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 : —Secretary 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, New 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 as Cloy-Lung, recently died in San Francisco. He settled there in 1850, where he established an extensive mercantile firm. Just before his death he expressed his intention of visiting New York and Chicogo on the completion of the Pacific Railroad, but seized with dropsy, ho obstinately adhered to Chinese treatment, and his five celestial doctors finished him off, like a true son of the Flowery Empire, at the age of 53. Chief-Justice Chase is in Concord, New Hampshire ; the Hon. James G. Blaine is in Washington ; ExPresident Pierce is recovering ; Ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania is at the Albemarle Hotel, N.Y. Judge G. G. Munger of Rochester; Col. L. T. Woodruff, Mobile; and Col. J. H. French, Boston, are at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Gen. H. 11. Baxter, Vermont, is at the Brevort House. Capt. Baker of the British army, and the Hon. D. Pi Wood, Syracuse, are at the Metropolitan Hotel.  The speech of the Hon. John Hillyard Cameron in defence of Whelan wag, as might have been expected from the leading lawyer of the Dominion, a masterpiece of forensic eloquence. He endeavoured to show that the evidence of Lacroix was untrustworthy, but the story WB. too direct and clear to b 3 neutralized even by the skill of the most able advocate. Whelan had done much by his incautious language to render Mr. Cameron's task impo£' 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'Gee. He danced a hornpipe and behaved outrageously. Patrick Blackley, lately arrested for the M'Gee murder, is said to be insane. Bail will probably be accepted for Eagleson Enright. Murphy 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 the 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 appointed 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 is New York."  The same paper informs us :—" George W. Demers, the editor-in-chief of the Albany Evening Journal, is absent from his duties on account of sickness. George Dawson acts as his " sub," and, contrary to his usual custom, seems to be losing his temper. He is fairly boiling over with rage on Mayor Hoffman's exposure of Radl" 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 other 3 of the 35 persons on board tho Hippocampus were saved, but we have not been able to procure their names for publication.  Captain Sherard Osborn, the Liberal candidate for Birkenhead, opposes Laird of Alabama notoriety, Who/ we hope, ho will sink with a few broadsides as the Kerseage did the privateer. Considering the injury done to this nation by Mr. Laird, it is surprising that he can have the audacity to offer himself as a representative in Parliament. As he commands the bodies and souls of a lot of Birkenhead men, we fear that the gallant and distinguished naval officer 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 o' system by which an exchange of prisoners, in the event of a war, may be arranged.