The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-16 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Uniformly big' Pressures are reported this =ruing at all stations :
the increase in the north during the last twenty-four hours has been
upwards of three -tenths of an inch, but at stations in the southern
and western districts, the difference between readings is but slight.
In the west of Ireland a slight decrease is shewn since last evening.
Temperature has risen in the south and west of our islands. The
winds yesterday were generally light. and from N.W. to S.W. This
morning calms prevail on the Channel coast : on the Irish coast the
wind is light and south-westerly, hut variable elsewhere. The weather
is generally dry, and the sty overcast ; but at Greencastle a little rain
is reported. Fog w:th mist has prevailed in the west.

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as downright seditious and treasonable. None of our own
advices have confirmed these reports. We now learn that
the elections have just taken place, that only 1,300 out of
about 2,500 electors took the trouble to vote, and that the
retiring members were re-elected. The Af«lta Obserrcr
says :--" A f cr th's result, we may safely predict that the
heroic petiti n t ) the House of Commons, asking for all
sorts of nice hin_s, will be dropped for want of support
from the pr.blic Of course, a discontented
minority of c'ever citizens will always exist, and all the
good we can wish them is to make less noise, and be
ju4e.l by their deeds, not words."
The new United States Minister to this country is a
fortunate man. The exceeding popularity of Mr. Adams
rendered the position of his successor more than usually diffi-
cult. It seemed scarcely possible that the new Ministereould
stand as high in the estimation of the English people as
the old. Nevertheless, judging from the praises which
were bestowed upon him by the whole of the British press
without distinction of party, Mr. Johnson will begin with
as many admirers as Mr. Adams left off with. Never was
Minister more heartily received than he will be. He
will not have the demonstrative reception that we gave to
our old enemy Marshal Soult, when he came over here in
1838 to represent France at Queen Victoria's coronation,
but the welcome will be none the less real.

To what a pitch of folly fanaticism will carry a people
may be well illustrated just now by the doings of the
Australians in the matter of O'Farrell's attempted murder
of Prince Alfred. It is stated by a correspondent from
Melbourne that a liading advocate of the Victoria bar,
who was specially retained for the defence of O'Farrell,
was afterwards black-balled at his club for accepting the
brief. One can hardly believe the truth of this statement.
But still the passing of an Act declaring it criminal to
refuse a loyal toast is much on a par with this.

Victoria is apparently very much advanced in its legisla-
t ion concerning drunkenness. The colonists have determined
to treat a drunkard as an insane person, and have provided
in their lunacy laws that an habitual drunkard can volun.
tarily submit himself to confinement and treatment far
twelve months. It is also laid down that "if a parent,
husband, wife, child, or other near relative, or any friend
of any person who shall be labouring under or recovering
from an attack of delirium tremens, or who within a
period of one year immediately before the application
hereinafter mentioned, by and through the excessive use
of intoxicating drinks, shall have either wasted or shall
be wasting his means, and shall have neglected to main-
tain and support his family, or shall have habitually or
repeatedly threatened or used violence towards any mem%
1:,:r of the family," shall apply to the Master in Lunacy,
and shall support his application by proofs and by medical
evidence to the satisfaction of the Master, and shall give
such notice of the application to the drunkard as the
Master shall require, the Master may authorise the deten-
tion of such person, and may subject him to curative
treatment for a period not exceeding twelve months. The
great objection to these enactments is that they are liable
to be much abused, as they place the man at the entire
mercy of his friends, if such they can be called. The action
as to lunatics has to be well guarded, even with our
English law, and what would be the result when such
extended powers are given to those whose interest it may
be to get their relatives incarcerated, remains to be seen.
Mr. Hamilton Hume, the secretary of the Eyre Defence
Fund, announces the formation of a committee for
receiving subscriptions for a testimonial to the ex-
governor. Sir Roderick Murchison is the president, and
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