The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-31 00:00:00

Secretary is said to be well acquainted with th
construction and rigging of ships, and his practical
knowledge will be of value. The Cabinet is now
in working order ; but they have to get through a
vast amount of business before the departments are
rid of many inefficient employes, and the places
well filled, and it is certain that for every
friend made there will be ten enemies in those
rejected and those discharged. General Howard
has sent in his resignation of the Freedman's
Bureau, asking that General Edward Hatch of the
9th Cavalry be assigned to that post. General
Howard will then proceed to the plains to serve
against the Indians under Hancock. It is said
that General Schofield will be assigned to the Divi-
sion of the Pacific, now under General Halleck.

With reference to Secretary Seward's retirement,
the Kew York Commercial Advertiser says: -" Among all
the great events of the day none is more remarkable than
the retirement of Mr. Seward from public life. The
man who gave slavery its death-wound, wbo wounded
the Republican party, who, above all others, sus-
tained Piesident Lincoln in all his great measures,
who saved us from foreign complications fatal to
our success, who has enlarged our boundaries and
developed means of enlarging our commerce, is now
a private citizen. In the history of America, whose
name is to be brighter? The peer of Hamilton
and the superior of Jefferson—what are we to think
of the apparent insensibility of the people to these
tacts ? Are republics truly ungrateful ? Or has the moral
sense of the nation become dim ? It is not strange, as Mr.
Seward himself has said, that his political opponents
should hate him; but how are we to account for the lack
of devotion and applause he should receive from the party
he founded and built up, and to whose principles he has
never for a moment been unfaithful ?"

"THE RECENTNESS OF CREATION."—A. volume
on this subject is about to be issued by the Rev. Ch. C.
Adams, of Manhattaniille, New York. He is said to have
been engaged on this work for ten years. It will divide
the physical history of our planet into four geological
epochs—the Creative, the Productive, the Desiructive, and
the Regenerative. It will develope a new law of motion
in the sea, which is said to have formed the marine geolo-
gical strata from the Azoic rocks upwards, and that within
a period of six thousand years. It will exhibit the Bible
in two lights, both as a scientific and theological revelation
from God, forming a grand harmoniously arranged system
only to be understood as a whole. - Trubner's Record.
In the case of Reade versus Sweetser, Professor
Frobisher took the place of Mr. Vandeuhoff in the reading
of " Griffith Gaunt" on the Ist March, and frequently
paused to repeat words in order to give greater emphasis.
Judge Clirke became weary of this entertainment, and on
resuming his place on the bench, after recess, he an-
nounced that upon a cDnsultation with his brother Jus-
tices, it had been determined that the.plaintiff was pur-
suing a wrong course in reading a book to the jury. After
much argument the Judge gained his point, and the read-
ing was stopped. Mr. House then testified at Mr. Reade
received either X 3 or three guineas per page for "Griffith
Gaunt," from the publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, and
five or six guineas from the Argosy; also a percentage on
the sales of the story after being published in book loran
by Messrs. Ticknor and Fields. Mr. House saw the
article from the Round Table copied into the London
Review and tLe Globe. Ile knew the Review had

large circulation; and, on his cross-examination, stated
that 12,000 or 15,000 would be a large circulation for
a paper of its character in London. His belief as
to its circulation was founded upon its general
reputation and the number and character of , the
advertisements sent to it. The Globe he describes as a
daily evening newspaper and a sort of club organ, and its
circulation, he said, was about one-sixth of that of The
Daily Tribune. The daily edition of The Tribune had, he
believed, a circulation of about 600,000 copies. When Mr.
House went to live with Mr. Reade, about three instal-
ments of "Griffith Gaunt" had been finished. It was Mr.
Reade's custom to write one or two numbers of a serial
before publication, and then to continue it. Mr. Reade is a
subject of the Queen of Great Britain, is 56 years old, and
has been an author for 15 or 20 years. Mr. House said he
was not Mr. Reade's agent in this city, but on one occasion
he had submitted a play—" Never Too Late To Mead"—
to the managers of Wallack's Theatre, by whom it was ac-
cepted. He had never negotiated with any publisher in rela-
tion to " Griffith Gaunt." The witness said three American