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London, England, 1866-02-24 00:00:00

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of Senators by a joint meeting, whose uniform
practice since the foundation of the Government
has been to prescribe its own rules, by which at one
time a majority over all would be required to elect
at another, a majority over those present, and at
another, election by acclamation. The conclusion
is, therefore, that the meeting had the right to pre-
scribe the rule under which it acted, and that he
was elected not simply by the will of those who
voted for him, but by the will of the joint meeting
which made the rule.

The Secretary of the Navy has sent to the Senate
the records of the Naval Board convened at Brook-
lyn in June last, to examine the claims for the cost
of our war vessels above the contract price ; from
which it appears that awards were made for thirty-
seven wooden double-enders, amounting to
$614,974 ; for six iron double-enders, $356,841;
for three gunboats, $100,853 ; for the Mianonom,
$35,832 ; for the iron-clad propellers Milwaukee
and Winnebago, $59,613 ; for the iron-clad
Onondaga, $85,203 ; for six river and harbour
monitors, $656,651; for the light draft monitor
Neubuc, $36,533 ; for the monitor Comanche,
$179,993, with $96,000 more for this last-named
vessel claimed as cost by the contractors. These
sums are all awards in addition to the amounts
specified in the original contracts.
It is now positively stated that Lieut.-General
Grant and Major-General Sherman will visit Europe in
May next.
The claim of John Minor Botts for pay or wood
used by Federal troops, amounting to $14,000, will pro-
bably not be allowed by the Government.

The American Secretary of War has received
from friends in England, principallyin Birmingham, $5,000
for the benefit of destitute freedmen. It has been turned
over to General Howard's bureau.

It is said that if the bill for giving Gen. Grant
the rank of full General becomes a law, it will be followed
by another bill conferring the rank of lieutenant-general
upon Sherman and Sheridan. Admiral Farragut will
likely be made a full Admiral, the Vice-Admiral in the
navy being equal to the grade of Lieutenant-General in
the army.
Secretary Seward appeared on the floor of the
House of Representatives on February 2, for the first time
since the attempt on his life.
Lieut.-General Grant has contributed the sum of
$5,000 to aid in the erection of the Metropolitan Methodist
Episcopal Church, Washington.
The new coins bearing the legend "In God we
trust" have been received at the United States Treasury.
The receipts from internal revenue, during the
last seven months, amount to $200,939,968.09.
The United States gunboat Narcissus has been
lost at sea, with her crew of 30 men.
The Toronto people are expecting an attack on
some of the frontier towns by the Fenians.

Herschel V. Johnson has accepted the position of
United States Senator from Georgia.

Vera Cruz despatches say the French troops want

o have a war against the United States.

REVOLTS IN SPAIN.—The Correspondencia of
Madrid gives a curious statistical table of the executions
which have taken place in Spain in consequence of inter-
nal revolutions. The number amounted to 23 under
Espartero, to 14 under Gonzalez Bravo, 92 under Narvaez,
and 13 under O'Donnell.

The Cincinnati Inquirer publishes the following
extract of a private letter froth General Longstreot :—" I
see that some of the public men of the North are still in-
clined to doubt our loyalty at the South, and to hold us in
our present condition for further guarantees. What can
we do to satisfy them ? We are willing and anxious to do
anything that is wanted of us, provided we are allowed to
get on some constitutional platform. Ido not suppose that
there are a thousand men in the South who think diffe-
rently from myself on this subject ; and I have some
doubts whether there are as many as that who would leave
the Union to-day, if they were offered the choice to go out
or return upon terms of equality."

One year ago Miss Martha Baldwin, a graduate
of Baldwin University, at Berea, Ohio, was elected to fill
the chair of Professorship of the Greek and Latin lan-
guages in the Baker University, Kansas, which was char-
tered in the winter of 1857, and has been.in active opera-
tion seven years. It is au institution attended by both
sexes, and Miss Baldwin has been the sole occupant of the
chair above stated, and is said 'to_have glyen entire satis-
faction during the collegiate year deli has closed.
Frederick Hudson, Esq., theVvell-inown manag-
ing editor of the New York Ilerald, has been compelled at
last by his gradually failing health to relinquish the posi-
tion he has held for many years. He has received leave
of absence for two years, and will spend the time in
travelling, as the state of his health may warrant. It may
be mentioned to the credit of Mr. Bennett, that ho did
not part with the man who had served him so faithfully
without placing in his hand a cheque for the full amount of
the salary which he would have received had he continued
at his desk.

James Gordon Bennett was recently invited to
deliver a lecture before a literary association at Princeton,
N.J. Ho declined, saying that " his time was too valuable,
and lecturing was only the business of literary vagrants."
Immigration from Europe to the United States
will, it is thought, this year exceed that of any previous
one.