The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

MR. FIELD ABROAD.

England was more obdurate than America. No
man wanted to see the face of Mr. Field, and he
was made to know that fact. Doom were closed
against him. Mglionaires would not hear him talk.
Some thought his tongue like that of the charmer,
and fled from his approach. He was regarded as
au enthusiast merely. But steadily Mr. Field pro-
ceeded. He went were he was not wanted. He
came at odd times and in odd places—in the count-
ing-house and at the country-seat ; in the city
home and in the mart of trade, He gained his
point. Some were convinced ; some wanted to get
rid of the importunity ; some were willing to throw
away a small sum because they liked the persis-
tency of the man; a few had the" waning faith
revived, and like the old hunter Henry Clay told
of, were willing to pick fl:mt and try again. But
Mr. Field cared not what the motives so long as
he had funds and the two continents were united.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This. Day.

BOW-STREET.

Charles Spence, a porter, about 10 years in the service
of Messrs. Smith and Sons, the great news agents in the
Strand, was charged with stealing from his employers a
large quantity of newspapers.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to three
months' imprisonment.

The Southein• States.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Homer nods, and the most esteemed journalists
now and then are forgotten, that is they forget them-
selves. The Yankees are not favourites with the
British press, and except when they indicate an
English prejudice against the Irish they seldoM pro-
voke praise. The London Examiner is usually vivid
and wise, but on American questions it has hardly
ever been fully informed. On Saturday last it con-
tained an article in which the grossest misconcep-
tion was exhibited. It was as follows :

President Johnson is resolved boldly to play out the
game with his determined enemies, the Republican party
in Congress. From the day of his unlooked-for accession
to supreme executive power, they have striven first to
overtalk and then to overbear his earnest and wise counsels
in favour of clemency and conciliation. Raised by his
position aboie the' personal disappointments arid resent-
ments of unsatisfied ambition, and filled, As we believe,
with a hearty desire to mark his administrative reign
with the accomplishment of the groat work of Federal re-
union, he has unceasingly urged therenundiation of party
vengeance, and the re-admission of the vanquished to the
enjoyments of their sequestrated rights. No man, or at
least no hand of influential men, argues that those rights
should be held permanently forfeit. Let the •worst be
thought of Southern secession, it was, after all, the act of
several millions of enfranchised and educated men, misled
no doubt, but in the main animated by a sincere and
honourable faith in the defensive necessity and patriotic
duty of civil war. Happily for the progress of civilisation
and freedom they were worsted in the field, not without
many a touching and noble acknowledgment from the
victors of the gallantry and skill they -Itad displayed.
Simply as a matter of fact it may be said, and simply in
point of honour, it ought to be kept in remOmbrance, that,
luau for man and corps for corps, the Confederates were
not beaten ; they were worn out and compelled to yield by
overpowering numbers. The standard of revolt was
hauled down; slavery, the worst cause of all the misery
and loss of thopast five years, was publicly and irrevocably
abolished ; the oath of renewed fealty to the Constitution
of the United States was taken by nearly all the men of
rank and character in the South ; and, had the President
and his ablest advisers had their way, tho Re-united
States would have been ere now re-admitted to participa-
tion in the common weal. But the ascendancy in Congress
of the Republican party, it was felt, would be thereby
jeopardised. It was not enough that the policy of South-
ern statesmen should have been baffled, and the wealth
and blood of their followers spent in vain; it was not
enough that New England should have once more signally
asserted its predominant strength of will and superiority
of tenacious purpose ; it must make sure of its party re-
ward in the next quao-ennial election. And to this end,
and for the sake of all the seceding States, save one, have
been, and still are kept, regardless of their remonstrances
and prayers, in a state of political captivity. The conse-
quence of this blind and selfish policy are beginning to
ripen into bitter fruit. The moderate minority of the Re-
publicans have been compelled to draw closer and closer
to the side of the Executive ; and, in order to countervail
the electioneering tactics of the dominant majority, have
been driven to coalesce xt:th their old party opponents,
the. Democratg.

Now, President Johnson is certainly obnoxious
to the charge of having in part fraternised with the
men who were the avowed opponents of President
Pucoln, and of having accepted support from the
party who were more than friendly to the South during
the rebellion, The people who gave their energies
to the cause of the North are virtually ignored ; and
the writer in the Examiner, in ignorance of the
bearings of parties, condemns the party who held
fast, in the day of danger, to the Constitution.
These obvious and admitted fads tend undoubtedly
to impeach the policy of President Johnson.
President Johnson is apparently under the in-
fluence of territorial prejudice. He is a native of
the South, was a slaveholder, and naturally enough
brought with him into the White House what might
be called hereditary liking. Uncoil], when he .lived,
would have admitted the proper claims of justice
and humanity by stamping treason out otthe South ;
for kindness and forgiveness somewhat prematurely
extended permitted the indulgenea of former Southern
pride and,,..Auti.--Northern sentiments. We cannot
open a Sou:them newspaper without finding it filled
with abuse of the Yankees, and with sneers at the
Northern people. The abiding hatred is openly ex-
pressed. The riot at New Orleans was the prosper
sequence of these opinions and feelings ; and the
following extract from the telegram announcing
the news by the Peruvian confirms the fact
NEW YORK, August 10, Evening.—Governor Well; of
Louisia.nr, has issued an address justifying the assembling
of the Free State Convention in New Orleans, declaring
that its opponents had concerted a plan to break it up by
force. The rebel feeling of the slave-holding aristocracy
is not yet extinguished. They seek to retain political
power by the same spirit of political violence by which
their chiefs sustained supremacy before the war. If the
military authority be withdrawn the lives of Union men
will not be safe.

Military law still prevails at New Orleans, and the sale
of arms and ammunition is forbidden.
Members of the 111 CO State Oonventiok have made affi-
davits charging the mayor aid sheriff with complicity in
the homicide during the riots.
The Freedmen's Bureau Inspectors report that the sys-
tem of contracts enforced by the Bureau is simply slavery
in a modified form.

Too much was expected from the emancipation
of the negroes. Their freedom was a reproach to
their forther owners, their independent bearing an
insult. Although they had escaped from the condi-
tion of cattle they were men, but being men they
were obnoxious to the feeling of hatred which cattle
could not inspire. The removal becomes therefore
desirable ; and perhaps by-and-by people will dis-
cover wisdom in the recommendation of President
Lincoln to locate them together in a suitable place
at a distance. Their labour in the majority of the
Southern States can now be dispensed with.

MARKETS.--This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

We aro well supplied with most kinds of produce. Fruit
moves off freely, and in vegetables a fair average business
is doing. The quotations rule as follows :
FRUIT—Pine apples, 5s to 6s; grapes, 2s Gd to 5s ;
filberts, 8d to is per lb; apples, is 3d to 2s 6d ; pears,
is 3d. to 2s Od ; gooseberries, 2s 6d to 3s Od ; currents, 3s
Od to 4s Od; plums, 3s Od to 4s Od; greengages, 4s 6d to
5s Gd per half sieve; oranges, 8s to 14s; lemons, 3s Gd to
8s per 100 ;" foreign pines, 18 3d to 3s each ; Mulberries,
9d to is per punnet.
VEGETABLES—Red cabbages, is 6d to 2s Od; white do.,
9d to is 6d; cauliflowers, is to 2s Od; horseradish, 9.1'16
is 3d per doz heads; greens, 2s Od to 2s Gd; turnips, is Gd
to 2s 6d; carrots, 3s Od to 4s Od ; onions, is 6d to 2s per
dozen bunches ; cucumbers, 3d to is Od each peas; is Od
to la 6d ; French beans, is Od to is 9d per half sieve ; cos
lettuces, 6d to 10d per score.