The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-12 00:00:00

AMERICAN CORRESPONDENCE.

(From the Anglo-American Timei
NEW YORK, April 213,
Dulness is the prevailing feature, and nothing
is more dull than the real estate market. This,
Which ought to be the busiest time in the renting
business, has not been se quiet for years, and land-
lads are beginning to loge heart, and realise the,
fad that down the rents must go. Hoiniee are now
let in floors; to Which the proprietors before would
not have dreamt to descending{ but the rise in the
vahie of greenbacks, with rapid rise hi late yeats
of rend; halve freed our citizens that numbers
cannot afford a 'otide theMselVes; and dwellings •
which were not constructed tti be let in floors ,
are now so occupied. But with every device
it appears quite certain that there will be
a great many houses to let on May Day.
Marty families are crossing to Brooklyn and New
Jetsey, preferring to ran. the uncertain risks of
ferries to the certain evil of an exorbitant rent.
But high rent is not blur Jnily grievariee, for we
groaa also under extravagant munidiVal rates. The
report is that the $2.27 cents tax on every. $lOO &
valuation has been reduced to $2, as great a delusion
as is rent, which wra raised with green back infla-
tion, but has failed to respond to greenback appre-
c;ation. In 1866 the City Assessors increased the
valuation by $128,000,000, in the following year by
$93,000,000, and in the year after by $76,000,000,
doubling the whole in little over ten years.
Thtis, with a small redaction in the tax, the
valuation is vastly raised, and we, of course,
stand to lose: The tax levies were hurried through
the Legislatute Without a eheek to, the mighty
Tweed. Asiatics, if we are VI believe the " Arabian
Nights," ask--;Whose dog am I that I should clues--
.04 the Sultan's fiat? ,But if a New Yorker put
that quee:;idn; iii Ameticail Might wafter that he
was Tweed's dog, though he lids not the inipudence
to call in question any mandate of that Gfand
Sachem. While we starve our officials at Wash
ington, paying the President, the Cabinet Minis-
tbrd, thh Justices of the Supreme Court, and all
the great enipltiPea of the State; a beggarly pittance,
making an undignified fuse ofef the salary given to
a General of the army and our most distinguished
officers, Tweed's dogs count their bones by the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars,and their salaries under
one pretext or another have always an upward tend-
ency. For some reason Sweeney has resigned the
City Chainberlainehip, an unaccountable proceed-
ing on SWeeney's part, considering that it is worth
$lOO,OOO annually ; that is as much 53 the Presi-
dent and Cabinet eltogether.. Yet what wonder then
that the fight anduld leg so liVely over the spoils of
office ? The Young Dentioeriiej- are at their wits'
end, and talk as a last resource of forlilirig into a
third patty the Reform Democracy, but others
think they will strive to amalgamate with the
Conservative wing of the Republicans. They
essayed a trial at Tammany by running a ticket
last Monday for officers, and the result was a ludi-
crous failure, as their ticket, containing 16 names,
received by 28 votes against Tweed's 250. Yet,
the young Democracy, now so helpless, but last
month made SweeneY and Tweed cower, indeed
drove the former from his lucrative post. Fox,
O'Brien, Morrissey, and the test of them; have been
ousted, and Tweed men put in, One item in the
tax levy is said by the late Comniissionerg of the
Central Park to be a swindle; it is for $40,000 to
Mr. Thomas C. Fields, as secretary to that com-
mission, but his duties were merely honorary, a
paid clerk doing the work. It rained on Easter
Sunday, and it rained on Easter Monday ; moreover
it blew a strong gale from the east, earrying away
the flags raised in the City Hall in honour of
Jefferson's birthday. The Federal authorities have
begun a disagreeable system of espionage, rs re-
gards the Fenians and their projected invasion. A
manufactory of arms at Trenton, New Jersey, is
under surveillance. Three hundred delegates are
sitting in the Masonic Hall, East Thirteenth-
street, with an armed guard at the door, reporters
excluded. O'Neill, in a special message, wilt an-
nounce himself as ready to move upon Canada.
The Savage ring take no part in the proceedings,
and the Chicago Congress has named an executive
committee to supplant O'Neill. They have a
quaint way these Fenians of preparing for their
little operations. There has been a strike among
the shipbuilders against a reduction of wages
_of Irani to y Atln _per an,y The yards in
Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Green Point, joined
the strike, and forwarded telegrams conveying
the intelligence to the shipbuilders of Maine,
Massachusetts, and other States. The men were in-
formed that business was dull, and without such a
reduction work could not be continued ; but the
operatives could not see this, and as some of the
shipbuilders have contracts which they must finish,
they have been compelled to give way. A ship-
eaulkers' league has been formed by the strikers,
who met in Burling Slip ; but as wages are said to
be higher here than in other parts of the country
they must eventually come down, though it is but
fair that provisions and rent should fall at the same
time. Tue strikers on the Belt Railroad have car-
ried their point, running only six trips a day, with
one more on Sundays and holidays. Reports still
con to be circulated that ex-Collector Bailey
has been seen on the island, and it is now generally
believed that he is still in New York. The house
at Newark, New Jersey, occupied by Mrs. Richard-
son, or Mrs. M'Farland, is advertised to be sold
on the 20th June next by " Abbie S. Richardson,
special guardian of Leander P., Maude L., and
Albert Richardson, minors." The Recorder is ill,
and the close of the case has been postponed till
'next week, but the defence ended on Wednesday,
'as Judge Hackett excluded much of the evidence
;which would have prolonged the trial, and given
'it a genuine zest to the public, such as the Astor
!House marriage, on which a spicy cross-examination
of the Rev. Beecher, Horace Greeley, and Vice-
.
pres.dent Colfax was fully anticipated. The defence
is weaker than the public expected, neither the
conspiracy to get the lady away from her hus-
band nor criminal intercourse being proved, though
the fullest testimony was allowed, as on both rested
the real ground of defence. The lawyer who took
the opportunity of defaming ladies whose misfor-
tune it was to be mere witnesses, and to make a most
unjustifiable use of a counsel's privilege, has been
censured, first for indulging in these sensational
and disgraceful remarks as irrelevant if true, and
next in wholly failing to prove any of them. The
counsel overshot his case, and has injured both
himself and his client. The public grow weary of
the evidence to establish insanity, and gradually the
attendance fell off. Mrs. Mason's examination was
of interest as the keeper of the boarding-house in
amity-street where Mr. and Mrs. M'Farland and
Richardson lived, and she testifies to an undue inti-
niacybetween the two last,while other inmates of:the
house supported her evidence, as did a coloured boy
and Miss Anna Burdock of the Winter Garden
. Theatre, after the performance. Col.T. W.Knox was
examined to prove that Richardson always carried
a pistol, but as his assertion was that he had last
seen the pistol in 1867, when they were together in
Eastern Siberia, the counsel dropped the subject.
It is not decided yet whether the lady's testimony
will be taken, but probabiy Mrs. Calhoun and Mrs.
Sinclair will be examined for the prosecution.
M'Farland had hired a woman to watch Gilbert, s
house in Jersey, and it is asserted that the evidence
she gave is wholly untruthful, and can easily be
shown to be so when the other side is heard. The
public, however, are well satisfied with Recorder
Hackett's bearing throughout, the trial being emi-
nently fair and impartial, although party spirit in
it runs high. The newspapers can scarcely restrain
their wrath, and the Tribune and Tames have burst
out into a furious war.. The former accuses the
latter of ungentlemanly journalism ; and this morn-
ing I see that the Tribune has fairly exploded,
Quoting from the lndianapolis Sentinel, the Times
accuses the Tribune of being the daily organ of the
free-love philosophy ; whereupon Horace ascribes
to the Sentinel only ignorance and political malevo-
lence, but the other Journal, he says, " lies delibe-
rately, wilfully, wickedly, with naked intent to de-
fatne and malign. Unless the fury be exhausted
when the trial closes these big dailies will afford
us
,a little amusement, for which, in this dull season,
we cannot be too grateful.

Five acres of fox covert, near Pembrokestown
Tramore, have been burned. This is the second or third
covert burnt in that district within a short time.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

CHESTER MEETING--YESTERDAY:
CHESTER CUP.

Our Mary Ann „.ou •••
Formosa
Sabinus oil t•
Sixteen ran.

At thirteen minutes to four the signal Was given. Vest-
minster and Paul Jones jumped off in ftcnt, fol owed by
Wild Flower, flealite, and Muster; but this let lan wide at
the turn directly after starting, and let up Vintner on the
inside I ext the rails, who came on with the lead, a d made
play up the straight and past the stand, with Ce it on hie
whip-hand in close attendance, and Muster and Our Mary
Ann next. To these succeeded Paul J nes, Good Hop-,
*entnot and Wild Flower, who were clear of Miss Shop-
rard, Cheriel Formosa, Sabinusf Newsman, and itialit6,
Zapolya, who got badly off, being last of al'. Dire tly
after m,king the turn ptist the stand, Cecil, follow:d by
Muster, took up the iunningi Onr Mary Ann going
on third, and Ventnor, dr( pping back, fourth.
Our Mary Ann held a slight advantage of Cecil unfit the
Castle Pale, about a quarter of a mile from home, when tie

light weight served the mare, and Wyatt was unable to
keep Cecil in his pia& ; indeed, when fairly in the straight,
Our Mary Ann rapidly dre* aittly, and Cecil being eased
at the distance, when pursuit was hopeless, was passed
by Formosa and Sabinus, both of whom *ere ridden
out. Our Mary Ann, however, passed the post
literally in a common canter, and won by six lengths from►
Formosa. Sabinvs was third, beaten a couple of lengths
from his stable companion, while Cecil was half a length
behind Sabinus; Paul Jones was fifth, several lengths
away ; Newsman sixth, Miss Sheppard seventh, Muster
eighth, Wild Flower ninth, Zapolya tenth, Vestminster
eleventh, Cherie twelfth, Ventnor and Good Hope next,
With R6alit4 and Ventnor last,, all being widely scattered
and pulling up.

MEMBERS' PLATE.

King, of Clubs • •

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Gordian Kn0t.,..,• • • •

STAMFORD PLATE.

Thunderstorm...
Talisman
Mulatto

Five ran.
DEE STAND CUP.

i turbance
Robespierre , • • •
Eugenie c
Nine ran.
THIRD BIENNIAL

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Rebecca
Honeydew ...
Lord of the Isles f
Eight ran
FLYING STAKES.

Vex • .
Witchcraft • 2
SUDitowef ~.4•• ••• • •

Seten ran.
PROIMJCE STAKES.

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11•••• **** •••
The Knight
Orator 2
3
Lord Stanley
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Five ran.

WINCHESTER MEETING.=HIS DAY.
GRANGE PARK STAKES.

Steppe
Viper
Roadster