The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-10 00:00:00

small amount in what, in slang phrase, is termed
" cheek" on Mr. Conkling's part to present it ; but
we suppose a short apprenticeship at Washington
will supply even a modest Congressman with an
unbounded amount of that commodity. Fernando

Wood has gone in for the encouragementof yacht-
ing, and has got a bill for the purpose referred to

the Committee on Commerce.

Altogether there is

abundant evidence to show that the citizens are
about to make a strenuous effort to revive the ocean

carrying trade of America, but not before such

legislation was needed.

One of ex-President Johnson's last acts was to
direct the issue of $2,400,000 in bonds to the Cen-
tral Pacific Railroad for advance work, but Grant
got in in time to save a million, which he stopped.
The Secretary of the Interior asked for legislation
to fix the point where the Central and the Union is
to meet. Ogden, says the Central; Promontory
Point, says the Union ; the former being in Salt
Lake Valley, the latter at the head of Salt Lake
on the north, and the two seventy miles apart.
But the Union has worked up to Ogden, and is now
actively laying rails beyond it. Unless some one it:
authority interferes, both companies will have tracks
running into Salt Like City, as the contention is
for the traffic of that city as well as of Southern
Utah. On the 24th of March the Union Pacific
Railroad had been extended to Ogden, 85 miles
west of Evanstown, and the Central Road to Lucca,
74 miles east of Wells, thus leaving a gap of only
82 miles to be filled, in order to complete the two
Pacific railroads ; and it is now asserted that the
roads will meet in May.

The nominations to the .New York offices, on the
25th March, checked the persistent attacks of the
office-seekers, as the mpst alluring prizes had then
disappeared; but office-seekers are naturally of a
sanguine temperament, for no man otherwise could
pursue these phantoms, so they brightened up on re-
calling how many tempting morsels still remained.
As for the high posts, the mission to England,it was
positively said, would be offered to Mr. Motley, while
Mr. Francis, of Troy, New York, was named for Bel-
gium and Mr. John Jay, of New York, for Aus-
tria. These are the great prizes, and we only hope
the nominations suggested may be made. Edward
S. Plumb goes to Cuba as Consul-General. It is
said that Generals Sickles and Cochrane will be
offered Foreign Missions. Mr. H. M. Williams has
been assigned to the head of the Bureau of Seizures, ,
18th Division. Among the 48 Deputy-postmasters
appointed are Miss Julia P. Woolfolk and Miss
Champlin—no great concession to women among so
many ; the name is a misnomer.
Secretary Boutwell has carried consternation into
his Department, but the great flutter is among the
" females." The lady clerks have been asked to
give their names, residence, by whom appointed,
and to state whether they had a father, brother,
sister, or mother in the department. In the Cur-
rency Bureau, on the 26th Marcb, alone, fifty were
informed that their services would no longer be
required. In no department has there been more
bitter complaints of nepotism and favouritism than
in the Treasury, and the Secretary's action is well
calculated to cause dread.

It appears that the lives of 36 miners were lost
in Nevada last Wednesday by extensive fires in the
shafts of three silver mines. We are at a loss to
understand how this catastrophe could have hap-
pened, unless the miners, to escape the cold above,
had descended into the mines. The suffering at
White Pine had been severe, as the snow lay ten
feet on the ground, and the owners of claims feared
to move lest their landmarks should be obliterated
and their rights invaded. There was little shelter,
while the popultation continued steadily to increase.
The letter from " M.," which will be found in
another column, is worth a careful perusal. It is
written by a gentleman who thoroughly knows the
country, having been born and bred there. The
European and North American Railway is a link so
Important in the international communication as
to make it of equal importance to America and
Etrope. What our correspondent says shows this
in a nutshell. This railway means, in lessening
the distance from shore to shore the saving of
two business days in time, reducing 3,000 miles
of ocean to about 1,700. The day nears when Japan,
China, Australia, and New Zealand will have
an equal interest in this ; indeed, our corre-
spondent could not exaggerate the importance of a
line whose value is now but little understood in
Europe.
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The elections in Connecticut and Rhode Island
have been held, and the Republicans have been tri-
umphant in both States. In Connecticut the en-
tire State ticket was carried by a majority of 500 ; be-
ing for Governor, Marshall Jewell ; Lieut.-Governor,
Francis Wayland ; State Secretary, Hiram Apple-
ton ; Treasurer, David P. Nichols ; Controller,
James W. Manning. The Republicans returned
two of the four Representatives to Congress. Mr.
Statkweather was the only Republican in the
Connecticut Congressional Delegation, and we
may take it for granted that he has been re-
turned ; but who the other is we have no
means yet of knowing. W. H. Barnum is the
only Democrat of the last Congress who runs for
this; the Congressional gain as regards Connecti-
cut to the Republicans is one Representative, and it is
said that that party will probably secure a majority
of the Connecticut Legislature on joint ballot.
The Republicon State Ticket of Rhode Island just
elected is—Seth Padelford, of Providence, for Go-
' vernor ; Mr. Burnside having declined another
election ; the remaining officers were re. elected.
Pardon W. Stewart, of Newport, Lieutenant-Go-
vernor; John R. Bastlett, State Secretary; Wm.
Sales, of Providence, Attorney-General ; and
Samuel A. Parker, of Newport, Treasurer. That
party have also succeeded in returning a majority
of the Legislature. Messrs.Jenckes and Dixon, the
former Representatives of the State (both Re-
publicans), had already been re-elected to Con-
gress. In these late elections but little interest was
excited, as they have lost their national importance,
and they failed even to command much local atten-
tion, the votes being very light.
On Thursday night the House of Commons
listened to the Budget for the next financial year,
as expounded by Mr. Lowe. He proposes a penny
to be taken from the Income Tax ; the shilling
duty on corn abolished ; at midsummer next, the
Fire Insurance duties to be removed : hair powder
will in future not be taxed ; stage-coaches, omni-
buses, and four-wheeled cabs, whether for profit or
pleasure, henceforth; being on the same footing,
I will pay two guineas a year; foreign beer to be
placed on the same scale as home-brewed ; the tax
on male servants is fixed at fifteen shillings ; horse-
dealers in London and in the country are placed on
the same footing ; the license for selling tea is also
abolished. The cabs will cease to pay the duty of
one shilling a day, and the omnibuses their mile-
age rates. On the whole, the House was agreeably
surprised on learning that the country could afford
to make these reductions.
The President received a number of mixed Con-
servatives and Republicans from Mississippi on the
subject of the reconstruction of that State. He
said he thought the best plan would be for Con-
gress to authorize the Constitution to be again sub-
mitted to the people, a separate vote to be taken
on the features objected to by the Conservatives,
, and that meantime the present Military Comman-
der should control the State.
There is a great difficulty in ascertaining the
true position in Cuba. Private letters received in
Washington represent the insurgents as in posses-
sion of more than half the island outside the prin-
cipal towns, and they constantly receive reinforce-
ments from America. The Daily News of Charleston
announces the arrival of an expeditionary force in
Cuba, composed of both officers and men who served
in the Northern and Southern armies during the war.
Captain-Gen. Dulce issued a proclamation on March
21, which concluded with a flattering address to the
citizen volunteers. Twenty-five insurgent leaders
had been captured and executed, and two towns
bad been burned by order of Cavada. Castellanos,
a noted chieftain and blockade runner, had been
captured. The impression prevailed that Santiago
de Cuba had been taken by the rebels, and it was
known that a severe action had been fought. On the
26th March Mr. Banks, Chairman of the House
Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a joint
resolution declaring the sympathy of the people of

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the United States with the people of Cuba in their
patriotic efforts to secure their independence, and
to establish a Republican form of Government
guaranteeing the personal liberty and the equal
political rights of all the people, and that Con*
gress will give its Constitutional support to the
President of the United States whenever he
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deem it expedient to recognize the independence
and sovereignty of such Republican Government.
Recommitted and ordered to be printed.

Tha Spirit of the Times publishes the following
extract, which it has received permission to print,
from a private letter of Mr. Ashbury :--
"Although I stipulated English, or Thames, measure'
meat, I am open to an equitable arrangement, assuming
our system is unfair to the American vessel, and I am
hopes a run from Cowes to New York will be settled to
the satisfaction of all concerned."
The Spirit concludes tbat there will be a grand match
and a grand time this summer among the yachtsmen
of England, America, and France, to be followed by
one or more ocean races from Cowes to New Yort
between English and American yachts. Notwith-
standing the gay times predicted and the interesting
events to come off, the most exciting by far will be
the contest between the Dauntless and the Cambria
from Cowes to New York. The Spirit contends
that though the Dauntless is a little larger it will
make no difference in the weather likely to prevail;
indeed it goes further, and asserts that size gives
little if any advantage. The yacht Challenge would
have been backed against the whole clipper tea fleet
from China to England, notwithstanding the ad-
vantage of the tea ships in point of size, which the
Spirit maintains would only have availed them in
the heavy weather around the Cape and in making
Europe in winter. This journal gives Mr. Ash'
bury much credit for his fairness and enterprise.
Congress adjourns to-day, and we presume that
a great number of appointments will be shortly
announced as confirmed. Among them will be that
of Mr. Motley, as Minister to England. I‘ll'
Reverdy Johnson's resignation will have reached
Washington, and been acted on ere this. We a'
pest that Mr. Johnson's work will be better appre'
ciated hereafter. The fact that he has been actuate
by an earnest desire to promote good feeling be•
tween the nations, in which he has been singularly
successful as regards England, will tell in hiS
favour ; the more so if it be found that he got all
that England will concede without war, which the
unanimous testimony of the English papers scci3lo
to declare.
General Butler's Bill, providing a provisional
Government for Mississippi, we learn by a tale'
gram sent from Washington, on Thursday, has
passed the House of Representatives. The Bill
as follows :
"It authorizes the reassembling forthwith, on the call
of the President, of the Constitutional Convention hereto'

fore elected under the Act of March 2, 1867. If the Pre-
sident declines to issue the call within 30 days, the Coln-
manding General of the Fourth Military District is t°
summon the Convention by proclamation. The Coo'
vention is empowered to appoint a Provisional Governor;
to authorize him to remove and appoint Registrars mo
Judges of Elections, and to provide for forwardieg
the votes OR the Constitution to the Provisional Governer,
to be counted in hii presence and that of the General cora-
mantling the Military Division of Mississippi, &c. 'l,e
Convention shall not continue in session for more than 6°
days, and the Constitution framed by it shall be submitted
to the people within 90 days after adjournment. The (Us'
tricts unrepresented at the time of the last adjournment'
shall proceed immediately to elect delegates under the
direction of the Commanding General. Any one or more
previously may be submitted to a separate vote. The
ordinances that may be passed by the Convention shall be
in force until disapproved by Congress, or until the State
shall have adopted a Constitution and it shall have bee°,
approved by Congress. The right of the trial by Pl..'
shall not be taken away by this act. The Military COY
mander shall, on the requisition of the Provisional GO-
vernor, give aid to tho officers of the Provisional Govern"
ment in preserving the peace, &c. The Provisional GO,'
vernor may remove officials in the State and appoint tbel
successors, &c., subject, however, to the orders and dire'
tions of the President of the United States, who may re'
move the Provisional Governor and appoint his sae'

cessor."
BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—General Scott
former residence at Elizabeth, N.J., has been sold 0
$9,750.—Ex-Senator Conuess was married to Miss 31611,
Davis, at Greenfield, Massachusetts, March
Emma C. Stebbins, of lowa, has vindicated woman'
rights by getting herself appointed a Notary Publie.!
Ex-Governor Harriman, of New Hampshire, it is $Ol
will be nominated for Consul to London by Preside°
Grant.—President White of Cornell is said to give al,
his salary for prizes to the students of his University/
Mr. Connell has expended in all on the University,
s2,soo,ooo.—There aro 550 American students in the 1-3-
rious German universities, and over 1,000 male and fonifill)
American pupils at first-class boarding schools. At the
Musical Conservatory, Stuttgardt, there are 25 Americ°,,
students.—Twenty of Brigham Young's wives are 0"
a journey East visiting their friends. They were at
cil Bluffs, lowa, on the 23d March. Two of his sons ftr43
travelling about Europe, whore the American papers 0%
they are regarded with such suspicion that the Datil',
police have orders to arrest them.—General M'Clellen 1)3"
declined the Presidency of Union College, New Yol./.1
being engaged in other business enterprises of high
portance.—Mrs. Bainbridge, mother-in-law of Genera
Reynolds, has been appointed Postmistress at IlanaPtev'
Virginia.—General Grant has received from Connect'.
cut a cigar six feet long, weighing sixteen pounds."
Vice-President Colfax, with his wife and sister, has lei:
Washington for a few days, for Adover, Ohio, his wife,'
former home, and Senator Anthony officiates in the 11015 e
in his stead. Baron Schlozer, Minister from the Nor°
German Union to the United States, arrived at New Vrt
by the Westphalia on the 24th March, and is stopping
the Brevoort House.--The President has appointed Jame
W. Haines, Frederick A. Tridle, and William Sheri°,ll;
Government Commissioners to examine and report on t",
completed sections of the Central Pacific Railroad of C°11;
fornia, and the Western Pacific Railroad, in place of J°43
Bigler, Frank Denver, and Thomas J. Henley, remove
—Prince Metternich's butler receives the same salary
President Grant; wo wonder what the Prince's cook gets?
Mrs Capt. Maguire,who recently brought hersick husband;
vessel safely into port at New York, has been presente`
with $l,OOO by the underwriters.—Congressman IL L
Dawes has declined the Judgeship of the Messachusetts
Supreme Court, offered him by Governor Olefin/3
Report says General Pleasanton is to be appointed Unite
States Marshal at New York.—Gen. Merritt, nominatej
for naval officer, was formerly on Governor Fenton's st°ff,
and is not the cavalry officer of that name.—Presidee
Grant's old partner in the real estate business in St.
Mr. H. Boggs, died' in that city on the 13th March .----P,
Bruin has been appointed Consul-General of France at 6;0
Francisco.— Secretary Borie, like a true denizen of tao
" City of Brotherly Love," asks for power to transfer the
Navy-yard at Philadelphia to the Navy-yard at Ltiagtj
Island. Each State is earnestly anxious to have a RePr'a
'
sentative in the Cabinet, and we congratulate Penn sylva°;
on Secretary Borie, whase first effort is to abolish it;
navy-yard ;if Boutwell and Hoar do as much f°:,
Massachusetts, the citizens of that State will have reaso'
to rejoice at their good fortune.
The Italian papers are lavish in their praises
Mr. Pierce Francis Connell 's work which we recentl/6
noticed, which he has named "Honour Arresting °-
Triumph of Death." L'Opinione Nazione, Gazzeta del P.;
polo, La Riforma, Gazzeta D'ltalia, and L'llalia Artistica fLI
unanimous in considering the grouping a work of grel:,
merit, involving artistic difficulties, which have been o°.
mounted with entire success.
New Orleans is a hotbed of political exciteraeli
Governor Warmouth appointed Mr. Delayze auditor, vibe
Wickliffe, removed; but on his presenting himself at t 3,
office on the 25th March, Mr. Wickliffe refused hint'
mission until he was himself ejected by the Superint,o4,
dent of Police. He then notified the public against 10934
acting business, as the auditors office had been itiegtvii4
seized by the Governor, and the financial department tl3
virtually suspended. ftlf
Mr. Binckley has been fined $lOO and costs
his assault on Thomas A. Harland. He pleaded greto
provocation in the publication of the letter so injurioo: id
his character, which Judge Wylie fully allowed, but oe
he had his legal remedy.

Births. ei
CHUBB—On the 9th lust., at Radcliff House, Brixton-I'
the wife of John Chubb, Esq., of a son.
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LEWIS—On the Bth inst., at Ashford Lodge, Putney,
Frank Lewis, of a son.

Marriages.
BURRELL—PORTAL—On the Bth inst., at Streatham -
Burrell, Esq., barrister-at-law, to Mary, second (I°.lllV
ter of Richard B. Portal; Esq., of Tonge House,
Norwood.
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GREEN—TAUNTON—On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's.
stone, Colonel Malcom Green, C. 8., Bombay Staff 09001
to Elizabeth Caroline, only (laughter of Waßernal°
Esq., of Boulogno-sur-Mer.

s. "'pia
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BLOUNT —On the 9th inst., Death
at 37, Gerrard-street, "'-
Thomas Blount, aged 58. v•
CoALEs—On the Bth inst., Daniel Coales, of 152, Gr 4 4
inn-road, aged 54. ,„1 of
DAVIES —On the Bth inst., at Cheltenham, Lieut.-Cpl
John Davies, aged 79.

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