New-York daily tribune., 1859-07-06

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The Hon. James Bowside of Belefonte pa
was killed last Friday BY being thrown from his
buggy.
| The Hon. Samuel Besrdsley Of Utica sails to-
| day, in the steamer for Europe.
A Conve,.ion of the ProtestsD' Episcopal Church
Of Minnesota held At ST. Paul on the 3Oth ult., after
much delberati,s and the private conference Of the
two Ordera. agreed on the clsice Of the Rev. Henry
B. Whipple, Rector Of the (Free) Church Of " The
Holy Communion in Chicago, as Bishop Of tbs.
Dicces. ard his election was mad, unanimous. There
hsS been several bekts. Dr.. Tucker Of Troy N.
Y, had been twice rejected By the A'ty.
The Committee Of ene hundred who have chsrge
ofPorers Statue Of Webster, about which there sss
been much discussion Of late, hello meeting In
Boston on Saturday last, snd, after warm debate,
adopted resolution to set mp the statue 70 the Court
House yard.
The honorary degree Of Doctor of Divinity has
been conferred upon the Rev. Nicholas Hoppn of
Cambridge, by Trinity COlleg'
We are happy to able to ansounce, says Tie Sac
AHto,t, TeIas) Herald of the 10th ut, that the
health of our Department Commander Gen. THiggs
is restored, he being able to wedk about his bouse
with ease and transact bis official business. Indeed
We understand that during his worst sickness he
insisted upon performing all his Official duties, signing
bis name to all pspers as usual, his mini being rs
much on his business when in heath, aud as clear
in its comprehension.
The Adel ,hi Society of the Michg1n University
having learned III at efforts beiog made to admit
female students to the benefits of thet institution,
passed whereas and several resolutions to the
effect that their admission ought no. to be permitted
II. Al - =
scholarship and destroy the efficiency of the ustitu
ton; and furthermore that some Of the Faculty and
many Of the students will withdraw from the Unver-
sity if female students admitted. If this should
be the only result of such admission submit that
the institution volld not be seriously rjured
Prince Poniatowski, the sole representative Of
the Royal family of ancient Poland who has escaped
from exile in Siberia, account Of his attachment to
Professionalism has to this country, intending to
become citizen. He is leeturing at Portland and
Newburyport on Siberia and Russia but means to go
west for his residence.
The Vienna correspondent Of The London 1t~es
lauds the late Prince Metternch 1t should be known
that this correspondent was formerly a teacher in
Metternichs family.
The Roman correspondent Of TIE London Weekly
Register writes that her Majesty Queen Victoria has
forwarded an autograph letter to the Pope thanking
him for his present Of beautiful mosaic table.
Humboldt is said to have left manuscript tres
tise Geography more perfect than any yet known.
A new trial has been granted at 81. Louis by the
Court Of Common Pleas 10 the notorious breach-of-
promise case in which Miss Efie c. Csrztung recov-
cred $lO0, 600 damages against Mr.. Henry Shaw. The
Court said that if the plaintiff s case were perfectly
free from all exceptions the amount of the verdict
would not under the circumstances of the case, be
sufficient reason to set it aside. But the verdict
should not stand where the Court had excluded tesa-
mony and the parties had got it before the Jury, or
got it where they were likely to it, by publishing
it in the newspapers, as was done in this case.
The Hon. Thos. +. Marshall has been lecturing to
good acceptance in St. Louis on the Life and Char
acter of Henry Clay.
1t is stated that the picture Of Washington Re-
signing the Command of the Army, painted by order
of the Maryland Legislature is finished, and will soon
be placed in the Senate Chamber Of that State.
MIR. l.. w. Spratt of South Carolina, the putative
father of the slave-trade, is leeturng on his o
spring in Savannah.
The Bishop Of Antigua, DR.. s. J. Rigaud who
was formerly master of gramar school, at Ipswich,
died Of yellow fever last month.
Miss Olive Oatmsn, whose captivity among the
Apache Indians recently excited compassion, lectur
ing at Saratoga upon the incidents of her life among
the savages.
The two gentlemen whose names stand at the
hesd Of the new list Of classical scholars at Dublin
University are Roman Catholics, who enabled by
a recent liberal measure of the Beard to obtain the
distinction and advantages of a scholarship in the
University Of Dublin.
The Regents Of the University Of Michigan have
adopted resolutions exceedingly complimentary to DIR.
Br lnnow accepting his resignation as Director OF
the Ann Arbor Observatory. Prof. John C.. Watson
has been appointed his successor.
1t is said that the purpose of Senator Benz amins
visit to Europe s to effect loan to the Tehuanepec
Company.
The 81. Louis Democrat, which charged II. Clay
Pate with kidnapping negro, has re.racted its first
statements declaring that the evidence shows there
was not the slightest foundation for any such charge
against him, and the prosecution clearly mali
cious and false.
-Tenpyson's new poem is in the hands of Messrs.
Ticknor & Fields, who to publish the American
simultaneously with the London edition. 1t is entitled
1.-The True and the False -Four Idyls of the King"
The Rev. Alexander Gregg, of Cheraw, s. c., has
formally accepted his appointment TO the Bishopre OF
the diocese of Texas.
The Right Rev. j. W. Boone, ID. d., Missionary
Bishop to China viii sail for Shanghae the 7th of
July, in the Golden Rule. He will be accompanied
BY Mrs. Boone and nine missionaries.
Mr.. Jacob Bell of London, a chemist, and the
President of the Pharmaceutical Society, who died
the ltb ult., bequeathed the best Of his pictures TO
the English nation. Among them are several by his
friend, Sir Edward L.ndseer, and a small Horse