The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-24 00:00:00

TUE VANDERBILT MEMORIAL.

The monumental bronze statue erected in honour of
Commodore Vanderbilt on the Hudson River Railway
Depot, New York, was unveiled on the 10th of November
with appropriate ceremonies. In delivering the address
Mayor Hall declared that statues which commemorate the
achievements of living men were rarely seen. They did
not pay this honour to Cornelius Vanderbilt because he
was the richest citizen on the Continent, but because of
the results his wealth had worked. President Grant sent
a letter in which he regretted his inability to be present
at the unveiling of the statue of one whose life was spent
in useful public enterpriles. The bronzes are the largest
in the world, and were designed by Albeit de Groot. They
were moulded into colossal shape by Valentine and George
Fisher.

Mr. William B. Richardson, of Yonkers, de-
livered a lecture at tit) American Institute, New York,
Oct. 28, On the Silk Culture of the United States," in
which he urged his lady hearers to buy American silks
and not be prejudiced in favour of foreign goods. He
said —" The best ribbons and trimmings now in use are of
American make, though sold as foreign, and the same re-
mark applies to many of the silks now worn. The United
States at present import raw silk to the amount of about
$6,000,000 per annum, and the value of silk goods made
in the United States may safely be taken at $20,000,000.
The greatest silk centre is Patterson, Now Jersey, where
there are now 16 factories, running 75,000 spindles, pre-
paring silk threads, that is, throwing silk, mostly for
weaving. The capital invested amounts to $2,000,000.
In Philadelphia there are 20 factories, employing 400 men,
and 1,500 girls and women, whose wages amount annually
to $250,000. The capital invested is estimated at
$1,500,000. In the City of New York there are 7,000 or
8,000 hands employed in making trimmings, weaving rib-
bons and dress goods, the invested capital being $2,500,000.
Besides these, we have factories at Yonkers, Schoharie ;
at Hartford and Willimantic in Connecticut; at North-
ampton and Florence in Massachusetts. The lecturer said
that the silk weavers of the United States could mako dress
goods equal to those imported; but if the American
weaver pays his hands high wages, of course he cannot
make goods as cheaply as the foreign weaver."

BUDGET OF MISCELLANEOUS.—A large German
immigration is reported in Texas.—A new police station-
house in New York was inaugurated with a supper and ball
the other night. -The Louisville bridge, now building
across the Ohio, has already killed 11 persons by accidents.—
A child was recently born in Blandford, New Hampshire,
who has two grandmothers, four great-grandmothers, and
two great-great-grandmothers, and only two grandfathers.
Poor child.—Divorces may be had for $5 of a coloured
justice in Florida.—Baltimore claims this year an import
trade 44 per cent. higher than last year.—The story is
related that while several men from the burning steamer
Stonewall were struggling for possession of a bale of
hay in the Mississippi river, one lolled another with a
knife. All of them are supposed to have been lost.. -
The New York Tinzes says that fully one-fifth of the men
composing the Government troops now stationed in the
South aro ex-Confederates, and that they live sociably and
kindly with their Northern brethren in arms.—The United
States contains 6,000,000 dogs. A tax of $1 a head on these
valuable animals would go a great way towards relieving
the income tax.—A suit against a circus in Ohio developed
the fact that the bad jokes of the clown are paid for at the
rate of $75 a week.—A new theatre has been successfully
opened at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, called the Thaler
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costs England only one million two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars annually for her clean Bank of England cur-
rency on a gold basis. It costs the United States thirteen
millions of dollars for a dirty and non-redeemable currency.
—California developes a new industry. Bales of chappal el
are shipped to China and sent back as tea.—An American
writer says —" Philadelphia has an estimated population of
785,000 souls, which makes it the fourth city as regards
size, in the civilized world;" but this is certainly an ex-
aggeration.--The coloured people of Maryland celebrated
the anniversary of their emancipation by a grand proces-
sion, an oration, and entertainment, at Baltimore, Nov. 4.
The procession, which included benevolent and trade so-
cieties, was several miles long.—During October $2,000,000
in treasure was exported from San Francisco.—The town
of Cisco, California, was destroyed by fire October 31.--
Navigation has been inaugurated on Salt Lake, Utah.
schooner, laden Ai ith silver ore arrived at Corinne, N0v.30
from Stockton, on the southern shore of the lake.—the
ship Golconda, of the American Colonization Society',
sailed from Baltimore for Liberia, Africa, Nov. 3,
largo cargo. She was to touch at Savannah, to take 400
coloured emigrants on board.—The Onondaga stone giant
was raised Nov. 5, and taken to Syracnse.—From the re-
turns of the foreign trade of Italy for 1868, just issued, it
appears that with the United States there was an increase
Loth of imports and of exports, as shown in the following
figures:—lmports in 1867, 24,272,325 f.; in 1868,31,031,29.1 f.
exports in 1867, 22,980,144 f.; in 1868, 27,704,129 f. The ir11"
ports from America consisted of tobacco, cotton, dyeing.
materials, raw hides, coffee, pigments, &c., and the eNlperta
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of fruit, rags, oil, silk waste, sulphur, marble, and alabaster
—The first conference for Promoting and Aiding Female
Industry has just been held at Berlin ; 150 delegates,
chiefly ladies, of whom six were Americans, were present.
Tho best means of establishing special industrial schools
for females, and of supplying them with remunerative err
ployment, were the chief subjects discussed. At a suPPed
on the Gth inst. the health of the Crown Princess, coup
with that of the Princess Alice of Hesse and the Gran
Duchess of Baden, was proposed, in acknowledgment
their efforts to advance the objects of the association. 1"`,"
health of her Majesty the Queen of England was proposal
by Miss Dogget, of Chicago, and received with enthusianl33:
The Levee Committee of the recent Southern Coraelerd
eial Convention has held a meeting at New Orleans
resolved to organise a stock company to construct levee'
—The Yale scientific crew have challenged the '7O crelf
to a shell race for the champion flag of the Yale Nal'
W. R. Sperry of the Yale College junior class has bee
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awarded the Yale " Lit." medal. There are at present By,
students in the college, of whom 500 are in the acadatn°..
department. The sophomore class is the largest, OM
bering 150.—The Mormons are in Vermont. Eight per-
sons wore recently baptized into that faith at Westfield.