The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-31 00:00:00

Arrangements have been made by United States
Marshal Gooding, for the reception of John H. Sur-
ratt, who will be brought direct to Washington,
and not landed at Fortress Monroe. The time of
his trial will depend upon the arrival of witnesses to
whom he has confessed his guilt. The United
States District Court, before which he will be tried,
consists of Chief Justice Carter, of Ohio ; Judge
Olin, of New York ; Judge Fisher, of Delaware ;
Judge Wiley, of the District of Columbia ; Hon.
E. C. Carrington, United States District Attorney;
and Hon. Nathaniel Wilson, Assistant District At-
torney—all thoroughly loyal and able men. The
jury will be impannelled from the residents of the
District of Columbia and its vicinity, who may
perhaps also supply him with counsel. It is not
probable that he will make any confession unless
convicted and sentenced to be hung.
No hostility has yet been manifested in the Senate,
against the bill which passed the house by a party
vote, providing for the assembling of Congress on
March 4th.

A Chicago journal says that the total amount ex-
pended on buildings during the past year, as near
as can be ascertained, is $6,750,000, which has been
distributed as follows :
Leading architects ... ••• 53,000,000
Other carpenters, &c. ... 1,900,000
Without architects ... 1,850,000

Total ... ... ••• ... .... $6,750,000
The following figures will show the approximate
values of the structures :
Building worth $200,000 ••• ... ... $1
Worth $lOO,OOO and upwards ...
... 5
Worth $30,000, and loss than $lOO,OOO ... 30
Worth $lO,OOO, and less than $30,000 ... 60
Worth from $5,000 to $lO,OOO ... ... 300
Worth $l,OOO to $5,000 ••• ... ... 900
Small cottages, &c. ... ••• •.. ... 6,500

Total ... $7,856
Twenty-two large sea-going steamers enter and sail
from the ports of Aspinwall and Panama monthly.
'When the line to China is opened the Isthmus will
be in direct communication with almost every por-
tion of the globe.

No decision has yet been rendered by the Supreme
Court upon the question of the legality of the law
prescribing the test oath for attorneys.
The Inland Revenue receipts are now about one
million a day.
Captain John Britton, the United States Consul
at Southampton, received a letter from the Lords
of the Admiralty, before the arrival of the
yachts, of which the following is a copy, to-
gether with the captain's reply " Admiralty,
Dec. 20. Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you
that they have directed Admiral Sir T. Pasley, on
the arrival of the three American yachts, which left
New York on the 11th inst., to race to Cowes, Isle
of Wight, that he is to communicate with their cap-
tains or owners, and, in case of need, offer them the
assistance of the dockyard.—l am, sir, your obedient
servant, HENRY G. LENNOX.—John Britton, Esq.,
American Consulate, Southampton." " United
States Consulate, Southampton, Dec. 24.—Sir,—I
have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 20th inst., and in reply I beg to state
that I shall have great pleasure to inform the cap-
tains and owners of the American yachts now on
their way to Cowes of the offer of assistance ex-
tended to them by the Lords Commissioners of the
Admiralty. I have the honour to be, &c., JOHN
Bnirrox, United States Consul. To the Hon. Secre-
tary of the Admiralty." Preparations were made
at Cowes to give the yachts and the gentlemen on
board a suitable reception on their arrival, and it
has been decided to invite the American visitors to
a grand banquet, to which the authorities of neigh-
bouring towns are also to be invited.
It is reported that the Americans resident in
Paris, anticipating a great influx of their country-
men, have just made an application to the police
authorities for permission to set up an American
club.

The President has directed the various Cabinet
officers to prepare answers to the Hon. Leonard
Myers' resolution calling for a list of all removals
and appointments, &c., made during the recess.
These lists were to be sent in in a few days, and will
be much larger than is generally supposed.
The House Committee on the Judiciary have as
yet taken no action on Judge Kelley's bill for the
reorganisation of the Internal Revenue Depart-
ment.

The Managers of the Soldiers' National Asylum
have agreed to establish three homes, one in Maine,
at Augusta, which is now open ; one in Wisconsin,
for which ground has been bought near Milwaukee,
and one in Ohio, which will probably be near Day.

The copper districts of the United States, east of
the Rocky Mountains, to which attention has
been attracted, other than those of Lake Superior,
are as follows : —Virginia, upon the Blue Ridge
range, in Carroll, Floyd, and Grayson counties ;
North Carolina, Guilford county, &c. ; Tennessee,
Polk county ; Georgia, along the line of Gilmer
county; New Jersisy, Schuyler mine of Belleville;
Connecticut, Bristol mine. Most of these mines
have been abandoned ; those of Virginia, Tennessee,
Georgia, and Connecticut were at one time
vigorously worked ; the Eureka and other com-
panies, of Georgia and Tennessee, have at times
yielded a profit to their owners.
In the United States Senate, on the 12th instant
Mr. Morgan introduced the following joint resolu-
tion of thanks to Mr. Cyrus W. Field, which was
referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations :
" Resolved,—That the thanks of Congress be, and
hereby are, presented to Cyrus W. Field, of New
York, for his foresight, courage, and determination
in establishing telegraphic communication by means
of the Atlantic cable, traversing through mid-ocean,
between the Old World and the New, and that the
President of the United States be requested to cause
a gold medal to be struck, with suitable emblems,
devices, and inscriptions, to be presented to Mr.
Field. Resolved,—That when the medal shall have
been struck, the President shall cause a copy of this
joint resolution to be engrossed on parchment, and
shall transmit the same, together with the medal, to
Mr. Field, to be presented to him in the name of the
people of the United States of America. Resolved,
—That a sufficient sum of money to carry this re-
solution into effect is hereby appropriated out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-
priated." Cyrus W. Field was at Washington, ar-
ranging with the Government about matters con-
nected with the Atlantic cable.
It has been definitely settled that a large delega-
tion from the North-west tribes of Indians are to be
sent as a.contribution from the United States to the
Exposition. The Indian Bureau, and Colonel-Row-
land, the Commissioner of the North-western States
and Territories, have given every facility in their
collection. Mr. Henry C. Jarrett will take the
management of the party. They will catty with
them their various costumes, wigwams, war and
agricultural implements, and will form the only con-
tribution from the United States to the tenth group
within the limits of the Exposition: They will
leave New York about the 10th of March. The
Imperial Commission has made the most urgent re-
quests, through Commissioner General Beckwith,
to the United States Government, that there should
be such a representation of our aborigines.
The cereal and mineral representation, of the
States and Territories lying between the lakes and
the Pacific, for the Paris Exposition, will be very
complete. Wisconsin and Minnesota will furnish
wheat :which will fully equal the grains of Odessa.
Idaho and Montana will supply full specimens of
their precious metals. This representation has been
raised through the efforts of Colonel Rowland, the
Commissioner to Paris of all the North-western
States and Territories, who has reached Washington
from an extended trip through the country he is to
represent.

IVe learn that Mr. Jennings, the New York cor-
respondent of the London Times, is shortly to lead
to the altar Miss Madeline Henriques.—New York
Leader.

Mrs. Ellen Key Blunt is giving Shaksperiau
readings at Berlin. Mrs. Blunt is quite Southern
in her feelings, and cannot reconcile herself to the
Union.

At Frankfort at present we notice the names of
Professor F. C. N ilsch, Ifoppin and lady, C. G.
\Viedman, and Herman Marcuse, all of New York ;
Colonel W. B. Faswell, San Francisco ; bliss
Mason, New York ; Consul E. D. Webster,
Buffalo, New York ; James Eldredge, San Fran-
cisco ; Gerald Stanton, Chicago.
In Wiesbaden are now W. 11. Danidge, New
York ; Philip Schieffelin and wife ; A. H. Hamil-
ton, New Orleans; Henry Schmidt, Boston.
Mrs. Randall, wife of the Postmaster-General,
is spending the winter at Rome.

We perceive by the Vienna papers that the
Breach-loading Arms Commission, presided over by
the Archduke William, have unanimously recom-
mended the Remington rifle for adoption as the
Austrian arm.

Mr. Charles Temple Dix, the son of our Ambas-
sador to the Tuileries, is now in London. With
that delicacy so ever characteristic of the family be

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, Saturday, Dec. 13.
One of the most important events in the Stock Market
has been the election of the directors of the New York
Central Railroad held at Albany on Wednesday last, when
Mr. lltinr,y Keep, of New York, was elected President, and
Mr. W. C. Fargo, of Buffalo, Vice-President. Mr. Van-
derbilt and his clique were thoroughly defeated, and an
entirely new board elected, with two exceptions. This
occurred at a meeting representing eighteen and a half mil-
lions of the stock, and the feeling of the meeting may be
sew, front the fact ti.t seventeen. millions of this voted for
he successful ticket. The fact is, that the holders were
disgusted with their property being turned to political
purposes, and their interests sacrificed to this end, and
they are bent upon making the most of a splendid line, and
really governing the railroad for the benefit of the inves-
tors. Money is active at six to seven per cent. on good
collaterals, with rare exceptions of five. Call loans are
made at frornsixpercent. down to five. The banks are very
cautious. Both at Boston and at Chicago the demand is
considerable, but it is thought that the stringency will be
lessened by the disbursement of 10i millions of currency,
being the interest on the 7-30 loan, which the Treasury
will pay immediately. About half this sum will be paid
in New York. The stock markets continue dull, with now
and then a little flickering of excitement, which only serve
to show the want of strength. Some of the leading rail-
ways have rallied a trifle, but there is not activity enough
to make the rise general. The position of affairs in Con-
gress tends to make speculators wary, and all seem dis-
posed to wait till political events are more plainly indi-
cated. It is very difficult to predict what may be the
course of events, and all seem to concur that they are
more precarious than usual. The bill introduced into
Congress by Mr. Boutwell, compelling the Secretary of
the Treasury to sell two millions of gold every Monday
morning so long as he.has fifty millions, has caused much
discussion. Both Mr. M'Culloch himself and some of our
best financiers aro strongly opposed to the plan. They
hold that a discretion should be left to the Secretary if
the Treasury gold must be sold, to sell when he can do so
to the best advantage, and not at stated times and in stated

" I amounts.
- The last statement of the public debt shows that
- $37,705,300 in the new 5.20's of 1865 were issued during
November, and that twenty-four millions of Seven-
Thirties, $1,125,000 of compound interest notes, and
nearly five millions in plain legal tenders were taken up
by them. Though twenty millions of coin was disbursed
to cash five-twenty coupons, the increase of the coin re-
serve had nearly balanced that amount, and the reserve
has since swelled to $90,716,000, of which $21,441,000 is in
gold certificates. The total reduction of the debt was less
than two millions, owing to the large disbursements, but
the aggregate reduction in the last fifteen months has
amounted to $208,050,233. Gold is weak, at 1371, for the
reason that there is a very light demand for it. The Satur-
day's steamers took out $574,000 and $272,000 more left
for Europe on Wednesday. These are a little in excess of
the gold exports in previous weeks, but not enough to
make any stiffening in the price. Besides, the demand
for customs is very light, having fallen below $200,000
dollars I, day at New York, when a short time ago it was
$lOO,OOO. Besides, again, the secretary has been quietly
selling four or five millions of gold—a fact well substan-
tiated, though stoutly denied at first.
The decline in the produce markets still goes on; though
it is thought that the lowest prices have been reached,
and a revival in trade will spring up. Several city houses
have succumbed under their losses. The disastrous dul-
ness in woollens has been severely felt, and there is a
difficulty in making sales at any price. The
entire earnings of the New York Central for the year
ending September 30 were $14,596,784, an increase of
$621,261 over the previous year. Of this amount
$4,360y248 came from passengers, a decrease of $161,201 ;
and $9,671,919 from freights, an, increase of $895,892. The
operating expenses were $11,013,441 against $10,882,358.
This showing would have justified a division of 8 per
cent., instead of 6, as was declared ; but the surplus fund
was increased $486,631, making it $4,407,928, and $431,991
was applied to the structure and equipment of the road.
The present debt and capital amounted ti $38,896,804.—
The Reading Railroad has declared a dividend of 5 per
cent. in cash or stock, at the option of the stockholders.
The fellowiug are about the latest prices : —American
gold, 1371; United States coupon sixes, 1881, 112; United
States five-twenties (1862), 1071; X 1864), 1051; (1865),
1051; (1865, new issue), 1081; United States ten-forties,
901; United States 7 3-10 loan (first series), 1051; (second
and third series), 105 ; Tennessee sixes, 91; Missouri,
901; New York Central Railroad, 1111; Erie, 721; Hud-
son River, 122; Reading, 1091; Michigan Central, 118 ;
Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 821; Illinois
Central, 1181; Cleveland and Pittsburg, 91; Chicago and
Northwestern, 551; Chicago and Northwestern preferred,
751; Cleveland Toledo, 1131; Chicago and Rock Island, • ,
1011; Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago, 1051; Ohio
and Mississippi Certificates, 291; Canton Company, 46 ;
Cumberland Coal Company, 661; Quicksilver Mining Corn-
parry, 464. 1 ,

From E. F. Batterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular,

December 26.)
Our advices from New York per the Sptia to the 11th
instant report slightly increased stringency in the money
market, and a decline of about one per cent. in Govern..
ment securities. Railroad stocks were slightly depreciated,
but not in proportion to the fall in gold. In State stocks
and' railroad mortgages the changes were unimportant.
Notwithstanding a broken week on the London Stock
Exchange, and consequent inactivity in markets generally,
there bas been a geed hpsiness transacted in America se-
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