The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-07 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

TEA.,—The public sales terminated yesterday, and the
prices realised were equal to those Previously current in the
priva'e market.
SIIGAn.—A moderate amount of business has been done
in West India descriptions, and fully former prices are
current for good grocery qualities. In the refined market,
however, rather lower rates are generally accepted by
holders.
COFFEE.—The dealings in colonial have been limited ;
full prices, however, are maintained for superior qualities.
'MICE.—The market has continued dull, and quotations
are nominally unaltered.
SALTPETRE.—The demand has not been very extensive,
and the few dealings recorded were at about pre'ious quo-
tatiods.
TALLOW.—Business has again been dull, and but few
operations have been recorded either for present or forward
P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted 435, and last three
months' 45s 6d per cwt.

NEW CATHOLIC CHURCH.—Cardinal Wiseman
presided yesterday afternoon at the laying of the
first stone of a new Catholic church and Dominican monas-
tery at Southampton-road, near Haverstock-hill, beyond
Camden Town. The ceremony was performed by the
Archbishop Elect of the Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. There
were present the general of the Dominican order, many
other Dominican friars, several other priests, and a large
concourse of laity. The ceremonies of the Catholic Church
appointed for such an occasion having been gone through,
the stone was lowered into its place. The Very Rev. Dr.
Manning preached a sermon, in which he congratulated his
hearers on the return of the Dominican Order to active
missionary work in London, after centuries of absence. The
church is to be Gothic, and Gilbert Blount, Esq., is the
architect.
BEWARE !—A new secret weekly has recently
made its appearance in Rome, under the title of " Roma o
&torte."
MISS MARY ANNE EVANS'S " Romola," it has
been well said by one of her reviewers, must take a very
high rank indeed ; no lower than such books as Bulwer
Lytton's " Last Days of Pompeii" and " Last of the
Barons."
HEREDITARY LIGHTNING.—The following joke
is ascribed to Washington Irving. A comrade refused,
once, in a storm, to take shelter from rain under a tree,
because he had promised his father, who had been struck
by lightning when sheltering under a tree, that he never
would do it, "Oh I" retorted Irving, "if lightning, runs
in your family, you are quite right."
A MAN AND A BROTHER.—Mr. Henry Grattol
Guinness, once a rival of Mr. Spurgeon's, has recently
become a Plymouth Brother, and, with a tardy sense of
modesty has, in eo doing, renounced the title "Reverend."
MYSTERIES OF THE METRIC SYSTEM.—The
French geographical league of 3 geographical miles
is not the same as the French nautical league of 3 nautical
miles, the former being 25 leagues to the degree and the
latter 20, whereas the English geographical league of 3
miles is identical with the English nautical one, being 20
to the degree. The French geographical league may be
thus readily calculated. The circumference of the earth s
40,000,000 metres; this divided by 360 gives 111,111i1
metres for the length of a degree. Dividing again by 25
we have 5555'5 metres for the length of a French geogra-
phical league of 25 to the degree. In like manner the
French nautical league is found to be 4444.4 metres. The
mean of these two was termed, some years ago, the lieu&
moyenne, and is of course exactly 5,000 metres, or half a
rayriametre. The lieue de poste, now disused, consisted of
2,000 toises. There were other leagues, now swept away,
too numerous to mention. The metric league at present in
use in France is 4,000 metres. So there is nothing here
against the use of the metre in France—on the contrary,
the mention of the leagues with the easy manner in which
they are derived serve to illustrate the convenience of the
metric system.
SHREWD OLD MR. HENLEY GULLED FOR ONCE!
—Mr. Henley probably does not study " Household
Words," says the 'Spectator, meaning, of course, by
" Household Words" All the Year .Round. It is, however,
much to be regretted that he has not laid to heart a paper
which appeared in that periodical exposing the character of
"the beat authority," for it is too clear that his acutness
has been imposed upon by this " very best authority."
Relying, no doubt, on its assertion, he has told the House
of Commons a tale which would not have gulled the stu-
pidest and the youngest of the 106 petitioners whose
wiles the worthy member sought to expose. Signatures to
the petition of the Oxford Fellows against University Sub..
scriptions, he was informed, were obtained by some curious
dodge, connected, we know not how, with the Princess's
visit to Oxford, We venture to assert that the petition was
set on foot, atd most of the signatures virtually obtained,
if not actually affixed to it, before the Princess visited the
university. The most amusing feature in the whole matter
is not, however, so much Mr. Henley's error as the miscon-
ception which his tale betrays of the whole state of Oxford
society. The bare idea of tutors, fellows, and heads of
houses bustling about during the festivities of commemora-
tion to obtain surreptitiously the signatures of visitors bent
on nothing but amusement, is almost as grotesque as any
of the notions to be found in the pages of German or
French travellers desirous of describing English life. That
Mr. Henley should have been misled by his facetious in-
formants can only be accounted for by the fact that old
gentlemen have a passion for snubbing the rising genera.
Wm. The hundred and six petitioners have most of them
the misfortune to be men of talent, and many of them the
good fortune to be young, and and
meat of squires can
hardly be expected to resist the temptation of telling any
tale, however improbable, which tends to set down the con-
ceit of clover youngsters.
The Tribunal of Correctional Police has tried the
Black Doctor, J. H. Vries, on charges of usurping
the title of doctor and of illegally practising medicine. A
doctor named Ebra, who sometimes assisted Vries in his
consultations, was charged at the same time, with illegally
vending medicines to their patients. Among the papers
found in the possession of Vries, and put in as evidence,
was the prospectus of a work entitled " Clef de la Nouvelle
Alliance," presented to mankind as "the revelation of a
new era which shall for ever close the abyss of revolutions,
and put an end to all the sufferings, wars, and catastrophes
afflicting nations." In answer to questions from the Pre-
sident, Vries declared that he was merely the assistant of
Dr. Ebra, whom he aided with advice, while the latter
signed all the prescriptions ; he denied having ever sold
medicines since his first condemnation, although he still
had the drugs in his possession which were returned to him
after his first trial. The evidence, however, clearly proved
that, although Dr. Ebra lived in the same house, he was
not always present at the consultations, and the fact of sup-
plying patients with medicine was established against both
the defendants. One witness proved that Vries alone had
attended a person named Piffetot, and had received from
him 2,0001. with securities for the payment of 4,000 f. more.
After hearing counsel for the defence, the Tribunal con-
demned Vries to 2,000 f. fine, with six months imprison-
ment, for •illegally practising medicine, and to 500 f. fine for
selling medicaments ; Ebra was:also fined 500 f for the last-
named offence, and condemned to pay one-fourth of the ex-
penses of prosecution, the other three-fourths to be paid by

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