The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

or ro-election. Ex-Vico-President Hamlin is the mos

dangerous competitor in Mr. Morrill's path, and Gov .
Swann is working hard to defeat Mr. Johnson.

Robert Preston was arrested, Jan. 2, at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, with $lO,OOO, stolen from the Dorches-
ter Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Neponset, Massa-
chusetts, where he had been employed as a clerk till he
absconded.

Bryant T. Henry, the receiving teller of the
Shawmut National Bank, of Boston, disappeared, and the
bank books show a deficit of $60,000. The teller omitted
to credit $6,000 he had received, and as he was compelled
to go, he took the precaution of carrying away from the
bank vault $27,000 in compound interest notes, and a like
sum in bills.

A New York paper characterizes General Grant's
sense as reticence.

The President has recognised George Raster as
Consul-General of Hayti at Washington, and Leon de la
Coza as Vice-Consul of the United States of Columbia at

Philadelphia.

Admiral Goldsborougb, who has reached the legal
limit of the naval service, is trying to prevent his name and
himself from going on the retired list, by pleading that the
three years which he spent in the Naval School are not to
be counted, although all precedent and Secretary Welles,
equally ancient and venerable, are against him. The
President and Judge J ere Black support the Admiral.
The Report of the Hon. David A. Wells, Special
Commissioner of Internal Revenue, will not be published
before the middle of this month.

General Butler has filed the application of Admi-
ral Farragut and his officers and men for the bounty of
5200 each, allowed them by the statute for the capture of
the forts between New Orleans in 1862.

Caleb Cushing gave $4,000 for the new Episco-
pal Church of the Incarnation at Washington, which was
dedicated, Sunday, 29th December ; and the new Memo-
rial Methodist Church, which counts General Grant and
Chief Justice Chase among its trustees, will cost $200,000,
and will have free pews for the chief dignitaries, which it
is to be hoped they will occasionally occupy.
General Crittenden succeeds General Strong is
command of Arizona, and the latter goes to Nevada.
_ _

General Hancock defends himself in print against
Colonel Wynkoop's charges of the Indian Commission in
burning the Cheyenne village last summer.

General Custer writes against the decision of the
court-martial by whose sentence he ,was lately deprived
of rank and pay for a year, for being absent from his
post, and not making sufficient effort to recover some sol-
diers of his command captured by th© Indians.

A. J. HaHeck, brother of General Halleck, and
Capt. Marshman were lost with the steamer Raleigh, burned
off the Carolina coast.

Mysterious disappearances have occurred in other
cities of the United States besides Chicago, where four"
persons were lately reported as missing. Edwin R. Colton,
of Springfield, Massachusetts, disappeared at New York,
and was missing by last advises for more than two weeks,
His integrity is said to be above question, and the suppo-
sition was strong that he had been foully dealt with. Be-
sides several other disappearances, that of Thos. R Whitte-
more is mentioned, town clerk and Treasurer at Spencer,
with $20,000 of the town's money. Among many
others that of a highly respectable lady, Mrs. Nash,
residing at 170, Hudson-street, Hoboken, Newark,
who left her home on the evening of the 26th December
to call on a friend, and has not since been heard of. It is
feared she was overtaken by a severe storm which shortly
after commenced.
Robert S. Pringle, who was defeated by a negro
for the position of sergeant-at-arms of the Georgia Recon-
struction Convention, was so much chagrined by the
fact and the taunts of his friends that he committed suicide•
Henry M. Tyler, son of Professor W. S. Tyler,
of Amherst College, returned to Massachusetts last week
from 18 months foreign travel and study, and will commends
the duties of his Latin professorship at Amherst with the
beginning of the winter term.
In compliance with an order of the Supreme
Court, Simeon Peck, the Coleraine murderer, was, on the
20th ult., consigned to the Worcester insane asylum.
Torrey Wallace, formerly of the Housatonic
House, at Lee, has purchased for $23,000 the Phosni
Hotel property at Hoosiack Falls, New York, of Cobra
Quackenbush, now of the American House, at Pittsfield.
The Republican State Central Committee of Nei
Hampshire met at Concord, on the 26th December, and
organized by the choice of E. H. Rollins, chairrnan,
Benjamin Gerrish, jun., secretary, and John Kimball
treasurer.
Mr. and Mrs. William Collins, of Somers, Coo'
necticut, were married on New Year's-day, 1800. His age
is 93, hers 92. He once represented the town in the Lees-
lature,.and has held many offices of trust.
Not long since the American papers recorded the
flight of Mrs. Sumner to Europe while her husband went
westward on a lecturing tour. It was then known that
incompatibility of temper wasthe movingspring. A redo-
ciliation was effected, and prominent politicians rejoiced at
the announcement that the hospitable house of the Senator
would be again open to guests in Washington. We regret
to learn that so desirable an arrangement could not, be
maintained, and that the incompability of temper has
proved too strong for all other considerations, and a P°r-
manent separation has been agreed to.
" Colonel" O'Neil has been offered the post a
Fenian Head Centre, which there seems to be some diffi-
culty in filling, in New York. O'Neil was one of ate
fillibusters engaged in the raid on Canada.
The Hon: Anson Burlingame, United Staten',
Minister to Pekin, has been selected by the Emperor 0'
China to revise the treaties between China and the Great
Powers. He leaves at once, by way of San Francisco, ell
his diplomatic mission, not by way of Europe, as we WI
announced. Official despatches to this effect, dated
November 23, 1867, have reached the Hon. Cassia 3g.
Clay, United States' Minister to Russia.
The Archbishop of Quebec has given his bless'
ing to several prominent French Canadians who have pro'
ceeded to Rome. It is said that a large number of ni°-
will follow them, and that the Papal Zouaves will thus be
strengthened.
The Rev. E. F. Trefier, of Austin, Nevada) isf
about to visit the Eastern States to deliver a course °l2
lectures on the mining districts. He has gathered
general information, aided by the miners of different leead"
ties, which, being condensed and put together, is not only
interesting, but conveys a knowledge and gives infer°3:o4
tion regarding the Silver State, which all may be 0"
learn. He will arrive in New York about the Ist of DM'
Au order has been issued by General Cacbf
exempting homesteads from legal seizure, and revokil
General Sickles's prohibition of the sale and distillation °
liquor in North and South Uarolina.
Mr. Joshua Baker has been appointed GoVer°°:
of Louisiana by General Hancock, in place of Mr. Flanders:
resigned.
Governor Chamberlain, of Maine, in his spcec l
delivered upon assuming office, was in favour of t'm,
State taxation of Government bonds.
Governor Swan, of Maryland, in his inaugilti;
message, strongly endorsed the course taken by Fl°o
dent Johnson, and was rejoiced at the reaction again
Congress.
A story of cross purposes is told of two brot
000
at Whately, Massachusetts. They owned a dog, l'fb
life was threatened, as no license had been taken out' as
constable called to kill the animal, when the wife of oira
of the brothers paid the license fee. At the same ticae.snm a
husband paid for the dog at the town clerk's office, P.-of
the brother killed it shortly after to save the expels°
the license. These were agreeable notes to compare' Los
Levi W. Barton, of Newport, Hampshire, :IA
been renominated for Senator in the tenth district,
Henry N. Blair, of Plymouth, in the seventh.
T. L. Avery, of Springfield, has been admit fl,
as partner into the extensive New York firm of Sutt°
Clark, and Halsey.
John Hadds caught a genuine cod at 10
Orchard, on the Chicopee River. It weighed five PO PO
and is believed to be the first cod caught so far fre°/
water.

Births. Aar
BARBER—On the 21st kat., at 60, Kensington-el:7 of
square, Hyde-park, the wife of Joseph Barber, x'"
a daughter. 01'
LAMBTON—On the 20th inst., the Lady Victoria 1,03
of a son. der
PEMBERTON—On the 20th inst., at The Barnes, unoo.
land, the wife of Richard L. Pemberton, Esq., of t' °

Marriages.
eldest
Southsea, -- On the 20th inst., at St. ijew
Southsea, William Brown, Captain Royal NavY, joie
son of General T. Brown, to Flora, widow a tllo
Commander John 0. Bathurst, R.N. nir'
MOON —ASLETT—On the 16th inst., at Hols7 tai
Church, Bromptou, Chatham, Edward M. 31°10:
son of the late J. P. Moon, Commander 0,
Sprightly, Holyhead, to Esther, only daughter 04
Aslett, Esq., of Chatham.
Deaths.
1,01.
Busic—On the 19th iust., at Ford's Grove, Winc" 4
hill, Edward T. Busk, Esq., J.P., aged 63. rrhoof"
BENGouGH—On the 1111 inst., at Croydon, Alf.
Bengough, late of Tichbourne-street, London, 86.- P‘
BROWNE —On the 20th inst., at Oaklands, St. A-11)40,1'01d'd;
Browne, Esq., of Oaklands, and 80, Mark-lane, 'll° OP
BROTIIERTON —On the 20th hist , at his sou's ,
Esher, Gen. Sir T. W. Brotherton, G. 0.8.,
THOMPSON On the 20th inst., at the Hotel 3114 'of tUe
Champs Elysees, Paris, C. T. Thompson, 13313" 0
South Kensington Museum. 'of tilAl
WATTS —On the 19th inst., at. Ludlow, Mary, relysof
late Col. Ponsonby Watts, late of the (Wel'
Regiment.
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Middlesex.—Wednesday, January 22, 1868.