The Sun. — 1868-12-19 (London, England)

REMARKS.  Pressure has risen at all stations since yesterday, especially in the N. and W., where the change is nearly four-tenths of an inch ; a slight decrease has occurred during the night on tne E. coast. Read• ings are now very uniform in these islands, but that reported from Rochefort is 0'351n. higher than that at Shields. Temperature has fallen generally ; on the Scotch coast the change has been very sudden, amounting to 18 deg. at Nairn. Fresh to moderate southwesterly winds were prevalent yesterday ; they have now veered to W. on the Irish coast and in the Channel. On the E. coasts the wind is light and variable. In the S.W. of England heavy rain has fallen, but the sky is now clear there ; on other coasts it is cloudy  Priscilla Biggadyke, convicted of the murder of her husband, will be executed at Lincoln on the 28th inst.  Sir Thomas Gresley, Bart., M.P. for South Derbyshire, is lying seriously ill at Mr. A. M. Mundy's, Shipley Hall.  The Duke of Northumberland has granted to the United Free Methodists of Kirkwhelpington a site on which to build a chapel and a house for their minister.  A rumour has reached us that Earl Spencer will probably have a public entry into Dublin on Wednesday next, the 23d inst.  The Vacant Minor Canonry in Limerick Cathedral has, by the Very Rev. the Dean, been conferred on the Rev. Francis Mereydth, M.A.  A " Conservative alliance" is to be formed in South Warwickshire. Its object is to assist the Conservative Registration Association in disseminating Conservative principles.  The letter purported to have been addressed by Mr. Howell, secretary to the Reform League, threatening a Boston publican with prosecution for illegal practices at the election, is repudiated by Mr. Howell.  A. memorial is to be presented to his Graco the Duke of Montrose by the officials of the Post-office thanking him for his uniform courtesy and kindness during his tenure of office, and expressing the universal regret that is felt at his departure.  Up to 8 o'clock on Thursday evening 207 copies of private bills were deposited at the Committee Clerk's office in the House of Lords, that being the latest time, under the Standing Orders of their lordship's House, when hills could be deposited.  The nave mid choir of Ripon Cathedral have been fitted up with gas, and it is stated that a Sunday evening service will be commenced In the nave on the 27th inst., in lieu of that held in the Temperance-hall. It is proposed to form a volunteer choir at once, and thus secure a congregational service.  A meeting was held at Drogheda, on "Wt dnesday, for the purpose of taking into con iileration the report of the committeo appointed by Om Irish Peers and Conunoners to confer with Government on the purchase cf the Irish railways. The Mayor presided. licsolutions in favour of Govorement purchase of railways were adopted unanimously. A gas explosion took place on 'Phut say in a house at Wandsworth, by which a lady was thrown out of bed, the doors were blown to pieces, and the roof was lifted off the kitchen. The shock was felt at least 150 yards from the house, and was thought to be an earthquake. The accident was owing to an escape of gas in the sitting-room.  Dr. F. G. Lee wants another curate for All Saints, Lambeth. In the event of the Bishop of Winchester refusing to license him ho will institute an appeal to the Archbishop of Canterbury. It is rumoured that Dr. Lee may possibly be himself the defelAgyt, ill Ate Arcku taxillui aping 2411H/9 11t