The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-17 00:00:00

Baron Brunnow.

The veteran diplomatist who has been Russian
ambassador at the court of St. James's•
since 1858, is about to leave England,
h acing been appointed to succeed the late Count
S tackleberg in the Embassy at the Court

of the Tuileries. Baron Brunnow has for half
a century been connected at different times with
England in diplomatic capacities, and he and his ac-
complished wife will leave behind them a large
circle of old and attached friends. Baron Brunnow
in 1821 came from St. Petersburg to London as
secretary to Count Lieren. In 1839, when affairs had
become endangered by the designs of Mehemet Ali,
then Pasha of Egypt, he was despatched by the Em-
peror Nicholas on two special and important missions to
this country, the result of which was the signing of a
convention in July, 1840, by which the power of
Mehemet Ali was limited to Egypt. In the last-
mentioned year Baron Brunnow became Envoy Extra-
ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at the English
court, an office which he was obliged to relinquish at
the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1854. It may
be mentioned that he had never ceased in the cir-
cumstances of the latter struggle to ad-
vocate a pacific policy, and that it was
he who with his chief signed the Treaty
of Peace concluded on March 30, 1856.
Baron Brunnow was next directed to occupy
himself in restoring Russian diplomatic rela-
tions in London and Paris, and after a short ser-
vice in Prussia as Envoy Extraordinary, he returned
to London in 1858, where he has since remained as
ambassador. In 1862 Prince Gortschakoff was sent
specially from St. Petersburg to
.England to present
Baron Brunnow with the insignia of the Order of St.
Andrew, and a flattering autograph letter in testi-
mony of his long and meritorious services to his
Government and his country.
The Sewage Question.
A process, by which sewage can be instantaneously
converted into a dry and inodorous manure, has been
tried with remarkable success at Leamington.
Two years since the Sanitary Board arranged
with Lord Warwick that the sewage of the town
should be conveyed on the irrigation system over his
lordship's estates, instead of being poured into
the clear and beautiful river Leam. Im-
mediately after the signing of the con-
tract, the Native Guano Company offered
at their own expense to relieve the Town Board of
much of their difficulty by trying the "ABC process"
upon the sewage. By chemical means the latter, on
emerging from the pipes, underwent immediate pre-
cipitation. The solid and organic matter remained as
a dry and harmless manure, while the effluent .
water was conducted in a pure and limpid stream to
the river. So valuable has the manure of the
Guano Company now become that it is impossible to
keep pace with the increasing demand for it at
£3 10s. per ton. Unfortunately for the people
of Leamington, the discovery, which promises
tosolve the great sewage question, has been exemplified
successfully in their town without much pecuniary
advantage to themselves, for by the contract with
Lord Warwick they are bound to construct irriga-
tion works on his estates, which will cost at least a
sum of twelve thousand pounds.

' The Romance of a Share List.
Shares are not usually supposed to be very inte-
resting things except to the holders thereof; but
there are exceptions to every, rule, and the shares of
the New River Company have certainly a claim
on the public notice. At the end of this month there
is to be a public sale of some of them, the first, which
has been effected, though the company has been in
existence for more than two centuries and a half'. The
original cost of the undertaking was £17,000, which it
must be remembered was a very large sum in the days
of James I. There were 72 shares, half of which
were made over to the King in consideration of pecu-
niary assistance which he had given to the scheme.
In fact, the kingly pedant seems in this instance to
have turned his recondite knowledge to some account,
and to have given willing encouragement to Sir
Hugh Myddleton in his difficult undertaking. His
confidence was rewarded, for 36 of the shares which
descended to Charles I. were sold by him for £5OO a
year, which is still paid under the name of the
"King's Clogg." The income from one of these
shares is now £1,500 a year, and among the
shares to be sold are " four-fifths of a King's :hare."
Myddleton himself, who, like most great public bene-
factors, had to contend against almost overwhelming
obstacles, retained 36 shares. He afterwards sold 28
of these. The capital of the company which he esta-
blished with so much difficulty is now estimated at over
two millions and a half. It supplies more than
113,462 houses with 23,790,667 gallons of water, a
result that would probably have surprised the
designer himself, since in the first Stuart's reign no
one foresaw the extent of the modern Babylon.
Old Newspapers.
If all the thoughtlessness in the world could be
utilised, what a vast amount of pain and misery
might be softened. Few readers, when they throw a
newspaper out of the railway carriage window
because it has served their turn, are apt to remember
that if conveyed to the workhouse, though after
many days, burdensome hours and ev en physical
pain might be greatly lightened by its
perusal. It is proposed by several gentle-
man, who take an interest in the aged and
infirm of the London workhouses, to ask the
permission of the various railway companies to affix
at the city and suburban stations boxes for the recep-
tion of such printed waifs and strays. The public are
requested to assist in this humane undertaking.

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