The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The right hon. member for South Lancashire, as the Times tells him, did a public service in condemning the theory and practice of trades unions in the speech for which he was called to account by Mr. Potter. It is not every public man who before a popular audience, made up to a considerable extent of people working for wages, will take upon himself the thankless office of telling unwelcome truth. In this matter the press has been left almost unassisted to fight the battle of justice, sound political economy, and the real rights of labour. Of platform speakers, some have shirked it, and others have contented themselves with the commonplaces which shew timidity and insincerity even more than shallowness, while more than one has sought to gain popularity by justifying the principles and palliating the excesses of the unionists. The Liberal leader took a more creditable course, and one which seems likely to be followed by useful consequences. The Times trusts that the deputation which is to wait on Mr. Gladstone will explain clearly and succinctly the exact position of the unions. If Mr. Potter will take care that his friends are as open and sincere as their critic, we have no doubt that the discussion will be interesting and useful. We shall be glad to hear something on the subject from real working men, and not from amateurs who have elabo rated an ideal working man and an ideal trades unionism gut of their own conceptions. There are some very down right and straightforward speakers in the class which Mr. Potter leads, and there is reason to believe that these are the type of men who most sway the councils of the unions. If it be consistent with the trades' arrangements, we should be glad to hear such men speak, for they know most and have done most in connection with the system. But even at present we must demur to the assumption of Mr. Potter, that Mr. Gladstone, and, consequently, the general public, are ignorant of trades unionism. Though there may be something secret in its pro cedure, there is nothing secret in its principles. Em ployers have long had nothing to learn ; they have been taught by many a bitter experience ; nor, may we say, have non-union men been without opportunities of studying both theory and practice tho roughly. It must also be remembered that a commission has been sitting, and that examination by competent inquirers is a powerful instrument for eliciting truth. The persons who have given evidence, working men as well as employers, have thrown a bright light on the whole sub ject. Nor will Mr. Gladstone, listening to the prepared explanations of his visitors, draw forth such significant information as the official questioners. The tendency of the trades union apologies may, however, be divined from the speech of Mr. Potter himself. That gentleman ven tures on a definition of a trades union which runs on into a description, but the first sentence of it is sufficiently precise :—" It is a combinatiOn of workmen to keep up the price of their labour and to keep down the hours of work." The task which Mr. Potter and his friends will undertake is to prove, not only that this object is just and legal in the abstract, but that the practices by which the attain ment of it is sought are just and legal also. It is on this part of the subject that he is at issue with Mr. Gladstone, who expressly declared that nothing could be said in prin ciple against such an association as a trades union. According to the Post, our public men are constantly teased by a despotic custom of writing nonsense letters, and waste an amount of their time in doing so which is almost incredible. There is a stupid old axiom that every letter must be answered, no matter how absurd may be its contents ; aad this incessant scribbling not only in flicts a very unnecessary amount of work upon all our public departments, but does a great deal of harm in an indirect way. Parsons are often the most persistent and troublesome correspondents. Directly any Church prefer. ment falls vacant the most unlikely clergy apply for it. If they are answered Kith proper respect, as they always are, they write again, and very soon begin to found claims upon the replies which they obtain by these means. They use such replies very frequently as testimonials of cha racter, and speak with such confidence that unsuspecting people often think they have been very ill used by men in power, who have no knowledge of them whatever beyond that which is supplied by half a ream of begging letters. But a far more dangerous class of applicants are pretended inventors, and unscrupulous persons of various denomina tions. In a course of correspondence, which they know how to force upon public departments, they sometimes surprise or tr:c:: an unwary Minister, or his private secre tary, into a profitable admission. If his application is of value or interest no Minister would be disposed to neglect it, or could safely venture to do so. But it is rather too much to expect that the time of some of the ablest men in the kingdom should be taken up in dictating conventional falsehoods couched in rhodomontade and involved phrases of official jargon, but absolutely without any meaning at all. The question is not so petty or insignificant as it would appear to the inexperienced. The mass of letters which pour in upon public men has increased beyond imagination or belief. Extremes, as the Daily News points out, are meeting in our most curious and complicated civilisation. Last Thursday an old worn-out gardener named Page dropped clown and died of starvation in the roadway near Ken nington Church. On Tuesday last Dr. Lankester held an inquest on the body of an elderly widow named Clements, who, according to the evidence of the toxicologist and the verdict of the jury, died from the effects of eating a goose on Christmas Day. It appears, and we are sorry to be assured of the fact, that amongst our tame villatic fowl the goose is not to be depended on. It is not safe t, dine off it without some assurance as to its way of living, and especially the regularity of its diet. Where these are not properly looked after its fat is apt to become poisonous. Like will to like ; and so this silly bird, it seems, is fond of " fool's parsley," among other vegetable poisons. There is this, however, to be said for the creature's sense : the weed to which it is partial does not hurt the bird, but only makes its flesh noxious to those who take it for food, and it is supposed that the goose which was fated to cost this poor woman her life had indulged its taste too freely. Another alter native was suggested by the medical witness. The geese which are sent in such numbers to London during the week before Christmas arrive in many cases so closely packed that decomposition is brought on, and they poison whoever eats them. The Standard devotes a leader to the variety of national convulsions which have been lately recorded in various portions of the globe. Fifteen years ago, the entire north west of England was slightly, yet distinctly, agitated, and so lately as October 1863 the centre of this island felt a shudder which vibrated in nearly every direction to the coast. But, again, what does it all mean ? What is the matter with Old Mother Earth ? Why these subtemnean rumblings and commotions, these battles of the elements, these equivalents below of the lightnings and thunders above ? Is there to be a general confusion and displace went of climates ? Are the tropics on their travels ? Is the Gulf Stream really altering its course and bringing us, 0 0 7 by degrees, the tumults, together with the geniality, of the regions where the oceans are all purple and the lands all gold ? We shall soon he thinking seriously upon this point if the oscillations of our hitherto tight little island become more frequent. It is all very well to write, like Lady Sale, in a remote part of Asia, " Earthquakes as usual ;" we should scarcely be pleased to keep a similar journal in London. Historically, we turn to the utmost East, or the other hemisphere, to Pekin, to Lima, to Japan, to Valparaiso, and even ima,2,ine ourselves safe because the groanings of the giant are heard no nearer, in ordinary, than in Italy and Holland, at Zante or Rhodes, or even at Marseilles ; but when, as in 1859 and 1860, Cornwall feels itself, although only for a few moments, upheaved ; when, four years ago, the central, western, and north-western counties of England were in a tremor during an entire afternoon ; and when, in this present winter, people have not quite done with their experiences of a Somersetshire earthquake, the question grows serious for our own and for future generations. The Telegraph reminds us that in one of his raids into the domain of Political Economy, Mr. Ruskin expresses his fervent faith in the coming of a time when there shall be soldiers of the ploughshare as well as soldiers of the sword, and when industry of every kind shall be as bril liantly rewarded as valour. The Emperor of the French seems to be bent on doing something which shall give reality to Mr. Ruskin's dream. M. Paul Dupont, the head of a Paris printing-house, was recently created an officer in the Legion of Honour. A day or two ago twenty two of the men employed in the printing-office waited on the Emperor at the Tuileries, bearing an address of thanks, which was signed by all their fellow-workme n , to the number of eleven hundred. In replying to the deputa tion, the Eniperor said that the honour had been con ferred on M. Dupont chiefly because he had introduced into his establishment the principle of co-operation, so as to bring about a solidarity of interests between the master and the workman. When shall we English thus honour the successful manager of a co-operative store s REMOVAL Or' CHARTER-HOUSE SCHOOL.—The sale and transfer of the present school - house of Charter house, and the lands and buildings connected therewith, having recently been effected by the governors of the Ho, pital of King James to the masters and wardens of the Merchant Taylors' Company, the work of demolition and transformation of this ancient foundation has already commenced. NAVAL COURT-MARTIAL.—A court-martial has been held at Devonport, on board the Royal Adelaide, guard-ship, for the trial of Mr. Henry George Doming. carpenter of the second class, serving on board the Indus, on the charges of being absent from his ship on December 27, and drinking intoxicating liquors to excess. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the court—a previous conviction being proved—adjudged him to be dismissed from the service, LAW AND POLICE. ACTION AGAINST THE UREAT EASTERN RAILWAY COM PANY TO COMPEL THE PERFORMANCE OF AN AGREEMENT. —Vice-Chancellor Wood has had before him the suit of " Fry v. the Great Eastern Railway Company." It was an action to compel specific performance by the company of an agreement to purchase the property of the plaintiffs, who keep a ladies' school at Hackney. The notice to treat had been followed by a reference to arbitration, at which the price was fixed ; but the completion of the purchase had been delayed by the company for more than two years. No formal defence was made on the part of the company, but some attempt to excuse the delay was suggested as arising from the state of the money market, which had rendered it impossible for the company to find the money. The Vice-Chancellor directed an inquiry whether a good title had been shewn, and when first, with the usual con sequential order for specific performance and a direction that the purchase-money might be a lien on the property. His Honour also made a similar decree in another suit, the circumstances of which were substantially the same. PAROCHIAL RELIEF AND MUNICIPAL DISQUALIFICA TION.—Is one whose father has received parochial relief disqualified from serving as town councillor?—This was the question asked in the Queen's Bench, in the matter of the Queen v. William Ireland. Cause was shewn against a rule for a quo warranto, calling upon the defendant to shew cause by what authority he claimed to exercise the office of town councillor for the borough of Bodmin, on the ground that he was disqualified by reason of his having received parochial relief within twelve calendar months previms to August last. It appeared that Mr. Ireland's father, who resided within the Barn staple Union, in the county of Devon, had been re lieved by that union, and the question was, whether he was part of the defendant's family, so as to disqualify the latter from holding the office of town councillor. Mr. Justice Blackburn said that members of a family meant those under his control. The Lord Chief Justice said the Act very properly provided that the receipt of parochial relief should disqualify a man from becoming a burgess, but it did not state directly or by implication that relief given to a father, whether residing with the son or at a distance, was to be considered as relief given to the son on the ground that the father was a member of his family. To hold it would be putting such a monstrous and outrageous construction on the statute as no court ought to sanction, and the decision would therefore be for the defendant. SULLIVAN V. THE LONDON AND NOVA-WESTERN RAIL• WAY COMPANY.—In the Court of Common Pleas an appli. cation was made for a new trial in this case. It was an action for negligence brought against the defendants company for injuries received by the plaintiff, who was a passenger at the time of the Warrington accident. The plaintiff obtained 2750 damages. A new trial was asked for on the ground that the damages were excessive. The plaintiff, it appeared, was a tailor, who had been pre. viously afflicted with spitting of blood, and who had left his employment to go to Ireland. In the accident he had received so great a shock that his disease had become much worse. Since the accident he had lost a child, and the statement had so worked upon the feelings of the jury that they had given him £750 damages. The Chief Justice thought that the verdict had been influenced by circum stances which ought not to have been considered by the jury. There would, therefore, be a rule nisi. PAWNBROKERS' TRICKS.—A pawnbroker namea Laven burg was charged before Mr. Paget, at the Thames Police court, with several serious offences against the Acts regulating his trade, It appears that a pawnbroker is allowed to charge a halfpenny for each " ticket" where the money advanced is less than 55., and the accused, in order to increase his profits, was in the habit of dividing articles brought to him so as to require more " tickets" than one. Thus, a clock was divided into three by giving separate " tickets" for the pendulum and weights, and Mr. Gowland said he could bring seventy cases forward of the same kind. The defendant was fined on all the charges brought against him, the aggregate, with costs, being 2s. It was stated on behalf of the Pawnbrokers' Pro tection Society that no such practice as that adopted by Lavenburg, of dividing a pawn or a pledge, was known in the trade. BURNING A DEAD BABY AT SHEFFIELD.—At the Sheffield„ Police-court, yesterday, an old woman, named Ann Hall, 66 years of age, was charged with having burnt the body of a dead infant. Ihe old woman assisted at the birth of a child, said to have been stillborp, on Saturday night, and on Monday fetched away the body in a coffin for burial. In the course of the evening her neighbours were sickened by a strong smell as of burning flesh coming from her house, and they observed that she had a large fire, and behaved in a very mysterious manner. One of them, looking a short time afterwards throagh the keyhole of the door, which was locked, saw her breaking up the coffin• Information was given to the - police, and she was taken into custody. She was remanded. Mrs. Tliornycroft has presented a marble bust of the Princess Christian to the Corporation of Liver pool. CHRISTMAS TREE FOR STARVING DOGS. A novelty in the way of raising money to help the " starving dogs " of London is in operation at the offices of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 172, New Bond-street. A Christmas tree, with prizes for all visitors, is being shewn this week from 11 a.m. to S p.m. THE MURDER OF LORD WIIARNCLIFFE'S GAME KEEPEL — A most painful episode in connection with the murder of Mr. George Thirkill has just taken place. Di second daughter of the deceased, a fine young woman, named Harriet Thirkill, 19 years of age, was on Tuesday removed from Wortley to the asylum at Wakefield, the murder of her father, of which she heard the same night whilst at the station, on her way home to attend her sister's funeral, having affected her reason. THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE TRENT VALLEY ItAILWAY._The recent accident at the Nuneaton station of the Trent Valley Railway has resulted in another deatk. It will be remembered that an elderly man named Lord who lived about a mile from the scene of the accident, way proceeding to Leicester on a visit to his son-in-law, whop daughter he had with him at the time. While endeavou ing to cross the metals at the Nuneaton station with the little girl in his arms he was struck by the butler of an engine, which he had not seen coming up. The child was killed on the spot and the man himself severely injured. The poor fellow was taken to his home, where he has since been constantly attended by Mr. Eyton, surgeon, of Nuneaton, but the services of that gentleman have proved unavailing. Loss OF A SHIP AND ALL HANDS' OFF HOLY HEAD.—Another sad disaster was reported at Liverpool on Wednesday evening. The barque Euphrates left Bonny for Liverpool on the Ist of October with a cargo of palm oil and nuts. The vessel had a most tedious voyage, and on entering the English Channel encountered a series of very heavy easterly and westerly gales. On Tuesday afternoon the Euphrates, labouring under a tremendous sea, and evidently water-logged, was sighted by the Bra ganza, steamship, from Oporto to Liverpool, about sixteen miles S.W. off Holyhead. The Braganza at once hove to, and all her boats were lowered. One or two of the boat s approached the sinking vessel, and a line was thrown on board the Euphrates, which was seized by two men, but their exhausted condition did not admit of their re taining hold of the rope, and the vessel sank with all on board. The Braganza, lay to for several hours, but did not succeed, though every effort was made, in saving a life. STRANGE AND SHOCKING RAILWAY ACCIDENT. To-morrow an inquest will be held at Fleetwoo i on the body of a man who was killed on Tuesday on the Fleet wood and Preston Railway. On Tuesday morning a train of empty coal waggons left Fleetwood for Preston. When it had got about a mile and a half on the way, and at full speed, on a curve, two men were seen upon the line sixty or seventy yards ahead, walking with their backs to the engine. The driver threw off the steam and blew the whistle, and the guard in the rear put down the break. The two men, however, seemed to have no idea of their perilous position, and it was not until the engine was just upon them that they made a sudden effort, which was un successful, to get out of the way. The engine caught both of them. One was instantly killed, and his companion was pitched off the line and had one of his arms broken and his head badly cut. The train was soon stopped, and the in jured man, along with his companion who had been killed, was removed to Fleetwood. Both the men belong to Bel fast, and it is thought they came over to Fleetwood in one of the steamboats on Tuesday morning. EXTRAORDINARY STATEMENT.—A committee is in course of formation in London, having for its object the prosecution of Sir Richard Mayne, or rather the Com missioners of Police, for connivance at, or negligence in preventing, the explosion at the House of Detention, Clerkenwell, which has been attended with such melan choly results. It is stated that the extraordinary declara tion of the prisoner Allen, made immediately after his arrest, to the effect that he was in the employment of the police, his subsequent " statement," of which no authentic version has been given to the public, and the credited rumour that for some time anterior to the explosion he had been in the pay of the police for detecting coiners in the neighbourhood of Drury-lane, have induced many persons to promote the formation of a committee which, by proceeding against the Commissioners of Police, would ensure to the public a full and unfettered inquiry into the part which they played in the lamentable transaction of the 13th December. A manifesto from the committee charged with the conduct of the matter is expected to he addressed to the public in the course of the next fortnigl,t, --Morning Post, THE SUN, LONDOS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 188. VOLCANIC ERUPTION AT NICARAGUA. LEON, NICARAGUA, Dec. 4, 1867. On the 14thiNovember last a new volcano broke out in Nicaragqa, about eight leagues to the east of the city of Leon, on a crowded line of volcanoes running through the State, parallel with the Pacific coast. It commenced about one o'clock in the morning, with a succession of explosions, which were very distinctly felt and heard at Leon. These explosions opened a fissure through the earth's crust, about half a mile in length, running from the old fissure in a south-west direction, about midway between the extinct volcanoes of Las Pilas and Orota, two of the numerous cones which stud the ancient fissure. Before daylight on the morn ing of the 14th fire was seen issuing from the new volcano in various places. The explosions con tinued irregularly during the whole time that the volcano was in a state of eruption—sometimes in rapid succession, and at other times at intervals of half an hour. Low, rumbling sounds were heard almost incessantly. In the course of a few days two craters were opened on the new fissure, about a thousand feet apart--one on the south-western ex tremity discharging perpendicularly, and the other shooting out toward the north-east at an angle of 45 degrees. The flames from these two craters steadily increased in size and height, while jets of flame and slighter discharges were emitted from two or three other side fissures. On the morning of Nov. 22 I went out to the new volcano for the purpose of observing it more closely, though I had seen and heard it, and felt the concussions very plainly each day and night at Leon. The best view which I obtained of it on this occasion was before daylight, from a mountain sum mit about one mile to the north-west of the fissure, and at right angles with it. The main crater at the right hand was actively at work, throwing out flames and half-melted cinders through a circular orifice about 60 feet in diameter, which was constantly filled to its utmost capacity with the fiery contents from below. A regular cone, built up entirely by the falling cinders, to the height of about 200 feet, had already formed outside the crater. The rim and throat of the cone were white with heat, the out side red-hot half way down, and the remainder black, but glistening to its base with innumerable glowing sparks. It was puffing out smoke regularly about once a second, with a strong, constant blast, which kept up a column of flame filled with flying cinders to the height of about 500 feet above the mouth of the crater. Irregular explosions occurred at inter vals, varying from 10 to 30 minutes, increasing the force and volume of the discharge, and sending them far up into the black rolling clouds above. The cinders went up in half-fused blazing masses from one to three feet in diameter, and came rat tling down upon the cone hardened, and striking with a clinking metallic sound. After daylight the red appearance of the cone changed to a bluish black. _ _ The left-hand crater was shooting out oblique discharges of flame and cinders of a similar charac ter, at an angle of 45 degrees from the other, and evidently communicated with it about 1,000 feet below the surface, the two orifices being that dis tance apart, and both discharging simultaneously. This half-horizontal crater was about 20 feet in dia meter. On the afternoon of the 27th, after a series of explosions, which seemed to shake the earth to its centre, the volcano commenced discharging vast quantities of black sand in connection with the heavier rocks. The column of flame at night was con siderably increased in height, and bright meteor-like spots were ascending in the flames to the height of not less than 3,000 feet. These were large spherical stones from four to five feet in diameter. The next morning the streets and housetops of Leon were covered with a heavy coating of fine black sand from the volcano, and a vast luminous cloud of raining sand overspread the whole of the surround ing country. The rain of sand continued until the morning of the 30th, when the volcano gradually died away; apparently smothered by its accumulated eruptions. The sand now covers the whole of the surrounding country from the volcano to the Paci fic, which is more than 50 miles from it. At Leon it lies from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in depth. As we approach the volcano it gradually grows deeper and coarser. For a mile round the crater it lies about a foot in depth, and in particles from three eighths to half an inch in diameter. Still nearer to the cone the sand increases to several feet in depth, and the particles gradually increase in siz , 3 till they become small broken rocks. Around the base of the cone round heavy rocks from 4ft. to sft. in diameter lie thickly scattered ; but much the larger portion of them have broken into fragments. The cone itself is 200 feet high, with a crater in the top 200 feet in diameter, and about the same number of feet in depth. The inside of the crater is covered, the same as the outside, with hard broken rocks, generally less than a foot in diameter. The throat of the crater appears to be entirely filled up. A long ridge of black scoria leads out from the smaller crater, in a north-easterly direction. The slaggy, lava-like scoria which first issued from the main crater is now principally covered up by the hard plutonic rocks which came out with the later dis charges from profounder depths. The forests for leagues around are scarred and maimed by the heavy showers of keen-edged sand, and for half a mile around the cone the trees are levelled with the ground, and their scattered fragments being buried under the broken rocks. The volcano was an active and interesting sight for sixteen days, and now in its repose affords an ample and instructive field for the geologist. THE SENATE ON NATURALIZA2ION. The debate in the Senate on the petition pre sented by Mr. SHERMAN, of Ohio, of the City Council of Cincinnati, asking that American citi zens, when abroad, should be protected in their rights, showed how strongly the members held that a foreign nation, when trying a criminal, has no right to take cognisance of anything said ' or done if he be a citizen within the United States which is not punishable by their laws. Senator SHERMAN, in reply to Mr. CONNESS, of California, after stating that it was not the duty of the United States to interfere in favour of any naturalised citizen who went abroad and committed an offence against the law s of a foreign country, added--" But the case of political offenders against the laws of another country who go abroad and are arraigned for what they have done in this country or elsewhere was different, and called for inquiry." Senator CONNESS said " that the whole case had not been stated against Great Britain. Her courts were not only engaged in con victing citizens of the United States for acts done, but for words spoken, within its limits and not punishable by its laws. A citizen of the United States had been convicted, sentenced, and incar cerated in Great Britain for the crime of having spoken in this country." Senator CONKLING, Republican, of New York, " would go further than either of the Senators had gone ; even if such acts were punishable by our laws, foreign nations hal no shadow of authority to take jurisdiction of them. It was a sheer invasion of our rights in either case." The general tone of the remarks was in keeping with this principle, and although the naturalisation question was treated with sense and moderation, yet if tacked to this absurdity it could not practically be carried out in international law. Suppose for instance that the conspiracy formed in Canada against the United States during the Civil War had employed as agents foreign subjects who notoriously took part in it —was the Uni ed States to be barred from making arrests and bringing forward well-known and easily-proved facts, and its action stopped against designs hitting at the life of the nation because the conspiracy was not hatched on its own territory ? If such an inter national law as that laid down by Senator CONK LING were established, an ORSINI might in London con spire to assassinate NAPOLEON, and yet be exempt from arrest when he had proceeded to Paris to carry out his purpose. So also a SunuArr might throw off his allegiance to the United States, and then plot in Canada to assassinate a LINCOLN, and yet, by the law as interpreted by Mr. CONKLING, he might claim the protection of his adopted country if arrested before executing the design. It is extraordinary to find men like REVERDY JOHNSON asserting the right of the Fenian pri soners at recent trials to a mixed jury, and that war could only be avoided by negotiation when this right was denied. Were such a doctrine carried to its extreme it would simply amount to the assertion that Congress had a right to legislate for the world. The mode by which either the United States, or Great Britain, or any other country, tries aliens is a matter for the consideration of its own Legislature. The mixed jury in Eng land was, we believe, a concession to foreigners, that the prisoner might have the advantage of some jurors who understood his language, laws, and customs. This is an English habit of which no foreign Legislature can take cognisance. All that international law allows is, that the Go vernment that claims the allegiance of the prisoner may insist upon a fair trial according to the laws of the foreign country. It cannot dictate how that trial is to be conducted ; it cannot take cognisance for instance of the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland, nor in case of an outbreak which in the opinion of Her MAJESTY'S Government neces sitated the proclamation of martial law, could it pro test against any prisoner arrested in that island being tried by court-martial. The more distinctly the doc trine be laid down that naturalization absolves from former allegiance, and gives to the adopted citizen at home and abroad the rights of natives of the country adopted, the more is it necessary such fal lacies should be exposed. A country which takes into her arms as her children all corners, over whom she throws her protection, becomes responsible for their acts, and is bound to control their movements. If nations agreed to the principle that a citizen could only acknowledge one Government, and by his own act select that one, nations in self-defence would be compelled to introduce stringent measures to prevent the abuse of such a law, and the terri tory of one country being made a base for hostilities against another, under the shelter of naturalisation. Mr. CONNESS (himself a naturalized citizen) said he felt strongly on the subject. "He did not ask the Committee to favour any organisation engaged in illicit proceedings, but that it was a shame and a scandal that the rights of guiltless American citi zens should be interfered with abroad." Of course it was, if true ; and the diplomatic and Consular officers residing in the country would be to blame if they permitted, except under the strongest protest, any such interference. This is a question which Mr. ADAMS is best able to answer. But the law of citizenship as it now stands is alike in the United States and in Great Britain ; and although the Go vernment at Washington in its executive capacity has always endeavoured to shield the naturalised citizen from the claim on his allegiance by his native sovereign, yet it has done so not in conformity with, but against, the common law of the country. For instance if Southerners concocted a conspiracy in Great Britain, and remained there long enough to become naturalised citizens, on attempting to carry their scheme into execution in the Southern States, United States law would not recognise them as British subjects, but take cognisance of them as Americans engaged in conspiring against their lawful Government. It is thus that members of Congress should view this question, at the same time that they adhere to the broad principle of the one allegiance, and that one, the choice of the citi zen. In effecting so desirable a change, it is gene rally allowed that Congress will make a move in the right direction, an I confer a great boon on mankind. That Governments will also benefit by such a measure we have no doubt, if met according to the views of Senator SUMNER, and treated in the broad spirit of universal good. Mr. SUMNER is the Chairman of the Com m ittee on Foreign Affairs in the Senate, a body i n eve ry way qualified to deal with the subject. It is a pity that this cannot be said for the House Committee, whom the Repre sentatives ordered last Monday to take iinme liate action on the maltreatment of American citizens by the British authorities in Ireland. The Fenian ele ment will, we doubt not, endeavour to give as hos tile an aspect as possible to that Vranch of Con gress, knowing that England is not in a mood to stand much provocation. If there be a strong party in America who favour war with Great Britain, there is a strong party in England who would far prefer an open war to the present state of underground treason. It is well for both countries that there are many calm, right-minded men whose influence is strongly felt, or the question might assume very serious dimen sions, although without a particle of excuse ; for all the American Executive contends for can, without difficulty, be arranged, as far all Gre a t B r it a in is concerned, if brought forward by such men as Senator SUMNER. OHO thing is certain, that native Americans desire the settlement of the ques tion of naturalisation on the rules of common sense, and its adjustment would be easy but for an evil influence in the way. The United States Execu tive, as well as its Legislature, will have to with stand a strong pressure in settling this matter amic ably, and if they give way it will doubtless tend to retard instead of advance the attainment of the ob ject aimed at. Nor would any settlement be other wise than injurious to the United States in com mon with all nations, that based the international law regulating this subject on other grounds than those giving the best guarantee for the security of established Governments.—Anglo-American Times. EIGHTEEN 1101 DRED AND SIXTY -SEVEN. From the Nation. If we were asked to give the y ear w hi c h i s just ending a name which should indicate its leading characteristic with some approach to accuracy, we should call it a year of disenchantment. Of course it has been remarkable for many other, and perhaps better, things ; but the thing for which it has been most remarkable has been the number and magni tude of illusions that have perished in it. It has witnessed a process in polities somewhat analogous to that which the year 1 863 witnessed in the war. Up to that year there lingered in the popular mind a faith which, however mischievous, it was hard altogether to avoid admiring, that the nation's sal vation would be effected by some heaven-born gene ral, some man sprung from the people, and able to manage armies and win battles without the aid either of school training or practical experience, or any of the other slow and unromantic processes by which men in the Old World win their way to greatness. It could not be, people felt, that in a country which raised 25 bushels of wheat to the acre, and doubled its population every 25 years, generals could not be produced when they were wanted without the cumbrous aid of military academies, or that, when battalions were needed for the field, citizens as intelligent and well educated as ours would have to measure so many inches round the chest, and have to learn and march and wheel and obey painfully and laboriously like European peasants. Horace Greeley retained nearly to the close of the war the belief which most people cherished during the first two years, that what was needed to bring the unhappy business to an end was simply a mighty rising of indignant farmers, each armed with a musket and intent on getting to Richmond. The truth dawned on people at last. Science in the end asserted its sway, as it always does in the affairs of men in the long run. The warriors who went forth from every State in command of great legions without other knowledge of war than what they had got from popular histories, were slowly but surely brought to nought. Many a volunteer by beginning low acquired an education in the field which at last fitted him for high positions ; but nearly everybody who went out fancying that all he needed to make him a general was the governor's commission and the blessing of his fellow-citizens found that he was mistaken. The plotting and planning, the combining and organising, had, after all, to be done by the much-abused, much-despised West Pointers. No Cromwell c 1,1113 out of the counting house or the farm, and if he had he would not have found a Rupert to ride over. lie would have broken both heart and head against Lee's and Johnson's bayonets. . . We have had an experience somewhat similar in the political field since the war closed. Nothing could persuade many of the Radical leaders during the year 1866 that there was anything governmen tal which a majority in Congress could not accom plish. The task they set before themselves was nothing less than the remodelling of Southern society on their own theory of right ; and not sim ply this, but of doing it through the instrumenta tality of a majority in Congress merely, and with out reference to the opinions or feelings of people out of doors. Now, the problem which meets every statesman is not the realisation of his ideal, because this is impossible, but the persuasion of his fellows into accepting his ideal as something desirable. The American people, in short, have to be legislated for not as if they were all they ought to be, but exactly as they are. On the question of negro suf frage, on the negro question generally, in fact, there is a vast amount of stupid, unreasoning prejudice and ignorance. But the reason why men are difficult to govern is that they are prejudiced. If men were all highly instructed and had no prejudices at all, it would be as easy to rule them as to make im pressions on wax. Even despots cannot drive them along without reference to their habits, traditions, and weaknesses. To get them to behave with com mon justice or common honesty, to bear with any restraint whatever on their passions and appe tites, there are but two instruments—force and conviction. In a free country there is no place for the one ; everything must be done by the other. It is not enough to secure a majority in Congress, and hurry bills through. Your bills must be such as will stand the test of discussion, as will commend themselves to the popular eye, jaundiced though it be, as statesmanlike and wise ; and in your mode of recommending them and getting them passed you must play the advocate, and not the master. This is an old story—as old as the world. It may seem extraordinary that it should have been forgotten ; and yet when we came out of the war it seemed to be almost forgotten. Pascal has a. plea sant saying, that Plato and Aristotle were a pair of good, sensible men who felt when they were writing en politics that they were in reality draw ing up regulations for the Government of a mad house, the launatics, of course, having no voice in the matter and not being entitled to any. Some of those politicians who profess the profoundest re spect for the will of the people have, iu the re construction process, acted very much as if they were of Pascal's way of thinking with regard to the nature of the part played in public affairs by them selves. The past year has effectually waked them up from their delusion. They have now to confess what a year ago it was impossible to get them to believe, that finding out what is right is only a small part of a politician's duties, that the larger part consists in persuading people to agree with him. They have learned, moreover, that depar tures from the regular course of law and justice almost invariably prove a two-edged sword. A good many of the prominent Republicans who have since clamoured most loudly against Mr. Johnson's usurpations were violently opposed to calling Con gress together at the close of the war. They then anted the President himself to reconstruct with a high hand ; it was only when they found he would not reconstruct in the right way that they fell back on Congress, which was then, and has never ceased to be, the rightful source of legislation. We hope the lesson of the late crisis will never again be for gotten. Moreover, we have learnt within the last year that nothing in a Government like this is ever gained by stifling discussion. It is what men think and not what they say makes mischief ; and when legislative measures of such importance and com plexity as those which have been before the country during the past two years are under consideration there can hardly be too much discussion. They can hardly be too carefully drawn or have too many holes picked in them before they are passed, and the Opposition, instead of being gagged, ought to be encouraged to speak out its mind. With regard to legislation more than to any other work of life is Burke's observation true, that " our antagonist is our helper." Mr. Stevens and the majority last winter could not be persuaded of this. Provided the object of a measure were good, provided it were intended to protect loyal men and punish rebels, they seem to have firmly held that the less discussion there was about its provisions after it left the com mittee, the better. Debate was stopped, therefore, by every device known to Parliamentary tactics. The " previous question" was used with a lavish ness and unscrupulousness never before witnessed, although the smallness of the Democratic represen tation as compared to the size of the Democratic party in the country gave the minority peculiar claims to a patient hearing. It got no hearing at all. The result has been that the Reconstruction Bill was so badly drawn and so full of holes that it has had to be twice amended. Moreover, the mo derate Republicans have been disgusted and alie nated, and the Democrats intensely exasperated, and the elections all over the country are not only lost, but Messrs. Stevens and Boutwell have been seen within a few days crushed and silenced by that very " previous question" which a year ago they thought such au invaluable weapon. It is not often that one witnesses in the political arena so marked a case of poetic justice. There has, moreover, during the past year been a great awakening from financial delusions. We could name a good many prominent men who, during the war, were amongst the loudest in making light of the national debt, and are now amongst the loudest in dwelling on its burdensomeness. The country sees, and we believe profits by seeing, some of those who delighted in telling people who had money to lend how many ways we had of paying our debts in gold and silver without trouble or in convenience, now chuckling with delight over the new plan of paying them off in paper. It sees, too, thousands who, two years ago, laughed at the idea that we should ever have to groan under our debt like the effete nations of Europe, now deliberately proposing to get rid of it by means of which the poorest and most degraded European nations would be ashamed. The past year has made it very clear that the laws of human nature and the laws of political economy which are based upon them are much the same in America as elsewhere, and that the burdens of life have to be supported by much the same helps and appliances. It may seem from the foregoing as if we had ' done nothing during the year but become sensible of past errors, and that there is in this little or no progress. If politics be, however, as its wisest masters hold it to be, an empirical art, becoming sensible of past errors is simply a synonym for the acquisition of new light, by which we can walk more steadily and securely in the future. Looking at the matter in this way, the mistakes of the last four years have been lessons of the highest value. They have supplied what more than all else was needed to make the national life and national pro gress what they ought to be. The unbroken pro sperity which the country had enjoyed down to 1860, with little or no trouble to statesmen, had done much to depreciate knowledge ; the trials through which we have been passing ever since have exalted it as nothing else could have done. In fact —and we admit that the reflection seems somewhat depressing—the history of moral a nd political pro gress, if examined closely, will be found thas far to consist mainly in the detection and exposure of de lusions and fallacies; it is only in the natural sciences that we can be said to have opened up new fields of truth. In the present condition of the world the political reformer is simply a sort of scavenger whose duty it is to • remove mud and rubbish. To the man of science falls the seemingly fin 1r task of digging after concealed treasures. But the aim of the politician is, after all, as noble a one as labourer can desire. He who sees social and political abuses perish under his hands knows that he hastens the reign of " nobler manners and of purer laws," and he who does this is engaged in the highest work the world has to offer. There were never so many men engaged in it as at this moment. There are more this year than last; there were more last year than the year before. We never hear of a wrong or delusion that we do not see ten men assailing it for the one who ever assailed it before. There is no field of human activity, tor), in which men are so active, and there has never been a time in which to labour in it zealously brought with it so much honour. CRYSTAL P ALACE. —One Shilling Day, Wednes day, Jan. 15.—Admissions oa payment, 3,826 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,001; total visitors, 5,827. LPACIFIC STEAMSHIP COMPANY. The facts stated in the Report, dated Dec. 6, 1867, of Louis INI`LANE, acting President of the Pacific Steamship Company to the board of direc tors, are worthy of notice. It embraces the opera tions of the company for the year ending 31st October, 1867, and it has been received with the understanding that a full exhibit is to be fur nished on the return of the President, ALLAN M'LANE, who proceeded to China on the com pany's business. During 1867 the vessels of the company made 36 through voyages each way be tween New York and San Francisco without detention or serious accident. The passengers carried from New York to San Francisco num bered 18,477, and from San Francisco to New York 8,383. This shows the large proportion that proceeded to the Pacific States, and did not return, the balance of those remaining being over 10,000. Those who shipped by the company for intermediate ports numbered from New York 1,729, and from San Francisco or Aspinwall 2,517, of whom doubtless the majority were brought to Aspinwall by the Australian or South American steamers en route to New York. The receipts from passengers amounted to $3,085,407. This was in excess of the sum for freights, which amounted to $2,738,468, though the larger balance probably remained from freights than from passengers, who require to be fed. The mails paid $262,252, and interest and premium on gold $333,994. The latter sum was derived from the transport of treasure from San Francisco to New York amounting to $30,371,604, and to foreign parts $11,220,315, which, we presume, mainly went to China. The merchandise freight shows the great surplus of carriage to San Francisco over the car riage from San Francisco, being 29,716 tons against 16,712. Besides this, the steamer carried to inter mediate ports outward 8,719 tons, and homeward 5,445. But great as are the receipts of the com pany from the working of its lines, it possesses an income independent of this source. Dividends on investments realised during the year, amounted to $538,818, and from various credits $180,766, mak ing the total of all receipts $7,639,707. The company is chiefly of interest in Europe from the connection it has established between China and San Francisco. This is a main link in the through route shortly to be perfected from London to Hong Kong. On the Ist January, 1867, the China line was inaugurated by the Colorado, which then left San Francisco for Hong Kong. After making three voyages, she was relieved by the Great Republic and the China, which make trips every six weeks to Yokohama, whence the service is carried on to Hong Kong and Shang hai by the Yew York and Costa Rica. The Japan, now building, will be completed and in her place next July, when monthly trips, according to the mail contract, will commence. A fourth large steamer, not yet named, will be required to complete the operations, and to maintain the ser vice against a casualty. The finest of American ships are those on the line between San Fran cisco and Yokohama. They are calculated to carry 1,500 passengers and 2,000 tons of freight, and are fitted with independent donkey engines, boilers, and fire apparatus. The company has to maintain four distinct lines or breaks in its connection. A merchant in New York who desires to go to Shanghai or Hong Kong puts himself into the hands of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. He proceeds in one of their steamers to Aspinwall, then crosses to Panama by the railroad, and embarks in another of their ships, which takes him to San Francisco. His next move is to a berth in the Great Republic or the China, which lands him at Yokohama. If bound for Hongkong he gets on board the New York, and into the Costa Rica, if for Shanghai. Whether this route be not; preferable to the Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's line, for passengers from England to China, is a question that if the company were well advised it would quickly answer and let the facts be known. But this powerful Corporation has been so prosperous that it does not push its interest so strongly as it may hereafter be compelled to do in the face of an established opposition. During the year $2,550,000 were paid to the proprietors in dividends, which amounted in the aggregate to 14 per cent. ; leaving a balance of $93,514. A connection so profitable could scarcely fail to bring competitors into the field, although it is no light matter to establish an ocean line of steamers. The North American Steamship Comp my, better known as IVebb's Nicaragua Line has u:idertakeu this task, and while announcing the opening of a new line between New York and San Francisco, it is styled " Opposition to the Monopoly." The effect has been to force, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company materially to reduce the rates. The North Ameri can Company, nothing daunted, has brought into the field a very powerful fleet, but whether it wilt be able to maintain itself against the hostility of the Pacific Company is another question. The fol lowing are the names on its direction, which argue strength : —W. 11. WEBB, DAVID DOWS, WILLI-km IL GUION, CHARLES DANA, PICKERING CLARK. The stook of the Pacific Mail Co. for many weeks has been knocked up and down by speculators, closing on the 27th December at 1101. The Re port on which we base our remarks was the result of a powerful agitation on the part of thepr t o h p e ri d et ir o e r e s,. who brought a variety of c har g es a g ainst tors, which ended in a compromise—three of the old Board retiring to make way for three new mem bers elected from the malcontents. The Fulton and the Arago are now emplToyedyboyrkthetoNAorstphinAwmalei.r_i from 1\ ew Ai can Company Times. ALASKA. Two reports of more than usual interest are ex pected almost immediately to be published at Wash ington. Both have reference to the possessions of the Republic on the Pacific side. That by Mr. Ross BROWNE is more general than that by Mr. DAVIDSON, as the former will embody the labours of a large staff, and give in voluminous detail the facts connected with the Mining States and Terri tories, comprising information it will be the object of the United States to circulate broadcast over the world for the benefit of the human race. Mr. DA vmsoN's Report refers to Alaska, but it does not profess to do more than give the outline of infor mation the scientific expedition could gather in so short a period. Immediately on the purchase of Russian America, an expedition was organised un der the direction of Professor PIERCE, of the United States' Coast Survey, and conducted by GEORGE DAVIDSON, which left San Francisco in the revenue cutter Lincoln, Captain HOWARD, on the 21st of last July. A. T. MOSSMAN went as astronomer, GEORGE FARQUIIAR as hydrographer, with whom was associated I. FORNEY as aid ; Dr. ALBERT KEL LOGG, botanist; W. G. W. HARFORD, concholo gist ; T. A. BLAKE, geologist ; JOHN LEEDS, tidal observer ; and . W. HAMELL engineer. This party reached Sitka on the 12th August, and re turned to San Francisco on the 18th November. The period, therefore, was too short to gather full information, more especially as the country is so diffi cult to penetrate and so little known. Still the main object has been accomplished, and much scientific knowledge acquired. Mr. DAVIDSON left San Fran cisco immediately, on his way to Washington, where it is asserted many facts of vast industrial value will be made known in his report. The San Francisco Mining and Scientific Press gathered what it could from the explorers, and the informa tion we are enabled to give is derived from that source. The reported silver deposits in the neigh bourhood of Sitka have not been verified, nothing being found at the localities indicated, or elsewhere. Large coal seams were discovered in places which will make the fuel valuable, as it can easily be shipped. Copper is abundant, more especially on Copper River, whence it is brought to the coast by natives as au article of traffic. The miners from Stickeen state that they are making, on an aver age, $5 per day, with a rocker. The Russians re port gold on the Kakuy River, which flows into Cook's inlet, about lat. 60. Salmon exist in great abundance in Sitka Sound ; but perhaps the most valuable discovery was an extensive cod bank, pro bably surpassing in extent and value the Banks of Newfoundland, one advantage being the fact that the water is only 50 fathoms deep 50 miles from the shore, whereas at Newfoundland the depth is 90 fathoms, within a few miles only of the coast. There are a number of islands convenient for dry ing the fish. All fish heretofore caught iu the northern waters of the Pacific have had to be brought to San Francisco to be dried. This disco very will soon secure for that coast a large fishing fleet, which will prove, what is greatly needed, a most excellent nursery for seamen. Good bait for cod fishing was also discovered in great abund ance in the immediate vicinity. It is esti mated that there are 20,000 square miles of soundings filled with cod and halibut. Ex.' cellent whaling ground was also found. The great trade of the territory has hitherto been furs, of which the value annually exceeds $1,000,000 in gold. It is said that these furs have declined fully one half, in the market of San Francisco, since the purchase of Alaska, as European dealers look for an improved development now that the trade has passed into American hands. The botany of the region was explored, so far as his limited time would admit, by Professor KELLOGG. No hard wood timber of value was found, but a useful species of yellow cedar, in great abundance, and of large growth. This wood is valuable for ship building, and specimens of a Russian ship were brought down, perfectly sound, although the vessel had been built 32 years, and lain long upon the beach as a wreck, the timber even around the bolts being well preserved. This wood is also valuable for cabinet work, and for other purposes. Sitka spruce exists in abundance. Almost the entire country is covered with a dense growth of sphagnum (peat moss), into which the foot of the pedestrian sinks to the depth of ten or twelve inches at every step. The moisture to support this growth is derived almost entirely from the atmosphere; hence it is not confined to swamp ground, but abounds equally on hill sides as in swampy places. Potatoes, turnips, &c., grow well in many places, after the sphagnum is removed. The party proceeded from Sitka to Kodiack Island, some 700 miles almost due west from Sitka, and near the Peninsula of Alaska, where they found an agreeable change from universal forests to a country covered with herbage, where an abundance of good pasturage exists. Geographical information was also collected which will aid commerce. While discussing the territory, we may allude to the pur chase money, a subject lately debated in the House of Representatives. There can be no doubt that Congress will sanction the acquisition and grant the money, though the temper of the legislature does not favour Mr. SEWARD'S territorial designs, which will probably receive a strong check in the refusal by Congress to ratify the treaty for the Danish West India islands. Two events have oc curred which induce the House to look with coldness cu the purchase from Russia ;—the one is the report of an American whaler that he was ordered off a whaling ground by a Russian war vessel, which fired upon him ; the other relates to the news from Sitka, which represents the four companies of troops left there to be in a destitute condition, the proper precautions not having been taken for their residence during winter, in so rigo rous a climate. As access is now barred by ice they cannot be relieved till spring, and fears are en tertained that they will suffer much before the winter ends. An old claim against Russia has been re vived before the House Committee of Foreign Affairs by the widow of W. B. PERKINS, of Mas sachusetts. It appears that Russian agents during the Crimean War contracted with PERKINS for 150 tons of gunpowder and a number of rifles. That gentleman fulfilled the conditions of the contract, but the war ended before the receipt of the stores, and the Russian Government declined to receive either the powder or the arms. On the application of the State Department, the Imperial Government refused to acknowledge the debt, and the claim, amounting to $300,000, has been brought forward at intervals as opportunity offered. No better one than this has occurred, and Mrs. PERKINS is vigo rously pushing to enforce what she alleges to be her right. In case the Committee decides against her she will appeal direct to the House, on the question of the Russian Appropriation coming up.—Anglo - American Times. Foreign Mail Packet List, MAILS DUE. lustralla and New Zealand, via kloutliainptoa. —.Jan. 19. Ditto, via Mar5ei11e5.............Feb. 13. Ditto, via Panama .• • Jan. 28. irazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Ditto, by French packet Jan 22 Cape Verds. by Brazil paostet Feb 3- Jape of Good dope. Asoenston. and St. iielena Jan. 27. China, Peaan,g, and Singapore. via 8011thamptOn Jan. 12. Ditto, via Marseilles ?offload Islands Jibraltar, via Southampt0n,., india,via Southampton Ditto, via Marseilles ...... • Jan. 22 Malta, Egypt, So. Jan. 19. DittO, Marseilles Jan. 22. Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via Southampton Jan. D. Ditto, Marseilles Feb 19. Newfoundland ....... ....Feb. 12 Portugal Feb. 3 Ditto, by pro , tip -• ~, .e ship to Oporto ... Ditto c Ato to Lisbon United States, l. anada, California, &0., by British packet Jan. 20. Ditto, by L. cited States packet Ditto ditto ( New York) Ditto ditto 'New York) Ditto ditt c (Baltimore) •. Ditto, by Canadia n p ac k et .... ....Jan 17. West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and TeneriffJ......Jan. 17. West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha mas) Cuba and Mexico Jan. 23. Bahamas E via New York Bermuda, via Halifax COAL MARKET. 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CARTER—JONES—On the 14th inst., at St. James's, Picca" dilly, James Colebrook° Carter, Esq., 43d Light Infart" try, eldest son of Sir James Carter, Knt., to France i Katherine, eldest daughter of C a ptain W. F. Jones, A u ; juta.nt Oxford (University) Volunteers, and formerly the 52d Light Infantry. Deaths. BEETON—On the 14th inst., at Peelings House, Westhao l / Eastbourne, Sussex, Mr. Hobert Becton, aged 77. DYER—Ou the 15th inst., at 7, Berkeley-street, Berkeley' square, Wm. G. T. Dyer, M.D., aged 55. Jonxsox—On the 12th inst., at Grown Bank, Talk-o'-tlit- Hill, Staffordshire, George Johnson, lisq , late manage r to the North Staffordshire Goal and Iron Compaq, aged 46. NAPIER - On the 13th inst., at Saville House, Twickow Lam, Richard Napier, Esq., fourth and only survivia son of the late Colonel the Hon. G. Napier, aged 81. 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