The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY, AUG. 13.

The Rev. William Robert M'llwaiue, 8.A., has this
day been appointed a chaplain iu her Majesty's fleet.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, SEPT. 3.
The Right Honourable the Lords of tho Committee of
Privy Council for Trade have received a notification to the
effect that a quarantine of eleven days has been imposed
by the Greek Government upon all arrivals from Great
Britain in Greek ports.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 17i
Ditto 3 Months. 11 19/ 12 1
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 50 25 53
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 9* 13 91
Paris Short 25 221 25 32*
Ditto 3 Months. 25 45 25 60
Marseilles
Frankfort on tho Maine 1211 1211
Vienna — 13 2U 13 4U
Trieste — 13 20 13 4U
Petersburgh - 28f 28*
Berlin
Madrid — 45} 45}
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 26 90 27 10
Naples — 26 90 27 10

P. oceedings of the Philadelphia Convention.

In the first accounts which reached us of the
meeting of the Philadelphia Convention, we saw
little of a hopeful character. The first tele-
grams informed us that Fernando Wood, Clement
L. Vallandigham, and George 11. Pendleton
were among the delegates ; and this was quite
enough to rouse our suspicion that the Convention
was simply a great meeting of the foremost spirits
of the late rebellion, who, defeated in a bad cause
and not yet reconciled to the consequences of de-
feat, bad met to oppose in secret councils the
Government they had failed to destroy • by open
warfare. But subsequent despatches informed us
that these objectionable men have retired from the
Convention in deference to popular feeling, and
that Major-General John 11. A. Dix, one of the
heroes of the war, was elected to preside over the
deliberations of the Convention. This was a hope-
ful sign indeed. General Dix was commander of
the department of New York at the time of the
great riot in July, 1863, and all through the war
he showed his loyalty, his devotion to his country,
his hatred of secession, and his faithfulness to the
Union. The fact that such a man as General Dix,
who enjoyed the confidence of all parties alike, was
called on take the chair of the Convention, showed
that the delegates were there not to make war upon
Republicans, but by conciliation and moderation
to pour oil upon the troubled waters, and to en-
deavour to restore the Union by mutual concession
and goodwill. _ _

T`The Philadelphia Convention has adjourned, and
its work is before toe world. Who can question
that work ? Who can come forward now and say
that there is one single word in the resolutions of
that body which does not breathe the true spirit of
patriotism. We have very carefully studied the
whole document, which begins with an expression
of thankfulness to Almighty God for the return
of peace to our afflicted and beloved laud. It de-
clares that the war just closed has maintained the
authority of the Constitution ; it has preserved the
Government and the Union, and that the Consti
tution of the United States is the supreme law of
the land. It lays down the law in the most unmis-
takcble manner that the Union is perpetual ; that
no State or Convention of State has the right to
withdraw from the r
Unisson,
oorherwise, to exclude, through
their action in Congre ot any State or
States from the Union. It cheerfully and hand-
somely recognises that it abolished slavery for ever,
declares that there is neither purpose nor desire oalnl
theirt, d
nn d property.
holds u
the part of the South that it should ever be re-
established, and admits thapEtriotnthaeeleltyionin enfranchised slaves
in all the States should receive, in common with e
very right
of person i
t repudiates the
b the debt of i
the nation to be
and
re
el
debinhabitants,aa
proclaims a firm purpose
e al
and
t o sacredd is
char
gea inviolable,ll
t er
onational obligations and
maintain unimpaired and unimpeached the faith- of
the Republic.

Nothing can be fairer than all this. Washing-
ton, could he have lived to witness this meeting,-, in
wish
shliNl
lto Philadelphia, would have supported it, as all who
theirof
country mustopiniong candid
a supportmon i t
. Thereni(
may be a difference
patriotic Americans regarding President Johnson's
recent position, but none can doubt his honesty, his
sterling patriotisp, his devotion to the best interests
of his country. For our own part, we cannot doubt
such words as those uttered by the Philadelphia,
Convention. If the South means repudiation of
rebellion, secession, slavery, and all the evils which
follow in their train, then we are with the South, for
Lhen there shall be no more a South nor a North
so far as political action is concerned. Massa-
chusetts and South Carolina, so long divorced, shall
be wedded once again, and the era of Peace and
Good-will shall be inaugurated in the Western Re-
public which shall last forever and forever.—Anglo-
American Times.