The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-02 00:00:00

THE . SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, it 69.

Wesley and Lyte, Toplady and lieble, Doddridgt
and Ken, mere sinful men ? So the Kirk must fall
back upon David, who, as we all know, was sinless,
especially just before he wrote the 51st Psalm. But
the funny thing:is that the Assembly does not like to
have the Psalms in the prose version, that is, the
version nearest the original, for that would lead to the
prelatical and Popish habit of chanting, which is alto-
gether abominable, though it is true David and Asaph
wrote their Psalms especially for chanting—yes, even
for that worst of abominations, antiphonal chanting.
So the Psalms have to go through the excruciating
process of versifying. The result is a doggrel, com-
pared with which Sternhold and Hopkins, Brady and
Tate, were charming. Besides these there are a
certain number of "paraphrases," which the
Scotsman divides into three classes, " ranting,
namby-pamby, and milk-and-watery." We scarcely
know to what class the following verse belongs,
though it was considered particularly good by the
" demonstration" at which a number of these non-
human hymns were sung :
" 0 tongue to fraud inclinid,
What portion shalt thou find--
What shall be done to thee ?
Sharp arrows of the great,
With coals of burning heat,
Of juniper that be;"
Mark the rhyme, " great," " heat." Funny people
the Free-Kirkers.

(From the Anglo -American Times.)
_NEW YORK, May 15.

The ATL:011(1, bound for Aspinwall with a very
large number of passengers and the mails for Cali-
foruia, broke her shaft on the voyage, and bad to
get back as best she could, transferring all to the
Rising Star, which Lefton Saturday. The steamer tug
Joe Bak•er exploded its boiler, and blew all its offi-
cers overboard, some of them severely injured. The
account of the loss of the Pacific Co.'s steamship
Hermann, from Yokohama on the 13th February,
has reached Washington and been published. She
had a crew of 80 men and 350 passengers, Japa-
nese
soldiers. The night was dark, and Captain
Newell could but barely make out the land along
which he was coasting. He was giving a promon-
tory a wide berth, as the native pilot informed him
there was a shoal off it unmarked on the charts,
ashen he discovered breakers ahead, but before the
vessel could be brought round she was caught by a
tremendous roller and thrown bodily on the rocks,
where she was quickly reduced to a wreck. The
boats which were not swept away were used by the
crew in their endeavours to reach the land, but
were successively swamped in the breakers. Most
being lifeboats they floated, though swamped, and
those who clung to them were saved. The funnel
fell during the night and smashed up the hurricane
deck, causing great loss of life. In the morning
the weather moderated, and those who remained on
the wreck were taken off by the Japanese on shore.
The Japanese soldiers behaved extremely well,
obeying their officers with the greatest coolness to
the last, while the danger may be judged, as by far
the larger portion of them perished. Mr. Norvell
of the Times has given hail for $25,000 to answer
the charge of libel brought against him by Jas. Fisk,
Jun., and the report is that the case will soon be tried.
It was said that Gen. Butler had been engaged by
Mr. Young of the Tribune in his case against Mr.
Dana of the Sun, but this is denied, though it is as-
serted that half the editors here and' in Philadelphia
will be summoned as witnesses. Warren and Costello
are now starring it, holding receptions of their
friends at Sweeny's Hotel in Chatham-street, and
a grand public reception is to be immediately given
them. Mr. Pomeroy will bring out his paper next
week as large as the Tribune and at the same price,
backed by Tainmany and other Democratic influ-
ences, being, sonic hint, upheld purposely against the
IVor/(1, as the party do not like to be wholly in the
Lands of one great daily organ. The name of
Pomeroy brings to my mind a suit for divorce in
which another Pomeroy was concerned. Mrs.
Kinnier brought her case before the Supreme Court
under the following circumstances. She had married
Mr. Pomeroy, and while residing in Massachusetts
by mutual consent she obtained a divorce from him
through the Illinois Divorce Laws, when she mar-
ried her present husband. She now seeks a
divorce from him on the ground that the- first
divorce was illegal, which, if good, leaves her the
lawful wife of Mr. Pomeroy. The Court held
that the Illinois divorce was valid, as both had
consented; therefore, this dove, is sent back to the
arms of her present spouse_ Judge Benedict of the
United States Circuit Court delivered his charge
to the grand jury on Monday. He spoke in very
severe terms about the frauds on the Government
both in the Custom House and Internal Revenue
Department. Under the late Administration affairs
in the Custom House were in a fearful state. In
the drawback frauds alone the Government was
swindled out of $700,000. To recover the draw-
back (taxes paid on goods not used in the country but
re-export ed), four certificates, an affidavit, and a bond
have to be produced, and these were all forged by the
Custom house men themselves, and passed without
difficulty. They described goods, swore affidavita,
and brought up bondsmen, all fictitious, and got the
drawbacks from the Washington Treasury. Though
the certificates were forged, they bore the genuine
seal of an Internal Revenue officer. In the warehouse
department goods subject to duty were withdrawn
without any being paid, till the Government loss in
a single warehouse equalled $400,000. The judge
urged the inquest to do all in their power to bring
the offenders to justice. Some of the stolen Syra-
cuse Savings Bauk Bonds have turned up in the
possession of a Philadelphia broker, who attempted
to negotiate them, and he has been committed for
trial. The Cuban Junta arc so annoyed with the
city newsp 'per repprters, who used the information
they gave for sensational paragraphs, that they re-
fuse to give them any more news, and henceforward
they will be silent. The Spanish Consul had-an in-
terview with General Barlow about the steamship
Quaker City. He said he was 'instructed by the
Spanish Minister to call his attention to the vespel'
as it was said to be fitting out in the interest of
the fillibuster.s. The United States Marshal re-
plied he hid received strict injunctions to pre-
vent any infraction of the neutrality laws, hut he was
satisfied that the report was a mere fiction of the
sensation-mongers. The Anti-Slavery Society met
on Tuesday at Steinway Hall, but the room was
only half full, which the whites did not regret as
half the audience were coloured. Wendell Phillips
presided, and resolutions were passed, favouring the
Fifteenth Amendment, the suppression of Southern
anarchy, the condemnation of coloured people's ex-
clusicn from public places, and censuring the
churches for their adherence to caste. Wendell
Phillips expected to see the day when the Doard of
Brokers would open their doors to the coloured re-
presentative of a sovereign State, and said the time
will arrive when no difference will be recognized be-
tween black and white; then, with a black Senate
and a black Secretary of State, Mr. Motley will be
sent with very different instructions from those
now provided. What these are, and what they then
would be, I know not. Miss Stone invoked the day
when the black man and black woman would stand
at the ballot-box together. She would like to aid
them to put their black hands into the Treasury.
Mr. Frederick Douglass spoke well, as usual, and
so did Mr. Sims. Indeed, they seldom follow the
extravagant lead of some of their white friends,
and, in abstaining, appear to the better advantage.
The Stock Exchange and.the Open Board were con-
solidated in the name of the New York Stock Ex-
change, having a thousand members and. s'Boo,ooo
in its Treasury. The management will rest in the
hands of 40, of whom the following 12 have been
taken from the members of the Open Board :—J.
I.Kennedy,
L. Brownell,-ownell, Rufus Hatch, S. V. White C. P.
re.h let o
fboeirotw Wailer,,ina re
Currie, S. B. Ilard, D. A. Boody, A. V. B. Van
1)
L. .Yl‘ckl:irTx, L 8..
J. Stout,. Von 0 k
the officers of the Consolidated Board of Brokers :
—President Williatn 11. Neilson ; First Vice Pre-
sident, M. A. Wheelock ; Second Vice-President,
B. 0. White ; Treasurer, D. C. Hays ; Secretary,
G. 11. Brodhead ; Assistant-Secretary, John-. IV
Munro ; Roll- keeper, W. Weeher. Th.ey have sent
a committee to Washington to have the recent
cision of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue
respecting the tax on broker re-opened, and they
ask for an extension of time beyond the ten days
in each month, wherein they are required to re-
port, but the department, although inclined to in-
crease the time, are not disposed to reconsider the
decieion. A terrible tragedy occurred at No. 1,
Montague-terrace, Brooklyn-heights, on Thursday

morning. Mr. -Benjamin Flint, a _ retired mer-
chant, had been intimate many years ago with a
Mr. Talbot, a wealthy Boston merchant, and when
about twelve months ago, his son, Mr. Samuel D.
Talbot, came to this city, Mr. Flint not only showed
him great hospitality, but set apart a bed-room for
him in his house. Last winter Miss Lizzie Scribner,
a sister of Mr. Flint, arrived on a visit, and of
course was frequently thrown into the company of
Mr. Talbot, who at last, when about to commenci.
business, proposed marriage. Miss Scribner re-
fused, and her decision did not apparently at the
time cause him any uneasiness ; but early this
month he requested her one evening to ac-
company him to the theatre, and on her politely
declining he appeared greatly disappointed. About
one o'clock on Thursday morning Miss Scribner
was awoke by.a person'. pressing a towel violently
on her face, saturated with chloroform and mor-
phine. She dashed it aside, and recognized Talbot
by the light from the street lamp, who still con-
tinued to press the towel to her face, but she sprang
from her bed, reached the heal of the stairs; and,
calling for assistance, was told by her sister to go
to her room. She did so, faint from excitement,
and threw herself on her sister's bed ; but in a few
minutes Talbot entered the room, whereon Miss
Scribner jumped from the bed and crouched at the
opposite side of the room, when he levelled a pistol
at her and fired. The ball struck her cheek, near
the angle of the eye, inflicting a flesh wound. She
threw up her hands to her bead, and as she did so
he again fired, the ball striking her hand, passing
through her third finger and middle of the baud
into the forearm, and passing out the opposite
side to which it had • entered. Talbot then
rushed up stairs and locked himself within
his own room. The third report of the revolver
was heard by the police in the neighbourhood, and
a heavy fall on the bed-room floor by the inmates.
Upon the police entering Talbot's room a six ounce
bottle was found with about half an ounce of chlo-
roform left in it, a towel folded in many folds and
strongly impregnated with chloroform, and a bottle
contaihing one-sbueentle of an ounce of morphine.
On the floor was the suicide, presenting a gory and
ghastly spectacle. After receiving surgical treat-
ment Miss Scribner was removed to her bed and
pronounced out of danger. During the day an in-
quest was held, and Coroner Jones charged the
jury on the evidence adduced, when the verdict was
returned that —" The said Sam. D. Talbot came to his
death by shooting himself iu the head with a pistol,
on the 13th of March, 1869, at No. 1. Montague-
terrace, Brooklyn." Mr. Flint telegraphed to the
stepmother of the deceased at Boston, his parents
being dead, and the reply was received in the after-
noon requesting that the remains should be for-
warded to Boston. They were accordingly sent
with a burial permit by Coroner Jones, the same
day. The Tribune, I regret to say, will commence
a series of articles on Political Economy by its
Editor on the Ist proximo. Oh dear ! Oh dear ! !
I wonder how maey subscribers this announcement
will attract or the other thing. Bishop M'llvaine has
preferred charges against the Rev. Colin Tait of Co-
lumbus, Ohio, whom he accuses of violating the
doctrines and worship of the Episcopal Church in
making the singing of processional hymns by choirs
in surplices a regular part of the worship. The
American Church Union upholds Mr. Tait, and
will supply
the funds for his defence.

WASHINGTON, May 14.
I wish that our delega'ions would give themselves
shorter names. Yesterday one called on the Pre-
sident and was announced as " the National Exe-
cutive Committee of the Coloured Men of the
United States" to return thanks for a newspaper
report they took as trustworthy that it was the in-
tention of the Executive to appoint coloured men
in the Northern States to important posts. Their
fitness for office had been proved by their manhood,
and therefore taken out of the arena of debate.
Such appointments in the Noah would destroy the
oljeetions in the South, where it would show the
untruth that the North wished to force oee policy
on the Southerners accepting another for itself. The
action of Rhode Island would solve the question in
Georgia. It would also have another effect, for if
the North showed a liberal disposition to the Ne-
groes where they were numerically weak, in the
South where they were numerically strong they
would be lets unwilling to share their politi-
cal immunities with the whites. What would a
Southern planter of the old school ten years ago
have thought of such a delegation in the White
Clouse thus addressing the President? They con-
cluded by expressing their sense of gratitude for
the rebuke General Grant had given to the preju-
dice against them by the numerous negro appoint-
ments he had made, contrasting the fact that the
action of the late lamented President was under
the necessities of war for defence, while his was the
sense of right during the calm influence of peace.
The President received them cordially, assuring
the delegates that important points were raised
which should have his serious attention. I may
here state that the Fifteenth Amendment having
been ratified by Connecticut makes in all 22
States. The difficulties in Indiana when the ques-
tion was brought before the Legislature were re-
peated, the Democrats leaving, so that the Legisla-
ture should be without a quorum. Under these
circumstances the objectionable course is likely to
be taken, which must eventually much injure the
Governmentof this country, that is, legalizing illegal
acts required by the immediate necessities of a
party. 'the Democrats strain the law to 'defeat a
measure approved by the sense of our people, yet
they act within the law ; the Republicans unable
to thwart the Opposition have ratified the amend-
ment, at least in the Senate, in spite of the quorum
not being present, and if necessary, Congress will
legalize their course. General Lee, who arrived at
Lexington last Saturday, expresses much gratifi-
cation with the result of his visit to Baltimore and
Washington. Mr. Howard has had an interview
with the President previous to his departure as
Minister to China, as had also Colonel Markbreit,
before leaving for Bolivia. Mr. Whitely, the new
Chief of the Treasury Secret Service Division,
arrived on Wednesday and took charga of his office.
The Government despatched an agent to Cuba to
gather information independently of its Consul-
General, and his information is not encouraging to
the insurgents. The Consul cannot tell what their
force is ; merchants estiruate it at from 15,000 to
:10,000 men ; while others, equally reliable, place it at
1,400, but the Consul does not believe either to be
correct. This, however, he asserts, that there is
not a Cuban man,' woman, or child on the island
who does not sympathize with the revolt, and he
adds his own opinion that if the insurgents can hold
out for six months more Spain will be compelled to
abandon her effort to subdue them. The cruel
action of the Spanish Government aids the insur-
rection, and has created such a feeling of intense
hatred that Spain will never recover a strong foot-
ing in Cuba. Nor is this its only ill effect, for it
has generated a disgust of Spanish rule far and
wide iu our country. I regret, however, to learn
that Admiral Hoff, as- -well as Consul-General
Plumb, and other good authorities, consider
that there is no chance for the present of over-
throwing Spanish rule, and the Cuban agents
here are evidently discouraged. Mr. Allison is to
meet the Committee of Ways and Means at New
York to begin their investigation. Senator Fenton
is expected to make a stay of a few days. Ihe way
our people bring themselves prominently before the
public as an advertisement for their goods is quite
as ingenious as anything gotten up in Europe. To
makers of hats, boots, cigars, and sticks, the Pre-
sident is mainly uieful for bringing forward their
wares. One sends him a cigar that would require
two men to hold it for six weeks while he smokes;
then flaunts a sign, " Maker to the President."
What they would like is to get U. S. Grant tick-
eted with their goods, but as they cannot succeed
in this they do all they can. Mr. Joseph M'Cord,
of Boston, has presented to the President a rose-
wood baton mounted with silver, inscribed " Joseph
Nl`Cord, inventor. Let us have Peace. Pre-
sented to to U. S. Grant, President of the United
States, Aprill7, 1869." The invention consisted in a
whistle and rattle combined, and I hope Mr. M-Cord
has received his reward, in numerous orders for
ditto ditto. The Comptroller's abstract, showing
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the condition of the Southern banks on the 17th
April, in accordance with the recent order, has
been published. In North Carolina the aggregate
of resources and liabilities of its six banks is
$2,675,913 ; in South Carolina, of its three banks,
$2,629,383 ; in Alabama, of its two, $1,239,205 ;
in Louisiana, of its two, $4,189,809. It is said that
smuggling is active and increasing on the Canadian
frontier. The regulations on what is termed the
hand-luggage of passengers passing into the States
by the Great Western Railway have been altered,
as they are found, while onerous to the company,
to be inefficient. The inspectors accompanying the
trains between Suspension Bridge and Detroit are
to be discontinued from the 25th inst., and instead
the Customs' officers will affix to the hand baggage
of the through passengers, from point to point in
the United States over Canadian territory, a stamp,
which w:llenable the officer on the other side to pass
the package without examination. The railway people
are asked" to assign to the through passengers a car
to themselves by way of facilitating the examina-
tion. We have settled down in Washington into a
state of utter stagnation, from which the New York
Tribune's sensational telegram gave us a momentary
relief. A few Congressmen, like stray swallows or
the last roses of summer, hang about, looking after
minor appointments. The post vacated by Judge
Edmunds, when promoted l'ostmaster of the City
from being Postmaster of the Senate, excites a slight
contest between Dr. Taft and Major Fares. Mrs.
Scott Siddons is acting the character of Beatrice,
and every one in Washington goes to see her, Mrs.
Grant among the number. By the way, I hear that
an action has been brought against Miss Kellogg's
agent for $2,000 for failing to sing at some concert,
for which, it is alleged, she had been engaged.

A correspondent from Madrid, describing his trip
over Spain, says :—" We have met very few Ame-
ricans or English; most have been unnecessarily
kept out of Spain from fear of political troubles,
of which we were not a little apprehensive. We
have found no trouble anywhere from this source,
but travelling is not yet so pleasant in the Penin-
sula as on most parts of the Continent. Hon. S. S.
Cox, late a distinguished Democratic member of
Congress, from Ohio, now of New York, was here
last week from a long trip through Algeria; also
Gen. Darling, late chief military engineer of New
York. We spent several days with our Minis.er
to Spain, John P. Hale, then at Seville, with
his family, but who are now on a short tour
in the South of Spain. Mr. Male's health has
been bad for a year, but is much improved of
late. Spain, I hope, is on the road to im-
provement, but the work must be slow. The
people are too ignorant and too indolent., too poor
and too proud to get or. fast in the way of political,
moral, and social progress. But free discussion
and a free press are making mach' visible good,
and I hope such seed is being sown as has not been
sown in Splin for long ages, and as will bear good
fruit, and place the country among those enjoying
civil liberty and a good goverumait. Ido not be-
lieve a Republic is now the best government for
Spain. The people must be better educated to be pre-
pared fur it—a constitutional monarchy is preferable,
with a new Monarch, free from all Bourbon or other
old alliances and associations. A man of the pre
sent, with a responsible Ministry and free elections,
a free press, toleration and protection of all re-
ligions, and a government promptly settled upon,
would, I think, be best for Spain. Of one thing I
think you may be assured, viz., that the step for-
ward in the way of toleration will never be retraced.
On this point I believe there can be no mistake, and
that is much for Spain and mankind. The Cortes
is a fine-looking body of men, though th ,y are pro-
ceeding rather slowly. The course of our Govern-
ment towards Cuba seems to meet with general ap-
proval so far, and the impression •is that the Go-
vernment is acting in good faith, while it does not
seem to be expected that sympathies will not be ex-
pressed by individuals. I find in fact the name of
a citizen of the United States well received every-
where in the South of Spain.

TIIE UNITED STATES• CONSUL-GENERAL AND Mu.
SMALLEY.—We believe that Mr. Smalley, the London
correspondent of the NOV fork Tribune, is now aware that
he was misled in Lis statements regarding Consul-General
Morse, and will take an early opportunity of explaining
this in his journal, and correcting whatever was errone-
ous. The charge of being a "Johnson" man was, we
thought, ono of the last that could have been brought
againtt Mr. Morse, fur, although it is not his habit to pro-
claim his opinions from the housetops of London, his
views on the quarrel between Congress and the late Pre-
sident were pretty well known, and we could, had we
chosen, have given the most unqualified contradiction
from our own knowledge. But we refrained from preju-
dicing one statement by showing another to be a mis-
take. It has, however, since reached us that the post
held by the Hon. Freeman Morse is in a pecuniary
point of view one of the worst in Europ->, and that he cer-
tainly has not made a fortune either by it or through its
means, nor does he, as the correspondent affirms, own
a single ton of shipping under any foreign flag.
Mr. Morse has given his whole time to the duties
of his office, and as they involved difficult and intricate
inquiries he has been fully employed. Mr. Sumner, in
his celebrated speech, quoted largely from one of the
Consul-General's Reports, which has furnished matter for
the discussion of Congress and of the American press, and
ha, occupied space in our columns. His qualifications for
this office could not be called in question as regards ability.
The Fraser and Trenholm settlement we do not profess to
understand; but the Government, we believe, are satisfied,
and we have heard one who did understand the question
assert that the appraisement made by Mr. Morse was fair
and prop;3r. .

Mr. Ashley had an interview with the Secretary
of State previous to his departure for Montana, and Mr.
Fish addressed him in a very complimentary way. The
new Governor intends to forward the colonization of the
territory by Germans, so as soon to bring it into the Union
as a State from which he hopes to be returned as Senator.
If he can push up the value of tho lots he may safely be left
to do so, for he is known to have taken a genuine inte-
rest in real estate in territories, before ho was appointed
Governor of one of them. He has named Mr. Benno
Speyer, of New York, Commissioner of Emigration, and
he will establish an agency in the Empire City.
A. deputation of bankers have had a conference,
at Ottawa, Canada, with Hon. John Rose, Finance Minis-
ter, in regard to the Government currency question. A
series of resolutions were read, the purport of which was
that the circulation ought to be preserved on its pre-
sent basis, and that the bank charters ought to be re-
newed with certain amendments calculated to give
greater security to note holders and depositor
he ©b anks. Thes
ers e,
amendments had been agreed to by nearly all t
of the Dominion. Mr. Bose said he was not able to enter
into a statement of his intentions, but would be prepared
alter the budga was dicynsed of to dieeuso the matter.
The bankers replied that they bad no doubt they Would
be able to meet the views of the Government, provided
they were still permitted the privilege of issuing notes ati
at present.
The Hon. Jacob Thompson, of Mississippi, made
a sensible speech in that State on his return from Europe.
It was their d uty-, he said, to accept the failure of their attempt
to establish a separate Government by force of arms. That
defeat decided that the people of.-the United States were
to be one, now, and for ever. They had elected the trial,
and must abide the result ; struggling with a hearty good
will to restore the waste places it had made.
Mr. Frederick Werner, one of the oldest mem-
bers of the Turner Society of Cincinnati, is having made
at his own cost a monument in memory of the 18 former
members of that Society who were killed in the Union
army during the late war. Tile names of the fallen are:
W. , W
—F. Borg, F. Biery, A. Beyland, Wm. BelserDreve
H. Elsner, Philip Fueller, F. Hildebrandt, G. Harmer,
G. Kiefuss, F. Ludwig, F. Mueller, H. Heintanz. P.
tier, H. Tafel, G. Vonan, F. Voll, J. Weiss. The monl
ment is to be the work of C.L.Fettweie, a sculptor in 0"1l
".
l
.be: placed in one of the large rooms i
ciunati, and will ofTurner Hall there.

The only collegiate institution founded and owned
by coloured men in North America is Wilberforce Uni-
versity, at Xenia, Ohio, founded in 18133. Although hav-
ing a coloured man (bishop D. A. Payne) at its head, and
two coloured professors, it has two white professors, and
admits blacks and whites to its classes with equal free-
dom. The college building, erected with great sacrifices,
was burned to the ground, April 11, 1865, by an inczndiary.
The trustees aro labouring to tebuild it at a cost of about
635,000, which they look to the-friends of negroes to give
them.

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