The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-06 00:00:00

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The English squadron is still lying in the road-
stead of Copenhagen, and the cuirassed vessels are visited
every day by crowds of curious sight•seers. There has been
a marked exchange of civilities between the squadron and
the city.

THE SEASON AT BOULOGNE.—Twenty thousand
English visitors at Boulogne I It seems almost incredible,
and yet such is an undoubted fact. While soma of the
English watering-places have during the summer been
suffering from a paucity of visitors, Boulogne has been
continuously filling, not only with English, but visitors
from all parts of the Continent. And what is the almost
inevitable consequence of this ? The charming French
bathing-place is no longer what it used to be—a harbour
of refuge for the economist. Nothing is cheap in Boulogne
save courtesy and politeness. The charges for apartments
are fabulous, in some cases, compared with what they were
a few years ago; and the Boulogne lodging .house keepers
are as rapacious as any of their confreres on the other side
of the Channel. Indeed, at this moment, the so-
joura er of a week or two must be a homeless wanderer if
he can content himself only with apartments. Monsieur,

who has appartinens to let, shrugs his shoulders at weeks,
and declines to accommodate strangers unless their agree-
ment has reference to months of occupancy. The
Boulogne lodging-house keeper is evidently impressed
with the notion that all the visitors have come over
from England with the predetermined intention of
remaining the winter ; for ask him his terms, and he will
immediately reply, that for the whole winter they will be
so much.. You intimate to him that it is certainly your in-
tention to winter at home in England, and then he says
that will make all the difference, and the apartments will be
three, four, five hundred francs a month, as the case may he.
Tell him you only want apartments for a fortnight, and he
will turn up his eyes with astonishment, and say that is
utterly impossible, and he will hint that people who come
for a week, or fortnight, or three weeks, usually put up at
the hotels. This was not the case in Boulogne a few years
ago.— The Queen.

AN INDIA-RUBBER OMNIBUS.—A Connecticut
newspaper announces that a clever Yankee has invented
an india-rubber omnibus, in which, although it may be
packed full, there will always be extra room for a few more
that may come. To the London General Omnibus Com-
pany, who seem to cling to the packing-box system so
tenaciously that they are said to be purchasing the roomy
rival Manchester omnibuses in order to get them out of
the way of their own splendid vehicles, we commend the
Yankee invention. To be serious, London never stood
more in need of a new omnibus company than now. It
must, however, be a powerful one : it will have a cunning
rival to cope with, although the money power of a com •
/Any who reap no dividends and have expended all their
capital in the vain attempt to purchase up the 'London
streets need be little dreaded.—Builder.

Workmen are now busily employed in completing
and enlarging the building at Saint James,' in the Bois de
Boulogne for the Imperial breeding stud, and where the
fine thoroughbred stallions every year purchased are kept.
The works which are now being carried out are the repair
of the principal pavilion, the formation of paddocks, and
the building of a coach-house and large shed. The build-
ing as it now stands was constructed by the City of Paris
and ceded to the State.

" STONEWALL" JACKSON.-The Savannah News
publishes the follinving sketch of General " Stonewall"
Jackson There you see self-command, perseverance
indomitable will, that seems neither to know nor think of
any earthly obstacle ; and all this without the least ad-
mixture of vanity, assumacy, pride, foolhardiness, or any
thing of the kind. There seems a disposition to assert its
pretensions, but from the quiet sense of conviction of his
relative position, which sets the vexed question of self-im-
portance at rest—a peculiarity, I would remark, of great
minds. It is only the little and the frivolous who are for
ever obtruding their petty vanities before the world. His
face, also, expresses courage in the highest degree, and
his phrenological developments indicate a vast amount of
energy and activity. His forehead is broad and promi-
nent; the occipital and sincipital regions are both large
and well balanced ; eyes expressing a singular union of
mildness, energy, and concentration ; cheek and nose both
long and well formed. His dress is a common grey
suit of faded cassimere, coat, pants, and hat--the coat
slightly braided on the sleeve, just enough to be per-
ceptible, the col'ar displaying the mark of a major
general. Of his gait, it is sufficient to say that he just
goes along, not a particle of the strut, the military swag-
ger, turkey-gobbler parade, so common among officers of
small rank and smaller minds. It would be a profitable
study for some of our military swells to devote one hour
each day to the contemplation of the magnificent plain-
ness of S:onewall.' To military fame, which they can
never hope to attain, he unites the simplicity of a child
with the straightforwardness of a Western farmer. On
last Sunday he was dressed as above, and bestrode as com-
mon a horse as one oould find in a summer day. There
may be those who would be less struck with his appear-
ance as thus accoutred than if bedizened with lace
and holding the reins of a magnificent barb caparisoned
and harnessed for glorious war ; but to one who had seen
him, as I had, at Cold Harbour and Malvern Hill, in the
rain of shell and the blaze of the death lights of a battle •
field, when nothing less than a mountain would serve as a
breastwork against the 36-inch shells which howled and
shrieked through the sickly air, General Jackson in tatters
would be the same here as General Jackson in gilded
uniform. In my simple view he is a nonpareil—he is
without a peer."

SUPPRESSION OF HOOPS.—In the early part of
last week an announcement was made to the young women
working at the West-gate and Marsh Mills, in Drogheda,
who number some 800 or 1,000 individuals, that the Messrs.
Chadwick, Gradwell, and Co., had given express orders that
for the futuro no girl would be allowed inside the walls of
the establishment wearing the "expansive contrivance"
known as hoops in their petticoats. This mandate, as ex-
plained by the manager, was the result of a conversation
amongst the proprietors of the mill, in which they discussed
the propriety of adopting that course in order to alleviate
the danger of any accident which might occur by the dresses
of the young women coming into contact with any part of
the vast revolving machinery. The announcement was re •
ceived by the girls with speechless amazement, and they
looked at each other again and again, as if they doubted
whether the manager was in earnest. After leaving the mill
the same evening they met in large groups, and discussed
the question amongst themselves, when it was unanimoual a
y
declared that the proprietors of the mills had
that
pursued a
deputa-
tion heartless course. It was firstresove
tion should wait on the manager andes try what tearful eyes,
soft persuasions, bold i emoirtrann
would effect in inducing him to supplicate and powerful appeals,
plicate the owners of
absolutely
ly tried,
establishmentlure to withdraw the cruel law. This was
but all was in vain. The " powers that
be" were inexorable, and divested of the hoops they should
be, or otherwise reconcile themselves to the alternative of
forfeiting their situations. The terrible knowledge that
there was no help for them crept into their hearts, and
" homeward they trudged their weary way " to remove
what they believed to be the latest glory of the sex. On
the following day they appeared in deep dejectedness, no
longer the happy beings they were the day before, exulting
in their circular apparel. A number of the girls, however,
are noticed regularly "hooped" up to the gate of the mill,
where they remove the cane, and leave it to the keeping of
parties living in the neighbourhood until they return from
work, when it is again inserted in the skirts.

THE ADVANTAGE OF BEING DRILLED AS A
VOLUNTEER —At a recent Montrose Volunteer meeting,
Mr. John Davidson, who rose amid cheers in the body of the
hall, said—Mr.Chairman and gentleman, I think this voltm-
teerin' is a capital thing. (Hear, and applause.) lam now
gettin' an auld man ; but I can yet recollect o' the time
when I served four years to learn to gang mysel' on the
Links o' Montrose. (Cheers and laughter.) It's a capital
thing lat me tell ye, for a man to learn the use o' his legs,
—to learn how to walk. (R,newed applause.) I dinna
mean, to walk this way and that way—frae ae side to
anither—(laughter)—but I mean to say, itr
guid fora man
to learn to walk upricht and straicht-forrit, to walk upricht
in all his actions—(applause)—and to walk straicht-forrit
to meet the enemy when he comes, (Loud cheers and
laughter.) There's something gocd, I say, in this move-
ment. There's something gout in an auld man like me
bein' able to walk in a proper way. (Applause.) Though
I'm an auld man mysel', I dinna gae knockin' and rowin'
shoot frae side to side upon the streets of Montrose—(laugh-
ter)—no, I walk so straicht-forrit and upricht that I'm
aften ta'en for a deserter. (" Capital, John," great laughter
and cheering.) Yes, gentlemen, I say it's a grand thing for
men, especially young men, to learn to gong their lane—
(more laughter)—because they're mair likely to walk
straicht-forrit, whatever may come i' the way. (Cheers.)
COUNTY COURT COMMITTALS.--From a
pariie-
mentary return issued yesterday, it appears that in the six
months ending the 30th of April last, 4,575 persons were
taken to prison for not having satisfied the judgment and
costs in county court eases having had sufficient means
and ability to do so. The highest number of days for which
any person Was sent was forty, and the lowest three. The
highest amount for which a person was sent to prison was
£63 19s. Bd., and the lowest 25. The latter case occurred
at Tiverton, where a parson was committed for 28 days for
the sum of 2s. In 316 cases persons had been taken to
prison once before, in 92 cases twice before, in 25 cases
thrice before, in 12 four times before, in 3 five times, and
in 1 Seven times—for the same debtor demand.