The Sun. — London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

The Lords of the Admiralty at Portsmouth. The inspection of this dockyard, with its office ac counts, its basins, docks,' ships, steam factory, smitheries, founderies, workshops, and stores of all kinds, and the extension ground and works for the new dockyard, occupied Sir John Pakington yester day, with his colleagues, exactly six hours in taking stock of the whole. Thus, two hours were spent in the office of the Admiral Superintendent ; two hours in a scramble over the dockyard with all its docks, ships, basins, stores, and workshops, and two hours over the ground set out for the extension of the yard. To this, however, must be ad ded two hours in the after part of the day, when the board were engaged in receiving petitions or deputations from people representing various bodies of employes in the yard, all of which, according to custom, were graciously received. All annual inspections by the Admiralty of the national dockyards are consummate farces, and necessarily so by reason of the shortness of the time at disposal for the purpose, and from the fact that these annual inspections are officially announced beforehand from Whitehall, and, therefore, fully provided for by the dockyard officials, and in this latter mode of conduct a meritorious set of officers (so far as their services go) are but following in the beaten track of an old custom. That announced annual visits of Boards of Admiralty are a farce, or worse than a farce, if even only judged by the amount of actual work accomplished by their lord ships on such occasions, it is only necessary to briefly analyse the six hours spent by their lordships yes terday at Portsmouth to prove the truth of the as sertion. The two hours spent in the Admiral Superintendent's office may be supposed to have . been upon investigation of accounts, or it may have been of plans of the new works, or upon gossip. We will take the first theory as the most probable, and then ask what enlightenment the Admiralty could possibly have received on so large a subject in so short a time. Exclusive of officers of theysrd there are upwards of 3,000 hands employed, who receive annually upwards of £201,000 as wages. If the Board, then, wished to know where these men were employed, and the exact nature of the work they were then engaged upon, how could they possibly satisfy themselves on the subject in two short hours in the Admiral Superintendent's office, with so many other subjects at the same time before them? Again, let us only imagine an official inspection of a great dockyard like Portsmouth being got through in two hours ! The whole thing is so absurd that one al most shares in the absurdity to write or speak of it. It is necessary, however, that we separate any con sideration of the Controller of the Navy from the general Board in speaking as we do of " annual inspections." The Board collectively only make i " confusion worse confounded" by their annual visit. To them it is a holiday and is treated as such. It is a grand processional triumph of the Lords of the Admiralty, and no one would cavil at the custom if only things were called by their right names. Con trollers of the Navy have always found themselves compelled at these annual visits of the Board to separate themselves from their colleagues, and look after their ships building or repairing at the time. Sir Baldwin Walker always acted in this manner, and to a certain degree, therefore, independently of the movements of the Board. Rear-Admiral Spencer Robinson is equally alert to his duties. While their Controller is at work, in fact, it has been long times past, and it is now to this day, to the Board, their grand annual holiday. Yesterday morning the Board, unaccompanied by the Controller, disembarked from their yachts shortly before noon in their barge, and crossed over the harbour to Royal Clarence Victualling Yard, which their lordships " inspected" in the usual cursory manner. From the Clarence yard carriages conveyed the Board to the Royal Naval Hospital at llaslar, the Slipway and yard at Haslar —once the home of the rotten Crimean gunboats, but now waiting uti lisation—and the head-quarters of the Royal Marine Light Infantry at Forton. The whole was again a " scramble" for the Board, but it was got through nearly within the limited time, after which the Board returned on Board the Osborne to luncheon. The parade of the Royal Marine Artillery was ordered on the glacis of Fort Cumberland, about four miles east of Portsmouth, for the inspection of the Admiralty, at 3 p.m., and before that time the corps was drawn up, deployed in two battalions in line, with a half battery of 12-pounder Armstrong guns on each flank, commanded by Col. Alexander, C.B. It was upwards of 40 minutes after the appointed time before their lordships arrived, the Controller, who was engaged on board the Bellerophon iron fri gate, excepted, and on drawing up in front of the line they were received with a general salute, the band of the corps playing the National Anthem. Their lordships immediately alighted, and walked rapidly along the line of troops and past the demi batteries on the flanks. A very few minutes satisfied their lordships that no men could possibly look bet ter than the Royal Marine Artillery of the British Navy, and Sir J. Pakington led the way back to the saluting-point, where their lordships took up their position to view the "march past," in company with Col. Langley, Adjutant- General of the Royal Marine forces, Col. Commandant Alexander, C. 8., Royal Marine Artillery, and a number of officers in blue and scarlet and gold uniforms, among which the black morning coats of "my lords" looked rather out of place. The march past was performed with all that steadiness and precision for which the Royal Marine Artillery have become famous as in all their other professional attainments. After this ceremony bad been brought to a close the men piled arms and marched off to their several batteries to take part in the practice ordered from the various ordnance in the fort and on the glacis and sea beach in front. The guns were apportioned in three divisions as follows : Ist Division, Lieutenant-Colonel Williams com inanding.—The field battery of 12-pounder Arm strong; 20-pounder siege guns, 8-inch mortars. 2d Division, Lieutenant-Colonel Adair com manding. -7-inch Armstrong guns, 8-inch smooth bore, 40-pounder Armstrong; 3d Division, Lieutenant -Colonel Digby, C. 8., commanding.—Rocket battery, 13-inch sea-service mortar, 10 inch sand mortars. Colonel Schonberg in command of the whole. The ship's gun battery, west of the fort, mount ing naval rifled guns, 7-inch and 40-pounder Arm strong,s, was under the command of Major Jolliffe, the fort with the heaviest artillery being on the left of a line of sea beach, the ship's battery on the right, and the "field batteries - , rocket battery, and sea service and 8-inch sand mortars on the interven- ing space. While the men were marching to their batteries their Lordships visited the drill batteries inside the fort, the model-room, and infirmary. This was all gone through with that wonderful celerity which distinguish all Boards of Admiralty on similar occa sions; and at 3 15 p.m. the appearance of their Lordships on the south-west bastion of the fort was the signal for firing, which commenced simul taneously from the heavy ordnance in the fort, from the field batteries, the rocket battery, and the sea service 13-inch mortar. The effect was very grand. Th e s h ells burst with beautiful precision at 1,800 and 2,000 yards seaward. It was all over however ve r y quickly. A great deal of noise and smoke had been evolvedr .in a small amount of time, and in these two particulars only the practice of the Royal Marine Artillery resembled Admiralty doings in general. The ship's battery was naval rifled guns was afterwards visited, w h ere practice some excellent drill with t displayed and broadside e made at canva s t a rgets on the sandbank. This was n than their lordships' carriages were called soonerfor, ended and the Board immediately left Oa its return t o ) id Ports mouth, driving past or through the new loyal Marine Artillery barra cks at Eastne y , but giving no time for an inspection of any park. Rear-Admiral R. S. Robinson, Controller of the Navy, on the Board leaving the Osborne in the morning landed at the King's stairs of,the dockyard, and paid a visit to the iron frigate Bellerophon, Capt. E. Tatham, then preparing to leave the harbour for Spithead preparatory to a trial of her speed over the measured mile in Stokes Bay. Admiral Robinson had thus, fortunately, an opportunity of seeing per sonally how far this ship's decks have been damaged, and the vessel altogether knocked about by heaping up her decks with rough ballast to bring her deep enough in the water for a trial of speed which at this moment can only be worthless in its results. After leaving the Bellerophon, the Controller proceeded on board the Thunderer, target-ship, in Porchester lake, where he inspected the armour-plates from John Brown and Company's and other firms which have latelybeen tested from the guns on board, rifled and smooth-bore, with iron and steel shot, and also the results produced by a hollow shot of compressed steel on one of Brown's 8-inch plates from a Whit worth 7-inch rifled gun. The Controller afterwards returned to the dockyard. The ball given at the King's-rpoms, Southsea, on Tuesday evening, in aid of the funds of the Seamen's and Marines' Orphans School and the Female Orphan Home, was patronised, as is the custom, by their lordships, the majority being present. There was a very large company, and we trust the funds of these very excellent institutions may benefit accordingly. Last evening their lordships were entertained at dinner at the Admiralty-house in the dockyard by Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Pasley, K.C.8., Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in-Chief. This morning Sir John Pakington will hold a levee at the Royal Naval College. The other mem bers of the Board will inspect the gunnery-ship Excellent, Captain A. C. Key, C.B. ; the training ship Duke of Wellington, Captain Charles Fel lowes ; and other vessels in commission, and will muster the officers and the crew of the Asia, Cap tain W. Chamberlain, and the steam reserves in the dockyard. This evening the Board give their official dinner on board the Osborne, and this last act will about close the " annual inspection" for 1866 of Sir John Pakington's Board of Admiralty to Portsmouth Dockyard. Their lordships are expected to leave Portsmouth on Friday morning. Naval and Military Intelligence. The screw corvette Reindeer, 7,953 tons, 200 horse power (nominal), the first of the completed improved class of sloop corvette description of ves sels now introduced into the navy, remains in deck at Chatham, where under the operations of a large body of shipwrights, joiners, painters, and other workmen employed on ber, she is being rapidly brought forward for her first commission. The orders from the Admiralty direct her to be out of hand and ready for the pennant by the 31st of the present month, but although this may be the case so far as the dockyard departments are concerned, there is little prospect other being ready for sea by anything like the time mentioned, as in the case of the other vessels which just now form the diminu tive reserve, nothing has yet been definitely decided upon by the officials at Whitehall as to the character and description of the armament she will mount, and consequently some time must elapse before her guns can be placed on board. In the meantime, however, all is bustle between decks in getting her ready in board, while aloft she is completed and sails bent. Her machinery and engines have been fitted by Messrs. G. Rennie and Sons, and she will be ready for her first official trial of speed directly she is floated out of dock. Her bunkers are fitted up with a supply of Welsh coal, placed on board during the time the Reindeer has been in dock. The Blanche, 4, 1,268 tons, 350 horse power, one of the new ships of the improved lengthened Ama zon class building at Chatham, having been inspected by the Lords of the Admiralty on the recent occa sion of their visit to that dockyard, orders have since been given by the Board that no alteration is to be made in the bow cf the vessel, which is to be con structed exactly on the plan originally laid down by Mr. E. J. Reed, the Chief Constructor of the Navy, from whose designs the Blanche is being built. A considerable number of shipwrights are employed on this sloop, which is required to be ready for launch ing during the present year. The iron armoured screw frigate Bellerophon, Capt. E. Tatham, went out of Portsmouth yester day afternoon to Spithead, making a preliminary trial of her machinery before anchoring preparatory to her ordered trial of speed over the measured mile in Stokes Bay. The Helicon paddle despatch vessel, Commander M. Singer, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday, with invalids from the Channel fleet. It is understood that Commander Singer is about to exchange the command of the Helicon with Commander Field, of the 60-horse power sloop Cruiser, for the command of that vessel. Yesterday morning a court-martial assembled on board her Majesty's ship Formidable, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Com mander-in-Chief at the Nore, to try Mr. Walter Charles Batty, second-class assistant-engineer, at tached to her Majesty's ship Cumberland for service in her Majesty's ship Mars, for, having neglected on the 3d of August to obey signals for him to come on board the latter ship, and for being drunk on board her Majesty's ship Mars on the 4th of August. The Court consisted of Captain S. L. Crofton, addi tional to her Majesty's ship Cumberland, for service in the naval barracks, President ; Captain D. M'L. Mackenzie, of her Majesty's ship Formidable ; Com mander James P. Thurburn, of her Majesty's ship Wellesley; Commander Henry E. Crozier, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland, for service in the naval barracks ; and Commander Henry W. Bingham, of her Majesty's ship Formidable ; Mr. Henry Knight, of the firm of Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Admi ralty solicitors, Rochester, was Deputy Judge-Ad vocate. No evidence was taken, the prisoner at once pleaded guilty to the charge, and threw himself on the mercy of the Court. Certificates, giving him a good character during a period of eight years' ser vice, were read to the Court. After a short time spent in deliberation, the Court sentenced the pri soner to be dismissed the service. Yesterday the Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-horse power, ironclad frigate, left Sheerness-harbour for Devonport. The ship has been lying in Sheerness harbour about two months, during which she has been partially rigged, and her engines have been completed. It was originally intended to finish her in Sheerness dockyard, but it was feared that the additional weight she would receive on board while . in the basin would sink her so much deeper that there would not be a sufficient draught of water to get her out again ; and, under these circumstances, it was thought advisable to take her to Devonport. Staff-Commander G. J. Hodges, Assistant-master Attendant in Sheerness dockyard, has charge of her during the passage, and she is attended by the Me dusa paddle wheel vessel, which acts as a tender, and will render - any assistance which may be re quired. The Rodney, 78, screw wooden ship, 2,270 tons, 500 horse-power, has been taken into dock in Sheer ness yard, where she is to be brought forward for commission and fitted up as the flagship of the China station. The A battery B Brigade Royal Horse Artillery have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to leave their barracks at Dorchester to-morrow. The battery will leave Dorchester at 7 a.m., an d march to Yeovil, where they will be billeted, pro ceeding to Wells on the following day ; here they will remain during the " halting-day," and proceed on Monday morning to Bristol, the place of their embarcation for Dublin. The women and baggage of the detachment will be despatched to Bristol by rail to-day. During the two years that this fine body of men have been quartered at Dorchester their conduct has been most exemplary, and their demeanour has been generally steady and com mendable in every respect. The battery will be succeeded by the D battery of the same brigade, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Mit chell, which is expected to arrive here in a week OT SO. Ye§terday- the B battery of the 4th Brigade Royal Artillery, consisting of 140 officers and men, 6 gtms, ambulance waggons, &c., arrived at Sheerness from Brompton barracks to undergo their annual ball practice. The Ist battalion 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment, which has for the past 14 months been stationed at Aldershot, is under orders to move to Devonport. The 17th Regiment arrived from Canada in June, 1865. The 65th Regiment, now at Devonport, will probably relieve the 17th at Aldershot. A detachment of Royal Engineers, selected from the depot and other eoilipirieg at Chathani garri- THE SON, LONDON, THURSDAY 141VENUNG, AUGUST 16, 1866. son, consisting of seven officers and 200 non-com missioned officers, buglers, and slippers, has pro can( led from headquarters, Brompton Barracks, to Sh( )eburyness, for the purpose of being employed in sal ping and mining and other engineering opera tions at that station. 'The Commander-in-Chief has approved the fol lowing arrangements :—An unmarried captain to be Ben t home to relieve Captain Bayliff, of the 100th Re gt., at the depot ; an unmarried captain of the 4Lst Regt. to be sent to the depot companies for service ; Sergeant Master Tailor D. Behan and Sergeant Hale, of the 18th Regt., to proceed from the depot to the service companies ; Sergeant How ley., 41st Regt., to proceed from Canada to the de pot ; and Sergeant F. de Lisle, of the 100th Regt., to - proceed to the Commissariat Staff Corps, on pro bation. Staff Assist.-Surg, Leslie has assumed the medical charge of the troops at Landguard Fort, Harwich, vice Assist.-Surg. Giraud, who has re turned to Colchester. Commander Cambier, late of the Sparrow, five guns, has been appointed to the Ranger, five guns, on the West Coast of Africa, vice Nelson, invalided. The whole of the departments at Woolwich are now actively engaged, and many additional hands have been added to the permanent staff of artisans and labourers both in the Royal Arsenal and dock yard. In the latter establishment 150 ship wrights have been taken on, besides a number of joiners, carpenters, painters, and others. Engineers, smiths, hammermen, &c., have been also added to the vari ous branches of the factory. In consequence of the tardy progress in the manufacture of wrought-iron gun carriages according to the new method for ships' use, long since commenced in the carriage depart ment of the Arsenal, and the urgent and re peated demands made by the Admiralty for a ready supply of carriages and slides, the chain gear and compressors for them are ordered to be made in the dockyard factory. Lieut.-Col. Shaw, whose term of service as Assist.-Superintendent of the Royal Carriage Department terminated at the end of the month, has been succeeded by Capt. Close: It was yesterday rumoured in the department that Colonel Shaw, who is under orders to join his brigade about to depart for India, will be again retained in the public service at home, for the purpose of advanc ing his gun-pivotting system, which has been satis factorily tested in the iron-cued cupola ship Prince Albert, at sea and elsewhere. With reference to the trials at sea, Capt. Wilmshurst reports that the advantage of the system cannot be doubted. Re has thoroughly tested it in one of his cupolas under varied circumstances, and amid all weathers. It is expected, therefore, that the system is now about to be generally introduced. A model, it is stated, is to be prepared for the French Exhibition of next year. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. EGIIAM RACES.-WEDNESDAY. Tho BARONS' STAKES (Handicap) of 5 SONS each, with 50 added, for two-yr-olds ; winners after August 10, at eleven a.m., 51b extra ; second to save his stake. Three quarters of a mile, straight. 20 subs. Mr. Hugh Smith's Seville, by St. Alban's—Donna Maria, Bst 71b (Salter 1 Mr. Bevill's Busybody, Est 91b (Stephens 2 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's La Sorrentina, Est 101 b ...(Barker 3 The following also ran :—Rebecca, Brown Tommy, Vigour, Merry Monarch, Chance Shot colt, and Dignity. Betting-7 to 4 agst Busybody, 3to 1 agst Seville, Bto 1 agst La Sorrontina, and 10 to 1 each agst Merry Monarch and Dignity: La Sorrentina on the fall of the flag jumped off in front, followed by Seville and Dignity, Merry Monarch leading the remainder. They ran in this order until approaching the distance, when Seville assumed the lead and maintained it to the finish, winning easily by a length and a half. La Sorrentina was a bad third ; Dig nity fourth, Merry Monarch fifth ; Brown Tommy sixth ; the last lot being the Chance Shot colt, Vigour, and Rebecca. The SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES of 15 sov. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 80 added ; winners of any handicap value 100 sovs after August 2, at ten a.m., 41b; of two such races, or of 200 sovs 71b; any other winner, 31b extra; second to save his stake. One mile --- -- and a half. 16 subs. 8 declared. Mr. F. E. James's Mischief, by Knight of Kars—Donna, 3 yrs, 7st ................................................(Covey) 1 Lord Portsmouth's Pas de Charge, 3 yrs, 7st (S. Adams) 2 Mr. John Thomas's Brigand, 4 yrs, Bst 21b ..... .(C. Grey) 3 Stinger and Monk of Avon also ran. Betting-5 to 4 agst Stinger, 3to 1 agst Monk of Avon, 100 to 30 agst Pas de Charge, 10 to 1 agst Mischief, and 100 to 6 agst The Brigand. The last named was firstaway, closely attended by The Brigand, Pas do Charge being third, and Monk of Avon last. With little variation they ran thus into the straight, about three-quarters of a mile from home, where Stinger and Mischief running wide left Brigand in command. After going a short distance, how ever, Mischief assumed the lead again, and at a quarter of a mile from home the favourite and Brigand showed signs of distress, and Lord Portsmouth's mare coming forward a fine race to the chair ensped, ending in favour of Mischief by a short head ; The Brigand was a bad third ; and the favourite fourth; Monk of Avon being last. The MAGNA CHARTA STAKES of 5 BOYS each, with 50 added; two-yr-olds, 7st ; three, 9st; certain penalties and allowances. T.Y.C. Mr. W. Day's Leases, by Rapparee, 2 yrs, Gst 41b (£100) (T. Sadler) 1 Mr. R. Ten Broeck's Phantom Sail, 2 yrs, Gst llb (£100) (Barker) 2 Mr. Rickard's Opposition, 3 y rs, Bst4lb(.£l.oo) (IL Covey) 3 The following also ran :—Dixie's Land, Preceptor, filly by Stockwell—Diego's dam. Betting—Even on Leases, 100 to 30 agst Phantom Sail. 5 to 1 on Dixie's Land, and 7 to 1 agst Diego's dam filly, Phantom Sail made play, followed by Leases, Dixie's Land, and Opposition to the distance, where Leases challenged Phantom Sail, and the pair finished a fine race home, ending in favour of Leases by a length. Opposition was a bad third, Preceptor was fourth, the Diego's dam filly fifth, and Dixie's Land last. The winner was sold to Mr. Ten Broeck for 310 guineas. The PRrscz ALFRED CUP (Handicap), a piece of plate value 200 sovs ; winners after August 10, at eleven a.m., 71b extra. One mile, straight. Mr. A. Heathcote's Skirmish, by Skirmisher —Lady Langton, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (Hibberd) 1 Mr. Lapidist's The Vocalist, 3 yrs, sst 71b (car. sst 91b) (Pepler) 2 Mr. W. Hawkin's Lydia, 4 yrs, Gst (Gifford) 3 The following also ran :—The Brigand, Owlet, Proser pine, Loaf Sugar, and Gundrede. Betting-6 to son Skirmish, sto 1 each agst Loaf Sugar and Gundrede, 7to 1 agst Vocalist. After a slight delay at the post the lot got away on pretty fair terms, Gundrede cutting out the work, followed by Skirmish, Lydia, and Vocalist for upwards of three-quarters of a mile, when Skirmish went to the front, and, never again being headed, won easily by a length. Lydia was a bad third, Loaf Sugar fourth, Owlet fifth, Brigand sixth, and Proserpine and Gundrede walked in. The RAILWAY STAKES of 3 soya each, with 50 added; weight for age ; certain penalties and allowances. Three quarters of a mile, straight. Mr. Wilson's Colleen, by Rattle—Colleen Bawn, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (£3O) (Deacon) 1 Mr. Nightingall's Ambitious, '2 yrs, sst 101 b (#3O) (Spencer) 2 Mr. Nightingall's Elburg, 2 yrs, sst 101 b (Wyatt) 3 The following also ran : —Duchess of St. Alban's, Wild Dove, Discretion, Tesane, and Yellow Girl. Betting-6 to 4 agst Tesane, 3to 1 agst Colleen, 7to 1 agst Wild Dove, Bto 1 agst Ambitious. Several breaks away occurred, causing considerable delay at the post; but when the competitors got away Tesane showed promi nently in front, followed by Wild Dove, Elburg, and Col leen to the distance, where the last mentioned joined the front division, and drawing away won very cleverly by three parts of a length; Elburg was third, Tesane fourth, and the remainder beaten off. The winner was sold to Mr. Nightingall for 135 guineas. The PRINCESS OF WALES'S STAKES (Handicap) of 200 sovs in specie; winners after August 10, at eleven a.m., 71b, and the winner of Prince Alfred Cup, 101 h extra. One mile, straight. Mr. J. Nightingall's f by Stockwell—Diego's dam, 3 yrs', sst 101 b (Wyatt) Mr. Wodson's Deerfoot, 6 yrs, 7st 101 b (ear 7st 111 b) Mr. W. Hawkins's Lydia, 4 yrs, 6st (Deacon) 2 (Giffard) 3 The following also ran :—Redoubt, A. D. Wagner, The Pirate, Wild Bee, Monk of Avon, and Loaf Sugar. Betting—Even on Deerfoot, 5 to 1 each agst Redoubt and A. D. Wagner, 10 to 1 agst Diego's dam filly and The Pirate. Lydia made play, followed by the Diego's dam filly and Deerfoot to the distance, where Deerfoot rushed to the front followed by the Diego's dam filly, a slashing race home between the two ensuing, ending in favour of the last named, who was resolutely ridden by the light weight Lydia was thi r d, L oa f Sugar fourth,Wyatt, a n b cy, Wild short il d Be head; e last A SCURRY HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, 3 ft, with 50 added; winpers after August 10, at eleven a.m., 51b extra. Three-quarters of a mile, straight. 16 subs. Capt. Lane's Ammunition, by Vedette—Carbine, 3 yrs, sst 121 b .............................................(Barker) w. stand, on the far side, while The Duke passed the enclo sure the second time, and the latter ultimately trotted in three-quarters of a mile in front. Archimedes went on and passed the post and the judge placed him. The CHILLINGTON STAKES of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with 100 added; for 2-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 7113 ; winners (before starting) once in the present year, 31b ; twice, 51b extra ; maidens having started three times allowed 31b; second to save stake. T.Y.C. (straight half mile). 20 subs. Duke of Beaufort's Lady Hester, by Thunderbolt— Lurley, Bst 121 b (inc. 51b extra) (Cannon) 1 Mr. Chaplin's Satyr, Bst 131 b (inc. 31b e x t ra ) ((instance) 2 Mr. G. Angell's Bird's Eye, Bst 71b (Parry) 3 The following also ran :—Feodor, Archeress filly, and Susan. Botting-5 to 1 on Lady Hester, and 8 to 1 agst Satyr. Lady Hester got away with the lead, but after going a few strides she was headed by Satyr, Bird's Eye, and Feodor, and went on fourth ; this order continuing into the straight, where Bird's Eye and Feodor gave way, the favourite taking second place ; at the distance Lady Hester drew up to Satyr, whom she passed in a hundred yards, and beat by three lengths ; a similar distance also divided the second and third; Feodor was a bad fourth, pulling up. The SEVENTH STAMFORD BIENNIAL STAKES Of 10 SOVS each, h ft, with 100 added, for three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, sst 71b ; winners extra ; maiden allowances; the second to save his stake. One mile and a half. Mr. Handley's Retrousse, by Tournament—Couleur do Rose, Bst 71b (Edwards 1 Duke of Beaufort's Ischia, Bst 71b (C annon 2 Mr. Bowes's War, Bst 101 b (J. Adams 3 Selim and Bertie also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Ischia, 3to 1 agst War, 4to 1 agst Retrousse, 6to 1 agst Bertie, 100 to 8 agst Selim. Bertie made play past the stand, followed by Retrousse, War, Ischia, and Selim lying next in the order named. No change occurred till nearing the bend for home, when Bertie gave way beaten, and Retrousse went on, closely attended by Ischia and War, both of whom headed him below the distance. Retrousse came again, however, and Ischia running unkindly in the last few strides, he got up and won by a neck, War being half a length in the rear of the second; Selim was a bad fourth; and Bertie did not, pass the post. THE CHANNEL SQUADRON. FALMO unr, Monday Morning. The Admiral had intimated his desire to leave Falmouth. But at an early hour, at eight o'clock, the ships crossed topgallant and royal yards, loosed sails, and hauled out to a bow-line, while the strains of the National Anthem from all the ships floated pleasingly on the cool, calm air. The engineers were ordered to light so many boiler fires as would send them along at the rate of six knots. The ironclad squadron had received on Sunday an important addition to their number in the shape of the Lord Clyde—an ugly shape it is, but a formidable and efficient ship. At ten minutes past 10 the order was given to " weigh anchor and make all plain sail." In a few minutes all were in motion, the Lord Clyde, although a newly-commissioned ship, appeared very smart aloft. There was a light air from north-west, to which all possible sail was ordered to be made. The Lord Clyde was the first to set her maintopgal lant studding sails ; the flagship cleverly set all her studding-sails together, or nearly all. The order of sailing was slightly altered. The Lord Clyde took her place in the rear of the wea ther line. The Liverpool took the corresponding position in the lee line, and thus the six ships went on, in smooth water, for an hour or two ; then the sails were furled. The order to steam eight knots, steering E. by S., was given ; no steam tactics or ramming occurred. At 350 the signal to make all possible sail was displayed, and the Caledonia again exhibited pre-eminent smartness. It was good, wholesome exercise for the men, if it accomplished no other object, and will all come out very nicely in the full, accurate, auJ exhaustive report, which, doubtless, the Admiral willplace in the hands of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in due course. The projecting snout of the Lord Clyde forced up a large wave before it, far greater than any of the ironclads; at greater speed it would probably im pede her progress. One night the ships went to general quarters about 10 o'clock. They fired away for half an hour, after which performance all was still again. On Monday evening we were off the Start-point. The lights of Brixham and Torquay sparkled pleasantly in view. The Admiral displayed a number of lights all over his rigging, and made a number of flashes which, as Dundreary says, " no fellow can understand," and which were not generally made out. It seems well that Lieut. Colomb, R.N., or somebody, should revise this part of the signals. On Tuesday morning we found our selves at anchor inside the breakwater at Portland. It was truly a man-of-war's cruise—there and back —and if it has proved nothing else it has at least clearly established this—that Sir J. Pakington on a recent occasion must have been either " kinder sar castic," or slightly unreasonable, or over-anxious about the sea defence of our coasts, when he com plained of the attenuated state of the floating por tion. Have not four ironclads fairly gone, in the month of August, from Portland to Falmouth and back again, only putting in once at Torbay from stress of weather, without breaking down or running into each other or getting ashore ? Have they not fired their guns at sea ? Did they not actually shift topsail yards and make all sail, to studding sails, in periods varying from half an hour to an hour and a half ? Did not a fifth ironclad join them at Fal mouth ? And are there not ever so many more somewhere, which may be eltpected to do the same some day or other ? The consumption of coal was :—Achilles, 271 tons ; Caledonia, 25 ; Hector, 26 ; Lord Clyde, 261 ; Liverpool, 181 ; Helicon, 7 ; Pallas, 9f—say 140 tons—to steam at the rate of eight knots, in smooth water and with a fair wind, about 100 miles. There are about 3,000 sailors in this squadron. They have about 120 on the sick lists and 30 at hospitals, and they are now to undergo the ordeal of an inspection by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty on Friday next. THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—The preparations for the visit of the association.to Nottingham are progress ing favourably. The public buildings of the town have been repainted and decorated. The flower show, which is to be held in the park adjoining the town, will be one of the most striking events in connection with the Associa tion's visit. More than £20,000 worth of horticultural and 6 Vic* young children and floral productions will be shown. et hatlefieotuttghhhee — a nTdh. delicate the ieba t e pr fearfulannual sonsof ali amortalityges may ay be [An VERTISENIE apparently v d i a t n al ge fo r r o c t e y l t l y fe we t e. hrel l i i e n v d in ly g t t o h p e il p is a a ti n e d ut m , medicines, which, arrested, if, instead of fl anthatoiin o cr i. easing debility, reality no other tendency were simply to study how upon which the harmonious d evelopment imparting new and pure blood, a to nd lne v . depends, has been successfull y the whole fra me proved by Da Ba rry's Inva lids' and Infants' Fo o d, the Revalenta Ar"b easily assimilated nou r i s h ment as the best t r ines as mu'h children it is the best s u b st i tute for human mils. 4" for Rout!), physician to the Sam ar it an Hospital for gt i ) l n k. Dr. Children—the best authority on suc h matters —in hislaendmanird able publication OH Food, says—Amongst the'vrgetable sub stances, th .t which comes closest to milk in its c omposition is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, con taining. both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride of potassium ; it also includes casein, the same pclueiPle \\ hick is found in milk in its constituent parts. No wonder, there fore, that under its influence many children affected with atrophy (wasting away of the body), and marked debt ity have completely recovered. I have given it with the greatest r_:vantag - e in such cases ; and so far as I may judge from my own experience, practice folly carries out what theory, from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate. In tins, 11b, 2s 9d ; 21b, 4s 6.1 ; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 22s ; 241 b, 405.--Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London ; also Phillips, tea dialers, 8, 'King s tree t ; likewise at 81, Graccchurch-street ; 4,.Cheapside ; 49, Bishopsgate street Within ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street ; 3.30, Strand; 54, Upper Baker-street; IC3, Tottenham-court-road; 96, Upper-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, Notting-hill; Close Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St. John's-wood. London; ..and all respectable grocers and che mists.—Beware of spurious imitationa. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES-WEDNESDAY. The second day's racing was hardly so good as that wit nessed on Tuesday, but the weather was again favourable and the company numerous. The wretched figure cut by Archimedes against the Duke during the afternoon created quite a sensation, as did the defeat of Ischia and War by Retrousse, who thus gave his owner two good turns at the meeting. Appended is a return The SHAK SPE - 11E STAKES (handicap) of 3 Bove each, with 25 added; three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Naylor's Wild Briar, by Stockwell—Summerside, 3 yrs, Bst 101 b (W. White) 1 Mr. Backhouse's Polka, 3 yrs, Bst 31b (Hoystead) 2 Lord Bateman's Delilah, 2 yrs, 6st 121 b (Fox) 3 Betting-3 to lon Wild Briar, who waited upon Polka to the distance, and then went on with the lead, winning cleverly by half a length ; Delilah, last throughout, was a bad third. The HOLYOAKE STAKES (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added ; winners of any handicap value 100 sovs after Aug. 10, at 10 a.m., 71b; of an) two such han dicaps, or one of 500 sovs value, 101 b extra, second to save stake ; once round (about one mile and a quarter). 12 subs. Lord Stamford's Brick, by Flying Dutchman Baroness, 6 yrs, 9st llb (inc. 71b ex.) ...(E. Martin) w.o. The BOROUGH MEMBERS' PLATE of 60 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 7 sovs each, 4 ft; winners of any race • after July 30, at 11 a.m., 71b ; two or more, 101 b extra ; straight half mile. 25 subs. Mr. T. Stephens's Cranbury, by Surplice—Rosina, 5 yrs, 9st 101 b (Payne) 1 Mr. Smith's Ozone, 3 yrs, 7st 41b (Doolan) 2 Lord Coventry's Goojerat, 3 yrs, Est 51b (S. Mordan) 3 Mr. G. Angell's Lady Valentine, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (includ ing 71b extra) The following also ran :—Zisca, Isis, Locket Lucy, and Beeswing. Betting-6 to 4 agh Lady Valentine, 4to 1 agst Cran bury, 5 to 1 each agst Ozone and Zisca, 100 to 8 agst Isis. Locket Lucy bolted and ran the course before the start, and this caused some delay. When the flag fell Cranbury and Zisca got away in advance, attended by Lady Valen tine, Ozone, and Goojerat. At the distance Zisca gave way beaten, and Cranbury came on full of running, Lady Valentine lying second, and Ozono next. Lady Valen tine's jockey, perceiving that ho had no chance of overhaul ing the leader, eased his mare, who was passed by Ozone at the stand, but the latter could not reach Cranbury, who won easily by a neck, G oo j era t being a length and a half behind the second, and a len g th in advance of Lady Valen tine, who was placed fourth; Beeswing was fifth, Isis sixth, Locket. Lucy seventh, and Zisca last. The WROTTESLEY STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 50 added; weight for age; selling and other allowances; straight half-mile. Mr. W. Ilalford's Stapenhill, by Cawood—Prince's Mix ture, 2 yrs, Gst llb (.£3O) (J. Ewards) 1 Mr. J. Turner's Cotillon, 3 yrs, 7st 41b(E30) (S. Mordan) 2 Mr. Cliff's Cantharides; 3 yrs, 7st 71b(.£b0) --(Kenyon) 3 The following also ran :—Polka, Augusta colt, and Sa gacity filly. _ Betting-6 to 4 agat Cantharides, 4to 1 each agst Stapenhill and Cotilion. Staponhill led throughout, and won by two lengths ; a similar distance, dividing the se cond and third; Polka was a bad fourth. The winner was The CLEVPLAND. Cur of 200 s ovs • in specie, sold to C a pt a i n M ac h ell for 130 guineas. added to a sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, h ft ; 3-yr-olds, 7st 41b ; four, Bst 101 b ; five, 9st 31b ; six and aged, 9st 71b ; m allowed 41b, g allowed 71b; the winner of the Ascot, Goodwood, or Doncaster Cups in 1865 or 1866, 101 b, or any two of them ; 121 b extra. About 21 miles. Marquis of Hastings's The Duke, by Stockwell—Bay Celia, 4 yrs, 9st 61b (inc. 101 b extra) (Cannon) 1 Lord Stamford's Archimedes, 4 yrs, Bst 31b (E. Martin) 2 Betting-100 to 15 on The Duke. Archimedes took a lead Of a couple of lengths, but after getting round the first turn he bolted, and before he could be set going in the proper track, The D u k e was a t l eas t a quar t er o f a mile ahead. The "b rute " stopped an d ki c k e d opposite the STOCKTON RACES—WEDszsDAY. The TRIAL STAKES of 5 sous each, with 30 added for two yr-olds ; weight for ago. Certain penalties and allow- ances. One mile. Major Elwon's Douro, by Arthur Wellesley—Jenny Lind, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (R. Chit Honer) 1 Mr. Chaplin's c by Promised Land—Bavardb's dam, 2 yrs, sst 101 b Mr. Watt's filly by General Williams, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (Dunbar) 3 The following also ran :—Belmont, Merry Hart, Bay Shirley filly, and Yarrow. Betting-2 to 1 agst Bavarde's dam colt, 3to 1 agst Merry Hart, 4to 1 agst Belmont, 6to 1 agst Douro. Won by two lengths and a half. Tho winner was sold to Mr. Chaplin for 240 guineas. The CLEVELAND STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 100 added, for two-year-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b ; winners of 100 sovs, 41b, 200 71b, 400 91b extra ; starters twice without winning allowed 31b; the second to receive 20 sovs out of tho stakes. T.Y.C., from the Red Post. 33 subs. Major El won's Plaudit, by Thormanby—Plausible, Bst 101 b (J. Snowdon 1 Mr. Herbert's Easby, Bst 71b Challoner 2 Mr. Simpson's Paxton, Bst 101 b ' (J. Osborne 3 Mr. Jackson's Knight Errant, Bst 101 b (Marson 4 The following also ran :—Rhymei,Mettle, Honestish, Lady Eston, and Slap Bang. Betting-2 to 1 agst Easby, 4to 1 agst Plaudit, sto 1 agst Paxton, 6to 1 agst Slap Bang, 10 to 1 agst Lady Eaton. Won by a length ; the same between second and third ; neck between third and fourth. The STOCKTON TRADESMEN'S HANDICAP of 20 sovs each, h ft, and 5 if declared, with 200 added ; winners of any handicap of 100 sovs after Aug. 1 (at five p.m.), 61b, of two handicaps of such value or of any race of 200 sovs value 91b, of any race value 600 says 141 b extra (extreme penalty) ; the second to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. Two miles. Mr. Jackson's Harry Brailsfords, by The Hadji—Miss Langford, 4 yrs, 7st 71b (Morris) 1 Lord Zetland's El Cid, 3 yrs, sst 71b (carried sst 81b) (Walkeri 2 Mr. Osborne's Miss Haworth, 3 yrs, 6st 31b...(Cameron 3 Lord Bateman's Moulsey, 5 yrs, Bst 51b...(J! Grimshaw 4 Captain Gray's Windham, 5 yrs, 9st Major Stapylton's Red Earl, 4 yrs, 7st 91b (car 7st 101 b (Carrol) 6 Betting-6 to 4 agst Harry Brailsford, 3to 1 agst Moul sey, 4 to 1 each agst Windham and Miss Haworth, 10 to 1 each agst El Cid and Red Elrl. %Von easily by half a length ; a neck between second and third. Red Earl did not pass the post. The HARRY FOWLER PLATE of 70 sovs, added to a Handi cap of 5 sovs each ; winners of any handicap of 100 sovs after Aug. 8 (at noon) 71b, or of any race value 200 sovs 101 b extra (extreme pmalty); the second to receive 15 soya out of the stakes ; T.Y.C., from the Rod Post ; 20 subs. 6 fur. Mr. T. 31asterman's Honesty, by Young Dutchman— All's Well, 3 yrs, 9st (J Osborne) 1 Mr. Jackson's Hopvine, 3 yrs, 7st nib (Cameron) 2 Mr. Chilton's Capitols, 2 yrs, 6st 111 b (J. Walker) 3 The following also ran :—Norwood, Claros, Applecross, Warwick, Bracken, and Louisa. Betting—G to 4 agst Hopvine, sto 1 agst Applecross, G to 1 agst Warwick, 7 to 1 each agst Honesty and (Maros, Bto 1 agst Louisa, 10 to 1 agst Norwood. Won by three lengths. The NINTH ZETLAND BIENNIAL STAKES Of 10 SOVS each, h ft, with 50 added, for three-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies and geldings Bst 71b ; winners in 1866 of 100 sovs 31b, 200 51b, 300 81b extra; starters twice in 1866 with out winning allowed 31b, maiden three-yr-olds 71b, un triads 3lb , • the second to save his stake ; ono mil e an d a half; 27 subs. Lord Zetland's Quick March, by Rataplan—Qui Vive, Bst 101 b (J. Snowdon) 1 Captain's Gray's Terror, Bst 121 b (inc. 51b extra) (T. Challoner) 2 Betting-11 to 10 on Quick March. Won by a length. The SOUTH STOCKTON SELLING STAKES of 5 sovs each, with 40 added ; two-yr-olds 7st 101 b, three 9st 81b, four 10st 71b, five lOst 101 b, .six and aged lOst 121 b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b ; the winner to be sold for 100 sovs ' • if entered for 80 sovs allowed 31b, 60 71b, 40 141 b, 30 21fb ; three-yr-olds and upwards never having won 50 sovs allowed 51b ; T.Y.C., Red Post. Mr. T. Masterman's Ladylike, by Woatherbit—Lady John, 2 yrs, Est (Cameron) 1 Mr. J. Dawson's Dusty Miller, 3 yrs, 7st 101b...(Morris) 2 Mr. Chaplin's cby Promised Land—Bavarde's dam, 2 yrs, Est 31b (J. Walker) 3 Betting-2 to 1 agst Ladylike. Won by three lengths ; same between second and third. Winner bought in for 95 guineas. The TOWN PLATE of 50 sous (Handicap); winners of any race after Aug. 8 (at noon) 51b, or of one value 100 sous 71b extra. Half a mile (straight run in). Mr. W. Nicholl's Yarrow, by Tadmor—Lady Wilson, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Carroll) 1 Lord Zetland's El Cid, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (J . Walker) 2 Mr. l'Anson's g by Fandango—Bab-at-the-Bowster. 3 yrs, 7st 21b .. (Dunbtir) 3 The following also ran :—Crytheia, Bonaparte, Hop vine, Carnizette, Belmont, Liberal, and Elvire. Betting-2 to 1 agst Hopvine, 4to 1 agst Crytheia, sto 1 agst Elvire, 6 to 1 agst Carnizette, 10 to 1 agst El Cid. Won by two lengths ; a length between second and third. Carnizette was left at the post. The Soi-disant Earl "at the Shootings." On Monday a young man with a " swellish" make-up, and having with him a young man:of more plebeian exterior, wlipm ho called his valet, entered the Tontine Hotel at Greenock, and wanted to hire apartments for, a week, re presenting that he was on his way to shootings in the Highlands, and that ho expected his wife, servants, and luggage to join him immediately from London. He gave his address as "the Earl of Cambridge." He looked about 24 years of age, had a roundish face, browned by recent exposure to weather, thin dark moustache, longish hair, cheeks shaved, wore a seedy brown suit, and a naval cap ith a stuck -out peak, faded gold tinsey band, and a small ornamental flag stuck in front. His ".valet" was about his own ago, and was plainer in appearance. The "earl's" appearance excited the suspicion of the waiter, the more especially that he condescended to hob-nob and drink brandy, which he ordered and paid for, with his valet. The earl asked where he could get the services of a tailor, as he wanted some new clothing before proceeding to the shooting. He was told he could avail himself of the services of Mr. Macara, tailor and clothier, immediately opposite. He sent for Mr. Mac,ara's foreman to the hotel, and proceeded to negotiate for a thorough renovation of his wardrobe, a thing that the earl seemed rather in need of. "Have you any clothes ready made 2" inquired the earl. "Nothing that I remember," said the fore man, "except a reefing jacket, which you can try on if you step across to the shop." They did step across ; the reefing jacket was found to suit to admiration, and the earl kept it on. Ho also got a pair of gloves, which he put on —and we should not omit to say that both his hands and feet were small and "aristocratic." Having got mea sured for black trousers, a shooting coat, and half a dozen white vests, all of which were to be made up for him im mediately and sent over to his hotel, ho left considerably imprpved in his outer man by the new gloves and the reefing coat. Feeling that he was getting on swimmingly ho lighted a cigar, and, still accompanied by his valet, walked into the shop of Mr. Craig, hatter and glover, corner of Mansion house-lane, where ho found a young man at the counter. It was now two o'clock in the day. lie asked for handker chiefs, but turned up his nose at those first shown him as too common ; ho wanted laco handerchiefs. The shop man showed him a superior sort, and he bought half a dozen of these, putting one of them in his pocket. He pulled off the gloves he got in Mr. illacara's shop, throw ing them to his valet, who put themin his own pocket. He then ordered half a dozen of the finest scarfs, though even the finest shown him did not come up to his taste. Ho or dered half a dozen pairs of gloves, putting on and retain ing one pair. Ile ordered some lavender kids, some neck ties, half a dozen pairs of hose "fitted for the moors," seve ral shooting caps, preferring the Cambridge pattern. Ho wanted the shopman to go out with him to have a glass of something, but the latter excused himself by saying that he could not then leave the shop. " We'll send for it," said his lordship ; and pitching money to his valet, the latter disappeared for a few minutes, and then returned and placed on the counter two tumblers, each containing a glass of brandy and a bottle of lemonade. Wondrous condescen sion ! thought the shopman, for an earl to stand treat at a shop counter. The earl merely tasted tholiquor, and soalso did the shopman, after which the valet lifted the drinking utensils and returned them to where he got them. "Send over the rest of the goods to the Tontine to the Earl of Cambridge, and I will send back my valet with themoney," said the earl, about to leave with the handkerchief and gloves, and the shopman was making his best'bow te„ : ,Lis noble customer, when who should enter the shop but Mr. Macara who stepped up to the earl, and touching him fa miliarly on the arm, said, "My jacket and gloves ! You must either pay for them or let mo have them back." The earl looked dumfoundered ; but suddenly regaining his self possession, he threw down his almost exhausted cigar, and followed Mr. Macara to his shop, where he condescended to throw off the jacket and pay for tho gloves he had car ried off. He immediately returned to Mr. Craig's shop, and told the shopman not to fail to send the goods to his hotel. The shopman by this time thought something was wrong, and said he must be paid for the goods before sending them. The earl said he always preferred getting delivery of goods before paying, but in this instance ho would consent first to send his valet over with the cash. lie and his valet then left the shop, and are supposed to have gone direct down to the steamboat quay, and there embarked, for in a short time thereafter, when wanted by the police they were not to be found.—North British Daily Mail. SPIRIT OF THE PITBLIO JOURNALS.. TIMES.—It is remarkable how closely the military forces of Prussia appear to resemble in numbers, constitution, and division the military forces of this country. A standing army of 200,000 men, sup ported by reserves of 350,000, would serve for a description of one establishment almost as well as of the other. It is only on paper, however, that this likeness can be traced. Our regular army is not, like the Prussian regular army, stationed at home ; we retain only a fraction of it ; while the rest .is distributed over the various quarters of the globe. That is the first and most important dif ference, nor does it admit of removal ; but in our reserves we ought certainly to possess resources not inferior to those which have carried Prussia so tri umphantly through a momentous conflict. There is not the slightest reason, on the face of things, why the British militia, supported by the British volun teers, should not be as effective as the first and second levies of the Prussian Landwehr. If they are not so, the fault lies, not in the men, but in the system. We have no system whatever for the col lection or management of our army. We have barely got to such a stage of organisation as enables us to establish small military camps, or muster a few regiments of volunteers. We could sent .out 20,000 men, but that is about the extent of our military capacities, though we have fully 300,000 soldiers of one class or another in these islands. We have a very small, but very efficient, Army of Regular Troops ; we have a second Army of 120,000 Militia, and a third Army of 150,000 Volunteers, without reckoning the Enrolled Pen sioners or the Irish Constabulary. But between these Armies there is no link or connexion by which they could be promptly drawn together and amal gamated into an effective and formidable whole. The Regulars know nothing of the Militia, and the Militia know nothing of the Volunteers. This is all the more remarkable because the principle of cohe sion is obviously established in local origin. Every county has not only its own Militia and its own Volunteers, but its own regiment of the Line, and that regiment is constantly discharging its time-ex pired soldiers, still young and vigorous, exactly like the battalions of the Prussian Army. The diffe rence between the two services is this,—that whereas in Prussia the discharged soldiers of the Line pass at once into the Laudwehr, our Militia derives no such advantage from the Standing Army, but re mains a mere stag nan t f or ce witho ut the elements of efficiency which such an infusion would communi cate. The Militia of a county should be equivalent to a reserve battalion of the county regiment, avail able for home service. In the county Volunteers we have the best materials for a third battalion, but we have no syst em o f organ i za tion by which these forces could be thus brought to account. Nobody can read the descriptions given by our Military Correspondent with the Prussian Army without becoming painfully sensible of the contrast between the Prussian Reserves and our own. More than half the army which decided a great war in ten days was composed of Reserves, or, as we might say, of Militia. Of the behaviour of these troops in the field we say nothing, for that is not the point on which we need anticipate any defects at home. But can anybody persuade himself that on a sudden emergency our Reserves could be fused into the Regular Army at a month's notice, and to such purpose as to be scarcely distinguishable from the Regular Troops ? Could our Yepinanry dis charge all the manifold duties of cavalry in the field as successfully as Lancers or Hussars ? It must never be forgotten that nearly two-thirds of those soldiers who in less than a fortnight changed the face of Central Europe were engaged but a few weeks before in the ordinary avocations of civil life, and will in a few weeks more return to those avoca tions again. Prussia has achieved this high renown, not bf her standing army, but by her armies of re serves. She is poor ; she is not thickly peopled ; and her administration is one of the most frugal in the world. Yet from her population of, at most, £19,000,000, and at a cost of less than £7,000,000, without encroaching on the claims of industry, or deranging the conditions of social life, she can put into the field at the first call 500,000 soldiers, who have not found their equals in one of the most famous armies of Europe. We ought to learn something from such a lesson. We have a popula tion of 30,000,000 instead of 19,000,000 ; we have a revenue of £70,000,000, instead of £20,000,000 ; and we spend upon our army £14,000,000, instead of £7,000,000. Have we anything like proportionate results to show for these resources? Be it observed, that though we have not suggested any numerical increase in our military forces, these forces are small compared with the numbers of the population. At the close of the last great war we maintained, in regulars and Militia, at least 650,000 soldiers out of a population not exceeding 13,000,000, or less than half that of the present day. But it is not in numbers that our weakness lies. We have soldiers ' enough if we could combine them into a,n'army. The elements of a formidable force are lost by dissipa tion. There is no cohesion whatever between the various branches of our service—no organization by which the whole force could be converted at will into one mighty machine. This is the more disappointing, because we have taken, one after another, all the steps except the last to a better system of national defence. We have enrolled our militia, we have established our Volunteer force, and we have spent, happily with admirable suc cess, great pains in organising a powerful artillery. But we have never put all these forces together, nor devised any system by which they could be put to - gether, nor provided, in short, for the rapid con struction of an army out of the materials at hand. Yet nothing can be more practical than these final arrangements. We do not want a war to teach us. The example of Prussia is sufficient to prove that the best military organisation may be devised and con summated in profound peace, and without the expe rience of a single campaign. The system which has worked all these.wonders was thought out by men sitting at home, assisted only by common sense, ,patience, and inquiry. The great secret of all was forethought. While the political rulers of Prussia knew exactly what they wanted her military autho rities knew exactly what to do. Every battalion of the army and reserves was kept well in hand. Every function of every department had been carefully studied, and provision made for its fulfilment. The initiative being left to Prussia, the whole campaign went like clock-work. No resource failed, no sub sidiary department broke down, no calculations were disappointed ; and all this was done by steady, quiet preparation, which left nothing to be extemporised or hurried when the hour of action came. The Prussian armies reached Vienna as punctually as our regiments reach Caesar's camp according to pro gramme in a shame fight at Aldershot. Is it too much to say that we might do something of this kind, not with the view of destroying a neighbour, but for the safety of our own homes ? We have got the men, and we have got the money —more of both, indeed, than ever Prussia had, But we have not yet got any effective organisation by means of which our army, our militia, and our volunteers could be brought. shoulder to shoulder in defence of the king dom. We have no plan, no system, no ready machinery of combination, no connexion s u b s i st i ng between our a rm y an d it s reserves, no schemes for keeping these reserves effective. That is the fault, and a terrible fault it would prove in the hour of trial. But the remedy is plain, and as the problem cannot be impracticable, we hope the zeal of a new Minis try may rescue us from the danger. HERALD.—There is one passage in Governor Eyre's most able vindicatory reply to the farewell address presented to him by the 1200 gentlemen of Jamaica, on his departure from that island, well worthy of attention, as proving that far greater ap parent barbarities than those said to have been com mitted in Jamaica during the existence of martial law there may be perpetrated elsewhere, not only with impunity, but even with public and official approbation, provided only that African blacks b 3 not the victims. After justifying himself from the Charge of participation in acts condemned' as un justifiably harsh by the report of the Commission, - on the ground " that it was physically impoBsible for him to learn or control all that was going on throughout a tract of country so extensive as that occupied by our troops during martial law," My Eyre pertinently inquired " did no excesses occur in repressing the Indian mutiny, or were the au thorities there made responsible for not knowing of, or not preventing them ?" Now the Indian mutiny was not in point of fact a rebellion of the people of that country ; it was simply the revolt of an army, in which the civilian portion of the population took little if any part. And the cruelties inflicted on their victims by the sepoys were not a whit more revolting than those inflicted on the magistrates, volunteers, and policemen at St. Th omas -i n - t h e East by the savage negroes. The sufferers were no doubt more numerous in the one case than in the other, but that is solely to be attributed to the prompt and decisive action of the now dismissed Governor. For bad he not proclaimed martial law, and enforced it, the number of whites who must have succumbed in cane of a general rising of the blacks, which would un questionably have taken place had the first attemPt not been nipped in the bud, would have been in finitely greater, as it would have included the whole male population of the island. But when we come to examine the proceedings sanctioned by those in power, by means of which the revolt vie° in a great measure suppressed, we find, from the written admissions of those who took a prominent part in them, that they were of a far more summarycharacter than those had recourse to by Governor Eyre under far more trying and critical circum stances. Of all the forces engaged in the Indian mu tiny, none received more encomiums than the Shan" non's Naval Brigade, serving under the late lamented Sir William Peel ; and although our sailors are Bur posed, and we believe with truth, to be more merci fully inclined in their anger than our soldiers, we have instances of cruelty recounted in the published histo ries of their campaigns which, had those who secret' been Africans instead of Asiatics, would have raiseda storm of indignation amongst those pseudo philan thropists who, as it would appear from their acts, only interest themselves in behalf of their special favomites• If we allude to those cases now, it is not to damage the reputation of a body of men who no doubt acted as - humanely, and probably more so, than their military comrades, but to show that the Governor General of India was advanced two steps in the peerage, although acts of savagery were perpetrated in presence of some of his most distinguished subordinates, with which he must no doubt have been made acquainted, f ar more worthy of condemnation than any imputed to the officers serving under Governor Eyre, whose deedli have mainly caused his dismissal. COUNTRY MARKETS. NEWCAS T LE- ON-T YNE—T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a good supply of olleilP from the growers, with a moderate arrival from the coos , and a liberal quantity from abroad. Trade ruled firm; English wheat brought rather more money, while a rise c ) ' is. per qr. in foreign took place. Barley was Gd dearer. Malt slow of sale. •Beans unchanged. Peas rather higher. Oats were a dull sale. Flour moved off at about previa ° quotations. MONMOUTHSHIRE—TUESDAY. There has been a fair supply of most descriptions of grain, but trade has been rather inactive. In home-grog white wheat a tolerably good business was transacted ° slightly improved prices. There was no malting barley.on offer, and quotations were fully maintained. In Englis h beans there was a reduction of from is to is Gd per WI In the oat trade there was no improvement worthy of notice. The following are the average quotations:—Wheat, 7 cl : 5s 9d to 6s Od per bushel ; inferior ditto, 5s 3d to Os. ud ' white, 6s Gd to Os ; malting barley, 36s to 40s per qr • grind ing ditto, 29s to 30s; beans, 445; white oats, 25s Gd to 270 i black ditto, 24s Gd to 25s 6d. LYNN—TUESDAY. The weather during the past week has been unsettled, and harvest work has been very much impeded. At of corn exchange to-day the attendance was limited, and there was but little wheat on offer. All descriptions met a ready sale and fully last week's prices. Grinding barley was 6d to 1s per quarter higher. Beans and oats same a 9 last week. New wheat, Hs to 56s •, new red, 48s to 50s; old whit; —s to —s ; old red, 49s to 51s per 36 stone. Barley , e malting, 375 to 40s ; secondary, 28s to 30s. Oats, ne vi ; 23s to 25s per 24 stone. Beans, small, 47s to 495. re a ' 36s to 40s per-28 stone. SALISBURY.—TUESDAY. At market this morning the attendance was less WOI last week, and the supply short A very fine sample '; new white wheat was shown, for which a high figure w" asked. In barley there was scarcely anything offeriufg Old oats are scarce, and rather dearer. Beans and ptuf were au average offer for the time of year, and made l a° rates. A moderate demand for flour. The following are the quotations :—Wheat realised f ro ; 48s to 59s ; barley, 30s to 40s ; oats, 24s to 328 ; beans , 4,3 to 545; and peas, 42s td 50s per qr. Tares, from 63 to ' l s 6d per bushel ; Best bread, lad ; household ditto, 12 " per 81b loaf. Flour, 38s to 42s per sack. HULL.—T UESDAY. At our market to-day there was a small show of Engli sh : wheat, for which farmers demanded an advance, but / 85 " week's prices could not be exceeded. In foreign tiler ° was nothing done. All spring corn was in good request, and fully as dear. English old white wheat, 52s to 545; old red, 49s to 5 0 s* Barley, English, —s to —s ; grinding, Mediterrane an ' 31s to 31s 6d. Oafs, new English, 27s to 28s; Eusslal'ls 26s to 27, , . Beans, old English, 50s to 51s; foreign, 1° to 475. Peas, English blue, 40 , to 41s Od; foreign Whi te ' 38s to 40s ; grinding, 36s to 37s Od per qr. COAL MARKET. Price per ton at the close of the market. a. s. d. s. Walls End Haswell... 20 6 Eden Main Kclloe 19 South Hetton Hetton Lyons Hartlepool Tees Ships at market, 29—sold, 26. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Aug. 12. Ditto, via Marseilles Aug. ''''' Brazil and Cape Verde, by B r iti s h pac k et Sept" . 3 ; Ditto, by French pack e t Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Aug. 21 ' China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Aug 19 ' Ditto, via Marseilles Aug . 11 Falkland Islands Aug. 12 ' Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Aug. 19. • Ditto, via Marseilles India (Bombay), via Southampton. A 111?,; 21 ' Ditto, via Marseilles .. . ...AU* 2 t ' Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Aug. 12 ' Ditto, via Marseilles • Aug. 13 ' 1 Mauritius, via Southampton Ditto, via Marseille3 _ _Sept. 1- Newfoundland Portugal . . ...... .....SePt• 3' Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon United States and British North America, by Bri- Aug. 21 tish packet Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp ton Ditto, via Cork Ditto, by Canadian packet. via Londonderry .. Ai* 1 !" West Coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe ....Bee' Iv. West Indies and Pacific (except Bahamas and Aug I S ' Honduras) Cuba and Mexico ..• Aug. 28 " Bermuda. via Halifax Aug. 29 : Aug. 2r. Bahamas, via New York. LADI T ERTISEMENV—HoIIoway's Pills.—Momentous query.—Surrounde as we are by exciting causes of di , i ; n g ease, it becomes our duty to seek some means a o%P e ',, -- 6 0. impurities from the body or rendering them holt o f Professor Holloway has discovered a medicine caPal",r s w effecting this all-important point, and has gener,,,, °- s rd placed it within the reach of the poorest. His pills P: t ed the constituents of the blood, which, when contanun7 he r or destroyed, permits fevers, inflammations, and, ° „," r maladies to run riot through and underiaine the sYsL., e " 7 , l ° l9 consign their victims to untimely tombs. In iniu.;% - t ly districts and unhealthy towns these pills, after suP jce ,, proving themselves the best protectors against fevers , .. 0 „. have within the last f ew y ears been adopted by the V' fession and public. Births. ALDERSON—On the 15th inst., at 1, Frederiek's-ternl' Kennington-park-road, the wife of Wm. L. Esq., of a son. Pie' CAVENDISH—On the 12th inst., at Devonshire Souse, - cadilly, Lady Edward Cavendish, of a son, stillborn. the COTTON--On the 15th inst., at South Grove, Highgate' wife of Mr. Alderman Cotton, of a daughter. r i. the FRASER—On the 14th inst., at Priddy's Hard, GoaPe - - wife of Capt. G. H. Fraser, Royal Artillery, of a 0 00 ' Aldereo 1 Marriages. Is , BULBELEY—WILLIAMS--On the 13th inst., at St. (3°°rge of Hanover-square, Richard 11. W. B u lkeley, eldest sou Sir Richard W. Bulkoley, Bart., of Baron-hill, coeeoo'it, Anglesey, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Col. F Williams, of Temple House, county Berks. WEIGALL—WESTMORLAND —On the 15th inst., 8" t Tt se minster Abbey, Honry Weigall, Esq., to Ladd i stor Sophia Mary Fane, only daughter of the late, sou of the present, Earl of Westmoreland. Deaths. po rt" Boman—On the 12th inst., at The Manor llouse, glide, Sussex, John Boner, Esq., J.P., a ged 62. . c DAVIS—On the 10th inst., at De Montfort-squ all "' l ' el ter, Harry J. Davis, Esq., solicitor, aged 33. G ay, GRAY—On the 10th o inst. at at Hammersmith , Mr. G. formerly f Keswick, * Cumberand, aed 86. , MARSHALL 011 the 14th inst., l at ( Upper 3.`ulse - h ill-road, Brixton, Thomas Marshall, Esq., aged 64. of ROBERTS On the 14th inst ,at Bognor, Alb ert, s°n Roberts, of 138, Cheapside, and Forest - hil l, aged 301 p. TAYLOR—On the 11th inst., at East Moleseh Jc' se P Taylor, late of Staines, aged 86. r WEBBER—On the 13th inst., Mr. Charles F. J. we be` ed 38. 3, Mark-lane, City, ag ___ London : Printed and Published by WILLIAM AN---, of No. 112, Btrand, Pi inter. at Timm SUN Office, V N°l2 . ' Strand , in the Prognet of the Savoy. in the Coutol of Ifflddleses.--Thursday, August 16,1866. li ii , Du