The Sun. — London, England, 1869-12-27 00:00:00

VILE - 22 - 4,p,43cA A :VD OTHER CLAIMS. Some papers are just published shewing the relations between this country and the United States, and the pro gress of the negotiations between them since Mr. Motley's arrival here. President Grant's Government furnish the first despatch, and it is declared that his " sole object " in renewing the correspondence is, to quote the words of Mr. Hamilton Fish, the American Secretary of State, "to state the position and maintain the attitude of the United States in the various relations and aspects of this grave controversy with Great Britain ;" and it is expressly stated that " the United States now make no demand against her Majesty's Government on account of the injuries they feel they have sustained." Mr. Motley, it appears, opened his relations with the Earl of Clarendon by stating that his instructions were of a most amicable character. It naturally devolved on him, as Mr. Reverdy Johnson's successor, to explain why the Convention con cluded with that gentleman had not been ratified. Accordingly he stated that that agreement was unacceptable to all classes and parties in the United States, because it was signed at an inop portune time ; President Johnson and his Govern ment were virtually out of office and their succes sors could not be consulted on the question ; because, further, the Convention embraced only the claims of in dividuals, and had no reference to those of the two Governments on each other; and lastly, because it settled no question and laid down no principle. Mr. Motley pro ceeded to assign the excited state of feeling in the United States as a reason why he wished to defer discussion on the subject, and Lord Clarendon acquiesced, with an intimation, however, that the settlement of the matter was not one to be indefinitely postponed, so as to leave a quarrel held in suspension which either party might revive whenever it felt it convenient to do so for its own interests. It is extremely satisfactory to be informed on the best authority that the excitement and irritation of feeling in the United States, which in June last was too great to admit of the calm and sensible discussion of the points in dispute between the two countries, had passed away four months afterwards. In October Mrsillotley sent to the Earl of Clarendon a long and important des patch, which is the exposition of President Grant's views of the controversy between his Government and that of this country. Mr. Fish takes up, with a cheerful eagerness, the whole story of American wrongs, as he says, " from the very beginning," as Mr. Adams, and Mr. Seward, and Mr. Johnson had written nothing before him. He draws a glowing picture of the felicitous relations which existed between Great Britain and the United States in the year 1860, as if General Harney and the San Juan difficulty had never existed, and as if Mr. Crampton had never been sent away with indignity from Washington. The object of Secretary Fish in drawing this fair picture soon becomes apparent; he wanted a bright ground on which to exhibit a dark spot. The United States, confiding in the amicable sentiments of the British Government, " could not anticipate hostility towards it and special friendship for the insurgents of the acceding States," nevertheless this, according to Mr. Fish, is what it had to encounter. The objects of the Southern insurrection were the secure establishment of a per petual and exclusive slave-holding Republic. "In such a contest the Government of the United States was entitled to expect the earnest good-will, sympathy, and moral support of Great Britain. It was with painful astonishment, therefore, that the United States Government received information of the issue by her Majesty's Government, on the 13th of May, 1861, of a Proclamation which in effect recognised the insurgents as a belligerent Power, and raised them to the same level of neutral right with the United States." Lord Clarendon remarks, in reply, that the States which had seceded from the Union, containing a popu lation of several millions had established a de facto Government, with a President, Congress, Constitu tion, Courts of Justice, Army, and all the machinery of military and civil power, and possessed the ports along upwards of 2,000 miles of coast. "With the exception of Forts Pickens and Munroe, all the Federal posts and forts had been evacuated, including Harper's Ferry, the arsenal of the Potomac valley. Fort Sumter, the only one which had offered resistance, had fallen a month previously, April 13. The Confederate troops were in occupation of the Shenandoah lines, and threatening Washington. The Confederate President had declared war, and called for a levy of 32,000 troops, to which all the seceded States had responded promptly. On the other hand, the Federal President called for 75,000 volunteers on the 15th of April, and for 42,000 more on the 3rd of May, and as fast as the regiments could be armed they were hurrying to the defence of Washington. The contending armies were, indeed, face to face. The operations at sea in which British interests were more directly affected, had been carried on with equal vigour. On the 17th of April the Confederate President issued his proclamation offering to grant letters of marque, which was followed, two days afterwards, by the Federal proclamation of blockade At the date of the Queen's proclamation of neutrality both these hail been carried, or were being carried into effect. The Federal Government had instituted the blockade of Virginia and North Carolina, which was declared to be effective on the 30th of April, and were rapidly despatching all the merchant vessels which they could procure, end which they were able to convert into ships of war, to the blockade of the other ports. The General Parkhill, of Liverpool, was captured by the United States ship Niagara, while attempting to run the blockade of Charlestown, on the 12th of May ; and the British vessels Ililja and Monmouth warned off on the same day. Con federate privateers were already at sea. One was captured at the mouth of the Chesapeake River, on the Bth of May, by the United States ship Harriet Lane. On the 15th' the Federal barque Ocean Eagle, of Rockhead, Maine, was taken by the Confederate privateer Calhoun, off New Orleans. At the same port Captain Semmes had already received his commission, and was engaged in the outfit of the Sumter?' Only one name can be given to such a state of things, and that name is " War." If ever there was war between two formidable Powers it was when the Queen issued this much decried proclamation of belli gerency. Mr. Fish's despatch next treats of the departure of Confederate cruisers from British ports, of supplies furnished to the Confederates by British subjects, and of the indirect injury done to American com merce in consequence of such a state of things. To all complaints coming under these heads we have replies which have been returned again and again. Having consented to an arrangement which was satisfactory to one Government at Washington, we might reasonably have expected that the Government which has succeeded it should point out what it wants beyond that which had already been conceded ; it is, therefore, most unsatisfactory to find that as often as Mr. Fish mentions topic after topic on which either tangible claims should be made, or none at all, we immc d lately read that " the President is not now prepared to speak of the reparation which h e thinks due by the British Government for the larger account of the vast national injuries it has inflicted on the United States "—and so on. We receive, however, the assurance that " when the time for action shall come, the President will consider with sincere and earnest desire that all differences between the two nations may be adjusted amicably and compatibly with the honour of each, and to the promotion of future concord between them." To the invitation with which Mr. Fish's letter concludes that the Queen's Government shall present some new proposition for acceptance or rejection, Lord Chlrendon has ret urne d :—" It i s o b v i ous — an d Mr. Fish will probably on reflection admit—that her Majesty's Government cannot make any new proposition, or run the risk of another unsucc e s s f u l nego ti a ti on , u n til th e y have information. more clear than that which is contained in Mr. Fish's despatch respecting the basis upon which the Government of the United States would be disposed to negotiate." NOVEL PRESENT TO THE QUEEN.—The carg of the mail steamer Norseman, which arrived from the Cape of Good Hope on Tuesday, included a handsome tiger n present to Queen Victoria from the Basuto paramount Chief Moshesh, and a box of diamonds value £2,000. " THE MURDER OUT."—A. gentleman who had carefully trained his servant sent him with a box-ticket for the theatre to a young lady. The servant returned when the gentleman and his wife were at dinner. He had been told in giving answers to certain questions to substi• tute the masculine for the feminine pronoun. "Did you see him ?" said the gentleman, giving him the one. "Yes, sir, he said he'd wait for you." " What was he doing? " asked his wife, carelessly. "He was putting up his back hai-," was the reply. SCENE AT THE CEc umENICA T. Co LI - NCI L. — According to a correspondent of the _Yew Free Press, of Vienna a scene of an extraordinary character has already occurred in the Council. In one of the sittings a Croatian bishop rose to propose that the paragraph in the articles as to the dispatch of business, imposed by the Pope, svhich renders it necessary for every resolution to be submitted to a special commission before it can be discussed by the Council, should be simply struck out. He brought forward several weighty arguments in support of his motion, but as soon as he began to warm with his speech Cardinal de Luca, who presided, interrupted him, and on his continuing his address, rang the bell violently. Cardinal Simor, the Primate of Hungary, rose to support his South Slavonian colleague, but he too was silenced by the cardinal's bell. On seeing this, Msgnr. Dupanloup, the Bishop of Orleans, seized his hat in great angar and left the hall, followed by several of his countryman. The fact that three nations were :concerned in the matter has made au unpleaept impreasion on the Vatican. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. MR. FISH'S DESPATCH. The Time.', in referring to thenewly-publishedcprrespoa donee on the Alabama claims, thinks that one peculiarly American mistake pervades the whole of Mr. Fish's de spatch. It breathes a profound belief that Great Britain was bound to apply altogether different principles in its American policy from those it would assert in its rela tions with other nations. He complains that our Govern ment in declaring its neutrality looked to the mere fact that there were two great armed bodies in a country bordering on its own dominions conflicting with each other. The natural result, in such a state of things would be for the neighbouring Power to desire to maintain a neutral position. If it could not hinder its subjects from trafficking with the one side, it ought not to have attempted to hinder them from lending the same aid to the other. Mr. Fish's view is that we should have allowed the Clyde and the Mersey, Sheffield and Birming ham, to trade in ships and rifles as they pleased with the Northern States of the Union; but he considers that the Government should have prosecuted to the utmost rigour of the existing law, and made new laws for the sake of prosecuting more rigidly, all Englishmen dealing with customers from the Southern States. He forgets that many Englishmen entertained for America, all the kindliness he would claim for his country at the hands of this coun try, but that their predilections were for tha party in American politics which is not Mr. Fish's party. If the United States' Government could not prevent a third of its people from seceding from the rest, it is scarcely strange that the British Government should not have been able to repress all Confederate partisanship among its subjects. Mr. Fish forgets, still further, when he expresses such indignation at the failure of the British Government to insist on all its subjects being as neutral as itself, that a state of w,,r is always a heavy burden on neutrality, and that never has a war been a more grievous calamity to a neutral State than the War of Secession was to England. AN AMERICAN STATFSMAN. The Post observes that the announcement of the death of Mr. Stanton once more brings vividly before our eyes one of the most prominent actors in the great American civil war. Trained to the bar, he accepted the post of Attorney-General on the eve of President Lincoln's elec tion, but scarcely more than a year afterwards he quitted the legal profession to preside over the War Department of the Federal Government. This was in the early part of 1862. The Confederacy was as yet unpenetratcd in any direction. The hills and valleys between the Potomac and the Chickahominy had witnessed more than one campaign utterly fruitless of results to ')e attacking forces. Generals bad been super seded again and again, in vain endeavours to discover some second Napoleon, when the leader of the American Bar was translated to the War office. The experiment was full of risk, but it turned out more successful than those who made it had a right to expect. Entering heart and soul into the duties which devolved on him, and deeply imbued with the righteousness of the object which the war bad ostensibly in view— the abolition of slavery Mr. Stanton compensated for his inexperience by his zeal and his administrative talent. If three years were still destined to elapse before the Federal arms were declared victorious—if many of the acts of the War Department manifested vacillation and caprice—if money was squandered by the Administration in the conduct of the war with. the same recklessness as lives were sacrificed by those to whom the armies of the Republic were entrusted, at least Mr. Stanton is entitled to such credit as attaches to ultimate success, and he might perhaps be justified in maintaining that no one else in his position, with the same materials could have done better, MESSRS. FENIVICK AND SCHNEIDER. The Standard assumes the information of the S'vertator to be correct, and that Messrs. Fenwick and Schneider aro no longer magistrates for Lancnshire. We wish very much the matter could now be allowed to drop. The two ex members for Lancaster have probably been punished heavily enough for their offence. No one can blame them that they sought an honour given to all gentlo men of their wealth and position, and it is not pleasant to us to have to keep before the public the fact of their condemnation several years ago by the royal com missioners. But the matter is one which cannot be allowed to drop. Men whom a resolution of the House of Commons has declared unfit for a particular office have been removed from it. That is so far satisfactory; but what we want to know, what +he country wants to know, is, who appointed them, and upon whose recommendation, at whosa instance, and for what reasons they were appointed? Who surprised the good faith of the Minister ? Who imposed upon the Lord Lieutenant? Whose superior influence led to such a sc9.nda lous to the House of Commons? Was the ap pointment a reward for fidelity to party, for sacrifices at the late elections ? Were gentle men who had " bled" for Mr. Gladstone's ca uso at the general election hoisted, as a reward, into a position of which Mr. Glad stone, when he thought there was a chance of annoying the Tories, had vehemently declared they were unworthy ? Daylight must be let into the affair, even at the cost of keeping Messrs. Fenwick and Schneider before the public for some weeks to conic in an unpleasant attitude. The House of Commons will no doubt require a full explana tion from the Government, and we hope that the great Minister to whom the Spectator mysteriously alludes will be able to shew that the Government have really been victimised, and that it has not, a 3 at present appears, deli berately defied the House of Commons and practically con fessed that all its loud denunciations of bribery and corruption were nothing but hypocrisy and cant. • MR. CIIARLEY, M.P. The .Daily Yews remarks that Mr. Charley, M.P., is in dignant with Mr.Odger for alluding to him at a meeting in Southwark as " a man of the name of Charley." He must, says Mr. Charley, "have known that I am a member of the honourable House in which he aspires to sit," and he ought to have known " that a unanimous vote of confi dence in me was passed in Salford Town-hall on the 15th instant by a densely crowded open meeting of the elec tors." " Ignorance, Madame, gross ignorance," said Dr. Johnson once to a lady who had asked how he came to give iu his dictionary an explanation that happened t) be erroneous. And, strange as it may appear to Mr. Ciiarlcy, we have very little doubt that, while there are many persons who take a general interest in politics who are entirely ignorant of his existence, there are very few who know of the unanimous vote of confidence in him passed at Salford, beyond the limits of that somewhat con fiding borough. A man who, in season and out of season, is ready to get up in the House of Commons and utter, with an air of solemn gravity, sentences pregnant with folly and exaggeration may acquire a species of notoriety of a not very enviable kind within the walls of St. Stephen's ; but Mr. Charley has not been long enough in the House to, have had time to make his name a household word in the country. Not to know him is not as yet to argue oneself unknown. We do not see, therefore, that he has any legitimate cause of complaint against Mr. Odger. On his own showing he informed a meeting of electors of Southwark, in which he had obtruded himself, that Mr. Odger was a " poor imitation of Mr. Ernest Jones," and on Mr. Odger at a subsequent meeting hinting that Mr. Charley was not exactly the man whose opinion, good, bad, or indifferent, was of great weight—a view of the matter from which few would dissent—he writes a letter full of brag and bombast, terminating with an insinuation that his antagonist is not a gentleman. As we had reported the speech in which Mr. Odger took him to task, we pub lished his reply in our columns, but we do not think that a recital of what Mr. Charley has done at Salford, or what he is going to do in Southwark, will in an y wa y affect the question whether the " working man's candidate" will be at the top or bottom of the poll on the day of election. CHLUSTALLS AND TILE CYNICS. " Here we are again!" is the Clown's familiar cry on Boxing-night ; and here again, says the Telegraph, comes our old familiar friend, with all his motley brother hood ! We could better spare a better man. Ministers of State may come in and go out, Emperors and Kings may change places, and we bear it as well as we can; but Christmas would scarcely be Christmas without the Pantomime. A few superfine people, who have lost the faculty of enjoyment, and who have never suffered much from sympathy with their fellow-creatures, may sneer at patomimes and Christmas puddings as they will ; but their sneers and their gibes fall flat at this season of general jollification. The members of some millions of households in the British dominions will enjoy themselves in their own way when Christmas comes round, although lago stands at the street corner and "is critical." Possibly the form of enjoyment is somewhat homely; but, then, the people are homely too. We cannot all be philosophers or cynics; and, frankly judging by results, it is just as well. These cynics and philosophers are not so cheerful in their little ways that a man need trouble himself much if he should be excluded from their worshipful society. For common people who must gain their living by working hard pretty well all the year round and, indeed, the condition includes many more " distinguished " persons than some would imagine—a day's holiday is a day's holiday. The interval allowed to us for play is really so short that we cannot waste any of it on reflections that our friends are all very tiresome people—bores in short—and that it would be better if they were out of the world. Then, indeed, we might improve the occasion, and write some thing pretty about the poor dead folk, and philosophise at a great rate over the vanity of all earthly things. This is not our view of the question ; so "Strike up fiddler," and let us enjoy ourselves as well as we can. At Aldershot, with the permission of Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Yorke Scarlett, G.C.8., the officers of batteries, troops, and companies made liberal sub scriptions to provide soldiers the customary Christ mas fare, and apportionments were made from various canteen funds for the same object. In most of the quarters the women and children were not forgotten. While the men were at dinner the offi cers of each corps took the opportunity of ascertain ing by a personal visit that all their wants were supplied. They were loudly cheered in each in stance. At night dancing was kept up in most of the band rooms until 12 o'clock, when all retired quietly, without excess, well pleased with the means of enjoyment whi c h h a d been afforded them. The Message of the Governor of California hr been published. It says the funded debt of the State is $4,0138,000, exclusive of outstanding warrants, congratu • lates the people on the general prosperity, eulogizes the school system, recommends State aid for the encourage ment of immigration from Europe and the Eastern States, and says the Legislature has power to prohibit Chinese immigration. in the State Legislature bills had been in troduced for a metropolitan pllice to prevent Coolie sla very, and to protect Mongolians. At this time, when the pra.ciples and practice of co operative societies engross so large a share of attention, it may he well that Messrs. Parkins and (lotto should remind the no bility and gentry that they have for the last twenty years adopted the pract ce of buying the best goods in large quantities direct from the manufa—turers, marking every article in plain figures, and retailing them at the smallest possible prelit for ready money; and where, front distance or other causes, cash pas - nts have been impossible, they have never increased the price of the articles delivered. They respectfully solicit an inspection of their stock, consisting of portrait albums, writing-cases, dreo sit,g-cases, dressing-bags, despatch boxes, envelope-cases and ble •tting-books, inkstands, desks, stationery cabinets, ornamental go •)(Is, purses, pocket books, cigar-cases. reticules, opera-glasses, see at-cases, smeiling-battles, electro-gilt and elegantly-mounted art icles—in fact, an endless variety of articles to suit every taste, pm pose. and pocket. —Parkins and Giotto, 24 and 25, Oxford stnJet, W. THE S!JN, LONDON, - MONDAY EVENING, DECIMBER 27, 1869 AMERICAN AFFAIRS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) Although our space is filled with the valuable Reports of the Washington Cabinet, to the exclu sion even of the news, notwithstanding the addition of a Supplement, we make room to offer our readers the best wishes of the season. it is a matter - of not small congratulation to the Editor to be able to re port a marked improvement in the relations be tween the two great kindred nations. We care little for diplomatic relations; what we mean is the sentiment prevailing in what in America is called "the great heart of the people." We wish that Englishmen could see as we do the result of their course in America. When the tone towards the Union is venomous and unjust, it meets with a reply couched in just as irritating language and expressions hovering between dislike and contempt. This is sure to be repeated in England, and those who had no idea that they had given the provocation, quote the words in proof of the Republic's undying enmity. When, however, England's course is friendly and just, the response comes quickly from the other side ; indeed so readily as to show how united the nations are. There is a party in Eng- laud that bates the Republic, and there is a party in the Republic that hates England ; but this a sectional, not a general feeling in both, and the more the one people knows of the other the less will be the evil influence these two vicious sections can It is a fine thing that two mighty nations so closely related can be played against each other to serve the purposes of a narrow Tory clique, or a few unprincipled Irish-American politicians. Our effort bas been to assist in spreading the knowledge which will annihilate the influence for evil. Nume rous letters bear a cordial, perhaps too generous, testimony to our share in so good a work, of which, did we only believe a tithe, we would be satisfied that we bad not lived wholly in vain. But to whom ever the credit be due, the fact is undeniable, and we desire to include it in our Christmas congratu lations. exert. General Butler introduced a bill on the day after the assembling of Congress to repeal the Tenure of-Office Act, and it was referred to the Judiciary Committee, which, as we last week announced, re- ported favourably upon it. The President, in his speech, takes strong ground against the Act. He says it is inconsistent with a faithful and efficient administration of the Government, and asks what faith can the Executive put in officials forced upon him, and those, too, whom he has suspended for reasons. The House will willingly pass the bill for the repeal, and the Senate will pass it as a boy takes medicine, with a wry face and against the grain ; and that piece of special legislation will disappear from the Statute Book until another Congress takes up the cudgels against another President. Another bill has been introduced by Mr. Hill, of New Jersey, to abolish the franking privilege, the abuse of which is denounced in very plain terms by the Executive. It destroys the hope of a postal re venue sufficient to cover the expenses ; it fills up the bags with matter which nobody would take the trouble to send except gratis, forgetting that Uncle Sam has to pay heavily for the transport over his big domain ; and. - as the document does as little good to the sender as to the receiver, the only result is to burden the Post-offices with unnecessary work. We hope that Mr. Hill will succeed, but Congress holds on tenaciously to its perquisites and privi leges; indeed what surrender has it ever made but that of the title of Honourable, which, though formally abandoned by the Senate, has been re tained as a matter of courtesy, and this makes the Senators as much Honourable as ever. Uncle Sam can better afford that the title be retained, which does no harm to any one, if only the franking pri vilege be surrendered. The President sent a letter to the House of Re presentatives in reply to its resolution calling for information on the negotiations with Spain about Cuba, which showed that it was incompatible with the public interest to furnish copies of the corres pondence with General Sickles, and the House Com mittee on Foreign Affairs has postponed the Cuba question until after the holiday recess. During the reading of the Message the only part received un favourably was the reference to Cuba. Still Sena tor Sumner, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Com mittee, does not consider that the time has arrived for recognizin .; even the belligerency of the insur gents. Senator Cameron brought up a resolution in the Senate requesting the President to commu nicate any information he may have regarding the civil and political condition of Cuba if not incom patible with the public interest. The President, while satisfying neither party, manages to throw the responsibility of action on the Legislature. Eighteen of the Spanish gunboats sailed last Sun day evening from New York for Cuba, and the remainder on Monday. Mr. Mungen, of Ohio, has drawn from the Repre sentatives an expression of opinion which will set tle politicians who hoped to make capital out of re pudiation. His speech advocating repudiation was followed by great excitement, and leading men of his party denounced his doctrine, emphatically re pudiating it as a part of their party platform ; so the repudiators shuffle off the responsibility by disowning a cry which they at one time believed the nation would have taken up. Nothing could more clearly have shown what a " dead duck" repudia tion is than the action of the Representatives, who, it must be remembered, had not so long ago a leaning that way, but have lately been in communication with their constituents. It should also be observed that commercial and financial affairs in the United States are so depressed that if ever the nation would seek relief from oppressive burdens by such a course it would be now. The House adopted, by 123 yeas to 1 nay, a resolution declaring that "any proposition, directly or indirectly, to repudiate any portion of the debt of the United States is unworthy of the honour and good name of the nation, and the House, without distinction of party, hereby sets its seal of condemnation on any and all such propositions." The one negative vote was given by Mr. Jones, a Democrat, from Kentucky. W. Cornell Jewett, through Senator Sumner, presented a petition asking Congress as a means of vindicating the dignity and sovereignty of the na tion to suspend the workings of the French cable on American soil until France authorized the land ing - of a cable from America on French soil, and guaranteed that all American despatches should freely pass over France through the hands of Ame rican agents. The Senator went on to remark that there was a bill on the table of the Senate which met the prayer of the petitioner, and he proposed calling it up on an early day. A similar bill has been postponed in the House till after the holiday re cess, but it is probable that the operators at Brest may find a sudden interruption of communication, which the other cables may inform them has been caused by the Duxbury office being closed, and a sentry placed at the door by the Executive in com pliance with an Act of the Legislature. They appear to be gay at Florence, the drift of American travel having set south, through Italy. In La Nazione, of the 18th instant, there are two notices of American festivities. The United States Consul-General James Lorimer Graham, seems to have gathered at his table all the literary celebrities, among them the American Minister G. P. Marsh, Mr. Trolloppe, Mr. Stnalley, and others of different nationalities. On the 17th, Mr. Dicker son Eyre gave a grand ball, which La Nazione describes as a brilliant affair, got up regardless of expense, and kept up with the greatest spirit till 5 o'clock in the morning. One of the charms of such a gathering is the variety -- American and English, French, German, and Russ:an, mixed with the gay Italian, in the tine halls occupied by their Atnet lean host. We recommend the expedient thus described by the New nrk Tribune to tho consideration of families in Ireland who are in danger of their houses being broken lute by parties in ~earth of anus. There ought at bast to be no lack of the material in the land of potatoes:— " Hot potatoes aro an entirely now. defence against bur glars; but they were recently used - with excellent effect in Madison, Ohio. A yoting woman - was left in charge of a house, the family having gone to church. The rascal put in aa appearance and demanded zhe pocket-book of paterfamilias. The noble young lady:immediate'y opened upon the thief a battery of the above-m entionod vegetable in a smoking-hot condition. The suppll of potatoes being exhausted, the courageous damsel' tied' tho knave most unaffectiouately ; and by this time he had concluded to leave, which he did in a burned. and bighly-bewildered condition." General John C. Fremoat Xas arrived at Wash- - - Ington to look after the interests of the Memphis and El Paso Railroad. The General knows how to proceed, and the bill passed the House during the last session. The right of way only is asked, and a strong pressure will be brought to secure it. But there are other interests, and the bill is opposed by many who have no faith in the line nor in the ability of the corporation to carry it to a success. It is, however, a fact that about the shortest road to the Pacific is that which General Fremont proposes to construct, but we know nothing of the means at his dis posal should Congress throw the way open. American Consuls, if Mr. Sargent's bill passes Congress, will be required when they reside in wheat exporting countries, and other cereals which may come into competition with American product 4, to send to the State Department quarterly reports as full and accurate as they can get, showing the condition of the crops, to be published in the monthly circulars of the Department of Agriculture. In default of such information, the farmers who have to trust to chance often become heavy losers. Californian produce shipped to England, may through ignorance of the facts come into competition with au overflowing crop from Russia and the Danubian pro vinces, which had the farmers and the shippers known the former might not have grown the staple, or the latter might have directed it to a better market. The Philadelphia► Ledger say s—" The average number of suits begun for or against the Erie Railway is said to be seven a week, and it is believed that one-half the New York lawyers are retained on one side or the other. No suit was ever yet known to advance as far as judg ment.'" The London Times takes a more serious view of the position, also quoting the Ledger, which considers the important fact to be whether individual judges can at will and with impunity defeat the laws of the State and pro tect rogues from punishment. The Times remarks- -"From the further heavy fall of 11- to-day in Erie Railway Shares, it is assumed that the attempt recently made in the Supreme Court of the State of N ew York in favour of the shareholders has failed, and that the judges from whom injunctions were obtained to support the defiant mendacity of the management have been successful. Apart from the feel ing of sympathy for the victims in this undertaking, it is necessary to keep the facts constantly before the English public, since many United States enterprizes are otherwise likely to be brought before them. It may be urged that New York is only one of the States of the Union, and that the circumstance of there being a total absence in that State of any security for investors should not be used to the injury of the others. But New York is to America what London is to the United Kingdom, and the coudition of affairs which prevails in the highest centre of wealth and commercial intelligence is not likely to be much sur passed in inferior localities." The Monarch, with Mr. Peabody's remains, and the United States corvette Plymouth, weighed anchor on Tuesday at 10 a.m. Mr. Peabody Russell, the nephew of the philanthropist, has accompanied the body of his uncle in the Monarch. The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution "authorizing the President to make such preparations for the reception of the body of the dis tinguished philanthropist, Mr. George Peabody, as aro merited by hit glorious deeds, and in a manner commen surate with the justice, magnanimity, and dignity of a great people." The brother, nephews, and nieces residing at Zanesville, Ohio, have left for the East to attend the fune ral of their distinguished relative. It is evident that the affairs at the Red River Settlement do nut progress so favourably for Canada as the earlier telegrams indicated. The news by mail was that : the half-breeds, leaving the insurrection to take care of itself, had gone out on a buffalo hunting party. It may be that Governor M'Dougall, taking advantage of their ab sence, enlisted Sioux Indians and others, and advahcod with Colonel Dennis on Fort Garry. if so, Riell seems to have been prepared, for he is reported at the head of 460 armed men, to have seized the prominent Canadian sympathizersiu the settlement,to have then taken possession of the Fort opposite Pembiva, in Dacotah, to which Gov. M'Dougall had retired ; and Col. Dennis, it is added, was retreating. George Francis Train of course managed to extract a little no'oriety out of the affair. They had been calling that gentleman very hard names, both on the Pa cific slope and in the West, but they have not succeeded in silencing that ready talker, for he harangued a meeting at Buffalo on the 18th,when he denounced the Government at Washington for pertnittingMCDougall to organise an armed force on United States soil. An American paper says— "A young Catholic priest and an avowed Fenian, named O'Donoghue, is charged with having supplied the brains of the insurrection." We recommend that gentleman to the attention of the ecclesiastical authorities at Rome. Senator Carpenter spoke strongly in favour of recognizing the Cuban insurgents as belligerents in the Senate on the 16th December ; but Mr. Sumner opposed the resolution, consistently maintaining the attitude he has all along assumed on this question of international law. It is asserted that the President consulted him before writ ing his Message on the subject of Foreign Relations, and the Message bears evidence of the Senator's spirit, toned down by the caution of the Executive. It is thought in America that Grant's allusion to the settlement of the Ala bama claims would excite uneasiness in England. Among the passengers by the Scotia is the great Philadelphia banker, Anthony J. Drexel. We say Phila delphia, because the head-quarters of the firm are in that city, though the branch houses of Drexel. Winthrop, and Co., New York, and Drexel, Harjes, and Co., 3, Rue Scribe, Paris, stand in the first rank of financial firms in those cities. Mr. Drexel proceeds to Paris to join his family, and the American papers say that he will remain abroad for six mouths. By the same vessel, Mr. Bowles, the well known Paris banker, also returned, and Mr. Hodgson, a member of the firm of Baring Brothers. Mr. Bowles has been at the Palace Hotel, Buckiugham Gate, during the week, as is Mr. Cyrus W. Field, who has just arrived from New York and the Far West, where he was out buffalo hunting iii Kansas. By the way several distinguished Americans met at that hotel on Tuesday, including Gene rals Banks and Burnside. General Sherman traces back his descent to Samuel Sherman, a founder of Connecticut, and one of the first settlers of Weathersfield. An American paper says he has been elected a member of the Army and Navy Club of London, "a distinction never before conferred on an officer of the United States." We do not know about that ; but we do know that general Burnside on his arrival in London was at once ievited to become an honorary mem ber of the Junior United Service Club, which, with its predecessor, the United Service Club, are the two oldest and best-known of the military clubs. Vice-President Colfax published an article in the New York Independent in answer to the Mormon argument against his speech in Utah. He reproduces its best points and fortifies them, effectually breaking down the Mormon plea for charity because of their religion, and tolerance because of their past Persecutions, by showing that it was not for their religion that they were persecuted, polygamy being in no sense a tenet of that religion. An exodus has taken place from Salt Lake City back to Independence, Missouri, to the annoyaece and dismay of Brigham Young. The discontents repudiate polygamy, and it is their inten tion to settle down in that region, and build a tabernacle of their own, where they may enjoy Mormonism in its ori ginal purity. We learn,w ith some regret,that the Ways and Means Committee has, if the report be true, decided to increase the duty on manufactured iron, even though it be slightly. Tea and coffee, molasses and syrup, melado or cane juice, rice, salt, lumber and timber, hides and skins, printing paper, and iron in pigs will be exempt from import duty if the Bill of Mr. Stevenson, of Ohio, just introduced, passes. The rumour is of a reduction of $2 on pig-iron, though the main concessions will be on tea, sugar, and coffee. The report of Mr. Wells, which the cable informs us has just been sent in, was expected to contain some hard hits against the Protectionists who threatened to oppose the printing of that report. The misrepresentations of some English papers, the Standard, Telegraph, and Saturday Review, for instance, on the Richardson-M'Farland case, are little to the credit •f these journals, though Americans are so accustomed to their style that they look for little else from them. Mr. Richardson is depicted by all as an adulterer, although there is no evidence to support this; and he is represented as a mere travelling correspondent, holding a subordinate position on the press, although there is ample evidence to the contrary. He was an able and well-known writer, who had secured a position, through his ability and in dustry, if not of affluence,at any rate of comfort. His subor dinate position on the Tribune was one of its proprietors, having five shares—Horace Greeley himself only holding ten—and those five being worth upwards of £6,000. As an author he had published books. the sales of which were al ' most unprecedentedlylarge,and the Telegraph might with as much truth have written of Dr. Russell or Mr. Hepworth Dixon as holding subordinate positions on the press. What surprises us is that such a paper as the Saturday Review should be read by Americans at all. Its remarks on the United States are simply beneath contempt, it being diffi cult to discriminate between what arises from ignorance and from venom. Its comments on American books are laugh able, and have given rise to the opinion in America that that is its weakest department; and so it is, although we are not aware that it is particularly strong in any other ; but it is wonderful what assurance can do when dealing with ignorance. To show what the criticisms of these papers on this affair are worth, evidence has been elicited that Mrs. M'Farlaud separated from her husband in the spring of 1867 entirely uninstigated by Mr. Richardson, Mr. IlTarland's conduct compelling her to take that course, and forcing her to maintain herself and one of the two children which remained under her control by her own exertions. Lx-Secretary Stanton has been appointed Asso ciate J ustice in the Supreme Court in succession to Judge Crier, and the nomination was confirmed la,t TII-sday iu the Senate by 41 votes against 11, the minority we pre sume being the whole Democratic strength in the CLam ber. Justice Grier stands next to Justice Nelson as the oldest on the Bench, having been appointed by President Polk in 1816. He tendered his resignation on the 11th inst., to take effect on Ist February next. Thus two leaders of the Republican party have been seated on the Supreme Bench. Senator Carpenter proposes to increase the salary of the Chief Justice to $12,500, and of the Associated Justices to $lO,OOO, little enough for such posts, but the President favours only $lO,OOO to the former and $9,000 to the latter, and these will probably be the rates. The Senate has also confirmed Mr. Frederick Low as United States Minister in China. Doubtless that Mis sion has been raised to the first rank, as recommended by the President, and we may here congratulate the Hon. Anson Burlingame on the very high compliment paid to hint in the President's Message to Congress. It is not often that citizens of the United States receive such an honour, and those who do ought to appreciate it greatly. Information has been received by him that the Peking Government has ratified the Treaty with the United States, and Mr. Brown, the Secretary, is on his way to Washington from China. Mr. Henry Blow has been con firmed as Minister to Brazil, and we suppose his mission will embrace Paraguay, as no United States Minister under present circumstances is to be sent there, and Brazil really rules over the territory of Lopez. The Overewl-Gurney trial has ended, as all ex pected, iu the acquittal of the directors. When these 1 gentlemen were brought before the Lord Mayor and com mitted for trial, there were bursts of applause in the Court. When theso gentlemen were brought before the Judge, and acquitted by the Jury there wore bursts of applause in the Court. We presume that the spectators regarded the affair as a farce, from beginning to end, and they are, perhaps, right. Few believed in the criminality of the new Directors, who had much to lose and little to gain in lending themselves to palming off on the public an in solvent concern. They lost all, and were fearfully punished for a culpability never beyond mere negligence, and we heartily congratulate these gentlemen that the law has confirmed the decision of society. But it does not alter the broad facts of the case in the slightest degree. The Overend-Gurney affair will remain a blot on England's commercial reputation. It was a gigantic swindle, and as such is the most prominent of the numberless swindles of the fraud panic. " Overend-Gurney" has come to sig nify the natme of that panic, and when foreigners allude to it they do not mean " the house at the corner" in par ticular, but the collapse, through dishonesty of Joint stock enterprise iu England. Almost in the same Eng lish paper, in which we read of the "intense satisfaction" with which the verdict was received in the city, we see certain proceedings in New York and the action thereon in the Courts of that State held up to public scorn and censure, and England warned against investing in the undertakings of a country which affords them so little legal protection against spoliation. Evidently it makes no small difference uhether the robber is a New Yorker or a Cockney. BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—CaIeb H. Needles, Esq. was mainly instrumental in getting up the monster peti• tion in favour of the Cuban insurgents presented by Sena tor Cameron on the opening of Congress.—Wyoming hav ing organised, the executive officers are John A. Campbell, Governor, and Edward M. Lee, Secretary. The judicial officers are J. 11. Howe, Chief Justice Supreme Court; W. T. Jones and J. W. Kingman, Associate Justices; J. M. Carey, Attorney-General ; Church Howe, United States Marshal. The Representative in Congress is S. F. Nuckolis. S. Allen-Bristol is the editor and proprietor of the Wyoming Tribune published at Cheyenne. —A mauso leum to cost $65,000 is to be erected over the remains of the late Henry Keep at Watertown„ New York.—Mrs. Grant, it is said, has instructed all the ushers and attend ants at the White House to wear swallow-tailed coats. - Treasurer Spinner wrote all his report, 187 pages, him self, and sent it to the printer.—lteverdy Johnson has been making a speech at Baltimore, in which he takes ground against the recognition of Cuban independence.- Theodore Parker married Mr. Millarland to Miss Sage. Henry Ward Beecher married Mrs. 11‘Farland to A. D. Richardson. All the witnesses to both ceremonies are living.—The New York World says :—" - Pere Hyacinthe and Henry Ward Beecher held a most amicable interview on Tuesday, neither understanding a word the other said." Ex-Senator Henderson of Missouri is very ill at his home in that State.—The Trilune evidently does not want capital punishment abolished until M'Farhtnd is conscien tiously hung.—Boston Post.—Senator Fenton and daughter arrived in the steamship Allentania from Hamburg on the 11th inst., and are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.—The suit against the New York. Tribune for libel, brought by J. Nelson Luckey, has been decided in favour of the defen dants.—Morris S. Hill, cashier of the National Bank of Somers, Westehester County, is under arrest on a charge of embezzling 530,000. —Father Hyacinthe spoke on the evening of the 9th Dec., although suffering from a severe cold, to one of the finest audiences ever gathered in New York in the Academy of Music ; the lecture was in French, and for the French Benevolent Society.-Gen. Bosecrans, from California, was one of the guests of the Union League Club, at a social gathering on the 9th inst. He is about to attend the meeting of the Army of the Cumber land at Indianapolis.— On Wednesday Mr. Hepworth Dixon arrived in London from his long journey in Russia. In the course of five months' travel he has traversed the length and breadth of the country, from Solovetzlo, in the White Sea, to the Crimean battle .fields, on the Black Sea, from Warsaw to the Ural Mountains. JOURNALISM. —Petersburgh Index bids farewell to the old men of the Old Dominion, and turns to wel come the young Virginians who are hereafter to be the law makers, leader , , and rulers there.—The Canadian press contemptuously call Winnepeg-dorn tho " Half-breed Republic."—The editor of the Danbury (Ct.) Time.; is going into the "interviewing" business, and evidently to s ene purpose. Lie gives notice as follows :—" We shall inter view' a number of our citizens this week on the subject of finance." —The New York Evening Republic has suspended publication. This leaves ten evening newspapers in the field in New York. Of Hon. F. E. Spinner, the United States Trea surer, the New York, Herald says: —" Treasurer .Spinner wants to get out of office before he does any harm. Thiz< is a new idea in office. lle tenders his resignation because he is frightened by the fact that four billions of dollars have passed through his depaittnent without a defalcation. He knows such fortune cannot hold for ever, and he wants to get out of the way before it changes. Unfortunately for his wishes he is the sort of man the country wants to keep in place." ME NEW UNITED STA7ES JUDGES. (From the Nation.) The recent history of the Supreme Court of the United States furnishes au excellent illustration of the manner in which, in a mixed Government like ours, the political balan!te of various departments is in the long run maintained. Thirty years ago the Supreme Court, and indeed the judiciary generally, stood as high in the general estimation of the public as it is given to mortal authority ever to stand. No doubt of its purity lurked in men's minds ; no poli tical bias was believed to influence its decisions; it was looked upon by the common consent of all parties as the one great landmark, the one great bulwark of society which was sure to withstand all storms, and to secure the nation whose laws it ad• ministered in the blessings of life, liberty, and tln pursuit of happiness. But this impression was not destined long to continue. From the moment that the popular mind had become folly convinced that the great question of the hour was the question of slavery, it became evident that the prestige of the judiciary had received a severe check. A Court, it seemed, which had been reverenced for impartiality and justice, was unable to apprehend the utter in justice of compulsory servitude. Judges who had been held up to the people as models of wisdom ren dered decisions whose folly the most uninstructed could discern at a glance. A co-ordinate depart ment of the entire Government was in the hands and at the beck of a fraction of the people. We do not say that this change of feeling was right, but merely that it took place. The Supreme Court, from hating been the most honoured, be came in a few short years the most despised of American institutions. The Court had not changed. The fatal Bred Scott decision, which finished the work in unpopular eyes, might have been ren dered with as great unanimity in Washington's time as in Buchanan's; but in Washington's time the people cared nothing about the matter, while in Buchanan's time they cared deeply. But however that might have been, the prestige of the Court was gone. Then came the war, and the fierce passions which it excited served to increase the contempt in which all judicial processes were beginning to be held. The raising of armies, the levying of taxes, the summary arrest of the seditious, the recognition of the existence of a civil war—all these things be- came in the mind of the dominant party necessities ; and in the way of all these stood that terrible ob stacle, the Supreme Court. From day to day no one could tell what decisions it might not render. It might declare the Legal-Tender Act unconstitu tional, and plunge the whole country into ruin ; it might decide that conscription was unlawful, and prevent the raising of armies; it might declare the very war itself unconstitutional. Against all such chances the people were obliged to prepare them selves. And they made their preparations in two ways. They resolved silently that the decisions of the Court should not stand in their way, whatever they might be ; and they began, by means of Pre sidential appointments, to change the cpmplexion of the bench itself. Whenever a Democratic Judge resigned or died, a ReTublican Judge was put in his place. And so the Court sank lower than ever in public estimation. What would have happened if it had really rendered any important unpopular decision during the war, it is hard to say. Peril :Ts we may infer the consequences front what took place after the war was ended. Then began those fierce struggles over the Reconstruction Acts which have only just been brought to a close, and in which the very existence of the Court was for a time threatened. Would the Supreme Court de clare those acts unconstitutional? What was to be done if it did ? There was introduced into Con gress a bill designed to degrade still further, and to bring into greater contempt than ever the unfortu nate Court—a bill making a two-thirds majority necessary in adjudging any law unconstitutional, but leaving it in the power of a bare majority to declare a law constitutional. This monstrous r ro oition failed, but another almost as bad pa,.sed 1 2 —the bill taking away from the Court the right of appeal iota case in which it had actually been already exercised. But now the court had touched the lowest point in its career, and the wheel began to revolve. The war was over. The object of destruction was gone, and the spirit of Conservatism reigned in its stead. To build up what had been thrown down, to. re, store order, to bring back harmony and justice into the affairs of the country, became the important problem of the hour. The agency beat calculated to assist in the work was the judiciary; and it be- came evident that the hands Of the Court must be strengthened. The executive, which had during the war, been all-powerful, bad given way before the Legislature on the return of peace; and• the judiciary, which had hitherto been the sport of both, began at length to assert its ancient rights. The relations of the States to each other and to the Union, the questions of currency and taxation t which the war had given rise, the questions of pti vate rights, which had of late been settled by the strong arm of military power, all these came back again into its grasp. Popular respect for the judi cial function began again to appear. Partisanship in judges, which during the war had seemed a vir tue, once more took on its hideous natural aspect. As Congress and the President fell, so Vie Court rose in regard and esteem. The balance is at length in a fair way of being restored, and one more illus tration furnished of the inherent excellence of the system of checks and balances which lies at the root of American politics. Thus one day may the future historian of America record for the instruction of generations to come the lessons of the recent history of our judiciary. Thus will he note how in the revolving years the ship of State rights herself. But his record is our task, his study our daily work, and how far he is to be euablei to read the past as we would have him read it depends upon the exertions of the actors DOW upon the stage. A great deal may still be done to retard the natu ral readjustment of the powers of government by designing or foolish men, and we are very soon to see how far those now in power at Washington are able to comprehend the true use of their autho rity. By an act of Congress approved on the 10th of last April, the Supreme Court of the United States is hereafter to consist of the Chief-Jus tice and eight associate judges, and under this provision a new associate Justice is soon to be appointed. By section second of the act, nine new circuit judges are to be appointed, who are to pos sess within their respective circuits the power of Supreme Court judges. The object of the act is a good one. It was unquestionably passed for the purpose of givin g more time for the discharge of its duties to the Supreme Court. But the prac tical effect of the act will be bad or good accord ing to the character of the new appointments. Never before in the history of the country has the President had such enormous power placed in his hands as this. Hitherto the changes in the Su preme Court have been so slow that if a President could find a single appointment to make during his term he was well pleased. But here at one blow the President can create ten new judges, one of them a judge of the Supreme Court, and the rest ju Iges of a tribunal which is superior in autho rity to all but the Supreme Court. The present organization of the United States Courts is as fol lows :—The United States are divided into as many circuits as there are judges of the Supreme Court, and into a large number of districts, each State generally forming one district, though some of the larger States, as, for example, New York, are di vided into two or more. in each of these districts sits a district ju Ige, while the circuit court in acy circuit is composed of the Supreme Court judge allotted to that circuit, together with the district judge for that district. Appeals may be taken for almost all cases from the district to the circuit court, but it is much more difficult to carry a case up to the Supreme Court, as the sum in volved in the suit to entitle a party to appeal must be a large one ; practically, therefore, the circuit court is a court of last resort for most sui tors. By the second section of the act of April 10, the circuit courts in each circuit are to be held, Ist, by the Justice of the Supreme Court allotted to the circuit; or, 2d, by the new circuit judge appointed under the Act ; or, 3d, by the district judge of the district court sitting alone ; or, 4th, by the Justice of Supreme Court and the new judge sitting together; or, sth, in the absence of either of them, by the other, together with the district judge. That the circuit will be held by the new judge can hardly be questioned. This, as relieving the Supreme Court, was the chief object of the Act. It will readily he seen that we speak within bounds when we say that to give the President power to appoint nine new circuit judges is to clothe him with an autho rity such as no President, since Washington, has enjoyed. It is a gratifying proof of the increased respect in whichthe Supreme Court is held that we do not hear of any attempt to foist upon it, under the pro vision-of this Act, a partisan judge. '1 here seems to be a general agreement of opinion that no such appointment should be made. The reiterated asser -1 ions that the Attorney-General is to have the place show the general feeling about it. The present Chief Justice has been "in politics" quite enough to sicken the palate of the most radical disbeliever in the " judicial mind." If Judge Hoar is ap pointed, the appointment will be an admirable one, though the vacancy in his present office is mor, likely to be filled by a worse than a better At torney-General. On this account we should be sorry to see him appointed. But the important matter is that these ten new officers whom the Pre sident and Senate will appoint in December should be first of all judges. We do not care whether they are Republicans or Democrats, or Old line Whigs, or annexers, or anti-annexers, or woman's rights men—the first question is, are they judges ? Will they decide cases, regardless of fear or favour, in accordance with law and conscience, or will they truckle to the dominant party of the day, and ren der decisions in accordance with the popular clamour? If they are of the latter class, the ad ministration of Grant will one day stagger under a heavier load of obloquy than its most grievous poli tical mistakes can ever render it accountable for; because in this case it will not be able to plead the excuse which has served its turn under other cir cumstances, that the outcry of party supporters was too great to be resisted. There is now no outcry. There has been even a singular silence as to those new judgeships—a silence of which Grant may avail himself to his lasting fame and the country's per manent happiness. THE AMERICAN PRESS. Horace Greeley publishes a letter in the leader columns of the Tribune, addressed by him to Gen. Butler on the disfranchisement of leading South erners for participation in the rebellion. He cen sures the policy of proscription in a forcible argu ment, showing not only that it had been condemned by the experience of the best military Governors the Southern States have had, but by common sense and the most ordinary acquaintance with the people of the South. " Southern men of education and property," he says, " are by far more reasonabl e and Tess bitter than their poorer, more ignorant neighbours—are less implacable, more rational, and more ready to unite heartily in rebuilding the waste places of the land. . . . I assume that you realise the absolute necessity of the triumph of the XVth Amendment to the success of General Grant's Administration, and that you must be aware that the fate of that Amendment is yet doubtful. Ten adverse States suffice to defeat it ; and seven—(New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ken tucky, Tennessee, California, and Oregon)—are already beyond hope. 'The loss of Tennessee was at once a calamity and a blunder—one of those in tense stupidities which a great party is seldom allowed to repeat. How Rhode bland, Indiana, Georgia, and Nebraska stand, I need not inform you. Suffice it that it will require the wisest counsels and the best efforts to avert the threatened failure of that great and wise measure of safety, benignity, and peace." The appeal is made to General Butler, as his name is more associated with the policy of disfranchisement than that of any other leading man. A. NEW CHRISTMAS TOY.—The approach o Christmas has brought w ith it. th e usua l c rop of novelties in the toy-maker's a r t. A mong the se o ne stands out pre eminent. It is the "Cha me l e o n " Top, by far the mos t ingenious and interesting toy brought out since the "Zoetrope," manufactured by the ingenious proprietor of the Model Dockyard, in Fleet-street ; it is the invention, we believe, of Professor Wheatstone, and is one of th minor results of that gentleman's investigation of the laws of light—one of the playthings of science iu fact. Briefly described, it is a parti-coloured disc, with a spin dle through it. It may be spun by a child, and when iu motion may bo decorated with various other discs and arpliances, which pro brie the ni ,st ma rvellous chrom a ti c and geometric effects. The top. "keeps up" for three or four minutes, and on being touched lightly when revolv ing changes its form and colours in endless and kaleido scopic variety. ADVEILTISENIE!,:T. I—Holloway's1 —Holloway's Pills and Oi n t meui .._ A great and manifest advantage of Hollow a y' s t reatment is observable - in administering his pills t o c hild ren, who are never disgusted with them as with many i medk... which they abhor. The present sudd en variations ofnes, tem perature are most trying to the skin, lung s , and nervous system. Hence the prevalence of pimples, blotches, boils, ..rvsipelas, sore throat, bronchitis, and other chest com plaints.. Holloway's excellent remedies are, foltunately, f o rmed .to cope successfully w ith each and all of these ma l a dies. His medicin es gradually insinuate • themselves London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM Ai v. : ad y throughout the body, w h ence the silently expel '' all im- of No. 112, Strand, P r i n t er , a t T HE S UN Offi ce No.ll „ 2, purities, and where th e y s t op all irregularities. `They root in the Precinct of the Sav o y, i n th e C oun ty of Middlos e out what is wr ,ng, and strengthen what is right. k Monday, Deember 27, le.V. BIRTHS. HuutssEN - On Christmas Eve at Cheriten Rectory , wife of the R ev . R eg d . B. linatchbull-Huges.on, °' daughter. HEALD —0 n the 20th inst., at Ringmet Lodge, Leo, TIO r Heald, Esq., aged 57. MARRIAGES'. ANDEusort—GooDE—On the 23d inst., at Marylo o° o, 6 Charles Anderson, of Great Portland-street, to Alice Jane Goode, youngest daught.r of the lat 6 Mr. JoseP Goode, of Mildmay Park. GOLDSMITH —BOCKETT— 011 the 22d inst., at liantp.s .Aga, W AL 0 , Frederick W. Goldsmith, Esq., of Hampstead, to ',, jo lino., daughter of D a ni e l S m ith B oc k e tt, Esq., of '- Heath, Hampstead. . _ ZI EA TB S. ATKINS—On the 24th inst., at Stoke Newington, Ja mme d Ramsay Atkins, M.D., aged 67. TT d KELsALL—On the 22d inst., a t The Butts, Reehdale,... e- Kelsall, Esq., J.P., aged 76. _MONEY AND BUSINESS. (From the SprinOeld Republican, Dec. 12) The financial excitement, gold speculation, and what not, that were expected to ensue in Wall-street upon the opening of Congress and the recoipt of the Prosident's Message, have not made their appearance. Money con- Cones steady at its former figure of 6 to 7, and the prospect is that it will remain so till New Year's-day and alter. A review of the month al November shows that though $5,000,000 of currency went to the South and West dur ing the last two weeks, the effect upon the New York market was very slight. The amount of currency re- quired during the present month in those section; has been very light, and probably will not prove embarrassing. Some of the Chicago papers are calling attention to this distribution of money from New York and the alterna!e return to that centre of the ready money of the country, especially as concerns the West, and are inquiring very properly into the cause of it. While money is 5 to 6 in New York it is tight in Chicago, and it is claimed that this state of affairs is purposely encouraged by the great runroads of the West. The Illinois v Central, North- Western, lock bland, Burlington and Quincy, &0., all have their treasuries in New York, and daily re mit thither their surplus earnings, thus depriving the West of the ready money which its labour not only earns, but needs to have kept iu eit ciliation. The object of this elaborate disarrangement of :the natural currents of circulation is to provide the railway kings of the me tropolis with money in hand fur stock gambling. Tlf Illinois Constitutional Convention is called upon to inset - 6 iu the new Constitution a clause compelling railroads to keep their offices and money at home, a most clumsy re medy. One of the prominent features of the present money market is the number of railway loans that are being De"' gociated here at home. The American public learned the art of subscribing to public stocks during tho war, and no longer drives corporations into the European markets. It is also a reliable evidence of the essential ease of money that the bonds now offering are readily taken. Indeed, looking back over the past five years, during which time $500,000,000 of these new corporate loans have found takers at from 80 per cent. to par, it is wonderful how we have converted so."' ucL floating into fixed capital, without having au embarrassing deficit of the former. Much of this amount, however, has probably come from the pro ceeds of public loans (city and State debts, &c.), that have been paid off and reinvested in railway bonds. We were told last week that the jolly red days of the September panic were soon to be repeated in the gold market.. Mr. Boutwell had refused to sell below 122, and the bulls were confident they had touched hardpan and were bracing themselves for a toss. Whatever may have been the foundation for this croaking, it is certain that speculation and the upward movement received a direful chock in the President's Message. On Monday forenoon gold amounted from 122/ to 1231, but the first paragraph of the Message dropped it to the former figure It was the imperturbable tone of the document and its general good sense and confidence in regard to financial questions rather than any sirgle proposition of it, probably, that produced this result. The course of gold during the month of November was from 1284 on the Ist, down to 1211 on the 3Cth. The receipts of coin for export during the month at New York were $9,190,801, against $7,638,868 for the same month last year. The export was quite small. Governments, in which the transactions during November were only one-fourth as large as they were last year, are now having a revival on account of an unexpected foreign demand. The call from Europe was felt in the market on Saturday and still more on Monday morning. The orders on the latter occasion were peremp tory, and coming at a time when most dealers were shot t, produced quite a flurry. The rise was from 1144 to 116 in 67s and 1144 to 116 in 625. This corner in London and Frankfort is said to have been brought about by parties who have been buying in ever since October, when the foreign market was called overstocked. The course o bonds (625) at Loudon since November 1 has been fro DI 83 to 854, the latter being Monday's quotations, and the highest ever reached. To enable a comparison between our own and European credits, we give the following quo tations from a recent Paris Journal des Debats : Austrian 5 per Cents., 65; Russian 5 per Cents., 854; Italian 5 per Cents., 534 54; Portugal 3 per Cents., 401. 404 ; Turkish 5 er Cents., 44 ; Egypt 7 per Cents., 80 ; Spanish 3 ; er Cents., 264 27; United States 6s of '62,'65,' 67, 964, 974, 981 and on the sth November 991, French. In the New York quotations of Southern Bonds New Tennessees are up to 454, Virginia 534, Georgia 6s 82, is 91, North Carolina 6s 434, New 324, South Carolina Gs New G 7, Missouri 6s 90. Stocks have not been of especial interest during the week, as the meeting of Congress has directed public attention more especially to gold and bonds. On the whole, however, they are rather more active than dur ing November, when the whole number of transactions in the New - York market was but 705,000,.0ne million short of last yeatts number for the same month. The cessation, we wish wo could believe it permanent, of the stock watering mania bus deprived the business of its sweet ele ment of risk, and reduced it from the fine art of gambling to the ranks of unesthetic and possibly honest business. During last month the Feneral tendency of prices on the stock list was downward, Vanderbilt's especially feeling the evil effects of consolidation. The Chesa, cake and Ohio Railroad hopes directly to earn the right to le s called, by completing its lino to the Ohio river, and ha been reorganised, with C. Huntington as president, and 'titer New York capitalists as directors. Tho Pennsylvania Central Railroad has bought, through the Panhandle Railroad Company, the Cincinnati, Wilmington, and Zanes ville Railroad in Ohio, 131 miles long, for less than $B,OOO per mile, not sufficient to pay the bonded debt by 1325,000. Business in dry goods and general merchandise :ails below the autumn expectations, but compares favour-. ibly with last year'o. The reduction of the estimates of the cotton crop and the return to full wolkieg ttme of the Aunchester mills have given an upward turn to the Liver peel cotton market. The export of this staple continues large from both Northern and Southern ports, amounting, last week, to 76,116 bales, against 55,355 last year, or since he new year (September 1), to 454,262, against 388,344 last year. Recent rains have raised the Southern rivers, and cotton is coming down to the ports for export rapidly The same cause has floated the Pittsburg coal boats, and the largest shipment ever sent from that city started down :Ire Ohio last week. Forty-three steamers, towing boats containing 5,000,000 bushels of coal, were waiting for the else in the river. The receipt of flour at Buffalo during ±e month of November was 320,906 barrels, 60,000 more than last year, and the largest since 1863, when it reached 170,000. The number of bushels of grain and flour toge ther was 5,717,165, against 6,258,000 last year. The whole amount received since January 1 of both staples, reckoned together, was 48,443,000, or a minion less than last year' , l The aggregate export from the Atlantic ports, however continues greater than last year's. MARKETS.—This Day. LIVERPOOL COTTON. Dec. 27.—Sales !probably 10,000 bales. The market ;eady. RAILWAY NEWS.—ID is stated from New York that the Michigan Centralßailway and the Great Western of Canada have arranged for the consolidation of their through traffics for the next two years as a preliminary to a more complete identity of interests.—lt is proposed to erect in New York, opposite the bronze statue of Van derbilt, a brass statue of Fisk, jun., so that all phases of railway management may be represented. BUDGET OF M4SCELLANEOUS.—Governor Gear), is said to have now under consideration seventy-five al 3- plications for the pardon of convicted murderers.—Ther e are to be ten executions for murder'in the United Statee during December.—A Bill has been introduced into the Alabama Legislature which requires grand juryme n to swear they never belonged to the Ku-Slux-Klan. -- ' The Detroit girl who wears a beaver and carries a can e tried to kiss a hotel waiter the other day. The insulte d youth complained to the landlord, who informed the of fender that she must respect the men about the house o f leave.—Six British detectives are said to be prowling about New York reporting the departure of suspecte d Fenians for Ireland. Boston is to have a mot.unsen erected to the, memory of Columbus, raised by Italian contributions.—Maine expects in five years to have $120,000,000 invested in factories.—Texas has a large crop of pecan nuts, which are worth there $3 per bushel' —A man at Oswego, New York, lately eat 38 Pa d, cakes in ten minutes. He came from New Engla n —A witness in a Richmond (Virginia) Court, in!, week, told the judge to "bush his mouth, as P . , couldn't talk to two men at once." He had an 01)1 3 , °1 ; (unity to relect upon his rudeness in jail. —Mark Twfo n gallantry prevents him from saying that the face o f 0 f or t un e-teller he recently visited wa s di r t y , anti convey„ th a t impression in this way :—" She h a d a dark complai n.- na turally, and this effect was hei g ht ene d b y art ifi c i a l sidS , which cost her nothing," —The Pacific and Atlantic Te le; gr aph Company of the Unit e d St ates h ave aga i n or dered a considerable reduction to be made in the cost of messag e ' to be sent over their wires, and promise still further 113 ,, ductions in rates, as th e i ncreased patronage of the pe ep ' will warrant. stti Sea. ends ftBSiE Con rule Por Wb alsc nun of o Del PA fiat and thil 71'est we 4 bin est: nisq and Lac Car reef and mar wh nes! oth( Fire The Bon vain rent leac thirl road this enat DIM help strm Unde whir Girls the k Th nab. e and I wino solo. 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