The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-28 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, ()au.
The Queen took an airing yesterday 1110r1111:1710
and again in the afternoon, accompanied 13Y
Princess of Wrales and Princess Helena.

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Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and
t'Aumale leave Belvoir Castle to-day, on concluding tbe'
visit to the Duke of Rutland.
The Duke of Rutland has been entertainine
large party of visitors during the ;week at Belvoir Castleo
to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Dticell:ci,
d'Aumale, and dancing parties have taken Pl'e°and a
night. Among the company present were the
Countess of Wilton, Lord Lyons, Lord and Lad
Manners, Lord and Lady George Manners, Mr. Lady di
E. Drummond, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Welby, Mr. ti-ptage,
Adeliza Norman, Sir Edwin Landseer, J. gr.
Mrs. Ashley Maude and Miss Maude, Mr. Drumul°ll-
- Mrs. Listle and Miss Listle, Stc. ed
The Duchess (Dowager) of Athole has arr
the St. George's Hotel from Dunkeld, Perthshire'
The Marquis of Hastings, Lord Methuen, i":•1-
General and Hon. Mrs. Stuart, and Hon. Colonel sn
Berkeley have left the St. George's Hotel. itt bl
r 1
The Earl of Derby is expected to arrive
residence in St. James's-square, on Thursday or 0,0
next for the season. In all probability the cetubllte esseol'i
remain at Knowsley for a few weeks after the no
arrival in London. His lordship, as leader of the c Coese;oui
tive party in the House of Lords, will entertain a Plliti th.
circle of his political friends at dinner on the eV
opening of the parliamentary session.
The Earl Granville, Lord President 0'
oslll`l
Council, will give a banquet on Monday, the Lo
at his house in Bruton-street. In addition to
0103r1
4.
Privy Seal and other members of the Cabinet, ue
peers have been invited to dine on the occasion.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston leftski 10,4
bridge House, 'yesterday, for Brocket Hall, iler:oa
lordship
has issued invitations for a full-dress •clg.
tary dinner on the 6th of the ensuing month, st C3'3 tit
House, when the Speaker of the House of CorwnSet
moverth and seconder of the address, and a large 1111-
e noble premier's political friends will dine there.
Lord Willoughby de Eresby is in a very ladenlo
able condition, and fears are now entertained as to 11'5
ship's ultimate recovery. The report last eVI/ing
rather favourable. ;fig bet°
Lady Emily Peel is gradually regaiii—,- to tiM
and strength, and in all probability will be al°3
exercise in a week or two.

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MR. SIMS REEVES' ODD ACCIDENT, la S. it
might have been very serious in its results. A° ii,,llio °ll
n
preventedFrfda him from appearing at the Sacred klesta,to ills
ytwofitachpiniegeehoisf
The great tenor, it appears, accordiem 60.•
suddenlyp end e d a Orchestra,
t escapedw theas idlye n d
his fingers and, breaking, su- ..I%cier,
severely in the eye. We are happy ill adding. 11°' Vitt
that the mischief is now repaired, save and except $ s °
scar by way Of souvenir. T, GOV
INVISIBLE RAYS OF THE ELECTRIC -I i''
withelastic, the idea of light, that the term dark, or javsl,,.eseso'
that the major portion obscureAndsucrhayi' stimulates the imagination by its strlro toia
iponartoicfultarbelyradthieatciaosne
olfvhtebne :flea:gifil:
olifouthnisceidnvisible character. This great discove4clol'
'Permitting a sunlbeam to
sixty-five years ago ,-, • Nixiii•on. P el.- jo
pass through a Willi
Priflair'l
formed the coloured spectrum of the solar 1ig11;',10,4
carrying
hea deatmermallinetdhetrmheofrmbetheartintghrrouowg
thisb power to augment gradually from the violet to theGiios
didut he also found, to his surprise, that the caloric aJect
Placing
not terminate where the visible spectrinn ea' he
lacing his thermometer in the dark space I'l° ti
a 1
red, he found the heating
power
there to be greateroco
in any part of the visible spectrum. Sir Willion Ile 0?
concluded from his experiments that besides those
or
her. its,--11ef°00iii'cl;
which, acting separately upon the retina, produce
ourtl' or
sation of colour, and the sum of which constitutes 010
dinary sunshine, a vast outflow of perfectly invisib.l°l3,
proceeds from the sun; and that, measured by. their is IS
sible r:er.,.
ing power, the strength or energy of these in vi
greater than that of all the visible rays taken toget
The Reader. for
THE
, STREETS OF POMPEIL—The street's aire to
the most part straight, and run at right angtf P.,
ono another ; they are not wide, many of theca na: „,(111'01L'
ting of the passage of more than one chariot t a taft-':IA
probablyh these were not much used, taking at
sCC:jje
t e small extent of the city (only three-quarters of '' til ''
in length and half a mile in width), though the ‘l°e ,' 051 r
worn ruts in the stones would seem to indicate the :40 -
trary. The roadway is composed of huge polygonal teil
of lava, from 9 to 18in. in diameter, and 9in. in depth, c'h"gle,
fitted together; the stones were worked in awed,dg °'o,cll
so that they spanned the roadway like a lo'agiseeet4
stone resembling the voussoir of an arch. All tio -00t°
chariots avements for foot passengers, even tilos'? pito,
could not pass, consisting of curb stones °A wee
with the pavement composed of bits of marble all-ro the
set in cement, the whei-e-rubbed flat ; in places W61'0%1
.A.Pe"'
curb-stonest have broken away they have be e° ;iOvAP-w'
ogether with iron. These foot pavements Are ,is Or
sometimes more than a foot above the roadwel iflai" veil
posed that the latter, in times of rain .1 - I'9
(whiz 1 to alli
heavily in these countries), became a kinds a sevierr; tov.:.
the streets are slightly inclined one way he °the-esis'
this supposition seems well founded, Wails° tilereele-
everywhere huge stepping-stones from n
.avement toosl4
ment, the wheels of the carriages, and the horses Coy ill
two), passing on either side of the stone. Tll% is 60/1
which the solid refuse of the city was carried 9ng rel
a mystery, scarcely any traces of sewers 11.1v-g,tios -(1
found. Mazois gives us a drawing of one, the P°"" oerlre
ija IV.; eto
.tt;
which he does not state ; but it seems only to
to carry the waters from the street' under the W.so n'..,
side the town. It is just possible that the stree too,
have been the only sewers, 'as they are still io sellicie in tif
in the east. Though traces of aqueducts are f°l2corta/P;131
country around, it is not known with an great e 0
from whence Pompeii was so plentifully reaputobet f
water, there being no wells. A verifolaunrg hickforillere
leofaden and earthenware pipes have heeatainsc‘w le
c,
which supplied the nuolerous fooey
consisted of
placed in all the principal streets. her ''''t
piped toget
of lava, cra . ~,i
cistern formed of blocks h a pipe ' ii,)t
iron, the water falling into them throng . ~,
* which rises IPV
one of the back stones of the cis.erill ~ News.
than the rest.—Mr. R. P. ,Sine's in, the Builatn9
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THE BOARD OF TRADE AND THE LIFEBu°O ei;el:
VICE.—The Board of Trade has giveu £26 t of'sl,
of the widows of the two lifeboat men who' Were lost IV
24th of November, when the Stanley steam soelrs
schooner Friendship were lost on Tynentooti,lyot cj
Each of the men who manned the Constance 1.,`"0, tleci;
that night have been paid £5 by the National .I..ifei
,110
committee, and the Board of Trade has ;preseute:eqoF.4
each of the Coastguasd. officers who were so rar 06
on the rocks at Tynemouth in the gales of th citeotiffl
of November. The Tynemouth Relief Coniniitteeoio to:,
from the donations of the Board of Trade, has I°B logy lii,
provision for the widows and orphans of the two
a'oe cPt,
boat men, who will be in comparatively conliotl9l2°:,
cumstances for the rest of their lives. A Volunleef a T 113.,,
Brigade has been established in North Shields '''ooisl3lo,l
mouth to co-operate with the Coastguard in a'5e45000,1'.4
wreck in attempts which may made to rescue Se' or'of
passengers from the stranded ships. About 100 °)30,01,
have joined the corps. By an order from. 0100 siiier
Trade, Capt. Manby's apparatus for saving lifei;:tlie.:lo,
wreck will be furnished to every training sltiP ',.4
cantile ports, and the Naval Reserve Volonteo"- soe
4s. tbo ~
drilled and exercised on board these ships - J.l
them. lisle i
A SPECIMEN OF STEEL R 'G•--o the ii)t °1
OLL11•4 • fee, dt
competition in iron rolling, excited by tl'e ~ if t6-tiee!
an " iron letter" from Pennsylvania, Nve have --:ll.o..a'ilee
an interesting note on the degree of thinness/I'ore ',,,ilel`
can be rolled cold. The samples we have Seett foR P"A*
at Mr. Gillott's works, and as one gondola° to Sevoef
interest in the matter, he sent some of theoloicros:lo,,f
Holtzapffel and Co., to be measured by their
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guage,. and received the following rePIN of Yoel,
Sir,—We beg to acknowledge the reel' to of 100
letter of the 10th instant, and also three oveve c, ott,a
which you inform us are rolled cold. Ws rib s•A`rli
measured the three sheets of steel, and 0-,,1:107.1(0eit
thickness to be 1-1800th part of then nglish "--otliet '4
In other words, 1800 sheets piled on a' p1)1 to i°,
collectively measure an inch in thickneSs. she,
decimally, the average thickness a the threferoo i`p,
.00055, and the differences in thickness ve'll lifee oe
•00053 to .00057. The thinnest tissue later i:55t155,411
able to purchase at the stationers' shops jitl,l,, lv c OA'
1200th of an inch, or decimally .00083 a 0 W.-1,0010:
the pleasure to remain, faithfully yours, 11643,tv011e,. V.,
Co.-23d Jan., 1865."—These samples of co" offav- tlf
,sr its $ pa
steel show very fine holes, and have a P'-ci.to onto ° goalr
still are perfectly smooth and easy to wilia a
.isi IV
porosity can only be seen when they are be
~.„ lied itii. i
light. It is believed that steel real '-'" reovi ' , dll"
when other experiments are made.—Birsiftgiodereloy,
MODERATE.—According to the „Te vog
Beige, of the 24th inst, the works of the .'-it 05000#
House has been interrupted by an aceideet.i, oil the
Dt1113;
Grande llotef
to osfof 111
discovered that a corner of the Gran
yard des Capucines, will mark the facade o,,,riotaxivexeif.'.;
ing. Overtures have been made to the PT°l' fO. 'O, ro
hotel, which is known to be in the hattastoeo of 1 iefig,
with a view of'removing the offensive pa
n-aca a°
of buildings in the way, and he has Clplider.
sum than twenty-four million francs.- zi