The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, _LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

LORD STANLEY.

The Pe Nall Gazette uses very strong language
in its denunciation of Lord Stanley. Our contem-
porary has throughout been " unable to see "
what has been so much praised in Lord Stanley.
While others were extolling him to the skies
for the Luxemburg treaty, the Pall Mall Gazette was
declaring him to have made a muddle of it. And now
when men are speaking of his honesty and. of his
Liberalism, the Pall Mall refuses to admit either the
one or the other. Lord Stanley, says our con-
temporary, admits the position of the Irish Church
to be invidious and indefensible ; he declares that
mere titular distinctions are not for a Christian
Church worth fighting for ; he holds that funds not
really wanted might be secularised, and yet he allows
speaker after speaker to accuse the authors of the
bill of sacrilege and robbery without a protest, and
goes into the lobby with those who have so denounced
their opponents without dropping a hint of what
he himself thinks. Ile offers an unqualified
resistance to a bill which he believes to be
in a great part just, and afterwards explains
his reason as being that the moneys are really
wanted by the Church. "We hardly know" (says
the Gazette) " a more striking instance of political
immorauty unless ane that suppucci ny tne party
which, after such a declaration, is still want: to
acceopt the author of it as its chief."

AMF;RICAN AFFAIRS.

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

The names of our leading politicians are freely
used to get up a sensation, and more freely still to
excite a flurry in Wall-street. One day, Ex-Sec-
retary Seward's name is bandied about till he be-
comes the subject of a red-hot controversy as to
who induced the Emperor of the French to with-
draw his troops from Mexico. Bigelow and Webb
are mixed up in the paper warfare, and there are
manifestoes, and cards, and rejoinders till the
subject sinks and rises again at the wave of an
editor's wand, when at a loss for exciting subjects.
Mr. Seward is very indignant at the pretensions of
the Minister to Brazil ; and is said to be preparing a
lengthy reply. The flurry was extracted from Senator
Sumner, who, it was asserted, intended to take
high grounds against England on the Alabama
Claims Convection; i udeed,was about to deliver a war
speech. Those who know Mr. Sumner had no doubt
that the report so diligently spread, even printed and
handed about, was untrue; yet it answered its ob-
ject, until the Senator pointedly contradicted it,
declaring that if he spoke at all there would not be
a war sentiment in his speech, and that it would
strongly favour peace. Among the deaths is that
of the widow of Dr. Lyman Beecher, and stepmother
of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who was buried
last Monday at Mount Auburn, Boston. A young
lady also died on Monday, Miss Rebecca Talcott,
and I mention her, as for five days she remained in
a trance, thereby creating a sensation. For the
greater part of the time her eyes were open and her
appearance healthy, yet she was without any anima-
tion except the faintest, almost imperceptible,
breathing. Two gentlemen, well known in Wall-
street, are among the deaths, though one occurred
at Genoa, whither he had repaired in search of health.
Mr. Stephen T. Clarke Was financial editor of the
Evening Express, then of the Tribune, which has a
long obituary notice of him. Mr. John A. Iselin
died in his office of heart disease, when apparently
in good health. He was once a member of the firm
of De Launy, Iselin, and Clarke, and the Stock
Board adjourned when the news was announced.
Mrs. Frances Duer, widow of Beverley Robinson,
died in her 84th year, and Abraham A. Leggatt,
also in his 81th year, both well known in our city.
I am told that Carlotta Patti will sing in the United
States next season, that Miss Nilsson has accepted
an engagement for the fall, and that Mr. Mapleson
will carry into effect the intention he before failed
in, of bringing out some European stars in New
York. Miss Kellogg, or,
as you call her in Eng-
land, Mademoiselle Clara Louise Kellogg, is our sun
here. She was said to have lost some of her sim-
plicity by her season in Europe, but to have re-
gained it after re-appearing on our stage. Sim-
plicity is certainly one of the great charms of this
lady's acting, and Miss Kellogg is a singer of
whom we have a right to be proud. Mr. James E.
Hayes, the manager of the Olympic, is expected to
arrive this week from
England. Mr. James E.
Cooke has returned ; the Davenport Brothers have
also come back, and are exhibiting in Steinway
Hall. Talking of that hall, the Tammany has now
followed its example, and commenced Sunday con-
certs. The Italian Opera Company is going to
Philadelphia. The managers of Walnut Theatre at
Philadelphia are making elaborate arrangements
for a "London Burlesque Combination," compris-
ing Felix Rogers, Jennie Willmore and Lizzie Will-
, more, who have gained celebrity at the Strand,
New Royalty, and other theatres in London. They
present a popular burlesque,
and as they left March
the 3d, following Mr. and Mrs. Barney Williams,
they will appear in a few days. Little " All Right,"
whom you perhaps saw in London, is just leaving
Philadelphia with the Japanese troupe. The card
he issued on the subject of his benefit looked like
an extract from a tea box. But enough of
theatricals. About 40,000 persons are said to have
participated in one way or another is the St. Pat-
rick's Day demonstrations. The weather was pro-
pitious, and New York j3inecl heartily in the Irish
holiday, the Mayor and Common Council reviewing
the procession. The ship Bosworth arrived ou Wed-
nesday from Java with jungle fever, and the name
so terrified the authorities, as no one knew anything
about it, that there was a general stampede. Those
who went on board, however, found all healthy, the
feverdescribed to be of a typhoid,remittent character,
rapid and malignant, being gone. When she put into
Table Bay six of the crew had died, and only three
or four were fit for duty. The Nellie IV late ferry-
boat, from Harlem, ran into the wharf with 100
passengers on board. She intended to touch at the
foot street, and came up at full speed,
when
ofshe
struck 6 the wharf and tore away all her
upper works, but the passengers were more fright-
ened than hurt; the Sylvan Stream had to convey
the passengers, as the Nellie White was too much
shattered to proceed. That steamer was the scene
of an Irish faction fight on St. Patrick's Day, when
some heads were broken.

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WASHINGTON, March 19.
Some individuals, at least, have found the dif-
ference between General Grant's and Mr. John-
son's Administration. Among them is Second-
Assistant Engineer George F. Sawyer. That young
gentleman, when an officer in one of our war-ships,
expressed the opinion that "Mr. Johnson was
liable to impeachment, and ought to be impeached,
and he hoped and believed the Senate would im-
peach and remove him." On his repeating this,
and maintaining that he could not be punished for
the simple expression of an opinion, he was reported
and tried by
a naval Court-Martial ; suspended a
year from rank and duty, reprimanded, and placed
on half pay. Mr. Sawyer resigned, and took an
active partin the late Presidential election. Secretary
Borie, on his attention being drawn to the case by.
Representative Davis in Congress, revoked the sen-
tence, and obliterated the record, as far as possible,
which was promptly sanctioned by the President.
Last Wednesday we had a great row iu the House,
Ben Butler, of course, the chief actor, and the cause is
not a little peculiar. The last Congress in passing
the Appropriation Bills enacted that the owners of
bonded warehouses were to refund to the Govern-
ment the salaries it paid to storekeepers. In some
way or another a whole section of the bill was
omitted in the enrolment ; General Butler in-
sinuated—by design—as it involved a million and a
half of dollars. The engrossing clerk was said to
have omitted it unintentionally ; he and his fellows
bad been 40 consecutive hours at work (I imagine
this is no small exaggeration); and the Report when
presented to them was confused and difficult to un-
derstand. In reply, Butler held up the MSS., calling
attention to the omitted paragraph underscored
with heavy black lines. The opposition came from
the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and
Means, from Mr. Beck, Representative of one of the
largest distillery districts, and from the Chairman
coupled with the design
legislation aidthezdP
of the Committee on Enrolled Bills. To this the
remarks were unworthy of
latter replied tbat the
any gentleman occupying a seat on the floor ; and
it was the first time that, such a mistake had been
osnog
thatre sAt :et rsoene g_
of defeating the deliberate
will
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effort was then
COD 8110111dbejeft out, against which Butler protested,
declaring the omitted section then to be a law of the
land, which could not afterwards be altered by the
reetossedleg
accident or design of an enrolling clerk. He then
alluded to the pressure brought to bear by a lobby,
to which Mr. Schenck, Chairman of the Committee
on Waysand Means, took exception, whereon the had
blood generated boiled up. Butler was not to be
diverted by a side issue, and Schenck dared him to
reduce Lis insinuation to the shape of a direct
charge. " I dare stand up," said Butler, "for the
'Treasury of the United States; the gentleman from
Ohio has a high courage to stand up for the
Whisky Ring. The country may judge between
us." " Ile may state what he knows to be untrue,
if he knows anything about it," was the reply ; and
Butler sail, " I understand the gentleman from
Ohio thoroughly. I know fully all his ins' and
and outs,' and some day he shall have them in-
vestigated when be desires it." Butler's con-
nection of Mr. Schenck with the Whisky Ring has
generally been condemned, but the clerk's error, to
say the least, was strange, and the country allows
some latitude to those who thus practically watch