The Sun. — 1868-10-06 (London, England)

CABINET.—The New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer indulges in the following speculation about the Seymour Cabinet :—Socretary of State, Edgar Cowan, Pennsylvania; Secretary of War, George B. M'Clellan, New Jersey : Secretary of the TreasurY, George H. Pendleton, Ohio ; Secretary of the Navy, David G. Farragut; Attorney-General, Charles O'Conor, ew York ; Postmaster General, John Quincy Adams, Massachusetts, or W. L. Sharkey, Mississippi; Secretary of the Interior, Charles Haight, California. The representative Chinaman of California, Chun-Lock, better known es Chy-Lung, recently died in San Francisco. He settled there in 1850, where he esti' blished an extensive mercantile firm. Just before his death he expressed his intention of visiting New York and Chi" cago on the completion of the Pacific Railroad, but seized with dropsy, he obstinately adhered to Chinese treatment, and his five celestial doctors finished him off I like a true son of the Flowery Empire, at the ago of 53. Chief-Justice Chase is in Concord, New Hampshire ; the Hon. James G. Blaine is in Washington ; E%-* President Pierce is recovering ; Ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania is at the Albemarle Hotel, N.Y. Judge G. O Munger of Rochester ; Col. L. T. Woodruff, Mobile ; and Col. J. I French, Boston, aro at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Gen. 11. H. Baxter, Vermont, is at the Brevort House' Capt. Baker of the British army, and the Hon. D. Wood, Syracuse, are at the Metropolitan Hotel. The speech of the Hon. John Hillyard. Camera in defence of Whelan was, as might have been expected from the leading lawyer of the Dominion, a masterpiece of forensic eloquence. He endeavoured to show that the evidonee of Lacroix was untrustworthy, but the story was, too direct and clear to ba neutralized evan by the skill 01 the most able advocate. Whelan had done much by 1115 incautious language to render Mr. Cameron's task impcf.' sible, for it was in vain for a lawyer to strive to prove his innocence when he himself admitted his guilt. Whelan declared, on returning condemned to his cell, that no one could have seen him shoot Mr. M'Geo. He danced a how pipe and behaved outrageously. Patrick Blackley, latelY arrested for the M'Gee murder, is said to be insane. Bell will probably be accepted for Eagleson Enright: 3110phy most strongly protests that he (Whelan) did not shoot M'Gee, but knows who did. It is expected Murphy will make a full confession.  The New York citizen says :—Governor Fenton, after spending several days in New York, and getting tb° affairs of his party in a general muddle, has now gone to Chautauqua county, to increase the muddle there. Charles E. Smith, editor of the Albany Express, has been PP" pointed his Private Secretary, vice Colonel George S. Hastings, for three years. The former private secretary who held the post has left the Executive Chamber, and accepted a position under the Board of Health . New York."  The same paper informs us :—" George IV, Demers, the editor-in-chief of the Albany Evening Journa is absent from his duties on account of sickness. George Dawson acts as his "sub," aad, contrary to his usual custom, seems to be losing his temper. He is fairly boiling over with rage on Mayor Hoffman's exposure of Racli° cal rottenness and deceit."  General Charles E. Lippincott, doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, is the Radical candidate for State Auditor of Illinois.  It appears that the captain and fourteen others of the 35 persons on board the Hippocampus were saved, but we have not been able to procure their names far publication. . _  Captain Sherard Osborn, the Liberal candidate for Birkenhead, opposes Laird of Alabama notoriety, who' we hope, he will sink with a few broadsides as the her seage did the privateer. Considering the injury done to this nation by Mr. Laird, it is surprising that he can WO the audacity to offer himself as a representative in Parll ment. As he commands the bodies and souls of a lot of Birkenhead men, we fear that the gallant and distinguished naval °facer may not be successful.  Rear-Admiral Yelverton has been appointed by the Admiralty to proceed to Geneva to meet the commis' sioners of all other foreign countries chosen to arrange system by which an exchange of prisoners, in the event ° a war, may be arranged.