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

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1869.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS—LAsT EVENING.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
BRAZILIAN SLAFE TRADE.

The Earl of CLARENDON moved the second reading
of the Brazilian Slave Trade Bill, and explained
that the object of the bill was to repeal the
Act 8 and 9 Vic., commonly called the Aberdeen
Act. The provisions of that act were very stringent,
and when it was first passed it was intimated to the Bra-
zilian Government that it would not be permanent,
but as soon as the Brazilian Government took steps to check
the enormous traffic carried on on their coast, it would be
repealed, The time had now arrived for the fulfilment of
that engagement, and to effect that was the object of
the bill.

Lord CIIEL3ISFORD said he was Attorney-General
at the time of the passing of the act, and had he been con-
sulted he should have objected to the passing of the act
at all.

After some discussion the bill was read a second time,
and the house.adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-LAST EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

Mr. AYRTON gave nottce that on Thursday next, on
the house going into Committee of Supply on the Supple-
mentary Estimates, he should move that votes be taken to
defray the expenses of the Abyssinian expedition.

MISCELLANEOUS AE TVS.

and the burglar was captured. The Oriental
Bank was nearly robbed by two nice hoys who got
in through the basement from a liquor saloon ; but
the janitor interrupted their operations. General
Grant has arrived and departed. On the 4th he was
to have been the guest of ex-Governor Fish, but he
passed the day in looking over Messrs. Appleton's
publishing establishment, and in the evening was
at a great reception given by Mrs. M'Kean, 445,
Second-avenge. On the sth he dined with Mr.
Grinnell, and afterwards went to J,,hn Brougham's
theatre. On the 6th he went to Brooklyn accompa-
nied by General Badeau and staff, and dined with
ex-Governor Fish. On Sunday he made one of St.
Paul's Methodist Church congregation. Next day
the Union Republican Committee waited on him at
the Fifth-avenue Hotel. It was headed by Charles
Spencer, Dennis Burke, and John Cockrane, but
Mr. Spencer's speech only elicited the words,
" Good day." Some people even assert it was
" Get away." The President was prepared for their
attack, as what was in store had been made known
to him, when he dryly remarked that he had half a
mind to get New York to run the whole Govern-
ment by contract. He had received an Irish dele-
gation, who told him they numbered seven millions,
and should not be overlooked in the distribution of
the plunder. After getting rid of his persecutors,
and banding a large pile of cards, which they in-
sisted on thrusting on him, to his aide- de-camp for a
bonfire (an individual left two cards, drawing Grant's
special attention to his place of busicess in Broadway)
he went out. with Mr. Bonner for a trot behind Dexter. '
He dined with Mr. Chittenden in Brooklyn, and
afterwards left by special train for Philadelphia,
where he arrived at the Continental Hotel about
six o'clock a.m. on the 9th inst. He did not there
receive visitors, though most prominent citizens
called, and sent in cards. 'The General would be
fed to repletion if he went everywhere he is asked.
The Army and Navy officers of Burnside's expedi-
tion have formed a permanent organization, with
Gen. Burnside as President, and their first annual
dinner was at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on the Bth
inst. Edwin Booth's acting on the night of the
4th inst. was a "sell" to the speculators who had
purchased two-thirds of the seats, which the public
showed no disposition to occupy, and therefore the
house had but 75 in the dress circle and 500 else-
where, though made to accommodate 1,700 persons.
Indeed this actor was influenced by malice afore-
thought, for he allowed the speculators to buy as
many seats as they chose, but refused to let them
sell to the people entering the theatre. These
middle-men are a nuisance, besides being a heavy
tax on the public. Apropos of theatricals, Mille.
Nilsson is expected in New York during the spring.
Mr. Fisk received a message from London stating her
terms, and an answer was returned,l believe,accepting
them The Elevated Railway in Greenwich-street is
proving satisfactory. It runs in a line with the
second storeys of the houses, the wheels being covered
with wood to deaden the sound. The principal
daily journals report the following receipts to the
Internal Revenue Office for the last three months :
The Herald, $189.645 ; Times, $130,038 ; Tribune,
$131,859 ; Journal of Commerce, $24,500 ; Express,
$24,106 ; Evening Post, $28,106 ; the Commercial,
$6,844 ; and Pomeroy's Democrat, $10,658. A
terrible tragedy occurred before day-break last
Thursday in No. 116, Seventh-avenue. Sarah
Boerd, a young servant girl there employed, ap-
pears to have excited the love and jealousy of
Peter Bamberger, a tailor, in the establishment of
John Rhodes. Both the girl and her lover were
found in the hall insensible and bleeding profusely,
with a six-barrel-revolver, contents discharged,
lying near. The girl's examination acquits Ban.
berger, stating that he had not shot her, and all
sorts of wild rumours are in consequence afloat,
but there was a letter found on Bamberger's person
which shows how jealous and desperate he had
grown. The talk of Vigilanze Committees is, I
believe, unfounded, though the Rogers and other
murders, together with these hints, have had
a stirring effect on the judges. The hardihood
of the thieves arising from the impunity con-
ceded in this city to theft, has lately re-
ceived a shock. They used to walk through the
courts of justice with the policeman's hand on their
collar as they entered, and their finger at their
nose and their tongue in their cheek and the police-
man as they left. Recorder Hackett and others
have been taking the shine out of them within the
last few days. Pat Martin got 10 years for bur-
glary ; Pat Moore 20, fo: robbery; Johnson 20,
(or larceny; Maguire, ditto ; and two others, sen-
teuces scarcely less severe, this in one day. There
will be little necessity for vigilance committees, if
the judges do their duty. John Real, who mur-
dered policeman Swedick, is to be hanged on the
2d April ; the court stating that too much time
had been lost already iu that and other cases.
John Trimble and Maurice Leonard have been ar-
rested for the daring burglary at the Messrs. Bene-
dict's jewellery store. I told you the circumstance
attending the smashing of a window of the Broad-
way Bank cashier's desk. Well, the instrument
for breaking the jeweller's window was similar,
and the jewellers in alarm are protecting their glass
with wire netting. A dinner was given to Senator
Casserly, of California, at Delmonico's, last Mon-
d .y. The chairman, Charles O'Couor, proposed—
" The States of California and New York, gene-
rous rivals ; one welcoming from the Atlantic, the
other from the broad Pacific, the commerce of the
world—who can foretell their wondrous future ?"
An American Press Directory is about to be pub-
lished. Mr. Bowles's account of California, its
rocks and mountains, as it came out in the Spring-
field Republican, will also be given to the public.
Mr. E. P. Whipple has left the Boston Transcript,
but the literary news which excites most interest
is the rumour that the President Elect and his
supporters, desirous of controlling a New York
journal, are about to purchase the Wol ld, of which
Mr. Marble is now sole proprietor, having lately
bought out other interests.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.

Yesterday the Alabama Claims Treaty was under
consideration by the Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations, and on all sides strong objection was
taken to it. Whether it can be amended so as to
satisfy England and at the same time pass the Se-
nate is at present a doubtful question. As it stands
the Committee is sure to report against it, but the
protocol relating to the rights of naturalized citizens
and the treaty with regard to the boundary of San
Juan are viewed with favour. Indeed the Com
mittee have authorized Mr. Sumner to report them
for ratification. Au inauguration ball will after all
be given, but in the new Treasury building, where
there is excellent and ample accommodation. Both
the President and the Vice-President with their
families will attend, and the tickets at Islo each are
going off like hot cakes. They will admit one
gentleman and two ladies to the dance and
supper, for which several bands have been
engaged, and an accomplished caterer. The pend-
ing nominations by President Johnson are 188
for civil offices, ranging from Smythe and
Cummings down to justices of the peace for the
District of Columbia. There are also 8 naval and
495 military nominations, two-thirds being brevet
appointments. A bill for securing equal rights in
the District of Columbia has passed the Senate.
It strikes out the word " white" from the laws of
the District of Columbia and the charters of Wash-
ington and Georgetown. Though before twice
passed, it was in each case within ten days of the
end of the session, which enabled the President to
defeat it. The house Committee on Elections
have decided the contested election for Louisiana by
declaring that Colonel Mann, the deceased member,
was duly elected, and that neither Hunt nor Menard
were legally chosen, which disposes of the Afri-
can on the floor at least of this Congress.
General Grant returned on Wednesday, and
as the time is so short for nominations to be
made the office-seekers broke through all re-
straint, swarming through every cranny into his
presence. Nor is the contest for place confined only
to the public service, fcr there is a rush for the White
house kitchen, as well as for the Government de•
parttnents. The competing chefs are black, and three
in number—Geo. T. Downing, Henry Johnson, and
\V. 11. Smith. The latter aspires to be promoted
from Vice-President Colfax's kitchen to that of
President Grant's; and Alr.Downing considers that

$2,000 salary, with the eclat of the position, to be
better than the house Restaurant at the Capitol.
Both Grant and Colfax will be officially informed
of their election to-morrow, and the Speaker has
appointed Mr. Wilson, of lowa, and Mr. Pruyn, of
New York, on the part of the House, to announce
the fact to himself ! Andrew Johnson's life was
sought by a crazy woman--Anne O'Neill—who
was actually arrested in the White House on Wed-
nesday, armed with au unloaded pistol. She asserts
that war is declared, and that she has a Divine
commission to kill the outgoing President. The
family are already making way for their successors
Mrs. Stover and her children have already left for
Tennessee, and the White House will soon be
empty. Baltimore has tendered Mr. Johnson the
hospitalities of the city.
Secretary Seward is still at work on his guano
islands; those belonging to the United States in
the Carribean Sea, he thus enumerates : —North
Keys, two islands ; Northeast Key : Triangle
Keys, three islands ; Anchor Key ; Sand Key ;
Booby Keys ; North Rocks ; Serrana Key. All
these islands are situated in lititude about 14
degrees 20 minutes north, and longitude about 80
degrees 15 minutes west. Yesterday the Sub-
Committee having favourably reported to the
Ways and Means Committee on a Treaty of Reci-
procity with Canada, the subject was considered.
It has confined itself, however, to requesting the
President to open negotiations with the Canadian
Government for the free navigation of the river St.
Lawrence, the protection of the Fisheries, and for
general commercial intercourse. The Canadian people
desire some such treaty, and as General Schenck
will report it to the House its passage is probable,
and is likely to be immediate, if it is to be passed
this session. The Senate Judiciary Committee
have agreed upon a Naturalization Bill, somewhat
similar to that introduced into the House. The
Dyer Court of Inquiry has finished the examina-
tion of Colonel Balch. Lieutenant-Commander
John S. Barnes has resigned. General Thomas S.
Leslie is appointed Chief Paymaster of the Pay
District of New York. General Fremont, General
Heintzelman and others have been examined
before the House Committee on the Pacific
Railroad on the advantages of the 32d parallel
for such a line. A bill is about to be introduced, pro-
viding that hereafter brevet commissions shall °lily
he conferred in time of war, and only for distin
tinguished conduct in the military service of the
country. In the U.S. District Court at Richmond,
a nolle prosequi has been entered in the treason cases
-of Davis, Lee, Breckinridge, Hampton, Longstreet,
Wise, Early, and others, and the sureties of Davis
have been discharged from their responsibility. Two
I students of the university over which General Lee
presides have been turned out for going about in a
threatening manner and discharging pistols, thereby
Wounding a negro.