The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

ported from all parts of England. A medical paper
warns people against exposing their children to the
mid-day sue, as is frequently done at watering
places. In Staffordshire the heat has alinlst put a
stop to furnace-work. The Mark-lane Express
says that in three days many fields which were
only whitening have suddenly ripened, requiring
an amount of labour which would have been over-
whelming but for the aid of machinery. It adds
the samples of new white wheat hitherto exhibited
have been of fine quality.
George Wilkes' Spirit is not easily damped or
suppressed. Indeed his Spirit is so good that it
would probably bear him harmless through heavier
losses than he is likely to sustain. In the number
July 11, he offers his political oppnnents a chance
of making some more money, but we would regard a
response as coming from one whose boldness much
exceeds his discretion. this is the offer :—" Some
of our personal friend; among the Democracy in-
formed us, while their National ()invention was in
session, that they would be willing to lay oat a little
:Honey with us, even up, on the success of the no-
minee of that Convention against General Grant.
This, therefore, is to say to those gentlemen, and
all others similarly inclined, that we have a little
money left, notwithstanding our impeachment
losses, and stand ready to start anew with a few
thousands on General Grant against Seymour for
the next Presidency. By way of making a distinct
offer, we will begin with five thousand dollars !
We will double this offer if required, and go even a
little further if pressed hard ! Who speaks ?"
The news by letter from the city of Mexico places
Juarez in a bad way. General Riviera had orga-
nized his forces against the Government almost
ivithin sight of the capital, and now he is welcomed
in every town in his revolutionary march. General
Porfirio Diaz, who is believed to be the coming man,
desiring to stand aloof from a doomed Government,
has asked for an extension of absence from army
duty. The Mexican Congress had adjourned till
September. The Supreme Court had rejected
Juarez's demand for Lerdo de Tejada to continue
in the office of Minister of Foreign Relations by 7
votes against 5. This is regarded as a solemn con-
demnation of the President's policy, which one of
the judges took the occasion to express, declaring
it to be false, weak, and sad in all senses for the
country. The opinion gains ground that Juarez
must resign or be deposed, and there are unmistak-
able signs that a general war is impending. The
Government has not enough troops to crush half
the revolts ; not a man is available for Yucatan,
which requires 5,000 to restore order, and the
Sinaloa revolt is only half repressed, while
from north-eastern Mexibo there is intelligence
of a formidable rising. The rate of interest is five
per cent. a month, and even at that price no money
is to be had. Business is prostrate, and those who
have means are striving in every way to realize and
get out of the country.
Senator Henderson has paid a flying visit to Mis-
souri, where he has met with a cold reception.
['he Radical papers took the opportunity of saying
some disagreeable things, as being on the spot he
was likely to see what was written. A few local
Conventions had also been held, where condemna-
tory resolutions were passed, almost reading him
out of the party. " Row do the Radicals treat
you, Mr. Henderson ?" asked a leading Democratic
offici d. " Rather coolly," answered the Senator.
" Come over to us, and we will take you back and
treat you well." Henderson, however, is not easily
moved from his convictions, as his vote on impeach-
tneut showel, and he intends, as he has announced,
to support Grant and Colfax.
It affords us great pleasure to see that Mr. Hau-
dell Cosshatu is likely to be returned for Dewsbury,
as Mr. Ernest Jones has withdrawn to accept the
invitation to stand for Manchester. Mr. Cossham
is one of the most consistent of Liberals, and au
earnest friend of America; and the more men we
see of his stamp in Parliament the more certain
will it be that friendly relations between the kindred
countries will be maintained and increased.

Major-General liowar 1 has fora-I,llly ordered
the discontinuation of the Freedmen's Bureau in
South Carolina, and will, as speedily as possible,
close the Bureau's business in other States. riie
sooner it is closed in South Carolina the better, if
what Wade Hampton says 133 true, who asserts
that out of the 156 members of the Legislature
nearly a hundred are nog oes, wh) impose taxes of
more than $2,000,000, but pay t ties of only $7OO.
The General took a desponding view of the future
of the Palmetto State. He considered that in a
few years' hence there would not be a white person
there ; but we confess to thinking it more probable
that in that time there may be no negroes there.
As yet the Legislature has only met, so it was too
early to predict what will be the nature of their
legislation. _ _

The Round Table speaks rather disrespectfully of
Mr. Gladstone's " mingling of Peckniffian and
self-advancing ambition," and Mr. Bright's
" domineering truculence," whom, it says, English-
men fear, may be imitated, multiplying bad
samples in Parliament. " They foresee," says the
Round Table, " groups of people there like Beales
and Potter, whom they hold in abomination." At
the same time the Round Table acknowledges that
Mr. Gladstone and even Mr. Bright " are beings
of a higher order of civilization than the dema-
gogues with whom we are familiar, and have fol-
lowings superior, both intellectually and socially,
to any that an American demagogue could as-
pire to form." This is not bad of the two fore-
most orators of England, and one the greatest
scholar and statesman of the Empire. Bat the
Round Table has decided opinions, and although
sometimes hard for Americans to take in, there is
always in them a great deal of truth. We consider
the Round Table to be a Liberal-Conservative paper,
as understood in England, and more Anglo-Saxon
than Americ in. Horace Greeley appears to be its
especial detestation, and King Arthur is made to
write him a homily from his Palace of Camelot on
the anniversary of American Independence. There
are Round Tables enough in Arthur's letter to supply
one to every house in New York, and Horace will
never again see a Round Table without his thoughts
being carried to 132, Nassau-street, where the
Round Table of his imagination is to be found.
On tha 7th inst. Peter Cagger, of Albany, a rich
and liberal Democrat, was thrown from his carriage in the
Central Park, New York, and killed on the spot. He was
driving with J. E. Devlin, who, it is feared, is fatally in-
jured. Both are losses to their party.

Baron Von Ledderer, hitherto Austrian Minister
resident for the Hansa Towns, has been appointed Envoy
Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of Austria to
the United States.

Charles Francis Adams, late Minister to Eng-
land, arrived in New York on Tuesday, July 7, in time to
hear the Democratic platform announced, and to proceed
home thoroughly disgusted. The principal motive, it is
said, which induced Mr Adams to withdraw from his post
was his desire to prepare an edition of the works of his
father, John Quincy Adams.

Mr. George W. Childs, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, gave his usual Fourth of July dinner this
year to 150 newsboys.

Goldwin Smith, the American papers say, has
selected Providence, Rhode Island, for his residence ; but
the people are warned that he will naturally Feek a stu-
dent's privacy, and, as an invalid, may hold himself some-
what aloof from general society.
At the close of the New York Schutzenfest,
John Becker, of Guttenburg, N. J., was crowned
" Schutzenkonig," or king of the sharp shooters, he having
hit the bull's eye 136 times. He was crowned with a
wreath of flowers, and received a pip 3 worth $lOO, a Pa-
nama hat worth $BO, five gold and eleven silver medals,
and various other smaller rewards, worth in all over $lOOO.
Of the honorary prizes Henry Nebel, of Williamsburgh,
Long Island, received a $lOOO 5-20 Bond; Fred. Buhl, of
New York, the silver horn of Vienna; John Nunch, of
New York, a Steinway piano; and Emil Berger, of Now
York, a gold mounted telescope, rifle, and $lOO in green-
backs.

General APDowell, who was lately superseded
in the command of the Fourth Military District, has ar-
rived at Washington and called on the President.

General Grant was to spend some days at his
farm, near St. Louis, where ho had arrived. Ile was ac-
companied beyond Cincinnati by General Sherman.
Thurlow 'Weed had so far recovered as to sail on
the 7th instant for Europe, where ho Safely arrived this
week by the Cimbria, and we hope benefited in health by
the sea voyage.

The llrashinton correspondent of the New York
Citizen, in alluding to the forty-seven Democratic mem-
bers in the House of Representatives, thus writes of some
who were officers in the Union army during the rebellion.