The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-30 00:00:00

Charing-Cross Railway Refreshment Rooms.

One, portion of the extensive pile of building for the
Charing-cross Hotel is now so far completed as to be ready
for opening in a few weeks. It consists of a noble room on
the ground floor in the Villiers-street front connecting with
the railway station, and it is to be appropriated to refresh- ,
ment rooms. In connection with this department the di-
rectors entertain opinions which will be considered as
heterodox by some other boards—they think that a refresh-
ment room at a railway station should be what its name
implies, and not a nuckery and a delusion to railway tra-
vellers. We believe that the public will regard with no
small favour this bold innovation upon a state of things
which has already existed too long. It is strange that it
should have required the experience of so many years to
convince sensible men, as directors of railways are generally
presumed to bt;, of the absurdity of a system which con-
demned travellers to the alternative of hunger or
indigestion, and whft2a was alike mischievous to the
revenues of the oompacies, and to the health and
comfort of travellers. Alt this, we are glad to say,
is now to be changed ; brigehter days are in store
for the trateller on the South- Easte:n, and let us hope that,
their example followed by other lines, we may soon witness
a complete reform in the matter of refreshment rooms. The
experiment of suppiying good, wholesome, aud nutritious
food and drink is about to be made at Charing-cross by
Messrs. Spiers and Pond, who come to us from the Anti-
podes. These gentlemen, who were enterprising enongh
to engage the team of cricketers and took them out tt.'
Australia, who have been negotiating for some time
with Mr Charles Dickens for a series of readings in
the gold and wool producing colonies of Australia,
and who, it is rumoured, have designs of a similar
character upon either Mr Spurgeon or Tom Sayers, will not,
we are assured, be found wanting in the enterprise neces-
sary for a railway refreshment room at Charing-cross. The
same firm have, we believe, also entered into arrangements
with the London, Chatham, and Dow'. Company for the
supply of refreshments at all 'stations on their line. The
arrangements made are mutual in character, the companies
receiving, instead of a fixed rent for the stations, a certain
percentage of the gross receipts, thus giving to each party
to the contract an interest in the extension of the business
to be done. The contractors will endeavour to attract
customers by the quality and price of their goods supplied,
and the companies will assist by giving facilities for carry-
ing on the business.—Railway News.

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting a paper was received from Dr Gaillouste, on
the insufficiency of the means commonly employed against
the bite of mad dogs and the sting of venomous reptiles. In
his opinion, cupping effected on the wound is greatly to be
preferred. The secretary of the Academy, however, re
marked that cupping had already been tried and a report
been presented on the subject to the Academy ,in which it was
shown that in most cases the effect of this operation was
' only suspensive, that is, that it prevented the absorption
of the virus until other therapeutic agents could be procured
to destroy it. M. Chautard communicated certain results
obtained by him in experimenting on currents of induction
traversing rarified gasses. On examining the spectra pro-
duced in such cases, when the gaseous matter was raised to
a state of incandescence by making a current obtained from
Ruhmkorffs machine pass through it, M, Chadard finds
that the red and brilliant light emanating from a tube filled
with hydrogen is gradually transformed into a livid greenish
with tint; the spectrum, instead of presenting three magnifi-
cent bands,red, green, and violet respectively,as usual consists
only of a very pale green band. The tube acquires no heat
during the process. In nitrogen also various colours disap-
pear, the red and orande first, the violet last. In carbonic
acid the bands are very numerous under the influence of an
ordinary current, but if the tension of the circuit be dimi-
nished, the same absorption of the extreme shades takes
lace M. des Essarts sent in a paper on a method of his
I, •
for Oransmitting the oscillating power of the waves of the
sea to certain apparatuses placed on the beach, which may
be sabstitotted for steam engines in the various workshops
of arsenals.
LOVE IN A D4APER'S SHOP.—Ia an accident
that has just ocmrred in Liverpool we have another
evidence of how the powerful promptings of a "tender"
heart control the more reflective senses of the mind. In a
rather extensive business establishment is Liverpool,
where several assistants are engaged, there might have
been seen, a week or two since, a young man of command-
ing deportment and of agreeable features, who gave effect
to his avocation behind the counter in a manner that was
at once inviting to the customers and conducive to the
success of his master. With many purchasers he became
a favourite, but with one in particular. More than once—
sometimes mere than twice—in the course of a week, a car-
riage would be drawn up as the shop door, from which would
THE ABBE CHATAIGNON.—The Civil Tribunal of emerge a lady, apparently between 3l and 40 years of age— 1
Angonleme has just given judgment in the actionwith an outline of features
tall, of delicate appearance, but
whieli was brought by the Abbe Chataireon against the that unmistakably indicated an aristocratic descent. If the
young gentleman—we say young, for he was scarcely 21
officers of the (tat-civil of the communes of Plastate-Rouf-
years of age—was not at his accustomed position behind
fiat and of Mau;-triers, for refusing to publish 6CICI celebrate
the counter upon her entering the shop, she made the most
his marriage. The Court has decided that as the Catholic
urgent inquiries after him, desiring that he should attend
Church imposes celibacy on the priests ; that as cense-
to her and no one else. The worthy proprietor was always
gnently a citizen who enters into holy orders engages necer
too happy to comply with her desire, for she was one
to marry, and that as it is on the faith of such engagement
0! those first-rate customers that settled a good ledger
that the Church authorises him to exercise his ministry and
to receive confessions, which he might abuse if he had not eeeeetnt once in Fix months without the allowance of the
laid aside all hope of ever again returning into the world, ordinar; discount, The favourite salesman was soon at his
the officers of the etat.eivil of the said communes were jus- post servilOg the Ira", and though a goodly number of
tified in refusing to comply with the application made to articles migh: be disposed of, chorea ppeared to exist
ha
in the " business transaction" which
them by the Abbe; the plaintiff, therefore, is nonsuited and " peculiar someth:ng"
in the course of time ,looked vary much like a warm cord!.
condemned to pay all the costs.—Galignenr,
THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE CORPS OF COM- ality of sentiment, and
la reciprocity. of feeling and idea
MISSIONAIRES. —ln March last the captain an• byoorudnegrinmganupwonas m"ucthusaffed,a,ttachment. Of course the
exceedingly by his envious
nounced that for this purpose a sum of £B,OOO was neees- shopmates, who were wont to ejaculate in their
sary, although men of business allege that the institution strange surmisings that it was a sort of proceeding
is more than self-supporting. From March to August, the Siam one day last week,
"no fellah could understand."
amount subscribed towards this £B,OOO, is less than £360, on ea
t as far as
however, the buxom stripling has become ,^2
of which at least one-half must have been absorbed by the the establishment is concerned, while the face of the lady as
cost of advertisements in the Times, of which the captain's well has not presented itself within the visions*. region of
brother is the chief proprietor, and which has had a mono- the other assistants
or their employer. It is stated that a
poly of the advertisements.—The Comet. letter was addressed by the young man to his mothe,' on
DEATH THROUGH THE UPSETTING OF A CUP OF the eve prior to his leaving stating " that he had left hill
TneeOn Saturday afternoon Mr A. A. Fletcher, coroner, old place to better himself elsewhere. Fortune had sad-
hold an inquest at Walsall touching the death of Elizabeth daily smiled upon him in a wondrous manner I" He
Tomlinson, a child 3i years of age, the daughter of a wag- assured his mother also that, " the next time she con-
gener. The child while at the breakfast table accidentally fronted her ' darling boy' she would see him a gentleman
upset a cup full of hot tea over her chest, arms, and aide, of the first stamp. Ho should then decline to say where
and extensive inflammation being caused she was taken to
the was gone, but he trusted she would not be nervous on
the Cottage Hospital, and there treated as an out-patient t account, as she would hear from him again shortly."
until Wednesday last, when she was admitted into the in- On inquiries being instituted iveral days from her t was discovered thathome.
the
stitution, but death terminated her sufferings on the follow- lady too had been missing
for se
lug day, A verdict of accidental death was renamed. No traces up to Thursday last—nearly a week having
hen
THE GAME SEASON.—Partridge shooting corn- elapsed—had been discovered of her whereabouts,
minces on Thu: dap next, Sept. 1, and there is every pro- has been a widow for five years and is without encumbrance.
spect of good sport i'.or the gunner. In consequence ee the She has been residing in a rather picturesque village in
dry 21 has been very favourable for Lancashire since her widowhood, and is in receipt of a
inheasants and partridges. The liberal income, Under present circumstances we omit the
hat weather the seasoching and rearing both
latter are numerous and strong,. and the former are also names of the parties.--Liverpool Courier.
plentiful and strong on the wi_vig. Some covies in Wor- NEUTRALISATION OF MILITARY HOSPITALS IN
the end of June. The
cestershire could fly well before TIME or Weat.—The deliberations of the International
h„..-4 made the birds un-
great scarcity of cover, however, Medical Conference at Geneva, have terminated in the con-
good deal
usually wild, and sportsmen will have .to walk a elusion of a convention in 10 articles, which affirm the neu-
inHares and rabbits are plea -
order to make up a " bag." tralisatien of all military hospitals, of the whole official
their increase,
tiful, the season being also favourable for medical stiff, and of the wounded. Twelve States only
The harvest is finished everywhere, so that ,there will be figure therein a contracting
Belgi paum, rties,D namenmarelyk, , FSpain, the
rance, the
no interruption to the sport. Grand Duchy of
UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS.---The UrtelEtißi6
,t 1 divi. Grand Duchy of Hesse, Italy, Holland, Portugal, Prussia,
sends handed over to the Commissioners for the Ilecoctioblic n
been left open, all the Switzerland, nd Wnether Powrtembu7g ;
ers bucan aceede tot th 3 protocolthe eon-
having
of the National Debt, and by them invested in the pO
funds, amounted at the close of the last vention.
financial year to no
An interesting ceremony took place two days
less than £2,579,975 stock. There is also in the hands .of
the Commissioners more than'io'soo,ooo stock on which no ago in the Church of La. Charite •at Lyons, where
dividend has been claimed for upwards of 10 years. 1 Olgr. do Charbonnel ordained, as priests, two young
DEATH OF LORD MORL EY .--43 LYMOU TH, Aug. det,c.c ns belonging to the establishment of the African Mis-
\
30.—The Earl of Morley died on Sunday evening, sions, and who are about to proceed to the Kingdom. of
aged 54, after a short illness, while on a visit at Whitaway, Daho; ney. He also baptised a young negro about eleven
kq, the years of age, a native of that country. The church was
near Chndleigh, Devon, the resid.ence of Mrs, Par
GTOWAd d 'with persons to witness the ceremony.
Countess of Worley's mother,