The Sun.
London, England, 1870-01-28 00:00:00

MUSEUMS.

Antiquarian—Somerset House. Admission by appneation

to the secretary.
Botanic Royal Botanic Society of London. Regent's-
park. Admission daily by orders from fellows. Royal
Gardens. Kew. Open daily, 1 till 6, free.
British—Great Russell-s rect. Open free on Mondays,

Wednesdays, and Fri& s, 10 to t • siremer months 1.6
till 7. Closed Ist till 7th January:lst till 7th May, and
Ist till 7th September : al o on all thanksgiving days.
City—Guildhall. A collec on of antiquities, &e. Daily

10 till 5.
Geological—Jermyn street. Open daily (except Fridays)

free.
India—lndia Office, Charles-street. Asiatic natural his-
tory, antiquities, &c. Open free on Mondays, Wednes-
days, and Fridays, and on Thursdays by orders.
King's College—Strand. Anatomy and curiosities. Daily

10 till 4. -
Patents—South Kensington. Models and inventions.
Open free daily.
Royal Institution--21, Albemarle-street. Various objects.
Daily, 10 till 5.
Royal Military Repository—Woolwich. Models of forti-
fications, cannon, and warlike appliances. Daily, 10
till 4.
Royal Polytechnic Institution-309, Regent-street. Scion •
tific, with lectures. Open daily, till 10 p.m. ls.
Soane's-13, Lincoln's-inn-fields. Antiquities, curiosities,
and pictures. Open Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fri-
days in April, May, and June ; and Wednesdays, from
February to August. Admission on application to the
Curator,
Society of Arts—John-street. Adelphi. inventions, pic-
tures, curiosities &c. Daily : admission by member's
order.
South Kensington—Cromwell-road. Open on Mondays,
Tuesdays, and Saturdays, 10 till 10, freo ; on other days
10 till 4,5, or 6. Gd.
Tower of London—Ancient armour, &c. Open daily, 1G
till 4. ls.

PICTURE GALLERIES.
Bridgewater Gallery—Cleveland-square. Cards to view
may be obtained from Mr. Mitchell, Old Bond-street.
British Artists—Suffolk-street. April to July. is.
Masters, June, July, and August. Is.
Buckingham Palace Pictures.—May be viewed by an order
from the Lord Chamberlain.
Cartoons of Raphael—South Kensington Museum, Mon
day, Tuesday, Saturday, free ; other days, 6d.
Crystal Palace—Sydenham. Modern Pictures and Sculp-
ture. Is.
Dulwich Gallery—Dulwich. Chiefly Flemish and Dutch
Pictures. Open free daily. ex,2ept Friday.
Flagman Gallery—University of London, Gower-street.
Foundling Ilospital—Guildford-street. Open Mondays,
10 till 4.
Gallery of Ancient Masters-49. Pall. ls.
Greenwich Painted Hall—Greenwich. Mondays and Fri
days Free : other days, 4d.
Guildhall—City. May be seen on application to the like
keeper.
Hampton Court Palace.—The galleries aro open free daily
except on Friday.
Monument—Fish -street Hill. Every day. 6d.
National Gallery—Trafalgar-squam Open free, Mondays,
Tuesdays Wednesdays, and Sat.:rdays.
National Portrait Gallery-29, Gren Soorge-street.
free, Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Trinity House—Trinity-square, Tower-hill, Models of
lighthouses, &c. Daily, 10 till 4.
Tussaud's Waxwork-58, Baker-street. Open daily till
10 p.m. ls.
SUBURBAN PLACES OF RESORT.
Cremorne Gardens—Chelsea. ls.
Crystal Palace 'ark—Syclenhatn. Open daily, Is.; Satur-
aays, 2s. 6d.
Greenwich Park—Greenwich. Ooen
Hampton Court Gardens.—Open free daily.
Highbury Barn and Gardens - -Highbury. 6d. and is by
refreshment tickets.
Kew Gardons--Kew. Open free, daily at ore o'clock.
Richmond Park —Richmond. Open free, daily.
Rosherville Gardens—Gravesend. Open daily. 6d.
Royal Horticultural Gardens—Kensington. Admission by
members' order.
Windsor Great Park-Windsor. Open free. Windsol
Castle may be visited on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fri-
• days, by tickets obtainable at the I.:erd o'4vailrlaiu
°Dice, in th, caztle.

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Although the consecration of Bishop Mackarness did not
excite the same amount of curiosity which that of Bishop
Temple did, there was a very large congregation at the
Abbey on Tuesday. The most noticeable incident next to
the appearance of the tall and stately Archbishop of Syra
in his purple robe, brimless hat, veil, and jewelled cross,
was the sermon. This was preached by Mr. Furse, the
vicar of Staines, an intimate friend of the new bishop for
neatly years. The sermon was remarkable for the
earnestness and outspokenness with which it set forth the
duties of a bishop. It was an admirable companion to
Dean Lake's discourse.
The rumoured selection of Archdeacon Jones for the see
of St. Asaph was incorrect. I can state positively that no
appointment had been made up to Tuesday, and that Mr.
Gladstone has had more difficulty in filling up this see
than any other. It is just possible that Mr. Walsham
How, who is a good Welsh scholar, a canon of St. Asaph,
and a cousin of the Premier, may be the man; but nothing
is settled.

A subscription is being raised to repair the chancel of
St. Philip's Church, Clerkenwell, as a memorial to the lato
incumbent, the Rev. Warwick Wroth, who was the first
London clergyman to exchange pew-rents for the free and

open system:
The Middlesbro' strikers have shown great ingratitude
in refusing to accept the arbitration of Mr. Rws'ert Kettle,
who has been so successful hitherto, first, in !Educing the
contending parties to submit to arbitration, and, then, in
giving a decision which has satisfied both. The strikers
insisted upon having Mr. Hughes, who, with all his good
qualities, and sympathy for working men, is not the most
practical man in the world, as his experience of co-opera-
tive and philanthropic-commercial undertakings would
testify. Surely Mr. Hughes must have his hands full in
looking after the interests of the unfortunate adventurers
in the Cobden cotton mills and other partnerships of
industry whereof-he is-a iiirectoy, but,. the shareholders
,
of which have long been waiting /or a dividend with
more of patience than fruition.
The Bessemer patent expires in a few days, and there is
some little excitement in the iron trade. But Mr. Besse-
mer is far too clever a man to allow £120,000 a year,
which he gets from royalties alone, to pass out of his
hands. Recently he has invented a process by which the
waste material that could not be converted into steel shall
be converted. As this waste was about 30 per cent., it is
manifest that he will be able to undersell all other makers
even though they use his first patent without paying for
it. In other words, he will ' coinpei them to use his new
patent, that is, to continue paying the royalty. Mr. Bes-
semer is now a MBA of enormous wealth, and the conser-
vatory which he has just erected at his seat is probably
the finest in the world. Yet it is little more than twenty
years since he was a working engineer in North London,
who, all his friends declared, would never do anything for
himself, because he was always muddling away his time
and money in experiments. For some years he experi-
mented on the making of steel. His problem was how to
get the surperfluous carbon out of the pig iron and yet
retain the proportion required. For some time he
succeeded only partially, the steel being of uncertain
quality, because the proportion of carbon was
of uncertain amount. At last a Mr. Mushet
suggested that the easiest plan was to get rid of all the
carbon, and restore the required quantity afterwards. He
had been wise enough to take out a patent, but had for-
gotten that after a provisional registration for six months
it was necessary to pay £5O. In this way Mr. Bessemer
got possession of the patent, and made arrangements with
Mr. Mushet with which the latter gentleman was not
wholly satisfied. He subsequently set up works of his own
at Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, where he now produces
the Titanic steel.
There is good news for ladies. Hitherto, as their
husbands have been only too well aware, they have had to
pay very high prices for silks of broad widths. The reason
is that in weaving these silks the shuttle has to pass
through a greater space, and becoming heated by friction,
the machinery has to be oiled, and it is very difficult to
prevent the oil dropping on to the silk. Hence much
waste, and therefore increase in •cost. But an
American named Lyall has devised a shuttle
which runs along a sort of tramway, and does not get
unduly heated. Consequently he can make silks of any
width, and at a moderate cost. His invention also makes
the selvage perfectly regular, an advantage too seldom
attained hitherto. The result of this invention will, in all
probability, be that the raw silk from China and Japan,
which now passes through the United States by the
Atlantic and Pacific Railway, will stop in the States, and
be manufactured there, instead of going to Lyons, and then
returning manufactured. In this way the United States
are likely to become the great silk manufacturers of the
world. Indeed, at tie present time silk is being assidu-
ously cultivated at San Francisco.
It has been already mentioned that Mr. Holman Hunt
is engaged on a groat picture at Bethlehem. It is not
known, however, that he is keeping the subject of
it a profound secret, nor that he sends home
every week to his son, a child of four years old,
sketches of the people and the country where he is
now residing. These sketches are being carefully collected
by friends of the artist who know the value of them.
Another item of art news is that Mr. Lehmann paid Mr.
Millais £1,500 for the picture of "Nina Lehmann," which
was exhibited in the Royal Academy last year. This is
a large sum. Yet no doubt the owner of the picture could
get his money back again any day. Two well known pic-
tures by the same artist have just been sold by the owner,
a Lancashire man, at a large advance upon the original
price. Mr. Millais is painting a chef d'oeuvre for the Royal
Academy this year, and Mr. Frith also has another of his
scenes of English life on hand.
One of the most amusing books out ror many a day is
the " Anglican Mysteries of Paris," a very handsome
volume, containing fifty-three sketches of Paris life, each
page with from one to six drawings, and each drawing
having explanatory letterpress. The work, which is
splendidly bound, sets forth "the stirring adventures of
Captain Mars and his two friends, Messrs. Scribbley and
Daubiton ;" Scribbley, the man of letters, and Daubiton,
the artist. Captain Mars, your readers may like
to know, is Captain Bertrand Payne (" 11Ioxon
and Co."), and the artist of the work is Mr.
Moyr Smith. The two names suggest an irresistible joke,
and so the title page states that the joint authors are " a
new firm with an old name," videlicet Smith, Payne, &
Co., but of course not the bankers. The dedication is
humorous, and runs as follows :—" To the Prince Imperial
of France, a very good little boy, this book, a souvenir of
a pleasant visit to Paris, is, with his august Papa's
gracious consent, inscribed as a reward for progress
in his English studies, by his friends and well-
wishers, Smith, Payne, and Co." The drawings
suggest the immortal adventures of "Brown, Jones, and
Robinson." Yet there is no slavish imitation, but plenty
of originality, such as Paris life may well inspire. The
three friends begin with spirit. They dine not wisely, but
too well, and though the arrival of each at his own door
is effected without accident, the act of applying the latch-
key to the keyhole is beyond their capacity. Nevertheless
they must have contrived to gain admission somehow, for
early the next morning we see them at Victoria Station
en route for Paris. The voyage to Dieppe is the reverse of
cheerful—Dieppe douaniers are so fierce of countenance
that Scribbling believes he is the victim of a lettre de cachet.
However, they arrive at Paris without loss of liberty,
and then they do the capital thoroughly. Most amusing
are the adventures into which they fall. Not the least so is
is the duel which Captain Mars has to fight with a jealous
husband—a novel kind of duel, in which fire-arras are
exchanged for water-weapons, and in which the brave men
nears drain the lake in the Bois de Boulogne. The acme
of humour is reached in the picture of Gustave Dore's
studio, where that most prolific of artists is seen painting
in heroic size the three friends who are almost lost in
the distance of the capacious room. Very clever,
too, are the drawings of the. police, the National Guard,
and the French men, women, and children drawn up in
regimental array, as Captain Mars promises to draw them
up, if the Emperor will but make him a marshal and com-
mander-in-chief. Altogether this is a ,capital book for
passing away pleeseently the mauvais quart d'heure when a
late guest is keeping the dinner waiting.
Other literary news is scanty. Mr. Dicey, the new
Editor of the Daily News, has in the press a book on the
Suez Canal. The new pocket edition of Tennyson's poems
contains all the Arthur:an poems arranged in the order
mentioned by the author in the notice to his new volume.
Mr. Matthew Arnold does not find the education of the
Duke of Genoa prevent him from writing,-and ho has an
article in the new number of the Cornlal on
Puritanism in the Church of England. Mr. Marwood
Tucker, proprietor of the Globe, has an article in Macmillan.
The Portfolio has articles by Mr. Sidney Colvin (art critic
of the Pall Mall Gazette), Mr. Burne Jones, the Prx-
Raphaelite, and Mr. Hamerton,the editor. Two new cheap
publications aro announced, one called "The Million," and
the other, I believe, "New.ldeas:;" both are to be sold at a
penny.
iq rwpwedill circleklikely to, bp well, informed that,
. asa • a

scandal. ThelitlfiCipal—aetof fs bf cotiree dissatisfied, and
besides his letters to the Standard, intends, it is said, to
publish another book on this now well-worn case. After,
the ample report given in the newspapers, the book would
be more likely to have a large circulation if it were pre-
sented gratis than if it has to be paid for.
To-day has been the coldest day of the season. This morning
the thermometer in the sun was only 25. Hyde Park was
white with the most brilliant hoar frost, that covered both
grass and trees, and made Englishmen, in their sombre
dresses, look like. mutes at a funeral. The sun was a red
ball,4cen toroug'ks London fog, which, though mild in
comparison'ivithinany fop, was bad, enough to make one
wish for 'one of Prefessor Trulall's respirators. There has
b skating in the parks, Pad a host of accidents.
• 'Whatever doubt there may have been before, there can
be none now that Ministers will deal with the Education
question this year. Judged by the test of public meetings,
it is the question of the day. By comparison with this
subject, the Irish Land Bill is of no interest, though far
be it from me to say that it is of no importance.
Every night sees several mec:_ing,s held in different
parts of the country to discuss the programmes of
the Education Union and the League. The latter body
is the more active, for it has a large suns of money at its
command wherewith to carry on the :agitation. Never-
thelees, its own supporters confess that it has lost ground
la tely, and that it was a serious mistake to draw up a defi-
nite measure. The conviction gains strength that the
interpretation which you put upon Mr. Forster's speech is
the true one, and that the Government will preserve the
present system for the existing schools, and adopt the
secular system for those schools which are supported by
the rates. As regards the other great subject of legislation,
it becomes more and more probable that the Government
will, as I have all along predicted, solve the Irish land
question by the extension of the Ulster system throughout
Ireland, and by the establishment of local courts for set-
tling differences which may arise between landlord and
tenant. The able Irish special commissioner of the linzeg,
Mr. O'Connor, sums up his correspondence this morning by
recommending these proposals, and the Times, in a leading
article, endorses them. The licensing question is
also pretty certain to be dealt with this session as may
be seen from Mr. Stansfeld's remarks at Halifax yesterday.
I have reason to know that Mr. Gladstone has promised to
bring in a bill for relieving clergymen, who have abandoned
their vocation for conscientious reasons, from the civil
disabilities under which they now suffer. Should this
measure be carried it will no longer be true " once a priest
always a priest," and we shall probably see men like Pro-
fessor Rogers and Mr. Fronde becoming candidates for seats
in Parliament. Both these gentlemen have long felt"-The--
present law a serious hardship, shutting them out, as it does,
from the life to which they deem themselves really called.
I hope that among other measures the Government will
not forget one for the certification of life insurance
accounts, such as Mr. Thomas Cave introduced last session.
Finally, one would like to know what stops the Attorney-
General has taken to prosecute the bribers and the bribees
of Bridgwater, Beverley, Norwich, and other corrupt con-
stituencies. The year during which proceedings may be
instituted has been up these two months and as yet
nothing has been heard of a prosecution.

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