The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-14 00:00:00

James H. Chase, of Granton, is proposed as a proper can-
didate. The St. Louis Democrat upholds him as a sound
Radical, and, what is of far mere importance, as a man of
excellent character and well-known ability. Two other
candidates are in the field.

The lion. John B. Page, who was inaugurated
Governor of Vermont on Thursday, October 17, is the
twenty-seventh Governor of the State. Ife enters upon
the discherge of his duties at the unusually early age of
41 years.

Senator Sumner has started on his Western tour.
Ho has some twenty or thirty engagements in Michigan,
Illinois, Ohio, and other States, and will be absent until
about the middle of next month. His lecture is entitled,
" Are we a Nation ?"

Joseph _Dion, billiard champion of America, has
challenged the " champion of England" for the champion-
ship of the world.

Th© Cincinnati Enquirer nominates George H.
Pendleton for the next Presidency, and claims to speak for
the Democracy of the North-West in so doing.
Speaker Colfax has taken the house fronting
Lafayette-square, and opposite Secretary Seward's resi-
dence, and will " keep house" in Washington this winter
for the first time since entering Congress.

It ig said that the number of patents annually
issued by the United States is three times greater than

that of Europe. More than 200 patents a week have been
issued at Washington for the last six months.

Plate glass has not yet been manufactured in the
United States. The chief supply hitherto has been from

Belgium. A practical glass-worker in Birmingham,
Pennsylvania, has, however, recently invented and carried
into operation an apparatus for the manufacture of plate

glass, which is said to produce a quality equal to the bes
imported.

Colonel Phineas Stanton, of Le Roy, New York,
artist of the Williams College South American expedition,
died at Quito, Equador, on September 5.

Marcus Bassett, builder of the Custom-house and
other public buildings at New Haven, died on Sunday

October 13.

On the 30th October, at Homburg Les Bains,
Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Phillip Schiaffelin, of New
York, now at Wiesbaden. Mrs. S. died very suddenly of

disease of the heart.

Miss Braddon attacks the editor of the Pall-Ma
Gazette in this month's number of Belgravia. She makes
Captain Charles Shandon write from Hades to the Editor,
reminding him of the prospectus drawn up in the Fleet
Prison, whet® the worthy captain was passing a pleasant
time, which he seems so strongly to regret that we fear
ho must in truth have dated from a hot place. "We ad-
dress ourselves to the higher circles of society ; we care
not to discuss it. The Pall-Mall Gazette is written by
gentlemen for gentlemen ; its conductors speak to the
classes in which they live and were born. The
field-preacher has his journal ; the ltadical free-thinker
has his journal ; why should the gentlemen of England be
unrepresented in the press ?" So, for their sake, the Pall
Mall came forth, " a journal written by gentlemen, for
gentlemen, quothar exclaims Capt. Shandon. "A bundle
of cuttings from other papers, garnished with flippant and
frivolous comment, and little carping, spiteful paragraphs,
and prurient harpings upon subjects that decency best
reprobates by decent avoidance ; and sham letters from
sham correspondents, all breathing the same malignant
feeling against some one or something respected by other
people, and to give spice to the whole au occasional for-
gery." This is the Belgravia's estimate of the journal
written for gentlemen by gentlemen. Our readers know
the story of the quarrel, mainly, however, from the Pall
Mall Gazette. Of course a poor monthly magazine can
have no chance against a daily newspaper. The light
artillery of the daily may have hammered away for
days, demolished everything within its range, and
half-forgotten the affair before the heavy guns of the
more ponderous periodical can be brought up. Now,
however, we have Miss Braddou's version. First, then, she
attributes to the Pall Mall the low and mercenary motives
of damaging a trade rival. "Your employer," she makes
Charles Shandon say to the editor, "being a publisher, and
the owner of a rival magazine to the Belgravia." Next she
describes them mean objects as being carried out by an
unfair criticism (although allowing full latitude in this);
by a series of sham letters from sham correspondents, end-
ing in a forged one; by a spurious advertisement forwarded
to a Dutch newspaper, the author of which she has as vainly
attempted to discover as the author of the letter which
bore her forged signature. She complains of the way in
which her efforts to discover the culprits have been met
by the Editor, who baulked instead of aiding her, making
the full use of the power he derived from his post in his
unfair combat with a woman. The advertisement in the
Utrecht paper, to which the Pall Mall drew attention on the
28th September, only appeared in the Dutch paper on the
26:h September, two days before, and not in time, if Miss
Braddun be correct, for the paper to have reached London.
She says, therefore, that the Editor knew cf the concoction
of this advertisement before its publication. Now these
are grave charges, whatever may be the complexion given
' to them by the journal written by gentlemen for gentle-
men. They may be shown to be susceptible of ex-
planation, and the Pall Mall would do well to ex-
plain them away. The world believes that the Pall Mall
critic was not only justified but right in his criticism of
" Circe," but the wcrld holds a very different opinion about
the after proceedings of the London evening daily. Of
course any journal might be deceived by a forged letter,
but if such a letter was given circulation, and that circu-
lation tended to injure another, the editor ought to aid the
party injured by using every means to discover the cul-
prit, which would best be done by placing the document
in the hands of the detectives, and supplementing the re-
ward offered by the injured party by an additional sum as
a spur to the exertions of the police. The story of the
spurious advertisement in the Dutch paper following that
of the forged letter, together with the course taken by
the Pall Mall in refusing to aid Miss Braddon, in
suppressing her letters, and in justifying the state-
ment made by the forger, at least require explanation,
not so much for Miss Braddon's sake, as for that of
a journal daily growing in power and influence. No one
will credit that the Pall Mall Gazette merely wrote in the
trade interest of its owner, for the very sufficient reason
that it would not be his trade interest—the reputation of the
Pall Mall being of far greater importance than any rivalry
of the Belgravia to the Corrzhill Magazine. This charge
of a low mercenary motive is fully answered by the above
fact, and wo believe there aro few who will question that
the statement in the prospectus has been carried out, and
that the Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for
gentlemen. We can make some allowances for the editor
of Belgravia in thus retaliating on the Pall Mall, and in
advancing charges which few will credit, yet enough re-
mains to call for a fuller explanation from the Pall Mall.
Thereis an article in the Fortnightly Review for this
month on "The Last Two Abyssinian Books," from which
we extract the following passage, convinced of its truth,
after very much of the same kind of experience which led
the author to write it. He alludes to the great rush of
Melbourne to the diggings on the discovery of the aurifer-
ous field. "In this place, if I may be allowed a few lines
space to say what is perhaps irrelevant, I should
like to note that it was the Chinese who crept
up and found the spot; and, moreover, that the
people who undertook to keep up our communications with
our basis 'of operations by coaches were all Americans,
Yankees almost universally from the Northern States"
f,rather rich this, where on earth else can Yankees come
from? Ed. A.A.T.) It is like Hebrew to speak to an
English reader about Cobb's Lines,' but I cannot help
whimsically wondering whether, if our military authori-
ties had contracted with Cobb's Lines for the transport of
the Abyssinian expedition, these wonderful Americans,
who drive their coaches across America among hostile
Indians, would not have done it for them at least quite as
well as they will do it for themselves."
The following is an extract from the report
written by Myrow Angel for the committee on the Paris
Exhibition, descriptive of the geography, resources, cli-
mate, and social condition of Eastern Nevada :—" In
inviting population to a now country as is Nevada, every
care should be taken to present the resources and every
condition as they exist, not in a too florid manner, nor
exaggerated, nor either falling short of the full statement
of facts, and the fair presentation of opportunities.
This has been our object, and if the statements are
dull and prosy they are worthy of belief, and all
which might give foundation to high hopes, or deceive
the capitalist, the tradesman, or the labourer, has been
carefully avoided. We know we can present to the world
a ccuntry as rich in its mineral resources as ever the sun
shone upon ; of an agricultural capacity capable of sup-
porting a vast population ; a climate without severe ex-
tremes of heat or cold, and of exceeding healthfulness
and invigorating influences ; a society hospitable, en-
lightened and law-abiding; with churches for every sect,
and schools for every class, munificently endowed; with
well-built cities and villages and public highways ;
connecting with the world by stages, mails, and
the instantaneous communication by telegraph ; soon to
be traversed by the great transcontinental railway ; a
country lying iu the path of empire ; a continuous lino of
great States stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific;
a country whose future is as bright as the glittering metal
which is her staple and her pride ; and to such a country
we have no hesitancy in inviting the countless thousands
of those who would add to the wealth they already
possess, those who would accept free homes, with
bright prospects in a free country, where every man
is a sovereign with equal voice in the government,
and protected in justice and right by the laws, which
are made alike for all. The lands are free to the husband-
man, and he is invited to make his home upon them, to
make them his for ever; living in ease, plentifulness, and
independence. The mines are free to the miners, and in
the broad domain, so much unoccupied, he has but to seek,
find, and make them his own. No such opportunities were
over before offered the people of the earth, and in the rapid
progress that settlement is making, these opportunities
will soon pass away."
Kaye'e Lives of Indian officers has been favour-
ably reviewed in the New York Nation. The critic says:
a The history cf the British East India Company has been
thus far the greatest romance of the modern world. No-