The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING,

that such abolition would be most injurious to " men
with full heads but empty pockets.". The PechivA
says :—" There are others here and there ready to
follow the example of Mr. Mundella and Mr. Morley,
who, having between them enabled a poor man to
bring out a valuable improvement in machinery, are
equal partners with him in the pecuniary results,
his third share yielding the comfortable income of
2,000 a year. The excellent member for Notting-
ham is an old hand at this sort of thing.
During the twenty-five years of his busi-
ness life he has been connected with twenty
patents on the same terms ; and in every instance
his partner was a working man." The Patent Laws
are declared to be " emphatically and above all a
working man's question." Our contemporary believes
that they will not be abolished yet awhile.
The Engineer, which should be an authority on the
subject, declares against the abolition, and for the
reform, of the Patent Laws. Our contemporary
declares that the present administration of the law
is most unsatisfactory, wasteful, and disastrous.
" There are people now practising in London and
elsewhere as patent agents who do not even know
the English language, who scarcely know a pump
bolt from a cow's tail, and who have not the slightest
idea of the laws, whether of patents, of mechanics.
or of common honesty." Nevertheless, the principle
of the Patent Laws is good, and the Engineer recom-
, mends the following alterations :
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Tines' correspondent writing from Philadelphia on
Wednesday evening, " shows its total on the let
inst. to have been $2,505,400,000, deducting cash
in Treasury Bonds and the Sinking Fund. This is
a decrease during the last month of $13,500,000."
We give the totals published on the Ist May, that
our readers may compare the figures:—Total debt—
Principal and interest, $2,635,032,888 12c. Amount
in Treasury—Coin, belonging to the Government,
$92,031,732 96c. ; coin, represented by gold certifi-
cates of deposit, $16,307,200; currency, 1(,896,564
7c. ; total, $116,235,497 3c. Amount of public
debt, less cash in Treasury, $2,518,797,391 9c. We
can only reconcile Reuter's statement of the cash in
the Treasury with this abstract, by supposing that
perhars some ten million dollars invested in the
Sinking Fund are calculated therein as currency,
for instead of the cash held by the Treasury being
two millions less, he makes it out to be eight mil-
lions snore.

A farewell banquet was given to General Dix, at
the Grand Hotel, Paris, on Tuesday evening. His
successor Mr. Wa2liburne, as well as Mr. Bur-
lingame were present, the unusual spectacle being
afforded of three American Envoys seated at the
same table. They all spoke well ; the words of
Mr. Washburne having a peculiar interest, as the
close friend of the President, and intimately ac-
quainted with his sentiments and aspirations. Of
these he spoke iu terms of eulogy, and closed his
speech with a graceful compliment to the guest of
the evening. General Dix leaves with his family
to-day for New York in the Hamburg and Ame-
rican Company's steamship Cinzbria.
The Hon. William A. Howard, the American
Minister to China, has had an interview with the
Presbyterian General Assembly in New York with
reference to the best means of protecting American
missionaries in China. Mr. Howard may frr. -
1 confer with his
to China. An effort will be made when Congress
meets, in view of its growing importance, to raise
the American mission to China to the first-class
rank, with two additional Secretaries; and it is said
the Executive favours the project. Consul-General
Read was to leave New York on the 29th May in
the French steamer St. Laurent, and his arrival at
Brest may therefore be looked for in a few days.
The President has appointed Samuel W. Hulled to
be United States Consul at La Rochelle. It is re-
ported, incorrectly we believe, by the friends of
ex-Senator Carlile of West Virginia, that the Presi-
dent will appoint him Minister to Stockholm, on
the ground that he was once confirmed by the
Senate, and that upon reconsideration he was not
rejected. It was announced by the Independence
Beige that the United States Minister at Brussels,
Mr. Sanford, had sent his resignation to Washing-
ton in consequence of the action of the Senate on
his nomination for Minister to Spain. Baron Wid-
derstedt, the Minister of Sweden, had left Washing-
ton for New York to meet 1113 wife on her return
from Europe, and has provided accommodation at
Annapolis, Maryland, where he proposes to pass
the summer. Mr. Lille, Minister of Denmark, bas
reached Washington, accompanied by his bri ie. E.
D. Bassett, U.S. Minister to Hayti, received instruc-
tions from the Dep trtment of State, May 21, and
took leave of the President. The alleged repug-
nance of the Haytian Government to a coloured
Minister is authoritatively denied, the appointment
being received by the Ilaytians as a high compli-
ment to the race.

"Let there be a preliminary examination, as in America,
with respect to at least novelty ; let not merely drawings,
but also models, be required from the patentee ; let
additional facilities be given for ascertaining the novelty,
or the amount of novelty, in a patent ; let each patentee
again, as in America, be required strictly to define his
claims ; let every patent agent be subjected to examina-
tion, and be liable to disbarring, instead of, as now, allow•
ing, ignorant boys or swindlers to practice."

If a special telegram from New York is to be
believed, the most prominent Republicans intend
to make the Alabama claims their leading cry at the
coining elections.in the fall of the year, and that it
is expected the issue will be taken on this question.
It is rumoured that Curtin, Sumner, and others
are in favour of this scheme. This is a stupid piece
of sensational news, for the question can be decided
by no party but on its legal merits, and if the Re-
publicans took up such a cry for party purposes
they would place themselves not only in a false,
but in a ridiculous position. Judge Wilson died ou
June 3.

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times, on
Thursday, announced—

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"General Duke, the Captain-General of Cuba, resigned
his post yesterday. Don Espinar is his successor until the
arrival of General de Rodas."

The intelligence from Peru is that the Government,
following the example of Mexico, has recognised
the Cuban insurgents as belligerents. The Mahon -
ing, a heavy steam cutter, has been ordered to New
York to assist iu enforcing the neutrality laws, and
the Washington Government have taken measures to
have their orders obeyed on this subject. La Revo-
lucion protests against the circulars of the Captain-
General, directing the seizure of the property of
certain Cubans without respect to the previous
rights of foreigners, a robbery it denounces in the
name of charity, morality, and civilization.
The English papers maintain the tone assumed
on the Alabama question since the intelligence of
Mr. Sumner's speech. The correspondence which
led to the Convention rejected by the Senate has
been published, and adds fresh fuel to the fire.
There are first the negotiations between Mr. John-
son and Lord Stanley, interrupted by the retire-
ment of the Conservative Administration ; then
their continuance with Lord Clarendon till their
final rejection by the Senate. The more fully the his-
tory of the negotiations is understood the clearer it
appears that young Adams, the son of the previous
Minister, was right in his article in the North Ame-
rican Review, that that Convention was one of the
greatest triumphs of American diplomacy ever ob-
tained, and no small reparation for the injury sus-
tained by the United States during the war. Of
course, rumours are plentiful relating to the Presi-
dent's feelings on the subject, to the tone of the
Cabinet, and to the instructions given to Mr. Mot-
ley. This was the telegram of yesterday : "It is
reported that President Grant has expressed his dis-
approval of the terms of Mr. Sumner's speech on
the Alabama claims." The reporters, however,
complain bitterly of their treatment at the White
Ilouse, and for lack of information have to manu-
facture these rumours.

The following abstract of all the National Bank
(more than sixteen hundred) shows an aggregate of
resources and liabilities of $1,516,303,000, including
loans and discounts $659,000,000 ; specie, nearly
$8,500,000; legal-tender notes, $50,500,000; Three
per Cent. Certificates, $51,000,000. The capital
stock is over $120,000,000. Numerous bank offi-
cers are in Washington endeavouring to counteract
Mr. Boutwell's policy, and to prevent the withdrawal
of United States deposits from the National Banks,
averaging from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000. Four
hundred of these banks are especially favoured,
and they will fight hard before they lose a source
of such profit.
There is a double exodus now going on over the
Atlantic—of the poor from Europe to America, of

JUNE 5, lA9.

the rich from America to Enrop, The names best,
known in the United States are now to be seen on

the hotel lists of those most frequented of the great
European cities, and it is difficult to secure a pas-
sage, so great is the rush,notwithstanding the num-
ber of fine steamers plying from New York, Bos-
ton, and Baltimore. If the after part of the ships
come back filled, the crowd in the steerage going
out is beyond comparison denser. The Scandina-
vian people, whose crops have lately failed, have
taken up the running dropped by the Irish, and
from the same cause, and arc literally emigrating to
the States en masse. They are going at the rate of 350
per week via Glasgow, and the sort of men may be
gathered from this :—" Among a party of Nor-
wegian emigrants who recently arrived in Toledo,
Ohio, was one big fellow, who stands seven feet
eight inches high, and weighs 322 pounds. He in-
tends to settle in Minnesota." Four hundred Eng-
lish families from the silk-weaving districts are ex-
pected in America ; and an English gentleman bas
purchased a block of land in Virginia for the settle-
ment of 800 other English families. The managers
of the East London Emigration Fund are sending
their people to Canada ; and a delegation saw the
Home Secretary onlhursday to induce the Govern-
ment to aid emigration, and as far as possible to
direct it to British colonies. It is a matter of no
moment where it goes so long as the condition of
the people be improved ; 80 per cent. of those who
reach Canada cross the border into the United
States, and the dockyard hands sent out in Govern-
ment vessels, if they are not, soon will be working in
the navy yards of the Republic. A notice has al-
ready been posted outside the Town-hall, Woolwich,
that no more would be thus carried to Canada.
The Internal Revenue Department has decided
that the Pullman's sleeping cars when furnishing
linuors. wines, and cigars, to travellers, or
others, are liable each wherein such
undera to a snecial tax as keepers of eatina-houses
tile provisions or we ita.:t Ul d 5‘.1, 101Y±
also as dealers in liquors, either wholesale or retail,
as provided by section 59, Act of July 20, 1868 ;
and as dealers in tobacco, snuff, and cigars, if sales
exceed $lOO, under the provisions of the last-
named section and Act. This may be news to the
correspondent of the Daily News who wrote from
America about the hardships of the transit across
the Continent, and applied to the wrong place the
story told of a party of diggers on their road to the
White Pine, which by the way he dil not tell cor-
rectly. If he inquires further he may find that
some of these cars are veritable hotels on wheels,
furnished with all the luxuries of an Eastern city.
Consignments of teas have reached St. Louis from
Japan in 30 days. If it be true that tea is injured
by the long voyages for which it now has to be
prepared, we may yet have to go to America as the
nearest country wherein to taste good China tea.
It appears that Mr. Griffin and other sensible
Fenians tried to make the best use they could of
Warren and Costello, an intention only defeated
by the " cussedness" of tho martyr patriots. He
put them up to show at the ridiculously small Floe
p-r ticket of 25 cents for the two. Here was a
brace of veritable lions fresh from a British mena-
gerie, real, hungry, rampant, furious lions on view,
and the rare opportunity was offered at the low
sum of 25 cents. As Griffin shrewdly suspected
that Warren and Costello would refuse to be ap-
praised at such a price, and further would expect
the lion's share of the plunder if they did exhibit, he
lid not consult them, and we are left ignorant
whether he applied to Barnum for substitutes "with
a little drapery," or intended to capture them on the
exhibition night, or after gathering all the quar-
ter dollars to leave the public to discover the hoax.
We have already announced what took place at the
meeting, and we give Mr. Costello's explanation,
one similar in purport, having been published bY
Warren :

"As Colonel Warren and I bad before refused to identify
ourselves with any party or faction; as we strongly ob-
jected to attend any meeting where an admission fee was
to he charged without it being specified for whom or for
what the money was collected ; as we thought ourselves
insulted by the attempt made to put us on exhibition for
the cheap stun of 25 cents ; as we do not want to make
martyr capital, and as this self- constituted committee never
consulted our feelings iu the matter, but kept studiously
aloof from uc, we refused to become the harlequins of any

man or party."
General Butler has been engaged by Mr. John
Russell Young in his libel suit against the Neu, York
Sun, and he acts as counsel for Mr. James Fisk,
jun., in his case against the Springfield Republican.
It will, doubtless, gratify Mr. Butler to have so
good an opportunity of attacking the latter paper,
which is amongst the most influential in New Eng-
land, circulating, too, among his own constituents,
which did its best to defeat his election. It is as-
serted that Mr. Young prevented the Tribune from
opposing Butler's election, which otherwise Mr.
Greeley would have done. Hence he feels under
obligation to his client. General Butler's boldness
does much to sustain his reputation in America ; he
attacks anything, no matter what its strength, and
does it with a fearlessness nothing can daunt. No
man during the elections was more assailed, and in
his own State. He presents, too, no small target at
which to fire, yet he triumphantly carried the elec-
tion, and they are now talking of running him as
Governor of Massachusetts. But he proposes to
fly at higher game, for he has entered the lists against
General Wilson, as Senator from Massachusetts.
The contest will take place next year, when the
Legislature of 1871 will be chosen.
Senator Wilson and the working men have
triumphed, and the Cabinet has decided that Con-
gress did not mean to reduce the daily wages in
reducing the number of hours for work. So the
Cabinet have overruled on a point of law the opinions
of Attorneys-General Evarta and Hoar ; therefore,
all the mechanics and labourers in the Government
employ will henceforth receive the amount for eight
hours' work they hitherto got for ten, and this has
been proclaimed by the President. No doubt it will
give greater satisfaction to those in the service
of Government than to other employers, for an
element of disorder has been introduced, the effect
of which will very soon begin to be felt. Senator
Wilson addressed the Charleston Navy-yard
work-
men, and attributed to the President what he called
a sensible interpretation of the law. He denounced
the antagonism fostered between capital anrdlna, aboundr,
ridiculed the prophecies of approach _
denied the cry that the rich are growing richer and
the poor poorer, assserting, on the contrary, that
gra ilia itare79fg-Sena.lor said :
"Poverty sat by my cradle. Want was often an un-
bidden guest in the home of any childhood. At ten years
of age I wont forth to earn my bread, served an appren-
ticeship on a farm for eleven years, and received for those
years of hard toil $B4, a sum less than many Massachu-
setts mechanics received for their last month's work. That
was within 80 miles of Charlestown. The people then had
little money. I was not the possessor, in the aggregate,
of the amount of two dollars till I came of age, and I had
not bpeut the amount of one dollar from my birth to my
majority. When I came of age I hired myself out for a
month, drove teams, cut and hauled timber and wood,
worked from twelve to fifteen hours a day, and all for six
dollar) a month. I then worked seven months on a farm
for nine dollars a mouth. I then walked for days to seve-
ral manufacturing villages to obtain from my fellow-men
leave to toil. Not finding it, I put my pack on my back
and tramped from my native town, a distance of 100 miles,
to my present home to learn a mechanical trade. I have
worked in the field in long summer days hoeing and mow-
ing with some of the best men who ever handled a hoe or
swung a scythe, and they received fifty cents, sometimes
four shillings a day—not money, but corn at a dollar a
bushel. and pork at a shilling a pound. I have seen young
women do house work, milk cows, spin and weave, for
fifty cents and four shillings a week."
From Utah it is announced that Brigham Young,
on the morning of the 18th May, broke the first
ground for the Utah Central Railroad, near Weber
River, immediately below Ogden City. It is ex-
pected the road willbe completed to the Mormon city
by October next. Whether the Mormon Chief fully
realizes what the effect will be on the seat of his
dominion and accepts the inevitable, we cannot
tell ; but it is highly probable that so clever a man
who led his people into the wilderness, knowing:that
the only hope of Mormonism maintaining itself as
a separate religious community, lay in isolation,
must be aware that its destruction is involve.] in
the railway on which he has so vigorously com-
menced work, and in accepting the inevitable de-
sires to make the most of the circumstances.
Mr. Foote, an American missionary, has success-
, fully commenced his labours in Salt Lake City.

Senator Sumner meets the treatment always ex-
perienced by the man who draws on his head the
hostility of a nation. The Boston Journal pub-
lishes a letter which it received from its Washington
correspondent. In an enclosure, addresed to Sena-
tor Sumner, with a leader from the Spectator, was this
letter the coireszmisnLagrrt. to be one of many
"Condon, May G.—Sir,—l enclose ice_
opnionc.---`—ec.---`— of
one of the leading journals of this country as to
your conduct, and have only to add my own, which
is that you are a mischief-making, ill-conditioned
Yankee scoundrel.---Your obedient servant, AN
ENGLISIIMAN." The correspondent, by way of show-
ing what his own feelings are, alludes to Professor
Goldwin Smith, as amimated by a vindictive hosti-
lity towards the Massachusetts Senator, who has
placed the conduct of John Bull in the true light
before the civilised world. We can assure that cor
respondent, however that Jonathan's conduct to-
wards England, iu the negotiation for redress, gets
a far wider publication, and is placed much more
fully before the civilized world. In fact, the civi-
lized world is being taught that America is very
unreasonable, and that John Bull is patient, endur-
ing, and forgiving ; and instead of having the effect
the correspondent supposes, Senator Sumner's speech
has really given the civilized world an erroneous
impression, that America was not so much in the
right as before supposed. Pushing to extremes is,
as a rule, a mistake, and England appears for the
second time to be getting off the course in the other
direction.

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He reports, within the last 16 months, 41 confirms- 11111)}1RII AItLIAVENT
tions, 31 ; communicants, 44 ; Sunday school
scholars, 150 ; teachers, 13 ; grammar school scho-
lars, 100 ; teachers, 6 ; contributions for church
purposes, $3,970.
The Harvard University crew will leave New
York on the 10th of July in the Royal mail steamer
City of Paris, so as to have at least five weeks train-
ing over, to them, the novel English course. Mean-
while they are actively preparing under Mr. Loring,
whose ability to train a crew inspires such confi-
dence that it is at least sure that Oxford and Cam-
bridge will have a hard tussle. Alden P. Loring,
of Boston, pulls the bow oar; he is 25 years of age,
and weighs 1551b5. George Bass, of Chicago, aged
23, weighs 1631b5. Sylvester W. Rice, of Oregon,
is 26, and weighs 1851bs. William Ilammatt
Simmons, of Concord, Massachusetts, the "stroke,"
weighs 1701b5., and is considered the most rapid
amateur oarsman in America. The four are now
in daily practice, and are said to be splendid oars-
men. The race with Oxford will take plac ‘, the
American papers say. about the middle of August
or the beginning of September, and perhaps may
be rowed on Bala Lake. Arthur Burnham will
probably go as coxswain.
"The Indian war has recommenced. There has
been a battle between the United States troops and
the Indians in Texas, near Fort Griffin, in which
the loss of the latter amounted to 14." These are
the words of a telegram received this week, and it
but confirms the news by mail. An Omaha de-
spatch reports a fight between a cavalry force under
General Carr and 500 Cheyennes. The Indians
lost 25 killed and a large number of wounded. Three
of the cavalry men were killed and three wounded.
A band of Indians killed four settlers, and drove off
one hundred cattle and horses in Wind River Val-

HOUSE OE LORDS.-LAST EVENING.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at live o'clock. _

Viscount STRATFORD DE REDCL [PPE moved for
copies of any treaty concluded between this country and
the United States relative to the Alabama claims.
The subject led to a short discussion.
The Earl of CLARENDON said he did not know what
were the instructions of Mr. Motley, but he was quite
certain there was every disposition in this country to enter
into the negotiations in the most friendly manner.
Their lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF cosinoNs.—LnsT EVENING.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clock.
THE NAVAL RESERVE.

Mr. CHILDERS, in reply to Mr. Gourlay, said there
was every reason to be satisfied with the conduct and ser-
vice of the naval reserve. The late First Lord of the Ad-
miralty had substituted three iron-clads for three wooden
line-of-battle ships, and he proposed to give directions for
the change of four more, so that by the eud of the year
the Channel Fleet would be strengthened by the addition
of nine powerful ironclads of the Reserve and Coastguard
service.

ley, Colorado, on the 9th May. At Fort Hayes,
where numerous Indians are watched by the troops,
there were sins of a growing restlessness. The
vcuucuuy wag
:I*Ejoat
with the approaching summer. On the 10th ay
this ended in a tragedy, for Chief Cardigan then led
au attack on the guard and was knocked senseless
by the butt-end of a musket, and being disarmed
was carried in this state into the guardehense, but
not before Sallie, a squaw, had been shot dea3, as
well as Big Head, who managed first to stab the
sergeant. Dull Knife, badly wounded with bayonets,
was carried into confinement with Cardigan, and it
is clear that the wretched Indians came but badly
out of that melee. The fight originated from an
order to the chiefs to remove in charge of the guard
from the corral to the guard-room, when they raised
the death whoop, and, drawing knives, went at the
soldiers. It is easy to appoint Quakers as Indian
Commissioners, but we fear the President's efforts
and appeal in behalf of peace meet but sorry en-
couragement in the wild West. Mr. Vincent Colyer,
with his escort, a detachment of company " E,"
under Lieut. Jacobs, was reported to have been cap-
tured, but the following letter shows that this was
not the case :--

"Los Vegas, New Mexico, May 20.

"We arrived at Fort Bascom all well, walking across
plains, 435 miles in 31 days, resting on Sundays. The
Indians met me with much hospitality. 1 leave for the
Navaja and Apache country to-morrow.
" VINCENT COLTER."
In Arizona the savages murdered Milton S. Hadley,
a pioneer citizen of the territory, on the 18th of
April, near Prescott, and also captured and de-
stroyed the mail from California, near Tucson, the
mail rider barely escaping. The latest intelligence
is that the Indians of the West are perpetrating
numerous massacres among the settlers, the out-
break having with the summer, as anticipated, be-
come general.

BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—Mr. A. R. Corbin,
a retired millionaire of New York, was recently married
to Miss Jennie Grant, sister of the Presideneof the United
States.—Ex-Secretary Welles has just invested.a portion
of his earnings at Washington in a $40,000 house in Hart-
ford.—General Lee is a delegate to the Virginia Episcopal
Convention.—Major Fry, a leading citizen of Rye Neck,
New York, died on the morning of the 17th May, after a
brief illness.—Andrew Johnson is said to be worth
s7s,ooo.—The Hon. J. L. Thomas, Collector of Customs
at Baltimore, appointed two coloured men to positions in
the Custom-house, May 19.—A. T. Stewart's income is
sixty thousand dollars per week, or over three millions
per year.— The Hon. Z. Chandler, the Hon. T. W. Osborn
of the United States Senate, and the Rev. Dr. Osborn of
St. Louis, arrived in the Inman steamship City of Brook-
lyn, on a tour in Europe.—The Hon. Wm. H. Seward, late
Secretary of State, and Frederick W. Seward, late Assis-
tant Secretary of State, arrived at New York, An May 21,
from Auburn, and went to the Astor House. The ex-Sc-
cretary proceeded to Philadelphia next day.—Gen. Robert
Anderson, so well known in connection with Fort Sumter,
is about to make a-short tour in Europe. His handsome
private library has just been sold by auction.—Senor Ro-
berts, the Spanish Minister, and Senator Cragiu of New
Hampshire, went to Washington May 21. —lt is reporter:
that the Hon. William M'Dougall is to bo appointed
Governor of the new Province of Assiniboin, Canada.—
Professor John Bascom has resigned the professorship of
rhetoric in Williams College, Massachusetts, to recruit his
health.—lt is said that Walter Brown (Massachusetts)
contemplates a visit to England, with the intention of ac-
cepting any challenge of single scull rowing for the cham-
pionship of the world.—Edwin F. Waters, of the Boston
Advertiser, and a party of ladies and gentlemen, left Bos-
ton, May 18, for a trip to Omaha, and over certain
sections of the Pacific Railroad.—Judge John D. Nor-
ton, of Tisbury, died May 15, aged eighty-one years.—
Charles W. Rand of Littleton, Maine, is about to resign
the place of United States District Attorney.—Miss Emma
A. Hamlin of Dover, New Hampshire, has been engaged as
soprano singer at Dr. Bellows's church at New York, with
a salary of $1,200 a year.—Rev. Theodore 11. Barton, a
retired chaplain of the United States Navy, 65 years old,
died suddenly at Concord on Tuesday, May 18.—Vice-
President Colfax and wife will be the guests of Thomas
Coggeshall, Postmaster at Newport, a few days, after
June 25.—The project of taking the Empress Charlotte to
the thermal waters of Bagnere-de-Luchon has been aban-
doned for the present, owing to the low mental state of
her Majesty.— Chief Justice Chase, who arrived at Charles-
ton, May 21, presided next day in the United States Cir-
cuit Court. He made a brief speech to the members of
the Bar, indicating that he would remain there about two
weeks.—The British Minister and the American Secretary
of State had along interview on May 17.—General Han-
cock has arrived at St. Paul, where he will establish the
head-quarters of the Department of Dakota.—A family of
the name of Turnbull have filled the position of clerk of
Brunswick county, Virginia, for 133 years. Gen. Stone-
man removed the last of them from office. Daniel Boone
discovered Kentucky, June, 1769, and the Kentuckians
propose a centennial celebration this year.—The new
State librarian of Michigan is a lady (Mrs. Tenney, wife
of Professor Tenney, the former librarian.)—Commodore
M'Caulay, one of the oldest naval officers in the service,
died at Washington, May 21. He bad been in the navy
more than sixty years.—Sir Stafford Northeote has been
appointed one of the trustees of the Peabody Fiala for the
benefit of the r. 0., au Hie room of ow _mann-sou

fantry, has bean detailed to execute the duties of Indian
Agent, and is ordered to report without delay to Commis-
sioner Parker. Commander Bayse N. Westcott is
detached from the Pensacola Navy Yard and placed on
waiting orders. Tho President has made the following
appointments :—Felix Coste, to be Surveyor of Customs
at St. Louis ; James E. M‘Lea.n, Collector of Chicago ;
Edward Giddling, Assessor of Internal Revenue for
Washington Territo►y ; Alfred. Sanford, Supervising
Inspector of Steamboats for the Fourth District ;
Charles 11. Boyce, Consul at Prague ; William M. Mor-
rison, Postmaster at Cedar Falls, lowa ; G. M. Sheib-
ley, Postmaster at Rome, Georgia.—Miss Bateman is
expected to appear at the Haymarket Theatre, June 21,
to fulfil an engagement for 17 nights, after which she
will return America.—Miss Blanche Ellerman, a pupil of
Signor Arditi, has signed au engagement for ten months
with Mr. Richings Bernard to sing as prima donna in a
series of operatic performances to be given in the princi-
pal cities of the United States, and to commence in Sep-
tember next.

The Rev. Charles G. Williamson, an English
clergyman, from the Sandwich Islands, arrived at Niagara
Falls, en route for England, May 20. He was one of the
first through passengers from San Francisco on the Pacific
Railroad, and witnessed the ceremony of laying the last
rail. He describes the road as in excellent order, and the
route a delightful one.

Mr. Berdan, an officer in the United States army,
has just left Berlin for St. Petersburg, where a breech-
loading rifle of his invention has been adopted for the
equipment of a portion of the army.

The relatives of the late R. M. Evans, formerly
of New York and San Francisco, are requested to com-
municate with his sister (who has valuable papers) at 27,
Sussex-street, Stainsbury-road, Poplar.
It is denied that Mr. Reverdy Johnson was
mulcted in £2,000 on account of a clause in the lease of
the house he took in Loudon, but it is not denied that it
was taken for a period of five years.
Mr. George Peabody does not intend to remain
in Anierica, but simply went to carry out a philanthropic
object. Ho was accompanied to Liverpool by Sir Curtis
Lampoon, and looked very well.
DuNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exporta-
tion Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Belfast; or 4, Beaufort-buildings, Straud,„London, W,C.— [Ad-
Terme:ilea]