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DENT is reported to have said that the Radical party
were almost ready to go into rebellion again rather
than have their supremacy destroyed by the re-in-
troduction of the South. As for their theories on
behalf of the negro he regarded them with some
suspicion. He believed that a great part of
their philanthropic professions meant nothing
n lore than a desire to work upon the feel-
ings of the North so as to strengthen
themselves. The end of the course which they were
following would he, if unchecked, a war of races,
in which the negro would be sure to be the
chief sufferer. The exclusion of the Southern re-
presentatives Mr. JOHNSON showed to be as un-
reasonable as unjust. " The very thing which we
said these Southern States could never do, which
we fought these four years to prevent them doing,
these men (the Radicals) affirm that they have
actually done, namely, been out of the Union."
Mr. LINCOLN, argued his successor, very justly
offered to receive the whole rebel Legislature of
Richmond. Would he then have refused to re-
ceive those States which have already submitted ?
The testimony of Vice-President STEPHENS fully
confirms the view thus taken by the PRESIDENT.
When examined before the Reconstruction Com-
mittee he somewhat puzzled his interlocutors by his
sound constitutional law. The able and experi-
enced jurist was quite able to hold his ground even
against the unrelenting cross-questioning of the
Fifteen who were so anxious to obtain answers
criminating the South. The inconsistency which
their own PRESIDENT so strongly denounces
of making war to keep the Southern States in
the Union, and then declaring they are out of it,
was unhesitatingly exposed by Mr. STEPHENS. He
spoke not only as the representative of the people
of Georgia, that vast State in the far South, memor-
able in connection with SHERMAN'S march, but
also as the spokesman of the whole Southern
people, who could scarcely have desired a more able
or worthy advocate. While expressing their will-
ingness to abide by the result of the war, and
their desire to regain their constitutional privi-
leges, he boldly declared that Congress has
no jurisdiction over the question of suf-
frage ; and that Georgia, at least, would con-
sent to no more conditions before reunion.
As for emancipation, that is no longer a difficulty,
since all the States must abide by the constitutional
amendment ; but it is a very different thing to per-
mit the predominant party in Congress the power
to be continually altering and touching up the
laws of every State, according to the whim of the
hour. We cannot but believe that the good sense
of the people is inclining more and more to the sup-
port of the PRESIDENT and his policy, a fact which
the Reconstruction Committee themselves appear
to perceive from the increased moderation of -their
tone. The PRESIDENT will yet, we hope, live to see
his principles triumph, and be rewarded by the
unanimous applause of his countrymen, as he must
already be by the approval of his conscience, for
his efforts to restore peace and harmony in place of
dissension and discord.

The question of disarmament is not yet settled,
but gives rise to constant discussion and counter-
discussion. Austria has replied to the last note of
Prussia to state that she is quite willing to take the
initiative in demobilising her troops, but that the
armaments in Italy compel her to take measures for
the protection of her frontiers, so that very likely it
may be some time yet before the mighty question is
settled. This is unfortunate, because changes may
occur which will complicate matters and render it
difficult to disarm at all in a short time. A despatch
is expected from Berlin, of which the tenour
will be, that Prussia cannot consider the
proposals of Austria to be serious while she arms
against Italy. It is also expected, says the de-
spatch, that Austria should re-establish the status
quo ante in Venetia. Altogether, with one thing
and another, we do not think the prospects of peace
are so good as they were a few days ago. To lose
time is always an unfavourable sign in such a work
as that of disarmament, and indeed we learn that
in Paris last evening greet uneasiness prevailed re-
specting the probabilities of war. This looks bad,
because we are most likely to hear the
first intimation of the war breaking out from
France, and at any rate it is an unfavourable sign
that there should be any talk of its likelihood. it
is said that Count KAROLYI, the Austrian Minister
at Berlin, has been instructed to request for expla-
nations concerning the alleged arrangements be-
tween Prussia and Italy. It is only surprising that
some such request was not made before ; and, in-
deed, it is cool of Prussia to make such a demur
about the Austrian armaments in Italy, when she
had entered into a kind of treaty herself. We sus-
pect that this last manoeuvre of Herr BISMARCK'S
will turn out very like some of his preceding ones,
and prove to his disadvantage in the long run. It is
this cause of the failure, of the plan of disarmament,
which is its first fruit, and no doubt we have worse
yet to witness of its workings.

From Vienna we learn that the Austrian Govern-
ment has decided on the most energetic military
measures in Venetia, so this again looks bad for the
chance of peace. Orders have been given for the
stoppage of the direct ordinary traffic to Italy on
the Southern Railway, and trains will run daily
for the conveyance of troops. After all that has
been said about peace, and the heavy sa-
crifices that the nations of Europe have
paid for it, we should not wonder if
Austria, Prussia, France, and Italy were soon
embroiled. The entire blame of this last serious
quarrel rests with Prussia. The mistaken policy
pursued by the KING ever since his accession to the
throne has been gradually tending in a dangerous
direction, while the unhappy coincidence of his
possessing at this critical juncture a man like Bis-
MARCK for his chief adviser has been indeed
most ruinous to the interests and honour of
Prussia both at home and abroad. It is
said that the French Government has sent
Notes both to Austria and Prussia, urging
on their respective Governments the importance and
advantage of maintaining peace unbroken, but we
cannot put much faith in the effect of such counsel.
Austria has become so involved that she can hardly
help herself, as it were, and must go on while
Prussia has entered on the dangerous cause of
annexation in such an insensate spirit, that we
certainly hope nothing from her consideration and
good feeling. Things can hardly go on in this un-
certain style for many weeks longer, because great
injury is being done to great interests in consequence
of the unsettled state of the German Powers. In
Paris it is said that an unfavourable impression has
been produced by the last reply of Count BISMARCK
to the Austrian Government. It is most overbear-
ing in its tone, and insolent in its language. If this
be true, Austria cannot well submit to it, after all
that has passed between her and her ally on the sub
ject in dispute. There is no one more likely to mar
a negotiation than the Berlin
to h
rlin Minister,avethea lastndwha:od.vrer
transpires he always seeks

The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, who
have been passing a few days at Brighton, will return to
their roidence Cirosynor-square to-daY,

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

LA TEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

(FRO3I OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, Saturday Evening.

The Moniteur, in its summary of the news of the
day, in its first column, says :—" Various private
telegraphic despatches have arrived from Italy since
yesterday. It results from the information they
give that the Austrian Government has called into
active service the land and sea recruits in all parts
of Venetia, the transport of goods on the railways
is already contemplated, and that from the Ist of
May the passenger trains will be also suspended.
Various changes in the garrisons have been made
along the line of the Adriatic. The regiments
formed of Italian soldiers have been replaced by
regiments from Croatia. The fortifications have
been provisioned."
The Emperor and the Prince of Denmark were
again present at the last Spring Meeting in the Bois
de Boulogne yesterday. The following is the result
of the races. Prix des Tertres, 2,000 f. ; Gaulois,
1 ; Anisette, 2 ; Rabat Joie, 3 ; amount of the
stakes, 2,450 f. Prix du Trocaders, 3,000 f.: Collet
Monte, 1 ; Sexy°la, 2 ; Pincette, 3. Prix de l'Em-
pereur, 10,000 f. given by his Majesty, added to a
sweepstakes of 1,000 f.: Lesbos, 1; Czar, 2; Stilton,
3 ; betting, 7 to 1 against Lesbos ; total amount,
26,500 f. ; 2,000 f. to the second horse. Prix du
Lai, B,ooof. : Fidelite, 1; Anglo-Saxon, 2 ; Prince
Regent, 3 ; total amount, 10,275 f. ; I,ooof. to the
second horse. Prix de Neuilly, 4,000 f. : Meli-Melo,
1 ; Equivotce, 2 ; La Menagere, 3 ; amount of the
stakes, 4,300 f. The Chantilly races will begin next
Sunday.
It often happens that singers who are much
puffed in advance disappoint when they come to be
heard. This has been the case with Mdlle. Mela,
who appeared at the Italiens on Saturday, in
" l'ltaliana in Algeri." The reception was very
cold, although it was annpunced by some of the
critics that it would be enthusiastic in the extreme.
One musical writer of note speaking of this debut
says, "The voice of Mdlle. Mela has nothing re-
markable, neither as to eclat, sweetness, nor charm.
Her notes are only those of an ordinary contralto.
The disappointment spread itself throughout the
whole of the representation."

SPAIN.

The Journal des Debats, referring to the attempt
to assassinate the Emperor of Russia says, " It is
now proved that the man who attempted to murder
the Emperor of Russia is a Russian, and that he
belongs to the sect of Socialist levellers. This sect
is now very numerous in Russia, and the Govern-
ment itself has very much favoured its extension by
calling to favour Messrs. Milutine, Tcherkoskoi, and
other men of similar stamp, and by giving up to
them Poland as a field for their experiments. One
influential Russian paper expressed the gratification
it felt that the assassin was not a Russian,
but a Pole. The accused, however, has
himself declared that he is a Russian. He
speaks the Russian language perfectly, and, accord-
ing to the lnvalicle Russe, the Emperor, on receiving
the deputation from the Senate who came to congra-
tulate him on his escape, said "the most melancholy
thing is that the assassin is a Russian." All this,
however, has not prevented the ultra-Muscovites
from making the attempt at assassination the pre-
text for exciting the passions of the populace. When
it was supposed that the man was a Pole there were
some very violent demonstrations against the Poles
at the theatres and elsewhere. Now it is proved
that the assassin is a Russian, the Gcvernment has
appointed a commission to inquire whether he has
any accomplices, the desire being to afford proof
that he is supported by the Poles.
Another most wonderful change has taken place
in the weather. Yesterday, during the day, it was
peculiarly sultry, but towards evening there came
suddenly a very cold wind, accompanied by copious
and violent rain. To-day the wind has been very
cold, and a great deal of rain has fallen. In fact,
from mid-summer the weather has suddenly veered
round to mid-winter. Saturday and yesterday were
July days. To-day we have come back to Decem-
ber or January. Rain, however, was very much
wanted in the country, and farmers were beginning
to complain of the drought. The French weather
prophets have been a little wrong in their calcula-
tions, for they announced fine and steady weather.
The Emperor has conferred the title of duke
upon Count Colonna, Walewski, President of the
Legislative Body. This makes the seventh duke
created by the Emperor, viz., the Duke de Mala-
koff, de Montmorot (son of the Queen Christina of
Spain), de Magenta, de Morny, de Montmorency,
and now the Duke de Walewski. Two of these
dukes are dead, viz., the Dukes de Malakoff and
de Montmorot.

An Antwerp paper states that the wife of a shoe-
maker at Lieme (Belgium) has given birth to five
girls, who with the mother are all in perfect heath
and proper conformation.

The second volume of the Emperor's work, the
" Life of Caesar," is about to be issued from the
Imperial printing office. Extraordinary precautions
were taken to prevent any portion of the work from
obtaining premature publicity. The forms of the
type were locked up every night and the key given

in charge to the foreman, M. de Petetin. Only a
few copies of this private edition will be sold, it
being intended chiefly for presentation by the Em-
peror.

The Bourse has been in an agitated state to-day,
although I believe no actual news has arrived to
warrant the unfavourable impression. An influen-
tial paper of last evening, however, had an antici-
pation that hostilities would immediately commence
in Germany and Italy, and some of the papers of
this morning re-echo the impression, although with-
out facts to justify the opinion.

Explosion on Board the European at Colon.

LIVERPOOL, April 30.

MADRID, APRIL 30 (Evening).

Prince Olozaga has appealed to the Progressist
party to attend in large numbers at the great na-
tional fete which takes place every year on the 2d
ay to celebrate the granting of the Constitution.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, APRIL 30 (Evening)

The European was a new steamer, this being her
second voyage. She was built in Liverpool, by
Messrs. James Quiggin and Co. ; her gross register
was 1,684 tons, and not 1,350 tons. Her ill-fated
commander was Mr. J. E. Cole, who had been in
the service of the West India and Pacific Company
since its formation. Her crew consisted of 41 per-
sons all told.

The Chamber of Deputies to-day unanimously
approved the following resolution introduced by
Signor Mordini—

" That at this momentous crisis every prepara-
tion for war should be made."

The bill presented by Signor Scialoja, Minister
of Finance, authorises the Government to provide,
by royal decrees and by extraordinary measures, the
financial means necessary for the defence of the
country. The Minister demanded that the bill
should be immediately discussed. The deputies are
accordingly holding an extraordinary evening sitting
to discuss the bill.
It is stated that the Minister of the Interior has
made the necessary preparations for the mobilisation
of the National Guard.

It appears that the glonoin oil that caused the
destruction came from the Continent, through
Grimsby, and was shipped by a Liverpool firm as
ordinary merchandise, so that the company had no
opportunity of refusing it altogether, or taking
extra precautions. The glonoin oil is stated to be
a recent chemical discovery of much greater explo-
sive powers than gunpowder, and is used in blasting
hard rock, and in mines. _ _

ITALY AND VENETIA.
PREPARATIONS FOR WAR.

MILAN, April 28.

Advices from Trevisa, dated 24th inst., published
by the Pungolo of this city, announce that the pre-
sent movement of troops in Venetia, as well,as the
precipitancy and vast scale of the military measures
now being carried out, even surpass the efforts
made by the Austrian Government in 1859. It
may be said, without exaggeration, that every town
has been transformed into a barrack. Italian
troops are sent with all despatch into the Austrian
provinces, and are replaced as rapidly as possible
by German regiments destined to occupy the line
of the Po.

The following is the text of the Austrian procla-
mation, calling out the reserves and recalling the
men on furlough :

" Trevisa, April 23.

" By Imperial order, all soldiers on furlough, or
belonging to the reserve in the Lombardo-Venetian
Kingdom, of whatever regiment, corps, or troop,
without exception, are called under arms, and will
report themselves immediately at the respective
military bureaux under penalty of being rigorously
treated as deserters.

The following is a list of the survivors :—Mr.
Rhodes, first engineer ; R. Nesbitt, second ditto,
seriously wounded ; C. F. Drum, chief steward ; Mr.
James, third officer; G. Hinchcliffe, second steward;
Adjee, third ditto ; W. Simpson, fourth ditto ; G.
Mellor, chief cook ; B. Mellor, second ditto ; W.
Stanley, boatswain's mate ; Robert Cunningham,
quartermaster ; John Roberts, ditto ; IVilliam
Collins, ditto
; Walter Brooke, A.B. ; William
Jones, A.B. ; Edward Betworth, A.B. ; Edwin
Brooks, A.B. ; Thomas Roberts, A.B. ; James
Hughes, boy ; James M'Pherson and James Arnold,
trimmers (in the hospital, wounded) ; John Adams,
James Martin, William Murphy, James Doran,
Thomas Davis, and Thomas Bailey, firemen (the
latter three are in the hospital wounded) ; Thomas
Walker and Jacob Francis, Jamaica men.

" The present notification is communicated to
all whom it may concern, and will not only be pub-
lished in the usual places, but also in the churches
by the care of the reverend cures.
(Signed) " TIRETE,
" Imperial Royal Adjunct of the District."
The following despatch has also been received
here :

" Verona, April 25.

" A telegraphic Ministerial order has been re-
ceived ordering the suspension of all goods traffic
on the railways. The trains that were about ,to
start were obliged to unload their goods waggons.
The Archduke Albert has arrived here. His staff
officers speak of only of an approaching campaign.
In this city all the preparations are made with so
much haste and in such proportions as to induce
the belief that hostilities would commence in ten or
twelve days."

FLORENCE, April 28.

All the intelligence received here from Venetia
confirms the magnitude and precipitancy of the
Austrian military preparations. It is calculated
that the present strength of the Austrian army in
Venetia will be augmented by 60,000 to 80,000
men, and that by the Ist May, or within a few days
from that date, Austria will have assembled a total
effective force of 160,000 men in that province. On
the 25th instant, the railway line will be opened
from Padua to Monselice for the exclusive use
of the military service. The bridges of the new rail-
way from Padua to the Adige, and those on the line
from Verona to Peschiera are guarded by military
detachments. The Austrian Government has offered
a premium to the contractor for laying the railway
line from Padua to Rovigo, if he shall finish it
within a month.

Strange ! Can any one account for it ? We
cannot help recalling just now very vividly to
mind the exemplary manner in which " mine
ancient Pistol " chewed and swallowed the
leek, under the sardonic eye of FLUELLEN, and in
the gaze of the whole army ! Another and kindred
remembrance also recurs to us—very oddly—
(why urn earth should it ?)—namely, the recol-
lection of Mawworm's unctuous ejaculation in the
Hypocrite, " I likes to be despised." Some parties
(to use the word in its Parliamentary, not in its slang
sense) have a capacity for standing and falling
somewhat after the fashion of a tomboli.
The more you knock them down, the more reso-
lutely they swing back into au upright—not to say
a very upright—position,

Orders reached Istria from Trieste on the 23d,
calling out for immediate service all the sailors of the
Imperial fleet, a great number of whom were dis-
charged when the reductions were made last year.
The fortifications and redoubts, erected after 1859,
along the coast at Muggia, Pirano, and Veruda,
are being demolished, and war vessels are being con-
centrated at Pola, where works to place the fortress
in a defensive condition are being actively pro-
ceeded with.

Active preparations are being made by the Italian
Government to meet the event of war. This morn-
ing (28th inst.) General Cialdini had an interview
with the King, at which Generals La Marmora,
Pettinengo, Menalrea, and Petitti, were also pre-
sent. It has been decided to arm the volunteers
in all the provinces infested by brigands, in order
to faciliate the concentration of troops ordered by
the Ministry.

An inspection has been made of the fortresses of
Capua and Gaeta, in consequence of which the
Engineers have received orders for the prompt
execution of the necessary repairs, and the comple-
tion of some defensive works that had been aban-
doned from motives of economy. At Naples the
greatest activity prevails in the Government
arsenals and workshops. The artillery in reserve
is being rendered fit for service with all possible
despatch, and orders have been received at Castel-
lamare for the preparation of war material and pro-
vision of every kind.

General Petitti has inspected the works of repair
of the fortifications of Pavia, and has reported in
favour of their immediate completion. Several
batteries of artillery have left Pavia for target
exercise at the camp of Cerano. The 7th
Company of Pontoniers has also left that
city for Piacenza, by order of the Minister
of War. A considerable force of infantry and ar-
tillery is expected shortly at Cardano. The osten-
sible object of this movement is that of exercise at
the Camp of Somma, but it is believed to have been
ordered in view of the event of war. The Lucca
cavalry regiment has left Milan for Lonate-Pozznolo,
and will be cantoned part in that town and the re-
mainder at Terno. This regiment has had three
years' service in the field against the brigands.

FRANCE.

PARIS, MAY 1.

The Constitutionnel of this morning publishes an
article showing that should war break out France
will in no way be responsible. " France," says M.
Paulin Limayrac, " has remained entirely neutral.
She has reserved to herself complete liberty of ac-
tion, and will not be drawn into war against her
will by any occurrence whatsoever."
Owing to the almost total absence of frost during
the past winter, the Paris icehouses have been
unable to obtain supplies from their usual sources.
There will, however, be no deficiency of ice, for
vast quantities are being brought from abroad.
Twenty trucks, each canying five tons, arrived the
day before yesterday from Basle (Switzerland), and
steamers come to Havre every week from Norway
with whole cargoes of ice, generally in large blocks.
The Correctional Tribunal of the Seine has just
condemned M. de Villemessant to 200 fr. fine and
500 fr. damages for a defamatory article in the
Evenement against M. Millaud, and to the insertion
of the judgment in that journal in the same type as
had been used in the incriminated passages ; like-
, wise, Villemessant, having refused to publish an
explanatory letter from Millaud, was further sen-
tenced to 100 f. fine and 150 f. damages, to the in-
sertion of the judgment hi four journals, including
the Evenement, and to the publication of the said
reply in an early number of that journal, or in de-
fault to 60f. damages for each day's delay. M. do

Calonne, editor of the Revue Contemporaine, hav-
ing refused the publication of an explanatory letter
from M. Francois-Vincent Raspail, has been con-
demned to 50f. fine, and in addition to publish the
said letter in the next number of that periodical.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine has just been
engaged during three sittings in trying twenty-eight
persons, most of them minors, charged with coining
or uttering counterfeit money. Seven of them were
acquitted. Of the twenty-one found guilty, four,
whose revelations had promoted the ends of justice,
were discharged without punishment, but are to re-
main under the surveillance of the police for life. One
was given up to his parents on account of his tender
age ; three were ordered to remain in a house of
correction till their twentieth year, and the rest were
condemned to terms of imprisonment varying from
five to ten years.

A fire broke out the day before yesterday in the
workshops of an optician named Pannier, on the
Boulevard Sebastopol, and destroyed property of
the value of 12,000 fr., which was however assured.
A young girl, aged 15, finding her escape cut off
by the flames, threw herself from a first floor win-
dow, and was seriously injured. A child, aged two
years, was also in imminent danger, but was rescued
by a policeman. The origin of the disaster is not
known.

" Whilst the temperature," says the Salut Public
of Lyons, "is very favourable to the budding of
the mulberry trees, the breeders of silkworms are
increasing their complaints of the failure in the seed
brought from Japan. A great alarm prevails in the
silk-producing districts. The Opinione Sericole, an
organ of the trade, states that the breeders of the
neighbourhood of Valrease (Vaucluse) are going in
bodies to return their boxes of eggs to the dealers,
who from the outcry made are obliged to exchange
them or return the money. The failure of the seed
from Japan is attributed to neither the mulberry
trees, the temperature, nor the long voyage, but to
the Japanese themselves. Influenced by their con-
tempt for the bearded men of the West and their
own excessive cupidity, they are said to have
deceived the Europeans by selling them an infe-
rior article in place of one of first quality. Being
packed and exported in unfavourable condition,
the eggs have suffered by the long journey. There
is also reason to add that the Japanese eggs on
arriving at Marseilles did not receive all the at-
tention necessary. Thus, instead of being left ex-
posed to the air in chambers kept at a temperature
of lessthan 46 Fahr., they werekept shut up in their
boxes ; the high temperature which prevailed in
January and February hastened the movement of
the vital germ in the egg, which either perished or
was injured. Consequently, the majority of them
either failed or produced silkworms of an unhealthy
nature."

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