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

on woman suffrage has been circulated extensively in

America

Mr. Leutze is engaged on a picture representing
the cession of Russian-America to the United States for
the Capitol at Washington.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr.
D. R. Boice as Consul at Hamilton, Canada West, for the
United States of America.
Kossuth's son has been rejected as a candidate
for the Hungarian Diet, and even the election of Kossuth
himself, who is also a candidate, is by many considered
doubtful.

Frank Hiscock has been elected a member of the
Convention, in succession to his murdered brother, L.
Harris Hiscock.
General Grant will act as showman to the party
of Representatives on a tour over the battle-fields of
Georgia. They will visit Look-out Mountain.
The celebrated Irishman in this country, widely
known as "Meagher of the Sword," was drowned at Mon-
tana on the sth inst.
It is feared that Judge Swayne, of the Supreme
dourt, will die. He is 80 years old, and now very ill at
Washington.

Iliram Warner succeeds Chief Justice Lumpkin,
of Georgia, lately deceased.
Mr. Henry E. Peck, formerly a professor in
Oberlin College, died on the 9th inst. at Port-au-Prince,
where he resided as United States Minister, having boon
appointed by Mr. Lincoln.
Horace B. Claffin, whose income last year was
returned at $1,300,000 is this year $500,000. What
falling off was there !
It is said that the Empress Eugenie will leave on
Sunday or Monday next for Windsor, on a private visit
to Queen Victoria. Her Majesty will stay at Windsor two
days, when she will probably return to Cherbourg.
The wheat crop this year, it is anticipated, will
be the greatest crop of that grain ever grown in the United
States. A careful analysis of information from all tho '
States shows that the total acreage in wheat is 10 to 15 per
cent. greater than last year. In a majority of the States
the breadth of winter wheat is quite as wide as usual, and
that of spring wheat is much greater. The reports of the
condition of the crop show that it is much better than last
year, and the harvest is estimated at 200,000,000 bushels.
The harvest has already begun in the South, so that the
crop of the entire country may now be considered free
from any ordinary danger.—Baltimore Commercial.
The Watchman and Reflector thus describes the
Masonic Temple, for which the President visited Boston
to assist in the dedication :—" The present structure is of
granite, and has a front, facing Tremont-street, of 85 feet,
and rises 90 feet to the battlement. An octagon tower on
the south corner rises to a height of 121 feet, and a smaller
one lifts itself to a less lofty height at the north
corner. The main entrance is supported by heavy
buttresses rising to the second story, and on the left
is a circular tower, which begins at the second story
and rises to a height of 114 foot. The exterior of
the building is ornamented with appropriate masonic
emblem; balustrades, moulding; and armorial trophies.
It is the most magnificent edifice in New England, and is a
monument to the genius of its architect, Mr. M.W. Wheelock,
whose death before the completion of the edifice on which
he had lavished the best work of his brain was a sad loss
to the art circle of Boston. The interior corresponds in
tasteful and elab•)rato finish with the exterior, and is
divided into rooms suitable for the meetings of Masonic
Lodges.

The Washington Republican has the following :
"A HEAVY UNDERTAKING.—Thoro is a Brooklyn gentleman
in the city who offers to contract with the Government for
the effectual 'removal' of tho Indians on the plains, at a
cost absolutely trifling, compared with the military opera-
tions as at present carried on. His plan is very simple,
being the establishment of a fow distilleries in each tribe."
—We would call the enterprise that of a heavy under-
taker.

At the show this week at Bury St. Edmonds, o
the Royal Agricultural Society, steam-ploughing and cul
tivating was represented by Messrs. Howard, of Bedford ;
Messrs. Fowler, of Leeds; and Mr. Burrell, of Thetford.
Messrs. Howard exhibited their new system of steam culti-
vating machinery, which is worked by a pair of 14-horse
self-propelling engines, each fitted with two winding drums,
drawing the cultivators simultaneously to and fro be-
tween them. Messrs. Howard also exhibited their double
action cultivator and four and three furrow steam ploughs,
besides a two-furrow plough for very deep work, and
another steam cultivating apparatus, which consists of a
10-horse power portable engine, with separate wire laps
and ropes. Au addition to steam cultivating machinery,
which Messrs. Howard also submit to notice, is Bulstrodo's
patent snatch-block slings for cultivating apparatus,
worked on the stationary principle, and by means of
which the anchor can detach, and move forward the block
while the plough is crossing the field.
The American war steamer Shamrock and the
British steamer Reclpole have arrived at Lisbon.
The North tar, from London for Philadelphia,
which sailed from the Downs about tho 14th of February,
has not since been heard of.
It was lately denied that flogging was allowed in
the American army. But, if a correspondent of the
Tribune is right, American officers do not confine that
punishment to the soldiers, but extend it to the citizens,
A man named Hendricks received 100 lashes by order of.
Colonel Dodge, of Fort Sedgwick, without trial of any
kind, for the alleged offence of selling whisky to the
soldiers. The writer gives a minute account of this most
unusual and un-American punishment, and states in con-
clusion—" Flogging, bucking and gagging, and stretching
soldiers 'spread-eagle' fashion, seems to be the order of the
day here."

PERILS OF A NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT
The correspondent of the New Fork Herald narrates the
events which befel him in following the career of Maxi-
milian. " The instructions," ho says, " which carried the
present writer into the camp of the Imperial Rimy were
brief and to the point—' Follow Max, and write regularly
and fully.—Ed. New York Herald.' To follow Max from
Orizaba and Puebla, when he had determined to continue
the struggle, was an easy task, and had already been
accomplished before the telegram was received. To fol-
low him from Puebla to the capital, and thence to Quere-
taro, was a more difficult matter, and, among other in-
conveniences, involved the person undertaking it in the
following little perplexities :—Robbed to the skin, two ;
showed fight, and did not get robbed, two ; captured
by Liberals, one ; captured by Imperialists, one ;
days under fire, seventy-two ; struck by spent bullets,
two ; slightly wounded by shells, one ; lived on horse,
mule, and dog flesh for days, thirty-six ; travelled on
horseback, stage, and muleback, leagues, 450." Arrived in
Queretaro two days before the advent of Maximilian, the
Herald's representative incurred a strong risk of being
promptly strung up as a Yankee spy. Three days pre-
viously he had seen Marquez manifest an earnest inclina-
tion to hang a couple of American travellers he had en-
countered on the march from Mexico to Queretaro, because
they happened to possess passes from Escobedo and
draughts on the capital—an inclination only restrained by
the active intervention of the Emperor Maximilian. In
Queretaro, before the advent of the imperial forces, Mira-
mon was omnipotent, and Miramon, more polished and
educated than Marquez, was even more virulent and dan-
gerous in his hatred and dread of foreigners. The arrival
of the Emperor alone relieved him of peril."
TIIE NEW DOMINION OF CANADA.—Lord Monck
has appointed the lieutenant governors of the four Cana-
dian provinces as follows :—Ontario, General Stisted ;
Quebec, Sir Narcisse F. Boileau ; New Brunswick, General
Doyle ; Nova Scotia, General Sir W. F. Williams. Lieut.-
Governor Belleau has already been sworn into office, and
loft Ottawa for his capital, Quebec, on Wednesday morn-
ing. The other lieutenant governors will receive the
oath of office at the capitals of their respective provinces;
power has been transmitted to the judges to that effect.
It is also understood that the military governors for the
provinces of 'Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia
have been appointed. Governor-General Monck left Ot-
tawa, Thursday, for Quebec, and on the Ist of September
will return to the former place for his permanent resi-
dence. Thomas D'Arcy M‘Gee has left Ottawa for
Montreal to look after his election. It is reported that
he feels sore over his exclusion from the Privy Council.
The following is a correct list of the Canadian Ministry,
with the departments to which the members have been
assigned :—Sir John A. Macdonald, Minister of Justice ;
G. E. Cartier, Militia ; A. T. Galt, Finance ; S. L. Tilley,
Customs; William Howland, Excise ; P. Mitchell, Marine
and Fisheries ; William M‘Dougall, Public Works ; Alex-
ander Campball, Postmaster-General ; Jean C. Chapais,
Agriculture ; Mr. Archibald, Secretary of the Provinces;
Hector L. Langevin, Secretary for Canada ; Adam S.
Ferguson Blair, President of the Council ; Mr. Kenney,
Receiver-General. The population of the dominion of
Canada is about • 3,800,000 souls, and extent of territory
377,045 square miles ; the public debt is some $75,000,000,
income about $18,000,000 ; and thus the new State enters
the political world.
The London Review, in an elaborate article on
the Supreme Court of the United States, gives interesting
and, in the main, accurate sketches of the chief Justice and
his associates. But it falls into ono gross blunder. It
confounds Nathan Clifford, of Maine, with Hon. John H.
Clifford, of Massachusetts ; and says the former was one of
the most brilliant lawyers of Massachusetts and once a
governor of the State, but lost popularity by ultra-con-
servative views on the slavery question. Such an error
is not creditable to a journalist claiming to be well in-
formed; but it is loss culpable than a similar ono very
current a few years ago in England, when Noah Webster
and Daniel Webster were often allu 'ed to as one and the
same person. English insularity is not favourable to
accurate knowledge of the men or the interests of other
nations.— Watchman and Reflector.
LETTER FROM EX-GOVERNOR VANCE TO THE
FREEDMEN.— Hon. Z. B. Vance has replied to the invitation
to address the freedmen of Eigecombe and Nash Counties,
in North Carolina, in a letter in which he expresses his
regret at his inability to accept, and says :—" Much
damage will doubtless be done before your people see the
designs of those who wish to lead them now, but 1