The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-30 00:00:00

This Day,
I,etween 8 and
9 a.m. i

IC. I.
11
b C.
' 4 c.
5 b.
4 c.
2 b.
3 f.
9 r.
1 b.
6 ' m.
6 r.
1 1 b.
1
"
1 1 b.
5 i m
4 I C.
3 C.
5j C.

Nairn
Leith
Berwick
Ardrossan
Portrush
Shields
Galway
Scarborough 1
Liverpool
Queenstown....
Yarmouth
London
Dover
Portsmouth
Portland
Plymouth
Penzance

29.78 44
29'83 44
29'83 51
29'82 50
29'79 51
29/0 50
29'91 46
29.55 55
29'93 I 52
29'89 I 50
29'61 56
30.02 I 53
29.99 52
129.99 59
29'09 65
2916 54
129'88 56
29'88 67

N.

S.W.
S. E.
.N.N.W
S.
W. S.W.
S. E.
S. S. W.

W.
S. S. E.
W. S. W.
S. W.

S. W.

EXPLANATION.—B. Barometer, corrected and reduced
to 32 deg at mean sea level ; each 10 feet of vertical rise
causing about 1-100th of an inch diminution, and each 10
deg abovs 32 dog causing nearly 3-100ths increase. E.
Exposed thermometer in shade. M. Moistened bulb (for
evaporation and dew-point). D. Direction of wind (true—
not magnetic). F. Force (1 to 12—estimated). C. Cloud
(1 to 9). I. Initials :—b,, blue sky; c., clouds (detached) ;
f., fog. ; h„ hail ; 1., lightning ; m., misty (hazy) ; 0.,
overcast (dull) ; r., rain; s., snow; t., thunder. A letter
repeated augments—thus, r.r., much rain. S. Sea disturb-
ance (1 to 9J.

Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston left town
on Saturday for Broadlands, Hants.

The Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have re-
turned to Gopsall Hall, the Earl and Countess Howe's
seat, in Leicestershire, from Troy House, Monmouthshire.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde
have left their mansion= Carlton louse-terrace, for their
new residence in Stratton-street.

Viscount and Viscountess Grey de Wilton have
arrived atAshdown Park, Berks, on a visit to the Earl and
Countess Craven, from Heaton Hall, near Manchester, the
seat of the Earl of Winton.

Baron Sinn, the Greek Envoy at Vienna, will be
present at the coronation of the King of Prussia, in the
name of the King of Greece.

Viscountess Jocelyn and family arrived in town
on Friday from a tour of visits in Ireland. Her ladyship
has left town for Walmer Castle to visit the Earl and
Countess of Shaftesbury.

Lord znd Lady Headley and family have arrived
at Brighton from Dorsetshire for the winter.

Lady Harriet Eleanor Wandesford Fowler and
Miss Fowlcr have left Farranee's Hotel for Ryde, Isle of
Wight.

We learn that the report of the serious illness of
the Bishop of Ripon is unfounded.

Mr. and Mrs. Avshford Wyse and family have
left the Burlington Hotel, Cork-street, for Clayton Hall,
near Trentham.

Mr. R. Peel has left Farrance's Hotel for Folk-
stone, en route for the Continent.

Lord and Lady Blantyre arrived in Patis a few
days since from their seat in Scotland. Lord Blantyre has
gone on a tour in Germany, and during his lordship's tour
Lady Blantyre will remain with the Duchess (Dow.) of
Sutherland and the Duchess of Argyll, who are sojourning
in the French capital.

Intelligence was received in town yesterday of
the death of Lady Williams, widow of Sir John Williams,
justice of the Queen's Bench, who died on Saturday at La
Rocherville, France. Her ladyship, who was the only
daughter of Mr. Davies Davenport, of Woodford Calve Hey
and Capesthorno, Cheshire, was in her 71st year.
The subscriptions to Count Cavour's monument
now amount to 89,965 f. The list is to be closed at the end
of the present year.

M. Moreau has informed the Academy of
Sciences that he has succeeded in collecting the electricity
of the torpedo by means of the gold leaf electroscope and a
condenser Firniler to the Leyden phial.

Accounts from Turin state that Count de Stack-
elberg, lately ambassador of Russia to the Court of Sar-
dinia, and at present accredited to the Court of Spain, has
loft Turin for Madrid.

RUMOURED REDUt.,TION OF THE ARMY.--We
hear a whisper, at present faint and low yet menacing, of
which we feel bound to take some notice. It is not a
whisper of alarm, inspired by apprehensions of external
dangers. It has nothing to do with a "panic" like that
which foreign journalists choose to describe as tne normal
condition of England. It comes from within, and threatens
to sap the base of our new s'.% stem of national defence. It is
in every sense the whipper of a faction, We are told that
the excellence of some battalions of volunteers, and the
great nominal effective of the whole body, are to be used as
arguments next session, perhaps before the session, for a re-
duction of the regular army. This is a very grave fact. It
is a fact, nevertheless, and one which ought-to be met and
overcome at once. Strange result of the volunteer move-
ment,—.4ring a7td Navy Gazette.