The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-02 00:00:00

IHE SLN, LO.NuON, 11R1DA.Y EVENING, AUGUST 2, 1867.

rated our art collections from art teaching.
Lord Jortil MANNERS, on behalf of the Government,
promised to give careful consideration to the
whole question of the disposal of our art treasures,
but demurred to the appointment of another com-
mittee. There ought, indeed, to be no lack of in-
formation ou the matter, since during the last two
years there have been eleven committees and com-
missions. We should like to see our national stores
disposed of to the best possible advantage, having
regard to the requirements of the students, the pro-
per care and preservation of the works themselves,
and the general pleasure and convenience of the
people. No feeling of local jealousy or of the rivalry
not uncommon between institutions and societies
should be suffered to interfere. We have no lack
of artistic treasures, and no doubt our stores would
be considerably enhanud if the owners of valuable
works were aware that they would be properly and
advantageously placed if they were given in charge
to the nation.

The banquet given last evening at the Fish-
mongers' Hall was attended by a goodly company.
The most prominent speaker was Mr. GOSCHEN,
M.P., who, in returning thanks for the toast of the
House of Commons, took occasion to refer to its
recent labours in the cause of reform. While en-
gaged upon that measure they had, he said, acted
in defiance of the Ten Hours' Bill, and had, after
all their labours, launched their craft on a sea of
which they had no chart. For his own part, he
expressed full confidence not only in the ultimate
success of the bill, but in its effects upon the
future. The character of the people of this
country, as he very truly observed, justified the ex-
periment, and however much it might modify the
immediate course of legislation, they might depend
on
,the common sense and the love of order
of the people. Mr. GOSCHEN looked upon
the question in a national spirit, and did
not express much anxiety about the effect
which the Reform Bill would have upon the
the position of parties. Such a view of the question
is without doubt a limited and partial one, and is
one, moreover, more of name than of substance.
The Tory of to-day would have been the Liberal
of fifty years since. The Liberal of to-day may be
the Radical or the Conservative of the next genera-
tion. Lord STANLEY could hardly have sat in the
same Cabinet with Lord LIVERPOOL, while other
statesmen, bearing the same outward name
of party, would find themselves as diametrically
opposed. A national question must be treated on
a national basis, else whatever the temporary
triumph of this or that faction its settlement can
be but partial and insecure.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.

Real news being a somewhat scarce commodity
to-day, some of the Paris papers occupy themselves
with inventing ingenious distinctions respecting the
contradiction of the Moniteur to the report that a
note had been sent to the Cabinet of Berlin by the
French Government of a somewhat menacing
character. They will have it thai, if no note has
been sent, there was a despatch or some sort of com-
munication. I am enabled to inform you on the
most indubitable authority that the announcement
in the Moniteur was strictly and unequivocally
correct. No diplomatic communication whatever
has passed between France and Prussia of late in
reference to the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
The Gazette of Northern Germany has an article
upon the subject, in which it ridicules these puerile
and malicious contradictions to the straightforward
and truthful disclaimers of the Moniteur.
There was a Cabinet Council yesterday at the
Tuileries, at which the Emperor presided. The
Empress waspresent at the council, which was not of
long duration.
The Moniteur says:—

" The newspapers are occupied with the mission
of General Dumont to 'Rome, and some of them
give a report of a supposed speech made by that
general officer. It is necessary to mention the pre-
cise facts. The Minister of War directed General
Dumont to ascertain during his stay in Rome the
causes which had led to some desertions from the
Legion formed at Antibes. As to the speech
attributed to the general, it is sufficient to say
that be did not make a speech, and therefore the
reports of it are apocryphal.

Some disorders took place at Tangiers in
the course of July. They do not appear
to have been of serious gravity, and the command-
ant of the gun-boat of the Imperial Marine, Sur-
prize, for Gibraltar, states that the security of the
French subjects was not in any way threatened or
compromised.

" The Emperor of Morocco, Sidi Mohammed, has
left Fez for his summer residence of Mequinez.
"The Princess Marie-Clotilde Napoleon, yester-
day, received at Mendon Palace the visit of Baron
Zuylen de Nievelt, the new Envoy 'Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of
the Belgians to Paris.

" The Emperor of Russia has just left St. Peters-
burg. Ills Majesty intends to pass a few days at
Moscow, and to go from thence to the Crimea,
where the Empress is waiting for him."

The King of Portugal, yesterday, received
Blacque Bey, charged by the Sultan, to remit to
him the insignia in diamonds of the Imperial Order
of Osmanie, as well as the letter which accompanied
the present. His very faithful Majesty, after
making an appropriate reply to the speech of
Blacque Bey, conferred on him the grand cordon of
one of his orders. M. de Casal Itibeiro, Minister of
Foreign Affairs of his Majesty, and Viscount de
Paiva„ Minister Plenipotentiary from Portugal to
France, were present at the cerePaony.
'['he Imperial Prince is expected to return.to
Paris this afternoon from Bagneres-de-Luchon.
The Queen of the Belgians has . arrived at
Vienna in company with the Princess Charlotte
of Mexico.

Prince Michael, of Servia, has arrived in Paris.
The King of Bavaria has kit Paris. I have
already told you that his Majesty is an ardent ad-
mirer of the Exhibition (who is not who has seen
it ?) At his last visit the King went completely
round the building, as if to take a last pleasing and
general glance at the marvellous products which it
contains.

It is stated that Marshal Niel, the Minister of
War, having declared that he did not want the
Champ de Mars for military exercises, it is intended
to preserve the iron palace after the close of the
Exhibition. The motive power of the machines
will be let to workmen. A permanent exhibition
of useful products will take place in the galleries,
and in the park cheap lodgings are to be con-
structed for working men and their families.
The Emperor is about to make a journey to
Lille, where preparations on a grand scale will be
made to rcceive him. From Lille his Majesty will
proceed to Bethune, to visit the famous battle-field
of Lens, made memorable by the illustrious Conde.
His Majesty will also go to Arras before he returns
to Paris. The Emperor will ouly make a short
stay in the capital fur the transaction of necessary
business, and then go to the camp at Chalons. The
Eu perLr of Austria will probably be in Paris at the
time, and accompany his Majesty to the camp.
Then the Emperor and Empress will go to Biarritz.
The opening of the railway from Nice to Monaco
in the Maritime Alps will take place in a week or
two.

The Journal of Rome announces that the Sanitary
Commission, after conferring with the ecclesiastical
and municipal authorities, has organised measures
with a view to prevent the spread of cholera, and
to cleanse and purify the localities occupied by the
poor, which are much iu need of such precautions.
The Pope has given 5,000 f. from his private re-
sourceo for the relief of sufferers from, cholera, and

has also sent 20,000 f. from the public Treasury and
the Committee of Subsidies to the Minister of the
Interior for a similar purpose. The Cardinal Vicar
has also been charged to distribute money to indi-
gent families who have been attacked by cholera.
The Moniteur announces that steps will be adopted
to counteract the agitation which extreme parties
have endeavoured to foment in Italy. The Go-
vernment of the Emperor will protect the mainten-
ance of the Convention: of the 15th September.
The Government of King Victor Emmanuel is ani-
mated with the same intentions. It has adopted
energetic measures to frustrate any attempt against
against the Pontifical frontiers. Numerous troops
have been concentrated with this view. Vessels are
&so cruising the coast to prevent the landing of any
troops which may have the intention of promoting
insurrection. The President of the Council has
several times given assurances to this effect. Ihe
Convention of the 15th of September will be regu-
larly executed.
General Cavaignac died on Tuesday in his 77th
year. The General played an important character
in his time. He was a candidate for the President-
ship of the Republic in opposition to the present
Emperor. He was a rough but courageous soldier,
and saw much service.

To-day an extremely violent wind prevailed,
which was accompanied with torrents of dust. At
early morn yesterday the strawberries in the gar-
dens to the south of Paris were covered with white
frost.

The evening Moniteur, in its weekly review of
foreign affairs, says The note published in the
Moniteur of the 29th of July, relative to the gene-
ral situation, is considered in France and foreign
countries as the confirmation of the conciliatory
ideas and moderate views which actuate the policy
of the Imperial Government in its relations with all
the foreign Powers. Its language and its acts offer
a valuable guarantee for the peace of Europe, and
the good sense of the public, reassured by declara-
tions so precise, does justice to unfounded reports
and imaginary alarms."

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.

The Royal mail steamship Scotia, from New
York, July 24th, arrived at Queenstown at 4.20
a.m. to-day (Friday) with 167 cabin passengers and
$1,765,151 in specie. After landing all the mails,
consisting of 126 sacks, and 20 passengers, 'she pro-
ceeded at 4.30 a.m. for Liverpool. All well.
NEW YORK, July 24 (Morning).
Congress adjourned on Saturday last until the
21st November.

The Senate has rejected the appointments of Mr.
Greeley as Minister to Vienna, and General
M'Clernand to Mexico. Ic is reported that Mr.
Seward has decided not to send a Minister to
Mexico.

The Bill passed by Congress, enabling negroes to
hold office in the district of Columbia, has failed to
become law, Congress having adjourned before the
Bill had been acted upon by the President.
The leaders of the impeachment movement pre-
vented the report of the proceedings of the investi-
gation being presented to the House just previous
to the adjournment. Reports were furnished Only
privately, and with an injunction to secrecy.
General Sheridan has designated the 31st of July
for closing the registration in his district.
It i 4 reported that some prominent Democrats
urge President Johnson to exercise his constitu-
tional powers as Commander—in-Chief of the army,
and remove the district commanders.
The New York Constitutional Convention has
rejected the Female Suffrage Bill.

Advices received from Matamoras to the 18th
July states that Juarez is a candidate for re-election.
The command of the army has been given to
Escobedo.

Twelve more Imperial Generals and four Colonels
have been shot at Queretaro.

Porfirio Diaz has ordered the capture of all
foreign representatives refusing to recognise the
Republican Government.
The death of Santa Anna has again been denied.