The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-14 00:00:00

PICTURE GALLERIES.

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10 till 47.
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Castle may be visited on Mondsys, Tuesday; cud Fri-
days, by tickets obtainable at the Lord Chamberlain's
Office, in the Castle.

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Messrs. FISK, GOULD, and the Erie clique gene-
rally, are progressing on their road to the ---.
Joseph ll. Ramsay of Albany turned up as the cham-
pion of the stockholders, and by way of settling his
old scores with FISK for the Albany and Susquehanna
affair, for he was the President of that road, and
was FISK'S opponent in the celebrated Battle of the
Tunnel. A statute of New York empowers the
Supreme Court to suspend Directors who have
abused their trust, and under this, on Mr. RANI-.
SAY'S application, Judge IVILLIAm MURIIAY, at
a session of the Supreme Goan in Delaware
County, cauprm(lea FISK, GOULD, and five others.
PIIILO T. RUGGLEa, a New York lawyer, was
appointed referee to take evidence iu the case.
Elsewhere our readers will find some facts show-
ing the management and the " watering" of the
stock. The plaintiff estimated the plunder of the
ring at $41,293,000, the depreciation within nine
mouths in the value of the stock at $14,485,989,
with ten millions more on the stock issued in
March of last year. It is also set forth that this
money was recklessly used in conjunction with
Tammany in gold and other speculations, and was
lavishly spent in supporting Operas and licentious
practices, the offices being sumptuously furnished
and connected with the stage of the House by a
secret stair way. What with such expensive amuse-
ments, and the enormous outlay on bribes, the bad
management and shameful neglect of the rail-
way, the property was travelling on the same road
as the ring to the Strikes were frequent,
accidents appalling, trains behind time and irregu-
lar, and public confidence in the line has been lost..
RAMSAY'S complete history of the ring's operations'
covers 90 close
,Written pages. For a moment it was
imagined that the Judge's order would break up
the ring, and Eric Stock rose one in New York ;
but they little knew the material of which the urt
daunted FISK is made. Before the process of sus-
pension could be served he procured a counter-order
from a country judge, BALCOM, who happened to
be in New York, which had the effect of staying
proceedings till the Erie ring could commence an
action before Judge BARNARD against RAMSAY,
which they did on the 25th November. Mr. FISK
then wrote to the Tribune, to show up Mr. EATON
and the former directors, who had brought a
new suit against his clique. Therein he pro-
pounded nine questions for Mr. EATON to an-
swer, and he has continued to publish this letter
as an advertisement as he threatened, though he
does not show that the Erie ring had managed
the road in the interest of the shareholders, but
that Mr., EATON had palmed off a worthless pro-
perty in the Bradford Road at a high price on and
had otherwise plundered the company. Further,
Fist( announces immediate proceedings to make.
him disgorge his ill-gotten gains. Meanwhile
the Erie have brought an action against Commodore
VANDERBILT to recover $5,000,000, of which he had
defrauded the company, and the Commodore had to
appearbeforeJudge BAP.NAP.D, when he was examined
at length. He had received a cheque for $1,000,000
from JAY GOULD, and a bond of $1,250,000 of the Erie
and Hartford Road in July, 1868, on a contract with
DANIEL DREW, for selling 20,000 Erie shares at 80,
which at the time he thought good to hold. After-
wards he made up his mind to have nothing to do
with Erie, and the stock was sold to DREW. When
that gentleman was entrenched inNewJersey he twice
visited the Commodore, but VANDERBILT would give
him no advice, and he never said that if relieved of
certain stocks this litigation could be settled. He
still owned about $1,000,000 of the Boston, Hart-
ford, and Erie Bonds. It was generally suspected
in New York that the Delaware movement was
a stock-jobbing mlnceuvre of the Commodore,
who, however, asserts that he . had nothing to do
with it. A strong guard kept watch over the Erie
offices in the Opera House, the sentries at the door
admitting no one without a countersign. Even
those most interested in the road were peremptorily
refused an entry, being told that FISK had gone to
Boston and that GOULD was ill. I❑ the Ohio Cour a
the case of the Atlantic and Great West...trn lelse was
postponed till November 26, when it was brought
up before Judge BorNToN, all parties being present
except the sick GOULD. The receivers swear that
the earnings of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway, from April 9 to August 31, inclusive,
were :

"From freights, $1,492,714; from passengers, $387,279;
for mails, $14,107; from express, $30,572 ; miscellaneous,
$10,102; total, $1,934,774. The road, meanwhile, has
moved 763,420 tons of freight, and 93,474 passengers.
The debt of the Atlantic and Gi eat Western Railway is
as follows : —Mortgage bonds, $30,348,900; accrued in-
terest thereon, $7,024,307 50c; debentures, $14,000,000;
floating debt, $13,000,000; stock, $30,000,000 ; total,
$94,379,207. There are affidavits in Court that the road
cannot sell for $15,000,000, if put on the market with the
utmost care."

Dr. BALDWIN certified that JAY GOULD was too ill
to leave his residence in Fiith-avenue, and a
postponement was therefore demanded. In reply, a
New Yorker swore positively that GOULD was at
the office on the very evening that the certificate
was dated. Twenty minutes were then asked to
give GOULD time to answer a proposal for an ad-
justment which had. been sent by telegraph. This
was allowed, but nothing in reply was heard from
GOULD, and after adjournment to the evening the
case was proceeded with. The following is the
Report :
"Mr. Hutchings, for Wisner H. Townsend, a defendant,
proceeded with the motion for the removal of the Re-
ceivers, and when the name of W. Archdall O'Doherty
was spoken, W. W. M'Farland of New York, Attorney
for tho Atlantic and Great Western, stated that he was
authorized by dr. O'Doherty to tender his resignation of
the Receivership. Thus Gould is left alone in the con-
tested office. Mr. Hutchins read an affidavit from Col.
Rush C. Hawkins, Director and formerly Attorney for
the Atlantic and Great Western, wherein ho gave tho
particulars of a compact between Gould and Millenry,
for getting an order of sale quietly, thus throwing the
Atlantic and Great Western into their hands. The Com-
pany was then to be reorganized, and Gould was to take
sixteen twenty-eighths of the stock and APllenry twelve
twenty-eighths. There was also a letter from Frederick
A. Lane, attorney of the Erie, to Hawkins proposing that
the Erie and the Atlantic and Great Western make an
arrangement for appointing receivers, that no antagonistic
element might interfere. Another affidavit from Haw-
kins averred that the plaintiff, John R. Penn, on whose
,motion tho receivers were appointed, was instigated to
take this action by the company, was in collusion with
it, and in the employ of it, or of the officers, and that
the .object of his action was to prevent the payment of
rent due to the Atlantic and Great Western. James
M‘Henry's affidavit declared Gould to ba a large holder
of Erie and Atlantic and Great Western Bonds and Se-
curities, according to his own repeated statement at the
time of the appointment to the Receivership and since.
When the attorneys were about to begin their pleas, a
delay was asked, and finally an adjournment was taken
until to-morror morning. Judge Boynton stated that ho
would have no more delays. Negotiations for compromise
are lively, and may be completed to-night."
\Ve may here state that GOULD was prepared with
many witnesses to prove that he had not a penny in
either the Erie or Great Western Railroads, as this is
necessary I.efore he could legally act as R2ceiver.
We know the result as regards the Atlantic and
Great Western, the Erie clique having been de-
feated ; but another suit has come on, being vir-
tually the thmtened attack by the present Direc-
tors of the Erie against theold Directors. their
complaint is thus in conclusion summed up :
" That defendants pay to plaintiff 5309,050, with inte-
rest thereon from average data of July 1, 1867; that the
defendants, Daniel Drew, Dudley S. Gregory, Robert
11. Bordoll, Wm. B. Skidmore, Thomas W. Gale, Don
Alonzo Cushman, and Dorman B. Eaton, pay to plaintiff
all the damages sustained by plaintiff from the trans-
actions herein set forth, not exceeding $200,000."
—Anglo-American Times.

Mr. henry Bergh, the President of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Now York, pro.
tests against the cruel and demoralizing practice of tying
fowls to stones and otherwise, and shooting at them on a
wager, as contrary to law, and says that his society has
taken the necessary measures to enforce the law by caus-
ng the arrest and punishment of offenders.

Congress met last Monday—the first Monday of
December as appointed by the Constitution—for its
long session, though it will adjourn in a fortnight for
the Christmas and New Year holidays. The time
up to this recess is mainly devoted to the recep-
tion of the PRESIDENT'S Message and the Reports
of the Secretaries at the head of the different De-
partments, together with the very important re-
' ports of subordinate officers, which, in their mag-
nitude, constitute a large volume, triving, in the ag-
gregate, a full, true, and particular account of the
progress during the year of the United States. The
systetn is the bestyet introduced by any Govrrnment
to inform the people, as well as Coogres,, of their af-
fairs. Complete statistical details are seu tto the Sec-
retary of the Treastuy, such as the paper of Gen.
SPINNER, of Commissioner DELANo, of Speei-.I
Commis:inter WELLS, and on t hem! Mr. 13.tuTwri.I.,
together m ith his own wolk, bases hit report.
Sfr with the Post-off-leo, with the War-office, and
others, while those of the Secretaries go to the
PRESIDI:NT, a,d form Vie groua 1-work of his
Ales,-,.aee. From. every E. i.le these elal;orate docu-
ments flow in ; feom the Governors of Territerie,
from the Commanders of Divisions ; and Congre.,lt,
therefore, begins its session with the very fullest
material for knowing what the Executive and the
officers employed have been doing, how the Acts
passed by the Legislature have been carried out,
and the effect produced, what industry thrives, and
what is depressed, &c., &c. The Forty-First Con-
gress,obeing electel with the PRESIDENT, would have
met for the first time last Monday had not circutn-
stances necessitated a session on GRANT'S inaugura--
tion. Hence the old Congress .left and the new
Congress immediately assembled at the Capitol last
March, a very unusual course, and important busi-
ness was transacted. The Legislature therefore is
known ; indeed most of the old members took their
scats in the new House. The Committees, both of
the Senate and Representatives, were then forme I,
and, although some changes have occurred in the
Senate through the death of Mr. FESSENDEN and
the retirement of Mr. GRIMES, all the business of
choosing officers and framing the Committees has
been already performed. The Republicans are in a
strong majority ; and both the President of the Se-
nate, Mr. COLFAX, who sits, iu virtue of his election
as Vice-President of the United States, and Mr. J.
G. BLAINE, whom the House chose as its Speaker,
are attached to that organisation. Some changes will
occur when the Virginia, the Mississippi, and the Tests
members take their scats, but nothing to shake the
power of the dominant party. In his Message the
PRESIDENT alluded to the reconstruction of the
eleven States left without legal State Governments
on the close of the Rebellion. Seven have been fully
restored ; Virginia is now in a position to be added
to the family ; the results as regards Mississippi and
Texas are as yet unknown, and a law might be passed
to authorize the Governor of Georgia to convene the
original members of the Legislature of that State,
requiring each to take the Reconstruction oath. The
loss of commerce will be made the subject of a
special Message. The irredeemable paper currency
is alluded to as an evil, and it is known that many
funding bills will be presented by various members
(of which the first to come up will be that of
Senator SIIERMAN) to reduce the interest on the
Debt, but perhaps even more bills will be brought
forward to secure a speedy return to specie pay-
tuent. General GRANT'S worth on this subject as
summarised. for the Times are ambiguous, and not

understood in Europe, but in another article we
endeavour to give an interpretation. This subject
has been more forced on the people than any other
by the recent heavy fall in gold, or rather by the
rise in the purchasing power of greenbacks. Not-
withstanding the diversity of the views taken of
this matter, to which the PRESIDENT alludes in his
speech, there are really but two roads open—either
to redeem greenbacks at their par value in gold
when presented at the Treasury, or to buy them up
as any other purchaser may do, and cancel them.
Next in impertance are the laws relating to taxa-
tion, which doubtless will be those most discussed
during this Session. The import duties, the excise
duties, and the income-tax are all eagerly debated,
mare especially the first and last. The oue involves
the question of Free Trade, the other that of taxa-
tion ; and it is known that Mr. IleurwELL opposes
alterations just now which may tms..:t le the revenue,
particularly will regard to the incom 3 tax, the one
mott endangered, which exidrcs by limitation on June
30. 1370, and but one more assessment can be made
as the Act now stands. Hence it must be discusse 1,
and renewed, orlapse. Questions of foreign policy are
almost confined to Cuba and the Alabama claims,
which, in some degree, neutralise each other. Con-
gress had no sooner opened than Senator CAMERON
presented a petition signed by 30,000 Philadelphi-
ans, asking the State to recognise the independence
of Cuba. What has been rumoured for some time
Comes out di,tinctly in the PRESIDENT'S Messag.',
his hostility to the renewal of the Reciprocity
Treaty with Canada, as he believes that the advan-
tage would be wholly iu favour of the Dominion ;
the inland taxes giving the British producer a large
measure of protection. This is a subject of interest
on both sides of the border, and the decision of the
Washington Executive will be a severe blow to the
aspiring new Dominion, NV hose troubles thicken east
and west. It is also asserted that the PRESIDENT de-
clined to discuss the Reciprocity question with Mr.
ROSE, who had proceeded to Washington expressly
for the purpose. Even the French Atlantic Cagle is
noticed ; the French Company having, it appears,
availed itself of the permission to land one ecd in
Massachusetts on a condition which does not ap-
pear to have been fulfilled, that it should get the
privilege of landing another Cable in France con-
ceded to Americans. We have always warned that
company that no such exclusive privilege as was
guaranteed by France would be tolerated in Ame-
rica, and months ago we urged it to exercise its in-
fluence with the Government to modify the objec-
tionable clause. The PRESIDENT alludes to a subject
we have lately discussed, the extension of railways
in Russia and the Danubian Provinces, enabling
the farmers of those districts to compete successfully
in the markets of England and France with the pro-
ducers of the Prairie States, and he anticipates a
falling off with Europe, both in the exports and
the imports. To provide against this he would
seek markets in South America, China, and Japan.
His policy, both towards the Chinese who come to
work in America and the Indian, is marked with
spirit of fairness and humanity ; indeed, the whole
Message is not only thus characterized, but with
dignity, moderation, and good sense. Notwith-
standing that the PRESIDENT substantially adopts
the views on the Alabama question which, when
enunciated by Senator SUMNER created such an
outcry in England, its tone is fully recognized by
the English Press as conciliatory, and breathing a
good spirit. Besides the PRESIDENT'S Message, and
the voluminous reports from the Executive, to which
we have alluded, there will be numerous others,
many being from Committees directed to make in-
vestigations during the recess. For instance, the
House Judiciary Committee has been inquiring
into charges preferred against United States Judge
BUSTEED of Alabama, which, it is believed, will re-
sult in the impeachment of that officer. The parti-
culars of the Paraguayan affair, to which we alluded
last week, will be furnished by another Committee,
and the rumour is that it finds Mr. WASHBURN had
been made, without his knowledge, an instrument
of the conspirators. The Election Committee, the
Ways and Means Committee, the Census Commit-
tee, will all have much to say. The Ways and
Means Committee have been on their travels
throughout the country, on purpose to gather reli-
able information. Considering that Congress is in
accord with the Executive, that matters of mo-
mentous interest await settlement, that that stum-
bling-block to all busines3 for years, the Negro
Question, is now removed by the certain adoption
of the Fifteenth Amendment, and that there is no
ANDREW JOHNSON to stir up the embers of a vain
strife, it is probable that the present Session will
be the most active, if not the most important,
hitherto held.-11nglo-American Times.

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