The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-20 00:00:00

th ose untrodden heights the magic glasses were set
to work, and the icy monsters were reproduced to
astonish the eyes of the lower world. The part of the
Trigonometrical Survey yet remaining to be done is
the country round Vizigapatam, the Central. Provin-
ces„ Berar, British Burmab, and part of the coast.
Thie Revenue Survey is being pressed forward with
more vigour, owing to the increased interest wh'ich
is now taken in Indian affairs, and the demand for
waste lands which has lately arisen, owing to the
improved prospects of the tea and cotton trade
is, however, disappointing to find that only two of
the numerous surveying parties are working in re-
ference to waste lands, such as are wanted for tea
plantations, &c, At this rate, and. with Sir
CHARLES WOOD'S strict regulations e,n the matter,
it will be long, indeed, before meretiants and capi-
talists get what they want. The task is not a light
0113, and considering its vast importance, the autho-
rities would do well to encourage a larger expendi-
ture, if by its means they could expedite its pro-
gress. The surveyors are said to be underpaid, and
if so, this is a great mistake, since if European
labour be necessary for the organising and taking
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at a rate proportioned tovalue.ust be
If paidrea forly
its
capable men are required, they will always be worth
paying for, and this is surely a case in which eco-
nomy is altogether a fatal saving. The value of the
information collected is often very great. In the
last three seasons upwards of 65,000 square miles
have been accomplished, the survey showing the
general features of the country, the territorial
sub-division, and, in some instances, giving the
fac similes of the villages. It is conjectured
that the Trigonometrical Survey has accom-
plished about half its business, and the
others about one-third of theirs. The Indian
Surveyor-General has now a lithographic establish-
ment which in three seasons has issued 199 maps
from the work of the survey, besides plans of vil-
lages and statistical information. The visitors to
our Exhibition have already seen some specimens
of Anglo-Indian industry in the lithographic atlas
which received a prize medal. Tho mass of informa-
tion collected by these various parties will probably
be of immense service, and we shall be glad to see a
greater stimulus given to the undertaking, espe-
cially so far as regards the survey of the waste lands
on the hill slopes. Matters are improving so much
in India that we may hope for a little more rapid
progress than could have been looked for a few
years ago. The accounts brought by the last mail
of the expenditure upon branch roads is most en-
couraging. The want of proper means of transit
and communication is greatly felt to be a serious
drawback to the development of trade. When these
cotton roads, as they are termed, are terminated,
the whole aspect of affairs will be changed. In
the last two years, we are told, half-a-million ster-
ling has been spent on cottcn roads, and the present
year will show the same rate of expense. A few
years of such an outlay will alter the whole face of
India, and will render the grand system of railways
now developing a practical benefit to the whole
population. Since the days of the Romans the im-
portance of road-making has been recognised by all
civilised nations, and we cannot more effectually
assist India in her onward progress than by im-
proving and extending her means of internal com-
munication.

recovery. No one can say that ho has been misled
by illusory hopes, or deceived by false promises,
when he leads the statement of JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The truth in its stern reality is laid before him—in

the vista of the future, he may see the shadowy
forms of evil and desolation that are to come upon
him unless timely measures be taken to prevent the
catastrophe. At the same time there is no despon-
dency in the tone of the address, and no despair
observable in the language of the speaker. He
wants the assistance of brave men to face the peril,
and with this assistance there is no talk of anything
but victory full and complete. In order that all
may immediately return to military duty the PEE-
SIDE:IT grants a pardon and amnesty to all who have
been absent without leave twenty days. This is a
very wise precaution, and may doubtless prove of
essential service to the cause he so strenuously
endeavours to support. On the whole, the address
of the Confederate PRESIDENT is one well worthy of
attention, and will find favour in the sight of those
who have already appreciated the sterling qualities
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tingency. In his address to the army President
DAVIS has shown that he does not lack confidence
in the final issue of the controversy, if they have
only strength and spirit to carry on as they have
begun, and think nothing gained while aught re-
mains to conquer.

LONDON, WITH ITS TELEGRAPHIC WlRES—trailed
from housetop to housetop—is really beginning to look, for
all the world, as though some Spider of Brobdignag had
been spinning about the Streets of Lilliput
Among the foreigners of distinction invited by
the Emperor to be present at the mar ceuvr2s of the
Camp of Chalons, besides Marshal O'Donnell, are the
Duke de Tetuan, and Prince Hohenzollern de Sigmarin•
gen. The Prince is accompanied by Baron de Los, aide-
de-camp to the King of Prussia, Colonel Rauch, Lieut.-
Col, de Wedell, and Captain Barnes, also belonging to his
Majesty's staff.
THE MODEL EUPHEIIIST.—In the stilted and
euphuistic style which characterizes the writers of
the Arcadian age of Elizabeth and the first Stuarts, scarcely
any higher proficiency was attained, says a recent critic, than
by the accomplished and courtly author of "Religio Medici."
Of those high-flown artifices of language, stately or trivial,
which formed the indispensable index to a polite and
scholarly training—which .are seen in their full poetical
flow in Spenser, in their dignified ease in the sinewy grace
of Bacon, and in their more delicate fancy in the rythmical
prose of Jeremy Taylor—hardly a greater or more varied
assortment can well be collected from the pages of any
contemporary writer.
THE PROPERTY AND TITLE OF THE LATE SIR
FREDERICK SLADE.—LegaI proceedings, involving
circumstances of a most romantic character, are likely to
arise out of a claim made by the brother of the late Sir
Frederick Slade to the title and estate of the deceased
baronet. It is alleged that when Sir Frederick married Lady
Slade the latter was then the wife of an Austrian gentle-
man, who died in 1857, and not only so but that when the
Austrian alliance was formed there was a previous
marriage. 'We believe it is a fact that Sir Frederick,
for obvious reasons, repeated the marriage ceremony as
often as children were born to him. The defence will turn,
we are told, upon the legality of the second marriage,which
is held to be no marriage if the first husband was then
living—it being contended that the third one, if contracted
after the first husband died, is thereby a strictly legal and
binding engagement. The case will probably come on for
trial at as early date, and Lady Slade, of course, will be the
most prominent and important witness. Eminent counsel
are already engaged for the occasion.—Western _Daily
Press,
MANHATTAN HANKERING AFTER A CARDINAL'S
HAT FOR AMERICA !—The Pope of Rome, he writes
in his las, communication, has been spreading himself upon
American affairs, in a letter to Archbishop Hughes. The
letter is all very well in its way, but it would have been
better, and would have given more pleasure both to the
archbishop and the American Catholic Church, if he had
added in a postscript, " Wherefore 'Venerable Cardinal, we
send you with this Apostolic benediction, a new hat of the
latest fashion, furnished by our regular hat maker, which
we beg you will accept." Our venerable archbishop would
have been pleased. eeo would everybody else. As our
late consul at Rome says, " The only English paper the
Popo reads is the London Herald, and enjoys at his solitary
breakfast the Manhattan letters." I hope he will read this
hint about the cardinal's hat for Archbishop Hughes, and
adopt the kind and Catholic suggestion. The Pope's letter
was mitten in Latin, and dated Oct. 13, 1862. It has been
nearly a year on its route, having gone first to John Marcy,
Archbishop of New Orleans, who is scattered about the
Southern Confederacy.
GROWTH OF WESLEYANISM.—The Wesleyans
combine, in a far greater degree than any other
Non-conformist body, practical business-like qualities with
religious zeal. It is entirely within the compass of a man's
life that they have risen from the very smallest beginning
to a society of vast dimensions. Many of their members
now alive remember the time when Wesleyans were very
few, much scattered, and almost exclusively in straitened
circumstances. Now they are all over the world, and their
wealth is suet that they can afford to spend £134,887 in one
year alone, in the erection of new chapels and the repair of
old ones. When it was proposed the other day to celebrate
a jubilee in this present year, a member gave £2,000 at
once towards the fund, and several others £250 each. That
much of this success is duo to the excellent management of
their affairs, and to the constancy of their aim and study to
push on, very few Wesleyans will deny. They are ruled
upon the principles similar to those which produce success
in commercial undertakings. They are always pushing out
their arms to take a wider grasp of the world—they seldom
loose their hold when they have edit;sectr they strive tc
pay their way, and endeavour to keep up good discipline
among their members. If they are not always successful
in this last object, the failure is probably owing rather to
intrinsic defects in their system than to any want of energy
or conscientiousness in its administration.
A MANCHESTER BATCH OF MARRIAGES.—Mr,
N. Hawthorne, in a paper in the Atlantic Monthly,
on " Outside Glimpses of English Poverty," gives the fol-
lowing picture :—" I was once present at the wedding of
some poor English people, and was deeply impressed by the
spectacle, though by no means with such proud and de-
lightful emotions as seem to have affected all England on
the recent occasion of the marriage of its Prince. It was in
the cathedral at Manchester, a particularly black and grim
old structure, into which I stepped to examine some
ancient and curious wood carvings within the choir. The
woman in attendancegreeted me with a smile (which always
glimmers forth on a feminine visage, I know not why,
when a wedding is in question), and asked me to take a seat
in the nave till some poor parties were married, it being
the Easter holidays, and a good time for them to marry,
because no fees would be demanded by the clergyman. I
sat down accordingly, and soon the parson and his clerk
appeared at the altar, and a considerable crowd of people
made their entrance at the side door and ranged themselves
in a long huddled line across the chancel. They were my
acquaintance of the poor street, or persons in a precisely
similar condition of life, and were now come to the marriage
eeremony in just such garbs as I had always seen them wear,
uncombed, beneath; all
and o t
the men in the loafers' coats, out at elbows, or their labourers'
jackets, defaced with grimy toil; the women drawing their
shabby shawls tignter about their shoulders,to hide the rag-
gedness
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with penury
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washed,no
wrinkledthe thing vir 'giu-iike in the brides, nor hopeful or energetic iu the
bridegroom,. they were, in short, the mere rags and tatters of
the human race, whom some east wind of evil omen, howl-
ing along the streets, and chanced to sweep together in au
unfragrant heap. Each and all of them conscious of his or
her individual misery, had blundered into the strange
m 8•
calculation of su •
pposing that they could lessen the sum
of it by multiplying it into the misery of another per-
son. All the couples (and it was difficult in such a
confused crowd to compute exactly their number), stood
up at once, and had execution done upon them in the lump
the clergyman addressing only small parts of the service to
each individual pair, but so managing the larger portion as
to include the whole company without the trouble of repeti-
tion. By this compendious contrivance, one would appre-
hend, he come dangerously near making every man and
woman the husband or wife of every other; nor, perhaps,
would ho have perpetrated much additicnal mischief by the

mistake; but, after receiving a benediction in common,

they assorted themselves in their own fashion, as they only

knew how, and departed to the garrets, or the cellars, or the
unsheltered street•corners, where their honeymoon and sub-

sequent lives were to be spent. The parson smiled decor-
ously, the clerk and sexton grinned broadly, the female at-
tendant tittered almost aloud, and oven the married parties

seemed to see something exceedingly funny in the affair;
but for my part, though generally apt enough to be tickled
by a joke, I laid it away in my memory as one of the

saddest sights I ever looked at.

The Lord Mayor of Dublin has forwarded a re-
quest unanimously adopted by the Corporation to the Lords
of the Admiralty for the Channel fleet to visit Dublin Bay.
where there is ample water and satety, as stated in ne Sun
a few days ago. The Admiral has written to the Lord Pro-
vost of Glasz
oW that the fleet would be iu the Clyde next
week,