The Sun.
London, England, 1868-07-18 00:00:00

REMARRs.

Since yesterday morning a slight decrease in barometrical pressure
has occurred at our northern and western stations, amounting to
nearlytwolicatendtil:igls, arc,
1:1Ir
elanwhilst in the south-east an increase is
noticed. however, still very uniform. Temperature
has fallen a little at the south-eastern stations, but elsewhere it has
risen somewhat. Winds this morning are light, and principally from the
south-westward ; but on the west coast of France they are south-
easterly. The weather is cloudy with rain in the west. A thunder-
storm, with
at Paris
withhe
esavyyrtaeird is reported from Brussels, and thunder
occurred ay afternoon.

LONGFELLOW IN TIIE TEMPLE. —Accompanied by
Mr. Charles Kent, the poet (whose stirring lines of wel-
come have been commonly assigned to Professor Kingsley
and Mr. Charles Knight), Mr. Longfellow spent a couple
of hours on Friday last week in visiting the Temple
Gardens and the Temple Church. Mr. Longfellow has
been four times in England ; but this visit was the first
he had ever paid to the spot in London about which,
with one exception, perhaps, the memories of all the men
of English blood most delight to linger. Turning out of
Fleet-street, the American poet found himself suddenly in
an ancient and familiar place, standing on the very spot
where Plantagenet and Somerset bade their followers pluck
the red rose and the white rose—near the old mulberry
tree, still in green leaf, under NI hich Bluff Harry
courted Anne Boleyn—close by the river terrace of
&sex House, on which Shakspeare and Southampton
loved to walk, and on which still blooms the purple vine
(a cutting from which has been sent to Shakspere's House,
at Stratford-on-Avon)—beneath the old sycamore tree,
now protected by an iron fence, under which Goldsmith
and Johnson used to sit and chat—and over the great
stone outside the Temple porch on which you read
"Here lies Oliver Goldsmith." The church, the libraries,
the halls, the fountains, and the gardens—all were visited
in turn by the American poet.—Athenxum.
The excessive heat seems to have its effect on the mem-
bers of the House of Lords. It was only a few days ago
that we announced the death of the second Baron Dun-

fermline, and this morning we have to chronicle the de-
' cease of another peer, the second Earl of Bantry, who
expired suddenly on Thursday, whilst visiting at Exmouth
House, Hampshire. The late. Right Hon. Richard
White, Earl of Bantry, Viscount Berehaven, Viscount
and Baron Bantry of Bantry, County Cork, in the
peerage of Ireland, and a representative peer Li
Ireland, was the eldest son of EMl:lr], first Earl.
The late earl's father was created Baron Bantry
in consideration of the zeal and loyalty he shewee.
towards the British Government during the troubles in
Ireland, especially in repelling the French fleet in Bantry
Bay in 1797 ; and was presented with a gold medal by the
county of Cork. He was afterwards advanced to the
viscountcy in ISOO, and the earldom in 1816. The late
peer, who professed Conservative principles, was born in
November 1800, and was therefore in the 68th year of his
age. Ho succeeded to the title in 1821, and married,
fifteen years later, the third daughter of the Marquis of
Thomond. There is no issue by the marriage ; conse-
quently the family honours and estates devolve upon his
brother, the Rom William Henry White-Hedges, of
Ms room Cadith Comity (Jo& and lieutenant-coloneL
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