The Sun.
London, England, 1870-04-18 00:00:00

towards the Canadian frontier. Fairfield, which is close
to St. Albans, and a Fenian stronghold, has become quite
lively with passing teams, supposed to contain arms and
ammunition.

From Washington one of the few telegrams of the
week is, " The Special Joint Congressional Committee have
agreed to report favourably on Wash burne's Postal Tele-
graph Bill, placing the telegraph lines under the control of
the Poet Office Department. The passage of this bill
is, however, considered doubtful." Our article of last
week discussed this subject, and those best informed of the
advantages seem to consider the transfer certain, although
our own opinion is that. the measure will not pass, the
mass of the people being persuaded that through their own
system they have managed in telegraphy to surpass the
world. Some curious statistics on this subject have lately
been published, showing the enormous number of mes-
sages delivered by one company in New York, and con-
trasting the work with what is done in Lcndon and other
cities. It appears, however, certain that the transfer in
England of the lines to the Government has been at-
tended with benefit to the community, and will be pi ofit-
able to the public, as well as vastly extending telegraphic
facilities. The Postmaster-General has just announced
the opening of seventeen additional postal telegraph
offices, twelve in the provinces and five in London.

Major W. C. Barney had returned to New York
from Havre in the steamer Dammonia, where he has re-
ported his success in concluding a contract with the cable
manufacturers in England to construct and lay the pro-
jected submarine cable between the United States and
Belgium under the concession already obtained from the
Belgian Government. Whether there is work as yet for
another Atlantic cable remains to be proved, but another
appears likely, whether profitable or ruinous to the share-
holdeas, to be carried through.

Major-General George H. Thomas was seized
with apoplexy, and died very shortly afterwards, on Mon-
day, the 28th March, at 7.30, in San Francisco. The
funeral took place in the presence of his family and a few
friends, on the Beth, his widow being opposed to a public
display. Immediately on his death becoming known the
officers of the army of the Cumberland in Chicago, ap-
pointed a committee, including General Sheridan, to meet
the remains at Omaha, which left San Francisco on the
81st March. Minute guns were fired at the time appointed
for the departure, and at all military stations the flags were
placed at half-mast, and fifteen guns were fired on the day
after the receipt of Gen. Sherman's order, the usual badges
of mourning being directed to be worn for 30 days. Gene-
ral Thomas was born in Southampton county near Nor-
folk, Virginia, in 1816, and was a law student before
graduating, in 1840, at West Point. He served in the
Mexican War in 1816-7 ; then held a post as instructor
at West Point, proceeded on frontier duty to California
and Texas, where he was wounded in 1860. He leaves no
child, but as General Sherman says in his Order, " the
old army of the Cumberland— numbered by tens of thou-
sands—called him father, and will weep for him in tears of
manly grief. His wife, who cheered him with messages of
love in the darkest hours of war, will mourn him now in
sadness, chastened by the sympathy of a whole country."
On the'2sth of March the President nominated
Allen Rutherford to be Third Auditor of the Treasury
William J. Purman to be Assessor for Florida : and the
following Consuls: Michael Vidal, of Louisiana, at Tripoli ;
L. M. Burger, of South Carolina, at Algiers; William B.
Jones, of Alabama, at Brindisi ; H. S. Pike, of North
Carolina, at Tampico ; and John Harris, of Pennsylvania,
at Venice ; and on the same day, in Executive Session,
the U. S. Senate confirmed George 11. Sharp as U. S.
Marshal for Southern New York ; Joseph Pinkham, U. S.
Marshal for Idaho; Charles 11. liernstead, U. S. Attorney
for Utah; John L. Stevens, Minister to Uruguay; F. P.
Meigs, Consul at Montevideo; and Thomas D. Hamilton,
Consul at Rio Grande, Brazil ; James W. Mason, of
Arkansas, to be Minister Resident and Consul -General to
Liberia; John Hay, of Illinois, to be Secretary of Lega-
tion at Madrid.

The mail brought to New York, by the steamship
Alaska; which left Aspinwall on &larch 17, contains the
latest intelligence from Central and South America. The
rebellion in Guatemala is ended, its chiefs being all cap-
tured or shot. There was a slight earthquake at Salvador
on the 9th inst. The gunboat Nyack, having been making
topographical surveys and maps of the Guilipagos Islands,
it was announced that Ecuador would demand satisfaction
of the United States ±or a violation of international law.
The yellow fever had appeared at Rio Janeiro. Foreign
vessels will hereafter be permitted to engage in the Bra-
zilian coasting trade. A Frenchman, named Antonio, had
sot up as 'Mpg of Araucania and Patagonia, defying the
Chilian Government, which was about to send troops
against him. A Valparaiso letter represents the cause of
Lopez, the Paraguayan dictator, as hopeless, and that hs
remaining adherents were deserting him.

President O'Neill, of the Fenian Brotherhood in
New York, has deposed Richard M'Cloud, Secretary and
Treasurer of the organisation, and expelled him from the
Order. 2,l‘oloud, who is also a Senator, will attempt to
impeach O'Neill. But not withstanding the domestic
quarrels the Brotherhood have managed to get up a "scare"
again in Canada, though this time it is only a little one,
for the Dominion is becoming accustomed to Fenian in-
vasions. Some regiments of militia have, however, been
ordered out, and are held in readiness.

ELECTION NEWS.—New York is to elect a Chief
Justice and six Associate Justices of the Court of Appeals,
and New Yolk. City three additional Judges of the Court
of Common Pleas on Tuesday, May 17.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Senator Revels says he
was once excluded from the Senate gallery on account of
colour.—The Washington Star describes General- Ames,
Senator elect from Mississippi, as "a boyish, handsome-
looking chap, with a nice black moustache."—Governor
Claflin, Massachusetts, has issued a proclamation appoint-
ing the 7th of April as a day of fasting and prayer.--, Go-
vernor Warmouth Las appointed Henry C. Dibble Judge
of the Eighth District Court at New Orleans, created
by act of the last Louisiana Legislature. Dibble was
a private soldier in the Fourteenth New York Cavalry,
and lost a leg at Port Hudson.—The funeral of Count
Francis Lousada (Marquis de San Miniatol) late British
Consul at Boston, took place on the 24th March in Trinity
Church. Bishop Eastburn and the Rev. Henry Burroughs
officiated. The several foreign Consuls at Boston and
the British Consul at Portland were among the pall-
bearers. There was a large attendance. He was the
second scn of the late Duke de Losada. y Losada.—The
Right Rev. Thomas Foley, recently of Baltimore, lately
elected Bishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of Chicago,
has arrived at Chicago, and will enter upon his pastoral
duties at once. -Dr. Don Antonio Flores, Minister from
Ecuador, presented his credentials to the President March
25. The usual complimentary speeches were exchanged.--
The Jeff. Davis capture reward of $lOO,OOO is to be paid to
237 persons.—Horatio Seymour is going to deliver lectures
in Oneida County, New York, for charitable purposes.
Blicque Bey, the Turkish Minister, returns to Turkey,
on a six months' leave of absence, in May.—Miss L.
Barkalow, of Brooklyn, N. Y., student at the St. Louis Law
School, passed a very severe examination on Saturday,
March 26, before Judge Knight, of the Circuit Court, and
was admitted to practice.—President Grant pays taxes on
$lOO,OOO, and Gen. Sherman on $235,000 worth of pro-
perty in St. Louis.—General Joseph E. Johnson has gone
into the real estate business with two other ex-Confede-
rates.—lt is reported in Montreal that Mr. Deboucher-
ville, President of the Quebec Executive Council, will be
appointed Governor of the North-west Territory.—Col.
Millie, the rifle inventor, has been looking through the
Springfield Armoury.—John O'Neill, the president of the
Fenian Brotherhood, has deposed Richard M'Cloud from
the office of secretary of the treasury, removed him from
the position of sanator, and he then expelled him from
the order. Mr M'Cloud denies the assumption of the pre-
sident, and regards himself to be still enough of a Fenian,
a senator, and a secretary of the treasury to demand the
impeachment, removal, and expulsion of President O'Neill.
—Mr. J. S. Clarke will commence his engagement• at
Booth's Theatre on the 18th of April;---Captain Williams,
the heroic commander of the Oneida, was engaged to be
married to a young lady in Maine, on arriving from the
Japan cruise. Since the Ist of January Isis two children
and his intended wife have died, but the news of their
death had not reached him at the time of the disaster.—
Charles Clark, formerly United State marshal, has been
appointed city marshal of Portlaud.—Genßutler's coloured
West Point cadet is thrown out, being eight months less
than 17 years old, the required age. Senator Morton, in
speaking on the San Domingo treaty in the Senate,March 25,
said that island was worth ten Alaskas, to which another
Senator added, " Yes, a hundred."—Mr. Horace Greeley
was recently knocked down by a waggon in New York
and severely injured his ankle.—Fechter gets $3,000 a
week as his pay for acting in American theatres.—The se-
cond son of the Hon. A. B. Cornell, surveyor of the Port
of New York, was killed by a fall front the fourth to the
first floor of the Fifth-avenue Hotel on the 31st March, and
the remains were taken to Ithaca for interment.—Colonel
Whitley has arrived in New York with R. B. Caldwell,
the drawback conspirator, who had fled to Canada from
justice, and was delivered up under the extradition treaty.
He denounced Mr Barney Delavan, a Montreal lawyer,
for an attempt to extract from him $2,000, under a threat
of informing the police of his whereabouts.—Mr. Ford,
First Secretary, and Mr. Freeman, Second Secretary of
the British Legation, return to England in June. It is
probable that Mr. Ford will be transferred to one of the
European Legations. Mr. Freeman returns to America
in October.