The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-29 00:00:00

The Four Races of the New World,

White men, black men, red men, yellow men—
all these chief types and colours of the human
race—have been drawn into company on this
western soil, this middle continent, lying between
China and the Archipelago on one side, Africa and
Europe on the other, where they crowd and contest
the ground under a common flag.
The White Man, caring for neither frost nor fire,
so long as he can win good food for his mouth, fit
clothing for his limbs, appears to be the master in
every zone ; able to endure all climates, to under-
take all labours, to overcome all trials ; casting
nets into the Bay of Fundy, cradling gold in the
Sacramento valleys, raising dates and lemons in
Florida, trapping beavers in Oregon, raising herds
of kine in Texas, spinning thread in Massachusetts,
clearing woods in Kansas, smelting iron in
Pennsylvania, talking buncombe in Columbia,
writing leaders in New York. He is the man of
plastic genius, of enduring character ; equally at
home among the palm-trees and the pines ; in
every latitude the guide, the employer, and the king
of all.

The Black Man, a true child of the tropics, to
whom warmth is like the breath of life, flees from
those bleak fields of the north, in which the white
man repairs his fibre and renews his blood; pre-
ferring the swamps and savannahs of the south,
where, among palms, cotton-plants, and sugar-
canes, he finds the rich colours in which his eye
delights, the sunny heats in which his blood ex-
pands. Freedom will not tempt him to go north-
ward into frost and fog. Even now, when
Massachusetts and Connecticut tempt him by the
offer of good wages, easy work, and sympathising
people, he will not go to them. Ile only just en-
dures New York ; the most hardy of his race will
hardly stay in Saratoga and Niagara beyond the
summer months. Since the South has been made
free for Sam to live in, he has turned his back on
the cold and friendly North, in search of a brighter
home. Sitting in the rice-field, by the cane-brake,
under the mulberry-trees of his darling Alabama,
with his kerchief round his head, his banjo on his
knee, he is joyous as a bird, singing his endless and
foolish roundelay, and feeling the sunshine burn
upon his face. The negro is but a local fact in the
country ; having his proper home in a corner—the
most sunny corner—of the United States.
The Red Man, once a hunter of the Alleghanies,
not less than of the prairies and tho Rocky Moun-
tains, has been driven by the pale-face, he and his
squaw, his elk, his buffalo, and his antelope, into the
Western country; into the waste and desolate lands
lying westward of the Mississippi and Missouri. The
exceptions hardly break the rule. A band of pic-
turesque pedlars may be found at Niagara ; Red
Jackets, Cherokee chiefs, and Mohawks ; selling
bows and canes, and generally spunging on those
youths and damsels who roam about the Falls in
search of opportunities to flirt. A colony, hardly of
a better sort, may be found at Oneida Creek, in
Madison county ; the few sowing maize, growing
fruit, and singing psalms; the many starving on the
soil, cutting down the oak and maple, alienating the
best acres, pining after their brethren who have
throwia the white man's gift in his face, and gone
away with their weapons and their war-paint. Red
Jacket at the Falls, Bill Beechtree at Oneida Creek
—the first selling beaded work to girls, the second
twisting hickory canes for boys—are the last repre-
sentatives of mighty nations, hunters and warriors,
who at one time owned the broad lands from the
Susquehannah to Lake Erie. Red Jacket will not
settle ; Bill Beechtrec is incapable of work. The
redskin will not dig, and to beg he is not ashamed.
Hence, he has been pushed away from his place,
driven out by the spade, and kept at bay by the
smoke of chimney fires. A wild man of the plain
and forest, he makes his home with the wolf, the

rattlesnake, the buffalo, and the elk. When the
wild beast flies, the wild man follows. The Alle-
ghany slopes, on which, only7o years ago, he chased
the elk and scalped the white woman, will hear his
war-hoop, see his war-dance, feel his scalping-knife,

no more. In the western country he is still a figure

in the landscape. From the Missouri to the Colorado
he is master of all the open plains; the forts which
the white men have built to protect their roads to
San Francisco, like the Turkish block-houses built

along the Syrian tracks, being mainly of use as a hint
of their great reserve of power. The red men find

it hard to lay down a tomahawk, to take up a hoe ;
some thousandsonly of them have yet done so; some
hundreds only have learned from the whites to drink
gin and bitters, to lodge in frame-houses, to tear up
the soil, to forget the chase, the war-dance, and the
Great Spirit.

The Yellow Man, generally a Chinese, often a
Malay, sometimes a Dyak, has been drawn into the
Pacidc states from Asia, and from the Eastern
Archipelago, by the hot demand for labour ; any
kind of which comes to him as a boon. From
digging in the mine to cooking an omelette and
ironing a shirt, he is equal to everything by which
dollars can be gained. Of these yellow people there
are now sixty thousand in California, Utah, and
Moontana ; they come and go ; but many more of
them come than go. As yet these harmless crowds
are.weak and useful. Hop Chang keeps a laundry ;
Chi Hi goes out as cook ; Cum Thing is a maid-of-
all-work. They are in no man's way, and they
labour for a crust of bread ; carrying the hod when
Mike has run away to the diggings, and scrubbing
the floor when Biddy has made some wretch the

happiest of his sex. Supple and patient, these yellow
men, though far from strong, are eager for any kind
of work; but they prefer the employments of women
to those of men ; delighting in an engagement to
wash clothes, to nurse babies, and to wait on guests.
They make very good butlers and chamber-maids.

Loo Sing, a jolly old girl in pig-tail, washes your
shirts, starching and ironing them very neatly, ex-
cept that you cannot persuade him to refrain from

spitting on your cuffs and fronts. To him spitting
on linen is the same as damping it with drops of

water ; and the habits of his life prevent him, even
though you should catch him by the pig-tail, and
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rub his tiny bit of nose on the burning iron, from
seeing that it is not the same to you. To-day,
those yellow men are sixty thousand weak ; in a few

years they may be six hundred thousand strong.
They will ask for votes. They will hold the balance

of parties. In some districts they will make a
majority; selecting the judges, forming the juries,

interpreting the laws. Those yellow men are
Buddhists, professing polygamy, practising infan-

tickle. Neat year is not more sure to come in its

own season than a great society of Asiatics to dwell
on the Pacific slopes. A Buddhist church, fronting
the Buddhist churches in China and Ceylon, will

rise in California, Oregon, and Nevada. More than
all, a war of labour will commence between the
races which feed on beef and the races which thrive
on rice; one of those wars in which the victory is

not necessarily with the strong.
White man, black man, re 3 man, yellow man,
each has a custom of his own to follow, a genius of

his own to prove, a conscience of his own to respect;
customs which is not of kin, genius which is largely
different, and conscience which is fiercely hostile.—
Front New America, by W. Hepworth Dixon.

Mr. THOMAS CARLYLE intends to pass tho re-
mainder of the winter in Italy.

THE INVENTOR OF LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.—
Sir William Snow Harris, F.R.S., well known as the in-
ventor of the only safe kind of lightning-conductor, died a
few days ago, in the 75th year of his age. Ho was born at
Plymouth, was partly educated at the University of Edin-
burgh for the medical profession, and was knighted in
1847. He was the author of some scientific works of great
value,

AMERICA.

(By ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)

NEW YORK, Jan. 26.
President Johnson has approved the bill for re
assembling Congress on the 4th March next.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam,
ship Germania arrived out to- day.

LIVERPOOL, Jan. 28.
The National Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Pennsylvania, from New York on the 12th
inst., arrived here this afternoon, with sllo,ooo,in
specie.

T'I•,E GREAT LOSS OF LIFE IN THE
REGENT'S PARK.

The following appeAred in oar Till:A Elitbn of yester-
day evening :
The inquest on the unfortunate persons who
perished by the late terrible accidentin the Regent's-
park was resumed at the Marylebone Court-house
this morning.
Mr. Douglas and Dr. Whitmore were examined,
and repeated in detail the facts which have been
already deposed to.

At the conclusion of the evidence,
The Coroner summed up and told the jury that
after they had decided on their verdict with respect
to the deaths of the 40 persons, they would have to
consider whether there were any persons specially
liable for the consequence of the accident. hether
any person had neglected his duty or had been
guilty of anything that in the result brought about
the lamentable accident. They would have to
consider the effect of the breaking of the ice around
the edges of the lake, and it would not be out of
place if, white engaged in their duties, they were
also to consider the advisability of adopt-
ing some steps by which such terrible acci-
dents might be prevented for the future. Some
of the witnesses had spoken to the good effect of
raising a ball to denote the safety of the ice, and
others had spoken to a variety of precautions that
might be adopted ; but the most important, in his
opinion, was the advisability of reducing the depth
of the water. He thought that the good which
would follow such an arrangement would amply
compensate for the cost of the work. It
would be for them to say how and what means
death ensued; and in the event of their thinking
it necessary to make any special presentment, they
could attach it to their verdict.

The jury then retired to consider their verdict,
and after an absence of an hour and three-quarters,
returned into court with a verdict of Accidental
Death in all of the cases.

Appended to the verdict were the following
recommendations :

" We find that the accident arose from the over-
crowding of a large body of persons on the ice at
the same time, while it was in a most dangerous
state, caused by rottenness and partial thaw.
" Further, we would recommend the Legislature
to consider the propriety of investing the police or
other authorities with power to prevent the public
venturing upon the ice when in an unsound state;
as the evidence adduced at this inquiry clearly
shows that mere verbal warnings are not heeded in
such cases.

" We cannot too strongly urge upon the Govern-
ment the propriety of reducing the depth of the
water in the same manner as already adopted in
St. James's-park, so that the repetition of such a
deplorable calamity may be rendered impossible for
the future.

" We cannot separate without speaking a word
in favour of the icemen, park constables, police,
parochial authorities, and others, for their efforts
to save life on this occasion.

" We commend the Royal Humane Society to
the public consideration.
" It now only remains for us to proffer our deepest
sympathy to the unfortunate friends of the deceased,
a sympathy that will, we are sure, be shared in by
the whole of the nation."

The Cambridgeshire Hunt.

A meeting of some of the principal members of the Cam-
bridgeshire Hunt was held at the Red Lion Hotel, Cam-
bridge, on Saturday last, to consider the best steps to be
taken for the maintenance of the efficiency of the pack in
consequence of the intended resignation of the present
master, Mr. C. Barnett, of Stratton-park, better known as
"t' squire," who for 35 years has, at great expense to him-
self, kept the pack in its present satisfactory condition
Lord Royston, M.P., presided ; and there were also present
Major Pemberton, Col. Lindsell, Revs. W. Smith, J. Thorn-
hill, and J. Taddy ; Messrs. C. Lindsell, T. H. Bayley, W
Hurrel, C. F. J. Addington, C. W. Naylor, R. J. Whitby,
T. J. Hooper, J. I. Ellis. F. Dawkins, J. Linton, F. Arck-
dell, P. Beales, W. S. Mitchell, Sanders Holben, R. Headly,
J. J. Headly, and H. J. Thurnall (secretary).
The SECRETARY stated that he had received a letter from
Mr. Barnett, stating his intention,to resign the mastership
at the end of the present season. He had since seen Mr.
Barnett, who was willing to waive all claim to such of the
hounds as were his property, and hand over the whole of
the pack to his successor. Mr. Barnett was also willing to
allow the use of his kennels and stables at Stratton Park
as heretofore up to the commencement of next season.
A long conversation ensued, in the course of which the
expediency of requesting Mr. Barnett to reconsider his de-
termination was dwelt upon, but it appeared that Mr. Barnett
resigned in consequence of the weightof increasing years,
and, though he had at one time been willing to continue
the mastership if his son (Capt. Barnett) were allowed to
take active superintendence in the field in his (Mr. Bar-
nett's) absence, yet as this arrangement did not meet gene-
ral support, he had irrevocably determined to resign, and
had communicated such decision in unmistakeable terms
do Lord Hardwicke and Mr. Thurnall. Mr. Barnett's son-
in-law, who was present, having also stated that Mr. Bar-
nett was decided upon this point, the question of a succes-
sor was debated, and it appeared that Captain Barnett was
willing to take the pack if the present amount of subscrip-
tions were gurantoed, and the requisite kennels and stables
provided. It appeared that there will be no difficulty
on the latter points ; and a resolution was carried that
the hounds be offered to Captain Barnett with the
requisite guarantee. It was general opinion that
the kennel should be built nearer the centre of
the county than at present, and Stow or Bourn
seemed to meet most approval as the situation. The sub-
ject of the expense of kennels, stables, huntsman, and
whipper-in's houses, &c., being mooted, various estimates
were made ranging from £7OO to £1,200, and of this Mr.
Hurrell said- he was in a position of himself to guarantee
the advance of £5OO by gentlemen to whom he had spoken
on the subject. The Earl of Hardwicke, Colonel Dun-
combe, Colonel Lindsell, and Mr. Hurrell intimated their
a cquiescence in their covers being drawn as usual.
A committee, consisting of the chairman (Major Pem-
berton), Mr. T. St. Quintin, Mr. W. Hurrell, and Mr. C.
Lindsell, was appointed to confer with Captain Barnett as
to future arrangements, and decide upon the best means
of raising funds for the kennels. It appeared that the pre-
sent subscriptions to the pack amount to £955, making,
with the cap-money, £5O, £1,005 per annum.
The CHAIRMAN said it would be unbecoming in him
if he did not, before they separated, ask them to join him
in a vote of thanks to Mr. Barnett for the admirable, gene-
rous, and satisfactory manner in which he had conducted
the hunt for so long a period of time. (Cheers.) He was
sure there was but one feeling in this matter, and that was
regret that
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excellent
Burnettgentleman,should b
sucha the lost to theorough-bred
English sportsman
county, and the sporting world,asamastotem.
master ofr Barnett,
He proposed that they shmdd express
through the secretary, the deep regret of the gentlemen of
the county that he should, after 35 years' mastership, have
resigned the hounds. He was sure they would be unani-
mous on that point. (Loud cheers.)
Major PEMBERTON said it would be invidious to second
the motion. It might bo taken to be seconded by every
man in the room. (Loud cheers.) That cheering was the
most appropriate way of expressing the feeling of the meet-
ing. The motion was declared to be carried by acclamation,
and the meeting dispersed after the usual complimentary
vote of thanks to the chairman.

'rhe following is a list of the popular pieces played
last year at the principal theatres of Paris, and of the times
the more favourite operas and dramas were given : - Opera,
"L'Africaine," 45 ; Comedie-Francais, "La Lion Amon-
roux," 100 ; Opera-Comique, "Le Voyage en Chine," ;
Italiens, "11 Trovatore," 14, "Rigoletto," 14 ; Od6on, "La
Contagion," 64 ; Chatelet, " Cendrillon," 189 ; Theatre-
Lyrique, "Martha," 77; Vaudeville, "La Famine Benoi-
ton," 248 ; Vari6ties, " Barbe-Bleu," 132 ; Gymnase,
"H6loise Paranquet," 115 ; Palais-Royal, "La Consigne
ost d 6 Ronfler," 91 ; Porte-Saint-Martin, "La Biche au
Bois," 107 ; Gait 6, "Jean-la-Poste," 127 ; Ambigu, ." Le
Manguer de Fer," 16. With the exception of the Grand
Opera and Italiens, all the theatres are reported to have
made money, although never before was so much spent on
the get-up of pieces.

A WATCH WITHOUT HANDS that shows on its

,ce no figure; but those which tell the hour and minute

looked for, has recently been patented by a Mr. P. Barlow.
The figures are displayed as they are wanted, and no
others appear en the watch face.