The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-19 00:00:00

rHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENIN3I, OCTOBER 19, 18G7.

pat ty predilections and prejudices should feel a good
deal annoyed and disappointed, for they have let the
opportunity slip by and thrown every advantage
into the hands of their opponents. Regrets for the
past arc, however, as useless as they are unsatkrac-
tory, and the best way now will be for the Liberals
to do better for the future and act more in accord-
once with the great principles they profess, and
which it should be their delight and their pride to
carry into effect.

The news brought by the Java from New York,
bearing date Oct. Bth, principally concerns the con-
dition of the national finances. Secretary M'Cam-
Loch has written a letter declaring that he considers
the faith of the National Government pledged to
the payment of the 5-20 United States Bonds in
coin. This is probably in answer to the various
suggestions which orators on both sides have lately
introduced in their speeches. Mr. M'CuLLooit be-
lieves that the bonds are not to be called in at the
expiration of five years from their respective
dates of issue, and that Congress will not
be called upon to make further issues of legal
tender. Nothing is said about Mr. APCuLLocn's
rumoured retirement, which at thepresent juncture
would be a matter of regret on many accounts.
Mt. SPINNER, the National Treasurer, emphatically
denies the recent reports of over issues of national
securities, so that confidence will be in some degree
restored by these statements. The national debt
on the Ist inst. was $2,630,000,000, when there
were over a hundred million dollars in gold, and
thirty million dollars currency in the Treasury.

The Democrats are making substantial progress,
having carried nearly all the municipal elections in
Connecticut. Their gains in states like Connecticut
and Pennsylvania are very significant, and are
worth a good deal more to the party than greater
numerical victories in other directions. The ex-
treme Radicals have certainly lost favour in the
country, and the New York Herald goes so far as to
assert that some prominent Republicans are endea-
vouring to effect a compromise with Mr. Jourlsm.
As proof of the readiness with which all sorts of
rumours are accepted, we find that the fact of SHER-
MAN having had an interview with the PRESIDENT
and General GRANT has been construed into an
offer of the Secretaryship of War to the General.
Possibly this report may have some foundation in
fact, since GRANT was never very ready in his con-
sent to fill the office, and it is probable he
may wish to vacate it for- fear of damaging his
chance of the Presidency. SHERMAN has always
been friendly to the South in his opinions, having
been for many years a resident there, and fully
appreciating the difficulties of the negro question.
He will never be popular there from the recollection
of his terrible march, which virtually decided the
fate of the war, but nevertheless he might act more
cordially with the PRESIDENT in his endeavours to re-
store the Southern States to something like a national
footing. General SHERIDAN continues to be the
hero of the hour. At Boston he has had an enthusi-
astic reception, a torchlight procession and a mili-
tary escort being among the honours designed him.
SHERIDAN himself, however, takes good care not to
commit himselt by any indiscreet expression of
opinion. On the last occasion when thousands of
persons had assembled to give him a vociferous
greeting, with the beat band obtainable to serenade
him, banners, fireworks, and every other concomi-
tant usual to such tributes of popular favour, the
multitude waited eagerly for a speech, anticipating
nothing less than an attack on the PRESIDENT and
a recitation of his wrongs. All the eloquence they
got for their pains from the bluff soldier was—
" Good night, good night, good night, gentlemen."
After this the Bostonians must have known what to
expect in answer to their enthusiastic ovations.
But though SHERIDAN'S brevity may raise a smile,
it would have been well for the reputation of many
American dignitari€s, statesmen as well as generals,
if they had adopted the same course. Mr. JOHN-
SON himself might profit by his example, and re-
member the adage which the brilliant military
commander seems thoroughly to appreciate—" The
tongue is not steel, but it cuts." The only other
news of interest is of doubtful character. Mr.
DAVIS'S trial is fixed for the fourth Monday in
November, probably neither the first nor the last
date assigned to that event.

Our Admiralty officials have of late years had
more than one opportunity of playing the part of
courteous hosts, and they have shown themselves to
better advantage in that capacity than in some
others. Just now they are very busy in showing
due attention to our American visitors, and, under
the circumstances, it is especially desirable that our

friends across the Atlantic should have no grounds
for suspecting any slight or inattention paid to their
Admiral, and, through him, to themselves. The'
have never failed when any notability from this
country has visited their shores to give him a
cordial welcome, and every returning visitor from
the Heir Apparent downwards has testifini to

their hospitality. Our naval visitors at present
deserve attention on a double score. Admiral
FARRAGUT bears a name not unknown in this
country, where all the chief actors in the pageant of

the war were as familiar as " household words."
Americans of the better class consider it almost as
a matter of course to pay a visit to the Old World,
and the European tour is to them almost as regular
a part of education as the continental tour used to
be among ourselves in the days when travelling was
thought more of than at present. Perhaps when
a few years more have passed over, it may be-
come a European custom to take a trip across
the Atlantic, and explore the marvels of that fertile
and beautiful country. If that time should ever
arrive we may hope to see a better mutual under-
standing between the two great nations. It is in-
disputable that the entente cordiale between France
and England has become a matter of fact insteadof
a diplomatic phrase only, since the immense in-
crease of the facilities for communication have
enabled the people to mix freely together, to see the
better side of each other's characters, and to arrive
at a mutual understanding more accurate and
reliable than the second-hand information of
playwrights and novelists. The good feel-
ing which always existed more or less be-
tween the English and the Belgians has been
grealty strengthened by the exchange or Volunteer
visits, and so if English and Americans were more
in the habit of seeing one another at home instead
of only through the distorting medium of diplomacy
and politics they would arrive at a much truer
estimate of each other's character.

It must be a matter of some curiosity and inte-
rest to Admiral FARRAGIIT and his companions to
visit our English naval strongholds. America
is eminent in shipbuilding, and claims tht
credit (if credit it be) of giving the world
its first Monitors and other sea monsters of
the kind. Whatever the deficiencies of their dock-
yards Admiral FARRAGUT'S countrymen exhibit
good deal more vigour in their naval management
than do our noble lords and right hon. gentlemen
It is to be hoped that a comparison of notes wit]:
the representative of a more energetic and progres-
sive naval policy may infuse a little life into ow
somewhat sleepy naval administration, to whom a
state of dolce far ?acute is the most attractive,

varied, perhaps, by a little pulling of ships to pieces
for the pleasure of putting them together again in
a new and more costly way.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Friday Evening.
The papers have assumed a very lugubrious and
alarmist tone, and some of them assert with con-
fidence that the French Government has resolved
to send another expedition to Rome. All that I
can say upon that important point to-day is that
nothing appears in the Monitcur confirmatory of
the report, and my inquiries in official quarters in-
duce me rather to discredit than believe it. The
Opinion Nationale, however, alleges its truth in

the most emphatic terms, and says that as Victor
Emmanuel is so convinced of the state of feeling in
Italy that he will not hesitate whatever course
France may adopt. " So, according to all proba-
bility," adds the Opinion, " we are going to have a
war with Italy." The Opinions Nationale in an-
other article says :—" When tho Legislative Body
shall assemble in another month it will find the
policy of France engaged in a religious war—war
perhaps declared against Italy, imminent with
Prussia, and she will have no other course to adopt
than to submit to resolutions adopted without her
concurrence, and to pay the expenses of a policy
as opposed to the secular monarchical traditions of
France, as it is to the principles of France in 1789."

The Prince Royal of Denmark has left Copen-
hagen for St. Petersburg, in order to be present at
the marriage of the King of the Greeks with the
Grand Duchess Olga.

The news from Italy to-day may be recapitulated
in a few sentences, for there is even a lack of insur-
gent anticipations and manufacture. The insur-
gents are reported to have invaded the province of
Frosinone-Salvaterra, situate near the Neapolitan
frontier, to the south of Rome, according to this
version had been occupied by a detachment of
volunteers, who, however, shortly left for the moun-
tains of Velletri. The Pontifical troops dispersed
a band of insurgents who had collected at Valle-
corsa, a small town in the same province of Frosi-
none. According to one insurgent version of the
state of affairs some of the chiefs taken in arms
have been shot by order of the Pontifical Govern-
ment. The name of Count Pagliacci, an emigrant,
is mentioned as having been executed, but the
accounts of those military executions require con-
firmation.
It is stated positively that the Emperor of
Austria will arrive in Paris on Friday next. The
ceremonial to be observed on his arrival will be in
exact conformity with that which took place when
the Emperor Alexander was here a few months ago.
Perhaps the Emperor Napoleon will go to meet his
Majesty at Nancy. Indeed, a German paper says
that the Emperor Napoleon will go as far as
Baden to have a previous interview with the King
of Prussia. This latter report is a second edition of
the one which I have already contradicted. The
King ofyrussia will have returned to Berlin about
the time in question.

The session of the Reichstag of Northern Ger-
many will commence at the latter end of the en-
suing week.

For some days past a report originating with the
Liberte has been in circulation in Paris to the effect

that the Exhibition is to remain open till the 17th
of November. I did not allude to it knowing from
authority that there was no foundation for it, but
as some papers still believe it, and as some of you
readers might be misled by it, I assure you that
the Imperial Commission are determined to abide
by the determination to close the Exhibition at the
end of this month.

The last of the Autumn Races at Chantilly took
place yesterday, with the following results :
Prix de Chateau (gentlemen riders), 2000 f.—
Willis, 1 ; Prince Regent, 2 ; Schooner, 3.
Prix de Verberie, 2000L—Turenne, 1; Moths
Value, 2 ; Palette, 3.
Prix de Fay, 3000f.—Nemea, 1 ; Turco, 2 ;
Rouceavaux, 3.
Prix de Chateau Laffitte (handicap) 4,000 f., for
horses of " 3-years-old and upwards—Alabama, 1 ;
La Tracone, 2; Vendome, 3.
Prix de Bouze (handicap).—Clochette, 1 ; Ajax
the Third, 2 ; Willis, 3. Amount of the prize,
3,350 f.

An enormous fish, called a lamy, was caught a
few days ago near Montredon in the Mediterranean.
It weighed more than 1,3001b5. (English pounds).
This fish, though rare, is good to eat. It was re-
tailed at a cheap rate. The lamy is said to live
chiefly upon the tunny.
Several more instances of garotting in the streets
of Paris are mentioned by the Paris papers. There
is an intention of establishing a mounted police to
guard the streets at night.
A day or two ago an English lady lost her purse
near the Madeleine containing I,loof. She went
next day in a great passion to the commissary of
police, complaining bitterly of the want of regula-
tions in regard to lost money, the dishonesty of the
French, and much of the same kind, adding that in
England it would have been recovered directly.
The commissary of police bore this foolish invective
very good humouredly, contenting himself with
handing to the lady her purse and money, which
had been found by a poor girl, and. had just been
restored. The lady, after verifying that the amount
was all right, handed the poor girl a centime, the
fifth part of a halfpenny, which she with real French
politeness accepted.
To-day has been like admy of summer. Roses
and many other kinds of flowers are very abundant
in the environs of Paris. Splendid green peas aro
in great plenty in the nursery grounds near St.
Cloud and Sevres.

. _
The Exhibition to-day was almost as gay and as
thronged as in the month of July.
A striking instance of the advantage of persever-
ance, and that it may even overcome the " law's
delay," has just been afforded. A lady, named
Salix, known about the courts for the last 30 years
as her own advocate for the restitution of property
to which she is entitled, has just gained her cause,
and come into possession of about a million and a
half of francs. Ten years ago she was offered
SOO,COOf. as a compromise, but relying upon the jus-
tice of her claim she persevered, and now the Court
of Paris has given her possession of her rights. The
amount awarded is independent of another claim for
interest and other property. An offer has been made
of 315,000 f., but Mdlle. Salix intends to persevere
with her claim for a much more considerable sum,
and people sympathise with her, and " wish she may
get it."

A COLONIAL MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT SEN-
TENCED TO PENAL SERVITUDE.—The Melbourne Argus
reports that a member of the Legislature has been con-
victed of forgery and sentenced to seven years' imprison-
ment. The prisoner is William Nelson M'Cann, who, being
born in Geelong, had the honour of being the first native
elected to sit in Parliament, whioh he first entered some
four years since. M'Cann had some talent, and a groat deal
of industry as an agitator, held a fair reputation for respec-
tability, and lately became a part proprietor of a daily
newspaper called the Geelong RegiJter. The affairs of the
noW'spapor required money, and this, it appeared, led him
to commit the offence which has been brought home to him.
He was charged with having forged the signature of Thomas
Sutherland, deputy registrar general, to a receipt for a
stock mortgage. On this mortgage M'Cann contrived to
obtain advances both from Mr. Gillespie, the manager of
tale National Bank, Geelong, and Captain M‘Mahon, the
leader of the opposition. Mr. M‘Cann was member for
south Grant, and his conviction renders the seat vacant.
SUICIDE BY A PRISONER.—The Deputy Coroner
for Westminster held an inquest on Wednesday
,iight, at the Strand Union, respecting the death of E:len
pox, 38 years of age, who had committed suicide in a cell
at Bow-street. It was proved that the deceased, who was
a married woman, but who had been deserted by her
husband, earned a very precarious livelihood by washing.
On Saturday night she was confined for being drunk and
assaulting an officer. Inspector Thompson visited the
at a quarter to eleven, and all was right then. At a
tuarter past eleven he again went to her cell and found
ler leaning against the door. Ho gently opened the door,
is he generally did when he knew persons were tipsy, and
ound her with a handkerchief round her neck, and sus-
,ended by means of the ventilating holes in the door. He
iut his left hand behind her, and laid her on her back, but
he was dead. Dr. Alfred Harvey said she had no doubt
out her head into the noose and fallen forward. Her being
Trunk would accelerate her death. The jury found a
verdict of "Suicide by hanging while in a state of tem-
porary insanity."

LA TEST INTELLIGENOF.,.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TIIE ROMAN QUESTION.

BRUSSELS, OCt. 19.

The Independance Beige of to-day publishes a
telegram from Berlin, dated yesterday, which says :
--•" The Prussian Government has by no means
protested against French intervention in Italy.
Such intervention, however, is considered to be im-
probable. Should a direct understanding between
Italy and the Pope prove impracticable, it is thought
that France would nogotiate a settlement of the
Roman question with the other great Powers, either
at a conference or by some other means."

THE INVASION OF THE PAPAL STATES
FLORENCE, Oct. 18.

The postal and telegraphic communicatiqn wit
Rome is interrupted.

Further advices from Orte announce that part of
Major Ghirellis' Roman band was fortified at Orte,
and that the other portion had gone to rejoin
Menotti Garibaldi. The junction between the
bands of Nicotera and Menotti Garibaldi was al-
ready effected.

A report was current that the Pontifical troops
were preparing to attack Orte in considerable force.

The Italie states that Count Barra], at present
Italian Minister in Vienna, will be transferred to
the same post in London.
The Diritto of this evening states that the Island
of Caprera is now regularly guarded by six men of
war and occupied by 350 marines.

TouLoN, Oct. 18 (Evening).
It is asserted that 10,000 troops from Lyons will
arrive here in the course of to-night and to-morrow
in order to embark.

FRANCE AND THE ROMAN QUESTION.
The Constitutionnel contains an article upon the
Roman question, signed by M. Limayrac, in which
the writer expresses a wish to be able to put the
question at present agitating all minds in its right
light. He concludes thus :—lt is the duty of Italy
to respect, and it is the incontestable right of France
to cause to be respected, engagements which have
been contracted.

BOMBAY MAIL.

MARSEILLES, OCT. 19.
The Ripon arrived at 6.30 a.m. to-day. Mails
leave at 11.30 a.m.

CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN

MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, OCt. 19

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera, with the heavy portion of the above mail,
passed the Needles at 7.25 a.m.