The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-21 00:00:00

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

varsities which assert the excellence of their teach-
ing .by successful competition with England and
Scotland. In no country is law more fairly and ably
administered; in no country does a more vigilant
police watch over the preservation of life and pro-
perty. In 1821 Ireland had neither toleration, edu=
cation, nor landed gentry able to perform the duties
of their station ; she had no confidence in herself,
nor loyalty to the Crown. In 1861 all these things
are reversed—wages rise and crime decreases agi-
tation is discountenanced, and commercial enter
prise is honoured. Then the principal grievances of
Ireland were religious and political, and the cry was
" Separation from England." Now the whole island
is on fire to obtain the Galway contract, because it
believes that it would.thus become the entrepot of
,'the goods and • passenger traffic between England
1 aud. America.

But if there be such a difference between the Ire-
land 0(1821 and the Ireland of 1861, what shall we
say of the two Sovereigns who visited her at the
two epochs ? We will say no more of George IV.,
and little need is there to say anything of the
Queen. These islands have never had a more con-
stitutional Sovereign—have never kad a Sovereign
whose public and private life tended so directly to
the benef:t of her subjects. To Ireland her,reign
has been the turning point of a long and evil des-
tiny. From the statesmen through whom the Irish
Government has been administered the wants and
wishes of the island have ever received the most
careful consideration. That small portion which
kings and laws can contribute towards the remedy-
ing inveterate social and political evil has been
cheerfully contributed. Ireland may fairly boast
of better laws thaci England, and of a far superior
local organisation,
It is not given to sovereigns
under our constitution to mark their progress
through their dominions by signal and durable me-
_morials of royal favour. When. a State trusts.the
whole of its power and the whole of its resources to
a single hand, that hand may distribute them as it
pleases, and may bequeath in some permanent and
beneficial public work a durable memorial of pre-
ference and goodwill. But, though Ireland cannot
hope to reap the material advantages which follow
the footsteps of absolute sovereigns, she may yet,
we believe, acquire very solid advantages from the
presence, even fora few days, of the Queen of these
islands. Everything is now in astate of transition.
Old faiths are broken down, old combinations are
weakened, old ties and alliances dissolved. Those
who have hitherto set up the Pope as a temporal
power against the Queen must feel that the time is
coming when such a duality can exist no longer.
The dreams of repeal, the delusion of a separate go-
vernment and nationality, are exploded. In this
world of change nothing remains permanent and
enduring except the imperial power, and never was
that power placed in hands.more capable of conci-
liating respect, esteem, and affection. It may be
that the visit of the Queen to Ireland is destined to
produce effects far moje than commensurate with
its apparent importance, and to unite at last in one
sentiment opinions hitherto so divergent. At any
rate, we have some right to indulge in sanguine an-
ticipations. Any one who carefully examined the
state of Ireland at the coming of George IV. must
have seen nothing before him but discord and dis-
aster ; any one who makes the same examination
now sees nothing before him but an increasing hope
of union and prosperity.—Times.

S7.RANGE DISCOVERY.

...------4..-------...

The following interesting account, dated the 15th
inst., of a recent discovery at Mont Blanc, has been
sent by the British Consul at Geneva to a contem-
porary :
Auguste Tairaz, Pierre Balm at, and Pierre Carrier,
three Chamounix guides, were swept from the Grand
Plateaux by an avalanche on the 20th of August,
1820, while making, or attempting, the ascent of
Mont Blanc with Dr. Hammel, and, I believe, some
Genevese gentlemen. No traces whatever of these
poor fellows had ever been discovered from the
moment of their destruction till this morning, -when
the following fragments were found on the lower
part of the Glacier des Bossons, entering the valley,
and which circumstance, I need hardly add, has
caused the most intense excitement in the village
of Chamounix and the whole valley.

The fragments found consist
1. An arm in the most perfect state of preserva-
tion, with the hand, fingers, nails, skin, and dried
frozen flesh intact, in noways discoloured; part of
little finger only gone. The length of this limb
extends to the elbow.
2. Parts of two different skulls, with a good deal
of hair remaining with the skin on both; one be-
longing to a fair man, the other to a dark one. The
hair most wonderfully preserved in colour, &c. One
of these fragments was recognised by Julian Devous-
soux (a survivor of the 1820 ascent) as being that
of Pierre Balmat.
3. Part of a guide's knapsack, with sundry por-
tions of a lantern attached to it.
4. An iron crampon, which the guides of that
time strapped on their shoes when they crossed the
glaciers, &a., to prevent slipping.
5. Several portions of guides' dress— cravats, hats,
torn portions of linen, portions of cloth coats, &c.,
all. easily distinguishable as belonging to men of the
guide class.
The fragments were found by a guide and an
English gentleman, who wished to visit the lower
Glacier des Bossons, about two hours' walk from
Chamounix, and they came quite unexpectedly upon
these most interesting remains.
Two of the guides who formed part of this memo-
rable ascent are still alive—Julian Devoussoux and
Jacques Coutel—and I understand from an English
friend of mine that Dr. Hammel still lives in Eng-
land, and no doubt he will be much interested in
this discovery.
Professor Forbes has repeatedly told the Cha-
II mounix guides that they might look out for traces
of their deceased comrades in the Lower Bossons
in about 40 or 45 years after the catastrophe ; he
told Auguste Balmat, in 1858, to keep a look-
out. Bearing all this in mind, what a satisfac-
tory event this finding of the fragments, within
the period calculated by the Professor, becomes
to men of science, studious of the laws of nature,
who seem thus, apparently, almost able to cal-
culate by outward signs what is going on in the
depths of the earth !
A body of 15 guides have proceeded to the
glacier to make fresh searches, and no doubt
other fragments will recompence their lab with
You may depend upon my. furnishing you with
any fresh particulars which may come to my
knowledge.