The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 16, 1868.

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reserved in communicating details. At any rate,
there se ems no reason to suppose that the conse-
quence a.f this visit of his Imperial Highness to the
capital of Prussia will be the rupture of the friendly
relation s between the two countries most im-
mediately concerned in the matter, and hence
the chief subject of anxiety respecting it is removed.
We may speculate upon the meaning of the affair
to our hearts' content, and listen to all kinds of
suggestions possible or impossible, as the case may
be, without exciting ourselves, as we should if the
issues of ,the affair were likely to be serious. What
is likely the true version of the strange story is that
the Prince's mission related to the Eastern question,
and that he went to Berlin in the hope and expec-
tation of doing something decided iu that matter.
Prussia has a good deal to do with the settlement of
this awkward question, and hence the very natural
desire to propitiate her, and gain her influence to be
exerted in the right direction. The policy of Count
BISMARCK has led him for some time past to culti-
vate the friendship of the Cabinet of St. Peters-
burg, doubtless believing that this alliance would
serve him in good stead if France and Austria were
leagued against him. The danger being practically
cleared, the Prussian statesman very probably holds
it to be the safest course to attend to the wishes of the
French EMPEROR, and, therefore, Prince NAPO-
LEON'S efforts may have been directed to this end,
and he may have been the medium of communica-
tion with the Prussian Government in a manner
more direct, and yet not so compromising as if
formal communications were exchanged between
Ambassadors and Ministers. It shows the very un-
certain state of public affairs that a journey like
that of Prince NAPOLEON'S should have given rise
to so many rumours ; but, although productive of
anxiety in itself, its result may, in reality, remove
some of the unfavourable impressions now enter-
tained.

The intelligence which the Cuba brings us from
New York, dated March 6, tells us, of course,
nothing more than we already know through the
medium of the Cable, but it gives us fuller and
more ample details of the movements of the con-
tending parties. The House of Representatives
has adopted twelve Articles of Impeachment, charg-
ing President JOHNSON with high crimes and mis-
demeanours in violating the Tenure-of-Office Law,
by the removal of STANTON and the appointment
of THOMAS without the advice and consent of the
Senate ; in violating the Army Bill, by trying is in-
duce General EMORY to obey orders not sent through
General GRANT; in denying the legality of Congress;
in denouncing Congress in public speeches ; in at-
tempting to devise means to defeat the execution of
the Reconstruction Laws. All the other charges
are merely variations or amplifications of these lead-
ing ones. The salient points are the removal of
STANTON and the disrespect shown to Congress ;
and upon these, apparently, the PRESIDENT'S ene-
mies mean to take their stand. It says something
for Mr. Joinisort's administration of public affairs
that all the offences charged against him are purely
personal and partisan. There is no mention of any
dereliction of public duty except so far as the
direct interests of the Radicals are concerned.
In the eyes of Messrs. STEVENS, SUMNER, and their
associates, no doubt such crimes are of the deepest
dye ; but we must not measure political judgments
in accordance with the estimates of interested
parties. The spirit which actuates the House of
Representatives has been elearly shown throughout
the whole of the proceedings, most especially in the
haste with which affairs have been hurried on ; and
we are not surprised to find the Democratic party
making a protest, though it is fully in keep-
ing with the injustice and intolerance of the
Radical party that they have refused to re-
ceive that protest. Congress is nominally a
deliberative assembly, in which all opinions
are represented, all parties are to find a voice ; but,
in point of fact, for the last eighteen months there
has been but one form of policy which has had a
chance of a hearing. The Radicals, always impa-
tient of opposition, have grown since their tempo-
rary ascendancy absolutely intolerant, and have
contrived to reduce the small party which resists
their oppression to almost absolute silence in Con-
gress. It is manifest that where such a spirit
exists there is little real protection for public
liberty. If the voice of opposition may not be
heard a legislative and deliberative assembly be-
comes nothing more than a sinecure. In the case
of the Impeachment it is no great wonder
that the dominant party should refuse to listen to
the reasonable and indignant protest of the Demo-
crats. The latter declare that the majority acted
with tyranny in limiting the debate upon the Articles
of Impeachment, and with indecent haste in press-
ing the Impeachment under a strict party vote, and
they denounce the whole affair of the Impeachment
as a partisan attempt to break down a co-ordinate
branch of the Government. This protest, as we
have said, the House refuse to receive, but it is
nevertheless heard by the country. It is a proof
of the weakness of a cause when its promoters dare
not hear an adverse opinion, and it is sufficiently
evident that the Radicals fear that should they allow
breathing time their last chance would be lost. It
is not in such a spirit that a grave constitutional
matter, in which all ranks and classes, all sects, and
parties in the State are more or less interested
should be treated. If there really is ground
for charging the chief ruler of the State with
an infraction of his solemn duties, a misuse
of his high powers, the charge should be
made with all due gravity and caution, and exa-
mined with the deliberation and the impartiality
suited to its national importance. The Radicals
could hardly adopt a surer method of displaying
their malignity and their injustice than by openly
acknowledging that it is only by hurrying on the
trial and silencing all remonstrance and inquiry that
they can hope for success.

The retirement of Mr. ADAMS from his arduous
and responsible diplomatic duties is a matter of
general regret. More especially is it felt to be a
public loss at a juncture like the present, when so
many weighty questions aro left unsettled, and so
many important interests are involved in the cor-
respondence between this country and America.
We may hope that Mr. ADAMS' successor may be as
wise, as temperate, as well fitted to deal with intri-
cate and irritating controversies as he has shown
himself to be, but it is merely matter for hope or
speculation that he should be so not a case of abso-
lute certainty, as with an old and tried diplomatic
friend. The members of the International League of
Peace and Liberty have taken the opportunity of his
departure to present an address to Mr. ADAMS, and
to assure them of the anxious desire of themselves
and their countrymen to maintain friendly relations
with the great Republic which he represents. Pro-
bably Mr. ADAMS did not require to learn this fact
through the agency of Mr. BEALES or Mr. POTTER,
and probably, too, he can form his own estimate of
the sympathies of the English people. He
must have heard with some surprise of
the " clemency " with which the people of
America crowned their " splendid victory"
over their fellow-countrymen, and he may have
thought it a singular tune to choose for congratu-
lating the Americans on " the wise and noble

example" which they are setting the Old World and
its Kings and Emperors. No doubt, however,
Mr. ADAMS has not been so long among us without
understanding something of the character of those
politicians with whom distance lends enchantment
to the view, and who, if they had not the American
people and Constitution to worship, would expatiate
on the untrammelled freedom of the Ojibbeways or
the paternal watchfulness of the King of DAHOMEY
rather than allow their own countrymen to believe
themselves worthy of approval.

LATEST INTELL MENU.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.
SUEZ, March 12.

Private letters received here from the headquar-
ters of the English army in Abyssinia state that a
reconnaissance is about to start for Lake Ashangi.

PRUSSIA AND KING GEORGE.

VIENNA, March 16.

The weekly newspaper edited by Herr Warrens,
started some time ago with the object of defending
the interests of the King of Hanover, publishes a
document to-day evidently emanating from authen-
tic Hanoverian quarters. This document attempts
to show that Prussia fails to execute the arrange-
ments entered into by the treaty relative to the
private fortune of King George, whilst the latter in
November last completely fulfilled that article of
the treaty stipulating that they should deliver up to
Prussia the Hanoverian Securities sent away io
London in 1866.

PRUSSIA.

BERLIN, March 16.

It is announced that the Chancellor of the North
German Confederation recently telegraphed to the
Minister of the Bund at Constantinople, desiring
him to examine into the persecutions of Jews, stated
to have occurred at Jerusalem, and, if requisite, to
take active steps for their redress. The North Ger-
man Consul immediately repaired to Jerusalem, and
procured the release of Rabbi Ayeh from confine-
ment, at the same time removing Dragoman I)ahud,
the Prussian consular representative, from his post.

AMERICA.
(Per Hansa via Southampton)
NEW YORK, March 5 (Noon).

The House Committee presented the twelve
Articles of Impeachment against President Johnson
to the Senate yesterday. The Senate resolved to
organise itself as a Court at one o'clock to-day.
Chief Justice Chase received notice to appear and
preside, but sent a communication to the Senate
dimenting to their action in receiving the Articles
of Impeachment before the court was organised.
The Ohio Republican State Convention has
adopted a resolution in favour of General Grant for
the Presidency, and of Mr. Wade for the Vice-
Presidency; also resolutions approving the impeach-
ment of Mr. Johnson, and the currency payment
of bonds.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Convention has
adopted resolutions endorsing the course pursued
by Mr. Johnson, condemning his impeachment as
grossly partisan and unjustifiable, and in favour of
the currency payment of bonds.

A mass meeting has been held at Baltimore en-
dorsing President Johnson's conduct, and denounc-
ing his impeachment.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has been enthusiastically re-
ceived at New Orleans.
SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.

The North German Lloyd's steamship Hansa ar-
rived at Southampton this morning with 58 passen-
gers for that port, Havre, and Bremen, and
$266,327 in specie for London, $292,115 for Paris,
and $1,588 for Bremen. The Hansa spoke the
steamer Weser on the 7th inst., and the Borussia
and Allemanuia on the 14th, all bound for New
York.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA (HEAVY) MAILS.

GIBRALTAR, March 14.
The Poonah left at 10 p.m. to-day. She may
be expected at Southampton about the 19th inst.
OUTWARD MAIL OF 20-28th FEB.
SUEZ, March 8.
The Simla left at five p.m. yesterday for Cal-
cutta.

BOURSE, March 14—Three o'clock...-The market
closed as follows :

4/ per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 571
Credit Mobilier 242 50
End of month —
Credit Foncier —1455
End of month — -
RAILWAY
Orleans
N orthorn

Bank Shares 3160
Italsan Loan
End of month —
Mexican Loan 16 50
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 38
Home Debt —
Deferred —
's. Account
890
910

Lyons and Mediterranean 9061,
Southern..... 5564
Western 5671
Eastern • •
Sardinian
Austrian 547f
Lombard 370
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 451

7HE BOMBAY MAIL.

SOUTHAMPTON, March 14.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Ceylon, Capt. Babot, with the heavy Bombay
mails, has arrived, bringing 125 passengers and
£32,461 in specie ; also 2,017 packages cargo, of
which 1,000 are wheat and 408 packages are raw
silk.

The Ceylon spoke, on the Bth of March, off Cape
Sacralif, the British barque 9,180, third distinguish-
ing pennant, standing to westward. On the 12th
of March, lat. 45 deg. 10 min. N., long. 8 deg. 20
min. W., the British ship Liberator, standing to
the southward and westward ; French frigate An-
dromache, and transport Seine. An Italian cor-
vette and Russian corvette were at Alexandria; and
at Malta were her Majesty's ships Hibernia, Lord
Clyde, Arethusa, Endymion, Psyche, Wizard,
Syrian, Caledonia, and Cockatrice, the Turkish fri-
gate Mahommedi, and the Prussian frigate Hertha.
GIBRALTAR, March 9.

The steamer Syrian, belonging to Messrs. Bibby's
fleet, which left this port for Liverpool on the 6th,
struck on a rock six miles this side of Tarifa. The
mate returned in one of the ship's boats, and re-
ported the facts to the senior naval officer, and on
the following morning the steamtug Hercules, with
six lighters, proceeded to the assistance of the
stranded steamer. The Syrian was got off the rock
and entered the bay at 2 p.m. on the 7th.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 7th writes :
" We are glad to find by letters from Tangier, dated
yesterday, that there is good reas3n to hope that
the cholera, after visiting very lightly the African
side of the Straits, has really taken its departure.
It appears from an official report of the medical
officer of the Tangier Board of Health that there
has been no cholera in that town since the 13th of
February. From Tetuan also the accounts are
good, and the district of Anghera and the interior
of the country are said to be entirely free from the
disease.

The steamers Burns, from Glasgow; Spring, from
Liverpool ; schooner Farmer's Lass, from Swansea;
Ann Stanland, from Llanelly ; steamer Cadiz, from
London ; steamer Integrity, from Swansea ; steamer
Charles Howard, from London ; her Majesty's ship
Simon, from Portsmouth ; schooner Brenda, from
London ; Morocco, from Liverpool ; Bangalore,
from Southampton; Wiame, from Cardiff ; and Vo-
lunteer, from London, have severally arrived.

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Exchange on London, 493. ; on Paris, sf. 22e. ;
on Marseilles, bf. 22c.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR. OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

PARIS, SUNDAY, March 1.5.
. _
M. de Kervtuen has written to his brother deputies,
requesting them to authorise the prosecution against. him
which the Paris journalists have demanded liberty to insti-
tute. This is somewhat bold on the part of M. de Ker-
vdguen. The more this matter is investigated the Worse it
turns out for him and his colleague, M. Cassagnac, of the
Pays. It will be remembered that the charge which these
worthies made against the S;ele was based upon an alleged
letter written by S. Crispi, who, was in the Italian
Government in 1860. Signor Crispi now writes to say
that he has kept a copy of his letter to M.
La Varenne, and that, so far from authorising that
jobber to buy the Paris press, he expressly refused
to have anything to do with the matter. his
reason was, that the best part of the Paris journals were
already supporting Italy spontaneously. These are his
words : "We have for us the Siacle, which has long been
nobly devoted to the Italian cause, for it represents the
cause of nationalities. We have also for us the Opinion
Nationale. We are not, then, driven to beg from door to
door for the insertion of a few lines in our favour at the
gates of the great Paris journals." After the clear proofs
of their fasehood it is impossible to denounce too strongly
the malignant treachery of the men who made their whole-
sale accusations against the Paris journalists. As one of
the accusers was himself a journalist, I am compelled to
suppose that his calumny was of that kind described by
the precept Honi soit qui mat y pens.
Prince Napoleon's movements continue to excite mor.
and more interest. Instead of coming back to Paris he
has gone to Saxony, and the gossips now affirm that the
object of his mission is to endeavour to prevent—peace-
ably, of course—the union of South Germany with Prussia.
Only, say the gossips, what mean all these preparations
for war in France ? Are they intended as a threat to
Prussia if she does not behave herself ?

There is no doubt that the riots at Toulouse were very
serious. They have caused great uneasiness to the Govern.
ment. The rioters shouted, "Down with the Empire 1"
" Long live the Republic !" General Goyon, the com-
mander of the district, who happened to be absent, hastily
returned, and issued a strong proclamation, declaring that
" young men, misled by a false interpretation of the Army
Bill, have dared to join with the scum of the earth—old
convicts, and notorious agitators, in culpable manifesto?:
tions, Order, public security, and respect for persons and
things, must be assured. Let all honest and quiet people
have full confidence in me. It is not the first time that I
have found myself in face of an imeute : and now, as for-
merly, I shall know how to put it down." This
does not read quite as if the danger were passed. Six
arrests had been made ; among them a man who has been
fifteen times sentenced by the tribunals for theft and other
crimes. Two agents of the authorities were severely hurt.
We learn, also, that there have been disturbances at
Nantes, but have no particulars.
M. Schneider, though better, and able to walk out, has
resigned his post as President of the Corps Legislatif. It
was, perhaps, rather surprising that so busy a man as the
proprietor of the great ironworks at Creuzot must be,
should ever have taken this post. Rumour says that
Baron JeSrome David will be the new President. It will be
a very unpopular appointment. His extreme unfitness for
the post was shewn by his refusal to give a hearing to the
journalists attacked by Kerv6guen and Cassagnac.
M. Peyrat, who came out of prison last week, has not
lost much time in resuming his employment. The Avenir
National contains an article written by him on the im-
peachment of President Johnson.

We expect on Tuesday an important pamphlet. It is
entitled " Les Titres de la Dynastie Napol6onienne," and it
is said to have been written in the Tuileries.
The Monitcur announces a large number of decorations
to be bestowed upon the Maires in honour of the Prince
Imperial's twelfth birthday to-morrow. There are nearly
100 of them who are to be made Chevaliers of the Legion
of Honour. The non-decorated mayors will be able to
console themselves with the thought that they will be like
the plain-dressed Lord Castlereagh at the great gathering
of kings and Ministers at Paris in 1814, Bien dietingues.

The editor and the printer of a pamphlet calling upon
the Hessians to rise in behalf of their old Elector against
Prussia have been seized and carried to Berlin, where they.
will be tried for high treason.

The Florence correspondent of the Times describes the
very stormy scene which took place in the Italian Chamber
of Deputies last week. During the debate on the forced
currency certain members moved a series of resolutions
which were accepted by the Government. An attempt
was then made to add another resolution to them, the
effect of which would have been equivalent to a vote of
want of confidence. The Government protested that it
was too late- to make this addition, and were supported by
the President of the Chamber. Then ensued a trernen-
dolls uproar—"an infernal tumult" the President called
it— in the midst of which he put on his hat, and brought
the sitting to an abrupt termination. At length he
Opposition were compelled to give way, and the positio of
the Government is said to be so greatly strengthen by
this incident that in all probability Count Cambray-Digny
will carry his Budget without further difficulty.
An attempt has been made to shoot the Prince Royal of
Saxony as he was riding. As usual, the would-be mur-
derer missed his aim. Cn being arrested it was found that
he was mad. He was an umbrella maker.
The Prince Imperial of France is a candidate for ad-
mission to the Canoe Club. His claim is not very
apparent.

The state of trade in Paris is very unsatisfactory. The
Morning Post's correspondent says the number of bank-
rupts declared during the last two months. exceeds by
one-half the usual average of failures at this season of
the year. The export trail* with most countries has
fallen off considerably this year. The Americans are
not buying as usual ; England is doing less with French
goods ; Italy and Spain are poor; Austria economises.
Much uneasiness is felt about the influence of the city of
Paris in obtaining loans. Having assisted in the ruin of
the Credit Mobilier and the Credit Immobiare, it is now
feared the Credit Fonder, the most solid of .all the finan-
cial societies of France, may be compromised in large
transactions with the city.
The Reorganisation of the Army Bill is causing almost
as much opposition in Belgium as the similar measure did
in France. However, the Belgian Government appears to
be master of the situation, and the important clauses of
the measure have been passed by large majorities.

Russia was always inclined to play the part of the wolf
in the fable of the wolf and the lamb. We now learn that
the Journal de St. Pctersbourg wants to know what Austria
means by her conduct in the East. Persuade the Sultan
to give concessions to his Christian subjects, and inform us
what Austria's intentions are, says the Journal, and there
will then be a better chance of preserving peace.

The Temps publishes a terrible letter from Algiers. The
writer describes the most horrible scenes which have taken
place at Oran. The starving Arabs have turned can-
nibals. In one place the neighbours had been attracted to
a house by a smell of roast meat, and there they found a
woman and two children devouring the body of a third
child. During the night subsequent to the discovery one
of the two children died. Its fearful meal had proved too
much for a stomach enfeebled by long fasting. The Temp
has now opened a subscription for the Arabs, and heads
the list with £2O.

The Post rather severely takes Mr. Disraeli to task for
having submitted to the House of Commons proposals
which he is certain cannot be accepted. Public business
is delayed, ScotAl and Irish Reform Bills are post-
poned, and a fair prospect is opened of the present
session terminating with a legacy of heavy arrears
for 1869, and of a delay of dissolution until 1870,
during all which time Mr. Disraeli thinks himself assured
of his tenure of office. It is more than extraordinary that
in presence of such tactics the Liberal party should find
itself demoralised. A little Church Cave, anti-disesta-
blishment, has been started in their ranks ; but it numbers
only six, while the wildest rumour has not more than
doubled that number. If, then, Mr. Gladstone should be
able—as he ought to be—to announce a distinct and simple
policy, our contemporary might well expect the majority
of the House to rally round him and yield effective
support.

There seems also to be a growing conviction that the
House of Commons will not • permit the number of its
members to be increased, in order to give ten addi-
tional representatives to Scotland and at the same time to
preserve the nomination boroughs. Of course, if Mr.
Disraeli sees as a certainty that Mr. Baxter's instruction
will be carried, he will assent to it, in a modified form,
without a division. At it stands, it pla;.nly interferes with
the maintenance of one of the five points mentioned in the
Edinburgh speech, namely, that the representation of no
borough should be entirely abrogated. The difficulty, it
is understood, is in process of being got over in this way:--
On proper assurances being given that the Government
would assent, as they are now inclined to offer, Mr. Bax-
ter's motion will be altered to the effect that the committee
have power, not to disenfranchise any single-membered
borough, but to take the required number of members
from double-membered boroughs having between 10,000
and 12,000 of population— and that without reference to
whether the additional members for Scotland shall be seven
or ten.

The boroughs with populations of between 10,000 ana
12,000 which now return two 'members each are Barn-
staple, Beverley, Bridgwater, Grantham, Newark, Pet!r-
borough, Pontefract, Tamworth, Tiverton, Truro, War-
wick. alaa Weymouth.