The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-19 00:00:00

CMISELLANEO US NEWS.

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(From the Anylo-American Times.)
The Spring field Republican says :—" We are glad
to record that the disgraceful divorce 'seekers at New
Haven, Connecticut, are not of New England birth. Rev.
0. B. Judd, LL.D., is a New York Democrat, who derived
his legal title from one of that State's county colleges. He
was seriously accused of. disloyalty in New Haven, and
.his brief ministry there did not benefit the church which
employed him. His wife was the widow of a New York
lawyer, and now lives in that city. The details which
attract au audience of as many women as mon every day
ought to be summarily ended for the good of the public.
" W. W. Rice, of Worcester, Massachusetts, -and
George W. Johnson, of Brookfitld, were chosen delegates
to the Chicago Convention, and Major E. P. Halstead, of
Worcester, and John S. Mead, of Milford, alternate in
at the Eighth District Convention held in Worcester,
April 21.

" The result of the late Connecticut election was
officially declared on Monday, April 27, and gives Go-
vernor English 1,757 majority in a vote of 99,318, a gain
over last year of 787 in his majority, and of 5,175 in the
whole vote. The Senate will stand twelve Republicans
to nine Democrats, a Republican gain of one, and the
House 128 Republicans to 110 Democrats, a Republican
gain of four."

The New York World thus compares the mili-
tary expenditure of the United States with that of Great
Britain :—" The present strength of the British army is
136,650 men, and the entire sum asked for their support
for the ensuing year, for all military expenses of whatso-
ever character, for the repairs of fortifications at home
and abroad, transportation, pensions, and all other ex-
penditures, is £15,455,400, or $77,277,000 dollars. An
operation in simple arithmetic will show that the cost
of each soldier £ll3 par year, or about 565 dol-
lars. It is not really so much as this, since in
this estimate of expense is included the appropria-
tion for pensions, which is nearly one-seventh of the whole
amount, and we do not include our own pension list in
the estimate we have made in the cost of our own army.
But the comparison wo are making is sufficiently startling if
the cost of the British soldier is stated at the highest
figure and that of the American soldier at the lowest
oue. The British army estimate is made up as follows :
Pay, food, clothing, and hospital service, £10,216,000;
stores and transportation, .£1,491,000 ; fortifications, bar-
racks, Ste., £968,400 ; non-effective services, .£2,124,800 ;
military education, .£655,200—t0ta1, £15,455,400. And
for this sum an army of 136,650 men is kept in the highest
state of efficiency. Now lot us look at our own figures.
When Secretary M‘Culloch submitted his estimates for
the ensuing financial year, last December, he placed the
expenditures at something over $94,000,000. Now the
actual expAiditure is, as we have repeatedly shown, very
much greater, greater by fifty per cent. in all probability ;
but we take Secretary APCulloch's estimate that there
may be no possible cavil, and not the real expenditute
which Mr. Greeley dares not ask for and which the Rump
dare not state to their constituents. These amended esti-
mates of the Secretary were based upon a reduction of the
army to a force of 50,000 men, which is more than we noW
have in the service, and they were made up as follows :
For the army proper, $37,511,512; arsenals, ac.,
$1,093,202 ; Military Academy, $335,012 ; fortifica-
tions, 8350,000 ; improvements, $6,667,500 ; public
buildings and grounds, $1,426,770; total, $47,592,996.
And this is the sum required for maintenance of an army
nominally composed of 50,000 men, but which really does
not number 40,000 effective soldiers. If the comparison
were made as strictly as it might be, it would be found
that the cost of a soldier in the United States is fully
double or treble what it is in Great Britain. But it is bad
enough as we have stated it. Nine hundred and fifteen
dollars for a soldier in the United States, of which the
soldier himself receives $lBO, and $565 for a soldier in
Great Britain, of which the soldier himself gets $147 !"
The Springfield Republican says :—" The Episco-
pal bishop of New York is troubled with another contu-
macious rector. Rev. D. R. Brewer, of the Church of the
Reformation in Gatos avenue, has shown his sympathy
with Mr. Tyng in several ways, since the bishop's admoni-
tion. First, by taking a seat in a Methodist conference;
second, by announcing his readiness to preach in any Me-
thodist church to which he may be invited ; and,
thirdly, by inviting clergymen of different denomina-
tions to occupy seats within his chancel, and to take.
part in his services. At the communion service
on Good Friday he had within the rails, .and assist-
ing in the services of the occasion—which are represented
to have been vary impressive and solemn—Dr. 'Waterbury
and Rev. Mr. Gleason, C.mgregationalists ; Dr. Duryea,
Presbyterian ; Rev. Messrs. Buckley and Howe, Metho-
dists, and Rev. Messrs. Thrall and Gallagher, Episcopa-
lians.

The Italian journals publish the following letter,
addressed by Mr. Seward, Secretary of State, to Mr.
Marsh, the American Representative at Florence :--
" Washington, April 10, 1868.—1 have received your de-
spatch of March 22, enclosing a copy of a note addressed
to you by Gen. Garibaldi. The General says:—' I learn
from our friends that Mr. Seward has done me the honour
to cite my name among those of the agents of the great Re-
public. As I have never had that honour, I beg of you to
intercede with him to get it effaced.' I have ascertained,
by an examination of the archives, that the rectification
which the General calls for is perfectly correct. The ae
sertion to which it relates was founded on an incomplete
and erroneous extract from a correspondence exchanged
between the American Government and Garibaldi. Care
will be taken to give correction as much publicity as the
incorrect statement which gave rise to it. You will be
pleased to convey to the General a copy of this despatch,
together with the expression of my regret for the inad
vertence, and the assurance of my deep respect and
esteem.—W. H. SEWARD."

The Legislature of Massachusetts sustained the
report of the Judiciary Committee by 119 to 74, on the
29th April, against the petition of Olympia Brown and
others, for the right of suffrage for women. It was noticed
that the advocates of the measure yearly increase in
number.

According to the Owl, the transfer of the terri-
tory of the Hudson's Bay Company to the Government
has been agreed to by the chairman, Lord Kimberley.
measure to effect this will be introduced into Parliament
in the course of a fow days.

Mr. Richard Grant White, according to the
Albion, is the writer of the letters which appoar in the
Spectator, signed "A Yankee."

Births.

CLARKE.—On the 19th inst., at St. Margaret's, Twickee"
ham, S.W., Mrs. James N. Clarke, of a daughter.
Gusu—On the 18th inst., at 1, Ormonde-terrace, North'
gate, Regent's-park, N.W., the wife of Wm. F. Gush'
Esq., of a son.
HENEAGE— On the 17th inst., at 10, Cadogan-place, the
wife of Major Heneage, V.C., of a son.
TWYFORD—On the 18th inst., at Trotton House, Wileble'
don, the wife of A. S. Twyford, of a daughter.

Marriages.
BUCHANAN—LAWTON —On the 16th inst., at St. Pancras
Church, John Buchanan, jun., of 30, Fitzroy-street,
Fitzroy-square, to Jane Elizaboth Lawton, eldest daug
ter of John Lawton, Esq., of Tooting, Surrey.
SMART—WILBY— On the 16th inst., at St. llichrr°
Church, Bishop's Stortford, Hurts, Robert Smart, I-Or
of Gray's-inn, Loudon. solicitor, to Alison Jane, oil
daughter of Thomas Willey, Esq., of Wiudhill 11005
Bishop's Stortford.

Deaths.
CHALMERS —On the 15th inst., at Aldbar Castle, pea:
Bi•echin, John I. Chalmers, Esq., of Aldbar.
gil-
CCDwoR2II—On the 16th inst., at 20, Greville-place,
born Priory, Mr. Benjamin Cudworth, aged 70.
CALEOW—On the 16th inst., at longfield, Sutton, Stare'',
Calrow, Esq., of 36, St. Mary-at-Hill, aged 39.
DEVEREUX —On the 15th inst., Rear-Admiral the o°ll'
Walter B. Deveretix, aged 57.
DOVETON— On the 16th inst., at 5, Sussex-square, ITY".:
park, Lady Doveten, widow of General JORJohn'DoVetc
LC.B.
GOODCHILD —On the 17th inst., at Upper Teddington, grib
Thomas Goodchild, aged 38.

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