The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-30 00:00:00

ITALY.

A reactionary demonstration has taken place at Palermo
during the visit of Prince Humbert and the Princess Mar-
gCerite. Circulars, hostile both to the Italian Govern-
ment and to the Royal visitors, were, distributed in the
theatre at the moment when the Prince and his wife
entered their box. This ungraceful act met with tilt
reception it deserved. The audience loudly applauded the
Prince and Princess.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 12.

Among the stories of corruption which have lately
excited much attention in this city is the alleged dis-
tribution of some two millions of dollars in bribery
to carry through the bill for the purchase of Alaska.
The UM voted was $7,200,000 in gold, of which
Russia obtained only $5,000,000 (in gold). Of
course there were expenses, but certainly not
equalling £440,000 sterling, and a general inquiry
has been made, and all sorts of guesses hazarded
how the sum Was distributed. The outside ring, the
TVorcester Spy asserts, got $300,000, and after the
debate closed Mr. Riggs, a Washington banker, ob-
tained that amount from the Secretary of the Trea-
sury for distribution. The correspondent of that jour-
nal says—" Among the sums specified in these reports
are such items as New York Tribune, $20,000 ;
manager of its Washington Bureau, $5,000 ; pub-
lisher of Washington Chronicle, $25,000. The cor-
respondents of the Times, World, Boston Journal,
Philadelphia Press, Chicago Tribune, Boston Adver-
tiser, Evening Post, and others, are all set down
as each having been paid sums varying from
$2,500, Upwards. Some of them are anxiously
inquiring what has become of the money,
as it has never been paid to them." Af-
ter alluding to the daughters of a member from
Ohio, who received but returned $lO,OOO each, he
adds, " However, Robert J. Walker got $25,000
in gold. the certificates for this amount were,. I
believe, stolen from him in Boston or New York
He makes no secret of his having received a large
sum, but says it was a professional retainer from
the Russian Government. He appears also to
have been acting professionally for his own Go-
vernment, as some part of the Riggs' $300,000 ap-
pears to have passed into his hands. Now comes
another chapter, to which it is declared the threat-
ened exposure is due. As before stated the
$300,000 referred to was in greenbacks. The lob-
byists, &c., were paid therein, they having been
urgent for such payment as soon as the Alaska bill
had passed. But it is now reported that Mr. Riggs
received from the ' high contracting parties' the
amount in gold, with which he paid back to the
Treasury Mr. M'Culloch's loan, and netted to him-
self the nice little per cent. of $70,000, being the
difference of thirty-five per cent. between gold and
legal tenders. This commission is said to be out-
side of what he was paid for services rendered.
The harpies,' vexed at being sold, are now
talking about the matter. Some say that the
difference has been, or is to be, divided among
the clamorous in order to hush matters up.
Among other transactions, it is declared that
the ' Perkins claim,' which at one time threatened
to be an estopel to the consummation of the
purchase, was bought off, not by settling it, but
by getting those in charge to stop proceedings."
The Round Table maintains the chief seat of cor-
ruption to be at Washington, and not in New
York city as the Radical press assert. It is said
that the whisky ring, the result of Congressional
legislation, steals more in one year than is stolen in
New York in five, but a large portion of what the
whisky ring steals I imagine to be in New York
itself. Another statement made by that paper has
attracted much attention and caused some indigna-
tion, which is to the following effect : "That Sena-
tors of the United States grow rich in their places
is notorious ; of this no one seems ashamed, for
this no one denounces them. We in this metropolis
are at least of higher tone than the rest of the
country in this, that we are as*ned of our muni-
cipal misgovernment, and that such city officials as
are charged with growing rich in their places are
soundly denounced for it. When a Senator who goes
to Washington poor, and in six years comes to be
rated at half a million, shall be refused recogni-
tion everywhere among gentlemen, the vital forces
of society will have begun to throw off the disease."
Mr. Ashbury's challenge, as the owner of the English
yacht Cambria, has excited lunch interest. Atten-
tion is called ,to the .terms on which the America

won the Queen's Cup. That schooner contended
against the entire British yacht squadron of all rigs,
and carried off the prize, and it is necessary for the
vessel which again wins it, in like manner to beat
the American squadron, not a single selected yacht.
Two letters have been despatched to Mr. Ashbury,
one from the younger Bennett, who as vice-commo-
dore, takes up the. challenge on his sensitive point,
an ocean race. He agrees to sail the Dauntless
against the Cambria, either from Cowes to New
York, or from Cowes to the Azores and back, or
any other distant point which gives 3,000 miles
of ocean, which he prefers to inland waters, as it
affords truer and better tests of the vessel's speed and
qualities, and of the sailor's science and sagacity.
The Dauntless is much larger than the Cambria,
which would tell more to its advantage in winter
than in summer. Mr. Stebbins, owner of the
Phantom, writes in a pleasant and cordial tone,
assuring Mr. Ashbury of a hospitable reception in
Americi if he comes, congratulates him on the
Cambria's victory over the Sappho, and states his
willingness on the arrival of the English yacht ia
American waters to test the Phantom against her.
Rumours continue to be circulated as to Grant's
.Cabinet, and the General is watched as a eat watches
a mouse. He can pay no visit without the object
being discussed in leaders and by correspondents.
He visited General M'Clellan twice during the
week, and people begin to guess what post is in
store for him. Grant certainly travels and sees all
he can, men and things, and he is not the man
to waste his opportunities: He never loses a
chance of seeing and pumping prominent men to
ascertain bow far they will suit his book. gr.
Boutwell is likely to be his Secretary to the
Treasury ; Rollins., Attorney-General, if his health
permits ;if not, Wilson, of lowa. It is denied that
the Navy Department will be given to a naval offi-
cer, though Adliiiral Porter is mentioned. Some
hibt that Marshal 6. Roberts will be selected. That
gentleman gave a grand entertainment to General
Grant, estimated to have cost $15,000. Not only
was everybody known to Mr. Roberts asked, but
everybody that his friends knew. Senator. Sherman,
who has generally been named for the Secretary-
ship of, the Treasury, has informed his friends that
there is no truth in the report, as a resignation of
his seat in the Senate would insure the vacancy to
Vallandigham, the Ohio Legis!ature being at pre'
sent in the hands of the Democrats. He felt sure
that General Grant would select a good Cabinet,
and the Treasury portfolio, hewas certain, would be
placed in charge of a thorough business man, with
good financial qualities. Some one has weighed
Grant, and records the General to turn 1501bs. Did
any one weigh our Minister to your Court before
and after his series of dinners, if be hasgot through,
them yet. Grant, too, is going through a somewho
similar ordeal, but whether he will fatten on it of
„
not remains to be seen. My impression is that
before half his term has expired he will not 011
be a wiser and a sadder, 'but a thinner man. Ile

managed to get about while here without wino"
ante, as his plain, unpretending attire disguised
him to those accustomed to see him in uniform. Ile
put up at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
After the fuss made aboutthe English girl, Iles!,
Vaughan, who killed her baby, it was discovered
that Governor Geary did not intend to hang the
young woman. All sorts of wild statements have
been made at public meetings till people imagined
that she was the illegal victim of heartless Phil Le.
delphian cruelty, and it is even asserted that she
had been betrayed by her fee'd counsel, all of which
is shown to be untrue. A deputation of ladies
.
visited the Governor at Harrisburg, when the real
facts transpired, a good deal to the confusion of the
1
Daly
over-zealous females. The trial of Jeff. Pall
shows that the end of that farce is near. It won
be impossible to convict at Richmond without pack;
ing a jury, which it would scarcely become the
United States to do ; but if the Uaited States d
not the country where Davis so long ruled svo°lal,
and therefore he could not be convicted. The re();
Lion lately made was to quash the indictment, ad
the 14th Constitutional Amendment disfranchise
all who having held office under the Federal G°;
vernment committed treason against it, and thif
and no other is the punishment decreed. Cbie
Justice Chase sustained the point ; Judge Unclef:
wood dissented, the appeal being to the Suprele;
Court, but even on the subject of the appeal tbes
two judges differ.

The latest Cabinet arrangement credits Chary
Francis Adams with the State Department, John Shetitt:t,
with the Treasury, and Horace Greeley with the 11°'to
office. Stanton is to go to England, E. B. Washburne
France, Rawlings to Spain, Ben Wade to Russia, glroel
to Austria, awl Bancroft to remain in Prussia. Aar
Porter to be Secretary of the Navy, James Hughes See"
tary of War, and James Wilson, of lowa, AttornerGe frlo
Professor Delessier, of Kingston, Jamaica, io
a long time in advance announced the days on which tr
earthquakes would visit St. Thomas, Chili, and Peru,'
dieted (by news from Cuba, Dec. 9) that there would Dr
earthquake in California about the 9th or the 11th of
comber.

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Tie American Free-Trade League were to -
fltl
dressed on the evening of Dec. 10th by the Rev. 0° 0.
Blanchard, of Brooklyn. The subject chosen by bit'

Blanchard was " The Religion of Free Trade."
Lucia Gilbert Calhoun will have a brilliant
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tide on Edwin Booth in the January Galaxy. It will
accompanied by a portrait of the tragedian in the cil;
racter of Hamlet. In the same number will be a 130,0
by illiam Cullen Bryant, and the commencement Of
new story of Mrs. Edwards. colit
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