The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-08 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW Yomi, Saturday, April 6, 5.30 p.m.
Private advices from llayti confirm the announce-
ment of President Geffrard's resignation, consequent
upon the success of the insurrection against his
rule.

Intelligence from Mexico, dated the 27th of
March, has been received. It is stated that the
Liberal forces were augmenting hourly, and expect-
ing shortly to capture the Einperor Maximilian at
Queretaro, where his troops were in danger of
starvation.

The Germania has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Gold, 1328. Exchange, 1088. Five Twenty
United States' Bonds, 109 i ; Illinois Central, 114+ ;
Erie, 558. Cotton—middling upland, 28c. Pe-
troleum, 178 c.

NEW YORK, April 6, 6 p.m.
Accounts have been received that the Liberals
under Escobedo have been defeated ; Aliramon was
pursuing. The Emperor Maximilian was returning
to the capital.

The Royal Mail steamship Africa, from New
York on the 26th ult., arrived at Queenstown at
5 a.m. yesterday, with 62 passengers and $10,600
in specie. After landing 120 sacks of mails and
three passengers, she proceeded at 5 15 a.m. for
Liverpool; all well.
NEW YORK, March 26 (Evening).
President Johnson in his veto upon the Supple-
mental Reconstruction Bill declares that bill to be
based upon the wrongful assumption that the
Southern States are entitled to no constitutions
except such as may be arbitrarily dictated to
them, and framed under the restraints of military
law. President Johnson continues thus :--
"The Southern State constitutions conform to
the acknowledged standard of loyalty and republi-
canism ; yet Congress exacts universal suffrage as
evidence of their loyal and republican sentiments.
This being the case, reconstruction might as well
begin in Ohio and Pennsylvania as in Virginia or
Carolina. The bill requires the registration of the
voters, who must take an oath that they have
never been disfranchised for participation in re-
bellion ; thereby imposing a fearful individual
responsibility of judging correctly what clauses
disfranchise, any mistake of judgment being
equivalent to perjury. The only qualification
required for officers of the Board of Regis-
tration is loyalty ; yet these officers have great
discretionary power, the custody of the ballot-boxes
and authority to declare the result a the elections,

and from their decision there is no appeal and no
redress for any fraud or error they may commit.

It is a scoff and a satire on liberty for the terms of
government to be prescribed by military leaders,
and for the suffrage to be exercised at the point of
the sword. During the rebellion I urged strong
measures for its suppression, but the war accom-
plished its object, and when the Southerners sought
our friendship and protection I considered it our
duty to meet them in a spirit of forgiveness, and to
conquer them more by magnanimity than by force
of arms. If Congress had adopted that policy the
States would now be in the Union. Contemplating
the alternatives left to the South, I consider its con-
dition deplorable ; but I confidently believe that an
enlightened public opinion will efface unconstitu-

tional and oppressive legislation fro►n the statute
books, and that the people will again be united,
prosperous, and happy."

General Sickles has issued an order announcing

that civil officers may continue to exercise their pro-
per functions, but that the military authorities will
interfere when the laws are abused or not enforced.

He desires to preserve order with the least possible
use of the military power, and therefore solicits the
co-operation of the civil authorities and people
generally. .
The Louisiana Legislature has repealed the act
calling the State Convention under the laws existing
previously to the passage of the Reconstruction
Bill.

The President has nominated Gen. Frank Blair
United States Minister at Vienna.

Secretary M'Culloch has officially announced that
the examination of the Currency Bureau has resulted
in the discovery of no over issues whatever.
Via HALIFAX, March 23 (Evening).
The Secretary of State has officially promulgated
the Supplementary Reconstruction Bills.

General Sheridan has announced that only those
civil officers in his district will be removed who
abuse the laws or impede reconstruction.
Gen. Sickles has assured some Charleston mer-
chants that the military will not interfere with poli-
tics as partisans.

A special committee of the Louisiana Legislature
has advised that active steps be taken for the re-
organisation of the State under the Reconstruction
Act.

A mass meeting of negroes has been held at
Macon, at which a resolution was adopted thanking
Congress for emancipating them, and expressing
kind feelings towards their late masters.
A mass meeting of negroes and Radicals was held
at Charleston on Wednesday last. Several speakers
urged the negroes to resist the efforts of rebels to
cmtrol their votes. After the meeting the negroes
were riotous, and several arrests were made.
A Radical convention has been held at Baltimore,
at which the convention called by the Maryland
Legislature was denounced, and proposals were made
for a separate convention to form a constitution on
the basis of negro suffrage.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, April 8, Three o'clock.—The marke
closed as follows:-
1i per Cents 96
Do. end month
3 per Cents. 66 70
Do. end month 66 90
Credit Mobilier 392 50
Do. end month 388 75
Credit Fonder —
Do. end month 1322 50
BAIL

Bank Shares 3490
Italian Loan 5l 50
Do. end month 52
Mexican Loan.
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt
Deferred
Ar LYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern ll2O
Lyons and Mediterranean B7O
Southern 545
Western 535
Eastern
Sardinian . 7O
Austrian
Lombard 377 50
North of Spain
Saragosa
Ditto to Barcelona..
Roman .

95 -

Metropolitan Local Management and Tax,
ation Committee.

(THIS DAY.)
The members of the committee (Mr. Ayrton
chairman) resumed sitting this morning at Corn
mittec Room, 19, House of Commons.

Dr. Letheby, medical inspector of the City of
Loudon, gave evidence at considerable length. He
said that he held his present appointment since
1825. He said that there had been an increase in
the number of local inspectors of nuisances in the
City, the benefits of which had become apparent in
the improved sanitary condition of the metropolis,
so far as their operations extended. He
reported weekly to the Board, and that
body discharged their duties n ost regularly
and efficiently. There were 5,000 houses which
were frequently visited by the inspectors, and sub-
jected to sanitary regulations. The mortality of
London contrasted most favourably with other
towns and cities in England. lie considered that,
under the Sanitary Act of 1866, the Board of Health
of ,the metropolis had ample powers to insure the
necessary arrangements for attending to the sani-
tary condition of the metropolis. The mortality in
the City of London was about 18 or 20 in the
1,000, while in Liverpool and other towns it was
was much larger, and he believed that in Paris
it amounted to from 25 to 28 in the 1,000
yearly. The writer then described, in de-
tail, the steps which had been adopted
by the sanitary board in the City during the last
prevalence of the cholera, and to which he warmly
attributed the prevention of the spread of the
epidemic from the east to the west-end of the
metropolis. Amongst the measures taken to arrest
the disease were the opening of pumps in the City,
by which the poorer classes could always obtain a❑
abundant supply of water, the thorough cleansing
of the houses of the poorer classes by carbonic acid
and one of the most powerful disinfectants, and other
agencies, and the general attention to everything
connected with the sanitary state of the dwel-
lings of the humbler classes in London. Over
£2,000 had been expended on the object, which
had been most efficiently carried out. The
shipping, so far as passenger vessels were concerned,
were under the control of the Sanitary Board of the
City of London, which was the only power that
dealt with the shipping in a sanitary point. The
arrangements in respect to the shipping were most
admirable, they being well ventilated and cleansed,
and the lodging-houses frequented by mariners
being carefully attended to.

Other witnesses were examined, and the inquiry,
which promises to be protracted, was again ad-
journed.

THE THREATENED RIOTING BY NAVVIES.—The
dispute between the navvies and the contractors for the
extensive works of the Midland Railway at King's-cross
is at an end, and the men have returned to their employ-
ment. No actual disturbance occurred, but from the dis-
like of the English navvy to his Belgian follow-workman it
was feared open rioting would ensue. Indeed, so threat-
ening was the state of affairs for some days that a large
force of police was kept near the works.
The Saturday Review says :—" It may possibly
occur to Mr. Eyre and his admirers that there are advan-
tages in the adherence to legal forms which prevails in
England. If it had been possible to seize Mr. Eyre in
Shropshire, and to convey him to London, ho would pro-
bably at this moment have been held to bail to appear at
the Central Criminal Court. Market Drayton is fortu-
nately.a safer place than Kingston ; nor indeed is Bow-
street as formidable a forum as Morant Bay. It is hard
upon Colonel Nelson and Mr. Brand that they should
suffer from the accident of residing in London, while
their principal laughs at the Jamaica committee in the
security of his retreat."

SOUTHAMPTON, April 7.—The North German
Lloyd steamer Union, Captain von Santen, from New
York on the 28th ult., arrived here to-day. She brings 29
bags of mails for London, 151 passengers for this port,
Havre, and Bremen, and for France gold bars value
13,510 dots. She spoke the Allemanina on the sth inst.
bound for New York.

QUEENSTOWN, APRIL 7.—The Cunard (extra)
steamer Malta, from New York, arrived here at 6.45 a.m.
to-day, with 57 passengers. After landing two passengers,
despatches,
she proceeded at 7 aan:, for Liverpool. All