New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-10-01

demonstrate their appreciation Of It's Importance
We staU be justified il naSing "perscnsl"
matter OF the following paragraph from The Scientific
American:
There are row more spots on the slG than haze
been seen before for m9ny years; somo of thsee
yieible through a smoked glass 10 the naked eye.
Several tsrf-some Of them Of great brlliaucy which,
from their Gtct1tsned distance have been large
as orr sUn-hsve Totally disappeared from the sky
oud the QUESTION has been raoed among Astronomers,
whether the light and hest Of the ara gradually
fading awav An this would We accompanied by the
Gesuctoa OF all the plants and animals on the e,rh
il j. ather interes ing question. The sans ligli
sra heat diminished by tle dark spots at the present
time about per cent"
Mr. Ralph Fa,nham OF Maine said to be the last
survivor Of the BEETLE Of Bnnkers Hill has been To-
vited to visit Boston. The inequalities of the ci y,
public reception, escort of Ancient and norable
s. ldiery and addresses by Edward Everett and Others
will be given the distinguished veteran. He has &C.
copied TIE invitation in the following letter;
AcToS Me-, Sept. 25 1860.
Nh " p. Ranks Mr.. w. LINCOLN y and Othey,, Boston
have receive cd your kind invitation to visit Boston,
aid thank YOU Tor the honor you do me. When
listed in the American ArUy at the age of eighteen,
old not suVposs should live 10 he lO4, aud be asked
by The Governor and Mayor, and other distinguished
people to Welt Boston.
Stems strange that out of all who at Bunker
Ill., alone should be living II appears to me, though
so long as n ~ visa but ge3t r0dy eau reu6 n
Der the particulars Of the march after sed-how the
people che,Ted and when pear AGdover, Col Abbott
cSme ont and said, " W Il done, my lads and sent
out cidtr and greg in pals. We got to Cam ridge the
day before the Battle. o. II terrible altar 10 me,
for it was the first time ever ergsged in fighting.
served with the army through three campaigns, and
present, and on guard, when Bnrgoyne suren-
dertd. don't think deserve any specla praise Tor
The part took in the Revolution felt and acted only
az oIbers. ! receive every ysar my peuslon OF sol
and Go cepts-thoUgh have 70 pay "a 10 lawyer III
Portland 70 get II for me.
have many things 10 comfort me az journey along
through lite--inppa cradle are the mercies am sur
rouJ ded with. As to temporal matters-kind lovi1g
Children faithful friends. As to spritual-the molly
scriptures and the various institutions of reg on-al
OF which desigDed for our Improvement here aud
10 pre- pare MS TO DWELL in that better world above
II kind Providence spares any life end health, you
may expect ~ me in Boston about the Sth oi Oto'
Der. Your friend, RALPH tARHAN'
The London correspondent Of The Liverpool Al.
Jion has clever description of the dining habits Of
several eminent British politicians:
% Sir COrnewal Lewis, Sir George Grey, and Nil.
ner Gibson very regular ~ their retoctatory OBJ
servanees, going to work with the air OF men who
MT 70 stand upon trlfes, and they certainly
don't Lewis, being philosopher, very properly
holds that whatever is worth doing al all Is worth
doing well. Accordingly he devOtes himself to DIS
dinner with the laDoIiOus cOIscien ousness which dis
tiuguisbe5 everything be atteUpt5, and with good
deal more euccees than attends some OF MS eXDerl.
uents. The late Mr. Dando, the oystefoide, would
oslracse h The of failure in the opening nei
for Sir Cornewal would swallow the Wishing Oyster
Itself and for the matter Of that the Learned Pig after
il without making a WY moath, and assuredy not A
rtibe one. Grey does Huch more justice 10 his tood
than his food does 70 him. for a1y JOly TO look at Sir
GeOrse would fancy he had MT breaktas cd since last
general fssdsy. AS for Gibson, be really appears to
dine by way OF Joke, il to show, which that 0ro
counienaDce Cf bic does lat he reBhes the humor OF
beng curiosity in The cabinet Of the Comic Old Cen
tieman; and there isn't doubt but be would ply a
knife ana fork, Father sYoyn, as banquet In the
manner Of the ancients according 10 the model IN
Roder.k Random, if be could thereby contribute,
as he unqu, stlonaby would, TO the hiariy OF the
CODscripJ iattershlB late master, Johu Bright, by
no means included. But the Opposition are Tar the
bsst diners. Disrash never misses night
and night of entertainment it invariably
i, with the Arabian enchsnter de bewltches every
bod a la Sld0aia; carrying the Phl1stmes HlllngI
cspves 10 the JudeaD lions Maccabean banner Ia the
fashion of his own AIr0y, whose tale sn half SO
WoI drOus as the biography OF the Heoralc member
for Bucks Benjamin Mess,' as the dinner at nis
Die is called is one for which tue barterDg away OF
birthrgnt ou!d hardly be a wrong dcing 1t Is a
feast d nectared sweets where no crude sueit regns
bis Wit being the sance piquAnt that would create an
appetite within the ribs OF death, and prevent an an
cOrts CRY ing out hold enough, TIL further absorption
yas p1possibe Seriously, however, he does exercise
eat aordiuary fascination over ali who approoch MOI;
and this by effort of his OwD and almost IN sF*e oil
hia self as the case with Lord Herbert OF Cher-
bury, whom PeOpe would insi ON receiving cults on
the head from they were fond Of him, and prayed
for sinking reciprocstiou on his part, Like other
treat satiIists, sn the Peei-slayers gall is on hi
a, bat milk Of Euman KINDNESS exudes from
IoLgu,, 20 everywhere Else. H., III Z
seemingly fereilapt en.. wa q di'esjn OF all srti
fees end trekery for the creation part'sIs b. hao
prfons tollowlpg, properly 80 called, winch no O. u0i
political individually time could or pretend To-.
Unlike all such his has been proJ against the want Of
the leaders successan ordeal before which the pOpu
larty of every other chief has collapsed in atwinkng
The Young Highlander so far follows the example OF
Old EpQlAndes the pfect dent Of Put Is 30 Tar copied
by Pitt successor that port is the potatlon Of the Pal
esne TanCred perhaps because OF his production Tor
beeswipg, suggestive alike OF honey aud slngl0g, IN
both of which articles Of taste and vlTae ne particularly
excels Ii might be thought that the autnOr ot 'he
Young Dixie would patrOnize only LATTE, Chateau
Mai geau, ard the grO@ tbs OF the Cote dOri
WI lie readers OF the Rhebsh Teyels IN EtrsaH Grey
would look for Rudsheimer, TOksy, JohanDsberger,
and the sister viltages OF Fetherland Bat nc adheres
To the tory beverage Of the DOGrO, .he limitations
whereof often better than the original constitute,
cordng 10 his own showing, an important doueslc
MAI utacure in Houndscic1i and perhaps that ID one
reason If bis acefby toward the yL-gatlzCd vIuOus
tiuple Of the Gladstone tariff Stanley, who tries 10
follow in the Disrselian wake in 50 may things,
trois in Beniamins fOOtseps-h0Hd P1S5t1as d4VtS-
in this particular too beltg about the next most
regular Of the conservative Gisfs though frUm Palace
vsId Il No ST. Jamess square, Is within legal Fix
nsnny .ab nee say a shilling, 10 one ever pays Six.
hence u1lers IT be Lord OyeIstone, the Marquis OF
Wettnipster OF such Ike chtesepa,iGg mi!ionsire.:
one Of the principal menbeIs Of the Opposition sne
,vt The gblest Of any, next 10 the leader himself
usmsly the la'e Under Secretary Seymour Fitzgerald
IA ON The Small Dnosr Committee yet, strange enough
~ on or ever dimes in the house perhaps for lack OF
appetite; but as lie has now gone 70 h".sa! nayNhP
he vii come back s0aewhst onarp'sei tdough, 10 De
re his aye-testh have Seen long cut with surprsng
inesiyentis as Lord John can bear Wltness' fltI'
Cerad's conrtry Iosn and fslow-;ulnaTy commi@ee,
man Philosopher French, IL never an aTS; .L a,,u