The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-30 00:00:00

IHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 30, 1867.

warded at the expense of thrift, energy, and

virtue.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times says
—"The President evidently fears that he may have
some trouble with Congress, for he is reported to
be quietly increasing the military force in and near
Washington, and he continues, with Grant's ap-
proval, the disarming of the negro military organi-
sations there, that the Radicals can control. It is
quite probable that in his present mood he will not
send any Message to Congress at its November
Session, but will delay his Message until the regular
Session begins, on the first Monday in December."
The coloured Militia companies in Washington
amount, we believe, to about 300 ill-armed men.
Their commanding officer has replied to an order
from Mr. Johnson by sending in a report on
the object of the organisation, and no further
steps have as yet been taken by the President
The 7 ivies correspondent has exaggerated the
position. He seems to consider that " Stevens,
Wade, Butler, Sumner, Chandler, Boutwell,
Ashley, Schenck, Colfax, and several others, in
late speeches, have been even more Radical in tone
than during the last session, and they are determined
to push extreme measures at all hazards. The elec-
tions have rendered them desperate, and they de-
mand impeachment, confiscation, and negro suffrage
with furious zeal." The whole question hinges on
the tone of the Legislature. These leaders derived
their strength when the war raged from the fact
that they were honest, earnest, and, above all,
courageous men. But they are extremists, and the
people have emphatically declared their intention

that the Government shall act with moderation, a
hint not likely to be lost on Congress. Thaddeus
Stevens is nobody without his tail, and where is
Thad's tail?

The approaching struggle for the mayorship of
New York is between J. T. Hoffmann, the present
mayor, and Fernando Wood. The former is sup-
ported by the Tammany Democracy, the latter by
the Mozart Democracy. Fernando Wood has
issued an address, in which he says that the people
" must take him as he is." His previous record is
known, and "if the old charges are brought up
against his character, he will not attempt to refute
them, only telling his accusers they have not found
out half." It is thought he will be elected if the pre-
sent mayor does not receive the Republican support.

The news from China is to the 15th October.
The heavy typhoon which passed over Hong Kong
on the Ist Oct. did more damage on shore than in
harbour, the casualties among the shipping not being
numerous. The Great Republic, from San Fran-
cisco, arrived on Oct. 5 with 600 returned China-
men in the steerage. The United States squadron
sailed for Formosa to co-operate with Chine troops
under General Legendre, American Consul at Amoy,
to punish the savages who massacred the crew of
the Rover. Manilla seems to have been heavily
visited. Two earthquakes occurred on Oct. 4, and
fearful inundations are reported to have drowned
more than 10.000 Indians.

The mining interests of the Pacific States are now
attracting so much attention iu Europe that we
transfer to our columns a very interesting summary
of their progress in commerce and finance from the
Commercial Herald and Market Review.

News from Lisbon last Tuesday tells us that a
contract has been signed between the Portuguese
Government and Mr. Rose, civil engineer, for a
telegraphic cable from Lisbon to Gibraltar.

reported in favour of impeachment. Stranger
things have happened than such a revulsion of
feeling as would re-seat ANDREW JOHNSON for
another term ; and, if it bo possible to effect
such a change, the course indicated by this
proceeding of the Judiciary Committee would
be the best calculated to effect it. But the battle
will be fought on the main issue of Negro Equality
and Universal Negro Suffrage. It is in this fact
that the true strength of the Democratic party lies,
for it is more negative than affirmative in principle,
contesting those of the Republican but enunciating
none of its own. The Republicans are committed to
Negro Suffrage, while the tide of public feeling
runs daily stronger against it. Thus it is not likely
that any reflux can occur before the coming Presi-
dential election, but the reverse. It is now generally
conceded that the ballot must not be regarded as a
mere natural right, being a means of governing
others, and that no one has a personal right to this
until acquired by training and character, as well as by
the years the law supposes to give discretion. The ex-
traordinary spectacle of whole States of the South
being in the hands of blacks, whose loosened fetters are
as yet still lying at their feet, has sunk deeply into
the Northern mind, for not only do the votes of the
enfranchised slaves affect their former masters, but
they may affect and perhaps neutralise a Northern
majority. Thus it is brought home to them ; and
they see the value of TII A.D. STEVENS'S exclamation,
" that the man who denies the right of suffrage to
any being to whom GOD has given immortality
must be an impudent citizen, and ought never to
profess to believe in the existence of a DEITY."
Carrying such a view to its legitimate conclusion,
he must enfranchise women, idiots, and criminals,
as well as emancipated slaves. The Northern people
have, however, taken up an opposite view, and it is
around the standard of suffrage that the unflinching
leaders of the Radical party will rally and die.
A liberal construction of the Reconstruction
Acts is recommended as the best policy for the
Southern Conventions, embodying universal am-
nesty and universal suffrage, so that nobody be
disfranchised. It is an outrage on Northern opinion
to deprive the Southern whites of the privilege to
which they were born of voting for their rulers, even
on the plea of rebellion, while conferring it on those
who now justly term themselves the freedmen. If
these Conventions do not take the hint it will be the
worse for them, and they will become the authors of
the ruin of the extreme party to whom they owepower.
The New York Evening Post, the Albany Evening
Journal, the Springfield Republican, the New York
Nation, and other leading Republican organs, unite
in urging on these Conventions the most liberal
ideas on which to base the new constitutions, and
should they neglect the warning of their best
friends, they will hereafter meet with as little mercy
as they would thus show the inclination to bestow.
It is clear that the split between the sections of the
Republican party is so widening that Radical and
Republican will soon signify opposing principles.
Whatever may be the result, the Republican party
will not endorse the Radical programme, and when
the debates in Congress reach this country it will
be seen that, however furious the zeal of extremists,
the tone of the Legislature is strongly in favour of
moderate measures.—Anglo-American Times.

the sanction of the United States, but in direct
opposition to its wishes. Had Maximilian really
understood the position he would have proceeded
from Miramar to Washington, and abandoned the
vain attempt, if he there found it impossible to re-
concile the United States to an Empire in Mexico.
What lent point to the resolve at Washington
that his government should cease to exist was the
fact that it had been established in defiance of the
United States at a period when the national
existence was in jeopardy. It was a terrible
blunder, for which Maximilian paid with his life;
and Americans have not only forgiven him, but per-
haps in few other countries has he found more
ardent admirers and more generous sympathisers.
As Admiral Tegethoff has telegraphed to Vienna
that he left Mexico on the 18th inst. with the body
of the Emperor, the last relic of Maximilian has
been removed from that soil, save the blood shed at
Queretaro, which centuries hence will be renowned
as the spot where the tragedy was enacted.—Anglo-
American Times.