The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

AMERICA

ARRIVAL OF THE NOVA SCOTIA.
QUEENSTOWN, May 25.

The Royal Mail steamship Nova Scotia, from
New York on the 16th inst., arrived at Queens-
town at 8.15 p.m. this evening (25th inst.), with
276 cabin passengers and 3,092,734 dols. in specie.
She landed 127 sacks of mails and 53 passengers,
and proceeded for Liverpool at 8.45 p.m. All well.
The Nova Scotia experienced strong easterly winds
during the passage.

NEW YORK, May 16 (Evening)

President Johnson sent to the Senate yesterday
his veto upon the bill admitting Colorado as a State
into the Union. The Senate adjourned without
reading the veto message, the promulgation of which
was consequently suppressed.
The veto is reported to be based upon the grounds
that the population of Colorado is not sufficient to
justify or require the establishment of a State Go-
vernment, that the admission of Colorado as a State
is incompatible with the public interests while 11
States entitled to vote in such matters are excluded
from representation.

The Washington correspondents of the Herald,
Times, and TVorid pronounce the adjournment of the
Senate without reading the veto 'message as an ex-
pression of contempt and insult to the President.
In the House of Representatives, Mr. Chandler
(Democrat) has offered a resolution declaring the
President's course to be patriotic and constitutional
in seeking to protect by his veto and power the
rights of the people against the wicked and revolu-
tionary acts of malignant and mischievous men.
The action of the President, he said, merited the
approval of the House and deserved the support
of all loyal men. Mr. Chandler also moved that
the Freedmen's Bureau, being unnecessary, should
be abolished. The house rejected the resolution by.
82 against 22 votes, and afterwards passed a reso-
lution censuring Mr. Chandler for attempting a
gross insult to the house.
The house has passed a bill prohibiting the denial
of the right of suffrage in territories on account of
colour.

The President has signed the amendment to the
Habeas Corpus Act, protecting the military officers
from civil prosecutions for acts done in discharge of
official duties.

The indictment against Mr. Davis specifies that
on the 15th of June, 1864, he conspired with others
at Richmond to overthrow by force of arms the
Government of the United States. It is reported
that his trial will take place early in June, and that
Chief Justice Chase has consented to preside if
President Johnson will proclaim the abrogation of
martial law so far as the jurisdiction of the district
court of Virginia is concerned.
The health of Mr. Davis is rapidly failing. The
President has ordered a special report of his physical
condition to be made, and the rigour of his confine-
ment to be immediately relaxed.
Mr. Davis is said to have expressed great plea-
sure at the prospect of his speedy trial, and to have
declared that he can make a successful defence.
Mr. M'Culloch has sent to the Finance Committee
the draft of a new bill for funding the national debt
in a 5 per cent. consolidated loan.
General Santa Anna has arrived at Washington.
He denies the current rumours that he is acting in
connivance with the Emperor Maximilian. It is
reported that he comes to promote the interests of
the republican cause in Mexico.
The cholera has disappeared in the Halifax qua-
rantine, and is rapidly abating in the New York
quarantine.
The City of Paris, Germania, Moravian, and
Java have arrived out.

A Fenian mass meeting took place yesterday at
Jones Wood, but it was not so large or enthusiastic
as was anticipated. The Senato faction took no
part in the proceedings, and neither Roberts nor
Sweeny was present.
Stephens delivered a long speech describing the
origin and progress of Fenianism. He exhorted
Irishmen to be united, and they would be fighting
British troops in Ireland in the open field within
the present year ; but if unity in America could
not be obtained, the Irish at home would be dis-
pirited, the organisation be broken up, and the
Irish race exterminated iu Ireland. He had sent
invitations to Sweeny, Roberts, and others, but was
sorry to say that only a few of them had been to
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the brotherhood, he thought it best that he alone
should address them. O'Mahony, he added, 'had
acted patriotically in resigning. Stephens also
declared that money was necessary and must be
obtained.

O'Mahony's regiment paraded in the grounds,
in violation of the order of General Sandford, corn-
manding the State militia, who had prohibited the
parade of any troops wearing the State uniform or
carrying the State arms on the occasion.

General Hooker visited Stephens yesterday.
Several circles and a number of prominent Fenians
declare that they will still adhere to the Senate
faction, which continues to occupy the premises in
Broadway and conduct business independently of
Stephens.

No funds are being raised by either faction, be-
yond occasional individual donations.
Money abundant. Gold, 1301. Exchange on
London, 143 ; on Paris, 3.93. Stocks quiet. New
York Centrals, 93+ ; Illinois, 1211 ; Erie, 741 ;
Five-Twenty Bonds, 1011. Cotton buoyant—Mid.
Upland, 35c. ; receipts in two days, 2,000 bales ;
sales for two days, 3,000 bales; export of the week,
6,000 bales. Flour and wheat declining. Corn
heavy. Provisions steady. Coffee very dull. Sugar
quiet. Molasses steady. Petroleum dull—crude,
28c. ; refined, 42ic.
NEW ORLEANS, May 15.
Cotton improving. Receipts in four days, 3,500
bales. Stock, 157,000 bales.

RELIGIOUS CENSUS OF PRISONERS. —ln the year
1865 26,360 prisoners were committed to these four pri-
sons—the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields ; the
House of Correction, Westminster; the Middlesex House
of Detention, Clerkenwell ; and the City Prison, Holloway.
Of these prisoners 18,759 described themselves as of the
religion of the Church of England, 7,207 were Roman
Catholics, 114 Jews, 277 Dissenters, and 3 declared them-
selves of no religion. The number in custody on a given
day in April was 2,803, of whom 603 were Roman Catho-
lics. In noticing the great number of the latter, as com-
pared with the utmost number of persons in the metropo-
litan district that can be supposed to belong to that com-
munion, it must not be overlooked that an unusually large
proportion of that body are of the lowest class.

THE AUSTRIAN GENERALS.—The Salta Public, of
Lyons, gives the subjoined account of some of the
principal Austrian Generals :—" The really distinguished
leaders of the Austrian army are few in number, and nearly
all well advanced in years. They served in 1812 and 1813
under Prince de Schwartzenburg, made the campaign of
Hungary in 1849, that of Italy against Charles Albert, and
that of 1859—the most important of all. In case of war,
those who appear destined to the principal commands aro
the following :—T he Archduke Albert, son of the im-
mortal Prince Charles; Marshal Henry de Hesse, Benedek,
Schwartzenburg, and Clam-Gallas. Marshal de Hesse is
73 years of age, spare in person, and of active mind and
habits. His career dates from the battle of Wagram, in
which he took part, being then in his 17th year. It was he
who decided the Austrian victory over the Piedmontese in
1848 by the strategical movement from Verona, and he took
a very active part in the battle of Novara. The Italians
regard him as a formidable enemy, and admit that he will
give them no little trouble. Prince de Schwartzenburg is
tall, well made, and very vigorous, notwithstanding his 72
years. In 1848 he commanded a division of cavalry in
Italy ; he distinguished himself at the battle of Comorn, in
Hungary, by preventing, with his division, the insurgents
from debouching on the right bank of the Danube. At the
battle of Magenta ho commanded the third corps d'armee,
with which he covered the retreat of the Austrians. At
Solferino he was in the left wing, opposed to General Niel.
He is one of the most brilliant officers of the Austrian army
and is, moreover, an author. Marshal Benedek is only 58.
While a colonel, in 1848, he fought in the campaign
against the Piedmontese. In 1859, he commanded the
Bth corps at San Martino. Since Radetzky's death he has
been first warrior of Austria. It is probable that he will
be charged to oppose the Prussians. The life of Count
Clam-Gallas has been very active ; he has shared in all the
wars of Austria since 1848. In Hungary, however, he only
succeeded in vanquishing the aged General Bem through
the aid of the Russians. At present he commands the Ist
corps of the Austrian army at Prague. We must not omit
to mention General '.3-ablenz, who commanded the Austrians
in the war against Denmark, and General Ramming, to
whom Austria were indebted in the Hungarian campaign
for the decisive success obtained at Tames war."

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, May 25.
To-day is the anniversary of the birth of her
Royal Highness Princess Helena.
The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon in a
carriage and four, accompanied by her Royal High-
ness Princess Helena and attended by the Dowager
Duchess of Athole.

Her Majesty went out in the grounds this morn-
ing with the Princess Helena. Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur walked and
drove.

His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe"
Weimar dined with the Queen and the Royal famiiY
yesterday.

Her Majesty's Visit to Cliveden.
ller Majesty the Queen is expected to arrive at
Cliveden, the seat of the Dowager Duchess of
Sutherland, to-day. Nearly all the Duchess's ser-
vants have left the mansion, and have been re-
placed by a large number of the Royal domestics,
expressly sent to Cliveden to attend the Queen and
Royal family. Wines, liqueurs, and other articles
have been forwarded to the house, and it was et
first intended that the Royal purveyors who supPlY
the Castle should also do the same for Cliveden.
ller Majesty, however, has issued orders that the
tradespeople of Maidenhead (which is nearer than -
Windsor) should provide for the Court during its
stay at the Duchess's seat. Few of the country
palaces of our nobility can vie with Cliveden for the
loveliness of its situation and the beauty of the Bur'
rounding scenery. The present mansion, a stately
edifice, consisting of a central block, with two wing 3:
enclosing a courtyard, and in the Italian style et
architecture, was erected by the Duke and Duchei%
of Sutherland in 1851 from the designs of Sir c;
Barry, an inscription to that effect running wine;
the upper portion of the four sides of the central
building. The inclosed courtyard faces the north,while
opposite the entrance is a broad and handsome drive
lined on each side with stately elm and other tree!,
and terminating in a dense mass of shrubbery. Origi-
nally, there is no doubt, this was the grand ell;
trance. The house is, however, now approache'
from the Burnham-road. From this a windi3i
carriage drive, hedged with laurels, shrubs, 831,,
trees, leads to the house through what gardeael
call the " wilderness," but which at the presen
moment is a perfect Eden, thronged with nightie-.
gales, blackbirds, and thrushes in full song, and ea;
joying an atmosphere loaded with perfume from til
wild narcissus and myriads of spring flowers which
here abound. On the north-west of the house eroio
the kitchen garden and stables, and close to these ,8
a handsome Italian campanile, 110 ft. high, t'
upper balcony being reached by a spiral staircase,:
It is not, however, till the visitor passes throtlP,
the mansion to the south front that the beauty °O.'
the site can be appreciated. In front of the terrace
lies the great flower garden, a broad and slightl
sunk expanse of turf, with flower beds in the Frac
style. These are backed on the east and west by
trees
the continuous foliage of which forms all the
tensive vista, stretching away down the slope of t's
hill upon which Cliveden is perched to the Thanlew;
the river being seen winding among the rneati°,o
and trees in the direction of Maidenhead.
Cliveden 4‘ great flower garden" is famous for 1S6
spring and winter flowers, and the disposal of
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in serpentine ribands along the base of the e°llol,
terrace by the Duchess's gardener, Mr. J•
ing, the author of " Spring and Winter Fl°"use
Gardening," is highly ingenious. Cliveden °
(anciently Cliefden), erected by Villiers, seo g
Duke of Buckingham, was successively used 3..,03
residence by the Earl of Orkney, Frederick Prirl'ar,
of Wales, the Earl of Inchiquin, Sir George I' of
render, and, finally, the Duke and Duchess
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Sutherland. It has been twice destroyed by
The south terrace, already mentioned, is 443 id
long, and beneath it, in the centre, is a 61.1;
vaulted chamber, with an orched opening t° the
" great flower garden." From the house Homer n-
walks and drives lead to the " Alcove," bowlii:'
green, apiary, and Cliveden springs ; while thronte
9-Wa?l,oslaileis in. the foliage beautiful views ridge,t
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