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

COLONIAL.

TEAL —Only a moderate amount of business has beon
done, and prices in some instances are a shade flatter.
SUGAR.—Business has continued quiet, and prices have
not varied to any important extent. In the refined market
quotations are in most isstances fully maintained.
COFFEE.—There has been a fair demand for fine quali-
ties of colonial, which have realised former rates.
Ricn.—A fair demand lit e existed for East India, which
have sold at heavy rates.
TALLOW.—The ;market has experienced a reaction after
the late severe depression, and prices for bath present and
forward delivery have improved. P,Y.C. on the spot
quoted 40s, December 41s, and January to March 42s 3d
per cwt.

MR GREENOUGII, the well-known American
sculptor, has just font from his atelier to London a bust of
the distinguished actress Miss Helen Faucit, which, as a
work of art, has received the highest commendation from
the amateurs of Faris.

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 affilieed branches in Europe,
probably have by slow degrees opened the
eyes of the British public to the feet 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 cor-
respondents cf London journals and others con-
cerning the frauds to which emigrants had baen
subjected in this country by agents of the Wash-
ington Government connected with the recruiting
department, certain newspapers published in Lan-
don—that, 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 juEt
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 ridiculous it is
to found any correct idea as to the proportion of
Irieh or Germans, &c., there may be in the Northern
army from Mr 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 such like laws, are nearly inopera-
tive—that, like other things mentioned in the old
adage, they are " made to be broken." It is true,
that in the cases of allFged attempts at evasion of
those laws by stated agents of the Confederate
authorities, either those agents were not so smart
as the Northern ones or our officials saw their way,
more clearly in, what is conventionally called, vin-
dicating " the majesty of the law ;" but let that
pass. Whether the neutrality that has been pro.
claimed on the part of England has been impartially
carried out by her executive, is a question I am not
presumptuous enough to enter into in a casual way
or in any way at present, However, as it has
pleased some persons to try and raise doubts that
the large emigration to this country has been turned
to account for the purpose of filling up the
armies of the Northern States, after • the
real "citizens" thereof were unwilling or unable
to come forward themselves, I subjoin extracts from
an official document that will probably " settle the
point," once and for all, in the minds of any ratione.l
people.
The following is from the report of Provost-
Marshal General Fry to Secretary Staunton,ielative
to Governor Seymour's complaint of an excessive
enrolment in the State of New York :

" It is true that the enrolment (and consequently

the quota) is larger in these than in many other
districts, but the population of these districts is more
dense, and there are actually more men liable to
enrolment in them than in others. . . . . But even

if the enrolment and quotas in New York and
Brooklyn aro 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 foreign emigrants to the United
States arrive in New York, and they are actually
used by New York and Brooklyn to fill a large pro
portion of the quotas assigned to these cities.

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“ The State of New York forbids all other States
from having access to these recruits. No other
state has this source of supply 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 coarse very unintentionally, the
substance of the statements made by the Mayor of
New York City and others, on the wholesale abuses
of the recruiting organisations.

Although not directly connected with the emi-
gration questio-1, it is well to see the realities as to
tmployment in cities in the United States, not
taken from British authorities, but in this instance
from a weekly New York newspaper, one of the
oldest established and respectably conducted papers
in America, and of bitter "anti-British procli-
vities" :

"A TOUCHING CASE.—The working women in
the city have petitioned the Secretary of War to do
something that will enable them to got from the
contractors more than six cents a piece for making
army shirts. In the name of .humanity, say
nothing of those finer impulses which should govern
every man in his dealings with the gentler sex, we
protest against such a shamefully inadequate sum
99 the wages of labour. Six cents for making a
shirt ! and broad ten cents a small loaf, meat twenty
cants a pound, butter beyond all mention in con.
nection with poor people. But what can the Secret.
tary do in such a matter ? Very little. The cone
tractors get the highest price they can for their
work, bat they wiil not pay one woman a penny
more than another woman will do it for, and dire
necesaity teaches thousands that even six cents for
food is better than no food at all."
The same newspaper gives expression to senti-
ments which ought to make German and other
foreign buyers of "U.S. Securities" ponder as to
whether there may not be safer countries to invest
money io, whatever place it may be to emigrate to

for those who have none.
The suit brought against Surgeon General Ham'
mond for availing himself of his official position to
defraud, in blanket and ether contracts, the national
treasury, is for the sum of 150,000 doll. If every
army official could be compelled to disgorge the
money he has corruptly appropriated since the war
commenced, the country would be, at least, five
hundred millions less in debt, and we should have
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 men in office—stealings which threaten
to swell that debt to an extent beyond all national
conception, and taint its integrity beyond all national
endurance. Wo 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 b 3 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
Wooproup —Yesterday morning, when the magistrate
took his seat en the bench at the 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,