The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-02 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1868

Mr. ILutDY's speech was one of more impassioned
eloquence, and took up a different view of the
question from that of the noble lord, but we
defy any one to say that they disagreed in the
main point at issue. The very mention of this
style of criticism shows, however,
,how little the
advocates of Mr. GLADSTONE can find to say in his
defence or for his advancement. Abuse is not
argument, and seeking to damage an opponent by
the utterance of flimsy charges like these is quite
contemptible.

(FROM OUR OWN CORREBtONDENT.)

PARIS, WEDNESDAY, April I.

Surely in all conscience there is enough, and
more than enough, to occupy the attention of that
class of politicians in accounting for Mr. GLAD-
STONE'S extraordinary discrepancy of word and
action, as seen by the Oxford letter and the present
Resolutions. Let them explain this if they can, and no
doubt if they ever attempt to do so, it will occupy
them till long past the termination of the debate, and
afford each useful occupation for the Easter Recess.
It is greatly to be regretted that people cannot
confine their attacks more closely to those points
which immediately and directly affect the point at
issue, and not wander away to some personal at-
tack and political invective. That is the great evil
of making a party • question of such a subject as
this, and Mr. GLADSTONE is much to blame for having
done so, in the fullest acceptation of the term.
It is idle to say that this is not a party manoeuvre,
and a factious move on the part of the leader of
the Opposition, for all who think a moment on the
subject must see that it is so. Let the House of
Commons recognise their position, and resolve to
act with becoming spirit and dignity. They can
best show their zeal for the observances of Parlia-
mentary usages, or their real devotion to the inte-
rests of the country, by refusing to be made the
tools of those who substitute one reason for another,
because their real motive is not likely to enhance
their renown, or to gain the confidence of the
House of Commons.

The Atlantic Telegraph brings us news from
'Washington, dated yesterday, which gives us some
important information respecting the impeachment
trial. Already there is a division in the camp, and
signs of approaching difficulties. Chief Justice
CHASE, who presides over the Senate Court for the
impeachment, has claimed judicial power during the
trial—a claim, as we may easily imagine, resisted
by the managers of the prosecution and by some of
their allies in the Senate. The Senate itself, how-
ever, was not so lost to a sense of its own position
as to oppose a claim founded so clearly on law and
justice. The Chief Justice is virtually occupying the
position of judge, it is his place and his duty to see
that the accused has a fair trial, that the proceed-
ings of the Court are conducted with due regard to
justice and truth,:that no attempt is made to coerce,
to intimidate, to mislead, or to silence witnesses,
but that full and free information should be obtain-
able on all disputed points. It is quite impossible
that he should be able to do this unless he is in-
vested with supreme powers, and he has already
had a specimen of the manner in which the Radicals
propose to conduct the case. An impartial hearing
is the very last thing which they wish for, and
their resistance to the claim of the Chief Justice.
Mr. CHASE, as we have previously heard, feels that
the honour of the country demands that, in a
matter of such vital moment, the trial should be
conducted with equity and impartiality. By this
he has already excited the anger of the Radicals,
who have denounced him in unmeasured terms, and
who have not scrupled to affirm that he has made a
compact with the Democrats to let off Mr. JOHN-
SON, so as to secure his own nomination as PRESI-
DENT by their party. Mr. CHASE, whatever his mo-
tive, will certainly raise himself in public estimation
by the firmness of his attitude, and America will owe
it to him if the great constitutional trial is car-
ried on with the dignity befitting a national court
of justice, instead of being, as it threatened to be,
an object of contempt and ridicule to the enemies
of the country, and of sorrow and shame to her
well wishers.

By the City of London, from New York on the
21st ult., we learn that the House of Representa-
tives has passed a bill providing that, in case of the
death or disability of the Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court, the senior associate Justice shall
act as his substitute until a regular appoint•
ment can be made. The House of Representatives,
too, we find, intend being present in a body at the
Senate during the Impeachment a somewhat
alarming prospect for the Senators ! The eagerness
of the feeling of the Lower House on the subject is
.aanifested in every way, and their animus cannot be
bid. The public opinion on the subject is certainly
not reflected by the popular representatives. Even
in Pennsylvania the Democrats are gaining ground,
the late elections showing their gains. It is highly
improbable that the Radicals can maintain their
numerical superiority in another Congress, and as
they feel their power slipping from them, they be-
come more anxious to retain it at all hazards.
The present crisis is a momentous one for all parties,
and much will depend on its issue.

The appearance of the revenue tables is always
looked for with interest, although of late they have
not afforded quite so much ground for satisfaction
as formerly. The last tables of 1867 were indeed
fully in accordance with the depression everywhere
perceptible during the year, and although there is
happily now a decided improvement visible, we
cannot reasonably expect to find the returns assume
altogether their old character. There are, however,
quite enough signs of a change for the better to
reassure the public, and the fact of the increase
which is apparent both on the quarter and the
year being distributed over almost every source
of revenue is more encouraging than if it was de-
rived solely from one head. On the quarter there
is an increase of £20,000 on the Customs and of
£911,000 on the Property-Tax, though the latter
is, of course, due to the increased impost. On the
year the Customs show an increase of £847,000, a
hopeful sign, somewhat counterbalanced by a de-
crease of over half a million on the Excise—a sure
test of the prosperity or adversity of the labouring
classes. - There is, however, ground for encourage-
ment even in this respect, for the quarter
shows a manifest improvement the Excise
figuring under the head of Increase instead
of Decrease. As compared with the corresponding
quarter of 1867, the Excise shows an improvement
of £207,000, a fact 1% hich may displease the friends
of the temperance cause, but which really testifies
no change for the worse in the habits of the people,
since the forbearance which is due to necessity is
no virtue, and the consumption of malt liquor is, as
we know, a wholesome counterbalance to the ex-
cessive use of spirits. Altogether the Returns are
as satisfactory as we could hope for, and indica-
tive, we may trust, of returning prosperity.

A marriage has been arranged between Mr.
William Forbes, of Callander, and Edith, third daughter
of the Rev. Lord Charles and Lady Harriet Hervey ; also,
between Miss Harvey, daughter of Mr. Harvey, M.P. for
Thetford, and Mr. Lacon, son of Sir Edmund Lacon, Bart.,
M.P.—The Owl.

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS.—Her Royal High-
ness the Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Colonel the Hon. A: Liddell, visited the gal-
lery of the Society of British Artists, Suffolk-street, Pall-
mall, yesterday. Her royal highness was pleased to express
herself as much gratified with the exhibition.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PAM. LATEST INTELL WINCE.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

The dissolution is now definitely abandoned. This is
the principal news to-day. The Etenda'rd has one of its
magniloquent articles on the subject, pointing out that the
present Legislative Body has shewn neitherless patriotism,
devotion, nor intelligence than its predecessors, and that
therefore there was no good reason for getting rid of it.
" Dissolution would have been only an expedient
in view of a very problematic opportunity for
the general elections. It is not thus that a great
Government proceeds, seated on the strong base of uni-
versal consent. Exempt from the agitations and uncertain-
ties which paralyse the action of Parliamentary Govern-
ments, the Imperial Government has no need to borrow
from their venturesome proceedings. During the sixteen
years that have passed since the establishment of the
Empire, no dissolution has taken place because of any dis-
agreement between the Emperor and the Chamber." An
this—and there is more to the same purpose—is very
amusing, considering that it wa.s only on Monday that the
Emperor called the Councillors of State around him in
order to discuss whether there should be a di:;.mlution, and
that it was a toss up whether there should be one or no

IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT
JOHNSON.

WASHINGTON, APRIL 1.

The Etcndcird denies that there is any foundation for
the reported etirement of the Minister of Education. The
one rumour, in fact, falls with the other. The Protestant
M. Duruy would no doubt have been sacrificed to the
clerical party if there bad been a dissolution ; as there is
not to be he holds on, and the semi-official papers are
instructed to denounce the idea of so useul a Minister
being lost to his country's service. To-night he gives a
grand dinner, at which several of his colleagues will be
present.

Chief Justice Chase, who presides at the trial of
President Johnson, has claimed judicial power
during the trial.
The Impeachment managers and some Senators
opposed this claim, but the Senate sustained the
Chief Justice.

DENMARK.

COPENHAGEN, April 1.

Prince Napoleon's yacht is gone to Marseilles, where she
will embark his Imperial Highness on his way to the mar-
riage of his brother-in-law. Thus it would seem as if he
bad for the present abandoned his intention of making
another diplomatic journey. Nevertheless, letters from
Pesth state that he is expected there on a visit to the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
There have been disturbances at Eeims : not political,
but social. There have been strikes—in what trades is not
mentioned—and the workmen have threatened those who
still continue to work. A good deal of uneasiness is felt.
At Grenoble, the demonstration which I spoke of recently
is stated to have been unconnected with the conscription.
It appears to have been excited by the refusal of the local
censor to permit the performance of a play by a M.
Lombard.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House, the
Minister of War announced that he should con-
sider the proposal of farming out territory belong-
ing to the fortifications, a Cabinet question so far
as he was concerned.

Two new journals are announced, both possessing
special features. One, the Journal du Solt, will be pub-
lished every evening, at five centimes (a halfpenny), and
contain an engraving of an event that has taken place
the day before or very recently. The other, the Avenir
Meridional, is a far more important concern. It is got
up by the Democratic party in the South of France,
who have had no organ since 1851. It will be published at
Toulouse. Its progamme is : " Absolute respect for the
human person ; the right of meeting and association ; a
free press, free speech, and a free conscience ; communal
independence and decentralisation, without which there
can be no liberty ; the loyal and sincere election and the
effective responsibility of our functionaries ; gratuitous
and compulsory instruction, without any sanction save the
privation of electoral rights ; free churches in a free
State ; the abolition of octrois ; the suppression of public
loans, of monopolies, of the debt, and, above all, of perma-
nent armies." Your readers will notice the conditions
which I have underlined. The people are to be taught for
nothing, and they are to repudiate the national debt. This
is very " red " indeed.
Complaints have been made in the Chambers respecting
the teaching of M. Sde, who, being a professor of medicine
in Paris, introduced materialism into his lectures. Nearly
all the journals have condemned him— even the advocates
of " free thought " since, they argue, the professor
had no right to introduce his peculiar theological views
into his lectures. Nevertheless, the students at
the Ecole de M4decine rapturously applauded the pro-
fessor when he appeared to give his lecture to
a crowded audience. He had the bad taste to make a
speech to the audience defending his conduct from the
"calumnies" with which he had been assailed. He said :
" Science ought to be realist, rationalist, to prove facts, to
interrogate nature. New truths must be proclaimed
aloud, whatever be their consequences, just because they
are truths. But let not our enemies distract us ; let us
work, gentlemen ; let us study ; work is the true health of
the soul, the hope of the persecuted, the consolation of
those who suffer while looking for better days." When
the martyr had done he was overwhelmed with " bravos "
from ingenuous youth.

If any of your readers are weary of " doing ?' the ordi-
nary tours, they may now, if they like, make a trip round
the world. Starting from St. Nazaire, at the mouth of
the Loire, say in April, they will land again at Marseilles
in August, having in the meanwhile circumnavigated the
earth. The trip includes a visit to the French Antilles,
the United States of Columbia, the Isthmus of Panama,
California, the Sandwich Islands, Japan, China, Cochin
China, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Egypt, and Sicily. Three
companies will run in correspondence—the General
Transatlantic Company of France, the New York Pacific
Mail Steamship Company, and the Messag6ries Impt`ziales.
I am sorry that I cannot tell your readers the cost of the
tour ; it is not mentioned.
The unification of Europe goes on bravely. Count Bis-
marck has introduced a bill into the German Parliament
for adopting the metrical system. The pound will still be
retained as the standard of weight ; but as that is exactly
half a French kilogramme this will not interfere with the
reform.

The Landsthing, therefore, adopted the Minis-

The Berlin correspondent of the Times considers that
the final abolition of the separate boards at the head of the
administration of Poland is a matter of no practical im-
portance, inasmuch as it needed no further decree to
embody Poland with Russia. Notwithstanding the com-
parative insignificance of the step, France has thought fit
to make it the occasion for diplomatic proceedings of a
marked character. Hitherto there have been stationed at
Warsaw persons empowered to transact business at the
chancellery. They will now, it is supposed, be treated as
mere commercial agents ; and France has asked what
Austria means to do in the matter. Baron von Beust
has returned a very guarded reply, being by no
means sure that there is not an alliance intended
between France and Prussia. Prince Napoleon's visit to
Berlin is supposed to indicate this, and Austria has quite
enough work to do at home without intermeddling in
foreign matters for the benefit of France.
There is much talk again about the Eastern question.
3ervia is getting troublesome. General Ignatieff, the Rus-
sian Minister at Constantinople, has been staying at Ber-
lin, and has had long interviews with King William. It
is on the tapir that there will be a union between France,
Prussia, and Russia, by which Poland will benefit at the
expense of Turkey.

,er's view.

Miss Carpenter has just published an interesting narrative
of her visit to India. The object of her journey— the educa-
tion of the Indian female population— is of course fully
discussed. The objection of Hindoo gentlemen to educa-
tion for their wives and daughters is, that their religion
would be interfered with. Even though they do not be-
lieve in Hindooism themselves (and very few educated men
do), they wish their wives to do so, for, as a husband once
said to Miss Carpenter, "it makes them obedient." But
this objection might be got over were it not for the great
practical difficulty in the way—the absence of female
teachers. No Indian girl over twelve years of age may by
*etiquette be taught by a man, and there being none else to
teach, when the education is beginning to be of use it
stops. This prevents the preparation even of teachers,
and so Miss Carpenter appeals to England for support.
English ladies now without employment maybe profitably
engaged in teaching Hindoo girls. She has devised a
scheme for the establishment of a female training-school,
to be originated and supported by the Indian Government,
and to be conducted on the principle of entire non-
interference in religious matters. This scheme is likely to
receive the sanction of the Government, and so be carried
out. Miss Carpenter also draws attention to the defective
state of education among the lower classes, and advocates
the establishment of something like the factory system in
India.

THE LATE LORD CARDIGAN.—The funeral of the
late Earl of Cardigan will take place at two
o'clock
p.m. on Monday next. It has been ascertained that
the cause of his lordship's death was a severe fracture
of the skull, his horse having reared and fallen
back upon him. According to his will the property
is disposed of in the following manner:—Legacies of
£5,000 to Viscount Curzon,
31. p., and to Captain
the Hon. John Vivian, M.P., his executors ; £5,000
to the Earl of Westmoreland ; £lo,oooto Miss
Clement ; £7,000 to Mr. Hubert de Burgh ; £lOO a year
to Mrs. Hubert de Burgh ; £2OO a year to Mr. Marcus
Beresford ; and £lOO a year each to his late valet, butler,
coachman, and gardener. These dispositions made, all
Lord Cardigan's property is left absolutely to Lady Car-
digan during her life, except the house in London and
the yachting villa at Cowes, and at her death t
Robert, the fourth son of Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P.-
now in the navy, and stationed at Jamaica. But
at Lady Cardigan's death the property is to be placed in
the hands of trustees for twenty-one years, in order to
free it of debt before it is handed over to Mr. Bruce and
his heirs male. In default of issue the property is to go
to whomsoever may be Earl of Cardigan, which must le
the Marquis of Ailesbury of the day, the former title
being merged in tho lattert

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GIBRALTAR, April 1.
The Delta leaves at 2 p.m. All well. She may
be expected at Southampton on the 6th inst.