The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29, 1866.

metrically opposed to the interests of a large class
in the North who have commercial dealings with the
Southern producers. The Radicals, though they
may succeed for a time, have to consider all the
adverse influences ; besides, the Southerners them-
selves, who can scarcely be expected to endure with
patience their continued exclusion fro:a politi-
cal rights. As for the PRESIDENT, his position is
the most difficult of all. The threat of impeach-
ment is not likely to frighten him, though it is quite
within the limits of probability that the Radicals
may fulfil it if provoked, or if they think it to
be their interest to produce a sensation. Mr. Jonx-
SON has little reason to believe that he can either
carry or defeat any measure against the will and
pleasure of the dominant party in Congress. The
unconstitutional measures against which he made so
resolute a stand last year will, if resuscitated,
inevitably be carried over his veto, and others
of a kindred or p-2rhaps more extensive
character will certainly be introduced. The
PRESIDENT has to consider what attitude he
shall assume in this disadvantageous position. His
enlightened and statesmanlike policy of re-admitting
the South to political equality without imposing too
burdensome conditions on them has been defeated
by his less foreseeing countrymen. Mr. JOHNSON
saw that the South, crushed by defeat, and exhausted
by their long and arduous struggle, with their
health destroyed, their best men exiled, dead, or
keeping in retirement, and suffering from the sud-
den change in the condition of the slaves, would
be thankful when the first mortification was over
to be re-admitted to that association with the
Northern States which they once despised. It will
take many years before the South fully recovers the
effects of the war, and during that time President
JOHNSON would make it a source of strength instead
of a perpetual weakness to the North. However
impoverished and spirit-broken there is still suffi-
cient vitality and power in the South to make
its people formidable to the North if they are in-
cited to fresh rebellion by a foreign foe, or if
they are provoked to desperation by the North
itself. The Union has had the good fortune to pos-
sess in the hour of its intoxicating triumph a states-
man who could see all this clearly, and the people
of the North will consequently be without excuse
if they deliberately allow a party of extreme and
dangerous politicians to plunge them in fresh
difficulties. Mr. JOHNSON has an opportunity
of showing a kindness to the South which its
people will warmly appreciate, and which will be
most consonant to his own feelings of justice as
well as of mercy. Two members of the Mississippi
Commission have waited upon him to present a
letter from Governor HUMPHREY, asking for the
mlease of JEFFERSON DAVIS on bail. Mr. Hum-
PLIREY says that those whom he represents do not
seek to screen Mr. DAVIS from trial, but that his
imprisonment is not necessary to secure his presence
when wanted, but that his continued incarceration
threatens to be fatal, and they therefore request
that he may bo released either on bail or on
parole. The PRESIDENT received the Commissioners
courteously, and promised to consider their appli-
cation. We hope he will take the advantage of
this opportunity for performing an act which no one
can reasonably pretend will be dangerous to the
interests of the State.

Two Fenians have been sentenced to be hanged
at Toronto. It is currently reported, however, that
they will not be executed, nor will their sentences
be commuted, but that they will be held as hostages
for the goOd behaviour of their friends.

The Mexican news is still uncertain. General
SHERMAN goes to Mexico, it is said, as the fore-
runner of an army of occupation, and SHERIDAN is
to join him. There is unusual activity in forward-
ing supplies to the Federal troops on the Rio
Grande, which confirms this intelligence.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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

The last number of the National Gazette of
Berlin received in Paris gives the news that the
Prussian Cabinet has arranged with the Govern-
ments forming part of the Confederation of the
North of Germany for the meeting of the Reichstag
on the Ist of February. The preliminary delibera-
tions relative to Parliament, which are to take place
between the Plenipotentiaries of the various Go-
vernments of Northern Germany, will commence on
the 15th of December.
The 11. oniteur states that the information re-
ceived by private telegram from Japan leads to the
belief that the successor of the Taikoun will be
favourable to the extension of commerce. The
civil war is terminated. The Prince of Choisn
himself dictated the conditions of peace, which are
believed to have been accepted. That personage
will retain possession of the Strait of Simonosaki.

An order of the Minister of State has been issued
nominating the jury to decide upon the admission
of works of art to the Great Exhibition. Count
Nieuwerkerke, Senator, Superintendent of the Fine
Arts, member of the imperial Commission, is
appointed President of the Jury for the admission
of wurks of art. Some of the members were chosen
by the Administration. The others are selected by
artists of the various branches of art, painters,
sculptors, and architects. In case of any vacancy
taking place, it will be filled up by the artists who
had the greatest number of votes at the scrutiny.
The Moniteur says that, according to a telegraphic
despatch from Dresden, the Saxon Chamber of
Deputies has adopted without modifications the
project of law for the increase of taxes for the
year 1867. The votes of credit demanded by the
Government to provide the expenses connected with
the Great Exhibition were also agreed to.
The following is also from the Moniteur :—" Ac-
cording to the last news we have received from
Abyssinia the Emperor Theodore had left Zeglie
for Dabra Tabor, which, from its elevated position,
is less exposed to the ravages of the cholera.
Golesia, the most powerful of his adversaries, seemed
to wish to avoid any encounter, and instead of en-
deavouring to consolidate his power in the Tigre
'he has retreated to the Haowzene. Under these
circumstances an early invasion of the Tigre is pro-
bable, and it is very much feared by the people,
who have not paid their taxes for four years." One
might suppose that a country where people may live
four years without paying
any taxes must be a very
agreeable place to live in.

Yesterday the commission appointed to consider
the reorganisation of the army again assembled at
Compiegne.
The Emperor presided. General
Allard
, President of the Section of IN ar and Marine,
rres
read some propositions in reference to changes in
both the services. It is believed that these recom-
mendations would be favourably received by the
commission. They will be subsequently discussed
by the Council of State.
The Mon tour still refrains from making any sign
in rogard to the alleged abdication of the Emperor
Maximilian, a fact which increases the doubt preva-
lent in Paris as to its truth.
The Italian papers are still much occupied with
speculation upon the subject of the mission of M.
Vegezzi to the Pope. Numerous versions of the
object of this mission are in circulation. M. Vegezzi
has not yet left Florence, and, according to the best
information, he will not depart for Rome until
there is a certainty that his Holiness is likely to
give a favourable consideration to the arrangements
which he is likely to propose. One of the Paris
papers asserts that there is nothing political in the
propositions to be submitted by M. Vegezzi, but
that they relate exclusively to ecclesiastical matters.
I have seen a letter from Rome which states a fact
easily to be believed, that M. Vegezzi will not be
received by the Pope if the question of the cessa-

tion of his temporal power should be ever so slightly
touched upon.

Vast numbers of spurious coins have lately been
in circulation ; 20f., 10f., and lf. pieces, some with
the effigy of the Emperor Napoleon and others with
that of Victor Emmanuel. They are admirably
executed, so much so that it is difficult to distin-
guish them from the genuine coins. They are
executed and gilt by the Ruoby process, used for
forks and spoons. The police, after much trouble,
have found out the manufactory, which is at No.
104, Rue du Faubourg Poissonniere. They found
an extensive assortment of moulds and tools used
in the fabrication. The head of the guilty under-
taking and many of his accomplices have been
arrested.

A night or two ago an attempt at murder and
suicide was made at a public ball in the Rue de
!Avis. A young man of 18, Louis-Victor-Gentil,
who had for some time courted a blachisseuse of 20,
named Pauline Dabonneville, had a quarrel with
her, and she said she would not allow him to see her
home. She also refused to dance with him, upon
which he took a pistol from his pocket and shot her
in the head. She was taken to the Beaujou hospital,
and is not expected to survive. When asked
to say what was his motive for the crime he
replied that the refusal of the girl to receive his
addresses had deprived him of reason. In his pocket
was a phial which had contained poison which he
had swallowed. Emetics were however administered,
and he has nearly recovered.
A Spanish astronomer expresses his belief that
the phenomenon of the shooting stars presages more
severe cold than has been experienced during the
present century, and that the cold will be accom-
panied by violent winds and abitpdance of snow.
Spain, like other countries, is occupied with war-
like preparations and experiments. A letter from
Madrid states that a squadron, composed exclusively
of iron-clad vessels, will shortly put to sea for ex-
perimental purposes.
The Empress of Russia is expected at Nice. Her
Majesty will be accompanied by her daughter-in-
law Princess Dagmar and her husband. The
Princess seeks the re-establishment of her health
from the beautiful climate of Nice. Some very un-
favourable reports are prevalent in Paris relative
to the health of the newly-married Princess. It is
also reported that the Princess Helena is about to
repair to Nice.
The Scientific Congress of France, which was
prevented from meeting at Amiens in consequence
of the cholera, will assemble at Aix-en-Provence on
the 12th of December.

Archbishop Manning on the Temporal

Power.

On Tuesday night, at the anniversary dinner of
the Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged
and Infirm Poor—the oldest Roman Catholic charit-
able association in London—Archbishop Manning
presided. In proposing the first toast, " The Health
of the Sovereign Pontiff Pope Pius 1X.," he said
that he proposed the health of his Holiness in these
words because a Sovereign the Pope was, and a
Sovereign he would be. He remembered when on
the last occasion they met together he mentioned
to them a saying of his Holiness which bore intrinsic
evidence of its credibility. The saying was one
uttered by his Holiness when he had been just told
of the Convention, which in point of duration
expired in September last, and would expire by
its imminent execution next week. He replied,
" A great deal of water will run down the Tiber into
the sea before two years are over." It appeared
to him that this prophecy had been fully fulfilled in
the tumultuous stream of events that had since passed
over every country in the Old World and in the
New, and which had completely effaced the situa-
tion of two years ago. He felt that there was no
country in the world, at least in the Christian world,
which did not stand with regard to the Holy See in
a different position from that which it occupied two
years ago. There now were dangers at home and
abroad impending over every nation that made men
feel that the temporal power of the Pope—hate it
as they might—was the keystou of a certain civil and
Christian order upon which depended the happiness
and order of all Christian States. He was perfectly
confident the sentiment was to be found in France
—upon the throne of that country ; it was to be
found in Austria ; it was still more powerful in
Prussia after its recent victories ; it was to be found
in England, with Ireland by her side. He wished
to mention another saying attributed, and he be-
lieved correctly attributed, to his Holiness. It was
said that the other day a person of great authority
came to his Holiness and told him that the time for
the departure of the French army was near at
hand, and that their departure would be followed
by events of great seriousness. "In fact," he
said, in conclusion, " Apres moi le deluge." The
Holy Father smiled and said, " From Holy
Writ we know there will never be another
deluge, therefore I am - not afraid." This
saying well represented his Holiness's calm,
unwavering trust 'and confidence, not in Princes of
the earth, for in them he put no confidence, but in
that higher Power on whose protection he has re-
posed during a Pontificate of 20 years of trial and
glory. This holy confidence, his charity to his
enemies, his clemency, his truth, the stainless purity
of his motives, so deeply impressed all who came in
contact with the Holy Father that the other day
when a veteran statesman, a man mixed up in
European politics for half a century, was leaving
the presence of his Holiness, he said to those near
him, n of Sovereigns."
Thme,to"aTsthwisasis dilarudneekdwtihteh Sgoreaetreeignthusiasm, as was
also the health of the Queen, proposed by his Grace
immediately afterwards.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AME RICA.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 28.
The Emperor Maximilian is reported to have left
Vera Cruz for Havannah.
Matamoras has been occupied by au United States

force.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Teutonia arrived out on the 22d inst.

ARRIVAL OF THE HANSA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 29.

The North German Lloyds steamship Hansa,
from New York on the 17th inst., has arrived with
79 passengers for this port, Havre, and Bremen,
46 bags of mails for London, and $4,000 for
Bremen.

On the 17th she spoke the British barks Castle-
ton, the Royal Family, and the Bremen bark Rien-
hard dismasted, on the 18th a Cunard steamer, on
the 19th the steamer Teutonia and the Scotland,
and on the 21st the English bark Isabella Ridley.

The Inman steamship Edinburgh, from New
York on the 17th inst., arrived at Queenstown at
7 40 p.m. yesterday, with 309 passengers and
$10,470 in specie. She landed 69 passengers, and
proceeded at 8 p.m. for Liverpool.
( Via Roche's Point.)
Nzw YORK, Nov. 17 (Morning).

Political affairs are quiet.
Washington despatches state.that General Sher-
man and Minister Campbell will stop at Havannah,
en route for Vera Cruz. General Sheridan will pro-
bably meet them at Havannah.
It is rumoured at New Orleans that Genera
Sherman goes to Mexico as the forerunner of an
army of occupation. There is unusual activity in
forwarding supplies and equipments to the Federal
troops on the Rio Grande.

General Ortega has determined to remain at
Brazos. The Governor of Durango and Genera
Stdgwick were to have a consultation with him on
the 9th of November.

Intelligence from Toronto announces that the
Fenian, Daniel Whelan, has been sentenced to be
hanged at Toronto on the 13th of December. It is
asserted that the sentences pronounced against the
Fenians will not be commuted, but suspended, the
prisoners being held as hostages for the good beha-
viour of their friends. Mr. Darcy Magee has made
a speech asserting that the Fenians will not be
hanged. John Quinn, formerly a soldier of the
Confederate army, was also found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be banged on the 12th of December.

The New York Chamber of Commerce has enter-
tained Mr. Cyrus Field at a grand " cable banquet"
at the Metropolitan Hotel. Admiral Farragut,
General Meade, and other eminent persons were
present. Letters of congratulation were read from
President Johnson, Gen. Grant, and the members
of the Cabinet. The health of Queen Victoria was
given and enthusiastically responded to. Mr. Cyrus
Field proposed as a toast, " England and America
clasping hands across the sea. May this firm grasp
be a pledge of friendship to all generations !" The
toast was enthusiastically cheered.
Messrs. Hillyer and Lowry, of the Mississippi
Commission, have called upon the President in re-
lation to Jefferson Davis, and presented him with a
letter from Governor Humphrey, who says that
those whom he represents do not seek to screen
Davis from a trial ; that his imprisonment is not
necessary to secure his presence when desired for
trial ; that his continued incarceration threatens
fatal results to his health ; and that the ends of
justice will be reached by admitting him to bail or
parole, which they severally ask. The documents
seem to assume that there will be no trial. The
President received the commission courteously, and
informed them that he would give their application
due consideration.

The Secretary of the Treasury is determined to
contract the currency as fast as the law of Con-
gress will allow. There are now only about
$386,000,000 of Government legal tenders in cir-
culation.

Messrs. Hinds and Woods, of the Old Board of
Baltimore Police Commissioners, have formally
surrendered everything to the new Commissioners,
who have fully entered on the duties at the Com-
missioners'-office.

ARRIVAL OF THE BORUSSIA.
SOUTHAMPTON, NOV. 29.

The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Borussia, from New York, passed the Needles
at 12 50 p.m. to-day.