The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, ON, _MONDAY EVENING, JUNE. 2 1867.

spectators, and it seems, indeed, a fitting thing that
these memorials to some of our leading statesmen,
or others intimately associated in rendering im-
portant services to the country, should be placed
in conspicuous positions in the metropolis. It is a
tribute to -the most of those who are gone, and an
incentive, :for the encouragement of those who are
to come after them. The late Lord HERBERT
certainly rendered great services to the State by
improving the condition of the soldier, but he
did nothing that may not be done again
by those who have the ability and the good-
will to tread in his footsteps. He profited by cir-
cumstances, and being struck with the glaring
errors and deficiencies around him he laboured
strenuously to supply the remedy. Let others also
do this whenever and wherever they can do so, and
the result cannot but be satisfactory to the inte-
rests of the public and the general welfare of the
country. It has long been a reproach to English-
men that they fail to recognise merit, and it is
therefore gratifying to notice any instance which
affords an exception to the rule.

It seems that slavery is going out of fashion in
the Southern half of the American continent as
well as in the North of the Gulf of Mexico. The
Brazilians, however, are determined that they shall
not be accused of imprudent haste, or of giving
themselves cause °for leisurely repentance. The
plan upon which they have decided, if the
accounts received be reliable, is dilatory in the
extreme, and we apprehend that before the
prescribed time has expired the Brazilians
will find it necessary to quicken their speed.
Slavery they affirm, shall totally cease in the year
1900, thirty-three years hence, and the State is to

indemnify those citizens who may still own slaves
at that period. The matter is not to be left for
settlement until that date, since, from the promul-
gation of the decree, all children born to slaves
shall be free. Children who may be educated in
the houses of their parents' masters shall serve them
till their 20th year. There will be established
courts of emancipation in all the towns to enforce

the law, and a fixed amount will be set aside for the
emancipation of the slaves of the nation, and a fund
will be appropriated for the annual purchase of
slavcs, so that only a few mly be left in slavery
when the final emancipation comes. The general
features of the scheme are excellent, and we con-
gratulate the Brazilians on having decided at last
to rid themselves of what cannot be otherwise than
a national disgrace and drawback.

ample means of imbibing genuine old English beer
and ale, and every species of the delicious wine
of France, yet even teetotalers have been thought of.
In the park, close to the Ecole Militaire, is a
remarkable establishment, a farm, where there are
twenty Dutch cows, and here the temperate enjoy
beautiful fresh milk, which at periods of the day may
be had pure. and hot from the animal. Without, the
place has all the accessories of a farm,. for there are
plenty of chickens, sheep, turkeys, pigs, and calves.
N repast of fresh laid eggs and genuine milk is not
a bad one for a Teetotaller. In a farm near Paris a
novel if not unprecedented sight may new be wit-
nessed. A hen has hatched no less than 2..1: chickens,
and she attends to her whole brood, with maternal
care. At the farm at the Exhibition the cows are
installed under a very tastefully executed circular
tent.

Some thirty years ago France was very much
behind-hand in regard to the manufacture of car-
riages. Even the rich rode in the most ugly-look-
ing and inconvenient vehicles, and as to the public
vehicles they were miserable and unsightly in the
extreme. 'lhe French have, indeed, changed all
this. The carriage depaitment at the Exhibition,
which is situate near the Porte St. Dominique, has

a display of carriages which cannot be surpassed,
or, I think, equalled anywhere for elegance, com-
fort, and beauty. There is one carriage which is
signalled out by all for its striking display of neat-
ness. It is not gaudy and cumbersome, like some
of our English State carriages, but is an object
remarkable as affording proof of the great advance
in this branch of French industry and art. I cer-
tainly never saw so beautiful a carriage, and my
opinion is confirmed by many writers in the Paris
papers. The manufacturer, M. Kellner, of the
Boulevard llaussman, well deserves the tribute paid
to his taste and skill. It appears that he has just
obtained a pateat for a very useful but simple piece
of mechanism to be applied to a landau. At pre-
sent the door of a carriage cannot be opened with-
out lowering the window, but this inconvenience is
avoided by the appliance of this invention. In a
few (lays visitors will have an opportunity of seeing
it at the Exhibition.

A despatch has been received in Paris from Vienna
which announces that the Austrian Government
has received from its Ambassador in the United
States a telegram confirming the news of the
c ipture of Queretaro by the Republicans, and
of the unconditional surrender of the Emperor
Maximilian. From other sources of informa-
tion it appears that there is no foundation for
the report that Juarez had given orders that the
unfortuate Emperor should be shot.
The weather is magnificent to-day, but over-
poweringly hot. All Paris is on holiday. In addi-
tion to the Exhibition there is a fete at Sevres,
races in the Bois de Boulogne, and innumerable
novel entertainments.

THE CRISIS IN BRAZIL.

The royal mail steamer, from Brazil, brings
nothing new from the seat of war in Paraguay.
The cholera had broken out in the allied camp to a
fearful extent, and shows itself a worse and more
pitiless foe than Lopez. Nearly 3000 died in five
days, and the men have become so exasperated that
they ask to be brought into action at once, or that
peace should be made. At Buenos Ayres and
Rosario this dreadful disease has made great havoc.
Buenos Ayres is nearly deserted, every one has fled
to the country, and business is suffering greatly,
For fear of infection Montevideo is closed to all
communication with Buenos Ayres, and to ships
coming from the Parana. The situation of the
Brazilian empire is best described by giving extracts
from their own journals. The Journal de Brazil
has a well-written article under the above head, and
so has the Journal de Commercio, which we insert :
" We are going from bad to worse, from one
abyss into another. The folly of the Government
is aggravated by its utter inefficiency. To order an
impossibility is the act of imbeciles, to decree au
injustice is decidedly wicked ; but to admit the im-
possibility and injustice of a decree, and yet persist
in it, argues thel most lamentable depravity. Un-
fortunately it is not only the Ministers who are de-
moralised, but the very principal of authority is
undermined. We are in a dreadful crisis ; all the
bad elements of society are actively at work, and
honest men hide their heads. The Government
inspires no confidence in our citizens, nor displays
r:price, and refuses to re-
sign without patriotism, the
They began the war
its.
energy to quell public disturbers. Without pres-
tige,
Ministry • it hisous
emptytv
swayed
a y conviction,ehao honours.
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u without an army, they confided the campaign
to foreign generale whose interests were
highly suspicious ; they plunged the Empire
in debt, they sent the bone and sinew
of the country to Paraguay, and now when reduced
to the last extremity they have the temerity to
outrage the National Guards of Rio Janeiro whose
lives have been already so fre,ly sacrificed in a cam-
paign to enrich army-contractors. Those vampires
have made splendid fortunes in the new El Dorado,
but the country will be a prey to bankruptcy, taxa-
tion, and tyranny, to meet such enormous outlay,
while deprived of the elements of labour. Whither
do they drag us ? What end is there in
view, but the ill- fated River Plate, and
inglorious
thea
t t Government
p, ai
wa
was over. They lied, and still
they levied fresh contingents from our city National
Gard
a Everythingnbdu
was kept a secret from the
people,
papers were merely an echo of the
Ministry, ago Is o
that
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declared in the Cham-
bers war was
? More than twelve, months
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sad reality has gradually burst
tthe
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on us, and we find the nation sacrificed to the mad
ambition of inept ministers. The war in the River
grey hairs and slowness
oftitihee Empire. Now that they
Plate was the grand dream of the hair-brained
Marquis of Olinda, supported by go ahead young-
are ruined they clamour about patriotism, and seek
sotfetrhsewohldoesltaugbed
to carry out their crrois or their crimes
by requiring another contingent of a thousand
servants at
National Guards. The commanders find it im-
possible to raise such a force ; only eighteen men
present themselves in answer to the muster-roll.
There is no alternative, the Ministry must retire ;
or else we shall all descend to bathos. God grant
the Government may not further try the patience
of the people : look at the starving invalid, the
wretched widow, the houseless orphan, the aban-
doned family. Peace at any cost? The National
Guard has rendered many services to the Empire,
and more than once saved us from anarchy with-
out pay or reward. This is not the time to call for
cruel and impracticable sacrifice on their part ; if
disaffections seize their ranks we shall lose the only
force remaining to guarantee us from danger. The
sea is troubled and boisterous, and strange objects
are rising to the surface on every side : strange
people are beginning to figure among us. Not a
moment is to be lost : the Ministry must resign, and
the National Guard will resume their post of honour.
Any disturbance in Rio Janeiro and the provinces
would be at present a terrible event.

ARCHBISHOP MANNING has arrived in Paris. Two
days back,
in company with three Belgian bishops, he
visited the Great
Exhibition. They are on their way to
Rome, to celebrate the 1800th anniversary of the martyr-
dom of St. Peter.
THE SHERIFFDOM OF LANARKSHIRE. The
names of Mr. Glassford Bell and Mr. A. S. Gook, sheriff of
Ross-shire, aro mentioned in connection with the sheriff-
dom of Lanarkshire, vacant by the death of Sir Archibald
Alison. _ .

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The term Brigade-Major is to be substituted for
Major of Brigade, and the latter title is to be abolished in
all official returns and documents.—Army and .Navy

Gazette.
A PHILOSOPHER VULGARISED. —.Mr. Mill made
a speech on Saturday at St. James's Hall which
was not at all in bis true line. It was against Mr. Dis-
raeli's clauses about the (then dying) Compound House-
holder, and his speech was an attempt in the direction of
rough-and-ready agitation. It expressed Lis resolve "to
be a precious great distance out of the wood before I hulloa
in future," mid contained other idiomatic vulgarisms of
that kind. It is more painful to see Mr. Mill studying this
style of speaking than it over was to see Burke cutting
blocks w:th a rezur. Ills style is naturally refined, acute,
discursive, above all things, intellectual. And there is
consequently a hollow ring about his mob-style, as well as
a painful contrast between it and that which really belongs
to him.

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