The Sun. — London, England, 1870-03-15 00:00:00

- 7-7 THE FATAL. DUEL IN SPAIN. Don Henry de Bourbon, who has just been killed in a . duel by the Duke of Montpensier, was the second son of the Intant Francis de Paul, Duke of Cadiz, uncle of Queen Isabella and the Count of Montemolin. Don Henry himself bor6 the title of Duke of Seville: He was born on April 17th, 1823, and was Vice-Admiral of the'Spanish fleet, but was deprived of his dignity as an Infant of Spain by a royal decree published in Madrid in March, 1567. Since then he has chiefly lived in Paris. He leaves four children. The duel, it appears, originated in a letter publisher ast Thursday in the Epoca, a Madrid paper, signed " Enrique de Bourb2p," of which the following is the substance : " To THE MONTPENSIERISTS. " My honour calls me to break silence since the Duke of Montpensier has arrived in Madrid, and has been treated - as if he were a conquering hero to whose car we were all bound to attach ourselves. " There is a 'malevolent calumny which makes the coronation .of Antonio I. by the distinguished General Prim depend on the deposit of the army tax with him for payment of service. It was not neces sary for the illustrious President of the Council of Mini sters to proclaim on his honour that which no one was ignorant of, that- the gains of Montpensier had not been forgotten. Where does there live, he asks, a more decided political enemy of the French Duke? He has a profound distrust for his person, a sentiment which is justified by his political buffoonery and experienced by all honest men in general, and by all good Spaniards in particular." Don Henry then proceeds to attack the Duke personally, declaring that he is a Jesuit like his grandfather whose infamous .con duct is clearly described in the history of France. What, he • asks, do the mercenaries say ? That Montpensier is a rainbow of peace, from the God of good ness. May the blood which has flowed in his time, and which will flow before his complete disappearance be upon the head of the pretender ! • The liberalism of Montpensier is due to his anxiety to be king, and merits the terrible lesson which will be imposed by the justice' of an indignant nation. "I am a Spaniard," continues . Don Henry, and I have the noble sentiments of mf country. In 1808 my father provoked the rising of the valiant people of Madrid, when there was an armed invasion of our country.. To-day there is another invasion, hypocritical, jesuitical, and or ganised 'by the Orleanists against us. Montpensier represents the Orleanist conspiracy against the Emperor Napoleon 111. a conspiracy, in which certain Spaniards entered. If by these conspirators of France and Spain the imperial dynasty should fall, it would not be the heritage of Orleans, but of Rochefort, or, what is the same, of the French Republic." In conclusion he refers to the illustrious Espartero, who is a man of prestige, and the object pf the national veneration, having nothing of the manner of a vain French pastry-cook. Don Henry, who •is brother of the • ex-King Consort, has lately identified himself with the extreme Re publicanparty. It will be remembered that some time since Don Henry published another very long letterin the Epocrs, describing several interviews he had had with Isabella 11. His last letter plainly styled the Duke " coward and traitor," and accordingly the Duke thought himself bound to demand satisfaction, either in the form of a duel or of a public apology. Don Henry chose the latter, and chose a doctor and a Republican journalist for his seconds. The Duke of Montpensier selected two generals in the army, and the meeting took place near Alarcon on the outskirts of Madrid. The two adversaries drew lots for the first shot, and Don Henry de Bourbon was the winner. The two stood at a distance of ten metres and fired. There was no result. They then placed themselves at nine metres. They came one metre nearer. Don Henry fired first, but missed. The Duke of Montpensier then fired and shot his adversary under the left ear. Don Henry fell stone dead. The Duke, it is said, was quite calm during the fight, but after it was over he was so much affected that he had to be twice. bled. THE ONEIDA DISASTER. The New York papers of March 2 give full accounts of the Oneida disaster.. The following version is given by the New York Herald:— SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 1870. The ship Benefactress arrived from Yokohama, Japan, to-day. She brings full particulars of the loss of the United States steamer Oneida, which left Yokohama on the 23rd of January, homeward bound. The steamer left her anchorage in the afternoon, and the accident occurred at seven the same evening. The United States Minister visited her in the forenoon, and received the usual salute, and the guns were reloaded with the expectation of reply ing to a salute from a Russian gunboat to Mr. Delong. The salute, however, was not given, and the guns re mained loaded. As the Oneida steamed out of the har bour, the crews of the various vessels and men at work in the port gave cheers, and wished her a happy voyage. On passing out of the harbour, her fires were banked and steam blown off. While the officers were at dinner, at about seven o'clock, the look-out man shouted " Steamer lights ahead," and a midshipman gave the order to port helm. Everything seemed quiet on hoard the other steamer. This leads to the belief that she had not observed the Oneida, although her lights were burning brightly. The steamer, which proved to be the Bombay, of the Peninsular and Oriental line, came right on and struck the Oneida on the star board side, abaft the gangway, about halfway between the main and mizen rigging. A hole was cut, through which the whole interior of the ship was visible. The binnacle, wheel, and rudder were carried away and two men stand: in' at,the wheel were instantly killed. The Bombay did not stop after crashing through the Oneida, though the guns of the latter ' which happened t o be loaded, were almost instantly fired to attract heratten tion and bring her back. Orders were given to lower the boats, but only one life boat was available, th e o th ers h av i ng been crushed. The lifeboat was manned by Dr. Suddards, the boatswain and fifteen of the crew. Five guns were fired, but before the sixth could be discharged the Oneida sunk—within ten minutes after she was struck. None of those saved saw a man or heard a voice on hoard the Bombay. They report that when it became evident that there was no hope of saving the ship the officers gathered around Captain Williams, and he was heard to say if the ship went down he would go with her. The lifeboat was obliged to leave the sinking ship to avoid being swamped. • After pulling about for a while, the crew of the lifeboat seeing none of the crew floating, not one of all the 160 who went down, unwillingly bent their boat's head to landward, about, five miles distant. On landing the natives kindly treated them, and they obtained the assistance of a guide, and started to walk to Yokohama which they reached at daylight the next mo rn i ng . Th e 13ombay was immediately ordered to the scene of the wreck, and suc ceeded in saving thirty.nine men who had got into a cutter which floated when the ship went down. Several other vessels—one with Minister Delong on board-=proceeded to the scene of the disaster during the day, but no more lives were saved. The Japanese Government sent boats and apparatus to search for the wreck and if necessary to buoy the spot. The passengers on Board the Bombay were quite surprised when they heard of the calamity which had befallen the vessel they had struck, but declare they neither heard any request from the Oneida to stay by them nor minute guns fired. A naval court-martial has been demanded by the captain of the Bombay. The efficers and men of the Oneida numbered 176, only fifty-six of whom, including Dr. Suddards and two junior officers; survived the disaster. YOKOHAMA, Jan: 31. Via SAN FRANCISCO, March 1. The most terrible accident and most horrible exhibition of inhumanity known in the East, occurred about twenty milc3 down this coast at half-past six on'the evening of January 24. - - The United States steamer Oneida, bound for home, collided witls the British Peninsular and Oriental iron snail Steamer Bombay, Captain Arthur Wellesley Eyre. The Bombay struck the Oneida on her starboard quarter, carrying away her poop deck, cutting off her whole stern, and running one of her timbers entirely through the bows of the Bombay, at the water line. Three times the Oneida hailed the Bombay with " Ship shop ! stand by ; you've cut us down ; " blew her whistro and fired her guns, all of which the officers of the Bombay say they did not hear, though the guns were distinctly heard at this port, twenty miles away. The Oneida went down stern first, in about twenty fathoms of water, with 20 officers and 50 men. The captain of the Bombay did not stop to rescue those on board, nor did he on his arrival here report the accident or inform the authorities. The first known of the affair was the next morning, when Dr. Suddards, the surgeon, with fifteen of the'crew, arrived on foot. But two cutters were available, and the officers, almost to a man, refused to take them while a man remained aboard. Discipline was complete to the last. The sick were all being put into the boats, the officers remaining at thei r posts until the ship went down. The only United States government vessel in Japan being the storeship, Minister Delong was obliged to accept from the English, French, and Russian men-of-war steamer, steam launches, cutters &a, and in company with Colonel Shepard, Consul at J'eddo, and Mr. Farring ton, proceeded to the scene of the disaster where all in human power was and is still being done to rescue the sufferers and recover the bodies of the lost. Minister Delong, on his own responsibility, has char tered the gunboat Aroostook, lately sold by the United States Government to Frivate parties; manned her with a mixed crew LA the survivors of the Oneida, volunteer citizens and engineers furnished by the Russian corvette, and placed her under the command ' of naval officers and sent her, with Colonel Shepard to represent him, to the scene of the disaster, while the Minister himself is making a thorough investigation by a naval court of inquiry. Minister Delon is entitled to great praise for his prompt and earnest action.- The position of the Oneida was to-day ascertained by a spar, which at low tide rises four or five feet above the water. No bodies have yet been found. Had the Bombay sent her boats to the assistance of the Oneida, all, or nearly all, would have been save d. The feeling of indignation towards Captain Eyre is ter rible. None but, his company and a few of his country men attempt to shield him. - - , The Penimular iamt`Oriental Steam Navigation Qom pany have reoiveictthe following telegram : t • " GALLE, March 8. " Captain Byre is held free from blame for collision with the Oneida, but his certificate is suspended for six months for not having waited to render assistance to the Oneida's crow, He procecd4 to England by picsynt . steamer, THE BILL AND THE PUBLIC. Public discussions on the Education Bill are still very numerous; but that the subject is ripe for legis lation is very clearly shown by the baldness of the opinions now generally put forth. - Most noticeable amongst the various propositions lately made is that to raise the whole of the funds for,the support of schools out of national taxation. The Liverpool Town Council, like several other bodies of the kind, is quaking at the prospect of a rate, and anxious that the burden should bo shifted to tho general taxation fund. In some of the rural districts a similar move ment is noticeablethe Notts Chamber of Agricul ture having pronounced against local rating. Ths Hertfordshire Chamber of Agriculture, on the other hand, is much more liberal. It has resolved that in all agricultural districts industrial schools ought to be formed, in cider to teach rural employments and arts. THE-- -SUN, THE BAPTISTS AND EDUCATION. The General Baptists Midland Conference repre senting 63 churches in the Midland Counties, with an aggregate membership of 8,857, has met at Derby to consider the Government Education Bill. The gathering resolved upon a petition to be presented to the House of Commons by the Hon. Auberon'Herbert to the following effect:—" That no measure should be satisfactory which provides for the extension of the fresent system of denominational instruction by public unds or local rates. That the powers conferred by the bill upon district boards to determine what religious instruction should be given in the schools are highly objectionable. Finally, that instead of the district boards being elected by parish vestries and town councils they should be elected by direct vote of the ratepayers to be taken by the ballot." PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. " M.P." writes to the Pall Mall Gazette opposing Mr. Taylor's bill for providing salaries for members of the Lower House. Mr. Taylor will bring forward his motion this week, and " M.P." would like to b 3 in time in withstanding it. But as the Labour Representation League upholds' the payment scheme, "M.P." does not care to brave the wrath of that body by speaking his mind in his place. He there fore selects the columns of a newspaper. His argu ment is that an Act of Parliament is quite super fluous. Any constituency of sufficiently generous and enligtened disposition can reward its representa tives without the aid of the law, "The presentation of testimonials, payment of election expenses, voluntary subscriptions, are methods too obvious to need men tioning. What I mean is, that every consti tuency in the kingdom can confer upon the repre sentative of their choice a most acceptable sum towards meeting his expenses during the session in London, simply by abstaining from applying to him for donations, contributions, and subscriptions to local institutions—charitable, ecclesiastical, sanitary, educational, literary, scientific, archeological, agricultural, or otherwise." When public opinion has been educated to this point, there will be no dif ficulty, the writer holds, in securing members of Par liament an annual salary. LEGISLATION FOR THE METROPOLIS. Mr. Buxton and Mr. Thomas Hughes have been very busy in the cause of the welfare of the metro polis, judging from their bringing forward simulta neously three separate bills for its government. One of them, if carried, will constitute London a county of itself, under the name of the " County of London.' Provision is made with regard to the appointment of justices of the peace and county officers, who will be called into existence when the new county is formed. Another bill both modifies and extends the Corpora tion of the City of London, and, vesting its powers in the Metropolitan Board of Works, designates it as "the Metropolitan Corporation of London." A division of the metropolis into municipal boroughs is also proposed. THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE. lur. Henry Labouchere, in a letter to the Daily News, warns the committee now sitting on the sub ject of the consular and diplomatic services against the bias of the witnesses appearing before it. The permanent officials in the Foreign Office natu rally regard with suspicion what they con sider as an entirely unjust interference with their rights, and will he inclined to palliate and explain away notorious abuses. Toth the diplo matic and the consular services have as yet been con ducted upon the principle of creating as much patronage as possible, without the slightest regard to the economical administration of the public funds, or to the real requirements of the Foreign-office De partment. Many instances are pointed out, in whica a great saving of public money might be effected. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE SAVINGS BANKS. Lord Oranmore and Browne, following what seems to be becoming a fashionable custom, publishes a protest against the Chancellor of the Exchequer. His lordship attacks the right hon. gentleman upon the matter of the , savings banks, and charges him with endeavourin g "to improve his balance-sheet by taking a petty 2120.000 a year from the most hardworking and deserving class of the community." Lord Oranmore thinks the payment should be made as an encouragement to thrift. "I think the taxpayer may consider it an indirect insurance on his pro perty against discontent and disorder; an encourage ment to the industrious and orderly, who give the best years of their lives to continuouetoil, and who, by putting by for old age, are able, when they grow feeble, to support themselves on their savings, in stead of being supported on the poor's-rates—thus directly relieving the taxpayer, and setting an ex ample to their own order, which is a boon to society that cannot be too highly estimated." BRISTOL. The committees of the two Liberal candidates at Bristol, Mr. K. Hodgson and Mr. Robinson, have decided to hold a ballot in about a week, the result to determine which of the two shall retire. Mr. Odger, however, will remain to mar the peace of the "survivor." He will not consent to any test ballot ; and it is said that he is receiving many pro mises of support from voters of his own class. The United Trades' delegates have resolved (without pledging their respective trades) to give him their individual support. Some of the trading societies have also announced their intention of voting for him. The dilemma of the Liberals is certainly serious (for them); becauseilf Mr. Odger goes to the poll, the work ing men will vote forhim, and if he were left th e on ly candidate, the Moderate Liberals would vote for the other side. It appears that Mr. Odger has given offence to the Labour Representation League by offering himself as a candidate "without the sanction" of that body. The'League thinks of opening nego tiations with the Reform Club, in order to avoid repeating the Southwark experience. THE TELEGRAPHS. Mr. Scudamore, accompanied by Mr. Edmund Yates, has started on a tour of inspootion in England and Scot landovi th the view of satisfying himself as to the justice of the complaints that have been made. In some of the largest towns—Liverpool, Manchester, and Preston— there has been scarcely any delay since the weather improved. Many newspaper proprietors grumble loudly about their hard fate under the new system; but Mr. Scudamore shews in a comparative state ment that almost all journals have received much more telegraphic matter than formerly. In some cases the increase has been a hundred per cent, and there is no instance of decline. Whilst the system is not in perfect working order the complaints have certainly been exaggerated. NEW EMIGRATION IDEA. A new phase of the emigration movement has sprung up in the shapd of a limited liability company, formed with the aid of the Duke of Man chester and a large number of influential gentlemen, to promote " a more perfect scheme of emigration and colonisation than has yet been propounded." It proposes to ,stablish a large capital in £1 shares; also, to obtain grants of g oo d l an d free, if possible, or upon easy terms of purchase, and to apportion it in moderate farms to well-selected and deserving. emigrants. The company offer to take special care of the settler, by sendinc , out pioneers to prepare a . portion of land, and erect temporary huts. Farm implements and seed will be lent, to bo repaid after the first crop. The company state they will be able to pay interest to the shareholders investing capital ; that it will be a great assistance to emigrants with small capital ; and 'that it would be a great advantage if boards of guardians will send deserving families out under the provisions of the 12th and 13th of Victoria, by which they may advance the sum of £lO per adult, to be repaid. A. circular has been sent to all boards of guardians, inviting this kind of assistance, an d that a Bedford bvi r atzetcd tho-offer. -LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,- LOCAL HEALTH AUTHORITIES. Sir Charles Adderley is chairman of a Commissia for inquiring into the constitution of our future loci health authorities. In a late speech he fore shadowed the recommendations of the Commissioa 4 and said that they were. of opinion that locao plwers for sanitary purposes " should be vested in a sanitary committee to be elected annually from boards of guardians." The Pall Mall Gazette is inclin: d to bilieve that boards of guardians will prove very nn sAtisfactory preservers of the public health. It quotes a letter publishel in the Lincolnshire. Chronicle by the chairman of a sanitary board appointed under similar conditions to those contemplated for the whole country. This " visiting committee," as it was called, brought under the notice of tho guar dians the existence of fever in the workhouse, and t'ke necessity for prompt remedial measures. No notice was taken of the matter, though .again and again it was brought forward. The fever spread to such an extent that the chairman went to London, and laid the affair before the Privy Council, and it was nut until a medical inspector of the Poor-law Board had been specially sent down, that any reme dial measures were applied. Probably, says tho Pall Mall "Gazette, Lincolnshire guardians are a fair sample of that class of functionaries throughout the country. THE EXTRA PURCHASE SYSTEM. "A Field Officer," in a letter to the Daily Tele graph, justifies Mr. Cardwell's reticence in reference to this question, in consideratiOn of the difficulties attaching to one of the most embarrassing problems of administrative detail which the War Office has ever been required to solve. The writer calls attention to the fact that his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, before Sir James Graham's Committee on Military Organisation in 1860, declared that the custom of giving over regulation prices was officially wholly unknown to him, and that he would regard with grave displeasure any infringement of the Act of Parlia ment forbidding such a practice. The Commander in -Chief, adds "A Field Officer," is popularly, though perhaps erroneously, supposed to be subordi nate to the War Minister, who naturally looks to the head of the , Horse Guards for information and even advice on points of military detail. How, then, asks the letter, can the Secretary of State be expected to take so grave a step as to recognise from the recesses of Pall Mall a custom which until the present time has never been officially brought under his notice P WOOLWICH ACADEMY. The Secretary of State has made arrangements for carrying out the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Military Education at Woolwich Academy. At the midsummer examination of 1870 the only chancre proposed is that the examination will be conducted c by the Civil Service Commissioners.- There will be no change for the winter half-year. At mid summer 1871 the recommendations of the Royal Commission as to the examination itself are to come into force, but the age of candi dctes is to remain as at present—namely, 10 to 19. In the winter of 1871 the age will be narrowed from 10 to 18k. At Midsummer, 1872, the age will be further reduced from 10 to 18, and the change will then be complete. THE NATIONAL DEBT. A return of the Funded Debt of the United King dom fixes the total amount of all the different stocks at £727,539,956 4s. 6d. Of this sum Consols represent £399,642,184 ls. ld. ; the New Three per Cents, £220,416,419 7s. 11d. ; Reduced Three per Cents, £102,966,692125. sd. ; New Five per Cents, £433,749 14s. 4d. ; New Three and a Halfs, £240,746 6s. 4d. ; and New Twn and a Halfs, £3,840,164 28.5 d. MUSEUMS AND POPULAR INSTRUCTION. The London Working Men's Club has done a sensible thing in arranging for a series of artisans' visits to the national museums. In each case the party will be under the guidance of a gentle man specially qualified to afford instruction in some particular branch of science and art. On Saturday fifty workmen inspected the Egyptian Depot of the British Museum, with the assistance of the distinguished scholar, Mr. Sharps. THE SCIENCE OF RELIGION. Professor Max Muller's course of lectures on the science of religion, the fourth and last of which was delivered on Saturday, has been deemed of high in terest, to judge from the distinguished audiences present on each occasion. The lecturer has made war against narrow-minded views, which often cause a complete absence of all charity in our considera tion of other religions than our own. The belief that all the nations of the earth, before the rise of Christianity, were without a knowledge of God and without a hope of salvation : he characterises as a Godless heresy, and maintains that an unprejudiced study of ancient religions proves the wisdom and love of God towards all His creatures. Not even the best religions have been entirely free, said the profes sor, in his last lecture, from the errors which are made so much of in our study of the Pagan religions. And the sacred boolis of the ancient world contained writings which, if charitably interpreted, would show that the most essential elements of religion had not been withheld from the heathen world. Applying this, and taking this view of the religion of others, we should more easily learn to be charitable in the interpretation of the language of our own creed, and not force a literal and material interpretation on words and sentences in our sacred books, whi c h, if thus interpreted, must lose their original purport and their spiritual truth. ARCHIEPISCOPAL GRAMMAR. A Dean to the rescue ! The very reverend Henry Alford, of Canterbury, comes to the support of his Archbishop, and assures the world of the orthodoxy of his Grace's grammar. The Dean ought to know; he has written a book about the " Queen's English ;" he has carried on discussions numerous and interesting as to the right use of our language : and he now declares undoubtedly that when two Primates of England write a combined letter to the Archbishop of Armagh, the proper address for them (plural) to give him is "my (singular) Lord Archbishop." lie tells us an amusing tale anent the "small criticism" of those who hare_ I understand the phrase "we are, my lord." The churchwardens of a parish near Bristol, having reason to make a presentation to the Bishop, met to draw it up. Churchwarden A brought the draught, beginning "My Lord." But Churchwarden B was a man of education, with the rules of grammar ever on his tongue. "My " was of course incorrect where the presenters were.two persons. ,The presentation, he maintained, ought to bo corrected, and it narrowly escaped going up to the Bishop addressed to him as " Our Lord I' The title "My-Lord," the Dean goes on to argue, is now regarded universally as a compound and unal terable word ; so mush so that, as everyone knows, our Government Boards publish their announcements as "My Lords." Nor is this confined to English. "I Monsignori" represents a well-known class of prelates at Rome. Can anyone imagine such an absurdity as the two Archbishops addressing their brother of Dublin as " Our dear Lord?" ADMIRAL ROUS ON BETTING-. Admiral Rous writes along letter to the Times on the subject of betting. He says it is absurd to ima gine that the Jockey Club or any government in a free country can abolish betting. As there is more loose money in England than elsewhere, we wager on all subjects. A man can win £5,000 on a greyhound for the Waterloo Cup, avid £150,000 on a horse for the Derby. This national weakness being admitted as incuroble, he thinks that the only - sensible question is, How are we to amelio rate the system? In 1740, says the gallant Admiral, the House of Commons passed an Act making races illegal, and subject to heavy penalties if the prize contended for was of smaller value than £5O. Ho proposes, therefore, to make the minimum prize £lOO, about equivalent to the ineres,s3d value of money in 130 years, and adds that if any person won £30,000 on a single race he shall forfeit the same to the informer, to be sued in her Majesty's Courts. If a committee of the Jookey Club be appointed, Admi ral Rous says he shall propose that if any member of the club win £50,000 on one race he shall be ex pelled. This, he adds, will respond to the accusa tion, "that the public are now convinced that the present system in no way tends to improve the breed of horses, but is one of simple gambling. and that in this state of things the Jockey Club silently acquiesce THE OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE BOAT-RACE. It is said that no Cambridge crew has left the Alma Mater for London during the last ten years with a better chance of reversing the order of things that has prevailed so long, than that which in a few days will arrive for practice on the Thames. And yet it seems hard to believe that the ill-luck which has. so ,pep,i4to4l attended the fortunes of the liithtilo IA DADA , * loath slvsgrt thcP, MARCH 15, 1870. Whether it does or not, on all hands expressions are heard of a determination to persevere again and again, until Cambridge rowing shall have attained its former excellence. The great race, an event for Londoners second only in importance to the perby, will, it is almost certain, take place on Wednesday, the 6th of April, when the tide will allow of its coming ofr about - five o'clock in the afternoon.' GEN. BEDEAU ON ANGLO-AMERICAN RELATIONS. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The article it was known Gen. AD.tss BADEAU was writing has appeared in Harper's Nag bzine for Nlarch, as well as in Macmillan's Magazine, and will attract all the more interest, as it is known to have been scrutinized and approved by the PRE SIDENT when iu manuscript, if not also by his Excel lency, the American Minister in London. General BADEAU was singularly well placed to produce such a paper ; for, in the first place, he is the intimate friend and associate of the PRESIDENT, on whose staff he has all along served. He was detached from the PRESIDENT'S household to accompany Mr. MOTLEY on his mission to England, and he re mained in London with the Legation as the Assis tant-Secretary for several months after its arrival. At that moment international affairs did not pre sent the most friendly aspect. But a short time before, Senator SUMNER, who had strongly advo cated the appointment of Mr. MOTLEY, had de livered his celebrated speech, which ended in the almost unanimous rejection of the CLARENDON JOHNSON Treaty. That speech was much misre presented by English commentators, who turned what Mr. SUMNER intended to be conciliatory into what was merely preposterous in the magnitude of the demands, and the exaggeration of the injury in-_ Meted by England on America during the war. It was natural for the British to associate Mr. MOT. LET'S opinions with those of the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, and as a pro found sensation had been produced in England by a speech which, as represented to them, pointed to no other arbiter than war, it was imagined that Mr. MOTLEY'S reception in Loudon would not be cordial. Those who thought so in America were agreeably disappointed in the result, which is thus related by General BADEAU. " Compliments of every sort poured in on his arrival in London. The QUEEN herself signified her gratification at his appointment, and deviated from Court etiquette to pay a civility to the new Minister and his family. Every cir cumstance showed that, despite the rejection of the Treaty, there was a disposition to be in every way cordial to the new representative of the United States." The season had commenced, and General BADEAU, then paying his first visit to Europe, found himself launched into a sea of festivities, and had the best opportunity of conversing with the leaders of society as well as of English public opinion. In his paper he shows how truthfully he has interpreted what be Saw and heard, but we desire to point out a circumstance which ought never to be overlooked by Americans when they endeavour to get at the truth on English opinion regarding the United States. In mixing in the crowd of such a city as London, for instance, in visiting theatres and music halls, and other public places, as well as • private houses, and sitting at the dinner tables of ac quaintances, they may be all along in a vein which while appearing to them to embrace the whole sentiment of the country, may in reality be but that only of a narrow section. Now this is a difficulty which Englishmen themselves cannot get over, and foreigners, even when they are Ame ricans, cannot hope to surmount. The dweller in Liverpool lived in a hotbed of secession ; the dwel ler in the county to which Liverpool belongs, lived for the most part among a people strongly Northern in sentiment. Yet the one knew lit!le or nothing of the other, and might well have imagined that his was the prevailing opinion of the country. A Kentish man has very little in common with a North countryman ; and neither can Comprehend a IriShman. To have spoken with a mechanic or well-to-do agriculturist iu Kent about the Civil War in America when it was raging, was to talk on a subject about which he neither knew nor cared. It had nothing to do with hops ; and beer was the all absorbing question with him. Five out of every six of the North countrymen went heartily with the Uuion, and sometimes even passionately when they understood the question; and that feeling was carried through a number of classes, but running unevenly over the country, though with this as a guide— that in the large seaport towns secession was the prevailing feeling, while in the small towns and country-places, among sturdy mechanics and yeo men, the sentiment was strongly Northern. We desire also to remark that that was the honest opinion, uninfluenced by other considerations than the merits of the quarrel; while, on the contrary, the Southerners were backed by a community directly affected, the great shipping interests, and those whose trade was likely to be benefited by the war, but mainly by the upper ten, thousand, who hate Republicanism, and instinctively see in the Union the most formidable foe of class privileges. We are the more particular in making these remarks, as they in some degree explain the discrepancy between the opinions General BADEAU heard Eng lishmen express on all sides, and the denial given to those statements by loyal Americans who were in England timing the war. The former, without exception, maintained that there was no unanimity of hostility towards the Union in Great Britain, many of them confining it wholly to the upper classes ; while the latter declared that the friends of the Union, even among the Liberals, or in the working classes, were ns two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff, but both we believe to be wrong. It would be impossible for any man to state abso lutely what was the sentiment of the majority, though any foreign gentleman who understood the language must have unhesitatingly declared that England was bitterly hostile to the North. It was the fashion to be a Secessionist, because the upper ten thousand were Secessionists, and a certain section of society always go with the fashion, and wholly without reference to the merits of the question ; but, excepting those whose interests were involved the honest, reasoning, and commonly educated mass without the pale of fashion threw themselves into the Northern scale. Fashion succeeded in giving the plain palpable stamp, which America and the world generally accepted, as the genuine British sen timent ; yet it was untrue of the people in the mass, as well even as of thousands who drift apparently with fashion, white in private forming their own opinion, and no English Goverment would have dared to go beyond mere talk. It is this fashion which thrusting itself everywhere before the eyes of foreigners, who seldom see more than the large towns where it 'finds expression, that deceived not only the citizens in the States, but their country men who happened to be residing in England. Gen. BADEAU thus remarks on the impression in Ame- rica : " If I understand the current opinion here among those generally believed to be best informed, it is that the whole mass of the English nation were delighted when our troubles began, hoped to see the American people perma nently broken up, and the Republic divided; that this arose, on the part of the - aristocracy, from a not unnatural hatred of our institutions, which they thought a standing reproach to their own ; and, on the part of the middle and workine classes, from a dislike to the growing strength of a nation already a rival, and which they feared might possibly become a superior. It is not believed that the English had any particular liking for the South, and their abhorrence of slave] y had long been notorious ; but it is believed that they were willing to subordinate their dis like of slavery to their desire for the downfall of the Union, and when this should be accomplished they would b 3 as willing to see the South destroyed as the North." It is nob, however, with what the feeling was, but .„, . . with what it is, that General BADEAU undertakes to deal. He says that a profound desire exists among all classes to cultivate the closest relations of amity with the United States. While recognizing that England inflicted serious injury on America during the war, and that no friendship can subsist while one retains the sense of wrong and the other antici pates retaliation, he declares that the English are willing to do much more iii reparation than Ame ricans give them credit for. They acknowledge that the Alabama should not have been allowed to leave, that they are answerable for her ravages, and are ready to pay any fair amount, which he consi ders to be alike the feeling of the Government and of the people. The former manifest no hos tility in consequence of the utterances of American statesmen, as instanced in Lord CLARENDON'S re ply to the note of Mr. Fisii, and Mr. GLADSTONE'S remark (at the Lord Mayor's dinner after that note had been received), " with the country of Mr. PEA BODY we are not likely to quirrel." Had the debate in the House of Commons on the Alabama claims, set down for last July, taken place, prominent members were prepared to take advance ground in favour of the accountability of England. " The best men in England are sincerely anxious to create such a sentiment as shall make it imposasible for serious difficulty to occur between the two countries; they lose no opportunity with pen or tongue, in public or in private, to evince this desire. It is right that the fact should be recognized in America, because America, having received a wrong, should know that many English are anxious to wipe away the recollection of the wrong, not only by kind words, but by acts such as America can re ceive as fitting reparation." The closing remarks of the article are very impor tant, as indicating certain views which the PRESI DENT entertains. Some have endeavoured to spread the notion that General GRANT hates England, one of those gross untruths which those who are always striving to stir up ill blood between the two nations industriously circulate : "This is not the time to select for serious difficulties be tween us. With two liberal parties in power, with every prospect of the continuance of each, with the people in one country becoming more prosperous, and in the other more powerful, every day—the friends of the whole race, in either land, should do all in their power to foster the most friendly feelings. The two nations should strike hands, and with their liberal ideas, theiradvancing Christianity, their increasing education, their material wealth, they can only present a front that no physical power will attack, but which no great mural evil that they may wish to remove can long withstand." The Americans in Paris, .at a meeting held at Messrs. Bowles Brothers and Co.'s banking rooms, have appointed Wednesday, the 16th inst., as the date on which a public commemoration will be held in honour of the late Hou. Anson Burlingame. The following gentlemen were appointed an Executive Comniittee:—Rev. Dr. Lamson, C. Bowles, Dr. Evans, Nathan Appleton, Colonel Frank Moore. The general committee consists of Americans resident and non-resident in Paris—gentlemen who have kncwn or been associated with Mr. Burlingame during his brilliant career. Richard; Esq., President; and Eugene Winthrop, secretary. The commemoration will take place in the American Chapel, Rue du Berri, and the Hon. E. B. Washburne, American Minister, and Governor Bullock, of Massachusetts, among others, will deliver ad dresses. Music, by the choir, will form part of the service. We learn from America that the news of Mr. Burlingame's death has produced a deep impression. In the House of Representatives a panegyric has been pronounced upon the deceased, and the Massachusetts Legislature and other public bodies have passed resolutions expressive of their regret at his loss. The ships in Boston harbour hoisted their colours half-mast when the news became known. The report on the decline in the American Mer cantile Marine did not receive the unanimous vote of the committee. The proposition for drawbacks in shipbuild ing materials was unanimiusly agreed to; but, among others, from which a minority dissented, was the proposal for a bounty on whatever American materials were used. Messrs. Holman and Judd are in the minority, who, though they have not submitted a report, will do so when the bills are considered, proposing amendments in accordance with their views. Several steamship projects are under the consideration of the Senate Committee on commerce. The Copenhagen scheme will receive an adverse 'report. Mr. Garrison and other New York capitalists and shipowners have been heard by the committee, and Captain Jewett was about to speak on behalf of the Mediterranean and Oriental Steamship Company as well as the Cotnrnercial Navigation Company. One bill proposes a subsidy. of 525,000 for the round voyage weekly between N •xv York and Liverpool, besides ocean postage, an amount which Congress will certainly not sanction. -From California we hear that in Stu, Francisco, on Washington's birthday, there were numerous outrages committed upon Chinamen. At one time a serious riot was threatened, but a heavy rain aided the police in dis persing the mob. The trade between California and China and Japan - rapidly increases. The Pacific Mail Company have four of their finest and largest vessels making monthly trips between the two countries, and four smaller vessels in the China seas to perform tributary service. In 1867 the export of merchandise to China from San Fran cisco was a little over one million dollars in value, and of _ . gold and silver nearly five tniliions. In 1869 the total merchandise export from San Francisco to China and Japan fell a little short of two million dollars, while almost nine millions of gold and silver were sent out. Besides treasure, which will thus be seen is the great element of the exports, the principal shipments of last year were 154,000 barrels of flour, 24,000 rentals of wheat, 3,600 rentals of oats, 11,000 flasks of quicksilver, and 350 pack- ages of California wine. The Pacific Mail Steamship Com pany's steamers made 13 trips last year; and, besides these, 22 sailing vessels carried cargoes from the Pacific coast to Asia ; but more than half of all the merchandise went by the steamers, and all of the gold and silver. The number of Chinese on the Pacific coast, according to the statistics of the California Legislature is 89,500. Rumouis were current that there was to be a massacre of the Celes tials, but it was confined to the little boys throwing stones at the Chinamen, according to a well-established custom. In San Francisco the people have become so accustomed to a rush into the street, that on the last earthquake, Feb. 17, they were there before the shock had ceased. The New York Life Company are about to open a London office ; Mr. llomens, in conjunction with Mr. Walford, an English barrister, having completed arrange ments on behalf of that leading American Life Assur ance Company. Attached to the offices at 76, heapside, will be a reading-room well supplied with newspapers, a fact worth the while of American travellers to make a note of. The enterprise shown by this and another Ame rican Life Assurance Company in assuming a position in the English citadel may surprise the London companies ; but. the truth is acknowledged that Life Assurance is better managed in America than in England ; that the companies having there a more profitable means of in vesting, and a close Government inspection, combine better security with larger profits. There is no reason w hy Englishmen should not avail themselves of the bene fits American companies offer. It appears Mr. Waddington has arrived in Canada from England to press upon the attention of the Govern ment the construction of the British Pacific Railway. He believes the best point at which to commence is the mouth of the Neepigon River on Lake Superior. All the money required for the work can bo had in London. Bills have been introduced in Co press to aid projected railways through Minnosota towards the Pacific, close to the her- der of the British Possessions: Both the Dominion and the United States behove that the construction'of either roads is a necessity in furthering their political aims. The object of the Dominion is to knit together the isolated pruvinces, without which she can be a Dominion only in name ; the object of the United States is to bring all these provinces ►nto the Union. LAD VERTlSEMENT.l—henceforth no oue will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whoa position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866. The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other reme dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a fc,w out of more than 68.000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brchan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation, all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most in tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia, No. 49,832: " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 32 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, anti partial deafness. Im portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. In tins, at is lid; 1 lb 23 9d; 2 lb is 6d; 5 lb lie; 12 lb 225; 24 lbs 4 s.— %Is° Dli BARRY'S REVALENTA RAMA CIioCOLATE POWDER is packed in tin canisters: for le, cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 2aB cups at 30s, for 576 cups at 55s —being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. BARRY DU BARRY and CO., No, 77, Regent-street, London; and all Grocers and Glemistl. MONETARY REPORTS -MONDAY. This beingthefirst day of the fortnightly account, the at tention of the house has beenprincipallydirected to the set tlement. Stock in some instances has been scarce, and high prices have in consequence ensued. Consols have been firm, and beLter, at 92, 92k, for May, and 92k, 03 for April. Reduced and New Three per Cents 91-i, 91i, ex-div. Indian Five per Cents 111 k, 112, and Indian Bonds 20s. to 255. prem. Exchequer Bills have marked 2s. dis., 3s. prem. At the commencement of business the market for English railway stocks was depressed, and there was a tendency to lower rates. Subsequently, however, more animation prevailed. For Great Western stock there was a strong inquiry, and the quotation improved to 68, 681, but eventually relapsed to 67a, shewing an advana - on the day of /. Metropolitan has been scarce on the ettlement, and has risen to 802, 81. Midland has beer. -irm, and / better ; but South-Eastern has fallen /. _ In the discount market to-day there has been a fair' demand for money, but as the supply of capital has been rather larger, the rates have been easy at 2i to 3 per cent. No bullion operations have been reported at the Bank to-day. Indian stocks have been-quiet, and without movemeu of importance. Canadian shares have been steady Great Western have recovered i t . For foreign shares there has been a moderate demand, at about previous quotations. Foreign bonds generally have been in request to-day, and the general,course of prices, has been favourable. AD gentine 1868 has advanced ; Brazilian 1863, 1; Egyptian, 1868, 1; ditto Debentures, ; New Granada, ; ditto De ferred, ; Peruvian, 1865, ; Turkish, 1861, American Government securities continue to decline from the recent highest point, but this is chiefly owing to realisations, the tone 'of the market being satisfactory- Five-Twenty Bonds of 1882 have given way*, and 1885, 1; while Ten-Forty Bonds are down. On the other hand Virginia State Bonds have' advanced ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway Bonds, ; Erie shares, "pro tected," ; and Illinois Central shares, As regards mining shares Van Consols have been in re ;nest, and have risen 2s. per share, otherwise nothing of Interest has transpired. The tone of the market for Bank shares has been healthy, and• prices have ruled firm. Imperial Ottoman have been done at 4i prem., or at an advance of j. Telegraph shares have been steady. Anglo-American have supported the late advance, and British Australia have risen Hooper's Telegraph Shares have been firm at I, prem., and Telegraph Construction have risen but Silver's Indiarubber shares have been flat and 1 lower, at 55} to 56k. In miscellaneous securities very little business has been doing, at about previous quotations. The bank of Australasia have declared a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum. The failure is announced of Mr. Robert Varty, stock and share broker, of Red Cross-street, Liverpool, with Di dificiency of about £lO,OOO, owing to a heavy "bear", account in railway stocks. The stoppage is announced of Messrs. Adamson, ship builders, of Gangemouth, with liabilities estimated at £23,000, and assets for about £6;000. The following are the official "making-up" prices of to-day, being the first day of the account in shares and foreign bonds. Railways Metropolitan, 81; Caledonian, 78 ; London and Brighton, 43k ; South-Eastern, 74 ; • Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 52 ; Great Northern A, 1191: Midland, 123,1 : London and North- Western, 123 ; Great Western, 67 ; Great Eastern, 37i ; Erie, 201; Illinois. 116 ; Luxembourg, 152 ; South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 192 ; and Great Western of Canada, 171. Foreign Bonds : Turkish Five per Cents., 46 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1865, 69i ; Peruvian, 1865, 82 ; Egyptian, 1868, 801; ditto Nine per Cents, 100 ; Italian 1861, 55-/ ; Spanish, 1867, 27 ; Mexican, 14 ; Venezuela, 1864, 20) ; Five-Twenty, 1882 bonds, 901; ditto 1885, 90. Telegraph shares—Anglo-Mediterranean, 18 ; Anglo-American, 18 ; British India Submarine, 121; West India and Panama, 2 dis ; Atlantic Cable, 131; ditto , Preference, 2; Telegraph Construction, 41. Miscellaneous — Imperial Ottoman Bank, 14 ; Yuda-Namutana Mine, ; Don Pedro, 41; Hudson's Bay shares, 14 ; Russian scrip, 4 prem. The presence of some North country buyers in the market has produced a firm feeling in the wheat trade at Mark Lane to-day, which the delay in the arrival of the grain -laden fleet, in consequence of the adverse winds, has tended to consolidate. English and fine foreign wheats have realised is per qr more money, and spring corn has been fully as dear. A prospectus has been issued of the Teign Valley Leal and Barytes Mining Company (limited), with a capital of £20,000, in £5 shares, to work some mines at Bridport Devon. The directors of the Cagliari Gas Company, out of an available balance of £11,077, recommend a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent, per annum. A balance of £1,743 will .be carried forwaid. MARKETS-MONDAY. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MosrDAY.—The show of Eng* lish wheat at Mark-lane, to-day, was only moderate. There was a fair attendance of millers, including some Yorkshire buyers, and the trade was firm, for both red and white produce, at an advance of is. per quarter. The supply of foreign wheat was moderato. Business to a fair extent was concluded, and Russian qualities occasionally made is. per quarter more money. The supply of barley was moderate. The trade was steady, at improving currencies. Malt was firm. Maize and oats were in request, at an advance of 6d. to 9d. per quarter. Beans and peas were fully as dear. Flour rose is. per sack and 6d. per barrel, with a healthy inquiry. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET, MONDAY.—Compared with Monday last the supply of beasts on sale was rather larger, but was still short of the average. The condition of the Scotch and Irish beasts NITS good, and some fair foreign stock was on sale. For all breeds the inquirywas limited ; nevertheless, the best Scots and crosses realised ss. toss. 2d. per 81b. From Norfolk and Suffolk we receivedl, 560 ; from the Midland and home countie 368 ; from Scotland, 173 ; and from Ireland, 443 head. The shew 0 sheep was rather larger, and the trade was quiet. Prime downs were scarce and firm, at from ss• 10d. to 6s. per sibs. ; but tees in the wool and shorn sheep were rather lower in value. Lambs were quiet, at from 7s. 6d. to Bs. per 81bs. Calves were firm, but pigs sold slowly. Beasts were quoted at from 3s. 4(1. to ss. 2d. sheep, ss. 4d. to Gs. ; calves, 4s. 2d. to 6s. ; and pigs, 4s. 6d. to ss. 10d. per Blbs. to sink the offal. Total supplies.—Beasts, 3,407; sheep and lambs, 22,835 ; calves, 157, and pigs, 50. Foreign : Beasts, 933 ; Sheep and lambs, 5,160 ; and calves, 150. - -- • -- METROPOLITAN MEAT MARKET. MONDAY.—The mar ket was moderately supplied with meat. The demand was heavy, as follows :—Beef,from 88. 81 to 4s. Bd. ; mutton, 35. Od. to 4s. 6d. ; veal, 4s. 101 to ss. 2d. lamb, 6s. Bd. to 7s. 4d. ; and pork, 3s. 10d. to ss. 4d. p er Sib s., b y the carcase. LONDON TRADE REPORT, Mosnev.—The tallow market has ruled firm at 465. 3d. to 465. 6d. for Y C on the spot, and 465. 6d. to 465. 9d. for last three months. Stock in London, 26,325 casks, against 38,741 casks last year. The arrivals last week were 907 casks. The quarterly sales of Spanish indigo have opened at October rates to 4d. advance. Cotton for arrival rather dearer. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET, MONDAY.—There has been very little doing in any colonial produce, to-day, but prices gene rally have remained unaltered. Sugars have been in little request, but although the currency is weak, no change has taken place in the quotations. Coffee has met a moderate inquiry, at about stationary rates. Tea has ruled dull, China qualities being. obtainable on former low terms. Rice has continued dull and depressed in value. LIVERPOOL COPPER MARKET, MoNDAY.—Market quiet and unchanged. Bars, 66 to 66} ; ores, 13i to 131. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MONDAY.—Market steadier. Sales, 12,000 bales, of which 2,000 on speculation. BRADFORD TRADE REPORT, MONDAY.—WooI trade very quiet. Transactions small, and better spirit shewn in,the demand for either wool, yarns, or pieces. Prices tending downwards. PARIS FLOUR, MONDAY.—Current month, 5615; April, 5615; ➢iay-June, 51'25. AMSTERDAM, MONDAT.—Banca tin, 71i to 72. Petroleum , autumn, 76. BERLIN, MONDAY. —Rye, March, 44; April-May, 431 to 4 4 , Rape oil, March, 13i ; April-May, 13 1-7th ; spirits, March; 14 6-6th ; April-May, 14j. HAMBURG, MARCH 12.—Wheat, March, 107; April-May; , 103 May-June, 106 ; rape oil, spot, 28 ; June, 27/ ; autumn, 261. HAVANA, Minn 12.—N0 12 sugar, 11} ; Muscovado, 71. The platform of the female voters of Mormonism ought to be More-men-ism.—Chicago Times. BIRTHS. HOBART—Oa the 12th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Robert Hobart, of a son. WHITELAW—On the 13th inst., at Rugby, the wile of Robt- Whitelaw, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIAGES'. Pnowso -REEvEs—On the 12th inst., at Argyle-square , John Provvse, Esq., of 37, Patshull-road, Kentish-towol to Maria Theresa, second daughter of Ueorge J. Reeves, Esq., of the War-office. TREOBALDS- O'HALLORAN - On the 10th inst. at Bath John R. Theobalds, Esq., Surgeon Major of Madras Ar m y, °- Charlotte, the eldest daughter of Major-General I ) * O'Halloran. DEATHS. LVCRIE —On the 12th inst. , nt Brighton, David Luckiet Esq., aged 90. TREGOON -- On the 13th inst., at the Cedars, East Dulwich' William Thomas Treggon, Esq., late of Jewin-street, Cripplegate, aged 73. London: Printed and Published by WILLIAM ANDREW... , of of A No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TUB SUN Office, No. 112, Stran in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the County of IMiddleg el " -7. Tuesday, March 16, 187 U 1 k, Cl gYst ap es Cl Ci ae gis , L ~J w~