The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-26 00:00:00

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NOVEMBER.
Lincoln Autumn
Liverpool Autumn
Shrewsbury

M. GUSTAVE DORE is at work on an illustrated
Shakspere.

Sir James and Lady Matheson have arrived at
their mansion in Cleveland-row, St. James's, from a tour
in Italy.

The Hon. G. F. Boyle, M.P., and Mrs. Boyle
have arrived at Farra,nco's Hotel, from Scotland.

HER MAJESTY A PISCICULTURIST.—Sorne months
since General Seymour, ranger of Windsor-park,
sent for Mr. Frank Buckland, by her Majesty's command,
to ask him to superintend the laying down of ova in the
royal demesne. Mr. Buckland has accordingly had a num-
ber of boxes containing eggs of several thousands of the
great lake trout, &c., placed in the waters in Windsor-park,
under the care of Mr. Menzies, and he hopes ere long to
breed salmon in these waters, whence they will be turned
into the Thames.

FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.
—Yesterday afternoon, shortly before four o'clock, a man
named John Miller, while walking along the frame work
above the caissons, suddenly slipped and fell into one of
the caissons, by which his skull was frightfully fractured.
He was conveyed to Westminster Hospital, and promptly
attended to by Mr. Hawker, but expired shortly after his
arrival.

POST-OFFICE SAVINGS-BANKS.—At the close of the
year 1864 the deposits in the Post-office savings-banks,
with the interest due upon them, had risen to the large
sum of £4,993,123. To meet this thorn was £4,995,663 at
the National Debt-office, and £18,546 cash in the hands of
the Postmaster-General remaining to be paid over for in-
vestment. The charges and expenses of these savings..
banks for the year 1864 amounted t0,£45,856, and that sum
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THE ROMAN AND TURKISH BATH.—From what
we have said above, our readers will already have
concluded that what is now so generally known as the
Turkish Bath is, in reality, but a revival of the ancient
Roman Bath ; and when Captain B-- and Colonel
are enjoying the luxuries of Mr. D. Urquhart in
Jerrnyn-street, they are undergoing the same process
which 1,500 or 1,600 years ago, Captain Balbus, or
Flavius, or Claudius, of the —th Roman legion, was en-
joying in the Strand. But so it is ! It is not a little
singular, as Dr. Woolaston remarks, that " a practice so
ancient as that of the Roman bath, which was in com-
mon use for many hundred years in all the most
civilised countries of Europe, and still very extensively
practised by all Mahometan nations, has been almost
entirely abandoned by Western Europe." The Turks
and other Oriental nations still adhere to the customs of
their forefathers, bequeathed to them by the descendants
of the Greeks and Romans: no small legacy to bequeath
and no small boon to the people which had the good seas
to adopt, almost as national, so valuable an inheritance
Among the Turks, the bath has been the great means o
cleanliness, and of cultivating the enjoyments of socia
life, and almost answered the purposes of hospitals.—Once
a Week.
A JOKE ABOUT A COUPLE OF SOVEREIGNS !
In an old French caricature, dated 1814—A John Bull
appears on all fours, with the head of Louis XVIII., and
the subscription :—" Un gros cochon, 61eve en Angleterre,
qui passe pour dix-huit Louis, mail qui ne vaut pas 1.14
Napoleon."