The Sun. — 1869-04-28 (London, England)

BUDGET OF PERSONAL—Miss Kellogg receives, it is said, £5O a night, which some papers appear to think a large suni, but which we do not, considering her talents —General Simon Bolivar. Buckner has gone into the life assurance agency business at New Orleans. —Anna Dickinson is lecturing in Kansas, the favourite ground for Woman's Rights' Women.—A subscription is being taken in Kentucky to buy John C. Breckenridge a residence at Lexington ; the rebel generals certainly require houses more than their conquerors, who get Executive mansion's andquicter themselves generally on the country. The-Hon. Dither Dixon was re-elected Chief Justice of Wisconsin on Monday, April s.—Geo. F. Nesbitt, the wellknown printer and publisher, died April 6, at his residence in Lexington Avenue, New York.—The law which kept Alexander T. Stewart out of the Treasury Department is said to have been written by Alex. Hamilton.—Ambrose Monell, son of Judge Monell of the Superior Court, was 3d April, on motion of Commissioner Owen, admitted to practise in allthe degrees in the U.S. Circuit and District Courts. —Brigadier General Burton, commanding at Fort Adams, New York, died on Sunday, April 4, aged 51.—A cutlery firm at Sheffield, England, have sent ex-Secretary Seward an elegant penknife with a star for each State of the Union set in gold upon the ivory handle.—A wealthy San Francisco Chinaman has become a Fenian. His countrymen say. he -is insane and have locked him up. Ossian E. Dodge has been elected secretary of the St. Van], Minnesota, Chamber of Commerce. By the recent death of James Harper the partnership of the great publishing house is dissolved, and the rule-abrogated which prevents the entrance into the firm of any of the partner's children. They who are :now salaried clerks will probably be readmitted and the firm reconstructed.—Spangle and Arnold the Lincoln conspirators, reached Baltimore on Tuesday from the Dry Tortugas.—John B. Felton, brother of the late I'resident Felton of Harvard College, and a leading San Francisco lawyer, has been chosen Mayor of Oakland, the suburb city of San Ftsanci(co.—William P. P. Longfellow, a nephe'w of Henry W. Longfellow, will soon be offered the place of Assisting Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, a positron for which he is admirably .qualified:—The funeral of Grenville Winthrop, a New York banker, whose death occurred recently in the south of France, took place at Trinity Church ou the 9th inst., the-Revs. Messrs. Vinton, Gable, and Seabury officiating. —The German actress, Madame Olga Von Plittendorff, 'committed suicide at San Francisco, April 7.—Mr T. G. Amsleton, of Boston, while in Rome, rnrchased Cardinal Tosti's collection of engravings, 10,000 in number, and has presented them to the Boston Public Library,—Ex-Secretary Stanton is extremely ill, and has recently received ehm-ch baptism —Mrs. Dr. Mary Walker, after several applications for.offies, has received an answer from I'resident Grant that she might have an interview when dressed as becomes her sex.—The.bursting of a steam pipe of the Inman steamer City of New lurk, at New York, April 3, killed one man and injured three others, 'all of them employe's on the steamer.—Mr. Cox, the Commissioner of -Pensions, has been asked to resign, and it is likely that either Mr, Perham, of Maine, or Mr. Yap Aernan, of New York, will succeed.—Tlao gift of Mrs. Eliza Sutton to the Peabody Institute, in Peabody, of a $20,000 fund in memory of her son, to be used in buying a referetee library, is about to be put to its destined use. 'The room for this library, fitted up by Mrs. Sutton at a cost of $13,000, has just heen pompleted.—The effort of the counsel to obtain a new trial, for Charles Steadman and Harry Jennings, convicted at Boston-of the Godding robbery, was overruled by Judge Lord, and they were seatencedto four years' imprisontiaent in the State prison.-•;--14`.--W: Thompson, Of Boston, cashier of -Wells- Fargo  - and Co.'s express company, and an officer in the Ancient and Honourable Artillery Company of Boston, died at Portland, April s.—Brevet Brigadier-General Burton, Colonel of the sth Regular Artillery, commanding at Fort 'Adams, Newport, died at that post all Sunday, 4th April, of apoplexy, aged fifty-one.-A purse of $3OO is being made up for Miss Ida Lewis, the "Grace Darling" of Lime Rock Lisht, by the officers and soldiers of Fort Adams.—Aaron Quackenbush, formerly slave, and a servant in the army of 1776, died at Sharon April 2, aged).os years. Mr. Longfellow and his three daughters have arrived in Rome ; they intend to make a short stay iu Florence, Switzerland, Paris, and England previous to returning to America in August.—We regret to say that Charles Dickens was suddenly taken ill and unable to give a reading at the Preston Town Hall on T h ursd ay.