The Sun.
London, England, 1869-11-10 00:00:00

DONCASTER AND DR. VAUGHAN.

The Corporation of Doncaster are about to present
io Dr. Vaughan, the late vicar of that town and
now Master of the Temple, an address of a very appro-
priate character, contained in a handsome volume,
bound in dark green Levant morocco, inlaid with
purple and light brown, and tastefully decorated with
gold ornamentation. A large centre panal contains the
impaled arms of Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan, embossed in
proper heraldic colours. The volume consists of six
pages—rich ivory-like tablets—of vellum. The first page
contains an exterior view of the splendid parish church in
which Dr. Vaughan ministered for nearly nine years, and
the second page a companion picture of the interior of
that edifice. Both are correctly and exquisitely painted in
tempera as highly-finished miniatures. On the third page
is the dedication, and introduced into the illumination are
the arms of the Corporation of Doncaster, those of
the See of York, Harrow School, and Trinity College,
Cambridge. The next and succeeding leaves aro occupied
with the address itself—a brief but earnest expression of
public feeling—which on the concluding page contains the
autograph signatures, C. W. Hatfield, Mayor ; and W. E.
Shirley, Town Clerk ; and also the common seal of the
Corporation sunk into the vellum. The address is
engrossed in church-text, and the margins of each page
are tastefully ornamented with appropriate emblematical
devices, and rich and brilliant colouring, relieved with
punctured gold. The style of illumination is of the later
Celtic or Anglo-Saxon period of art, and is exceedingly
beautiful throughout. The volume is enclosed in a very
handsome casket of polished oak, surmounted by the crest
and monogram of Dr. and Mrs. Vaughan, richly carved in
massive gilt. The whole constitutes an elaborate work of
art, and is a fitting and graceful gift to the eminent
doctor.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.—There was a very excep-
tional rate of mortality in London last week. It was as
high as 29 per 1,000, while in Dublin the rate was 20. In
several other towns besides the metropolis, the mortality
from scarlet fever is described as having been excessive.
In London, 2,293 births and 1,772 deaths were registered,
the latter having exceeded by 363 the estimated number.
The mean temperature during the week was 46.5 or 0.5
above the average.

LORD STANLEY.—At the annual meeting of the
Town Council, held at the Guildhall, King's Lynn, on
Tuesday, it was moved by Mr. Alderman iioyse. seconded
by ➢lr. Alderman Smetham, and resolved unanimously—
" That this Council desires to convey to Lord Stanley their
deep and sincere sympathy with his lordship in the irre-
parable loss, not only he, but the whole nation at large,
has sustained by the death of his father, the late Earl of
Derby, and to express their great sorrow at the consequent
severance of the connection which has now for so many
years existed between Lord Stanley and this borough, and
their keen sense of his great liberally towards its public
institutions, and his unremitting attention, at all times,
towards the furtherance of its local interests.

MR. JO SIAII MASON, OF BIRMINGHAM.—Mr.
Josiah Mason, whose benefactions to Birmingham have
made him scarcely less famous than the late Mr. Peabody,
is placed in what must be to him a disagreeable position
with regard to the town council of that borough. The
council voted that a statue of Mr. Mason should be erected
in recognition of his bounty, and invited him to give the
necessary sittings to a sculptor. He consented, but scarcely
had he done so when`, a member of the council put a
notice on the agenda paper to rescind the resolution,
and leave Mr. Mason without a statue, unless volun-
tary contributors choose to provide one, which
however, there is no doubt they would do. The Birmingham
Council is a good deal in arrear with its business, and the
consequence is that the notice with regard to the statue
has not yet come up for defeat, but has been again and
again put off, has appeared week after week on the agenda,
and has been published as often in the local newspapers
The great majority of the members of the council do not
think it creditable to the town that this notice should
appear, and it must be anything but gratifying to Mr
Mason.

AN IMPORTANT INVENTION.—We are informed
that Captain Ross, of the Artillery, has obtained hei
Majesty's letters patent for a composition which, applieo
to the clean surface of iron and other metals, chemically
combines with it to form, in the case of iron, a coating of iro)
it,elf, but changed in character, which will not rust of
oxydize, even if steeped in water for a week. ThiF
discovery has been officially submitted by the inventor
to his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, and the
Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Artillery, himseli
experimented on some delicate steel articles sent
by putting them in the rain and keeping then
out on the wet grass all night, which ordea
they sustained without a speck of rust.. It is hard to
"hat trade will not benefit by this discovery, and in al.
iTobability the lucky inventor will make his fortune. Th,
composition is so delicate that it can be applied even to the
finest needles and small clockwork wheels. Watch springs
are not affected as to elasticity &c., in the least by it, an
n ill never rust after its application ; nor does it affect, bu'
if anything improves the temper of knife or sword blades
It turns the surface of steel implements to a whitish grey
colour which is capable of receiving almost as high a polls'
as steel Glvetle.