The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 26, 1870.

' complications are the benefits accruing to England from
her North American possessions. One would suppose
that three miles from the shore was not a difficult matter
to interpret, but the doubt has arisen as to whether the
line should be drawn from headland to headland, or merely
round the Bay at the marine league. The colonial fisher-
men interpret it from headland to headland, which would
exclude the Americans from the best grounds The Ame-
rican fishermen claim the right to cant their line anywhere
beyond the prescribed distance. The interpretation from
headland to headland bears on its face the refutation of
the claim ; but who is to be the judge of distance, even
supposing that all the rest was agreed to, as a man cannot
step overboard with a foot-rule, and one person would be
ready to swear he was ton miles away from the land,
on which he could easily throw a biscuit, while another
might be peremptorily ordered off a coast he could barely
discern. Such regulations appear to be made simply to
cause trouble.
The Buenos Ayres papers give full accounts of
the defeat and death of Lopez. General Camara seems to
have divested himself of all sup,rflaus baggage, and
pushed on by forced marches in pursuit. He had plenty
of evidence of the straits to which Lopez had been re-
duced in the half-starved and almost naked prisoners
captured, and it was known that horses had been killed
for food, and even Lopez had to prosecute the toilsome
march on foot. On reaching the Aquidabam, Lopez
halted his men, not dreading molestatation, as Camara
was thirty leagues distant. The Brazilian General had,
however,divided his force into two columns, and with some
light cavalry he marched 50 leagues in two days and nights
so surprising Lopez, that his party of 700 men had barely
time to arm before he was upon them. Lopez was struck
by a spent ball, and was killed slashing away with his
sword by a Rio Grande trooper while Camara vainly called
upon him to surrender. Madame Lynch and her children
escaped to Cabellero's vanguard. Major Bento Martins was
sent in pursuit of Caballero, and came upon him on the 25th
Feb., capturing nearly all his force and baggage, but the
Paraguayan General and Roa, escaped, Mrs. Lynch's eldest
boy, Pancho, 15 years of age, was killed, as also another of
Lopez's children, 10 years old, by Juana Pezoa. Vice-
President Sanchez, Minister Caminos, Col. Aguiar, chief
of staff, and others were Rifled. Two sisters of Lopez and
his mother were taken prisoners, and are to proceed to
Buenos Ayres; Mrs. Lynch is coining along, it is said, in a
bullock cart to be packed off to Europe. That the old lady,
Lopez's mother, or his sisters should have been in the land
of the living at all tended to confound the Brazilians, but
they have now ascertained positively that he was going
to shoot all three on the day of his death ; indeed, it is the
old story of Blue Beard of " Sister Ann ! Sister Ann !
do you see any one coming" ? The murder of three Eng-
lishmen -named Nesbitt, Hunter, and Young Taylor, is
mentioned. When his position became desperate, Lopez
called them to his tent, and giving them a round sum of
money, told them to leave for the Allied lines. They
were stopped, however, on the road by a Paraguayan
guard, shot, and robbed; and the guard was captured by
the Brazilians, who soon after came up. A proclamation
is expected from Brazil declaring the war to be at an end,
the honour of Brazil avenged, and the Slave Empire,
aided by the City editor of the Times, will soon appear in
the London market as a borrower, the finances of Brazil
being, of course, "in a most satisfactory position."
Mr. J. T. Setter left the Red River on the 22d
of February, and arrived at Toronto on the Ist of April.
He speaks of the discontent among his brethren of the
Portage, who, from independence, had been coerced by
Riell into subserviency to the Provisional Government,
which they repudiate. They attribute collusion to the
Scotch settlers, who, they assert, kept Riell posted on the
movements of Boulton's party, instead of joining it. Riell
can muster from 400 to 500 well-armed men, all excellent
shots. Setter attributes the origin of the insurrection to
the priests and the Hudson Bay Company, aided by Ame-
rican wire-pullers ; but, except the French half-breeds,
the population will rise to assist the troops either of the
Imperial or of the Canadian Government. The Toronto
Globe thinks Riell's force will be augmented by the return
of the hunters. The route from Lake Superior to the
settlement is not difficult to traverse, and that paper
recommends the employment of Indians, though op-
posed by many worthy men. The New Nation asserts
that all the inhabitants, from the Lake cf the Woods to
the Rocky Mountains, are of one mind against the rule of
the Hudson Bay Company. The hunters, it says, will
not allow a few adventurers in London to sell their hunt-
ing grounds, and the Rod men join the o:,hers in repu-
diating the Company's action in bartering away the
country.
A postal treaty has been concluded between the
North German Confederation, the Austrian Empire, and the
United States, "reducing the rate of letter postage by di-
rect steam communication to seven cents, and ten cents
vie England. The old rates were ten cents direct, and
fifteen cents via England. It was stated some time ago
that the French Government had sent their late Minister,
Barthemy, to the United States with instructions to
open negotiations for a new postal treaty with the United
States. It appears, however, that he has received no such
instructions, and up to the latest date the French Govern-
ment has not indicated, nor does it seem desirous of open-
ing negotiations on this subject."

Tea steamers have left Liverpool this week,neal ly
all for the United States, carrying about 7,000 emigi ants,
and the exodus has commenced as we anticipated, throw-
ing into the shade the numbers of former years. On Wed-
nesday three steamers left with 2,300 passengers. The
Rolland, of the National Line, had 890 on board, and was

to take 345 more at Queenstown ; the Manhattan had 820,
and at Queenstown received au additional 270. On Thurs-
day two steamers left the Mersey with 1,600 passengers,
and to day three sail. From London emigration seemstc
be little less active than from Liverpool, and we are not
surprised, from a telegram dated New York last Thursday,
to hear that 7,000 Irish and German immigrants had ar-
rived there during the previous two days. We may hero
mention that we have received a letter dated March 19, trom
Portland, Oregon, wherein the writer informs us that
ho is about to place himself in communication with the
secretary of the newly-formed National Emigration
League of England, with the object of forwarding to it
information respecting the coast, prospects, and resources
of that State. The writer is an Englishman, whom a
combination of circumstances had led not long since to
settle in Oregon, and however unfortunate these circum-
stances may have appeared at the time, he now sees no
cause to regret. "This," he says, "is a fine field for
labour and aricultural emigration, also for artisans, or
those with money to invest in business or at loan as 10 to
12 per cent. is the rule here on the very best securities."

The City of Brussels has arrived, or at least she
is reported as having passed Crookhaven at 8 a.m. on
Thursday. Her passage on the whole was quicker than
we anticipated, considering that she was little more than
600 miles from New York when the accident occurred.
She is a splendid steamer of 3,000 tons, 406 feet long, 40
beam, 281 deep, with four decks, divided by water-tight
compartments. Her engines are on the horizontal trunk
principle of 600 nominal horse-power, but capable of in-
dicating 3,300, with all the late improvements, and fur-
nished with 28 furnaces, arranged fore and aft on each side,
and fired athwartship. She was provided with three spare
new suits cf sail, and being a fast vessel, as her screw had
been completely carried away, and was therefore no drag,
had it not been for the easterly winds she would have
reached port earlier. She left New York on March 28,
and lost her screw three days after, on the 31st, having
made 627 miles. No Inman steamer sailed from New York oa
Saturday, April 9. The following are the cabin passen-
gers in the City of Brussels :—B. Lawrence and wife, Geo.
Jordan, James S Laney, George Mathews, J. C. White (U.
S. Consul to New Zealand), W. W. Ramage, William
Williams, C. N. Chamberlain, Mr. and Miss Shields, Frans
Alberney, D. D. Cohen and wife, Emerson Foote, Captain
Gadsden (steamship Arago), Captain J. Slaphlin, George
p. Abbott, J. H. Renforth, D. H. Flershehn, Captain
Black, Jrs. Frazer and two children, J. F. Harrison, and
C. P. Carr.

The Sheffield Daily Telegraph has come to grief
through, what it asserts to be, 'the zeal of an able and
esteemed assistant." The zeal of "the able and esteemed,"
took a queer, and, as we think, slightly objectionable form,
as it was a brutal slander on a lady, the Countess of Sef-
ton. To give piquancy to the tuft-hunting scandal-
mongers " the able and esteemed " made the Prince of
Wales co-respondent ; and without the shadow of foun-
dation or of concealment, told his pure invention as a bald
fact. The Prince of Wales and the Earl of Sefton not
fancying the purpose to which " the able and esteemed"
desired to turn them, which we suppose was a stirring
demand for the Sheffield Daily Telegraph, made affidavits
and on these a rule has been granted for a criminal pro-
secution. .What their counsel states is, that the sort of
apology, or iudeed any apology, cannot undo the mischief,

and wo can certify to the fact that the Sheffield Telegraph
has shot its arrow further than it can ever proceed to bring
back the shaft. Of course the Sheffield paper pronounces
itself as " loyal to the institutions of the country, devoted
to the throne, respectful to the aristocracy, not given to
the disparagement of ancient and honoured families ;" but
less of those professions, and a keener sense of right would
better become a journalist; and there is IP-Many enough in
this world to combat without trumping a vile charge
against an innocent lady.----Miss Lydia Thompson denies
on affidavit the part attributed to her in the trial of Wat-

kins v. Watkins, asserting incidentally that she bad given
back to Mrs. Watkins some jewellery of hers she had
received from that lady's husband. The gentleman,