The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-31 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam Short ... 11 181 ... 11 19
Do - ... 12 1/
Rotterdam — ... 12 1; ... 12 11
Antwerp — ... 25 371 ... 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg h — ... 13 101 ... 13 11
Paris
Ditto
Marseilles
Frankfort-on-tho-Maiu ... 1201- ... 1201
Vienna
Trieste ... 12 65 ... 12 70
Petersburg
Copenhagen — ~ 9 18 ... 9 22
Berlin
Madrid..
Cadiz — ... 49 ... 491
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 75 ... 26 77
Genoa — ... 26 75 .., 26 771
N aples
Palermo — ... 26 75 ... 26 771
Messina
... 26 75 ... 26 771
Lisbon — ... 51/ ... 52

Rio Janeiro — ••• -- •••
Now York ......« — ... ..• --
••• 511 ••• 52
Oporto

BREAKrAST.—Errs's COCOA.—GRATEFUL AND CoM-
F ORTINO,—The very agreeable character of this preparation has
rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette' re
marks:—" The singular success which Mr. Epps attained by his
homoeopathic preparation of cocoa has never been surpassed by
any experimentalist. By a thorough knowledge of the natural
laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition
and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected
cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a deli-
cately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doc-
tors' bills." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold
only in tin-lined packets, labelled "JAMES EPPS and Co., Hoinco-
pathic Chemists, London."

In the Senate on the 17th December the landing
of the Ocean Telegraph Cables was discussed. Senator
Sumner called up his bill for regulating the landing of
telegraph cables, when Senator Thurman moved that it
be referred to the Judiciary Committee, as legal questions
were involved as well as the rights of Massachusetts,
which raised Mr. Sumner's ire, and the Ohio Senator was
told that had ho been an older member he would have
known better. Mr. Conkling suggested that the proposed
amendment would interfere with the privileges accorded
to cable telegraphs already in existence, whose rights
had therefore become vested. Nothing further was at
the time accomplished; but by telegram we learn that
Secretary Fish has, by direction of the President, sent a
circular to the Ministers accredited to Maritime Powers,
instructing them to propose the participation of those
Powers in a Convention in the form of a treaty relative to
ocean cables. He suggests as bases reciprocity of con-
cessions, protection of cables during war, and immunity of
despatches from Government espionage. The report that
Mr. William Orton, President of the Western Telegraph,
had proceeded from America to Paris to procure the con-
solidation of the Cable Companies and the land lines over
which he presides, is, we understand, untrue, but there
appears to be something in 01.3 rumour that Mr. Cyrus W.
Field has come to Europe on business relating to the con-
solidation of the Cable Companies.

After the foregoing exposure of a Republican
State Senator of New York, it is but fair to turn to
Pennsylvania for a Democratic specimen of that State,
and, by the way, wo may remark on the reticence of the
Standard's New York correspondent when discussing the
painful intelligence of the ruin of a reputation of an " emi-
nent, amiable, and accomplished man, a lawyer cl great
learning, and lately one of the counsel of Jefferson Davis,
a former diplomatist of ability, a litlerateur of no mean
rank, the friend of Thackoray." There was no extenua-
tion or withholding of names in the Radical Richardson's
case, and we would suggest to that journalist that what
is
sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. The story is
that William B. Reed, grandson of the renowned revolu-
tionary leader, General Joseph heed, holding a high social
and public position in Philadelphia, has, it is alleged, em-
bezzled 530,000, either the money of Europeans or of
Southern gentlemen residing in Europe, and it was an-
nounced that he had fled from Philadelphia after he had
been placed under arrest. Mr.l.teed was Minister to China
under Mr. Buchanan's Administration, but was better
known for his controversy with Mr. Bancroft on the sub-
ject of his grandfather's share in the struggle for revolu-
, tionary iudepeutlcnce.