The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-03 00:00:00

SIAM.

The succession to the throne of Siam has been settled.
The llioniteur announces that immediately after the death
of the King, who was so friendly to England, his son was
proclaimed. There is thus much reason to hope that our
not unimportant commercial relations with that country
will be in no respect disturbed.

(From the Anglo-American Times.)

A great Fenian delegation was to meet in Phi-
ladelphia last Tuesday, comprising representatives
from England, Scotland, Ireland, and Australia.
A military and civic parade was to be held on
Thanksgiving Pay, and a mass meeting that even-
ing, for which the national hall had been engaged.
There will be a civic procession with a large caval-
cade, composed of Fenian circles in surrounding
States. New uniforms had been issued to the Bth,
9th, and 24th Regiments, two wearing blue, with
green trimmings—the jacket of the 9th being
faced with yellow, and most of the men will be
armed with breech-loaders manufactured by the
organization. O'Neill has issued an address to the
people of Ireland, who, he fears, may be deceived
by the cry now raised of justice to Ireland. His
best effOrts are given to those opposed to any
reform, on the avowed Fenian principle, that,
which rejects all redress, as the more the wrongs,
the more ground Fenianism will have on which to
flourish. O'Neill asserts that God has conferred
upon his countrymen the " right" to govern them-
selves, and, we may add, that this would indeed
have been a blessing had lie accompanied it with
the " capacity."

Governor Brownlow must be an exasperating in-
dividual to Copperheads and the Ku-Klux. We
know at what those gentry estimate him ; and in his
Message sent on the 10th instant to the Tennessee
Senate we get an inkling at what he estimates
himself. One thing that he earnestly recommends
is an increase in the Governor's salary. It is true
that Tennessee has not been paying its creditors the
interest due, but Parson Brownlow considers this
immaterial while his own valuable services remain,
in his opinion, inadequately remunerated. That
this might not be too marked he has advised an in.
crease in the salaries of the Judiciary, and as a sop
to Cerberus he desires a partial restoration of the
franchise to those deprived of it by the State laws.
Congress met on the 10th instant, when in the
Senate the members present were—Messrs. Wade,
Corbett, II trial), Morgan, and Whyte. The Rev.
Dr. Gray, the chaplain, fervently returned thanks
in the opening prayer that the country had been
carried through the exciting ordeal of the ballot-
box, asking that its wounds may heal and pros-
perity be restored to all sections. The President,
in accordance with the resolution passed at
the last meeting, declared the Senate adjourned
until the first Monday in December, and no
objection being made it stands so adjourned till the
7th proximo. In the House, Speaker Colfax, of
Indiana, Messrs. Kelly and O'Neil, of Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. Kellogg, of Alabama, Mr. Dewees, of
North Carolina, Messrs. Lincoln and Stewart, of
New York, and Mr. Ingersoll, of Illinois, were the
only members present. About a hundred persons
appeared in the galleries. The Rev. Dr. Boynton
thanked God for the good issue, which he attributed
to Divine inspiration, and felt assured that the
blessing would be enduring. Alluding to those
elected he prayed, "Preserve them from any at-
tempted violence or injury, and suffer not the com-
munity to be again brought to mourn as it was by
violent hands." _ _

•
Thurlow Weed arrived at New York on the 12th
instant, much improved in health. It was raid in America
that:he had intended to winter in Naples, but that his plans
were upset by his wish to have a finger in making up
Grant's Cabinet.
Governor Crawford, of Kansas, has resigned his
office, and been commissioned colonel of a new regiment of
cavalry, raised by the State, for service against the In-
di►na. The Lieutenant Governor will act as Governor
during the remainder of the term.
George D. Lamont, of Lockport, New York, has
been appointed to the bench of the State Supremo Court,
in place of Noah Davis, jun., who resigns to accept his
election to Congress.
New England, it is said, will present ion. Jas.
G. Blaine, of Maine, as her candidate for the Speaker of
the neat Souse.