The Sun. — London, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, - - The Saturday Review observes that what the Irish Pro testants are to do must depend on what is to be done in the Lords, and it will be the principal business of the Con servative party during what remains of the Whitsuntide recess to settle what it will be wise and possible for the majority of the Lords to attempt. This is a period of repose, during which the general political situation may be surveyed ; but everything regarding the Commons is so simple that there really is nothing so far to discuss or debate. The Ministry has the unshaken confidence of the country and of the House ; its majorities are overwhelm ing ; the discipline of its party is complete. There is not in any section of the Liberal party, nor in any Liberal constituency, the slightest sign of wavering, much less of reaction. The very greatest amount of pressure, there fore, that could be put on the Lords to pass the Irish Church Bill will be put. If a collision between the two Houses is to be averted, the bill must be passed ; and if it is passed, it must be passed almost without altera tion. It is almost exactly the old story of Free Trade and Protection over again. The House of Lords, being Protectionist, might have rejected a bill for Free Trade in corn ; but if it is to allow of Free Trade, it cannot make a Free Trade measure Protectionist. A bill for the total disendowment of the Irish Church is a bill that the Lords cannot like, hut, if they accept it, they cannot change it into a bill for the partial disendowment of the Irish Church. Exactly the same pressure would be put on the Peers to make them withdraw any amendments extending to the principle of the bill as to make them pass the second reading. This is the great difficulty which embarrasses the Conservative leaders at the present time. What can Lord Cairns say to the Irish Protestants who ask him for advice ? He cannot encourage them with any hope of an advantageous compromise ; he cannot point out a plan of battle in which, if they will but help him, he may hope to be successful on their behalf ; he cannot promise them that, if things are adroitly managed, they will not, after all, be so very much hurt. The alternative stares him in the face. He must either recommend them to petition the Lords to adopt amendments inconsistent with total disendowment, and therefore certain to be rejected by the Commons, or consistent with total disen dowment, and then so insignificant that the most zealous Irish Protestant would not walk a hundred yards to secure them. Even in the recent discussions on Irish land there was enough to shew that the point of view from which the Peers regard political life is quite alien to that from which the bulk of Englishmen outside the House of Peers regard it. An assembly discussing Ireland, in which the feelings of the Irish were no more represented than the feelings of the people of Timbuctoo—this was the attitude of the Peers. Compare with this what such a debate would have been in the Commons. There at least there would have been a play of feeling andopinion, a power of viewing a difficult subject from different sides, a sense of the immense difficulties that the subject presents. The whole cast of mind of the ordinary peer makes him ; unfit to judge or to determine the class of questions which Ireland is now evoking ; but when the audience he addresses and the political sphere in which be moves is entirely composed of people exactly like himself, his in capacity to deal with such question is necessarily intensi fied. That the country should be governed by the Lords, or under the influence or dictation of the Lords, seems, therefore, at the present time quite out of the question ; and the considerations that lead us to this general result are far too wide to allow of their bearing being limited to the mere carrying of the Irish Church Bill. They shew that the bill must be carried ; but they also shew more: they show that the representative body in England must more and more throw the hereditary body into the shade. The Spectator says that the effect of Mr. Sumner's speech is dying away both in this country and in America, after costing the two countries, it is believed, some thirty millions sterling, but the "improved" phase of affairs is anything but satisfactory. It is impossible to read any communication from the United States without perceiving that Mr. Sumner expressed with precise accuracy the feeling of his people, without seeing that the real grievance, the " wrong " about which they care, the injury they hope yet to avenge, is one for which there cark be no reparation, which is beyond the pale, not only of ordinary diplomacy, but of any negotiation, however informal or however elastic. It is not an act, but an atti tude of mind, not the release of the Alabama, but the " unfriendliness " of the British people, for which the Americans desire and will, they threaten, one day demand satisfaction. One of the strangest things about the whole of this controversy is the incessantly-expressed idea that waiting with the dispute unsettled will do no harm. Is it no harm to paralyse the influence of the two freest coun tries in the world by keeping up the impression that civil war is always latent in their midst ?—that if either were attacked by any Power the other would be immediately at her throat ?—to cripple the progress of Canada, to keep up civil war in Ireland, to increase American taxation by upwards. of sixty millions of dollars, twelve mil lions sterling a year? That is the sum the Union is now paying for the delight of thinking that it will pay off England some day for contumelious newspaper articles. Taking the price of English and American Consols to be equal, America is just paying twice as much for her debt as we are, and the main reason is the belief that she will whenever convenient pltnge into a war which, whatever its result, must render the payment of interest all but impossible. What sense or manliness is there in a policy like this, or what reparation? It is a policy, as it seems to us, of silent war, leading to pure loss, a policy which terminates nothing, which amends nothing, which can but deepen mutual hostility, and must to all human seeming end in war at last, war which, let it result as it will, can in no degree affect the alleged cause of war, namely, that the English aristocracy were insolent to the North during the civil struggle. If all the English dukes appeared in chains at the bar of the Senate to beg peace, that would not affect the past transaction, would leave it still true that a section of English society was hostile to the North, still the fact that the recognition of belliger ency was prompted by the few influential Northerners in England in the interest of the North, to enable Washing ton to seize blockade-runners without an instant declara tion of war. The Examiner and London Review says: Without endorsing the doubt expressed by Mr. Dension, in his otherwise suggestive and practical speech, whether it might not be as well to sweep away the Poor Law alto gether, we are driven to admit that nothing can be more deplorable than its present inefficiency, or more pitiful than the apologies made for it. The recent motion of Mr. Corrance, for a committee to inquire into the increase of the burthen of pauperism, tantalised many with a vague hope of remedy for the future, if not of redress for the past. But, long before the member for Suffolk sat down, he and his hearers must have been equally aware that nothing definite or immediate was likely to come of his motion. Amid general inattention and profound incre dulity, proposals the most definite, and reasonings the most clear, can accomplish little. The public were angry and disgusted some years since at the manner in which all sorts of persons, When in need, were, by the orders of Gwydyr House, huddled together in workhouses insufficient for their accommodation. The public exclaimed "This must not be; we pay for relieving our poor, and we will have them relieved more humanely." Gwydyr House took the public at its word, and set about gigantic schemes of build ing and rebuilding of district schools, and district asylums, infirmaries as big as hospitals, and hospitals as costly as palaces ; and now when the public, finding themselves taken in and done for, complain of the frightful cost of this gross misinterpretation of their wishes, and misappli cation of their money, Gwydyr House has nothing better to offer than hints and proposals, that if they are allowed to keep up their newfangled system of caging all the poor within stone walls they will try to cut down the total cost in some other way. Yes, but in what other way? At whose expense is this new lease of centralising authority to be taken out ? If not at that of the ratepayers, is it to be at that of the paupers ? Are we to have no choice but the hateful one between economy which is cruel, and humanity that is wasteful ? An intelligent community will not thus be baffled or befooled. We are not a stupider or more selfish people than our neighbours ; and we know to our shame that there is no country in Christendom where there is so much money squandered every year in the mis-relief and un-relief of the poor. We want, as was well pointed out by Mr. Mundella and Mr. W. H. Smith, a thorough and complete change of system ; and struggling ratepayers and snubbed guardians may make np their minds that. until this is insisted on, pauperism and poor rates will both go on continuing to increase. • The John Bull asks if there is any alternative scheme which could at once increase the efficiencyof our Episcopal rule, and of our Cathedral system? For we maintain that the interests of the canons and of cathedrals are not to he over-looked in order to effect even so laudable an object - as the increase of the Episcopate. The scheme which h supposed to find most favour with those who desire at once to increase the Episcopate and the efficiency of our chapters, has for its keystone the enforcing of constant residence on the canons—a point which was much insisted on by the Bishop of Salisbury years ago. If, without decreasing the efficiency of our chapters, a scheme can be carried out for having in constant residence, in every _cathedral, a clean and two canons, and the funds of the remaining canonries are applied to increasing the Episcopate, we see no objection to it. But why should Riot a modified adoption of Lord Arthur Hervey's plan of making the archdeacons bishops (in certain cases) be woven into this scheme ? The cathe drals were first robbed of their revenues, an d then abused for not • carrying into practice the theory of their foundation. 'They had, in fact, to make bricks withont straw, and nobly they have ilohe so. We deny emphatically that they are unpopular. 'Wherever, as at York, L'lv, Norwich, Hereford, and Che,ter, they are confided to the care of deans with their heart in the system, the people flock to hearty services within them. The money that has been raised to restore ti.ei» has been.very large. Only this week a meeting has been Lehi et Wells take steps for a further restoration, and even the Welsh cathedrals, with their poor funds, are being magnificently adorned. Every day we hear of additional services in the naves of our mother churches. Winchester is the latest example: Against cathedral spoliation, therefore, we lift up our voice. We know well the value of stalls as homes for learned divines, who by their wisdom instruct the Church. But in these days the scholar canon, like the Bishop of Lincoln, who was so active in practical work at 'Westminster, must combine the work of an evangelist with that of a divine; and much as we should regret to see the number of canons diminished, we confess that, failing any other scheme for increasing the Episcopate, we should reluctantly agree to to it, "provided residence was enforced on the remaining Punter§ A tilq. c4.11P0F.,1'. LAW AND POLICE. THE NAME OP MURDER AT BrnaTlNa HAlL—Samuel Rogers, the old man who is charged upon his own alleged confession with the murder of George Tollett, by pois , , n, at Birmingham, in July last, was brought up on r: dtaand at the police-court in that town, on Fridavd, but the police had not completed their inquiries, an d a further remand till Friday next was, theretor(asked for and granted. The magistrates :agreed to accept two sureties in £25 each for the prisone;'s appearance, if he could find persons willing to enter ilito recognisances for him. The impression in the town ; is that the case will break dow n . There is only one witness—the old soldier, named Gallagher—to swear that the prisoner confessed. The other witnesses can only prove that the prisoner was silent when Gallagher alleged in his presence that he had con fessed. ASSAULT UPON A WM.-Mr. Thomas Lechmere, of Fownhope Court, who had been in custody on Monday on a charge of having violently assaulted his wife, has been brought up on remand, and ordered to be imprisoned for one day, and to enter into a bond of £lOO to keep the peace for twelve months. THE CHARGE AGAINST THE DIRECTORS OF THE JOINT-STOCK BANK. -.6. At the Mansion House, yesterday, Mr. Charles E. tward Mangles, Mr. Thomas Bradshaw, and Mr. James Abbiss, three of the directors of the English Joint-Stock Bank, and Mr. Samuel Greenway Finney, the manager, again appeared before the Lord Mayor to undergo another exa mination upon the charge of publishing false statements in the balance-sheet of the bank, and also with conspiring together to defraud the shareholders and the public. Mr. G. Lewis conducted the prosecution. The defen dants were represented by Mr. Metcalfe, Mr. Poland, Mr. Ormerod, Mr. Montagu Williams, and Mr. Straight, barristers. Mr. Oswald Howell, the accountant, was further examined on behalf of the prosecution. He prodaced the register of the transfer of shares of the company, and said that on the 30th of November, 1865, twenty shares in the company were transferred from Charles Worters, to Robert John Short, the consideration money being £260. In November 1865 the number of shares in the company held by Mr. Laurie was 500, and he commenced disposing of these shares on the 19th of December, and between that day and the 16th of January, 1866, he sold 425 shares. On the 26th of October, 1864, Mr. George Young, another director, held 150 shares, and in November 1865 he held 105 shares, and the whole of these shares were sold by him between the 30th of November, 1865, and the sth of January, 1866. Mr. Andrew Laurie and Mr. Young were directors of the City Bank as well as the English Joint-Stock Bank, but they retired from the latter at the time they disposed of theft shares. Mr. Bradshaw held fifty shares in the bank, and he retained them down to the period of the stoppage. Mr. Abbiss held 260 shares in the bank in November 1865, and on the 30th of that month he sold a hundred of these shares for a considera tion of five shillings to a person named James Denning, and I Denning sold ten of those shares in the same day for £163155. On the Ist of December Denning sold some more of those shares, and the whole of the remainder were disposed of by Denning in March 1866. The greater portion of these shares were sold at a premium. The defendant, Captain Mangles, held 90 shares originally, but he sold 10 of those shares in May 1864, and the whole of the remainder were held by him down to the stoppage of the bank. Mr. Abbiss also kept the remaining 160 shares that were standing in his name down to the time when the bank stopped. Mr. Finney, the manager, originally held 105 shares, but he sold 75 of the shares on the 16th of December, 1865, to Mr. Maxwell, for the nominal consideration of five shillings. Mr. Lewis said that Mr. Maxwell was a clerk in the bank, but he was not so described on the register of transfer, and there were no means of identifying him. Mr. Howell proceeded to state that it appeared by the register that the whole of the shares, &c., purchased by Mr. Maxwell were sold by him shortly afterwards at a premium. On the 6th of March, 1866, the defendant Mr. Finney sold his remaining 35 shares to a person named Thomas Coles, for the nominal consideration of five shillings, and they were sold by Coles on the 13th of March following. Mr. Howell then stated that .there was an account in the books headed "Jones and others," but, so far as he could discover, the bank had no ens tomers of that name. In December 1853 a sum of ' £525 appeared to have been advanced to Mr. Abbiss, and this sum was expended in shares. At this time Mr. Abbiss had no private account at the bank, but an account was opened in January 1866, by paying in the sum of 2718 in two sums. Mr. Abbiss, however, did not appear to have been debited with the sum of £523 that had been advanced to him. No mention also appeared to be made of the amount as a loan. It did not appear by the ledger what number of shares were purchased with the £523, but Mr. Abbiss appeared to have sold a number of shares to the same Mr. Maxwell on the 4th of May, 1860, for the nominal consideration of five shillings, and 1 the bank stopped on the following day. When this took place Mr. Abbiss still held 100 shares in the bank. Mr. Howell then said that the whole of the cheques of the bank, including the one for £523, had dis appeared, and he was unable to obtain po3sersion of any of them. Mr. Howell went on to say that a sum of £B9O appeared to have been advanced to Captain Mangles under similar circumstances, but neither of the items appeared in the balance-sheets. The only mention of these sums in the books was under the head - of "Jones and others," to which he had referred, and in the " share suspense account." Mr. Howell, in conclu sion, said that a sum of £25,000 appeared to have been advanced to Captain Mangles. Captain Mangles here observed that good security was given by him for this money, and the whole amount had been repaid with 11-per cent. interest. In answer to a question, put by Mr. Metcalfe in cross. examination, Mr. Howell said that it was the custom to treat preliminary expenses as assets. He observed that in the transaction relating to the loan of £lO,OOO for the purchase of shares, Mr. Bradshaw's name did not appear in any way whatever. Some further evidence was then gone into, but the case for the prosecution was not concluded. The Marquis of Clauricarde will proceed with his Irish Land Bill after Whitsuntide. SINGULAR ACCIDENT AT ASTLEY'S THEATRE. A singular accident occurred at Astley's Theatre during the performance of the "Battle of Waterloo " the other night. In one of the scenes, Napoleon, accompanied by his staff, rides on to the stage,. On this occasion an aide de-camp's horse suddenly became restive and unmanage able. It pranced about the stage, then backed on to the footlights, which it smashed, and finally fell backwards into the orchestra, throwing its rider, and creating con siderable alarm among the occupants of the stalls. The musicians tried to eecape from the dangerous proximity of their unwelcome and unexpectant visitant ; but one had his collar-bone broken, and had to be conveyed to the hospital. The damage done to the instruments was con siderable. Violins, violoncellos, flutes, and flageolets were broken to atoms, and the music was torn and scattered in every direction. The horse was with some difficulty extri cated, after a delay of about twenty minutes. THE NORTH NORFOLK ELECTION PETITION . On Friday the trial of the petition against the sitting members of North Norfolk was continued at Norwich before Mr. Justice Blackburn. Further evidence was given as to bribery and treating, with which the case for the prosecution closed. After that Mr. Rodwell, Q.C., pro ceeded to address the court on behalf of the sitting mem bers. The learned counsel observed that, with the excep tion of scheduled persons at Yarmouth, no distinction appeared to exist between the acts of Sir E. Lacon and Mr. Walpole. He (Mr. Rodwell) must say that Mr. Serjeant Ballantine had indulged in an amount of exag geration which could only be justified by the ignorance of those who instructed him. Certain persons had volun tarily acted for the sitting members in their own little localities, and had extended hospitality to various persons without any communication with the professional agents appointed in each polling district, and who were in com munication with Mr. Diver, the central agent. The learned counsel proceeded to refer to the various cases of intimidation complained of. THE HEBREW BlBLE.—During the gatherings of the past week a small party of friends had an opportunity of hearing from Dr. Ginsberg the result of those investi gations among the great continental libraries which he has now for some time been prosecuting in the hope of furthering a rescensionof the text of the Hebrew Bible. In these inquiries many Congregationalists have taken consider able interest. Dr. Ginsberg has found, and with immense labour copied, several valuable Alasoretic MSS., especially at Halle, where he lit upon an " Ochla vi Ocilla," a Massora, commencing with those words, which he has good reason to believe once belonged to Elias Levita, a famous Talinn:list oF the ninth century, and which was avowedly incorporated with the more recent Masmas to which reference is generally made. It may suffice to explain for the unlearned reader that a Masora is a sort of complicated concordance of the Hebrew Scriptures, with critical notes upon almost every word and letter, • fixing their pronunciation, force, and meaning. Dr. Ginsberg intends to publish a complete Masora, perfected by the collation of every Accessible MS., with a list of references to chapter and verse in English, so as to make this hitherto most obscure and difficult work available to all Hebrew scholars. He has already with great labour copied several of the principal MSS., and is about to re sume his researches in Spain, Palestine, audpesiy ,StagigraburiliAZDAPElLMJ . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1869. .....m. amm.m. 4 MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. to bound off to catch a stray passenger or to taxe a fare, to proclaim his destination until he is hoarse, and to note down all his fares in the way-bill. We have just been celebrating the memory of " The Factory King," who originated the Ten Hours Bill. Why does not some Richard Oastler arise 1 o do battle for the 'bussmen ? Better still, why do not the 'bussmen organise in their own behalf ? There is no other occupation the members of which would consent to work such long hours for such small pay. in gold is owing to the bears' buying largely to cover short contracts. The violent fluctuations in gol•.l have unsettled values and caused a partial sus pension of business generally." This is one of the effects of the unsettled relations between the na tions. Mr. Blow has been appointed United States Minister to Rio Janeiro, and General Sickles has been nominated to Spain. Mr. Blow sails imme diately to replace General Webb, who has himself but lately returned to his post from a visit to New York. General Webb considers that General M'Mahon, the Minister to Paraguay, failed in his duty to him in passing by Rio without showing bin), as the superior officer, his full instructions. Ile addressed 'a formal note requiring the Minister to Paraguay not to proceed beyond Buenos Ayres until he had communicated with Washington ; but, in direct violation of this, General WlNlalion " became a party to Admiral Davis's " disgraceful ,collusion with Lopez." It is considered that General Webb took an unjustifiable view of his position in addressing such a note to a Minister accredited to another Power ; that he misconstrued the mean ing of the precedence of rank the mission to Brazil carried, into a right to control the other diplomatists of his country on the South American continent. 'We regret that these paltry squabbles should so often arise in the diplomatic branch as they are productive only of harm to the individuals who indulge in them, while derogating from the dignity of the service. Americans are apt to carry ►hat they take up into even greater extravagances than their British cousins. There are no lower Low Churchmen and no higher High Churchmen than in the United States. From a revival to a Christ Church ceremo nial in the Episcopal Church of Fifth-avenue, New York, the distance is wider than anything in the line of theology that obtains in England. The Rev. Dr. Ewer is the rector, and on the 3d inst., his church was the scene of a ceremony which astonished the citizens, having for it object the formal adoration of the Cross. The building was darkened, while the chancel blazed with light. A colossal brazen cross was erected on the altar, before which knelt the priests and acolytes. Various processions moved around the church, with boys in surplices, bearing wax-burners and crosses in front. The fellows of " the guild of the Holy Cross," in whose behalf the service was performed, took their places robed in black gowns and chasubles, some of bright red, others blue, trimmed with white and grey, orna mented with gold, while on the bosom of each a large cross was embroidered. Hymns expressive of reverence for the symbol of Christianity were sung, and St. Albans, which hitherto hAs been considered the most advanced church in Ritualism, has lost its proud pre-eminence in New York ; fashion having now transferred the highest high Churchism to its favoured spot, Fifth-avenue. Expeditions are asserted to have left the United States for Cuba, carrying succour to the insurgents, and as strenuously denied. The coasting steamer Perit sailed from New York on the 4th inst. with some picked men and arms and ammunition. There were fe w Americans among the party; not more than ten, with six negroes. About 500 stand of arms were embarked, and each man had a rifle and uni form. The vessel lay at the foot of Christopher street, North River, with her stern covered with canvas, so as to conceal her name, but it was not till the last day that the United States Marshal was informed of what was ping on ; when he telegraphed to Secretary Fish for instructions, which he re ceived on the morning of the 6th, directing great vigilance to be observed by the Government offi cers to prevent any violation of the neutrality laws. The Marshal, whose deputies were aware of the movement, asserts he has no right to detain vessels sailing from New York, without orders from Wash ington, but it is hinted that he took care not to be informed of what was going on till the vessel was about to leave. Intelligence was sent to the Cuban authorities from Washington, and as the destination is Dead Man's Island, one of the Florida Keys, the exit is likely to b 3 picked up by a Spanish cruiser before her voyage is completed. Two or three sus picious vessels are now under surveillance, and the action of the Government at Washington is so de cided that the insurgents being likely to rec,dve little further aid from the United States arch] loud lament; the organ of the Junta in New York, The Revolution, thus bursts into bitter complaint : " There is not a steamer that sails from Cuba which does not carry out magnificent supplies and armaments for our enemies, Ur) Spaniards. Their troops have arms that have been constructed in some model workshop of the model Republic, with the sanction of the Government; an l those arms only go thire to slaughter defenceless Repub licans, to murder bravo and noble men, whose first act, upon asking for their liberty, was to grant the same to their slaves. -Is this neutrality ? No ; a thousand times no !" General Lee's interview with the President has been productive of good fruit for Virginia, as we learn by telegram from Washington, dated last Sunday, that President Grant has issued a procla mation ordering an election to take place on the 6th of July in that State, on the new State Consti tution. He orders at the same time that a separate vote should be taken on the sections of the Consti tution which disfranchise participants in the re bellion, and which enforce the test oath for officials assuming office. At a meeting of the Union League of America, lately held in New York, a delegation was elected to confer with the President and Cabinet on the affairs wherein the Union League are interested. They met the Executive on the sth inst., and in formed the President that their main object was to strengthen and hold together the Republican party and its principles, and as quickly as may be to restore the three unreconstructed States into the Union. Tile President had thesupport of the League, which would use its great power to make his a dministration a suceess. For this the President returned thanks, and expressed his gratification. He told them what steps he bad taken to restore those States, and mentioned the instructions he had given General Canby re garding the election in Virginia, which were similar in tenour to those reported by the cable. He also in formed the committee that from the best informa tion he could gather be was satisfied the Constitu tion would be adopted. The Washington Government furnishes an -in stance of the truth of the saying, " Give a dog a bad name, and you may bang him." The Wash ington correspondents are always getting up sensa tional statements of what the President thinks, the Secretary of State says, or what the Secretary of the Treasury advises; but it is found on examina tion that the action of these Cabinet Ministers very closely resembles that of other Cabinet Ministers of great nations. In Cuba it is now seen that General Grant's course is in strict conformity with interna tional law. In reply toMinisterlOsecrans' application, tile President has quitely informed Consul Brink,who was se.nt with the despatches relating to the cession of Mexican territory, that the United States had no need for more territory, and declines to purchase any. Oo this point all the Cabinet are agreed, so Mr. Seward's spread-eagle policy has received an effectual check, and Juarez must seek elsewhere to replenish his exchequer. Wby not run a loan on a g ll yet the s t i h a e u g London 18 m 66 a ,rk the e t, ofvoery, ofn of fools w o l i s t h a s r t e a n n d o i t n killed, and it is better to offer 30 per cent. and pay nothing than sell territory t o a nat i on he dare not cheat. Governor Curtin is President of the East India Telegraph Company, and he has lately been in l• Washington to push the objects of that corporation wtth regard to the introduction of telegraphy in ( 'hi ult. When Mr. Burlingame was American Minister at Peking he obtaine I for the company a grant autho- rizing them to lay a cable between Shanghai and Canton, and now 500 miles of their wire is ready to ship and lay down, while the remaining 500 will be finished and forwarded during the summer. His interviews were with the Secretaries of State and of the Navy, to procure for the work the offi cial aid of the Ministers and Consuls. From the Navy Department he has obtained orders to the commanders of the Asiatic squadron to render all necessary assistance and protection. If the line be completed this year, as well as that through the Mediterranean Sea to India and China, the remotest parts of China will be iu immediate connection round by Europe with San Francisco. The President is reported at Washington to have said that he would take no action about the Spanish Mission till July Ist, the date on which General Hale's resignation takes effect. General Grant had been assured by the Minister and his friends that he could explain away the charges brought against him of smuggling goods into Spain, and prove them to be false. It was clearly understood, then, that time was to be given to allow him to do so, and therefore it was with some surprise we re ceived the message from Washington of Tuesday to the effect that Mr. Hale bad been suspended from his functions as United States Minister at Madrid, and General Sickles nominated as his Successor. Mr. M. D. Conway is reported to have said at the last meeting of the Aborigines' Protection So ciety that the Abolitilm of Slavery by Great Britain in the West Indies led to its abolition in the United States ; that lie had often seen slaves fleeing fur protection to Canada ; and that be trusted the time 'would never come when the British flag sheuld cease to fly in North America. We would like to hear Mr. Conway's reasons for stating that hope, and there are few men better able to exprLss opinions, or whose opinions when expressed ought to be received and coubidered with more respect. Mr. Conway, though a Virginian, is thoroughly Northern in sentiment, but in the utterance of this wish he differ s w id e l y f rom t h ese w i t h w h om h e i n general agrees. Whether a single Government for the Continent be not too great a luxury for this world we cannot tell, for such an experiment as that Americans desire to see tried in North America has never as yet been made. What some assert may be true, that a nation may require to be balanced by a nation as a party by an oppbsition, and this is a legitimate subject for discussion. All we seek in taking the opposite view is the highest good of the Anglo-Saxon race; and if we thought with Mr. Conway that that would be best achieved by maintaintaing British sovereignty in North America, we would not have advanced the argu ments we have so often done. Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and now Illinois, have established Boards of State Charities, with Presidents and Secretaries. Rhode Island will probably follow suit, the Legislature making an appropriation for the purpose. In Illi nois William Thomas, of Morgan County, has been chosen President, and a salaried Secretary is to be appointed after the board meets at Jacksonville. Governor Geary bas not yet selected, the Pennsyl vania board, but it is understood that the present superintendent of education, Mr. I. P. Wickersham, and Ex-Governor Bigler, will be two of its mem bers. The. State of Indiana has altered her law on divorce. Persons filing applications must have re sided in the State for one year and in the county for 90 days. It is made a felony to misrepresent the circumstances, and the, punishment of impri sonment includes any attorney lending his assist ance in procuring a divorce through fraudulent means. Indiana has therefore ceased to be the divoilbe-manufacturing State of the Union, and the " incompatibility of temper" of the outside public must seek a separation elsewhere. The New York Tribune maintains its vigorous stand against the growing and strengthening Free Trade " heresy." There are signs that, strong as is the leading Republican journal, it will have enough to do to bear up against the increasing torrent. The Free Trade League at Boston, with the financier, Mr. Atkinson, at its head, seek from the Massachusetts Legislature an Act to incorporate the Guardian Newspaper Company, under which they propose to establish a new daily paper. The telegraph news appears to be monopolized in Boston by the Boston journals now established, outside which a new organ would find itself, and it there fore might be the wiser plan to buy an old paper. Theodore Tilton came down on the Rev. Dr. Storrs in an article published in the New York independent. so sarcastic as to excite the indignation of Brooklyn, The reverend gentleman is strong in the affections of a large class, and his character stands so high that, however able such articles may be, they tend more to the injury of the gun from which they are fired than of the target at which they are directed. The general tone of the press in the Young-Dana affair is against Mr. Young, his letters being consi sidered crushing evidence of the abuse of his posi tion. Doubtless jealousy may give some colouring to the crow of denunciation over the Tribune, and its young, able, but unscrupulous editor. Never theless, they one and all censure the animus of the New York Sun, and set aside with contemp: , its running commentary on the letters. Senator Sprague's little difficulty spreads and grows Litter, though carded from the Capitol of the nation into " little Rho ly's" own State. The Mayor of Providence, Mr. Thomas A. Doyle, has ranged himself resolutely among the Sprague men ; and as he will shortly he a candidate for re-election the other side have fastened on hint to test the strength of what the 7 ribune calls the Montagues and Capulets. We imagine that the publication of the pile of correspondence in the Congressional Globe has let a good many cats out of bags, and produced much irritation. Among these letters was one from Mr. Doyle, which has caused the late dis union in Providence. Another letter is from a prominent citizen of that town, who repeated what was said at a meeting of Bank directors, and it was on this that Mr. Sprague opened his first battery against the Providence Journal. If the Senator bas raised up a host of enemies his outspoken denun ciation of corruption suits the temper of the times, and the fearless way in which he has performed this duty is in itself no bad recommendation to the American people. On the whole, Mr. Sprague has not lost prestige, though a terrific storm of abuse has been hurled at him. The Erie Railway will make its name famous in the history of New York. Its directors lose no opportunity of fighting, and wherever there is hot wat , r or water to be made hot there is seen to be a Gould, a Lane, or a Fisk. The Postmaster-Gene ral has been informed by Mr. Gould that the Erie will refuse to carry the mails unless the department raises the remuneration from $lBO,OOO to $330,000, a demand he declines to grant. The Erie receives per mile for the carriage of the mails what the'New York Central and other roads get, but it is little less than ridiculous to expect that so erratic a com pany to remain satisfied when classed with the common herd. Their attack on the Union Pacific appears to have failed, for although it is nominally kept before Judge Barnard's Court, the proceedings are suspended. The case is being tried by Judge Nelson of the United States Court, whether a State Court can control a national corporation like the Union Pacific Railroad. That company has brought an action against Mr. Fisk for the injury caused by his • operations to their credit and business, suing for very heavy damages. Mr. Fisk must have a lively law time, as he has another action coming on against an editor of the New York limes, while Gould and Lane arrested C. L. Bushnell in the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the sth inst. Yet Mr. Fisk, with these endless suits pending, buys properties in every direction, each of which requires the closest attention and the whole time of its proprietor if be be an ordinary man. His last purchase is " The Continental," the largest hotel at Long Branch, New Jersey, which he will open to the public this The Chicago Tribune has a severe article on the recent appointments of the President. Never before had a matt such a chance of forming a powerful Administration ; on the day of his inauguration he may safely be saicito have been the strongest man in Christendom. Yet only two months have passed away, and it cannot be affirmed that there is a strong Administration. " Its moral power has been frittered away by small absurdities, and there never was one with more good intentions at heart, and less aptitude for carrying them into effect." There is no thubt about the fact that some bad appoint ments have been made ; but this it is impossible to avoid among the Abomands. The President could only judge of characterand fitness through the temi inonials,and even Mr. Ashley received 150 signatures of Congressmen. Gen. Grant's fault appears to have been in yielding to the pre:sure of the politicians, and acting on theold rotation system against which he was expected to make a vigorousstand. The London cor respondent of the Nen, York 7 ribune takes great ex ception to the supercession of Captain John Brit ton, Consul at Southampton, by Mr. Willi am Thomson. Captain Britton had to withstand the storm of -rebel sympathizers, -which the correspon, dent asserts raged strongest at Southampton, with the exception of Liverpool. His words are , 4 mobs attacked the office, tore down the flag, and pulled off even the door-plate that bore the hated name of the United States," which we reproduce to give the inhabitants of Southampton the opportunity of con tradicting them, if exaggerated. The dignity and courage of Captain Britton, under the circumstances, extorted the respect even of his enemies. The cor respondent then contrasts Mr. William Thomson, who was President Buchanan's Consul at the same town, holding that post when the war broke out, and asserts that he openly took active part in the rebel lion against the Government., whose commission he held. The correspondent then hauls the Consul- General of London over the coals. That able officer, the Hon. Freeman Morse, he believes, was a go od second-rate Congressman and a faithful adherent of Senator Fessenden. He alludes to a report that Mr. Morse has made a fortune by commercial enterprizo during his term, and is an owner of ships sail lii' under the British fl ig. Whatever good Mr. Morse may have done has been more than counterbalanced, Mr. Smalley thinks, by the injury his "Johnsonism'' has caused the country. Ile wal always, says this correspondent, on Mr. Andrew Johnson's side, and, like some other European officials, lost no opcortu nity to pervert public opinion by attacks upon Con gress and the Republican majority in it. Mr. horse is well able to take care of himself, and can r eply if he thinks fit to Mr. Smalley, who intends that he should, and openly states that he alludes to re ports, the truth of which he does not know, to give Mr. Morse the opportunity of contradicting them• Although we know'Mr. Smalley to be mistaken in some of his remarks, Mr. Morse can, as we before observed, take care of himself, and show this if he thinks fit to reply. At the 53d public anniversary of the Peace So' ciety, held last Tuesday, there was an interesting discussion on the relations between the two greet branches of the Anglo-Saxon race. The report of the Committee hoped that if statesmen could not agree there would be enough of Christianity among the people to interpose an effectual barrier against any attempt to cut the Gordian knot by hurling the two foremost nations of the world into the blood,' abyss of war. Mr. Charleton, after speaking 'O ll to the point, moved a resolution, calling on all Christian men on both sides of the Atlantic to us e their best efforts for that end. It was when sup' porting this motion that the Rcv. C. 11. A. Dall of Boston asserted that Mr. Sumner's speech had 0 0t been fairly reported by the London papers, extracts which untruthfully conveyed its meaning only being given. We regret that the Times did not let till' English people judgeof its tone by publishing all If; Sumner's own words. Mr. Dail fairly sum m arized the speech, adding that that summary was not the meaning attached to it by the English press. r -r l ' e Rev. Newman Hall differed from him as to t ll6 meaning conveyed by th a t ce l e b rate d speech, a nd quoted the words o f a l e t ter h e h a d j ust rece ivej from a disti ngu i s h e d A mer i can c l ergyman, to prove that the impressio n it conveye d to t h e E ng lish mind of the American view was the correct on e ' lib urged that if England could be shown to 13 0° acted wrongly she ought to apologize. We are gla d to observe, from the Report, that the Peace Sociel makes considerable progress in fostering an an ti• War feeling, and it i s a t j unc t ures lik e t h e pr esen t that such machinery can be most effectually 019. ployed. _ A riot is reportel to have occurred at 14 1 Orleans between the poli ce an d t h e peop l e on We': nesJay, and order was only restored by the troops after several persons h a d b een more o r 1e5 . 0 wounded. From Hongkong the telegraph new s . l o to April 28—" A pl acar d h a d b een c i rcu l a ted China denouncing foreign missionaries, and styli them barbarian wol ves . I t i s rumoured that a hig h Chinese official at P e ki n h as s l appe d the Fre°i l Ambassador on the f ace , an d th a t hi s E xce lleoe : 7 , has, in consequence, haul e d d own hi s flag. It I 5 believed that the Pekin G overnmen t i s in gre et fear of further encroachments by Russia." hOt The trial for murJer o f H. J. Ch a l oner, who s - Ensign Whitaker, ter m i na t e d a t Ott awa, Canada, o e t b, vf ," sth inst. Th e j ur y was l oc k e d up all the night, when 01'; they returned a ver di c t o f not gu i lty. On Chaloner l e ' ing the dock the Canadians had the bad ta,to to che'lf ir : man who was n e ith er more nor l ess than a murderer. " know nothing. of Ensign Whit a k er, nor o f t h e ciresni:, stances which led t o hi s d eat h . B ut this we do 10°. that Chaloner, armed wish a revolver, shot an uno o 7, and unprepared man. In olden days when this mode of ,er l carat ion was t a k en by " men o f h onour " they sco ne d tI LL any provocation to s tand on o th er th an equa l grou nd ` v;oi ilf their adversary, and th e man mos t b out on taking the' I 'd into his own hand and constituting himself both judg 6 3 of executioner offered him he designed to kill the cboi c° # weapons. Society in C ana d a w ill no t i mprove by spectacle as a murder e r b e i ng c h eere d , on hi s acquitt3, 110 a jury, of a crime com m itt e d i n b roa d d ay li g h t. Per-,`fot he was tried on the ca pit a l c h arge w hil e a conv i c tios manslaughter only could have been obtained. BY !u m accounts we learn thi s was th e case, and the jury, Wit- A only alternative of h ang i ng th e l a d , were comPsilel, acquit him. The l aw , th en, i s i n fault; but, i t i s Aof that the provocation the boy's family had received °- the worst character. In consequence of Mr. Reverdy Johnson's d e rthe ture, Lord Boughton, president of the Fund, will tak e chair at the Newspaper Press Dinner, at Willis's - r °° of on the sth June. Mr. Johnson declined the i n vitati ° the Mayc,r and B oroug h C ounc il of 4outbampt oo to o farewell banquet. For a few days, he wrote, " OW il tje, recent occurrences to which it i s on l y nece.,:sary to P . ' 9 9 apprehensions were entertained that such a misfortuo„oil war might possibly occur ; th ese I am gra tified to ci have already ceased to exist." Mr. Johnson left fic ° a p last Thursday, and embarks in the North o°llll Lloyd's Company's steamer Ohio, for Baltimore to-daPtio Cyrus W. Fie)." apologized for his absence at o p 53d anniversary of the Peace Society last Tuesdays vi a to it was announced he wo u ld s p ea k. 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London : Printed and Published by W1LL.1.A.31 ,- .-- -A ilp r t rtft 3' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN 011100, NO. 11 _, 2 ,,i' poeV in he Precinct of the Savoy, in the I..ounty a At iuw- Saturday, Aby 22, 1869: A POLITICIAN DOWN EAST. Great Yarmouth is disfranchised for bribery. Norwich is at least temporarily undergoing the same fate. Meanwile politicians in that delightfully pure district do not seem deterred by the punishment which has fallen upon it; but, probably believing that their time is short, are making the most of their " votes and interest " for the short residue that they will enjoy them. The election petition for North Nor folk which is now goingon has led to some remarkable disclosures. These, however, should surprise no one, seeing that the oft-petitioned-against Sir E. Lacon is one of the subjects of the present inquiry. A certain Norwich shoemaker, Vines by name, has been doing some very dirty work indeed, and is propor tionately proud of it. lie was employed to " persuade the Liberal electors at Yarmouth to vote for the Conservative candidates. After the election he stated that lie had received from the Con servative party £.lO to spend in bribery. Examined with regard to this statement in court, he declared that it was untrue, and that the Liberals had promised to give him £2 for making it. lle made various other statements to the Liberal solicitor, and all these statements he declared to be untrue in court. There was some applause from the Conservatives present at hearing this, but Justice Blackburn sternly repressed it, and said the man, by his own account, was behaving in a most disgraceful manner, and that any person should applaud was a thing not to be tolerated. The judge added that he did not believe a word which Vines had stated, and he trusted that no one, either in Norwich or Yarmouth, would ever disgrace himself by being in company with one who had disgraced himself out of his own mouth. Clearly political morals down east are of a very low standard; rather, they do not exist at all. ANOTHER CONVERT TO THE BALLOT. Viscount Milton announces his adhesion to the Ballot. In a recent speech at Holmfirth, his lordship said he was for some time opposed to the reform— he had disliked, he still disliked, the system which pre vailed in America. What he had seen there had given him a great distaste for the Ballot. The ques tion was surrounded by so many abstract principles that it was most difficult to grapple with. But a little practical experience had converted him. What he perceived during the last election had convinced him most completely that, however incomplete the American system of the Ballot might be, and very often was, it was an absolute necessity in this country. A MINISTER'S POLITICS. Dissenters who are wont to point the finger of scorn at the political clergyman, and to denounce any act of petty tyranny on his part, are not them selves altogether free from the use of undue influence. Only the position is in most cases reversed. The threats of a minister to his congregation would be laughed at ; not so the threats of the members of a congregation towards their pastor. The Rev. W. H. Ramsay, of North-place Chapel, Cheltenham, has, if report speaks truly, had to bear a gentle pressure, on account of his political opinions. According to the Conservative papers, this gentle man holds opinions adverse to the disestablish ment of the Irish Church. He had the temerity to indicate them by voting for a Conserva tive at the election. The powers that ruled in his chapel were much disgusted with him, and straight way took means to get him out of his place. They withdrew loans they had made to the chapel, gave him the cold shoulder, stayed away from his ministry, and finally insisted upon hi s res ignation. Surely a pun:s!nnent very far exceeding the offence. TEETOTAL MUSIC-BALLS. Mr. Disraeli gave as one of the reasons for Irish discontent that the people had no amusements. In this country—especially in the metropolis—plenty of amusement is provided ; but most of it is so thoroughly degrading, so indissolubly mixed up with the worst kind of vice—drunkenness and debauchery— that the Puritan is almost justified in objecting to amusement altogether. There is a cry just now, however, for a music-hall without drink and the usual attendants of these places. Good entertain ments, good refreshments, a good hall, must, of course, be the attractions. The idea is at least worth entertaining; but these attractions, alas! are not what call the greater number of our men to the scandalous institutions of the day. TIIE SUNDAY QUESTION. A demonstration of the working men of London on the Sunday question was held on Thursday, and a series of resolutions passed, declaring very emphati cally against Sabbatarianinn. It was set forth that every day was the Lord's day; that the devotion of one day in seven to rest and recreation was most beneficial ; but that the contemplation of works of art was in keeping with the character of the day so set apart. Those holding " modern Pharisaic doctrines " were not condemned ; they were in effect told that they might do as they liked; but the meeting was determined that they should not dictate to, or domi neer over, those who held different views. They would let no man judge them in respect to the observing of days or the keeping of SabbAths, IMPORTANT TO GAS CONSUMERS. A curious case at Edmonton has revealed a fact which will hardly be generally known. A man fell behind with his gas bill to the amount of some thing more than six pounds. The gas company put in a distraint; but there were no goods. The company then brought the man before one of the magistrates, and called attention to a clause in one of the Acts passed some seventeen years back, which provided that if there were no sufficient distraint, the man might be imprisoned for two months. And committed to gaol the man was, the warrant ordering him to be kept to hard labour. Surely something must be wrong here. CAMBRIDGE AND THE SCHOOLMASTERS. One of the most hopeful signs of the times, from the educational point of view, is the growing oo t nvic on of the schoolmasters that their prof ession is not in the satisfactory state it ought to be. Some time ago a Scholastic Registration Association was formed in order to secure a higher status of proficiency among those who undertake the important duty of teaching. Communications were opened between this association and the University of Cambridge in order to devis e some means b y w hi c h th e university should test schoolmasters. The syndicate have re commended that the Council of the Senate should be empowered to admit to any one or more of the uni versity examination s suc h app li can t s as may f urn i s h evidence that they have been bond fide teachers for the three years immediately preceding the applica tion ; that special cl ass li s t s s h a l l b e prepared, arranged in alphabetical order ; and that persons passing such examinations shall be called licentiates, and receive a certificate. The Council have now, however, decided to postpone action in the matter until the October term, by which time it will be known what decision is arrived at with regard to Mr. Forster's Education Bill. TIIE LORD HIGH CHAMBERLAIN AND THE COUNTESS D'ALTEYRAC. The statements reported to have been made in the Court of Bankruptcy by Madame d'Alteyrac con cerning the non-payment to her of certain moneys owing, under a legal award, by Lord Willoughby, were so utterly at variance with the contradictions and explanations made on Lord Willoughby's behalf that we were in doubt as to whether the Countess had committed perjury or the expla nations were false. From further correspondence on the subject it appears that neither party is to blame. The original report was defective. It is now apparent that Lord Willoughby has paid all moneys; that the Countess has no further reason to complain ; that she did not do so at the Bankruptcy Court; but that what she did find fault with was the large number of reductions made in the money paid to her on account of the legal and other costs. It is to be hoped that we have now heard the last of this moat painful scandal. MR. PETER CUNNINGHAM. We regret to announce the death of Mr. Peter Cunningham, the author. Tie was tho third eon of Allan Cunningham, the poet and was born in 1816. He was educated at Christ's Hospital, and appointed by the late Sir R. Peel to a clerkship in the Audit Office, out of regard to his father. In 1854 he became chief clerk, but left the service in 1860. Mr. Peter Cunningham is best known to the public by his " Handbook of London." He has edited a large number of books, notably the nine volumes of " Horace Walpole's Letters," and a new edition of " Pope's Poems." He was a frequent contributor to the magazines. In 1842 he married the daughter of John Martin, the painter. ANOTHER PLUNGER. The Morning Herald says : " A rumour was current on Thursday that another distinguished name had been added to the long list of noblemen who have owed their ruin to their connection with the turf. We refrain from giving any name, as we still hope the report may he incorrect. It may be added that the family estates are said to be in the handi into which estates usually fall now-a-days, when gambling on the turf necessitates their manageinent." If this rumour be true, the approaching Derby is likely to have a victim only less conspicuous than the last Derby had. Unfortunately the equo-mania has gone too far, and became too general, for the public to be warned by any number of frightful examples." 'BUSSMEN. A contemporary calls attention to the hard life of the 'bussmen. They work sixteen hours a day, and get but a guinea a week for all their toil. The driver suffers from too little exertion, the conductor from too much. The first sits on his box hour after hour, in biting cold or burning heat, and is tempted to take a drink at every stage, either to keep him warm or to quench his thirst. He fails in both objects, and his ruddy face is the sign of congested blood and an enfeebled tone. The ,3enduAter hae ta_haue MAO_ la PPrOailig•&PtlTOk FEMALE BURGESSES. Let the Women's Suffrage Society take heart. Things are making great strides in their favour. A woman has been admitted a burgess of Edinburgh. This is not a modern innovation either ; it is supported on unquestionable precedent, and the Corporation has thus honoured the woman in spite of herself. She did not gain her position by pro tests and bursts of overpowering indignation ; she obtained it while engaged (meek soul) in endeavouring to obtain the honour for her husband. But the Town Council refused to allow her to sacrifice her self for the benefit of that undoubted tyrant, and called upon those who understood these matters to shew cause why the woman's application should be refused. Musty burgh records being referred to, it was found that women who held " stob and staik," and did similarly mysterious things, had of olden time the right of burgess-ship. ller husband not being qualified, she herself was admitted to the freedom of the burgh. THE BUILDING TRADE. The disputes in the building trade still continue in many districts. According to the Beehive, the masons, bricklayers, and carpenters of Sheffield are still out on strike. At Bolton a large employer (Mr. Marsden) has given in, and taken brick his old men ; and Mr. Pope has arbitrated generally upon the whole dispute. At Manchester the masters adhere to the notice, and the men to their determi nation of resisting it. At Leeds several meetings between masters and men have taken place, but with out result. At Bristol there is every prospect of the masons being locked out on the Ist June. At Derby the joiners have agreed with their employers upon a code of working rules. beiegram irom Madrid states that yesterday morning article 33 establishing the monarchy was carried by a majority of 214 to 71; the Republicans all voting in the negative. THE ORIENTAT , PRESS. When the journals which enlighten the dwellers in the neighbourhood of the Levant commit a political offence, they are frequently punished by total suspension for a certain period. This infliction, which would ruin an English paper, seems to do the journals of the East no permanent injury. The Levant Herald was recently sus- pended for a month, but it is now as fresh and lively as ever. The appearance of a Greek paper, the Neologos, has just been prohibited by the Turkish Government for two . months, as a p un i s hment for some very scandalous articles m connection with the recent visit of the Prince of Wales. In mentioning the fact, says the Levant Herald, we are glad to be able to contradict the current report that the Government has acted in the matter on the demand of her Majesty's Ambassador. Mr. Elliot, with proper taste and dignity, left the offending print to the Porte itself and to the just indignation of the public. The conductors of the Neologos, are very contrite. The libels, they say, were written by a strange hand, and published inadvertently. (From the Anglo-American Times) Senator Sumner has had an interview with a correspondent of the New York Herald, and so has General Butler, and the leader of the Senate and the leader of the Representatives are found to differ widely on the Alabama question. Mr. Butler is entirely opposed to finding fault with England for sympathizing with the rebellion, for he considers it to be the right of Anglo-Saxons, more especially Americans, to give aid and comfort to every rebel lion, a practice they ought not lightly to abandon. He makes England ont to be responsible for all the rebellion, and thereby goes twice as far as Senator Sumner. First, England established Slavery in the United States ; then, having fixed that, she emancipated her own slaves, and commenced preaching the wrong of slavery, and the right of emancipation and freedom till she frightened the Southerners into rebellion, when she turned round to aid them, not because the English liked Slavery, but because they hoped to destroy the United States. Butler's policy is always noble, and he advises the " waiting game" till England becomes involved in war when she may safely and at leisure be finished off. Mr. Sumner expresses his surprise that politicians like those in the English Cabinet could have been so deluded. as to negociate a treaty with a Minister who did not represent the people, and appointed by an Administration then out of office Once or twice he thought of calling Mr. Thornton's attention to this, but concluding that he had no right to do so, he let the matter drift. We cannot help thinking that Mr. Sumner overlooks the injury done to the prestige of American Ministers abroicl, as well as to the Ex:cutive at Washington, by the view he thus expresses. The setting aside of the Treaty with Den mark for the purchase of St. Thomas's and of the Johnson , Clarendon Treaty for the settlement of the Alabama claims will not encourage foreign nations to negociate with the United States, as the posi tion is unfair, the Treaty signed by the Ministers - being binding on foreign nations, but not binding on the United States. At Alba❑y, in the Assembly, after a hard fight, the City and Counties Tax Levies were passed by 64 to 57. The majority was composed of Demo crats, with whom twentyßepublicans joined to carry through what was denounced as a bare-faced swindle, for, as amended, it is believed that the additions to the Levies, as passed by the Senate, amount to between four and five millions of dollars. One reduction only was made, and that was in the estimate for the new Court-house coming down from two millions to $750,000. The press storm, the taxpayers, and the property owners fret and fume, but Tammany divides the plunder, and laughs at the miserable sheep it shears. The story that the paddlewheel steamer Arago, once so well known on the line between Falmouth and New York, had been despatched with a thou sand, drilled, trained, and uniformed men to rein force the i❑surgent army in Cuba, turns out to be untrue. She was chartered by the Peruvian Minis ter to convey stores to his G-3vernment, which he shipped without any attempt at concealment, and with regular papers sailed from New York. Her cargo consisted of commercial stores, with powder and ammunition, but she neither carried arms nor troops, and the Secretary of State was kept fully informed about her. The Spanish Minister at Wash• ington has urged on the attention of the Govern ment a proclamation of neutrality, but Secretary Fish has hitherto declined, nor will the request of the Minister be complied with unless circumstances change. The approaching completion of the Union Pacific Railroad caused great excitement in San Francisco and Sacramento, and grand preparations to observe the event, gusiness was to be suspended, and every body was to have a holiday. There were to be pro cessions, illuminations, and fireworks. A corrcs 7 - pondent from San Francisco says arrangements have been made with the Western Union Telegraph Compfttiy,so that each-atralto of the harnuier on the last spike driven shall be reported simultaneously at New York and San Francisco by telegraph. Beside the silver mounted and polished California tie, a spike of gold, a silver pick, and a silver hammer,for use in the completion of the road, were forwarded to the end of the track. But little 'drawbacks to the general gaiety have arisen. An excursion train from the eastern end a the Central Road, with the Commissioner, General Stanford, and guests, had a narrow escape of being smashed by a largo tree which had fallen across the. line, which was not discovered in time to prevent the locomotive from being thrown off the track and injured. Meanwhile, on the. other road, Vice-President Durant and John Duff were captured at Piedmont Station, North Platte, and locked up. It was 300 road hands who took them for wages, having barricaded the road and un conpl, d the car. The men said they wont] allow nothing but passengers and mails to pass up and down till their demands are complied with, and as they are well armed, and have a wild way of settl ing any opposition under the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, no opposition was offered. Gold has beer:fluctuating violently at New York, and Messrs. Schepeler and Co., a house ha% ing large transactions, have suspended with enormous lia bilities, their operations having proved most disas trous. It was feared that this failure would involve others, and judging by the recent prices and heavy fluctuations, varying from 141 to over 144 in a day ? the market must be in a feverish and unhealthy state, likely to prove disastrous to many, and de structive of honest, legitimate trade. 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