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' ilk 'V GREAT WESTFAR,N RAILWAY. CHEAP EXCURSION.—On SUNDAY, August 25, an Excursion Train will leave Paddington at 7.45 a.m., and Reading at 8.50 am., for CIRENCES it and STHOUD Ins. and 55.), and Gloucebter and C eltenham (10s. and es.), returning the same evening as per bills. G. ENER A L STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. 71, Lombard-street, London. NOTICE IS HEREBY , That the 'YEARLY GENERAL GENERAL IVIEET G I IVEN G of the PRO 'RIETORS -of .this COMPANY wi 1 be held, at the Company's 4fices, 71 , Lombard -street, on TIIL SDA'Y', the 27th inst , at Two o'c'ock prec i sely, parsuant to the Act of Parliament, to trans act the usual business and to declare the dividend for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1861. MARTIN PRATT, Secretary. London, August 2, 1861 1 1 GOVERNMENT SECURITY LIFE POLICIES. 11E CONSOLS ASSOCIATION, 429, STRAND, LONDON. 1. Pr - Irides the Security Of Consols for its Policies. 2. It lends, er returns to Insurers ON DEMAND at any time, about One-half of all Premiums Paid. Undoubted Security Mr Money with a liberal Rate of Inte rest. 'the Association possesses a Large Capital. subscribed by several Hundreds of Shareholders. Full information may be obtained on ap Bcation to THOMAS H. BAYLIS, Managing Director. HOYA•L INSURANCE COMPANY TIEA-13 OFFICES—Lombard -street, London ; and Royal Insurance Buildings, Liverpool. Branch Offices—Nianchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Dublin. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1860. '` The success of the Company, even in ite earliest years, rreceived the marked attention, and elicited the surprised 'comments, of writers best acquainted with the history of In surance Companies. "Fire Premiums for 1860 EQUAL the Total Fire Premiums for the SEVEN YEARS 1845 to 1851. "Life Premiums for 1860 EXCEED the Entire Life Pre lolurns for the EIGHT YEARS ending 1852. "Pnrchase of Annuities in 1860 LARGELY EXCEEDS the "' ar receipt for the first TEN YEARS, 1845 to 1854. rm. progress, it is believed, is unsurpassed, cousidering 'owl it applies to each of the three branches of the business. FIRE BRANCH. , "The Fire Branch has certain y shown no exhaustion dur ing the year 1860 of that, impetus which had previously brought it to a position of the first magnitude among the Insurance Companies of the United Kingdom. The Fire Premiums in 1859 had advanced to the sum of £228,3H 7s. 3d. In 1860 the amount of Fire Premiums has arrived at a sum of £ 21 2,977195. Ild., showing an increase of £34,663 12s. Bd., ex ceeding the large advance of the preceding year, so that in two years the Fire' Revenue .of the Company has been en h 'laced by the enormous sum of £66,829175. sd. " The Parliamentary Report of Returns of Duty paid to Government for the year-4860 - exhibitg 'the augmentation of the business in a more prominent way, as it afforas the means of comparison with other Companies. The Proprietors will be ratified to learn that the increase of Duty paid hy the Royal in the last year is more than double that of any other Company, either London or Provincial, whilst only one of those Companies even approaches to 50 per cent. of the ad -vane° of this Comp lay. Our increase actually equais 30 per cent. of the entire increase of the whole of he Metropolitan. Offices combined, whilst of the Provincial Offices it forms up wards of 30 per cent. of the total advance of the other 26 offices established out of London. LIFE BRANCH. "rue Reports of the Company for several years have had invariably to announce a constant periodical expansion of its Lifri Business, the New Policies of each somwding year show- Jur; an advance over the one that had immediately preceded it. A similar result is shown in the year 1860, the Premiums .on' Nevi Policies, after deducting Guarantees, be ng £15,097 17s, tod., which is an increase on that item of £1,993175. sd. above the amnunt received for the year 1859. "But even this advance is small when compared with the sudden and remarkable momentum which has been given to this Branch of the Business in the present year (18611 "It was not until the commencement-of the year that the Public seemed to have become fully acquainted ;with the fact tht the Royal Insurance Corn. any had published late in the last year an account of the investigation into the Assets and Liabilities of its Life Department, under a novel form, and in as plain and intelligible a manner as the abstruseness of the subkeet admitted, to g ether with the entire statements and ' 9 :Ovations necessaryf or that purpose. " It is conjectured from the extensive Notices of this Pam lphlet and its accompanying Diagrams, which have appeared 'in the Periodic a l s of the day, teat it has largeN attracted the attention of vast numbers f Persons in all parts of the United Kingdom, as well as in other parts of the World. Indeed a most satisfactory and conclusive evidence that such is the case is afforded by the fact that the sum Assured on New Policies in the six months to the 3d June of the present year is ac tually 50 per cent. in excess of the sum /, ssnred in the corres ponding months of the year 1860, although the latter amount in Putt exceeded the sum assured in any like previous period of time "If this success be continued, the Royal Insurance Com any would, with respect t o th e amoun t o f it s new b us i ness, ihe at once placed (at least with one or two exceptions\ at the lead of all the Insurance Companies doing business in this Country, and the anticipations of the last Report, to the effect that the details of the Life Business then to be pub lished would form an epoch of the Establishment, will have a speedy and very happy realisation." SPECIAL ADVANTAGES OF THE LIFE BRANCH. PROFITS.—Large proportion Returned every Five Years to Policies then in exiatence Two Errrini . YEARS. Expenses chiefly born • by the Fire Branch, in order to Increase the Bonus to be Returned. . LIFE BONUSES DECLARED, Two per Cent. per Annum on the Sum Assured : THE GREATEST BONUS EVER CONTINUOUSLY DECLARED BY ANY COMPANY. SECURITY FOR BOTH FIRE AND LIFE BRANCHES CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS Sterling. Accumulated Funds in hand exceed £.500,000. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE WINES. PORTS—Montero, 6s. per gallon, 15s. per dozen. Priorato, San Vicente. and Almanza, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per dozen. Alto Douro, 10s. 6d. per gallon, 245. per dozen, to 19s. 6d. per gallon, 425. per dozen. Val de Penas, 20s. and 245. per dozen. SFIERRIES—Cordovan, very pale soft light Wine, 6s. per Mon, 15s. per dozen. Xerezano, Bs. 6d. per gallon, 20s. per dozen. Other qualities, 245. to 48s. per dozen. Price per dozen includes bottles and paokazes. List, with full particulars, free en application. 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TRULY EFFICACIOUS AND MILD.- Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and fiver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For h tbitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the s'omach, they create appe rte, promote digestion, and Ntre ,, ,e-,then the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert. and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, With " William Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street," engraved on the stamp. • GIVEN AWAY TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. HENRY SMITH. M.D., of the University of Jena, has just published, for the benefit of Nervous Sufferers, a FREE EDITION of his valuable work, THE WARNING VOICE TO YOUNG MEN (120 pages). A medical work on the cure of Nervous Debility, Loss of Memory, Dimness of Sight, Lassitude, Indigestion, Dislike to Society, Spermatorrhcea, Local Weakness, Muscular Re laxation, Languor, Listlessness, Depression, &c., which, if neglected, result in consumption, insanity, and premature death ; with plain directions for perfect restoration to health and vigour. The book will sent, post free, secure from ob nervation, to any address, on receipt of a directed envelope and two stamps. Address, HENRY SMITH, M.D., 8, Burton crescent, Tavistock-square, London, W.C. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and A.IM PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all charges.) 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Dr. La'Mert's Treatise on "Self-preservation." published by Mann, bookseller, 39, Cornhill, price Is., post free for 13, or sealed, for 20 stamps, contains murili useful information regarding - the moral, social, and physical obligations of mar riage, with simple and efficacious instructions for the resto ration of health, vigour, and all the dignified prerogatives of Manhood, when lost or impaired by pernicious habits or excess. The work will be found totally free from those ex aggerated and alarming statements contained in the host of pretended medical publications by unqualified persons, pro fessing to treat on these important subjects. At home from 10 till 3, and from 6 till 8. DR. CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD: MEDICAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRFIG% A-, ' NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates. in a sealed envelope, price le., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps, MANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions tor Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. CURTIS, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER on the Physiological Structure and Functians of the Reproductive Organs. CHAPTER ll.—Causes of Spermatorrhcea and Impotence; „ • Arty Vicious Indulgences: Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualifications of Marriage; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity, the Effects of Climate, or Infection. CHAPTERS IV. and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhoea and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting Lotion, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive REVIEWS 01' THE WORK. `Curtis on Manhood.—This is a truly valuable work, and should be in the hands of young and old."—" Sunday Times," lharch, 1855. The author has conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in whi c h i s d escr ib e d th e sour c e of those diseases which produce decline in youth or more frequently premature Old age.,,—" Daily Telegraph," March 27. MR. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of Professional criticism and empiric•al hostility, treats in a plain and sympathising manner on the various disqualifications and impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bility; and to i nva lid s suf f er i ng f rom y ou thf u l errors and o ses it will be found vslunble L ondon ; Published by J. Allen, 20, Warwick Lane, rater }lours of noster-row; Mann, 39, Cornhal. Consultation.---10 to 3 and 6 to 8; Sundays, 10 till 2. J 0 ZEAU'S COPAHINE, or SACCHARATED t CAPSULES.—Copaiba and Cubeba are doubtless the best remedies, but these drugs are of a repulsive taste and odour, and occasion colicky pains, nausea, and gastric dis turbance. M. Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents r erfectly innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all t ,, e curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine. which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, Is. 2d. Post-office order required ; at J. JszarAu'a, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, London ,• 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important Chemists. a, GREAT MARLBORODGH-STREET, THE PANTHEON. R. CULVERWELL, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Licentiate of Midwifery, and Apo thecaries' Hall, London, can be consulted daily (only) as above, on all cases of Nervous Debility, Languor, Incapacity, Loss of Memory, Sterility, and all Functional Derangements of both Sexes, -emanating from early and excessive :indul enoee -- • Has Just published, price Is. ; by poet, 1$ stamps, 18 scaled, No. 4, An entire new and original Work, entitled OURSELVES. Synopsis : The Physiology and Anatomy of our Generation —The Origin of Disease—Symptoms, Treatment, and Cure. Iso, an Exposition of. and Remedy for, all Urinary Derange ments and Marital Disqualifications, MALE. The modern treatment of Syphilis, Striotnre, Blennorrha.cria Gonorrhma), Spermatorrhon, Impotency, and all Diseasea oS ile Urinary Organs, with Prescriptions, &3. FEMALE. The Physiology and Anatomy of Women— Functional Er regulatities in Health and Sickness—Choice in Marriage— Their Expectancies and Disappointments—The Cause and It'moval of Sterility—The Theory and Symptoms of Gesta tion—Use of the Speculum. Also, No. 1. HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and LONGEVITY; On Debility, Nervousness, Dyspepsia, and Indigestion, No. 2. GLOVE AND MARRIAGE: Their Obligations, Happiness, and Disappointments ; Love nd . other Matches. St er ility R e moved, and Healthy Off prmg secured., No. 3. THE CASE BOOK: la) Cases of SPERMATORIMEA, Their CaIISOS, Symptoms, and Treatment, Confessions and Cure by Cauterisations, Galvanism, &e. &e. &o. To be had of Diann. P).), Cornhl/1; and the Authors. Advise to the Work-MR. Classes fee Half-a-Guinea: (:.pEcim. NOTICE.) Dr. Culverwell is the only legitillyqualited medical practi tioner living of that name, and can be vomited (only as above). I'IHE PRESENT DISTRESS IN TRADE fully explained in J. GROSSMITH'S " GOVERNMENT UPON FIRST PRINCIPLES." The cause is there predicated of the monetary difficulties ex perienced in 1860. The Crisis is at hand. Anxiety in bus ness has now become the grim torture. Purity of motive, intelligently exercised, must animate all Governments, or all is lost, All denominations of Constitutions are carefully examined in J. Grossmith's "Government upon First Prin ciples." Kent and Co.. late Piper and Co.. Paternoster-row. The Fourth Edition, Just Published. Bvo, in cloth, price ss. by post free, ss. ed. ON TRUE and FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA; with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from De bility of the Generative system, or Sexual Hypochrondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. " Dr. rickford is' known to English readers by his frequent practical contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-medical reader. We trust that this may not be the last, if he shall detect any other squally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct."—London Medical Gazette. The editor has conferred a great boon on the sufferers from this distressing malady by translating this little book, and by laying bare the scandalous practices of unqualified adventurers, who profess to cure a disease of which they know nothing, with no other object than to fill their own purses. The difference between true Spermatorrhcea and the various forms of disease which resemble it are accurately de scribed, and thus a safe guide is offered for the treatment of the malady."—Medical Circular. We have dilated so long upon the contents of the preli minliffeboter, that we have scarcely left ourselves space for any notice of the subject specially treated of by Dr. Pick - ford ; but the moderate price at which the brochure' is sold, places it within the reach of every one interested in the matter."— Dublin Medical Press. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street Just published, 132 pages, illustrated with cases, in a neat 12m0., price Is., or post free for 18 stamps, The Third Edition of MANLY VIGOUR; the Art of Preserving, Improving, and Recovering It. With Practical Remarks on Spermatorrhcea, Seminal Weakness, and Nervous Debility, Impotence. Barrenness, Sterility, and all other Disorders of the Generative Organisa tion in Males and Females. Likewise a chapter on Venereal Diseases, interspersed with clear instructions for self man9gement and prescriptions for cure, and for ensuring the blessings of wedded happiness, and restoration to the privi leges of health and vigour. From this work it will be seen that none need 'despair, but all may look forward confidently to perm.ane recovery. By Dr. A. F. HENERY. London : Published by the Author, Medical Institution, 53, Dorset-street, Manchester square, W. ARGYLL ROOMS. Windmill-street, Hay ma' ket, will RE-OPEN for the Season on SATUR DAY, 4th August, under the direction of Mons. BourmounT,' principal Cornet-a-piston and Conductor. The music will be selected from Verdi, bleyerbeer, Rossini, Flotow. Balfe, and other eminent Composers. During the recess these well known Rooms have been entirely RE-DECORATED and I kiPROvED by Messrs. H. T. SMITH and assistants. The new Chandeliers by M. Benjamin. Admission, One Shilling. —All the new Music to be had at the Office, No. 7, Great Windmill-street. IN s T AT T ONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, High Holborn.—This brilliant and favourite Ball Room IS NOW OPENED FOR THE SEASON. During the recess the entire buildinr , hag been re-decorated, and many impor - ant additions and alterations effected conducive to the comfort of the visitors. The celebrated Band, under the able direction of Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform Over tures and Selections from the latest Operas, &c., with the newest and choicest dance music. New Selections from the Rose of Castille, Der Frieschutz, Robin Hood, lin Ballo in Maschera, La Reine Topaz. La Ctreasifenne (never per formed in England), La Sanciniere, Redowa, New Champagne Galop, &c.—Doors open at half-past S.—Admission, is. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. Patron—Her Majesty the QUEEN. President—His Grace the fluke of Buccleuch, Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This Hospital relieves distress in its most helpless shape, that of disease aggravated by destitution. With more ade quate funds the Weekly Board could make immediately avail able 500 beds for the relief of the large mass of suffering in this metropolis. Its present resources, supplied entirely by the Voluntary Contributions of the Public, enable it to afford, in addition to its In-patients, effective Medical Assistance to an average exceeding 2,000 Out-patients weekly. - - - Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mu terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denisoh and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.;• Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; Masterman and Co. ; and at the Hospital. J. B. OWEN, MA„ Chairman of the Weekly Board. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIRST SALE. CUSTOM HOUSE, London, August, 1861. FOR SALE, by order of the Honourable the Commis sioners of her Majesty's Customs, at the COMMERCIAL SALE ROOMS, Mincing-lane, on WEDNESDAY, Aug. 21st, 1861, at Twelve o'clock at noon precisely, the following GOODS, for the Benefit of the Crown, viz. :•- - BRANDY, RUM, and WINE. The above goods may be viewed by sample at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street ; and at the Lon don, West India, and Victoria Docks ; on Tuesday, August 20th, 1861, from ten o'clock in the morning until three o'clock in the afternoon, and on the day of Sale, from ten o'clock in the morning until twelve o'clock at noon— the tasting, as regards thei4ueen's warehouse, being restricted to the day of sale. Take notice, that goods sold at this sale will not be de livered until after two clear days of the day on which they are sold, and that no lots can be paid for at the office of the Re ceiver-General after two o'clock in the afternoon. Catalogues may be had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom House, Thames-street, price 3d. each. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. ROYAL HOSPITAL, CHELSEA, 17th Aug., 1861. THE Right Honourable the LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISSIONERS of this HOSPITAL, Do Hereby Give Notice, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from and to treat with such persons as may be willing to Contract for Victuallin , r the In-Pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist of October, 1861, to the 30th of September, 1862, both days inclusive, with the following Articles of PROVISIONS, ac., viz. Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea. Sug sr, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savoury and Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration, according to the established allowances of the House, as specified in the form of Tender, which may be ob taine at the office of the Secretary any day, between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock, which tender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, at the Board Room of the said Hospital, by the party or parties tendering, or by an ay.ent appointed on his or their behalf, on TUESDAY, the 3d of September, at 12 o'clock, at which time their Lordships will be prepared to take the same into consideration. It is to be observed that the Contractor will be required to find security to the Crown for the due performance of the contract, and that no tender will be received after the day and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do not pledge themselves to accept the lowest tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. 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VS PAPER k \-f A z ,r- On Sunday this retired village, w_ is Aunts in the midst of the Downs, or plain, 14 miles from. Devizes, 15 from Salisbury, and 12 from Andover, Hungerford, and Marlborough respectively, was the scene of a most frightful tragedy. The whole parish is the property of Sir F. Dugdale Astley, who is at 'present non-resident; and the manor-hOuse is .let. with the shooting, &c. ' to Mr. C. J. Monk, chan cellor of the diocess of Glocester, and only son., of the late Bishop. It appears that there are two keepers' lodges, the first distant about half a mile from the manor-house and from any other dwelling, the second about half a mile off from the first. They are both embosomed in the woods, and remote from all usual thoroughfares. Early on Saturday last Mr. John Hill, the head gamekeeper, occupying the first lodge, left home for a few days' visit into Wor cestersrdre, and, in consequence of the solitude of the situation, Esther Stocker, the wife of the under keeper, came up from the furthest ledge tosleepk. that night with Mrs. Hill, in her hu4baud's ab sence. Mrs. Stocker returned to her own lodge at eight o'clock on Sunday morning, and alMut a.m. her husband, John Stocker, walked mver to Hill's and saw • Ann • Hill seated in a chair in the back kitclin, reading a newspaper, out of which she comthunicated some particulars to him through the window, which was open. 'She also mentioned her intention of going to church in the afternoon, the service being at 3 p.m. This made it Stocker's duty to attend to the reared birds dur ing, her absence, and accordingly he went home to dinner, returning about 2 30 p.m. It would seem that Ann Hill, immediately after Stocker left, went up to a boiling-house, about' 200 yards in the rear of her lodge, and adjoining the kennels, in which were several dogs, to prepare some food for them. Oa Stocker's return he had to pass the boiling house, and observing the door open, which was unusual, he looked in, and saw the unfortunate woman lying on the ground in a pool of blood, with her throat frightfully cut from ear to ear, already dead and stiffening. Stocker then hastened to the manor-house to acquaint his master with the sad occurrence ' and by 4 p.m. Mr. Carter, surgeon, of Pewsev, Dr. Bartlett, the rector of the parish, and the police, were on the spot. At first it was - thought that the act was 'suicidal, but a more minute inves tigation shwa ed that the unfortunate woman had been first garotted with a small rope, the livid rings of which were traceable in three circles round the neck and under the chin, as also a punctured wound, apparently made in cutting the cord away, in the side of the neck, and that afterwards the throat was cut by a strong decided stroke, inflicted probably from-behind, from left to right. Neither cord nor cutting instrument has been found. On examining the house, the window in the rear and the door in front were found open, the key being in the lock inside; the key' of the back door, which was locked, with other keys, were found in the pocket of the deceased. The drawers in the bed room had been partially ransacked, and letters and other articles scattered about the floor. Only one room'was in any way disturbed. It is observable that a shepherd, tending his flock at no great dis tance off, did not hear any of the dogs bark. An inquest will be held, and the .unfortunate husband has been summoned home, when the' extent of the supposed robbery will be investigated. The police are using every exertion. SUSPECTED POISONIN6 °FA WHOLE The neighbourhood of Richmond-buildings was thrown into a great state of excitement on Sunday evening, by a rumour that a whole family, named Mitchell, had been poisoned. Superintendent Crowhnrst, with Inspector Reeves and two or three of their men, were soon on the premises, where they found Mr. Sewell, surgeon, of the Grand-parade, who had been previonsiy called in ; and it appears that Mrs. Mitchell and her six children were all suffering great pain, and exhibiting all the symp toms of having partaken of something of a poisonous nature ; and, in answer to questions put to her, she said they had eaten nothing but a beefsteak pie for dinner, a portion of which was left, and which, with some flour from.which it had been made, was immediately taken possession of by the police, for it was asserted that the pie was made for the husband to take to his work, that he was present while it was made, but after it was baked he refused to take it, and said he preferred some bacon, which his wife procured, reserving the pie for her and the children's dinners. Suspicion, therefore, rested upon the man for some time; but from an in vestigation of the case, it appears that Mitchell, who formerly worked at the rail way station, and is now employed at the War ren Farm Well, is a most affectionate husband and father, and that the pie was made during his absence. He left home very early on Satur day morning and returned late, and his wife had purchased the flour and meat, and made and baked the pie in the meantime. The first he heard of the pie was on Saturday night. when he asked for a piece for supper, but his wife said it would be a pity to cut it then, as it was made for his dinner next day; and therefore the pie was not touched. On looking at it—his work necessitating him to be away for two days—he said he thought it would not carry him over forty-eight hours, and he would rather have a piece of baton, and it was under those circumstances the bacon was cooked for him, and the p'e kept for the family's Sunday dinner, and there is not the slightest ground for the suspicion hinted at. Under the care and attention of Mr. Sewell, the children and their mother were gradually brought round, and before they were left on the Sunday night, they were considered out of danger, but still suffering slightly from the symptoms which had manifested themselves ; and from the inquiries which the police had made, and the appearance of the chil dren on Monday, Mr. White, the chief officer, did not deem it his duty to take further notice of the mat ter, being convinced in his own mind, from his ex perience of a previous similar case, that the illness was caused solely by the eating of the cold pie; that the gelatinous portion of it had become sour and rank, and disagreed with those who partook of it. . Mr. Sewell, however, attended the heah of magistrates on Monday and made a statement, and after a private consultation the Bench thought Mr. White had better see the town clerk, and the result is that an analysis is to be made: On Saturday, the Halifax magistrates resumed an investigation into a charge of criminal assault preferred by Miss Marples, daughter of an Inde pendent minister, against Joseph Bairstow, archi tect, Queenshead. The accused is a smart looking young man ; Miss Marples is under sixteen, of a modest and girlish appearance. The felony was alleged to have been committed on Friday night, the 9th instant. Mr. Blanshard appeared for the prosecutrix ; and Mr. Wheelhouse for the prisoner, who had been out on bail from the preceding Tuesday, in, the sum of £2OO. On Friday, the 9th inst , Mr. Marples had occa sion for additional accommodation in his house, as he was visited.by a minister from a distance, and it was arranged that the prosecutrix should sleep for a few nights at the house of Mr. Holgate, a friend of her fathei's about half a mile distant. Miss Marples was detained by domestic duties from, leaving home for Mr. Ifoigate's until about eleven o'clock. On her way she had to pass through Queenshead. One-half of the w a y was lighted with lamp., and the other not. There are houses, s truggling or connected, nearly all the way. She had gone some distance on the road, when she was accosted by two young men, one of whom soon left her, and the prisoner followed her, and got hold of h er 'round the waist. She pushed him away, and t o ld him to go about his business. He left her, an d then (she affirms) she p roceeded on her way with all speed. When nearQueenshead Church, however, he seized her again, put his arm round h er wa i s t , and pulled her down a lane into some fields, and th e re, after a good deal of struggli ng, and calling for help on her part, the prisoner committed the grave offence with which he was charged. endeavoured to go home, b ut h e would not let her, She and eventually she arrived at Mr. Holgate's about twelve o'clock. Here she told Mrs. Mary Ann Holgate, with whom she slept, w h a t had taken o i nex t day told another place, and begged h er to i nform h er mother, Mrs. Marples. Miss Holgate sister, but th e i n f ormat i on did not come to Mr. Marples' ear s unt il the M on day night, when he im mediately took steps and had the prisoner appre hended. It should be added, that the prisoner went to Mr. Holgate's (who is a relative of his) on the Saturday night, while Miss M . arples was th ere, and behaved himself in such an irregular manner that he had to be ordered out of the h ouse. Th e prisoner was taken into custody on th e T ues d ay morning. He then denied that he k new Mi ss AlarPies'or that he had ever exchanged a word with her, much less committed the outrage. When before the Bench, the defe nce assume d a rat h er different complexion. It was th en a tt em pt e d t o b e shown that the prisoner was seen that evening Np v r a o l s k e i c n u g tr t i h x r . ou m gh os g t u o e f e h n i shead arm in arm with the as to the identity of the s yo wi un tn g e l s a s d e y s were uncertain uncertain Carrie, surgeon, secution, he havi ng exam i ne d th e prosecutrix last Thornton, was called for the pro. . Friday, and hi s op i n i on was that the crime had been fully com m itt e d. Th 0 Bench committed the prisoner for trial at the York Assizes. He was admitted to bail in the sum of £4OO. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, 1861. SPURTING INTELLIGENCE. RADCLIFFE RACES-TUESDAY. The card to-day exhibited a decided improvement upon that of Monday, there being no fewer than six events set down for decision. The Nursery Stakes, which commenced the afternoon's sport, brought five two-year-olds to the post, and resulted in the clever victory of Forester, who opened in the betting at 5 to 2, but closed at 10 to 1. The ring, however, were, for once, out of their reckoning, as the issue, from thehalfdistance, was never in doubt. In this race a filly by The Flying Dutchman, out of Black Bess, belonging to R. C. Naylor, Esq., of Hooton Hall, made her first appearance, but as horse and jockey were both raw from the stable, better things may be expected from them hereafter. The Stewards' Cup prOduced a splendid race between Twinkle and Wynnstay, the latter winning, owing to the superior jockey ship of Grimshaw, by a short neck. The'Radcliffe Plate was a mere canter for Buttercup. She was, at first, as good a favourite as anything, but, being said to be in foal, she receded to 5 to 2 at the finish, and we believe the mare has now closed her racing career. The innkeeper's Plate was another success for Cliff's stable, which has been singularly fortunate at this meeting, having furnished no fewer than five winners during the two days. The All aged Selling Stakes, won by Rajah Brooke, and a Scurry Handicap, which closed on the ground, brought the meet ing to a close. • The official duties of judge and handicapper were ably discharged by Mr. John Swindells, jun., of this city, and the meeting, on the whole, has been highly successful. We append full particulars of the sport, which cott menced with— The Grey De Wilton Handicap Nursery Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added, for two year olds. Three quarters of a Mile. Mr. Jones's Forester, by Peppermint, out of Lady Eger ton's dam, 7st 101 b (Barlow) l Mr. Hudson's Captain Crow, Bst 4lb (Challoner) 2 Mr. Hopwood's Charles Fox, 7st 101 b ...(H Grimshaw) 3 Mr. Naylor's Black Bess filly, Bst (Perry) 4 Mr. Johnston& s Melody, 7st 71b (car. lib over) (E Foster) 5 Betting-7 to 4 igst Melody, sto 2 agst Captain Crow, and 10 to 1 agst Forester.—Melody, followed by Charles Fox, Captain Crow, and Mn Naylor's filly, made play to the distance. Forester, who got badly off, then came out, and, getting his head in front half way up, won cleverly by half a length. There was a length between the second and third horses. The Stewards' Cup of 40 sous in specie, added to a handi cap sweepstakes of 3 sous each. One mile and a distance. Mr. Buckley's Wynnstay, 3 yrs, 7st 61b (H. Grimshaw) 1 Mr. Wright's Twinkle, 3 yrs, Est (Williamson) 2 Mr. Burke's Maid of Chesterfield, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Challoner) 3 Mr. Coburn's North Lancashire, 4 yrs, 7st 121. b.. (Page) 0 Betting—Even on 'twinkle, 2 to 1 agst Maid of Chester field, 3 to 1 agst Wynnstay, and 10 to 1 agst North Lan cashire (offered). Twinkle cut out the work, followed by North Lancashire to the top turn, where the latter fell, without material in jury to the rider, however, who escaped with a slight hurt to his foot and a ripped boot, the sole of which was com pletely wrenched off. This contretemps left Maid of Ches terfield in attendance on the leader. At the half-distance Twinkle was joined by Wynnstay, and, after a splendid finish, was beaten by a short neck. Maid of Chesterfield was a bad third. The Radcliffe Plate (handicap) of 30 sous for all ages About helf a mile. Mr. Morris's Buttercup, 4 yrs 7st .61b (carried 7st 71b) (E. Foster) 1 '• Smith's Sheffield, 5 yrs, Bst 91b (Smethurst) 2 Reed's Cumberland, aged, 7s l- 131 b (Challoner) 3 '• 'Wright's Nosegay, 5 yrs, Bst 41b (Gardiner) 4 Parks's Blight gelding, 4 yrs, 6st 91b (J.'llarrison) 5 Mr. Mr, Mr, Mr, Betting-5 to 4 agst Nosegay, 2to 1 agst Cumberland, 5 to 2 agst Buttercup, and 10 to 1 agst the Blight gelding. Buttercup made the whole of the running, and won in a canter by a length and a half. There was a length be tween the second and third horses. The Innkeepers' Purse (handicap) of 8 sovs each ; with 25 added. About one mile. Mr. Wright's Nosegay, 5 yrs, Fst 91b (includ. 71b extra) (Gardiner) 1 Mr. Williamson's Rara Avis, 5 yrs, 7st 81b (Page) 2 Mr. Riddell's Rose, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (carried 6st 91b) (H. Grimshaw) 3 Betting-5 to 4on Nosegay, 6to 4 agst Rara Avis, and 4 to 1 agst Rose. Nosegay made play, and although challenged by Rose and Rara Avis alternately, he maintained his own through out, and won in a canter by two lengths ; Rose, tailed off, was a very bad third. The All-aged Selling Stakes of 3 soya each, with 20 added ; two-yr-olds 6st 101 b, three Bst 61b, four 9st 41b, five 9st 81b, six and aged 9st 101 b ; selling allowances. Six furlongs.. Mr. Bates's Rajah Brooke, 4 yrs, Bst 61b Grimshaw) 1 Mr. Osborne's Dubious, 8 yrs, Bst 21b (Challoner) 2 Mr. Reed's Cumberland, aged, Bst 131 b .. (J. Harrison) 3 Mr. Clark's Maid of Lyme, 4 yrs, Bst 3lb (Page) 4 Mr. Wareham's Miss Dunstable, 3 yrs, 7st 91b.. (Lomas) 5 Betting-6 to 4on Dubious, and 3to 1 agst Rajah Brooke. Maid of Lyme made play to the straight, when she gave way to Rajah Brooke, who thence came on and won in a canter by three lengths. Cumberland took third place at the half distance, and finished in that position on suffer ance. ihe winner was bought in for 40 guineas. The Scurry Handicap of 2 soya each, with 15 added, for Limeflower winning easily by three lengths. Confectioner was pulled up opposite the judge'3 chair, and placed a bad third. Juliet was fourth, Chirp mixt, the Mabel filly sixth; The Cressa filly was last. • The Thee Ankerwycke Stakes of 3 toys each, with 30 added. . Optional selling weights. Tiree quarters of a mile. Mr. Fuller's St. Bernard, by Windbound, 2 yrs, sst 1016 £2O Mr. E. Hood's Anchorite, 4 yrs, Dst 61b, £lOO (G. Fordham) 2 Mr. Edward's Lady Fanny, 2 yrs, sat 121 b, £5O (Midgley) 3 Mr. Mellon's Rudersdorff, 2 yrs, Est 716, £lOO (J. Reeves) 4 Betting-5 to 4 agst Lady Fanny, 6to 4 agst St. Ber nard. Rudersdorff made play for the first quarter of a mile, when St. Bernard passed him, and came on, winning in a canter by ten lengths. . The winner *as afterwards sold to Mr. S. Lambert for 55 guineas, and goes into S. Rogers' stable. The Welter Stakes (Handicap) of 10 soya each, 5 ft, and only 2'if declared, with. 25 added. Gentlemen riders. Professionals 7lb extra. One mile. 14 tubs, 10 of whom pay 2 soya each. Mr. G. Payne's Gabardine, 3 yrs, ost 21b (Mr. W. Bovill) 1 Sir R.de Burgh's Sutherland, 4 rs, lOst 101 b (Mr. Wood) 2 Mr. Marshall's Newstead, S yrs, list .. (Capt. Barclay) 3 Betting-5 to 4 , on Gabardine, 2to 1 agst Sutherland, and 5 to 1 agst Newstead. The favourite outpaced his opponents soon after starting, awl won easily by two lengths; Newstead was a bad third. BETTING ON THE COURSE. • • EBOR HANDICAP: sto 1 agst Virgilius (taken freely) 8 • to 1 agst Lady Trespass (taken) ST. LEGER+ 2to 1 agat Kettledrum (taken) 100 to 7 agat Dictator (taken) 20 to 1 agst Janus (taken) 20 to 1 agst Imaus (taken) YORK AUGUST MEETING. The Chesterfield Handicap. One mile. Age st lb Age et lb General He 55...... 4 8 12 Upperhand ... 4 7 8 Von Stroom. 4 8 10 Wynnstay ... King of Diamonds.. 4 8 7 Gardener Stockade Phantom Petra b 8 2 Jingling Johnny .. 3 7 4 Oxford 4 8 2 Ericthonius Donner and Blitz .. 4 8 0 Lancelin 3 6 13 Rock Scorpion .... 5 7 12 Orion 3 6 13 Interest.. Montrose. 4 7..12 Young Viscount .. 3 6 7 Syringe 4 7 9! Imperatrice Voltella i.. 3 7 9Victrix Lopcatcher Weights published August 19, at 9 a.m. steamer at the dockyard, and forwarded by special train to Farnborough, marching thence into camp at Aldershott. There were 30 officers, 38 sergeants, 18 drummers, 40 corporals, 580 privates, 54 women, and 42 children, and six officers' horses. To-day the Megwra embarks the headquarters division of the 32d Regiment from Aldershott, consisting of about 500 officers and men, for conveyance to Ply mouth. On arriving at Plymouth and disembark ing the 32d the Magvera will take in there the headquarters division of the 2d battalion of the 12th Regiment, which she will convey to Cork. She will return thence to Portsmouth with the following. depots :-Ist battalion Ist Regiment, 6 officers and 240 men ; 2d battalion 6th Regiment, 4 officers and 200 men ; 2d battalion 12th Regiment, 4 officers and 110 men. On arrival at Portsmouth the Megmra will next convey the remainder of the 32d Regiment to Plymouth, and the undermentioned depots for Cork, taking in at Plymouth the remain der of the 2d battalion 12th Regiment—viz., 24th Regiment, 6 officers and 137• men, for Cork ; 49th. Regiment, 30 men, for Belfast. The detachment of Royal Artillery sent from Woolwich for the purpose of mounting 68-pounder guns on the martello tower at Shotley, on the Suffolk coast, have completed their work. The contract for the erection of the new hut barracks at Gravesend. has been completed by Mr. Down, of Southwark, and the buildings handed over to the Royal Engineer department. Although the new barracks are so far finished, yet it will be some time before they are occupied by troops, the authorities having made the discovery that it will be necessary to erect besides a range of buildings for about 50 officers, together with a hospital for sick troops, com missariat stores,washhouses, latrines, and the other necessary buildings for a force of 800 officers and men, whom it is intended to quarter at Gravesend. The erection of the additional build ings will involve two separate contracts being entered into, and it will of necessity be some time before they are completed, nothing but the plans having been as yet commenced. The extensive range of buildings already erected include six blocks of huts, together with quarters for married non-commissioned,officers. Each block forms two separate lofty and commodious rooms, calculated on ordinary occasions to contain 26 men each, though should circumstances necessitate it more than double that number can be accommodated in each room, without the huts being se crowded as is often the case in our barracks. The site of the barracks is an elevated spot, close to the town of . Gravesend, the soil on which it is placed being gravel resting on chalk, and there fore promising to be exceedingly healthy. Although tha buildings are denominated huts, little or no wood has been used in their construction, the whole being substantially built of brick, and each room well-lighted and ventilated. The floors are ell damp-proof, and the most ample means have been' taken to secure proper ventilation for each separate building. The barracks stand on about four acres of ground. At the end of the huts two large lec ture-rooms have been built, to be used in the in struction of the officers and troops in the theore tical principles of rifle firing and on other military subjects. The rifle range selected for the troops is at some distance from the barracks, in a secluded spot near the Thames, where a large and excellent site has been purchased by the Government for this purpose, The land so acquired, however, is still in its original state, and much will require to be done towards it before it is adapted for the pur poses to which it will be applied. It is intended that the barracks at Gravesend shall be a kind of offshot Of those at Chatham. all ages. One mile and a distance. Mr. Wright's Knutsford, 3 yrs, Bst 71b .. (Gardiner 1 Mr. Coburn's North Lancashire, 4 yrs 7st 81b (Harrison 2 Mr. Riddell's Goldbeck, 3 yrs, 6st 71b (car Est 9lb (Grimshaw) 3 Mr. Wareham's Miss Dunstable, 3 yrs, 7st.. (H. Taylor) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Knutsford, 3to 1 agst Miss Dun stable, and 4 to 1 agst Goldbeck. Goldbeck and Knuts ford came on together past the Stand. Along the lack side the favourite fell into the rear, and Miss Dunstable carried on the running to the straight. At the distance the lot took closer order, and Knutsford coming away half way up won in a canter by three-quarters of a length. Miss Dun stable was a bad third, and Goldbeck a worse fourth. EGIIAM .RACES-YESTERDAY, The Runnymede Stakes (Handicap) of 10 sovs each, h ft, and 3 only if declared, with 50 added; winners extra; the second to save his stake. One mile, 29 subs, 21 of whom pay 3 sovs each. Mr. Payne's Nunnery. 3 yrs, 6st 81b (Prior) 1 Nir. T. Brown's Limeflower, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b (Woodhouse) 2 Mr. J. Clark's Sherburne, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b (Snowden) 3 Mr. B. Land's Redpole, 3 yrs, 7st 41b Mr. G. Simpson's Narcissus, 4 yrs, Bst . . (Fordham) 5 Mr. Morris's Rufus, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Midglay) 6 Betting-7 to 4 agst Limeflower, 2to 1 agst Narcissus, 5 to 1 agst Sherborne, 6 to 1 each agst Rufus and Redpole. Nunnery, in company with Limeflower, made play throughout, the former winning easily by a length; Sher borne finished a head from the faA ourite ; and Redpole was a bad fourth. The King John Stakes of 15 sovs each, 10 ft, with 50 added ; for two-yr-olds, colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b; winners extra ; allowances, &c. T.Y.C. 17 subs. Mr. Spencer's Miss Vivian, Bst Capt Coates's Patriot, Bst 71b (in. 31b ex) (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. Mundy's Bolero, Bst 71b (in. 31b ex.) (D. Plumb) 3 Betting—Even on Patriot, 5 to 4 agst Miss Vivian. The latter took a slight lead, the others lying close up to the half distance, where Bolero was beaten, and Patriot made an effort to reach Miss Vivian, but was defeated after a close struggle, by a short head ; a bad third. The Egham Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 30 added; op- tional selling weights. One mile. Mr. J. Stephenson's Sweetbread, 3 yrs, sst 111 b (X 80) (S. Adams) I Mr. E. Hall's Lady Chesterfield, 3 yrs, sst 81b (ao) (Dowling) 2 Mr. W. Nelson's Eheu, 4 yrs, Est 101 b (£Bn) (J. Plumb) 3 Mr. Bamford's Lord of the Tees, 3 yrs, Est 51b (£80) (J. Reeves) 4 Mr. B. Land's Dartmoor, 3 yrs, 6st 31b (DO) (J. Daley) 5 Mr. Payne's Auricula, 3 yrs, Est 21b (£80) (G. Parsons) 6 Mr. J. Shelley's Fairstar, 3 yrs, sst 131 h ( 8O) (Midgley) 7 Betting-3 to 1 each agst Eheu and Sweetbread, 4to 1 agst Auricula, 6 to I each agst Lady Chesterfield and Fairstar. Auricula and Fairstar jumped off in front and led about half way up, when Lord of the Tees passed them and car ried on the pace for a few strides. At the distance Sweet bread drew away and won easily by twelve lengths. Eheu was a bad third, Lord of the Tees fourth, Dart moor fifth, Auricula sixth, and Fairstar last. The winner was to be sold to Mr. C. Peck for 155 guineas, and goes into Mr. T. Brown's stables. The Queen's Plate of 100 gs. Two miles and a distance. Mr. Spencer's Blue Jacket, by Collingwood, 5 yrs, 9st 121 b (G. Fordham) 1 Mr. J. Barber's Coronet, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. Starkey's Lupellus, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Cowley) 3 Mr. Ward's The Rap, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Keeler) 4 Betting-5 to 2on Blue Jacket, 3to 1 agst Coronet, Bto 1 agst each of the other two offered. The top weight was the first to make play, having The Rap, Lupellus, and Coronet close at his heels. As they neared the bottom turn Blue Jacket fell back, and the run ning was taken up by The Rap, who continued in front to the straight, where both Blue Jacket and Coronet passed him, the favourite winning easily by a length. Lupellus was a bad third, and The Rap beaten off. The Betting Stand Plate of 71}sovs (Handicap). Three- quarters of a mile. Mr. T. Brown's Limeflower, by Knight of St. George, 3 ........... (W oo dh ouse ) 1 Mr. Y G r . s' st S 6 imp 7 s l o b n's Narcissus, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b, carried Bst (L. Snowden) 2 Mr. Mundy's Confectioner, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (G. Fordham) 3 The following also ran :—Juliet, New Brighton, Chirp, Clementine, Mabel filly, and Cressa filly. Betting-2 to 1 agst Limeflower, sto 2 agst New Brigh ton, 6 to 1 agst Juliet, and 8 to 1 agst Narcissus. New Brighton, with Chin) in close waiting., led for the first quarter of a mile, when Limeflower, Narcissus, and Confectioner passed thorn, and laid in front to the end, THE NA VY. -o The Pandora, 5, screw, new, is to make her offi cial trial of speed at the measured mile in Stokes Bay on Thursday next. On the following day the Duncan, 101, screw, makes her concluding experi• mental trial, after which she will be masted and fitted for the first-class reserve, in the room of the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, dismantled, and put back to the second class. Rumours have been current now for some time that it is the intention of the authorities to cut down the Duke and plate her as a frigate. There are several reasons, how ever, against this being done. Even if she carried her armour plates as a frigate, she would be deep in the water and necessarily of slow speed, and would be anything except an efficient armoured ship. The same remarks will apply to the greater part, if not all, of the intended conversions of steam line-of-battle ships to armour-clad frigates. The Shannon frigate, 51, screw, has been removed from the old fitting basin, and placed at moorings in Portsmouth harbour. She is rigged, stored, and ready for commission. The Furious, 16, paddle, Capt. 0. J. Jones, ar rived at Spithead at 6 15 p.m. last evening, from the East India and China station. She came up by the West Channel under steam and canvas. The Cameleon, 17, screw, Commander Harding, sailed from Spithead yesterday morning for the Pacific, via the Straits of Magellan, calling in at Madeira and Rio. (jThe Egmont, old line-of battle ship, at Ports mouth, ordered to be fitted for a receiving ship at Rio de Janeiro, it is expected will be placed in the hands of Messrs. White, of Cowes, who have now the Vindictive frigate in hand for the Government, owing to the great want of dock accommodation in Portsmouth dockyard. Messrs. White's yard, from its completeness and close vicinity to Portsmouth, forms a most valuable auxiliary aid to the Govern ment yard at times of pressure. The President, 50, sailing ship, was placed in the fourth dock at Chatham yesterday, to be fitted for a training ship for the volunteers of the Naval Re serve, and stationed in the Thames, where she re- lieves the Brilliant, 20, which returns to Chatham. The wind having abated in the Channel, the Sanspareil, 70, left Plymouth Sound on Tuesday morning, for the Mediterranean. The Aboukir, 90, having been coaled, was expected to leave Plymouth Sound on Tuesday evening, or early on Wednesday morning, for Holyhead, to join the Channel squadron in attendance on her Majesty. The Glasgow, 51, screw steam frigate, will be aken out of the ship basin to-morrow. The alterations on board the Royal Alfred, con verting into an iron-plated ship, are in that state of forwardness that it is intended on Thursday to have the interesting and scientific part of the work per formed, namely, cutting her in two at midships, at which part she is to be lengthened 18 or 20 feet. It is expected that the Herald, 8, which recently returned from the surveying service in the Pacific, and was dismantled and paid off in this harbour, will leave Chatham to-morrow and proceed to Shoreham, where she is ordered to serve as a chapel ship. The steam basin is to have the water let in to morrow, not only to ship the caisson for the entrance of the new dock, but that the Medea may be un docked and her place occupied by the Glasgow. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander E. Maunsell, to be Inspecting Commander of the Coastguard ; Lieut. J. F. Lenson, to the Virago; Lieut. Chas. G. Jones, to the Majestic; Chas. C. Scott, master, to the In dus, for the Styx ; Ramsay Cooke, second master, promoted to master, and Wm. Long, second master, to the Cuckoo. THE ARMY. The 32d Light Infantry, at present stationed in the camp at Aldershott, is under orders to proceed to Plymouth, and the Ist battalion, 10th Regiment, and 2d battalion, 25th Regiment, will also leave Aldershott for Shorncliffc. The strength of the camp at Aldershott has been considerably reduced during the last few days, for, in addition to the movements of troops reported last week in The Sun, the sth Lancers have left for Kensington and Hampton Court, under the command of Capts. Per ing and Massey; the 18th Hussars, under the com mand of Lieut.-Col. Knox, have left for Brighton (with the exception of one squadron, which has proceeded to Shorncliffe) ; the 2d Life Guards, under the command of Col. Martyn, have left for Wind sor Royal Horse Artillery, d Major T u pp er an d C a pt. uner and the Acommand and B batteries of Paget, and No. 11 Depot Battery, Royal Artillery, under the command of Major Davis, have left for WoolwiCh. On the other hand, the 61st Regi ment is expected to arrive in camp in a few days. No. '2 Battery, Bth Brigade, Royal Artil lery, under the command of Capt. Elgee, was to have left Aldershott last week for Dublin, and actually proceeded as far as Basingstoke on its way to Bristol. At Basingstoke, however, the de parture of the battery was countermanded, and it accordingly returned to the camp. The reason assigned for this change of arrangements is that, in consequence of her Majesty's approaching visit to Ireland, no artillery will be removed from the Curragh Camp for the present, although several movements are contemplated after the Royal re view has taken place. The Megiera arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning from Plymouth, with officers and men of the 61st Regiment, who were disembarked from the HER MAJESTY'S YISIT TO IRELAND. As a convincing proof of her own firm reliance on the cheering statements with which she dismissed her Parliament the other day the Queen is about this day to visit that part of her dominions which was wont to be the source of the greatest trouble and anxiety, and whence, if from anywhere, the Sove reigns of the House of Brunswick have looked for scanty demonstrations of loyalty to themselves and their Government. It is now just forty years since her Majesty's uncle, King George IV., visited Ireland on a similar errand. Little more than twenty years before the island had been convulsed by a sangui nary rebellion, which had inflamed the minds of both parties to the highest pitch of exaspera• tion. The rebellion was crushed, but the fire still smouldered under the deceitful ashes. Men were still engaged in the pursuits of active life who had taken part in scenes which the world shudders to remember, and history would willingly omit to record. George IV. went to Ireland, not as the King of a whole people, but as the representative of a small and dominant minority—the repre sentative of the policy of persecution and re striction under which Ireland had groaned for a hundred and thirty years, and was still to groan for several years more. /Nobody gave the King credit for any deep-seated or high-toned principle. The scandals of his private life were only too well in keeping with the shabbiness of his political career as Prince of Wales, and at the time of his visit to Ireland he was carrying on a persecution against his wife which raised a storm of unpopu larity even greater than followed the attempts of his father in the earlier years of his reign to ex tend the prerogative of the Crown. George IV. went to Ireland in her evil days, and evil were the days that were to succeed the Royal visit. The most dreadful agrarian outrages, fire-raising murders, and little civil wars occasioned by the collision of permanent political and religious organisations, which swallowed up all other distinctions and divided society into hostile camps ; the boon of emancipation, granted without kindness and sym pathy, and received without gratitude ' • the succes sive agitations of O'Connell, and the final break down of the old state of things in Ireland through the agency of famine and the pestilence that never fails to wait upon it—all these things were lowering in the future when George IV. set his foot on the pier which from that moment dropped the Celtic name of Dunleary and assumed the courtly appella tion of Kingstown. The past was sad, the pre sent gloomy, and the future menacing, Therefore, though it was easy, of course, to get up to order any amount of festivity required to greet the presence of King George IV. in this portion of his dominions, the thing was but a passing pageant, which faded away without healing the bitterness of lotig de ferred hope, or soothing the feelings that rankled under the consciousness of injustice. King George came and went—came without welcome, and went without regret. Well, forty years have passed, and now the niece goes to tread the same ground as her uncle, to sit in the same seat, and to view the same objects. But everything else has changed. ,The very route is no longer the same. When George IV. went to Ireland Thelford's Holyhead-road, and the Menai bridge, accounted one of the wonders of the world, were not in existence. The roa d and the bridge still exist, but the road and the bridge have been virtually discarded to make room for a mightier in vention. Ireland, the communication with which then still depended principally on the winds, may now be reached in little more than three hours from Holyhead, and when the improvements at Port patrick are completed will be accessible thence in little more than an hour. Materially the two countries have in the interval been thoroughly united. During a reign which is now entering on its 25th year the destiny of Ireland has been checkered in deed. The turning point was reached in the abor tive rebellion of 1848. The famine broke down the vast edifice of insolvent proprietorship, which crushed the energies and degraded the character of the country. The rebellion of Smith O'Brien exposed and exploded the corresponding sham of a baseless political agitation. Since that time Ireland has been guided by reason instead of the imagination, by reality and possibility instead of by prejudice and poetry. She no long er believes that " virtue and Erin" are on one side and " the Saxon and guilt" on the other. She has set herself, with laudable industry and splendid success, to develope her natural resources, and to make the most of the advantage of being an integral part of the British Empire. She has completed a railway system better laid out, better managed, and far more remu nerative than our own. Her land has been redistri buted among those who have capital to work it. A generation has received the benefits of education. Thirty years of toleration have,in spite of the efforts of bigots of all classes, done much to allay the bit terness of religiou s differences. She possesses uni- PRICE 4d. STAMPED sd. varsities which assert the excellence of their teach ing .by successful competition with England and Scotland. In no country is law more fairly and ably administered; in no country does a more vigilant police watch over the preservation of life and pro perty. In 1821 Ireland had neither toleration, edu= cation, nor landed gentry able to perform the duties of their station ; she had no confidence in herself, nor loyalty to the Crown. In 1861 all these things are reversed—wages rise and crime decreases agi tation is discountenanced, and commercial enter prise is honoured. Then the principal grievances of Ireland were religious and political, and the cry was " Separation from England." Now the whole island is on fire to obtain the Galway contract, because it believes that it would.thus become the entrepot of ,'the goods and • passenger traffic between England 1 aud. America. But if there be such a difference between the Ire land 0(1821 and the Ireland of 1861, what shall we say of the two Sovereigns who visited her at the two epochs ? We will say no more of George IV., and little need is there to say anything of the Queen. These islands have never had a more con stitutional Sovereign—have never kad a Sovereign whose public and private life tended so directly to the benef:t of her subjects. To Ireland her,reign has been the turning point of a long and evil des tiny. From the statesmen through whom the Irish Government has been administered the wants and wishes of the island have ever received the most careful consideration. That small portion which kings and laws can contribute towards the remedy ing inveterat e social and political evil has been cheerfully contributed. Ireland may fairly boast of better laws thaci England, and of a far superior local organisation, It is not given to sovereigns under our constitution t o mar k th e i r progress through their dominions by signal and durable me _morials of royal favour. When. a State trusts.the whole of its power and the whole of its resources to a single hand, that hand may distribute them as it pleases, and may bequeath in some permanent and beneficial public work a durable memorial of pre ference and goodwill. But, though Ireland cannot hope to reap the material advantages which follow the footsteps of absolute sovereigns, she may yet, we believe, acquire very solid advantages from the presence, even fora few days, of the Queen of these islands. Everything is now in astate of transition. Old faiths are broken down, old combinations are weakened, old ties and alliances dissolved. Those who have hitherto set up the Pope as a temporal power against the Queen must feel that the time is coming when such a duality can exist no longer. The dreams of repeal, the delusion of a separate go vernment and nationality, are exploded. In this world of change nothing remains permanent and enduring except the imperial power, and never was that power placed in hands.more capable of conci liating respect, esteem, and affection. It may be that the visit of the Queen to Ireland is destined to produce effects far moje than commensurate with its apparent importance, and to unite at last in one sentiment opinions hitherto so divergent. At any rate, we have some right to indulge in sanguine an ticipations. Any one who carefully examined the state of Ireland at the coming of George IV. must have seen nothing before him but discord and dis aster ; any one who makes the same examination now sees nothing before him but an increasing hope of union and prosperity.—Times. S7.RANGE DISCOVERY. ...------4..-------... The following interesting account, dated the 15th inst., of a recent discovery at Mont Blanc, has been sent by the British Consul at Geneva to a contem porary : Auguste Tairaz, Pierre Balm at, and Pierre Carrier, three Chamounix guides, were swept from the Grand Plateaux by an avalanche on the 20th of August, 1820, while making, or attempting, the ascent of Mont Blanc with Dr. Hammel, and, I believe, some Genevese gentlemen. No traces whatever of these poor fellows had ever been discovered from the moment of their destruction till this morning, -when the following fragments were found on the lower part of the Glacier des Bossons, entering the valley, and which circumstance, I need hardly add, has caused the most intense excitement in the village of Chamounix and the whole valley. The fragments found consist 1. An arm in the most perfect state of preserva tion, with the hand, fingers, nails, skin, and dried frozen flesh intact, in noways discoloured; part of little finger only gone. The length of this limb extends to the elbow. 2. Parts of two different skulls, with a good deal of hair remaining with the skin on both; one be longing to a fair man, the other to a dark one. The hair most wonderfully preserved in colour, &c. One of these fragments was recognised by Julian Devous soux (a survivor of the 1820 ascent) as being that of Pierre Balmat. 3. Part of a guide's knapsack, with sundry por tions of a lantern attached to it. 4. An iron crampon, which the guides of that time strapped on their shoes when they crossed the glaciers, &a., to prevent slipping. 5. Several portions of guides' dress— cravats, hats, torn portions of linen, portions of cloth coats, &c., all. easily distinguishable as belonging to men of the guide class. The fragments were found by a guide and an English gentleman, who wished to visit the lower Glacier des Bossons, about two hours' walk from Chamounix, and they came quite unexpectedly upon these most interesting remains. Two of the guides who formed part of this memo rable ascent are still alive—Julian Devoussoux and Jacques Coutel—and I understand from an English friend of mine that Dr. Hammel still lives in Eng land, and no doubt he will be much interested in this discovery. Professor Forbes has repeatedly told the Cha- I I mounix guides that they might look out for traces of their deceased comrades in the Lower Bossons in about 40 or 45 years after the catastrophe ; he told Auguste Balmat, in 1858, to keep a look out. Bearing all this in mind, what a satisfac tory event this finding of the fragments, within the period calculated by the Professor, becomes to men of science, studious of the laws of nature, who seem thus, apparently, almost able to cal culate by outward signs what is going on in the depths of the earth ! A body of 15 guides have proceeded to the glacier to make fresh searches, and no doubt other fragments will recompence their lab with You may depend upon my . furnishing you with any fresh particulars which may come to my knowledge. FRENCH ACADEMY OF SCIEACES. At the last sitting M. Valenciennes produced the head of an enormous ichthyosaurus, the fragments of which had been found at Cape La Heve, near Havre, in a layer of Kimmeridge clay, by Al. Len nier, Conservator of the Museum of Natural His tory of that town. Kimmeridge clay constitutes one of the first layers of the Jurassic formation, and at Cape La Heve can only be seen during the great equinoctial tides. The head in question had been much crushed and disfigured in the terrestrial convuls ion withwhichthe greatest difficulty caused th e deathofthe aninie and it was M. Valen ciennes succeeded in putting it together again, having first had the whole block of clay conveyed to Paris. The length of this extraordinary head is 1.55 metres, or about five feet, and, according to M. Valenciennes, it belongs to a new species, to which he has given the name of Ichthyosaurus Cuvievi.—Dr. Sedillot sent in a communication on the conditions requisite for the regeneration of bone, showing that the periosteum refused its office of regeneration when it was attacked with suppura tive inflammation. Hence he co ntended that it was from the bone, because su ch operations in and ni d n e st ta c c a h se i s t dangerous to dissect the pe riosteum contact with to the inflammatory state layer of bone ought, fpo s 1 tl alluded d b e e d l e t f o. in Hencetac a t t . with the periosteum. The Academy eleaed M. Bache by 28 votes a corresp on dent for the section of Geo graphy and Navig ation, n lieu of Mr. Scoresby, deceased. In th e ballot M. de Tchihatcheff obtained 4 votes, Dr. Livingstone 3, and Mr. M'Clure 1. M. Suquet wrote from Marseilles, announcing the suc cessful birth of 11 ostriches belonging to the Zoolo gical Garden of that city. M. Suquet states that all his previous trials had been unsuccessful, because it had been impossible to protect the parents from the intrusive curiosity of the public. H e therefore contrived an enclosed space on a sandy plain lying between the sea and the hills, at a dis tance from the town. Here the ostriches soon dug their nests, laid their eggs and hatched 11 out of 13, after an incubation of 45 days—a result which, as M. Geoffroy de St. Hilaire observes, is quite unexampled. —_ PROPOSED VOLUNTEER ENCAMPMENT.—Lieu Col. Palmer propose s, if the project.receives the approba tion of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in- Chief and the Secretary of State for War, to form a vclun teer enca mpment and brigade for one day on Naznig comma, Essex, on Noslay, Sept, 23, PUBLICATIONS. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ALONE IN THE WORLD. 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