The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-26 00:00:00

BANK OF PRANGE.

PARIS, Oct. 24.
The following is the return of the Bank of Fratioe
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account

DiBTOR.
Oct. 24.
fr. c.
182,500,000

Oct. 17.

Capital of the Bank
Profits in addition to
capital (Art. 8, Law,
June 9, 1857)
Reserve of the Bank
and its branches
Reserve of landed pro-
perty 4,000,000 4,000,000
Notes in circulation
Bank notes to order and
receipts payable at
sight
Treasury account cur-

182,563000 2:

7,014,776 02

7,044,776 02

22,105,750 11

22,105,750 11

81,345,752 31

33,632,751 08

rent Creditor 84,621,016 40
Current account; Paris 303,458,024
Do. branch banks
Dividends payable 917,012 75
Discounts and sundry
interests
Rediscounted the last

84,592,317 75
278,942,589 28
40,663,636 -
997,874 7i

5,574,535 74

5,277,171 47

six mouths
Surplus of receipts not
distributed
Sundries

THE FENIAN OUIARGE IN MAN-

CHESTER.

The following letter and the accompanying me
morial have been forwarded to the Home Office :
" Gresham Chambers, 44, Princess-street,
Manchester, Oct. 21.

"THE QUEEN AGAINST ALLEN AND TWENTY-FIVE

OTHERS.

" Sir,—l am directed by the few English friends
of the prisoners to send for your consideration a
memorial lequesting that the trials of the persons
accused of the murder of Sergeant Brett may be
postponed till after Christmas. There is little
doubt but that several important questions of law
will arise on the cases of the prisoners ; that for
their proper argument it is requisite that gentle-
men of the greatest learning should be obtained;
that many gentlemen whose assistance the pri-
soners might desire to have arc now away for the
vacation, and will not be available for the
28th of the present month. The trials will neces-
sarily occupy a considerable time—probably more
than a week, therefore extending into the first days
of Michaelmas Term, and so adding to the difficul-
ties of the trial and of the prisoners. The time is
very short. The copies of the depositions were not
completed until Saturday ; they amount altogether
to upwards of 1,000 common law folios, compre-
hending more than 150 ',sheets of ordinary brief
paper ; the last of the prisoners was not committed
till last Wednesday. _ _

" It is my duty also to tell you that the prisoners
are for the most part wretchedly poor. They have
friends, but these friends are at a distance—some in
Ireland, some in America, and other far off places,
and it will take some time for them to collect to-
gether their small sums. For the prisoners—there
are 26 of them—to be properly defended will entail
a very large expense, even if counsel at this inop-
portune season can be procured and detained from
their London duties threugh the first days—the
most important—of the ensuing term. The pri-
soners, if the trial is not reasonably postponed, will
have probably to chose the alternative of an in-
adequate defence, or of not being defended at all.
My own opinion is in favour of the latter course.
"For myself, I can assure you, as the solicitor
for the prisoners, I have been most indefatigable
and incessant in my labour ; but my difficulties are
very great. The practical difficulty of communica-
tion with the prisoners is more than is apparent to
those who don't understand it. And though, of
course, I shall do my best, I still feel that I am
wholly incapable of doing justice to the defence of
my clients (all of whom, you will observe, are
charged with wilful murder') in the short time
allowed me.

" I most earnestly trust that you will grant the
prayer of the accompanying memorial. And I have
the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servant,
" W. P. ROBERTS.
" The Right Hon. the Secretary of State,
Whitehall, London.

" To the Right Hon. Gathorne Hardy, her Majesty's
Principal Secretary of State for the Home De-

partm ent.
" The memorial of the undersigned counsel and
attorneys for the prisoners charged with the mur-
der of the police-officer, Sergeant Brett, at Man-

cheater, on the 18th of September, 1867.
" That your memorialists are all residents in the
city of Manchester, and have been engaged in the
defence of the said prisoners from the time of their
first being charged before the police magistrates.
" Your memorialists have had ample opportunity
of judging of the state of feeling now prevalent in
the said city, and feel certain that, in the present
excited state of feeling, it would be impossible to
secure a fair trial for the prisoners at the hands of
a jury, if that trial were to take place as early as
the 28th inst.
" Your memorialists arrive at this conviction
from their own personal observation of the public
feeling evidenced in various ways, and among
others, by anonymous communications in writing
containing threats of death and personal violence,
addres cd to and received by certain persons who
are desirous of raising a fund for the defence of the
said prisoners on their approaching trials ; from the
remarks current in ordinary conversation ; from the
tone assumed by the public press ; from the demon-
strations made by the public in the courts of jus-
tice ; and from the panic and irritation caused by
the continual rumours, founded and unfounded, of
intended outrages by the Irish population of this
district—a panic and irritation heightened by the
military and police precautions publicly taken, of
which your petitioners do not complain, but which
naturally have a tendency to aggravate the position
of the prisoners—and by the impression created by
the fact of the prisoners having for nine days been
kept coupled in handcuffs in the poiice court during
the investgatio❑ of their case.
" Your memorialists, therefore, feel certain that
there would be a miscarriage of justice if the
prisoners were to be tried on the 28th inst. ; that
the innocent would, despite any effort of the
learned judges, be confounded with the guilty.
And they, therefore, pray the trial may be post-
poned till after Christmas next, or until such other
time as to her Majesty's Government may seem fit
and convenient.

" Dated this 21st day of October, 1867.
" ERNEST JONES.
" JOHN COTTINGHAM.
" W. P. .ROBERTS."

The reply from the Home-office wes received yes-
terday afternoon by Mr. Roberts. It simply states
that there is no sufficient reason shown for the
postponement of the trials, and refuses the prayer
of the memorialists.

Mr. W. P. Roberts, solicitor, Manchester, on be-
half of the prisoners committed for the murder of
Police-sergeant Brett, has transmitted the follow-
ing letter to the Home Secretary, in reply to the
communication refusing to postpone the trial :

" ALLEN AND TWF.NTY-FIVE OTHERS.
" Gresham-chambers, Princess-street,
Manchester, Oct. 23.

" Sir,-1 have your letter of this morning, in
which you decline to accede to the prayer for a post-
ponement of these trials. Permit me to request you
to reconsider this determination.

" It is impossible to instruct counsel in time. No
counsel are retained, for there is no money to retain
them with, but during the next six weeks money will
come in. Briefs ought to be in the hands of counsel
at least a fortnight before the trials. The work is
immense of analysing all the cases, and it requires
time and industrious labour.

"The case is very much out of the common-26
men, all of them accused of murder, and all with
evidence against them that in the present state of
excitement may sentence them to death. It is easy
to talk about being ' firm,' and so forth.
" My impression is that if the trial is thus pressed
on the men will elect not to be defended at all. I
feel compelled to ask you to satisfy yourself of the
truth of the memorial, and to grant its prayer.—l
am, Sir, your obedient servant,

" W. P. ROBERTS."

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Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, timbet
merchant, of Frimley Surrey, of hirtt years' diseased lungs,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partia, deafness.
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of
Water
indescribable
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years agony from dyspepsia, nervousness.
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unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
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MISCELLANEO&S FOREIGN NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Emperor of Austria and his brothers are now
at Paris, the guests of France. They have received
a warm greeting by the population, and his Majesty
will prolong his stay to the 4th prox., taking leave
of the Emperor and Empress of the French at Com-
piegne. On Thursday he visited the Exhibition, and
in the evening was entertained at a grand dinner
at St. Cloud, to which 120 guests were invited.
Report says that France and Italy understand
each other better than events would indicate. The
Garibaldins have retreated from the Papal States
in a way, knowing how foolhardy they are, difficult
otherwise to account for. The correspondence be-
tween Florence and the Cabinet of the Tuileries
has not been without its result, and that between
Madrid and Rome seems to increase as the other
decreases. The fighting in the Pope's territory may
be judged by a telegram forwarded on the 22d
inst. :—" The Giornale di Roma announces a despe-
rate engagement between the Pontifical troops and
the insurgents near Borghetto. The insurgents
had four killed and several wounded, but no losses
were sustained by the Pope's troops." This recalls
the days when knights fought in Italy for long
hours till they had had abundant exercise to give
them an appetite for dinner, to which each side
drew off, and received their pay from the grateful
Governments by whom they were employed. Had
one of these brave men received an injury, it would
have been held to be an accident for which the
opposing force would have been severely blamed.
During General Sherman's absence at Washing-
ton General Auger took his place on the Indian
Peace Commission. The Commissioners were on
the way to Fort Harker, where favourable negocia-
tions are expected. There are 510,000 worth of
presents to be distributed, and the Indians are at
least peacefully awaiting this. There is a general
lull in hostilities, a few skirmishes and outrages
only being reported during the week. Affairs were
not so fortunate in Arizona, for the inhabitants
assert that unless speedily assisted they will be
compelled to abandon the territory. The latest
reports are follows :—" St. Louis, Oct. 9.—Superin-
tendent Murphy, under date of Medicine Lodge
Creek, October 5, writes that there are now assem-
bled at that point 431 lodges of Indians, 171
lodges of Arapahoes, 85 Apaches, 150 Kiowas, and
25 Cheyennes. There are 300 Cheyennes now
moving in, and 100 lodges of Camanches are en-
camped 300 miles below, and Big Mouth's band of
Arapahoes, 21 lodges, will be present, making a
total of 852, averaging 6 persons each, or about
5,000 Indians. There was some trouble in getting
access to the hostile Cheyennes, and Colonel But-
terfield was shot at and lost his horse and pistol.
The mission, so far, is considered a great success
The Cheyennes are now said to be anxious for
peace." Idaho advises state that the Baize stage
route was attacked by Indians on the 29th Sep-
tember. The station-keeper was killed, and his
wife wounded.

We rejoice to learn that the yellow fever is
rapidly abating at New Orleans, Mobile, and Gal-
veston. The visitation has been one of the most
awful ever experienced in America. We may hope
that the last phial has been poured on the Southern
States, and that happier days are in store for that
distracted land. To add to its misfortunes Gal-
veston was overflowed during a storm on Sunday,
the 13th inst., when half a million dollars worth of
property was destroyed.
The Southampton mail brings us news from
Hayti of the 23d September. The deplorable con-
dition in which Geffrard had left affairs improve
day by day, and the Presidency of General Saluave
—the result of universal suffrage—fully meets the
legitimate hopes of the country. The Chambers
are open, and the revenue, which will be collected
under happier auspices, will cover the deficiencies
caused by corrupt administration. Europe will be
astonished to learn that Geffrard diverted the public
funds for his own personal use and for the payment
of the executioners of his sanguinary orders. He
put to death all those who dared to resist his tyran-
nical conduct. During the eight gloomy years of
his reign 342 of the principal citizens expatriated
themselves to avoid a similar fate. Among those of
the Government officials is the representative at the
Court of the Tuileries, three Secretaries of State,
and President Saluave himself. If the manifesto of
M. Longufosse in 1862, of M. Legros in 1863, and
the protest of the Council of St. Mark in 1867,
are to be believed, when the death could not be ac-
complished by shooting poison was employed to
secure the result. At all events the process at law
intended by the relations of the victims will soon
show what we should tbink of this terrible accusa-
tion.

Petroleum, as fuel for generating steam, has had
a practical trial, and proved its superiority. An ex-
tensive conflagration broke out in Federal-street,
Boston, on the sth inst., and the fire-engines were
hurried to the spot. One had been arranged to
test the recent invention for petroleum oil for
getting up steam, and in three minutes a pressure
was raised of 100 lbs. Before the machine reached
the spot it was prepared for action, and the
engine was not only sooner ready, but with greatly
increased force, gaining 30 per cent, of water
pressure over the others. It is found to possess
many advantages, not clogging the exhaust pipes
or throwing out smoke and sparks. We hope soon
to see this admirable invention introduced into
England.

That the Democratic victories are bringing people
to their senses is seen in the suggestions here and
there thrown out in the American papers. One
says the negroes having a control in the South, and
the whites in the North, if there be a mutual yield-
ing to the down-trodden and subject race in each
quarter, universal suffrage anti equal rights all
round would be gained. Let the Southern negroes
give the suffrage to the Southern whites, and the
Northern whites the suffrage to the Northern
negroes, and this fair compromise will satisfy
everybody but Mrs. Cady Stanton and Jim .Nye,
who, as advocates of woman suffrage, must wait for
another crisis and another compromise. The Ohio
vote—where a majority of some 38,000 was cast
against the negro suffrage amendment to the Con-
stitution, and where there are some 40,000 negroes—
was the answer of the Northern whites ; and the
Virginian Radical leader llunnicutt, haranguing the
blacks in Charles City County, said they were able
to exterminate the whites, adding, " You have no
property, the white race own houses and lands; some
of you are old and feeble and cannot carry the mus-
ket, but you can all apply the torch to the dwell-
ings of your enemies." If such firebrands as Hun-
nicutt are to be taken as faithful exponents of negro
sentiment, the time has not arrived for compromise.
There are indications, we fear, that the negroes
may be found difficult to deal with. One of the
items of news by,the Scotia is, that the white Radi-
cal candidate at Williamsburg, Virginia, has been
mobbed by the adherents of the coloured Radical
candidate.

Mr. Thaddeus Stevens is neither to be conquered
by sickness nor defeat. While the nation is rising
against his extreme opinions, he rises from his sick-
bed to thunder forth his intentions in the faco.of
the people. There is something so " plucky " and
uncompromising in the man that we cannot refrain
a tribute of admiration. He announces that he will
urge Congress to pass an impeachment law defining
impeachable offences, and providing that no officer
will be permitted to exercise the functions of office
during trial under impeachment., and that he will
also present a bill prohibiting any State preventing
citizons from voting an account of colour for national
officers.

It is now stated that Chief Justice Chase will pre-
side at the trial of Jefferson Davis, which has been
fixed for the fourth Monday in November. The
Supreme Court opens at Washington on the first
Monday in December, and there the Chief Justice
must sit, but he hopes to finish Mr. Davis's case in a
week. Judge Underwood has ordered 72 petty
jurors to be summoned, both black and white,
supposing that many will be challenged and thrown
out. District Attorney Chandler will be assisted in
the prosecution by Mr. Evarts, of New York, and
General H. 11. Wells, of Virginia. Mr. Davis's
plea will be that secession is a State right, and that
he owes allegiance rather to his State than to the
Federal Government ; that the Confederacy being

a de facto Government, and recognised as a bellige-
rent, had the right to make war, and this war,
therefore, could not be treason to another power.
Extremes meet, as is shown by the fact that the
most violent Radical holds the same doctrines, and
Thaddeus Stevens might be employed to defend
Jefferson Davis.

We cannot pass without notice a subject which
has disagreeably brought forward the name of a
man whose memory is justly venerated throughout
the States. Mrs. Lincoln seems to have been proof
against the high-toned influences which a constant
association with the late President ought to have
imparted. She would make an admirable trader, if
she did not overshoot her mark. It is said that
$75,000 were invested in the name of Mr. Lincoln's
estate in Government Bonds, and that the value of
his property must have exceeded $lOO,OOO. Yet his
widow has hawked through New York shawls, dresses,
and jewels, thrusting them for purchase on those she
alleges to have received favours and offices at her
hands during her husband's life. As they refused, Mrs.
Lincoln rushed into print announcing her intention
of selling her wardrobe at public auction, declaring
she could not live on the meagre pittance left by
her husband, and the grant by Congress after his
death. The goods were exhibited in a shop on the
Broadway, and many examined them, but few pur-
chased. It is said that some wealthy gentlemen
have purchased the lot, influenced by the wish to
withdraw the name they so much venerate from con-
nection with such a scandal. The New York Herald
advertised Mrs. Lincoln's poverty, asking the public,
especially the negroes, to send contributions for her
relief, and then published the notes enclosing the re-
mittances. A freedman wrote as follows :—" I
would send more, but I am a poor preacher of the
Gospel, and am not doing anything now. I was a
slave in Virginia till this war, and Mr. Lincolnmade
me a free man." The New York Herald has thus hit
a hard blow.

Affairs in the Papal States have taken a most
unexpected turn. When our last number appeared
the Italian army was being massed on the frontier,
with orders, it was supposed, to march at once on
Rome. At Toulon the steam of a French squadron
was up and the decks crowded with troops. It was
supposed to be a race between the Italian army and
the French fleet, and the clash of regular troops to be
about to follow the guerilla operations of the Gari-
baldians against the Pope's Zouaves. Last Saturday
the position, judging from the English papers, was
hopeless, and the Emperor Napoleon in that sort of
dilemma where even there are no horns to seize.
Brilliant were the arguments and conclusive the
reasoning of that overgrown youngster, the Pall
Mall Gazette, that the Emperor bad put bis foot in
it ; it was impossible for him to retreat, and im-
possible for him to go forward to the right or
left, up or down; and it was quite ridiculous
to suppose he could remain where he was.
Poor Napoleon we thought, here's a pretty fix 1
Next Monday the troops had all disembarked, the
steam was shot off, the Italian army retiring to
their quarters, and the Garibaldians evacuating the
Papal States. Napoleon's position seemed to be
rather a strong and fortunate one ; but what about
the Pall Mall Gazette and the other English journals
that had followed suit. We know what is meant in
America by " swinging round the circle." They all
took a lesson in that, and the Pall Mall, already
pretty well used to it, went gracefully and agilely
into the ring. The scare of last week has blown
over, and we are in hopes there will be no return
of alarming symptoms.
The Ilon. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, who, if
report be true, will be Secretary of State when
General Grant becomes President, has made an in-
teresting speech at Galena, Illinois. As the intimate
friend of the great General what Mr. Washburne
said is of much interest. According to him Grant
occupies the place of Secretary of War, not because
he was ordered to that post by his superior, but
from his stern sense of duty to his country, which
impelled him to bar that important office to a
Copperhead and a Johnson man, wijo would hinder
reconstruction, demoralise the army, and sanctio❑
fraudulent and bogus claims of rebel•. Nor did he
step into Mr. Stanton's place until after full con-
sultation with that gentleman. Mr. Washburne
alleges that Grant favours the reconstruction policy
of Congress, and earnestly advocated the extra
session. lle believes that the negroes must be al-
lowed to vote. lle upholds the credit of the
country, urges a more rigid economy in all branches
of public expenditure, and, through Mr. Wash-
burne, appears as a candidate defining his position.
On Saturday, the sth inst., the Democratic Con-
vention of New York closed its labours. The re-
solutions adopted are in the usual style of clap-trap.
They are pledged to redeem the State from corrup-
tion and misrule ; they demand economy in expend-
ing the public resources ; they maintain, as due to
the soldiers and sailors engaged in the war for the
Union, the gratitude of the Republic. They de-
nounce the efforts of the Radicals to retain their
usurped power by means of negro supremacy in the
South, alleging that military occupation, coupled
with the disfranchisement of so large a portion of
the white population, was an outrage on Demo-
cratic principles, and an attempt to undermine and
destroy the Republic. The Convention closed
with a pathetic address from Governor Seymour, in
which he predicted years of triumph for the party.
The proposed reduction in the cable charges for
messages to and from America will come into opera-
tion on the Ist November. The present charge of
£lO for a message of ten words, giving five words
not exceeding twenty-five letters for the name
of the sender and receiver, is to be reduced one -
half, or to £5. For any word over and above ten,
and five for name and address, the charge will be
7s. 6d. Extra charges for code messages are under
this tariff to be abolished, the rate to be the same
as for ordinary business. The companies reserve
two rights : in the first place, they may decline any
particular form of code offered ; and in the second,
the receipts failing, within three months to reach a
specified sum, they may return to the original tariff.
We fear three months can scarcely give a fair trial,
but we hope that it will show such a progressive in-
crease that the companies may be encouraged to
proceed, even if the specified sum be not reached.