The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1867

fer aales with necessary clothing, they having been
necessarily hurried on shore from their beds before
they could clothe themselves properly. Nothing of
any consequence seems to have been saved from the
ship. A consideration of the whole evidence has
led the Court to the conclusion that the justice of
the case will be met by returning the master his
certificate, which we did with the full concurrence
of the nautical assessors ; but, at the same time, ac-
companying it with an expression of our regret and
disapproval of his conduct in so far that he did not
satisfy himself that the deep sea lead line was in
perfect order before leaving port.

grand military fete, which will be given by the
Emperor in honour of the Sultan. The place selected
as the theatre of the fete is the camp at Chalons.
It is to be hoped that as Tia Bey, one of the leaders
of the Young Turkey party, has taken refuge in
Paris (where, by the way, he has published a long
letter in defence of his political views), we shall see
no repetition of the scene which bas stamped so
melancholy a souvenir upon the review given at
Longchamp. I observe, in speaking of the Czar,
that he has remitted—through the medium of the
Baron de Budberg—to Madame LaboriC, who, it
will be remembered, was slightly wounded in the
cheek on the occasion we have alluded to, a mazni-
ficent jewel, formed of an emerald heart, sur-
rounded with diamonds. This delicate and
graceful attention will assuredly not tend to
diminish the popularity of the Emperor of Russia
amongst the fair dames of Paris. An amusing
hypothesis is formed in Paris in respect to the an-
ticipated arrival of Prince Mokeifayo, son-in-law
to Queen Pomare, who is expected in October.
This ocean Prince, whose real name is Rogues, is
said to be a native Parisian, some two years ago
employed at the Theatre of the Varietes ; and the
hypothesis to which we allude is, that the aforesaid
Prince, being heartily tired of his sojourn amongst
the native islanders, will make his visit to the Ex-
position a pretext for taking leave of his savage
relatives, never to return. As regard the latest
news of the Exposition, the Emperor and Empress
of Austria have forwarded to the Imperial Commis-
sion the two gold medals struck in honour of the
coronation of their Majesties at Pesth as King and
Queen of Hungary. These medals, which are
placed at this moment in the Galerie de l'His-
toire du Travail, afford a marked testimony of
the great interest taken by the Emperor in the
success of the Exposition. The celebrated maestro
Rossini, in company with Mons. le Play, commis-
saire general, commenced on Tuesday last the
arrangements for the grand choral hymn in honour
of the Emperor, which will be chanted on the
first of July, the day chosen for the distribution of
recompences. The musical direction has been com-
mitted to the charge of M. Jules Cohen ; the
orchestra will be conducted by M. George Maine,
and the hymn will be sung by the premiers artistes
of the three lyric theatres. On Thursday a Grand
Chinese Concert took place—without section—
when a number of traditional melodies were exe-
cuted with considerable success—many, it is said,
dating many ages in advance of our era.

As all spectacles, concerts, &c., at the Exhibition
now finish at eleven o'clock, an arrangement has
been made by the authorities of the Railway Station
at the Champ de Mars (Gare St. Lazare) at half-
past eleven, which also affords an opportunity to
the visitors who come from Versailles of returning
by the half-past twelve train from Paris.
The Commission at the Exhibition have deter-
mined upon having in August an exhibition of
oxen employed for draught purposes. The animals
are to be exhibited in pairs and harnessed together.

Since the assembling of crowned heads in Paris
those who look forward to an era of general dis-
arming, and the establishment of European peace
on a happy and durable basis, as attainable objects,
are auguring every imaginable blessing as the result
of the meeting, friendly intercourse, and personal
understanding of potentates actuated by a spirit of

conciliation and mutual confidence. These peace
enthusiasts consider the visits paid to France by the
Sovereigns of Europe as a demonstration against
war, an affirmation of a desire to see conflicts
between nations assume a different character,

and the precursor of a pacific policy guaranteeing
prosperity and happiness to the people at large.
They regard the simultaneous presence of the Czar
and King William at the Court of Napoleon 111.
something more than a mere chance meeting, and
scarcely less than the consequence of a preconceived
plan to consider the solution of such problems as
menace, or are likely to menace, the tranquillity of
Europe. They go so far as to assert that a partial
disarmament has already been agreed upon, and
that a triple demonstration in favour of peace and
concord would shortly appear in the shape of a
manifesto published simultaneously by France,
Prussia, and Russia.
On the other hand, the less hopeful attribute the
visits of Sovereigns to Paris to motives of simple
curiosity and desire to see the wonders of the great
Exhibition, receive the huzzahs of admiring multi-
tudes, and parade their importance in a foreign
capital. Acknowledging the advantages of dis-
armament, they question its practicability at the
present time, and deny its having been for a moment
entertained by those most capable of advancing it.
Even if a sincere reconciliation be accomplished be-
tween France and Prussia, and the bitterness of old
rivalries be appeased, they think the danger would
remain the same, the proposal for disarmament
would be premature, and general peace far from
being assured, so long as there was an oppressed
people in Turkey, so long as Polish denationalisa-
tion continued. It may be true that the King of
Prussia, the Czar, and the Emperor Napoleon
parted good friends, but personal sentiments are
not, and cannot be, the rule of conduct for men
who have the destinies of nations in their care ; it
is probable that the three Sovereigns agreed in every-
thing concerning their recreations while they were
feted and welcomed in Paris, but it is more than
for the ideal of
pro-
bable that they would differ whenever State affairs
'ether different from
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Others who, like myself, claim to be impartial
observers, feel inclined to look favourably on the
meeting of Sovereigns as likely to produce beneficial
political results without expecting disarmament to
follow, or European peace to be undisturbed whenever
any one of the great chiefs of State may deem it fit to
attempt a modification in the map of Europe. We
believe that something more than curiosity prompted
these royal visits; that serious political questions
have been touched upon ; that the great problems
proposed at this time to the consideration of states-
men have bean discussed by the Emperor with his
illustrious guests, and that the proposal for a general
disarmament has been mooted, if not encouraged,
during these interviews. We have regarded the
journey of Alexander 11. as significative of a desire
for peace, from the fact of his having evidenced
great interest and activity to prevent a war between
France and Prussia but a short time ago, and when,
as in preceding years, Russia might have ex-
pected great advantages from discord in Europe.
The visit of Prussia's King with his Prime
Minister seems to us indicative of a better
and more conciliatory spirit on the part of
Germany. This sentiment was encouraged by a
tacit and courteous understanding between the
Sovereigns and their Ministers not to undertake an
investigation of the merits of the German question
for fear of wounding susceptibilities and originating
unpleasant feelings.
Great good may come of the recent association of
the two Emperors and the King of Prussia, while it
is scarcely probable that harm will arise from it.
We feel assured that difficulties between nations
would be less frequent, and more easily and satis-
factorily adjusted if the leaders of Governments
could have frequent and unrestrained social inter-
course together. Let us hope that the goodwill,
which certainly prevailed during the stay in this
city of those who have just left us, may be judi-
ciously treasured up and redound to the advantage
of civilisation and humanity.
After the excursion to Fontainebleau on last Tues-
day the Imperial party returned to Paris, where a
special train was in readiness to convey the Czar
and suite to the frontiers of France. The public
was unaware of the programme for departure, so
that the railway station was not encumbered with a
curious crowd. Before separating the Emperor and
Czar embraced fraternally several times. At this
moment, no doubt, their common peril on the 6th
June was remembered, and tended much to cement
the ties of friendship which exists between them.
The young princes then came forward and bade a
touching adieu to the Emperor, who extended his
band and embraced each of them. King William
remained somewhat apart during this scene, but
came up afterwards and simply shook the hand of
the Czar in bidding him au revoir. While in Paris
ihe Czar conferred many honorary decorations upon
*be directors and functionaries of the various pub

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the iluglo-American Times:—
In the article headed "Rebels," which occu-
pies a leading place in your issue of June 1, occurs
the following paragraph, to which it seems to me
that further attention should be drawn :

" Nothing justifies rebellion but tyranny and
usurpation. Nothing sanctions rebellion but suc-
cess. The stake played for in this game is the
greatest that man can risk. The successful rebel
passes from a traitor to a patriot, while the re-
bellion changes to a revolution, and eventually
becomes a holy and righteous war. Of the two
great American revolutions the one assumed the
shape of the renowned War of Independence—the
other the stigmatised rising of a Slave Oligarchy.
Yet the latter was fought on a grander scale, and
even more gallantly than the former. While
Washington's name is a household word and the
god of an American's idolatry, that of Davis who
upheld a falling cause with as dauntless a front and
as noble a tenacity is a byword and reproach. With
sunken eye and furrowed cheek the beggared and
emaciated exile, from the cells of his long imprison-
ment, sinking beneath the curse of a weight of ruin,
seeks in a foreign country a home denied him in his
own. The difference between success and failure is the
main difference between Washington and Davis. The
very institution it was the hard fate of the Southern
chief to endeavour to uphold was but an inheri-
tance from the greatest leader in the cause of free-
dom that the world has yet known. Between a
rebel and a patriot there may be but fine shades of
difference, perhaps darkened by the clouds of ad-
versity, or lightened by the sunshine of success. It
is time this endless taunt should cease, for, as now
applied, it is a word without a meaning, which, if
persisted in, may convey to it a significance that
may associate rebellion in many minds with the
highest duties of man. It is for the well-being of
society, which is intimately connected with the
security of Government, that this word should sig-
nify, as it is intended, the perpetration of a great
crime."

To the statement that " the difference between
success and failure is the main difference between
Washington and Davis," I object that it is false to
the fact. Washington fought for the principles of
representative popular government. He took up
arms against the attempt to tax those who were un-
represented. Davis contended against the principles
of representative popular government. In an elec-
tion his party proved the smaller, and therefore
appealed to force.
It needs no argument to show that if the minority
in a republic is to be justified in taking up arms, as
soon as it discovers that it is a minority, there is an
end of Republican government.
In a word, Davis strove for the overthrow of the
Constitution and the Union, which Washington
fought and laboured to establish. Are these very
" fine shades of difference ?"

Again, the institution of slavery was, in a certain
sense, an inheritance from Washington ; that is to
say, Washington held slaves.
But the institution of slavery he never sought to
perpetuate or extend. It was hut an incident in his
career. He found it and left it in existence ; but
there is ample evidence that he hoped for its gradual
extinction.

Davis, on the contrary, revolted for the ex:eress
purpose of extending the area and perpetuating the
existence of human slavery. In his career it was
not an incident, but the great aim. The Republi-
can party, it need scarcely be said, had no thought
in 1860 of touching the institution where it existed,
but only of preventing its extension within the ter-
ritories of the United States. Rather than endure
this mild restriction, Mr. Davis and his confederates
commenced the late bloody war, and the Vice-Pre-
sident of the so-called Confederacy publicly de-
clared slavery (with a blasphemous allusion to Scrip-
ture) " the head-stone of the corner in their new
edifice" of Government.
Is this a delicate " shade of difference ? "

Again, Washington and his associates used every
means of conciliation before they resorted to force,

sending remonstrances and " huMblepetitions" again
and again. When hostilities broke out the troops
of the British Government fired first upon the citi-
zens, and more than a year elapsed after this event
before conciliation was despaired of and indepen-
dence declared by the colonies.
The Acts of Secession were passed, for the most
part, in a time of profound peace. Active hostili-
ties were commenced by the South, unprovoked by
any show of force, the very garrisons of the na-
tional works being too weak to resist mobs of undis-
ciplined and half-armed men. The first shot of the
war was fired on Sumpter from no military neces-
sity, but for the express purpose of bringing lagging
States into the line of secession.
What is said of the " dauntless front" and
" noble tenacity" of Mr. Davis seems wholly aside
from the question. Courage and persistency have
many a time been shown in infamous causes. Cata-
line was not wanting in " tenacity," and went to
hip last Add will much more " dauntless front'

is establishments which he had visited. Attached than Mr. Davis displayed on the only occasion
to his suite were secretaries charged with the i when the devastating war he had invoked placed
duty of noting the visits, and the incidents and him in personal danger.
observations which characterised them. A daily It might be added that Mr. Davis has given no
account of this kind was sent forward to the evidence in his public career of that absence of sel-
Empress of Russia, another was delivered to the fish ambition, that complete subordination of per-
Czar, and a third copy preserved for the personal sonal advantage to the public good, which made
archives of his Majesty. It is said that he left a the character of Washington honoured even by his
princely sum in the hands of the authorities to be enemies.
distributed among the poor of Paris. He offered I object further to the idea implied in the whole
to Mons. Rainbeaux, the equerry who interposed, article, that success or failure can make any possible
d
and probably saved his life from the shot of difference in the right and wrong of actions.
BerCzowski an annuity of 10,000 roubles, which To say so is to subvert all political and social
morality, and to declare that whatever is profitable
that gentleman declined. We hear now that the
is right. No; history records many a holy failure
Czarina intends presenting to Madame Rainbeaux
a
a necklace worth 300,000 f. ($60,000), and that and many a vile success. We must have a higher
all the principal Russian cities are organising sub- standard.
s
scriptions for the purpose of forwarding medals
The word "rebel" a applied to Mr. Davis and
and presents of considerable value, so that a good his associates did signify "the perpetration of a
deed bids fair to be handsomely rewarded. great crime"—one of the greatest political crimes on
record—the most stupendous and the most cause-
As a present to Napoleon, and one which he
doubtless appreciates, the Czar left the two finest less of all rebellions.
of the three splendid horses which are now in the If those who have used the term arc now to drop
Russian stable on the grounds of the Exhibition. it, it will not be because we deny the propriety of
its past application, but because we hope the rebel-
One is a bay stallion, called Fake!, about five years
old, and the other Fesan, a chesnut of the same
lion is ended, and over that sad past we desire to
throw the veil of conciliation. If anything will
Page. Both were born and reared at the Imperial
breeding establishment, founded by a Russian tend to perpetuate the term, it will be the use of
prince about sixty years ago. such arguments as the article here quoted employs,
for the name will then be adhered to as a protest
Memorials addressed to the Emperor Napoleon,
condemning the odious attempt on the life of the against the course of those who would extenuate a
Czar, and expressing gratification at his escape, " great crime."
continue to arrive from all parts of France. The By affording a place, if possible, in your columns
Americans in Paris have not been behind hand in to these criticisms, and expressing clearly your own
this commendable move, and conveyed to the Czar opinion on the question at issue, you will confer,
before he left their expressions of indignation at the. Sir, a great favour upon
outrage perpetrated on the 6th inst. A REPUBLICAN READER.
B6rOzowski is recovering from the wounds
occasioned by the explosion of his pistol and the
fury of the crowd. His trial will probably take
place the first week in July. Jules Favre, being
in feeble health, cannot undertake the defence of
the criminal, as was requested and expected, so the
task will devolve upon a Monsieur Grevy, who
is represented as a jurist of no mean ability.
The King of Prussia left Paris last Friday for
Brussels, on his way to Berlin. He was accom-
panied by Bismark and the officers and suite that
came with him. A grand dinner, closing the first
series of fetes offered to the Sovereigns, was given
him at the Tuileries the day before his departure,
and it was at this dinner that he bade his adieux
to the Emperor Napoleon and the Empress.
Parisians are becoming so habituated to the sight
of crowned heads that nothing short of a veritable
King or Emperor produces a sensation in the city.
Ismail-Pacha must have anticipated this, for we
are told that before setting out he solicited and
obtained, in consideration of certain remuneration,
authority from the Sublime Porte to bear the title
of King of Egypt during two or three months. He
arrived in Paris on last Sunday, and was received
with all the honour due his rank. A numerous
crowd thronged the streets through which the cor-
tege passed on its way to the Palace of the Tuileries.
He was graciously received by the Empress, and,
after the customary presentations, was conducted
with befitting ceremonial to the Pavillon Marsan,
of the Louvre, where apartments bad been prepared
for bim. General Geffrard, ex-President of the
Republic of Hayti, is now sojourning in Paris, and
figured in the Imperial cortege at the grand mili-
tary review in the Bois de Boulogne. He is a tall,
good-looking man of colour, with a distingue" white
moustache. He intends settling in Bourgogne,
where he has purchased an estate with the determi
nation of living in retirement.

On Saturday, the Ist instant, the President left
Washington for Raleigh. He was accompanied by Mr.

Seward and Mr. Randall. They reached Richmond

in the evening, the President taking up his quarters
in the apartment lately occupied by Jefferson Davis
in Spottiswood's Hotel. On Monday morning the
journey was continued, passing through Petersburg

and Weldon, where speeches were made. Mr.
Johnson carefully avoided political subjects—taught
by the fatal experience of the celebrated tour of
last summer. A President "on the rampage" is

worse than a bull in a china shop, and the general

smash that followed his last monumental excursion

to Chicago must havebeen vividly in his mind, as this
year he passed South, a " sadder and a wiser man."
There is indeed something touching and noble in the

return of the President of the United States to the

home of his boyhood, and he might well have been
moved with emotion when relating the story of his

departure from Raleigh, " an inexperienced, penni-
less lad to make his way in the -world." The scene
is a fine subject for an American artist. There, was

a man who had attained to one of the highest

posts on earth, pointing out to the great digni-
taries of State, the servants of his Government,
the lowly house in which he had been born, the

streets in which, as a child, he had played,
the tradesmen, the labourers, the mechanics

who had been his associates, while he himself
towered in the grandeur of a power equalled only
by two or three other men in the world. Well
might he say that he had scaled the heights of his
ambition, and had nothing more to ask for. " One
of my leading tenets," he continued, " has been the
prosperity of the great mass of the people, holding
that all persons, without regard to condition or

colour, should be esteemed according to their in-
trinsic merit or worth, leaving each to rise on his
own merit, courage, and energy. Let this be the

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standard, so that to every one may be assigned his

true position. I trust and hope, instead of discuss-
ing party issues, creating factions between North,
South, East, or West, that all will exert themselves
to the restoration of the union of these States, so
that the flag may float ovar a contented and pros-
perous people. (Applause.) Let us, my friends, re-
pair the breaches made by the war, and restore the
Union. This being accomplished, we may then make
such issues as the public prosperity and safety may
demand. Let us efface from our minds the memory
of the past—let us pour oil on the troubled waters,
and restore peace to the States. This has been my
constant object."
On the 3d inst. the first election in Washington
since the establishment of negro suffrage took
place. The Nation gives the number of voters at
coloured 8,300, and white 9,800. The result was a
majority to the Republican patty on the municipal
election of about 1,500 votes. There appears to
have been no division among the coloured voters,
who had the ballots distributed to them in their
churches on the preceding day. At an early hour
in the morning they roused up their fellow darkies
with loud sounding trumpets and fish-horns, and
rapidly gathered around the polling places. The
Standard's correspondent says, that either through
ignorance or design many voted several thuL s
in succession, and some attempted to deposit whole
packages of tickets in the boxes. The Nation states
that every means of the pettiest annoyances were
resorted to to make the negro as uncomfortable
as possible while he cast his vote. There were
counterfeit tickets and every attempt to deceive the
ignorant, which were signally unsuccessful, as the
Freedmen had been effectually forewarned. That
paper adds :—" We know nothing of the candidates,
but certainly the behaviour of the negroes while

getting ready to vote and while voting ought to
cheer most of our Thomases except Benjamin
Franklin Perry."
President Johnson reached Richmond on the 7th
instant, on his return to Washington. On the 6th
he visited the University of North Carolina, where
he delivered a lively speech, marked by the good
sense and sentiments which have made his present
tour so strong and favourable a contrast to the last.
He reiterated his former declarations to uphold the
Constitution of the country, declaring the sincerity
of his motives, and of the principles that had actu-
ated him throughout.
The New York Herald has a leader ou the free
navigation of the St. Lawrence. it appears that at
Montreal the Canadian authorities seized three
American steamers plying on that part of the river
without a permit, which has been required since
the abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty. It con-
tends that the St. Lawrence is the great channel of
commerce by which in the near future the grain and
mineral crops of our North-Western States must
find their most direct, feasible, and economical
route to a market. Can the mouth, then, of such a
river be permitted to remain in the hands of a hos-
tile power, ready to use its position to embarrass
commerce by delays and exactions, and to levy
tolls for the right of passage? Not while the Ame-
ricans continue to be what they are."
Last week the rumour was strong that Maximi-
lian had been shot, or would be shot. This week
the idea is that he will be banished from Mexico—
banished from Mexico, indeed! what a horrible
fate ! He has been tried by a court-martial, from
whom he claimed the right of a trial by a Congress
of nations. From New York we learn that the
trial had been postponed. It is asserted that the
Liberalist officers in command had protested against
clemency towards Maximilian. The fall of Quore-
taro was due to the treachery of the commander of
a principal fort. Maximilian stipulated on surren-
dering that he should be treated as a prisoner of
war, but that, if any one was shot, he should be the
first. The report in Vienna is that Maximilian
will be banished, but that his life will be respected.
He forwarded to his brother through the Atlantic
cable the following telegram:—" I am a prisoner of
war ; but do not be afraid. I am treated in a manner
which in no way violates the laws and customs of
civilised nations.—MAxr MILIAN."
Thaddeus Stevens is certainly a man of rare deter-
mination. He is but now recovering from his
severe illness, and it is not likely that he is destined
for many more days. He returns to the measure
he advocated with just as much energy after the
extreme prostration of sickness as before, apparently
unconscious that he is breaking the Commandments,
stirring up as he does the bad passions it is the duty
of leading men to allay. He has written another
letter urging the confiscation of property of the
richer and more atrocious malefactors, as he terms
the Southern leaders. " Feeble as are my powers,"
he says, "if I had five years more added to my
life I should not doubt that this would become an
accomplished fact." We doubt it very much, and
think it much more likely that Thaddeus Stevens

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would destroy his political influence than destroy
the generous and noble sentiment of forgiveness
which is more or less spread abroad among the
Northern people. He goes on to prophesy, 44 If
I should be denied that extension of life,
Providence will raise up to the work some
yoUnger and abler man to whom these facts
will be of great assistance." The facts to which
he alludes are lists of property destroyed by
the Confederates in their invasions, and he de-
sires to press the payment for these damages 44 out
of the confiscated property of the conquered belli-
gerents." That Thaddeus Stevens is honest in his
views, and not influenced by mean motives, we can
readily believe, but we consider that he has been
so hot a partisan, that he has lost the faculty on
these questions, of judging wisely-, moderately,
and fairly. He then adds--" I trust it will not be
supposed that I have abandoned the determination
to procure small homesteads for the freedmen, to
be furnished by the rebel masters whom they con-
quered at our request—homesteads earned by the
late slaves and annexed to their masters' estates.
Let them now be severed by partition."
There has been no prediction of the price of
stocks on the London market telegraphed by the Cable
since Thursday last—at least none has been published
by the papers here. From this we infer that the
news agent has found out himself what the rest of
the world knew long ago, that if he knew before
the market opened what the price of stocks would
be, all ho had to do to make an enormous fortune was to
speculate the day beforo an I keep his information to him-
self instead of sending it over the Cable. He has, there-
fore, we trust, been operating vigorously during the past
week, and, we have no doubt, is by this time able to retire
from business and travel. There is something absurd in
having a man of such parts engaged in making up despatches
fo

T the papers. lie telegraphed three or four days ago,
by-the-bye, that " there was an intense and painful feel-
ing of anxiety throughout Europe" about the fate of the
Emperor Maximilian. Now the news agent knows as
well as wo do that outside the small circle of Maximilian's
relatives and personal friends—that is, about 400 people
out of 200,000,000—n0t a man, woman, or child in Europe
has eaten less, laughed less, or slept less ou account of
Maximilian, or would feel more than than a little touch
of disgust even if they beard he had been burnt alive.
Therefore, when the news agent telegraphed this he tele-
graphed what was not true; he put the newspapers to
heavy expense ; he tried to impose upon the public, and
he neglected his legitimate business.—The Nation.

The Evanville Sentinel, a Democratic journal of
Indiana, has nominated IL Lee for the next Presidency,
and Mr. Johnson has been making a careful speech-
making tour to Raleigh, and intends making another to
Boston. These two facts would seem to indicate a scarcity
of available condidates in the Deinocratic party, which is
in very marked contrast with the abounding and super-
abounding plenty that exists among the Republicans. Mr.
Johnson's chances, which we suppose are indefinitely
greater than they were a year ago, he is perhaps 110
t
diminishing by his journey. His speeches aro rather
amusing here and there, but nothing like so exciting as
those of 186 G. They want the old energy and
wild
hitting, and conform more closely to the law 0'
peeches, which is that they strongly incline to be
twaddle. This is the true vein :—" When looking back
forty years ago, and returning here to-day, I begin to
inquire where are those I left behind? In the language
of poetry itself,
The friends of my childhood, where are they ?' &c;
Echo answers, Where ? ' Some have emigrated and
gone to other lands. Some have complied with the inex-
orable and irresistible call, and have passed to that undis-
covered country from whose bourne no traveller returnS•
I again ask,
'Friends of my childhood, where are they ?'''
Mr. Seward's performances were likewise quite judicious
and "the country is happy," though we confess—man is
never content—to a wish that the Associated Pross
and
the special reporters would be a little less particular about
taking down every word for print. Still, the exact truth
is best, we suppose.
The Pennsylvania oil region has been within the
past two years almost wholly devastated by fire. More,
than 70 great fires have occurred in the neighbourhood 1.
the oil wells. These conflagrations, feeding upon one °
the most combustible substances known to commerce, are
of an appalling character. The latest occurred in the
lage called Petroleum Centre ; nearly the whole of the
little hamlet—or a collection of about fifty houses—Wes
destroyed.