The Sun.
London, England, 1870-07-28 00:00:00

THE WAR WORRY IN WALL-STREET.

The French were to have marched yesterday upon the
Rhine, but they seem to have thought twice before select-
ing so unsteady a pathway, and did nothing of the kind.
Moreover, those terrible fellows, "the Prooshians," who
have haunted our historic dreams since childhood's hour,
refrained from the gymnastic feat of marching on Paris,
and so saved much shoe-leather and a great deal of badly
bespattered paper. Yet, after all, the Spanish comedy
came very near blundering into an extensive tragedy the
other night, so that there were no laughing faces but those
of the sly old diplomatists behind the scenes, and outside
the Danes had all the fun to themselves. Hamlet was right !
But in the morning all the wild animals seemed to have
come down from the mountains into Wall-street, and the
bulls and the bears tossed the carcase of Prince Leopold
and the battered fragments of the Spanish crown to and
fro at a rate that would have thrown the lookers-on at the
best bull fight in Seville or Madrid into ecstasies. Gold,
which in these times seems to have usurped the peculiar
qualities of cork, bobbed up and down between 113 and
114 for hours, until at last it received a
solemn thump from the hammer of British inter-
ference in Europe and settled heavily on 112. The
fractions we do not take into account, but they flew in all
directions. The thirteens were badly fractured and a
corner was knocked off from even the fourteen toward
noon. The katydids of speculation kept up their chatter
until late in the day, when the soothing syrup of a peace
telegram quieted everybody but the readers of tardy
assurances in print heavy head lines— that France
was absolutely cantankerous, and " would not be
satisfied." The plain truth of the matter is
just this, that when the sovereigns of Europe get
up a sham fight, or even a real one, the sovereigns
of America are affected just about one and a half per
cent., and that for speculative purposes. When their
royal rises we raise our stocks or hold them steady.
Should their good subjects send our securities home it
will be because there is no security on the other side of
the water; and the subjects, too, if they be wise, like
Jack and Gill, will soon come tumbling after. In very truth
it is a piteous sight to see the boasted centre and citadel of
Christendom and civilisation beyond the Atlantic made such
a backgammon board, to be dyed a deeper black and red,
with burning and bloodshed, because a respectable Ger-
man gentleman is inclined upon invitation to smoke his
meerschaum in the Escurial. But if Frank and Teuton
will come to blows about so small a matter Jonathan can
make up his mind in the Gold Room and on Corn
Exchange with easy resignation to put all his paper at
par and let them pay the piper. When he finds it due
time to get up a counter-irritant he can make the Spanish
fly out of Cuba !—New York Herald of July 13.

THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
A discussion has recently taken place in Boston in
reference to the correct phraseology of the Declaration of
Independence. The printed oration of Mr. William
Everett, delivered in Boston on July 4th, 1870, gives
"all men are born free and equal" as the leading prin-
ciple of the famous Declaration, whereas that instrument
reads "all men are created equal." The orator, how-
ever, asserts that in his spoken oration he made use of
the correct sentence. This mistake in the printed copy
of the oration has caused an investigation into the his-
tory of the sentiment, from which it appears that
the Virginia Bill of Rights drawn up by George
Mason and adopted on June 12th, '1776, contains
the phrase " all men are by nature equally free and inde-
pendent." •In Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration
the sentence read " all men are created equal and inde-
pendent." The declaration of independence of the fol-
lowing July reads " all men are created equal" The de-
claration of rights of the inhabitants of Pennsylvania.
passed by a Convention, sitting from Julyls to Septem-
ber 28th, 1779, reads " All men are born equally free and
independent." The Bill of Rights of Massachusetts,
drawn up by John Adams in 1779, reads " all men are
born free and equal," though the words as originally re-
ported by the committee were " all men are born equally
free and independent." From these authorities it seems
that George Mason's draft of the Virginia Bill of. Rights
was the common source from which all the subsequent
expressions were obtained. the principle, however,
can be traced to much earlier writers, including Locke
and Sidney, and, according to Sir Robert Filmer to Car-
dinal Bellarmin, who lived betweenls42 and 1621.—Phila-
delphia Ledger.

MEXICO.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 11, 1870.

The steamship Continental, from Mazatlan, July 1,
brings 526,000 dols. (in Mexican dollars). There had been
heavy rains and waterspouts in the valleys, doing con-
siderable damage to property and driving the inhabitants
to the mountains. By this arrival further particulars of
the capture of the filibustering steamer Forward by the
United States steamer Mohican were received. After
leaving Guaymas, the Forward, with the two sailing
vessels in tow, proceeded to Chicola, in the South San
Blas district, where Losadas' vessels discharged their
cargoes, a portion of which, it is said, was sent to Tepee.
The Forward then proceeded forty miles up the
river. When the authorities of Mazatlan heard of the
raid on Guaymas they, conjointly with the American
Consul and the merchants. urged Captain Low, of the
United States steamer MohfCan, to pursue the Forward.
He consented, and after cruising for some time, the
Mohican proceeded to San Bias, and then to Chihica, and
there ascertained the whereabouts of the Forward. The
Mohican reached the mouth of the river June 16, and
Captain Low at once sent an expedition of boats, with
sixty men, up the river to "cut out " the filibuster. When
the Mohican's boats were nearing the Forward, they ob-
served a boat leaving the side of the vessel, and hailed it. The
Forward's boat refused to stop, the officer in command of the
Mohican expedition gave the order to fire upon it, which
was promptly. obeyed. At the same moment the Mexi-
cans on the river bank opened a heavy fire from a battery
of five twelve-pounders, supported by infantry. Ensign
Wainwright and the coxswain of one of the Mohican's
boats were killed. The expedition, however, captured
and destroyed the Forward and took the following pri-
soners :—George Holding first officer ; James Lee,
second officer; W. E. Johnson, engineer; and
H. Martin, Marry Keoch, and Joseph Highbeck,
seamen. The expedition returned down the river
under a running fire from the bank, but there were no
further casualties. The wounded prisoners were taken on
board the steamer and carefully tended. The Mohican
returned immediately to Mazatilan and the prisoners were
delivered to the Mexican authorities, who treated them
shamefully. Even the representations of the American
Consul failed to procure them any consideration. Charit-
able foreigners were then appealed to and powerfully
responded, and the poor fellows were made comfortable.
They all pleaded innocence with regard to the charge of
piracy, and after an examination before a judge in
Mazatlan were sent to Guaymas for trial. The body of
Ensign Wainwright was brought to San Francisco by the
steamer Continental.

The Rev. Robert Moffat will be publicly received
by the directors of the London Missionary Society on
Monday next.

His Majesty the Mikado has appeared in person
before his troops at a review at Koma-ba-no-hara. Thou-
sands of Japanese were present, who saw the face of their
Sovereign for the first time.

THE DROUGHT IN FRANCE.—The drought in
France still continues, notwithstanding the late report to
the contrary. No rain had fallen over the parched
districts for ten weeks prior to the 4th of July, and since
that date there have been only a few slight showers,
which have not been sufficient to revive the
drooping crops. It is, in short, supposed that
only half the average grain crop will be har-
vested in France this year. Here we have,
then, a powerful argument in France in behalf of peace,
against which it is difficult to comprehend the evident de-
sire of Napoleon for war. Can he be apprehensive of in-
ternal troubles from short supplies of bread; and is he
seeking to avoid them by diverting the public mind to
the duties of patriotism and the glory of France ? We
do not know ; but we do know that a march for glory on
short rationsis a hazardous adventure, and in this view.
we look for peace —New York Herald.