The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-12 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

The Tall-street Journal says the Pacific Bank, of
Now York City, will pay 5 per cent. on demand, free of tax;
the Southern Bank of New Orleans, 4 per cent., at the Che-
mical Bank, New York; the Fulton Fire Insurance Com-
pany, 5 per cont.; the Republic Fire Insurance Company,
6i per cent.; the Yonkers and New York Fire Insurance
Company, 5 per cent.; the Williamsburg City Fire Insur-
ance Company, 5 per cent.; the Cleveland, Columbus, and
Cincinnati Railroad Company, 4 per Cent.; the Cincin-
nati and Martinsville Railroad Company, 3 per cent.
on the Guaranteed Stock, and the Columbia Oil
Compa❑y, of Pittsburg, 75 cents per share. Tho
Sensenderfer Mining Company, of Colorado, have de-
clared their regular monthly dividend for June, of 1 per
cent., payable at the office of the company, 19, Broad-
Now York, on July 25th. The Eureka Lake and
Yul•a Canal Company, Consolidated, have declared a
quarterly dividend of 2i per cent., payable in gold on
demand at their office, 31, New-street, New York. The
Allegheny and Pittsburgh Oil Company have declared a
dividend of 1 per cent., and the Dalzell Oil Company of
2 percent. (on their reduced capital stock of S 100,000),
both payable on demand at their respective offices, in
x ork
City will pay a dividend of five per cont., free of tax, on
August Ist ; the Corn Exchange Bank, five per cent. ; the
Home Insurance Company, five per cent; the Broadway
Insurance Company, six per cent.; the Peter Cooper Fire
Insurance Company, five per cont. ; the Delaware and
Bariton Canal and Camden and Amboy Railroad and
Transportation Companies, five per cent.; the New
Jersey Railroad and Transportation Company, five per
cent. on the full stock, and two dollars per share on the
I scrip stock ; the Buffalo awl Erie Railroad Company, five
cent th Si of semi-
annual.p;
and the Universal Life Insurance Company, three and me,
half per cent.

The coupons of the first mortgage bonds of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company (Eastern Division), duo August
Ist, will be paid on that day, by Dabney, Morgan, and Co.,
New York; of the first mortgage bonds of the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad Company, due on August Ist, by
Winslow, Lanier, and Co., New York ; and of the first
mortgage bonds of the Hudson River Railroad Company,
duo August Ist, at the treasurer's office, Now York.

THE EMPEROR• MAXIMILIAN.

On the Ist of July Napoleon 111. delivered, at
Paris, a long and pompous speech at the distribu-
tion of prizes, to those who had most distinguished
themselves at the great show, in which he spoke of
France, great, prosperous, and free ; of the gran-
deur of France, always fertile in generous ideas'
and of the national genius " which never allowed
itself to be enervated in material enjoyments."
He spoke further "of the national French fibre,
ever prone to vibrate when the honour of the
country was concerned ;" and " of the noble sus-
ceptibility of the French," and he was proud at
having to show to the greater
,part of the kings of
the world, othrleds,ateFrmaonmceentetllethge wu'uennteoesta.
rd news arrived
in Paris that the Emperor Maximilian had been
shot on the 19th day of June. The Court of
Austria had received the terrible news at the same
time from its Minister at Washington, and from
the captain of the Elizabetta, stationed at Vera
Cruz. The Austrian journals, also published on
the Ist July, declared that it was but too true that
the Emperor Maximilian had been shot on the 19th
of June. And this, your Imperial Majesty, who
bear the name of Napoleon 111., this is the glory
you ascribe to France. You took away from the
tranquillity of Miramar an august prince, a man of
large intellect, and of larger heart, and with a
hundred blandishments and a thousand promises,
you entice him to Mexico to receive the crown of an
empire which you had founded. But when he had
arrived there, and difficulties, opposition, and
dangers accumulated on his head, you first aban-
doned him, and then allowed him to be shot.
Say now to the French people :—" Felicitos
nous !" Not only was the Emperor of Austria
conquered in Lombardy and overthrown in Bohe-
mia, but his brother was shot in Mexico ! Say
now to the French people :—" Soyons fiers," hold
your head high. You defenders of every just cause!
You have permitted, in the most atrocious manner,
the repetition in the person of Maximilian of the
horrible fate of the Duke d'Enghien. Speak now
of patriotic faith. Faith in your patriotism had the
unfortunate Maximilian, and he has paid the price
of his mistake. Boast now of the generous ideas
of Napoleonic France ; history will register your
generosity with the blood of Maximilian.
But if we continue to write what we feel in our
heart, our article, perchance, will not be suffered
to meet the eye of any but the representative of
France and the Procuratore del Re in Turin ; there-
fore, it will be a better plan only to recite the
words spoken and reported in the Legislative Body
by the Minister of Napoleon 111. Twice M.
Rouher favoured the French deputies with his
views on Mexico and Maximilian—once in the
sitting of the 27th January, 1864, and then in that
of the 11th April, 1865.
. The first time, in reply to those who had pro-
posed the abandonment of Mexico, he said :—" It
would he the most shameful of all desertions"