The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

regret and recall with confusion the jeer with which
they had received the first intimation of the mag-
netic telegraph. Perhaps Dr. Loomis will not think
us impertinent if we ask why he begs for so large
a sum to prove the value of an invention which,
according to his own showing, requires no mate-
rial, nature alone and' unaided being the medium of
communication?

The schemes, the agents of which infest Wash-
ington, can only be described by Dominic Samson's
favourite exclamation, " Prodigious !" Pacific
Railways are the rule, not the- exception, and are
multiplied as reclamation schemes once were at
Bombay. Mr. J. C. Abbott, from North Carolina,
proposed in the Senate a railroad and telegraph
from Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande, to San
Diego, California, capital $30,000,000, with the
usual Government subsidies of $32,000 per mile,
and alternate sections of the land. A petition was
presented in the Chamberby Senator Frelinghuysen,
signed by Messrs. Franklin haven, George B.
Upton, John T. Coolidge, S. S. Dam, Henry J.
Gardner. George Baty Blake, Glidden, A. Williams,
Joseph Nickleson and Co., John J. Blair, and IV.
S. Williams, offering to build the Northern Pacific
Railroad and the Eastern Division of the Union
Pacific for $15,000 per mile for the entire line.
This is in opposition to a proposal entertained by
Congress to give the same subsidy as that allowed
the Union Pacific of $16,000, $32,000, and
$48,000 per mile, according to the nature of the
ground. The petitioners offer to give bonds equal
to the amount of the subsidy to guarantee the com-
pletion of both roads in ten years. Caleb Cushing
is at Bogota on business relating to the Darien Ship
Canal. Three routes for• this Isthmus of 30 miles
are proposed, of which two require tunnels, one nearly
600 yards long, or a third of a mile, the other seven
miles, hewn through the stone of ship size, and the
third a cuttingthrough rock of two miles,wbich is the
most feasible. A new York paper asks if a marine
railway which would transport vessels bodily across
the Isthmus would not be cheaper, and better ac-
commodate the commerce of the world.

From Germany we• learn that a Consul-General
of that country is to be established in Mexico, at
the desire of the commercial community, and of
many MexiCans ; and it is expected that this step
will lead to a treaty of Commerce between that
country and the'North German Confederation. By
an arrangement with the North German post and
the Lloyd in Bremen, Post-office orders payable in
the United States, and vice versa, will he issued
from the Ist February forward. Sums not ex:teed-
ing 50 'dialers can then be sent by post to all parts
of the United States.

General Sheridan reports that 400 lodges of Co-
manche Indians had offered to surrender, but he
had refused to treat with them except at Fort Cobb,
where he would have them within range. A tele-
gram from Fort Hays, Kansas, Jan. 10, says :--
"Major General W. A. Nichols, Assistant Adju-
tant-General, Major Sheridan, commanding at Fort
Dodge, reports that Lieutenant Martin of the 3d
Infantry has just arrived from the camp, and states
that Colonel Evans has captured a Comanche vil-
lage of .60 lodges. Three men of the 3d, Cavalry
were'*Ounded., .:NO- Indians were killed.. Cototiej
Evansi4d-rettirned to his depot camp on tho
nadiad cOmmunication froM the Sedrc-,
tart' of W-at-to 'Mi. Se tAte replr ts that 25,601, regu-,
lar troops and 1,21. S volunteers are etnlAYed in the
Indian hostilities. The Indian Commissioner wants
an appropriation of $5,000 to pay for medals of
Grant to be. presented to the head men of the tribes
where they deserve some mark of confidence. The
Cherokee, Creek, and Choctaw Indian delegates to
Washington have united in a representation against
the transfer of the In lian Bureau to the War De-
partment, and also in a request that the recent affair
between General Custer and Black Kettle's band
shall be investigated.
The Tribune of the 14th doubly " leads," and
gives a prominent place to the following para-
graph :—" General Grant authorizes the Tribune
to say that the articles written by an occasional
correspondent of the World, purporting to relate
conversations, or furnish opinions of his in regard
to public men and public matters, are utterly with-
out foundation. No human being has ever listened
to or shared such conversations with him as those
reported. Gmeral Grant would not deem it be-
coming in him to contradict the articles in question
if they simply affected himself, but as they are evi-
dently published with a view to embroil his rela-
tions with prominent gentlemen, most of them his
political or personal frienis, or at least to outrage
their just sensibilities, he thinks it best to deviate
in this instance from his usu d course, and pro-
nounce the articles allude I to incorrect, indelicate,
and impertinent in an extraordinary degree." The
remarks referred to make Grant say that " E. B.
Washburne is honest and economical, and he will
givp him any place he wants, but don't know that
he desires any. He thinks Morgan a mere bag of
dollars, and Fessenden the ablest statesman in the
Senate. Logan is the earning man of Illinois, and
his abilities are not properly appreciated. Morton
is too much of a politician to be a safe financier.
James Gordon Bennett is ever ready to make money
out of *the misfortunes of his adopted country. He
has not offered M'Clellan a place in his Cabinet,
though he has it great opinion. of his abilities. He
was gratified atßutler's reelection, and considers
him a man of great force and character. He con-
siders negro suffrage inevitable, and says he e...p7.
posed it till it was forced upon him by the logic of
events."

The Patric of last Monday published the follow-
ing as the text of the speech delivered by Mr.
Anson Burlingame on the occasion of his reception
by the Emperor of the French :—" The wish of
China to enter into the family of nations naturally
manifested itself so soon as that country was able
to appreciate the civilization of the Western nations.
Thanks to the equitable policy which the represen-
tatives of the contracting Powers inaugurated and
preserved when they came into contact at Pekin
with the eminent men of the Celestial Enipire, this
policy consists in substituting the action of .an
honest and just diplomacy for the caprices of eager
interests and the brutal energy of strength. Among
the Ministers who resided at Pekin, none contri-
buted.more to promote that policy than M. :de
Berthemy, the enlightened representative of your-
Majesty." • The Emperor, in reply, dwelt upon the'
same sentiments of justice and policy which ani-
mated Mr. Burlingame, and especially insisted.
upon the_ fact that France wished more than ever
to practise in. China those ideas of justice which
everywhere guide the international policy of his
Government."
In the " agotiy" column of the Times this extra-
ordinary advertisement made its appearance last
Tuesday :
"Missing, an Elderly Gentleman.—Left his lodgings, in.
Greville-street, Hatton-garden, a gentleman, aged about
75, named William Henry Bowran, or Beaurain. Descrip-
tion.—Respeetable-looking old gentleman, middle stature,
little whiskers, grey hair, walks upright, but very slow.,
and feeble ; used walking stick. He was last heard of on
the 25th November last, when he applied for relief at the'
relieving office of the district, in Gray's-inn-lane. Five
pounds °reward shall be paid to any person who shall .fur-
nish sufficient evidence to establish proof of his death.
Particulars to be addressed to Bircham, Dalrymple, Drake,
and Co, solicitors, 46-, Parliament-street."
It would appear that this respectable, feeble old
gentleman was EO 'tenderly cared for by those who
had an interest in him that he had to apply for
charity at the relieving office of the district. in
Gray's-inn-lane. But the strangest part, however,
remains, for although they could not afford anything
to sustain the old man's life, they can afford to em-
ploy solicitors to advertise in the " agony" column
a reward of five pounds—we had almost said-7to
any one who would bring in his bead. Despots,
generally, when desirous of summarily finishing off
their enemies, advertise a reward for their capture,
dead or aliverbut not so those intarested in this
gentleman, for they will only pay for his death, not
a word being said of payment for any other intelli-
gence whatever. The advertisement is so worded
that if any one found him in extremity, the gain
would be to let him perish, and the loss to act the
part of. the good Samaritan, healing his wounds and
restoring him to his friends.
It is `now settled tbit the Forty-First Congress`
will holdn session' in March. Of course the§.peaker,,
will be elected froin..the -Republican party, anfl-40
applicants are numerous and working hard to for-