The Sun.
London, England, 1869-10-09 00:00:00

MISCELLANF.OUS NEWS.

(Front the Anglo-American Times)
The latest news from Madrid is up to Thursday
evening, and gives of course the official account of
the operations against the insurgents. That the
revolution in Spain is of a very formidable cha-
racter is evident from the course taken by the Re-
publican deputies, and the angry opposition offered
by Marshal Prim. Poor Spain ! whether she de-
serves her troubles or not they are hard to bear,
while falling thus heavily on that misgoverned
land. " Official despatches state that everywhere
the insurgents are giving in their submission to the
Government. The Band under Deputy Moguero
has been defeated, and Moguero himself has sur-
rendered. The volunteers have been disarmed in
all the capital towns of the provinces, with the ex-
ception of Madrid, where they express a desire to
maintain public order."
The movement for the release of the Fenian pri-
soners has greatly increased in strength, and the
London papers are now seriously opposing a de-
mand at which they before sneered. Mr. Moore,
an Irish member, takes the most active part, and
threatens, if attention be not paid to the applica-
tion for the release, to lecture in Paris and New
York, denouncing the cruelty of the English Go-
vernment. The Rev. Paul Bagley, whose absence
from London will doubtless be a great relief to the
American Embassy, has carried to the President at
Washington all the correspondence on the subject
he could gather.

Next Tuesday some elections of great interest
will be decided, as several of the States on that day
send their citizens to the polls. Chief among them
is Pennsylvania, ranking second in the Union, and
next to her Ohio, the third State in population and
wealth. The contest in Pennsylvania is between
General Geary, the present Republican Governor,
and Asa Packer, the Democratic candidate. The
former was a successful soldier in the war; the
latter is a successful coal-mine owner, counting his
wealth by millions of dollars. In Ohio the contest
is between General Hays, another good Union soldier,
as also the present Republican Governor, and Geo.
H. Pendleton, the best known of the Democratic
leaders, whose views are so thoroughly Copperhead,
that, although the favourite with his party during the
last Presidential election, they were considered too
decided for success, on which Governor Seymour was
substituted. One greatquestion involved in the Ohio
election isßepudiation,of which Pendleton is the lead-
ing advocate. Another appears to be Free Trade ; a
third, and the most important, is the principle of equal
rights involved in the Fifteenth Amendment, of which
the election of Pendleton would signify the defeat
in Ohio. In Pennsylvania Asa Packer ought, by
the instinct of self-preservation, to oppose both
Repudiation and Free Trade ; but although he will,
we have reason to believe, be supported by the Free-
traders of Pennsylvania, no one supposes him to
be the advocate of a doctrine whose success would
be more injurious to Pennsylvania than to any other
State of the Union. Nor can he be supposed to
favour the payment of the bonds he holds for an
enormous sum, in greenbacks, instead of gold.

It was rumoured at Washington that Secretary
Cox would leave the Cabinet in December, as he

has been offered one of the nine Circuit Judgeships
provided for by the last Congress. General Sher-
man, at the Cabinet meeting on the 24th Septem-
ber, occupied General Rawlins's old seat. The
subjects discussed were the Cuban question and the
financial disturbances at the moment raging in New
York. Secretary Boutwell had received on the previ-
ous day numerous telegrams from leading brokers,
urging suggestions for breaking down the " bull"
combination, and the Secretary was represented as
confident that he would soon be able to defeat and
ruin the clique. What the Secretary really intended
was, we presume, to avail himself of the high price
to which the combination had raised the precious
metal to get as large an amount of greenbacks as pos-
sible for what he had to sell. Gen. Grant had a long
interview with the Attorney-General on the day pre-
ceding the Cabinet meeting. Ile has made the
following appointments :—E. M'B. Timoney to be

Consul at Tumbes and Peru, and Eugene Schuyler

of New York Consul at Revel.

The story set afloat by a Havre paper about the
United States frigate Sabine went the rounds first

of Europe, and, being telegraphed at once to
America, created there no small surprise. Some
papers, always ready to assert the superiority
of their intelligence, undertook to slate the
exact amount of truth it contained; and one gave
full particulars. It was not, then, till letters from

the crew reached their homes that the facts were

positively ascertained, and we give the words of

one of these. The wife of Lieut.-Commander

Ryan, of Boston, an officer then on board the frigate
&thine, received letters from him on Monday, Sept.
20, written after the arrival of the ship at Lisbon, i❑

which he says :
" Thoro has been a most ridiculous canard published
about us in a Paris paper which I suppose has, ere this,
been telegraphed home—something about the discovery of

a conspiracy to blow up the ship and the hanging of seven
men. In whose fertile brain the story originated I cannot
imagine. Nothing has occurred to give it the slightest

foundation."

The King of Prussia returned to Berlin on the
morning of the 6th October, and opened the Land-
tag in person. llis speech was curt, and to the

point. The receipts are short, the expenditure are in
excess, therefore it is impossible to make both ends

meet, and " my Government will consequently be

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obliged to demand an increase of taxation, in order
to cover the expenses of the Administration."
Having freely announced this, coupled with his

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confidence that their consent would not be

refused to the proposals, his Majesty gave

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a sketch of the Bills about to be sub-

mitted. First, there is a bill modifying the in-
come tax ; second, one about a new departmental
constitution, eventually to embrace the kingdom,
throwing municipal government into the hands of
the people hitherto reserved to officials ; third, an
educational bill ; and lastly, bills to extend roads
and railways, on which the King regrets insuffi-
ciency of the revenue imposes restrictions. rhero
is the usual talk about the peace of Europe and the
delight manifested by his subjects at the sight of
his royal person, when the King closed his pithy
address.

The Spirit of the Times attributes the break-down
of the ocean match between the Dauntless and the
Cambria to Mr. Ashbury having declined to sail on

the 21st of September, when Mr. Bennett would
have been ready to do so, on account of the equi-
noxial storm. Although the Spirit makes light of

the cause, we dare say Mr. Bennett can, by this
time, show that there was reason in the objection.
The Dauntless was, we believe, caught in one of
these gales shortly after the time named, and it was
at one time feared that she had been lost. A gale
that sent to the bottom such a vessel as the 1►c(1
Jacket would make it very dangerous work for
over-sparred yachts running a race. On the sub-
ject of the international boat race the Spirit
observes:--

"Harvard lighted a train which has fired the hearts of
our youth, and now they are to work with a spirit never
believed possible. fru°, a great deal of the activity just
now displayed is the offspring of excitement, and will cul-
minate with the subsidence of that excitement. But the
fire which has been kindled will not die out, though the
intensity with which it now burns receive a check. The
true oarsmen will ever keep in good part the vantage
ground now gained through the international race. Old
boating organizations have had their membership increased
and their treasuries filled as never before, and new clubs
formed where similar organizations were never known.
The patrons of aquatic amusements number thousands to-
day to one a few months ago. In a country abounding in
river streams and lakes, with an ocean frontage of throe
thousand miles, studded with bays, it is the only wonder
that we should have lived until to-day before the thing
was done. But the good work has begun, and for its be-
ginning we are indebted to the Harvard crew. Now lot it
go on." _

- The people in London and Liverpool express their
disappointment at not being drowned. During the
last few weeks they had made up their minds for

some such catastrophe, and in the fact that no one was
drowned by an inundation they recognise something
in the light of a "sell." Those who have done no
more tbau await the inundation can afford to regard
with philosophy the low character of the tidal flood,
but those who expended money and labour in a
useless preparation are loud in their denunciation
of Mr. Saxby and other alarmists who frightened
them into what they consider not only a waste, but
a false position. Another set of wiseacres made a
journey to see the Mersey overflow its banks and the
country swamped, but as the Mersey would not over-
flow its banks, they felt like persons who paid for
admission• to a theatre to see a piece on which the
curtain never rose, and entitled to express the most
unqualified disapprobation of those who had led
them to expect the treat of witnessing the pro-
perty of their neighbours destroyed. A hard gale
of wind might have made all the difference, and
more than justified Mr. Saxhy's predictions ; but,
fortunately, the weather has been unusually calm,
and the water rose little above the ordinary
spring tides.

The following facts do not bear out the assertion
of the Washington Government that their ships of
war were being prepared for sea for no other purpose
than their better preservation. Twenty-four iron-
dads are now in a sea-going condition and ready
for use. By December 15th twenty sloops and
frigates will be ready for service, and the Navy
will then be on a complete war footing. Orders
have been received in New York for several war
vessels immediately to be fitted out for duty in the
Cuban waters, of which one is the Dictator. The
Terror, an ironclad steamer at Boston, was to be im-
mediately commissioned, and the Chattanooga and
the Swatara are being prepared at the Philadelphia
navy-yard; even the Powhattan, which had just
returned from a three years' cruise, is among these
vessels, as well as the Albany.
It is to be regretted that Sadler was prevented,
as one of the Thames crew of the champion four-
oared race, who are awaiting the settlement of the
international sculling match, to go into practice,
from delaying the international match, arranged for
Thursday, until Walter Brown, the American scul-
ler, was in a state to row. As Sadler could not
wait, and as Brown, on account of boils, could not
row, all the money deposited was forfeited, and
Sadler in the evening pulled over the course, under
instructions of the referee, Mr. J. Ireland, of the
London Rowing Club. Although Sadler is not un-
willing to renew the match, Mr. Brown, not being
able to remain so long, has to go back to America,
bitterly disappointed after his journey that such a
cause should have disabled him, when otherwise
physically well fitted for the task. While no rule
has been infringed, we would rather have seen the
code more generously interpreted in favour of the gal-
lant stranger, if possible ; and it is a thousand pities
that Brown could not have been allowed a week to
give him a chance of recovery. Kelley, the chain-
pion, is about to pay a visit to America, where his
kindness and warm encouragement to the Harvard
boys, when at Putney training for their great match,
will ensure him a hospitable reception.
The telegram announcing the statement of the
Public Debt, made by the Secretary of the Trea-
sury, shows its total to be $2,468,500,000, repre-
senting a decrease, during the last month, of
$7,500,000, and a decrease, since Marcia Ist, of
$57,500,000. The total of bonds bought by the
Treasury, and their accrued interest, amount to
$51,000,000. The coin in the Treasury is
$109,000,000, and the currency $6,500,000.
in Al-
though not equal to the anticipated decrease the
middle of the month, it exceeds what was looked for
towards the end of the month, of ter some very heavy
payments had been made.
of Portland, will
probably (;e n General r
Governor be G e orge F
Ch.rinSiblelielpaliieirs'selection for 0(1 interim
Senator to fill the place of the late William Pitt Fossonden,
and it appears that the Governor may himself then be a
candidate for the office. The Richmond Despatch supports
General Robert Williams for ono of the United States
Senators from Virginia. Tho Virginia State Central Con-
servative Committee have advised against the election of
United States Senators at the meeting of the Virginia
Legislature on October 5.
The speech of Senator Sumner to the Republican
Convention at Massachusetts on the 22d September was
an address as interesting as eloquent. It was de-
livered iu the Senator's best style, and carried those who
heard it and were familiar with his career back to the
years 184 G and 1848. Throughout it was marked with
care and moderation. Ho first discussed home affairs, and
then the relations of America with Spain and Cuba, and
with England and Canada. He recognised the broad
principle that America can best conquer through peace.

He considered the man blind who did not discern the pro'
cession of events which would end in spreading the Re'
public from the Frozen Sea to the Mexican Gulf, from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, forming a confederation, one and
indivisible, with a common constitution, a common liberty
and a common glory. Towards Cuba be would maintain
an attitude of non-intervention. Ho described what he
considered to be a belligerency which might honestly be
recognized, and he did not believe that the insurgents
in Cuba had yet attained to that position. He Ulu:
pathized deeply with the Cubans, and he likened
Spain to a nation engaged in the comedy, on the one side
of hunting a king, and on the other in the tragedy 01
sending armies ;against Cuba, both of which, if wise, Oa
would give up, and in neither of which did he desire to
take part. He reviewed the wrongs suffered by America
at the bands of England, approaching the subject with
pain, and discussing it with moderation. In doing o°'
except in the Senate, be broke a vow with himself. ge
remembered how British anger had been aroused by °
former effort, though pacific to those who hoard it, and 103
could not tell how his few words might now be miscon-
strued. The English argument had not impaired the
justice of the American complaint. Sentimental damsel
it was said, could not be assessed, and the case was dish
missed as having no other foundation. The complsi?"
was for damages directly due to England. It was a die
paragement of international law to say there was no rerasdf
when so many could testify to thowrong. While recognizll3!
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the many good friends America had in England, corper°
England only could be taken into account, through °°.
Government the United States had suffered. While Frase'
erred equally in recognition, no pirate ships or blockade
runners were built there to prey upon American cony:not
which made all the difference. He hoped for such a°.
tlement as would both promote good-will and make t°,
best precedent for civilisation. The whisper of conWeli,
sation by the transfer of Canada was not possible, s 0 °lra
ritory might be conveyed,but not a people. Canada ',Wig'
in the fulness of time enter the Union with the good-4
of the mother country and the accord of both parties,
be the harbinger of infinite good—a union clearly °ll
aeon by the late Richard Cobden.

7 IIE AU7UIIIN HANDICAPS.