The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-17 00:00:00

was sent back to him. No one knows who the
Minister is to be, and I suppose you will, as soon
as I do.

WASHINGrON, Feb. 26.
Washington is gay, as every one is here to get
what they can from the old or from the new Ad-
ministration. Mrs. Colfax gave her last reception
on the 24th, and that it was the last rather tended
to damp the pleasure the guests would otherwise
have experienced. Mr. Colfax gives a dinner to-
day, which will also be a grand affair. Senator and
Mrs. Harlan entertained 200 persons on Wednes-
day. The Mayor is arranging a welcome for the
expected visit of a delegation from the New York
Councils, who desire to insf ect the public buildings
with a view to improve those of that city. The
inaugural ball has been arranged. There is to be
a grand procession. Part will form in the First
Ward, the military on Pennsylvania Avenue, and
other divisions where convenient, and the whole
will march to the corner of Seventeenth and First-
streets, Grant's headquarters, where they will take
him up and proceed by the Avenue to the Capitol.
The procession will return with the President after
he is sworn in, along the Avenue, disbanding
where convenient, and all the troops are ordered to
take part.
Attorney-General Evarts has replied to the
Senate's resolution of the 17th February, calling
for a list of persons convicted of violating the reve-
nue laws and counterfeiting, and aswell as the names
of the persons pardoned by the President. The
Attorney-General has cleverly evaded this by point-
ing out that it is impossible for him to understand
from the terms of the resolution, what was the
actual information the Senate wanted. He has also
furnished a long despatch in answer to the inquiry
why he had ordered the postponement in the
Courts of the trial of the New York whisky frauds.
The letter is very long, and is accompanied by a
voluminous correspondence, explaining the reasons
which induced him to act in the few cases where
the proceedings were suspended, but in no case
had he directed the discontinuance of such proceed-
ings. The Congress Yale Club has dined with the
Attorney-General. District Attorney Courtney had
an interview with the President last Monday to urge
the trial of Judge Fullerton, as well as a second
trial for M'Henry, and another Judge to be ordered
to the Circuit Court of New York. Colonel Parker,
the Indian officer on General Grant's staff, is to be
made Commissioner of Indian Affairs if he resigns
his commission. General Breckinridge has arrived
here, and had a reception in the rooms of Mr. Beck,
which was largely attended by his admirers. Re-
ports on frauds continue to pour into the House ;
there never were such people for " crying stinking
fish." In one breath, we assert that there was not
such good fish since the world began, its quality be-
ing unequalled elsewhere on the globe ; in the next
breath, we proclaim that there never was such a set
of rascals, that we cannot touch anything without
stealing ; indeed to read our newspapers foreigners
would suppose that the most quiet and law-abiding
of all people were the most dishonest, cut-throat
rogues, who spent their whole time in shooting on
sight, or in the Divorce Court, or in swindling the
Government, or swindling each other ; in forming
" rings" and organizing gigantic speculations. We
wash too much of our dirty linen in public. Mr.
Hurlburd has finished his report on the Alaska
bribery and corruption matter, and Judge Law-
rence has finished his on the frauds by which the
State of New York was carried for Seymour and
Hoffmann ; but as I suppose you will have some-
thing to say on that subject, I need not discuss it.
Grant is meeting the fate of all successful heroes ;
his phiz grins from every wall and his colossal sta-
tues are about to take dignified und commanding
positions in squares, parks, and streets. Some of
his principal friends propose to erect an equestrian
statue of him on the southern portico of the Trea-
sury Department. A model of the statue has been
received by General Spinner, executed by a Boston
artist. A life size statue would cost $35,000, heroic
$50,000, and colossal $75,000, the material being
cannon captured by Grant, on a granite pedestal.
The remains of Henry Wirz have been given to
Mr. Lewis Schade by order of the President. He
has the distinction of being the only man executed
after the close of the war for his part in the rebel.
lion, and even then, as he was very ill at the time

there was but little life taken from him. Con-
sidering that it was he who was in command
of the prison at Andersonville, where Federal
prisoners perished in thousands, many of them
of sheer starvation and neglect, his fate is not

surprising, though I think that our great nation
ought_ in this matter to have had a record wholly
pure, unsullied even by the taint of so small a re-

venge as tbat. His body was removed by an under•

taker from the Arsenal grounds, where it had been
buried. No further action, however, is to be taken

this session according to the decree of the Senate
Judiciary Committee on the removal of political
disabilities. Mr. Buck, who ran against Mr. Arnell
for Congress in Tennessee, contests his election ;
both are Republicans. Among the brevet appoint-

ments in the army transmitted by the President to
the Senate are John T. Sprague, Thomas Wilson,
Milton Coggswell, Richard N. Batchelder, Allen
Rutherford, ani Robert Avery to be Brigadier-
..

Generals. Also the last-named to be Major. General
for gallant and meritorious conduct. Iu a case

nvoiving $lOO,OOO, the Richmond and New York

Railway Company against the National Bank of the

metropolis, the former was nonsuited. It had been

on trial for two weeks in the District Supreme
Court. The Committee of Conference have agreed
to report on the Diplomatic Appropriation Bill,
though , retaining, at General Butler's special re-
quest, the mission to Chili, so as not to interfere
with General Kirkpatrick, although it was to inter-
fere with him, that the amendment was introduced.
Hereafter, instead of Ministers resident, accredited
as heretofore, Commissioners may be sent to the
Governments of Honduras, San Salvador, Nica-
ragua, and Costa Rica in Central America, and to
the Governments of Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, and
Uruguay in South America, at a salary not exceed-
ing $3,000 per year. M‘Garrahan's claims to the

New-Idria Quicksilver Mines is reported by the
Committee of the Senate, as decided by the Su-
preme. Court, to be worthless, being based on the
assumption that mining lands of immense value
may be so given away by Congress as to unsettle

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all the mining titles on the Pacific Coast.

minority of the Committee differ, however, and
the fight is likely to be protracted. There has long
been a squabble over Mr. Corcoran's claim, who is
a leading Democratic banker of this city. The in-
vestigation has gone on. from day to day. Some
property of that gentleman had been used by the
army for hospital purposes, and the question was
whether so rank a " sesech" should get anything
out of the Federal Treasury, and this was opposed
by men who accused him of openly stating at his
+.lO. +h. --la 8;,. otoo,ooo Lu have
Mr. Lincoln put out of the way. Brewer heard him,
and Senator Bayard, set this price on Lincoln's
head. He was then the butler of the Russian

Ambassador, Baron Stoeckl, and a question arose

as to whether he could be brought up as a witness,
having respect to the privileges of an Embassy. An
old story then came up how a British ambassador
at Berlin said at his dinner table he would give a

reward to any one who brought him Franklin's

papers. On this the butler behind his chair broke

Into Franklin's room, forced his desk, and ab-

stracted the papers to earn the reward. Ido not

see the connection between the stories.

Mr. Dawes wrote the following letter to Mr.
Blaine, which settled the question of the Speakership if
there had been any doubt :—" House of Representatives,
Feb. 24, 1869. The Hon. J. G. Blaine.—My dear Sir,—
Having determined not to be longer a candidate for Speaker
I deem it duo to the friendly relations which have all along
existed between us that I should communicate this deter-
mination to you at the earliest moment.-1 am truly yours,
11. L. DAWES."

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says that the address of President Grant shows a straight-
forward, firm, and enlightened spirit.
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SPURGEON AND THE TABERNACLE.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANGLO-AMERICAN TOTES.
DEAR SIR,--YOU asked me to tell you what I
thought of Mr. Spurgeon and the Tabernacle, which
I visited on a recent Sunday for the first time. I was
among those who had no ticket, and had to take
my place on the steps, and there to await, in the
ofcr ot‘hved
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est h e the
were
twice the number of the places to be filled. It was
a struggle, a surging of the dense mass to and fro,
and in the throng I was borne up the steps into a
gallery. When I looked up, having secured my
place, I was surprised at the sight which greeted
me, notwithstanding my expectation. The hall is
an oval, with two galleries circling it all round,
tier steeply rising on tier, so as to present a solid
mass of faces, all turned inwards, looking towards
a platform, the passage to which passed through
the
central gallery at the extreme opposite to me,
where
railed round was a large carpeted space, on which
sat many gentlemen, and before them, facing the
audience, stood Mr. Spurgeon, in a plain suit of
black. This platform led by two winding stairs,
one on each side, to a lower railed space, where
numbers sat, but the prominent place was occupied
by a table, over which a white cloth was spread.
When I looked, I felt that indescribable feeling
with which the presence of a multitude inspires an
individual when first and unexpectedly introduced.
It was a sea of white faces, row rising over row,
even the steps leading to the seats being occupied'
leaving no breach in the round lines. Beneath the
people sat, still preserving the circular formation, se
that every face was directed on the central figure'
The hall is light and graceful ; the thin pillars
supporting arches, and the centre of the building
rising into a dome. Though well lighted, I could
not distinctly see Mr. Spurgeon, the atmosphere
growing vitiated, gathering into a blue haze throtigh
the great distance. Every window seemed to he
carefully shut, as if the fresh air of heaven
was an enemy to the dwellers in the tabor'
nacle. I doubted whether the voice of any.
man could fill the building and reach each ear
through a sustained service, but I was quickly
uudeceived, for after a prayer, every WI
sounding clearly over the building, Mr. Spur-
geon read a psalm, which the people sang verse by
verse after the reading. It is but in few churchl
unless the hearer has the hymn beforo him or knows
it by heart, that the words of the reader are distinctly
conveyed. Not only were tile words given so as
to be understood, but emphasized with a beauty
that gave all the pathos and the fire of the
poetry;
Years before I had heard Mr. Spurgeon at Eoteti.
Hall, and his voice was familiar, unchanged, as
precisely as I remembered it. It did not thereforee
surprise me when I found that full melodious tone
searching through every nook of the tabernacle, but
what did surprise me was the singing that followed'
I expected the shout of a multitude—the h°36ue
murmur of innumerable voices, but instead, a s'mi'le
intonation, so one and distinct thatl do not remelnuer
ith
to have heard another congregation sieg a psalm vght
such clearness that the words they uttered tiler
be known in the street. I cannot tell whet
the congregation in general joined, but if so, I was
disappointed in the effect. Perhaps it was beean'e e
could not duly appreciate the depth of the
sound, for I must confess that I was in 60
same way disappointed in the great festivals at the
Crystal Palace. Mr. Spurgeon, and a gentleta..,
who advanced to the rails, directed the sin,g
tbgo
but there were other leaders scattered throun_
to
congregation. Mr. Spurgeon's power appear.
me chiefly to lie in his aptitude for illustration:to
think in this he is the greatest master alive. ±1.,,
agreat CO.'t
must have a rich and vivid imagination;
wand of language as well, always using the plaices
Anglo-Saxon words, and pronouncing them with
distinctness in his well-toned, mellow voice, which
Solve
seems to add to their appropriateness.
ke hiS
times he descended too low in order to ma
meaning plain, considering the dignity of the Sub.
was
ject, and then his illustrations bordered on vul-
garity, and came close to the profane. There
nothing striking in the address be gave ; it was o
a subject so well worn, as to leave but little new t 0 bo
said, and I had therefore no opportunity of hear/no
any burst of eloquence, though in closing the a$
ddreS,
he gave us a specimen of his powers of a't,i3j
which are of no mean order. " Lest I have 13-11ebil
my mark, one illustration and I have done," he 5_31.10':
his object being to show that true faith must,F,sre,
duce works. "A ship is drifting, she nears the swenvuer,
and must be inevitably wrecked. A pilot, he
reaches her, and he tells the captain and crew ebe
t
he can save them if they will put implicit fa.ltll'd
him. To this they readily assent ;" when he turn the
• like
round, and out rang the preacher's vote
at the
roar of the pilot in a gale of wind to the man 73,00
wheel, "Down with your helm: not a move.... eot 3
with your helm," thundered the pilot. 66 Stlicil;ir ea
move." "I thought," said the pilot, "You ower•
to be saved, and expressed your faith in tny
_1.31
nug
"Yes, pilot ;" and Mr. Spurgeon folded hie' but
ing changed his voice,
phis whole attitudeu but
ing that of a tar; " we have full faith in Yi.ooft, and
we are not going to work." " Away
reef topsails" again pealed through the etil
"not a move." " How is this, captain?" asks he
if yoa
" You all profess faith, yet will do nothing:,
and if
have belief in me, surely you will show
,r ,b, yes,
you do not you must inevitably be lost."
,oing
pilot, we have faith in you, but we are not' 6
rgooa
to work." " What sort of faith," le- Ir• bPetl,
•
asked, "is this ?—a mimic mockery of faith entire
though the illustration was faulty, for 1-‘-ire'cir, his
geon's handling of the ship was far from Per'
acting was decidedly good, and it struck mer tho •
i
is tn
It
must often use his latform as a stage.
untran''''
opinion a great advpantage to stand
boards, but
by gown or pulpit on the open h° 4 gr•
he must be an orator who attempts thi3 using
freely'
Spurgeon moves restlessly about,
taildin°
the space open to him. A preacher sold eot
there tamely, to read a written sermon, would
find his position trying, but to the eu.o..atain
don he would appear as if the
I see, red
had given place to a stagnant pool.
censer ,
American papers, that Mr. Spurgeon I.6n_ _oaths
for returning to his glass of wine, afterirnti_neelLe sys.;
trial, finding that, under the total a i
°Orb Dif
tern, he could not sustain the tremendousme
wheit
work requires. Nor does it surprise
enLd by theo.,_
sparkling t
buy
to
saw the single phase of that work presn"thrett.,,aa
evening service in the Tabernacle last'
an hour and a half, during which every
came from Mr. Spurgeon.
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Births.of
PAGET—On the 16th inst., the Lady
daughter.
STUART—On the 12th inst. at Oaklands. Cookst°l7l3:
county Tyrone, Ireland, the Viscountess Stuart,
daughter.

Marriages. vOl3l
BAX—NESIIABI—On the 13th inst., at Haberton, S. -r-)
Bonham Ward Bax, Commander RN., to EatilY,P°7ol3el
youngest surviving daughter of the late Lieut.- u
Nesham.
RICHARDS—HOWARD - On the 11th inst., at Nov St' F 6-11-
S 1
eras, William Henry, son of the late Henry BebWs,l,;cll
Esq., of Wednesbury, to Mazy, daughter of J. ll°
Esq., of Cliff House, New Mistley, Essex.

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