The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST. 1, 1868.

TILE COJIING ELECTIONS.

they were in pledge to Sir John Ryley, for the
reparation of the structure.
After the papers had been read, the meeting
proceeded on an excursion to the churches
of East Horndon and Little Warley, and Little

Warley Hall. East Horndon church, a very
small structure, is the burial place of the
ancient family of the Tyrells of Heron Hall,
who resided there from the time of Edward
111. until the early part of the last century.
The church is remarkable for the possession of
three small chantry chapels, founded by the
Tyrells. Two of them, thrown out laterally on
the north and south sides of Ole nave, in the

manner of small transepts, are notable for
having a very small chamber over each for
the lodging of the chantry priest ; the ascent
to which was obtained in each instance from
a staircase from the chapel beneath. The
chambers are exceedingly small, and that in
the north still retains the remains of a fire-
place. Other examples of priests' lodgings in
churches may be seen at Luindon in the same
county, where the chantry priest had a room
at the west end of the church, and a chamber
over it ; and at Rettendon there is a commo-
dious priest's chamber in the north side of
the chancel, with a window or squint pierced
obliquely through the wall, so as to command a
view of the High Altar. Here the priest
gained access to the chapel at the end of the
aisle by a newel stair in the wall. A third
chantry, with groined ceiling, opens into the
chancel on the north side. Until very recently
it contained the altar tomb of Anne Lady
Tyrell, daughter of Sir William Marney. She
died in the reign of Edward IV., though the
chapel is of later erection. Her arms, impaled
with those of her husband, are sculptured over
the entrance ; and her effigy in brass, removed
when the altar tomb was destroyed, has been
affixed to the wall of the chapel. The descrip-
tion of this church by the Rev. E. L. Cutts
was read by the secretary, who further illus-
trated the history of the chantries by extracts
from the wills of members of the Tyrell
providing for the celebration of Mortuary
Masses and Obits, and one of them for the
erection of a chantry. The monuments of the
Tyrells were described by Mr. King, one of
which, an elaborate incised slab of foreign exe-
cution, with effigy of Alice, Lady Tyrell, who
died in 1422, he believed to be the finest ex-
ample of its kind in England. There, is also
a slab of later date (now concealed) covering
the remains of the renowned cavalier, Sir
John Tyrell, with an inscription thus briefly
and quaintly recording his sufferings in the
cause of Charles I.—

Super eum :
Sepiel decimatus,
Bis incarceratus,
Ter sequestrates,
'Tacet quoties spoliatus,
Hie jacet inhumatus,
Johannes Tyrell
Eqnes Auratus.
The meeting next visited Little Warley
church, containing' a costly marble monument
with effigies, considered to be of Italian exe-
cution, commemorating another gallant cava.
lier, Sir Denner Strutt, Bart, who suffered and
fought bravely for Charles 1., and was engaged
in the desperate defence of the town of Col-
chester against Fairfax. The hall, the remains
of a large domestic edifice of the early part
of the sixteenth century, anciently the seat
of the Tyrells of Warley, and afterwards of Sir
D. Strutt, was next inspected. Twenty-six
rooms of this fine mansion have been demo-
lished in comparatively recent times. One
stack of chimneys remaining is exceedingly
fine, and attracted great attention. On the
return to Brentwood, a large party diverged
from the route, and under the courteous con-
duct of Canon Last, visited the superb mortu-
ary chapel erected by Lord Petre in the park
of Thorndon Hall. The elegance of the archi-
tecture, and the extreme richness of the deco-
ration of the interior, appeared to excite gene-
ral commendation, and those archaeologists
who were thus diverted from their homeward
course evidently did not regret the oppor-
tunity that had been afforded them of witness-
ing one of the glorious results of the modern
Gothic revival, and turning aside for a brief
space from the contemplation of the remains
of hoar antiquity, mediaeval art, and ancient
piety, to view an edifice founded in the same
spirit and with the same intent as those
chapels which bad been erected at Horndon
Church, and adorned with more than mediaeval
splendour.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American. 1 imes.)

Before the Senate adjourned on the 27th July
the mission to Vienna was filled up, Mr. Henry
W. Watts, of Philadelphia, being appointed Mr.
Motley's successor. Mr. Evarts has been con-
firmed as Attorney-General, notwithstanding the
bitter opposition of certain Radical interests by 29
votes to 5, and had assumed the duties of his office.
John S. Watts has been confirmed as Chief Justice
Near Mexico ; Governor
01l Cectoorur' fort Huntington, Connec-
ticuttheSupremeCollector
; and General Selden Connor, Assessor of
Internal Revenue, Third Maine district. The
Thomasp, J.
President has sent to the Senate the names of
Anthony F. Campbell, as Postmaster, at Brooklyn,
New
tCalifornia; York ;
n dSherman
ay
as Surveyor-General,
a
Bowers to be Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court, of Idaho ; also
William M. Stafford and Hiram Knowles to be
a
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Mon-
tana Territory, and Henry Warren, Chief Justice.
Senators Poole and Abbott, from North Carolina,
have been admitted to seats in the Senate : the one
is a native of Vermont, and a Republican, and the
other, who is a Democrat, is a native of the State.
Messrs. Kellogg and Harris, Senators from Louisi-
ana, have also been admitted--the former for the
long term, the latter for the short. Kellogg is a
native of Illinois, and the Collector for the port of
New Orleans ; and Harris, though a planter of
Louisiana, is a native of Wisconsin. The negro
Lieut.-Governor of Louisiana made a very sensible
speech on taking the Chair. He said—" As to
myself and my people, we are not seeking social
equalities. That is a thing no law can govern.
We all have our preferences ; we all wish to select
our associates, and no legislation can select them
for us. We ask nothing of the kind. We simply
ask to be allowed an equal chance in the race of
life, an equal opportunity of supporting our families,
of educating our children, and of becoming worthy
citizens of this Government."
The Republicans of Mississippi,led by their " carpet-
baggers," as the term now is, are striving to get
Congress to change the result of the election. Fif-
teen, many of whom were Northern and Western men,
headed by Mr. Eggleston, the defeated candidate
for Governor, appeared on the 15th of July before
the Reconstruction Committee, to exclude, if pos-
sible, the votes of six counties, in the hope that the
Radical State officers and Congressmen would then
be elected, and the new Constitution carried. They
allege that the rebels succeeded in these counties by
terrifying the negroes, and that the voting was,
therefore, unfair, and they ask that the State be
declared reconstructed, and entitled to readmission
to Congress.
Secretary Seward has been successful in carrying
his Alaska Treaty through Congress. After the Act
making the appropriation has been signed by the
President, it will be delivered, with the necessary
warrant, to the representatives of Russia, when the
money will be paid down in hard cash. Congress
will then organize a territorial Government, officers
will be appointed, and the Commissioner of the
General Land o:fiee will establish local land offices
and survey the most desirable tracts. A strong
tile of emigration will, it is. thought, set in, as Mr.
Seward has an waged to circulate accounts of im-
mense gold discoveries, the prospectors picking up
the precious met :l in lumps ! One thing is certain
that the representa'ives of Russia have managed to
pick out of Uncle Sam's pocket a very heavy
" lump," and we dare say Mr. Seward will agree
with us in preferring to have his hand there than in
an Alaska gold mine.
Congress has passed a bill providing that no
Southern State not reconstructed in accordance

with the terms of Congress shall be entitled to take
part in the Presidential election, and the State Go-
vernments are to manage the elections in the recon-
structed States. In compliance with the resolution
of the Senate, the President has sent a communica-
tion from Secretary Seward showing that official
notice had been received of the ratification of the
14th Article of Amendment by the Legislatures of
the following States, and as the language is pecu-
liar, we give it in the Secretary's words :
" Connecticut, Tennessee, New Jersey, Oregon,
Vermont, West Virginia, Kansas, Missouri, In-
diana, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Wis-
consin, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Michigan, Ne-
vada, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Nebraska,
Maine, and lowa. 13.:.sides these acts of ratifica-
tion, notices and certificates have also been re-
ceived by the Secretary of State that the.same pro-
posed amendment has been ratified by the Legisla-
tures of the States respectively of Arkansas, Florida,
and North Carolina, which notices and certificates
last mentioned were received frotn the newly con-
structed and established authorities assuming to be
and acting as the Legislatures and Governors of
the said States of Arkansas, Florida, and North
Carolina. These acts of ratification are for this
reason stated in this report separately and distinctly,
and, for the more accurate information of Congress,
a copy of all the acts and resolutions of ratification
of all said Legislatures is herewith subjoined, toge-
ther with a copy also of certain resolutions of the
Legislatures of Ohio and New Jersey, which pur-
port to. rescind the resolutions of ratification of
said amendment, which had previously been
adopted by the Legislatures of those two States re-
spectively, and to withdraw their consent to the
same."

An extradition case has lately been tried at
Buffalo under the following circumstances. A man
named Baker was accused by the authorities of the
Dominion of passing counterfeit money, and on
their requisition was arrested at Buffalo. The pri-
soner's counsel sued out a writ of Habeas Corpus, an 1
the question was argued before Judge Hall. The prin-
cipal witness against Baker was a person who had
been convicted of a felony, and the chief point
turned on the reception of such evidence. Regard-
ing this the judge stated that the statutes of New
York allow of the Governor or Legislature of the
State pardoning a convict, and thus restoring his
competency, which they could not do in the case of
a foreign conviction. He ruled that a foreign con-
viction under the States' statutes does not render a
witness incompetent, as the law on this subject re-
ferred only to convictions under the laws of the
State, and the same result would be reached if the
case were governed by the rules of evidenle pre-
vious to these statutes, as a foreign conviction in
the year 1789 would not render such a person in-
competent to give evidence. The judge decided
that Baker be handed over to the Canadian autho-
rities.

A vigorous effort has been made to organize a
third party, and to get up an independent nomina-
tion for Chase, coupling him either with Charles
Francis Adams or General Hancock ; and it is
thought that a call will be made for a National or
People's Convention to submit to them another
platform and ticket. Indeed a third party movement
has already been defeated of 0. H. Ostrander and 48
Conservative Republicans of Danville,Pennsylvania,
who chose Senator Doolittle ; and signed a requisi-
tion to have his name placed at the head of the
ticket. They expressed their disappointment at the
names offered by the Democrats ; they consider the
selection will fail to inflict on the Radical Republi-
cans a merited defeat, which would have been in-
sured had Doolittle been nominated. The Senator,
in reply, emphatically condemns the organization of
a third party, desiring to unite the various elements
hostile to Radicalism and in support of Seymour,
considering that a paramount duty, to which he
gives his whole heart and energy. He enumerates
the charges against the Radicals, and though he
does not say that the Democratic nominations are
the best, he thinks it best to leave well alone and
fight the battle with the means open. In conclusion,
he says—" Let us unite for victory ; let us have
peace—a peace which comes not from a violated
constitution and the despotism of the sword, but
the peace which comes from a restored Union and
the supremacy of constitutional law, by which
alone liberty is seemed."
The State which appears now to be most rapidly
progressing is California. San Francisco is almost
the only place from which come cheery reports of
business. For the last half year the value of the
merchandise exported wa3 $9,750,000, and of coin
and bullion over $20,000,000. Thirty-two thousand
passengers arrived in the city, two-thirds of whom
remained. The accounts from the Mining States are
of so extraordinary a character that they will yet
be realized in Europe by a total derangement of the
standard of value. If the statements coming from
Alaska have any truth, the gold fields on the Tagen
river are the richest ever discovered, and they are
so far believed in as to have led to a rush. Gold
must be found in heaps to keep its relative value to
silver, considering the deluge of the latter metal
Nevada is about to pour over the world. An oppo-
sition rush South has been got up by new and
rich diggings being found on the Raton mountains,
whither crowds are flocking.
Mr. Chase is disgusted, and is reported to have
said that if he votes at all it will be for Grant and
Colfax. Some malicious practical jokes were
played on him, the door-knob being tied during
the night with strings of black and white crape.
He refuses to be a party to any further nomination,
asserting that on the ticket selected both parties
must stand. If Logan and Butler, who defy and war
against the party platform, are to remain party
leaders, surely the Chief Justice, who has only
tried to make Republicans of the Democrats, may
he admitted back, soiled though his old party
assert him to be. Andrew Johnson is believed
vigorously to support the Seymour-Blair ticket,
though Seward, Evarts, Schofield, and M'Culloch
are known to be for Grant and Colfax. Welles
and Browning go for the Democratic candidates,
and Randall would, if he did not oppose repu-
diation.

It must not be supposed that the sun of America
concentrated all its rays on Broadway, New York,
though they fell there with an effect so fatal as to
strew that great thoroughfare with corpses. The
cases of sunstroke on the 15th and 16th July
amounted to nearly 2..)0, of which half terminated
fatally, and the entire number of deaths in the
city from Sunday to Thursday was 742, equalling
periods of epidemic. In Cincinnati there were 13
cases on the 15th ult., in Newark, New Jersey, the
same ; Montreal gives 10 ; Toronto, 8 ;
16 ; St. Louis, 9 ; Chicago, 12 ; Richmond,
10—all fatal ; and these are but the few reported.
The range of the thermometer was in Washington,
98 deg. to 106 deg. ; New York, 95 deg. to 104
deg. ; Philadelphia, 94 deg. to 98 deg. ; Pongle-
kelp-sie, New York, 105 deg. to 114 deg. ; Albany,
New York, 100 deg. to 104 deg. ; Cape May, New
Jersey, 68 deg. to 75 deg.; Toronto, 97 deg. to 100
deg.; Montreal, 98 deg. to 105 deg. ; Cincinnati,
98 deg. to 100 deg. ; Chicago, 94 deg. to 97 deg.
In 37 cities within a week there were 1,700 fatal
cases, and 7,000 more or less affected by strokes
of the sun. Bodies were laid out in the New York
morgue of unknown persons, and in the ante-
rooms were many coffins containing the remains of
the victims. On the 16th a refreshing change
occurred, the mercury falling from 98 at noon to
76 at 10 p.m., in New York City.
Mr. Seward having got the Alaska job off his
hands has immediately set another ball a-rolling.
The Dominican Government, " thanking Gol,"
like the Irish patriot, " that they h.tve a country to
sell," sent an agent to Washington, and he and
S; ward have drawn up a treaty by which, for a
stipulated sum (some say between one and two
million dollars), the Bay of Sam tna is ceded to the
United States. If Theodore's son hal arrived at
years of dicretion he might hasten to Washington
to do a stroke of business with Abyssinia, and Uncle
Sam ought to advertise that the world may know
what to do with cast-off territory.
Generals Butler and Logan have been working
on the bill, introduced on the 10th July, for the
reduction of the army, so as to pay off the debt
they consider due as volunteers to the regular army
officers. The correspondent of the New York Tiu2s
says--•" When Butler got to a stopping place he