The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-03 00:00:00

STARIE TO LORD PALMERSTON.

On Wednesday the memory of Lord Palmerston was
honoured at Southampben. Lord Carnarvon unveiled a
statue of the deceased statesman. The statue (which is
the work of Mr. Thomas Sharp, of Edgware-road, London),
and the pedestal on which it stands are in white marble,
resting on a granite plinth. The height of the figure
is eight feet, and the pedestal extends about nine feet from
the ground. The trefoil is semi-classical, having the cloak
introduced to take away the objectionable appearance in
sculpture of the coat and trousers of the present day, without
in the least interfering with the costume ordinarily worn by
his lordship. This tends to give substance to the figure,
and the pendant folds of the cloak lead down to the scroll,
with books, on which are inscribed the official appoint-
ments of his lordship, from the year 1809 to the time of
his decease when he was Prime Minister. He is in the
act of speaking, holding a scroll in one hand, while the
other is on the breast, indicative of the honesty of purpose
and warmth of feeling. The inscription on the front of
the pedestal reads :—" Palmerston, K.G., G.C.B. Born
1784 ; died 1865. A burgess of Southampton. Erected
by public subscription. Frederick Perkins, Mayor, A.D.
1860."
Lord CAENARVONL in unveiling the statue, observed
°hat, as men of all shades of (pinion admired the character
of the late nobleman and had subscribed to the memorial,
so he found men of all shades of politics now assembled
around the statue. He thought there was enough beyond
the range of party politics to admire in the character of
Lord Palmerston. It bad been said that party polities Ltd
a tendency to crush out all kindliness of heart and
ir spirit. It might be so generally speaking, but it
was not so with Lord Palmerston. Political changes
were difficult and painful to pass through, and
those statesmen were fortunate who, by the gift of
intellect, or character, or of both combined in their persons,
rendered the passage of society from one state to another
easier and safer. Lord Palmerston was the link between
the older society' which they could hardly remember, and
the younger society of which they formed part. He (Lord
Carnarvon) thought that one great secret of this was Lord
Palmerston's popularity. There had been Ministers win
had been popular in Parliament and others who had been
popular in the country, but there had been very few
who like Lord Palmerston bad been equally popular in
Parliament and with the country. There was one
thing which made his lordship popular; he was essen-
tially and emphatically an Englishman—an Englishman
as much in Lis faults as in his virtues, and therefore
he attracted personal sympathy to his character. They
erred who thought that the name of a great statesman died
with him. Though among some his name might be for-
gotten, his memory lived on to encourage by warning or
example ; and though it was well that this noble statue
should have been erected in honour of the name of Lord
Palmerston, and to commemorate the feelings of the peo-
ple, yet he need not tell them that no man needed such a
statue, because the country that he had loved and served
was after all his best monument.
The statue was then formally uncovered.
Speeches were also delivered in eulogy of his lordship
by Earl Fortescue and the Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P.

The writ for Stafford was received on Wednesday.
The nomination is fixed for Monday. The ballot is defi-
nitely agreed upon by the Liberal candidates, and is to le
held to-morrow (Friehy).
REPRESENTATION OF NOTTINGHAM.—An address
has been issued by Mr. James Acland (formerly Sir R.
Clifton's agent), cautioning the electors not to commit
themselves hastily, but to adopt a proper successor to
Sir Robert. Mr. Seely, jun., and Mr. Osborne have been
communicated with, and they have each committed their
interests, it is said, into the hands of their friends. Mr.
G. Ward, a local lace manufacturer, of Liberal views, Is
spoken of, as well as Mr. P. W. Clayden, who was unsuc-
, cessful at the last election.

THE SUEZ CANAL.—WC cannot refrain from
expressing a regret that justice is scarcely done by the
public towards a gentleman who has supported for these
past ten years all the weight of the company's enormous
interests in England, has canvassed with pen and voice
each succeeding Government for support, has fought
single-handed a most arduous and apparently desperate
battle with a hostile press, and with public men
apathetic or contemptuous ; and this, as is understood,
without other reward than a rongrionsnese of right, and
a profound desire to advance the world's true inte-
rest. We allude to Mr. D. A. Lange, " English
director" of the company. In rendering a well-
deserved tribute of admiration to M. de Lesseps, it has
almost been forgotten that one of ourselves, an English-
man by family and education, though born, we believe, in
Holland, was associated from the very first with the great
French engineer in his undertaking, and, by increasing
activity and perseverance, when the prospect was darkest,
has earned a claim upon our admiration scarcely less
strong than that of M. de Lesseps himself. It should be
universally known that to Mr. Lange's patriotic firmness
it was principally due that the vast tract of Gossheu was
resold by the company to Egypt, and the complete
neutralisation of the canal established.—Asiatic.
A GIRDLE ROUND THE EARTH.—Often is the
practical speed of the electric current brought into conver-
sation. A very satisfactory determination of this datum has
been made in America in connection with a measurement
of the difference of longitude between San Francisco and
Cambridge, Massachussetts, a distance along the wires
of 3,600 miles. Longitude is, where possible, mea-
sured by telegraph : thus—a clock accurately set by
the stars is placed at each sta'.,ion, and each clock
is made 'to transmit its beats through the line and
mark themi on a chronograph at the other station ;
the clock at the receiving station registering its
beats upon the same chronograph. The beats thus ap-
pear side by side, and the difference between them is
the difference of longitude in time between the two
places plus the short interval occupied by the passage of
the current through the wire. To find this in the special
case to which I am referring a second wire was employed,
so that a circuit of 7,200 miles was completed, and
signals were sent from San Francisco to Cambridge and
back again, the instants of their going out and return•
ing home being accurately recorded. The interval, the
time spent by the current in traversing 7,200 miles, was
eight-tenths, or just over three-quarters, of a second. A
single battery could not work through such a length ;
relays—instruments for reinforcing the current—to the

number of eleven were in the circuit ; so that in three-
fourths of a second the signal had to be repeated eleven

times. A relay requires a small fraction of a second to
do its work ; not enough, however, to seriously affect this

determination. At the above speed a signal would go
round the world in three seconds and a half. We cau beat
Babel, ol;t and outc--QAcc-a-Ircck,