The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-13 00:00:00

serves only with us upon occasion to dash away a
fair hope as to the political emancipation of this or
that continental population. It reminds us that
if we can construct in a few months a modern
Ark like our new sea monster the Leviathan, and
that if we could seven years ago run up a mag-
nificent palace of metal and crystal upon the green
sward of Hyde Park, almost as it were in a single
light like the fairy palace of Aladdin, we can never
hope in a like time to manufacture an oak out of an
acorn. Neither can we seriously speculate now-
a-days on the beautiful day-dream once upon a
time so fascinating to political visionaries, of
building up in a day constitutions requiriug for
caatheny centuries. It
e
oak of our con-
stitution their
remindsgro
uwst,hmtohreeolvaeprs:
that
has needed more than a thin shallow soil
for its expansion from the seedling acorn of the
old Wittenagernote. So that time and space alike
have to be regarded as essential matters of con-
sideration in respect to these giant popular
Legislatures. It is not every Cortes, every
Nationale, or Corps
an equivalent to our
LCoegnigsrieastsi,f
y
Anglo-Saxon Lords and Commons, our et
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rt
c oAnssetei int
übtlete
half-
elective, half-hereditary imperial British Parlia-
ment.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge has con-
sented to preside over a meeting of the Havelock Me-
morial Fund, on Friday, the 19th inst., in Drury-lane
Theatre, which is kindly lent free by Mr. Smith.
The Right Hon. the Speaker will hold his first levee
(full dress) this evening at half-past 10 o'clock, at 7,
Carlton-house-terrace.
The transmission of the Egyptian tribute this year to
meet the dividends on the Turkish debt has again been
awarded to the Bank of Egypt.
It is stated as one result *f the late " painful miscon-
ception" that the Count de Persigny will not continue
to represent the Emperor of the French at this Court.
We do not, however, vouch for the correctness of the
report.
The ruinous and disgraceful competition lately carried
on between the Great Northern and London and North
Western Railways was terminated yesterday by a reso-
lution to return to the ordinary fares. The influence
of other companies indirectly affected is said to have
been exercised to produce this result.—Times.
We have reason to believe that Lord John Bereeford,
Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, has
resigned his see into the hands of the new Government,
and that he will be succeeded by the Right Rev. Dr.
O'Brien, Bebop of Ossory. The late Archbishop was
born in 1773, graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, in
1793, was consecrated Bishop of Cork in 1800, trans-
lated to Relishes in 1807, to Clogher in 1819, to the
archbishopric of Dublin in 1820, and to the Primacy of
Ireland in 1822. It is said that Dr. O'Brien will be suc-
ceeded in the see of Ossory by Archdeacon Gould.
BOILER EXPLOSlON.—Yesterday a very shocking and
fatal accident took place at the house of Mr. J. Turner,
of Godley, near Hyde, Cheshire. About half-past 8
o'clock, without giving
any warning of impending dan-
ger, the boiler in the kitchen exploded with a loud report,
blowing out a piece of the wall at the end of the house,
which is a detached building, causing the instantaneous
death of Mr. Turner's daughter, a young lady of about
19 years of age, who was in the kitchen at the time.
The boiler had a self-feeding apparatus, but it is sup-
posed that it bad been choked and the supply of water
had failed. It is said the boiler had no lid or safety -
valve, and hence there was no exit for the steam.
MR. BAILLIE, M.P.—We learn that our county mem-
ber has been prevailed on to accept the office of Secre-
tary to the Board of Control in the Derby administra-
tion. In the earliest unofficial programme of the
distribution of appointments, Mr. Baillie's name
appeared in connection with the Board of Control ; bet
it subsequently disappeared, to the surprise of friends
as well as of opponents. We believe that the delay was
occasioned by a disinclination on the part of Mr. Baillie
to accept office, and that it was with reluctance he ulti-
mately acceded to the urgent request of the chief of his
party to undertake the management of Indian aff Lira in
the House of Commons ; the head of his department,
Lerd Ellenborough, representing government in the
House of Lords.—lnverness Advertiser.
The temper in which Mr. Disraeli's silence as to his
future policy was resented by some of the more zealous
supporters of the late Government indicates pretty
plainly the degree in which the new leader of the House
of Commons may rely on the forbearance of those whom
his accession to office has unavoidably irritated. The
country will feel no great sympathy with an Opposition
whose animating principle is vindictive disappointment,
but the house will probably evince quite as little for the
politician whose ascent to a high parliamentary position
has certainly not been marked by any sensitive abstin-
ence
Bernal Osborne in his old character was the signal for
from personal attack. The re-appearance of lir.
hilarious applause, and the house, never unfriendly to
v.vacious mischief, testified a keen appreciation of the
fact, that the Momus of faction was once more freed from
the encumabering decencies of office. From an enemy
whose principal inspiration is rancour and whose main
artillery is coarseness, no Administration in this country
has much to fear.—Morniny Papee.
THE "MISCONCEPTION" BETWEEN FRANCE AND
Esoil.orD.—lt is understood that the correspondence
which has passed between the two Governments will be
laid before both Houses of Parliement on Monday. It
is composed of a series of despatches, the last of which,
closing the correspondence, arrived yesterday afternoon,
just before the house met. Both Lord Malmesbury and
Count Walewski, it is affirmed, have throughout shown
great judgment and di-cretion. In reply to Lord Mal-
mesbury's request for an explanation of those passages
which have es much offended the Heusi, of Commons,
Count Walewski very frankly reminds the country of the
undoubted proofs given by the Emperor of the value
he attaches to our alliance by his concessions to our
views, both daring the war and since the conclusion of
the treaty of peace. He proceeds to observe that after
the Emperor had been many times exposed to and
escaped attacks made by assassins who were proved to
have concocted their plans in England, he thought it no
presumption to appeal to the friendly feeling and jus-
tice of our nation to prevent, if possible a recurrence of
any idea of wishing to include Englishmen
such crimes. Count Wa:ewski repudiates, in the Em-
peror's name,
in the category of the refugees to whom he alluded, or
of a desire to change our laws, or an intention to con-
demn them ; but now, regretting the misconstruction
placed on his intention, he requests that the correspond-
ence may cease, and the alliance continue.—Times.
Du. GUTHRIE ON THE " WEEKLY OPPERTORY."—The
following is an extract of a letter addressed by the Rev.
Dr. Guthrie to a gentleman in Manchester, who is con-
nected with a well-known section of the Church of Eng-
land, in reply to questions as to the desirableness of
substituting weekly collections for pew rents :—"Not
h
only do we collect voluntary offerings at every public
meeting for worship on the Lord's-day, but on week
dayosotroporarayeor in
we have pew rents, in many of them none ; and so far
from objecting to the substitution of voluntary offer-
ings for these, we would much prefer the volun-
tary offerings if they would serve the purpose.
We would say that pew rents 'should not be
attempted wherever an attemrtheeetiCrc
gu4' whether these be held in theh. In some of our churches
ich
pt is making to evan-
gelize a heathen district of any of our large towns.
Were voluntary offerings universal in your English
churches, as they ehould be, you could raise an immense
revenue for the glory of God and the service of the
church. In my congregation alone, where we collect
voluntary at both forenoon and afternoon worship,
we
receive about 5001. annually of voluntary offerings, and
this besides raising about as much from pew rents, and
about 1,1001. for a fund out of which all the ministers of
the Free Church receive an equal share. That fund,
to which congregations give according to their ability,
amounts to about 100,0001. a-year. The income of the
Free Church, all voluntary, is about 300,0001. annually;
and if we in our poor country_poor as compared with
England—raise such a sum as that from our share of the
population, amounting to about 1,000,000, what might
the Church of England do did she put forth her vast
resources ? Including one thing and another—l mean
stipend and the value of a manse and garden—none of
our ministers have under 150/. a-year. Unendowed as
we are now by the State, we are better off than very
„me), ee the clergyale, of the Church of England.
That shows what can be done through the voluntary
offerines of the people."
NOISES EMITTXD BY FISH. Dr. Dufosse has under-
taken to study the mechanism by which fish produce
sounds. That cert:sio fish ars capable of producing
curious noises has been known since the time of Aristotle
and spoken of by Cuvier and other celebrated natural.
ists ; indeed many a disciple of Isaak Walton must have
frequently observed such phenomena. But the mechanism
or physiology of these acoustio properties has hardly
ever been hinted at. The author we have just mentioned
assures us that the anatomical study of various fish has
,proved to him that in some the males possess an organ
capable of producing Bounds, whilst the females either
are deprived of it, or it is so modified as to remain for
ever silent. Thus, in the melee of the two species,
ophidium baPbatuirt of Cuvier, and 0. vassali of Risso,
we find an air vessel capable of producing a noise, and
to which are attached, according to the species, one or
two small bones with their appending muscles.
In the fetnatea of sheets two special, however, the
small bones and muscles are wanting. M. Dufosse
clisoies sounds produced by fish into two distinct cate-
gories—the first, which he calls abnormal sounds, are
those produced when the animal is taken out of its native
element ; they way be attributed to all kinds of organs,
vary constantly, are accompanied by convulsive move-
meets, and can in no way characterise the fish, or its sex.
The second, called normal sounds, are always formed by
the same organs, and are characteristic of the fish which
produces them. As it plays no part whatever in the pro-
duction of the latter, no babbles of gas are observed to
be emitted during their manifestation. In a fish called
by the French " saurel " (tradt lows), a species of scomber
or mackerel, very common on the coasts of France, and
which, If seized by the back fin when swimming, endea-
vours to escape, whilet if it is touched on any other part
of the body, remains perfectly quiet, and emits a kind of
harsh poise. The author has ascertained that the noise
was produced by the friction of the superior bones of the
pharynx against the lower ones, and the surrounding
asperities or rough parts of the fauces.—lllustrated
inventor.