The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-15 00:00:00

GRANT-ED,

The Alabama Claims. The Disintegration of lesser
The Annexation of Cuba. Britain.
Our Dominion of Canada. And the Presidentship of
The Cession of Gibraltar. John Bright.
The Absorption of Belgium. —New York Herald.

(From Punch.)
HIS FAVOURITE DISII.—Lamb is now in perfection.
There is no one so likely to enjoy his Mint sauce as—Mr.
Freemantle.

ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE.—NVe rejoice to hear
that the musical services of St. PauPs have been much
improved by Canon Gregory. Congregations will doubt-
less be attracted to the cathedral by its Gregorian music.
As AGREEABLE SURPRISE.--Nlr. Lowe will go down
to posterity as the author of a Surprise Budget. He
may be said to have surprised everybody by Lowe-ring
taxation.

THEIR GUARDIAN ANGEL.--Miss Burdett Coutts has
been nominated one of the guardians for Bethnal Green's
Of course she will be elected by acclamation. But the
office and title will not be new to her, for she has long
been the Guardian of the Poor.

HATTESTION !---Members who find it a sell to discover
some other M.P.'s hat on a favourite seat, and who wish
to know how to act under the circumstances, are recom-
mended to go into the Library and consult " Hatsell's .
Precedents of Proceedings the House of Commons."
Or they might take the opinion of the law officers of the
Crown.

(From Fun.)
POISSONS n'Avitit.—To land a pickled salmon one
would naturally use a " rod in pickle," but how, ye pisca-
tors, may a smoke-jack be brought to bank ?
FURTHER PATTI-CULARS.—Adelina Patti is making such
stir in the Russian capital that it is not improbable that
't will be re-christened St. Pattiebtlrgh.
HARE-BRAINED.—We congratulate Lord Elcho on his
;election of the month of March for the introduction of his
Bill about Scotch hares." He should be created Earl
A March (hares) in the Scotch peerage.
GREAT GUNS.--We see a good deal of discussion going
m about the " Fraser guns." Well, guns may be good
?hrasers, but we should like to know how they will speak
.o an enemy, when required to do so.

(From Judy.)
The long run—Mr. Benjamin Riggs's—to America!
Can the fork of a.river be considered as part of the Myer
'late I

When a promise is tinaing, is it Russia leather or
Alorocco ?

NATURAL !—Some youthful friends of ours, during the
Easter vacation, have been taken to see the dramas of Mr.
Robertson. They are unanimous in preferring " Home "
nd " Play " to " School."
LOST ! One evening last week, in the House of Com-
mons, during a discussion with Mr. Ward Hunt, a Temper.
A-PPIY to W. E. G., Downing-street, where a portion of
he lost article will be bestowed upon the finder.
QUITE RIGHT, TOO.—The most reverend and right
•everend members of the bench of bishops " laugh in their
.leeres" at the idea that they are not goitg to oppose Mr.
4ladstone's bill in the House of Lords !
THE NEW PEER.—The reason why Mr. Gladstone has
•ailed Judge Wilde to the peerage is, that he may take an
fictive part in the hearing of the great Irish Divorce Case
—that, Lamely, of Church and State—which is. likely to
)e brought., at no distant date, before the House of Lords!

Wednesday being the twelfth anniversary of the
3irth of her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria
Feodore, the-youngest child of her .31ajesty, the occasion
was celebrated at Windsor in the usual manner. Princess
Beatrice was born on the 1411 a April, 1857.
At the Bristol County Court, on Tuesday, an ae-
;ion was brought against Sir G. Smith by Mr. Watkins,
;olicitor. The complaint was that hares from the
lefendant's grounds injured the plaintiff's property.
rho Judge, Mr. Lloyd, Q. 0., said that the law did not re-
:ogniso hares as property, and the plaintiff's remedy would
.)o to destroy them when they came on his land. 110
lirect2d a nonsuit.

•
Colonel William Henry Vicars, who died at
Cheltenham on the 4th inst., was 27 years in the
Glst Regiment, from which he retired in 1854 with
with the rank of lieut.-col. He served in the second
Sikh war, and was present in the battles of Chillian-
wallah and Goojerat, and in the actions of Ram-
nuggur and Sadoolapore, for which be received a
medal and two clasps.