The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

important part of his speech related to confiscation— the force of negro prejudice, will never again ob-
the time for which had gone by, if it ever existed— tain the majority : the nation will become a des-
and it was now impracticable, and if practicable, potism." " With Universal Suffrage," he says, " I
undesirable. He held that farms which cost nothing believe the true men of the nation can maintain
were worth nothing, and were land grants made to their position ; but without it, whether that suffrage
the negroes they would probably be of as little use to be impartial or in any way qualified I look upon
them as those made to the white soldiers in the West. the Republic as likely to relapse into an oligarchy
At the same time he warned the holders of great which will be ruled by coarse Copperheadism and
estates that they must be broken up, and advised the proud Conservatism."
sale of small tots either for money or labour to the The Republican Convention of Tennessee has
coloured people, which would anticipate legislative coupled Grant for President, with "Parson" Brown-
action, for to that it must come. He disliked as low for Vice! The National Convention of the Grand
much a landed Northern aristocrat as a Southern Army of the Republic in session at Philadelphia has
one. If any war of races occurred he considered it also nominated Grant, as well as the Connecticut
would not be begun by the blacks. Republican Convention, which has brought forward
The New York Citizen is severe on the auction William A. Buckingham of that State for Vice.
sales of sittings in Plymouth Church. The bid- Mr. Charles Dickens gave his first reading in
dings took place on the 6th January, when a throng Philadelphia, in the Concert Hall, on the 13th of
or fashionable Christians competed for pews in Mr. January. He was received in the Quaker city with
Beecher's capacious church. " The stock has been enthusiasm. The Public Ledger describes it "as a
unusually active during the present week among the state of popular excitement; that, taken in all its
board of brokers," remarks the Citizen, as if re- phases, is without a parallel on our side of the
porting on the markets ; and again, " among ocean." Many people stayed out all night to get
the auction sales of the present week none seats in the Plymouth Church for the Brooklyn
have been so well attended with wealthy buyers, as readings on the 16th and 17th January. Early this
the sale of pews at Plymouth Church." In a month Mr. Dickens will give his four readings in
leader the subject is animadverted on as follows : Washington, the price of each seat being fixed at
Is it not more than a suspicion that the best five dollars. lie will make a tour of the West, and
seats of the Plymouth play-house are purchased it is announced will return to England on the 22d
with the same view that the front seats are sought April.
for at the opera, viz., because they are most favour- The telegrams from New York, which giving other
able for the display of costly toilets? Of such may than the market news, are dated January 25, and
be the kingdom of Beecher, but of such is not the inform us that the steamers leaving for Europe on
kingdom of Heaven. Exclusiveness (at which high that day took out $1,000,000 in specie. Also, that
pew rents appear to aim) is well enough in society, according to Messrs. Neill Brothers' Circular, the
but it will not answer in religion or politics." It is receipts of cotton at all United States ports during
in this church that Mr. Dickens meets his audiences the week amount to 82,000 bales, and since the Ist
in Brooklyn. How it pays may be gathered from of September to 1,162,000. The week's exports to
the following figures :—The assessed rental of the Great Britain were 47,000, and since the Ist of
pews this year is $12,800, while at the sale bonuses September 458,000. The week's exports to the
were paid for choice places to the amount of $37,736 Continent 25,000, and since the Ist of September
more, making the yearly income from the pews 227,000. The total exports for the week 72,000,
$48,738. Eight hundred dollars premium was given ar.d since the Ist of September 685,000. Stock at
for the right of first choice at this sale, and some all ports, 350,000.
40 persons gave sums ranging from that amount The Times correspondent says there are rumours
down to $2OO dollars for subsequent choices. that Mr. Adams intends to resign the English mis-
The last nomination of the President to the Am- sion, and that General M'Clellan will be nominated
bassadorship at Vienna has been the Hon. Samue in his place. Even if true such a nomination has
S. Cox, formerly Democratic Congressman from no chance of confirmation by the Senate.
Ohio. Like its predecessors, it is almost certain to The news from Copenhagen on the 30th January
be thrown out by the Senate, which will make the was that the treaty with the United States relative
ninth attempt to fill the vacancy created by the to the sale of the Danish West Indies had just been
key-hole observer, M'Cracken, who perhaps was not finally passed by the Landsthing. Both Chambers
aware of the difficulties he would create by his of the Diet have, therefore, definitively given their
foolish letter to the President. assent to the project. Despatches from St. Thomas'
Congress, not content with laughing at and have announced to Mr. Seward the result of the
tabling the President's Message publicly to recog7 voting by the people of St. Joha and St. Thomas
nize General Hancock's noble order at New Orleans, on the subject of annexation to the United States.
has introduced a bill, recommended by the Military In the total poll of 1,266 only 22 ballots were cast
Committee, reducing the number of majors-gene- against the proposition.
ral in the army to four, and of brigadiers-general Mr. Arthur Dumas has written a letter announc-
to nine. The object is to remove Generals Hancock ing that he is preparing a statement, with the names of
and Rousseau, and to effect this the Secretary of ships destroyed by the Alabama, involving loss to Glas-
gow, London, Paris, and Rotterdam underwriters. rho
War is ordered to strike out the names of those last
famoushutthe
he
cruiser, he says, not only caused a loss to Americ
commissioned. This is, indeed, a public recogni- a,
ertdee.n fell as well on English and other Euro-
tion of the men the President " delights to honour," pean packets.
and, itis in keeping with the resolution, iu reply to the It is rumoured that the lion. S. Shellabarger, of
Aiessagethamking General Sheridan for his conduct Ohio, will resign his place in Congress from ill health.
iVhile at Di trkt,Cumtna,nder censuring the. Presi- Mr. Arnell has introduced a resolution, adopted
clentfir havin 'reovd him d thanking General
having 'removed an by the House, instructing the Committee on the Library
Grant for his opposition to that step. The bill was to inquire into the subject of au International Copyright.
rfeit*ed Ter a aieek, under a threat of the Oppo- The Republican candidate for Governor in Con-
' saheb` tidlibuster," if time for debate was not necticut is Mr. Harvey Jewell, brother of the Speaker of
' allowed. the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was
born in Winchester, New Hampshire, in 1825. His father,
ltte,:agitation throughout the United States for Pliny Jewell, of the firm of Jewell and Sons, tanners, of
protecting the rights of naturalized citizens is on the Hartford, put him into his business. Becoming an
increase, and assuming a national aspect. It will expert operator in telegraphing, he rose to be General
give Tise.to important legislation, as all Americans Superintendent of the Telegraphic line between Nash-
are agreed on this subject ; and it is understood ville and New Orleans. In
hn1.88,19
fatherhe
,s h
returned to Hartford,edec
that the President will send a Message to Congress
and
esetantblirsihnigngssipt sarst into
one of the leading houusisneessos su
iu
taking very high ground. Tin the United States. lie has
he opinions held inficts kind
paid three visits t o Europe,
America are generous and becoming to a great na- extending his travels to Egypt, the Holy Land, and Tur-
tion, and will be cordially reciprocated throughout key. lie spent a large portion of his time last summer at
Europe. "A. great country like ours," said Speaker the Paris Exposition. He is a lover of art, and has shown
Colfax, at the mass meeting held at Washington on an excellent taste in his admirable selection of paintings
the -loth Jannary, " must either cease to naturalize by thebost artists of the modern school. His election is
considered more than probable.
the millions who come to us from abroad, or protect Lord Hobart, who took the American view in
them. in the rights of citizenship professed by our the late controversy' on the Alabama claims, proceeds to
laws. As it is the greatest glory of any nation that Constantinople on a salary of £3,000 a year, as manager
it protects the poorest and humblest of its citizens of the Imperial Ottoman Bank.
as earnestly as the richest and most powerful, we Among the deaths recently announced in America
should be as quick to throw the shield of our na- are Judge William B. Wright, of the New York Court of
Appeals, and his sm-in-law, Commander Laßue P. Adams,
giance in our courts as if they had been born on our
tionality over all who have taken our oaths of sale-
giance
department
rit'redetrie of k Steele,
the Columbia,lately in command of the military
Philander P. Prindle' for
soil. To demand that they should fight, bleed, and threep years clerk of the Now York Assembly, and James
die for the country of their adoption in war as Powers, a prominent and aged lawyer of Columbia county,
American citizens, and then fail to protect them as New York.
American citizens in peace, at home or abroad, The Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Pro-
would be a national shame. I have no doubt that testant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, died at the Episco-
Congress will speak on this subject with no uncer-
pal residence at Rock Point on Thursday afternoon.
h B p Hopkins was of English extraction, but was born
lain voice." Meetings have been held throughout
in Dublin, January 30, 1792, so that at the time of his
the country, in which all parties have joined. At death he was 76 years old. His parents emigrated to this
some of these, the Fenians obtained control, when country when he was only eight years of age, and he was
an element of hostility to Great Britain was intro- mostly educated by his mother. He was intended for the
duced. But the agitation is directed to the settle- law, but, after receiving a classical education, he passed a
ment of the question on a fair, secure, and permanent year
relassisted Wilson, the ornithologist, in the preparation
basis, which should long ago have been determined. of the plates for his work. In his 19th year he embarked
The difficulty will be with Prussia. That kingdom in the manufacture of iron in Western Pennsylvania, but
this business was much prostrated by the peace of 1815,
conceded to the United States so far as to permit
citizens who emigrate, even without permission, and two years afterwards ho failed, and betook himself to
accompanied by their sons under the age of 17, and
t3setdwu study of
the
heohf thept
tltaeibvu. After f ter
bar, six
whmouths'ere he study
practisedh e was
untilad
d-
who remain over ten years, to lose their nationality
quittede
r thelearo
for
Caspar the
and become previously married a r
g exempt from conscription. Otherwise 182
daughter ZrinOistttoryla. unite: ahrae-
the emigrant is liable to arrest on his return to his
tired merzhant of Baltimore, but previouslyp of Hamburg,
G
native land, unless he has discharged his service, or Germany. Immediately upon his ordination in 1824, Mr.
paid his commutation. Mr. Emile Kahn, a Prus-
Hopkins became rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh,
sian, naturalized, and residing in Cincinnati, lately w hereheremained until 1831, when he went to Trinity
asked Mr. Seward if he, as an American citizen, Church,
In 1827 an
Boston,asadssilstBa2n9t
heminister on the Green foun-
would be protected against arrest on returning to Action.
n the
General Conventions of the Church, w
as
clerical
i7an both he tooki
Prussia. In reply, Mr. Seward stated that his right
prominent part in the debates. He was a candidate for the
to exemption from military service could be main- assistant bishopric of Pennsylvannia in 1827, but being a
tained under certain circumstances, but he might be tie with his opponent, Dr. Onderdonk, he decided the con-
subjected to trouble, to which the United States test in favour of his competitor by casting his own vote in
Government would advise him not to expose him- favour of the other. In the same year that Mr. Hopkins
removed to Boston he became Professor of Divinity in the
self. new Theological Seminary of Massachusetts, and the next
The Five Constitutional Conventions BOW at year, 1832, he was elected first Bishop of Vermont, an
work in the Southern States are getting through office he filled until his death. Ho accepted at the
their business. On the 15th Jan. the Charleston same time the rectorship of St. Paul's, Burlington,
Convention selected Collector Mackay of that city which he retained until the year 1856. One of his latest
President, and an entire corps of coloured officers, works was a "Church History in Verse,"
year, but this
t enffert did published last
Bishop
excepting its Secretary. The negroes have a ma- reneoetntreaat cthhet
ndireictzteof an
Synodpoetry.
jority of 10, and they are using this to some purpose
at Lambeth' in which he took a prominent part. While
in the Palmetto State, where is now presented as abroad the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by tho
strange a freak as fortune has ever witnessed in this University of Oxford. Ho had but recently returned to
changing world. North Carolina has elected C. J. this country and his diocese, and, notwithstanding his age,
Cowles, of Wilkes County, President ; and James his death will be a surprise to many. In the dissension
H. Jones, the old body servant of Jeff. Davis, cap- dividing the Episcopal Church, Bishop Hopkins was a de-
tured with' him, for principal door-keeper. The
cided champion of the High-Church party, and refused to
sign the famous protest of the bishops last year against
Convention has resolved to expel any reporter who High-Church practices.—New York Tribune.
describes delegates by colour. In Louisiana a
white man has been nominated for Governor, and a
negro for Lieut.-Governor on the refusal of another
coloured gentleman to accept the appointment, as
he aspired to the higher post. Messrs. Sypher, Jones,
and Newsham have been nominated for Congress;
eighty-two articles have been finished, and the
whole will soon be completed. There is no money
to pay the delegates, as bonds have been in vain
offered for sale, and a law enforcing a tax on pro-
perty has been fruitless. The Georgia Treasurer,
removed by General Meade, has surrendered his
keys, but the General has found the vaults empty,
the funds having been transported to New York.
The General has also removed the Controller, and
appointed a military successor. The Treasury
bcoks have not been given up. The Convention of
that State has adopted a resolution praying Con-
gress to appropriate $200,000,000 for a national
system of cheap railways. General Butler visited
the Convention at Richmond, on the 13th Jan.,
and while it was in the act of debating whether he
should be invited, with the unbounded assurance
that characterises all his actions, he delivered a
speech which lasted an hour. The Conservative
members left their seats, while those who did not re-
quire to be converted remained to be enlightened by
the General's political notions. The Convention has
adopted an ordinance prohibiting imprisonment for
debt, and has passed a resolution of thanks to Gen
Meade.

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Births.

ST. PAUL—On tho 19th ult., Lady St. Paul, of a daugh-

ter.
THROCKMORTON—On the 30th ult., at 298, Albemarle•
street, the wife of Captain Throckmorton, of a son.
VIVIAN On the 3d inst., at 5, Buckingham-gate, the Lady
Augusta Vivian, of a son.
Marriages.

ABDY—MERIIIMAN -Oa the 4th inst., at Tottenham, the
Rev. Albert Charming Abdy, M.A., of Worcester Col-
lege, Oxford, to Dora, second daughter of S. B. Merri-
man, Esq., cf Tottenham and Austinfriars.
KINDERSLEY —lluititAY—On the 4th inst., at Paddington,
Edward N. M. Kiudersley, Esq., Captain 19th Foot, to
Ada Good, fifth and Youngest daughter of John Murray
Esq., of Whitehall-place, and Stanhope-street, Hyde-
park-gardens.

A question is suggested to Congress more easily
asked than answered.—" Suppose the Supreme
Court decides the Supreme Court Quorum Bill'
to be unconstitutional by a two-thirds vote—What
is to be done ?" How could the question be raised
before the court, and by whom argued ?
Thaddeus Stevens has published another letter in
favour of Universal Suffrage. He predicts that
" the Republicans, once beaten into a minority by