The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-06 00:00:00

is carried quite so far as Mr. CONNOLLY,
a member of the London Trades' Unions, thinks to
carry it. At a recent meeting of the members of
the London Unions, held to denounce the Sheffield
atrocities, Mr. CONNOLLY was reported to have de-
nounced the outrages in strong terins, but to have
said that " anything could be expected of a town
that returned Mr. ROEBUCK." Upon this worthy
presenting himself in the room where the Commis-
sioners were sitting, Mr. ROEBUCK pounced upon
him, and, pointing out the report, asked if what
he said had been correctly stated. It was
rather a severe ordeal for the Trades'
Unionist, seeing that the words went some-
thing beyond the ordinary license of political
difference, and were, to say the least of it, a breach
of public manners. Accordingly, Mr. CONNOLLY
chose the easier, if the less consistent, part of de-
claring that he was misrepresented. Mr. ROEBUCK
thereupon asked him to sign a note to that effect,
but Mr. CONNOLLY'S politeness could not go so far.
After some further conversation and reference
to Sir W. ERLE, a note very briefly stating
that Mr. CONNOLLY never used the words
complained of was put before him, with a
request for his signature, which was refused,
whereupon Sir W. ERLE ordered Mr. CONNOLLY
from the Commission-room, Mr. ROEBUCK de-
claring that he would not remain in the same
room with him. It was, perhaps, scarcely worth Mr.
ROEBUCK'S while to take so much notice of a piece
of ill-bred impertinence, though Mr. CONNOLLY
deserved the lesson. Still the affair brings into
prominence the very objectionable tone in which
some members of the London unions have chosen to
speak about the Sheffield revelations. They are
full of wrath at any one venturing to censure the
unions at large, thinking that all the blame should
rest on the individuals who are proved guilty.
In fact, their indignation is confined to the crimi-
nals who are found out, and it is impossible to
forget while loud swelling phrases are declaring
that other trades' unions have no- toleration for
such wickedness, that similar resolutions were pro-
posed and seconded by the very men who paid the
price of blood. We do not accuse the London
Unions with any complicity in crimes like those of
BROADHEAD, though we apprehend that their less
scrupulous members are kept in check by the
greater efficiency of the metropolitan police
and the wider activity of Loudon life. There

is no ono predominant influence, swaying
the minds and fettering the words and ac-
tions of the working population, and plenty would
be forthcoming who feared neither secretary nor
rattener to tell their suspicions and their observa-
tions. But while the London Trades stand clear of
any such heinous charges, they would do well to
take warning by the fearful lengths to which the
greed of gain and power have led their fellows in
the North, since, if they accept the doctrines that
one man has a right to control the independent ac-
tion of another, they will inevitably end by giving
their support to unscrupulous despotism to some
form or another.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.

The presumed execution of the Emperer Maxi-
milian almost exclusively occupies the attention of
the Paris journalists, all of whom express their
execration of the act and their sympathy for the
unfortunate Monarch. Although there are tele-
grams of all sorts announcing the fact, and are
stating that Miramon and Mejia were also shot, yet
some of the papers cling to hope from the terms
used by the Moniteur yesterday, which I trans-
lated. The Libertj, in remarking upon the subject,
uses the phrase of Talleyrand, and says the execu-
tion " is more than a crime : it is a fault."

The Paine remarks that the city of Mexico, hav-
ing surrendered unconditionally on the 20th of June,
it may be supposed that the news of the execution
of Maximilian was invented and circulated by the
Juarist officers, who were besieging Vera Cruz, in
order to hasten the reduction of that city and put a
stop to the last resistance of the Imperialists. It
may also be asked, How is it, if the execution took
place on the 19th, that the official news was not
transmitted by the rapid route often adopted, that
of Matamoras and Galveston.

The official Gazette of Vienna publishes several
despatches, couched in different terms, but all con-
veying the news of the execution as positive. In
consequence of these variations in the account of
the event the Austrian Government immediately
sent instructions to M. Wydenbruck, the Austrian
Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington, to ascer-
tain " precise" and accurate details, and to send a
report to Vienna immediately. Such a report has
not vet been received by the Austrian Government.
The French Government took a similar step the
moment the news arrived, but I believe that the
report of the French Minister at Washington has
not yet been received at the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs in Paris. In spite of the uncertainty, how-
ever, the Court of Vienna has ordered mourning for
six weeks for the Prince Maximilian, as if convinced
of his death.

One of the Paris papers contains a letter from a
correspondent at Queretaro, giving some particulars
of the defeat of Maximilian. 11e bad his head-
quarters at the large fortified convent of La Cruz.
When the city was delivered up to the Republican
troops on the morning of
,the 15th of May, the
Archduke sought refuge in the entrenchments of a
mountain which commands the northern part of
Queretaro, the cerro de la campagna, where he was
joined by Generals Mejia, Castillo, and Avellano,
the Prince de Salm-Salm, and several other of his
officers ; but it soon became evident that effectual
resistance was impossible. Four battalions of iu-
fantry and all the cavalry of the enemy surrounded
the cerro. The white flag was then hoisted, and
the Archduke and all his staff surrendered to Gen.
Corona. The prisoners, a few hours afterwards,
were taken to the convent of La Cruz.

The unfortunate Emperor Maximilian who, it is
feared, has met with such a melancholy and igno-
minious death, had not attained his 35th year. Ho
was born at Vienna on the 6th of July, 1832. He
was the second son of the Archduke Francis Charles,
and the brother of Francis Joseph 1., the present
Emperor of Austria. By a somewhat fatal coin-
cidence his death occurred nearly at the time when
the Emperor of Austria was crowned as King of
Hungary. At the time of Maximilian's accession
to the throne of Mexico he was at the head of the
Austrian navy, and had been a sailor in his youth.
He was also termed " proprietor" of the Austrian
Lancers, No. 8, and colonel of the Neumark Regi-
ment of Prussian Dragoons, No. 8. In 1861 he was
President of the Austrian House of Lords. Maxi-
milian was freely proclaimed Emperor of Mexico
by the Assembly of Notables of that empire, and a
deputation from them went to Miramar to offer him
the crown, which he unfortunately accepted. Ile
embarked for his distant States, the States of his
doom, on board the Austrian frigate Nov.irre.
Maximilian was married to his equally ill-fated
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on the 7th of June, 1840. She is the daughter of
the late King Leopold the First of Belgium, and
sister of the present King of the Belgians, and
grand-daughter of Louis Philippe of France.
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10,000 f. a week in succouring the distressed. Her
chief amusement was to study the laws.
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exhibited the utmost desire to conform to the