News in Brief
The new Bishop of Chester has adoptedI the Irish cos- tunie of not'wearing a wig. Lord Gifford has made the same in- road upon the judicial habits of former times. The present race of physictans, however, were the firxt to set the example. Lord Poulett has in his possessioni, at Hintoii StL George, two very beautiful and remarkably small ponies, which are ridden by his Lordship's infant sons, Lord Hinton and his brother. They were sent over from France by Mr. Knight, as presents to Lord Poulett, and arc each of the singularly diminutive stature of forty inches enly. Theircolouris a jet black, and when mounted by their youthful riders, have a curious and extremely interesting api. pearance.-Tauzatotn paper. THIE SUN LIGH'rD) WITH GAS.-M. Arago, of the Aea- demy of Sciences, Paris, communicated to hat body on the 14th Enstant, the results of several curious expetiments which hehad made upon the polarization of light. Frorn these experimetitshe considers himself authodzed to believe that the luminous tart of tbe sun is lothing else 'than a gaseous substance in combustion like the flame. of cndles. It is wvell k.owtn that this vras suspected. by the scle. brated Dr. Hersehell