The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-24 00:00:00

IBER.

What is a White Man ?

The Supreme C .
of Anongan has worried
itself very much of late in attemptinugnatcocudsiscomveedr
what is.a white man. A simple mind,
to
to subtle distinctions, would find no difficulty in
deciding, but would at once assert that a white man
is a man who is white. But such stupidity must
arouse the disgust of every profound philosopher.
It has been clearly established by the laws of every
Southern State, and several Northern States, including Michigan, that a man may be a white man,
and at the same time a black man. Everything
depends upon the cartilage of the nose. " A certain
peculiarity of the cartilage of the nose," says the
scientific testimony taken before the Circuit
Court of Wayne county, " is an infallible indica-
tion of African blood." This is truly an
appalling fact, and may lead to the amputation
of a large number of noses—for if a man is
only a nigger by reason of that organ, let him cut
it off, and instantly he rises in the scale of races.
With his nose, no matter how handsome it is, he is
a born inferior, destined to follow his nose upon a
downward career. Without his nose such a man
may dine with the President. Let every man, then,
look to his cartilage; for we greatly fear that black
men with pretended white noses are common. Tho
hair proves nothing—so the same scientific autho-
rity has established—for a black man may, even
without a wig, have a white man's hair. Wool, or
hair, the mulatto may have either, but cannot have
both. Besides, he may be bald, and then what
becomes of the test ? Under these circumstances,
all persons with hooked proboscises may be sus-
pected of a sinister design to conceal their
cartilage ; but the candid snub-nose, which
is always turned up for the inspection of
the world, must at once remove suspicion. When-
ever the reader has any doubt that an apparently
white man may really be a negro in disguise, he has
only to approach the person, and with a polite apo-
logy examine with his fingers the cartilage of his
nose. According t 6" the appearance of the carti-
lage he may then bow and say, am satisfied, my
'dear sir, you are not a negro ;" or " Leave, me,
vile impostor ! with that cartilage do you dare to
pretend to be white ?" Such an examination was ac-
tually made in Michigan before the Court referred
to. An unfortunate man named Dean, being
entirely ignorant that he was a negro, attempted
to vote at a local election, and was arrested for
violation of the laws. He brought numerous wit-
nesses, who testified that they had known him and
his family for many years, and to the best of their
knowledge there was not a drop of negro blood in
his body. But this availed him not. A certain
Dr. Pitcher examined his nose before the court, and
fronk the conformation of his cartilage alone he
was pronounced to be but fifteen-sixteenths
of a white man, the remaining sixteenth being
pure African. The defendant appealed to the
Supreme Court, and that intelligent body sustained
the nose, and the man, we believe, was punished
for voting contrary to law. Chief Justice Martin,
who dissented from this decision, has furnished
an opinion which will shock the community.
He contends that a preponderance of white blood
constitutes the man white, and actually scorns the
idea that by any authority of law, or principle of
reason, one-sixteenth or one thirty-second of Afri-
can blood can exclude a man from citizenship.
This wild and frantic argument will only excite
derision. It carefully ignores the existence of the
nasal cartilage, though the judge afterwards ad-
mits everything, by his ironical suggestion that
nose-pullers should be appointed by the Govern-
ment to attend the polls, and snub all noses which
cannot prove a clean record. In the meanwhile, a
general feeling of uneasiness must pervade the mu •
munity.—New York. Tribune, Aug. 2.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

GRLVESEND, Friday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 23—Fairy Queen, from Mazagan ; Geergine
from Archangel ; Havelock, trom Antwerp ; Accra, from.
Altona ; Admiral, from Guernsey ; Sophia Maria- Chris-
tina, from Wolgast ; Ladoga, steamer, loom Cronstadt.

Bank of England Aeturns,—.Last Even'.ng.

An Account, pursuant to t
cap. 32, for the week ending

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
Wednesday, Aug. 22, 1866.
CARTMENT.
Governmt. Debt.Xll,ols,loo
Other Securities 3,981,900
Gold Coin and
Bullion
Silver Bullion

ISSUE DE:
Notes issued ..,..C28,690,635

£28,690,635

X 28,690,633

BANKING 11

PARTMENT.
Go vernmt. Soeu-
rities(including
Dead Weight

Proprietors' Capi-
tal £14,553,000
Rest 3,846,260
Public Deposits
(including Ex-
chequer, Sav-
ings' Banks,
Commissioners
of National
Debt, and Div
Accounts) 3,411,639
Other Deposits 18,763,474
Seven Day and
other bills

Annuity) r.. £10,711,723
Other Securities 24,888,158
Notes 4,508,520
Gold and Silver
Coin mi. I 1,081,685

X 41,189,986

£41,189,986

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he French Society for assisting the freed negrot
in the United States has just published two addresses,—
one to the Queen of Spain, thanking her for the measures
of which she had taken the initiative for the abolition of
the slave trade, and praying her to continuo that good
work by abolishing slavery itself in the colonies of Cubs
and Porto Rico ; the second, to the Emperor of Brazil,
makes a similar appeal on behalf of the negroes of his do-

minions.
A letter front Lucerne, in the Cologne Gazette,
says :—"Rarely has so vet a month of August been wit-
nessed in Switzerland. In the Bernese Oberland the smallest
stream has become a torrent from the heavy rain. The
Rhigi and Mount Pilate offer magnificent cascades, such as
are not mentioned in any guide-book, and the tops of
these mountains arc covered with snow as in the middle(
of winter."