The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-27 00:00:00

particular end than it is to carry out a really
statesmanlike policy. The Americans are far
too shrewd to be willing to support a policy
which shall virtually confiscate and degrade
eleven States. What was the use of fighting
for the restoration of the Union, unless the Southern
States are to be, as before, fertile sources:of wealth
and prosperity. If they are to require the main-
tenance of a large standing army to keep them down
they will be nothing but a source of weakness and
a focus of discontent, holding out a tempting
opportunity to any foreign Power, who will be
certain to find support in the interior of
America itself. Far more wise and statesmanlike
is the scheme of a gradual but complete restoration.
glut Cxsar, ant minus, the United States must
either be united or separate. It is not possible for
the one half to hold the other in military subjection,
and such a theory could only be seriously advocated
from interested motives or from unreasoning
fanaticism.

The continuation of the great Reform debate
last evening showed no diminution of the interest
taken by the House of Commons in the discussion.
The House was crowded, and at the close of every
speech a dozen or two competitors started up in
their places, all vieing with each other for the chance
of giving the world at large the benefit of their
opinions. The world is not perhaps proportionately
grateful for this anxiety, and is beginning to find
the .debate a little tedious. So many of the best
speakers have already spoken, and so many are re-
serving themselves for the last evening, that
the field is left very properly to men of
less note or ability . who have the dis-
advantage of going over the same ground that
has been trodden so often. Mr. LOWE was last
evening the principal speaker, and his speech, which
was looked for with some curiosity, was received
with much attention. It constituted a formidable
attack on the position of the Government, as might
have been expected from a politician who declared
last year that the £lO franchise was the last plank
between our constitution and shipwreck. The gene-
ral tenour of the speakers who succeeded Mr. LOWE
was, however, decidedly opposed to the Ministry,
who seem unable to muster many advocates in any
part of the house. At the close of the debate,
which was as usual protracted into the small hours,
a somewhat animated discussion occurred, one gen-
tlemaia complaining that only five or six out of the
180 new members had been able to speak. This
omission it is not possible to remedy, and the silent
representatives must be contented to show their
opinions by their votes. It appears to be agreed
on all sides that the discussion shall finish to-night ;
and, indeed, since all sides of the case have been
fully and fairly argued, it is difficult to see what
wise or useful purpose could be attained by delay-
ing the discussion to another week.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
The Moniteur does not contain any official news
to-day. It states that the original portrait of the
Emperor, which was first placed in the Museum of
the Luxembourg, has just been sent, by order of
his Majesty, to the Tribunal de Commerce of La
Seine.

The present was received by the Tribunal as an
additional proof .of the kindness of his Majesty, as
well as a precious souvenir of the visit made by the
Emperor and Empress, on the 24th December last,
at the inauguration of this new and 'important
building.
To-day the Paris papers are more occupied with
the Reform Bill and English affairs than their own.
Mr. Bright is a great card with them for the moment,
but from their note of preparation he seems likely to
catch it.

A brief was recently published at Rome by the
Pope in favour of the Company of Jesus (the
Jesuits). In 1850 some members of that body
formed a college of writers, whc proposed, by means
of the press, to defend the doctrines of the Church,
and founded a political periodical called La Civilta
Cattolica. The Holy Father has thought it expe-
dient to consecrate this college in perpetuity, and
to form it into an institution under the direction of
the head of the company. The writers will have
type and books provided for them. The profit to
be derived from the -work in question will, it is
stated, "be applied to sustain and extend the en-
terprise, and to resist the increasing attacks of our
adversaries."

A letter from Rome states that, on the 20th inst.,
the anniversary of the birthday of the Emperor of
the French, there was a solemn mass in the Basilisk
of St. Jean de Latran to invoke blessings upon the
head of the Sovereign of France, benefactor of the
Chapter of St. Jean de Latran. Several cardinals
were present; and among them Cardinal Antonelli,
Secretary of State. Count de Sartiges, the French
Ambassador, Count de Montebello, and many other
persons of distinction, were present, including the
Countess Campello, a princess of the house of
Bonaparte.

Reports having reached the Minister of Agricul-
ture and Commerce that the cattle distemper had
manifested itself in some of the communes near
Dijon, he sent veterinary surgeons to the depart-
meat of the Cote d'Or to investigate the matter.
They have just reported that the disease which has
appeared among the cattle in that department has
no resemblance to the bovine distemper, and that it
is to be attributed to a season exceptionally wet,
and to privations cf all sorts to which cattle have
been subjected in consequence of the insufficiency
of forage.
The Journal d'Espalion mentions the death of a
widow at ninety years of age. She was of very
miserable, sordid habits, but at her death she was
possessed of 40,000 fr. She never paid for food, but
was fed by her neighbours, at whose fires she
warmed herself in cold weather. A little time
before her death, however, she made a will, leaving
3,000 fr. to the parish church: She called a meeting
of persons who owed her money,and said she would
make them a present of the amount. The rest of
her money she left to be distributed among some
poor families, and a few days before her death she
parchased some wood for them. Though no money
was left to her relations they found a good many
pieces of gold concealed about the miserable room.
She was always clothed in rags.
The financial Committee of the great Exhibition
have already taken steps to organise a club for
foreigners. It is tobe callel the Circle International,
and it seems likely to form a very useful and attrac-
tive feature of this great undertaking. The club-
room will be capacious and elegant, and the esta-
blishment will comprise all the features of a first-
rate club, and something more. The exhibition
will be closed at 5 o'clock in the evening, but mem-
bers of the club will be able to stop there till 11
o'clock, and at that hour there will be trains for all
parts of Paris, so that, live where you may, you
may be at home in 10 minutes. There is no lack
of clubs in Paris, but this International Club, to
which members may be admitted on very moderate
terms, seems likely to prove the most useful and
agreeable of them all. Our principal clubs
are the Agricultural Club, the Artists' Club, the
Railway Club, the Commercial Club, the United
States Club, the Jockey Club,, the Imperial Club,
the Paris, arid the Union. Every day marvellous
promises are held out about the Exhibition. One,
of the papers sneaks of a gigantic ball in the Champs
Elysks, to be given by the authorities of the city of
Paris, to which 30,000 persons are to be invited.
Fancy what an orchestra there must be to produce
" a concord of sweet sounds," while all those per-
sons trip it on the " light fantastic toe."
The clerk of the branch Bank of France at Poitiers,
who managed very adroitly to abstract 700,0001.
and decamp, has been arrested at New York, and
the usual proceedings under the extradition treaty
have commenced with a view to his being brought
to Paris for trial. The regulations for the safety