The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1866.

infringing the order of the Quarter Sessions by re-
moving cattle from the market. They pleaded igno-
rance, and the penalties inflicted were only nominal.

NORFOLK.

At the close of 1865 the Norfolk Cattle Plague
Association had paid compensation for 1,756 head
of cattle; the totalfunds of theassociation amounted
to £15,313, and the expenditure to £11,735, leav-
ing a balance of £3,562. There is no material
change to report with respect to the rinderpest ;
fresh cases are constantly occurring ; but at the
same time the proportion of attacks to the whole
number of cattle existing does not justify the exor-
bitant rates which the public have bad to submit to
for meat during the last three months.

discussion and several divisions, some of Mr. Adder-
ley's suggestions were adopted. It was resolved that
the monthly licenses should only be granted by two
justices, and that the application need not be made
in petty sessions ; that permission should be given
to remove cattle purchased at bona fide sales ; that
no fees should be taken for granting licenses, and
that sheep and swine be not included in the order.
The Court was further adjourned for a fortnight.
The Warwickshire Agricultural Society does not
intend to follow the example of many kindred asso-
ciations and dispense with its exhibition during the
present year. At a meeting of the society at War-
wick, on Saturday, the Earl of Warwick in the
chair, the subject was freely canvassed, and a very
general opinion expressed in favour of holding the
show. The arrangement of the prize-list has been
deferred till March. A letter was read from Mr. A.
Pell, chairman of the County Cattle Plague Com-
mittee, soliciting the co-operation of the society in
a. conference from various counties, proposed to
be held as early as practicable in London, to
consider what steps may be recommended to the
Government and the Legislature in reference to the
cattle plague, and to prepare and circulate petitions
embodying the views of the conference. The fol-
lowing points were also suggested for consideration :
1. The absolute suspension for a time of all traffic in
and transit of live cattle, sheep, goats, and swine.
2. The immediate destruction of all plague-stricken
animals ; and the isolation and official control of all
animals that had been within the influence of the
contagion. 3. The partial remuneration of persons
affected by this measure, whether out of the county
rate, the consolidated fund, by loan spread over a
number of years, or otherwise. 4. The closing and
disinfecting of all infected premises, fields, sheds,
and railway trucks and pens, and forbidding their
use for a period of time to be fixed by Government.
Allusion was also made to the importance of an im-
mediate and uniform pressure being brought to bear
on the Government. The meeting unanimously
resolved to co-operate with the above-mentioned
association, and a deputation consisting of the Earl
of Warwick, Lord Leigh, and others, was appointed
to represent the society at the conference in London.

The Present Emperor of the French when
a Boy.

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Prince Louis Napoleon, when at the age of six,
lived with his mother, Queen Hortense, at the
Malmaison, with whom resided the Empress
Josephine ; who, it will be remembered, received
the allied sovereigns there in 1814, after Napoleon
I. was exiled to Elba. The Emperor of Russia
when in Paris scarcely passed a day without visit-
ing those exalted ladies, and on each occasion he
breakfasted or dined with them. The Queen told
her children that when the Emperor Alexander
called every mark of attention and respect was to
be paid to his Imperial Majesty ; for to him, and
him alone, they owed everything they possessed in
the world. Prince Louis listened to his mother's
precepts with great attention, but said nothing. The
next time the Czar came, however, the little fellow
sidled up to him and quietly placed on one of the
Czar's fingers a ring, which his uncle Prince Eugene,
the Viceroy of Italy, had given him. The boy, on
being asked by his mother what he meant, said,
" I have only this ring, which my uncle gave me ;
but I have given it to the Emperor Alexander, be-
cause he has been so kind to you, dear mamma."
The autocrat smiled, and placing the gift on his
watchchain, said he would never part with it, but
would keep it in remembrance of the noble trait of
generosity shown by one so young. The Queen re-
plied, " Sire, my son Louis keeps nothing for him-
self : the other day I gave him some pretty buttons,
but he gave them away to some of his playmates ;
and when I reproached him for so doing, his answer
was, " Vous voulez, maman, me procurer un plaisir
en me les offrant, et vous m'en procurer deux ; celui
de recevoir de vous, maman, un jolie chose, et
ensuite le plaisir de la donner h un autre."
Another anecdote, showing the good nature of
Louis Napoleon, was related to me by the late M.
Mocquard, with whom 1 was well acquainted. After
leaving the Malmaison, Queen Hortense settled by
the Lake of Constance, where the young Prince
was constantly in the habit of relieving poor people
by pilling tur.,y Foca., t-money nno a.„ L. ob
served a family in the greatest distress, but having
no money to give them he took off his coat and
boots and gave them to these poor people, saying
that he was sorry that he had not any money for
them, as he had given away the allowance his mother
made him to some other poor persons who had just
passed by the house ; but he hoped they would dis-
pose of his clothes to relieve their wants. The
weather at this time was very cold, and the ground
covered with snow ; the Prince,. nevertheless,
trudged through it towards home, and when near
the house was met by 1110equard, who expressed his
surprise at seeing him in that state. The little fel-
low, then ten years old, replied, "I have given away
my clothes to some poor people to prevent them
from starving." Mocquard adtled that " the Em-
peror is never so happy as was when he can relieve
the distressed."

Loss OF THE STEAMSHIP LONDON.—A writer
in one of the weekly journals says : Our English
contemporaries have given several explanations of
the causes of this fearful disaster, none of which ap-
pear to us to be founded
iin probability. It is not rea-
sonable to suppose, for instance, that the owners of the
London would send her to sea unprovided with accurate
barometers and all other instruments which first-class
vessels usually carry ; and it is still less reasonable to as-
sert, or insinuate, that sailing-ships are safer in bad
weather than steamers. Power is safety, especially in
storms and heavy sea-ways ; and the possession of steam
power must render a vessel comparatively careless of
wind and wave in comparison with mere sailers. When
the investigation is made into the causes of this
disaster, wo believe it will be proved conclusively that the
"London" was loaded far below her bearilo. Ships are
built to float on a certain water-line; and after that limit
is reached a single ton of additional freight will send them
down almost as much as a hundred tons previously. Wo
feel satisfied, from the evidence already published, that the
"London" was thus improperly loaded, the idea of her
owners being that her daily consumption of coal would,
after the lapse of a certain period, lighten her up to her
proper bearings. But the steamer was caught in the
cyclone almost as soon as she left port, and, not being able
to "rise," the sea broke against her like a rock or log, and
naturally carried away everything. It will also be neeee•
nary to learn what instructions were given to Captain
Martin by his owners. In the hurry to make good pas-
sages there is now-a-days, on certain lines, too much
"pressing forward" 'and "carrying all sail," the safety of
those on board being regarded as of secondary importance
to an early delivery of large cargoes.—Anylo-American
Times.

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Slavery in Mexico.
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CORRESPONDENCE OF SECRETARY SEWARD WITH THE
FRENCH GOVERNMENT.

To the House of Representatives.

In answer to the resolution of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the 11th inst., requesting information rela-
tive to a so-called decree concerning the re-establishment
of slavery or peonage in the Republic of Mexico, I trans-
mit a report from the Secretary of State, and the docu-
ments by which it was accompanied.

ANDREW JOHNSON.
Washington, December 14, 1865.

Department of State,
Washington, Dec. 14, 1865.
The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the reso-
lution of the House of Representatives of the 11th inst.
requesting the President, "if not incompatible with the
public service, to communicate to that House any infor-
mation in possession of any of the executive departments
of the Government, in reference to a so-called decree by
Maximilian, the French agent in Mexico, under date of
Dec. 5, A.D. 1865, re-establishing slavery or peonage in
that Republic," and to inform that House "what action,
if any, has been taken by the Government of the United
States in reference thereto," has the honor to lay before
the President the correspondence supposed to be indicated
in the said resolution, which correspondence presents all
the information upon the subject in the possession of this
department. Respectfully submitted,

The President.

WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. Romero to Mr. Seward,
Mexican Legation.
To the United States of America,
Washington, Oct. 5, 1865.
_ _

_ .
Mr. Secretary,—l have the honor to remit to you,
for the information of the Government of the United
States, a copy . in English of the so-called law
which, on the sth of September last, was issued at Chapul-
tepec by the ex-Archduke of Austria. Fernando Maxi-
milian, so-called Emperor of Mexico, in which, under
pretext apparently of inviting foreign immigration to
Mexico, he has adopted a plan which has for its purpose
to call to that Republic the disaffected citizens of the
United States, who are not disposed to acknowledge the
authority of this Government, nor to accept the conse-
quences of the war by admitting them, with their pre-
judices and their peculiar system of labor, already R ell
tried in the southern part of the United States.
According to the information I have received, founded
on facts, and which I have communicated to your depart-
ment, and the Emperor of the French, and his agent in
Mexico, considering that in the country there were not
elements sufficient to sustain them, have taken means to
call to it all persons they supposed animated by any hosti-
lity to the United States.
The arrangements made with ex-Senator Gwin, of Cali-
fornia, has that object ; but as that individual was
recognised as a declared enemy of the United States on
the close of the civil war here, it was thought not advis-
able to irritate this country by carrying out the plan which
had been agreed upon with him.
In place of them there has been another combination,
which, under a different form, it is hoped may produce
the like results. For this new plan they have gone to the
extreme of practically re-establishing, in fact, in Mexico,
the odious institution of slavery, The so-called law of
the ex-Archduke of Austria goes accompanied by a regu-
lation signed by the same Maximilian, of which 1 also en-
close a copy in English, whose first article, to cover ap-
pearances, declares that "according to the laws of the
empire all' men of color aro free from the mere fact of
stepping on Mexican territory -;" but those following
establish a slavery so much more the odious because it is
not rrstricted to color or determination of caste.

Tho working man—the name they give to the slave—will
make, according to such regulations, a contract with his
master, called patron, by which he will bind himself to
feed, clothe, and lodge them, and support them in sickntss,
and pay them a sum of money in conformity with the con-
ditions agreed upon between them. The fourth part of
-the sum will be lost to the working man almost, because he
cannot dispose of it, nor of the interest while his con-
tract lasts, according to terms of articles thirteen and
fourteen. " The working man will engage at the same
time with his patron to do the work to which he may be
assigned for the term of five years at least, and ten years
at most." " The patron will engage to maintain the
children of his working men." This slavery is hereditary,
because, according to article three of the regulation, "in
case of the death of the father (working man) the patron
shall consider himself tutor of the children, and they shall
continue in his service until majority on the same con-
ditions as was the father." The heirs of the patron will
hold, in their turn, these working men in conformity with
article five. To complete the odious practices of the holders
of slaves, the regulation referred to contains (article 6)an ar-
ticle against fugitive slaves, by which, "incase of desertion,
the workman, when caught, shall be assigned, without
wages at all, to the public works, until his patron comes
to reclaim him." To consummate this work of iniquity,
article fifteen provides that in case of death, "an intestate,"
or without heirs, the effects of the working man shall pass
into the control of the public treasury.

Tr it, randy nv, qinri nlmoob
that when slavery has received a death-blow in
the only country that could revive it, and when it has
been shown by facts that its existence is an evil, social,
moral, and political, there can be in the world a usurper
who, without having established his authority in the
country he tries to domineer over, should attempt to re-
establish the odious system for the purpos3 of strengthen-
ing himself, and merely changing the name for the pur-
pose of deluding the world.
As this system of labor might be taken for what in
Mexico is called peonage, and as that may be considered
here as an institution equivalent to slavery, I think it expe-
dient to show to you that on some estates in the tierras
calientes, to the South of Mexico, there has in fact been,
through the abuses of the proprietors and the influence
they enjoyed, something that might be compared in its
practical effect with what the ex-Archduke of Austria has
now established in his aforesaid decree. But such abuses,
besides being restricted to a very narrow district, were
never sanctioned by the Mexican laws, and the National
Government of that Republic have taken especial care to
correct them and root them out. It was reserved for the
ex-Archduke of Austria to sanction such an abusive prac-
tice by a law which, if it goes into force, will be executed
throughout the whole extent of the Mexican territory.
Before concluding this note, I think it proper to remit
to you a copy of the speech which was delivered in Mexico
on the said 16th of September, by the said Archduke of
Austria, Fernando Maximilian, in which he expresses
what he calls his irrevocable determination not to leave
Mexico upon any consideration, whatever may be the cir-
cumstances. This is one proof more that the Emperor of
the French is very far from desisting from his outrageous
attempt to deceive the people of Mexico into acceptance
of the yoke of a European monarchy._

It is satisfactory to me to avail of this opportunity to
renew to you, Mr. Secretary, the assurance of my most
distinguished consideration. M. ROMERO.

Mr. Seward to Mr. Bigelow.
Department of State,
Washington, Nov. 2, 1865.

Sir,—The condilion of the emancipated slaves or freed-
men within the United States is at this moment, very pro-
bably, a subject of deep interest. The establishment of
the perfect equality of men of the African race with men
of other races throughout the whole continent is a policy
which the United States may hereafter be expected to cul-
tivate with constancy and assiduity. Certain decrees
bearing on the subject of immigration, which are under-
stood to have been promulgated by authorities acting in
Mexico, in opposition to that Republic, have arrested the
attention of this Government. The law officer of the
Government has submitted to this department an opinion
that, if those decrees were carried into execution, they
would inevitably operate to reduce into a condition of
peon slavery
_working men of the African race, and, of
course, such of the freedmen before-mentioned as, with
or without their intelligent consent, might be brought
within the jurisdiction of Mexico.

If European opinion can be regarded as established in
reference to any one political question, it is settled that
African slavery, in any form, ought henceforth to cease
throughout the world. We do not doubt that the Emperor
of France cordially and fully concurs as we do in this
humane sentiment. I have, therefore, to request you to
place a copy of the opinion of the Attorney-General
herewith enclosed (the opinion of the Attorney-General
referred to herein is that previously inserted under date
of Oct., 21, 1865,) in the hands of M. Droun do L'Huya
and asks that the attention of the French Government
may be directed to the question which the Attorney-
General has discussed with ability, and with an anxious
desire to arrive at just conclusions.—l am, Sir, your
obedient servant,
WILLIAM H. SEWARD.

Mr. Bigelow to Monsieur Drouyn de Lhuys.
Legation of the United States,
Paris, Nov. 22, 1865.

Sir,—Recalling the conversation which I had the honor
to hold with your Excellency on the 17th ultimo, in rela-
tion to the alleged levy of Egyptian troops for involuntary
service in Mexico, and the representations I then made
in regard to the natural unwillingness of my Govetnment
and countrypeople to see slavery in any form replanted
either within our territory or on our borders, I beg to
invite your Excellency's attention to certain recent decrees
bearing upon the subject of emigration to Mexico, pur-
porting to emanate from authorities acting in opposition to
that republic. In the opinion of the law officer of my Go-
vernment these decrees, if enforced, would inevitably
reduce to the condition of peon slavery working men of
the African race, and of course such of the freedmen of
the United States as may have already been, of hereafter
may be, seduced to go there, without a full and intelligent
comprehension of their liabilities.
That your Excellency may understand the grounds for
this discussion, I am instructed to transmit to your Excel-
lency a copy of the Attorney-General's opinion, which
will be found inclosed, and to invite the attention of the
Imperial Government to the questions therein discussed,

In complying with those instructions of my Government,
I avail myself of the language of the despatch containing
them to say that—" If European opinion can be regarded
as established in reference to any ono political question,
it is settled that African slavery, in any form, ought hence-
forth to cease throughout the world." We do not doubt
that the Emperor of France cordially and fully concurs, as
we do, in this humane sentiment.

I pray your Excellency to accept assurances of the dis-
tinguished consideration with which I have the honor to
be your Excellency's very obedient and very humble ser-
vant, JOHN BIGELOW.
His Excellency IL Drouyn de Lhuys, Minister of Foreign
Affairs.