The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

1110NARCIlY 1N 711 E UNITED STATES.

The Round Table does not write for sensation—
it does not stray out of the regions of common sense
into those of extravagance to get talked about, or
to produce a remarkable article, which may be ex-
tensively copied into the columns of its contempo-
raries. Yet our readers may perhaps accuse the
Round Table of doing this, when it actually predicts
the near approach of a monarchy in the United
States. We go see-sawing, like boys on a board
—one high up, the other low down; the one with a
diadem, the other with a cap of liberty ; one, the
voice of the Sovereign, the other, that of the people.
If so just as England is hastening to a Radical De-
mocracy, the United States, having completed that
cycle, goes in for Sovereignty. This is the idea of
the Round Table, and it certainly does not write
without authority and experience. The political
changes in the Union have been equalled only by
the social changes. It is probable that the South
has by this time a government of its own, but in-
stead of the government it yearned after and
fought for it has an irresponsible military dictator.
GRANT, ruling the States lately in rebellion, in a
position above law, and supported by an army, is
no less than a despotic monarch over a third
of the great Republic. This follows on a great
war, on a rent Constitution, on a PRESIDENT
stripped of power, on a Supreme Court deprived
of the Constitutional appeal, and on a• usurp-
ing Congress which claims to make and unmake Dic-
tators. The Round Table believes in a growing per-
suasion that American institutions, in their present
form, are inadequate to meet prospective require-
ments, and that a change is necessary which pos-
sibly may assume a revolutionary character. Re-
publican simplicity and provincial prejudices have
vanished before wealth and cosmopolitan know-
ledge. But there are others besides these natural
changes which have followed on the great war that
lead to an uneasiness seen in the faces and heard
in the speech of men who care about their country,
arising from a consciousness of both the need and
imminence of readjustment of some sort, with the
uncertainty as to what those readjustments ought to
be. The whole surface and current of society has
changed and is changing from the simple, frugal,
even-toned Republic of the past, with a surging swift-
ness that reminds one of the rapids which rush down
to swell the great cataract. The provision to meet this
shows one great advantage which Englani possesses
in an unwritten Constitution that grows with the
people and adapts itself to altering circumstances,
over a written instrument whose limits of flexibility
are precisely defined, but whose infringement
will always endanger the national peace. These are
very nearly the words of the Round Table, and it
goes ou to state—" We are no advocates of mo-
narchy or irresponsible government in any form,
yet we certainly believe that most of the evils under
which we labour are the legitimate fruits of carry-
ing popular theories of government to a licentious
extreme—an extreme never contemplated by the
founders of the Republic. The warning has been heard
so often that it falls on partly calloused ears, but our
career towards military despotism threatens to be a
swift and straight one. We have carried our trusts
in majorities too far ; we have disregarded the right
of minorities too long ; we have accepted the voice
of the people as the voice of GOD, and have hugged
to ourselves the stupid blunder that ignorance work-
ing in masses would breed wisdom, notwithstanding
that ignorance in the individual, breeds folly." Not
only does the Round 7able believe that a plebiscite
♦ote, black and white, might sanction the follow ing of
the French example, but it maintains that the political
reaction lately set in, promises to be so confusing to
most previous calculations as to arrest or deflect the

national course. "Should it fail to do so, and no spe-
cial dispensation be reserved that is yet unseen, we
may be :nearer than most Americans would be willing
to believe to the Sceptre and the Diadem." Suppos-
ing them is truth in this remarkable statement, what
an extraordinary change would be wrought. At
the very time that England is becoming American-
ized, and all Europe feels the influence of her Re-
publican propagandism, it will be passing strange if
America should -rush into a monarchy ! Though Ame-
ricans might scout with disdain the notion, yet it
does not follow that the reaction announced by the
Round Table is not in operation. Americans move
with a startling rapidity, and changes occur so
great as absolutely to take away the breath, and
leave the slow, gazing in open-mouthed wonder at
the progress of the State machine. History
backs the arguments of the Round Table, and
there seems„ as it says, a certain grim fatality
in the politi cal experience of nations which com-
pels the r epetition of historic sequences. At
the same dme that we grant the astounding
nature of stitch a revolution, we maintain that a
change lit tie less in degree has been effected
in England, which had any one predicted, a
few years ago, would be inaugurated and car-
ried into effect by the country party, he would
have been, considered mad. It is easier io
wrench power from the people than from a class.
The multitiude individually surrender little, though
the aggregate of that little, makes a CASAR. But
the few surrender much, and cling tenaciously to
what they possess. Americans generally hold
that to the New World cannot be applied the ex-
periences of the Old ; but history is rapidly dispel-
ling this delusion. They move on, however, in the
comfortable assurance generated by their faith till
inexorable fate overtakes them. Twenty years ago
few would have believed that they had to fight
a mighty conflict to preserve their cherished Union.
But the other day their violated Constitution was a
venerated document. If time has with so sacrilegi-
ous a hand dealt with institutions held thus sacred,
why should the rule of the majority be exempt
from overthrow? Our lands, says the Round Table,
are filling up with unexampled rapidity; our taxes
are burdensome beyond precedent; the interest of
the various sections—chiefly through bungling and
unscientific legislation—are becoming almost di-
rectly antagonistic ; enormously rich men are ap-
pearing, who, by controlling great railroads, and other
potential levers, are acquiring an ascendancy which
threatens to become highly dangerous to the people
at large. A love of luxury and a habit of vain- '
glorious expenditure have developed into propor-
tions that irresistibly suggest historical precedents
as lessons. These,. in the opinion of the Round
Table, are foreshadowings of the Purple, and
although we firmly believe that the great Re-
public is a long way from such a change, yet the
arguments are not without weight, and who can
tell what the future has in store ? Those who
ground their faith in human progress on Republi-
can institutions, will receive a shock from such ideas.
A revolution that substituted monarchy on the ruins
of the Republic would to them be simple sacrilege.
However imperfect now, they hold that education
will gradually fit the masses for self-government.
Monarchy in the United States means the abandon-
ment of a belief in Democracy by the human race,
and of all hope of ever fitting mankind for his
natural privilege of self-rule.—Anglo-American
Times.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

tFrom the Anglo-American Times.)

The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the
usual monthly statement of the public debt of the
United States. The total amount of the debt on the
Ist inst. was $2,651,000,000, against $2,642,000,000
on Ist January last, being an increase of $9,000,000.
The cash in the Treasury at the same date was
$124,000,000, against $134,000,000 at the corre-
sponding period last month, being a decrease of
$10,000,000. The reduction of the cash in the
Treasury is owing principally to the payment of
the January coupons of the 5-20 Bonds and the
redemption of the Six per Cent. Loan contracted
in 1847.

The news from Annesley Bay is to February 2.
The Egyptian troops are pushing forward without
the concurrence of the British authorities. It is
reported that King Theodore is at Magdala, and
that all the captives are with him. Menilek has
been defeated and has retired to Ankobar. Sir R.
Napier is about to advance from Senafe to Antalo.
The rumour that an engagement had taken place is
unconfirmed. The 2 Imes of India states authori-
tatively that 238 vessels are employed in the Indian
seas and for the Abyssinian expedition, and that
the monthly freight, exclusive of coal, is £392,000.
From Madrid it is announced that a commission
will shortly be appointed, under the presidency of a
General of Brigade, to proceed to Abyssinia.
A Free-Trade dinner was given at Delmonico's
on the 30th January, by Charles O'Connor, David
Dudley Field, R. B. Mintum, Jackson S. Schultz,
Cyrus W. Field, and other prominent literary,
scientific, and mercantile men, to the poet William
Cullen Bryant, President of the Free-Trade League
in America. Letters were read from Ralph Waldo
Emerson and Gerritt Smith. " I share cordially
in your faith in Free Trade," wrote Mr. Emerson.
Mr. Bryant made a long and able speech in support
of Free Trade. A Democratic mass meeting was
held in New York the same evening in support of
Mr. Johnson. About 3,000 persons were present.
A. letter was read from Senator Doolittle. Reso-
lutions were passed denouncing Congress, and
favouring the re-nomination of Andrew Johnson

for President.
General Grant was censured at the above meet-
ing for yielding the War-office to Stanton. Com-
modore Vanderbilt has withdrawn his name from
the movement he joined with A. T. Stewart and
other wealthy men for promoting Grant's nomina-
tion for the Presidency. The Commodore wrote
to Mr. Stewart, giving as his reason the General's
reticence in the Stanton affair. Grant refuses to
reply to the attacks made on him, and even the
attempt of the President and his Cabinet to prove
'lira guilty of falsehood fails to move him. A Con-
vention assembled at Columbus, composed of 300
prominent Republicans, has declared for Grant,
and the Republican State Committee of Ohio ac-
cepted this resolution..
Mr. Edward Thornton, British Minister to the
United States, was cordially received by President
Johnson on the 7th instant. The New York World
describes his appearance and dress on his arrival in
New York. " He is perhaps sixty years of age, of
rather bilious complexion, bright hazel eyes quick
in their motion, white English side whiskers,
whitish grey hairs mixed with a few black streaks,
five feet ten inches in height, slender in build, quiet
looking, without anything acidulous, firm, haughty,
or pompous in manner ; and none of that port-wine
look so often observed in the servants of her most
gracious Majesty exiled to this horrid' country."
Having made all ready, he appeared on the gang-
plank with two silk umbrellas in hand. The very
first person he encountered was a full-blooded and
athletic Fenian, who offered to carry his trunks.
He sternly refused the Fenian's offer, who made
hostile demonstrations. The Manchester Guardian
tells the following story of Mr. Thornton. Before
quitting London he met an American gentleman,
whom he did not recognize as a member of the ultra-
Republican party, and to whom he praised Mr.
Johnson highly for his administrative vigour and
skill. Finding no response, he modified his tone,
and said, " At all events, all must admit that he
does wonders for an entirely self-made man." " It
may be so," was the rejoinder ; "but, if he be self-
made,
I will say that it relieves God Almighty of a
grave responsibility."
We have fuller information on the story we last
week told of the challenge to fight a duel given to
General Butler, at Richmond, by Mr. White, a
Methodist preacher, who, in 1861, was a major of a
New York regiment. He was in the presence of the
enemy when he deliberately resigned his commission
to start in business as a suttler in the camp, where
he had served as a field officer. General Butler,
who was commanding, disgusted by such a proceed-
ing, issued an order expelling him from the depart-
ment, in more vigorous than gentle tones. Mr.
White continued as a preacher, a circumstance not
very creditable to hie permed= iie seems to

have nursed the wrong till the opportunity- re-
taliation offered, and to have given vent to his
spleen on catching his old commander the other day
at Richmond. The General very properly treated
his cartel with the contempt he had before treated
his person. If Butl,,T undertook to fight all he had
thus offended, his career in the land would not be
long; and were such a mode recognized, the generals
of the army would henceforth act at the peril of
their lives; for Congress, who makes them, can un-
make, and when unmade they would fall into the
clutches of their adversaries.

The New York Nation, in its "chaffy" way,
quotes a blunder of the London Spectator, as a
proof that the British never can understand Ameri-
can institutions. Writing of the horrible Lake
Shore accident, " Let us hope," says the Spectator,
" that the catastrophe will cure American railway
officials of their insane custom of locking the car-
riages." "We fearlessly call on any gentlema❑ who
has ever travelled by rail in our whole wile country,
and New ,Tersy, to say whether or not one of the
two doors is not perpetually swinging and banging
backward and forward. Does not a very sensi-
tive man," adds the Nation, " frequently have mo-
ments of agony when he feels a dull jar, and sus-
pects that one of his neighbours, walking the length
of the train, has slipped down to the track, and been
cut up at the rate of 30 miles an hour. The fact
of the matter is—and the head of the Travellers'
Club or the Resident Commissioner of the Tribune
will confirm all we say—the American car is rarely
locked except for the purpose of keeping people out
of it. They lock it when it is in the depot and
people are anxious for seats. At other times it is
as free as the boundless continent of freedom."
Now the reverse is the case in England, where the
doors are generally locked, though we are not dis-
posed to maintain, with the Spectator, that the
custom is insane.

In the M'Ardle case a motion has been made
by the prosecution for the case to be advanced and
dismissed on the grounds of want of jurisdiction.
Another case is pending to test the constitutionality
of the Reconstruction Laws. Churchwell Combes,
now in the Libby Prison, sues for a writ of Habeas
Corpus on the ground that Schofield has no con-
stitutional power to confine citizens without trial
who have never been in the United States' military
or naval service. He is accused of having murdered
a Federal scout during the war. Another case of
great interest is before the Supreme Court. The
owners of the ship Golden Rocket, from Havannah,
destroyed by the Sumter, July 13, 1861, sued cer-
tain New York Insurance Companies, on the plea
that the captain was a pirate. The United
States District Court, in Maine, decided that
the captain was the agent of a Government re-
cognised by the United States as a belligerent.
Against this decision the owners appealed. The
Pall-Mall Gazette erroneously attritA
male
the cap-
ture to the Alabama, which would le the case to
be decided by the Spreme Court widely different.
The Sumter was commissioned and equipped in the
Southern States, and ran the blockade of the Missis-
sippi ; the Alabama never entered a Southern port.
We cannot, therefore, see what principle of interna-

tional importance will be decided by the case, though
the recognition of the South as a belligerent by
the highest tribunal in America will be of interest to
England. Massachusetts is interested to the extent of
$6,000,000 in a pending question in the Supreme
Court involving the constitutionality of the Income-
tax law. $9,000,000 is now annually paid, while
if the direct tax were apportioned according to repre-
sentation, as the constitution requires her share
would be only $3,000,000.
The case of the emigrant ship Leibnitz, which left
Hamburgh on November 2 with 544 Germans for
New York, has attracted the attention of the Go-
vernment at Berlin, and arrangements are now
being made by the Minister of the Interior for the

establishment of a Central Protection Association

to watch over the interests of emigrants. Of
the passengers who left Hamburgh in the above
ship, 105 died on the voyage and three more in
port, and the Leibnitz arrived in a condition so

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pthable that the indignation of the New Yorkers
was excited, and the case brought before Congress
by one of their Representatives. An investigation

showed, that no adequate provision had been made
for the passengers, and the ventilation was so de-
fective that even lights would not burn between

decks, and the ship reached port in such a state that
the Commissioner who went on board could not
discover a clean spot to touch with hand or foot.
Other vessels ha•l preceded the Leibnitz under some-
what similar circumstances, and it was considered
high time for the Government to interfere.

- .
District Attorney Martin, who lately attempted
to shoot Judge Busteed, of Alabama, is out of gaol
on $lO,OOO bail, and his wife asks charitable judg-
ment for him on the ground that he was repeatedly
and desperately provoked, and Mr. Martin's temper
is sometimes very bad. The Nation is very severe
on this case,' and on this plea; and it certainly is
one for which bail would be refused in any other
country.

Senator Anthony introduced a joint resolution,
Jan. 29, to provide for the publication of the Me-
dical and Surgical History of the Rebellion and the
Medical Statistics in the Povost-Marshal General's
office, which was referred to the Committee on
Military Affairs.

[ADVEUTISEALENT.] —Holloway's Pills.—Wiuterly Draw-
backs.—Whence fogs spring, or whither they retire, it is
not our present purpose to explain ; we desire to point out
how their ill effects on the human frame can be neutralised•
The blood must bo freed from superfluous carbon and
mephitic taints by some purifying medicine like Hollo-
way's pills, which not only thoroughly cleanse the circu-
lation, but adjust in every organ the defects imposed upon
it by that fluid when it has become foul or sluggish•
Those pills prevent stagnation, congestion, and are On
best regulators and preservatives against internal inflam-
mations, irritations, and ulcerations. While expelling
morbid matters from the system, they cool it by their
gently aperative action, and strengthen it by their tonn)
virtues.

_ .[ADVERTlSEMENT.]—Dyspepsiaandigestion), Constipation, De-
Imlay, Consumption, and all nervous, bilious, stomach, and Hot
complaints in every stage, are only aggravated' and accelerated
by thugs of every description, but perfectly curable by Du
Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, as proved 14
thousands of cases which had been considered hopeless, suer.
as—cough, asthma, also diarrhcea, haemorrhoids, liver Cola-
plaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats.
diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and
ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neuralgia'
irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, head-
ache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness'
even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofulAl
tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach an
between the shoulders, &c. We quote a few :—The Pope's health
restored by Du Barry's Food. Cure No. 68,413.—" Rome, Jul/
12, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especiol
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has ccuflned hiniao2
entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which fe
consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a su
praise
beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness ca,nll°..
praise this excellent food too highly."—From the " Gazette c"_`
Midi, July 25 Cure No. 46,270 Mr James Roberts, Limbo
merchant, of Frimley, Surrey, of thirty years' diseased lung!,
spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafaso';
Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lie ut.
.s°,4
Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.—No. 49,832. "F"
years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousnesd
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. spasms, sickness
an
vomiting.—MariaJoly." Important Caution.—Beware of the tritu?!..
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, withe.....o
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attaehed,'‘, .
In tins at Is. 14d.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. 6d, ; 5 lbs. I.Pi.
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY Du BARRY and Co., N0:1
Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182,
and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and
Oxford-street 330 Strand; and all grocers and chemists.

Births.
LENDY—On the 13th inst.. at Sunbury House, the wife of
Captain Lendy, of a son.
SARGENT—On the 13th inst., at 52, Burlington-road, II:
Stephen's-square, the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel E.
Sargent, of a BOIL r
Woon—On the 13th inst., at Moffatte, Herts, the Hon. •fkir
Gathorne Wood, of a son.

Marriages. Pad"
CROFTON—REID —On the 13th inst., at St. James's, ~-
dington, Captain Stephen Lowther Crofton, R.N.? 41-0
Majesty's ship Cumberland, to Agnes, only child of
late Sir John Reid, Bart., of Barra.
AUCLELLAND —BELL —On the 12th inst., at Glasgow., 'MIS;
drew Simpson M'Clelland, to Elizabeth Ann, young:lv
daughter of Henry Glassford Bell, Sheriff of Lan
shire.

Deaths.
Bt:wrox--013 the 12th inst., at Tyldesley, James Burton'
Esq., aged 83.
BAKER —On the 13th inst., at Chelmsford William Baker'
aged 84. cio
Loon.— On the 13th inst., at Chelt3nham, Admiral Fro'
Erskine Loch, aged 80.
SUMMERS—On the 11th inst., at Homerton, Eustace Carey
Summers, Esq. c‘o"
WALKER—On the 11th inst ,Itt Brighton, Michael v,
alke
Esq., late of the Admiralty, aged 77. iu It'
WOODRIFF—On the 14th inst ,at Clapham, C3Pin- •
Woodruff, R.N., aged 78. •

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