The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

REMA RK S.

The decrease in pressure noticed in the west yesterday afternoon
seems to have passed to the N.B. with great rapidity ; pressure at
Nairn having decreased nearly half an inch between 6 p.m. and mid-
night. This fall has been succeeded by K fresh recovery, exceeding
O'3in in the north (where it has been greatest); gnd pressure is now
increasing in the south also. The lowest reading is at Nairn, and is
i;'Vin. lower than that at Itochefort, where pressure is still high.
Temperature has changed but little. A bard N.W. gale has blown
on our N. an'l W. coasts during the past night, and continues in the
northern part of the Irish Channel, though of less force ; but in the
English Channel wind been comparatively light. In the S.E. and
S. moderate to fresh westerly .breezes are reported to-day. Snow and
sleet have fallen in the north. The sky is deer in Scotland, and
somewhat cloudy elsewhere. Weather is very unsettled. The
sea is not very high.

It has been decided to lower the operatic pitch to
the Freneh Standard at Covent Garden.

The 7 abler is informed that the statement circulated
by the Irish Times that the Duke of Norfolk had seceded
from the Catholic Church to the lrvingites is without foun-
dation.

A correspondent of the Liberte states that a museum
is about to be established at Sebastopol for the preservation
of all the trophies and souvenirs of the war with Englane
and France.

On Thursday the Norwich electoral organisation
determined to give continued support to Mr. Tillett when-
ever an election occurs for Norwich. Mr. Tillett was the
working-men's candidate at the late election.

On Wednesday afternoon the ship Ingre, of Ma-
sterdom, bound to Havannah in ballast, grounded on the
Goodwin Sands, where she became a wreck. The lifeboat,
Van Kook, took off the crew and landed them at Rams-
gate.

The Weekly Register says : "Archbishop Manning
will leave Rome in time to be in London for Passion Week.
It seems that there is no truth in the report sent us from
Rome that his Grace is to receive a cardinal's hat. For
the present, at any rate, there is no chance of this taking
place."

Mr. Goggin, an owner of property at Glin, near
farbert, has been fired at whilst driving home with his
wifo in an open carriage. Four shots were discharged from
behind a fence and all mi. sed. Mrs. Goggin described the
intending assassin, whom she saw running off. Pendinf
ejectment proceedings are stated as the probable cause.

It bas been determined to present a testimonial, in
the substantial form of £l,OOO, to the Rev. IT. A. Stern and
Mr. IT. Rosenthal, the late prisoners in Abyssinia. Amongst
those who are taking an active part in the movement are
the Marquis of Cholmondeley, Sir W. de Capel Brooke,
Colonel Yarborough, C. 8., Canon Hall, and alter gentle-
men.

At the Guildhall, yesterday, a butcher of Aylesworth,
in Suffolk-, was sentenced to three months' hard labour for
sending diseased meat to the London market for food. It
was stated that the defendant bought a cow which had died
from being diseased, for 275. Cd., and in order to hide the
appemance in the meat cut away a large portion of the in-
side, rad even scraped the ribs in order to destroy the trace
of disease.

The British Medical Journal understands that tl e
Government intend to transfer the working of the Conta-
gious Diseases Act from the War-office to the Home-office.
It will be proposed to extend the operations of the Act
to the remaining military stations ; and also to give
powers to carry out the Act among the civil population
generally under permissive clauses, such as those recom-
mended by Lord Lifford's ComMittee last Session.

The case against the Rev. W. J. E. Bentioik, of
Frome, is expected to come before Sir Robert Phillimore in
the course of a few weeks. The complaint against the rev,
gentleman will be that he teaches a real, actual, and visible
presence of the Lord upon the altar, and that without that
doctrine, containing and inferring the sacerdotal office of the
priest, and the sacrificial character of the altar, there would
be no altar at all. The case will also embrace Aomil minor
tharECOS.