The Sun.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

THE EAIIPEROtt NAPOLEON A 7 SCHOOL.

Beef 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Lamb 3s 10d to 4s 8d
Mutton ... 3s 4d to 4s 8d I Pork
Veal
HIDES AND SKINS.
Market hides, 56 to 611bs, 20 to 3(1; 64 to 721bs, 3d
to 31d ; 72 to 80 344 to 30 ; 80 to 881bs., 31d to 4d ; 88
to 061b5., 4d to 4jd. florsehides, Os Gd to lOs 6d ; calf skins
(light), 2s Od to 4s; full, 7s ; sheepskins, lambs, 3-
to ls 3d ; shearlings, 3s Od to 3s 6d.
BREAD.

The priees of wheaten broad in the metropolis are from
90 to 10d. of household ditto, 7d. to 9d. per 4lbs loaf.
HAY.

SMITHFIELD—Meadow hay, £3 Os Od to £4 be; clover,
£4
Os to £5 15s Od; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
A good supply.
CUMBERLAND-1110adoVir hay, £3 Os Od to £4 ss; clover,
£ Os to £5 17s 6d ; and straw, £1 16s Od to £2 2s per load.
A moderato demand.
WIIITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £1 7s 66 ; clover,
£4 Os to £5 17s 6d; and straw, £1 16s to £2 2s per load.
A fair trade.
New hay is quotod at £2 153 to £3 15s Od; and new
clover £3 to £5 Os.

MR. LEVESON GOWEIL—We regret to state that
a somewhat serious accident happened on Wednes-
day to Mr. J. Leveson Gower, of Horkesley, one of the
county magistrates of the Lesden and Winstree division.
Mr. Gower was riding his horse along the Bergholt-road on
his way to the Colchester flower-show, his carriage contain-
ing a party of ladies being in advance. Mr. Gower's horse
shied and threw him, injuring his head and neck, and he
lay for some time by the road side bleeding. Mr. Gower's
servant, who was riding behind, proceeded to his master's
gentleman being placed in his
carriage was driven home. Mr. Philbrick, surgeon, of
Colchester, was shortly in attendance upon him, and we
are happy to hoar from that gentleman that his patient was
as well as could be expected, no bones being broken, and
it was hoped that he was not seriously injured.--chelms_
force chronicle.

The Journal de Frankfort publishes the follow-
ing :—" A certificate of studies has been communi-
cated to us, which was delivered at the expiration
of the half-year 1821-2 to the future Emperor
Napoleon 111., who was at that time in the fifth class
of the College of St. Anne, at Augsburg. The docu-
ment is as follows .No. 21. Prince Charles Louis
Napoleon, son of the Duke de St. Leu, of Rome ;
born at Paris ; belonging to the Catholic reli-
gion ; aged fourteen years and five months ;
gifted with many good qualities, in the develop-
ment of which he has laboured with much zeal,
so that he has made good advancement in the
German language, in Latin, and in arithmetic, and
pretty good in Greek and in history—in general,
therefore, considerable progress. His quiet manner
towards his fellow-pupils is deserving of praise, as
also the respect and gratefulness with which he has
accepted even disagreeable tasks. He has the 24th
place; the difficulties of the German language, of
which he is not yet master, have prevented him
from obtaining a higher rank. Besides he is
publicly commended, and he can pass into a
superior class.' The certificate for the preceding
six months rays This pupil possesses an ardent
feeling for all that is elevated, good, and beautiful ;
• he would have made great progress if illness had
not on several occasions prevented him from at-
tending the class.'"

THE SEWAGE OF TOWNS.

A mass of valuable information on this subject has
just been issued from the press. The papers by
various authors read at the congress on the sewage
of towns held at Leamington,Warwickshire, last year
have been gathered into a volume. It is stated in
the introduction to the papers that one chief object
of the congress has been attained in making plain the
nature and causes of the failures in our sanitary ar-
rangements, and the many evils which have arisen
out of them, owing to the unnatural admixture of
excreta with large quantities of water, and to the pre-
vailing custom of employing water as the vehicle for
their removal out of our houses. It is argued that
vast benefits will accrue to the community at largo
from ceasing to use water, and, in place of water,
resorting to the natural agency of earth, which is
as old as the creation itself. Experience has taught
that, after the admixture of water with excreta, a
putrid fermentation and decomposition result. The
noxious gases generated while this decomposition is
in progress fill our habitations with impure air, and
become the frequent cause of epidemics, while the
decomposing sewage water, escaping from the iI
perfectly constructed sewers percolates into the wells
of drinking water. Mr. Hitchman goes on to state
that the result of irrigation with sewage water 15
unsatisfactory in a commercial point of view, and of
doubtful value agriculturally ; while, in a sanitary
point of view, the effects of saturating a large sur-
face of land with decomposed sewage water becomes
a still further source of evil. Both the liquid
and solid excreta may be made portable and
inoffensive, and removed from houses with
regularity by a staff of officers duly appointed.
By the exclusion of water, and the mixture of earth
with excreta, which is in accordance with the 10'5
of nature, all the evils of a putrefactive decomposi-
tion are avoi led. The working of the earth-closet
system at Baron Rothschild's estate is described by
Mr. James to be perfectly successful. " The cot-
tagers express themselves grateful for this addition
to their health and comfort. The village has 1101
no foul smells, nor are the ditches any longer filled
with liquid filth." This is the result of a simPl°
mixture of dry earth with the soil ; and is in accord'
ance with the Divine command, received througa
the great lawgiver Moses, in his well-known rill°
for the sanitary arrangement of the Jewish cang):
Mr. Garnett, of Quernmore-park, describes the re,
suit of the same system in the neighbourhoo 1
d .;
Lancaster thus :—" The dry earth system uc' ~
operation affords accommodation to about 200 f01n.,1
lies, besides 170 hands employed in a cotton raw'
180 in a iron foundry, 350 in a large waggon Work":
180 boys in the Royal Grammar School, 340 childr,elo
in the National Schools, and to 12 cells in the C' G,
of Lancaster, occupied by male prisoners, and l°
case has any complaint been made ; on the. uculs
trary, the system, after having had a fair trial! 'g
pronounced to be successful. Mr. Craig, trepti°o,
the subject as one of national as well as sari t
importance, shows that Austria is almost bankrtiP„f
in her exchequer, mainly through the exhaustioo
rye,
the soil. Until renutly she exported her bone mann bile
and threw away her sewage into the Danube; 0,0
China and Japan have turned both to profitablu 'llo%r
on the land. Belgium, with the poorest of Ole,
maintains the greatest amount of Population in Po
portion to the extent of its surface of any natio
n`"iltic.
Europe, and sustains at the same time the Plwan,
tive powers of-the soil by a liberal and judicious bad
plication of manure to the land. If .England bag
adopted, long ago, the dry earth system which tbs,
been found to work so successfully on Baron R°nd
child's estate, at Lancaster and at other places, jog
bad been more practical and prudent in retUrlivost
the guano to the :oil, instead of throwing this 000
source of national wealth into her rivers, to PeJtoci
fish, pollute the water, and disseminate disesSe ior
deatb, thousands of lives destroyed through ar oe,
ing impure water in times when cholera was eP tho
mic might possibly have been saved. But, °sifo'
other hand, the danger to be avoided by the
.3 the
cates of the earth closet is its near approach 'OOO
abominable cesspool. In the event of the dry Do
11 bp
system becoming general, would there ye°
tendency to allow the refuse to remain ; or, be O.
moving it in large quantities, would it not Grote
doing away with a nuisance in one place to
another at a distance?
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ACTION AGAINST A MEMBER OF THE - ,el
SOCIETY.—An action was brought at the I)Lci-si. 11:4"
Assizes y a coal merchant named Whellons aPi,°;,attiv''
Lathbury, a druggist, for wrongful seizure of the e.of il'w
van, horse, and furniture, and for the i isonta°llt of till
plaintiff'sn man. The defendant is the sraecPrrctary, 0° pee'
ommittee, and a very active member of the liieil,terc-ofil;
branch of the Royal Humane Society, and tho :Lc. ifti'
plained of were done by an offic,or y'fth 00°1:
i,tbi:
seizure complained of was made on otl e ar
tied
rSo•
plaintiff's man was working a lame and unfit a her',,i. tfi",,el
charge, however, was investigated by the local ril" ,515 0,,),
and was dismissed. The main gronud of defonce 81%- ,ye
the society had not authorised the acts of their 011Iir;.
jury,r however, found for the plaintiA —damgo'',
. itlE QUEEN AT BALMORAL. On 11100113'd ;Ott
lug last her Majesty, who was accompanied 11 tir be
tn•iucesses and ladies in waiting, and therfon.
sidelic'tC 1):t
drove from Balmoral along the south 00,0",
river Dee, through the village of Braemzar•~ _
_AafV 9144-r;
distance beyond the village, along the PubP"P-,, !OP ..°
from the Glencluny and Cairrarr: ivili:o
Blaeirgr ing
gowrie, the royal party halted and 11.,41",r 0 1V
itamongst the heather on the side of the hill• hater 1V
ay
bthe royal cortege drove through the " '-',-,„e. '', y
and y the "Lion's Face," to the Highland rIP'-gsi°)
evening was delightful, fine, and warm ; and her 40
appeared to be in excellent health and sPirits. ---'
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IMPORTANT ARCILEOLOGICAL DISCON'''A- .cos'e" g
Manchester Examiner states that " amoug the 7,l.:alee.itil3o
made by the Cambrian Society during their rece,"; or
was an old gravestone with the name ' Cindefel°
years, in Wormbridge churchyard."

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