The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-21 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Barometrical pressures had decreased yesterday in the N. of our
islands, but a general increase has occurred during the last 24 hours to
the extent of nearly two-tenths of an inch. The lowest readings are
in the S.W. of Ireland, and highest in Scotland: a difference of
nearly four-tenths of an inch exists between Cape Clear and Nairn.
Temperature is a little lower at southern stations. On Saturday
night a north-easterly gale blew on the Scottish coast, and at the same
time a south-easterly gale prevailed in the English Channel. Winds
yesterday had moderated, except at the entrance of the English
Channel and on the W. coast of France. This morning very light
easterly winds are prevalent in these islands: at Toulon a south-
easterly gale has set in. Since yesterday rain has been general.
Yesterday the amount on our eastern coasts was large. The weather
is cloudy. Fog is reported from the S. coast of England.

The Prince of Wales is expected to lay the inun-
dation-stone of the Now University building in Gilmore-
hill early in October, and his Royal Highness will 100 accom-

panied in his visit to Glasgow by the Princess of Wales.

Messrs. Carey Brothers have sent a sovereign to
the editor of the Freeman for a "testimonial intended as a
protest against the recent persecution of Mr. A. M. Sullivan
by our present rumbling, stumbling, fumbling, trembling
Government." • . •

The Court Journal states that the public will be
Pleased to learn that Mr. Gladstone has perfectly recovered
from the slight attack of indisposition, under which he suf-
fered during his sojourn at Ponmaenmawr, and that ho is
now in the enjoyment of perfect health.
On Saturday morning a woman, apparently about
80 years of age, was seen walking over London-bridge to-
wards the Borough. She suddenly mounted the stone
Parapet, and then leaped into the river Thames. As the
unfortunate creature sprang over she cried out, "Gone, for
ever." Assistance was almost immediately at hand, but too
late. The body has not been recovered.

On Saturday Mr. T. B. Hodgkinson, the borough
accountant of Southport, was brought before the magistrates,
charged with embezzling various sums of money belonging
to the town and corporation. Ono case, in which the sum
of X 1,155 was involved, was gone into, and the magistratcs
determined to commit the prisoner for trial, but as thero
were several other charges to be brought forward, the fur-
ther consideration of the case was adjourned for a week.

Christianity is altogether in the ascendant at
Madagascar, th 3 new Queen having abolished idol worship,
and openly declared her contempt for the idols and their
priests. It is not known whether she has personally
espoused Christianity, but she tolerates it so fully that most
of the princial chiefs and their families have embraced it,
and the Christian churches cannot nearly contain the crowds
who flock to hear the gospel.
A renewal of the " potato rioting" in Cork—to
prevent exportation to England—has been marked by the
peculiar circumstance that several hundred women sta-
tioned themselves across a leading thoroughfare, and
searched every cart thtit had sacks on it. Two other sections
of the mob, also composed exclusively of women and girls,
broke into the yard of a large dealer and carried off pota-
toes in great quantities, which they brought to a forced sale
in ono of the markets, exclaiming that they "would not
allow English forestallers to raise the price." Four of the
ringleaders, Margaret Callaghan, Hannah Desmond, Ellen
Manning, and Mary Woods, were taken into custody.
Sir George Douglas writes to the Edinburgh Courant to
request the insertion of a letter he has received from Lord
Schomberg Kerr. For election purposes it appeals to
have been reported that his lordship was a Roman
Catholic, and he therefore wishes to state that he is and
always has been a member of the Established Church of
England. Elections are . always very demoralising,
notably in the the enormous number of lies which are put
into circulation with the money and the beer.

The Daily .News writes very dolefully of the position of

the commercial world. " It is not," says our contemporary,
"agreeable to look forward to the future. If we were to
judge by existing appearances alone, there is no likelihood
of improvement over the past. The same elements of
doubt and apprehension which have crippled commercial
prosperity during the last two years are present now.
Perhaps, however, for this very reason a change
may be hoped for. It seems certain that public
affairs have
.arrived at that point when there can be
no holding back, and that some decisive step must be
taken one way or the other." The formidable and appa-
rently irremovable drawback to the revival of confidence
rests in the continued tension of political affairs. This is
shewn by the very efforts which are made to restore con-
fidence. Last week the King of Prussia made a speech
which caused a panic on the Paris Bourse. Thereupon three
French Ministers of State wrote to the Syndic of the Bourse,
giving their views of the speech, which were, of course,
pacific. Fancy Lord Stanley, Mr. Hunt, and Mr. Hardy
sending similar letters to the committee of the Stock
Exchange. This sort of official commentary would cer-
tainly have in London, and probably had in Paris, pre-
cisely the effect it sought to avoid. An ostentatious
avowal of confidence in the maintenance of peace has come
to be considered rather more alarming than a warlike
manifesto.

Even the Times has at last come to the conclusion that
such a disturbance as that which took place in Lombard-
street on Friday is discreditable to those who originated
it. It inserts three letters, all with the same tendency,
viz., that Mr. Lyne's sermons are anything but Popish,
as they are supposed to be, but as that very
fervid Protestant Mr. Hugh Allen declared them
to be—" God's truth ;" and that the scandal of
" ladies bonneted and hooted by a rabid mass
of City clerks and inebriated stockbrokers" is intolerable.
The Times follows up these letters with a leader, which,
while it pours out sarcasm on the preacher, condemns, with
such faint heartyness as it can muster, the men who have
brought disgrace upon London by misconduct "which
might easily assume the dimensions of a grave national
scandal." Let it be understood that
,the tumultuous
clerks and brokers have risen against Mr. Lyne, not
because of doctrinal unsoundness, but because he
denounced their morals in language more vigorous than
discreet. Their irritation appears to have been turned to
account by the Ultra-Protestant party ; and Mr. Pascoe
Grenfell Hill, the rector of the church in which Mr. Lyne
preaches, declares that there is behind the scenes a person
of the Murphy type, only, unlike that agitator, he keeps
in the background, and sends his paid emissaries to
" whoop on the rabble whom they bring with them."
DEATH OF DOWAGER LADY GLENTWORTH.--011
Friday last Annabella, Lady Glentworth died at her resi-
dence in Chester-square, after a long illness, in her 78th
year. The lamented viscountes was the second daughter
of Mr. Tennison Edwards, of Old Court, county Wicklow,
and married Henry Lord Glentworth, eldest son of Edmond
Henry, first Earl of Limerick, 11th May, 1808. By her
husband, whose death preceded that of his father in 1834,
she leaves an only son, the present Earl of Limerick, and
four daughters—Lady Mary (unmarried); Lady Emily,
married to the Rev. Henry Gray ; Lady Cecilia, married
to the Rev. G. Herbert Repton ; and Lady Augusta Maria,
married to Sir Edward Kennedy, Bart.

ORDINATION AT CARLISLE.—On Sunday morning
the Bishop of Carlisle held an ordination in Carlisle
Cathedral, when the following gentlemen were admitted
into holy orders, viz. : Deacons : William Gabbett, Lon-
don College of Divinity, licensed to the curacy of lio'y
Trinity Church, Whitehaven ; Thomas Brassington, St.
Aidan College, Birkenhead, licensed to the curacy of
Waberthwaite, Cumberland; Robert Dixon Hope, literate,
licensed to the curacy of Barton, Westmoreland ; Joseph
Stephen Pratt, 8.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, licensed
to the curacy of St. John's, Keswick ; Joseph Knight,
London College of Divinity, licensed to the curacy of
Brough, Stainmore ; Robert Neil, 8.A., Corpus Christi
College, Cambridge, licensed to the curacy of St. Paul's,
Silloth ; James Henry Blackman, late vice-principal of
the Bangalore Government High School, South India,
licensed to the curacy of Preston Patrick, Westmoreland ;
James Targett, London College of Divinity, licensed to the
curacy of St. Mary's, Ulverston. Priest : Rev. William
Edmund Strickland, 8.A., Trinity College, Dulgin,.
irate of St. Stephen's, Carlisle,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, Sept. 19.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Christian,
went out yesterday morning, and in the afternoon
drove out with Princess Louise.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales, the Duke of Edinburgh, and Prince
John of Denmark dined with her Majesty last
night.
The Right Hon. B. Disraeli arrived at the Castle
yesterday.

SIGNAL BETWEEN PASSENGERS AND

GUARDS.

A recent act of Parliameat makes it imperative
that by April next railway companies shall establish
some means of communication between passengers
and guards of railway trains, an I the consequence
is that railway directors and officials are now direct-
ing their attention seriously to the accomplishment
of this object. A few days ago a railway trip was
taken at Manchester for the purpose of testing the
efficiency of an invention recently patented by
Messrs. Kearsleyand Holt, which they denominated
the " Passengers' own signal." The experiment
was made upon the Manchester, South Junction,
and Altrincham line, between Oxford-road Sta-
tion, Manchester, and Kutsford, Cheshire. Several
railway officials and other gentlemen interested in
witnessing the experiment, with a view of recom-
mending the adoption of the apparatus, upon ap-
proval of its working, were present. The trip and
the trial were highly satisfactory, and it was the
unanimous opinion of all who inspected the inven-
tion that the signal is as effective in character as it
is simple iu its contrivance. One prominent ad-
vantage of the signal is that it appeals at once to the
eye and the ear of the officer in charge of the
train, while it consequently will enable the
passengers to become acquainted with the nature
of any alarm that may have arisen. The
apparatus, from the simplicity of its construc-
tion, can be easily described. It consists of a
small windmill or vane, fixed upon the roof of one
of the carriages, the vane being turned a t an amazing
speed when the train is running at, say, 30 or 40
miles an hour, as was the case on Friday with the
Bowdon express. This vane, thus in motion, rings
a large bell, which is as loud as one of our factory
bells in Manchester, and which, once set in motion,
never ceases until the train is stopped. The alarm
can be raised by any of the passengers by pulling 3
chain drawn across the roof of the carriage in which
they are seated. The chain hangs conveniently
overhead and can easily be reached from any portion
of the seats, and, in fact, without the passenger rising
from his place. The first effect of pulling this chain is
that two semaphores rise up into the usual position
which in the railway dictionary means " Stop !
and the second effect is that the wind-vane is re-
leased and exposed to the current of the air, which
sets it rotating as above-mentioned, while of course
the bell is set ringing at the same instant. Attached
to the windmill is a white light, meaning " All
right," but upon the alarm being given the white
light instantaneously gives place to a red one—the
" danger" signal. Those who, on Friday, during the
return home, rode upon the engine, expressed them'
selves much pleased with the precision with which
these changes were brought about. It is obvious that
they can be most effectively seen by the driver and
the guard in night journeys, or while the train is
passing through a tunnel. The semaphores also
show strikingly by daylight ; and, taking the soma'
phore light and alarm ball together, the officers
in charge can hardly fail to see the one or hear the
other. During the whole of the trip the bell, as We
were informed, was distinctly heard to the extreme
end of the train, which on this occasion consisted of
13 carriages. In the Old Trafford tunnell the sound
was remarkably distinct. This is the more worth)"
of being mentioned because one of the objects of
the patentees was to prevent the possibility of 3
renewal of the outrages we have too frcquentlY
heard of being committed in the noisy transit
through dark tunnels. Another evidence of the ad-
vantage of the alarm bell was observed in the atten-
tion it excited among the residents in the different
localities through which the train passed. The
thought occurred that if a carriage were '6 on fire,
or " off the rails," or if any other cause of peril
should arise, plenty of stout hearts and willing hands
would flock to the spot from their rural labours to
render timely and perhaps priceless aid. Every
carriage can be fitted with its apparatus in such a
manner that it will act without the train being
connected from end to end, so that no time will be
lost at stations in dropping off or taking on car-
riages, nor will any staff of men be required at the
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railway stations to attend to the coupling or iv
coupling of the carriages that compose the train.