The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 8, 1867

guod everywhere. If the countries in the East find
out that the Abyssinian prisoners were treated with
cruelty, and that the English were indifferent as to
their protection, we should have in the end a far
more expensive war forced upon us than
any which we are now called upon to en-
gage in, and one much more likely to be
disastrous in its effects and consequences. It is well
that those who really appreciate the importance of
this subject should take every opportunity that
presents itself of making their views known, for
misrepresentation is apt to get about on this ques-
tion as on others, and there is every reason why
the Abyssinian expedition should receive the sanc-
tion and support of the general public, according as
it does with those principles which have always
been upheld by public opinion and obtaining
the approval of the community. The hon. member
concluded by giving some reasons for the vote he
had given about the admission of women to the
franchise, and he said that the absence of this per-
mission often entailed great losses upon families.
The landlord would say to the widow who wished to
carry on the farm of her late husband that he
wanted a vote for the property, and therefore she
must leave, though possessed of capital and of suffi-
cient ability to carry it on. Mr. BENTINCK, M.P.,
made some remarks upon the settlement of the
land question, deprecating some of the recent pro-
posals on the subject.

President JOHNSON has been making a speech,
though a very brief one. The occasion was one
which seems a little strange to English habits.
We applaud and listen to our public men, and
make demonstrations in their favour. Unless the
individual to be complimented is a WELLINGTON
after Waterloo, or some other hero who has made
himself the idol of the popular fancy at a time of
great excitement and national disturbance, the
notion of serenading a statesman would raise a
smile. The Americans, however, are an excitable
people, and are very fond of demonstrations. When
a party is anxious to obtain an expression of
opinion from one of its leading men it arranges a
" serenade." By the term is understood something
different from singing a song under a window. The
mob is provided with a brass band and a good
supply of fireworks and banners. They gather
round the hotel where their head resides, and, after
the fireworks are set off, the music played, and a
round of cheers given for President, or Senator, or
General, as the case may be, the object of the de-
monstration is expected to come forward and make a
speech. Sometimes indeed the hero is not so complai-
sant. In the case of the bluff soldiers who won their
hard-earned laurels in the war, the serenaders were
often obliged to put up with bows and thanks, very
briefly expressed. A short time ago the Repub-
licans in Washington " serenaded" Generals SHERI..

DAN and SICKLES, in the hope of obtaining a speech
from SHERIDAN, whose position in regard to the
PRESIDENT just now excites a good deal of interest.
SHERIDAN, however, would only say a few words of
thanks, and hearing that another sex enading was
in contemplation announced beforehand that he
would make no speech. The serenaders of General
HANcocK and Mr. JOHNSON were more fortu-
nate. A demonstration in their favour brought
them both forward. General HANCOCK made a
properly Conservative speech. He would, he said,
do his duty to the Government, and would do his
best to alleviate the condition of the people in his
district. He only asked for himself that he should
not be judged in advance, or too hastily praised or
condemned. This is a good deal to ask from Ame-
ricans, who are seldom very deliberate iu their
judgments, and who set up and destroy the reputa-
tions of public servants with very little scruple.
With them, as the experience of the war very
clearly showed, " success is virtue, and mis-
fortune blame;" and they judge statesmen
and generals alike by the results rather
than by the motives of their conduct. The
PRESIDENT'S speech on the occcasion we have re-
ferred to was very brief, but not unimportant.
He declared his conviction that the country was in
great peril, but that, as it had been saved in times
gone by, so he believed it could be saved then. If
every one that he then spoko to bad " a conscience
and a conviction" in reference to the preservation
of the Constitution all would be safe. It is cer-
tainly not without cause that Mr. JouNsox keeps
reiterating the threatened danger to the constitu-
tion. The Radicals have set themselves

steadily to subvert it. In the Southern States
the difficulties between civil and military
law are constantly arising, and the Congress
throws all its influence on the military side. The
not unnatural consequence is that in all the elec-
tions southwards Federal troops are required to
preserve the peace. In Tennessee there has lately
been considerable disturbance owing to the imperi-
ous conduct of Governor BROWNLOW. By disfran-
chising nearly all the white citizens of Tennessee,
and declaring that the negroes had the power to
vote under the z] ew franchise law, BROWNLOW
secured his own State election, and he is now

anxious to apply the same law to cities, so as
to fill all the offices with partisans of hi
own. The Conservatives, not wishing for
this, declare that under the existing laws
all municipal and local elections must be con-
trolled by the local authorities, whose laws allow
only white citizens to vote. An open conflict seems
to be imminent, and the PRESIDENT has been con-
sulting with Gen. GRANT on the subject. GRANT
has sent orders to THOMAS to be in readiness to put
down insurrection, but it is not yet known on which
side he will interfere. The negro vote is a serious
difficulty in most of the Southern States. It has
lately come out that a large number of Southern
negroes have been sent to Ohio by agents
of the Freedmen's Bureau to vote for Republican
candidates, the money of the Government being
used for their transportation. This ingenious sys-
tem is called " colonising " voters, and though it
excites a good deal of indignation among the oppo-
site party it does not occasion much surprise. Such
a fact reveals pretty plainly what the negro vote is
worth, but the Radicals do not always find them

amenable to their wishes. The negroes in some

places where they have a formidable majority insist

upon appropriating the offices. In Louisiana the
Radicals have desired that the eleCtion shall be post-

poned solely on that account. Congress has no

desire to give offence to negroes however ready
some of its members may be to turn them to poli-
tical account, but the negroes having felt their
strength have no notion of giving their Radical
friends all the benefits. Negro suffrage is unpopular

with many sections of the Republican party, and in
fact there are divisions in the ranks on three points
—the prohibition of liquors, woman suffrage, and
negro suffrage.

THE FENIANS AND THE POLICE VANS. —Yesterday
morning, by order of the Home Secretary and Sir Richard
Mayne, the chief commissioner of the Metropolitan Police,
the omnibuses or vans engaged in taking prisoners to and
from the different police courts to the several gaols were
more strongly guarded than hitherto. Previously there
was only the driver, and a sergeant inside the -van, and
they were not armed ; but on and after yesterday tl, ere will
be three additional police constables, and the wholt of the
escort will be armed with cutlasses. For tho vat Is that
come from the suburban districts, it is stated that the escort
in these instances will have horse patrols, while those for
the police courts in the metropolis will have two eat ra,
men inside and one outside.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Monday Evening.
Reliable news is a somewhat scarce commodity
to-day, but its absence is compensated for in some
quarters by exciting fabrications upon various poli-
tical subjects. For instance, it is said that M. de
Beust has sent a confidential Note or despatch to
the French Government to ascertain its views
relative to the expediency of giving further assist-
ance in support of the temporal power of the Pope.
The report relative to another expedition to Rome
to assist the Holy Father has had a run in Paris for
some days. No official contradiction has been given
to it, but I still believe that it is " a weak invention
of the enemy." As to the alleged Note of M. de
Beust, my inquiries in official quarters enable me
to contradict its existence with more confidence.
The Emperor and Empress will return to Paris
from Biarritz in the course of the ensuing week.
The Emperor of Austria will be here about the
same time. The Empress of Austria has written
an autograph letter to the Empress Eugenie ex-
pressing her regret at not being able to accompany
the Emperor Francis Joseph to Paris in consequence
of ill health. The Minister of the Interior, the
Marquis de la Valette, has returned to Paris from
Biarritz, having previously made a short stay at his
estate of Cavalerie. As many conjectural statements
have been made as to the supposed object of the
visit of that Minister and the visit of M. Rouher,
Minister of Finance, to his Majesty, I may as well
state, which I do on perfect authority, that it was
solely and exclusively connected with the business
of their respective departments. 'With a similar
view several other official personages, including
Baron Haussmann, the Prefect of the Seine, have
left Paris, or are about to leave it, for Biarritz.
Letters from Tunis announce a serious insurrec-
tion of certain Kabyle tribes of the Regency ostens-
ibly against the levy of taxes, but there is some
reason to suppose that they have a more serious
object—the desposition of the Bey Essadok. An
expedition, under the command of General Zarouk,
has been sent against these refractory tribes.
Prince Sidi el Adel has made his appearance among
these mountain tribes, and some accounts say that
he will join the insurrection against his brother.
The Prince, however, denies any such intention,
and has put forth as a rallying cry, " God give the
victory to our Bey Essadok !" The Bey, however,
is very unpopular in his Regency, and a formidable
struggle may be anticipated.
There is now an Exhibition of Fine Arts at
Antwerp, which seems to have attracted a large
number of visitors. The King of the Belgians,
accompanied by his young sons the Princes, has
repaired thither.
There is an inundation of exciting accounts to-
day emanating from various sources, and almost all
more or less doubtful. There is still no real and posi-
tive news respecting the alleged second arrest of
Garibaldi, but the Italian journals continue to give
versions of the circumstances. According to one
of them, Garibaldi left Caprera to embark on board
the Torcana for Leghorn. The Sczia was sent after
him, and he was again arrested, but the place to
which he was conducted is not known.
The advocates of a Roman insurrection against
the Pope make the most of the situation. Their
organs pretend that the insurrection is making
great progress in the Italian provinces, and that
the insurgents have obtained an important suc-
cess at Bagnorea. The Pontifical troops
are alleged to have retreated upon Montafi-

ascono. These localities are in the environs
of Orrieto, by the lake of Bolsena, and on the route

to Viterbo. Another column of insurgents has ap-
peared in the province of Frosinone, on the confines
of the Neapolitan provinces. The Pontifical troops
attacked them, but it is said unsuccessfully. It is
even reported in one account that the Pontifical
troops joined the insurgents. The insurrection in
the province of Frosinone must certainly present a
real difficulty to the Pontifical Government, as it

will give facilities to the insurrectionists of Veterbo

to form a junction. Menotti Garibaldi, Colonel
Acerbi, and Major Canzio, sou-in-law of Garibaldi,
are said to be at the head of the insurgents near
Viterbo.

Accounts from Mexico received in Paris state that
tranquillity is beginning to be restored in the Re-
public. Porfirio Diaz has withdrawn his preten-
sions as candidate for the Presidency, and it was
believed that the re-election of Juarez was certain.
M. Achille Fould, formerly Minister of Finance
and member of the Privy Council, has died sud-
denly from apoplexy at his chateau of Loubere,
near Tarbes. He was 67. M. Fould was one of
the most eminent French Ministers of Finance in

modern days.
A solemn anniversary service was celebrated on
Saturday in the church of St. Reuil, for the repose
of the soul of Queen Hortense, the mother of the
Emperor.

'hue has been a tremendous conflagration at
Mulhouse. The cotton spinning factory of M.
Mieg has been entirely destroyed. The premises
and stock are said to be insured. This calamity
will turn 250 workmen out of employ.
I have already stated that Charles the XV. of
Sweden, who had been for some time at Vichy for
the benefit of his health, underwent a painful sur-
gical operation on his return to Sweden. The

condition of his Majesty, however, is proceeding
satisfactorily. lie has returned to his palace at

Stockholm.

In consequence of the miserable Weather yester-
day the last last autumn races in the Bois de Bou-

logne went off with little satisfaction. The results

were as follows :

Prix du Moulin, 3,0001. Palestrina.
Prix de la Cascade, 2,0001. Ajax M.
Prix de Chevilly (Ist trial, 3,000 f.) Nemea.
Prix de Chevilly (2d trial). Nemea.
Grand Prix de l'Empereur (Ist class), 20,0001.
Vertugadin (C. Pratt). Ronce 2d.
Prix St. Cloud (Handicap), 10,000 f. L'Escurial
1, Cintiniero 2, Alabama 3. Amount of prize,
17,000 f. ; 1,000 to the second.
In addition to the accustomed attractions at the
Champ de Mars, for the last few days there has been

an immense balloon under the direction of Messrs.

Giffard and Pland, which ascends to a height of
about a quarter of a mile, being held captive, and
after allowing visitors to look over Paris for about
ten minutes, it descends and takes up other adven-
turers.

The price, I believe, for each passenger is

ten francs. Prince Napoleon has made au ascent in
this balloon and took great interest in an explana-
tion of its dimensions and capabilities.
To-day has been another day of regular winter,
foggy, cold, rainy, and disagreeable. None but
those compelled to go into the streets have ventured
ou

The shops have assumed their winter aspect,

and furs and muffs are in the ascendant.

Marriages are made in heaven, it has been said.
Sometimes they are made in the streets and other

places, as it would appear from the true history I am
about to relate. A gentleman who was taking his
morning walk last week on the public promenade at
Rouen observed a young man make three attempts
to throw himself into the river, but his heart failed

him, and he then sat down and cried and sobbed.
The gentleman questioned him, and learnt that his

sorrow was caused because the father of the lady he
loved refused his consent to their marriage on the

ground that he was too young• The gentleman
went to the father, pleaded, and obtained the requi-

site permission, the lady's tears having come to the
rescue. The father not only consented, but politely
invited the advocate to give his daughter away,

saying he was the best person to do so, as he was
the cause of her marriage.

ASSAULT ON SIR GEORGE BOWYER, ➢I.P.-Sir
George Bowyor, M.P., appeared before the magistrates at
Abingdon last week as complainant in an assault case.
Ho stated that a tenant of his, named Westbrook, had
approached him in a violent manner whilst in the public
street, and demanded to know why ho had been served
with notice to quit. Ho seized the bon baronet several
times by the collar. Sir George said he would not ask
for a conviction of the defendant if he would state in
court that he regretted what had happened, and was
willing to be bound over to keep the peace. This the de-
fendant ultimately did, and was bound over to keep the
peace for six months. Sir George Bowyor undertook to
pay the costs.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Oct. 7.

The steamers Erin, Siberia, and Hibernia arrived
out yesterday, and the Cuba, Nebraska, Saxonia,
and Pereire to-day.
At the end of the past month the debt of the
United States had increased $2,500,000, as com-
pared with the same period in August.