The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-10 00:00:00

.UR. WASHBURNE ON RAILWAY SUBSIDIES.

granted by Congress to various railroads, the r--0
port of the Secretary of the Treasury proved On
they amounted in the aggregate to V1,337)00,0'
Mr. Washburne proceeded to show that the
Eastern Division road was badly located an
poorly built, while the recapitulation of go°
made the United States Bonds subsilh
$6,305,000 ; land subsidy, worth $93,240,000;
privilege of subordinating first mortgage bond'
$3,033,000; total, $35,846,000. This was the amount
received by the company for building a railroad 400
miles in length, which is represented as being one
of the easiest and cheapest ever constructed in Arne.
rica. It was equal to $89,615 per mile, and puttiug
the actual cost at its highest possible estimate
$30,000 per mile, it would leave a net profit to tl'a
company of $59,615 per mile, which for WI;
hundred miles would give the company $23,746,p00•
He was the more earnest, as by the vote upon it'
the House would determine its policy on the sub'
ject of other land grants and subsidies to railroat
If this bill was passed, with all its enormities, th
House would be ignoring the demands of the COL
try, would be giving emphatic sanction to otlio:
projects that were lying in wait, involving soy
two hundred millions of dollars to aid in the On:
struction of some ten thousand miles of railroad
•
Two hundred millions for the benefit of corpora
tions, speculators, lobbyists,and adventurers, while.
a pestiferous monopoly, the Western Union 'Plat
graph Company, was to be perpetuated, which W
robbing the public of ten millions a year.

LONDON GAZETTE-LAST EVENING'

SORN, FEE 4 our
The Queen was this day pleased . to. confer the 110.00
of Knighthood ou William Alilhourne James, Esq., a
Chancellor.
WHITEHALL, FEE. 8. to
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters pata" f $
be passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity
Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
land unto William Young, Esq., Chief Justice and PZ,6I
dent of the Legislative Council of the Province of II"
Scotia.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, FEB. 2.
.1 acit
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain xrof
-
Brockman Morley, late of the 40th Foot, to be El°9-r,
tile
her Majesty's Guard of Yeomen of the Guard, from
re,
23d January, vice Captain Thomas Parker Rickfordi
signed, 24th October, 1868.
WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, FEB. 9.„,iipg
„
4th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—John Robert r",via
Goodden, Gent., to be Cornet; Staff-Surgeon,
Wilson to be Surgeon'.
6th Dragoons—Lieutenant John Bland to be CAP-
Cornet Gage Chas. Fitzßoy to be Lieutenant. ,„,,tt,
6th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Edward Hour Corse-P'"
to be Ensign.
10th Poet—Lieutenant Theophilus Scott to be CaPt
Ensign Eustace B. Burnaby to be Lieutenant. car
13th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander D. Simpson to
taro, Ensign Robert A. Jalland to be Lieutenant, WO'
T. Summers, Gent., to be Ensign.
15th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Bourke to ig3
sistant-Surgeon. .pator
21st Foot—Ensign William Andrew Yule to be -'-'l-1,30
pant ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Frederick J. Callag
to be Ensign.
be 27th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Burch Pye PhillipPs tier
Captain; Ensign Charles Sumner Pinwill to be
.„Tut-
tenant ; Gentleman Cadet Alfred James Phayre
... ball to bo Ensign.
38th Foot—Lieutenant Alfred Stokes to be Captain.
46th Foot —Major and Brevet Lieutenant- Colonel Ar',, to
Need to be Major, Captain Thomas Douglas F°r",-.0
be Major, Lieutenant Henry Patten Law to be Cap
Ensign Gerard William Thorpe to be Lientenanc,
sign Henry Elliott Chevalier Kitchener to bo .0
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Liebe
tenant, Gentleman Cadet Henry Pinnock Bailey We
Ensign, Gentleman Cadet Shirley Apthorp to be }-I,;),stior
63d Foot—Ensign Alfred Nuthall to be Ensign, '—
Millar tot), Ensign.
Wl'oot—Major Robert MacGregor to be tLientetiew
Colonel ; Captain Charles Blewitt to be Major; Aier
tenant William Wrixen to be Captain ; Ensign
ander Acheson to be Lieutenant.
ADMIRALTY, FEB. 6.
et
Lowry John Monteith, Es q., has this day beenrieett
meted to the rank of Staff Surgeon in her Majesty'S
with seniority of the 4th inst.

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Mr. Seward has lately been arranging his a'fr
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for an extended tour of travel, which he proposes beglef
fling on the expiration of his term of office. The P lirij
nee
will ba across the Continent to California, and thel;et-
through the Republics of South America.—General S„ re
man, the last report from St. Louis says, has been ill '-teile
for some days.—General Mower has been assigned to
command of the Military District of Louisiana. whet,'
The dedication of the American Methodist ,--tace
logical Seminary at Frankfort-on-the-Maine took
14°`"
on the 18th Jan., and the clergy and presiding e
from various parts of Germany and students w@rePois
sent. Addresses were made in German by manY (
clergy and by some of the professors, and in Esgll,)
f
e -Aft.
G. P. Kettell, United States Consul, Carlsruhe, ssor
Murphy, Consul-General, Frankfort, and by Pr°f°oo
M'Chesney, United States Consul, Newcastle. the
seminary is a large four-storey brick building 9,00
eastern part of the city, commanding a view of Fr't°
and vicinity. Its cost will be about 400,000 fratleNqiio
the gift of T. Martin, of Brooklyn, New Yor' ,Oubt'
being the only Methodist college in Germany Nvi11,.700
less be a success. After the ceremony some 200 sacoter:
to tea, and next day the clergy and professors were
tained at dinner at the Hotel D'Angleterre in FO;fLeell
by the American Consul-General, at which about
clergy and professors were present. f tb°
THE PUBLIC LANDS.—The entire area 0 re
States and Territories, the soil of which belong god
nally to the United States, commencing with Obws, or
ending with Alaska, is estimated at 1,834,998,400 screw'
2,867,185 square miles, of which 485,000,000 acres st.'9orad
veyed, and opened to homestead settlement. The G°Cesi
ment has since its organization sold over 154,000,000 °op.
30,000,000 acres are now in the hands of speculator°'
elusive of the 124,000,000 granted to Pacific railrosooo
57,000,000 to other railroads west and south, 17,,°„„p0i1l
acres to canals, 60,000,000 s lected and classed as 6„; tb°
and overflowed lands," 9,600,000 acres granted :11
States in aid of agricultural colleges, wh'e
being sold by scrip, and will eventually b° 130'
by land speculators and likewise by monopolists.litsd
sides this, 17,716,555 acres have been granted for 1214 556'
and naval service, making the total disposed of 493.f."0,'
The Commissioner of the General Land Offie° g"-8033f
number of surveyed lands undisposed of as 64, sea of
acres. It is estimated that of the 493,000,000 disP°,;;roto
at least 225,000,000 acres are now in the hands of rni,rotil
companies and private speculators. The Osage 4.0 seb
now before the .Senate for confirmation, proposesessod
the land, in all 8,003,203 acres, belonging by P°Bbas the
right to the Osage Indians, to a corporation knoll COI'
Leavenworth, Lawrence, and Galveston Ilailroated, Aro
parry, at 81 99 per acre. These lands, it is asslsirablde
fertile and valuable, and situated in the most_
part of the State. The railroad company, it 18,beir ovit
proposes to hold and sell them in a few years at of tbi!o
prices ; thus, instead of facilitating the settlement tends
portion of our domain, including a system which
drive the settlers to other localities.

Births. , ,$. CV.'
HENLEY—On the 7th inst. at 11 Cedars, ru'll,, '
the Hon. Mrs. Robert Henley, of a son. ti gs
HUNT—On the Fth ins ,at Ore House, near 113513- ' the
wile of Jas. Hunt, Esq.., of a son. f 'Aleut.'
WICKHAM—On the Bth inst. at Clifton, the NON °
Colonel Wickham, of a son.

Marriages. reter'A
KNOLLYS —BnisTow— On the Bth inst., St'i Sir ..,11.
Eaton-square. Frederick Robert, sen Gerleve" f t"°
Knollys, to Laura Caroline, youngest clauglitar °
late R. Bristow, Esq., of Broxmoro Park, Wilta'clitirch,
MAuDsLAv—LUCAS On the 9th inst.. at Christ.,"ef 211
Lancaster-gate, Walter Henry Maudslay, V eleVe-
Hyde-park-square, and Lambeth, to of
the
daughter of Charles T. Lucas, Esq., of 94, l'"11
gate, and Warnham Court, Sussex.
Deaths. 130100"
GODFREY On the Bth inst., at 29, Spital-Kuar"
gate, Mr. Valentine Godfrey, aged 43.
LEARMONTII—On the Bth inst., at Parkhall, Sti"l-°
ore,
Thomas L. Learmonth, Esq., aged 89. ..sq
MURCHISON—On the 9th inst, at 16, Beigtr,„-c
r We—
Lady Murchison, wife of Sir Roderick I.
Bart., K.C.B. aged 80. n °Fife°of
WILDMAN—On, the Bth inst., at 29, Park- street,A-14.
square, Captain Leveson Wildman, age'

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Mr. Washburne, of Illinois, made a great speed!
in the House on the 19th January against the grant
of subsidies, more especially to the Union pacific
Railroad (Eastern Division). He asserted that
nearly one-third the public domain had gone t°
railroad corporations. To the Pacific Lines alone
the Commissioner of the General Land Office esti-
mated the amount as about a fourth of being twice
as large as the united area ofEngland,Scotland,wales,
Ireland, Guernsay, Jersey, the Isle of Man, and the
islands of the British seas, and within less than a
tenth of being equal to the French Empire pro Per;
The report of Jesse L. Williams, the Govern
Director of the Union Pacific Railroad Col'
pany, showed thtt the entire length of the r°3d
would be but 1,110 miles, while the Gavel-1111301,
subsidies in bonds amounted to v9,500,0?0'
giving an avcrage jhe
per mile of $.48,5_-;:).
company's first mortgage bonds would yield
over $2,7,000,000, so that the fund realised froth
those two sources atnounted to over $40,000,0001.
being an average of $51,03,1 per mile, exceeding by
$16,000 the actual cost of construction and equip'
moot. This yielded a profit to the company °f
nearly $18,000,000. As to the subsidies in boilos