The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-27 00:00:00

THE AMERICAN PRESS.

Horace Greeley publishes a letter in the leader
columns of the Tribune, addressed by him to Gen.
Butler on the disfranchisement of leading South-
erners for participation in the rebellion. He cen-
sures the policy of proscription in a forcible argu-
ment, showing not only that it had been condemned
by the experience of the best military Governors
the Southern States have had, but by common
sense and the most ordinary acquaintance with the
people of the South. " Southern men of education
and property," he says, " are by far more reasonabl e
and Tess bitter than their poorer, more ignorant
neighbours—are less implacable, more rational,
and more ready to unite heartily in rebuilding the
waste places of the land. . . . I assume that
you realise the absolute necessity of the triumph of
the XVth Amendment to the success of General
Grant's Administration, and that you must be
aware that the fate of that Amendment is yet
doubtful. Ten adverse States suffice to defeat it ;
and seven—(New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Ken-
tucky, Tennessee, California, and Oregon)—are
already beyond hope. 'The loss of Tennessee was
at once a calamity and a blunder—one of those in-
tense stupidities which a great party is seldom
allowed to repeat. How Rhode bland, Indiana,
Georgia, and Nebraska stand, I need not inform
you. Suffice it that it will require the wisest
counsels and the best efforts to avert the threatened
failure of that great and wise measure of safety,
benignity, and peace." The appeal is made to
General Butler, as his name is more associated with
the policy of disfranchisement than that of any
other leading man.

A. NEW CHRISTMAS TOY.—The approach o
Christmas has brought with it. the usual crop of novelties
in
the toy-maker's art. Among these one stands out pre-
eminent. It is the "Chameleon" Top, by far the most
ingenious and interesting toy brought out since the
"Zoetrope," manufactured by the ingenious proprietor of
the Model Dockyard, in Fleet-street ; it is the invention,
we believe, of Professor Wheatstone, and is one of th
minor results of that gentleman's investigation of the
laws of light—one of the playthings of science iu fact.
Briefly described, it is a parti-coloured disc, with a spin-
dle through it. It may be spun by a child, and when iu
motion may bo decorated with various other discs and
arpliances, which pro brie the ni ,st marvellous chromatic
and geometric effects. The top. "keeps up" for three or
four minutes, and on being touched lightly when revolv-
ing changes its form and colours in endless and kaleido-
scopic variety.
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A great and manifest advantage of Holloway's treatment
is observable- in administering his pills to children, who
are never disgusted with them as with many i medk...
which they abhor. The present sudden variations ofnes,
tem-
perature are most trying to the skin, lungs, and nervous
system. Hence the prevalence of pimples, blotches, boils,
..rvsipelas, sore throat, bronchitis, and other chest com-
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formed .to cope successfully with each and all of these
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BIRTHS.
HuutssEN - On Christmas Eve at Cheriten Rectory,
wife of the Rev. Regd. B. linatchbull-Huges.on, °'
daughter.
HEALD —0 n the 20th inst., at Ringmet Lodge, Leo, TIOr
Heald, Esq., aged 57.

MARRIAGES'.
ANDEusort—GooDE—On the 23d inst., at Maryloo°o,6
Charles Anderson, of Great Portland-street, to Alice
Jane Goode, youngest daught.r of the lat 6 Mr. JoseP
Goode, of Mildmay Park.
GOLDSMITH —BOCKETT— 011 the 22d inst., at liantp.s.Aga,
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Frederick
W. Goldsmith, Esq., of Hampstead, to ',,jo
lino., daughter of Daniel Smith Bockett, Esq., of '-
Heath, Hampstead.

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ATKINS—On the 24th inst., at Stoke Newington, Jammed
Ramsay Atkins, M.D., aged 67.
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KELsALL—On the 22d inst., at The Butts, Reehdale,...e-
Kelsall, Esq., J.P., aged 76.