The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, .LONDON, MONDAY- - EVENLNG, - JUNE - 28, 1869.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

trahty of the cabal, like that of the Independence of
Egypt, is one which Ismail Pasha and his Ministers
would be the last persons l5--a-gicate.
There is reason to think that the canal may be
opened in November, some timd towards the end,
if not on the 17th, of that month.

THE LORDS' AMENDMENTS.

The list of -amendments -has been increased by five
printed folio.pages more. Several amendments are
repetitions of those which have been previously
placed upon the paper. The most important
is that by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who de.
velopes his original idea, and now proposes that
the surplus Church funds shall be handed over to
a Lean Board, who shall be empowered to lend money
on good security at not less than 2, nor more than
4, per cent. interest to fishermen, farmers, hnolistera,
and a large number of other persons whom he
specifies.

GOOD STORIES.
The Army and Navy Gazette tells two good stories.
" Baron," said a French chasseur to a Prussian
officer, as the two were cantering through the
Sahara, "what o'clock is it ?" The Baron
solemnly pulled a watch from his right fob and
said, " Here it is ten o'clock ;" then drawing
another watch from his left fob he added, with
a sigh, " and in the chateau of my be'
in Pomerania it's twenty to eleven." Z h
anecdote is going the round of the French papers to
chew the amorous sensibility of the Prussians. It is
likewise recounted that when the Prince of Wales
was last in Berlin, his Prussian Majesty pointed with
pride to a thousand men of his Guard, asking his
Royal highness if he thought a thousand French-
men could beat them. The Prince of Wales made
the courteous reply that if the French were but five
hundred they would try.

tbout-by Spaniards representing tne great commerciai Ana $360,00000; theexpenditure,to $325,000,000; sur-
e
1 property interest, and rendered effective for aggressive move- plus, $35,000,000. Of the receipts the Inland Re-
I ment from being embodied in armed organisations called venue yielded $166,195,655 in greenbacks, up to
I "The Volunteers." The act, saysthe New York Herald,
the let inst.; and the Customs $136,000,000 in
resulted from entire unanimity among all of that class, the
gold. The late Secretary estimated the receipts of
good and the bad, including those who, from interest
and principle, are lovers of order, and it was passively this fiscal year at $341,392,868, and the expendi-
j acquiesced in, if not supported by, the few regular troops ture at $336,152,470, leaving a surplus of but five
in the city. It was owing to the dissatisfaction felt at the millions. The Hon. David A. Wells, the Revenue
comparative failure of military operations against the Commissioner, in his Revenue Report to Congress
insurgents, it had long been deliberated, and the Pelaez a few days afterwards, more correctly estimated
affair furnished a pretext for immediate action. But the receipts at $356,700,000, and the expenditure
though General Duke undoubtedly did fail to restore the
at $326,300,000, showing a surplus of 30 millions.
authority of Spain, he failed through the want of men The receipts from Customs from June Ito 5, 1869, were
and money, and the Herald has no hope that his suc-
cessor will accomplish more. The only hope left to
the Spaniards seems to be to divide the island, as in the
case of Hayti, leaving the eastern end to the Cubans,

as follow :

Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore

5200,802 66
1,660,757 03
149,030 71
97,334 74

THE ENGAGEMENT ♦T PUERTO PADRE.

San. Francisco, May 17 to 29..

2'd 6,205 46

There seems to be little doubt that the insurgents won
the battle at Puerto Padre, which we announced the other
day, but the issue of which was disputed. The Cuban
accounts say that their troops, numbering 2,000, wore
attacked in their intrenchments by the Spaniards with a
force of nearly double that number, who were twice
repulsed. The loss of the Cubans was less than a hundred
in killed and wounded, while that of the attacking party
was three times as great. Intelligence in the New York
Herald represents the engagement as of less importance,
but the victory is allowed to the Cubans.

$2,474,130 62
Another great trial of speed between ocean
steamers has just taken place. The companies do
not permit such contests, but it is impossible to pre-
vent celebrated vessels testing their speed when
together on the broad Atlantic, as occasionally
happens, for such boats sometimes leave New York
almost simultaneously. The City of Paris started
from New York on the sth inst., while the North Ger-
man Lloyd's screw steamer Main, Captain K. von
Oterendorp, left within a hour and an half after, and
the next morning they were abreast, but before
night the Main was ahead. By daylight next morn-
ing she had increased the distance, and before night
the Inman steamer had been dropped out of sight
astern. While the vessels were abreast we presume
each did her best, and that the contest was close
may be seen from the fact that it took nearly two
days for the one to get out of sight of the other.
The case was much the same in the celebrated
race between the Russia and the City of Paris ;
the Cunarder, while the weather was fine, beating
the Inman vessel, but the tables were turned after
it began to blow a gale, when we doubt whether
any vessel ever equalled the running of the City of
Paris, which, by the way, has been taken into
dock to get her bottom cleaned. The Main
must be a magnificent ship, as she reached the
Needles in nine days and a half. A strange
report during the time these vessels were
running together was spread in New York about
the City of Paris that she had gone down with all
hands. For some time the greatest consternation
prevailed, which was not wholly dispelled till the
Germania arrived, which having spoken her, was
able to state that she was making a rapid passage
across the Atlantic with all well on board.
Some curious cases have arisen, among them one
which may settle the liability of the Government to
make good losses incurred by soldiers through the
officers of the Treasury improperly cashing cheques
to claim agents in payment of bounties and arrears
due to the soldiers. Numberg were thus defrauded,
and their cases have been brought up at Washing-
ton, for sums amounting to $lO,OOO. It appears to
be the general opinion that the Treasury officers are
responsible to make good such losses, and in default
of them the Government. Another decision favours
the claims of the obstreperous settlers on the Osage
lands in Kansas. Secretary Browning withdrew
from settlement the odd sections along the Leaven-
worth, Lawrence, and Galveston Roads, and Union
Pacific Southern branch. ComtnissionerlVilson now
decides that those settled on the lands prior to whit-
draw& , acquired rights of possession under the treaty,
and this is supposed practically to revoke the order
of the late Secretary Browning. About 15,000
persons are interested, as their right to purchase
the rich, valuable, well-timbered lands on which
they have been located, at one dollar and a quarter
per acre is reserved up to April 10,1871. The Osage
trust lands extend 250 miles in length by 20 broad,
consisting of 3,200,000 acres. The whole district
is one of great fertility, and rapidly becoming a fa-
vourite for settlement; all along the streams of theval-
leys flowing into the Arkansas and well through the
Indian territory, being a choice district, is one over
which there have been many disputes in Congress,
owing to the " lobby " influence of those who de-
sire to anticipate its settlement.
James L. Graham, jun., has been appointed
United States Consul at Florence. The lion. J.
Russell Jones, who is to succeed General Sanford,
sails to-day from New York. The leave of absence
for a year granted to General Sickles is to enable
him to take up the appointment of Minister to Ma-
drid without resigning his commission in the army.
John M. Langton having declined the mission to
Liberia, his brother Charles has been appointed in
his place. It is reported that General Nelson has
not been favourably received in Mexico. Same
angry feeling has been excited by the appointment
of a Fenian, Major James Haggerty, as Consul to
Glasgow, which the Scotch journals appear to have
taken as an intentional insult to Britain. The New
York Times very justly says that the Administra-
tion probably neverheard even the gentleman's name,
which came as did thousands of others attached to
good certificates, No Fenian could be in a better
place as regards peace towards the British Govern-
ment, for while at Glasgow he gives personal bonds
of a nature he would scarcely like to forfeit. We
dare say Mr. Haggerty will be found a very agree-
able, gentlemanly, pleasant fellow, and the appoint-
ment is certainly not worth making a fuss about.
Since writing the above we have received intelli-
which proves that Major Hag-
gence from Glasgow,
gerty is not a Fenian, and never wag one, and could
not therefore be a member of any Fenian circle or
organization. He was supposed to be the Major
James Haggerty of Col. Corcoran's 69th New York
Regiment, who was a strong Fenian, but he was
killed in action ; and the new Consul is by birth a
Glasgow man, all his relations on his mother's side
being Scotch.
Time only can bring the disturbed relations be-
tween whites and blacks again into harmony.
Thousands ready to vote with their party, and sound
on the main question, shy from the legitimate re-
sult of their own policy. The Cable informs us that
" numerous trade unions throughout the United
States have recently expelled white members for
working with negroes." At the Navy-yard coloured
bricklayers and joiners are working in the gangs,
and a negro from Baltimore, the first of his race,
has been engaged as a machinist. It was reported
at Washington that the excitement consequent o:
the employment of coloured bricklayers had sub-
sided; but in Washington the negro is strong, and
under the immediate protection of the Federal Go-
vernment, and it does not follow that what can be
accomplished there can with impunity be done in
other parts of the Union. For instance, we learn
that negroes have been empannelled as grand and
petty jurors at the Criminal Court of Washington.
At the same time the Supreme Court of Georgia
decides that the intermarriage of whites and negroes
is illegal, null, and void, and that the Legislature
cannot rightly define the social status of citizens.
In the Republican Convention of lowa, which re-
nominated Governor Merrill, two of the vice-pre-
sidents were coloured men, while negroes are an-
nouncing themselves for office in Tennessee, and
Nashville is likely to be represented in the next
Legislature by an intelligent African ; perhaps the
"Moses" of the race may turn out to be black after
all, in contradistinction to the original Moses, who
was "exceeding fair ;" but whether the pseudo
Moses of Tennessee who formerly undertook the
task, and failed, was fair or not we cannot tell.
The Printers' Natidnal Union, in session at
Albany, laid a resolution on the table, by 56
to 28, which asserted the injustice in any sub-
ordinate union to deny admission on the ground of
race or colour, while they consented to recognize
women compositors and admit them to member-

chip.
BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEAS.—Albert Massey,
son •)f Dr. Massey of Louisville, Kentucky, was drowned,
on June 3d, while bathing.—Joseph Alurtagh has been
awarded $l,OOO damages by a jury, for cruel treatment and
unnecessary amputation of his toes, while a patient in the
St.LouisCityliospital.—llarryClifford,a desperge burglar,
after receiving a sentence of four years in the Penitentiary,
St.Louis,Tuesday, June 1, sprang out of an open window in
theCriminalCourt room,leaped a high iron fence and escaped.
Professor Risley's Japanese troupe, with little "All Right,"
who performed in this country with such success last
summer, will shortly commence a season at the Crystal
Palace.—Thomas C. Durant, after finishing the Pacific
Railway, has gone to Ogdensburg to look after the
Saratoga and Ogdensburg Road. —Vice-President Colfax
stopped in New York for a few hours on his way to
a family gathering in Now Jersey. Thence ho would go