The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-07 00:00:00

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been, it is said, advised to surrender his opposition
to the Constitutional Amendment, so as to leave the
Radicals no cause to advocate but negro suffrage,
which is generally unpopular. It would seem as if
the Radicals, in anticipation of this concession,
were already abandoning the very cause which
they have hitherto so strenuously upheld. WEN-
DELL PHILLIPS has been making a violent oration
at Brooklyn, in which he denounced the PRESIDENT,
the Cabinet, General GRANT, and the Constitu-
tional Amendment, all in turn. What will be the
course adopted by the Radicals in the event of
the PRESIDENT'S adopting the amendment is as
yet uncertain. It may be a political advantage to
Mr. JOHNSON to do so, but at the same time it
is a pity he should be forced so far to abandon his
principles and to lower his standard of civil union
and constitutional law.

The riot at Baltimore has passed over. The
Atlantic Telegraph brings us the welcome in-
telligence that tranquillity is restored in the city,
and we hope an open collision between the parties
will be avoided. The Governor of Maryland still
retains his resolute attitude, and has announced
that he claims the right to try and pass judgment
upon the commissioners, and to take immediate ac-
tion should any conclusive evidence arise as to their
guilt or innocence during the investigation. The
trial is going on, and efforts are being made to
indict the Commissioners and Mr. FOURNEY, of the
Washington Chronicle, for an attempt to incite
to a riot. This accusation might very safely
be extended to a good many others ; but it is
not probable that it will be seriously maintained.
It is fortunate for the interests of civil liberty that
the Governor of Maryland is so well able to
maintain the rights and the dignity of his position.
A Canadian jury has found two Fenians guilty,
and the judge has sentenced them to be hung, giving
them, however, the privilege to appeal. As might
be supposed this step has created a good deal of
excitement among the Fenians generally, who seem
to regard murder, plunder, and incendiarism as
their particular rights. If there is an idea of
punishing a Fenian for the commission of any of
these offences, the whole of the brotherhood are at
injustice.
The aroused and busy denouncing the
The Americans appear to share these convenient doc-
trines, since the Ne sr York Municipality have passed
resolutions requesting the Canadian authorities to
release the prisoners, and have sent a deputation to
Washington requesting the PRESIDENT to use his
efforts to obtain their pardon. On what grounds
all this interference is based is not stated, and pro-
bably the Fenian admirers in New York do not
trouble themselves to particularise. The Tommany
Hall democrats, however, go a little further. They
have not apparently listened to the grandiloquence
of Fenian orators for nothing. At a meeting held
for the purpose they passed resolutions calling upon
the Government to insist upon the release of the
Fenian prisoners, and to assure the British Govern-
ment that the American people will retaliate for the
violation of humanity, civilisation, and justice
which the execution of the prisoners would involve.
So that, in the opinion of the Tommany Hall Demo-
crats, " humanity, civilisation, and justice" are re-
presented by Fenianism. Truly, the New World
goes faster than the Old ; and the discoveries made
on the other side of the Atlantic throw our philo-
sophers and investigators altogether in the shade.
The Americans have just now enough to do in
putting the world to rights. Mexico is a trouble-
some neighbour, and they are beginning to perceive
that the removal of the foreign element will
not insure tranquillity. General SIIERID AN has
issued an order to General SEDGWICK, commanding
at Brownsville, in which he says, sensibly enough,
that the only way to improve matters on the Rio
Grande is to support JUAREZ heartily, not recog-
nising the claims of the SANTA ANNA, ORTEGA, or
other factions. JuAREz is the recognised head of
6,3 Liberal party, and therefore to allow other
leaders to come forward is to produce nothing but
anarchy and confusion. Gen. ORTEGA and his staff
intended leaving for Brownsville with the view of
establishing a constitutional Government, but it is
now reported that the Federal authorities will in-
terfere to prevent their doing so.

Abundant proofs are not wanting to show us the

futility of those arguments so constantly employed
of the great benefits that will accrue to those States

which have been put under the dominion of Prussia.
Nothing can exceed thepertinacity with which Count
BISMARCK follows up any persecution or prosecu-
tion in which he may be engaged, and surely it was
most unnecessary on his part to go on with the
case of Herr VON TWESTEN after all that has
occurred. Fortunately, in this instance, he has
received a decisive check, and the Superior Court
has confirmed the decision of the ordinary tribunal
of Berlin, which acquitted him of the charges
aatgaht against him in consequence of his speech
in the r
negheapma ,bsser of Deputies. Things have come to
indeed, in Prussia, if freedom of
speech is to be denied to the representatives ; and
does
not this prosecution on the part of the Go-
vernment, carried on under the present peculiar
expect of things, speak volumes as to the course of
policy which they mean to carry out? The public
prosecutor had demanded that Herr VON TWES-
TEN should have two years' imprisonment, but
in which friendly desire he has been so far dis-
appointed. However, we all know what a
system of espionage can be kept up by a Govern-
ment which has virtually renounced its solemn
duties, and ignores the first principles of political
and popular freedom. In numerous ways, some
trivial and others of consequence, the fretting and
harassing work can be carried. on, and woe
betide that nation whose rulers call the
1 law to aid them in keeping down the
rights of the members of the Senate. We are glad
that the arrogant and pretentious
wen cannottious
flatter Minister should
have received this check, b
our-
selves that it will make any substantial difference in
his mode of procedure for the future. He is one of
those individuals whom nothing impresses, and who
is equally indifferent to thetphrianigse or blame of others.
We have every reason to suppose that the Berlin
they
Government are to carry out h
hitherto designed with more or lesste
success plans
have
in
various
quarters, and we may well ask,
in common consis-
tency, if there is a definite prospect of freedom for
those provinces and States which have recently been
annexed to the Crown of Kiig WILLIA-i •
we can see how the new regime is working in
llanover, where a Ministerial order has been pub-
lished introducing the system of general liability to
military service. Here is an instance of the man-
ner in which the rights of the people will be inter-
fered with, and what is this Prussian system of Go-
vernment about which such a fuss is continually
made, and which some wiseacres seem to consider
demands special gratitude to Providence for
conferring upon the States in question? Is it not
a,
oprigeacneisoofd tbyyrapnonoryisyfrr beginning to end, an
witha vaenndgneaanticoen,ariivthyicohf
sets out with professions of unity
sentiment, and soon becomes involved in persecu-
tions and prosecutions against all things of a liberal
tendency, and all persons of an independent charac-
ter. Nor can the Hanoverians see any cause fo
satisfaction in the circumstances that have attended

their j unction with Prussia. Have not they exchanged
comparative freedom for a situation which is
questionable at the best, and which bids fair to
become before long very intolerable.
We have always thought that the French poli-
ticians took the most correct view of the situation
in Germany, and so it will prove in the long run.
The remarks which some of their journalists have
made from time to time have been characterised
by great acuteness, and displayed considerable
foresight. The Siecle has lately commented upon
the state of things in Germany, and in allusion to
the recent appointment of M. BE UST, it observes that
his nomination will force Prussia to keep a watch over
herself, for the new Austrian Minister will attack
her with her own arms—the feeling of Germany. It
is not a secret to anybody that great discontent pre-
vails in the Prussian countries. It had been ex-
pected that as the foreign policy of Prussia continued
to succeed the home management might improve,
but these desires have not been fulfilled. " Liberty
does not come, and glory evaporates like smoke.
Without being a prophet one may foresee moral ex-
plosions more or less distant, and those men
of the Landwehr who fought so well at
Konigsgratz wish to be paid for their
services in liberty." We suspect that this
will prove to be a very scarce coin in the Prus-
sian exchequer for some time to come. But no
doubt there is a general feeling of discontent at
present existing in the minds of the Prussians.
They may well inquire what use this war has been
to them, and how far they have benefited by it,
except in having to pay largely for assisting their
rulers to sequestrate the rights and liberties of
others. So far from the recent events being
conducive to the furtherance of freedom in the
country, it would seem as if the Ministers in-
tended to take advantage of it to carry out their
tyrannical course in all directions.
At any rate, we may expect that the new session
in the Prussian Chambers will be a very stormy
one, and that those Deputies who are really worthy
of being representatives of the interests of the peo-
ple will feel themselves encouraged and animated
by the great victory which the Liberal party have
gained in the decision of the Court concerning Herr
VON TWESTEN. This demeanour on their part will
call forth fresh demonstrations of defiance
from the Ministers, and so on to the end of the
chapter. It is not in the nature of things that the
present state of affairs can continue very long in
Germany, and we shall not be at all surprised if the
artifices and manoeuvres of Count BISMARCK bring
about a sad day of reckoning for himself and his
Sovereign. The German States will soon have
enough of the interference of Prussia, and when
once the French take offence the Berlin Govern-
ment will not fled such ready support as
they are now counting upon. It is, indeed,
as strange as it is unsatisfactory to reflect upon the
rapid change which the present year has witnessed,
and we can safely say that a great deal of the injury
done to the cause of freedom on the Continent may
be traced to the unwise and irresolute policy of Earl
RUSSELL at the time of the Schleswig-Holstein dis-
pute. We have not yet the end of that unfortunate
business, but already it has been rife with evil con-
sequences, and brought ruin and destruction to
many States and people not connected with the
affair.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Tuesday Evening.

The llioniteur has the following analysis of the
latest news in regard to Italy :—The King of Italy,
on Saturday, received with great pomp, in his palace
at Turin, the Venetian deputation, who placed in
his hands the result of the plebiscitum. His Majesty
made an appropriate and forcible speech upon the
occasion. In agreeing to the unanimous wish of the
populations of Venetia, the King signed the decree
which unites that province to the kingdom of Italy.
During the reception General Menabrea had the
honour of presenting the King with the iron crown.
The Venice Gazette gives the following pro-
gramme of the fetes which are to take place on the
occasion of the visit of the King to Venice. Wed-
nesday, Nov. 7—Solemn entry of his Majesty.
Illumination of the city. Thursday, Nov. 8 —Visit
to the Ducal Palace and the Arsenal. Decoration
of the banner of the municipality. Grand repre-
sentation at the theatre. Friday, Nov. 9—Visit to
Ferrari and St. Rocco. Excursion to Chioggia and
Malamocco. Ball at the Palace Giovannelli.
Saturday, Nov. 10—Visit to the Academy of Fine
Arts, to the Correi Museum, and to the establish-
ment of Mosaics Salviati, and to San Giovanni and
Paolo. Excursion to Murano Cavalchino. Sunday,
Nov. 11—Regattas. Banquet at the Court. Splendid
illumination of the Palace of St. Marc. Monday,
Nov. 12.—Tombola.

Prussia and Bavaria having resumed their diplo-
matic relations at Berlin and at Munich as they
existed before the war, Prince do Reuss has returned
to his post. As to the Bavarian Envoy, Count de
Montgelas, he resumed his functions at Berlin some
time ago.

The Swedish papers received in Paris express
much indignation and anxiety at the course which
Prussia seems inclined to adopt in regard to Schles-
wig. By Article sof the Treaty of Prague it is
stipulated that should the people of North Schleswig
exhibit a desire to be united to Denmark, their
wishes freely and legally manifested should be ac-
complished. Prussia does not seem at all disposed
to give them the opportunity of declaring their
wishes. The delay—if it be only delay—has created
considerable excitement in Sweden, Denmark, and
Norway.

The Dagbladel of Copenhagen says : " The
prompt and satisfactory solution of this question is
for Denmark a matter of vital importance. The
question not only regards the deliverance of 300,000
Danes, but the application of the principle of na-
tionalities. We therefore raise our voice to have it
heard by foreign people,who, in the name of justice
and their sympathy, wish that reparation should be
made to Denmark, but who are ignorant of what is
passing."

The Aftonbiadet of Stockholm expresses its ideas
upon the point in similar terms :--,4 The solution of
the Scandinavian question can only be effected in
this way. Restoration by Prussia to Denmark of
Northern Schleswig ; political and military confe-
deration of the three Scandinavian kingdoms ; that
is to say, a common systemof foreign policy and de-
fence, with the maintenance of the existing dynas-
ties. In short, a cordial agreement with Germany,
having for object reciprocal protection against
Russia.

A letter from Prague confirms the information I
gave yesterday relative to the alleged attempt upon
the life of the Emperor, and proves that the intention
really only existed in the imagination of the English
officer. The unfortunate victim of mistake or hal-
lucination, an inoffensive journeyman tailor, has
been set at liberty.
A double case of attempted poisoning has produced
much consternation at Lille. Catherine Martin, a
girl of 14, a servant of M. Delrue, residing in the
Rue de Paris in that town, attempted to make two
of her master'3 children swallow- a poisonous cor-
rosive. The eldest child was able to defend itself,
but the other, an infant only two months old, was
compelled to swallow some. Its lips and mouth
were much burnt, and its death was apprehended,
as it was feared that the dangerous liquid had en-
tered its stomach. The crime was committed by
the girl out of revenge, in consequenee •of her master
having discharged her for committing some petty
theft. The girl ran away, but was apprehended
just as she was about to get into the coach for
Sameon, her native village. She dis played as much
carelessness as if nothing had happened.
The last matches of the Rowing Club on Sunday