The Sun. — London, England, 1863-08-22 00:00:00

is about ay hear revived herners, ofidence republic nearly it, 1863, ants, by lmazing arch for th, we his war ttles in a blow, 3tty en igs, the ess sur- rmies. these Tufts, their it now t the nd all ileable prices plated ady at Irish. :ed 6d esday. ations old rticles ;ipally prices stone. er qr. -s per 8. d. EMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' til) EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred kellon's Promenade Concerts. kJ EA.—VAC 4.NCIES f or MIDSHIPMEN g n i APPRENTICES in a first-class London shipping firm. Premium mori.rate. Al , o apprentices without premium.— Apply to SIMMONDS and Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East- Cheap, E.C. Third officers and Stewards wanted. QE A. Firet- clams APPRENTICES required in an East Indiaman.—En premium, name of ship, /cc.. apply to Messrs. Laino• and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank. o control over or interference in the outfitting exercised. V4DINBURGIT (Reduced Fares), from Ironzate -A wharf, Tower.—Saloon. 20s ; fore cabin. 15s; deck (soldiers and sailors only), 7s 6rl; return tickets (available for a month), 30s and Vs Cd. The cheanest and quickest sea route by the splend new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the Spread Eagle, Regent-circus; or at Irongate-wharf. pASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES, 16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C. _ Passengers by Rail, Road, or Water. and others suffering from loss or injury to themselves or pro.ierty, should apply for redress and compensation at the shove Offices ; established to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad vantageous terms. Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed to "The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE CO3IPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested F unds Annual Revenue 422,101 FIRE DEPARTMENT. In snratres (granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows: Policies. Amount In gired. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23.611 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished cn application at the OFFICES : LONDON SS, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury. 11 West-end Office 8. Waterloo-place. Pall-mall. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 21, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Int urance buildings, Liverpool. Total Annual Resenun exceeds £son,o 'A. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,0.)0,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Cbairman in London : IVILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Eeq. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. __ _ _ 'rile Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have. as pieasin,gly as unexpectedly, at the close o' the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £,300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is ag:iinlully mhintamed. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine , the commencement of thi. , Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Forekru Insurances being £45,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,097105. 30d. LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on now policies for fhe year 1562 exceeds even that of the ye+ir 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £ 701 427 on 1,408 new policies itisued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which has .111 St been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the lutire to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assuran^e "mounts to £ 43,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to the s e lives bein g d e cli ne d. ;N _ o small n um b er o f the Assurance Companies of the day re cord th e i r accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis slrile in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. Iff , to complete their re v iew, the Directors now advert eay to the Unit e d Ki ng d om, th e y h a ve to announce that j " fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more I i!old than th a t o f any other Company established either in ro "dan or elsewhe re , exce pt w hen amalgamations have taken Pla ce. The retu r n s o f d u ty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evid ence, needless. T he Directors 'conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurancil Company were never brighter, and of a consequent ho pe, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that th e future ma y unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni t,u„,de, combining distinomished commercial success to the "'nee with a leugthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOEINSTO.N, Secretary in London. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1662 was £815,062, and the amount insured on farming stock, £10,C86,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profPs periodically made to parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received sums amounting in the aggregate to Z 440,000; and the Society now holds a large Res - rve appli - able to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurers. For pro•peetuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich • and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. GUARDIAN' FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE CO3IPANY, No. 11, Lombard -street London, E.C. Established 1821. Subscribed Capital, Two 3,Tillions. DIRECTORS. Sir MINTO FARQUHAR. Bart, M.P., Chairman. CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. C'• Shaw Lefevre, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq. James Goodson, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., 32. P Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Hobarts, Esq. Fredk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq. - - AUDITORS. - Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. I Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. Noel Whiting. Esq. Thos.Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER TrrE PROVISIONS OF AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In.. Furers EIGIITY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in 3 48 / 1 value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary o nuses of 41,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Rsurances in force, with existimr Bonuses thereon, 71;?ao,‘uni_ted to upwards of £4,730,000. the Income from the Lile hieco _07,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund, ePendent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000. 1 x , LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No -tra Premiums required for service therein. rai tt A NS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their 4 ;7, if such value be not less than £5O. fleiv VGNIIENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re e and registered, 0r M i.. 111 .. 1 ?.1CAT7 „„ "ney Stamps. FESpaid by the Company, and no charge IRI!"; every d -.,P ARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon "criptio L ow. n of property at moderate rates. Compa4 . caulied by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this A.D. 1720. It (IV AL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE (1-4tabliae(l h CORPORATION poRQ,IIY A, Charter of his Majesty George the Frst) 'r' FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES i °faces, Royal Exchange, London. 33r arleh Office, 29, Pall-mall. CronOcECTA.VIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. 'CIIIOT RRES IlAner,Ay, Esq., Sub-Gos . Sir J OHN ITENRY Ptr.s.r. Bart., Deputy-Governor. 'Retry Painb DIRECTORS. Robert 11 ridr4e' Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. , m _ _ a arclay, E sq. Earl of Leven and Melville. IT4 tiurrratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Avilllan De el°se' 18C1. Henry Nelson, Esq. Thom as „,, avidson, Esq. The Hon. Jose W. Percy. Ale x u ent, Esq. p r ,,, n a c hler D ruce, Es Charles Robinson, Esq. Rive rsda e t s ,,t l dltnanti q. E Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Relit A r' e ‘, • Gr en i4. '2l. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. NVM. T 41Z i en a lieathNB "(l. Wi iliani S°ltau. Esq.M P Jas. Ste w : t nibhe rt E • cl: Joseph Somes, Esq. : . . ..... R0d0...„,.. , .4,1.. William Wallace, Esq. atedi 1 ---.., .s.;sq 4 ea Itetere. • Chas. Baring Young, Esq. FIRE and tar } , —. SAAIITEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. Corporation on fte —BBl-IRAN In the Lite D e vauta geons t CES may be effected with this ticipation in ProlirstreePt, aa,suraermnle• , participation. or, at a are minted with such nearly p ` remiums, without such The Reversionary 13,,.,„ nearly 2 per cent. per ii-ilany.on British Policies has averaged h-; :rre4 °nbeteh t n h e a n 7 rn tre as in sur t e li d e . Premiums Equivalent reductionsn payable by persons wh o , --- e r , The divisions of Profit-43C. Any sum not exceedin e Place eve ___Prirp of Bonus. Life. g .£15,00 0 ~,1Y rive years. —'3' be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Liberal participation in Pr t see med_ --with e xemption from the liabilities of partnership.° krgLl'e reeintuvrne:te°df 31Cauptiutalal A rate of Bonus equal to the Societies—with the guarantee o a f a er Stock. The advantages of modern pranti, of an Office whose resources have ~,,, „ - -t w e i th the security perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HA r; l l by the ex- The Corporation have always allowed the As Yeomanry, or Voluntee ; Assure to S r LerPs wit e"e in the Militia, Inited liiugdom, free of charge. hin. the ecretary. ROYAL EXCIIANGE, LOND ON. ROBT. P. STEELE, s ....__ o a at t n, v, S ha t ri r ce a h t n f o (s) r d w, r gobleceieni i CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENA RY of th BIRTH of srimcsP . l i I v v oll• The Tercentenary 1 t ß ht e a E e i r ra ' t r • namilton, Bart, K.C. C 11 ° .. 11 d they may also be paid to th; accoghSCRIPT lONS, stratii of the Tercentenary ClookrainanitdteeicaltmthinegSttoon7rubraindkgse, o dd ertninster or Warw . 9 Greenway, Smith, and Gree,,,; (l- uPem-Avon ; burps and Co., or Messrs, Srait,h , p•' Warwick ; or their London avents, Mepsrs. 61 .7 1 1 amf and Co , Messrs Han Th n , i , CO`. • bankers London. i eal to the admirers liari liS tZ t t r i t P ia rY Co , mmittee, in sn,bmittino: the stibge.rin r,,t tt, • ' r et or t their ot :•4 , aks,',„,;''' llaion, most earntst y aPP d is not only , .etr cl m ' ' I that •.•,tra or . _ the hirtlml act , ,'4. 'anon tit., !roue. I , tl amt t issistan,ce. ti The Committee and that it wash is ,all ilia: of of Pbalcspcar,, lint tbe.e,e , ntre of at+raction to " c ? -4 , the tarn ~'l, , gi•t,,,t l'or.:Vb err.w , ~.v.4, and cued. 44t L.Vol, alzd Nvii4C,' la ii sea a N°. 22,200. T" 0Y F ORD, e, OXFORD STREET, IV. THIS EVENING, mid be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Remy R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Miss Ell son, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, llufsh, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean. &o. Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene, IV. Randall, E. R.ig-hton, and A. Lloyd. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENB /ICH on his wonderful inst ument, the PIANO ORCHE6TitE, contain ing a full bald of 40 instruments. 'the HALL hgs just been newly . Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. - - - Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, I Os. Cd. NOTICE. —The GHOST! GHOST !! GHOST!!! AT CANTERBURY HALL. Two representations of Professor Pc pper's startling Illusion will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at Nine and a quarter. past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at Eleven only ; and produced with all the newest improve ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be sten only at this establishment. Dramatic IteadinErs by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand Operatic Selections, Cantatas, Gle s, Songs, Comic and Sentimental, and UN'iIVORTH, the Stump Orator. Open every Evening at half past Seven. Admission, Sixpence. "ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Ilachele and Mariannina and Signor Guisepne Fran ce co, assiwed by a corns of Twenty young Ladies—The Conrads as the Original French Clowns and on the Corde Elastique—Les Petit 3lonstres - Brian and Conly in an amusing and novel Burlesque - Mrs. Brian as Old Aunt Sally, Ac., &c.—Wood and his Wonderful Son—Grand Operatic Selections :—Principals, Miss M'Gregor. Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini (the new Italian tenor), and Mr. Vernon Rigby— Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers. T HE FIRST WEEK of the ALHAMBRA GHOST, a highly comical and amusing r9Dresentation of the popnlar opttcal illusion.—EVE ltY EVENING, at Eleven o'clock. ESTABLISIIED 1833. TPI OWDEN'S 2E RATFD GINGER BEER . i n _ILID glass or stone bottl ,s, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potsss, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. TEA. MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd . ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. lid. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. THE LAUNDRESSES to her lot e Maiestv Queen Adelalde say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN S PARCH needs but to be tried to be approved " Sole Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by, Bow, London, E. CARD PLATES ENGRAVED. N:../ Any Pattern 50 BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate ...• • • la. REAL 510 ROCCO CARD CASES • Ss. 1,000 BUSINECS ENVELOPES, gummed.. 3s. NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 doz. ...... 6d. F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C. SPECTACLES. --The Patent Newly - invented Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, includino - Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary re,ief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING PO WDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, This Powder is quite harmless to au m3l lite, but is un rivalled in destroying" Fleas. Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Goats, Mosquitos, .troths in furs, and every other species of Insect. Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy.. ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their I'et Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to vend a so-called article, the pubic are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autograph of THOMAS KEATING Sold in packets, is., 2s. 6d., and 4s. ed. each, or post free for or 33 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyara, London, E.C. RIIPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ExrinuTioNe OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so otten hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Iloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd, An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC . STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, ac., for Varicose Veins and a ll cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c They are lorous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on We an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 108., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 228. Piccadilly. CONTRACT FOR PROVISIONS. Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 14th Aug., THE RIGHT HONOURABLE the LORDS and OTHERS, COMMISsiONERS of this HOS PITAL, do hereby give NOTICE, That they are ready to receive TENDERS from and to treat with each persons as may be wilting. to Contract for victualling the in-pensioners of the said Hospital, from the Ist October, 1803, to the 30th September, 1861, both days inclusive, with the following articles of provisions, &c., vie.:—Beef and Mutton, Bread, Cheese, Butter, Potatoes, Salt, Oatmeal, Barley or Rice, Pepper, Flour, Suet, Cocoa, Black Tea, Sugar, Milk, Onions or Leeks, Carrots, Celery, Thyme, Marjoram, Winter Savory sad Parsley, daily, at per head per diem for the whole ration according. to the established allowances of the house, as specified in the form offender, which may be obtained at the office of the Secretary any day between the hours of 10 and 3 o'clock, which 'fender must be filled up and delivered, sealed, at the Board-room of the said Hospital by the party or parties tendering, or by an agent appointed on his or their behalf, on Tuesday, the Ist of Septerr, ber at 12 o'clock. at which time their L or d s hi ps will be prepared to take the same to Ittflo is o ecbt consideration. terity to observed the tehraotwt h n e i Contractors e w ri l o l r m b , e n r e e Contract, and that no Tend er w il l be received after thqoeufidrtheadye and hour above mentioned. The Commissioners do npt pledge themselves to accept the lowest Tender. A. J. MOORHEAD, Secretary and Registrar. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail, way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously aflords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly 13ofird feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masierman, Esq. ' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutt s an d 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. ; Denison and Co. ; Williams,Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH. Secretary. R OYAL NATIONAL LIF E-BOAT INSTITUTION (Inoorperated by Royal Charter). PATuoNvss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. rnESIDEisiT- - Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., I.R.S. cry.kmmAw—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments the Coasts of li.:ng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, , nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800; tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in .rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,100 on Life-boats, Life-boat Tra n sporti n cart i ages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past fewyears, a support which has enab'ed them to establish their present, magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi h eau only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a worx. The Committee gratefulty acknowledge the following con tributions:— s. d her Majesty the Queen .. .. .. annual 50 0 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. .. annual 50 0 Clerk, Colonel, B.A. • • Bankers • • • • annual 1 1 0 C ll3l o : ti ro t tr t i e n :11 1 C 0 . , Messrs., .. .. r.nnual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm., Esq., • • • • • • .. 4th don.lo 0 0 • . • don. 10 10 0 Erie, Lord hief Justice •", 1 3 • n s P o rtinz ( C 4" a j rrla E g s e q.' - 250 0 0 ranshavve, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C. . .. 2(1 don. 25 0 0 Stir in' •• .• .... 7thdon.lo 0 0 .. 3 0 0 cost of . a . Life . )) . oat . a . nd d T o.n r . a . n 3 0 '' arV eY. Rev OG. and Mrs. •• • .. r henry, Bart. 'lto ns AnnualY don. 15 15 o Smiti:tice: G. r: B. .. .irs. George, Greenwich _• • •••• Th g , Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • annual 2 0 0 69. St r:O1c1; Of e , 4 s'r Percival, andl6 16 0 Will° .. .. alyns,hli.nady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Willi d'Eres . b Lord . •• . • annual 60 0 -eived by thenl 1? e il t t h e a ss n r k - f s. n w lly ini r t e s - , Co., : 7 6 Lb-street ; 3lessrs. Coutts and Rankerso of Subscriptions thelnstitu w tl i o l and ..... . .• , orplon ; by a 1 I lc Collectors tsanaers tn the United kin rdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Ekt-.. Berries Faraubar. and Co., 16, St. u • at the 0 . dice of the institution, /1, min-2,treet, Acktlphl, Lonjw, W.C. laneet T - s. ' 1 ‘ of Customs ''.7 -. )•''-t i , :- - ... 0.• il LIV ' 5 :, , --- /P,e4-- _ • . ... . 4; .... A; 1 , .... '_______•-..ix.- I.' 41. / ' , ' . - 1 ,11 '!") e• al k ..,- . • .' ' • „, ( 0 6 ., A1 1 ir4 , 6 ) ? (6t - e k,. "13.1 1;` ) Ait 'rt4 ~,...0,.. .th ~ttio , . ~ .. ~. . s\\, 143. 10 , \ t. . , ,;.,. '''. 4 „,,, ir c„ ..„. -sue , ill, , ,di s l l r k - -4 ' ,1 , ' ': ; * e g -1, 4 , . ~, '' , E, - ; , Y.* . 6 ',4 ii,, , 4- • - - 4,. *- .. - , : i31 ,.., 5 . 3 / 4 .' 1 '477 4 ' 7,4* , ,',%. , , . , , , . ,iv„)., ~ , . _ . ~.. ' , AN'.....e..- `4., ,, i,_ - • • dipp,. ." . 411. 1'..Z. :. : .. , 4„,:,.. ' !. . 1 / 4 .... , ; :,,.. 4. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 22, 1863, STATE OF TRADE. MANcnEszEn, Aug. 21.—We have had a rather excited market, with a go d business and higher prices both for cloth and yarn. The excitement is, to a great extent, owing to the rising cotton market and the increasing difficulty there is in buying goods, owing to the constant efforts of spinners and manufacturers to force up prices so as to cover the increased cost of c tton. There has been a good deal of business to-day in yarns, and the advance in prices since Tuesday is fully Id. per lb. In some cases (but these are exceptional, and where yarn is of peculiar and first-rate makes) we hear of id. advance during the week. The de mand has been for India, China, the Mediterranean, and home trade. Some business has also been done by the Ger mans, bat, as usual, th e y h ave ex hibit e d a goo d deal of cau tion iavtelhey r n O ye n ra t . he l o n th e e le r t l h ia a nd v , er t y he la h rg om e e bu tr s a in d e e sa ha h v a e s b be ee en n or timidity, and th e i r p urc h ases h ave b een compare s:lll:Blb. done since Tuesday, though the market has not been quite so active to-day. The business has evidently been, too, for actual shipment, not for speculation. The better accounts from India on Monday and again yesterday (bringing tele graphic dates to July 29 and 30) have evidently given a further impetus to the market, and the pi ices of 30in. shirt ings have advanced 3d. per piece on the average. For 45in., 50in., and wider cloths the advance has been 6d. per piece. Of cloths of this description of first-rate makes, and scarce, a much larger advadce has been given, but these cases are very exceptional, and ought to have very little it. fluence in estimating the state of the market. One good feature of the market this week has been that the business has not been confined to the few houses, but has been more general than for some time past. The home-trade houses are buy ing, though not extensively, but the t rade is sound and healthy, and more hopeful than it has been. There has been more or less demand for all markets, and the Greeks who ship to Egypt are buying more freely, a result prol bably of the more plentiful supply of money to that part of the world, through the increased quantity sent:thence, and its greatly increased price. The influx of wealth to some other countries through the stoppage of the American cotton supply is also gradually producing a similar result in extending the market for our manufactures. A much larger business, it is said, could be done in yarns if stocks could be found to supply the demand. The market closes with a cheerful feeling, though no one looks upon the pre. sent active demand as likely to continue for more than a very short time. NOTTINGHAM, Aug. 21.—There was a rather better at tendance of merchants and manufacturers at this Exchange hall to-day, and the demand for lace yarns was improved, prices being the turn in favour of the seller, There is more doing in hosiery yarns, and late rates are being fully made. In silks there is no material alteration. All descriptions of brown nets are a very dull sale, and the tendency in prices is to give way, The Prince of Wales's Turkish Room, Marl borough House. (From the Buil(Tiny News.) One of the rooms on the first floor of Marlborough House has recently been converted into a very good representation of a Turkish mandar'ah or reception. room. It is hung about with the many valuable and interesting articles which his royal highness brought home as souvenirs of his recent tour, and with the mat and other objects given to him by his New Zealand visitors. As pipes of every kind—from that which is fitted with the jewelled amber mouth-piece, a gift from the Sultan, to the commen " garmasak" of the Egyptian peasant —are ranged about the room, it has been called a " smoking-room ;" some people, better acquainted, perhaps, with the Strand than the seraglio, have been calling it the "div an ." :I t should be remmbered that there is no room specially used for smoking in a Turkish house. The women smoke in the harem, the men in their ordinary sitting. room, whether it be the enclosed mandar'ah or the open leewan. The door-keeper smokes on the mastabah, just inside the bab-el-hosh or door which separates the courtyard from the street ; the cook smokes in his or her kitchen, and the seis in the stable or at the stable door. The term divan is as incorrect as the smoking-room, because the "deewan" in not a room at all but the mattress and cushions placed against the sides of the room for people to sit upon. It would be wrong, then, to suppose that the prince has become addicted to the Eastern method of inhaling the fragrant weed. Neither nargheel, sheesheh, nor chibouque in the room is stained by actual contact with timbak or dukhhan. There is no gold leaf tobacco in the gold embroidered bags, and we have no doubt about the prince having the good taste to prefer a " choice Havanah cigar" to the finest Gebelee, Sooree, or Abourikee which was ever shown or sold in the Bazaar of Ladikice. The apartment at Marlborough House is only a represen tation of an ordinary Turkish reception-room, and the Eastern articles collected by the prince are placed in it. Not withstanding several shortcomings, the fittings of the room havebeen very successfully designed. On entering the room we find ourselves on a regularly arranged durkalah or lower floor,whereon, in Eastern houses, the shoes of the guests are left. This is floored with oil-cloth,instead of encaustic tiles ; the faskeeyeh (tountain) is of white marble,inlaid with gild ing, and on the right of the visitors, facing the deewan, is a tastefully designed suffeh or shelf backed with looking glass. There is an arch over and under it—the upper one being decorated with the well-known complex Eastern bracketing. On the shelf are laid out a calumdawn, or ink and pen case, perfume vessels, and the elegant jug and basin, the tisht and ibreek, used for washing the hands before meals. The floor of the duffel is paved with tiles, and their beauty exhibits strikingly the shabby imitation of them on the floor of the durka'ah. At the side of the shelf there is a cupboard, fronted with carved woodwork and lined with Turkey red. cloth. The woodwork is very well carved, but it is hardly Eastern enough to be satisfac tory. It reminds us too strongly of English pianoforte makers' work. Instead of being pierced in the work, it is cut out and stuck upon it. The lining of this cupboard would likewise have pleased us better if the Turkey red had been here dispensed with, and the quiet green of dull red and white ornaments, seen in Eastern houses, had been adopted instead. It would have leaked more Turkish, and, at the same time, formed a better back-ground to the articles in the cupboard. These articles are too numerous to specify; but conspicuous among them are amber mouth pieces, embroidered tobacco • bags, a coat of chain armour and a helmet, daggers, swords, kc., all artis tically arranged. Facing the visitor as he enters the room, is a window, with lattice work admirably and truthfully cut, which looks out into the gardens. The lattice work is the favourite reel pattern, but it is executed with rare fidelity and skill. There is a cushion on the window -seat, and some embroidered work executed by the Christians at Beyrout has been sewn upon it. The linings of the window are not equal to the lattice shutter, being painted in imitation of inlaid wood work. So again the walls of the room are painted with Siena marble, and we miss the arabic texts which nearly always adorn Eastern rooms. A few inscriptions are cer tainly hung about the room, but in Eastern houses they form strings and friezes, and are made the principal ornament of the walls, On tho walls of the room hangs one of the most interesting articles in it. It is a fragment of real old Egyptian hieroglyphic in an admirable state of preservation and of rare beauty. The ceiling of the durka'ah. is, as usual, of a different pattern to that over the leewan or raised portion. While the former is formed into patterns by interlaced lines, arranged in the form of a star and filled in with blue and red colour, the latter is coiled with beams with long and narrow retangular panels between them. Two large lanterns with an ostrich's egg attached to the bottom of each hang from the central beam. Three or four steps led from the durka'ah to the leewan, the floor of 'which is carpeted with Turkey-red cloth, and on it is laid a genuine Turkey carpet. The leewan or raised portion of the room is separated from the lower part by dwarf pierced wood partitions beautifully designed, and each of different pattern to the others. Two leathern water bottles, with hooks for fastening them to the camel's saddle, hang on this partition. A raised framework about 18in. high, called a takt, is put round the three sides of the lee wan, and on it the mattresses and cushions are put to form the deewan. These cushions are covered with the same kind of embroidery which, we noticed on that in the win dow-seat. A round tray upon a low stool, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, &e., whi c h, if not a rea l E astern su f ra h , i s indeed ben !rondo, forms the only table in front of the dee wan. A splendid " water bubble" stands upon it. A range of shallow cupboards are fitted over the mantel-piece, where we find a magnificent coffee service, the finjans or cups being, of course, no bigger than our eggecups, and the zarfs or holders most elaborately worked in filagree. Here, also, we seethed ifferen ;specimens of East ern dress —waist-scarfs, abbas, keifiehs ; read in the cent re , over the deewan, there ' is another group of Eastern weapons —dagger s and swords of rare temper, armour, and helmets. On either side of this group there is a stained glass window, and a similar one over the cushions at the side of the room. The openings are cusped and filled with blue and red glass. They spoil the effect of the whole room by the quantity of light which they admit. It is not the colour of the glass which we ob ject to; that is correct eneugh.BhuatrifealnooEhead very sternbuilder had fashioned them they would diffe rent, n a n n p d l t e h a e sa e ot effect Thewould 0010 have ure d glass ins rtetl kani charming er a e s e i v t e i l s nowi is in small pieces, and is separated by bands of plaster, arranged in patterns sometimes of the most elaborate and tasteful design. There would hav e been no difficulty in making such work here. l t could have been easily made with plaster of Paris, Keene's or Martin ' s cement. .The a present teri o lly openings injure t are he not effecton oyf uglyeverything i n themselves,else inthe et room m —destroying th a t a i r o f ca l m repose and perfect tranquil lity which pervade s all E as te r n apartments, and which con tribute so touch to the " kei" of their occupants. We take the liberty of suggesting this alteration, and also the sub stitution of real fifes for the shabby oil on the g:-Jor below, to whomsoever has the control of the work. When se much pains has been taken and so much expense has been incurred to make a fitting receptacle for the spoils of peaceful. travel, we notice with regret deftetz which can be so easily remedied. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The official trial of the paddlewheel steamer Sala mis, recently constructed at Chatham, which it is said will be the yacht of the Prince of \Vales, took place yesterday at the measured mite off the Maplin Sands, under the superintendence of Captain J. K. Hall, commanding her Majesty's ship Cumberland, 74, and the steam reserve squadron at Chathamend Sheerness. The Salamis is a remarkably handsome vessel, her extreme length being 2281 t. Bin., and her breadth 28ft. 2in. Her burden is 834 tons. She is sister ship to the Pyeche and Enchantress, but in appearance differs somewhat from both, from the circumstance of her stem being built without a knee, which gives it a squaro and " tumble-home" appearance. At present she is only rigged to carry two meats, but it is the intention of the Admiralty to fit her with three masts, like the steam yacht Enchantress. Her engines were manufactured by Messrs. Revenhill, Salkeld, and Co., end their per formance yesterday fully justified the estabashed reputation of that eminent firm. The diameter of the cylinders is 61 inches, and the length of the stroke 4 feet 6in. There ate 12 furnaces and four bailers, and. the latter are: fitted. with :superheaters. The paddlewheels are 21 feet. in diameter, ,and are fitted withMorgan',s patent feathering floats, which add materially to the speed of the ship. The floats were immersed 6 feet. The coal bunkers are close to the furnaces, and there is space on board for 18a tons of coals. With her cables, coals, and anchors, &c., on board, yesterday, the Salamis drew 9 feet 10 inches aft, and 9 feet 2 inches forward. The officials belonging to the dockyard on board to watch the trials on the part of the Admiralty were Mr. Baker, chief engineer at Chatham, Mr. Moore, principal master-shipwright, and Mr. Rumble, inspector of machinery afloat. Mr. Blakey, Queen's pilot, navigated the vessel to the trial ground. The Salamis left her berth at Chatham dockyard at 9.50 a.m. and by 10.40 was abreast at Garrison Point. The engines were then stopped to take on board Capt. Hall and the other officials, when the vessel's head was laid for the east to place her on the trial ground, which was reached at 11.15. The wind at this time was blowing from the westward with a force of three, and there was a moderate sea on. Six runs were taken at full boiler power, with the following results ;—la the first run the time was 4m. 345., the speed in knots 12.139, the pressure of steam 261 b., and the number of re volutions of engines 38; in the second run the time was 3m. 365., the speed in knots 16 . 667, the pres sure of steam 261 b., and the number of revolutions of engines 39; in the third run the time was 4m. 365., the speed in knots 13 . 043, the pressure of steam 261 b., and the number of revolutions 38/ ; in the fourth run the time was 3m. 355., the speed in knots 16744, the pressure of steam 261 b, and the number of revolutions of engines 37/ ; in the fifth run the speed was 4m. 385., the speed in knots 12.95, the pressure of steam 261 b., and the number of revolutions of engines 38 ; in the last run the time was 3m. 10s., the speed in knots 16.364, the pressure of steam, 26,b., and the number of revolu tions of engines 37. The average speed of the six runs was 14843 knots, equal to 17; statute miles per hour. The result is in the highest degree 'satis factory, the Salamis having thus proved herself—as her designers and builders always predicated she would be—the fastest vessel of her class afloat. Her sister ship, the Psyche, realised only a mean speed of 14521 knots per hour on the occasion of her offi cial trial, the Salamis thus beating her by a quarter of a knot per hour. The Salamis afterwards took a run towards the Girdlers to ease the steam down and enable two of the boilers to be cut off, after whim she was again placed on the mile, and made four runs at half boiler power, with the following results :—ln the first run the time was sm. 125., sec., the speed in knots 11 . 538, the:number of revo lutions 38, the pressure of steam 26 ; in the secon d run the time was 4 min. 22 sec., the speed in knots 13.74, the number of revolutions 30, and the pres sure of steam 261 b,; in the third run the time was 5 min. 9 sec., the speed in knots 11.65, the number of revolutions al, and the pressure of steam 26 ; in the fourth run the time was 4 min. 23 sec., the speed in knots 13.688, the number of revolutions 30, and the pressure of steam 26. The mean ave rage speed of the four runs was 12.648 knots. From these data the Salamis may be pronounced a 13-knot vessel at sea, all circumstances taken into considera tion, which makes her one of the fastest of the pad dlewheel steamers belonging to the navy. At the close of the official runs some experiments were made in making the circle. At full speed the complete circle was made in 5 min. 10 sec., the rudder being brought over to an angle of 35 deg. by three men with 31 turns of the wheel. At half-speed the com plete circle was made in 5 min. 29 sec. With the helm hard a port, the half circle was made in 2 min. 39 sec., and with the helm hard a starboard the half circle was accomplished in 2 min. 23 sec., the rudder in each case being over at an angle of 30 deg., and the diameter of the circle being about three times the vessel's length. At half speed, with the helm a port, the half circle was made in 2 min, 40 secs., and with the helm at starboard in 2 min. 53 sees., with three men at the wheel, the rudder, which was at an angle of 301 deg., being brought over in three turns. The engines from full speed were stopped dead in 13 secs. from the word being given from the bridge, and when going astern the engines wore stopped in 3 secs., and turned ahead in 3 secs. From full speed ahead the engines were stopped and started astern in 40 secs. The experiments, which were watched by the officials with the keenest wind, &., interest, 3 were considered ve r y sati s f a ctory, and u n d er more favourable circumstances of it is confidently stated that the vessel will make at least another knot per hour. The boilers generated a full supply of steam, and not the slightest appearance of hot beariags was indicated. The engines, which were under the superintendence of Mr. Ravenhill, the head of the firm, worked with the greatest smoothness and regularity, and the diagrams of the expansion cards were exceedingly favourable, Daring the trials the average tempe rature was 82 deg. in the engine room, 92 deg. in the afterstokehole, and 94 deg. in the forward stoke hole. At the termination of the trials yesterday afternoon the Salamis returned to Chatham harbour to await orders from the Admiralty. The iron screw frigate Tamar, 2,800 tons, 500 horse power, was yesterday removed from Chatham harbour, and placed in the steam basin at Sheerness, to be brought forward for immediate commission. A second trial of the armour plates bupplied by Messrs. Petin, Gaudet, and Co., of France, to our Board of Admiralty, through Mr. Beghie, of Man sion-house•place, took place at Portsmouth on Wed nesday, and the results then obtained, together with a subsequent inspection of the plates, prove the two tried on Wednesday to be even inferior iu their shot-resisting powers to the two previously tried in company with the Millwall plate. On Wednesday Messrs. John Brown and Co. sent a plate loft. bin. in length by 3ft. lain. in width, and 51in. in thick nese, for trial with the French plates, but not to compete with them. It was built up in a peculiar manner of cold blast and charcoal iron, according to a p l an laid before the firm, hut the theory o f t h e pl a t e ' s cons t ruct i on h as long been known to be unsound, and the result was, as had been anticipated, another failure among many. Notwithstanding its failure, how ever, as a merely experimental plate, it has received a higher official classification than either of the French manufactured plates. Messrs. Patin and Gaadtt's Iwo plates were of the following (Ewen firet was 15ft Tin in length by at 4111 in width and 51-in in thickness ; tied the second 15ft 7in in length by 3ft 4in in width and 41in in thick ness. 'rho main conditions of the contract between Messrs. Petin and Gaudet and our Admiralty arc— that the 41-inch plates shall withstand three shots planted as nearly as possible in the same place with out penetration being effected, and that the 51 -inch plates shall resist four shots in the same manner. The 51-inch plate received in all 10 shots fairly dis tributed over its surface. Only in three instances were the shots overlapping, or "planted as nearly as possible in the same place," but in all three in stances was the plate broken through, and penetra tion effected by two shots, instead of five, as per contract. Nos. 2 and 4 shots just impinged upon each other's circumference, with No. 3 in close proximity, all at the right hand end of the plate, but with no other shot near, and Nos, 2 and 4 were connected by a wide deep crack extending upwards of 15 inches. Pctin and Gaudet's 42-inch plate re ceived only six shots, which, however, selficiently decided its character. The first shot on the lower left edge exhibited a crack seven inches in length in the indent. No. 2on the right lower edge, upon a bolt, opened the layer of metal and cracked two layers across. No. 3 shot, to the left of No. 2, opened wide fissures in %the plate and drove the broken metal into the ship's side, with a large crack to the right. No. 5, in the centre of the plate, above and clear of 2 and 3, drove the plate into the ship's side four inches, with deep fissures in the metal. The last shot did no particular damage in the circum ference of its own ImPaet, but opened up a deep crack across a previous shot-mark 13 inches in length.- Penetration, it will be seen, west effected in this plate with single shots. The Odin, 16 gun paddle frigate, Commodore Lord John Hay, C. 8., arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from India and the Cape of Good Hope, and last from Teneriffe. She brought home a num ber of invalids and supernumeraries from India and the Cape, who were transferred to the Victory flag ship yesterday by the Pigmy steam tender. The Odin was commissioned at Portsmouth by Lord J. Hay on Sept. 20, 1859. The Lucifer paddle steamer, Mr. G. Allen, master in command (temporary), arrived at Portsmouth early yesterday morning from Cherbourg, which port she left the previous day, at 2 ime., having conveyed Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour, G.C.8., naval Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth and in the Channel Islands, to Cherbourg from Jersey. The Fire Queen steam tender was expected to arrive at Cherbourg yesterday to receive Sir Michael on board and convey him to Portsmouth. Sir Michael had been engaged in his annual inspection of the Channel Islands, and we regret to learn had been compelled to leave his son suffering under a sudden attack of illness at Jersey. In Cherbourg Roads were lying when the Lucifer left two screw line•of battle ships, four iron-clads--one a two decker, car rying 90 or 100 guns, with very close p)rts, and with an enormous beak projecting in front, and a paddle steamer. The following appointments and promotions have been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Thomas W. Simeon, to the Rattlesnake ; Powell C. Underwood has been nominated to a naval cadetship ; John G. Sheerman, in the Ringdove, promoted to acting chief engineer ; and John B. Gibson, in the Nile, promoted to acting first-class assistant-engineer. The squadron of the 18th Hussars, whose desti nation is Northampton, is to remain at Aldershot probably till the first week of October, under com mand of Capt. Peyton. IRON SHIPS AND IRON PLATING. The following extract from the Mechanic's Maga zine of Saturday, June 5, 1824, shows how com pletely the ideas of what are considered modern discoveries was anticipated by scientific writers 40 years ago. It would seem as if 40 years represented the necessary time between the conception and the execution of an idea : " Since the discovery by Mr. Perkins of so vast a destructive power as his steam artillery, it becomes of more importance than ever that nations should learn to make their ships as shot and shell proof as possible. On this subject there is, in Ferusae's Bulletin des Sciences Technologiques, a memorial by M. de Montgery, a captain in the French navy, which is well worth attention, and from whieh chiefly we shall extract the materials of the present notice. " The author's object is to recommend the uni versal adoption of iron instead of wood in the struc ture of ships. A multiplicity of objects formerly composed of wood are now formed of iron—bridges, arches, aqueducts, public highways, and other objects not so colossal, but very important in their application to maritime affairs, such as wrought iron tanks and hollow cylinders for masts and yards, and chains in lieu of hempen cables and cordage. But why up to this time have there been so few vessels constructed entirely of iron ? Will not man kind at some future period wonder how enlightened nations could have thought of building objects so stupendous and so expensive with so fragile and perishable a substance as wood, while they possessed a material to substitute for it so solid and durable as iron ? The ordinary term of duration of wooden ships is 20 years, and during that period they must be hove down and thoroughly repaired three or four times. To the duration of an iron ship, on the contrary, it would be difficult to assign any period. Vessels of this description have no need of caulking, or copper bottoming. Little sub ject to leaks, there is less fear of their running ashore ; and still less are they subject to the casualty of fire. The first cost of them might be greater (that we doubt), but from their far greater durability, and standing so little in need of repairs, the saving in the end would be immense. It de serves further to be considered that large timber is becoming every day more and more scarce, while from the increased dimensions of new ships more wood is required in ship building ; of iron, on the contrary. the stores are inexhaustible.' It may be said that the adoption of iron would serve to uncraft or disqualify a numerous body of men' (the ship wrights), and throw them for a time out of employ ment. A temporary inconvenience to a few ought not, however, to be opposed to a great general good, considering, moreover, how much the country at large would gain by the incr eased activit y which this new demand for iron wo uld g ive to our min es , commerce, and agricultur e, contendsted of that woo dwhil they should a t e we have o vessels of l l s oMg nst f war nt least be plate& w ith iron, and it will be s een f rom the following pa sse g e that he had dis tinctly antici pated such an application of projectile force as that discovered by Mr. Perkins : a For more than 350 years it has been in agita tionecroY ru c to throw shells from mortars horizontally, in stead of elevating them according to the general practice. The adoption of howitzers in the field of battle, independently of a great number of s pecial experiments, has at length proved beyond doubt the importance of this mode of firing, which it has also been proposed to adopt on board ships and on marine batteries.' "Long before any one bad thought of substitut ing metal for wood in the constenction of large vessels, plates of iron or brass had been used for covering ships of war and battering rams. The celebrated galley built by Arcbytas and Archi medes for Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, was cased i n t hi s way . Philp, of Byzentium, afterwards p ee . posed using battering me-chines made entirey of metal ; but Father Mersenne appears to hav e - teen the first who thought of adopting them for s hi ps. Montgery says that to render the sides of a vessel shot and shell proof they should have a Plating of iron about bin. thick—that is, a series of sheets of iron, with blocks of cast iron b etween . He conceives that the block vvotild only be noces eery in the parts exposed to the fire of the eueenv, an d that there would be no saes on for them tO ',sarde the keel of the yte:iti." PRICE..... STAMPED ....sd. Attempted Murder nd Horrible Suicide at 13e thnal-gre en. Yesterday morning the vicinity of Bethnal-,green was again thrown in to a painful excitement araugh a most determined attempt at murder and a terrible ease of self-destruction, which took place at 8, Gocdland-terrace, Upper Grcen-street, Bethnal green (only a short distance from the scene of the tate tragedy), where a chocking spectacle presented itself. It appears that the deceased, h men named George Williamson, had been in the service of the London Dock Company, and was a member of their rifle corps. He lied latterly given way to habits of in temperance, and lived rather unhappily with his wife, who was an industrious woman. The deceased did not return home on Thursday night ; but at 7 o'clock yesterday morning he entered the house in a state of half-obliviousness, when ho found his wife at breakfast. He demanded the money she had in her possession and threatened her. She gave him a portion of the cash she had, and he wished for the whole. He then seized her and threw her upon the bed, when he drew a tableknife across her throat, but she, being a powerful woman, forced him back, but, in the act, her hands were severely cut. She escaped from the house, and left the deceased in the room about seven o'clock. There were no other persons in the house, and she proceeded to the resi dence of a relative in the neighbourhood. About half past 10 o'clock she sent .a little boy (her brother) tc the house . to see if the deceased was there, and when the boy went upstairs into the first-floor front room he discovered theeleciasea (George Williamson) in a sitting position, with his head literally blown to atoms. The boy rushed from the house, in a state of terror, and. hastened back, and when he saw the wife he said, ".Oh, he has cut his throat !" The wife lost no time in repairing to the house, and the neigh bours, who had been alarmed by a loud report of fire-arms, had collected in front of the building. Police-constable Tarrant,l22 K, was attracted to the spot, and a messenger ran for Dr. Meldola, of Green street, who promptly hastened to the house, where an extraordinary scene was presented to him. He found that the room was covered with blood, and the deceased was leaning against the wall with the back portion and top of his head blown away, the face being still uninjured. The medical gentleman and Mr. J. W. Burrows, the coroner's officer of the district, discovered a rifled gun placed at the height of about five feet across the upright posts of the bed stead. The butt end of the gun was fixed against the wall and the barrel in two parts was tightly bound round with core. There was a long piece of cord tied to the trigger, and it would seem that the deceased had deliberately placed the right side of his head against the muzzle of the gun, which had been discharged through the head. Thebrain wasscattered in every direction upon the ceiling, walls, and front window. The teeth and lower jaws were also shat. tered, and it is a singular fact that a portion of the charge from the gun had passed through the upper portion of a portrait of her Majesty the Queen which was hanging on the wall. There is no doubt but what the deceased must have died simultane ously. Mr. Burrows subsequently searched the room and found several percussion caps and a box of blank cartridges belonging to the authorities of the corps he was attached to. The police took charge of the knife which was given up at the station in Bethnal-green-road by the wife, who had the wounds upon her hands dressed at the London Hospital by Mr. King, the house-surgeon. Last evening Mr. John Humphreys, the coroner for the county of Middlesex, received information respecting the sad occurrence, and an inquest will be held on the body this (Saturday) afternoon. LATEST PARTICULARS. Last night Mr. Burrows the constable proceeded to the house where the shocking affair took place, and made a more minute search and inspection of the place. It seems that the deceased man had been engaged for some time in making the model of a farm, which was nearly completed, and was placed on a sideboard in the room. The windows were bespattered with blood, and portions of the bones of the skull were found in various parts of the room, which was indifferently furnished. The deceased and his wife had only been in pas seesion of the house about a fortnight, and were often quarrelling'when they returned home. Mr. Burrows took charge of the body and secured the house to await the visit of the coroner and jury. Death through Disappointment in Love. An inquest was held yesterday afternoon at the Seven Stars Inn, Lawley-street, before the borough coroner, Dr. Birt Davies, to inquire into the cause of death of a young man named Edwin William Cowley, 18 years of age, living with his parents at 19, Rowland-street, Lawley-street. The first witness examined was the mother of the deceased, who stated that she was a widow and her son resided with her. He was eighteen years of age last birthday, and by trade a gun•screwer. He had been in and out of the house all the afternoon of the day (Tuesday) he was taken ill, and about seven o'clock in the evening went oat again and did not return until nearly half past nine o'clock. Wit ness said to him, " Why, Bill, whatever is the matter ? " adding, " I know you are grieving about that girl ; but never mind, she'll be glad to make it ty with you." Deceased replied, " I shall never speak to her again." The witness here explained that on the preceding Monday the deceased went, in company with the girl referred to, who is only 16 years of age, to be married at Handsworth Old Church, but through some mis management they arrived there too late for the cere mony to be performed. They made an appoietment to go cgain the following morning (Tuesday), but through the persuasions of her father, who con sidered her m uc h too young t o be s ife, the girl would not go with him upon his c alling for her to accompany him. The result was that the deceased wandered about all day in a melancholy st a t e o f mind until the evening. In answer to a question from the Coroner, wit ness said that at first it was suggested that the de ceased might have ta ken poison, and a searc h o f th e room was made, but nothing Was found to lead any ono to conclude that he had d one so. Mr. Hadley, surgeon, 5, Prospect-row, examined,; s tated that under the Cor oner ' s precept h e h a d madei a careful post mortem examination of the body of deceased, and found great roughness of the brain membrane and effusion of blood. The lungs were e xtensively diseased ; the right side of the heart was also in the same state, and in witness's opinion the deceased died from a fit of epilepsy, brought on by over-excitement. The jury returned a verdict " That the deceased lied by the visitation of God."—Birmingham Paper. FORT WAGNER.—Fort Wagner is an irregular bastioned work, situated on the northern end of Morris Island, 2,100 yards distant from Fort Sumter. It is composed entirely of sand, which, beyond doubt, is the best material to withstand the effect of shell. Its armament is six guns ; but three guns have recently been mounted on the sea face to annoy the Monitors. Oa the Southern face of the work all the obstructions that engineering skill can devise have been placed. so as to annoy our trocrs in case of an assault. On the northern side of the work there has been erected a musketry parapet, which not only commands the approach from the northward, but enables its garrison to Le sheltered in the event of our troops gaining an admittance to the interior. It has its ravellins, galleries, and covered ways, and upon the whole is a very formidable work. The magazine is situated in the southern centre of the seaward portion of the work, and although exposed to the fire of our iromclads, it is so well built as to defy the projectiles which have already struck it,-11;nerican GZ - - e, V -*...- ~~ Defrauding the Queensland E Committee. We eel tify that John Lukeman, now residing rA 'Sal ford, has been employed by us, Fothergill and Harvey, itt the capacity of overleoker, and that we believe him to be competent in his calling, and to be a perion of unexekitiotiiii character, never to our knowledge having been convicted ".' FOTHERGILL AND HAD.VEY. " ABEi..IIEi*OOD, " ' July 1, 1563.'," . crime. , . , gave a wrong It will be , seen that Dickman name. The signature of " Abel Heywood," the mayor, was prccured after that of Messrs. Fother gill and Harvey, yarn agents, had been forged, the mayor, of course, being under the impression that it was genuine. The signature of " Fothergill and Harvey," in Hunter's certificate was also a forged one, and the document was further signed by the mayor, and " W. J. Townsend," a Methodist New Connection Minister. In the certificate held by Tickle the names of Charles Clark and Co., were forged, and the mayor's signature was also ap pended. The three men were brought before the nawgis trates at the Manchester Police -court. The prose cution was conducted by Mr. Fletcher, solicitor, and secretary to the Emigrants' Aid Committee. Inspector Buckley said—On Tuesday I appre hended the three prisoners at Queenstown, on board the emigrants' vessel the Fiery Star. I took them under three warrants, charging them with obtaining free passages by means of forged orders from different gentlemen. The prisoner Tickle said that the certificate I showed him was partly filled up by himself, and that he had gone to Mr. Clark's mill on several occasions to get the signature of the firm. He also told me that the secretary of the Operative Overlookera' Society had informed him that the order would do if signed by any person, and that he had given this secretary, a person named Campbell, £4 for his trouble in get ting the certificate. Dickman, when I apprehended him, said he was out of a situation, and represented himself as being an overlooker in order to go out with the vessel, The other prisoner said he did not know be was doing anything wrong, espe cially as Campbell, the Secretary of the Over lookers' Society, had recommended him to get the certificate, as he had given Campbell a good deal of money for getting the certificate. I went to Campbell's house at five this morning for the pur pose of bringing him to the court, but his wife told me he had not been home since Saturday, when the warrants were taken out. Campbell was present in court when they were applied for. Mr. Fletcher, the soliciOr, said he was instructed by a number of charitable gentlemen in London, who had given maney to the Operative Emigration Society to enable them to purchase assisted passages to Queensland through Mr. Jordan, the agent. The principal object of the prosecution was now obtained by the prisoners being prevented from going. He must, however, apply for a remand till Thursday, is order to communicate with the gentlemen in London as to farther proceedings. The case was accordingly remanded. We have been informed that several men who had possessed themselves of similar certificates have gone out in the Fiery Star. The wives and fami lies of the prisoners have been left in Cork, while the greater portion of their luggage is gone on to Australia. NE' f ATER • • T 7r, ra -• • -" For some little time pest a system of aeiNtioaa s has been carried on in Manchester by persons who, taking advantage of the assisted emigration syst em instituted for the benefit of distressed operatives, have, by representing themselves as belonging to that class, obtained forged certificates which entitle them to a passage to Queensland on the terms offered by the Queensland Emigration Society. The ship Fiery Star recently left London for Australia, con taining, among a large number of emigrants, several men, their wives, and families, from Manchester, who were found after the vessel had left: dock to have falsely styled themselves operatives. Inspector Buckley, of the Manchtster Detective Police, was accordingly despatched to Queenstown to meet the • vessel on her passage, and he succeeded in appre bending three men named Peter Tickle, Joe Dick man, and John Hunter, on a warrant charging them with obtaining forged passage orders. Tickle has been for a long time a beerhouso-keeper in Mau cheater, and took with him his wife and three &ill dren ; Luck man f or many years was an overseer and relieving officer, and took with him his wife. and four children ; and Hunter, who had no children, was a warper in a cotton mill. These men had ob tained a passage for themselve s and families by stating that they were overlookers, and presenting certificates alleged to have been signed by manu facturers to that e ff ect. T hose signatures were, however, forgeries. Th e following is a copy o f one of the certificates : " Certificate of character and occupation for persons ap plying for assisted passages to the Queensland Emigration offices, 17, Gracechurch-street, London. Certificat e to be signed by an employer and by a magistrate. if the sig,np... tare of a magistrate cannot be procured the signature of a minister of relticti will answer as well. THE TIME GUN. The success which has attended the establish ment of the Edinburgh time gun, which has now bean in satisfactory operation above two years, has attracted the attention of various loca.lities, with a v i e w to the introduction of a similar time signal. Newcastle-on-Tyne in particular has been moving in the matter, and arangements have now been made for firing a gun there daily at one o'clock during the approaching meeting of the British Association, simultaneously with the gun at Edinburgh Castle and by means of the same electric discharge. The time is to be taken from the chronometer in the Royal Observatory, Calton-hill, Edinburgh, which is regulated to Greenwich time by daily observations, and the current is to be conveyed along the wires of the Electric Telegraph Company (other messages being for a few moments suspended) , impelled by Prof e s so r Weatstneby s magnetic exploder. Th e apparatus, first il tested the ignition of fuses, Was on Monday brought into operation by the discharge of the gun, which told the time to the people of Newcastle at the exact moment of the signal being heard in Edinburgh. It is estimated that the deflection for loss of time does not exceed the tenth part of a second, although the distance to which the curre n t has to be sent exceeds 125 miles. The experiments for the introduction of the signal were conducted, at the request of the Tyne commission, by Professor Smyth, Astronomer Royal for Scotland; Mr. N. J. Holmes, of the Universal Private Telegraph Company; Mr. F. Ritchie, Edinburgh ; and Mr. D. Reid, jun. , Newcastle. It i s intended to fi re a, gun also at North Shields by the same electric dis charge during the meeting of the British Associa tion, and the hope has been generally expressed at the practicability of the arrangement being proved, the signal will be permanently established on the Tyne as well as on the Forth. On Tuesday last, on the gun at Newcastle being fired, the Mayor sent a complimentary message to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, which his Lordship received while presiding at a meeting of the Town Council, and which he read to the meeting. 'rho Mayor, in his message, expressed the hope that he should have his Lordship among his guests at tho approaching meeting of the British Association. The Lord Provost, in his immediate reply, congratulated the Mayor on the successful introduction of the signal, returned thanks for the invitation, and expressed the hope that the approaching meeting would be a highly successful one. MYSTERIOUS MURDER IN PARIS.—A.n event has lately happened in Paris which promises to give ample work to the police of that metropolis. M. Franc kaert was, on Wednesday last, mysteriously murdered at his hotel in the Faubourg du Roule. He formerly carried on busi ness es a perfumer in the Chaussee d'Antin, and has retired from his occupation with a fortune said to amount to 2,000,000 f. He was a very eccentric person, living alone, seeing scarcely anybody, and rarely going out save at night. lie was found dead at the door of his cellar, his skull having been beaten in with a heavy log of wood. Itebbery I'm evi dently not the object of the assassination, as n aproperty s abstracted from the hotel, while the murdered man's purer, together with two watches, which it appears ho was accus tomed to carry, were left untouched on his person. Th e police are more secrat in their movements in rarit; than in London ; but, as far as is known, no clue has as yet b ee , diecoveted as to the perpe,rater of the crime, rveat, 38 are mid a 70 15 6 21 0 70 7 and De • 27. 25. 4. 3. 21. 10. 27. ~~'°"