The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

THE TIME GUN.

The success which has attended the establish-
ment of the Edinburgh time gun, which has now
bean in satisfactory operation above two years, has
attracted the attention of various loca.lities, with a
view to the introduction of a similar time signal.
Newcastle-on-Tyne in particular has been moving
in the matter, and arangements have now been made
for firing a gun there daily at one o'clock during
the approaching meeting of the British Association,
simultaneously with the gun at Edinburgh Castle
and by means of the same electric discharge. The
time is to be taken from the chronometer in
the Royal Observatory, Calton-hill, Edinburgh,
which is regulated to Greenwich time by
daily observations, and the current is to
be conveyed along the wires of the Electric
Telegraph Company (other messages being for a
few moments suspended), impelled by Professor
Weatstneby s magnetic exploder. The apparatus,
firstil tested the ignition of fuses, Was on Monday
brought into operation by the discharge of the gun,
which told the time to the people of Newcastle at
the exact moment of the signal being heard in
Edinburgh. It is estimated that the deflection for
loss of time does not exceed the tenth part of a
second, although the distance to which the current
has to be sent exceeds 125 miles. The experiments
for the introduction of the signal were conducted,
at the request of the Tyne commission, by Professor
Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland; Mr. N.
J. Holmes, of the Universal Private Telegraph
Company; Mr. F. Ritchie, Edinburgh ; and Mr.
D. Reid, jun., Newcastle. It is intended to fire a,
gun also at North Shields by the same electric dis-
charge during the meeting of the British Associa-
tion, and the hope has been generally expressed at
the practicability of the arrangement being proved,
the signal will be permanently established on the
Tyne as well as on the Forth. On Tuesday
last, on the gun at Newcastle being fired, the
Mayor sent a complimentary message to the Lord
Provost of Edinburgh, which his Lordship received
while presiding at a meeting of the Town Council,
and which he read to the meeting. 'rho Mayor, in
his message, expressed the hope that he should have
his Lordship among his guests at tho approaching
meeting of the British Association. The Lord
Provost, in his immediate reply, congratulated the
Mayor on the successful introduction of the signal,
returned thanks for the invitation, and expressed
the hope that the approaching meeting would be a
highly successful one.

MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.—A.n event has
lately happened in Paris which promises to give
ample work to the police of that metropolis. M. Franc-
kaert was, on Wednesday last, mysteriously murdered at his
hotel in the Faubourg du Roule. He formerly carried on busi-
ness es a perfumer in the Chaussee d'Antin, and has retired
from his occupation with a fortune said to amount to
2,000,000 f. He was a very eccentric person, living alone,
seeing scarcely anybody, and rarely going out save at night.
lie was found dead at the door of his cellar, his skull having
been beaten in with a heavy log of wood. Itebbery I'm evi-
dently not the object of the assassination, as naproperty s
abstracted from the hotel, while the murdered man's purer,
together with two watches, which it appears ho was accus-
tomed to carry, were left untouched on his person. The
police are more secrat in their movements in rarit; than
in London ; but, as far as is known, no clue has as yet bee,
diecoveted as to the perpe,rater of the crime,

SIR ROUNDELL PALMER, Q•C• and
La Vie de Cesar par L. Napoleon—Fashionable Latell:
Bence—in FUI this week. One Penny.

•
ALFRED MELT,ON'S PROMENADE CON-
CERTS, Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden, EVERY;
ZVENIN(;, at Eight o'clock:.
3ldlle. CARLOTTA PATTI every evening.
Band of 100 performers.
On Monday next, M. Lotto, the celebrated Polish Violinist.,
will make his first appearance. On 'l'uesday next, a Grand
Selection from Cionnod's Opera FAUST will be performed,
for the first time. On Thursday next, a Beethoven Night.
Admission, One Shilling.

'ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE
Lessee, Mr. George Vining
Under the Management nt Mr. Walter Montr'ornery.
TEI IS EVENING, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE an.
NOT A BAD JUDGE. Shylock and Lasater, Mr. Waltei
Montgomery..

itc E THEATRE-RC) YAL, ADELPHI.-.
solo Proorwtor and Manafror. 117. R. Webster.
THIS EVENING, THE IRISH TIGER.
After which. at Eight r,'clock, a new drama, entitled THE
.FTATTNTED MAN; OR, 1.. E GHOSrS t3ARGAIN, in
which will be exhibited Professor Pew-pees adaotat!on of
'he Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, It. PhElips„
efton C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss IT. Simms..
Followed by a new Burlesque, entailed ILL-TREATED.
Ir, TROvAToitE. 31(ssrs. Toole. P. Bedford, R. Phillips,.
lEburne, C. J. Smith, Romer; the Sisters Nelson, Carry and.
Sar 1, and Miss K. Kelly.

Commence at 7.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE
ManagTer, Mr. W. H. Swanboroug,h.

THIS EVENING, II IS FIRST CHAMPAGNE. Mr.,
Leigh Murray.
Followed by (30th time) THE MOTTO, "I'M ALL
THERE." Messrs. Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier,
Citton ; Mesdames Ada Swanborough, F. Josephs, Maria.
Simpson, Wallace, ana Jenny White.
To conclude with TURN HIM our. Mr. Turner, Misa
Thome.

Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tgis DAM—Morning, Oh. 40m.—Afternoon, 7h. sm.
To-iewitßow.-Morning, 7h. 30m.—Afternoon, 85. 5m..

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The Weather—Sun Office, Aug. 22, 1863.