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

REMARKS.

Barometrical pressures bad 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. Ott 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.
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The Prince of Wales is expected to lay the lona-
dation-stone of the New University building in Gilmore-
hill early in October, and his Royal Highness will be 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 ho suf-
fered during his sojourn at Penmaonmawr, and that he is
now in tho enjoyment of perfect health.
On Saturday morning a woman, apparently about
30 Sears of age, was seen walking over London-bridge to.
wards the Borough. She suddenly Mounted the stone
parapet, and then leaped into tho river Thames, As the
unfortunate creature sprang over she cried out, "Gone, for
ever." Assistant© was almost immediately at hand, but too
late. The body has not been recovered.

On Saturday Mr. T. B. liodgkinson, the borough.
accountant of Southport, was brought before the magistrates,
charged with embezzling various sums of money belonging
to tho town and corporation. One case, in which the sum
of £1,155 was involved, was gone into, and the magistrates
determined to commit the prisoner for trial, but as there
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, the new Qucen 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 star

tioned themselves across a leading thoroughfare, and
searched every cart that had sacks on it. Two other sections
of the mob, also composed exclusively of women and girls,
broke into tho yard of a large dealer and carried off pota-
toes in great quantities, which they brou;bt to a forced sale
in ono of tho 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, wero 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 tornbard-
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."
DEATII OF DOWAGER LADY GLENTWORTIL—VII
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.-011 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 Ho'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
Lusts of St, Stephen's, Carlisle,