The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-26 00:00:00

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When Dr. M'Cosh closed his speech at Prince-
ton College the boys responded with three cheers, the
usual tiger, and a "rocket." This rocket is a thoroughly
Princeton institution, and is given with a f-z-z-z —boom—
a—h! The first exclamation is supposed to imitate the
flight of a rocket in the air, the second the explosion, and
the third the admiring exclamations of the enthusiastic
spectators as they witness' the burst of coloured fire.
Raphael Semmes will shortly again appear on the
scene, in a work elaborated from the logs of the Sumter
and the Alabama. The work will be entitled" The Cruises
of the Sumter and Alabama," Kelly, Piet, and Co., of Bal-
- being the publishers. The taste of those coming
out in the face of his indignant countrymen is, to say the
east, questionable on the part of Captain Semmes. But,
to make the work perfect, portraits of himself and Laird
ought to be given.

Three hundred young mon are now in attend-
ance at Cornell University. Some of them have scars
from the battle-field. The University has a promising
future. The building is rapidly approaching completion.

It has been decided in a Wisconsin Court that
the imposition of a tax upon non-residents selling goods
by samplo in the State is contrary to the Constitution of
the United States.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is at
length going to form its School.of Architecture. Mr. Ware,
who is to be the head of this department, has recently made
a tour through England and tho Continent, studying diffe-
rent systems, making a collection of models, &c.
a, Governor Burnside dined $200,000,000 the other
day, in the persons of Stewart, Astor, Grinnell, and other
wealthy New Yorkers. On their way back to New York
the train ran off the track, when, we learn front the Pro-
vidence Press, " with a little of that energy and determi-
nation which has secured for most of them their present
distinguished positions in society, they walked over the
bridge."

Mr. Edwin A. Pollard is well qualified to do what
he proposes—write a life of Jefferson Davis. While
strongly Southern in sentiment., we believe Mr. Pollard
attributes the overthrow of the Confederacy to Mr. Davis,
and promises to lay bare the secret history of the Rich-
mond Gloyernment.