The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 3, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

which has taken place since. Men still make these
blunders, especially very young men, but then they
no longer lose their presence of mind. They pre-
serve their sang frond, and prove the clever-
ness of their heads at the expense, perhaps, of
their hearts. The Daily !sews tells the following
good story, which we beg our readers to compare
with the first, and to note well the difference. Two
youths, very young indeed, but aspiring no doubt to
some high diplomatic mission, are speaking to each
other in a crowded ball-room. " Oh, look at that
old man, what a ridiculous head he has got," says
one. " I beg pardon, it happens to be my father,"
says the other. Replies the first: " Indeed, that is
your most respected father? Well, could you but
see mine—it is quite another affair—he is twenty
times more ridiculous." The two sucking diplo-
matists laughed, shook hands, and understood each
other perfectly.

can newspapers,. although not official, having been
only a reply to Mr. Cooper's letter. Until Congress
legislates on the subject it is believed that the Mas-
sachusetts grant will hold good, and the Cable will
shortly be landed in the State, if all goes right, as
at present, with the Great Eastern. The Company
is negotiating for the old Bank building in Dux-
bury as their telegraph office, and will land the
Cable on Salt House Beach, carrying it across the
marsh on raised trestle-work, to the office near
Blue Fish River bridge, following thence the old
Boston road, via Hanover, Weymouth, and Quincy,
to Boston. We were premature in announcing all
right on board the Great Eastern, for a change has
occurred, the Cable being cut and buoyed ; pro-
bably in shoal water ; and the Great Eastern will
return to eradicate the fault, but this does not
seem to cause much uneasiness, and the price
of the shares fell but slightly. Every one must
sympathise with Cyrus W. Field and the prcmoters
of the Cables now down ; for it is manifestly bard
that these pioneers of Atlantic Telegraphy should
not reap all the reward of their skid and enterprise,
but be subjected to the competition of those whose
road has Leen smoothed at their expense. But
Legislatures entertain such questions only in their
practical bearing, not as matters of sentiment; and
the world gains, more especially America, for, if a
war broke out between England and the Republic,
she would have a Cable to France which would be
of inestimable value, and if a war broke out between
France and the Republic the latter would have a
Cable to England, and such a political considera-
tion, independent of the commercial advantages,
would outweigh all objection. The argument in
America hinges most on States' Rights.
Senator Casserly has made a great speech in San
Francisco against the immigration of the Chinese.
He is asked whether it would be kind and right in
those who have migrated into America from the Old
World, and been freely admitted to every privilege
of citizenship, to exclude others who do not even
want to vote, but only to work an I live. We
think this question pertinent, but he may think it
impertinent. Mr. Reverdy Johnson has turned his
speech-making to better account in the Baltimore
Courts than in "banquet halls deserted"of London,for
be has gained the Gold contract case for his client.
The question was whether gold deposited in a bank
before 1861 could be afterwards repaid in legal-
tender, and the decision is, that it cannot. Horace
Greeley's Fourth Chapter on Political Economy is
on " Money—The Balance of Trade," and oc-
cupies three columns of small type. Immediately
following, the artful Horace has placed the letter
of Scheppers Brot hers, who emigrated from Belgium
to manufacture in Philadelphia the finest silk-finish
alpacas and poplins, and as they say, " to consume
your wool, to employ your labour, and to supply
you with home manufactures superior to the finest
foreign," forgetting to add, " and to pocket your
money." Indeed, Protectionists generally forget to
add this, although the main issue, and always ap-
pear to be philanthropists of the utmost purity, and
of the finest water. Of course, the firm order 36
weel 'y Tribunes, commencing with No. 1 on Poli-
tical Economy—" money enclosed."
A correspondent has marked and sent us what he
calls General Banks' idea of poetic justice. It is but
fair to the well-known Congressman to say that
his idea of poetical justice was uttered after dinner
in response to a toast, and it is not an inapt illus-
tration of the nonsense a man will talk and get
loudly applauded for under the exhilarating influence
of champagne. The Ancient and Honourable Ar-
tillery Company drilled, dined, and wined in the old
city of Boston, for the 231st yearly time, on the 7th
June, when Gen. Banks, responding for the militia,
took the opportunity of expressing his oft-expressed
sentiments regarding the Monroe doctrine, the
right of Americans to their Continent uncontrolled
from one end to the otherAy European intervention,
Americans claiming no right to interfere in Europe.
"The European Governments," he s bid, "must with-
draw from the American Continent. it will be poetic
justice if Spain, the first to discover, shall be the first
to vacate, this Continent. I regard the continued
supremacy of Spain in the Gulf of Mexico as not
only improbable, but impossible. Cuba is to-day,
through the power of her people and the force of
our example, an independent State, and will remain
so. And after Spain shall have withdrawn, other
European States will follow by the law of our
example, and the strength of our adeice, in the same
way." The opinion that it was poetic justice for the
discoverers of the Continent to be driven out of it
is a peculiirly "Banks'" idea, and would sound
uncommonly well at a gathering of Red Indian
Chiefs, where the Banks' view would be unani-
mously pronounced, to be the correct one.
The death of the celebrated M'Cracken has again
directed public attention to that famous correspon-
dence, and Mr. Seward's connection therewith. It has
always been a matter of surprise that an old states-
man of such tact and judgment should have com-
mitted so palpable a blunder, and the Springfield
Republican then accounted for it in a way which
the New York Times again explains. The attention
of the Secretary was at the time absorbed by his
daughter, wbo was dying, and the letter written to
the Ministers abroad, on receipt of that from
M'Cracken, was suggested by President Johnson,
and signed by Mr. Seward at his house, under the
supposition that it was a mere note of form, calling
their attention to that document. It was not until
after Mr. Motley's indignant response, and the pub-
licity the M'Cracken letter received through his
action, that Mr. Seward became aware of its real
character. No doubt there is some truth in this
explanation, for Mr. Seward is too well-bred a
gentleman knowingly to have indorsed so insolent
a production as that forwarded by a tourist to the
President of the United States.

The Republican party in Pennsylvania is not in a
state of harmony ; indeed, the Union party is there
setting a " Sesech" example which muss highly
amuse Southerners. It is said that there is little
chance of the differences being settled before the
approaching campaign. Those who have bolted
from the course are termed " disorganisers," and
they include leaders of the party and Federal office-
holders, more especially among the officials of Phila-
delphia. The fight is between the politicians of that
city and of the country districts, and a delegation
went to Washington to strive to have the officials
who encouraged the " disorganisers" removed, or to
force them to desist from their agitation. It is no
wonder that the Alabama plank was suggested as a
prop for so ricketty a platform, although a little
reflection has shown that it was more likely to
cause its downfall than to impart any additional
strength.

The only otber.telegrams announce the departure
of General Sickles last Thursday, en route for Ma-
drid ; the ratification of the XV. Amendment by
New Hampshire; the ravages by locusts among the
crops of Utah and the adjoining Territories ; the ex-
pectation of the largest yield of wheat ever har-
vested in the United States ; the registration in
Virginia, showing a majority of 20,000,white voters ;
and an order from the military commander, Gen.
Canby staying the forcible collection of debts in
Virginia until January. The national monument
at Gettysburg, in memory of all the soldiers who
fell there, was dedicated on Wednesday. All the
survivors of the battle, as well as numerous civic
societies, were invited to be present. An address
was delivered by Senator Morton, of Indiana. Mr
Henry Ward Beecher offered up prayer, and a poem
was recited by Mr. Bayard Taylor.
The Public Debt of the United States has, it was
announced by Cable on the Ist inst., been decreased
by over sixteen million dollars during the month of
June. This is the result of Secretary Boutwell's
action on the law directing him to purchase and
hold 1 percent. per annum of the entire chi_ t of the
United S;ates. The Secretary wrote to the United
States Consul at Liverpool, stating that he intended
henceforth to comply with the provisions of the law,
and we learn by mail that he had ordered the pur-
chase of an additional $620,000 United States Bonds
before the month closed, besides the usual $1,000,090
per week, as that was the amount required to make
up 1 per cent. per annum for the first quarter of
President Grant's Administration. What the coin
is now in the Treasury will be known immediately,
but that belonging to the Government was lately
reported to have decreased to sixty millions of dol-
-1 lars. One of Reutet's telegrams announces that the
internal, revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending

June 30 are $158,250,000. The following is the
Treasury report just received from Washington,
dated July 1 :—" The Secretary has made his usual
monthly statement of the public debt of the United
States, which shows its total on the Ist inst. to have
been $2,615,250,000, being a decrease during the
past month of $16,500,000. The cash in the
Treasury is $117,000,000, viz., $80,000,000 in coin
and $37,000,000 in currency, against $124,000,000
last month, being a decrease of $7,000,000." We
presume, therefore, that sixty millions in coin is the
most belonging to the Government now in the Trea-
sury, deducting the amount for which gold certifi-
cates have been issued.
It was known when the last mail left New York
that actions had been or were about to be fought at
Puerto Padre between the insurgents and the Spanish
troops, and by the telegrams it would appear that
the former had been victorious. The prospects of
independence have brightened under the material
aid furnished by the filibusters; but the Adminis-
tration hcs effectually crushed the Cuban patriotic
organization in New York, and it is probable that
henceforth the Cuban insurrection will have to rely on
itself, or such aid as it can procure from Mexico
and Hayti. There is evidently a struggle at Wash-
ington on the subject of recognition ; Gen. Banks,
Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign
Affairs, strenuously urging at least the recognition
of belligerent rights, while the Spanish Minister
threatens to demand his passports if an official in-
terview be granted to Lemus, the Cuban Envoy.
The Government has dispatched a special agent to
the island to ascertain the strength and prospects
of the insurgents. Meanwhile Colonel Ryan's ex-
pedition was captured in Long Island Sound by a
Revenue steamer, and its 300 men lodged as pri-
soners in the Brooklyn Navy-yard. It appears
that they were being conveyed in three small
steamers, two of which were taken, the other, it is
believed, being abandoned. Another report asserts
that three steamers, fitting out with ammunition
for Cuba at York, in Maine, were also seized by
the Government. General de Rodas had arrived at •
llavannab, and peaceably assumed command, bar-
mony prevailing between him and the volunteers.
At the Indian Woman's Rights Convention a
prominent Western lady explained the reason for
the " Woman's Parliament" call. She thinks that
women should elect their President and entire corps
of official representatives, and keep a Cabinet always
in session. They would have official organs and a
Capitol of their own in New York city. The idea
of this lady amounts to an imperiuin in imperio,
rule within a rule, whee's within a wheel, and we
all know how that sort of thing works. Miss Anthony
had a tussle with an insolent male who audaciously
levied a tax on The Revolution. 'lhe lady grandly
gave way, but gave " a slice of her mind" with her
twenty-nine dollars. It was opposed, she said, to
all principles of representative government to tax
those not represented, and as women were not re-
presented, the Government had no right to tax them.
The male creature went off with the money, but the
story does not say whether he became a sadder and
a w:ser man. Meanwhile we have such satirical
bits as the following going the rounds in America
"An incredible story is told in New York papers. A
beautiful young'wornan entered a street car, and a work-
ing man, whose countenance bora evidence of a day of
toil, politely offered • her a seat. 'Please keep your seat,
sir,' was the response, `you are, no doubt, tired.'"
If the fair and gentle sex are able with the social
rights they now exercise in America to monopolise
the political privileges as well, the baser animal had
better paint his face black, put on manacles, and
bow his head an acknowledged slave before the

divinity.
The Hansom Cab Company is likely to prove a
very great boon to New York City, and.as it num-
bers among its subscribers some of the wealthiest
firms and is urgently required, its success is certain.
Those only who know New York can tell what
extortion and insolence its citizens are likely to
escape, as well as the travellers arriving in increas-
ing numbers by placing numerous stands of these
commodious, safe, and fast conveyances. The
superintendent has already arrived in London to
buy for immediate use 200 of Hansom cabs, while
1,800 more are building in America, so the com-
pany will commence work on a broad and satisfac-
tory scale. That it will be remunerative no one
who knows the Empire City can doubt, but even if
it were not, it will nevertheless be established.
Among the subscribers names are--Messrs. Brown
Brothers and Co., Duncan, SUerman and Co., Jay
Cooke and Co., Fisk and Hatch, Dabnei, Morgan
and Co., J. and .1. Stuart, Turner Brothers, Leland
Brothers, J. W. Seligman and Co., J. R. Foster,
Manning and 1)e Forrest, Heineman and Payson,
Frederic Sherman, W. H. Sherman, Naylor and
Co., Gomez, Wallis and Co., Ball, Black and Co.,
S. G. and G. C. Ward (Baring Brothers and Co.),
James Gordon Bennett, jun., J. C. Jaffray. The
stables lately occupied by the American Express
Company in Broom-street have been secured for
250 horses ; another will be purchased near Union
square, and there will be eight in all besides others
in Jersey City.

The Peace Jubilee at Boston commenced June
15, and was attended by nearly all of note then
in the United States, from the President and se-
veral members of his Cabinet downwards. After
prayer, an address by Mayor Shurtleff, and an ora-
tion by lion. A. 11. Rice, the musical performance
began. The chorus numbered over 10,000 per-
sons, and the audience 25,000. Parepa Rose and
Ole Bull performed, and the effect both of the
solos and choruses was grand. The rendering of
the " Star-Spangled Banner," by all the performers,
with the accompaniment of bells and cannon, called
forth great enthusiasm. The " Peace Jubilee," it
is said, was originally proposed by Mr. Gilmore to
be held in New York, but that city gave him no
encouragement, indeed on the contrary has done
little less than sneer at the anvils and the black-
smiths, and the loud, fast, and enlarged musical
notions of Boston generally. There are some fine
sketches of the scene in Frank Leslie, and it was
doubtless a most imposing affair.
From the city of Mexico the news is to June 12.
Mr. Nelson, the new American Minister, does not
appear to be popular, one journal calls him a ferocious
man sent by President Grant to create troubles in
the country. A dinner was given on the sth by the
Americans in the capital, to Minister Rosecrans.
Revolutions and murders are, of course, the staple
of the intelligence. From Paraguay, active mili-
tary operations are announced against Lopez, whom
the cable says proposes " insignificant" meaning,
we presume " insufficient" or unacceptable condi-
tions
for leaving Paraguay. Of one English and
two American officers permitted by the Allies to
communicate with Lopez, the Englishman was re-
fused an interview. James Watson Webb, United
States Minister to Brazil, had written before
he left a very angry letter to the Brazilian
Government ; but this had been treated as not
received on subsequent explanation through the
intervention of the British Minister. The Vene-
zuela Government has closed the Port of Macaraibo.
Advices from Ilayti state that on the sth ult. Sal-
nave captured Aux Cayes, but was subsequently
driven out with heavy loss. In Monte Video the
Government measure introducing specie payment
was causing great distress. Gen. Carabello had
demanded the dismissal of the Ministry. On the
President's refusal General Carabello had taken up
arms, and the President was marching against him.
Terror and confusion existed in the city.
A split in the Reform Club is announced—two of
the most eminent of its members and leaders of
their party having seceded. The cause is said to
be the black-balling of au American gentleman,
whom the Right llonourables John Bright and W.
E. Forster proposed as an honorary visitor for one
m'mtb, at the expiry of which, according to the
rules of the Club, he was put up for ballot es a
member, and rejected. Mr. Bright considers the
Reform Club to have become but a shade less
Conservative i❑ feeling than its neighbour the Carl-
ton, and believing that it has gone the way of all
such institutions, he thinks it requires to be itself
reformed. The rumour is that he is about to found a
new Club, and that £60,000 have been subscribed
for the purpose. We do not know who the Ame-
rican gentleman is whose rejection has caused the
secession, but we would . suggest, if the Club de-
' sires to be " reconstructed," that it should take
counsel with some of the many American statesmen.
an in. Europe, who have for years pule " Recoil-

struction" the chief study of their lives. One paper,
however, mentions that it was Mr. Smalley, the
correspondent of the New York Tribune; and it
appears that it was the committee, consisting only
of a few members, who thus decided, and not the
Club generally, on the proposal to invite him for a
month, probably on the ground that Mr. Smalley's
residence in London was not temporary, but more
of a permanent character.
MR. DREXEL'S ARRIVAL IN ENGLAND.—WC have
the pleasure, in the words of an American contemporary,
to announce the safe arrival in London of Mr. Anthony J
Drexel, banker, senior member of the house of Drexel and
Co., Philadelphia ; Drexel, Winthrop, and Co., New York ;
and Drexel, Harjes, and Co., Paris, who left New
York in the Scotia. Tie comes here partly for recrea-
tion, and partly to look after the interests of the Paris
branch of the house, which is steadily extending its con-
nections to all parts of Europo, and necessarily largely in-
creasing its business. The establishment of a house at
Paris by a firm of such credit as that of Drexel and Co. has
proved a great convenience to the travelling public and to
leading business interests, and has also served to
bring Philadelphia, the second city of the United
States, more prominently into notice than ever before.
Until within the last year or two Philadelphia ltrs
been comparatively unknown abroad —travellers doing
their banking business almost entirely with New York,
foreigners to a great extent fancied that Now York was
the United States. A wholesome change is being worked
in this respect, and t'ie extended operations of Drexel and
Co., through their rapidly multiplying letters of credit,
which are honoured all over Europe, are contributing as
much to this result as any other cause. Mr. Drexel carries
with him on his voyage the kind regards of the very largo
circle of friends that his genial manners and probity of
character have surrounded him with, from all of whOm he
will receive a cordial greeting home, when his business and
his pleasure shall prompt his return.

Mrs. Mary Du Pont Lyon, daughter of Major
Jean Pierre Du Pout of the French army, and the last de-
scendant of the Marquis de Alontcalm of old French and
Indian war fame, died at the residence of her son-in-law,
Judge Seger, at Lyons Falls, on the 11th inst. She had
been suffering for several months, and left her home on
Staten Island, where she resided with her son, ex-Go-
vernor Lyon, to revisit Lewis county. Mrs. Lyon was a
woman of marked energy and capacity, and by her deci-
sion of character exercised great influence over her asso-
ciates.

IMPERIAL PAR IA /TENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—LAsT EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.

LIFE PEERAGES BILL.

The Earl of MALMESBUIiY asked Earl Russell
whether it was his intention to proceed with the third
reading of the Life Peerages Bill, which stood for the
Bth inst.

Earl RUSSELL said it was his intention to move the
third reading on the day named.

IRISH CIIIIIICII BILL.

Their lordships then went into committee on this bill,
resuming at clause 25.
Lord DUNSANY moved an amendment to the effect
that the general powers of disposal by the commissioners
be omitted. After a short discussion the amendment was
agreed to, as was another to the same clause by Lord
Cairns giving the land usually occupied with schoolhouses,
if transferred by the commissioners, to the church body.
The clause was then agreed to, and on clause 21 being
proposed, which related to the transfer of churchyards
to tko Beard of Guardians, Lord Cairns hoped the Go-
vernment would reconsider this proposition, as it was one
that would more than likely lead t..) the greatest incon-
venience.

Earl GRANVILLE thought the clause had been drawn
very carefully. and he did not anticipate that any diffi-
culty would arise.

The Duke of MARLBOROUGH thought the clause so
ill-worded and ambiguous that its amendment was a
matter that ought at once to obtain the most serious
attention.

Earl DE GREY and RIPON was in layout of the clause
as it stood, he did not see that bocausa a path separated
the burial ground from the highway, the ground being
entirely separated from the church by a highway, that
there was any good reason why it should not b 3 treated
as set out in the bill, and transferred to the board of guar-
dians.

Lord GRANVILLE did not think that any amendment
was at all necessary, but ho c•rnsonted to the words being
inserted to meet the objection of Lord Cairns, and the
clause as amended was then azreed to.

On Clause 27,
The Marquis of SALISBURY moved to omit the terms
of payment to be required from the Church body in the
event of its applying for the ecclesiastical residences
gl..bes, &c.
Earl GRANVILLE defended the course pursued by the
Government.
The Counnitte divided—
For the Amendment 213
Against it
Majority against the Government -114
Ou Clause 28,

The Duke of CLEVELAND moved his amendment,
whi:h provided that i❑ order to establish religious
equality between the different religious communities in
Ireland it was desirable that the commissioners should be
authorised, at their discretion, to make advances for the
erection of residences for the Roman Catholic priests and
the Presbyterian Ministers.

Earl GRANVILLE said if the circumstances were dif-
ferent, he should, personally, have no objection to adopt
the plan of the noble duke on a small scale; but as it was
he believed that the Roman Catholics would not accept it,
and that it would be fatal to a responsible Government to
have to exercise such a power.

The Committee divided—
For the amendment ll3
Against
Majority —33

The amendment was lost, and the clause agreed to.
Their lordships adjourned at a quarter to ono o'clock

HOUSE OF CONINIONS.-LAST EVENING.

The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour.

After the preser.tation of a few petitions in favour of the
exemption of Sunday and Ragged Schools from poor rates,
the house went into committee on the Assessed Taxes Bill,
which, after a few verbal amondments, passed through
committee.

The house then went into committee on the Uni-

versity Tests Lill, and the proposal of Sir Roundel'
Palmer to aid clause seven by inserting a form of
declaration to be subscribed by professors and others at
universities, to the effect that they would never en-
deavour, directly or indirectly, to teach or inculcate any
opinions opposed to the Divine authority of the Holy
Scriptures, and to the doctrine or discipline of the Church
of England as 1)3 law established, led to a discussion
which occupied the house until the sitting was suspended .
When the house resumed at nine it was immediately
counted out, there being only 29 members present.

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