The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-22 00:00:00

N.E.

o 32 deg. at sea level. The
indicates direction of motion
1. Thermometer exposed in
section during last 24 hours.
,—clouds, detached ; f. - fog
zy ; o.—overcast, dull r.—
'all, snow or hail melted)

During Saturday night a sudden decrease in pressure amounting to
about o.3in. occurred at the entrance of the Channel, accompanied by
an equal increase at our northern stations ; and yesterday morning
readings on our N.E. coast were about three-tenths of an inch higher
than that at Brest. Since then, however, a recovery has occurred in
the S.W. (the low pressure haring moved eastward), but during last
night a fresh decrease has set in at Nairn. Readings are now very
uniform. Temperature yesterday rose generally, although the winds
were easterly, but to-day it has fallen again, except at Nairn. Yes-
terday morning easterly winds of generally moderate strength set in
at all stations ; but at Corunna and Toulon N.W. and N.E. gales
were blowing. This morning the winds in the north and west have
fallen light, and veered to S.E. and S., but moderate to strong N.H.
breezes continue on the Continent and our S.E. coasts. Rain hal
fallen at most stations, with sleet in London. The sea is rather high
at Yarmouth.

The Marquis of Hartington has written to the Man-
chester Guardian emphatically denying the statement
that be has purchased the residence of Mr. Green Price, the
member who has just vacated his seat for the Radnorshire
Boroughs.
" The Prussian officials here,"
says a usually well
informed Roman correspondent in a letter of the 14th, " are
talking of an approaching war with Austria, and the
struggle may
be said to have begun at the Vatican, where
Baron d'Arnim uses every effort to defeat the negotiations
of Count de Trauttmansdorff. In this design he is zealously
supported by M. de Walonieff, the envoy of Russia, and
even by the ambassador of France, that Power desiring that
the holy See shall have no other ally but herself. Count de
Trauttmansdorff, however, is energetically aided by the
Minister of Bavaria."

The London correspondent of the Leeds Mercury
says: —"I hear, upon what I believe is excellent authority,
that the bill to be brought forward by Mr. Gladstone on the
Ist of March will not, as is generally supposed, be a frag-
ment only of the scheme he contemplates, but will be
complete in itself, dealing with the whole of the vexed
questions raised by the proposal of disestablishment, and
more especially with that "money part of tho bill" which
so rust y people persh.t in regarding as the rock upon
which the Ministry is doomed to split. lam assured that
the measure will fulfil every pledge Mr. Gladstone gave
last session, and more pArticularly his pledges with reference
to the appropriation of the funds at present belonging
to the Church. Whatever else they may be applied to, those
funds will assuredly not he used for any religious purposes.
The danger of a compromise of this kind has entirely passed
away, and the Ministry will go straightforward upon the
course which it marked out for itself in the famous resolu-
tions of last year."— The same authority says, yesterday
(Thursday) was a great day at the Reform Club. No
less than fifteen new Members of Parliament wore
ballotted for, and all, I am happy to say, were elected.
Amongst theit number was Mr. Bolckow, the new mem-
ber for Middlesbro'. Mr. Harvey Lewis, who cau hardly
continue to retain hi:l scat for Maryleboue beyond the end
O'f.the present week, is not a member of the Reform. Mary.
tame lass been almost as unfortunate initfi Tarltiuuentsry-•