The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-26 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The late news from New York about Mexico,
not received by the Cable, informs us that I,ooooz.
of gold 77as the bribe paid by Escobedo to Lopez
for betraying the principal fort of Queretaro.
Escobedo is reported to have killed a number of
prisoners himself after the surrender. Maximilian
appears to have behaved with such bravery as to
have inspired the Imperial officers with the deepest
respect. Nor has he been distinguished for bravery
alone, as he has shown much self-denial during the
campaign. On the 16th May Escobedo marched
with a large force to join Porferino Diaz in the
siege of the capital. Gomez continues in revolt
against Juarez at Tampico.
The Americans in Paris have arranged for a cele-
bration of the approaching anniversary of American
Independence, to take place at the Pre-Catalan in
the Bois de Boulogne. Special pains will be taken
to make the entertainment pleasant for ladies and
children. A dinner will be furnished—good music
and dancing, illuminations and fireworks, in the
evening. We are gratified to learn that no public
speaking will be allowed, and that all citizens of the
United States who may be in Europe are invited to
join. The American Bankers will have tickets for
sale.

On Tuesday last, at Paris, at the commencement
of the day's sitting of the Senate, Baron Dupin rose.
to enter a protest in favour of the principles of
humanity and international law, which he feared
were about to be violated in Mexico in reference to
the Emperor Maximilian. This protest, which was
seconded by M. Troplong, the President, was re-
ceived by the assembly with loud cheers.
The imbroglio down South in New Orleans has
reached a pretty pass. It will be remembered that
General Sheridan removed the two rival boards of
the Louisiana Levee Commissioners who were con-
tending for the public spoils. One of these Boards
had been appointed by Governor Wells ; the othe
was an old Southern Board, to whom people are in
the habit of affixing or pre-fixing the word rebel.
Governor Wells appealed to Washington, and Mr.
Stanton was directed to suspend General Sheridan's
order, and to call on that officer to give his reasons
for their removal. The Commander did not mince
matters in making his reply. He declared the
Commissioners to have been corruptly appointed
by Governor Wells, and to have misappropriated
the public funds. But the fiery General did not stop
there. He is in the habit of making clean work of his
opponents, so he removed Governor Wells himself,
stigmatising him as a dishonest and traitorous person,
and an impediment to the faithful execution of the
law. Mr. Thomas Durant whom he appointed to the
vacant post, declined to accept the nomination, and
Mr. Benjamin Flanders was named by the General
in his stead. That the Government can allow such
high-handed proceedings isimprobable, or the States
of the South will become so many despotisms under
military dictators, from whose decisions there would
be no appeal. The following is the text of the
General's order : _

" Headquarters, Fifth Military District, New
Orleans, June 3, 1867.
(Extract V.)
" His Excellency the Governor of Louisiana, J.
Madison Wells, having made himself an impedi-
ment to the faithful execution of the act of Con-
gress of March 2, 1867, by directly and indirectly
impeding the general in command in the faithful
execution of the law, is hereby removed from the
office of governor of Louisiana, and Mr. Thomas
J. Durant appointed thereto. Mr. Durant will be
obeyed and respected accordingly. By command of
"Major-General P. 11. SHERIDAN."
It was reported that President Johnson intended
to issue a proclamation, declaring that military dis-
trict commanders were not authorised to remove
Southern State officials. The case appears to have been
submitted to the Attorney-General, whose decision
was reported from New York on the 19th instant,
that the military commanders cannot legally re-
move State officers. _

General Pope has revoked Colonel Shepherd's
order, suspending the publication of a Republican
newspaper in Mobile. The paper, in the view of
the Colonel, had tended to create and embitter the
bad feeling existing between the blacks and the
whites by advising the freedmen to arm themselves,
and instructing them in the use of arms. In revers-
ing the order, General Pope says that free speech is
to be tolerated and encouraged, and editors and
speakers, no matter what they say, are not to be
meddled with. The military are to wait for overt acts
with which the civil power may be unable to
deal. With reference to his own action in remov-
ing the authorities of the city, he observes that the
military are not sent into the States by CongreF4 to

do nothing, nor to do everything, but to see that life
and property are made safe. This can best be
done by supporting the civil authorities against
insurrection and anarchy, and where the civil autho-
riti a through weakness, stupidity, or malice, fail
to protect the individual, by superseding them, and
putting capable men in their places. He acts under
a law of Congress which declares that in the States
lately in rebellion life and property are not ade-
quately protected. The means of protection he finds
in existence he intends to help as far as possible.
It was generally anticipated in America what the
vote would be on the Impeachment question. Five
voted against and four for impeachment, so that
matter ended in a triumph for the President. Buc
Mr. Johnson Was not permitted wholly to escape, as
7 voted for and 2 against a severe condemnation of
his course. The subject has lost its interest, as the
intemperate proceedings of the Chief Magistrate
which originated the investigation have faded into
the distance. The members who voted for impeach-
ment are—Messrs. Boutwell (Massachusetts), Wil-
liams (Pennsylvania), Lawrence (Ohio), and Thomas
(Maryland), 4 ; those who voted against it—Messrs.
Wilson (Java), Woodbridge (Vermont), Churchill
(New York), Eldridge (Wisconsin), and Marshall
(Illinois). When we state that the two latter are
the only Democrats on the Committee, how the
vote of censure was carried, can be easily under-
stood. Mr. Wilson, Chairman of the Committee,
gave his voice against the impeachment. Two re-
ports will be sent to Congress—that of the majo-
rity against impeachment, and that of the minority
for impeachment. It is said that Mr. Ashley,
backed by General Butler, will move the adoption
of the report of the minority when Congress meets,
and endeavour to have impeachment ordered by the
whole house.

The New York correspondent of the Standard
informs us a trial has just been concluded in Newmarket
(Now Jersey) which deserves to rank among causes
celebres. On the night of February 23 the wife of a phy-
sician named Coriell was brutally murdered. Suspicion
fell upon the one servant of the family, Bridget Dugan,
whose conduct, bath at the time of the discovery of the
murder and afterwards, was of the most extraordinary
character ; it was Bridget, in fact, who alarmed the people
residing in the vicinity of the Coriell house. She ap-
peared at various doors at one o'clock in the morning,
attired only in her under garments and bearing in her
arms the child of the Coriells. She told a strange
story of an assault committed by two men, whom she
named, and begged that assistance be immediately ex-
tended to Mrs. Coriell. The house of the Coriells
was at once visited. Door and windows were
discovered to be open. Smoke was issuing from ono of
the rooms. In this room the body of Mrs. Coriell was
found. The unfortunate woman was quite dead. She had
received 37 stabs from a knife. Tho neck was torn open
as if by the teeth of a wild beast ; the jugular vein
had been bitten through. The shoulders were torn and
mangled. The breasts were dreadfully lacerated. The legs
and arms were covered with wounds ; on the back,
following the spine, wore twenty-one incisions, evi-
dently made with the point of a knife. The body
was covered with contusions. The assassin had fired
a bed--the intention evidently being to burn the
house. The walls and floor of the room were one
smear of blood. In this coagulated gore a great
number of feathers were sticking. Tho woman Dur-
gan was arrested. She said that certain parties had
done the deed. These persons were apprehended, but
their innocence was easily shown. Durgan next pointed
out two of the coroner's jury as the guilty parties. Her
statement was not hooded ; she was fully committed for
trial as the real assassin. The evidence is wholly circum-
stantial, but it shows very clearly that to try Durgan has
been to pay her a very great compliment. She is one of those
wretches of whom the crowd say, " Hanging is too good
for them." It is established that Durgan first attacked her
mistress with a chair as a weapon. In this assault Mrs.
Coriell was beaten almost to a jelly. When the chair
had been reduced to splinters the assassin flow at her
victim with teeth and nails. Masses of hair, with portions
of the scalp attached, were pulled from Mrs. Coriell's
head. The dress of the unfortunate woman was torn to
ribbons; the exposed portions of the person were terribly
scratched and bitten. An hour elapsed, and Durgan re-
newed the assault—this time with teeth and hands. The
poor victim's neck was bitten open. Then Durgan has-
tened to the kitchen, seized a knife, and returned to finish
her work. The dying Mrs. Coriell made one effort for self-
defence. She snatched from the bed a leather pillow, with
which she sought to ward off the stabs. But Durgan
slashed and thrust, forced her victim to the floor, and
there stabbed and cut until long after life had ebbed away.
It has been shown that she tore with her teeth a largo mass
of flesh from the shoulder of the corpse. The crime was ap-
parently objectless ; the only explanation given is that Dur-
gan had been " warned" to leave the house, and that she
supposed that if she killed her mistress she would be
retained in service to take care of the child. Durgan has
been convicted; the jury were absent from the court-room
only 15 minutes ; the convict will soon be sentenced to
death. The case has excited unusual interest, not only
in New Jersey, but throughout the neighbouring States.

COMMERCIAL.
(From Messrs. Bowles, Brevet, and Co.'s Circular.)
Putts, June 21 (Via Queenstown).
Our market remains unchanged. The Sovereigns have
left, and" those who were buyers, in view of their arrival,
are now sellers.

Rumours, both favourable and the reverse, to a continu-
ance of peace, as the result of these interviews, aro cur-
rent, resulting in a general inactivity and hesitation—a
feeling not confined to Paris, but shared by all European
markets.

There has been but little animation, and but trifling
change in quotations.

Americans, closing in our last at 821 are to-day the
same, and the variations of the week have not exceeded
I per cent.
Scree transactions have occurred in the issue of 1864 at
78 to 79, in that of 18.65 at 84 to 1 but, as may be seen
from the quotations, Bonds of these dates aro only
placed with difficulty and to much disadvantage, as com-
pared with those of 1862.
The Rente closes at
The Italian closes at
Exchange on London, 25.161.

(Front E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular, June 19.)
Our advices from New York by the Africa roach to the
4th inst., and report a moderate demand for Government
bonds, with slightly easier prices for those of the older
issue, while 7-30's and 10-40's were firm at a fractional
advance. The railroad market had been dull and heavy,
but no material alteration in quotations was reported either
in shares or bonds; at the close there was a slight dispo-
sition to buy. In State stocks wo note a further improve-
ment, in Tennessee of $5, and $2 in North Carolina.
Money was steady at 6 to 7 per cent. to brokers.
It had been generally expected that the forthcoming
statement of the National Finances to the Ist instant would
show some slight increase in the indebtedness of the
Government, owing to the largo payments of gold out of
the Treasury for interest on the 5-20 Bonds; the disburse-
ment for June, however, being small, it was anticipated
that the Ist July statement would show a recovery of the
amount lost, but by the official statement, which we give
below, we find that the total debt of all kinds, instead of
being augmented, has been decreased by $5,170,159. The
portion of tho debt bearing interest payable in gold
has increased $61,410,600, whilst that carrying in-
terest in currency has decreased $11,423,915 ; the
greater part of this difference is owing to the ex-
change of 7-30 Bonds for 5-20's. This operation has
now been carried on at a rapid rate for the last few mouths,
the amount of 7-30's absorbed in the past year being over
$300,000,000. We shall be glad to see the whole amount
dealt with in this way, as until this is accomplished we
do not look for any very material reduction in the pre-
mium on gold. It may be interesting to compare the state
of the national Treasury at various periods, and to give the
present resources of the Government. Before the com-
mencement of the war, say 1861, the national debt stood
at about $65,000,000. In July, 1864, it was $1,805,523,561;
in Aug., 1865, $2,737,253,275 ; Aug., 1866, $2,633,099,276 ;
June, 1867, $2,515,615,937 ; thus showing a decrease of
$241,637,348 in two years after the restoration of peace.
Of the debt now owing, the Bonds carrying interest payable
in gold require about $90,000,000 pmr annum, and those pay-
able in currency not quite $50,000,000. Now, to meet those
charges on the revenue of the country, we have the follow-
ing receipts for the fiscal year from Ist July last :
Gold. Currency.
First quarter
Second do.
Third do.
Fourth do. estimated 10,223,016 ... 67,892,344

$175,000,000 $313,000,04)0
or together, $188,000,000. Out of this the expenditure in
the various departments of tho Government, including
interest, was for the first nine months $25-1,219,085, esti-
mated for last three months $99,780,315; total, $351,000,000,
so that there would appear to 1)3 a surplus of $131,000,000
available for the reduction of the debt during the fiscal
year ending Ist July. Whether it will be practicable or
(if so) wise to continue the present rate of taxation for any
considerable length of time is a question fairly open to dis-
cussion, as there can bo no doubt that the heavy impost
on the people must be a serious drawback to commercial
and industrial pursuits ; still, so far, the burden has been
patiently, if not cheerfully, borne, and with a return to
ordinary pursuits, and an average amount of success, the
South would help to bear the burden, and so by diffusing
the collection of revenue over a wider surface than for the
last few years make it easier to raise.
There has been almost complete stagnation in the
ILondon market for American securities during tbo past
week, and prices remain with but little alteration, United
States 5-20's closing 72-i to 731; Illinois Central Shares,
79 to ; and Eries, 40 to Atlantic and Great Western
Consoldated on some renewed inquiry close at an advance
of 1 per onto tho 1a t prioo bothg 251 to 261.