The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOIN, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 29, 1866.

LONDON, SATURDAI, SEPT. 29, 1866.

An influential deputation of bankers, merchants,
and others had an interview yesterday with the
LORD MA you, at the Mansion House, respecting the
famine in India, of which we had lately received
such distressing accounts. Mr. R. W. CRAWFORD
explained the purport they had in view in waiting
upon his lordship. They had deemed it their duty
to come to him in order to state what was the public
feeling on this subject at present. When he
read of the details that had been given by
the papers as to the great sufferings of those
in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, he said they
were surprised to find that so little had been done
by the Government on the spot, and no doubt
many will agree with him. There have been already
such large subscriptions for the relief of the suf-
ferers in India that, as Mr. CRAWFORD added, there
can be no doubt as to the course which would be
adopted, but still they wished to know what the
Government Went] do. The Lord Mayor seems to
have acted with great discretion in this difficult
matter, and to have done his utmost to meet the
He requested an nquirements of the case.
inter-
view with Lord CRANBORSE, and related to those
present the particulars of that interview. Starva-,
tion, it is grievous to state, has existed to a great
extent, and there has been a want of
promptitude displayed by the local Government
of Bengal, but since July every exertion has been
Made to mitigate the evil, by consigning large quan-
tities of rice for the relief of the famine-fitricken

districts, and spending money in the employment on
public works.
The details that were furnished by the Lord
Mayor seem to be sufficiently reassuring to those
who take an interest in this matter, and are natu-
turally most anxious that all should be done which
can be done to meet the emergency. So large a
sum as £120,000 was subscribed in the city of Lon-
don, in 1860, for the relief of famine in India, and
it is satisfactory to know that great part of this has
been available this year. The Lord Mayor stated
that sixty-two thousand pounds have been applied
this year to relieve the distress in India. Accord-
ing to the accounts furnished by Lord CRANBORNE,
it would seem as if we had every reason to look
with confidence and hope to the future, and to
place reliance in the efforts of those who are now
striving to assist the sufferers. Unlimited autho-
rity has been given to the Lieutenant-Governor
of Bengal to expend such sums as he thinks advis-
able in the present emergency, and this is iu addi-
tion to the district grants that were previously re-
ferred to. It is satisfactory to find that the " Go-
vernment of Indiahave authority and power, in con-
nection with the people of India, to deal with this
question in the fullest and most ample manner."
The Lord Mayor declared to the meeting that he
had the assurance of Lord CRANBORNE that the
Government had the power and authority to do all
that is necessary in the emergency, and hence he
justly put the matter in its true light
before the meeting. Of course there
would be no fear of a sufficiency of subscrip-
tions to meet any emergency that might arise ; but,
at the same time, if there be no occasion for assistance
from this country, it will be well to reserve the money
for some passing occasions of distress. Lord CRAN-
BORNE has already displayed during his brief tenure
of office so much zeal and efficiency ou the subjects
that have come before his consideration that there
is no reason to doubt the justness of his opinions or
the wisdom of his advice ; and the LORD MAYOR
intimated it to be his impression, from what passed
at the interview the day before, that Lord CRAN-
BORNE believed that there was no need for the
public to interfere in the matter. At the same time
it reflects great credit on these gentlemen that they
have come forward to do their utmost to assist
those in distress ; and it is satisfactory to think
that, in the case of any drawback or disappointment
taking place, they will be ready to do their utmost
in order that the famine may not be lasting in its
effects.

we learn by the arrival of the Scotia from New

York, on the 19th, that matters are improving for
the PRESIDENT. The struggle is a violent one, and
its issues will be momentous. The Radicals will

of course fight hard till the last, and will not, as we
know of old, shrink from any device that may
profit them. The PRESIDENT, on his side, has been
making an electioneering tour with varying success,
and he has not scrupled to denounce his adversaries
in the most unmeasured terms. Moderation and
courtesy are unhappily qualities by no means
characteristic of American political life, and
therefore some allowance must be made
on both sides so far as language is con-
cerned. The PRESIDENT'S journey is over, and
he has returned with his suite to "Washington, where
an enthusiastic reception was accorded to them. A
delegation of Fenians has visited Mr. JOHNSON
since his return, urging him to form a more
liberal Cabinet, to appoint more liberal
Democratic representatives, and to remove
the American Consuls in Ireland for not standing
up for the rights of adopted American citizens. So
that these gentlemen, after setting Ireland, England,
and Canada to rights, have some leisure to spare
for reforming the American Administration. This
is a samplo of the clifFrulting which beset American
statesmen who are so dependent for support on the
popular caprice of the moment, and cannot afford
to offend any party however extravagant on the eve
of an election, unless, like Mr. JOHNSON and the
Radicals, they are at open war. The Feniaus
add a troublesome element to the already
disturbed political world of the States, and
the Radicals have been for some time past
industriously trying to bring them over to their
side. Mr. JOHNSON received this deputation with
courtesy, professed great sympathy with the
Irish generally, and said that determined action
had already been taken to effect the release of
the Fenian prisoners. It is fortunate for Mr.
JOHNSON that the prompt action of the English Go-
vernment in despatching troops to Canada will re-
lieve him from the difficulty in which he would be
placed with regard to a second Fenian raid into
Canada were the colony undefended. The Soldiers
and Sailors' Convention has assembled at Cleveland,
Ohio, and has been largely attended. Resolu-
tions were adopted endorsing the Philadelphia
Democratic Convention, and opposing the
Constitutional Amendment, as only effecting
the prolonged exclusion of the Southern
States from the Union. A mass meeting of
the Confederate soldiers at Memphis was held
at the same time, and a telegram was sent to the
Cleveland Convention, stating that the Southern
soldiers were willing to leave the settlement of their
difficulties with the soldiers of the Union. This is
another proof that the only thing which stands in
the way of an harmonious settlement of the country
is the policy of the Radicals, and on the issue of the
coming elections rests the answer to the question
of internal prosperity or complete political and
social disorganisation.
Meetings have been held throughout Louisiana
and Mississippi in support of the Philadelphia Con-
vention, and a large and enthusiastic assemblage
was held at Union-square, New York, under the
presidency of General Dix, t 6 endorse the PnEsi-
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DENT'S policy, and to deprecate the course pursued by
not carried away by the
Congress. Men who are
vehemence and intolerance of their party may well
pause to consider what they are bringing upon their
country by persisting in a Course which paralyses
the trade and industry of the -401 e Southern States.
The news from New Orleans reports serious and
h the
widespread injury to the cotton crop throughoutwit
the whole of Louisiana and Mississippi,
exception of a small district in
the uplands
of the latter State. What else can be expected
when all property in the South is held in
an uncertain tenure, when planters are constantly
threatened with the confiscation of their lands ?
When, thanks to the action of the Freedmen's
Bureau and the mischief-making exhortations of '
fanatical politicians and agitators, the negro is en-
couraged in his natural indolence, and is allowed to
feel that, whether he works for his bread or not, he
may eat. Americans a few years back would
have been thought far too shrewd for such a course,
and the cute merchants and exporters of the
North would have ridiculed the idea of sacrificing
their direct pecuniary interests at the bidding of
demagogues who are apparently regardless of the
risk they are running. We should have hoped that
the bitter experience of the war would have taught
better lessons, but a large party seem ready to for-
get how much civil discord has already cost them,
and to be ready to rush into fresh commotion.
America is trifling with her destiny. A long un-
broken era of progress and rapid development has
inspired her people with an excesive confidence in
their civil power. i‘ A house divided agaithit itself ,

ca nnot stand," and even the United States, great
and powerful as they are, cannot long withstand the
cfact of a nominal union, and a widespread and
continuous disaffection. Commercial enterprise and
prosperity cannot possibly exist in the midst of a
country whose people are kept forcibly in subjection.
The whole experience of history proves the contrary,
and American statesmen must have wandered very
far from the doctrines of their predecessors before
they contemplate such a prospect. They do not
appear to perceive the disgrace and discredit which
such a failure on the part of the great Republic
would bring on the cause of constitutional freedom
throughout the world. In point of fact, it is the
excess to which the theories of freedom have been
-carried in America which has interfered with the
practice. Liberty has been allowed to be pushed
to license by a few, who thereupon interfered with
the liberty of others. The freedom of speech has
been carried to an extreme which we are forced to
regret on the part of the most eminent men, and
consequently .it very soon becomes little less than
treason and slander on the lips of unscrupulous agi-
tators. In the same way the friends of the
negro have become his enemies by flatter-
ing his defects, instead of endeavouring to
counteract them by wise and kindly legislation.
Surely it is not yet too late for Americans to see
their danger. There is yet time to arrest the action
of those who would hurry on the vessel of the State
regardless of the cataract, the storm, or the rock.
The wise and moderate men of all parties must exert
themselves, or the victory will belong to those who
spare no effort, shrink from no meanness, employ
every device of calumny, intrigue, and violence to
carry their purpose. The latest news of the Atlan-
tic Cable tells us that the PRESIDENT'S supporters
are less unanimous, and that the Democratic Repub-
lican Allianc6 is growing weaker. This is good
news for the despots of Europe, but mournful in-
tell:vireo for the real friends, and well-wishers of
constitutional freedom in America.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Friday Evening.

The Gazette de Vienne says that the Treaty of
Peace between Austria and Italy makes no men-
tion either of rectification of frontiers, compensa-
tion, or abandonment of territory. Venetia has
been surrendered, with its present administrative
frontiers to France, who has given it up to Italy,
whose limits by this act becomes international, just
as those of the Wrest were before.

A letter from Venice, dated Sept. 20, says :
" Lieut.-General Count Petiti, aide-de-camp Gene-
ral of Victor Emmanuel, arrived here suddenly yes-
terday, and had a long interview with the Austrian
Plenipotentiary, General delllaering, and the French
Commissioner, General Lebccuf, after which he wol
return to Alestre, and from thence to Padua. It i 3
said that the Count's mission had reference to the
surrender of the fortresses and the materiel of war.
In order to avoid the long operation of a formal
estimate and a detailed note of the surrender of the
fortresses and materiel, it was arranged that a round
sum should be paid to Austria for these fortresses,
and as soon as the amount should be paid the sur-
render of the fortresses should immediately take
place. By this mode much time will be gained, and
the solution so much desired of the question will be
hastened and facilitated."

The Clio, a Greek journal, published at Trieste,
says that Russia has proposed to the Cabinets of
London and Paris the united intervention of the
protecting Powers, who signed the protocols of
1830 in favour of the Cretans. These Powers were
France, England, and Russia. These protocols of
1830 concern not only the Cretans, but the whole
of Greece, to whom the protection of the three
Powers extend. By the terms of the Protocol of the
Conference of the 3d of February, 1830, the Sub-
lime Porte having already adhered to the Treaty of
London, of July 6, 1826, " promises, and engages
besides with the representatives of the Powers who
signed the said Treaty, to consent to all the arrange-
ments which shall be made by the Conference of
London relative to the execution of the Treaty."
The papers contain long details of the damage
done by the inundations. The Emperor, Empress,
and the Imperial Prince have sent 35,000 f. to the
Minister of the Interior, to be distributed among
those who have suffered from these inundations.
The Minister of the Interior and the Minister of
Public Works have also sent assistance from the
funds at their disposal. The Seine is still at an
unexampled height, and rusks like a torrent.
Navigation in the vicinity of Paris is likely to be
stopped for some time. Much injury has been done
to the craft on the river. On some parts of the
river between the Pont de Grenelle and Sevres the
banks arc overflowed, and at Bi"ancourt, near
Sevres, the water has rushed up the lanes and
avenues. The Loire has inundated various districts
of Nevers, and people have been compelled to leave
their houses. The road from Nevers to Moulins is
covered with water. The communications are
stopped, and works suspended. The Allier has
risen alarmingly, and one of the bridges across it
has been carried away. At Orleans and on the
Upper Loire the same danger is reported. The
Saone and the Rhone have overflowed, and the
confluents of the Seine are in the same cotOtion.
At Sens the water rose a metre high in the streets.
In the valley of the Lot bridges and highways are
much damaged. Great injury has been done in the
department of the Corrieze. In Savoy the water
rose to a great height, and it will take a long time
to repair the damage done to the railway between
St. Jean and St. Michel. Military engineers have
been despatched from Paris with the requisite ma-
terials to repair bridges and other constructions in
the inundated districts.

On Monday next another section of railway will
be opened from Dreux (Eure et Loire) to Laigle
(Orne).
A certain Thomas Nicolas Colin, aged 55, who
wishes to inaugurate a new system of reform, has
brought himself within the Correctional Tribunal of
the Seine on a charge which English lawyers would
call assault and battery. In the accusation was
also included Francois Claude Bordey, aged 30, a
returned convict. Both prisoners are mechanics,
and although Bordey calls himself a house agent he
is in fact a servant of Colin. The Reform Asso-
ciation which Colin wishes to establish is with a
view to the formation of society upon an entirely
new bases. He wants society to be overthrown
and " reformed altogether." The first step is to
do away with private property and make it na-
tional. Everybody knows his awn business best.
Here is Colin's mode of obtaining members of the
association, or, as he calls them, " neophites." The
evidence given before the court was to the effect
that the complainant, Legueret, who had a house to
let at the Ile St. Denis,
received a letter from Colin,
stating that if he would come to the Gagny Rail-
way station Colin's servant would meet him and
conduct him home, and he would find M. Legueret
a tenant. M. Legueret went accordingly, and the
moment he was seated in a room in Colin's house,
he was preeipitnted down a trap in the floor,'
and was gagged and put in a sack by
the prisoners, who also tied his wrists. He
was compelled to remain in the subterranean room
for about two hours, while the prisoners detailed
their plan of Reform, and tried to persuade the
neophite to become a member of the association.
They told him they had a great many houses of the
same kind, and that the association was very nume-
rous. When questioned by the President, the pri-
soners did not deny the charge. Colin, in a wild
strain, advocated the principles of the association,
and said he had an " idea," and, naturally, he en-
deavoured to carry out this idea in the mode which
he thought the most efficacious. I he prosecutor
said that no injury was done to him, but he was
much alarmed, but was fortunately able to cut open
the sack with a knife which he had in his pocket.
Bordey, in defence, said-he had only done his duty
by obeying his master's orders. The President did
not give any opinion upon the principles ot the

association, but he evidently. disapproved of tho
mode adopted by the prisoncri to increase the num-
ber of its members, as he sentenced them both to
imprisonment for 13 months.

La Semaine Financiere has been purchased by M.
Eugene Forcade for 130,000 f, This publication is
not political, but the articles of M. Forcade, which
show with such unerring judgment the effect which
political events have upon the financial position,
have rendered it a valuable guide both for politicians
and financial men. It has achieved its reputation
from its incorruptible impartiality. French capi-
talists avail themselves of its advice, in regard to
which security it is best to buy on sale. I cannot
render a better service to yourfinancial readers than
to recommend them to subscribe to the Senzaine
Financiere. I have no connection whatever with it,
but having closely watched its weekly admonitions
and appreciations, I can confidently say that it has
well earned the high reputation it has acquired in
France. Fortunes may be made or saved by
fol-
lowing its advice.

The Patric has an interesting anecdote in regard
to the house which I mentioned as in course of
restoration, Quai Conti, now the Pont Neuf, once
inhabited by Napoleon I. The young officer, who
had put on his uniform of lieutenant of artillery for
the first time, paid a visit to 111. Pernon, with whom
he had become acquainted. The uniform was a bad
fit, and the boots were " a world too wide for his
shrunk shank." Cecile Pernon, his guest's daugh-
ter, a shrewd girl of 10 years, laughed at the " little
Corporal," which made him angry, and he said,
"You must look after this little girl." Cecile was
nettled, and said, " Look at your feet. You are
like Puss in Boots." There was a laugh from all
present. Bonaparte was indignant at the moment,
but he bore no malice, for in the evening he returned
with a beautiful little toy, the purchase of which, in
the state of his finances, was difficult. The toy
represented Puss in Boots running after the carriage
of the Marquis de Carabas. With it he presented
a beautiful little edition of " Perrault's Tales,"
among which the adventures of Puss in Boots are re-
corded. Madame Pernon treasured up the present.
The next morning, October IG, 1785, Napoleon left
his house in the Quai Conti, with his comrade Des-
may and is a commissionaire with his trunk for the
office where the coaches started for Lyons. On her
deathbed, Cecile Pernon left the toy and the book
as a legacy to her younger sister Laure, then
Duchess of Abrantes, and it is preserved by the,
family in a box given by the Emperor's mother.
Had Napoleon traversed the streets of London
perhaps some might have said, " How are your poor
feet ?"

The Registrations.

MIDDLESEX.

Yesterday, Richard Edward Gibbs, of Holm-
wood, Hartley Wintley, near Winchfield, Hants,
on the list for freehold houses Nos. 90, 91, and 92,
Old Gravel-lane, was objected to by the Liberals.
The voter claimed costs.

The Barrister (to the voter)—l tell you, as I have
told others, that the practice has not been to allow
costs in cases of new claims.

Voter—Then I think it a very bad practice—
(laughter)—and a very great shame.
Barrister—l am not prepared, coming here for
the first time, to change a practice which has been
universally adopted by my predecessors. I cannot
allow costs.

Mr. Gilbert (to voter)—lf you had explained to
the objector, you would have avoided all this trouble.

Voter—You should have ascertained that I was
not entitled before you made the objection.
Mr. Gilbert—lf you knew how many fictitious
claims were sent in, you would see the necessity of
calling on a new claimant to prove his claim.
Costs refused.

The voter left the court much annoyed.

Freder.ick William Martin, 6, Frederick-place,
Hampstead-road, on the list for Stratford, was ob-
jected to by the overseers.
The overseers, in answer to a question as to the
ground of objection, said Mr. Martin had sold his
property.

Mr. Dear (Liberal agent)—l saw Mr. Martin a
fortnight ago, and he informed me that his quali-
fication remain unaltered in every respect ; and his
son this very morning told me the same thing.
This satisfied the Barrister, and the name was
retained.

The overseers made other objections to other
voters, but they were disregarded on the objection
taken by Mr. Dear to the " hearsay" evidence on
which they were founded. lie pointed out to the
barrister that overseers' objections were simply
marking in the lists in the qualification parish, and
did not of necessity reach the resident parish, where
alone it would be available.

The Barrister, after hearing some argument be-
tween Mr. Dear and the overseers, refused to strike
out the names unless some satisfactory proof was
given.

The Liberals had taken several objections to their
opponents in the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel.

Mr. Smith's clerk supported the claims, and called
the barrister's attention to the fact that the notices
of objection to the overseers had not been signed.
The Barrister—What, none of them ?

Clerk—None of them. (Laughter.)
Barrister—Then we can't go into them.
Mr. Dear—The objector explained the cause of
the mistake. In the hurry of signing a number of
objections he must have signed " two at a time"
instead of one. (Laughter.)

The Limehouse list was then taken, and after it
had been disposed of, a respectable elderly man in-
terrupted some of the proceedings by the vigour
with which he was urging some point on the atten-
tion of the Liberal agent.

The Barrister wished to know what it was all
about.

The party interrupting said the cause of his in-
terruption was a serious one, namely, that he found
his name struck out, while his qualification was as
good as the barrister's. His name was Walter Mor-
timer, his place of abode was the "Earl of Elles-
mere," Ellesmere-street, Bromley, and his qualifica-
tion was " freehold house," at 7, Cottage-place, St.
Ann's, Limehouse.
Barrister—Your name was called in order, and
you did not appear. 1 cannot reopen the case, ex-
cept by consent. How long have you had the house ?
Mr. Mortimer—Nine years.
Revising Barrister—Then what is the objection
to the claimant ?

Mr. Gilbert—There has been a change of resi-
dence, and he has not sent in anew claim.
Barrister—Well, I cannot re-open the case, ex-
cept by consent.
Air. Gilbert assented to the condition, and the
struck-out name was restored.

In Radcliff parish several objections were taken by
the overseers, who, when called, did not answer to
their names. One of them, it was stated, was ill,
and with respect to the other it was said he hardly
expected that the parish would be reached so early
as one o'clock.
The Barrister intimated that he did not like to
strike out the names in the absence of the objectors.
The missing overseer turned up pending the con-
sideration, and the Radcliff list was gone through.
The Court then adjourned.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.—Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett announce the following now works for publication
in October and November Book about Lawyers," by
J. C. Jeaffreson, barrister-at-law, 2 vols. ; " Annals of a
Quiet Neighbourhood," by Georgo M‘Donald, M.A., 3 vols.;
"Madonna Mary," by Mrs. Oliphant, 3 vols.; " Lights and
Shadows of London Life," by the author of "Mirk Abbey,"
&c., 2 vols. ; "Christie's Faith," by the author of "No
Church," "Owen," &c., 3 vols.; "A Winter with the
Swallows," by M. Betham Edwards, 1 vol., with illustra-
tions ; a cheap edition of "Christian's Mistake," by the
author of "John Halifax," illustrated by Sandys, 1 vol.,
bs• ; "My Pilgrimage to Eastern Shrines," by Eliza C.
Bush, 1 vol., with illustrations; "Kingsford," by the
author of " Son and Heir," 2 vols. The same publishers
have 'also in preparation new works by the Hon Mrs.
Norton, the author of " John Halifax," Miss Amelia B.
Edwards, Miss Kavanagh, Mr. Hepworth Dixon, Mr. Mark
Lemon, and the Rev. J. C. M. Bellew.

ETON COLLEGE.---yesterday (Friday) the as-
sembling of the school was completed by the return of the
sixth form, the fifth form and lower boys having arrived
on the preceding days. The Eton tradespeople have sot
out their establishments to advantage, and the college and
town lam wear their natal lively aspect,

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE PAPAL STATES.

ROME, Sept. 27.
The Empress of Mexico has paid a visit with
great ceremony to the Pope.
Her Majesty had a long interview with his
Holiness.

PRANCE AND GREECE.
TRIESTE, Sept. 27.

Advices received here from Constantinople state
that the Marquis de Moustier had received a Greek
deputation, who presented him with a congratulatory
address expressing the thanks of the Greeks for the
protection of France. The Marquis, in his reply,
said that France had the moral and intellectual
development of Greece at heart, but that the general
state of political affairs in Europe did not permit
her to support any revolutionary movement against
Turkey.

RUSSIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 29.

The Bank of Russia has raised the rate of discount
on bills and advances to 7 and 8 per cent. respec.

tively.

The Criminal Court has found Privy Councillor
Gavivsky and the Councillor of State Jakowlem
guilty of embezzling the public money, and has
sentenced them to transportation to Siberia.

SWITZERLAND.
BERNE, Sept. 29.

Switzerland is about to conclude a copyrigh
treaty with Belgium for literary, artistic, and in•
dustrial works.

FRANCE.

PARIS, Sept. 29.

The waters of the Loire and Seine are falling.
The railway service on the Bourbonnais line has
been restored since yesterday.
According to the People's Gazette of Berlin the
sums expended by that city for the entry of the
army on the 20th and 21st amounted to 200,000
thalers (750,000 fr.).
Letters from Frankfort state that the rich bankers
of the t place are preparing to transfer their establish-
ments to Stuttgard, Augsburg, and Vienna, in order
to escape Prussian domination.
The Vienna Gazette publishes the international
treaty relative to the navigation of the mouths of
thr Danube, ratified at Paris on May 28, 1866.
Advices from Lisbon state that the railway which
is to connect Spain and Portugal will be opened in
the course of the ensuing month, and that several
Princes of the Royal families of both nations will
be present.
Bo unsE, Sept. 28.—Two o'clock.—The market
was weak at the opening, but has since improved
slightly. Though but little business is doing, there
is an appearance of greater firmness, and even an
advance to a small extent has occurred. French
Threes were done at 69f. 50c., or 2ic. higher ;
Italian Fives at 57f. 60e., or a rise of 30e. ; Mobi-
lier at 675 f., or an improvement of If. 25c. ; Credit
Foncier at 1,380 f., or sf. lower ; and Comptoir
d'Escompte at 915 f., or a fall of 3f. 75c. Railway
shares have been rather fluctuating.
Three o'clock.—Scarcely any change has oc-
curred, the closing prices being as follows:-
4i per Cents 97

Do. and mouth —

Bank Shares 3610
Italian Loan 57 50
Do. end month 57 45
Mexican Loan —
Do. Bonds —
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred
'allll.

3 per Cents. 69 40
.

DO. end month 69 50

Credit Alobilier ... 673 75
Do. end month ... 673 75

Credit Foucier —
Do. end month 1380

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1175
Lyons and Mediterranean 9OO
Southern 5BO
Western —

Eastern MO
• Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 4lB 75
North of Spain —
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona —
Roman —

AMERICA.
(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.
The New Yorh Times considers the President's
policy to be a failure.
The Transatlantic Company's steamship Ville de
Paris has arrived out.
Gold, 145.

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.
General Dix has been appointed Minister of the
United States in France.
The North German Lloyd's steamer Hausa has
arrived out.

NEW YORK, Sept. 24 (Evening).

Gold, 1441. Exchange on London, 1551. 5.20
United States Bonds, 1111 ; Illinois, 1214 ; Erie,
75. Cotton—Middling Upland, 37.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCOTIA.
(Via Roche's Point.)
NEW YORK, Sept. 19 (Morning).

The President and suite have returned to Wash-
ington, where they received an enthusiastic recep-
tion.

The Soldiers' and Sailors' Convention assembled
at Cleveland, Ohio, and was largely attended ; Gen.
Gordon Granger was elected President. The Con-
vention adopted resolutions and an address endors-
ing the Philadelphia Johnson Convention, and op-
posing the Constitutional Amendment as only
effecting the prolonged exclusion of the Southern
States from the Union. A telegram was sent to the
Convention by a mass meeting of Confederate sol-
diers at Memphis, stating that they were willing to
leave the settlement of their difficulties with the
soldiers of the Union.

A large and enthusiastic public demonstration has
taken place in Union-square, New York, in order
to support President Johnson's policy, Gen. Dix
presiding. The meeting deprecated the course pur-
sued by Congress, and ratified the Democratic State
Picket.

Meetings have been held throughout Louisiana
and Mississippi in support of the platform of the
Philadelphia Convention.

A Fenian delegation has visited President John-
son, and urged him to form a more liberal Cabinet,
to appoint more liberal Democratic representatives,
and to remove the American consuls in Ireland for
not standing up for the rights of adopted American
citizens. The President expressed strong sympa-
thy for the Irish, and said that determined action
had already been taken to effect the release of the
Irish prisoners.

New Orleans despatches to the 18th state that
the news from the cotton regions reports serious
and widespread injury to the cotton crop through-
out Louisiana and Mississippi.
Only a small district on the uplands of Mexico
seems to be exempt.