The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE NEW YORK.
SOTTITAMPTON, Thursday.

The North German Lloyd screw steamship New York,
Captain K. von Oterendorp, from New York on the 10th
inst., arrived off Cowes this evening, and went on to Bre-
men after transhipping mails, &c., for this port. She
brings 30 passengers for Southampton and Havre, and 107
for Bremen; $246,952 in specie (of which $183,500 is bar
silver and $63,452 gold) for England, $2,000 for Bre-
men, 41 bags of mails for London and 98 for Bremen,
and a large cargo of general merchandise. The New York
pilot, Mr. John N. Dale, could not be landed at Sandy
Hook, and he had to be brought over to Southampton. On
the 21st, at 2 p.m., in long. 7 15 W., the Now York spoke
the bark Julien, bound west.
On the 9th inst. the President transmitted to the House
of Representatives at Washington communications from
the Secretary at War and the Attorney-General, in reply
to a resolution requestinghim, if not incompatible with the
public interests, to furnish any report. or reports made by
the Judge-Advocate-General, or any other officer of the
Government, as to the grounds, facts, or accusations upon
which Jefferson Davis, Clement C. Clay, jun., Stephen R.
Mallory, and David L. Yule, or either of them, are held in
confinement. The Attorney-General says to the Presi-
dent:—

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Sundry reports of the facts which go to show that Jef-
ferson Davis and other rebels have been guilty of high
crimes have been made to you, as the chief executive officer
of the Government. Most of the evidence on which they
are based was obtained ex parte, without notice to the ac-
cused ; and while they were in custody in military prisons
their publication might wrong the Government, or the ac-
cused, or both. While I see that much wrong may flow
from the publication, I cannot see that any good would
come from it. In my opinion public and private justice
alike demand that they should not be made public."
The Secretary of War says to the President
"These reports were made for your own information,
and contain abstracts of evidence and ex parte proof in pos-
session of the Bureau of Military Justice. Pending any
action in respect to the parties accused, the publication of
the report is, in my opinion, incompatible with the public
interest."
The President concurs in these opinions.

Despatches from Washington give the following relative
to the Canadian Commission and the Reciprocity Treaty :

" The Conference between the Canadian Commission that
have been here a few weeks endepouring to arrange for re-
ciprocal trade with that province and the House Committee
on Ways and Means was broken off on the 6th inst., and
the delegation left for home on the Bth. In one sense they
have accomplished nothing, but in another their mission
will probably not be fruitless. But little was allowed to
transpire concerning their power to act for their Govern-
ment, the nature of the propositions submitted, or the spirit
in which the latter were received by our officials and the
committee with which they directly negotiated. Their
meetings with the committee were at first purposely informal,
so that the official or semi-official correspondence is very
brief indeed, and gives no information concerning details.
" The following memoranda, marked A, B, and C, show
the propositions and counter-propositions referred to, and
substantially corer all the correspondence between the
parties :

MEMORANDA.

" ' Washington, D. C., Feb. 2, 1866.

" ' The trade between the United States and the British
provinces should, it is believed, under ordinary circum-
stances, be free in reference to their natural productions ;
but as internal taxes exceptionally exist in the United
States, it is now proposed that the articles embraced in the
free list of the Reciprocity Treaty should continue to be
exchanged, subject only to such duties as may be equivalent
to that internal taxation. It is suggested that both parties
may add certain articles to those now in the said list. With
reference to the fisheries and the navigation of the in-
ternal waters of the continent, the British provinces are
willing that the existing regulations should continue in
effect ; but Canada is willing to enter into engagements
with the view of improving the means of access to the
ocean, provided the assurance be given that the trade of
the Western States will not be diverted from its natural
channel by legislation ; and if the United States are
not prepared at present to consider the general opening
of their coasting trade it would appear desirable that as
regards the internal waters of the continent no distinction
should be made between the vessels of the two countries.
if the foregoing points be satisfactorily arranged, Canada
is willing to adjust her excise duties upon spirits, beer, and
tobacco on the best revenue standard which may be mutu-
ally adopted after full consideration of the subject, and if it
be desired to treat any other articles in the same way the
disposition of the Canadian government is to give every fa-
cility in their power to prevent illicit trade. With regard
to the transit trade it is suggested that the same regulations
should exist on both sides and be defined by law. Canada
is also prepared to make her patent laws similar to those of
the United States.

" ' MEMORANDUM B.

" In response to the memorandum of the Hon. Mr. Galt
and his associates,the Hon. Mr. Smith, the Hon. Mr. Henry,
and the Hon. Mr. Howland, the Committee of Ways and
Means, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury,
are prepared to recommend to the House of Representatives
for their adoption a law providing for the continuance of
some of the measures included in the Reciprocity Treaty,
soon to expire—viz., for the use and privileges as enjoyed
now under said treaty in the waters of Lake Michigan, pro-
vided the same rights and privileges aro conceded to the
citizens of the United States by Canada in the waters of the
St. Lawrence and its canals as are enjoyed by British sub-
jects, without discrimination as to tolls and charging rates
proportioned to canal distance ; also for the free transit of
goods, wares, and merchandise in bonds, under proper regu-
lations, by railroad across the territory of the United States
to and from Portland and the Canada line ; provided equal
privileges shall be conceded to the United States from
Win-lsor or Port Sarnia, or other western points of depar-
ture to Buffalo or Ogdensburg, or any other points eastward,
and that the free ports established in the provinces shall be
abolished ; also that the bounties now given to American
fishermen shall be repealed, and duties not higher imposed
on fish than those mentioned in schedule A, providing that
all the right of fishing near the shores existing under the
treaty heretofore mentioned shall be granted and conceded
by the United States to the provinces, and by the provinces
to the United States. It is also further proposed that the
following list of articles shall be mutually free—viz., Burr
millstones, unwrought, cotton and linen rags, fire-wood,
grindstones, rough or unfinished, gypsum, or plaster un-
ground. Schedule A.—Fish.—Mackerel, $1 50c. per
barrel ; herring, pickled or salted, $1 per barrel ; salmon,
$2 50c. per barrel ; shad, $2 per barrel ; all other fish,
pickled, $1 50c. per barrel, provided that any fish in
packages other than barrels shall pay in proportion to the
rates charged upon similar fish in barrels. All other fish,
c. per lb. As to the duties which will be proposed upon
the other articles included in the treaty, the following are
submitted, viz :—Animals, living, of all sorts, 20 per cent.
ad valorem; apples and garden Inuit and vegetables, 10 per
cent. ad valorem ; barley, 15c. per bushel ; beans, except
vanilla and castor oil, 30c. per bushel ; beef, 10. per lb. ;
buckwheat, 10c. per bushel ; butter,.4c. per lb.; cheese, 4c
per lb. ; corn, Indian, and oats, 10c. per bushel ; corn-
meal, Indian, and oatmeal, 15c. per bushel ; coal, bitu-
minous, 50c. per ton ; all other coal, .25c. per ton ; flour,
25 per cent. ad valorem; hams, 2c. per lb. ; hay, $1
per ton ; hides, 10 per cent. ad valorem ; lard, 3c. per lb. ;
lumber, pine, round or log, $1 50c. per 1,000 feet; pine,
sawed or hewn, $2 50c. per I,oooft. ; planed, tongued,
and grooved, or finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem; spruce
and hemlock, sawed or hewn, $1 per I,oooft. ; spruce,
planed, finished, or partly finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem;
shingle, bolts, 10 per cent. ad valorem; shingles, 20 per
cent. ad valorem ; all other lumber of black walnut, chest-
nut base, white wood, ash, oak, round, hewed or sawed, 20
per cent. ad valorem; if planed, tongued, or grooved, or
finished, 25 per cent. ad valorem; ores, 10 per cent. ad
valorem; peas, 25c. per bushel ; pork, lc. per lb. ; potatoes,
10c. per bushel ; seed, timothy and clover, 20 per cent. ad
valorem; trees, plant and shrub, ornamental and fruit, 15
per
cent. ad valorem ; tallow, 2c. per lb. ; wheat, 20c. per
bushel.

" ' MEMORANDUM C.

" ' In reference to " ' Washington, Feb. 6.
to the memorandum received from the
Committee of
regret to be obligst and Means the provincial delegates
in regard to the
state that the proposals therein con-
tainedtwo countries is not, e commercial relations between the
adoption of the respective " .they can recommend for the
upon
legislatures. The imposts which
it is proposed to lay the productions of the British
provinces on their entry
markets of the United
Mates are such as inoothrteainiurtlooyptls-hioin will. be in some cases
prohibitory, and will
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natural course of trade. These imbius
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what the delegates conceive to
internal taxation of the United States tleiacituthey are reluc-
tantly no
brought to the conclusion that committeethecouotli
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longer desire the ',trade between the two
carried on upon the principles
concurrence of the British Minister at Washington, they'
are therefore obliged respectfully to decline to enter into
the engagement suggested in the memorandum ; but the
present views of the United States may soon be so modified
as to permit of the interchange of the productions of the
two countries upon a more liberal basis.'

STRIKE OF MASONS.—On Monday morning the
Durham masons turned out on strike for a rise of wages
from 28s. to 30s. par week, and shorter hours of labour,
and three months hence for a half-holiday on Saturdays.
MARYLEBONE INSTITUTE AND CLUB.—On Mon-
day last, Feb. 19, a lecture was delivered by Mr.
Charles John Brett, entitled "An Evening with Toni
Moore." It consisted of a critical dissertation upon the
life and writings of the poet, illustrated by a varied and
entertaining selection from his works, and the object of
the ctu was to render apparent the wonderful versatility
of
Moore's genius, while claiming for him a much higher
position in the poetic ranks than has been generally
deemed his due. The attendance was good, and the
lecture was received with marked applause.