The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-31 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 128 ; clove;
£5 5s to £6 12s 6d ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load.
Trade heavy.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 48 to £sl2s Od; clover,
£5 5s to £6 12s Od; and straw, £2 Os to £2 5s per load.
Demand inactive.

WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 4s to £5 12s ; clover,
£5 5s to £6 15s Od ; and straw, £1 18s to £2 5s per load
Trade slow.

TENCH FISHING IN THE LEA.—On Wednesday
last, March 28, Mr. J. Jackson, while angling in Mr
Binningfield's fishery, at Broxbourne, caught six tench,
which weighed altogether 141 b.
CURIOUS THEORY OF THE SKELETON AND OF THE
SKULL.—A correspondent of the Reader, writing from
Sydney Sussex College, Cambridge, remarks that until the
laws of the origin and growths of separate and simple
bones are known, it is premature to consider the theory of
compound banes like the vertebra). And until the laws
of the development of the parts of vertebras are deter-
mined, it is not possible to compare vertebra) and the
skull with accuracy. From considerations in mecha-
nics, in pathology, and in comparative anatomy, I con-
clude that a centre of growth appears, developes, and
ossifies, under the influence of pressure and tension,
and that this bone may, and does, under the influ-
ence of pressure and tension, develope upon itself,
wherever the forces act with sufficient power, other
bones which are called epiphyses, which epiphyses
may and do, under the influence of the requisite pressure
and tension, assume the characters of original centres of
growth, and also develope upon themselves other epiphyses
in any direction. In discussing these principles, reasons
may be given why the bone usually called tarsometa-
tarsus in birds might only be the tarsus. A vertebra is
considered to be a centre of growth, which usually deve-
lopes three pairs of epiphyses, any or all of which may be
wanting. First, there is a pair of epiphyses at the anterior
and posterior ends of the centrum, being the epiphyses usu-
ally so called. Secondly, there is on the dorsal part of the
centrum a pair of neural-epiphyses which enclose the neural
canal ; and lastly, there is on the ventral part of the
centrum a pair of ha3mal epiphyses which help to enclose
the viscera. I find the head divided into three parts : (1)
a brain cavity, (2) a breathing cavity, and (3) a feeding
cavity. The brain cavity I regard as a modified vertebra,
in which the parietal segment developes the occipital seg-
ment as its posterior epiphyses and the frontal segment for
its anterior epiphyses. The lower jaw, helping to fOrm the
prehensible end of the digestive canal, I regard as the rib
of the brain-cavity vertebra. Then as the brain cavity is
seen to be the anterior termination of the neural canal, so
the breathing cavity of the skull is seen to be the anterior
termination of the breathing canal. And just as the brain
region is found to be a modified vertebra, so the breath-
ing circle of bones is interpreted to be the modified end
of the trachea. Thus the skull is developed and modified
from the plan of a segment of the body, and not from the
neural skeleton only.
THE CIGAR SHIP.—The nautical problem in-
volved in the launching of Mr. Winans' celebrated
cigar steamer has been at least partially solved. On
Thursday the ship got fairly out into the Channel, and
went round the coast as far as Brighton, where Mr. Wi-
nans resides. About half-past twelve she came up from
the eastward, going very fast. She came within a quarter
of a mile of the shore, her strange and ugly appearance
exciting the greatest interest among the crowds who, as
it happened, in consequence of the fine weather, were just
then on the sea-front. Whena short distance to the west of
Brighton she turned, and came back again at slow speed
past the town. The sea was calm, but there was a slight
swell on, to which the queer craft moved lightly and easily.
She left scarcely any rough water behind her, and seeme d
to cut cleanly through the tide. After repassing the town
she put on Awn again to the eastward.

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HER MAJESTY•

WINDSOR CASTLE, Friday.
The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses the Princess of Wales, Princess Helena, and
Princess Beatrice drove out yesterday afternoon in
a carriage and four.

Her Royal Highness Princess Louise, with her
Grand Ducal Highness the Princess of Hohenlohe-
Langenbourg, also went out driving.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback, at-
tended by Lieut.-Colonel Keppel.

His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended by
Major Elphinstone, arrived at the Castle from
Greenwich-park.

The Queen, their Royal Highnesses the Prince
and Princess of Wales, Princess Helena, Princess
Louise, Princess Beatrice, and Prince Arthur, and
the Prince and Princess of Hohenlohe Langenbourg,
with the Ladies and Gentlemen in waiting, attended
Divine Service this morning in the private chapel.
The Hon. and Rev. the Dean of Windsor
officiated.

Messrs. Dickenson and Tilt, of Bond-street, had
the honour of a sitting from the Queen yesterday,
for a sketch (after a photograph) of her Majesty.

The Countess Delawarr, who has been suffering
from a severe cold, is much better.
Viscountess Powerscourt and Lady Anne Coke
have arrived at Claridge's Hotel from Powerecourt, Ireland.
Lord and Lady Otho Fitzgerald will leave town
this morning for Paris, where thoy intend to stay during
the Easter holidays.
Lord Charles Bertie Percy has left Claridge's
Hotel for Guy's Cliff, Warwick.
THE WARWICKSHIRE HOUNDS.—It is reported
that Wilson (the huntsman) and Woodley and Morgan
(the whips) all leave at the end of the present hunting
season. We hear that Mr. Lucy, the new master, has en-
gaged Robert Worrall, lately connected with Mr. Drake's
pack, as huntsman for the next season. Woodley, we be-
lieve, goes with Mr. North (late master of the Warwick-
shires) to the Bicester country.
Hurrr DINNERS.—It is intended to give a dinner
to the Hon. Mr. North, late master of the Warwickshire
Hounds, at Alcester, on Wednesday, April 4. Sir W.
Throckmorton will preside. In the same week a dinner
will be given at Birmingham to Mr. 0. Milne, jun., master
of the North Warwickshire pack.
A LIVING IVomAN LAID OUT FOR BURIAL—M.
Lain cure of Gizay Vienne, France, has sent the
following statement to the journals :—" Having been sum-
moned to assist my brother curd of Nieuil, I have just wit-
nessed a fact which has greatly excited the people of the
neighbourhood. A woman named Redegonde Deguesseau
who was supposed to be dead, was to have been interred in
the morning, and the relations were all in attendance, when
the person who had laid out the corpse, as she was complet-
ing her work, fancied she discovered a slight movement of
the right arm. Upon examination the woman was found to
be still alive! I immediately went to see the woman, and
found no pulse—no movement; the members were perfectly
stiff, but by close observation at intervals an almost imper-
ceptible swelling of one of the arteries of the neck could be
discerned. I let a few drops of brandy fall upon her teeth
which were clenched in such a manner that it was impos-
sible to separate them, and shortly after a slight hissing
noise was heard. She continues still (24 hours after) in
the same comatose state."

GOATS AND THE CATTLE PLAGUE.—The preva-

lence of the rinderpest, and the ravages it has made
in England, has given rise to a new item in our export
trade. On Saturday last 25 goats were sent off to Liver-
pool by the steamer from this port, and a number were also
despatched yesterday by steamer. We believe there is
now a great demand for these useful but hitherto despised
animals on the other side of the Channel.— Waterford
Gazette.

MONTROSE.—FOUNDERING OF A VESSEL.—YeS-
terday morning the crew of a brig named the Coburg, of
West Hartlepool, was brought into this port by the crew of
a fishing-boat. The captain of the unfortunate brig re-
ports that the vessel was on a voyage from Middlesbro' to
Korsoer, with coals : that he had been in distress since Sun-
day last ; and that on Tuesday evening, when the brig was
about seven miles off the Bell Rock, she foundered, going
down from sheer stress cf weather. The crew, consisting of
the captain, four men, and a boy, managed to get into the
boat, and were making for land when taken in tow as above
stated. The men were relieved and sent home by Mr. John
Smith pro the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners'
Benevolent Society,—Scotsman.

STRANGE SAGACITY IN A PONY.—I had a pony
once which very frequently exhibited the following pecu-
liarities : —Whenever the pony had been turned out to
graze, upon being fetched up and put into the carriage, it
invariably turned lame after going a few yards ; so lame,
in fact, that frequently I had to turn back, not having the
shame to drive an animal in such apparent pain ; I say,
apparent, because no sooner had the pony been relieved of
its harness, that it used to canter round the field perfectly
sound. The same pony when fetched from the stable
would go perfectly well as long as it wished, but when I
drove it in any direction contrary to its inclination it be-
came lame directly ; as soon as its head was turned home-
wards the lameness entirely disappeared.—E. II C. in
Land and Water.

Victor Hugo's new work, " Les Travailleurs de la
Mer," is dedicated to the Island of Guernsey. It
runs thus : " I dedicate this book to the rock of hos-
pitality and liberty—to that little nook of old Norman land
in which dwells a Most noble seafaringpeople—to the isle of
Guernsey, rough and gentle, my actual asylum, my probable
tomb. The following is the preface to the work "Reli-
gion, society, nature ; these are the three struggles of man.
They are at the same time his three wants. He must be-
lieve—hence the temple ; he must create—hence the city ;
he must live—hence the plough and ship. But these three
problems contain three wars. The mysterious difficulty of
life arises from all three. Man has to meet obstacles under
the form—superstition, under the form—prejudice, under
the form—element. A triple ananke (fatality) presses on
as—the ananke of dogmas, the ananke of laws, the awake
of things. In Notre Dame de Paris' the author exhibited
the first ; in Les Miserables' he exposes the second ; in
the present book he indicates the third. To these three
fatalities which envelop man there is added an interior
fatality, a supreme ananke—the human heart."
LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN LITERARY INSTI-
TUTION.—On Thursday last a lecturer on pottery
not being able to keep his appointment at the institution,
Mr. Field Meagher, one of the local reporters, kindly
volunteered to read some amusing and instructive social
sketches, one of which, by himself, called "The Jeweller
of the Roadside," was a very vivacious and comic,
delineation in the best manner of Albert Smith. After a
few words of commendation from Mr. Percy Hart,F.R.G•B•l
the honorary secretary, a vote of thanks was proposed by
John Smee, Esq., and seconded by Dr. Hallo.
ACCIDENT IN THE HUNTING FIELD.—On Thurs-
day a somewhat serious accident occurred in the hunting
field to Lord Milton, M.P., who is passing the Easter
recess at Wentworth. On Thursday Lord Fitzwilliara's
hounds met at Catliffe, and at the meet were Lord Milton
and other members of the family. In the afternoon the
party came to a large rugged fence, beyond which was a
somewhat deep drop, and Lord Milton's horse in jumping
it stumbled and rolled upon its rider. Dr. Shaw, of Shef-
field, happened to be in the field, and he rendered every
possible assistance to the unfortunate nobleman, who it
was found had sustained a fracture of a bone just above
the left wrist. His chest was also cut, and he was very
much bruised and shaken. It is'expected that he will not
be able to resume his duties for six weeks.
The Americans have put the magnesium light to
more practical use than we have. In their theatres it is
rapidly superseding the lime-light. It was first introduced
at the Boston Theatre. The wire is burnt in a large lamp,
and is delivered by clock work. The flame sustains itself
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numerous orders he receives for it.

THE SHRIEVALTY.—The City Press says that it
is authorised to state that Mr. Alderman Waterlow
and Mr. Francis Lycott intend to offer themselves, on
Midsummer-day, for election to the office of Sheriffs of
London and Middlesex for the ensuing year. Mr. Alder-
man Wsterlow, who was elevated to the dignfied position
he now fills in 1863, is well and favourably known, from
the ability displayed by him in his magisterial capacity,
and still more from his high personal character. His efforts
to promote the welfare of the working classes, by the
erection of good and cheap dwellings, have tended very
considerably to increase his popularity. Mr. Lycett, who
has recently retired from the celebrated firm of Dent, All-
croft, and Co., of Wood-street, has made for himself s
substantial reputation by his liberality and the energy
with which he throws himself into the working of bene-
volent schemes, as an instance of which his connection
with the Lancashire Relief Fund (of the committee of
which be was a prominent member), may be noted. Both
these gentlemen having expressed their willingness to
serve, it is extremely probable that they will:be well re-
ceived by the Livery, who will thus have before them a
industrial member of the Corporation, and a well-know
outsider•