The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-06 00:00:00

TIIE PROSECUTION OF MR. LOWDER.

We are informed that the prosecution of Mr.
Lowder is not to toe proceeded with. No reason is yet
assigned. Mr. Lowder has until now used lights and
incense, and carried out the ritual which he observed
prior to the Cairns judgment. We would fain hope
that, on the one hand, the incumbent of St. Peter's,
London Docks, has been persuaded to make a con-
cession to the known wishes of his diocesan which
ho would not make to a secular court; and that, on
the other, even the Church Association has shrunk
from prosecuting a clergyman who has done more to
evangelise the heathen of Eqstern London than a
the members of that society put together.

MR. JOUNSTON, M.P. AND TIIE IRISU
ANNIVERSARIES.

Mr. Johnston, M.P., or, as he is called,"Johnston
of Ballykilbeg," has chosen the present time to
protest against the Party Processions Act. He
speaks of that measure as oppressive and tyrannical,
and urges those who regard it as such to raise against
it their continued constitutional protest. lle adds
that in spite of all that has been done this year he
sees no reason to despair of the Protestant cause.
"If Ireland," he goes on to say, "is to cease to be
the shuttlecock of parties, the people of all creeds
must learn toleration. If the industry and enterprise
of Ireland are to be developed and protected, let it
be clearly understood that we must, first and before
all, have complete political and civil freedom. Union
for Ireland nll.profess to desire ; such union is simply
impossible till justice be done to the Protestants and
Oranzemen of Ireland."

(from the Anglo-American Times.)
BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEMS.—Our readers may
remember the shooting of Henry O'Neil, a convict (who
escaped from Sing Sing), by a keeper, Charles Sullivan,
who has been acquitted ; and four of the Sing Sing con-
victs who murdered one of the guards while effecting their
escape were brought up for trial.—John 11. Surratt has
gone into business in Bat timora.—Professor John Le Conte
has been elected President pro tern. of the University
of California.—Blacque Bey, the Turkish Miniskr at
Washington, and his staff, have engaged their summer
quarters at _White Sulphur Springs, Virginia.—
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Anna, now residing at Puerto Plata, St. Domingo,
is said to contemplate removing to Staten Island to spend
the remainder of his days.—Gov. Baker of Indiana is con-
fined to his room by illness. Wm. 11. Seward and family
and several members of the House Committee on Ways and
Means,arrived atOmalia,Jiine 16,enroute to San Francisco.—
The remains of Captain Henry A. Wise, late Chief of
Ordnance of the Navy Department, who died in
Naples about two months ago, are to be taken to Ame-
rica in the steamer Palmyra. They will be brought to
Boston for interment at Mount Auburn by the side
of his father-in •law, Edward Everett.—Rev. W. Merely
Punchon is suffering from bronchitis in Toronto.—A son
9i the late general Albert tsidney Jobneea it, a pupil at

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General Lee's College in Virginia. Miss Fannie
Lyons is a notary public in Kansas City.—General

Hamilton, in his canvass for the Governorship of

Texas, declares that if elected he will never pardon a fairly
convicted criminal.--William S. Dodge, Mayor of Sitka,
has teen lecturing on Alaska in several New England
towns.-- Commodore Winslow, of Alabama fame, is in nom-

mand of the Navy-yard of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.—
Mr. Speaker Blaine meditates a trip to Alaska.—lt is said
that John E. Owens is the richest actor in America.—

Lewis IL Green, of tho firm of Sturges and Green, millers,

Zanesville, died suddenly June 16.—Capt. F. C. Wagner,
invalid and pension agent of Now York, Las been super-
seded by Col. G. M. Van Buren, late of Washington.--

Mons. Chevalier was to make another balloon ascent from

Landmann's Park, Juno 18 ; a Japanese prince, accom-

panying him.—Tho banking house of John F. Darby and
Co., St. Louis, suspended, on the 18th June.— Vice-
Admiral Mundy, commanding the British fleet on the

New York station, has been promoted to be full Admiral
and will return to England. He will be succeeded by
Vice-Admiral Wellesley.—lgnacio Morisco], the new Mexi-
can Minister to America, wai formerly Secretary to Ro-
mero, awl he married in Washington the daughter of Mrs.
Smith of Thirteenth-street, in whose house Gen.Selicuck
long had his home.—Mr. Cyrus Field has been visiting

Springfield, llassaehusetts:—N. Russal! Davis, son of
Wendell N. Davis of Greenfield, has been appointed

on the United States geological exploring expedition
in the north-western territories, and has been as-

signed the corom•ind of an expedition to explore the
Great Salt Laße. He is acco:npanied by a botanist, pito-
tographo-, &c.—John G. Toot, assistant cashier of the

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American National Bank, has been appointed treasurer of
the Hartford Trust Company.—The late Consul-General

of France in New York recently arrived in the United
States, and is now travelling over the Pacific Railroad, by

order of the French Government, for the purpose of tho-
roughly examining the line, and of afterwards writing a
report upon its international importance.

Among the arrivals in the Scotia, from New
York, were Mr. and Mrs Clarence A. S ward ; and Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Stoughton ; in the Idaho, Mr. A. Drexel, the
Philadelphia banker and family, and Mr. Giguoux, the
painter, and family. The Bremen steamer Donau has
brought to Europe the Hon. Andrew G. Curtin, Minister
to Russia, his wife, and two daughters; Mr. Robert H.
Gratz, his private secretary, and Mr. Titian J. Coffee,
Secretary of Legation, and their families. The party were
convoyed on board at Now York by a 'United States
steamer, and escorted by many leading men of Pennsyl-
vania. The Usion League Club of New York entertained
the Minister at a grand banquet, the first given by the
League to a citizen of Pennsylvania, and tendered as a
mark of the high esteem in which Mr. Curtin is held.

The late Henry Jarvis Raymond, of the New
York Times, was born in Lima, Livingston County, New
York, on the 24th of January, 1820. Ms father was a
farmer of that village, and there he received his earliest
education, performing the usual labours of a farmer's son
and attending the Lima Seminary, an institution of some
note ; graduated at the University of Vermont; studied
law under Edward W. Marsh ; contributed to the New
Yorker, Mr. Greeley's first paper, receivin,•, $8 a week ;
made a speciality of reporting, then in its infancy ; became
first assistant of the Tribune, when started in 1811, re-

maining seven years; went then to the Courier and In-
quirer, proceeding to Europe in 1851. Started the Times
on the Bth September of that year; in 1851 was elected
Lieutenant-Governor of New York, refused in 1857 to
stand for Governor, was elected for the Assembly in 1861,
and the following year was president of the Union State
Convention at Syracuse, though defeated in 1863 by Gov.
Morgan for U.S. Senator, but was elected in Now York for
the Lower House in 1861. On the afternoon of the 17th
June Mr Raymond, accompanied by ono of his daughters,
visited Greenwood Cemetery, where he designed purchas-

ing a lot for the interment of a member of his family who
died last spring. Leaving the cemetery he returned to the
Times office in Printing-house-square, where he remained
until about six o'clock. At that hour he went to his resi-
dence, N 0.12, 'West Ninth-street. After tea he remained
in the house until nine o'clock, when he wont out, as ho
said, to take a short walk. As nearly as can be ascertained
he returned home at about eleven, and, after locking and
bolting the door, was seized with apoplexy, and fell to the
floor. He was found breathing, but unconscious, and at
five o'clock next morning ho died, the news creating the
greatest excitement and regret throughout the city.

Mr. Sumner did not go to California with the
Ways and Means Committee, who have already started;
but he hopes to go some time during the summer. He
will bo heartily welcomed whenever he does so. Mr.
Colfax and a party of personal friends go early in August,
and after a visit to the Yo Semite will probably make the
tour through Oregon and up the Columbia, and back
through Idaho to Salt Lake Valley, as laid out for the in-
telligent traveller in Mr. Bowles's " Pacific Railroad—
Open." We wonder whether Mr. Bowles's book can bo
procured in England, where the tour will grow into fashion,

and produce a good effect in making the people acquainted
with the country, and throw a good class of English tourists
in contact with Americans.

POLITICAL ITEMS.—The TVashington Star, of 12th
June, says :—George W. Childs, proprietor of the Phila-
delphia Ledger, is spoken of for Governor of Pennsylvania.

WO doubt if he would accept the poslion if tenlered him,
but should lie so ho would make.things move while Le
occupied the Gubernatorial chair. He has energy and
vitality enough for a dozen ordinary Governors ; but Gel.
W. B. lhomas, of Philadelphia, has been placed in nomi-

nation as Independent Reform candidate.—The Vermont
Republican State Conventiol met at Rutland, June 16.
Three hundred and four delegates were present. Gen. Peter
G. Washburn was nominated for Governor, and George
Whendle, of Morrisville, Lieutenant-Governor; John A.
P. Page, of Montpelier, was nominated State Treasurer.
The RApublican State Convention of Texas met at Houston
on the 7th June, and with great unanimity nominated the
ticket as follows :—Governor, General Edward J. Davis
of Nueces ; Lieutenant-Governor, Colonel J. W. Flanagan
of Rusk; Commissioner of Land Office, Jacob Keuchlor of
Parker ; Treasurer, William D. Price of Travis.
• LITERARY ITEMS.—Mrs. St. Clair gave a lecture
at White Pine, on the sth June, ou "Whom Shall 1
Marry ?"—Mr. John Mitchell has been lecturing in Cin-
cinnati on the Irish Church. The Tribune says, "He has
as much right to regard himself as an Irish than as an
American patriot ;" that is, that he was on the right side
as a rebel in 1848, but he was on the wrong side as a rebel
from 1861-65.

DR. MARY 1.1. WALKER. —The Dubuque Herald has
given an amusing sketch (which we condense) of one who
has made herself of late more than ordinarily conspicuous.
Mrs. Dr. Mary E. Walker was first heard of West of the
Mississippi, in the spring of 1860. Mrs. Walker was an
incessant talker chiefly on one topic—herself. What her
age was it was difficult to thtermine, as it was hard to re-
concile her account of her experiences with her appear-
ance. At the age of 15 shs said she commenced teach-
ing, and continued to do so for five years ; she after-
wards taught five years in a seminary ; was a milliner
five years ; worked at a printer's trade five years ; studied
medicine three years ; practised it two years; was an
invalid five years; cured by hydropathy ; this led her
to study the system, which she practised five years ;
&c., &c. Her various occupations, including a residence
in Florida, as amanuensis to the Senator of that State,
must have occupied 120 years of life ; but with all her
study and experience as a teacher, the writer from whom
we glean these particulars remarks :—" It was something
of a shock to U 9, by the way, after leaving been, at first
acquaintance with the lady, informed that she had been
associate editor of a leading magazine for five years, to
discover, in receiving communications for publication, ho w
triumphantly and unconsciously she overrode all rules of
grammar, punctuation, capitalization, &c. On meeting her
afterwards wo led the conversation to botanical and medi-
cal topics, and discovered that here, too, she differed
equally widely from the commonly received authori-
ties." About this time two advertisements appeared in two
newspapers; one a notice from Mr. Alfred E. Miller that
he petitioned for a divorce from his wife, Mary E. Miller ;
the other, a notice from Mrs. Mary E. Miller, that she
petitioned for a divorce from her husband, Mr. Alfred E.
Miller, with right to resume her maiden name of Mary E.
Walker. Then commenced the war, during which she
was always conspicuous; afterwards she visited London,
and made no small sensation. The writer concludes :
" She is enthusiastic, quick witted, quick tempered, out-
spoken, unmalicious, exceedingly vain, sensational, ener-
getic, willful, self-asserting, irrepressible, loquacious, and
everything else necessary to constitute a sort of George
Francis Train in petticoats, if we were sure she wore petti-
coats." Regarding this lady an American paper says: -
There is happiness in store for the dispensers of office at
Washington, Mrs. Dr. Mary E. Walker contemplates going
to Europe."
The Hamburg- American Company's new screw
steamship Silesia left Hamburg on Wednesday, and Havre
on Saturday last, on her first voyage to New York. She
was built and engined by Messrs. Laird and Co., on the
Clyde, and her dimensions aro as follows:—Length at
load water line, 342 feet; breadth of beam, 40 feet;
depth of hold to spar deck, 33 feet ; gross tonnage,
3,150 tons; nominal horse-power, 600, capable of work-
ing up to 3,000 indicated horse-power. Her engines are
direct acting with inverted cylinders. The great screw
shaft is of cast steel, by Krupp, of Essen. By a patented
process, communication is maintained betty eon tho officer
in charge on the bridge and those engaged in the wheel-
house steering. The principle is hydrauli,, the fluid
used being vegetable oil,.and by its action orders are con-
veyed from the bridge momentarily, while a dial at once
indicates whether the order has been understood and
obeyed. The Silesia is fitted with all the modern appli-
ances, and her cabin and steering accommodations are of a
superior order. On the trial trip of the Silesia at the mea-
sured mile the speed attained, with 52 revolutions and a
moderate consumption of coal, was 15 knots. The Silesia
is commanded by Captain Trautmenn, an officer of expe-
rience and high reputation, who has been successively in
command of the company's steamers Allemania, Cimbria,
and IVestphalia. With the Silesia the company's fleet now
numbers 11 steamers. This new steamer will be due off
Plymouth on her return voyage on the 23d July.
g A series of earthquake waves were recorded on
the earthquake indicator at Fort Point, San Francisco,

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early on Tuesday morning, Juno I. Intelligence from
Japan, the Sandwich Islands, and the South American
coast was in consequence anxiously looked for.

The Hon. W. W. Murphy, of Jonesville, Michi-
gan, after eight years of service as Consul-General at
Frankfort-on-the-Maine, has surrendered his post to W. P.
Webster, of Massachusetts, and is about to make a tour in
Norway and Sweden previous to his return to America.
The Detroit Tribune awards to Mr. Murphy a large measure
of praise for the administration of the important trust con-
ferred on him by the country, and that praise we endorse.
Frankfort has become the financial centre of the European
continent, and in no other place out of America do Ame-
rican Securities stand in such high estimation. Mr. Mur-
phy did all that lay in his power to uphold and improve in
that city the financial credit of the Republic, with what
effect is best shown by the result. We do not pretend to
say that he did more than aid in effecting this, but we
assert that that aid was material, as it was given persist-
ently and with good judgment. Nor did his services pass
unappreciated by the Administration at Washington,
who would have gladly retained him at a post where
he had made himself so useful had not other influences in-
tervened. Gmerica has been getting up a more genuine
alliance with Prussia than the sentimental one with Russia.
That North German influence should be great in the States
is natural when the vastness of its emigration is considered,
and the eminent Minister who now upholds American in-
terests at Berlin has even undertaken to prove that the poli-
tical institutions of the countries are almost identical. This
attempt we believe to be a positive fact ; though one which
will tax the ingenuity even of a Bancroft to achieve. Count
Bismarck, however, just now, stands out in American eyes
as the most prominent European figure, and we believe
Bismarck, or some of his coadjutors, bad the littleness to
make it a point with the Washington Administration to
include Mr. Murphy among the superseded Consuls. Of
course, if the Consul-General was obnoxious to the Berlin
Government, the Washington Government would not
raise so silly a point as to insist on his retention, the more so
perhaps because it was the post of all others below that of
Minister most striven for, and it furnished one more prize
in the Government lottery. The 'cause of offence to the
Prussian Administration was Mr. Murphy's efforts to
shield American residents at Frankfort from having
troops quartered on thorn, while the city was occupied by
Prussian forces in the German war of 1866. Frankfort
was regarded as a hostile town, and Mr. Murphy sym-
pathized with the inhabitants, and was, to a certain extent,
their friend and supporter. This was not likely to be
forgotten or forgiven by a Government like that of
Berlin ; but Mr. Murphy has, if he chooses to exer-
cise it, claims on the Administration at Washington of
no ordinary charact'r. Among these we may mention
that ho was one of those most prominently selected for
denunciation by the celebrated M'Cracken ; and the men
now in power feel much inclined to endorse AVCracken's in-
vestigations, accepting his strictures as an undeniable proof
of merit in the persons he attacked. According to the Detroit
Tribune Mr. Murphy has in contemplation a work on grape
culture and the wines of the Rhine, and it says his fellow-
citizens in Michigan will receive him back, after his long
absence, with a warm welcome.

The proposed improvements in Portland harbour
(Maine) are going o in earnest. General Thorn of the
United States Engineers, who is stationed there, has
contracted with Messrs. Morris and Cumming of New
York for an excavat'on across the bar. The work is to be
completed this season,. The contract provides for a channel
beginning near Atlantic wharf to deep water opposite tile
Breakwater Light, some 300 feet in width, and to have at
least 20 feet of water at mean low tide. This will give a
depth of 28 or 29 feet at average high tide—sufficient for
the largest steamers of the Allan line, and enable them to
come at once to their docks without difficulty.