The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-17 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Atmospherical pressure has Increased a little at all stations since
yesterday—chiefly in the N. and W. Readings are still remarkably
uniform. The decrease in temperature noticed as having occurred in
the W. yesterday has now extended to all stations, except those in the
south-east. The winds this morning are light, and very variable:
they are mostly from the north-westward. Weather to-day is cloudy.
Fog and rain have occurred in places, and thunder is reported from
Scarborough.

The Daily News is greatly exercised by Mr. Bright's in-
fatuation about salmon. Says our contemporary, after
speaking the praises of Messrs. Childers, Stansfeld, and
Seely : " It is so much easier for an eminent Liberal mem-
ber to come down to the House and make a few fine
speeches, to declaim and perorate on general principles,
And to be merry and at his ease when millions of public
money are being voted away, between sleep and waking, by
a bare Ministerial quorum after midnight, that we can-
not be too grateful to those very few members who,
undaunted by the torrid heat, and unreduced by social
distractions, devote night after night to the investigation
of the driest details of supply, and make almost a surgical
study of what may be called the morbid anatomy of the
estimates." The truth is, Mr. Bright is an orator,
not a legislator ; he can conceive great ideas, but he
cannot carry them out for lack of patience to deal with
details. We believe that the only measure he ever drew
up was his Reform Bill of 1858. In that abortive project he
seems to have exhausted himself so much, that five years
later he was obliged to go salmon fishing in Ireland while
the measures were being carried through Parliament for
the relief of his constituents and the other distressed
cotton-spinners of Lancashire. So, now that a bill to put
down the bribery which he has repeatedly denounced, is
being discussed, and with much labour brought into shape;
now that Mr. Childers is leading a forlorn hope against
the official strongholds of extravagance ; now that the
country squires are making a vigorous attempt
to pass a measure which they candidly avow to
be a counter move to the free-trade victory of twenty-two
years ago, Mr. Bright is on the Shannon instead of on the
Thames, whipping the largest of British rivers instead of
submitting to the discipline of the parliamentary whip. Was
Mr. Bright afraid all the salmon would be caught,that he thus
deserted his post a month before the time? Clearly, Mr.
Gladstone must not expect much assistance from his
colleague in working out the details of the laborious
measure for the rearrangement of the Irish Church
revenues.

Like the rest of the world, Messrs. Cancer and Capri-
corn are on their travels. We have yet to hear where
the second has been journe/ling. The first has undoubtedly
been travelling northwards, and this tropic is to be found
somewhere about 51 deg. N. latitude. Mr. E. J. Lowe,
writing from Nottingham on Wednesday, states that the
'thermometer on that day reached 931 in the shade, a
higher temperature than those recorded during June 1846,
June 1858, July 1852, and August 1856. The drought is
greater than any other which he can remember. Many
shrubs have died, and some trees are almost leafless. Mr.
Tibbitts, writing from near Kettering, records 96 deg. as
the highest shade temperature. In London yesterday the
thermometer was 84 deg. at 2 p.m. The haze and the smoke,
which always hang over the capital more or less, to a
certain extent intercept the sun's-rays, and reduce the
temperature. In the suburbs it was considerably higher
than this. The barometer rose during the night in
10.40011,