The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-10 00:00:00

The :Earl of Carlisle is entertaining a family
circle at the vice-regal seat at Dublin. The Marquis and
Marchioness of Kildare, Lady Caroline Lascelles and Misses
Lascelles, the Hon. and Rev. F. and Lady Elizabeth Grey,
and Captain Lascelles are staying with his Excellency.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The favourable change in
the weather, and the opening of the new West-end Ter-
minus (Victoria Station), has already had a beneficial effect
upon the number of visitors, and with the special attrac-
tions announced will probably continue to do so. In de-
ference to the promoters of the Saturday half-holiday,
Saturday next will be set apart for a shilling day.
It is reported from Havannah that a president or •
director of one of the banking institutions at that port has
recently absconded with £240,000.
STRANGE Bin TRUE.—One day last week a
farmer in the neighbourhood of Callandar, while angling
in the Teith, hooked a large pike, which with some trouble
he succeeded in landing. Hehad laid it on the bank for
dead, when his collie dog happening to brush past it, it
caught him by the tail. The dog, howling with pain,
plunged into the water in the direction of the farmer's
house, the pike still retaining its hold, nor did it relinquish
its hold until the dog had reached his master's farm-yard,
when he was speedily relieved of his encumbrance. The

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pike weighed 211bs.—Alloa Journal.
MIIED WOOD AND STONE PAVEMENTS.—When
wood payments were first introduced in the streets of Lon-
don the weather was fine, and people thought that a new
metropolitan luxury had been acquired. Everyone re-
joiced to see the cabs gliding so noiselessly along the
the streets, like screw liners in smooth water, the conversa-
tion possible to be sustained at the ordinary pitch of the
voice, and the increased facility of traction which enabled
the horse to fly along with his draught as if on a tramway,
or that it was only a sleigh on the frozen Nevskoi of St.
Petersburg. Tho verdict in favour of the new invention
was almost universal—even the Dean and Chapter of St.
Paul's adopting it, as we learn from Sydney Smith's cele-
brated joke. But when the wet weather came matters
took a different turn. The comparative silence was still pre-
served ; but all secure foothold for horses was lost, and
serious accidents became of daily and even hourly occur-
rence. The problem then became, how to preserve the
security of the stone and the stillness of the wood, and an
ingenious attempt has just been made to solve it by laying
wood and stone in alternate rows, a method which it is ex-
pected will combine the advantages of both systems without
the nuisance of either. A portion of the east end
of Lombard-street has been laid down in the new
manner, and as far as we could judge from
fairttn
examination made by us yesterday, it bide
n,
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to answer the purpose intended. At farseistd it
is covered with a layer of gravel, and as the w
1 but in afew
the neighbouring shopkeepers grumble a hat
and the wind high a good deal of dust flies about, at whiZ
l condition, and
days the road will have attained its no
ltbetween wood and
to be a very advantageous compromi d.
minish the noise
there seems to be little doubt but thiq rmwill then turn out
give security to the
whilst the alternate layer of stoneet
f mustwill not be materially
stone. The wood will certainly greatly 1
horses, and the question
is
already in operatics in the
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THE POPE PACTIONIGHT.
—OAn GMOndi
Monday
Lnight a
war of words, relative to thasachieve-
eaents of Garibaldi and the claims of the Po
Rlla
Pope, which
tool[
place in a court off Cr hll •
oss a -street speedily assumed the
character and proportionsof a serious'• which
and women
ranked
violently on either side, as their
predilection moved them to enthusiasm in the cause
of Italian freed or sympathy with the falling
fortunes of the Poole Yells and party cries soon gave
place to more P .
powerful arguments. Clubs, pokers, tongs,
and, mirabile dicta, flat-irons took precedency of wagging
tongues, and a general affray, as well as a somewhat
dangerous melee, ensued, in which broken heads were
more common than logic. One woman was severely
cut on the head with the angle of a flat-iron, and
a man had his knowledge-box rudely visited by a pair
of tongs, while another man was stabbed in the chest
with a pair of scissors by a woman named Bridget Duffy.
A number of the champions were taken into custody
by the police. and the offenders were charged, en Tuesday,
before the magistrates with having created a riot and as-
sault. The woman Duffy was committed for trial ; a man
named Clogger, owner of a bookstall, was fined 40s. and
costs for striking a woman on the head with a fiat-iron ;
Dennis Kelly was also fined 40s. and costs for breaking the
head of John Coupland with a pair of tongs. In both of
these latter cases there was an alternative of two months'
imprisonment in default of payment. Besides the cases
mentionei, it seems that other seven or eight persons wore
injured in the affray, which was maintained with great,
spirit for upwards of an hour.—Liverpool Albion.
THE STADE RUM—The affair of the Stade du6s
(a ecording to aletterfromßerlin) now stands thus—ll:TT:
has not yet replied to the last Englishpropositions,l.? r_fifZe
berations are about to take place in Hanover reaecanet"!trn
answer to be given. It is reported that di e_ lif , n_
government has confidentially requested the Ct b 11°'
a of the 22d Of
don to prolong the An 10-Hanoverian
etre.airof _ ..
Di ovember
July, 1814. As to Belgium she, onstth "3a
h of January, 1812,
last, denounced the treaty of the
the t 25th of February,
with Hanover, which expires on
r does not, by a new
1861. If before that date,
Hennonece the levy of the Stade
arrant ement with. Belg',um, re-yeaurian ships will no longer
tolls on Belgian vesF,eis,
lia"Scholdt which they ham) to
bi 3 i.eimbursed the lolls of the
Ply in Belgium.
The quotation of gold at -Paris
PRICE OF GOLD.s.
an
er
and the short exchange on London
1 ine di,
is . about i P°r m ling. On comparing these rates ' pith the
is: 15.15 p £1 stero
0,.•x3
17
s. 100. per ounce for standard
Er tglish Mint pne 1
ears
that gold is at aaout the same
aPP
gold, it
-, and London. By adviees from the ci of
price in Pan
, price of gold is 4241 per mark, ar,d the
He en
t-e• 13' sort
on London is 31 per 11 sterling, Standard gold
•
axe ;hange . h Mint rice is rather
at the Englis P
than , irhore than 4-10ths per
dearer in Hamburg in Lone,on. The course of ex-
cel] A.
ohs age at Now York on Loudon for bills at 60 days' sight
is bout 109 a per cent., which, when
a. compared with thollint
par between the two.: ountries, shows that the exchange
is slightly in favour of England ; 'and, after snaking; allow-
ano• 3 for charges of interest and difference of inter est, the
pi- a sent rate leaves to prat oh thq importation\ of ell
fr psi the Vated States