The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-24 00:00:00

.111L1Ti11 Y AND NA V, I L _INTELLIGENCE.

ENTHRONEMENT OF THE BISHOP Oi

LONDON.

The 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment, under
the command of Lieutenant-Colonel E. Bowen—
strength, 28 officers, 4-1 sergeants, 20 drummers,
and 510 men—left Aldershott Camp shortly after
eight o'clock on Monday morning, and proceeded
from Farnham by special train to Portsmouth,
there to embark on board her Majesty's ship
Orontes, for conveyance to Devonport.
Tqe Ist battalion, 12th Regiment, consisting of
37 officers, 641 men, 7 horses, 93 women, and 118
children, is under orders to procged from Devon-
port to Aldershott, and, on arrival at the camp,
will be quartered in the lines vacated by the 57th
Regiment.
The Danish frigate Jelland left Plymouth on
Monday for Copenhagen.
Navigating Lieut. Robt. Tomers was on Monday
appointed to the Asia, for service in the Sirius.

The Right Rev. Dr. John Jackson, who nas recentl
become Bishop of London, will be enthroned in St. Faurg
Cathedral on Thursday, the Sth of April. On arriving at
the Chapter House the bishop will be received by the Vol
Rev. Dr. Mansel, the newly-appointed dean ; the Venerable
Archdeacons Hale and Sinclair; the Rev. Canons Dale'
Melville, and Gregory ; the Right Rev. Bishop Anderson,
the Chancellor of the Cathedral, and the prebendaries. The
Commissary of St. Paul's will thus address the dean :"
" Very Rev. Mr. Dean, I present to you the Right ray.
Father in God John Jackson, Bishop of London, and beg that
he maybe enthroned according to the usual custom, and that
the mandate to that effect from the Archdeacon of Canter•
bury may he read by the registrar of the diocese." 141'
Shepherd, the registrar, having read the mandate, the com-
missary will say : " Very Rev. Mr. Dean, on behalf of the
Bishop of London I pray you to take upon you the burden
of the execution of the mandate, and to proceed according
to the tenor thereof." The dean having assented, the
great bell of St. Paul's will toll, and the bishop, clergYi
and officers will proceed from the Chapter House to tbe
great west door of the cathedral. The Lord Mayor, wlth
the sheriffs of London and Middlesex, attired in their robe!
of office, and attended by the municipal officers, will awAl
the arrival of the bishop at the grand entrance, and '1"
join the procession in its progress up the nave. As the Pro
cession moves slowly up the nave an anthem will be en
by the choir. After service at the altar, the dean will
the bishop to the throne, and having caused him to sit dovitn,
will induct and instal him thus:—"l, Henry Longueville
Mansel, Doctorin Divinity, Dean of this Cathedral Church:
do, by the authority to me committed, induct, install, and
enthrone you, the Right Rev. Father in God, John, 11
Divine permission, Lord Bishop of London, into the biehel).
ric and episcopal dignity of London. The Lord preserve thy
going out and thy coming in from this time for evermore,
and mayest thou remain in justice and sanctity, and ado
the place to you delegated by God. God is powerful,
and may He increase your grace." The members of the.
church and the choir will proceed to their stalls, and fell
choral service will be performed. At the conclusion of the.
service Handel's "Hallelujah Chorus" will be given, and
the bishop will pronounce the benediction. The bishop voli
then return to the Chapter House, where the dean, canons,
treasurer, and other tne declaration of
onedience.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—George E. Alarcon, assis-
tant paymaster, to the Cambridge ; and E. B.
Pillans, assi,tant-paymaster, to the Fisgard, as
supernumerary.

THE COMIC PAPERS.
(From Punch.)

A FLAT RACE.—Simpletons.
HABIT-lIAL CRllllNALS.—Exorbitant Tailors.
CLEOPATRA'S NEEDLE-WORK.—Getting the Pillar to
England.

BLACKTHORN WINTER.-Why is a sharp frost in spring
like a ? Because it arrests " The Rake's
Progress."
THE BEST ARGUMENT FOR THE ENDOWED SCHOOLS
BILL—To shew respect for founders' wishes. Throw over
their wills.

A THIRD COMPETITOR.—It may have escaped observa-
tion that on the day of the University Boat Race there
were three eights on the river—the Oxford Eight, the Cam-
bridge Eight, and the Chiswick Eyot.
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WOULD IT WEIZE NOT SO.—Can any one doubt that
there are faggot members as well as faggot voters, who
thinks of the number of " sticks " to be found in the
House?

NATURAL EsouGTt.—The entrance doors of the South
V.Tiginolon Uuseurn are lettered "Ingress," "Egress."
the Ogress was.

No PURITY OF ELECTION.—There is no denying the
truth of what some ass, who confounds the meaning of
words, might urge as an objection against an enactment
establishing vote by ballot, namely, that it would institute
Club Law.

THE SUEZ CANAL,

The Morning Herald publishes a long letter, (Wet/
March 12, from a special correspondent, on the Sne,°,
Canal. " Having seen Suez and Chalouf," he writes, "-I'
traversed a large portion of the area described as tbe
Bitter Lakes, which at present consist of several salt 13°0i°.
of no remarkable extent. The place marked on the French
charts of the canal, however, is an immense basin, reach'
ing in length from a point named Mariam to another net
far north of Chalouf, and including no less than 100,10
acres. It is in this place that M. de Lesseps will have
to encounter the chief difficulty of his undertaking.'
So great is the solar heat that many persons ball
predicted that the daily amount of evaporation, which i°
calculated at the enormous total of 250 millions of
cubic feet, cannot always be replaced, and, consequentlin
that it will not be possible to keep this portion of t":
canal always full. The subject has received the most
earnest attention from MM. Bored and Lavalley, whe
declare that they entertain not the least doubt of
the
result. But the pessimists still find advocates, and thei
question cannot be decided or the controversy ended unrsti,„
the experiment of filling the Bitter Lakes is made. -1"
gain anything like an idea of the magnitude of Les l'.3che
Amen the visitor must take his stand on the In'h
ground at -Mariam, and look to the south. It is no rise 3„,
The very
prospect over which his weary eyes wander.
place where he stands has been associated with the histerY
of the chosen people, and is connected by Arab tradition
with the name of the sister of Moses. Through these
dismal tracts of sand the Israelites passed. Not far from
this they tasted the bitter waters of Marah ; and the
blue cloud on the south-east is the ridge of stony 11 e
'
which they surmounted on their journey to Sinai. .1,
wonder that their memories turned back to the pleasan'
fields and grateful shade of the land of Goshen.But after
thousands of years, in which it has been abandoned to the
prowling Bedouin and the passing caravan, thesilenceof the
desert has been again invaded by a different race fcr
another purpose. The steam-engine pants, the huge dredge
labours, the heavy barge floats where the hum of the
f
Hebrew camp ascended. Other visions arise as full oa
strange suggestions as the records of the exodus, an
bridging that vast interval of solitude throughout wilicit
the barren wilderness has known no changes except e
suns and seasons, the mind contrasts the slow and devien°
the
march of the Jewish host with ' the railway and
steam ship and the thoughts that shake mankind.' 111,_
very few months, unless some unforeseen catastronee
oeclirs, the steteliest ships will glide easily among these sterile
plaiw, little tracts of verdure will spread and multipll,
villages w ill spies; up suddenly, towns like Ismailia will
grow to the dimensions of prosperous ports, and a peace.
fad population will take the place of Bedouins and pilgrims'
It is not wonderful that such a future as tb'
should exercise upon the imagination a 1,61',
/:
:
of poetic fascination, and that the temperament of N. "
into
Lesseps should have imported so much enthusiasm
the conduct of an undertaking which is likely to be
attended by results so marvellous."
Writing so early in the month, the correspondentie.
rather at a disadvantage, as then the commencement of
the filling of the Bitter Lakes had not taken place. Ile
makes the following remarks, however, on the prospects
of the undertaking :—" When the filling of the Bitter,
Lakes has commenced, it will be possible to come to
more exact conclusion than at present as to the On. r_
of the undertaking ; but even now the general opinion
seems to be that the hopes of M. de Lesseps, so farii
as the completion of the project is concerned, Iftlf
be realised by the day which has been named. 1‘1",-;
Borel and Lavalley, the contractors, will forfeit head
sum unless their work be finished before the Ist of Octo-
ever
her. The most difficult questions which arise, ;
how•
de not regard the opening of the canal only. se
has
eer
sources of danger and loss have been pointed out. it
a,1,„
been said that the drift from the desert will probau;
choke the channel. In reply to this the company
to results carefully observed, in order to thew' that tes
drift is really inconsiderable, and that in the fn:,
where it is greatest the height of the h7lci
offers a complete protection. Again we t
that Port Said will surely fill up iu the course of tirae.
COn;
Conceding the fact that the deposit of sand has been
siderable on the exterior of the western jetty, and thhag
the breakwater, not being solid, a certain portionsra
ls
worked its way through the interstices of the southwest -y„.
corner of the harbour, this danger can be removed ''‘f
rendering the jetty solid, or by the continual operation
Inv,
dredges. There is a possibility of not being able to supPlYt„
evaporation from the Bitter Lakes I have
, alreael
referred to, but this is a question which will be
A nor
settled in the course of the summer.
serious difficulty may result from the damage °Alec/
by the waves of passing vessels. A steamer
can
'3
two thousand tons, moving by her own Pctver:
scarcely fail to create a considerable f
wave ; and, th
commotion so produced should break or loosen the banks
'
the expenditure necessary for repairs would be Tel
large. It is understood that paddle ships will not 13
allowed to use their own power, but the engineers con;
fidently assert that they expect no injury from the act°
of screws. In any event, however, there will be ece°;
1;
sion for the use of a large traction power, and tierl,g
some reason to believe that the cost of Pas°t
-
en
through the canal will not be limited by the
francs per ton which the company is empowered to charge.:
Besides, it must be remembered that the canal P.
but a single line. In the narrower portions, and eV",
cially in the cuttings between El Gisr and El Ferdan,
will not be possible for two large steamers to pass ea%
other, and consequently the value of Lake Tirnsall ilera
central station can scarcely be overrated. I have beard
central station can scarcely be overrated. I baV r
their
some persons, who seem unwilling to surrender thioi
objections to the project, say that it will, „s,
necessary to construct immense locks near on%
::In reply to this the engineers of the canal repel
their assertion that the levels of the Mediterranean 3 Cit
the Red Sea differ only by a few millimetres, an,t„heas
the tides in the latter will cause no inconveme-ei
er current requiring the construction of locks. The 11°013ly
00
n
(,)f the sanguine and the doubts of the desponding will s.ao
realised or resolved, and I for one, having been vivl
hsken con,
mpressed by the courage, the energy, the uns
roe,
!idenee exhibited by the projector and his fellow labcntli
the
by the spirit of organisation they have shewn,
combated •
patience and courtesy with which they have
eose
the views of their adversaries, trust that their Iraul- eye
capital, their ten years of toil and vigilance, will nal°
to have been spent in vain."

QUITE IMPOSSIBLE.--It is stated that Sir John Law-
rence, when raised to the peerage, will take the title of
Foyle. "Foyle" Sir John may be, and deserves to be,
but foiled we can never imagine him to be, under any cir-
cumstances.

"A VISION oz• LIFE."--A Trinity College (Dublin)
man was talking the other day upon the small value
attached to life by uncivilised nations. Somebody re-
:narked that in China if a man were condemned to death
he could easily hire a substitute to die for him. "All, yes,"
said T. C. D., " I believe many poor fellows get their
living by being substitutes that way."

(From Fun.)

THE REAL " CONDEMNED SELL."—The firm of Overend
Gurney, and Co.
NoT A BAD SHOT.—The Duke of Somerset said the
other night in the House of Lords that every British
missionary requires a gunboat. Of course the missionary
wished himself a canon on board it.
QUITE Mcwr TOO !—The Court Journal says that Mr.
Tennyson has " again refused the offer of a peerage."
Well, considering some of the people who have been made
lords, he is wise in refusing a baron honour.

IT'S AN ILL WIND.
The wind, I see, stays due E
And doesn't make a wee stir ;
Ent, oh, dear me ! why should it be
So Easterly at Easter?

(From Judy.)
A CONSTANT READEB.—A sub-editor.
A :MOURNING CoAcm—G. Morrison, Esq.
" THE NOBLEST ROW-MEN OF THEM ALL."—The Oxford
crew.

A SUGGESTION BY A DUNCE•INANE. —The destination
of the Scotch far:got-voters should be Birnam.
THE UNIVERSITY TEST ACT.—The Oxford and Cam-
midge match.
THE LAST SOLUTION OF THE IlEroim LEAGUE QUES•

CSkIZESr ONDEE CE FROM PARIS:


(FROII OUR OWN CORIZESPONDENT.)

P..A.815, TUESDAY, March 23.
The -arrangement of the difficulty with Belgium will
have been made known to you long ere this. It is impor-
tant to note that the questi ,n is not absolutely settled.
The differences arc to be referred to a commission, but it
dues not follow that the commission will be able to devise
a final settlement which will please both parties. The
commission will " consider " the commercial relations
between the two countries ; it will also " consider" the
contract between the two railway companies; but
we have yet to wait for the result of all this
consideration. The anticipations of the papers here are
as optimist as ever, but it would be premature to affirm
that the dispute is finally disposed of. I mention this
simply because the leading Belgian papers, which have
preserved a very conciliatory attitude throughout the
difficulty—replying to the gross insults of the
Paris journals with perfect politeness—are now
writing in a very suspicious tone. The Etoile Beige
and the Independance Beige, decidedly the leading organs of
Brussels, both speak in the same tone. The Etoile says
the Belgian Government will never hear of a Customs'
union with France, and is less than ever disposed to ratify
the cntract between the East of France and the Luxem-
burg Companies. It will agree to any solution of the
dispute which will strengthen the commercial relations
between the two States ; but such a solution must in no
wise interfere witb the absolute maintenance of the national
independence. The other Belgian journal publishes pre-
cisely the same statement, or, rather, is somewhat more
positive. This plain speaking would seem to indicate that
we have not yet heard the last of this miserable quarrel,
The source from which this information comes is at any
rate worthy of every respect.

The storm, according to the last advices, still raged on
the north and west coasts. The wrecks during the last
few days have been very numerous. Several merchant
ships have been cast on the shore between Honfleur and
Isigny, and the fishing vessels have been decimated.
Some parts of the country are inundated, but the damage
in this respect is not excessive.
A disastrous explosion of fire-damp occurred in the
If6rin colliery, near Valenciennes. Three were killed and
twenty wounded, of whom two are in a hopeless condi-
tion. This accident occurred on the 10th, but so admi-
rable are the arrangements for collecting news in this in-
tellectual land, that it has only just been telegraphed to
Paris !

The Nabob of Bengal, accompanied by his two sons and
Colonel Layard, has arrived at Marseilles. For some
reason or other this potentate has chosen to spend several
days at the insalubrious port on 'the Mediterranean. He
will then proceed to England yid Lyons and Paris.
More than 300,000 persons visited the Place de Ia
Sorbonne on Sunday.

There is some talk of Prince Napoleon becoming Presi-
dent of the Senate. The Chevalier Nigra has, it is said,
returned to Paris, and thus all speculation as to his desti-
nation are ended.

No less than twenty-one journalists are candidates for
the Corps Legislatif.

According to the 1-ish limes, the Lord Chancellor
of Ireland is to be made a peer.

The petitioners in the Oldham election inquiry
have withdrawn from the case. Messrs. Ilibbert and Platt
aro therefore declared duly elected. Costs reserved.
On Tuesday there was no vacation judge at the
Judges' Chambers, Mr. Justice Mellor being obliged to pro-
ceed to Kingston, un account of the illness of Chief Justice
Cockburn.

At the Liverpool County Court, on Monday, Mr.
Parratt, son of a town councill3r of Liverpool, was con-
victed of bribery at the last municipal election for South
Tosteth Ward, Liverpool, and fined 40s. and costs.
The &led Committee of the House of Commons
on Parliamentary and Municipal Elections held its first
meeting on Monday, and elected the Marquis of Harlington
as its chairman.

An election to the dignity of Foreign Associate of
the French Institute took place on Saturday. Mr. J. S.
Mill was one of those put in nomination. Count Sclopis, who
was elected, is a Piedmontese. lie obtained twenty votes,
Mr. Mill s..ven, and M. Quotelet, a Belgian, two. Mr. Mill
was by far the most distinguished candidate.
A PariErnentary return issued on Tuesnay corn-
tr 13 ansy '-
prises a report from Il:ar-Admiral Warden, enclosing letters SING ULIR CASE OF FASTIN G. —ALI'.
rk On tr
ifrom flear-Adm'ral Byder at d the commanding officers of
.„nci.. on phrenology, has made some rern3-- svhen ..°
ie ilia' sty's ships in the Channel squadron, upon the sub- 8' range story of Sarah Jacobs. 110 visited ber
arance•
d that
jest of the rest. etive merit of the various ships. The ships ‘Vales, and was much struck- by her intelligent aPPere -
"ger left
roeported on are the Beller( plum, the lionitnur; the loyal • 1-0 made an examination of her head, and disco
ak,•the Achilles, the Warrior, the Defence, the prince iie possessed capabilities beyond the average. Th°
s a daY• e
Contort, and the Pallas.. :hie was paralysed, and she had several fit
parents decillf
eculiar part of the story is that her Pareduring t"
The Horslmin p tition wil Le heard on April 'On. '
he has not eaten anything at all
„ink. Ant
In this case tle re was a (Tooble r, torn. Alhot gh br ' cry, '
:.st seventeen months, and does not even dei 'from her
Szc., aro charged in the p,;ition, it is lyslicved that most
is of probability is attached to the assertion
a___,,ersoo
import:lt:co is atklsherl to the scrutiny of votes which is
ather declaring that he is willing to allowtinnY r
tap l‘irt.
prayed for in each petition. Neither of the in, tubers peti-
ive in the family and watch the case cola,
r treatinen 1
tinned against (Mr. :Hurst and Major Aldridge) are, it is
Burns makes some suggestions respecting her 4 4 Elli
understood, allowed to sit or vote in the house', having re- I, shotW4 " •
k among other things, proposing that Oa, " - -
ceived an official iLtituaCon to tLat effect.
under the Mu t= of mesmerism. ,