The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-06 00:00:00

AMERICA.

NEW Your., Dec. 5.
The House of Representatives has passed a bill
for the repeal of the tax upon cotton grown after
the present year.
At a mass meeting held here, and called by mer-
chants and, bankers of New York, General Grant
was nominated national candidate for the Presi-
dency.

Mr. Horace Greeley has refused his appointment
as United States Minister at the Court of Vienna.
6 P.M.

The Committee of Ways and Means reported
to-day a bill to suspend Secretary M'Culloch's
authority further to contract the currency.
The St. Andrew and the United Kingdom arrived
out to-day.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing Prices. —Gold, 137. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. Five—Twenty United States'
Bonds, 1071; Illinois, 135; Erie, 711. Cotton—.
111iidling Upland, 161 c.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5.
Petroleum—standard white, 24c.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, NOv. 4.

The Porto has granted a provisional concession
for a railway from Constantinople to Bussorah,
with a 5 per cent. guarantee, upon an estimated
cost of 37,000,000 sterling. The surveys and the
plans are to be completed in two years, when the
concession will become definitive.

TLe Grand Vizier is expected to return shortly
from Crete.

DEBATE IN THE FRENCH CHAMBER.
PARIS, Dec. 6.

Rouher made the following additional state-
ments in yesterday's sitting of the Corps Legislatif :

" Long ago Italy had received a verbal commu-
nication, to the effect:that on the day Garibaldi put
his foot on Pontifical territory France would inter-
vene. The resolution of France was taken as far
back as the 10th of last October. Both fleet and
army were in readiness. The Italian Minister was
warned. But French journals of the Opposition,
combating the idea of intervention, deceived public
opinion abroad, encouraged the agitators, and
dragged the Garibaldians on to the battle-field of
Men tana."

Stating the long forbearance of France in the
affairs of Italy, M. Rouher said that it was not the
wish of the French Government to confound the
Italian nation with an ephemeral Government. It
wished to allow time for mature reflection. It was
time to reconstitute a Liberal Conservative Ministry
decided to respect the faith of treaties. We thus
succeeded in shielding the Pope without having to
struggle with Italian troops. M. Rouher refuted
the statements of M. Thiers relative to the Italian
war of 1859. Speaking of the reverses of Austria,
he said—How could we foresee them in 1859 ? It
is a fact which we have taken into account
since by aiding Austria to rehabilitate herself by
contracting with her a sincere friendship, which
I hope will not be without its influence upon the
peace of the world.
M. Rouher said that the conquest of the Two
Sicilies, accomplished by Garibaldi and accepted by
King Victor Emmanuel, bad established a heavy
joint responsibility, of which Victor Emmanuel
was, in a large measure, now bearing, he dare
scarcely say, the punishment. That conquest was
a blameable means of constituting Italian unity.
M. Rouher censured the conquest of the Marches
and the Umbria. Ile denied that the Emperor
Napoleon had tacitly authorised it by a sort of
laissez passer. He reminded the Chamber that the
French Government had blamed Italy, but it could
not go further.
M. Rouher justified the Convention of the 15th
September, and also the intervention. He said
that if after the invasion of Garibaldi France had
remained indifferent she would have sunk very low
in the opinion of the world. French intervention
was also a protection to the throne of King Victor
Emmanuel. By saving Rome from invasion France
had saved Italy from anarchy. Alluding to what
he termed the conspiracies at Geneva, M. Rouher
styled them filthy, demagogic mud scraped from the
pavement of Paris. A miserable attempt had been
made at an appeal to arms, but it disgracefully fell
to the ground.
All sectarians know each other. They had three
watchwords—Rome, Paris, Florence. France has
therefore performed a work of Liberal Conserva-
tism in which all the established Poivers of Europe
are interested.

Speaking of the proposed conference M. Rouher
said :—" We have declared to all the Powers that
we do not wish to draw up a programme ; we shall
present ourselves at the Conference with our past
and our present; the Pope has accepted our inter-
vention without reserve."

Replying to the dilemma that the Popo had need
of Rome, and that Italy could not do without it,
M. Rouher said, " We declare that Italy shall not
seize upon Rome. (Prolonged applause.) France
will exact from Italy a vigorous and energetic exe-
cution of the Convention of the 15th September,
otherwise she will provide for it herself. Is this
clear ?" (Renewed applause.)

M. Rouher reminded the Chamber that the French
Government had always held the same language.
" We wish (he added), at the same time, that we
firmly and energetically respect the Convention of
the 15th September, also to respect and strengthen
Italian unity. We wish the co-existence of Italy with
the Papacy.' We do not wish that the work accom-
plished by our victories should be destroyed by the
second part of our reign. The French people do
not desire either to overthrow the Pope or the de-
struction of Italian unity. Let us endeavour to
convince Italy that the idea of Rome for a capital
is a sterile idea, a fictitious want, the satisfaction
of which would be a fatal acquisition to Italy.
What Italy especially wants is to contitute herself ;
she must not be alarmed because an old man
addresses prayers to God under the dome of St.
Peter, for with his extended hands that old man
appeases the anxious consciences of Catholics."