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(y , ((d r : t c - V!TSP..k.P ‘T ER 0 lIE NATO . z , :icto „sc. ,• 4 • _ E.LZAk't at - 4 11 1166. //g _ 4 4' ~41 ( 14„Ap4 CIATL - i f , •' • • , / 4: lik•g b y xita+ • .4,-4110 1 14 _ 4t*s "4 .A Oll DIE nt , -r , Rorr. '4O 0. 4111-0 HOTELS ; &o. CHAPLIN'S H 0 T E L. AND SPREAI EAGLE TAVERN, 'GRACECHURCH-STREET, LONDON. C oMort, combined with moderate charges, will be lound at this Establishment. PRIVATE APARTMENTS FOR FAMILIES. Sitting Room, 38. per Day. Bed Rooms, ls. 6d. and 2s. per Night. A Night Porter in attendance. No INCREASE OF CIIARGES. INDIA AND TIIE COLONIES. PASSENGERS Embarking or Disembarking will find superior accommodation and mo d era t e aarges at CnAPLIN'S CLARENDON HOTEL, GRAVESEND, Adjoining the Terrace Pier. A Lawn in front, extending to the River. THE LONDON, 191, - FLEET-STREET, near Temple -bar. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER for THIS DAY, the 25th inst„ will consist of POTAGES. Pete de Veau—A la Claremont. POISSON. Turbot sauce Romard—Anguille frites. ENTREES. Cotelettes de Mouton sauce Tom to—Petit Pates de Huitres. Rancho fie Venaison rota—Bceuf braise. ENTREMETS. Pouding de (.1011ege —Compote de Pommes de Normandie. Fromage et Salade. TO-1410 RROW, the 26th inst., "TAE LONDON DINNER" a ill consist of POTAGES. Puree de Navel—Aux Vermicelle. POISSN. nougets sauce aux Capres— O Filets de Brille frits. Ponlet a la MaringoENTREES. autSe de &cid anx Cgrniclions. Filet de Veau rota—Gigot de Mouton bouilli. ENTREMETS. Pouding a la Victoire—Tourte de Pomme. Fromage et Sal de. An extensive and carefully se l ec t e d s t oc k o f RHENISH , M OSELLE, and other WINES i mlorted express l y f or THE LONDON DINNER. Turtle Soup and all Fish in season daily. The attention of Clergymen, Officers, and Professional Gentlemen is especiall y drawn to the advantages offered by These elegant Saloons, which fulfil all the requirements of a 'est-end Club of the most aristocratic and exclusive cha racter. L'on trouve clans la Salle de Lecture non seulement les meilleurs Journaux Anglais, mais aussi Journaux Allemande, Francais et Beiges. • .„N.B.—During the E x hibiti on S eason , THE LONDON DINNER will be served daily from 2 until 9 o'clock ; and Dinners in the Coffee-room a la Carte, from 1 until 10 o'clock. Open on Sundays at 4 o'clock. FREDERICK SAWYER, Proprietor. AMUSEMENTS. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. Exeter Hall. Conductor, Mr COSTA. To afford strangers to London at this period the opportu llitY witnessing the eat Oratorio erformances of thi "'Delay of , an EXTRA CONCERT (the four p hundred and thirty s second of the Society) will be given on FRIDAY next, 29th August, when HANDEL'S MESSIAH will be performed. The band and chorus, on the most extensive scale available 1/1 Exeter-hall, will consist of (including 16 double basses) SEVEN IIIfNDRED PERFORMERS. Tickets of admission, Ss. ; reserved seats, ss, ; stalls, num bered in the area, half-a-guinea, at the Society's office, No. 6, in Exeter -hall ;or of the usual agents. The oratorio will commence precisely at 8 o'clock. Residents in the country may secure places by sending Post -office order to Mr. James Peck, 6, Exeter Hall. THE MESSIAH will be again performed at Exeter Hall by the Sacred Harmonic Society on FRIDAY EVENING next. C ANTERBURY HALL; STECKEL, The greatest Trapeze performer in the world. Grand Selections from the Operas, "DON SEBASTIEN" and "IL TROVATORE." Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Raynor, and Mr. Russell Grover. Unsworth, with the original Stump speech, " Or any other man," in conjunction with Eugene and Duley, forming the greatest Comic Trio in London; and a host of other Comic favourips. T H EX F o R 6, OXFORD STREET. Verdi's "IL CORSAR 0 " Every Evening, by Miss Russell, Miss Towneley ; Messrs. Morley, Greene, and Albert, with Full Band and Chorus, in addition to the usual musical and other attractions. Comic—Miss Caroline Parkes, Mr. W. Randall, and those unrivalled Ethiopian comedians, Rumsey, Newcomb, Little Bob, Eugene, and Un sworth (the original "or any other man"). " The miraculous Steckel " on the Flying Trapeze. Rail, 6d.; Balcony and Stalls, is. ; Private Boxes, 10s. 6d, MR. AND MRS. CHARLES MATHEWS " HOME." at HER MAJESTY'S CONCERT in YOOM, Haymarket, THIS EVENING (MONDAY), at 8, 81 ) entirely New and Original Entertainment, written by Umay J. Byron, Esq. PART I. "MY WIFE AND I." PART 11. A Romance of intense Interest, yclept TILE "SENSA TION" FORK; or, The Ma'den, the 11Ianiac, and the Mid night Murderers. Performed by a double Company (Two). /ZVERY bvENING (except Si t ttirA.,),,,,t 731 0 ., , es. Un- DAI MORNINti, at, Tlucc. Places may be secured at the Pox -office, from Ten till Five; at Mr. Mitchell's Royal. Library, 33, Old Bond-street at Austin's Ticket Office, St. James's Hall, and of all Booksellers. No extra charge for booking. Open at Half-past Seven. Carriages at a quarter to Ten. W. CORBYN, Acting Manager. S. WOODIN'S CABINET of CURIO • SY:VIES—NewIy Polished and Re-Iined—POLY GRAPHTAI BALL, King William-street, Charing-cross, Every Evening, at eight (except Saturday), with new characters, music, songs, and dances. The scenic illustrations and effects, entirely new, painted by and under the direction of Mr. William Callcott Morning Performance, Saturday, Aug. 30, at 3. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 25.; amphitheatre, Is. Box-office open from eleven to five. Mr. Woodin as Mr. Sothern, of the Haymarket in his celebrated character of "Lord Dundreary, Morning and Evening. ARGYLL BOOMS. Great Windmill-street, Haymarket.—GßAND CASINO FRANCAISE.- 0 0en every Evening for Promenade and Dancing, with the celebrated Band of 50 performers. Cond u cto r an d Principal Cornet-a -Piston, M. BOULCOURT.—The new Imperial Qua drille, Valse Cotillion, and L. Mosca's Peep o'DayValse will be played nightly. A new Conversation Salon has been added to the above Establishment for Reading, Coffee, and Refreshments.— Admission ls.—Manager, M. Grenet. THEATRE-ROYAL, DRURY•LANE. Dion Boueleault, Lessee. TUTS EVENING, A KISS IN THE DARK. Pollowed by the first part of the Arab Entertainment at Ilali-past 7. After which, TIIE COLLEEN BAWN : Messrs. Dion Roucicault, H. Vandenhoff, F. Robinson, Searle ; Madame Celeste, Jordan, Stevens. To conclude with THE ARABS OF THE DESERT : a Troupe of the Beni-Zouz-Zotur, at 10. Commence at 7. Box-office open from 10 to 5. THEATRE-RON Al HAY MARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstone. TAIS EVENING, at Seven, FISH OUT OF WATER. Mr. Compton, Mr. Rogers, Miss Caroline Bill, &e. After which, at a quarter to 8, will be performed (210th time) OU R AMERICAN COUSIN. Asa Trenchard, Mr. Buck stone ; Lord Dundreary, Mr. Sothem. Followed by a new Spanish Ballet entitled CELOS T 'CALIA ; or, Love and Jealousy. Senora Perca Nene, Se to'. Ricardo Moragas, and the 4:orrs de Ballet To conclude with THE CHRISTENING. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Lessee, Mr A. Harris. THIS EVENING, THE RENDEZVOUS. Messrs. Higgie, Meadows, &c., and Miss Maria Harris. L'ardi Alter which, at a quarter to Eight, KING HENRY VIII. Charles Raab. n Wolsey, Mr. Ch ar l es Kean ;Queen Katharine, Mrs. To cenOlnde with THE TWO POLTS. Mr. Widdicomb. Commence at 7. No half-price. fOYAL LYcEum THE it Sole Lessee and Mana zer — Mr. Edmund Falcon e A TR -E. 242 d Night of the continuous run of "Peep °,DaYr,., THIS EVENING, PEEP O'DAY ; or, Savourneen p e ," no, Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, CharlesSelbv Geo.Meiv-ille, and Edmund Falcone , : Mrs. D. P. Bowe,r,a. Weston, and Miss M. Hudson. Miss Clara After which, a new mus i ca l , pictorial, poetical, and b a ll et interlude, entitled KILLARNEY. MIF4s Anna Whitty and bliss Lydia Thomson. entitled THE COLLEEN' ~. Followed by a new Farce , IN AWN SETTLED AT LAST. Mr. Charles Selby and Miss I .3rdia Thompson. Actin , Manver—Mr. F. B. Chattertor.. "Prices as usual. Poore open at half- p ast 6, to commence at .., ‘• 11 0x -office open daily from 11 tlll5. Commence a• 7. NgIV THFATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPHI.- Sole Proprietor nod Monsiffer. Mr. B. Webster. EVENING THE PRETTY HORSEB REAKER. Messrs. J. L. Toole': P. Bedford, Relit', and Mrs. IT. Marston, MissWoolgrar, Miss Kate .„..After which, ADRIENNE LE COUVREUR : Messrs J. !- Toole, Billington, D. Fisher, Sefton, Stephen son, Eburne, lilies Avonia Jones, Miss Lattimer, Miss K. Bland, Miss -Latimer, and Mrs. Billington. To conclude with THE SHIT LING DAY. Messrs. J. L. 7 ° ol e P. Bedford, Phillips, Miss Latimer, Mrs. H. Lewis. ColliMence at 7. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. — Sole l'roprietor and Manager, Mr. W. BATTY. Revival of "Mazeppa." THIS EVENING will be performed MA ZEPPA ; or, The Horse of Tartary, wfth New Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations. To be followed by a brilliant routine of novel and daring Scenes in the Circle. 43 u nn Toconclude Awry Croueste a COMIC BALLappearET, in whi c h th e Mi sses is andwill . Commence at 7.—Stage Manager, BIT'. W. Searle. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail- Way Terminus, at King's-cross. The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTAN CE of the b enevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of centainin several hundred more beds had the Committee the I'equisite funds to maintain them. is.r 9 3 ntributions are received by the Trea s ure r, Edwa rd er man, Esq., Ni c h o l as -lane; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. _ _ J. B. ()WEN, M.A., Chairman of the Weekly Board. AN IMPORTANT DISCUSSION.—The "Times," the "Lancet," and other leading journals have been lately canvassing the social considerations in volved in " the amount of death and disease caused by vice." Some interesting statistics are brought to bear upon the inquiry ; but it would greatly add to their value if they in cluded the facts respecting the origin, the ravages, and the prevention of that SPECIAL VICE, which wars more than any other against the welfare of society—destroying the happi ness and disappointing the objects of matrimony, under mining the constitutions, blasting the prospects, embittering and shortening th e lives of its victims, and spreading desola tion through families. The essential particulars relating to this great social evil (the besetting snare of inexperienced youth and the curse of maturity), together with ample instructions for removing its dlects, and recovering health, vigour, and all the ennobling privileges of ou r b e i ng, are contained in Dr. LA'MERT'S Phisical e " 9ELIP-PRESE RVATION" a Treatise on Nervous and ub of which' the 90th Edition has just been p , ished Dbbility Mann an d C o., 39, Cornhill, London, price ls., sent post free for 13, or in a - sealed envelope for 20 stamps' Dr. LA.l3lraT, M.D., &e., having for 20 years devoted himself entirely to this b ranch of practice, may be consulted daily, either personally or b y correspondence, at his residence, No 37, BEDFORD -SQUARE, London. . MEDICAL WORK, MED ICA I, ESSAY ivli ^ MANHOOD : SP withE R numerousl V f A T O R R F r l . DE. CU writs' A TIVE DEBILITY, &o. : sIsTa S n o ?d' I.,,, N i l , ;t i l l t, V lis O h lfl e t d i , the AND 150 (i t h ' Th - 0 [ E at: i!: a sealed envelope, price la., , (nt post, paid, by the Author, for 12 by all Booksellen, and 2 stamps, ir ANT - 100D: the CAUSE and CU • )( MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with P RE of PRE twz rerfect. Restoration to Health and Vigone_lait, Directions (;Li MS, 15. Al,hermarle-street, Piccadilly, London! Dr. j. L. CONTENTS: INT fi OD UCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functions of the Reproductive Organs. CI I APT ER Il.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; 14:arly Vicious Indulgences: Dangers of Neglect. CHAFT ER lII.—A Review of the various Disqualifications A Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of lonorrlicen and Syphilis. The Book oncludes with numerous varied and interesting asses, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive iotion. REVIEWS OF THE WORK. "Curtis on Manhood.--This is a truly valuable work d , an should be in the hands of young and old "—" Sunday Times," :Id Nara, 1556. "The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in which is described the source cf those diseases wbien produce decline in youth or more frequently premature old age."—" I),tily Telegraph," Marci': 0, 1856. : , ondon : Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 19. Cornbill. Hours of Consultation-10 to 2 and 6t o a, Sundays, 13 tat 4 ~~ No. 21,88. PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., J 0 H N A RNOL D. By the A uthor of "Mathew Paxton," &c. "A well written and interesting book. There are few novels Published nowadays better than 'John Arnol I.' " Observer. "This novel cannot fail to enhance the writer's reputa tion." —Sun. burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., THUE T 0 THE LAST. By the Author of "COUSIN GEOFFREY," Aze, " This novel will instantly prove attractive. It is one of the best stories that have appeared this season."—Res senger. " This sparkling novel is Worthy of the author."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, i 3, Great Marlborough-street. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CIIELSEA, 20th Aug., 1862. THE Right Honourable the LORDS and. OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS of this HOSPITAL, Do Hereby Give Notice, That they are ready to rece TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as maybe wining to Contract for Victualling the In-Pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist of October, 186?, to the 30th of September, 1863, both days inclusive, with the following Articles of PROVISIONS, &c., t—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or' Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea. Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savoury and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the Whole ration, according to the established allowances of the House, as specified in the form of Tender, which may be ob tained at the office of the Secretary any day, between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, at the Board Room of the said Hospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUESDAY, the 9th of September, at 12 o'clock, at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. It is to be observed that the Contractors will be required to find security to the Crown fnr the due performance of the contract, mat no tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar> O ST E 0 EIDO N: What is it ? See Pat ent, March 1, 1862. 560. GARR I EL'S Self-adhesive Patent Indestructible MINE RAL TEEM and FLEXIBLE GUMS, without palates, springs, or wires, and without operation. One set lasts a lifetime, and WARRANTED FOR MASTICATION and ARTICULATION. Purest materials only, at half the usual cost. Messrs. GABRIEL, the old-established Dentists, 27, HARLEY -STREET, CAVENDISH-SQUARE; 34, LUDGATE-FIILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW-STREET, BIRMINGHAM; and 134, DUNN—STREET, LIVERPOOL. INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, CLASS 17. One visit only required from country patients, Gabriel's Practical Treatise gratis. Consultations free. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, • n d Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort ment ,)f VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian, Alabas er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &O. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her VI kiesty, 149. Stand. W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. MASCULINE POWER RESTORED in FOURTEEN DAYS, without the possibility of failure. For guaranteed remedy enclose two Ftamps. Ad dress, CHIRURGIIS, 211, REGENT-STREET, LONDON. W. EPPS'S COCOA. (Commonly called Epps's llonmopathic Cocoa). The delicious aroma, grateful smoothness, and invigo. rating power of this preparation have procured Its general adoption as a most desirable breakfast beverage. llb., ilb., and llb packets, at Is. fid. per lb., by Grocers. „ZAUCE.—LEA AND PERRINg ►►) beg to caution the Public against Spurious Imitations or their world-renowed WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. Purchasers should ASK FOR LEA AND PERRINO SAUCE, Pronounced by Connoisseurs to be "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE.” *** Sold Wholesale and for Export, by the Proprietors, Worcester ; Messrs. CROSSE and BLACEWELL; Messrs. BAR CLAY and Sows, London, &0., &a, and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHMA. By F. B. COIIRTENAY, M.R.C.S.E., And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmny for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Quackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : 11. Bailliere, f 49, lipzent-street TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MlLDpre .- Dr. S B and LIVER PILL, wired without an COTT y ' mercuri lLlOUS al ingredient, from the recipe S of Dr. -coat, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, ?0, Jermyn-street, Haymarket, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 28. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. JOZEAU'S COPAHINE MEGE.—Copaiba and Cubebs are doubtless the best remedies, but are of a re pulsive taste and odour, and occasion collicky pains, nausea, and gastric disturbance. M..Tozeau has succeeded in render ing them perfectly innocuous by increasing all their curative properties. It has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different London hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's. and St. Bartholomew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—(Lancet, Nov. 6, 1857). The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days. 100 Capsules, 4s. 6d.; post free, ss. 2d.—At G. JOZEAU'S, French Chemist, 49, Haymarket, London; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris; and all Chemists. DR. WATSON (OP THE LOCK HOSPITAL) ON NERVOITS DEI3TLITY AND SECRET DISORDERS. SELF-TREATMENT SIMPLIFIED, thro u gh " the aid of the TEST-TUBE, URINOMETER, and MICROSCOPE, when employed for special diagnosis in all disorders of the nervous, sexual, and generative system, in cluding spermatorrhcea or seminology, loss of power, noctur nal and diurnal wastings, and withering of the nervous tissues, &c. By Dr. WATSON, Member of the Ecole de Medicine, Rouen, National Academy of Sciences, Paris, and Fellow of the Imperial Institute of Prance, &c. Presented to "Nervous Invalids," with a view of superseding dangerous medicines and expensive consultations. Sent post free on receipt of two stamps, by Dr. Watson, 27, Alfred-place, Bed ford-square, London. Consultations daily from eleven till two, and six till eight, on all those ailments and infirmities peculiar to youth, manhood, and old age, and which tend to embitter and shorten life. For distinguished qualifications vide diplomas. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF EWE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by She medical press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst Dr. Ricord's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at 11s., or four quantities in one for 335.. and will be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance or post-office order payable to Prout and Co., Patent MedloineWarehouse, 229, Strand London. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEN! G, AUGUST 25, 1862. 7HE CRYSTAL PALACE SUMMER POULTRY SHOW. The summer poultry show, of which there was a private view on Saturday, and which will be open to the public for the next three days, is certainly ono of the best that has yet been held. There are nearly 800 entries, and amongst them some very rare specimens indeed. The Spanish are exhibited in 22 pens, and are very pure, their jet black plu mage showing up in bold relief the pure cream white about their heads for which they are peculiar. Of the Dorkings there are 60 pens, and the Cochin Chinas are in 43. This class is sure to make it self seen as it does heard, and it is really well worth careful inspection, for although they are all this year's birds, their gigantic size is astonish ing ; and, although they do not command the fabu lous prices which they did a few years back, thorough breds fetch a very high figure in the market, and hence they are not likely to be ne glected, and we may expect them to improve in future, as they certainly have done in past years up to the present show. The Brahma Pootras, in 10 pens, are good ; and the collection of game fowl, in 71 pens, embraces every variety of this pugnacious species. The Hamburgs, gold and silver, pencilled and spangled, are in 69 pens, and are exceedingly good. The gold pencilled are particularly beauti fully marked. There are 19 pens of Polish, three Malay, which are good. The bantams are in 54 pens and always form an interesting part of such an exhibition as this; b►ut this class is rendered more attractive this year by having amongst it some lapanese bantams and ruftlers, some imported and others bred in this country. These birds dif fer both in plumage and build from all others of their species; their legs are entirely concealed by their wings and feathers, and they carry their heads and tails exceedingly erect, giving themselves a very dignified appearance, They are very pretty and very curious, and visitors to the show should not miss seeking them. There are 32 pens of ducks, 9 of geese, 9 of turkeys, 8 of ornamental water fowl, all of which are good. The gold and silver pheasants occupy 13 pens, and their gaudy plumage shows up very well amongst their less varigated and less brilliant neighbours. There are 60 or 70 pens of other varieties exhibited, and the pigeons occupy 200 cages. Amongst them are to be found speci mens of every known variety. There are a larger number of rabbits and of better quality exhibited than have ever been brought together at any for mer exhibition. The winner of the first prize for longest ears measures from tip to tip 23 inches, and the one whose weight secured to him the place of honour weighed 161 b. The show is held on a level with the machine. room, and under the superintendence of Mr. Houghton, the secretary for this department. Every arrangement has been made to prevent overcrowding. Tho following are tho chief prizes awarded : SPANISH. Class 1 (chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. J. R. Rod bard.—Class 2 (chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. James Barry.—Class 3 (cocks, chickens of 1862) First pri4e,Mr. 11. Lane. of Cheapside, it is no wonder they are the special admira tion of all visitors. Besides the above special attractions a very interesting meeting will be held on Wednesday of the Deutches Turn fest, or German Gymnastic Association. Great attention has of late been given throughout Germany to institutions connected with athletic sports and exercises, and one held last autumn created the greatest rublic interest, many thousands of Germans taking part in the proceedings. This will be the first gathering of the sort in this country, and is likely to excite no inconsiderable attention. THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. (From the Times' Correspondent.) NEW YORK, AUG. 11. "At last we have a Governnent." Such on Sa turday morning last was the cry of the jubilant Republican party, willing to consent to any abridg ment of the public liberty to gratify its political hatred. "At last we have a Government," echoed the great crowd of silly people who admire vigour of action because it is vigour, cad not because it is justice. "At last we have a Government," chimed in the astute friends of the South, who do not choose to declare their real sentiments Fn a more straight forward fashion, for fear of FortLafa3 ette, and who maliciously applaud every act of tyranny committed by the Federal Government, is the hope that its effect will be to disgust all moderate people with the war and the Administration. All these united their voices in one loud chorus, the last being the most obstreperous. The cause ef the clamour, half exultant and half deprecatory, was that the War Secretary, with the Presiderl4 at his back, had pro mulgated an Imperial edict or ekase on the previous evening through the agency of the telegraphic wires, preventing all strangers and citizens from leaving the country without passports, and further more forbidding all persons whatsoever from pro ceeding beyond the limits of the particular State in which they happened to be domiciled. Here was a strong Government with a vengeance—strong as that of the Czar at Warsaw, and quite as arbitrary. The reason alleged—for Mr. Stanton and the Pre sident, unlike other despots, condescended to ex plain the grounds on which they acted—was that there was so rapid an exodus of persons liable to military service under the recent conscription, that it would be unjust to the Republic, and to the loyal persons who remained at the post of duty, to suffer such multitudes of people to ex patriate themselves. The rabid Abolitionists and ultra Republicans were delighted with the act, jus tified on the tyrant's plea of necessity, and exhi bited altogether so slavish a subserviency to power for the furtherance of their own party objects as to show how abundant are the materials for a despot ism which exist in this country. If there be any ambitious and unprincipled soldier before Rich mond, in the valley of the Shenandoah, at New Orleans, or elsewhere, " biding his time" to topple over into the mire and blood of the war the shaky fabric of the Republic, and erect a new form of Government in its stead, he must have chuckled in the solitude of his tent or bivouac at the base ser vility and still baser intolerance of other people's liberties which the last few days have exhibited throughout the North. Nor was this edict the only act of arbitrary power which Friday night pro duced for the study of such a soldier. The Habeas Corpus Act was again suspended throughout the country; and it was declared to be treason in any person to discourage volunteer enlistments, either by speech or writing ; treason subjecting the offender to imprisonment in Fort Lafayette, or any other of the Bastilles of the Atlantic coast, at the pleasure of the Government and without form of trial. As regards this last decree, it appeared to be taken for granted that such men as Mr. Wendell Phillips, who belongs to the dominant party by which Mr. Lincoln was elected to the chief magis tracy, were not to be affected ; and that treason is only to be considered treason when it flows from the mouth or the pen of a Democrat, or of some poor journeyman painter who has no one to advise, defend, or take any interest in him. It is Demo crats alone, and those of the highest social stand ing, who are to languish in the forts on the seaboard on mere suspicion, without proof, or even charge against them. The Republicans are exempt from the persecution, and may be free as they please until democracy shall be laid utterly prostrate, and then, perhaps, their turn will come. The Etna and Saxonia steamers were advertised to sail on Saturday morning—the one for Liver pool, the other for Southampton. The passengers, unsuspicious of evil, and unaware of the telegraphic orders of the War Secretary, proceeded in due course to the wharves with their goods and chattels. They found the approaches and gangways in pos session of the police, were denied the right to travel if they were American citizens in the prime of life, and if they were aliens were consigned to the con sulates of their native countries to obtain passports. Great were the uproar and discontent.. Many Englishmen, on whom the Government had not the shadow of a claim, and who were returning home on business or pleasure, lost their passage in default of procuring passports at a moment's notice, while hundreds of Irishmen, who had never been natura lised, and who in consequence of the war and the conscription had renounced all intention of becoming American citizens, were thrown back on their Bri tish nationality, and, unable to prove it without formalities occupying more than a day, were com pelled to remain in New York till the sailing of another steamer. 1 happened, about 11 o'clock in the morning, to be at the wharf on the North River, alongside of which the steamers of the Inman line are usually moored, and was witness of the English and Irish discontent, and I must add of the Yankee insolence and brutality that were exhibited throughout the day. The police were courteous as well as firm, and bore the outburst of Irish anger with remarkable good humour : but the mob of Yankees, composed principally of lads too young and grey-beards too old to be affected by the con scription, behaved—or misbehaved—in a manner that was very trying to the patience of the English, and still more so to the quarrelsome excitability of the Irish. The latter were mostly steerage or second-class passengers, but seemed, from their dress and the quantity of luggage they had brought to be well to do people. They insisted that they were not American citizens, asked when America bad ceased to be a free country, and vehemently de nied the right of any policeman to deprive them of the liberty of going to Ireland by any vessel and on any day they pleased, if they had paid their pas sage money. " Get your passports, gentlemen," said the police captain, " and you may go when you please." "Is it a passport you mane," said one sturdy fellow, who looked as if he could have enacted in his own person all the fun as well as all the fight ing of Donnybrook, " and why the devil did not you say se last week, when I would have had it ready for you ? Passport, and be hanged to you ! It's no passport that I'll take to come back again, any how." And he proceeded with a swarm of his countrymen in search of the office of the British Consul in a temper that boded ill for any one who should tread upon his coat-tail on the way thither, or who should come with hostile h. tent within reach of his arm. Mr. Stanton had not deemed it courteous or ne cessary, in issuing his ukase, to acquaint the British or any other Consul with his intentions ; and Satur day morning found those gentlemen suddenly over whelmed with a mass of business, which they found it all but impossible to attend to. The British and Prussian Consuls suffered most. The office of Mr. Archibald, who is temporarily absent• i n England, was so crowded with intending refugees from the conscription, that the acting Vice-Consul, Mr. Ed warde, was unable to mount his own staircase with out the insistence of the police to clear the way; and in the course of the day near upon a thousand persons, mostly Irish, and about 200 of them per sons who had paid their passage money and intended to go home by the Etna or the Sasonia, were en abled to certify in due form that they were British subjects. The Vice-Consul opened his office for a couple of hours on Sunday to expedite the business so suddenly thrust upon him, and ail this day (Mon day) the crowd, bent on the same errand, has been equally great, and all equally determined to escape the draught or to leave she country. Similar scenes were enacted at the German Consulates ; and the result of the three days' works was that the United States lost some thousands of citizens, or persons who would have become citizens if it had not been for the draught ; and that the Americans who had been smitten with so intense a desire to visit foreign parts, and to leave M'Clellan, Pope, Butler, and the Federal Government to their fate, whatever it might be, were compelled to remain in their native land until quieter times, and to learn to their sorrow that their Government had a heavy hand, and a powerful will that con tains within itself a new law and a new con stitution. Passengers, whether alien or American, who were proceeding to the West Indies or Cali tornia, were subjected to the same interference and inconvenience. At the railway stations all who attempted to book through to Canada—of whom there were many hundreds—found themselves in the same predicament as the ocean travellers, except a very few old gentlemen obviously 15 or 20 years be yond the maximum recruiting age of 45, who claimed, as American citizens, the right to go to Canada if they pleased, and had the claim allowed. The terms of Mr. Stanton's ukase were so stringent that they seemed to apply even to pleasure travellers to Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The consequence was that _the -usual- wtiekly , excur sions of toil-worn and heat-exhausted citizens - Colllo seaside, from Saturday to Monday, were greatly diminished in number, many timid or ignorant peo ple preferring to remain sweltering and simmering in the hot sun of New York rather than run the risk of offending the War Secretary and of being conveyed to Fort Lafayette as skulkers and traitors. The average number of persons of all nationalities, including many Americans with Southern sympa thies, who have left the country since the conscrip tion was ordered, is said by those who have the means of forming an estimate, to have been at least 1,000 a day, while the voluntary enlistments for the army have not been half that number. The press of New York pretends to be very indignant at the runaways, whom it stigmatises as " cowards " if they be Americans, and as " ungrateful vagabonds if they be Irish or Germans. But why cowards, it may be asked. The Americans do not deserve the epithet from their own countrymen or any one else, as they daily prove, and will prove again whenever they fight in a cause with which they can sympathise. It seems to me that it is not because they are cowards, but because they object to fight against their fellow-citizens, and because they disapprove the inception, conduct, and principle of the war, that they refuse to shed their blood for the Federal Government, and adopt such means as they can to avoid giving their aid to the prolongation of the strife. Neither ought the Irish or Germans to be declared ungrateful, because, having come to a country which they believed to be free, they desire to leave it when they discover it to be despotic; or because they condemn the policy of a Government that considers the conquest of 10,000,000 of unwilling people to be dearer and more precious than the liberty, wellbeing, and pro gress of the 20,000,000 whom it goads to unprofit able and unnatural warfare. If the charge of in gratitude lies any where it lies against the Federal Government, that seduced the ablebodied popula tion of the Old World to forsake their homes on the promises of liberty and exemption from the grind ing taxation of Europe, to replenish, cultivate, and enrich America, and that suddenly turns round upon them when they refuse to fight its battles volunta rily, because their souls abhor the pretext on which the war is waged; and not only taxes them more heavily than they were taxed in their own coun tries, but enrols them in a conscription ordered on the sole authority of the President, acting as if he were an irresponsible Czar, or other autocrat claim ing to rule by divine right. These people have learnt to love liberty since they came to America, and do not understand that their duty is to allow their thews and sinews to be hired . out for hang man's work against the citizens of the Southern States, who have the same right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that they have themselves. But though the threatened conscription has had these and other bad effects, and will have worse before many days, it has had one good effect for the Federal cause which the President perhaps intended. It has expedited the voluntary enlist ments for the first batch of 300,000 men. The "rowdies" and the mercenaries have been stirred up to clutch the bounty money, especially in the New England States, many of which have filled up their full quota of men since the decree for a draught was issued. Whether the fact speaks most for the greediness, the patriotism, or the fanaticism of New England, I am un able to determine; but if greed and fanaticism go together and both assume the mask of patriotism, the spur and the whip are strong, and the result can be attributed to the particular cause whichbest suits the whim or the idiosyncrasy of the observer. In New York State, and throughout the West, where the Irish and Germans are more abundant, and where the wages of labour are higher than in the bleak North-east the voluntary recruitment has not made such rapid progress, though the Govern ment organs would have it inferred that the num bers will be filled up before the 15th. This I doubt, but I do not in the least doubt that the fact will be so stated whether it be true or false, and that the conscription will be relinquished as far as that batch is concerned. The opposition to the draught is so great in some of the Western States that efforts have been made to induce the Government to extend the time of voluntary enlistments from the 15th inst. to the Ist October, but it is exceed ingly doubtful whether the President is in a posi tion to accede to the proposition. AUGUST 12. The telegraph has been for once allowed to inform the people that there has been a severe battle, in which the Federal army has not been victorious. There had been vague rumours for some days of an approaching conflict in the Shenandoah valley be tween General " Stonewall" Jackson, who never boasts, and General Pope, who does little else; some of which rumours had gone so far as to allege, so lately as Friday last, that the rival forces had met on Thursday, and that Pope had been ut terly routed. The reports were not generally be lieved ; but they proved to be premonitory of the truth, though premature and exaggerated. The shock of arms took place on Saturday night, near Culpepper Court-house, on the road between Gor donsville, on theVirginiaßailroad to Richmond, and the once famous position of Manassas Junction. As usual, the Federal journals insist that the Confe derate army was three or four times more numerous than their own ; and that if the result were not a Federal victory, it was at the worst a drawn battle, in which the Confederate loss was greater than their own. The loss on both sides is estimated at between 2,000 and 3,000 in killed and wounded, besides about 1,000 prisoners. There does appear to have been a general engagement, and the Federal army, if it has escaped, which is not yet placed beyond a doubt, escaped by good luck far more than by good management. General Banks held his own bravely against a superior force until Pope came to the re scue. The latter gained no laurels in the encounter. He was evidently taken unprepared, and very nar rowly escaped being made prisoner, a catastrophe that would have carried delight into every Southern camp and household without being very disagreea ble to the North. Such details of the battle as have been allowed to appear will be found in the New York journals of the last two days, details from which it is difficult to extract the real history of the e vent. A more elaborate, and, possibly, a more faithful report was prepared for a Philadelphia journal, but was suppressed by General Pope, from which it may be inferred that the Confederate advantage was much greater than Pope or the Government thinks it at present wise to avow. Most likely the affair was only a preliminary skirmish, though on a scale of unusual magnitude, and the real battle, which may decide the fate of Washington and Baltimore and the fortunes of the South, is yet to come, or mey be in progress at this moment. Wall-street has taken the matter rather quietly, and gold has neither gone up nor stocks gone down in conse quence. The only thing that has gone down ap preciably is the reputation of General Pope, who is too much of a boaster and too little of a performer to be a favourite of any one except of the President. Altogether the signs and symptoms portend that the current week will be prolific of great events, both in Shenandoah Valley and before Richmond. It is obviously the policy of the Confederates to strike heavy blows at both points before either the mercenary volunteers or the unwilling conscripts of the North can be brought into action, that every one anticipates a speedy catastrophe. More than one-half of M'Clellan's army are pros trated by the heat of the weather (94 deg. in the shade) unwholesome food, and bad water ; and the Confederates know it and will profit by the knowledge. In the meantime, a savage spirit seems to be tak ing possession of that portion of the Northern people who still indulge in the vain dream of Southern subjugation. The corruption of officials, the imbe cility of the Government, the inefficiency of the generals, the divided opinions un the subject of the hostility pf the foreign element of the population to the further prosecution of the war, the disinclination of the-trading and profes sional classes to fight in their own persons, though they are willing enough to pay others to fight for them, and the unexpectedly long duration of the war have each combined to produce a feeling of exasperation that is fast assuming an aspect of blood thirstiness. These people not only approve every illegal and unconstitutional act that the President and his secretaries commit or authorise, but they bellow lustily for confiscation and the gallows for the mildest forms of what they consider treason. They support and admire Butler. They have faith in Pope —not because he is a good soldier, of which there is no proof, but because he is truculent and vain-glori ous. They think Blenker a good general, because he allowed his soldiers to pillage. They affect to consider the charges against General Mitchel and Colonel Turchin to be purely malicious, though Turchin has very properly been dismissed from the army. They inveigh against M'Clellan because he is humane, and respects both the letter and the spirit of the constitution. They call the President a fool, and declare that his moderation will ruin the country. They call for the enrolment and arming of the negroes both in the North and the South. They insist upon a " short shrift and a high gal lows for traitors great and small; and last of all they clamour for the infliction of the penalty of death on all deserters from the Federal army. Though these rabid people are in a small minority just now, it is unhappily the tendency of revolu. tions to cast rabid minorities into the high places of power, and to maintain them there, until they in their turn are superseded by others more rabid than themselves. This class has grown bolder every day since the defeat of M'Clellan, and should General Pope be routed or captured in the Shenan doah Valley, or should any other great defeat and humiliation occur to the Federal arms, some " great and stunning misfortune" as Mr. Wendell Phillips calls it, such as the capture of Baltimore, Phila delphia, or Washington—a result which that orator but no statesman openly declares he prays for—this class would in all probability make a desperate effort to supersede the President, and put General Fremont or some other violent theorist and aboli tionist in his place. The whole political atmosphere is surcharged with electricity, and the next thunder bolt that may be launched at the heart of the Re public may come from a Nortlern, and not from a Southern sky. The actual Government is the Go vernment of a minority, and it is goaded to violence by a still smaller minority than itself. Were the people, who in their hearts detest the war—were the wealthy citizens who are striving to escape from the vortex of revolution into the peaceable haven of Europe—were the countless friends of the old and desecrated Constitution of Washington, Jefferson, and Hamilton to unite their incohesive ranks, and exhibit half the courabe of Mr. Wendell Phillips and the bigots and zealots who agree with him, the conduct of affairs would come into the hands of the majority, and there would be peace once more in this miserable and distracted country. But these quiet people depend upon a European mediation to save them. That failing, they know not where to look for security, or even for hope. DORKING. Class 4 (coloured, chickens of 1862) : First prize,the Hon. W. W. Vernon.—Class 5 (pullets, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. C. H. Wakefield.—Class 6 (white, chickens of 1862) : First prize, the Rev. G. F. Hodson.—Class 7 (cocks, coloured and white,chickens of 1862: First prize, Mr. Josh. Simmons. CoCHIN CHINA. Class 8 (cinnamon and buff, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. J. W, Kelleway.— Class 9 (brown and partridge feathered, chickens of 1362): First prize, Mr. E. Tudman. —Class 10 (white, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr, W Dawson (Hopton).—Class 11: Cocks (coloured and white, chickens of 1862: First prize, Mr. 3. W. Kelleway. BRAHMA POOTRA. Class 12 (chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mrs. Searaons. —Class 13 (cocks, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. J. H. Fowler, GAME FOWL. Class 14 (white and pile, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. Crofts.—Class 15 (black-breasted red, chickens of ieee ) . r.,4 r. 2.1. r. 7, whstohor.—Class 11 6 (nic,wn breasted and other red, except black-breasted, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. E. Archer.—. Class 17 (ducklings and other grey and blue, chickens of 1862) : First prize, the Hon. W. W. Vernon.—Class 18 (black, and any other variety, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. W. Dawson, Selly Oak.—Class 19 (cocks, chickens of 1862) : First prize . the Hon. W. W. Vernon. HAMBITRGH. Class 20 (gold pencilled, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. A. Nuttall.—Class 21 (silver pencilled, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. C. Moore.—Class 22 (gold or silver-pencilled cocks, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. W. Locke.—Class 23 (gold-spangled, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. Brook.—Class 24 (silver-spangled, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. E. Collinge.—Class 25 (gold or silver-spangled cocks, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. J. Dixon. PoLux FOWL. Class 26 (black, with white crests chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. Ray.—Class 28 (silver, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. C. Atkins.—Class 29 (cocks, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. G. C. Adkins. MALAY. Class 30 (chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. W. Hill. ANY OTHER DISTINCT BREED. Class 31 (chickens of 1862): First prize, Mr. C. H. Wakefield. BANTAMS. Class 32 (gold-laced chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. T. H. D Bayly.—Class 33 (silver-laced chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. T. H. D. Bayly.—Class 34 (white, clean legs, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. T. H. D. Bayly. —Class 35 (black, clean legs, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. Hutton.—Class 36 (game chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. T. H. D. Bayly.—Class 38 (cocks, any variety, chickens of 1862) : First prize, Mr. M. Leno, jun. DUCKS. Class 39 (Aylesbury, birds of 1862) : First prize, Mrs. Searnons.—Class 40 (Rouen, birds of 1862): First prize, Mr. C. Priest.—Class 41 (black, birds of 1862) : First prize, Mr. W. Joshua.—Class 42 (any other variety, birds of 1862) : First prize, Mr. T. H. D. Bayly. GEESE. Class 43 (white, birds of 1862) : First prize, Mrs. Sea 7 mons.—Class 44 (grey and mottled, birds of 1862) : First prize, Mr. J. K. Fowler. TURKEYS. Class 45 (birds of 1862) : First prize, Mr. R. Brand. ORNAMENTAL WATERFOWL. Class 46 (of any age) : First prize, Mr. T. H. Bayly. PHEASANTS. Class 47 (gold and silver, of any age) : First prize, Mr. S. C. Betty.—Class 48 (any other variety, of any age) : First prize, Mr. Cam Baker. PIGEONS. Pouters or Croppers (cocks of any colour) : First prize, Mr. It. Fulton. (Hens of any colour) : First prize, Mr. M'Greger Rake. Carriers (cocks, black and dun) : First prize, Mr. J. F. Mortimer. (Cocks of any colour) : First prize, Mr. J. C. Ord. (Hens, black and dun : First prize, Mr. E. L. Corker. (Hens of any other colour) : First prize, Mr. W. H. Edmonds.--•Dragons (blue) : First prize, Mr. T. W. Walker. (Any other colour) : First prize, Mr. W, H. Edmonds.—Almond Tumblers: First prize, Mr. E. L. Corker.—Short-faced Mettles : First Prize, Mr. E. L. Corker,—Short-faced Baldheads : First prize, Mr. F. Esquiland.—Short-faced Beards : First - prize, Mr. H. Bunce.—Jacobines : First prize, Mr. F. Esquilant.—Owls (blue or silver) : First prize, Mr. M'Gregor Rake. (Yellow or any other colour) : First prize, Mr. F. Else.—Nuns : First prize, Mr. F. Key.—Turbits : First prize, Mr. J. W. Edge.—Fantails (Fantails (white) : First prize, Mr. F. Else. (Blue) : First prize, Mr. Henry Morris.—Barbs (black) : First prize, Mr. M'Gregor Rake. (Yellow or any other colour) : First prize, Mr. M'Gregor Rake.—Magpies: First Prize, Mr. E. L. Corker.—Trumpeters (black mottled) : First prize, Mr. F. Else. (White or any other colour) : First Prize, Mr. Morris.—Spanish and Leghorn Runts : First prize : Mr. T. D. Green. RABBITS. (Longest ears): First Prize, Messrs. Guest and Coleman. (Weight) ; First prize, Ur. N. Norman. The judges of poultry were Messrs. Bailey and Hewitt; of pigeons, Messrs. Bellamy and Harrisonweir; and of rabbits, Messrs. Bancks, Fox, and Webster. On Thursday, 28th, M. Blondin will exhibit on the high rope over th e f ounta i ns. F or th ose w h o pre f er witnessing his agility without the fear excited by the great elevation of the high rope, he will give a low rope representation in the centre transept, on Saturday, which day is now a shilling day. On Friday the great Fountains will be played their full height. As each of these great displays requires upwards of 1,900,000 gallons of water, the centre jets being higher from the basins than Bow Church steeple is from the level PRICE. .... ...4d. STAMPED ....sd. A WOMAN IN MAYS A 7 TIRE. At the Gateshead Police -court, last week, John M'Cabe and Maria Dixon were placed in the dock as suspicious characters. Notwithstanding the difference of sex, the magistrates found it neces sary to ask which was M'Cabe and which Dixon, for, on the names being called, two persons, both apparently stout, strong lads, were brought for ward. It appeared, however, from the statement of Mr. Superintendent Schorey, that Dixon was a female in man's clothes, and that on Saturday night she and the male prisoner went into the Steamboat public •house, and sold to the landlady some petticoats and other female habiliments. Sus picion being aroused, information was sent to the police, the two parties were taken into custody, and Dixon, on being asked if she was a female, acknow ledged the soft impeachment. She was a roundly formed, strong-looking person, and with hair cut short and parted on the left side, might well be mis taken for a young man. She had pale blue eyes, and a round and not unpleasing face. Her companion, M'Cabe, might be either an agricultural labourer or a navvie. He was a young fellow, not ill-look- ing, and wore a smock and red neckerchief . He I said that he met the female on Friday, and that they had agreed to go harvesting together, she put ting on man's clothes, because she could earn more money in the male character than in her own. From questions put to her by th e bench, however, it appeared that this was not a new freak. She said she was a native of the High lands, but had been in these parts about two yea rs. She had generally worn male attire, because she could get more money by working as a man, and she had so worked at Witton Park for nea rl y twelve mon ths ; she had also worked at s pe nnymoor Iron W or k s , an d h a d been working down a coal pit at Leasingthorpe. At Bishop Auckland she had a quarrel with a man a b ou t wages, in consequence of which she was sent for three months to Durham gaol. There her sex wa s discovered, and since she came out she had been in female garb. She had put herself, she said, into man's clothes again to work for money to take her to Australia, She added that she was 24 years of age. The bench recommended her to assume her proper attire, and on her promising to do so she and the male prisoner were discharged. Among other articles found in her possession, in u bundle which she carried about with her, were a looking-gla ss , a small photograph of a female, who, she said, had fallen in love with her, and a lock of hair presented to her by another female, who had been captivated by what appeared to be a very handsome boy of nineteen or twenty years.—Sunderland Herald. IMPORTATION OF FRUITS AND PLANTS.—Sundry other fruits and plants were first cultivated in England about this time, such as apricots, gooseberries, currants (brought from the island of Zante), and garden roots of different sorts. Cherries, of a species not previously known in England, were imported about 1540 from Flanders, and planted in Kent with such success, that an orchard of 32 acres, produced in one year as much fruit as yielded £lOOO. Probably the novelty of the fruit made people at first give high prices for it.—Capper's Fort and To* oi "tonic". degree of interest than the one relating to No question is invested at present witliiigrear pro duction of plate armour for ships of war. That the Lords of the Treasury and the Admiralty are fully' alive to the vast importance of the subject has long 'l^en evident. Scientific committees, assisted by the first metallurgists of the day, have been employed to conduct all kinds of experiments and report upon them. A vast fund of information must also have been forwarded by Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., re garding the experimental firing at Portsmouth; and testing sample plates still proceeds there as fast as they can be attached to the target ships. In testing these sample plates the knowledge gained of the structure of different kinds of iron has been- great. Some of the plates, on being struck by several 68- pounder shot, in nearly the same plate, so as to com pel a fracture, have exhibited a peculiar silvery~ appearance in the separated parts of the metal , which at the same time have shown an extra ordinary length of fibre. This was parti cularly the ease with the rolled plates made at the Parlegate Works for the experimental angulated target of Mr. J. Jones of Liverpool. In these plates, however, as in most other rolled plates manufactured at that time, the greutcst injury by the shot was found to be inflicted on the reverse side of the plate, next the timber backing - , where the layers of the metal being opened by the saidden shock of the GB pound shot, they spread out with radiating cracks, and penetrated the timber to an. average depth of from 4to 5 inches. The Atlas Works rolled plates were equally faulty with the Parkgate plates, but constant man ufacture aud the plates from both works . c onstant practice at sample on the sides of the target ship i r n Dorchester Creek which are witnessed by a representative from the firms, have supplied such an amount of valuable data to the manufacturer that they have recovered for rolled plates the prestige they at first had in s abeir competition with hammered plates. It he's 'now become a moot point which kind can be mann , factured that shall to a certainty possess greater allot reeieting powers than the other. Of hammered plates the Thames Iron Shipbuildiog Company arc undeniably the best makers ; in fact, it seems at present quite impossible, if their best saople plates tested at Portsmouth be selected, to manutiacture a more 'perfect armoar plate. Other makers azsain, have not been so successful, owing, no doubt , t o want of experience in manufacture, but they evidently improve in each succeeding plate sent for testing. Of the condemned plates, some have broken clear through, line cakes of ice, with through rents in all directions. Others have separated into layers, so that the 41 inch solid plate has been transformed into half a dozen thin sheets. In both cases, any ship covered with such armour would be more easily destroyed by shot than any common wooden ship could be. We have selected the best and worst de scription of plates as an illustration, but there Arc many other makers who have supplied plates which, although they may not stand in the first rank, de cidedly do not in the last. It also happens at times that a plate of a very inferior quality is tested which has been supplied from a firm noted for the general excellence of theiz plates. In fact, this has happened with each of the three firms quoted above, and not in every instance earl the cause of the plate's defect be satisfactorily accounteo for. The vast establishment which have been formed by private individuals for the manufacture of iron plates by the roller and by the hammer, and in some instances by both combined, and the fine specimens of the manufactured and unmanfactured metal in the International Exhibition, all prove that the great iron workers of the country are equally alive with the Lords of the Treasury and the Admiralty to the daily increasing importance of iron in ship building and in the manufacture of heavy ordnance. Perhaps if one part of the question is more open than another to a definite settlement at the: present moment, it is the description of iron most sa;table for the manufacture of the armour plate. 'l l .his appears to lie between the " puddled'' and " scrap," Both have their advocates. There are, however, now being manufactured in the smithery of Ports mouth Dockyard, under the large steam hammer, two plates, expressly to settle this question for the present, as far as may be possible. One is being made exclusively from the dockyard scrap iron, and the other from the beet Shropshire " puddled." Each plate is being made hilt. in length, 3ft. 6iii. in breadth, and SA-in. thick, but will be afterwards cut in two parts, one to be annealed and the other not. When completed they will be tested in the usual manner by the Stork's 6S-pounder in Por cheater Creek, and the results cannot fail to be very interesting and important. Several plates Were forged some time since in this same smithery,whial proved on being tested at Shoeburyness, to be of very good quality, and in the forthcoming trial a Goverment establishment may possibly take the first position on the list for the manufacture of ship's armour. The screw steam frigate Shannon, 35, Capt. Oliver I. Jones, from Spithead,arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning, and sailed in the after noon for the Mediterranean. The War Department screw steamer Lord Pan mure, T. Moore, master, left Plymouth Sound on Friday evening for Woolwich. The screw steam sloop Rattler, 17, Commander Howard, from Spithead, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday. She is having defects made good, pre vious to sailing for China, her destination. The corvette Niobe, 25, one of the vessels pur chased for the Prussian Government, was towed from Hamoaze into Plymouth Great Western Docks on Saturday, to be fitted up by Mr. Moore, ship builder, of Friary-yard. The paddlewheel steamer Monkey went down to Sheerness on Saturday, from Woolwich, conveying B ( l i a n c k t h Eagle, agle of mos. Henry D. absence , 90 supernumerary seam en for the fleet. t S e a r T r . r h e a e o t paddle m m a a n s t d e e r in steam-yacht Polley, commando nspecial duty in the ser vice of the Viceroy of Egypt), went down the river on Saturday, from Woolwich, on a trial of her ma chinery after repairs. The Black Eagle is under orders to embark her Majesty's baggage and car riages for conveyance to Ostend. 7HE A inn . Major-Gen. Stransham, Inspector-General of the Royal Marines, resumed his inspection of the Light Infantry division of the corps at Woolwich on Sa turday. At half-past 10 he proceeded to the great gun drill battery, situate at the east end of the bar rack square, and witnessed the representation of a nasal bombardment by the detachment of gunners at resent undergoing a course of drill un der Capt. Carrington, gunnery i nstructor. T he heavy Arm stron purpose g were s an loaded, and huge6B-pounders empl o y e d f or th e run out, and fired with the greatest dexterity, although the men had been little more than two months under tuition. The general commended their aptitude and zeal, and advised a continued and steady perseverance. After the dinner hour several companies of the division were drawn up on Woolwich common, and were put through the various details of battalion exercise, in the presence of the inspector -general, who selected one officer in turn, including each grade, in order to test their capabilities and qualification for command. This morning the inspector-general inspected the men in the Plumstead-marsh in a course of target practice in command of Capt. Bunce, acting brigade-major of the division. By dirtetion of the Lords of the Adtuitalt3, a general court-martial is ordered to be assembled at the head-quarters of the Chatham divison of Royal Marines infantry for the trial of First Lieutenant Duncan G. Campbell, Royal Marines, for conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, in having failed to liquidate a debt contracted at Malta, al though repeatedly requested to do so, and also a debt of £23 on account of messing, library, and band subscription, after distinctly promising Cot. Lemon, C. 8., that he would discharge the same ; also for having failed to discharge two debts o w in g to tradesmen at Chath am w h er eby proceedings were entered against him in the County Court ; and also for endeavouring to obtain on credit articles of jewelry from a tradesman when unable to liqui -1 date his other debts.