The Sun. — London, England, 1863-12-09 00:00:00

D U RNITURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and it iciFuLOORCLOTTI, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in mod Zdorn, regardless of amount or distance. First class ,-,. 8 at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to iernr7dTen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select Every _nlyed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground eiyrflole warranted liisrt ilti ;YMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR: cegoti.aaareare respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and 50ual51b1lShmg an entirely New Edition of their u __ ad,.„;_e,tl HOUSE FURNISHING GUIDE, illustrated by4l? 13„7t:afile eng:ravings of every description of Furniture and i3ortra e ds, with prices attached. A copy sent gratis and e on a pplication. This costly work also contains_ rearniette estimates for furnishing cn the following revised A Six-roomed Parsonage An Eight-roomed ditto A Ten -roomed ditto T ogethe r Twelve -roomed ditto 194 it 0 with a Price List of purified bedding, Fuld a mass Zof valnable i nformation to all requiring househ3ld furniture, e T, e ts, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Glen/ y ,t,h,,,eic.l3,ietisdte;,iiilll-rrznElityi,oir,near Great Malvern, SouthamPtott, reston, Grimsby, Ryde, Plymouth, j i 11, Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder 13vr:lettrbra'n\VB.ellinErton. Croydon Cambridge, Staines, Dorking, Worcester, Ipswich , Peterborough , St. David's, z ai h n ato, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great tri e g d BO LondonßETT and, S.E co, General House Furnishers, Deptford- B : ..... NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. 1863. _ Tiereb The b. 112, B ishopsa - ate-street, London, Dec. 8, lretors of the National Provincial Bank of England „ate 0fY,13.,,ive Notice. that annum,yerl Divi,ffend, Bonus after the of si x ,f',C ,l lt per Cent per , and a Half-I ear , ly B on " c c r Cent., will be payable on the Company Fs Stuck . , dend and , ay ot anuar , Bth d ',3 - y next when the Div Transfer 'ce uonlle warrants will be obtained at the Comp_ s any'a Ira n 'a es °. 112, Bishopsgate-street, or at the different the lOthi 'llste PaYable, r books will be closed on and after Thursday, instant, until the Dividend and Bonus become BY order of the Court of Directors, A. ROBERTSON, Agent and ➢tanager. S PECIAL NOTICE. THE BOOKS OF THE Noirra BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Li fe POP the Year 1863, close on 31st December. kit rolicies effted on or before that date will rank for an DuPin Year's Bonus in comparison to later entrants. thep rot Four Years preceding last Division of Za ri n oii.s %1, ( 1 858), the C om p any i ssue d 1,595 Life £1.201,608 assuring /:f.' t he Pour suc'eeding Years the nmber of , Polices issued amounted to 3,168, u and the 'Sum s assured to 13 tING AN INCREASE OF 82 PER CENT. The e l .A"-xrrn SEPTENNIAL DIVISION of the COM : T n . L , k 3 P ROFITS will take place on 31st December, 1865 -I,AiTT,WI4OI-,E PROFITS WHICH HAVE AECT I M AE nii;,.„SINCE 1 15 T DECEMBER, 1858, WJP A ‘I 0 N e wED, AND NINETY PE, Ft CENT. ALLOCATED i3 CALE: r TUE ASSURED ON THE PARTICIPATING CEItTIPICATES of INDISPUTABILITY granted, and every facility offered to lusurers. FIRE DEPARTMENT. liberal terin Ilratreses granted both at Home an d Ab roa d on th e most °MIS of Proposal and every infor - nation will be given at '4e ' l ead Office, or any of the Company's Agents. By order. F. W. LANCE, S ecre t ar y . L ondon, November, 18(13. HEAD OF'F'ICES: LONDON ..................58, Threadneedle -street. ............... 4, New B an k B uildings. Lothbury. Enim iu West -end Office.. 8, Wat er l oo - p l ace, Pall-mall. rtGit ........... 64, Princes -street. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE (Es tablished b CORPORATION y Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRA3I, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir Jour/ HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Itob t e l aalllbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. G arratt a k s l c e i v . , Esq. 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Life . s um not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one LibThf rporation affords to the Assured— the P a rticipation in Profits—with exemption from raaleilities ofartnership. So c i eties of B onus equal to the average returns of Mutual St ock with the guarantee of a large invested Capital of an Ti le oad fa v n at tages of modern practice,—with the security , r' e rien - ; t e,„ .e whose resources have been tested by the ex arly a CENTURY AND A lIALF. n. 1 '040" SPECIAL NOTICE. w 2ißt tlie Participating system, granted on or before i liV' er nber, 1853 ' and in force at th- close of the ye a r be entitled to . share in the next division of profits ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. 411. fs ULLIEN'S CONCERTS. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. ' °t-'4TIVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE. ali Li - raa . ,, Mdlie. V—Violin, Si J nor s 'IVORI. Orchestra—Thr O ee LPlNl. Military Bands, and full Chorus. Conductor—M. JULLIEN. Commence Every Evening at 8. Mad ame Admission, One Shilling. B ENEFIT THIS EVENING.Iate M. Jullien, will 1 1 1 E OXFO R D, t°THIS F R ' OXFORD STREET, W. STING, Ibe performed Selections from the will SLAVE, and CLARA, the ° Wf --.179„"11LAN :Sir H. Bishop ; also, from LA FORZA 1 1 , 86 1 16 ; 0 8 : 1 1 :Thr era O "A I G V v er w: di ,• by the following talented artistes smell, Townley, Fitz Henry, almsley, Tyrrell Als o ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, &e. 1'hrtat,',:31.,25 light Violin by VIOTTI COLLINS, the " l iViolinist. 1 -4 1 -114 7, 11t e bY Drew Dean. Pianofort ent, e, Miss Bryant. 4 N0 - " e ous instrum the ORCHESTRAL tre rv rr e S I CHALKENBACH, the Inventor. Co ra edy , . 133, Director, oT M ll r. c F , 0 . r Jo a n n g y h o m rn a e n r s. man Eurrenc, 10r i tt ?I r rt in dA ti l !' ~/ V P NT .S c W r itcß h field, T. Maclagan, and the marvel , ibe tr , J. Henderson. —°Bt has been newly Decorated, and is one of the Ope b e- "idal in th e Metropolis. -lidbajeaettihalf-past 7 o'clock. Admission , area, ed. ; stalls s. ; private boxes, 30s. Oct.ci GHOST CLUB" at the sk e etrsiTANTERBURY HALL.—New and Interesting Once .ableaux Mr. C. MORTON is enabled to anno o _ ghttdo',.,urouzli the medium of Professor Pepper's World f I :lti , l4,_ai "GHOST CLUB" is nightly held at the CArN eemi,;-'4l x HALL. The object of the Club is not the e le "R' of the Haunted Houses of London ; but, through Dieta:!erleY of Phantoms, to present vivid (if transient 41 14`,s of the drama of real lite, both in its serious to "iirthfui aspects ; and, by means of spectral tableaux, Of tteeall, and still further impress on the . mind, some spat teachings t eachings or pleasantries of the e I,TasyteVirrry torit.heAstopurtz , tll4 i l l he two orders of Slavery th e "White" Slavery of a more boastful civilisation, l'apid, e emphatic illustration ;and these lite pictures will be eick,.;Z replace Iby others. The pa es Shakspere and the 191;1' Praraatists, of Scott. Hood, Ing h oldsby, Dickens, &c., &c., '4 the f th , urnish . subjects p fo in r i i o l r l i v a s l tr a a i t t i r O a n c . tions as usual. 41Cludinze Ot her Musical a i nd ns, &C. ; Comedy by Unsworth le a e rsi n li oder n pe lJem e os7l e ienes ( ) ) , Eugene, George Hodson, E. all, and George Hutchenson. A I NCONI'StOYAL ALHAMBRA.-F It GRAND IMPERIAL CIRQUE Every Ev ening. IFIR,ANcoNI'S GRAND IMPERIAL CIRQUE at the ROYAL ALHAAMB ttA. Every Evening. FIRST MORN' ORM PRlVlccov,„ NG PERFORMANCE SATLIRDAy —' '-' GRAND next, at T IMPERIAL gROE 1 wo o'clock. ARGYLL ROOM LS. Great _During the Con PiccadillY. at Her Windmill-street, AT ' t , T ---- - 8 'riven by Mons. JULLIEN, ales v s heatre. th ° EVER', NrENING at NINE e , tALL will commence 11-street, 0 CLOC. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. ...., T"*.... 29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE. HE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM. t„_ open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at and •14,'°_e.t._ where may be seen the Astecs ; . Bus hman_. dshang the %edulia Pastrana and Infant ; Eng 4 and 7 DIZZ.7 TWins ; and upwards of 3,000 Models, an Natural' Pre old. flo p &e. Egyptian Mammies, unwrapped , 4 ' o® 454traiselon, Onephilling (tor Gentlemen only). years IVAITTIFUL WOMEN.-- ta and the Magnetic Rock Dew Water from Sahara. cir tonan Bloom. Arabian Soaps, and Alabaster Liquid. These . Alabaster Powder, t,„„'WY and inimitable toilet P r eParations render the hair. b`,a, and complexion beautiful beyond comparison.—Can be ~i', only at Madame RACHEL', 47A New Bond-street, " e te she be consulted daily. All ' eommunications are etricti an Y confide ntial. EA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully mate that their New! Prospectus 1 . 1 , 3 1110%V ready. They lnti anailY Tea, reduced io'1" 1411 3 , recommend their improved reduced from 4s. 4d. „"e• 2d. ; Souchomr, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re d to 3s. Bd. • and the finest Assam, 3. l l d. per lb. 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London: 18, New Burlington-street, W. ~e THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1863. IjINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC BRANDY. This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest FRENCH BRANDY, It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded Kinahan's LL Whisky." Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty Mr. J. Red man, of Chatham dockyard, who has submitted to the Ad miralty an improved anti-fouling composition for iron ships, is to be permitted to make some experiments with his in vea'ion on the bottom of one of the iron ships at Chatham. Her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battleshipslrresistible, 80 guns, 2,642 tons, 400 horse power, and Goliath, SO guns, 2,566 tons, 400 horse power, belonging to the 2d division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve, are ordered to be brought forward for commission for Coastguard service. 'rho Irre sistible is to be ready for the pennant in April, and the Go liath in June, 1864. The Malacca, 17, screw, Capt. G. H. Napier, was paid out of commission yesterday at Portsmouth. The Steam Reserve Commission have concluded their labours at Portsmouth, and have left for other ports. With the practical knowledge of the subject possessed by Admirals H. Stewart and Grey and their secretary, Mr. Hickman, there can be no doubt one of the chief recommendations contained in their report will be to the effect that the " reserves" of her Majesty's navy in future shall consist only of such vessels as are complete in all respects for sea, excepting their crews and ammunition and a portion of their provisions. Reserves should be only what their name implies—a reserve force always ready to relieve or strengthen our fleets at sea. At present the ships forming the reserves could not be made ready to take the sea under six years, if our dockyard resources only were em ployed upon them, and many vessels on the lists of the re serves can never be made seaworthy under any circum stances of time or expense. The Resistance, 16, iron frigate, Captain Chamberlain, lying at Spithead, is ordered to complete stores and provi sions for sea, and will sail shortly for the Mediterranean. The Hector, iron frigate, yesterday received her bower anchors and new running bowsprit alongside Portsmouth Dockyard. She has now received nearly all her weights on board, except crew, part of the ammunition, and provi sions. She appears very deep in the water, drawing now 23ft. Sin. forward and 251 t. Sin, aft. The Machinery _in the Agricultural Hall. The Smithfield Club was purposely originated to encourage the production of the best beef, mutton, and pork for our metropolitan appetite; but other products of agriculture beside its fattened animals soon craved admittance to the popular show ; and The 5 3 / 4 -inch plate referred to in the Naval Intelligence column of The Sun of yesterday as having been pierced by steel spherical shot fired from the Armstrong 100-pounder smooth bore gun, has been removed from the side of the Monarch target ship, and landed in the dockyard, thus en• abling both sides of the plate to be examined, and a correct estimate formed of the actual damage inflicted. Three shots were fired at this plate, and each shot in turn penetrated quite through the plate, and two buried themselves in the ship's side, being brought up by beam ends and knees, but the third, as described in the notice of yesterday, passed through plate and ship's side into the interior of the ship, and covered the deck with splinters and fragments of the ship's side and iron knees, broken plate, and shot. This shot struck the plate at its right and about four inches from the edge, and midway between the upper and lower edges, It cut its way clean in at 9 inches diameter for 2 3 / 4 inches, and thence it has carried away the back of the plate not only immediately at the place struck, but for some considerable distance round it, completely disintegrating that end of the plate, and driving all the fragments of wood and iron before it inboard—some portion of it, indeed, making its way out through the opposite side of the ship. The best made 5 3 / 4 inch plate that could possibly be manufactured would stand no chance whatever in resisting such a shot, but would be pierced like brown paper. The two other shots which buried themselves with the broken pieces of the plate in the ship's side, cut their way into the plate in a precisely similar man ner for about two and two and a half inches, and then broke away the remaining three or three and a half inches, split ting the iron off in great layers from the plate's back. What was not entirely broken from the main body stood out in rough jagged masses at right angles with the main piece, and projected into the ship's side, One of these jagged pieces, a portion of the plate's outer lamina, is now standing out from the back of the plate 21 inches, measuring from the part of the plate where the shot first took effect, The plate was manufactured by the Millwall Ironworks Corn • pang, and was tested on the 29th Oct. last, when it received a high figure of merit. The steel shots were fired at and only took effect on the sound parts of the plate, for which ample space had been left when the plate was tested in the usual manner by the 68 pounder with cast iron shot, and the results of which, as a matter of course, were indenta tions on the plate's surface, diameter 9 inches, depth 1 8-10ths, with no cracks or further damage, a mere im press of the shot on the iron. The Monarch is now having bolted on her side armour plates from the Atlas Works, Sheffield ; Parkgate Works, Yorkshire ; and Mersey Works, Liverpool, for testing in the ordinary way. The works in connection with the erlargement and ex tension of the existing defences which protect the entrance to Chatham harbour are being augmented by the construc tion of a large fosse, so as to materially strengthen the bat teries and bastions of the land defences. The work will ex tend from a position of about 1,700 yards from the salient angle of No. 1 bastion of the line of fortifications facing the sea, and will be of semi-circular form, its breadth varying from 100 ft. at the extremities to 40ft. at its narrowest limits, with a mean depth of about 15ft. The ditch will intersect the Isle of Sheppy, at the entrance to the Medway, in a westerly direction, terminating at a point of connection with the Swale, which borders the south-westerly portion of the after 65 annual fetes, the three great divisions of husbandry—its tillage, cropping, and animal pro duce—unite in forming a fine exposition of Eng land's agricultural progress. If any people have reason to bless the Agricultural Hall Company, they are the exhibitors of implements, and the visitors who used to cram the nucomfortable galle ries of the old Baker-atreet Bazaar. In the new building there is ample space for the effective dis- play of tools, engines, vehicles, for stands and __. . stalls, sufficient room above head for the erection of the banners which bear the names of the exhi- biting firms; and more than 25,000 paying visitors, beside a large number of persons with tickets, yes terday traversed all parts of the building, down the broad avenues between the l'ows of cattle, and along handsome galleries, with every oppor the spacious, _ • u for inspecting all obj ec t s o f i n t eres t. Y mere list of articles w hi c h a tt rac t a tt en ti o n would tnit be of little value; but a few of the principal implement stands certainly call for a notice. Steam- tilling apparatus, for instance, fortits a marked feature in the exhibition. Mc. Steeven's balance plough, with parallel motion for raising one set of shares out_of work while the other set is being lowered into the ground between the journeys, is worked by Messrs. Garrett's stationary engine and windlass on Messrs. Howard's principle. Messrs. I. and F. Howard have improved their steam ploughing im plement by placing it upon four wheels, by which the steerage is made easier and the plough steadier. To their cultivator they also attach ridge-ploughs, IT THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indlzestion, or Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS. Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit. Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. 9nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist, Lincoln. MESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO. execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances, London and Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber well-park. N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup. Address—Born and JAcksoN, "Dian of the World " Wine Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London. PIGS! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, and in every county in England, IGs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to 11 cwt. bar'ey or any meal. Delivered free in Lon don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEA.RCE, Manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. so constructed as to be double-acting, making a ridge whether travelling backward or forward. This firm is not only supplying a large home demand for steam cultivating apparatus, but has sent out these machines to Germany and France, to Italy, Spain, and has lately started two steam ploughs near Lisbon ; it has other " sets" in India, and is sending several sets to Egypt. While the Britannia Worm at Bedford are thus turning out this novel species of agricultural machine, in addition to the horse ploughs, harrows, and haymakers, for which they are famous, the steam plough manufacturing is still more largely carried on at Leeds. Mr. John Fowler is very rapidly increasing his home trade, not only in the heavy land districts, but a:so upon light soils; and the growth of the foreign demand for such a comparatively new invention is very sur prising. This successful labourer at the steam tillage problem now announces that his engines have broken ground (literally) in New Zealand, at the Cape of Good Hope, at Melbourne, in Antigua, Cuba, Barbadoes, Porto Rico, and Demerara, in the latter country having obtained a public premium of £1,050 as the most successful introduction of steam power to the cultivation of the soil, while reports already come across the Atlantic of greatly increased yields of sugar from the use of the new machine. Others of Mr. Fowler's steam ploughs have gone ALGERIAN ONYX MARBLE. Messrs. ROW ELL, JAMES, and CO., respectfully solicit an inspection of their Onyx Salon, which contains upwards of 1.000 objects, consisting of Clocks, Candelabra, Lamps,Vases, Jardinieres, Inkstands, Pen-trays, and a variety of smaller articles of taste, at moderate prices. This beautiful marble Is perfectly translucent, bears a very fine polish, presents a diversity of pleasing tints, and can be turned or chiselled into any form necessary for utility or ornament.-5, 7,9, Regent-street, Pall-mall. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, nd Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks , Obelisks, Ink stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &a, in Italian, Alabas 'er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine ralogist to her Majesty, 149 Stand. W.C., Lonaon. Mr. Tennant arranzes elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE. RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, Strand, W.C. ,nto Austria and Prussia and in to the south of Russia. [n India some of these engines are preparing ground for cotton, tea, and indigo ; and in Egypt, a large number of them (costly as they are) have been despatched and set to work, to cultivate for cotton and take the place of the cattle destroyed by the great murrain. Mr. Fowler states that he is at pre sent turning out from his works no fewer than four engines per week, and that in February the pro duction will reach one per day, and these pieces of machinery, it should be remembered, are worth £BOO to more than Ll,OOO each. Such figures as these tell of the wonderful progress of our agricultural machinery, and the revolution that is being effected in the world-old process of tilling the ground. The " traction engine," or the farm engine, made locomotive on common roads, is now largely used for hauling both heavy steam plough machinery and thrashing machines from farm to farm ; and it is probable that much of the present labour of our teams in harvesting and manuring will ultimately be acccomplished by the same engine that already ploughs and grubs. As an instance of the extent of our foreign trade in agricultural machinery, Messrs. Clayton and Shuttleworth last year sent 120 steam engines, with thrashing machines, to their agency in Vienna, and these are now in use in PRIZE ME D A L.—INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862. FRANCIS TUCKER Ar CO., Wax Chandlers, dice., &c., To the Queen and the Prince of Wales. (Established 17?0.) The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862, testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers' manufacture. A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says:-- " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, recom mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 2d. per lb Ordinary quality .. Od. per lb. VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. „. Is. sd. per lb. Second quality , is. 3d. per lb. Third quality is. ld. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. island. The contract for the execution of the work has been taken from the War Department by the firm of Messrs. Knight and Smith, and the cost of the undertaking will be about £20,000. At the north-east entrance to the fosse, from the sea, it is intended to erect a powerful casemated fort, which will mount a formidable armament, to assist in th 3 defence of the entrance to the harbour, while its posi tion will enable its armament to sweep the channel through which every description of craft attempting to make the passage to Chatham must pass. At the other extremity of the ditch a similar fort will be constructed, which will also mount an armament of equally heavy calibre. The object of the latter fort will more especially be to prevent the ves sels of light draught of any hostile squadron forcing their way into the harbour through the narrow and independent channel of the Swale. In addition to the two large forts at each end of the moat two land batteries are also to be built, the guns of which will sweep the entire length of the moat from the flanks to the centre. They will also serve for ope rating against any attack on the land side of the batteries. The works connected with the excavation of the ditch are expected to he completed is about 12 months ; the forts and batteries will then be commenced. By the death of Admiral of the Red J. Ayscough an Ad miral's pension for distinguished and meritorious service is placed at the disposal of the First Lord of the Admi ralty. Wallachia and Moldavia, and parts of Hungary. The trade with Russia is stopped by the war, and the unsettled condition of that country ; but Italy is purchasing largely, and a great German trade is springing up. Egypt appears just now to be one of the best markets for agricultural machines. Among the portable engines of Messrs. Tuxford and Sons, for steam culture and thrashing, Appold's centrifugal pump is shown, proved by recent expe ments to perform double the duty of the old scoop wheel in raising water for drainage or other pur poses. Messrs. Tuxford have brought out a new windlass for steam culture, in which frictional gear ing is employed for avoiding breakages of the wire rope, and the breaks are self-acting. Messrs. Hornsby show a large collection of en gines, drills, ploughs, and their new root pulper, one of the simplest and best machines out. Ransomes and Sims have another find stand of engines, ploughs, mills, and crus hers, for various purposes, and their ingenio us revo lving corn screen with adjustable wires. Of Messrs. Burgess and Rey'a reapers the most remarkable is that invented by M'Cormick, for de livering the cut corn in sheaf. This machine has very last harvest upwards workedworked a moat that during g ssf t u h l e ly in this country, and it is a of 3,000 have been sold, 200 of these being in Great B r itain, 300 on the continent • and 2,500 in America. Mr. i e S,hmtu for els o e same a a e purpose, per o n a very different prin pdelivering the corn in successful uh co ea etof wfiutih noveltyo ti t m ao d u u a manual i r n a g k i t n h g ee h eap in proportion to el a ut h n lar 1 a stthis summer.also has been a A mong collections of smaller implem en t s , M r . Bentall's chalcutters, mills, and cr us h ers are note , w t the t c h a y ;ac a i s t beingcapacity e f theespecially machines for w or k. , M essrs . ' Ashby and Co. show, among a consid era bl e var i ety of implements, their circular harrows, which revolve as they travel, more efficiently stirring an d pulver ising the ground. The proprietors of the Beverley Ironworks exhibit their improvement of the origi nal Bell's reaping machine, now made to take a great breadth of corn at once, and to be propelled by three horses, Their stand is also distinguished by very improved harvest carts and other farm vehicles, with machine-made wheels. The seedsmen have done themselves credit by the splendid assortments of vegetable produce. Messrs George Gibbs and Co. have a large show of roots, seeds, and dried cereals. Mr. Carter's stand is very interesting; Messrs. Sutton and Sons ex hibit a grand collection of roots, marigold turnips, and so on, of extraordinary merit. But the best show in the hall is that of Messrs. Thomas Gibbs and Co., the seedsman by appointment to the Royal Agricultural Society . The grains and seeds in glass vases, the samples and dried specimens of corn in the ear, and of the numerous spe c i es of grasses in flower, and the rare roots, from quite a valuable botanical study. A new variety of yellow-globe marigold, selected by Mr. Brandreth Gibbs, is re markabla for the fine top and root, and beautiful quality of flesh, combined with a capacity for heavy cropping. The specimens shown are from a cror on the Royal Shaw Farm, which gave 58 tons per Capt. Geo. Giffard, C. 8,, is promoted to the rank of rear admiral, by the demise of Admiral of the Red John Ays cough, and, by the gallant officer's promotion, a captain's good service pension is placed in the gift of the First Lord of the Admiralty. The next vacancy among the active list of flag officers will lead to the promotion of Capt. Sir F. W. E. Nicholson, C. 8., senior officer and Captain-Superin tendent of Woolwich dockyard. The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Commander Hon. John Carnegie to the Sala mander, commissioned—Lieut. R. H. C. Lawson to the Edgar—Lieut. Robert A. Edwin to the Salamander—Lieut. Wm. E. L. Cockell, to the Aiventure—Thos. H. Hayman, master, to the Salamander—T. I. Reran, surgeon, to the Curagoa—Wm. E. Black, midshipman, to the Marlborough —James Campbell, assistant paymaster in charge, to the Implacable—Daniel W. Wise, assistant paymaster, to the Conqueror—Dr. Henry C. Woods, Richard Connor, Cor nelius H. Ward, Dr. Thos. D. Brownlow, John WK. Hol lingsworth, and Henry N. M. Sedgwick, assistant surgeons, to the Victory for Hasler Hospital —Matthew Trevor, Dr. Alexander M'Donald, Dr. Alexander Goodall, James D• Smith, and James G. Milne, assistant surgeons, to the Royal Adelaide, for Plymouth Hospital. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of theday, AGUA AMARELLA. Messrs. JOHN GOSN EL L and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at whit age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of dYes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or ; l a half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the hi ghest order, and from individuals of undoubted respecta bandtk th. may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell ,_ have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High .. e Princess of Wales. DR PILLS. —A. NEVER FAILING REMEDY.—Pre r - ScoTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER ,ared without any me rcur i a l ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. :,cott, of Bro 1 rc eY, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, gestion, wind. ,oetiveness, as a family ape spasms, giddiness atzsineSS of the eyes, &c. For habitual ut the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their opera tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro mote digestion, and stren rlent medicine, and as a purifier henthe whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 8, K in g William -street, Charing -cross. London, and by most dggiata, in boxes,ls. led., and three time!) the quantity in one, 2a. Ltd. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. acre. This well-filled department of machinery and vegetable produce must be pronounced equally suc cessful with the animated portion of the show,and at tracts the eager attention of quite as many visitors. THE SMITHFIELD CLUB. The annual meeting of the Smithfield club was held yes terday afternoon, at the Islington Agricultural Hall; Lord Weleinghani in the chair. The business was of tt routine • ' ~ , . - • •-• . , -' , . -.• r , - .. .6 - '...,..,,. ~ '' , 4 7. , `.,, . • . , ...?.., ..,,,,,,,--.., ~, 4,..Q.-oi•k„,, ..d.7.T.0. , ~.. 1 . _ _ . ~_,,, 4,„,;•,.,, •7:i• -- --- ;Ytise -- , 4 \'': id - lallk i f . k ___-- Nk.,...,,., '.. ).--. 70 4 , .;:z7,-, 4it.: -., - -. a .‘ l l. ;-• , --' •.."" ' " D t b: 4'Tt Aerlf ..::: b '''' . %• - ' , ..er :.,,: ' : ': . 16% 5 4-7 11it,e : . . 1‘5...<7 ' . l. :-- - . - t': ; • V,Vir..7. -..,,..p...,•• 1:1 in. i."- - -;,- . d li r --..... • ' ' 4, n highlyat u r f a a n v d o u a a t after o a p r o e s p i o t i r o t n , fi o n tv a i n n e g i a t l h l y a t a t n h a e i c n l u e b v e w r 3 a . s in othera respect, Earl Spencer was unanimously elected president f or the year 1865. The members of the council were then elected in the place of those who had retired by rotation. A meeting afterwards was held by the Jonas Webb Memo rial Committee. Among these present were Lord Walsing ham, Lord Berners, Mr lloverman, Mr Dobite, Mr. Strat ford, Mr. Thurnell, Mr. R. Leeds, and the hon. secretaries, Professor Simonds:and Mr Sidney. The Hon. Elliott York presided. It was reported that the sum of £906 h a d b een subscribed, that the subscription list should stand open until after the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society. A committee was appointed to report as to the best form of memorial. The sale of prize stock had been as follows :-Class 1, Devon steers, not exceeding three years old, No. 5, t h e winner of the first prize was sold to Messrs Comfort, of 77, Farringdon-street ; and No. 2, the winner of the second prize, was sold to Mr W. Jeffery, Foubert's-place, Regent street. In class 2, Devon steers, above three years, the winner of the first prize, N 0.9, was sold to Mr E. Longman, 283, New North-road,lslington ; No. 11, the winner of the second prize, was sold to Mr Simon Hyne of Stonehouse, Plymouth; and the winner of the third in this class to Mr W. Jeffery, of Foubert's-place, Regent-street. In class 3, Devon heifers, not exceeding three years, the winner of the second prize, No. 22, was sold to Mr Ratcliff, of Richmond, and No. 24, the winner of the third prize, to Mr E. Longman, of New North-road. In class 4, Devon cows above four years, the winner of the third prize, No. 28, was sold to Mr Stone, Upper Holloway. In class 6. Hereford steers or oxen above three years old, No. 43, the winner of the £4O silver cup, as the best steer or ox in any of the classes, and also the winner of the £3O to the exhibitor, had been purchased by Messrs C. and D. Davis, of the Black Bull Tavern, New Cattle Market; and No. 44, the winner of the third prize, had been purchased by Mr Simkins, of Salisbury-terrace, Islington. In class 8, Hereford cows above four years, No. 59, the winner of the second prize, had been sold to Mr W, Butler, of Butcher-row, Banbury. In class 10, short-horned steers and oxen above three years old, the second prize, No. 85, had been purchased by Messrs W. and R. Thompson, of Peterborough. In class 12, short-horned cows above four years, which must have had at least one calf, the winner of the first prize, No. 110, had been sold to Mr M. Roots, of Grayford, Kent. In class 13, Sussex steers or oxen, under three years, the winner of the first prize, No. 118, had been sold to Mr H. Wheeler, of Dockhead, Bermondsey, and the winner of the second, No. 119, to Messrs Booker and Son, of Croydon. In class 14, Sussex steers above three years, the winner of the first prize, No. 127, had been pur chased by Mr D. Mutton, 7, West-street, Brighton, and the winner of the second to Mr M. Hotting, of Preston-street, Brighton. In class 15, Sussex heifers or cows, the winner of the first prize had been purchased by Mr. Amose, of Worthing. In Class 16, Norfolk or Suffolk polled beasts, the winner of the second prize, N 0.151, had been purchased by Mr F. Collingwood, Upper .street, Islington. In Class 17, the winner of the second prize, No. 153, had been sold to Messrs Nolton and Sons, West Smithfield. In Class 18, the long-horned breed, No. 157, the winner of the first prize had been sold to Mr S. Weston, of Croydon. In Class 20, the Scotch horned breed, No. 168, the winner of the first prize, had been sold to Messrs Petherbridge, of Hastings - street, Burton-crescent. In Class 21, the winner of the first prize, No. 171, had been sold to Mr F. Howard, of Holloway. In Class 22, Scotch polled breed, the winner of the first prize, No. 175, had been sold to Mr Mann, Surrey street, Croydon, and the second prize, No. 173, to Islr Co vell, of Bromley, Kent. In class 23, No. 182, the winner of the first prize, had been purchased by Messrs Wolton and Sons, of West Smithfield. In class 25, Irish breed, the winner of the first prize, No. 186, had been sold to Mr Swan, of Cross-street, Blackfriars-road. In class 26, Welsh breed, the winner of the first prize, No.lBB, had been sold to Mr Fisher, of Maida-hill. In class 28, cross breeds, No. 192, the winner of the first prize, had been purchased by Mr Collingwood, of Upper-street, Islington. The winner of the first prize in class 29, No. 195, had been sold to Mr Chamberlain, of Exeter; and the winner of the second prize, No. 200, to Mr Myrton, of High-street, Ely. In class 30, the winner of the first prize, No. 206, had been pur chased by Mr. Game, of Cannon-street, City. The prize winner in the extra stock (Devon) had been purchased by Mr. Bottrell, of Rochester-row, Westminster. Of sheep, the following sales had been made :-In class 31, No. 249, the pen of sheep, winning the silver cup, as the best pen of Leicesters, Cotswolds, Lincolns, Kentish, or any other long-woolled breed, had been sold to Messrs H. and J. T. Hall, of the Lower .road, Islington. In class 32, the winner of the first prize, No. 252, had been sold to Mr S. West, of Croydon. In class 34, Lincolns, No. 261, the winners of the first prize, had been purchased by Mr James Smith, of Huntingdon ; and No. 263, the second prize, by Mr Cox, Brampton-road. In class 36, South Downs, No, 291, the pen winning the silver cup as the best o f one - year Southdowns, Hamps hire, or Wiltshire Downs, had been sold to Mr F. Collingwood, of Upper-street, Islington ; the pen winning the second prize, No. 290, to Mr King, Far ringdon-street ; and the pen winning the third prize, No. 291, to Mr W. Jeffery, Foubert's-place, Regent-street, In class 37, No. 302, the first prize winners had been sold to Mr Marsh, Brixton-road; the second, No. 299, to Mr King Farr i ng d o n-street ; and the third, No. 300 , to Mr Jeffery , of Foubert's-place, Regent's-street. In class 38, the first • No. 306, had been purchased by Mr King, Far prize pen, riugdon-street ; the second, No. 309, to Mr Searlett, South Audley-street ; and the third, No. 308, to Mr Adams, Hackney.road. In class 39, Hampshire, the first prize pen, No. 316, had been sold to Mr Bottrell, of Westminster ; the second, No. 318, to Mr Tamworth, of Peterborough ; and the third to Mr. Hooke, Frederick-street, Hampstead-road. In class 41, Shropshire, No. 330, the pen winning the first prize had been sold to Mr. Harper, High-street, Totten ham ; and the second prize pen, No. 327, to Mr Fisher, Maids-hill. In class 42, Oxfordshire, the pen winning the first prize, No. 332, had been sold to Mr G. Pope ; and that winning the second to Messrs Thompson, Peterborough. In class 43, Ryland, No. 332, the pen winning the first prize had been sold to Mr. J Petherbridge, of Hastings street, Burton-crescent; and:that winning the second, No. 340, to Mr Pawsey, Bath. In class 44, mountain breed, No. 311, the pen winning the first prize had been sold to Mr Howard, Holloway ; and No 342, that winning the second, to Mr. Nokes, of Lewisham. In the extra stock the silver medal winning pen, No. 344, had been sold to Mr King, of Farringdon-street ; and No. 288, winning silver medal, to Mr H. Helier, Dockhead. The sales of prize pigs had been very rapid. The follow ing had been sold up to near the time the exhibition closed last evening :-Class 47, Essex, 410, first prize, to Mr Wat ling, Pimlico ; second, No. 407, to Messrs. Chappell, High street, Camden-town ; and the third, to Mr. Rogers, West minster -bridge-road. In class 48, No. 415, first prize pen of small pigs, to Welton and Sons, West Smithfield ; and the second prize pen, No. 421, to Mr Hooke, of Frederick street, Hampstead-road. In class 49, Chilton, No. 424, the first prize pen, to Mr. Bonny, Camberwell-gate ; the se cond, No. 429, to Mr. Garland, East Chelsea ; and the third, No. 428, to Mr. Glover, Walworth-road. In class 50, the third class pen, No. 432, to Mr W. S. Covell, of Sydenham. On Monday morning, two platelayers, named Nairn and Wlnnes, were run over by an engine on the Grangemouth Railway, and cut to pieces. MARRIAGE SETTLEMENTS.—A large proportion of English marriage settlements are made in obe dience to a sentiment which, though intelligible, and far from unnatural, ought not to be encouraged. Marriage gives the husl)and, from the very nature of the case, almost unlimited power over the wife's happiness, and indeed over her character and herself, and parents naturally see in their daughters' lovers men who are about to destroy all the authority which they have hitherto exercised, to weaken very greatly some of the closest ties of affection; to put new elements—elements of which the parents may totally dis approve—into the characters which they have educated, and to a great extent framed, and, over and above that, to exer cise a sort of despotism over their persons and property, ex cept in so far as the stipulations of a settlement may restrain them. A man is naturally jealous of all this in the highest degree, and the marriage settlement is the only ehelin el through which his jealousy can find an open vent. Be an" his lawyer frame it with the unexpressed and hardly c?n scious conviction—for the lawyer is always a man of routine, aking and the father's feelings are excited—that they areeata_ate, precautions against an enemy. Mind he dies not I B o P t rob the mind he does not waste the money, mind he hdoester'e discretion children ; don't leave anything to my daughter's seems to me —she is so infatuated with this fellowl nothing particular, that she would give send foot, and get whor eyes out of her head if he asked her ; tie him up hand s sibly can. These, every farthing out of him that you P a 'a re the instructions not in words, but in tone and who frames their which men usually give to the s pirit ' a ttory rather they do not daughter's settlements . 11 is said and done the hus band They forget, or like to remember, that wh en a • i t s h t o h u a s t an h d e wtiimllecsamreomreuicohr will be nearer and dearer to the wife than the father or mother ; that the presuraptieilla more for her than they do, an( hands in probability aty ll inghis h hands sh they willey are k n t e y w in h g i s own her children ; that business best ; that that would be u sed for h e r service in circumstances Which cann ot possibly ba foreseen, and that if th e h orse really a t into harness at all. N o conditions requ i res such elab orate kicking straps and martingales he h a d better not be P that can be framed can prevent a husband from destroying wife's happiness, debauching her mind, making his dren scoun drels and outcasts, ruinin g their name, their cha racter, and their very souls ; and When a man is freely allowed to do all this without restraint, is it not rather straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel to prevent his i n vesting her money except i n G overnment secur iti e s, or on mortgage of freehold estates in England ?—(701 01111 If ailac,inCi ~~~ fi~~ ~~ PR1CE.....—..4d. STAMPED ....sd. Important Experiments at Shoeburyness, The public has become rather tired of the heading which precedes this notice, and may be inclined to ask, with a large number of those who attend at Shoeburyness, what all these experiments are to end in ? Month after month targets are built at great expense, and with the outlay subsequently neces sary for their destruction represent a cost to the country of some £1,500 or £2,000 sterling. Targets that ought never to have been noticed by the Adiei ratty have thus been built at the expense of the nation, and proved to be not worth the powder ex pended in shaking their places to pieces, On the other hand, targets have been fired at, which, like that of Mr. Chalmers, have shown themselves to be not only theoretically, but literally invulnerable against all that the artillery of Shoeburyness could accomplish. In the infancy of ironclad ship building these experiments were of the very last importance, and results were obtained from them, and still are obtained, which could be got in no other way. The , experiments, however, have now and vigilant gone igi a o n n t longcom mittees enough to enable the carefule by whom they are conducted to deduce certain general rules and principles from the strength of the various targets they have tried, which rules must be adhered to if experiments rinc a ip re les to th b u e s hasbeen wen of any use at all. O n e of the gener p eliminated. from the mass of experiment s that the thickness of the ar mour plates themselves is a matter of al most secondaryimportance compared with the construction of the backing which keeps them up to their work. Thus, Mr. Chalmers's target, composed of 31 inch plates properly backed after his system, withstood a ham. mering from the guns which no other target of any kind had ever borne at Shoeburyness with such im punity. This was entirely due to the backing. The Warrior target, composed of 41 -inch plates, backed up with 18 inches of solid teak, laid trans versely in beams 9in, thick, in like manner with stood a terrific pounding. Yet in this latter instance the Admiralty were not content to let well alone, but, ignoring the general rules we have spoken of as deduced from the experiments, they determined in their new Warriors—the Northumberland, the Minotaur, and the Agincourt, to reduce the backing from 18in. to 9in., and to increase the armour from 4in. to 51-in. It is said that the probable conse quences of their disregarding the experience gained with so much cost at Shoeburyness were duly pointed out to their lordships, But the Admiralty were obdurate, and only conceded to facts after their own fashion, They built their ships first, and then they experimental to know if they had done right or wrong. Recently a target built cn the principle of the Minotaur was tried at Shoeburyness, and it is not using too strong language to say that it almost crumpled up under fire: Thus, then, when the Admiralty, for whom all these target experi ments are undertaken, reject the best target which Shoeburyness can find, and . turn a deaf ear to the great principle which all experiments have evolved, is it not time to ask with what objects are these ex periments continued at ail? The results which have been obtained aro, of course, of no value but in so far as they are anted on. When, in addition to disregarding them, the very reverse of that which they point oat is persisted in, it seems almost use less to continue them further. The target tried yesterdey, called the Belle rophon target, is one put forward by no less a person than Mr. Reed, who, if his theories are right, will revolutionise our whole system of ironclad frigate building. The Warrior target weighs about 3351 b. to the square foot, and it was thought to be venturing as far as it is safe to go in the new frigates of the Minotaur and Northumberland class when their bulk increased to 3171 b. per foot. Yet Mr. Reed's target weighs no less than 3811 b. per foot, and it is perhaps the heaviest target ever put forward at Shoeburyness which professed to represent the broadside of a seagoing frigate. The size of the target is in round numbers 20ft. by 18ft. This is covered in front by two armour plates, each 20ft. by 4ft. 3in., and no less than 6in, thick. The method of its construction is briefly as follows :—The inner skin of the ship is composed of two thicknesses of wrought iron plates each three quarters of an inch thick, with a layer of felt between the two thick nesses, so that here we get no less than llin. of iron to start with. On this skin is laid four large angle irons of great strength, each placed 2ft, apart from the other, so as to form as it were four longitudinal troughs 2ft. wide and 91in. deep, the depth of the angle irons themselves. In these troughs the teak balks are laid 10in, thick, so that the extra half inch can be cut off to a true surface for the reception of the Gin. armour plates. Thus, then, there are no less than Tin. of iron and W I of teak. Each armour plate is secured by 22 bolts, about 2ft. apart longi tudinally and 2ft. 9in. vertically, those for the upper plate being 2 7 1-in. in diameter, and for the lower 21in. The bolts securing the wood backing are lin. diameter, and the ribs supporting the inner skin are on very much the same principle as those used in all iron frigates, only apparently stronger, and placed 2ft. apart. Such is the general outline of Mr. Reed's target, in the construction of which, as far as the longi tudinal girders are concerned, it will at once be seen that an idea has been suggested by the target of Mr. Chalmers. The general opinion before the practice began yesterday was that it was solid enough to resist anything ; but with this opinion another was very freely expressed by the iron shipbuilders present that Mr. Reed would find it difficult to make a vessel so coated an e fficient seagoing frigate without such an amount ofhow dis- placement as might be fatal t o its speed. This, ever, is merely an opinion; for it cannot be denied that Mr. Reed has long and carefully studi d e the whole question which h e offers to solve shipbuilders ; and there are, to say the least , q uite as many who support his theories as oppose them. Princewe n went d o o f w i n , r from ui Great interest was felt in the trial of yesterday, and an unusual numbergohfnyesissittohres London. His Royal was present during the whole day, and appeared to present. Admiral Grey, Sir watch the effect of every shot with as much George, Gen. Hay, Dr. Per y n : y rt , ii a le e r n y . ro s a t. n Mr. Pole, C.E., Mr. Whitworth, Mr. J as oh a n n pairb Admiral Robinson, and the representatives airn, Millwall Iron Works, the builders of la of the were also present. The guns were laid e target, cus tomary 200 yards' range, Col. Taylor, at the superintendin,g all the arrangements as usual, The first rounds were merely for the firing. shot, with a 161 b. charge and routine—a GS solid Arm strong shortened to a a 110-pounder Arm of the same charge. Both these weight struck66llb., fired with and made the usu a l ind the upper plate, deep, but effected nothing ent of nearly two inches they always do— mg more than that which that i the ironplates against is to say, show the quality of On thi s o which the guns have to con tend.ceasion the iron was literally per fect, and thro the o • ughout the rest of the experimen ts pinion Was universal that better plates had never been tested Shoeburyness. Even under the he • aviest shot, though indented deeply, they showed scaacely any perceptible symptom of buckling out, and though struck on the edge and around the bolt-holes, it was almost impossible to crack them. A salvo of two 68-pounders and two 110-pounder Armstrongs, with shot shortened to Ib. was next fired, but of thee" four guns one m 66 issed the target altogether, ono touched it so slightly on its upper edge that, as far as damage was concrned, it may also be cal led a miss; the remaining two struck close together, one on each side of a bolt, so that the bolt itself was squeezed up like putty, and projected s lightly outwa rds, but still held firm. Two projec shots coming so close were a hard trial for any plate, but it stood it perfectly, without any sign of crack or ra gged edges. The back of the target was abso lutely unhurt, and so perfect was the workmanship of the whole mass that from the commencement to BEAUTIFUL FOR EVER. MADAME RACHEL ON "FEMALE GRACE AND BEAUTY." Just published, A B O O K OF BEAUTY. By Madame RACHEL. To be had at 47A, New Bond-street. Price 2s. 6d. THE ARMY. The second company of Royal Engineers, under the com mand of Capt. R. Harrison, which has been stationed at Aldershot camp during the summer, will undergo an ex tended course of fieldwork instruction at the Royal Engi neer establishment, Chatham, in anticipation of its being despatched for service in the colonies. The company will be augmented to their full number from tho depot compa nies at head quarters, Brompton Barracks. The next examination of candidates for admission to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst will take place on Thursday, the 17th inst., at Chelsea Hospital. The exami nation for admission to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich will also be held at Chelsea, commencing on Monday, Jan. 4. THE NEW NOVEL, "BARBARA'S HISTORY." By Amelia B. Edwards. Three vols.—This story will take rank among the very best productions of the class of litera ture to which it belongs. In reading " Barbara's History," we are again and again reminded of the authoress of " Jane Eyre" and " Shirley," and are induced to class Miss Ed wards as a most successful pupil of the remarkable school whioh the Yorkshire clergyman's daughter founded. W e have met with nothing of equal power or merit since the decease of Charlotte Bronte.—lllessenger. Horniman's Tea is choice and strong, moderate in price, and wholesome to use. These advantages have secured for this Tea a general Preference , it is sold in dackets by 2,280 AgentE, mil WS PAPE ',l ~---1 ; _,...-- 7 -1 _ - 1 , / -..'''.0^1("1:414 ' ' 'I • - 1:1'..*) ` - 4:5...: . . the end of the day scarcely a rivet wag staate -if'c'el 4 i , ::: . fr;-: -; i - 2.129., g .L.) cylindrical, round headed 661 b. shot was ne]:t x tlit 'cr' - ' .. „' _,T / taa' - Ail:ao hut effected nothing, and then the Whitwof thViL-12 459: 4 Z 1 ; *a..--- ' ', 's pounder muzzle-loading gun was loaded a 7ith ax A s steel shell, charged with 2L-lb. of powder, and fired with a 121 b. charge. As regarded the target, this' effected nothi ng , tho u gh its indent at once showedb by its severity the immense superiority of steel pro jectiles against armour plates over the old gray cast iron l sh lb ot.. The indent mad© by this shell though 40on only . heavier than the 68-pounders, was at least massp e r f cent. deep er , steel projectiles and its fragments cut into the and with the same iron as if it had been so much wood. When were first used from the same guns as a role, gave an i n c e h r e a to 35 per cent. over t a n d e d charges penetrationes com m on shot, of fr 0 they, e 3 y o , 3 :l ' n I:f il a d c t e c ed ast iron. Later experi ments, however, have icoienptraogyeemoefnstur the e ri m t ul v er e e n k: t f o th t h e i s m la: a g t h u s p e e: ing at the rapid till higher results. for these ',projectiles, th ere b , eert w'n3' we should not look for 8 )8 to be no reeSea of such perfect metal thatshotl even o 8 1 11 1 7 - Sir William Armstrong has sent st ee l so a 6-inch plate they have bee t h g at they could with safety have b pi nueinruyertnereitsi penetrating beets used again- One thing is absolutely certain, that 'a . cur present cast iron shot will never be able to elf;ct mu ch agaiest armour ships. Mr, Whitw'orth's 150-pounder was next tried. ha conseque nce of t price, Mr. WhitwoC th reduced its firing charge froth being a slight flaw in this fi ne shell, of homogeneous metal 271 b. to 231 b., the (which is only a hard na.me for soft steel), weighing wrmidable shot, but, 1511 b., with 51b. of powdeir ." a bursting charge. Much was expected from this unfortunately, it failed—the she! .from some myste- . from the muzzle rions cause bursting about 20 yar da of the gun, and sending its fragmeln's in all direc tions screaming hoarsely through the Cr' : ied with The Armstrong rifled gun was then t a spherical cast shot of 1511 b., fired with 35113 . of powder. This stuck with the rather high velocity of 1,570 ft. per second, on the edge of the "1 1 1 ) 1' er plate, making an indent of 34in., breaking one bolt, slightly bulging the inner skin of the target , and therefore starting the ribs of the ship enough to be perceptible. Beyond this, however, ,it spherical shotwiotfb effectednothing of . importance. The plates still re.. mained as tough end unbending as ever, there Villfs no sign of cracking in them, astonishment of all on the ground, stood fast. A steel the same gun th e same charge, and this, rather unfairly for the target, the entire plate, but strnadnfilleeludtaot struck between the slightly parted edges of the uppe r pletely buried itself, a and lower plates. It com the same weight and was rivet, i fi ts r. e e l d f t e l f r u t o h s m e t . passed through gave way, all the rivets immense mass was bedded s h a a y v t e though two bolts in o t n b ; and, although the target, it produced scarcely an ins of on the inner skin, which, ew; at s substance fireda i nw o gi f Ttghh the tliri,n worth speak.' fighting purposes are concerned, remained as g a o r od as d befor'e it was fired at. A shot from a 7in. muzzle-loading of the Ordnance Select Committe eae e ffs 1201 b. steel shell loaded with 21b. of powder. accomplished absolutely nothing, though it might have done a good deal more than it was intended, inasmuch as one of its fragments flew back to the guns and buried itself 21 feet in the ground, e:ose to where some of the visitors were standing. A shot from the rifled 300-pounder (a cast iron projectile), fired with 351 b. of powder, did very little, in spite of the weight of the mass burled against the fariaet. It made an irregular dent of 31in, deep, and la nt back the upper plate a little more than 2in., makittg the first real crack in the plate at the point we have mentioned as being where the two shots struck oat the bolt-head. From this spot there was now, for the first time, seen a perfect crack, nearly a foot long, and extending quite through the plate, apparently ; but this was all. The last shot fired was from Mr. Whitworth's 150-pounder, loaded with a steel shell and 51b. of powder. Tale struck the lower plate, and, exploding, buried itself deeply; but though it had evidently penetrated the plates, it had failed to make any perceptible impression on the inside of the target itself. Time fur a minute inspection, however, was impossible, for almost on the inst ant it was seen that the last and most formidable miss ilo had failed to injure the backing there was a geneval t r b a e s h last from t i t a h i e n fied t o fr l eei s h c o a e t b c hh u r t yn e train ss would ; f 0u id o r b t e o m i likese being left behind on a desolate island. The result of the whole day's experiments gave to the target the most complete victory—a victory almost as great as that achieved by the target of Mr. Chalmers. In estimating the relative merits of the two targets—beyond all doubt the strongest and best conducted in principle ever experi mented on—it must not be forgotten that Mr.. Reed'. target is larger by some 40 superficial feet than Mr. Chalmers's. In thickness of metal it is 201 b. per square foot heavier, and its cost of construction £4OO more. To these facts we may add that Mr. Chalmers's target was assailed with 15 more rounds than were fired at Mr Reed's yesterday, 15 rounds of which were fired with 1301 b. of powder and threw no less than 1,5001 b. weight of metal. against the target of Mr. Chalmers more than were fired against that of M r. Reed. One among the many shots discharged a g ainst Mr. Chalmers's in. v ention was a steel 300-pounder, fired with 451 h, o f powder—a test which w as never effered to be a pplied yesterday. We do not for a moment say that Mr. pur : o ow m e in s Reed's target would not have stood this, but at least it was not tried. In g eneral it ma y be said, as far s ' judgedstood dfrao almost est yesterday's egually w experiments,ell.\Vhat that th e bothcra remains c aa a p n i targets b t, e and, above all, best adapted to to be proved is which is lightest and of iron frigate building. j HEALTH OP THE METROPOLIS. -- ~- e t N(V h lde tl ere t aok: e sihl n Sol d fli e tneN d - BL° lVelgliesn aid: Registrar London ; 11 - eGrtrdiele:lealyyeb):°6l- :di Thefee' at c ot ll Wabinle (taking r °ee e ,e°clas in averageletYthooeofal4c: this t3 9 h: t n o u r6ulf I weekarn.t )i i hbis in a rti , , I ; l3l3 i o ci : ft s in ten corresponding weeks hhe o o p f ul the ati uyn7 7,416805.3 - 6 T 2 h ) oed t three week each e pht than that obtained by calculation. e is, a w ct i u t a h l a 'number correction is deaths by 419, The births in the week were more numerous than the curred to persons who were 15 Years old an p a long Smallpox was returned in 26 cases, seven of d w u hi w ch ard oc s : Scarlatina was less fatal than it had been This d urin g compiaint f l e e r ss in b c y rez period, the number recorded being 88 . an averaged 129 deaths weekly in November, and it appears to have recently de clined. Five deaths from scarlatina were ohouse, 5 in Bow, 4 in town, 10 in Islington, 4 in Li v ra th, and 4in Plumstead. A Pop lar, 5 in St. Peter's, Wa1251-0° Margaret.street, Limehouse, child died of scarlatina reg i stered and 1 ilfn9u. weeklyrl i t h e e n r t is h i a h u s '" in the same house withine referred to the head of " typ . Sixty-four deaths ar corrected average for 10 corresponding and this is stated to in the tables. The 64 there were 34 returned as typhus, weeks is 50. S as lss deaths—it exhibits no increase on Bronchitis caused Last week a greater number of three previous weeks. hthisis or any other disc the • ed to it than to p deaths was assign the list. f o O ve f r t , he fever, 8 bilious, gastric fever, &c. births of 941 boys and 354 gills, in all ela4sase in the Last week the . d ie London. In the 10 cor ers 1853-62 the average number weeks of the ye respondingwas 1 867. (corrected) , Greenwich, the mean height At the Royal Observatory , he week was 29 . 710 in. The mean daily of the barometer in the on 1,795 children, were registered Sunday and Friday, and below .The reading fell to 28 . 80 in on Thurs reading was above 2m onFriday. The mean temperature b e rhoa t 23 fourthd ays - o f the same week in 43 years (us determined of the air in the week was 42.1 deg, which is o's deg above the average Glaisher). On three days the Ilium temperature id2) was ypa3in: I b aorn i d o l w lrroesd t e h n e :os a d3 v ai l 2 r . age ; on Saturday it was in excess by 8 dog. On the first three days the temperature fell below the freezing point of water. The lowest was 29.8 d eg on Monday. The highest was 54'2 deg on Thursday. The range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 24'4 dog. The mean daily run f i '' ( was 14.3 deg. TllO mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 47 . 4 deg; that of the lowest was 45.2 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air tempera ture was c 04. m 4 p d le S t g e . south-east in the beginning of tbo r air was moist on the first four days. The wind w it i f ; r l wards represented by a 1 0 ::: ns T a: , s a l tu l ni e t tn i Z i l ie d in e g g , ree of humidity of th e a h i e r chiefly in the south-west. 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