The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 25, 18684

the 7 louse to sit on Saturday Of course, both
these convictions affected the progress of the
cattat Bill, and Mr. HARDY was provoked into
some sharp retorts. But, as usual, the opponents
of the till had the best of it. No one could prove
that Mr. MILNER GIBSON was not really concerned
about the rights of private members. There was
no ocular evidence to demonstrate that Mr. JACOB
BRIGHT had not an ineradicable objection to sitting
on Saturdays, and accordingly virtuous indignation
was the order of the day, and the only persons
really to "blame were the county members, who had
allowed Mr. ATRTON to outwit them on Thursday.
There lwas one noticeable point in the affair, and
that was that Mr. MILNER GIBSON was so much
better informed of the intentions of the Corpora-
tion !-.ban the Ministers themselves. Up till a late
hour t he Government were uncertain on this point,
but Mr.. MILKER. GIBSON knew his ground, and the
contemptuous manner in which he asked what was
to be done with the Cattle Protectiouht Bill
showed ih.tt he was confident of a speedy
triumph. It is part of what Major
PARKER designated as the " dubious" course
of the adversaries to the measure that they have
tried to introduce the question of free trade, with
which the Cattle Bill has really nothing whatever
to do. We have a Protectionist system in force
now, not against free competition, but against the
encroachments of an insidious disease, which is every
one's enemy but the butcher's. The Metropolitan
Foreign Cattle `Market Bill is intended to lighten
the restrictions now in existence, ant actually
therefore to relieve the trade from pressing burdens.
In answer to an inquiry last night, Lord R. MONTAGU
said that the cattle-plague was in existence

in Livonia, in the districts round St. Peters-
burgh, and also in Lower Egypt. If the
cattle disease is the bugbear which the Opposition
pretend, why are not their clients, the butchers, a
little more moderate in their charges? If it is a
real and pressing evil, why should not some means
be taken to restrict it without unnecessarily ham-
pering our own trade ? The matter is unfortu-
nately settled for this session at least, but we can-
not think the manner in which it has been disposed
of is very creditable to the Corporation, the
butchers, or the members of Parliament who have
so strenuously fought their cause.

Mr. BRIGHT was present last evening at a dinner
at Birmingham, given to the members for the
borough. It was not a party affair, and Mr.
AVERY, the Mayor, disclaimed the notion of such a
thing at the outset. He said he was surrounded by
gentlemen of every shade of party colour, from
" brilliant orange to invisible blue." As a Con-
servative, he spoke in very high terms of Mr.
BRIGHT, as a public man and a brilliant orator, " a
veritable hammer iu controversy, who, if sometimes
exalted by high passion, had never been known to
pervert his gloriuus gifts to any ignoble or un-
worthy purpose." Mr. BRIGHT said he found him-
self in a difficulty, and, indeed, so awkward was it
to make a long speech without the introduction of
politics, that it was tempting to take up a book he
had seen at a station in which it was professed to
give speeches for every imaginable occa-
sion. There is some truth in the remark
of the hon. member that politics need
not always be treated as they are, because ques-
tions are not admitted into social gatherings which
in themselves are not belonging to party if they
must come under the consideration of Parliament.
For instance, take that of Education, which has been
retarded because of the difficulties introduced into
it, but now it may be discussed apart from such
hindrances. Referring to the more moderate
opiuious that now prevail, Mr. BRIGHT alluded to
the pressure which witnessed the first agitation
about the Corn-laws the strongest *opinions were
then circulated, but people now look upon such ex-
travagant exhibitions with amusement merely.
Parliamentary ILforin is another topic on which a
general and gradual change has taken place, and
the hon. member for Birmingham took some credit
to himself from the fact that his views had been
advocated by those who were opposed to them. It
is true that he overlooked the fact that he had not
been a very wise prophet with respect to the course
they might adopt, but it is certainly true that a
good deal has come to pass which a few years ago
was not dreamed of by many well versed in public
matters, and this is surely a proof that it is unwise
to be so extreme upon any point which does not in-
volve a principle of right or wrong.
Mr. BRIGHT has heard from the leading men of
the party to whom he had been most opposed that
there must now be a change in the distribution of
seats, and also that he found among these gentlemen
it many just and fair-minded men, who believed
that, looking at elections, particularly with regard
to the great boroughs with very large constituencies,
it would be required, merely as a matter of election
machinery, to introduce in some form the vote by
ballot." The result of all these reminiscences was
that Mr. BRIGHT, without intruding opinions of his
own, sought to draw a lesson which might be of
use to political parties in the country. This was
that questions may constantly arise that affect
the
interests of the United Kingdom, and op
dis-
cuss them with heat and party feeling, yet in the end
they must be settled to the satisfaction of all the
community on a fair basis. In his new character
of Apolitical philosopher Mr. BRIGHT appears to
alvantage, and may take his own advice to others
to heart himself. He concluded his speech by
some allusions to America, and declared that he
should be sorry to see some of our institutions
Americanized for many reasons. Oa the whole
this was a very temperate discourse, and contrasts
most favourably with some of his speeches in other
places. The true interests of the country are much
more likely to be served if people are temperate in
their individual acts, for in the excitement of con-
troversy and the discussion of prejudices very little
time or opportunity is given to the consideration
of other subjecte.

The Americans are generally in extremes, and
their climate seems to share their character. We
have been grumbling at the heat in London during
the last fortnight, but in New York they have more
cause to complain. We do not know the exact
degree of heat, and, indeed, judging by recent
scientific controversy, we should not perhaps be
able to appreciate it with accuracy if we were told
the degree of Fahrenheit, but if we are to estimate
it by the results, we must believe the temperature
of New York to have been something much worse
than anything that London has had to complain
of. Forty deaths from sunstroke occurred at
New York on Tuesday week, the 14th, a return
sufficiently startling for one day. The situation of
the city of course accounts, in a measure, for exces-
sive heat ; but it is evident that either the people
have been unusually careless in exposing them-
selves, or the temperature has been something ex-
ceptional. Intense heat, we are told, has prevailed
throughout the country, so that it will be desirable
to exercise a little more caution in prosecuting
the great work of electioneering. We have
very little political news, though what little
we have augurs well. Congress has passed an
amended bill discontinuing the Freedmen's Bureau
after the let of nest January, a motion that no one

will regret excepting those who have profited un-
duly by its agency. General BUCHANAN has issued
a proclamation announcing that military rule has
ceased in Louisiana, a sign we may hope for that
restoration of the supremacy of civil over military
authority for which all true friends of American
liberty are anxiously looking.

LATEST INTELL MENGE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

HUNGARY.

PESTH, July 24.

In to-day's sitting the Lower House expressed
its decided disapproval of the monster petitions in
favour of the re-establishment of the laws of 1848,
and the repeal of the compromise of 18G7 between
Hungary and Austria, that have come in from seve-
ral parts of the country, owing to the incessant
exertions of the political agitator Madarasz. De-
mands have been received from various quarters
that the latter should be prosecuted for having
forged names as signatures to the petitions.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.

Kiatuil Bey, the functionary specially appointed
by the Porte as the bearer of the firman of investi-
ture for Prince Milano, the new Sovereign of Servia,
starts to-morrow for Belgrade. The Persian En-
voy at this capital, Mirza Mohammed Hussein
Khan, takes his departure on Saturday next for
Teheran, upon leave of absence for five months.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE CHINA.
(Via Queenstown.)
NEW YORK, July 14, noon.

President Johnson has issued a proclamation
announcing the ratification of the constitutional
amendment by North Carolina. lie regards the
ratification by the Florida Legislature as inopera-
tive, on account of it having taken place prior to
the passage of the bill admitting that State to the
union.

Two members for North Carolina have been ad-
mitted to seats in the House of Representatives.
The House has passed a bill providing that only
such lately rebellious States as have been admitted
to the Union under the Reconstruction Act shall
be entitled to participation in the Presidential
election. The bill taking the interest of the bonds
recently reported in the House has been referred
to a committee of the whole, which prevents action
being taken upon it this session.

The Senate has passed the bill discontinuing the
Freedmen's Bureau, excepting its educational de-
partment, from the Ist of next January.

Governor Swain, of Maryland, has appointed
Mr. William Pinckney, a white and Democrat, to
succeed Mr. Reverdy Johnson in the Senate.
Intelligence from Hayti announces that Salnave
has been defeated by the Cacos at Port Royal.

The British Admiral in the Pacific, has disap-
proved the blockade of Mazatlan, and has ordered
it to be raised, and Captain Budge, of the Chanti-
cleer, to report himself at Panama.

,%,,,ith.ll.2ZkoiWzl4oE FROM PARIS.

(nom our, oyaz CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, FRIDAY, July 24.

It is said that the Emperor, at the conclusion of his stay
at Plombieres, will visit Metz, Thionville, and Nancy. The
two first-named are important French fortresses. As to
the third, there is some talk of the establishment of an
entrenched camp in the neighbourhood. All three towns
are within easy distance ; but the Emperor must be
strangely constituted if he readily quits the charming
sojourn in the Vosges Mountains for the contempla-
tion of bastions and fortified camps. Plombibres seems
to have special attractions for the Emperor Napoleon ; at
any rate he has visited it four times in twelve years, which
is a tolerably fair amount of patronage for the little
place. The salubrious air of the Vosges Mountains, the
calm of the district, the premeditated absence of all
etiquette, embroidered functionaries, and, above all, port-
folio ministers, have quite as much influence over the
illustrious visitor as the insignificant waters of the neigh-
bourhood, and the six regenerating substances which they
contain. On his arrival this time the Emperor is said to
have remarked that he had come to rest himself from the
pleasures of Fontainebleau.

The amnesty offered to the Hanoverian refugees in
France by the King of Prussia has been declined by one
and all. The refugees did not recognise in the King of
Prussia any right to issue amnesties to them. They con-
tinue to profess unalterable fidelity to their legitimate
sovereign. Unfortunately, their sovereign has not set
them the example. In resigning his crown to save his
property, King George, I think, set his subjects free, and
the refugees would have done well in accepting the offered
terms. If necessity compel them to enter North Germany
again their case will be hard. Kings do not like their
favours, even if worthless, refused.

The question of a Customs Union between France, Bel-
gium, and Holland has assumed a new phase. It has now
degenerated into a scheme of alliance. Many people here
believe that the French Government has made overtures
to both countries. Some, as usual, have been ingenious
enough to discover the exact terms of the proposal.
The Cabinets of Brussels and of the Hague were
informed that the moment had arrived when the
question of alliance must be seriously considered, and that
the small Powers could not henceforth hold aloof from
European conflicts any more than the great ones. But
though the two Governments were entreated not to
neglect the study of these great problems, they do not
appear to have paid them any attention. In fact, all the
speculators agree that the answer of Belgium and Holland
was such as to offer no encouragement to the Paris Cabinet
to return to the charge. Ihe unhappy war-seeking
country is therefore at her wits' end. She is clearly
driven to take her choice between Panslavism and

;he Porte. Thither the inventors of political combina•
;ions will next turn their attention.

The despatch which Count Usedom, the Prussian
Minister at Florence, sent to the President of the Italian
Council is of great historic interest. It is certainly the
work of a diplomatist who knows what he wants, but who
does not, perhaps, estimate difficulties at their proper
value. It not only affords ,us much insight behind the
scenes of the tragical drama of 1866, but is a curious proof
of the extraordinary schemes which chance sometimes
modifies into reason and ensures success. The document
announces the intention of Prus3ia to follow out the
campaign without mercy or truce, and to drive the
enemy to his last defences and resources. Vienna was

the ultimate object of attack. Italy is counselled
to mask by force of observation both Venice and the
Quadrilateral, to march straight to the Danube, and there
join the Prussian forces. Besieging the strong places of
the Quadrilateral would merely afford Austria time to
retire her forces from Venice to assist the Army of the
North. In this case, by the assistance of Bavaria, the
Austrian forces might hold the Prussians in check. " The
march upon Vienna is dangerous, it is true, but
the peril diminishes in proport:on to the rapidite
of the movement." Besides, insurrection might by
counted upon. Most people will imagine that by
fighting the battle of Custozza, and by making a
real demonstration before the Quadrilateral, the Italian
army did much more service than by exposing its own
country to the invader, and risking ruin in its passage,
without communications, through a hostile country. To
me the scheme appears to be one of the worst
conceptions possible. The danger would be all to Italy,
and the advantage, if any, all on the side of Prussia,
whilst the prospect of the Archduke Albert being deceived
by such a manceuvre would have been remote indeed.
In financial matters there is little to report. The
fund at the Bank of France is ever on the increase, and

;he inactivity of commerce is again indicated by a rise in

the reserve this week of £600,000. The discount bu3iness
has, however, also improved, but only to the extent of
£BO,OOO.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

METEOROLOGICAL RETORTS.

Extreme Sea
Saturday, r F. 1
July 25, B. T. W. W. Ito F. D. WR. to
8 a.m. 1 12
_l9
Nairn
Aberdeen
Leith
Shields 30'48f. 56 52 S.W. 2 2 E.S.E. e. 2
Scarborough 30'48f. 58 54 E.S.E. 2 4 E. c.o. 2
Yarmouth 3910f. 62 60 E.N.E. 4 5 N.E. o.c. 4
Cuxhaven
Skudesnres
Axdrossan
Greencastle 31411. 63 59 S. 1 3 E.N.E. b.c.
Holyhead
Liverpool
Valentia 3o'3sf. 60 55 N. 2 3 E.S.E. b. 1
Cape Clear 30'301. 62 60 S. E. 3 5 S.E. c. 2
Roche's Pt. 30'3 f. 62 59 E. 4 5 E.N.E. c. 3
Penzance
Plymouth
Weymouth 30'34f. 64 60 E. 8 8 E. b.c. 4
Portsmouth 30'29f. 65 59 E. 6 7 E. c. 5
London
C'peGrisNez 30'29f. 63 58 N.E. 7 c. 5
Brest
L'Orient 30'041. 66 61 E.N.E. 5 c. 3
Rochefort
Biarritz
Corunna —
Brussels
Paris
Strasbourg —
Lyons —
Toulon
Heart's Con-
tent (6 a.m.
local time) 30'22r. 50 49 E.S.E. 1 1 S. b. 1

THE WIMBLEDON MEETING.

THE CAMP, FRIDAY.

This is almost an " off " day in camp. All the im-
portant events of the programme of the Wimbledon meet-
ing of 1868 have been decided, and it only remains for the
pleasant ceremony of the distribution of prizes by Lord
Napier, and the grand review by the Duke of Cambridge
to-morrow, to bring this great volunteer gathering to a
successful end. There is some shooting to-day, but it
is of very minor importance, and attracts little attention.
Not a bad joke has been perpetrated by the Vietoria.s
(the originators of the Earwig magazine) who have circu-
lated the following notice: "New prize. For policemen only
(specials inadmissible). Three shots at the running dog.
For muzzle-loaders. Any position. Bull's-eyes not allowed.
By order of the Council.—Earwig."

It is confidently expected that the Prince of Wales will he
down here to-morrow, and that the Civil Service volunteers
in camp will be accorded the honour of furnishing a guard
of honour 100 strong to his Royal Highness. This corps
gave a capital concert in their mess-tent last night.
Shooting in the second stage of the Duke of Cambridge's
Prize—a cup, value £5O, or the amount in specie—was
commenced at a quarter past nine, the competition being
restricted to the winners of prizes in the first stage ;
distance, SOO yards, The Peek Prize, value £52 10s.,
presented by Mr. Henry Peek, of Wimbledon House,
the shooting being confined to winners of " Enfield
Rifle " Prizes during the present meeting. The Dudley
Prize £5O Cup, or money, open to winners of "Any Rifle"
Prizes during the meeting, and " Any Rifle " Association
Cup, were also in competition. The Ladies' Prizes,
total aggregate value £5O, the Consolation Prizes,
aggregate value of £5O, restricted to 200 of those volun-
teers who, having competed, have not won a prize, and the
Earwig Prize of £2O, presented by the Victoria Rifles
in camp, were shot for during the day. At the
conclusion of the shooting for the Duke of Cambridge's
Prize, Private Farquharson (Perth) was decided the
winner, he making with a Henry rifle 22 points out of a
possible register of 28.