The Sun. — London, England, 1859-09-12 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- On SATURDAY, Sept. 17th, A CHEAP EXCURSION 3 2 VkIN ll leave Paddington at 630 p.m., for BATH (Fares, and 6s ; and BR I S'I'OL (14s. and 78A returning on Mon ...a!, Sept. 19th, from Bristol at 5 30 p.m., and Bath at 6 p.m. GREAT WESTERN R A ILWAY.- % FACURSION T RAINS at LOW FARES will leave RAILWAY.- the ad dingfon Station at 10 15 a.m., for Oxford (Fares, (10 , and 4s), Banbury (68 and ss), Leamington and Warwick . 5 ,., 6 d and 6s), Birmingham (12s and 7s),Wk!stbromwich, Wed (7lll7, and Bilston (128 6d and is 6d), Wolverhampton Li - an d 8a), Wellitn;ton and Shrewsbury (17s and 10s). an angollen Road and Chester (Its Gd and 11s), Birkenhead th Liverpool (21s and 12s Gd), on the 12th, returning on ,1 6 th ; on the 16th, returning on the 19th ; on the 19th, 2lttn'hP: on the 21st ; and on the 21 st , r eturnin g on the The tickets arc only available by the rezpective "nu for which they are issued. For further particulars see atalbills. REGISTRATION. - BOROUGH OF THE Gp ., TOWEL HAMLETS. N MACQUEEN,OTICE IS H Esq E u ER ir BY That JOHN FRASER e, j arri ster-at-Law, havinr , been appointed by the Lord Chief Borough of England to "revise the List of Voters for the p,° l -igh of the Tower Hamlets, will hold his Court fun that w iZse in the Court-House, in Wellclose-square, situate oc , M the said Borough, on SATURDAY, the First day of tober next, at Eleven of the Clock in the Forenoon, pre cieely By Sec. 35 of 6 Vic. cap. 18, the returning officer and the )everal overseers of the respective parishes within the said 0 .° 14,•h, Ore required to attend the Court of the Revising t rster, and at the opening of the said Court to deliver to Revising Barrister the list of voters made by them re riectivelY, and also all the original notices of claims and ections received by them, and to produce a ll rate-books, to r:Lents, papers, and writings, in their possession, mis t Y ' o r PoL istwer. touching a ny matter necessary for revising, the e 'Vective s Dated this 10th day of September, 1859. HENRY CHILD, Returning Officer for the said Borough. - Ring_Edward's-road, Hackney, and No. 1, Turnwheel-lane, City. rrilE GREAT EASTERN FOR AMERICA. tor , The Great Eastrn is appointed to leave HOLYHEAD First-class U.S., on the 29th instant. vrst-class Passengers only will be taken. b t , r 4 assage-money (including stewards' fee and provisions, without wines or liquors, which can be obtained on word), £lB to £25. State Cabins extr a . Return Tickets gravted at a fare and a half. gjor Joassage and other information , a pp l y to the Great / ,`"P Company (Limited), It, King William-street, London, .41 TUE GREAT EASTERN.—This Steam Ship T , will leave PORTLAND,Weymouth, on her Trial 42 on the 17th ins t., and will return to HOLYHEAD. itii2rst class passengers only will be taken. Fares £6, XS, 51 \7 . 410 , according to cabin, including provisions, but exclu zt of wines or liquors, which can be obtained on board. State Cabins extra. s‘f.or further particulars apply at the offices of the Great - I ,``,P Company (Limited), 11, King William-street, London, THE GREAT EASTERN STEAM snip. THE GREAT EASTERN will be ready for youth the reception of visitors, at PORTLAND, near Wey e, ,on or about the 9th to the 15th. She will then start 41' her trial trip, which it is proposed shall not occupy more tha n three days, returning to Holyhead. She will remain there for the recepLion of visitors from Tuesday the 20th to ( g l aY the 2th both inclusive. re - , i iseligers going from Weymouth on the trial trip will be ed on bo"ard on Friday the 16th inst. o tk ~ssengers, arcels, and letterg for America will be received 0 0ard at Ho p lyhead, on Tuesday the 27th and Si ednes -1 the 28th Instant. 11. 11 e Great Eastern will sai l for En g land from Portland, 8 on the Ist November. !Ae Directors have eve confidence that the above ar- i ty ' o nents will be adhered to, but should any alteration un Lotably occur, due notice will be given. By Order, J. YATES, Secretary. T he Great Ship Company (Limited), 11, King William et, London, E.C., 6th September, 1859. VIE GREAT EASTERN. RAILWAY N bi , ARRANGE NIENT .4 . For the convenience of the f l e taking tickets for the Trial Trip of the Great Eastern * i x Weymouth to Holyhead, arrangements have been ma le F o ,"'Lthe London and North-Western, Great Western and 1-We s tern 11-11 ways for the issue of throg,ll. Railway Ticketsto, from the principal stations on their lines, including enablinf the holders to travel to Weymouth, and th e u tiolyhead back, with one throug h first-class ticket, at T i l l c'w charge of Forty Shil ings. 11 1 , eae tickets will 13 , ‘ issued with the Trial Trip tickets at .Great ship Company's Office, as under, and hey will te p r a llable for prccyeding to Weymouth either on the 14th, 15th, 24 1 6t h inst., and retuning from Holyhead, either on the s or „21st, rl• 2 9 d inst. Passengers who have already booked " l e Trial Tri can be furnished with railway tickets un PPli a P cation. By order, J. T. YATES, S cretary. k . "6 l 'eat SCompany (Limited), 11, King William-street, Sept 3 1859 • , • DOE GREAT EASTERN at WEYMOUTH. 1"0 1 .. t , The GREAT EASTERN is advertised to be ready at the near Weymouth, for the reception of visitors, from tin LI till the 15th September inclusive, previous to starting Iver Trial Voyage on the 17th Setember.—SPEClAL tATL.,taCURSION TRAINS, via SOUTH-WESTERN Seni.'vvAY will run on each Week-day, from 9th till 17th th„,` - 'enlber, Inclusive, to WE - MOUTH, from London and - Undermentioned Stations, as follows : FARES TO WEYMOUTH AND BACK. First Second Covered Class. Class. Carriages. Le. ..ve L ondon (Waterloo- A.M. bridge Station at 7.0 Vauxhall at 7.6 Kingston at 7.25 Woking at 7.50 125 . 10s. 85 Farnborough at 8.5 ~ Basingstoke at 8.35 „ Winchest.r at 9.12 „ Bishopstoke at 9.30 „ Southampton (West- 10s; Bs. es end Station). at "'rive at Weymouth at 12.5 9.45 ._.eturning from Weymouth each week day at 4.30 p.m., and a wing in London about 9.45 p.m. R - `le Excursion Tickets will 13e available to return by the th„-TZial Excursion Train on the day following that on which )11U u+ . are issued, thus enabling - passengers to remain at Wey u,Zt from 12 noon till 4.30 p.m. on the following day ; or ca r ,,', en gPrs with Excursion Tickets may return by the Ex eL--°ll Train the same day, in their option. tr i ,uildr en un der Three, Free ; Three to 12. Half Fares 14Keta not transferable, and available at Weymouth only. A Gre at et-bag only allowed as luggage % -- nliaoats will Ply between Weymouth Quay and the eat Shi p. By order, ARCHD. SCOTT, Traffic Oanager. _._____ Wa terloo-bridge Station, London, Septembt r, 1859. ______------ RUPTURES. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN PATENT LEVER kei rti TRUSS is allowed by upwards o f 200 professional a. j 1 to be the best for Hernia. It consists of a and and elastic pad to which a lever is ge attac ng e hed, (last ad of the usuai , steerspring) a soft bands e, fitti be closely 59 to avoid detection. A descriptive circular may of , and the truss forwarded by post, on the circumference tis u body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the .' l factiirer, Mr. John White, 228, Piccadilly. k u ln ele Truss, 165., 9 15., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage , IS. 1408ple ditto, 31s. Oct:, nd 525. 6d. Postage, kai t ; nf nce Orders to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. r of Elastic Stockings, Knee-caps, &C. CERTAIN RELIEF for the AFFLICTED.— Da re er• SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PIL:LS, pre co tt Wit hout any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. live r ',°t Bromley, Kent, area sure remedy for affections of the lite, 'ndlgestion, bile, sick headache, giddiness, loss of appe ';vitOwness of spirits, &c. They can be taken at any time, 'Mil l -lit any danger from wet or cold, act mildly on the bowels, k m out pain or griping, clear the skin, remove sallowness pimples, purify the blood, brace the nerT4, and invigo- Is. lade whole system. Sold by most druggists, in boxes, NC. and 2s. 0(.1. each. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's li ki ra and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green v _age, with "W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engrave d , novernment stamp. 3IEDICAL FRIEND AND MARRIAGE GUIDE. TO THE NERVOUS AND DEBILITATED. .., —Sent free on receipt o f t wo s t amps , for postage, &c., 1 -)r. RAPREY, 27, Alfred-place, Bedford-square, London, e.." THE GUIDE TO SELF-CURE." I t : The first man of the day in these complaints."—Medical ti:` T hose Tho se a b ou t entering the Ma rr i age St a t e s h ou ld peruse 4-1:191 uthor's invaluable little work, as the advice he gives on Medicaland disease reflects much credit upon him as a sound philosopher."—Critic. tor The true Guide to those who desire a speedy and private e. University Magazine. theAMERICAN DISCOVERY' demonstrates tst, absurd it of the English mode of treating such coin iets, will y prove a blessing to the afflicted, who may safely *en t „ . ., B ly regain pristine health by adopting the means pre e."l•' —Evening Star. hubrTlON.—As a duty due to the profession and the d°llb? generally, Dr. Rapkey advises all persons having or 1 „„lpf the legal qualifications of their medical attendant, fro whom they may be about consulting, to procure . of'tie Royal College of Surgeons, London, the Official List 114 Registered Memb.rs, price Is., or Dr. R. will, on receip , of Dua t ri ce stamr g s ladly assist and protect the afflicted bY forward ni the same. LA'MERT, Registered • L.S.A.. Honorary of tae -Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, M.D. 'UL'fversity of Erlangen, Arc., continues to be CON 'ecret On all eases of Debility, Nervousness, and the from -"urfnities of Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, DAILY, 11 tul 2, and from 6 till 8, at his residence, Ur 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON iy. La Mert ham just published, price Sixpence, with nu . r oue Eno - ravingm and Cases, a New Edition of his Work, . 41 titled SF r •F-PRESERVATION, AN ESSAY ON NERVOUS DEBILITY. Ivlii, - , lt' l Will be forwarded post tree in a sealed envelope by ~ Bookseller :0, Cornhill, London, or by the Author, (4 his residence ' , to any address, fore ight postage stamps. CONTENTS. Bt e st,.. 'TION I —The Physiclo,,,y of the Generative Organs. 1 hood -The Morale of Genera tbi,''''Moi.l ll.—Puberty S t 4Ysiolozy—True and False Morality. So . cial, .Moral, and Physical IteloaclN IL—M•trriage In its ointments. l't 1 and Impotence—Sten 1 y n v S'E c .,,V -- -Its Exp'ect,mcies and Disann . Wth ~-.: IV.—Spermatorrhma . E 7 lec e - n --e4 S li I Meted 3lisenes—Sad Consequences of e.rof certain per mlli)l°ll V. —The Vices of Sc et 'in , habits on the mental and general faculties—lmpor - hoo's—Effects t r or Moral Discipline. ' ty____ l Results of LII 'ell" VI. —Treatment of Nervous anduGsenerative De \'ltrio xnPotence and Sferility—Dang er 9 Nein." Novel d from riventy Remedies-The Author's Principles of,..Treat- Y ear , Medical, Dietetic and General, derive de 4 Ruccessful practice. ON- E HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD Ti , CONVICTION. ;AI n,a_rful dangers to invalids from spurious imitations of I .lll , o`utY's inval ' ble HEALTH-RESTORING 11E1 A Cl, .' ARABIC' ua FOOD led to an investigation, and.. `j,hn-I)Plication I A 8.54 for protection, the High Court oi ''evirrY ranted an injuction restraining Alfred Hooper T 'Y a l td 111 A agent a s, under a penalty of £5,000, from selling' 114 ry r,t s iel e resembling or being a colourable imitation of Du t:Pit ovs Revalenta Arabica, of which we are the sole pro- ""td ' Now, therefore, this is to give notice that the above re atio will b e Paid upoticonyiction, to anyone giving infor t4l4l any breach of the injunction. An intelligent Tity , it l Lecluires no admonition to shin all sh?pke2pers who ' CO - - '"" -, Pt impositions. London : iBAITRI DU BARRY %To ... at. [n o b °—''' SICKLY OR. TT,L-CONDITIONED HORSES r-ARP,Q OR OTTIF,R CATTLE. s‘ 7, 8 '0re5 4 41. '' II ORSE and CATTLEWI:OI INC.- FOOD ~,,ri d i ti 4,,e . efficiency vio - our endurance, and muscle of ill "eks -Ti ed or " - 'worn-out Horses, Cows, Bill the,_ Cal ves, rn , ‘e lipparently _ an,r_app eav _.' c ' e eP, and rigs. l o n a ab 3 o o rt time it Improves, per cent. RARE' at .:..k.:O , 77, ,Tl , , and value by R. 5 s. ; i . , c l , as er m ent's Qmuirant, 2 L and don . In tins at 35., at As, lo o u r eir Lg' about lof about 450 feeds, . , '-'n tOs l of about 1,000 feeds, (It _ wa rded id. per feed. '4rri age. on receipt of Post-oflice orders. Thesasks free ~._Ptle,„ ~M EDICINE. NO MORE s, _ imt-,...4c1., free by post a popular trea N e i t four Pa-Tet of theyDIGESTIVE 0 VPIJItAt RiGENERATIO ktt 1 Of I n , C,4.17 ill ustratino• th°eio Flatulency 41,14'gestion (dyspep' , 4a), habitual Constip_ idity of the Liver, otb& Plipitation Of the Heart. RGeffecANtuaSi Cure,. without atn Medicine, .itc f--eanacllo4, Nervousness syrittf^ingh, A sth ' ina,Consumption, - DeaP 1 any , kind, bY a. sil k ,Int Pills, Pur atives, or Medicineo , 1p 1 iTou°srPonnesd%Goye,nsepriaelenD, e4rbei... adapted to the general 11444, pleasant n g d infallible means ; _. n Regent-street. . L ondon : L B Du Barry & C c " ' No. 20,975. P ÜBLICATION S. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT EASTERN. —With the ILLUSTRATED TIMES of NEXT SATURDAY, September 17, will be issued A HALF SHEET EXTRA. The Number and Supplement will contain nume rous Engravings in connection with the progress o f t he G reat Eastern from the Thames to Weymouth. Price of the Number and Supplement, 4d. Unstamped ; sd. Stamped. Office, 2, Catherine-street, Strand. Just published, price 25., free by post, 2s. 4d., SPERMATORRHCE A. By F. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the O N Cure — of Strictures of tile 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 : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street. CONTRACT FOR NORTH AME RICAN MASTS, YARDS, BOWSPRITS, TIMBER, &c. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, 9th September, 1859. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING THE OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, That on TUES DAY, the 25th October next, at Two o'Clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Con tract for supplying - her Majesty's Dockyards with NORTH AMERICAN YELLOW PINE MASTS, YARDS, and BOWSPRITS, A SII OAR RAFTERS, and SPRUCE DEALS, RED PINE, YELLOW PINE, and ROCK ELM TIMBER. A form of the tender, the conditions of the contract, And a distribution•of the articles may be seen at the said Office. No tender will be received after Two o'Clock on the day of treaty, nor any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for North American Goods," and must be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by Two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the per son tendering in the Sum of £5,000 for the due performance of the Contract. NTETROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND 1.-Y1- GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W. Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments. Loans on real and personal security. F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager. rin HE LONDON.—The attention of Gentlemen is especially drawn to the advantages offered in these elegant and spacious Saloons, which fulfil all the require ments of a West-end club of the most aristocratic and exclu sive character. Won trouve dans la Salle de Lecture non seulement lee meilleurs journeaux Anglais, mail aussi Allemand, Francais, et Beige F. SAWYER, Proprietor, 191, Fleet-street. 111cCOLLUM'S GREAT ANGLO-SAXON CIRCUS. JOYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - Almost an entire chanke of performance. New and interesting attractions for this week. Two performances daily, commencing at sand 8 p.m. First appearance of Arthur Nelson, th , celebrated Clown Icing, Inventor and performer on the Lignum Phonicon, im prover of the Ancient Dulcimcrean Lyre. ROYAL CREMORNE GARDENS.- TAE LAST GREAT JUVENILE FESTIVAL of the SEASON. Grand Balloon Race in honour of the Crowned Heads of Europe, THURSDAY, Sept. lf)th. On three former occasions the Royal Children, the Daily Press, the Weekly Papers of the metropolis have been represented by Ornamen— tal Balloons, made expressly for the occasion ; these have been drawn for as prizes by Children, an Equestrian Spectacle has been given on the Lawn, and the evenings have proved very great successes. These pleasing features will be repeated once more at the Fete of all Nations, when every effort will be made to render it every way worthy of a very general sup port. The prizes must be drawn for at 5 o'clock. Daily—the Amusements of Vocal and Instrumental Music—Ballet — Marionette Burlesque. Last week of the Cirque. Last week of Bono Core. Admission, Is. • A • RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill - street , I - 1- Piccadilly. - These elegant rooms are now open for the Winter Season for Promenade Concerts, with the celebrated Argyll Band, conducted by Mons. A. Lamotte ; principal cornet-a-piston, M. Bonlcourt. Dancing at 10 o'clock. Doors open at 8, commence at half-past. Admission, ls. THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS , High Tiolborn, RE-OPENED for the SEASON.—This establishment, pre-eminently distinguished for the elegance and matchless beauty of its decorations, combined with the perfection of its management, is OPEN EVERY EVENING. Great alterations and improvements have been made during the recess, and nothing has been left unchine that could en hance the beauty of the place, or increase the comfort of the visitors. Doors open at half-past 8; overture at 9; closing at 12 punctually. Admission ls. TIAILY, AT THREE O'CLOCK (and on MON DAY and SATURDAY evenings at half-past eight), Dr. KAHN will DELIVER his celebrated and popular LEC TURE on the "Philosophy of Marriage." The MUSEUM, 3, Tichborne-street, Haymarket, is OPEN DAILY (for gentlemen only). Admission, ls. Handbook free to visitors. Dr. Kahn's treatise on " The Philosophy of Marriage," free by post for twelve stamps, direct from the Author, 17, Harley-street, Cavendish-square. BUY IN THE CHEAPEST MARKET.- This was the , dvice of the late lamented statesman, Sir Robert Pee'.— The EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY sre still supplying Green, or Mixed Tea, in 6lb bags, at 2s. 4d. per lb ; and Coffee in the Berry at 10d.—Warehouses, 9, Great St. Ilelen' . B Churchyard, City. VINEGAR. Patronised by her Majesty's. G overnment.—CONDY'S PATENT PURE CONCEN TRATED MALT VlNEGAR.—Families, by using this de licious Vinegar, insure purity, and effect a saving of 50 per cent. See Report of Dr. Letheby, City Officer of Health ; Dr. Hassall, of the " Lancet" Commission, and others. Sold by the Trade, in bottles labelled and capsuled. Wholesale, 63, g sent free William-stre any Rahway for 3s 6d. , London-bridge, E.C.—Six Quart Sample to . LENFIELD PATENT STARCH, ¶T USED IN THE ROYAL LAUNDRY, &ND ?RONOUNCED BY lIER MAJESTY'S LAUNDRESS to he THE FINEST STARCH SIIE EVER USED. WHEN YOU ASK FOR GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH, SEE THAT YOU GET IT, As inferior kinds are often substituted. Sold by all Chandlers, Grocers, &c., &o. WOTITERSPOON & CO., GLASGOW AND LONDON 3, GREAT MARLBOROLIG R-STREET, W. NEAR THE PANTHEON.I fR. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal 'College of Surgeons, Licentiate of vfidwiferv, and Apo thecaries' flail, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nery ‘us Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, emanating from early and excessive indul gences. Has Just published, price is. ; by post, 13 stamps, 18 sealed, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation The Ori , in of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Also, an Exposition of, and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Stricture, Blennerrhagla ' (Gonorrhoea), Spermatorrlmea, Impotency, and all Diseases of the Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &c. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women— Functional Ir regularities in Health awl Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and removal of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum, and the securing of Healthy Offspring. Also, No. 1. ITEA.LTIL HAPPINESS, and LNGEVITY On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia O , and Indigestion, No. 2. LOVE AND MARRIAGE : Their Obl4rations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love and other Matches. Sterility Removed, and Healthy Off spring secured. No. 3. THE CASE BOOK : 100 Cases of SPERMATORRIREA, 'f'heir Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &c. &e. &c. To be had of Mann. 39, Cornhill ; and the Authors.' Advice to the Working Classes, fee Half-a-Guinea. U BARRY'S REVALENTA ARABICA 4 7 CHOCOLATE POWDER Contains the greatest amount of easily assimilated nourishment for strengthening delicate persons, children, and infants with weak stomachs, chest, or nerves, and, at 3-pence per meal, affords a delicious breakfast, lunch, or supper. It is the best dietetic homeopa thic ereparation, and maybe eaten either alone or mixed with Du Barry's Reval ent a A rabica Food. Admirably adapted to rear Infants with. In Tins at 18. fil ; lib., 35.; 21b., ss. 9d. ; 51b. 12s. ; 121 b., 211 s. The 121 b. forwarded carr ia g e free, on receipt of Post-office rmler. Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent street, London ; and through all Grocers and Chemists. . ~ NO MORE MEDICINE DU RA ..tRY'S DELICIOUS HEALTH-RESTORING I RI4:VALENTA A RABICA FOOD Cures effectually Indiges tion (dyspepsia), constipation, flatulency, phlegm, nervousness, biliousness, liver complaints, hysteria, neuralgia, sleepless ness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, eruptions, impurities, irritability,. low spirits, diarrhoea, dysentery, hemorrhoids, headache, noises in the head and ears, debility, diabetes, pains between the shoulders, despondency, cramps, spasms, nausea, and sickness (during pregnancy or at sea), sinking fj ts, cough, asthma- bronchitis, consumption, also Children's complaints. We extract a few out of 50,000 expressions of gratitude from nvalids thus cured : Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies of dyspepsia. Cure No. 49,832. " Fifty years' in many years' descri b a ble agony from dyspepsia nervousness, asthma, , cough, convtipatio.n, flatulency, spasms. sickness at the excellent Food," Marta , o y. f. d stomach and vomitinq, Tire be c e a n re re N m o o . v s e 3 l Bl l3 6 y . D n u el ß d a giata 3liasElizabeth l a b ab a e th th s 'a, constition ner la2l. shall the Duke of Pluskow, o yape ln d resisted ' and medical treatment . taP vousness and iiverco laicnatsrewshaic. 47, C No 18 216 Dr And fancies. ure • , • • rew spirits, and nervous Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low and debility. Cure No. No. 34,210. Dr. Shorland, of dropsy tits Cure No. 36,418. Rev. Ure, of constipation, dvspepsia, andnervous irritability.rCure 36,212. Captain Allan of epileptic • bilitv Cure No. r. 21,418. Dr.llervey, of diarrhoea and de .._ _ Dr. Minster, of cramp's, spar,rlis and daily vomiting& Cure No. Roberts, diseased lungs, spitting merchant, Frimley, Surrey, of 20 years' Wurtzerof consumption. Cure N 0.46,270. Mr. James of blood, liver derangement, partial deafness. Cure_No. 4,208: " Eight years' dyspepsia, nervousnes s, debility, with cramps, spasms, and nausea, have been effectually cured by Du Ba Ridlingrryton 's health-restoring Food. Rev. John W. Flavell, Rectory, ndi''2l'sti°7l' and general debility. James Porter, .Atholteet, Norfolk."—Cure No. 3,906, of thirteen years' cough, Perth. Sold in canisters, lib. 2s, 911. 121 b. 22s Super refined quality, hib. 225. ; IMb. Ms. The 101 b, and 191 b. canisters are forwarded carriage free, on receipt of Post d -office order. Barry Du Barry and Co., 77, Regent - str eet, Fortnum, lirasPn, and Co., purveyors to her Maj est y , 182, Piccadilly ; also at 60, Oracechurch-street ; 330, Str and; 4, Ch ea pside ; 40 and 60, Bishopsgate,strepi ; 105 and 63, O xford- Lonon ; e t tee t ; 85, Tottenham-court-road •, also hi Liverpool, at El Ixons, 1, Castle -street : L ewis , Reinhardt and Co . - Dublin. Dr. Butler, Medical Hall; M -noliester Sharp and Soott j gdinhurgh, Relines and Co i f„) r.nr f -T 7l la Too r, , ••, • • • • 0 1 - 16 •Er 114 1 :#1" • (WI 411 ' xrer i t t 4 •••• 4, „ , • , • ( V \ l / 4„ • ZWI 4 5 " --Lshct • • • .! : rth• ct , ii,.-,. ‘ ,4;/ , Mir . '.7 ",7 • #.IIOIT. • 7 / N .. -• - t•,‘ - i, 5-J113)11(1,1- PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, su'• Some years ago the small statesikk. ; Young England 'sclic.)ol Isere terribly scandal/4a bki a piece of advice from Sir Robert Peel, who recom mended them, instead of indulging in a political fantasy, to go and serve on railway committees, as a course far more likely to benefit both themselves Lud theii• coutitTy. Against this practical and commonplace suggestion they indignantly rebelled, and yet it would have been better, after all, if they had taken the hint, for the Young England doctrines survive now only in certain agreeable novels, whereas the public interests have been affected to an incalculable extent by the railway legislation of - 1:545. Mr. Bright, no doubt, would be dreadfully shocked if anybody were to compare him with those young gentlemen who held that Britain was to be regenerated by mediaeval manners and white waistcoats, but. his polities are as unprac tical as theirs,though not as ridiculous.• . 1 -le per sists iu striving after one object, and one only. To be sure, it ,is a r.4ighty one, and would, if • attained, embrace, perhaps, most other objects pre sent to his imagination. Preeisely in the same way would the philosopher's stone, if discovered, have dispensed with all other methods of money making, and the elixir like have superseded all other medicaments of physicians. Unfortunately, these marvellous inventions could never be per fected, and men at, last learnt the wisdom of work ing for practical purposes with ordinary means, instead of consuming their talents and opportunities in pursuit of some phantom of power. We remarked the other day that if some Re former of eminence—Mr. Bright, for instance— would but give his energies a practical direction by elucidating the mysteries of our naval expenditure, an immense public benefit would be the result. If £0,000,000 could be knocked off from dockyard charges, and one-fifth part of the saving invested in a good reserve df seamen, would not such a success be infinitely gratifying to the country and honourable olougltso, c t e o rt t a h ily the statesman achieving it ? We but so commonplace a job is far below Mr. Bright's idea of political occupa tion. He will look at nothing short of a grand Parliamentary Reform Bill conceived upon his own. principles. That is the talisman which will eradi cate all abuses, rectify all errors, and establish ex cellence in all departments of the Administration. Once get that, and everything else will follow. There is the object which statesmen and patriots should keep incessantly before them, without allow ing their thoughts to be diverted by small details of public business. To this we must needs reply, that it is exceedingly doubtful whether the talis man in question would work these wonders even if it could be acquired, and perfectly certain that if , Mr. Bright waits till he acquires it he will never do his countrymen any service at all; Takehis own view of the matter, as delivered. on Thursday at Huddersfield. He is free to confess that the course we suggested in.the administration of the Navy " would be a great deal better than the course now taken," and he evidently does not 'think that we have exaggerated the dimensions of the the o fo b r j e t c h t e . s r O e ee l-) hof i c k, o r n d t r c a . r p y , a ge h e t isnfuwlhl which eh a t d h n i t s ir N a v t a in s o te was denounced, and which he characterises. as a speech of " great ability, and, what is of. far more importance, let me tell you, also a speech of great accuracy and great honesty." That is to say, he really believes that five millions or so of the public money might' be soon saved in this branch of expenditure, and such 'a prospect we should imagine, would be considerable enough to engage the attention of the most exalted politician. But what does he reply to our suggestion that he should take this practicable piece of business in hand and turn it out handsomely finished ? He tells us that, es the House of Commons is now con stituted, it is perfectly useless for him or any one else to attempt such a task, and that we know it to be so: He says that opposite to him in that house there sits a phalanx of Tory members, who gain so much from the public taxes that they will never vote for the diminu tion of their own patrimony by making those taxes less ; and that until we come to the point that Parliament shall not be the instrument of a class, but a fair representation of the people, there is no remedy for the grievance of which. we COM plain." Now, to this piece of extravagance and exaggera tion we might easily reply by denying its assertions point after point. It is not true that half the House of Commons gains by the taxation of the country. It is not true that the House, as now constituted, is disposed to encourage dockyard expenditure, for there is no subject which is more earnestly handled, and Lord Clarence Paget probably owes his place in the Ministry to the popularity of his onslaught on the estimates. It is not in the smallest degree probable that Mr. Bright, if he took up this subject, would meet with the rebuffs which he professes to anticipate; on the contrary, if he could show how the navy might be made more effective at a less cost, lie might reckon on cordial support and approba tion from all parties in the House. But, passing over these points, is it within the bounds of proba bility, or is it even compatible with our knowledge of mankind, that such an event as a'Parliament after Mr. Bright's heart should ever be realised ? It is easy to discern what he wants from this very speech; indeed, we must do him the justice to say that his views are never disguised from the public, though we doubt if he feels their full import hini self. He desires that " the people should govern, instead of a class." But what is a people except an aggregate of classes? If a Reform Bill could be carried without compromise on Mr. Bright's prin ciples, the country would be then most undoubtedly governed by a class—that is to say, the class of working men, whose votes would outnumber and outweigh all others. Whether the results of such a government would quite accord with Mr, Bright's expectations is another matter, but that it would be government by a class cannot be doubted. It is amus ing to see in the speech before us how candidly or how insensibly this eloquent orator discloses his ideal of a House of Commons. He knows what his own opi nions are, and what he would like to see done. He beholds around him a respectable and tolerably funnels on the same principle. It is almost needless to say that the only one which now remains thus fitted will be instantly altered, the casing removed, and everything restored to the ordinary arrangements of the Cunard and Collins line of packets. The pity of the matter is, that just at a moment when the vessel had shown the greatness of its success an unfortunate casualty should have occurred, which for a time may shake the confidence of some in a work which, from its magnitude of conception and * completeness of de tails, was regarded as a national triumph, and one of which the country was most justly proud. The Great Eastern, in spite of all that has happened, still remains the finest vessel that was ever built, and one over which, notwithstanding all that bas been predicted to the contrary, the sea seems to exercise no influence. I brought the narrative of her voyage down to her anchoring at the Nore on Thursday night. During the passage down the river only the speed had been ascertained, and this was shown in a way which, when her trim was taken into consideration, must have surpassed the most sanguine expectations. But as the night fell on Thursday, after anchoring at the Nore, there seemed a fair chance of seeing next day how she would comport herself in asmartsea down Channel. The glass fell as the wind and sea rose. The scud be gan to fly across the moon, a misty sleet drizzled at intervals, and the tightened shrouds began to hum with a sharp noise, as if the very rigging was waken ing up for a conflict with the elements. Gradually the sky grew overcast, not with clouds, butia uni form thick tint, as if sea, sky, and air were painted a dull slate colour. Taken in the aggregate, there were the premonitory symptoms of a " dirty night" in the Channel, and there was reasonable expecta tion of a still " dirtier" day. The dawn disappointed no one who wished to know how the Great Eastern would behave in a seaway. The anchor was got up, and the run down Channel commenced, the Girdler Salads being passed soon after 10. The breeze kept freshening, till it amounted at times to a gale, and the old music among the shrouds and rigging be came louder and louder. Margate and Ramsgate and the North and South Forelands were pasSed in that hazy watery scud. when the sea and sky are so mingled together that it is hard to tell where the spray ends and the clouds begin. In the Downs the wind freshened considerably, coming dead a-head, and for the first time a fair comparison of the Great Eastern with other ships could be made at sea. A heavy swell was running, and large vessels were lying•to under close-reefed topsails, pitching deeply to the sea, and sending the spray in clouds from their bows. At this time the Great Eastern was as motionless as a rock. Now and then heavy rollers passed her, but their size and action could only be known by observing their effects on other ships. A number of the passengers went forward to the ex treme end of the bows, and remained watching the stern of the vessel by comparing it with the line of the horizon to detect a movement. Only by such a rigid test as this could it be discerned that the Great Eastern was moving gently now and then, scarcely more than a foot along her entire length, as the waves rushed under her. Off Dover a sharp quick steamer, very much resembling the handsome boats of the Dover packet service, came out to see the " big ship pass." Quickly as she went, and with the advan tage of a long stretch down from land, she made no sign of coming up with the Great Eastern ; on the contrary, as it opened towards the swell she pitched and flew about like a cork, taking in green seas over her bows, and making such bad weather of it that after a half-hour's waiting race, she seemed glad to go round on the other tack and run in for Dover. Shortly before this, Lord Alfred Paget's yacht Resolute, which, in spite of the weather, had held her course alongside in a way that well became her name, was obliged to part company and bear up for Margate in the best way she could. It was calculated that the surface of the Great Eastern opposed to the wild was equal to an adverse pres sure of upwards of 1,200 tons, and made a differ ence of between three and three-and-a-half knots an hour in her speed. Yet, with her paddles only going six or seven revolutions, and her screw from 25 to 30 (which was exactly what is called half speed), the mean average of her pace gate more than 12 knots an hour. After passing Dover the weather began to clear, and the afternoon became so fine that some of the passengers, as I have al ready said, were tempted up from dinner to look at the coast near Hastings. Off this town the acci dent took place, an accident which all must deplore, and not the less so as being likely, for a short time, to make people distrust what, in fact, will prove the safest vessel in the world. The accident was a very bad one ; but it should no more affect the sound principle on which the Great Eastern has been constructed than if a tipsy pilot was to run her ashore. It was only off Beachy Head, when the tiller-ropes broke, and the vessel, left to itself, began to move to the swell, that those on board be came for the first time aware that she was really moving like another ship. The motion, however, was slight, and of course stopped the instant chains were rove through the tiller and the steering re sumed. No arrangements are yet made for the de parture of the vessel on her trial trip, but there is no doubt that it must be postponed for many days later than was originally intended. The following are the names of those killed and numerous, assemblage of listeners, many of whoia share his views, while all for the moment are pleased with his address. •Trom this position he takes a tremendous jump to the conclusion that, except for some " 400 great, families,'' every creature in the country would think and wish just as he and his audience were thinking and wishing at that moment. "Those things are not done,' says he, " which you, the liberal people of Huddersfieldand England wish your Government to do." "I ask you," he continues, " who are a fair representation of the people of the West Riding of Yorkshire,, as the West Riding is a fair r epresentation of the in telligence, virtue,, and greatness of •the people of England," and so forth. Here, in the plainest form, is Mr. Bright's ideal P a rliament—constituencies all Huddersfields,(representatives all,Brights—that being the consummation which would clearly re lease England frem'the government of a class. It is really surprising, notwithstanding the self delusions to which earnest theorists are always ex posed, that so clever a man as , Mr. Bright should not discover that while he appears to be contending for the commonwealth against a class, he is actu ally only contending for his own class against all others. It is not in the.nature of things or of men that the ideal unanimity which he has conceived in his imagination should ever exist. Opinions will always differ ; society will always crystallise into classes, and the wisest men with the firmest con victions must be prepared to see ,ollies occasionally get the better of them, if they mean to accomplish any practical good in this world. No doubt, Mr. Bright is sincere, and the people of Huddersfield are intelligent, but intelligence and sincerity are to be found in other places also, and, what is more, under other forms of expression. The people of this country, though they may be animated, under strong impulses and with certain high objects, by'a single spirit, will never think so exactly alike as to furnish Mr. Bright, under any system o f vo ti ng , with his perfect House of Commons. He would always encounter, in some shape or other, the a stolid phalanx" of an Opposition—perhaps a m ore troublesome one than de find s The edivision and conflict of parties are at le as America, under a Republic and thasei violen t ballot, are here. These thin g are , in reality, pla in . as e en ou gh t h ad otuh to be truisms, and our moral t h at B Mr. h better give his countrymen the benefit of his abi lities in' the sphere which he finds than consume his energies in the vain endeavour to create a new one for himself.—Tinfes. injured : Mr. William Briscoe, engineer; slightly injured. John Boyd, fireman ; dead. Michael M'llroy, fireman. ' • dead. Michael Mahon, fireman ; dead. Edward Patrick Gorman, trimmer ; jumped over board to escape - the steam, and lost. William Tait, trimmer ; expected to recover. John Yoxon, trimmer ; expected to recover. Richard Edwards, fireman; dangerously burnt and scalded. Robert Adams, fireman ; ditto. William Sparks, fireman ; ditto. Walter Woodward, fireman ; ditto. WEYMOUTH, SEPT. 11. Of the unfortunate men injured by the explosion, William Sparks, John Yoxon, and William Tait were removed to Portland Hospital this morning, and are progressing favourably. _ _ Robert Adams and Richard Edwards remain on board in a very precarious condition. The bodies have been removed on shore, and the inquest will take place to-morrow. In connexion with the killed and the surviving sufferers we subjoin the following official statement from the dirctors and medical gentlemen, drawn up yesterday, soon after the Great Eastern reached Portland Harbour : " Great Eastern Steamship, " Portland Harbour, Sept. 10, 1859. " Yesterday, at six p.m., an accident occurred on board the Great Eastern. The feedwater casing of the foremost chimney collapsed, owing to some neglect. Several stokers are seriously scalded; three since dead. 'No passengers injured. The ship and machinery are uninjured except main cabin fittings, which are damaged. 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By the proper use of the m almost any food may be eaten with im punity. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1859. BANK OF ENGLAND, SEPTEMBER 8, 1859. riIHE COURT OF DIRECTORS of the 1 GOVERNOR and COMPANY of the BANK of ENG LAND give notice that a GENERAL COURT will be held at the Bank on THURSDAY next, the 15th inst., at rwelve o'Clock precisely, to consider of a dividend. This will also be one of the Quarterly General Courts appointed by the charter. JAMES STEWART, Secretary. short interval, during which the white steam still obscured all aft the funnel, Capt. Comstock, who was on the bridge, tried to see what had occurred, but he could only ascertain by peering over the edge of the paddle-box that the vessel's sides were uninjured, and the engines still going. Gradually then, as the steam cleared off, the foremost funnel could be seen lying like a log across the deck, which was covered with bits of glass, gilding, fragments of curtains and silk hangings, window frames, craps of wood blown into splinters, and a mass of fragments, which had evidently come from the cabin fittings of the lower deck, beneath the grand saloon. In the middle was a great heap of rubbish where the fnnnel had just stood, from which the condensed steam was rushing up in a white, an& therefore not hot, vapour, but enough to hide com pletely all that had happened below. In another minute all the passengers came rushing towards the spot. The 20 or 30 who had remained at table inthe saloon next that which blew up came on deck also, and it will give your readers some idea of the gigan tic strength of the vessel when I tell them that these latter until they actually saw the smash were almost unaware of the terrific explosion which had oc curred beside them. It was only the dull heavy roar, followed by the rattling of fragments as they rained down on and through the skylights which warned them that something dreadful had occurred. Still none knew what had really happened or what injury the vessel had sustained. Capt. Harrison, who was aft at the moment, rushed forward, and, seizing a rope, lowered himself down through the steam into the wreck of the grand saloon, and calling to six men to follow him, began a search among the ruins for those who might have been below. The only one in the apartment was his own little daughter, who had just arrived at the after part at the mo ment of the explosion, and who, completely shel tered by the wrought-iron bulkhead, had escaped, by a miracle, totally unhurt. Captain Harrison merely gave the order to pass her up through the skylights, and continued his search. This was no easy matter. The wreck and rubbish piled in all directions in the ladies' small saloon, forward of the funnel, made it difficult to move about. The steam hid almost every object; the place was broken, the floor in parts upheaved and riven, so as to show a still more frightful smash in the saloons and cabins below. Through these apertures the bright glare beneath the lower deck of all showed that the fur nace doors had either been blown open or blown away, and the funnel being gone, the draught was down the remains of the chimney, forcing out the flames and ashes in a fierce and dangerous stream. This, as the embers touched water, sent up a close, suffocating air—half steam half gas—in which it was difficult to see and almost impossible to breathe. `ln the meantime most on board, including the visi tors, took steps to restore order and confidence. As I have already said, there were fortunately no holi day tourists there, or the matter would have been much worse. Some of the ablest engineers and machinists were on deck, who could pretty well guess what had happened and what worse might follow. A funnel, filled similarly to that which had blown up, was evidently getting intensely hot, and of those present none knew to what extent its " jacket," or outer casing, had been damaged or how soon it might explode. Mr. Scott Russell, fol lowed by one or two engineers, at once went below to the furnaces of these boilers, and ordered the steam to be blown off, the speed of the engines to be reduced, and every precaution taken to guard against mishap. Mr. Campbell remained calm and collected on deck, getting the crew forward and pre venting any unnecessary alarm. Some of the men instantly went below to search for those employed in the stoke-holes, whom it was now evident must be fearfully injured, if indeed alive. At this moment a cry was raised of a man overboard. Some of the crew and many of the passengers went aft, when something like the figure of a human being was visible among the waves. Life buoys, gratings, and bits of timber were thrown over all at once, and two gentlemen were endeavouring to lower a boat when it was stated that the alarm was a false one. Un happily, however, it wasbut too true, as was after wards ascertained. The man was a fireman, and when the explosion took place he rushed, to avoid the steam, to the aperture out of which the ashes were emptied, and from this jumped and caught at a beam under the " sponson," in front of the paddles. To this, it is said, he hung for a few moments, when, probably weakened by the explosion or scalded by the steam, he relaxed his hold, and fall ing under the paddles was, of course, instantly killed by them, and so floated past astern. All that I have stated occurred in the space of three or four minutes. Mr. Trotman, with one or two others, went below to the lower deck cabins, where one at least was known to be covered by the wreck, while Captain Harrison came on deck and ordered the ship's course to be altered towards the land till it could be ascertained that there was no immediate danger from fire or injury to the frame of the vessel below. The latter risk appeared to be most immi nent, as the flames were still rushing fiercely from the furnace doors. The hose was therefore ordered to be laid on, and instant preparations made for ex tinguishing the fires. During this time some gallant fellows among the crew had gone down to the stoke-hole to see after those below, and bring the poor firemen who were on duty near the funnel at the time on deck as quickly as possible. It was said that only two or three men were b e l ow , an d that these men were but slightly injured, though it was, un fortunately, soon found that there were not less than twelve more or less hurt. Two or three of these poor fellows walked up to the deck almost, if not quite unassisted, and this may have led to the belief that their injuries were slight. Their aspect, however, told its own tale, and none who had ever seen blown-up men before could fail to know at a glance that some had only two or three hours to live. A man blown up by gunpowder is a mere figure of raw flesh, which seldom moves after the explosion. Not so with men blown up by steam, who for a few minutes are able to walk about, apparently almost unhurt, though in fact mortally injured beyond all hope of recovery. This was so with one or two, who, as they emerged from below, walked aft with that indescribable expression in their faces only re sembling intense astonishment, and a certain falter ing of the gait and movements like one that walks in his sleep. Where not grimed by the smoke or ashes, the peculiar bright, soft whiteness of the face, hands, or breast, told at once that the skin, though unbroken, had in fact been boiled by the steam. One man walked along with the movement and look I have endeavoured to describe, and seemed quite unconscious that the flesh of hi s t hi g h s ( m ost probably by the ashes from the furnace) was burnt in deep holes. To some one who came to his assistance he said quietly, "I am all right. There are others worse than me. Go and look after them." This poor man was the first to die. Another stoker was brought up with the scalp hanging in raw strips from his head. One of the crew went to assist another fireman, and caught him by the arm, and beneath the grasp of those who thus aided him the skin peeled off the poor fellow's hand and armlike an old glove, and this, too, w i t h out the su ff erer apparently feeling or knowing it. As fast as the men were got up they were taken aft to the infir mary, where cots were prepared, Drs. Slater and ship, w a it r h y,s oneo w the Hospital,hic Watson, visitors, the ror surgeonsAiarkha Markham, theof St. Mary's were at once in attendance, and everything unremitting kindness or medical skill could suggest was at once done for their relief. It was, h oweve r, seen at once that but little hopes ex i s t e d f or man y, if not the majority, of the suffere rs , w h o were 12 in number. Most of them seemed very res tl e ss, and almost if not quite delirious ; but a few of those whose injuries were likely to be more imme diately fatal remained quiet, half unconscious or at most only asking to be covered up, as if they felt the cold. For these latter all knew nothing whatever could be done, as, in fact, they were then dying. In the meantime on deck the hose had been got at once into play, and a stream of water was poured down into the stokehole beneath the lower deck, so as in a few minutes to quench the fire in the furnaces, and put at rest all fear of danger from that source. Within 20 minutes after the blow-up the real cause and nature of the mishap was known, and the total safety of all the engines and after boilers was &finitely ascertained. Fearful as was the explosion, it was seen that, owing to the im mense strength of the ship, its violence had been entirely confined to the compartment in which it had occurred. Beyond this no injury was done of any kind, excepting a stray piece breaking a skylight here or there. Prudently, therefore, and in order to prevent exaggerated reports or unneczssary alarm, it was determined to resume the original course and steer for Portland. Before this was done Mr. llawkins, one of the boatswains, had discovered that Mr. Rawlinson, one of Mr. Gray's assistants, who was in a lower-deck cabin, was completely buried, and, in fact, suffocating beneath a pile of lumber of all kinds. In an instant men were set to work to free him, who dragged away the wreck and splintered glass and wood by handfuls, till Mr. Rawlinson was caught sight of and pulled out by main force, a good deal shaken, contused, and cut about the head and face, but not dangerously. All danger from fire or another explosion beirg now at an end, those who chose were enabled to go down and ex amine for themselves the scene of the disaster. The litter on the deck showed that in the compartment in which it had taken place, and where it was confined by the wrought-iron bulkheads, it had been wide and general. The fore part of Mr. Crace's beautiful saloon was a pile of glittering rubbish, a mere confused mass of boards, carpet shreds, hangings, mirrors, gilt frames, and splinters of ornaments ; the rich gilt castings were broken and thrown down, the brass work ripped, the handsome cast iron columns round the funnel overturned and strewed about. In the more forward part, a State sitting-room for ladies, every single thing was destroyed, and the wooden flooring broken and wrenched up. As one gazed on the evidences of the appalling force of the explo sion it was recollected with profound gratitude to Providence that the accident occurred at the only single moment when the grand saloon was empty, and the berths on each side were unoccupied. What the consequences would have been if it had taken place an hour later, when the visitors would be sitting in the saloon, is almost fearful to think upon. But the damage in this part seemed a mere bagatelle when compared with the ravages among the lower deck cabins beneath. It was difficult to go down there, for the whole place was filled with fragments of boards, chairs, beds, cabin fittings, broken steam pipes and syphon tubes, torn-out rivets, and masses of the inner and outer funnels rent to pieces like calico, and lying about like heaps of crumpled cardboard. Everything was in literal fragments. The course of the explosion could then be seen at once. The water, or rather steam, in the casing had crushed in the inner casing, blowing up the funnel above deck, while both funnels below it were torn to pieces and hurled about, sometimes in single rivets or scraps no longer than one's hand, sometimes in crumpled up lumps weighing several hundred weight. Beneath this deck, towards the stokehole, where the remnants of the funnel left a yawning hole like an extinct volcano, the force of the explosion was still more manifest. Not only was the iron compartment nearest to the boiler partly rent and pushed back, but one of the main deck beams, an enormously massive wrought-iron girder about two feet deep, and strengthened with angle irons, was wrenched back and nearly bent in halves. The ruin here would be an instructive sight for engineers to witness. It would be still better if medical men could inspect them and solve the problem of how it can possibly have happened that men who stood round the base of the funnel when it exploded, and when tons of iron were torn up and cast about, were not only not killed on the spot, but scarcely one was unable to walk, and not one has sustained a fracture or dislocation. This is at present an inexplicable circumstance. In some parts the explosion seems to have acted with the capricious violence of lightning. Thus, in the grand saloon the two largest mirrors on each side of it, running fore and aft, were quite unbro ken, though the silvering was boiled off the backs of both by the heat of the steam. By the side of these glasses cast-iron columns were bent and broken, and mirrors at four times the distance from the seat of the disaster were almost pulverized, and their framings even destroyed. The beautiful oak stair cases descending to the saloons were blown up like cardwork, yet not a book on the library shelves clo eto the funnel was stirred. At the bottom of the stokehole 1 found one of the gilt framings which were placed round the Windows of the saloon ; it was perfectly uninjured. For your readers to understand this singularity they must suppose one house—say number eight—to have had an explosion in its cellar, antlamong the ruins is found uninjured a drawing-room picture belong ing to the next-door neighbour at_number nine. The boiler, as far as can be judged from a super ficial examination, stands firm ; a close scrutiny, however, will be necessary to enable the engi neers to determine whether any part of it, n ore especially its tubes, are injured. It seems alino:A too much to hope that when such a severe concussion was experienced, it can have escaped entirely with out injury. Near and upon the boiler lie scraps and morsels of the funnels, which show where the first tearing away commenced before the inner casing was blown up to the deck. This, as far as the most diligent - inquiry and close personal observation has enabled me to ascer tain, is a fair and candid account of the accident. It is difficult in mere words to fall into any exalt• geration in describing the effects of such great ex plosions. I have said no more than the circum stances warrant, to say less would be equally wrong. As far, then, as this short cruise is concerned, I have up to the present given only the dark side of the picture. In candour to the public, and in justice to all connected with this noble vessel, it is right that the bright side should be told as well. Every engineer on board knows that no wooden vessel that ever swam could have resisted the tremendous violence of the explosion for a second. Whether it had happened to the Royal Albert or the General Admiral, the result would have been in each case the same ; they would hare gone down, perhaps without even time enough to lower a boat. The Britannia Bridge is a struc ture of almost unknown strength ; engineers calcu late that the Great Eastern is ten times as strong. Yet even the ablest engineers on board were as tounded at the slight effect produced when the tre mendous nature of the explosion was considered. Again, the vessel never once stopped either screw or paddle engines, though of course after this most unfortunate mishap the forward pair of boilers were instantly put out, while the after pair to the second funnel were worked slowly and easily. The only difference this made was that the screw engines were required to go faster, and faster accordingly they went, and did all that was wanted to send the huge ship through the water "at the rate of knots," as sailors say. Any ordinary vessel, even those nominally built of iron, which only mean an outer metal casing with all the rest wood, must have been burnt by the ex plosion. Yet it is not too much to say that all on board almost smiled at the idea of fire in a vessel subdivided in every direction into a series of iron cells, Had fire been possible, the mass of water that was instantly at hand from large hose con nected with the donkey engines would have sufficed to put out a small volcano. The accident might and most likely would have occurred to any vessel fitted with double casing THE GREAT . E A STERN. TERRIBLE EXPLOSION ON BOARD. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) PORTLAND, SEPT. 11. Before this reaches your readers most of them will have heard, by rumour or otherwise, of the shocking accident which occurred on board this vessel while off Hastings on Friday evening. The most exaggerated and often contradictory accounts both as to the cause and extent of the calamity are already in circulation, the killed and wounded vary ing in the reports from 4to 40. What the actual loss of life will prove ultimately to be it is at pre sent impossible to say ; four of the poor firemen and stokers have already perished, and three or four remain in such a state as leaves but little hope of their lives being saved. The explosion which has now cast so sad a gloom over the trip round to Portland took place in the forward funnel, which passes through the grand saloon and lower deck cabins to the boilers. It was probably one of the most terrific which a vessel has ever survived, and which none in the world could have withstood save a structure of such marvellous strength and solidity as the Great Eastern. The strongest line-of-battle ship would have had her sides blown out by it, and must have gone down like a stone. The Great Eastern not only resisted it, but, in spite of the dreadful nature of the catastrophe, it made so little difference to the movements of the vessel that her engines were never once stopped, and, save for half an hour, her course was never altered from its ori ginal destination to this harbour. In order fully to understand as far as it is yet known the cause of the accident, it will be necessary to say a few words on the peculiar construction of the two forward funnels for the paddle boilers. In the first plans for the vessel it was determined, in order to economise the heat given off by the funnels, and to keep the saloons through which they passed cool, to fit them all with what is termed " a feed-pipe casing," rising from the boilers to about eight feet above the under deck. This feed-pipe casing is simply a double or outer funnel for the length we have stated, the inner one, as usual, carrying off the smoke and flame, and the space between it and the outer casing being filled with water. The water is pumped in at the top of the casing while cold, and gradually passing down int) the space round the furnaces, becomes greatly heated, when it is dis charged into the boilers by means of an ordinary stop-cock. A plan by which so much coolness is supposed to be gained in the berths and saloons, and so much fuel saved by the ample supply of hot Water to the boilers, promises such obvious advan tages that for the last 10 years attempts of every kind have been made to carry out the principle suc cessfully on board most of the seagoing steamers. In no one instance has the plan even yet succeeded. In but too many cases the funnels have done what the funnel of the Great Eastern did on such a colossal scale last Friday evening. When such an accident has not occurred the pressure of the column of water upon the base of the funnel near the furnaces has been so great as to cause them, when strained in bad weather or worn by long use, to leak into the fires and extinguish them more or less rapidly. Any one the least conversant with boiler mechanism will see, too, at a glance, that the safety of the whole affair depends upon the stop-cock which lets off the water into the boilers being watched with unremitting vigilance. The neglect of this for half an hour would allow steam to generate in the casing, which would then, in plain terms, become a gigantic boiler, with out a valve or any means of letting off its steam, save by blowing up. 'this was the apparatus which, as I have explained, in order to economise heat and cool the saloons, it was proposed to introduce on board the Great Eastern in the three funnels to the screw engine, and the two forward funnels for the paddles. Messrs. Bolton and Watt were intrusted witlthe construction of the screw engines and boilers, and they at once firmly refused to have any such casing round their funnels, or attached to their engines in any way whatever. lam not aware of the precise reason on which they grounded their re fusal, though doubtless they rested mainly on the obvious fact, that the plan had been tried over and over again and always failed, with more or less of inconvenience or disaster. The plan, however, was adopted for the two paddle funnels, though at about that time the Collins line of steamers, which bad tried the plan for nearly three years, discarded it as often dangerous, and always worthless. Who is re sponsible for its being fixed to the paddle funnels, or for the manifest defects which, after the explosion, it is stated were found to exist in the stop-cock for letting the water into the boilers, is not now known. A strict inquiry will doubtless be instituted by the Board of Trade, and pending that examination it would be both unwise and unjust to express any opinion on facts, which at the best, are at present but imperfectly known. All that has yet been as certained is that there has been neglect somewhere, and that the stop-cock for letting the water off into the boilers was either incapable of performing its duty properly, or was not attended to at all. The casings of the two forward funnels of the Great Eastern held each about seven or eight tons of water, and the forward one, at least, it is now, evi dent, might have exploded at any moment during the voyage, and when the grand saloon was filled with the visitors on board to listen to the admi rable music of the ship's band. The splendid per formanees of the ship during the cruise down channel on Friday, her unrivalled power, speed, and steadiness, can be referred to hereafter. It is best to relate at once the unhappy accident, which it is much to be feared may, though most unnecessarily, make the public timid about the success of the noblest ship which the world has seen. The visitors who were passengers on board numbered about 100, and, as may readily be believed, included among them some of the most distinguished navi gators, engineers, and scientific men in Europe All, as usual, were assembled at dinner at about half past 5 o'clock on Friday, when before the dessert came on two gentlemen left the chairman's table to look at the coast near Hastings. Mr. Campbell, the Marquis of Stafford, Earl Mountcharies, Lord A. Paget, and a few others followed, without waiting for dessert. The departure of these gentlemen from the saloon, as it happened, broke up the dinner party, and instead of retiring to the grand saloon, as usual, nearly all the visitors came on deck, and went right forward in the bows. About 30 re mained at table—a few were on the bridge with Mr. Campbell, and thus, by a most merciful inter position, it happened, for the first time during the voyage, that there was no one sitting in the grand saloon, and no one on the little raised deck round the foremost funnel. One or two gentlemen were congratulating Mr. Campbell on the almost mar vellous success of the ship, when in the space of a second there was a terrific explosion. The for ward part of the deck appeared to spring like a mine, blowing the funnel into the air. There was a confused heavy roar, amid which came the awful crash of timber and iron mingled together with frightful uproar, and then all was hidden in a rush of steam. 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