The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1868.

ing to the business part of the question there were
many entreaties made to the Government that they
should withdraw the bill altogether, and Mr. GLAD-
STONE joined in urging his favourite objection as to
the financial difficulties in the way of settling the
matter. Some other members very properly ad-
vised the Government not to give up to this
" factious obstruction" that had been put in the
way of the measure, and to keep the Parliament sit-
ting until it was passed. Mr. DISRAELI said that the
principle of the bill had already been fully
discussed, and the duty of the committee was now
to deal in a practical manner with the clauses.
Lord IL MONTAGU carried his point in clause ten,
although Mr. M. GIBSON stoutly resisted it, and
would not be satisfied with the modification made
by the noble lord. Mr. GIBSON'S oft-repeated
arguments did not, however, impress the house,
and he was defeated by a large majority, for
eighty-two decided in favour of keeping the word
" sheep" in the clause. This is as well, for the
preventive means must be the best, and it
is idle to keep to the notion that no change
must be made in the existing arrangements, or at
least none worthy of the name. Mr. LOCKE'S
amendment met with the same fate as that of Mr.
MILNER GIBSON'S, and was rejected. Its object
was to throw the duty on the Corporation of Lon-
don relating to the market authorities instead of
the Commission. Some attempts were made to
report progress before this, but after the clause was
finished they were renewed again and again, so that
Sir J. FAKINGTON very wisely agreed to an
adjournment, as it was nearly three o'clock.
The further discussion of this bill is fixed
for Wednesday, when it is to be hoped that it

will be settled. Two of the three majorities against
reporting progress were very large, and it would
be more consistent if these hon. members who are
always lecturing the Government for not de-
ferring to the expressed opinion of the House
if they who would look at home and practise
what they preach. It is quite contrary to esta-
blished usages and Parliamentary forms to go on in
this manner, and those who profess that they are
advocating the progress of free trade more harm
to themselves and to the cause they espouse. A more
prejudiced course has seldom been taken than that
adopted by the opponents of this scheme, and we
hope that they will not be allowed to succeed in
their endeavours at obstruction.

The banquet at the Trinity House last evening
was of more than ordinary interest. His Royal
Highness the Master of the Corporation was back
again as President of the Festival, and the general
satisfaction with which he was welcomed after his
voyage round the world was enhanced by the recol-
lection of the terrible risk which he had run during
his absence from the hands of an assassin. The
Prince of WALES accompanied his brother as the
principal guest of the evening, and on this occasion, as
the sailor Prince humorously observed,changed places
with him, being transformed by the election of the
Trinity House into his "younger brother." There
was, as might have been expected, a large and
brilliant company, including Lord NAPIER of Mag-
dala—the lion of the season—and several members
of the Cabinet, who were probably not sorry to
exchange the mutual recriminations of St. Stephen's
for the amenities of the Trinity House, although, as
Lord STANLEY, by common consent, declared, it
was too hot to talk politics. The Trinity House is
one of our oldest and most important institu-
tions of the kind, and it is a favourable
sign of the times that royalty should identify itself
with such practical and national associations, since
the real strength of the Throne must always lie in
its sympathy with the wants and requirements of
the people. The Duke of RICHMOND, in respond-
ing to the toast of " The Maritime and Commer-
cial Interests of the Empire," said that if he was
required to describe in three words the origin of the
influence of England, he would say that it con-
sisted of her ships, her colonies, and her
commerce. As President of the Board of
Trade he considered himself First Lord of the Mer-
cantile Marine, and he looked upon the mercantile
marine as the naval reserve. His Royal Highness,
the Master, in speaking of the value which he at-
tached to the Mercantile Marine, said that if he
could, from his position, as Master of the Trinity
House and member of the Royal Navy, in any way
connect the two services more closely together, he
should think it fortunate. The Duke proved that
his acquaintance with the affairs of the Trinity
House was something more than nominal.
by recapitulating the achievements of the corpora.
tion since his last appearance in that hall, -and he
congratulated the members on having undertaken
the construction of a lighthouse on the Wolf Rock.
The lighting of our coasts, as the Duke rema. ked,
is a work of more delay and difficulty than the
lighting of the French side, because there the ex-
pense is defrayed out of the Imperial revenues, while
with us the cost has to be defrayed from tolls levied
on the shipping. Still matters are in a fair way to
be satisfactorily accomplished, and we shall soon be
quite on a par with our neighbours. Altogether
the banquet was a brilliant success, and the hos-
pitalities of the ancient corporation have seldom
been more gracefully dispensed.

The news which reaches us from New York by
the mails to the 11th of July is chiefly occupied
with the proceedings of the Conventions. The great
question at issue in the Democratic Convention at
New York has been the selection of the favoured
candidate, and the names of General HANCOCK,
Mr. HENDRICKS, Mr. PENDLETON, and General
SEYMOUR have all been canvassed. The balloting
which took place from the Bth to the 11th of July
at first' showed no decisive result. On the 19th
ballot Mr. PENDLETON was withdrawn, and on the
21st General ILA.NcooK stood at 135, and Mr.
HENDRICKS at 132. On the next ballot, however,
the delegates from Ohio nominated Mr. SEYMOUR,
and a change at once took place, the new candi-
date receiving the entire vote of 317, and the nomi-
nation appears to have given equal satisfaction to
the Democratic party all through the country, for
the news has been received with enthusiasm. Mr.
PENDLETON, who, as we have seen, was withdrawn
from the contest, has given his strongest support to
Mr. SErmoun, whose chances of success are not
insignificant. Two years ago the issue of the
struggle would probably have been very different,
and no competitor would have had any chance against
GRANT, but he had lost much of his prestige,
and this depreciation, coupled with the change in
the public feeling with regard to the Radicals, has
altered the relative positions.
Another of the transparent devices by which the
Radicals endeavour to maintain their supremacy is
recorded from the Senate. A bill excluding all the
formerly rebellious States from participation in the
Presidential election, excepting those which have
been admitted to represmtation in Congress under
the Reconstruction Act, has passed the Upper
House by 28 votes against 5. What sort of a union
can that be which does not admit a large portion of
the population to a voice in the selection of the
national ruler ? The motive for passing this bill is
at once apparent, and we can see the effect of the
Congreedonal reconstruction upon the Southern

States in the politics of the new members. Thus si
Louisiana, ono of the strongest Slave States, and
most diametrically opposed to Republican doctrines,
has just sent two Republicans to reinforce Mr.
Mr. SUMNER'S party in the Senate ! If it is only by
tricks like this that the Radical supremacy Ce in be
kept up they had better abandon the farce of a
Constitutional Government altogether.

LATEST INTELLEGEME.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

HUNGARY.

PESTII, July 20 (Evening).

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House the Mili-
tary Committee reported the Army Organisation
Bill, and recommended its adoption as introduced
by Government, with a few unimportant alterations.

The Minister of Justice, M. llowat, brought in a.
bill for the abolition of the usury laws.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 20.

Prince Napoleon arrived at Syra on the 15th,
but without landiug. A deputation of Cretan
refugees waited upon his Imperial Highness on
board with an address, praying that France would
not abandon or forget their cause.
The Prince made a reserved reply.

CORETZFONIZECE FROM ra3114

Mom 0118 oint CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, MONDAY, July 20,

1 The Mexican loan is one of those slumbering
grievances which are continually breaking into flame.
The Emperor will certainly never hear the last of his
. unfortunate expedition so long as the hungry debtors of
the vanished Empire remain unsatisfied. As to the argu-
ment of the case, there is none. The Government has the
might, but there can be no doubt whatever on
which side the right lies. A letter has just been
addressed by M. Picard to M. Rouher, which
contains an examination of the whole question. The
111inister will find it difficult to reply to this statement.
He may employ to the best advantage the peculiar talents
for which he is so celebrated, but he can offer no effective
or creditable plea in answer to the simple position put
forth by M. Picard. It is quite true, the latter says, that
th. 3 French Government did not guarantee the Mexican
I..)an. If that had been the case the loan would have been
taken up at 4.3 or 5 per cent., instead of 10. Had
the Mexican Bonds been covered by those of France,
there would now be no question of rer ayment
or indemnity. The debt would have fallen
upon France, the Government would have been
held by the law to the payment of interest, and
the loan would, in effect, have formed a constituent
portion of the French debt. But direct borrowing, or the
guaranteeing of any loan, could only have been effected
by a vote of the Senate and Corps I,6gislatif. This
is precisely what the Government wished to avoid,
and to do this it offered other advantages to lenders.
It did not guarantee the Mexican Bonds, but it
guaranteed the Mexican Empire, which it could effect
without the assistance of the Chambers. The Govern-
ment assured the bondholdirs that the finances of Mexico
were in a safe condition, and further bound itself to keep
the French troops in Mexico until the Empire of Maxi-
milian was thoroughly constituted, politically and finan-
cially. The sole argument is this : the French troops
were to secure the interests of the bondholders, and they re-
turned without doing so. This is the substance of M. Picard's
letter, and though the arguments are not new, the whole
question is brought with clearness into a small compass.
Unfortunately, the hopes of the bondholders are in an
inverse ratio to the force of their logic. Paying fora dead
horse is generally voted unpleasant ; paying for a
defunct empire is next to an impossibility.

M. le Saint, the rival of Livingstone, is dead. He had
undertaken the perilous enterprise of traversing the centre
of Africa at its broadest part. His plan was to begin at
the Upper Nile, by way of Suez, and the Red Sea, and
thence, crossing the continent from east to west, to reach
the Gulf of Guinea, on the Atlantic. He was not, how-
ever, destined to accomplish, and scarcely to begin, this all
but impossible journey. He had penetrated to some
distance beyond Khartoum, at the junction of the. Blue
and the White Nile, in Nubia, when he succumbed to a
disease from which he had been suffering for some little
time.

Counterfeit money, never scarce in Faris, is exception-
ally abundant just now. Amongst the various schemes
for palming it off, one is as novel as it is villainous. A
public conveyance of some kind is hired at night, and the
driver ordered to take his " fare" to some obscure part of
the city at a short distance. Here a twenty-franc piece is
given in payment, out of which the driver must return per-
haps 17f. A very liberal pourboireis always added to the fare.
Unfortunately, daylight reveals the twenty-franc piece to
be a combination of lead and zinc, thinly coated with
gold. The recurrence of this fraud proves that an associa-
tion exists, but the exertions of the police have resulted
in only one apprehension.

An exciting wolf-hunt is reported from the village of
Mallemort, in the South. The animal was first discovered
promenading the village, attacking and killing the dogs it
met with. A chase was organised, and a long, stern chase
it proved. The wolf penetrated to every corner of the
village. One man, armed with a spade, struck it a slight
blow on the head, but he was seized and severely bittnn in
the arm. After more circuits the wolf fell upon an old man,
inflicted two terrible wounds in the side and the hand,
and injured his skull in dragging him over the ground.
All this was done with an extraordinary rapidity which
did not allow any time for assistance. Imme.
diately afterwards, surrounded by the pursuers, the
animal leaped over their heads, falling over a low precipice
into a ditch, whence it made its way into a clump of trees.,
It was reserved for a lame carter to achieve the victory
with a pitchfork.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.