The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-06 00:00:00

REMARKS.

The sudden increase in pressure noticed at I,Tairn yesterday after-
noon has since the evening been succeeded by a decrease of two-
tenths of an inch ; and a similar fall has occurred along our cast
coast generally. The change is less to the westward. At Valencia
a slight rise is shewn. The reading at Nairn is still lower by six-
tenths of an inch than that at Rochefort. A slight decrease in
temperature is noticed at most stations, but amounts to 9 degrees at
Nairn and at Biarritz. Moderate south-westerly winds still prevail
in the N. and E.; but on our S. coast and in Ireland it is almost
calm. In the west of France the wind is again moderate from S.E.
The sky this morning is pretty clear in Scotland, but rather cloudy
elsewhere, with mist and fog on Our S. coast.

The case of Messrs. Lane, Chapman, and Helbert
directors of the Merchants' Company, was again yesterday
before the Lord Mayer at the Mansion House. The case
was once more adjourned.

An application was refused by the magistrates of
Sheffield, yesterday, for a license to the managers of the
Temperance Hall. The applicants wanted liberty to per-
form "the Sacred drama of Joseph and his brethren."

The coming of age of the Duke of Norfolk has now
been sufficiently " celebrated." The last of the banquets
given by him to his tenants and others was given on Thurs-
day evening at Sheffield, those invited being the tenants in
the vicinity of the town.

Two deaths have unhappily resulted from an ex-
plosion of gas which took place on the premises
of Mr. Henshaw, builder, 7, Sun-street, BisUpsgate. The
children of Mrs. Gardiner have expired in the hospital from
the effects of the burns received. The mother of the two
children still remains in the hospital in a dangerous condition.
A telegram from Cork says that the Marchioness
Dowager of Queensberry has contributed £lO to the fund for
the relief of the families of the Fenian convicts. John
Casey, who was sentenced by the Special Commission, in
1865, to five years' penal servitude, has just been released on
a ticket of leave. Casey was a large contributor to the Irish
People newspaper, and was, with others, sent to Western
Australia to finish his term.

A proposal is before the Inventors' Institute for a
flo:.t.ng telegraph. Captain Morley, the inventor, thinks it
possible to build and maintain floating telegraph stations
on the Atlantic (say) between this country and America.
lie believes that by Lis plan foundering will bo next to ha-
possible, and the cost both of construction and maintenance
will be considerably lessened, Lesides the obvious advan-
tages of stations in mid-ocean.

Seven fishermen, including a father and two sons,
were drowned the other day in Culdaff Bay, Ireland. They
went to sea to fish, but about twelve o'clock, noon, the
weather suddenly changed, and the wind blew furiously,
..ccompanied with rain. Perceiving their danger, the mun
at once made for land, but were unable to reach it, and
drifted to a dangerous pArt of the coast called Dunruore,
where the boat was capsized and all were lost.

The Liverpool Mercury calls attention to a clergy-
man who evidently considers example better than precei,t.
The Rev. \V. Bradbury, vicar of Skerton, North Lancashire,
has pledged himself to abstain from the use of all intoxicat-
ing liquors as a beverage if fifty male members of his con-
gregation will do the same. He apparently anticipated
greater reluctance to become total abstainers on the part of
as many women, for they were to be persuaded by the com-
bined example of Mrs. Bradbury and the curate. Nearly
the reaulrod ittlP4P: is stated to have given tlae Pledge.