The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-31 00:00:00

FRANCE.

Tl:e Paris paperF assert that Mr. Burlinghame
has received a despatch from the Chinese Govern-
ment, expressing its cordial recognition of the

treaties concluded by him on behalf of China with
European Governments and the United States.
The official journal of this morning says:—

The Empress and the Prince Imperial ►►• ill prolong
their stay at Ajaccio one day, and return to Paris
on the 3d prox. 11cr Majesty and his Zmpeuial
highness met with an enthusiastic reception at
Ajaccio.

BOURSE, Aug.
closed as follows :
if per Cent.
End of month
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 23
Credit Mobilier
Transatlantic 2BC
Credit Fancier _1730
Paris Gas 1632 50

,ree o'clock—The markrt

Bank Shares 2875
ItaPan Fives 55 15
Austrian Fives
Ottoman Loan
Do. Debt 4l 20
Spanish Threes
Home Debt —
Deferred —
Cash

RAILWAYS.

Orleans
Western
Northern •.• llO4
Strasburg • • 595
Lyons and Mediterranean
Southern..... 615

Sardinian

Austrian
Lombard

North of Spain
Saragossa
Lonian

8171
5471

521

511

TOTAL ULTIMATE REFRIGERATION OF THE

EARTH.

The following is part of an article in the Yale
Courant by Professor Alexander Winchell, of the
University of Michigan :--" Our earth is approach-
ing a state of total refrigeration. Buffon asserted
that this event would render its surface uninhabi-
table. Laplace, on the contrary, by proving that
the sidereal day has not diminished perceptibly
within twenty-five centuries, was thought to have
proven that the earth has not undergone that
shrinkage which the doctrine of gradual refrigera-
tion requires. Poisson, while he demonstrated that
heat is escaping from the earth, showed that the
amount lost at Paris is only enough to elevate the
temperature of a column of water 18 inches high
one degree and a half. Vogt asserts that the exist-
ing temperature of the surface is but one-twelfth
of a degree higher than it would be if the earth
were cooled to the core. Pouillet states that the
heat transmitted from the earth's molten interior is
but one-fortieth of the amount recived from the
sun ; while Fourier calculated that the same heat
"a only sufficient to melt a layer of ice ten feet thick
in one hundred years. It may alsO be stated that
Sir David Brewster, Sir \Valiant Thompson, Evan
Hopkins, and William Hopkins have strenuously
opposed tha doctrine of internal heat, and these
sentiments have been echoed in America, in one
form or another, by Messrs. Hunt, Slimier, and
Hall. It is scientific to accept the admissions of
such authorities as Pouillet, Poisson, Vogt, Herschel,
Dana, and Guyot, and argue from the assumption
that the earth is gradually cooling. Now are we
wholly ignorant now of the means of explaining
the anomaly presented by theconstancy of the side-
real day; since the tide wave, actuated by the power
of the moon, rolling around the earth in opposition
to her diurnal motion, by friction against the shores
and the standing waters opposes that motion. This
retardation, it has been estimated, very precisely
counterbalances, for the present the acceleration
which would be duo to shrinkage, and thus pre-
serves the uniformity in the length of the day.
. . . Whatever may be the effect upon organic
beings, of the ultimate cooling of the earth, the
final exhaustion of the sun will dry up, irreme-
diably, all sources of vegetable and animal activity.
However vast the time consumed in his cooling, the
event is approaching with all the celerity and cer-
tainty which his power of radiation can effect.
Planets and satellites which have sprung from his
bosom have completed a history which, in the sun,
we witness in actual progress. Our moon may be
frozen to the core—our earth is a rigid shell eeclos-
ing the embers of an ancient fire—our sun is the
residuum of a parent mass whose offspring populate
the spaces of the solar system. His fires are still
aglow, because his mass is immensely greater than
theirs. They are waning, however, according to
the same law. While yet his store of light is
inexhausted, and the lambent flames of turning
hydrogen still leap' from his disk, the lifetime
of planets and satellites is passing. From age
to age, the source of light and heat grows dimmer
and feebler. There are intelligences who will gaze
upon our orb a cold and blackened mass. It may
be after the lapse of millions of years, but it will
yet be in the Morning of eternity. What though a
meteoric hail pelt the sun from every quarter, and
excite his heat to renewed activity for a few thou-

sands of years ! Whence this shower of cosmical
matter ? It is rot an infinite resource. It can
only serve to postpone the reign of darkness and of
universal winter—as fricticn may perpetuate for a
few brief moments the vital warmth of a dying
man. . . . There was a time when the world
was suited to nothing higher than molluscan and
crustacean life. At another stage ichthyic orga-
nization and consciousness was summoned into
being ; then reptilian life ; then mammalian ; later,
the life of an intelligence pcsiessed of a moral con-
sciousness and immortal hope. When we shall
have utilized the passing phase of matter, progress
will still rush onward in the same direction. The
freezing globe will roll cold and lifeless about a
frozen, blackened sun ; and while, in some region
of the universe, intelligences will still reside, our
system will become au ancient wreck."

SPORTING 111 TELLIGENCE—This Day

CIEY BEITING.—Tins DAY.
ST. LEGER.

7 to 4 agst Pretender (taken and offered)
5 to 1 agst Drununer (offered)
to 1 ngst Peru Gomez (taken)
7 to 1 agst Martyrdom (offered)
100 to S agst Ryshworth (offered)
23 to 1 agst Thorwuldsen (taken)
33 to 1 agst George Ustm!deston (().Mere 1)
30 to 1 agst Royal Oak (taken)
40 to 1 agst Typhon (taken and offered)
40 to 1 agst Lord Hawthorn (offered)
1090 to 20 agst Duke of Beaufort (wanted)
1000 to 8 agst Crocus (offered)

CES A E 1T C
50 to 1 agst any one of Baron Rotbschild's lot
50 to 1 agst Argyle (taken)

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.
66 to 1 agst Blacklock (taken)

DERBY.
25 to 1 agst Sunlight (taken)
1000 to 40 agst Macgregor (taken)

TAT TERSALL'S —Last Evening.
ST. LEGER.
75 to 40 agst Pretender (taken)
sto 1 agst Drummer (taken and offered)
11 to 2 agst Pero Gomez (taken and offered)
10U to 8 agst Ryshworth (taken and offered)
25 to 1 agst Thorwaldsen (taken)
1000 to 30 agst Royal Oek (taken)
40 to 1 agst Lord Hawthorn (taken)

PLICE BITTING.
sto 4 on Drummer (taken)
3to 1 agst Ryshworth (taken)
6to 1 agst Typhon (taken)
CESAREWITCII.
40 to 1 agst Purveyor (taken)
DERBY.
9to lon tho field (offered)

SCARBOROUGH RACES-YESTERDAY.

TRIAL STAKES.

Better Half
Hanesty
Crown Princess

PRINCE OF WALES'S SLAKES.
Master Walter
Swift
Bendigo

Four ran.
LONDESBOR 0 UGH CUP.

Bile!". the Fair c01t...
Islam
Queen of York

, 1
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Eight ran.