The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-06 00:00:00

AMERICANS AND AMERICAN AFFAIRS
ON THE CONTINENT.

Dr J. G. Holland, of Springfield, Mass., the
author of " Bitter Sweet," &c., has
.been in Paris
for the past mouth or two, an i will sail for home
in the Idaho May 4. In the two years that Dr.
Holland has been in Europe he has been hard at
work on literary projects. He has written fur
newspapers and magazines in America, and has
nearly completed a new book, the title of which is
not yet made public. On his return he is to take
charge of " Hours at Home," with the intention of
waking it the most popular magazine in America.
Europa is not entirely to the liking of the orthodox
New England doctor, and he will be scarcely less
glad than his hosts of friends at returning once more
to his -old home. Mrs. Holland has been severely
troubled with disease of the eyes, and has lately been
under the care of the famous Berlin oculist, Profes-
sor Albrecht von Gracfe.

A work that will shortly appear, and will be sure
to make a sensation in tho literary world, is the
" Life of Anson Burlingame." The writer is a pro-
minent litteruteur, now resident in Paris, who made
a name by his labours ou the history of the Ameri-
can war. The biography cannot fail to be of the
utmost interest and value, as the writer was a close
personal friend of the Chinese Amba,sador, and has
access to all his correspondence and private papers.
Mrs. Burlingame is still residing in Paris, and will
continue there for some time. The New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company have opened an
office on the Rue Scribe, Paris, and placed at it
head Mr. A. L. Ward, long and honourably con-
nected with the house of Bowles Brothers and Co.
Mr. Ward is one of the most accomplished gentleman
and able business man in the French capital,and will
not fail to gain more popularity and friends and re-
putation in this new enterprise. He has lived in
Europe for the past twenty-nine years,is a thorough
cosmopolite, and the man above all others for the
grave duties and responsibilities which he has just
ssumed.

American enterprise is penetrating Europe in all
directions. There are at present in Paris two gen-
tlemen from the States, who hold the monopoly of
Europe for the Nicholson pavement ; and they are
actively preparing for its introduction into all the
principal cities. A contract for 20,000 feet, to be
laid in the streets of St. Petersburg, has already
been closed, and other contracts equally important
are now in negotiation. One-of the most interest-
ing places on the Continent to Americans is the
Munich bronze foundry. In fact, itis almost an Ame-
rican institutiou.Nearlyallits orders come from across
the Atlantic, and its shops are full of American work.
Noticeable there is now a magnificent fountain for
the Central Park in Nevi York, which exceeds in
size and beauty anything of the kind in Europe
outside of Paris. Another fountain, also, of ad-
mirable design; in which are three colossal figures,
is for Cincinnati. There is also a soldiers' memo-
rial preparing for Detroit, Mich., and a bronze
figure of an Indian girl for something or somebody
in Providence, Rhode Island. This statue is a
really artistic work, and cannot fail greatly to de-
light the aesthetic sense of our brothers in " Little
Rhody." The traditional and tasteless soldiers that
are everywhere to be seen in the United States are
scattered here and there throughout the foundry,
as though American taste refused positively to be edu-
cated, and the demand for these things never would
cease. Visitors to this great establishment are
conducted through it by an old workman, who
speaks the English tongue with an astonishing
accent, but who pronounces the nouns of the
various States, which are placarded in the different
departments with a precision and pride that is de-
lightful. At present Berlin is full of American
artists, many of whom have won reputations with
their brushes, and many others of whom are gaining
lauiels in Bavarian society. Paris is also the winter
company ground for many of our artists, but they
will soon begin to leave for the provinces to pursue
their summer studies. Several have pictures in the
annual " Salon," which opens on the Ist of May.
The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia is going to
America in June. The Duke is intensely interested
in pisciculture, and one of his main reasons for
visiting the United States is to see what has been
done and is doing in this science there. He will
inspect with Mr. Jay Cooke, the banker, and other
prominent business men of New York composing
the Oquasac Fishing Society, their preserves in
Maine, which extend over several thousand acres.,
The immediate cause of this step on the Duke's part
is a personal invitation extended to him this spring
by Mr. George Shepard Page, the President of the
Society, who has just returned home after making
the tour of Europe.
The New York Home Journal made a very queer
mistake when it said the other day that " Mr.
John Hay, of Illinois, has just received his appoint-
ment as United States Secretary of Legation, at
Madrid, and will soon sail," &c. The truth is Mr.
Hay has held the position of Secretary of Legation
at Madrid for over a year, and had, before that,
been stationed at Vienna and at Paris in the dip-
lomatic service of the United States. Mr. Hay
was the Private Secretary of President Lincoln
during the whole of his administration, and he has
aii unpublished volume of memoirs of the dead
President, which would make a most interesting
book if the author could be induced to publish.
The recent able article in the " Atlantic Monthly,"
on " A Spanish Republic," was written by Mr.
Hay.

'the interest that is felt at Paris in the approach-
ing international yacht race around the Isle of
Wight has been considerably increased by the pre-
sence there of James Gordon Bennett, jun. The
other day this famous journalist and yachtsman
called, in the company of his mother, upon Prince
Pierre Bonaparte, at his chateau, in Auteuil.
Apropos of the Prince, it is known to a few in
Paris that he has been offered the command of au
expedition against Cuba, now fitting out in New
York, and is seriously inclined to accept. He
visits the United States in June, at any rate, and
no one need be surprised to hear that he has turned
" buccaneer of the Gulf."--Anglo-American limes.

The Chinese Embassy is now in Brussels ; but
we learn from a recent telegram that the intercourse be-
tween China arid Russia has assumed a more friendly
character. Mr. Curtin, the U. S. Minister at St. Petersburg,
expressed his fear to Secretary Fish that Mr. Burlingame a
miesion would fall into British hands, and future negotia-
tions would take a direction less favourable to American
interests. The gentleman who has succeeded Mr. Burlin-
game is as Irishman, and with no stupid insular prejudices,
and it is his business to establish on an equal basis profit-
able relations for his own with all Governments, the course
in which death interrupted Mr. Burlingame ; and he would
neither act a wise nor a part beneficial to the country he
designed to favour by any partial proceedings. The Ame-
rican papers say that the Brother of the Sun has gone to
the New Yorker's heaven for furniture, as he is importing
mirrors and costly household decorations from Paris.

Captain Eyre, of the steamer Bombay, has
arrived in London, and is about, it is said, to memorialize
the Board of Trade for a revision of the sentence, whereby
his certificate was suspended for six months by the Court
of Enquiry for investigating the circumstances which
ended in the sinking of the Oneida. It is highly probable
that the Government of the United States will adopt the
course proposed by Admiral Porter, and make an appro-
priation for the prosecution of Captain Eyre, and to re-
cover, through the English Courts of Law, compensation
from the Peninsular and Oriental Company, the owners of
the Bombay. if so, Captain Eyro will have ample oppor-
tunity of vindicating his conduct, if such conduct can be
vindicated, but it is an awful thing to think that by the
delay of an hour he could have saved the lives of 120
gallant sailors, who, it may be, were sacrificed, through
his fault, or through the fault of conflicting regulations,
but, at any rate, could have been saved with ease by the
most common exercise of judgment and humanity. The
English people come down with a heavy hand on the Go-
vernment of Greece for the murder of a few English
tourists by brigands, and the case might suggest to their
mind the feelings prevailing in America at what Ame-
ricans consider the inhuman conduct on the part of an officer
who may be responsible for the collision which consigned 120
men to the deep. The members of the crew saved of the
Oneida arrived at San Francisco on the 13th inst. in the
steamship America, including 49 seamen and marines, iu
charge of Hr. J. J. Yates and Surgeon James Suddards,
and will ere this have given evidence before the Committee
of Investigation appointed by Congress. We presume it
will depend ou the nature of that evidence whether a case
for the English Courts will be got up, and the witnesses
forwarded to London. The Japan news via America is that
the Naval Court of Inquiry, convened by Fleet Captain Roe,
on the Oneida affair, had been dissolved. The body of
Ensign Brown of the Oneida was found on the 22d.
Divers who have been down in the Oneida report that the
whole of her stern is cut away. Several small articles had
been brought up. Secretary Robeson strongly recom-
mends a bill awarding a year's pay to the families of the
officers and crew who were drowned, and as the Senate
Naval Committee favour it such a bill will shortly be in-
troduced.