The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-26 00:00:00

tutions of that city in the following gifts :—To the Boston
society of natural history $20,000, to the temporary home
for the destitute $lO,OOO, to the Boston dispensary $20,000,
to the Sailors' Snug Harbour $30,000, to the Howard
benevolent society $20,000, to the Boston provident asso-
ciation $lO,OOO, to the home for aged men $30,000. He
left also to Harvard college $50,000 to found the Pope
professorship of the Latin language and literature. James
Haywood of Boston, who died worth $200,000, besides
his private legacies,, left $20,000 each to tho American
institute of technology at Boston, to Harvard college for
an astronomical observatory, and the American Unitarian
society, $5,000 to the Boston young men's Christian union,
$2,000 to the Arlington-street church, and $l,OOO a-piece
to almost every charitable institution at Buston.
Colonel Nathaniel Davi4, of Sutton, formerly

High Sheriff of Merrimack County, died suddenly at
Contoocookvire on Sunday, July 28, whilo on Lis way
home from Concord.

Mr. P. Fiske Reed, an artist, of Chicago, is
about to publish a volume of poems.
Joseph Smith, the Mormon, left a translation of
the Bible, which, it is said, will bo published in the fall.

After returning from a professional call the other
day, Dr. Zalmon Hall, one of the oldest physicians of
Stepney, Maine, was taken ill and died almost instantly.
A complimentary dinner was giyen at the Parker
House, Boston, on Tuesday, August 6th, to Mr. John I.
Blair, president of the Sioux City branch of the Pacific
Rail ri ad.

Walter Brown has finally consented to accept
Hamill's challenge to pull on the Hudson for the cham-
pionship of America.
Miguel Lopez, the Mexican traitor who sold
Queretaro and betrayed Maximilian, went to ruala to see
his wife. She called him a base coward and traitor to his
face, and told him to take his son and leave her presence
for over.

The Rev. Robert G. Chase, of Philadelphia, who
with his wife and six others was drowned at Mount Desert
recently, was insured for $ll,OOO, a policy of $lO,OOO heing
a gift of his vestry.
Romero, who has been Mexican Minister at
Washington for eight years, has resigned his office, and
will return at once to his native country. Tho Ministers
of Nicaragua, Honduras, and New Granada, at Washing-
ton, have also resignsd.
Major Rodman is enaged to
_Miss Dahlgren, the
daughter of the admiral.
In M. Pierrepont's speech in the Surratt trial on
Monday he told the story of a premonitory warning of
diiaszer that Mr. Lincoln had before his assassination. On
the morning of the assassination of Mr. Lincoln there was
a Cabinet meeting. Tho members of the Administration
were joyous over the surrender of Lee. Mr. Lincoln ex-
pressed anxiety abDut Sherman, and when Grant assured
him that Sherman was all right he replied by detailing a
dream which he had had previous to Chancellorsville,
Stone River, and other defeats. The recurrence of the
dream led him to dread the recurrence of disaster. It
came ; but, instead of calamity to our armies, it was his

own assassination.
Dr. Prime represents the United States at the
present session of the Evangelical Alliance at Amsterdam.
At the conclusion of his address on Monday last ho gave
a hearty invitation, in the name of his American brethren
to the Evangelical Alliance to hold their next conference
in New York.
The Austrian Consul-General in Hamburgh has
received tho necessary instructions for forwarding to their
homes the former soldiers of the Mexican legion, who are
shortly expected to arrive here.

FLATTERING POPULAR DEMONSTATION TO iii
ELIAS HO WE, JUN.

Recently our city was the scene of a popular demon

stration, such as has not taken place for many years.
The occasion was the return of Mr. Elias Howe, jun., from
Europe and the Paris Exhibition, bringing with him the
gold medal awarded by the commissioners for his inven-
tions, and the decoration of the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, presented by Napoleon 111. The honours and de-
corations, however, had little to do with the welcome that
greeted Mr. Howe on his arrival here, but rather the univer-
sal respect for his upright private character, his compre-
hensive benevolence, anal his marvellous inventive genius.
The fact, too, that he had been announced in the public
prints as very sick, and indeed as deal, added an extra
zest to the pleasure with which his friends and fellow-
townsmen generally saw him return among them
again. The demonstration originated with the em-
ployes of the Howe Sewing Machine Factory, who
took the occasion to show their respect for their
employer, and gratitude that ho had so far reco-
vered from his illness as to be able to return again to his
home. Learning that Mr. Ilowo was- expected on the
steamer Bridgeport at 4 o'clock, the employ6s in the
factory petitioned the managers to bo pen-nate:l to. step
work long enough to pay their respects unitedly to him,
and urged the matter so strongly, that the committee
finally obtained the following order from headquarters:—
NOTICE.

Mr. llowe will arrive on the steamer Bridgeport to-day
about four (4) o'clock. At the request of the em-
ployds who wish to tender their respects to Lim, on his
return, the engine will bo stopped at three (3) o'clock for
the remainder of the afternoon.—Per order of
E. W. llowE, Supt.
Accordingly the factory was handsomely decorated with
flags, and a few minutes before tho time of the steamer's
arrival, a proces,ion numbering about 200 men—all em-
ployed at the factory—headed by the Bridgeport City
Bawl, marched to Naugatuck wharf. By the time of the
beat'., arrival some 1,500 persons had collected on the dock
and surrounding wharves.
On the arrival of the steamer a portion of the committee
boarded her, and paid their respects to their guest, the
band appropriately playing "Home, Sweet florae."
Mr. Howe, leaning on tho arm of h's wife, and a mem-
ber of the committee, for he is still quite feeble, left the

6toamo - antl_entered his barouche with his wife and Mr.
Simon Howe and his lady. The proceSsion, now number-
ing about 252 men, divided; and, thus escorted, the party
were driven to the factory. As they approached the place,
a salute of 18 gums was fired from a brass cannon, under the
direction of Uapt. W. S. Hotchkisl. The young ladies
employed in the shop, numbering ,about fifty, arranged
themselves in a line in front of the factory, and thus
Deceived Mr. Howe. A general shaking of hands took
place. Soon after the line was reformed, and the pro-
cession escorted the party to their home at Iranistan.

On the whole, this reception was most pleasing to Mr.
Howe, moro so than was the plaudits by the Emperor and
commissions of France—for it told him more strongly
than words could convey the esteem in which he is held

by thoso who have served under him. It spoke volumes
for the liberality and generosity which has always
governed him in his treatment of those in his employ, in
fact was a greeting that would causo the heart of any
man to swell with honest pride and honourable emotion.

The committee of arrangements appointed by the em-
ployes was as follows : —Messrs. Charles Inglis!), D. S.
Cole, \V. Ingraham, M. Dimond, G. S. Hotchkiss, W. S. Dar-
ling, Marshal, W. S. Hotchkiss (secretary), B.W. Lawrence.
Mr. Howe is still quite feeble, though looking much better
than was anticipated. May the pure air of his own home
restore Lim to health and give him yet many years of use-
fulness and happiness. —.New York Paper.

THE "TIMES' O.V THE NEW YORK STAGE

A New York correspondent of the Times has commenced
a series of articles on the stage in New York. The
" English Playgoer," as he terms himself, commences by
remarking on tho ignorance in England of the standard
by which Transatlantic theatrical fame is measured. Some
years ago London was a common place of resort for
American actors of inferior note, -which tended to the
formation of an unfavourable opinion there of histrionic
talent in the New World. Lately, however, the American
" stars" who have shone in England have been veritable
" stars" in their own country. Miss Kate Bateman at the
Adelphi reflects a triumph at all the leading theatres in
the United States. Mr. Jefferson, the excellence of whose
acting in Mr. Boucicault's "flip Van Winkle," also at the
Adelphi, was admitted, is a great man in New York. Mr.
John S. Owens was unfortunate in the selection of Lis
piece, for tho old uncouth farmer of New Jersey, his re-
presentation of whom is pronounced by competent judges
to be absolutely perfect, was a typo of character no Eng-
lish audience could appreciate. That actor is really ono
of the magnates of his country. Till such actors appeared
the Londoner was slow to believe that anything thea-
trically good could come from the opposite' side of the
Atlantic, with the exception of those purely national de-
lineations of character which were given with such ad-
mirable spirit by Mrs. Barney Williams, and her sister,
Mrs. Florence. The writer observes that the amusements
of one civilised nation are intimately connected with those

of another. •
The link between the slases of London and Paris is
notorious to everybody, and can be minutely observed by
avy one who will take the trouble of conning over some
French theatrical movspaper, and now and then stepping
across the Channel. The link between the stages of Lou-
den and New York is likely to `ecome stronger every
day, but the step across the Channel becomes a stride in
the case of the Atlantic.
Theatrieaily :,peaking, New York is as much the capital
of the United States as London is the capital of Great
Britain and hole,. d. Boston and Philadelphia hold a high
rank, but they are not inclined to regard with enthusiasm.
an artist who has not already made a name in the "Empire
City." Before the war a particular renown attached to
New Orleans as a place where "no end of money" was to
be made, but New Orleans, like the northern cities, re-
quired a New York testimonial of talent.
Tho theatres of New York differ from those of London,
resembling Astley's as remodelled by Mr. Bucicault, who
took the American typo as his Pattern. The Americans
go further in their encroachments on the pit, having no-
' thing like one in. the accepted sense of the word, but the
portion of the ground area, which is not occupied by
chairs, is appropriated to reserved seats, and bears the
French name "parquette," which, however, is invariably
pronounced "parquet." in front of the parquette are the