The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-18 00:00:00

ASK for " LEA and PERRINS' " SAUCE.

BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
and see the names of LEA & PERRINS on all bottles and labels!

Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all
Dealers in Sauces throughout the World

COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT-
LANTIQUE.
4, Rue de la Pala, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
rueave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New;York
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From IIAvRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Class 7OO fr.
Second Class 425 fr.
Third Class
From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brost, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.
WEST INDIES AND MEXICO.
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans,. Porto Rico
Haiti, Santiago do Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Domerara, Paramaribo,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union,
San Francisco, China, and Japan.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this
company, can be had of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents. 8, Austinfriars, London, E.O.

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE rosnioN
OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
62, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's.

The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the
close of 1t468, was £220,978 Os. 10d., and the Total Amount
Assured £4,832,197.
The Business is divided under two heads:-
Ist --The General or Ordinary Business, being the
same as that transacted by other Companies.
2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances
The Premium Income of the General
Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured
£1,862,960. The present value of the lia-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load-
ing. was £139,322 15 8
The Premium income of the Industrial
Branch was 168,546, the sum Assured
£3,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0

£lB 322 15 8
The Liability of the Industrial Branch
does tot admit of being estimated in the
same way as that of the General Branch,
on account of the very large proportion of
Policies which const ntly larse, so that
the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks
for short terms only ; the estimated re-
serve for the liabilities of this Branch of
the business is shown by the result of 14
years' experience to be abundantly suffi-
cient.
The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem-
ber, 1868, was £241,301 12 4
The average duration of the whole of
the Industrial Policies was considerably
under three years.
The average age of the Assured in the
Industrial Branch was 19 years.
A detailed List of Assets can be had on application.;
U. lIARBEN, Secretary.

THE MESMERIC INFIRMARY, 36, Wey-
mouth-street, W. (where trany cases deemed incur-
able are cured). much needs support. Inspection is in-
vited from 10 till 12.30. The Council have placed the
Institution under the control of THOS. CHANDLER,
who has above 30 years' experience in
nervous diseases. Consultations—gra-
tuitous,Esq.,
MesmerismM R.Ca. Sn .d,
till 10.30; private, till 12.30.

CANCER HOSPITAL (Free): founded 1851.
—Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000
cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very
expensive.. Over 40 in hospital, and many cases unable
to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.
Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertslet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.
Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, H. J. JUPP.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
.1. —Tho ROYAL INFIRMARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 71, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand.
CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN
The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole-
sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want
of room for stowage, every inch of available space being
occupied. There is a daily demand for more beds, and the
staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children,
but no more can be admitted 'n the present building.
£B,OOO at least is:required to can y out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme
Contributions will be thankfully reed red by the Trea-
surer, E.S. Norris, Esq., Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon: Sec.,
Rectory Wapping ER

NURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and the Poor: established 1848.
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.
The nursing at King's College and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the; Sisters of John's
House.
Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be
trained to nurse, are questod to communicate with the
Lady Superior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Coutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C.

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS of the ARMY, Lansdown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Maj. sty the QUEEN.
President—H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., &c.
Chairman—Major- CI eneral Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K. 0.13.
This school has been founded upwards of four years,
and it is intended for the education of the daughters of
officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There are
already 70 pupils in the school, but more could be admitted
if the committee had further funds; they, therefore
APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its
full extent the benefits of the only institution specially
provided for the daughters of officers of the Army.
Each donation of £5 ss. entitles to one life vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to
one vote at all elections during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an order on a bank, agent,
or post-office Charing-cross), payable to.
GEO. W. FORSTER, Under Secretary)
Ofaoe 22 Cookspur-Atreet London,

SAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman-
square. The only Free Hospital for Diseases of Women ;
2,5.3 patients were treated last month without letters of
recommendation. SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS
are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard,
Piccadilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart. ; Messrs. Barclay,
Coutts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary.

NORTH LONDON or UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE HOSPlTAL.—Accidents and Sickness.
—CONTRIBUTIONS earnesly solicited to meet tho
annual expenses, which exceed the income by £4,000.
The committee also plead for help for the sick children,
the little victims of starvation, neglect, and disease, who
enjoy in the new wards, devoted to them, the privileges
of nourishing food and careful nursing. Donations thank-
fully received by Edward Enfield, Esq., Treasurer, 19,
Chester-terrace, Regent's-park; and at the office of the
charity.

HENRY J. KELLY, R.N., Secretary.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
gnat, Salt, and Co., 78, Lombard street, 16.0.; Francis Nicholls
Req. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

LIORM of BEQUEST.—NATIONAL HOS-
PITAL for the PARALYSED and EPILEPTIC,
Queen-square, Bloomsbiry :—I give and bequeath to the
Treasurer for the time being of the National Hospital for
the Paralysed and Epileptic, established in London in
1859, the sum of —, free of 'legacy duty, to be paid out
of such part of my estate as may by law be bequeathed for
charitable purposes, and to be applied to the general use
of the said Hospital.
The Institution comprises an Hospital for In and Out
Patients, a Samaritan Society to relieve the more desti-
tute out-patients and their families, a convalescent home,
and a pension fund for the incurable.
E. H. CHANDLER, Hon. Soc.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
ham-rise. Instituted in 1861.
.Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable diSOSSe.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
Tho Home was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, E3V/413, and Co., 54, Lombard -
street, E.O. ; Messrs. Drummond, CharingAYEA Sec.
-cross, S,W.
ED WD.
WE
Offices, 78, Cheapside, E.O.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
hailway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most GracioUB YATESTY the QUEEN.

Vice-Patron—
Ills Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCIL K.G.
without the delay and difficulty
This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a largo number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
twThe een 8 and 4000 weekly.
Commit Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abohuroh-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payikti, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and 00.4Berners-street ;:snd at
the Hospital from 10 till 5

T" RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
aro as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, HamP- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland• street. wich.
For You Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Honstridge-villas, St. .Tohn s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Backhurst-hill.
Country Home--St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their :large three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee are deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, 4, I
never road a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be bad on application.
The Sodiety is under the presidency of the Uri of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CO)PER
•
it,' afloat-street Cheansida.

BRITISH HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham the.
Instituted 1861.

PATRONESB.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREAS elms,
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of
the kingdom, provides for those afflicted with incurable
diseases a home for life, with every comfort and medical
attendance. Patients are admitted, and anunitioa of £lO
obtained by election.
No person under 20 years of ago, nor of the pauper
class, is eligible.
Pull particulars and the necessary forms may be pro-
cured from the Secretary. Donations and sunual sub-
scriptions aro earnestly solicited.
BANKERS.

Messrs Barclay, Bevan, ancfdo7,Yombard-street, .p.; and
Messrs. Drummond, Cnaring-cross, S.W.
EDWIL WEAVER Secretary?
Office; 73, Oloapeide.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Cale-
donian-road, N.—Several beds in tho new buildings
cannot be occupied for WANT of FUNDS.
F. SMITH, Esq., Hon. Secretary.
GEORGE REID, Secretary.

LIST FOR THE USE OF VISITORS TO
THE METROPOLIS.

MUSEUMS.

Antiqaarian—Somerset House. Admission by application

to the secretary.
Botanic —Royal Botanic Society of London. 'Regent's-
park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. Royal
Gardens, Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free.
British—Great Russell-s reet. Open free on Mondays,
Wednesdays, and Frida s, 10 to 4 ' • summer months 10
till 7. Closed Ist till 7th January,lst till 7th May, and
Ist till 7th September; nl o on all thanksgiving days.
City—Guildhall. A collec,, on of antiquities, &c. Daily

fo till 5.
Geological— Jormyn street. Opon daily (except Fridays)

free. _
India—lndia Office, Charles-street. Asiatic natural his-
tory, antiquities, &c. Open free on Mondays, Wednes-
days, and Fridays, and on Thursdays by orders.
King's College —Strand. Anatomy and curiosities. Daily

10 till 4. -
Patents—South Kensington.

Models and inventions.

Op-n free daily.
Royal Institution--21, Albemarle-street. Various objects.
Daily, 10 till 5.
Royal Military Repository—Woolwich. Models of forti-
fications, cannon, and warlike appliances. Daily, 10
till 4.
Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scion -
tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 p.m. ls.
Soave's-13, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Antiquities, curiosities,
and pictures. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fri-
days in April, May, and June ; and Wednesdays, from
February to August. Admission on application to the
Curator;
Society of rts—Jhn-street, Alphi. inventions,
tures, curiosities &c. Daily: a dedmission by member's
order.
South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Saturdays, 10 till 10, freo ; on other days
10 till 4,5, or 6. 6d.
Tower of London—Ancient armour, &c. Open daily, 1$
till 4. ls.

PICTURE GALLERIES.
Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
Britisii ~°_rtists—Suffolk-street. April to July. ls.
July, and August. is.
Masters, Jun, . '.
Buckingham Palace ':Mures.—May be viewed by an order
from the Lord ChambeiNth
sington Museum Mon
Cartoons of Raphael—South .n7,:11- .
a s , 6d.
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free; °tut,- dy
-
Crystal Palace—Sydenham. Modern Picti.,...es and Sculp-
ture. ls. '-h
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and DuLv_
Pictures. Open free daily, except Friday.
Flagman Gallery—University of London, Gower-street.
Foundling Hospital—Guildford-sheet. Open Mondays,

10 till 4.
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49, Pall. 15.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on application to the hail
keeper.
Hemp-toll Cottrt Palace,—The galleries are open free daily
except on ''ridgy.
Monument—Fish-street gill. Every day. ed.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-squad. Open free, Mondays,
Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sattrdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Grea Seorge-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—'frinity-square, Tower-bill. Models of
lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4,
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street, Open daily till
10 p.m. Is.
SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorne Gardens—Chelsea. Is,
Crystal Palace ?ark—Sydenham. Open daily, ls.; Satur-
days, 2s. Gd.
Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Onan frAe
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily,
Hfghbury Barn and Gardens —Highbury. 6d. and is by
refreshment tickets.
low Gardens—Kew. Open free, daily at oul o'clock.
Richmond Park—Richmond. Open free, daily.
Roshervillo Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members' order.
Windsor Great Park—Windsor. Open free. Windsor
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri-
days, by tickets obtainable at the 4ord Ohamboxlitin 0
Office, in the Castle.

A little affair has occurred at the Manhattan
Club, which furnished that New York institution
with something to talk about on New Year's e 7e.
Mr. 11. L. Bateman, being of an adventurous turn
of mind, like the celebrated lord, his namesak( ,
" who went foreign countries for to see," got him-
self elected a member of the club, and proceeded
vigorously to use it before making himself acquainted
with its rules. Being in what to him was a strange
country, as might be expected, he tr tngressed its
regulations. Three of his friends sat down as
guests to dine in a room strictly reserved for the mem-
bers, which gave offence to Mr. Hiram Cran-
ston, a member of. the House Committee, who
ordered that the party should not be served
with dinner. In such a case the proper course,
seeing that guests are involved, is to reserve the
objection for a more convenient opportunity, and
allow the dinner to proceed ; but Mr. Cranston not
only gave this arbitrary order, but had it conveyed
in an abrupt and imperative tone, sure to excite
Mr. Bateman's wrath, who proceeded to have an
interview, when Mr. Cranston asked him if he was
a gentleman. Thereupon Mr. Bateman addressed
a letter to the House Committee man, recounting the
circumstances, regretting, if he had unconsciously vio-
lated a rule, and demanding an apology for the insult
to himself and his guests. In reply, Mr. Cranston
referred' him to the Managing Committee, by whom
the House Committee is appointed, offered no expla-
nation, called in question Mr. Bateman's memory
in asserting that he (Cranston) had asked him if he
was a gentleman, adding, we presume, sarcastically,
I could have asked no such useless question. Ano-
ther, and a more imperative demand for an apology
was made by Mr. Bateman, who termed Mr. Cran-
ston's note evasive and unsatisfactory, an aggrava-
tion of the original insult. AIL Cranston declined
further communication, rejecting the last note on
which Mr. Bateman proceeded alone to the Manhat-
tan Club, determined to spoil Mr. Cranston's
dinner, an object he thus effected. The House Com-
mittee-man was dining in the restaurant with a
party of friends •when Mr. Bateman entered.
After rehearsing his wrongs with a stage effect,
and the refusal to tender an apology, Mr. Bateman
said only one course was left, which was a slap on
the face to Mr. Cranston, and that he administered
gently, as corporal punishment was not his object,
and then withdrew. But -an uproar followed ; Mr.
Cranston shouting for the police, and waiters run-
fling about to bring in the myrmidons of the law.
Opinions are divided on the affair ; Mr. Bateman
having placed himself in the wrong by his last act.
An appeal to the managing committee could
scarcely have failed to draw forth a censure on Mr.
Cranston's manner of discharging a duty ; and the
club would have resented that gentleman's action.
BLit Mr. Bateman was in error in the first instance,
as it was his business when he joined the Club
to learn its rules and observe them. By his ne-
glecting to do so Mr. Cranston got a slap on the
face ; so he was first in error and last in error,
though it was natural for him to resent such treat-
ment as he received. One of the excitements of
the week is the strike of the steamships against the
Post-office, and the result is, that this letter will
go by the Rhein to Southampton, instead of by the
City of Washington to Queenstown ; and another is
the Erie raid on the office of the Atlantic and Great
Western. Railway bonds are so accustomed to the
Erie breaking into offices and carrying away the
property of railway companies that some have been
obliged to transfer their • headquarters to other
cities, yet this audacious act has not passed with-
out remark. There has been a meeting of influen-
tial railway men to further the consolidation of
Western roads connected with the Pennsylvania.
General Fremont has brought an action against the
Kansas Pacific for four months' interest on 200
Six per Cent. U. S. Bonds, for which he compro-
mised his claims against the company some years
afro. The actress whose name oscillates from Alice
15unninc, to Alice Needham, with Mr. Lingard's as
a sort of pivot, brought a complaint against Mr.
Lingard, before Justice Dodge, for using threaten-
ing language, and Mr. Lingard's arrest was ordered.
In reply, the actor (for he also is on the stage)
gives a very different version, and the evidence
goes to show her cruelty towards him, with the
view to desertion, James Fi,k, jun., being said to
be the attraction. In the case of Real, the mur-
derer of Smedick, Mr. Robert Bonyn,ge, who took
the stenographic minutes at the trial, has been exa-
mined as to their accuracy. It appears that he
used an arbitrary sign, of which advantage has been
taken by the prisoner's counsel, and, through some
technical error, I believe the murderer will get off.
This is not surprising ; indeed your correspondent
has predicted that such would be the case; and he
may have predicted, too, that Fisk, Gould, and
Lane would likewise be triumphant. He (that is I)
knows a thing or two which makes prophesying on
such events in New York easy. " Swindlers ! Bur-
glars Murderers ! Victorious !" " Honest men
robbed through forgeries and jemmies, and then in-
sulted and abashed in Court." The Herald implores
Judge Bolcom to retrace his steps, asserting that
" at present the Judges form a mere part of the ma-
chinery used in violating the law." It is perhaps
as bad that the Legislature should be in the " ring"
against the community, and the Herald has ap-
parently grounds for asking whether our society is
rotten through and through. But it is not so, only
our admirable political system has given the rascals
control of the whole State Government, and that

they let us off so " cheap" under such circumstances
may be taken as a proof of forbearance. Perhaps
the English stockholders of the Erie may prove
more refractory and less lamb-like, being unaccus-
tomed to it, than we do, and support Mr. Ramsay
in his appeal from the long, and I think rather
clever,ruling of Judge Balcom,considei ing the judge
was counsel for the defendants, without the advantage
of counsel, of having only one side to represent.
What the Democrats will do to rescue us now that
they are in power remains to be seen, but nothing
is expected, judging from their antecedents, but a
deeper descent. From 1853 they ceased to have
sole control, the Republicans from that date either
ruling or sharing power. Now the Democrats have
it all their own way, by means, as the Radical
journals assert, of the most outrageous and unscru-
pulous system of electoral fraud. They had a meet-
ing of Democratic Senators and Assembly men at
the St. Nicholas Hotel on Thursday, the &ffice-
seekers filling up every crevice outside. The Yeter-
mination, I hear, is that all the Republicans
in office shall be immediately cleared out, their
successors being finally decided on next Mon-
day. In no other State do the prizes ap-
proach in value to ours. New York is by far
the most populous and the most wealthy State,
and I may add that its inhabitants are the least
troubled with scruples. New Yorkers, holding
paltry posts, receive a higher salary than the Chief
Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. If pickings
be thrown in, we have offices worth many times
as much as that of the President of the United
States. A Cabinet Minister is poor when he com-
pares notes with a N. Y. civic dignitary, and I
may add that though our officials are the most
highly paid, and do more stealing than those of
any other city, the work is the worst performed.
To Europeans the puzzle is why we submit ; but
people will submit to anything if only they get used
to it. Miss Clara Louisa Kellogg, our native star of
the first magnitude, sang at St. George's Church on
'Thristmas Day. She is a great favourite on and off
It is said that Mr. Palmer has concluded
the stag,. -t with Miss Nilsson to visit this con-
his arrangeme... is confidently predicted, will
tinent, and Patti, it. our boards. We have
also appear nest season °a-
:fog afloat, and
bad some mild muggy weatne. , ferry-boat,
mud ashore. Dufirig Tuesday, the
Jay Gould ran into the ferryaboatf Janzes Jun.!
striking her amid-ships, and so damaging her the.
she had to be towed sharp to Allison's yard to prevent
her sinking, and the Gould, on this occasion, came off
only second-best, bows stove in, and had also to
get into dock for repair. The worthies, after whom
the boats are called, never created more excitement
in Wall-street than occurred among the passengers,
many of whom jumped overboard, " as if eager
to anticipate their fate ;" but it was early, and the
passengers few in number, so the damage, esti-
mated at $20,000, was confined to the steamers.
Another defaulting cashier has been discovered,
the Merchant Exchange Bank being the victim to
the amount of about $lOO,OOO. Mr. Edward J.
Oakley (as usual) considered of strict integrity, all
the stricter on account of his fine house in West
Thirty-fourth-street, had a brother who dealt in
tobacco. It appears impossible to deal in anything,
from pig-iron to salt, without 4‘ corners," and some
of the tobacco speculations in which Mr. Oakley
was inyolved smashed the brother; when it
transpires that his account at the bank had been
overdrawn; some 40,000 dollars, Alter the graull

Edwin M. Stanton was buried ou Monday, in
the Oak Ridge Cemetery. The services were per-
formed by the Rev. Dr. Starkie, of the Church of
the Epiphany, to which Mr. Stanton had belonged.
The President and Vice-President, the Senator
and all the Congressmen who remain here, the
members of the Cabinet, the Judges, and the lead-
ing officials of the departments, and of the -Army
and Navy, were present, as was the British Minis-
ter, Mr. Thornton, who represented the diplomatic
corps. The Union League Club of New York sent
a delegation, and Mr. Stanton's mother, an old lady
of 76, also came to Washington, from Steubenville,
Ohio. Artillerymen, in uniform, bore the coffin to
a hearse wreathed with flowers, for we have a habit
here of strewing the path of the bride and the
chamber of the dead with such offerings. Four
grey horses drew the hearse, and, notwithstanding
the rain, the procession was witnessed by many
spectators who wished to pay a last tribute of re-
spect to the deceased. Mrs. Stanton declined to--
allow the body to lie in state before the funeral,
aoad few beyond mere relatives of the 'family had
an opportunity of taking a last look at the re-
mains. The way in which the news of Mr. Stan-
ton's death was received shows how strongly he
had excited the opposite feelings of love and hatred.
When he was dying a writer in the New York
World was penning severe animadversions, intended
to reflect on his appoiutment as Associate Justice of
the Supreme Court; he was " abloated blackguard,"
" a recreant lawyer," he was " a shedder of inno-
cent blood," and no Democratic Governor has
deigned to notice his death. Mr. Beecher, in his
sermon last Sunday, referred to Stanton as the
head of the nation, while others stood back, and in
ages to come he will be near " the great un-
quenched orb of Washington." What luminary
that is I know not, except the sun on a hot dusty
summer's day, when I would rather that Mr.
Beecher were near that orb than myself, as I would
prefer to be rolling like a grizzly bear in the
snows of the Rocky Mountains. But he may mean
the glory of the " Father of his country," in which
case it would be better for Mr. Stanton's memory
to be a little distance out of the way, as his candle
would not shine very brightly in the effulgence.
Mr. Stanton was an earnest, unscrupulous man,
whose motives were good, and, as such, in his opi-
nion justifying action otherwise unjustifiable. He
was a moderate Democrat when the war broke out,
and this was the reason President Buchanan con-
ferred on him towards the close of his term, the
office of Attorney-General. When the news came
that Anderson had transferred his command from
Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, and had been at-
tacked in the latter stronghold, Buchanan that
night called the Cabinet together by special sum-
mons. Stanton found the President sitting in the
corner ..of the room as white as a sheet with the
stump of a cigar in his mouth, and when the
Secretaries assembled, such a hubbub arose that
he had to turn them all out of the house.
Stanton's manner was brusque alike to the office-
seeker, in the Cabinet, or in discussing any plea-
sures, and this brought on him much enmity: In
replying to Secretary Usher's application for a per-
sonal friend as Army Paymaster, Stanton asked
the applicant's age, and on learning it was 21,
gruffly rejected it, saying, in conclusion, " I would
not, Usher, trust the Angel Gabrie'ras a Paymaster
if he was only 21." This blunt, outspoken man-
ner worked good in great emergencies ; he struck
hard, truly, and the right nail. In Buchanan's
Cabinet he was a drag on the overwhelming
Southern element. Once he pursued the President
to his bed-room, where he declared there were
traitors in the Cabinet, and induced Buchanan to
inquire from Floyd, the Secretary of War, why he
was despatching guns down the river. is r ply
was he would not be interfered with in the diechai ge
of his official duties, or he would tender his r, sigLa-
tion—an expression clinched by Stanton, who in-
duced the President then and there to accept his
resignation, and Floyd left Washington imme-
diately for the South. On Mr. Stanton's impul-
siveness being remarked upon, President Lincoln
replied, with one of his quaint stories :—" Well, we
may have to treat him as they arc som timt:s
obliged to treat a Methodist minister I know of out
West. He gets wrought up so high in his prayers and
exhortations that they are obliged to put bricks in
his pockets to keep him down. We may be obliged
to serve Stanton the same way, but I guess we'll et
him jump a while first !" He gave much of the
tone and the determination to Lincoln's Adminis-
tration, though an impulsive and irrepressible man.
To preserve the Union intact was his simple object,
and he adhered to it, and to all which aided it with
the utmost tenacity. When he tendered his resigna-
tion of the War Department to Mr. Lincoln, on
the ground that his work was done, Mr. Lincoln
tore the paper in pieces, and throwing his arms
round the Secretary, said, " Stanton, you have been
a good friend and a faithful public servant, and it
is not for you to say when you will no longer be
needed here." He was a man of solid build, stand-
ing about 5 feet 7 inches, with a dignified and im-
pressive appearance. He had dark, though lately,
grizzled hair and beard, sallow complexion, full
features, his forehead rather broad than high. Ho
was grave in expression, though easily moved to
mirth. The honesty of his administration may be
judged from the fact that though wielding an enor-
mous power, and disbursing national property every
day, the profits on which would realise fortunes, all
he ever made was the value of his house, leaving
that only of property behind him. Speaking of
the war, ex-Secretary Stanton once said :—" The
hand of an overruling Providence was with us
through all—and nowhere was His presence more
manifest than in the preservation of the thousands
of men who were sent down South by sea in trans-
ports ill-adapted to the service." Nice for the men !
and easy for the Government to put them into these
coffins to say a prayer over them and launch them
on the deep. There is nothing like having a good
cause and handing it over to the safe keeping of
Providence. Mr. Richardson is, I believe, deter-
mined to throw up the Assistant Secretaryship of the
Treasury, and Solicitor Bamfield is spoken of as
his successor. He says his salary is not sufficient
to pay his mere board expenses, while his work is
harder than his regular professional avocations
would be in Massachusetts, where a probate judge-
ship has been kept open for him. Responses from
foreign Governments to our proposed convention of
the maritime Powers to protect ocean cables and pre-
serve their neutrality in war shows it has been favour-
ably received. President Grantdesires to exempt mes-
sages from Government revision, but this is sure to
be resisted by France. General Banks is expected
here soon, fresh from the presence of the Emperor,
but recent events have not made Napoleon's name
the passport it once was. The postal treaty is con-
sidered sharp practice on the part of France. We
are bothered about our letters to France. They can
be sent through England for 16 cents per quarter
ounce, for 28 cents per half ounce. By French
steamers the letters must be pre-paid ; a telegram
from France says, in French postage stamps, 12
cents for one-third of an ounce ; and they may be
sent by the Hamburg-American steamers, which
drop mailbags at Cherbourg. But how are we to get
postage stamps? General Banks will meet with a
strong opposition in his San Domingo annexation
scheme. There is a deep impression here that this
speculating in real estate is more beneficial to
" rings" than to the nation. If the people want to
be annexed they can vote for annexation without
our bribing such men as Baez, and the growing
m.„„
es
• ^nitude of our power cannot fail to command
b
I:ct and consideration of the world, and will
tuaaetresuch
etched and ill-governed communities
only tOoanzioug ig*, seek an entrance into so mighty
aßepublic. There is tt tinge, too, of jealousy
for
the part of Congress against the Executive or
undertaking without its authority such important
for our citizens, though many of the most advanced
matters ; but I confess that expansion has a charm
hold with you that it but weakens a alreadypoweriii
encer
too widely extended. The National Intelligences
•—" Will Mr. Sumner never forget t
shows a decided Southern sentiment, as t
provesho richly
• • d a the hands of
merited castigation that he receive
Great Bri-
tain gentlemen ?" Portugal
andlahies to Bola-
egxtract
have referred their respective
d to our Fre-
es the territory near it on the mcar
llan, accompanied
ma, an island on the West Coast olfle,A, f,rica, as well
sident as umpire. General Ali'
. General 11011°13P,
President, General Sherman, and
by General Marcy, his father- n lea w;has
and was warmlt receiyed each.
visited the

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