The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 27, 1868.

affirr aed that they are never devoid of prejudice.
It is really too bad to make the Government re-
s powible for Mr. GLADSTONE'S vagaries, and it is
tL to more absurd to do so when it is no secret that
th .e right hon. gentleman the leader of the Opposi-
ti an iu the Commons took his own friends by sur-
prise, and annoyed many who ordinarily support
'airn by the change in his policy. The Duke of
M.kRLBOROUGH retorted with some vigour on Lord
CARNARVON'S attack on the Ministry, and showed
that inconsistency belonged not to them, but to
Mr. GLADSTONE and Earl RUSSELL. In conse-
quence of the imprudent course taken on the
Reform Bill by the late Government the
Liberal party was broken up, and became what
was called " an undisciplined rabble," and a cry was
found necessary to rally them and lead them again
to the charge, and the Irish Church seemed to meet
the difficulty. The most earnest advocate for the
disestablishment of the Irish Church cannot deny
that Mr. GLADSTONE has acted with great incon-
sistency in this matter, and comments of a satirical
kind as to the unfonnity of other people's politics
came with an especial bad grace from such quar-
ters. the noble duke quoted a passage from Mr.
GLADSTONE'S work on "Church and State" as an
answer to some remarks that had been made as
to the impression produced on foreigners on this
question of the Irish Church Establishment.
The Marquis of SALISBURY made one of his
powerful speeches, and directed some of his
observations to the peculiar style introduced
into the debate, and the " constitutional lectures"
they had received as to the time they ought to take,
when they were told that they must watch the
majorities of the House of Commons, and endea-
vour to represent their views. The noble marquis
disclaimed this notion with energy and decision,
and declared that, as Lord DERBY said, it would be
better not to be than to exist under such slavery.
There is, as the noble lord said, a great difference
between yielding to the expressed opinion of the
country at large and being an echo of the House of
Commons. The spirited vindication which he made
of the rights and privileges of the House of Lords
elicited loud cheers, and was well adapted to the
occasion. "I am quite sure you will never consent
to act except as a free, independent House of the
Legislature, and that you will consider any other
more trivial and more subservient cause was at
once unworthy of your traditions, unworthy of your
honour, and, most of all, unworthy of the nation
you serve. Lord LYTTELTJN regretted that the bill
had been introduced this session, but as it was he
felt bound to support it. It may be mentioned
that those who supported the measure did not seem
for the most part very glad to meet with it in this
inopportune way, and gave several hints as to its
being premature and so on. The Duke of ARGYLL
moved the adjournment of the debate, which lasted
some time.

The House of Commons sat some time yesterday,
and the whole of the morning sitting was occupied
by the discussion of the Metropolitan Foreign
Cattle Market Bill. Lord ROBERT MONTAGU made
a long speech in moving the committee on the bill,
and entered into elaborate explanations of the dif-
ferent matters relating to the foreign cattle
trade. The loss from imported diseases in
home-bred cattle has been very great,
and any incanvenience that might arise from re-
strictions on the importation would be more than
made up for by the greater security felt through
their observance. Another plea for the bill is that

it improves the metropolitan arrangements, which
at present increase the butchers' monopoly, and
thus meat is rendered more expensive in town and
country. Mr. M. GIBSON opposed the bill on
various grounds, and made so long a speech that
but little progress was effected, and the debate was
adjourned until Monday. In the evening nothing of
much consequence took place. Lord W. RAY advised
the Government as to the necessity of a telegraphic

line being constructed by the Red Sea, which would
be under our control ; but Sir S. lIEATHCOTE
replied that we ha 1 alroa,dy two lines of com-
munication, and both were being improved.
The Government had given up the idea of
a Red Sea line, because they do not wish to charge
the Indian revenues with the cost of such an under-
taking, and it cannot be done otherwise. Several
bills were forwarded a stage, and on many accounts
the proceedings in the House yesterday were of a
more beneficial kind than those of preceding Fri-
days, for the enl of the Parliamentary week is
generally characterised by a series of squabbles, large
and small, on different topics.

Congress and the PRESIDENT are still at war,
and they do not seem likely to come to an agree-
ment. Thursday's news, which we learn by the
telegraph, tells us that Mr. STEVENS'S Bill, pro-
viding for the representation of five Southern
States, on the condition that their constitutions
shall never be altered so as to deprive those now
entitled to vote of the suffrage, has been vetoed
by the PRESIDENT, and passed over the veto in both
Rouses, by 30 votes to 8 in the Senate, and by 105
to 30 in the Representatives. The reason of this
sudden anxiety to admit the long-excluded South-
erners to representation is transparent enough. The
Radicals wish to increase their numbers in the Se-
nate, where it is now plain that their influence is not
sufficient to carry all before them. They have little
hope that the independent Republicans, whose
votes turned the scale on the Impeachment trial,
will either change their views or be displaced by
their constituents. They can only therefore hope
to remodel the Senate by the addition of fresh
members, and if they can succeed in getting Radical
members returned by the South they will get rid of
two difficulties together, because they will scarcely
find it possible to exclude the Southern States
much longer. It was even said that the eight
Articles of Impeachment upon which the court did
not vote were kept in reserve until the Radical
party was strengthened in the Senate, but this
would be rather extreme even for the STEVENS and
BUTLER faction. However, there can be no
doubt they are straining every nerve to
carry as many elections as possible, and
they do not shrink from the most open
devices to obtain this end. Congress has

lately passed a bill authorising the registrar of the
district of Columbia, who is a Radical, to decide
upon the legality of the local elections, and to issue
election certificates. It needs, therefore, no very
great foresight to discover what is likely to be the
result of the elections in Columbia. In South
Carolina the feeling of the people is too strong for
any such contrivances. The Democrats have carried
16 districts against 15 carried by the Republicans.
In Florida, however, the Radicals have obtained a
majority of 32 in the State Legislature. The very
fact of the Radicals gaining large ruajoritici
in the Southern States proves that the new
system does not fairly represent the people,
since every one knows that the Southern popu-
lations whatever they are are not Radical. If we
are to believe the correspondent of the New York
Herald, Chief Justice CHASE has declared his wil-

lingness to accept the Democratic nomination on
the platform embodying universal suffrage,
amnesty, and payment of the public debt in gold.
It i 5 not easy to see how the Democrats can accept

the doctrine of universal suffrage, since that is
even too much for many members of the Republican
party. Perhaps a moderate party may spring up
between the two, and no doubt payment of the
public debt in gold will be a recommendation for
any candidate. The announcement that the
Chief Justice has accepted a nomination not
yet decided upon must, however, be received
cunt gram) salis, and is very likely only a Radical
ruse to injure CHASE with his own party. It is
known that he has an ambition for the White
House, and consequently such a story is likely to
pass current. It is satisfactory so far as Canadian
news is concerned to learn that the reported con-
centration of Fenian arms and stores on the fron-
tier is contradicted, but the Canadian authorities
continue their precautions.

The hot weather usually bodes ill for our canine
friends, although medical authorities have fre-
quently assured us that it is a mistake to suppose
that it has anything to do with hydrophobia.
The disease is not only more common in the
north than in the south, but in the north

it more frequently occurs in January than
in July. Still popular prejudice has it that
dogs are dangerous in the summer, and ac-
cordingly precautions must be taken. We live
in a timorous age, and some influential gentlemen
have a great aversion to the honest tribe generally
known as the friend of man. The number of
pathetic cases of innocent little boys being attacked
without the slightest provocation by savage
monsters, and wept over by despairing mothers,
which have been duly recorded during the last
twelve months, is something surprising. It is a

little singular that the victims are almost always
of that inoffensive age, between 10 and 20, at which
we all know boys are never the aggressoes, and are
never in the habit of plaguing either biped or
quadruped. However, the agitation got up against
dogs has not been unsuccessful, and it has bad
powerful auxiliaries iu successive Chancellors of the
Exchequer, who put on a dog tax, which is only
oppressive to the poorer members of the commu-
nity, so that persons who could afford to keep a
dog, but cannot afford to pay a tax for
him, turn him out, and he becomes the
victim of the new dog law. A thousand stray dogs
have been seized by the police during the last few
days in London. All those unclaimed are to be
destroyed on Monday. This is summary work, and
not much to the credit of Londoners. Englishmen
used to be reckoned fond of their dogs and
horses, but the old tastes with the old

virtues are, we fear, going out of fashion.
The denunciation of the canine race offers a tempt-
ing opportunity for a little display of officious au-
thority, and there are men who will always find a
butcher's business pleasantly exciting. We do not
expect that London will be much better off without
its stray dogs than with them ; and we apprehend
that if the police could or would instead impound
the stray boys and men who usually figure as their
victims, then should the business and pleasure of
life both go on much more smoothly.

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE LUTHER MEMORIAL.

BERLIN, June 27.

Queen Victoria has sent the following to the
King of Prussia at Worms :—" Pray express to the
committee for the erection of the Luther Memorial
my most hearty congratulations upon the successful
completion of their task. Protestant England
cordially sympathises with an occasion which unites
the Protestant Princes and peoples of Germany."

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, June 27.

In celebration of the anniversary of the Sultan's
accession to the throne, the Turkish Ambassador in
this capital the day before yesterday gave a grand
sinner, at which the Ministers for both portions of
the Austrian empire and the ropresentatives of the
foreign Powers were present.
Baron Beust spoke at some length in praise of
the Sultan's endeavours to introduce reforms into
the Turkish empire.

INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.

SUEZ, June 26.

The Sumatra, from Bombay, 9th inst., arrived at
seven p.m. to-day. She brings the China and
Japan mails which were in the Surat when she
.met with an accident to her screw. The passengers
and cargo of the latter waited at Galle for the
Mooltan, which left there on the 18th inst.

MALTA, June 27, 9 a.m.

Her Majesty's steam transport Urgent, having
on board Sir Robert Napier, Theodore's son, Gen.
Staveley, and 15 other naval and military officers,
arrived here yesterday, and has just left for Mar-
seilles. The Urgent will return here to embark
time expired men for England.

BOURSE, June 26.—Three o'clock.—The marke
closed as follows :

41 per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7O 17j
Credit Mobilier
End of month 307 50
Credit Foncier _1540
End of month —
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 3157
ItaFan Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan 22 75
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt— —
Deferred ......
's. Cash
... 887

Orleans

Northern

1225

Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 602
Western
Eastern • • 551
Sardinian
Austrian 577
Lombard 398
North of Spain 65
Saragossa
Roman 46

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS,'

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPDXDENT.)I

PARIS, FernAT, June 2&,,

The accounts of the harvest are somewhat contradia.
tory, but none are altogether satisfactory. Until the end
of April the crops looked bad, but some rain fell, and a
vast and beneficial change was induced. Since then we
have had the early and excessive heats of May and June,
and up to the end of last week there was some-
thing like a drought. Then we had thunderstorms,
the rain being in some places heavy enough to
lay the wheat, but otherwise very welcome. Never-
theless, the season has hitherto been far too dry, and
in many districts the ears have been whitening, in some
places without any grain in them. The harvest has
already commenced in the neighbourhood of Marseilles,
and there is considerable grumbling as to the result. The
hay crop has been scanty, but good in quality. Colza, hops,
flax, and hemp are looking well, but the beetroot sadly
wants water. Fruit is abundant ; and the vineyardt
are particularly flourishing. Rye has already been cut
around Paris. It is noticed that the cereal crops, instead
of gowing yellow, are turning white from the excessive
heat. Altogether, I fear that we must not look for a
harvest fully up to the average.
The Hanoverian refugees affair seems likely to give
trouble. Some weeks ago an address, signed by a large
number of Hanoverian soldiers who have taken refuge in
this country,was published, and in this the soldiers refused
to accept the amnesty offered them by the King of Prussia.
It was then given out that the address was at least partly
fictitious, and that a large number of the names were
forgeries. Thereupon the refugees have drawn up
another address, signed by 731 persons, in the presence of
the mayors of the different French towns in which they
are residing. The memorialists say : "We, the under-
signed Hanoverian emigrants residing in France, and
commonly called the Guelph Legion, declare by these
presents that we do not intend to profit by the amnesty
offered to us by his Majesty King 'William of Prussia ;
that we beg his Majesty to employ for the lightening of
the taxes which weigh upon our fellow countrymen the
money which he spendri uselessly in the endeavour to
persuade us to return to our country ; and that these sig.
natures are perfectly authentic, and that we recognise the
said signatures as valid and obligatory." Then follow the sig-
natures, with those of the various witnesses. It appears
that 112 of the emigrants are residing in Amiens, 93 in
Bar-sur-Aube, and the rest in Beauvais, Evreux, Orl6ans,
Troyes, &c. To-day I learn the Prussian Government has
demanded that vigorous measures should be taken against
them, and that our Government has declined to do so.
There are contradictory reports respecting the Gari-
baldian enlistments in Italy. The Siecle denies them; the
Etendard reaffirms them, at the same time that it professes
to attach small importance to them except as shewing the
weakness of the Italian Government. The Libertd, which
is by no means unfriendly to Italy, and which originated
the statement, declares that the accounts are correct,
and come from, eye-witnesses who have seen Menotti
Garibaldi at Terni. Even the Correspondencia,
upon which the Siecle seems to rely for its con-,
tradiction, says that there will be no movement
against the Papal States until war breaks out on the
Rhine. Altogether, I think the balance of evidence is in

favour of the existence of these enrolments, though reason
and prudence are so strongly against them.

The result of the two last Ministerial Councils seems to
be that the decision with regard to the elections is deferred
until the close of the session. This may mean that they
will be deferred until next year. Nothing certain, how-
ever, can be said on the subject, just because no certainty
exists among those who have to decide the matter. All is
doubt and indecision so far.

The Government has thought it worth while to make

inquiries about the sale of La Lanterne, not only in Paris,
but in the deparments. A report has actually been drawn
up on this solemn matter, and presented formally. I
believe it recommends that the sale should be allowed to
continue, on the ground that the present brilliant style of
writing cannot last long, and that M. Rochefort will soon
damage his reputation. MM. Favre and Picard's new
paper, the Electeur, has come to trouble already. The first
number appeared yesterday, and this evening it is said that
the proprietors are to be prosecuted for exciting to hatred
and contempt. The negotiations respecting the purchase
of the lifoniteur have been broken off.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.