The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-29 00:00:00

THE GREAT EASTERN.

In proof of the facilities of the port of Liverpool
for the performance of any description of work in
connection with shipping, we may state that tha
inward cargo of the Great Eastern has been dis-
charged and the ship coaled for her next voyage in
seven working days. When it is remembered that
the cargo discharged and the coal shipped would
weigh, in the aggregate, not much less than 13,000
tons, the magnitude of the work and of the neces-
sary arrangements may be imagined. The neces-
sity of loading and discharging in the river of course
very materially increases the work to be performed,
but this drawback is at present unavoidable.
The big ship will sail to-morrow, and, as sbe
will call at Queenstown, it is expected she will take
a great number of passengers of all c'asses.

THE LATE ROYAL ENTERTAINMENT.—On Thurs-
day the glass and china used at the royal table was
sold by auction by Mr. H. E. Murrell, in the Council
Chamber. The articles Nt ere manufactured specially for the
occasion by Messrs. Daniell and Messrs. Copeland and Co.,
and many of them fetched more than their original cost,
Admis, ion was confined strictly to the Aldermen and Com-
mon Council. As instances of the prices obtained the fol-
lowing may be quoted—Soup-plates which cost £2 2s per
br►lf-dozen, realised an average of £2 ss; a desert plate and
d'oyley (there were many lots of this kind), cost £1 12s 6d,
fetched 35s or 36s ; dinner plates, cost 7. each, realised 7s
to 7s 6d. each; water jug and two tumblers, coat £5 ss,
sold for Li it's; table napkins fetched 21s to 25s per half-
dozen; the entire cost of the glass and china on the Royal
table was £654 108, the proceeds of the sale amounted to
about £5OO. Of the cost of some of the items the following
may be given :—Sherry and port glasses, 12s each ; claret
glasses, 13s 6d each ; hock, 15s ; champagnes and tumblers,
16s each; finger glasses, 21s each; ice plates, 7s 6d. Of

each of the above there were 60. Eight port decanters,
42s ecch; eight sherry, same price ; six water jugs and
gobl eta, £5 each ; dessert plates (60), 30s each ; eight claret
jug,s, 55s each. Perfumery cost £9B.—City Press.
RUSSIAN ATROCITIES.—A Warsaw letter in tht
Dat.tiic Gazette says :---" The persecutions egainsi
the Catholic clergy do not appear likely to cease here any
more than at Wilna. Another priest has been hanged at
Zomosc, and several others have been thrown into the dun-
geons of the citadel for their patriotic sermons ; 12 the other
hand the prisons are crowded. All classes of scciety are
so much accustomed to those proceedings that no one
• is terrified. The National Government has just
• published the following proclamation at Warsaw :—''the
Russian agents, who are having recourse to all kinds of
measures to put down the insurrection, intend within the
next few days to exilite the people to make an armed demon-
stration in the capital. The National Government warns
the inhabitants not 1 o be deceived by the artifice, but to wait
'with patience and resolution for the moment when the Go-
vernment itself shall give the signal. The hour of deliver-
ance will surely come.' "

THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT !—Two persons
shall be of the same height, end yet one shall be
considered much taller than the other ; this may be the rea-
son why statues are often described as not being so many
feet, but so many heads high ; the siz of the head in either
will generally govern the rest of the body, and the two sub-
jects will be distinguished less by height than by tall or
;short proportions; upon the same principle, abort or long
faces command short or long limbs, and it may be compara-
tively said of each of them—toe, may be fair specimens of
elegance and plumpness, of grace or of good condition. It
is no contradiction to assert that a long and short face may
be lineally of the same length. To unravel this, take two
profiles of each, let the projecting and undulating lines be
traced as in a map, then let each be elongated so as to form
two straight lines, and they will be found to measure the
same. The fact is, that the lines of a short face will make
up in projection what they lose in length, and the lines of a
long face will make up in length what tney lose in projec-
tion. In like manner a short upper lip will not shorten the

lower part of the face, as the deficiency may be made up by
a larger space of chin ; the same may apply to a high fore-
head, to which some one or other of the features will yield
the necessary ro,,m, that the uniform length may be pre-
served.—From Arttcle on " Comparative Beauty" in Ara_
tional Magazine.

couple veert-
IN NATURE'S TEMPLE.—A young
married on the 26th ult., at the Falls of Niagara. Upon
Lunar Island, in a recess of the glen, by the green margin
of the Rapids, they took their indissoluble vows, and by
the Methodist Minister were made one with words of cere-
mony, and prayer hardly audible amid the thunders of the
cataract,—American .Paper.