The Sun. — 1867-02-18 (London, England)

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18 1867.  sperm oil, 12,000 barrels whale oil, and 530,000 pounds of bone. The home consumption during the year has been 20,667 barrels sperm oil, 60,969 barrels whale oil. In 1865 the home consumption was 32,664 barrels sperm oil, and 64,992 barrels whale oil. The stock on hand in importers' and speculators' hands at the close of the year is 12,700 barrels sperm oil, 21,000 barrels whale oil, but the stock of whalebone is not yet accurately ascertained."  of the llumbolt river, in the Nevada, where it is gathered by the Indians, who strip off the bark from the dried wood, and make from it very fine and strong nets. The fibre is said to be finer and stronger than common hemp, longer than flax, more abundant in proportion to the wood, and more easily separated from the wood than either. Native hemp is also formed in many parts of California, especially in the moist lands of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. A college for young coloured men has been established at Washington called the " Howard University."  A mulatto slave in Brazil has carried off a national prize medal for the best work of sculpture, and also received a paper of manumission. His statue is a Cupid.  A white man in St. Louis became enraged at a negro, the other day, and was about to strike him with a brickbat, when the coloured man fell back on reserved right : " Look here, white man, don't you strike me wid dat are rock—don't you do it, eah. I'd have you to know dat when you strikes me, you strikes a Bureau !" A coloured man in Wilmington, North Carolina, has had letters of administration granted him as executor of the estate of another coloured man, deceased. It is probably the firs: instance of such a grant or such administration at the South. Communications from Texas represent that in the north-eastern counties of the State the freedmen are more oppressed and brutally treated than in the days of slavery. Says the report, " The lash is more cruelly administered than ever before ;" and freedmen who have cultivated land and raised crops have been robbed of all the fruits of their toil. A member of the grand jury of Red River County was heard to say that they dared not indict these criminals known to them to be guilty. Outrages, from cold-blooded murders down, have occurred, and there is no one to whom the blacks can appeal for redress. A recent letter from Austin gives an account of the murder of two freedmen—one near Austin, and the other at Home Bend. The murderers were white men. A case is reported where a freedman at Prairie Lea was cruelly whipped for addressing a young man as " Tom," instead of " Master Thomas." Another was shot for refusing to lend his bottle of whisky to two white men. The civil authorities will not take any steps to bring the offenders to justice. In Panola County there exists a gang of five or six white men who live by robbing the freedmen. The citizens themselves are afraid of them, and the civil authorities powerless, because witnesses dare not testify against them. The military commandant at Victoria having refused to assist the Freedmen's Bureau officers, General Griffin, the military commander of the State, has issued an order to the effect that all military officers must assist the Bureau in the contingencies provided for in the Bureau and Civil Rights Acts. The only cheering news from the State relates to labour. General Kiddoo, in a recent tour of observation, found the negroes actively making contracts for the ensuing crop. In spite of immigration there is still a paucity of labourers. The oldest stove in the United States, if not in the world, now warms the hall of the capitol of Virginia, n Richmond. It was made in England, and sent to Virginia in 1777.  Theatrcal and Literary.