The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-18 00:00:00

REMARKS.

On the N E. coast the increase in pressure noticed yesterday hail
been succeeded by a fresh diminution of considerable extent. Read-
ings at all stations arc now lower than yesterday, but in the S.W. of
Ireland pressure is again recovering itself. Readings are low in the
N.W., and a difference of six-tenths of an inch exists between those
at Nairn and Rochefort, Temperature has increased generally—
about 10 deg. in Scotland. The southerly gale reported yesterday
afternoon in the S. of Ireland extended to the entrance of the
Channel, and lasted till about midnight ; a strong S.W. wind was
also felt in the S.E. of England. This morning moderate S.W.
winds prevail in the Channel, but in Ireland the gale continues from
the W. Heavy rain has fallen In the S. of England and Ireland.
The sky is cloudy, and it is now raining on the E, coast. Weather
appears still unsettled. The sea on the Irish coast has not gone
down.

THE RUMOURED RECALL OF LORD MAYO.—
Some of our contemporaries have reaffirmed the.
accuracy of the statement respecting the recall of
Lord Mayo, and have added that the letter of recall
has actually been despatched to the new Viceroy.
They are, however, mistaken. We have the authority
of a Cabinet Minister, and also that of another dis-
tinguished member of the Liberal party, that the
Cabinet have not taken that step. So far as the
Marquis of Salisbury is concerned, the matter is set
at rest by a letter from that nobleman in the Tinges
denying that he is going to India.
A gentleman named Rotherham, residing at Ath-
boy, county Meath, has been fired at near his own gate as
he was returning home from the railway station. Slugs
struck Mrs. Rotherham, who was sitting beside him in his
carriage, in the forehead. Her life is in some danger.
Bisgrove, the Wells murderer, immediately after
his condemnation, begged to. see an Independent minis-
ter, to whom, after he had engaged in prayer, he stated
that on the night in question, being quite intoxicated,
ho lay down. near Cornish; he awoke, and he had an
impulse, not from any feeling of revenge, or with
any intention of robbery, to hill the man. Ho got up
in a semi-drunken state, and went to the brook, end
there ho took up a stone; he carried it to the spot
where Cornish was lying, and threw the stone upon his
head, and that blow killed Cornish. No one was with him.
This tends to exculpate Sweet, his fellow-prisoner, alto-
gether, and shows that the evidence of the woman Drew
was substantially correct.

Mr. Justice Hayes, who is taking the criminal
cases at the Liverpool assizes, does not share the opinion
entertained by some of his colleagues that grand juries are
useless. In his charge, delivered on Wednesday, his lord-
ship remarked that, whatever might be said with
respect to the use of grand juries, it was ob-
vious that they afforded to the gentlemen engaged the
opportunity of acquiring some knowledge of the state of
the criminal classes of the country. It was very desirable
that they should be made acquainted with the sort of moral
volcano which existed in the country, because gentlemen in
their position Lad the means of setting in motion and en-
couraging everything tl at might tend t 3 diminish crimo
and check in a groat measure tho cauooz which were au in-
contivo to it.