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po Re es Stranger, New York, Bishop Wignvman, of South Carolina, finding himself, we hope, per- fectly at home in the metropolis, notwithstand- ng the designation of the house, held forth in the words of St. Paul calling on the Thesasa- lonians to “rejoice evermore,” and be joyful whether in bonds, in prison or with bodies lacerated an¢ suffering for the faith, The Bishop closed with the somewhat significant assertion that if there “were no mysteries there would be no Christianity.” Bishop Snow took a less hopeful view of the situation, preaching on the ‘Future of Man on Earth” in words showing forth our perilous position, Woth in morals and politics—a consideration which filled his heart with dismay and the universe with fear, this tendency to despair being vastly aggravated, he alleged, by the efforts of Papists, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists and other sects, which God would soon cut off so that man should enjoy his rightful inheritance. Clerical installations and a church dedication were duly attended to, and the Positivist Society put forth a programme of its peculiar tenets. In the country the spirit was active in Newburg, Bridgeport, Port Jervis, Middletown, Poughkeepsie, Washing- ton and other central points, while in Brooklyn the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher admitted quite @ number of postulants to the communion of Plymouth church, after an oral pro- fession of faith and baptism, the reverend gentleman, in his praiseworthy observance of household economy and a due observance of the relative value of gold and greenbacks, cautioning the female novices to take off their bonnets lest they should be damaged by drops of the water of regeneration. The Spiritualists of Bridgeport, Conn., were addressed by an elegant and youthful lady trance medium, who was most probably féted sumptuously subsequently, instead of being burned as a witch, as would her grandmother had that venerable lady attempted to relate her experiences in the land of dreams to the first settlers of the State. The Presbyterians of Trenton, N. J., were edified by an able dis- course from the Rev. Dr. McCosh, President of Princeton College, while the Rev. R. L. Dunn comforted the Methodists of Jersey City with an augury of the happy future of our negro population, drawn from the ‘‘fact” that @ colored man was called to carry the cross to Calvary after the Saviour had fainted under its weight. In conclusion we may observe, without the slightest tendency towards an uncharitable national selfishness, that our résumé of the progress of religion among us under the influ- ence of a universal toleration and the emanci- pation of mind stands out in bright contrast to the sad effects produced by exclusivism and a blind adherence to dogmatic rule in the Old World. Spain, from whence De Soto first bore the emblem of Christianity to the banks of the Mississippi, proposes a national atheism dy Parliamentary rule, England wanders from the simplicity of Luther to the intrigacies of ritualism, Irish Orangemen and Catholics mur- der each other in the name of the Trinity and British soldiers shoot down both in the name of the Queen, France gilds a State religion in- differentism the leaven of revolutionary infi- delity, Italy arrays the Church against the State and the State against the Church, Aus- tria labors towards toleration, and Rome is preparing for a grand harmonizing effort, while freedom of thought leaves the American mind to ‘‘walk abroad in its own majesty, re- deemed, regenerated and disenthralled.” Ocean Penny Postage. The report of the committee appointed by the British House of Commons to inquire into the policy or expediency of the subsidies to the Cunard and Inman lines of Atlantic teamers has disclosed some new and interest- lng facts. The contracts for these subsidies ‘were signed by the late tory government just ‘as they were leaving office, and the odium of confirming. them was dexterously bequeathed to their successors, who very properly con- sented to a committee to inquire into the whole subject of ocean postage, and incidentally into the mode by which these subsidies, extending over a period of eight years to come, were se- cured, There was one point, indeed, in which the committee appeared unable to obtain all the information they sought, and that was, how it happened that the United States government paid only about thirty-eight thousand pounds for a similar service to that for which the Bri- tish government paid one hundred and five thousand pounds per annum. It wasgivenin evidence that the sum Great Britain pro- posed to pay the steamers was about equal to that received for postages; that the United States despatched as many letters to Great Britain as were received from there, and more newspapers, and that the two governments divided equally the gross ums received for postages. From which it followed that by our ocean postal arrange- ments we derived an income from the mail service, while Great Britain paid away her profits to the steamship contractors—a way of doing business by no means satisfactory to some shrewd members of the House of Commons, It appeared, too, that Cunard and Inman, once keen rivals for the postal service, had, after a mode well understood by contractors on this side of the Atlantic, agreed not to un- derbid one another, and, knowing the necessi- ties of the government, made identically similar terms, dividing the weckly services between them. It is very evident also, though ‘not stated in s0 many words, that the, directors ‘of these companies saw that the tendency of ‘events was towards a gradual lowering of the rates of postage between the two countries, and, not having much confidence in lower rates producing at once such an increase in the number of letters as would compensate for the diminished postage, demanded and got be- tween them a lump sum of one hundred and five thousand pounds a year secured for term of eight years. The two govern- ments may fix the letter and newspaper postage at any rate they please, That is no concern of the contractors. The British Post Office Department may or may not make a ‘handsome profit out of the postages after paying this sum. It may be presumed that the contractors suppose it will not, otherwise they would have undertaken to carry the mails for the postages instead of fora fixed sum. We think they are wrong, if peace continues be- tween the two countries; but they are the best judges of their own interests. e ‘What chiefly concerns the public is, however, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MAY 3, 1869.—TRLPLE SHEET. that there is nothing in these contracts which hinders the Post Office authorities from re- ducing the rates of postage between the two countries to at least half the present rate when the existing convention terminates, as it does at the end of this year. Last summer Mr, Randall, on the part of the United States, announced that it would be the aim of our government to reduco the rate to six cents, or three pence sterling, per half ounce—that is, one penny for the ocean service and one penny each for the land ser- vice in the United States and Great Britain respectively. There can be no doubt that the present Postmaster General will follow the policy of his predecessor, and it is no secret that a tender has already been made by the agent of one of the popular, unsubsidized lines of steamers, to perform the ocean mail service at the rate of one penny per ounce. There can be no question that the interests of the public demand that the lowest rate of remuneration at which one well established line of steamers offers to carry the mails should be the measure for all. When the next postal convention is made with Great Britain we trust Mr. Cresswell will insist on this point. Great Britain, having agreed to pay one hundred and five thousand pounds a year, will natu- rally try to establish a rate which shall remu- nerate her for this outlay, or, in fact, make the service carry her heavy contracts. But our government, having wisely declined to hamper itself by the system of subsidies, will be in a position to consult public interests alone, which imperatively demand a six cent rate. All experience shows that a reduction of the rate of postage increases the number of letters in a geometrical ratio, and our Post Office Department is in a position to reap at once all the advantages of this well known law. At the outset the proposed reduction might cause a loss to the British Post Office, though ulti- mately it would be as profitable as to ours. But there can be no good reason why our people should meanwhile be taxed to support the monopoly the British system of subsidies tends to produce. Will Sprague Turn Out a Political Don Quixote? If Sprague possess the elements of honest purpose and determination, the clear compre hension of the necessities of the people, the fearless courage to attack and expose corrup- tion in whatever quarter it may reside, and the high patriotism to look at all matters affecting the national interests from an inde- pendent, in place of a party, standpoint, then, indeed, he can afford to snap his fingers at mastiffs, puppy dogs, curs and canine snarlers and growlers of all other degrees. The Rhode Island internecine warfare will sound in his ears but asthe babble of a country village, and neither the Bob Acres of North Carolina nor the Falstaffian joker of Nevada need give him any concern, But if he has only pro- posed to himself the véle of a political Don Quixote, with Pet Halstead, of Jersey, for his Sancho Panza, the mishaps he is sure to meet with by the way will throw into insignificance the numerous and never-ending disasters that befell the errant Knight of La Mancha. The people of Rhode Island are no doubt in this condition of thought in reference to their Senator that they cannot tell whether he means to take, or whether he has the capacitg to take, one of the two courses thus supposititiously inferred. All the hubbub about the First Rhode Island regiment—a gallant regiment, no doubt, but excessively thin-skinned—all the noise we hear of Brown & Ives and Anthony would be lost in the tumult of national applause if Sprague, having the qualities we demand, had also the judgment to guide their direction. He already possesses the sympathies of the young men of Rhode Island outside of that everlasting First regiment. This is an excel- lent support to begin with, but it requires tact to make it effective. The other side—the An- thony faction—have, as we are informed, only the old timber of Rhode Island to depend upon. Both sides have plenty of money; but one, it appears, has just that trifle more of enthusiasm that often decides the fate of battles. We want to see a little more of Sprague. We want to see if he has really mounted a political Rosinante, and, with visor down and lance at rest, started to do battle with the windmill. Rhode Island is in the same quandary and impatiently awaits the next chapter in this eventful story. How He Loves Tutm!—The editor of the Brandon (Ohio) Republican, commenting upon a fabulous statement that Massachusetts has more paupers and drunken men than any other three States in the Union, ventures to re- mark:—‘‘And you might have added more spoon thieves, watch thieves, piano thieves, United States Treasury thieves of every grade, more political preachers, more reverend black- guards, more psalm-singing hypocrites, more men in petticoats and women in pants, more free-loveism, spiritualism and niggerism, more vice and less virtue, more churches and less religion, more politicians and fewer patriots, more republicans and fewer friends of the Afri- can, more women with false teeth, false calves, false eyes, false hair and false bosoms—more children who never knew their fathers, and more poople who think they are no better than negroes, than any five States in the Union.” That editor must have paid a recent visit to New England and fallen in with bad charac- ters. He talks as if he might have been jilted by some fair maid on Cape Cod. At any rate he is certainly ‘‘ prejudiced.” TELEGRAPHIC WEWS ITEMS. The printers of New Haven aré on astrike, de- manding from forty to forty-five cents per thousand. ‘The employers refuse to pay the scale. ‘The Seventeenth infantry regiment arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday on the steamer De Soto from New Orleans. They are bound for Richmond. In the case of Ordway vs. Dr. , for alleged tice in Concord, N. H., the jury agreed upon wephiot on Savurday night after ® session of thir: teen hours. The verd! will be ed this moun- ing. It ia reported that tne paint recovers dain: somewhere below g At a previous trial the jury awarded $2,200 damages, ALLEGED DEATH FROM VIOLENCE, Coroner Keenan was notified to hold an inquest at TELEGRAPHIC NEWS | WASHINGTO SPAIN. The Debate on the Constitution Terminnted— Amnesty to Political Offenders—Discentent In the Constituent Cortes the debate on the new constitution has ended. ,All the amendments pro- posea have been rejected, The Cortes has voted an amnesty for all prisoners who took part in the insurrection at Cadiz, Malaga and Xeres. Deputy Castellar moved that the am- nesty be extended to Carlists implicated in insur- rectionary movements, but the motion was not agreed to. A-serious disturbance at Saragossa is apprehena- ed. It is reported that the troops there are in a state of discontent and partial insubordination. PARAGUAY. President Lopez Preparing to Take the Offensive. Lonpon, May 2, 1869. Advices from Paraguayan sources represent that President Lopez, with 10,000 men, 1s preparing to take the offensive. THE PACIFIC COAST. Completion of the Central Pacifle Ratlrond— = = gaa of the Crew of the Bark Jobn te SAN FRANCISCO, May 2, 1869. The Central Pacific Railroad Company yesterday finished their portion of the road with the exception of two connecting rails which Governor Stanford will lay on Friday or Saturday of the present week. A celebration of the event will be held in this city and at Sacramento, for which extensive preparations have been made. e further Caan the Salt Lake and Columbia River Ratlroad has been abandoned for the present, and the surveyor has been recalled. jovernor Seymour, of British Columbia, will pro- ceed to Nootka Sound in the gunboat Sparrowhawk to sroranat investigate the circumstances con- nected with the wrctk of the bark John Bright and murder of her crew by the Indians. Arrived, ship Boussale, from Marseilles, MISSOURI. A Journalistic Delegation—Sinking of the Steamer Nick Wall. Sr. Louis, May 2, 1869. William Hyde, of the Republican; stilson Hutchins, of the Times ; Myron Coiong, of the Demo- crat, and Thomas Rickerson have been added to the committee to visit New Orleans in the interest of the grain movement, The committee leave nere to- morrow evening. An Omaha despatch says the steamer Nick Wall, from St. Louis to Fort Benton, struck a snag below erg ville, Neb., and sunk. Most of tie cargo will os PENNSYLVANIA. Coal Miners’? Strike—Burglary at Wyoming. SCRANTON, May 2, 1869. Notice was given yesterday by the miners’ organ- izations to the coal operators of this eounty that no coal would be cut or loaded after May 8. At Wyoming on Friday night the safe of J. ©, Shoenmaker & Son was blown open and robbed of 7,000 in government and Lackawana and Blooms- burg Rallroad bonds; also $300 in currency. A re- ward of $500 has been oifered for the arrest of the burglars. THE STATE CAPITAL. ‘Text of the Medical Prescription Bill. ALBANY, May 2, 1869, The following ts the text of the act introduced by Mr. Carpenter, of the Assembly, ana now awaiting the Governor's signature, regulating the preparation of medical prescriptions: — SECTION 1. No person employed or in attendance at any drug store or apothecary shop shall prepare @ medical prescription unless le has served two years’ apprenticeship in a drug store, or is a gradu- ate of a medical college, or a college of pharmacy, except under the direct supervision of some person possessing some one of the beiore mentioned qualifi- cations; nor shall any one Laving permanent charge a8 proprietor or otherwise. in any store at which drugs are sold by retail, or at which medical pre- scriplions are put up for sale or use, permit the put- ting up or |e atone thereof therein by any per- Sov, unless such person has served two years as ap- prentice in a retail drug store, or is a graduate of a medical coliege or a college of pharmacy. Suc. 2. Any person oaetng the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment not to exceed six months in the county jail, and in case of death het ere such violations the person offending shall be deemed guilty of a felony ana be punished by a fine not less than $1,000 nor more than $6,000 or by imorison- ment in the State Prison for a term of not less than two years nor more than four years, or by both fine,| and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. Sec. 8 This act shail take effect immediately. NEW YORK. Burning of a Church in Rochester. ROCHESTER, May 2, 1869. About half-past eight o'clock this evening a fire ‘was discovered in the tower of the First Presbyterian church in the rear of the City Hall. The tower was destroyed and the interior of the church badly dam- aged before the flames were suppressed. The chapel adjoining was somewhat damaged by the tower of the church falling upon it. The fire was the work of an incendiary. The church was in process of demo- lition and the organ had been removed. The insur- ance is $10,000, more than enouga to cover the joss. The church was built in 1824. EUROPEAN MARKETS. FRANKFORT BOURSE.—FRANKFORT, May 2.—United States five-twenties are quoted to-day at 864 a 5635. HAVANA MARKETS. HAVANA, May 1, 1869. The following is the report of our markets for the week ending to-day:— Sugar—Large business, but prices steady; market closed buoyant at $44 a 9 reals for Nos. 10 to 12, and 9% a 11 reals for Nos. 15 to 20 Dutch standard. Lard firm at 20% reals for tierce and 22% reals for tins, Flour flat at $325 a $957. Butter steady at 36c. Bacon steidy at 19c. Honey firm at 455 a 4% reals. Wax—Yellow quiet at $7 50 a $8 white buoy- $12 12 a $12 8734 per arrobe. roleum active 46% reais per gallon. Potatoes, $3 25 per bbl. Hams active. Lumber in demand; yellow pine, $22; white, $27. Snooks, for boxes, in demand at 9'5 reals; for hogsheads, dull at $2124. Empty hows- heads steady at $2 25. bie to declining; on sugar to United States, $126 a $1 50 per box, $5 50 a $7 25 r hogshead; on molasses, per hogshead, $3 50a Mn 26; per ton to England, 358. a 40s. Stock in ware- house at Havana and Matansas, 294,500 boxes and 16,000 hhds. xXchange—On London 11% @ 12 premium: on tis 1 @ ‘4 per cent discount; on United States, sixty day: it, In gold, +5 al per cent premium; short sight, & 3 per cent premium. THE NEW YORK HERALD IN CALIFORNIA. (From the Nevada City (Cal.) Dally Gazette, March 16.) The New York HERALD now issues daily a triple sheet, containing seventy-two columns, of which about one-third on an average are advertisements and the remainder reading matter. We have before us the issue of that paper of Monday, February 15. ‘The leading feature of this number ts a sketch of the services and sermons in the principal churches of the city and suburban towns, and in Washington city, of the day previous, with remarks on the church fashions, music, 4c, Some twenty reporters must have been employed in mal sketches of church services in the city and adjoining towns, and the re- ports from the national capital must have been for- ‘warded by telegraph. New York is a great city and supports a number Sine among which the HERALD unquestionably takes tho lead. The cost of running the H&RALD establishment has been hiy estimated at $1,000,000 a year, and it can hardly be less, THE NEW YORK HERALD WOW. (From the Springfeld (Ohio) Daily Republic, April 29.) ‘The Naw York HamRaty has grown to mammoth Its regular issue is now a triple sheet, twelve pages,and two or three times a week It {s com- pelled by the pressure of advertisements to issue & iple sheet of sixteen con- @ as much Matter as a fair oetavo volume. & liberal expenditure of money and — i=} an ot havo'led warvel- fa erate up to this i Senator Sumner’s Views on the Ala- bama Claims Question. The English Excitement Over His Speech. The Press Despatch Announcing the Re- jection of the Treaty Suppressed by the English Government. MINISTER MOTLEY’S INSTRUCTIONS The Virginia Constitution Election Postponed Until July. WASHINGTON, May 2, 1819. ‘The Alabama Claims—Interview with Senator Sumner—His Views of the Excitement over His Speech in England—McCreery and Reverdy Johnson Ventilated—The Instruc- te Minister Motley. The arrival of the HERALD here last evening con- taining the special cable despatch setting forth the views of the British Cabinet and the comments of the English press on Senator Sumner’s speech, and the rejection of the Alabama claims treaty was the first intimation the government oficials here had of the manner in which Great Britain received the news of the action of the Senate. The tone and temper of the English press creates some surprise in official circles, and no little excitement among politicians and the people generally. Everybody is inquiring, “‘Are we to have war with England ? Senator Sumner, who might be supposed to be more interested than any other person on account of the storm his speech has raised in Great Britain, takes the matter rather coolly. He seems to have antict- pated something of the kind, though he hardly thinks the editor of the London Times could have read his speech through carefully, otherwise he would not have characterized it as puerile, unrea- sonable and unstatesmanike. Your correspondent called upon Senator Sumner to-day for the purpose of ascertaining what he thought of the tempest in @ teapot being raised over tis speech by the English press, The Senator was in the best of humor, and though delving away ata mass of letters and papers on his table, very commu- nicative also, Senator Sumner is perhaps the most industrious, hard working public man in Washing- ton, but he is never so busy, never so much engaged, that he is not willing to communicate with the representatives of the public press when they call upon him. Our interview ran about as follows:— CORRESPONDENT—Mr. Senator, your speech on the Alabama claims is creating considerable feeling in England, judging from the comments of the English press. Mr. SumNeR—Is there anything later on the sub- Ject than the cable despatch published in Satarday’s HERALD? CoRRESPONDENT—Nothing that I have seen. Mr. SuMNER—I am not altogether surprised at the way they have taken it. England does not like tobe told the truth. There never has been a time since the Conquest when England liked to be told the truth, especially if she happened to be in the wrong. I consider that this is the first time she has had the truth squarely told her about the Alabama claims. CORRESPONDENT—I notice, Mr. Senator, that even your friend John Bright does not quite agree with you this time. Mr, SumNER—No; but he tells the British Cabinet in so Many words that the embarrassment caused by my speech serves them rigut. John Bright knows very well that England is in the wrong tn this mat- ter. CoRRESPONDENT—Do you think we will have a war w:th England, Mr. Senator, before this thing. is setued? Mr. SUMNER—NO, sir; I don’t think we shall have war. I hope there is enough intelligence and good sense on both sides of the Atlantic to avoid that. Our new Minister, Mr, Motley, under- stands this whole question thoroughly and he knows just what to do and how to do it. CORRESPONDENT—The tone of the English press is quite belligerent, you notice. One of the papers, the London Star, said to be John Bright’s organ, says:—‘‘If Mr. Motley’s instructions are couched ina similar spirit (to your speech) his mission will be fruitless.”” Mr. SumNen—I am inclined to think that neither the British Ministry nor the British press understand our position exactly on this question. The Alabama claims treaty, as it is called, is the first instance since I have been chairman of tue Committee op Foreign Relations where a treaty was absolutely re- ported against—that is, with the recommendation that it be rejected. I have frequently recommended some change or amendment tn the terms of a treaty, but {do not remember to have reported that a treaty ought to be rejected. You know the Senate was al- most unanimous in rejecting the Alabama treaty, ‘There was but one vote in its favor—that of Senator McCreery, of Kentucky. Now, I do not wish to say anything unkind of Mr. McCreery, but you know he is intensely pro-slavery to this day. He would argue a whole day, if you would listen to him, in favor cf the rightfulness of the institution of slavery. He is, therefore, an exception to the geueral opinion of American citt: . CORRESPONDENT—Senator McCreery, I take it, can hardly be called a representative man of the demo- cratic party. Mr. SumNeR—No; that isa very true remark. He does not represent any person on this question but himself. The Senate, therefore, may be said to be unanimous in its rejection of the treaty. Now as regaras my speech, that was delivered, as you know, inthe presence of a full Senate, I think it was rather pacific in its tone, but it refiecta the almost unanimous opinion of the Senate, and indeed of the administration. So far as the President of the United States had considered the subject he coin- cided with my views exactly. 1 happen to know this because I talked with him on the question before my speech was de- livered. When I had = finished speaking the leading men of the Senate took the trouble to endorse all I had satd, Such men as Mr. Fessenden, Mr. Sherman and Mr. Howard said that the speecn met their entire approbation. Mr. Chandler was quite enthusiastic over it. What followed? The in- junction of secresy was unanimously removed and the speech was spread before the country. It met with a response from the press and the people almost as unanimous as it had received from the Senate. What next? On that same day, after my speech was delivered and the treaty rejected, I moved to take up ana consider the nomination of Mr. Motley. It was taken up out of its course, not as it stood on the calendar, and that without a digsenting voice. The “no” of Mr. McCreery was not even heard on thisjquestion. Mr. Motley was unanimously confirmed. Now this was ail dene on one day, and it was allof apiece. It was all one thing—one act, as it were. The English Ministry does not seem to understand this, CORRESPONDENT—According to the cable telegram Mr. Gladstone seems to think that the treaty was rejected on political grounds alone. Mr. SuMNER—Yes; he says he has assurance from reliable quartors that such was the fact. Now where could he get such assurance? Certainly not from any person in this country whose epinion would amount to anything. He must have got it from Mr. Reverdy Johnson. Mr. Thornton 1s too well posted to have communicated any such information. CoRRESrONDENT—Probably Mr. Johnson haa repre- sented to Mr. Gladstone that the treaty was rejected because the majority inthe Senate was against both him and President Johnson, merely as a matter of spite or revenge. Ma, SumNER—Very likely; but such is not the fact, The very next day after the Alabama treaty wa rejected I moved in executive session to take up Mr. Johnson, Ihave no doubt, feels mortified; but we cannot help that. Iam surprised at the British Ministry, composed as it is of politicians, that it should go on ‘negotiating this treaty with Rev- erdy Johnson under the circumstances, You wul notice that the negotiations were all carried on afer General Grant bad been electea President. The treaty was signed in January. It was in that peculiar time in our system of government between the two administrations, when the acting President may be said to have nothing in the shape of a party behind him. Reverdy Johnson really did not represent anybody then, at least he did not represent the majority of the Amert- can people. The British Ministry shoula have been sharp enough to lave seen this, and postponed ne- gotiations until the new administration came into power, I thought once or twice of calling Mr. Thornton’s attention to this, but upon reflection I did not see that I haa any right to doit. There isa curious circumstance connected with the rejection ofthe Alabama treaty for which Iam ata loss to account. I notice that the London Times— (here Mr. Sumner produced copies of the Times of April 15, 16 and 17)—does not mention the rejection of the treaty nor refor to my speech. The Times of the 15th contains a cable telegram announcing the confirmation of Mr. Motley and Mr. Jay. The Alabama treaty was rejected the same day, and yet there is no reference to it. CORRESPONDENT—How ao you account for that, Mr. Senator? There can be little doubt, I think, that the announcement was sent from this side by the Associated Press. Mr. SUMNER—There can be but one theory about it—the fact must have been suppressed in England either by Reuter or by the government, most proba- bly the latter, through Reuter. The British govern- ment was apprised of it, however, at an early period, for [understand Mr. Thornton sent a despatch by cable announcing the action of the Senate. CORRESPONDENT—How do you account for the English press not publishing your speech in cpn- nection with thetr comments on it? Mr. SuMNER—That looks a little suspicous too, It would seem as if they were afraid to let the people read itt before the papers had a chance to prejudice public sentiment against it. I think, however, they will be compelled to print it. CORRESPONDENT—How does Mr. Thornton, the British Minister, take the speech? Mr. SuMNER—Mr. Thornton is now absent from the city. I have not seen him but once since I delivered my speech, and that was the day after, when I met him at dinner. He seemed to be very calm then. He is not the kind of man to make war. CoRRESPONDENT—Mr, Senator, do you think the Alabama business can be amicably arranged? Mr. SumNER—I hope so. When the British gov- ernment and people understand our position better I think much of the dimiculty will vanish. You see, they say, “What is the use of such an intense feeling on the part of the Americans about a few ships? John Bull could put his hand in one of his pockets and pay the damages in an hour.’’ But that is not exactly the point. They don’t look at it as we do. They don’t take into consideration the injury they have done us. As Richard Cobden said, they might as well have battered down all our cities on the seaboard. The injury Great Britain has inflicted on us ts greater than it was inthe war of 1812, much greater. We have defined our position now, and I have reason to know there will be no yielding. We ask nothing but what is fair, and our people mean to have jus- tice at least, Mr. Motley sails on ihe 19th of this month. As I have already said he understands the question, and is fullyfapprised of the wishes of the administra- tion. Until he arrives in England nothing can be done, It has been reliably ascertatned that the instruc- tions of this government to Minister Motley do not suggest any mode of adjusting the pending ques- tions between the United States and Great Britain. Nor do they require him at present to propose the reopening of negotiations for the settlement of the Alabama and other claims. Our government will act with the deliberation due to this important sub- ject, and carefully avoid any cause of offence wile firmly presenting the American side of the question to her Majesty’s government when occasion shall require. No one connected with the administration, including the President, nor does the Britisn Minis- ter apprehend any injurious consequences from the almost unanimous rejection of the Alabama claims treaty by the Senate; and this is stated on the au- thority of gentiemen who, fearful of serious dim. culties, made special and private Inquiry in official circles, and this satisfled themselves of the truth of this statement. ‘ A Diplomatic Scandal. A prominent foreign minister lately left here, osten- sibly on leave of absence, to visit his European home. Rumor, however, connects his departure with a good sized scandal. It is this: That.the aforesaid minister did purioin the affections and virtue of @ certain fashionable lady hereabouts; that the lady demanded matrimony; that the minister could not or would not see it; thata terrible rumpus was thereupon resultant, and that the minister, to avoid vengeance, took himself off to Europe, leaving the lady in despair.. How can foreign ministers do such things? The Elections in Virginia. {Information has been received here that a certain prominent gentleman in Richmond, after a conver- sation with General Canby, left him with the impres- sion that the vote on the constitution of Virginia will not take place at the general election on the fourth Thursday of May, but probably between the first and tenth of July, 80 as not to interfere with the harvest. He also aesires a thorough registra- tion, and 1s anxious that citizens of ail parties shall interest themselves in securing @ full and fair vote. ‘The probability is that President Grant will be gov- erned by General Canby’s suggestions. ‘The President and His Family Having Their Pictures Taken. President Grant, accompanied by Mrs. Grant and two of their children, and his father-in-law, Mr. Dent, visited Brady’s gallery yesterday afternoon and the party sat for their portraits. The President then proceeded to the State Department with Mr. J. Russell Jones, lavely nominated as Minister to Bel- gium. Condition of the National Banks in New York City. The following is an abstract showing the condition of the fifty-six national banks in the city of New York at the close of business on the 17th of April:— RESOURCES. Loans and discounts. Overdrafts ..... United States bor United States bonds to secure deposi! United States bonds and securities on Other socks, bonds and mortgages. Due from national banks........ Due from other banks and banker: Real estate, furniture and fixtures. Current expenses... Total. asvedaeceebbdddacore codecs resusss $426, 107,942 No Smoking in the Tressury. Secretary Boutwelt ts about to issue a ukase against smoking and other small vices that. under former administrations wete permitted witbin the sacred walls of the Treasury. It ts believed that the forthcoming order will not onty prohibit the luxu- rious clerks from puffing their ten cent Havanas and chewing Michigan fine cut, but that it will also for- bid talking, chatting, receiving calls, visits to barrooma during business, hours, fand, in short, everything but the strictest attention to busi- ness. In fact, Boston notions will rule triumphant under Boutwell. Just fancy the Temale clerks deprived of their tongues, or at leayit the use of them, which fs about the same thing. It is wagered here that the girls won't stand it, ‘and some people are wicked enough to suggest Uiat the princtpal alm of the order ts to get rid of the, women altogether trom tq Treasury. Certap!y, i Bout ee —_ lect a better met..9d. As to the males, they are in @ regular flustrificack ‘2 Over the matter, They thiukit ‘vrings them to the lay e! of schoolboys, and that Bout- w ¢ll hadn’t oughter do.‘t Why don’t Boutwell resign? Death of a Pr Ominent Lawyer. Colonel A. P. Wilie, a p, Oulnent lawyer of Texas, died h. wre to-day. Propos.*d Southern Teleg.*Ph to the Pacifio Coast. Acompi ‘ny has been organize.t. With the capital subscribed, to construct a telegra,') llue from St. Louis, throu") Texas, to the Pacific Coast. Some of the parties \, "ere recently in this city \? perfect the arrangements, Transports ‘tion of Gold from Mexh*% The mail contr. tors on the Southern ove "land route have enter. 4 into a contract to trans) ort 2,000,C@9 of bullion . Woually from Chihuahua, Mext- co, to New York. Hi ‘retofore the bullion bas beeat carried to San Francis, °° 80d thence to England. LITER ATURE. fied. Now if we had been disposed to act in a spi."{t | well desires to Sbolish the females he could not se » of revenge we might have rejected that treaty also, Reviews of . New Books. THLEEN. the auth °F of “Raymond's Re- bese wee yet: Har, €F & Brothers, ‘We have a-very interesting Story in this book, but it is quite unnatural and very | wartistic. The author has made a great mistake in gi Ving George Williams the character he appears in. Even Kathleen is a forced, overdrawn picture. It is '@ great pity that a little more skill: is not exhibited ' in the plottray of this novel and in the drawing of its drainatis persone. The conception is e Xcellent and the writtng lively, readable, entertaini ug- But we can- not read it a8 we read a novel by 1 ackens, or Huno, or Reade. There is nothing of te artist 1a it; nothing but the work of the mere no velit. No Secrs IN HEAVEN, AND OTHER P 98M3. By Mrs. E.H. J. Uleaveland. New York: Clark & May- nard, This elegant iittle volume contains ; Yeveral poems of merit, ‘The first, which gives th ? title to the whole, is well known and has achieve. | considerable popularity, The others, though less k 0Wn, are in many respects equally as well written + Occasion- ally the unities are not well maintained , and a sad disregard is observed in the metrical ar ‘angement; but, on the whole, the poems are above t, 1e average. ‘rhey are full of sentiment and pathos ar ‘4 Will am- ply repay perusal. AcNes WENTWORTH. By E. Faxton. ‘adelphia : J. B. Lippincott & Co, By a large class of novel readers this bok will be received with favor. It is interesting ei tough to while away an hour, and that is about ai /| we can say in its favor. Tae Grrts or FeversHam. By Florence M arryatt. Loring, publisher, Boston. Over YONDER. Translated from the Germa 0 of E. Marlitt. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott &C 9 Both these stories are very good. 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