The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-20 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Since yesterday morning a decrease in atmospherical pressure has
set in at all stations in the British Islands, and amounts to two-
tenths of an inch in the west of Ireland, whi st in the S.W. of France
a slight recovery has occurred. The reading at Nairn is, however,
only o'32in. lower than that at Rochefort. Temperature has
changed irregularly, but not much. The reading received from
Ardrossan yesterday seems doubtful. In these islands light airs and
calms prevail, but the general direction of the wind is more from
S.W. than it was yesterday. At Valencia a northerly wind con-
tinues, and a north-easterly breeze in the S.W. of France. Some
rain has fallen in the west. The sky is cloudy, with fog ; mist and
rain in places. The sea is very calm.

A deliberate attempt was made on Thursday to upset
a passenger train, by placing a pair of wheels across the
rails near Shrewsbury. A boy has been arrested on sus-

picion.

A telegram from Cologne says that the theatre
there was burnt down on Wednesday night. Nine persons
fell victims to the flames, among them the money-taker and
his wife.

A thunderstorm passed over Nottingham on Thurs-
day afternoon, between 3 and 4 o'clock. The lightning was
vivid, and the peals of thunder loud and frequent. There
were showers of rain at intervals.

The Athenmum hears that Lord St. Leonards is
preparing an answer to certain misrepresentations which
occur in Lord Campbell's "Lives of Lord Lyndhurst and
Lord Brougham," and that the volume will shortly be pub-
lished by Mr. Murray.
The Weekly Register mentions a report, and hopes
it is not true, that the Prince of Wales will on his journey
homeward call at Caprera in order to pay his respects to
Garibaldi.

The Radicals of Stockport, believing the with-
drawal of the election petition to be the result cf collusion,
and holding that bribery was rifo in the borough, are about
to petition the House of Commons to institute an inquiry.

The death of Captain Wardiaw, from injuries re-
ceived whilst hunting with the North Warwickshire hounds,
adds another name to the list of fatal accidents which have
occurred in the hunting field this eeason. The season ap-
pears to have been unusually disastrous.

A movement is on foot in Leeds with a view to
the establishment of a Board of Conciration in that town,
for the settlement of trade disputes. Some conferences haid
been held ou the subject, but no plan of operations has yet
been adopted.
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The Lancet says :—" We are glad to be able to
inform our readers that the rumoured reductions in the Army
Medical Depfatment—which, according to some, were to be
both immediate and wholesale—will be comparatively small
during the pre sent year. Owing to the representations
which have been made to ➢lr. Cardwell, we understand that
the assistant professors will retain their appointments at
Netley—at any rate for the present."

Madame Ugalde, the eminent singer of the
Opera Comique, has just obtained a divorce a mensa et
(hero—the) only divorce legal in France—from her second
husband, M. Varcollior, to whom she was married in 1839.
The husband, so far from defending the action, brought a
cross one, demanding a separation against Lis wife. The
court thought the faults on both sides equal, and made a
double decree, pronouncing a separation at the side of each
party. A little girl of 7 years old, the onlyissue of the mar-
riage, is to remain at school, each parent having permission
to visit her during play hours, and she pa y 34 hcaidaJ_a
with her father AnsLmether aterattalok2.