The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AVGIISI' 21, 1869.

MC11171114 FOTIIISe 10 place on recurs 121 tee mos;
unmistakable terms. The departmental elerla
acknowledge this letter by a second memorial, in
which they " trust that the means the Board pur-
pose adopting for placing on record in the most
unmistakable terms' their lordships' conviction that
the character of the service generally is bey:')lid sus-
picion will be such as will speedily remove :Illy
contrary impression on the part of the House of
Commons and the public, and that they will b
pleased as early as may be practicable, without pre-
judice to the cause of justice, to make such use of
the information in their possession as will cause the
suspected individuals to be either exonerated or
detected and punished, in order that all the depart-
ments may be forthwith effectively purged from the
remotest taint of suspicion."

FOREIGN NOTES.
CUBA AND TEE UNITED STATES.

Notwithstanding repeated denials and qualifications,
the impression that the Washington Government is nego-
tiating for the purchase of Cuba gains ground. The
Madrid correspondent of the Independance Beige says it
is certain that Mr. Forbes, a Boston banker, has been at
the Spanish capital above a month. Ho has been pre-
sented to Regent Serrano at the Palace of La Granja
by the new Ambassador of the United States—General
Sickles and has several times had interviews with
General Prim. Finally, this writer is positive that nego-
tiations have been opened for the sale of Cuba. Mr.
Forbes left Spain a day or two ago for the United States,
but he will return to resume bargaining as soon as the
Cortes are reopened.

report of General M'lVlahon to form an opinion, as
do many others. A writer says, in the same paper,
" Mr. Washburn's old legation house is now a hotel,
dubbed the Hotel del Cristo ;" far better to have
called it Hotel del Diablo'—for from such fare
deliver us !" The Argentine Government has en-
deavoured to frame a special commercial treaty with
the United States, but Hamilton Fish effectually
stopped all such ideas in a despatch dated May 14.
There is no news of importance from other sources,
except the news received at the Foreign Office of
the safety and good treatment of the British cap-
tives in Paraguay.

Professor Goldwin Smith's lecture on " Eng-
land and Slavery," delivered July .91, at Cleveland,
has not been received with universal satisfaction in
the United States. He is said to know a great deal of
other subjects, but to know little of the feeling in
America on the subject of the Alabama, which he
persists in discussing. We all have our little pre-
judices, and Jonathan's toe is no more devoid of
sensation when it is strod upon than is that of
John Bull. The Professor denied that the Ala-
bama was an English ship, or that the English na-
tion and Government connived at her escape, and
said he did not feel sure that the legal position of
England in the matter was so untenable as it was
generally assumed to be. The vessel, however,
ought not to have escaped, and if he had any
voice in the question he would, without discussion,
and, if possible, without an arbitrator, pay the
whole of the claims.

The President's Indian policy appears to be suc-
cessful, the new agents working heartily to attain
the object of civilizing these troublesome savages,
the Comanches,Arapahoes, Cheyennes, Kiowas, and
Apaches. Two great reservations, the one north
under General Harney, the other South under
General Hazen, have been formed, and on the latter
4,000 persons of these tribes have been already
gathered ; houses have been built, and are build-
ing, and the land in the aggregate under cultiva-
tion exceeds 1,000 acres, planted with pumpkins,
melons, vines, and garden produce, all growing in
rich abundance. But 2,000 or 3,000 individuals of
these tribes remain outside. There was a meet-
ing of the Committee on Indian Affairs with the
chiefs of the Osage Indians, who justly complain
that white settlers in hundreds are occupying their
reservations. The chiefs denounce the Sturges'
Treaty as a fraud and swindle, obtained by threats
and bribes to some of the chiefs. It was made with
Mr. Sturges on behalf of the Leavenworth, Law-
rence, and Galveston Railroads.

The latest telegram from New York is to Thurs-
day evening :—" The New York journals express
much satisfaction at the treatment the Harvard
crew has met with in England." By mail these papers
express the same satisfaction at the reception given
to the Harvardbomthough the accounts of theirpro-
spects did not then appear to be as brilliant as their
friends expected. It was known that they had made
better time with as English boat and had reorga-
nised their crew. The Tribune comes to this sen-
sible conclusion :—" Whether they win the rac3 or
not, makes little difference. In any case they will
do us honour."

Via Vera Cruz, the news in New York was to
Aug. 1 from the city of Mexico. The examination
of Carvajal Espinosa, Sanchez, and Vargas, on
charges of disloyalty, was in progress. Prominent
citizens and Europeans had been arrested on sus-
picion of being connected with a plot to assassinate
President Juarez and his Ministers and pillage the
city. Minister Nelson had, been appealed to, but
refused to intercede in behalf of the alleged con-
spirators. The revolutionists in Tamaulipas have
been defeated by the national troops sent against
them. The Indian war in Yucatan continues and is ex-
tending. This is the second conspiracy of the sort
since Juarez reassumed control of the Government.

Telegraph are almost the only companies that in
the present state of the market can be floated, as
the science is new, the field open, the prospect bril-
liant, and the money already invested productive
to an extraordinary degree. The latest is the West
India and Panama line, which proposes to connect
England with the West India colonies and the whole
continent of South America. The company offered
65,000 shares of £lO each in the London mar-
ket, and we believe that the whole found
eager buyers, for the faith shattered in other things

grows livelier in the telegraph. The advantages
offered are certainly great, but not great enough,
for some time to come at least, to induce a rival
project to be started as so soon followed the first cable
between the Unite I States and Europe. This vir-
tually confers a monopoly on the company now
formed, and the arrangements which appear so in-
viting will not le disturbed by undue com-
petition. Another cable will soon be laid
across the Atlantic by a company to be called
the English and Scotch Telegraph Company.
A liar which has excited such interest in America
as even to enlist the Navy in its aid, will ask for a
portion of its capital in London. It proposes to
carry the wire from San Francisco, through China,
where it is already at work, till the lines meet which
will encircle the globe. When the English Govern-
ment has taken over the administration of the tele-
graphs, the repairs, maintenance, and construction
of telegraphic lines, it is thought, will be under-
taken by non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Engineers, so that not only will the work be
more cheaply performed than by civilian labour,
but a valuable corps of efficient constructors of tele-
graphs will be formed to be of great service in any
future campaign to lay and maintain field telegraphs.
It bas long been a matter of surprise to us
that companies similar to those so profitably estab-
lished to loan English money in the colonies have
never been organized to transfer money, of which
there is a plethora in London, to active, thriving
States of the Union, where it could be loaned on
the best freehold security, at rates alike remune-
rative to the lender and to the borrower. Such a
company would pay enormously in California, in
Nevada, and even in the older States. They have
answered in. Australia, and New Zealand, also in
Canada, and require only trustworthy agents. The
Nevada Freehold Properties' Trust is not precisely
of the nature of the Trust arid Loan Companies
to which we allude, but it is a step in that
direction, and it offers so many advantages,
that, if successful, as we believe it is, atten-
tion may be attracted to what we propose.
That is the formation of a company having a
small portion of its capital called up, but com-
posed of men whose names are sufficiently good to
induce others to lend money to it at a fixed rate of
interest for a certain period. If loans can be pro-4
cured, say at six per cent. on a term of seven years
in London, and lent in San Francisco at from 10 to
12 per cent. on the freehold property of the city,
and other security of a like nature an enormous
margin is left, and it is on such a margin, that
through all the panic, companies like the Trust and
Loan of Australasia, of New Zealand, and of other
colonies, paid high dividends and kept their shares
at a premium.

The case of Harwood, arrested in New York on
his arrival in the Russia, is another instance of what
betting brings a man to. On his person was found
a book showing the nature of his operations on the
Derby ; what the nature of his banking operations
were, some institution not yet named can tell ; but
Inspector Bailey, of the London police, says the
amount obtained by forgery was £15,000, though
the amount recovered was but. popo, nearly all of
it bring in French money. Harwood admits having
obtained £ll,OOO by his operations, but he refines
to tell what became of the rest of the money, and
though his baggage was carefully searched no trace

was discovered. It was Officer Kirk whose instinct
when surveying the passengers seated at lunch
enabled him to put his hand upon the forgers, for
there was little iu the despatches received to guide
the oflic:rs, but a private memorandum book taken
in their baggage revealed their true names. When
Chalmers was caught, he remarked, "I am the one;
I did it all." Whether they were confirmed thieves
or betrayed into crime by their operations on the
turf has not transpired, but an English officer has
been sent. to New York for them, the necessary ex
tradition papers having been procured from the
Foreign-office; so we will soon know all about this
little game. It is now announced that the alleged
forgers were put on board the City of Wash-
ington, and intelligence to this effect being for-
warded from New York, Sergeant Webb, of

the London police, proceeded to Queenstown
to meet the vessel, arranging that Graham, a
Liverpool detective and Inspector Carlisle should
await her arrival in the Mersey. They were taken
to Bridewell for the night, arrived in London on
Thursday evening, and were brought before the
Lord Mayor yesterday, when their case was pro-
ceeded with, Hatcher being acquitted. Their ex-
perience within a month has been considerable.

Colorado is exciting considerable interest, as
more than one exploring party are now floating

down the rivers of that territory. It contains,
perhaps, the finest scenery in the United States, as
imbosomed where the Rocky Mountains attain their
greatest grandeur, are magnificent valleys not un-
like that of Cashmere, named by the miners
" Parks." Mr. Samuel Adams, with a party of 11
men and four boats, has been descending from
Brackenridge, the river falling 2,000 feet in 40
miles, showing the rapidity of its rush and the
danger, it being nearly all rapids. After safely
passing through the Rocky Canyon of Blue River,
which took him down 230 feet in 11 miles, he en-
tered a magnificent park which he named Pacific
Park, as it suddenly burst upon their view. Mr.
Adams reports the country as possessing greater
agricultural and mineral resources than he expected.
Nothing further has been heard of the Powell party,
but both he and Mr. Adams must eventually reach
the sea through the same mouth.
There are many symptoms of the emigration we
have so long advocated becoming general throughout
England. For instance, we learn that a party of 100
was lately made up, £lO,OOO having been subscribed
for the purchase of lands in Kansas, and the despatch
of a preliminary party; a steam plough was procured,
and all details for the settlement are arranged. The
members of this little community belong to a good
class, and if they find the settlement answer their
expectations DO doubt their example will be followed
by others. Such au emigration so conducted is
what we have always urged as likely to be bene-
ficial both tothosewho go and to the country they go
to, as well as that they leave. There are many in Eng-
land who would ignorantly endeavour to divert such
emigration from the United States to English colonies,
with the sole object of checking the growth of the
Republic, and adding to that of the country con-
nected with England. But this proceeds from a
deplorable want of knowledge of the circumstances,
which, however, we hope is passing away and a
better appreciation supervening. The emigrants
who have arrived at Castle Gardens, New York,

from the Ist January up to the 4th instant num-
ber 168,064, being an increase of 29,264 over the
corresponding period of last year. What is now
required, is more quality than quantity.

The official vote of Washington Territory is as follows :

—For Delegate to Congress—Garfield, Republican, 2,743 ;
Moore, Democrat, 2,595; Garfield's majority, 148; total
vote in the Territory, 5,238. The vote in 1897 was 4,810

—an increase in two years of C9B, and an increase of the
Republican majority of 52. The vote on State Convention
was very small, there being 400 for and GBB against. To
judge by the telegram from New York on Tuesday, Presi-
dent Grant is placing himself in opposition to the new
Conservative Republican movement in the South. The
correspondents of the New York Evening Post and Express
say he will probably oppose the admission to their seats
of the Virginia members lately elected to Congress. We
should be much inclined to doubt any such action of the
part of the President, our belief being that ho will not in
any way interfere with the elections wherever he can
avoid such interference.

111AllICE7 S-7 MS DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.

Aug. 21.—Sales probably
.12,000 bales. The market
firm.

THE ANGLO-AMERICAN UNIVERSITY BOAT-

RACE.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Pall Mall Gazette appears to think that a miracle
only or a beige across the bows of the Oxford boat can
settle the race in favour of Harvard. It asserts that the
style of the American crew is the same as that of all in-
experienced crews on the Thames, that there i 3 nothing
peculiar in it, what are considered peculiarities being mere
faults developed by all tyros. The Gazette was for a
moment posed by this fact it had to record; both boats
were timed over the course, the Oxford did it in 2 7 min.
15 sec., the Yankees in a few seconds longer, bu t with a
weaker tide, which made them at least equal, giving per-
haps the advantage to Harvard. The Gazette got out of its
difficulty by discrediting the accuracy of the figures,
maintaining it to be impossible for the Harvard crow to
row over the course within a minute of the time of the
Oxford crew. However, as the race is to come off on Fri-
day, the 27th inst., not oa Wednesday, the 25th, as first
arranged, the matter will be decided before we next go to
press. Meanwhile, in spite of what the London press says,
there are many boatmen about Finney who feel inclined to
put their half-crowns on the American side. And the
change in the English press, though gradual, is marked.
At first there was a sort of contemptuous patting on the
back, the expression of an earnest desire to get these rash
but sporting young fellows into the right way, to put them
into the right boat, and to show them the science of the
thing to which they must conform before they could hope
to row even a respectable race. The form of the crew, the
style of No. 1, the stooping of No. 3, how No. 2 carried
his head, were duly commented upon, imperfections freely
pointed out, and corrections suggested. But gradually "a
change has come o'er the spirit of the dream." It has
been discovered that the Americans "shuffle" along re-
markably fast, that they have extraordinary endurance, that
they can row the whole way, notwithstanding their faulty
i style, their imperfections, and their want of oases in train-
ing. Not only do the Thames boatmen believe in them,
but their time has been actually found to be shorter over
the course than that of the Oxford crew. This is sadly
puzzling some of the London papers, who can only ac-
count for it in the same way as the Pall 31211 Gazette. On
Wednesday the time of the Harvard craw was 22 min. 20
secs., the Oxford time being 22 min. 27 &ice., the
circumstances, as regards the water, being almost
similar. But these time-keepers are in such a flurry
that they overlook the minutes and only count
the seconds ! such being the explanation. Since the
Times announced that the 4 o'clock train from Waterloo
station would bring passengers down in time to see the
crews at practice,numerous spectators have assembled, but
Harvard keep their rowing as dark a 3 they can. They
have got a new boat built in Salter's yard on Mre Warre's
designs, a foot shorter, with rather flatter floor, narrowing
rapidly towards the stern, after the manner of a sculling
boat, and they appear to fancy her. Alderman Elliott, of
New York, will turn out another for them from Symond's
yard, so it is by no means certain in which beat the race
will be rowed, as in all they will have six. Their oars are by
Ayliug, well balanced in the rullocks, light, with broad
blades. One of the correspondents writes some rubbish
on what is said in American jeurnala about the 11 trvard
crew, but he appears to know as much about the American
presses Englishmen generally know about Harvard. A gen-
tleman in a letter to us said "it was unfair to select from a na-
tion like the United States a crew to coin') 3-to with a mere
University," thinking, we presums, that Harvard was the
name of a professional crew, selected from the Continent,
something like the Wards. In respect to numbers to
choose from the advantage is in every way with Oxford,
as Harvard has but 15 buildings, containing,' on an aver-
age, not more than 800 students. It i 3 the oldest Univer-
sity in tho United States, having been founded in 1838 by
the Rev. John Harvard, a Cambridge University man, we
believe, in Cambridge, a town so nearly adjoining Boston
as to b 3 really a part of that city. The correspon-
dent discusses their black cook, " whose head is sometimes
seen over the wall of the garden, his face lit up with smiles
in happy ignorance of the excitement he creates" He is
supposed to grind up bones to invigorate the American
giants, and the curiosity to know what they do eat is
general. If the correspondent announced that they lived
on babies there would be a stamp eta of women and chil-
dren from Putney, and after the experience of the English
lawyer, Mr. Henry Jenckeu, in Spain, who was almost
murdered a few weeks ago because the people imagined
ho stole children to grease the telegraph wires, we may
readily believe anything. These quiet, unassuming young
fellows would feel indebted to the imag.native correspon-
dent if he ceased to make them the theme of his specula-
tions. They have come hero to row a race against a sister
University, that is all ; and they came fully impresse3
with the conviction that the olds were against their beat.
'we so renowned a crow as that of Oxford on their own
tours:', and they have seen nothing as yet, we dare say,
to alter this opinion, although they have some quiet con-
edence left which they have no desire to thrust on the
public.
Reg ,rding style there seems fo be
.a wide discrepancy
between American and English expermnce. The system
40 fat d to the English Cambridge gave success and
triumph to Harvard, and an old Yale trainer says that

Yale beat the liarvarde w:ion they mei 43 strokes a
minute, and that they were beaten so soon as they adopteCl
ilia long swoop and left the quick, short j3rk to the Cam-
hridge boys. Tho following particulire of the members
of the Llarvar.l cr w, published by the Beaton Journal, wil
now be read with interest; though it w:11 bo soot
that some changes have been made: —"Alden Porto;
Loring, captain of the crew and bow oar, is well known tc
the public, having held Vie position of stroke oar at the
University Regatta last summer, when the unprecedented
time of 17 tufa. 481 secs. was made over the three mile

course of Lake Quinsigamond. He is of the senior or
graduating class of the present year, and is a resident of
Boston. His 'points,' if the word is allowable, as an oars.
man have already been faithfully described on the occa-
sion of the regatta just mentioned. His present weigh
t
is about 163 pounds, which in training will probably 11°
reduced to 153 pounds. His age is 23 years. He is of s
high, strong, delicate organization, and of great ' staying'
powers when he is all right. He pulled number five in
the University crow of '66. This was Lis Freshman years
and he held the position of stroke in the class crew of the
same year. In the University crew of '67, as well as lest
year, he was stroke oar. A competent critic says of
—'Of a temperament like a hot-blooded Moor, whonl
somewhat resembles, he knows how to use all that is in
to better advantage, to our eye, than any oarsman on tbis
Continent. Free, like all his men, from every sort of dis-
sipation, he is a man in ten thousand for such a positi°ll,
as he now holds, and every man in Harvard may be prole
of such a splendid representative of his alma mater he Lb°
contest in which he is now about to engage.'
" William Hammett Simmons, the stroke oar, is the
youngest as well as the heaviest of the four. In the win-
ter of '67 and '6B he weighed 185 pounds, which last sunk'
mar's training brought down to 168 pounds. He is 20 yeah
of age, and hails from Concord, Mass. He is of the class
of '69. It will bo regarded by our cousins across the water
as an interesting circumstance, in connection with the
proposed friendly contest between the athletes of the
chief literary institutions of each country, that 'our 1-let-
cules,' as he has been termed, has his home in the identi-
cal Old Manse' which the genius of Hawthorne I'9
made familiar wherever English literature is read. 4)'
his qualities as an oarsman it may he said, as shandy
intimated, that he is a Hercules in strength. Indeed 1
-,
is reported to be difficult to provide him wit 11 an
which does not soon span by good, honest pulling'
Though heavy, he is as easy and handy in his moveineUte
as a much smaller person. It is safe to say that he 01
pull a stronger oar than any one Harvard has yet PL
duced. His position in the regatta of July last wag
of third oar. Ho has been a prominent man in nearly all
the important races which have taken place during
college course, including the Fourth of July regattas °
1868-69, in which Mr. Loriug also participated.
"Francis Ogden Lyman is stroke oar, and held the Ott!!
position in the winning boat in the Juno race of last Yew'
He is also of the class of '7l, and hails from almost as tarn
off as possible, namely, Hilo, in the Sandwich or Ilayrsie
Islands.
lte
"Joseph Story Fay, of the Scientific School, and Sf-
re
oar of the Scientific crew, is unquestionably a strong' eeo
and a man of experience. He came over as one of the tsc.,
spare men, as did Mr. Lyman, but on arrival at rutlici
both wore incorporated in the crew.
"Arthur Burnham, of Chicago, Illinois, and a the oliel
of '7O, is the probable coxswain of the crew. It tire,
'eerily be stated that avoirdupois lightness is the prime- 0
quieite iu the man occupying this position. Burnhaulla
is estimated, will train down to, at most, 108 pounds; °
although there are several candidates of less weight, „:,
being a man of coolness of temperament and exper'e-
the chances of appointment are in his favour." f the
The work of Edward Bing, special correspondent °
Boston Journal, whose presence at Putney we last yr°,o,
announced, is beginning to appear in the American 11513'5,1
He thus describes the town :—" Putney is a very larg'33.o„
thriving town, not lacking a certain flavour of antice;er
Not far from the race course the house which {land
Cromwell inhabited for a long time is still pointed out' :de
underneath it are wonderful subterranean passages' °yet'
for the safety of the Pretender. The house itself is
grown with vines, and surrounded with a luxuriant libvueat
which is always so refreshing to au American eye' tor
by stands an unpretending mansion, in which eue tee
celebrated Englishmen—the historian Gibbon —first 5° that
light ; and in still another, one of the greatest Spirit] joti
England ever produced, that of William Pitt, was. gleie
back to its Maker. Pitt's death occurred here in 1806.
roes
old Putney bridge,' just above which the universitie aft-
generally start, is not a remarkably picturesque ef ereiver,
able affair, but a very fine iron bridge over the lion'
carrying the water of the Chelsea aqueduct leo °trues
ward, compensates fur the ugliness of the wooden ebetelS
ture. The streets are narrow and antique, and the
~ or(15
are all in the good old English style, with nuilr'a the
overhung with vines—with a porter's lodge, a° 30.1'
0
spirit room,' where a blushing barmaid servos the hoes,
ing ale. Here, from the parlour of the
by the way, I can now hear the bells of Panel c' us
sounding with mellow tones of the evening hour; the
look up and down the ' course' from the Bend eig.
bridge. The panorama is lively as well as chase tee
There is no such scenery around the Charles river 0 50c1
Harvards are to have about them on this race-o°ll ',serf
few such lovely towns in which to rest. On the 101 t
as one drives from London by the river, is the
sloping hill on which Putney is built, and s O the
the volunteers are now pouring down. it. a-
shore, only a few rods above high water mar ell
the dozen of boat houses, of more or less, fu°1;01.0-
decorated with the flags of their respective vWspot'
On English boats he writes : —". . . A crew clad 1° totts
less white hurrying to the river with their heavish d°
behind them—l say heavy boats, because the V°l'l4es in
not seem to cons:dor light draft or length re.lu'e.inelta
their race boats. We boat whichsaw—exactlY
to that used by the Oxfords at the last university fti°'; 0 ro'
nearly twice as deep as that in which the
pose to row at the coming race. All the boats at r
tope
seem of heavier build than those we are accustorn,ect'ip foul
iu America." And thus he continues :—" Walhit velvet'
the Bells, the principal one is the so-called 'Se"
city Boat-house,' in front of which the owner,
raien °
Styles, who has been for the last nine years gu:, tlt Prr,
the Cambridge Club boat at the University race), ';'lsoo'
sent varnishing a shell and whistling
bo Fetes
Under the guidance of the cordial Mr. Styled,
out Delft
sists that he can't 'for the life of him' muke ° I eu
the 'Flamerican crew menage to gat their sP.°,be a 55
of such a boat as the one ho 'as seen dese°:ooo,
theirs,' I made the tour of the boat houses this af,tv` a tee,
and received the cordial assurance that `'u
Yankees would win, but 'e'd ley a penny they 'Lot re;
The Harvard boys will certainly carry away Ple:sess het
collections of Putney, whether or u. the race ;„yr),
(even now the Oxford men are not decided on Pute-oefef';
`Rule 13
cause they will be most hospitably received. Thile Oita
crew at the University races always stop at Star *lll,
Lion Hotel,' and the Cambridge crew at 01%0 rigthlol
Garter,' which is decidedly a fair specinl3ll crew %%-
country inn, and where, I judge, tho American the rac
e.
finally decide to stop. Both houses overhang ,besig °oi
course, and the boat houses are only a stenea eitiedeo,
The common course for all regattas is from the eose, e„0
bridge at Putney to the ' Old Ship' —a public e p
et
called, at Mortlake, The river is about the sanror 12
eighth of a mile, all the way, and perhaps 1 DSO "
deep. The tides in August are so arranged berteroeou'
Moon that the race will doubtless occur in the u`