The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-15 00:00:00

REMAP

A considerable increase in atmospherical pressure has occurred since
yesterday, though it is still low in the S.W. of Ireland : in Scotland
readings are higher by nearly four•tenths of an inch. Pressures are
now high in the north : there is a difference of more than half an
inch between readings at Aberdeen and Cape Clear. Temperature
has generally risen. On our Channel coast a high wind from the
S.E. blew yesterday, increasing to a gale from S.S.W. at Penzance.
The wind continues high from the S.W. at the entrance of the
Channel, and is fresh on the west coast of France. At most of our
other stations the wind is light and easterly, but fresh at Valencia.
Rain has fallen on the Irish coast, and in the S. of England. The
weather is generally cloudy,

The state of the telegraphic communication between
this country and the most important of its dependencies is
absolutely intolerable. A Glasgow firm reports that out
of twenty-one messages sent during the space of four
months, only one reached India within two days. The
transmission of the remainder occupied various periods of
time, ranging from six to fifteen days. One did not reach
India until twenty-six days after it had been sent, and
one never reached its destination at all. The errors were
a still greater grievance. There were forty-six mistakes in
the twenty-one messages ; only two were transmitted
correctly. In one there were fifteen errors ; and the rest
averaged five mistakes each. The price of these messages
averaged £5 19s. So much for the commerce of one firm
in four months. Whatever may be the obstacles to a wire
to India by the Red Sea, it cannot be said that it is not
wanted.

The Liberte is assured that during the month of August
the Ministers of War of Bavaria, Wiirtemberg, Baden,
and Hesse-Darmstadt respectively will meet again for
the purpose of discussing a general system of defence for
South Germany. It is, however, announced that what-
ever system may be adopted, it will he in connection with
the military organisation of the North. A personal inter-
view at Kissengen between the sovereigns of Wiirtemberg
and Bavaria has done much to remove the obstacles to
such a union.

The correspondent of the Independence Beige explains
the changes which have just taken place between the captain-
generals of Madrid and Barcelona. lie says that the
cause is not to be found in the risings announced from
Catalonia, " which are of no great importance," but
in personal quarrels between the late captain-general of
Barcelona and his subordinates. One of these subordi-
nates has a brother in the person of the Minister of
Marine, and hence the removal of the captain-general to
Madrid. As, in this agreeable land, one official is set to
watch another, strange complications often result.
The appeal of the Cretan insurgents to the English
Government is not by any means a hopeful symptom. In
fact, when oppressed nationalities implore assistance
from distant countries it may generally be taken as the
beginning of the end. The insurrection in Crete has for
months past lived only through the negligence of the
Turkish authorities, and the island is in a miserable
condition. The struggle is utterly hopeless, injurious to
all parties, and there is not the slightest chance of any
benefit, under existing eiriumstances, being derived from
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