The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

that, with the bill, is as much as could be expected.
Paris is at present afflicted with Mr. Sothern's
portrait over all her walls as my Lord Dundreary.
It is impossible to avoid the wink of one of his eyes
under a small pane of glass lodged under his left
eyebrow, and the impertinent stare of the other.
Theatricals remind me that V. Sardou is working
at a new piece to be called " Les femmes du Monde,"
that the " juif errant" is being rehearsed at the
Ambigue, and that we are to have a troup of Japanese
equilibrists at the Cirque Napoleon. The bill post-
ing and puffing are most sensational, and in hot
crowded thoroughfares, amid the din of omnibuses,
the Japanese tumblers are unsatisfactory things to
look upon.
The Queen of Prussia left Paris yesterday, but
the ex-King of Bavaria has arrived. The Queen of
Spain has given up all thoughts of a journey
here and to Rome. Some complaints are made that
our capital is vi,ibly thinning. This is owing to
the sudden flight of all the members of the jury at
the Exposition. They could stand expostulation,
blame, and charges no longer, none of the exhibitors
who have not a gold medal being satisfied.
On the Sultan's return it is hoped the fetes will
recommence, but my personal desires are less
ambitious. The only hope of my heart is that the
English attendants of His highness at Buckingham
Palace will see the necessity of giving that noble
pile a good airing before the Royal children of
England again play in the old halls. I should have
suggested soap and water instead, if a supply of
these articles could be obtained without an appeal
to one of the Houses, which, being made public,
would look bad, as if the nation, in fact, wanted to
give the Sultan and his suite a " ducking."

FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAINE, 18th July.

As I know you are most interested in items of
personal intelligence, and as you, in this, merely re-
present your readers, I will chiefly furnish you with
these. To begin, then, I must inform you that
Mrs. Emma Key Blunt is giving Shakspearian read-
ings at Carlsbad, in Austria. lion. J. R. Doolittle,
United States Senator, is now in Paris, having lately
returned from an official visit to St. Petersburg,
Copenhagen, and Stockholm. He stopped over a
day at Frankfort to call on Consul General Murphy,
and to visit some of the great wine cellars for which
this city is noted. The Government could hardly
find a more honest, faithful, or able representative to
send abroad on a mission. Mr. Kasson is also on a
mission to Europe, to aid in bringing about a reduc-
tion of postage to and from the United States to
the Continent, It is to be hoped he will succeed.
He is a man of energy and ability, and no better
appointment could have been made. A former
agent, sent out by Postmaster-General Randall,
procured a reduction in postage from the United
States to England, but totally ignored France, Ger-
many, and the rest of the Continent. Perhaps he was
not aware that there were any business relations
between those other countries and the United States,
but Mr. Kasson is a man of a different stripe, and
much will be accomplished by him.—A New Con-
sulate has been established in the Champagne of

Rheins, and Mr. Gill, a consular clerk, appointed
consul.—Baron James Rothschild of Paris, Baron
Charles of Naples, and Baron Willy and family of
Frankfort, are at Homburg les Bains.—The Hon.
Henry T. Raymond, the able editor of the New
York Times, is expected out this month with his
son.—Mrs. Raymond is at Reichenhall in Bavaria
with her family.—Dr. Wilson, U.S. Consul at
Antwerp, is stopping at Homburg a few days for
the benefit of his health.—The Hon. Jobn Sherman
of the U. S. Senate has returned home to be pre-
sent at the extra session of Congress.—D. A.
Wells, Esq., the able statistician, has been sent out
by the Treasury Department to examine the factories
in Europe, as well as into the working of the in-
come tax in England, France, and Germany. The
Rev. Dr. Bellows and family are at Homburg les
Bains for the benefit of their health.
The Scotch Church has sent a'clergyman to Horn-
burg les Bains, who has service every Sunday evening,
at which a large congregation attends. On these
occasions prayers are said for the Great Republic,
for the President of the United States, and for all
in authority in that country.
The home of the celebrated Washburn Brothers,
Lewiston, Maine, has been burnt. The family
were accustomed to spend a part of every summer
at the old paternal home. The Hon. E. B. Wash-
burn is at present in Paris, and his health is some-
what improved. One of the brothers is Collector
at the port at Portland, another is Ambassador to
to one the South American Republics.
Whistler, Winans, and Co., an American firm,
have purchased from the Russian Government the
Aloscow and St. Petersburg Railwaysfor 300,000,000
.
francs, or $150,000 per mile They were the
original builders of the road. Maga Whistler was
formerly for some years a resident at Frankfort-on-
the-Maine, and the Winans, residents of Brighton,
England.
Several seizure cases have been tried in the United
States Courts in New York, involving large
amounts of wine claimed to be undervalued in the
invoices. Two witnesses were sent over from
Europe to testify for the Government, a Mr.
Marshall and one Violier, whose testimony appears,
to a disinterested man, as clear as mud. Any intelli-
gent jury would discard witnesses who knew so
little of the value and character of wines as said
men have shown. The juries in the above cases
were unable to agree upon a verdict.

Under the heading of " Theatres and Things
Theatrical" Wilke,s's Spirit of the Times gives full and
amusing comment. We extract a few items :--
Alice Kingsbury had a benefit recently in Vir-
ginia City, and was startled by two heavy silver bricks
thrown by an admirer. Flowers are unknown in that
sage-brush country.

The prima donna Pauline Lucca is announced for
America in the Fall.

Betty Regi and sister have been engaged for a
Chicago " Black Crook."

The celebrated composer 11 Signor Guiseppe
Verdi, as he is called in mellifluous Italian,would be called
in home English Joe Green, so says the Missouri Republi-
can, whose editor is a Goth.

Still another troupe of Japanese jugglers, making
five in all who have left Japan, has arrived in San Fran-
cisco. Send them along, Mr. Tycoon ; I'll match Thurlow
Weed and his "Ring" against all your magicians and
tricksters. The " old man " will balance that ironclad
account, which would baffle the groat balancer Ilaimaikari
adikiehi himself.

Mr. John Gilbert, whom everybody knows and
more like, was the other day married to Miss Sarah H.
Gavctt, of Boston. No cards, no pie, no nonsense.
Lewis Baker and Mark Smith have gone to join
their clan in Europe.
Frederick Robinson is starring in Canada.
Chicago paid in May for amusements :
31•Vickor's, $10,645 50; Opera-house, $25,871 59;
Varieties, $3,000 ; Museum, $11,993.
It is proposed to build a theatre and opera-house
in Washington City, which shall be worthy of Washing-
tonians.

Dan Rice is managing a menagerie in the Weal

The Mayor of Mobile, lately appointed, has
selected several negroes as policemen.
Professor Chadbourne has resigned the presi-
dency of the Massachusetts Agricultural College fir the
presidency of a Western University, and his future home
will probably be in IVisc3nsin.
Joaquim Silveria, an American subject, about
whose capture on the charge of complicity in the recent
forgery of Bank of Portugal notes, a diplomatic corres-
pondence had taken place between the American Legation
in Lisbon and Portuguese Govermusnt, has been returned
to French territory on board a French man-of-war, the
question being amicably settled.
The Mexican Consuls at Havre and Cette—MM.
Mora, of Ozta, and Brunet—as well as several vice-con-
suls, have resigned their offices.

Mr. Tennyson has purchased a small estate called
Greenhill, near Blackdown Hill, not far from Haslemere.
He proposes to build a house and become a permanent re-
sident there, taking measures to shut out intrusive snobs.

The names of Mr. Raymond, as Minister to
Austria, and Hr. Ba.n3roft,;.t.s Minister to PrusFia., will be
sent by the President for confirmation to the Senate now
assembled.

Admiral Tegethoff will embark in England for
New Orleans;

Mr. Speed, the late United States Attorney Ge-
neral hoz arrived at Washington to give evidence before
the Judiciary Committee.
General T. K. Smith will be nominated for con-
sul at ilavannol.

Sam Galloway declines to stand as Republican
candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio.

Mx, J. S. Mill's speech in the British Parliament