The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-02 00:00:00

of Mr. Donnelley's attack, has happened, for the
scene has been embodied in at least half a
dozen books and magazines on this side, iu illustra-
tion of Congressional proceedings. The constant
allusion in foreign Legislatures to American insti-
tutions, will act on the dignity of Congress in the
same way as the acknowledged position of the Re-
public has acted on its citizens. There is no aris-
tocracy whose position approaches in strength and
security to that of England ; yet there is no class
in England less assuming in manner than the lords.
There is a quiet consciousness of their advantages,
which may be felt by those with whom they asso-
ciate, but can scarcely be seen ; while, on the con-
trary, the pretenders, and those whose position is
doubtful, are the greatest snobs, and the must offen-
sive people in the country. Now it is a change
like this, iu a small degree, which has taken place
in Americans, and we venture to say that con-
sideration for the feelings: of others will become
more marked as the nation passes out of the rank
of first-class Powers to an acknowledged position
on a pinnacle by itself. A vast portion of the
sentiment of America does not find a general ex-
pression in the press. Most newsp iFers are cheap,
and being published for the million, express opinions
pleasing to the million. But a higher class of jour-
nal is steadily gainingstr ength,somewhatsimilarond
which soon will correspond with the Satnrclay Review,
the Spectator, and reviews of that class. N othing can be
fairer than the treatment of questions, for instance,
in the Nation, and no paper could be more wholly
free from a highfaluten style. We select it, be-
cause a correspondence about " the Alabama
Claims," which lately appeared in its columns,
shows the sentiments of its readers. One signing
himself "America" wrote bitterly on the subject.
his proposal, as another writer, " Integrity," puts
it, amounted to this :—" Pay the sufferers by the
depredations of the Alabama; wait till England is at
war; then let the citizens of the United States go
into the privateering business on a large scale—the
Government meanwhile winking at their occupation."
" Integrity" condemns the proposal with a force
and openness of argument we have not seen equalled
in England, and in the same issue of the Nation
appeared another letter which said things which
English papers shrank.from writing. Emphatically,
they stigmatised it as not only immoral, but
cowardly, yet, both these writers were deeply im-
pressed with the wilfully culpable wrong England
had in that affair done to the United States.
This is the tone so general among the best
educated Americans, which does not find its full ex-
pression, and we doubt whether it has its equal for
nobility of feeling anywhere else. It gives us, then,
unfeigned pleasure to notice what has called forth
the petulant remarks of the Pall Mall, for we be-
lieve that the action and re-action of the countries
on each other will be productive of much good,
teaching both to see questions from the other's
point of view—of all things that most desirable to
inculcate.

The steamship De Soto, Captain Eaton, from
Havana, which arrived at New York on the 12th, brought
his Excellency Sir Don M. Lopez Roberts, the Spanish
Minister, en route to Washington. The De Soto also
'brought from Key West one company of the sth United
States Artillery, Brevet Major J. B. Rawles in command.

Miss Nilsson has contradicted in all the papers
that she is engaged for the coming season of the Italian
Opera at Covent-garden, and it is still asserted in New
York this lady will shortly visit that city, and Mr.
Mapleson, with a good company, will be there in the
Autumn.

A delegation of about 20 members of the Irish
Republican Association of the United States, headed by
Major Haggerty, of New York, called on the President on
the afternoon of the 11th inst. to tender their congratula-
tions, and pledge to tho President of the United States the
support of the Irish Republicans of America to his Ad-
ministration. There was no speech-making.

It appears from the following letter that Mr,
Masterman has returned to England. When last we heard
of him ho was at Washington, where a long correspon-
dence had been published from Admiral Davis on the sub-
ject of his treatment and that of Mr. Bliss on board the
United states men-of-war —" To the editor of the Standard.
--Sir,—My attention has been called to a letter in your
journal of the 22d inst., in which "A Naval Engineer" re-
quests information concerning Robert Foster, who died, he
says, a prisoner in Paraguay. I regret that I can give no
certain information about him, for I tried in vain to obtain
access to the English prisoners of war in Aecuncion, and
could only learn, about six months after their capture, from
some of their Italian companions in misfortune, that they
were qt first about 13 in number, but that then all, or
nearly all, had died from diseases caused by starvation and
ill-treatment. One of them, William Miles, entered the
Paraguayan service, and was amongst those who sought
asylum in the United States Legation ; he was at liberty,
but very ill, when I last saw him. I hope in a few days to
publish song, account of my own almost miraculous escape
from death and my rescue by Rear-Admiral Davie, of the
United States South Atlantic squall-mi.—l am, sir, your
obedient servant, 0. FEED. MASTERMAN, late Assistant-
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