The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-21 00:00:00

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A large balloon was found hooked to a tree at
Passchendaele (Belgium), on the 16th, at five o'clock in
the morning. In the car there was nothing but a man's
hat bearing the initials C. I. It is probably the balloon
which M. Godard went up in at Rouen on the 15th, but
was forced to abandon.

ITORSE-SHOEING.-1 he first step towards shoeing
the horse was the contrivance of soles, or sandals,
made to clasp on the hoof like the hunting-sandal now in
use on emergency. In Japan, sandals of plaited straw are
still used, fastened round the fetlock with straw bands.
They are soon worn out, but costing little, are easily re-
placed. Some nations, the Icelanders, for example, have
used horn to shoe their horses. A portion of a ram's horn
was formed into suitable shape, and fixed on the hoof with
horn pins. A similar practice is said still to obtain in the
valley of the Oxus, the material there employed being the
antlers of the mountain-deer. The grand discovery of
iron horseshoes took place, it is believed, about the time of
the Norman Conquest. It is not known positively when
or by whom iron horseshoes were invented. In tho
Bayeux tapestry, worked by the ladies of Queen Matilda's
court, to celebrate the victories of William the Conqueror,
the feet of the horses are represented without shoes, but
the bits, spurs, and other trappings are minutely rendered.
In tho Great Seal of William the First, the horse is unshod,
but in the seals of subsequent kings all the horses have
shoes.—Chambers's Journal.

The Grand Duke Constantine left Stockholm on
Wednesday for Copenhagen. Tho monitors of the squa-
dron will immediately return to Cronstadt, while the rest
of the squadron is to follow the Grand Duko to Copen-
hagen. The squadron will afterwards proceed to Kiel.

The journals of Ostend state that at a second
concert given in the Kursal, the pieco containing the Bra-
banconne, and which on the first occasion had given rise
to so much commotion not having been included, the audi-
ence demanded it with loud cries, and even insisted on its
being repeated a second time. _ _ _

DEATH OF MINASI.—Among the deaths recently
announced is that of James Minasi, the celebrated pen-and-
ink artist. He was 89 years of age.
THE ABBE LISZT, it is announced, will superin-
tend the production of his oratorio, "St. Elizabeth," at
Perth, during the course of this month, and then return, to
Rome to take office as Director of the Music of the Papal
Chapel.

GOTHS VERSUS DRUIDS.—We hear that one of
our most important national monuments has had a narrow
escape. It was intendod to hold a Congress of Aram-
logists at Stonehenge, dig under the altar-stone, and raise
the fallen trilithon. Sir Edmund Antrobus, however, the
owuer, has, we are told, wisely set his face against the
proposal.

JUDGE HALIBURTON iS said to be annotating the
three series of his famous " Sam Slick, or the Sayings and
Doings of the Clockmaker" with a view to a new one-
volume edition, which is to be profusely illustrated. Mr.
Bentley will issue it as one of his Christmas books.
THE NEW READING -ROOM OF THE IMPERIAL
LIBRARY IN PARIS, built on the plan of Mr. Panizzi's mag-
nificent reading-room in the British Museum, will be opened
to readers early in next
year. English visitors to the
Bibliotheque Imp6ria" 1 may
reading-room stands on the site of the offices of John
Law's famous bank, remember that the present