The Sun.
London, England, 1869-09-06 00:00:00

THE SUEZ CANAL.

An American company proposes to establish a line
of steamers to co-operate by way of the Mediter-
ranean and the Suez Canal, with the various lines
sailing to China and the far East. One of the lead-

ing objects of this undertaking is to bring organised
communities of emigrants from Southern Europe to
settle on lands in the Southern States of America.
Several millions of acres at low rates will be at the
disposal of the company for this purpose.

(From Me Anglo-American Times.)

Mr. Peabody has improved in health during his
visit to the White Sulphur Springs. At the groat ball
given in his honour he was not able to attend, but it is
since then (August 11th) that the improvement has been
most marked. The gathering at the Virginia watering-
place has resumed something of its old appearance, retain-
ing its Southern character. Many Southern generals who
distinguished themselves have there repaired, and Mr.
Peabody appears to be quite at home in their society. lie
had lately presented Washington College, over which
General Leo presides, with the sum of $60,000, and perhaps
the finest of Mr. Peabody's gifts was that designed to pro-
mote education in the South. There are over 1,500 visi-
tors at the White Sulphur Springs, among whom is
Blacque Bey, the Turkish Minister to the United States ;
indeed, the society of that summer resort has been more
than ordinarily good. On Tuesday last a message was
sent from New York announcing Mr. Peabody's recovery
from his recent serious illness, and the correspondents
write of the intimacy which has sprung up between him
and General Lee.

The steamship City of Port-au-Prince brought
dates to New York from Port-au-Prince to the 7th, and
Cape Haytien to the 9th of August. Salnave was still en-
camped before Aux Cayes, and the place completely sur-
rounded. It was daily expected that it would surrender.
Jacmel has been taken by Salnave's troops without resist-
ance. The Government has made a contract for the pur-
chase of the ironclad Atlanta from Mr. Sydney Oaksmith, a
lawyer, of New York, who returns by the City of Port au-
Prince. The steamers Quaker City and Florida, both
flying the Haytion rebel flag, forced the Port-au-Prince
away from Gonaives, to which port she was bound.
Each vessel brought her guns to bear on the ship, with
all hands piped to quarters. Tbey refused all communi-
cation with the shore, not even allowing her to take off
the American Consul. The City of Port-au-Prince towed
to this port the schooner Mary Jane, bound from St.
Domingo to Boston, which she fell in with on the 15th
inst., in tat, 33.42 north, long. 74.05 west, with her helm
lashed, and drifting about. Her captain and two of the
crew had died of yellow fever, and the remainder of the
crew (two men) were in a dying condition, and were un-
able to throw overboard the bodies of their comrades,
which were found on the deck in a state of putrefaction.
Another expedition is reported to have left the coast of
Florida about the 12th August, and landed safely in Cuba.
It numbered 75 men, with a large quantity of arms and
ammunition, and was fitted out by an American speculator.
The IVell Street Journal writes what it evidently
intends est). warning about "Nevada Mining (Din London."
A concern, it says, " is now on the London Market, under
the name of the Nevada Freehold Properties Trust asking
for a subscription of £340,000 in certificates of £2 cash,
bearing an interest of 12 1.2 per cent par annum." After
giving the chief points of the prospectus, that journal
continues, "With such wonderful inducements it will no
doubt be difficult for the enterprising promoters to supply
the hunger of investors. Fortunate Britishers !" In
precisely the same way the Ir4ll Street Journal once be-
fore sounded a note of warniug, which we reproduced to
the Wens) annoyance of a man who after wards proved
the New York paper to be right, and its notes of admira-
tion on such occasions to moan a great deal. We intend
always to pursue this course, for we well know that in-
stead of writing in malice the American papers will always
endeavour to forward the success of honest enterprises
brought out in London in con nection with their cc ntiuent.
If wrong, it will be caey to show it, and a discussion, in-
stead of doing the enterprise harm, if it be really a "good
thing," can hardly fail to be beneficial to it. What de-
stroys confidence and prevents the flow of capital from
this side to the Pacific slope is the dangar of schemes
graphically thee, describ.ei
"wild-cat." Men who know
are apt to remain silent, as it is no business of theirs, but
for every pound gained in the "wild-cat" scheme, an
investment of £lOO in the country is lost, and some of the
most promising enterprises which weknow to havebeen bona
fide have been unable to obtain any capital in London, from
the suspicion these operations engender. At the same time
that we reproduce, much against our inclination, the words of

the Wall-street Journal, we are bound to state that all we

ltifow about the Nevada Freehold Properties Trust is in its
favour; nor do we suppose that the writer intends more

than the expression of his own distrust. What we ad-
vocated in a late issue was a London agency employing

its own officers in California, Nevada, and Colorado, for
the investments of such persons in London as desire to

avail themselves of the enormous returns there derivable
from money well laid out. After the experience of 1866
nothing less than this will carry confideuca in London,

even if this could.

James Renforth, the Champion of the Thames,
will not row on the Thames against Walter Brown, the

American Champion, alleging the distance from the Tyne

as an excuse to a man who has come 3,000 miles to meet
him. Renforth desires to row on the Tyne, with which he
is intimately acquainted, but the American Champion be-
ing satisfied with tho Thames declines to give his opponent
every possible advantage, nor could ho have a guarantee
even if he went to the Tyne that the match would then
come off. Failing to come to a Fatisfactory arrangement
with Itenforth, ho has signed atticles to row Joseph
Sadler for £lOO aside from the steamboat pier at Putney
to a boat moored off the "Ship" at Mortlake, on Thursday,
the 7th October next.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Gen. Canby has ordered
the discharge from the custody of the police Capt. Callahan,
who shot and killed Joseph Kelly at a registration office
in Richmond, Virginia. Callahan had a preliminary exa-
niination by a military commission, but no trial.--Mrs. A.
K. Bailey, editoress of the Decorah (Iowa) Republican, apo-
logizes for the detention of her paper, " because of the
late arrival of an extra male."—The Hon. John Bell, of
Tennessee, so prominently before the public for mole than
forty years, is rapidly failing, with uo hopes of recovery.—
Senator Sherman has been buying land in Minnesota.—
General Rosecrans meditates forming a company to build
a railroad from the City of Mexico to Acapulco on the
Pacific coast.—George B. Better, President of the First
National Bank of Memphis, was arrested in New York,
April 16, on a charge of having embezzled $600,000 of the
school fund of Tennessee.—Governor Reed, of Florida,
and his bride, have been stopping at the Astor House,
New York.—Madame Parepa. Rosa's New York opera sea-
son is to begin on the 11th of September, and continue for
three weeks only.—Henry Vincent writes to a friend in
New York that he will leave England by the Scotia for
America on the 16th of October.—Some time since a Port-
land man had his pocket picked of $5OO. Shortly after
he received a letter from the thief, stating that he had
started in business with the stolen capital, and that ho
should pay interest on it until ho was able to return the
principal. Two payments of interest Lave already been
made.—General Hooker, Baron Kueback, of Vienna., Aus-
t is, Mr. Huxley, architect to the Emperor of Austria, Mr.
and Mrs. P. Crane, of Bombay, India, arrived at Cincinnati
Aug. 18.—Miss Cushman, the tragedienne, is lying dan-
gerously ill at Edinburgh.—Allen, the English prize-
fighter, in America, has been at it again, notwithstanding
his recent experience, and has met with much the same
treatment. On this occasion he fought Callagher, on
Foster's Island, near St. Louis. In the third round an
unsuccessful attempt was made by Callagher's friends to
break up the fight, and on the 9th Callagher's second
throw up the sponge, nevertheless the referee decides it
a drawn battle.—The Naples and Florence Observer in-
forms us—" Sir Michael Costa, Mr. and Miss Costa, aro
now staying at the Hotel Piccola Sentinella, Cassa-
micciola, Ischia. Sir Michael, who has spent the greater
part of his life in England, was born in Naples,
where some of his family still reside.—Mr. Bonner lately
drove his famous horse Dexter a mile in 2.234 at Prospect
Fair Grounds, Brooklyn. He was harnessed to a road
waggon, and this is said to be the fastest time ho has
made. Two years ago Dexter trotted a mile in 2.24
in a skeleton waggon. The waggon driven on this
occasion weighed a hundred pounds more.—His Ex-
cellency the American Minister and Mrs. Motley
have left Maurigy's Hotel on a visit to the Duko of St.
Alban'e, at Bestwood Park, Nottingham-11.RM. the
Duke of Cambridge:is laid up with gout at Homburg.
BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—" Avitor," or air
ship stock, is now in the California market, ono thousand
shares at $25 a share having been offered by the managers
This is, of all stocks, most liable to inflation, to be fol-
lowed by collapse.--" Mark T wain" says he was present
at a recent interview between ex-Secretary Stanton and
Secretary Fish, and was subsequently greatly astonished
to learn by the newspapers that it was a very important
meeting, hinting that the Alabama question was the
subject under discussion, when the conversation, in
fact, only had reference to the cure of warts. -No
less thin 15,712 emigrants have come direct from Scot-
laud to New York this year. The Japanese colonists, in
California, have purchased another tract of land in Placer
County for a tea and mulberry plantation. Herr Schell
wiil return to Japan for the purpose of bringing a large
addition to the colonists, and a fresh stock of mulberry
plants.—The total taxable property in Boston for 1839 is
assessed at $549,511,600, an increase over last year of
$55,937,900.—A new working-men's movement is con-
templated. General Butler is said_to advocate " six hours"
as a day's work.—The famous blockade-runner, " Let Her
B," an English contribution to international neutrality, is
now running on Lake Superior. Her speed is twenty
miles an hour.—The steamer M. A. Starr, from St. John
I to Mad tx, with a cargo of Government stores, ran ashme
during a thick fog. Part of the cargo was thrown over-
board. 'l'h . vessel is almost a wreck.
JOURNALISM IN AMEItICA.—W. Davis has sold
the St. Albans Transcript to Messrs. C. 11. Baker and
Joseph Montt:lllore of St. Albans.—The proprietors of the
Boston Sunday Times aro soon to commence a daily, to be
called the Evening Times.
MAIIIIIAGES.—Miss Ada L. Rafferty Webb, one
of the well-known Webb sisters, was married on Tuesday,
Aug. 17,_ to Mr. Wm. M. Connor, of New Orleans. The
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Dr. Newton, at the
residence of Mrs. Berry, No. 213, Washington-street,
Brooklyn.
OBlTUARY.—Professor Charles Dexter, of Cleve-
land, died suddenly in Philadelphia, Aug. 18. In 1830 he
was elected Professor of Latin and Greek in the College
at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and in 1832 Professor of the
Latin language and Literature in the University of the
City of New York. During the Administration of Presi-
dent Lincoln ho acted as Consul at Cardiff, Wales.—
Commander Jarvis, United States Navy, died at Geneva,
Missouri, Thursday, Aug. 11, tyged 74. He entered the
Navy in 1812, and has been on the retired list for many
years.—Mrs. Gifford, of Manor County, lowa, died on Sa-
turday, Aug. 7, from the effects of a fright on viewing the
solar eclipse.—James E. Worshom, brother of J. J. Wors-
horn, of Memphis, died of apoplexy at St. Louis, Aug. 16.

711 E "SPEC7A7OR" ON 711 E CHINESE

MISSION.

The Spectator of last week prematurely began its
exulting crow on the bursting of the Chinese mission
bubble. While reading its article, in surprise we
glanced back at the title to ascertain whether it was
the Spectator, the consistent (as we supposed) ad-
vocate of wronged races and nations, the upholder
of the broad principles of justice, the contemner of
all injurious class privileges handed down by the feu-
dal ages, and the exposer of prejudices where they
stood in the way of equity and national progress.
What bad the Chinese done that the shelter erected
by the Spectator for other races should be denied to
them ? nor denied only, for at the head of the pur-
suing pack is found the others' watch-dog. If
Sambo, wherever he shows his black face, is to be
guarded by the shield of the Spectator, if the Red
Indian, the Maori, if the oppressed of Europe, and
the world generally, are to be by it shielded, why
should the almond-eyed Celestials, who form so large
a proportion of human kind, be thus vigorously at-
tacked? What arguments can be used for the
negro inapplicable to the Mongolian, where the
rights of man are concerned ? It is strange to see
how completely the Liberal Review, when it gets
on the platform of the Standard, takes up that old
lady's arguments ; adopting the reasoning by which
Governor El RE's conduct in Jamaica was defended.
It is true that the Spectator denounced and exposed
these arguments when applied to the negro, but it
considers them good logic against the Chinese. It is
not that the refusal of the -Peking Government to
ratify the convention with the United States so
completely justified its predictions that it rejoiced
at the result announced, that the bubble had burst,
but that a policy should not be framed on un-
truth from which it would be impossible to extract
good. If it felt such confidence that Mr. BUR-
LINGAME and his mission were only moonshine, in-
tended to amuse and delude the outside barbarians,
a mere bubble which would shortly burst, our
contemporary need Lot have taken the trouble to
waste ink and paper on a subject which could in
that case only mean a show, and articles might as
well be published on the fireworks fizzing for the
entertainment of the Viceroy of EGYPT. But the
,Spectator lead an idea that the mission, though a
mere bubble. meant a policy injurious to the in-
tercourse of China with foreign nations. Now tl&
is really but the intercourse with China of the fo-
reign communities residing in China ; and on these
articlesbeing analyzed it will be found that their tone
is taken from the matter furnished by these com-
munities. What the Spectator desires, is, for a com-
bination of the great Powers to dictate their deci-
,ions to Prince KUNG, and the two middle aged
ladies who rule in China. The great Powers, as
we before observed, mean the foreign communities
trading with the country on behalf of their respec-
tive nations—i.e., the party directly interested on the
• one side claims to frame the terms on which a quar-

rel is to be settled with the Peking Government, the
party interested on the other side. The Spectator
can see that it may be very galling and painful to
the pride of Prince KUNG and the middle-aged
ladies, but it is a necessity, being the only way
of dealing with these Chinese ; hence these deci-
sions must not only be formed, but be sternly
enforced—precisely the argument that was used
by the Southerners to keep negroes in slavery,
or by any person who desires to cover an in-
justice—it is a necessity, which those who own
them or deal with them best know, PROVIDENCE
has so constituted them, and so on. One of the
great Powers finds that it can grow a hurtful
drug prohibited in China, though eagerly pur-
chased there, and it decides, acting through its
foreign community, that the poison shall be intro-
duced and sold in the Celestial Kingdom, no matter
what its laws or the edicts of its EMPEROR. No
doubt Prince KUNG and the two middle-aged ladies
would, on a repetition of this act, feel aggrieved ;
but then the Spectator asserts that it is the great
Powers which know what is best for the Chinese,
and their decisions—each and all, we presume—
must be sternly enforced. It is a false policy, ac-
cording to the Spectator, to treat the Chinese as a
nation having equal rights ; yet it admits that the
Peking Government is one of great power, its man-
dates being readily obeyed over a vast portion of
the earth's surface. On the face of all this is
stamped injustice, to insist on trading with a na-
tion, to dictate the terms on which that trade is to
be conducted, and to make these terms exceptional,
not those enforced between other countries. Bearing
this stamped on the surface it requires something
more than the ipse dixit of the Spectator or of the other
organs who write in the interest of the foreign com-
munities in China, to show why the policy of the
foreign Powers should be dictated on sulh prin-
ciples, or why the overtures matte by Chlmulu this
mission should be rejected. It has become a habit
of many who can control the telegraph to use it un-
scrupulously in forwarding their designs by send-
ing false communications. It was done to the
greatest extent possible at the time, during the Civil
War in America, the news being picked up where
the mail touched at Queenstown, falsified, and
flashed over Europe. Though it gained but a day
or two that was sufficient to make the required im-
pression ; but now that ocean lines are everywhere
laid, if the enemy can work the cable, telegrams
will be flashed and eagerly used by those in the
same interest as the texts of leading articles which
will effect the mischief before the falsehood can
be exposed. There is now reason to believe
that the telegram announcing the definite rejection
by the Peking Government of the treaty with the
United States was a pure invention ; that the Chi-
nese text of Mr. BURLINGAME'S credentials do not
represent him as being sent on a mission to a tribu-
tary nation, and that the whole message is one of these
numerous fabrications in the interests of the foreign
communities lately sent from China. Mr. BUR-
LINGAME appears to have received a despatch from
the Government of Peking expressing its cor-
dial recognition of his treaties with the European
Powers and the United States ; but, as arranged
before he left, these treaties were not to be definitely
ratified, or indeed officially discussed until the re-
turn of the mission. From the United States it is
announced that no intelligence had been received of
the alleged rejection, and Mr. Ross BROwNE was
not likely to have delayed in forwarding so congenial
a piece of intelligence could he officially have done
so. Our contemporary, therefore, is rather prema-
ture in the bursting of its bubble, and in taking cre-
dit on the accuracy of its own predictions. The
Chinese may be very great liars, but if this sort of
thing continues, it is just possible that the foreign
communities may carry off the palm in this respect,
when it might be worth the Spectator's while to in-
quire into the propriety of the Great Powers com-
bining to enforce a policy on a people so little to be
trusted, which may touch their dignity and hurt
their pride also. At any rate the Spectator has good
cause to resent the blunder into which its friends in
China have betrayed it, but if it will get on a plat-
form, every plank of which is so unfamiliar, it ought
not to be surprised if it should fall through and
bark its shins.

PORI HURON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD

LINE.

A NEW ROUTE BETWEEN NEW YORE AND CHICAGO.

Ritihwul Jortrnal says the work on this
line is being pushed in good earnest. Eastward from
Battle Creek, and westward from Port Huron, ilia ham-
mers of the track laying parties are resounding incessantly,
and the iron to keep them supplied is constantly going
forward—more than 2,500 tons having been shipped dur-
ing the past month. Engines and cars are already ou the
line, and are now being manufactured. At the present rate
of progress the line will be complete from Port Huron to
Flint (65 miles), and in operation, in season for the Fal 1
business this year, and through toßattle Creek before Jan. I.
Westward of this point the road is ready foi the super-
structure, and track laying will follow in due course. This
line comprises four roads, viz.: the Port Huron and Lake
Michigan Railroad, the Peninsular Railwayof Michigan, and
the Peninsular Bailronds of Indiana and Illinois, running
from Chicago to Port lluron, and there connecting with both
the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway of Canada,
for Buffalo or Suspension Bridges; thence over the New
York Central or Erie Road, making the shortest of
the through routes between New York and Chicago.
In addition to its through travel the local business
of the line must be very large. The western part of the
route is through an agricultural district as rich as any
in the West, and it passes many large and prosperous
towns. The eastern portion will transport the limo, salt,
and gypsum from the Grand River and Saginaw, and it
brings within reach of a market the vast forests of pine
and hard wood timber which exist in this part of
Central and North-eastern Michigan. Better than all, the
line is in the hands of shrewd and practical men, who
know how to push through such an enterprise, and who,
knowing how, are determined to do it.