The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-27 00:00:00

N.N.W.

307iEs.

N.W.

EXPLANATION
Barometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The
letter r, rir•ing ; f. falling ; s, steady—indicates direction of motion
of the mercury within last 14 hours. Thermometer exposed in
shade. Extreme Force with its Direction during last 24 hours.
Z.—calm. Weather : b.—laue sky ; c.—clouds, detached ; f. - fog
h.—hail ; I.—lightning ; hazy ; o.—overcast, dull r.--
rain ; s.—snow ; t.—thunder. Fain-fall, snow or bail melted)
during last 24 hours. Sea disturbance.
REMARKS.

The decrease in pressure noticed in the west yesterday afternoon
seems to have passed to the N.E. with great rapidity ; pressure at
Nairn having decreased nearly half an inch between 6 p.m. and mid-
night. This fall has been succeeded by a fresh recovery, exceeding
o'3in in the north (where it has been greatest); and pressure is now
increasing in the south also. The lowest reading is at Nairn, and is
o'Boin. lower than that at Rochefort, where pressure is still high.
nas cuangect but little. A bard I\T.W. sale has blown
on our N. and W. coasts during the past night, and continues in the
northern part of the Irish Channel, though of less force ; but in the
English Channel wind has been comparatively light. In the S.E. and
S. moderate to fresh westerly breezes are reported to-day. Snow and
sleet have fallen in the north. The sky is clear in Scotland, and
somewhat cloudy elsewhere. Weather is still very unsettled. The
sca is not very high.

It has been decided to lower the operatic pitch to

.he Freneh Standard at Covent Garden.

The Tablet is informed that the statement circulated
by the Irish Times that the Duke of Norfolk bad seceded
from the Catholic Church to the Irvingites is without foun-

dation.

A correspondent of the Liberte states that a museum
is al.out to be established at Sebastopol for the preservation
of all tho trophies and souvenirs of tho war with Englane
and France.

On Thursday the Norwich electoral organisation
determined to give continued support to Mr. Tillett when-
ever an election occurs for Norwich. Mr. Tillett was the
working-men's candidate at the late election.

On Wednesday afternoon the ship Ingre, of Am-
stordam, bound to Havannah in ballast, grounded on the
Goodwin Sands, whore she became a wreck. The lifeboat,
Van Kook, took off the crew and landed them at Rams-
gate.

The Weekly Register says : "Archbishop ➢fanning
will leave Rome in time to bo in London for Passion Week.
It seems that there is no truth in the report sent us from
Rome that his Grace is to receive a cardinal's hat. For
the present, at any rate, there is no chance of this taking
place."

Mr. Goggin, an owner of property at Glin, near
farbert, has been fired at whilst driving home with his
wife in an open carriage. Four shots were discharged from
behind a fence and all mi- sed. 3lrs. Goggin described the
intending assassin, whom she saw running off. Pendin'
ejectment proceedings are stated as the probable cause.

It has been determined to present a testimonial, in
the substantial form of £l,OOO, to tho Rev. H. A. Stern and
Mr. H. Rosenthal, the late prisoners iu Abyssinia. Amongst
those who aro taking an active part in the movement are
the Marquis of Cholmondelcy, Sir W. de Capel Brooke,
Colonel Yarborough, C. 8., Cancn Hall, and cther gentle-
men.

At the Guildhall, yesterday, abuteher of Aylesworth,
in Suffolk, was sentenced to threo months' hard labour for
sending diseased meat to the London market for food. It
was stated that the defendant bought a cow which had died
from being diseased, for 275. Gd., and in order to hide the
appearance in the meat cut away a large portion of the in-
side, and even scraped the ribs in 'order to destroy the trace
of disease.

The British Medical Journal understands that 0 o
Government intend to transfer the working of the Conta-
gious Diseases Act from the War-office to the Home-office.
It will be proposed to extend the operations of the Act
to the remaining military stations; and also to give
powers to carry out the Act among the civil population
generally under permissiVe clauses, Auch as those recom-.
mended by Lord Lifford's Coinniittee last Session.
The case against the Rev. W. J. E. Benuits of
From; is expected to come before Sir Robert Phillimore in
the course of a few weeks. The complaint against the rev,
gentleman will be that he teaches a real, actual, and visible
presence of the Lord upon the altar, and that without that
doctrine, containing and inferring the sacerdotal office of the
priest, and the sacrificial character of the altar, there would
be no altar at all. The case will alsn embrace ;91a1,3 ruinercharges,