The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1866.

To WEST-END DINERS.-
" THE WELLINGTON,"
S. JAMES'S-STREET, PICCADILLY.
LADIES' SALOON DINING ROOM on the First Floor
The SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS are now OPEN.
Terms—Twelve Months £1 its. Gd.
Six Months I ls. Od.
Apply, D. CAMERON, 49, St. James-street.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP Iv TILE AIR, an entirely New Entertain-
meet. EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday) ;
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa stalls, 6s ; balcony stalls, 39. ; area, 28. ;
amphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

MR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New
Entertainment, MRS. BROWN AT HOME AND
ABRO A I EVERT' kV KNING at Eight (except Saturday) ;
Saturday Afternoon at Three. Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly.
Tickets at the Box-office; Mr. Mitchell's ; and all music-
sellers. _

CHRISTY MINSTRELS,
ST. JAMES'S HALL.
EVERY EVENING at Eight. WEDNESDAYS and
SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The original and veri-
tably legimate CHRISTY MINSTRELS. First Season in
London these five years. The only company in existence
which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact otits
being the only one which retains all the marked specialities
and distinguished favourites who originally gained the re-
putation of the company first in the United States, and sub-
sequently in this country, in 1857. No other company as-
suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single
dividual memb of the least distinction who belonged to the
in-
original troupe.er The Christri (after an absence of five years)
return to London with their band strengthened and im-
proved in every respect, their entertainment being unani-
mously pronounced by the metropolitan press to be the most
sparkling in London.
Prices of Admission—New and luxurious fauteuils, ss. ;
stalls, 3s. • area, 26.; gallery, ls. ; juveniles, under twelve,
kilkulfe:to stalls and area only. Fauteuils and stalls may
street ; or at Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

THE X F O R D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited',
IF I WERE KING, Comic Opera, by ADOLPHE ADAM,
having been enthusiastically received, will be performed,
together with If, TROVATORE and MASANIELLO, by
the whole of the talented Operatic Company Ifi v ERY
EVENING in addition to the other novelties of the estab-
lishment, including the celebrated HUNGARIANS in their
new entertainment, Mr. MARSHALL, Mr, RANDALL,
and Messrs. PERSIVANI and D'RHONDE.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Doors open at half-past 7. Commence at 8.

lUr AD AME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—Several life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the kte LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
norious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.
Open during the first three days in Easter week from 10
a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, Gd.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI.
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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WHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
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bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delVous
flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on
the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO PA.N Y,
No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.

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At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
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night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
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to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
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Australia. F. Philips, Esq.
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HJ. AND D. N I C O L L,
• Tailors to the Queen, Royal Family, and the
Courts of Europe, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL, LONDON; 50, BOLD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL; and 10, MOSLEY-STREET, MAN-

had given orders which had been carried out by
his agents, who had not directed the removal of the
cattle in an illegal manner.

Lord Granville said he desired to state publicly
:hat he should not make any claims for compensation
or the cattle which had been slaughtered under

Lese circumstances.

One of two cases which were defended by Mr.
Sleigh was similar in the circumstance that the
cattle were driven from one farm to another ; but
they were thus driven into the magistrate's jurisdic-
tion by the defendant himself, who was fined 505.,
a mitigated penalty. A butcher was fined 20s. for
each beast for having cattle driven out of the police
district ; and the proof of the driving was held to
be by the drover having been paid by his servants.
In this case the police had given a permit to the
farm, which was out of the district of the metro-
politan police.

PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S PROOLAMA-

TION.

The following is the text of the proclamation
issued by President Johnson :
" Washington, April 2.
" BT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES—A

PROCLAMATION.
" Whereas, by proclamations of the 15th and 16th
of April, 1861, the President of the United States,

tioifitlia,f„tt power vested in him by the constitu-
States were opPng@CrTed that the.laws of the United
obstructed, in the States of South Uaroub.a, l,kivrg,o4
Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas,
by combination too powerful to be suppressed by
the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by
the powers vested in the marshals by law ;
" And whereas, by another proclamation made
on the sixteenth day of August, in the same year,
in pursuance of an Act of Congress, approved July
13, 1861, the inhabitants of Georgia, South Caro-
lina, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Mississippi, and
Florida—except the inhabitants of that part of the
State of Virginia lying west of the Alleghany
Mountains, and to such other parts of that State,
and the other States before-named, as might main-
tain a loyal adhesion to the Union and the consti-
tution, or might be from time to time occupied and
controlled by the force of the United States en-
gaged in the dispersion of insurgents—were de-
clared to be in a state of insurrection against the
United States;
" And whereas, by another proclamation on the
Ist day of July, 1862, issued in pursuance of an
Act of Congress, approved June 7th, in the same
year, the insurrection was declared to be still ex-
isting in the States aforesaid, with the exception of
certain specified counties in the state of Virginia ;
"And whereas, by another proclamation made on
the 2nd day of April, 1863, in pursuance of the
Act of Congress of July 13th, 1861, the excep-
tions named in the proclamation of August, 16th,
1861, were revoked, and the inhabitants of the
States of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Arkanas,
Mississippi, Florida, and Virginia, except the forty-
eight counties of Virginia and the ports of New
Orleans, Key West, Port Royal, and Beaufort in
South Carolina, were declared to be in a state of
insurrection against the United States ; and whereas
the House of Representatives, on the 22nd day of
July, 1861, adopted a resolution in the words fol-
lowing, viz.:—
" Resolved, by the House of Representatives
of the Congress of the United States, that the
present deplorable civil war has been forced upon
the country by the disunionists of the Southern
States now in revolt against the constitutional Go-
vernment, and in arms around the capital ; that in
this national emergency C ongress, banishing all
feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect
Lat../ 1.4.) VIC .l ..1 • „,;,
not waged on our part in any spirit of oppression,
nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation,
nor for tho purpose of overthrowing or interfering
with the rights or established institutions of those
States, but to maintain and defend the supremacy
of the constitution, and to preserve the Union with
all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several
States unimpaired ; and that as soon as these ob-
jects are accomplished the war ought to cease;'
" And whereas the Senate of the United States,
on the 25th day of July, 1861, adopted a resolution
in the words following, viz. :
"R esolved, 'that the present deplorable civil war
has been forced upon the country by the disunion-
ists of the Southern States now in revolt against the
constitutional Government, and in arms around the
capital; that in this national emergency Congress,
banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment,
will recollect only its duty to the whole country—
that this war is not prosecuted on our part in any
spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of con-
quest or subjugation, nor for the purpose of over-
throwing or interfering with the rights or esta-
blished institutions of those States, but to defend
and maintain the supremacy of the constitution and
all laws made in pursuance thereof, and to preserve
the Union with all the dignity, equality, and
rights of the several States unimpaired, that as
soon as these objects are accomplished the war
ought to cease ;'
And whereas these resolutions, though not joint
or concurrent in form, are substantially identical,
and as such may be regarded as having expressed
the sense of Congress upon the subject to which
they relate :
" And whereas, by my proclamation of the 13th
of June last, the insurrection in the State of Ten-
nessee was declared to have been suppressed, the
authority of the United States therein to be undis-
puted, and such United States officers as had been
duly commissioned to be in the undisputed exercise
of their official functions ;
" And whereas there now exists no organised
armed resistance of misguided citizens or others to
the authority of the United States in the States of
Georgia, South Carolina, Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missis-
sippi, and Florida, and the laws can be sustained
and enforced therein by the proper civil authority,
State or Federal, and the people of the said States
' are well and loyally disposed, and have conformed
or will conform in their legislation to the condition
of affairs growing out of the amendment to the con-
stitution of the United States, prohibiting slavery
within the limits and jurisdiction of the United
States ;
" And whereas, in view of the before recited pre-
mises, it is the manifest determination of the Ame-
rican people that no State of its own will has the
right or power to go out of, or separate itself from,
or be separated from the American Union, and that
therefore each State ought to remain and constitute
an integral part of the United States ;
" And whereas the people of the several before-
mentioned' States have in the manner aforesaid
given satisfactory evidence that they acquiesce in
this sovereign and important revolution of the na-
tional unity ;
" And whereas it is believed to be a fundamental
principle of Government that people who have re-
volted and who have been overcome and subdued
must either be dealt with so as to induce them
voluntarily to become friends, or else they must be
held by absolute military power, or devastated so
as to prevent them from ever again doing harm as
enemies, which last-named policy is abhorrent to
humanity and freedom;
States provides for constitutional co
d ncies, pro-
as States, and not as territories,
dePasen .such consti-
cc And whereas the constitutionnfautin
vinces, or protectorates; and wheret
-ted States are, made
tution and laws of the Uni
like footiug as to political
villas, and placed on a
consti-
tuent States must necessarily be, and by the nointelyd

--" Pone at the city of Washington the second day
hundred and sixty-six, and 01 lue iuucy,..--the United States of America the ninetieth.
"ANDREW JOHNSON."
•

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—There is in every tide a phase called
" slack water " which was very accurately repro-
duced in last night's debate. For a little while it
seems uncertain whether the sea-level will continue
to rise or begin to recede, and only those whose
long experience has made them cognisant of the
signs of the times can tell which way the water will
incline. This is theparallelof yesterday's experience.
Reform stands precisely where it was. We know not
whether it was the weariness of the House of Com-
mons, or the feeling that a day's interval took away
from the reality of the contest, but last night the dis-
cussion was all make-believe. Sir Fitzroy Kelly and
the Malt Duty occupy the house this evening, for as
Mr. Gladstone refused to promise him another night
to air his crotchet, Sir Fitzroy refused to give way
to the Franchise Bill. The discussion cannot be re-
sumed till Thursday, and the interval was fatal to
any vivacity which might otherwise have been mani-
fested in the debate. The defence of Ministers
was yesterday committed to amateurs and Under-
Secretaries. Mr. Layard displayed his wonted com-
bativeness, and Mr. Forster tried to be concilia-
tory. On the other hand, Lord Dunkellin followed
in the track of Lord Stanley in pointing out the
inconvenience which must necessarily follow the
consideration of a bill restricted to the single object
of extending the suffrage, and recalled to the con-
sideration of the house the points which the speakers
on the side of the Government have found it con-
venient with one consent to avoid. He did his
work well ; but it has been done so often and so fully
that we almost sigh for some one who will really
undertake a defence of the Ministerial policy.
' The most fatal advocacy the Government has
yet received was, however, that of Mr. Forster last
night. He argued with great force against enter-
taining any distrust of the effects of enfranchise-
ment, but he forgot that no one has shown such
practical distrust of Reform as Lord Russell's Ad-
ministration. They have been afraid of their own
proposals. The Ministers of the Crown have, for
the first time in living experience, shrunk from
showing their hands. We do not pay them the ill
compliment of supposing they have not made up
their minds as to the principle which should guide
the measure of redistribution to be laid upon the
table at some indefinite time in the course of the
Session. Lord Russell has often been credited with
audacity, and by none in happier terms than by
Sydney Smith, who told us that he was ready to
undertake at a moment's notice the command of the
A.)tr.ulv. ...--, .- ,- ---g,....1.;11 mnr.. reqnonsible
duties, but we do not believe that even Lord IM:sun,
as First Minister of the Crown, could have been
guilty of the incredible imprudence of having fixed
upon the limit of the Borough qualification without
having considered the redistribution of Borough
seats. Mr. Gladstone refused to enlighten Mr.
Alarsh last night on the principles of redistribution
adopted by the Government, but we may reasonably
presume that they have agreed upon some principles.
They are, however, afraid to acknowledge them.
It is the height of rashness, to call it by no worse
name, therefore, in Mr. Forster to comment on the
unwillingness of the supporters of Lord Grosvenor's
Amendment to trust themselves blindly to the
guidance of the Government. The Government
will not trust them, and why should they trust it ?
The members of the Cabinet have no suchOpfidence
in their own principles as to be able tto appeal to
Parliament and the country to adopt them, andthey
now accuse their opponents of distrusting the work-
ing classes, whereas the only real accusation which
can be brought against them is at the most that of
distrusting a future policy over which the Govern-
ment itself can have but little control. This is the
argument brought with unequalled force by Lord
Stanley on the first night of the debate, and it has
never yet been touched. The issue now before it ie
under the control of the House of Commons ; if it
once escapes from its control it cannot be recalled.
Suppose a Franchise Bill passed, and what is then
the condition of the Reform question ? It is con-
ceded, almost without dispute, that a Franchise
Bill, and nothing more, would leave things worse
than they are at present, even supposing no agita-
tion should follow. But agitation must follow. A.
Redistribution Billof some sort--whether the skele-
ton bill promised to be submitted for inspection
this session or not, nobody can tell—would be
brought in next session. The Government declares
it will stand or fall upon it. It follows that, in the
event of a disagreementarisingbetween the Govern-
ment and the house, an appeal will be made to exist-
ing constituencies upon the simple question whether
some of them shall be disfranchised or not. It is
impossible to conceive a worse plan of settling
the question. We have a Parliament now not
elected upon any reform question, but upon a dis-
tinctly Liberal issue. There are some members of
it returned for small boroughs willing to support a
Redistribution Bill. But if a dissolution took place
for the purpose of determining the simple point of
redistribution, it is impossible to believe that tl
result could be otherwise than unfavourable to i,
In no boroughs could the supporters of redistribu-
tion gain strength, and in many they would lose
it. The question of redistribution, which Mr.
Bright justly described years ago as the cardinal
question of Reform, without which any reduction
of the franchise would be illusory and contemptible,
would thus be postponed indefinitely, and the latter
end of the agitation would be worse than the first.
It may be—in fact, it must be—that at some distant
time a redistribution would be made, but it could
not be carried until some extraordinary event had
1i occurred sufficient to overpower the instinct of self-
preservation felt in a small borough as elsewhere,
and though in such a case some solution of the ques-
tion would doubtless be accepted, we should only
have to thank the pusillanimity of the present
nf_ .Go-
vernment for having deferred a period l
tinuilighitt
that which ought to have been settled, d
' and con-
have been settled, in a season of
And that speech,
been delivered in favour of Reform, the
our of the pro-
tentment. As yet only one indecipeuineadntennetssspeech has
critically examined, was not
i‘intr.
Mill justified his
posals of the Governmentn.d
in
the country by his
reputation in the house litht,
but how did that argu-
ment affect the qrsuoest at
simple question of accepting or
argument on Fridaytiiolng
raised by Lord Grosvenot's
Amendment ?all. We go further, and ask
theßill, and we
rejecting the
gs
c consistently declared, that it is desk-
tedGovernment Franchise
his' ed should be
before—not at all. He proved,
howmus
must
i ta an
what we have e
now unenfri
way of a safety-valve, to
able many classes.
._
of Ile
admitted to the privilege
e voting, that it would
affected
welcome the representatives of the working classes
be worth while, if only by
into the house of Commons ; but if it be asked how
he connected this argument with the conclusion
that the Franchise Bill of the Government stand-
ing alone was worthy of adoption,
we should be at
a loss for an answer. It is
of Reform
obvious that Mr.
'Mill was speaking of schemes
form for which
much may be said, but which were not before
the House of Commons. He was the eloquent
expositor of ideas which are not found in the
Government, Dill, and which hitherto hays been