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

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.

On Friday, January 15, the President of the United
States transmitted to Congress copies of three treaties
which have just been concluded between the American
Minister at the Court of St. James's and Earl Clarendon.
These treaties, says the New York Tribune, were submitted
to the Cabinet at the meeting held the same day, and when
they reached the Senate it was too late to have them
referred to the proper committees. The articles of the
treaty are eight in number, and are substantially as
follows :

Article 1. The two Governments agree to the settlement
of all claims and differences which have arisen since the
Convention of 1853.

Article 2. Provides for a commission of four persons,
each Government being entitled to two representatives ;
this commission to agree upon a p'an of settlement.
Article 3. Provides that a maj irity of the commission
shall decide the questions involved.
Article 4. Provides for cases of disagreement on the
Commission. In such an event the two Governments
shall choose an umpire. The President of the United
States shall act for the United States, but the umpire
selected shall not be qualified unless confirmed by the
Senate.
Article 5. Provides that in the event of the refusal of
the umpire to decide, the question shall be settled by lot
in presence of the commission.
Article G. Excludes from the jurisdiction of the Com-
mission all cases arising from claims which have been
adjudicated by Courts of Admiralty.
Article 7. Provides that claimants shall have first proved
that they are British subjects, that they preserved strict
neutrality during the war, and did not aid the South.
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Article 8. The sessions 'of the Commission are to be
neld in Washington.

The Prime Wardell (Mr. George Moore) and the
other wardens of the Fishmongers' Company will cntert tin
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone and her Majesty's Mini hers
at a grand banquet on Thursday, the 11th of February.

SUMMARY JUSTICE,—Two pickpockets, who were
caught Plying their trade on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
were taken from the train by the passengers and hung to
a tree.—New York Times.

CLARIBEL.—Mrs. Charles Barnard, wife of the
Rev. Charles Barnard, who, under the psendonymn of
" Claribel," has acquired so much popularity by her songs
and ballads, died on Saturday, at Dover, of typhoid fever,
after an illness of three weeks.

Dr. Chadwick, of Southport, who a short time ago
gave £17,000 for charitable purposes to the town of Bolton,
in which he practised for many years, has made a further
donation of £5,000 to the inhabitants, making altogether
£22,000. This sum is to be appropriated for the erection of
artizans' model dwellings and an orphan asylum.

Mr. 'William Parkinson, the secretary and cashier
of the Derby Waterworks Company, has absconded from
the town a considerable defaulter. On examination of their
books it was discovered that ho had defrauded the com-
pany of some £3OO or 2100. A warrant for his
apprehension was at once taken out and placed in the hands
of the police, who aro now endeavouring to trace the delin-
quent. Parkinson has been a confid,otin.l s..)vant of the
Derby Waterworks Company for some years, and is a mar-
ried man with two children.

The Secretary of State for India having made
arrangements for the admission of visitors to see the India-
office every Fl iday, beginning from Friday the sth inst., we
are requested to state that, with a view to the public conve-
nience, the day of admission to the Foreign-office will be
changed from Thursday to Friday, and that beginning from
Friday the sth inst., visitors will be admitted to see the prin-
cipal rooms in the Foreign-office between the hours of 12
and three, on delivering their cards to the porter at the
principal entrance on the northern side of the quadrangle.

A young man named Shewen, a letterpress printer
by trade, has been charged at Carlisle with emlezzling the
funds of the Carlisle Lodge of Oddfellows. A letter writtcn
by the prisoner to the chairman of the lodge was read as
evidence against him. It contained a full confession of his
crime, and offered no excuse excepting that drinking and
gambling required money, and he had taken the funds he
had charge of as ho wanted them. In his letter the prisoner
appealed to the lodge on behalf of his family, but when4o
case was heard he pleaded not guilty. He was committed
for tr:al at the next assizes.

On Saturday night last a farmer, named John
Ward, on his return from Carlisle market, was suddenly
shot at from behind, the contents of the barrel entering
his shoulder at his back. Before he could recover him-
self another shot was fired, and he was struck in the left
breast. The wounded man staggered back to the Horse
and Farrier, and there reported that he had been shot.
Ho was removed to the Carlisle Infirmary, where be now
lies in a very dangerous state. No motive for the act has
been suggested. Had it been in Ireland it would have
been an " Agrarian outrage."

THE FUTURE OF THE RITUALISTS.—The follow-
ing paragraph is contained in a circular issued by the Rev.
J. Going, incumbent of St. Paul's, Walworth :—" We have
nothing to fear as long as we are firm and faithful to each
other and to the Church. We will not make a schism on
the one hand, or secede to Rome on the other, as our
enemies invite us .to do—but will live for, and if
need be, die for that branch of the Catholic Church
into which Our Lord called us at our baptism, and in
which for so many years He has fed us with His body
and blood."

General Grant recently received the committee of
the Coloured Men's National Convention. Mr. Langston,
the chairman of tho committee, addressed the President
elect, congratulating him "in the name of the four millions
of American citizens and 700,000 electors" upon his accession
to office, expressing the utmost confidence in his administra-
tion. General Grant, in reply, made one of his longest
speeches. It was as follows : —"I thank the Conven-
tion, of which you aro the representative, for the
confidence they have expressed, and I hope sincerely
that the coloured people of the nation may re-
ceive every protection which the laws give to
them. They shall have my efforts to secure such protec-
tection. They should prove by their acts, their advance-
ment, prosperity and obedience to the laws, worthy of all
privileges the Government has bestowed upon them ; and by
their future conduct prove themselves deserving of all they
now claim."

THE ENTHRONEMENT OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF
CANTERBURY.—The ceremony of enthroning the new
Archbishop of Canterbury, which is to take place in the
beautiful cathedral of that city on Thursday next, will, it
is said, be conducted on a great scale of splendour, out-
vying any former proceeding of the kind that has taken
place for very many years. The dean (Alford), who
has had charge of the arrangements, has published a
form to be used by the public on the occasion, from
which it appears that the members of the cathedral body
will meet in the cloisters at eleven o'clock, and
the dean and canons and the archbishop in the
audit-room, and the clergy in the chapter-house at the
same hour. The archbishop and his party and the clergy
will then proceed to join those in the cloisters, where the
procession will be formed, headed by the mayor and cor-
poration of Canterbury, advancing through the west
door up to the nave to the choir doors. A filing-off will
take place at this part, and the archbishop and attendant
bishops will be conducted by the archdeacon to the space
within the rails at the east end of the sacred edi-
fice. The ceremony of enthronement will then be
conducted. Some idea of the interest taken in
the enthronement by the public may be gleaned from the
fact that the dean has received applications from persons
residing in almost every part of England for tickets of
admission to the cathedral on Thursday, and that he has
been compelled to refuse nearly 1,000 of such requests.
The doors of the cathedral and precincts will be closed at
10.30, so that it will be desirable for persons who reach
Canterbury by the special trains from London and other
places on the morning of Thursday to
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once to the Cathedral.

THE SCOTTISH GOLD DIGGINGS.

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Some interesting accounts reach us of the " digging°
iii Sutherlandshire. The road thither runs through some
of the best sporting country on the Sutherland estate.
The llehnsdale river abounds in salmon. At its junction with
a large burn descending from one of the neighbouring
mountains the diggings are to be found. They are situated on
a farm tenanted by Mr. Rutherford. whose grounds have
been suddenly transformed. What was a sheepwalk
three weeks since is now called " The Diggings," and the i
rural burn has become the " Gold Creek." The place s
assuming the aspect of an Australian goldfield,
though it is mere than doubtful whether the
returns under present circumstances will be veil
remunerative. Mr. Wilson, a jeweller of Inver-
ness, has bought about £35 worth of gold from the
diggers. Last week there were about 150 diggers up the
burn, some experienced Australians among them. These
are looked up too by the rest with great respect, and are
cautious in expressing their opinion. There is some
uncertainty as to - the tenure of the land and
the Crown rights to gold and silver. These Points
could, of course, be easily ascertained if the
gold proves to he worth more extended operations. The
Duke of Sutherland has given every facility for the expe-
riment, and no obstacle has as yet been put in the way of
the diggers. The duke has a ring made of Sutherland
gold some thirty years ago, and as far back as the reign of
James I. gold was found in Scotland. Some amusing
aneedaes are told of the miscellaneous company which have
presented themselves at the diggings. A group of fishworaen
from Brora, twenty-two miles off, arrived, with spades in
their hands and creels on their backs, thinking they had
only to shovel up the gold and pack it for home by baskets
full. The weather has for the last few days been most
unfavourable, snow, sleet, and rain falling at intervals.
Nothing, however, daunts the perseverance of the gold-
seekers, one of whom confessed to walking about all night
to keep himself warm.