The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEZYPSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1868.

member of one of those City companies who hold
estates in Ireland, has more to say about Irish
affairs, especially as regards the Land Tenure, but
we are glad to find that he does not overlook the
necessity for "an equitable settlement for the
assessment of the poor rates." Mr. TWELLS
considers the foreign policy of the Conservative
Government entitles them to support, while he,
like the others, promises to give much of his atten-
tion to fiscal, financial, and commercial measures.
So far, then, as the City is concerned the Con-
servatives are in full force, while on the Surrey side
of the metropolis they are quite as active. Mr.
COOPE, as we know, is bestirring himself in the
Tower Hamlets, while Mr. MORGAN HOWARD seems
likely to prove a formidable opponent to Alderman
LAWRENCE in Lambeth. Last night both gentle-
men held meetings, and addressed their supporters at
some length. On local questions both promised fairly
and were not very different in their views. The
improvement of the dwellings of the working classes,
the extension of education, the opening of museums,
the Sunday liquor traffic, and similar topics occupy
a very prominent place in speeches on the hustings,
but they are very apt to be forgotten by the can-
didates when once the magic M.P. is appended to
their names. Yet they affect much more closely
the welfare of thousands whom they represent than
many more exciting political questions. We hope
that the new Parliament will be a little more active
in these respects, and that the new members and
new constituencies will combine to keep their hust-
ings' pledges a little more faithfully in mind.

General PEEL has returned to the charge, and
has shown in a very unmistakeable manner the
erroneous conclusions at which Mr. CHILDERS
arrived in his recent speech at Pontefract. As
the General forcibly puts it, the comparison which
the members of the late Liberal Government have
made between the military expenditure of the two
Administrations is unreasonable and unwise, be -
cause the present Government are " only develop-
ing the changes inherited from them," and supply-
ing their deficiencies ; and that a review of the
military expenditure fro.n 1860 to six years after-
wards will not redound to the credit of the
Government by which it was conducted.
It will be remembered that Mr. CIIIL-
DERS declared in his speech that the Libe-
ral Government steadily reduced the army by
sixteen thousand men during the last four years of
their administration, but General PEEL puts a very
different construction upon the fact that was con-
veyed by the meaning of the hon. member. " Yes,"
he exclaims, and if " Lord DERBY'S Government
had not increased the pay of the men they would
have had the opportunity of boasting that they had
reduced twenty thousand men in one year, and for
the very same reason that they could not get them."
Then, again, the fortifications which ought to have
been finished, and the armaments provided fur in
the Estimates of 1866 were banded over to Lord
DERBY'S Government in a most unfinished state ;
and thus the public may see that when Mr. GLAD-
STONE and his satellites boast of their economy
and the low rate of the expenditure, the point was
gained by falling short of the promises made and
leaving the defences of the country in a most hap-
hazard state. In six years the Whig Govern-
ment spent over twelve millions in guns
and warlike material, but with so little
success, that in March, 1866, they had
scarcely anything to show for it. Twelve breech-
loaders only, and the small arms in store were de-
creasing because no pattern was decided upon, and
no new rifle was made for years. Very truly does
General PEEL deny that in Lord RUSSELL'S Govern-
ment and that of Lord PALMERSTON there was a
reduction of general expenditure at the same time
that new arms were introduced and new ideas de-
veloped. "Now," says he, "that is just what was
lot done." New ideas were not developed
any more than new arms were forth-
coming, and the reduction of the expendi-
ture was entirely owing to the suspension in
providing for them as has been shown by the table
of " audited accounts." General PEEL'S statement
is deserving of attention, and those who are not
too prejudiced to see plain truths when put before
them will admit that he has the best of the argu-
ment, and his opponents are cast entirely into the
shade. A more unfair attack than this which Mr.
GLADSTONE has led upon the expenditure of the
present Government has never been made, and for
the sake of fair play we hope that the electors
throughout the country will show their sense of its
character.

The Queen, in her last passage through Paris,
left 5,000 francs to the servants of the British
Embassy.

The elections which excite most interest at pre-
sent are those in which the contests are between
different sections of the same party. In the county
of Cork there are four Liberal candidates in the
field—namely, Mr. Smith Barry, Mr. Boyle, Mr.
Power, and Mr. M'Carthy Downing, each possess-
ing considerable influence with various classes of
the electors. The first two named are put forward
as the " official " candidates. The last two, or
rather, perhaps, the first and the last, are the more
popular. A meeting of Mr. Downing's supporters
was held on Sunday in Mallow, and was attended,
it is stated, by 2,000 persons. Mr. "William
Creagh, J.P., occupied the chair. Mr. Downing
addressed the assembly at some length, and in the
course of his speech said 500 electors of the West
Riding had pledged themselves not only to support
him, but to ride their own horses to the poll with-
out any expense to him. He gave a full statement
of his views, declaring that, although the Church
question predominates this moment beyond other
important questions, the land question was the
question of questions for the Irish people. He was
prepared to join with the great Liberal party in
England in disestablishing and disendowing the
Irish Church, and he would do so in no spirit of
hostility to the Protestant clergy, of whom he
spoke in respectful terms. He believed, however,
that " there never will be peace, contentment, nor
prosperity in this land until the industry and happi-
ness of the tiller of the soil are frilly and justly
protected." He avowed his intention to support
the claims for a denominational system of educa-
tion. He replied to objections against his candida-
ture, stated that his return was certain, and gave
the following sketch of what his course of action
will be if returned :—" Acting on the principles of
independence as I alltays understood them, I will
gladly avail of the opportunity of placing in power
the man who is pledged to redress the grievances
under which we have so long laboured, who con-
demns the cruel policy of England towards this
country, and who promises to make reparation for
those evil deeds. I will not become a slavish
follower :of Mr. Gladstone, and should he attain
power I will watch his conduct with a jealous eye.
Once the Church question is settled, I will await
the measure of jus•ice which he will offer to the
tenantry of Ireland. If it is ample and based upon
equitable principles, I will support him. (Cheers )
Should it fall short of these quali its, I will to the
best of my ability cxposc its defects, and act ag .in
on the policy of independence ; for while I admire
the position which Mr. Gladstone Las taken, and
white ho will carry the disendowment of the
Church, an important question remains—namely,
the appropriation of the surplus revenue ; and
when I consider Mr. Gladstone's financial dealings
with Ireland, of which she has deep cause to corn-
pkin, I feel that it may require the strength of
an united independent Irish party to obtain the
application of that surplus to local purposes not
now provided for out of the Exchequer, such as
payment of poor-rates and county cess."

contEspoNONCA 111014 PARIS .

?MOM OUR OWN COR,ESPONDENT.),,
PARIS, TuEstie,,Septembei 22.

The events in Spain continue almost exclusively to
occupy public attention here. Though a Spanish insurrec-
tion is one of the most ordinary events, and though a most
serious outbreak has been expected for some time past,
the news of the pronunciamento at Cadiz has caused the
greatest excitement. This very largely arises from the
uncertainty as to the course which will be taken by
France, many thinking that the danger of the Emperor's
meddling with the affairs of the Peninsula is considerable.
The fear, however, can hardly be well founded. Of all the
"ideas" that ever provoked the French Emperor to an
appeal to arms, the idea of sending French troops to the
assistance of Queen Isabella would be most absurd and
ruinous. It would strengthen the insurrection itself by
animating the Spanish people against a foreign invader;
it would weaken the position of the Queen, if that can be
made any worse ; and it would be met by the most serious
discontent in France. The notion of paying for an army
to support Queen Isabella is never likely to be popular
here. Spanish affairs must decide themselves ; strict
neutrality is likely to be the order of the day here.
The interference with the private meeting at Nimes
is not an example which the Government seem disposed to
construe into a precedent. Several democrats, including
MM. Emmanuel Arago and Duclere, formerly Minister
of Finance under the Republic, resolved to snake
the experiment and hold a private meeting with the
view of taking legal proceedings if the Government inter-
fered. They accordingly assembled in a private house to
the number of 200, but met with no interruption what-
ever. The Government felt bound, perhaps, to sustain its
agents in the case of the Nimes affair, but though their
conduct was justified at the trial, the authorities do net
seem disposed to repeat it. We may therefore conclude
that the intervention at Nimes was an event altogether
extraordinary, and that in future the law of Irivate
meetings will be respected.
The note which was published at the Bourse a few days
ago, in the name of the Ministers lkloustier, Pittard, and
Magne, is now declared to be an invention. It 1143
got up for market purposes.
An accident on the line of railway between Bordeaux
and Arcachon is announced. Nobody was killed, but a
'arge number of passengers sustained contusions and
fractures.

After his three victories in the Var, the Nievre, and th•
Moselle, M. Pinard thought he had earned a holiday, and
was about to start for an estate possessed by his wife in
the Autun district. The news of the revolution has,
however, prevented his departure.
A strange attempt at murder is reported from Lyons.
A retired tradesman has a small office in one part of the
town for bill-discounting. He called there two or three
nights back, and was unlocking the door of the inner
room, when he was struck insensible by a stranger
concealed in the passage. He was then pushed
into the room by his hidden assailant, and stabbed
several times. The noise alarmed the tenant of the floor
above, who proceeded to the spot, but the murderer
managed to escape, leavingbehind a hat, aha,ndkerchief, and
an umbrella. The extraordinary part of the story is, that M.
Tardien insists that, no attempt was made to murder him,
and that the injuries he sustained were caused by his
falling downstairs in the dark. The police refuse to
believe him, holding the umbrella and hat to be conclu-
sive proofs.

The Imperial Family at Bayonne are quietly enjoying
themselves, quite unmoved by the trouble which has
broken out southwards.

The ambiguous speech of the King of Prussia at Kiel
has been followed by others of decidedly peaceful charac-
ter, and the Bourse at Paris is reassured for the
time. In other respects King William's progress
through the Elbe Duchies
presents
little that
is remarkable. As a tour of inspection through
a newly-acquired province, it is, however, interesting
to note the manner in which the inhabitants received
their new sovereign. Of course there was no fear of his
being publicly insulted, but disaffection can be evinced by
absence and silence as well as by open demonstration.
But the King was well received, and the Daily News cor-
respondent says, with justice, that there is reason to believe
the ovations and demonstrations of loyalty were genuine,
and proceeded at least from the head, if not from the heart.
The Schleswig-Holsteiners might probably prefer the rule
of their native dukes, and they cannot entertain any
exalted admiration of the style in which they were
" annexed." But they are Germans, and can understand
that in these troublesome times they are better off as
members of a great military Power than as a petty
State.

The illoniteur says the speech of the King of Prussia at
Hamburg testifies to his full confidence in the maintenance
of peace.
The opening of the Peace Congress at Perne has been
accompanied by every indication of oratorical war. The
earlier proceedings have been occupied by the question of
standing armies, which the Congress has, of course, con-
demned without reservC. But the prograinin e is not restricte 1
to subjects arising out of the danger of ivar or the advisability
cf peace. The Congress has already decided to discuss the
suppression of all official recognition of religions, the abolition
of Concordats, and religious teaching in schools supported
clause in favour of
by the State. The condemnation of standing armies will
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probablyan standingdt he re b
organisationscan
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little
fordoubt o byut bh
t that the interests of peace
will will be again pronioted by the moral support of all the
revolutionary projects of Europe.
The news that the Wagshum Gobazye has at length
triumphed over all competitors and has seated himself upon
the throne of Abyssinia is not unexpected. He was the
strongest and perhaps the most able of the contending
parties, and it is well that such a dangerous dignity should
be secured by the potentate best able to support it.
Gobazye has long intrigued for the sovereignty of Abys-
sinia. He and Prince Kassai, the ally of the English, art
on good terms.

The Brazilian Government. has addressed to all the
Governments of Europe a note announcing that the regu-
lations relative to passports have been made much less
stringent. Henceforth Brazilian subjects and foreigners
who have a fixed residence in Brazil will not require a
passport in order to leave the country. Foreigners not
having a residence will not be able to leave the country
without a passport, but the conditions on which it may be
obtained have been greatly simplified.

A private letter from Japan confirms the news already
received as to the persecution of the native Christians by
the Mikado. Our correspondent, under date "Shanghai,
July 30, 1868," writes as follows : " When I was at Naga-
saki 2,000 native Christians were awaiting execution in
the country, and a few days after I left a steamer was sent
out with 150 Christians on board, to be drowned in the
sea."

Mr, Disraeli's baronets will soon he past counting. It
has been his good fortune to reward not only his political
supporters, but public men whom any Government would
have rewarded. The last accession to the ranks
of the minor nobility is Mr. Charles Mills, who
for forty-six years has taken part in the home
administration of India. He now retires from
the India Council, and it is probable that he will be suc-
ceeded either by Sir F. Halliday, who was Lieutenant-
Governor of Bengal under Lords Dalhousie and Canning,
or by Sir H. Harrington, one of the Knights of the Star
of India. The vacancy caused by the retirement of Mr.
Eastwick will be filled by Sir Robert Montgomery,
until recently Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab.
Sir Robert entered the service of the East India
Company forty-one years ago, and his earlier employments
were in the offices of magistrate and collector. During
the mutiny he was Judicial Commissioner in the Punjab,
and his services were of the highest importance throughout
that critical period.

A few days ago the Pull Mall Gazette made an attack
upon Mr. Odger, the working men's candidate for Chelsea,
which was quite unworthy of a journal " written by
gentlemen for gentlemen." The article said : "We know
not what good Odger has ever done that he should be asked
to select a borough for himself, or what evil Chelsea has ever
done that it should become the unfortunate object of his
choice. According to his own view, his qualifications, besides
that of ringleader of a mob, simply are that he is an advocate
for all the points of the Charter; that as he never had any
education he knows the value of it ; and that his father
was a miner, and his mother mad." Professor Fawcett
wrote to complain of an article " sa personal and so cruel,"
and at the same time gave a very high character of the
vic"im of the assault. This letter has not been inserted,
and so Mr. Fawcett has sent it to the Daily News. Mr.
Mill has also written to Mr. Odger, wishing him success,
and sending a subscription to his election expenses. It is
a grievous thing to see attacks of this kind made upon
any man, and when they are made by journals professedly
impartial, what must we not expect from those which are
avowedly partisan?

It appears that bigotry is not confined to Orangemen
and Ultramontane; The Jews, who were supposed to be
the most tolerant religionists in the world, having learnt
the lesson in the stern school of experience, are now proving
that bigotry is not the peculiar property of one or two
sect; but is au element common to humanity. The
Jewish Chronicle calls upon the Hebrew electors of the
Tower Hamlets to refrain from voting for Mr. Samuda,
because he is an "apostate Jew"—i.e., a Christian. The
Hebrew electors of that borough must be in a state of per-
plexity. On the one hand they have a Lil?eral candidate
who is an " apostate ;" on the other, a Conservative candi-
date who will support an " apostate " Premier. Perhaps
the hie they itl4e4tiee roliston luty PQ IWI %ha hotter.

LATEST INTELL WINCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

- -

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN,

PARIS, Sept. 22.

A proclamation to the Catalans declares that
" the dynasty, deaf to advice, treats the nation as
an enemy, and pauses not on its path of immorality
and hypocrisy. The nation shed its blood its wars
to secure the liberty now trampled under foot.
The nation was flying to arm; for it can no longer
endure such scandal and infamy. The struggle
will be short, because all classes have been injured
and offended."

The proclamation appeals to the army to join the
people. "It is time for the nation to assume the
sovereignty, and to proclaim universal suffrage, and
the assembling of a Constituent Corte3." It con-
cludes thus, " We serve the cause of no person or
family, property and domestic rights shall be re-
spected. Viva the sovereign nation. Viva a Con-
stituent Cortes." Dated from the " Camp of
Liberty."

Malaga has pronounced and also Santona, the
strongest fortress in Spain.
The Queen at midnight yesterday left by train
for Madrid, but returned to San Sebastian, the
Castile Railway being interrupted.
There was great agitation at Madrid.
Sept. 23.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol-
lowing news from Spai❑ :
Tranquillity continues at Madrid.

Admiral Estrada de Guiral has accepted the post
of Minister of Marine.

The reports from the provinces are confused and
contradictory. .

MADRID, Sept. 19.
The following official proclamations have been
issued by the Government :
The Queen, in concert with the council of
Ministers, has ordered that the district under my
command shall be declared in a state of siege.
In consequence of that order I, Don Eusebio de
Calonge Fenclles, Lieutenant-General of the Na-
tional Army, and Captain-General of New Castille,
do order as follows :

1. This capital and the district of New Castille is
declared in a state of siege.

2. Crimes of sedition and revolt which shall be-
come known to the authorities shall be judged by
the ordinary military council, and be punished ac-
cording to the disciplinary military code. This
also applies to accomplices and abbettors of these
offences.

3. Besides the crimes specified in the above ar-
ticle, arson, theft, larceny, disobedience, and insults
to the authorities will also be punished by the
Council of War.

4. Those persons who shall cause damage to pro-
perty, destroy the telegraphic wires, or the railway
lines, and also all persons spreading alarms, twill be
judged and punished as disturbers of public order,
iu conformity with the disciplinary regulation of
the army.

5. The civil and judicial authorities will con-
tinue to act in all those matters appertaining to
their offices which are not comprised in the dis-
positions laid down by the present proclamation
without prejulice to their power of bringing
under my notice and submitting to my decision
whatever they may deem necessary.

Inhabitants of New Castille ! This military dis-
trict having been declared in a state of siege, in
undertaking the command confided to me by the
Queen, it is my first duty to address myself to the
peaceable and honest inhabitants to demand of them
that support which public authority requires for
the proper execution of the laws. If I obtain that
support, the task confided to me will be a safe one,
and my satisfaction in thoroughly executing it will
be great., since, if men of calm sense are repelled
there are no criminal desires winch cAnnot obtain
the upper hand in thee days, when ambition is so
unrestrained, and where it seeks to gain
its ends by means as unique as they are un-
worthy. The preventive measures which the Go-
vernment of the Queen has been forced to adopt by
the unexampled and indescribable facts iu this sad
era of distressing discords will be employed by me
to secure your tranquility and your property.
Keep the rebels at a distance, do not mix your-
selves up with them, leave them in such a state of
isolation as shall point them out to justice, do not
impede the protective action of the public forces if
the sad necessity should arise, and do not fear that
the protection of the authorities will fail you, nor
will their vigilance in any way disquiet you. It is
only intended to employ the wholesome rigour of
the law against conspirators and revolutionists, and
this is demanded by public necessity.
(Signed) EUSEBIO DE CALONAGE,
Captain-General of the Province of Madrid.

The Government of the Province of Madrid.

The Governor of the Province of Madrid to the in-

habitants of the province :

By a royal order, dated yesterday, her Majesty
the Queen, in concert with her Council of Minis-
ters, has declared all the provinces of the monarchy
in a state of siege. In virtue, therefore, of this
royal resolution, whereby her Majesty has desired
more thoroughly to secure public tranquillity against
the attacks of tithe revolutionists, I to-day discon-
tinue to exercise all those political functions which
the law in similar cases transfer to the military
authorities.

In acquainting you with this fact I shall not
cease to exhort you that in the new situation created
by 'the Queen you shall continue to give similar
proof of wisdom, sympathy, and fidelity as in
past times, and for which I express my
liveliest gratitude. Trust in the thought that
the Government watches over your well-
being and eagerly seeks a solution for your troubles.
Await tranquilly its decisions. Do not allow your-
selves to be seduced by the suggestions of evil
minded persons, and do not for one instant depart
from that path of duty in which you have so long
continued.

It will be a striking folly on your part to lose by
a stupid mistake the respect of which your conduct
has made you so worthy, and which is appreciated
by the Government of the Queen and by all the
authorities ; and, on the other hanl, to lay your-
selves and your families open to the innumerable
evils which would be the result of a necessary
and a just repression of rebellion.
Your Governor hopes that he will have no cause
to complain of this, and that you will be in the
future as in the past, docile to the voice of autho-
rity and eager to execute its orders.

%dd.], 19i1 Sept., 1833.

IGNA.cro BEEuuz.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, Sept. 2,1.

Th 3 Cz tr is expotted to arrivJ at Potsdam. at 9
a.m. on Sunday, and intends, it is stated, to pro-
ceed to "Warsaw by express train on Monday night.

HUNGARY.

PESTI!, Sept. 22, Evenilig.

The Empress-Queen Elizabeth, and her daughter
the Archduchei:sGisella, have arrived at Goedoelloe,
in the Pesth-Comitat, on their way to Cracow.
The Lower House agreed yesterday to the motion

of M. Deak to accept the Government budget

en bloc.

The members of the Hungarian Delegation have
received notice to assemble at Pestle on the 13th of

November next.

BOMBAY MAIL.

111EssiNA, Sept. 22.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Poouah passed through the Straits of Messina at
10.30 a.m. to-day en route for Marseilles.