The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-17 00:00:00

OBITUARY.

We regret to announce the death of Lady Dun
Gordon, who died at Cairo on the 13th. Her inte-
resting books and articles of travel ir} Egypt will be
known to many of our readers. Her ladyship was
in her 40th year.—The death of Lord Kenyon also
is announced. H. was born in 1805, and succeeded
his father in 1855. His grandfather was the eminent
judge. His eldest son died in 1865, and the barony
therefore devolves upon the grandson of the just
deceased peer. The new peer is only 5 years old.

(From the Anglo-American 2 imes.)

The British Minister to Washington has been
officially informed that an International Exhibition
of the products of workmen's labour will be held
at London in 1870, and he has been requested to
make the matter known to the citizens of the United
States. It was also announced at Washington that
the party of English mechanics about to settle at
the Cornell University sailed on June 26 in the
Java, and had received a public breakfast, presided
over by Lord Houghton, previous to their departure.
It was Mr. Cornell who suggested to Professor Gold-
win Smith this movement ; the young men being
selected from the different branches of the building
trades are not only to impart instruction to stu-
dents at the University who desire practically to
learn, but are to be employed in the construction
of the University buildings. Great efforts are being
made to attract an immigration of workmen into
the Southern States, and Southern Congressmen are
combining to secure the aid of Government. Gen.
M'Donald. of Arkansas win move on the subject on
the opening of next session, and one of his propo-
sitions will be the incorporation of a Steamship
Company between Norfolk, Virginia, and the ports
of the Mediterranean. They may be right in ima-
gining that Southern Europe might supply the most
suitable class of labourers for the Southern States.
It is evident from the mass of testimony furnished
that affairs are improving in the South, as the peolile
are ceasing to hold extreme political opinions, and
are exerting themselves to develope the resources
of the country. Favourable accounts come from
Texas, where a good wheat crop has been secured,
an increased cotton crop, and an excellent corn crop.
Major John Hay, of Illinois, formerly assistant
private secretary to the late President Lincoln, has
been appointed Secretary of Legation to Spain. It
is doubtful, however, whether Major Hay will ac-

cept the nomination, as he is supposed to be about
to assume editorial charge of the Illinois State
crfrnal. Since the death of President Lincoln he
has held the posts of Secretary of Legation at Paris
and CLarg d'Affaires at Berlin. His colleague,
John G. Nicolay, the private secretary during
Lincoln's whole term, and United States Consul in
Paris during Johnson's Administration, has returned
to the United States in bad health to settle in
Kansas. Both the private secretaries promise a book
giving president Lincoln's Administration from
within. Gen. _Daniel. E. Sickles met with an almost
unprecedented reception at the Everett House on the
night of the 30th June. More than 500 prominent
New Yorkers and others cheered him enthusiasti-
cally, and he made a brief and hearty response to
the kind greetings from all sides showered on him.
William Winthrop, Esq., United States Consul at
Malta, died there on the 3d inst. after a long ill-
ness, ending in paralysis of throat and tongue. Mr.
Winthrop was born in Massachusetts, and his com-
mission was the oldest among American Consuls,
being dated Oct. 7, 1834.
From San Francisco it is announced that an in-
ventor has been successful in ascending into the air
and propelling an aerial machine in any direction,
which can carry from 8 to 10 persons, and has been
expressly constructed to make trips across the con-
tinent to New York. What the truth of this re-

port is we have no means as yet of judging, but it
was telegraphed from San Francisco to New York,
and published in the papers of the city, the inventor
announcing that he can cross the Continent in this
machine in 24 hours.

Judy undertakes to answer the question every-
body is asking everybody else, Where shall we go ?
and the old lady sends them just beyond the scent
and sound of Wapping and Shoreditch, but what is
really funny in this is,- that Judy is in earnest. Nov
our idea differs widely, and we say widely advisedly,
for space is its main element. Judy with truth ob-
serves that everybody baying been everywhere, the
question is a difficult one to answer satisfactorily;
but there is one line of travel just opened where
nobody has yet been, and which strongly combines
the vast, the wild, the unknown with a marvellous
luxury in the travel. The tour we recommend is a
trip to San Francisco, and if money and time be no
object, thence to Japan and Pekin. The tourist will
be conveyed to America in one of the finest steamers
afloat. He can " do" the Eastern States as his
time and opportunities admit, and so also as regards
the Western States. When he gets into the wilder
rolling prairies he will go along, not as Hepworth
Dixon did, as a mail-bag with a rifle in its hand, with
a throat to cut and hair to raise, but in an hotel
on wheels replete with comfort. If the traveller
thinks this too luxurious, and wants a little
" roughing" by way of a change, he may stop 111
the Rocky Mountains and penetrate into one of the
Parks of Colorado, and by the time he gets back we
venture to predict he will have a tale to tell and a
frame braced for the enjoyment of a Pullman's
hotel car. The Mormon settlement, men have toiled
over a thousand miles of danger to see, while the
Sybarites of the present can roll smoothly in, look-
ing from their drawing-room cars through plate-
glass windows. The Yo Semite, with its grandest
of domes and its highest of waterfalls, is a landscape
worthy of a journey, and near the entrance to that
surpassingly beautiful valley stand groves of the
trees of which the bark of one found once a place ill
the Crystal Palace.

Most of the American papers, anticipating a
frightful hubbub on the sth in honour of Indepen-
dence Day, earnestly deprecated extravagances. One
considers that in a single spot only will quiet reign,
and merely because lately they have had such a
prodigious row that the inhabitants have had
enough noise for at least a year. That vicious re-
mark is, of course, directed against Boston, and
the Peace Festival so:strangely celebrated by the
clang of gongs and the roar of artillery, and thither,
we hope, the lovers of quiet proceeded. Superin"
tendent Kennedy had issued an order to secure all
arms improperly discharged in New York City, and
the police were to assist the Fire Department 111
extinguishing the anticipated conflagrations and is
preventing false alarms.

Facts are worth more than talk, if they were not,
President Grant would be in a bad way, but 90
they are, President Grant is in a good way. Let
any one compare the ex-President's talk with the
in-President's work, and see how marvellous is the
difference. Andrew Johnson made his dismal pr°-
spects, his imperialism, his usurping Congress, his
bloated bondholders, the wide straying from the
paths of rectitude, and of the Constitution, Sce''
&c., the burden of endless speeches, while the
country was covered with robbers, while thieves
formed powerful rings, and the people were till'
mercifully plundered. What Grant does is to re-
duce the National Debt between the Ist March and
the Ist July, $36,460,479, that is at the rate of one
hundred millions of dollars per annum ! Lo'
month the debt had declined $16,410,132, and
Secretary Boutwell has ordered the purchase ever/
Wednesday of $3,000,000 of Bonds during the pre-
sent month. On July 1 there was in the Treasarci
coin belonging to the Government,s79,7l3,ooo ; all e
currency, $37,097,818. These are the results of
measures by which 600 clerks were discharged freel
the Treasury alone, while the reduction in the are3l
expenditure is estimated at 526,000,000 for the year'
The last quarter of the fiscal year, that of Grant 0
a
Administration, yields a revenue of $20,000,0uv
more than ever Andrew Johnson got, when the
whisky tax alone produced in May, 1868, 0111 0
million and a half dollars; while in May, 1869, t,4,
't
collection was little short of five millions.
talk can tell against such facts? When the Pre'''
dent was informed of the unexpectelly large de;
crease in the debt, arising, in a small degree, it e
true, from miscellaneous receipts not reckoned, I
remarked in his terse, penetrating way, " Thets
the genuine test of myAdministration,not the croak,
ing and sneering of politicians,and a partisan press'
and he might have added, of Mr. Andrew Johnoelis
The difference between the two is striking, the
talk and chaos, the other silence and acts ; but 1; 0
by the fruit only that we can accurately' ill gb,
among conflicting opinions, and that is clear ee°l4o
The other day an American student at a Gerej:
University "velocipeded" through the Confederated
States until he got into remote parts, where be W
pounced upon by the shocked inhabitants tlijo
banded over to the officers of justice. When alp
English gentleman a few months ago travelled fol.,
Liverpool to London on a velocipede, on his rese;),
ing the " Black Country" he was pursued
boys, throwing stones at him. He was evidentlt/bei
"stranger" on a strange kind of conveyance, alluosrf
more strange a stranger is, the bigger is the 4
.i 0
brick they heave at him ;" for this is their reeerro
of anything particularly novel, or with which theii:er
unfamiliar. In the State of Maine a young She
elcle ,
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took to velocipediug to the scandal of the 0..
who sat in solemn conclave on the bicycle, and, h
demning it as Anti-Shakerean, had it destroyed
an
It i x ae. ate
s said that there is no other spoken lang so
so cheap and expressive by telegraph as the Englisli'otber
the electric wires are becoming teachers of our ra. for'
tongue in foreign countries. The same amount of iotbo
mation can be transmitted in fewer English word° u,,go.
French, German, Italian, or any other European 145 be se
In Germany and Holland especially it is corning wye of
common thing to see telegrams in English, to oa
pease and insure precision.

BIRTHS. , of.
NOEL—On the 12th inst., the Hon. Mrs. Roden .0°-
SOn
PALK. —On the 13th inst., at I,ersvenor-gard°l3-'
th
Hon. Mrs. Palk, of a son and heir.
MARRIAGES. F 011+
AN. DERSON CUTIMERT —On the 15th inst., at P"
Knightsbridge, Henry Percy Anderson, Esq., Wv-'n °-
Isabella, third daughter of William Cuthbert,
Beaufront Castle, Northumberland. tr
GREGORY —LONSDALE— On the 15th inst., at the xeidillo;
Chapel, Henry George Gregory, of Fishertne
Salisbury, to Ann, second daughter of the late v
Lonsdale, of Aldgate, city.
DEATHS. JoOdis
ALLBRIGHT—On the 16th inst., at Croydon, 1)."."
Allbright, aged 61.
HEWSON—On the 14th inst., at 36, Albert-street, 13'39,
park, 'Francis Hovvson, Commander R.N., aged, WWI
STERRY—On the 15th inst., at Sydenbara-bil',
Sterry, aged 66.

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