The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10.

Royal Marine Light Infantry—Lieutenant Charles E.
Servant° to be Second Captain, vice Domville, to half-
pay.
The undermentioned Officers have been this day pro-
moted to the rank of Engineers in her Majesty's Fleet,
with seniority of Nov. 3, 1868 : —Mr. John Rall (b) and
Mr. George Gravestock.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 11.
Commander George Lowcay Norcock has this day been
retired with the rack of Captain, under the Orders in
Council of Ist August, 1860, 9th July, 1864, and 24th
March, 1866.

An Imperial ukase has been issued at St. Peters'
burg, Nov. 12, ordering that, with a view to complete the
strength of the army and the fleet, a levy should be made
of four persons in every thousand inhabitants throughout
the empire, the conscription to commence on the 15th of
January and terminate on the 15th of February next.
Mr. Simonton, the agent of the New York As-
sociated Press, has sued the New York Tribune for libel in
publishing a letter from George H. Butler, nephew of
General Butler, substantiating a charge that General
Butler had made to the effect that he (Butler the nephew)
had thrashed Simonton which the latter had denied. The
Tribune printed both sides to the correspondence, which
left off, however, rather severely for Simonton. Butler
calls him "the first liar in America," and says he thrashed
him into a dead run down Pennsylvania avenuefor a quar-
ter of a mile in 1866.
The overseers of Harvard College have appointed
the following university lecturers for the ensuing year:
gelogy, Professor Josiah D. Whitney; on opthalmo-
logy, Di Henry W. Williams and Dr Haskett Derby ; on
hygiene, Dr George Derby; on tumours, Dr Algernon
Coolidge; ou Palaeontology, Nathaniel S. Shaler ; on the
geology of the basin of Lake Champlain, Rev. I. B. Perry;
on psychological medicine and medical jurisprudence, Dr
John E. Tyler.
Last Monday evening Mr. Elihu Burritt, the
American Consul at Birmingham, attended the dinner to
the retiring mayor at the Great Western Hotel. A short
time after he left he discovered that his pocket-book, con-
taining £3O in notes together with some papers, had been
stolen from him, and almost at the same moment Mr. Al-
derman Briggs, before quitting the hotel premises, found
that his gold watch was missing ; it had been wrenched
from the chain, a small portion of which the chief of police
picked up off the floor. It is thought that the thief got
among the company when crowding together in search of
hats and coats before leaving the hotel.
Ex-Alderman Corwin committed suicide Oct. 25
by cutting his throat with a carving-knife. He resided at
224, East Twenty-fifth-street, Now York. Deceased had
been suffering from consumption for a long while, and it
is supposed he committed the rash act to put an end to his
sufferings.
Captain M. F. Maury was on the 28th October
at Staunton, Virginia, where ho spoke at an agricultural
fair in defence of the agriculturists of the South, against
the reproaches that they were wanting in energy, attend-
ing to other business than that which so greatly con-
cerned them.
The Springfield Republican says :—" Mr. Dun-
bar, the invalid editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, will
soon be in Egypt., and pass the winter with his predeces-
sor and friend, Mr. Charles Hale, now consul at Alexan-
dria. Egypt's winter climate is soft, dry, dreamy, lazy,
and luxurious, just right for a nervous dyspeptic, which is
the prevailing typo of American invalidism.
A Convention has been called by the Governors
of lowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wise )usin, which was to
meet at Prairie du Chien, on November 10th, in order to
mature measures to impress upon Congress the necessity
of making immediate and sufficient appropriations to se-
cure the improvement of the navigation of Fox and Wis-
consin rivers, and connect the Mississippi river with Lake
Michigan.
Th overseers of lla,rvard college held a meeting
ou Tuesday, Oct. 27, when the 3 resignation of Dr. Hill was
announced, but no nomination of a successor was received
from the fellows, so no action was taken further than to
appoint a committee to confer with the corporation as to
the duties of the president, and Dr. Walker, George F.
Hoar, and William Gray were chosen for the purpose. R.
W. Emerson, Samuel Eliot, James Freeman Clarke, Ed-
ward E. Hale, and others presented very interesting re-
ports on the state of the college.