The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-06 00:00:00

A COMRIRISON.

The House of Lords has thrown out the Suspen-
sory Bill by 192 to 97, being a majority of nearly
two to one. This finishes so far the dis-establish-
ment of the Irish Church; and raises a question re-
garding the House of Peers. It is amusing to com-
pare the comments of many .English papers in the
face of a pig-headed opposition to a pet scheme of
their own, with their comments on the contest be-
tween the President and Congress. Constitutional
Right is the string they harp on when Congress,
fuming under the irritation, takes active mea-
sures to suppress Andrew Johnson, but concession,
moderation, good sense, and a forgetfulness of strict
legal right is the tune they dance to themselves.
Nor do they confine their remarks to the words of
wisdom, advising moderation and caution, but they
accompany them with open threats. The legal right
is acknowledged, but the Lords are warned to take
care how they use it, as it may be necessary, if they
attempt to exercise an independent judgment, to
" re-construct them." This, too, on the first taste
of an opposition to a question opposed by the Go-
vernment, and one nearly equally dividing the Lower
House itself. Life Peers are hinted at, and the Lords
are told that there are dozens of the eminent in the
several professions—lawyers, civil servants —both in
England and in India—Colonial Governors and
military men, whose knowledge and ability have been
vastly increased by the practical experience gained
in their tussle with the world, and whose personal
respectability equals in every way the average titled
country gentleman. Because the Lords will not de-
molish the ecclesiastical structure in Ireland, the
great English " reconstruction" battle threatens to
be that of the Upper House. It is a pity these
newspapers did not apply some of their reasoning
against Congress to themselves. If they concen-
trated all the mulishness of all the Peers into one
Peer, we doubt whether that one would be a more
mulish animal than Andrew Johnson, one that
more resisted going the right way, or who kicked
more viciously at any who attempted to drive
him. Had Parliament to deal with such an ob-
struction, we would learn how patient and long-
suffering was Congress. Indeed the only thing that
saved Andrew Johnson was the abusive epithets
showered on him by the Representatives, for the
❑ation felt, if his enemies took out their change in
that way, they had no right to have it again in another
way. Important as is the subject involved in the dis-
pute between the Commons and the Lords, it is small
when compared with that between Congress and the
President. The former affects an eighth of the
population of Ireland, and remotely the other seven-

eighths, doing away, if enforced, with a grievance
of long standing. Directly it affects a profession,
but only as regards the future—existing rights
being preserved. The latter affects ten Irelands,
not merely ecclesiastically, but in restoring civil
rights to the population, and bringing outcasts
back into the family of the States. It affects the
social connection between two races ; the one lately
in slavery to the other. In truth, Reconstruction
in America means the most gigantic question of the
age, and Andrew Johnson, blocks the way. Why, if
such an obstruction existed in England with such in-
terests at stake, the whole State machine would be
driven furiously over him, and he would be left like a
victim under the Car of Juggernauth, crushed and
flattened, and the marvel is that Congress should
have borne with him so patiently. But the English
cannot see it. They have but little idea what the
interests are, and the aggravation of the opposition
offered, and they argue on legal technicalities as if
the framers of the Constitution were writing with
the circumstances of 18G8 in their minds' eye. But
there is a strange forgetfulness of all this, when
their own comparatively insufficient measure is
checked. The check comes from the highest class
in the world, time-honoured, renowned in story,
and exercising an extraordinary social influence
on the nation, assembled in a legislative capacity as
old as the Constitution. The measure they obstruct
bears the same proportion to Reconstruction, that
Andrew Johnson bears to:the Lords as the obstruc-
tion. Yet at once, so impatient are the English when
what is asserted to be public opinion is thwarted,
that they instantly talk, if not of impeaching, at
least of reconstructing, without any trial, the House
of Peers. If Americans began to real the sup-
porters of the Commons lectures on their disre-
gard to their venerated Constitution, on their law-
lessness and impatience of opposition, on their in-
fringement and usurpation of the rights of others,
they would have the measure meted to them, they
meted to Congress. But wait—let us see what they
will do when the two Houses come into direct col-
lision, should the Lords act the President's part, and
refuse to give an inch.—Anglo-ilmertean Times.

MINING INIELLIGENC.E.

GOLD IN ARIZONA.—Late advices receired from
California confirm the cutting of a rich lode of
gold ore by the Specie Basis Mining Company in
Arizona. The ore yields over twenty thousand
dollars per ton. This company has recently com-
pleted the construction of reduction works, together
with a twenty•stamp mill. The shares are conse-
quently in great demand, as this company bids fair
to return large dividends during the present year.
NEVADA.—Territorial Enterprise, May sth.
We yesterday saw a gold brick from the Wilson
mine, Pine Grove, which weighed 1,099.15 ounces,
and is worth $20,346.02, being the most valuable
bar ever moulded in this State.

An Aurora telegram, dated May 9th, is as fol-
lows :—" A rich discovery has been made at Brodie,
within a few days. Dan. Olstein has discovered a
quartz ledge on High Peak, near the Empire Co.'s
works. Joe. Hutchinson, one of the owners,
brought some of the rock in town to-day, and it is
certainly rich—principally gold. It has created a
great quartz excitement amongst the mining com-
munity. The owners think it will average $l,OOO
per ton." •

U 31130 LDT. —Register, May 9th : The Essex
mill, at Dun Glen, is in complete order awl doing
fine work. One hundred tons of ore from the
Monroe mine has just been put.'through the battery,
and is now being worked in the pans. About 100
tons more of this ore is ready for the mill, and will
be converted into silver bricks immediately.
The Silver Bend Reporter's lliko correspondent
says, April 20th : The first silver brick of the
Pahrauagat Valley S. M. Co., located at this place,
has just been retorted, weighing about 1,100 ounces,
lnd 867 fine. You should see this mill to know
what perfection of machinery is. From that part
where the ore is dumped to the driver, the battery,
the furnace, the pans, and the retorting room, every-
thing gravitates.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo American 2 Imes.)

Mr. ifitler (according to the Washington corre-
spondence of the Cincinnati Gazette) has been showing
around a private note from Assistant Secretary Cooper
to President Johnson, speaking of Henderson as
"safe," which is understoo.l to have been stolen for But-
ler from Johnson's desk. The ccrrespondent —who evi-
dently has a rather curious idea of honour and morals—
adds--"1f this furnished any conclusive evidence, me❑
would overlook the way in which it was obtained; as it is,
they are beginning to question whether the results secured
are sufficient warrant fur the means employed." " We must
confess our inability," remarks the New York; Times," to
see any justification whatever for such dishonourable con-
duct ; and we can see uo evUenco of bribery or corrup-
tion in Mr. Cooper informing the President- that Senator
Henderson was safe.' "

General Joseph E. Johnston is paying a visit to
somo friends on the Eastern shore of Maryland

Postmaster-General Randall is said to have bought
a fine residence at Elmira, Now York, to which he will re-
tire on leaving the Cabinet.

Superintendent Snyder of the Union Pacific Rail-
road, writes from the head of the line :—" Young men from
the East with good recommendations that came hero must
not be afraid of their scalps, must be content with rude
fare, be willing to sleep on the prairie, and work hixd."
All legal and political disabilities have been re-
moved by Congress from Roderick R. Butler, member
elect for Congress from Tennessee.

The committee on elections favour the right of
Samuel M'Keo for the contested seat of tho Ninth Con-
gressional District.
One of the bills reported to Congress provides
for the distribution of the reward for the capture of Jeffer-
son Davis.

The principal nominations made during the week
ending June 20 were—James Corey to be collector of In
ternal Revenue for the first district of California; Alex-
ander M'Mahon to be United States Attorney of the terri-
tory of Montana; J. B. Dannison to be Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of Washington territory ; and New-
ton Robinson to be Superintendent of Indian affairs in the
Southern superintendency.

The Surratt trial was postponed, nominally, till
Monday, June 22, but there was no prospect that it would
begin then. The now indictment charges him with compli-
city in plots to murder President Lincoln or to kidnap and
deliver him to the Confederates.

J. G. Abbott heads the Massachusetts delegates
to the New York Democratic Convention, who make the
Fifth Avenue Hotel their head-quarter&
General M'Dowell, commanding the military dis-
trict comprising Mississippi and Arkansas, has removed
Governor Humphreys ant Attorney-General Harker of
the former State, and appointed to the vacancies Major-
General Adolbert Ames and Captain Jasper Meyers of the
United States army. -

.The Grant and Colfax wigwam was opened at
New York, Monday night, Juno 22, with a display of fire-
works and speeches by Horace Greeley, George W. Buu-
gay, and others.

The New York Union League Club has struck
Andrew Johnson from the roll of membership.

An Irish emigrant named O'Brien, a baker of
the First Ward of New York city, has created a sensation
among his fraternity by coming home in a coach after be-
ing buried from a hearse. He was declared to be dead after
having been for some time ill ; his wake was celebrated,
and he was deposited in a vault on the 14th J uue in the
Cypress Hill Cemetery. On coming to his senses he had
the inexpressible delight of finding himself wrapped in
grave clothes, coffined, and buried. Rightly conjecturing
that instant and vigorous action was necessary, he kicked
off the lid, and finally escaped by the aid of a grave-
digger.

The United States Minister was received, June 27,
by the King of Greece, at Athens.
The case of Messrs. Belding, Keitb, and Co. has
'been brought up in bankruptcy, and Mr. Gilead A. Smith
and Mr. Charles W. Scofield were appointed creditors'
assignees. It appears that George Washington Belding
had been arrested on his arrived at New York, and a sum
of £3,150 recovered. Rumour states that he committed
suicide, and it bagins to appear that he could not have
been in a sound state of mind. The liabilities have not
yet been ascertained.

At a meeting of the directors of New Jersey
Railroad and Transportation Company, A. L. Dennis has
been unanimously re-elected president, and lion. Hamilton
Fish, vice-president.

Jein Ward, the renowned Black Diamond and
ex-champion of Euglaud, was expected in New York by
the City of Boston, where the sporting fraternity are pre-
pared to give him a hearty welcome.

Mr. Pickett, of Paterson, New Jersey, after a
wrestling match at Hamilton, Ohio, was killed on the 12th
Juno in a saloon affray.

Iler Majesty Queen Victoria will shortly visit
the castle of Rei‘iliardsbrunE, near Gotha. The Princess

Royal of Prussia is expected in a few days at that castle
where she will sojourn for a few weeks with her mother.
A new military district has been formed, consist-
ing of the country between the Black Hills and the eastern
boundary of Utah, styled the Rocky Mountain district,
and the command is placed in the hands of Major-General
Gibbons.

Timothy, brother of the celebrated pugilist, John.
C. Heenan, was shot on the 11th Juno in a drinking
saloon, corner of Fifth and Spruce-streets, Philadelphia,
by Jerry Eaton. Heenan belonged to the Revenue De-
partment, and was active in his duties, and the murder
appears to have boon. premeditated, as Eaton, who was
accompanied by others, after the altercation left the house
and took up a position on the other side of the street, and
[Leman was shot when in the door-way, ono of the balls
taking effect in his stomach. His brother John was with
him when ho died in the Pennsylvania Hospital on the
loth, and he was buried on the 17th June in the Cathedral
Cametary, Philadelphia.
On the 16th of June Pius IX. commenced the
twenty-third year of his Pontifical reign. Since St.
Peter, to whom history assigns twenty-five years, there
have been but three Popes out of 253 who have lived to
eommeace or to finish their twenty-third year of govern-
nant. They are—Adrian 1,, the Pope of Charlemagne;
Pius VI„ the Pope of the Directory; and Pius VII., the
Pope of Napoleon I. Pius IX. wilt be the fourth. If he
lives until June 16, 1869, he will stand alone with Pius VI.;
if he lives till Juno 16, 1870, ho will be matched only by
st. Peter; but if he survives June 16, 1871. ho will have
outdone not only all preceding Popes, but St. Peter him-
self.—Glasgow Daily

Wendell Phillips does not approve of the ap-
pointment of Reverdy Johnson as Minister to *England.
Butler calls him "a white-washed Maryland rebel," and
Wendell Phillips "a Maryland go-between." "We warn
our British cousins," the latter says, "that he represents
only the burglars who have got possession of the house
for the moment; and he only represents the dastard
city which murdered Massachusetts soldiers in 1861, and
then slunk, like a whipped spaniel, at the heels of our
Massachusetts soldier, who, if he conquered nowhere else,
lid certainly throttle Maryland with his left hand and hold
New Orleans in his right. Mr. Reverdy Johnson repro
sents Woolley, Snook, Mrs. Cobb, Wood, Chase, and, in
part, a timid and disheartened Senate. In the name of
Antietam, and the 19th of April, 1861, we aver that no
rebel-hearted Senator from a conquered and still treacher-
ous State can represent the American people. His con-
firmation, born in the eclipse and rigged with curse,
dark, only marks low tide in Senatorial instinct and
honour."

A young farmer, named Joseph Le Clerc, ha.
been carrying on a pretty game in the woods near the
Noir River, Lower Canada. He was absent for days, and orl
his return, told a story which converted the sinner into a
saint among his pious Catholic countrymen. lie had been lost,
in the forests, and he prayed to his patron saint, when a tal:
lady very white and very beautiful appeared with fresh
supplies of food. At night she flew like a dove with a largt
quilt in, which she wrapped him, and he eventually suc-
ceededin finding apath out of the woods. Why the lady flog
like a dove did not throw the pious farmer into the bosom
of his family is not explained, nor can we poor mortals
divine the reasons for the acts of such celestial messengers,
and must be c mtent to accept La Clerc's story as he tells it
William Herring, son of Silas C. Herring,, the
Safe man, attempta.l to shoot J. Weeks, proprietor of the
Nassawanno Hotel, in Palmer, Saturday afternoon, June
13. A dispute about a horse which he (Herring) had hired
'rem Mr. Weeks led to the attack. The ball passed be-
tween Mr. Weeks' right arm and body without inflicting
any wound. Herring has not been arrested. We wish
the son was as "safe" as the father.

Mr. Longfellow, who has been staying at Lea-
mington, paid a visit on Wednesday last to Stratford-on-
:.von. He was accompanied by his daughter, and wag
conducted by lir. E. F. Flower to those spots connected
with Shakspere's memory. His familiar poem, "The old
Clock on the Stairs," was penned after a summer sojourn
the old mansion house of Nathan Appleton, the poet's
father-in-law, in Pittsfield.
Mr. Y. Z. Adams declines the nomination threat-
ened on his behalf for the Vice-Presidency, saying—"
fool that the accident of birth has thrust me upon the
public attention before my time."

Rev. Dr. Barnas Sears, the general agent of the
Peabody Southern Educational Fund, presented to the
trustees of the half-yearly meeting in New York a detailed
report of his operations for the last six months, i❑ which
time he has travelled through all the Southern States e%"
cept Texas, and met everywhere a cordial re-
caption from all classes of the people. In soul°
cities he was received with distinguished honour,
and the spirit and temper of the Southern people
seem to be exceedingly favourable and friendly towards
the work which he represents. The efforts so far have
bean mainly preliminary and in the way of preparation
for the more effectual and economical expenditure of DSr•
Peabody's benefaction, and the prospects of the enterprise
a►re amply encouraging

At the forthcoming (Ecumenical Council, to be
convened by Popo Pius IX., America will be, for tho first
film>, represented by her bishops in a general authoritative
assembly of tho prelates of the Roman Catholic Church
throughout the world.

The Labour Exchange in San Francisco continues
to work most satisfactorily. During the week ending 31,1
15, 400 men obtained employment through the aid of this
association—of whom 172 were labourers, 44 farm hands,
16 teamsters, 25 lumbermen, and 143 other trades. Thy
wages generally offered for country labourers is about $3O
per month and board ; for harvest work, $lO to $5O and
found ; artisans from $3 to $1 per day—all in gold. Farm-
ing help for the interior is much sought for, and the supply
of able-bodied men for such work is deficient.

The Transcript thus sketches the way in which
to fete the Chinese Embassy at Boston:—" The Chinese
Embassy will be received in this city in a manner worthy
of the metropolis of New England. They will be escorted
from Cottage Farm Station by th 3 military. Among
other festivities contemplated is an elegant dinner at the
St. James, a concert by the children of the public scho Ole
and perhaps an excursion down the harbour."
Mr. James B. Rumrill, wife, and daughter, have
returned to Springfield from Europe, the ladies haviq
been absent two years, and Mr. Rumrill since last lab'
The German steamer for Bremen lately took out amoos
her passengers from New York Mrs Dr. Austin Flint'
formerly of Springfield and Northampton, her daughters,
Mrs. Shevorick and Mrs. Isham, and the two aaughters of
Mr. Erastus Hopkins, of Northampton, all of whom pa'
pose a residence of two or three years in Leipsic.
If " Eb" Washburne be elected for Illinois—Ai°,
has been re-nominated—this will be his twentieth year of
Congressional life. He is the Joseph Hume of Atnerics,
the bulldog of the Treasury, and even the vile squabble 1°
which he lately took part originated in his efforts to el"
pose and counteract a job.
The $lOO prize offered by Dr. Jacob Bigeler
through the Massachusetts Medical Society, last year, 113 t.
the best essay on the share of nature and time in the at"
of diseases, called forth three, among those sent in, equall
worthy of the award. The donor accordingly authorised
three such prizes, which were given to Dr. Robert T. Edies
of Hingham, Dr. James F. Hibbard of Richmond, Ind''
and Dr. John Spare of New Bedford.
Thurlow Weed is, it is said, about to proceed to
Europe.
To say the least, it is passing strange that Vinnie
Ream and her statue of Lincoln should be the victims
Impeachment. After Butler had been storming and bins"
tering for months, had it not been for Vinnie Ream P:
would have done nothing more than he did at Fort Fisher
except to waste valuable time. Considering that
mountain has so long been in labour, the result may truis;
be described as the birth of a mouse. After all the gra,'
doings at the Capitol, while the Senate listened to the
exaggerated eloquence of the first lawyers in the Union,
while fierce debates followed on questions propounded,
and the Government at Washington was supposed t. 2 1?°„
passing through a revolution, the result is that Vinnie
Ream is expelled. Some how or another the valiant
Butler, when he lets himself down, always drops on the
head of an unfortunate woman.
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