The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-03 00:00:00

death as the fulfillingofgreater end than can
be represented in theßegistrar General's returns ;
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though often saddened, often baffled in your unequal
with those two great foes, you may see that
they also have a work to do, perhaps, more friendly
own."" Altogether, there seems little left
than your
to desire in these numerous addresses, and much
has been expressed that cannot be otherwiae than
beneficial to those who heard them. It will be
fortunate, alike for themselves and the coming
generation, whom they will have to serve, if they
follow the counsels, adopt the maxims, and choose
the roads indicated to them in these lectures. If
they seek honour as their pole-star to direct their
course, if they are true and just in their dealings,
and endeavour to alleviate as much as possible the
inevitable sufferings that they roust minister to,
surely they may expect, even in this sad condition
of existence, to reach a happy goal, and trust that,
in an arduous and anxious pathway, they may sus-
tain themselves and cheer the hearts of others if
they walk in the light of Truth, which grows
bright and brighter to the perfect day.

This is the season for travel and excursion among
all classes. Every one who can leave home for a
time is glad to change the scene, whether it be for
Alpine snows or gay Parisian streets, for a day's
shooting among the Scottish heather, or a saunter
at a fashionable watering place. With the excep-
tion of a few whose occupations are of too absorbing
a nature to be even for a time abandoned, the three
autumnal months find nobody in state quo ; and,
as every one is on the wing himself, he with sym-
pathetic curiosity regards the migrations of his
neighbours. The movements of Royalty are usually
followed with a good deal of interest, although
they may only be prompted by the desire for change
on the whim of the moment, but just at present
there are certainly reasons why we should regard
the arrivals and departures of distinguished persons
with unusual attention. The young heir of Eng-
land and his charming bride have just left the
Highlands after a pleasant sojourn among the most
individually peculiar but not the least loyal of their
future subjects. The object of their journey south-
wards is especially interesting, for the young bride,
who has so suddenly stepped from comparative
retirement into so brilliant a position, wishes natu-
rally to congratulate her brother on the almost
simultaneous change in his prospects. A year ag°
they were living amidst a quiet domestic circle, not
even occupying the prominent position of the
children of the ruling monarch, The magic wheel
revolves, and brother and sister are alike filling the
thoughts and engaging the hopes and interests of halt
Europe; the careers that open out Wiese their'. are
as splendid as they are fascinating, and however
high their hopes or great their capacities, they can
scarcely eclipse the destinies which has been assigned
them. The young Prince whos3 chance of a throne
was a few months since so dim and distant is now
an actual reigning Monarch. One of the most an-
cient peoples in Europe is impatiently awaiting his
arrival, looking to him to reorganise a distracted
state, and to revive in some degree the memory of
former glories. The fair young bride,
at whose
joyous nuptials all the graces and good fairies
seemed attendant, is naturally eager to wish her
brother GOD speed on the new and adventurous
course he is undertaking. The Prince and princess
of \VALES on their journey southward
met and
greeted another young royal pair who are about to
traverse the route they have just passed over, who
are also heirs to a throne but whose position
their owe.at this
moment presents a painful contrast to
The Crown Prince and Princess of Plarsslit hold
indeed an honourable and responsible position. They
are looked up to in their own country as the hars
binders of better and happier times, but at the.pre-
sent crisis their position is by no means an enviab e
one. Forced to look on while the Perverse and
weak-minded KING, urged by the preposterous arro-
gance of his incapable minister, perils their own and
their children's inheritance; unable
to interfere
without aggravating the evil divided between film,
respect and duty to the people they hope to govern,
every step they take must cause them perplexity
and distress. The lessons of history
are not written
so faintly that youthful eyes cannot read them, and
our Princess at least must be enough of a politician
to perceive some of the dangers into which the
rash and headstrong KING is plunging himself and
his country. The general excitement in Germany
is heightened just now by the notable
project of a
Federal execution in Denmark undertaking
which, we may suppose, the Princess Royal and her
husband do not look upon
with very friendly eyes.
Altogether, what with Russian alliances, Danish
quarrels, French designs, and internal dissensions,
EREIGN than to be coldly
Prussia is not just now a very suitable dwelling-
place for the Crown Prince and hi English bride.
It is pleasanter to be the welcomed and honoured
guests of our gracious Sole e
looked upon in the Palace of Berlin, or expected to
play a part which it is
impossible they should per-
form. Their visit to this country with their chil-
dren, a visit which it
is expressly stated has no
definite limits, is at this juncture
a significant cir-
cumstance. It will
be productive, we may hope, of
Our beloved QUEEN, who
sincere gratification to
has now again beside her the two daughters who
left her side, together with the children who will
hereafter be proud to trace their descent to her and
her lamented Consort. Happily, whatever troubles
threaten the land of
their adoption, the old country
still remains unshaken by any commotion, and the
young Princesses may well strive to follow in their
mother's footsteps when they see how firm is the
sea t of a constitutional monarch, compared to the
treacherous foundations of a despot's throne. This
ek
is a lesson which
we fear the King of PRUSSIA will
be slow to learn,
and his eon has done wisely to quit
for a time the strife he could neither assist nor
control. The contrast between Prussian misrule
and English Content would forcibly impress the
young Prince, and we may hope the
painful experience he is now acquiring may tend
mind of the
hereafter to benefit himself and his subjects. The
Royal autumnal
excursionists aro certainly this
year worthy of notice, as being indications of
views and sentiments, if not events, in themselves
mportaut.

AUSTRIA'S FINE ART EXUIBITION will take
place on the 15th April, 1564, at Vienna.
ACIDS IN AlAti.—Sulphuric acid scarcely exists
in the animal ftoutnny, and not at all in the bones
of men in their normal state; but. the fact should nut be
lost sight of that the bones of rickety individuals contain up
to 4 per cent. of sulphate of lime. .Nitric acid, too, forms no
portion of any organic tissue ; it enters exceptionally into
some human calculi. _Hydrochloric acid enters irtto the
composition of the gastric juicy in the free state ; its phy-
siological function is to dissolve the albuminous substances
and the tissues yielding gelatine, and transform them
Into liquids which can be easily absorbed. Phosphoric acid
enters into the composition of the bones, the muscles, anti
nearly all the organic liquids associated with lime and mag-
nesia and alkaline bases. Carbonic acid and silica are the
only acids that ordinarily exist in a free state in water.
The first forms incessantly in our tissues, and exists in
large proportions in our blood. The volume, hom ever, of
this acid contained in water (on the average 30 cubic cent.
per litre), is so small that one cannot think it plays any
appreciable part. Vangueliu and Chevreul have found a
very small quantity of silica in the hair and beard, and in
wool. Ruorine.utakes a portion of the osseous tissue and
the enamel of the teeth. iodine and bromine especially,
have
,been the subjects of much discussion, for they are
powerful moditicaturs of the animal organisation, and act
in extremely minute doses, as has been shown:by the nu-
merous researches of past years upon the existence of theee
bodies in the waters and air.