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London, England, 1868-01-07 00:00:00

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The House of Representatives has determined to
begin its winter session vigorously, or rather, per-
haps we should say, the Radicals are determined to
make the most of their last opportunity. The re-
cent elections leave them little hope that they will
be able much longer to retain their predominance
in the national Legislature, and therefore they are
pursuing their old course during the short time that
remains to them with re'loubled energy. It will be
remembered that Mr. JOHNSON, a short time since,
sent a message to the Senate commenting on the
forbearance and magnanimity shown by Gene-
ral HANcocK in his dealings with the Southern
States, and suggesting a public recognition
of his services. This suggestion must have been
made, one would think, in a kind of bravado, since
the PRESIDENT could hardly have expected such
a proceeding on the part of Congress. So far from
adopting his suggestion the House of Representa-
tives, we learn by the cable, has just passed reso-
lutions thanking General SHERIDAN for his services,
a commander of a very different calibre from
General HANCOCK, and censuring the PRESIDENT
for removing him from his command. The removal
of SHERIDAN was a bold but necessary act on the
part of JOHNSON, and it followed naturally enough
on the suspension of STANTON. It was only won-
derful that the PRESIDENT had so long eldured his
insubordination and insolence. The resolution
passed by the House of Representatives, thanks a
man whom the PItEsIDENT had found it necessary
to remove from his command Another achieve-
ment of the Housa of It-presentatives has been to
pass a resolution, ordering the Committee on
Foreign Affairs to take immediate action on the
maltreatment of American citizens by the British
authorities in Ireland. The majority of respectable
Americans will not thank the House for identifying
them with the assassins and incendiaries of Ireland.
What " inutio hate action" the Committee on
Foreign Affairs can reasonably take in the matter
it might puzz!e the house of Representatives
to particularise. The only view in wllich Fenianian
assumes a serious aspect is when it threatens to
embroil us with the United States, but we may hope

that the good sense of the body of the people will
prevent them from really throwing themselves iato
the breach in so absurd and insignificant a cause.
No one knows better than the Americans themselves
what Fenianism really is. They have bad ample

opportunity for detecting the mischievous imposture,
and have not spared their satire on its Head Centres,
living in luxury on the contributions of maid-ser-
vants and labourers, their rivalries, their jealousies,
their dissensions, their high-flown precepts without
practice. The keen-witted Yankees would require, if
they really espoused the cause of the Irish Republic, to
sec a little more unity and cohesiotlamoing,
serves
rvoesse
who arc to establish it. Fenianism, as it is,
very well for a pretext for oratorical display, and a
convenient vehicle for fulminations against England
whenever it suits the interest of any political party
to cAch the popular ear. The Americans love ex-
citement of any kind, and the Fenians are too
ready to attribute the notoriety which they have
attained to real sympathy with them, and belief in
their cause. Again, the Irish vote has not been
without its influence, and the best of American
candidates are too much accustomed to weigh such
considerations in the balance against higher and
more imrortant interests.
Reconstruction has met with a new and serious
difficulty. The members of the Reconstruction
Conventions have suddenly discovered that the
Southern Treasuries are empty. The Georgia Con-
vention sent an agent on the 21st of December to
the State capital to draw $40,000 for salaries, but
he returned with the ominous intelligence that the
treasurer would give no money. The Convention
then tried to obtain a loan to pay their expenses,
but in vain. In Louisiana the members of the
Convention have been offering their warrants for
pay at a discount, but they can get no purchasers
at any price. This is a serious obstacle in the
way of gentlemen who are not altogether disinte-
rested in their public services. Nevertheless, the
Reconstruction of the South is still an important
object with the Radicals. They desire, if possible,
so to manage the Reconstruction and the registra-
tion that they shall secure in the Southern States a
majority of negro and Radical voters. The Presi-
dential contest is every day drawing nearer, and
the Radicals have learned something by the recent
State elections. They are quite aware that,
without the addition of a large number
of new voters of their own side, the
election of General GRANT to the Presidency is a
matter of certainty. This would be the best thing
for all parties, best for the North and South alike.
General GRANT is firm, though moderate, in his
views, and would bring to the office a degree of
weight and popularity which successful candidates
rarely possess. But the extreme Radicals, with rea-
son, fear his entry at the White House, and
although they cannot openly repudiate so distin-
guished a member of their party, they would, many
of them, be secretly glad if they could put forward
another candidate with any chance of success. It
is with this view that the registration of the
Southern voters has been so manifestly partial and
exclusive. The Republicans have really no great
affection for the negro, as they are very ready to
show when independent of him; but they are fully
aware of the Dumerical strength of the blacks in
the Southern States, and if by their aid they can
obtain Radical members for the now excluded States
their position in Congress will once more enable
them to regulate the policy of the country.

CORRESPONDENCE FROM PARIS.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, MONDAY, Jan. 6.

The Siecle, making the remark that Governments
always have the disadvantage of injudicious friends,
replies to the article of the Constitutionnel, which
complained of the tendency of same journals to dis-
tort and misrepresent the Emperor Napoleon's lan-
guage. The answer runs thus :—" In this great
movement of the European press, which cannot
be stopped by the numerous hindrances ap-
plied to the manifestations of ideas, unfounded
rumours, and incorrect news, inevitably escape
the vigilance of the journalists, whose
mission it is to reject them. These rumours
and reports the Constitutionnel describes as ma-
noeuvres. ' Certain people,' says that journal take
a delight in disquieting the country by all sorts of
manceuvres.' And the article is written by the
chief editor, M. Paulin Limayrac. We have
quoted the commencement, and the rest is in the
same tone ; the commentaries on the words pro-
nounced on the receptioa of Count de Goltz are
there qualified as ' subtle analyses and insidious
paraphrases.' The journalists alluded to do not even
stop, according to M. Limayrac, at what passes in
France ; ' sensational speeches, carefully prepared,'
are brought from abroad. Our contemporary then
denies two pieces of news : the first, that the Em-
peror, on receiving the Legislative Body on New-
Year's Day, dwelt in an especial manner on the ur-
gency of the bill respecting the organisation of the
army, and on the necessity for guaranteeing the
security of the country ; the second, that Ring Vic-
tor Emmanuel had made some 'strange observa-
tions.'" The Siecle then quotes the short remarks
of the King (which we have already given), and goes
on to say—" What are those strange observations ?
Against what windmills is the Constitutionnel tilt-
ing with its insidious rumours, false news, and
culpable proceedings ?' Does it not see that it
goes directly against its own aim ; that it generates
a belief in a species of permanent conspiracy, and
exaggerates immeasurably the petty details, lost iu
the midst of the immense circulation of ideas and
the incessant production of new facts ? The Con-
stitutionnel flatters itself that it is reassuring public
opinion, whilst in reality it is only an alarmist."
On the question for which so many of the
Paris journals are now under menace of
prosecution the Presse makes the following
remarks :—" Several journals quote a long extract
from the Moniteur, which analyses the speech de-
livered by the Marquis de Moustier on the Roman
question, and accompanies that summary with re-
flections suitable for an official journal towards a
Minister. Our contemporaries conclude froth that
fact that we were authorised by such an example to
persevere in the course wfticla we had been following
for the last four years. The proof is an excellent one,
but the article of the Moniteur is not the only evidence
against that perversion of common sense which
forbids a free press aui a free tribune to live side
by side, and which renders impossible, even for an
official journal, the praise of a speech without a
certain analysis. We believe that during the last
two years no important Ministerial speech has been
made without being touched on by the Moniteur.
And what surprises us most is not that the infrac-
tion should have taken place, but that it should have
occurred without the Government perceiving it."
The Provincicil Correspondence of Berlin pub-
lishes the subjoined reflections on the occasion of
she opening of the New Year :—" The year 1867
has realised beyond all expectation, and especially
for North GAinany, uaion and national strength.
But much more important objects have been at-
Ltieeti in that memorable year. The harrier
which, at the close of 1866, appeared to exist be-
tween North and Sout Gainany is already cast do wn,
both in fact and in the minds of the German people.
Who does not remember the bitter complaints
that were:inade respecting the line of the Maine
which seemed necessarily to separate the North from
the South ? Who at that period would have dared
to hope that in the following year we should be re-
joking in the full and entire certainty of being
firmly united to South Germany with respect to na-
tional defence and economic development ; that we
should find ourselves in an association with her which
embraces the highest interests of the common coun-
try and these that most directly promote the public
prosperity ? As early as the spring of 1867 the