The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

theA: dministration was then engaged in the prosecu-
tion of that earlier measure, which he last night so
forcibly alluded to. All who are Liberals at heart
will_ concede the due raced of applause to the Con-
servative Government, which has done so much
in tl us popular cause, and refrain from indulging in
those bitter taunts and unmeaning comments which
some are so prone to. The House of Lords will
speedily settle the matter, and the session of 1867
will for g be remembered as a notable one, and will
stand out prominent and conspicuous in Parliamen-
tary annals as having witnessed the triumph of a
great representative reform and of political signifi-
cance_

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Monday Evening.

In conformity with the announcement 1 made,
the Empress left Paris yesterday afternoon for
Havre, to embark on board the Reine Hortense for
Southampton, to pay a short visit to the Queen.
The Emperor accompanied her Majesty to Havre,
but returned to Paris very soon after her Majesty
went on board.

The second reading of the Public Parks Bill last

evening reopened the discussion about public places
of resort which we had so much of last year. Mr.
HARDY*, in moving the second reading, entered
briefly upon the principal points, and was succeeded
by Mr. NEATE in opposition. The chief speaker
against the measure was, however, Mr. MILL, who
strongly advocated a theory which we suspect he,
as well as other people, would be very sorry to find
commonly put into practice. However, even his
accomplished logic failed to convince the common

The Princess of Oldenburg, sister of the Empress
of Russia, with her son and two daughters, has
arrived in Paris.

The Viceroy of Egypt is still in Paris, and it is
said intends to remain some days. The Viceroy
was warmly greeted to-day when he left the Rue
Castiglione in his carriage to pay some risits and
see the lions.

The Grand Duke Constantine, brother of the
Emperor of Russia, who is corning to Paris by way
of Wurtemberg, has left Copenhagen for the pur-
pose.
The last mail from the Antilles has brought the
news of the death of M. Lafont de la Verriade,
Consul of France at Porto Rico, from a very viru-
lent fever. M. de Verriade had been long employed
at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs before he was
made Consul.

sense of the House, who finally determined to allow
the second reading by a majority of 117. The fact
is that the opposition which meets any measure for
the protection of the London parks is founded upon
a misapprehension. An attempt to preserve the
trees and shrubs is at once construed into an attack
upon our national civil liberties! In provincial
towns and cities, however, civil rights and liberties
are still flourishing, although. in almost every in-
stance in which private munificence has provided a
park or pleasure ground for the residents
special care has been taken to guard against
its use or abuse for the purposes of public discussion.
We have no reason to suppose that such Liberal
and enlightened donors wish to fetter the minds or
the tongues of their fellow-citizens. They know
very well that when such meetings begin to be held
in parks and gardens they are anything but select.
Probably not one-tenth of the number present at
these assemblies know or care anything about the
question under dispute,whether it be political or re-
ligious, and very certainly not one-twentieth of

The journal the Situation mentions some fresh
incidents exhibiting the dislik3 and resistance to the
Prussian rule. At Wiesbaden the burgomaster, M.
Fischer, has sent in his resignation. At Cassel
three members of the Court of Cassation, appointed
by the Minister of Justice to form part of the new
head Tribunal of Berlin, Messrs. Martin, Rorke,
and Bwhr, refused to accept the office. This refusal
has created a profound impression at Cassel, which
is in perfect accord with the patriotic sentiments by
which the population of that country are animated,
and it also affords a striking proof of the repulsive
impression created by the domination of Prussia.

Private accounts from Madrid lead to the belief

that insurrectionary movements are extending in
Spain, and begin to assume a serious character.
Many persons arrested at Barcelona, upon the
charge of being concerned in revolutionary pro-
ceedings, have been shot in the most summary
manner.

them can hear the speeches which are supposed to
be the principal attraction. Does any one believe
that the rival factions, who broke each other's heads
in Hyde-park a few years ago in the names of the
POPE and GARIBALDI, were to be accepted as the
representatives of Catholic faith or of Italian Libe-
ralism ? The attraction of a temporary excitement,
the pleasures of a riot, and with some, at least, the
chances of window-breaking and pocket-picking,
have in fact a good deal more to do with the advan-
tages of the Park for a rendezvous than any-
thing else. It is idle to talk about suppressing
the right of public meeting. No Ministry,
Whig or Tory, dare attempt it, and very
certainly, if they did attempt it, they
would fail. But there are plenty other places,
both under cover and in open ground; and when
hon. members gravely affirm that no other place
in London will suit the purpose, it really looks
as if they were arguing for the sake of contra-
diction. We all heard and said a great deal
about the immense inconvenience which would be
occasioned to the working classes by the re-
moval of the National Gallery to South Ken-

The Nouvelliste de Rouen mentions a strange inci-
dent. It says that great sensation has been excited
among the Jewish population by the publication
of a book -written by M. B. V. Cohen, a Jewish
Rabbi,who, in this work, acknowledge 3 Jesus Christ
as the Messiah.

The Prussian Ministry displays the utmost inte-
rest in the result of the coming elections to the
Federal Diet. The Gazette de l'Allemagne du Nord
makes an energetic appeal to the Conservative
party. It says :

"The result of the approaching elections to the
Reichstag will be of extreme importance. This will
explain the unusual activity of the Confederate
party in the endeavour to be conquerors in the
struggle. There is no doubt that in the first three
Legislatures discussions and votes will take place
upon organic laws of the greatest gravity, upon the
application of which will depend not only the pro-
gress and direction of internal policy, but even the
existence of the Confederation of Northern Ger-

many. We, therefore, see that the triumph
of the Conservative party in the elections
would be not only favourable to the inte-
rests of party, but also of importance to the
cause of order of the highest rank. Let it not be
forgotten. The Prusso-German power reposes
upon the success obtained by our army last year,
and it has too many inveterate enemies to be able to
do without the support and the efforts of the Con-

sington. South Kensington, it is true, is a
mile or so beyond Hyde Park, but the differ-
ence of distance is hardly so great as to
render the one place virtually inaccessible to the
residents in Lambeth and lloxton and the Eorough,
and the other the most convenient spot in the
metropolis. It is quite time that people made up
their minds on this point, because if Hyde Park,
Regent's Park, and Victoria Park are to be the
theatres of discussion, to be thronged and trodden
down by the disputants in every local quarrel,
it is worse than [useless to be at a heavy,
continuous expense for ornamenting and
cultivating them. If the ground were en-
closed and left bare and rugged, it would be quite
sufficient for a place of crowded and tumultuous
assemblies. The " lungs of London" will no longer
fulfil their office, and the working man, when his
day's work in summer time is done, the troop of
children, the invalid, and other habitue's of the parks
as they now are, must take themselves off elsewhere
in search of enjoyment. On a Sunday afternoon
our parks east and west are always fullest
of idlers enjoying themselves in very plea-
sant and inoffensive fashion, and most cer-
tainly Sunday afternoon is the very time
preachers and teachers of all sects and theories will
choose for airing their eloquence and their logic.
Mr. MILL holds that no one has a right to trespass
upon private property, but (awful reflection !)
wherever he has a right to be there he has a right
to talk politics, whether to one person or to fifty.
Mr. MILL is applying the reductio ad absurdum to
his own theories. Are there no considerations of
public convenience, of private courtesy, to restrain
him ? Is a man to talk politics to 50 listeners in
church, in a theatre, at a public dinner, or
in a private entertainment. If every individual
is to exercise this right without scruple, what a life
we should have of it Mr. MILL'S own rule may
be more safely relied on. In his admirable essay
on " Liberty," he says that every man should be
perfectly free to do what he likes, so long as he
does not interfere with the rights or pleasures of
others. The political malcontents have a perfect
right to rehearse their grievances and to devise a
means of remedy. They have no right to curtail
the enjoyments and interfere with the customary
pursuits of those who do not wish to join in their
demonstrations.

servative party."
There has been a mock funeral ceremony at the
Clichy prison over the effigy of Madame Contraintc
(imprisonment). A mortuary chapel was erected
on the third floor, where the deceased lady was
lying in state. Eight hundred persons, each bear-
ing a lighted wax candle, ascended in hilarious pro-
cession, and then descended, marched along the
passages, and went into the garden, round which
they marched to a rose tree, beneath which the
grave had been dug. The pall was borne by four
of the debtors deputed for the purpose, who made
as
daianyto as possible. When the remains
were
beingthe grave the merry mourners
themselves
carried
broke out in joyous strains in memory of their
" dear dove," and sung in chorus " Laugh away
over the departed." On reaching the second floor
a funeral chant was sung to the tune of " Mal-
brook"—Marlbroug s'en va-t-en guerre. As soon as
the remains were lowered all broke out in joyous
song, and the chorus " Imprisonment is dead" was
joined in by every one. The prison poet wrote an
inscrii,tion, which was placed over the tomb, calling
upon the passers-by to laugh over the ashes of a
terrible scourge.
The mourners then retired in
the same merry mood in which they had come.
aspect of the last few days is lulled
and to-day the atmosphere is more
ftroarnthqheueislpt,orberusmetynthe temperature has been intensely hot
and oppressive.
The Paris papers are remarkably flat to-day. I
made a brief excursion to-day at the Exhibition to
Japan. The exhibition of the Government of
Taishion de Satsouma is well worth a visit. The
varied military costumes of the Japanese are very
characteristic. A prominent object is a tremendous
warrior on horseback, who is literally covered with
red and black plates. He has two long daggers on
a quiver full of arrows.
his left side. In his right hand he bears a bow, and
onßy hishis shoulderside i
Ftas
he
s
style. He has a long lance in his right hand, and
on his left side are a sword and dagger. The orna-
mentsancarrisetsn
habited in equally rich
of the costume are very rich.

The days of gas monopoly are well nigh at an
end, and the companies who have long had matters
entirely their own way are henceforth to see their
powers considerably curtailed. They have not shown
much mercey to the public during their time of un-
checked authority, and have certainly shown no dis-
position to lower their prices when their returns
enabled them to pay good dividends. There have
been numerous complaints too, not altogether with-
out reason, respecting the quality of the gas sup-
plied, and in our foggy, smoky London so much of
the world's work has to be carried on by gaslight
that it becomes a matter of very great importance
that we should obtain a good illuminating power.
Our City warehouses and offices can only boast in
summertime itself of " a dim religious light," and
during the short days of autumn and winter, to
say nothing of November fogs and January snow
storms, a liberal supply of gaslight is one of the
first requisites for active business. The select com-
mittee on the gas supply of the metropolis are
sparing neither time nor pains. They held their
twenty-second sitting on Saturday, and were en-
gaged in the discussion of certain clauses, calling
Dr. LETHEBY as a witness on some of the chemical
points in dispute. The bill, even as it now stands,
will be of great service to the public. It appoints a
permanent board of three gas referees, who will con-
trol the mode of testing the gas, and the Board of
Trade are to have power to revise yearly the scale
of illuminating power and price. There will there-
fore be au end of the very obnoxious method hitherto
pasted of the companies being judge and jury in

their own case. A chief gas examiner and a staff LATEST INTELLIGENn E v .
of minor examiners will also help to keep the supply
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up to the recognised standard, and to take care that (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
the public do not pay too much for what is, under
our present circumstances, almost a necessary
of life.

ITALY.
THE ROMAN QUESTION.

FLORENCE, July 23.

In yesterday's sitting of the Chamber of De-
puties Signors Pianciani and Curti interrogated
the Government respecting the inspection of the
Papal troops by a French General, which they
declared to be a flagrant violation of the Sep-
tember Convention ; and on the armaments and
enlistments which were being made, it was sup-
posed, for the invasion of the States of the
Church.

Signor Rattazzi, in reply, said that he believed
the rumours of these armaments were exagge-
rated, and declared that they were being made by
the Romans themselves. Ile did not consider it
necessary for him to contradict the reports that
the Italian Government had assented to or
indirectly participated in these preparations. He
said that those were under a delusion who believed
that the Italian Government would tolerate any vio-
lation of their engagements. The Roman question
must be solved by moral means. Explanations had
been, he said, demanded of the French Government
as to the reported inspection, and which would be
contrary both to the spirit and the letter of the con-
vention, which it would cause to be respected. Sig-
nor Rattazzi denied that any arrangement had been
entered into with France for the restitution of Ro-
man deserters, and no representations of France had
ever stated that a foreign legion should 'be
regarded as an indirect intervention on
the part of France. He believed that the French
Government, which desired the execution of the
convention, would not be the first to violate it.

Signor Laporta said that the Romans had the
right to enter their territory, and endeavour to ob-
tain freedom for their country.

Signor Rattazzi, in reply, declared that he would
always cause the territory subject to another Go-
vernment to be respected.
The matter then dropped.

Curiously enough, to-day—when the Reform
Question is upon the very verge of triumphing in
the House of Lords over what we presume will be
about the last obstacle in its pathway—.to-day
(this 23d July) is the anniversary of the
notorious Riot hi Hyde Park when the
railings gave way before the Roughs. The
success then achieved was symbolical, of course, on
the part of the Rioters, of their wish to get within
the pale of the Constitution. And to signalise this
their ambition, they
toppled down the hard-and-fast
line then denying them access to the Park. Another
hard-and-fast line of far larger importance has since
then given way as completely under the sheer
force of circumstances. And access to some-
thing far better than the ureensward of Hyde Park,
has been virtually ensured by her Majesty's Go-
vernment, whereby
many hundreds of thousands of
hitherto unenfrauchised citizens are secure of being
very speedily brought, honourably and permanently,
in their newly-defined character as electors, within
the pale of our (simply widened) Constitution.
SUDDEN DEATH OF SIR CHARLES MONCIE.—Sir
Charles Monck, of Belsay Castle, the oldest of the
Northumberland county magistrates, ho having reached 88
years of ago, died suddenly at his seat in Northumberland
on Saturday morning.
The venerable baronet was con-
sidered in better health on Friday ; but on Saturday morn-
ing at 2 o'clock he rang his bell and called up his butler,
stating that he was dying, and before any medical gentle-
man could bo brought to the Castle ho expired. Sir Charles
was twice elected a knight to represent the county of
Northumberland in Parliament, in 1812 and 1819. He was
a Liberal in politi,:s, and was a warm and enthusiastic
champion of the independence of the Greeks at that time.
Sir Charles was a descendant of the Middletons of Nor-
thumberland, who, since the reign of Edward 11., made
Belsay their residence. Sir Charles was a great lover of
field sports, and maintained a numerous stud of horses. He
was known and respected on the turf as an old-fashioned
sportsman, and ran a number of celebrated horses in his
time. He is succeeded in his estates and title by his
grandson, Mr. Arthur Edward Monck.
THE SULTAN AND THE CORPORATION OF PORTS-
MOUTH. —The following reply was received yesterday
evening from the Sultan by the Mayor of Portsmouth
" I receive your address with sincere pleasure, and I thank
you for this mark of attention. To visit your country and
see the many indications of its grc.atness, ono element of
which is always before
you, gives me much satisfaction,
and I amhappy to reiterate on this occasion also icy
hearty sympathy for your nobles wawa."