The Sun. — 1868-11-14 (London, England)

MAY.  Chester 4 , Epsom Summer 25 Bath  JuNE. Ascot Liverp00l Summer Windsor 1 b Stockbridge  An Imperial ukase has been issued at St. Peters 4 burg, Nov. 12, ordering that, with a view to complete the strength of the army and the fleet, a levy should be made of four persons in every thousand inhabitants throughout the empire, the conscription to commence on the 16th of January and terminate on the 15th of February next. Mr. Simonton, the agent of the New York Associated Press, has sued the New York Tribune for libel in publishing a letter from George H. Butler, nephew of General Butler, substantiating a charge that General Butler had made to the effect that he (Butler the nephew) had thrashed Simonton which the latter had denied. The Tribune printed both sides to the correspondence, which left off, however, rather severely for' Simonton. Butler calls him "the first liar in America," and says he thrashed him into a dead run down Pennsylvania avenuefor a quarter of a mile in 1866. The overseers of Harvard College have appointed the following university lecturers for the ensuing year:— On geology, Professor Josiah D. Whitney ; on opthalmology, Dt Henry W. Williams and Dr Haskett Derby ; on hygiene, Dr George Derby ; on tumours, Dr Algernon Coolidge ; on Palmontology, Nathaniel S. Shaler ; on the geology of the basin of Lake Champlain, Rev. I. B. Perry; on psychological medicine and medical jurisprudence, Dr John E. Tyler. _ _  Last Monday evening Mr. Elihu Burritt, the American Consul at Birmingham, attended the dinner to the retiring mayor at the Great Western Hotel. A short time after he lett he discovered that his pocket-book, containing £3O in notes together with some papers, had been stolen from him, and almost at the same moment Mr. Alderman Briggs, before quitting the hotel promises, found that his gold watch was missing ; it had been wrenched from the chain, a small portion of which the chief of police picked up off the floor. It is thought that the thief got among the company when crowding together in search of hats and coats before leaving the hotel. Ex-Alderman Corwin committed suicide Oct. 25 by cutting his throat with a carving-knife. He resided at 224, East Twenty-fifth .street, New York. Deceased had been suffering from consumption for a long while, and it is supposed he committed the rash act to put an end to his sufferings. Captain M. F. Maury was on the 28th October at Staunton, Virginia, where ho spoke at an agricultural fair in defence of the agriculturists of the South, against the reproaches that they were wanting in energy, attending to other business than that which so greatly concerned them. The Springfield Republican says :—" Mr. Dunbar, the invalid editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser, will soon be in Egypt, and pass the winter with his predecessor and friend, Mr. Charles Hale, now consul at Alexandria. Egypt's winter climate is soft, dry, dreamy, lazy, and luxurious, just right for a nervous dyspeptic, which is the prevailing typo of American invalidism. A Convention has been called by the Governors of lowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, which was to meet at Pi airie du Chien, on November 10th, in order to mature measures to impress upon Congress the necessity of making immediate and sufficient appropriations to sacure the improvement of the navigation of Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and connect the Mississippi river with Lake Michigan. _  The overseers of Harvard college held a meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 27, when the resignation of Dr. Hill WM announced, but no nomination of a successor was received from die fellows, so no action was taken further than to appoint a committee to confer with the corporation as to the duties of the president, and Dr. Walker, George F. Hoar, and William Gray were chosen for the purpose. IL W. Emerson, Samuel Eliot, James Freeman Clarke, Edward E. Hale, azd others presented very interesting reports on the state of the college.