The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

Miscellaneous American Newf.

The Rinaldo, 7, screw sloop, 200-horse power,
Commander Bush, sailed from Spithead at 11 a.m.
yesterday, for China, by the Needles Channel.
A detachment of the Royal Marine Light Infantry
will leave head-quarters, Chatham, this morning,
for service onboard the paddlewheel steamer Virago,
6, 220-horse power, which is being rapidly brought
forward for special service in Ireland.
An order has been received at Chatham garrison
directing Capt. Edward Coghian and Capt. Evan
Bruce Gardyne, 106th Bombay Light infantry Re-
giment, and Ensign William Andrews Dixon' 82d
Regiment, to embark for India to join the service
companies of their respective corps. Capt. Edward
W. Kent and a draught of the 2d battalion of the
24th
Regiment have arrived from Burrealk
haca_t
Gravesend, and disembarked from the ship B
wall, who brought them home.
Staff-Commander Moriarty, C. 8., was on Satur-
day last presented by his brother-officer with a very
handsome and valuable service of plate, in recogni-
tion of his eminent and successful exertions in laying
the Atlantic Cable. The presentation took place
at Capt. Moriarty's residence at Woolwich, where
the committee assembled, consisting of Com-
manders Biddlecombe, Noddall, and Hodges, Mas-
ters-Attendant at Woolwich, Deptford, and Sheer-
ness; Staff-Commanders Evans, Penn, Burdwood,
Batt, Marsh, Sulivan ; and Second Master Smith.
Captain Biddlecombe, in an appropriate address,
warmly expressed the pleasure he felt in being
selected for the duty of making the presenta-
tion to his old schoolfellow Moriarty, as well as the
gratification he had in requesting him, on the part
of so many of his personalfriends of the Royal Navy,
to accept the testimonial as a mark of their esteem
and appreciation of the services rendered by him in
the great national undertaking of laying the Atlan-
tic Telegraphic Cable, buoying up the severed line
of 1865 from the Albany, and then placing the Great
Eastern, commanded by Sir J. Anderson, over the
end of the cable, which led to its recovery. Captain
Moriarty expressed the gratification and pride he
felt in being thus assured of the good wishes of his
brother officers, the staff commanders, masters, and
second masters now around him. He placed, he said,
a high value on the testimonial received from the
hands of Capt. Biddlecombe on their behalf, repre-
senting, as it did, the feelings of his own class, who
could so well appreciate the amount and importance
of what he had been selected to perform, but which,
he modestly asserted, had been over-estimated by
his friends. He regretted, he said, the absence of Sir
J.
Canning, occasioned as it was by illness, espe-
cially as being the head of the whole engineer staff
he was always ready and desirous of co-operating
with the nautical men engaged in this grand and
successful undertaking.
The following appointments were made on Fri-
day at the AdmiraltyScott,:—Commander W. B. Grant,
to the Research, vicepromoted; Commander
Bingham to theVira,o
commissioned
Keyser and Lieut. Alexandcr
tToupinant;oLthieeuNt:irla'. Hgo;
Alfred S. Bradley, master, the Perseus ' • Henry
r
Hoskin, master, additional, to the Fiscm d for ser-
vice in the Chanticleer ; Herbert D. Walker, master,
to the Virago ; Sub.-Lieut. Robert B. Pipon, Sub.-
Lieut. Sidney G. Smith, and Sub.-Lieut. Charles C.
Whitelock to the Virago ; Francis H. Taber and
Sydney A. llolt, midshipmen, to the Virago ; Alex.
D. M'Arthur, paymaster, to the Virago ; R. E. H.
Buckner, master's assistant, to the Formidable, as
supernumerary ; Henry J. Mills, master's assistant,
to the Virago ; and Henry J. Davies, clerk, to the
Virago • and the following on Saturday :—Henry
B. Akaster, master, to the Indus, additional, for the
• Malabar ; John Elliot, staff surgeon, to the Nar-
cissus ; Joseph Jeans, master's assistant, to the
Victory, as supernumerary ; and James Donne, en-
gineer, to the Gladiator.

The Philadelphian correspondent of the Times
writes thus of the results of the late elections in the
United States :—" The elections which have resulted
in every Northern State declaring for Congress have
settled for ever the reconstruction question, and
decided that the South for readmission into the
Union must give up some of its political power.
Equality is ended, and the President, bowing to the
verdict, no longer advocates his policy of equal re-
construction ; and the political question hereafter
I will be just how much of its power the South is to
give up. In the settlement of this matter the Pre-
sident, in spite of the minority that supports him,
, will play a conspicuous part. The personnel of the
I Fortieth Congress (the writer continues) will be
very much like the Thirty-ninth. The old Republi-
can leaders, Fessend en, Sumner, Chandler, Sherman,
and IVade will still be in their seats, and Justin S.
Morrell, the ' Father of Protection,' will be promoted
from the House to sit in one of the Senatorial seats
from Vermont. Doolittle will lead the Conservative
handful, supported by Reverdy Johnson and Guth-
rie. Horace Greeley will probably be the new
Senator from New York, and Simon Cameron from
Pennsylvania, while Governor Swann from Mary-
land will succeed a Republican, and John C. Fre-
mont is making great exertions to be chosen to fill
the vacancy from Missouri. In the House, Thad-
deus Stevens will still be the Republican leader, and
Schuyler Colfax the Speaker. General Butler will
sit for one cf the Massachusetts districts, but it is
thought his bitterness will be kept within bounds
by the presence of John Morrissey, the pugilist just
elected by the Democrats of New York. General
Banks will be in the new House to look after the
Fenian interests and the neutrality laws. Fernando
Wood and James Brooks are new members from
New York city, which, with Brooklyn and neigh-
bouring towns around New York Bay, gave 60,000
majority against the Republicans. The next Con-
gress will contain fully as much bitterness and
vituperative talent, but no more ability than the
present one.
The thirteenth article of the Constitution of
Indiana, known as the "black article," forbidding
negroes from entering the State, &c., has been pro-
nounced unconstitutional and void by the Supreme
Court of the State.
One day early in November the farmers of the
country around Quebec, headed by their parish
priest, entered that city with a long file of wagons,
bringing 300 bushels of potatoes to be distributed
to the sufferers by the fire.
Mr. John Quincey Adams, son of the United
States' Minister at St. James's, has been defeated as
a candidate for the Legislature. He was opposed
by George L. Gill, who obtained 554 votes against
Mr. Adams' 459. Mr. Adams supported the Pre-
sident's policy, but even the great name he has in-
herited was powerless to bring him in as the suc-
cessful candidate in a cause so unpopular in his
State.
There are now 13 steam-packet companies run-
ning steamers between Europe and the United
States. These steamers make about 420 round
trips every year, and the gross annual revenue they
yield is about four million pounds sterling. The
Italian Government has just subsidised a line of
steamers to run between New York and the Medi-
terranean ports, touching at Madeira, the Azores,
Cadiz, and Marseilles, and it is expected that a bill
will be passed by Congress, next session, authoris-
ing the subsidisation of American mail steamers to
and from Europe, at the rate of $2 per mile.
The New York Chamber of Commerce has enter-
tained Mr. Cyrus Field at a grand " cable banquet"
at the Metropolitan Hotel. Admiral Farragnt,
General Mead, and other eminent persons, were
present. Letters of congratulation were read from
President Johnson, General Grant, and the mem-
bers of the Cabinet. The health of Queen Victoria
was given and enthusiastically responded to. Mr.
Cyrus Field proposed as a toast— " England and
America clasping hands across the sea. May this
firm grasp be a pledge of friendship to all genera-
tions." The toast was enthusiastically cheered.
Thursday last, the 29th of November, has
been celebrated by the people of America as
a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty
God, for all His blessings during the past
year. For the fruits of the earth, the general good
health of our people, the non-prevalence of the
dread plague, the cholera, the comforts of peace,
and the prosperity which has been vouchsafed us,
we should indeed be grateful. To the Divine
Maker and the author of our being it is our duty
to return thanks for mercies past, and beseech Him
to continue His favour to us, not alone as indivi-
duals, but as a nation, whose aim it shall be to ad-
vance the cause of Christianity throughout the

world.
Mr. Elkanah Watson, the friend of Benjamin
Franklin, John Adams, and Edmund Burke, died in
1848, in hisBsthyear. In the year 1815 he made some
calculations in regard to the future population of
the United States, which have so far been -verified
in an astonishing manner. In 1810 the population
of the United States was 7,239,903. Mr. Watson
said :—The increase from 1790, the first census
under the Constitution, has been about one-third
at each census ; admitting that it will continue to
increase in the same ratio, the result will be as
follows :

Year. Estimated Population.
1820 9,025,734
1830 12,838,645
1840 17,116,526
1850 23,135,363

Actual Results,
9,638,151
12,856,070
17,062,565
23,191,876
31,445,080

1860 31,753,824
1870 42,328,432
1880 56,150,211
I'9o 77,526,989
1900 100,350,985
Theh. actual figures of the three censuses following
sof4 e lr
eocrtts. e s
s The
e t
closeness
sul eSS estimate were written in by Mr. Watson him-
self, the other two are taken from the census re-
pof the estimates to the actual
results
of
_striking as to justify belief in the cor-
nceeedin figures.
The Commissioner of gAgriculture of the United
States has received from
the Imperial Minister of
Commerce at Vienna, Austria, through Mr. Loosy,
the Austrian Consul-General at New York, about
100 varieties of cereal and vegetable seeds, collected
from premium varieties shown at the Great Exhi-
bition held at Vienna in June last, and presented
by the Austrian Government for experiment on the
experimental farm of the United States Agricultural
Department. This donation, so kindly made by
the Minister of Commerce, embraces nearly every
variety of the cereal and vegetable seeds in favour
in our country, and it is hoped that some of them
proveowfilltbe u valuablenited s ta tes. No
acquisitionsneof these to the
seeds will agriculture
be
for distribution.
The following order has
<ieen issued, addressed
to the officersof customs :—Treasury Department,
at its last session, having
Nov. 3, 1866.—Congress,
passed an act further to provide for the safety of
the lives of passengers on board of vessels, approved
July 25, 1866, the tenth section of which is as
follows :—' That all seagoing vessels carrying pas-
sengers, and those navigating any of the Northern
and North-western lakes, shall have the lifeboats
required by law provided with suitable boat-
disengaging apparatus, so arranged as to allow such
boat to be safely launched, with their complement
of passengers, while such vessels are under speed,
or otherwise, and so as to allow such disengaging
apparatus to be operated by one person disengaging
both ends of the boat simultaneously from the
tackles, by which it may be lowered into the water.
Your attention :is called to the same, with the re-
quest that you will bring it to the notice of ship-
owners and others interested, and impress on them
the importance of complying with its provisions.
" H. M'CuLLocir,
" Secretary of the Treasury."
Intelligence from Toronto announces that the
Fenian Daniel Whelan has been sentenced to be
hung at Toronto on the 13th December. John
Quinn, formerly a soldier of the Confederate army,
was also found guilty, and sentenced to be hung on
the 12th December. It is asserted that the sen-
commuted but suspegnodode_db,
tences pronounced against the Fenians t b
the In.
not be
b prisoners being held
emaadveioura
sopfeetehbeirasfsreiertnidusg.
as hostages for the
Mr. D'Arcy Magee has
that the Fenians will not be hung. By the Atlantic
cable news has reached London, dated New. York,