The Sun.
London, England, 1870-02-08 00:00:00

THE BUN, LONDON, TUESDAY ENTIOITG, FEBRUARY 8, 1870.

7HE ENGLISH EXODUS.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Standard can emphatically be said to be the
poor man's friend, and its party gains, by being
able to associate this feature with 'Toryism. Its
columns are freely opened to all charities, to every-
thing which adds to the health and happiness of
the most helpless portion of the community. When
children are to have a Midsummer treat or a Christ-
mas dinner, foremost in promoting it is the Stan-
dard. It, does more to feed the hungry, to clothe
the naked, to heal the sick, and to instruct the
ignorant than any other newspaper in England.
Latterly, following its old tradition, it has placed
itself in a wise and liberal spirit at the head of the
Emigration movement. The cold, heartless, poli-
tical economy of the Liberals contrasts unfavour-
ably with the direct and earnest effort of the Tory
journal to benefit the oppressed masses. Recog-
nizing the fact that the families of tens of thousands
of industrious workmen are pinched to the verge of
tarvation in the absence of labour, it advocates their
transport to lands where they can be profitably em-
ployed. It takes the broad ground that the people
are in want, and that their wants can only be effec-
tually supplied by such a movement. Without help
they cannot go ; but so vast is the assistance re-
quired that the necessary aid can only be given by
the nation. The political economist answers with
a string of axioms; the State is not bound to find
work; what individuals can do ought not to be thrown
upon the Government; emigration furnishes but a
temporary relief, indeed encourages a chronic con-
gestion of labour ; or the present depression is tem-
porary, and if under its influence an exodus flows
abroad a scarcity of labour will be the result, to be
felt severely when prosperity returns. These and
other wise saws received a forcible reply from the
Standard last Monday. An argument used in favour
of a natonal system of emigration, although old,
remains irrefragable, that its tendency is to add
to the comfort and increase the wealth of all ; those
who go, those who stay, and those who receive the
immigrants. But the Standard contends that emi-
gration to the United States is got the same thing
for England as adding by it to the strength of her
colonies, and the force of its argument is undeni-
able :

" Speaking in round numbers, the United States with a
population of 38,000,000, take £21,000,000 of British goods,
or at the rate of lls. a head; the Dominion of Canada,
with a population of 4,300,000, takes £7,000,000, or 335. per
head ; the colony of New South \Vales, with a population
of 450,000, takes £3,000,000, or £6 13s. ; the colony of New
Zealand, with a population of 220,000, takes £1,700,000, or
£7 14s ; the colony of South Australia, with a population
of 170,000, takes £1,200,900, or about £7 ; the colony of
Victoria, with a population of 700,000, takes £6,000,000, or
at the rate of £8 10s.—the broad fact being that the Aus-
tralasian and American colonies alone consume more than
six times as much of the products of British industry as
the United States in proportion to their population. Emi-
gration to the United States therefore, however beneficial
to that country and to the emigrant himself, cannot be
said to be advantageous to England as compared with
emigration to her own colonies."
While recognising the formidable nature of this po-
sition, may not the difference in the consumption per
head in a degree be due to the political enmity exist-
ing between the United States and the United King-
dont ? Analysing the Standard's figures, we see
that the colonies consume English manufactures in
proportion to the period of their settlement, the
youngest taking most,the oldest least ; which means
that manufactures grow gradually, following on an
established agriculture. This would, however, but
partially account for the wide disparity, and we
are constrained to acknowledge that the tariff of
the United States is framed in a spirit hostile to
Great Britain, and that the effect of directing emi-
gration to the United States would not at once be, as
asserted by the Standard, so advantageous to Eng-
land in the way of trade, as emigration to her
own Colonies. Perhaps no other manner of putting
this could show so clearly the folly of the poli-
tical enmity and rivalry which still exists between
the nations. The English emigration movement
is gathering force with a rapidity to which there
is scarcely any parallel, and far transcends in im-
portance either the Irish land question, or the edu-
cation question, or any other political cry of the
day." Next to its importance to England, is
its importance to the countries whither so ferti-
lising a stream is destined to flow. Our readers
will do us the justice to acknowledge that we have
foreseen this exodus, and endeavoured to impress
on the iii:n is of those likely to influence the masses
some truths which ought not to be overlooked,
or the opportunity for making North America tho-
roughly English may this last time be los' for ever.
The first truth is, that the United States embrace
the finest portion of the North American Conti-
nent, and offer the cheapest, readiest of access,
and best tracts for settlement. The next is that Eng-
lish settlement will swamp the enmity of the Irish
clement, the one influence counteracting the other.
'Thirdly, that Protestantism, freedom, and Republi-
can institutions will by it be strengthened, and these
two leading nations brought into greater harmony.
Finally, that it is wise to accept the inevitable with
a good grace, and when you have to give, to do so
with an air that the gift emanates from generosity
and goodwill ; otherwise, the grudged benefit may
he accepted, while the reluctant donor is detested.
Now in this great national movement, England has
little choice ; for in transporting hundreds of thou-
sands it is essential that the best land lying nearest
should be taken, and that land is the United
States, whither the people will find their way—all
prejudices notwithstanding —as water finds its
level, for no artificial obstructions can perma-
nently divert the flood. '1 hey will go, but if they
get to the Union, not aided by but in spite of their
leaders, much of the beneficial influence we hope
for must be lost. To send emigrants to Cana-
da is but choosing for them a circuitous route
to the Western States ; to send them to Australia
or New Zealand in the numbers demanded by the
emergency is beyond even the national purse. Nor
is it just to the people, who surely possess the right
to have their interests consulted. It is not fair that
because a political jealousy exists between England
and the Union that the finest domain now open for
the reception of man should be closed against the
English. If the Republic has the best country why
should it even so far be barred to the British poor, who
will there find their own language spoken, their own
religion flourishing, congenial tastes and habits, and
the liberty they so love ? The United States want this
emigration ; and not only want, but require it, to
balance the Celtic and German influx ; and that on
the one side there should be efforts to divert the
stream from entering its natural channel, and that
the other should go out of its way to furnish cause
for this action, may.well appear incredible to the his-
torian, considering that both are working towards
their injury, merely to gratify a blind, senseless,
prejudice and spite. The Standard does not agree
with us as to the destination, though sufficiently
liberal to advocate emigration anywhere in prefer-
ence to no emigration, which we recognise as an
advance in the right direction. The views so per-
sistently pointed out by us are now more frequently
taken, and there is a gradual change in public opi-
nion, which we can see as plainly as we foresaw
the English exodus. The former are from as true a
point as was the latter, that point being simply
this :—The English exodus must come, because
English migration had hitherto been from the coun-
try to the towns ; these labour-centres being clearly
overcharged, emigration and that alone could sup-
ply the relief, for there is no migrating back to the
country; hence either the exodus, starvation, or revo-
lution. This exodus when it does flow must go to the
United States, because that is the country easiest to
reach, possessing the best, cheapest, and most attain-
able land, not only fertile, but blessed with a good
climate, and all an Englishman requires in the way
of freedom.•—Turn whichever way we will we see
,so competitor, and the verdict of Europe has em-
phatically ben given in favour of the IZepubho,
Take Canad;i, and as we aFsert it is but a circuitous
way to the West ; Mt-xieo is a community of bri
gands and thieves ; Brazil the next barely habi able
field for tl}e European, is shut up in its despotism
and slavery ; the Arentitie Repu!,lics furnish the
only place really open in South America, lot tin y
are far away, under a rule totally out of synq achy
with Engli,hinen, differing in religion, languaLp
and institutions. Still we would give the Pampas
the preference to the Cape, while Australia and
New Zealand are beyond the reach of the masses.
We mai❑tain that English emigration must go, and
is going, to the United States, and that it would
Le wise on the part of those who endeavour to aid
and direct the exodus, frankly to accept and act
on this truth.

TRIAL OF THE TURRET-SHIP CAPTAIN.

Her Majesty's turret-ship Captain, 4,272 tons,
900-horse power, twin screw engines, under the
command of Captain Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C.,
and the Valorous, 12, paddle sloop, Capt. W. Trem-
lett, arrived at Spithead on Saturday morning
from the Mersey and Holyhead. The Captain
steamed into Portsmouth harbour immediately
after her arrival, and berthed alongside the dock-
yard in readiness for the usual survey and
docking given to a new ship by the Govern-
ment officials on her being received by them
from the hands of private builders. The Valorous
anchored at Spithead, and it being her first
appearance; there during her present commission
saluted the flag of the Port Admiral. The
salute was returned by the guns of the flagship,
the Duke of Wellington The Captain and Valo-
rous steamed out from the Mersey on the morning
of Saturday, January 30, passing the Bell Buoy at
10 50 a.m., and at 4 20 p.m. the same day pas,ed
inside the Holy-head Breakwater, and came to an-
chor in the harbour. On the following morning it
was blowing hard, with heavy rain and squalls,
when it was decided not to proceed until there was
a change of weather. 'Throughout Monday and
Tuesday and the forenoon of Wednesday the wea-
ther maintained its rough character, but 0:1 the
afternoon of Wednesday the wind moderated, and
Captain Burgoyne determined to proceed. The
ships weighed their anchors about 4 p.m., and
steamed out in company, the rate of progress being
necessarily regulated by the speed attainable by
the Valorous—from Bto 9 knots. Outside Holy-
head the ships found a strong southerly breeze, with
a heavy swell running from the south-west. On
the following day, Thursday, February 3, the wind
still further freshened, with a rather heavier sea.
At 8 p.m. the Longships Light was abeam. The
weather conti❑ued unchanged during the ensuing
night and up to about midday on Friday, but with
the wind gradually veering more to the eastward,
and during the afternoon both wind and sea became
much more moderate. About 1 a.m. the Start
Light was passed, and at 8 p.m. the Bill of Port-
land was passed. At 2 a.m. on Saturday morning
the ships were off St. Catherine's Point, Isle of
Wight, and then stood off until daylight before
running in for Spithead, where they arrived at 10.30
a.m. In the heavy beam seas found off Holyhead
and the Laud's-end the Captain displayed most
satisfactory sea-going qualities, being exceedingly
buoyant and easy in all her movements. Very little
water fouild its way on deck (the Captain is the
low freeboard type of the cruising turret-ship,
as the Monarch is the high free board), and
at no time could any of the seas that at times
threatened to break aboard over the low and bul-
warkless side of the ship have prevented the work-
ing of the turret guns. The engines of the ship
did their work throughout the distance between
Birkenhead and Portsmouth without a fault of any
kind. Their speed was, of course, regulated by the
pace of the valorous, except for a short time on
Friday afternoon, when steam was given them, and
their revolutions got up to about 70 per minute, at
which rate they moved with perfect smoothness and
efficiency.

VAL EIFFAIRS A 7 NAL7'A.

VALETTA, Feb. 1.

A review of the Naval Brigade of the Mediterra-
nean squadron was held on the 26th ult. on the
Floriana parade ground. The force landed con-
sisted of about 1,200 men, about 200 of whom com-
prised the field piece crews, under the command of
Commander Fitzßoy, of her Majesty's ship Prince
Consort, and 1,000 of the small arm companies,
which latter were formed into two battalions,
under the respective commands of Commander
Pringle, of her Majesty's ship Lord Warden,
and Commander Bridge, of her Majesty's ship
Caledonia, the whole force being under the
command of Captain Brandreth (flag captain), of
her Majesty's ship Lord Warden. At the conclu-
sion of the review the Brigade was divided into its
otigival formation, and marched through the town
to the Marina fur embarkatini. his Exe-Alehey
Sir Patrick Grant, accompanied by the Vice-Ad-
miral, and attended by the naval andmilitary Staffs,
led the way, followed by the field pieces and by
the two battalions, each with its own band. fler
Majesty's screw troopship Striooin, Captain T. B.
Lethkridge, left Malta on the 29th of January for
Gibraltar, Queenstown, and England, with the 27th
Comrany ltoial Engineers, consisting of Lieut. C.
J. Rat sell, Staff Assist.-Surg. Hector (in ineeical
charge), 70 non-counnissioned officers and men, 9
women, and 8 children ; Mrs. Collinson and 6 chil-
dren. She will embark at Gibraltar the 30th Company
Royal Engineers, under the command of Capt. Mont-
morency, for England. The 27th Company Royal
Engineers has been relieved at Malta by the 26th
Company, which arrived here by the Simoom.
Majesty's Indian troopship Crocodile, Capt. G. W.
Watson, arrived on Sunday at 8 a.m. from Alex-
andria, with the 82d Foot, and resumed her voyage
for England this morning at 7.15. The Naval Com-
mander-in-Chief inspected the Antelope, 3, steam
vessel, Lieut. Commander J. Buchanan, on the 27th
of January, and found her in a very satisfactory
state. Mr. Ewen F. Doraville, midshipman, has
been appointed to the Caledonia as part comple-
ment. Mr. Arthur W. Brabazon, supernumerary
Sub-Lieutenant of the Bellerophon, has been ap-
pointed to the Antelope, vice Bayly, promoted.
Mr. Duncan M'Vean, supernumerary engineer of the
Hibernia, has been appointed to the Bellerophon,
vice Williams, invalided. Some movements are
anticipated by a squadron in harbour, and it is be-
lieved they are to go outside in a few days for exer-
cise and gunnery practice. The Swedish screw
frigate Vanadis, 22, Capt. Odelstiernen, arrived
here on the 29th of January from the Pirxus and
Sal/tot-in, on her way to Toulon. On entering the
port she exchanged the usual salutes with the for-
tress and flagship, She will probably remain here
about a fortnight."

BUDGET OF 11'1ISCELLANEOUS.—The New York
Tribune made $163,000 last year.—Harvard University has
forty-nine professors, forty-two other teachers, and eleven
hundred and seven students.--A new brand of champagne
has been introduced, which, in honour of General Grant, is
called the "President's Cabinet."—A troupe of sixteen
Japanese acrobats has arrived at San Francisco.—The
London Directory for 1870 contains the names of eight
hundred Browns, nine hundred Joneses, while the S myths,
Smythe, tied Smythes muster sixteen hundred strong.—
The editor of the Alabama State Journal modestly requests
that some of his patrons will present him and his printers
with a barrel of good whisky and a bushel basket of eggs,
as a slight token of their appreciation.—Four tons of silk
worms have just been brought by steamer to San Fran-
cisco from Japan. They are to be sent to New York and
thence to France.—At a girl's school in Tennessee lessons
in the use of the sewing machine are given twice a week
—an example which might be profitably followed.—The
suit of the United States Mail line against the insurance
companies in Cincinnati, to recover for the loss of the
steamer America, burned December 4, 1868, between Cin-
cinnati and Louisville, at the time of the collision with the
United States, has been decided in favour of the mail line.
—The product of 17 of the principal silver mines in Com-
stock Ledge; in Nevada, during the past year was
$7,265,000.- A new lantern has been placed in the light-
house, Montauk Point, Long island, of nearly double the
brilliancy of the former one.—The Chicago Post says that
three-fourths of the U.S. Senate are interested pecunia-
rily in the maintenance of a high tariff.- One of the most
intimate friends of Daniel Webster, at Boston, is preparing
a volume which will contain incidents of his private and
social life. -- The Arrapahoe Indians are awaiting the arrival
of those Chinamen in Texas with anticipations of intense
ei.j,yment in "lifting" the scalps so nicely prepared by
the growth of pigtails.—The steamer Colorado sailed from
San Francisco for Panama on Monday with $1,061,000 in
treasure. of which $41,000 are for New York, $613,000 for
England, 115,000 for Franc •' l
$441,000 for Callao, and
$20,000 for Panama. Total il,pttients of treasure since
Jan. 1 were $2,90.5,000, including $030,700 sent to New
York by rain he Glenhant Itott.l, in Fifth-avenue,
Now Yolk. is tween 'Twenty-first au d Twouty-,t coud-
streets, which was opened in September last, is closed.
The whereabouts and occupations of a number
r.f not,ble Southerners are given as follows: -John C.
llreckeebridge is practising law at Lexington, Ky. ,• Jas.
M. Mason is on his farm, at Winchestor, Va. ; John
Slidell was, at last accounts, living with his son-in-law,
the great banker, Erlanger, near Paris; Judah P. Benja-
min is in full practice at, the London bar ; Pi.rre Soule
was, at last accounts. a hopeless invalid ; R. M. T. Hunter
is on his farm, in Virginia ; Robert Toombs, of Georgia,
is practising law with great success; his colleague, Iver-
son, is a prosperous wood merchao t, at Macon ; ex-Gover
nor Vallee is practising law in North Carolina; ex-Sena •
tor Wigfall, of Texas, is in Paris; George N. Saunders in
London, and Beverley Tucker in Canada ; Henry A.
Wise, Thomas S. Bocock, J A. Seddon, H. A. Edmund•
son, and Charles James Faulkner are still living in Vir-
ginia.

AMERICAN CORRESPOADENCE.

(From the Anglo Amertean Times)
NEW YORK, Jan. 22.

As our Postmaster-General has drawn the Ham-
burgh-American line into his arrangements, our
tri- weekly mails will be resumed. That company's
packets leave New York on Tuesdays, landing the
English mail at Plymouth and the French mail at
Cherbourg, the latter being also conveyed for six
cents per ounce for letters. The Guion boats leave
on Thursdays, and the North German Lloyd's on
Saturdays. Besides these mails for Europe, the
French steamers will carry a mail each alternate
Saturday, and the Canadian line a weekly mail
from Portland in winter and from Quebec in sum-
mer, while a semi-monthly mail goes from Balti-
more by the North German Lloyd line. I mentioned
last week that the Rev. Henry 'Ward Beecher's
salary had been raised from $12,000 to $20,000,
and the report was that the rev. gentleman him-
self was at the bottom of his upward movement.
He announced, however, to his congregation last
Sunday that the first he heard of the advance was
from the newspapers and he rejected any addition.
Ex-Governor Salomon, of Wisconsin, a lawyer of
high reputation in the West, has opened an office
in No. 141, Broadway. A motion of attachment
against General Butler was made by Judge Free-
man, as he failed to appear in the case of Rowena
Florence. General Butler contends that the case
is in the U.S. Courts, but the judge says the peti-
tion to that effect has not been sworn before any
one authorized by Congress, and is therefore not
receivable in evidence. Cushing and Otter v. John
Laird brings forward the Alabama claims. Laird's
property in America has been attached at the suit
of the owners of the ship Sonora, burnt by the
Alabama, and his counsel has moved to set aside the
attachment. There has been a raid on Wall-street
to send off the brokers who can give evidence on
the gold gamble to the Congressional Committee
now sitting in Washington. The Episcopal Bishop
Coxs, of the diocese of Western New York, r.:-
turned in the Cuba. He has been to Rome, and
thinks the Pope will carry the dogma of
infalli-
bility. Mrs. Isabella Huskins is being examined
at the Tombs, charged with being a confederate of
that nice young man W. E. Gray, of whom I lately
gave you an account. She says she is 24 years old,
born in New York, looks after her children, and is
altogether very proper and respectable. The city
has been all agog in expectation of Prince Arthur's
visit. He went to the Brevoort House, Fifth-
aveuue, and the proprietors are doing their best to
shut out the übiquitous reporters, who are equally
bent on interviewing his Royal Highness. Such a
chance does not often turn up, and the reporter
will consider himself defeated if the young gentle-
man escapes a catechising. The Mayor and other
city authorities have met to discuss what ought to
be done, and the Union League Club talk of a
grand banquet. He arrived yesterday, proceeding
this morning to Washington, so we have bad but
little opportunity to do lionizing, which is reserved
for his return. Hewalked down Broadway,and went
through Central Park. The private car of the
president of the Hudson River Railroad was sent
to Montreal for his accommodation. Our curious
citizens who assembled at the different stations
through which he passed were disappointed in ex-
pecting him to alight. It is here asserted that the
Prince acts in obedience to his mother's command
to visit President Grant ; but it is also his mother's
command that Mr. Thornton should attend the ob-
tequies of Mr. George Peabody, and the ships have
or will immediately arrive at Portland, so he has
to be in two places at once. The Rev. M. H.
Smith, writing from New York to the Boston Jour-
nal, accused his clerical brethren of driving fast
horses, drinking at piblic bars, &c. ; but, his letter
having attracted attention, he has been obliged to
eat his words, or the editor for him. Fisk and
Gould, I now learn after some hesitation, have
left for Washington to tell some more little
stories about their September gold panic sensa-
tion. They are firm against the Erie men on strike,
who are g.Ating the worst of it. Perhaps the little
fac's, if Fisk is to be believed, given by him at an
interview last Wednesday, may be of interest in
Etglaud, where the shares are largely held. Ile
stated that the strike has cost the company a con-
tract for the transportation of 4,00 J soldiers, and
entailed other loss's ; alse that the expenditure of
the company reached ilaily $lOO,OOO, while the re-
ceipts scarcely amounted to SIO,OOJ. We continue
to carry on the war between capital and labour ; the
coopers are oa strike at Brooklyn against reducLd
wag s, acrd the ha:lel-makers for more. The piano-
forte men are going in for a grand strike, which has
commenced in Steinway's factory. A. fight is pro-
gressing among the express comp inies ; the Adams'
Express desire to open' an office in Chicago, and
work over the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago
Railroad. The American Merchants' Union want
offices in Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia,
and the Washington and Boston line to be opened
to them. This the Adams refuse, tendering some-
thinginstead that the Union refuse,which may endin
their running in opposition, and opening offices
wherever they like. They tried to settle their dif-
erences at a meeting in New York, but failed. The
old investigation has been resumed into the affairs
of the Methodist book concern, the first report being
pronounced unsatisfactory by all. The inquiry at
any rate shows how loosely managed the business
has been, which has led to the remark that it is
no credit to its managers if there has not been
fraud, every opportunity for fraud being left open.
CustOms' frauds continue to be revealed in New
York. A number of merchants have used two in-
voices, the one for the Custom-house and the other
for the consignees. Twenty-five houses are im-
plicated in this city alone, mostly Germans in the
upholstery business. The State Senate has passed
two bills to incorporate the Lowell Museum of Fine
Arts, with a capital of $1,000,000, as well as the
American College, a Conservatory for the Blind,
and to hold real and personal property. Mr. Charles
O'Connor's new house on Fifth-avenue, bids fair
to be one of the finest in New York. It is of stone,
covering the entire lot, 100 feet deep. The library
behind the parlour, which looks on the Avenue,
will receive Mr. O'Connor's large law library.
The mansion consists of four storeys, containing
suites of apartments, which will be beautifully de-
corated, mirrors being a great feature. Mr. O'Con-
nor is now in Rome, and I presume he will bring
back with him numerous objects of art and taste in
aid of his already handsome collection. A miser
has just ended his days after a long life of hoard-
ing in King-street. Thomas Ringrove died at 85
years of age, having accumulated $150,000. He
lived for 40 years at No. 102, where he died ; his
last directions were that he was to be buried in his
old shirt and drcwers, and that his death should not
be advertised, nor crape bought, nor religious cere-
mony performed over his body ; yet he did not leave
a will, and his executors, whoever they arc, did not
carry out his instructions, for he was laid out in a suit
of broad cloth, deposited in a handsome rosewood
coffin, carried to Greenwood Cemetery, and buried
as other Christians.

WASHINGTON, Jan• 22.

Dr. Sharpe, who has arrived here from Europe,
gave au encouraging account to a meeting of our
branch of the Evangelical Alliance, at the Metho-
dist Nletropolitan Church, of his success in England,
France, Switzerland, and Prussia in securing pro-
mises for a large attendance at the Evangelical
Conference to be held in New York at the er.d of
next September. General Butler arrived in haste to
look after the reconstruction of Virginia, and has
been actively engaged ever since. Among those
here on baiirh.!ss ar.. C. K. Gariisnn, Geacral In-
galls, and other New Yorkers, hbout an Ameriian
passenger and mail line of steamships to Europe,
Aho desire to purchase and alter Government ver-
se's for the work. The managers of the American
Ciilolll2 uion Society met last Tuesday-, when many
delegates were present. This society has been esta-
blished to regenerate Africa by Christian Ameri-
canized Africans as an indemnity for slavery,
through the colonization of Liberia ; and this was
its 53d annual meeting. The Golconda, the last of
the society's ships, sailed for Liberia in November
with 160 emigrants, mostly farmers, and during
the last four years 2,394 coloured persons have
been conveyed to Africa. The Hon. Sam. Sheila-

barger, got back to Washington on Tuesday from
Lisbon, for which place he seems to have no fancy.
He regarded his Ministerial residence there as
banishment, to be endured only for the benefit of
his health, and his health not being benefited he
tesigntd the appointment and returned. There is
no lack of candidates, however, but Mr. Cumback,
of Indiana, is likely to be the successful applicant,
whose name would have better suited his prede-
cessor. Mrs. O'Donovan Rossa has been to the
Executive Mansion urging the President to exert
his influence for the release of hei husband. While
expressing an interest in his fate, the Presi-
dent assured her he could do nothing officially fur-
ther than through the State Department directing
Mr. Motley's attention to the case. There is, how-
ever, a rumour that she obtained a note to Mr.
Gladstone on the subject, though I do not believe
it. General Grant's dinner to ex-Secretary Boric
was largely attended. Secretary Robesan does not
relish the attack made on him by Mr. Dawes,• al-
though he does not much care about the letter of
his predecessor, in which he is so severely criticised ;
and he openly states that he is not going to be
drawn into a newspaper controversy by Mr. Gi-
deon Wells or any other person. The Lingard
troupe are here, and nearly caused a row by repre-
senting
General Lee in their photographic scenes
before General Grant. It was done purposely, and
had the same effect as when St. Paul declared him-
self to be of the straitest sect of the Pharisees ; that
is, they skilfully threw into the assembly an apple
of discord. Some old comrades of General Fitz-
John Porter are bringing influence to bear on the
President to have the sentence of the Court-
martial set aside, which condemned him for
the second Battle of Bull Run ; and they will
probably be successful. Mr. Julian, of Indiana,
having recovered from a severe illness, has re-
occupied his seat in the House ; the report
was that his health could never be restored, but he
says he is better than he was for a long period be-
fore. Mr. Clapp, the Public Printer, urges a❑ in-
vestigation into his conduct, as his integrity has
been impugned, and his request is likely to be
granted. Revenue Supervisor M'Donald is in this
city, and reports things to be in a bad way in
Western Arkansas and Northern Texas; ,the laws
of the Union are set at defiance, and the revenue
openly defrauded. Oue practice is to grow tobacco
in Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas, and to manufac-
ture it in the Indian Territory, under the belief that
it cannot there be taxed because of the Indian trea-

ties. Mr. M'Donald seized all he could, and placed a
half-breed, Boudinot, under arrest, who is coming
here to contest the Supervisor's action. The Wall-
Street specula ors have been examined by General
Garfield's committee, the celebrated Speyer.; giving
full and unreserved statements confirming the ac-
counts published at the time. Fisk and Gould de-
clined to obey the summons, au excuse being made
in reply to the subrosna that the railroad business
kept them in New York. A deputy sergeant-at
arms has been dispatched to bring them before the
committee nolens volens. Corbin as usual was sick,
that gentleman having a happy knack of being a
very live man in a speculation, and a very sick man
when the consequence; become disagreeable and

his presence is required ; better for him to come
honestly to the front and acknowledge himself to
have been the biggest toad in the puddle, if he wazi
so, as Fisk says, though he must have been a very
big toad if bigger than Fisk himself. But neither
Fisk nor Gould thought it advisable to dare the
Committee, and they are expected here to-night.
The broker, ➢lr. Richard Schell, on his examina-
tion, laid the disaster at the door of the Gold Bank.

lie asserted that the losses were terrible, inflicted
on the most honest commercial houses throughout
the county, many of whom have not got over it,
and perhaps never will. Mr. Schell and General
Harvey, of New York, have entertained about
thirty of their friends to dinner. Our season has
now fairly commenced, and receptions are every-
where going on or announced. Mrs. Grant had her
regular Tuesday afternoon reception. Mrs. G. W.
Childs of Philadelphia aided her, and among tbosc

who called were Mrs. Fremont, Mrs. Thornton, Mr.
and Miss Borie, Mrs. Belknap, Mrs. Cox, and Mrs.
Babcock. The President and Mr. Childs were for
a short time present. Mr. Creswell gave a State
dinner to the members of the Cabinet oa Tuesd ty,
and Secretary ItibUSXl has a dinner parry
evening. General Cochrane is *here from Nev
York, consulting with the leaders of the. Re-
publican party. tel. Bertherny, lately the French
Minister at Washington, is to return, it is said, to
settle the postage question, and that he will be
authorised to adjust the French Cable difficulties.
The failure to settle the French postal matters are
attributed to the illness of the Emperor and the
changes occurring at the time in his Cabinet. Au
attempt is to be made to introduce the English
postal system in New York ; the New York Post-
office absorbing that of Brooklyn and the numerous
towns around. If successful, it is estimated that
the Government will save $400,000 annually. The
weather continues wonderfully mild, more like
spring than the dead of winter, and tidings have
been received from the country of early violets, and
that buds are appearing on the lilac trees. The report
is that General Hugh Ewing will be retained as
Minister to the Hague, notwithstanding the efforts
to displace him, but that the Foreign Relations
Committee, influenced by Mr. Sumner, will report
against the confirmation of Mr. J. Russell Jones to
Brussels. At the Wednesday meeting of the Uni-
versal Suffrage Association the ladies in a summary
manner tabled Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe. A
fair one, irresistibly attracted to the subject, moved
.a vote of sympathy to the lady, as she had been
assailed for the honest performance of a sickening
duty. A committee of five is to wait upon the
President. Senator Pomeroy advised the experi-
ment of woman enfranchisement to be tried in the
District of Columbia. The Secretary of the Trea
sury intends to withhold the amount of the income
tax from the pay of Government employe's, although
it ended with the year, and cannot be reinforced
excepting by an Act of Congress. •It appears that
a clause relates to these salaries, placing the tax at
the discretion of Congress, which must act before
it can be removed.