The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

garrison.
THE VOLUNTEERS' total enrolled strength is now
159,000 men of all ranks, of whom 1,300 are cavalry, 23,000
artillery, 2,500 engineers, and 132,000 rifle volunteers.
EFFECTUAL WAY OF LAYING A PATENT GHOST.
—The latest in the ghostly line is the announcement at
Bristol, made this week by public advertisement, that, owing
to an unforeseen circumstance, the ghost could not appear
till further notice. '1 his sudden indisposition of the ghost
is the first instance on record. It appears that they smashed
his speculum on the rail, and taus laid the ghost effectually.
The recipe is valuable.
IT is calculated that 700,000 people had flocked
to Paris for the late Fete de l'Empereur.
Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King at Arms, and
the well-known author of the "Peerage and
Baronetage," was educated at the College of Caen, where he
carried off; amongst other prizes,that awarded for exemplary
conduct. To preserve the pleasing memory of his youthful
triumphs, he sends every year a splendidly-bound c3py of
one of his own walks to be added to the prize awarded for
exemplary conduct. At the last distribution of prizes, the
volumes kindly sent by Sir Bernard wore presented to M.
E. Tessier by M. Bertrand, mayor of the city of Caen, who
presided over the solemity.
LONDON IMPROVEMENTS.--The Inns of Court
Hotel Company are about to commence operations
between Lincoln's-inn-fields and Holborn, and at the same
time will most probab y be begun that gigantic undertaking
by which the Government proposed to unite Farringdon-
street and Leicester-square on one side by a road straight
through Shoe-lane, Chancery-lane, Carey-street, Princes-

street, Drury-lane, and Great Russell-street; and on the
other side to open a new means of communication between
Holborn and the Strand, through Lincoln's• inn-fields and

the dirty regions of Clare-market.
IIIE MOON !—Anyone, says Professor Phillips,
who goes to see the process of extracting the silver
from lead ore may have an opportunity of witnessing, on a
small scale, causes in operation producing exactly similar
effects to those observed cn the surface of the moon. After

the process is completed, and the litharge all blown off from
the pure silver, the observer may be very apt to go away,
nothing apparently remaining to be seen ; but is he wait
for a short time, as the mass of silver cools, he will soon see
its surface torn up by explosions from within, caused by the
extrication of oxygen gas, and elevations and fissures pro-
duced exactly resembling those on the surface of the moon
as observed in the best instruments.

THE GHOST A LA PEPPER.—This very day I have
seen some hundred ghosts, and scares of people saw
them with me, though not consciously. It was in an om-
nibus, passing from Charing-cross to the City. The plate-
glass in the shops had dark backgrounds, and became thus
the dark chambers of Porta, and everything that passed by
was projected by the vision into the shops. It was a per-
fect phantasmagoria, and it was the, plate-glass that pro-
duced the effect " polished like a looking-glass on both
sides." I had occasion afterwards to enter a butcher's
shop, the front open, and a counting-house in the interior,
glazed with plate •glass. Projected into this glass were
dozens of ghosts of the sheep and beeves hanging up in
front. They were as clean as photographs, and with a
similar effect.—Once a Week.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY AT WlNDSoll.—Cardi-
nal Wolsey's Chapel is now being restored and beau-
tified, and while erecting some richly carved stone-work last
week, it became necessary for the workmen of Messrs.
Poole (who have charge of the restoration) to cut away a
portion of the wall on each side of the doorway opening into
the cloisters, opposite St. George's Chapel. On removing
the masses of stone from the mortar in which they were
imbedded, sixteen or eighteen of the pieces were discovered
to have formed (it is supposed) a portion of the chapel
erected by Henry 111. These interesting relics form por •

tions of the jamb of a doorway with ogee mouldings
pillars, and other parts of an ancient ecclesiastical
edifice. On one of the stones is an angel's wing, while
the mouldings and surfaces still bear the crimson, green,
red, and black colours with which they were decorated in
curved and zig-zag lines. The whole of the stones seem
to have belonged to the early English and Norman periods.
They have been examined by Mr. Batchelor, the anti-
quarian. of Windsor Castle, and it is believed that in the
reign of Henry VIII. they were used in the construction of
the present edifice in forming the interior wall. A photo-
graph of the stones has been taken by Mr. Poole. The
carving will be taken to the Castle for her Majesty's in-
spection on her return from Scotland.
GEOGRAPHICAL DISCOVERIES.—AII great acces-
sions to geograpnical knowledge, observes a Satur-
day Reviewer: Nearchus' descent of the Indus, De Gama'a
passage of the Cape, the voyages of Columbus and M'Clure,
the journeys of Lander end Livingstone—have been wel-
comed with exultation. The early settlers in America
toiled long in felling the forests that enclosed them, for they
sheltered the Indian and the wild beast, and when the tra-
veller ventured into the shades, the horror of darkness
troubled his spirit. So the axe sounded cheerily till at last
men found their landscape bare, and their stock of fuel
almost:gone, and passed laws to save what remained. Some-

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what in this way do wo begin to shrink froin the comple-
tion of the survey of the world. Every one, except each

successive aspirant tor himself, wishes the Matterhorn to
stand as it has stood, the maiden peak of the Alps, un-
sealed and unapproachable. We had half hoped that at
least one problem of geography would outlast our day. It
is strange enough that that problem should be the very
secret which is recorded to have first roused men's curiosity
—the source of the Nile. Even this has at length found
its solution; and the last link which joined us to the old
world is snapped, now that the question of Tibullus is an-
swered

Nile pater, quanam possum to dicere causa,
Aut qqibus in tgnio, occuiuiAse opt,