The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-05 00:00:00

The ambassadors from the United States
have generally secured the respect and the esteem
of the people to which they are accredited,
and Mr. JOHNSON'S unusually warm manifestations
of friendship are but the natural accompaniment of
the settlement of the great dispute between the two
countries. Moreover, these banquets and speeches are
merely the shadow anel not the substance of his m ission.
His business is to be the medium of the diplomatic
interchanges between the two countries, and this he
has performed most successfully. The credit of
the Alabama settlement belongs largely to him, and
he must be fairly conceded the merit of having
secured an arrangement as favourable as the kmericans
could expect to obtain by diplomatic means. Had he sacri-
ficed the interests of the United States in this respect,
the ground of complaint against him would have been
much more serious. But he has concluded as good
bargain as any American diplomatist could have
hoped for, and better than seemed possible a short
time back. His recall, should such a step be taken,
would be most ill-omened. He is identified with the
arrangement between the two countries, and it is
doubtful how far his removal might vitiate it.
England could hardly look upon such a step
as favourable to her re-established friendship with
America. Mr. JOHNSON'S politics are adverse to
those of the ruling party in America, and his conduct
here has displeased them ; but his diplomacy
has not failed to carry out their views. When the
substance of his mission has been accomplished
almost beyond hope, it would hardly be justice, and
it would be no compliment to England, to recall him
for running counter to American views of diplomatic
etiquette.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

HUNGARY.

PEST!!, Dec. 4, Evening.

The budget for 1869 was submitted to-day to
the Hungarian Diet. The receipts are estimated
at 170 millions, the expenditure at 180 millions of
florins. This includes the common deficit, which
it is proposed to cover by the sale of Northern Rail-
way shares, the collection of taxes, and by re-
trenchment in the expenditure for the public
service.

It is stated that the Archduke Joseph is to be
appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Honveds.
The differences which has hitherto prevailed be-
tween the Delegation regarding the army have just
been settled, and the estimates of the common
Budget agreed to.
The Delegation will be closed to-morrow.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Dec. 4 (Evening).

According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report the re-
ceipts of the week at American ports amount to
92,000 bales. Export to great Britain 25,000, Con-
tinent 26,000, stock 239,000 bales. Market very
dull, and tendency downwards. Middling 10d.
cost and freight per steamer.

PER SCOTIA.

NEW YORK, Nov. 25.

General Sheridan, in his report upon the Indian
war, charges the ravages with great treachery
towards the Government, and with having com-
mitted brutal outrages upon the settlers and pri-
soners, and recommends the transfer of the
management of Indian affairs to the War De-
partment.

Mr. Henry Rivus Pollard, editor of the Southern
Opinion, published at Richmond, has been assassi-
nated.

Nov. 24 (Noon).

The Washington correspondents of several jour-
nals state that the Government approves of Mr.
Reverdy .Johnson's conduct during the negotiations
for the settlement of the Alabama claims.
The trial of Mr. Jefferson Davis has been fur-
ther postponed, Chief Justice Chase being- unable to
preside in court. General lloward, in pursuance
of an Act of Congress, has issued an order for the
discontinuance of the Freedmen's Bureau after the
Ist January next, except the educational branch of
that office.

A large band of desperadoes attacked Bear City,
Nebraska, on Saturday, intending to plunder the
town,d v
cu e butfrom they were repulsed by the citizens.
A Hayti state that the Cacos are
concentrating their forces for an at tack on Gonaivcs.
In Cuba great dissensions had arisen among the in-
surgents, who ara now reported as acting on the
defensive. The report of the capture of Puerto
Principe is contradicted. General Dalmseda had
notified to h that if they surrender
withinthreotdaera insurgents
pardon will begranted them. In
consequence of ibis notification several insurgents
have laid down their arms.

The Royal rail steamship Scotia, from New
lork, arrived atueenstown at 5 a.m. to-day (sth
Q
December) with 72 cabin passengers. She landed
108 sacks of nails and seven passengers and pro-
ceeded immediately. All well.

Intelligence received from Mexico state that
Escobedu's troops, after being defeated by `'argon,have joined the insurgents in large numbers, who
now hold nearly the entire state of Tamantipas.

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

MARSEILLES, Dec. 5.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Pera arrived at 11 p.m. yesterday. The mails
leave for London by the 11.30 train this morning.

FRANCE.
BOURSE,: Dec. 4.—Three o'clock.—The market
closed as follows :

41 per Cent.
End of month --
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 75
Credit Mobilier

Bank Shares 3185
Italian Loan —
End of month —
Mexican Loan 24 25
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes
Homo Debt —
Deferred ......
s. Cash

End of month... 300
Credit Foncier ...1542
End of month...

RAILWA'

Orleans

... 915 ,

Northern ... 3210
Lyons and blediterranean
Southern.... 640
Western
Eaetern •• 570
Sardinian
Austrian 665
Lombard 4281
North of Spain
Saragossa
Roman 471

TEMPLE BAR MAGAZINE.—In reference to a state-
ment made in our notice of this popular periodical on
Magazine Day, we are requested to assert that Mr.
Hannay is not,,and never has been, its editor.
The talk of " the Ilan" is now what is to be
done with Sir Roundell Palmer, whose avowed opposition
to the destruction of the Protestant Church in Ireland
makes it impossible that he should accept the seat on
the woolsack, which would unquestionably have been
his had he possessed a more pliable conscience. A plan
has been suggested which would retain his services
to his party in another capacity and for other objects, un-
til the settlement of the Church question shall enable Lim
to hold office with honour. Elevate Lord Romilly to the
woolsack, make Sir R. Palmer Master of the Rolls, which
will not deprive him of his seat in the Commons, and there
let him abide until in the fulness of time the Church question
is disposed of. The scheme is perfect,and would have the en-
tireapproval of the whole profession, without distinction of
party. But how will it be if, as is certain, the English
Church question will come to the fore as soon as the Irish
branch of it is despatched ? This is a difficulty, which
may be safely left to the future to solve. No living man
has made such a sacrifice of ambition to principle as Sir
Roundel Palmer, and no honour tho country can bestow
upon him can be too great. Law Times.

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THE MINISTEI?IAL CRISIS,

The work of reconstruction progresses somewhat slowly,
partly through the absence of some of the foremost
Liberal statesmen, partly through the intrinsic difficulty
of the work. The formation of a Ministry is at no time
an easy or a thankful occupation, but in the present case
the task must be one of peculiar delicacy. The number
of Liberal statesmen who can justly claim a place in the
new Cabinet is large, whilst the diversity of opinion and
policy existing amongst them is very considerable. If
" uneasy lies the head that wears a crown," the head that is
now to represent ono must be perplexed indeed. But there
can be no doubt that the Liberal party can at the present
time furnish abundance of Cabinet material, and when the
general settling down is over, the result can hardly be other
than a strong Government. As the Spectatorremarks,it will
be difficult to rival, to say nothing of surpassing, the Conser-
vative Government in the Foreign department, but in all
other respects the Liberals ought to be equal, and in many
superior, to their predecessors. The 27mc,3 thinks the com-
parison between the incoming and the outgoing Ministry is
eminently inifa,vour of the former. "Mr. Disraeli, Lord Stan-
ley, Lord Cairns exhaust the front rank of the late Cabinet,
Sir Stafford Northcote and Mr. Hardy only just appearing
below them. The rest of the chosen advisers of the Queen,
from'the dukes downwards, were rather like flies in amber.
It cannot be said of Mr. Gladstone, Lord Russell, Lord
Clarendon, Lord Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Mr.
Lowe, and Mr. Bright that they would not hold a dis-
tinguished position in any Administration." Even the
Standard, which of course anticipates that Mr. Gladstone's
task will be one of almost insuperable embarrassment,
attributes the difficulty to the number of candidates for
office. Thirteen or fourteen is at most the number Mr.
Gladstone can gratify out of the noblemen and gentlemen
who will offer him their services with the conviction that
the offer ought to be accepted. And yet the Standard
enumerates some thirty names who will be put forth to
fill these places. The Liberal party will be rather asto-
nished to learn that its embarras de richesses is of such mag-
nitude as this. The Spectator has faith in the incoming
Administration, and hopes that we shall now have a
middle-class Government bent on extirpating the worst
and rankest growths of the middle-class prejudices and
selfishness of these latter days.

Some little time must elapse before everything is finally
determined, present appointments being, in fact, in a
measure provisional. Meanwhile the political atmosphere
is full of rumours, not to speak of " prophesying with
accents terrible of dire combustion and confused events."
Some of the speculative appointments very well
authenticated, and others less probable, are worth notice
as a reflex of public opinion. To begin with
the Deus ex inachind. A Cabinet appointment without
portfolio is generally assigned to Lord Russell. He will
thus take the place which the Marquis of Lansdowne held
in more than one Liberal Administration. The Privy Seal
is allotted by the Imperialßeview to Earl Granville, a noble-
man who is at present filling more imaginative posts than
any other prospective Minister. That he must lead the
House of Lords is deemed by the Spectator a matter of
course. " There is no man half so well fitted by sagacity,
by intellectual tact, by grace of manner, and for large-
ness of view for that rather delicate task for
Liberal Administrations." The Presidency of the Council
is quite an open question. The Times observes that "the
President of the Council is by long tradition, if not by
necessity, a great peer, but it is at present uncertain
whether the Duke of Argyll, Lord Granville, or another
peer will fill this position of highest dignity. Lord Gran-
ville would have the advantage of considerable experience
in the office, but we do not abandon the hope of seeing him
at last obtain a more adequate field for the exercise of his
very considerable abilities." The same journal assigns the
Chancellorship of the Exchequer to Mr. Lowe, but three
other candidates are named—Mr. Cardwell, Mr.
Childers, and Mr. Goschen. Of these Mr. Childers is
the favourite, though the capacity of Mr. Cardwell is
very highly spoken of by journals so diverse as the
Spectator and the Imperial Review. Of the Secretaryships
the Foreign Office is decidedly the most difficult,
because in this direction the late Ministry was strongest,
and the danger of a comparison unfavourable to the
Liberal party is most imminent. The French most
desire the Earl of Clarendon to fill this post—not that this
will be considered by Mr. Gladstone any very good reason
for appointing him. The Spectator thinks that Lord
Clarendon would not support the prestige which Lord
Stanley has acquired, but the Times seems to be
certain that he has already been selected. The
chances of Earl Granville and Lord Kimberley are
not to be overlooked. The Imperial Review says : "It is
not known, as yet, whether Earl Granville will assume
the direction of Foreign Affairs, which he held for a
short time after the secession of Lord Palmerston from
Lord J. Russell's Government in 1852—0 r whether he
will return to his old post as President of the Council. In
either case, we are informed, Lord Kimberley will take
the office which Lord Granville declines." The
Home Office is generally assigned to Mr. Cardwell, though
this gentleman must be highly flattered by the diverse
rumours which consider him capable of guiding half a
dozen of the most important departments of the State.
He has been allotted to the War Department by the Times,
to the Admiralty by the Imperial Review, to the
Chancellorship of the Exchequer and the Colonies
in less well-informed quarters. But the balance of
probability decidedly points to the Home Office. For the
War Department, Lord Hartington is almost the only
candidate spoken of. The Times' speculation respecting
Mr. Cardwell is almost the only exception. The public
voice, too, largely preponderates in favour of Mr. Forster
for the Colonies. The Duke of Argyll and Mr. Bright are
mentioned for India. The whole formation of the Ministry
rests very much upon the decision of the member
for Birmingham. The Advertiser positively announces
that he will take office, and that he has been congratulated
upon his acceptance. The Times favours Mr. Bright's
chances, though it is doubtful whether his depart.
mental energy rill be equal to India. Should
this difficult choice finally end in the selec-
tion of the Commoner, the Duke of Argyll may
have the Presidency of the Council or the Privy Seal.
The Star, however, has no moral doubt that the nobleman
will govern India. For the Admiralty nobody is men-
tioned but Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Childers, the former
having by far the greatest number of votes. The Presidency
of the Board of Trade is generally given' to Mr. Goschen,
and the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster to Mr.
Brand or Mr. Bright, should the latter take no more respon-
sible office. Mr. Chichester Fortescue, says the Times, will
return to his position as Secretary for Ireland, but follow-
ing the example of the outgoing Government, Mr. Glad-
stone has wisely determined that his Irish Secretary shall
have a seat in the Cabinet.

The legal appointments will give rise to much difficulty,
except, of course, the Attorney-Generalship, which Sir
Robert Collier has obtained. The Times alone makes any
very definite statement on this question. We repro-
duce its remarks :—" The functions of Minister
of Justice are divided between the Home Secretary
and the Lord Chancellor, but the most arduous duty of
the Lord Chancellor in the new Ministry will be to provide
legal means for the disestablishment of the Irish Church,
and to carry the bill embodying it through a hostile
House of Lords led by Lord Cairns. We are told
that Lord Justice Page Wood has been designated
for the Great Seal. There could possibly be no better head
of the law, nor would Sir William Page Wood's promotion
be grudged in any quarter ; but it will be admitted by his
warmest admirers that the faculty of lucid and con-
tinuous exposition is the least developed of his powers,
and the assistance he could render to the Ministry
from the woolsack would be very slight indeed. In his
present position as Lord Justice, Sir William Page Wood
is doing good service to his country, and it would be a
mischievous diversion to remove him from an office
in which he is supreme, when a lawyer far better
qualified to assist the Ministry in its political and parlia-
mentary difficulties may be found elsewhere. Sir Robert
Collier will resume his former position as Attorney-
General, and Mr. Coleridge will find in the post of
Solicitor-General opportunities of official distinction."

TUE SEW PARLIAMENT.—The number of new
..,embers returned to the House of Commons exceeds that
at any general election for very many years. In 1859 only
131 new members came back from the country ; in 1865
there were 196 ; while at the present election the number
is 224.

IRISH LAWYERS.—The following legal appoint-
ments have been announced :—The Right Hon. the
Attorney-General. has been appointed judge of the Court
of Probate, vice the Right Hon. Judge Keatinge, who
retires; Dr. Ball, Solicitor-General, has been appointed
Attorney-General, and has been sworn in a member of
the Privy Council ; Mr. Ifenry Ormsby, Q.C., as already
announced, has been appointed Solicitor-General ;
the Hon. David Plunkett, Q.C., has been appointed law
adviser at the Castle ; Mr. William F. Darling, Q.O.
LL.D. has been appointed to the chairmanship of the
county Wicklow, in the room of Mr. James P. Hamilton,
Q.C., who has been transferred to the county Sligo,
vice Mr. Ifartstonge Robinson, Q.C., resigned ; Mr.
Dodgson Hamilton Madden, barrister-at-law, has been
appointed a supernumerary Crown prosecutor for
the county Wexford ; Mr. Hugh Lane, solicitor, has
been appointed Master of the Court of Queen's Bench,
vice Mr. Busho, resigned; Mr. Colhoun, solicitor, has
been appointed clerk of the Crown for the county Derry ;
Mr. Dane has been appointed clerk of the Crown for the
county Wicklow ; Mr. Thomas Gerrard, solicitor, has
been appointed CrOWn solicitor for the Queen's County
and County Carlow ; Mr. George H. Major, solicitor,
has been appointed sessional Crown solicitor for county
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