The Sun.
London, England, 1868-03-14 00:00:00

Catholics. Even the army, occupying the fortified
positions to which Mr. Maguire alluded, are more
than half Irishmen, both officers and men. It is
now announced that the Rev. 'William O'Neill, of
Shane Castle, Antrim, the successor to the estates
of the late Lord O'Neill, is to he raised to the Peer-
age. The clan is perhaps the most numerous, and
the name perhaps the most historical in Ire-
land ; and although we believe that the true head of
that great family has been traced to a sergeant in
the army, yet failing the moat legitimate candidate
for the chief of this house the Government has
selected the most eligible, evidently desirous that it
should not be without its title.

General Lorenzo Thomas, appointed Secretary of
War, ad interim, and who will hereafter be remembered in
connection with the impeachment of President Johnson,
was born at Newcastle, Delaware, on the 20th October,
1804. His father was of Welsh extraction, and on the
mother's side ho is descended from the Itandolphs and the
famed Princess Pocahontas. He graduated at West Point
in 1823, and was from time to time promoted, receiving in
1838 the appointment of Assistant Adjutant-General, with
the rank of brevet-major, and lieutenant-colonel by brevet
in 1816 for gallant and meritorious service at the battle of
Monterey. At the commencement of the late war he held
the grade of lieutenant-colonel, and was appointed adju-
tant general, retaining the arduous position throughout
the struggle. He is generally disliked in the regular ser-
vice, ranking next to Stanton among army officers in un-
popularity. He has all Stanton's bad points without his
clear views, strong will, and great executive energy, and
he possesses Andrew Johnson's gift of giving and taking
offence without his ability. His main idea is to obey
orders.

Thomas Ewing, of Ohio, the President's choice
for Mr. Stanton's successor as Secretary of War, is a poli-
tician of the last generation, having been born in Virginia
in 1789, and elected to the United States Senate in 1830.
He was Harrison's Secretary of the Treasury in 1811, and
in 1848 was again in the Cabinet as Secretary of the Inte-
rior. He has lately resided at Washington, practising oc-
casionally in the Supreme Court. He takes unceasing
pleasure in talking about his son-in-law, Lieut.-General
William T. Sherman.

It is announced that a majority of the Ecclesias-
tical Court in New York who are trying the Rev. Mr.
Tyng, of the Episcopal Church, for violating its canons by
conducting service in a Methodist Church, have found him
guilty. The punishment for the offence, as it is Mr.
Tyng's first one, is an admonition given by the bishop pub-
licly in a church of the diocese, and in the presence of at
least three other clergymen.

The Moniteur of yesterday announces that
General de Failly has been nominated a Senator, and
Admirals Reynaud and Fleuriot de Langlo grand officer
of the Legion of Honour. _ _

The Queen will probably visit Cambridge this
" commencement," for the purpose of inaugurating the
statue of the late Prince Consort, subscribed for by the
members of the senate.

The British brand► of the International League
of Peace and Liberty have resolved to present an address
to Mr. Adams, tha American Minister, beforo he leaves
this country. It is expected that Mr. John Bright, M.P.,
will accompany the deputation, which Mr. Adams has
agreed to receive to-day. _ _

Gen. J. B. Steedman has resigned the collector-
ship of internal revenue in Now Orleans, to take effect
May 15.
The Canadian volunteers, who arrived at Rome
on the 10th, ware received on the same day by the Pope,
who expressed his satisfaction at their devotion, and gave
them his benediction.

Clamor Frederick Hagedorn, Consul-General of
Bavaria and Hesse Darmstadt, and Consul of the Grand
Duchy of Baden, of Brunswick, of Saxe Coburg, Olden-
burg, a•nd Saxe Weimar, died at his residence in Phila-
delphia on Tuesday, February 25.

Mr. Robert Brown, the last of the Arctic voyagers,
is preparing a work on the " Physical Geography of Green-
land," from researches undertaken during three different
scientific journeys to the Artic Regions, the last of which
was in 1867.

The Temperance organizations of New York and
its vicinity had a grand celebration of the 136th anniver-
sary of the Birthday of Washington at the Cooper Insti-
tute, on the evening of the 22d ult.

The Seventy-ninth Regiment of Highlanders
had their ninth annual ball at Irving Hall, New York, on
Friday evening, Feb. 21.
Her Royal Highness Princess Louise honoured
Mr. J. Bell with a visit to his studio last Wednesday,
where her Royal Highness inspected the group of statuary
representing America, intended for the National memorial
of the Prince Consort in Hyde Park.
On the 18th ult. Colonel Elliott F. Shepard was
married in the Church of the Incarnation, Madison Avenue,
New York, to the daughter of W. H. Vanderbilt, Esq„
and granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt. There
were present Governor Fenton and family, Colonel N. W.
Thorn, Judge Roosevelt, Mr. Vanderbilt Allen, &c. The
bridesmaids were the Misses Sherman, Van Doren, Sand-
ford, and Corlies. The Rev. Dr. Cook and the Rev. Stephen
Tyng performed the ceremony. Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt
gave his daughter away, whose residence, 420, Fifth
Avenue, was afterwards thronged with guests.

Mr. Anson Burlingame, first Ambassador from
China to Christian Powers, was dining with Prince Kung,
when he announced his intention of resigning his post as
Minister of the United States. Several mandarins
applauded his services during his visit to Europe and
America in 1865, and two days after the dinner a deputa-
tion waited on him and tendered him the Embassy, which
Mr. Burlingame accepted on the condition that it "should
be placed in all respects on a footing of the highest respec-
tability." A week after he received his credentials,
written on yellow silk, and bearing the great seal of the

empire.
The American papers state that a younger and
favourite brother of Charles Dickens came to reside at
Chicago some fifteen years ago. He entered the office of
the Illinois Central Railroad, but he lost his health and
died about two years ago, leavings widow and large family
unprovided for. It is asserted that one of the principal
reasons of Mr. Dickens's present trip to America is to visit
tho gravo of his brother, Augustus N. Dickens, and to as-
sist the widow and the children.
The marriage took place on the 9th inst., at All
Saints', Kensington, by the Rev. W. Walter Edwards,
M.A., of Charles Temple Dix, youngest son of his Excel-
lency the United States Minister to France, to Camilla
Ottilie, widow of Andrew Watson, Esq., of Edinburgh,
and niece of the late Mrs. Anna Jameson.
Mr. H. W. Lord, United States Consul in Man-
chester, after some years of service, is about to retire, and
this week the Mayor presided at a farewell dinner given
to him by a number of 31anchester gentlemen, when an
address expressive of cordial sentiments of friendship was
presented to Mr. Lord.
Government has released Dr. Waters, one of the
writers of the Irishman newspaper, who was arrested on
the Lord-Lieutenant's warrant. He was one of the leaders
of the Dublin funeral procession.
Wilkes' Spirit says on the proposed boat race between
Oxford and Harvard, after discussing the obstacles still
existing to the scheme : —" The Harvards, if they cross,
propose to do so in September, the Faculty refusing
their consent to their absence at any other time.
This is not the most available season for such an
excursion, as all England ruralizes at partridge-
shooting and sea bathing in the soft dawn of the fall ; but
the interest excited by the contest would draw crowds from
their seclusion to greet their cousins from over the sea. This
event successfully inaugurated, no matter who may b 3 the
victors, may lure an Oxford crew tc visit us the following
summer; and the consequent intercourse may convince
our people that all Englishmen are not surly, selfish, and
self-conceited, and, per contra, that all Americans do not
expectorate in drawing-rooms, and are not lank and sallow
from dyspepsia, or braggart vaunters of manifest destiny.
This desirable and conservative result alone should inspire
a general interest in the bold challenge of the Harvard
lads, and we trust that such a pressure may be brought to
bear upon the matter on either side of the ocean that a
match will inevitably ensue."

The Pall Mall Gazette remarks :—The first elec-
toral battle of a year which must be immensely important
to American parties has been won by the Republicans.
The State elections for New Hampshire, which took place
on Tuesday, have terminated in a victory for the party that
has already been so long in power, although the cable does
not tell us by what majority the victory has been gained—
a very important thing to know. Last year the majority was
only about 3,000 on a total vote of 68,000. The importance
of the Republican victory is obvious. It is a sort of pre-
rogative vote. That the first election of the year in which
the President is to be voted for should have ended thus
will encourage the reigning party and conciliate the support
of waverers, who are probably not much less numerous in
the United States than in older communities. It is a conclu-
sive sign, as even Democratic writers have instructed us,
that the Republicans are not losing ground, and hence the
anxiety with which the result has been anticipated in all
parts of America. It furnishes no guidance in repudia-
tion, as this was not a plank of either platform, to use the
phrase of the country ; but it does show, so far as it goes,
that Gen. Grant is likely to beat Mr. Pendleton for the
Presidency.
Under a new arrangement just concluded be-
tween the Post-office Departments of the United States
and Canada, the single rate of postage on letters will be
reduced, on and after the Ist day of April next, from ten
t o six cents, if prepaid at the office of mailing in either
country ; but if posted unpaid, or insufficiently prepaid,
they will be subject to a postage charge of ten cents por
single rate in the country of destination. The authorized
weight of a single letter will be fifteen grammes by the
metrical scale, and half an ounce in Canada. Postmasters
will levy pcstago accordingly on and after the Ist of
April.
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