The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1868

last year. The Dominican martyrs of Japan,
pronounced saints at the previous canonization,
are commemorated at the same time. The
celebration of the Feast of Our Lady, under her
title of Auxilium, Christianoruni, observed here
from the 22nd to the 24th May, in memory
of the return of Pius VII. to Rome in 1814,
after his five years' captivity, is deferred at the
Minerva in consequence. All the windows in
the Piazza are festively draped, and the facade
of the church is adorned by an illuminated
painting. The decorations of the interior con-
sist entirely in a profusion of chandeliers and
a handsome banner, illustrating the acts of
the saints commemorated, between each pillar.
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Mgr. Stonor celebrates her Majesty's birth-
day by a dinner at Spillman's to-morrow, at
which the principal English Zouaves are in-

vited.
I have just received a letter from the north
of France, giving a gratifying account of the
way in which Lieutenant Guillemin's obsequies
were celebrated. The remains were first taken
to Paris, where a solemn office was held at S.
Sulpice. They were afterwards removed to
Aire, in the department of Pas de Calais, and
the service there attracted deputations from
almost every town and village within many
miles, the people pressing round the cata-
falque and kissing with devotion every object
connected with the proud defender of the
Holy See.

DEFEAT Of; THE EXTREME RADICALS.

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(From the Anglo-American Times.)
The furious onslaught of the War-Horse party is
likely to produce an effect little intended. The
unbridled violence with which they have rushed at
the Republican Justice who presided in the Court,
the Republican counsel who defended the PRESI-
DENT, the Republican Senators who had the pre-
sumption as Judges to for.► independent opinions,
has disgusted all' moderate Republicans, and has
probably hastened the formation of a party which
sooner or later was inevitable. There is no true
sympathy between men like STEVENS, WADE, BUT-
LER, and BROWNLOW, and men like CHASE, GRANT,
FESSENDEN, and TRUMBULL, and this is now clearly
recogeizel. Slavery is dead, and can no longer
form a principle on which to build a party. Recon-
struction will soon be accomplished, and it will be
necessary for parties to divide on other measures.
During the trial, opinions have been attributed to
Mr. CHASE which he does not hold, indeed, which
he has expressly repudiated. He stated that the
New York Independent, which read him out of the
Republican party, had no authority to speak for
him. That his platform "is universal suffrage,"
" universal amnesty," " the maintenance of the
public credit ;" adding, that if he had the control,
he both could and would resume specie payments at
once. In the formation of a new party a Protection
or Free-Trade plank in the platform is indis-
pensable. The leading of such extremists as STEVENs
and BUTLER is towards destruction, and unless
the Republican party can shake itself clear of the
Jacobin party it cannot stand. This has been
clearly seen by Mr. CHASE, who has acted with the
knowledge that the Impeachment Trial would end
in a split. No party could be maintained who
drove from its ranks its most intelligent and most
eminent men, because on a solemn judicial decision
they did not act at its dictation, heaping the most
virulent abuse on their heads. No person had a
more intimate acquaintance with all the circum-
stances than SALMON P. CHASE. He knew the
character of the Managers, he knew the sentiments
of the Senators, he knew both politically and
legally the weakness of the case against the PRE-
SIDENT, and he also knew that so long as the War
Horses led that he would be nowhere. What has
happened is what he anticipated. Not only have
the Radicals driven from the ranks such men as
himself, TRU3IBULL, FESSENDEN, EVARTS, and
others, but they have changed the tone of some of
the most influential journals of the United States,
among them the New York Times, New York Even-
ing Post, Boston Advertiser, Providence Journal,
Springfield Republican, Chicago Tribune, New
York Nation, Bridgeport Standard, Buffalo Com-
mercial Advertiser, Hartfor 1 Courant, Cincinnati
Commercial. Thes3 newspaprs do but repre-
sent a large portion of the most intelligent
and the mist influential citiz ms in the United
States. M tture reflection mty prevent the for-
mation of the new party, and it may die like
many other attempts, or more probably perish
in the obscurity into which their defeat will
throw the War Horses. If SEVENS and BUTLER
are to exercise an over-riding influence, then the
'ormation of this party is certain, for man of intel-

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ligence and independence could not submit to such
a thraldom, nor c 3111,1 the moderate citizens of the
United States endure to give their support to a
party so ruled. When the mail left it was rumoured
that even the slate of the new party had been made
out as follows :—CHASE, for President ; TRUMBULL,
Vice-President ; SEWARD, Secretary of State; FES-
SENDEN, Secretary of the Treasury ; AND nEw JOHN -
SON, Secretary of War ; DJOLITPLE, Secretary of
the Interior ; and General SAM. CAREY, Postmas-
ter-General. The PRESIDENT, it is said, will sup-
port the new party with the power of his patronage,
throwing himself completely into their arms ; but
whether they will benefit by this action is an open
question. Changes are so rapid in the United
States, more especially in times of such agitation,
that it is not easy to predict what the intelligence
may be of the next few weeks. Bat we may sea
some such programme actually brought forward by
an independent party, or an amalgamation between
the Conservative Republicans and the Liberal
Democrats. Wilkcs's Spirit writes in great
wrath of the treachery in the Senate, and the
Editor, who is in Washington, ani possesses many
advantages for obtaining information, pledges him-
self to the truth of what he states, that " the
Democratic platform will be so amended as to
recognize the national progress of the last seven
years, and to suit the progressive temper of the
time. On the 4th of July next that programme
wul be enunciated in Tammany Hall, in the city of
New York. Its main planks will be a denunciation
of the principle of human slavery, and an accept-
ance of all the legislation of the period on that sub-
ject; the repudiation and extinction of the Confe-
derate debt ; the equality of all men before the law;
and, impartial suffrage. It ;is shrewdly calculated
that, in view of such a programme, the alienate:l
Democratic element, which now constitutes the
Republican major;‘m.having become disgusted with
a party which is incapable of Government, or even
1 of defending its own life, and perceiving, moreover,
in other and vigorous hands, a platform covering their
old principles, will atonce flock to the new standard,
and leave the Republican party to sink to ruin."
GEORGE WILKES, who is the personal friend of BEN.
WADE, sent a postscript to his article by telegraph,
denouncing Chief Justice CHASE,
who he declares
to be still devoting himself to the corruption of
Senators, having, on the preceding day, " dined''
the two from Virginia. Also after " dining" Senator
ANTHONY, that he had for three hours overwhelmed
him with legal assurances against conviction, being
aided in the disgraceful task by that " soulless
shadow" EVARTS. General SICKLES, he adds, has
recently learned that his removal was at the ex-
press demand of CHASE. The Democrats keep
dark their intentions, though they are working to
present an acceptable platform, which will require to
be a strong one to hold its own against that of
the Chicago Convention. Out of all this confusion
one face is prominent, and that is the utter discom-
fiture of " Glorious BEN. WADE." GEORGE WILKES
on this occasion, notwithstanding his knowledge
of coming events, has backed the wrong horse.
Even the collapse of Lady Elizabeth, when running
for the Derby on Wednesday, was not a more coin -
plete break down than that of the War horse
favourite. Never did apples of Sodom more tempt
the eye and turn to ashes on the lip than on this occa-
sion. Never did " A Coming Man" loom larger and
more deceitfully. The prizes were within his grasp;
the war horses were neighing and screaming with de-
light ; his Cabinet was appointed, the spoils appor-
tioned; the Acting Presidency was all but certain, and
though he only aspired to the Republican nomina-
tion for Vice-President, yet his eager followers
declared that they would carry him over the course
as FRESII2F4iI, Saturday, the 16th, came--a bitter