The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1869.

MISCE LLAIV EOUS NE

ro bound off to catch-a stray passenger or to taxe a
fare, to proclaim his destination until he is hoarse,
nd to note down all his fares in the way-bill. We
have just been celebrating the memory of " The
Factory`King," who originated the Ten Hours Bill.
Why does not some Richard Oastler arise to do
battle for the 'bussmen ? Better still, why do not
the 'bussmen organise in their own behalf ? There
is no other occupation the members of which would
consent to work such long hours for such small pay.

in gold is owing to the tbearS' buying largely to
cover short contracts. The violent fluctuations in
goli have unsettled values and caused a partial sus-
rent-ion (.f business generally." 'This is one of the
elLets. of the unsettled relations between the na-
tions.

Mr. Blow has been appointed United States
Minn:ter to Rio Janeiro, and ,General Sickles has
teen nominated to Spain. Mr. Blow sails illltlle-
diately to replace General Webb, who has himself
but lately returned to his post from a visit to New
York. General "Webb considers that General
M'Mahon, the Minister to Paraguay, failed in his
duty to him in passing by Rio without showing
him, as the superior officer, his full instructions. He
addressed a formal note requiring the Minister
to Paraguay not to proceed beyond Buenos Ayres
until he had communicated with Washington ;
but, in direct violation of this, General M'Mahon
" became a party to Admiral Davis's " disgraceful
collusion with Lopez." It is considered that General
Webb took an unjustifiable view of his position in
addressing such a note to a Minister accredited to
another Power; that he misconstrued the mean-
ing of the precedence of rank the mission to Bina
carried, into a right to control the other diplomatists
of his country on the South American continent.
We regret that these paltry squabbles should so
often arise in the diplomatic branch as they arc
productive only of harm to the individuals who
indulge in them, while derogating from the dignity
of the service.

Americans are apt to carry what they take up
into even greater extravagances than their British
cjusins. There are no lower Low Churchmen and
no higher High Churchmen than in the United
States. From a revival to a Christ Church ceremo-
nial in the Episcopal Church of Fifth-avenue, New
York, the distance is wider than anything in the line
of theology that obtaics in England. The Rev. Dr.
Ewer is the rector, and on the 3d inst., his church
was the scene of a ceremony which astonished the
citizens, having for it object the formal adoration of
the Cross. The building was darkened, while the
chancel bhized with light. A colossal brazen cross
was erected on the altar, before which knelt the
priests and acolytes. Various processions moved
around the church, with boys in surplices, bearing
wax-burners and crosses in front. The fellows of
" the guild of the Holy Cross," in whose behalf the
service was performed, took their places robed in
black gowns and chasubles, some of bright red,
others blue, trimmed with white and grey, orna-
mented with gold, while on the bosom of each a large
cross was embroidered. Hymns expressive of
reverence for the symbol of Christianity were sung,
and St. Albans, which hitherto has been considered
the most advanced church in Ritualism, has lost its
proud pre-eminence in New York ; fashion having
Row transferred the highest High Churchism to its
favoured spot, Fifth-avenue.
Expeditions are asserted to have left the United
States for Cuba, carrying succour to the insurgents,
an las strenuously denied. The coasting steamer
per:t sailed from New York on the 4th inst. with
some picked men and arms and ammunition. 'I here
were few Atneric Ins among the party; not more than
ten, with six negroes. About 500 stand of arms
were embarked, and each man had a rifle and uni-
forth. The vessel lay at the foot of Christopher-
street, North River, with her stern covered with
canvas, so as to conceal her name, but it was not
till the last day that the United States Marshal was
informed of what was going on, when he telegraphed
to Secretary Fish for instructions, which he re-
ceived on the moiling of the 6th, directing great
vigilance to be observed by the Government ofli-
cers to prevent any violation of the neutrality laws.
The Marshal, whose deputies were aware of the
movement, asserts he has no right to detain vessels
sailing from New York, without orders from Wash-
ington, but it is hinted that he took care not to be
informed of what was going on till the vessel was
about to leave. Intelligence was sent to the Cuban
authorities from Washington, and as the destination
is Dead Man's Island, one of the Florida Keys, the
exit is likely to he picical up by a Spanish cruiser
before her voyage is completed. Two or three sus-
picious vessels are now under surveillance, and the
action of the Government at IVashington is so de-
cided that the insurgents being likely to nee ive little
• further aid from the United States arein loud lament;
the organ of the Junta in New York, The Revolution,
thus bursts into bitter complaint :
"There is not a stcamc,r that sails from Cuba which
does not carry out magnificent supplies and armamonts for
our enemies, the Spaniards. Their troops have arms that
have been constructed in some model workshop of the
model Republic, with the sanction of the Government; and
I those arms only go there to slat“htar d fenceless R pub-
licans, to murder bravo and noble men, whose first act, upon
asking fur their liberty, was to grant the same to their
slaves. Is this neutrality ? No ; thousand times no !"
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General Lee's interview with the President has
been productive of good fruit for Virginia, as we
learn by telegram from Washington, dated last
Sunday, that President Grant has issued a procla-
mation ordering an election to take place on the
6th of July in that State, on the new State Consti-
tution.: He:orders at the same time that a separate
vote should be tAen on the sections of the Consti-
tution which disfranchise participants in the re-
bellion,.and which enforce the test oath for officials
assuming office.
At a meeting of the Union League of America,
lately held in New York, a delegation was elected
to confer with the President and Cabinet on the
affairs wherein the Union League are interested.
They met the Executive on the sth inst., and in-
formed the President that their main object was to
andst strengthen
principles,thenandlaluddtaosgecituhieerkltybeasßmeapyubblie
the three unreconstructed States into the Union. Tue
President had thesupport of the League which
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use its great power to make .his administrationwoulda
success. For this the President returned t
expressed his gratification. He told theei what steps
and
expressed ad
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thiew ihandsttraekeetineetos restore those thgoivs.eeaStuateens,earanld
Cmaeenbtyioureed.
garding the election in Virginia, which were similar
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satisfied the Constitu-
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great nations.
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was sent with the despatches relating to.the cession
of Mexican territory, that the United States had no
need for more territory, and declines to purchase
any. On this point all the Cabinet are agreed, so
Mr. Seward's spread-eagle policy has received an
effectual check, and Juarez must seek elsewhere to
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nothing than sell territory to a nation he dare not
cheat.

Governor Curtin is President of the East India.
Telegraph Company, and he has lately been in
Washington to push the objects of that corporation
w WI regard to the introduction of telegraphy in China.
‘lrlien Mr. Burlingame was American Minister at.
Peking he obtaine 1 for the company a grant autho-
rizing them to lay a cable between Shanghai and
Canton, and. now 500 miles of their wire is ready
to ship and lay down, while the remaining 500 will
be finished and forwarded during the summer.
His interviews were with the Secretaries of State
and of the Navy, to procure for the work the offi-
cial aid of the Ministers and Consuls. From the
Navy Department he has obtained orders to the
commanders of the Asiatic squadron to render all
necessary assistance and protection. If the line be
completed this year, as well as that through the
Mediterranean Sea to India and China, the remotest
parts of China will be in immediate connection
round by Europe with San Francisco.
The President is reported at Washington to have
said that he would take no action about the Spanish

Mission till July Ist, the date on which General
Hale's resignation takes effect. General Grant bad
been assured by the Minister and his friends that
he could explain away the charges brought against
him of smuggling goods into Spain, and prove
them to be false. It was clearly understood, then,
that time was to be given to allow hita -to do so,
and therefore it was with some surprise we re-
ceived the message from Washington of Tuesday
to the effect that Mr. Hale had been suspended
from his functions as United States Minister at
Madrid, and General Sickles nominated as his
successor.

11Ir. M. D. Conway is reported to have said at
the last meeting of the Aborigines' Protection So-
ciety that the Abolition of Slavery by Great Britain
in the West Indies led to its abolition in the United
States ; that he had often seen slaves fleeing fur
protection to Canada ; and that he trusted the
time would never come when the British flag should
cease to fly in North America. We would like to
hear Mr. Conway's reasons for stating that hope,
and there are few men better able to express
opinions, or whose opinions when expressed ought
to be received and considered with more respect..
Mr. Conway, though a Virginian, is thoroughly
Northern in sentiment, but in the utterance of this
wish he differs widely from those with whom he in
general agrees. 'Whether a single Government for
the Continent be not too great a luxury for this
world we cannot tell, for such an experiment as that
Americans desire to see tried in North America,
has never as yet been made. What some assert
may be true, that a nation may require to be
balanced by a nation as a party by an opposition,
and this is a legitimate subject for 'discussion. All
we seek in taking the opposite view is the highest
good of the Anglo-Saxon race; and if we thought
with Mr. Conway that that would be best achieved
by maintaintaing British sovereignty in North
America, we would not have advanced the argu-
ments we have so often done.

Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and now Illinois, have established Boards of State
Charities, with Presidents and Secretaries. Rhode
Island 'will probably follow suit, the Legislature
making an appropriation for the purpose. In Illi-
nois William Thomas, of Morgan County, has been
chosen President, and a salaried Secretary is to be
appointed after the board meets at Jacksonville.
Governor Geary has not yet selected the Pennsyl-
vaniaboard, but it is understood that the present
superintendeut of olucat ion, Mr. I. P. Wickersham,
and Ex-Governor Bigler, will be two of its mem,
bers. The State of Indiana has altered her law on
divorce. Persons filing applications must have re-
sided in the State for one year and in the county
for 90 days. It is made a felony to misrepresent
the circumstances, and the punishment of impri-
sonment inclules any attorney lending his assist-
ance in procuring a divorce through frau lulent
means. Indiana has therefore ceased to •Le the
divorce-manufacturing State of the Union, and the
" incompatibility of temper" of the outside public
must seek a separation elsewhere.
The New York Tribune maintains its vigorous
stand against the growing and strengthening Free
Trade "heresy." There are signs that, strong as
is the leading Republican journal, it will have
enough to do to bear up against the increasing
torrent. The Free Trade League at Boston, with
the financier, Mr. Atkinson, at its head, seek from
the Massachusetts Legislature an Act to incorporate
the Guardian Newspaper Company, under which
they propose to establish. a new daily par Cr. The
telegraph news appears to be monopolized in Boston
by the BostOn journals now established, outside
which a new organ would find itself, and it there-
fore might be the wiser plan to buy an old paper.
Theodore Tilton came down on the Rev. Dr. Storrs
in an article published in the New fork independent.
so sarcastic as to excite the indignation of Brooklyn,
The reverend gentleman is strong in the affections
of a large class, and his character stands so high
that, however able such articles may be, they tend
more to the injury of the gun from which they are
fired than of the target at which they are directed.
The general tone of the press in the Young-Dana
affair is against Mr. Young, his letters being eJnsi-
sidercd crushing evidence of the abuse of his posi-
tion. Doubtless jealousy may give some colouring
to the crow of denunciation over the Tribune, and
i s young, able, but unscrupulocs editor. Never-

theless, they one and all censure the animus of the
New York Sun, and set aside with contemp its
running commentary on the letters.

Senator Sprague's little difficulty spreads and
grows litter, though carded from the Capitol of
the nation into " little Maly's" own State. 'The
Mayor of Providence, Mr. Thomas A. Doyle, has
ranged himself resolutely among the Si.rague men ;
and as.he will shortly be a candidate for re-election
the other side have fastened on him to test the
strength of what the Tribune calls the Montagues
and Capulets. We imagine that the publication of
the pile of correspondence in the Congressional
Globe has let a good many cats out of bags, and
produced much irritation. Among these letters was
one from Mr. Doyle, which has caused the late dis-
union in Providence. Another letter is from a
prominent citizen of that town, who repeated what
was said at a meeting of Bank directors, and it was
ou this that Mr. Sprague opened his first battery
against the Providence Journal. If the Senator has
raised up a host of enemies his outspoken denun-
ciation of corruption suits the temper of the times,
and the fearless way in which he has performed
this duty is in itself no bad recommendation to the
American people. On the whole, Mr..Sprague has
not lost prestige, though a terrific storm of abuse
has been hurled at him.
The Erie Railway will make its name fatuous in
the history of New York. Its directors lose no
opportunity of fighting, and wherever there is hot
water or water to be made hot there is seen to be a
Gould, a Lane, or a Fisk. The Postmaster-Gene-
ral has been informed by Mr. Gould that the Erie
will refuse to carry the mails unless the department
raises the remuneration from $lBO,OOO to $330,000,
a demand he declines to grant. The Erie receives
per mile for the carriage of the mails w hat the New
York Central and other roads get, but it is little
less than ridiculous to expect that so erratic a com-
pany to remain satisfied when classed with the
common herd. Their attack on the Union Pacific
appears to have failed, for although it is nominally
kept before Judge Barnard's Court, the proceedings
are suspended. The case is being tried by Judge
Nelson of the United States Court, whether a State
Court can control a national corporation like the
Union Pacific Railroad. That company has brought
an action against Mr. Fisk for the injury caused by
his operations to their credit and business, suing
for very heavy damages. Mr. Fisk must have a
lively law time, as he has another action coming on
against an editor of the New York I bites, while
Gould and Lane arrested C. L. Bushnell in the
Fifth Avenue Hotel on the sth inst. Yet Mr. Fisk,
with these endless suits pending, buys properties in
every direction, each of which requires the closest
attention and the whole time of its proprietor if he
be an ordinary man. His last purchase is " The.
Continental," the largest hotel at Long Branch,
New Jersey, which he will open to the public this
summer.
The Chicago Tribune has a severe article on the
recent appointments of the President. Never before
had a -man such a chance of forming a powerful
Administration ; on the day of his inauguration be
may safely be said to have been the strongest man
in Christendom. Yet only two months have passed
away, and it Cannot be affirmed that there is a
strong Administration. " Its moral power has been
frittered away by small absurdities, and there never
was one with more good intentions at heart, and
lees aptitude for carrying them into effect." There
is no doubt about the fact that some bad appoint-
ments have been made; but this it is impossible to
avoid among the thousands. The President could
only judgeof character and fitness through the tes`.i-
monials,and even Mr. Ashley received 150 signatures
of Congressmen. Gen. Grant's fault appears to have
been in 3 ielding to the pre:, sure of the poll titians, and
acting on the old rotation system against which he was
expected to make a vigorousstand. The London cor-
respondent of the New York 7 ribune takes great ex-
ception to the supercession of Captain John Brit-
ton, Consul at Southampton, by Mr. William
Thomson. Captain Britton had to withstand the
storm of rebel sympathizers, which the correspon-