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London, England, 1869-05-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TH URSDAY EVENING, MAY 20, 1869.

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is one of degree, is, how far they shall be taed ? We
trust that before long a Chancellor of the hchequer
will be found bold enough to renew the aiempt to
perform that which is only an act of barejustice—
the depriving the minority of a privilege w.ich they
enjoy at the expense of the majority.

THE Peace Society has just celebrated its fifty-
third anniversary by lamenting the enormus size of
the standing armies of Europe, and by dprecating
with anxious earnestness a war between tro nations
of the same race. The Peace Society as estab-
lished in the year after Waterloo, and ;his is the
state of things after entering the secon4 half-cen-
tury of existence. The result is certainly
not encouraging, and the only atisfactory
feature is that two members of this ssociation
have succeeded in obtaining admission into Par-
liament. And yet there has been soin progress
since Waterloo. That enormous butchers bill has
not been forgotten, and there is at but a keen
appreciation of the horrors of war which mist have
frequently helped to prevent war. In fat, the very
embroilment against which the speaker so vehe-
mently protested is all but impossible b: reason of
the strong repugnance that there is on b)th sides of
the Atlantic to this kind of appeal. It cat hardly be
doubted but that fifty years ago such a iontroversy
as that in which the -United States and ourselves
are now engaged would have led tc hostilities.
That it has not done so now—hat nations
generally are more reluctant to ugh than they
were formerly, is, we believe, due chiefly to
two causes. The most powerful is the increase of
commerce. The repeal of the corn lays was the
severest blow ever dealt against the walke spirit.
The relations between Great Britain aid America
became thereby immensely strengthen3d and in-
creased. The loss that would arise to both sides
through a rupture is so enormous that bolt sides hesi-
tate to incur it. Similarly it is to the Frerch Commer-
cial Treaty, not to our fortifications, that we owe that
peace between England and France whbh has been
continued in spite of panics and misrepresentations,
and which seems impossible to be broken. The
second cause of the greater rarity of wars is the
increase of democracy. It was said many years ago
that war Was a game wmcn, if their subjects we..,
wise, kings would not be suffered
_to play at. But
the subjects at that time had no power to prevent.
They were without political privileges ; they could do
nothing. All is changed. The people are now vir-
tually self-governed ; it is they who decide if there
shall be peace or war ; and as it is they who have to
bear all the burden of the latter alternative, their
voices are generally for the former. Of old, " the
kings played the madman, and the people were
punished." The people now keep their kings under
restraint if necessary. And thus it comes to pass
that just as in proportion as a country becomes
democratic does it become peaceful. The Working
Men's International Congress at Geneva, was so
democratic that NAPOLEON was alarmed by
it. Europe, at all events, had no reason
to be alarmed, for while NAPOLEON was
forcing his Conscription Bill through the French
Legislature, the Congress were raising the cry of
"War against War." There is no reason, then, why
the Peace Society should be cast down. They may
not have much influence as teachers, but, at least,
the education of the race is going on. It may be of
small use to tell the nations that war is horrible and
sinful, but, at least, the nations are determined that
they will not lightly have war. Let us then promote
commerce, increase political freedom among all
people, and they will at last, even though the Peace
Society should be dissolved, come to see that war is
not only shocking, but illogical ; that, in fact, it
proves nothing.

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HER MAJESTI".

BALMORAL, May 18.

•
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise, went out yesterday morn-

ing.
ller Majesty drove out in the afternoon,

The Prince and Princess of Wales went to
the Flower Show at the Royal BJtapical Gardens,
Regent's-park, yesterday.

LATEST INTE LL LIB-EN OE

(IZEU "i:R'S T-g."GILAUS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, May 19.
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A riot between the police and the people oc-
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were more or less severely YVolludecl. The troops

restored order.

AUSTRIA.

VENNA, May 20.

The Official Vienna Gazette of to-day announces
that the Emperor has given hit sanction to the
Public Schools Bill.

FRANCE.

BOURSE, May 19.—Three o'cbck—The market
closed as follows :-
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End of month... ItalY.an Fives 57 65
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The 3d Royal Surrey from Kingston-on-
Thames, will proceed to Alde,rshott Camp to-mor-
row for the usual period of training. _ _ _

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CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(rnou OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

rAils, WEDNESDAY, May 19.

The election riots have not, it appears, bees confined to
Paris. Disturbances have taken place at several
places in the departments, though it does not
appear that any of them have been of great
moment, or that they have assumed the proportions
of the Paris riots. As might have been expected, Nimes is
one of the offending places. On Sunday evening, on the
termination of a public meeting, some two or three
hundred individuals promenaded the town, singing
the obnoxious " Marseillaise." They betook themselves
to the place of the Prefecture, but they did not remain
there more than a few minutes. The Patrie states that
the authorities did not at first intervene. But about mid-
night, reinforced by libations, the mob returned, and then
the guard was called out. No collision, however, took place,
and the mob shortly after dispened, promisipg a fresh ffiani-
festation next day. This promise was not fulfilled, at least
the last account avers tha t " tranquillity had been restored."
Disturbances have also taken place in the _dude depart-
ment, and at Thurges, and a sanguinary conflict is reported
from the dude; but we are as yet without details of these

occurrences.
As I Lave before said, the capital returned none but
Opposition deputies at the late election, and therefore the
Left can gain only in the sense of electing more. extreme
antagonists to Imperial rule. The great question of what
the departments will do must be left to the decision of
next Sunday and Monday. I hear conflicting reports
as to the doings and prospects of the several par,-
ties. One account, which comes from a very good
source, is particularly remarkable. The designation of
"official candidate "—the proud title which was so sure a
pass to the Corps Le,gislatif in 1863—is now, I am told,
rejected everywhere. M. Calley Saint-Paul came for-
ward, it was both expected and represented, as a Govern-
ment candidate. But he has been found too Liberal, and
the Prefect has put up M. Bardinet against him. The
latter is receiving the most strenuous Imperial support.
In the Haute-Vienne M. Nolalhier offered himself, and
was received with open arms by the Administration. The
authorities were so enthusiastic about this candidate that
they induced M. Marc de Laguerronnih•e to withdraw in
his favour. But how ungratefully the perfidious
Noualhier has repaid this affectionate zeal! He has repu-
diated the patronage of the Administration. Being called
upon to explain why he voted against the Press Law in 1867,
he replied that it was not liberal enough ! The Opposition
cannot do better than vote for Government candidates
of this 5t,,,„„ T,. .}},pr departments the Independents
are prospering. In the Basses-Pyrenees Al.. Gustave
Fould, a strong Independent, is making headway against
M. Lavielle, the deputy who represented this circumscrip-
tion in the defunct Chamber. Still too much reliance
ought not to he placed on these reports. As Captain
Bunsby would say, the meaning- of them "lies in the
application." Too much significance may readily be
attached to a few isolated facts. The pigheaded country
voters may, in spite of all the efforts to enlighten them, send
a rigidly Imperialist majority to the Corps L6gislatif ; or,
without imitating the "sanguinary radicalism" of Paris,
they may elect a powerful force of Moderate Indepen-
dents, whose hostility to personal government could hardly
fail to be productive of the greatest results.
Above one hundred unfortunate prisoners have good
cause to remember the Paris riots of last Wednesday and
Thursday. The total number of arrests was 149, Of whom
only 17 have been set at liberty. Of the 132 culprits yet
in custody, 23 have previously made their appearance in a
court of justice, and 62 are under 20 years of age ; 93
exercise mechanical occupations. The remainder are
clerks, students, &c.
The period of public meetings has terminated, but the
Opposition is not the less active. The oratorical cam-
paign is at an end; but the journalists are having their
turn, and they are making the most of it. 'They are as
iiligent in filling their columns as the public is in
reading them. The sale of newspapers is immense:
Although the evening journals print an additional num-
ber, copies are scarcely to be procured in certain quarters,
and are snatched up from the kiosks the moment they
appear. Nearly every man you meet is reading a news-
paper, .and the omnibuses are transferred into reading-
rooms of two storeys. Besides the journals, the war is
sustained by means of an unlimited supply of placards.
Your dead walls, and walls which could not be accounted
•‘ dead," were pretty well ornamented in London and other
places last year ; but the placarding here far outdoes you.
'great ingenuity of device is strewn. Provision is made for
all tastes, both literary and political. And it is 'appre-
ciated. All the walls containing these placards, addresses,
invocations, and professions of faith, arc surrounded by
?ager crowds of readers. There can be no doubt of the
interest taken in this election ; equally little doubt that
.t causes more excitement than any previous contest of the
kind. •

Many of the leading statesmen of Europe—Napoleon
[II., Lord Derby, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Disraeli, and King
Tohn of Saxony—have become citizens of the Republic of
Letters. Count Bismarck thinks it time to enrol himself.
Re is about to publish a German verse translation of the
Xneid,"Books I. to VI. This is not a new work by any
weans. It is a pc-che de jeunesse, and was written
twenty-six years agO.

2.IIISSIO.NARY DIFFICULTIES IN CHINA

It is satisfactory to learn, from the correspondence just
aid before Parliament, that the state of affairs in Chins.
is pacific and encouraging.. We may congratulate our-
elves on having escaped a serious difficultyby the prudence
nd decision of Sir Rutherford Alcock, who, acting on the
principles now adopted by our authorities, refused to
countenance any reckless employment of force. Sir R.
Alcock, in opening the correspondence with Lord Stanley
•especting the affairs at Hankow, expresses some uneasi-
ess as to the consequences of these frequent outbreaks,
and doubts whether the missionaries. are justified
in provoking. the dangers resulting from their
attempts to establish missions in the interior; away from
the treaty porti. •It-becomes (says Sir R. Alcock) matter
for serious consideration how far the Government will be
disposed to protect the missionaries should they persevere
in their present curse. The affair at Hankow may be -
briefly told. The port itself is situated about GOO
'lanes up the Yang-tze, and is one of our consular
• ations. The missionaries extended their labours beyond
be treaty limits to Wuchang, where the people became
'rritated against them, and made angry demonstrations.
The missionaries appealed to the Hankow Consul, Mr.
Caine, who forthwith invoked the aid of a war vessel from
Nanking. As this request was not at once responded to,
Mr. Caine wrote in some indignation to Sir Rutherford
Alcock, urging that " a vessel of war of some sort "
should be always kept on the station. Sir Rutherford
'ery sensibly answered that it was neither necessary nor
possible to station a gunboat at every port, and
that if the consuls could not conduct the business
if their consulates without .their aid, there was little
advantage in having a treaty of amity
and commerce.
Sir R. Alcock evidently thought the disturbances at For- .
mesa and Yang-Chow-Foo far more serious than the Han-
kow dispute was likely to prove, but he suggested that
one or two vessels might be stationed in the Yang-tzc
to protect the three ports in that river. To this proposal,
however, the home Government are unwilling to
accede, and as the latest intelligence announces that
" peace and order bad been restored " at all the ports, and
that " there was no more cause for anxiety at any point,',
we may hope the demand for war vessels will for the
present diminish.
The answer of Lord Clarendon to the
telegram conveying this welcome newsintention and
desire of this country that the intercourse
with China should be maintained by friendly means, and
should riot-be subject to interruption by injudicious and
rash proceedings on the part of British subjects." The
account of the Formosa difficulty, now happily at an end,
is given very fully in No. 3 of the papers. The dis-
.turbance arose from a report which was current among
the Chinese that the missionaries were administering a
poisonous drug to the people. A native Protestant preacher •
was seized and imprisoned, and the missionaries applied to •
Mr. Jamieson for assistauce. He endeavoured to allay
the. excitement, and advist d them to remain quiet.
Further disturbances occurred in connection with
the missions, upOn which Lieutenant Gurdon, of -
the Algerine, acting on the requisition of Mr. •
Gibson, Acting-Consul at Formosa, seized and held
Fort Zelandia, and the town of Amping. This conduct
was strongly censured by the Foreign oaice. Lord
Clarendon at first threatened to remove Mr. Gibson
from his post, but finally left him in charge
till further orders. Ten thousand dollars, exacted
by Lieutenant Gurdon from the people for his
expenses. were refunded by the Admiral. The English
Government appear to be fully sensible that by the con-
stant employment of force in these dispu' es they weaken
their ground of appeal to the Chinese authorities to fulfil
their treaty obligations. The account of the Yang-Chow.
Foo difficulty is somewhat different in its character. in
this case the local authorities at Yang-Chow-Foo are held
responsible for the damages, and after a correspondence
with Prince Kong, this payment is insisted on by Sir P.
Alcock. At the close of the lengthy correspondence.
arising from an attack made by some Chinese villagers on
„the boats of Cockchafer, Lord Clarendon desires
the consuls generally to discourage imprudent excursions
into the interior on the part of British subjects, who must
not expect redress for injuries so wantonly incurred.

The Princess Qbarlotte, of Mexico, is to be con-
mad to 13agnom- iicb9s in fx 4c,e_i_yiktio_Aq
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