The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVEN.

100 acres will be given gratis. The more Upper anct
Lower Canada and the United States advertise their
peculiar 'advantages, the better fcr the country which
can offer the poor labourer no other inducements
than the casual ward and the stone-yard.

here, and the Embassy is being renovated. As far, h9w-
ever as I can judge, there is no official intercourse pro-
bable unless the Czar makes up his mind to accept
the Pope's terms, i.e., the recall of the Polish bishops to
their sees, and the withdrawal of restriction laws
against the liberty of worship for the Polish and
the Russian Catholics. The great increase of
revolutionary agitations in Russia has, however,
alarmed the Government, and the religious sects, all
holding subversive principles, and numbering 22 million fol-
lowers, are rapidly sapping the old Muscovite orthodoxy,
and therefore Roman Catholicism, always conservative in
its tendencies, is not at the present moment what Russia
most dreads. Moreover, he is very anxious to make
his Polish subjects believe that he is on excellent
terms with Rome. Prince Vladimir's visit to the illumi-
nations of the Russian Consulate for the Pope's jubilee,
and the present report, which is traceable only to Russian
sources, are so many means of creating this impression,
which a few weeks will dispel or justify. As yet it is not
confirmed by any reliable information.
The Queen of Portugal is seriously ill, and is ordered by
her doctors to go to Nice for the summer. She will arrive
in the first week in May. The Duke and Duchess of
Parma left for Austria last week. They are on their way
to Holisdorff, where they intend spending some weeks
with the Count de Chambord.

7'HE FOREIGN MISSIONS.

(From the Anglo -American Times.)

General CASSIUS CLAY corrects an error reported
about him in a letter we publish to-day. The
difference, however, is not material, as we presume
the discussion at Washington was whether ANDREW
JOHNSON should observe the conditions with which
he coupled his resignation; which would naturally
raise the question whether an officer of the Govern-
ment could lawfully dictate the terms whereon he
would resign. That Mr. ROLLINS did so, is true; but
he was backed by the Legislature, while many con-
sider that the Executive was right, however un-
popular, and Congress was wrong ; though might
lying the other way, right succumbed. Mr.
MONTGOMERY GIBBS was long the.favourite on the
PRESIDENT'S list for Consul-General to Paris. He
was strongly backed by the Ambassador, E. B.
WASHB URN E, who leaving New York to-day, we may
expect iu less than a fortnight. What effect the
attack of the Nation had, we cannot tell ; but Mr.
GIBBS, though thus powerfully supported, failed in
getting his name sent to the Senate ; but it is
doubtful whether he desired the change proposed
from the post he has held for many years which he
has just returned to Europe to resume. The New
York Evening Post may, by its furious assault on
General SANFORD, have injured him with the Senate,
who, we learn, has rejected the promotion designed
for him by General GRANT from the Belgian Mis-
sion to thatof Spain. How this rejection came to pass
we do not yet know, as the Foreign Affairs Committee
had agreed to report favourably on the nomination.
While we freely acknowledge the right of a journal
to criticise the nominee for an important public ap-
pointment, it ought never to be absent from the
mind of the writer in such a case that the person
criticised being on another Continent cannot reply,
nor take any measures of defence from his asper-
sions till the whole matter is settled. The Post begins
by mis-spelling the Ministers name while proceeding
with assertions which require an intimate acquaint-
ancewith him for the writer to know. That his tastes
and habits are un-Republican is a very general and
safe mode of criticising a public officer, and one
worthy of M'CRACKEN. The I'ost should first lay
down what it considers to be Republican tastes and
habits. The Republican habits and tastes of Maine
differ a good deal from those of New Orleans, and
we would like to have a standard whereby to mea-
sure the Republican tastes and habits of American
Ministers. Some such charge was brought against
Mr. MOTLEY, who was pronounced to be by one
who declared himself to be a Republican authority
an "unmitigated flunkey," and this haslately been re-
newed with great bitterness by the World. We do not
know whether CHARLES SUMNER iS considered to have
Republican tastes and habits, or to be a qualified
judge of them in others; but, if so, he has made
EOlllO mistake in Mr. SANFORD, as well as in Mr.
MOTLEY, for he is, we believe, an earnest friend of
both. Mr. SANFORD, the Post says, has no ability,
and that he acquired his position by bribing Sena-
tors. He must be a very virtuous man who passes
this wholesale condemnation of others, among whom
Senator FENTON has received the largest dose. Mr.
JONES has been nominated toßelgium, and it was said
that General SICKLES, after refusing Mex'co and
one or two other appointments, was offered Spain,
but also declined it. A report he has contradicted
then spre&l that hecalled ou the PRE6 I DENT, by whom
he considered himself to have been slightelon learn-
ing that the Spanish Mission had been filled to tell
him so, but this and other stories of the same
sort arc we believe wholly untrue. lie has, how-
ever, retired from the army on the full pay
of a colonel. Governor CURTIN'S nomination to
St. Petersburgh was virulently attacked by Senator
CAMERON, who not only questioned his acts as Gover-
nor of Pennsylvania,.but also his integrity. Where
men fight as is the Quaker State, even leaders of the
same party opposing each other with the bitterest
animosity, more so indeed than the common enemy,
we know how to appreciate such charges, and ex-
Governor C URTIN being on the spot, the same
objection does not hold as in the attack on
General SANFORD. The opposition, however,
was of no avail in the Senate, powerful as
Senator CAMERON undoubtedly is. in Pennsyl-
vania. Mr. MOTLEY, who has been receiving lessons
from the late Attorney-General on international
law, was soon to take his departure for England,
filled to overflowing with instructions. He will
be empowered to embrace a wide range with re-
spect to future treaties, and his directions are said
to differ entirely from those given to Mr. C. F. ADAMS
and to Mr. REVERDY JOHNSON. General ADAM
BADEAU accompanies him as Assistant-Secretary
of Legation. Mr. MOTLEY desired this arrangement,
probably to have one near him who so intimately
knows the PRESIDENT, while conducting negociations
of such an important character for, General BADEAU
has long served on GRANT'S personal staff, and
commands his full confidence. This distinguished
officer will, we feel assured, meet a hearty recep-
tion in England, where he at least can be " dined,"
swear some after dinner eternal friendship, and be
treated with a little extra civility, without rousing
feelings of indignation. Mr. MORAN remains in
his present post at Mr. MOTLEY'S especial request,
who will thus be fortified by one who knows all
the negociations and records of this office ; and, ou
theot her hand, in Badeau, by an officer who commands
the PRESIDENT'S entire confidence. The publication
of the SEWARD- lIA LE-PERRY correspondence in
the public papers almost as soon as it reached the
Senate has caused much surprise and no small
scandal. The documents were not worth the fuss
likely to be made about them, and it only shows
what the indefatigable reporter will do. What we
publish of the correspondence•was in type last week,
but crushed out by an unexpected demand for
space, which shows that we, at least, did not con-
sider it to be of such overwhelming inter3st to our
readers. How it became public is to be investigated,
and authority has been given to a Committee to
send for persons and papers. EDWARD L. PLUMB,
the new Consul-General to Havannah, is about to
leave Washington for his post ; emphatically in-
structed to take high ground as regards the impri-
sonment and ill-treatment of American citizens by
the Spanish authorities, while declaring the strict
neutrality of his• Government. Although as our list
of nominations, given in another column, shows a
successor has been named to Consul-General
MURPHY, at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, his is the
only one in that grade not yet sanctioned, and we
know that it caused considerable discussion, as the

present incumbent is strongly backed at Wash-
ington. Senator CARL SCIIITII7. uses all his in-
fluence in favour of Mr. PILE for the Bra-

zilian Mission. but when the mail left the
Senate had not decided, nor in the cases of Mr.
CARLISLE for Sweden, nor of Mr. JONES for Bel-

gium. The Committee of Commerce report on the

Consular appointments, and four-fifths of the
names sent in were passed by that Committee on the
16th April, and the most that remain will not be

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favourably reported on., but it is thought that many
of the names will be withdrawn, indeed many already
had been. Although Mr. HARVEY was first no-
minated as minister to Portugal, it was announced
when the mail left that Judge SIIELLABABGER, of