The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-11 00:00:00

monial from Buckingham Palace, and Mr. Sumner
will realize the wisdom of the advice when there to
do in Roine as the Romans do. We recollect that
during the debate a witty Senator suggested that
the proper attire should be referred to the President,
from whom the best opinion could be extracted
considering the nature of his early training.
The libel suits against Moses S. Beach of the
New York Sun and Edwin L. Godkin of the Nation went
in favour of the defendants. The very costly and unsatis-
factory decision to the plaintiffs was given on the 18th
March. Tho case against Mr. Godkin arose from some
sharp criticisms on the act of a conductor upon a NeW
Jersey railroad, who hurried Professor Dwight, an eminent
citizen, from the cars while in motion; whereby he was
killed ; yet the conductor did not stop ;the train, nor let
the daughter of the Professor get out. The aggrieved
conductor commenced a suit against the Nation, and the
learned judge actually charged the jury that the only'
questions for them were "as to the identity of the defen-
dant" and " the amount of damages." The jury threw the
wise judge overboard, who, like Shakespeare's magistrate,
might well write himself down an ass, and at once found
for the defendant. About Mr. Godkin's identity there had
never beeu a question ; ho was the editor, and he was re-
sponsible ; but there was in truth as little question about
the real point, the justicu of his remarks, which were
simply a duty he owed the public.

News from Hongkong of the 26th February, per
China Mail, states :—" The United States Consul at Foo-
chow is said to have received a communication from Pekin
that the export duty on tea costing Tis. 13 per picul and
under has been reduced by one-half, but the British Consul
and the Customs authorities arc without advices on the
subject."

The Boston Journal thus goes around the Con'
gressional districts of the State :—" In the first district,
Thomas D. Eliot can undoubtedly receive the nomination
if he so elects, but should he withdraw, Mr. Davis, of Ply-
mouth, will be pressed. In the second district, Oaken
Ames proposes to accept a renomination, which will be
heartily tendered. In the third district, it is understood
that Ginery T wichell will decline, and William Whiting
and Edward Atkinson are suggested as gentlemen qualified
to represent the district. In the fourth district, Samuel
Hooper will no doubt be renominated. In the fifth district,
Gen. Butler will be on the track, and in the sixth district
Gen. Banks will receive a hearty support. In the seventh
district there will be no opposition from his own party t°
George S. Boutwell. In the eighth district it is said 010
F. W. Bird will be nominated, John D. Baldwin retiring
after honourable service. In the ninth district William 13'
Washburn is very popular. In the tenth district it is snit!
Henry L. Dawes will decline a renomination, and E.l3'
Gillett is suggested. The friends of George William
Curtis would be happy to have him claim his country re-
sidence as his permanent home and enter the lists from
that district as a candidate for Congress."
Representatives Donnelly, Blair, Washburn of
Indiana, Garfield, Coburn, and Williams, will louse
Washington shortly to work in the Connecticut campaign'
President Johnson has sent for T. P. Sweat, one
of the Lincoln electors of Illinois, to come to Washington
and defend him in the impeachment trial. William
Evarts, another of his counsel, is a Republican.
Rev. Olympia Brown, of Weymouth, has been
offered $lOOO, over and above all expenses, to devote the
next year to lecturing upon woman's enfranchisement
She is very successful as a minister, and Senator Pomeroy
of Kansas says she is a capital stump speaker.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily News en 1110
attention to the melancholy fact that the young lady tvi/j,.,
received the Monthyon medal for virtue at the last adju%
cation of that prize has since been convicted of swindlined
and sentenced to a year's imprisonment. She had profits
by her notorious character for virtue to gain a position 4
trust which she abused.
Colonel Franklin Haven, of Massachusetts, ii
been appointed United States' Assistant Sub-Treasurer,
place of Mr. Chandler.

General Francis A. Walker, late assistant claSsi'
cal teacher at Williston seminary, Easthampton, lo's r
moved to Springfield, Massachusetts, to continue arecti
engagement upon the editorial staff of The Republican•
is the son of Hon. Amasa Walker, of North Brooka..°'g
and served in distinguished positions in the army cluP-i
the war. He is succeeded as teacher at Easthampton "
Mr. Charles H. Parkhurst, of the Amherst High School. 0
It is reported that Barnum retires to settle clei/fii
in Fairfield, Connecticut. Ha says he has money .312°13'
left to support his children.
Isaac T. Rogers, of Milford, Connecticut, 'a,
been disqualified for a seat in the State Senate, if electel,
by his appointment as commissioner of the Pacific 11°0
road, and the Democrats will have to put up a nay/ /11
in the fifth district.
fot
Mr. Browning, Secretary of the Interior, io
the present to discharge the duties of Attorney-Genor6;o
John Quincy Adams has introduced resolati°ol
into the State Legislature of Massachusetts, expressiVe
fimpathy with Crete in her struggle with Turkey.
Republican Senatorial nominations in Conneetie'l
cut aro reported as follows : —ln the first district Ssl° d
Rocirnr.ll; in flan third district, 'William S. roarooD'or;
Windsor; fifth district, Sylvester Smith, of Sol'E°°,49
sixth, Garry 0. Mix, of Wallingford ; in the eighth,
W. Scott, of Sprague; in the ninth, James M. Fccl'ilr
of Lebanon ; in the twelfth, William C. Street, of
walk ; and in the thirteenth, C. E. Griggs, of Ch31311'3,4e9
fourteenth, E. H. Bugbee, of Killingly ; fifteenth, Obn°.oo,
B. Andrews, of Litchfield; seventeenth, Theodore S. Gold,
of Cornwall. Republican Conventions at Stafford Sio'"„8,
have nominated Charles Underwood, of To11313"01,
for Senator from the twentieth district, and F. L. /33tGoci
der for Judge of Probate for the district of Stafford
Union. David W. Huntingdon, of Coventry, is 11011,00
can candidate for Senator in the twenty-first district. '4,
Democrats of the eleventh district have put up 1'1.04
Blydenburgh, of Sherman. E. A. Quintard bas dcc locr
the Democratic nomination in the twelfth district. ve,pti
cratic nominations are, in the fourteenth district, Ilitbs
D. Bates, of Killingly; thirteenth, Elisha Potter; siitMe

Seth Logan ; fifth, Isaac T. Rogers, of Milford. flir
The managers of the National Asylum for „Yept,
abled Solders have re-elected General Butler Ares
with Mr. Martindale and Jay Cooke as vice-presidentiO
Henry Moorhouse, the London boy-preaeher;l
been spending some weeks in Chicago, and drawing

and interested audiences to his pulpit services. 106
1)r. Bernies, of Kentucky, has published Piti" of
interesting and important statistics upon the res11"0
marriage between blood relations. He states that lot
has found that 10 per cent. of the deaf and dumb, Itle3
cent. of the blind, and 15 per cent. of the idiots eclititd
into the various charitable institutions of the iTug-'eo6,
States, are the issue of marriages of first cousins? u",:fP
of this kind are now prohibited in Kentucky and in Se
other
W States of the Union.
. W. Eaton declined tte Democratic o'lo.
tion for the first Senatorial District, Connecticut, all
B. Stevens, of Hartford, has accepted it. 3 toGeneral Hancock is at New Haven on a Ir—,lArAsti'
a sick son at school in that city, but will return to ''
ingfon in time to give his testimony in the Irapeacb°
trial. o°4
The last of the seventeen unrecognized l'''CDeo
of the Angola disaster is proved beyond doubt to he'rerotlier
Isaac Nelson of Cincinnati, formerly of Upton. Ws bi-v 1113'
in Upton went there lately and identified the
claimed piece of baggage as his valise. ;I
Mayor Sperry, Gen. Burnside, Senator Ilrh'Pblico
of Oregon, and others, made speeches at a great Repor A
mass meeting in New Haven, on the 25th March. of
Ex-Senator Foster of Connecticut has been "f
c
by his friends to accept an appointment as one °,ose"
judges of the court of claims, to supply the vacarldho Jib
by the death of Judge Wilmot, and they say that
• itig
consented to do so.
Judge Black will soon publish a letter g%
correct account of his difficulty with the Presiders
why he deserted him on the Impeachment trial. °jog
Dr. Thomas T. Minor of New Haven, i°
to Alaska as surgeon to the United States scientiac
tits,
dition, under the direction of the Smithsonian ILleft_,

Births.
„
MARGESSON—On the sth inst., at Wooldringfold, JLI
the wife of Major Margesson, 80th Begin
co(I,
daughter.
Prd—On the 9th inst., at 11, Belsize-square, 111,,,v;Dterht,
N.W., the wife of Commander B. Pim, of ad¢ l 8
WILLIAMS—On the Bth inst., at Freshwater, Isle ".`i
the wife of Lieut.-Colonel W. J. Williams, RO6
lery, of a sou.

Marriages. a cbgri'4'
GLANVILLE —SLADER—On the 7th inst.,
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at ,O,lPl'
Pembrokeshire, Wilfred Glanville, Esp.. , Of ,',,steu"
Narberth, to Eliza Yorke, third daughter the
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Slader, of Lewisham, Kent.
WHALLEY BRYDEN—On the 17th ult., at 13° fiV
Joseph Lawson, eldest son of the late 11. Wlll—tee-;°'
of Lancaster, to Julia Theresa,
youngest dauP—
C. Bryden, Esq., of London.

Deaths.
1,013
JONES —On the 6th inst., at Dresden, J. G. Bing— te‘
Esq., aged 40. 011,V
MA X WELL—On the 4th inst., at Physgill,
of Sir \Villiam !Maxwell, fourth baronet of
f 0
aged 80. $Ol
M USKETT —On the sth inst., at Hingham Cli(01' tor
Alfred Muskett, Esq., aged 68.
MIDDLETON—On the sth inst., at 6, Gloucester-re oto
John Middleton, Esq., aged 97. d `413‘1
MILNE —On the Bth inst., at 70, Pontonville-Nad'll,, 410
of Mincing-lane, James John Milne, Esch 01.1'
NEELE —On the 3d inst., at Edmonton, Mr. J3,..7-6
formerly of the Strand, Westminster, aged 7''

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