The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1868.

May, 18611. nine days before theissue of the QUEEN'S
piocittanati on of neutrality ? "The insurgents have
instituted revolution with open, flagrant, deadly
war, toe ompel the United States to acquiesce in
the disme rnberment of the Union. The United
States ha ye accepted this civil war as an inevitable
necessity. " And this is not the utterance of an in-
significant speaker or anonymous writer, but the

official cox respondence from the American Secretary
of State accompanying the PRESIDENT'S Message
to Congress. Well might Lord STANLEY say that
if the clues tion were one he could discuss apart from
politics, be would ask Mr. SEWARD whether he could
with grair,:ty call upon him to refer the question of
the English right of recognition of the civil war to
solemn arbitration ? In point of fact, as Lord STANLEY
declared, the two questions of the Alabama claims,
and the :right of recognition, have nothing whatever
in common. No nation claiming independence and
self-respect could for a moment concede the one,
while any Power, however strong and self-reliant,
might fairly discuss and refer the other. If the
statesmen of the United States are really anxious
to have the matter settled they will at once lay
aside a claim which, they must feel themselves, we
can never admit, and meet Lord STANLEY in the
same fair, candid, temperate, and friendly spirit in
which he discusses these complicated and angry
questions. Lord STANLEY, as we have said, carried
both sides of the House with him, and obtained
from Mr. GLADSTONE cordial and unhesitating sup-
port. If this troublesome and irritating dispute
is ever to be settled no time could be more au-
spicious than the present, when the public feeling
in both countries is favourable and friendly. We
on our side need not court delay, for we are not
likely to be represented by a Minister to whom we
can more safely intrust our honour and our inte-
terests than the noble lord, whose admirable speech
last night elicited the approval of friends and
foes.

Mr. DISRAELI has made it a general rule to avoid
making reference to what he has said on public
matters, and whatever misrepresentations are made
he has almost always let alone. No one can wonder
that he has made an exception to the rule in the
case of Earl RUSSELL'S remarks in the House of
Lords the other night. As we observed yesterday
the speech of the noble lord was characterised by a
great deal of bitterness, and he seemed determined
to say something spiteful. In this attempt he
succeeded better than he deserved, but at the ex-
pense of correctness of detail, which Mr. DISRAELI
has shown in the letter which he has written on the
subject. Unfortunately Earl RUSSELL has always
been too bitter and prejudiced to permit
hiinself to be a generous opponent ; but he
need not forget to be a just one, and no one
who thinks about the matter will wonder that the
present Prime Minister has deemed it advisable to
make reference to the speeeh delivered in the House
of Lords by the noble earl. To sum up the case in
a few words, the noble lord declared that Mr.
DISRAELI had boasted at Edinburgh that during
seven years he had opposed a reduction of the
borough franchise, while all that time he had been
educating his party with a view of bringing about
a much greater reduction of the franchise than any
then contemplated by his opponents. Mr. DISRAELI
declares that this charge being made against him
in an "august assembly, and by a late First
Minister of the Crown, he will not refrain from
observing that the charge has no foundation."
Nothing of the kind was said at Edinburgh.
What he then observed was, that the Tory party,
after the failure of their bill in 1859,
had been " educated" for seven years on. the
subject of Parliamentary Reform, and during that
time had arrived at five conclusions, which with
their authority he had at different times announced.
These were that the measure should be complete,
that the representation of no place should be en-
tirely abrogated, that there must be a real Boundary
Commission, that the county representation should
be considerably increased, that the borough fran-
chise should be established on the principle of
rating, and these five points were accomplished in
the Act of 1867. This is what Mr. DISRAELI said
at Edinburgh, and it is true.

As a general rule, it may be said, that when
politicians take refuge in sarcasms like those
of Earl RUSSELL they have not much to
say of -a definite character, and we
should have thought that the noble earl would
have been the last to discover real or imaginary
discrepancies in the acts of others when he him-
self was so deeply compromised. We all know the
famous dodge by which the Conservatives were
turned out of office in 1859, and the result that it
brought about. Where was the Reform Bill that
the Liberals prated about so glibly, and that some
were credulous enough to' think they should see
accomplished P When the Opposition became the
Ministers the bill had vanished into thin air, or
appeared in so transmuted a form that no one
could recognise the promise in the performance.
'.Co account for all this we must first realise that
there is a geeat deal of jealousy at Mr.
DISRAELI'S success. The right honourable gen-
tleman, who is now the First Lord of the Treasury
has well deserved all the honours he has received
and the reputation he has earned, and in all con-
science he gave his opponents ample time and oppor-
tunity to do their best to win the support of the
House and the confidence of the nation. The
country knows who it is that it has to thank for
the passing of the Reform Bill last session. Had the
task been left to the disunited and disorganised
Liberals it would still be undone. The indignation
and irritation thus displayed are then quite uncalled
for, and unworthy of Earl RUSSELL'S reputation
and position ; but we feel sure that his petulance
will defeat itself in the long run instead of injuring
his opponents. Still, as there are always some
people who will be influenced more or less by
any remarks of one of Earl RUSSELL'S position,
it is quite as well that Mr. DISRAELI should give so
decided a contradiction to it, and put the refutation
beside the accusation, as it were.

Above all things, we must protest against this
"monopoly of Liberalism," as the present Premier
very properly called it on a recent occasion. It
is subversive of the very principles of libe-
rality in the true acceptation of the
term, and it is prolific of all kinds of evil. We are
glad that, with a bold spirit and a steady hand, the
citadel has been invaded, and the country rescued
from such mischievous encroachments on its pro-
gress and development. The attempt so precipi-
tately made by Earl RUSSELL in the House of
Lords was in every way unworthy of him.
When Mr. DISRAELI had for the first time, under
difficult circumstances, assumed the responsibilities
and cares of office, a little more consideration was
to be expected from one who must fully have esti-
mated the weight of the burden put upon him. Be
this as it may, the Opposition, as headed by Lord
RUSSELL, has shown itself in no favourable light.
Mr.GLADSTONE.has done nothing to deserve censure,
and perhaps disapproves of the turn taken by the
noble lord in the other house. It was said some-
where the other day that the leadership of the Op-
position was to devolve entirely upon Mr. GLAD-
STONE shortly, and if this is a specimen of the noble
lotds's management of it that we witnessed in the

House of Lords on Thursday, it is a pity that the
change did not take place earlier. It does not re-
quire much ingenuity to select a particular por-
tion of any speech on general affairs and
twist and turn it till it assumes an awkward
aspect, and can bear an unfavourable interpre-
tation; but the House of Commons and the country
do not ask Lord RUSSELL to be their interpreter.
He has tried his band through long years at Reform
and failed. Let him relinquish the task and not
attack others for doing what he cannot. Success
always has to pay some penalty, and Mr. DISRAELI
must bear the brunt of having offended the majesty
of the Whigs and invaded the sanctuary of Radi-
calism. But we daresay he can defy their enmity
if he weighs it in the balance against the goodwill
and confidence of the House, and certainly it will
be found wanting in power and strength to affect
his progress in any material degree.

The intelligence from New York continues to be
full of interest. The Atlantic Telegraph yesterday
brought word that President JOHNSON has been
summoned to appear before the Senate Court on
the 18th inst. The Senate has been organised
into a Court of Impeachment to try the charges
against the PRESIDENT, under the presidency of
Chief Justice CHASE, so that the long-threatened
process is at last to be brought to pass, and
the charges against the PRESIDENT to be openly
discussed and examined by the Upper House of
Congress. Matters thus being brought to a crisis,
the warfare between Mr. JOHNSON and the Legis-
lature must be terminated one way or the other,
and the verdict of the country will be pronounced
as well as the less reliable and important
decision of the Senate. The grounds upon
which the accusations are made are of
themselves so insecure and unconstitutional
that it is difficult to see how any legal authority can
recognise or act upon them. The Acts which Mr.
JOHNSON is accused of having infringed will not
themselves bear scrutiny. They are directly op-
posed to the fundamental doctrines of the Consti-
tution, and have been denounced by the most
competent judges. Mr. JOHNSON, indeed, in his
Message to the Senate, shows that, even ac-
cording to the Tenure of Office Act, he
was justified in removing Mr. STANTON.
The act prohibits the removal without the consent
of the Senate of any Cabinet officer during the
term of office of the PRESIDENT by whom he is
appointed. Mr. JOHNSON did not appoint Mr.
STANTON, and therefore his removal was no viola-
tion of the Act. Mr. STANTON was appointed under
the Presidency of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, and thus by
the terms of their own Act tha Radicals ought
to exonerate Mr. JOHNSON from all blame. But
the PRESIDENT, in his Message, reminds the Senate
that all the Cabinet, including STANTON himself,
pronounced the Tenure of Office Act to be uncon-
stitutional. Mr. JOHNSON expresses his wish to
have the matter tested by the Supreme Court of
the nation, probably the last thing-which the Ra-
dicals wish to do. The resolution in favour of im-
peachment was adopted in the Lower House by
126 ayes (all Republicans) against 41 nays,
including one Republican vote. T. STEVENS and
Mr. BINGHAM, of Ohio, were then appointed to
impeach Mr. JOHNSON at the Bar of the Senate—an
office they will no doubt fulfil con amore. Messrs.
STEVENS, BINGHAM, BOUTIVELL, WILSON, LOGAN,
and WARD were selected as a committee to prepare
the articles of impeachment. STANTON, mean-
while, continues to hold his position at the
War Office, and on February 22d he procured
the arrest of General THOMAS 011 the ground
tliat he had threatened to seize the War-office
forcibly, thereby violating the Tenure of Office
Bill. General TnomAs was released on bail. Gene-
ral GRANT, it is said, has directed General 11310 RI"
only to obey his orders, so that the rivalry and
divided authority is such that no government could
be maintained. It is in one sense an advantage
that matters should have come to a crisis, since the
storm may clear the political atmosphere.

LATEST INTELL IGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

NORTH SCHLESWIG.

lIADERSLEBEN, March 7.

Herr Hjort-Lorenzen, the editor of the Haderslev
Avis, has been sentenced to two months' imprison-
ment upon the charge of publishing articles offensive
to the Crown. He has given notice of an appeal
against the sentence.

FRANCE,
BOURSE, March 6.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

q per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 69 40
Credit Mobilier
End of month 238 75
Credit Foncier 1466 25
End of month 1383 75
RAILWA'

Bank Shares 3020
Italian Loan
End of month 43 40
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 38
Home Debt —
Deferred —

Account_
Orleans ...... ... 8911
Northern.. ...........................
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 555
Western
Eastern • • —
Sardinian
Austrian ............................ . . 560
Lombard 3761
North of Spain B4
Saragossa
Roman 4s}

MISSING SHIP.—The Invicta sailed from Sunder-
land for Alexandria on the 23d of September, and has not
since been heard of.

THE YORKSHIRE STOCK SALES.—The great annual
sales consequent upon Lady-day changes in the agricultural
districts of the North and East Ridings have commenced.
Numerically the announcements fall short of previous
years—a sign of a more settled condition of things in farm-
ing. The first week usually rules unsteady, but so far as
can be judged the sales aro likely to prove much better
than was anticipated. The report of Mr. Boulton (the
" Tattersall" of the stock sales) shows that prices have
been good. Leicester ewes have averaged 545, and at an
odd sale or two as far as 60s. per head. Hog sheep have
ranged from 335. to 38s. per head. In beasts the greatest
run is for milch cows and in-calvers, which run from £l6
to £2O. Grazing heifers have sold from £ll to £l4 per
head. The " great" sales come off next week.
THE MURDER NEAR SELBY.—There are two men
in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the murder
of a journeyman bricklayer, whose name is believed to be
Daniel Driscoll, who was murdered on the highway, South
Duffield, near Selby, last Saturday night. One is a brick-
layer, named Thomas Seaber, who has been privately
examined before a bench of East Yorkshire magistrates
at Escrick, and remanded till next Wednesday ; the
second man is named Frederick Barker, a man of bad
character, who about two months ago was committed to
Beverley House of Correction for a petty theft at Homing-
borough. It seems that Driscoll, the murdered man, and
Barker were discharged from that prison on Saturday last,
and that they travelled together to Bubwith station, on
the North-Eastern line, a f4w miles from the site of the
murder. Driscoll, at the time he lett the prison, had in his
possession a watch and four sovereigns, of which he had
been robbed by the person or persons who murdered him.
Barker• has been examined before a bench of magistrates
and remanded. It is believed that the mystery which at
first involved this murder and robbery is now in a fair
way of being cleared up.
During a quarter of a century Ilorniman's Teas have had
an immense sale, and as they aro now 8d per pound Cheaper,
in consequence of the Reduced Duty, the demand will
doubtless be even farther extended. Sold, secured in
Packets; genuine are signed liorniman and Co., London.
THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAY.—At the Caledonian
Railway meeting, hold on Thursday at Edinburgh, a reso-
lution was carried by a large majority, authorising the
board to raise £520,000. A poll was demanded by the
minority. It is understood that the chairman's proxie
will more than suffice to carry the pro ooal.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PAWS:

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENt)

PARIS, FRIDAY, March 6.

The new Press Law has passed the Chamber, and has
succeeded in dissatisfying all parties. The Arcadians
think it too liberal ; the Liberals, I need hardly say, think
it quite the reverse. With great difficulty the latter have
succeeded in obtaining immunity from the stamp duty for
scientific newspapers without advertisements. As for the
others, all that they have gained is a reduction of the
duty by one centime (a reduction so small that it will not
enable the journalists to lower the price of their journals),
and the right to enlarge without paying additional duty.
The second concession will allow the publication of large
newspapers like the Times, which hitherto has been prac-
tically impossible by reason of the old rule which imposed
a duty in proportion to the number of square inches of
paper. But the heaviest grievances still remain. The
journalists do not know what is lawful comment and
what is not. It is, indeed, impossible to lay down
any rule under the existing law. Again : offences
against the Press Law are not tried by a jury,
but by judges who have hardly ever been known
to give a decision against the Government ; moreover, the
trials are not allowed to be reported. Lastly, it is in the
power of the Government to ruin any newspaper by im-
posing enormous fines, which are made leviable under th^
new bill. Altogether, this portion of the programme of
" crowning the edifice " must be considered almost at
unsatisfactory as the other portion—the increase of the
army to 1,200,000 men, with a contingent of 100,000.
One unhappy newspaper has just succumbed to Govern-
ment persecution. A meeting of the proprietors and
creditors of the Courrier Francais has been summoned to
wind up that most unfortunate and hardly-used of journals.
M. Cassagnac has promised to publish to-morrow in the
Pays all his proofs of the charges of corruption which he has
brought against six Paris journals and periodicals. I need
hardly say that the Pays will have a large circulation.
Meanwhile the Situation, as I mentioned yesterday,
has already published a summary of these so-called proofs.
How far they will be accepted as such your readers may
judge when I mention that two of the papers which are
mentioned in one of M. La Varenne's alleged despatches so
long ago as 1859 and 1860, are the Avenir National and the
Liberte. Neither of these papers was in existence at that
time. The first began in 1864 ; the second, I believe, in
1866. M. La Varenne must have been a very far-seeing
man if he made arrangements to buy the support of
journals five years before they were projected or
thought of.
The Paris democrats are very angry at an insult which
they consider has just been done to the memory of an
illustrious colleague. The Italians have determined to
transport to Venice the remains of their famous patriot
Daniel Manin, President of the short-lived Venetian
Republic of 1848. Manin died at Paris in 1857, and
was buried in the vault of Ary Scheffer, the artist, at the
Montmartre Cemetery. It was intended to have had some
sort of demonstration on the removal of his body from
the cemetery to the railway station, but the Government
officials, in order to prevent anything of the kind,
attended privately, opened the vault, and identified the
coffins of Manin, his wife, and daughter, and had them
removed ; the only persons present being S. Nigra, the
Italian Minister, the Prefect of Police, a member of the
Manin Commission, • and a representative of the
Scheffer family. As the bodies will not be given up to the
Italian Government until the 18th, there was, of course,
no need of such haste, except for political reasons.

" Count Meudon" has abandoned the incognito, and has
been received in state by the Prussian Royal Family as
Prince Napoleon. People are now convinced that the
Prince has a mission, after all; and the Avenir National
says that according to letters from Berlin, the French
Legation in that city made an important communication
to the Prussian Government respecting the Prime's visit.
The Prince is, the Government was informed, charged
by the Emperor with a mission tending to confirm the
entente between the sovereigns of France and Prussia.
The Minister of Marine has addressed a report to the
Emperor upoii the training schools for the navy. He says
that the instruction is at present unsatisfactory, and that
after consulting with the Minister of Education he has
devised a scheme for establishing at the naval ports
courses of lectures, to be attended by naval officers and
other officials who have shewn an aptitude for acquiring
information. The instructors will be the inspectors of
primary education residing in the ports. In accordance
with this report, the Emperor has issued a decree ordering
the changes recommended, and directing the fees which
are to be paid and the mode of raising funds.

The German ladies residing in Paris have been cot-
lecting subscriptions for a German hospital in this city,
and have raised £2,000, of which the Princess Metternich,
wife of the Austrian Ambassador, raised £720. The Paris
papers think the amount prodigious. They are not used
to the heroic scale of almsgiving common in England.

The Jockey Club have just issued their programme for
the season. The prizes for the Chantilly races, the Paris
Derby, have been raised to over £25,000. The number of
" events" each day will he six instead of five. The
opening day at Longchamps is Easter Monday, April 13.

According to the Berlin correspondent of the Times the
property of King George of Hanover is not absolutely con-
fiscated, but the interest arising from it is, instead of being
paid to his Majesty, to be added to the principal, the
whole amount to be dealt with hereafter according to cir-
cumstances. It is hinted that if the King should ever
engage in hostilities against Prussia the whole will be con-
fiscated to pay the cost of the war thereby incurred. The
amount is 16 million thalers (about £2,250,000) in personal
property, besides real estate, palaces, &c.

At last Italy seems to have a Finance Minister who is
not afraid to speak the truth. Count Cambray-Digny,
instead of, like his predecessors, indulging in optimist pre-
dictions, has told the Italian Chambers that even economy
will not now save them, that it is absolutely necessary to
impose fresh taxes, and that if the country will not sub-
mit to them a catastrophe is inevitable, which is nothing
less than the failure of the Italian Kingdom. Things must
have become very bad before a Minister would make such
a confession. Being thus bad, confession is the first indis-
pensable step towards amendment.

The Morning Advertiser gives a singular instance of
the freedom which prevails in Italy. As the King drove
by one day in Florence a knot of people shouted " Viva it
Duca di Toscano !" and their cheers for the dethroned
dukes were not stopped even by the carbineers. Fancy
what would be the fate of the man who should cry in the
streets of Paris " Vive Henri Cinch !" or of him who
should shout in the streets of Hanover " Koenig Georg
Hoch !"

M. Bouher and other leading Ministers are said to be
besieged with requests for political information by the
gamblers of the Bourse. Lorettes send confidential notes
asking the Ministers to spend the evening with them, in
the hope of obtaining some crumb of news which will
enable them to anticipate the ordinary speculators on the
Bourse. It is to be hoped that they allure in vain.
Bouher has the reputation of being able to keep his own
counsel and his honour untainted.

The funeral of King Ludwig of, Bavaria is quite an
epoch in the history of undertaking. The body was em-
balmed on Sunday, March 1, the process taking seven
hours. On Wednesday there was an exposition in a
Chapelle ardente which had been put up for the occasion.
The saloon was entirely draped with black, decorated with
silver trappings and tears. On the left was an altar fully
vested, and above the cross was an " L" surmounted by
a crown borne up by kneeling angels. At this altar a
succession of masses were said from 6 a.m. till noon. The
King reposed upon a bed of white satin, ornamented with
gold arabesques, and beneath a canopy surmounted by a
crown enveloped in crape, and at the foot was a large silver
Latin cross. Above the door was a coat of arms
also covered with crape. The King was dressed in a
marshal's uniform, and upon it shone the foreign orders
and stars which he possessed, and round his neck was the
royal collar, and across it the ribbon of the Legion of
Honour. His commander's sword was laid across his
breast, and in his hand was the crucifix which he kissed
just before his death. The railing was decorated with
funeral lamps, and crowns woven out of camellias, roses,
violets, lilacs, and other flowers. At his feet, fixed on a
cushion, were the insignia of various foreign orders. Upon
the left of the pillow was a marshal's hat, with white
plumes. Soldiers kept guard and stood before the altar.

Lord Derby is now rapidly approaching convalescence.
Shortly after the crisis which necessitated his retirement
from active political life, the recovery of his lordship,
though steady and decided, was very slow. During the
last few days, however, the signs of improvement have
been more marked, and his family and friends now confi-
dently anticipate that the noble ex-premier will soon be
able to remove to the metropolis. The John Bull adds that
his lordship hopes to be in his place in the House by the
end of this month.

It is stated in the John Bull, that while in the forth-
coming debate on Ireland her Majesty's Government
will frankly state their views generally on Irish questions,
there is no intention to legislate on the Irish Church, pend-
ing the report of the Royal Commission.

On the first night of Lord Cairns' taking his seat on the
woolsack in the House of Lords, he had lost his voice to
such an extent that he was unable to put the question.
According to the Scotsman, the state of the Lord Chan-
cellor's health causes great apprehension among his friends.
He looks like a man in an advanced stage of decline.

Mr. Giffard, Q.C., of the Chancery bar, is, the Herald
states, to succeed Sir W. P. V,Tood as Vice Chancellor.
Mr. Giffard was called to the bar in 1840. In his appoint-
ment, as in that of Lord Justice Wood, the Government
has sacrificed the claims of party to considerations of
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