The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-21 00:00:00

REMARKS.

There has been a general diminution in barometrical pressure since
Saturday, amounting to eight-tenths of an inch on the Irish coast,
where the motion during last night has been rapid. The readings in
Ireland are very low ; between Greencastle and Rochefort the
difference is an inch. Temperature was low yesterday on the N.E.
coast: this morning it is much higher everywhere than it was on
Saturday - especially in the S.W. The wind yesterday morning was
generally light to moderate, from S. to S.E. in the Channel and in
Ireland, but it has since blown strongly on the E. coast and at
Valencia. This morning high winds from the S.E.continue in the
E. and N., whilst a fresh S.W. wind is reported elsewhere. Rain has
been general, and is still falling in the S.W. The sky is overcas'
and the weather looks very unsettled. Warnings to al coasts.

Colonel Wright, M.P. for Nottingham, in a letter
to the Nottingham Express, states that if he resigns his -seat
in Parliament shortly it will be on the sole ground of the
delicate state of his health.

At a General Court of the Corporation of the Sans
of the Clergy, on Saturday, Dr. Tait, ArchbisLop-olect of
Cant, rhury, was elected president in the room of Arch-
bishop Loegley.

At Dublin, on Friday, Mr. Justice O'Hagan was
sworn in as Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and afterwards was
re-sworn as a member of the Privy Council, pursuant to th.
present statute.

Prince Arthur has been granted leave of absence
from his military dutios from the 19th of December, 1868,
to the 2nd of January, 1869. He left Woolwich early on
Saturday morning.

Mr. Thomas Kemmis, the lately appointed Trea-
sury solicitor in Ireland, is in a very precarious state of
health, having been seized a day or two ago with an apo-
plectic fit. Yesterday he was no better.
'Sir Richard Mayne, it is said, is somewhat better,
IDUt lie is still confined to his house. It is understood
that, acting on tho advice of his family and his friends
he will shortly tender his resignation.

A very amusing story has been going the round of
the papers of Vie discussion which took place between
Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright before the latter right hon.
gentleman could be induced to film office. The Manchester
Examiner states, "on good authority," that the story is
altogether untrue.

Four hundred men were imprisoned on Friday id
the Holmes Colliery, near Rotherham. It happened thus.
About nine o'clock in the morning, when the pit was in full
work, the cage containing sevetal corves of coals was, from
some at present unexplained cause, overdrawn, and one of
tho loaded carves fell down the shaft. The accident
it may well be conceived, caused great alarm both above
and below. Those above set to work to repair the machi-
nery, and when it was possible to descend the shaft it was
found that the corve bad stuck fast some 300 yards from
the top, and th t the framework on the other side was
much damaged. Communication was thus entirely cut
off with the four hundred men below, who, weary, tired, and
hungry, gathered about the bottom of the shaft in anxious
suspense. It was wino o'clock in the evening before pro-
visions could be passed to them.