The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-26 00:00:00

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Captain Cust, left Cambridge Cottage, Kew,
on Thursday last. for Brighton.
Madame Musurus and family return to town
to-day from St. Leonard's-on-Sea, where they have been
staying for some weeks past.
The Duchess of Argyll, who has been passing
several weeks in Paris, joined the duke and family in the
early part of the week at Inverary Castle, N.B.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Northampton
have left town for their seat, Castle Ashby, Northampton-
shire. •
The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough are
passing the season at St. Leonard's-on-Sea.
The Lord Chancellor will receive the judges,
Queen's Counsel, &c., at hjs lordship's residence in Bel-
grave-square, on Saturday next, the first day of Michael-
mas term, at 12 o'clock.
Lord Llanover arrived in town yesterday from
Llanover, Monmouthshire.
Lord and Lady Faversham arrived at their resi-
dence in Great Cumberland-place, on Thursday, from
Duncombe-park, Yorkshire.
Lord and Lady Churchill have left the St.
George's Hotel.
Lord and Lady Dormer arrived at their resi-
dence in Chandos-street a few days since, from a tour in
Scotland.
letter from Vienna states that the accouche-
ment of tho Empress of Austria is expected to take place
at the commencement of February, and that her Majesty
Will previously remove to Venice.
Capt. M. B. Semmes, of the :privateer Sumpter,
arrived in the Edinburgh steamer yesterday, from New
York. He shipped in the vessel as Capt. Burmister, R.N.
—Liverpool Daily Fost.
THE NEW CHARING-CROSS RAILWAY.---The con-
struction of the new railway from London-bridge to Cha-
ring-cross proceeds with the utmost activity. From the
Surrey side of the Suspension-bridge to High-street, in the
Borough, the work of demolition of the houses and other
buildings through which the line is to pass is nearly com-
plete.

Major-General Sir John Inglis, whose defence of
Lucknow is still fresh in our recollections, has been ap-
pointed by 1.1,0 Comtuandta-in-Uluef to succeed Sir Ildwara
Buller in the command of the troops in the lonian Islands.
Sir John and his youthful family will embark for Corfu in
January next.
GERMANS IN THE FEDERAL ARMY.—The follow-
ing is given as a very nearly correct statement of the num-
ber of Germans in the Federal army from the different
sections of the country :—New England, 200; New York,
12,000; New Jersey, 2,000; Pennsylvania, 10,000; Ohio,
5,000; Indiana, 4,000; Illinois, 6,000; Missouri, 13,000;
Minnesota, 500; Wisconsin, 2,000; Michigan, 1,000;
lowa, 1,000; Kansas, 500 ; California and Oregon, 2,000;
Western Virginia, 1,000 ; Maryland and District of Colum-
bia, 500 ; Kentucky, 500 ; Delaware, 100—total, 69,400.
MELANCHOLY BOAT ACCIDENT.—Loss OF SEVEN
LIVES.—At Moorburg, on the Elbe, says the Journal de
Frankfort, a sad accident occurred three days back; 14
persons proceeded to cross the river in an old boat, but
before they had gone far water entered, the boat was
swamped, and seven were drowned.
MR. NEWDEGATE, M.P., A RIFLE SHOT.-0/1
Friday last, quite unexpectedly, C. N. Newdegate, Esq,
M.P., made his appearance at the Nuneaton rifle butt, and
taking a rifle, at 600 yards distance, at the first shot hit the
bull's-eye. This seems to prove that our hon. M.P. has
had some practice with the splendid rifle presented to him
some time tack by Westley Richards, Esq., of Birmingham,
for his services in connection with the gun trade in that
town. We may add that the hon. gentleman has promised
the Nuneaton corps to pay another visit shortly, and bring
with him his own rifle.—Birmingham Post.
THE AFRICAN MAIL.—The African Royal Mail
steamer Athenian, Captain Lowry, sailed from Liverpool
on Thursday, for Madeira, Teneriffe, and the West Coast
of Africa, with the usual mails, a fair amount of cargo, and
55 passengers.
THE CANADIAN MAIL.—The Montreal Ocean
Steamship Company's screw steamer Jura, Capt. Burgess,
sailed from Liverpool on Thursday for Quebec and Montreal.
Besides the Canadian mails and a fair extent of cargo, she
took out about 20 cabin passengers.
THE SOUTHERN EMBANKMENT OF THE THAMES.
—Yesterday evening a meeting of delegates from each of
the parishes of South London, was held at the Horns Ta-
vern, Kennington, to decide on the course to be pursued in
order to obtain for the southern bank of the Thames privi-
leges similar to those to be conferred on the northern shore
under the Thames Embankment Bill. The chair being
taken by Mr. F. Doulton, several gentlemen pointed out
the importance of a southern embankment. A resolution
was,
_after, a long discussion, carried unanimously to the
effect that the sanitary condition of the districts of London
south of the river, and their liability to floods, rendered the
protection of an embankment necessary, and that the meet-
ing, while anxious to promote this undertaking, had no
desire to delay the progress of the northern embankment.
deputation was appointed to wait upon Lord Palmerston on
the subject from each of the parishes in South London.
The advices from Paris describe an improved
feeling on the Bourse, and state that there has been no less
of specie by the Bank of France during the past week.
ARTESIAN WELLS.—A communication has been
r-sceived on this subject by the Academy of Sciences from
M. Gaudin, in which he replies to the question, often asked,
whether the supply of the Artesian wells, bored in the neigh-
bourhood of Paris, can ever be exhausted ? The stratum of
green sandstone interposed between the strata of chalk and
Jurassic limestone is of the average thickness of 50 metres,
consequently, taking the depth of 577 metres of the Arte-
sian well at Passy as a criterion, there remains a depth of
25 metres of sand. A cubic metre of sand, closely rammed,
weighs 1,600 kilogrammes, while compact quartz weighs
2,500 kilogrammes ; hence the stratum of sand, even sup-
posing it to be closely packed, has interstices amounting to
one-third of its bulk in the aggregate, so that every cubic
metre of sand under water contains 333 litres of water.
Now, the layer of sand existing under the chalk may be
represented by a disk of 163 kilometres' radius, its surface
amounting to 80,000 square millimetres, and its thickness
to 8 metres. The cubic contents of this disk are, therefore,
640,000,000,000 metres, which, divided by 10,000,000, then
by 365, gives the quotient 175, being the number of years
requisite to exhaust the supply of water at the rate of
10,000,000 cubic metres per day 1 This would be correct,
supposing the quantity of water to remain stationary, and
never to receive any increment by the infiltration of rain-
water and that of rivers. This our author calculates at
half a metre per annum, and thence arrives at the conclu-
sion that the annual increase of the water is double the
quantity expended, so that the Artesian wells in or about
Paris are, and must ever be, inexhaustible.
GOVERNMENT JOBS THIRTY YEARS AGO.—.A
venerable and pawky jobber, who, much to his surprise
and indignation, was driven from his seat by Sir John Bow-
ring after the passing of the Reform Bill, used to say that
the right time for pressing a Minister on a point of patron-
age was just before a critical division. Curious stories are
told of his walking on such an occasion with Canning to the
house, and when asked if his vote might be depended on,
saying that his mind was at the moment so much occupied
with the uncertain position of that poor fatherless bairn who
wanted the clerkship in the Register House for the support
of a widowed mother, that he was really not in a condition
to make up his mind how he would vote. Once ho had
made such strenuous efforts to provide for a certain Lauch-
lan Macintosh, that two simultaneous appointments came
to the fortunate youth—one in the Customs, the other in
the Excise. Neither of these was to be thrown away. It
was necessary, therefore, to send to the Highlands for a
dnplirata Lau chlan Macintosh willing to script of a CI overu
ment appointment, and little difficulty was found in pro.
curing what was wanted.—Scotsman.

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF
THE CHEST, BROMPTON.—On Sunday last a sermon was
preached at St. Paul's Church, Onslow-square, South Ken-
sington, by the Rev. Capel Molyneux, the Incumbent, in
aid of the funds of the above charity. The text chosen was
Psalm ciii., sth verse, " Who satisfieth thy mouth with
good things ; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's."
Sunday having been set apart as a day of thanksgiving in
this church for the late bountiful harvest, the preacher
made a few appropriate remarks thereupon, inculcating the
duty of practical thankfulness fcr national and personal
blessings ; and then passed to the consideration of the text
in its spiritual aspect. At the close of a most able and elo-
quent discourse, the rev. gentleman said ho desired very
strongly and very earnestly to commend to their Christian
liberality the charity for which he pleaded. Con-
sumption was a most prevalent disease in England ; one-
fifth of the deaths amongst adults was caused by it ;
and those afflicted by it were not usually admitted into
the general hospitals. All who had seen and known
anything of consumption amongst their own families—
and who had not done so ?—would feel what an unspeak-
able blessing it was for the poor, when suffering from
consumption or other diseases of the chest, to have such a
place as the Brompton Hospital to go to. He spoke from
personal experience of the seasonable relief it afforded ; for
his first acquaintance with the hospital arose from the ap-
plication and subsequent admission of a poor man in whom
he was interested. Nearly 290 in-patients were always
under treatment ; and, besides being supplied with every-
thing they could need, their spiritual instruction was espe-
cially attended to. There was also a multitude of out-
patients. The hospital was entirely dependent on voluntary
subscriptions. Its expenses were upwards of £B,OOO a-year,
and the annual subscriptions were but little over half that
amount. Donations were mainly relied upon to make up
the deficiency ; but of late there had been a great falling off
in the receipts; the donations for the past quarter being
less than £2OO, £l,OOO being the average per quarter in the
previous year. If the income continued thus to fall short
of the expenditure, it was feared that the committee would
eventually be again compelled to shut up a portion of the
hospital for Want of funds. To assist them in continuing
to confer the inestimable benefits of the hospital on the
numbers of poor sufferers, the preacher earnestly entreated
the liberal contributions of his hearers. The collection
after the sermon amounted to £123 16s, 3d., and included
nearly £l7 in now annual subscriptions.