The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-21 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN FISHERY PROBLEM.

A Washington despatch, dated the Gth instant, states
that the following message was sent to the House of
Representatives on that day by President Grant :
" In answer to a resolution of the House of Representa-
tives of the 7th of March, relating to the fisheries in
British waters, I transmit a report from the Secretary of
State and the papers which accompanied it, and I have to
state that the commanding officer of the naval steamer
Ordered to the fishing grounds will be instructed to give
his attention, shostld circumstances require it, to cases
wadi may arise under any change which may be made in
t is British laws affecting the fisheries within British juris-
d.ction, with a view to preventing, so far as it may be in
his power, infractions by citizens of th. United States of
the first article of the treaty between the United „States
and Great Britain of 1818, the laws in force relating to
the fisheries within British jurisdiction, or any illegal in-
terference with the pursuits of the fishermen of the
United States.

(Signed)

U. S. GRANT."

The Secretary of State, to whom the resolution of the
House of Representatives of the 7th of March was re-
farred, calling. on the President to communicate any infor-
mation in his possession as to the determination of the
Canadian authorities in the matter of the fisheries in the
Gulf of St. Lawrence and coast of Canada, and whether
any steps have been taken for the protection of the
interests of American citizens engaged in the fish-
in; trade. &c., informs the President that on the date of
t ie receipt o the attested copy of said resolution by
tae Department of State, no information of any such
d.,..ision as that described in the preamble of said reso-
lution had been officially communicated to the depart-
mmt. and, that up to the present time none has been
o .icially communicated through the British Minister
a'.:credited to the Government, or through the Minister of
tie United States at London. It is proper to state that
in the absence of any official announcement from the
British Government of a proposed change in the practice
of granting licenses to foreign fishermen, this depart-
irimt is not aware of any steps having been taken in anti-
cipation of such a contingency ; but on learning that
stringent measures might be adopted by the authori-
t es of the Dominion of Canada to exclude all
foreign fishing vessels from the inshore fisheries
wiless provided with licenses, the Secretary of the
Navy was directed by the President to cause a small
active naval steamer to be sent at the beginning of the
approaching fishing season to the waters in which these
fisheries are chiefly carried on, for purposee of warning and
protection to the fishermen of the United States.
Certain documents chew that Sir John A. M`Donald
stated in the Dominion Parliament that he had already
announced that it was the ntention of the Government to
liime no more licenses to foreign fisherman, and they were
Liking- every step possible to protect the fisheries.

A. DISCREDITABLE BARGAIN.—A Catholic COMPS..
mndent writes :—The King consort of Spain has sold his
wife's letters to Serrano, to an Englishman who appears
to exercise the discreditable profession of collecting com-
promising documents. Don Francisco de Assise is
said on the authority of his own friends in Rome to
have received 80,000 f. for this utterly _disgrace-
ful transaction. The letters had been deposited
by the Queen with a lady at Madrid, who appears, for
some reason unknown, to have quarrelled with Donna
Isabella, and sent the letters to the king consort. They
are said to be fatal to the succession of the Prince of
Asturias."

THE AUSTRIAN MINISTR Y.—A special correTon-
d,l9t of the Eastern Badget says that the New Atistrian
Ministry has decided to dissolve all the Diets of Western
Austria, and order new elections. This step is opposed
by the German Radical party, which desires that •the
Diets of those provinces only should be dissolved whose
members have left the Reichsrath. No objection is offered
by this party or its leader, Dr. Rechbatter, to an extension
of the autonomy of the various province's, and the report
that the reason of Dr. Rechbauer's refusal . to, enter the
Ninistry was that Count Potocki had declined to sanction
the abolition of the Concordat and the reductiin of the
army, is stated, on good authority, to be withoitt the
slightest foundation.
TIIE EASTER " FOOT-WASIIING " AT VIENNA.—
The Eastern Budget says that the ancient ceremony of
washing the feet of twelve poor old men and women was
performed this Easter by the Emperor and Empress of
Austria in the throne-room of the Imperia. palace at
Vienna. The royal family of Hanover, theprincipal court
dignitaries, Count Beust, and most of the other Ministers
were present, together with an .immense crowd of
visitors: The old men and women, whose ages ranged
from 88 to 03, were dre ail in the old German costume.
They first sat down to a cold collation, the men being
waited on by the Emperor, the oldest of the women by
the Empress, and the rest of the women by the maids of
honour. This was a mere form, as the various dishes
were only put on the table andthen taken away, and placed
in wooden vessels appropriated for the purpose. The
feet of the women were then washed by the Court
Chamberlain, and dried by the Empress, while Prince
Hoheulohe and the Emperor performed the same office
fnr the men. After the ceremony the Emperor and
Empress washed their hands, and hung round the neck
of each of the poor people a bag containing 30 pieces of
s' leer. The latter were then seat home in Court car•
riage.4, each with a bottle of wine and the vessel contain.
ing his or her dinner.

BRAZILIAN JUSTICE.—The Anglo-Brazilian Times
comments on the mode of administering •justice to
foreigners in Rio de Janeiro. It especially complains of
the excessive delay in bringing to trial the cases of• men
who have once been thrown into prison, the vicious
animus which is shown against them, and the severe
sentences inflicted on them even when they have
already undergone a captivity equivalent to the punish-
ment of a much more serious offence. The Brazilian
Times, in proof of its allegations, instances the case of
Patrick Kelly, an Irish seaman. This prisoner was found
guilty in England of inflicting a slight wound on a fellow
seaman, but he was at his trial allowed his liberty upon a
pro form engagement to appear for sentence when called
upon in Brazil. When the man arrived at Rio in May,
1869, he was apprehended, lodged in gaol, arid not tell
nine months afterwards was he brought up for judgment.
He was finally sentenced to six months' fresh imprison-
ment, and ordered to pay a fine or in default to be kept in
custody for several mouths more.
AN ENGLISH LUNATIC AT THE TUILERIEF.—Za
OauTois of Tuesday gives the following account of an
event that happened on the previous day. An English
lady of middle-age, who had conceived an intense affection
for the Emperor Napoleon, came to Paris and endeavoured
to obtain an interview with him. She met with numerous
obstacles to the gratification of her wish, but she hired an
apartment on the second story of the Hotel du Pavilion de
Bohan, looking upon the Rue de Rivoli. Since she in-
stalled herself there she has made innumerable attempts to
obtain an entrance into the Tuileries, but the gates were
too closely kept.- On Monday, however, she con-
trived to evade the watchfulness of the gatekeepers, and
made her way into the private garden of the Tuileries,
where she prepared to await the coming of the Emperor.
Her hope was frustrated by the officials on duty, who dis-
covered her unauthorized presence and marched her off to
the guard-room attached to the palace. Upon being inter-
rogated she said her name was Louisa Creery, a native of
Dublin, and a descendant of the Stewarts. She added that
she had an irrepressible affection for the Emperor Napo-
leon. The poor lady was examined by the medical officers,
and by their direction was removed to a maison de santa
until her friends, to whom a telegram was despatched,
should arrive to take charge of her.
TER GROWTH OF INTELLIGENCE.—IR the first
volume of M. Taine's new book, "De l'lntelligence," he
make some children's sayings the text for ingenious com-
mentary on the awakening of the human intellect. A
little girl, aged two and a half, wore' round her neck a
blessed medal. She had been told " C'est le bon
Dieu," and she would repeat, " C'est le be Du." One
day, sitting on her uncle's knee she took his eye-
glass and said, " C'est le bo Du demon oncle."
" It is clear (M. Twine opserves) that involuntarily and
naturally she had established a class of objects for which we
have no term, namely that of small round objects, with a
loop, pierced with a hole, and attached to the neck by
a cord—that a distinct conviction which we do not expe-
i fence, and corresponding to these four general characters,
had formed itself and was acting in her mind. It is with
much diffidence and humility that we would suggest that
when M. Taint; gives his little damsel head credit
for so much conztrtetiveness, her -baby understanding
was cnly bungling in een unreilectiug wanner.' We will
cap AL Taine's instance. A little boy who had been
taken to see a balloon ascent; and had asked endless
questions, and been much puzzled by the ballons d'es.sai,
was repeating his prayers in the evening at his mother's
knee. When he came to a particular sentence in the
Creed, he euddonkv bzoke out : "Now,er.a, kW/
Ashr IVA WWI& 1444 bAllon."‘46ll kcal ago" ' .
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PROGRESS OF THE ERIE WAR.

Mr. J. Gould replied before the New York St itri
Senate Railroad Commit ee on the 23d Marcia to
Mr. Burt's arguments for the repeel of the Erse
Bill. Mr. Gould has come forward in the cams eof
truth aid jueiee to show the utter groan I;essue-s
of the accois *lions against him and hos associates.
Mr Burt's real client • are, he alleges, flesh aei i
Raphael, two Jewis:i bankers His meals for ear-
rying on the proceedines were obtaie 1 by c
ter-
ci m an I fraud, *led, inste7ani of the large number
of feat .kholders tie professes to represent, the fol-
io ing is the list : robe t A. I teeth, 1,100 shares ;
Heath arid Itapeael, 3,500 shares; Rap .act and
Sons, 56,400 shares. writ, $6,100.000. Letters
were received from London stockholders prot sing
ag ins' the proce dings of the commiitee. He an i
ano her were carte iug two millions of Eri.- stock
in London, which the Exchange comooelled hiin to
stamp, paving a a share to Burt's commit-
tee to liget hiinself. A fertile'. step is now ere: osed
to compel him io reg.s er that treck n the nam.• of
Head, and Raphae:, a resolution of the Lo..doe
Sock Exch-inge having beee taken, that ro c-r. ifi
Cate of E•ie ghoul I be considered g unless re
gieter d in their name; thus, if permitted, co 1-
densing in the hands of two geet emen the stock
actu illy owne I by 2,000-iudividuals, whereof these
two need not ow n $l. "Bonaeide owners," Sail Geulnl,
" are to have no voice," and he Board of Directors
to manage the affairs and adminisrer to the w nuts
of this grew corporation is to he made up its the
dingy oibc- of a Jew banking house in London. It
teems to me that such a condition of things is the
most conclusive taigument. of Vie wisdom or. thel nte
law. By this judicious enactment the control ef
the road is prevented from passing into the hands
of inexperienced and iriespousilde parties, and i is
effectueliy secured from belie; sold out to t•oe Penn-
sylvania Ceetrol or the New York Cen.ral Comp L-
ines, ei her of which could well afford to pay two
millions or three nil lio:is te shut tip or 1 ic dose the
Erie. So much for the origin and obi •et of th
.Loedou nem meet." To heir Air. Geu d, he cetn-
iiii tee nee t have been wider the impteesion th :t
he ,as talkieg of hitnse:f and;Fosk, a 1 bet the
• di g.• office, fo. th- hea!qua.te-rs of th • Erie in the
Upe .a ilote.e are gorgeou,imtembellish cent. When
Mr. BL1• t'S arrivai 'nee Line. kTtowa ion. d was
careu that he sho mid have ev opportonity for
inquin ins in: o the c. imp my's affairs. N. thing
-could exceed the conciiialory manna-r in which he
was met, Mr. Gould even coed-scending to pro ose
h•mself as an escort over the 1 ne, w sic I the curt
Burt bluntly refused, decining all intercourse wi.:ll
the Erie directors, Theo the meek and forgiving
Gould thus proceeds :—" I naturally felt hurt at
such rude and uncourreous treatment, and deter-
mined to allow matters to take their course witeent
further interference. Shortly afterward Alm Burt,
apparently ashamed of the position he had at fi st
taken, sent a message to nie requestieg a persenal
interview, and asking me to call upon' him. It
s emed te me that this was a little moie that he
deserved, cousi :ering the spirit in which he had
received my :lily meas. But, feeling attunes o
harmonize any d fferences between us, and willing
to d.) all in my power to as.sis. in arriv,ng at a
settlement of the question at issue in the eontre-
versy, I complied with his revest, and o ir inter.
view took peace accordinely. rel ve a'l that
occurred I.etween us on that occasion woeld t .x my
memory ant your patience more than would be
either pleasant or profi. able. Sane s-rywions
and a 'missions of Mr. Burt's may, however, be
repeat id h re. lie approved of ill • princip'e of
class fic•iti n as embed.ed in the Direct es Bi.l,
awl 'remarked th ‘t a 'similar provision was in force
on many E ;gush rai 's. Re spoke in very
flat ertng torins of myself and Mr. Fisk, going so
f ;is top onomice us the akoest railroad m nagers
in this country, and s ating his wish that we shoul I
r m the hoar I of direcors." Mr. Burt
w el to seleet, twelve out, of time seven- een direc-
tors, h•nting at , lie pl =c,• of treasurer for and
old said he wood. l use his ieflue.nce to get them
sob,ti=tv. A, and would be gin I to resign his place
as treasu er to a res o. sdal., ma,m who would carry
on the finances of the road as he had b,en doing;
but he could get no intelngible n•ply. Mr. Gould
then defends the Cl.u-s;fi..a,ion as furnishing
exp rienced a od compet-nt maizagetnent beyond
the control of speculative info. noes." (!) Mr. Burt,
Gould coutend-, dos not reeresent a Wiare whose
holder hts riot ai proved this bill ; but a small
minori y of the S:ocli was at th • time held in Eng-
land, the purchase of that stock having been sieve
ma to wi h h knowled.-e of its exi,t-nce and ap-
r =val of its provisions. Dien Mr. Gould comes
cut with the stock-in-trade argorn,N=t of the bun-
combe orator: -" If, as Air. Burt says, he repr -
seets a majority of tee stock by an ownershie
acquire I in a t* w men hs held by foreienets ha, it
no qmpatily with the growth o•• cleveliipmesnptotf
ties country wheal intinufact Ties and great ;roe
interests are in d rect aetagoolisin te ours, and
whose money is fr.ely subser=i-.e i and lavishly en
in the r Nat °nal Legis'atave to cripple amid des toy
the maisufacteres of this country, wiiatimorue i
uenffdeecr-
tual method coal they employ hat to send over a
batch of Eiig'i hmen to run the Er; to
import rs' re to ietio th it woaid cruse out eieiy
team' act ory oli tee line of the toad? In this way a
blew c be struck which. w uld do irr. parable
injury hefore the mischief con d berewedi d." Mr.
Bart charges a wa it of economy withou b
, ingit,g
forward any prof in fac s. tiLures or the o mien of
a siiigle practical r diroad maim ; wither has he
visi.ed ohe line, nor coneeriied with the dwellers
sling it, on the manaeement. His statements, too,
differ altogether from those he had previously ex-
pressed to Mr. Gouloi. The direct, ire' facts and rigeree
are then submitted. After that fn lows mote rue_
combo. ; wed tinally Mr. Gould eniphatieally ads, ses
the corn eitt e to let well enough alone, a d h nts
that New York s a hundred miles further Join the
Wert than lialtlnore or Phda lelphia, and that it
would be wise in the New Yuck Ltgislatute te sus-
tain a•iii pr,tec this- who are doing so taut;, to
uphold the mat, ral interests of the Empire State.
lie was fol owed by Mr. George Crouch, tin Ang 0_
Ante, ican s ockholder, haviogs,ooosi,ares,wahoei.uree-.
tested .g onst the, schemeef Mess, s.ll phaelitedC.e
lie was sea out by tri.mds in England, and e call() i
upon tee President of the road on his arm al, who
afforded him every facia y to acquire ieforination,
*hough he had expecte him to bar every v
He speaks in behalf of two millions dollars' worth
of Erie Stock owned in Eingland, which will soon
be largely increased by seceders from the Ilea h
alit Raphael tarty. The II imsity-Eation-Vantler-
bilt colubiliatioe, in revenge at their 410:fent, i;ave
lased the Engli-h ihtere,t as a cat's paw, schetnin
at the out: et, so successfully. as to raise sanguine
hopes of ;get mg nit the ceestm-s. " Ignorant

alike of the h s ory, con boo", and pro-petty of the
roal, and, the most obviou4 pgint of all. Ln,tra t
of he ul erior de-igus of 11.• coot tib e couspi-
rators w,to are stirring them up t ) urn against
best, inanazers Eri e)t-r had, a very c mai-
d ra lo own f t le foreign stoclool !era have

b, en sha nufully ittipoed upott by the avits t,e
iivai Atiterii:att co •por tio 8, and the wou d-b
twee, ssors f Gould and Fiske. The most tempt-
ing b lit, h-wevt,r, was the prospect of oustin4 the
Americtio directors acid fillip, their p 1 e•ts wi h
Ettglislunen. Titanks to dazzling delusion. thy:
Lwrioit stockholdors di 1 not perceive the nook oi

widch they are now wispended until thee' ha I be
bled by the plidadithropie finmeiers who co,npo,e
tt,es..callod Protective. Cuminittoe' to the tune

of £25,00." Quoting some of Mr. Burt's words
Cronth alludtsi to the sublime itnpu ie ce by
which the Euwlist) shareholders have been imp-sed
upon by 'heir American frienris, being actiialiy ham-
bo,aled into the belief that Drew and Vander:at
fliegiit in their iu'erest bAttle id 1868. . Mr.
Cr.iuch pr.iceelle Ito use h irs'i terms in &seri iig

the• I>rooee.ling4 of what he cal s th in-'lfitio .8 Pro

t ctiun cOn.pc;aey, •h • tner • a4elits of a gig int c
rifig formed out of thn New York Central and t'euu-
sylvan,a Central, to crusq the Erie as a couipetkg
line. Failing himself to justice to the gang he
had recourse to what he calls the figurative bat

forcible, style of Mr. Fisk, who says 7‘ these End-
lishmen—Raphael, Heath, and Co.—have gone in
on a whirl of speculation ; they are all on the make,

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and are going in for what they e-t.n root out, ladl-
ing by the vigorous opposlion Vauderbilt's English
aunts have hid to contend with on both sides of

the Adak c since the timely ex;.4osure of their
play's. Mr. Fisk w also rig,it when he prop',e-
sied th it th y wou.d not make enou .11 to piy for
court plaster to over the taw snoot, wilich the

roo,ii,g process would inevitably come on Their re-
Throtlghout, Mr. Crouch rep e-
;gents the Et,glish "r;ng" as a se7fish baty of con=
s;irators in hot pursut of plunder, which exactly
turns the taides, for this was the impres,ion heft
in Eugland of the Erie gang. "In conclusion,"
says Mr. Crouch, after warmly defending tl:e
Classigcation 13i11,.," it is eyident, from Mr. Burt's