The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-02 00:00:00

LIPLA NA'

,TION

Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The
letter r, rising ; f. falling ; 5, steady—indicates direction emotion
of tho mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed iz
shade. Eztrone Force with its Direction during last 24 hours.
Z.—calm. Weather : sky ; c.—clouds, detached ;I. fog
b.—hail; I.—lightning ; m.—misty, hazy ; (I—overcast, dull r.—
rain ; a.—snow ; t.—thunder. Rain-fall, snow or hail melted)
&fling last 24 hours. Sea disturbance.

ItEMAr.ICB.
Since yesterday evening barometrical pressure has decreased with
great rapidity, especially on our ea,tern coast, where the fall amounts
to nearly 7-10ths of an inch, but decreases in a south-westerly direc-
tion. Readings in the E. arc now below 29in., and that at Leith is
o'B9ln. lower than that at Rochefort. Temperature has risen some-
what in the N. and E., and fallen again in the S. and W. Severe
gales from W. to N.W. have blown at all stations except those in the
N. and E during the past night, and are continuing this morning,
and blowing very hard. On the E. coast wind is fresh from the earns
quarter. In the N. of Scotland, however, moderate N.E. wind is
reported. Rain has been general, with snow in the N. and E.,
thunder and lightning in the W. The sea is high in the Channel.

A serious fire took place on Sunday near Brotntord.
in n'sex. A set of farm buildings and 13 valuable horses
were destroyed.

Mr. H. E. C. Childers, M.F., the First Lord o
the Admiralty, has resigned his post as a director of dr
Bank of Austialasia.

The solicitors acting for " Sir Roger C. T. D.
Tichborne, Bart.," announce that they are about applying
to the Court of Chancery to commit for contempt the pub-
lishers of a paper which has led the van in propagating
varicus injurious announcements respecting their client.

The Hampshire grand jury yesterday ignored
the bill against the man Thompson, who was indicted for
blasphemy. Thompson had distributed tracts setting forth
the &aims of somebody to be considered as the Messiah, and
this was the blasphemy complained of. A clergyman was
the prosecutor.

The Talke ColFcry Accident Relief Committee
have hold a meeting in ref,renee to the surplus funds at
their disprsal. They fin;] that they may safely defach
£3,000 from the money in their hands, and they have
cid,d to melee that sum the nucleus of a colliers permanent
relief fund for North Staffordshire.

Colonel 11. J. Shaw, the present governor of the
Herbert Hospital at Woolwich, retires from that post on the
31st of March, it having been cl,c!ded that the appointment
is one for three years only. It is looked upon as soniowhai
doubtful whether the vacancy will be filled.
THE PRINCE AND THE PRINCESS OF WALES._
We have reason to believe that their Royal Highnesset
the Prince and the Princess of Wales will return tc
England sooner than was expected. The hot weather ik
already setting in on the Red Sea, and the river is very
low and somewhat unhealthy, so that it is thought
imprudent for the Princess to remain in that diitrict cc
lung as she intended. No doubt their Royal ifigline
'viii make their homeward visits to
.the Sultan of Turk,l
And the King of Grecce.—Eas'c:•:t dlo•ning Yeivq.

IMPO.RPSNT DISCOVERY IN SOLAR

PHYSICS.

GOLDWIN SMITH ON TIIE UNIVERSITIES.-Pro-
, fessor Goldivin Smith delivered a lecture on University
Education before the American Social Science Convention,
at Albany, on the 17th ult. Towards the conclusion of his
remarks he touched upon the subject of the education
of women, and said that the highest was that which
was best adapted for them. He objected to the
English university system of competitive examina-
tions for women, the effects of which were questionable
enough even in the case of men. Two points were to be
decided : first, whether it was desirable that women
should receive the same university education as men ;
second, whether it was desirable that they should receive
it at the same place. The two points were perfectly dis-
tinct, and the experiments ought to be tried successively,
and not at once. Vassar College appeared to be trying
the first in the most complete and satisfactory manlier.
He thought it would be better to wait the result before
instituting a mixed university for both sexes.

A " DIFFICULTY" IN FLORIDA.—About three
o'clock yesterday afternoon a rapid succession of gun-
shots were heard about four miles in the country. Start-
ling intelligence was soon obtained of a desperate combat
between six men. There were three brothers on either
side, of the names of Braddock and Turner, who had culti.
vated inveterate hatred to each other for many years. The
result is it culminated in the death of one of the former
and two of the last-named. The most reckless bravery
was displayed on either side. The weapons used were
shotguns and rifles, which were used within ten feet distance
of each other, wounding or killing the whole party. Two
of the Turners were killed, one on the field, the other
flying wounded for his life. John Braddock fell by
the first shot. Dying, he exclaimed to his brothers " Kill
the last one before he escapes." These were his last words.
The parties were neighbours, and considered good citizens.
The cause of the trouble probably was a few hogs. As yet
no recognition has been taken by the civil authorities of
this tragic affair.—Dunn's Lake, Florida (January 30) ;
correspondence of the Macon Tel

THE ANCIENT BRITAINS. —" The most honourablo
and loyal Society of Ancient Britains" have just cele-
brated their 154th anniversary at Willii's Rooms, under
the presidency of the Right Hon. the Earl Vane. The
chairman was supported by Sir W. W. Wynn, Bart.,
m.p., Lord E. Vane Tempest, General Brownrigg, C. 8.,
&c. This society has for its chief object the support of
schools for the education of Welsh children at Ashford,
in Middlesex. It appeared from the secretary's report
that no less than 2,402 boys and 756 girls have
been admitted upon the establishment and wholly
maintained in the house, and at the present
time there are 119 boys and 49 girls in the institution.
The expenditure in aid of the schools during the year
amounted to £3,850 10s. Bd., and the receipts had fallen
short of this sum by £BB 16s. Bd. Subscriptions and dona-
tions were, however, announced in the room amounting to
about £BOO. The funds of the charity consist of R 29,000
in Consols, and £23,000 in Three per Cents Reduced.
The uncertain property of the institution arises from lega-
cies, collections at this anniversary, donations, and annual
subscriptions.

DEATH OF LORD WYNFORD.—WO have to record
the death of Lord Wynford, which took place at his lord-
ship's town residence, Park-place, St. James's-street,
about nine o'clock on Sunday morning. The deceased
nobleman was the second baron, and was born in 1798.
He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, where ho
graduated 13. A., 1818, M.A., 1821, in which latter year he
married the youngest daughter of William Thoyts, Esq.,
of Sulhamstead, near Reading. In 1823 he was called to
the bar at the Middle Temple ; and in 1837 he unsuccess-
fully contested the representation of Barnstaple. In 1845
his lordship succeeded to the title on the death of his
father, the first baron, who was directly descended, in a
female line from William Pitt, ancestor of the celebrated
Earl of Chatham ; and who was judge of the Queen's
Bench 1819-24, and Chief Justice of the Common
Pleas, 1824-29. The deceased nobleman is succeeded
by his son, the Hon. William Best, who is married to the
grand-daughter of the fifth Duke of Manchester. The
family seats are Leesons, Staplehurst, Kent ; and Wyn.
ford Eagle, Dorset.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A CLERGYMAN AT
OXFORD.—An inquest was held on Monday afternoon at
the residence of the Rev. Canon Payne Smith, at Christ
Church, Oxford, before the University Coroner, Mr. F.
Symonds, and a jury consisting of members of the Univer-
sity and matriculated persons, on the body of the Rev.
Glyd White, M.A., of Oriel Colleg,e, an d curate of Ewelme,
Oxfordshire, who expired on Sunday evening from the
effects of a fall down a flight of steps. The Ven. Archdeacon
Clarke acted as foreman of the jury. It appeared from the
evidence of Dr. Payne Smith, his butler, and Mr. Briscoe,
surgeon, that the deceased had been visiting the former at
Christ Church, and had lunched there about two o'clock on
Thursday. At a quarter before three Mr. Payne Smith's
butler found him at the bottom of the cellar stairs groan-
trig from the injuries he had received by the fall. With
the butler's assistance he walked upstairs, and was placed
on a sofa. Medical aid was at once procured, and it was
discovered that the unfortunate gentleman had received
severe injuries to the head, from the effects of which he
died on Sunday. It is supposed that the deceased mistook
the door, and was precipitated to the bottom of the steps,
falling on his head. The jury at once returned a verdict
of accidental death. Mr. White, who was 81 years of age,
had for some years acted as curate of Ewelme, which
living is attached to the Regius Professorship of Divinity
at Oxford.

31R. GOSCHEN ON WORKING 05,s

EXHIBITIONS.

The Daily .Yews records another important discovery in South London is certainly favoured in one resPes;
solar physics, and thinks it the most important of all that that it has those connected with it who are coat:hi:oe
have of late been made in the chemistry of the sun. We getting up working-men's exhibitions. On Mend3'oo
had learned the nature of the solar prominences from the third South London Exhibition was inaugurated. gs•
eclipse-expeditions last year ; then we had found that statement of the managing body, of whom Mr. G.' the
these prominences can be examined spectroscopicanywith. Murphy, one of the hon. secretaries, appears to eeps
out the aid of an eclipse ; now the discovery has been active spirit, informs us that the exhibition is ew.ctiou
made that they can be seen without an eclipse. The South London and a working class one, the only excel:rice,
" double discovery,"made by Messrs. Janssen and Lockyer, being the loan of a work of art by one of the 'to
had given us what Sir John Herschel describes as Presidents (the present Premier), who was among 01
" a mode of rendering the protuberances sensible, very earliest to see that in such exhibitions there Itio
not visible." Its application to determine the shape of healthy outcome for the talent, genius, and industry °t
or
these objects was tedious and difficult, and it did not seem more thoughtful portion of the working population °f the
ivg possible to apply it to determine the character of those large cities and towns. The number of exhibitors A
present exhibition is 450 (local circumstances neceesitat
r.
rapid changes of figure which the prominences have been
eistio shewn to undergo. Now this pert of the lesson taught us the limiting of applications of them so far as can be
tamed), a much larger proportion of skilled worked
their
by these objects will be remlered available, since the
method just discovered vviii enable the astronomer to in any previous industrial exhibition are exhibitiero
watch a prominence at Ws leisure, and to notice all those products. The opening ceremonial was presided °I bes,
Mr. S. Morley, M.P., who was supported by Mr. Geee p,
whirling and. waving motions which are suggested
M.P., Mr. Layare, M.P., the Lord Mayor, M.P.,/zec,
by a comparison of Major Tennant's photographs
with the views obtained by observers in other places. Locke, M.P., Mr. C. W. Dilke, .M.P., the
..„„it
The eclipse expeditions had shewn that the light we Newman Hall, &c. The Chairman expressed the tile,
01.
receive from the coloured prominences which surround the gratification he experienced in complying with
iii.
sun belongs to the three special colours. Its spectrum committee's request to preside; his conviction of the
vantages which much result from such exhibitions .5
_go
sheaved a red line, an orange line, and a greenish blue line.
centives to the working classes to devote their leisure ti°,),,
It was because the light is thus divided between three
to beneficial occupation in their own homes, free frote:et
definite spectral lines that it was possible to distinguish
its spectrum from that given by the sun's proper light, deleterious and often demoralising influences they, !ter
which has been found to exceed that of the prominences with elsewhere, and as affording opportunities for lerk,
from GOO to 1,100 times. But was it to be hoped that communication, co-operation, and union between the.,,Woy,,
any method might be devised to enable us to see ing classes and those above them.—Mr. Goschen, lu" de
the prominences ? It seems, at first sight, hopeless who delivered the inaugural address, commenced by
to attempt this, since any means we may use for reducing daring his entire sympathy with the object of the prote:t
the solar light obliterate the prominences, and an experi- of the exhibition and his confidence in its usefulness,ba big
ment made by the Astronomer Royal shewed that it is an apology for the brevity of his speech retniedeuty
hopeless to attempt to blot out the sun by a circular hearers that he was a workman in a craft in Which
oged
screen of any sort, since the illumination of the atmo- hours of labour were, unlimited, and where those ea of
sphere remains, and effectually conceals the prominences. in it were expected and encouraged to work overtinie•boto
But it had been shewn years ago by Sir David Brewster dilated upon the many instances of meritorious l'/ of
110
that transparent bodies do not absorb the colours propor-
exhibited, spewing as they did that the working
tionally. The light from the prominences belong to three London, while excelling in the trades and callings eusvol
definite parts of the spectrum, -What if, by a proper choice of they depended for the maintenance of themselves
deJ
transparent glasses, we could obliterate all the rest of the
families, were not indifferent to those arts which tee
spectrum but those three parts, or even all but one of to civilise and refine their homes. We had hear Were
those parts ? Is it not clear that in that case the sun's deal about technical education, and these exhibitioneto
light would be obliterated, while the light from the evidences of a technical education of a practical 61°0
prominences would be visible? So that in such a case we in which people voluntarily subjected themselves
to
l e
the eclipse saw—that is, a ring of prominences and no
should actually see the same phenomenon as the observers of sort of competitive examination which must neee
be mutually instructive and improving.—The Lord Ufa
sun. It is, perhaps, hopeless to expect quite so
proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Goschen for his 3° the
exact a sifting of the solar light as this ; but
and to Mr. S. Morley for presiding, and expresein.g,„ijat
it is not impossible to obtain an approach to it.
feeling of the meeting that the present and all 0701
If we obtain a transparent glass which blots out a
enterprises might result in the extension of enter Pris
1110 f
great part of the spectrum without touching one of the
skill as well as to the increasingly useful emploYreeod,
prominence lines, we have done something. If we obtain the spare hours of the working classes.—Mr. Le/ 00
M.P., and Mr. Mike, M.P., spoke to the resolutioehto
another which blots out some other part and yet leaves
former expressin,g a confident b ope that next year we e
our line untouched, that is another step. And so,
by a proper choice of glasses, we may blot out so have an International Working Man's Exhibition•
much of the sun's light, without affecting the
light of the prominence, as to leave the latter visible.
The idea of doing this had occurred to Mr. Hug-
gins before the results of the eclipse expeditions
had reached England. He obtained a great variety
of coloured glasses and other absorptive media.
He examined them with a prism to see what part of the
spectrum they absorbed, and then he combined them in
different ways. But, of course, as he had no knowledge
of the quality of the light which we actually receive from
the prominences, all this was in a sense guess-work.
But the observations of the eclipse of August
last, "having shewn the position in the spectrum
of the bright lines of the prominences," he re-
newed his observations with greater promise of
success. After various trials and combinations of coloured
media, he has at length succeeded in resolving the im•
portant problem of seeing the solar prominences without
an eclipse. Nor let it be supposed that the credit due to
this achievement is in any sense lessened because the work
was founded upon the results previously obtained by the
eclipse expeditions.

ELECTION PETITIONS.

It is remarked by the Daily News that as far
„Tags
election petition inquiries have gone, Mr. Justice "of
has been called upon to pronounce judgment in the eaco,
eleven members, and of these only one was unseated. ee
Justice Blackburn has decided five petitions, and i° tboo
instances the members were aliseated. Mr. Baron .101061
has disposed of six petitions, and in two cases has de
the elections void. yte
The witnesses for the defence of the sitting mein-eeg
still being called at Salford. They did not hovie/j.:e'pof
least, some of them) materially strengthen the Pt)stisig
the respondents ; as one of the witnesses admitted '",jef
engaged a number of roughs on behalf of Messrs. C 3
I.nd Charley. The reason of this engagement did ni/t of
.learly appear, as evidence, if not contradictory,
difficult to reconcile, was given. One of the othertogef
nesses was a prize-fighter, and Mr. Pope attenaPted et;
from him that he had been assaulting the petiti°o3o,
witnesses. He admitted " punching the head "of 011%00
but said it was for calling his sister foul names. •1111, Of
witness spoke to lots of drink being supplied to a rt-oleo
voters and canvassers, but added that a collection v.'014
and the drink was paid for by the persons in the r°°'";o.
At the Galway election inquiry Mr. O'FlahertY, °"100
the candidates, and the real, not ostensible, petitioner, ti.
been examined. He stated that he addressed the ee At
tuency on advanced Liberal principles. The bithel
be
first neither promised not refused him suppat,one
ti
adopted what were called the College House res_ictil
—a profession of political creed submitted by the cleor
party to all the candidates. Mr. O'FlahertY °l)tt of
promises of support from nearly 800 voters °lle,
a constituency of 1,1:41, of whom only 1,200 were avails it)
He lost no opportunity of disavowing all arnpathl
Captain O'Hara's polities. On the 31st October beet
asked to attend the meeting of the bishop and el e to
at which the relative strength of the candidates sce°ol
be tested, and the "men for Galway" to be virWoot
elected. lie refused to take any part in it, saYiagc its
he thought it a very summary way of disposing 7 ~ t
representation. Ife soon afterwards received °
etbe
from the Rev. Mr. Cullen, informing bill' °";
result of that meeting, to which he sent 3,nrlf
stating that he refused to acknowledge the ailt'd" 1110
of those present at it to bind the people of GaluaY' 1.01
understood-that the meeting had been convened by l'Aet
messages, circulated through the town on a busy read AS
day ; that it was considered by his friends tht result -rat°
unworthy intrigue ; and suggesting that ti lee sePci- the
meetings—of the mercantile interest, the artisans, °r3 to tie
gentry—should be summoned, under such arra,ngerneetheir
would " afford honest men an opportunity of making dof
selections free from the taint and suspicion of a be:01.4
unprincipled intriguers." He did not mean the • but
" intriguers " to refer to the bishop or clergy, file
from that moment they took a most energetic and 11cl.gbt
part against him. The priests canvassed the torn 1%0.P
and day for Sir R. Blennherhassett, and Lord St',. and
rence, searching every hole, lane, cellar, and garret;',"
ransacking every back slum of the town, often until
midnight. He called a meeting of the b°'--bse
classes, who were led to believe that Ilea hag
insulted the bishop, for the purpose of .3'53'00
their minds, hut the meeting was broken up 00011,4 °
the proceedings were opened by the invasion otice
furious mob of drunken men, headed by Captain .004
Foster and his brother, Robert Foster. ll° (,iv. tallY
es aped with difficulty, and a gentleman—one of days
porters—sustained serious injury. On the two Sun tbo
preceding the election he beard himself denounced 100
parish chapel b' Fathers Holohan and Cullen, the and
of whom on the second Sunday spoke twice' aria
appeared during his second address to be laniiego
under great excitement. On the day of the P°10,..
Mr. O'Flaherty saw a priest—the Rev. Mr. De,,°ollo
dragging half-drunken voters to the poll by their St'
and whispering in their ears " Blennerhassett a°
icorlt
Lawrence." The rev, gentleman continued at that
eallo
all day, and acted in every respect— save that he Ideoa'
stick—like a " botheen boy"—a local term for bl°
men. Numbers of electors promised the vrithees,pgret;
support, but afterwards voted against him with and
but told him that he bad insulted their elergaY't vie
that they could not go against their bishop an
Church.
At Youghal, five witnesses, including Messrs. ibed
O'Brien, and Tracey, contradicted the evidence of vr,wer°
given in support of the petition. Several witnesse!otioa
produced to disprove treating, and to spewintlll/1 that
by Sir Joseph ArKenna's mob. The petitioner siOr
apeir,
neither directly nor indirectly had he been paid any °lac of
and that he did not expect to get any, and at the et-igied
his examination Mr. Butt said he was quite sot c,AO
with Mr. Brazier's evidence, and therefore We'll"
Aiest
any witnesses to support the charge of briberYlod
tiro. A witness named Barry deposed that
tb°se
-"Father Foley preach a sermon, in which he said tila woe
who voted for Sir J. M`Kenna would be saved, whi!e gasaa
who opposed him would be damned. Father F°'ey
examined, and positively denied this statement.

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ALA.BADIA.--Tb°
„rte.
Naval Committee of the United States House of 'pay
sentatir es reported on the 12th of February a bill tc;
war
Commodore Winslow and the officers and crew ° rio
money,
• mer Kearsage the sum of 190;000 dollars Po.
that sum being the estimated value of the j•
bama, which was destroyed by the Kearsage. arneneY
mint was adopted, providing that no part of the 1111°1313a
should be paid to an assignee of any marina, alici

bill was passed. tllO
Reports have reached Liverpool stating
,t
several puncheons of ruin have been washed ashore 11
Whitehaven, which, by the brand, aro known to /13%
formed part of the cargo of the ship AssaYe,
down off Blackwater Bank, off the coast of IV'exforilt
srld
1867, and which broke up in the recent gales. The .A..s(LsAior
otnera.-,h,
was wrecked on her homeward voyage from D
Liverpool. A telegram from Oporto states that the
derelict ship Michigan, which had been knockiDg
the Atlantic several months, had been picked up awl t 3
into that port y the screw steamer Richard Cobde'
which Wel;
A NEW FACT IN THE BEHAVIOUR JRoisr
OF des
Gore has noticed a new fact in the behaviour of iron nn as
vi
the influence of heat and strain. A strained iron wire and
heated to redness by a current. of voltaic electricity, 9"
°47,
then, the current being discontinued, was allowed t° cesl
It was observed that the ~e arrive I a moment in the pro—h
of cooling at which the wire suddenly elongated, and t:lr
gradually shortened, until it became perfectly cold, re111;01
however,
permanently elongated. No other
besides iron exhibited this peculiarity, which 4-
Bttr It@ate Pfplementary melecgaLgal pgc.