The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-15 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, May 14.

The printers and editors of Spain are signing a
petition to the Cortes against a bill brought in the
Chamber of Deputies by the Catalonian members
increasing the import duty on paper.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE HECLA.
QUEENSTOWN, May 15

The Cunard steamer Hecla arrived here at 12.30
a.m. to-day, with 88 passengers. She landed 18
passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 1 a.m.
All well.

ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 14.

The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from
New York on the 2nd, has arrived. She brings 25
sacks of mails for London, also for London $5,820
in specie.

NEW YORK, May 2, Morning.

The Democratic candidates for the mayoralty and
the city judgeship at Baltimore were yesterday
elected by large majorities.
Mr. Wilson addressed the negroes at Wilmington
yesterday, and was enthusiastically received.
The Japanese Commissioners were presented to
Mr. Seward yesterday, and will be presented to the
President to-morrow.
The Judiciary Committee will resume the im-
peachment investigation to-morrow.
The New York papers publish the following
Mexican news :—A despatch from the agent of
Juarez has arrived at New Orleans, and been tele-
graphed to Signor Romero at Washington, in which
it was stated that Miramon was dead, the Imperial
forces disbanded, Marquez completely defeated,
Queretaro captured, and the Emperor Maximilian
in concealment.
It is reported that Canales had declared in favour
of Ortega, and was besieging Matamoras. Ile was
expected to capture the city so soon as he should
receive reinforcements under Cortinas.

Advices reeeive3 here from Jap.tn to April 3, via
San Francisco, state that the British Minister had
demanded and received an apology from the
Japanese Government for insults offered to British
officers.

The Tycoon had invited all foreign Ministers to
meet him at Osaka on the 30th April.
Another disastrous fire has occurred at Yoko-

hama.

ARRIVAL OF THE CIMBRIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, May 14.

The Hamburg and Arnerican!Company's steam-
ship Cirnbria, from New York on the 4th inst., has
arrived here with 383 passengers for this port,
Havre, and Hamburg, 33 bags of mails for London,
$2,000 in specie, and 800 tons measurement of
cargo for Hamburg.
On the 13th she spoke the English schooner
Q. D. 8., 6,079 ; the Oldenberg barque, No. 151;
and a French screw steamer, barque-rigged, with
double topsail yards, steering west. On the 14th,
off Start Point, the English barque Gang° and the
Hamburg brig, No. 259, steering west.
She experienced strong easterly winds through-
out the voyage, or would have arrived yesterday.

NEW YORK, May 4.

The Supreme Court heard yesterday the argu-
ment of Mr. Robert J. Walker on behalf of the
Mississippi injunction. He declared the jurisdiction
of- the Court unquestionable, and cited, in proof,
numerous cases involving the same point decided
by the Court. He stigmatised the Reconstruction
Act as despotic, oppressive, and unconstitutional.
The ordinances of secession were nullities, the re-
l•ellion failing, and the rights of the States were the
same as before the insurrection. He urged the
Court to defend the Constitution, notwithstanding
that the Attorney-General had asked it to shrink
from its sworn duty. •
Mr. Davis has petitioned the Circuit Court o.f
Virginia, setting forth his continued imprisonment
and his readiness and anxiety for trial, and praying
the Court to issue a habeas corpus writ to bring the
petitioner before the Court for trial. Judge Un-
derwood has issued a writ, returnable on the 13th,
requiring the Marshal of Virginia to bring Mr.
Davis before the Court. It is reported that the
Government has instructed the commander of
Fortress Monroe to obey the writ.
The garrison of Lynchburg, Virginia, has been
increased, in consequence of reported evidence of
disloyalty among the population.
The Georgia and Alabama papers urge General
Pope to issue an order similar to that issued by
General Sickles for the relief of debtors. General
Pope has received a subpoena from the Supreme
Court in the Georgia injunction case. It is stated
that he will appear.
General Ord has announced that, pending the
decision of the Attorney-General, the disfranchis-
ing clause of the Reconstruction Act will be strictly
construed.

Outrages by negroes in North Carolina are re-
ported as becoming frequent.
Senator Wilson addressed a large assemblage of
whites and negroes at Charleston yesterday. He
urged his hearers to support the Republican party,
and advocated harmony between the two races.
lie expressed a belief that concurrence in the Re-
construction Act would secure the South immediate
representation in Congress. _ _

The Negro Radical Convention at Mobile on
Thursday adopted resolutions promising to support
the Republican party, and claiming the right of
social and political equality with the whites.
The President yesterday received the Japanese
Commissioners, when reciprocal hops for the pros-
perity and friendly intercourse of the two countries
were expressed.
The working men of Chicago have struck for a
limitation of the day's work to eight hours. A riot
was apprehended.
The New York papers publish Mexican news
from Matamoras to the 29th ult., stating that
Gomez was at Tampico, and had pronounced against
Juarez and in favour of Ortega.

The yellow fever was raging at Vera Cruz.
The revolution at Hayti was renewed, and
anarchy prevailed. Several aspirants to the Pre-
sidency were effecting a military organisation of
ttNir Adherents,

APLAREN, ALP., AND THE REFORM

I3ILL.

A letter from Mr. M'Laren, brother-in-law to
Mr. Bright, to the chairman of his committee, is
published in the Edinburgh Courant. The hon.
member, in defending his vote last week in favour
of the Government, says :—" The arguments for
and against the two sides of the question occupy
seventeen columns of the ?blies of this morning,
and I leave them there for the consideration of all
concerned. The result of the debate on my own
mind was that I considered it my duty to vote with
the Government. In the way in which the bill will
now be adjusted, no working man in England, being
a householder, who is willing to take a little trouble
to obtain' the franchise, need go without it. The
degree of trouble is this—Government provides at
every post-office within a burgh blank printed forms
of claim to be sent by the compound householder
to the parish officers, claiming 'to be rated, and
personally to pay his rates ; and when the parish
officer gets the notice properly filled up, he
is bound to enter the claimant on • the roll.
This printed form costs nothing, and when
put in the post-office the postmaster is bound to
send it to the parish officer also free of postage.
That officer writes to the claimant if any arrears
of rates are dne, and if so, they must be pail
before his name is put on the roll, and this letter
also goes free. These matters being thus attended
to by the working man, he remains on the roll of
electors as long as he pays his poor-rates. I admit
that there is thus a little trouble imposed upon the
working man which I would rather see done away
with ; but as it was well understoood on both sides
of the house that the defeat of the Government
would occasion the withdrawal of the bill for the
present session, I felt impelled by a sense of duty,
acting on my own responsibility (for no one knew
how I was to vote an hour before the division took
place), to support the Government amendment.
Another point of much importance to us, although
subordinate to the greater question of a good bill
for England, is, that the burgh franchise which the
present Government bas promised to Scotland is
more liberal than any Government has ever pro-
posed ; and if the other parts of their bill shall be
conceived in the sane spirit—of which, however, I
know nothing—we may hope to get a good bill for
Scotland passed during the present session. Iu the
views which I have thus expressed I know that
many ' good men and true' of the Liberal party
concur, and many of those who voted against us,
for special reasons, have privately expressed their
gratification at our success."