The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 12, 1870.

leaves little room to doubt, that insanity in England
is largely increasing, an inquiry into the causes
of such a disastrous state of things, with
a view to its diminution, is incumbent,
not only on the public, but the State. In
the Quarterly Review of Science Dr. Duncan
writes that the cures of the insane in our fine asylums
are not more numerous than they were from 1748
to 1814, when the treatment of the insane was a dis-
grace to humanity. He says that our social state
is developing an increasing amount of insanity more
than ever difficult to cure. In the Methco-Chirurgical
Review for this month there is an article on the
same subject. The writer states that in the
course of ten years the number of recorded
lunatics has increase l 45 per cent. He adds that
in the same time, asylum accommodation has bee::
enlarged by two-thirds, while the pauper insane dis-
tributed in lodgings have advanced from
5,980 to 6,987. Beth these journals declare
that the plan of largo asylums has proved a
comparative failure, and is inimical to recovery.
Both also declare in favour of the cottage-home sys-
tem. Dr. Tuke, writing in the Journal of Mental
Science, arrives in the main at a similar conclusion.
Neither of these writers holds out to us any hope
that the growth of insanity is a temporary evil.
Luxury is advancing with gigantic strides, and
poverty, with its attendant miseries, grows in a like
proportion.

is their resolution not to engage in betting, by taking
from their stewards the power of recognising it.
This report was submitted to the Comit6 des Courses,
who added to their code an article to the effect that
when the conditions of a race include the obligation
that the winner, or that all the horses, shall be sold
to the highest bidder, every horse entered for the
race, and not having been withdrawn, may be
reclaimed before the race for the sum for which it
has been entered for sale, with the addition of the
value of the prize.

Administrator, whose duty it is to look after the
estates which have not well-defined legal owners.
In his last report Mr. Andw. Jackson Rogers states
that in 1869 he collected over $62.000, and plid
into the City Treasury $2,500, which snows him
(however useful) not to be a very profitable servant,
as the office costs $12,000. For several years tie
rents of New York tenements have been steadily
increasing, risi'ig ten to twenty per cent. with each
revolution of this earth round the sun. Last year,
however, this was checked, and CA; year the tight
is for a reductim. Annually comes the struggle,
and infl ttion favoured the landlords, but contrac-
i ion is now pressing with extreme severity on the
tenants, and it looks as if present prices cannot be
maintained. A Mend of Senator Fenton has
thought it worth while to publish a private letter
from that genth man in tl;e Albany Express, con-
tra iicting the talk about his being brought forward
as candidate for President. He entertains no such
project, considering General GrAnt to be doing
well, and that it would be therefore unwise to con-
template any change of leadership.

WASHINGTON, March 22.

Some satisfactory statistics have been given by
the Freeman's Savings Bank here. Four years ago
the deposits averaged less than $l,OOO daily ; but
during the past year the average has been $14,000
each day. It has branches spread over the country,
with its head-quarters here, and of its 26 cashiers
half are coloured men, its principal branch being at
New Orleans. The amount of money it controls
is shown by the fact that during this month it had
in its vaults $1,657,006, eight tim s the sum there
deposited in March, 1866. The chief interest in
these figures is in the practical illustration they
afford of the rapid rise in intelligence, industry,
and thrift of the freedmen. Miss Florence applied
fOr the jewel-hilted swords that General Butler
had transferred from the house of the late General
Twiggs at New Orleans to Washington. As the
lady has brought an action to recover possession,
the Secretary of the Treasury, in whose Depart-
ment they are, declined to give them up, pending
the legal decision. The pass ige of the Army Bill
through the House has aroused the interest of the
officers, who are now closely watching the result in
the other Assembly. Numbers were gathered in the
vicinity of the Senate Chamber to ascertain the
result, believing it would be discussed last Mon-
day ; but it has been postponed. It is thought
that the Senate will kill the bill, or materially alter
it. The House Committee on Military Affairs has
directed General Logan to report a bill it had agreed
to, providing for the appointment of military and
naval cadets. To prevent " colonizing " oath must
be made that the person appointed has resided
for the two years just passed in the district from
which the appointment has been made, and the
cadetwho vio'ates this provision will be iinmediateli
dismissed. What to do with the cadets proved tc
have been improperly appointed is the puzzle ; the
Committee gene: ally consider that they should be
dismissed, but the House appears to hold a different
opinion. The person who has got off worst is one
who had the least to do with these appointments.
General Schoepff has been obliged to resign his
examinership in the Patent Office, because his old
friend Gen. Tyler applied to him to inquire about
cadetships, and he turned the matter as a ell as the
money over to the agent, keeping no portion of it
for himself. The Military Committee recommended
that he should be called upon to resign, and they
advised the House to condemn in very sgreng terms
the claim agents and others engaged in the purchase
and eale. Also that the charge brought against
Commander Upshur, of the Navy, of having bought
a cadetship, be tied by a naval court ; and that
the case against Assessor Andrews, of the Third
Philadelphia District, be reported on. Whether
Adel bert Ames was to be admitted to his seat in the
Senate or not has been discussed during the week,
at times acrimoniously. The Judiciary Committee
reported adversely; but it is generally thought that
General Ames will be sucees,ful in securing a seat.
Congre4s has resolved to print 15,000 copies of the
Special Committee's Report on the Decline of Anie-
rican Commerce. Senator Chandler treated the
Chamber to a piece of his mind when the subject
reached it, calling the report " a fraud," " a cheat,"
"a humbug," " absurd,"and the Committee," a tra-
velling concern." Alfred Pleasanton has been con-
firme 1 as Collector of Intern fl Revenue for the
Thirty-second District and his cotnin.s-,ion has been
signe I by the I'resi lent. General Pleasanton his
thus suddenly been 1 ostel to Mr. Bai!ey's Revenue
'istrict in coeseqiiefice of the dismissal of the
x Collec:or for ntfa'cation. Ihe Bailey fraud
and flight have been the topic of cenver, ation, and
Ali manner of rumours about removals are in eir.
,mlatitn concerning even the di-missal of other high
..t venue official-•. Gt neral Pleasauton left for Aew
York on Tuesday night, where he AA ill continue his
duties as Collector for the Fourth District till his
suect s,or is appointed. He wants to s. art is new
office with a fresh set of books and accounts, leaving
the old ones t) be settled up to date. Mr. Parnell,
the Third Deputy Commissioner of Internal Re-
venue, has been in New York assisting in the inves-
tigation, as well as the First Deputy Commissioner,
who superintends the examination, and who has, I
believe, now ascertained the ex ent of the defalca-
tion. Mr. Cooper, of Tennessee, the Democrat,
who has been elected in success on to Senator Fowler
for 1871, has been at the White Hou e discus ing the
affairs of the State with the Pres:dent. He main-
tains that the stores of outrages there are exag-
gerated ; indeed, that many of them are without
foundation. The President denied the report of
having submitted to the Attorney-General the
letter of Governor Senter asking that troops be
sent to Tennessee to act under his command. If
the Governor announces the State to be in insurrec-
tion, and his irability to suppress the revolt, and
applies to the Executive for troops, the President
will then cousider the matter. Mr. Lee, the wife
of General Lee, has . sent in a claim to all the
Mount Vernon relics ; and the Judiciary Commit-
tee, to which these mem ntoea of the father of his
country were assigne 1, considers her claim good,
as the direct descendant of the Custis family, and
owner of the Arlington House. There is some
plate and crockery and a quantity of letters, in-
cluding the correspondence between Washington
and Lafayette.

created a day or two since by the statement that
the Rappel reporter at Creuzot seemed to know a
great deal about the private associations forming
there, and it was feared that the movements had
their roots at Paris ; but the Rappel has made ample
apologies, and no one has been arrested. The
radical writers are making much fun out of the
pretended exile of Prince Pierre, the irascible, and
invent a new canard every day concerning his
departure. My authority, which is good, enables
me to say that he will depart for a tour mouths'
tour in America early in June. Before that time
he will go to Italy, to make a extensive visit among
his old acquaintances, among the most intimate of
whom are the rikvazz's, of diplomatic and romancing
memory. Ulric de Fonvielle is sure to be elected
Deputy from Red Republican Lyons, and the Noir
family propose to consecrate the money that they
received from the Prince Pierre to further Fouvielle's
interests.

The Rothschild robbery is the universal subject
of gossip. For many years past a M. Tassius, a
methodical business man of a certain age, as the
French say, has had charge of the Exchange depart-
ment of the immense banking concern. Last week
the Rothschilds had been delegated to buy 1,000
Russian Imperiales on account fur a foreign broker,
and Tassius drew from the bank the 25,000 fr.
necessary to pay for them. But the Imperiales did
not arrive, and Tassius had no answer to give to
the numerous demands for them except " I am
waiting for them." Last Friday he announced that
he would deliver them on Saturday, and on Satur-
day he disappeared. Suspicion was not excited for
some time, but when at last it was justified, an
investigation of the books showed not only a deficit
of the 25,000 fr, but of 2,50),000fr. Rothschild was
slow to acknowledge that his faithful ancient had
failed him, and gave out that he would be pardoned
if he came back. But he came not until Monday
evening, when be delivered himself up to the police.
Speculation at the Bourse, at the instigation of a
Prussian named Beckers, and who cannot be found,
was the cause of this enormous defalcation. Though
Messrs. Rothschild at present claim only 50,0001 r.
deficit, yet the real amount is nearly three mil-
lions. Nilsson, the pretty little Nilsson—who,
by the way, has a temper of her own, and says a
good many sharp things about her rivals—is to
have a grand benefit concert before her departure
for England and America, in which she will appear
as St. Cecilia, patroness oiharmony. The Comique
has recently been reproducing " Fra Diavolo " in
very brilliant style, and Auber has been two or
three nights in succession to see it. Gustave Dore
is making a brief visit to London—in the interest
of his new book, for which Jerrold is doing the
text. Dore's great picture of " Christ Descending
from the Temple to take up the Cross" will appear
in the May salon. It has been more favourably
criticised by those who have seen it than were his
previous paintings, The noted Caifeaux Group,
which made so much talk among those who hypo-
critically professed to dislike nude art, is to be
removed, I hear, from the front to an interior part
of the Grand Opera. The Radicals here are about
starting a Republican Review, to which some of the
prominent American writers have been asked to
contribute. The articles will be translated by com-
petent hands. Octave Feuillet's old drama, resus-
citated, " Dalila," is the theatrical event of the
spring season, and is attracting great crowds to
the Frangais. C.rnioli, one of the principal cha-
racters, is a role which bids fair to become as
famous in French drama as any ever before
created. The editors, who were " jugged" soon
after the incipient riots of February, are just re-
appearing from the prison cells, into which they
were temporarily thrust, and ate inditing s me
very bitter articles. The favourite joke among the
Americans—such as were unable to distinguish
cruelty from fun on April-fool's Day—was the
announcement of the a rival of the City of Boston,
and numbers were misled by the statement. Jules
Janiu and Emile 011ivier are said to be the candi-
dates most certain of obtaining the seats left vacant
in the Academy by the deaths of Lamartiue and
Saint-Beure. A large party is, however, opposed
to the election of M. 011ivier, for political rather
than literary reasons. The suicidal monomania
has begun again ; it always does wi:h the si ring,
and on Wednesday there were four self-murders.
Ihe Indian, Ceylon, Chinese, and Ja, anese mails
from France will hereafter go by way of the Suez
Canal. The first three repre.sentatio.,s at the
Italian Opera by Patti after her return from Russia
produced over 50,000 francs. An immense number
of prefects and sub-prefects, from all the depart-
ments of France, have been spending a f.w days
in Paris recent y, getting instructions as to their
conduct during the approaching I le:)iscite. Minis-
ter Washburne, of the United Stated, has entirely
recovered from his recent illness. Colonel Frank
Moore, the Second Secretary of the Legation here,
found in an old book-store the same day that Bur-
lingame died a little treatise on Art in China, for
which Burlingame had, playfu ly, a few weeks
before, offered him its weight in gold. The power-
ful and peculiar romance of George Sand, " Mal-
gretout,' recently comple ed in the " Revue des Deux
Mondes," is making a great' sensation in literary
circles.

However 'cute the Yankee generally, still 'cuter
Yankees can humbug them, whether settled on their here-
ditary New England farms, or creating new ones in the
Western States. Barnum has done a little in that line
with his " woolley horses," his " mermaids," and his
well-handled "drapery ; " but nothing Barnum ever
achieved approached the "Cardiff giant" humbug. Consi-
dering the magnitude as well as the weight of the material
moved, and the free way in which it was transported
about, the surprise is that the conspirators could have
attained even to a momentary success, though we bow
to the experience and deeper knowledge of human nature of
Messrs. Newell and Hull. How it is that these gentlemen,
though so well versed in mankind, did not perceive that
if they kept all the plunder, one of the defrauded coad-
jutors would surely " peach," is surprising, but omitting
from the calculation some palpable circumstance is always
the way humbugs are found out. if Mr. H. B. Mortin, of
Marshaltown, lowa, is to be believed, be " got up that
giant" with George Hull, who, however, allying himselt
with one Nowell, a farmer, divided between them the
profits, leaving Mortin out in the cold. Mortin and Hull
bought a gypsum quarry. On getting out the stone for the
statue they carried it to Chicago, where it was chiselled by
Mr. Saley, in a manner which a savam declared " only
the Greek school of art was capable of doing, so perfect
was the reproduction of the human form ;" while another
critic placed on record this opinion, that Italy possessed
nothing which embodied so perfectly " the intellectual and
physical power of a rock-hurling Titan," It was nicely
fixed in an iron-bound box, and buried on Newell's farm,
because about there Hull knew to be "a great place for
relics." Mortin's scheme was interrupted by the less
imaginative, but more practical, Hull, who by intercepting
the proceeds intercepted the development of the plot "like
a great fool," as Mortin remarked, for be had sketched the
plan "to have the mother of the giant dug up near the same
spot," represented as having died in the coilof a huge serpent.
She was to have been constructed out of iron, bone, and
plaster of Paris, and Mortin anticipated that the fame of the
son would have brought savans from all parts of the world
to see the bigger old lady, his mother. Mortin's revela-
tion has laced some eminent antiquarians, savans, and au-
thorities on art in a "fix," for they have to reconcile their
statements that "it was a real petrifaction;" that "it must
have been more than two centuries in their earth;" " that it
was stamped with the mark of ages," &c. It is a pity that
the Mormon plate humbug was not as effectually exposed ;
but, after all, it may be, that if Mortin had dug up the
mother there are those who would have persisted in spite
of any evidence in believing in that interesting family.

in the Court of Oyer and Terminer for Wesehes-
ter County,Ne w York State, March 21, the trial of Isaac V.
W. Buckout was ordered for the following day, notwith-
standing the strenuous opposition of his counsel, Mr.
Larkin. One indictment charged himwith having murdered
his wife, Louisa Buckout, and the other with the murder
of Mr. Randall, at Sleepy Hollow, on Now Year's-day.
Mr. Randall is an Englishman from London, we believe,
with many friends in that metropolis, and his murder
appears to have been most unprovoked, in fact an act of
pure insanity ; for, as far as wo remember the circum-
stances, he was shot without cause while sitting in his
parlour with his f trnily. The prisoner's counsel read an
affidavit settirg forth that two important witnesses wore
absent, Mrs. Mary Baldwin of New York, now in Europe,
and Mrs Ann E. Birdsall of Brooklyn, somewhere in New
Jersey. It is evident from what Mr. Larkin said that ha
will urge the plea of insanity; indeed the appearance of
the prisoner in Court led all who saw him to consider him
insane.

A thief on the 22d March stole Judge Barnard's
hat off the Bench, in the Special Term of the Supreme
Court, and escaped without being observed either by the
Judge, the lawyers, or the spectators.. Judge Barnard
once lost an overcoat in the name manner. A Philadelphia
paper observes that those w .o want to keep their hats, if
they ,attend a Washing on reception, carry them in their
Lands. They are get' rig almost as bad on the other side
as in the London Clubs I