The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-15 00:00:00

rectors of the road, resident in Baltimore, together
with William Callow, President of the Bankers'
and Brokers' Telegraph Company; William Ni-
cholls, Esq., of the Baltimore City Councils, and J.
T. Crow, of the Sun. At Havre-de-Grace the
train was run on board the staunch Maryland, that
brave old boat which has done the company and
the community such excellent service during the
past thirteen or fourteen years, and the invited
guests enjoyed the pleasure of a southern view of
the bridge from her capacious decks, as she steamed
slowly across the river and within a few hundred
yards of the structure. There was but one expres-
sion of opinion as to the apparent merits of the
bridge, and that was, that it fully met, so far as
the spectators were able to judge at a distance,
the object of its constructors. The test was yet
to come, and it was not long delayed. Return-
ing to the eastern shore the train was run ashore,
and in a short time it was moving steadily and
grandly up the grade to the bridge. At the en-
trance was a magnificent arch festooned with ever-
greens, and surrounded with laurels was the in-
scription, " Four years work of a thousand men,"
together with the motto, " Labour omnia viucit."
Brevet Major• General George W. Cullum, of the
Corps of Engineers, and late Superintendent of the
United States Military Academy, has been detailed
as a member of the Board to consider the subject
of the modifications of the existing seacoast forti-
fications of the United States. Gen. Cullum will
be stationed in Washington.

'The first annual ball of the Fenian Sisterhood of
New York, in aid of the Fenian cause, was given in
the City Assembly Rooms last night, 22d ultimo.
Owing to the damp and unpleasant nature of the
night there was but a moderate attendance. The
music stand was adorned with the Irish and
American banners intertwined, and by the colours
of the 99th and 170th Regiments, beneath which
hung an elegant and life-like portrait of Mr. Jas.
Stephens. Shortly before 10 o'clock a lively air was
struck up by Manahan's band, and dancing com-
menced, which continued until 12 o'clock, when the
participants sat down to an elegant supper. After
supper a dance was given in imitation of an ancient
Fenian war dance. Five couples, attired in the
national dress of the old time, took their places in
the centre of the ball, and, brandishing daggers iu
their hands, began to dance a lively Irish jig around
four persons in the centre representing captives.
Their movements were heightened by gestures ex-
pressive of rage, and the fate supposed to be in store
for the unhappy captives in the centre. The an-
cient Fenian war dance bears a singular resem-
blance to the war dance of the American Indians,
and, as a novelty, was received with immense ap-
plause.
The following notification appeared apparently
by authority in the National Republican on the 22d
November :—" The President is necessarily en-
gaged upon important public matters preparatory to
the early assembling of Congress, and will have no
time, until after the meeting of that body, to give
the slightest attention to applicants for office. All
such are referred to the heads of the different de-
partments. Office seekers and their friends can save
themselves much time, labour, and expense by act-
ing on the above hint, and willrelieve the President
from the unpleasant necessity of declining to enter-
tain and examine their applications. It is a physical
impossibility for him to prepare his Message, and at,
the same time transact the detail business appro-
priatelybelonging to his Cabinet Ministers."
The President has appointed Edward Uhl, of New
York, United States Consul at Guatemala. General
B. S. Alexander, so long in command of the de-
fences of Washington, will soon leave for Cali-
fornia to superintend the construction of the de-
fences of San Francisco.

The following items of appropriations have just
been officially compiled from the Acts passed at the
last session of Congress :

Pensions

... 517,910,000.00

Deficiencies for sundry civil expenses ... 00451146
Naval service, for the year ending June 30,
1867 18,901,667.5 C
Post-office department., for the year ending
June 30, 1867 ... 19,679,500.00
Military Academy, for the year ending June
30, 1867 ...I 301,457.00
Fortifications and other works of defence... 1,510,000.00
Completion of public works... ... 3,698,017.91
Army, for the year ending June 30, 1867 38,004.241-83
Legislative, executi.re, and judicial expenses 25,430,459.89
Consular and diplomatic expenses ... 1,405,494.00
Indian department ... ... 3,778,53345
Sundries, civil expenses for the year ending

June 30, 18G7
Deficiencies, for the year ending- June 30, --
1867 ... 515,100.76
Miscellaneous... 12,705,635-60

X 7,074,126.76

Total ...

...$155,881,781.16

The Montrose Independent Republican gives the
following information on Glove Making in America :
—The principal scat of glove making is in Fulton
county, New York, where a flourishing village
has sprung up with the appropriate name of Glovers-
ville. This village makes a specialty of the work,
but there are also large manufactories in adjoin-
ing towns, as well as in Philadelphia and other loca-
lities in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, anc: Massachu-
setts. These gloves are of various kinds, mostly
made from deer, goat, and sheep skins, the deer
skins from South America and our own western ter-
ritories, the goat skins from South America, the
West Indies, Mexico, and the Sandwich Islands,
and the sheep skins from England and the Cape of
Good Hope. The skin of the English sheep is finer
and more durable than the American, but the species
known as the Cape sheep has a skin of a fibre so
fine and elastic as closely to resemble kid, and cap-
able of rivalling that elegant article, for which it is
often sold.

The United States Consul at Buenos Ayres has
sent his Government a copy of the laws of the Ar-
gentine Republic, authorising the National Execu-
tive to remit Treasury bills to the amount of four
million hard dollars, with interest at three-fourths
per cent. per month. For the payment and emorti-
sation of the interest an additional impost of 5 per
cent. is put on all imports excepting such articles as
are comprised in Article 3 of the present Custom-
house law, and 2 per cent. on all exports. The
Treasury bills are t.) be received in payment at all
the Custom-houses in the Republic.
The President has appointed Samuel B. Shafer, of
Maryland, Principal Clerk of Public Lands in the
General Land Office, and James J. Hackett De-
puty Postmaster at Frankfort, Kentucky.
Andrew M'Callum, a sugar planter, of Louisiana,
who went to Brazil with a view to emigration, has
returned, and pronounces against it as unsuitable
and less favourable to the Southerners than their
own country.

In the Pacific provinces of British North Ame-
rica a strong tendency shows itself toward union
with the United States. At a recent meeting in
Victoria, which is stated to have been the largest
ever held in that city, and to have been attended by
one-third of the male population, resolutions in favour
of annexation were proposed by a member of the
Colonial Assembly, and carried by a majority of
ten to one. The people of the colony are satisfied
that the great resources of their country will not
be developed until they form part of the American
Union.

An important consultation was held at the
White House, November 15th, between the Presi-
dent, the Cabinet, and Chief Justice Chase. It is
believed that a leading topic under consideration
was the reconstruction plan now proposed by many
leading men of all parties, by which a general am •
nesty shall be offered to the South on their accept-
ance of universal suffrage with a property or intel-
ligence qualification. Prominent Southern men are
co-operating with Republicans and Democrats in
this effort.

The recent Council of American bishops at Balti-
more has applied to the Pope to bestow a cardinal's
hat on a native of the United States. The request
has greatly embarrassed the Holy Father, as most
of the American archbishops, and even the bishops,
are Irish or French, and Monsignor Spalding,
Archbishop of Baltimore, is himself an Irishman.
It is thus difficult to find in America a native qua-
lified to hold the cardinalate, which is habitually
given only to archbishops.

At a public meeting in the Church of the Epi-
phany, at the corner of Fifteenth and Chesnut
streets, Philadelphia, by the Liberian Church Com-
inittee '(Episcopal), the Liberian Bishop Payne
stated the somewhat singular fact that the President,
Vice-President, Secretary of State, and Attorney-