The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-12 00:00:00

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 11.

The Royal Mail steamer Asia, which sailed from Boston
on the 31st ult. and from Halifax on the 2d inst., has
arrived off the harbour. She brings 137 passengers, and
has $2,500 (£360 sterling) on freight. Having transferred
four passengers, 126 sacks mails, and the latest telegrams,
she proceeded for Liverpool, all well.

General Weitzel and General Mejia's correspondence
relative to the capture of Bagdad has been published. The
former states he sent 300 men to Bagdad, at the request
of General Escobedo, purely as an act of humanity—not
to perform any service for either party. General Mejia
asserted briefly that he had notified his Government of all
that had occurred at Bagdad. The French naval com-
mander, before leaving for Vera Cruz, protested against
the invasion of Mexico by American soldiers.

General Sheridan has refused to permit emigrants to
leave New Orleans for Mexico. He acts under instructions
from Washington.

The Revanue Commission has submitted to Congress a
report proposing a tax of 5 cents per lb. on cotton, and a
reduction of the tax on distilled spirits to $1 per gallon.
The report relating to the reciprocity treaty, prepared at
the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, has been laid
on the desks of members of Congress. It includes .a
bill
proposing to continue the present treaty one year, from
March next, provided Canada repeals the duties and taxes
on certain enumerated articles, raises tho internal tax on
certain other articles, and discountenances the free ports
on Lakes Huron and Superior, with some other advantages
to be secured to the United States.

O facial a.dyieuairom EL tha Sinh__Docember say
that Juarez still there, -

Intercepted letters from General Escobedo have been
published, stating that he is indebted to the Americans on
the Texas side of the river for valuable military stores.
Gen. Cortinas had obtained some shells from Brownsville.

Guaymas advices of the 16th Dec., via San Francisco,
state that the Republicans had captured Alamosan (?).
President Johnson has communicated to the Senate Mr.
Stanton's opinion, endorsed by himself, that it is inconsis-
tent with the public interest to furnish Congress with the
letters of General Sheridan and other Federal officers, re-
garding the present condition of affairs on the southern
frontier, especially in relation to any violation of neutrality
by the armies occupying the right bank of the Rio Grande.
The House of Representatives re-committed the consti-
tutional amendment relative to representation, with all
pending propositions, to the Re-construction;Committee,
with instructions. •

The House of Representatives has refused to grant the
privilege of the floor to members from Arkansas, which
privilege has been granted to the Tennessee members.

Senator Raymond has made a long speech opposing the
constitutional amendment, and supporting President Jebn-
son's re-construction policy.

President Johnson, at an interview with the leading
Senators, expressed his disapprobation of any further con-
stitutional amendments; but,,if there must be any amend-
ment, which at present he deemed unnecessary, he knew
of none better than to make the entire number of voters
the representative basis, and the total value of property the
basis of direct taxation. He regarded the agitation of
negro franchise in the district of Columbia at present as
ill-timed, and calculated to stir up hatred between the two
races, resulting in injury to both.
There are rumours in Richmond that the President pro-
posed to place Virginia under a provisional governorship,
in consequence of the hostile attitude of thoLegislature,and
the persistency of the people to elect disloyal candidates.
General Sickles has 'issued an order in Charleston re-
minding the South Carolinians that they are still under
martial law, arranging the relations between whites and
blacks, and announcing their equality before the law.
Mr. Seward has returned to Washington. The authori-
ties and people of St. Thomas and Cuba received him with
marked courtesy and respect. At St. Thomas he had an
interview with Gen. Santa Anna that the United States
would never permit the permanent establishment of the
empire of Mexico.

The New. York World's correspondent said that Mr.
Seward had an interview at Havana with the aide-de-camp
of the Emperor Maximilian.

movement.

grapes.

persons.

Gen. Sheridan has forbidden emigrants to leave New
Orleans for Mexico.

It is reported that several Chilien privateers are cruising
round the island of Cuba.

The House of Representatives adopted, by a vote of 120
to 46, the resolution reported from the Construction Com-
mittee for a constitutional amendment apportioning repre-
sentatives according to the population, excluding those de-
prived of the suffrage on account of colour. The provision
for apportioning direct taxes has been stricken out. Dur-
ing the debate Mr. Stevens strongly animadverted on the
Presidont making known his views on the constitutional
amendment, through the press, at a time when the house
was legislating on the subject.
The New York 7ribune says that M. de Montholon has
communicated to Mr. Seward the reply of the French Go-
vernment to Mr. Seward's note concerning the Mexican

empire.
The New York Herald says that at a banquet given by
the Captain-General of Havana, Mr. Seward made a speech
offering the sentiment that Spain was the only European
powor that had any right to location in America, since
Spain had always been eminently American. Mr. Seward,
whilst in Havana, refused to receive Baron Magnus, the
Prussian minister to the Emperor Maximilian, who was en
route to Mexico.

The Committee of Ways and Means has reported to Con-
gress a bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to
sell bonds at home or abroad for funding the currency, but
not authorising any increase of the public debt. The in-
terest on the bonds sold abroad must not exceed five per
cent. The principal must be made payable in coin or cur-
rency of the country where made payable.
Toronto despatches have caused renewed Fenian alarm
along the frontier. The military has been very much
strengthened, owing to information that General Sweeney
had forces for a "raid" on the pi incipal towns.'
The Africa has arrived at Halifax.
The New York has arrived out.

Senator Wade, of Ohio, was assaulted by a drun-
ken or crazy man in his Diem at Washington lately, but
easily got rid of his assailant.
Senator Sumner has had a negro's finger sent to
him in a box, with an insulting message, from some op-
poser of equal suffrage in the District.

now in Washington,
l
-hasj-huicidgea'nFaietltdem, opft
made Cal foo rnn
his life by a torpedo box,,
which he luckily found-the natare-of in season to prevent

any injury.

Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who has been

Judge 0. A. Loclrane, of Macon, Ga., a native
Irishman, has vvrittAan a long letter urging his country-
men in the South to have nothing to do with the Fenian

General G-. T. Anderson, late C. S. A., is spoken
of in connection with the office of Chief Marshal of
Atlanta.

George Francis Train has bought 434 acres of
forest land in Omaha, Nebraska, for $75,000, for his
Cottage Company and for a Central Park. George says
Omaha is destined to be one of the great cities of the con-
NEW Yonx, Jan. 30 (Evening). I tinent.

General John B. Gordon is about to locate at
Brunswick, Georgia, where he will engage in the lumber
business. It is his purpose to erect two large mills on the
Brunswick Railroad, and will carry on an extensive busi-
ness in connection with other gentlemen.

The gas monopolists of Chicago are about coming
to grief, as a new gas, made from crude petroleum, is
being introduced there. The Chicago Post says that
the light of the petroleum gas is fully four times
greater than the light of the coal gas, and that it can be
made at a very much less cost.

The Atlanta (Georgia) lntelligencer, of the 6th
ultimo, closes an article headed "New England scheming
again," by telling the Fenians that "in New England they
have an enemy more to be feared in the future than Old
England—an enemy with all the world—a ruthless, forni-
cating enemy, whom no law, human or divine, ever yet
restrained in her greed after gain and in her intolerance
and fanaticism."

The New York'News has " private information"
which warrants it in saying that Stephens, the Irish
Fenian, will not visit the United States for some time to
come.

Governor Worth says, in his address to the people
-ot Di unit vat unua, vve- akt not go vo.untarlly iuw v..,
late calamitous rebellion. The action of coterminous
States forced us to take sides in the strife. We elected
to go with our section; and having taken our position we
acted with good faith to our associations, and bore our-
selves gallantly in the fight. Being vanquished we sub-
mit as becomes a brave people. The President, as com-
mander-in-chief of the military powers of the nation, mag-
nanimously trusts us. Ido not believe there is a citizen
of the State who is unworthy of this confidence."

Mr. Mercer's enterprise to transport several
hundreds of young ladies of the "anxious and aimless"
class from New England to Washington Territory has met
with many obstacles, and has proved to a considerable de-
gree a failure. His steamer, the Continental, sailed from
New York on Wednesday with 75 women and 50 men.
So that company will only reduce the painful pre-
ponderance of male population in the distant territory
by 25.

A company, with a capital of $lOO,OOO, has been
formed in Mifflin county, Ohio, for the cultivation of

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A company has been formed, with a capital of
$300,000 ($llO,OOO paid in), for mining at tho Vermillion
Lake Gold Mines in Northern Minnesota.

Utah Territory now contains 90,000 inhabitants.
Great Salt Lake City has 17,000 inhabitants, and there
are several towns with from four to six thousand people.

The custom of selling coloured people in Dela-
waro for a term of years, as a punishment for crime, is still

kept up, though now it does not amount to mush. Four
persons were sold a few days since, and brought from
twelve to fifteen cents each, and their purchasers imme-
diately let them go.

The Columbus (Georgia) Sun understands that
a company of prominent gentlemen of that city will leave
for Mexico at an early day. Among them is Judge W.
G. Swan, formerly of Knoxville, and an ex-member of the

rebel Congress, who for some time past has boen following
his profession at Columbus. The Sun says the number of
colonists will be increased at New Orleans to some 26

Regalias are to be admitted into the United
States free of duty. So says the Secretary of the Trea-

The Saturday Press says the Fenians, lately
spoiling for a fight, are now fighting for the spoils.
North Carolina has now extensive iron works in
Chatham county, in the Deep river region. Coal and iron
ore abound, and there is every chance for development.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW Yonx, Feb. 1 (Evening),

Money easy ; Gold 1404. Exchange on London, 1.1.1 ;
Perla, 3 74. Stocks depressed ; New York Central, 87};
Illinois, 160}; Erle, 78}; Five Twenty United States
Bonds, 103. Cotton steady ; Middling Upland, 49c. Flour
quiet. .Wheat and Indian corn dull Provisions steady.
Sugar dull. Coffee and molasses steady. Petroleum dull ;
crude, 82c.; refined, 540.

A TOOTH TO CHIP AN EGG !—Professor Owen, in
his new work " On the Anatomy of Vertebrates,"
writes as follows :—" In snakes and lizards, a sharp tooth
is developed in the premaxillary of the embryo, towards
the close of incubation, wherewith they cut through the
tough egg-shell. The operation of this transitory and
purposive weapon has been observed by Weinland ; it
totally disappears in the adult of most ophidia. For break-
ing through the more brittle shell in chelonia, the embryo
is provided with a sort of horn or hard excrescence above
the end of the upper jaw ; this afterwards disappears. In
the crocodilia, the snout of the nearly-hatched young is
sufficiently hard to break the egg-shell ; but there is no
distinct tubercle, nor any precociously-developed pre-
maxillary tooth. Either on the hypothesis of special
adaptation of this structure to the need of breaking the
shell, says a critic in the Reader, or on the theory of its
being the remnant of an imparial dermal element attached
to the nasal segment, this fact is most interesting. But
the facts which put at our disposal by a subsequently-
published memoir of Professor Owen (Memoir on the
Marsupial Pouches, Mammary Glands, and Mammary
Foetus of the Echidna Ifystris. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1865, p.
671) add some new and striking information to the stock
of our previously-acquired knowledge. He therein states
his telief that young monotremal mammalians are also
provided with this " internarial " tubercle whereby to
liberate themselves from the egg :—" From this analogy, I
imagine that the young monotremes may be provided with
a horny or epidermal process or spine upon the internasal
tubercle, for the same purpose. This temporary tubercle
is obviously homologous with the hard knob on the upper
mandible of cbelonians and birds, by which they break
theh way through the harder calcareous covering of their
externally-hatched embryo." Figures have been given in
this memoir of the " internarial" tubercle in Echidna, and
in its allied genus, Ornithorhynchus ; and we confess that
we. consider the functional resemblance of the structures in
the mammalian to those in the reptile exceedingly close.