The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-05 00:00:00

;he force of negro prejudice, will never again ob-

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taro the majority : the nation will become a des-

potism." " With Universal Suffrage," he says, " I
believe the true men of the nation can maintain

their position ; but without it, whether that suffrage
be impartial or in any way qualified I look upon
the Republic as likely to relapse into an oligarchy
which will be ruled by coarse Copperheadism and
proud Conservatism."
The Republican Convention of Tennessee has
coupled Grant for President, with "Parson" Brown-
low for Vice! The National Convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic in session at Philadelphia has
also nominated Grant, as well as the Connecticut
Republican Convention, which has brought forward
William A. Buckingham of that State for Vice.

Mr. Charles Dickens gave his first reading in
Philadelphia, in the Concert Hall, on the 13th of
January. -He was received in the Quaker city with
enthusiasm. The Public Ledger describes it "as a
state of popular excitement; that, taken in all its
phases, is without a parallel on our side of the
ocean." Many people stayed out all night to get
seats in the Plymouth Church for the Brooklyn
readings on the 16th and 17th January. Early this
month Mr. Dickens will give his four readings in
Washington, the price of each seat being fixed at
five dollars. He will make a tour of the West, and
it is announced will return to England on the 22d
April.

The telegrams from New York, which giving other
than the market news, are dated January 25, and
inform us that the steamers leaving for Europe on
that day took out $1,000,000 in specie. Also, that
according to Messrs. Neill Brothers' Circular, the
receipts of cotton at all United States ports during
the week amount to 82,000 bales, and since the Ist
of September to 1,162,000. The week's exports to
Great Britain were 47,000, and since the Ist of
September 458,000. The week's exports to the
Continent 25,000, and since the Ist of September
227,000. The total exports for the week 72,000,
ar.d since the Ist of September 685,000. Stock at
all ports, 350,000.

The Times correspondent says there are rumours
that Mr. Adams intends to resign the English mis-
sion, and that General M'Clellan will be nominated
in his place. Even if true such a nomination has
no chance of confirmation by the Senate.
The news from Copenhagen on the 30th January
was that the treaty with the United States relative
to the sale of the Danish West Indies had just been
finally passed by the Landsthing. Both Chambers
of the Diet have, therefore, definitively given their
assent to the project. Despatches from St. Thomas'
have announced to Mr. Seward the result of the
voting by the people of St. Joha and St. Thomas
on the subject of annexation to the United States.
In the total poll of 1,266 only 22 ballots were cast
against the proposition.

Mr. Arthur Dumas has written a letter announc-
ing that he is preparing a statement, with the names of
ships destroyed by the Alabama, involving loss to Glas-
gow, London, Paris, and Rotterdam underwriters. I'he
famous cruiser, ho says, not only caused a loss to America,
but the burden fell as well on English and other Euro-
pean packets.

It is rumoured that the Hon. S. Shellabarger, of
Ohio, will resign his place in Congress from ill health.

Mr. Arnell has introduced a resolution, adopted •
by the House, instructing the Committee on the Library
to inquire into the subject of an International Copyright.
The Republican candidate for Governor in Con-
necticut is Mr. Harvey Jewell, brother of the Speaker of
the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was
born in Winchester, New Hampshire, in 1823. His father,
Pliny Jewell, of the firm of Jewell and Sons, tanners, of
Hartford, put him into his business. Becoming an
export operator in telegraphing, he rose to be General
Superintendent of the Telegraphic line between Nash-
ville and New Orleans. Iu 1849 he returned to Hartford,
and entering as partner into his father's business succeeded
iu establishing it as one of the leading houses of its kind
in the United States. He has paid three visits to Europe,
extending his travels to Esypt, the Holy Land, and Tur-
key. He spent a large portion of his time last summer at
the Paris Exposition. He is a lover of art, and has shown
an excellent taste in his admirable selection of paintings
by the best artists of the modern school. His election is
considered more than probable.
Lord Hobart, who took the American view in
the late controversy on the Alabaula claims, proceeds to
Constantinople on a salary of £i,ooo a year, as manager
of the Imperial Ottoman Bank.

Among the deaths recently announced in Americs.
are Judge William B. Wright, of the New York Court of
Appeals, and his son-in-law, Commander Laßue P. Adams,
Gen. Frederick Steele, lately in command of the military
department of the Columbia, Philander P. Prindle, for
three years clerk of the New York Assembly, and James
Powers, a prominent and aged lawyer of Columbia county,
New York.
The Right Rev. John Henry Hopkins, Pro-
testant Episcopal Bishop of Vermont, died at the Episco-
pal residence at Rock Point on Thursday afternoon.
Bishop Hopkins was of English extraction, but was born
in Dublin, January 30, 1792, so that at the time of his
death he was 76 years old. His parents emigrated to this
country when he was only eight years of ago, and he was
mostly educated by his mother. He was intended for the
law, but, after receiving a classical education, he passed a
year in a counting-room in Philadelphia, and for a. short
time assisted Wilson, tho ornithologist, in the preparation
of the plates for his work. In his 19th year he embarked
in the manufacture of iron in Western Pennsylvania, but
this business was much prostrated by the peace of 1815,
and two years afterwards he failed, and betook himself to
the study of the law. After six months' study he was ad-
mitted to the Pittsburgh bar, where he practised until
1823, when he quitted the bar for the ministry. He had
previously married a daughter of Caspar Otto Muller, a re-
tired merchant of Baltimore, but previously of Hamburg,
Germany. Immediately upon his ordination in 1824, Mr.
Hopkins became rector of Trinity Church, Pittsburgh,
where he remained until 1831, when he went to Trinity
Church, Boston, as assistant minister on the Green foun-
dation. In 1827 and 1829 he was clerical deputy in the
General Conventions of the Church, and in both he took a
prominent part in the debates. He was a candidate for the
assistant bishopric of Pennsylvanuia in 1827, but being a
tie with his opponent, Dr. Ouderdonk, he decided the con-
test in favota of hid competitor by casting his own vote in
favour of the othef: In the same year that Mr. Hopkins
removed to Boston he became Professor of Divinity in the
new Theological Seminary of Massachusetts, and the next
year, 1832, he was elected first Bishop of Vermont, an
office he filled until his death. He accepted at the
same time the rectorship of St. Paul's, Burlington,
which he retained until the year 1856. One of his latest
works was a "Church History in Verse," published last
year, but this effort did not reach the dignity of poetry.
Bishop Hopkins was present at the Pan-Anglican Synod
at Lambeth, in which he took a prominent part. While
abroad the degree of D.C.L. was conferred upon him by the
University of Oxford. He had but recently returned to
this country and his diocese, and, notwithstanding his age,
his death will be a surprise to many. In the dissension
dividing the Episcopal Church, Bishop Hopkins was a de-
cided champion of the High-Church party, and refused to
sign the famous protest of the bishops last year against
High-Church practices.—New York Tribune.

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Births.
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Marriages.

ABDY—MERRIMAN -On the 4th inst., at Tottenham, the
Rev. Albert Charming Abdy, M.A., of Worcester Col-
lege, Oxford, to Dora, second daughter of S. B. Merri-
man, Esq., of Tottenham and Austinfriars.
KINDERSLEY—MURRAY—On the 4th inst., at Paddington,
Edward N. M. Kindersley, Esq., Captain 19th Foot, to
Ada Good, fifth and youngest daughter of John Murray
Esq., of Whitehall-place, and Stanhope-street, Hyde-
park-gardens.