The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-30 00:00:00

affords the best and most conducive answer to the
extravagant remarks and exaggerated accounts of
those who have been so busy in their defence of
demagogues and fanatics.

The arrival of the Canada, from New York on
the 18th, brings us general news of interest if not
of great importance. The principal feature in the
intelligence concerns the efforts made by certain
parties to stir up the popular feeling in the States
against this country, efforts which, happily, proved
less mischievous than their instigators hoped or
expected. The laconic and decided terms in which
their wishes or intentions are expressed would be
almost amusing were it not for the gravity of the
question and the momentous interests with which it
deals. The words of the resolution which Mr.
CHANDLEP. introduced into the Senate were few
but emphatic. " Whereas England refuses to settle
the Alabama claims, the PRESIDENT is requested to
withdraw the American Minister from England, and
issue a proclamation of national non-intercourse."
Fortunately, the American Senators were not pre-
pared to take such a plunge in medias res, and
thought it was rather a different thing to indulge in
a little wholesome abuse of the Britisher from be-
ginning a war with England, while the American
relations with France were still unsettled, and while
the national finances were not altogether in a flourish-
ing condition. Even allowing for a good deal of
forbearance and inaction on the part of the
English Government and people, and supposing
that a little display of bluster and pretension might
be quietly overlooked, what would the commercial
men of both countries say to " national non-inter-
course ?" So wise and enlightened a motion would
not have been very likely to have gained the sup-
port of the PRESIDENT, but, happily, it did not go
so far. A vote of 25 to 12 " tabled" it, according
to the American phrase, or laid it aside ; so that,
excepting as a display of the vehemence and extra-
vagance of certain parties, very little has been
effected by Mr. CHANDLER'S resolution. Other
matters are quiet enough. The New York Times
denies the rumoured Cabinet changes, and the
Herald reports that the PRESIDENT is ill, but not
seriously so. Mr. JOHNSON'S responsibilities are
certainly arduous and exhausting enough to try
any man's strength, but, fortunately, as the angry
passions excited by the war die out, and the com-
mon sense and good feeling of the country obtain
a hearing, the public voice is speaking more and
more decidedly in support of the general policy of
the PRESIDENT. Errors of judgment there may be,
and every Government, whatever its course, must
naturally offend some party or another, but
the wise and conciliatory principles on which
Mr. JOHNSON' s dealings with the Southern
States are founded cannot fail, on the
whole, to commend themselves to every reflecting
mind. If the object to be attained is not the
temporary triumph or elevation of a political party,
but the prosperity and welfare of the whole nation,
the Senators and Representatives of the North mast
refuse to listen to clamour and denunciation, and
must resolutely set themselves to consider the best
means of restoring that internal tranquillity and
commercial industry which have been so rudely dis-
turbed. The re-establishment of the old forms of
Southern industry will, as Kr. JOHNSON
sagaciously pointed out some time since, be
the best and most efficacious means of settling
troublesome questions. It would give employment
and the means of livelihood to the freed negro, and
at the same time reopen the channels of com-
mercial enterprise, and afford the best means to
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is a serious loss to the North as well as to the South
while the fertile plantations of the Confederacy lay
waste and uprofitable, and it is not possible for the
whites of the South to remain much longer in their
present wretched condition. The reconstruction
policy of the PRESIDENT seems, on the whole, to
have worked well, but we are sorry to find the re-
ported withdrawal of the Federal troops iu Georgia
and Alabama to be unfounded. An application has,
it seems, been made to General GRANT to that
effect, but he replied that he could not recommend
such a step until there was ample security for the
protection of all classes in the late rebellious States.
This is a pity, because so long as the presence of
foreign troops reminds the Southerners that they
are a conquered people, so long will the old feeling
of irritation and antagonism be kept up. General
GRANT perhaps wisely doubts the propriety of arming
the militia while the Federal troops remain in the
South.

The trial of Mr. DAVIS is still talked about,
though nothing has been actually done. In the
Senate a resolution has been offered and laid over,
recommending the trial of Mess's. DAvis and CLAY
by a military commission immediately. Several
employes at Fort Monroe have, it is said, been dis-
missed in consequence of fears that they intended
to attempt the rescue of the ex-PRESIDENT. These
persons were formerly in the service of the Con-
federate Government, though how such persons
should have been employed in any capacity about
a State prisoner is not a little remarkable ! We
trust that Mr. JOHNSON may soon see his way suf-
ficiently clear to escape from his difficult position
with regard to the rival Presidents with dignity and
magnanimity.

It is reported from Toronto that arrangements
have been concluded with Washington to continue
the Reciprocity Treaty, so it is possible that the
merchants and traders of the States have awoke to
the injury that will be inflicted on their interests by
the rash and foolish measure which was dictated by
the Anglo-phobia of certain classes. Commerce sel-
dom looks much beyond its own concerns, and is
not likely to be influenced by political enthusiasm
or party feeling. It is to be hoped that the rumour
will prove to be well founded, and that the renewal
of the Treaty will be the inauguration of a better
and more cordial understanding between the two
countries.

THE THREE CALENDARS REDIVIVUS.—Sir John
Lawrence has sent three native agents, disguised
as merchants, to explore Central Asia by different routes.
Each one is independent of the others, and kept in igno-
rance of their appointment, so that on their return three
independent narratives may be looked for. They are in-
structed to take note of all that they see, to observe the
temper of the different peoples among whom they travel,
whether movements are taking place in favour of Russia,
and to visit Bokhara, Khokand, and Samareand before
they turn back.

MR. GOSCIIEN'S MYSTERIOUS RISE, politicians
have taken the trouble to explain, says the Saturday
Review, by a reference to the agency of Mr. Gladstone.
Nothing is more likely than this. There is probably the
same sympathy between Mr. Goschen and Mr. Gladstone
that there was between Mr. Gladstone and the late Sir
Robert Peel. Both nurtured in the chief seats of com-
merce, and early transplanted to the chief seats of learning
—both distinguished for their mastery of classical lore, and
their familiarity with questions of trade and finance—they
have strong ties of common interest and common pursuits.
It remains to be seen whether the future fame of Mr.
Goschen will fully bear out the parallel which we havo in-
stituted. If it does not, a strong additional argument against
this active influence of Mr. Gladstone will be furnished to
those who already recognise the staff of more than one de-
partment. For, however readily a political party or a
civil department may pardon, in a chief so able, so elo-
quent, and so full of knowledge as Mr. Gladstone, other
qualities neither so useful nor so admirable, it is anything
but matter of rejoicing for a great public office to see its
own permanent staff disarranged to make way for some
Gladstone-and-water parasite, who, without a fraction of
his great model's eloquence, knowledge, or ingenuity, has
all his crotchets, all his waywardness, all his obstinacy, all
his love of domination.