The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATITROAY EVENING, JULY 20, 1867.

on woman suffrage has boon circulated extensively in

America.

hope soon for better things. When actual and bitte
experience has opened our oyes, then will bo ou
time to address you with a hope of success. When
you come to know the true power of capital and labour
combined in friendly effort, how dependent the ono is upon
the other, and how ruinous to both is enmity and distrust,
then I shall hope to see the day when slavery shall be
abolished in fact, both for black and white, and
when, animated by a common spirit of industry,
harmony, and love of country and of human pro-
gress, all shall labour to make our State blossom as
the rose, and turn her waste places into seats of
refinement and delight. My word for it, my friends, there
is not a good man among your former masters but prays
for the hour to come when hg may without disfranchising
himself work for you. As you are to be citizens, we want
you to be intelligent citizens ; as you are to be our neigh-
bours, we want you to be kind and loving neighbours. In
every aspect of the case, it is our true interest to help you to
fit yourselves for the new life to which you aro called. if
you will permit us, we will do it."

Mr. Le-utze is engaged on a picture representing
the cession of Tlussian-Anierica to the United States for
tho Capitol at Washington.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr.
D. R. Boice as Consul at Hamilton, Canada West, for tho
United States of America.

Kossuth's son has been rejected as a candidate
for the Hungarian Diet, and even the election of Kossuth
himself, who is also a candidate, is by many considered
doubtful.

Frank Iliscock has been elected a member of the
Convention, in succession to his murdered brother, L.
Harris Hiscock.

General GrAnt will act as showman to the party
of Representatives on a tour over the battle-fields of
Georgia. They will visit Look-out Mountain.
The celebrated Irishman in this country, widely
known as "Meagher of the Sword," was drowned at Mon-
tana on the sth inst.
It is feared that Judge Swayne, of the Supreme
Court, will die. lie is 80 years old, and now very ill at
Washington.

By the Prussian Embassy at Paris, the Prussian
Consuls in France have, in virtue of a decree of the 21st of
Juno, been informed that all Prussians travelling from French
ports to Transatlantic countries aro henceforth to enjoy
the same privileges which wore hitherto limited to French
emigrants. Thus every Prussian traveller will in future
be entitled to demand from the emigration officers at
Strasbourg, Paris, Havre, Laubach, St. Louis, Wissen-
bourg, Bordeaux, Bayonne, and Marseilles, any informa-
tion respecting his journey, and to lodge complaints on
any wrongs and injuries ho may have suffered in his
voyage.

Hiram Warner succeeds Chief Justice Lumpkin,
of Georgia, lately deceased.
Mr. Henry E. Peek, formerly a professor in
Oberlin College, died on the 9th inst. at Port-au-Prince,
where he resided as United States Minister, having been
appointed by Mr. Lincoln.
Horace B. Claffin, whose income last year was
returned at $1,300,000 is this year $500,000. What
falling off was there !

On Thursday the freedom of the City of Edin-
burgh was presented to Mr. Lloyd Garrison in recognition
of his long and meritorious exertions to abolish slavery in
North America. Mr. Garrison, in accepting the honour,
said that in the universal gladness that is felt at the aboli-
tion of that great curso which gave birth to the rebellion,
and to all the misconceptions and misdeeds attending it—
and in the success attending the effort to maintain tho
American Union inviolate on the basis of impartial liberty

It is said that the Empress Eugenie will leave on
Sunday or Monday next for Windsor, on a private visit
to Queen Victoria. Her Majesty will stay at Windsor two
days, when she will probably return to Cherbourg.

The wheat crop this year, it is anticipated, will
be the greatest crop of that grain ever grown in the United
States. A careful analysis of information from all the
States shows that the total acreage in wheat is 10 to 15 per
cent. greater than last year. In a majority of the States
the breadth of winter wheat is quite as wide as usual, and
that of spring wheat is much greater. The reports of the
condition of the crop show that it is much hotter than last
year, and the harvest is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels.
The harvest has already begun in the South, so that the
crop of the entire country may now bo considered free
from any ordinary danger.—Baltimore Commercial.
The Watchinan and Reflector thus describes the
Masonic Temple, for which the President visited Boston
to assist in the dedication :—" Tho present structure is of
granite, and has a front, facing Tremont-street, of 85 feet,
and rises 90 feet to the battlement. An octagon tower on
the south corner rises to a height of 121 feet, and a smaller
one lifts itself to a less lofty height at the north
corner. The main entrance is supported by heavy
buttresses rising to the second story, and on the left
is a circular tower, which begins at the second story
and rises to a height of 111 feet. The .exterior of
the building is ornamented with appropriate masonic
emblems, balustrades, mouldings, and armorial trophies.
It is the most magnificent edifice in New England, and is a
monument to the genius of its architect, Mr. M. W. Wheelock,
whose death before the completion of the edifice on which
he had lavished the best work of his brain was a sad loss
to the art circle of Boston. The interior corresponds in
tasteful and elaborate finish with the exterior, and is
divided into rooms suitable for the meetings of Masonic
Lodges.

The Washington Republican has the following :
A ffEavy UsDERTAKIxo.—T here is a Brooklyn gentleman
in the city who offers to contract with the Government for
the effectual 'removal' of the Indians on the plains, at a
cost absolutely trifling, compared with the military opera-
tions as at present carried on. His plan is vory simple,
being the establishment of a few distilleries in each tribe."
—We would call the enterprise that of a heavy under-
taker.

—there is happily manifested on both sides of the Atlantic
a growing desire to adjust all differences between the two
countries in an amicable and magnanimous spirit.

Mr. Atnasa Sprague has laid out beautiful and
convenient grounds at Narragansett Park, Rhode Island,
which will be inaugurated on the last day of July and the
Ist and 2d of August, by a great trotting meeting, during
which the association will give two races on each day, and
distribute $lO,OOO in the six purses.

MAXIMILIAN'S DECREE OF OCI. 3, 1865.

The following is Maximilian's address on publish-
ing his famous decree :
“Mexicans,—The cause which Don Bonito Juarez de-
fended with so much valour and constancy has already
succumbed under the force, not only of the national will
but also of the other law which that officer invoked in sup-
port of his pretensions. To-day even the faction to which
the said cause has degenerated is abandoned by the depar-
ture of its chief from his native soil.

At the show this week at Bury St. Edmonds, of
the Royal Agricultural Society, steam-ploughing and cul-
tivating was represented by Messrs. Howard, of Bedford ;
Messrs. Fowler, of Leeds; and Mr. Burrell, of Thetford.
Alessrs.inaHochiwauredr;xhibited their now system of steam culti-
vatingwhich is worked by a pair of 14-horse
self-propellingengines, each fitted with two winding drums,
drawing the cultivators simultaneously to and fro be-
tween them. Messrs. Howard also exhibited their double
action cultivator and four and three furrow steam ploughs,
besides a two-furrow plough for very deep work, and
another steam cultivating apparatus, which consists of a
10-horse power portable engine, with separate wire laps
and ropes. An addition to steam cultivating machinery,
which Messrs. Howard also submit to notice, is Bulstrode's
patent snatch-block slings for cultivating apparatus,
worked on the stationary principle, and by means of
which the anchor can detach, and move forward the block
while the plough is crossing the field.
The American war steamer Shamrock and the
British steamer Redpole have arrived at Lisbon.
The North tar, from London for Philadelphia,
which sailad from the Downs about the 14th of February,
has not since been heard of.
It was lately denied that flogging was allowed in
the American army. But, if a correspondent of the
Tribune is right, American officers do not confine that
punishment to the soldiers, but extend it to the citizens.
A man named Hendricks received 100 lashes by order of
Colonel Dodge, of Fort Sodgwick, without trial of any
kind, for the alleged offence of selling whisky to the
soldiers. The writer gives a minute account of this moss
unusual and uu-American punishment, and states in con-
clusion—" Flogging, bucking and gagging, and stretching
soldiers spread-eagle' fashion, seems to be the order of the
day here."

" The National Government for a long time was lenient,
and exercised great clemency, so as to give those misled
and misinformed men an opportunity to rally to the majo-
rity of the nation, and to place themselves anew in the
path of duty. It has fulfilled its object; the honourable
men have assembled under its banner, and have accepted

the just and liberal principles which regulate its politics.
The disorder is only maintained by some leaders carried
away by unpatriotic passions, assisted by demoralised per-
sons, too ignorant to comprehend political principles, and
by an unprincipled soldiery, the last and sad remnants of
the civil war. Hereafter contests will only be between the
honourable men of the nation and the gangs of criminals
and robbers. Clemency will cease now, for it would only
profit the mob who burn villages, rob and murder peaceful
citizens, poor old men, and defenceless women.
" The Government, resting on its power, from this day
will be inflexible in its punishments, since the laws of
civilisation, the rights of humanity, and the exigences of
morality demand it. "MAXIMILIAN.
" Mexico, October 2, 1865."

COUNTRY MARKETS.

WAKEFIELD.-FRIDAY.

At our market to-day English wheat met a fair demand,
and the business done in fine fresh parcels was at is to 2s
higher than last Friday's rates. Other articles unaltered.

LIVERPOOL-FRIDAY.

There was an average attendance at to-day's market,
and wheat met a good consumptive demand at 2d per
cental advance on the rates of Tuesday last. Flour was
in steady r quest at 6d per sack advance. Indian corn in-
netive, at a decline of 3d to 6d per qr. Oatmeal is per load
dearer. Barley firm. Oats in good request, and prices
fully supported. Malt as before.

PERILS OF A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT.
The correspondent of the New York Herald narrates the
events which befel him in following the career of Maxi-
milian. " The instructions," he'says, " which carried the
present writer into the camp of the Imperial army were
brief and to the point—' Follow Max, and write regularly
and fully.—El. New York Herald.' To follow Max from
Orizaba and Puebla, when he had determined to continue
the struggle, was an easy task, and had already been
accomplished before the telegram was received. To fol-
low him from Puebla to the capital, and thence to Quere-
taro, was a more difficult matter, and, among other in-
conveniences, involved the person undertaking it in the
following little perplexities :—Robbod to the skin, two ;
showed fight, and did not get robbed, two ; captured
by Liberals, ono ; captured by Imperialists, one ;
days under fire, seventy-two ; struck by spent bullets,
two ; slightly wounded by shells, one ; lived on horse,
mule, and dog flesh for days, thirty-six ; travelled on
horseback, stage, and muleback, leagues, 450." Arrived in
Queretaro two days before the advent of Maximilian, the
Herald's representative incurred a strong risk of being
promptly strung up as a Yankee spy. Three clays pre-
viously he had seen Marquez manifest an earnest inclina-
tion to hang a couple of American travellers he had en-
countered on the march from Mexico to Queretaro, because
they happened to possess passes from Escobedo and
draughts on the capital—an inclination only restrained by
the active intervention of the Emperor Maximilian. In
Queretaro, before the advent of the Imperial forces, Mira-
mon was omnipotent, and Miramon, more polished and
educated than Marquez, was even more virulent and dan-
gerous in hishatred and dread of foreigners. The arrival
of the Emperor alone relieved him of peril."
THE NEW DOMINION OF CANADA.—Lord Monck
has appointed the lieutenant governors of the four Cana-
dian provinces as follows:—Ontario, General Stistod;
Quebec, Sir Narcisse F. Belleau ; New Brunswick, General
Doyle ; Nova Scotia, General Sir W.F. Williams. Lieut.-
Governor Belleau has already been sworn into office, and
left Ottawa for his capital, Quebec, on Wednesday morn-
ing. The other lieutenant governors will receive the
oath of office at the capitals of their respective provinces;
power has been transmitted to the judges to that effect.
It is also understood that the military governors for the
provinces of Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
have been appointed. Governor-General Monck left Ot-
tawa, Thursday, for Quebec, and on the Ist of September
will return to the former place for his permanent resi-
dence. Thomas D'Arcy M‘Gee has left Ottawa for
Montreal to look after his election. It is reported that
he feels sore over his exclusion from the Privy Council.
The following is a correct list of the Canadian Ministry,
with tho departments to which the members have been
assigned :—Sir John A. Macdonald, Minister of Justice ;
G. E. Cartier, Militia ; T. Galt, Finance--; S. L. Tilley,
Customs; William Howland, Excise; P. Mitchell, Marino
and Fisheries ; William l'il‘Dougall, Public Works ; Alex-
ander Campbell, Postmaster-General ; Joan C. Chapels,
Agriculture; Mr. Archibald, Secretary of the Provinces;
Hector L. Langevin, Secretary for Canada ; Adam S.
Ferguson Blair, President of the Council ; Mr. Kenney,
Receiver-General. The population of the dominion of
Canada is about 3,800,000 souls, and extent of territory
377,045 square miles; the public debt is some $75,000,000,
income about $18,000,000 ; and thus the new State enters
the political world.
The London Review, in an elaborate article on
the Supreme Court of the United States, gives interesting
and, in the main, accurate sketches of the chief Justice and
his associates. But it falls into one gross blunder. It
confounds Nathan Clifford, of Maine, with Hon. John
Clifford, of Massachusetts; and says the former was one of
the most brilliant lawyers of Massachusetts and once a
governor of the State, but lost popularity by ultra-eon-
servative views on the slavery question. Such an error
is not creditable to a journalist claiming to be well in-
formed; but it is less culpable than a similar one very
current a few years ago in England, when Noah Webster
and Daniel Webster were often allu 'ed to as one and the
same person. English insularity is not favourable to
accurate knowledge of the men or the interests of other
nations.— Watchman and Reflector.
LETTER FROM EX-GOVERNOR VANCE TO THE
FREEntree.—Hon. Z. B. Vance has replied to the invitation
to address the freedmen of Elgecombe and Nash Counties,
in North Carolina, in a letter in which he expresses his
regret at his inability to accept, and says :—" Much
damage will doubtless be done before your people, see the
designs of those Tille wish to lead thew now, but I