The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, 10N.69N, TUESDAY -I(L'irliNtNo, APRIL _• 21,_ 1869

the revived energy at .'Scotland Y arcs. I-or
time' betting " specs," as they are called, have beet
allowed to defy the law and cheat the public. Al
these are now about to be put doWn. Ihe Star says
" An order has been privately issued to prosecute al
persons found dealing in specs' or sheaving spec
bills. The detectives are hard at work getting 111
information, and when they have the :name;
and addresses of persons who have sinneC
against the law, the police intend to institute
a whole series of prosecutions. None of those con-
cerned in the traffic of spec tickets are to be allowee
to escape, and several hundred persons will be proze.
ented. The police have resolved to put down the
traffic with a strong hand. In about three wcchs
time another series of prosecutions will be com-
menced, and the parties then assailed will be the
agents on commission and the owners of betting
.e' changes. These prosecutions will cause consider•
able commotion amongst thousands of persons."

2russia and Austria . which raged so furiauslk a little
while ago. The North German Gazette, the greatest
sinner, it will be remembered, on the last occasion, has
begun the campaign with a Perce attack upon Count
Beast. .It lioVs him answerable for the publication of
this despatch ; which is, indeed, a feasible assumption, fur
-no doubt the Austrian Minister would be delighted to
publish it. It accuses him of attempting to create dis-
trust of Prussia amongst the smaller States. And it
winds up by charging him with seeking a quarrel, relying
on the aid this time of the Hungarians and Sclaves.

body have generally suffered from the late cold
weather. One of Nit-master Cresswell's first acts
was to remove Andrew Johnson (junior) of Green-
ville, Tennessee, lately of Iv a-shington, from the
Special Agency of the Post-office Department. He
,had been collecting Post-office funds in the South
for some months. The President is said to regard
Mr. Butler as leader of the House, and although
Butler changed his opinions on the Reconstruction
Bill, adopting those of the President, still there
is generally believed to be an understanding be-
tween them on the leading measures. On Wednes-
day a delegation from the Philadelphia Society of
Friends had an interview with Gen. Grant in rela-
tion to the managementoflndian aff air;,proposiu g the
Superintendent of Indian Affairs and his subordinates
to be placed under their control. Colonel Parker,
the Indian officer, lately on General Grant's Staff,
has been appointed Indian Agent, and will work
well with the Quakers. It is generally under-
stood in Washington that Secretary Fish does not
favour annexation schemes, and is opposed to in-
terference in Cuba and to the annexation of St.
Domingo. Annexation policy is iu his opinion a
mistake, but it is known that the question of Cuban
independence was discussed at a Cabinet meeting
before a full attendance. Whether we cheat less
or have less conscience than you Britishers I cannot
tell, but our Secretary of the Treasury acknowledges
less " Conscience Money" than the English Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. He has just got, how-
ever, asloo bill from Providence, New Jersey, the
sender addressing it to Mr. Fisb, Secretary of the
Treasury; another letter contained one dollar and
a half in revenue stamps from Pennsylvania. In
the election case from the Twenty•first District of
Pennsylvania, where the Election Committee de-
cided that John Covoda had a prima facie right to
the seat, the House has ordered the whole subject
to be recommitted, with instructions to report on
the mer;ta of

771 E NORTH AMEI?ICAN UNION.

(From the Anglo-American Times)

The New York Mtune, which is considered to
indicate the policy of the Government at Washing-
ton, unfolds in a series of articles on Canada, one
reason for the rejection of the Alabama Convention.
The dominant idea of the Republican party is 11111 •on
which appears to strengthen as its extreme wing
is neared. It is known that England sets no mate-
rial value on the Canadas, that they are to her a
loss and a danger, provocative of a war which could
only end in their conquest, supplying, not a British
field for emigration, but a channel to the United
States. Nor is the connection of any real value to
the Dominion, for the provinces
a s
of being
s
what they gain in the dignity andrespect lose
portions of the British Empire; while the imperial
expenditure on their defence is insufficient compen-
sation for the risk arising from an overwhelming
rower along their borders, being made invaders by
an act they cannot control, of another
m wouldent
be
ef
more the Dtoemt
country.
Whether the establish
Dominion
°and va as natn-
n
tlll.tiai
h w e absorptionba ve innet odtehneb Union
t
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sug dae e ofprie
tint
eldls the petrno
about
it does not here enter into our subject. The
Tribune, arguing that union would be a gain both
to the mother country and to the colony, concludes
that it would be sound policy for England to sug-
gest the separation, and settle all disputes now pend-
ing with the Republic on that basis. The pre-
cedent of international law established by England
is at last seen by British merchants to be the most
injurious ever set by a nation against its own secu-
rity. If a cruiser can go fully commissioned, armed,
and equipped from the ports of neutral Powers to
seize and destroy the ships of a belligerent, actin,'
as its own Prize Court, and burning at sea the cap
tured vessel it condemns, a law will be in operation
which cannot fail some day to be fatal (0 England's
commerce. Now England's commerce is her life ;
with it untouched she is chief among nations ; cut
it off and she collapses, her wealth dwindles, her
people starve, and she sinks to a position in accord-
ance with the tenitorial extent of the kingdom. To
obliterate such a precedent, which a moment of
madness allowed her to sanction, has, and will more
become, as this is better unders.ood, an object of vital
importance. Those who have watched the progress of
the dispute are aware of the truth of our assertion.
From the days when members cheered Mr. LAIRDS
proud boast in the house, to those when England
heard with concern the rejection of the CLAREN-
DON-JOHNSON Convention, there has been a mighty
change, and that mainly grounded on the know-
ledge becoming general that never was there such
an instance of a man dwelling in a glass house
bringing stone-throwing into fashion. Columbia,
aware of the strength of her position finds that it suits
her purpose to keep the dispute open, but we ima-
gine the Senate had an ulterior object with which
they connected that dispute when they rejected
the treaty for its settlement. To Senator SUMNER
has been attributed, as we before observed, some
remarkable articles in the Tribune, and he is the
Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, as
well as the Senate's instructor and guide on those
affairs. In these articles he associated the settle-
ment of the claims, the remodelling of the inter-
national code, and a firm and lasing alliance be-
tween the nations, with the voluntary withdrawal of
the sovereignty of England from British America.
Is it :not probable that Mr. SUMNER advised the
Senate when discussing
this question not to accede
to any settlement until England was prepared to
concede that which, however valuable to the United
States, was really of no value to her? The tendency
and tone of the American papers is to exaggerate
the wrong, and the injury dose to the Republic
through English sympathy with the rebellion, yet
to reject every means suggested for the compensation
of those injuries, and to such an extent are both car-
ried, that in Europe they arc ascribed to sentiment
and pettishness. Here Columbia is represented as
a spoilt child, roaring over some fancied wrong,
declaring she will not be good, she will not kiss
and be friends, she will not take the cakes and
jam, bat that she will pinch and slap to her heart's
content hereafter. Now it is just possible that Miss
M-
COLUMBIA maybe playing a very sly game. Mr. SU
NER is a leader of the extreme Republican party ;
union, as we before said, is the grand idea of that
party ; for it, the war was fought, for it hundred's
of thousands fell, and hundreds of millions were
expended ; but so strong is the sentiment in the
Northern mind that the party strikes a sympathetic
cord even when boastingly alluding to the sacrifices
made to preserve the Union. Consider then the
triumph to this party if they could make that very
war waged for severance not merely the means of
strengthening the bonds which bind it, but extending
that union over the whole continent. The weapons
were still red in the bands of the Northern soldiers
when the attempt to founds Latin counterpoise on
the Continent was sternly forbidden, and the first
foreign fruits of Northern triumph was the with-
drawal of foreign soldiers from Mexico, leaving it a
mere satrapy of the Union. But another attempt to
establish a nationality has been in progress on the
Continent in the Dominion, threatening a more seri-
ous impediment to the darling American idea of unity.
What if the Republicans can accomplish the absorp-
tion of the Canadas through an incident of that
war, carrying its objects to their legitimate dnd,
for it was fought on the defeated side for the sove-
reignty of States, and would then result in one con-
tinental dominion. Nothing could more bring home
the scope of what was contended for, the grandeur
of the object, and the fuluess of the success. This
is what is necessary to complete the war, making
on has , nation every citizen feel that,
however great his sacrifices
the magnitu le of the gain makes them small,
and
the party under whose auspices the
achieved so ranch will be domitrtut in the. Union
during the present generation, and hand a great
name down to posterity. The Tribune considers
that such a course on the part of England would
open a new dawn of real friendship between the
countries, based upon common interest and mutual
honour ; a voluntary and magnanimous reparation
having obliterated the memory of a mighty wrong,
gravea d
e buried
slavery
an d ravagestbe rebellion. ' of
said
BRIGHT, in contrast to the Confederate success,
" another and a brighter vision before my gaze ; it

* We wonder why th_e, Tribune always calls these
wretched wooden privateers "ironclads."