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

paying his workpeoPle otherwise than in the current coin
of the realm. Mr. Sumption keeps a general shop, and
expects all his workpeople to take ont a portion of their
wages in goods.

The Swereign Prince of Lichstenstein has de-
,,ided on disbanding his army. In the old Germanic Con-
federation he was bound to keep together a body of 90
men as a contingent, which was a heavy charge on his
Treasury. At present he is determined to bo freed from it
and so ho disarms.

In Boston an effort is being made by he leading
merchants to secure the construction of what they call a
" marginal street," which is a plan to connect the various
railroads with the harbour, so that goods can be at once
transferred for the cars to shipboard or vice versa. The
total expense is estimated at $1,000,000, but by the filling
up of shallow places in the harbour the city will acquire
new land valued at $8,000,000.

At the session of the Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference just held in Chicago, a resolution condemning the
use of tobacco by the ministry was referred to a special
commit tee. The resolution requests the general confer-
ence to enact a law prohibiting the admission to the mini-
stry of any person using the weed.

The Senates of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck
have agreed to abolish from the let of July next their
diplomatic representation in London and Paris.

A stamp has just been issued by the Canadian
authorities which will prove an acquisition to stamp col-
lectors. It consists of a beautifully executed portrait of
the Queen in widow's attire, and wearing the familiar Mary
Stuart cap.

The song " Tramp, tramp, tramp," is said to
have been composed by a prisoner confined in the lowa
Penitentiary, and was first written on the walls of his
cell with charcoal. It has netted thopublishers thousands
of dollars, but not a cent to the writer.

. The Annuli Raport of the Board of Commis-
sioners of Emigration, New York, for 1867, has been pre-
pared and forwarded to the Legis:ature. The report opens
by showing the increase in the arrival of passengers during
the past year over that of the preceding, stating that the
whole number landed in 1867 was 301,326, of which 242,731
were aliens, an increase over 1867 of 46,379, and a steadily
swelling increase over the numbers landedin several years
past, while the proportion to the average of former years,
since 1817, is 63,602 more. Of the emigrants who arrived
in 1867, 117,591 were from Germany, 65,134 from Ireland,
33,712 from England, and 26,294 from other countries:—
Total receipts for the year 1867 $607,227
Total expenditures for the year 1867
Leaving the financial condition of the Board on Decem-
ber 31, 1867, as follows :
Balance in bank December 31, 1867
__ 568,650

Amount invested in 11. S. and N. Y. State

Securities

Total 5378,650
Amount of bond and mortgage

Balance 5171,130
Being more than in December, 1866, by the sum of
$44,577, subject, howe7er, to amounts due on contracts
for buildings and repairs. The report also shows that cut
of 222,632 passengers in 464 steamers, 235 died, while
from among 49,038 in 282 sailing vessels the deaths were
494. Nothing better shows the growing intimacy of our
commercial relations with China and Japan than the fol-
lowing statistics of the San Francisco trade to those
countries, as published in that city a few months since :
Year. Merchandise. Treasure. Total.

1856 5259,912 $1,308,852 $1,548,791

1857

313,896

2,993;264

3,307,169

1858 .
224,568 1,916,007 2,140,575

1859. 252,575 3,134,756 3;387;331

V,V 1860 647,905 3,563,880 4 216, 783

1861 757,418 3,601,499 058,917
1862 743,827 2,678.670 3,422,497
1863 ... 1,290,155 6,240,934 5,531,089

1861 1;623;443 7;874,651 9;298,027

1865
1,483,974 7,078,145 8 562 119

1866 ,
1 641.984 ' 6,632,688

8;274;672

186: 2, 101,7 U G 9,673;340 12;774,046

Totals $11,120,393 $54,701,689 $65,822,082
—lron Age.

Pope and Roe's General Telegram Office 11, Throgmor-
ton-street, E.C., publishes the following cable messages :
Thiele, Seiler, and Co.'s Weekly Cotton Report :—Receipts,
6,000 bales; export to Great Britain and the Continent,
16,000 bales ; stock at all United States p0rt5,142,000 bales ;
New York price of middling upland, cost and freight, by
sail to Liverpool, 11 7-16 d. ;:price of middling New Orleans,
cost and freight by sail to Liverpool, 11d. ; New York Ex-
change on London, 1100. ; New Orleans Exchange on
London, 1531 ; Steam Freight to Liverpool, id.; Stearn
Freight to Liverpool, from New Orleans, fd.
The American (Negro) Colonisation Society--
which was formed in 1817 in Washington--still retains its
activity. During the past twelve months it reports
having sent out to Liberia 1,300 negroes. Sixty thousand
dollars were expended for education, and 10,000 dollars
added to the fluids of the society.