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

WAR MONITORS.

Mr. SEELY asked the Secretary to the Admiralty
whether it was correct that the French Government have
now at Bordeaux two monitors fully armed, equipped,
and ready for sea, and third building.
Lord H. LENNOX said the French Government had a
monitor at Brest another was building at Bordeaux, but
it was not for the French Government.
CANDIDATES' ADDRESSES.

Mr. NEATE asked the Secretary to the Admiralty, in
reference td a passage in the address recently published by
Captain Pim, the Conservative candidate for Gravesend,
in which he said, "as your membor and a naval officer
it would be my duty to urge upon Government
the great natural advantage your borough possesses," i.e.,
for the formation of a dockyard and arsenal, whether he
was aware of any communication between the Admiralty
and Captain Pim which would have authorised the latter
to hold out such an expectation to the electors of Graves-
end, or whether the idea of such an arrangement is now
or ever had been entertained by the Admiralty.
Lord H. LENNOX said there was nothing in the ad-
dress alluded to that could be found fault with. It was
merely electioneering language, and no conversation had
passed between Captain Pim and the Admiralty on the
subject.
THE IRISH TURF.
In answer to General DUNNE,

Earl MAYO said the removal of the Queen's Plato from
the Curragh to Limerick had been by the direction of the
Master of the Horse in Ireland.
THE CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS

PiLICE.... 4d.
STAMPED sd.

Mr. GLADSTONE also endeavoured to induce the Go-
vernment to withdraw the bill, and chiefly on the financial
objections to the scheme. It was useless to press it, fora
second bill would be needed next year to provide the funds,
and the new Parliament would not hold itself bound by
what was d no now.

Lord E. MONTAGU said a few words in reply, and tho
house went on then to consider the clauses of the bill.

On clause 2,

Mr. M. GIBSON moved to except sheep from the ope-
ration of the bill, urging all his old arguments against its
general scope, and imputing to its promoters the selfish
desire to exclude foreign cattle altogether for the profit of
British agriculturists.
Lord R. MONTAGU offered to limit the clause to sheep
imported in the same vessels with cattle, but this did not
content Mr. Ayrton and others of the Opposition, and on a
division being tAlien the amendment was negatived by 134
to 52. Clause 2 was agreed to with the restriction sug-
gested by Lord Montagu.

At a quarter to 1 a motion to report progress was made
by Mr. WArxix, but was defeatod by 132 to 37.

On clause 3, which relates to the market authority, Mr.
Locke moved an amendment designed to throw the duty
on the Corporation of London, and to got rid of the alter-
native of a commission. It led to some discussion, in the
course of which Lord IL Montagu said ho had every reason
to believe that the Corporation would undertake the work,
and it was rejected on a division by 113 to 26.
Another motion to report progress was made at 2 o'clock,
to which the Chancellor of the Exchequer 'assented, but
the supporters of the bill refused to agree to it, and forced
a division. Tho motion was defeated by 91 to 36, some of
the Ministers voting ono way and some another.
A third motion by Mr. CRAWFORD was beaten by 52 to
33, though it was supported by Mr. Henley and Lord J.
Manners, and most of the memb:rs of tho Government, in-
cluding Lord IL Montagu, who has charge of the bill, went
away without voting.

In their absence Mr. SELWIN-II3BETSON moved an
amendment to give the Metropolitan Board of Works an
option of taking up the task; but before it could b 3 dis-
cussed the supporters or the bill gave way at the persua-
sion of Sir J. Pakingtou, and permitted the Chairman to
report progress.

Some other busines3 was disposed of, and the hous3
then adjourned.

SENATOR FESSENDEN'S LETTLR•

The Boston invitation to Senator Fessendon was
as follows :

" Dear Sir —The undersigned members of the Na-
tional Republican party, are desirous of expiessing to you
our sense of the value of your public services. While
some of us strongly dissent from the conclusion at which
you arrived with regard to the conviction of President
Johnson, we all heartily recognise and admire your cou-
rage and conscientiousness under circumstances of peculiar
difficulty. We beg the honour of your company at a
public dinner to be given in the city of Roston, at such
tune as may suit your convenience."
These were the signatures appended :

Alexander 11. Bullock, George Tyler Bigelow, Thomas
Hill, Emory Washburn, Richard H. Dana, jun., Amos A.
Lawrence, John M. Forbes, E. R. Mudge, Henry Lee,
Peleg W. Chandler, Edward S. Rand, William Dwight,
S. It. Payson, Francis Parkman, J. Elliot Cabot, J. Rus-
sell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton, Asa Gray, John H.
Clifford, Augustine Heard, George William Bond, Robert
M. Mason, F. W. Lincoln, jun., George 0. Shattuck,
George S. Hale, George H. Gordon, Samuel Eliot, Har-
rison Ritchie, Francis Brooks, Edward Atkinson, Francis
E. Parker, Edward Bangs, Charles W. Storey, Theo-
dore Lyman, Charles F. Adams, jun., J. L. Stackpole,
Charles Allen, Samuel Bowles, Joshua C. Stone, A. G.
Browne, jun., Waldo Higginson, Charles S. Storrow, Chas.
H. Dalton, Edmund Dwight, Henry G. Clark, C. William
Loring, George Higginson, Benjamin S. Rotch, S. Froth-
ingham, jun., George N. Macey, Francis W. Hurd, J. M.
Day, Robert T. Paine, jun., John Jeffries, jun., Patrick T.
Jackson, Stephen li. Bullard, John Gardner, Edward C.
Cabot, John C. Ropes, D. A. Dwight, Algernon Coolidge,
B. F. Nourse Greeley S. Curtis, A. J. C. Sowdon, James
J. Storrow, George B. Chase, George W. Baldwin, R. M.
Morse, jun., Lemuel Shaw, Henry Van Brunt, Walbridge
A. Field, Hamilton A. Hill.

Mr. Fessenden, in reply, occupies two long news-
paper columns. lle does not disguise the satisfac-
tion the invitation has given, though compelled to
decline it. Impeachment for all charges prior to
Mr. Stanton's affair had already been negatived.
Many were under the impression that the Pre-
sident was on trial for all offences, both of com-
mission and omission. Tue excitement was
great, and the clamour for conviction at
any price was urged on by place-seekers and gam-
blers. The immediate cause of Impeachment was
the removal of the Secretary of War. Two learned
and honourable Senators, not including " the
seven," announced their opinion that the President
was not guilty on that point, and it was not consi-
dered in them even an error of judgment, much less
a betrayal of party, so long as they were able to vote
for conviction on the eleventh Article. There are
cases in which party loses its claim upon the repre-
sentatives, and is subordinated to the public good,
and in which every individual must judge for him-
self ; and this was such an occasion. The Consti-
tution of the tribunal and the oath imposed, im-
pressed him with the belief that in coming to a conclu-
sion he was bound to lay aside prejudice against the
individual, and to try him solely on the facts and
misdemeanours charged in the Articles—in a word,
the matter was entirely above party consideration,
therefore his decision of guilt or innocence upon
those Articles must be his own, and alone—party
newspapers and party meetings had no right to dic-
tate ; in a word, the matter was beyond and
above party consideration. " All I claim for
my opinion is justice, and that my reasons
may be considered the true ones ; nor do
I consider my self entitled to any special credit
for courage in the discharge of an imperative duty.
A man in public life does not willingly place him-
self in antagonism with his political friends or
hazard the loss of public favour, but, however pain-
ful, one thing alone the people had a right to ex-
pect,—that in discharging the great trust they had
committed to my hands, I should shrink from no
responsibility which that trust imposed, and allow
no coward fear of personal consequences to lead me
astray from the path of official duty; and I flattere I
—perhaps deluded—myself with the hope that the
testimony of a life, including more than fourteen
years of consecutive public service, would protect
me from the vile calumnies of those who sought
and affected to find for a course of action by which
I could gain nothing and lose much motives cri-
minal and mean. This hope was founded on a
belief in the intelligence and candour of the
American people, who seldom fail e7entually to
justify those who serve them faithfully. You do
not, I am sure, overrate the importance of pre-
serving and supporting judicial independence and
judicial integrity, Permit me to say that Legisla-
tive independence is of equal value ; not that inde-
pendence which defies the popular will, or disre-
gards public opinion, but that which prefers a con-
sciousness of integrity to popular applause. In our
country the inducement to sacrifice the right to the
expedient, especially in party questions, are suffi-
ciently strong to preclude all reasonable apprehen-
sions of a wilful disregard of constituencies. It is
easy and pleasant to float with the current. It may
not always be pleasant to reflect that, by so doing,
a bad precedent has been established, or a blow
struck, the evil consequence of which may be felt in
all future time. No sacrifice should ever be made
to great principles to serve temporary expediency ;
but, as in the recent conflict of arms, the patriotism
and energy of the people carried them through
safely and triumphantly, so I trust and believe their
calmness and moderation in the exercise of political
power will, in the end, soften the asperities and
smooth the troubled waters of civil strife."

By a recent Act of Congress Mrs. Ella E. Hobart
receives her salary due as army chaplain during the war,
the amount being the same as that allowed to men in simi-
lar positions. Although President Lincoln endorsed her
application, Mr. Stanton refused to recognize the validity
of the commission, which, therefore, the Governor of Wis-
consin declined to grant.

The Revolution is very severe on the Hon. Lewis
Selye, Representative for Now York, whom it styles "a
rich, old, whisky sop," having made half a million dollars
in the liquor traffic. Mr. Selye's offence is the part he
has taken against the Twenty per Cent. Increase in
the Salary Bill, which was amended so as to include
the women clerks. Mr. Selye appears to have been
as indiscreet as earnest in his opposition, having said
all manner of wicked things of these clerks in particular,
and of that sort of employment for women iu general.
Acting on the rule that it is safe to distrust the morals of
men whom you hear speaking against Women's Rights,
" the old whisky sop" is condemned.

General 11P'Cleflan and family have arrived at the
baths, St. Moritz, in the Engadine, Switzerland.
Jefferson Davis, on June 27, while coming down
stairs with one of his children in his arms, in the hotel at
Lenoxville, fell, and somewhat injured his back. Ile was
unable to attend the convocation of Bishop's College.

The newspapers are teeming with references to econo-
my in tea by co-operation. Horninan and Co. have for 30
years co- operated through Agents to supply tea on mare
advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea
reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the
grower, al it is secured in packets.

THE CAMP,
Though the Ethiopian may be unable to change,
the volunteer who has been in camp during the tropis
beat of the past eight days has partially performed that
feat. The faces, necks, and hands of our citizen soldiers
here are rapidly assuming the hue of the one-time fashion-
able Bismarck brown. A change of uniforms and accoutre.
ments for those of regiments of the line, and they might
easily be made the subjects of a mistaken ovation,
as heroes just returned from the scene of King Theodore's
defeat. The inconvenience arising from the excessive
heat has already led to one capital suggestion, which there
is every chance will be carried into effect at the meeting
next year. This is the establishment of a plunge or swim-
ming bath within the precincts of the camp— a luxury
which all volunteers would highly appreciate, the nearest
piece of available water being at Barnes, a dusty two
miles' walk.

There was a large attendance at church parade yester-
day, when the Rev. S. Brooke, M.A., officiated, and
throughout the afternoon and evening the camp was
literally crowded with visitors. As usual, the arrange.
ments of the South-Western Railway are execrable. Any
pressure upon this line seems immediately to drive the
officials off their heads—a fact so well known that several
corps have announced their intention not to attend the
review on Saturday (as they have been in the habit of
doing in previous years), because they have a weakness—
which the company seems always to do its best to baulk—
for getting home before church time on Sunday morning.
The shooting for the second and decisive stage of the
Alexandra Prize commenced at a quarter-past nine this
morning, the competitors for the cup, or £5O in specie,
being those who had made aggregate scores at the three
distances of 200, 500, and 600 yards sufficiently high to
entitle them to money prizes ranging from £2O to £2.
The prize was won by Private Kingsmill, 4th Surrey, who
made 24 points.

The Dragon Cup—the prize in the second stage of the
St. George's competitions—was also shot for. This piece of
plate is worth £5O, and becomes the property of the win-
ner ; distance, GOO yards, seven shots being allowed. The
victor was Private Hewerson, London Scottish,who scored
22 points. Shooting iu connection with the Albert 200
and 800 yards, the Windmill Ist stage, and the "Any
Rifle" Association Cup Competition was also pursued until
gun-fire. The prize, too, of aggregate value of £55, divided
into two sums, one of £25 at 200 yards, end one of £3O at
500 yards, given by Messrs. Jennison and Sons of Man-
chester, found a place in the programme for the day.
The sighting for the second stage of the Queen's Prize, the
shooting for the rifle Oaks Sweepstakes of ss. each, the
Eley Prizes, and the competition with military breech-
loaders made up the remainder of the business of the day.
In the public schools match for the Ashburton Challenge
Shield to-morrow, representatives from Eton, Harrow,
Rugby, Cheltenham, Marlborough, Winchester, and the
Russell Schools will shoot.