The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

reproach, even if they did not entitle them to the
confidence and gratitude of the community."
Among the surmises anent the Chinese Embassy
is its desire to co-operate for a ship canal through
the Isthmus of Darien, to which it is said China
is willing to contribute $15,000,000. That his Ex-
cellency Anson Burlingame may have given the full
weight of his diplomatic influence while in Ame-
rica to forward such a scheme is highly probable--
valuable as it must be to all countries of the Pacific.
We know that the President used the controlling
influence of the Washington Government to urge
the necessity of this work, and by a telegram from
New York on Wednesday it is announced that Mr.
Seward delivered a long speech at the meeting of
the company now definitely formed to effect the
object, strongly advocating its interests in the per-
formance of a service so beneficial to the maritime
world.

The rumour spread by the New York Herald that
a movement was in progress to nominate Chief
Justice Chase in place of Governor Seymour, and
General M'Clellan for Frank Blair, has been so far
confirmed that the National Democratic Committee
convened a meeting to consider its propriety ; but
finding, we presume, that this would savour of what
the late President Lincoln so quaintly condemned
in his saying that " the time to swap horses was
not when crossing a river," they have determined
to abide by their ticket. They took the opportunity
of the meeting to issue an address urging the most
earnest support for the Democratic candidates,
which they will surely require, as even the Times
Philadelphia correspondent announces the demoral-
ization► of the Democratic party and Grant's election
as secure.

The Royal International Coinage Commission
has published its report, with the following signa-
tures affixed :—Halifax, C. P. Villiers, Stephen
Cave, J. Wilson Patten, M. Longfield, John Lub-
bock, Thomas Baring, L. N. De Rothschild, J. B.
Smith, Thomson Hankey, John G. Hubbard, Thos.
N. Hunt, G. B. Airy, Thomas Graham, and C.
Rivers Wilson, Secretary. The gist of it is, that
in view of the probability of a much larger measure
of change than that now proposed being hereafter
required to be carried out, they cannot recommend
the mere adoption of a gold coin of the value of 25
francs to be substituted for the sovereign. They
consider the English sovereign and pound would
form the most convenient basis and unit. It repre-
sents the greatest interests which would be dis-
turbed by the change ; but as there are many
considerations upon which all nations must' be
agreed before a universal system can be adopted
they are disposed to think that authorized repre-
sentatives of the different countries should meet in
conference before action be taken. Mr. J. B. Smith,
Sir John Lubbock, and Mr. Hubbard made supple-
mentary reports. Meanwhile the French decimal
system of coinage spreads,having now been adopted
by Spain.
Secretary Schofield congratulated Grant on his
nomination by the Chicago Convention to the Pre-
sidency, but though the letter was written on the
25th May it has only just been published—

"I have always believed that the Union could be fully
restored only by the men who put down the rebellion,
while I have not been without serious apprehensions that
by forcing upon the country extreme Radical theories the
stability of the Government might be endangered. Great
reforms require time [or their full development—time in
which theories may bo analyzed, and that which is sound
and of practical utility separated from the unsound and
chimerical. Wisdom and moderation in Congress will
now give the country restoration _and peace. • Your elec-
tion to the Presidency will be the end of our ,political
troubles, as your accession to the command-in-chief of the
army was the end of the Southern rebellion."

John Quincy Adams has accepted an invitation
from Wade Hampton and other prominent
Southerners to visit South Carolina and deliver
some lectures. His letter has been published, and
if it expressed the sentiments of all his party, many
Americans who are now Republicans would not be
sorry to see the Democrats in power. Mr. Adams
intends taking the opportunity of expressing opinions
which may be little palatable to the South ; but if
they desire to hear him, he will not shrink from
honestly stating what he believes to be facts be-
cause they may be distasteful to his hearers. This
letter is one which well becomes the future repre-
sentative of the family, and shows how narrow is
the line between the Conservative Republican and
the Liberal Democrat. On passing through Gains-
boro', North Carolina, on the 7th inst., he was met
by the citizens of both races en masse; he then stated
it to be untrue that so atrocious an outrage was
contemplated by the Democratic party as the re-
enslavement of the negro, which the North would
never permit, when unanimous cries arose " Nor
the South either ;" he had learned more of the
Southern people during his two days in the South
than he could during his lifetime in Massachusetts,
and he was astonished and pleased at the amicable
relations between the two races.

Indignation is expressed at Brooklyn against the
board of supervisors for their appointment of in-
spectors and canvassers to serve at the coming elec-
tion. By some shuffle, if a Radical authority is to
be believed, they have managed to obtain this re-
sult.

"In the 22 wards of Brooklyn there are 102 election
districts. In 40 of these districts, all of which are Repub-
lican, the inspectors of election are divided equally be-
tween the two parties. In 50 districts, mostly the same,
the canvassers are divided evenly. In twenty-nine districts,
all Democratic, all four of the inspectors of election are
Democrats ; and in 20 of these districts we have no Re-
publican canvasser. In one in five of all the districts in
Brooklyn, 20 in all, and these the worst and most Demo-
cratic, the Democrats have all the inspectors and both the
canvassers, the Republicans having no official means
whatever of checking fraudulent voting."

The citizens are invited, innocently enough, with-
out distinction of party, to assemble en masse at the
Academy of Music to express their indignation.
The town elections of Connecticut show large
Republican gains. They were held on Monday, the
sth instant, and had just been officially published,
when the mail left on the 10th, all but 9. Out of
the 164, 86 went Republican and 69 Democratic.
The net Republican gain in 110 towns out of the
164 was 2,626, a result scarcely looked for in that
State, preceding as it did the great elections on the
13th instant.

That Grant's influence has been pretty strongly
felt by his enemies, is apparent from the fact of
Ashley's defeat in Ohio, and the tight position in
which Butler finds himself to be placed in Massachu-
setts. Ashley of Impeachment notoriety, when the
" War-horses" were in the ascendant, not only
endeavoured to impeach the President, but to force
a measure through Congress for the impeachment
of the General. Butler is said to be roaring like a
mad bull, and he is down horns, and after any-
thing which shakes the red rag of Congressional
defeat before hiin. His two weak points are his
former virulent hostility to Grant, and his financial
heresies.

The Congressional Committee on retrenchment
sat, as announced, at New York. One of the first
witnesses examined was Solicitor Binckley himself,
who was closely questioned by General Van Wyck
of New York. For a long time Mr. Binckley re-
fused to be sworn, urging many reasons why he
should not be, but finally yielded and was examined
at length. He refused to answer questions as to his
authority and instructions from the President.
Without concluding his testimony the committee
adjourned. By a telegram received this week from
New York we learn that, on the further hearing,
the case was not only dismissed against Commis-
sioner Rollins, but M,llenry, one of the witnesses,
had been arrested on a charge of perjury. It ap-
pears, then, that Binckley has so completely broken
down as to have placed himself in a very awkward
position.

An American paper of the true Republican stripe
illustrates the difference between the Democrats
and the Republicans by an incident in the life of a
subscriber, the truth of which is vouched for,
although it sounds uncommonly like a campaign
paper brought out at a very auspicious moment,
for there was but an interval of three days to the
elections on the 13th instant. The family de-
scribed sought to set up a business in a New York
village which had much to recommend it in position
and facilities. A few weeks residence showed that the
drawbacks so swamped its advantages that the family
moved on. They " found it a place of no churches,
dilapidated school-houses, and run down buildings
and fences. Every third 11000 was an ' hotel' or