The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-18 00:00:00

MEMBERS RETURNED.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—Hardy and Mowbray returned.
RADNOR DISTRICTS.—Price returned.
LINCOLNEHIRE (MlD).—Anrcotts and Chaplin.
NORTHUMBERLAND (NORTH).—EhrI Percy and Ridley.
OXFORDSHIRE.—HenIey, North, and Cartwright.
WORCESTERSHIRE (WEST).—Knight and Dowdeswell.

CHURCH BELLS AT ELECTIONS.—The Vicar of
Greenwich (Rev. Dr. Miller, who early recorded
his vote for the two Liberal candidates), intimated his
intention, before the day of nomination, of forbidding
the parish church bells to be rung in celebration of the
triumph of either party. On the day of nomination
they were rung according to custom, but he refused
to allow the bells to bo used for celebrating a triumph
of ono party of his parishioners over the other, as he
frhought such a use of them unseemly and irritating.
THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY.—The Rev. Charles
B. Gribble, Chaplain to the English Embassy at
Constantinople, writes that the transit of Mercury was
well seen there on the morning of Thursday, the sth in-
stant. The weather was very fine ; a slight haze hung
before the sun soon after its rising. At 7.20 a.m., or 4d.
19h. 26in., the dark body of the planet was clearly
visible ; its movement was gradual but perceptible until
it neared the sun's limb, when its motion seemed more
rapid. Its disappearing from its first contact with the
limb until it was lost to view occupied about thirty
seconds. Its disappearance was complete at 10h. 48m.
Bs. a.m.

THE AMERICAN HAY QUESTION.-At the meeting
of the council of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, on
Thursday, it was decided to memorialise the Chancellor of
the Exchequer to remove the restrictions uponthe impor-
tation of American hay.
_ _

The auction sale of S. C. Herring's real estate
and personal property at Brimfield, Western Massachu-
setts, called together a large number of people from
dozen towns in this State and in Connecticut, as well as
from Providence, R. 1., and New York. The farm of 110
acres was sold off by Amos Munroe, of Brimfield, for
$3,900. Alfred Converse was the highest bidder for the
homestead, but it is understood that the sale was not
genuine. Two yokes of large oxen were struck off for
$650. The cows brought from $4O to $9O. Some fine
two year old steers were bought by "Ad" Carpenter, of
Sutton, the well known horseman. A stump-puller was
taken by Agent Hill, of Thorndike; and other farming
tools wore bought by various parties at fair prices. The
"Brown fattening pasture" of 50 acres sold flr $2O per
acre

Rev. Dr. James 111‘Cosh has been inaugurated
President of Princeton (N. J.) College, with great cere-
mony. Governor Ward presided, Rev. Dr. Hodge gave
the address of welcome in behalf of the trustees, Thomas
J. Finley of the under graduates, William C Alexander of
the class of 1824 and President of the Equitable Life Insu-
rance Company, that of the alumni, and ex-Governor
Pollock of Pennsylvania in behalf of the friends of the college
and public generally, Chancellor Zabriskie administered
the oath, and Rev. Dr. M'Cosh delivered au inaugural ad-
dress two hours long on Academic Teaching in Europe.
The President gave a levee in the evening, and his acces-
sion gives the heartiest pleasure to all friends of the col-
lege. Dr. M'Lean, the retiring presidedt, has held the
position for 50 years.
Reno and Andrews, the express robbers, have at
last been brought back from Canada to Indiana for trial,
though they narrowly escaped drowning at Detroit by
the running down of the tug boat on which they were by
a propeller.
General Wurtemburg, an Austrian officer, has
visited Fortress Monroe, where he was received with
military honours. _ _

A man to ask favours of—General Grant.—Judy.
Measures are in progress in Montreal for the
erection of a memorial to the late Bishop Fullford.
The postal treaty between North Germany and
Italy was signed last Tuesday.
The progress of American Art, it is stated, will
be the subject of a report from the United States Commis-
sioner of Education.

It is proposed to erect a grand monument in
Washington, commemorative of the Chief actors in the late
war.

Ducks and geese arP more abundant in all the
sloughs and rice lakes the Mississippi than was over
known before, owie-6.
Moses Kitfr to the lugs crop of wild rice.
~ridge, of St. Johnsbury, Vermont,
has founded,
,)larst.dp,, by a donation of $l,OOO, "liitteridge
Sch!
in Dartmouth College.
1-ay.-Congressman Alexander 11. Rice, of Boston,
rad just arrived home from Europe.
General M'Clellan has lately been in Philadelphia,
the guest of his brother, Dr. J. H, B. M'Clellan.
Albert S. Bickmore of Cambridge has been
elected to the :Professorship of Natural History in Madi-
son University, New York. Professor Bickmore has re-
cently returned from a three years tour through the Indian
archipelago, large portions of China, Japan, and Eastern
Russia, making collections in zoology, geology, &c. He
was for four years an assistant of Professor Agassiz.
Captain John G. Mitchell, commander of United
States sikamer Saginaw, who was recently murdered in
Sall Fr: tneiseo, belonged to Nantucket, where his family
lived.

J. It Appleton, of Portland, Maine, has been
eleeoed Professpr of Chemistry at Brown University.