The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-21 00:00:00

nu SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1860.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish have arrived at Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, where
his grace is entertaining a select party for grouse shooting.
The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived in Paris.
The duchess does not intend to make a protracted stay in
the French capital, as her grace is expected to join the duke
and family at Dunrobin Castle, Sutherlandshire, early in
the ensuing month.
The Marquis of Bath, who on leaving town went
to Longleat, his lordship's princely seat in Wilts, has since
left for his shooting quarters in the Highlands.
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton are about to
receive a succession of visitors at Eglinton Castle, Ayr-
shire.

The Earl and Countess of Limerick and Viscount
Glextworth have arrived at their seat in Ireland for the
autumn.

Viscount and Viscountess Stratford de Redcliffe
and the Hon. Misses Canning have left Grosvenor-square,
for Pencarrow, on a visit to Lady Melesworth.
Lord Llanover has left London for Naples and
Sicily. Lady Llanover proceeds to Bonn, on a visit to her
sister, the Baroness de Bunsen.
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice,
left town yesterday for the north of Scotland, for grouse
shooting.
The Right Hon. Henry Herbert, M.P., and Mrs.
and Miss Herbert left town at the close of the past week for
Muckross, the family seat in Killarney.
THE PREMlER.—Viscount Palmerston has
honoured Mr. J. E. Jones, the eminent sculptor, with sit-
tings for his bust during the past week. An admirable
likeness has been obtained.
The installation of the New Sicilian magistracy
took place at Palermo on the 9th. Tho members all took
the oath to the constitutional statuto of the Piedmontese
kingdom.

The accounts from the hop districts continue
very bad. Last year's hops are 10s. per cwt. dearer than
last week.
A letter from Genoa of the 15th in the Siecle
says :—" Garibaldi has been suffering severely for some
days past from articular rheumatism, to which he is unfor-
tunately very subject, and has been even confined to his
bed.

Accounts from Cork announce the sudden death
by apoplexy, it is supposed, of Colonel Reynell Pack, C. 8.,
half-pay of the Fusileers, and deputy-quartermaster-gene-
ral of the south-western district.
The Espero of Turin says that the Duke de
Chartres has resigned the commission which he had ac-
cepted in the Sardinian army at the time of the war against
Austria, on the ground that he cannot draw a sword against
his relation, the King of Naples.
A few days before her Majesty's arrival at Bal-
moral the Electric Telegraph Company completed the com-
munication by telegraph between the castle and the metro-
polis. Messages can now be sent direct from London to
Balmoral without detention at any of the intermediate
stations. The wires are in daily use.
FROM BALMORAL TO BERLIN.—An interesting
experiment was recently made to obtain a direct telegraphic
communication between Balmoral and Berlin, a distance of
nearly 1,300 miles. A short conversion took place, the
telegraph clerk at Balmoral informing the Berlin clerk that
the Balmoral time was 2 p.m., the clerk in the Prussian
capital replying that it had just struck 3, and that the sig-
nals were as distinct as if the distance had been only a few
miles. The electric telegraph wires are now extended to
Balmoral for the service of the Court during her Majesty's
stay in the north.
During the last ten days 8,740 men have em-
barked from Genoa for Sicily. These expeditions cost
enormous sums of money. Every steamer is supplied with
provisions for ten days, although the ordinary passage is
only 30 hours ; and each commandant of a brigade of 1,000
men carries with him a sum of 50,000 f. for the support of
his men until further orders.
THE CASE OF THE REV. MR. HATCH.—We
understand from good authority that the friends of Mr.
Hatch are about to indict Mrs. Plummer for perjury.—
Swindon Advertiser.
GREAT SWARM OF LOCUSTS IN RUSSlA.—Alarm-
ing accounts have been received in St. Petersburg of the
appearance of locusts in some of the southern provinces ;
the wheat crop has suffered most from their ravages, espe-
cially in the Government of Kherson. It is remarked that
this year, for the first time, locusts have not attacked the
flax fields.
THE CATTLE TRADE.—NORWICH, Aug. 18.—At
to-day's market there was a very large supply of store cattle
—in fact, the numbers on offer were considerably in excess
of the demand. Business consequently proceeded slowly,
and prices had a downward tendeacy. The same state of
things prevailed with regard to sheep, and lambs were ls.
per head lower.
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS IN SCOTLAND.
—From the early part of the week the weather has not
been favourable for harvest. A considerable amount of
rain has fallen since Wednesday, the quantity amounting
to fully 0.80 inch. The barometer continues low, remain-
ing almost stationary at 29 inches ; and the atmosphere is
close and sultry, with an almost entire absence of sunshine.
Reaping on a few fields commenced on Monday, but opera-
tions have since been suspended. It is expected, however,
with favourable weather, that several farmers will begin
to cut on Monday. The rains, it is gratifying to state,
have not injured the crops, which all continue highly
promising. —Scotsman.
VOLUNTZERS.—The undersigned, being a com-
mittee of officers commanding volunteer rifle corps in the
metropolitan district, having observed that numerous
Friendlyschemes haveb
Societies, n published is he
decline
d tto purporting
to be
promise
the Volunteers'r support
to
any society for the present. A general scheme for Great
Britain, with the patronage of the Secretary of State for
War, is under consideration which the public and the
volunteers will ba invited to join :—Lieut.-Col. Earl Gros-
venor, Colonel the Marquis of Donegal, Lieut -Col. Hicks
BLeieruestio-Crdo,l.ctahpet.
Hon C. H.
Bruce, Lindsay,
Glover, Capt. Spottiswoode, and Capt. Martineau.
THE EXECUTION OF PRICE.—WARWICK, Mon-
day.—The execution of Francis Price for the murder of his
sweetheart, at Birmingham, in April last, took place this
morning. The scaffold was erected over the entrance to the
new gaol, which has only been occupied within the last few
weeks. There was as immense crowd of persons to witness
the execution. At ten o'clock the under-sheriff, the gover-
nor of the gaol, and Price, ascended the 'scaffold, and on
reaching the front of the railing he signified his intention
to address the crowd, and in a few short sentences he ac-
knowledged the justice of his sentence; the cap was then
adjusted, the fatal bo:t withdrawn, and he ceased to live.
A SUSPECTED MtßDEß.—Yesterday Mr. Waklev
resumed an inquiry
at tho Marylebone Workhouse into the
circumstances attencling the death of John Conway, aged
45, a member of a burial club, whose life was supposed to
have been sacrificed b. the administration of poison. The
inquiry had been adjoarnod in order that medical evidence
might be produced. Tte chemist who analysed the contents
of the stomach was ?aamined yesterday. He had been
unable to discover and traces of poison, and, after a good
deal of evidence had been received from various witnesses,
the jury returned a -redid, " That death was produced by acute peritonitis, or inflammation of the stomach and in-
testines, but how that inflammation was caused there was
no evidence to show.o
JERSEY JUSTICE.--The criminal law of the island
appears to be most strangely administered. Last summer,
1859, a girl found guilty of infanticide was bailed out for
£lO. A year or two before, a man who shot his sister, and
was tried for manslaughter, got off scot-free among the
cheers of his party. More lately, two drunkards quarrelled
in a gig, and one tried to seize the gun of the other, the
other in the scramble shot him and wounded him ; the
wounded man got well, but the aggressor was sentenced to
seven years' transportation, and his property was confis-
cated to the lord of the manor, thus punishing his innocent
family by a barbarous feudal law. Some time ago, a poor
little French boy was killel by a blow by a Jersey butcher-
boy, whom the French
or jury entirely acquitted. No
or English resident is said to have much chance with an
islander in the civil courts, and on an occasion lately, when
by some accident or mistake justice was done, the Jersey-
man were heard to exclaim as he went out: "What a shame
it is that foreigners should be allowed to beat us in our own
courts."— Once a Week.

THE Moons AND FORESTS.—The 12th of August,
the beginning of the grouse season, fell this year on Sun
day. Shooting was consequently deferred until the follow-
weather was favourable, and we are glad
expectations we had been led to form, from
inquiries made in various parts of the Highlands, have been
amply realised. Sportsmen in England were naturally tinoglemam morning. .
the
ehe
in-
credulous; but thousands of partridges and pheasants had
perished before their eyes in the long-continued floods of
June and July. But wehadno such long disastrous weather
in the Highlands. There was no excess either of rain or
draught, heat ce cold, and the broods of grouse were placed
in favourable circumstances both for hatching and rearing.
Hence the splendid bags trade on the 13th. The birds are
not only very numerous, bet tbey are far above the average
of years in health, strength, and condition. Since 1855 there
has not been so favourable a commencement of the grouse
season in this quarter, and omitting that annusnarabilis in
the records of grouse shooting, we might go back a great
many years before finding a better season for both quantity
and quality. The accounts from the far north are not so
favourable, we believe ; but we have very few returns as yet
from either Sutherland or Caithness. From the forests we
learn that deer are an average in number, and they are in
good eoudition.—lnverness Courier.
STRANGE SUICIDE.—Some men cannot execute so
melancholy an act as that of suicide without eccentricity.
An instance of this was afforded on Monday last at Lecure,
near Havre. A cap was seen in the water with a string of
ho end of it I" The string was pulled,
a paper, detailing the cause of his having
atchnoerdlssstUrrairneogu:lll: uaitianathtdeta label upon which was written, "Pull
're was the late writer of the label, with
made away with
himself, carefully corked up in a bottle in his pocket, with
his name and address, " Francois Foliot, of Vandrimare."
'FARADAY.—His love of knowledge is so pure
that it is the same thing to him whether any addition to the
stock is made by himself or somebody else. Very great men,
such as he is noix-, cannot afford to let leiser men do all
they can, and to help thsrh to do it, without an uneasy
thought about their own position and credit ; but it is a
test of a man's real greatness whether he is aware of this,
or whether he is still subject to a jealousy which he might
have left behind long ago. The highest man of all is he
who does not consider the thing, one way or another,
but simply rejoices in something being gained, and does not
care about who has the credit of it, himself or another.
Probably Faraday does not care. He certaialy never stops
to discuss it; never steeps to urge any personal claim;
never wastes precious thought and time in settling his
own position, or calculating his own greatness. But he
always has leisure and
patience for other people's
claims. He has sympathy for every new success, and the
most winning respect and tenderness for every modest
and sensible effort in that direction. What his power
is a
of sympathyfor
in his lectures to every class of
persons. No treat that can be offered can tempt scientific
men to forego a lecture of Faraday's, while children, when
ho addresses them, understand all he tells them, or can go
up to him afterwards to ask him to settle their difficulty.
The same simple hearty symyathy is always ready in his
heart for the child who is trying for the first time to dis
corn invisible things, and for the discoverer who is treading
on his heels in his own path. Thus does he justify the
view which excited i-3ir H. Davy's smile—that the spirit
of the philosopher should be amiable and liberal.—Once a
Week.