The Sun. — 1869-06-21 (London, England)

BOO. This great firm has been called into exis'ence by the alterations made in the wine duties by Mr. Gladstone, and the enormous popular trade carried on is a proof of the quality of the articles supplied. To those curious in such matters a visic, to the premises will be highly loth resting, where they will meet with a polite reception, and no fear of unpleasant results need be entertained, for a lady may walk through the entire building without the slightest harm being incurred to the most deliclte dress, or being overpowered by the fumes usually prevalent in ordinary wine warehouses.  BUDGET OF PERSONAL ITEilS.—Horatio C. Buschard has been nominated by the Republicans in Illinois to succeed Elibu B. Washburne, in Congress.—lron. Benjamin F. Wade was commissioned as a Director of the Union Pacific Railroad, May 31.—The Governor of Pennsylvania has appointed John E..Addieks Health Officer of Philadelphia, to succeed General Sickles, resigned.—The Non York Times thinks "there never was a period when the public men ofA merica —Senators,Congressmen,Cabinet officers, and public functionaries of all sorts were as vigorously interviewed' as at thi,time."— Gen. E. T. Winslow pays the beaviest income tax inlown,hisreturn heings6o,ooo Major-General George 11. Thomas and staff err:veil at San Francisco in seven days and ten hours travelFng time from New York, and expressed themselves pleased with the mar,agement of the railroad.—John N. Maffit, commander of the late rebel pirate Florida, has inst:tnted legal proceedings at St. Paul, Minnesota, to recover so:ce slo,ooa worth of property coull4eat d in the Un'ted St..t,s District Court three years are, 111111 sold by the Usited Stmt- Marshal :er about £3,ooo.—Judge Park, the United States Consul to Aix -la- Chapelle, arrived in the (it) of Paris at Liverpool on Wednesday, 9th inst. The President has appointed another coloured Postmaster, Rev. Henry M. Turner, at Macon, Georgia.—Mr. Harvey, lldit.ister to Portugal. has been pail his salary so long w;tilhel,l.—Beve.dy Johnson's house in Washington has been robbed of $2OO worth of slyer ware.— Bartel Rothschild, of Frankfort, is said to have purchased a piece of land in Berlin, on w hich be intends to erect a splendid mansion. It is a pert of Prince Radziwill's park which lies opposite the Thiergarten.—General Kilpatrick, United States Minister to Chi", arrived at Lima on April 30, on the way to his post.—Dr. Long had entered on his duties as United States Consul at Panama.—General Sherman and Admiral Farragut accepted invitations to the Boston Peace Jubilee.— Senator Cole, of California, left New York for Washington, May 30. General Sherman and staff, accompanied by a party of ladies and gentlemen, among whom were Mr. and Mrs. and the Misses Dudley Field, arrived from Washington, May 31, at Fortress Monroe, on the United States steamer Tallapoosa; Commander Chandler. The party went to attend the wedding of a daughter of ..Geneial Barry. General Sherman received the usual salute of 17 guns from tha heavy water battery of the Fort.—Mr. Dudley Field has purchased the elegant estate in Dcbb's Ferry of Mr. J. Steymus, consisting of 20 acres, for $37,000.—General Schenck was to sail for Europe in the Cunard steamer of the 9th inst., and may therefore be explcted to-day or tomorrow.—The lion. Michael Connolly was to sal for Europe June 5. A number of his personal and political friends were to accompany Mr. Connolly down the bay in  steamboat which they had chartered for the occasion.— Mr. Seward's residence in Washington is to be converted into a boarding-house.—Vice-President Colfax is expected to visit ex-Congressman Cornell at Rondout this month. General Lee has expressed himself in favour of the adoption of the expurgated Constitution, and the election of Mr. Walker, the candidate of the Conservatives, for Governor.—Dr. Erni, United States Consul to Basle, Switzerland, and R N. Hanson, United States Consul to Bremen, from Baltimore, arrived in the steamer Leipzig last Tuesday.—Hon. S. S. Co; llgi.C., from New York, now travelling in Africa, writes home that he has seen a woman weighing 600 pounds.—Horace Greeley's daughter Ida is one of the officers of the " Women's Suffrage Association." —Ole Bull has accepted the invitation of the managers of the peace fastival at Boston to be leading violinist. He will perform his own arrangement of " Auld Lang Syne," accompanied by the orchestra of 1,000 instruments.— Judge Asa Walker, a lawyer, formerly of Bangor, Maine, and at one time editor of the Bangor Gazette, committed suicide in Brooklyn, California, last month, by drowning himself. Franklin Coffin of Claremont, New Hampshire, fell from his velocipede dead of heart disease.—Governor Stearns was inaugurated Governor of New Hampshire at Concord on Thursday, June 3. Governor Harriman delivered a brief valedictory to the Legislature, in which he congratulated the members upon the genoral prosperity of the State, and expressed his gratitude to the people for the confidence reposed in him during his two terms of office. George Lowry, a well-known citizen of Burlington, died there in his 60th year on Sunthy, May 30. He had served in the customs service nearly 27 years.—Colonel E. N. Phelps, a tobacco manufacturer, of Windsor, Connecticut, was arrested, May 29, and about 200,000 cigars and several thousand pounds of tobacco, valued at about slo,ooo' were seized by order of Collector Deming for alleged extensive frauds on the revenue. Colonel Phelps does not deny irregularities, but denies any fraudulent intention.-Mrs. Vern"n, a well-known popular actress, died on the 14th June, at her residence in New York, in the 77th year of her age.—Mrs. Parker, a lawyer's wife, shot and fatally wounded Mrs. Baker, a milliner, at Portland, Maine, June 2, incited by jealousy.—The Viceroy of Egypt will arrrive at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday next.—Mr. Andrew Johnson has made a grand speech, the greatest in his life, some journals say.—Colonel Frederick Hecker, a wellknown political exile from Germany, living on a farm  in St. Clair County, Iflinois, has become a wine-grower. --Parsen Brownlow leas writtenle!ter in which he pronouces in favour of Dewitt C. Senter for Governor of Tennessee.—We hear that the lIono;A-able William 11. Wisener is to b come tin independent candi(l.t.: for the pos7,,but Stokes says he is sure of the election.—Sir H. Bulwer has given not:c3 that on the 9.h of  July he would call the attention of the Must of Commons to the case of the Alamaba.—Thomas P. May and Wm. R. Whittake”, charged with embezzling over a million of dollars from the office of the sub-treasurer at New Orleans, have lately been acquitted by a jury in that city, though the evidence was clear against them. __ Judge John Wilson c'ied at his residence in Westminster, Canada, June 3. General Longstreet has also' horn looked.up for bad debts by the Auditor of the Treasury, who is likely to succeed in this instance better than he did with General Beauregard. General C. 0. Andrews, United States Minister to Sweden, left New York by the City of Paris, June 5. - George W. Childs, of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, is at the St. Nicholas hotel, New York.—Mrs. E. B. Washburn° is a cousin of Madame Montholon, and, like her, a descendant of the early French traders who settled in Illinois. •