The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-13 00:00:00

AFFGHANISTAN.

The great battle in Affglianistan has taken place at last.
The armies of Shere Ali and Abdul Rahman have met,
and the latter aspirant to supreme power in Affghanistan
has been overthrown. The telegram which brings this
information gives no particulars. The defeat of Abdul
Rahman villa announced some time ago, but though that
report proved unfounded, a collision has long been inevi-
table. Moreover, the chances of war were always on the
side of Shere Ali. wlio commanded the most powerful
force.

MIA.TEUR TITEATRICALS.—An excellent entertain-
ment was given last evening at the ball of Mr. Poole,
Covent-garden, which consisted of a miscellaneous selec-
tion of recitations and comic singing. The principal per-
formers were Messrs. Rickards and Williams, who opened
the amusements by some excellent imitations of the
Christy Minstrels ; but the crowning feature of the even-
ing was the recitations and setio-com..c singing of Mr. 11.
Wahnsley and Miss A. Williams, who were frequently
encored; and delighted the audience until a late hour.
IArrvEnTISEMENT.I —Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—
Relief and Remedy.—ln all human probability the almost unpre-
cedented heat of last summer will predispose many during the
present winter to nervous and rheumatic attacks—at once reme-
diable by Holloway's treatment. There are many cases of
sektica, tied.oloreux. and neuralgia, now wearing out the strength
and patience of thousands, who might derive incredible case by
he use of Holloway's ointment and pills. No matter what has
been the dnration of the complaint, nor how severe or excru-
ciating have been the sufferings, they wilt be diminished by warm
fomentations, brisk friction with the unguent, and. suitable doses
of these pills.' This treatment has ofteix sueceded when every
variety of sedative has proved perfectly uveless.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
At present a prosecution is progressing in London
against a batch of leading commercial men accused
of a swindle by which the public were robbed of
four millions sterling. At the same time an effort
is being made to reinstate in business a man just
emerged from a convict's cell, to whose "mis-
management" a sum almost as great was lost in two
or three years, causing 27 premature deaths, seven
of which were suicides. These " prominent mer-
chants" have found an able advocate in the leading
journal ; but it is one thing to " finance" in the
city of London and another to " finance " in the
city of New York. Whether the morality of Ameri-
can men of business would be proof, if the opportu-
nity offered, of cheating on the gigantic scale of
En€►lish men of business, as shown by the facts
brought out since 1865, we do not pretend to say ;
but they never have had the opportunity, nor is it
likely that they will for many generations, for the
simple reason that they deal with a population
whose knowledge of business differs greatly from
that of the gulls upon whom the British directors
pfeyed. The Times has given prominence to the
Wall-street speculations in Erie azd New York
Central, and urged this shameless manipulation
of the stock of great railway lines in the in-
terests of cliques as a proof of the insecurity
of all American investments. We do not deny
a just inference ; and we freely allow that the
impunity with which these transactions have
been accomplished, and the sight of men rolling in
wealth gained by such means, is an element of in-
security in American investment. But if there is
one thing established more than another it is the
conviction in the minds of those who have money
that no investment is absolutely safe. Some erro-
neously suppose British Consols to be so ; that is,
they believe this of a country overwhelmed with
debt, and whose whole reliance, even for the sup-
port of its home population, is foreign trade; whose
chief outlet for its energies is an Empire of
200,000,000 people, in the main hostile, and at the
other end of the earth, both outside elements of in-
security, independent of an internal revolution by
which political power is being transferred from a
narrow and property-holding class to the masses,
who hold no property at all. If the promise to pay
of a country so placed is the most secure investment
in the world, then it must be allowed that capitalists
have good reason for their timidity. Admitting
the instability of all investments, what we contend
is that on a fair view of the whole field there is no
country which offers such attractions to investors as
the United States ; and when the leading journal in
England creates distrust it most injures English capi-
talists. That it does systematically endeavour to
lessen confidence in American finance is we are sorry
to say bu t too evident. We have often alluded to
it before, and those who know the subject can
easily detect this in its columns, though covered by
a fine gloss of impartiality. Take yesterday's paper,
for instance, and the following cable news is an-
nounced

(From our own Correspondent.)
"Philadelphia, Jan. 6.
" The Secretary of the Treasury has made his trual
monthly statement of the public debt of the United States,
which shows its total on the Ist inst. to have been
$2,652,500,000. This is an increase during the last month
of $6,800,0.0.
"During the last mouth the Government expenditures
were in excess of the receipts about 61,600,000."
No one accuses Reuter of a partiality for Ame-
rica, nor of a leaning to the side of the party now
in power ; but this aidition to the telegram was
made by him :
" The cash in the Treasury amounted on January 1 to
$111,750,000, viz., $98,750,000 in coin, and $13,000,000
currency, against $106,750,000 last month, being an in-
crease of $5,000,000."
The object was to leave in the minds of the readers
of the Times the impression that the loss to the
United States in the month was 64 millions of dol-
lars, while there was no loss at all on the previous
month if we take the coin accumulated in the Trea-
sury daring the period at its value in greenbacks,
which was not even alluded to by the correspon-
dent. In the leading columns of the same number
there appears an article on the " corner " in New
York Central, of which the following is one of its
first sentences :
" But the recurrence at sliott intervals of such con-
tests forces unpleasant reflections on the minds of Euro-
pean investors in securities, which, with apparent impu-
nity, can be put to the hazard of the most experimental
financing."
While heartily condemning transactions which have
done so much to damage Wall-street, adding another
to the elements of insecurity of property in the
United States, it would have been but fair in
the Times to have explained the fact that the Erie
and the New York Central are held by the two
great rival cliques, the one headed by VANDERBILT,
the other formerly led by DANIEL DREW, but now by
JAY GOULD and FISK, jun., both the same parties,
only working with VANDERBILT'S line instead of
GOULD'S line, the New York Central stock being
substituted for Erie stock. 'We are not aware that
the sharehelders of Erie or New York Central who
resolutely held have as yet lost: Indeed no one
knows what either line is worth, except the few who
manipulate the scrip ; but, if worthy of trust, the
directors report both properties to be in a flourish-
ing condition. To read Mr. GOULD'S account of
the Erie the shareholders might shortly anticipate
largo dividends, and the rise of the New York
Central was on the following announcement :--
"Whereas this company has hitherto expended of its
earnings for the purpose of constructing and equipping its
road, and in the purchase of real estate and other proper-
ties, with a view to the increase of its traffic, moneys
equal in amount to eighty per cent. of the capital stock of
the company ; and whereas the several stockholders of
the company are entitled to evidence of such expenditure,
and to reimbursement of the same at a convenient future
period."

It was therefore resolved to issue certificates declar-
ing each stockholder entitled to 80 per cent. on the
proportion of the capital he held hereafter to be
converted into stock on the company being autho-
rized, and that such certificates be immediately
delivered at the Union Trust Company of New
York. The Erie got the control of the Atlantic
and Great Western, and the New York Central of
the Great Western of Canada, and both show
more inclination to gobble up the United
States than to cry Peccavi! It is evident that
these two great trunk lines are pushing for the lion's
share of the Pacific traffic, and it remains to be
seen whether the operations will eventuate in loss
to the shareholders or not. As yet, however, it is
the speculators who opposed the railway cliques
that have suffered, and not the investors in these
American properties. The proceedings, however,
of such bodies are quite as common in England, if
less audacious in their operations, as in America.
Indeed, whether they are less audacious is a ques-
tion that might be disputed. Lying prospectuses
were freely published, with good names appended,
without reserve in their statements, and although
these were mean swindles, involving awful loss and
suffering to honest investors, there were others that
flew at higher game operating on a grander scale.
We would like to know the history of the Liver-
pool and Glasgow " corner" in iron which culmi-
nated last year. It would be amusing to read a
truthful account of the speculators' operations in
the Liverpool Cotton Market, of the transactions
directed against the whole railway property of Eng-
land after breaking down the weak banks, and
making the strong ones tremble---indeed forcing
them into obtaining the passage of an Act by Parlia-
ment for their protection. The false telegrams, the
anonymous circulars from all quarters reaching
the terrified shareholders, the unblushing lies
which marked the whole course of these pro-
ceedings might be dwelt on with much advan-
tage by the Times to correct English commercial
morality without troubling itself to go to New
York for examples. The difference between the
New York and the London directors is that the
former made money for their shareholders by most
unscrupulous proceedings, and the latter ruined
them ; that the former brought in some State
judges and the State Legislature to their aid, while
with the latter. precedent and law had been so well
established-in England in their favour that they
could plunder with impunity. What VANDERBILT
did in the New York Central case was to defeat by
a very artful dodge, the machinations of some
" bear" operators. They combined to throw down

40th Foot—Frederick William George Hebbert
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to be Ensign.
434 Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Harcourt S"j
t be Ensign. •
41th Foot—William Odell, Gant., to be Ensign. 46th Feet—Gentleman 'Cadet Henry John son, r" #„
Ensign.
Or'
57th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Henry Thomas 1100
Hallett, to be Ensign.
or 59th Foot— C Captain Robert Fraser Humphrey, to be
oil
tain ; Lieutenant Charles Albert Lsslie Attila Filjibe
to be Captain ; Ensign Henry Anderson Wilson t°
Lieutenant.
624 Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward James Galci
Lewis to be Ensign.
se
68th Foot—Captain and Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C.
m. ap
eio
cer Churchill to be Captain, Lieutenant Arthur FOll
Marshall to be Captain.
82d Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Alfr9d Slade to
Quartermaster.
95th Foot—Paymaster F. Scrivener to be Paymaster. be
96th Foot—Ensign Cecil Lugaril Smyth Branson t° Lieutenant; Ensign Henry Scougall to be Lieute°6l3t.
Ensign Edmund Berkeley to be Ensign.
Ea,
97th Foot—John Cumberlego Cautley, Gent., to beteith
sign ; Paymaster, with the honorary rank of Cap"
Maxwell Kirwan Morris, to be Paymaster.
101st Foot—Gentleman Cadet George Williams .wea
to be Ensign.
Pike
nk tht 102 d Regiment—Gentleman Cadet Richard Jamesl A-
be Ensign.
Rifle Br•igada—Lient. Cornelius B. Broadbent to be 0
tain ; Ensign Cecil Harley St. Paul to be Lieuten‘o
William Bagwell, Gent., to be Ensign ; Ensign le°
John Preston to be Instructor of Musketry.
Depot Battalion—Captain John Nathaniel Gower to re
Instructor of Muiketry, Captain William F. Carleton
be Instructor of Musketry.

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Births.
CLOWES—On the 11th inst., at 34, South-street,
GODFREY nor-squ
On the 10th inst., at Tare, the Hon. rs. Clowes,he of
Lode Hero°
a son. 1310
—M
Mrs. T. Godfrey, of a son.' Lodge,
MEYNLLL—On the 10th inst., at Meynell-Langley, n
er
Mrs. Meynell, of a daughter.

Marriages.
MAXWELL—MOORE—On the 9th inst., at Lee, Kent, —lf
he;
Maxwell, Esq., of Plumstead, to Alice Elizabetb,•fwe
daughter of the late James Moore, Esq., of the 113'
Hotel, Blackheath. IPir
YORKE— OSWALD— On the 9th inst, at St. George orkee'
over-square, Captain the Hon. John Manners.,""
„,
R.N., to Edith, youngest daughter of the late Ain.'"
Oswald, Esq., of Auchencruvie.
Deaths. AO'
le„ A
ATKINSON— n the 11th inst., at Kangra Lodge, - A
dria-road, Kilburn Priory, Charles C. Atkinson,
barrister-at-law, aged 76. et?
to
DlcHiNsox—On the 11th inst., at 89, Upper Broolc-i6 00.7'
John Dickinson, Esq., S., of Abbot's-hill, m
aged 87.
EGG—On the 11th inst., at 1, Pidcadilly, Mr. Henrd
aged 59.
Ll.
POWER—On the 10th inst., at Batb Anne widow' °C
Gen. Sir Manley Power, K.C.8., aged 84. AleSt'elr WYNDHAMinst.,—On the 10th Didton, WiltF,
der Wadham Wyndham, late Captain in the Scots
aged 69.

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of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 171,11,i Scat "-,t/
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Middlesex.--Wednesday, Januaiy 13, 180.

" CORNERS" IN ENGLAND 6- AMERICA. the value of the shares ; bet them by a sticnrl
and unexpected move, by which the law litniti°:
the increase of capital was evaded, and the sharebol;
ders were delighted on getting largely their holdia
increased, coupled with the assurance that it was eno
of the accumulated earnings expended to imPre;
their property. It so answered VANDERBILT,
AVall-street speculations that he made four or
millions of dollars from the men who were tryil
to crush him, and he raised the. stock from 124'
150. It may be true, as alleged, that the accouPtj
were falsified, as but wo years ago.the company asks
the Legislature to increase the freightandpassengi
rates, as the road could not otherwise earn enotlg
to pay dividends, and one or the other of :hosedeCls'
rations are suppo,ed by some to be untrue. rryci
course pursued by VANDERBILT may also, as allege
be a simple watering of the stock ; yet that the
public do not think so is clear from the great risi
in the market value of the shares.. It is also nn'
deniable that Commodore VANDERBILT has turn
every line he has controlled, however ill .mans`
and depressed when it came into his hands into, o
prosperous concern, and these facts go far to 3'
•
count for the rise, although such " corners" are 0
disgrace to Wall-street, as is the shameful jobblori
of which the London Stock Exchange has bee
made the stage ; yet on fairly contrasting the tae
e
we find that investors in London have been tasu
victims to a far greater extent, by nefarious tray,
actions, and are much more likely to be so is thi
future than are the investors in New York.

LUNDON GAZETTE_LAsr EvENING.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, JAN. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don ITrbßil°
Mountjoy Aguilera as Consul-General for Spain „
London.

JAN. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don G
lermo Binny as Consul at Belize for the Republic
Guatemala.

WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, JAN. 12.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General Chan'
Grant, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commandant; Major-G°lft,
ral Richard C. Moore, C. 8., to be Colonel-Commatlel;
2d Dragoon Guards—Quartermaster-Sergeant Edward
Tuckett to be Quartermaster.
Bth Hussars—Staff-Burg. John S. Chartres to be surge°
11th Hussars—Cornet John D. H. Stewart to be Lie°
nant ; Edward W. Mills, Gent., to be Cornet.
21st Hussars—The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadet,
from the Royal Military College, to be Cornets :--Ftele;
derick William Benson, vice R. C. Andrew, promeieet
Rowland Hill Martin, vice T. Deane, promoted ;
Andrew Ramsay, vice J. W. M. Cotton, pr moted.
Royal Artillery—Lieut.-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel I
G. Nuthall to be Colonel; Captain and Brevet-Colooe
Robert Cadell to be Lieu.-Colonel ; Captain and Brevet.
Major E. W. Dance to bo Lieut.-Colonel; Second GaP;
tain Charles E. Watson to be Captain ; Lieut. Patric
Murray Rollimd to bo Second Captain ; Lieutenant Ft",
derick Swaine Le Grice to be Second CsPi3ist:l
Second Captain Algernon Aug. Stewart to be Adjui3llo,l
The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets, from the Relic,
Military Academy to be Lieutenants : Frederic
Nicolson, Launoy Richard Coussmaker, Henry Trave' Lugard, John Hume Hart, Henry Lyall, John Lee.
James Cecil Dalton, Franklyn Moody Longcroft, , ,
Ham Musson Campbell, George Richard F 005001191
Du Iley St. Leger Hill, Lionel James Archer Chapman
Walter Sherer Bird, Sydney Gerard Frederick Belle'
Charles Russell, Reginald Butler Place, Thomas gtl.l;
hew, Francis Onslow Barrington Foote, Henry Brett
Wildig, Edmund George Henry Bingham, and VOl'
Charles Warner Arbuthnot.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Staff* Assistant-Surge °t
Joseph William Carter Neynoe Murphy to b 3 Assiet!pli
Surgeon. The following Gentlemen Cadets, from
Royal Military Academy, to be Lieutenants with te°l;
porary rank, viz.: —Henry Hardinge S. ennyngivia
Horatio Arthur Yorke, George Baker, Charles Hada('
Gordon, Horatio Dove, Sidney Smith, Henry Pilkias: •
ton, Reginald Clare Hart, Frederick Wilmer WaticiPt
Henry Clarke, James Campbell Barker, Alfred Vg":
Oc avius Cotton, Henry Oliphant Selby, Mont3glo
Langhorne, Frederick Thomas Nelson Spratt,
Wilbraham Lindsay d'Anyers Willis, Tames Cameron'
William T. Wilson, Mortimer D. Whitmore, Charles
Crompton. •

tr
sth Foot—Gentleman Cadet Robert Auld to be -
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sign.
12th Foot —Gentleman Cadet John Charles Mathew Flo l/
to be Ensign, Gentleman Cadet Charles Richard Tov
ley, to be Ensign.
25th Foot—Ensign Hans Robert Rathborne to be Lieurie
naut; Gentleman Cadet James Ramsey Hobday to
Ensign.
27th Foot—John Patrick Somers Cocks, Gent., m
En7ign.