The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-20 00:00:00

The White House on New Year's Day.

The customary reception of New Year callers by the
President at the White House showed us the Great Re-
constructionist in a new light—that of dignified, hearty,
genial, self-possesed, social democrat, which is conceded
by those who visited the Republican palace to be the
highest of gentility. Tho thirty thousand dollars ap-
priated by Congress for beautifying and renovating the
White House has not yet reached the hands of the Com-
missioner of Public Buildings, so the "Pearl of the Re-
public" was forced to show himself in a rather dingy set-
ting; but he shone brilliantly enough for all that. In ac-
cordance with the time - honored custom and arrange-
ments Mr. Johnson received in the Blue-room, this time
bare of ornaments excepting a couple of vases with fresh
flowers, the ladies of the White House, Mrs. Paterson and
Mrs. Stover, Misses Craigoniles and Baxter, two pretty
young lady visitors from Knoxville, Tenn., and the
children of the family. Without the streets were sloppy
from the melting snow, so the crowd about the grand en-
trance and the carriage way to watch the arrival of the
foreign and domestic dignitaries, and to gaze admiringly
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President took his station in the Blue-room just before 11
o'clock, when the foreign ministers, members of the
Cabinet, Supreme Court, Judges and their ladies wore an-
nounced. Sir Frederick Bruce, the tall, portly, white-
haired representative of her Britannic Majesty, was the
pioneer of the first-named class ; while Mr. Stanton, with
the spectacles and the smile, was the avant courrier of the
Cabinet.
They were quickly followed, however, by
Marquis de Montholon, French Minister ; Baron Stoeckel,
Russia ; Baron de Wederstedt, of Norway and Sweden ;
Count Wydenbrick, of Austria ; Commander Bertanatti,
from the Italian States ; Mr. Raasloff, of Denmark ; Del-
forse, of Belgium ; Van Limberg, from the Netherlands ;
Senor Romero, from the Republic of Mexico; Senor
Melino, from the Central American States; Senor
Asta Beruga, from Chile, and plain John Ritz,
from the Mountain Republic of Switzerland. These
foreign ministers were generally in their prescribed court
dress, very rich of course, but unique in the eyes of the
bourgeoise. Senor Romero, of the suffering Mexican Re-
public, appeared in a plain suit of black, and was the re-
cipient of an extraordinarily hearty shake of the hand
from the President. Tho ladies *accompanying these
foreign parties were tastefully but not expensively dressed.
Judge Chase, wearing the same benign, unimpassioned ex-
pression which appears on the one dollar greenbacks,
came with Mrs. Sprague, his daughter, who is thinner and
paler, and not the Kate Chase Ohio people admired. .
Half an hour was spent in the Blue Room by these dig-
nitaries in gold lace and decorations and these ladies of
elaborate toilet and versatile tongue, animated converse
in all the modern languages was carried on, introduction
ceremonies were gone through still President Johnson
and his daughters were unruffled. Mrs. Johnson and
Colonel Robert, the President's son, being indisposed did
not receive.

The officers of the army and navy were next presented
to the Chief Magistrate. Many of the foreign dignitaries yet
lingered in the Blue Room, when the hero of the greatest
of wars, Lieutenant-General Grant, grasped the hand of
the President, the fervor of the shake which followed
convinced the lingerers that it was not ono of mere for-
mality. General Grant p:lised into the room, respectfully
greeted the ladies, and at once became the centre of a little
presentation circle, a position which he vacated as soon as
it could genteelly be done. Following the General, nearly
every officer of rank who chanced to be in Washington
paid his respects to the President. They were all in full uni-
form, and presented a very brilliant appearance. Their
names were as follows :—Generals Rawlins, Townsend,
Williams,Ord,lngalls, Hughward,liunter, in, Bartlett,MEeivigs,
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Doublesday, Barnes, Seth
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Green, Mott,
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Alexander,
D Prince,enti Perry,icetchll Holt, Nichols, Dela-
Fessenden, Ekin,
Haskins, Kelton, Shiras, Vincent, Rucker, Robinson, Dana,
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• E. Strong.—New York
Herald.

A BSTRACT OF THE ACCOUNTS OF Mr.
.11A. el-JAMAS PETTIIT ALLEN, Treasurer of the
County of Middlesex, from 30th September, 1865, to 6th
Jinuary, 1866.
AS TO TIIE ORDINARY GENERAL COUNTY RATE.
ItrcEirr.
Balance in Bank of England on 30tla Sept., 1865. ..£9,0t8 16 1

RATE.
Arrears of Rate made on 13th
X 394 5 2
July, 1865.. ..................
Rate made on 12th Oct., 1865.... 23,205 15 2

2klolo 0 4

Arrear of ditto on 6th January,
18,T,
Amount of Rates received
citimiNAL PROSECtTIONS AND CONVEYANCE OF PRISONERS
FOR PENAL SERVITUDE.
From the Lords of the Treasury
on account of criminal prose-
c,itions from Ist July to 31st
D •cember, 861
Dia° the amount paid for the
Conveyance of co victed Pri-
soners sentenced to penal Ser-
vitude during* the same period

2,782 5 9
7) 12 9
210 911
64 10 2
7.3 0 0
93 13 6
150 0 0
202 19 0
403 4 7

41 15 8
132 14 0
97 15 7
319 11 7
211 18 8

£35,377 14 8
.. 10,492 4 7

£i3,869 19 3

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