The Sun.
London, England, 1868-05-11 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(From the Anglo-American 2 imes.)
Colonel Forney's accounts, as Secretary of the
Senate, have been examined, and reported all right) bl
the §cnate Committee on contingent expenses.
The report which appeared in the F the
igaro of 4
marriage of Oldie. Adelina Patti is, her father says, total,"
untrue.

Last Tuesday at Rome the Pope blessed and P.
sented to the troops two standards, one from the Unite
States and the other from Barcelona. His Holiness de,'"
vexed a speech on the occasion, in which he-very waraill
maintained the justice of the defence of his rights to 01°
integrity of his temporal dominion.
Paymaster John S. Cunningham, United States
Navy, has been assigned to the important post of InaPee-
tor at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
A French Canadian, named La Croix, testifies
that he was in a doorway when he saw the shot fired '4ol°l
killed Mr. M‘Gee, and when confronted with Whelan he 1)1.°-
flounced him to be the man who fired the shot, assertl
that ho had a full view of him at the time, but being afraid
that he would get into trouble, he had hitherto remaiaa
silent on the subject.
Mr. Geo. F. Train's insolvency case was before the,
Irish Court again on Thursday. The American cer-6'l,
at Cork had been summoned as a witness, but pressil3-°
business prevented his attendance. Mr. Dowse, Q.O”
posed the insolvent's. discharge on the part of the P"
5t
Vale Company, characterizing the schedule as the tri,°llo
unsatisfactory document ever brought into Court. '
£lOO,OOO demanded from Lord Stanley on the 4th of Feta
last as a claim for compensation for arrest seemed
the " only amount forthcoming to meet the deht6;.
During the day " Colonel" Nagle, the Jacknell leade;
took his seat beside Mr. Train. The insolve3a,
was himself examined, and said he had is"'
trol over his wife's property, and none of his 0" as
The iron he bought from the Ebbw Vale company ed
intended for tramways at Melbourne. He was (Metal
£BO,OOO for his tramways in England. The eas° viot
finally adjourned, and one of his sureties being abs"
Mr. Train was taken back to the Marshalsea. ;att
Colonel O'Neill addressed au enthusiastic Fen.:th
Meeting at St. Louis on the 20th April, winding UP v/et
a proposition for another raid on the territories of Pio
Majesty. He arrived at Chicago on the 22d, where fe
addressed an immense crowd, urging his brethren t 0 a-
rol and march upon Canada.
General Brisbin, who is writing " Grant PaPer;
for the Cincinnati Gazette, relates that at a clam lunch t)
California he once asked the General (then ()apt. G'.3--1
how he liked clams. The latter drily replied that io
thought them a very good substitute for gutta 13°t°

oysters." Segi
Anthony Trollope arrived in the Scotia at
out t'
York on Wednesday, 22d April. He has been sent 0e"
the Government on business connected with the %°
office, and ho will doubtless meet a hearty reception, 5t1°30
all English literary men he is most popular "over
water."
Longfellow and his family are about to pay Eas
land a visit, and to spend the summer on the continetlf;o' r,
Wilkes' Spirit gives us the following items:—Ogre'
tis' pro,•hetie dramas " The Spirit of Seventy-six (,:';
or The Coming Woman," was produced at Selv?,otlt
Theatre, in. Boston, .on the evening of Monday, the and
of April. It is cleverly written, sparkling and witty,
excellent'satire, but not a good acting drama. Its drat° t,
tic construction is faulty, and lacks situation end effedep
Chas. Walcot played Count Horace in the gloomy, gilist;
ghostly, yawning-graveyard horror, entitled ``ren'-tet:o
at the Philadelphia Arch. Stephen Ifassett chargsbro'
Chinamen $3 a *pigtail to hear him talk English autos
ken China. The " White Fawn" will soon leave v"ife
for fresh triumphs. Edwin Adams is after Forrest•
succeeds that great interpreter of Shakspere at Pittshtli robot
Opera House; WilliamC. Forbes, a well-known Sontooa
theatricAl: manager, died recently in Brooklyn. arcls
little boys in Georgia schools get circus tickets as re'', re'
of merit. Country papers publish that Miss Ole,gPvilo
fused $4OO a night to sing in Madrid on account of t''l,°
climste. Falconer's celebrated cottedy of "Dods Le
One
Me ?" was produced at the Arch, Philadelph -go th."
the best stock companies in America will open fc'ronl
new theatre in the fall. Kate Denin is coming btte'
1.0 to
California. The De Lave family are in Mexico, and
join Chiarini at Guadalajara.

Births. FAI"
•
CHAMPION—On the Bth inst., at Florence-terraci°le ii.Al
mouth, the wife of Lieut.-Col. R. H. Champl'
of a daughter. e
DAY—On the Bth inst., at The Elms, Lordship'
wich, the wife of FraMk Day, L'sq., of a dangtturotP
WALLER—On the 6th inst., the wife of Charles P'
Waller, Esq., Sydenham, of a son.

Marriages. ne 11'11
MILLARD —SANDERS—OR the 7th i at St. -•,-°[-i ,-.
Bloomsbury, William Edward, secondnst son cu'idat‘iltl!
Millard, E •lof st ~ ll2, Aldersgate-Street E.G., to fora
Amelia, daughter of Fred. sand i 473' ('
'
street., London, W.C. Sanders,
sq.'
g:iicP'
SMAR-T—DALLOW-7 On the 7th inst. at at Doningtovh'-'ooi,
Mr. John Smart, of Scarborough, EntrnaJtioej'of tD°
liter -too.
of The Brooklyns, Albrighton, eldest daug
late B. Dallow, Esq., of Summerfield, Wolverhapl
Deaths. iv 'AI °.
BARLEY—On the 7th inst., Dulcibella, wife of " ill' ,p
Barley, of Walpole-stret., Chelsea.
..., D—
, 13i$
CORNWELL— On the Bth iust ,at Plantation lia-c'uiiilt; ,
• Stortford, Herts, John C. Cornwell, Esq-, ''g-jirig;bt°-'
Fonn—On the 7th inst., at 42, Sussex-square'
U. S. Ford, Esq., aged 79. ~,T )0 I°'
INGRAM —On the Bth inst, at Watford Villai -,-,Beli
Derbyshire, James Ingham, Esq., J.P., age(' --;.2, Adet-
LARKE --On the Bth inst., Mr. Alfred Larke, a , stOc '
laide-road, South Hampstead, and 38, Saolivile-
Piccadilly. • , Chef`
WILSON--On the Bth inst., at the ltoyal liospit"
Sir John M. Wilson, C.V., K.li., aged 85.

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