The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

The news from Mexic—o is, as usual, contradic-
tory. The Emperor's treasury is said to be ex-
hausted. Yellow fever had appeared at Vera Cruz.
It was rumoured in New York on the 27th ultimo
that the Imperial forces had re-captured Puebla.
A steamer and two schooners had been fitted out
to blockade Vera Cruz. The State of Coahuala has
rebelled against the authority of Juarez. The Re-
publican accounts state that the Emperor Maximi-
lian attempted to break the siege of Queretaro, but

was defeated. Juarez had just given orders that
the Emperor, if eaptured, should be treated as a

prisoner of war, with the consideration due to un-
successful valour. A swift messenger bad been

despatched to Juarez with Mr. Seward's Message,
recommending that this course should be adopted
not only as regards the Emperor, but also to include
his foreign followers. Mr. Seward has given it as
his opinion that the Mexican difficulty will be over
in 60 days. By the latest intelligence received, as
we write, Queretaro has been captured by the
Liberals, and Miramon is said to he dead. The
Mexican Minister at Washington had communi-
cated this from advices which had reached him.
During the past month there sailed from the
Mersey under the Government regulations—to the
United States, 33 ships, with 12,205 passengers, of

whom 5,661 were Irish; for Canada, two ships,
with 798 passengers ; to Victoria, one ship, with
140 passengers ; to South America, one ship, with
30 passengers, and 17 short ships to various parts,
with 555 passengers—making a total emigration for
the month of 13,246.

Mr. Hepworth Dixon's literary services in Ame-
rica have extended beyond the interesting volumes he
has published. Lord Romilly handsomely acknow-
ledges this in a letter to the 7 imes. It appears
that, last autumn, Mr. Dixon visited the public
library of Philadelphia, where he found four

volumes of original State papers bearing the
royal sign manual of James 1., and the sig-
natures of the Lords of his Privy Cuuucil
addressed to the Lord Deputy of Ireland,
together with the original MS. of the M Lrquis of
Clanricarde's Memoirs, from October 23d, 1641,

to August 30th, 1643, mentioned in Mr. Hardy's

valuable report on the Carte and Carew Papers, and
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which had been considered to have been lost. The

State Papers had been-taken away by the Chancel-
lor of James If., and were sold at his death to
the founder of the Philadelphia Library, by whom
they were presented to that institution. This
Library, with the greatest liberality, forwarded
these papers to the Master of the Rolls, and the
MS., which had passed into the possession of Mr.
Dixon, was restored by th;t gentleman to the series
to which he found it belonged. Thus this valu-

able link in the State records of the country, so long
missing, has been supplied through the discernment
and judicious course of Mr. Dixon, and the generosity
and kindly feeling of the city of Philadelphia. The
Lords of the Treasury have presented to the Phila-
delphia Library Company a complete set of all the
works published under the direction of the Master
of the Rolls, as a mark of their sense of the
liberal act performed by the directors of that com-
pany.
Roonan, another Fenian prisoner, who was being
escorted by Sergeant Savage, of the Metropolitan
Police, and Constable Gunning, of the Irish con-
stabulary, has escaped. He was on the way from
London to Dublin in the mail train, and was near-
ing Tamworth station when he made a bound to
the carriage window and went through before they
could stop him. After the train had arrived at the
station an engine returned to look for the fugitive,
but no trace could be found.
The informer Massey served in the Crimea under
the name of Pat Condon in the Land Transport
Corps. He appears to have deserted to America,
and entered the Confederate army. He states he
was a colonel under General Gervave Smith—
which Burke, in his speech, indignantly denied—
but if so he lost his commission, as he lost his dis-
charge from the British army. After the war he
became a commercial traveller, and in New Orleans
took up the Fenian cause.. On leaving New York
he received £550 from Colonel Kelly to carry on
the rebellion. In Dublin he met twenty centres,
and arranged for the general rising on the sth of
March. Ile visited various districts on an
organising tour. The Fenian strength in Dublin
he gave as 14,000 men, and 3,000 stand of arms ;
in Cork 20,000, with 1,500 weapons. The forces
were to meet at Limerick Junction, to which he
had proceeded when arrested. He showed how little
fitted he was for the conduct of such an enterprise
by swooning when grasped by the police. In giving
his evidence he declared he wished he had not re-
covered. Corydon was employed in England, and
was present at a meeting of American officers in
Liverpool when the attack on Chester Castle was
arranged. It was he who gave the information by
which the authorities of Chester frustrated the
plan. The leaders, suspecting treachery, counter-
manded the enterprise, but were too late to prevent
a portion of their force from mustering at the scene
of action. The most audacious enterprise planned
by the Fenians was this attack on Chester. It was
Corydon who betrayed Massey, and Massey
attempted to justify his course by the declaration
that he had himself been betrayed. M'Cafferty,
who is now being tried, was born in the State of
Ohio in 1838, and is, therefore, but twenty-nine
years of age.
The British North American delegates to England
who have returned have met a very flattering recep-
tion in different parts of the country. Public meet-
ings and public dinners have been given to them,
and not only Canada, but Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick, appear to be well satisfied with the
manner in which these gentlemen have exercised the
important trust reposed in them. The New York
Commercial Advertiser thus writes of the British
American Confederation: —"lt was a grand stroke
of British statesmanship to unite all the local go-
vernments of this vast country into a single empire.
Mr. Seward foresaw this result some years ago when
he predicted the British American provinces would
not be annexed to the States, but would be united
in a single Government. If our neighbours escape
or can guard against the tendencies of centralisa-
tion, there is no reason why they shonld not do
well.

The Conference of the European Powers will
meet in London, on Tuesday, to discuss the Luxem-
bourg question. It is supposed that the necessary
formalities will occupy some days, and that the
deliberations will not commence before the 11th.
In the match between the Paris Cricket Club
and I Zingari, the latter won in one innings.
The Borsen Zeitung says a project exists to estab-
lish, in the event of the evacuation of Luxembourg,
a Prussian fortified camp at Trier on a larger scale o,
than the French camp at Chalons.
Spain again appears to be drifting into trouble.
Great agitation prevails throughout Catalonia.
Hostile manifestations have been made against the
Captain-General in Barcelona at the bullfights.
Troops have been hastily despatched into the pro-
vince of Tarragona, and the mountains of Figueras,
where armed bands are stated to be in the field.
The watchword of the insurgents is said to be
" Prim and the Republic for ever ! Down with the
Queen ! Down with Narvaez !" The Marquis de
Miraflores, President of the Senate, has resigned.
General Sickles has issued an order, setting forth
that the general destitution prevalent in his district
renders extraordinary measures for relief necessary;
he therefore orders that no person shall be impri-
soned, or property seized for debt incurred during
the war. Saks of property for debt incurred within
the year previous to the war, are to be postponed
for one year, and implements of husbandry and
household goods to the value of 500 dollars are to
be reserved to each family exempt from legal
seizure. The carrying of deadly weapons, except
by the military, is strictly prohibited.
A reception was given to Mr. George Peabody at
Danvers, in Massachusetts, his birthplace. Twelve
hundred scholars from the various schools of the
town were formed in procession, and marched
through various streets of the place about noon,
headed by a band of music, and received Mr. Pea-
body at the Universalist Church, which was crammed
to overflowing. Closing a brief address to the
children, Mr. Peabody said :—" I have but little
advice to give you. Your parents and teachers are
much better qualified to judge of your media a thil

kind ; but it is safe to say—endeavour constantly to
practise the virtues of truth, honesty, punctuality,
and fidelity in the discharge of duty. Be kind to
all, especially to your schoolmates. Beware of the
vices of envy and jealousy, and remember that there
is room enough in the world for every one to per-
form well his part and gain distinction without dis-
paraging others. Cherish the habit of looking at
the merits rather than the faults of your compa-

nions, and cultivate the Christian virtues of for-

bearance and forgiveness. Do all this, and you
will find your reward, even in this world, and a still

greater, in that which is to come. Farewell."
The San Francisco advices state that continuous
shipments of grain were taking place to England
and elsewhere. According to a telegram of the 9th
inst. the ship Chieftain, for:Cork, sailed on that day
with 38,500 sacks of wheat, together with the Alice
Ball, for Liverpool, with 31,000 sacks. At the

same time 5,700 barrels of flour were cleared for

Rio de Janeiro.

The New York: Tribune writes as follows of Henry
IVard Beecher, who has been nominated as delegate

!rom Brooklyn to the Constitutional Convention :

—" He has three good men for colleagues ; but the
general public will care mom for Mr. Beecher's
election than for that of them all. A positive,
eager, impulsive man, he is by no means infallible ;
but few men in the State can contribute more fresh,
original suggestions toward the reform of our Con-
stitution. He has thought of declining, but that
must not be allowed. He is needed to run, and he
must not be beaten."

In re-constituting the judiciary committee ap-
pointed by Congress to collect and investigate evi-
dence upon which to impeach Mr. Johnson, Messrs.
Marshall and Eldridge have been nominated by the
Speaker, Mr. Collar. Both are Democrats. Mr.
Churchill, of New York, a Conservative Republi-
can, has been named by the Speaker to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Cook, of
Illinois. Thus three members opposed to the mea-
sure will take the places of those who favoured it.
However severely the American press may criti-
cise the news of European affairs forwarded by their
London agent through the Atlantic Telegraph they
have a vast advantage over us, who seldom get any
news whatever from America through this expedi-
tious medium. Gold has again fallen as rapidly as
it rose, being quoted on Wednesday evening at 135 i.
Five-Twenties maintain their value in Wall-street,
the last quotation being 1071 ex the coupon. The
gold market was merely excited by the prospect of
a drain to Europe in the face of a great war. Re-
assuring telegrams at once sent it back to its old
quotation. The London dailies of Monday last
contain two telegrams from New York, one of
Friday evening, April 26, the other of Saturday
evening, April 27. The former quotes gold at 1431,
the latter at 1361. The quotation received yes-
terday evening from New York of the 2d inst. was
135 i. A report comes through the cable, and is
confirmed, that gold has been discovered in lowa.
There is news from Rio de Janeiro to April 8.
The mission of the United States Minister to the

Camp of General Lofey and Marshal Caxias, to
promote peace between the belligerents, had failed.
No fresh operations have taken place at the seat of
war. The Emperor of Brazil, in orderto reinforce his
army on the River Paraguay, had called the Na-
tional Guard of the Empire into active service.
This measure had caused much discontent among
the people, and provoked some opposition to the
continuance of the war with Paraguay. Lopez
appears to maintain his position with indomitable
courage, and seems well able to stand his ground.
The Springfield Republican states that a singu-
lar fatality has attended the amusement estab-
lishments in New York that "do not advertise in
the Herald." All these, in succession, have been
destroyed by fire since they joined in the fight
against Bennett, Barnum's Museum, " 414" Broad-
way, Academy' of Music, New Bowery Theatre,
and Winter Garden.
The hoax of the Pall Mall Gazette, on the dis-
covery of a suppressed passage of Dean Swift, deceived
other critics than those of the London Review. The Nation
confesses to having been hoaxed "by the unprincipled
young man who wrote for the Pall Mall Gazette what pur-
ported to be a suppressed passage of Swift's Gulliver's
Travels.' Wo read with unstisr•cting, credulous haste,
and were imposed upon by the cleverness of the forgery
and the fact of its appearance in the Gazette. However,
wo freely forgive both editor and writer for the sake of
the irresistible impudence with which the secret is made
known— impudence beyond the efforts of one man, we
suppose, for the explanation is the joint work of the pair
of them."
The Round Table, however, viewed the papers
with some suspicion, as is seen by the following extract :
—" In St. Patrick's Library, Dublin, have been unearthed
numerous papers believed to be in the handwriting of
Dean Swift. The library was one of the spots frequented
by the satirist, and the most important fragment is de-
scribed as bearing tokens of his peculiarities in thought
and style. The Pall Mall Gazette quotes what it holds to
be one of the Iloughnhnm chapters elided from Gulliver
from prudential motives, both Bolingbroke and Gay,
Swift's friends, being open to the strictures against the
turf of which it consists. The papers, otherwise, are
of little importance."
'We are sorry to see that at the same time
the Round Table expresses esteem for us--an opinion we
highly prize—it comments adversely on the articles of our
correspondent, the Rev. John S. C. Abbott. The American
press has severely criticized some letters by the historian
from Paris, published by the Journal of New Haven.
Mr. Abbott was naturally elated by the distinc-
tion with which he was received at the Tuileries.
Perhaps vanity is the foible of literary men, and Mr.
Abbott may have circulated too freely, accounts of
the flattering attentions accorded. The following
is the extract: "The Rev. John S. C. Abbott—as
we regret to see, since we have no small esteem for
The Anglo-American Times as a staunch friend of this
country—is contributing to that journal a series of papers
on ' The Reconstruction of Europe, as viewed from the
other [this] side of the Atlantic.' The first number is
adequately described by the stock statement that it is
written in Mr. Abbott's usual vein.' The gentleman, by
the way, is about to return to this country, having crowned
his Napoleonic triumphs by obtaining ' an autograph letter
from the Emperor giving him permission to present to the
Prince Imperial a magnificent work in three volumes on
the American Indians."
The Rev. Charles B. Boynton, D.D., has pre-
pared, and the Messrs. Appleton aro to publish, a very
elaborate "History of the Navy during the Rebellion."
Mr. O. P. Baldwin is delivering a lecture, in
Virginia, on "The Three Perils of Man"— the love of
politics, the love of money, and the love of talk.
Professor Chadbourne has terminated his official
connection with Williams College, and has entered npon
his duties as President of the Massachusetts Agricultural
College, at Amherst.
A new evening paper has been published called
the Little Times under the editorship of Captain Mayne
Reid.
Edmond Kirke, author of " Among the Pines,"
publisher of the late Knickerbocker, Continental, and North-
ern Lights magazines, and the man who, during the rebel-
is
es rebel-
lion, paid a visit to Jeff. Davis, in company with Mr.
Jacques,
for a position in the New York Cus-
tom-house, swhkeirnegßichard Grant White, Charles F. Briggs,
B. Stoddard,H. Barry Gray, and some other literary
lights earn their daily bread.
Mr. Peabody, it is said, purposes depositing Queen
Victoria's portrait, which she presented to him, in the
Marshall Institution, near Boston, and has built a new room
there to receive it, which has cost him $40,000.
General Thomas Francis Meagher is still in Mon-
tana Territory, no longer as Secretary and acting Gover-
nor, but as a private citizen, largely interested in dovelop-
ing the mineral resources of that country.
NATHANIEL FULLERTON, President of the Na-
tional Bank, at Bellows, Now Hampshire, is ninety-two
years old. He has hold the office for thirty years; is said
to be the oldest Freemason in the country, and retains the
vigour of his faculties.
The nomination by the New York Herald of
Generals Grant and Lee for President and Vice-President
in the next general election is believed by many in the
United States to indicate the ticket on which the Demo-
crats will stand.
Brigadier A. Ames, of the United States army,
was presented at the levee, on Wednesday, by the United
States Minister to II.R. 11. the Prince of Wales.
N.R. Fowler, RN., will preside at the annual
meetings of the South American Missionary Society, at the
London Tavern, on the Bth of May, and of the Ragged
Church and Chapel Union, at Exeter Hall, on the 13th of
May. •

The Hon. D'Arcy M'Gee, who has been suffering
from a severe illness in Par is for several weeks past, is now
in a fair way to speedy recovery.
A meeting will be held in the Guildhall on Mon-
day, May 20—the first of a series in honour of General
Neal Dow, and in furtherance of the alliance agitation for
a Permissive Prohibitory Liquor Bill.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weak' Circular.)
Ogr littett adyicoo from New York by the Tana are to