The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-04 00:00:00

B SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUG LIST 4, 1868.

Germ an unity as un fait! accompli. We are as
fs r an d further than ever from it, while so many
si rkesl nen ',Toni different parts of the country can
m eat F.r,d protest against their severance from the
erland, either virtually or in reality. Who can
sa: r that Frankfort is really united when she is
be acne down by such stringent rules, and cannot ex-
er rise a free judgment on matters of interest to the
cc Iniortinity ? The solution of these problems
'lies'. in the future, but meanwhile Prussia
cane It lay claim to the credit of having
aeeku tplishel any great or glorious ends.
The, progress of Austria, at any rate, seems certain,
and, it seems worthy of notice to dwell upon the
rt:co,pl ion accorded to the Home Minister's remarks
at •the banquet of the other day in connection with
the: rifle display. He said that the " Ministry nu-
de rtoa to govern
.in the conviction that Austria
would: gain a gigantic strength as soon as the bonds
with vithich she had been enslaved by misrule should
be torn dawn."

The misunderstanding between Prussia and Italy
has not yet been yet settled, the Prussian people,
of cpurses, making the most of things. The last
discovery is that France instigated the affair, and
set the rivals on each other. A denial was expected
by the 211oniteur to this outrageous statement, but
it has not yet been met with. The object of all
these insinuations is clearly to provoke the French,
but such a course is much to be reprehended on
various grounds, and especially just now when
peace is greatly to be desired. In a few days we
shall hear more of this affair, which seems likely to
be an awkward one in many respects.

The intelligence, uncertain and conflicting as it is,
which reaches us from the seat of war in South
America, demonstrates very plainly that the Allies
are making no progress. If they had anything to
boast of, any decided advance to record, or any
trophy to exhibit, we may be very sure that they
would not delay the information. The report of a
severe engagement is contradicted, the only foun-
dation for it being the removal of some wounded
men from Chaco, sufferers from the bombardment,
from Humaita. This bombardment, by all accounts,
is steadily kept up on both sides—a sufficient proof
of the failure of the Allied attempt to dis-
mantle the fort. The Paraguayans, so far
from being disheartened by the continuance
of the struggle, have been endeavouring to
extend their defensive operations. A reconnais-
sance, made at the beginning of June by land and
water, showed that they were in force on the
Tebicuary, and that they had constructed and
armed heavy works from the Paraguay for some
distance along the north bank of the Tebicuary
with the intention of placing a boom across'
Paraguayan prisoners and deserters have affirmed
that this has already beeri attempted several times
without success, owing to the strength of the
current. A great deal is made of the statements of
these prisoners by the Brazilians, but we may rea-
sonably receive them with great reserve and sus-
picion. The information given by them is, accord-
ing to the account, very minute, specifying the
number of the cannon, the strength of the garrison
at the several places, the position of the foundries,
&c. But as yet the invaders have not been able to
turn this news to much account. The river is fall-
ing, which is in their favour, since the appre-
hension of forced evacuation of the Chaco
by its inundation were removed, but there are
other considerations which must tend to de-
press the invaders. The unpopularity of the
Brazilian alliance is becoming more and more
openly expressed throughout the Argentine Re-
public. Two motions against the treaty of alliance
have been introduced into the Argentine Senate,
and since the election for President of the Argen-
tine Confederation is now pending the public feel-
ing will have an opportunity of manifesting itself.
In Rio Janeiro there is a strong opposition to the
preeent Ministry, while in Buenos Ayres the dis-
content is gaining ground. In Corrientes there
has been, as we know, an actual revolution. In
Montevideo matters are still worse, for the
financial crisis has reached a climax, and
at the end of June the panic was intense. Natu-
rally, in such a state of things, men are beginning
to question the advisability of maintaining a costly
and profitless war for no other reason than to foster
the aggressive ambition of Brazil. Even in their
own interests these smaller States are unwise in as-
sisting at the destruction of Paraguay. Should
Brazil unhappily prove victorious, her next move-
ment may be against one of themselves, and Buenos
Ayres or Montevideo may be absorbed into the
elastic empire. Happily there seems at present
little reason to apprehend such a catastrophe.
The Paraguayans are united and resolute, they are
animated by one prevailing sentiment, and support
their leader with unshaken confidence and loyalty.
We hear but little of their prospects or movements
excepting through the medium of their enemies,
and :consequently we must not imagine that they
are losing confidence because the Brazilians are
industriously spreading reports to their disadvan-
tage. The Paraguayans are well aware that they
have everything t) gain and nothing to
lose by maintaining their gallant resistance.
The struggle has been a severe one, but it is by no
means desperate. They have maintained their
ground so long that the chances of success are in
their favour. Time fights on their side, not on
those of the invaders, who are carrying on a costly
and unpopular war. One the one hand the people
know that their whole national existence is in ques-
tion, and they cannot abandon the struggle without
surrendering all they hold most dear. On the
other side, the leaders have but to withdraw from
an attack which has already cost them more men
and money than they reckoned on, and which is yet
far from its conclusion. If the Argentine Republic
breaks off the alliance with Brazil, which seems by
no means improbable, it will bring matters to a
crisis, but in any case the issue is likely sooner or
later to be on the side of Paraguay.

The members of the Jamaica Committee will no
doubt find that the course they have thought fit to
pursue in respect to the prosecution of Mr. EYRE
has not found favour with the public, and already
a good many remarks have been made on the sub-
ject. It should be noticed, however, that in at-
tempting to defend themselves, these gentlemen are
in reality renewing their charges against the ex-
Governor of Jamaica, and a letter from Mr. ROSE,
of Salisbury, will show to what lengths they have
gone already. Mr. ROSE does not attempt to
answer all the statements made by Messrs.
MILL and TAvLon, but he mentions that they have
announced the abandonment of any more criminal
proceedings, and therefore a statement of Mr.
EYItE'S case will 30011 be published. This has 1:12.en
withheld on account of the trials taking place, and
will be certainly a subject of great interest and
importance. We may truly say in this case that
the least said the soonest mended, and if Mr. MILL
and his coadjutors desire to serve their own best
interests they will abstain from making a defence of
their proceedings in a style which reiterates all the
accusations against Mr. EYRE, and shows very
plainly that if opportunity served they would do
the same thing again. Public opinion has already
decided very plainly upon this business, and it will

be quite impossible for any ingenuity to show that
the Jamaica Committee was justified in the course
it took, or that there was any foundation whatever
for the charges brought against the Governor who
so successfully put down the rebellion that threat-
ened our colony with destruction and its inhabitants
with loss and suffering.

LATEST INTELL LGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

HUNGARY.

PESTII, Ang. 4.

In to-day's sitting of the Lower House of the
Hungarian Diet the draft of an agreement with
Crotia was laid before the House by the special
commissioners who had been negociating with dele-
gates of the Croatian Diet the terms of compro-
mise. They propose to abolish the entire system
of border-militia hitherto in force along the whole
length of the Turkish frontier.
The question whether the district of the free sea-
port town Fiume shall belong to Hungary or Croatia
has not been settled by the delegates of the two
Diets. The general debate on the army Reorgani-
sation Bill continues to occupy the House.

AMERICA.

CROOKHAVEN, Aug. 4, 8.45 a.m.

The Inman steamer City of Antwerp is now
passing Browhead signal station, en route for
Queenstown.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug. 4.

The North German Lloyd steamer Bremen, from
New York, passed Hurst Castle at 9 15 a.m. to-day.

SOUTHAMPTON, Aug_ 4.

The North German Lloyd steamer New York,
sailing to-day for New York, takes out £30,000 in
specie, and the Berlin, sailing for Baltimore, takes
out 46 cabin and 400 steerage passengers.

CORRESPONDENCE PROM PARIS'

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.I

PARIS. MONDAY, AugVit 3.

The affair at Nimes continues to be the great topic
here. The Moniteur is quite silent on the subject, but the
Constitutionnel endeavours to give some official account of
the affair. The only point upon which the Government
journal can possibly take issue is the question whether the
meeting really did come under the definition of reunion
privie. As to the facts there can be no dispute ; some assert
that blood did flow, and others deny this ; but it is
incontestible that the meeting was violently interrupted
by the commissioner of police, and the candidate
snd his friends forcibly thrust out of the room. As to the
private or public character of the meeting, the case is not
very difficult to decide. The admission was not, as the
Constitutionnel asserts, by tickets, but by letters, which
were sent closed and personally addressed to each
individual invited. Some of those present were
of the most undoubted respectability. I can-
not, therefore, agree with the official paper. The manner
in which the meeting is convened settles the question; the
place of meeting seems to me to have nothing to do with
it, provided always that the place is such as can be kept
private. With respect to the interference of the authori-
ties at Alas, the ConsfifWion Ile', has not even this poor
argument, for the meeting was held in the house of the
person who issued the invitations. The affair has caused
immense excitement. It would have been held important
at any time ; but now that the Corps Ltislatif is
no longer sitting, and there is a dearth of news,
it is a real blessing to the French papers. They do not
fail to make the most of it. Columns of argument,
sophistry, and hairsplitting take the place of the debates,
and are likely to be regarded by the public as a greater
infringement on their liberties than the outrage itself.
The Governor-General of Algeria has decided to visit
Paris. The Opposition journals are inquiring whether
the object of his journey is to save the colony from the
evils which it now endures, and from the famine which
will recommence in the winter. The Liberal papers do
not state their arguments for believing in another famine,
but in so far as no measures likely to be really effective
have been adopted with a view to prevent the horrible
calamity of last year, their anticipations are justifiable.
The demand for a change of government, the replacing of
the military regime with a civil administration, is still kept
up. The Presse says the statu quo (I suppose it meant
status) ig no longer possible. " Not," answers the Arenir
Nationale, " without the certain death of one hundred
thousand Arabs." The Liberal papers are not, however,
very hopeful ; which is judicious.
The plot which the discussion on the war of 1866 has pro-
duced thickens every day. Instead of the various explana-
tions throwing any light upon the subject, the affair has
become a hopelessly unintelligible enigma. The North
German Gazette has just declared that the famous note
containing the plan of the campaign, which Count Usedom
sent to General La Marmora on the 19th of June, 1866,
was not authorised by the Prussian Government, who
knew nothing of it until ten days after it had been
sent. This is a sensational statement, certainly. What
conclusion can we adopt ? The French translation of
the Prussian report of the campaign was denounced as
inaccurate ; the French Government was then charged
with issuing the translation for the purpose of weakening
the friendship between Prussia and Italy; afterwards
General La Marmora was accused of complicity with the
Cabinet of Paris; and, finally, the note which had been the
cause of much of the trouble has been disavowed by an
official Prussian journal. The dilemma is very simple :
if Count Usedom :had received no intimation of the plan
of the campaign, he could not possibly have sent the note;
and if he bad, his capacity of Ambassador justified him
in acting upon general instructions. All that can be
determined is that General La Marmona has reopened a
most disagreeable question, which all parties, but more
especially Prussia, would have been delighted to leave
in oblivion. This piece of diplomacy will be a
fine subject for the future historian. The thinker who
penetrates this labyrinth will confer a real service upon
posterity.
The duel which has taken place between MM.
Jecker and Barot has excited more interest than is
generally the case with the farces between journalists
and the enraged objects of their attacks. From
the correspondence which is published in the Liberte,
it appears that M. Odysse Barot claimed the right
to decline the duel, as he was justified in his cha-
racter of public journalist in criticising the part which M.
Jecker had played in the Mexican tragedy. However,
M. Barot accepted the challenge, happy, as he said, to
risk his life against the man who was the first cause of the
dishonour of his country. The Liberia says that M. Barot,
who sustained a severe contusion of the liver, will shortly
resume his labours.

THE WEATHER TABLE.-THIS DAY.

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'' Anglo-American Telegraph Company,
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