The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-28 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.—This Evening.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Auo. 24.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. I. S.
George as Consul for the Bahama Islands for his Majesty
the King of Denmark.
DO WNING-STREET, Atm. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Edward Everard
Rushworth, Esq., D.C.L., to be Financial Secretary of the
Island of Jamaica.

ADMIRALTY, Atro.'24.
Lieutenant the Honourable Albert Denison Somerville
Denison to be Commander. Sub-Lieutenants—Henry
Briggs Lang, Leonard Dacres, and Francis Augustus
Deline Radcliffe to be Lieutenants.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—This Evening

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Amsterdam Short. 11 17 11 18
Ditto 3 Months. 12 i 12
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 55 25 62,
Brussels
Hamburg — 13 10 13 10.
Paris Short 25 221 25 32]
Ditto 3 Months. 25 45 25 55'
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine 1201 121
Vienna — 13 3u 13 40
Trieste — 13 30 13 40
Potersburgti
281 281
Berlin
Madrid 44 46
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Genoa — 27 65 27 75
Naples — 27 65 27 75

FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES.—At the last
sitting M. Pasteur made some remarks on a paper sent in
by M. Bechamp concerning the disease of the silk-worm
and in which, amongst other things, it was stated that the
corpuscles observed in the seed were exterior, and no
contained in the substance, so that, if th seed were care-

fully washed, all the corpuscles would sappear. This,
M. Pasteur said, was a dangerous error, because it would
tend to cause a most useful practice to be discontinued,
viz., that of examining the seed wth a microscope,
while, on the other hand, M. Pasteur could not
imagine how such a mistake could have been
committed, since no washing by any liquid whatever could
rid the seed of its corpuscles. A paper was received from
M. Rico Sinohas, on the fourth volume published by him,
of the works of Alphonse X-, of Castillo. This volume
contains five books on ancient dials and clocks. Two of

these exclusively refer to dialing : the first treats of the
common sundial, provided with a gnomon, tho second of
another kind, requiring the construction of a tower with
very narrow windows, through which the rays of the
sun penetrated and marked the hours. Another book

treats of the Alphonsine clepsydra, consisting of a syphon
similar to tho well-known one of Mariotto, and into which
the water dropped from a filter, while at the other end
there was a float bearing a metal plate on which the zodiacs
and the principal stars were marked. The two last books
for
ook
treat of clocks provided with weights and chimes
striking the hour.—M. Laussedat sent in an observation
of the occultation of Saturn by the
7soonold at that
instant. The moon being only x
time,
our the
satelliteashy
dimly
visibleo r that
through
h 3i. Laussedat to see i
the appulsion of Saturn
i cllsret renders the
reflection
t
of
1 earth, was strong enough'sriteog enableto the lunar disk. He also
mentions a singular circumstance consisting in this, that
part of the figure of the planet
jassetembee
before
rt
eo bt
he
e
immersion
projected
the dark portion of the moon,
When we consider the immense distance which separates
our satellite from the planet, there seems no plausible
way of accounting for so strange an appearance. The
emersion could not be observed owing to the cloudy state
of the sky.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—It had been intended that
the ballad concert yesterday should be the last this season,
but it having been attended by upwards of 17,000 persons,
one more will be given in the week following the Worcester
Festival, about the 20th September. Upwards of 120,000
visitors have attended the series given this autumn at the
Crystal Palace.

THE FIRE IN BLOOMSBURY.--This fire has been
attended with a far greater loss of property than
was yesterday anticipated. Owing to the flames raging
amongst the timber that had fallen from the different
floors, a further serious loss of property was sustained ;
but, what is still worse, many of the workmen have lost
the whole of their tools, and are consequently thrown out
of employment for some time to come. Tho inhabitants
are about to raise a subscription in order to enable the men
to resume work.