The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-18 00:00:00

was circulated and produced a marked effect. lie de-
nounces the seizure of public and private property, the in-
terference with mails and travellers; he charges the in-
surgents to disperse, and calls upon the citizens to act vig-
orously to avert the threatened danger. The final wards
of the Proclamation are—" You are dealing with a crisis.
out of which may come incalculable good or immeasurable
evil, and with all the weight of my official authority, all
tho influence of my individual position, let me finally charge
you to adopt only such means as aro lawful, constitutional,
rational, and safe." Mr. Ignatius Donnelly of slang-whang,-
ing fame, he whose disgraceful attack on Minister Wash-
burne, because ho effectually shielded the Treasury, so dis-
gusted his fellow-citizens that they sharply closed his Con-
gressional career, has been trying in Minnesota to make the
most of the disturbance. On the other hand, the militia
of Canada has been volunteering to suppreSs the insur-
rection, but-all this is mere talk; the settlers have a per-
fect right to be heard, and their demands, which appear
reasonable, to be considered, and this is the only course
England would countenance, or indeed Canada desire.
Captain Ermatinger, of Montreal,. is, to be despatched to
Red River as a special messenger; to conciliate the set-
tlement. The latest floss s, vvhichls as follows was tele-
graphed on Thursday, and is frail the Chicago Tribune,j
which states that reports from Winnepeg Territory repre-
sent the insurgents as still issuing rations from the scores
of the Hudson's Bay Company, and announces that they
have placed a guard over Governor Mactavish, and re-
pelled the messengers sent by Mr. M'Dougall.
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Mr. Motley accompanied the body of the late Geo.
Peabody to Portsmouth, with Sir Curtis Lampoon, Mr. C.
Reed, and Mr. Peabody Russell, nephew of the deceased ;
and the Minister, in an appropriate address, confided the
remains to Captain Commorell's care. Tho Monarch then
slowly steamed out, accompanied by the American cor-
vette the Plymouth, but the vessels wore detained by a
violent south-westerly gale till last evening. Sir Curtis
Lampson, on his return, met with an accident. His car-
riage &waited him at Three Bridges Station, and in it ho
left for Rowfant. Near Worth Hall a train stoppad the
way, and the noise of the engine, when it started, fright-
ened the horses, but Sir Curtis fortunately got out while
they were kicking and plunging, for the coachman was
thrown 'to the ground, and they started down the road
they had come up, breaking through a gate on another level
crossing, and galloping along the line towards the Three
Bridges Station. About that time their owner might have
calculated on their "coming to grief," and sold them cheap;
but there was another turn in the tide of their affairs, for
before reaching the station the carriage was smashed
against an empty train, and the released horses sprang
over an embankment and brought up in a brook, where
they were secured unhurt. Last Wednesday in the House
of Representatives a resolution was introduced by una-
nimous consent, announcing the death 'of Mr. George Pea-
body, and reciting the honours paid him by her Majesty,
the Lcndon authorities, the French Emperor, and others,
and also the extraordinary preparations for the transfer
of his remains to America. The President was autho-
rised to order as many ships of war as were convenient
and adequate fo: this occasion, to meet at tea the
European convoy conducting it hither, and to make other
proparat:ons for the reception of the corpse, so as to be
commensurate with the merits of the deceased. The re-
solution was made a special order for Monday.

The London Standard was made by its American
correspondent "Manhattan." Another good correspondent
followed on "Manhattan's" death, and on the death of the
other a third promises to be as amusing, if ho would but
write oftener and fuller. We like the Standard's corre-
spondents all the better that they, are of the straitest
Copperhead sect, from whom we get stronger views than
in any American paper. Alluding to the death-bed mar-
riage of Mr. Richardson, ho says :—" Seldom even in Ame •
rica has there been witnessed a more discreditable, it might
almost be said a more disgraceful, scene fur all the parties
concerned in it, than this marriage. . . . Ono sen-
tence from Mr. Frothingham's prayer will suffice :
`Father, we thank Theo for what these two have been
to each other and for what they may be yet.' Those
two' have been living in adulterous intercourse with each
other, and although six weeks had passed since the re-
moval of all legal impediment to their marriage by her
divorce from Mr. M'Farlaud, no Beecher had been asked to
unite them in lawful wedlock ; nor did it even occur to
Richardson to propose such a thing until it was t) be done,
like a scene in ono of Mrs. M'Farland's melodramas, in a
death chamber, with all the United States looking on,
and the reporters of the daily newspapers standing by
the bridal death-couch togivo the affecting details to a sym-
pathetic public." There is no better judge than a Standard
correspondent, because they know all the facts intuitively.
This writer, for instance, can tell exactly the relations that
existed between Mr. Richardson and Mrs. 31 l'arland, and
it is a pity that our belief in such prescience should in
any degree be shaken, but it happens that the late Mr.
Richardson, nine months ago, publicly stated that it was
understood between himself and Mrs. M'Farland that they
would be married when the law permitted. The lady has,
we aro informed, been lately in Indiana, and Mr. Richard-
son had only returned to New York a week before he was
shot. The cause of his murder was that he was about to
marry Mrs. M'Farland, so we believe there is scarcely a
word of truth in all tho above lines.

The same correspondent then thus comes down
upon George H. Butler, who appeared iu the Lon-
don Gazette of last Tuesday as having been approved by
her Majcsty as the Consul-General at Calcutta for the
United Sates :—" It is rather curious, as another illus-
tration of Now York morality, that at the very mommt
the mar' yred R!cisardson lay in arlEctdo m9rtis in one of
the upper rooms of the Astor House, the banqnoting,
hall of that well-known hotel was filled with a roystering
company of his friends and admirers assembled to do
honour iu a farewell banquet to a kindred spirit. A
nephew of Benjamin• P. Butler, recently appointed
by President Grant Consul-General of the United States
for some region at the aatipodea, and well known as
the fighting correspondent of a sporting newspaper, and
as the husband of a popular actress, was on the eve of de-
parture for his distant post of duty, and at the festival
board, where ho was the guest, cheers were given for the
dying man upstairs, while threats of vengeance against
APParland mingled with compliments to the nephew of
his uncle. Such are the humours of the time." This may
convey an idea of the writer's knowledge of geography,
but if the correspondent is not accurate he is at any rate
amusing. _ _

Ex-Senator Ramsay has failed, as England and
Italy failed, in inducing the French Government to modify
its postal regulations, especially with regard to the alte-
ration in her standard of weight. The French postal con-
vention with the United States ends with this month.
The French postal authorities refused, in the first instance,
to change the weight used in Franco of 71 gramtnos, or
,z. With England, Belgium, Germany, Holland, Swit-
zerland, and Italy the ioz. is the standard to the United
States, and as Americans aro in the habit of writing upon
strong heavy paper their letters generally turn the French
scale, incurring double postage, or 32c. France demanded a
double share of the interior rates of postage, also that the
United States should establish a semi-monthly line of
mail steamers between New York and Brest, equal to
the French vessels between these ports, or pay the entire
sea charge, and British inland transportation of all mails
conveyed through England, that is four-fifths of the cor-
respondence between the United States and Franco. The
postage of the United States correspondence with France
amounts to $300,000 per annum. As the treaty was framed
in 1857 its terms were better calculated for those days
than for the present. France cannot see what all neigh-
bouring nations see, the necessity of altering those anti-
quated regulations, and granting and receiving conces-
sions which are sure to redound to its own advantage, as
well as to that of the friendly nation with which the treaty
is concluded.

Commodore John L. Worden arrived at Anna-
polis on the Ist inst., and assumed the Superintendency
of the United States Naval Academy. Vice-Admiral D.
D. Porter's colours wore lowered under a salute of fifteen
guns, and the Commodore's hoisted, the salute being
eleven. The Commodore awaits the arrival of his family
in the Maryland Hotel. Ho has but recently left Germany,
where this distinguished officer had been staying for some
time.

The President has directed the Secretary of State
to forward to Minister Curtis►, at St. Petersburg, the
appeal of the Israelities on behalf of their expatriated
brethren. It will be accompanied by a letter asking its
favourable consideration by the Czar. An account of
Minister Curtin's reception by the Czar appears in the
American papers. The Emperor reciprocated the hope
expressed by the Minister that the existing feelings be-
tween the two nations would be perpetuated and grow
stronger, adding that they were alike in their growth and
improvement, and during his reign the friendship would
become closer. The proceedings were published in the
Court Journal at St. Petersburgh, an unusual course, and
significant of the importance attached to the interview,
and an illustrated Russian paper published a photograph
likeness of Minister Curtin and a representation of the
proceedings. General N. P. Banks was also presented,
and accompanied the Emperor at a review of 40,000 of the
Imperial -.Guard. The American Major-General was
dressed in his uniform.

The Mormons found the Co-operative Associa-
tion.a useful instrument against the Gentiles, but having
accomplished its work in ruining a number of useful
traders, it proved to be a two-edged sword, cutting back
among those who have employed it. Its effect was to
convert the Mormons with means into a Joint Stock Join-
pany,and here we know that shareholders look almost solely
to dividends. Brigham, however, has but a remote idea
of dividiug anything even with the "Saints." Indeed ho
is a bad sample of an English director, who has had his
way so long as to get angry with and browbeat any share-
holder who asks for a return. A nominal dividend of 12
per cent. was recently declared, but this was all paper
work, a sort of laying up of treasure for which
the "Saints" had no fancy; so a meeting was held,
when Brigham .said that, es the diVidendi could not
be paid over, the stockholders should have the amounts
credited on the books. Like a cantankerous English share-
holder, the wealthy Mormon merchant Jennings talked
about being swindled, whereon Brigham became angry, and
empliatioally observed that any shareholder desiring in-.-
mediate payment had. clearly lost the Spirit of tho Lord,
and verged on apostacy. One shareholder went to the