The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-19 00:00:00

MOONSHINE AT Si'. CLOUD.

A Saturday Reviewer, who has been reading the Pel-iS
correspondence of the Daily Telegraph, reveals to us some
more wonders of the astonishing author of those letters.
It is well known that the said writer is in the secrets of

the Emperor of the French, that he attends all the Impe-
rial parties, and is on intimate terms with all the
great men who visit St. Cloud, He gives to the world,
moreover, all that is said and done at the Palace.
He listens at St. Cloud and writes to the Telegraph. On
Friday last week, the Ministerial Council met ; but on the
Thursday evening, before taking M. Rouher and his col
leagues into his confidence, the Emperor at the fete given
to the Viceroy told everyl ady what was going to happen.
So at least says " Our Own Correspondent." The Emperor
" was in the highest possible spirits, never looked
so little preoccupied," and challenged everybody to
talk. What he said to one deputy we have,
thanks to our Daily Telegraph, in ipsissimis verbis;
how he "agreed with the liberal views of the
nation," and how he was anxious to declare this agreement
to " a mob of twenty or thirty people at a time ;" we are
assured, moreover, that "his Majesty spoke evidently aver
intention,'" and we are by no means sure that he did not
get on a chair and harangue his guests on what was to
come off on the morrow. Now if all this be true—and it
is written in the Daily Telegraph, and therefore must be
true, though these pictorial details of coming events labour
under the disadvantage of being printed three days after
the formal and official announcement of the Imperial
policy—what a new view of the Napoleonic character
it gives A dark and impenetrable man, keeping his own
secret till the last moment ; silent and mysterious, and
repelling in speech and manner ; cold and reluctant even
when he declares his mind—such, we have been assured
by ordinary observers, is the present Emperor. It's all a
mistake. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph pre•
cents quite another picture of the true and genial Napo-
leon. He is simply the jolliest of good fellows, ready to
jabber and gabble on the most important questions of
State policy with twenty or thirty anybodies or nobodies ;
a mere political sieve or colander, spurting out his views
about the most serious State and Cabinet secrets like
a drysalter in the Peckham omnibus. But more the
Daily Telegraph correspondent tells us. It is solemnly
recorded that at St. Cloud on Thursday in last week they
had a new heaven all to themselves, as well as an earth
which was of heaven, at least the heaven of the ballet and
the pantomime. On Thursday, July 8,, this grand
entertainment was given at St. Cloud to the
Viceroy of Egypt ; and on Friday, July 9, the
almanac tells us that there was a new moon.
But the great Emperor ordered and got a full moon last
Thursday week for his own special behoof and the glory of
his imperial party. "Our Own Correspondent " saw
it. " Figure to yourself a garden still charming and
abounding, &c., fine shrubs and flowers, &c., quiet
rivulets, &c. Above was a large and calm-looking
moon." And then, again, we hear of the combined
effect of " electric light and moonshine on the Empress's
dress and drawing-room." We always took the Emperor
to be a very great man, but his command over the moon
shews the real master of nature. To order up a full moon
for an evening party is what no host ever yet ventured
upon. We want to know more about it. Did it shine over
all France? Or was he the only privileged lunatic in the
universe to see what was hidden from all other sorts of men ?
We always had a great respect—we mean sublime admira-
tion—for the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph,
but this " large and calm-looking moon " of his on July
8, 1869, is certainly his greatest achievement. Of course
there may be coarse, vulgar, superficial minds who argue
the unknown from the known, and who believe in the
almanac and the present planetary laws, and who will
perversely begin to say that all our excellent " Own
Correspondent's " Princesses and Marquises and Cabinet
secrets and Imperial conversations are just as imaginary,
in fact just as much moonshine, as what he saw in the
heavens at St. Cloud on July 8. But this is poor cavil.
Our friend saw the moon, and if there was no moon to
see, so much the worse for the moon, for he writes very
nicely about it. And as it is quite certain that the
Emperor's talk is quite as likely to have been talked as
the Daily Telegraph's moon to have shone, we have for
ourselves no more objection to the talk which is imported
from St. Cloud than to the moon which was seen there.

TEE LONDON NATIONAL SOCIETY FOII
IVOMEYS SUFFRAGE.

---- Apt.-

A meeting of the members of this society was held at

the rooms of the Architectural Society, in Conduit-street,
Bond-street, on Saturday last. There was a numerous
attendance of ladies and gentlemen. The chair was taken
by Mrs. Peter Taylor.
Mrs. TAYLOR, in opening the proceedings, said the
society had been in existence two years, and the progress
made during that period was very satisfactory. Before

Mr. Mill brought forward his bill in 1867. the question
of women's suffrage was either ignored or treated
with ridicule ; but now it was ene of the questions of the
day. For this every woman in England owed a debt of
gratitude to Mr. Mill. Mr. Chisholm Anstey had held
th“t, under the new Reform Act, every woman who was a
I..trieholder was entitled to vote ; but the Court of Common
Pleas was adverse. They must not be disheartened at
this, ncr discontinue their exertions. The association had
not thought it advisable that any parlianientary erort
should be made while the Irish Church Bill was occupying
the attention of the House.

'The SECRETARY (Miss Caroline Biggs) read a brief
report, from which it appeared that during the present
year 220 petitions had been presented to Parliament on
this subject, containing 41,000 signatures, and that
18,500 pamphlets had been distributed, written by Mr.
Mill, Miss Cobbe, Madame Bodichon, Professor Newman,
and others.

Mr. J. STUART MILL, who was received with loua
applause, congratulated the society on the success of their
efforts. The admission of women to the franchise, which
not long since was a mere protest on behalf of abstract
right, had now grown into a definite political aim. He
bad always held the opinion that women had the same
right to the suffrage as men. Nevertheless, he confessed
that he was not prepared for the large amount of sym-
pathy and support which this movement had received.
That success would be unaccountable were it not for
some important allies that had been at work in their
behalf. The first of these was the sense of natural
justice. Another auxiliary at work for them was
the progress of the age. Every improvement that
characterised the present age would be found tending in
the same direction. Not one of them could be thoroughly
realised and perfected unless women, with all their
moral and intellectual capabilities properly developed,
were associated in the work. Look, for instance, at
education—the one great cry of the day. 'Were they
going to educate a nation without the aid of
women—women, who were acknowledged to be the best
teachers of the young? The management of the poor,
too, he believed would never be successfully treated
until women took their proper share in the work. The
nursing of the sick was a privilege which had been seldom
denied to women. It was now understood that they ought
to be educated women. No ignorant person could be a
good nurse. The prevention and cure of disease was likely
to become a branch of public administration. At present
the medical staff of the unions are wretchedly underpaid ;
and until the medical profession was opened to
women, there would never be a sufficient supply of
educated medical practitioners for any but the rich. Society
was every day growing more and more to realise that
Women Were needed for other uses thee to `` suckle
fools and chronicle small beer." They might safely
affirm, then, that their cause was powerfully backed,
since it had for its a2ies the great forces which were
everywhere at work, strivL: to improve the world.
Their business, then, as a society ;:as to go on striving
until they reached the crowning point of N.,`'man's cause—
the suffrage. He concluded by moving, "The: this so-
ciety declares its strong conviction that it is in the high...:t
degree unjust and impolitic to make sex the ground of
exclusion from the exercise of political rights." The
Rev. C. KINGSLEY seconded this resolution in a short
address, which was much applauded.—The resolution was
then put and carried.
Mrs. FAWCETT moved the following resolution :—" That
this society pledges itself to use every lawful means to
obtain the extension of the franchise to women, and
it considers that a bill for that purpose should be intro.
duced into Parliament as early as possible."—Lord
HOUGHTON seconded the resolution, which was also
supported by Mr. Jour:. Moulin', and then put and
carried.

Sir CHARLES WENTWORTH DILKE, M.P., moves,
" That this meeting desires to record its satisfaction at
the progress the society has already made." He expressed
his own readiness, and that of Mr. Jacob Bright, to take
charge of any bill which the committee might prepare.—
Mr. PETER A. TAYLOR, M.P., in seconding the
resolution, expressed his deep sense of the importance
and necessity of this society ; and considered the success
they had met with was truly wonderful.—Professor
MASSON supported the resolution, which was put and
carried.

Mr. STANSFELD, M.P., proposed a vote of thanks to
Mrs. Taylor. He had no doubt of the ultimate success of
the society. His sympathies had ever been with the
movement.—Mr. MILL seconded the motion, and, Mrs.
TAYLOR having briefly returned thanks, the meeting
concluded.

The overseers of Birmingham, in reply to a depu-
tation on Friday, passed the following resolution :—" That
the poor rates on Sunday and raggad schools be written off
as irrecoverable, and in the opinion of the overseers it is
inexpedient for the present to enforce. the ratep on otherpoor
icUalsiashuitablelutitutim.",

CAPTURE OF A FRENCH MURDERER
BY 711 E ENGLISH POLICE.

To-day Jean Baptiste Duflos was placed before
Sir Thomas Henry at Bow-street Police Court, to
undergo an examination prior to his transmission
to _France in compliance with the provisions of the
Extrat!ition Treaty.
M. Atch-oau, the officially-appointed counsel of
his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French
in England, produced the duly authenticated war-
rants, signed by the Judge d'lnstruction of the
first instance, at Arras, authorising, the capture of
Jean Baptiste Duflos, husbandman, on a charge of
wilfully murdering Amedee Godon within the de-
partment of the Pas de Calais.
Auguste Decrequy, the governor of the prison at
Arras, identified the prisoner as one who had been
brought there chargad with murder about the end
of January last. He further said that after the
fifth examination before the magistrate at Arras
the prisoner male his escape from the custody of
the gens d'artne as he was being conveyed back to
prison and before his trial was concluded.
The depositions taken at the extuninaCon of the
prisoner having been read,
Sir T. Henry said the facts mentionel iu the
evidence were quite sufficient to justify him in or-
dering that the prison :r be transmitted to France,
and the escape from the gens d'armes strengthened
the evidence.

The prisoner said he ran away because he had
not committed the crime, and also because it was
a great displeasure to be locked up in prison.

Sir Thomas Henry then signed the necessary
documents.

Inspector Williamson, of the Detective Depart-
ment, said the prisoner was a very desperate man,
and perhaps the magistrate would state that to the
Governor of the House of Detention.

Sir T. Henry thought it would be the safer
course for Mr Williamson to see the Governor,
as he could then give fuller particulars than he (Sir
T. Henry) could write.
The capture of the prisoner has been attended
with both trouble and danger. On it being
intimated that the prisoner was supposed to
be in England, the case was delivered into
the hands of Inspector Druscovitch, of
the detective department, and he, accompanied
by Sergeant Reimers, proceeded last night to No.
25, Oxford Market, where it was ascertained
the prisoner was working for M. Chevalier
as a journeyman baker. After some strata-
gem, he was got into the street, and on the
officers attempting to seize him, ho made
a most powerful resistance. Inspector Druscovitch,
however, kept his prisoner at his own imminent
peril until Sergeant Reimers eould give his assist-
ance; but this, however, proved quite insuffi-
cient, as the prisoner had by this time be-
come a perfect maniac with rage, and being
possessed of immense power the two officers were
quite unable to convey him to the station-house.
On turning into Oxford-street another violent
tussle took place, and it was not before
the arrival of additional constables, that the
prisoner was safely looked up in King-street
police station. A large quantity of money was
found on the prisoner, which, it is supposed,
is the produce of the frequent robbery of Mr.
Chevalier's till, as on the prisoner a number of false
keys were found, one of which openel the drawer
where the money was kept.

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.

BREST, July 9.
Colonel T. G. Glover, R.E., telegraphs as fol-
lows :

Following from Rawson at 10.15 p.m. 17th,
buoyed end from the William Cory at 9 a.m.
Ships' time yesterday. Weather too rough to join
on to the Scanderia.Heed thi3 morning at 1 p.m.,
and proceeded all well. Lat. 43.37., long. 59.42.
Despatched at 12.30 a.m., 19th.

PARIS, July 19.
The Empress and the Prince Imperial left for
Berck-sur-mer yesterday.
An Imperial decree, dated yesterday, was pub-
lished this morning, appointing Marshal Vaillant,
Minister of the Imperial Household.

ALIBICE7 S-7 MS D.IY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
July 19.—Sales probably 8,000 bales. The market
quiet.

The Prince and Princess of Wales attended
Divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel
Royal, St. James's.

THE IVEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather
up to Saturday was extremely warm and favourable to the
maturing of the crops in the eastern and midland districts.
A report from Trentside states that the weather has been
very beneficial to the crops in general. The hay harvest
has resulted favourably, and the wheat crop is now ex-
pected to be secured sooner than was at ono time antici-
pated.

1 - The American papers pay that Mr. Jefferson
Davis has been so ill in Paris that his friends fear he will
not be able to return to America. It was his intention to
visit Canada this summer, and to resume residence in
Mississippi next winter, but the delicate state of his health
may prevent the carrying out of this arrangement.
LITERARY ITEMS.—P. 'l'. Barnum is busily at
work on his an:lbiography, which will appear in the
autumn ; humbugs will catch it.—The Rev. Mr. Whit-
tingham, rector Of St. John's Church, New Haven, intends
to start a new Church magazine in a few weeks.—Mr.
Hepworth Dixon is about to vacate the editorial cbaii of
the At/it/mum, and will proceed On an extended tour
through Russia, and Dr. Doran, his deputy, takes
his place.—The North American Review for July pro-
' ?lases an article on "The Erie Railroad."—Mr. George
Wilkes, editor of the Spirit of the Times, sailed for Europe,
July 1, in the steamer Union. He proposes remaining
abroad about three months.—Mr. Roosevelt, of the Citizen,
has made an arrangement with Mr. Sedley, of the Round
Table, by which the latter paper will become merged in the
former after the present week. The form of the Round Table
will be assumed by the Citizen in the course of a few
weeks, and the size will be increased to twenty-four pages.
The Albion says—" it is said to b 3 definitely determined
that Mr. Stillman S. Conant shall be the successor of
Mr. Raymond in the editorial chair of the Times. Mr.
Conant has for two years been the responsible manager
of the Times, standing in the place of the Chief when
ne was avavuu are 1. boon
on the Times nearly six years. He is a man of sound
1 judgment, culture, and good scholarship, and a practised
and rapid writer. Mr. Conant is a son of the distinguished
Hebrew scholar and professor, Rev. Dr. T. J. Conant."
Mr. John Swinton continues on the staff of the paper as a
leading-article writer; and Mr. James R. Spaulding, who
is said to have stood next to Mr. Raymond in ability, hav-
ing recovered his health, returns as a daily contributor.
Mr. Raymond and Mr. Jones had each one son to succeed,
for ;-:hich purpose they are being trained, the one as edi-
torial anu the other as business manager ; but as yet,
'
though both y,oLzig men of promise, they
are too inexperi-
enced for the work. g' he ettempt was being made in New
York in influential quarters .
ee, for the but these are hoped and ved to have failed.
't
"Brick" Pomeroy rather affects the 71..
news-
boys connected with The Democrat wear a 1, d cap, made
in the shape of a brick.—The President, if report 61.6 true,
is about to throw open the archives of the Confedert.P3
Government under certain restrictions to all applicants.
Formerly the War Department refused access to them,
though eagerly sought by those who desired to write on
the Confederacy. According to the testimony of the men
who have examined them, however, they are said to be
worthless.—Andrew Mead, a journalist, of Paterson, N.J.,
formerly editor and proprietor of the Courier, died at that
place, July 2, aged 67. He was connected with several
Paterson newspaper".

RAILWAY NEWS.—Montreal is now connected
with New York by two through trains daily. This desi-
deratum,after repeated attempts for twenty years, has been
effected by a powerful railroad combination, in which
Commodore Vanderbilt. the President of the Harlem Road,
Oliver Charlick Esq., the President of the new lines hem
Chatham to Rutland, Governor Paige, of Vermont, and
ex- Governor Smith, are the leading parties. It is thought
that the Reciprocity Treaty will have a most beneficial
influence on the Grand Trunk of Canada.

MINING ITEMS.—California advices announce the
discovery of rich silver mines between White Pine and tho
head of navigation on the Colorado River.
_ _

DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, rare the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta-
tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Pelfast; or 4, Bentgrt-bUDlll4Bl5O4Ildi-LPIOnt WIO.—EA4
TeLOAM:I2OIk