The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-31
Gossip from london.

The following extracts from the London Letter
OF the New York Times, possess general interest;
THE BRITISH MINISTER AT WASHINGTON.
The new Minister whom we send to you IS Edwaro
Thronton, ESQ.,, lately British envoy at Rio Jane
~ Rather oddly YOU may call him in America
If Won are so minded by much more senorouIs
title. Here he is Edward Thronton. =. b;m"Ith
Won he NAV be Count Of Cassilhas Mr.. Inroh-
toms father had this title conferred upon nal ~
the King of Portugal for three lives, and George l'
sanctioned its adoption with the usual cohdlTon-
that it should not be borne IN England. AN !!
afraid some Of the papers WILL nave eio9ii0i I ~
call the new Minister Count lhorntoni ne 5'. naS
had a long experience Of dlplomatists uuIies,
bnt his APPOINTMENT is generally looked upon as
mistake. To-days Spectator and the Illnes oo-
ject TO the choice, totally apart from MI. 1nrUp'
ton,s individual merits when are censlueiaple
1t is felt that man OF greater TIees nmts IT,
egThe Government ought to have studed 10 avolo
sending a minister to America whose merits are
only known to the official class, ana whom every We,
one else in Englandis obliged to ask, VINO Is ne,
Poor SIR Frederick Bruce was buried one day this
weak. in the family vault OF the Eigns, large
nnmber OF spectators having assembled TO WIT
ness the rites.
MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS.
statute OF Mr.. Peabody, the banker would YOU
add the philsuthropist," but that 1t seems nke a
label OF trsdeis to have statute erecte ~ ~
Ia III.
M story. the American sculptor. !t Is SAID tnat
alsite viii be given BY the city near the Royal E1-
change. Lo ;,tora.+ad IN 1eern
4hat tSe work commenced by the late Mr.. Joseph
partes npon the authorship OF the Junus letters,
has been completed by Hermann Merlvale ana
viii shortly be published bv Mr.. Bently. In MS
hoot IL is proved that oir Philip Francis was
Gnn;rs. The last time saw Mr.. Parkes-only
few weeks before his death-he showed me
GREAT pile Of MS. which he had prepared, and
which he drew from tin box with all the gentle
SonIness of an author for the children OF his
hrain." He read portion to me, and gave me an
occnnnt of some papers discovered among Sir
Ph;in Francis's collection, which to my mind es-
tablished beyond all possibility of doubt the TACT
that Junius and Francis we're one ana the same
person. The direct evidence IS surprisingly y
strong but the collateral evidence Is conclusive;
7 nresume the narrative Mr.. Parkes gave me (and
also I believe, at an erier period to my 1rlend
MI Thurlow Weed whose valued acquaintance
owed to Mr.. Parkes,) is Incorporated IN the two
volumes about to be published. The letters OF Sir
Philip to his daughter would alone be suthcient TO
set thus old literary dispute at rest.
Among other new booAs presently to bepu bhsh-
ed we have in Mr.. Murray's announcements
"erhty wears of Republican Government IN the
United States" by Louis J. jennings, The latter
work is to be in one volume, post 8vo, and Is
divided into chapters on the theory Of the Govern
ment. the State, and the Union, the Executive,
the Cabinet, the Legislative, the Judiciary, uni
yersal suffrage the voluntary principle IN religion
6c The Christmas number OF all the Year Round
will be written this year entirely by Charles Dick
ems and Wilkie Collins.