The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-30 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Closing prices :—Gold, 139 a ; Sterling Exchange
on London, 1101 ; 5-20 United States Bonds
(1882), 1111; 1885, 109/ ; 10-40 U. S. Bonds,
1885, 105 I ; Illinois, 149 ; Erie, 714. Cotton :
upland, 31. Petroleum : standard white, 29.

The Radical Soldiers and Sailors' Convention at
Chicago have unanimously nominated General
Grant for the Presidency.

It is reported that the Canadian authorities,
apprehending a Fenian raid, have ordered the
militia to be in readiness.

The Royal Mail steamship Australasian from
New York arrived at Quee nstown at 2 a.m. to-day
with 50 cabin
passengers and $975,000 in specie.
She landed 6 passengers and 106 bags of mails,
and proceeded to Liverpool at 2.15 a.m. All well_

ARRIVAL OF THE AUSTRALASIA.

NEW YORK, Mar 20 (Morning):

The Impeachment Managers have examined a
wealthy citizen of Ohio who received a large sum of
money at Washington Bank the day previous to
the Senate vote with the view of ascertaining if the
funds were used to bribe the Senators.

Several other witnesses, including three news-
paper reporters, were also examined.
The Chicago National Republican Convention
assembles to-day. Full delegations from the
Southern States will be present.
HUNGARY.

PESTI!, May 29, Evening.

In to-day's sitting of the Upper House the Com-
mercial Treaty with Prussia, in its amended form,
was unanimously adopted.
The Emperor has arrived here.

Advices from Balasfalva, in Transylvania, state
that a large meeting of Rournains had been held, at
which resolutions were passed in favour of the se-
paration of Transylvania from Hungary.

PROPOSED NEW CLUB.—It is in contemplation to form
a new Turf Club in Paris, on the principle of the London
Victoria Club. -

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS,

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, May 29.

Prince Napoleon's itineraire is now definitely announced.
He is going to Carlsruhe, Munich, Stuttgard, Vienna,
and Constantinople. The list is highly significant. His
Imperial Highness, who has, of course, no mission, is
nevertheless going to visit the capitals of each of the
German States in succession, then the Austrian,
then the Turkish capital. That person must be
very blind indeed who does not see in this
journey an endeavour to get up an alliance be-
tween the South German States and Austria,
and an attempt to persuade the Sultan to give his consent
to the plan by which Austria is to be compensated for
giving up Conjoin, by obtaining possession of Roumania,
over which Abdul Aziz holds a merely nominal sove-
reignty that is constantly causing him trouble► That
Prince Napoleon will succeed in uniting the South German
States in favour of his policy—that is, against Prussia—
do not for one moment believe. Even at Stuttgard,
where the Anti-Prussian feeling is strongest, an alliance
with France would not be listened to for a moment. It is
to be hoped that the Prince's visit will lead his cousin to
Fee how hopeless are all these projects for the-reconstruc-
tion of the map of Europe.

The Paris papers persist in denying the reports of insur-
rectionary movements in Poland, and in attributing the
reports- to Russia, who, they say, wants an excuse in
order to crush Poland utterly out of existence. Whether
the reports be true or false, I look upon them as a serious
symptom just now. They indicate that the attention of
France is being once more turned to a country whose "cry
of anguish" has before now powerfully moved them.
The application to vote the army contingent for next
year is explained in some of the papers to have no political
significance, being, in fact, merely a return to the more
strictly parliamentary arrangement that was in force last
year.

It is said that communications have passed between our
Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Prussian Ambassador
respecting the offensive article which appeared lately, in
the lireuz Zcitung. Count Goltz declined to be held re-
sponsible for the article, declaring that the journal was
not the organ of the Prussian Government, and had:no
official character.

There has been a tolerably sharp debate in the Corps
Legislatif respecting the recent election of M. Bosredon,
the Government candidate, who was lately elected for
Dordogne. Objection was made to the election on the
ground that the prefect had vilified the Opposition candi-
date, and -used undue influence on behalf of his
opponent. The Government officials in the Corps
Ldgislatif replied by a severe attack upon M.
de Malleville, which, as the objectors pointed out, did
not mend matters. On a division 176 deputies voted for,
and 22 against M. Bosredon taking his seat. In the
Senate there has been a long debate on the Public. Meet-
ings Bill. M. Maupas attacked the bill, M. B6hic warmly
defended it. The debate was carried on in the midst of
the most terrible heat, the thermometer marking upwards
of JO deg. Fahrenheit in the shade.

The Bishop of Ajaccio is now in Paris, making arrange-
ments for the celebration of the centenary of Corsican
annexation to France on August 15. It was on that day,
1768, that this island passed under the dominion of France.
It was on that day, one year later, that Corsica gave birth
to a child who was afterwards to govern France. The
annexation and the First Napoleon's birthday will both be
celebrated this year. It is intended to build a new cathe-
dral at Ajaccio in honour of the two events.
Another new church has been added to Paris, that of
St. Augustin, in the Boulevard Malesherbes. The
Archbishop of Paris and Baron Haussmann were pre-
sent. A remark made by the first in the
course of his speech to the second has excited much
notice. Monseigneur Darboy said: " A few months ago
you handed over to me in the name of the city of Paris
the church of the Holy Trinity which adorns the
neighbouring arrondissenzent. To-day you offer me, in
order to consecrate it for worship, the splendid church in
which we are now gathered together." Is, then, the Baron
real'y " E:nperor of Paris ?"

It is believed that the Pope will pass a portion of the
summer at Frascati, in the neighbourhood of the camp,
where the air is better than at Castelgandolfo, where he
usually makes his villegiatura.
Count Papolini and Senator Martinengo have arrived in
Rome, and have had frequent communications with the
French Ambassador. The object of their visit is kept a
profound secret ; nevertheless, it is believed that they have
informed the French Minister that Italy will not pay the
yearly instalment of the debt due to the Papal Govern.
ment until the French troops are withdrawn from Papal
territory. It is rumoured that France will advance the
money to the Pope and endeavour to recover it from
Italy.
The memoirs. and letters of Cardinal Andrea are
announced for publication at Florence. They cannot be
genuine, for all his papers are under seal at Rome. An
ecclesiastic has, however, commenced a biography, which
will be published in Paris. An enormous crowd has visited
the chopele ardente in which the cardinal's body has been
lying in state, and the people have carried off such relics
as they could lay hold oF.

The lands of the Polish nobility are being given away
wholesale to the Russian nobles, or sold to them at a
nominal cost. In fact, the country is being completely
denationalised.
The Emperor of Russia is expected at 'Warsaw in
August, on his way to Kissengen. At the latter place he
will, according to present arrangements, have an interview
with his uncle, the King of Prussia.—The amnesty which
was expected to have been granted on the birth of the son
of the Czarewitch has not been announceJ.—There appears
to be no doubt that the Russian Government has deter-
mined to make war upon Bokhara, and thus advance one
step nearer our Indian frontier. The Grand Duke
Vladimir is going to take the nominal command of the
troops, but, as he is only 21 years old, it may be assumed
that the real command will be entrusted to a general of
greater experience.
The Count de Chambord has written a letter to Ex-King
Francis, congratulating him on the marriage of his
brother to the Infanta, of Spain. The Count says :
" I earnestly hope that these nuptials may be the dawn
of happier and more fortunate clays for you, for your Royal
family, and for a'l the Bourbons whom the combined usur-
pation of Europe, united to the apathy of friendly Govern-
ments, has b on,;ht t.) exile far from their country and their
thrones. Ile ad Is, that while the younger branches of the
house (the Fpa, tish) are greatly beloved by their people,
they "will al w ys experience the same disquiet so long as the
elder branch shall not have revindicated their throne from
the usurpation which invaded it and dispossessed the
lawful sovereign by the same arts as those by which your
Majesty's kingdom was usurped. The French people,
fortunately, begin to comprehend that the sole race under
which flourished the glory of France and popular liberty
was promoted, is that of my great ancestor Henry IV. ;
while under the government of the usurpation I only
find a brief ray of delusive glory, twice followed by
the most cruel disenchantment and the deepest humilia-
tion for French national honour." The Count goes on
to assert that the day cannot he far distant when his dear
France, " again possessing its legitimate king, will recover
its felicity, its glory, and its liberty. Then will Europe;
also, have peace, and regain her lost equilibrimn, And the
various branches of the Bourbon family will 1.),3 firmly
established upon their thrones, or will be restored to
throne and country ;should they still be leading :the un-
happy life of exile."

The Empress of the French had a long interview with
Madame de Miramon, widow of General Miramon, who
was shot with the Emperor Maximilian, and heard froth
that lady's lips an account of the sad tragedy which took
place just a year ago. The Empress informed the widow
on leaving that her name had been put clown for a pension
of 5240 a year. The Austrian Imperial Government has
also granted Madame de Miramon a pension.
It has been stated that King Theodore advised his cap.
tains to attack our troops by night, but they declined to
do so, and preferred to meet their deaths by daylight.
The Spectator says that had they carried out the sugges-
tions of the King, they would have had a new proof of the
power which science can bring to bear in aid of slaughter.
Sir Robert Napier had with him an apparatus for employ-
ing the magnesium light on a grand scale. At a distance
of 600 yards a bewildering blaze of light would have been
thrown into the eyes of the Abyssinians, and the British,
themselves in impenetrable shadow, would have shot
down their lustrous enemies at leisure and at ease. "The
poor Abyssinians," in the opinion of our contemporary,
" would have been as helpless as herrings with the electric
ray streaming on the shoal. It is hardly war, such a
contest ; but it is better that civilisation should be armed
than that barbarism should be."

The Yankee" of the Spectator, writing from New York,
I)fay lath, thus presents his view of the modus operandi of
the impeachment trial :—" For party purposes Congress
has divided itself into accuser and court, to decide a con-
stitutional question between itself as one party and Presi-
neat Johnson as the other party ; the Constitution, in
virtue of which only Congress and the President both
exist, ha, ing provided a tribunal independent of both and
of the people—the Supreme Court, to which Congress did
not choose to appeal—for the decision of all such ques-
tions. Party was strong enough to present articles of
impeachment, party was strong enough to cause them to
be entertained by the Senate," but party, he adds, " was
not strong enough to get two-thirds of the senators to
pronounce Mr. Johnson guilty of the charges preferred
against him." • •