 91 21
Maryport and Carlisle ....... 2.8 28
.. . ...... . ...... 31 81
Midland (incl. N.-Western). 663} 641
Midland GLWestn. of 1r1ud.... 2601 2601
Monkland 714 711
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & Darl. 1188} 1159
North London .. ........... 9 9
North Staffordshire.......... 258 258
Rhymney ... ... . ............. 191 191
Scottish Central . . ........ 1131 1131
Scottish North-Eastern...... ..... . 138 138
Somerset and Dorset ........ 66 66
South Devon ........... ..... 98 751
South-Eastern ............... 308 305
Taff Vale .................... 57 57
Ulster .. . .................... 1051 1051
Vale of Clwyd. .... .. . ....... 10 10
Waterford and Kilkenny ..... 31 31
Waterford and Limerick ..... 77 .77
West Cornwall ............ ... 271 274
Wihaven,Cleator,62Egrmnt.. 10 10
Whitchaven Junction ... ..... 13 13
Whitehaven & Furness Jun... 85 35
FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,Austrian B2B 828
Bahia and San Francisco .., 7Ol 761
Belgian Eastern Junction-- 264 261
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 306 1854
Detroit and Milwaukie
Dutch Rhenish lOBl 1081
-.
Eastern of France 1176 1428
Eastern Bengal
East Indian
uGrreanatdcTernutnraklooff CB'aenleaduarn,
590 5531 22,877 12,325
134 131 5,277 4.513
582 528
Great Western of Canada 345
..,- 3:5 10,70, 8,9: 4
SLlnouluiteanhme,briown if.gnisnudliaa .. 79 79
. a 448 6.278 5 892
t.. 653 r
Madrid, Saragossa &Alican. 600 17,519 18,182
Northern of Canada • ..... •• 42 94 2,5;5 2,4 t 2
Northern of France
Ottoman
MadrasGG
Greatr
ee aatt
174811 1291,619686 130%23291
67,242 65.289
105 105 1,581 2.416
soinde
Do. Punjab, &c Mediterrn
1160161ni.
1614
22 32 1.123 314
2
South Austrian, ac .....
Southern of France ' 623 770 28,1 i 1 27,327
25 196 10 00 , 8 10.460
2.5 25 417 680 011 n
Paris,!
RecifersaLannyddoslal: ner66aul inn'a noise°. &c 776 77. i 4006
887
.41 61,4 6 40,702
....n,
West
i Welland VN ieorstwotreaig la n.
Wn. of France

1211
111

587 450
1,526 1.45)
2,093 1.9'5

.3
4 241
4,256 4.416
325 307
3,196 3.280
10,085 9,118
37,926 35,198
85,704 34,371
3, :19 3,102

'438 421
9,533 9.198
72,099 72,359
223
1,036

2,057

3,970

45.210 43,650
170 221
103 168
752 658
4:4 492
1:0,521 113,573
2,332 2,147
28,2 0 28.220
22,554 20,763

12,436 11,501
2,70 2,457
20,420 18,830
1,534 1,519
1,525 1,545
2,831 2,575
48,8u4 45, 61
4,028 4.438
1,544 1,720
2,780 2,610

21,498 23,072
68,674 64,525
3,481 1,598
8,206 8,689
1,057 889
5,831 6,076
5,840 5,476
963 813
5,010 3,888
27,244 24,813
5,749 5,093
2,899 2,745
214 225
280 453
1,499 1,290
7r•5 779
661 770
987 1,083
860 1,001

35,294 30,421
392 320

263 321
5,778 2,992
6,600 4,348
6,405 5,556
70,116 65,072

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Thursday evening an in-
quiry was held by Mr. Win. Payne, the Southwark
coroner, at Guy's Hospital, 'respecting the death of James
Regan, aged 33, alleged to have been murdered by a marine
store-dealer named Henry Barker, in custody upon that
charge. From tho evidence it appeared that the deceased
was in the prisoner's employ. They had a dispute about
wages last Monday evening, when the deceased insulted
tho prisoner's wife. The prisoner then struck him with
great violence, and he fell in the street insensible. He was
lifted up, and removed in a cab to the hospital. He was
there found to be dead. The cause of death was effusion
of blood on the bead, which might have been produced by
a blow or fall. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaugh-
ter against Henry Barker for feloniously killing and slay-
ing James Regan."
DEATH OF MISS HINTON, THE BALLET GIRL.—
Miss Hinton, the ballet girl whose clothes caught fire
whilst she was engaged performing at Holder's Concert
Hall on the night of the 4th inst., is dead. It will be re-
membered that directly after the accident occurred• and
the flames were extinguished the unfortunate girl was at
once taken to the General Hospital. At that institution
she had every attention, bestowed upon her by the house
surgeon and other medical officials ; but notwithstanding
their treatment, she lingered on, and died on Thursday
afternoon, between the hours of four and five o'clock.—
Birmingham Gazeqe. . .

rilE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MX 15 1565.

East Surrey Election.

of many of those who uttered it, inasmuch as they said
that a certain thing should be done which was not done by
them whilst possessing the power of accomplishing it. Ho
therefore thought it but fair to suppose that such men were
not the proper persons to be entrusted any longer with
parliamentary power, because they had a sufficient majority
to support them if they really wished for reform. (Hear,
hear.) It was evident that they were not really in earnest,
and that it was but a hollow cry for reform they raised.
He considered the bankruptcy laws as a great blot upon our
statute book. It appeared for the last two years there were
16,000 bankrupts in England and Wales, 13,000 of whom
did not pay a penny in the pound, whilst .£200,000 was ex-
pended in carrying their estates through the court.

In reply to questions from electors,
Mr. Brodrick and Mr. Peek severally declared their
opposition to the abolition of church rates, unless some
other measure was adopted for supporting the fabric of
the Church. They also avowed themselves favourable to
the estabishmont of many more polling places than at 'pre-
sent existed for each division of the county.

. •
Mr. BRODRICK said that a paper had just been put into
his hand containing this very extraordinary question :
"Will you support a measure for withholding half-pay from
majors in the army when absent from duty for more than
six months ?" lie said he was at a loss to know what
what was the reason for the writer's antipathy to the poor
majors in the army. In reply he would say, he should be
exceedingly sorry to be a party to the depriving of those
officers of the paltry half-pay, or scarcely £l5O a year, after
a 20 years' service in perhaps the most distant parts of the
world.

Mr. PEEK said he had been asked the following question
in writing:—" Her Majesty's Government having reduced
the duty upon tea, are you prepared to support a measure
to reduce her Majesty's income according to the consump-
tion of the article in the royal establishments? " (Laugh-
ter.) He begged to inform the quorist that he was not
prepared to do anything of the kind.

No other gentlemen being. proposed,
Mr. W. Evux, jun., moved, and Mr. DIVES seconded,
the following resolution:—" That having heard the ad-
dresSes of the Hon. W. Brodrick and Mr. Henry W. Peek,
it is the opinion of this meeting that they are fit and proper
persons to represent this constituency in Parliainent."
Carried by general acclamation.

The proceedings then terrainated by a resolution of
hanks to the chairman.

EX-PRESIDENT BUCHANAN, who is, perhaps, more
unpopuiar just now in the Northern States of America than
even Jefferson Davis, is about to publish a history of his
administration.—The Reader.

Last evening a large and influential meeting of the elec-
tors of East Surrey was held at the Lammas Hall, Batter-
sea, the objects being to hear the addresses of the Conser-
vative candidates, and their political views upon the leading
topics of the day. Amongst the gentlemen on the platform
were Sir George Pollock, Mr. Cazenove, Mr. Whiting, Mr.
Burney, Mr. Dines, &c.
Mr. W. Baker having been called to the chair, introduced
to the meeting the Hon. W. Brodrick and Mr. Henry W.
Peek, as the Conservative candidates for the representation
of the eastern division of the county of Surrey in the now
Parliament. They were received with the most enthusias-
tic acclamation.
Mr. Brodrick then proceeded to address the electors in
an eloquent and argumentative speech. He said from the
first moment the Conservative party did him and his
friend Mr. Peek the honour of selecting them as the chosen
candidates for the representation of East Surrey in Parlia-
ment their object had been ono alone, and that was to
win. They did not, however, think that they were likely
to win if they came before the constituents without pre-
viously acquainting them with the circumstances under
which they asked for their suffrages, and telling them
something about the results of their canvass which they
had now successfully completed. (Cheers.) They had
gone into every division of this great constituency, and
endeavoured to make acquaintance with the constituency
in such a way as to afford them 'every opportunity to put
any questions to the candidates they pleased. It was
their wish to visit the electors personally, and it was their
intention, if they were sent to Parliament, to know every
one of them, and to do all in their power to promote their
interests. In this respect they intended to take a. directly
opposite course to that followed by their late member, Mr.
Locke King, who never thought it necessary to communi-
cate with them for the whole six years he was supposed to
represent them in Parliament. Their political opponents
were not enabled to lay hold of anything in Con-
servative addresses to find fault with, Mr. Locke
King merely observing that ho could not understand
them. Well, there were none so blind as those
that would not see. He (Mr. Brodrick) would
take care to express his political views so clearly that the
dullest comprehension could not fail to understand them.
He would take two questions that appeared to agitate the
public mind very much. The ballot was one of them.
Surely it could not be said that either he or his colleague
had spoken with any ambiguity or uncertainty on that
point, although Mr. Locke King and Mr. Buxton shirked
that question when put to them at the Clapham Meeting.
They (the Conservative candidates) told them distinctly
that they were opposed to the ballot (Cheers.) They would
never vote for a measure that would enable any English-
man to sneak to the poll with a secret vote, to give the
general impression that he had voted one way, and then to
go home to his family and friends and tell them that he had
voted another way altogether. Tho next question for
consideration was that of reform—a question which had
been meddled with in every possible way by every Govern-
ment that had held power for the last twenty years. Mr.
R. Lowe, once an eminent member of the present adminis-
tration, summed up the whole case regarding the ques-
tion of reform in a most argumentative and conclusive
speech. The object of those who advocated reform was
evidently to establish the superiority of mere numbers over
wealth, intelligence, and education. He did not mean to
say that the English constitution was absolutely perfect,
any more than any other human institution. So far from
it, ho thought tho electoral franchise might be extended in
one or two points. For example, it appeared to him that
the franchise might properly be extended to the class of
lodgers many of whcm paid .£4O to £5O, and even £lOO a
year. If any practical measure to embrace that class within
the sphere of the constitution were brought forward ho
should be willing to support it. He was certainly opposed
to any attempt to lower the franchise, although ho most
heartily wished to see some of the working classes within
the pale of the franchise—he meant that class that com-
prised sober, industrious, and saving men. But these men, if
they pleased, could secure a vote under the present system.
A person residing outside a borough, having saved £5O,
might invest that sum in a freehold land society, where ho
would get better interest than in the savings bank, and at
the same time obtain the qualification entitling him to vote
for a representative in Parliament. And it was still easier
for a man living in a borough to obtain the franchise. He
(Mr. Brodrick) joined issue with the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer when he called the franchise a right to be exercised,
and not a privilege. He considered it to be a premium for the
industrious, intelligent, and sober man, and not a gift to be
thrown away on every reckless drunkard. He had the
highest respect for Lord Palmerston, but not for his Govern-
ment. The noble lord had shown himself to be one of the
best Conservatives by the tact and ability with which he had
conducted the affairs of tho country for the last three years,
at all events. But Lord Palmerston was now an old man and
it was impossible that he could live many years longer, to
guide the destinies of this great country. Who was to suc-
ceed him ? He (Mr. Brodrick) never would support such
a shifting politician as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
He could never follow a statesman who avowed himself in
favour of Paine's "Rights of Man," and an enemy to the
Irish Church. Ho could not give his adhesion to such a
man as Earl Russell, who deluded Poland and deserted the
Danes and the Schleswig-Holstein people, retiring like a
craven hound from the professions which ho had made.
(Cheers.) He would never be the man who, like their late
representative, would go into the lobby for the purpose of
whitewashing a Lord Chancellor. (Hear, hoar.) The
Conservatives might take courage from the political
events that had just happened. Although the people of
Tiverton had acted properly. in returning once more
Lord Palmerston to Parliament, they had given him
a Conservative as a colleague, instead of a so-called
Liberal. There were four prominent members of the
Ctovernment sent by their respective constituencies about
their business, and the hopeful son of Earl Russell had
just been well beaten by the independent electors of Leeds.
Those were signs of the times well worthy of observa-
tion. He had nothing to say of Mr. Locke King or Mr.
Buxton in their private characters. The former appeared
to have learned nothing and to have forgotten nothing
during the last 17 years he represented East Surrey in
Parliament, but was prepared to disregard everything
that he might be able to indulge in his one crotchet.
Mr. Buxton said he solicited the support of the consti-
tuency as an old and tried member; but he omitted to
show them how ho was an old and tried member. About
ten years ago ho was elected by the constituency of New-
port. But after a brief experience they sent him about
his business. He next induced the constituency of Maid-
stone to look with favour upon him, but after a little time
they also were glad to get rid of him. He (Mr. Brodrick)
did not hesitate to call Mr. Buxton the nominee of Mr.
Locke King. (Cries of "No, no.") They called themselves
the supporters of Lord Palmerston, and yet they had voted
repeatedly against the noble lord's government. In solicit-
ing the support of the electors of East Surrey he (Mr.
Brodrick) had no private ends to serve. Whether he lost
or won his services would still be heartily at their disposal.
He had retired from the profession to which he had been
much attached, and at which he had not been unsuccessful.
His whole energies would be devoted to them. If the pro-
mises given to him and his friend were kept he had not the
smallest doubt but they would stand in the proud position
of being their representatives at the conclusion of the poll.
The hon. gentleman concluded amid general cheering, by
thanking the electors for the reception they had given him.
Mr. PEEK then proceeded to address the meeting. He
echoed many of the sentiments expressed by Mr. Brodrick,
and made a similar exposition of his political opinions. In
reference to the 'question of reform he said he could not
help thinking that that cry proclaimed the condemnation
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