The Sun.
London, England, 1870-06-09 00:00:00

A. VALUABLE SUGGESTION.

We are now told that there is a convent of monks in
lowa following the rule of St. Bernard. " After a certain
time," it is said, " they take upon themselves a vow never
to speak aloud, and a number have kept that vow for
twenty years." It has been more than once intimated
that speech is silver, but that silence is golden; and, as
a step toward a return to this kind at least of specie
payments, we would suggest that this relgious house in
lowa might lend one or two of its very dumbest members
to Congress. Seated in either Chamber, and raying out
what Sidney Smith called "brilliant flashes of silence,
they would be to every garrulous legislator a perpetual
example and a constant admonition. We calculate, if
such monitors could have been present in the Senate
during the Georgia debate, that it would have saved the
country at least a million of dollars.—Hew York Tribune.

WESTON'S WALK.
Edward Payson Weston successfully accomplished the
great feat of walking 100 miles in twenty-two hours, on
May 25. Mr. Weston commenced walking at fifteen
minutes past twelve on the morning of that day. Owing
to the unseasonableness of the hour, but few were present
at the start, but towards dawn many began to gather in,
and during the day thousands passed to and from the
Rink, remaining but long enough to see what progress
had been made. The number of rounds to be made Was
717 and a fraction, according to the measurement of the
city surveyors. Towards evening the crowd increased
unlil all the standing room in the Rink was taken up, and
it took the united efforts of a large body of police to keep
the track clear. Each time that a round was completedeeted
and the time announced, the pedestrian was gr
with cheers and shouts of encouragement by the crowd.
The last mile was completed at fifty-three minutes past
nine, leaving about twenty-two minutes of the stipulated
time to spare, the one hundred miles having been com-
pleted in twenty-one hours, thirty-eight minutes, and
fifteen seconds. The announcement of the result was the
signal for a deafening buret of applause from the thousands
who had assembled to witness the successful termination
of the greatest pedestrian feat ever attempted. Mr'
Weston did not seem in the least fatigued, stepping off as
briskly on the last mile as on the first, and after the one
hundredth mile had been accomplished he addressed the •
crowd from the judge's stand, saying that it was love, not
money, which had induced him to attempt the feat which
he had just accomplished. It was the desire to free him-
self from the reputation which had been given him by
some of the daily papers of being a " humbug," and
to set right before the public those who had befriended
and defended him.

THE STEAMSHIP CITY OF PARIS.
This magnificent vessel, which belongs to the Inman
Line, arrived at this port on Monday night, after a
passage of ten and a half days from Liverpool. Since
her last trip to New York she has undergone 'considerable
change, and is now the largest New York steamer afloat.,
She was the fastest vessel of her line until the City 01
Brussels was added to the fleet ; so, in order to place her
in a fair condition to compete with the vessels of other
lines, it was found necessary to add forty feet to her length.
By this addition, which was made in the midship section
of the steamer, the Clty of Paris is now 416 feet long over
all, being ten feet longer than the City of Brussels. The
alteration will give her additional cargo space to the extolt
of 600 tons, and berths will be fitted up for 220 additional
steerage passengers. At the same time the buoyancY2'
the steamer is incresed to the extent of fifteen inches. Her
burden is now 3,100 tons. On the 6th instant, befl
starting for this port, she made a trial trip to sea, all.
made an average speed for the thirteen h°'" •
the trip lasted, of fourteen and three-quarter
knots per hour, are at one time attained fifteen knots
The City of Paris was built in 1866, and is justly co
sidered a marvel of shipbuilding skill. She experiencet
heavy weather during eight days of her late voyage, ...,131'k
in the last two-and-a-half days ran 840 miles.—New
Herald, May 25.

Mr. Fechter has been engaged for five years at
Selwyn's Theatre, Boston, (United States) at 2,000 doll
per week.
The rumour is again revived in the best-infornied
circles that Mr. Disraeli is about to retire not only frura
the leadership of the. Opposition in the House of Cornmorls,
but also from his seat for Buckinghamshire. There is 11°
doubt that the right hon. gentleman's health is consider'
ably impaired; and it is believed that Mr. Gladstone
f
will
intends to offer to his old rival a seat in the Housebe
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BIRTHS. MO.
On the 4th iast., at 2, Chester-street, Belgrave-square, -
Percy Anderson, of a daughter. Aerie
On the 4th inst., at Black Hall, Oxford, Mrs. Frederic
Morrell, of a son.

MA RRI AGES. -yeo,
On the 7th inst., at St. Pancras Church, Henry Viviall
of
Esq., barrister-at-law, to Emily Alice, third daughte
N. Davis, Esq., LL.D., F.R.G.S., London.
On the 4th inst., at St. Stephen's, Dulwich, Archibald Plitt
only son of Arrhiba)d Miles, Esq., of Ashford,
Rosa Ann, younger daughter of the late Richard allineJ
Esq., of Went-hill, Sydenham.

DEATIIS el,ll,
On the 4th inst., at Clapham-rise, Commander Henry "
tt.N , aged 65. ,„,,s to
On the 4th inst., at 26, Bruton-street, Barba a AuF'
Noun, wife of Colonel Poulett Somerset, 0.8 , aged 47.
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