The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-21 00:00:00

MISCEL LLANEOUS FOREIGN NEWS.

If the news by the Java be true, the Government
will be prepared to try Mr. Davis on the fourth
Monday in November. The Washington correspon.
dent of the Standard states—" Underwood has,
in conversation with one of Mr. Davis's ad-
mirers, already delivered judgment. Mr. Davis,
Underwood said, would be convicted. lie (Un-
derwood) should merely impose a fine suffi-
cient " to take away his (Davis's) Mississippi plan-
tation." Underwood stated at the same time that
he was " opposed to capital punishment." This con-
versation was related to the President a few days
since. Mr. Johnson said, "It was the old-
fashioned way to try a man before they hanged
him. We have a heavy burden to carry in that
Confederate President, for we dare neither to try
him nor to release him."

General Sheridan, no doubt, finds a political I
tour much harder work than ruling even in New
Orleans. On the 28th ult. he proceeded from Phila-
delphia to New York ; on the 30th he was serenaded
at the Union League Club. On the Ist he went to
Brooklyn, the only place where he was refused an
official welcome. On the second he was at the
races at Paterson, New Jersey. On the 3d he
proceeded to Boston, via Rhode Island. At the
capital of Massachusetts he was enthusiastically
received, a military escort and a torch-light pro-
cession being formed in his honour. He has pro-
mised Governor Fenton to visit Albany, and thence
he goes to Obio to be present at the wedding of one
of his staff. General Sickles remains quietly at
New York, and General Hancock is at St. Louis.
There was a riot at Savannah, Georgia, on the
night of the 30th September. Mr. Bradley, a Bos-
ton negro lawyer, once very popular among the
blacks, but now rather disliked and distrusted, got
up a meeting of about a thousand negroes. While
he was addressing the assembly, which he did in no
measured language, advising the negroes to select
their estates, as the lands of the rebels would be
divided among them, be was interrupted by some,
when a riot ensued, which the military had to quell.
It is noticeable that in Richmond the leader of the
blacks is strongly opposed to the Republican party,
and does all he can to excite the hostility of the
negroes against those to whom they owe emancipa-
tion. Hunnicult may consider, and with some
truth, that the measures of the extreme Radicals
would in the end be injurious to his fellows.
Besides the reports of Cabinet changes which
have kept United States politicians in a ferment, it
is now stated that the President telegraphed to Gen.
Sherman, offering him the Secretaryship of War,
and that he had arrived at Washington, and had
interviews with—Mr. Johnson and General Grant.
The New York Herald supplements this by stating
that so►ne prominent Republicans are endeavouring
to effect a compromise with Mr. Johnson. It is
also reported that Mr. M'Culloch will retire, and
Mr. Thomas Ewing succeed to the Secretaryship of
the Treasury.
The advocates of Woman's Rights ara pushing
strongly just now in America for Female Suffrage.
The views of Henry Ward Beecher, George William
Curtis, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and other well-
known advocates, have just been published in a
small volume by the Equal Rights Association
Chief-Justice Chase (after Grant perhaps the most
popular candidate for the Presidency) openly ex-
tends his support. A long list of the best names in
America is attached to an appeal to the voters of
the United States to apply the principles of the
Declaration of Independence to women. Here is
the argument—" Governments derive their just