The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING', OCTOBER 14, 1867

COVENT-GARDEN PROMENADE
CONCERTS.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
EVERY EVENING, at EIGHT.
Under the sole Direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL.
Thursday nights a Selection of Classical Music ; other
nights Miscellaneous. The Programme is varied every
evening. Conductor, Signor Bottesini, and for the dance
music, Herr Johann Strauss. Admission, One Shilling.

TaIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
1 Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chattertca.
THIS EVENING, and during the week, her Majesty's
servants will perform Shakspere's Tragedy of MACRETH.
Principal characters by Mr. Phelps, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr.
Cowper, Messrs. Ryder, Barrett, J. Rouse, .1. JanistOne, F.
Mor. land, W. M'lntyre, C. Harcourt, T. Barth man, C.Webb,
; Mesdames Hermann Vezin, Rebecca Isaacs, and A,
Cooke.
To conclude with THE MILLER AND HIS MEN.
Messrs. Ryder, E. Phelps, C. Harcourt, Barrett, J. Rouse;
nealames Edith Stuart and Gratton.
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LONDON, MONDAY, OCT. 14, 1867.

A successful public meeting has been held at
Dover by the Working Men's Constitutional Asso-
ciation. Sir B. BRIDGE, in the course of some ob-
servations, alluded to the different position which
the working men now occupied from that they held
in the days of our forefathers. The Constitution of
England, as he truly declared, is not one that at all
sanctions the exclusive maintenance of classes,
for many peers of the realm have risen from
the lowest positions. It is certainly an en-
couraging sign of the times that in so many
directions there should be endeavours made
to improve the social condition of the working
classes, and that more and more it should be dis-
tinctly understood that they occupy an important
place in the country, and one that cannot be taken
from them without injury to the nation. A great
gain may be effected by these meetings, because the
variouse classes meet together, and have an oppor-
tunity of becoming better acquainted, thus doing
away, in a great measure, with that antagonism,
direct or implied, which does so much
harm. Mr. FRESHFIELD alluded to two
predictions that he had made, one that
Lord PALMERSTON could not again meet Parliament
as Prime Minister, and the other that a measure of
Reform would be brought forward, both of which
were realised. After giving his reasons against the
Bill of 1866, on account of its objectionable pro-
posals, he added that Mr. BRIGHT'S proposals were
deservedly regarded with suspicion. He does not
hide his light under a bushel, but blows his triumpet
with a loud blast, so that when he advocated
passing a measure of Reform, stage by stage,
it became very unsafe to follow him, and
it was difficult to see where the terminus was to
his political line of railway, and " I believe it might
be the path to democracy and demoralisation, lead-
ing on and through paths where I should not care
to follow, and possibly to such a Government as
that possessed by the United States, headed by a
President." Referring to the schemes of this
session, the hon. member spoke out very fairly, and
frankly admitted that he thought at one time
they might be following Mr. DISRAELI rather
too closely ; but that, as the bill progressed, his
fears and scruples vanished away, and his doubt-
ful ideas merged into " admiration at the great skill
and consummate statesmanship and tact exhibited
by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who laid
down a line of action, which he pursued with un-
deviating perseverance, wonderful command of
temper, and unfailing readiness both of tact and
argument."

Rising statesmen may certainly learn a useful
lesson from the various comments made during
this recess by those best calculated to know the
state of affairs, and that in a line that is often
neglected—self-command and perseverance. Last
year we heard of little else but the direful mistakes
which Mr. GLADSTONE had made, and now, on all
sides, there are praises of the wonderful skill dis-
played by Mr. DISRAELI in the management of the
House. The most efficient qualities as a statesman,
and the most brilliant qualities as an orator, will
not compensate for the want of tact and discretion,
and the sooner this important truth is realised the
better for those who wish to succeed in public life.

Mr. MONCREIFF has been addressing his consti-
tuents at considerable length, and given them an
insight into public affairs, straightforward on the
whole, and rather more liberal than his party can
generally continue to be. He spoke very fairly
concerning the task achieved by his political oppo-
nents, and expressed a hope that the reception
given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer by the
city of Edinburgh would be worthy of her reputa-
tion ; because whatever " we may think in regard
to political opinion, it is right that a public
man in a great position which he has
filled with great ability should be re-
ceived with honour by the citizens of such a city."
After admitting this much, Mr. MONCREIFF went
on to show that, in his opinion, the measure of
Reform passed this year had not been effected with-
out serious cost, on account of the dangers it had
brought about in the Conservative party. He seemed
to think that it indicated a "want of the finer sense
of the true political principle" that the Conserva-
tives should have opposed Mr. GLADSTONE'S mea-
sure in 1866, and should then have introduced
a measure of reform themselves. There is
no foundation for this idea in reality, because the
Liberals had had time enough, in all conscience, to
do the work themselves ; and, in respect to the in-
consistency of opposing the scheme of the year be-
fore, it is well known that those who proposed it
did not seem at all sure of how it would work them-
selves. There is much of the old leaven of party
prejudice in the judgment passed upon the Conser-
vatives in this discourse, and when he trusts
that it is the last time we shall have
seen an example set to the politicians
of this country he might look a little nearer home,
and scrutinise the course pursued by Mr. GLAD-
STONE and those who wished to oppose the passing
of the measure.

Respecting the change of Government Mr.
AIONCREIFF made some amusing observations, that
were too true to be agreeable in certain quarters.
He said that his impression was that they had been
in quite long enough, and that a change was de-
sirable. " It is quite plain, and bad been plain for
some time, that there would be no disadvantage to the
Liberal party going out to form a good, strong,
vigorous opposition. It is a wholesome thing ; the
sunny side of the House is apt to enervate, and it is
well to go to the hills for a little to get fresh air."
No doubt this notion will not prevail among the
members of the Liberal party to any great extent ;
but it is nevertheless very true, and Mr. MOXCEEIFF
deserves credit for giving expression to it. Con-
cerning the effects of the bill, the hon. member
hinted that a great many shams and pretences
about Reform might be tried for ever,
and concluded his remarks on the subject with an
enumeration of the responsibilities of those who
would be alone the lowest in the scale now, but
who would otherwise have been the lowest them-
selves, namely, the one of the seven-pound rental

francl Use. They will have to moderate as well as
to agit ate, and to exercise their judgment in many
ways. Allowing for a little occasional exaggeration
this speech may be regarded as a good illustration
of poll ical feeling in many respects, and it is not
likely tl t.at those of the opposite side should willingly
see their! triumphs snatched away from them through
bad management, and at first sight occasion a very
flattering: reception to the places of their opponents.

It ui vi Ty evident that under the Radical manage-
ment of I ffairs the American finances are not pros-
pering. The telegraphic news from New York last
week inf orms us that at the end of September the
national debt of the States bad increased 2,500,000
dollars as compared with the same period in
August. As a set off to this we find at a later date
that the Treasury Department have detected coun-
terfeit 7-30 bonds to the amount of 200,000 dollars,
so that public morality is not at a high rate.
The leading Democratic orators in Ohio have
been devoting a good deal of attention to
the financial question, and suggesting schemes
for getting rid of the present difficulty
respecting the Government Bonds. This •is a
favourite subject just now with public speakers,
who has each his own scheme for paying the debt.
Some would pay it in greenbacks ; others would
have the present generation pay the interest upon
the Bonds, leaving the principal to be paid here-
after, when the population and wealth of the
United States shall have increased, and greenbacks
have approached more nearly to the value of gold.
We are some way from that solution of the problem
as yet, seeing that the closing price of gold on
Saturday was 144.1. Senator MORTON, of Indiana,
who has been lately advocating the latter theory, '
says, with some truth, that what American finances
need at present are repose and stability.
The awkward position of the States Treasury has
not as yet taught the Americans circumspection in
their foreign policy. The Fenians have lately sent
delegates to Washington, who have prevailed upon
the Government to restore to the Brotherhood 150
tons of ammunition and other war material, cap-
tured during the Fenian raids the summer before last.
This material has since that time been in the custody
of the United States troops at Agdensburg. The
surrender of these stores to such open mischief-makers
as the Brotherhood affords a curious commentary
on the American doctrines of neutrality. They act
on the old adago of one man being allowed to steal
a horse while another may not look even over a
hedge ; since England may not allow an unarmed
vessel to leave her ports, while America may supply
England's open enemies with material which they
can only require to use against her. How would it
be if we were to demand from Washington indem-
nity for the expenses to which Fenianism has put
us ? We should certainly have quite as good a
ground for doing so as Brother JONATHAN has for
contending about the Alabama claims I

There is no need to look very far for the expla-
nation of the President's conduct. The Irish vote
is a matter of great importance in the forthcoming
elections, and a refusal of the Fenian request
might have had serious consequences on American
politics. It is a great temptation to any statesman
to have the allegiance or the opposition of a large
body of voters depending on his word ; and here
we see the mischief of universal suffrage. Every
Irishman has a vote, no matter what his belongings,
and thus the noisiest professor of affection for
Ireland is certain to win. This bidding for votes
and influence has a most deteriorating effect on
American public men, and as it has grown to be a
recognised necessity, men of refinement and culture
withdraw more and more from the turmoil of poli-
tical life.

The registration returns from the South are com-
ing in rapidly, and their results are very much
what were expected. The negro majority in ten
States is over 86,000 ; in some States, such as
Louisiana and South Carolina, they more than
double the whites. In North Carolina the whites
have a slender majority; but the returns in that
state are as yet incomplete. Strengthened perhaps
by these figures, the leading Republicans are talking
more loudly than ever about the impeachment of
the PRESIDENT. Mr. JOHNSON appears to be
troubling himself very little about them, and is said
to have in contemplation the pardon of ALEXANDER
STEPHENS. He has lately issued a pardon for
STEPHEN MALLORY, the Confederate Secretary of
the Navy, who, like STEPHENS, was excepted under
the terms of the Amnesty Proclamation. The PRE-
SIDENT evidently retains the opinion he promulgated
long ago, that the Union has more to fear from
ultra-Republicans than from liberated Confederates.

The Abyssinian expedition is just now the most
exciting topic of the day, and suggestions are being
made from all quarters with reference to its manage-
ment. All are ready with hints or warnings, whether
founded on theory or on practice, and a stranger
might suppose it was the first time that England
had ventured on sending a hostile expedition into
an uncivilised country. The worst is no doubt
made of Abyssinia and its passible risks. There are
of course many drawbacks, the worst evil perhaps
being the uncertainty and want of definite
knowledge which makes every mill or milestone on
the road a phantom of terror. Our campaigns in
Affghanistan were far more formidable than the
expedition to Abyssinia is likely to prove, since we
know that so far from our having to face a brave
and united people the KING'S troops are disaffected
and demoralised. The regiments of Sikhs and
Ghoorkas, who are all excellent soldiers, :accuz-
tomed to hilly countries and exhausting climates,
will do good service, and, with the assistance
and under the direction of Englishmen, will
soon teach THEODORE a lesson not to be easily for-
gotten.

Among the many suggestions made, however,
some are well worthy of attention in high quarters,
and among these we must rank a letter from
General GUST, in which he insists on the importance
of efficient reserves. "The timely formation of a
support, ready for action, should not," he says,
" be overlooked ;" and he adds that no mere system
of regimental depots will be sufficient. He reminds
that in former cases the victories won by the
valour of British troops were often of little ad-
vantage, owing to the lack of reserves. Marshal
SAXE, no mean authority in the art of war, lays
down au axiom that " uo troops should ever attack
without having troops in support." We should
therefore, as General OUST advises, have an express
division of reserve, prepared in every respect to take
the field at the shortest notice. A little foresight
and provision at the outset is always advisable i❑
war as in other matters of moment, but they are
doubly necessary when the country before us is
comparatively untried, though there is little ques-
tion that its dangers are made the most of by
timorous and interested parties.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—The GOth
quarterly meeting of the shareholders of the Conservative
Land Society will be held at the offices, No. 33, Norfolk-
street, Strand, on Tuesday next, tho 15th inst., at 2 p.m.
precisely—Viscount Ranelagh in the chair.
LORD HENRY LENNOX is still confined to his
house at the Admiralty by indisposition, the result of a
severe chill caught during the official inspection at Chat-
ham and Sheerness. It is hoped, however, that in a day
or two he will be sufficiently well to leave for the Isle of
Wight, where he has been recommended to proceed for
change of air.—Anny and Navy Gazette.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Sunday Evening.
There is no reliable news of importance to-day
from Italy, but, as usual, an abundance of contra-
dictory reports. In one sense the insurrection con-
tinues, but it has assumed the position of a guerilla
warfare, armed bands being collected in the moun-
tains and in the environs of some of the towns, but
the force is small, and the idea of marching upon
Home is quite out of the question, for the present
at least. Some of the Paris papers, however, do
their best to raise the belief that the position of
affairs in Italy is one of great gravity and danger.
The insurgents are stated to b; on the march from
the province of Viterbo towards the Tiber, whilst
the column under the command of Menotti Gari-
baldi will endeavour to proceed in that direc Lion for an
oppositepoint. On the 11th this column was encamped
in the valley of Teverone. One of the reports cir-
culated by the Italian papers is that Acquapendente
has again fallen into the hands of the insurgents.
The Government of the Holy See, it is said, is pre-
paring a document to be presented to the various
foreign Powers, in which it will refer to the at-
tempts under organisation against its authority,
aid appeal for assistance to suppress the revolt.
Letters from Pesth announce the intention of the
Hungarian Ministry to take an important step on
behalf of the Belgians and civil liberty. With this
view it intends to propose a project of law to the
Diet, conferring equal political rights upon citizens
of all religious persuasions. At present Jews in
Hungary labour under political and civil disabilities.
They will also be removed by the proposed law.
Such is the liberal spirit now prevalent in Hungary
that the Ministry will AO doubt be well supported
in its proposed reforms.
A decree of King Victor Emmanuel has just been
issued, appointing General Cialdini to the post of
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
to the Court of Austria.

—The King of Prussia, who intended to travel
from Weimar to Baden, made a short stay at Wies-
baden, in older to pay a visit to the Prince of Wales
and the King of Greece, who are now in the latter
city.

At this season of the year there aro usually many
prognostics of a severe winter, but this autumn the
indications of it seem more abundant than usual.
A great deal of snow has fallen prematurely in the
department of Puy-de-Dome, and for the last week
there have been violent tempests in all parts of

France. In the environs of Rouen on Thursday
last there was a peculiarly violent hailstorm, which
was very destructive to flowers and vegetation.
Much snow has fallen in the Jura mountains. In
the environs of Franc'ae Comte the wolves are more
numerous and more ferocious than has been known
for many years.

At Chapelle Huin, near Besancon, a young shep-
herd took a goat and a sheep to pasture. The
goat and the sheep were nearly devoured by the
wolves, and the dead shepherd was lying by their
remains.

In Paris to-day the weather was dull, and the as-
pect of the horizon was indicative of rain and tem-
pest. It was, however, much warmer.
M. Henri Coroenne, an artist of Valenciennes, has
been engaged for two years with an historical pic-

ture, commemorating an important epoch in the
annals of that city. The Hotel de Ville is now
under restoration. That edifice recalls to recollec-

don a famous episode of the siege of 1793, which

took place under its wals. The coalition army had
made their dispositions destroy one of the prin-
cipal bulwarks of the north of France, and for-
midable artillery, induding 500 cannon, was
collected. The town made hasty preparations
for defence, and opposite the Hotel de Ville
an altar was erected, where it was proposed to
receive the oath of the inhabitants. A day was
appointed for the ceremony when the 30,000 be-
sieged citizens assembled. The oath administered
was this, " I mean never to consent to any capitu-
lation, and to bury myself under the ruins of the
city rather than abandon into the enemies of the
country." All repeated with frantic enthusiasm the
words "I mean." With the suddenness of elec-

tricity every man fell upon his knees and cried,
" Long live France ! Conquer or die !" History
records the manner in which the natives of Valen-
ciennes kept their oath. It also repeats the words
used by the Duke of York on his entrance into the
city, " This place made us lose a campaign." This
is the scene which the picture of M. Henri
Coroenne is intended to illustrate. It is suffi-
ciently advanced to enable a judgment to be formed
that it will give a good idea of this striking episode
in the history of Valenciennes.

An interesting archeological discovery has
just been made while the workmen were
excavating the foundations of the little seminary
of Notre Dame at Minimes. A considerable
portion has been found of an ancient Roman
Rue du Lugdunum, paved with large tiles of granite.
From the direction of this ancient highway it
appears to have formed the principal route which
connected the Imperial Palace of Claude and Mar-
cus Aurelius with the Antiquailles and the Theatre
of the Minimes with the Porte de Trion.

By a special convention between Turkey and
Austria a direct telegraph wire will shortly place
Constantinople and Vienna in direct communica-
tion. Subsequently the communication will extend
from Vienna to Paris and from Paris to London.
The Hugues apparatus will be employed. The
Asiatic Ottoman wire will remain direct, as at pre-
sent, as far as Sac, in the Persian Gulf.
M. Castagnary, the editor and proprietor of the
Nain Jaune, has been condemned. by the Correc-
tional Tribunal of Paris to pay a fine of 600 f. for
an article inserted in that paper alleged to be cal-
culated " to trouble the public peace, and to excite
the hatred and contempt of the citizens against each
other." M. Ranc, the writer of the article, was
sentenced to be imprisoned for four months, and to
pay a fine of 500 f. M. Dubinsson, the printer of
the paper, is fined 300 f. The defendants are also
to pay the expenses of the proceedings.
A dramatic story of scandal is retailed by some
of the Paris papers, which, however, they assert is
founded in truth. A gamekeeper, who resided
years ago in the environs of Paris, and was formerly
a soldier, conceived a violent and guilty passion for
his own daughter, a beautiful and accomplished
girl of 23. Circumstances became known as the
result of this guilty passion, which excited so
much disgust in the neighbourhood where the
father and daughter lived that they both went
away in haste. Years rolled on, and it was only
the other day that a gentleman who was shoot-
ing in the vicinity Mery-Sur-Oise, where it is pro-
posed to erect the great Necropolis of the capital,
saw a kind of cave into which he was induced to
descend. To his great stupefaction he discovered
two skeletons in the cave. Subsequent inquiries
by the authorities has proved that the skeletons are
those of the father and daughter in question. That
of the girl was identified by a dentist of Pontoise,
who years ago had furnished her with a false tooth.
The skeleton was recognised to be that of the father
from various particulars which leave no doubt upon
the subject.

Great preparations are in progress at the Hotel
de Ville for the reception of the Emperor of Austria.

The remains of M. Achille Fould have arrived in
Paris from Tarbes, accompanied by his two sons
and the Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees, and
deposited in a chapel in the Protestant church of
the Oratorio, in the Rue St. Vonore. M. Fould
was a Protestant, and the funeral ceremony to-
morrow (Monday) will be in accordance with Pro-
testant usage. The remains were followed by a
large concourse of persons to the railway station at
Tarbes, and at the moment of departure an appro-
priate address was delivered by M. Lacaze, senator,
Vice-President of the Conseil-General of the
Hantes Pyrenees. The Emperor will be repre
sented at the ceremony to-morrow by Admiral
Jurien de la Graviere. Some of M. Fould's friends
waited to receive his remains at the Orleans Rail-
way
Station in Paris, and accompanied them to
the Oratori6, where they were formally received by
the pastor, IIL. Rognon.