The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-08 00:00:00

d'Agincourt, and Claude G °lee, surnamed the Lorrain.
The service is performed by 12 French chaplains,
appointed for three years, and under the direction
of a rector. The present rector is Monseigneur
Level. On Sundays and fete days, at 9 o'olock,
the French garrison at Rome attends mass, and
Monseigneur Bastude gives spiritual instruction to
the soldiers.

A curious discovery has been made in the com-
mune of la Maurreime, in the department of the
Isere, in a field which was formerly a cemetery. A
very ancient coffin has been found which contains
a singular skeleton. It has neither arms nor legs,
and as there is no mark of the coffin having been
opened, the remains are evidently those of a man
who had those four members amputated.

L'Etendard states that it has received from China

the melancholy news of the assassination of nine
French missionaries. It does not give any details.
They are Monseigneur Simeon Francois Berneux,
Bishop of Capte, M. Daveluy, Bishop in partibus of
Acone, formerly of the diocese of "Maus, Le Pere
Boileau, of Bordeaux, Le Pere DoHe, of Luxon,
le Pere Ranfer de Brctcnieres of Dijon, le Pere
Pourtlue, le Pere Aumactre of Augouleme, the Pere
HuM of Languer, and the Pere Petit Nicolas.
The consumption of horse flesh has commenced in
the provinces. A shop for the sale of it has been
opened at Nancy.
There is another case of three births at a time.
Madame Ges, the wife of the proprietor of a cafe at
Toulouse, has just brought into the world three
girls. Mother and children are all well and thriving.
The building of a new church is about to be com-
menced near the avenue Parmontier, between the
Rues du Temple and Fontaine le Roi, dedicated to
St. Joseph. The small church in that locality has
long been found insufficient for the wants of the
population. The style of architecture will be the
same as that of the splendid church in course of
completion on the boulevard du Prince Eugene.
The locality is a very business and flourishing
one, and was so even in the last century.
There then existed in the Rue Fontaine le Roi a por-
celain manufactory, which was almost as famous as
the celebrated porcelain manufactory of Sevres. The
director was M. Locre, who had the reputation of
demanding very high prices for the china and other
articles sold at his manufactory. It is mentioned in
the " Livre des Bibliophiles" that the Countess du
Barry wished to have her bust executed at the esta-
blishment, and M. Locre asked her 12,000 f. for the
work. The favourite of Louis XV. thought the
sum demanded was very exorbitant, and she bar-
gaic ed for a long time as if she had been the poorest
woman in Paris. When the bill with the price
marked upon it was sent to the countess by M.
Locre at her request, she wrote on it, " They sell
such busts at Sevea (so the countess wrote the name)
for six Louis, and he asks 12,000 f. Madame du
Barry will give 10 Louis."

The Sport, which affects to be an authority in
matters of fashion, says it has been resolved in the
competent high quarters that next season the ladies
shall appear in the fashionable world without crino-
line. I may add that crinoline is not so generally
worn at present as it was last year, and in almost
all cases the ladies have diminished the amplitude
and circumference of their crinolines. Such is the
diminution that a lady can now actually get into an
omnibus, which heretofore was a work of difficulty,
and in some cases was almost an impossibility.

M. and Madame Drouyn de l'Huys have left Paris
on a foreign excursion for a month.

The Emperor of Austria, it is said, is about to
make two visits ; one to Trieste to review the fleet,
the other to Pesth, where his Majesty is likely to
stay two or three mouths.

The Empress Charlotte of Mexico is still at the
chateau of Miramar, where her Majesty receives
various personages with a sort of official state. In
reply to an address from the Vice-President of 'the
Chamber of Commerce of Trieste, her Majesty said
that should the Emperor Maximilian make "a little
voyage" to Europe next year he would not fail to
visit Trieste. On another similar occasion the Em-
press Charlotte expressed her regret that the com-
mercial relations between Austria and Mexico had
received all the development of which they were
susceptible.

In.addition to the theatre under construction at
Passy, two theatres are about to be built iu Paris,
one ou the upper part of the Rue Lafayette, and

the other in the Rue St. Honore, near the Palais
Royal.
In the absence of " metal more attractive" some
sensation has been created at Paris by a report that
the famous cannon of the Palais Royal, which goes
off at twelve o'clock from the heat of the sun when

it reaches the meridian, was to be taken away. The
report is not true, but some improvements have
been made in conformity with the advance of scien-
tific knowledge. It is the fashion for people to
regulate their watches by this cannon, although
it is a fallacy to suppose that it marks the
time accurately. For instance, it is in the
month of February, when there is the greatest dif-
ference between the real mid-day, as indicated by
the cannon, and the mean mid-day, as marked by
the clocks of the city. In this month of September
the clocks point to nearly a quarter past 12 when
the mid-day cannon of the Palais Roy al goes off.
It is only on the 15th of April that the clocks and
the cannon are in perfect accord. On the 20th of
October the difference will be more than a.quarter
of an hour, and on the 16th of November, should
the sun shine, the clocks will be more than a quar-
ter of an hour behind the cannon. Such, at least,
is the calculation of a gentleman connected with the
Board of Longitude. A pleasant anecdote is told
illustrative of the rage of regulating watches by the
Palais Royal clock. A gentleman, who came out
of the Theatre Francais one night about half-past
11, saw a friend waiting very anxiously in the gal-
lery near the cannon. He asked his friend what he
possibly could be doing there at that unseasonable
hour. " Why," said the gentleman, "I am waiting
to hear the cannon go off in order to regulate my
watch."

Last evening the rain fell in the vicinity of Paris
quite like a torrent. During the night the wind
was so violent as to alarm many. It was a regular
equinoctial gale before its time. To-day it has
been windy. The clouds have been dark and heavy,
and it has rained at intervals. The temperature,
however, was seasonable and agreeable.

LETER ART GOSSIP.—The new Monthly—Miss
Braddon's "Belgravia"—will appear in October, with a
brilliant staff of writers. Miss Braddon, a host in her-
self, will lead off with a serial novel, " Birds of Prey,"
which will doubtless sustain the high character gained
by the author of "Lady Audley's Secret" and the
" Lady's Mile." Mr. Winwood Reade will be there with
an article on African Discovery; Walter Thornbuiy,
the art-biographer, song-writer, and general littera-
teur, will be there ; with Percy Fitzgerald, whose lives of
Laurence Sterne and Charles Lamb are standard works;
and R. W. Buchanan, the rising poet, the author of "Under-
tones," whom we like all the better because he hails from the
neighbouring city, our "suburb" of Glasgow; and Morti-
mer
Collins, the graceful lyrical writer ; and probably too
one or both of those accomplished novelists Anthony Trol-
lope and Whyte Melville; and George Augustus Sala will
give his ready, rapid, racy pen to the tempting pages of
"Belgravia." Besides, all the interest of this new maga-
zine will not centre in the letter-press, excellent though
that be, for "Belgravia" will bring pencil as well as pen 10
its support, and will be largely illustrated. We aro en-
titled, then, to look on the starting of this new magazine
as a new phase in periodical literature ; and look forward
with pleasure to the opening days of mellow October,
which will bring into being Miss Braddon's "Belgravia:,
—Paisley Gazette.
THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION AT THE AGRICUL-
TURAL HALL.—Amongst the many very meritorious
productions of which this interesting exhibition is com-
posed there will be found a very attractive contribution
by Mr. C. Thorn, brush-maker, of Ilalkett-street, Jersey.
It is a very beautiful copy of Bailey's " Eve at the Foun-
tain," executed in pure white marble. That such an ex-
quisite specimen of sculpture should be the work of a self-
instructed artist is remarkable ; the more so as it is stated
to be but the second attempt in marble. All the delicate
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points in the original have been most strikingly reproduced,
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variably found in this very interesting portion of the exhi-
bition. The contributions to the picture galleries are ex-
ceedingly numerous, but the commendable productions are
but very few. Just,
however, the reverse is the case in
the sculpture department. Here the specimens are but few,
and all are deserving
of high praise, but none more so than
that of Mr. Thorn, who has shown that he possesses talent
in a branch of art in which honour, renown, and riches are
to i secured by study and reigeverance.