The Sun.
London, England, 1870-03-21 00:00:00

LITERATURE, ART, AND SCIENCE.

The Atheneum says amid much literay stagnation there
is something cheering in the fact that the Earl of
Malmesbury is arranging for publication his grandfather's
correspondence with his family and friends. This extends
to exactly three quarters of a century, 1745-1820, in-
cluding details from the last field of the Pretender to the
last of the Duke of Wellington. Contemporary fashions,
follies, 'virtues, and gossip, relating both to France and
England, are said to be the subjects of the Malmesbury
Papers.— We hear that a quarto volume, called
"London," tne joint work of M. Gustave ore and
a well-known English writer, is in prgoaration. It will
be issued in parts, and the firstl part will appear in May... as
The Hungarian papers abound in complimentary remarks
upon the Duke of Argyll, who has directed Dr. Forbes
Watson to present the library of the Pesth University
with a copy of the first four volumes of the splendid
and valuable work, " The People of India." The volumes
have arrived at Pesth, and have been exhibited for a few
days in the reading room of the library. All classes
of society have thronged to see them.—The tar-
get for the experiments with 35-ton guns, to be
instituted at the instance of the Admiralty, is estimated to
cost about £7,ooo.—Mr. Billings, of the Canadian Geolo-
gical Survey, is endeavouring to prove that a convoluted
plate found in fossil Crinoideaor Stone Lilies, is part of
the respiratory. apparatus. He remarks, incidentally,
that in no division of the animal kingdom does. the the
respiratory system occupy a larger proportion of the
whole bulk of the animal than in Echinodermata.—
An example of the utilisation of waste has lately been
afforded by a firm of photographers at Wakefied. During
the last three years they have carefully collected their de•
fective pictures, clippings, sweepings, washings, &c.,
burning the former from time to time to ashes, and pre-
cipitating the latter by common salt. To every pound of
residue thus obtained, half a pound each of carbonate of
pcobash and soda crystal in powder was added and the
whole fluxed. Two bars of pure silver alloy with a
little gold were thus obtained, weighing together 170
punces troy, which have realised £44 ls. ld.
The Graphic says that Mr. Poole, R.A., will exhibit at
the Royal Academy this year a picture which has for its
subject Dryden's versified adaptation of Boccaccio's
"Theodore and Honoria."—The same journal says that
Mr. Orchardson will have a sea-piece ; that Mr. Edgar
Barclay is engaged on a pastoral subject ; that Miss Louisa
Starr will send a picture of " Undine," and Mr. Donald.
son one of " Sintram." Mr. Halsewell will send a pic-
ture of Modern Roman Life, Mr. F. Goodall (son of the
R.A.) a Scene from "Tom Jones," Mr. Hodgson an Al-
erine Scene, and Mr. George Hering a picture of a Storm
fp the Highlands.
The Choir has the following :—At the Theatre Lyrique
two novelties will shortly be placed on the boards, Halevy's
f` Charles VI." and Flotow's "L'Ombre."—The practice
of offering prizes for musical compositions seems to be at•
tended with much success at Paris, where, owing to the
existence of the numerous bodies of Orpheonists, there is
also every facility for obtaining an early performance .ot-
the successful works. One of the latest of these prize
Masses, by M. Juvin, was sung by a choir of 300 voices at
the church of St. Ambrose on Sunday last.
A new play by Mr. T. W. Albertson, author of
"Caste," " School,' , &c., is about to be produced at the
Prince of Wales's Theatre.
Mr. Trubner will publish in a few days the " History
of the British Museum," by Mr. Edward Edwards.—Mr.
Bentley is about to publish a translation of %the Talc
d'Attumale's " History of the House of Coneld," and
"Travels in the Air," by Mr. Glaisher.—Temple Bar for
Aprill will have the beginning of a new tale by Mr.
:William Gilbert, entitled" The Landlord of the Sun."

PRESIDENT GRANT AND THE GOLD RING.
The American Congress appointed a committee to inves-
tigate the causes of the gold pamc last September. This
committee has just presented two reports, one from the
Republican, and one from the Democratic section of the
committee. Their views on most aspects of the question
were agreed, but on the radical point of the complicity of
the. President they are altogether at variance. dWe
may reasonably suppose that party feeling has
something to do with the matter,, as the
Republicans who, of course, form the majority, declare
that the wicked endeavour to compromise the President
and his family utterly failed, while the Democrats com-
plain loudly that the President, Mrs. Grant, and Miss
Corbin have not been examined. They do not, however,
venture to assert that President Grant is directly in-
volved in the affair, but content themselves with inuendos
in the form of a demand for an inquiry. The much-talked-
of letter to Mr. Boutwell from the President has been
published Lin the New York journals, and is merely
cautionary, the President declaring that personally he has
never fully considered the gold question, but warning
Mr. Boutwell that some action on his part might very
likely be called for. The New York press generally
writes strongly on the matter, and rejoices in whatconsiders to be the complete exculpation of the President.

Thi offertories at All Saint's, Margaret-street,
London, amounted last year to £4,035.

Twenty workmen, says the Globe, are now being
discharged weekly at Sheerness Dockyard.

The railway trains over Mont Cenis have ceased
running for the time owing to the heavy drifts of snow.

The Memorial Diplomatique says that the reply to
Count Daru's request to have a French Ambassador at the
Council will be in the affirmative.

The University of Vienna has decided to open
its medical lectures and confer medical diplomas on
women.

Pere Hyacinthe, wearing the dress of a private
citizen, was present on Wednesday at the funeral oCount
lklontalembert.

The Church Times says the Bishop of London is
preparing in his registry a number of monitions which are
to be launched against " some of the leading Catholic
clergy in his diocese."

Mr. Justice Fitzgerald has fixed the 28th iustant
for the trial of the Longford election petition. The
National party are making great preparations for the trial,
and are procuring witnesses.

It is stated that General Lindsay is to be placed
upon the regular staff of the army for. six months, and
sent out to Canada as a sort of Commissioner from the
War Office, to complete the evacuation of the Dominion
by its former Imperial garrison.

The ceremony of opening the New Hall of the
Inner Temple will be performed on Saturday, May by
her Royal Highness the Princess Louise, accompanied by
his Royal Highness Prince Christian.

A court-martial of considerable interest, involving
peculiarly an officer of high standing in the Royal Navy,
and high up in the rank to which he belongs, will be
opened on board the Duke of Wellington about the latter
end of next month.—Hampshire Telegraph.
A return furnished to the House of Lords shows
that during the year from April, 1868, to March, 1869, the
Mint coined gold to the value of £4,948,09319s 7d. During
the same period £164,310 worth of silver was coined. The
return contains similar and other particulars for a number
of years past.

Dr. Theodore Bunsen, youngest son of the late
Prussian Ambassador in London, has been appointed
Chard d'Affaires and Consul-General of the North
Germon Confederation in Peru. This gentleman is well
acquainted with South America, having been five years
secretary to the Prussian Embassy in Rio de Janeiro.

A tea, festival, and public meeting closed the
series of Lambeth Bath meetings for 1869-70. The chair-
man (Mr. S. Morley, M.P.) well expressed the objects of
the movement in his statement that the great difficulty
was to find out the mode without dogmatism, without
dissension, of reaching themasses in a spirit of loving
sympathy.

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While a number of men were engaged in the east-
in; at the London and North-Western Railway Company's
Steel Works, Crewe, yesterday, manufacturing steel by
the Bessemer process, a quantity of liquid steel was ejected
from one of the ingot moulds into which the steel was
being poured, and fell upon the workmen. These were
severely burned. The cause of the occurence is un-
known.

A sad accident has occurrel on the River Coins.
A man named Welham, and two boys, in the employ of
Mr. Heath, oyster merchant, Wyvenhoe, went out in a
ooat to fish the vessel became overladen and, beinprr
unable to withstand the force of wind and tide, capsized.
All,,three were drowned. Well2am leaves a' wife and
ohig