The Sun.
London, England, 1869-05-11 00:00:00

ANCIENT JERUSALEII.

There seems to be no doubt that the city of Jerusalem
destroyed by Titus remains buried under the foundations
of the modern town, and that many most valuable relics
may yet be brought to light. The explorations at Jerusalem,
under the direction of Lieutenant Warren, are
resulting in some highly-interesting discoveries. The
city is built upon a bill intersected by valleys, but it is in
the depths of these latter that the ruins of the ancient
capital of the world are to be found buried under dThris to
the depth of thirty, fifty, and even ninety feet. The mode
of exploring is by sinking shafts through the mass of
accumulated rubbish down to the ruins below. Some
fifty shafts have been sunk, and at the bottom of
one the foundations of the old walls of the
Temple Area have been found ninety feet below the surface.
Mysterious characters, at present unintelligible, are to be
seen on some of the stones. The exploration of the
Birket Israil, or Pool of Bethesda, has revealed
a vast vaulted reservoir nearly 100 feet in depth.
Its extent is still being investigated. In a part of the
Hiram Area a tank mouth was lately entered, and was
found to lead to a large structure sixty-three feet long by
fifty-seven wide, vaulted very much like a church. There
is every reason to hope that the full investigation of these
ruins will yield the most important discoveries ; but as
every shaft sunk must be lined with wood, and as the wood
soon decays at Jerusalem, the work is very costly.

It was industriously spread that Fred. Douglass,
the great uegro orator, declined to accept an appointment.
On inquiry this has proved to be untrue; and people de-
sire to learn how the report originated, some one having
profited by the office it is reasonably supplsed would
otherwise have been bestowed on a man so distinguished,
representing a body who are now considered citizens of
the Union. In a private note to the editor of the Inde-
pendent, Mr. Douglass says—" It is quite true that I never
sought this office, or any other; but it is equally true that
1 have never declined it; and it is also true that I would
have accepted it had it been offered."
Thurlow Weed has returned in slightly improved
health, with his daughter, to New York.
According to German statistics, more than
250,000 emigrants left Europe in 1868 to find homes in
America. Of these 120,000 embarked at Liverpool, G 6,000
at Bremen, 44,000 at Hamburg, 20,000 at Havre, and about
2,000 at Antwerp.

President Grant has made it a rule to receive no
callers on Sunday, and has forbidden his Secretaries to
bring him any letters or telegrams except on important
public business, or in answer to something he has called for
For one of the offices in President Grant's gift
there aro, it is said, the following applicants : "A Bloomer
woman, a loyal negro, a reconstructed rebel, a Repub-
lican Irishman, a wounded soldier, and a red-hot politi-
cian." Each of them is "confident of success."
Mons. A. Chevalier, the aeronaut, who is to cro s
s
the Atlantic in a balloon this summer, has nearly com-
pleted his arrangements for the preliminary exhibition of
this uovol and magnificent balloon at Landman 's Park.
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height, and extremely difficult of ascent. What interest
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or fantasy could
feat at night puzzles one. Two workmen have bean em-
ployed to get down the banner. - Gi,onde.
The undernamed have been nominated Naval
Cadets—Charles Alexander Furlong, lif)race Ar-
nlytage, William J. Serle Macarthy, Jaims John-
stone, and Alexander William Ainslie.
DusviLLE and, Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports.
lion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Belfast; cr 4, Beaufort-buißings, Strand, Loudon, W.C.4Ad-
Tertisoment.