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4 ae NER eT EUROPE, The Great Reform Demonstra- tion in London. Mr. Disraeli Maturing a Compro- mise Bill. “The Belgians and French to Leave Mexico. President Johnson's Defence of His Position and Description of His Enemies as Fur- ished to the London Times. ‘Zhe Walewski Interest in Napo- leon’s Cabinet. ee, &e. &e. BY THE CABLE TO FEBRUARY IL. NGLAND. ‘The Great Reform Demonstration—Signifi- cant Hint te the Aristecracy. Lonpox, Feb. 11, 1867. ‘The great reform procession will march in silence ‘through the principal streets of the city; but will give ‘three cheers as they pass the American Embassy. Immense Display of Moral Force. Loxvoy, Feb, 11—Evening. The reform jrocession came off this afternoon and was a grand affair, The turnout was immense, and yet there was not the slightest sign of disturbance anywhere along the route. A deputation of the reformers, headed by Jobn Bright, waited upon Mr, Giadstone to-day and were favorably received. Mr. Disraeli’s Reform Plan. Lonvos, Feb. 11—Evening. It is stated that Mr, Disraeli will produce in Parliament ‘@ plan of reform to be adopted by resolution. The idea is favorably received in political circles, THE EASTERN QUESTION. ‘The Naltan to Propose a Political Kmancton~ u Lowpoy, Feb, 10, 1867. A despatch from Constantinople announces that the Sultan has resolved to emancipate his Christian subjects from their political disabilities, and that he has issued a call for the assembling of a Turkish Parliament, This intelligence has caused a rise in Turkish funds. \The Greck Mission to the United States. Arun, Feb. 10, 1867. General Kalorgis, the Greek Envoy to the United States, sailed on the 8th inst. for America, Greek Volunteers in Candia -Appeal of the King of Greece. Aturys, Fob, 11—Evening. Intelligence from Candia is to the effect that six hum ‘dred more Greek volunteers have surrendered to tho forces of the Porte, “King George is about to sendan adtograph letter to the Emperor Napoleon, Queen Victoria aud the Cuar Alexander, asking for assistance to Greece, THE MEXICAN QUESTION. ‘The Belgian Troops About to Leave Maxi- milian, Antwerp, Feb. 11, 1867. It is confidently expected here that the Belgian legion ‘mow serving under Maximilian in Mexioo will soon return home. ‘The French Evacuation. Paris, Feb, 11, 1867. It ig positively announced that all the French soldiers “will teave Mexico on the 25th of February. THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Arrival Out of American Goods. Panis, Feb, 11, 1867. ‘The United States agency of tho Paris Universal Ex- position in New York has been informod from this city by the cable that the ships Harpswell and Mercury, con- ‘taining articles contributed by the United States to the Paris Universa! Exposition, have arrived at Havre. ss PRUSSIA. “The King’s Speech at the Closing of the Diet. Baum, Feb, 9—Evening. ‘The King of Prussia has closed the Diet. Hoe returned this thanks to that body for the cordial assistance ox- tended him, and strongly hoped for German unity. He also pointed out the necessity for a permanent (peace at home and abroad. Both the King and his speech were enthusiastically re- eeived by tho people. The North German Treops In Service. Berm, Feb. 11, 1867. ‘The Prussian government has determined upon the evacuation of Dresden, which will in future be garn- @oned by the troops of the North German Confederation. ITALY. A New Bill in the Church Property Case. Frornyce, Feb. 10, 1987. Baron Ricasoli is about to introduce ip the Italian Par- Mament a new bill in rogard to the property of the ‘Church, SPAIN. Prosecutions of the Press. Lonpon, Feb, 11, 1867. Advices from Madrid report that three editors of that city have been condemned to imprisonment at hard labor. THE CABLE TARIFF, the Rates of Charge. Loxvow, Feb, 9—Evening. It has been officially announced by the officers of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company that on and after the Ist day of March next the rates by the cable will be reduced one baif. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The London Money Market. , Feb, 9~Kyening. Consols for money close at 914. American securities close on the week as follows :— United States 6-20's, 1862, coupon +. 72% 89% ‘Coming Reduction of Erle Railroad shares. Iilinois Contral.... 807 Loxvox, Feb, 11—Noon, Consolx to-day are quoted at 9134 United states i Consols closed at 01 for money. AMERICAN SECURITIES cloned at the following pri Chited States five-twenties, Ailinove Central shar Frie Railway shares : The Frankfort Bourse. Fraskvonr, Feb. 0, 1867, United States five.twenty bonds closed at 7644. Fravarort, Feb, 11, 1867, Un. ted States bonds closed at an advance of 3%. The Pi Bourse. Panis, Feb. 0—Evening. United States ‘ve-twenty bonds closed at 8254. ‘The Liverpool Cotton Market. Livenvoot, Fob, 11—Noon. ‘The cotton market is firm at 149d. per Ib. for mid- dling upiands. Livenroot, Feb, 11--Evening. The cotton market wae steady during the day. The gules amuounted tw 10,000 bales, Middling uplanda, 14944, Liverpool Breadstafs Market. Lav xevoot, Feb, 11—Evening. Corn is dectining and was selling to-day at 3¥a Od, per quarter. ovinions Market. Lard is heavy and dull, Pork ta eanior. Tallow 18 atondy, NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, The Petroleum Market. Refined Pennsylvania and Canada white are quote d at 1s. Sd. a bs 6d. BY STEAMSHIP TO JANUARY 27. The Cunard mail steamship Australasian, Captain Cook, which left Liverpool at noon on the 20tb, and Queenstown on the 27th Jayuary, arrived at this port yesterday moruing, bringing our files and special corres- pondence, containing details of our cable despatches, ‘The steamship Moravian arrived at St, John’s, N. F., ‘on Sunday morning from Liverpool, short of coal, having experienced fearful weather. She sailed at etven o'clock Monday morning for Portland. Paris was alarmed, on the night of the 25th of Jan- uary, by # report that the King of Italy had beeh assas- sinated. The Emperor Napoleon sent to the Prefecture ball, which was going on the time, a special message contradicting the report, Mr. Gladstone was in Paris, en rowfe to London from Italy, and the Political Economy Society of France seized the occasion to tender him a banquet. It was to take place on the 26th of January. ‘The Prusian royal patent incorporating Schleswig- Holstein with the Prussian monarchy was promulgated on the 24th of January at the Castle of Kiel. The patent promises the population equal richts with the other inhabitants of Prussia; the preservation of ail un objectionable mstitutions peculiar to the country, and the non-removal of the present officials frem their posts. except for cause, The proclamation which accompanies. the patent pays a tribute to the proved constancy of the Scbleswig-Holsteiners, and declares that every effort will be made to promote the prosperity of the country. The Opinion Nationale of Paris, which bad hitherto Tefraimed in a somewhat marked manner from express- ing its views relative to the late changes in the constita- tion, published January 26 @ long article, signed by M. Guéroult, commenting on the vanous measures of re- form proposed. The series of observations in quesion presents this particularity, that while all the early por- tion seems rather hostile to the modifications proposed, and sijll more to the manner in which they have been produced, the latter part expatiates without reserve in praise of the Emperor, for both his acts and his Inten- tons, The Emperor Napoleon’s reform letter suggests the following reflections to the Turin Gacette:— The constitutional reforms in France appear of a nature to satisfy the most exacting and to anawer to the desires of the most ardent liberals of that nation, It may be said that the constitution of the empire has mm step towards the tranquil plains of the broadest liberty. AS tous Itahans, we ought to rejoice heartily at the sight of the edifice, erected and crowned by the one and genuine ally whom Italy has ever had, settling down on the solid foundations on which our ‘own constitutional liberties repose. ‘hese are founda- tions which the reactionista wilt always be powerless to shake, We read in La France of January 26:— Arecent article in the Florence Gazette, republished by several Turin journals, aseerted that ‘French emis- saries were busy in the neighborhood of Aosta making @ propaganda in favor of the French government. The Nazicne says it isin @ position to declare in the most explicit mahner that this statement is destitute of foun- dation. Viscount Hood has transmitted for publication the following letter which he has received from the Em- Peror Napoleon :— PALACE OF THE TorLeRres, Jan. 20 1867, Sm—I learn with regret by your letter that the tombs of the English officers killed at the battle of Toulouse are in a dilapidated condition Soldiers who fall in a foreign country belong to thnt country, ‘and it is the duty of all to honor their memory, I'shall have the tombs repaired at my own expense, a &e, APOLEON, The London Morning Post of the 26th makes the an- nouncement—alluded to in our cable report—that the Jong pending differences between Hungary and the Court of Vienna have been satisfactorily adjusied. A separate Hungarian Ministry has been conceded and the nomination of its members is almost complete. ‘The London Past of the 2hb of January, speaking of ‘Napotcon’s more recent policy, say— change of policy do not war, inion of her ruler the ron. tingency of war ia possible, if pot probable, and that in such an event France must not be found in the same unprepared stato in which she stood last year, In a word, Napoleon IIL does not believe that the treaty of Prague was final, nor that the present stati will long continue undisturbed, and he has resolved that if further changes are to be effected they shall not be made without the consent of France. ‘The Tribunal de Commerce of the Seine, France, has registered a decision in case somewhat similar to that of Glover vs, Persigny, tried some years singe in London im connection with Napoleon’s subsidizing an English newspaper. It that in 1863, when all the French journals were attacking Russia with reference to the Polish question, M. Tchitchérine, a gentleman attached to the Russian embassy in. Paris, took steps to subsidize the Nation, in order that it might put “‘correct views’’ of Russo-Polish affairs before the Parisian public, Since that time the Nation has come to grief, and the creditors of the paper have taken advantage of an agrooment entered into by M. Tchitch@rine to sue him for a portion of the debts of the establishment, which, it seems, bis agreement bound him to sustain. The Tri>unat de Com- merce has decided against the Russian employé, not- withstanding the privileges of an embassy, on the ground ‘three he tered into partnership in a commercial specu- lation. It is still possibie that Lis privilege may secure him from arrest; but it seems likely that the Russian government will have to pay a considerable sum in excess of what they already have disbursed. When the Australasian left England all the overdue steamers bad reached England except the Bosphorus, from Philadelphia, and she was spoken on the 30th Jan- uary, six hundred miles west of Queenstown, short of coal. PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S POSITION. ‘The Chief ot the Nation ia Statement to the Londen Times’ Correspondent—Mr. Jolin. ithern son’s Opinions on the Status of the States, Reconstruction, the ( ie the Democracy and Magna Charta—Infer- ences of the British Reporter. {Washington (Jan. 10) correspondence of London Time? } Whatever may be the juences to President John- son of the threatened im; it seems scarcely possible that they can be otherwise injarious to the radical party. @ gross injustice of their recent pro- ceedings, the tyranny which they exhibit, aud the reck- ras use they are making of the power they have assumed, can scarcely be acceptable, in the long run, to the sense of the country. Not satisfied with settling the public affairs of tho country in secret caucus, to which the minority are not admitted, and with preventing that minority being heurd in the House by the device of “tbe previous qnestion,”” and so render- ing them dumb and powerless in the councils of the nation—not satistied with those despotic mea- sares, they are now violating the first principles ot right and justice in.an attempt to remove the Executive out of their patb. General charges, most jing and injurious in their character, are brought fe inst the President, and published through the length and breadth of the land. His private life is traduced, and the motives for ail his public acts aro to be distorted and misrepresented. It is not enough to assail his political ee. They may be wrong or they may be right, ut they are never discussed. What is aimed at isto show that his is a corrupt administration, modelled with & view to the advancement of self-interest. On the face of matters, it is evident that this charge is unfounded. If ambition or in had guided the President, he could more easily bave satisfied both by placing bim- self im accord with the ruling party than by voking their hostility. Accosations are levelled at bim which will not stand before the most superficial inquiry, But even if they were well grounded, it is an injustice that they should be handed over toa a secret and an Irrespon: tribunal for mock investi. tion, It te the boast of Colonel Forney and other leaders of the party that this newly devised Star Cham- ber, the Judiciary Committee, is 80 ee as to insure a decision adverve to the President. The chairman is an ultra-radical, and a majority of bers strip him. ‘They are the President’ and they will call only his enemies true that this js not the court which will try the Pres- ident; bus have it in their power to present» partial and prejudiced report against him, based upon ez parte evidence, which might be utterly valueless tt properly tested ‘and sifted; and meanwhile the chief magistrate of the country is left oj to the aspersions of all the disappointed office seekers whom ho has turned from his doors, and all that abject crowd of lobbyists and jobbers who woald risk everything to curry favor with Congress, but who have no principles to risk, | It is a hardship in itself that these charges should be brought forword #0 long before the accused is allowed the opportunity*to answer them, The American people may not feel much respect for a public officer who is fighting for bis convictions alone and unsupported with a courage and patience never surpassed; but they cannot be insensibie to the plainest demands of justice. If the President is deserving of this mdignity, why are not articles of {impeachment ex- Nidited against him? Because the radical party aroin hopes that delay will give them fresh adherents in the Senate, and they dare not incur failure, ‘There is no desire to find out the truth, no regard for the public service It is a greaty party move, which a small by gts! in the recent élections has been beld to warrant. Presi is to be observed that the merits or demerits of the dent's polivical course are not under consideration in tho least, Ho is in the way of the radicals, and they wish to got rid of him. constitution does not say that ® President may be deposed simply because he can- not accept the opinions of Congress, Indeed, one of the framers of the Constitution expreraly rays with regan? to the Executive, “We can with no, propriety contend for its complaisance to the humors of the Legisiature,” and he adda, “It is coriainiy dasirable that the Fxecu- 2 r tive sheald be ia a situation to dare to act om b's own opinion with vigor aud decision.” Hamiiton Was nol prepared to consider firmness of conviction on the part of the Executive ® crime. The present dominant party dare not go 80 fer as to affirm that it is, and they are therefore driven to the fabric: charges which with give them the authority of the con- stitution tor what they are doing. This is the explanation of their recent proceedings, None of them deny it, They boidiy say that they would be justified in adoptmg any Course to gain their ends, THE INTRRVIRW, - . There is an advantage, however, to the stranger, which American politicians do not appreciate, bd res 6 on! upon the state of the country and the events of the fast few months, Mr. Johnson was good enough to give me ‘an interview this afternoon at the White House, aud he expressed to me the views which I shall, with Miseanc- he" Fresident raid thad the were ya the eould be brought to understand tee eateries Fsogpas nerd of ise aovecemene Lag vt stake, and not mere q ions o! a0] re would be hope that justice cle ah aiag ae tions last autuinn faise issues were dexterourly juced, and upon them the people pronounced a judg it, They were told that if the Southern States were readmitted the national interest would be imperitied, and thoy did not atop to consider wheiher this was 4 or not, The the weakness to which the South had been redu: and never considered that it would still beunavoidable that it should obey the North, the stronger power—ihe power with availablo force at its radually approached each other, law aud constituted authority resumod their sway, and everything was log og except the admis- sion of representatives from those States to Congress. But here Congress interposed, and it said ‘You are not States at alland you shall not be represented.” From that moment it began to pull to pieces the main fabric of the government; it began to wipe out the: States, from which alone it derived its existence, Too States had brought Congress into existence, and now Con- gress proposed to destroy the States. It pro- posed to. abolish the original and elementary peimciple of its being, It was as if the creature turned round upon the creator and attempted so destroy him, But suppose these States, with their .aujully appointed and administrators, refused to obey this summons to depart out of life altogether ? Sappoze ‘they said “We are within pide st of the Constitution; wo are obeying the laws; the government recognizes us by the infliction of taxes and the appointment of public oillcers; and no Co can decree our dissolution !”” Could the government deny or repudiate this argument ? If it came before the courts and they substantiated it what: would remain to Congress but the exercise of force in order to carry out its views? Thus the country would be involved in another revolution ; towards that ali the pro- ceedings of Congress in relation to the South were tending. The executive government were, at least, eudeay to fulfil what was the supreme law of the Iand—the constitution. There was a me when men considered the constitution first when they framed laws, Now they occasionally men- tioned it in an accidental manner. Some one on looking around discovered the constitution, with much the same sense of astonishment, apparently, that a man who was watching the stars might experieuce when he discovered anew planet, Bat the constitution was on the side of the Executive; law was on its side, and reason and jus- tice. The people would eventually perceive that it was interposing to preserve the very basis of thisfrepublican government, although their attention might be diverted fi from it now. “There is," addod the President, ‘‘no answer to this argu! t—no attempt is made to ai r it, except br the use of arbitrary power. You feel sometimes as ft you were following up a principle straight to its source, and had gota tight grip upon it; and itis exactly so in case.” this case. ‘The constitution, the President further sald, had been aolemuly received when the people went into the federa- tion. No section of the people, or their representatives, By 10 cs could ignore or overthrow it, except arbitrarily: and by, when the people h« the crash of the fabri which they bad formerly prized so highly, when the sound of the falling timbers reached their ears, and the saw the dust aod confuston, seat soe stop and took eee ieee tes been doing the work destruction That portion of the veople which was now unbeard would eventuatly demand by what right a Congress representing part only of the States had atsumed thts responsibility. Formerly, wh: & measure was introduced, fetta “Is constitational?” and the it next, “Is it expedient?’ Now, Congress oniy asked, “Is it expedient?” but, ia the judgment of the Executive, what was unconstitutional could mot be ex- pedient. The constitution did, indeed, provide for its ‘own enlargement or amendment, and {t was competent for the People to change it according to the method pre- scribed. But now the majority of the people were voiceless on the question; they had no opportunity to make themselves heard. One duty of the Executive was undoubtedly to protect the rights of the minority, and hence Congress was aiming to pull down the Exocitive, and was even threatening the Supreme Court. It was opposed to the best interests of the people aitempt sheuld succeed, and the Executive still had con. that the people would discern the truth for themselves. great mi the good which the Executive might harm which it might do others, forgiven away; there were sure to be fica iven away ; were sure to be twent} icants fort, ‘and wen it was bestowed all that ‘the Presiden toon enemies. The friend was silenced, for after he re- ceived the appointment he had tomake favor with the Senate in order to get fit confirmed. The man wasas likely as not to throw over the President altogether, It was different when the Kxeeutive was in harmony with i the Senate; then the candidate knew that he could secure @ mi ity of that body, and he could venture to give his adhesion to the President, In point of fact, the Executive had not made more changes than were required by the public service—not so many a3 were or- made, There was a great outcry because the men who were actually in power had filled all the offices with their frends and supporters, and they did not want to see them removed, With regard to the threatened !mpeachment, the Pres- ident said, with a smile:—*I had contracted Old World Now, # committee sitting in secret and hearing one side only, and that side the enemies of the accused, bis case, It is ‘© consistent part of the qual dase pureued."* bs Frequeatly be wersation the President the con ident vonetied tee botiett twat the people would eventually begin to look at all the questions now before them from the constitutional side. He seemed to be content to be judged by the fidelity and istence with which be had adhered in his ic policy to the constitution, which his oath obliges bim to defend. That oath might as well be rescinded if Congress and the country refused to — the constitution as a law binding upon all ike. Certainly the President's opiiions with regard to the constitation are not singular, although few besides him- self bave the courage to openly prociaim them. There are nambers of lawyers who do not hesitate to admit privaiely “the President is right; but what is to be gained by going against one’s constituents?”” The demo- crats have so discredited themselves in the country by the course they took during the war that their advo- cacy is dirastrous to the object of it. Now and then, however, a public man is found who is not afraid to 4 clare bis convictions. Judge Black, for example, mad a forcible speech in defence of the President and the bg Court. He said, in the course of his remarks: — ‘The judges, and all who think with them, are called traitors because they declare the constitution to mean what it says, and because they will not violate it them- selves§ nor permit its violation by others when they can ent it. If this conflict for and against the constitu- implies treason on either the guilt does not lie at our door. It is not the man who sustains, and loves, and believes in the laws of his country—it is not such a man that can be justly called a traitor. But if there be an American citizen anywhere who, with an oath upon his conscience to support the constitution, would make war upon it, subvert it by brute and take away the defences it affords to life, liberty and prosperity, leaving them to the mercy of mobs, murderers, kidnap- rs, military commissions, and bureaus of military jus- ice, such a man is thoroughly a traitor."’ Sentiments like these make man unpopular, and therefore few ‘venture to utter e country ought not to be in any doubt as to the objects which the radicals have in view in a the President. It cannot be alleged as a pretext Mr. Johnson chnencpef legislation. The major- ity of two-thirds is secured and the veto can aiways be rendered inoperative. What is it, then, that the leaders CaS h onenes To place one of their own num- ber in the identia! chair, so that the laws which _ pase may be carried out at the point of the bayonet if ecersary. This would inevitably force a revolution al- most di Pe feguard against it now is thi Classes leg: ‘against believe that the Pope some restraint upon their antagonista can bef do yet feel that they are delivered over altogether into House. Do-they expect to accomptish ail this quietly? They cannot pack the Supreme Court at this moment, for the sprotatment of the Judges rests exclusively with the it. But a more accommodating executive could be induced to place more Judges on the bench, so that Jaw might be interpreted.according to radical principles. ‘These are the plans of the radicai party, still the pTd silent. Ld Bie ‘ya commercial Coie ge £ jew suggests t ‘ing explanation :—If it asked why th. Vey ony ofenteat ‘80 little excitement, the anawer may be that any action which promwes to pat an be welcomed by & a ‘the business community. There are not a few who would be heartily glad to see all checks re- moved Irom radical ‘and the macbine aflowed to go on under full steam until the smash comes. They have little hope of any cl for the hetter untit it has ron its course, and exhansted its power as we!l as ended p Lantong through ifs own unrestrained violonce and reck- [From the London Times, Jan, 26. . * © * The fate of Mr. Job tewerer is imma- torial compared with the tesues involved in his \mpenct ment. Hija deposition may afford a fleeting triumph to the republican party, but it must ou the peace of the power of the republi Party ia due to the fact that at (he last elections about 2,800,000 votery gupvorted them Portion of 33 3 a i i Fr that this | Rethymnos aod against 1.800.000 on the other side; but it was admitted that this comparatively small uy by, euMicient though it was to give them an irresistible power in Congress, was ma‘uly due to accidental ahd temporary causes. It must furtuer be remembered that the voting last autamn was covfined to itttie more than half of the once existing Union Had a vote tem taken by universal suiirage, even black and white, throughout the States, the Pre ident would have had a majorily. The victorious party are making the moat of their vietory; but the eltect of their acts will remain whem they cease to bo in tho ascendant, THE LABOR MOVEMENT. Jehn Bright to His Workmen on Reform Rights, Unjust Laws and the Duties of Arti- sans. Gone shines Bane of about one thou- sand two bundred of t! aan eet at hasan: Joho Bright & Brothers was beid in the public hall at Rochdale, — to the hovorable member for Birmingham, ht, am address expressive of “their entire sym- and sincere for him under the ma- which been urged against him as 4 i i [ H = , which ‘was moved, seconded and sup- ing men in Mr, Bright's employ, after attacks on bis private character as base said he bad always endeavored to im- social and intellectual well uartnareeter ie: bent anemone Sat ‘oe, 1 great w prod class to the eons: Se pre statesman might be long wns carried and. presouten te Mr. Bright, i i I i ai is rs 5 rs Mr, Buigut, in the course of his thank you with ap overflowing heart which has indaced you to call and to form this mecting to-night, and for the most friendly and gensrous senti- m which you have uttered through the address which has just been presented to me, and which I accept with a gratification that I find no words properly to describe and express. (Hear.) This meeting is one of an unusual and noteworthy character. Hear.) I am not sure that om any former occasion in this district, or in this country, there has been » meeting like it, where a chousand persons, men and women, assisting in or employed in the business of a particular firm, have felt it their duty to meet for the purpose of contradicting and overthrowing countless slanders uttered against that firm—(hear)—and chiefly against one member of it, with a view to damage his political intlue: (Hear.} We are met for the purpose, further, of expressing our confidence in and our friendship for each other. (Hear.) I believe you have done well to hold this meeting —(hear, Lee SPnyay bearing altogether upon my position with regard to it as concerning your own; for, rely upon it, the slanders that were utiered against me had the effect in some degree of reaching and damaging you. (Hear.) Clearly, if it were true that we were the oppressors of those who lived near us, and to whom weekly we paid wages, you were the oppessed, for there cangot be the one class without the other. If we were tyrants and unjust, clearly you were slaves and the victims of injustice; and if wo were devold of conscience, you were proved to be devoid of independence; and that you suffered and tolerated injustice from which you could nov escape, and which you had not even the cour- age to resent. (Hear, hear.) You kaow—every man ané woman in this assembly kpows— every honorable man in Rochdale knows— that there is not a shadow or @ shade of foundation for the charges that have been made against me, (Loud cheers.) To those who live in this neighborhood, even, T should say, to a laago portian of my countrymen, judging exther from my life at home or my public career, they might bave found @ sufiicient answer to those charges. (Hear, hear.) this question, because it is worth your while to consider, “Wh all there slanders against us and against me?” ‘There are five bundred firms in this country whose busi- ness is on, who employ great numbers of peo- ple, many far more than we do, who have their transac- tons of every kind, who may have occasionally their little or great differences with tbeir work: but of all these five hundred four hundred aud ninety-nine are left untouched, and wo and I alone am assailed by these men, (Loud cheers.) Whence come these charges and these slanders? Now, I ask you, my friends, sionally ~ you tee of them rom tome o- scure man, accident or n fore foo sronthe tno the potion ofa Min. people that bene 4 well that I haye been accustomed in all my public life to take an "independent course; that 1 bave not been a flatterer of those who are in power, Bor bave I been a flaticrer of that great class on whose behalf I bavo mainly acted and apokeo. Iam no flatterer; I have not bent my knee to any class of the community; Ihave sought to be guided by a higher law than the prejudices or the ‘any section of the people, In this course of it may be I have made errors, as other profers to no kind of infaltibility, h I have so much con- i i 3 $ 2 i fathers, who are not now here, thought wrong. againet ‘any interference by Parliament with the labor and of capital. I did, mot wish to trust a Parliament of lowners with the contro! and the disposition of labor and capital im this country. I Ienew by their infamous corn law, which had lasted for sper eee cout an untold and count- of the labor and eapital of England—(hear, view of turning it into the channel of for themselves, and therefore I did not like this body of men to meddle with the question. But I Row worki and a balf hours daily, instead of eleven and a ba!f hours, as before. I believe that the establishment of free trade al the time when the Factory bill caused 80 it an increase of tiade and demand for labor that the Factory bill itelf has been made to work with a success that in all probability it would not have mot with if these changes to which I have referred had noi been made. I think it quite pos- aible—I hope it ig certain—that at some period even the time now worked may beto some turther extent short- ened. (Loud gheers.) My own impression is that with an economical government much less of tazation from the fe, with laws regarding the ten- wre and H of land im accordance with @ tree b economy, and with education generally and uni: spread amng the pecpie, there will be economy, ‘with education goneraliy and universally spread among the people there will be a strong and rational disposition to work a shorter time; that there will be greater care taken of the earniogs that are made, and thus that the comfort of families may not bein the Jeaat lessened, although the time of labor may be short. ened. (Cheers.) But referring to that question of the discussions of the Factory bill, I venture to og | this, and ifany one of you will undertake to look wo those diseussions you will find that no word escaped my lips that was not friendly to the operative class of this country, and that I was as anxious to defend them as to defend their employers from the ex wed and caluminous statements of those to whom I was opposed. ‘Now, once more to the question of pu! life and poli- tics.’ Tam one of those who believe that in a country , cannot have that which is their iy free and really growing and im- ‘proving, legislation and a just administration of the laws. (Hear, hear.) An unjust law wounds every house in the country, and that most pos es of all bev 4 corn whoo ena a hone every pari every vi every house, and it wounded and nered crews man in every house; w, on the contrary, acts with univ it is hke a fer- ere; and there id th Poyy! 80 ia je, no occupation so unimportant, that it cannot fee! to some degree the influence of a wise and of a just and beneficent law—(loud cheers)—bet still wo must never forget this, that laws, monarchs, houses of legis- Jation, powers that be of any kind cannot do everything for us; there will remain much for us to do ourselves, mat many efforts to make. The Id work than the land, he did not think they cultivated the Wakue of Prepay ‘as those of some other countries, upon them, bemdes saving, to tako eS middle classes, in educating their iidren, Mr. T. B. Porren and Mr. Gotpwix Sarr briefly ad- dressed the mecting. THE EASTERN QUESTION. » Progress of the Operations in The following reports from tho seat of war in Crete had reached England just provious to the departure of oy yore ~ oh al ‘The Cretan National Assembly had addressed a letter on the 2d January to the foreign consuls, requesting that agents should be sent to Candia by the European Powers to report apon the unfortunate of the isl- and. The lettor adds that the statem: of the sub- mission of the insurgents are faise; and that the inhab- Pan ag continue the contest until their wishos are i The Paris journals publish intelligence from Candia, According to Which successes had been obtained over the Turks by the ayn wa leaders Corroneos and Sifaea, at mon, the Egyptian, forces bave been repulsed by the C1 under Grigel. =A nomber Of Cretan families are stated w be waicing on tho sea coast tye arrival of European vessels 1a order to be con- veyed to Greece. ly way of Athens the foliowing intelligence has been received from ¢ rete, dated the lixh of January :— The imperial troops, in coraidorable force, have at- tempted to effect a landing, first at Aga Rumeti, in Sphakia, and afterwards ‘' Tripili; but they wore ro- pulsed at both points by the Crotans. On the Lith of Jauusry an engagement took place be. tween 5,000 Turkigh troops and a body of insurgents at Tejoico as m — any of you can rejoice that you are | 1867.—-TRIPLE SHEET. z . ned the tre of Heraclion. The Turks were re- P with heavy toss. ‘The Cretan Assembly General has appointed a pro- oe eared d of seyan members, “The Apeom bl also p & pole ing its grati- tude to committee which las tise formed in ° don, for the relief of the distressed Cretan families, The Christian Apnent, ‘The Greek papers of Jan 12 publisned fn Athens the following letter addressed ‘by the-provisional govern- ment in Epirus and Thessaly to the consuls of the Christian Powers in the East:—MM. les Consuls. We consider it our duty to acquaint you with the reasons be 8 the people of Thessaly have had recourse to arms end have prociaimed the rupture of all political ties be- tween themselves and Mussulman rule. These reasons are set forth in the enclosed proclamation, and in this document, a copy of which we beg you to forward to your respective governments, that they may under- Stand the sincerity of our’ movement, You, gen- tiemen, being upon the spot, are dou aware of the absence of a eit jnatice and public order in the Ottoman empire, You know also the numberless annoyances to whieh we are subjected in spite of the forced Tabor and all the suffer- ings we are daily compelled to endure; you know fur- ther the jable taxes and forced gifts inces- santly ‘To sum up all these grievances we have thought it necessary to explain to you here the most considerable, The letter goes on to enumerate as Cen vibetards, cattle’ wal, and'e, (onal inne teat » salt, and a forced loa m= Plaint is mado Ween " of having obliged to cat Bt cat wood for the line; and pay a tax towards maintenance of fell timber for building one hundred barracks, and of having been- made to supply food gratuitously tothe ~The tol tho Ist of iat tembe capital by ‘he hea to our other taxes, because the government was at war with the giaours in Grete, and- we have paid, You will see from this, gentlemen, that it is henceforth impossi- ble for us to live under Turkish Tule, and we are con- vineed that no exist in the world who have dis- layed as mu and self-denial aa wo have. fotwithstanding our submission and the bumaue coun- cils of civilized Europe, the Turks have remained deaf, andall has been useless. One sole resource, therefore, remains. We commit our destiny and our hope to God, to the fate of arms and to the pity of the Christian world. Faithfully interpreting the loyal intentions of the people, the provisional government has bell d ita duty to explain to you all the reasona that fo peoples of Epirus aud Thessaly to take up arms, that you may judge impertially upon which side jastice and right are to be fonnd. The hopes of the people are based upon the justice of God, upon the sympathies of the Powers of the civilized world, and upon their firm reso+ lution to coaquer their independence or to die.”” NAPOLEON'S CABINET. Personal and Official Inutrigues and Rival- ries—How the Reforms Decree was Plunned and Operated—The Emperor “Put His Foot Down,” Disappoints Everybody and is Mas- ter the Sita Walewski Lont His Place, &c. [Paris (Jan. 23) correspondence of London Times.] On the 11th of November, 1630, Marie de Medicis, seconded by Gaston d’Orleans, advised Lowis XIII., who was then recovering from a long {ilness, to dismiss his Minister, Cardinal Richelieu. Marie de Medicis was the, mother, Gaston d’Orleans the bro:her of the King. Louis could not resist the earnest entreaties of two such near relatives, and a promise to comply with their wishes ‘was wrung from him. Richelieu leard from his spies about the royal household of the danger ho was threatened with. Not a moment did he lose, He hastened to Versailles, where the King then was, demanded an audience and obtained it, and in half nn hour not only regained tho confidence of his master, but obtained from him that his adversaries placed at his mercy. To their utter astonishment, the royal ordinance which was to have disgraced the Uardl- nal only made him more powerful than before, and be revenged himself upon them with excessive rigor. From that day to this the 11th of November, 1630, is known in history as ‘Za Jou-née des Dupes.” The incidents of the past week have vividly recafled to the memory of the public that historic fact; and they now designate the Saturday when the Emperor “in- vited”’ his ministers to resign as the ‘Jomrnée des Dupes.” They call it so because every one of the par- i concerned expected a result difforent from whut it as been, low M. Walewski and to have been to bear, directly and indirectly, m effecting the success of’ which, Ne this combination, on 4 the aid of a. high personage he counted wit! was to make room ft ‘Ministers received the gra- with respect; not without a but they said nothing. On Saturday the Council of Ministers met and the Emperor having setfled in his own mind ‘to do with them, they were allowed to have their say. The Empress was and took part in the conference, There can be no indelicacy in alluding to this illustrious lady, who is, to all intents and purposes, a political per- sonage. Her Majesty has over and over again — at Cabinet Councils; she almost always takes a shure ia the proceedings, and sometimes signs decrees and ordi- nances. In the present imstance it is related that her Majesty was pleased to express herself not over satisfied with the concessions granted by the Emperor, as they gave rather too much latitude to the opposition, and too much disarmed authority. M. Chasseloup raged (Marine) Cyn to more ee views, and, perhaps, took some exceptions to the project. ‘There is some ancertainty as to how Marabal Rendon expressed himself on this particular subject, though there were none as to what he thought of the project for the organization of the army, M. Lavaiette, st: to way, took rather a liberal view, th he might not completely di ve the pian, M.. did not con- ceal bts opinion it could hardly be looked upou as serious. He would cordially support any well consid- ered serious measure that would enlarge the circle of public liberty, and at the same time maigtain the proper authority of the Executive; but be did not think that had that character, After hearing with his wonted serenity and patience all the Ministers bad to say, bis Majesty was pleased to notify his Ministers that he had made up his mind, and he “invited” them to resign en masse. “tavitetion’’ ‘was at once accepted. It wus considered as‘® mere ior- mality, though perhaps a su juoua as they ail expected to be reinstated in their posts, How far expectations bave been realized you already k Those who had planned a combination are, it ap- pears, more disappointed than any one. Mf. Wa “, ia, not the Minister of Stale; M. Rouher keo his place; M. Magne is not Finance Minister; Ollivier i# pot Minwter of apything, and is not the government | organ in the Chamber, M. Lavalette ie mill ot the Home Offi though, with a modesty for which few gave him credit, he ad- mitted he was not a orator, and he feared his ina- bility to ast should be defended, the acts and policy of government. He was told, however, on very high authority that he was one of the best speakers in Council; and if he made one effort to get rid of the natural timidity which is his great charm he woald positively shine in debate, Thus the minis who resigned as a matter of form, but were not caii back, must now resign themselves to remain out. M. Chasseloup-Laubat has since said that he by no means bag ao Mer gy gee of it; league @ War Department protests ne is bow the same mind, . 1 have alread: pape wo hing and 's _— yy Peet it courteous, friendly ; said to betray some embarrassment. M. ‘pbaher's appoletment to the Finances nt to La gr henge bad regard for the ister; and may yetbea chance of M. W 1s beau idéal being called to the fore long. heard about all this their contremarque—the ticket persons ® theatre during the acts, and which enables thom to return, As for tho benefits resulting from the Docree of Sun- day, public opinion is at om the same as I bave in previous letters descril it, Tt may do much good or may do little, but there is one great fact which they who approve and they who disapprove seom to ignore, that it is one supreme will that atili directs the destinies of the nation, IMPROVEMENT OF THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI, ‘St, Lows, Feb, 11, 1967, Tho convention for the consideration of the subject of improving the u Misissippi river will meet in Mor. cantile Library Hall to-morrow, It is expected that several hundred delegates will be in attendance. Quite a number of delegates have already arrived. The States of Towa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Arkansas, M's wisi Louisiana, Tennessee, Indians, Kentuck Ohio, jusylvania and Missouri, wilt bo rp sented, probably several others, The Govurnors and some of the Stato oflicers of sev ral of the Western sttteton “will te Coutiabd’ hen eaeecten une, tne menting of ateral hare joah ne avigaion ose be t, aly examined, State. pared sud Wl be preserel ty niveuse aie soe peice t to bandie (he .nestion. THE AMAZON Lecture by Professor Agassiz. Professor Ayarsiz lust evening dvliverod on “series of lectures on the Amazon. The subs the subject, following in its reguiar course, OMiniate add Production of the River Amazon ” Jecture rogm of the Cooper Institute was almost Mlled The by an brought together by the great inte: that baw of late been excited with regard to the re q of the Amazon and the explorations carried on there vy t the able lecturer himsell. The Professor commenced by deseribing the {a afforded him in his great undertaking to explore 1 Amazon, cepecially those put at bis command by 1 H Emperor of eee whotied out 4 vessel, by which ao { was enabled to travel more in five days than le } could in as many weeks with inferior facilities, j ‘The Professor then gave# description of the river Ama zon, where be aod his party remained ten month: sud where he distributed bts company into squads, and dis- i persed them to different quartera, by which they were ' enabled to observe the condition and locality of tho aquatic animals at the different of which das geologists have meagre information. ext gave a owing bcp the advantages to be derived —_ the opening great river to com whic! would be the means of developing the pees venoeees of South America, and throwing open to the world the ' richest treasures of the earth, where the representati of all countries would meet and contend svcially for rich prizes of that ves the as a8 =6many = empires, the old country, and Rot over two hun- dred and fifty Indians. i ‘The lecturer them calied attention to the river and its vatleys. ‘The average temperature of the weather in she Tegion of thé Amazon was eighty-one degrees, the maxi- mum eighty-four, the towest temperature being’ about. Seventy-seven; sO. that the weather way constantly tem- Pperate. The whole extent of the aresof the valley is covered by forests and is not, like otber plains under the tropfts, partly desert and partly covered by vegetation. ‘The whole of the Amazon valley is covered with luxuri- ous vegetation, and that vegetation is sometimes #0 dense that itis almost mpenetrabie, and of its churac- teristics in this respect he wouid give somefaccount. The river Amazon runs throngh three different regions, eacis Presenting a different aspeot and characteristics from one Another, In the lower part of its course two trib- utaries join the Amazon—one of them _ris- mg in the high table land of Guayana, the Rio Necro on the northern shore and the Rio Ma- deira on the southern shore, and which latter-bas its source in the mountains ef Bolivia, These tributaries are of great dimensions, and the whole basimof the Amazon is full atter having received their waters, It ix from the junction, of these rivers that the great river itself receives its name, and from thence extends to the Atlantic ocean. That part of the Amazon which occu- | the middle tract of the continent is called Solemoes. ‘he southern shore of the Amazon, beiow its junction with the Madeira, receives other rivers, three of which flow from the southern slope of the table land of Brazil. To the east of the Rio Negro there are a number of other rivers flowimg into the Amazon, hardly known ame, and yet of very great im- tance and remarkable for their peculiar character. ‘bere are among those tributaries four rivers so broad that we have hardly apy river so broad, though their * courses are not very long. These at their mouths are over thirty mpes wide, and some of them over sixty tiles wide, Following the southern shore of the Ama- zou to its mouth, you jd an entrance so wide that it ig a if the wide ocean were spreading before you and you were passing from a river to the open sea These Tivers are comparatively shallow, and their current is light, The natural consequence is that they carry a ag Patents material in suspension, and their waters are i therefore clear and it, but somewhat { tinged vegetabie to @ greenish hue. Others of these waters are tinged with , and others again are yellow ‘The river Madeira { hai It ia a very deup river, flowing rapidly and carrying ita large amount of loove material, gi whitish color, from which circumstance the Madei called “White Water Ties called “White Water river,’ rially from the Maaaire, are re rivet.” There are three tributa- but they differ mate- ai tortuous i zi d geseg tees reniidytati = 5 E erie im great abundance {i valley, and which at present formed but a meagre source of trafic. The Hberal policy of the Emperor of Brazil would, however, change all this, and i EWS FROM THE WEST INDIES. The Cholera, Smallpox and Yellow Fever at St. Thomas, &e. Havana, Feb. 6, 1867. P, The cholera, smallpox and yellow fever still prevail i at St. Thomas. Over seven handred persons died of r the former in five weeks. The smallpox at Matansas is abating. The whites have suffered more than the and I recorded blacks, e there is not a caso ofa Chinaman attacked with it, though there are thousands living in poor and illy venti! huts. They say that im China all infants are inoculated in some manner which cortataly ie than vaccination, many having died who were well vaccinated. ¥ pi ‘The famous Spanish iron-ciad Tetuan arrived here on the 4th instant, } The Cunard mail steamship Africa will leave Boston on Wodnesday for Liverpool. i ‘The mails for Europe will close in this city at a quarter j past one and half-past five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon. { ‘The New Yore Hrrarn—Edition for Europe—will ve } ready at eleven o’clock on Tuesday morning. : Single copies, m wrappers, ready for mailing, ac cents, Tried la Yale to en rete Uae lovee Of Melisa with Astatte pee- fumes. Me resisted their influence; but isted the ri il of PHALON’ 's NIUHT BLOOM. isi cnr my of j 5 INW CEREUS? Tinpoestble. 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