The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1868.

inimical to his own desires. " Every one connected
with me is, and shall be, absolutely free to vote as
he pleases, down to the humblest labourer at the
docks ;" and again—" No elector of Cardiff, in any
way dependent on me, need fear that his voting for
you will in any way alter the relations between
him and me." The reason of this letter being
written was, that during the time of his lordship's
stay in Russia reports had been circulated to the
effect that he would use his influence in favour of
the Conservative candidates in the part of the coun-
try where his estates are situated. We should think
that this answer must be deemed satisfactory by all
concerned, and it is not too mach to expect that the
insinuations that have been made, more freely than
any occasion warrante3, will be put a stop to.
Before quitting this subject, it may be suggested
that it would be an honour to themselves, and a
great advantage to the country generally, if other
landlords and owners of great estates could, or
would, follow the example of the Marquis of BUTE,
and let it be confidently understood that they de-
cline all interference in elections of any kind. If
this were done more generally the good effect could
not fail to be speedily felt, and in many cases even
the temporary advantages expected to be realised
must disappoint people, for a patron and a nominee
seldom agree in the long run, and all those who are
the victims of their arrangements must feel tbeir
wrongs very deeply, and the consequences are gene-
rally unsatisfactory.

The arrival of the Scotia from New York on
the 16th brings us some interesting intelligence.
In the first place it is curious to note that Gen.
BUTLER, of New Orleans notoriety, has been de-
feated as a candidate for renomination to Congress.
This is significant of the waning power of the
Radicals, since notwithstanding the discreditable
manner in which he has too often acted, BUTLER
has hitherto filled a prominent place in the Radi-
cal army. He was one of the leaders of the ex-
treme section, and his vindictive hatred of the
South and the white Southerners, though it called
forth the conderOnation of Europeans, only
rendered him more popular with a cer-
tain party in the States. Exile, spoliation,
confiscation, were the methods he was constantly
urging upon the Northerners at the close of the
war, in order to tranquillise the Confederacy.
When the counsels of wiser and more patriotic men
prevailed, and the work of destruction stayed,
General BUTLER'S indignation knew no bounds.
We had at New Orleans a specimen of the chival-
rous spirit in which this military hero considers a
conquered enemy should be dealt with. The poet
tells us that " the brave can never hate the brave ;"
but as BUTLER'S reputation is not exactly on a par
with SIIERMAN'S or JACKSON'S, we need not
consider his treatment of a high-spirited
foe an exception to the rule. When the war was
finally concluded, and the general was transformed
into a politician after the fashion of American
migrations, BUTLER in Congress was as violent, as
reckless, as unscrupulous, as BUTLER in the army.
All the attacks upon the PRESIDENT, from the petty
contradiction of his diplomatic appointments to the
impeachment before the Senate Court, were urged
on by BUTLER, and in every scheme for the recon-
struction of the South he was on the side of
harshness and military tyranny. His failure
to obtain a seat in Congress in the
new elections is therefore doubly significant.
It proves that the days for intolerance and oppres-
sion and factious agitation have gone by, and that
the whole country is anxious to regain that internal
harmony and civil liberty without which national
prosperity is impossible. The condition of the
finances, the ever-growing debt, the weight of bur-
densome taxes, the high price of gold, and the hints
of repudiation or currency payment, are sufficient
to make thoughtful men pause before they entrust
to Radical legislators the future policy of the coun-
try. The new Congress, if BUTLER fails to obtain
a seat, will back two of its most promiment mem-
bers. THADDEUS STEVENS has passed away, and in
the absence of BENJAMIN BUTLER the South will at
least have a better chance of fair play and a tem-

perate hearing.
The difficulties about negro members in the
Southern Legislatures have not yet been adjusted,
although the white members, as we know, are by
no means exclusively Democrats. In Georgia they
seem to have had quite enough of familiar associa-
tion with their black brethren, for the House of
of Representatives has declared that members
having one-eighth of negro blood in their
veins are ineligible for seats, while the
Senate has gone a step further, and passed
a bill excluding negroes from juries. This
measure is being reconsidered, and will no doubt
be recalled or modified, since it is manifestly rea-
sonable and just in cases where negroes are affected
to allow part at least of the jurymen to be men of
colour. It shows, however, the strength of the
reaction in public feeling. In Louisiana a negro
has been admitted to a seat in the Senate in the
place of Mr. HARRIS, who has been elected to the
Senate at Washington ; the Georgia Senate has
turned out the two members elected to it, so it re-
mains to be seen how long the new Senotor of Loui-
siana will hold his grouni. We are sorry to find
that the army worm is seriously damaging the
cotton crop in several parts of the South, a loss
which is redeemed by the favourable reports from
the granaries of the West. Politically all is tran-
quil, and the frequent interviews between the PRE-
SIDENT and the new British Minister augur well for
the adjustment of our international differences.

POOR LAW INQUIRY AT HACKNEY UNION.—The
Board of Guardians for the Hackney Union have recently
demanded a Poor-law inquiry as to the conduct of their
clerk, with regard to whom considerable dissatisfaction
has existed for a long time, and against whom there were
several allegations of a serious character. The Poor-law
Board had arranged that Mr Henley, one of their in-
spectors, should attend at the workhouse, in Homerton, on
Saturday, ;for the purpose of investigating the charges
against the clerk. At the ordinary meeting of the Guar-
dians on Wednesday a letter was read from the clerk, Mr.
Stanton, in which he stated that owing to mental anxiety
he had, he confessed, been unable to discharge the duties
in the manner in which he had formerly fulfilled them.
He asked the Board to afford him an opportunity of rein-
stating himself in their confidence, and promised they
should never have occasion to regret the concession. The
Board, however, determined to let the inquiry proceed
but late on Thursday Mr. Stanton communicated to the
members the information that he had forwarded to the
Poor-law Board and also to the chairman of the Guardians
his resignation of the office of clerk, and the inquiry, which
was to hove opened at 11 o'clock on the following morn-
ing, was thus rendered unnecessary.
THE NORTH RIDING CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE
AND THE ELECTIONS.— In accordance with a resolution of
the Council, the secretary of the North Riding Chamber of
Agriculture forwarded printed circulars to the candidates
for seats in the new Parliament for the Yorkshire boroughs
and the Riding, requesting their answers to the three fol-
lowing questions :—" 1. Are you disposed to vote for a
Foreign Cattle-market Bill well calculated to prevent, as
far as possible, the re-introduction of the cattle plague and
other contagious diseases? 2. Ara yon prepared to sup-
port a Parliamentary inquiry as to the unfairness of the
exemption from local taxation of income arising from per-
sonal property ? 3. Will you support a bill for county
financial boards in which the elective principle and repre-
sentation of the ratepayers are fairly adopted ?" Tho reso-
lution already passed by the Chamber is enclosed to each
candidate.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—HaIf-a-Crown Day, Satur-
day, Sept. 26.—Admissions by season tickets, 5,448; ditto
on payment, 2,567; total -visitors, 8,015.
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The Marquis of West-
minster, K.G., has sent au additional donation of £2OO to
the National Lifeboat Institution.

OOREESPONDENOR PROM PUN.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.),

PARIS, SUNDAY, Septembei 47'1
• 4'
M Satin as the telegraphic communication with the
Peninsula is re-established, which, as far as regards 04
transmission of official messages goes, is hourly expect 4
there will be some chance of obtaining fuller and
more reliable tidings of the revolution than is
the case at present. Probably, however, much will
not be known until the labours of the special correspond-
ents, many of whom have passed through here on their way
to the scene of the revolution, begin to make themselves
felt. Of the pOsition of parties in Spain it is
stated that fifty may be counted in a population of
twelve millions, for the greater part indifferent as
respects government, but essentially monarchical ;
the overthrow of the royal authority, it is
affirmed, wed not bring about the triumph of the
Republic, butthat of agorder and civil war. The clergy,
who might lead the movement with firmness in one or
other direction, remain neutral; the army is faithful, and
the Government has still great chances of success, because
it commands superior unity of action and the centralised
forces. It is said that the Emperor has full confidence in
the triumph of the cause of the Queen, but this is a rumour
that must certainly only be taken for what it is worth. It
would be, to say the least of it, rash to predicate what the
Emperor thinks.
The following she' ch of General Prim ay p 'ars in the
Figaro :—" General Prim, Count de Beus3, Marquis de los
Castillejos, makes one of the finest and noblest figures in
the Spanish revolution. No foreigner ever enjoyed so much
popularity amongst us, nor ever more meritei the most
cordial sympathy, from the sole fact of his frank and
loyal character ; and it is just that which constitutes th 3
power and the claims of the General whose name has
become legendary in the mountains of Catalonia. Tile
hero of Castillejos, he who prophesied what would happen
in Mexico, is too well known to make it necessary to add
further details to those already published as to his generous
and intrepid nature, carried even to rashness, which ob.
stacles and perils only excite to fresh ardour and a greater
desire to conquer."
At a late meeting of Paris workmen, at the hall of La
Redoute, M. Gagne, an alvocate, declared that only one
remedy exists for the famine which prevails in Algeria,
namely, cannibalism—nothing else. This gentleman pro-
poses that persons of a philanthropical spirit should give
themselves up for the good of all. He himself wished
to become the first victim ; and he stated that he had
taken the train to proceed to Algeria and offer himself
to the starving Arabs. But having gone as far as
Charenton, he began to think that the representatives of
the nation ought to make the first sacrifices, and he
accordingly wrote to the various deputies, but they have
not yet returned any answer.
A Ministerial crisis at Vienna has cawed the Emperor
of Austria to postpone his visit to Gallicia.

There seems to be some slight hope that the recovery or
the youthful Duke of Brabant may yet be effected. The
fears of the doctors that tubercles might form on the
lungs have not been realised, and there has been no change
for the worse in any way during the last few days.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE INSURRECTION IN SPAIN,
PARIS, Sept. 28.
The Moniteur of this morning publishes the fol-

lowing :
No information was received on Saturday from
Spain. The reports yesterday only relate two im-
portant events.
It would appear that the manufacturing town of
Alcoy, in Alicante, has joined the movement. Two
companies of gendarmes had been despatched from
Albacete to re-establish order.

A telegram received from Carthagenga yesterday
states that three frigates were in sight off that port.
General Prim was supposed to be on board one
of the vessels. The officer in command of the
troops at Carthagena was summoned to surrender
the place, but he had formally refused. A serious
collision was expected.
Nothing fresh is reported from Andalusia, where
General Novaliches continues to concentrate troops
sufficient for an attack upon the insurrectionary
forceP.

MADRID, Sept. 26, 2 p.m.

The column commanded by General Calonge has
received counter orders, and will not proceed to
Santona, but is to fall back and take up a position
in the vicinity of Madrid.

The reason for this movement is stated to be
the progress of the insurrection, Valladolid and a
large portion of the two Castiles having pronounced
against the Royal cause.
The official Madrid Gazette of the 26th, which
has arrived here, states that the insurrection at
Bejar was almost at an end, and that Santander is
held by General Inestal.

BORDEAUX, Sept. 28.

La Gironde of to-day publishes advises from
Bayonne to the evening of the 27th inst., stating
that General Concha has ordered that several re-
giments should be refused their pay in conse-
quence of their having manifested a disposition
to revolt. The same journal says that the in-
surgents retook Santander to-day. Great excite-
ment prevails at Orivedo. The Spanish Deputy
Moncassi, who was arrested recently near Toulouse,
has escaped, and is believed to have succeeded in
entering Spain.

AMERICA.

GREENCASTLE, Sept. 28.

The Allan Company's steamship Moravian, from
Quebec on the 19th inst., arrived in Lough Foyle
at 9.30 a.m. to-day. She landed mails and pro-
ceedei for Liverpool.
QUEENSTOWN, Sept. 28.

The Inman Royal Mail steamer City of Wash-
ington arrived here from Liverpool at 3.30 p.m
yesterday, and, having embarked mails and pas-
sengers, proceeded for Halifax at 10.30 a.m. to-day.
All well.