The New-York Tribune Newspaper, December 24, 1866, Page 1

= yor XXVI EUROPE. NEWS BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE 10 DEC, 23 SURRATT, A BY TRLEORAPH TO THE TRIBONE. ALZXANDRIA, Dec. 22.—Surrat was put on board the United States corvette Swatara. iermisd cteia THE MEXICAN Q STION. Loxpoy, Dec. 22.—It is reported on the Continent that the French authorities in Mexico seized the lug- gage of the psendo Emperor Maximilian, which had been carried to Vera Cruz, It is alleged that among this luggage were secroted er of private letters, which are caleulated to compromise the Emperor Nap leon with the United States Government. Maximilian haughtily refused to give up the letters, when they were taken possession of a8 above stated, and be himself held a prisoner. —— MOVEMENT. nian troubles in Ireland & numb THE F 22, ~1 Loxpox, Dec. have entirely abated. The island is tranquil, and confidence has retarned to the people. — PAL Loxvox, Dec. 22.—The News this mornin in an cditorial says that Great Britain will certainly require the Spanish Government to justify the scizure of the British ship T The News, after reciting the history of the case, wherein it appears that the Tor- nado sailed from Liverpool on the 27th of September for Callao, Pern, and when near that port was unlaw- fully seized by the vesscls of the Spanish navy and her crew subjected to upusnally cruel treatment, em- phatically says that Spain must apologize or indew- nify There is & ramor that another conspiracy, having for its object the destruction of the lives of the ruling powers aud the subversion of the form of government, has been discovered at Madrid, The danger hassince been effectually guarded agai s ornado. AUSTRIA AND RUSSIA. Loxpos, Dec. 23.—The Journal de St. Pctersburg denies that any unfriendly feelings exists between the Governments of Austria and Russia, and asserts that, on the contrary, both are earnestly endeavoring to fos- ter the best mutual understanding - — FLORENCE, Dec, 23.—Itis again reported that Men- abrea is to be reappointed Minister of Italyat the Im- perial Court of Vienna. FLorescs, Dec. 23.—Orders bave been issued to arm two vessels to support the claims wade by Italy on Turkey, in regard to the affair of the mail steamer Prince Thomas. Advices from Rome report that the Pope appears to be in a feverieh frame of mind, and little disposed to yegard with favor an arrangement Wwith the Italiin Government, although he received counscls from all quarters to incline to moderation and appease Maly. France supports the efforts of Italy, which have as yet been of no avail. e PRUSSIA. Brauiy, Doc. 23.—The Upper Honse 6f the Prus- sian Chambers bas agreed to the budget as amended by the House of Deputies, and bas also adopted the Dills to annex the Duchies to the Kingdom of Prussia. — HUNGARY. Prsth, Dec. 23.—~Baron Beust, in & speech yester- day, said that the appointment of a Hungarian Minis- try was a mere question of time. e CANDIA. Loxpox, Dec. 23.—Advices from Candia state that fighting still coiftinues there, and that the Turks had etrengthened their blockading fleet around the Island, —————— SWITZERLAND. Brrxe, Dec. 23.—The Swiss Assembly yesterday voted an appropriation of twelve millions of francs, for the purchase of breech-loading rifles. i rs HAYTL Liverroor, Dec. 23.—The steamer Bolivar, from Port au Prince Dec. 2, bas arrived heré. She reports that the town of Miraguano, in Hayti, was entirely destroyed by an incendiary fire. s A MARINE INTELLIGENCE. Liverroor, Dec. 23.—The steamship Mauhattan, which left New-York Dec. 12, Las arrived out. giioist s, FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. LONDON MONEY MARKET. Loxpoy, Dee. 22, a.m.—The opening price for United States 520 bonds of J862 is 72} Loxpox, Dec. 22.—Consols are quoted at 8], Eries at 47, and Tllinois Centrals at 79, Monday will be observed as Lolids Loxvox, Dec. 22, Noon.—United States 5.20 bonds are quoted at 72 Loxpox, Dec. 22.—The money market is quiet. Consols %0 for money. The followiag are the current rates for American seeuritics: United States FiveTwenties, 72§; Erie shares, 49; Xllinois Centrals, 753 Loxpo, Dec. 22—Evening.—Consols for money bave slightly @eclined, the closing price being 893, American securities have also fallen off with the exception of Illincis Centrals. The fol- Jowing are the closing rates: United States FiveTwenties, 1862, coupon, 72§; Eries, 463; Tllinois Centrals; 79. THE FRANKFORT BOURSE. Losvox, Dec. 2.—Telegrams from Frankfort quote United Btates Five-twenties at 76§, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. Liverroor, Dee. 22—Noon.—The Cotton market opens firm and unchanged at yesterday's prices. The sales of to-day will reach 12,000 bales. Livexpoot, Dec. 22—Evening.—~The Cotton market to-day bas peen quiet and steady. The sales have been about 13,000 Dales at yesterday's price, viz: 14jd. for Middling Uplands, ANTWERP PETROLEUM MARKET. ° A AsTwERF, Dec. 22—Petroleum is quict at 53t e FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE. il oty LONDON. THE GREAT REFORM DEMONSTRATION—THE MERT- ING IN ST. JAMES'S HALL AND MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECH—MR., AYRTON'S ATTACK ON QUEEN VIC- TORIA—THE QUEEN'S RECEPTION AT WOLVER- HAMPTON——THE HUNTER LIBEL CASB—MAXI- MILIAN. From Our §) ‘orrespondent b ~ Loxpox, Dec. 7, 1866. All London, all England indeed I may say, has been excited during the past week by the great do- monstration of the Trades in favor of Reform, which cqme off on Monday last. I hinted in my last at the soare which this move on the part of the proletarists, s gur neighbors call them, had produced in the up- per strath of society. 8o serious were the apprehen- wions of the impending gathering sud progession, that there was actually a temporsry emigration of consid- erable dimensions from the West End. The Govern- ment held Cabinet councils daily to consider whether should be called out and the whole thing put down, or whether any and what facilities -honff be iven to the Trades in working out their wisted will Eord John Manners, as President of the Board of ‘Works, and therefore Conservator of the Royal Parks for the time being, and Mr. Walpole, as Secretary for the Home Department, received deputations with biand ex; ions of good will, and inability to either help ormnder. Hyde Park, they said, could not be nsed of course, as the question of meeting there was in abeyance, to be seitled probably by a e.’nl tribunal, but certainly they might muster in the Mall (the broad walk which seupiates Bt. Jawey'y aud tbo Green Pagk). NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, I866. anybody was at liberty to occupy the Mall peaceably; and Primrose Hill, which bad heen offered by the late liberal Government for like purposes, was at their dis- posal. The police could not be charged with the duty of km-[]ung the peace. Neither on the other hand could ial constables from the Trades be sworn in; for to give the necessary locus standi for swearing in special constables, somebody must swear that they feared a breack of the Queen’s peace. How could this be done when Her Majesty’s Government wero convineced of the intense loyalty and poaceable intentions of every one connectod with this interesting movement. The leaders of the Trades could not of course take any euch profane oaths. Meantime, as the men declined Primrose Hill, it was difficult to suggest where the meeting could be held. 8o the Government balanced and éwayed backward and forward. ‘Taking example by them, the enterprising owner of Cremorne Gardens, & smart man of business, of conservativo proclivities, quietly backed out of his agreement to allow the g:uhenng in bis gardens of questionable repute. Really the situation was becoming embarrassing to courteous Cabinet Ministers, at their wit's end how to sit gracefully on the fence, and Trades Union leaders puzzled at finding themselves in these unwonted rela- tious with Right Honorables, To the cynical or dis- interested looker-on, the whole spectacle had a sort of lumbering humer about it, while the rest of the public were half angry and half frightened, but desiring above all things to see on one side or other **Some sbarp purpose midst the twitter.” The question of meeting-place was solved at the eleventh hour, by Lord Ranelagh, an Irish Peer, a “Tory of the Tories, the Colonel of the Fourth Middle- sex Volunteers, and lesseo in that capacity of a large drill-ground and rifle range just outside of the fashion- able suburb of South Kensington. This ground he offered to the Trades, thereby entitling himsalf at least (s folks say) to a step in the Peerage and an English coronet, for having delivered his leaders from an em- barrassing dilemmma, London reposed in comparative peace on Advent Sunday. The morning of Monday, the 3d, rose fine enongh, and the weather held up till noon, Then a slight drizzle set in, which got worse and worse as the afternoon advanced, and ended in & steady drenching rain. Taking this fact into consid- eration, and also remembering that the organizers of the demonstration were not the trusted and acknowl- edged leaders of the Trades Unions, but only men who are ambitions of becoming so, and who seize every chance of thrusting themselves forward, in the hope of obtaining their ends by persistent self-assertion, the procession and meeting may perhaps bo considered as & success. So, at any rate, it strikes observers as in- igent as M. Louis Blane, whose letter to the Temps has been republished here. He makes light of the fact that not more than some 26,000 took pait in the procession, dwells on the excellent spirit that pmmnlrd the men, * their moderation, their Jongan- imity, their love of order.” All this, of course, is per: fectly true, but no sane Englishman expected any- thing else; and the mere fact that a large body of our artizans gathered and dispersed withont lnn(‘xing or causing s breach of the peace, or threatening to over- throw established order, is not enough to satisfy us. Again, M. Louis Blanc's euthusiasm over his experi- ences in the crowd which gathered all along the line of march are most natural in a Frenchman, longing these many years in exile for the chance of seeing such a state of things in his own fair land. ** Not a soldier was to be seen, of course,” he says. ** Will you believe it ? I had at first some dilficuft to dis- cover a policeman, which, for curiosity’s n{r, I tried to do. However, by dint of searching, I perceived here and there one or two, lost among the crowd. They looked on at the procession with much interest. They were evidently there only as spectators, I refrain from all comment and from all comparison. There aro certain fucts which speak for themselves.” This, I repeat, is just the tone which one would be prepared for in a for- eigner of liberal principles, filled with the remem- brance of the gendarmes and other order-preserving machinery of bis own country, but it cannot be reck- oned for much among any English speaking people. And in good truth if we can just say that the demon- stration was a succees, it is as much as the facts will allow. The promoters talked so confidently of a milbon, half a million, 250,000, that when the last figure came to be divided by 10, the ** party of order” peeped out of their holes aud soon begsu to become patronizing and a thought coutemptuovs. Had the Trades Unions been in earnest, beyond & question they could have turned ont the quarter of a million with ease, but there was no beart in the business with the majority of them. The old and sound doctrine olitical they not to allow their machinery to be used for gurp(mn under the shadow of whic ave added oue-third, at least, to the rate of wages, was too strong to suddenly, even under the genuine and strong desire for reform which no one now seriously doubts to exist in the class. So, on the whole, I for one am almost sorry that the open-air demonstration was pressed on at this time of year, and the next night's meeting in St. James's Hall, at which Mr. Bright made one of his great speeches, was not so good a one as to turn the scale to any satisfactory extent. There wbre no crowds unable to get in, and drifted & smaller halls or quiet corners of the neighboring streets, to hear speeches from smaller guns, as thero was no room for them to hear the great one, as for instance, at the meeting at Exeter Hall in support of the North in 1861, The Hall was full, but not crowded uncomfortably, Mr. Bright, of course, re- ceived a most cordial welcome, and warmed up his audience till they sprang to their feet to cheer more heartily, time after time. Nor can I see that the epeech is at all more dangerous than many which he and other less eminent orators have been making in the past Autumn without causing any particular alarm. 1alf the old fogics of the Clubs are prating, day after day and night after night, of the frig] tfully dangerous condition of our political and social life. Nobody cares much for them, it is true, or believes that they can see anything but shams through their old spec- tacles; but let Mr. Bnght say we are living on the slopes of a volcano (which is, by the way, nomore true in his mouth than in that of the fogies), and the whole Platocratic press shriek Look! he is stirring the crater,” and the fogies join in chorus, and open their stores of billingsgate upon the head of a great man who has been uingmg their own song. However, Idon't believe Mr. Bright cares one straw for the whirlwind of abuse and scurrility, and why should any one else? He made a notable example of Ayrton, the member for the Tower Hamlets, toward the end of the meeting. That gentleman, who has been notoriously depre- cating reform during the paet session, though voting with Government, and who has not neglected oppor- tunities of giving Bright the most ulnpg»rk kind of backing for some time past. came into the meeting, and, being called on to speak, had the bad taste to attack the Queen for not having come up to Bucking- ingham Palace to encourage the trades, He referred sneeringly to ber prolonged mourning, and this fairly roused the member for Birmingham, who is, in private life, one of the tenderest hearted and domestic of men, unless report lies. He has a strong lil for the Queen, grounded, probably, on her very esolation and inability to face the tinsel conventional side of her own old iife, again as a widow, aud he burst out upon the member for the Tower Hamlets with a repreof, the words of which must have dropped like bot sealing- wax on the somewhat thick mental cuticle of that honorable gentleman. Those who heard it say tbat Bright was never finer or more powerful, and this little incident will probably do much to counteract the pauic, real or eigned, which polite society bas been manifesting at his late doings and speeches. The English loyalty to the Crown, which burns so strongly in the most unexpected quarters, bas been illustrated remarkably in the extraordjnary reception which the Queen has just received at Wolverbampton., The black country, as every one knows, is the rough- est, coarsest part of England. The old song of ‘Wednesbury Cocking ends, For are all cruel by nature, And for deeds the most shookin'— Rob Baker he whacked Lis own fathe And thus ended Weduesbury Cock And 50 years has made but emall difference in their habits manners; but before the royal presence the other day the rough crowd bent in Io&dly and devo- tion, like corn before the wind. I don't pretend to anderstand or account for it, but give itto you as flct. The verdict in the great libel case of Dr. Hunter agt. The Pall Mall Gazette wos delivered after my last Jetter was dispatched, It was for the rfl:fln&lg. dam- ages one being, of course, in mplete victory for the paper and a justification of the libel— a decision whic! iven great satisfaction, aud ap- pears to be plainly right on the merits. Dr. Hunter and his English colleagues have indulged in a system of puffing their own wares and blowing their own trumpets—contemptible enough in any case, but which becomes dangerous and abominable when used for the purpose of deeoying the victims of such a dis- ease a3 consumption into their toils. The trial is im- portant in anotber point of view, as indicating a reac- tion in favor of public writers, who have of late years nd pmisl) merey in gur courty wheu smsigned for far less trenchant articles than that which has, in all probability, finished the career of Dr. Hunter in London, We are anxiously expecting Maximilian back from Mexico. They say here that a Freuch steamer has gone ont to meet him, with advice that he should Jand in Spain, where he is to find an emeute ready for him, and possibly the erown of the Peninsula! There is the last shave of the clubs here for you. T 0, ———— IRELAND. THER PENIAN PANIC—EXTRAORDINARY PRECAUTIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT—ALLEGED INTENTION OF THE PENIANS TO EMPLOY THE ‘' GREEK FIRE"—THROW- ING UP OF BEARTHWORKS AROUND THE MAGAZINE IN THB PHENIX PARK—TROOPS FROM RENGLAND STILL COMING IN—BEARCIHES FOR JAMES KTE- PUENS, &0\ Prom Our Special Correspondent. - P Duniy, Dee. §, i#66. However it may bo in other parts of the country, the Fenian panic would abate in this city, if the Government would let it, It was decidedly abating for some Wl.—l there is unanimous testimony (o that effect—but the ex- traordinary nature of the preparations for the emergency which are being mado by the Government has revived it. Troops had becn poured in, but their presence would bo required to speedily quell a movement which would assume no grester proportions than a brief riot in the streets. But what are people to think w they find the Commander- in-Chief preparing Dublin Castle to resist a siege ! and not only Dublin Castle but the powder magazine in Phenix Park, which ig alroady pretty well defended. Tt is a strong fortification, mounting several caunon, and sur- rounded by a deep ditch, There is but one entrance to it, which i well guarded, the guus bearing on it having 8 raking and converging fire, while inside the gate as well as outside, pulisades are fixed in suitable positions, Yet the Government aro having it further strengthened by earthworks, which are heing erected undor the supervision of cugineer officers lnlvl{ arrived from England, This looks really serious. Such Jabor and expenso would not be gone to it the authorities supposed the insurreetion with which they are threatened could lead to no wore than au hour's contliet in the streets. Then as to Dublin Castlo, scores of men are at work there to-day digging up the ground and laying in large water-pipes froum the mains in the strects, This is beiug done because information hasreachod the Government that the Fenians intend to bumn down the buidings with “ Groek firo” —tho liquid stuff, some cases of which were recently discovered by the police 1 Liverpool—and they want to be prepared for that contingency with a plenteous supply of water. ‘I'hat the Fenians moy have some such intentions is not ympossible. The Castie buildings stand in the midst of & crowded part of the city; the stieots around it aro in some places so narrow that a missile of any sort conld easily be pitched from the windows right info the Custle yards; and bottles of the infernal stuff referred to could be heaved in as easily As anything else. That the Fenians know where to lay their hands o up- |.|( of that stuff is a statement which has often been Whispered about aumong a few persous, and which now scous to be getting noised broad among the publie. Ttis said also that a strong palisading 13 to be erected inside the gates, and that in & fow duys we shall soo san iled up there, and guns peeping out between, in the 'ru:un fashion, What @ pretty state of things in the Irish .-nintul after seven hundrod years of British convection ! n order tnat, should any disturbance arise, the military may bo able to act at oneo, without the intervention of po- lice magistrates, 8 number of the military and naval ofti- cers fu Dublin’ and Kingstown have been sworn in as Justices of the P Among them are Col. Solby Smi Col. Forrester, lln'inr MeCourt, and Capt. Chadwick of the military foree; and of the naval, Capts. Hutchinson, Wil- and Vaughan, The Commander-in-Chief and some others were sworn in lust year, and still retain their com- missions, A number of additional vesacls are under orders for the coast of Ireland, and are shortly to put t . Three of thom—the Wivern, turret sloop; the Research, armor sloop; aud the Iector, armor frigate, ure formidable vessels. One would suppose from the number of the fieet placed on our comst, that the Go ment wero propariog for war with some naval {m'u, stead of with the Fenians. The 718t Highland Light Infantry and the 45th Regiment are ordered to Ireland. The 1st Royal Dragoons and the 14th Hussars have been ords to bold themselves in readiness to rm-ml to freland. A battery of the 13th Brigade, Royal Artillery, arrived in Dublin yesterday, from Holyhead. “The 28th Company Koyal Engiueers arrived st Dublin, from England, yesterday. Oue company of the 50th Regitent proceeded from Athlone to Galway yester- dln, a8 o rcéuforecment for the troups already stationed there. A troop of the 601 Dragoons has been ordered to Lim- erick to reéuforce the troop already in that place. Ax ther troop of the same regiment has been ordered to rejoin beadquarters at Cabor. The detachment of the 6th Foot, rocently ordered to Dungarvap, in consequence of the ap- pearance of & * suspicious 1" on the cosst, have re- turned to their former quarters in Lismore Castlo, the seat of the Duke of Devonshire. Aund & good deal of such re- en done during the papens to-day state that deration o schewo for “the Government have under ¢ inereasing the Engl ustabulary by 3,000, to Imdm"vs to Irelund if necessary.” The force is to be armod with breech-loaders, and Trish need apply” is to bo the rule, us “it is to bo posed exclusively of Englishmen.” Of the troops at present in Dublin a re- warkably large proportion aro Highlanders. It looks as if the Government, belleving that the real tug of war comes “when Greek meots Greek,” meant to fight Celts with Celts. At the same time it is to be recollected that those so-called * Highland regiments, dressed in hose and tartans, are in reality eomposed of men draws from various parts of the three Kingdoms. 1daro say the Highlanders predominate in nuwbers, but among those bare-legged warriors you can hear any day the Yorkshire dialect und the Munster brogue, ‘The most thoroughly Euglish regiment we have here is the Cold- stream Guards, s very fine looking body of men, decidedly anti-Irish in feeling, and hated sbove all other regiments by the Dublin people. Aud not only by the Dublin people, but by the Insh soldiers. A couple of years ago, when the samo regiment was quartercd in this aity, scarcely a night used to pass w Luu fights in the publie houses between these men and soldiers of some of the Irish regiments; and to such a pitch aid the snimosity between thewm rise that the Guards were, on that account— according to the ru]mlur understanding of the sffair— rewoved from Dublin. Whenever any members of that force are drunk in our streets, as often happens, they are vn? apt to use insulting exprossions toward the people aud the country. Latterly there is less complaint of them thau there used to be, owing, doubtiess, to the fact that the soldiery ate not now allowed as much personal liberty 88 they worp some monuths ago, aud are kept more within their barracks, especially at uight. The police have orders to prevent person from « Joitering in the peighborbood of any of the Dublin bar- rucks.” Two young men were, on Thursday, brought be- fore one of the police magistrates, charged with that offense. They had been looking in at the new defensive works, and had been heard to n{ “What can we do now! ' Those fellows in there could fire out and kill us be- foro we could do anything.” ‘That expression of & belief in tho puissance of the British lro'?u aud the excellence of the engineering arrangements of Richmond barracks, the magistrate could hardly treat as crime, but he required bails for their good behavior from the men before he re- leased them from custody. So it seems there is danger in lookiug at those barracks, or making auy remarks sbout them, one way orsuother. The safest plan whe pessing them by is to affect not to see thei Among the persons arrosted this week, one is charged with attewpting to seduce a soldier from his llegiance, ond another is charged with tampering in o ke mauner with a policeman. Two or threc of the arrested had, while under the influence of something stronger than water, avowed themselves members of the Fenian brotherhood, and indulged in high-toned soliloquies on the glorious time st haud. Bome houre afterward, in the refrigerating atmosphere of a police cell, they probably repentsd of their communicativeness, but too late, The *“Grand Orange Lodge of Ircland” met in the Rotundo, Dublin, ou Thursday, and adopted an address to the members of their fraternity, the purport of which is timt Orangeism was and is the safogus of the country, that Roman Catholics have been taught to hate the British connection, and that the Orangemen of Ireland are ready to fight for its muintenance. As usual in such docu- ments, the address contains very many pious expressions, and declarations of the amiable and peaceful temper of the Orange body. * Bretbren,” it ssys, ‘‘in the spirit of Christian kindness demanded by our institution, we desire a8 far a8 in us Lies, to promote love aud peace among sll men.” The people of Lreland generally re that style of language, from that quarter, ns what mus Ward would call “ sorter ironical.” A loyal member of the Cork Co:?omion, Alderman Casey, bas given the following uotice of motion, to be wnndond at the meeting of that body on Monday: “That we, the Corporation of Cork, do call on all the various Corporstions aud Commissiouers of Ireland to unite with us in forming such & fund (sdditional to the reward offered by Goverument for the appreliension of the rebel James Stephen), as will, by its amount, |lllnl{ to obtain such information as would Jead 1o his arrest; and, further, that we do at once vole fhie sum of £100 toward that fund.” Ttis not likely that the corporation will adopt that resolution. Alderman Casey can hardly suppose they will do so. But he kuows bis motion will attract the at- tion of the Government, aud probably ke has an end serve thereby. A J.P.ship for himself or a place in the Post-Ottice er Customs for his son would probably sat- isfy his aspirations. g the widst of all this political excitement the country {s wonderfully free from ordinary crime. 8o light is the calendar ublin that one of the Judges said & fow daj narrowl, :o dent o«’flf'rd the streets of Cork were never so quiet a8 ut. There is an utter absenco of the row itherto prevailed, especially on Sunday niz day mornings. To some nervous persons this nary quiet is ominous, like s dead calm befors 5 In the worst of times Irish crime_cousisted for the most part of the class of offenses Whigh poring from poyurv” and of agrarian disturbances; but of late yoars it is almost the rule with the {ndgu at each assizo 1o compliment the grand jurors on state of their counties. And has the peaceable and orderly condition of the eountry been more marked than it was while Fenianism was ot its higit last year and than s is now. Indeed, Lord Kim- berly, in his celebrated speech in the House of Lords, re- ferred o this fuct, and stated that Fenianism was entirel, f co of any connection with the ordinary forws of erimi- nelity. 'Ihis being #o, what can be more unfair and un- true than the pretense set up by some of our Dublin papers that the Fenians are simply o pack of rascals who seek pothing wore than an nr.pvmnu ty for plunder 1 No account of James Stephens yet, The police searched & uumber of houses in Waterford City for him somo days ago, but of course they did ot find him. On ‘Thursday the Liverpool police searched the house of & Dr. Warke, residing in Upper Hill-st., Toxteth Park, and & member of the Toxteth Park Board of Guardians, in eX) tion of tinding the Heod Center concealed there, Doctor wi s furio t this outrage. He threatened to beat the Ku cemen, He demanded to know on what grounds they 2 visited his house on such & miseion. Theanswer was, they did so in consequence of an anonymous letter they hadreceived! The police bad in fact been hoaxed by somo wag who knew the Doetor to be an Orangeman and a fierco hater of James Stephens and of all Fenlans, Young Irolanders, and Repealers, But on James Stephens it depends whether or not, be- fore this month rolls away into the irrecoverable past, Irish insurgents and the soldiery of England are to meet i deadly contliet on the soil of Ireland. ¥ aid in my last dispateh that the Dublin portion of the Fenian organiza- tion are well inclined to believe they are no wateh for the Dubiin garrison, and would have uo business trying con- clusions with them in the streets. I have been well assured that such is the state of the case. Vet if James Stephens should bo able to show them that there is any gleam of hope for the eause in which they bave embarked, « number of them are willing to dare all” odds in carrying out bis directions, Perhaps, however, the Dublin men would not be called on to move at the ontset of tho strife strifo there should be. The moveinent is most lilelfl to be "'“Lf"‘““ in some of the Southern counties, an if it should make head there, some of the soldiery be drafted from D1 —and then wo cannot say what may happen. Should the C. 0. I. R. show himself one of theso duys in the South, the head of 5,000 disciplined men, the hot-blooded and strong-armed Munster peasantry could not easibly be kept from flocking to his standard, and Hoaven only knows how far and wido end fast the flame might spread. But ean he do that 1 or the present wll is conjecture. While T write the police are making arrests in a tobacco shop at the corner of Sackville-st. ‘Phey. have three per- sons in eustody and aro searching the house. [Iam told two persous have been arrested within the last hour in the neigh borkood of Smithfield, in the west end of the city. —— FOREIGN SUMMARY. ——~—— GREAT BRITAIN, MARTIAL LAW, 1t begins to be mooted whether therarrest of Meany, the suspected Fenian, in London and transportation to Treland for examiuation, does not endanger the liberties of the people, Mr. Bright s charged with baving fomented mischief by his speeches and letters in and relation to Ireland. It is asked whether the Lord Lieutenant of Treland con arrest him in Man, chester and transport him before o court-martial in the dis- turbed distriots, BRIBERY IN ELECTIONS. Some washing of dirty linen occurred in public on the 6th, cing & suit against Lord Ranelagh for moneys spent to promote tion for Middlexes At the list genaral clection. The defendaut summoned AMr. Disracli as o witness, folded o sorrowful tale, to the effeet that the Tory Committee where hie was spending his own “'to make a hopeless run for Middlesex at their expense, t they left him to pay all the bills. The Judge expresscd pathy for Lord Ranelagh, his belief that Be ought not to pay, but informed him that the majesty of the law demanded the saerifico of the morally just to the Jegally right, and mado him pay. THE MINISTRY. The Spectator generalizes the rumors about discords in the Cabinet, and believes them premature. There are likely to bo Aifferences on the estimates, Mr. Disracli resisting Geu. Peel's 1bition to expand the army and navy. 1f & break-up wero (o come the Ministry would probably resign in a body. Lord Stanley, and not Gen, Peel, would be the House of Commons Jeader if & change should, despito all probabilties, deprive the Ministry of Mr. Disracli's eminent ability as a leader, RECTER'S MONOPOLY. The Spectator says that Keuters resumé of the Measage is o stingy d bed one. That great concern could bave sforded one thousand wonds for o document so jmportant to England and France. The President either bas, or hus not, menaced Congress, France and England at the same time, but no one oo of this kind tarn the can certain which ie true. M allointo s Eurogean nuisance, andlf repeated will we trust, at Canan the e 1o nholish iter's 3 The Timer eught to. be eiyone FROUED to Proseas ;A“'W,ML ress i Awsocls 2lo-handed ; but of not, then let s hay the American model. The £1,000 needed to telegraph two words of the Message could have boen obtained in o the journals, TROFESSOR MARTINEAU. Tho contest in tho pagers about M. Martineau's rejection by ity College, as Professor of Philosophy, confinues, Jegal requisition to reconsider the voto of rejection has been mude. 1t in signed by 14 fellows and six other proprietors, in- eluding two mewmbers and one ex-wewmber of the House of Com ons. THE ¥NGLIEH CATHOLICS AND THE POPE. The Catholics of this diocese held a meeting on the evenin the 6th in St. James's Hall, to express sympathy with the Pope, promote the collection of Peter's pence, and influence public opiuon in faver of the temporal power. Archbishop Manning presided and made the principal speech. Among the auditors there was quite an array of British aristocracy and fashion. The eloquent Archbishop insisted upon the right of the Pope to the crown of Rome, cl the age with & great conspiracy ust the Puj W pointsd out that the Revolu- toa i unly,v‘f(n.a 0 complacently by Englishmen have pow kpocked at their own ° doors. He demanded the sympathy of all for the silvery-haired old man struggling alone with all the world. The Pope could neve come civilly subordinate to any earthly prince ; it would never come 10 pass. however men might hope for it. * This was no time"—alinding to the Keform mecting—"'to tear out the tie- bewms of civilization, or pull off the roof-tree from the Christian world.” The Popes held Rowe by 300 years of martyrdom, 600 ears of conflict, one confessorship, and x years of sovereigaty. §£%he Pope left Rome the fajthful would sot fear; but to shift £ Roman unity would convulse every government in wise statesmen should see to it that the shock did akers seemed disposed to appeal to the fears aroused by the strength of the Keform demonstration, the terri- ble directuess of Mr. Bright's demand that the people be admit- ted to s share in the Goverument. One of them, Lord Ar andel, expressed the opluion that ~if the glory of the Papacy were destroyed, we whonid look back from the dead tevel of Democracy Another speaker, Mr. Henry to the happiness of the past.” Matthews called Napoleon a new Pontius Pilate, and ot con- tent with this deification of Pio Nino, added tlat the Freuch Emperor wna *the_incarnation of despotiem and revoltion,” Which oertainly makes the abused man a very great one. @The Treasurer's roport showed that the collections of Peter's nce had been as follows u this diooese : 1n 1564, £1,245; in 1,261 ; in 1666, £1,684—showing & steady increase. but no extraordinary zeal. Archbiskop Manning annomnced that similar meetings would be held in all the pricipal cities of the Kingdom. The Times of the Sth inet. has a leader on Archbishop Man ning's spesch. 1t says that nothing was said calenlated to carry reasonable being one yard toward the conclusion for which the meeting was assembled. 1f the Pope had to take refuge with the Philistines, ' with the * Egyptians," or in the * Cave of Adullam,” if he had a ** hole” or & * nes 1y to, he would be in Just that position in whiok Christiauity Las always been most free and most bold in spiritusl matters. By sccepting material supports, religion must to a certain extent Lecomo material, Bosides, all the arguments of the Archbishop led straight to the opposite concluslon to that intended. 1745 Pon foot in Rome, tifls have been driven Rome, or never set the city cannot be necessary to them. He appealed to Dissent- ers, Nonjurors, Free-Kirk men; but all these hold-that huiman suthority and rogal sway in matters of faith apirit of religion. ] TOM HROWN. Mr. Hughes, M. P, and Mr. Goschen, M. P, delivered aldresses on educatien during the week. Mr. Hughes took vocasion to express his earuest sympathy with Reform, laving been challenged thereto by o letter from one of the invited guests who would not como becwuse ' Mr. Hughes almost us bad & man as that demagogue, Jobn Bright,” would be present. have both FRANCE. LAMIRANDE. Thi# bank-robber has been sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. His counsel restored 110,000 france of the stolon money during the trial. Lamirande declared that be had given 191,000 frauce to some advooates in New-York to re- sist his extradition, who were to keep 56,000 fraucs if success- ful, and return the rest; but they oaly returned 20,000 The Judge sald they were not advocates, but thieves, THE MEXICAN QUESTION. 3 Four steamers have beon added to the fleet which is to brin back the French troops, viz, the Fontenoy, Bayard, Ulm and Navorin, They will bring, also, the Austriai and Belgian troops. The Mmh ays oo g trustworthy source, Teceved in Burope, which is ‘dated Nov. 23, and A T T e B uest 1] siclans 0 Em| - Jotte to mee Mn’l m second ?nprgl‘ht in December at a port in the Mediterranean. The same dispatch contains instructions that no more letters for Lis Majesty are to be seut to Mexico. ‘Tlis order Las not been countermanded.” THE FRENCH PRESS. The Moniteur 18 very unhappy in its solemn utterances. It got off ou w«luudx s statement that the Mexican expedition would be nhorus‘wl drawn, and all the other journals pub- lishod the same day the ocable abstract of the President's mes- . The Patric of the 6th was obliged to explain that the colncidence was purely accidental. The sawe day the Moniteur e e T, b st o o bitan v g 00 D 89 that Greeks an: o foot q:ln. But the next day wo had o dispatoh that about 500 Cretans hayp blown themsclves up rather surrender, and the Liberté wanta to know “If J’vulmn do this, what must be expected from patriots 1" The Siecle learns that the Journal of Frankfort’ has been seized for the first time fu 250 years, and exclais “Only onee in two centuries and & half! are coun- trien wiere this happy proportion might be reversed; but, of -5 e Lbartisaq ecsived § fominicue o gghativs the in MAXIMILIAN. under f the 7th): “ We learn, from & y b ™ dll]nl;h t:v- Mazimilian w-Yori L aribune, struetion in the case of a duel between MM. Segnin and Lecee: Edmuad About is iuvited to Compeigue iu the next veries of guests. ITALY. _ THE RUMORED ROYAL MARRIAGES. It is said that Prince Humbert will soon go to Ger- many to select o wife, or to marry one. Three Jadies are spoken of. 'The daughter of hduke Albrecht is still spoken of, the daughter of the Duke of Modena is favored by court ip, and a third princess is talked of but not yet named. The Modena family hold Victor Emanuel o nsurper aud robber, snd the mniuc would involve a recantation of this heresy. 1t is believed that Prince Amadeus will shortly marry Jthe Piedmoutese Princess Della Cisternar. The English papers aro duly horrified that the Prince should take to wife oue of his father's subjects and a Picdmontese at that. They forget that Kings are not what they used to be—only Presidonts life, 5.-1 have hardly so much influence ay an American Presi- lent, ADMIRAL PERSA¥O, This officer has been committed to enstody in the offices of the Senate Chamber. Ie was much affected when ordered under arrest and protested loudly agninat tho cenduct of his enemion. The trial procesds with closed doors. Five senators, three jurists, aud two admirale conduct the examination. PANEM. There was a local riot in Venice on the 30th ult. The Gov- ernment has given the Venetians circenses but forgot the panem. The crowd broke into » publio building, but were got out by the friendly aid of a Garibaldian captain, aud dispersed on o promise of work. et ROME. According to the latest reports there wos great activity in the Papal War oftice. Officers were ordered to drill their men and put everything in order for o campaign. It waa belioved that the troops would be coneentrated in Rome and Civita Vecehis. This would leave the provinee free to hold a plebiscite and eleet Vietor Emanuel King. On the 7th wst. the 7lst Regiment left Rome for Civita Vecchia. The Pope went to the Church of the Aposties to close the Novessa in honor of the Tmmaculate conception. A dispateh says be was enthusiastically cheered by large crowds of people. ILISH VIEW. The Roman question is claimed to be a universal one. The Union (Paris) says that in destroying the throue of the Pope wo are tearing down that ou_which all governments are founded. If it fl #0, what a conservative English weekly thinks is good news. {M Naturday Review says that the Pope has composed, and is another thunder: Eneyclical. AN on the eve of launching Sir George Bowyer b anybody, nor are his Encyclicals to be taken as amounting to more thin a strong religious manfesto, Nature, as Auacreon #ays, has given Lorns to bulls, and she has in the same wa given Encyclicals to Popes. The Italians will not reseat bi using the one weapon Which is most natural to him, nor will they, if they are wise, regard the coming thanderbolt as an in- terruption fo the harmony of the M‘uimmu. No bull; indeed, ever issues from the quiver of the Vatican which ia not aimed, inter atia, at some part of the established law of France, Italy, or other Earopean kingdoms ; nor does Rome skrink from denouncing the legal restrictious which statesmen everywhere bave found it necessary to impose upon her ambi- tion. But, except when interferenice is imperatively demanded to protect tho majesty of the law, Italian politicians I’ll.l[pmh-- bly follow the eximple of the French, and treat lightly and pleasantly what amonnts to very little more than a very angry and abusive sermon. Sttt TURKEY. THE INSURRECTION—THE AUSTRIAN PROVINCES. The Turkish Government has again aunounced— Dec. 6—the submission of the most important districts, and the reinstatement of Turkish authorities in their posts. Our Con- stautinople correspondent writes, under date of Nov. 28 According to official reports of American Consuls at Crete, Syra and Athens, up to Nov. 20, the lusurrection in Crete was more alive than ever. Five hundred and sixty meu, with pro- visions and b loaders, under the command of a regular army officer, landing o few days before on Crete. About five men a week are to go to the island from Greece. red went this week from Coustantinople. “Turkish troops are borrible. on is now a very serious oue. They have i they have grade and the They bave just made the is n:x[wnll\‘ them. founded, of a serious out- other fortresses, or be driven demgod here ia strong terms. Ru There is a report, which seems among the Catholics there, who have 2¥,000 T cannot vouch for this. Our Cypress affair is not yet fully settled. Greeco i very likely to declare war againet Turkey in the break in Alban! men under arms. Spring, unless the Cretans are otherwise rescued. Thixnews s frou a trastworthy source. THE WEST INDIES. o — “IAVANA. THE QUARANTINE AT HAVANA—CHOLERA "AT ST. THOMAS. W, L—IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE AND SUGAR MAKING—DEATH OF A COUBAN PATRIOT—GOLD MINES IN CUBA. From Our Special Correspondent. Havaxa, Dec. 13, 1866, The stringency of the quarantine regulations at this pOrt is hecoming 80 onerous us to injure the commerce of the place. The steamer Hendrik Hudwon, of the line between here wud Philadelphia, which arrived last Saturday, was obliged to three days of quarantine because the Spanish Consal at the med port hias not thought proper to g":! yet clean bills of Ith. The French steamer Panama of the transatlantic line St. Nazaire, on her arrival here with passen, cargo for this port, was ordered to quarantine at q the last place at which she stopped. St ‘Thouias 10 be attacked with the cholera and small-pox. Instead, howeyer, of doing so, the Captain of the Panama put 10 sea and con is voyagedo Vera Cruz, cuyiug with Lim the TS AN merchandise whose des- tination was to this place. His reasons for acting in this strange manner being as he stated that as his vessel drew from 20 to 22 feet of r it would not be safe for him to attermpt’ unlenhr the bay at Mariel, beside which there were no meaus of providing the passengers at that ont of the way place with what they might require. The uulucky ugers for Havana were therefore ol to_continue their Yoyage to Vera Cruz, where probably they will have to go into quaran- tine, and then on their retarn back here from Vera Cruz, atter lmvmfilmml out their quarantine at that place, they will most likely have to go through the same ordeal again. “Thie epidemic at St. Thomas, on which there was some dis- crepancy of opiuion as to whether it was the cholera or not, was diminishing. During the last (unnlfitl before the depart- ure of the Caravelle there had been only 60 or 70 deaths, and these among the poorest class of people as well as in the most unhealthy localities, but in which it is to be recollected that at the present season of the year, according to the statistics of land, there is an fucreaie of mortality, the deaths gener- ally amounting to from five to seven daily. ~ Unfortunately the small-pox and yellow fever, which are [ikewise prevailing at St. Themas are ulemlmfi rapidly, and excite no small amount of terror among the inhabitants. At the sister island of Porto Rico the Goverrment is adopting there trom suitable measures to prevent the iufection reaching St, Thomas. “The plauters of Cuba appear to be waking up to the nevessity of making improvements in their bebind-the-age system of agri- culture, and with the abolition of Slavery all our Vankee sub- stitutes for manual labor and _improved agrioultural machinery will meet with ready market here. At present the wealthiest Jlanters, whose estates are of almost inculeulable extent, have ad thelr attention directed to steam plows, and several machines of this important description have been at TErinidnd, on the southern side of the island, for some of the largest land-owners of that rich agricultural region round about that eity. Anotber great improvewent, or rather cesay in thot divection, is the establishment of & central sugar mill on the model of those in the French West India Islands, by which the agricultural part of growing the sugar-cane and the wochanical operation of grinding it in the mill and mhn‘bleh!julceluloln%u are completcly separated, the two operations bein, carried on by distinct parties. The central su I all to is in the Qdistrict or partido of Recreo, and the individual te whom will Helon the honor of having first started o sugar mill on this principle is named Barreto. By this means o humbler cluss of lvhnu'rl, who are not sufliciently rich to e Lo sugar lfllfi will he eaabled to sell their cane at o remunerative rate, and can till the ground with profit to themselves and thelr families. Ex. amined in u soclal point of view, this, next to the abolition of Slavery, is the greatest benefit that could be made for the fsland, as & large class of individuals will be enabled to get s living from the soil who would otherwise be dependents (de- pendientes) o the richer planters and employed on their estates 28 is the case at present, when many slave-owners, from not having the pecuniary means to start & mill, work with their slaves on the estates of their wealtbler countrymen during the sugar-making season. ‘he opinions are conflicting a8 to the ensuing crop, the ac- counts from some parts being sufficiently flattering while dis- mal prophesies are made from others as to the yield of sugar. In the u{hmo( wbout Cardenus cowplaints were made a week ago ot the excessive dronth, the planters fearing that if it con- tnued the crop would e poor ; in the distriet about Trinidad, potwithstanding the drouth, it is expected that there will be & average crop althongsoi propliesy s umalle crop than that of the lust year. The plauters of this Inst named fertile district Which is kiown as the Valley (Valle), have made 4 humane and als0 a profitable reform in_the arrangement of the labor during the busy season of sugar mnh:f, this is allowing their negroes fo have the night's rest instead of working us is still done on some estates during the whole 24 hours or for the greater rm of the night, 8o that the unfortunate creatures are worn out from the many hours of watchiug to which they are remorselessly and, for the owners, stupidly to work. The modern {mprovements of machinery have allowed of this in the work of tho negroes and it ought even 1f the owners arccompelied by law to do so. A commission, of which tire Caj ted 1t, has reserved to himself the right of acting as President, is to examine into the mansgement of the difforent companies by shares of this island. Such & commission was very much re- Quired, for through the peculation, rascality, incompetence and Dbad faith with which most of the com) here have been conducted, scarcely any are paying concerns. This commission will be empowered to examine the books and other documents of the companics, including railways, so far as the latter are financially affected. The Lead of the custowms, the intendente, is to be the Vice- President. ‘The island of Cuba bi . suffered a loss in the death of one of its most. Inllrhlnnd inbabitants, Gaspar Betancourt Cis- neros, who died a few days ago at an advanced age, after hvlu aseed an active life as a writer, author and patriot. He dic gun in Havana, but bis remaius were seat by steamer to Nue- vitas, for burial at Puerte Prineipe, of which place he wass native. A Iur number of the principal ts of Havana lcmr'nplllllll the funeral cortege to the wharf where the steamer was Iylug. Fie Mexi sul General for Maximilian's Empire pre- sented a few d to Gen. Manzano, the Captain-General of this fsland, & rich box from the Emperor, wnuln\n& the rand cross aud sccompanying ribands and the exican Order of G ;po, W ith which the Captain. bag been presented by s g merk of his ¢ PRICE FOUR CENTS. MEXICO. .—— GRN, SHERMAN'S MOVEMENTS, BY TELEGRAPE TO THE TRIBUNE. NEw-OrLEaxs, Dec. 23.—The future movements of Gen. Sherman are uncertain, but the belief is that he will nod proceed further just at present in the Mexiean business, but return to Washiugton or the Weet. Reports are in« deod curzent that he has already, in brief, been requested by telegraph to let Mexico alone. 4 WRECK AND PLUNDER OF AN AMERICAN SCHOONER. NEW-ORLEANS, Dec. 23.—The American schooner Mary Bertrand, belonging to A. A. Gafney, from Tempico,’ bound to Brazos Santiago, went ashore ten miles below Bagdad. No date. She had $24,000 in specie on board, the Tactipta of.8 saspo of mng‘wmmnfiv ico. Pa from the shore, preteuding to act undee exican authority, seized the money 13 carried it to Matamoros, under the pretense that it was attempted to be carried out of Mexico without the duty being paid. The vossel was a total loss. PRESIDENT JUAREZ GOING TO SAN LUIS POTOSI. PY TRLEGRAPE TO THS TRIBUNE. W ASHINGTOY, Dee. 23.—Information has been received here that on Nov. 26 President Juaces wa still at Chibua- hua, but intended to leave on the 5th of December for the city of Dnnnf.o. thence for Zacatecas, his destination be< inism Luis Potosi, which isfurther into Central Mexioo aud 120 leagues from the city of Mexico. MAXIMILIAN AT ORIZABA—FORMATION OF A GRANE TMPERIAL ARMY—IMPORTANT DOCUMENT PROM BAZAINE, THE FRENCH MINISTER AND GEN. CASe TELNAU AS AGENTS OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. From Ouy Specisl Correspondent, HAvANA, Dec. 18, 1666, / The French steamer Panama, which, as I meutioned in my letter by the Corsica, went on to Vera Cruz without land= ing her passengers on account of the quarantine, arrived here yesterday on her homeward vopage, bringing news from the Mexican capital to the 9th. Maximiliau had not ue back to Mexico City, and according to the Fregch, wapaper published there, the £re Nouvelle, ho would ot Tetarn s 800 u it bad been reported, the Emperor bave, ing fl"“ reccived very affiicting news about the Ewpress by the Sonors from New-Orleans. . By o decree of Maximilian, the commereial and manu< facturing establishments throughout Mexico were %0 taxed $2,000,000 for the eunsuiug year, 1867, from ;mdu, the tax not to excecd 6 per centon the abo: eal estate, both rural and city, were likewise to be 6 per cont on their renullfilhnh was to bo estimated producing 6 per eent anmally. The above tax to take effect from the st of January, ¥67, and to be paid every two mouths in advance. Whatever determination Maximilian, after much vacils Iating, may have come to, he will not receive any support from the Freuch, as may be mm the accompanying offi= cial notice, which, although it no fimu attached, is stated explicitly to have emanated from bal Bazaie, the French Minister, and Gen. Castlenau, conjointiy: FRENCE LEGATION. The oftclal paper of the Eaipire, in its fseue of the 20tb November, published an article iutended’ to show what was m object of the Emperor Maximtlian i calling to Orizaba Ministers and the Council of State. This serted in the non-official part of the paper, but it was transmisted through the telegraph by the Ministry, were desirous to huve it published us soon as mhk opinion was with reason excited on learning that the Emy aximilian offered as the determinin; dication of hispowers : First. The the country is plunged. “Second. The of American intervention to put & stop to this civil war changing the present institations. ‘This last supposition ma appear strange, coming as it does from the bosom of a Coun which finds no place of security for deliberating except through the protection of French bayonets. Tt is right to establish the true facts. France hias no wish interfore with the sort of: government that Mexico may choose to adopt. Haring come to Mexico to protect its people, animated at the same time with the wish to put an end to o/ series of disorders by whieh all alike suffered, it would have wished to have seen definitely established the form of goyvern. ment which appears to 1t as offering the best guarantees of sta- bility. Far from having done anything to change the e institutions, it has imposed upen itsclf the mest disin and useless sacrifices to mmntain them. The pitiful crisis in which Mexico is submerged cen in no way be attributed to it, Its agents were entirely unaware of the sudden det: takeu by the B-kpfmkd‘!mm‘l):m to leare hiy :':.piul.m!ou of them bo know| of it except throt Lol ”b- Tishe the * Ofticial Guzette.” .Vupon!. lw“v‘nur. i s '.Enpemr Maximilian was scarcely distant a few xico when he wished to make out his aet of abdi ain several times to this HH 8 that from During the past month he has turned ides, and has been prevented only by the entreaties of the per- sons of his retinge. Orders for fiis departure had been and ships were expecting him daily st Vera Cruz. The i-n of the councilors themselves who at im were completely ignorant of Lis Majesty's real inteations. The Fresek ts were meither However, the his wish to ol from them before making bis last determiuation, they immediately granted the said concessions. His Majesty addressed to them his thanks, In view of an eventuality which offered itself to them as immi~ nent, but which they had not proveked, they thought of the measures which would have to be taken to guarantee the inter~ ests of all, Mexicans and strangers, declaring that they wouidh leave the Mexican nation the arbiter of its destiny, and did nos ‘Their part Emml to impose upon it any form of government. as been lLimited to this. Looking to the position taken by Imperial Government, this part is mach simplified. They not wish to have any share iu interested iutrigues, which would have no other effect but to revive animosity and nfl“‘ civil war, which they would have wished to roy. ey will only occupy themselves in the strief execution nstruetions—to dissolve in the most absolute Government, without taking into ything else but the iuterests that belong to it re in the shortest possible time the complete of Mazatlan and was few lm- e il and to pasturs of the Corped Espedition. Coron, taken possession organizing an expedition against Jalisco. Voq . perialists or French were iu Mazatlan. Corova’s enemies confess that he had acted very well on posseasion of the city, no excosses of auy description having been committy { Miramon bad left Orizaba for the wfl. All the State Councilors that were at Orizaba also returned. The Prosident and the Members of the Ministry remained with the Emperor, it being uncertain when they would re- tarn. The Swnnr{-hip of War had been given to Don: Santisgo Blanco. 11is predecessoy, Gen. Tabera, would be. in! n:lmd, it was said, with an lmportant military oos-' wmand. By mutual agreement 8 mail was runni be- tnzn Jalapa, beld by the Re) blmns“.‘-‘lm, both parties agreeing not to interfero with the - ence. The lnpe t papers say that Juarez was to Monterey. COMMENTS OF THE PRESS ON MAXIMILIAN'S PROCLA- MATION—REORGANIZATION OF THE MEXICAN - ARMY—MARSHAL BAZAINE AND THE UNITED STATES MISSION. Havaxa, Dec. 18, 1666, By the French steamer Panawa, which arrived yester- day morning, we have later aud rather umportant news. The dates from Mexico reach to the 9th. As yet, Maxi- 1milian had not returned to Mexico, but was still at Ori~ zaba. The opinious o the press and people respecting the Emperor’s late proclamation are very conflicting. The Estafetée saye that Maximilian no longer addresses his countrymen as Emperor, but as a simple citizen, and considers the proclamation a8 a semi-abdication. The Ere considers the project mentioned in the proclamation ag feasible, and ann it has the -m'n&'o( loyalty aad -sim- Aty Tt ol sul considers the uti TOr 88 diffused goneral content and and confounded olli enemies and encouraged all friends, and even asserts that it is the intemion of the projected Congress discuss & new form of government; Mazimil gives it full power to do eo, and whatever may be th ofthe goverument adopted by the Congress it gitimate. Ruwmors are current here (Havana) that milian will be more firmly settled on his throne that even Juarez 1s getting tired of the contest about to give in his adbesion to Maximilian; bat of no'foundation can be found for such & report. N has as yet been officially sunounced concerning the n!ulyaon of the nm{;bul the commands of the three ivisions would be held by Mejia, Miramon snd Marques t-Reflnl 3 e r!mwh and Imperialists had evacuated San Luis and Dquas Calientcs. Zacatecas was alroady held by Gen. Dzua. The evacuation of .lll!{lll was rather hurried Marshal Bazaine ondeavored to American envoys, Sherman and Campbell, them i l&ymny instructions to ovacuation, and was answered that, aa had got themselves into such a difficult mx;nm get themselves out of it s best they both declined decidedly to serve as mediators French and Mexicans. Mejis and all the ial officers ignore Marshal Bazaine and ‘he French seized, on the 12th, the custowm-house at Vers (Cruz, although the Imperial suthorities made sn energetic protest. & EEL: kL Feef THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. —— BY TELEGRAPE 7O THE TRIBONE. CHIcAGO, Dee. 21.—The publishers of the daily ~