The Sun.
London, England, 1868-04-28 00:00:00

obtained possession of the money and chattels of
her son after his death." Rumours reflecting
anything but honour on the English executors
have been circulated in America, and on a
former occasion we called attention to the fact,
announcing that we would again bring the subject
up in case it was permitted to remain in this unsa-
tisfactory state. We hope that some friend of th e
parties interested will see the necessity of moving
in the matter, if the people directly concerned do
not—for it will be nothing less than a national dis-
grace if the mother of a generou3 and confiding
stranger like Artemus Ward (under such circum-
stances) be deprived of her rights and unable to pro-
cure common justice in England. We do not
think the public will be inclined to look tamely on
if the facts should turn out to be as reported in the
States.

Thousands of elms have been planted on the
streets of Chicago this spring, some of the trees being 2o
to 50ft. high.

An iron steam pleasure yacht of great speed, 60
feet long, and costing $B,OOO, is nearly completed at
Buffalo.

A school of horrcevathy has been established at
the University of Michigan, in connection with the medi-
cal department. The State Legislature appropriated
$15,000 for this purpose.

Since the spring of 1866 the volunteer force of
Ontario and Quebec has increased from 348 companies,
with a nominal strength of 19,597 men, to 560 companies,
with a nominal strength of 33,754 mon.
The semi-annual fair is now being held at Frank-
fort-on-the-Maine. The city is full of booths and goods
brought here forexhibition and sale. These fairs were in-
stituted by Charlemagne about the year 800.
On the 16th inst. the foundation stone of an
English church was laid at Dresden, and, besides English
residents, many Americans belonging to the English con-
gregation were present at the ceremony. The church will
probably bo finished by next Christmas.
A new " Chicago Bible," now in press is to
contain, in addition to the pages ordinarily devoted to
births, marriages, and deaths, several leaves for divorces.
Mr. W. B. Farwell, United States Revenue Of-.
five, now at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, has made a valuable
invention for heating railway cars.
Mrs: Cyrus W. Field was one of the passengers
in the china from New York.

Mrs. Lester, formerly Mrs. Bloomer, is giving
lectures to the Mormons.

John G. Saxe, the poet, has been mentioned as a
possible candidate for the mission at St. Petersburgh.
Mr. F. Clare Ford, First Secretary of Legation
to the British Minister at Washington, is now on a visit
to Europe. Mr. Ford filled the post of Charge crAjaires
for sevoral months alter the death of Sir Frederick
Bruce.

Charles Ross, arrested at Cincinnati by Ameri-
can officer; has been handed over to English officers sent
by the British Government to secure him. He is charged
with the murder of his landlord's wife in Ireland some
years ago, and a reward of £7OO was offered for his appre-
hension. On his arrest ho attempted to cut his throat, but
did not seriously injure himself.
" Captain" Buckley and " Colonel" O'Brien,
late Fenian prisoners at Dublin, who were discharged on
condition of leaving tho United Kingdom, have arrived in
New York.

Agood deal of merriment was excited in Ottawa
at the rumour that Mr. Annand, one of the Nova Scotia
Repeal delegates to Downing-street, was arrested on his
arrival at Queenstown as a Fenian, but subsequently re-
leased by the Irish police on the urgent representations
of the two other anti-delegates.
General Meade has issued an order suspending
the collection of the taxes in Georgia.
General Gillam has refused to recognise the le-
gality of tho Arkansas Legislature.

Mr. Johnson has signed the treaty with the North
German Confederation.

The suit instituted by the West India and Pacific
Company against Messrs. Guion and Co. for the damage
caused by the explosion of nitro-glycerine in 1866, on
board the steamer European at Colon, has been withdraWn
—Messrs. Guion and Co. paying the costs incurred.
Besides " the Cold and Classical Demosthenes of
the House," Mr. Boutwell has received the two following
appellations : " The Black Hair'd Energy of this Da
peachment," and " The Steady Wind Blowing Aft."
Rynerson, the murderer of Chief Justice Slough
of New Mexico, last fall, has been tried and acquitted.
The Echoes front the Clubs last Wednesday, in itg-
theatrical criticism, thus speaks of Mdlle. Kellogg—" The
talented American prima donna- had already been charni
ing the audiences at her Majesty's Theatre, as 7;
and moving them to tears as Linda. But a still greate,r
triumph was reserved for her in the part of Gilds, whic"
she undertook for the first time in England on Saturdall
with Mr. Sautley ua itigolottu, and .Fraschini us the
Duke."

The Connecticut House of Representatives will
have among its Republican members ex-Governor Miner,
Lieutenant-Governor Avetill, and Cuarles Ives of Bast
Haven, of whom the latter will probably bo Speaker. ll°
waived his claim last year in favour of Mr. Wait, of 14°r-
w ich.

Gen. Eianeock has established the headquarter
bf• the inilitar3 division of the Atlantic at Washington/
and appointed his staff ; but only routine business 1181/
as yet beau transacted at his office.

A coloured lawyer named George B. Vachon 1113-
plied for admission to the bar in Pittsburg last summer.
A decision against his application was given in the Count
of Common Pleas at that city on the 6th inst. Two judged
concurred in the exclusion, ono solely on ground of colour,
and the other on the technical ground of non-compliance
with certain rules of the court.
Lieut.-Colonel Grigsby, of Kentucky, has been
appointed by the President special inspector of Customs
for the United States at the port of Panama. This office
was created by the Act of 1854, and requires, we under-
stand, a strong-minded man to withstand and to suppress
the corruption and fraud there practised. A well-artncu
gunboat on the Atlantic side will be placed under h'o
orders, and ho will exercise considerable power in direct-
ing the movements of the United States men-of-war, I/1
case he requires their aid.
It is announced that John Schneider, a black"
smith in Grand Rapids, has become heir to an est3te
valued at $3,000,000. The property belonged to a bachelor
uncle of his, who died a short time since at Frankfort-pa-
the-Maine, whose property falls to his only sister, the
mother of Mr. Schneider, who has only two children.
s
An American paper says, Louis Napoleon ge-
t
$14,210 a day ; Queen Victoria, $6,027 ; Francis JesePhl
$10,950, and the King of Prussia, $8,210.
Colonel Edwin Griffin Parker, whose death 10
lately been announced, was a graduate of Yale, and of
Cambridge Law School. He practised law in Boston, on
wrote a treatise on the Golden Age of American Oratorio
a Life of Rufus Choate, with whom he was professionally
connected, and various papers in American magazines.
He served during the war, and on his return devoted hini-
sslf to the eseablishment of the American Literary Bureau'
from which ill health compelled him to retire.
Dr. F. H. N. Young, of Danbury, ConnecticA
who accompanied Dr. Kane on his Arctic Expedition in
search of Sir John Franklin, died recently at N°lr
York.
The Rev. Chauncey Goodrich, who died in Nell°
Haven, Connecticut, Friday night, March 27, at the ag
of 51, was one of a race of scholars, and well known!'
the revising editor of various editions of Webster's Plc.;
tionary, especially of the unabridged, published in 1..8,610
He was son of the late Professor C. A. Goodrich, of in
College, and brother of the Rev. Dr. Goodrich, of Clevn;
land, Ohio, who survives him. He graduated at Yid° 1.
1837, studied theology from 1838 to 1840, preached l 0
various places, until in 1856 his health forbade, sioeo
which time ho has been engaged in various literary Purim
suits.

Births.
BOEVEY —On the 25th inst., at Flaxley, the wife of Sic T.
H. Clawley Boevey, Bart., of a son.
HALE—On the 2lth inst., at Tolbury House, )13"14 *
Somerset, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Edward Hag, -
daughter. J
SHAR PE —On the 26th inst., at Richmond, the wife of
Sharpe, En., of Fleet-street, London, banker, f -

Marriages.
ec6
JOHN—SENIOR—On the 25th inst., at St. James's, --, -pi ;
Dor-
dilly, the Hon. St. Andrew St. John, eldest son cost
St. John, of Bletsoe, to Ellen Georgians, rwValf
daughter of the late Edward Senior, Esq., FOr
Commissioner for Ireland.
NICHOLL —KNIGHT—On the 23d inst., at Tythega /d
Church, Christopher R. K. Nichol], Esq., Cr,tl'''.,lolll
Battalion Rifle Brigade, son of the Right Hon J. 1'
M.P., to Florence Emma, daughter of the Rev. Cto
Knight, of Tythegston Court, Glamorganshirc.

Deaths.
BLAKE—On the 26th inst., Edward C. Scott Blakr,!ht:
F.R.1.8.A., of Stanley Villas, the Grove, G'Br- 't
aged 16. rai
CONINGHAII—On the 21st inst., at Nice, major-aelle
Coniughain, aged 70. prcli"
FENWICK -On the 25th inst., at Lansdowne Efougej. --;iilli
mend, Surrey, Henry Fenwick, Esq., of Solt' 1
'7
county Durham, aged 48. , 0 100e'
OXENDEN—On the 26th inst., at Maydeken, Xon,"4-° i
Charles Vernon Oxenden, Rifle Brigade, age() ''";laraLL
RAPF—On the 25th inst., at Basle, Switzerland, 'T° --
Rapp, Esq., aged 68.
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