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London, England, 1869-03-23 00:00:00

his eye was on them, and that tholaws for the pro
tection of animals would be enforced.

coming humiredB of miles to see; as it was, it im-
pressed every beholder, so stupendous was the
gathering. To-clay rrestde.t (,rant took Mrs.
Grant to the White House, but admitted no visi-
tors to the Executive Office. There he awaited

notice that Congresi was ready to receive any
communication, which be received from Commit-

tees of both Houses at a quarter past 2 p.m. Gene-
rals Schofield and Howard, and Admiral Farragut,
however, managed to see him, as did Senator Joshua
Hill, of Georgia. Commissioner Rollins has re-
signed, and received a very complimentary letter
from General Grant. Ex-Senator Wade bid the
President good-bye before leaving for Ohio. Ex-
Secretary Welles ordered a general court-martial
to meet before retiring ; his assistant Mr. Faxon
returns to Connecticut. The crowds are now
hurrying away with the same eagerness with which
they came. Five thousand tickets were sold at the
Baltimore depot. in eight hours, extra trains were
put on, but the impatient multitude made such dis-
turbance that thirty were arrested.

MAIL PACKET SUBSIDIES.

Mr. SEELY carried his motion to refer to a Select
Committee the contract made by the late Govern-
ment with the Messrs. Cunard and the Inman Com-
panies for the carriage of mails to the United States.
Throughout the speech of the bon. member was
plainly marked by animus against a company which
has done more within late years to uphold England's
nautical fame in America than the British fleet.
The contract had been cut to the lowest point by
the close shaving of the Conservative Government ;
indeed to so low a figure that these two great com-
panies could not have accepted it, had not the
exigencies of their position compelled them to
keep afloat the finest fleets, towards the maintenance of
which the trifle offered by the Government was but a
help. The interference of Mr. SEELY appears to be
wholly uncalled for, and had Parliament fully un-
derstood the circumstances, the agreement made by
the late Postmaster-General would have been
heartily concurred in. What Mr. SEELY wants is
what we all desire—to get something for nothing.
It would be very nice if the Cunard and the In-
man, the North German Lloyd, and the Ilamburgh
and American Companies, would, without expense
to the national exchequer, keep vessels steaming
across the ocean, at 13 and 14 knots an hour, carrying
our mails, and forcing their way in spite of sea or
weather. He seems to think that. the nation can
get them to do so for nothing, an error which will
soon be exploded. The Hamburgh line, which he
justly says, have some of the fastest boats afloat, for
a period ceased to touch at Southampton, when the
subsidy was withdrawn, yet the hon. member dis-
cusses their vessels as if the Government could com-
mand them without payment. Mr. SEELY'S speech is
replete with erroneous statements. The subsidy paid
to companies and the postal rate have no connec-
tion. The nation may gain or lose ;it may be more
profitable to have a high than a low tariff, or a
penny may really return more to the Treasury
than a sixpenny rate, but this is a matter with which
the companies have nothing to do. What they
undertake is to start a powerful steamer at a given
hour on a certain day to and from England and
New York, the passage to be performed, and the
mails transmitted within a certain time. That this
should be done with the utmost regularity and
speed is the essence of the whole question to the com-
mercial community. A penny postage would be a
boon to the people, but the other conditi ns are a
necessity to both continents; indeed, rapidity of
communication ranks far before the cost of postage.
When Mr. SEELY therefore strikes at the subsidy
he damages the essential point, for there must be
an inducement, or no people in their senses would
undertake to perform so expensive and onerous a
task. The animus of his attack on the Cunard
Company is 81)0m, n throughout his speech. From
the Ist of January, he said, the commencement of
the contract, to the Bth of Feb., sixteen voyages had
been made by the Cunard and the Inman steamers,
nine of which exceeded time. Why did not Mr.
SEELY add, that there never had been known in the

WASHINGTON, March 5.
We had a week of great excitement, as we had
to instal General Grant as President of the United
States. Washington is literally crowded. The
national imagination has been spurred by the secresy
with which the Cabinet appointments have been
kept, and every office-seeker is fired with the hope
that his man may be brought in. We have fifteen
new Senators, and a crowd of new Representatives ;
we have a gathering of Governors, naval and military
men of distinction, among them Admiral Farra-
gut and General Sheridan ; we have editors, the
most active of whom is Henry C. Bowen, of the
Independent. Horace Greeley is also here, and
George Wilkes, just arrived from Europe. The
Union League of America is in session, and there
are men of mark connected with that organization.
They commenced business by filling posts as follows:
—The Hon. John W. Geary, Governor of Penn-
sylvania, was elected National President; G. IV.
Godard, of Brooklyn, Vice-President ; and Thomas
C. Baker, of New York, National Secretary. The
following were elected to the National Executive
Committee from New York :--Geo. 11. Van Cleft,
Waldo Hutchins, Geo. S. M'Waters, Wm. V. Alex-
ander, and Jacob M. Patterson, jun., with Messrs.
C. W. Godard, Volney Green, and Joseph Reeve
from Brooklyn. Washington is unlike any other
place -in the world, for there is no other city so
wholly and purely political. At one time filled to
overflowing and rampant with excitement, at an-
other dull, silent, and intensely stupid. At inter-
vals it boils up till it furiously blows off steam, but
never have we been blowing away so much as
within the last few days. Every corner is occupied,
every hotel filled, the talk is incessant, for every little
politician has his own Cabinet, and private but
reliable information. The Rev. Dr. Punshon is
in the crowd. Ex-Governor Hassirtssi Fish lizta
seen Grant, and men say that he will be Secre-
tary of State. Governor Cox has come up
as the most likely for Ohio, but, strange to say, he
is not here. Stuart, of Philadelphia, is, but it is
doubted now whether he is Grant's choice. A. T.
Stewart is also here ; the difficulty is not in telling
you who is here, but who is not. It is hard to say
whether the outgoing or the incoming President is
most pestered with callers. Grant would be if the
road were open, but it is not so easy to get an in-
terview, and when got it is generally very unsatis-
factory. Andrew Johnson is most worried for par-
dons. If half is to he believed of the loose talk
picked up in the streets and at the bars, he must be
driving a roaring trade in I ardons ; but few who
coolly assert this believe it themselves. Callicott,
after desperate efforts, has failed, and his friends
say that it was because his funds were insufficient.
Spangler and Arnold, implicated in Lincoln's mur-
der, have been released from the Dry Tortugas,
which finishes the list of those connected with that
tragedy. Numerous other pardons have also been
obtained. The last reception was on Tuesday. and
the White House was a picture. It was not a mov-
ing but a jammed, blocked up crowd. The carriage-
way was filled with ladies and gentlemen in evening
dress, while the building was already occupied by
those who had assembled early, and rushed iu when
the doors were opened. The efforts made to get in
were considerable, but nothing compared to those
to get out. Hats, cloaks, wraps were lost, and a
woman who went in elegantly dressed came out
battered and torn. Several fainted, and it was im-
possible to procure an exit till some files of
soldiers cleared the way, as the police were
powerless. Scenes so congenial almost make an
honest man turn pickpocket, but there was no
necsssity thus to improve the occasion, for those
were there whose trade it was, and three were cap-
tured in the act. The refrain of John Brown arose
from the outside, and it is passing strange that that
should be the last tune that greeted Andrew John-
son's ear in the Executive Mansion. His daughter,
Mrs. Patterson, left it next day for the house of the
Secretary of the Navy, and the President becomes
the guest of M. John Coyle of the lntelligencer.
On the 4th, the crush and the excitement culmi
nated. I suppose you will publish full accounts o
what was done ou Inauguration Day. had it no
been for the rain the scene would have been wor

ARRIVAL OF THE S.S "INDIA" FROM NEW YORK'
The Anchor line steamer India, Captain R. D. Munro,
has just returned from New. York, bringing a large cargo
of American produce, 45 steerage and intermediate, and
23 saloon passengers. Cabin passengers: Miss WOO',
Miss Cushing, Mr James Mollison, Mr Wm. Mollison,
Mr Matthew Mollison, Miss Robb, Mr James Robb'
Miss Mary King, Captain Meehan, Rev. Mr Ind, Mrs
Ind and family, Rev. R. Shippen, Mr J. shipr°,
Mr F. L. Messenger, Mr S. Carskey, Mr. H. Young/
Miss Catherine Hunt, Mr Alex. Lochhead. At a ineeting
of the passengers, at which Joseph Shippen, Esq., pr:
sided, the followin3 resolution, offered by the Rev. R. R.
Shippen, and seconded by the Rev. T. M. Ind, were una-
nimously passed:—"Resolved, that we, the passengers
of the steamship India, tender our cordial thanks to
Captain Munro, his fellow-officers, and crew, for their
watchful care and courteous attention, which have
rendered our voyage across the Atlantic safe and
pleasant, and we heartily commend them to the patron-
ago of the travelling public. The India is the latest
addition to the Anchor fleet. This large and superb
vessel is of iron, bark rigged, and built by Messrs. William
Simons and Co., of Renfrew, last year, being launched the
2d of July, 1868. her length cn deck is 315 feet 6 inches,
and over al! 330 feet 2 inches. She bas a breadth of beam
of 36 feet, a depth of hold of 22 feet 4 inches, a load draught
cf 20 feet 6 inches, and is 2,500 tons burden British rant'''.
surement. She has three decks, the depth between then'
respectively being 7 feet 6 inches. Upon each of these
decks are iron plate stringers of largo size and thickness,
tending to materially strengthen them. The hull is 4:3
wrought iron plates 11 inches in thickness on her bottom,
which decreases but three-eighths of an inch in any por-
tion. Her floors are of double angle iron, of more than
ordinary width and thickness, and her plates are to a greet
extent double riveted. She is fitted with six water-light,
bulkheads, which are of iron, one-half and five-eighths of
nn in.), in thickness from engine-room to after hold. The
water tanks are capable of containing 4,000 gallons each'
and the apparatus for condensaticn has a capacity of 300,.
gallons and upward every 24 hours. The steering get
has all the modern improvements and great strength:
Properly rigged, one half bring provided with improvoa
lowering apparatus, are six lifeboats hanging over the
upper deck. She is Pitied with compound direct-actin,
engines, having four cylinders—two being of 72 ladles en
Besides
diameter—with a stroke of piston of three feet. pata
these there are steam pumps, fire pumps, steam hoisting
apparatus, and all else that vessels of this character an
service require in abundance. She bas ample accolla!le,
dation for 120 cabin passengers, the state rooms benlf,
roomy and comfortable, and the saloon, richly decorakeel
is 90 feet in length, one of the articles of furniture being
an excellent piano. The American papers assert that v"
Anchor Line will establish a connection between the
Mediterranean and the United States in summer.
A meeting of the shareholders of the liudsou
Bay Company has been called for Wednesday, the 24tcb;
to consider Lord Granville's proposal for the transferen,a,
of the Hudson's Bay territory to the Dominion of Cana",
Lord Granville proposes that the company shall Or,
render to her Majesty all their rights of governra°ll.4
of Bret'
property, &c., in Rupert's Land and other parr.s the
tish North America, which will be transferred to
ay
Dominion of Canada upon Canada paying the nomPalits.
£300,000 in compensation for their territory and ro.htS
It is proposed that the company shall retain their rit,o3;
of trade, their stations, and blocks of land adjoining* thone
and they shall, moreover, be allowed to claim i°thin
twentieth of the land in every township or district %%tie_
what is called the Fertile Belt, as it is set out for
ment. Nor are any exceptional taxes to be laid on the
company's land, trade, or servants.
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Many aggravating sores stand ready to pounce upon theos;re
when an accident weakens any part, or over-fatigue and eXpoiteii
to wet or cold have irritated the nerves, rendered exclui„,.dal
sensitive by the distended condition of the veins, and the P.Vi,
obliteration of their valves. This ointment is most pornafter
curing all cases of ulceration, abscesses, and "bad legs, re
every other means have failed, and the sufferings from theni ot
utterly unendurable. Soon after the application of the gimmese
coolness and comfort are obtained in the affected part, the palle
ts
se
finds himself more at ease, and daily becomes more hoPe_wea
with departiug pains a visible growth of granulations eu
forth.

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Births.
GRENFELL—On the 22d inst., at 29, South-street, gr°'
Pascoe Du Pre Grenfell, of a son.
WIL1111A1(AM—On the 19th inst., at Dublin, Lady MarianWilbraham, of a son.

Marriages.
FARR—Smim—On the 20th'insat St. John's,
t.,
Dr. Arch. •
• Archer Farr, to Elizabeth Medora, youngest daub
ter of George A. Smith, Esq., Marlowes, Hemel Bolur
k•ted, Hertfordshire. od
IlltritnAY--JoNEs— On the 20th inst. at South Norwo
Matthew Murray. Esq.,Florence,eldest dviAter of
to
th, Me Richard Junes, Esq, of The Lawns, Sellti°
Latnbethi
South Norwood.

Deaths.
CAnn—On the 21st inst., Franvis Carr, of 1. Warnford•
court, and Stock Exchange, London, aged 34.
JERVIS—On the rah inst., at Dublin, Sir klenry 3I J. N.
Jervis, Dart., aged 7G.
SELWIN —On the 20th inst , Sir John T. Selsvin, 13,"1" of
Down Hall, Harlow, Essex, aged 85.
WicKLow— On the 22d inst., at 2, Cavendish-square, the
Earl of Wicklow, aged 81.

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