The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Srn,—l beg to draw your attention to the follow-
ing correspondence on the above important subject,
and to request the insertion of it in your journal.
The latter was forwarded to the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, and to the First Com-
missioner of her Majesty's Works.—l am, &c.,

HENRY DOLBY, Hon. Sec.

Association for the Suppression of Public Immorality,
St. James's Vestry-hall, Piccadilly, Oct. 20.
I have the honour to lay before you the following com-
munication from the committee of this association.
The object of the association is to promote the improve-
ment of the public morals.

The committee feel that it is a duty incumbent on it re- •
spectfully to seek your interference in order to put down
tho grossly immoral nuisance caused by prostitutes and
their associates in the public parks of this metropolis.
The committee, in common with every lover of public
order, has long viowed this question with much concern.
Having boon painfully convinced of the incalculable evil
consequences which have resulted from the existence of this
universally-admitted nuisance, the committee had hoped
that the authorities would have interfered for its removal.
The evil, however, instead of being mitigated, has become
so much worse as to call forth public complaint.
The committee .cispectfully.submit to you theefffsiTttet:
and mischief of such an evil being allowed to exist in the
most public parts of the metropolis, and the great injury
thereby inflicted, not only on the west-end of London, but
on the entire community.

- The committee is endeavouring to check the exhibition
and practices of public prostitution, and feel that its efforts
are to a great extent thwarted by the Government not ex-
ercising its undoubted powers for suppressing the nuisance
in question in the public parks. An immunity for such a
nuisance in a locality peculiarly under the control of the
authorities operates most disadvantageously on the efforts
that are being made to suppress a similar nuisance in the
public streets.

This committee, therefore, beg to express a hope that,
in the interests of public morals, decency, and order, you
will be pleased to direct that this immoral nuisance be en-
tirely removed from the public parks of this metropolis.
--
I have, ezc., HENRY DOLBY, Hon. Soc.

Whitehall, Oct. 24, 1866.
Sir,—l am directed by Mr. Secretary Walpole to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 20th inst., and its
enclosure, respecting the suppression of prostitution in
the public parks, and I am to inform you that the matter is
under consideration.-1 am, &c., BELMORE.
Henry Dolby, Esq.
Association for the Suppression of Immorality.

Office of Works, &c., S.W., Oct. 24, 1866.

Sir,—l have laid before the First Commissioner of her
Majesty's Works, &c., your letter of the 20th inst., relative
to the nuisance caused by prostitutes and their associates
in the public parks of the metropolis. I am, in reply, to
acquaint you that the Board are taking steps for the better
watching of the parks under their charge, and that if they
can diminish or remove the evil of prostitution in those
parks they will gladly do so. I am, however, to add that
they are armed with no despotic powers beyond the law
for that purpose.—l am, &c.,

GEOUGE RUSSELL, Assistant-Secretary.
Mr. Henry Dolby.

The Impeachment of President Johnson.

The Economist is averse from the plan said to be
contemplated by the Radical leaders—the impeach-
ment of the President. On the whole, it says, there
seems absolutely no evidence that Mr. Johnson has
intended to violate the law. Violent in his passions,

he has used all the power which he believed him-
self to possess ou behalf of his own friends, but that
is all ; and we are very much mistaken if the people
of the North will not strongly object to set so im-
portant a precedent as the impeachment of a Pre-
sident on so weak a case as this—whether,
it av•a• LL Lt IL

deuce from the party which proposes so dangerous
a precedent for the future.
Should Mr. Johnson, misled by passion or
ignorance, or an immovable conviction of duty,
attempt any overt act against Congress, then, the
Spectator remarks, of course impeachment would be
easy; but if he confines himself to his legal power,
paralyses business, recognises the old legislatures
in the South, and steadily vetoes Northern bills,
impeachment will, one fears, be a dangerous pro-
cess, even in the bands of the stern men to whom

the elections will entrust the representative power.
The Spectator does not mean dangerous in the sense
that they may excite the President to armed resis-
tance. That is the fancy of men accustomed to
consider armies machines. The South cannot
conquer the North, and the South alone would be
behind the President, who would in a week find
himself without a Northern officer of mark, with his
scattered army resolved not to fire upon the people,
and a quarter of a million militiamen who have seen
service advancing amid enthusiastic approval
straight on Washington. But there would be
danger of reanimating the Democratic party, of
creating the sympathy which always follows any
neglect of the true principles of
alarming every State in the Union with the spectacle
of a central power, which to secure a political end
would strain the ordinary law. justice, and of

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LONDON, TUESDAY, CCT. 30, 1866.

A feeling of general indignation will be excited
at the intelligence that has been received that an
attempt has been made upon the life of the Em-
peror O. ; AUSTRIA. It appears that as the Emperor
was stepping into his carriage, upon leaving the
Bohemia Theatre on the evening of Saturday, that
a man was seen to
point a pistol at him. Fortu-
tunately his intention was not fulfilled, for an
English gentleman
(Captain PALMER), who hap-
pened to be there,seized his raised hand,
and thus, no doubt, preserved instantly
great danger, if not from death hisc MAJESTY from
banded the man to the police, and it Captain PALMER
as discovered
that the pistol was loaded with ball. 'lie was a
journeyman tailor. It does not yet appear what
induced him to perpetuate so atrocious an act. We
are glad for political reasons, as well as for the sake
of humanity, and the sympathy which one naturally
feels for a Sovereign who has been in so much mis-
fortune, that this attempt has failed. At the pre-
sent time the Emperor FRANCIS JOSEPII could ill be
spared from the councils of Vienna, and as the im-
mediate effect of his loss would certainly be to
augment greatly the power and influence of Prussia,
it is doubly important that be should be spared
to keep together his scattered dominions, and to re-
construct, to the best of his ability his shattered
empire. There is much to admire in the character

deuce or propriety.
The worst of it all is that there seems n 8 satis-
factory solution of the enigma, no way of escape
to the much beset EMPEROR, and no safe or suc-
cessful path for his advisers to take. The full effect
of the evils of mixed races is being now experienced
by the hapless ruler of the Austrian Empire, and he
seems likely to realise most completely the truth of
the saying that " misfortunes never come single."
Itmay turn out in the long run that, injurious as the
Prussian policy has been, there has been a more dange-
rous enemy to the rule of the House of HAPSBURG to
be found nearer home in the great disunion that
prevails everywhere, a disunion which has risen to
such a height that it will not admit of any compro-
mise so far as foreigners can judge, but seems to
call upon the EMPEROR to take some decided stops
one way or the other.
The chief object of interest just now is the ap-
proaching marriage of the Princess DAGMAR.
Additional attention is bestowed upon it in conse-
quence of the misfortune which attended her previ-
ous betrothal. Among the guests who will throng
to the festivities at St. Petersburg there will be the
Crown Prince of Prussia. We should have
thought, under the circumstances of the
case, that his absence would have been a
greater compliment than his presence. The events
of two years ago were sufficient in themselves to
Royal Family o'rifeniriarrTrAT,TTAlNsvilikt,tha
direct personal insult has been put upon the Prin-
cess DAGMAR herself in the prohibition that has
recently been received from the Berlin Government
to the Danish Scbleswigers, to offer a present to the
daughter of their former Sovereign on the occasion
of her marriage. The Saxon Diet will assemble in
the middle of next month, and affairs are rapidly
progressing relative to the terms of the treaty
being carried out. The King of SAXONY has issued
a proclaination to the Saxon people, in which ho
declares that he has witnessed the devotion of his
subjects with great satisfaction, and that such a
spectacle has sustained him in his heaviest misfor-
tunes. It had been said that it was the intention
of King JOHN to abdicate, but the explanation
given is that such was his first idea on hearing the
unfavourable terms of peace, but that at the solici-
tations of the PRINCE ROYAL and the request of
the Prince of PRUSSIA, he resolved to remain
and conform himself to his altered circumstances to
the utmost of his power.

It is reported from New York that Mr. STANTON
has asked to be relieved of his office, and to be ap-
pointed United States Minister at Madrid. It is
further rumoured that General SHERMAN will as-
sume the vacant post. Whether this intelligence
is authentic is not as yet certain, but it has been
known for some time that changes were likely to
occur in the Cabinet, and it has even been said that
the PRESIDENT would ask Mr. STANTON to retire,
as they could not agree upon the policy to be pur-
sued towards the South. In Mr. JOHNSON'S critical
position, however, he may well have felt reluctant
to offend an influential man like Mr. STANTON,
although his removal from the Cabinet might have
been desirable. If, as this rumour states, Mr.
STANTON has himself expressed a wish to be trans-
ferred to Madrid, Mr. JOHNSON may think himself
fortunate. General SHERMAN is not likely to join
the anti-Southern faction. He was long a resident
in the South, and even during the war he never ex-
pressed the animosity and vindictiveness that many
Union leaders manifested so strongly. He is not
personally popular in the ex-Confederacy, for it is
impossible for the Southerners to forget that ter-
rible march which was the commencement of their
downfall ; but, nevertheless, he will not be likely to
refuse their just claims. Neither is it probable
that, having seen so much of the negro, he will be
anxious to raise him without preparation to the poli-
tical level of the white man. Should General
SHERMAN therefore replace Mr. STANTON, his pre-
sence in the Cabinet will bring a considerable acces-
sion of strength to the PRESIDENT, while his repu-
tation will also have weight with the masses.
There are still signs of disturbance in the poli-
tical horizon. The Radicals will evidently not be
able to carry their point with respect to the Con-
stitutional Amendment without difficulty, since
another State has refused to accept it. The Texan
House of Representatives has followed the example
of Mississippi, and rejected the amendment, while
in Maryland there has been great political excite-
ment. The Governor has summoned the Police Com-
missioners to answer certain charges. The Northern
Radicals are said to be organising in order to prevent
the Governor from removing the Commissioners. So
high does the feeling run that an armed collision
is apprehended. This is the difficulty in dealing
with the
Radicals. They are so bent upon main-
taining their political ascendancy that they entirely
put aside the ordinary
considerations of right and
law, of reason and
constitutionalism, and uphold
those whom they consider represent their party,
regardless alike of their antecedents or the con-
sequences.

IVENDELL PHILLIPS has been urging the impeach-
ment of the PRESIDENT, And his reraoYal kora office

Emperor.
It is remarked in reference to the plebiscitum in
Venetia, that considering that the population of the
whole of that province does not exceed two mil-
lion six hundred thousand persons, the proportion
of voters in France, even on the most solemn oc-
casions, was never so considerable. It has seldom
reached a quarter of the total population, whilst the
Venetian plebiscitum exceeds that number.
The Siecle, after stating that notwithstanding the
contradiction of the report it learns that the acces-
sion of M. Beust to the Ministry is an accomplished
fact, proceeds to say—
" The former Minister of the King of Saxony,
the inveterate enemy of Prussia, will direct the
foreign policy of the Austrian empire. The im-
pression produced by this appointment is generally
unfavourable. It is considered as an indication of
an afterthought on the part of Austria. In that
case the Government of the Emperor Francis
Joseph cannot resolve to submit to the new charac-
ter which events have dictated to it. It is feared
that it has the idea that pease is but a truce, a time
of respite to enable it to recommence the war under
more favourable conditions. Its exclusion from that
11Ote#eii," lligy'VeßMll rivlahevitt
what measures the new Minister of Foreign Affairs
of Austria shall propose before a definitive opinion
be formed of his appointment."
A strike among the miners of Denain, in the
north, has led to some disorders, but troops have
been sent to the spot to repress them.
A man of 22, named Anastasio Baquero Sanz,
has been executed at Madrid, by strangulation.
The circumstances of the case are peculiar, and the
execution attracted an immense mass of people.
Sanz was arrested after the insurrection in June last
on the charge of being concerned in it. The gen-
darme who arrested him behaved with great bru-
tality, and the prisoner vowed vengeance against
him. While in prison he meditated revenge. The
Council of War, after examining into his case, de-
cided that there was no proof against him, and last
week he was set at liberty. He left the prison with
a friend, who was also acquitted, and as they went
along the latter advised him to go home to his
family. " I mean to do so," said Sanz," but I must
first kill a gendarme." As ill luck would have it, the
very first gendarme whom they met was the gen-
darme who bad arrested him. With an air of
indifference, Sanz placed himself before the door
of a house, and as the gendarme passed he drew
from under his cloak a sharp knife, with which he
had prepared himself after leaving the prison, and
stabbed him near the heart. The gendarme was
seriously but not mortally wounded, and he is still
alive. Sanz was arrested and at once tried by a
Council of War. Within an hour he was condemned
to death and immediately executed. There was a
curious incident afterwards,which I believe is always
usual in cases of execution by order of the military
tribunals. As soon as the executioner had fulfilled
his melancholy task, he was surrounded by gen-
darmes, who handcuffed him and took him to prison.
A few hours afterwards an officer, or escribano
(official writer), and an alguazil, went to his cell,
when the following dialogue took place :—" You
are accused of having killed a man," said the escri-
bano. " Yes, it is the truth," replied the execu-
tioner. " Why did you commit this murder ?" "In
obedience to the law and to fulfil the order confided
to me by justice," replied the executioner. A docu-
ment embodying this conversation was immediately
drawn up and signed by the executioner, and the
next day it was examined by a judge. The judge
immediately pronounced a sentence of acquittal in
favour of the executioner, who was set at liberty
after having been treated as a criminal during 24
hours.

An extensive system of fraud committed by the
jewellers of Marseilles has been discovered, and has
excited great sensation in that city, because it is be-
lieved that it has been carried on for 20 years. They
have contrived to procure or fabricate the Machine
by which a control of gold similar to the Hall mark
in England is given by the authorities, and thus very
inferior gold is made to pass for standard gold.
Numerous arrests have been made, and among them
the heads of houses in the jewellery trade, who were
considered among the most wealthy and respectable
of the city. Alarm has spread among families, be-
cause they find their trinkets, which they consi-
dered very valuable, are plated, spurious, or almost
worthless.
A very useful association has been founded under
the auspices of some of the most wealthy and in-
fluential ladies of Paris, "La Corporation des Abeil-

les"—the Society of Bees. The object is to procure
employment for respectable women in making fancy
articles, embroidery, and other similar frivolities of
dress or of the toilet. The association will not only
procure employment for women who desire it, but
there will be a central establishment where the
articles will find a ready and advantageous sale, and
thus the workwomen will be enabled to dispense
with the objectionable process of having to seek
purchasers for the fruit of their labours. By a
curious chance the lady who has been chiefly instru-
mental in organising this Society of Bees is a
Madame Bourdon. The humming of a bee is in
French described by the word bourdon. The Prin-
cess Marat is one of the ladies of the committee.

The grand vestibule of honour of the Palace of
the Exposition, facing the Pont de Jena, is in pro.
cess of completion. The height will be considerable.

The width will be 25 metres. All the other circular
and transversal avenues are only five metres wide,

CLEMENCY OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA .—The
Carlsruhe Gazette publishes the text of the decision accord-
ing pardon to Oscar Becker, the student who had attempted
to kill the King of Prussia, and was for that offence con-
demned to 20 years' imprisonment. The condition for the
remission of the putishment is that he shall not reside on
German territory. The King of Prussia himself, it appears,
had asked for this indulgence, having been moved by a
petition sent in by an uncle of the prisoner, M. Webea,
Protestant clergyman at Hosterwitz. The family asked for
the young man's liberation, promising that he should go
and live in America. The Grand Duke's decision is less
severe, since it merely interdicts Becker taking up his resi-
dence in Germany.
THE TRADE OUTRAGE AT SHEFFIELD.—At a
meeting of the Saeffield Town Council yesterday
the recent trades' anion outrage in New Hertford.-street
came under discussicn, and it was proposed that a deputa-
tion, consisting of de Mayor and Alderman Brown (Mas-
ter Cutler), Alderman Jackson (President of the Chamber
of Commerce), Alderman Vickers, and Councillor Baden,
should be appointed as a deputation to wait on the Home
Secretary to confer with him as to the necessity of granting
a commission to inquire into the attempt recently made to
blow up the house of William Fearneyhough, in Sheffield.
In the course of a brief discussion the proposition met with
nearly the unanimous approbation of the council, bat a
general reluctance 'was expressed to fix the guilt of this
outrage upon the trades' unions, although several speakers
hinted that it was well known what everybody's opinion
was. The impression seemed to be that Government should
appoint a special commission with power to summon wit-
nesses before them, to examine upon oath, and to give in-
demnities to persons who might make statements incul-
pating themselves. Tho issuing of such a commission would
carried, and the deputation wilrseek an interview with the
Home Secretary as soon as possible.
NOVEL MODE OF COMMITTING SUICIDE.--The
following extraordinary account of a determined
attempt at suicide is gravely related by the Epoca of Ma-
drid ; but as neither the name of the party nor the locality
is mentioned, we must suppose that the whole statement
is intended as a piece of pleasantry:--" Tho individual in
question being tired of his life resolved to take such mea-
sures as must infallibly ensure his death. To that end he
started for the sea shore provided with a ladder, a rope, a
loaded pistol, a bottle of poison, and a box of matches.
Having some time before discovered a post standing a
little way out in the water he fixed his ladder against it,
and ascending fastened one end of the cord to the top and
passed a slip note round his neck, swallowed the poison,
and, striking a light set fire to his clothes, then placing
the pistol to his ear kicked away the ladder, but in so doing
his hand swerved, and as ho fired at the same moment the
bullet, instead of penetrating his brain, divided the rope,
and he fell into the sea, extinguishing his burning gar-
ments; also a quantity of salt water ho swallowed caused
him to throw up the poison he had taken, so that he scram-
bled on the shore, convinced that his time had not yet
arrived."