The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-08 00:00:00

(From Der Oforgen Post.)

"The speech of the Prince last night was singularly
graceful and happy. His rhetoric is felicitous, and, united
with a prepossessing appearance, could not but produce a
cheering effect on his audience. Some of his sentences are
worthy the days of Von Grattan and Von Sheil. What
could be better than his exordium?—` It has given me
much pleasure to be present at your meeting to-day
Could more, or as much, be said in as few words? He
spoke from the heart, and the people will appreciate the
effort."

(From Die TeiglicLe IVitcla•iclden,)

" In addressing the Carvers and (Jailers the Prince ex-
hibited a considerable knowledge of political economy.
This science, but little known to princes, is perhaps the
cornerstone of monarchies. The Prince is evidently alive
to the merits of this society. Without the Widen it
would be impossible to maintain the standard price of
gold. Professor Jevons has calculated that Lut for the
consumption of gold in the gilding trade tl.•e price of that
article would fall from .£3 17s. 6d. to a Be. ld. We
trust that after the thoughtful speech of the Prince some
reform may be introduced into our banking legislation."

(From Die Fahne.)

" While Messrs. Von Gladstone, Von Bright, and their
crew are caballing basely to upset the foundations of our
faith, it is pleasing to perceive how royalty ever asserts
its true greatness. With the Carvers and Gilders are
hound up our early associations, as well as the ground-
work of our aspirations. To the cultivation of these arts
we owe much that is ennobling. They refine our taste,
stimulate our understanding, and lead us to higher
things."
[For the benefit of our non-German readers, we would
add that the papers here quoted with German titles are
as folloK s :—Tinzes, Daily telegraph, Morning Star,
Morning Post, Daily News, and Standard].

(From Punch.)

AND SEVERAL OF THEM. —At the last State concert
was performed " Heaven preserve the Einperor
Variations." Would not this do for the French National
Anthem ?

THE SEVERITY OF TILE SUMMER.— The dog•days have
come—to find cautious people wrapped in fleecy hosiery,
and shivering over the fire. The weather has one canine
characteristic, not usually associated with the dog-days—
it is very biting.
TINGAINLYSBOROUGH'S BLUE BOYS.—According to th 3
Telegraph, the Queen's breakfast has settled the chief
r.rticle of full dress for mornings—a blue dress coat, with
brass buttons. Dash our own if we put it on ! That's
final, and so the proud tailors may go marching away, and
invent something comelier. We can't help women wearing
whatever the things they call their minds are set upon,
but, disestablish it all, a man can refuse to be a Guy,
unless he have been christened by that noble name. A
black frock coat, and a flower, or no Buckingham break-
fasts for Mr. Punch—should not the Queen command
other garb. To please his Sovereign he would come in a
hop-sack, with a cabbage-leaf on his head ; but he listens
to no tailors, except Jeremy Taylor.
A TERRIBLE VISITOR.— My dear Whalley,—Have you
heard the dreadful news? It was made known to the

House just ere the witching hour of midnight, on last
Monday week : when, referring to a vote of further funds
for restoration of the crypt beneath St. Stephens—" Mr.
Guildford Onslow hoped the House would not refuse the
vote. A Catholic priest, a friend of his, had seen the
, crypt, and thought it very beautiful. (Laughter)." At
this awful news the House is reported to have laughed!
Laughed? yes, "regardless of their fate, the little
lambkins play." But your fertile mind will grasp the
terrible significance of the disclosure which was made. A
Catholic priest has been exploring underneath St.
Stephens! When a visitor like this is admitted to a
House, ought not somebody to keep a sharpish look
out for the Fawkes?—Yours, in fear and trembling,
ruNcs.

MR. ROEBUCK ON THE ARREST OF

MURPHY.

Mr. Roebuck wrote a letter to the recent meeting held

in Exeter Hall to protest against the arrest of Murphy,
the " No-Popery" agitator. The following is the
concluding passage of a very long epistle devoted
to proving it to be most impolitic that Mr. Murphy
.should be stopped :—" It may be said that in the
case of shutting up the lecture-rooms of Mr.
Murphy and preventing his meetings, no law was
broken, as an old, obsolete, despotic law sanctioned the
proceeding. This is true. But the acting upon this
obsolete law was in reality a breach of the law, as it
has been acted on ever since the now obsolete law was
passed. The law was passed in times of great danger
and alarm, and has always, by that party to which Mr.
Bruce belongs, been deemed a gross violation cf constitu-
tional freedom. And it must surprise and shock every
thoughtful man, that in these the palmy days of liberty,
when we have a Prime Minister who is par excellence

a Liberal, that the despotic law of a Minister should
be dug up from the grave to which public prudence,
shame, and indignation had assigned it, for the purpose
of silencing a speaker whom you could or would not

answer."

The Wcarmouth colliery strike, by which about
3,000 men and boys have been out of employ, has just ter-

urinated.

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The remains of Admiral Sir William Bowles were
on Wednesday buried at Kensal green Cemetery. The pro-
ceedings wete as private as possible, tut a great many naval
offic,2rs were present at the cem?tery.
,The extent to which Cheshire suffered by the cattle
klague was demonstrated in a statement made by Mr. Laird;
. jou., at the meeting of the Birket.hcad Commissioners on
Tuesday. No fewer than 73,000 cattle were slaughtered dur-
ing the epidemic, and the amount of compensation paid for
those destroyed after the passing of the Cattle Plague Act
(35,000) was nearly a quarter cf a million sterl,ng.
The Guerclian states that Mr. Edwd. S:uart Talbot,
Mudent and lecturer of Christ CLureb, has accepted the
principalship of Keblo College. It is Loped that lie will be
installed on April,2s, 1870. Mr.W. Gibbs has given .C,OO, Sir
J. T. Coleridge LA (in addition to a previous £110) to the
college; and Mr. Butterfield, a second £lOO to the temporary
chapel.

At a meeting of a number of the leading Liberals
of Manchester, held on Tu( se:ay at the Town Hall, to con-
sider the proceedings in the House of Lords with reference
to the Irish Church Bill, resolutions were passed condemn-
ing the Lords' amendments, which proposed concurrent en-
dowment in Ireland, and expressing regret at the attempts
being mado to effect such changes in the bill as would
frustrate, in many important respects, the purpose of its
framers, and Vl9lfit4 t & 141.01PICri, of roiiitt9lllVcpkgitY,