The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-06 00:00:00

SPAIN.

The correspondent of the Constitutionnel says that the
adhesion of Prim to the Montpensier candidature is no
longer matter of doubt. Another scarcely less im-
portant accession has been gained in the person
of Rivero, leader of the Democrats, and President
of the Cortes. This influential politician has, like Prim,
joined the Montpensier party, because he can perceive no
other resource for the country, and thus all the
sections of the majority—Progressists, Unionists, and
Democrats—are united. The semi-official Paris journal
would not be likely to announce the probable
success of an Orleanist unless there were good
reasons for the belief. The same journal states
that the Duke of Montpensier, if made King, will renounce
all pretensions to a civil list, and support his state upon
his own income until the Spanish Budget shews an
equilibrium. This is a patriotic determination, especially
as his income is likely to be called into requisition for many
a year to come.

Several representatives of the higher clergy were elected
to the Cortes, and form part of the small Absolutist
party. These ecclesiastics have written to Rome
for instructions as to the line of policy they
ought to pursue. The Pope has informed them
that they can take part in the deliberations of the
Assembly, but only on religious questions, and that they
are to obstain rigorously from joining in any discussion
relating to politics only. This is an exceedingly satis-
factory and moderate response, but it would be more con-
venient if the party had lay representatives who could
express its opinions on all topics.

(From the Anglo -American Times.)
It is very strange to see how Reuter and the Times'
correspondent invariably differ in the simple figures
published by the Secretary of the Treasury, showing
the monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States. That for the Ist March is thus
1 announced byßeuter :—" The total debt amounts to
$2,661,000,000 against $2,662,250,000 on the Ist
ult., being a decrease of $1,250,000. The cash in
the Treasury amounted to $115,500,000 namely,
$98,500,000 in coin, and $17,000,000 in currency,
against $106,250,000 last month, being an increase
of $9,250,000." The Philadelphia correspondent
makes the decrease i❑ the debt $1,500,000, and the
receipts in excess of expenditure $11,000,000. This
revenue statement is very satisfactory.
Last month we pointed out the cause of the de-
crease in the United States Treasury, and the in-
crease in the debt, to correct the impression which
the correspondent of the Times endeavoured to
Convey- Ris nabit of putting these figures ix a light
to damage the credit of the nation has been the more
persistently exposod by us that we were alone in these
efforts. For months and months we have given our
readers the opportunity of testing the value of the
predictions of that dweller in the city of " Brotherly
Love," but it affords us some gratification to see a
powerful advocate range alongside. An excellent
letter, signed " Five-Twenty," askicg—" Are there
two Congresses in America ?" appeared last Thurs-
day in the Daily News. Let any one read that,
written, as it evidently is, by one who thoroughly
understands his subject, and they will see a
forcible expose of the man in Philadelphia. The
fact is that his predictions, his careful surveys and
minute analysis, have been so wholly belied by the
results, that public attention is now directed to a
subject we have so long discussed, and the holders
of United States Securities, particularly those who
were alarmed into selling, are beginning now to
learn what they owe the Times.

Mr. Johnson issued a valedictory address on re-
tiring from office, defending his administration, and
stating that the motives by which he has been
actuated during his term of office have been those
of honesty an'l sincerity. That they have, few
doubt, for Andrew Johnson has not been con-
demned for lack of either, but for pugnacity, obsti-
nacy, and want of judgment, amounting, in a man
so placed, almost to a crime. Whatever might be
the true value of the policy he advocated, finding
that it was impracticable, he ought to have dropped
or modified it getting as much of his own way as
he could, and not sacrificing all because he could not
get all.
President Johnson has nominated General Smith
as Consul-General to Cuba. The selection is not
considered a good one, as he is said to have severely
attacked Grant's character as a General. Consi-
dering the position of Cuba, and the troubles aris-
ing from the harsh treatment of American citizens
the person appointed ought to have the in-coming
President's confidence. The revolt has grow❑ into
very serious dimensions, as the insurgents have cap-
tured and fortified towns, and a proclamation has
been issued by the Captain-General, closing ports
east of the Bay of Cadiz Lighthouse, and other
parts of the coast, except where Custom-houses are
provided. One hundred and thirty-seven Cuban
refugees arrived at Key West on one day. So
numerous are they in New Orleans that the Spanish
Consul has asked the Governor to protect Spaniards
from their assaults. Senior Mauricio Roberts,
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
of Spain to the United States, who arrived at
Havannah on the 19th Feb., from Cadiz, was to
leave for Washington in the next steamer.
Ex-President Johnson and his family were to
vacate the White House on the 3d March, and to
leave Washington two days after. One paper as-
serts that he has accepted the offer of a free passage
to Europe of a steamship line embarking after a
brief visit to settle his affairs in Tennessee. The
same paper says that no steamship line will risk the
unpopularity of offering him a free passage back to
America. The Hon. De Witt Clinton Sentor, be-
came Governor of Tennessee on the 25th February
when Governor Browniow resigned. After the ex-
piry of the term Andrew Johnson is most likely to
be his successor, for it is now certain he intends to
run for the post, backed by a party in all proba-
bility too strong for the Loyal League to defeat.
His views on the public debt and the martyrdom
he has endured for the South will make him popular
in Tennessee, and the Governorship is but a step to
the Senate, at which he aims.
The Fortieth Congress adjourned on the 4th
March sine die, and the new Congress then assem-
bled. Mr. James Blaine, of Maine, who had been
nominated by the Republican Caucus, was then
elected Speaker of the House of Representatives in
succession to Vice-President Colfax, now President
of the Senate. It has been long evident Mr. Blaine
would be the successful candidate, although he had
some powerful Republican competitors. Latterly,
when Mr. Colfax temporarily vacated the chair,
Mr. Blaine always took it.
The first case touching the Constitutionality of
the Legal-Tender Act has been decided in the
United States Supreme Court in a way curiously to
affect the future payment of the Five-Twenty and
other Bonds, if a question about their payment ever
reaches the Supreme Court. The Oregon Legisla-
ture enacted that the State taxes should be paid in
coin, and the collector refused greenbacks. In this
he was upheld by the Courts of Oregon, and the citi-
zens, interpreting the United States law to bear them
out, appealed to its Supreme Court. The Federal
Justices ruled that the Act making greenbacks
legal tender for all debts, public or private, with
certain specified exceptions, did not make greenbacks
a legal payment for what was not a debt. This involved
the question whether taxes levied by a State are debtp,
which was decided in the negative, as the grounds
differ of an obligation to support the Government
expenditure and a sum due for value received, a
difference recognized very distinctly by the laws,

which enforce payment in each case. The Supreme
Court, therefore, ruled that the State had the
right to collect taxes in coin. The way this deci-
sion affects Five-Twenties is that the United States
have undertaken the obligation to pay the principal
at their option, after five years from the date of
issue, but in any case after a further term of 20
years. The Bonds, therefore; are not a debt until
after the twenty years have expired, and as the
Supreme Court asserts that greenbacks are a legal-
tender only for debts, it follows that they cannot
be legally offered in payment of the principal until
the period expires after which it becomes a debt,
while the payment in gold of the interest, which
is a debt after it becomes due, is provided for.
An interesting case was lately decided by the
Maryland Court of Appeals. A Mr. Hillan depo-
sited on account, with the Commercial and Farmers'
Bank of Baltimore, a cheque for $1,600, drawn by
Horace Abbott on the first National Bank, pay-
able to Milan's order. The first National Bank
credited the Commercial and Farmers' Bank
with the amount, the cheque having reached
them through the clearing-house, and its cus-
tomer, Mr. Abbott, was debited with the amount.
Two days after Hillan called at the Commercial and
Farmers' Bank with his cheque for $4,500, which
the Bank paid, taking as granted that that sent
through the clearing house was good, for otherwise,
according to usage, it would have been returned.
A week after, on balancing Abbott's account, the
First National Bank discovered that the cheque
was a forgery on which it paid Abbott, and suc-
cessfully sued the Commercial and Farmers' Bank.
From this the latter appealed, and the Court re-
set ved the decision on the ground that the lavr
fastens the obligation on the receivers of deposits
of knowing the signatures of their own customers'
maintaining " There is no reason why the loss, a°
between parties equally innocent and equally de-
ceived (but where one is bound to know and act
upon his knowledge and the other has no means of
knowledge), should be thrown upon the latter ja
exoneration of the former."

The New York Yacht Club accepted Mr. Ash-
bury's challenge to race for the Queen's Cup, Pt°-
vided that an organized yacht club of any foreign
country accredits him as its representative, as the
challenge cannot be accepted from him in his indivi-
dual capacity. The diflicultyabout the ocean race was
the difference in the mode of measuring the yachts.
By the Thames system the Dauntless is nearly double
the size of the Cambria, but by New York measure-
ment the Dauntless would be 246 and the Can Orin
222 tons. The English system is derived from the
old style, which ignored depth ; and as the English
yachts are narrow in the beam, but very deep, they
are measured at less than their real tonnage. The
American, on the contrary, are shallow a3:l broad
in the beam. It certainly does appear more equit-
able to measure the actual space ; indeed the mai°
interest in the contest is between the style of build-
ing adopted in America, and that in England, the
two now differing widely.
Most of the American newspapers have been be-
labouring Butler for his Wednesday's proceedings
in the Hall of the Representatives on the counting
of the electoral vote. It Is said that 4, bluff Ben
Wade" has scarcely recovered the scare. Ever since
Butler has been very piano, as instanced by his &Ina'
sion to Grant's speedy installation, when he cowl
give Congress direct advice, which, he said, " will
be heeded by me with that respect, that honour'
and that loyalty which is due to General Grant as
the head of the nation, and with that cordial and
earnest support which I propose to give him as the
head of the Republican party of the nation."
Among the items of State news the West Vir-
ginia House of Representatives on the 17th Feb',
passed a bill making Parkersburg the capital n'
that State. The Louisiana Legislature has passed
a Civil Equality Bill, similar to that vetoed by
the Governor last year. The Lower House 1133
also passed a School Bill providing for 3chn°l
Commissioners to be appointed by the Governor.
In the United States Court, at Richmond,
cVir-
ginia, Judge Underwood presiding, a negro, named
Stevens, was awarded $1,600 damages against the
Richmond and Fredericksburg Railroad ComP3l
for the forcible placing of his wife in a second-
class car, after she has purchased a firJ-el°1!
ticket. The Judge's charge to the jury,
was of mixed colours, was strongly in favour a'
the plaintiff.

The news from the British possessions by '3ll
Francisco, under date Feb. 18, was that the Legis.
lature of British Columbia, after a long debate, de-
cided against confederation, The vote stood 1
against it to sin favour of it. The appropriation for
the encouragement of female immigration to 130".5,1
Columbia was unanimously passed by the Council'
There is nothing by the last mail to indicate all
change in feeling regarding the Alabama " wrong'
as the New York Tribune calls it in an able article
published in its edition of Feb. 20. The Senate
Committee were unanimous in condemning th°
Convention, and although strenuous efforts be"
been made to secure the two-thirds majority in the
Chamber, even Mr. Seward despairs of accomplish'
ing this, and is said to have telegraphed to 311''
Reverdy Johnson the unanimous decision of the
Foreign Affairs Committee to report adverseli.
What Mr. Johnson said at Manchester tallies s°
little with our information, that we would hesitate
to accept the latter. The Minister there asserted
that he had telegraphed on Monday, the 22d Feb.'c
to his Government for information as to the allege",
report of the Senate Committee on the Alab°''
question, and the answer was that no report had
been made, though the majority it was rumogret
were opposed to the Convention. At Washingte° i
was known on the 18th Feb. that the Cliairm3°l
Senator Sumner, was dead against the " letter
spirit" of the document, and that Senators Alert° ;
Harlan, Patterson, and Cameron held the same
view, and had instructed the Chairman to report
adversely, and believed that this decision was COTit
municated to Mr. Seward, who immediatelyse:,
a telegram to the Minister in London,
him to communicate the fact to the British Gov.er°
merit. authoristoli.

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CHESHIRE—On the sth Birth
inst ,at Forest-hill, the wi
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Samuel .Csof a on.
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ROBERTSON H—On thehire, 2d inst.,. the wife of T. W.B°berie°lll
Esq., of a daughter.
Marriages.
POWELE—Dwxsos—On the 4th inst., at St. George?
in
Hanover-square, Henry B. Powell, Esq., lata CaPtsto
P
Grenadier Guards, of Wilverly- ark, Hampshire'
Laurette Emeline, Lady Dickson.
BURFORD—JOHNSON—On the 3d inst., at Bordsleyl,l,3ll;
mingham, Thomas Burford, of Old Brantford, 3,11;`,,,a..
sex, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late John
son, of Lincoln.

Deaths. Tivder
HADOW —On the sth inst., at 41, Sussex-gardens,
park, G. J. Hadow, Esq., aged 80. ~,R gal*
PREsToN—On the 8d inst., at Abergele, NAV., the
Robert Preston. e Wall'
WALLBRIDGE —On the 2d inst., at Lee, Kent, a 11l
bridge, Esq.
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