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

SPIRIT OF THE AMERICAN PRESS.

The semsa.tional caLle intelligence from London f 1
the New York Tribune gave rise to much comment's
the American press, through causing little excite
on the New York Stock Exchange, and but little
more in Washington than a feeling of surprise, 80°11
followed by utter incredulity. The Public Ledger
of Philadelphia expresses the general impression to
an article on the 13th May, that the settled and de"
dared policy of England under her wise and fee'
seeing statesmen was to avoid such alliances, 101,16
showing that the last departure from this sound ,
American rule had not resulted to the interest °I
any one of the three named countries. When Grea
13ritain, France, and Spain combined to enforce e°
Nlexico the payment of her debts, Spain and Beg;
land, after they had landed, found that the tbit°
Power had other views, designing to overthrow the
existing Government, instituting instead a monarch!
with a European Prince at its head. Upon this
England and Spain withdrew, and the represent's'
tive of -Spain (General Prim) was not at all 11
served in his expressions as to the deception vlbic,
had been practised upon his Government. r111°;
roughly disgusted, the same General Prim, who bad
tLen freely expressed that feeling, is not now likelf
to have forgotten the affair, and it is he who heads the
the Spanish Government. After arguing that sticb
a course would be even less for the interest of the
countries than of America the Ledger thus proceetll;
" There is no ground whatever for the allegation °
General Grant's Administration is influenced by ,filibe
tering tendencies.' Efforts have been made in that direr
tion by certain restless spirits, but the only effect thi:
have had upon the Administration is to show that eue„
attempts are effectively resisted. The President and tie
members of his Cabinet are aware, as the great maic,.riti
of the thinking people of the United States are aware, tw'
what the country wants most of all now is peace, CO/1'
tinned peace, to repair the damages-of -a prolonged 'vsf
and to develope the vast treasures of the country. dg t'
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the alleged alliance, even if it shall prove to be true (ay%
improbable thing), we see no reason why it should catih;
a ripple of apprehension here. Its existence or its
sPnce shOuld not, and we believe would not, change t;
straight course which our Government should pursue /-
either of the matters upon which the alleged alliance Or
ports to be based."

The New York Nation, May 13, in two conseell'
tive articles, exp'ains what is the use of iuternB.
tional law, and what the waiting policy
ineans. On the latter subject it observes—after es•
plaining much as we did in our last impression vill°
the waiting policy meant—that
" There are men—we read their letters and art
every day—who gravely propound this plan as if it lye
t,
one of the finest products of the human mind...-. 0130 °f for
choicest offerings a civilized people could lay on the skit
of humanity. We know it will never be carried out, v.'s
it is disheartening even to hear it talked of. War is a gre.jf
evil, but it is not the worst of evils. It is not neccss3rll
altogether enervating or demoralizing. There aro virtue"
and those not the least essential to national prosPerite
which it cherishes : there are vices, and those among`
most detestable, which it makes odious. Some of the fiti;
characters the world has ever seen have been nionlue
amidst its flames. But from buccaneering under a foreig,
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flag, as a means of avenging the wrongs of a first-els'o
power, nothing can come but an increase in the nurabeir
and influence of sneaks, gamblers, adventurers, and fete
hers. To send an ambassador, or a minister of pe'le°.4
arrange differences with England, while conteniPl3t„o
such a mode of redress as this in case the negotiati°;
failed, as some people would have us do, would he 15°%
thing far worse than a degradation of the diplomatic srto
it would be an offence against civilization. The civiP a
remedy for national wrongs is war, carried on by orgslo
forces wearing uniform and carrying their countrys th
jealous of its reputation, fighting, not to fill their Vick!, ,
but to leave their children a heritage of great mei:Orli:,
Whenever the United States proposes a substitute f°r
it will be, we trust and believe, not buccaneeringt,'ded
argument ; tot wholesale robbery, but the shock of trsllloo
intellects before a tribunal, which we are sure
will some day proince, whose integrity and learning ':gg
be such as to enable rival nations to submit to its Itee,l3l'
the most precious of their possessions—their honour.
The following is one of its notes of the week .8,1
We have received from a flippant and light-tnill4
Conservative a speculation as to the precise position Alle
Motley will occupy in London on his arrival, in millet:l it
says that when the Foreign Secretary asks Mr. ge""bee
whom he represents, Mr. Motley will have to reply,
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feeling of my country." "Very well," Lord Clare° 01
will say, "but Mr. Reverdy Johnson claimed to repreSeir
the soma thing, and wo accepted his term, proposed 130
thing, altered nothing, and changed nothing, but ).°
Senate rej,ctod his work." To this Mr. Motley will re:t
join, that his predecessor represented only "the gte't°'
criminal of this or any other ago," and in no way the c°„
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try at large. " Here Lord Clarendon," says this shallyto
sneerer, "will meet him by pointing to the unardui°lld
confirmation of Mr. Reverdy Johnson by the Senate,
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will ask whom Mr. Adams represented, for the ter,4
offered by Mr. Adams did not differ materially from tliy,-4
offered by Mr. Johnson." Mr. Motley will then sat, tll,
however that may be, he is himself the genuine artj„(l
this time and no mistake, and represents our whole 7,
undivided country, whereupon Clarendon will pull Nor,
copy of the Globe, and proceed to read passages from "no,
horse Chandler's speech, but Mr. Motley will say "BD
kum!" and pull out another copy of the Globe, and be.fea
reading from Mr. Sumner's speech as the only authort;io,
version, and the two diplomatists will be engaged in S,A to
pute over the likelihood of the President's being ab-or
get the Motley treaty ratified by the Senate, when the-dor.
vant will bring in the name of the Danish. ambao
Clarendon will then smile ferociously, and Mr. Motley:
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membering the St. Thomas business, and not liking t
t Si
will thrust his Globe into his pocket, and ask to be --
le
by the side door.

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT. -- Governor Jo-h
p bill
Geary, of Pennsylvania, refused his sanction to tij:,,ite•
for the commutation of the death penalty in that P`-cif
Ile considered that it was unnecessary, as the laws aire,:ej
guarded against severity of punishment, but recogui.l ra
that the punishment of death ought to be inflicted Ws,
it was absolutely necessary for the public safetY• oa
tender were courts and juries of the lives of accused I;ie,
that it had become almost impossible to obtain a nt)rja by
tion of murder in the first degree. It was contend(' 0
high authorities that by the certainty, of punishment a set
iS
the laws can be enforced and society protected. wh
ir•
of legislation is opposed to sound policy, as it is undo be
able that so delicate and important a subject should 00
exposed to the fluctuations of legislative will, of
should be in the hands alone of the highest Executiveo,
a State. The act was calculated to deceive, as it or
pears to provide for punishment for life, in Coo
mutation of punishment, whereas the Governor Olio
still pardon, oven after he had commuted, and ho, or Bf,
succeeding Governor, could open the door and let the
derer go free. " The power of pardon stands upon $;"0,
ferent ground altogether from the power of comaultsl"°
It is the benevolence of the State to be bestowed by tlO
Executive from the considerations of publics policy 0°131,,,.
times, from considerations of private right, from oonsiden- '9
Lions of grace and mercy, but the power of commutatic'
of
intended to be an exercise not of sovereign grace, but: so
judicial discrimination, by tho Executive, whose ftluc-°
are incompatible with its exercise."
snal'l6
[AnvEßTlsEstENT.)—flenceforth •
no cue will doubt the
properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of I,`"-A bee"
it has already received from Invalids whose position 116-
pope'
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the
to cs
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty yet 4,11
unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "GO_ goo
Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1868. The health of tlr.„oB'
Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all otheralreat
dies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Be,: rao;i
Arabica Food, of which he consumes a plateful at eve.41,,14%
It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect ena his he?
his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too hig11');'216,,,%
extract a few out ofmore than 68.000 cures :—Cure Nn• ""' pls."
the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver noolooth
wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous Plot ig;
all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and tile S tort .0,
tolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 1.771: Lord pe
Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' clY.';p69`o,
No. 49,832: "Fifty years' indescribable agony front
nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, fiatulency.2;76:
sickness, and vomiting —Maria Joly " Cure No. 46.. d 101„,
James Roberts, of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' disens`,.
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and pariial deafne,7o thits
portant Caution—Beware of the many unsavoury and mliebi%
sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron
lb ,
name is most audaciously attached. si
In tins, at Is lid; Ilb 2s 9d; 21bs 48 6d 5 lbs lls „ 1
„roco,a
24 ibs 40s. - Also Du BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA Clo
POWDER is packed in tin canisters : for 12 cups at satf°,, ;ot
at 3s 6d, for 48 cups at 6s, for 288 cups at 30s, r 576 c-ve
—being about one penny per cup. The 30s and 55s tittsortier. a
free of carriage in England on receipt of Post-Office,„, ; as
BARRY Do BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, Lon."
all Grocers and Chemists.

IRTITh. , (101013.1
LEITH— On the 31st ult., B
at Aberdeen, the wife 01
Disney Leith, of a daughter. et 1 i
MASTER—On the Ist inst., at The Abbey, Cirencester,
wife of Chester Master, jun., Esq., of adaughter.

MARRIAGES.
BRODRICK—CHAPMAN —On the Ist inst., at St. Alec'Arw:
Chester-square, the lion. Henry Bredrick, son of Urea
count Middleton. to Alice, daughter of Captain
Chapman, of 00, Eaton-place.
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DEACON—ROCISSON —On the Ist inst., at Brig..„“--A
mound Deacon, Esq., of G, Sussex-place, 11Ple-P..-q,
of
Amy Hyde, fourth daughter of C. M. Robinson,
Brighton.

D ELITES. # V.l
GIBSON—On the Ist inst., at 20, Half Moon-stree,
Major-General Edgar Gibson, aged 80.
Ricanno---On the Ist inst , at Bure Homage, Chris
Alan Osman Ricardo (]ate of the Bth Hussars), pg%tov,
WARR—On the let hist at Loughborough-park, Br'
Francis Warr, formerly of High Holborn, aged 82'

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