The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-25 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA —Only a moderate amount CI LuAnoss has been
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done, and prices in aoine iista9ccs are a shade flitter.
SUGAR.-- Business has continued quiet, and prices have
not varied to any important extent. In the refined market
quotations are in most instances fully maintained.
COFFEE.—There has been a fair demand for fine quali-
ties of colonial, which have realised former rates.
Rica.—A fair demand ht a existed for East India, which
have sold at heavy rates.
TALLOW.—The ;market has experienced a reaction after
have improved. P,Y.C. on the spot i 4
the late severe depression, and prices for both present and
forward delivery
quoted 40s, December 41s, and January to March 42s 33
per cwt.

MR GREENOUGH, tho well-known American
sculptor, has just sent from his to London a bust of
tho distinguished actress Miss Helen Faucit, which, as a
work of art, has received the highest commendation from
the amateurs of Paris,

AMERICA.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 8, 1864.

The exposures that from time to time ooze out
with reference to the acts and doings of the
recruiting organisations of New York, Boston,
&c., with their affiliated branches in. Europe,
probably have by slow degrees opened the
eyes of the British public to the faot that virtual, if
not illegal wrongs, have been committed by the
United States on British subjects as well as other
foreigners.
When statements were made long since by car-
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responden's of London journals and ethers con-
cerning the frauds to which emigrants had been
subjected in this country by ogeffis of the Wash-
ington Government connected with the recruiting
department, certain newspapers published in Len-
don—tht, whether right or wrong, are commonly
considered here as "retained" by the Northern ad-
ministration—denounced these statements as mere
prejudicial representations.
Other persons, who are generally described as
friendly to the North, took the same course. For
instance, the Duke of Argyll pompously in the
House of Lords, and Mr Goldwin Smith snappishly,
in his pamphlets sent out for circulation over here,
said to the effect that no blame whatever was to be
attached to anyone whatever in relation to the re.
cruiting for the Northern armies:

Some of the friends of the North went further,
and did what the late Mr O'Connell said was one
of the most foolish things a witness can do—viz.,
they tried to prove too much. They stated that
after all there were not many Irish in the Northern
armies, and sought to back up their assertions upon
a matter of which they knew nothing by citing
the offhand opinion of Mr Seward, who knows a
good deal about the affair in question, but who,
whether in his prophetic capacity as to the " war
ending in ninety days," or assertions contained in
voluminous despatches, has shown that more than
occasionally he makes mistakes. Mr Seward was
represented to have announced that by far the
largest proportion of the Northern armies was
composed of American citizens. This, however,
did not throw much light upon the matter with
reference to where those " citizens" came from, or,
in other words, to what " nationality" they be-
longed when they enlisted. Mr Seward might just
as well have said—but that would not have an-
swered the purpose he and the apologists of the
-North had in view—that the entire of the army
was made up of American citizens. In fact, the
moment a man has enlisted therein, he is de facto
and de jure a "citizen of the United States." I have
merely referred to this to show how ridicUlons it is
to found any correct idea as to the proportion of
Irish or Germans, &a., there may be in the Northern
army from Lir Seward's smart dictum.
It is not either for the purpose of complaint that
I refer to these recruitments. The law officers of
the Crown appear to consider that the Foreign En.
listment Act, and elich like laws, are nearly inopera-
ti7e--that; othe7 things mentioned in the old
adage; they are " r2a2e to be broken." It is true,
that I:: the :f aced atterorts at evasion of
these !awe etatc.-7. annte of t!.-7e Cinfederate
authoritiee, either there agents were 7.7-nart
as the Northern on:a or cur the 7:. ;.ey
more clearly in, what :3 CCV-Vellt:::::Cir..:
dicating " the maieoty of the ;" bat :3::
pass. 'fiThether the nee.trality that has bens nr:.
claimed en the past of n 21e.: .7.7 has been iriparCall7
carried out by her eyeective, 1.1 a r:lnention I am not
presumptnooa c;aough tc enter into in a casual way
or in any Nvoy at procee•t; flo"ei.-er, as it has
pleased some rerecrs to tfy and ra-::e loubts that
the large erigration tL !hie country has been t7rned
to account for th 3 rr.rp-7ese of filling the
a•rics of the Norther S,tates, after the
"citizen:" therelf N-eere n- illing or unable
to coo 3 rorciard. therselz,:s,l eubjen eztrn,_ to, from
an o: vial doe :..,:at that will p7obably " settle the
point," cnce ant: for al!, 1:- the rz-_,12,_!: 9.r.: r.•:.!1:sal

people.
The folloring is from f • cl
Marshal General l'ry to e :reta 2ta-r2ter.,rclativ3
to Governor Seymo-Tr's con;laint cf
enrolment in the State erh

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" It is true that the enrcl:.-LE d consequ
the quota) is larger in those than r _.any other
districts, but the pornletion cf those gist i is more
dense, and there an actually moro mcu liable to
enrolment in them then in others. . . . . But even
if the enrolment and quotas in New Yor! and
Brooklyn are unduly large, the claim that' the in-
habitants' of these cities are subject to oppressive
and injurious' burdens, and their families broken
up and ruined,' is not a good one, for it is a fact
that the bulk of foreisn emigrants to the United
States arrive in New Fork, and they are actually
used by .New York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro •
portion of the quotas assigned to these cities.
"The State of New York forbids all other States
from having access to then() recruits. No other I
state has this source of snpply to such an extent,
and many are entirely without it."
Surely this irrefragable testimony of " the foreign
emigrants being used," as described, bears out
clearly, though of course 7er; unintentionally, the
substance of the statement: by the Mayor of
New York City and others, on the wholesale abuses
of the recruiting organtsat:onz.

Although not directly z:nnected with the emi.
gration question, it is well t^ :co the realities as to
Employment in ^itics in t: s United States, not
taken from British authoriticr, but in this instance
from a weekly New York cwspaper, one of the
oldest established and respectably cordacted papers
in America, and cf bitter "anti-British procli-
vities" :

"A TOUCHING CA3E.—ne working women in
the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do
something that will enable them to get from the
contractors more than six cents a piecs for making
army shirts. Ia the name of hu-manity, to say
nothing of those finer impulses which should govern
every man in his dealings wi:h the gentler sex, we
protest against sr -1 a ohame:ally inadequate sum
as the wages of labour. Sir cents for making a
shirt ! and bread tcn cents a sr_ all loaf, moat twenty
cents a pound, butter beyone, all mention in con.
notion with poor people. But -.7hat eft":. tha Selre.
tart' do in such a matter ? Ye y little. rLh-;
tractors get the highest prEe they ~^ f:: their
work, bat they will not pay o._e warn • a
more than another woman will do it f
accerity teaches thousands that evon
food is better than no food at all."
The same newspaper gives e:aprostic coati-
meats which ought to make German and ether
foreign buyers of " U.S. Securities" ponder as to
whether there may not be safer countriTa to invest
money in, whatever place it may he to emigrate to
for those who have none.
The suit brought against Surgeon General 72:am:
mond for availing himself of his official position to
defraud, in blanket and other contracts, the national
treasury, is for the sum of 150,000 dole. If every
army official could be compelled to disgorge the
money ho has corruptly appropriated since the war
commenced, the country would be, at least, five
hundred millions less in debt, and we should have

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thirty millions less per annum to pay in taxation,
It is not the honest war debt that the people of the
United States may possibly dream, in some future
petulant moment, of repudiating, but the downright
stealings of mtn in office—stealings which threaten
to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national
conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national
endurance. We hope never to see our country's
good name debased by " repudiation ;'' but the re•
publican Legislature of New York did " repudiate'
at its late session, and Congress is composed of no
better human materials. We hope never to witness
such a thing, we repeat, but if ever we do, it will
surely be because our war debt embraces so much
that has gone to enrich private venality instead of
promoting the public welfare.

THE BURGLARY AND ATTEMPTED MURDER AT
WOODFOUD.—Yesterday morning, when the magistrate
took his seat on the bench at tha Stratford Police-court, he
inquired of Inspector Standage if the burglars in the above
case had been discovered. The inspector answered in the
negative, and added that the police-constable who had been
so brutally attacked was in a sinking condition. Informa-
tion had been received from Scotland-yard, Whitehall, that
Government would grant a reward for the apprehension of
the burglars,