The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 21, 1869.

FOREIGN NOTES.

EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

The committee of benevolent persons who attempted to
solve the emigration problem by assisting distressed
families to Canada have met with very encouraging suc-
cess. They sent out East-end workmen, men of good
character who had been reduced to poverty through in-
sufficient work, with their families, to the number of 608.
All these are doing well in Canada. Without exception
they obtained work on their arrival, and the letters re-
ceived from them are described by a lady member of the
committee as "full of gratitude and happiness." One
poor woman who went out with her daughter is now in a
situation with a farmer. She writes that there is no want
in the country except the want of labour. Three hundred
girls now earning a scanty livelihood in London might
find employment in the neighbourhood of Kingston alone.
A jeweller who could find nothing to do here obtained
employment at six shillings a day in Toronto. His wife
writes that though some necessaries are dear in Canada,
others are cheap ; and on the whole the cost of living is
lower than in London. Similar letters are received from
other emigrants. The East London Family Emigra-
tion Committee seems to be doing a very
good work, and it is quite certain that the
work is being done in the best possible way.
" expenses" of the society are only £8 for printing, no
office or paid agency being thought needful. Here is a
model society.

The

ME7ROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Tuesday.

The debate on the University Tests Bill shewea a
remarkable degree of progress on the part of the P eers.
Though the bill was lost it was not rejected, Lord Crainar-
von moving only the previous question. The speeches
delivered by the Conservative peers, even by that most
Tory of prelates, the Bishop of Gloucester, were remarkably
conciliatory, and there is reason to hope that a
settlement of this vexed question may be obtained
next year. The Bishops were conspicuous by
their absence. Only four were present during the debate—
the Archbishop of Canterbury, who left the House with-
out voting, and the Bishops of Gloucester, Bangor, and
Lichfield, who supported Lord Carnarvon.
Lord Stanley's long absence from the House of Corn.
mons is causing much comment. He is believed to be
thoroughly disgusted with the "no surrender" policy of
his father.

Two important club meetings are to be held on Thurs-
day : one at the Reform, to consider the resignations of
Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster; and one at the Conserva-
tive, to discuss Mr. Grenville Murray and his doings.
The last-named person has sent an elaborate defence of
his conduct to this morning's papers.
It is thought not improbable that, in the event of the
Deanery of Durham becoming vacant, it will be offered
to Mr. Liddell, of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge. Mr.
Liddell, differing from the rest of his family (Lord
Ravensworth's), has always supported Mr. Gladstone at
Oxford, and belongs to a stock which has great influence
in the northern counties. At the same time there are
other men who have even stronger claims upon the
Premier.

I believe I am right in saying that the author of the
first and very remarkable article in the Quarterly Review
on "Eastern Christians" is Dr. Deutsch, author of the
famous article on the Talmud which appeared in 1867.
This morning's London papers confirm the statement
which I made about three weeks ago, that Mr. O'Dowd,
sub-editor of the Army and Navy Gazette, has been
appointed Deputy Judge Advocate General, at a salary
of £l,OOO a year. Mr. O'Dowd formerly edited the defunct
Sunday Gazette.

AMERICAN AFFAIRS

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

WASHINGTON, July 2.
Ex-President Johnson has been ,4 interviewed,"
and the reporter finds him little changed, only more
outspoken than when he ruled in the Executive
Mansion. Andy has read President Grant through
and through, and knows him thoroughly ; and
modest as the President is, if Andy really does
know him so well, yet expresses so low an opinion
both of his intellect and person, even the little
pride inseparable to humanity, which Gen. Grant,
little as he is known to possess, still must have,
would be shocked. Johnson's successor, accord-
ing to him, is without substance, opinion, faith,
creed, or policy ; he bad no military ability, be-
ing " a mere incident of the war, as a baggage
waggon or an ammunition train would be ;" he
reiterated his former charges against Grant in the
quarrel, growing warm as be did so, and rehearsing
the controversy at length. He has as little respect for
Grant's Cabinet as kir himself ; he considers the coun-
try to be tending towards Imperialism and a bond-
bolding aristocracy, and the only return to Consti-
tutional Government was to make the Southern
States a neucleus, about which when power de-
veloped itself the North-west would join hands as
against the East and protective tariffs. As regards
himself, he had nothing to ask from the Administra
tion ; he had reached the summit of his ambition,
and only desired to see the country fixed on a solid
foundation. Of Tennessee he observed that Sena-
tor Brownlow was acting with him ; he had no
confidence in the Parson ; but that gentleman was
too shrewd not to see the change of sentiment in his
own State. Mr. Johnson is in Washington to col-
lect materials of private, and copies of public docu-
ments necessary either for him or his biographer in
writing the history of his Administration. Mr.Reverdy
Johnson is also here; both have been serenaded,
and both attended the examination at the George-
town College on Thursday. Andrew Johnson
leaves immediately, as he is to speak at Green-
castle on Monday. He feels confident of Senter's
election as Governor of Tennessee ; and it is as-
serted that the Administration has thrown its in-
fluence into the scale with Stokes, who is thus
strengthened by the Federal patronage. Senator
Brownlow, in advocating Senter and opposing Grant
has 1, st his influence with the Government here.
People are amused with the report of an Italian
paper that Andrew Johnson had arrived in Italy, as
nothing can be further from his thoughts than to
abandon the contest by which be hopes to secure
Tennessee to his party, placing Senter in the chair
of the Governor and himself in the Senate in succes-
sion to Fowler. His influence would, if it could,
have resuscitated the intelligencer, which has ceased
to exist, notwithstanding the efforts of many leading
Democrats to keep it afloat or to revive it. As a
great paper, it is universally regretted here, but
although its historical name sounds well in the ears
of our citizens, they have confined themselves to
thinking highly of the paper, leaving it steadily to
go down hill till smothered in a bog of debt; for its
liabilities are over $40,000. It has lived close on
the span of man's life, 70 years, for it was born in
1800, indeed it is coeval with this city itself, and
quickly became the organ of the leading old Whig
politicians. As the first men in the country con-
veyed their opinions through its columns it obtained
a large circulation, and had great weight and in-
fluence throughout the Republib. Clay, Webster,
and Calhoun wrote for it, and the number of
historical names on the long line of its contribu-
tors is far larger than that of any other paper
in America. It is this connection with the past
which endears it to so many, and the fact that in
its files, is history. No man should write an account
of the Administration for the last 50 years without
consulting its columns. Unfortunately, for a paper
so old, it has not within late years been conducted
with tact, for since the death of those under whom
it prospered it has persistently been on the losing
side, advocating, often virulently, opinions dia-
metrically opposed to those of the majority ;
it may be honest in the individual writers, but
such a system is not that on which a great
organ can be upheld, and it has broken down
in spite of its advantages ; at a meeting held on

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Tuesday, the effort failed to raise $lOO,OOO, al-
though some of the money was subscribed, and
Colonel Berret was proposed as manager. The
Morning Chronicle has been doing a nice business,
which I fear Secretary Rawlins will interrupt. It
is asserted on behalf of the proprietors, in support
of a bill for $lO,OOO against the Government for
advertisements, that the paper has the legal right
to print every advertisement issued by the War De-
rartment, or by any one connected with the army.
The amount has swelled up in consequence of the
present Secretary of War declining to adopt the
system of his predecessors, and issue special orders

in payment of advertisements never sent to the
paper, and which could in no way benefit the coun-
try. If the Commandant at Sitka advertised the
sale, in an Alaska paper, of used-up military stores,
the Chronicle would reprint it, and charge the re-
gular advertising rates, a privilege which General
Rawlins, in that blunt, soldier-like way he has,
calls a swindle be is determined to suppress. As the
wheel revolves every one's turn comes round, and
now the turn of thepress has arrived, and the Morning
Chronicle is likely to feel it disagreeably. It is very
pleasant for a paper to be nourished with Govern-
ment pap, but experience, after all, shows that there
is nothing like independence, and some of your
Washington contemporaries and others, may learn

that these artificial stimulants are liable to be sud-

denly withdrawn, whereon ensues a very unpleasant
depres3ion. There was a great outcry arising from

;be discharge of a mu!titude of women scrubbers and

cleaners who have been reduced to 70, 126 out of the
196 having been paid off. The enormous number of

persons whose services have been disponsed with
throughout the departments has made the work
most disagreeable to the chiefs ; for it is a rule
of the Administration that no deficiency bill is to be
presented, by means of which every previous effort
of Congress at retrenchment has been dtfeated.

Letters purporting to be the resignation of Mr.
Boric, late Secretary of the Navy, and its accept-
ance by General Grant, have been published in
the New York papers, and on the cold formality
which marked these locuments the rumour spread
that the writers were not upon friendly terms, and
that 11r. Borie's resignation was consequent on the

President's application for it. It quickly transpired,
however, on inquiry that the letters were not copies
of those which had passed, that Mr. Boric had
pressed upon the reluctant President his resigna-
tion, -which the latter, unable to avoid, had accepted
in a short note, of which no copy was kept, and it
was necessary to correct the false rumours to ap-
ply to Mr. Borie at Philadelphia for a copy of the
original. On such foundations canards circulate of
splits in the Cabinet, which almost invariably turn
out to be the mere inventions of mischief-makers, or
more probably of speculators. Secretary Robeson,
Mr. Borie's successor, is fairly installed, and has
taken over the quarters his predecessor vacated in a
private restaurant ; he has suspended further inves-
tigation in the case of Paymaster Washington
Irving on account of that gentleman's insanity.
Mr. Boric left Washington shortly after giving over
his office, and Secretary Robeson started for his
home last Tuesday on a week's absence. During
Attorney-General Hoar's absence a vast amount of
work has accumulated ; opinions and decisions on
various subjects being required. We get our
laws into an inextricable muddle by legislating
not on fixed principles, but to meet momentary
exigencies. After Congress had shackled President
Johnson by passing the Tenure -of Olce Act, it
repealed some of the clauses most objectionable to
Grant's Administration, leaving in his bands
powers of suspension, and renewal, and reap-
pointment during its recess. It is, however,
an open question whether the President has
the right to appoint foreign Ministers and Con-
suls to vacancies existing in consequence of the
Senate not having acted on the nominations sent to
them. Several of these vacancies remain to be
filled, and Mr. Fish, strengthened by the opinion of
the late Attorney-General, Mr. Cushing, holds that
the President's right to make such appointments is
clear, the power being distinctly vested in him alone
by the Constitution. Judge Hoar has not yet re-
turned, but he is expected every day, and as this
question has been before him for many weeks, he
will deliver an early opinion, and set many minds
at rest. Albert C. Mackey, lately collector of cus-
toms in Charleston, South Carolina, is to be one of
those appointed, and the President has nominated
George W. Clark as his successor in the Customs.
Secretary Boutwell is about the only member of the
Cabinet at work here for the last two or three days ;
Secretary Rawlins, with Commissioner Parker and
our Mayor and City Councils, left for Gettys-
burgh to attend the ceremony of dedicating the
monument. Mr. Creswell is at Baltimore, whither
Grant is gone to inspect the workshops of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad and their European wharves
at Locust Point; he goes about more than any Pre-
sident within living memory. Mr. Cox accompanied
him, and goes on to Ohio. Mr. Fish is in New York,
Mr. Robeson in New Jersey, and Judge Hoar in
Massachusetts. Gen. Horace Porter, the President's
Private Secretary, went with him, as did also Mr. E.
M. Stanton. After inspecting the works the party
sailed down the bay in the steamship Columbia some
20 miles. Admiral Porter, Governor Bowie, Mayor
Banks, and others, with a large gathering of ladies,
met him on the steamer, and he returned by special
train that evening to Washington after a pleasant
trip. One of the difficulties which Judge Hoar must
decide is on the appointmeatof army officers to civil
posts. General Butterfield is a colonel on the
active list, and refuses to resign his commission.
The law lays down that officers accepting diplo-
matic or consular appointments must surrender
their commissions, but it says nothing about other
appointments. Those who anticipate promotion de-
sire to sec his resignation sent in, but even if it
were, there is little chance of promotion, as he is only
a supernumerary. The libel case of Bradley against
Judge Fisher has terminated, so far as the Circuit
Court and Judge Wylie are concerned. You may
recollect that the case arose at the trial of John H.
Surratt, wherein Bradley was barred from further
practice in a Criminal Court by the order of Judge
Fisher, who alleged a gross contempt of Court
against him. Judge Wylie said it was useless
to proceed before him, since the authorities were
uniform, and his own opinion settled that on a
judicial order no action for libel could be based
against the judge who made it, and he advised the
plaintiff to save himself further expense and trouble
by taking the case up at once to the Supreme
Court. In the trial of William T. Smithson against
the Secretary of War, Judge Wylie has delivered
an opinion overruling the plaintiff's motion for in-
spection, and copies of the evidence referred to upon
getting which only his case could hope for success
Senator Cattell, General Forrest, Emerson Ethe-
ridge, Governor Stevenson of Kentucky, and Sena-
tors Nye, Abbott, and Cole are here. United
States Treasurer Spinner hasreturned, and resumed
his work after the death of his wife. It is said that
the President will shortly pay St. Louis a visit. He
had an interview with some Georgian representa-
tives on the subject of the negro postmasters, whom
he informed that he was not prepared to remove
until they proved incompetent. Senator Morton is
expected here. General Cochrane has accepted the
post of collector of a district of New York. Mr.
Samuel Ward was to have given a dinner to Mr.
Reverdy Johnson, to which twelve prominent men
of each party bad been invited, but in consequence
of a death in Mr. Johnson's family it has been post-
poned. Report says that he has prepared a reply to
the speech of Senator Sumner to be issued in a few
days. The police have been active in breaking up
gambling houses, though a want of business, since
Congress adjourned, has had a much more consi-
derable effect. Fifteen were suppressed since the
Ist April, and twice that number were voluntarily
closed by the proprietors. There is to be a reunion
in New York of the Army of the Potomac, and the
following, among other gentlemen, will leave on I
Sunday for that city :—Secretary Rawlins, Com-
missioner Parker, General Porter, Private Secre-
tary to the President; General Emory, Majors
Leet and Webster, and General Humphreys.

NEW YORK, July 3.
The Dauntless has started under Vice-Commo-
dore James Gordon Bennett (junior). On board
with him are Mr. L. R. Jerome, Mr. Wright Sand-
ford, Dr. Chicerini, and Mr. Melvin Knapp. I sup-
pose they will reach Europe shortly after this letter,
as they started last Saturday ; but Ido not think
Mr. Bennett will crack on as he did when running
his yacht in the celebrated race to Cowes.* The
Bristol, a steamer of the Fall River Line, ran into
a barge in a fog and sent her to the bottom. We
have many very dense fogs, and the heat lately has
been overpowering ; cases of sunstroke occur every
day, and this is the list of one spell of 24 hours :
Isabella Vanderbilt, of Hudson City, corner of Elm
and Worth-streets; Louis Buslig, of No. 6, First-
avenue, while at work upon the roof of the Waver-
ley Theatre ; Thomas M'Carthy, of No. 91, Charl-
ton-street, and an old lady of No. 618, East Ninth-
street, at Houston-street, ferry. It is rumoured that
yellow fever is increasing, and the quarantine offi-
cers, more especially from Cuba, are keeping a sharp
look-out. Intelligence has been received about the
young Englishman, 11. Percival Stebbing, who left
Brevoort House May 31, and did not return. Last
Sunday evening a note was received signed by him,
addressed to Messrs. Clark and Waite, proprietors
of the Brevoort House, in which he requests his
letters to be sent to the New York Post-office, that
he may get them. He promises to call "on Wed-
nesday, at the latest," and settle his bill, and apo-
logizes to the proprietors for "keeping them in
suspense," but does not offer the slightest explana-
tion as to his present whereabouts, or the cause of
his prolonged absence. Sir John Barrington was
merely a fellow passenger of his in the steamer,
and knew nothing more about him. Stephen Powers,
who arrived in the steamer Helvetia, June 23, left
No. 72, Eldredge-street, on the 25th, and has not
been seen since. The missing man is about 45
years of age, somewhat bald, and wore black clothes.
The body of an unknown man was picked up in the
water at the foot of Van Prunt-stre3t, last Wed-
nesday morning. Deceased was about 5 feet 6
inches high, stout, dark hair, and bald on the top
of the head. llad on a dark corded jacket, light
vest, blue and green striped woollen shirt, brown
pantaloons with patch on each knee. A one-dollar

* Our correspondent is out in his calculation, as the
Dauntless has, we believe, made even a faster iun across
than the Llenrietta.—ED. A. A. T.

lics.

bill and some currency was found in his pocket.
The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop and R. M. Mason, of
Boston, are at the Westminster Hotel, and sailed for
Europe in the steamship China last Wednesday. The
Ocean National Bank was entered by burglars on
last Sunday night, and about $75,000 of the bank's
funds stolen, besides money, bonds, and other secu-
rities, belonging to depositors. A portion of the
missing property has been returned. A rush
to the Safe Deposit Companies ensued, and at the
office of the Safe Deposit Company of New York,
at 142 and 146 Broadway, a larger number of boxes
has been taken since :Monday last, by persons who
have hitherto deposited their securities with banks,
than within the same period since the organisation
of the company. General Sheridan is expected
here to-day, and Vice-President Colfax passed
through yesterday. Minister 'Thornton also left
for Massachusetts, and General Banks for Boston.
Mr. Thornton had been stopping at the Clarendon
Hotel. Fifth Avenue is to be covered with asphalte,
and thework has been begun between Thirty-Second
and Forty-Second-streets. It had been partially
laid down inTompkins - square, but the appropriations
being exhausted when the work was three-quarters
finished, it was therefore delayed till next year ;
the finished portion looks smooth, and has stood
several severe tests. The concrete is composed of
gravel with pine and coal tar for the first layer,
with pine tar, rosin, and fine sand mixed for a top
finish. Union-square has had the side-walk around
it thus laid down, and it is about to be done in
the City Hall Park. The concrete has been well
tested at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the Central
Park by a month's trial,and is now as perfect as when
first put down; the cost for laying down the whole of
the Fifth Avenue and at the City Hall will come
out of the $250,000 of the last tax levy for the re-
pair of streets. Columbia College celebrated its
115th anniversary at the Academy of Music, and
distributed its honours and degrees. Fordham Col-
lege has also conferred its degrees under a big tent
in the college grounds. Archbishop M'Clonskey,
Bishop Lynch, and other Roman Catholic digni-
taries, with many thousands of persons, were pre-
sent. Cornell University, at Ithaca, also held com-
mencement exercises, the class graduating on Thurs-
day, of which we have had long accounts in the
papers. Harvard graduated on Tuesday, a class
of 107 in the academic department, 77 in the medi-
cal, 66 in the legal, and Bin the theological. Yale
began on Monday with the six Townsend prize
orations for the De Forest prize medal,whicb,strange
to say, was won by Edwin I'. 'Wilder, of Kolapore,
India. As you, Mr. Editor, know something
of India, perhaps you may be aware who this gen-
tleman is, but I confess 1 do not know even
where the place is.* The wooden spoon presenta-
tion took place next evening, and the farewell
poem and oration of the class '69 on the following
morning. Princeton College, New Jersey, likewise
graduated a class on Wednesday of 52. There has
been another revolt at Sing Sing, where seven con-
victs captured a boat, and were rowing away when
they were fired on from the shore, one wounded,
and the whole batch retaken ; the wounded man
after lingering two or three days has died. It
was long a mystery where the steamtugs had
gone that left with the fillibusters last Saturday
evening, big t it was cleared up on Wednesday by their
capture in Long Island Sound, being overhauled at
Gardener's Point by the revenue cutters Campbell
and 111' C'ulloch. There were three small steamers,
carrying 300 or 400 men, including a lot of übiqui-
tous correspondents, without whom no fighting can
nowadays be done. They were in a deplorable state,
and gratified at their capture, blaming their leaders,
to whom they attributed the grossest mismanage-
ment. Of course,. Secretary Fish is denounced, but
he who had arrived at New York took the oppor-
tunity to express his unqualified satisfaction with
the proceedings of the United States Marshals;
the Secretary had been very indignant on learning
the manner of Ryan's escape, regarding it as a gross
outrage on the law, and the Colonel, when recaptured,
is not likely to have another chance. From Boston
it is reported that a special messenger had arrived
from Serrano and Prim to President Grant, an-
nouncing that the Madrid Government intended to
adopt a policy for Cuba, which will prove satisfac-
tory to the Cubans as well as to the United States.
The accounts from the island are deplorable, sick-
ness and disease thinning the ranks of both sides
and adding to the misery. The Cubans are in the
woods and mountain fastnesses, and the Spaniards,
unaccustomed to the climate, are in the hospitals,
about one man in three only being fit for work. The
rains have set in, and active hostilities have ceased.
I was sorry to hear that Mr. Roebling, engineer of
the East River Bridge, lost four of his toes by am-
putation, in consequence of a bad accident to his
foot at the Fulton Ferry. General Butterfield in-
sisted on a full inventory of the assets of the Sub-
Treasury, the money being carefully counted be-
fore he assumed charge. Secretary Bout well, in com-
pliance,appoiuted a commission, and the work began
on ilredneday under the manager of the Clearing
House, Mr. Camp. What that work is may be ga-
thered from the fact that nearly all the clerks of
the departments, with 40 more selected from banks,
had to be supplementd by a number sent from the
Washington Treasury; yet several days must elapse
before the work is finished, as $85,000,000 in coin
have to be weighed piece by piece and placed in
bags, as well as $20,000,000 in greenbacks, besides
a quantity of fractional currency. The New
Hampshire House of Representatives have adopted
the 15th amendment by 183 to 130. The Canadians
have chosen the anniversary of the Battle of the
Boyne, the Ist July, as the anniversary of the Do

minion, but they have been recommended to change
it to the 4th July, as it will disgust the Irish Catho-

The New York Times rejoices at the suppres•

sion of the English blondes, Niblo's Garden only
being open to them, and that is likely soon to be
closed. It hopes that having freed our city from

the imported indecency, we may set to work as re

solutely to get rid of our own considerable native
crop, always in rapid growth.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL—Mr. Wm. H. Spencer
and Miss Julia Tyler, daughter of ex-President Tyler,
were married in the Church of the Ascension, in Now York,
on Saturday, June 26.—The Lincoln Club, Mr. John V.
Gridley, President, and Messrs. Allan Cooper and William
H. De Camp, Secretaries, gave a grand reception at their
rooms, No. 37. Union-square, on Saturday after noon, June
26, on the occasion of a formal opening.—Gen. M'Clellan
is to pass the summer at Long Branch; and Gen. Meade
and George Peabody will also pay that place a visit.—
The Hon. Ben Wade thus " does" the Pacific Railroad
of which he is a Government Commissioner—" When the
train is in motion he sits at the door of the rear car and
watches the track as if he had lost something valuable
and expected every moment to discover it. On one occa-
sion, night coming on, Mr. Wade ordered the train to run
on a siding and leave his car until morning, as he wished
to go over the road in daylight. As soon as he could see, a
special engine was sent up and attached to his car, and
having properly adjusted his spectacles, he set sail west-
ward." He has returned with Senator Conkling, having
left San Francisco on the 29th June. On that day Mr.
Seward proceeded from Promontory Point to San Francisco,
declining the invitation of Sacramento City to speak on
the Fourth of July. Ho arrived there on the 30th June,
receiving a salute of 50 guns, colours flying, and all with-
out reference to party uniting to do him honour. A grand
dinner was given to him at the Orleans Hotel ; he left the
next day for San Francisco ; and the Cable announces that
he has proceeded to investigate his new purchase of
Alaska, and cool himself on one of the icebergs, for
which he has paid so much of Uncle Sam's money.
We may here add that the Chicago excursionists
arrived at Truckee, June 30th, and at San Francisco
on the Ist July.—Anna. Dickeson is lecturing in Salt
Lake City. Brigham Young is asserted thus to have
answered the constantly repeated question, " How many
wives have you?" Artemus Ward declaring, that most of
the Mormon girls married young. "To tell the honest
truth, 1 never thought enough about it to stop and think.
But I will get up the facts in the case and tell evers body,
so that they may stop asking these questions. I sup-
pose I have a dozen or fifteen that I sin Liking care of
perhaps a few more, I do not know, and I care nothing
about it. I try to do good, and I try to save the peopl.3:;
and I say, do not let a lady come to destruction."—
Colonel William Ward, who commanded the Bth Now Jer-
sey Infantry, and lost an arm at the second battle of Bull
Run, has been appointed Postmaster at Newark, New
Jersey.—Mr. Ilaucabe, Charge d'Affaires of the Greek Go-
vernment at Washington, is soon to be married to a daugh-
ter of Baron Gerolt, the Russian Minister.—The Russian--

*lt is in the Southern Mahratta country, south of Bom-
bay, between Sattara and Belgaurn. It was the theatre
of war with the British troops a quarter of a century ago,
and the scene of some stirring incidents during the
laUtbiy.—(ED. 4,. 4, W.)

American Company has commenced a suit against Hiram
Ketchum, jun., Collector of Customs at Sitka, for the ille-
gal seizure of the company's ship Czarowitch, claiming
$200,000 damages.—Charles A. M'Laughlin, of Brooklyn,
who has for some years filled the position of Superinten-
dent of Records in the Adjutant-General's Office, has been
removed by the President, on the request of the Grand Army.
Chief Justice Chase has gone to the White Sulphur Springg
for the benefit of his health. When discussing the ironclad
oath at Richmond, he expressed the opinion that
there was no authority in the laws of Congress to exact it
of members of the Legislature.—G. C. Reiffenstein, Chief
Clerk in the Receiver-General's Department in Canada,
has been arrested, charged with appropriating public
money.— Senator Grimes is said to contemplate • esigning.
—Mr. George Peabody has given $5OO to help to build
the Bunker Hill Memorial Hall.—Commodore Vander-
bilt is in Buffalo, looking after railroad interests
and horse trots.—The Rev. Mr. Murray, of Boston,
announces " that he is not afraid to enter the dens
of any theological lions that ever howled."
lion. R. B. Hayes, just re-nominated for Governor by the
Ohio Republicans, is said to be a Free-Trader. -- Moseby,
Beauregard, Jo. Johnston, and several other Confederate
Generals aro at Syracuse, New York.—The erratic Ryan,
Fenian Cuban filibuster, who recently escaped from the
law officers in New York, has written a touching letter to
Gen. Barlow, "exonerating" the deputy who had him in
custody at the time. —Mdme. Parepa-Rosa is going to St.
Catharine's, Canada.—Ex-Senator James Guthrie left an
estate of 5843,278. Mr A. S. Abell, owner and manager
of the Baltimore Sun, and formerly an owner of the Public
Ledger, has come to Europe for rest after 50 years' labour.—
Mrs Maria N. Pollard, the wife of E. A. Pollard, has been
sent to jail in Baltimore for 30 days, for shooting Dr.
George A. Moore through the hand, in January last. The
scene in court when she was sentenced was highly excit-
ing.—Lieut.-General Sheridan, Major-General Meade, and
Secretary Rawlins were to be present at the reunion of
the Army of the Potomac on the sth. Governor Hoff-
man had promised also. The President and Chief Jus-
tice, with the Cabinet, have been specially invited.— Cap-
tain Brine, of the Royal Navy, was present at the Feast
of the Alumni of Harvard University on the 29th June,
and returned thanks in response to the toast of his health.
—lt is said that Hon. John P. Hale is a candidate for
Senator Cragin's seat in the Senate after 1871.—William.
Dwiggons of Benton county, lowa, is fifteen years old,
thirty-five inches high, and weighs a pound for each inch
of length. He will exhibit himself as a rival to General
Tom Thumb and Nutt.—Dr. Platin, of St. Louis, Missouri,
states that on the 20th of June ho was called to attend a man at
the point of death, and who subsequently died, who he
understands was no other than the outlaw Hildebrand,
who has murdered no less than 80 persons, and has been s
terror in his neighbourhood for years.—The Rev. Wm'
Quinn, pastor of St. Peter's Church, Barclay-street, and
the Rev. Mr. M'Nierney, of St. Patrick's Cathedral, New
York, will accompany Archbishop M'Closkey, as his pri-
vate chaplains, to the (Ecumenical Council to be held at
Rome.— General James Watson Webb, late United States
Minister to Brazil, is visiting his son-in-law Colonel Ben-
ton at the armoury of Springfield, and is said to be as well
and vigorous as ever.— General John M. Brown has bee°
been appointed Inspector-General of the Maine State
Militia.—Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Stone, of the regular°
and son of General Stone of Boston, has been appointed
Adjutant-General for the department of California, under
General Thomas.—Ex-President Hill, of Harvard College,
has returned from his visit to the Rocky Mountains la
much improved health.—Rev. Washington Gladden, of
North Adams, will deliver the address before the Berkshire
Agricultural Society, at the cattle show at Pittsfield fa
October.—Rev. Dr. Roswell D. Hitchcock, the eminent
scholar and divine, of New York, has been com
p.iled, by impaired eyesight, to suspend his pro-
fessional labours.--Union College, at Schenectady, 11°
held its 73d commencement and turned out 18 A. B°'
During a bitter dispute among the alumni as to the
election of a president, ex-Senator Ira Harris, the act-
ing. president, was stricken down with with a paralY"
shock, which was serious, though not fatal. The elee"
tion of a prosii:ent still remains undecided, and a com-
mittee was appointed to settle the irritating question.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7'ELLIGENCE.

The screw steamship London, Captain W. G. S•
Hail, belonging to Messrs. John Hall, jun., and
Co., from Gibraltar, arrived at Spithead early on
Sunday morning, with the following:—Captain
G. Onslow, Ist battalion, 13th Regiment (in com-
mand), 47 invalids, three time•expired men; nine
women, 18 children, and Mrs. Onslow. The troops
disembarked this morning at nine o'clock, and the
ship sailed for London.
Her Majesty has been pleased by her Order in
Council of the 9th inst. to grant a special pension
of 2s. a day to Mr. H. C. Jones, engineer, R.N.'
in consideration of injuries received on duty in
1862, when serving in her Majesty's ship Spitfire.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.

Amsterdam , Short ... 11 194
Do
Rotterdam
,4
Antwerp —o ... 25 4?
Brussels
Hamburgh — ... 13 111 „. 13 111
lads Short 25 171 25 22f

Ditto ,•

3 Ma

2i 7: 25 40

Marseilles
... 25 35 . 25 40
Frankfort-on-the-Main, -, .
Vienna .. 121} 121 k
•.•
... 12 70 ... 12 7f
Trieste — !
... 12 70 ... 12 7°
Petersburg
... 29/ ... 1291-
Copenhagen..
~. 9 24 ... 9 21
Berlin
Madrid..
„. 481 ... 48}
Cadiz— ... 49 ... i 49
Leghorn
Milan — ... 26 35 .., 26 0
••• 26 .35 ... 26 40
Genoa — ... 26 35 .... 26 4()
Naples
Palermo — ... 26 33 ... 26 4,°,
Messina
Lisbon
... 511 ..,. 52
Oporto
... 511 ... 521
Rio Janeiro -
-- -- New York -

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton..... Aug 14.
Ditto, via VArseilles
Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Monte Vid.e.o". • ******
Aug.
9
Aug 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape Verde. by Brazil packet
Cape of Good Hope. Ascension, and St. Herena...... ... ...i.TauullgY. Y 2494
31.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton.• July ok
b lbraltar. via Southampton..
India, via Southampton
''''' joy 24
vitt°, via 31arseil C 8 • • ' J
uly 26.
,
Y Malta, Egypt, &a.
J 423
Ditto, Marseilles... July.
Newfoundland July 28
Mauritius, Cape of Good Hope, and Natal, via
Lieu tharei ton
,
Ditto, Marseilles ~ Aug 1
Aug '
Portugal

United States, ( anada, California, 4c., by British
WY 21
packet ... •J
Ditto dittc (Baltimore)
Ditto, by L lifted States packet 4-1
Ditto, by Inman packet July 4

West Indies and Pacific (except Mexico and Baha- 29
mas) JUIY