The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1866.

vention. Men like BROWNLOW and BUTLER may
be expected to advocate anything, but WENDELL
PHILLIPS himself recommends the disfranchise-
ment of all Confederates, and the division of
all Southern lands among the negroes. What can
any reasonable man expect such a policy to end in ?
We may easily infer from these specimens that the
language levelled at the PRESIDENT is not remark-
able for its moderation. A favourite epithet of
Philadelphia has been " the man made President
by WILKES BOOTH." " Traitor," " rebel," " mur-
derer," are in continual use ; and it is no wonder,
considering the character and temper of the Radical
leaders, that words should fail them in abusing the
man who has completely defeated their schemes.
Instead of depopulating the Southern States,
and dividing the lands among the Northern
Republicans, instead of endeavouring to excite an-
other war, which should be a war of extermination,
and lead most probably to the total disruption of
American power, ANDREW JOHNSON has addressed
himself in earnest to that task of reunion which
every one loudly upholds, but which so many really
endeavour to retard. Thanks to the general intel-
ligence and education of the people, the country
at large has fully recognised this, and the
consequence has been that, in spite of
all plots, and intrigues, and local spite, the
progress of the PRESIDENT through the States has
been a triumphant ovation. The petty insults which
senates and municipalities have offered to their
illustrious visitor, have only served to show more
clearly that it is the real feeling of the people which
is displayed in the public receptions of the PRESI-
DENT and his associates, not a mere matter of form,
a welcome to order.

The Radicals are straining every nerve to hold
their ground in the next election, and are casting
off every member whom they suspect of moderate
tendencies. Mr. RAYMOND, formerly chairman of
the Republican National Executive Committee, has
been expelled by the members for his adhesion to
the JOIINSON party. The Philadelphia Convention
has issued its address, denouncing the PRESIDENT,
and declaring that his policy has wrought the most
deplorable consequences, " morally, socially, and
politically," throughout the South. There was,
however, a disagreement among the doctors
who are to set the New World to
rights. Negro suffrage was the difficulty, seve-
ral members of the Convention repudiating it.
However, a report in its favour was adopted before
the adjournment of the Convention.

Fenianism is again busy, fresh rumours of rein-
vading Canada being current. Our troops will,
however, be there before them, and may very likely
settle the whole question by giving the conspirators
a reception they are not prepared for.

panied by a rumbling noise like that made by a
heavy cart driven rapidly over the stones. There
were two distinct shocks, which produced a shaking
or oscillatory movement in the direction from east
to west. It was felt more forcibly in the upper
stories of the houses. In the vicinity of Tours the
earthquake created great alarm. At Vendome and
Maus, in the same department (Indre et Loire), the
shocks were generally felt. At Rouen the shocks
were noticed by most of the inhabitants. At Nantes
the effect was peculiarly violent. The shocks
seemed particularly to traverse the direction of
Brittany. At Angouleme there were two shocks
from east to west, at the interval of a few seconds,
and the noise is described to have resembled that
made by the sawing of wood. The barometer fell
sensibly, but there was no variation in the ther-
mometer. In several parts of the department of la
Charente, at Ruffcc for instance, the shocks lasted
exactly the same time. They were also noticed in

the department of the Loiret. At St. Marc
the earthquake caused two accidents. A millwoman
named Girault was precipitated to the ground as
she was passing the church, and the same thing oc-
curred to a man named Labanoux. Windows were
broken, doors opened as it were by enchantment,
and tiles from the attics were precipitated into the
streets. In some parts the streets were strewed
with tiles and broken chimney-pots. An inhabitant
of Jargeau writes to say that in that town persons
who had birds in cages were forewarned of the phe-
nomenon, as the birds jumped up and down from
the perches in great alarm, and tried to get out of
their cages. This circumstance induces some to
suppose that the earthquake arose under the in-
fluence of electricity. At Riom :and at Claremont
the shock was so violent that the inhabitants jumped
out of their beds. The beds in some of the houses
were rocked five times, and in some cases even their
positions were changed. This strange fact is at-
tested by the evidence of respectable persons.
The following are some interesting statistics re-
specting the Paris omnibuses. They were first
started in 1825. In the interior of Paris there are
664 omnibuses, which perform 9,516 journeys on
week days, and 10,280 on Sundays. In the suburbs
there are 53, which go 1,000 journeys on week days,
and on Sundays 1,082. There are 42 omnibuses
on the line from the Bastille.to the Madeleine only,
which perform 764 journey on week days, and
802 on Sundays and fête days. There are 21 omni-
buses exclusively for the service of the railways,
which perform 174 voyages on week days, and 240
lon Sundays. The price charged for journeys in
Paris is six sous inside and three sous outside. The
Paris omnibuses are much more convenient and
more exact as to time than those of London. By
taking a correspondence ticket you can go in almost
any direction for the same money. There are omni-
buses which go very rapidly on a tramway from
Paris to Sevres in correspondence with those for
Versailles, and by these you can go outside from
the fortifications to the next station, a distance o
about two miles, for one sou.

A scientific paper contains some speculations as
to the cause of an earthquake. In regard to the
earthquake which I notice to-day, it is remarked
by M. Decauchy, who has devoted much attention
to volcanoes and other similar phenomena, that the
earthquake of Friday took place simultaneously
with the appearance of the aurora borealis, and he
draws the inference that there is some connection
between the two phenomena. M. Perry, the astro-
nomer of Dijon, believes that earthquakes arise
from the concurrent appearance and action of the
sun and moon. Several times lately they have been
seen to shine together.
A writer in the Pays denies that the excitement
of a sojourn at Paris tends to shorten life, and men-
tions as an instance of longevity that he was on
the top of an omnibus the other day when an old
man of 103 got up with great agility. lle is hale
and hearty, and is often an outside traveller by the
bus. He is an inmate of the Asylum for Old and
Infirm Jews, founded in the Rue Picpus by Baron
Rothschild, and goes on errands for that establish-
ment.

The weather improved much to-day. We have
had sunshine and warmth, but rapidly passing clouds
seem to indicate more storm and rain.

DEATH OF MR. J. B. DILLON, M.P.—Wo learn
from Dublin, by telegraph, that Mr. J. B. Dillon, M.P. for
Tipperary, died on Saturday evoning after an illness of
two days' duration. Ho had suffered from diarrhoea.
DEATH OF SIR JOHN WILLOUGHBY.--We have to
record the death of Sir John Pollard Willoughby, a mem-
ber of her Majesty's Council for India. The deceased was
born in 1799, and succeeded to the baronetcy on the death
of his brother, Sir Henry Willoughby, M.P. for Evesham.
Sir John was for some time member for Leominster. This
is a branch of the noble house of Willoughby, springing
from the Hon. John, son of the fourth Baron Willoughby
d'Eresby. Tho vacancy in the Indian Council falls to the
Crown.

NEW ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP FOR GLASGOW.-

The Rer:james Lynch, late rector of the Irish Col-
lege in Paris, is to bo consecrated as a bishop on the 17th
of October. Tho ce*mony, which will doubtless be of an

imposing character, takes places in this city—the rev. gen-
tleman having been appointed by his Holiness coadjutor
to Bishop Gray. During the last fortnight Mr. Lynch has
been employed in giving a "Retreat" among the clergy
of the district over which he is to preside.—Glasgow
Evening Citizen.

THE LORD RECTORSHIP OF THE ABERDEEN UNI-
VERSITY.—The students are already beginning to look for-
ward to the election of a successor to Earl Russell, whose
term of office as Lord Rector of the University expires in
November. We believe there is a probability of two can-
didates being nominated for the office—Mr. M. E. Grant
Duff, M.P., and Mr. George Grote, the able historian of
Greece, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London.
—Aberdeen Herald.

RETURN OF TILE GREAT EASTERN.—A meeting of
the General Purposes Committee of the Liverpool Chamber
of Commerce was held yesterday for the purpose of taking
into consideration a proposition of Mr. Rathbone, that, on
the return of the Great Eastern, Which was expected daily
at that port, an address from the Chamber be presented,
and a dinner given, to the principal persons who have teen
engaged in the successful laying of the Atlantic Cable. A
resolution to this effect was adopted, and it will bo sub-
mitted to the formal approval of the Council of the Cham-
ber, which meets on Wednesday.

PARLIAMENTARY REFORM MEETINGS. —A great
open-air meeting of working men was held on Friday
evening in Camp Field. Manchester. Resolutions were
enthusiastically passed in favour of manhood suffrage and
the ballot ; also pledging attendance at the great reform
meeting on the 24th inst., and inviting Mr. Bright to be
present. Although the rain fell heavily, scarcely a man
left the ground. Thero was also an enthusiastic reform
meeting at Failsworth on the same evening. Similar re-
solutions to those rdopted -;n Camp Field wore passed. On
Saturday evening there was an open-air gathering on
King Stanley-green, near Stroud, for the purpose of ad-
vocating parliamentary reform. The chair was taken by
Mr. A: Nicholls, and there was- 'a large attendance of work-
ing men of the district. Resolutions were adopted, ex-
pressive of disapproval of the combination of Tories and
Adullarnites for the overthrow of the late Ministry, and in
favour of manhood suffrage and vote by ballot. The con-
duct of Mr. Iforsman, in reference to the reform question,
was severely criticised and condemned.

MANCHESTER LOCK-OUTS.—On Saturday the lock-
out of the Manchester tailors was terminated. A
conference of masters and men bad met come fivo different

times, and have so arranged matters that all the men, about
700 in number, returned to work on Saturday. The lock-
out of the carpenters stol continues. Of about 2,000 in
Manchester at least 1,700 have been locked out four weeks.

It seems that GO of the bmaPer employers have given the
fit still hold out, and aboutl,ooo
advance of 2s. par week, and 450 men are now working upon
those terms. The large ms
are still locked out, who have up to th4s time been paid a
weekly dividend *mounting to a little over half wages.
Tho men in work at the advanco aro paying a wcakly levy
of 4s. per man towards the support of their locked-out
brethren.

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, according to La Patrie,
goes out at 10 every morning, attended by his
tutor, M. Meunier, to take his swim at Port-Vieux. He
is always received by a crowd of children, with whom he
shakes hands and chats for a few minutes. Miss Shaw,
his English nurse, however, takes possession of him, and
ho disappears into his bathing box, whence ho emerges
in short blazk flannel drawers and scarlet flannel jacket.
His swimming master watches his proceedings from the
beach, and gives him directions. The Empress usually
comes down to tho beach to see him bathe, and takes a
seat under some trees. As soon as the Prince is dressed,
he plays for an hour on the sands with any children who
happen to be there.

KNOWING ONE'S NEIGHBOURS.—The following is
a literal translation of a paragraph in Monday evening's
Liberte :—" The death of Lord Northbrooke, formerly
Chancellor cf England, at the ago of 70. The real name of
this personage was Sir Francis Baring ; ho was a grandson
of the founder of that opulent banking dynasty. Why
should a man able to call himself Barius not have been
contented with the riAlu4 he derived frem tus father ?"

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

ITALY.

FLORENCE, Sept. 18

General Revel .has left for Venice, in order to
assist in the arrangements for the transfer of the
fortresses of the Quadrilateral.
News received here from Vienna states that at a
Conference held:yesterday, General Menabrea made
propositions relative to the Venetian debt, which
are stated to have had the support of France and
Prussia. An understanding has already been come
to upon the other articles of the treaty. Another
Conference will take place very shortly.

Fresh advices from Palermo state that several
bands of brigands organised at the Convent of
Montreale had entered the city demanding the pre-
servation of the religious corporations. The Na-
tional Guards 'of Palermo and the environs were
zealously co-operating with the military to restore
order.

HUNGARY.
PESTI', Sept. 17 (Evening.

The llungarian exile, Franz Pulszky, has received
permission from the Emperor to take up his re-
sidence in Hungary. It is believed that he will
establish a political journal in this city.
Since yesterday cholera is on the decline.

THE BALTIC FLEET.

KIEL, Sept. 18

The Prussian Baltic fleet has been put out of
commission to-day. Most of the vessels are being
disarmed and laid aside, and all the maritime re-
serves have been disbanded.