The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-26 00:00:00

[*Mr. Cates, p. 126, puts it by a strange lap sus Robert
Stephenson.]

Lucifer Matches .. .. 1830
Screw Propeller, by Smith and Ericsson .. 1830
Electric Telegraph • • • • 1837

Stereoscope, by Wheatstone

.. .. .. 1838

Lenticular Stereoscope, by Brewster .. .. 1849

Electrotype

•.
•. .. .. •. 1839

Daguerreotype .. .. .. .. .. 1839
Steam Hammer, by Nasmyth .. .. .. 1842
Gun Cotton .. ..
..
..
.. 1846
Revolver, by Colt .. .. .. .. .. 1850
Chloroform, by Simpson .. • • •• • • 1850
Spectral analysis, by Kirchof and Bunsen .. 1860

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The book is a very hive of information, with rich
stores of the honey of knowledge packed away,
as it Were in cells especially contrived for the re-
ception of each individual little drop. A very para-
dise for bee readers of all kinds, whether those
flaunting drones who are too idle for such honey-
hunting themselves, preferring much to have it thus
collected together for their enjoyment, or whether,
on the contrary, it be those " humble" "busy" ones
who, in the midst of their own habitual toils, taste
perhaps with a keener relish than any others could
do, the luxury of a casual sip, here, on the sly—
❑amely, the professional man, the scholar, the work-
ing man of letters, in effect any one seriously and
assiduously engaged in the whirling work of this
age of perpetual industry.

THE CHAMuIS-HUNTER, Mr. Charles Boner, has
started on a tour through Transylvania, the wild sports of
which country will give full occupation to his gun, as the
little known manners and customs will serve to employ his
pen.
" WATERLOO CLARK"—that is Mr. John Clark, so
called from his "Scenes from the Battle of Waterloo,"
sketched by him on the field itself immediately after the
battle—died a few days ago at Edinburgh in his 92d year.
THE CONCERTS OF MR. HENRY LESLIE'S CHOIR
will begin on the 4th (being the anniversary of Mendela-
sohn's &lath), with a Mendelssohn Evening.
" THE WINTER OF OUR DISCONTENT."—The
Spectator laughs good-humouredly at the Hon. H.
Winter Davis, of Baltimore, who revels in the idea of Admi-
ral Dupont sending his " bombshells over the dome of St.
Paul's, and the ruins of London-bridge tumbling into the
stream below l" Evidently, says our contemporary, Mr.
Davis wishes to play into the hands of Lord Macaulay's
"Maori," who from his broken arch will paint tho picture,
while Admiral Dupont realises it. Bat if the shells are to
fly over the dome of St. Paul's the elevation of the mortars
will be somewhat unpractical, like that of Mr. Winter
Davis's oratorical artillery.

THE LYCEUM THEATRE, after extensive altera-
tions, will open on the 31st inst with "Bel Demonic> (Mr.
Fechter as the hen.), when we believe Mr. G. F. Neville, a
young actor of great promise and provincial reputation, will
mate his first how to a London audience. He is a younger
brother of the talented H. Neville, who has made himself
famous in the " Ticket-of-Leave Man."

The news of the meeting of German Ministers at Nureraa
berg was a surprise, and no pleasant one, to the Prussian
Government, whose diplomatic agents are not generally
renowned for correctness and rapidity of information--tto
very surprising, if we consider the way in which some o
them arc appointed. We hear that Gen. Willison, whee°
projected appointment to Turin caused so much controversy,
and was finally sent to Rome, is about to return home, not
having been found adequate to the duties of the situation.
It is added that he is not to be reinstated in the post he for-
merly held at Court, and which it was understood would
for a certain time be kept open for him. Tim King, it ap-
pears, lately wished to appoint one of his aides-de•camp
Minister at the Hague, that post being vacant, but M.
Bismark positively objected to a persistence in the °
converting respectable generals into bud ministers plenir"
tentiary.