The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-08 00:00:00

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

Satisfaction is expressed in America at the announce-
ment that England has agreed to the transferof the Alabama
claims negotiations to Washington, and the difficulty is
there considered to be in a fair way of adjustment, if an
agent be appointed who can comprehend that there are
two sides to a question, and not obstinately limit his view
to one. The despatch of Mr. Fish, so harshly criticised
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in England, is, in America, thought a fair and able exposi-
tion of the case ; but it is evident despatches will not
hasten a settlement. Sir Charles Dilke addressed his
constituents on Thursday at the Vestry- ball, Kensington,
on foreign relations, and as he took the wrong, side, or
rather no side, he was done into the smallest of type,
"solid minion," as compositors call it, and put in a very
abridged form in a corner by the Times. Sir Charles wont
at some length, the report says, into the state of our rela-
tions with America, and said Mr. Sumner's speech had been
greatly misunderstood. He had been thought to have
made an altogether new claim, instead of which be had
only stated the American case in nearly the same words in
which it had been stated before. Mr. Sumner bad been
astonished sit the misconception of his speech, which, to-
gether with Mr. Motley's instructions, must be read as one.
In their recent correspondence, Lord Clarendon had made
out a strong case of law, and Mr. Fish of senti-
ment, but by writing despatches wo should not con-
vince Americans, nor they us. The President, in his late
Message, had gone out cf his way to say that the re-
cognition of belligerency was a matter which every na-
tion should consider for itself—a declaration which must
have been made to aid a settlement of the Alabama ques-
tion. He thought that the. idea of arbitration should be
abandoned, and that an English commission should be
appointed to adjust the claims. If Mr. Bright refused
to go as a special envoy, Sir Henry Bulwer and the
Duke of Argyll wore both good men ; but he was of
opinion that the mission at Washington should be raised
to the first class, and that the Ambassador should treat.
In any case negotiations must be held at Washington, as
the Senate was the treaty-making power.

Affairs have reached a pretty pass at the Red
River Settlement, where a telegram of yesterday an-
nounces a reign of terror, 45 loyal Canadians having been
tried by what the insurgents call "court-martial," meaning
thereby a body of lynchers, and sentenced to banishment,
four being retained as hostages. The banished are on their
way to Canada, as is Governor M'Dougal), who was re-
called by an Order in Council, and is expected immediately
at Ottawa. The Scotch, English, and French inhabitants
of Red River are anxious that the Canadian Government
should take possession of the country, but are powerless
against the armed body of French settlers.
THE EUREKA GOLD MINE.—We are happy to see
a revival in London of investment in mines on the Pacific
Slope, which,. when well selected, will prove most remn-
nerative, although they must always be regarded as specu-
lative. The Eureka is not like many of the mines hitherto
offered in the London market, for it is an old well-known
property in California, indeed in America, yielding large
and regular dividends. It is in Grass Valley, Nevada
County, of California:; a place noted for the wealth of its
yield in gold. The Eureka is frequently alluded to in the
papers before Ile from California, and always as one of the
most valuable properties. On the 10th November there
was a great jollification there on the completion of the
shaft, an event celebrated by balls and banquets; every de-
partment then having its full compliment of hands. Mining
in Grass Valley, says the Union of Nov. 28, was never more
brisk than it is to-day_" The Eureka and Idaho keep up
their same old steady lick, giving no astounding items,
but turn out big dividends.". On the sth December the
same paper remarks—" The Eureka mine, yesterday morn-
ing, sent to San Francisco,, gold to:the amount of $28,500."
From the Gazette of the 3d December we extract —" It was
reported yesterday that the Eureka mine, Grass Valley,
had been sold to an English company for $1,500,000."
These statements are taken at random from papers of
Nevada County, as we naturally look there for our infor-
mation, instead of to the prospectus which we to-day pub-
lish. Those who seek large dividends can judge of the
prospectus for themselves, but this we can say for the
Eureka, that it is a long established, highly considered,
and one of the most remunerative of the mining properties
of California.

Georgia has recommenced the reconstruction game
from the beginning. The wcrst of the reconstruction
laws is that there are grave doubts whether they are laws at
all, but the will of the majority imposed on a fractious
minority. The Senate called for papers about Georgia,
and among them, by accident, appeared an anonymous
letter to the President containing a scurrilous attack on
Governor Bullock and the Republican State Committee.
The President intending it for the waste-paper basket,
with others of the sumo character, left it on the table, when
the copying clerks took it as one of their documents, hence
its appearance in official form before the Senate of the
United States. A bill imposing conditions was brought
into the Senate and passed, and after a hard fight was
carried through the House by Butler, whereby the old
Legislature is to be assembled, every ono taking an
ironalad oath which will exclude the obnoxious element,
and after ratifying the Fifteenth Amendment the members
from Georgia will be readmitted by Congress. The Pre-
sident signed the bill, and the War Department assigned
General Terry to duty as military commander pending
the reorganisation of the State Legislature. The Admiuis-
tration considers the recent Act, to repeal all laws passed
since the first organisat'on of the Georgia Government
after the war, so, as we said before, Georgia is to begin

again. But the Ku-Klux have put it out of the President'
power, or that of Congress or of Terry, to bring back all
I he old members, for several have been assassinated, and
some 5 or Ii are not to be found.

An interesting question has been discussed,
started, too, by the Christian Union, the new paper of the
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher —" Should General Butler be
hung?" The Christian Union argues that slavery was the
misfortuneof the South, not being established by the present
generation, who were reared under the influences it com-
manded in society; moreover, the whole country was re-
sponsible for the system, while none in the South, not
even Calhoun in politics and Thornwell in the pulpit, were
more responsible for its evils and its final mad attempt at
the life of the Union, than such Democrats as was Gen. But-
ler a few years ago. Then it asks should he be hung or dis-
franchised? for what he did to support a system which
was the origin and inspiration of secession. The truth is,.
the nation was guilty, and was punished for slavery
It is worthy of remark, in conjunction with that fact, that
the old original sinner iu the premises was England, and
England has partaken of the punishment. It was 1 ngland
that commenced the slave system in her North American
colonies. The Northern States, knowing it to be a sin,
and admitting the evil, taerated and fostered it, and the
South took it to its bosom as its darling institution, and
all three will have been punished about in the degree of
their guilt, after England has paid a round sum for the
Alabama claims. Whether Butler should be hung or not
may be regarded from another than the Christian Union's
point of view. He was called upon to take an active part
in a very difficult and dangerous duty, doing his work
with courage and decision. It is not impossible, had the
North been thoroughly defeated and Bahr captured in
New Orleans, that he would have been hung, and this risk
he fairly ran. In war, right or wron gis decided by success
or defeat; and when Lee or any other Southern General,
however patriotic in intention or noble in character, was
defeated, he might be hung because he was defeated, and
would have been in almost any other country, without re-
ference to his private character, his conqueror being re-
warded and ennobled without reference to his.

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The Senate's power of veto on a treaty is awk-
ward for the Washington Executive in dealing with
foreign countries. Commissioners Porter, Ingalls, and
Crockett concluded their arrangement with President
Baez for Samana Peninsula on a fifty years' lease at
$150,000 per annum in gold, with the right of purchase
within the period for $2,000,000, the price originally
offered by Mr. Seward. The question has arisen, what is
the whole of Sa❑ Domingo worth ? Many Senators be-
lieve that it could be secured to the United States for
little or nothing, and others doubt the value of the pos-
session on any terms. Hence an opposition is arising to
the treaty, which will be submitted to the Senate when it
again meets after the holidays, and the subject is being
ventilated by the press. The Government holds the
opinion we expressed last week, that the island will rapidly
fall into the hands of the United States ; and Admiral
Porter, who is under orders to proceed to Samana, at the
request of the President, in the vessels about to sail there
on a secret mission, believes 'that the whole coast of
Hayti will not exceed a million and a half of dollars, the
million being paid in arms and munitions of war now use-
less to the Union. Already the people of San Domingo
are exerting themselves to overthrow Baez ere the
Senate can ratify the treaty, and it is thus that the
United States will become involved in tLe internal
out $lOO,OOO in gol_d for Baez besides munitions of war.
If that money is paid and the overthrow of the President
affairs of the island. But the Albany has already carried
follows, what then will be the position ? Buying territory
from a San Domingo President is like buying laud from a
Maori chief, who has but little more right to it than any-
body else ; therefore as soon as his claim is satisfied ano-
ther is brought forward.

The only telegrams of the week not elsewhere die-
cussed are as follows - The Western Union T elegra ph opera-
tors are on strike,causing great interruption ofthe telegrapbic
communication throughout the country We suppose this
is an illustration of the saying, " when the cat is away the
mice will play," for the president of the company, Mr.
Orton, arrived in Europe only a few weeks ago. From
Hayti we learn that the revolutionists surprised and cap-
tured Port-au-Prince on the night of the 18th December.
The capture was effected without bloodshed, Salnave and
a few followers taking refuge at Fort Alexandre. There
Salnave held out with 1,000 followers, refusing to capitu-
late, while the insurgents in force hold the town. The
New York State Legislature have rescinded their former
resolution ratifying the negro suffrage amendment.
The amiou of the United States on Cuban affairs
appears to have snuffed out all that remained of the revolt.
From Havannah on the 2d January it was asserted that
it was nearly suppressed; large bodies of the insurgents
having surrendered to the authorities; the Cuban Junta
had instructed its adherents to abandon the revolution for
the present as impracticable, on account of the adverse at-
titude of the United States. This, however, was vehe-
mently denied by the New York Junta. The Times had
this telegram from Havannah, dated January 2 :—"Ces-
pedes has left the island. The Revolutionary New York
Junta publishes a manifesto urging the insurgents to lay
down their arms. 1,500 surrendered at Tunas." We might
suppose from these contradictory statements (all about the
same date) that treachery was at work, though it may be
accounted for by the fact that the Junta in New York has
contracted such a habit of lying that it cannot tell the
truth. Intelligence from Paraguay to the Bth December an-
nounces that Lopez has Leen routed in his last stronghold
and has fled with his family and a few officers to Bolivia.
Count d'Eu and General Paranhos, with the allied forces,
are returning, leaving 6,000 Brazilian and 2,000 Argentine
troops in Paraguay. The telegram received at the Bra-
zilian Legation states that lgautemy was occupied without
resistance when Lopez abandoned his territory. The
Prince and Paranhos were expected at Montevideo on
their return.

Advanced sheets have been forwarded to the
American press of Mrs. Stowe's answer to her critics,
which she calls "Lady Byron Vindicated." The press
condemns the book, pronouncing it to be almost in worse
taste than her former paper. She evades dates and proves
nothing, says the New York Times, but she persists in
recording herself as the authority for a revolting slander.
The Herald pronounces her arguments to be weak and hor
motives (those well understood by the Herald by the way)
to make money or to gain notoriety by pandering to de-
praved tastes. The World also censures the book, and
the Pall Mall Gazette has thought it worth while to pro-
cure through the cable a synopsis of the work. We admire
the enterprise of our London contemporary, if not its choice
of subjects, but we accept it as a harbinger of better things.
The Quarterly Review disposed of Mrs. Stowe and her
heroine, and the universal bslibf is that the story only
benefited the poet at the expense of his wife, the opposite
of what the authoress intended. " Lady Byron Vindi-
cated" ought to have been "Mrs. Stowe Vindicated,"
instead of vindicating either her friend or herself, the
celebrated novelist appears only to have affixed the more
tenaciously a stigma on both.

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