The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOApoN, WEDN ESIJAY EV ENING, MARCH 7, 1866.

were empowered to provide, when necessary, for
of the blacks—a fatal knowledge
thefor
the
lnatzeyn at
in,
e:gro. The Bureau was to be autho-
rised to pure haze or rent estates for their benefit, to
build schools or asylums for them, and although the
confiscation of some white men's lands was expected
to defray part of the expenses, the estimated
amount, zas Mr. JOHNSON took care to inform
the Senate, would bo £5,000,000 a year, no light
burden on. an over-taxed Treasury.

The -PRESrDENT had, besides, another objection
to offer, and one that concerned his own office.
The establishment of the Bureau as a permanent
institution would be equivalent to the creation of a
new Department of State, and give a corresponding
amount of patronage into the hands of theP RESIDENT,
besides an amount of actual and direct influence,
which is, in Mr. JOHNSON'S opinion, inconsistent with
the public interest. In his usual straightforward
and plain-spoken manner, Mr. JOHNSON sums up
the matter :—" The query presents itself whether
the system proposed by the bill will not
practically transfer the entire care, support, and
control of four millions of emancipated slaves to
agents, overseers, or taskmasters, who, appointed at
Washington, are to be located in every county and
parish throughout the United States, containing
freedmen and refugees. Such a system would in-
evitably tend to such a concentration of power in
the Executive which would enable him, if so dis-
posed, to control the action of a numerous class,
and use them for the attainment of his own political
ends." There is already far too much of such in-
fluence and agency in American public life, and Mr.
JOHNSON deserves great credit for boldly exposing
the danger instead of yielding to the temptation of
increased patronage and power.

CDR.RESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

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

The long discussion yesterday in the Corps Legis-
latif upon the subject of Algeria did not present
anything of sufficient interest for your readers to
require a summary. M. Jules Favre and the other
Opposition orators condemned the policy pursued by
the Government in regard to that colony. Their
objections were refuted in a few words by M.
Rouher, the Minister of State, who said that the
object of the Government was the development, the
improvement, and the support of progress in Algeria.
The Opposition amendment was negatived without
a division. When the President, Count Walewski,
said ho should put to the vote the amendment of
M. Jules Favre " and his friends," M. Favre exhi-
bited much displeasure at the expression. M. Favre
said—" I beg your pardon, sir. I cannot thank you
for using that word. We are here all colleagues ;
we ought to be all friends, and we certainly are so
apart from politics and without distinction of opi-
nion. Only I think the words were not Parliamen-
tary." The President did not make any reply.
The point of the amendment was the declaration
that a great development of colonisation was the
only mode of insuring in Africa the triumph of
civilisation after the triumph of arms.

My letter of yesterday mentioned tho dangerous
illness of M. Parisis, Bishop of Arras. I regret to
say that news has been received of his death.
The 3[oniteur of to-day states that the condition
of the Imperial Prince is satisfactory. The disease
is in full decline.

M. Quetaud, an eminent barrister of the Paris
bar, has just died, after a very long and painful
illness.

The news from the Pacific in the London papers
to the 20th January, states that there were then
only two ships of war on the coast of Chili, the
English corvette Shearwater, and the American
gunboat Waterer. This statement is officially con-
tradicted. There is a French corvette l'Egeria at
that station, now anchored before Valparaiso,
which has rendered an important service to foreign
commerce by obtaining from Vice-Admiral Castro-
Mendez, who succeeded the late Admiral Pareja in
command of the Spanish squadron, frequent con-
cessions and privileges. There was no account of
the Chilo-Peruvian squadron, which, according to
report, had sailed with the object of raising the
blockade of Valparaiso by force.
The Minister of Agriculture has published an
official document supplied by the authorities in the
various Departments of France, which gives a much
more favourable report of the position of agriculture
than that supplied by the blue-book presented to
the Chambers at the opening of the session. It was
then estimated that the produce of wheat for the
year 1865 would be deficient to the extent of 10
per cent. The real deficiency is only 2 per cent.
The produce last year was 95,400,000 hectolitres,
and the average produce of the ten preceding years
was 97,000,000 hectolitres. The average consump-
tion of wheat for the whole of France is 90,275,490
hectolitres, viz., 75,391,240 hectolitres for the con-
sumption of the people, 14,197,490 for seed,
1,409,608 for cattle, and 277,152 hectolitres for mis-
cellaneous purposes. France, for agricultural pur-
poses, is divided into 10 geographical regions, in-
cluding Corsica. In 1864 the total produce of
wheat was 111,274,018 hectolitres. In 1865 the
produce was but 95,431,028. The average price in
1864 was 17f. 58c. the hectolitre. In 1865 the
average price was 16f. 41 cents. The imports,
which in 1861 amounted to 10,272,314 quin-
tals, have successively declined to 265,620
quintals, the amount of the exports of 1865.
The exports, which amounted to 922,585 quintals
in 1861, rose in 1865 to 3,583,836 quintals. Tho
customs receipts in 1859 amounted to 111 millions
of francs, in 1865 the amount rose to 123 millions.

The second day's steeplechases at La Marche
were more numerously attended than on the first
day. The Franc Picard (Handicap) for 2,500 fr.
was thus disposed of—Count de la Bigne's bay mare
11. AI. D. first, Sentence second, Magenta third.
Marnes prize, 1,500 fr., Niger first, Perle Fine
second, M. Walsh's bay mare Marie third. The
Avener prize, 1,500 fr., M. Lunel's Milton first,
Vancressor second. The interest of the race was
concentrated upon these two horses, which ran in
magnificent style. Vancressor won only by a head.
The amount of bets on the race was very consider-
able.

There was never probably a more stormy and re-
markable literary meeting than that of the Gens de
Lettres. This second meeting, however, produced
as little result as the first. Alexander Dumas, sen.,
and some of the most eminent literary men of the
day were present. As I have already explained,
the apple of discord is the Tresor Litteraire. The
opposing party demanded a committee of nine
members to revise this book, which was published
under the sanction and authority, and in the name
of the society. You may judge of the interest
created by this work when I tell you that the
Empress has accepted a copy of it. Lemardelay's
rooms in the Rue de Richelieu resembled a bear-
garden. The noise and confusion could have
hardly been greater in the Tower of Babel, or
at the Bourse about two o'clock in the after-
noon. The President, M. Paul Feval, vainly en-
deavoured to quell the storm. The motion
proposed by the dissidents was one imputing blame
upon the Committee by nominating nine members
to revise the Tresor Litteraire. The amendment
was to pass purely and simply to the order of the
day. On a scrutiny the numbers were—For the
order of the day (the Conservatives), 74; against
it, 75 ; white balls, 2. Much cheering followed
the announcement of the register of the order of
the day, but the President explained that the votes
did not sanction the proposal for a Committee of
Revision. An exciting scene ensued. The Presi-
dent put on his hat and said the meeting was over.
An appeal would be made to the Tribunals. This
increased the uproar. The result may be explained,
.in other words, by stating that the accounts are not
approved, the two proposed members of the Com-
mittee are not elected, and the Tresor Litteraire is
still triumphant. In the meantime three members
of the Society—Messrs. Ernest Hamel, Alphonse
Duchesne,
and Jules Claretie—have been charged

to demand further explanations. Tho Chairman
compares the Society to Louis Phillipe, who
granted Reforms demanded when it was too late. I
had almost forgotten to say that many ladies were
present at this turbulent sitting. A member wittily
remarked to one of the ladies, who was almost
frightened at the violence displayed, that she might
have quelled it instantly by rising to speak, for
calmness and anxiety to hear her would have in-
stantly prevailed. The lady, however, perhaps be-
lieves in the Chinese doctrine—Speech is silver,
silence is gold.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TURKEY.
VIENNA, MARCII 7.

Telegrams received here from Constantinople
state that the corps of observation, stationed by the
Porte on the Danube, consists of 18,000 infantry,
4,000 cavalry, and one regiment of artillery. A
reserve corps of 18,000 men will be stationed at
Schumla.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, MARCH 7, Evening.

The Crown Prince of Denmark left this city to-
day for an extensive foreign tour. He was accom-
panied to the railway station by the King, the
Ministers, and many other distinguished personages.
His Royal highness will first proceed direct to
Paris.

they fear to strike. If my blood is to be shed because I
vindicate the Union and the preservation of the Govern-
ment in its purity, let it be shed ; but let the opponents of
the Government remember that the blood of the martyrs
was the seed of the Church. The Union will grow, and
continue to increase in strength and:power though, it may
bo cemented and cleansed with blood."

A densely thronged meeting was held at the Cooper In-
stitute, where all classes of politics were represented. An
address and resolutions were adopted urging the admission
of loyal Southern representatives to Congress, approving
the veto, endorsing Mr. Johnson's policy, and recommend-
ing the call of another meeting whenever the exigency
demanded it to promote harmony in the public councils of
the country.

Mr. Seward made a speech, in which he said that the
country was in no peril, no matter whether the Congres-
sional or the Presidential policy prevailed. This confi-
dence arose from the conviction that there never was, and
never can be, any successful process for the restoration of
union and harmony among the States except that with
which the President has avowed himself satisfied. Loyal
men from the Southern States will sooner or later, during
this or some other Congressional term, be received into the
National Legislature. The restoration will then be com-
plete. Territorial government would require greater im-
perial powers than Napoleon possesses. Maximilian's task,
though he engages two Emperors and two Imperial orga-
nisations with their forces, it is not thought the most wise
or hopeful political enterprise of the day. The Congres-
sional policy was impracticable and vicious. The Presi-
dent considers the present Freedmen's Bureau Bill suffi-
cient, because it remains in force for ono year after the
termination of the rebellion, and no official announcement
of the termination of the rebellion has yet been made.
A committee of influential citizens of New York will
proceed to Washington to confer with the President upon
the best means of sustaining the measures of his Adminis-
tration.

General Sweeney has submitted to the Fenian Congress
at Pittsburg the details of a military plan supposed to be
for invading Canada. A military committee of Fenians
from each State has approved the plan.

Mr. Seward telegraphed from Washington yesterday as
follows :—" It is all right. The Union is restored. The
country is safe. The President's speech is triumphant,
and the country will be happy."
A Radical Republican caucus was held in Washington
last night, at which moderate counsels prevailed. A reso-
lution admitting Tennessee into the Union was offered
and favourably received, but was not pressed to a vote.
Considerable political excitement prevailed in Congress
yesterday, but no particular course of action was taken.
Tho Senate determined, by a vote of 26 to 19, to call up
the report of the majority from the Reconstruction Com-
mittee concerning the admission of Southern representa-
tives. Mr. Fessenden spoke in favour of the report. Mr.
Wilson introduced a bill extending the operations of the
present Freedmen's Bureau Bill for two years. It is be-
lieved that the President will acqui4ce in this.
Ex-Vice-President Stephens delivered an address to the
Georgia Legislature on Washington's birthday, in which
ho said : "The whole United States is now our country,
to be dearly cherished by all hearts and arms." Ile ap-
proved President Johnson's reconstruction policy.
The steamers Cuba and City of Baltimore have arrived
out.