The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-10 00:00:00

BUDGET OF PERSONAL.—Rev. Dr. Sears, general
agent of the Peabody education fund, is visiting the chief
cities of Texas, to ascertain the needs of that State.—
Alabama Semmes has failed as au editor, and he revenges
himself by talking of "the present demoralized condition
of the Southern press."—The eulogies in Congress on
the late Senator Fessenden were pronounced by Messrs.
Lynch, Peters, Hale, Brooks of New York, and Dawes. -
General Sherman has been in New York at the Astor
House, where he remained some time—but has returned
to Washington.—Mrs. O'Donovan Bosse is at the Ebbit
House, in Washington. If Woman had her Rights, Tippe-
rary m' ) reebt have elected her its M.P. instead of her hus-
band.—A. D. Richardson left an estate of s7s,ooo.—The
Hon. J. Morrissey says lie intends to have the finest private
residence in Saratoga.—The Hon. G. H. Pe' dleton has been
appointed President of the Kentucky Central Railroad.--
George Wm. Curtis thinks the public service in America
is more wretchedly performed and at a higher price than
any private work.—Pero Hyacinthe was " interviewed "
by a New York phrenologist, who found "self-esteem "
large.—The Now York reporters have now got to inter-
viewing Mrs. James Fisk, jun.- Mr. Wm. Beals, senior
proprietor of the Boston Post, entered upon his 65th year
on the 16th Dec.- The Cleveland Herald nominates Judge
Chase as Democratic candidate for President in 1872.—The
French Embassy at Washington, it is said, is about to be
vacated, M. Berthemy being transferred from Washington
to Pekin. Iu the Society of the Army of the Cumberland
at Indianapolis on Dec. 16 General Thomas was elected
President, and Generals Rosecrans, Sheridan, Schofield,
Negley, and twelve others, were elected Vice-Presidents
for the ensuing year; General Sheridan on the pre-
ceding day was elected President to the Convention.
Commander GeOrge W. Morris has been ordered to the
Philadelphia Navy Yard.—The Tribune says: "Miss Allio
H. Jameson has been appointed a notary yublic at Mae
shalltown, lows. When she administers oaths and holds
out the book to be kissed, we hope uo mistake will be
made."—General W. J. Hardee has been elected president
of the Historical Association of Alabama. -The illinanach
De Gotha for 1870 contains a portrait of President Grant.
Governor Hoffman has issued a proclamation offering a
reward of SSOU for the arrest of the murderer or murderers
of Dr. Andrew Meade of Alleghauy.— John Brougham i
iu Buffalo. Mrs. D. P. Bowers is in New Orleans, and John
E. Owens is in Vicksburg.—Major Rhea, formerly of the
Memphis Avalanche left San Francisco, Dec. 21, with
three hundred Chinese labourers fur the Southern States.
The Chinamen are under a three years' contract. The
President has pardoned Colonel Richard Enright, sen-
tenced to the penitentiary in Ne:v York for whisky frauds.
—Wm. IL Seward will visit Central America before re-
turning to the Uttited States.—Colonel M. Richards Muckle
of the Ledge), has returned from Europe to Philadelphia.
—Jeff. Davis has been left $lO,OOO by an English woman.
—President Grant has been sent a turkey weighing forty
pounds, from Poughkeepsie, New York.—The latest about
Anna E. Dickinson is that she is to edit the New York Re-
volution.—On the 19th Dec. George Francis Train found
the doors of Cooper Institute closed by order of the Board
of Trustees, and his expected lecture therefore did not
come off. He demands 82,:.00 damages. - Hiram Powers'
statue of " Eve," now nearly finished, is said to excel his
"Greek Stave," and indeed to surpass anything he has
previously produced.—The newly appointed Consul fo
Jamaica, Mr. J. W. Wheeler, sailed December 23 from
New York with his family in the bark Pongar for King-
ston. Mr. Wheeler goes out to succeed Mr. Aaron Gregg.—
Rev. D. C. Greene, the first missionary of the Atne, icon
board to Japan, sailed from San Francisco, November 4
He was accompanied by his wife, and expects to pro-
ceed at once to Yeddo.—Eev. Dr. Foley, vicar general of
the diocese of Baltimore, has been appointed to succeed
Rev. Dr. Duggan as Catholic Bishop, of Illinois. - Presi-
dent Grant has assigned Col. Henry B. Carrington of
Wallingford to the professorship of military science in
Wabash College, Indiana.—The Monarch, with the re-
mains of Mr. Peabody, arrived at Madeira on the
30th of December. Both branches of the Baltimore
City Council have appointed a committee of five members
to attend the obsequies, f Mr. Peabody. The Board of Trade
and Corn Exchange of Baltimore and the Trustees of the
Peabody Institute will also be represented. On the arrival of
the Monarch at Portland the obsequies are to be celebrated
and delegates from numerous other cities will be present.
—The Martinsville Gazette, Indiana, appears to have been
the only paper in which the notice to M•Farland, of his
Rite's divorce proceeding, was published; and a journal
supposes this was done in a way sometimes adopted of
publishing with the notice an extra of three or four copies
only. The case has called forth a discussion on the
divorce laws of Indiana and on the marriage relations
throughout the Union.—Justice Grier forwarded with
his resignation a letter from a Mr. Hardy, a lawyer,
recommending Mr. Bradley, a New Jersey lawyer,
to be appointed to the vacancy—(cheek !) The
Hon. S. Edward Lyulph Stanley, brother of Lord
Stanley of Alderley, is, it is understood, about to revisit
the United States. Before returning to England he will
make a journey to the East, and will include China,
Japan, and Siam in his tour.—We hear that Miss Nellie,
the beautif al daughter of Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor
of Ceylon, and the lion. Lady Robinson, is engaged to be
married to Captain Edward Beauchamp St. John, of her
Majesty's 73d Regiment, now stationed at Ceylon.