The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-08 00:00:00

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only in-
stitution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by
Messrs. D;msdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Fleet-street : and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.
The private medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.
Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road.
Open to all without letters of recommendation.
FUNDS are urgently needed.
JAMES S. BLYTH, Sec.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill, _ Putney-heath.

Established '3lst July, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to :patients at thei
own homes.
A new wing to the Hospital has Just been completed
at a cost of upwards of XlO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There aro 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ox•
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subnriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, .£5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the reatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW Secretary
No. 10 Poultry London. E.O September 1868.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys en board the Ohicheater Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges. 19, Broad-street, and Ealing;

870 children.
415 will troop a boy or girl for one year.
Oontributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41. Lothbury, E.O. ; and by
WILLIAM 'WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fie:de.

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME, for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under tho immediate direction of tho
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England.OU " FUNDS greatly needed
CNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,

- Rev. J. W. Ayro Major. Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert, MP.
Kempe
lion. and Rev. F. Byng Rey. J. E.
Rev. It. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Nev. S. Brooke
Rev. A. Martineau
'rho Lord Clinton
Rev W. Cadman ltev. W. D. Maclagan
E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. D:iniel Moon?
iltetz.
E.
.H I.
c.pCeiltcts,urCe J
Chaplain' R. Dev...l:lomrtooon,
rll,,us6cr.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. CanzAi Nepean
Cotavias Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arihur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. J. Connell Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. C. W. Furse Rev. F. Pigou
C. J. Froake. Esq. R. T. Pigott, Esq.
J. S. Gillkt, Esq. H. R. Pym, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hosaey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. ft,Wade, Esq.
R. Hook, L'sq., Tree.surel Loftus Wigram, Esq.
Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ;
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co; and by the Hon.
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
man-square, to whom conmna ications may be addressed.

SHORT SUMMARY OF THE POSITION
OF THE

PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY,
62, Ludgate Hill, London, E.C.

Branch Office-7, King-street, St. James's.

The Annual Premium Income of the Company, at the
close ,•f 1868, was X 220,978 05.10 d., and the Total Amount
Assured .£4,832,197.
The Business is divided under two heads:-
Ist --The General or Ordinary Business, Leine the
same as that. transac!,sd by other Companios.
2nd—The Industrial or Working Class Assurances.
The Premium Income of the General
Business was £52,432, and the sum Assured
£1,562,960. The present value of the la-
bility of this Branch by the Carlisle 3 per
Cent. Tables, throwing off the entire load-
.l3g, way £139,322 15 8

The Premium Income of the Industrial
Branch was 1(i,546, the sum Assured
43,169,237, and the Estimated Reserve 50,000 0 0

£189,322 15 8
Tho Liability of the Industrial Branch
does not admit of being estimated in the
same way as that of the General Branch,
on account of the very larg, proportion of
Policies which coast .ntly lar se, so that
the bulk of the assurances are, in fact, risks
for short terms only ; the estimated re-
serve for the liabilities of this Branch of
the business is shown by the result of 14
years' experience to be abundantly suffi-
cient.
The Assurance Fund on 31st Decem-
ber, 1868, was £211,301 12 :4
The average duration of the whole of
the Industrial Policies was considerably
under three years.
The average age of the Assured in the
Industrial Branch was 19 years.
A detailed List of Assets can be had on application.
H. 13 ARBEN, Secretary.

TILE W
MESMERIC INFIRMARY, 36, ey-
mouth-street, W. (where =any cases deemed incur-
able are cured), much needs support. Inspection is in-
vited from 10 till 12.30. The Council have placed the
Institution under the control of THOS. CHANDLEf.i,
Esq., M.R.C.S., who has above 30 years' experience in
Mesmerism and nervous diseases. Consultations—gra-
tuitous, till 10.30; private, till 12.30.

CANCER, HOSPITAL (Free) : founded 1851.
—Brompton, S.W., and 167, Piccadilly.—Over 8,000
cases treated since foundation. Remedies and diet very
expensive. Over 40 in hospital, and many cases unable
to be admitted for want of FUNDS ; at present over 300
out-patients.

Treasurer—Geo. T. Hertalet, Esq., Lord Chamberlain's
Office, St. James's Palace.

Bankers—Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
By order, 11. J. JUPP.

DOOR SICK and HELPLESS CHILDREN.
I. —The ROYAL INFIRAARY for CHILDREN
and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-road. Instituted 1810.
Increased PECUNIARY ASSISTANCE is most
urgently needed, and solicited, for continuing relief to the
poor little suffering inmates at this Hospital.
Office, Waterloo-bridge-road, S.E.
Bankers—Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lom-
bard-street; and Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand. N
CHARLES J. F. RE N TON, Secretary.

EAST LONDON HOSPITAL for CHILDREN
The Committee earnestly desire to raise funds which
shall enable them to establish the Hospital in more suit-
able buildings. The premises now occupied are crowded
and inconvenient, causing additional expense from that
circumstance. It is impossible even to purchase on whole-
sale terms many articles of daily consumption from want
of room for stowage, every inch of available space being
occupied. There is a daily demand for more beds, and the
staff of nurses would be able to attend upon more children,
but no more can be admitted 'n the present building.
£B,OOO at least is required to can y out this much-wished-
for and urgent scheme
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Trea-
surer, E.S. Norris, Esq. Shadwell ; or by
SHERRARD B. BURNABY, Hon Sec.,
Rectory Warning E';

ITURSING.—ST. JOHN'S HOUSE and
11 SISTERHOOD for TRAINING NURSES for
HOSPITALS, Families, and tho Poor: established 1848.
President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON.

The nursing at King's Collego and the Charing-cross
Hospitals, and the Galignani English Hospital at Paris,
is at present superintended by the Sisters of John's
House.

Ladies or others wishing to qualify themselves as
members of the House or Sisterhood, or as pupils to be
trained to nurse, are quested to communicate with the
Lady Suporior.
Donations and Subscriptions to the General Fund, the
Sisters' Fund, or the Nurses' Pension Fund, may be paid
to Messrs. Goutts ; or to the Lady Superior, at St. John's
House Norfolk-stroot, Strand, V.U.I

ROYAL SCHOOL for DAUGHTERS of
OFFICERS. of the ARMY, Lans‘lown, Bath.
Instituted, A.D., 1864.
Under the Patronage of her Maj sty the QUEEN.
President-11.RX. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, &e.
Chairman—Mojor-General Sir A. J. LAWRENCE, K.C.B.
This school has been founded upwards of four years,
and it is intended for the education of the daughters of
officers of the army, Indian and Marines. There aro
already 70 pupils in the school, but more could ho admitted
if the committee had further funds; they, therefore
APPEAL to the public to aid them in carrying out to its
full extent the benefits of the only institution specially
provided for the daughters of officers of the Army.
Etch donation of ,C 5 ss. entitles to one life vote at all
elections. Each annual subscription of £5 5s entitles to
one vote at all eloctions during the current year. The
amount may be forwarded by an ~rdet on a bank, agent,
or post-office (Charing-cross), payable o.
GEO. W. FOESTEE, Under Secretary.
Office 22, Cockspur-street, London.

511 RITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
-111
bam-rise- Instituted in 1861.
Patroness—lLEX. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over
20 years of ago and above the pauper dual
who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
The Home was opened in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may be ob-
tained from the Secretary,
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, B3van, and Co., 54, Lombard
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
EDWD. WEAYEA Soc.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C.

ROYAL FREE HosprrAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most GraCkons Merssry the QUEEN.
Vice-patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BuccLErou, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish th© principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contlibutions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abohurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
'Terries and 0o.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payiia, and Co.-, Barclay and Co.;
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,;Berners-street ;
_end at
the Hospital' from 10 till 5

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
*re as follows :
For Fallon Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camdon-streot, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland- street. wick.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home---St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Homo---85, Queen-street, Oheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 521 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The. Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
Tho Committee very' earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CODPER,
$l5 Canaen-street Cheansidn.

BUITISII HOME FOR INCURABLES,
Clapham rise.
Instituted 1861.
PATRONESS.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES.
TREASURERS.
George Moore, Esq.; Mr. Alderman Gibbons.
This Institution, extending its operations to all parts of
the kingdom, provides for those afilicti,d with incurable
diseases a home for life, with every comfort and.medical
attendance. Patients are admitted, and annuities of £lO
obtained by election.
No person under 20 years of age, nor of the pauper
class, is eligible.
Full particulars and the necessary forms may be pro-
cured from the Secretary. Donations and annual sub-
scriptions are earnestly solicited.
BANKERS.

Messrs Barclay, 131 van, and Co., Lombard-street. E C.; and
Messrs. Drummond, Onaring-cross S.W.
ED WD. WEAVEIt Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside.

QEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (the Dreadnought), off
Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Nations, who are received without any recomendation.
The Committee require upwards of £4,500 annually
from voluntary bounty to moot the expenditure of this
Hospital.

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be most thankfully received by
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-
lane ; and at the Society's offices, 86, Bing William-street,
E. 0., by

• .
S. KEMBALL COOK, Secretary.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life
Governor, .£lO 10s.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS.

(From the Anglo- American Times)
NEW YORK, Nov. 20.
_

Last Tuesday we had a grand wedding at Cal-
vary Church, Fourth-avenue. Miss Ada Torrance
there appeared iu all the grand attire which so in-
terests women in a bride—lavender tinged white
satin, the lace veil falling from a head wreathed
with white flowers, &c., &c. Mr. Meredith [low-
land, the bridegroom, was by no means so interest-
ing an object, while his reverend brother of the
Episcopal Church tied the knot. The Aspinwalls
were there, as was the great Vanderbilt, fresh from
his statue, and he could afford to look with com-
placency on a proceeding which tended to perpe-
tuate his line (for the bride is his grand-daughter),as
he felt that he could safely confide the perpetuation
of his memory to the bronze statue, and all the
grand designs adorning the roof of the entrance to
his railway station, by means of which the artist has
recorded his achievements. The Herald has lost a
compositor, named William Keane, a young man
of 24. He had been drinking with Lee, one of
our low Ward politicians, and as (to put it in its
mildest form) when none the better for liquor,
politics were broached, they soon got into a fight.
After being ejected from the saloon they returned,
anct began again so warmly that Lee pulled out his
revolver and shot Keane through the head, which
ended that argument, and transferred his op-
ponent to the hospital mortally wounded. I
dare say the Herald will take care that its
employes are not so treated with impunity,
but there is no saying what a politician cannot do
in New York City.* In Twenty-eighth-street two
murdered infants have beendiscoverecl in the chimney
flue of an English basement house, No. 128, occu-
pied by three families. A stone setter was called
in to ascertain whence the disagreeable smell pro-
ceeded, and the discovery of the skulls and skele- ,
tons was the result. The infants had been thrust
through the aperture used for the stove pipe, and
must have been roasted. Suspicion attaches to a
dressmaker who some months ago occupied the
lower part of the house, and this woman, Wright,
is being inquired after. The first stone of the new
Post-office was laid last Saturday, and I have no
doubt the work wilt now progress with great speed.
In taking over the Sub-Treasury Senator Folger
was introduced by General Butterfield in a little

* Our Correspondent is correct, as we see in the latest
accounts that James Lee. who shot William Keane in
Alderman Miller's "Bank" saloon, at No. 398, Grand-
street, has been held to bail by Coroner Rollins in the sum
of $lO,OOO. Mr. Daniel Beekman, of No. 234, East T wenty-
seventh-street, and doing business at- No. 19, Stanton-
street, became tau (Ay.

speech to the emplves of the Department. Iu
reply Mr. Folger spoke in high terms of the faith-
ful service rendered to the Government by his pre-
decessor. He, however, told his subordinates to
mind what they were abnut in these worth :—" We
stand in the focus of public criticism, and will be
judged not only by those around us, but by those
afar off. Our best intentions and efforts may be
misrepresented and mijadged by those NVII.I are
ever watchful for self-interests." The sensation of
the week has been the complaint of Mrs. Rowena
Florence in the Superior Court, before Judge
Jones, against General B. F. Butler, who, when.in
command in New Orleans,forcibly entered her house,
taking three jewel-hilted swords, with gold scab-
bards, valued at $35,000, together with a box
of silver spoons, valued at $2,000. The defen-
dant having stated that the swords were sent
to Washington, search was there made in vain
to recover them. The silver, however, the General
is openly charged with having appropriated. Bail
is demanded at $15,000, which was to be immedi-
ately forthcoming. Messrs. Lockwood are to re-
sume business next week, with a change in the part-
nership. The announcement has given much satis-
faction, as Legrand Lockwood is greatly respected.
The first of the steamships from the Mediterranean
has arrived, the Agamemnon, built to ply between
Hongkong and London, now running between Mes-
sina, Palermo, Malaga, Marseilles, and New York;
she brought a full cargo of fruit and other products of
the Mediterranean. There is a movement here for
the establishment of a bank exclusively for dis-
counts, with a capital of $20,000,000, of which a
considerable portion has already been offered. It
is necessary here for the accommodation of mer-
chants, who are sometimes unmercifully fleeced by
the present banking system. The Hanlon brothers
are drawing crowded houses and meeting large suc-
cess. Thanksgiving Day was more generally and
heartily observed than is usual, and all over the
Union.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.

Washington is now really beginning to fill, and
many Congressmen are making house arrangements
for the approaching Session. Among IL-ose who have
returned is Representative Schenck, who, as you
are aware, has lately been travelling in Europe. He
is a man of great weight in the House, and is at the
head of the most important Committee of Congress
—that of the Ways and Means of the House of
Representatives. His health is much improved,
and he is ready to resume his'arduous work. He has
bought a residence at the corner of Massachusetts-
avenue and • Fourteenth-street, for $34,000. I
hear that Senator Grimes has not impraved in
health, that he hall had a second paralytic stroke,
and that be intended to proceed to the Mediterra-
nean on a long tour. Ex-Secretary Stanton's health
is also a matter of anxiety to his friends. For some
time he has been unable to attend to work, though
he may occasionally be seen out riding. There was
a nice little party at the White House yesterday,
where an example was set of making turkies pay
for the feelings with which wo overflow on Thanks-
giving Day. Your correspondent was not-there to
see, for he had his own turkey, and made his own
speech, and otherwise acted the Grand Seigneur
elsewhere; but Mrs. Grant and her father, Mr.
were, and so were General T. F. Dent and wife ;
also Judge Louis Dent and wife ; likewise the
Masters Dent ; so also were Dr. Alex. Sharpe and
wife, as well as the young Sharpes ; and what
with the Dents and the Sharpes the Grants had quite
a family party. Why was not poor Corbiu there
—echo is still sorrowing over his gold operations in
New York ? Mr. Reverdy Johnson has had a gala
day, too, for in Baltimore he and his wife celebrated
on Tuesday their golden wedding. As our habit is
(particularly we Washington correspondents) to
give an account as full as pos ible about everybody,
we not only tell Reverdy Johnson's age, which is
74, but his wife's age, which is 67, and I would
descend into the sex and age of the twelve children,
the forty-eight grandchildren, and the four great-
grandchildren, if I could but persuade myself that
the information was of interest to you Europeans.
Many gentlemen from our city went to Baltimore
to attend, for Reverdy Johnson, whatever may be
his shortcomings, is a favourite, who, if he shines
anywhere, comes out quite a luntinary at the festive
board. But in England the people know this, and
what he likes and what he eats, otherwise I might
tell you what the festive board contained, and the
nature and the quality of the wines consumed.
But I refrain, although I have said enough, I hope,
to gain the credit of having been there. General
Spinner is ill, and Dr. Bliss has been called in. His
work is so heavy, and he is so indefatigable in at-
tending to it, that although he had been unwell for
several days he had pursued his usual avocations till
he was compelled, last Monday, to remain at home.
It may not interest your readers much to know that
the water of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal is to
be drawn off (Dec. 5) to repair the banks. But
just imagine the interest to the fishes, if only ac-
quainted with the fact. The Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and our city corporation are at war. They
got the ground on which they run through Wash-
ington when the track was a common, and they
seem bent on keeping it a common. The line is lower
than the streets, and the railroad company neglects
to raise it to the established grade. The company, in
defiance of the corporation, refuses to budge from
its squatter's rights, and the question will be tried
on the Boundary-street, which is cut into two by
the line, the street ending at what appears a cutting
six feet below it. The corporation proposes to
block up the track, unless it be raised to con-
form with the street. It is not, however, the
main line which passes through this city, but a
branch which runs to Baltimore, and another
to Frederick, making a triangle, ono angle of
which is in cur midst, and hasbecome an obstruction
of which the city complains. The supervising
architect of the Treasury Building having exhausted
the appropriation for repairs s for the present
stopped the work till Congress votes more money.
Congress will be called upon when the session opens
to make appropriations for Government offices in
this city, and a fight is anticipated on the part of
those who design to remove the capital to the west.
It is true that Senators are buying houses here and
making themselves comfortable, because they know
that even if -destined eventually to be successful,
years upon years will elapse before such an agitation
could assume a character really formidable to 'Wash-
ington. It is easier to abuse it than to find a
substitute, and I acknowledge that most people,
nearly all, do abuse it, but it will be our American
way of checking its progreSs, and taking the heart
out of those who desire to make it a capital worthy
of such a nation without effecting any change.
This was noticeable in our method of treating the
National Debt. We did all we could, as you very
properly explained, to damage our national credit
at home and abroad, while not gaining a penny by
our efforts. Indeed we made the debt which we
really intended all the time manfully to shoulder,
the heavier and more difficult to bear. So likewise
will we deal with this transfer of the capital ques-
tion. We will first place every obstacle in the way
of making 'Washington - a handsome city, and
having carefully accomplished this we will set
to work and make it a handsome city. I may
add that while doing so we will keep shout-
ing to the world, that so energetic, so tasteful,
or a community with such magnificent ideas, never
existed before. This is our pleasant way—but
we do the work. You may recollect that Gen. A.
B. Dyer had to undergo a lone. and painful inquiry
into his conduct as Chief of Ordnance, which ended
in his honourable acquittal. Ile was put to great
expense as a matter of course, one of the items
being $5,000 for the fees of his counsel, Mr. D. D.
Field. He has lately endeavoured to recover this,
aided by Gen. Sherman, front the Government, but
Attorney-General Hoar strenuously opposed the
claim, and Gen. Dyer has failed. It niay be a bad
precedent for the Government, but it is unques-
tionably hard on the wrongly-accused officer. The
transmission of mails has occupied the attention of
our Post-office, which now keeps a register of the
time taken. Between Boston and San Francisco
the schedule gives an average of 7 days 19 hours
and 25 minutes. Between New York and San
; Francisco the average is 7 days 2 hours and 23
minutes, but it has gone as low as 6 days 15 hours.
• Between 'Washington and Sau Francisco the time
is 7 days 6 hours. Mr. Stanton would have taken
his place on the bench of the Supreme Court bad
I his health permitted, and Thomas J, Durant, of

New Orleans,
.has declined a jadgeship on the
Louisiana Circuit. Mr. Aubit, editor of a Mon•
trAl paper, is here to oppose reciprocity with
Canada, with the avowed object of favouring an-
nexation, and it is rumoured that both the Presi-
dent and Mr. Bon t well think with him. The question
as regards the fishermen may cause trouble, but the
subject will be early discussed in Congress. The
Ways and Means Committee are getting ready for
work on the new tax and tariff bills, and General
Schenck, the Chairman, is engaged in his consoli-
dation bill, to simplify the numerous Acts relating
to internal taxation, which ha last session intro-
duced. The chairmanship of the Senate Commit-
tee on Appropriations is vacant through the tleaih
of Mr. Fessenden. Mr. Merrill, of Maine, ap-
pointed by the Governor to finish Mr. Fesseeden's
term,will probably take the vaeant seat on the Cont.
; as Mr. Fessenden succeeded him in it, be
will be at home in that chair. Another Chairman-
, ship is vacant through the retirement of Mr. Grimes,
and it is generally rumoured that his successor on
t he IC aval Committee will be Senator Cragin,w ho will
have to resign his place he holds on Contingent Ex-
penses. Secretary Boutwell went home for Thanks-
giving, and will not return for a few days. Mr.
Sherman has been here to complete his arrange-
ments for the winter, but has returned to Ohio.
Vice-President Colfax will be here next week, so
will Speaker Blaine and his family. General Tate,
the new Minister for Hayti, is expected almost im-
mediately, in the room of Laroche, resigned. A
great fuss was made here over a cent in closing
the Treasury Department account with the Na-
tional Broadway Bank of New York. Millions had
passed, but there was a mistake of a cent, which
caused the expenditure of some hundreds of dollars
before it was rectified, and the check forwarded for
that sum. Mr. Kelley has gone back to Philadel-
phia, with the assurance that Free Trade will
not be discussed by the President in his Mes-
sage, who holds that it is not a party qu: stion,
that the best Republicans differ on the sub-
ject, and that it is the business of Congress,
not his, to take the initiative. It is thought
that the Federal Legislature will strike off many
taxes against the President's desire, and among
them the Free List Custom House Tariff will bs
enlarged. Last Saturday Senator Cameron, Col.
Forney, and others, left Washington for the Georgia
State Agricultural Fair, which the Governor has
been trying to make as attractive and brilliant as
possible,

London, Nov. 30.
Sgt,—Nothing is more remarkable in the history
of Empires and Governments of late years than
the influence of the Press ; a power more stable and
lasting than any Government, but, like all powers,
it has its responsibilities, and two of its most im-
portant attributes are surely truth and independence.
These remarks are suggested by what appears to
be a painful little history connected with a journal
called the Levant Tim s and Gazette, which re-
appears after a " suspension." This suspension,
it states, was "by an arbitrary decree of
the Sublime Porte, alleging against us offences,
which, we feel confident, could not have been
substantiated before even a Turkish tribu-
nal ;" and, if so, it would appear that the
" offences" must have indeed been trifling •, and the
article goes on to say, with a naivete which is quite
refreshing, " IVe have various solid reasons for
complaining of this proceeding," if the expres-
sions "of indignant sympathy and astonishment at
the event, which we have received from all quarters,
should have reached the ears of the Grand Vizier,
who we willingly believe signed the order with
much reluctance." This no cl.)tibt is a gentle and
almost pathetic hint to that Mini-ter.

"it wu' all very well to disßomble your lova.,
But why did you kick mo down stairs?"
" His Highness could scarcely but feel that the des-
potic sentence with which we were visited was as
impolitic as regar Is the Government itself as it was
unjust to us." But it is evident "his Highness"
did not feel so, whether because the " indignant
sympathy" was riot loud enough to " reach his.
ears," or that lie was not the editor of the
Levant Ti»zes, it is impossible to say. "Never-
theless the treatment we have received at
the hands of the Porte, though a lesson not lost
upon us, and which we hope to profit by * * *
will make no difference in that loyal conduct to-
wards the Sultan and his Government, which we
adopted as one of our fundamental principles when
we established this paper. We had three motives
for this—First, a sincere conviction ; secondly, a
conscientious feeling ; and, thirdly, a prudent
sense of the interest with which a journal de-
pendent like our own on the steady develop-
ment of local trade, commerce, and industry,
with which the Levant Times and Gazette is
of all the papers published iu the empire spe-
ci.tlly and solely connected." This does not say
much for the remaining portion of the Levant
press in the maintenance of peace, order, and
authority. I hope the offences did not include any
conspiracy agains!.; these three last institution:4,
especially the latter. " Whatever change may have
taken place during that period has not been on our
part." . This is pathetic b.tt imprudent., because
forcibly reminding U 3 of Punch's illastration of
" the lover" out at elbows and his pockets turned
inside out.

"But were I in a foreign land,
They'd find no change in me."

" If the Porte suspended the Levant Herald in Oc-
tober, 1868, for attacking the Viceroy, and the
Levant Times in October, 1869, for defending the
same personage, against that very paper, it is cer-
tainly not we who have been guilty of tergiversa-
tion." This is severe, but well-deserved. " No,
no, we are incapable of it." " No, our loyalty has
and shall answer !" .1 pause timidly to remark that
"has and shall answer" is not English—it may be
Turkish ; but although, having partially forgotten
my Greek, I am still convinced it is not Greek—will
our Editor kindly explain ? "No ! our loyalty has
and shall answer to Shakespeare's description of
real affection, which does not alter when it altera-
tion finds, or move with the remover to remove."
It is evident the Sultan is not going to get rid of
the Levant limes just yet. As " Mawwcrtn" says
in the Hyprocrite " I like—to be despised ;" so our
Editor says, "We like to be suspendd,--our
affection will not move with the remover to
remove." This will probably be a bitter disap-
pointment to the Sultan and his Grand Vizier.
"We confess we were well nigh sickened with the
way in which our honest exertions were met, in a
quarter where we had imagined they might have
been more justly, if not generously, appreciated, but
the popular goodwill manifested to us * * * has
made us take fresh heart, and feel, that having cast
our bread uPonthe waters', it will surely return to us.
Encouraged by such support, we can bide our time,
&c. ; and meanwhile we shall make, &c., renewed
efforts, &c., to merit the favour, &C., as an earnest
of which we may announce that we have every rea-
son to hope."—Now, oh ! Grand Vizier—now, oh
Sooltan—now all ye Potentates, Kings, and Minis-
ters whatever, in whose hands is the terrible power
of the Suspension, hearken—" That arrangements
which are now in progress will enable us, without
extra charge to our subscribers, to enlarge our
paper, &c., and to improve the quality as well as
quantity of its contents." To which I will devoutly
say, Amen ! The satisfaction this announcement
gives almost overpowers me. Oh ! Sooltan•—oh !
Grand Vizier, live for ever ! And if your Majesty
and your Highness would come over to this British
Empire, and carry out the same operation with the
greater part of the English weekly press, you would
receive the lasting gratitude of a much over-written
and over-Pressed British public. CENSOR.