The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-28 00:00:00

REMARKS.

There is hardly any change in the distribution of barometrical
pressure to be reported. There has been a general decrease, which
does not exceed Min. at any station. Temperature remains almost
unchanged. The winds over our islands are light from between N.B.
and S.E The strong N.W. wind reported from the S.W. of France
the last two days has subsided. Overcast and cloudy weather still
continues, with a great deal of fog in the S. and W.

ANOTHER MATTEL —A letter was published in
the Herald in reference to Mr. Gladstone's opinions on the
Irish Church a few days back, purporting to come from
Mr. J. D. Coleridge, Q.C. The gentleman who forwarded
that letter now writes to say that he has ascertained " it
was written by Sir J. T. Coleridge, the chairman of Mr.
Gladstone's committee, and not by Mr. J. D. Cole-
ridge, Q.C."
TRIALS OF ORDNANCE.—Tho Ordnance Select
Committee continued their trial on Friday of Colonel
Inglis's wrought-iron gun-carriage for training heavy guns
through small portholes. The carriage endured the
tremendous shocks of twenty-five rounds from the 10-inch
rifled gun with 401 b. and 6013. charges. The recoil was
checked by the hydraulic buffer, which answered admi-
rably. Some of the new 10-inch shrapnel shell were also
proved in this practice.

VALUABLE LOAN. —A very remarkable result of
the late Exhibition at Leeds has occurred in the generous
proposal of Mr. Alexander Barker to allow the whole of
his valuable contributions to the Exhibition, consisting of
twenty of the most interesting and beautiful paintings, of
the Italian schools of the 15th and 16th centuries, old
bronzes, illuminated missals, drawings, ttc„ beautiful
examples of porcelain and majolica, and carvings, to be
left for exhibition at the Mechanics' Institute of that
town for one year, gratuitously, and even without any
conditions beyond such as are absolutely necessary for the
safe guarding of his art treasures. Mr. Barker's desire
and hopes are, that from his example other owners of
works of art will permit them to be exhibited from time to
time at the institution, for the benefit of the working
classes, to whom the sight of good works of art of all kinds
will be of the greatest service ; thinking, moreover, that
food for the mind is as indispensable as food for the body—
a fact too little heeded in our groat and populous seats of
industry.

BROKEN ENGLISH.—In glancing over some
German papers the other day, we noticed this advertise.
ment in Addisonian English, looking very queerly among
the uniform German type :—" In a respect. German
family two minutes outside the Holstenthor finds a young
English or Frenchman, a fine furnished up rcom with or
without board for a low price. Apply to the expedition
of this paper." Now, if any " young English" did happen
to want a " fine furnished up room," only " two
minutes outside the Holstenthor," this must have
been a great chance. Upon the whole, we think there
must be more broken English in the world than any other
broken language—more even than " broken China." Mr.
Buffum once said he had seen in a Paris restaurant the
dish ris de veau h la financiere, which is, of course, simply
"Sweetbread a la financiere," literally translated for the
behoof of English patrons into "The smile of the calf to
the female capitalist." Compared with this last, the
advertisement of the ":respect.lGerman family "is English
of Gibbon and Goldsmith.—New York Times

PRIMARY EDUCATION (IRELAND).—The Hoye,
Commission on Primary Education met on Thursday, the
26th instant, at the offices of the Commission, 46, Upper
Sackville-street, Dublin. There were present—the Earl
of Powis, the Earl of Dunraven, the Bishop of Meath,
Lord Clonbrock, Master Brooke, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev•
B. M. Cowie, Mr. Dease, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Stokes, Pro -
fessor Sullivan, and Mr.' Waldron. The secretaries'
Messrs. Alay and Dnune, were in attendance.