The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-31 00:00:00

TUE WICKLOW PEERAGE.

"Ellen Howard" writes to the Times respecting
the controversy about the Wicklow peerage. She
complains that, on the death of her husband, she
was subjected to every annoyance which detectives
could inflict upon her, and that she vainly applied to
Sir Richard Mayne for protection. She is indignant
with Lord Wicklow for desiring her to prove the
legitimacy of her child in the Court of Probate, and
also for refusing to grant her a personal interview.

MERCHANT SNIPPING.
Mr. Carnegie, of Bishopsgate-street, writes to The
Tinzes on the acts relating to shipping, and points
out smile of the existing evils. In the first place, he
recommends that steam and sailing ships should
be dealt with separately, instead of being, as
now, placed on the same footing. He
thinks that great improvements might be made iu
the victualling system of foreign traders, especially
the steam ones. The men suffer greatly from the
faulty system that prevails, and business is interfered
with in some cases. It is also most inexpedient to engage
crews by Ihoweeki for the men lose alLelpritge coro,

(From the Anglo-American Times)
Mr. James Fisk (junior) has put his oar into the
Gas inquiry business, which has been progressing
in this city for some time. No one seems to escape
the censure of that immaculate party, and the evi-
dence he gave-the Legislative Committee about the
gas the company supplied his opera house with was not
to their credit. Not only was the quality bad, but
in proportion as it grew worse the bills increased,
and so did the insolence of the enzployes. Fisk is a
fund of delight, for one has only to look out into
the street to see him after some one with a big pole
or a sharp stick, and he never tears through Wall-
street without leaving behind him a flock of ducks
he has lamed. The Ilolsatia sailed last Tuesday
for Southampton with 250 pas-engers, and every
berth engaged for her next trip. There is to be a
tremendous exodus if present indications are to be
believed, as the North German Lloyd, the Cunard,
the Inman, the Guion, and the Anchor lines
are finding a heavily increasing demand, and anti-
cipate a great passenger transit season. I suppose
this is pleasant news to you, as your sales and ad-
vertisements will increase with the tide of our tra-
vel ; but we do not regard it on our side with the
same complacency, as it makes dull times here, and
scatters too much American money over Europe.
James Logan (No. 2) has been indicted by the grand
jury for the murder of James Rogers. The evi-
dence of Martha Elsworth is likely to be fatal to
him, although her mother, aided by a parson, have
persuaded her to make a clean breast of it, and to
live hereafter like a good woman. The attention of
the grand jury has been called to our " nude fe-
males." •I see on your side the Lord Chamberlain
has been looking narrowly after the legs of the ballet
girls; here we require a jury to do it for us, a lot
of heavy respectables with spectacles, something like
the batch who settled down to the entertainment
when " Griffith Gaunt" had to be read, and found •
it entirely too moral for them. Harper Brothers
have come out with an illustrated edition at 25
cents, which they have extensively advertised. It
is an ill wind, that blows no one good, and Charles
Reade has got a grand advertisement out of the
Round 7 aide. But to return to the ballet girls. We
Americans always drive ahead of you Europeans in
vice as well as in virtue. If you bring out a saint
we bring out a greater, and • you have never
equalled our wickedest man, although he was far
outdone on our stage. If you want a revival you
should come here for it, and for an obscene ballet
you should turn to New York, and not to Paris.
We have this advantage, however, over you, that
we do more promptly and effectually suppress glar-
ing and offensive vice. Masquerade balls are the forms
our latest visitations have taken, and they have been
growing_ worse and worse until the State Legisla-
ture has, been petitioned to interfere. Five murder
cases have come on for trial this week, and the pre-
sent mood, Of judge and jury is such, that if I were
a case, I won!d rather be held over to take my chance
in less excited times. The rascals are in a furious
ferment, and openly thr,aten vengeance against
judge and jury, while the whisper of a vigilance
committee cows the ruffians, for they know that if
they introduce assassination to intimidate the judges
that they may be marked and hung on mere sus-
picion. There is Real, who is to be hung on the
2d April for murdering a policeman. The idea of
being executed merely for shooting what the Eng-
lish call a ." Bobby" is something horrible and inex-
plicable to the gang; but hanged he certainly
will be, although the judge is in terror of his
life. Governor Hoffman resolutely adheres to
his determination to let the law take its course,
in spite of every effort made to move him. There
has been an accident of an extraordinary nature on
the Erie Railway. While the express train from
Cincinnati was passing some freight cars laden
with old rails, so ill-packed that a few got deranged,
and projecting were driven into the smoking car,
severely injuring Mr. W. A. Smith, of Damascus,
Pennsylvania ; Mr. Walter Bickley, of Tremont
Centro,- New York ; and another gentleman. Real
estate is still on the rise ; what it will eventually
reach. no one can predict, but if it does not soon
stop Manhattan earth will be as good as gold. Of

course there will be a tremendous smash some day,
as the sales are chiefly speculative ; the purchasers
merely looking for a rise in a month or two, while
they only pay the deposit of ten per cent. Our
Senate is going to submit the new Constitution to
a vote of the people next fall, divided into four,
and each section to be voted on. The Excise Law
is likely to be amended so as to keep open the
licensed houses till one o'clock, and re-open at four
instead of 'seven. The City of Brooklyn, the new
Inman steamer, has made a very favourable impres-
sion bere,,and has been presented with a suit of co-
lours by the city of Brooklyn in response to her

Ulysses S. Grant, who will only be 47 years of
age on the 22d of April, is the youngest man ever
elected President of the United States. Silent as
he may be, lie has picked up with rare facility the
best mode of fending off the attacks of office-
seekers. His success before inauguration was
marked, but it is even more surprising since. Yet,
after all, hi; system is simple ; he admits none but
Cabinet Ministers and other high officials; and
members of Congress, between the hours of 9 and
11 a.m. ; after which, till noon, the doors are open
to the public, when all the office-seekers rush in
and, of course, baulk each other. So, by admit-
ting the crowd, he uses one particle to sustain the
pressure of another, and thus personally escapes.
There is no denying that the President's appoint-
ments, both in and out of the Cabinet, have excited
the most undisguised hostility of the politicians.
Every hotel and boarding house is crowded with
office-seekers, and everywhere the appointments
are condemned, even by Congressmen. The Re-
publican press, as a whole, support Grant's nomi-
nations, but not heartily. Longstreet's appoint-
ment was much commented upon, and generally
applauded. The following were the nominations
sent to the Senate yesterday : - James Longstreet,
to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of New
Orleans; James F. Casey, Collector of Customs at
New Orleans ; Sidney A. Stockdale, to be Collector
of Inland Revenue for the First District of Loui-
siana ; Edward V. Kingsley, of New York, to be
Secretary of the United States Legation at Madrid ;
Alexander Sharpe, to be Marshal of the United
States for the District of Columbia; Chief Engineer
James W. King, to be Chief of the Bureau of Steam
Engineering—the last endorsed as follows : "In
place of Usherwood, whom I desire removed."
General Smith, of Bloomington, Illinois, takes the
place of Second Assistant Postmaster-General, vice
M'Clelland, whose removal excites surprise.
General Parker has been appointed Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs, in place of Taylor,
' removed, and bis appointment is considered a
blow to the Indian " ring." Mr. John S. Ris •
ley has resigned the Deputy Commissionership of
Internal Revenue. Supervisor Creecy of the Lou-
isiana Revenue District proceeds there vigorously
to push the recent prosecutions. On Monday,
when the Senate reassembles, there will be an im-
mense number of nominations laid before it, and
there are all sorts of rumours regarding the ap-
pointments. Who shall be Minister to England is
a much agitated question, and over 50 prominent
Americans are suggested for the post. Senator
Sumner is supposed to favour Mr. Motley, but the
politicians back Horace Greeley. The New York
Sun has been vigorously advoCating Mr. Greeley's
claims, but the Tribune prefers its silence to its ad-
vocacy: If Horage Greeley goes and fails, what
Mr. Reverdy Johnson has got is a trifle compared to
what he will get ; for Mr. Reverdy Johnson is not a
successful editor, and has not excited the jealousy
of the men who write. Mr. Washburne will not
leave for Paris till the Ist May, and Mr. Frank
Moore is to be his Assistant Secretary of Lega-
tion. Mr. Hale was I heard to remain for the pre-
sent at Madrid, and Marsh in Italy ; but now the
rumour is that Gen. Daniel Butterfield of. New
York is to be his successor, that Gen. Palmer, of
the same State, goes to Stockholm, and our citizen
Colonel Ruble to Switzerland. Paymaster-General
Brice has been reappointed to the place of Pay-
master, of which he was deprived by Andrew John-
sae. Mr. Murdock has also been reappointed.
Most people are under the impression that Mr.
Motley's destination is Austria. Gen. Dix is ex-
pected from France soon. He sent in a letter of
resignation. Mr. Bincklev's successor as Solicitor of
Internal Revenue is announced to be Walter H.Smith
of Mount Vernon. Mr. Hamilton Fish, the new Secre-
tary of State, is expected in Washington next week,
until which time Mr. Washburne will act. The
Diplomatic Corps called yesterday on the President,
and were introduced by Mr. Washburne. After a
neat address from Baron Gerolt, Grant replied as
briefly. His only remark was--" You may be as-
sured that it shall be my constant endeavour to
maintain those relations of peace and friendship
which now exist between the United States and the
countries which you respectively represent—a pur-
pose which I am happy to learn from you will be
fully reciprocated." The impression here is not
favourable to the strength with which the new Sec-
retary of State will conduct the foreign -policy of
the nation ; but there are many who consider con-
ciliation and a tone of courtesy much more to the
point. You, Mr. Editor, who read so much of our
papers, must be struck with the neglect which our
screaming bird, the eagle, now meets. The soar-
ing, the spreading, the screaming, the striking, of
that feathered animal, have gone out of fashion,
and are beginning to be thought bad taste ; nor
that only, but poverty of argument, and the resort
of weak, ill-read speakers. Mr. Fish is a gentleman
who will uphold the interest and honour of the
country with dignity, as well as with good manners.
General Sherman issued an order on assuming
command of the armies of the United States. The
power of the General is increased, and that of the
Secretary of war decreased. Gen. Grant's staff has
in the main been transferred to Sherman. Schofield
has handed over the Department for War to Raw-
lins, and to. day the oath is to be administered to both
him and Boutwell by Justice Cartter. Secretary

Bone has hal several interviews with Vice-Admiral

Porter and several Rear-Admirals, especially Dahl-
gren, Chief of Bureau of Ordnance. The new

editions of "Griffith Gaunt" had been published to his know-
ledge, and gave it is his opinion that no publisher would
issueless than 25,000 copies of a work by an author of Mr.
Reade's reputation. Mr. Reade has written 12 or 15 novels,
but, except in " Peg Woffington" and "Foul Play," had
not associated any one with him in the authorship. Torn
Taylor assisted him in the former, and iu the latter Mr.
Boucicault was associated with him. The writers' names
were mentioned with that of Mr. Reade on the title-page,
but in the case of "Foul Play" some chapters had been
returned to Mr. Reade by the publisher, on the ground
that hd had not written them. The witness said no other
authors received such large compensation as Mr. Dickens
and Mr. Reade, but he could not say whether Mr. Reade
received a lesser rate of compensation since the publication
of the articles in Th.l Round Table. Mr. Whitney summed
up on behalf of the defendants, contending that the quea•
t.ion for the jury was not, Was this criticism just and
true? That was a matter of judgment, not of fact;
but was there in the story which called forth the
criticism occasion for such a criticism? Such things
as might to an honest mind suggest such con-
demnation as was here. The counsel reviewed
at some length the book, claiming that the book was not
really a story of jealousy, but of illicit love, checked be-
fore it reached its full development. He quoted largely
from the portion of the book giving the intercourse be-
tween the young priest Leonard and Kate Gaunt. The
book, he argued, painted a bigamy, and the bigamist was
shown to be a happy man, not suffering under the pangs
of conscience, but floating in happiness throughout.
These things, he argued, fully justified the criticisms.
This book did paint vice in an enticing form, and an
honest critic, especially when asked by author or
publisher to criticise it, would condemn such demoraliz-
ing books. The third article made no charge what-
ever against Mr. Reade. It was simply an inquiry
whether Mr. Reade had written this book, and the doubt
expressed in it was honourable to him. The doubt was
justified by the custom of authors ; the motive ascribed
to him for this quasi-deceit wan most honourable—to aid a
novice. The testimony was that the book was not in-
jured by these articles; its sale was enormous. Counsel
called attention to the Prurient Prude letters, and claimed
that its language fully justified the severe terms in which
The Round Table commented on it, and it was a false and
base attack on the defendants. The defendants were to-
day the representatives of the great principles on which
the liberty of the press rests. If the jury believed the
book to be an immoral book, then they would justify the
defendants; but if the criticisms were not just, still the
jury would have to look to the intent with which they
were written, and this, they would find, was true and
honest. As to the Prurient Prude letter, and its attacks,
'the coincidmice of its publication with the issuing of the
book, gave a probability to an entirely different motive--
that of advertising, and calling attention to the book. The
jury, after hearing Mr. Booth's summing up on behalf of
the plaintiff, awarded 6 cents damages to the plaintiff.
Badeau's " Military History of United States
Grant" is being translated into the French, German, and
Spanish languages. Senor Romero is making the Spanish
translation, two distinguished gentlemen, one a professor
at Heidelberg, and the other a professor at Berlin, are
preparing German translations of the work, and an emi-
nent French scholar is engaged in translating the History
into the_French language.
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Births.
BIEBER—On the 29th inst., at Champion-hill, Surrey, the
wife of Egmont Bieber, Esq., of a son and heir.
DE BKOKE —On the 29th inst.. at 7, Rutland-gate, Lady
Willoughby De Broke, of a son.

Marriages.
LEWIN—BA/B —On the 29th inst., at Edinbrgh, Fred.
I,M
Albert Lewin' of Lineoln's-inn, to Ella, eldest (laugh-
ter` of the late William Robert Baillie, Es 4., W.S., Edin-
burgh.
ROBERTSON—MELVILLE —On the 29th inst., at lioehamp-
ton, Lieut.-General R. Robertson, of Tulliebelton, Perth-
shire, to Lady Julia Leslie Melville, daughter of the
Earl of Leven and Melville.