The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

and London, extensive arrangements will be com-
pleted to receive strangers at all the principal ports,
and to forward all the objects the tourists propose.
The company is an extension of a scheme originated
by Monsieur Alf. Duboys de Lavigene to assist
visitors to the Great Exhibition in London, in 1862.
The practical experience then gained has changed
a crude and imperfect plan into a well-matured
system. Long and close study of the details, to-
gether with a more intimate knowledge of the num-
bers likely to apply, the requirements of travellers,
and the advantages of combination, have enabled
the manager to work out to a nicety the objects
proposed. In former days strangers who proceeded
to a foreign land to see a great show were beset by
sharpers, swindlers, and extortioners, and generally
became victims in proportion to their poverty and
helplessness. Without a knowledge of the lan-
guage, the customs, and laws of the country, amid
a throng where the keenest faculties of each were
scarcely sufficient to save himself from imposition,
the friendless tourist generally returned a sadder if
a wiser man, with a greater knowledge of what was
villanous and bad in the strange country than
edified with aught he had seen. The wealthy em-
ployed couriers and furnished themselves with
Murray's hand-book. They paid for one imposi-
tion to guard themselves from a score. But the
poor had to fight their way along, often literally,
and under every disadvantage. At the same time
they could be seen submitting quietly to a gross
imposition, and protesting energetically with officials
against a law of the country. In their ignorance
they fought against right, and surrendered to wrong,
and always came to grief. All this the Universal
Tourist Company propose to rectify. Nor do they
confine their intentions to enable the stranger to
travel and live as cheaply as the natives, tby
previous arrangement and combination to do this
on even cheaper terms. They ask the public to
form themselves into travelling parties or clubs, to
depute one to communicate to the General Manager
their number, period of departure and proposed
route, to authorise the Company to arrange for their
reception, transit, and means of living. At a
trifling cost the Company issues to each an " Ac-
commodation ticket," and the holder becomes en-
titled to all the services of the Company's agents.
Thus, if the 7th New York Regiment proceeds to
the Paris Exhibition, via Liverpool, as we believe
is proposed, and the arrangements be confided to
this Company, they will be met by agents before
landing, with hotel accommodation secured, and
with luggage vans. An express train will be
ordered, with the necessary arrangements for their
reception in London, with a programme of sights
worth seeing and amusements open, and with every
information required or sought. In France inter-
preters will await the arrival of the distinguished
Regiment, and at Paris they will be conducted to
their hotels. A Company thus organised is in a
position to contract with Clubs, Mechanics' Insti-
tutes, employers, and parties of working men, to
secure on moderate terms the great object of a week
in Paris, while the World's Show is open. A com-
munity clubing their funds, and using the machinery
of this Company, can travel economically, secure
good accommodation, see everything, and hang to-
gether till their return. In the different cities of
America parties can be formed, and under the vigi-
lent care of agents of a responsible Company, may
enjoy themselves free from the cares and worries
of constant interruptions and disappointments,
which so often mar their pleasure from the moment
of their arrival at a foreign port till they again de-
part for their native land.

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The New York Nation, speaking of President

Johnson's reply to the addreis of the Philadelphia
Convention, says that it was in great part a repeti-
tion of statements of his opinions and feelings with
which the public is already familiar. But he went
further than he has yet gone in denunciations of
Congress, using one phrase which has a somewhat
ominous sound. He spoke of Congress as " a body
hanging upon the verge of th. Government, as it
were ; a body called, and which assumes to be, the
Congress of the United States, but is, in fact, a
Congress of only part of the States." It would be
easy to set this down as an indication that Mr.
Johnson is preparing his own mind and that of his
followers for the creation of a Congress of his own
in December, and for an attempt at the forcible re-
pudiation of the body now in existence. We prefer,
however, to believe that he is yet a great distance
from any such step ; and we call attention to the
phrase simply as an illustration of the lengths of
absurdity to which his own mental obtuseness and
the flattery of his admirers are carrying him. It
must be remembered that the Congress now satin,'
was elected by the loyal States for the purpose of
governing the United States in peace or war, weal
or woe, for the space of two years. Mr. Johnson,
on the other hand, was elected Vice-President as a
compliment to himself and his State, and nobody
who voted for him had the smallest anticipation that
he would ever be called upon to exercise any
greater share either in reconstruction or in the
general administration of our affairs that falls to the
lot of the Speaker of the Senate. In other words,
he was to occupy towards the executive the same

relation as Hannibal Hamlin occupied towards it.
He did not receive a single Southern vote, and was

detested through every Southern State with a cor-
diality unknown in the case of any Northern Radical.
He holds his powei he now exercises by an accident,
and when he speaks of himself as "a department of
the Government," and calls Congress "a body hang-
ing on the verge of the Government," he does no
harm, we admit ; but he reveals a state of mind, as
we have often remarked before, which proves his
presence in the White House, at such a juncture as
the present one, to be most calamitous.
THE RIGHTS OF OUR NATURALISED CITIZENS IN
EUROPE.
(From the New York Evening Post.)

.
The -war in Germany is likely to produce many
cases of great hardship for American naturalised
citizens, who may be found visiting the land of their
birth. We hope they may be met by our Govern-
ment with such a precision in their claims and state-

Aleuts, and such a full understanding and firm
maintenance of the exact right, as shall lead to a
final settlement of a question that has been the
source of much perplexity, and that is not yet de-
termined. It is reported that
" The authorities of the city of Muscatine, lowa,
have received information that Hr. Henry Funk, late
Mayor of that place, while travelling through his
native country on a pleasure tour, was seized by
Austrian officials and forced into the ranks of the
army, on the ground that he owed military service
to that country and must perform it. The fact that
he had become a citizen of the United States, and
was entitled to protection as such, was not sufficient
to save him from seizure."

It was generally supposed that the question in-
volved in this case was substantially settled in the
case of Koszta, the Hungarian, in 1853. The Ame-
rican view was ably maintained by Mr. Marcy,
then our Secretary of State, who insisted that foreign
Governments had no longer any claims upon their
former subjects after they had become naturalised
citizens of the United States. But the case went
off, at last, on the point that Koszta had been seized
on Turkish territory, without any warrant of Turkish
authority, while he was in fact doing business under
a letter of license from our consul. It was said
that, by usage in Turkey, such a letter entitled him
to American protection against arrest, whether he
was in fact a citizen or not.

The ease now before us, of the ex-Mayor of
Muscatine, is probably free from any complications,
and will, therefore, afford our Government an op-
portunity for a vigorous and successful maintenance
of aright which is absolutely essential to our national
honour and independence. The rule should be,
that a naturalised citizen of the United States
acquires all the rights of citizenship, and is as entirely
dissevered from his native country as if he had not
been born in it. It is time for our lawyers and
judges, our statesmen and writers on public affairs,
to wean themselves from a servile dependence on
the dicta of English courts, and plant themsies
on the broad principles of the law of nations, that
" every nation claims the right to give the complete
character of a citizen to an alien, without consult-
_

ing the wish of the state of his birth." [Dana's
Wheaton, p. 143, 22.]
' Another case is reported in the papers, of impress..
ment by a Prussian man-of-war from the American
steamer Baltic, at Bremerhaven. It is published
by the purkr of the Baltic, but not in a way to
present the legal questions that arise. It does not
appear whether the man was an American citizen.
The impressment was done on the assumption that
he was a Prussian subject. The certificate of.our
consular agent is as follows :
" Consular Agency of the United States of
" America,

" Geestemunde, July 18, 1866.
"I, the undersigned, consular agent of the
-United States of America for Geestemunde and
the dependencies thereof, do hereby certify that
according to an order of the commander of the
Prussian man-of-war Nymphe, lying in the river
here, the Prussian citizen, Charles Berger, is bound
to become a navy soldier on board the said man-of
war. For this reason the said Charles Berger
cannot return in the steamship Baltic to New
York.

" Given under my hand and the seal of this con-
sular agency the day and year above written.
" EDWARD ULRICHS,
" United States Consular Agent."
Of course, the captain of a merchant ship, in the
presence of four Prussian ships-of-war, had no al-
ternative but to give up the man to his fate. The
man was shipped iu New York by regular shipping
articles, It will be a 50110W3 interruption tc) our