The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-04 00:00:00

Rangabe will soon have an interview with the President.
This is the first Minister from Greece ever received at
Washington.

Mr. Bancroft sailed from New York, on Wed-
nesday, 15th June. He proceeds direct to Berlin, to assume
the porfolio of an American Minister.

Colonel Briscoe G. Baldwin, of Virginia, who
recently attempted suicide, Is recovering.
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The Hon. James Guthrie, of Kentucky, is also
recovering from his late illness.

R. Bishop Buckley, of Buckley's Minstrel Troupe,
died in Quincy, on the 6th Juno.

General Hooker left Chicago on the 7th on his
way to Europe.

Madame C. D. Murat, a relative of the great
Murat of France, is very ill with typhus fever. She is
residing in Florida.

John Morrissey is the purchaser of Barnunfs
place at Bridgeport.

Mr. O. W. Joslyn was, on June Gth, elected a
member of the New York Stock Exchange Board.

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Mr. John Raymond, an American actor of cele-
brity, will take the part of Asa Trenchard in the " Ame-
rican Cousin," and appear on the Paris stage in conjunc-
tion with Mr. Sothern, in his famous rendering of Lord
Dundreary.

In the chess contest that has been going on at
Philadelphia, Captain M'Kenzie, of New York, won all the
prizes, and the championship of America.
Dr. Mellor, Curator of the Botanic Gardens of
the Mauritius, and formerly a member of the Livingstone
Expedition, has arrived at Cape Town. He considered
the intelligence respecting the death of Dr. Livingstone to
be authentic.
Bishop Eastburn has sailed for England, and
Bishops Potter, Clarke, Hopkins, and Wilmer will soon
follow, their loading object being to attend the grand
council of Epispocal bishops to commence its sessions in
Westminster Abbey on the 24th of September. The num-
ber of bishops invited is 148, and although the primary
object of the convention is to adjust the relations of the
home establishment to its colonial branches, all the inte-
rests of the Episcopal Church will come under considera-
tion, and the great ritualistic controversy will hardly be
avoided.
Professor Chas. U. Shepard of Amherst College,
and a party of students consisting of Henry Carmichael
of Brooklyn, N. Y., Galen B. Danforth of Amherst, Fre-
deric Seymour of Peekskill, N. Y., and Winthrop Smith
of Philadelphia, Pa., were to sail from New York in the
steamer City of Paris for Liverpool.
Judge King, of Missouri, has been found guilty
of all the charges preferred against him excepting one, and
ho has been removed from office, and disqualified from
holding any position of honour, trust, or profit for two
years.
Senator Double Collins, the originator of the
project for laying the Russo-American telegraph line, has
arrived at St. Petersburgh from New York to submit fresh
proposals to the Government for carrying out the project.
Colonel Swan, a member of General Scott's staff,
is still living at Cununington, and is 92 years old. He was
postmaster of the town for twelve years, having been im-
ported from Northampton to fill that office during a Demo-
cratic administration, as there was no Democrat in the
place to take it.
We hear that W. Bradford, the clever American
artist, is again about to visit the rugged coast of Labrador,
with a view to procure materials for pictures of accidents by
ice and flood. He purposes on this occasion to take a party
of ladies and gentlemen with him, and has engaged a fast
and seaworthy steamer, which was to leave Now York on
the 12th of June. Mr. Bradford has already in his studio
a vast collection of studies made by him on the lonely
northern shores, many of which are curious, for the fidelity
with which ho has reproduced the forms of the rocks,
boulders, and shingle characteristic of the Labrador coasts.
He has lately made arrangements for a chromo-lithograph,
on a large scale, from his picture " Crushed by Icebergs,"
now exhibiting at No. 5 Haymarket, London.
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Mr. George Wilkes, editor of Wilkes' Spirit, has
taken his passage to Europe for the first week in July,
and intends to be absent from New York about three
months. Colonel Geo. ii. Butler, the Panama correspon-
dent of that newspaper, known under the signature of
' Rifle," will supply Mr. Wilkes' place during his absence.
Mr. Asa Strong of Northampton, who has kept
a table of the dates of the full blossoming of apple trees for
the last thirty-five years, says that only in two years dur-
ing that time have they blossomed so late as this year-
-1837 and 1850.
The steamers of the Merchants' (opposition) line
from Hartford to New York are now running regularly,
leaving each city daily at 3 o'clock p.m. The fare is one
dollar.

As far as known the Legislature that has just ad-
journed appropriated $2,901,982 besides the $3,000,000 to
the Boston, Hartford, and Erie Railroad, and $1,000,000 to
the Williamsburg and North Adams road. Among the
items of appropriation are $157,180 to the department of
the constables of the state ; military department, $78,790;
judicial courts, $133,100 ; emergency fund, $10,000; state
almshouses, $205,250; bounty loan sinking fund, $131,380;
(Ante hoopitals, $90,000.
Bpeculators buy hay at St. Albans at $l4
bale it and send it to Boston at an expense per ton,
of
where it is sold for $lO. $lO more,
The following items are from the Springfield Re-
publican:—Grant stock is rising fast in the presidential
market, and sagacious Democrats show a disposition to
invest. The Boston Post intimates that it would be glad
to see him placed at the head of the nation by the spon-
taneous uprising of the people, without regard to party
machinery, and should he be the candidate of the Re-
publican party we should expect to see the patrio-
tic Democrats, such as the Post represents, sup-
porting him. The truly. reconstructed Southerners
are prepared to vote for him, and the Democrats have no
man they could run against. him with the slightest pros-
pect of success. Such is the present aspect of the Presi-
dential question, but the events of another year may
essentially change it.
figures up a
In contemplating the national debt we are apt to
Nero wring
thatfi
consider the figures given us from time to time by the
Secretary of the Treasury as representing the 'whole of it,
whereas every State andi every town, is bearing its own
obligations must be $700,000,000 or
oe bbllt
about $35 for every inhabitant.. If the State and town
debts are proportionally !ergo in the other States, the
the stun of about $3,300,000,000, or more than
aggregate
ta burden
o faddition.theseo
d
$B. 0 000,000, making, with the $2,515,000,000 of national
$lOO for each man,
woman, and child, " without distinc-
tion of colour," in the Union. If a national debt is a
debt proper,,
blessing we have got a big one, and ono that is likely to
remain with us for some time to come.
Wendell Phillips, the indefatigable, sounds an-
other blast for confiscation as an act of justice to the freed-
men and of security to the nation. The rebellion he talks
about as something still existing, and can see no way to
suppress it but by taking the land of the South from the
white men and giving it to the blacks. While the war was
going onhe used to say "the rebellion is slavery ;" now that
slavery is dead it seems the rebellion is land. The claim of
the negroes to the land Mr. Phillips argues from the fact that
they have cleared and cultivated it. But this principle has
wider application than to the black labourers, and if all
the property of this country should revert to those whose
labour created it, Mr. Phillips and a groat many other gen-
tlemen would find their incomes inconveniently reduced.
Is he willing to applythe principle to white men as well
as black ?
MAXIMS BY HORACE GREELEY.—A poor boy
having written to Horace Greeley, asking what he shall
do to become rich, the philosopher of the Tribune gives
the boy the following excellent maxims, as rounds of the
lender to wealth :-1. Firmly resolve never to owe a
debt. 2. Acquire promptly and thoroughly some useful
calling. 3. Resolve not to be a rover; where you have
stuck your stake stand by it. 4. Comprehend that there
is work almost everywhere for him who can do it. 5.
Realise that he who earns sixpence a day more than he
spends must got rich, while he who spends sixpence a day
more than he earns must become poor.
There are to be some changes in the Western
Union Telegraph Company's management, likely to Im-
Nprove the administration both in economy and popularity.
Villiana Orton will be president, Hiram Sibley vice-pre-
sident, and George Walker the director for New England.
Professor Agassiz enlightened the Legislative
Committee on the Fisheries of Connecticut on Wednesday,
the 12th instant, in regard to the habits and nature of the
finny tribes, and Colonel Theodore Lyman, the Massa-
chusetts Commissioner, was also present, and stated that
his State stood ready to construct fish-ways over the
Holyoke and Turners Falls dams when Connecticut
should do her part towards protecting them from bein
destroyed by wholesale at the river's mouth and elsewhereg within her borders.

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ENGLISH 131310RALITY.

The revelations regarding the Trades' Unions at
Sheffield have furnished the whole press of England
with a subject for indignant comment, which all
the newspapers, from the Times downwards, have
seized. The power these organisations had attained
loomed threateningly in the future, and the classes
in whose interest the majority of newspapers are
written in England have eagerly availed themselves
of the opportunity afforded to crush them. If the
unions of Sheffield represent in any way the prin-
ciples on which the others act, it is not too much
to say that these combinations are mere conspiracies
against property and the independence of the work-
ing men. The direction the inquiry is taking re-
veals a wide area of guilt. Other unions than the
saw-grinders are proved to have adopted the same
means to gain their ends as BROADHEAD. As yet
the stigma is confined to Sheffield, but six secre-
taries are shown to have been accessories to the
crimes before or after their perpetration, and all in-
volve their different unions more or less. The com-
mittees allowed the funds to be abstracted for car-
rying out the work, either openly permitting the
appropriations, or wilfully shutting their eyes.
First, we have the general complicity in these secret
crimes ; next comes the hypocrisy and hateful sys-
tem of lying the better to avert from themselves dis-
covery and popular indignation. The saw-handle
makers assembled in indignation meeting, when
BARKER characterised the act for which he had just
paid the blood-money, as " fiendish, devilish, and
abominable."

Mr. SKIDMORE, who, in consultation with BROAD-
HEAD, had asked what the expense would be, the
" job" being accomplished, and at once deposited
his share, presiding at a council of the sawmakers,
moved " That thissociety views with feelings of indig-
nation and abhorrence the foul and dastardly
outrage committed in New Hereford-street." Mr.
SMITII was the secretary of that union, and there-
fore entered the foregoing resolution in the minute-
book, although well aware that the " dastardly
outrage" had been paid for by BROADHEAD, SKID-
MORE (the mover of the resolution), and BARKER,
and himself suggested that the money should
be taken from funds owed to the sawmakers by the
saw-handle makers !

We would like to know what England is coming
to. We had thought that the revelations of lying
and deceit of Joint-Stock Companies could not, at
least in this island, have been surpassed, that the
commercial immorality of the country was the great
cancer that had to be cut out ere it eat from the king-
dom all truth and honour. But we learn with dis-
may that no class appears to be exempt from the
contagious deceit which has leavened, and is leaven-
ing, the nation, and will yet make the name of
England a by-word. Within the last year and a
half we have seen the break-down of a system
erected and maintained by cooked accounts and
false statements. We have seen companies national
in their importance, and conducted by men of the
highest commercial position, involve hundreds
of families in total ruin by deliberate acts
of fraud, not only in one, but in many in-
stances. From the highest we can trace down
to the most palty undertaking the same hideous
swindling, the same cooked accounts, the same
lying statements, with a monotony of uniformity
till people have learned to doubt the truth of any
report, and consequently the soundness of any in-
dustrial institution of the country. Confidence
appears to be totally destroyed. Men fear to in-
vest in anything ; and while compelled to leave
large balances idle in their bankers' hands, they
rise in the morning trembling at the idea that even
the trusted Banks may have vanished into the cate-
gory of insolvent concerns. The general belief ap-
pears to be that economy and laying up a provi-
sion is a mistake, and that those who do only sup-
ply the means to some bloated scoundrel to keep
uP an expensive establishment, driving with pow-
der-headed footmen, or of yachting, with all the
paraphernalia of a well-equipped craft.
The law appears to be a dead letter. Directors
may deceive, put forth false accounta, and lie
with impunity. BROADHEADS may conspire against
the lives and limbs of their fellow workmen and
the property of employers, with no greater punish-
ment than the execration of mankind. People are
told they must take care of themselves, and they
endeavour to do so by withdrawing confidence from
every description of undertaking, and suffering a
large portion of the property of England to fall
into hopeless insolvency. The smallest symptoms
of revival are crushed by fresh disclosures ; and each
successive struggle upwards has been stamped down
by another exposure of folly, reckless mismanage- '
ment, and untruth.

Profound peace—fine weather—the prospect of a
splendid harvest—vast accumulation of the precious
metals, and a remarkably low rate of interest—are
powerless to revive enterprise and restore confi-
dence. People now have only one belief, and that
is in the duplicity and dishonesty of their fellow-
men. There was a time when England proudly
boasted that the word of her great merchants was
as good as their bond, when contracts were entered
into in good faith and carried out in their letter anti
spirit—be they gain or be they loss ; but it would
appear now that the bonds of their descendants
are as worthless as their words, and that these con-
tracts are but snares for the unwary. What can
be said of such a Company as the Imperial Mercan-
tile Association ? directed by a strong body of the
magnates of the City, which, within a few months
after declaring a dividend at the rate of 20 per
cent., collapsed—not only with the loss of all the
capital called, but necessitating the levying on the
shareholders of a sum several times that amount. Let
any man read the speeches delivered by Mr. JoHN
HACKBLOCK, Chairman of the highly respectable
direction of the London Financial Association, at
their successive half-yearly meetings, and let him
glance at the position of that Company now, and
learn what faith is to be placed in men whom the
City considers among its best representatives. We
have had some shocking expose's involving all classes
connected with commercial affairs, and we seem
now to be descending in the scale, unearthing con-
spiracies of trades' unions, and bringing to light the
frightful wickedness and duplicity of the organisa-
tions formed by the working men for the protec-
tion of their industry. It appears to matter little
to what class the combination belongs, whether it
is employed by capital to extract profit from the
development of industrial resources, or by the
labourers to protect their interests and regulate
their work. The result seems to tend but in one
direction—the power to fall into the hands of the
most unscrupulous and dishonest, and the whole to
be tainted with the same corruption and deceit.
The country appears to be helpless under its
misfortunes. The few feeble attempts of Defence
Committees are met by the Times by the advocacy
of a petition to her MAJESTY to liberate from gaol
the only convicted felon of the dishonest gang. If
this be a true reflex of the opinion of the country,
then indeed
morality of we may despair for the commercial
England. Nor for its commercial
morality alone; for what is this commercial morality
but the good faith, honesty, and truth of the whole
country. A man who cheats in his weights and
measures will avail himself of any safe opportunity
to swindle. His religion is hypocrisy, and all his
seeming respectability a delusion and a snare.
They who cook accounts, and speak at meetings up
to their fraudulent balance-sheets, will not hesi-
tate when the chance presents itself to gain
at any one's expense, and when their careers are
inquired into they will be found to be as untruthful
in their private relations as in their public proceed-
ings. It may be that au epidemic has seized on the
people, and that extravagant living has culminated
in fixing such a stigma on the national character.
But there is at least one hope of redemption. Pub-
licity is unsparingly given to the worst crimes, and
dishonest men are learning the bitter lesson that
there is no ultimate gain in this immorality, and
that however numerous may be the individual ex-
ceptions, the truth of the old proverb has been
abundantly illustrated, that " Honesty is the best
policy."—Anglo-American Times.

A meeting of the Schools' Inquiry Commission
was held yesrerday at 2, Victoria-street. Present :
Lord Taunton (the chairman), Lord Lyttelton, Rev. Dr.
Temple, Mr. Acland, 31. P., Mr. Baines, M.P., Mr. Forster,
ALP., and Dr. Storrar. Mr. Roby, tho secretary, attended
the meeting.