The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-24 00:00:00

in the practical report of Mr. WELLS, and in the
more diffuse Message of Governor HOFFMAN, is the
wedge-driving of both towards the splitting up of
parties. Mr. WELLS, the Republican, is the lead-
ing Free-trader, while the Protecti, nists insist on
making Protection a Republican doctrine ; Mr.
HOFFMAN, the denunciator of repudiation and
the eloquent advocate for payments iu gold, is the
Democratic leader of the party, whose platform a
year ago in the Presidential election was greenback
payment. Governor HoFTNIAN's views cannot fail
to throw out many Democrats who are Protec,
tionists, and who may secretly hold the now con-
demned policy of repudiation. Mr. WELLS' Re-
port is, as we before said, a bomb shell in its ex-
plosive effect on his party. The Tribune pub,.
lished but two or three of hii paragraphs, and Con-
gress talks of suppressing all, while the party pro-
pose kicking him out, and at any rate of making
this paper his last, as the office ceases to exist next
June, unless renewed. Yet, this very Mr. WELLS
has one of the greatest followings in the United
States, the open and hearty support of many lead-
ing Republican papers, as well as several promi-
nent politicians of the party, and most of its young
men, while the mass of the Democrats agree with
him. It is in vain to assert that he has been
bought with British gold to suppress facts, and
so to construct his figures as to make them tell
in favour of a course ruinous to his country,
but beneficial to Europe. That little game has
been thoroughly played out, and the obvious an-
swer is—then refute his facts and figures. It
is not, however, their value we here discuss, but the
similarity of the views on such an important matter
as the tariff expressed in his reports and in the De-
mocratic Governor's message. The truth is, that
events have removed many of the broad differences
which separated the parties, and with reconstruction
completed, and the Fifteenth Amendment ratified,
there will be a general straying and divergence, like
sheep entering a field from a lane. Other objects
must divert and attract, when two well-defined
flocks will again be formed. Such messages as those
of Governor HOFFMAN are pretty on paper, but as
regards reforms in the State of New York, what
they mean may be gathered from the fact that
Tammany rules. The purification of the New York
Judiciary, the Legislature, and the Municipalities ;
the punishment of crime and the treatment of
criminals ; the extraordinary business transac-
tions which alone could result in the great
gold gamble, and the use of one of the lead-
ing railroads in the world by a clique to fur-
nish means for bribery and dissipation—these
are points which require the Governor's attention,
much more indeed than Federal affairs. Still, as
Mr. HOFFMAN is generally regarded as the Demo-
cratic candidate for the next Presidential election,
his views on these national matters may be taken as
the doctrines on which the platform will be framed,
and therefore their interest extends far beyond the
State of New York. Of this we feel assured that
his opinions are in accordance with those of a very
large section of the public without reference to
party ; and if Governor HOFFMAN would honestly
and with all his might endeavour to eradicate New
York abuses, he would become a formidable oppo-
nent to the best man the opposition party could
secure for the next President of the United States ;
but we anticipate that his supporters will then
comprise men who were earnest Republicans but the
other day, and that this gain will be in some degree
lessened by Democratic sheep straying into the
enemy's fold.—Anglo-American 7'inzes.

In the track of vessels from Australia to China
lies an island called Pleasant Island. Previous to 1865
the natives had a bad reputation. A Captain Brown re-
ported favourably of them in that year, and mentioned
that he was told that an Englishman was residing there.
In August, 186 S, Captain Hall, of the barque Glenisle, was
boarded by the island canoes, and two whale bont3, with
two Englishmen, one of whom had been 28 years on the
island, and had a son 18 years of age. They bdd him
they tried to visit all ships parsing within easy distance,
and seemed anxious for it to b i known that they could
supply chips with pigs and cocoa-nut oil. By his advice
they purposed to cultivate potatoes, and gave him an ad-
vertisement to put in the colonial papers. Utifortunately,
this document has baffled all attempts to decipher it, front
the faulty writing. The island was stated by them to be
nine miles across, and twenty-two miles in circumference.
—Natut e.
BREAKFAST.—EPPS'S COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND Cold-
FORTING,—TIio very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette'
marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained b y his
hcmceopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by
any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition,
and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected
cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a -
deoli-
cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy
_d
tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. bold
only in tin-lined packets, labelled "JA..ILES ELI'S & CO., liotmeo-
pathic Chemists, London.