The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-01 00:00:00

nexation of Charlestown to the city of Boston,
says :—" There was a time when Boston was ahead
of New York in population and commercial im-
portance. If Boston had then been endowed with
a territory as large as New York, and if, instead
of being surrounded by small communities under
petty municipalities with toll-bridges for barriers,
there had been early adopted one comprehensive
system of improvements under the same municipal
government, she would not now have been so far
distanced in the race as to be second even to the
second city of the Empire State. Had the Haosac
Tunnel been completed forty years ago, when Col.
Baldwin, of Charlestown, recommended it upon a
careful survey, Boston would have made more rapid
strides."

and nothing but trouble can come of the elevation
of that class of the people, some of them the most
odious in the world, who have gone South to push
themselves into offices that at home they could, only
sigh for.

The vote for Bullock is less than that for

;he new Constitution, the latter being ratified by a

majority of 18,000, while the Governor's majority is
about 7,000. The Senators from Georgia will be
Republicans, for the Legislature is not, as was
reported, Democratic, and four Republicans and
three Democrats go to Congress. Florida's three

Representatives and two Senators will also be Re-

publicans, Virginia being almost the only Southern
State on which the Republicans cannot, at least

or the moment, count. The Nation thinks it foolish

to suppose that universal negro suffrage has for any
very long time added ten States to the R.:publican
strength, but it believes that the party has perma-

newly secured two or three.
The Times has come out as an advocate for a
tunnel between Dover and Calais. The nature of

the soil through which it would penetrate may be
conjectured by that on either side of the Channel.
Throe miles west of Calais borings were made, and
white chalk found to a depth of 270 feet, followed
by 480 of grey chalk. On the English coast bor-
ings were made at St. Margaret's Bay, near the

South Foreland, and white chalk was found a depth
of '2lO feet below high water, followed by grey
chalk 260 feet deeper. The chalk in both in-
stances, we believe, rests on green sand. This
formation is considered highly favourable, the

only danger being what geologists term a " fault."
The sum required to complete the work is
put at £10,000,000 ; the time, ten years. It is
thought that a preliminary drift-way might be the
pioneer under the sea, at a cost of two millions, by
which any break in the strata would be detected,

and the remaining eight millions saved ; but if
found practicable the additional expenditure of the

£84000,000 would complete what the £2,000,000
had commenced. The Emperor Napoleon hag been

considering a project to effect the connection, sub-
mitted to him by a French engineer, which we be-
lieve consists of a series of bridges resting on arti-
ficial islands at certain distances across the Channel.
A third scheme is an iron tube to be laid along the
bed of the sea for the railway. The tunnel plan has
been reported upon by an eminent English engineer,
who seems to consider the work by no means diffi-
cult, chalk being the easiest material to bore
through. Elsewhere we give a sketch of the great
work in the United States, the Hoosac Tunnel.
Lord Stanley has appointed a Commission to
consider the Law of Naturalization, consisting of
the following gentlemen :—Chairman, Lord Claren-
don ; members, Queen's Advocate, Attorney-Gene-
ral, Sir R. Phillimore, Baron Bramwell, Sir R.
Palmer, M.P., Mr. Cardwell, M.P., Mr. W. E.
Forster, M.P., Mr. Vernon Harcoutt, and Mr.
Montague Bernard. A writer in the North Ame-
rican Review considers that a naturalized emigrant
taken in arms against his native country should be
held to have repudiated his new citizenship, if not
in the service of his adopted country. The subject
is discussed i❑ a leader of the Times, which arrives
at the conclusion that the Commission will pro-
bably find it simpler to construct an entirely new
code of naturalization and allegiance than to pro-
ceed by the old method of consolidation and
amendment.

Au immense meeting was held at Lewiston,
Maine, Tuesday evening, May 12, to protest against
the acquittal of Andrew Johnson. Speeches were
made by various gentlemen, and resolutions en-
thusiastically adopted expressing the most profound
regret at the probable defection of Republican
Senators, and commendatory of the course adopted
by Senator Morrill, of Maine, whose course was at
one time considered doubtful under the influence of
his colleague, Senator Fessenden, and which led us
in error to couple him with those likely to vote
against Impeachment. D. J. P. Fessenden, a
brother of the Senator, was one of the signers of
the call for the meeting.
Those who think prohibition killed in the United
States are very far wrong. The Radical temper-
ance men of Massachusetts met at Boston, May
13, and took up the advanced position, by which
they either force the Republican party to adopt
their theory and give effect to their wishes, or
d._sert it, establishing a party of their own for the
campaign next fall. There were 1,300 delegates re-
presenting 206 cities and towns. Judge and Senator
Pitman, of New Bedford, wag chosen permanent
chairman, Lloyd Garrison made an excellent
speech, one evidently prepared with care, which
was refreshing when contrasted with the deluge of
small talk poured over the meeting by every parson
who undertook to speak morality, and their nate°
was legion. A long string of resolutions were
adopted, two committees formed, and of course the
hat was sent round to collect money, $3,000 t°
$lO,OOO being wanted for political purposes.
The Italian brigand chief Mauzi has received a 5
ransom from his captives no less a sum than 455,0001°
(.£18,200 sterling.)
The Naples and Florence Observer says :—" Grave
suspicions are afloat touching the death of Count Crivellit
the late Austrian Ambassador to the Court of Rome ;
deed it is believed that not only he but Baron de Blioe
have been poisoned. From what we are able to learn It
appears a conspiracy had been organized by the priest-
hood to put these gentlemen out of the way, clerical venge"
ance having been sworn against them for the prominent
part they had taken in the laceration of the Concec-
dat. Can it be possible that Cardinal d'Andrea is yet 311"
other victim to clerical fury, and that on the eve of de-
parture from Rome the poison3r has been busy with lii3l
also ?

•
Mr. Frederick M. B. Bertram has written to cor-
rect the idea prevailing in England that Mr. Norton fg
the inventor of the tube pumps found so useful by th?,
Field Force in Abyssinia. He says " that Mr. Norton 71
only the purchaser of the invention for Great Britain, 0
that the inventors to whom the merit is really due O°
Messrs. Hiram John Messenger, Stephen Brewer, a°
Byron Mudge; all of Cortland, in the State of New Yorlc'
United States America."
Two hundred and fifty Swiss emigrants arrival
in Boston on Monday, May 11, on their way to the Wrest:
Professor Agassiz stated at a hearing before the
Legislative Committee on Education that he once recelfea
a wild bull of Lithuania, now so rare that the last of its ral
are preserved by a law making their destruction a caPft°
crime in exchange fur twelve bull-frogs. " Many a mars
chant ship sailing from the port of Boston," said he, "hatcarried my alcohol cans all over the world, and broug;„
me back without cost the rarest specimens. I have frien'
among the fishermen, too, who for years have worked f°r
the museum, never charging a cent for their labour, bare
repaying themselves for the cash paid out." gal
John 11. Surratt was brought up on the 1,,„
' May, but the trial was postponed till the next term of 0;
court, on the motion of his counsel, who made a strenticll
attempt to get bail. Although long confinement in g 9 Da
has injured Surratt's health, Chief Justice Cartter refuse
to grant it, an i he therefore remains in prison.
A tablet, in honour of the late Thomas D'Arei
M'Gee, has been placed opposite the spot where he
killed. 'the inscription runs as follows :--;‘ Here fell, °
the ith April, 1868, by the assassin's hand, the 11.011.
Thomas D'Arcy 3l'Gee."

Births. Of
BRISTOWE - On the 30th ult., at Deumark-hill, the w'''
Thomas L. Bristowe, Esq., of a son. 0°
DURHAM—On the 29th ult., at 6, Cromwell Ilousegt
Countess of Durham, of adaughter. IA
Kimninx—On the 3th ult., at Camborne Houso, Itiebiu°
the wife of Edward D. Kilburn, Esq., of a daughter.

Marriages.
pariob
?mum —VivIAN—On the 30th ult., at Putney to
Church, Henry M. Phillipps, Esq., of Beckenha";4o
Louise Vivian, niece of Win. Vivian, Esq Roehar"
Lodge, Barnes, Surrey. mot
PERRY DREVA it—On the 28th ult., at Chislo9og'3
Church, Kent, Thomas Perry, Esq., of Belmont, J6-li
County, to Harriett St. Lawrence, third daughter 0'
Trevar, Esq., of Highbury.

Deaths. bill
COPE—On the 28th ult., Wm. Cope, Esq., late am
..- vi-- 9
Hall, Notts, aged 57. cfrell''
PRENCR—On the 29th ult., at Hayer House, Eye, ''"
,i 5.
Thomas French, Esq., aged E'3.
FENN—On the 28th ult., at 2, Eldon-square, lieadingi '
Elizabeth Feun, aged 75. Surr°lti
PARRATT—ate On the 26th alt., at Effingham House, - 00-
Lieut.-Col. H. M. Purratt, J.P , and Deputy-L
of the county, aged 78. • T.,ir
RABBETR—Ou the 28th ult., at 2, Sandwell-place,
ba-road, Mr. John Itabboth, aged 79. # et, CI.
rn
SAUNDERS —On the 28th ult., at 50 Beautnon4swre cop-
H. Saunders, Eyq., formerly Captain in the Prince
sort's Own Hind ,brigade, aged 32.
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