The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-11 00:00:00

.you see, wbieb.blows no one good, and. if a remark
be true, credited to Mr. Thornton the British
Minister, now here, thesethreats will be used by the
Tories to bring the Liberals into odium for sub-
mitting to them, but I imagine our warlike Senator
is alike unknown and uncared for in England. I
now learn that the strike on the Second-avenue is
over and the cars are running regularly, the men
having gained their object. Mr. and Mrs. George
W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Ledger, arrived in
the Russia on Wednesday evening. The Fisk suit
against the Union Pacific is dragging its weary way
along. It was up in the United States Distr:et Court
before Judges Nelson and Batchelder on Thurs-
day. One motion was to havetheinjunction vacated,
the other to have the papers on file removing the
case to the United States Court taken off. The
question touching the transfer to the other courts
was first argued. The pretensions of the Judges to
exercise an unwarranted influence over the officers
of railway companies is injuring this city, as
there is a move to transfer many of the depots
elsewhere. A large number of emigrants are
leaving for California. The Henry Chauncey
sailed on Wednesday evening for Aspinwall with
nearly 1,000 passengers ; great numbers cross
the continent by rail, and this is the way the
Senators from the Pacific States return. Senator
Fenton intends to sue some of our papers for
libel, and he has had sufficient cause. Mr. Seward
remains at Auburn, where he is giving receptions.
The Herald has opened its branch office in Brook-
lyn, and this brings me to the end of my budget
of news, to remember something I have forgotten
as usual, when too late,

WASHINGTON, April 23.

Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, who was
about to visit New York, gave a grand entertain-
ment to the members of Congress and and Diplo-
matic Corps, on Saturday evening, which was
largely attended. It is here stated that our present
Minister -to London -will not return home imme-
diately, as he will spend some time in European
travel.* The President desires Mr. Motley to reach
London early in June, and he has taken his passage
in the Cuba, to leave New York on the 19th May.
Our scramble for office is ended as far as the Senate
is concerned, but it never ends for the secretaries
and chiefs of bureaux. The Senate scrutinised care-
fully many of the appointments, and not without
reason, for they found, through lure accident in one
instance, that a man who made fraud his profession,
to whom every dodge known to bankrupts was
the familiar path he had often trod, who swindled
and cheated whenever the opportunity offered, had
been nominated, with his testimonials endorsed not
only by the Senators and Representatives of his
State, but by clergymen of note, e !itors of leading
papers, and those whose profession it is to war
against such enemies of society as this man.
When the appointmentbecamea scandal and general
attention was attracted to it, a well-known editor,
with shame and sorry, acknowledged that his name
was among the signatures. But whatever may be
our shortcomings as journalists, our men have on
the whole behaved better in the scramble than those
of any other profession. The only big appointment
tendered an editor was that of the New York Ap-
praisership, offered to Charles A. Dana, of the New
York Sun. A flattering letter accompanied it from
Secretary I3outwell, begging of him as a personal
favour to accept the post, though he knew
that it would neither accord with Mr. Dana's
tastes nor inclinations, and was belo ar his
claims, while Mr. Boutwell offered him his warm
support. The appointment is lucrative, and from a
dollar view would have well paid the Editor, who,
however, without hesitation, declined it. What Mr.
Dana said is perhaps the highest compliment he could
have paid his professional brethren. Educated to
commercial pursuits he was qualified for a post
suited to his taste, and while acknowledging this, he
replied," But I already hold an office of respon-
sibility as the conductor of an independent news-
paper, and I am persuaded that to abandon it, or
neglect it for the functions you offer me, would be
to leave a superior duty for one of much less im-
portance. Nor is it certain that I cannot do more
to help you in the pure and efficient administration
of the Treasury Department by remaining here and
denouncing and exposing political immorality than
I could do as Appraiser by the most zealous ef:ort
to insure the faithful and honest collection of the
customs." One of the great fights in the Senate
was over the appointment of a rebel General to be
Governor of New Mexico. The case of General
Crow was not unlike that of Longstreet, except
that one was not so eminent a leader against the
Union as the other. Both were true to the rebel
cause -while the war lasted, and both brought on
themselves a good deal of odium among Southerners
by adopting the Union cause as civilians, which

they had failed to defeat as so:diers. Crowe is an
Alabama man, and he gave his best efforts when

the war ended to forward the reconstruction of his
State. General Grant's policy, although it may
not suit the War-horses, is one of simple justice,
and will tell favourably on the South. The posi-
tion of such gentlemen as Crowe, if ostracised by
both parties, would became so unenviable that no
Southerner would hereafter dare to follow his in-
inclinatign, and go in for reconciliation were the
policy of extremis's to prevail ; this knowledge,
however, had its weight with the Senate, for, after
a hard struggle the appointment was confirmed by
a majority of 32 to H. Mr. Carlisle having no
record that proved satisfactory to the Senate, failed
in getting the mission to Stockholm. J. Ross-
Browne wrote a very interesting account of the
Pacific slope, but however elaborate, however ex-
cellent, there was nothing in it that forwarded the
Republican party interests, so the Senate could see no
reason why heshould stay inChina. An order has been
issued having reference to decorating with flowers
the graves of the soldiers who died for the country,
and observing the 30th May as the day set apart
to commemorate the great deeds of the Union
Army. It falls on the Sabbath, therefore those who
desire are at liberty to observe it on the SaturJty
preceding. A rumour spread that the President
intended to call an extra session of Congress, which
was said to emanate from the California Senators,
but this they denied. Most persons think they
have had enough of Congress for one spell, and
Gen. Grant appears also to think so, and some even
assert has said so. The officers who lose their com-
mands by the consolidation of the infantry com-
plain bitterly of the injustice. General Sherman,
who is Commander-in-Chief, carried out the
scheme, but the grievances are sent to the Secretary
of War, to whom they look for relief. That the
case is a hard one you may easily understand, for
gallant and meritorious soldiers who have worked
up to the point to which they aspired suddenly find
the whole fabric sink ; but General Rawlins has
pledged himself to look after their interests, and to
recompense them as the opportunity offers. The
Hale-Perry correspondence quarrel has assumed
another phase, as the New York Tribune has got
itself mixed up in the matter. What with the
letters of its London correspondent denouncing Mr.
Hale, the replies from himself and his friends, the
publication of the strictly private official corre-
spondence supposed to be a profound secret, while
it occupied two columns of the Tribune, and the
scandal resulting from this row shows an evident
tendency to grow. Senators Cragin, Thurman, and
Trumbull as a Special Committee are to investigate
the manner-of its publication, how the newspapers
obtained the correspondence, and why they had the
bad taste to publish it. They
are empowered to
send for persons and papers, to examine oa oath,
to go anywhere, but they must report next session.
Yesterday some correspondents were examined
by the Committee to ascertain how the Tribune
obtained the despatches, but all refused to answer,
asserting that they were bound in honour to keep
that secret received iu confidence.
missed, but the point was again debated in the
Senate, the puzzle being how to punish the ob-
streperous newspaper men. If, as Senator Craigen
suggested, they were sent to gaol, as the Senate
would adjourn immediately, they could only be
confined for one night, but finally it was de-

* The belief is that Mr. Reverdy Johnson intends to
leave England on the 22d inst., but his successor cannot
arrive till the end of the month; but it is not stated
whether Mr. Johnson goes to the Continent or to the
States.