The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-20 00:00:00

FRANCE AND BELGIUM.

The Tantalus labour of making the preliminary arrange-
ments for the settlement of the Belgian railway difficulty
still goes on, but there are as yet few signs of its comple-
tion. The French and Belgian Governments are agreed
that a mixed commission should open an inquiry, which is
to embrace all the industrial relations between the two
countries. But France desires that the examination of the
treaty between the East of France and the Luxemburg
companies should be the starting point of this inquiry, and
this Belgium is not at present disposed to concede. This
account of the status quo comes from several well-
informed quarters. The difference is of great im-
portance, but we are still assured that the marche satis-
faisante of the negotiation goes on. There is no reason to
doubt that the marche is satisfactory, but it is clearly not
a u'ek march.

The Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige,
says: " It is understood that England has not ceased to
exert her influence in the hope of bringing about a con-
ciliatory issue. It is certain in any case that the attitude
of the British nation, so wisely devoted to the maintenance
of peace, will have contributed much towards the
solution of these international difficulties." To this the
Memorial Diplomatique adds that the English Gcvernment
has given its opinion that France has something to com•
plain of in this Belgian affair, and has consequently
recommended a conciliatory policy

(Front the Anglo-American Tinul.)
We were in error in accepting a private telegram
said to have been received by a member of the
London Stock Exchange, that Schenck's bill had
been re-enacted in the Forty-first Congress on the
6th, and signed by the President on the Bth inst,

This Finance Bill, as amended, was passed by the
House of Representatives on the 12th inst., the sec-
tion legalizing gold contracts being struck out and
agreed to by the Senate on the 15th by 42 votes
against 13. Last Wednesday it was signed by the
President, and it is therefore law. The old Con-
gress passed the bill in this form, the section
legalizing gold contracts being omitted :

" Be it enacted, &c., That in order to remove any doubt
as to the purposes of the Government to discharge all just
obligations to the public creditors, and to settle conflicting
questions and interpretations of the laws, by virtue of
which such obligations have been contracted, it is hereby
provided and declared that the faith of the United States
is solemnly pledged to the payment in coin or its equiva-
lent of all the obligations of the United States not bearing
interest, known as 1 nited States notes, and of the interest-
bearing obligations of the United States, except in cases
where the law authorizing the issue of any such obliga-
tion has expressly provided that the same may be paid in
lawful money or other currency than gold or silver ; but
none of said interest-bearing obligations not already due
shall be paid or redeemed before maturing, unless at such
time United States notes shall ha convertible into coin at

the option of the holder, or uultss at such time bonds of
the United States be;-,ring a lower rate of interest than the
bonds to Le redeemed, can be sold at par in coin ; and the
United States also solemnly pledges its fai;.ll to make pro-
vision at the earliest practicable period for redemption of
United States notes in coin."

As given in the letter from the United States
published in yesterday's 7 Lines, the words United
States Bonds in coin are substituted for .Notes in
coin.

A resolution was introduced by Mr. Banks into
the New House of Representatives in favour of re-
cognizing the independence of Cuba, and referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs. A similar re-
solution was afterwards introduced into the Senate,
and also referred to the Committee on Foreign
Affairs. The House called for the official corre-
spondence relating to Cuba, and the Navy Depart-
ment has ordered heavy reinforcements to the
United States squadron in the West Indies. It is
evident that Spain is in imminent danger of losing
her colony, but if a country cannot govern herself
it is proof that she is not fit to govern other people.
The feeling in America runs very strongly in favour
of the Cubans against the Spaniards, and it would
be difficult for any administration to withstand the
pressure brought to bear. The United States, too,
is deluged with fugitives, 200 Cubans having arrived
in one steamer.

The appointment of General Longstreet, as Sur-
veyor of Customs, at New Orleans, is indicative
of Grant's policy towards the South. General
Longstreet ranked after Stonewall Jackson in dis-
tinction, and since the war his course has been
marked by the same discretion as that which 6ic-
tates General Lee's. Indeed, he has gone further,
openly advocating submission and reconciliation.
If such appointments as these are to be made, the
days of carpet-baggers are numbered. The Senate,
however, show a different feeling, for they have
referred a bill for the restoration of military rule in
Georgia to the Judiciary Committee.
The only further telegram of interest is that the
House, by a concurrent resolution, agreed to ad-
journ on March 12 until the 6th of April.
Ex-President Johnson was to visit Baltimore on
the 11th, where he was to be weleomed with a grand
military and civic display and banquet, and to re-
ceive publicly during the day. Then he was to
return to Washington, and proceed at once, by
way of Lynchburg, to Tennessee. The astonish-
ment excited by bis last official act, just before he
left his office on the 4th March, is extreme ; for he
then pardoned the two notorious members of the
whisky ring, Jacob and Moses Deprew, at the in-
stance, it is said, of Judge Fullerton. Marshal
Thompson was so incredulous that, before liberat-
ing the prisoners, he telegraphed to Commissioner
Rollins, who had an interview with Grant, and the
men are retained in custody for the present, al-
though the pardons are doubtless genuine.
We congratulate the House of Representatives
on Wag rid of Mr. Robinson (Democrat) of New
York. He may be a very " faithful Fenian," but,
even making every allowance for him as an Irish-
man, still such people tend to bring the House into
contempt abroad. This person is utterly unknown
in England, indeed how could such as he be known,
when daily papers of London profess never to have
heard of George S. Boutvrell, one calling him
" Bontwell, whoever he may be." The few persons
who ever do hear of such a man as Robinson do so
only through " occasional notes"- cooked for the
amusement of English readers, and with the evident
intention of making the House appear ridiculous.
They have only literally to transcribe what sua mein
hers say to effect their purpose. Mr. Robinson's
farewell speech was to show the result of his efforts.
Prussia, England, and other European Powers had
been compelled by him to abandon their continued
error and heresy of perpetual allegiance. He had libe-
rated from prison Meany, Warren, Costello, and
many others, and now he darkly intimated to Great
Britain that she would do well by setting free all the
Fenian prisoners, and by submitting to the people
of Ireland the question of annexation to the United
States. We will leave George Francis Train, a
" faithfuller Fenian," and one who really is known
in England, a distinction which Mr. Robinson does
not shaft, to settle to whom is due the high honour
of having liberated these prisoners and of having
cowed these effete European monarchies.

The last Cabinet meeting held by Andrew John-
son was on Wednesday, the 3d instant, which all
his Secretaries attended, who, with the exception of
General Schofield, tendered their resignations to
take effect from the end of his term. Neither the
President nor any of these gentlemen graced the
ceremonies of inauguration with their presence, and
the Procession was delayed waiting for him, a
coach having been provided.

One of the last acts of the Fortieth Congress
was a joint resolution requiring the Union
Pacific to
ificpßasasilway Company to provide adequate
security for the proper construction of that road
and its branches, and suspending the issue of bonds
till a satisfactory report is made. A party of gen-
tlemen, who recently came over the road, complain
loudly of the treatment they received. They were
kept ten days at a railway station, and it was only
after an indignation meeting that they could in-
duce the officials to start a train. Mr Hepworth
Dixon and Mr. Dilke, M P., complain that they
had to pay for their journey by the mail to Denver,
which they were compelled to guard at the risk of
theirlives; but these travellers were used toshovel off
the snow at one place through a drift of 1,000 feet,
working on very bad food. The officers of the
train got drunk and stuck in the snow, when 50 of
the party of 200 had to get to Laramie, 90 miles dis-
tant on foot, reaching that place after four days of
great suffering. D. D. Ball sent a telegram from
Laramie to the Postmaster-General on the 27th
Feb., to say that about half a ton of letters and
papers was lying there, as the road had been
blocked by snow for 15 days. The T-ibune asks,
" Have we a Pacific Railroad 1" and seems much
inclined to answer the question in the negative.
The Erie Railway is always in a scrape. When
not " bearing," " bullying," or " watering" its
own Stock, it is engaged in trying to damage the
Stock of its neighbours. It has got up a fight
with the Northern Central, which uses its rails at El-
mira, New York,the cause of quarrel being unknown.
Mr. Pratt, of the Erie, issued orders on the 4th inst.
that the trains of the Northern Central were not to
come on the Erie track ; when the switches were
spiked, and the cars in either direction stopped.
One of the great passenger trains from Washington
was brought up there, and there it remains until
the officers of both lines now in consultation ar-
range their differences, which are said to have
grown out of the struggle for the possession of the
Fort Wayne Road to Chicago.
Whatever truth there may be in the saying that
Republics are ungrateful, no such c'iarge c.tii be
brought against the people individually who form
these Republics. In the United States the most
distinguished men who have lost their chances of
making fortunes by giving their services to the
State are often the recipients of princely gifts from
their fellow-citizens. When Mr. Bowen of the New
York Independ,int alluded in an interview with
General Grant to the increase of his salary as Pre-
sident, Grant said, "Whatever Congress gives,l will
spend; I will save nothing from my salary, for my
kind friends have raised me above anxiety for my-
self or family, and it is better for my children that

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they should not rely too much on money." Mr. A.
T. Stewart was the spokesman of a few admirers
of Gen. Sherman, and it devolved on him to present
to Sherman from them the title-deeds of a splendid
house, fully furnished, together with about £15,000.
This is a royal way of rewarding service. The
house was purchased from General Grant, to whom
also it had before been presented by his friends.
Grant moves to the White House, of which he has
now a lease of at least four years, probably renew
able at the end for the term ! General Sherman re-
ceived the gift with much emotion, and it certainly
was an occasion which could scarcely fail to affect
any man.

We have not positive information on which to
calculate the period of interruption on the Grand
Trunk Pacific line by the snows of winter. Great
diversity of opinion exists, and the question can
only be solved by actual experience. This fact
cannot be disputed that the road has lately been
impassable, indeed to such an extent that the Post-
master of New York has received orders to de-
spatch the mails for California and the Pacific
coast by Aspinwall. We fear that the Rocky
Alcuntains cannot be penetrated throughout the
winter, and that a considerable check is certain
during that season, unle:.--,s a more southern line be
constructed.

Mr. R. Von Fischer Treunfeld, the constructor
of the Telegraph lines in Paraguay, has published a
long letter, dated Ascuncion, Jan. 12, 1869, describ-
ing what he saw of Lopez's atrocities. It is only fair
to Lopez to say that theletter is addressed to his enemy,
Mr. Washburn, of whose conduct in Paraguay ha
writes in the highest terms. The ntatements of
Messrs. Bliss and Masterman are confirmed by this
authority, and the executions are certified to of
Don Benigno Lopez, the brother of the President;
Barrios, the brother-in-law ; the Minister Borges,
the Bishop, the Portuguese Consul, Leite Pereira;
Colonel Alen, Captain Fidanza, the very old mother
and wife of Colonel Martinez, and the Priest
Bogado. He adds, "We also had as companion-
prisoners the sisters of the President and the other
brother, Colonel Viucencio Lopez. These latter
were taken and shut up, each one in a cart, and
carried off, Ido not know where. People speak
here of their also being shot, but I could not assert
the truth of it." The latest advices received via
New York show that Lopez is intrenched with a
force of about 4,000 men at Gaape, 21 leagues
from Ascuncion ; that dissensions increase with the
Allies, and the Argentine Republic appears willing
to enter into negotiations with the Dictator.

Mr. Geo. 11. Stuart would, it is said, have been
nominated to the Cabinet had he not been in deli-
cate health. General Terry is to succeed Gen. Meade
in command at Atalanta, Georgia, and this will
but commence several important military changes.
General Augnr has been appointed to the vacant
Brigadiership ; and General Schofield to be Major-
General. Gen. Sherman was to receive his com-
mission on the 6th instant, when several important
changes were to be made among the general offi
cers. Sickles and Thomas are to go South, besides
Terry. Hancock is to serve under Sheridan, wh°
succeeds Sherman in command of the West. Meade
will take the Military Division of the Atlantic;
others are to be created, and Schofield will be
assigned one ; Gen. Rawlins, chief of Grant's Staff,
has been made Secretary of War, and must therefore
have resigned his commission. General Badeau be-
comes first secretary to the President, and Mail
other changes will take place.
These are the bills that Ex-President Johnsen
managed to snuff out by pocketing them :—The Act
reorganizing the Judiciary System.—The Act f°:
Reducing the Navy and Marine Corps.—The Act
for the further security of Equal Rights in the Ms-
trict of Columbia.—Mr. Schenck's bill for Strength'
ening the Public Credit.—The resolution authoriz:
ing the Secretary of War to lend 4,000 stand 01
arms and equipments to visiting military organiza-
tions that take part in the ceremonies of inaugura
tion.—The Act granting permission to build 3
Bridge over the Willamette.
It is amusing to note how Miss Vinnie Iten°2,
manages to keep her name before the public, 05
extract an immense advertising business out of the
Senate. An appropriation of $5,000 was asked for
to carry out the terms of the contract with Miss
Vinnie Ream for her statue of Lincoln. Mr. Stun"
ner very ungallantly asked if there was any met°
of getting rid of the contract for a statue which, when
completed, Congress could not place in the capit°l'
Mr. Howard, as uncomprising iu his remarks on
lady as in the Report he submitted on the Ord:
nance Corps, said he had examined the model, that
it was not at all like Mr. Lincoln, in truth,
complete failure, with which Congress and t"
people would be dissatisfied when finished. for
nator Sumner was, however, caught tripping, for
Miss Ream had friends, one of whom is Senator
Trumbull, and another put to Mr. Sumner the
question whether he had ever seen the model, at:o
on his acknowledging that he had not, he sal
Senator had no right to criticise a model in
very building which he had not taken the trouble tit)
inspect. Though Mr. Sumner had the last wc'earutt:
which was not very complimentary to Misses the
as an artist, the lady had the best of it,

motion was carried.
A very important Ku-Klux arrest was reportecl
F,
from Memphis on the 2d instant. His name is Josiah 0.
Earl, a citizen of Marion, Crittenden County, A-rksll:l4
and on his person was found an order, signed by him
lafl•
disbanding the association known as the ICLu-ICia
The greatest excitement prevailed in the city au"— -
many prominent citizens when the arrest was knowa•
MA RR I ED.—At the United States Legation, Pa y
on Wednesday, March 17, James B. Andrews t 0 F 3,1.13 rivir
Griswold Field, daughter of Cyrus W. Field, all °f
York.

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Births. f G.
CODSINS—On the 18th inst., at Edinburgh, the i.e of a
W. Cousins Esq., late Captain 85th Lt. lufautrY,
daughter. the
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STEDALL—On the 19th inst , at 15, Woburn-F(l'lsre'
wife of Henry Stedall, Esq., of a son.

Marriages.
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GI Maryleb°n°
v Clara,
Church, Captain Arthur W. Gillett, RN., to Lu, t of
second daughter of Sir Henry Paul Seale, 13" r "
Deo.
KiNsry —WOODLAND— On the 18th inst , at Bright°, iste
C. Kinsey to Eliza, oldest surviving daughter a th°
George Woodland, Esq., of London.
Deaths. lISSe
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LECONFIELD -On the 18th inst , at Petwortb, $
George, Baron Leconfiold, aged 82.
MARTIN--On
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STENNING - On the 13th inst., at Croydon, 13enj.
Esq., aged 58.
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