The Sun. — 1867-07-20 (London, England)

MAXIMILIAN'S DECREE OF OCI. 3, 1865.  The following is Maximilian's address on publishing his famous decree : “Mexicans,—The cause which Don Bonito Juarez defended with so much valour and constancy has already succumbed under the force, not only of the national will but also of the other law which that officer invoked in support of his pretensions. To-day even the faction to which the said cause has degenerated is abandoned by the departure of its chief from his native soil.  At the show this week at Bury St. Edmonds, of the Royal Agricultural Society, steam-ploughing and cultivating was represented by Messrs. Howard, of Bedford ; Messrs. Fowler, of Leeds; and Mr. Burrell, of Thetford. Alessrs.inaHochiwauredr;xhibited their now system of steam cultivatingwhich is worked by a pair of 14-horse self-propellingengines, each fitted with two winding drums, drawing the cultivators simultaneously to and fro between them. Messrs. Howard also exhibited their double action cultivator and four and three furrow steam ploughs, besides a two-furrow plough for very deep work, and another steam cultivating apparatus, which consists of a 10-horse power portable engine, with separate wire laps and ropes. An addition to steam cultivating machinery, which Messrs. Howard also submit to notice, is Bulstrode's patent snatch-block slings for cultivating apparatus, worked on the stationary principle, and by means of which the anchor can detach, and move forward the block while the plough is crossing the field. The American war steamer Shamrock and the British steamer Redpole have arrived at Lisbon. The North tar, from London for Philadelphia, which sailad from the Downs about the 14th of February, has not since been heard of. It was lately denied that flogging was allowed in the American army. But, if a correspondent of the Tribune is right, American officers do not confine that punishment to the soldiers, but extend it to the citizens. A man named Hendricks received 100 lashes by order of Colonel Dodge, of Fort Sodgwick, without trial of any kind, for the alleged offence of selling whisky to the soldiers. The writer gives a minute account of this moss unusual and uu-American punishment, and states in conclusion—" Flogging, bucking and gagging, and stretching soldiers spread-eagle' fashion, seems to be the order of the day here."  " The National Government for a long time was lenient, and exercised great clemency, so as to give those misled and misinformed men an opportunity to rally to the majority of the nation, and to place themselves anew in the path of duty. It has fulfilled its object; the honourable men have assembled under its banner, and have accepted  the just and liberal principles which regulate its politics. The disorder is only maintained by some leaders carried away by unpatriotic passions, assisted by demoralised persons, too ignorant to comprehend political principles, and by an unprincipled soldiery, the last and sad remnants of the civil war. Hereafter contests will only be between the honourable men of the nation and the gangs of criminals and robbers. Clemency will cease now, for it would only profit the mob who burn villages, rob and murder peaceful citizens, poor old men, and defenceless women. " The Government, resting on its power, from this day will be inflexible in its punishments, since the laws of civilisation, the rights of humanity, and the exigences of morality demand it. "