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-
hot be too grateful to those very few members who,
undaunted by the torrid heat, and unseduced 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, brit le-
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
I?eing 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 journeying. 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 93.1 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

7HE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY AT

LEICESTER.

The proverbially "weeping skies" of England had no
iomage to offer to St. Swithin at Leicester. The day was
hill enough ; a few enthusiasts wandered down to the trial
fields to see a little private ridging, harrowing, and rolling
Or an hour or two, aisid then adjourned to the show-yard
o see the brick and tile making, for which £2O was
riven, and of which Whitehead, of Preston, took
,hree-fourths. The temperature was almost mien-
hirable. On many parts of the line from London the
fields were not only burnt up by the " sun's perpendicular
lea," but by the cinders from the engine, whose effects
lad spread like wildfire. Near Peterborough two corn-
ields were reported to be in a flame which no army
labourers could quench, and not far from Kettering,
haystack was on fire, in a field which was
mtirely charred. The cattle under their long
lanvas tents at Leicester looked cool and comfortable
mough, and somewhat grudged being roused when
he judges began their labours at nine a.m. on
Thursday. The prizes were awarded later in the day. In
;he catalogue the horses took precedence with 167 entries.
Df these 35 were for agricultural horses, and Mr. Wilson
took the head prize for Suffolks with The President. The
entry of thoroughbred sires was only poor, and the £lOO lot
!ell on Sir George Cholmeley's massive chesnut Angelus, a
,yell-know ei winner in thlYorkshire rings. The hunter
:lass was made especially interesting by the antagonism
if Lady Derwent and Mountain Dew ; the " Lady ' had
won at Ripon, and had been beaten at Peterborough uy a
bay horse from the master of the Pytchley's stud,
since the two met, with different judges, for the Islington
told medal. That decision was confirmed before a tribunal
)f three, of which Sir George Wombwell was one, and the
mare beat the horse. In the competition for two-year-old
heifers, her Majesty won her first shorthorn prize with
Alexandra. The Herefords were not very strongly repre-
sented as regards numbers, but the Devons had a capital
show throughout. There was a good show of sheep, but
she pigs had an especially hard time of it in the heat, and
their attendants sat beside them sponging their faces with
;old water: With respect to the implements, there is very
.ittle to be said. The trials were made for conformity's
take, but the ground was in such a state of bake that any
practical result could hardly be arrived at. In the
Xnplement yard there was nothing new except the
Abyssinian well, and the people crowded round it. and
Irank the purest water with a zest which 90 deg. in the
shade may well account for. On the whole it bids fair to
be a most successful show, and the coffers onhe Ryoal
Agricultural Society, which were sadly lowered by the
fallow year of 1866 and the half fallow year of 1867, will
have the replenishment which they have sorely needed.
The attendance was good for a five-shilling day, and the
company were scarcely out of the yard when a tremen-
dous shower came on, and St. Swithin was avenged.

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HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 16.

. _
The Queen, accompanied by the Duke and
Duchess of Coburg, drove out yesterday after-
noon.

The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, Prince and Princess Christian, Prin-
cess Louise, Prince Leopold, and Princess Beatrice
walked in the grounds this morning.

LATEST INTELL fGENC.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

TIIE WAR IN THE BRAZILS.
Rio DE JANEIRO, June 24.

The financial measures announced in the Imp'''
[jai speech at the opening of the Chambers have
not yet been introduced.
The Duke of Saxe is journeying in the interior.

According to the latest advices received here
from the seat of war the bombardment of Humaita
continued. A Paraguayan attack on the Cho°
had been defeated. The result of the Presidential
election in Buenos Ayres is still uncertain.
The Sarimento ticket has obtained a majority in

the capital.
At Montevideo the accounts of tho Mana had
been audited, showing a surplus of £400,000.