The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-10 00:00:00

should say—lie has a great aversion to war mea-
sures or war legislation in peace time ; he believes
there is vast and irresistible power in free and full
discussion ; he loves peace, and all its ways ; he
thinks that by extirpating slavery the American
people have flung out the- only seed of discord,
and that now, when armed resistance to the
Government has been crushed, they should
fall at once into the old ways. It is
as though he had said to himself—Once
more we may advance by argument, discus-
sion, votes ; once more we can appeal to the people •
at the ballot-box. Before the war, we were steadily
but surely advancing towards full, and broad, and
universal liberty by peaceable discussion. The war
interrupted this grand march of the nation ; now let
us resume it. There may be evils, but they will be
corrected in time by our old and wise methods ;
there may be suffering, and wrong, and prejudice,
but all this is only temporary, and will be
cured by discussion, by appeals to the common
sense of the people, by experience. This is,
we believe, the fundamental idea or principle
underlying and shaping Mr. Johnson's policy.
He believes that in the Union, with the Constitu-
tion, with peace and free discussion, there is no
limit to the possible progress of America as
a nation ; no wrong that will not be righted ;
no inhuman prejudice or hatred that will not be
rooted out ; no class so low but it will be raised
up ; no condition, however deplorable, that will not
certainly and speedily be improved. And believing
this, he is not only anxious at once to recommence
the peaceful march, which was interrupted by the
rebellion ; he is not only confident from the past
that the American people will be true to right and
liberty in peace as they were in war ; but he has a
jealous reverence for the instruments of his pro-
gress, the Union and the Constitution. The one he
would seek by all means to strengthen in the minds
and hearts of all the people ; the other he would not
rashly amend, and he will strictly construe. "'While
"we hold fast to these we are safe," he cries; let
us have patience, for with them all good things will
come to us in time. Now this idea is not merely
grand—it is true ; it is philosophically correct ;
it is such a fundamental principle as bears up
a just and beneficent policy. It represents, withal,
the feeling which lies deep in the nation's heart.
But while we approve the principle we see
that the President, from different causes, of
birth and training, sometimes errs in details
of policy. It is, for instance, in our opinion,
the right and the duty of Congress to declare equal
suffrage at once in the district of Columbia. That
is national territory, and the President mistakes
when he compares it with a State. And while we
give our hearty assent bathe great idea which shapes
his policy, we trust that Congress will at once pass
an equal suffrage bill for the district. Its hesita-
tion is less excusable than that of Mr. Johnson.
Nor do we sympathise with his dislike of the agita-
tion of any question. Agitation means discussion,
and discussion is to the political life of the nation
what the waves are to the ocean—the means of
purification. Let the American people agitate, by
all means ; let them expose every wrong, every
hateful prejudice, every ingenious sophistry. In
that way they bring to light the truth ; in that way
public opinion is informed and enlightened ; in that
way the truth, whatever it may be, is sure to pre-
vail.

COUNTRY MARKETS.

NORTIIAMPTON-Arßu, 7.

Only a limited supply of wheat ; the demand has fin-
proved at the top prices recently quoted. Barley in mo-
derate supply : the demand,.howeyor, was slow. The
trade in oats was good at recent currencies. Beans in mo-
derate request.
New white wheat, 43s to 48s ; new red, 39s to 47s ; old

white, 48s to 535; old red, 43s to 48s per 36 stone. Barley
for malting, 40s to 44s per qr. ; grinding, 38s to 41s per 30
stone. Oats, old, 30s to 34s ' • new, 28s to 32s per 24 stone.
Beans, old, 46s to 50s ; new, 40s to 44s per 38 stone. Peas ,
36s to 40s per 36 stone.

CHELMSF Oil

D--APRIL G.
of wheat commanded Into
I fully as dear.
Peas, Partridge 36s 399
White ..298 34s
378 419
Dun.... 36s 40s
ditto, new --s -3
Beans, Tick, old 35s 40s
new 3.5 s 39s
Barrow ficks 3tss 423
new 36s 408
Mazagan. 34s ;88

Hero to-day a fair supply
rates. Barley was scare° ane
Wheat, old white....46s 50s
new .43s 518
old red 42s 46s

new. 36a 45s
Barley.... 2ss 33s
Chevalier Ms 42s
Grind ng 2Rs 31$
Malt 53s 60.3
Chevalier Ws 62i
Oats

GRANTHAM-ABRIL 7.