The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

EAST INDIAN RAILWAY.

The report of the directors of this company
states that the Board had still much reason to be
dissatisfied with the slow progress made in the con-
struction of the Chord line, notwithstanding the
remonstrances addressed to the contractors on
the subject. The requisite works for completing
the railway :as a double line between Khano
Junction and Seeterampore, and between Luckie-
serai and Allahabad, and all other general
works of completion, both on the main line
and Jubbulpore line, were progressing satisfactorily.
The iron superstructures for the second line of rails
over the lieeul, the Hollohur, and the Soane bridges
were in course of shipment from this country. The
opening of the Jubbulpore line for public traffic was
postponed by agreement with the Government of
India from June 1 to August 1 last, since which date
trains had been regularly running; Messrs. Howard
Brothers, of Mirzapore, having established a convey-
ance between Jubbulpore and Nagpore, passengers
might now proceed from Calcutta and Delhi to
Bombay direct, and vice versa via Jubbulpore.
The entire journey might be performed in about
five days, at a cost of about 231 rupees. The
traffic on the Jubbulpore line must necessarily be
small until a junction was effected between this
company's line and the system of the Great Indian
Peninsular Railway Company at Jubbulpore.
The locomotives and rolling stock continued to
be maintained in good order. The per-
manent way and works had been main-
tained in efficient order during the half-year at a
cost of 11d. per train mile. The working expenses
had been 43.97 per cent., against 41.31 per cent. in
the corresponding half-year. The number of passen-
gers carried during the past half-year was 16,767 Ist
class, 40,024 2d class, 193,142 intermediate class,
2,199,353 3d class—total, 2,449,286, as against
2,099,737 in the same half of 1866. The tonnage in
goods and minerals for the half-year was 515,404
tons, against 399,435 tons in the corresponding half
of 1866. The gross earnings for the half year
ended the 30th June last was £1,213,069, against
£1,067,542 in the corresponding half of last
year; and the net earnings £679,596, as com-
pared with • £626,218 in the same half of last
year. The net earnings had exceeded the gua-
ranteed interest by 11,21,844r5., one moiety
of which was payable to the Secretary
of State for India in terms of the con-
tract with the company. After providing for Sir
M. Stephenson's annuity from the other moiety,
the balance, plus 7,783r5., brought forward after
paying the extra dividend in January last, remained
for division among the shareholders ; and the
Board recommended the payment from this source,
in January next, of a dividend for the half-
year, in addition to the guaranteed interest, at
the rate of a half per cent. per annum, free of In-
come tax, leaving a small surplus to be
carried forward. The receipts for the first 17
weeks of the current half-year were in excess of
those for the same number of weeks of the corre-
sponding half-year by £5,532. The whole of the
former period, however, had been marked by
extreme depression in trade, and the country bad
been visited by such unusual floods as to render
the roads to the railway stations almost impas-
sable for heavy traffic. This company, in com-
mon with others, was suffering from these causes
in reference to merchandise, but the passenger
traffic was steadily increasing. Acting upon the
borrowing powers of the company, the board bad
issued during the current half-year, for the pur-
poses of sanctioned works, £1,000,000 sterling
in debentures of 4 per cent. It would be neces-
sary to raise a similar sum for the same object,
either in shares or debentures, early in the ensuing
six months. The sanctioned works here referred
to comprised those included in the estimates made
by Mr. Rendell and Mr. Power, in 1865, and the
additional rolling stock referred to in the Board's
last report. In that report the Board stated
that the Government of India had sanctioned

an expenditure of £500,000, iu addition to those
estimates ; But as the Board were entirely
opposed to any expenditure which was not
conclusively shown to be absolutely necessary to the
successful development of the undertaking, and as
they had not been able to satisfy themselves that
the expenditure in question came within that cate-
gory, they had requested Mr. itendell, their con-
sulting engineer, to proceed to India, thoroughly
to investigate the whole question on the
spot, in communication with the officers of the
company and the Government, and to consider, in
regard to works in contemplation or in course of
execution, whether they should be proceeded with
or stopped pending a reference to the board. The
revenue account showed that £1,213,069 had been
received during the half-year ending June 30, and
£533,472, or 43.97 per cent. expended, leaving a
balance of £679,596.

SCINDE RAIL WAY.

The half-yearly general meeting of this company
was held on Monday at the London Tavern ; Mr.
W. P. Andrew in the chair.

The report of the directors of this company, in•
eluding those of the Indus Steam Flotilla, the Pun.
jab and the Delhi railways, abstracts of which ap.
peared in The Sun, were agreed to.

OPINION OF THE AMERICAA PRESS ON
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.

The Boston correspondent of the Springfield
Republican gives the following admirable summary of the
President's Message, which we take credit to ourselves is
in substance the same as that we gave on receipt of
Reuter's telegram: -"You have failed to restore the
Union ! You have done your worst to destroy the Con-
stitution ! You have ♦iolated your solemn official pledges !
You have passed laws which have been demonstrated to
be unconstitutional ! You have assumed powers not
granted to you! You are guilty of usurpation, the most
dangerous of political crimes ! You have subverted and
destroyed Republican Governments in the South ! You
have established a system by which the blacks are to rule
the whites! You have done your best to barbarise and
Africanise the South ! You have inaugurated the reign of
ignorance ! Your measures give evidence of something
worse than madness ! And if you persist in them you
will ruin the South and make bankrupt the whole
country. Now go and repeal your unconstitutional acts
at once! The elections show that the people are against
you. Retrace your steps! At any rate take no further
steps in the path of usurpation, for if you do I shall resist
you at the point of the bayonet !"
The Tribune is strong in its denunciation of the
Message. " The President is charged with a wantonly,
untimely, wickedly baleful appeal to out-worn prejudices
and dying factions.' Also twice charged with an ' amazing
recklessness in making assertions.' Also once charged
with a manifest animus.' Also once charged with stat-
ing what 'is not the truth."' The writer asserts that
4,000,000 of Southern blacks are and have been true to
their country, her authority, her unity, and her flag, and
ends by exclaiming, " But why should we proceed to re-
fute, item by item, assertions and imputations so reck-
lessly made under the manifest animus of discomfiture
and spleen ?"
The New York Citizen considers the Message a
document of more than average merit in style and diction,
and as a State paper dignified, forcible, and lucid, evincing
extraordinary spirit, self-reliance, and independence in
the writer, and wishes it could also add extraordinary tact
and sagacity. With very excellent qualities, Mr. Johnson
is not a statesman nor a diplomatist, lacking adroitness,
dissimulation, cunning, reticence, and the trained and far-
seeing vision of the skilled diplomatist. While the Mes-
sageshows a plentiful lack of judgment, reading more like
the frank and artless avowals of a scientific schoolboy, the
logic is incontrovertible, the argument cogent and un-
answerable. As the whole subject was known to the
country through the modern newspaper press, the worn-
out custom of furnishing annual Messages is useless, being
a mere re-hash of stale and obsolete news.

The New York Nation thinks " the Message,
though it would be very bad indeed from any one else, is
on the whole, we think, the best statement of his peculiar
opinions Mr. Johnson has put forth—in tone and temper
by far the best; and we have no hesitation in saying that
had ho adhered to this mode of putting his opinions on
record from the beginning, and, while arguing against
negro suffrage, had given the smallest indication of a
desire to do anything for the negroes except leave them
in the power of their old masters, he would have not only
served himself, but have made the position of the Repub-
lican party very much more difficult than it has been
during the last two years."
The Washington correspondent of the Pall Mall
Gazette says the tone of the President's Message is believed
to indicate that ho felt himself safe from impeachment at
the time it was written. It hay exoeediugly exasperated

Congress, and for the first time in the history of the coun-
try the motion to print the usual number of the President's
Message was met by a violent opposition. The ability of
the Message is generally conceded, and the greater part of
it is ascribed ,by the Radicals to the Hon. Jeremiah S
Black, who acknowledged in his testimony
before the
Judiciary Committee to having written the greater part of
the Veto of the Congressional Reconstruction Act.
The Standard's correspondent asserts that " the
bold po ition assumed by the President in threatening to
defend ' certain rights' when assailed, has exasperated the
extreme men, and the most disgraceful language has been
used in speaking of the Executive. During the reading of
the Message in the Senate the clerk (M'Phcrsou) made
grimaces, drawled out the words, indulged in ridiculous
gestures, &c.—thus amusing the dignified Radicals—until
Senator Johnson (of Maryland) rose and protested against
such insulting conduct on the part of a mere servant. A
few Republican newspapers are sufficiently cand.d to ad-
mit that the Message is an able State paper, and well con-
sidered, but the majority of the Republican journals aro
fiercely attacking it and its author. However, the jwig
ment of the public is that the President has the best of the
quarrel."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGESCE.

In consequence of a confidential communica-
tion received by the naval authorities at Chatham
from Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at the N ore, ex-
tra precautions have been adopted by Captain
W. 11. Stewart, C. 8., Superintendent of Chatham
Dockyard, in conjunction with Capt. the lion. A.
A. Cochrane, commanding the Steam Reserve, for
the safety of the naval establishments and the
various vessels of war belonging to the Steam Re-
serve, as well as other ships in the harbour. Yes-
terday and on the previous days a number of sea-
men from the Royal Naval Barracks were draughted
to the Glocester, 50, receiving ship, as well as to
other vessels in harbour, for the purpose of increas-
ing the number of seamen on board in each vessel.
The lieutenant-ship Diana, 42, has been removed
further down the harbour, below the dockyard, for,
it is understood, precautionary reasons. Increased
vigilance is also observed by the river police belong-
ing to the dockyard, in conjunction with the river
Medway police of the city of Rochester, in over-
hauling any boats seen rowing about the harbour
after nightfall. No attack on any of the naval or
military establishments at Chatham is expected,
but the authorities are not relaxing any vigilance to
guard against a sudden surprise.

The screw gun vessel Espoir, 5, 80 horse power,
Captain Mountiord S. L. Peile, recently returned
to England from the West Coast of Africa, having
been stripped and dismantled, was yesterday put out
of commission and paid off into the third division of
the Steam Reserve in the Medway, under the su-
perintendence of the officials belonging to the dock-
yard and Steam Reserve, the continuous service
men belonging to the crew being granted the cus-
tomary period of absence. The Espoir has boll
in commission rather more than three yearn,
Captain (then Commander) Peile having hoisted
his pennant at her mainmast on the Ist November,
1864. During the time the Espoir has been in coin-
mission she has been employed exclusively on the
West African Coast, and was very successful in
putting down the slave trade which is carried on
along the Gold and Slave Coast, principally by
vessels sailing under the Portuguese flag. Front
the length of time the Espoir has been in commis'
sion she has lost several of her crew, chiefly from
sickness and from being invalided home. Of the
officers who originally sailed from England in the
Espoir only two besides the captain returned with
her--viz., Mr. John Lambert, assistant-surgeon,
and Mr. Arthur M. Wade, assistant-paymaster is
charge.

Foreign Mail Yacia.N.t List.

MAILS DIIE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Sonttramptoei.....Jan. 19.
Ditto, via Marseilles ~. Jan. 13•
Ditto, via Panama . ... ......... ...Dec. 31.
i:razil, Baenos Ayres, and Monte Video Jan. 5•
Ditto, by French packet Jan. 2:
Cape Voids, by Brazil packet ......
;toe of Good Llope. A.seension. and 6t. 11,1 ,:ma —De) !3.
!iiria, t'tlyang, and Singapore, via Soa,baropt:Ja j.m. 3
Ditto, via Marseilles .. . ... Da. 23
Faili4nd .10.42d0 ... ...... . . Jan. 5.,,

ilbra,ltar, via Southampton Deg 20- •
India via Southampton
Ditto, via Ilarseil es
Italia, r:gypt,
Fet
Ditto, Alars,illes..
Nlauritius, Cape of Good II ipe, and Natal, via
Southampton
Dia lee
ewfoundh.r. ...... •
Portugal ....

_Jan
..Jaa. 13
. Jau. 1:3

,Jun. 5

Ditto, by pi- le ship to Oporto .
Ditto tto to Lisbon
United States. anada, California, &c., by British
packet
Ditto, by L ited states packet
Ditto ditto • New York)
Ditto ditto ,Ncw York)
Ditto ditti (Baltimore) ....... . .....
Ditto, by Canadian packet
.Deo 27
West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Tenerin Jail. 3
Vi-ct,t Indies and Pa:dile (except Mexico and Baha-
rms)
Cub and Mexico _De'. 3

Balla nas, via New York
Bermuda, via Halifax

THE SERPENTINE SWIMMING CLUB.—ThIS club
still adheres to its old practice, that of giving a si.fer
medal to be swum for in a 100 yards handicap, which to°lc
place for the fourth time yesterday morning, when, desPe
,
itthe coldness of the atmosphere, no less than eight of td
-
eleven entered were game enough to start. J. Halsor, `vile
had 15 seconds allowed him, held the lead for about thirtfi
yards ; here W. G. Taplin, 12, came up, and they race
r
together till within twenty yards of the finish, when the it
began to diminish their speed, and T. J. Collard, 12, g-n
't
d,
in front and eventually won by half a yard only; H.
4, second, and Whyte third. Mr. Halsey officiated as judg-j
and Mr. H. Woodstock was the starter.
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disorders require that the ointment should be thoronFt;',
well rubbed upon the skin twice a day with great leg
laxity, considerable briskness, and much persistence. 00
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properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arawgs
Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of bleis'beea
it has already received from Invalids whose position haupope.
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whose health has been perfectly restored by it after this' tY )0w)
of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "
lto of
du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—,. The 11,5 all
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandonio7.ff's
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Births. 0 WU°
FRASEn „
—On the 21th inst., at 31, Rutland-gate, 'AL
of Captain Keith Fraser, Ist Life Guards, of a O to
LAND—On the 23d inst., at 93, Cannon-street, Giti'
wife of Mr. John Land, Q.C., of a daughter. rolor.
SEDDON—On the 24th inst, at MedwayVillas, New "itoS3-
ton, Chatham, the wife of Captain H. C. Seddon,
Engineers, of a son.

Marriages. , rice!.
CLARKE —ADAms—On the 19th inst , at St. Janes 8' 134,1-
dilly, Charles Mansfield Clarke, Lsq.,. Captain 57hi1l ott
ment, to Gemma Cecilia, only child of the late Willi,loo 01'
Adams, her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires and -
General to the Republic of Peru. A 0 S..°
HUNTER —WELLS —On the 19th inst. at Saint Att',..f.i‘nv,'
Church, Well-street, H. J. Hunter," Esq., of Gil J. 4 '
barrister-at-law, to Louisa Mary, daughter 0

Wells, Esq., of Lansdowne-place.

Deaths. 2 LSS
ELLIS-0 n the 21st inst., Robert -
Esq., -
downe-crescent, Notting-hill, and the Rectory
St. Michael's, Cornhill.
HARTWELL —On the 23d inst., at 34, Belgrave-in 3fit-
Hartwell, Esq., formerly of Lidehtun, and a J.P.l°.
dlesex, aged 83. ooer,
ROSSER— On the 23d inst., at Kensington, Elizabeth
aged 89. t
T URNER On the 22d inst, at 26, Wormwood-stroe
Mr. Samuel Turner, aged 67.

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