The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-13 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR CASTLE, .TvNn 12.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louisa, walked and
drove in the grounds yesterday afternoon,

The Earl of Caithness and Sir William Hosto have suc-
ceeded Lord Harris and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingecote as
Lord and Groom in Waiting,

His Royal Highness the Prince of Hesse will, it
is expected, arrive in England about the 16th inst.

Their Royal Highnessek the Duke and Duchess
Augustus of Saxe•Coburg, and Prince Philip of Wurtem-
burg, witli,thtir suite, have arrived at the Clarendon, en
route for Tunbridge-wells.

SHERIFFSHIF OF MID-LOTITIAN.—It is under-
stood that Mr. Gordon has, owing to bad health, tendered
his resignation of this office ; and it is considered probable
that his successor will be Mr. Archibald Davidson, Sheriff
of Aberdeenshire.—Scotsman.

The Italian frigate La Regina, which has been
lengthened and converted into a screw in the dockyard of
La Seyne, has been towed to Toulon, and placed under the
sheers to take on board her boilers and the other heavy part
of her machinery.

The iron-cased frigate La Gloire, which has
been making experiments at the Des d'Hyeres, has re-
tamed to Toulon to prepare for further operations of the
same kind.

A letter from Erivan says :—" The Russian
fortresses on the Ottoman frontier, especially those of
Alexandropol (Gumer) Akhaltchik, are receiving large
supplies of munitions."—levant Herald.
The New York lawyers complain of very dull
times at the bar, and say that not fifty out of the three
thousand residing there are making a living.
ALARMING ACCIDENT TO A CORONER'S JURY.—
About twehe o'clock yesterday morning, as a Coroner's
Jury were viewing the body of a child, in a house in No,
1 Court, in Warwick-street, Oldham-street, the floor gave
way, and eleven of the Jurymen were precipitated into the
cellar beneath. Fortunately, however, they all escaped
without any injury more serious than that resulting from
fright and shaken nerves.

COTTON FROM INDIA—PLYMOUTH, Thursday.—
The barque Agricola, 658 tons, Captain John W. Aiken-
head, belonging to Mr. Adamson, London, which left Bom-
bay February 25, with 1,200 bales of cotton and a cargo of
general merchandise, has arrived in the Channel, as re-
ported in The Sun, and was 20 miles south of St. Cathe-
rine's Point at 10 o'clock yesterday morning.
THE HEIGHT OF LIBERALITY,—Professor Hollo-
way takes a box of Morrison's Pills, and believing that he
hai been cured by them, sends a testimonial to the pro-
prietors,—Punck.
SALMON FISHINGS IN SCOTLAND.—The salmon
fishings in the Forth and on Loch Tay, as compared with
former seasons, continue to be very unproductive. The
almost continuous showers of rain and hail, accompanied
with cold stormy winds, have prevented fishing operations
from being prosecuted. On Thursday and Monday a few
well-conditioned salmon were landed from the Tay. The
late heavy rains have kept the river swollen, and brought
up a large number of sea-trout and a few grilse. The
variable weather is the only drawback to a successful fish-
ing season, for in all directions the loch is well stocked bozli
with salmon and trout.

SNOW IN JUNE.—The weather since Thursday
last in the central and north-western districts of Perthshire
has more resembled January than June. On Monday,
Tuesday, and yesterday, heavy showers of snow, hail, and
sleet continued to drift along the hills at intervals. In the
low country a large quantity of rain fell, accompanied at
times with hailstones of large size. A pretty severe thun-
derstorm passed over the district on Tuesday afternoon,
and, owing to the prevalence of bitter cold east winds, and
the excess of moisture, the whole vegetable kingdom has
assumed a drooping and sickly appearance.

'THREE MEN OVER NIAGARA FALLS.— Three men
were swept over Niagara Falls on the 24th of May. The
men were seen putting out from the Canada side, near
Chippewa, with the evident intention of landing near the
south end of Goat Island. After getting' out a short dis-
tance the current was found too strong for them, the recent
high wind up the lakes was still forcing more than a usual
quantity of water through the river ; and; although they
made every exertion to stem the rushing tide, yet their
efforts were entirely unavailing. '1 hey were seen, after
battling for a time desperately against the current, to draw
their oars from the water and sit motionless in the boat,
resigned t • their fate. In this condition they were swept
over the falls.—lllontreal Commercial Advertiser.
WONDERS OF PHOTO-ZINCOGRAPHY.—In the
Topographical Department of the War Office there are
copies of ancient documents taken by this process which are
so perfect that examination even with a magnifying glass
fails to discover any fault. Fac-similes of the most rare
and valuable documents and records contained in our public
offices can be obtained by the process with great rapidity
and at small cost ; its use in the Public Record Office
alone, it is estimated, will save the country £lO,OOO a
year, and the saving in the map department will also
be considerable. But the pecuniary is not the most im-
portant point of view from which to regard the invention.
With the sanction of the Secretary of State for War, Sir
11. James is publishing the fac-simile of the first 11,114,
tion (1023) of Shakespeare's plays, as wellasrieel
feosrdaya
Book, of which everybody has heard and so very few have
seen, which will, when finished, be purchased
few pounds, and parts of it referring to each county sepa-
rately for sums varying from eight to 21s. Already five
counties have been completed, and it is expected that the
whole will be issued by next September,and this without
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renewing
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by the process of certain papers in cypher in the Royal Ar-
chives there, which are supposed to contain important infor-
mation relative to events about the time of Queen Elizabeth's
reign. Such an application of the inventiox only on an ex-
tensive scale, needs only time in order to produce results of
the highest interest and importance.—Once a Week.
"Darn me, if I don't believe the world's a wheel-
barrow," said a jolly inebriate, as he rolled along the pave-
ment, " and I'm the wheel revolving on the haxis, Now
I'm in the mud," said he, as he fell headlong into a gutter,
" and now I'm on thy land," as he fetched up on the curb-
stone. His concluding remark, as his boots followed his
head down an open cellar-way, was, "now the wheel is
broken, and the wehiele is out of repair."
THE WREATH FOR. RINKLES.—" lf," says our
elegant conterepoiary, Le Follet, "flowers are worn as
ornaments for the dress, those in the hair should, of course,
be of the same triad ; for elderly ladies they can be inter.
mixed with lace or feathers." Very well. If elderly ladies
must wear flowers in their hair, and would choose appro-
priate flowers, they would decorate it with elder-flowers.
The lace with which those flowers are intermixed should be
antique, and the only feathers to match are those of a goose.
—Punch,