The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-17 00:00:00

MiEcellaneous Foreign News.

The Minnesota reached New York on the 6th, the
City of Washington on the 7th, and on the 9th the
Inman steamship City of Paris, and the Bremen, of
the North German Lloyd's Company. The America,
of the same company, arrived on the 12th. The
Cunard steamersil/a/ta arrived at New York on the
11th, and the Persia on the 13th. The Cimbria
and the Mississippi arrived on Thursday, the 13th,
and the Peruvian at Boston.

During last week considerable sums were received
from America. The imports of specie into England
amounted to about £27o,o39,including2BB,ooo by the
Palmyra, from New York ; £6,000 by the Saxonia,
£31,000 by the England, £83,642 by the Guiding
Star, £4,400 by the New York, and £26,100 by.the
Java. The Mandingo, from the West Coast of
Africa, also brought £8,139; and about £22,758 in
silver was received from, the Continent. The ex-
ports were confined chiefly to remittances to the
Continent through private sources, estimated at
about £319,325.

A telegram from Hong Kong, April 29, via
Trieste, states that Nankin, Kirmgakow, and
Nouchow will shortly be declared open for foreign
commerce.

The Etendard on Wednesday evening said that
the session of the Legislative Body in Paris will
not be closed, till the bills on the press, public
meetings, army reorganisation, and the budget
have been voted. It is stated that the committee
on the new press bill have adopted an amendment
proposing the reduction of the stamp duty by one
centime. _

The North German Constitution will be officially
promulgated in the States.of the Confederation, the
last week iu June.

A telegram from Bombay, May 20 (via Trieste),
informs us that the annual cotton report of the cot-
ton department states. that 939,697 bales were ex-
ported from the Bombay Presidency last year. At
Bombay money is abundant, and a good demand
prevails for cotton and piece goods.
News has arrived that a considerable quantity of
rain has fallen on the coast and some parts of the
interior of Central America, doing considerable
damage to the cochineal crop. _ . _

A duel took place on the 1 I th at La Celle
between Viscount Jacques de la Touche, editor of
the Pays, and M. Floquet, advoc Ste. The seconds

had arranged that the affair should terminate on
either of the combatants receiving a wound
sufficiently serious to disable him. The weapons
were swords, which the editor appeared as well able
to handle as his pen, for M. Floquet was, after a
few minutes, wounded in the hand, and on the en-
counter being continued received a second hurt,
which the surgeon declared to be serious. Honour
being thus satisfied, the parties left the ground. The
affair arose from an article in the Pays, written by
M. Cassagnac, reflecting strongly on M. Floquet,
who, according to this, was one of the legal gentle-
men that, on the visit of the Czar to the Palais de
Justice, saluted him with the cry of " Vive la
l'ologne !" Perhaps M. Cassagnac, had he been
at liberty, would have done his own fighting, but
he appears to have been engaged in, a similar affair
with one of the editors of to Soleil, and with-a like
result.

Secretary Seward has received a reply to,his appli-
cation to Juarez for mercy to Maximilian, in case
the Emperor should fall into his hands. Juarez, it
is said, declines to interfere, and signifies this rudely.
There is an ill-feeling arising between the party
now in power in Mexico and the United States.
There was a report that Maximilian's life had been
spared in the hope of extracting a heavy ransom.
It is difficult to believe that the chiefs of the Juarez
party could be so insanely wicked as to gratify the
lowest feelings of cowardly cruelty at the expense at
which the life of Maximilian only could be taken.
It is, however, impossible for Europeans to calcu-
late on the ruling passions of these mongrel Indians,
and, therefore, what has bean Maximilian's fate
time alone can prove.
The Times is perhaps the best of judges in the
art of shuffling round the circle, and Horace Greeley
may well be proud of the admiration it expresses
for his late performance. The conduct of that gen-
tleman is " alike creditable," says the Times," to his
humanity and to his political judgment." But for
all that, we may add, it is strangely inconsistent.
Had Mr. Greeley not come so prominently forward
to denounce the Southern chief, his conduct in be-
coming security for his political enemy would have
excited little attention, and, perhaps, only admira-
tion. But one man cannot denounce another in
the terms in which Horace Greeley has denounced
Jefferson Davis, and then publicly hold out
the right hand of fellowship, without some plau-
sible explanation of his motives. If he does, he
must not be surprised that his act provokes harsh
comment. His intentions may now be very pure,
but what then were his former denunciations ?
These allegations may have been true, firmly be-
lieved in by himself, and a public duty to expose ;
but, if so, what is now his moving spring ? Let
him frankly acknowledge that Jefferson Davis is
not the man he painted him, nor his cause that, he
so constantly sketched in suoh startling colours, that
he was wrong in attributing to the late captive the
frightful crimes which so many years filled the
columns of the Tribune. Let him honestly say this,
and we will understand the position, but not, like
the 7 Imes, swing round, without the slightest regard
for consistency, working on the opposite tack with-
out any acknowledgment of error.
From the following paragraph it will be seen that
it is easier even in winter to bowl across the Atlantic
to England before strong westerly gales than in sum-
mer to return: —The yacht Vesta arrived at New York
on Wednesday, 29th May, after a stormy passage
of 32 days from Cowes. It is reported that a part
of the crew attempted to mutiny on the passage,
demanding that the boat return to England. The
difficulty arose from the fright caused among the
men by a terrible storm.

At 6 o'clock on the morning of May 15 Quere-
taro was captured by Eseobedo, Maximilian, with
the whole garrison, having surrendered at discretion.
In announcing the event, Escobedo states that, " at
3 o'clock that morning the Cruz Fort was taken by
surprise ; the enemy, thrown thus into disorder,
cancentrated on the Campanas height. In his re-
treat thither he was raked by our artillery, which
increased his confusion. The whole garrison was
at length made prisoners, and all the war material
captured. Maximilian and his generals, Castilla
d iann
New Mejia,
York
ha t du rne we taiso n.
that ''
Maximilia
n
had been betrayed at Queretaro by Lopez—that the
Liberals hal left Queretaro for the city of Mexico,
intendingsoner
of to carry
o
n AtlhaexliTtihliainnstto.
it
eas announced
as a
that Escobedo had ordered the Emperor to be tried
pri
by court-martial on the 29th ultimo, and that Men-
dez had been shot ; anl on Thursday it was tele-
graphed from New York that Castilla and Mejia
had been shot, and that Miramon had died of fever.
On Friday, the 7th instant, the Java arrived at
Queenstown from New York with 194 cabin passen
gers and $130,500. On Sunday the Cunard extra
steamship Tripoli arrived with 91 passengers, and
the same day the extra Inman steamer Etna. On
Monday evening the North German Lloyd's steamer
Hansa arrived at Southampton with 148 passengers
and $82,039, having left Ne York 30th May. On
the same day the City of Baltimore arrived at
Queenstown, having left New York on the Ist inst.
with 92 passengers and $105,000. The Hamburgh
and American steamship Germania arrived at South-
ampton on Tuesday, from New York on the Ist inst.,
with 171 passengers and $B,OOO, and the Manhat-
tan of the Guiou Line, at Queenstown, the same day.
The Pennsylvania was off Queenstown on Wednes-
day. Oa Thursday the New York and Bremen
steamship Atlantic reache I tiu same port, having
also left New York on the Ist June.
The Southern Relief Comrhittee of New York
have published reports from various districts of the
South, and the state of want and distress prevailing
throughout. Many have died, and many more
would have perished had not the North aided them
in their time of noel. But large contributions are
still required, for a critical period has yet to be
passed before the crops come in. The newspapers
are doing their duty in this matter, and we have
every confidence that the much-required help will
be forthcoming.
The Levant Herald announces that the veritable
Asiatic plague has appeared at Kerbelah on the
Euphrates. The news arrived by telegraph from
Bagdad. The strictest quarantine is to be observed.
Out of two settled Arab tribes which it has attacked
—l,OOO strong— 100 have been carried off.
Four thousand inhabitants of the districts of
Croatia entered Fiume in procession last Thursday,
bearing a petition for union with the Hungarian
Littoral.

If the Washington correspondent of the Cincin-
nati Commercial truly states the circumstances,
Judge Cartter endeavoured to shuffle General
Grant off the course in the race for the Presidency,
that Ben Wade might take up the running, but he
found the General precisely what Lee found him
at Richmond, very obstinate, and with a dogged de-
termination to gain his end. " The Judge, in his
most impressive manner, announced to the General
that the time had arrived to decide whether he was
to be a candidate for the Presidency on the Republican
ticket. It would not do to continue in his padlocked
condition; the public were looking for the coming man.
If he were going to come it was time he was coming
along. He wanted to know if he would be a candi-
date, and if so whether he would object to having
Benjamin F. Wade upon the same ticket as a
candidate for the vice-Presidency. The General
gave his traditional cigar an extra twirl in his
mouth, remarking that these were rather plain and
direct questions. This the Judge endorsed, while
continuing to press them. After a minute's de-
liberation the Commander-in-Chief replied that he
really did not feel desirous of becoming President
of the United States, that he had been honoured
and trusted in a degree that was a surprise to him-
self, yet he felt that, if the people c died upon him
to become a candidate for the Presidency of the
party that had been for the. war for the preservation
of the Union he could not feel he was at liberty to
decline. As a matter of course he could have
nothing whatever to say as to the second person on
the ticket. That, as well as the first place on the
ticket, was a matter for the wisdom of the people to
determine, and he certainly could have no objection
to B. F. Wade, of Ohio. All of which was taken
by the Ben Wade party, represented at this inter-
view by Chief Justice Cartter, to mean in so many
words that General Grant was and would be a
candidate for the Presidency. Ihis result has, in