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THE SUN, LON t ON, 1110N0A 17 EV ENING, JUNE 17, 1867

it such the same as they have been for some years past,
:ready to be at peace, and also quite willing to
go to war, and not possesssing over much confi-
dence or goodwill towards each other. The policy
of Prussia has been so determinedly adverse to the
general feeling that prevails in France that it would
be quite idle to expect anything like a hearty welcome
` to its exponent and advocate, or to the KING who
ratified his suggestions. If peace should be pre-
served, no doubt great stress will be laid on this
expedition to Paris ; but if, as may occur, hostili-
; ties should ensue, it will be seen of how little real
avail these courtesies in high places have been in
effecting anything like a secure or settled state of
thing?.

The news from America brought by the Africa
bears date June 4, and tells us that the Judiciary
Committee has adjourned until the 20th, refusing
to recommend the impeachment of the PRESIDENT
by five to four votes. It has, however, passed a
resolution by seven to two censuring Mr. JOHNSON
for official acts " meriting the condemnation of the
people and the country." If official acts are to be
judged by their merits, we apprehend that the ver-
dict of an intelligent and unprejudiced jury would be
decidedly adverse to the Radicals, whose latest
manifestation of political feeling—the disgrace of
Mr. GREELEY--will not go far to redeem their
previous character. Mr. GREELEY'S signature of
JEFFERSON DAvis's bail bonds has aroused the
wrath of New' England, where such a virtue as
magnanimity appears to be utterly unknown.
That a man should do anything for the relief or
assistance of a person politically opposed to him
is, according to Boston theories, a serious moral
error. Mr. GREELEY is one of the most consistent
and eminent members of the Radical party—he is
the one, too, whose name commands the most re-
sp2ct outside the party. He has done good service
to the Radicals, and has hitherto been held
in high honour amongst them. All, how-
ever, is forgotten so soon as Mr. GREELEY out-
steps the narrow bounds of Radical intolerance.
He is attacked and denounced on every side, and
the subscribers to the Tribune are leaving him in
masses. lle has himself in former days been in-
tolerant enough, and possibly this experience may
make him henceforward more lenient to others. The
e of
Aextraordinarye
ecroi
enet raansd between
narrow the
i n liberality
lera nc of
American practice has of late received some
forcible illustrations, none perhaps more strik-
ingeaw
than the case of Mr. GREELEY. The re-
presentation of minorities which our modern
philosophical reformers so strenuously advocate is
not likely to meet with much favour on the other side
of the Atlantic, where only the dominant party has
the right or privilege to speak. The natural conse-
quence of this system is that the country loses the
services of the men best qualified to guide her well
and wisely. They shrink from the inevitable struggle
with noisy, unscrupulous demagogues, and so the
great affairs of State are left more and more to the
management of those who are content to bid for
popularity, to buy votes, or are made of stuff stern
enough to bear abuse, detraction, and unmeasured
opposition. Mr. JOHNSON attained his present
position by a series of accidents. He would
never have been elected had the Radicals
foreseen that he would have refused to do their
bidding, and they will probably take good care that
the next President is a man of a different stamp.
The consequences are serious to the people them-
selves and damaging to the cause of free nations.
They can hardly fail, before many years have
elapsed, to be fatal to a Republican form of Govern-
ment.

It will be remembered that about this time la:

year a very interesting ceren►ony took place at
Horton Kirby, Kent, where the Princess of Wales,
with her accustomed kindness, laid the foun-
dation stone of the "Home for Little Boys." Her
Royal Highness, whose maternal feelings prompted
her to take a warm interest in this unpretending
but valuable charity, enrolled the names of her
own little boys among the life governors. Since
that time the institution has grown and prospered
as it deserved to do, and on Saturday last a large
and brilliant company assembled to witness the
opening of the building. There were some sad
memories to mingle with many pleasant ones. The
fair Princess, whose gracious presence and kindly
sympathy so greatly encouraged the workers last
year, was not only absent, but suffering from a
long and painful illness. The place of the beloved
and respected President, whose name is associated
with so many good works, was vacant, and it was
with a mournful interest that the Visitors looked
at the " llanbury House" which was built with
the sums collected by his own exertions. It was
gratifying, however, to think that the work once
begun would go on and prosper, and as assuredly
there would be many thousands of homeless children
in this and other great cities who would stand in
need of its assistance, so we need not fear that there
would be found kind Christian hearts and willing
hands to help forward the good work so generously
and successfully inaugurated.
The design of the institution, though simple, is
in some degree peculiar. The children are taken
from the homeless and destitute class of all sects
and denominations, being, in fact, the younger
members of that great confraternity of city Arabs
whose miserable condition at the experimental
supper so greatly excited the commiseration of all
present. The children being so young, however,
an attempt has been made to combine in some de-
gree the character of a home with the features of
an institution or asylum, which, however excellent
and well managed, has many drawbacks for bring-
ing up little ones. The buildings consist of a group
of separate houses, in each of which so many
children are lodged under kind and careful
superintendence, and each is surrounded by an
allotment of land and garden on which the children
are employed at stated times. This useful and
healthy system of instruction is a source of delight
to town-bred children, and we may fancy what a
wonderful change the little ragged, half-starved
denizen of a garret or cellar in one of the London
rookeries must find it to the fields and gardens of
Horton Kirby. There are workshops, too, in which

various trades are taught and a regular system of
education goes on. The character of the children
exhibit the usual differences perceptible in large
schools or institutions, for human nature shows the
same leading features and the same endless variety
of detail in every class. The health of the children

is, we are glad to find, satisfactory, and their num-
ber is over one hundred. The committee hope,
h'wever, to go on building until they can receive
three hundred, and we have no doubt that they will
be able to do so. Even that largely increased number
will leave many a forlorn little one out; but it is
a great thing that such an undertaking should
have been set on foot at all. The clean and cheer-
ful appearance of the boys and their singing gave
much gratification to the visitors, and afforded sub-
stantial proof of the care which had been taken of
them.

Lord SHAFTESBURY, always foremost in works o:
practical philanthropy, delivered an interesting ad.
dress, and quoted from his own experience of Lou•
don outcasts some curious anecdotes. In illustra.

tion of the homeless condition of most of these little
" roughs," he told the company that he know one
little fellow who, out of kindness to another of his
tribe, less fortunate than himself, took him to a
" nice" place to sleep. The nice place turned out
to be inside the great iron roller in the Regent's-
park. Lord SHAFTESBURY cautioned the managers
against admitting those whose parents ought to sup-
port them, and not shift them on to public benevo-
lence ; but expressed his belief that there were many
thousands of children in the metropolis who had no-
where to lay their heads. To supply in some measure

the lack of home, and parents, and friends, and early
care, is surely a worthy object ; and if but a small
portion of this host of little outcasts can be rescued
from degradation and suffering, and most probably
from the sin and wickedness pervading the streets
of great cities, to become honest and industrious
and hopeful members of the community, surely a
Christian people will not let the work stand still for
want of timely encouragement. •

The suite of the sultan on his journey to Paris
will consist of Fuld Pacba, Minister of Foreign
Affairs; their Excelencies Djemel Bey, first cham-
berlain ; Kiamil Be:-, grand master of the ceremo-
nies ; Emin Bey, first secretary ; Asify Bey, chief
interpreter to the Divan ; six chamberlains, six supe-
rior officers, ten sub-officers, six gardes du corps
(silah chors), several interpreters and secretaries,
and about twenty servants in the service of his
Majesty and the Imperial Princes.
An interesting account has been received from
Vienna of the last moments of the unfortunate
Archduchess Matilda. The burns occasioned such

ravages all over the body that for a few days pre-
viously to her death, the Archduchess was almost
constantly in a bath, which materially soothed the
anguish. At five in the morning of her death, the
Archduke Albert, hei father, approached her, and
she asked if she had slept during the night. The
father full of grief could only reply by asking the
same question of hie daughter. She replied, " I
have been very tranquil during the night, and I feel
very weak." In one minute afterwards she heaved
a deep sigh and breathed her last. Dr. Schmer-
ling was the only witness of this touching scene.
The face of the Princess was unchanged from pain,

and there was no burn on the head. The -next
day Dr. Rokitanski made a dissection of her body
and embalmed it. Both arms were terribly burnt,
the left was almost entirely consumed. 'There was
a large wound from the fire all along the back.
The calves were also much burnt. There was no
burn on the upper parts of the body. The Arch-
duchess was born on the 29th of January, 1849.
Before the Emperor Alexander left Paris he
made gifts to the various charitable establishments
beautiful.
of very fair complexion, and remarkably
Sobfehaew
theu metropolis to the amount of one million of

francs.
Queen Isabella the Second of Spain is expected in
Paris on the Ist of July. llcr 11Iajesty will stay at
the chateau of S. Cloud. On the day after her
she will probably go to Sainte-
Adresse to visit the Queen Mother of Spain.
Majesty's
arrival
One of the Paris papers states positively that
Queen Victoria v7lll shortly come and spend a few
days in Paris.
Her visit will be a private one, it
says, and her Majesty will not relinquish her mourn-
uA
letter from Rome states that, in addition to
the present assembly of Bishops, there will this year
be an eeeumenical council in that city. Since the
igthe attire,
oc and consequently no fete will be given
on occasion.
Council of Trent (1545-1563) there have been
Provincial Councils, but not a single General

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An International Peace Congress is to be held at
Geneva on the sth of September next.
Protests against the late attempt at assassination
are the order of the day. The Moniteur publishes
another list of places from whence congratulatory
addresses have been sent to the Emperor.
General Rybinski, the last of the Commanders-
in-Chief of the Polish army of 1831, has written a
letter energetically protesting against an insinua-
tion made in some quarters connecting the Polish
emigrants with the act of the assassin. The General
says :—" 'We are all soldiers of a holy cause, and
we all hold in equal horror the assassination of
Sovereigns and the assassination of people."
The Wiest, a St. Petersburgh paper, hints that
there is some identity of feeling between the Polish
emigrants and the assassin, and hopes that the effect
of the act will fall upon the Polish cause and its
protectors, and diminish the number of its ad-
herents.

The committee appointed to examine the musical
compositions sent to the Exhibition have not
deemed it proper to award any prize.
All the countries from whence products have been
sent to the Exhibition have used efforts to be repre-
sented as worthily and as. efficiently as possible,
but there not having been sufficient room within
the Palace for
some annexes have been constructed
in the Park. Thus the space for Bavaria at the
Exhibition of 1855 having been very limited, a
special building
has now been completed in the
Park for the works of Bavarian artists. The
Munich school, so long celebrated, is now repre-
sented at the Exhibition by its most renowned
artists—Kaulbach, Piloty, Ramberg, Horebeet,
Fotby, A. Muller, Adam,
Schwend, and Genelle.
The school of fine arts and manufactures of Na-
remberg has
produc-
tions, due to the pupils of its eminent director, M.
Kreling. displayed various remarkable A
shed has been erected close to the Exhibition,
where may
be seen some interesting articles
connected with navigation. The steam apparatus
of the Friedland is set to work. The screw, which
is of immense proportions,
is separated from the
machine by a distance of 30 yards, but it transmits
the motive power, which is that of 180,000 kilo-
grammes. The iron casing has been very little in-
jured by a ball weighing 2901b5. fired from a rifled
cannon with 501bs. of powder. There are models
of various naval English machines and instruments,
and also models in relief of the Wellington, 131,
the Marlborough, 131, and the Victoria, 121 guns.
The pleasure navigation boats are curious and
interesting.
The illustrious surgeon, Dr, Civiale, died on

Friday, at St. Cloud, aged 75. His reputation is
European as the inventor of lithrotity.
M. Sallandrouze de Lamoriax, a Deputy to the
Legislative Body, died on Thursday, after an illness
which had confined him to his room for several
weeks. Though not an orator of eloquence, M.
Lamoriax spoke frequently, and his speeches were
marked by practical good sense.
A novel mode of robbery has been attempted near
Liege by means of a carrier pigeon. Madame
Boschaert Dubois, who resides at her chateau at
Deurne, found suspended in a bag at the bell of the
gate a carrier pigeon. To one of its claws was
tied a note requesting her put two bank notes of
I,ooof. in a sealed envelope, and to set the bird free.
The writer said that if she did not comply with the
request he would set fire to the four corners of the
chateau. The lady, instead of doing so, gave in-
formation to the police, who are trying to find the
accomplished letter writer. _ _

There is a report that the Empress of Russia in-
,ends to come to Paris to see the Exhibition.

An exceedingly cold wind prevailed all day yes-
terday. To-day the weather has been windy,
gloomy, excessively cold, and it has varied occa-
sionally. A fire was necessary for anything like
comfort. It was often much warmer in Paris last

December.
M. Jules Favre is to defend the Polish assassin on
his trial. It is said that no less than 36 barristers
offered their services.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

CANDIA.

FLORENCE, June 17.

The Florence papers publish a telegram from
Athens, dated 15th inst., which says :—" Omer
Pasha, after having suffered a fresh defeat
at Heraclion, burnt all the villages which had
not been defended by the insurgents, and murdered
the inhabitants. The Consuls have announced these
atrocious acts to their respective Governments.
The commandant of the Italian gunboat Prince
Addone saved several families and transported them
to the Piraeus."