The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-04 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The President bas accepted the invitation of the
city of Boston to participate in the ceremonies of
dedicating a new Masonic Hall to be opened on the
24th June, and said to be the finest building of the
kind in the country. The route to the capitol of
Massachusetts will be through Philadelphia and
New York. Mr. Johnson in these great cities,
where party feeling runs so high, will be placed in
more trying circumstances than in his late visit to
his birthplace, Raleigh. But he has been so suc-
cessful in his late tour that his friends have a well-
founded hope that he will not be guilty of any ex-
travagant denunciations. The following is his letter
accepting the invitation, tendered to him through
the Mayor of Boston :—" Executive Mansion, Wash-
ington, D.C., June 11, 1867.—Sir,—I have the
honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 7th, tendering to me, in accordance with the
vote of the council, the hospitalities of the city of
Boston daring my contemplated visit. I intend
being present at the dedication of the new Masonic
Temple in your city on the 24th inst., and during
my short stay in Boston I will feel honoured to
accept the hospitalities of your city, receiving them
with a reciprocation of the friendship and courtesy
which prompted the council in their offer.—With
great respect, very truly yours, ANDREW JOHNSON.
—To his Honour Otis Norcross, Mayor of Boston,
Mass."

We are informed through the Cable (New York,
Evening, June 27) that the President had been
cordially received in Beaton, and, as en route is
adled, he must have been well received both at
Philadelphia and New York, the arrangements
being that he passed through these cities. 'lie is
said to have made a few brief conciliatory speeches.
The City of New York and the Nebraska reached
New York on the 21st inst., and the Canadian mail
steamer Austrian was at Quebec on the 18th inst.
The City of Boston and the North German Lloyd
steamship New York arrived at New York on Sun-
day, the 23rd inst. On the 24th inst. the steamer
Hammonia from Southampton, the Caledonia from
Glasgow, and the Fulton from Falmouth, arrived at
New York. By an error in our last issue the
Fulton was substituted for the Arago, as having
arrived at Falmouth at daylight on the 21st June.
On the-25th the St. David, Nestorian, and Den-
mark reached New York, and the Russia and the
William Penn on the 25th instant.
Last Saturday the Virginia arrived at Queens-
town with $300,000, and the Borussia at South-
ampton with 91 passengers and $192,000. On
Sunday the 1-lecla reached Queenstown with 121
passengers ; on Monday the City of Paris ar-
rived at Queenstown with 153 passengers and
$913,387 ; and on the same day the extra steamer of
the same line Edinburgh. The Deutschland on the
same day reached Southampton with 203 passengers
and $141,285, having left New York on the 13th
instant. On Tuesday, at midnight, the Allemania
reached Southampton, having left New York on
the 15th instant with 203 passengers and $181,500.
The St. Laurent reached Brest on Wednesday,
having also left New York on the 15th instant,
with 240 passengers and 1,100,000 francs in specie.
The Minnesota, which had also left New York 15th
June, arrived at Queenstown on Wednesday morn-
ing, with 60 cabin and 50 steerage passengers. The
lielretia arrived at Queenstown on Thursday, and
the Cuba reached the same port at 10 p.m. on that
day, having left New York on the 18th instant,
with 173 cabin passengers and $175,347. The Baltic
passed the Needles at 4.35 a.m. yesterday.
The news from Mexico is to the effect that
General Santa Anna has been captured by the
Liberals at Sisal. Campeche was taken on the Ist
June by the Republicans. Maximilian's plea, de-
nying the jurisdiction of the Court to try him,
appears to have stopped the proceedings, and if the
despatch from Paris of last Sunday evening be true,
the American Legation in Vienna had been in-
formed by Mr. Seward that Maximilian, having
been sentenced to exile, had left for Europe, and
will land in England. That he had been pardoned
and banished received some confirmation from a
message from New York, dated six p.m, June 26,
and repeated on the 27th. General Steelman had
been offered but declined a mission to Mexico.
The only further intelligence by the Cuba is that the
Louisiana Republican Convention had adjourned,
after passing resolutions favouring political equality
irrespective of colour, and the disfranchisement of
rebels.

Jefferson Davis took occasion,
on being seren-
aded during his recent visit to Niagara, to make the
following speech :—" Gentlemen, I thank you sin-
cerely for the honour you have this evening shown
to me; it shows that true British manhood to which
misfortune is always attractive. May peace and
prosperity be for ever the blessing of Canada, for
she has been the asylum for many of my friends, as
she is now an asylum to myself. I hope that
Canada may for ever remain a part of the British
Empire, and may God bless you all, and the British
flag never cease to wave over you."
The opinion of the United States Attorney-
General Stanberry has at last been published, and
President Johnson has ordered the enforcement of
the Reconstruction Act, as interpreted by him.
Mr. Stanberry states that the Southern Military
District Commanders have no right, under the Re-
construction Act, to remove civil officers, executive
or judicial, or appoint their successors. lie says—
" Commanders have no right to establish military
courts to try civil cases. This is contrary to the
Civil Rights Bill, which is still in force. Civil
officers can only be temporarily suspended iu a case
of riot. The military power in the South should
act as a police force to preserve order and enforce
existing laws when neglected by local officials ; but
commanders have no right to declare a new code of
laws, as this assumption of such powers would
placethem on an equality with Congress." Attor-
ney-General Stanberry then proceeds to repeat his
former opinion as to the extent of disfranchisement,
declaring that substantially the Reconstruction Act
only disfranchises those rebels who held national
or State, or military, executive, or judicial office,
having taken the oath to support the Constitution of
the United States.

There appears to be the greatest difficulty in
empannelling a jury for the trial of Siirratt. All
who have expressed an opinion as to the guilt or
innocence of Mrs. Surratt, who was executed as a
considirator, are considered ineligible to sit as jurors.
This plea has been allowed by the Government
counsel, and all have availed themselves of it who
wish to escape a disagreeable duty. Surratt was
arraigned in the Washington Criminal Court on
the 10th June, and though a week had passed three
jurors only had been obtained. Out of the 26
talesmen summoned when the first panel of jurors
was thrown out, the three who stood the final test
were sworn in, William B. Todd, Robert Ball, and
J. Russell Barr. Calculating on so small a per-
centage, Marshal Gooding was ordered to bring
into Court on Saturday, the 15th, a hundred more
talesmen, from whom it appears the panel was
fillei and the jury sworn in. One witness deposed
that he saw Surratt conversing with Booth at
Ford's Theatre, at Washington, previous to the
assassination of President Lincoln.4iSurratt suc-
cessfully appealed to the Court to compel the
attendance of witnesses for the defence, his means
being exhausted. The trial is likely to, be a long
one, and the counsel for the prisoner appear confi-
dent that there is no evidence on which conviction
could be obtained.
The Greek Minister, A. R. Rangabe, was -
pre
outod to socretary eNifttAl 011 tho 13th instant. M.