The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-29 00:00:00

REMARKS.

On the western coasts of these islands a considerable increase in
barometrical pressure has occurred during the last twenty-four hours,
a hilst at northern and eastern stations readings are lower. At
Valencia the increase has been nearly six-tenths of an inch. The
lowest IreFsure is at Holyhead : the difference between the readings
at that station and Brest amounts to five-tenths. Temperature is
much less in England and Ireland : in the north of Scotland it is
higher. A westerly gale—force 9--blew yesterday on the Irish coast :
the gale continues at Valencia from the north, and a W.S.W gale is
blowing at Holyhead. On our Channel coast the wind is fresh from
the N.W. Rain has fallen in England and Ireland : in the south-
west the fall has been considerable. The weather is cloudy or over-
cast.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,

Downing-street.

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Mr. Justice Mellor, during the assize business on
Saturday at Exeter, appeared to be suffering from illness,
and at the rising of the court left for London to consult his

medical adviser.

THE FIRST CONSIGNMENT OF FLAX. - The
Northern Whig of Tuesday, says : The first consignment
of this year's flax grown in the south of Ireland, was
received in Belfast on Tuesday. It is said to be of fair

quality.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales and fami'y intend to leave Marlborough House
on the 9th proximo for Abergeldie Castle, N. 13., for the
season. At the end of the shooting season the Prince and
Princess purpose going to Denmark to visit the King and
Queen and other relatives of the Princess.
ICED TEA.—The most delicious and sustaining
beverage that can be drunk this hot weather is good
strong tea cooled down with lumps of ice. It should be
only slightly sweetened, without milk, and flavoured with
a few slices of lemon, which are infused at the time the
tea is firet made.—Medical Times and Gazette.
A CHOLERA STRICKEN SKIP.—A ship called the
Turtellea, laden with wheat from Valparaiso, put into Cork
harbour last week for orders. She came direct from Val-

paraiso, and had been only sevens days out from that port
when lie crew was attacked with cholera. Seven of them
died, but six of them
sand a mate recovered, and worked
the ship the rest of the voyage.

All the fish ponds which once belonged to Netley
Abbey are now dried up, excepting one. This, which has
existed for hundreds of years, is as beautiful as ever. It
partly covered with water lilies, a flock of (lucks skim
over its surface, and the banks are covered with foxglove
and other wild plants. The Netley station is nearly two
miles from the sbbey, so that pilgrims are as badly off as
before. The railway company wanted their line to run
close to Seuthampton Water, which is within 200 yards of
the abbey, but this was opposed. If a station on the
present iine were made opposits the abbey, and a horse
tramway ran from it to the ruins, thousands of persons
would visit the latter.

The London accounts of the weather, which for a long
time past have presented such dreary complaints of hear
and drought, at last rejoice in a change. Between seven
and eight o'clock on Viesday evening the clouds rolled
up from the south-west, and the weather-wise, whose pre-
dictions have so often been disappointed, felt confident in
prophesying rain. At eleven o'clock a heavy shower came
down and lasted for two hours. After a short cessation
it fell again for some time longer, and the latest
accounts read as if the spell of dry weather were
at last broken. It appears to be a mistake to suppose that
this has been the driest year since 1826, - for a corre-
spondent to a contemporary gives a tabular statement of
the rainfall in 1863 and 1864, from which it appears that
in the former year only B'lBs inches of rain fell up to
July 28, in 1864 only 8.152, while this year
9'440 have fallen to the same date. At the same time
excessive heat, the absence of clouds, and the wonderfu
dryness of the atmosphere have promoted excessive evapo,
ration.

Notwithstanding that the price of corn has for some
time fallen, no alteration has been made in the price of
bread. Many are the complaints on the matter addressed
to the papers. Where, everybody asks, does the fault lie?
The farmers are selling at a lower price, and yet the bakers
protest that they cannot lower their figure. It has already
been pointed out that the bakers it, the country are, being
men of small means, entirely in the hands of the millers
and flour dealers, but as between the average price of
the corn sold an I the bread consumed there is some-
thing between 30 and 40 per cent. to be accounted for, it
is still not easy to understand why a fictitious
price should be kept up. A correspondent of
the Times declares that the only persons to whom
it does good are the corn-factors, the millers, and
the flour dealers—a class of men who are everywhere to be
seen thriving on the excessive dearness of the poor man's
loaf. surely, he says, it is a study for philanthropists h
to devise a means whereby tl e tli!( r of the soil may 1,,
enabled to eat a good a ke, p loaf without the present,
a ,tortinn.