The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-30 00:00:00

PREACHING IN JAPAN.

There's the scullery-maid been washing out the pots,
and the scullion, Chokichi, comes up and says to her,
"You've got a lotof charcoal smut sticking to your nose,"
and points out to her the ugly spot. The scullery-maid
is delighted to be told of this, and answers, "Really,
whereabouts is it ?" Then she twists a towel round her
finger, and bending her head until mouth and forehead
are almost on a level, she squints at her nose and twiddles
away with her fingers, as if she were the famous GOto at
work carving the ornaments of a sword-handle. " I say,
Master Chokichi, is it off yet?" "Not a. bit of it ; you've
smeared it all over your cheeks now !" "Oh, dear ! oh,
dear! where can it be?" and so she uses the
water - basin as a looking - glass, and washes her
face clean. Then she says to herself, "What a
Lear boy Chokichi is 1" and thinks it necessary,
)ut of gratitude, to give him relishes with his supper by
the ladleful, and thanks him over and over again. But
If this same Chokichi were to come up to her and say,
"Now, really, how lazy you are. I wish you could
manage to be rather less of a shrew ;" what do you think
the scullery-maid would answer then ? Reflect for a
moment. "Drat the boy's impudence! If I were of
a bad heart or a crooked disposition, should I be here
helping him? You go and be hung. You see if I take the
trouble to wash your dirty bedclothes for you any more !"
And she gets to be a perfect devil, less only the horns. There
are other people besides the poor scullery-maid who are in
the same way. "Excuse me, Mr. Gundabei, but the em-
broidered crest on your dress of ceremony seems to be a
little on one side." Mr. Gundabei proceeds to adjust his
dress with great precision. "Thank you, sir, I am ten
million times obliged to you for your care. If ever there
should be any matter in which I can be of service to you,
beg that you will do me the favour of letting me know,"
And with a beaming face he expresses his gratitude. Now
for the other side of the picture. " Really, Mr. Gundabei,
you are very foolish ; you don't seem to understand it at all.
tbeg you to be of a frank and honest heart. It really makes one
quite sad to see a mans heart warped in this way." What
is his answer ? lie turns his sword in his girdle ready to
Iraw, and plays the devil's tattoo upon the hilt ; it looks
AS if it must end in a fight soon. In fact, if you help
a man in anything which has to do with a fault of the
body, he takes it very kindly and sets about mending
matters. But if any one helps another to rectify a fault
of the heart, he has to deal with a man in the dark, who
flies in a rage and does not care to amend.—From "Another
Japanese Sermon," in the Cornhill Magazine.

The Bishop of Bath and Wells is rapidly sinking,
and it is doubtful whether his son will arrive 'rem the Con-
tinent in time to see him before his demise.
At the Manchester Sessions on Friday William
Gregory Redford was tried on a charge of embezzlement in
connection with the Ninth South Lancashire Building So-
ciety. Ile was found guilty and sentenced to five years'
penal servitude.
The authorities at Liverpool seem determined to
put into force ono of the stringent but salutary provisions
of the new Beer Act, which empowers magistrates to punish
not only those who sell liquor at prohibited hours, but those
who ordered it. Two persons charged with this were brought
on Friday before the magistrates at Kirkdale. They ph a-led
guilty, and as the case was the first of the Lind that had
boon before that court, the mitigated penalty of 2s. 6d. was
only inflicted.

CONTEMPT OF COURT. —While Thad. Stevens
was a young lawyer he once bad a case before a bad.
tempered judge of an obscure Pennsylvania court.
Under what he considered a very erroneous ruling, it was
decided against him, whereupon he threw down his boils
and ricked up his hat in a high state of indignation, and
was about to leave the court-room, scattering impieca•
tions all around him. The judge straightened himself to
his full height, assumed an air of offended majesty, and
asked Thad. if he meant to " express his contempt forth is
court. Thad. turned to him very deferentially, made a
respectful bow, and replied, in feigned amazement,
"Express my contempt for this court! No, sir ! lam

trying to conceal it your Honour," adding, as he turned to
Leave, " but I find it d—d bard to do it."—New Yoa
Tribune, August 13.

A NEW METHOD OF MAKING len. —An ice and
cold-producing machine has been invented by Franz
Windhausen, Brunswick. The action of the machine,
'we are told, is based on the principle of producing cold
And warmth by the expansion and compression of atmos-
pheric air, which is accomplished by means of mechanical
power. The machines require no chemicals, nothing
.being used in them but water and atmospheric air. They
may be wrought by steam, water, or wind, and they
produce from 100 to 1,00011). of ice per hour, according
to size, at a cost of frcm 2d. to sd. per 1001 b. ; this diffe-
rence resulting from the varying prices of fuel and the
mode of working chosen. One of their uses is to cool
'rooms, cellars, theatres, hospitals, compartments of ships,
4cc. We understand the general agent intends to exhibit
one of the machines next month at the Crystal Palace,
Syclenham.—North, German Correspondent.
CAPTURE OF THE SENTRY WHO DESERTED HIS
POST AT WINDSOR CASTLE,--Private Richardson, of the
?nd Battalion of Grenadier Guards, who deserted his
post on the north-east terrace of Windsor Castle, has been
captured by the Bucks police and taken back to the
infantry barracks, in Victoria-street, Windsor. It
seems that at eleven o'clock on Wednesday night, when
the officer was going his round, Richardson's ab-
sence was at once discovered. The deserting sentinel
had left his rifle, bearskin, and accoutrements behind.
Immediate pursuit was made; the officer and non-
commissioned officer on duty descending to the slopes of
the Castle in search of Richardson, who, having made
away towards Slough, was of course not found. He was,
however, taken on Friday after an absence of about forty-
eight hours. Richardson had, it is said, been ordered to
do fourteen days' drill, as a punishment for three hours'
absence from barracks without leave. His offence, namely,
deserting his post, can only be dealt with by a district
court-martial. He will be tried early this week.
FOREIGN STUDIES OF LONDON LIFE.—The inde-
fatigable M. Gustave Dorj, who has been about three
weeks among us, has, the Daily News says, already taken
upwards of 500 sketches of life in London for the book
which lie contemplates publishing, as lately announced,
in conjunction with Mr. Blanchard Jerrold. Some
striking prison interiors arc among them—indeed, next to
our river-side life, Newgate seems to have taken a power-
ful hold on M. Dor6's weird imagination. At present,
we believe, the humbler phases of English society have
chiefly engaged his pencil. The ground is a dangerous
one for a foreign artist—witness Gavarni's Gallicised
English crossing-sweepers, his pretty brewer's dray men, and
almost unrecognisable London cab-drivers. Somehow the
foreign eye is never thoroughly trustworthy in rendering
national types, and we have heard even John Leech's
seedy Frenchmen pronounced by their countrymen
slightly English. " Typical London," a title which has
been suggested for it, sufficiently indicates the nature of
the forthcoming book, and the extent of the artist's
am-
bition. Gavarni, it must be remembered, was a carica-
turist;
M. Dori': is not. There has probably never been
an instance of a foreign caricaturist achieving success
among us except the author of those wonderfully clever
coloured sketches of English statesmen which are exhi-
bited now in our shop windows in connection with a sati-
rical paper. These are the production of M. Pellegrini, a
Neapolitan refugee, who has been some years in England.
For humorous exaggeration of personal peculiarities, for
skilful portraiture, in spite of grotesque heightening,
they have certainly been rarely equalled ; and to none
have M. Pellegrini's portraits, we believe, afforded
more amusement than to the objects of his gross,

but not ill-natured, libole upon tho human face and form

divine,