The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

The Round Tuble; in reviewing the life of Jeffer-
son Davis, by Frank H. Alfriend, late editor of the Southern
Literary Messenger, thus compares—the great Northam
General with his great Southern adversary :—" The
lengthy comparison instituted between General Grant
and General Lee by the author is not just to the
former, and perhaps could scarcely be expected to
be so. Grant has certainly not Lee's versatility, his
resource, his dash, and very few of his imaginative
qualities, but he was pro-eminently the man for the
situation. He is a limited-minded, stony-willed, in-
flexible soldier of the grinding school, with very little
idea of chivalry, but a very definite idea of accom-
plishing what he undertakes. Of course, he had more
men than Lee in the final campaign; it would have been
rather absurd to undertake the business with less. The
movement was an offensive, an invasive one, contemplat-
ing no lass than the encircling and capture of the whole
opposing force ; a climax which the evacuation of Rich-
mond only evaded in one way to bring about in another.
Mr. Alfriend has a great many passages like this :—" The
world was invited by the sensational press of the North
to admire the 'strategy' which had carried the Federal army
from the Rapidan to the James, a position which it might
have reached by transports without the loss of a man."
Possibly, but with what damage to General Lee's army ?
The critic's implication would be sound enough if Rich-
mond and not Lee's army had been the true " objective
point" at which to strike. Grant's losses, doubtless, were
great, but his policy, once in Lee's presence, was clearly
never to quit him. The Federal resources bore such a
relation to those of the Confederates that the "hammer-
ing" process was the best that could be adopted. The
battles of the Wilderness may not have been victories for
Grant, but they were not less practically the knoll of the
Confederate cause. There was no getting away afterward
to attempt brilliant strokes whereby disparity in numbers
might be counterbalanced. The rest was all wary watch-
ing and hard pounding. The difference between Grant
and other Federal commanders—judging, of course, by
their respective achievements—was that he went clear
through his task to the end. Another general would have
retreated, another have attempted something dazzling and
failed, another have permitted himself to be surprised.
Grant did none of these things. lie is, so far as humanity
can be so, as impassive as destiny ; the consummate em-
bodiment, in a military sense, of hard, pitiless, unimagina-
tive resolution; a man of iron, but iron without magne-
tism. Lee, we may admit.- is a. more knightly, and.gra-
cious figure than Grant, a man more cap able of evoking
enthusiasm, a man mere like the heroic models of his-
tory ; but, after all, the simple fact is that Grant never
failed, but quietly and thoroughly did whatever he at-
tempted. It is no disparagement to General Leo to say
that, placed in the SVIIO situation, he could not have done
more and might have done less."

The Spectator condescended to defend itself, and
lamely we admit against the flaunting of the Standard
on the prediction it so confidently hazarded that the Pre-
sident would be convicted and deposed. The Spectator's
reply anouuted to little more than that the .9anlitrds artitle
was a " belated" one. A result which deceived alike
Andrew Johnson, the prosecuted, as well as Butler and
Stevens, the prosecutors; which was regarded as a cer-
tainty by Wade, the " heir apparent," and a host of thoie
keen-scented individuals, the professional office-seekers t f
Washiugi.on—might well deceive the best informed
writers in Europe. In fact people wore deceived in pro-
portion to their information up to within two or three
days of the event, and no one appeared more confideLt
that " the national crime," as he termed it would be com-
mitted of deposing Andrew Johnson, than the Washing-
ton correspondent of the Standard itself. That the
Spectator :Fedi tod conviction more a proof of its

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•Imowledge than of its ignorance of American politico
But it is not the Standard only that twits the Spectator 0
the result. This is what the Round Table says :
lisb comments upon American politics are always ree-
with interest in this country, particularly when they C 0146
from journalists who have made a special study of ear
affairs. They are not, perhaps, read so much with a vie°
to instruction—although that is often to be obtained from
them—as from curiosity to see what intelligent and culti•
rated observers of our own race, lookingat us from without,
may be moved to say Mistakes are frequently made bl
these observers, and that, of course, gratifies us in proper'
tion to the average culture and sincerity of the blunderer'
The Spectator of May 9 announces the conviction of Presi-
dont Johnson as "certain, of course,"—an example ift
point. The Saturday Review repeatedly insists upon the
certainty of the election to the Presidency of Genera,
:
Grant ; we may possibly, in November, be able to make,:
the same reply which we now forbear in the case of t"
Spectator." The Rowmd Table forgets that the psPer°,.
published in England mainly derive their information ab4e.
America from the papers published in America, and the
opinions of the Round Table may have influenced those Ire/
journals in forming the notions on which it comment'"
Suppose now that the Saturday Review had road the flrs.
.;
article in the number of May 30, from which we obtaiasu
this extract, headed " The Chicago Convention," and, lin°
pressed with the following words, had allowed that to
create an idea to which it afterwards gave utterance, sfnel'
the American paper be justified in commenting on the blues
der of the English one ? " To the impartial observer there
appears, therefore, at this moment no doubt whatever that if
the present ostensible accord of the different branches of tbs
Republican party can be maintained for five months, and if
they can be brought compactly to bear in November, the
election of their candidates (Grant and Colfax) is a cot'
tainty. The collective strength of those branches is 110'
deniable; their cordial unanimity is, for the time, equallf
so ; and their triumph can only be prevented by possible
divisions which their leaders may or may not have the
sagacity to avert."
Judy does not approve of the Tomahawk's pie'
tures, and expresses holi deeply she was shocked by tile,
representation of Satan driving a nobleman to the Walls,
.regions; and a sign post with "'j'o H—Il" inscribed tille°
it, relieving the mind of all doubts as to the' true meanies
of the drawing. "The following week, in the same paper'
says Judy, appeared a representation of Satan in his peeuliar
regions, with flames and all, according to the received ideasni
his Majesty and his surroundings. In an embryo paper
of the same class, which is just old enough to catch the lisp
of licentiousness, the eye is refreshed by the sight of
poem entitled A Gallows Shame !!' In both of these
papers, Royalty, the Church, and the State are ridiculed and
libelled on every possible occasion. A third publication
has selected the army for its attacks, and a criminal WO;
Illation against it has been applied for by the colonel On
officers of a regiment of dragoons. Whether or net
such publications are subsidized by the Radical party,
remains a mystery, but if they obtain a large and genuine
support from the public generally, the matter is still more
serious. Judy fears that there is really quite a taste at
the present time for scurrility, and she is confirmed ill
this conclusion by a little incident which occurred to her_
self, and which she will relate. Conversing with a young,
friend, whose mind is much misguided by the Radical
influences of the time, Judy, of course, quietly floored
her young adversary on every point of argument. re°
subject of newspaper influence was reached, and the die
cussion waxed strong. Judy continued to put the young
gentleman (metaphorically) on his back ; but, at last, she
owns, she was put completely hors de combat herself*
Speaking of a certain journal, Judy remarked, ' I is a eel°•
rilous paper, and you can't deny it.' I like a scurrilous
paper' (!!), thundered Juvenis ; and Judy said not another
word, but went home a sadder and a wiser woman."

A curious account is given in the Providence
Journal of a Bible printed in the language of the Massachtl.
setts Indians, and all accomplished by one man known
the Apostle John Eliot, who laboured as a ruissionirl
among the Indians for a long period. He was many years
engaged in the labour of translation. It is at all times
task of groat difficulty to render the Bible into a foreign
language, even if the language is a written one ; but le
such a language as that of the Indians, which was negeC
before written, the labour was gigantic. None but a reli-
gious enthusiast, such as Eliot, would over have attempted
it. This Bible has also a value as a typographical curio'
sity. In the year 1663 New England was still a wilder-
ness teeming with a groat Indian population, and the
struggle for existence was by no means an easy one.
print a pamphlet was an event of importance, yet in the
infancy of the commonwealth the whole Bible was printed 0
Cambridge in this strange language,a monumentof aborigine'
philology which has never been equalled, notwithstanding
all the efforts of our missionary societies to OttristianiZe
and civilize the Indians for the last 200 years The printing
of this Bible was begun in 1660, and finished in Septenl'
ber, 1663, thus occupying three years. The edition 103
1,000 copies, of which not snore than 15 are known to be pre-
served in the United States. Twenty copies were sent to
England, in which there was a dedication to Charles the
Second. But this is not all that is remarkable about this
Bible. A second edition was called for, and the whole
work was reprinted at Cambridge by Samuel Greene, the
printer of the Erst edition, in 1685. The art of printing
was still in its infancy. The proposition for printing this
edition was submitted to the commissioners of tne united
colonies of New England for their consideration in 1678-79
by Mr. Eliot, who, among his several appeals, said that
King Philip had sent to him for books to read. The work,
which was commenced the following year, proceeded bat
slowly, as there was but one man, the Indian printer, vrh°
was able to compose the sheets and correct the proof. In
1684, Mr. Eliot. writing to the Hon. Robert Boyle, says
" Wu have but few hands, one Englishman and a Wit
and one Indian." It was completed the following years
and 2,000 copies printed. The Indian title reads as fol'
fows:—" Hamusse wunnetupanatamwe up-Biblum Goa
naneeswe Nukkone Testament kuk wonk wasku TO"
tament," &c. The following is the full English
title :—" The Holy Bible : containing the old Testa-
ment and the New. Translated into the Indian la"
gunge, and ordered to be printed by the Commie'
sioners of the United Colonies in New England. At the
charge and with the consent of the Corporation in Eng-
laud for tho Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians
in New England. Cambridge : Printed by Samuel Greene
and Marmaduke Johnson, MDCLXIII. (1663), 4to. 424
leaves." Tho New Testament contains 129 leaves. It is
well known that there. is no Indian living who can read
this Bible or even speak the language in which it is writ-
ten. The Hon. J. Hammond Trumbull, of Hartford, late
Secretary of the State of Connecticut, is, we believe, the
only person; living who understands the language and is
able to read this Bible. He has made it a study for maul,
years, and has composed a dictionary of several thousand
words from it. We are glad to learn that fine and perfect
copies of both editions of Eliot'sßible and New Testamee
are in a private library in Providence, in which also
little volume in the same Indian language, called " The
Practice of Piety," and a " Grammar of the Indian Lae;
guage," printed at Cambridge in 1666, both the work
the indefatigable Eliot. The grammar is far more rare
than the Bible. as not more than three copies are knovill
in the United States.

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Births.

OOLD 0 n the
.15th. inst., at 22, Nottingham-place,

gent's-park, the wife of O. Gold, Esq., of a daUghter.
EAST- On the 12th inst., at Rodwell, Weymouth, the wile
of Commander James East, R.N., of a daughter.
MiLwas—On the 15th inst., at 7, Cromwell-place, 5.W1
the wife of John E. Millais, Esq., R.A., of a daughter.

Marriages.
WATSON—CANNON—On the 16th inst., at S. Mary's, 16:
lington, Robert Henry Watson, Esq., of Malvern-roauf
Dalston, to Helen, eldest daughter of C. Cannon, Es4l
of Crowland-terrace, Islington.
WINGFIELD FITZ PATRICK—On the 16th inst., at Sti
George's, Hanover-square, the Hon. Lewis S. Wingtiel
to Cecilia Emily Emma, daughter of the Right HO. j.
W. Fitz Patrick,
Deaths.

FORTII—On the 30th April, at Lima, in South America',
Viscountess Fot th, widow of the late Viscount Fort1:1
and wife of E. C. Deriug, Esq., eldest son of Sir Edwa
D: ring,
HARDIN° —Oil the 15th inst., t.t, Bole Hall, Tamworth, C'

• Ilard:tig, Esq., aged 85.
the 15th inst., at 4, Vigo-street, Regeut'

street, Mr. Wm. A. IlawkinS, aged 66:
Hottxott—On the 16th inst., Edward Horner, Esq., of The
Hew,, Halstead, Essex, aged 57.
MTwnntx—On the 15th inst., at Wandsworth, S.W., 13
➢iewburn, Esq., aged 35.
WARMINGTON —On the 16th inst., at Lee-terrace, Le.'
Kue., Joseph Wartuington, Esq., aged 78.

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