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

great struggle." The intrinsic value of the gift may be
estimated from the fact that the work is in two large
volumes, containing 1,430 pages and 222 illustrations.

"An old turtle, in his little tour to Florida,"
speaks of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton being on board. " She
read one evening for us in the ladies' cabin. She is col-
lecting material for a book on Americas which, she says,
she intends writing with pelican quills." It is clear from
this that she has totally discarded " the goose," and in-
tends to come out in a new character.
Wilkes' Spirit gives us the following items: —" Lester
Wallack has been advised by his physicians to dismiss
the cares of business, pack up his cravats and pomatum,
and go to Europe for an indefinite length of time. 'We
shall be sorry to lose Don John from the stage, of which
he is a glittering centre-piece ; but the priost and the
physician should be obeyed, and for the sake if Mr. Wal-
lack's health, which is not good, we hope he will take a
season of vacation abroad. Ada Webb is about to marry a
rich young Californian. A great hall packed with people
and blazing with countless gaslights marked the first
night of the Second Annual Musical Festival at Steinway
Hall on Monday night, May 18. The performance con-
sisted of Handers oratorio of The Messiah.' Parepa.
Rosa, Mrs. Jenny Kempton, Mr. Simpson, Mr. Thomas, and
the Harmonic Society of New York composed the singers.
Parepa was in magnificent voice, and was warmly ap-
plauded. Laura Keene has returned to America from
England, and is at the Metropolitan Hdtel. Edwin Booth
will play Richard' in his new theatre, with a golden
crown worth one thousand dollars. Hampty Dumpty '
will be brought out at the Chestnut-street Theatre in
Philadelphia. Betty Rigl and sister and Petit
Schlager,' the child dancer, now at Niblo's, have been en
gaged. Manager Wheatley returns an income of thirt3 -
five thousand dollars. Henry Willard, one of the oldest
managers in the country, has leased the Continental in
Boston, and opens in the fall. Mr. and Mrs. Barney Wil-
liams are still at the Broadway, and still successful. After
an absence of three years from the realms of Cork, the
Bryants have roturned to the minstrel stage. 'La Belle
Helene' at the New York, still attracts full houses to
this neat, comfortable, and pleasant little theatre. Ihe
San Francisco troupe, at 585, Broadway, are running
in a groove of success which seems endless. Miss
Lillie Eldridge takes the place of Lucy Egerton as the
Prince in the White Fawn,' instead of Mrs. Mark Smith,
who does not sing. Mary Wells, we learn, is about to
leave. Benjamin Holliday, ex-Senater Latham, Ralston
the banker, Sam Butterworth, Charles McLane, John Par-
rott, Oliver Eldridge, and ex-Governor Low are among
the incorporators of a company which has for its object
the erection of a first-class theatre in San Francisco. No
location has yet been agreed upon, but Market-street will
probably be selected. It is to have ample room for egress,
and no bar will be allowed. The building will be plain
and substantial. The gentlemen named are certain to do
the thing creditably to themselves and their beautiful city."
Mrs. Scott Siddons, it is said, has engaged, for a sum of
upwards of £13,000, to travel a year in America, perform-
ing four times a week.
Admiral Farragut, in his frigate the Franklin,
-accompanied by her tender the Frolic, left Lisbon on
Friday, May 29, for Antwerp.

The following was the reply of Mr. Colfax to the
despatches announcing his nomination to the Vice-Pre-
sidency by the Chicago Convention :—" Washington,
D. C., May 21. To Mr. Orton, president of the Western
Union Telegraph, Chicago :—Accept my sincere thanks
for your desptches to-day. The evidence of confidence
in me by the Convention of the party I love is more gra-
tifying than any feeble words of mine can express.—
SCHUYLER COLFAX."

Senator Morrill, of Vermont, and William M.
Everts, the President's counsel, were at Springfield, Mas-
sachusetts, on the 22d May, in the same hotel.
It is announced that Jenny Lind-Goldschmidt
will in the autumn pay a professional visit to the United
States.

As Governor Hamilton, of Texas, was walking
in the vicinity of the Whitney House, near the Capitol, at
Washington, D. C., accompanied by Sonatcr Cameron, on
the afternoon of the 14th May, he was accosted by the
Hon. Samuel J. Randall, of Philadelphia, who inquired if
be was Jack Hamilton, of Texas, and, on receiving an
affirmative answer, denounced Mr. Hamilton as a scoun-
drel. Mr. Hamilten felt called upon to resent the ins*, and
forthwith inflicted a spirited castigation with a hickory
cane upon his opponent, cutting his head and face in a
frightful manner, and breaking the cane into splinters. Two
men, who accompanied Randall, immediately pounced
upon Mr. Hamilton, and held him while the Representative
struck him a powerful blow in the face. Senator Cameron
used his cane upon Randall's friends, who at once released
Hamilton, and conveyed their companion to his rooms to
have his wounds dressed. Hamilton asserts that Randall
is a perfect stranger to him; that he never saw him be-
fore, and that the insult was perfectly unaccountable.
Ex-President Buchanan is confined to his bed,
too ill to see visitors, and grave apprehensions are enter-
tained for his safety.

Lewis W. Ross (Democratic), Representative
from Illinois, addressing Thaddeus Stevens in the House,
said, "I ask the gentleman from Pennsylvania whether,
in his opinion, Senators would be justified in perjuring
themselves for the purpose of procuring a conviction of
the President?" towhich Mr. Stevens replied, " Well, sir, I
do not think it would hurt them."

The Chinese Embassy, of which the lion. Anson
Burlingame is the chief Envoy, arrived in New York on
May 22, and proceeded to the Washington Hotel. The
Secretary o; State at Washington was advised of the ar-
rival. The suite consists of about thirty persons, includ-
ing six interpreters and seventeen servants.
Ex-Governor Buckingham has been elected by
the Connecticut Legislature United States Senator for six
years from 4th of next March, to replace Senator James
Dixon, and on the 20th May it met in Convention, under
the new law, and ratified the result. The vote of the
House was 124 to 109. The Democrats, in compliment,
bestowed their votes on Senator Dixon, which they would
have given to William W. Eaton, of Hartford, had there
been any chance of succes-.

The negro Bradley has been elected to the State
Senate of Georgia, but will be refused admission for the
same reasons that caused his expulsion from the Consti-
tutional Convention—conviction of felony and a term in
the State prison. _ _

General Gordon, United States Attorney Fitch
and Foster Blodgett, ex-Postmaster at Augusta, Georgia,
are the prominent candidates before the Legislature for
election to the United States Senate.

The New Jersey Democrats will probably unite
on General Theodore W. Runyon as their candidate for
Governor, while tho Republicans generally are talking
again of General Kilpatrick.

-It is proposed to call the triangular parks in
Washington after the names of authors. Prescott, Irving,
Hawthorne, Motley, Bryant, Bancroft, Halleck, Hildredth,
and Sigourney are the names mentioned.

The account of an Abyssinian sportsman, not
long since sent to the Field, amused the initiated in Eng-
land and elsewhere, but that was not to be compared with
the delight with which it was greeted by the Field Force
in Abyssinia. The Pall Mall says that "We now learn
from a correspondent at Zulla that the account in ques-
tion was read, when our paper arrived there, with
shouts of laughter, the hero of the adventure being
by no means a sporting prophet amongst his own
comrades, and being notoriously afflicted with . a dis-
ease not uncommon amongst African explorers, known
as "elephantiasis of the imagination." The letter from
Zulla declares that the only elephant the sportsman had
to deal with was a commissariat animal, and that the ges-
ticulations and shouts of the natives, uttered in a tongue
which he did not understand, were merely earnest remon-
strances against firing at that inoffensive and useful ani-
mal, which, however, escaped all injury."

The uhicago Republican gives Major Chapman's
experience as a singular fact, in which wo fully concur if
it be a fact. After the great tornado had passed, that
gentleman residing in Township Seventy-six, about six
miles from Chicago, found several stalks of ground cherries
in his orchard, the leaves green, the pods yellow, and fruit
perfectly ripe. This stage of the plant is at least four
montit.i ahead of this latitude, nor has it attained to that
stage even in our most Southern States, so that it is sup-
posed that these berries must have been brought by the
tornado from some of the West India islands, where the
storm probably originated.
According to a telegram from Bombay, there has
been "a great battle" between the Russians and the Bo-
kharians. Tho Ameer of Bokhara was slain in the engage-
ment, and the victorious Russians are said to have taken
possession of the city of Bokhara.

The Times says that arrangements are in progress
between Mr. James M‘lieniy, the contractor for the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Company, and his creditors, to
the effect that they will accept 20s. in the pound by instal-
ments, of which Gs. Bd. is to be paid within two years, and
that creditors to the extent of £2,400,000 out of the
aggregate of £3,600,000 have already agreed to the offer.
One of the creditors for about £3,000, who objects to the
deed, has taken out a summons in bankruptcy, but there
is said to be no doubt that the deed will be legally com-
pleted by the assent of nearly all the large creditors, so
as to prevent any proceedings in bankruptcy taking effect.
General Sheridan has left Fort Leavenworth for
the West, to ascertain the disposition of tho Indians, and
will go as far as Santa Fe, if necessary.
Col. Hazard, of Enfield, Connecticut, left at his
death en estate of about $2,000,000. In his family are
owned fully 1,000 shares of Hartford and Hew Haven rail-
road stock, which is now quoted at 220.
Senator Ross called on Mr. Wade to explain the
reasons which influenced him to give the vote so fatal to
that gentleman's prospects—a subject he had better have
loft untouched. For some time Mr. Wade listened pa-
tiently, then told him the explanation was unnecessary,
that the subject was disagreeable, one which he requested
the Senator might never again bring up, and finally bowed
him out, showing him clearly by his manner that he de-
clined any further visits.

Mr. Wm. Sumption, glove manufacturer, Otter-
ford, has been fined £5 by the Taunton magistrates for