The New York Herald Newspaper, April 25, 1867, Page 4

4 IMPORTANT FROM EUROPE. MAIL DETAILS TO APRIL 13. French War Questions to France and Napoleon. Can the Empire Go ¢o War, or the Nation be Humiliated ? Clads Building at Cherbourg and Prebable Bleckade of the German Ports. THE “REDS” IN COUNCIL Grand vaucus of French, Spanish, Italian, Roman and, Irish Revolutionists. German Warning to Outside Hne- mies and the Thrones. COUNT BISWARCK’S PARLIAMENTARY PASSION &e. ke, &e. The French Transatlantic Mail Steamship Company’s steamship Periere, Captain Duchesne, which le(t Havre on the 11th, and Brest at five o’clock in the afternoon of the 13th inst, arrived off Sandy Hook at an early hour yesterday morning, and made her dock soon afterwards, ‘The Periere brought our files in detail of our cable despatches dated to her day of sailing, the papers being as late as the mails of the Cunard steamship Cuba, which loft Liverpool on the same day, but had not been heard from at Halifax when the Periere made New York, The Inman steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Mc- Guigan, which left Liverpool at 2 P. M. on the 10th and Queenstown on the 11th April, arrived at this port yes- terday morning, The steamship Western Metrepolis, Captain Weir, from Bremen April 4, arrived at this port yesterday. The steamship Borussia, Captain Frauzen, from Hamn- burg April 7, arrived at this port yesterday, Count de Rayneval, Minister Plenipotentiary of France at tho Courts of Weimar, Gotha and Meiningen, has pre sented his credentials to Duke Ernest II. of Saxe- Coburg-Gotha, and subsequently was received at Meinin- gen by Dake George I. The question of Croatia is before the Diet of Pesth, Hungary, by two motions; one from M. Deak, chief of the national party, and the other from M. Ghyczy, one of the chief members of the opposition. The latter proposes to call immediately to the Diet of Hungary the representatives of Croatia and of the other territories of the crown of Hungary, of which the deputies do not yet sit in that assembly. This compelle intrare is a radical means which, in the present state of the question, is not likely to have success, M. Deak, on the other hand, carries his measures of conciliation to the utmost limits; he only asks the annexed countries for their co-operation in the diploma of ceronation of the Emperor of Austria, and in the treatment of affairs com- mon to themselves and to Hunvary by means of delega- tious, He besides leaves the Croatians to establish their self-government as they think fit, The Japanese Prince Mim-Bou-Tayou gave a splendid dinner to the chief municipal authorities of Marseilles, France, at the hotel at which he has alighted, A letter from Madrid, in the Courrier de Bayonne, says: Interpellations have already commenced in the Cham- der.§ M Moyano asked the Minister of Finance for a statement of the situation of the Treasury at the end of March, 1567, and for the production of other documents relative to the same question M. Bertran de Lis in- quired if Spain, asa Catholic nation, was prepared to support the resolutions relative to the maintenance of the temporal power of the Pope contained ig the Emperor Napole speech irom the throne, The Minister of the Int plied iu the affirmative, WAR QUESTIONS IN FRANCE. SPECIAL CORRESPONDFNCE OF THE HERALD. & Serious Definition of French Liberty at a Serious Moment—Napolecon’s Position To- wards Laxembuarg and Europe—The Nego- ad, and Where is the be Humiliated ¢—Home Strength ble Alliances Strikes and Lecal Panis, April 12, 1867, It certainly seems rather ominous upon these fine «pring afternoons to hear the newspaper dealers station- ed im the little kiosques in the Boulevards replying to their customers, “La Liberté eat defendue,”’ “La Liberte ea saine,’’ and some of them even going so far as to inform the public that “JI n'y a pas de Liberté aujourd'hui.” But fortunately it is not the abstract article of which every Fronchman loves so much and sees 80 little that isthe subject tho newspapor dealers’ remarks, but the Journal of Monsieur Emile de Girardin, whose sale upon the public streets has been prohibited ever since Monday last, the paper of Tuesday evening having been seized. Girardin bas been writing some very bitter articles against the government's internal and external policy; and their popularity in France, the echo which they find in the hearis of the French peopls, may be Judged from the fact that within tho year that he has had the sole control of the Liber!) Girardin has increased its cireulation from five thousand (o fiity thousand copies, if now having, noxt to the Sivele, the largost of any journal in France, A few weeks since Girardin was prosecuted and fined five thousand frances for the publication of a bitter article im which the Emperor was accused of perjury and the government of tyranny and inefficiency. On Monday evening last the following article, referring to this jadgment, appeared in the leading column of La Liberté, under the title of “ What ‘it costs to tell the trath.”’ It commences with the following letter, which Girardin takes for his text:— BUREAU OF PINES, NO, 2,704, Sir—T have the bonor to ask you to pay into my cus- ody the sata of 5,901f. 60c., the amount of the fines and costs against you, made by the Imperial Court of Paris on the 22d of March, 1363, for the excitation of batred against the governineat, ‘The conctusion to be drawn from this letter is that the ‘ruth is beld im no greater favor under governments which are the tmue of universal suffrage than those {exelng (rom ‘divine right” ‘Truth will have to exer- cise an Irresistible influence over t What interest have we ever in teuing the truth? None. While by servility wo succeed in everything, sincerity leads to no success. A man conscomtes twenty yours of his life to the careful ssudy of questions of the most importamt character and of the most ditcult solution, Well, he has less weight than the ignorant writer who only knows how to flatter and invariably to serve up the same platitudes, Tell a sovereign how he may become great and ne wil) treat you ab Louis the Fourteenth treated Vautan, ot as Louis the Sixteenth treated Turgot—he will treat you as a distarber and acbarlaten. But tell him that he is great; tell him that he has never comm/tted a fault, he will shower you with bis fevors, he will pat in you ali his confidence. If dangers menace him, and you an nounce them, you will be accused of having created them, and, being accused, you will be condemned. Well, then, what is the use of speaking the truth? Leave this care to the vengeful events which follo# committed fauite, These events do not force yon to predict them, for should you succeed in preventing them you get no credit for it, and If you do not succeed you are not told that you have given a warning, but that NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, you have made an atinck. Howcan it be that a man possessed of @ fair share of reason, instead of buckling on a sword, should take up @ pen and become a journal- ist? To the fortunate soldier who fights, sword in hand, who reaps generations, covers the earth with corpses, ruins populations, devastates countries, bombards and burns cities; to this soldior of glory all the favors, all honors, dignities, titles, gifts, statues, arcs de triomphe. To the courageous soldier who combats with a pen in republic of the restoration weight has france? How much thanks does she get Berlin for the “attentive neutrality” which guarded—a neutrality equivaient to the most effe aid? This aid, oul ous e entitled us to Rhine frontier, what ineration did it obtain ? deference of the Prussians for the French empire does not even go so far as the evacuation of Luxemburg, which their troops occupy, in spite of all the rights of sov- reignty which thoy do not even contest. is it true, as the Minister of State declared, that there had not been a single fault committed? Is it true that ce, having the absolute power in 1866 to prevent war from breaking out between Austria and Pruasia, did not commit a fault in allowing the war to commence before we were ready to take all our sure- ties, and to throw into the scales of victory the decisive weight of our sword? Is it true that France, being able on the 4th of July to dictate at Mayence its conditions to Prassa, camped beneath the walls of Scie em not commit a fwult in confining itself to lighting up lamps in Paris? Why light Iamps? Because the Emperor of Austria, lost and broken, had thrown Venctia into our arms. Is it true that France, if she sincerely preferred prog- reas and peace to the aggrandizements of war, baving the power to address on the 16th of September a cir- cular which would have mdissolubly bound the triple alliance between her, Italy and Prussia, did not commit a fault in placing 'm the beginning of this circular, in which the end contradicted the commencement, the necessity for the defence .of our territory, to tien | to perfection, without delay, our ‘military organization If the first portion of the circular was true, if it was sin- cere, what should bave been done would be to prove it, not in atgmenting the number and burden of ourarmy, but, on the contrary, in considerably diminishing it; then France would have regarded the unification of Germany as she had been in the habit of regarding the unification of Italy, without envy and without fear. If the words of M. Thiers to M. Rouher are true, “here remains not a single fault for you to commit’”—words which M. Thiers was permitted to utter without being oven called to order by the President of the Corps Législatif—with- out being even tnterrupted by the majority; if the words of Prince Gortschakof, circulating from to salon with- out receiving tho denial which would reduce them to silence—if, finally, tho Bourse is agitated as in the very worst times, why is it he who predicted all this is the one to be punished? Why should he be obliged to pay for the faults of others? Would it not be more just that those who have committed them should pay for them? For this article another prosecution was commenced, and is now in progress, against Girardin. Onthe next evening the following articie appeared in the Liberié :-— ‘THE TWRNTY LINES. If the government imagined that the twenty lines read from the tribune by the Minister of Foreign Affairs do not seem coloriess and timid the side of the dis- courses of Messrs, Bismarck and Bennigsen to the plaudits of the Reichstag, the government has strangely deceived itself. If the government imagined that the twenty lines read by the Marquis de Moustier justified the solemnity of character which was given to this read- ing—the special envoy of the Minister to the Chambers, extraordinary convocation of the Senate, &c.—then the government has none the less completely deceived itself. If, finally, the government bas imagined that the twenty rf a 3 2 3 = 8 3 e 2 it Imes read by the Marquis de Moustier threw any sort of light on the situation, reassured interests or re-established confidence, the government once again has singularly deceived itself. These twenty lines, boldiy timid, proudly empty, can at the best but inspire a little sadness among all those who desire that France should have a policy of some kind, provided that it was a firm and decided policy. What do they inform us? We are till endeavoring to ascertain. bce toll us that the Luxemburg question was not raised by us, but Holland, as if in every bargain a seller and a buyer were nit necessary, and as if it wore in accordance with the dignity of France to say before M. Bismarck, who menaces it, “It was not 1; it was Holland,’ after the fashion a Schoolboy, accused of havirg attempted to steal sweetmeats, Shall we say what we think? Not only does the communication of yesterday not throw any light on the question, but it makes it darker. Thus, as we have already proven, there are two ques- tionsy to be solved—the occupation of Luxembarg by the Prussians and the eventual annexation of Luxew- burg to France, The second question is the most complicated and the least grave; as M. de Moustier says, its solution is sub- ject to three conditions—the consent of the King of Holland, Grand Duke of Laxemburg, the aishes of the poopie themselves, anu the intoreats of the European owers. It is the most cormplicated, ‘decause not one of the three conditions can bo fulfilled withont leading us intoa war, It is the least grave, because it suffices that the King of Holland shall not be called on to con- sent again after having consented, or that we should offer less favorable conditions to him go to escape from it, We would be but bunglers not to havo carried toa good ending a transaction in which perhaps it was im- prudeut to bave engaged. Now this question, the most complicated, the easiest to resolve without war, the least grave, is just the one that the Marquis de’ Moustier thonght fit to approach, Suppose that this one should be resolved by the re- nupciation of France, by the refusal of the King of Holland, the other remains in fuil force and is resumed the right to occupy Luxemburg and thas point its needle gun upon Francer France responds, no. Earope responds, no, Count Bismarck responds, no. If Praasia has no rigat to occupy Luxemburg, why does she remain there and why does she arm? The German journals and the plainest good sense both reply :—‘*To prevent the King of Holland from ceding the prov ince to France, to watch France, to menace France.” This interference of Pruss nght of surveillance, whieh she arrogates to bersolt, ‘his permanent menace which sho keeps up, are they, Yes o¢ no, an insult to our flag, an attack npon our fodependence, a veritable out raze? Tho national sentiment anawers, yes, If France is insulted, menaced by the presence without right of Prussia on Luxemborg, what will France do, in the first place, if Europe finds that Prassia may violate this right; and, in the second place, if Barope declares that the Germanic Confederation having been discolved, the guarding of Luxembarg pertains alone to Holland? In the first case, wilt France bow 10 an iniquitous de- cision In the second case, which 19 the probable one, will France permit Prussia to prolong an occupation which is, even aceord ng to the Prossans themseives, an inju- rious menece agaist us ? Here is the whole Luxemburg question, and it is just this which the Minister of Foreign Afbirs has avoided. The communication of the government, then, has tanght us nothing regardimg the principal question—the evacuation ot Laxemburg—and has only treated the secoudary question—the eventual annex: of Luxem- borg to France. It doer therefore, fears nor reassare our interests, It does not, therefore, satisfy our patriotism, What, then, was the use of saying anything ? After as before the reading of the twenty lines, the question remamned reverved in these three lines with Prussia, aged by our patience last year, will not yietd either u; the question of Mayence or that ot hameaeen itis war because France will not suffer herself to be humili- i of having restored France to its rank in Europe, to bav- ing carried France py is inev. itable, arck ex- bibits @ us. For the public the prescat jost sander, lo as un ts tax dating only 01 Dro be nove the Te eon tue European Prussia Here this feeling is ani Hol an Tnore of hin prewige sous ike Ireath people. 8 ., Ke is the chvenat belief ine that Prossia or France ro Laxemburg, and that there must be war jor There is a wide field for Nation as to iter with the cortaiaty that \as "opmganeneenes! y : ed, sauce , unailer being argued bead Parisian barricades, would fuse Germany, tor all practical into one pation, with the strong prooability of an alliance be- tween Russia and Prussia, Bugiind maintaiming, if pos- sible, a neutrality. with only the weak and broken reeds of Aus- tria and Italy to lean upon for aid; with eight hundred thousand men ready to be put in the field, and France in a state of incom internal di Paris, Prompt and coatinued successes might calm them; at reverse would certainly render tein 0" to — Active [Naval Preparatione—Four Iren-Ciads Building at Cherbeurg—Size and Medel of the Shive—The Hull of the Alabama—What Became ef Her Chronometerst—Treeps from = — Cumazouna, April 12, 1867. I wrote you some weeks since from Rochefort, giving an account of the great preparations for something in Progress in the naval arsenal of that port, Works of the same character are being carried on here, and pressed with an activity which must lead one to believe that the Emperor is of the opinion that he may have need of a Powerful iron-clad army within the coming year. Four iron-cled vessels are in course of construction here, and an order was received a few weeks since from the Mimister of Marine‘navy, that they should be hur- ried to completion within the present year. T have been to-day all over the splendid dockyard, in which workmen are swarming like ants, and bave vis- ited all the vessels, ‘The first is a ram, with a spur and double screws; in her size and general appearance very much like the rebel Stonewall. ‘The next is the Suffren, a frigate offering some pecu- Marities of construction, which, as being experimental, are highly mteresting. She is a vessel of four thousand tons, and intended to oarry sixteen heavy guns; these are placed elght in each side, in a tower which rises about twelve feet above the deck, being even with the sides of the vessel and amidships, and about twenty feet in length. ‘his, hike the hull, is built of timber a foot thick, and is to be cased with iron plates of six inches in thickness, The casing stops at two feet below ‘the water line, Fore and aft of the centre turret, extending to the bow and stern, and rising up to the same height as the turret itself is a wall of iron 2 half an inch in thick. ness, invended to be of a sufficient strength to resist mus- ketry and to break the force of the waves when sailing. When m action, how these sides are to be taken down, and then, with exception of the turret, the decks will be but four and a half feet above the water line, the turret alone offering a mark for the shots of the enemy. The other two vessels are corvettes of two thousand tons each, built upon precisely the same plan as tho Suffren, and each to carry six guns All of these vessels have spurs, The corvettes are christened the Jeanne D’Arc and the Atalante, and are built sbarp, and in- tended for great speed. large transport is also im process of construction here. The hull of the Alabama, sunk three years ago, in her fight with the Kearsarge, has floated in about two miles nearer the coast than whore she went down, and where her remains now lie firmly wedged among rocks, in Qfty fathoms of water. No attempt bas evor been made to raiso her, and as she now lies in French waters this could not be done without the permission of the French authorities. A short time ago this permission was applied for by a ship builder here, and his application te referred to the Minister of Marine, it was refused. ft whether she could now be raised, ike- ¥. that it would pay to raise ber, if she could be. All ar- icles of value in her, including the large stock of cha- nometers, which Semmes amused himsecif keeping in sight aud motion in his cabin as trophies of) prowess, were, it is well known, taken ofthe Alabama on the night before the fight. Would it not be an inter- esting matter for the United States government to trace up the and fate of these same chronometers plundered her vo peace citizen sailors ? The French authorities refused to permit them to be brought on shore and delivered, as Captain Semmes [range eng Bonfils, the quasi Consul of the rebel confed- eracy Two English yachts were on that night lying in the roads—the Deerhound and the Hornet. fhe part which the former played in the next day's ight is well known; but I presume that it is not so generally known that the Hornet, with an English captain, put to sea the day be- fore the fight for the Engi coast, and that since thea the chronometers have not been seen. The transport Cher arrived here a few days since from Vera Cruz, with a number of rs and men of the Mexican expeditionary corps. They remain nere but a few days, and are thea shipped off to Africa—very much to their disgust, THE REVOLUTION. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD, Grand Republican Revolutionary Reunions ruption of the British G: Bruseers, April 7, 1867, A meoting of representatives of the republicans in France, England, Ireland, spain and Rome was held in this city Inst night, at the residence of General Prim. ‘The proceedings were of the most important charac- ter, It was resolved that the first effort the republicans would make would be in Rome. Reports were read from different places, which were considered satisfac- tory, expecially that from Spain, I knew for some time past that a gentleman of great influence at the Spanish capital was dispatched from Paris to endeavor, if possi- ble, to provoke England into a war with Spain. Whether it is through his influenee, or that of Prim, or both together, it is evident that the Cabinet at Madrid is stubborn in its opposition to the claims of the British Foreign Secretary ip the case of the ship Queen Victo- ‘ria, and now it is announced that the Engtish fleet at Malta has received orders to put to sea immediately, Prim evidently expects that in the tomult consequent on a war with « powerful nation like England he will be able to leap into the political saddie; but how the inter- ests of republicanism generally will be benefitted by such a war it is not #0 easy to perceive. England may, of course, and perhaps will, sink the Spanish navy and tumble the coast fortifications about in the usual way, but it is well understood that she cannot send an army to the Peninsula, The whole available force of the British government, except the Indian and Canadian contingents, is concentrated in England and Ireland. It would be dangerous to her safety to romove a single regiment frem Ireland, and even London at the present moment requires a strong garrison. The two republican parties in France are very san- guine just now. They pretend to have other informa. tion concerning the Prince Imperial than that furnished by the Monifeur, and positively assert that the boy will, if he does not die, become a cripple for life. Should he die, chaos would come again—which is exactly what the “reds” of France desire. They count a good deal on the effect of the possible failure of the Exhibition. The Emperor having originated it, it 1s claimed that the peo- ple of Paris, who expected some way or another to make great fortunes, will hold him responsible. Cresar Orsini, the brother of the man who ———- Napoleon's life, was there iately, but the vigilant French rai, and he was compelled to leave the twen- ty-four hours’ notice. He is now in the city of refuge for all continental conspirators. Tt ts not iN pg ee that it was Felitia Oraini who init Louis Napoleon Into the Carbonarl, and that it was forthe betrayal of that that Orsini was selected to kill the Emperor. It has come to the knowledge of the French Govern- wo of the executed Orsini, is therefure quite in- bie. The police are just at present ¢: the tell ace tive in their surveilance over strangers. It is nota little curious to their movements, Young men in Paris, of amail pecuniary means, of ability, and of unknows an- teceden! ee oe approached by M. Martini, the chief of secret police, with offers of money ‘and intormation. The bait has a hook in it, and the disin- terestedness of Martini is well understood, There are cen eral hundred Poles now livin, Lawwo are efforts in unable are all on the ny ‘highest list of ‘month, aa generals, amount paid who control Tate = cated but For once republl> cane are identical. . who “coda” & j~A Nomen people and hout will occu! in that cause the Emperor ity from falit send another this, it is deliev: APRIL 25, 1867.—TRIPLE SHEET. fore Italian carbonari and French republicans are work- ing hand in hand, It is rather curi to observe that whereas Eng- Jand. was informer years the hope and pride of reve, lutionists on the Continent, sho 1s now bitterly demounced nothing would give satisfaction to the re- publican of Europe than the disruption the Een ee... This state of fecling ia sasials Saari 88 That statesman encouras reslst the claims of Prussia, then left her to be — by the tide of He ent to choose ay Tefused when it was demanded to let vote in favor of self-government, &! uct during the discuss the relati eee sont political in freland exists Fir Any Sp rish BEE; i ‘that begin from the Se, hs, 00 Se gure, A ment 1 England required by ‘eas wo H j | i : acanty muelligence, is worked the of la not animated by ® single ray of hope, ves lke a and dies as one. The wilt never ry elevated and instructed the poopie, and they will never obtain that power wil me seeenins revolution, Circumstances may peavent a0, ou in England for some years yet, but it is inevitable. THE EFFECT. ent in Paris, Lenden and —Fall om the Bourse and nic on ’Change—Italian Secarities Dowa—Strength ef France in the Stragale, &c. By the arfival of the above named steamships we have very interesting details of the rise and progress of the war agitation on the Continent of Europe and the consequent initiation of the financial excitement men- tioned by the cable as prevailing io London and Paris, Saturday, April 6, alarming romors were freely cir- culated in Paris toa possible rupture between France and Prussia, and of active military measures being taken by both Powers, Among the rumors were that Marshal McMahon has been summoned to Paris by tele- graph; that a note has been despatched to Berlin, relating to the fortress of Luxemburg; that the Duke de Grammont, French Ambassador at Vienna, had been summoned to Paris; that a camp of 100,000 men was*to be formed on the eastern frontier of France, and others of a tike diequieting nature, all of which were subse- quentiy denied with more or less authority, some of them officially. . . The following official despatch was forwarded to tha Prefects of all the departments :— The rumor has been circulated that France has a dressed an ultimatum to Prussia, This news is alto- gether unfounded. MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR Under the influence of these rumors a panic set in on the Paris Bourse, and rentes fell from 68f. to 66f. 30c., and on the Boulevards, after business hours, they are quoted as low as 66f., the belief being strong that a speedy outbreak of war was likely. Italian securities also fell heavily. ‘The depression continued throughout Sunday April 7, and on Monday, April 8, great agitation still prevailed. But as the day progressed a better fecling was engen- dered, and rentes closed at 66f. 95c. Of the state of affairs in London on Monday, the 8th, the city article of the London Times says the Frenoh quotations of Saturday prepared every ono for a panic on the Stock}Exchange yesterday morning, and notwith- standing the unprecedented depression already prev- alent in all classes of socurities, business began in the midst of an indiscriminate and most severe further fall in ail markets—severai deecriptions of stocks being arr mmh funda the deprecigtion was shoet , In English fun ion one cont, while Italian, which closed on Saturday at ‘thy. two and a half, weat to forty- and Russian dectined from two premium to one discount. ‘United States bonds were also seriously affected, on pe ta apne that any panic in ogee | will be fol- lowed by Inrgo sales, while the reason for the dispropor- tionately heavy of Italian, m the face of the con- sideration that Italy might hope to remain untouched by tho threatened war between France aud Germauy, consists chiefly in the fact that this is the stock most largely held by the Paris speculators, and 1s therefore among tbe first tw be ‘orced down by compulsory realizations. The gloom with which business commenced subsequently experienced an in- crease, and although at the close there was a partial recovery, on the receipt of rather less disastrous prices from Paria, there was no distinct revival of confidence, All persons soem confident that if a blow is to be strack it will be struck without delay, and that consequently the susponse will mot be prolonget beyond the prevent month. ‘The chief strength of France for immediate superiority lies apparently in her iron-clad fleet for the blockade of every German and hence, as Germany takes about Gnactonth of the focal export of British produce and manu- i, the excitement and anziety are intense in all com. mercial circles. The London Nes of the same day, in its city article, says, at Lioyd’s yesterday, against the risk of Spanish capitire, ton per cont was paid ou English ships bound to Havana and Manila, :but thero a: red tobe no great idea of a war with Spain, and transactions took place. The London Herald eays the panic on ‘Change was more severe than that which took place on the Lith of May last. On Tuesday, the 9th of April, there was continued de- preasion both in London and Pars, and tho Paris Bourse showed a fali of 20 centimes, There was rather more firmness in London, but the feeling was not maimtained. Legislative Action in France. In the French Legislative Chambers, on the 8th of April, atter the delivery of the specch of the Marquis de Moustier, already reported in the Heraid, the President of the Chamber remarked that demands for permission to question the government on the subject of Luxemburg would take their asual course and would be referred to the Bureaux. M. Chiers made a speech acknowledging the initiative which the government had taken by the communicttion which had been made to the Chamber, but said that thie communication did not fu fictent basis for ¢izcussion. He considered ernment ougtt to lay before the House the dispatches which had been exchanged op the sulject. M. Rowen replied that the very terms of the commu- nication to the Chamber rendered it clear that the ques- tion had not yet entered upon any official dij ie stage, The ment had tuerefore no tonpuachea eo lay on the table. If, he added, the Bureaux should au- thorize any int ations for which leave had been asked, the government would explain its opinion on the subject, but the declaration which it bad aiready made was of a character to satisiy the susceptibilities of tne legislative body and of public opinion, The demauds for the \nterpeliations were referred to the Bureaux. Aiding the Freach Government. (From Gal i's Messenger, April 12) The Legislative sat yesterday, M. Scbneider in ‘arned by United Fathcriand. < Napolcon rE fn 83 ! i ui it i di j i i ai i ut Hi i i Zt i airy my ‘breaking out im bitter wars between France and England, in that case it was not the power of Whe"hend of & il uence aikanal divuaean bap times aa . of Germans aad to their national integrity. are Germany, under one pralans formed of the whole dfennee strength of the Sree nation, Madly prowie hte Ge ome woes be oo which mo command could until it had us Sury and. a final calm, universal le by gaining. In conformity with the’ hebit 's Gazette he has thus accused us of having unnecessarily risked the honor, independence, and lib- erty of Prussia in hazards called tunlty to protant pabliiy and energetieal eatrel ity to protest publicly and en ly, as an ly false party invention. We found ourselves under the Recossity of drawing fhe frond | in order to resist the tempts long prepared w: jew of destroying Prussian aeons at Frankfort, and to defend ourselves against perils which could only be opposed by the bay- onet; we did 80 from necessity—in the honest defence of ourselves; and to apply to our own acts the word hazard- ous game is—I will not use the expression that rises to my mouth. (The speaker sat down ina stave of great excitement, which soon communicated itself in some measure to the assembly.) THE ANGLO-SPANISH DIFFICULTY. Spanish Reply to Lord Stanley in the Tore nado Case. (Madrid (April 10) correspondence Courier de Bayonne. The correspondence relative to the Tornado, presente to the Englieh lament, shows that Lord Stanley con- siders as aii Outrag’ on the British flag what is regarded here as the exercise of an international right. The Prize Court has proved in the clearest manner that the Tor- nado had been fitted out op account of Chile, with a view to attacking the Spanish mercantile marine, The Narvaez Ministry does not appear willing to accede to the pretensions of the Cabinet of St. James, aud an en- ergetic note is to be sent in reply to Lord Stanley’s de- spatch of March 30, Early interpellations are also announced in Cortes on the subject. YACHTING. ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE HERALD. The International Contest Pending off Cher- beurg—Preparations in the French Port— Outline of the Rales and Regulations, &c. Cuensours, France, April 12, 1867. It is intended to have a great international regatta here on the 28th of July, at which all yachts of all nations, sizes and shapes will be allowed to compete. The races will be regulated by the rules of the Havre Yacht Club, in accordance with which a tableau is arrange with the name and tonnage of each yacht en- tered, and the yachts being a!lowed to start when they Please, their time of starting being taken, the fyacht which in proportion to her tonnage and sail makes the best time wins the race. The boats are to start from a light ship in the port, and sail three times round tho breakwater, a distance in ail of about Ofteen miles. The preparations, however.—for what was long ago understood to be # great international regatta, at which it was supposed the best yachts of America, France and England would compete—are not vet, i am sorry to say, very complete. The English’ yachtmen as yet seem to know very liltic about it: and although it is stated that a gold medai will be offered as a prize by the French government, a8 well os 8 sum of monss, it is not yot known what the latter will be. The yacht club of “Cherbourg have, however, taken tho matter in hand, and are determined, if possiblo, to make a handsome affalr of 1, A mecting was held on Snuday at which @ communication was read from M. Benoit Champy, who is the President of the International Yacht Club, in which he stated that three American yachts, the Henrietta, the Alice and the Vesta, bad promised to compete, Our consular agent here, M. Edouard Liais, is an active member of the yacht club, and informs me that at the tame of the race one or two of the vessels of our European squadron will be in Cherbourg. Next mouth a very interesting race is to come off here. In the French navy a system has been adopted which is worthy of imitation in ours. In order to save time and labor and mon every first class French vessel of war carries with hor a little stexmboat, about the size of a ship's jolly boat, to be used in harbor, Next month a race is to take plaro between a number of these boats for a handsome prize offered by the Minister of Marine. Tie JAPANESE EMBASSY. ‘Their Visit to the Navy Vard Yesterday. In accordance with the announcement mado in the Herarp, the Japanese Embassy visited the Navy Yard in Brooklyn yesterday, Tho visiting parties were Ono Tomogoro, first commissioner; Mattt-movo Judi-Yo, sec- ond commissioner; Tsuda-Senya, interpreter, and Ogasa wara and Iwate-Haisa-Ku, of the Japanese navy. They were accompanied by Me. Chilton, of the United States Department of State, and dir. J. C. Derby, Despatch Agent, in whose care the cmbassy has been placed. They left the Metropolitan Hotel at half-past eleven o’elock, and first visited the famous ram Dunderberg, now lying at the foot of Fifth street, East river, and 2 States was drank with ‘all the honors, and s 49° and were hence car. Pages Sok teri wasn will leave for wi ‘They intend to spend one month here Sgn gg pooks, &c, Before ies Ga the commis- sion will visit Philadelphia, and the principal cities on the AUantic coast, To-morrow they will visit the Park and otier places of interest, Tae Serr Acamst Gawerat Woot Decinen.—The jury im the United States District Court at in the fio ‘esren ry’ dari Pg * 4 ao oe 4 ty geomet, ose iis sa drought im a sealed verdict awarding one cent dam- ages to Mr. Rich, and the coste of the case to be equally divided, which falls most heavily on the we Notice is'given of an intention to but is doubted if this will be carried out. Mae tase of A. W. Evans against General Wool has been, by Gensont of both paren, eubenisiad (a the sume vordies 68 MEXICO. THE FALL OF PUEBLA. EXECUTION OF IMPERIAL OFFICERS. VERA CRUZ UNABLE TO HOLD OUT. FEARS ENTERTAINED POR MAXIMILIAN. kee ae ae By the arrival from Havana of the steamers Columbia at this port and Star of the Union at Philadelphia we Dave Late and important news from Mexico, THE VALLEY CAMPAIQN, Serer Maximilian Reported in the Capital—The Fall of Pucbla—Stubborn Fighting—Diaz Exe- cutes Several Officers After Taking the Place—He Grants Terms‘te These Whe Sarrendered—Vera Cruz Momentarily Ex- pected to Surrender—The Inhabitants Keep Up Communication with the Liberals—Fears of Betrayal—Affairs in Yucatan, &c. Havana, April 18, 1867, ‘The French steamer Imperatrice Eugénie, from Vera Craz on the 13th, arrived at this port on the 16th inst, but brings no newspapers from said city, though two or three are still issued there, ‘The report about the presence of Maximilian in the Mexican capital is repeated, though not confirmed. - ‘The fall of Puebla was officially communicated to the captain of the steamer Imperatrice Euginie, It i described to have been a hard won and obstinate conflict, and the liberals only obtained possession after considera- ble bloodshed on both sides, The victorious liberal Gen- eral ordered the imperialist defenders of the city to be shot—from the rank of Sergeant up to that of General, inclusive, and the number of victims excoeded eighty. It is further said that shortly after the taking of the city a force of ten to fifteen thousand imperialist troops arrived before the town, who came in aid of the garri- sop, and the intention of the imporialists was to retake the city. The Diario de la Marina contains a letter from am imperialist source, at Vera Cruz, dated the 13th inst,, the substance of which is as follows :— The news from Puebla is to the 6th inst. The St of said town by the forcesof Porfirio Diaz ts now bey: all doubt, On the 2d inst., an obstinate action was brought to a close by decisive work. Both the besieged and the rs gave unequivocal proofs of valor and tenacity, A bloodier struggle has never been seen im Mexico, The number of killed on boty Seopa oars te have reached three thousand men. The rs were ten thousand strong, and the defenders of the city did not exceed four thousand men, About twenty-nine chie‘’s and officers were shot, and among the former were. Noriega, Quijano, Triujeque, Carrillo and Tapia, After this barbarious butchery was consummated by a per- emptory and speedy command of the victor, a forced loan was imposed on the inhabitants of fifteen thousand doll lars. General Marquez, at the head of six thousand men, had marched to the aid of the garrison in Puebla, and om the 1st inst., or shortly before the full of the town. had ar- rived at Apozaco, about thirty miles distance from the city. The moment Diaz heard of this, he sent cight thousand from Puebla to give battle to Marquez; but up to the 6th inst,, the result was not yet ascertained. The disaster of the imperialists at Puebla created considerable sonsation in Vera Cruz.” In the main, the above is confirmed by the advices from other sources, which offer the following additional details of the action: ‘The assault made on Puebla was effectod in a mi manner; 13 columns, each of 600 men, scaled the from different points and gained ; but the liberals bad 2,000 men killed, while the imperialists had 000, Of OS ie formed in the laza, not one map ive. 4 According to a letter recetved from a highly reliable person in Puebia, it was said that no less than 63 the victtins of ro gy og the rank of sub-lieutenant upwal among the superior Qa and Trajeque, About who retreated to the cerros of lupe and Loreto, capitulated on thelr lives being teed to them. Two mortar batteries had been sent Peobla in charge ot Palomino, for the purpose bardiog Vora Cruz. Palomino is an great merit. On the 12th inst, surrender within @ stated time liberals to the defenders of the hour of sailing of the parley 0K pisce the, following "day? 8, moe ey De :&® mossage General Garcia, from which it was inferred that terms for surrender were being arranged. All saries of life, with the exception of flour, were e: ively scarce, and 1t was feared that the town would som fail inte the power of the liberals, not on account of that scarcity, but through Rocege oe ag the discontent within the walls was at its pitch, and communication was rege larly kept up with the Juarist chiefs ‘The Austrian frigate Dandolo satied from this port om the 16th inst. for Trieste. Private letters from Merida, dated the 4th inst., com- tain the foliowing news from that quarter: — The Imperial Commissary had deciared the whole de- partment of Yoca'an ina state of siege. Part of the Mberal forces under Camara defeated the imperialists im Teco, a small town near Merida. Rios, the imperialiet commander, was killed in said fight. The imperialists under Daniel Traconis were alzo defeated by the forces of im Misiquiche. Traconis has given up the comraand. The republican chief Zepeda completely defeated the forces of Padiiia in Conkal ou the 3d. On the 24th alt, soven boats with four Campecbanoes feil upon the In- dustria, in the imperialist service, ander Gio, and making the crew prisouers, the latter were shot, The same day the liberais attacked the little imperiatist fleet, destroying the Merida and the Mosquito. Industria was taken to Sisal, under American colors, and whea the harbor master’s boat came alongside it was captured: and taken to Campeche. All the imperalist forces were concentrated in the town of Menda Zepeda took Ieamal on the 34 and demanded food for 3,000 men. Many families abandoned the city, and more continue to em! it was next to certain that Zepeda would soon take the imperialist government was pestering the peoy!- iki ; hil ? } with forced contributions—the last imposed was a t~ 13 per cent. on all cap ital—and the liberals were what they wanted. aews An- of sions—General ‘Will Capier’ Vena Cnvz, April 12, 1867. and Fro, gatas of Mexico has not essentially | ee a a Se cA EL