The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-29 00:00:00

TII " OWL."

The Prince and Princess of Wales will arrive at Marl-
borough House on-May 10th. .
Sir Thomas Western will be the new Lord-Lieutenant
of Essex.

Mr. Gladstone will probably abandon that portion of
the 2,-(11 Clause of the Irish Church Bill which provides
that ecclesiastical residences may be handed over to the
representative body on •payment of twelve times tie
annual value of the site.

It is confidently expected that before the end of the
year Enfield will turn out one thousand a week of the
Martini-Henry rifle complete. The first two hundred will
be band-made, the second lot of eight hundred will be
made with the first machinery, or rather machine tools or
cutters, that can be got ready. Both the hand-made and
machine-made (interchangeable) arms will thus have a
fair trial before the troops are generally supplied with the
new weapon, about the superiority of which there does
not appear to exist a doubt in well-informed quarters.
The amount of the bankruptcy fund which it is pro.
posed to transfer to the Chancellor of the Exchequer was,
last October, 5'1,193,128. It consists of unclaimed divi•
dends, &c. The Bankruptcy Bill now before Parliament
contains a provision by which all unclaimea dividends after
five years shall be transferred to the Treasury. It is
believed that provision will be made for the capitalisation of
retiring pensions and annuities and subject them to existing
charges. The Chancellor of the Exchequer will from the
Court of Bankruptcy alone receive an enormous sum,
which will leave him a large margin to deal, or rather to
play with, in future Budgets.
In .foreign matters the OW announces that the
recent meetings of the Franco-Belgian Conference
have been extremely conciliatory, and that there
is hops that Spain will acknowledge the error of
the Cuban authorities in seizing the Ainerican ship
Mary Lowell in British waters.

THE COMIC PAPEI?S.

(From notch.)

AN EXTRA OPX/IA KNIGHT.—Sir Michael Costa. _
_ Too FAST.—What is. "an improved driving clock ?" Is
it a companion to a hunting watch?

The Rev. Benjamin Speke is going to be married, they
say. Is it to be a run-away match ?

CAUGHT NAPPING.—The sleepy habits of some of the
members make it certain that there is one kind of hat
seldom seen in the House—the Wide-awake.

SOMETHING WRONG.—The seasons, we are often told,
are changing and interfering with each other, but now the
months arc also getting into confusion, " May Meetings"
being openly held in April.

A WONDERFUL FEAT IN' HIGH ART FOR LOWE.—
(Subject for a grand cartoon in the Salle des Pas Perdus
of the New Law Courts.) As a Pendant to Samson carry.
ing off the Gates of Gaza—Bob Lowe with Inigo Jones's
front upon his back !

Too VAGUE.—At the last meeting of the Geographical
Society a paper was read giving an account of a " Journey
through the Afar Country." There are so many countries
which are " afar " interesting to geographers, that a rather
more precise indication of the particular region meant
might, perhaps, have been desirable.

"HOT-WATER APPARATUS FOR HEATING CHURCHES."
—We have received a long list of testimonials to the
merits of Mes.,rs. Blank and Co.'s contrivance for this
purpose. But read the articles in the Church Union
organs and the Record, and the speeches at the Dublin
Church Conference, and then Fay what can e ;nal Pit ;alistn
rad disestahlishment as a "Hut-Water Apparatus fur
Heating Churches"?

(Prom Judi.)

A LEGAL Font.—The Queen's Bench.

FOLLOW err LEADER.—The clerks in Mr. Lowe's de-
partment have sent the right hon. gentleman a memorial
to the effect that they may, for the future, be paid in
advance !

MEATRE ROYAL ST. STENIEN'S.—The Chancellor of
the Exchequer made his first appearance here, in "The
Budget," recently. The piece was held by some to be
Lowe comedy, but we rather looked uperu it as a burlesque
or farce ! There is a good dval of sensation in it, and the
only addition we can recommend Break Down

(From Fa n.)

EARLY EXPERIENCE or THE CUCKOO.—Life in lod-
gingg.

JET-SOME.--A laiddary of our acquaintance says that
the gas companies are quite right—considering their
blackness—to talk of their lights as gas!ds.
A GROWL BY OUR CYNIC.-ll'llen a man says that his
misdeeds have come home to him, you may generally take
it for granted that it is because they find it a congenial
home.