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

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

;Front 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 2inaes of India states authori-
tatively that 233 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-

iug 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modore Vanderbilt has withdrawn his name from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
him 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

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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 dfew 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 hP 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 be
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 1864, 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 his persuasion. He 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 Butler 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 gentleman who
has ever travelled by rail in our whole wile country,
and New Jersey, 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 testthe 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 attributes the cap-
ture to the Alabama, which would make the case to
he decided by the Spreme Court widely different.
The Sumter was commissioned and equipped in the
Southern States, and ran the blockade of the Miss's-

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
pitiable 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 had 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 judr
meat for him on the ground that he was repeatedll
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 ig
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 Generar3
office, which was referrei to the Committee OP
Military Affairs.

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