The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-03 00:00:00

VACCINATION.

Just now, while doctors are disagreeing as to
vaccination, and opponents of that means of evading
smallpox are gathering strength, the following
extract from the Registrar-General's weekly return
is of special interest :—" The daughter of a mariner,
aged 6 years, died on the 22nd of June, at 56, Fair-
street, Southwark, from smallpox." The Registrar
remarks : " There were four children in this family;
two had been vaccinated, and had escaped smallpox ;
two were unvaccinated, and took the disease, one of
whom died." The case—though by no means con-
clusive—is commended to the notice of those who
describe themselves as " Anti-Vaccine."

(From the Anglo -American 2 imes.)

A letter from a British officer, long resident in
Canada, informs us that annexation is eventually
inevitable, arid that nothing prevents it but the
dread the colonists have of the Republic's huge debt.
That myth will probably be removed by time, and
Canada will then take her place in the Union, to her
own benefit, to that of the Continent generally, as
well as to that of the mother country. The more
the question is discussed, the more clearly does such
a result appear to be for the interest of all. In
Halifax these resolutions were passed by the Re-
peal League Convention :
" Whereas, in the opinion of the memb.nrs of the Con-
vention, the further continuance of Nova Scotia in the
Canadian Confederation will be but daily progress to ruin ;
and Whereas, Our only hope of commercial prosperity,
national development, and permanent peace lies in close
relationship with the United States; therefore,
"Resolved, That every legitimate means should be used
by the members of the Convention to sever the connec-
tion with Canada, and bring about union on fair and equit-
able terms with the American Republic.
"Resolved, That this Convention recommend the for-
mation of a league throughout the Province for the pur-
pose of cwryiug the foregoing resolutions into effect."

We wish to see the Dominion, as a whole, calmly
and with due deliberation approach the subject,
with no threats, partizan, or underhand action, but
proceeding on a great case, influenced by a desire
for the public weal alone. We regard this as the
greatest question of the age, and it ought to be
treated as the magnitude of the interests require, for
it means neither more nor less than the unity in Go-
vernment of the North American Continent, and an
end for ever of the hickerings and bad blood be-
tween the two sections of the Anglo-Saxon race.
What was generally anticipated has happened,
for Mr. Borie has resigned the Secretaryship of the
Navy. He made no secret that the place was dis-
tasteful ; that he infinitely preferred his own home
in Philadelphia to being dragged this way and
that by office-seekers and their backers in Wash-
ington, was shown by his so persistentlybeing absent
from his post as to be satirically noticed even by the
Owl in London. ' Mr. George W. Robeson, formerly
Attorney-General of New Jersey, has succeeded
Mr. Borie, and this brings another lawyer into the
Cabinet, we suppose to the disgust of Senator
Sprague. Unless Mr. Andrew Johnson is looking
after the interests of his candidate for the Governor-
ship of Tennessee, with his eye on the place in the
Senate to become vacant in '7l, we do not know
what could be his attraction in Washington, ex-
cept indeed he may experience a mournful pleasure
in gazing on the scene he contrived to make so
stirring, and the seat from which he descended to
give place for one to whom he borebut little love. The
impression in Washington was that he would not
reach the capital till the Ist July. We learn that
he was seized with a severe attack of colic from
eating oranges at Gallatin, Tennessee, and was for
some time in considerable danger ; but, on recover-
ing, he immediately resumed his canvas. Mr.
Joshua Chamberlin has been re-nominated as Go-
vernor of Maine by the Republicans of the State,
and that party has carried the municipal election at
Portland. General Cochrane has been appointed
assessor for the Sixth District of New York-
Professor Townsend Glover has established in
Washington a National Economic Museum, wherein
are gathered all manner of insects, birds, grains,
grasses, fibres, plants, &c., and a system inaugurated
of communication and exchange with all parts of
the world to collect the general experience and ob-
servation. His object is mainly practical, and his
museum has been found, in many instances, of great
utility to farmers. A tobacco grower lately called
to get information reg xrding an insect then injuring
his plant. On being shown drawings of all that
infest tobacco he singled out his depredator, when
he was taken to the live specimen, and had the op-
portunity of learning its habits from bieth to death,
and how to kill it. Another having noticed num-
bers of insects in his vineyard, called t 3 ascertain
whether they were prejudicial to the grape vine. A
similar reference, recognition, and inspecVon proved
it to be harmless ; and a third who inquired about a
bird found it to be insectiferous, and his mikd was set
at rest. An emigrant desirous of ascertaining what
the products are in any part of the Union can learn
by inspecting them at this museum, and 2. citizen
of any State can ascertain whether he could pro-
fitably introduce the cultivation of any ?roduce
into his county.

The opinion of Judge Hoar as to the rght of
Massachusetts to grant the privilege to the Yrench
Telegraph Company of landing their Cable ik that
State has produced much discussion in the Amen-