The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-18 00:00:00

OWL'S WIT.

THE COMIC PAPERS.

(From Punch.)

(From Fun.)

(From Judy.)
A. GREAT COMPOSE R."— Chloroform.
THE 0 S'EREND AND GURNEY MYSTERY.—Mr. E.
TIIE WAG ! —Mr. B. Osborne asked the Premier to
dinner a few evenings ago, and had a huge dish of Irish
sidle placed before him.
THE NEW LAW COURTS—IN CONTEMPLATION. —lt ap•
pears that should the New Law Courts be erected on the
site originally selected for them, the judges will have to
be craned up to their respective courts. However a
lawyer at the bar may like "a lift," we should say that
those in ermine wouldn't care much about it.

Letters from Norwich yesterday say It is
considered almost certain that a Royal Commission will be
appointed to inquire into electoral corruption at Norwich.
Meanwhile the writ will bo suspended."
The final arrangements for the reception of the
volunteers at Dover were made at a meeting of volunteer
officers held on Tuesday at the Lord Warden Hotel.
Various questions relative to the removal of guns, the
lodging and victualling of the volunteers, &c., were put in
train for settlement. The review will be held on the
ground used in 1867, and the necessary steps will be taken
to procure the presence of the fleet.
VISIT OF LORD STANLEY TO GLASGOW.—The
North British Daily Mail understands that Lord Stanley
has intimated that he will, if possible, arrive in Glasgow
on March 30, in which case his installation as Lord
Rector of Glasgow University would take place on Thurs.,
day, April 1. A party banquet is usually given to the
new Lord Rector on such occasions ; but it is believed that
it is Lord Stanley's express desire that any banquet which
might be arranged should be non-political in character.
THE QUEEN'S SPEECH AND THE PARIS PRESS.
—The Queen's Speech is generally published in Paris
shortly after its delivery in London, but this year there
was some little delay, owing to the disabled state of the
telegraphic wires. The Journal Officiel of Tuesday
announced, in fact, that of the five cables uniting France
and Belgium with England, two had been broken by the
late gales, and that the land communications which join
the three others on each side of the Channel, were also
broken, so that all telegraphic correspondence between
France and England was suspended. The royal speech
reached Paris, however, at four o'clock in the afternoon of
Tuesday, and was published in the Moniteur issued the
same evening.

A CONFERENCE ON CHURCH MATTERS.--Steps
have been taken, at the request of the Archbishop of
York, to hold a conference of the clergy and some of the
laity of Sheffield, to discuss Church topics, more especially
those affecting Sheffield at the present time. Neither the
exact subjects to he discussed nor the time of the con-
ference has yet been settled. The Archbishop himself
will preside at the conference, and the following form
the committee for making the preliminary arrange-
ments :—The Vicar of Sheffield (the Rev. Dr. Sale),
the Revs. J. E. Johnson, G. Saddford,
W. Milton, T. E.
Sale, G. B. Atkinson, J. Aldous, and Mr. Arthur
Thomas ; Mr. Thomas and the Rev. T. E. Sale being secre-
taries. The congregation of each church will be invited
to appoint four lay members to represent it at the confe-
rence, the two principal objects of which are rumoured to
be the creation of a better feeling between the clergy and
laity, and to consider the ritualistic tendencies of certain
clergymen and their congregations. Other subjects will
doubtless be discussed, and the desire of the Archbishop

is to promote the usefulness of the Church in Sheffield

and neighbourhood.

CRUEL IMPOSITION.—Mr. Greenwood has just
made Public some startling facts concerning loss of life at

re has been informed by e well-known life-bel.

and buoy maker of Sunderland that grave suspicions are
entertained of the life-buoys manufactured in London, and

supplied to the Jew slop-shop. Some of these were made

of the most indifferent materials, and bits of common rush
formed a sample of the interior. A number of seamen have
declared that they will have nothing to do with life-buoys,
for they would rather go down and have done with it,
than hang in the jaws of death a few hours with the
certainty of drowning after all. Not one in a dozen of the
buoys which are stamped "warranted corkwood,"
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is anything- of the kind. Mr, Greenwood has
subjoined the result of his own experience in dissecting
three " good life buoyi " bought at Shadwell, llatcliff, and
Poplar. One consisted chiefly of straw, covered with
cork shavings ; another was stuffed with rushes ; and the
third was composed of cork chips and rushes. They
were placed in water, and all sank in the space of foul
Lours.

CONVENTIONAL IDEA.—To wash your dirty linen al
home.

CONVENTUAL IDEA.—Not to wash it at all.
FUTURE MOTTO FOR Sin R. PEEL.—Where there's a
Wino there's a way.
THE LATEST rum AMERICA.—The Alabama claims are
half-caste.
TRUE TO THE CORE.—Mr. Whalley has taken strong
objection to the Address in the House of Lords having
been moved by a Monk.

A SOUND JUDGE.—A musical critic
A RESPECTFUL NEGATIVE."—The photograph that
flatters.

IRISH ITEM.—There have been floods in Cork. Cork,
as usual, kept afloat notwithstanding.
IVIIOLESALE.—Patron (yawning, to artist shewing his
water-colour paintings) : "Hugh, well, these sort of things
are all much the same to me. I'll take a lot by weight—
mounts and all. how much a pound for this lot ?"
LITTLE AND GOOD.—Gentleman " Who do these pigs
nelong to, boy ?"----` Chaw ' : " Why, this 'ere owd zow."
Gentleman: " Yes, yes; but I mean who's their master ?"
----` Chaw': " Why, that there little 'un ; he's a varmun
to foight !"

GREAT INGRATITUDE.— Cumberland and Westmoreland
people are about to petition the House of Commons against
the appointment of Mr. Henry Lowther as their Lord.
Lieutenant, Mr. Disraeli's last snug little arrangement,
done just as the door in Downing-street was closing upon
him. Unreasonable counties ! Why not be satisfied to
remain contented and happy under the sway of your great
family at the Castle, and so enable us, envious outsiders,
to realise the idea of a Lowther Arcadia?

A PAIR OF SPECTACLES.—The Siamese Twins.
POOR RELATIONS EVER WELCOME.—The Reduced Three
per Cents.

NOT MEDAL AND MUDDLE.—Who says our public
departments do not practise economy ? Are they not
apparently going to delay the issue of the Abyssinian
medal until there is a chance of several of the claimants
being dead? And is not that a saving?
TILE IVEATIIER.—The continued rain which has fallen
to our lot lately has given a great deal of dissatisfaction
in certain quarters. We may, however, record that the
cab interest regards it as particularly fare-weather.
Six HUNDEED LlNES.—Laxnartine is said to be writing
a new poem of about six hundred lines to be called "For-
getfulness." It is to form his " literary testament." There
is much modesty in this desire to be remembered hereafter
by " Forgetfulness," and the sincerity of the intention is
guaranteed by the length of the poem.