The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

Miscellaneous Foreign News.

The Baltic, whose arrival at Southampton we
noticed last week, brought 69 passengers and a large
cargo. She left New York on the 15th June. On
the 30th June the Cunard extra steamship Malta,
arrived at Queenstown with 142 passengers ; next
day the extra Inman steamship, City of Washington,
arrived at that port, having left New York on the
19th ultimo with 73 passengers and $55,000. On

the 2d inst. the Bremen arrived at Southampton,

with a full complement of passengers and $5,000.
On the same day. the Cimbria arrived, having left

New York on the 22d ultitno.

She had on board

36 passengers and $74,500. On the same day the
:nman steamer City of Antwerp arrived at Queens-

,own, with 101 passengers and $175,000. On the

3d the North German Lloyd's steamer America
reached Southampton, from New York the 22d

June.

On the 28th ultimo the North German steamer
Union, and on the 29th the lowa, arrived at New

York from the Clyde. On the same day the Inman

steamer City of Baltimore arrived out, and the
Gunard steamer Tripoli on the Ist July. The Teu-
tonia and the Ville de Paris arrived out on the 2d,

and the same day the Peruvian reached Quebec.
On the 3d the steamers Erin and Java reached
New York.

Accounts from Paris state that a concession has
been granted to an Anglo-Franco company for the
laying of a cable from Brest to New Orleans.
Congress met at Washington on the 3d instant,
and as a quorum of members were found to be pre-
sent business proceeded.
Mr. Johnson, accompanied by Secretary Seward,
Postmaster-General Randall, General. Rousseau,
Baron Stoeckl, and other prominent gentlemen,
arrived at New York on the evening of the 21st
June, on his way to Boston. The party was received
by the Mayor and Common Council of New York,
and Admiral Farragut and his staff escorted-them
to the frigate Franklin, when they were transferred
to the New York side. The party then proceeded in
carriages through Broadway to the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. The streets were lined with people and

decorated with flags. Delegates from the political
clubs and many of the most conspicuous citizens
waited that evening on the President. Ho said
little in reply to the Address of Welcome presented,
but it is thought he will speak more fully on his
return. He has decided on visiting Rhode Island
and Connecticut on his way back to Washington.
It appears that the party did not stop at Phila-
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delphia, as Mr. Johnson was opposed to such an
arrangement. Ile was loudly cheered at Annapolis,
Baltimore, Wilmington, and other towns.

A pardon was issued to ex-rebel General Long-
street on the 20th ult. Among the names appended to the
application were those of General Grant and other officers
of the army, many Senators and Representatives, some of
whom were also personal applicants to the President for
the pardon.
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln has gone to Racine, Wis-
consin, to reside.

We note with pleasure that Mr. Beckwith, Presi-
dent of the United States Committee at tho Exhibition,
has been appointed an officer of the Legion of Honour.
Messrs. Charles Perkins, Lawrence, Smith, Samuel B.
Ruggle, Godwin, Berney, Elias Howe, Kennedy, Mulat,
and Clickering have been nominated knights of the same
order.

It is stated that the Emperor of Russia, at the
the solicitation of the Empress Eugenie, interceded for the
Emperor Maximilian, through the Russian Minister at
Washington.
Mr. A. T. Stewart has presented $lO,OOO to Wil.
Liam and Mary College, Virginia.
Edward Roe and Theodore Boag fought a duel
in Charleston on Wednesday, 19th June. Roe was fatally
wounded, Boag escaped unhurt. Pistols were the wea-
pons, and the paces twelve. Boag has been indicted for
"felonious homicide.
General Lopez who betrayed Maximilian will be
degraded from the Legion of honour.
General Sickles, of the Department of the Caro-
linas, has been so much incensed by the comments on his
course in the Attorney-General's last opinion that he has
forwarded to Washington a request to bo relieved from
duty, and has demanded a court of inquiry.
We learn by a late telegram—" The Cork police
have at last arrested on board an outward-bound American
steamer General Halpin, the military commander of the
Dublin district Fenians, who was prominently referred to
during the late trials, and who was to have taken the
command at Tallaght.
KOssuth is uow at Aix-lea-Bains, in Savoy.
Last week three Irish Americans—Kelly, Mo-
riarty, and O'Herity—who have been some time in prison
under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, were put on
board a steamer at Cork for New York in custody of the
police. Kelly was a general in the United States army.
The United States screw steam sloop Macedonian,
20, from New York, is hourly expected at Plymouth,
whence she will proceed to Spithead. After attending the
naval review the Macedonia will go to Havre in order that
her cadets, of whom she has a considerable number, may
visit the Exhibition in Paris.
The Standard's New York Correspondent states
that Mr. Horace Greeley, A. Brisbane, and a dozen
other persons not yet well known to fame, have
signed a call for a "Social Science Congress," to moot
in this city July 4. The Congress will discuss
the practicability of founding a school of social
science, of "establishing a centre for the school," of
"deciding what fundamental principles of the science
have already been discovered," of demonstrating the
paramount importance of a " positive social science," of
"clearing up conflicting theories," and showing that
socialism is but the precursor of a positive social science,
and of determining the best changes in the existing social
order. The "friends of the science in Europe" are invited
to hold a similar convention. Mr. Greeley, who is an ad-
mirer of socialism as practised by the Oneida community
will probably advance the theories of Noyes, and the other
fathers of the Oneida free-lovers.

AN AMERICAN'S EVIDENCE ON TRADES'

UNIONS.

Mr. Abram S. Hewitt, a largo iron manufacturer o,
Pennsylvania and Now York, gave evidence before the
Royal Commission on Trades' Unions on the working of
unions in America. No doubt the Commission was glad
to obtain such reliable testimony on a subject which bore
on the matter they had in hand. The manufacturers of
America are, for the most part, supplied with British and
German labour, therefore the Commission in London was
able, through Mr. Hewitt, to ascertain how the Unions
known to be organised in America worked, and what de-
gree of similarity existing between them and those of
Great Britain. Mr. Hewitt began by stating that he was
either partner or manager in various establishments em-
ploying, in the aggregate, 4,000 workmen. These works
are situated in the States of New York, Now Jersey, and
Pennsylvania. After describing the branch performed by
the puddlers with reference to the heating and rolling de-
partments, Mr. Hewitt showed that the puddlers had en-
rolled themselves into a union which had no reference to
the men of the other branches, although. all engaged in
the same manufactures, any one being a necessity of the
two others. The great centre of the iron manufacture is
at Pittsburgh, extending up to Cleveland ; and there the
puddlers have been on the strike for the last six months.
The conseluence is that ncta furnace has been lit, and the
heaters and rollers have been thrown out of employment
by the action of the puddlers. From Mr. Hewitt's evi-
dence it appears that at the time of the "Strike," that though
ironmasters were not earning anything, the puddlers
took that occasion to demand an increase of wages frCnn
$7 per ton to $9, estimated, at an average of the price of
gold, at from 21s. to 275. As the business was at the time
absolutely unprofitable, the manufacturers would not con-
cede the demand. Therefore the puddlers struck, and
each puddler throw out of employment five other men.
Mr. Hewitt considers that these five men were constrained
by the action of the puddlers to unwilling idleness. He
estimates the rate of wages, against which they struck in
Pittsburgh, to be in the ratio of what the puddlers get in
Staffordshire, as Bs. 6d. is to 21s. 6d. Some puddlers came
into Pittsburgh, and offered to work one mill, but were
driven away, two or throe murders taking place in
the night having an effect very deterrent on out-
siders entering Pittsburgh again. " Murders! " ex-
claimed the chairman (Sir William Earle), "of whom,
by whom ?" "This is just the point," replied the witness,
"on which lam unable to answer. Three or four were
committed in the night, and the general impression was
that they were connected with the strike. The state of things
in Pittsburgh was very bad, and the moral tone had im-
mensely deteriorated in every respect, for although the
strike was of the puddlers alone, as already explained, it
affected a large number besides. Although by the laws of
the United States fine or imprisonment is inflicted
for intimidation of workmen, yet where laws cannot
be carried into effect it matters little what may be
their purport. Mr. Hewitt related a circumstance
connected with a strike at the iron mines of New Jersey
which occurred just before he left America. Without
notice, and apparently without concert, the action begin-
ning with one mine tho workmen suddenly stopped.
Having cleared out of their own mine they marched to the
next, which happened to belong to Mr. Hewitt, and
directed the hands to desist from work, as they had inaugu-
rated a strike. The owner, in relating the story, and pro-
fessing to know the circumstances well, stated that his
workmen obeyed from fear. They then marched to the