The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

IFIISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

From the Anglo-American Times.)
On the occasion of a squabble between the Times
and Sir Charles Napier, it will be recollected that our
contemporary resorted to the rather cruel expedient of
printing one of the gallant Admiral's letters literatim ;
seamen of Sir Charles Napier's date and school not being
renowned for accuracy in spelling. The anti-negro party
in America, in a similar spirit, have taken to reporting the
negro del-gates verbatim, and the result is comic enough,
but not much more comic than would be the speeches of
some of our own legislators were they thus dealt with by
the malice of reporters. On the occasion of a debate in
the Virginia Convention, as to the necessity of employing
a shorthand writer to report their debates, Mr. Lindsay, a
negro delegate, is stated—by the enemy of course—to have
thus delivered himself :—" Mistar President, —I hope on
dis late hour ob de struggle that Old Virginny have been
imperilled that no free thinkin man can suppose for a
moment dat we desires to misripersint de idee dat we can't
qualify do ability of do sternorguphy for dis Convention.
I hope ev'y good thinkin gentleman will observe do
necessity of havin a stenogappy, and dat dey will be
willing in do desire to gain do ability of de common welt
of Virginny to see dat de gentleman is justly disarve. I
hop-, sir, dat ev'y gentleman will now see de necessity ob
having die stenogerphy, so that wo can den be able to
understand de principles of dar proposition."

Mr. Charles Hopkinson, banker of London, filed
a bill against the Marquis of Exeter, the trustees and com-
mittee of the Conservative Club, to reinstate him in his
rights and position as a member of the club, from which
he had boon expelled for supporting Liberal candidates at
Parliamentary elections. Lord Romilly considered clubs
peculiar institutions. They were societies of gentlemen
for social purposes, superadded to which were c rtaiu
other purposes, literary or political. The Conservative
Club was social where it was necessary members should
be on a good footing with each other, where nothing was
likely to interfere with social enjoyments. He was of
opinion that the 29th rule of the club vested in two-thirds
of the general mooting of the members the right of expell-
ing a member, if in their judgment he has done any.
thing to endanger the welfare and good order of the club,
and the Court could not disturb it if it was a bona fide and
not capricious judgment. Iu this case the meeting acted
with perfect bona fides, and therefore the bill must be dis-
missed with costs.

Rumour at Washington gives three names as the
candidates for the mission to Austria; Hon. S. S. Cox, of
Ohio, C. C. Cox, of Maryland, and General Carl Schurz,
of Wisconsin.

S, cretary Wells took his seat at the Cabinet on
the 29th N'ov., when the President's Message was read.
Although still feeble he is greatly improved in health.
Mr. E. G. Dunbar, known in connection with
the accusation of fraud he so repeatedly brought against
officers of the Treasury in the New York Globe, appeared
before the Senate for contempt, and was discharged.
General Capron was confirmed by the Senate in
his appointment of Commissioner of Agriculture on the
29th Nov., and A. C. Hunt as Governor of Colorado.
Horace L. Capron conducted a farm in Maryland for many
years, and is well known, not only as a practical farmer,
but as a writer on Agriculture. He commanded an Illinois
cavalry regiment during the war, and General Burbridge,
of Kentucky, under whom he served, urged his appoint-
ment, which has since been confirmed.

Senator Wilson received a letter from Horace
Greeley, in which he draws a dismal picture of the de-
faults, the miscarriages, the reverses in the South. Unless
there be more intelligence and concert of action on the
part of Republican leaders he presages discomfiture, per-
haps annihilation, for bis party.

General Wisewell is likely to succeed Mr. Rollins
as Commissioner of the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

The Alabama Reconstruction Convention granted
eight divorces, Nov. 29, and dismissed ono suit for
bigamy.

'rhe New York Herald states that on Tuesday, Dec.
3, at Washington, Mr. James Vernon, a delegate from the
Tailors' National Emigration Society of London, in com-
pany with several delegates from this city, was introduced
to the President. After explaining that the object of their
mission was to raise a fund for the relief of the journey-
men tailors in London, who have been on strike for the
last seven months, the President made them a short ad-
dress, alluding to early days, when he, too, made a liveli-
hood by the needle ; but it was not, he said, the profession
which degraded the man, but rather the man the profes-
sion. In the course of his remarks he explained the enig-
matical expression that nine tailors are essential to make a
Mao, by relating the manner of its origin, how a knight
of the shears became embarrassed and was relieved by the
aid of nine of his brethren ; finally he grew rich, bought a
carriage, and put up as his motto, "Nine tailors made me"
—hence the derivation. In leaving, the President pre-
sented the delegation with $5O.

gordoii Greeley wm 4O pett4F4 with appli-

cations for the Secretary of Legation to Vienna that he
was compelled to publish an announcement that he would
not accept the appointment of Minister.

The mass meeting at the Coopers' Institute, New
York, nominating General Grant for tho Presidency, was
held on the 4th inst. under the auspices of A. T. Stewart,
William B. Astor, Moses Taylor, Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Hamilton Fish, Moses S. Grinnell, Robert L. Stuart, Wm.
T. Blodgett, Le Grand B. Cannon, B. W. Bonney, and
other influential gentlemen.

TIIE LATE EMREROR MAXIMILIAN.—EXTRAOR-
DINARY STORY.—The New York correspondent of the
Waterford Mail, under date of Dec. 3, writes : —"Admiral
Tegethoff, of the Austrian navy, is now en route for home,
with what he believes to be the body of the unfortunate
Maximilian. My connection with the Mexican agents i❑
this country forb:ds my entering into minutia; but I can
assert that the remains which will be honoured by Austria
are not those of the ill-fated scion of the house of Haps-
burg, but of Ilamero, a noted bandit and guerilla, who in
life was not unlike poor Maximilian. The latter is pining
in a❑ obscure dungeon in Queretaro, fed with felon's food,
and awaiting the welcome arrival of death. The night
before his supposed execution, Juarez, uncertain of his own
success in seeking the presidency, and perhaps unwilling
to imbrue his hands in royal blood, had the noble captive
conveyed by stealth to a sscret den, and substituted in his
stead the ruffian Hamero, hoping, had he not succeeded in
his political aspirations, to have made a fortune by deli-
vering him safely to Austria.

The Rev. Newman Hall returned to England by
the Cuba, which arrived at Liverpool on Saturday last,
from America.

Doubts are expressed whether Surratt will be
tried again, in view of the difficulty of obtaining an im-
partial jury. An opinion has been expressed that Con-
gress should order a jury to be empanelled in some State
outside the district.

The Hon. Edward Cooper will, it is thought,
be appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. The
Senate Finance Committee considered the nomination on
the sth inst., but it was laid over for the present.
It is announced that a marriage has been ar-
ranged between the Prince of Orange and the Princess
Frederica, eldest daughter of the King of Hanover.
A colossal bronze statue, on a granite pedestal, of
Major-General John F. Reynolds, will next summer be
erected in the Gettysburgh Cemetery by the soldiers of
the let Army Corps.

Weston, the great walker, after resting a week
at Chicago, is on his way home, lecturing as he goes. He
states that his share of the wager did not pay the expenses
of his trip.

Madame Francis Lord Bond has applied to the
State Department for the post of Minister to England, vico
Mr. Adams (!) whom sho desires may bo recalled.
Detective Baker has bolted, and Mrs. Cobb is
in pursuit, with her warrant for libel.

Senator Morgan, of New York, presided at the
first Congressional Caucus of the session held on the 4th
instant.

William J. Nelson was chosen President of the
Kentucky Senate, and J. D. Branch, Speaker, by the House
when the Legislature met on Monday, the 2d inst. Go-
vernor Stevenson sent in his message on the 3d. The
Legislature is strongly Democratic.
The official Democratic majority in New York
for Nelson, Secretary of State, is 47,930; the Republican
majority in Minnesota for Governor Marshall was 5,327,
in a total vote of 61,413 ; and in Wisconsin , for Governor
Fairchild, 4,752 in a total of 142,478.

The American ship T. T. Southard, Capt. Bishop,
from New York Bth Nov., for Liverpool, went ashore near
the Menai Lighthouse. The Liverpool steamtug Reliance,
Capt. John Bibby, was near at the time, and the captain,
at all hazards, resolved to render assistance. Finding it
impossible to approach near enough a boat was lowered,
and the crew succeeded iu landing on the lee side of
Puffin Island. On making their way to the beach oppo-
site the wreck, they found the line repeatedly thrown from
the ship reached only to a rock half-way, over which the
sea was breaking heavily. Here it was that one of the
crew, James M'Cartney, with a rope round his waist,
swam through the raging surf, and, gaining the ridge,
brought back the line from the ship to the beach, by which
the crew of the American vessel were saved. We hope
that both Captain Bibby and James M'Cartney will receive
a substantial recognition of this service.
The manufacturers of northern Berkshire, Mas-
sachusetts, have chosen Harvey Arnold, of North Adams ;
Sanford Blackinton, of Blackinton ; W. C. Plunkett, of
South Adams ; Stephen Walley, of Williamstown ; and
Elisha Jenks, of Cheshire, to represent them at the con-
vention of manufacturers which was to assemble at Cleve-
land, Ohio, on the 18th, to take steps towards the repeal
of the tax upon all taxable goods and the increase of taxa-
tion upon luxuries.

Lord and Lady Amberley were presented to the
President on the 6th inst. On the 4th inst. it was an-
nounced that they would be in the galleries of the house,
and that Lady Atnberley would be attired, we suppose, in
the robes of a peeress, as the attraction drew a number of
visitors who were disappointed.

Mr. Charles Dickens was perhaps not aware of
what his visit to Boston was worth to the kid glove
dealers. When he fills Tremont Temple, ho knows what
his own receipts aro likely to be, but a glover calculates
the returns of the house to the trade, which is estimated at
$4,000, giving for the four evenings $16,000 to the trade.

A New York paper says—" Mary E. Braddon
thinks of coming to America to lecture."
Ex-Governor Isaac Davis has been nominated
Mayor, for Worcester City, Massachusetts.

Rev. Edward Dunbar, the Minnesota polygamist,
has been sentenced to three years and eight months in the
Penitentiary.

Mr. Robinson will have cause for congratulation
when ho hears of the Clerkenwell tragedy in his resolu-
tion for the impeachment of W. B. West, United States
Consul at Dublin, for not moving more strongly in behalf
of the Fenian prisoners. Perhaps Mr. Robinson will ac-
knowledge that Mr. West, who is on the spot, might have
a true appreciation of the course to be taken in the interest
and dignity of the nation he represents.
Madlle. Clara Louise Kellogg, with her father and
mother, has left Edwards' Royal Cambridge Hotel for
Paris.

The following obituary notice of old Mr. Wood
appeared is the New York Citizen, Doc. 7 :—" Probably
no event has ever given more universal satisfaction in this
city than the burial of this old man. An enumeration of
the causes that have made him so obnoxious to all honest
and well-informed men, whatever may have been their
personal or party predilections in other respects,
would bo both very tedious and unnecessary. Suf-
fice it to say that the individual, whose only
power was shameless pretence and imposture ; who
lived and fattened solely upon dishonest and disgraceful
gains; who made an open boast of crime, and mocked at
truth and fair dealing, bas passed away forever. No more,
either as a living embodiment of power, or as a "grey
headed spectre," can ho plant himself upon the heads of
deluded men, or inflame the passions or prejudices of de-
pravity or ignorance, or annoy a people who distrust and
despise him. If there be those who think that we should
remember the old maxim, which bid us to "speak well of
the dead," let them bear in mind, if Caesar's memory will
permit the quotation, that
We come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.'"__

It is believed at Washington by persons well in-
formed that Garibaldi and his two sons will proceed im-
mediately to America, and that a movement will be made
to induce A►nerican intervention in Italian affairs.

Mr. Martin and the other persons summoned for
taking part in the Dublin funeral processions are to be
triod, and are at present out on personal bail of £5OO
each.

Hon. Walter Prestor, a man of brilliant talents,
and one of the finest orators in Virginia, died at Abingdon
on the 23th November. •

James E. Halliday died on the 6th inst. in the
60th year of his age. He was a practical printer, and for
many years foreman of the Congressional Globe office. He
was twice elected tax-collector of Washington, and once
was the Democratic candidate for mayor.

Robert Denniston, late State Controller of New
York, died at his residence at Salisbury, on Monday, 2d
December.

Silas Bronson, who died at the St. Nicholas Hotel
at New York, on Monday, December 2, was a native of
Middlebury county, Connecticut, and leaves an estate esti-
mated at over $1,000,000. He gives by his will over
$200,000 to the city of Waterbury, Connecticut, for a
public library, to each of twenty-five nephews and nieces
$15,000, and the rest to his heirs at law, his brothers and
sisters or their representatives. Ho had six brothers and
sisters, three of whom survive him.
The venerable ex-Chancellor Reuben Hyde Wal-
worth died at Saratoga on Monday, December 5, at the
ago of 79. He was born at Bozrah, Connecticut, but has
resided in New York since early childhood. He served
one term in Congress, 20 years as Chancellor of New York,
and for the last 20 years has been consulting attorney. He
has been long prominent in Christian and reform move-
ments, and leaves a name not only distinguished but
honourable. _ _

The intention of the _Herald to form an Asso-
ciated Press, in connection with Cyrus W. Field, Charles
A. Dana, Samuel Bowles, and others, seems to have been
entirely abandoned.
Messrs. Charles Scribner and Co. will publish,
on December 6th, " The Queens of American Society,"
by Mrs. E. F. Ellet. Mr. James Greenwood, author of
" The Lambeth Casual," is to contribute a series of origi-
nal sketches to "Hours at Home," during the coming
year. "The Chaplet of Pearls," a serial by Miss Yonge,
author of the "Heir of Reddyffe," was commenced in the
December number of "Hours at Home." "Fred, and
Maria, and Me," a story by the author of "The Flower of
Ow Family," is to be published son in the book form by
Meows. Charles Scribner and Co. Messrs. Charles Scrib-
ner and Co. have in the press "Eighty Years of Republican
Goyarnment in the United States," by Louie J. Jenriings,

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for some time the special correspondent of the London
Times.

THE AMERICAN SCREW STEAMER ONTARIO.'"
Our American friends will be pleased to see the success
which has hitherto attended the American-built screw
steamer Ontario, belonging to the American Steamship
Company. On her last outward voyage she made the run
from Liverpool to Boston via Queenstown in ten days four
hours, boating by one, two, and three days all the ether
steamers that left at the same time. She has just returned,
making the run from Boston to Liverpool in nine days
seventeen hours, during which time she was only working
about three-fourths of her full power, the directors having
given strict instructions that she should not be worked sf
full speed for the sake of making quick passages, their
object being to do the work well and cautiously, and in as
good time as is made by any of the other lines, and thus
so, ure safety and comfort to fdeir passengers. All who
have travelled by this steamer speak in the highest terms
of hor splendid sea-going qualities, as well as for the e:'-
collent and complete accommodations, and state that the
captain and officers aro most attentive to their ditties and
the comfort of their passengers. She leaves Liverpool
again on the 27th inst.
The Xezv York Citizen says—" James Gordon
Bennett's first daily paper in this city, the Globe, issued in
October, 1832, lived exact'y one month. The journalists
of that time all declared that Bennett had no notability as
a newspaper manager.
t< The Journal of Commerce is probably the only
secular journal in this country that keeps the Sabbath
exactly, the compositors and editors beginning their Work
for Monday's issue precisely at midnight."
The Round Table states:—Mr. Frank 11. Aliriend,
formerly editor of the Southern Literary Messenger, and
connected during and since the war with the Richmond
press, is soon to publish, through a Cincinnati house,
" The Life of Jefferson Davis." The specimen Pages
which we have examined give promise of a hand
some volume, but are otherwise most discouraging'
The author has, we presume, as we are told, had unusual
opportunities for gaining an iusight into Whitt he
writes of, "has had the co-operation and assistance °f
prominent officials of very high position in the late
Confederacy, and has enjoyed facilities unsurpassed
by any writer upon the subject of the war for obtaining
information from original sources," and will cNI)I3i3
much we have been ignorant of or have misunderstood.
Yet we are confident that no degree of ceptainty of sub-
stantial information could sustain us through the pro-
mised five or six hundred pages of such turgidity and inl;
fiation and magniloquence as fill the half-dozen whit
constitute all of the books we care to see—except in
event of its translation. Here, for instance, are the wor
used to express the importance of the " Titanic conflict
—meaning the war :—" As a point of departure from the
hitherto unbroken monotony of American history, the be-
ginning of a new order of things, the extinction of impor-
taut elements of previous national existence, embraelng
much that was consecrated in the popular affections; 11/
short, as a complete political and social transformation, an
abrupt but thorough perversion of the Government frorat
its original purposes and previous policy, this period musv
take its place, with important suggestions of the°r,,f
and illustration, among the most impressive lessons -
history. The profound interest which shall centre
upon the period that we have under consideration
must necessarily subject to a rigid investigation
the lives, characters, and conduct of those to whom well
allotted conspicuous parts in the great drama. It is both 5
natural and reasonable test that the world applies in seeking
to solve, through the qualities and capacities of those wil:
direct great measures of governmental policy, the merits
of the movements themselves."
The Round Table Association will issue on an
after Ist January a new weekly journal, to be called 716
Week, upon a principle successful in England, but not sonattempted in America, being a reflex of home and forels
opinion, consisting entirely of extracts from the ablest an
:t
most influential journals all over the world. The mess
brilliant and interesting sAections, excluding
promised, on capital paper, iu beautiful typo. The ch°lc;
of contents will be free from political bias, the object being
to give all that is brightest and best from every cluartiebr,
the articles in foreign journals being translated. Thus "7:18
association will embrace the two reviews, The Round ra-.
being entirely original, and The Week entirely soledeuit
In the hands of so able and literary an organisation as tb„
to which The Round Table owes existence, The Week can
scarcely fail to realise the objects proposed.