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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 9, 1868

whe a the news reaches them of surrounding sedi-
tic r. whether they will take the risk of a desperate
rebellion tamely dealt with or put it down effec-
tively, and expect to be arraigned in a Court of
Jr.stice, for to this pass our philosophical Re-
formers and wise demagogues are bringing us.

The House of Lords was yesterday occupied for
some time in discussing a matter of considerable in-
terest—the case of Sir CHARLES DARLING. Lord
LYVEDEN began the debate by animadverting on
the conduct of the late Governor of Victoria, and
desired to know from the Duke of BUCKINGHA,3I
what course he would take in the matter. The
Duke said that the subject was indeed an important
one, inasmuch as it concerned the free institutions of
the colony, and also the colonial service itself in its
dignity and independence. It seems that those
who promoted the discussion on one side wish the
Home Government to interfere rather summarily
in the matter, but notwithstanding the animated
speeches of the Marquis of SALISBURY, Lord GREY,
and the Duke of ARGYLL, the replies to them very
fully proved the falsity of their arguments. There
can be no doubt that a greater mistake can-
not be made than to strain the authority
of the mother-country too far, and inex-
pedient and inadvisable as the vote in ques-
tion is, there is no harm in discussing it, or that
can at all equal that which would accrue from the
Colonial-office interposing to stop that discussion.
Fortunately the present and late Colonial Gover-
nors have abstained from adopting so inadvis-
able a step, and the conclusion arrived at
is the best that can be come to under
the circumstances. The Lord Chancellor's speech
set the merits of the case very properly before the
House, and the noble and learned lord showed the
erroneous view taken of the matter by the Duke of
ARGYLL. The Legislature of Victoria had a perfect
right to pass this measure if it chose to do so, and
this country was not called upon to interfere in the
matter to put its veto upon it until such time
as it had passed both Houses. It is well alike for
this country and for Victoria that we have such a
Colonial Secretary like the Duke of ARGYLL, or the
consequences would indeed be serious. He talks of
the present policy as " vacillating and uncertain,"
but his plans would occasion inextricable confusion,
and finally defeat their views by injudicious in-
terference and unwarrantable prohibition. The
Lord Chancellor said most emphatically that we
often witness among ourselves events very similar
to those now taking place in Australia, and that the
case would certainly be far more serious than it is
if the Government of this country take upon it-
self to meddle with the Minister of a Colony, and
dictate terms to them as to what measures should
or should not be presented by them to the conside-
ration of the Colonial Parliament. We must avoid,
above all things, being hasty in any course of action
with our colonies and dependencies abroad ; and it
can safely be affirmed that the policy now pursued by
her MAJESTY'S Ministers is a far safer one than
any of the extreme measures advocated by those
noble lords who take upon themselves to criticise
it. Mistaken as the whole matter of this present
to Sir CHARLES DARLING and his lady has been,
two wrongs will not make one right, and the colo-
nists will be far more likely to remedy their faults
if left to themselves than they will be if those in
authority at home commit the error of judgment of
opposing their objects with undue haste, and fet-
tering their right of free discussion.

Next Tuesday there will be great excitement and
anxiety. throughout the United States, for we learn
by the cable that the Senate Court, at its rising on
Thursday, agreed to adjourn until Monday next,
and to tike the final vote on the Impeachment of
the 4PnEsinENT on the following day. We shall
therefore have the news in this country on Wed-
nesday, and shall learn what success will, after all,
attend the long-projected scheme of the Radicals.
There are already indications of possible discom-
fiture. We find by the intelligence brought by the
Scotia, from New York on the 29th ult., that Mr.
SUMNER proposed an amendment to the rules of the
Senate, providing that a majority shall determine
the final judgment on the Impeachment trial after
two-thirds shall have decided the question of con-
viction or acquittal. From this it would seem that
Mr. SUMNER at least has doubts about the requisite
preponderance of the Radicals. Many might be
inclined to thwart and oppose the PRESIDENT
on Union points who would be averse to
so wholesale a revolution as his con-
demnation and deposition. The whole of
the last few days of the trial have been occupied by
the speeches of the several counsel, who have an-
swered each other's arguments and addressed the
Court in turn much after the fashion of a Parlia-
mentary debate. The amenities of American man-
ners are not, however, fitly represented among our
sober and courteous M.P.'s. Mr. BRIGHT, indeed,
is aiming at the introduction of a bolder style of
language, and possibly we may one of these days
see him fulfil his endeavours. THADDEUS STEVENS
h has been distinguishing himself as usual by the
intemperance of his language and the violence of
his hatred against the PRESIDENT, whom he styles
tt the offspring of assassination." Mr. STEVENS
contends that President JOHNSON is only serving
out LINCOLN'S unexpired term of office, and he
argued with more show of reason that the Senators
who had voted for the reinstatement of STANTON
could not acquit Mr. JOHNSON.
Mr. GROESDACK, for the defence, made a vigorous
address, based more upon the legal points of the
case than Mr. NELSON'S, which it will remembered
dealt with the general principles, and took its stand
upon the reason and justice of the matters in dis-
pute. Mr. GROESBACK claimed that the Senate was
a court governed by the principles of law. Mr.
STANTON'S case did not come within the Tenure-of-
Office Act, since he was appointed during Mr.
LINCOLN'S first term of office, and had been only
commissioned to hold the office during the pleasure
of the PRESIDENT. Referring to the PRESIDENT'S
speeches, Mr. GROESI3ACS denied the right of Con-
gress to abridge the freedom of speech, a privilege
which, most assuredly, its members are not inclined
to relinquish on their own account. Another
speech for the defence was made by Mr.VvARTs,
who declared that unless the Senate was a court
governed by laws, it was an altar of sacrifice to
partisan hatred. And so the war of words
has gone ou day after day with little chance
or prospect that either side will influ-
ence the other, or that all the legal ingenuity
and eloquence employed can succeed in putting a
very different construction on facts which every-
body knows. It is, perhaps, the strongest argu-
I went in favour of the PRESIDENT that his adver-

saries, however persistent and desperate, cannot
succeed in bringing forward any new or striking
charge. We hear of nothing but the old story
about Mr. STANTON'S removal and the intemperate
provincial speeches, whereas if Mr. JOHNSON had
really attempted to subvert the liberties of the
country, or to aggrandise himself at the expense of
the Constitution, there would have been plenty of
charges to bring forward against him. Words,
however intemperate or discourteous, constitute no
grave political offence unless they are uttered in
wilful disrespect to a ruling
_Sovereign, and such

the American PRESIDENT certainly does not claim
to be. It would be ludicrous if it were not so
serious to find Radicals like STEVENS and
BUTLER, who are certainly not in the
habit of measuring their words or weigh-
ing their invectives, suddenly professing such
scrupulous anxiety respecting the language used by
the PRESIDENT at torchlight mass meetings in the
country. Mr. GROESRACK, in alluding to this part
of the business, plainly alluded to the provocation
given to the PRESIDENT at that time. It was more
than suspected that the Radicals endeavoured to
excite and irritate the speaker into imprudent
speeches which they speedily made the most of
against him. The PRESIDENT'S tour in the North
was just on the eve of electiOn, the last election in
which the Radicals succeeded in carrying the ma-
jority. Mr. JoiiNSON was reckless and imprudent,
convinced of the dishonesty and selfishness of his
adversaries and of the evil effects of their policy,
and certainly did not scruple to express his feel-
ings unreservedly, and occasionally with that in-
temperance of language into which American states-
men of all parties are too easily betrayed. It must be
remembered in his extenuation that all kinds of
abuse had previously been levelled at him on ac-
count of his merciful dealings towards the South.
Of late the quarrel between the rival parties in the
North has absorbed all interest, but a year or two
back the great question at issue was the treatment
of the Confederate States. No language was too
strong to denounce the statesman who stood firmly
in the breach, who refued to sacrifice the whole of
the gains of four years of bloodshed and sacrifice at
the bidding of a few political fanatics; who re-
garded his conquered countrymen not as slaves to
be crushed under foot, but as members of one great
and united nation, and who held that any military
triumph would be dearly purchased which sacrificed
the civil rights and liberties of the people, and sub-
verted the main principles of that venerable Con-
stitution which Americans had been taught to
revere and to cherish.

It is scarcely fair to either party in a war of
words to read their angry and acrimonious addresses
in times which, if not calmer, are at least different.
If we were to turn to the debates of the first Re-
form Bill, or on the third reading of the Commons,
we should probably be amazed at the vehemence
of the language and the bitterness of the anta-
gonism. In the same way, though in a far higher
degree, the American Senators of to-day can hardly
rightly estimate the feelings which two years ago
prompted the obnoxious speeches. But the truth
is, as we have often had occasion to declare, that
the real issue of the trial lies in the respective
strength of the parties, not in anything proved or
disproved in the case. Conclusions are foregone
on both sides, and the question does not lie in the
force of the argument or the evidence of the
witnesses, but in the doubt whether the Radi-
cals can muster two-thirds of the Senate. So
tar as matters have yet gone it is likely they will
fail to do so, and consequently that the PRESIDENT
will not be convicted. If so, and he is allowed to
finish his term of office, the public interest will im-
mediately turn, in true American fashion, to the
coming Presidential contest.
We learn from Ottawa that the Cana-
dian Parliament has adopted an address of
indignation and of sympathy to the QUEEN
on the attempted assassination of the Duke
Of EDINBURGH. The Canadian house of
Commons has passed a bill providing for the family
of the late Mr. MiGEE, a grant which the country
will willingly endorse. There seems to be little
doubt that WHELA.N is the murderer, though the
testimony of the detectives, who report that they
overheard a confession to his accomplices in gaol
must be received with reserve.

LATEST INTELL WINCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

HUNGARY.

PEST!!, May 9.

In yesterday's sitting of the Lower House of the
Diet the treaty of navigation with England and the
treaty of commerce with the Zollverein were in-
troduced.

To-day a conference will take place between the
➢linisters and some of the leading men in the
House of Count Andrassy on the question of the
Landwehr. General Klapka and General Perezel
have been invited to be present.

HALIFAX, May 9.
The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of New
York arrived here yesterday. All well.

CALCUTTA, April 13.

At the first Opium Sales of the new financial
year, the prices realised were 133 rupees above Mr.
Massey's estimates.

FRANCE.
BOURSE, May B.—Three o'cloek.—The market
closed as follows :

4} per Cont.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 22}
Credit Mobilier

Bank Shares —
Italsad Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —

___
End of month... 210
Credit Fonder ...1470
End of month... -
RAILWA'

S. Account
... 865

Orleans

Northern ll9O
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 575
Western
Eastern • .
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 3631
North of Spain 7l
Saragossa
Roman 43

MISS NEILSOI'S READINGS.—This charming and
talented actress gave a reading at St. George's Hall, May
Ist, which was attended by a crowded and enthusiastic
audience. Her success in this most difficult undertaking,
viz., to rivet the attention of a London audience for two
hours and a half by means of her own dramatic elocu-
tionary powers, unaided by the accessories of the stage
was of the most complete and
gratifying description. Her
alternation from playful espeiglerie to deep pathos was re-
markable in the
" May Queen." Her Juliet, in the balcony
scone was such as to persuade us that her impersonation
of the character on the stage would be a most interesting
performance. She possesses in an eminent degree the
qualifications for success in the higher role of female parts,
especially in the romantic drama. We are informed that
she is likely ore long to make her reappearance on the
London boards.

A JEWEL ROBBERY.--On Wednesday last, be-
tween ono and two o'clock, the house of the Countess
Teleki, 41, Eaton-square, was entered, as it is sup-
posed, from the adjoining house, which is at pre-
sent untenanted. The servants Were at dinner, and
the countess had gone out on horseback. The thief
is supposed to have entered the house by one of
the upper windows, and to hive descended to tee bed-
room of the countess, where ho found two caskets of
jewels, some bank-notes, and money, and then to have
returned to ono of the upper rooms, where he broke open
the caskets, took out the jewels, and returned as he had
come. Tho person in charge of the empty house had
left it during the precise time which elapsed between
the jewels being seen and missed, and is therefore unable
to give any information as to who may have entered the
house in his absence. The thief was evidently a stranger
as more valuable and convertible property lay close at hand,
and might have easily been taken. A large reward has
been offered for the discovery of the jewels.
During a quarter of a century llorniman's Teas have bad
an immense sale, and as they are now 8d per pound Cheaper
in consequence of the Reduced Duty, the demand will
doubtless be even further extended. Sold, secured in
Packets; genuine are signed liornitnan and co., Lond:4,

tiCIIMMEONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, FRIDAY, May 8.
So there is to be no peace manifesto at Orleans after all.
The Constitutionnel formally announces the fact. The im-
pression produced by the announcement is unfavourable.
The following explanation is given of this change of pro-
gramme. It is said that M. Rouher, fearing that the
Emperor would do more harm than good by making a
speech which, not being sufficiently definite, would be sure
to be wrested into a menace of war, urged his Majesty to
refrain from speaking. After some deliberation the Em-
peror called the Minister of State to him, and said that
he (the Emperor) would comply with the Minister's re-
quest. At the same time Napoleon urged M. Rouher to
be on friendly terms with Marshal Niel, " whose activity
and capacity had made the Imperial Government suffi-
ciently strong to be peaceful with impunity."

This incident derives additional interest from an article
which has just rppeared in the Journal des Debats. In
this the writer reiterates that its former article
respecting the disagreement between M. Rouher and
Marshal Niel is true, in spite of the denial of
the Constitutionnel, and adds that there is in the army
a party "imperiously warlike," that it is composed of all
grades and ranks, that it has not given way and will not
give way, that it waits the signal of war with impatience,
and fears that France will be injured in its military pres-
tige. " Nevertheless," says the I)bats, " let us be re-
assured, let us recover confidence. There is every reason
to believe that the friends of peace have got the upper-
hand in the Councils of the State, where unanimity has
been re-established, ad' 'tting that it has ever been dis-
turbed." This last sentence diminishes the effect of the
positive statement with which the article set out, and the
account given of the martial ardour of the army proves at
least one thing—that a large army is an edged tejl, very
dangerous to play with.
The LiberM declares that M. de Saint Paul has retires.
This is an event of some significance. 'When some
months ago the Marquis de Lavalette left the Cabinet
because of the :mperor's determination to interfere in the
Roman question, M. Rouher—who is closely connected
with the marquis by marriage, and has ever since
then been manoeuvring to get him back into
power—succeeded in getting M. de Saint Paul retained in
his subordinate but influential post at the Ministry of the
Interior, and as he was an old official, and the present.
Minister, M. Pinard, is quite a new hand, M. Rouher's
friend was able to carry things on for the advantage of the
Rouher-Lavalette interest. The retirement of M. de Saint
Paul is not explained, but the fact would seem to be a
rebuff for the Minister of State.

It is asserted that some correspondence has passed
between our Government and Prussia respecting the
proposed address in the Zollverein Parliament respecting
the unification of Germany. Prussia was told that if
that address were voted it would be considered equivalent
to tearing up the Treaty of Prague. Bismarck is said
to have received these representations in a very
friendly spirit, due, so the Paris journals hint, to his un-
easiness at the discontent which prevails in Hanover.
However that may be, the address has not been voted, and
so that cause of trouble is removed.

The dispute with the Bey of Tunis is now said to have
arisen from his refusal to submit to the arbitration of the
mixed commission on the claims of the French creditors
which he himself had proposed.
M. Michel Chevalier and M. Bussii,re have been more
sinned against than sinning in the matter of the Credit
Mobilier Company. They still hold the shares for issuing
which they have been condemned by a court of justice,
and the difference between the value of the shares when
they were purchased and their value now represents a loss
of £20,000 to M. Chevalier and of a larger sum to M.
Bussiere.

There was rather an animated scene at the close of the
debate in the Senate on the Press Bill. M. Rouher
replied to a long speech against the bill by M. le boy de
St. Arnaud, and contended that the Empire ought not to
be bound by the stringent law.. of 1852, for fifteen
years of order and tranquillity shewed that greater liberty
might be given to the press. He uttered his peroration
amid tumultuous applause. " Let us," said he, " unite
to-day in a sentiment of confidence in the dynasty. Let
not storms frighten us. We enter upon the natural con-
dition of a Liberal Government ; let us enter upon it
resolutely and we shall maintain ourselves there firmly.
Confidence is not, as has been said, rashness ; it is
will, courage, faith, and success." The Minister then
descended from the tribune amid a storm of bravos,
and was surrounded by senators who congratulated him
upon his speech.
There was a great outcry for putting the question to the
vote, and consequently several senators who had inscribed
their names to speak, on being called renounced their
right. But when the President said "La parole est h
M. Sainte-Beuve," there were cries of " Silence !
Silence !" for some senators wished to hear the first of
living critics. Others, however, continued to talk and
make such a noise that it was impossible to hear the first
Part of his speech. Threnshout the course of it the

tumult was renewed, greatly to the disgust of the mare
Liberal members and somewhat to the disconcertment of
the speaker. As he went on the impatience increased, and
nothing was heard hut" Aux voix !" "La cloture !" Sainte-
Bettye, however, was understood to condemn the law, not,
of course, for the reason that M. Maupas and the Ultra.
Imperialists had condemned it, but because it did not go
far enough in the Liberal direction. Cardinal Donnet got
up when Sainte-Beuve had ended ; but he met with no
better reception than his predecessor. The question was
then put to the vote that the measure should be sent back
to the commissioners for further deliberation. Out of the
117 members who voted, 23 only were for the motion, and
94 against.

The Paris correspondent of the Morning Herald says the
announcement that the Emperor would not make a pacific
speech at Orleans caused a most unfavourable impression.
All M. Itouher's declarations are of no use. He is a man
of great ability—so great that he can always find good
reasons for saying the very reverse of what he had pre-
viously said. Therefore his placebos go for nothing. The
correspondent thinks that those persons misrepresent
Napoleon who describe him as vacillating. If he seems to
be so it is because he does not, like his subjects,
constantly publish his sentiments and intentions. The
correspondent believes that he is steadily, though silently,
pursuing the object which he has long set before him. It,
would be interesting to know what this object is.

The Florence correspondent of the Times describes the
extraordinary fascination which the Prince of Prussia
exercises upon all those who come near him, and attributes
it to his never losing an opportunity which comes in his
way of giving pleasure to other persons. lie has won all
hearts in the country, and will long be remembered.

The IncUpendance Beige confirms the statement that
Prussia, finding an agreement with Denmark about the
Schleswig question hopeless, has now appealed to Austria,
at the same time informing that Power of the conditions
which Prussia deems indispensable.

By the recent death of the widow of John Leech, his
two children are left destitute. A strong appeal is being
made to the Premier to continue to them the grant from
the Literary Fund which was bestowed upon their mother.
A collection is being made for Mr. Alfred Nicholson, the
oboe player, who has been laid aside by illness, and is in
embarrassed circumstances.

The Athourum states that from the fifty-three candi-
dates who aspire to the honour of the Fellowship, the
Giuncil of the Royal Society has selected the following as
ttle fifteen whom they recommend the society to elect :--
J. Ball. H. C. Bastian, M.D., Lieutenant-Colonel J.
C.tmeron, R.E., Professor R. B. Clifton, M. W. Crofton,
J. B. Davis, M.D., P. M. Duncan, M.D., P. Griess, A.
G. V. Harcourt, Rear-Admiral A. C. Key, Rear-Admiral
E. Ommaney, J. B. Pettigrew, M.D., A. J. Stone, Rev.
H. B. Tristram, and W. S. w. Vaux. The election takes
place on June 4. It must be confessed that the public will
require enlightening as to the merits of a good many of
these gentlemen.

A communication appears in the Journal of the Society of
Arts, from Mr. Edwin Chadwick, intended to controvert
certain statements made by Mr. Grimston in his pamphlet
on the postal telegraphs question. Mr. Grimston ques-
tioned the propriety of putting into the hands of the
Government such immense patronage as that which would
be given to them by the proposed change. Mr. Chad-
wick, on the other hand, objects to the policy of
allowing the directors of a joint-stock company to re-
tain such a power as their position gives to them. lie
points out that by a little pressure a railway director can
always make sure of a seat. Calling attention to the fact
that one-fifth of the House of Commons are members of
the board of snore trading company, he contends that a
Lord of the Treasury has not nearly so much patronage
as the director of a large company, inasmuch as the actisn
of the former is much restricted, and probably will be yet
snore narrowed by competitive examinations. Mr.
Grimston denied that any important district Was without
telegraphic. communication. In answer, Mr. Chadwick
enumerates no fewer than thirteen towns of over 4,000 in-
habitants, which are from four to more than thirteen miles
from any telegraph station. The most striking example
is that of Whitchurch, whose population is over 4,000,
while the nearest station is Crewe, 131} miles distant. As
to putting the people in the hands of the Government, a
cypher system might easily be arranged, and the public
would have the satisfaction of knowing that their com-
munications were in the hands of a Ministry responsible
to Parliament, rather than under the control of an irre•
voubible trading directory