The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOMMS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1867.

caned in the affair, and upon whom devolved the
duty of carrying out a measure of Reform. In the
orune of some observations which he made last
Licht, Mr. DISRAELI took occasion to advert to the
charges which had been brought against the Go-
vernment of having committed a breach of faith in
respect to the arrangements made between them
and the house. Ile addressed a fitting re-
proof to those who had committed them-
selves in the matter of expressing such strong
opinions, and showed that since he had con-
sidered the business of the House he had never
at any time entered into engagements which he had
not scrupulously fulfilled. We think it was just as
well for the right hon. gentleman to have spoken
upon the subject, because many persons not well
versed in Parliamentary matters may be led astray
by the delusive re narks of those who pretend to
know a great deal. Mr. GL kDSTONE, much to his
credit, said decidedly that he had not the least
" hesitation in saying that there was no charge
of breach of faith that can lie against the
right honourable gentleman," which expression was
received with cheers Cram both sides of the House.
There are surely many ways in which those opposed
to the leaders of party can express their dissatisfac-
tion and disapproval without resorting to abuse
and setting up charges which cannot be substan-
tiate 1. The extreme Reformers of the present day
entirely repudiate the idea which once found favour
of recognising the merits of their opponents—

" And that stern which warriors feel
In foemen worthy of their steel,"
is quite unknown to them, for all who do not im-
plicitly fall in their wake are held up to scorn and
opprobrium.
Emboldened by their ventures respecting the com-
pound householder, the house proceeded to discuss
the county franchise. A half-way plan was agreed

to between the proposal of the Government for a £l5
qualification and that of Mr. LOCKE KING for £lO,
Sir E. DERING'S proposal of twelve pounds being
taken, and Mr. LOCKE KING wisely assented to it.
In some respects last nigh6's work was the most re-
markable that has yet been done by the House since
the commencement of the debates on the Reform
Bill. Moro was got through, and there is more to
look at to-day as the consequence of the
discussions. Indeed it is not always that those
nights which are the most exciting are
the most eventful. Occasionally it is so, as in
the case of the great division which took place be-
fore Easter ; but upon ordinary occasions it is
found that the dullest evenings are often the most
useful ones. Either the task of extinguishing the
compound householders or of settling the occupa-
tion franchise in counties would have been enough
to make yesterday memorable ; but the combina-
tion of the two achievements is alike satisfactory
and encouraging. To-day, under the new regime,
the house will set to work in right earnest to get

through the remainder of their complicated task,
and they may be certain that the sympathy and
good wishes of the public will go with them. Now
that the real dangers that menaced this measure of

Reform seem practically removed, we can afford to

look forward with confidence to the end in view,
and to realise in some degree the advantages which
will be denied by the country at large. It has been

the fashion in certain quarters to abuse or vilify the
present Ilouse of Commons, but surely those
changes may be said to be unfounded which
have been brought against it, and those
aspersions upon its character and good

faith may be termed slanders. The members of
the lower branch of the Legislature have indeed
hAd no easy task of it this year, and it has been
mainly owing to the discernment and constancy of

the How: collectively that those obstacles have
been surmounted which were at ono time deemed
insuperable by competent judges. While upon this
theme we must bear testimony to the great services

which have been rendered to the cause by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer. In fighting the
battles of his colleagues he has led not only his
party to victory, but has enabled the house of Com-
mons to satisfy the just demands and expectations
of the people. Only those who are well versed in
Parliamentary tactics can rightly estimate the diffi-
culties which have beset the right hon. gentleman,
but the general results of his work will be appre-
ciated far and wide ; and, perhaps, he bas distin-
guished himself in nothing more than in the
moderation which he has throughout displayed
in very trying circumstances; at any rate the
session of 1867 will be a good exception to the
many which preceded it, and shine out as a
bright and particular star in the Parliamentary
horizon ; and we hope that in the years to come,
when many of this generation are at rest from their
labours, the measure of Reform which it will have
been its boast to have c ►rried will be prized by
them for whom it was framed, and prove to have
been productive of much, if not of all, those bene-
fits which were expected from it.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Monday Evening.
The Moniteur states that a ;telegram, transmitted
by the Atlantic cable, and dated Mexico, May
gives news from Queretaro, a fortnight later than
had been before received in Europe. The'city con-
tinued to maintain its defence, and the besiegers
had not been able to make any advance.
On Saturday afternoon, the Prince and Princess
Royal of Prussia were received by the Emperor and
Empress at a private audience at the Tuileries.
Count de Goltz, Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the King of Prussia, preceded
their Royal Highnesses. After the audience the
individuals composing the service of the Emperor
and Empress, and those in the service of the Prince
and Princess, were mutually introduced. The Court
carriages with the usual ceremony were sent to the
Prussian Embassy, in the Rue du Lille, to convey
the Prince and Princess to the Tuileries, and they
were reconducted to that hotel with the same cere-
monial. Prince 'Napoleon and the Princess Clotilde
have arrived at Turin, in order to be present at the
marriage of Prince Amedee, of Savoy, with the
Duchess d'Aoste. They were cordially received at
the railway station by the. Royal Princes, the
authorities, and the population.
The following extract of a letter from Djeddah is
interesting :—" The account received from Mecca
respecting the great festival of Kourban Beiram,
which was attended by an immense number of per-
sons, is that the sanitary state of the pilgrims is
excellent. The Governor-General of Hedjaz and
the Grand Cherif of Mecca, according to iustruc-
_tions which they had received from Constantinople,
'Lid previously taken all the necessary precautions,
and there as well as at Djeddah all the sanitary
precautions vcommended by the Internation.:l
SAnitary Conferenc; of Cons ant:nople had been
adopted. No ease of contagious malady has been
reported, and but few deaths had taken place, and
they only arose from the fatigue of the journey.
Considerable numbers of pilgrims were beginning
to arrive at Djeddah, where arrangements had been
made for their embarcation and to avoid crowding
on board the vessels which were to convey them to
their destination. _ _ _

To the list of Sovereigns attracted to Paris by the
great Exhibition may be added the King of Sweden
and the reigning Princes of Servia and Moldo-
Wallachia. They will come, it is said, in the course
of June. The Emir Abd-el-Fader, accompanied by
his two sons, is also expected in Paris.
To-day an establishment has been opened at the
Exhibition► which, if not attractive from beauty or

novelty, is of a highly useful and philanthropic
character. It is a maternal school opposite the
Catholic Chapel. The principle of instruction is
that prescribed for all juvenile asylums, that of
making the first study of infancy as agreeable and as
easy as possible. Deaf and dumb children will re-
ceive instruction at the school.
The rumour in the fashionable world is that the
fête to be given to-morrow by the Austrian Am-
bassador will be one of marvellous splendour. The
garden of the Embassy will be transferred into a
ball-room to be connected with the reception rooms.
Princess Metternich has ordered a quantity of the
richest silks from Lyons for the decoration of the
rooms. There will be a magnificent display of
flowers and exotics, and the electric light will in-
crease the splendour of the scene.

The Abbe Court, many years curate of Nanterre,
has just died. He it wai who, for many successive
years, crowned the rosiercs at the fete of which I
h to speak only a day or two ago.
A German paper states that an extremely rich vein
of silver has been discovered in Bohemia, at a great
depth below the level of the sea. This vein of silver
is in the mine of St. Adalbert, which last year fur-
nished more than half of the silver and lead which
were extracted from the mines of Pizifram.

The weather is still unsettled and stormy. This
morning there was white frost in the fields in the
vicinity of Paris, but as the day advanced it became
warm. Fahrenheit's thermometer in doors marked
70 degrees at 2 o'clock. A writer in the Constitei-
tionnel to-day contrasts the weather in France and
England. lie says—" Iu England the climate is
damp. It rains almost every day. The land is
therefore constantly wet. In France, with the ex-
ception of the departments to the north of Paris,
the climate of which resembles that of England, the
land is in a very different condition. In the centre
of France, and particularly in the south, four or
five months often pass without rain. The land,
therefore, quite contrary to the case in England, is,
generally speaking, very dry."

The Journal des Debats, in reference to the visit
of the Prince and Princess Royal of Prussia to
Paris, expresses its regret that just at this time the
Prussian Press has adopted a rough and ungracious
tone towards France. That journal seems to fore-
see some difficulty about the disposition of Prussia
in regard to article five of the Treaty of Prague,
according to which Prussia engaged to consult the
inhabitants of the northern part of Schleswig upon
the point whether they would remain Prussians or
again become Danes. The Debats quotes some re-
torts from German papers of authority, according to
which the Danish Government has addressed a cir-
cular letter to all the great Powers, insisting upon
the strict execution of the fifth article of the treaty.
" If this news be accurate," says the Debats," it is
not without importance. Prussia cannot refuse to
execute the treaty." In order that your readers may
more completely appreciate the bearing of this
article, it may be well to state that several Paris
papers, some of them having much authority and
influence, affect to consider that the new treaty has
only patched up the difficulties of the position, and
that Prussia will seize an early opportunity of en-
gendering fresh complications.
It is very satisfactory and flattering to English
skill and industry to find that the French papers
agree in the pre-eminence of England in some de-
partments of art and manufacture. A writer in
the Siecle, who inspected some articles exhibited in
the stand of Messrs. C. F. Hancock, Son, and Co.,
speaks of them as unsurpassed by the French ma-
nufacturers in the same branches. This eminent
firm has just added more wonders to the Exhibi-
tion. The first addition is a magnificent solid
silver cup in the Renaissance style of art. The
subject is the Earl of Richmond proclaimed as
Henry the Seventh, after the defeat of Richard the
Third on the battle-field of Bosworth. Lord
Stanley is represented as placing the crown upon
the Monarch. All the personages are in bold relief.
The figure of Fame is peculiarly artistic and ex-
pressive. This gem was manufactured expressly
for the Exhibition, and is well worthy of it. The
other magnificent addition to the Exhibition is a
silver vase, intended to represent Prince Edward
reselling Henry the Third at the battle of Evesham.
This unegnalle I specimen of art is in the pure
Florentine 'style. The handles are formed of

winged figures of Fame. At the base are dragons
holding shields descriptive of the subject. The
tracery is of exquisite delicacy and finish. These
articles excite admiration from all.

THE LUXEMBURG THE &TY.

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The following is believed to be the correct text of
the treaty for the neutralisation of Luxemburg re-
cently concluded at London :--

6 In the name of the Alost Holy and Indivisible
. .

Trinity—.

" His MajestytheKing of the Netherlands, Grand
Duke of Luxemburg, taking into consideraiton the
change produced in the situation of the Grand
Duchy, owing to the dissolution of the ties which
as their pleni-
potentiaries, to conclude a
attached it to the former Germanic Confederation,
has invited their Majesties the Emperor of the
French, the Emperor of Austria, the Queen of Eng-
land, the King of the Belgians, the King of Prussia,
and the Emperor of all the Russias to assemble
their representatives in Conference in London,
in order to come to an understanding with the pleni-
potentiaries of his Majesty the King Grand Duke as
to the new arrangements to be concluded in the
general interest of peace. And their said Majesties,
after having accepted this invitation, have resolved
by common accord to respond to the desire his Ma-
jesty the King of Italy has manifested to take part
in a deliberation destined to offer a new pledge of
security for the maintenance of tihnecganenceer7lwrietphohseis.
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appointedpotentiaries, that is to say—[The names and titles
of . allo, a thel plenipotentiaries signed below follow]—
who, after having exchanged their full powers, and
found them in good and perfect form, have agreed
upon the following articles :
"1. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands
Gaalicl dtD maintains the tics which
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to the House of saidLuxemburg,
Orange-
Nassau, by virtue of the treaties that have placed
that State under the sovereignty of his Majesty the
Grand Duke, his descendants and successors. The
rtuke Grandof chy
rights which the agnates of the House of Nassau
possess to the succession of the Grand Duchy by
virtue of the same treaties are maintained. The
high contracting parties accept this present declara-
tion and take note thereof.
2. The Grand Duchy • wit in If the limits deter-
mined by the deed annexed to the treaty of April
19, 1839, under the guarantee of the Courts of Aus-
tria, France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia
shall henceforth constitute a perpetually neutral
State. It shall be bound to observe the same neu-
trality towards all other States. The high contract-
ing parties engage to respect the principle of neutra-
lity stipulated by this present article. The principle
is and remains placed under the sanction of the col-
lective guarantee of the signatary Powers to this
present treaty with the exception of Belgium, which
is itself a neutral State.
___

" The Grand Duchy of Luxemburg being neu-
tralised in the terms of the preceding article, the
maintenance or establishment of strong places upon
ts tc: ritory becomes needless and without object. It
is in consequence agreed by common accord that the
town of Luxemburg, considered is past time from a
military point of view
a federal fortress, shall cease
to be a fortified town. his Majesty the Grand Duke
reserves to himself the right of maintaining in that
town the number of troops necessary
to watch over
it for the preservation of good order.
" 4. Conformably with the stipulations contained
in Articles 2 and 3, his Majesty the King of Prussia
declares that his troops at present garrisoning the
fortress of Luxemburg shall receive orders to proceed
to the evacuation of that place immediately after the
exchange of the ratifications of this present treaty.
A commencement will simultaneously be made with

removing the artillery, munitions, and all objects
forming part of the appurtenances of the said strong
place. During this operation there shall only remain
the number of troops necessary to watch over the
safety of the war material, and to effect its removal,

which shall he completed with the least possible
delay.

"5. His Majesty the King Grand Duke, by virtue
of the rights of sovereignty he exercises over the town
and fortress of Luxemburg, engages upon his part to
take the necessary measures for converting the said
strong place into an open town by means of such
demolition as his Majesty shall judge sufficient to
fulfil the intentions of the high contracting Powers
expressed in Art. 3 of this present treaty. The works
required for this purpose will commence immediately
after the retreat of the garrison. They shall be
carried out with all the circumspection the interest
of the inhabitants of the town demand. His Majesty
the Grand Duke further promises that the fortifica-
tions of the town of Luxemburg shall not in future be
re-established, and that no military establishment
shall either be maintained or created at that place.
" 6. The signatory Powers to this present treaty
recognise that the dissolution of the Germanic Con-
federation having equally brought about the disso-
lution of the ties that united the Duchy of Limburg
collectively with the Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
to the said Confederation, it results therefrom
that the relations mentioned in Arts. 3,4,
and 5 of the treaty of April 19, 1839, between the
Grand Duchy and certain territories appertaining to
the Duchy of Limburg, have ceased to exist—the
said territories continuing to form an integral part
of the kingdom of the Netherlands.
" 7. This present treaty shall be ratified, and its
ratifications shall be exchanged at London within
the period of four weeks, or earlier if possible.
"In faith of which the respective plenipotenti-
aries have signed the treaty, and appended to it the
seal of their arms.

"Done at London, this 11th May, 1867.
(Signed)
" STANLEY, VAN DE WETER,
" APPONYI, " TORNACO,
"LA TOUR D'.AUVRRONE, " SERVAIS,
" D'AZEOLIO, " BERNSTORFF,
BENTINCIC, BRUNNOW.

" DECLARATION.

" It is well understood that Art. 3 does not affect
the rights of other neutral Powers to preserve, and
in case of need to repair, their strong places and
other means of defence."
(The same signatures follow.)