The Sun.
London, England, 1870-05-28 00:00:00

LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

Nature believes that the Government will propose
to Parliament that the New Natural History Museum
shall be built on the site occupied by the exhibition of
1862, south of the Royal Horticultural Gardens. The
ground was purchased some time ago for the sum of
£l2o,ooo.—The Admiralty have acceded to the request of
the Royal Society by again placing her Majesty's survey-
ing steam-vessel the Porcupine at their disposal for another
deep sea exploration, to commence in the latter part of
June. Mr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys will take charge of the
first cruise, which is intended to be across the Bay of
Biscay, along the coasts of Spain and Portugal to Gib-
raltar.

The Athencrum says :—The Cobden Club have issued a
reprint of the last report of Mr. Wells, the United States
Trade Commissioner. It requires no great sagacity to
guess that the short but valuable preface is from the pen
of the ablest living exponent of Mr. Cobden's principles.
Another new comic paper is to be started in Dublin,
under the title of Blarney. The frontispiece represents
the people, who are determined to kiss the famous stone
contained in Blarney Castle.

A new half-penny morning journal is to be started
in London.

The poll in East Suffolk is fixed to take place
next Monday,

It is stated that M. de Casal-Ribiero, Portuguese
Ambassador at Paris, has resigned his post:

A village near Genoa has been destroyed by fire.
Through this calamity fifty-five families are without a
home.

A rumour is current in Glasgow that the Lord
Justice-General contemplates retiring from the bench at
an early date.

The annual exhibition of the Royal Agricultural
Society of Ireland will be held this year in August, at
Ballinasloe, under the presidency of Sir A. Knox Gore,
Bart.

Three or four dismissals have taken place amongst
the clerks at her Majesty's Stationery office in conse-
quence of some irregularity having come to the knowledge
of the authorities.

The First Lord of the Admiralty has sent to the
Chairman of the Deptford Emigration Society £lOO from
a fund placed at his disposal for emigration purposes.
The Gaulois says that the Imperial Château at
Vichy is being got ready for the reception of the Em-
peror, who will stay there this autumn to drink the
waters. The Emprtss will remain at Fontainebleau. The
same paper states that lately the Empress has been far
from well.

Information was received on Thursday in Liverpool
of the arrival of the ship Lodore (from Rangoon) at
Queenstown. The captain of the vessel reports that when
on her outward voyage she encountered terrific weather,
and that during a squall eight men were swept off the
mainyard and drowned.

A singular accident took place near Whitchurch.
A young girl was riding in a cart with a butcher, when in
attempting to light his pipe the straw caught fire. A calf
in the cartjumped on the horse's back, causing it to start
off into a gallop. The man and girl were unable to get
out immediately, and were set on fire. Eventually they
jumped out, and the man tore the girl's clothes off, but
not before she was so dreadfully burnt that she died a few
days after. The man was also badly burnt. It was stated
at the inquest that a publican named Porter passed at the
time, and was requested to fetch a doctor, but he passed
on-and took no notice. The jury expressed themselves
on this conduct.