The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-05 00:00:00

HUNGARY.

PESTII, June 4, Evening.
The Emperor will receive to-morrow the deputa-
who are to represent the Diet at the coronation.
coronation has been officially fixed for Satur-
day next.

tion
The

A mixed sitting of both llouses of the Diet was
held to-day, in which Count George Karolyi, and
the Ex-Chancellor, Baron Nicolaus Vay, were
selected to guard the crown of Saint Stephen. The
selection was received with acclamations.

In the Lower House of the Diet the proposed
inaugural diploma, the form of the coronation oath,
and the bill referring to the abdication acts of the
Emperor Ferdinand and Francis Joseph were
agreed to to-day.
The proposition of the extreme left, that the
coronation should be postponed, was rejected. The
Diet voted 50,000 ducats for the Emperor, and the
same amount to the Empress, to defray their private
expenses at the coronation. Count Amtrassy will
perform the duties of Count Palatine on the corona-

Another letter of Kossuth to Herr Deak is ex
pected to be published here.

FRANCE.

PARIS, June 5.

The Gala representation at the Opera yesterday
was very brilliant. Three thrones were erected, on
which their Majesties were seated, the Czar in the
middle, with the Emperor Napoleon on the right
and the Empress on the left. There were also
fourteen arm chairs for the various Princes and

Princesses present.
Their Majesties were well received.
The King of Prussia will arrive here to-day at 4
p.m. his Majesty will be received at the -Railway
by the Emperor.
BOURSE, June 4, Two o'clock.—The amount of
business being transacted to-day is very limited, and
at lower rates than those current at yesterday's
close. Three per Cents., which opened at 70f. 60c.,
are now offered at 70f. 371 c., or a fractional decline ;
and Italian Fives are weak, with a fall of 45c., viz.,
at 52f. 75c. Credit Mobilicr Shares have receded
11f. 25c., to 393 f. 75c., whilst Immobiliere remain
unvaried. Railway shares are generally dealt in at
yesterday's prices. English Consols are telegraphed
with an advance of one per cent.
Three o'clock.—The marke closed as follows :
ti per Cents 7O 30 Bank Shares 2500
Do. and month ltalian Loan 52 75
3 per Cents. 92 50 Do and month 52 75
De. end month 7O 40 Mexican Loan —
Credit Mobilier ... 392 50 Do. Bonds

Do. end month 332 50 Spanish Throes ...
Credit Foucier — Home Debt
Do. end month 1402 50 Deferred

EAILW ANS.

For Account.
896 25

Orloane

Northern 1220
Lyons and Mediterranean .. 912 50
Southern 575
Western 562 50
Eastern MO
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard 412 50
North of Spain
Saragoma —
Roman,. —

OVERLAND INDIA MAIL.

We have received via Marseilles papers from
Bombay to the 13th and from Calcutta to the 9th
May. The following is from the Bombay Gazette:—
" Mr. Dickson, of the Bengal Bank, is in Bom-
bay, and has had several interviews with the direc-
tors of the Bombay Bank. He awaits instructions
from Calcutta regarding the suggest©d alterations
in the terms of amalgamation first offered by the
Bank of Bengal. A deputation of the shareholders
of the Bank of Bombay has had au interview with
the Governor. His Excellency expressed objections
to the State being a shareholder in a public com-
pany, but would give an early reply on the subject
of the support which the New Bank of 80mb43,
tnight expert from the Government. The leading
natives of Bon..bay have presented an address to the
Hon. Mr. Erskine on his retirement from the Indian
civil service. The railway communication between
Calcutta and Jubbulporo is uninterrupted ; between
the latter place and Bombay there is only one break.
The weather is warmer than it has been for several
years. The public health is satisfactory, and cholera
in the north and west is rapidly subsiding. Tele-
graphic communication has been interrupted, and
the messages delayed by a hurricane, near Mirza-
pore. A famine is feared in Upper Burmah. Re-
ports from the famine districts iu Orissa continue
favourable. A telegram received from Pon-
dicherry of the 3,1 inst. states that the light-
house in that port was on fire. A licence-tax
defence fund has been formed in Calcutta for the
purpose of resisting illegal assessments. The extra
fortnightly mail between Bombay and Suez has
been discontinued during the ensuing monsoon.
Several raids have taken place on the southern
frontier of the district of Silhet. The Bombay
Landing and Shipping Company is to be wound up
voluntarily. A destructive fire occurred last week
at the haymarket, in Byculla, Bombay, destroying
property which has been valued at about a lakh of
rupees. The creditors of Mr. Rustomjee Jamsetjeo
Jejeebhoy have resolved that his estate should bo
wound up by trustees, Tho total value of imports
into British India from May to December, 1866,
(both inclusive), was £29,598,319, and the total
value of the exports £27,996,983. Missionaries
of all denominations are exempt from the operations
of the Licence Tax Act. The Viceroy, who is now
at Simla, is to hold a levee at Peterhoff, on Wed-
nesday fist. The collector of licence tax at Cal-
cutta has, it is said, been instructed to suspend pro-
secutions against defaulters ; and it is conjectured
t!..at this must have been in consequence of some
elegraph:e communication from the Secretary of
State. Mr. G. Campbell, presid mt of the famine
commission, and who has beck appointed chief com-
missioner of the Central Provinces, proceeds at pre-
sent on a visit to England. The state of the river
Hooghly, according to the Englishman, is again
causing considerable anxiety' in connection with
ships of large draught."

THE GRAND DUCHY OF LUXEMBURG.---ICestord ay
a series of papers ou tho subject of the Grand Duchy of
Luxemburg was issued from the Foreign-office. The
papers comprise the treaty (the complete text of which has
been already published), correspondence between Lord
Stanley and British ambassadors and diplomatic agents,
and the protocols of the conferences held in 112gclon during
lAA month.

R 0 17_ IL HOR

The great flower show which opened yesterday,
with moderately auspicious weather, and which is to
continue open until Saturday, weather or not, is
certainly as near perfection in all departments as the
emulative skill of the best horticulturists in the world
could have made it. The extension of this floral
fete over five days is a most acceptable improve-
ment upon the more usual plan of taking away at
night the plants that have been brought together in
the morning. That it is possible, with care and ex-
perience, to preserve the finest botanical display in
perfect condition for a longer period than one short
day of ten or twelve hours was proved by the un-
qualified success of the International Exhibition of

.ortieulture, on the site of the building of 1862.

That enterprise showed what could be done in main-
taining a vast and attractive show of the most deli-
cate and perishable flowers in bloom, for a time
sufficient to enable thousands and thousands of
visitors to inspect at leisure the beauties of au art
which, as the regular quoters of Shakspere tells us
pretty often, does mend nature, and is the nature
that it mends. This time, there is no less likeli-
hood than there was then of the show lasting out
its full term of splendour. The blooms of azaleas,
pelargoniums, roses, and other flowering plants ap-
pear to be in that stage which is most favourable to
the hope of continuance, and at the same time there
is no reason for early visitors to regret their preci-
pitancy in having preferred the first to the last
days of the fete.
The show has been admirably arranged, under
th(

le direction of Mr. Eyles, the superintendent of
he gardens, in a spacious tent, 300 ft. in length and

150 ft. in width. The middle area for a considerable
space is sunken, so that, on entrance to the higher
ground, an imposing view is obtained of the entire
display. At one end are the roses, Mr. W. Paul's
blooming conspicuously as usual. Down the central
line of the tent a series of tree ferns, one or two of
which attain the height of at least 20ft., has been
contributed by Messrs. J. Veitch and Sons, Mr.
Williams, and Mr. Bull, the ord-r of merit accord-

ing with the sequence of names as they are here
placed. Round the bole of each fern a distinct
character of display has been aimed at with success
in every instance. For example, pots of strawberry
plants, in prolific bearing, are exhibited by Mr. J.
Fraser, of Lea-bridge, as the ornamental finish for

the base of one tree. Next it is observable an ela-
borately varied yet harmonious bed of foliage and
flowering plants, by Messrs. Henderson and Son,
and similar to a show made by them the other' ay
at the Botanic Society's fete. Another and larger
miscellaneous collection, surrounding one of the
most majestic of the tree ferns, will repay a very
careful and minute inspection. A Bornean plant,
the Cypripedium Stonei, a perfectly new variety, is
exhibited by Mr. R. Stone, gardener, to J. Day,
Esq. ; and who also shows a Cattleya Dowii, in
which the combination of colours is wonderful.
Messrs. Veitch have in the same enclosure many ex-
traordinary productions of their fostering skill
and care, the chief of all, perhaps, being a hybrid
Alocasia, the parents of which, Alocasia Veitchii
and Longiloba, were exhibited merely to show by
contrast the distinct character of the hybrid. The
Adiantum Farleyense, a native of Barbadoes, also
found a place in the same parterre, the exhibitor
being Mr. Robert Veitch, of Exeter.
On the sloped banks of the terraced walk running
round the pavilion the principal display of pelar-
goniums was made by Mr. Charles Turner, Mr.
John Fraser, and others. Among these elegant
plants, covered with bloom, might have been pointed
out several which were on show in the Regent's

Park last Wednesday—an argument in itself for the
practicability of keeping such objects before the
public gaze longer than is usual. The prize-win-

fling pelargoniums were the strikingly vivid Lord
Clyde, the Ellen Beck, the Swinton-Dolby, the
Countess of Waldegra.ve, the Godfrey Turner, the
Lucy, and, in fact, all those tried varieties which
have established themselves in the favour of nursery-
men and amateurs within the past season or two.
On the upper ground the azaleas made a dazzling
and sumptuous appearance, lining the sides of the
tent very richly, and helping the general effect in a

most notable degree. Among the larger objects of the
show deserve to be specially recognised a splendid pair
of Dracaena species, standing one on either side
of an opening for visitors to pass up or down.
The array of
_ferns contributed by Messrs. James
Ivory and Son ; the orchids of Mr. Penny, gardener
to 11. 11. Gibbs, Esq. ; and the same descripton of
plants by Messrs. Jackson and Co., aided conside-
rably to establish the general character of excellence ;
while everywhere the numerous and perfect speci-
mens of horticulture supplied by the,Messrs.Veitch,
who undoubtedly stand foremost as producers and
exhibitors -of new and rare plants, raised the stan-
dard of excellence to the highest pitch. Their
Majestic Pandanas Veitchii, the same that attracted
so much notice at the International show, reap-
peared yesterday with undiminished prestige.
As the afternoon wore on, the weather seemed to
promise better and better for the four days which
are to follow. A fashionable assemblage took up all
the chairs upon the terrace and lawns, and would
have taken up more if they had found them. The
band of the Ist Life Guards, and another band
which, for the reason that it is not worthy to be
named in the same day with the former, need not
be named at all, played alternately till the arrival of
the time for dismissing the company with " God
save the Queen." A meeting for the election of
Fellows took place, in the course of the day, when
twelve new candidates were added to the list, among
them being the Hon. C. W. Wentworth-Fitzwil-
liam, Col. John D. Scott, and Dr. Moxey.

THER3IO-ELEC2'IUCITY.

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A thereto-electric pile, as our readers know, is
formed of rods of two different metals soldered
together alternately ; a difference of temperature at
two points of junction induces an electric current.
This principle has been lately applied by General
Morin in a very ingenious manner to the registering
of minute variations of temperature in a given
medium. His apparatus is composed of fifteen
brass rods and as many iron ones, constituting a
thermo-electric pile of fifteen couples. Suppose
one of the soldered points of junction to be
kept at a constant temperature, the freezing-
point for instance, then another junction being
situated in a given medium at another tempe-
rature, a current will be excited in proportion to the
difference. The existence of this current is mani-
fested by the deviation of a magnetic needle, the
electric fluid previously passing through the bobbins
of a common multiplicator. The needle itself is
suspended by a silken thread. Let us now suppose

the needle to be situated in the plane of the mag-
netic meridian, and to be provided with a vertical
shaft proceeding from its centre and supporting a
copper needle at its lower end. As copper is
not magnetic, it cannot exercise any influence on
the desired result ; and being parallel to the iron
needle, and, consequently, in the same vertical
plane with it, will strictly indicate the same devia-
tions. A horizontal disk of white paper, situated
under this copper needle, and supported by a verti-
cal shaft, which revolves by clockwork, completes
its entire revolution in the course of an hour, being
i❑ fact neither more nor less than a dial-plate which,
instead of being fixed and provided with moveable
hands as in a common watch, or rather chronometer,
is itself moveable round a fixed hand, which is re-
presented by the copper needle. The latter has a
sharp vertical needle point fixed at its lower sur-
face. At the expiration of every quarter of an hour
the paper disk suddenly springs upwards, meets the
sharp point, and is thus pricked by it. This mark
will show what was the position of the needle at a
given hour ; and as this position marks the degree
of intensity of the current, which is itself but an
exponent of the temperature of the medium under
consideration, it follows that by this contrivance
the variation of temperature which has taken place
in the course of a quarter of an hour is registered.
We need hardly add that the paper di-3k returns to
its ordinary level as soon as it has received the mark
of the needle.—Galignani.

Sin ARCHIBALD ALISON.—We regret to hear that
Colonel Sir Archibald Alison (the now baronet) has been
confined to his room at Fossil for the last two days, with
an attack of ague, accompanied with:a considerable degree
of fever.—Gluvolv Herald.

Cant etrobt

HER MAJESTY, &c•

BALMORAL, June 2.
The Queen drove out yesterday morning, accom-
panied by Princess Christian.
In the afternoon her Majesty, accompanied b
Princess Louise and Prince Leopold, and attended
by the Duchess Dowager of Athole, drove to the
Lynn of Quoich.
Prince and Princess Christian went out driving•
Dr. Jenner left the Castle for Lonlon.
The Rev. Dr. Caird arrived at the Castle.

JUNE 3.

The Qieen yesterday attended Divine service in
the parish church of Crathie.
Prince and Princess Christian, Princess Louise'
and Prince Leopold accompanied her Majesty.
The Duchess Dowager of Athole and the Equal
were in attendance. . _

The Rev. Dr. Caird, Chaplain to her 111ajesth
officiated.
In the evening Dr. Caird and Mr. Walpole bad
the honour of dining with the Queen and the Royal
Family.

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