The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-06 00:00:00

said the old woman. " Who, then, represents him?"
said the treasurer, now waxing wroth. " I do,"
was the reply. This was, of course, enough, and,
starting off at a tangent, the treasurer arrived
breathless at the house of the banker, indicated as
surety by the bidder at the sale. " You have a
million here for me, have you not?" was the eager
demand. "Pm du tout," was the reply, and the
treasurer sank into a chair perfectly hors de combat.
On further inquiry, it was found that the million
was actually in the bank, though its destination had
not been made known to the depositaries, and all
went off well, with the exception of a slight indis-
position experienced by the treasurer from ex-
cessive anxiety. The instructions relative to
the Garde Mobile have just been issued by his
Excellency Marshal Neil, the Minister at War. It
will be seen that those who enter at the age of
seventeen will be enabled to obtain their discharge
at that of twenty- two ; the uniform is one of the
neatest description, consisting of a royal blue tunic
trimmed and faced with red, and trousers of stone
grey with red stripe. It is said that a new railway
is in contemplation to unite at the Place de la Con-
corde the municipal stations of Paris. The plan,
which is an exeellent one, is reported to be under the
highest patronage, and cannot possibly fail success.
" Hamlet" still continues attractive here, their
Majesties the Emperor and Empress having last
week paid a visit to the Opera, on which occasion
her Majesty not only honoured Mdlle. Nillson, the
representative of the fair Ophelia, with a bouquet
of violets from her-own fair and august hand, but
the Emperor on the next day forwarded to the
same young lady a very brilliant parure of emeralds,
pearls, and diamonds. The new piece at the
Chatelet the " Vengeur," has proved a failure,
notwithstanding the enormous expense incurred by
the management.

NAPLES, March 28, 1868.

Admiral Farragut returned from Rome on the
evening of the 25th inst., much pleased but not a
little fatigued by the ovations received in the Eter-
nal City. In fact his strength and powers of en.
durance are wonderful considering his age, while
many of his officers, men much younger, complain
of being quite done up. It is reported, however,
that the Admiral, yielding to the advice of his friends,
will not attempt to carry the cruise further by
visiting Sicily and the Levant as far as Constan-
tinople, but will take a little rest and perhaps go to
Lisbon, as the first step for a move homewards.
Besides the Franklin we have in port the American
sloops Ticonderoga and Canandaigua, the English
frigates Endymion and Arethusa, the Russian
frigate Alexander Newsky, and the Swedish sloop
Gejle. Two Prussian and one Dutch vessels are
expected, so that nearly all the great Powers will
be represented here.

Seldom has the world experienced a year of such
hurricanes and convulsions as within the last
twelve months. The last news from New Zealand
tells of
_violent gales, of floods, wrecks lining the
coasts, bridges torn away, and fields inundated. At
the same time we hear of a hurricane in Canada,
which raged at Toronto, and killed a man at the
Grand Trunk Railway Station, several others being
hurt. In China cyclones have followed cyclones
with unusual rapidity.- We heard lately of a fear-
ful gale at Madras, and when we look back over the
few preceding months, we see nothing but these re-
cords of disaster..
General Thomas wrote to the General Command-
ing the Army from his headquarters in Tennessee,
on the 14th March, that the rebels in the State were
organising for resistance to the laws, and that this
resistance-is an outgrowth of the rebellion. He
desired to know if the national forces should be
employed in protecting the Government of the
State. General Grant submitted the letter to the
President, who decided that the Federal Govern-
ment cannot interfere for the suppression of a State
insurrection until applied to by the State authori-
ties. Governor Brownlow notified to the Secretary
of War that his own militia was amply sufficient to
protect Nashville and the State archives in case of
a rebel attack.
A correspondent of the New York 7imes says
that Mr. Boutwell is the cold and classical Demos-
thenes of the 'louse ; we know that Mr. Stevens is
the great commoner ; and the Tribune's corre-
spondent has informed the world that General
Butler is the apostle John of salvation by Impeach-
ment. All three are among the managers of this
interesting trial, and with -such grand names no
one can anticipate that they will make a mess
of the business they have undertaken.
The New Hampshire election continues to occupy
public attention in the United States. The Re-
publican Committee calculated on a vote of 76,531,
which came out with an exactness that amazed the
country, the precise number. being 76,868. The
lion. E. H. Rollins, head of the State Committee,
receives credit for the excellence of this organiza-
tion, which is said to be worthy of study and imi-
tation. Of these votes, the Republicans cast 3,803
more than last year, and the Democrats 4,493.
The issues before the electors were—Grant for
President, Impeachment, Reconstruction, and the
general character of the two parties. The Demo-
crats were very confident, believing in the strong
reaction not long
since apparent against the Re-
publicans; and were much disheartened at the re-
sult. ,

In one of its notes of last week the Spectator
alluded to the Supreme Court of the United States
with much irreverence. It justifies Congress in
depriving the country of the constitutional right of
appeal to the Court composed of "seven old lawyers"
against measures of doubtful legality by the Legisla-
ture. The Act passed by Congress removing
from
its jurisdiction certain cases is simply usurpation ;
that is, it abrogates in a way not permitted
by the Constitution the Constitutional privileges
of the citizens. The necessity that exists for such
legislation is one question, its illegality is another.
It may be defended on the former plea, while the
latter cannot be denied. The Constitution dis-
tinctly lays down the means, and when the Legisla-
ture sets the instrument aside with contempt, which
gives to itself its existence in law, it does that which
no law can sanction. The sth Article says, " When
two-thirds of the two Chambers judge necessary,
Congress will propose amendments to the present
Constitution, or on the demand of two-thirds of
the Legislatures of the States will convoke a Con-
vention to propose amendments, which in either
case will become valid, and integral tart when rati-
fied by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the
States, or by Conventions formed by the three-
fourths, if Congress shall have proposed such mode
of ratification, provided that no amendment made
before the year 1808 affects in any manner the
first and fourth clauses of Section 9, Art. 1, and

that no State has been deprived without its con-
sent of its votes in the Senate."

Mr. Thaddeus Stevens has written a letter to
Colonel Forney, stating that he has long reflected
with such ability as he can command on the subject
of the Declaration of Independence, and his con-
clusion is that ‘, Universal Suffrage was one of the
inalienable rights intended to be embraced in that
instrument by our fathers at the time of the Declara-
tion. The Committee on Reconstruction have
finally resolved that no State shall be admitted into

the Union unless its constitution provides for Uni-
versal Suffrage." As the Nation observes, Mr.
Stevens does not reach his opinions by ordinary
human means, in other words he is a prophet, or a
soothsayer, or sometbing of that kind. It is well
established that you cannot refute a prophet ; your
remedy is, if he becomes troublesome, to disbelieve
him. As there are no logical means of driving Mr.
Stevens from his position, the best mode of meeting
his doctrines is to get some other elderly gentleman
of good political standing to go to sleep with the
Declaration of Independence under his lillow
after a late dinner, and find oat what the fathers
thought after they had drawn the Declaration.

There would be the danger of a person with
weak digestion and active brain being told
by the fathers that when they spoke of inalien-
able rights they thought of an Eight-Hour
Law, a Usury Law, and unlimited greenbacks.
But this risk the Nation says must be taken
to demolish Mr. Stevens, who gives as conclusive
the result of his own reflections. The bill has,
however, been called up in the House, and whether