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IKIS JAPER iLLATIA Birmingham has of late been infeste , • i',b. , *; s ' Large number of that class of persons ... -. `t ':;,, ~:.,•:.) '. A: , , t } ,... or 1 users of counterfeit coin; but, fo '4. . • . '... -e l :4 'kr* tai ft,,_.•• ;s4. 4 ) lance of several members of the boroug i ..„... *i;Yi;ili • , ;*• -7 of them have been brought to justice. V r AYI7. 34.,'.7 man was captured with three moulds for ma .- . _ bqis . 1 possession ; but the :met. th 1:--, and sixpences in his 101 l EMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' EVERY EVENING THIS WEEK after Alfred lellon's Promenade Concerts. Lon zrch 1-9000 REWARD.—Whereas, a Warrant has been granted for the apprehension c'! SIG - 311IND DITRICHSTEIN, late of the Jamaica Coffee 140118 e, and of 'Worthing, who has absconded, having by Means of a fraud obtained in London, on the 29th August last, the undermentioned BANK NOTES, viz. : . 2of £5OO .. Nos. 92597 an d 92 598.. d a t e d la t h February, 1863 6 of £2OO (Nos. 85128 to 85132 ~ 4th July, Isn. • and 84954 ( id life. road, ee of No. 22,220. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1863. PR1CE.....—..1t STAMPED ....sd. ear- Itch f the ndon felt wore 32 of £ lOO .. t ises. 4235 to 42651 t ._ , .., and 42685 to 42696 ) „ 13th May, 1863. ~ '-',, 'of £5O .. Nos. 88309 to 88317 ~ 20th April, 1863. 51 of £ 20., c Sos. 22451 to 225001 21st July, ~86.5 . t and 1910 „ .. The said Sigmund Ditrichstein is a Hungarian, about 33 years of age, 5 it. 7 or S in. high, with dark hair, grey eyes of Peculiar appearance, small head, thin face, sallow corn- Plexion, slight moustache, small whiskers, very small hands, , j 1 1 , (1 , very small nqrro w feet. He is accustomed, w h en speak !o,‘ to shrug up hiFi shoulders continually. He was last s een , n London during th e afternoon of 29th August. Ile is raarrie , l, and may be zraveilirg with his wife and Child, a boy about three years old. Mis. Ditzichstein is an Austrian, and about 21 years of age. Whoever will within six months from this date give such in formation as shall lead to the apprehension of the said Si, Mond Ditrichstein shall receive £2 OO rew ard ; and who ever' shall within the same time give such information as shall lead to the recovery of the said bank notes, shall re ceive a reward of £BOO, or a proportionate part thereof, ac cordinw,— to the amount recovered. Information to be given to Messrs. IL and S. Mull , ro, Solicitors, '', Poultry, London, E.C. ; or to Inspector II anal tan, Detective Police-office, 23, Old Jewry, London, E.C. London, 15th September, 1863. tested by firing' a double-proof service charge, of 361 b. of powder, and a cylinder gradually in creased in size. The gun was fired upwards of 100 rounds without manifesting the slightest signs of giving way, and burst at the 107th round. The result is considered exceedingly favourable, and has been reported accordingly to the War Depart ment. A number of cast-iron service guns have been consequently placed at Capt. Palliser's dis• posal, to lat.) bored and altered in accordance with his principle, and to be similarly tested at the Arsenal proof butt at Woolwich. Capt. Palliser, it appears, has for many years applied himself to 'the study of cast iron ordnance. His plan consists in removing a portion of the existing metal from the interior of the gun and inserting a combination of steel and iron tubes in such a manner as to re lieve the outer cast-iron case frona all strain, whereby the gun acquires all the advantages of the present wrought-•iron ordnance. Capt. Palliser, it is understood, maintains the principle that steel and wrought-iron tubes of limited thickness can be so inserted into cast-iron skins or outer portions of the existing service guns to relieve the structure from all strain, and that only a small portion of the gun is required to resist explosion, the remaining por tion being useful merely to prevent recoil. Several guns are being prepared on Capt. Palliser's plan, and, should the issue of further experiments be such as to establish more fully the correctness of his theory, the cast-iron guns now in store in vast num bers may be utilised with economy and advantage. restoration of which have made rapid progress, under the superintendence of Mr. T. D. Barry (surveyor to the Coun cil of the city of Norwich and architect to the Corporation), since the last festival. The building itself—aptly designated as a " noble structure in the perpendicular style of archi tecture, with some parts of earlier date"—has mcre than once been fully described in reports of the music-meetings. What has recently been effected in the way of restoration may be seen by the subj fined extract from the official description, prepared by Mr. Barry :—" The roofs have been entirely 1 stripped, thoroughly repaired, and covered with new lead. The internal decorations of the roof have a very Homage to the Divinity of Our Lord. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., NE X 1) 0 0 R. By Mrs. THOMSON, Author of "Constance," &e. Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Sept. 9.—Her INlsjesty's screw frigate Phoebe, 35, Capt. T. D. A. Fortescue, went out of port on the 7th inst. to try her engines, and returned the same afternoon, She left a few hours afterwards for Athens with a mail and the despatches received by the overland mail from Marseilles for the Com mander-in-Chief. The Queen, 76, Captain C. F. Hillyar, will take up the next mail, on the 14th, and the Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson, the following one of the 21st inst. The Queen will also convey stores and provisions for the fleet. This ship, which has been so long expecting to be sent home, is to remain on the station another three MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, in 3 vols., G° " S OCIETY. By MRS. GREY, Author of " The Gambler's Wife," &e. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. train ItIR. HOSKINS' NEW WORK ON EGYPT. Just ready, in Svo., with Illustratious, .. t Al t WINTER IN UPPER • AND LOWER EGYPT. By G. A. HOSKINS, Esq., F.R.G.S., Author of " Travels in Ethiopia," " Spain As it Is," Sie. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Ilarlboroug,h-street. THE LiinotpooL AND LONDON FIRE AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY. months. A court-martial was held on the sth inst, on board her Majesty's ship Hibernia, in Malta har- Established in. 1836. Offices Dale-street, Liverpool ; 20 and 21, Poultry, London, E.C. PROGRESS OF THE COMPANY SINCE 1853: bour, to try W. D. Calder, Royal Marice Light In fantry, of the Phoebe, on a charge of having de serted from the said ship on or about the 13th TH E 0 F ORD, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Ilalevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, British, ac., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean (to. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Ilodson. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHEbTRE, contain ing a full band of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at S o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. Gcl. - Year. I Fire premiums._l Life Premiums . Invested of December, 1862. The Court was composed of the following officers :—Capt. C. F. Hillyar, of the Queen, President ; Capt. T. A. B. Sprott, C. 8., of the Medina ; Commander R. B. Harvey, of the Hibernia ; Commander W. H. Anderson, of the Fox- 1851 18511 1861 1862 .£51,305 222,279 30,130 436,065 £27,157 £5n2,8•1',4 1 72,781 135.974 13. 1 ,703 821,061 1,3 1 1,905 1,417.808 The Fire Duty paid by this Company in England in 1862 Was £71,234. SWT.NTON BOULT, Fee - etary to the Company. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Se retary, London. hound; and Commander H. B. Woollcombe, of tht Queen. W. H. Fitz Patrick, E.sq., R.N., officicAing didge-Advocate. Capt. T. A. D. Fortescue, of the Phoebe, prosecuted. The Court found the pri- NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. the after sen- soner not guilty of desertion, bat guilty of ab- Estalished Incorporated by Royal Charter lBoo. and Special Acts of Parliament. L2,122,g98 A ccumulated and Invest e d F un d s Annual Revenue 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. In suran - es Errantei both at flume and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of th e Prof i ts di v ided among the Insurers on the parti c i pa ti ng principle. The new Life business iransaoted in 1862 as follows . . Policies, Anr nut Ingured. Prem iums. 1,0:; "i'63,334 £23.641 0 0 Forms• of Proposal and every information will be furnished On application at the L ° lll 3ON 58, Threadneedle - stre et. 4, New Bank Buddings. Lothbury. West-end Office S. Waterloo -place, Pall-mall. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. 'The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The —11.3' paid to Government for the year 1662 was ' 85 , 0 62, and the amount insured on farming stock, £10 ,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Itescrve applicable to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal offices makin g no returns to their insurers. Por pro,pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, HEAD OEFICEs, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal InEurance buildings, Liverpoel. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £sOo,o^o, .Accumulated Funds in hand over 1000,000. Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACrS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The 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 pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of 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 again fully maintained. 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, since the rounnencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa. ratcly, £11,007 16s. 10d. LIFE 'BRANCH. The very f.r,ratifyinz duty now falls upon the Directors to state the. sum assured on n-w policies for fhe year iF:62 exceeds even that of the yeqr 1811 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a sinde year of £701,427 on 1,408 new policies issued. Until within the last few vears'it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. ThispiitiOnOftfieeompany's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot tail to give much satistact , on to the shaTeholder, as well as no small encouragement for the lutnre to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply a (lorded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assurarre s mounts to .£ t 43,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as in admis sille in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United King - dom, they have to announce that In Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in Londmi or elsewhere, except when amalg, a mations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life , the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an o pi n i on th at the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brixhter, and of a c onse q uent hope, found e d on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. . PERCy 3L DOVE, 3ranazer and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1810. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott , Esq. T homson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. M utual Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 8,000 pollees , fo r a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. • • • • £ 51,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds • . 2'0,( 00 It has paid i n Cl aims • • 112,000 The whole of the profits are i quinquennially among the Members. Three di when the following sums lalasvoenbseehnavalready been made' policies added as bonuses to the Dec. 31, 1847 .. • • • • • • £5,400 „ 3852 ' • • • • • 11,500 „ 1857 .. 23.200 1802 yriakim., , the total bonus 56,500 Bonuses may be received in chsh or applied to the reduc lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the yol.cy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid lip policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, ?floor ;ate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) F OR 8 0 E i t Beer F sa,n rR Reho E yo , afal L c I e p , E, AND ANNUITIES. Exchange, c,pll London. an'ns Eorilininl,qeg}.l W . OCTAVIITS WIGR ' a -ma . GEORGE PEAUREs BmIc AM, Esq., Governor. Sir Jonx HENRY P ELT ,,, L ., A- Y , Esq., Sub-Governor. ' 'art, Deputy-Governor. DIREcTogg. Chas. Leven and dE3sicte. henry Bainbridg,e, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. The Iron. Josnce John Garratt Cattley, Esq. C n h e a n r r l Y e sl 3 t el o sli b ° l Esq. Q• Mark Currie Close, Esq. , Samuel Leo Schuster, E sq, William Davidson, Esq. 'Thomas Dent, Esq. sq rcy Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Fllmann, Esq. Eric Carrinizton Smith Esq.. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. ' Bobt. Amadeus heath, Esq : Joseph Somes, Esq., 31. p. Wm. Tetlow llibbert, Esq.. , William Wallace, E s. Jas. Stewart liodg - son , Esq. Chas. Baring Young, ll sq. Medical Referee, SAmum, SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. 4 , In the Life Department, assurances are g ranted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such Participation. The Reversionary Banns on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivaknt reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form o f Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. L ife AnY sum not exceeding £ 15,0 00 may be insured on one This Corporation affords to the Assured— , Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex- Perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. 1 T he Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve i'' t he Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the Inted Kingdom, free of charge. :-., ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. E. STEELE, Secretary. y? CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the 811 IRT of SHAKSPEA.RE, at Stratford-upon- Th , Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert Avon , n. Tramiltrm Bart., E.C.8., is Ch. , :.irman) are now reeet7;_ 'llfi SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the' " : ° lll lt of the Tercentenary Committee. at the Sto, d tA x .m,, ~,,,r2d Kidderminster or Warwick and Leaminktm c - ' rat tord-upon-Avon ; M' , ssrs. Greenwa - y, Smith, and Smith, Warwick ;Or their London sgents, Messrs. 67 1 ith, Payne. and Co., Messrs. Hanburye and Co., or Messrs. , Y , 11 ,_ and , bankers, London. tio'n'T T ercentenary Committee, in submitting . the subserlp et 8 1 :1 3 : to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers rest t he s i peare for their aid and assistance. The Committee th e bhilf_cjaims upon the ground that Stratford is not onl all y adiui r Vace of shakspeare. hut the centre of attraction to tbeilot the great Poet's works, and that it was his It lit bVeGI, and W hen Wed And thed. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, al September, 1803. TENDERS will be received et this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1803, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1563, to 3 1 st October, 186 f, for the use of Tier Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Canip, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the orage"), and no Tender will be noticed obtained from this office, and delivered unless b outside y theh ‘ o' madeu r T Tender n aop d np e r o mtrelsd HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ROYAL r G ea r t a :No reg . ern m ß e E di E ate H vic O in S i r y l o T t HOSPITAL, G , V' 8-inn-road lnthe immediate Rail way Teliminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President —The Duke of BUCCLEUCII, 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 trovernors' 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 affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board 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 Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; hansom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn 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 Secretar R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS —Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice -Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN —Thos. Raring, M . P.,Esq.,sq 1 E F.R.8 0 ., l V.P. DEI,DTI:-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, ~ •1 .s V. P . ~ . APPEAL. have itoya i t stateo Nationalt h Lifeboata that, since The Committee of 3 1 'he beginning . of the year ~ e t i ll t e lishments on the Coasts of Englan . d Scotland, ' - and Ireland. Institution has expended L-,2,000 on arious Lifeboat Fstab at law: ' ce its formation , is 1. 800 . Society, and other means, sin,. --, , The number of lives saved by . the Life-boats of the in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £07,.,00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Tr ansporting-cari tages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful . sense of we generous support which they have received front the British public during the past lew years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet. of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom l u i n o n at n s ; a w in h e i o ‘ t n i,c e a , t t ) h o e n y l3 , , R b r e n e e ff st e i c l t r e a d mea Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i' %Crews practised in the inanal2ement of their by a large . permanent The Committee gratefully acknowledge Countrymen to aid them in upholding great and truly national a Work I , eso 4.1 ow l l e d t g o aenta all l ea)c(nfiron(plisl::tetioilt,con tributions: Iler Majesty the Queen £ s. d Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G • ...„ • ' :: annual 50 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. •. 7, .. anneal 5 0 0 (butts and Co. Messrs., nn- nicer a _• •annual 1 1 0 _ Currie, Wm. 14 .. q., .. '• .. annual 10 0 0 Erle, Lord Cliie*_ ,tustice Fallsha v c e • ',me-Admiral Sir . A., R:e.p, .' don. 10 10 0 • .. 2d don. 25 0 0 • : •• • , 4th don.lo 0 0 G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifel. .oat and Tran- BP' ran , Carriage .. .. .. T- " 4 ' G and Mrs • ' • • Fenwicl , drvey, Rev. G. U. • 250 0 0 • • • • don. 3 0 0 -Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B• • • • • •• • • don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich _ .. • • 3 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony , K.C.B. .„ .. annual 20 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston - supe r- Mar e, collected by her Ladyship .• • • • • • • •• is is o Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. .. .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re 1-eiyed by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willi s Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard - stre e t ; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St. James's -street, London ; by a; 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the ljnitedKingdom; and by the Secretary Richszd Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the institution, 11, Jelin-Street, AdOphi. 1,900, W.'.. sence without leave, and in consideration of the high testimonials produced, only adjudged him to be placed at the bottom of the list, there to remain for two years, and to be dismissed his ship. Her Majesty's ship Growler, 2, tender to the surveying ship Medina, Capt. T. A. B. Spratt, C. 8., left Malta harbour on the 3d inst., for Sicily, under the command of Mr. J. Stokes, R.N., Master of the Medina. Her Majesty's gunboat Boxer is to be sent to the Piraeus, in charge of Lieut. F. S. D. Broughton, of the Qum), for particular service, to carry despatches and telegrams between the Pi' VCIII3 and Syra, &c. The paddlewheel steam yacht Salamis, 835 tons, 250 horse-power, fitting at Chatham for special service, took on board at the dockyard yesterday one 40. pounder and one 9-pounder Armstrong gun, together with the usual supply of shot and shell. She is being rapidly completed for sea, but no orders have yet been received at the dockyard as to the particular service on which she will be employed. The drawings and plans for Mr. Reed's new iron frigate Bellerophon, proposed to be constructed at Chatham, have been prepared by the draughtsmen at that dockyard from the designs sent down from the office of the chief constructor at Whitehall, in readiness for the immediate commencement of that vessel on the completion of the Achilles, which occupies the same dock at Chatham as that in which the new iron frigate is intended to be built. In the construction of the Bellerophon several impr,r taut improvements will be introduced by Mr. Reed, the result of the experience acquired during the progress of the Achilles, Research, and other iron ships of war now building. The thiek:iess it is pro posed to make the Bides of the Bellerophon has not yet been determined, the Admiralty awaiting the result of some experiments which are to be made upon a target constructing by the Miliwall Ironworks Company before this is finally decided upon. The target which is now under construction is formed of 10in. iron frames,'about 2ft. apart, covered first with iron nearly 2in. thick, then with teak 12in. in thickness, and finally with Gin, armour-plating. The utmost confidence is entertained that this construe• tion of sides will exceed in shot•resisting strength every other system hitherto actually adopted iu any ship yet built, and should the proposed arrangement be found to succeed ou the occasion of the trial, the Bellerophon will be built after the same manner from stem to stern. The Admiralty have determined to fit the Bellerophon with engines of the most powerful description, in order that. she may steam at least 14 knots per hour, and this, coupled with her enormous strength and her shot-resisting power, will render her by far the most formidable of the iron vessels yet constructed. The whole of the remaining stores have now been removed from Deal Dockyard to Chatham, prepara• tory to the yard being handed over to the parties who have hired it of the Government for conversion to a private shipbuilding establishment. Among the stores landed at Chatham are some 50 anchors of all sizes, from 105 cwt. to 40ewt. each, and these have been tested and deposited in store in readiness for reissue. The naval transport Aid is now at Dept ford, discharging a cargo of stores belonging to the victualling department at Deal. The whole of the armour-plates required for the iron frigate Achilles, 6,079 tons, building at Chatham, having been forwarded to that dockyard by the Parkgate Ironworks Company, in accord ance with the terms of the contract entered into with the Admiralty, the officer from Chatham Dockyard who superintended the manufacture of the whole of the plates supplied by that firm resumed his duties at the yard yesterday, in accordance with instruc tions to that effect. The plates now being fixed to the remaining portion of the Achilles are those manufactured by the firm of Brown and Co., of Sheffield, and are all of a tapered form to fit the receding sides of the stem and stern of that vessel. Th e Dalhousie, convict ship, afte r em b ar ki ng up wards Portsmouth, of f7O convicts from th e conv i ct pr i son at sailed from Spithead yesterday after noon Australia. appointments w ere ma d e yester . The for following lo Portland, nd, Plymouth, and day at the Admiralty :—W. H. Fawckner, master, to the Asia, for the Hector ; D. H. Wilder, master, to the Indus, for the Aurora; Thos, R. Biddlecombe, master, to the Asia, for the Lyra; Robt. Jackson, master, to the Asia, for the Falcon ; James Brown, midshipman, to the Earyalus ; Nicholas Giles, pay master, additional, to the Camberland ; John V alaler, assist, paym as t er , to the Edinburgh; Richard Cor nish, as s i s t. c l er k , to the Impregnable ; and Samuel E. Lark, assist, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide, as su pernumerary. The undernam e d o ffi c ers from her Majesty's ya c ht Victoria and Albert were yesterday promoted :.-- Lieut. Charles Parry, to be Commander; Sub.-Li eu t, Hugo I. P earson , S a b-Li e ut. Henry J. Fairlie, and Sub-Lieut. H on Ed war d E. Dawson, Theundtoernnaamvaeld cadetships were yesterday no minateda :—Hon. to be Robert L ieli W. Craven, A ugus t us H. C o k er , Gallwey, Cecil R. o Hervey, Richard Keown, Charles Edward Reynard, Gerald W. Russell, Richard B. Sayce, Leonard Clive Strachey, Cecil H. Wish, and Robert Thomas Wood. At the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, the fol lowing sub-lieutenants have successfully passed their examinations (find yearly), and received certificates to that effect for the rank of lieutenant :—A. G. M'Kechnie, H. H. Justice, and J. A. Dauhwood. The following second masters have also passed their examinations, and received certificates for masters :—John F. Barns, George Royal, E. H. C. Smith, and Frederick K. Taylor. 'HIE ARMY. Yesterday a detachment of 22 non-commissione d officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, together with 17 non-com missioned officers and gunners of the Royal Marine Artillery, left head-quarters, and embarked on board the screw corvette 5cy11a,21,1,4 S. Croswell.4oo-horse67toz Yesterday power, commissioned a detachmentninmissilecbyCaptain of 42 eon-commissioned officers and men arrived at head-quarters, Chatham, from the Royal Marine establishment, Deal, under the command of Lieut. Dixon, in readiness for em barcation on hard those vessels fitting for foreign service. A course of experiments is now in progress in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich which promises import ant results. A 32 pounder cast-iron service gun, strengthened on Capt. rallieer's plan, has been --..11M1P , -- I t CANTERBURY HALL "GHOST."—In order to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MOKTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and bJely of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRES.ENTATIQNS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unswortl► (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. Th , se elmant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of monster concerts cele brity. The baud is selected from the Crystal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, I s. 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They are aorous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ean ordinary stocking. Price ls. 6d., 7e. 6d., 10s., to 168. mt. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. NORWICH MUSICAL FESTIVAL. NORWICH, Sept. 14. The 14th trienniaLtp, al, in aid of the principal charities in the county of Norfolk and city of Norwich, begins this evening with a grand performance of Handel's " Judas Maccabmus. "The Jewish Oratorio," as it has been called —in consequence of the great favour it at one time enjoyed with the Jews,who recognized in the book the elements of a national story, and in the hero one of the greatest captains and deliverers of their often oppressed nation—is well chosen for Monday evening, the single occasion of which a large number of very worthy people who cannot meet the high prices charged for the subsequent performances on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, morning and evening, and whose business occupations render it virtually impossible for them to attend in the morning, are able to avail themselves. The prices of admission for Monday night—half a guinea to the reserved seats in the Patron's Gallery,and ss. to the unreserved seats in area and galleries —are, it must be allowed, still a little too high, the main object of this preliminary concert being kept in view. The present meeting bids fair to be one of the most in teresting on record, and let us hope, for the sake of the ad mirable charities on behalf of which the triennial festival was instituted, it may also be one of the most productive. It would be a great advantage if the use of the splendid old cathedral, the pride and ornament of the East Anglian capital, could be obtained for the morning oratorios ; but that favour is inexorably denied by the ecclesiastical authori ties, although while the Bishop of Norwich, as before. withholds both his influence and name from the proceedings, the Dean, Archdeacon, and four Canons are conspicuous among a list of vice-presidents upwards of 70 strong. It is consoling,at any rate,to know that the Church is not wholly unrepresented. The president of the festival is the Earl of Leicester, Lord-Lieutenant of the county ; the patrons are the Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duchess, the Duke, and the Princess Mary of Cambridge ; and Lord Suffield is chairman of the general committee of management, which, with the sub-committee, numbers about GO noblemen and gentlemen. In short, not one of our great festivals is more powerfully represented, if a pro fusion of distinguished names from the highest ranks of society count for anything, It is to be wished that on this occasion there may be something in " a name," something, indeed, in more than a name; for it must be borne in mind that. the Norwich Festival, like that of Birmingham, de pends entirely on the profits declared in the balance-sheet of the hon. treasurer (Mr. J. F. Blake), added to such do nations as the wealthy are inclined to bestow—there being no collections at the doors, as at the meetings of the Three Choirs. The number of charitable institutions which de rivu benefit from these very costly and responsible under takings, and the gross amount of the sums received by each respectively, at various periods, from 1824 to 1860 (the date of the 13th and last festival), inclusive, may be seen in the following table : Norfolk and Norwich Hospital .. £5,768 2 0 West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital .. 795 0 0 Yarmouth Hospital .. .. 770 0 0 Norwich Dispensary - 387 7 0 Eye Infirmary .. .. 292 7 0 Blind Hospital .. • . 287 7 0 Sick Poor Society .. 230 0 0 Lying-in Charity .. .. 140 0 0 District Visiting Society .. 140 0 0 Shipwrecked Mariners' Association 105 0 0 Jenny Lind Infirmary .. 65 0 0 Benevolent Society for Decayed Tradesmen 50 0 0 National Lifeboat Association .. 30 0 0 Stanley Homo .. .. 10 0 0 £9,070 1 0 The Norfolk and Norwich Hospital further enjoys a per manent annual income of £75 from £9,500 Consols invested after the first festival of 1824. The zealous and intelligent Mr. R. Kerrison has seceded from the post of hon. secretary to the festival, the duties of which he performed so admirably ; but in revenge he con tinues to prepare the literary descriptions of the 'pro grammes, which are more than usually full of information. His place as hon. secretary is filled up by Mr. I. 0. Howard Taylor, one of the most active members of the sub-com mittee. That the musical arrangements will leave little to desire the name of Mr. Benedict, director of all the performances, is o. warrant. The services rendered by this accomplished musician since he was first appointed conductor have been dwelt upon frequently, and aro acknowledged far and wide by none more emphatically, it should be stated, than by the general committee of management, who, as is well known, postponed the festival of 1851 to a year latter in consequence of Mr. Benedict's absence with the then Mademoiselle Jenny Lind in the then United States. Mr. Benedict has provided a company of principal singers hardly to be surpassed in effi ciency :—Sopranos, Mademoiselle Tietjens, Madame Lem mens Sherrington, Madame Weiss, and Miss Eleonora Wilkinson ; contraltos, Mademoiselle Trebelli and Miss Palnier ; tenors, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Montem Smith, and Signor Bettini ; barytoue, Mr. Smalley; basses, Mr. Weiss and Signor Rossi. The band consists of 14 first fiddles (prin cipals, Messrs. Blagrove and Sainton) ; 14 second fiddles (principals, Messrs. Watson and Newsham) ; 11 violas (principals, Messrs. H. Webb and Glanville) ; 9 violoncellos (principal, ILPaque) ; 10 double basses (principals, Messrs. Howell and Severn)-58 "strings," with the usual comple ment of wood and brass instruments, &e., represented by eminent members of the London orchestras,—making in all a thoroughly competent force of upwards of SO players. Messrs. Sainton, Blagrove, and Faque are each to perform a solo at the evening concerts ; and Mr. Harcourt, of Nor wich, will occupy his accustomed post as organist at the oratorios in the morning, The chorus —comprising 76 trebles 60 altos, 64 tenors, and 75 basses—total, 275—is derived from the usual local sources (including the cathedral choir), with the addition of some experienced singers from London, Birmingham, Glocester, and elsewhere. The performances of sacred music are as follows :—Tonight (Monday) " Judas IMaccabeous ;" Wednesday, the new sacred drama called " Joash," composed expressly for the festival by Mr. Silas (who will take the conductor's stick in his own hand), fol. lowed by a scene from Mr. H. Leslie's Immanuel," se lections from the various settings of the " Stabat Mater" by Pergolosi, Haydn, and Rossini—so combined as to appear in the form of a single work (a most infelicitous arrange ment, the styles of the three composers having absolutely nothing in comnion)—aud a miscellaneous compilation from Handel, Cherubini, Beethoven, and Thoulese, whoever " Thouless" nay happen to be; on Thursday " Elijah ;" and on Friday "The Messiah." Wednesday's selection looks very long, if not very inviting; but the result will show whether quantity and quality, in this instance, go hand in hand. The chief features of interest at the first evening concert aro "Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony;" Mr. W. IL Cnsins' "Royal Wedding Serenata" (pro duced under such unfavourable circumstances at Her Majesty' s Theatre, and deserving of a new and better chance) ; the overture to " Oberon " ; some pieces from M. Gounod's "Faust ;" and selections from the opera of " Ray , Blas," and the graceful little operetta, " Once too Often,' both the composition of Mr. Howard Glover. Wednesday evening's concert includes a promising selection from Mozart's operas, " Idomeneo, Lo Nozzo di Figaro," and " Cosi fan Tutti ;" a manuscript " war song," by Weber ; a selection from Mr. Sullivan's " Tempest " m usic ; and the overtures to "La Gazza Lathe " and " Fre Diavolo." The third and last concert, on Thursday evening, besides a symphony of Haydn (" The Surprise "), includes the over ture to Mr. Macfarren's opera, "Don Quixote," and the « c antata " prepared expressly for the festival by Mr. Bene dict, entitled "Richard Cmar de Lion," with the merits of which rumour is already busy. The chief points in these miscellaneous concerts have alone been named, the remain der being compos ed of interminable series of songs, duets, &c., so made out as to afford each of the principal singers a chance of disrlay, and the audience no chance of repose. All the performances are to take place, as on former occa the repairs, deceratio s and sions, in St. Azdrm's light and elegant effect; the panels are coloured deep blue, filled in with gold stars ; the hollow moulded parts of the timbers are coloured fright vermilion; those form ing the arched ribs of the roof, and those surrounding the clerestory windows, being ornamented with gilt flowers at stated distances; and the lower members of the arch ribs being coloured alternately dark and oak colour in a spiral form, to develope its rounded character. The de corations of the aisles include the blue panels and gold stars, together with the vermilion in the hollows of mouldings — the remainder being oak colour. The lighting of the hall is effected by nine magnificent brass coronae, pendant from the centres of the roof timbers—the nave being provided with three of large size, and the aisles having each three of smaller diameter—the effect when lighted up being truly beautiful, bringing out the coloured and gilt decoration of the roof to the greatest advantage. Several excellent rooms have been erected on the north side for the use of commit tees and as retiringrooms. The whole of the internal stone work has been scraped and restored, including the beautiful moulded bases of the columns, which had been nearly de stroyed. The east wall of the nova has been entirely re moved, and a magnificent stone arch, nearly the entire breadth of the nave, has been inserted, by which the space formerly known as the Tower of the Dutch Church, is added to the hall; within this increased space, and extending as far as the dais in front, the organ and orchestra are placed, by which arrangement accommodation for nearly 300 addi tional sittings has been obtained in the hall. A new western window, of great beauty, has been emoted instead- of theold one, and is thrown open to the hall, producing an internal effect which it is impossible to convey to those who have not seen the hall with the west window thrown open to the in terior. The side windows at the north, south, and east have been restored and reglazed, and the walls repaired and faced with flintwork. A new south porch of suitable cha racter has been erected in connection with the principal door. The west wall has been almost rebuilt and flintfaced, and a spacious and handsome door provided under the great west window." Besides the preliminary rehearsals of the new works un der Mr. Wilkins (leader of rehearsals) and Mr. J. F. Hill (chorus master),Mr.Benedict has attended several in person. The grand rehearsal taking place to-day, and that which is to take place to-morrow (there being no oratorio on Tuesday morning), may be regarded as public performances rather than private rehearsals, inasmuch as the public are admitted for the moderate consideration of half-a-guinea a ticket. Those who are lured by this temptation must be uncommonly fond of music ; but the example is a bad one, and it is to be hoped may not be imitated elsewhere. The Norwich Festival has always been honourably dis tinguished, among other good qualities, for its spirit of en terprise. It has never been afraid of venturing upon new or unknown works, as was shown by the production of Spohr's " Last Judgment," " Calvary," and " Fall of Babylon," Herr Molique's " Abraham," Mr. Benedict's " Undine," and other pieces of less importance. This year, as in 1860, we have a new sacred drama in the morning, and a new secular cantata in the evening. The Joash of Mr. Silas ventures on high ground, the subject being so nearly related to that of Racine's "Athaliah," which inspired Mendelssohn with some of his most wonderful music. Let us hope that the clever Dutch composer may not lose ground by a comparison which is inevitable. The characters intro duced in Mr. Silas's work are Jehoiada, the Jewish High Priest (bass); Mattan,Priest of Baal (barytone) ; Ishmael, Jehoiada's confidant and captain of the Levites (tenor) ; Joash, the boy-king (contralto) ; Zebiah, his mother (soprano) ; and Athaliah, usurper of the throne of Judah (soprano). How closely the subject is allied to that which Mendelssohn has treated may be gathered from the follow ing argument :—" Ahaziah, King of Judah, having been killed, his mother, Athaliab, seized upon the crown, and or dered every descendant of King David and her own grand children to be destroyed ; but Joash, the infant son of the late king, was wonderfully preserved by Jehosheba—the daughter of King Joram, the sister of Athaliah, and wife of the High Priest Jehoiada, who stole him from among the king's sons who ware slain, and secretly hid him in the Temple for six years, where he was brought up and edu cated by Jehoiada, unknown even to his mother, Zebiah, who believed that her child bad been murdered with the rest—(2 Kings, xi., verses 2 and 3.) When Joash was seven years old, the High Priest, Jehoiada, informed the Levites that one of the royal house of David still lived, produced the child, and annointed him King, and the people ' clapped their hands, and said, God save the King.'—(ver. 12.) When Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she was informed that her Jewish subjects were in a state of revolt, and went to the temple to quell the tumult by her presence.—(ver. 13.) ' And when she looked, behold, the king stood by a pillar, as the manner was and the princes and trumpeters by the King, and all the people of the land rejoiced and blew with trumpets, and Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason, treason,'—(ver. 14.) ' But Jehoiada the Priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges; and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house of the Lord,'— (ver. 15). `And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way belvehich the horses came in to the King's house ; and there she was slain' (ver. 16.) ' And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and broke it down ; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan, the priest of Baal, before the altar' (ver. 18.)" "And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the King, that they should be the Lord's people (ver. 16 )" The introduction of the Pagan element, it is true, dis tinguishes " Joash" from "Athaliah," but here again Mr. Silas will have to encounter Mendelssohn, in his " Elijah." For Mr. Benedict's "Richard Coeur de Lion" the author of the book has invented a new and for musical purposes extremely effective variation on the popular legend of Blonde! de Nesle, the favourite minstrel of the "Lion King." In this cantata the old story has been modified to admit the introduction of a French character. The castle in which the King of England is confined lis supposed by the neighbouring villagers to be haunted by a spectre called the White Lady, whose appearance they dread, while they commiserate her fate as a victim of un requited love. None regard the legend with greater interest than Mathildo, daughter of the governor of the castle, who, though ignorant of the prisoner's rank, has become deeply enamoured of him, and compares the unhap piness of the White Lady with her own. When Blonde!, to the surprise of the villagers, arrives at the place, and nar rates the trials he has undergone in his endeavours to dis cover a lost friend, he has almost begun to regard his enter prise as hopeless. However, the sound of his lute elicits a response from the castle ; Blonde! recognises the person of his royal master ; and they accompany each other in an old song of the Illinnielied kind. Mathilde overhears the song, learns the mission of B:ondel, and promises to assist him by assuming the character of the White Lady, and thus terri fying the guards. The plan succeeds, and Richard is libe rated ; but Mathilde, finding too late that the object of her affections is a king, already blessed with an august consort, resolves to end her days in the seclusion of a convent. How Mr. Benedict has dealt with these materials it would be pre mature to discuss; for although the cantata is already in print, what looks admirably well on paper does not always in performance exactly respond to expectation. .BenMr dict, nevertheless, to judge by previous efforts, and especially his romantic and beautiful " Undine"—with which " Richard Coeur-de-Lion" will naturally be compared—is not a musician about whom to be particalarly apprehensive. The scene chosen from Mr. Henry Leslie's oratorio of " Immanuel" (Wednesday mo rnin g ) is the incident of the widow and her son at the ga t e s of Nein. The selections from the three settings of the " Stabat" com p rise the " Stabat Mater" (quarte t and chorus)," Cujus animatn" (tenor air), " Quis eat home" (duet, soprano, and contralto), and "Pro peccatis" (bass air), of Rossini; "Eia mater" (contralto air), and "Fac ut ardcat" (duet for soprano and contralta), of Pergolesi; "Fac me vcro tecum flere" (con tralto air), and " Virgo virginum prmelara" (quartet and chorus), of Haydn; " Inflammatus" (soprano air , with chorus), and " Quando corpus" (unaccompanied quartet), of Rossini; and " Paradisi gloria" (chorus, finale), of Haydn. In this singular concoction—in which Rossini has the lion's share, to the detriment of his highly re spectable Italian and German predecessors—Mademoiselle Tietjens, Madame Lemmens Sherrington, Mademoiselle Trebelli, Miss Palmer, Mr. Santley, and Mr. Sims Reeves are to take part, besides a second tenor and second bass from Her :Majesty's Theatre. It may be presumed therefore that the Committee of l‘lanagement view it as a sure card, likely to support " Joash," which, being a now work by a com poser hitherto unknown to Norfolk and Norwich, could hardly be relied upon as an at traction on the Wednesday, with "Elijah" to threaten it on Thursday and "Messiah" to overwhelm it on Friday. If so, "Joash" may be con gratulated on such an acquisition of strength, however questionable the procedure by which it has been enlisted. The sufferers are Pergolesi and Haydn, who being dead could not be asked their consent to the premeditated jumbling together of their " Stabats," and Rossini, who, though not dead, is indifferent to any liberties that may be taken with his music, and who, had ho been applied to, Iwould have responded laconically—Rites ce qui vow pia ira. (PROCESSION AT ROME, AS DESCRIBED BY THE CORE.ES; PONDENT OF TILE "HERALD" IN E ETERL CITY., The painting of the Saviour, which is the princi pal object of the devotion, is of remote antiquity, and is traditionally attributed to St. Luke. It is of the very earliest school of art, and though rude enough in its execution is a very impressive picture, the traces of the Passion of Our Lord being ren dered with almost painful truth and vigour. It was covered by Pope Innocent M. with exquisite gold and jewelled wrought platings, to preserve it from inner chapel injury of time, and it has been ke p t in the chapel of the Scala Santa, on the altar called " Sancta sanctorum" from time immemorial, and carried from time to time in solemn state to one et the great Basilicas, when any crisis menaced Christendom. In the war of the Ghibellines, when the Turks attacked Dalmatia, and before Lepanto, and in the last century, before the outbreak of the French Revolution. So much for historical remi niscences. In the present crisis the Pope was requested to order it in 1860, and again in 1862, and refused to accede to it, not wishing to create an alarm. The reason his Holiness is said now to have acceded to it is not on account of new political com plications, but on account of the great increase of open atheism, and the spread of works denying the truth of Scripture and Our Lord's divinitT; and more especially Renan's " Vie de Jesus," which is being now translated into Italian all over the kingdom of Italy, and is recommended by the Indepenclante as the " most evangelical work since the Gospels," and another book of Proudhon's " La Justice de la Revolution," dedicated openly " a Satan," par Joseph Proudhon, which is doing infinite mischief in all the towns of Upper Italy, where nothing is read but the reproductions of the most infidel and blasphemous French works. This procession, which is especially a devotion to the divinity of Christ, was at length ordered by the Pope as an act of public reparation for the scandals of infidelity and avowal of Christian faith. Prayers were also ordered for the peace of Italy and Poland, but neither of them in any sense save the religious one. The revolu tionists here and in the kingdom of Italy, howeaer, chose to give a political significance to the order, and sent a counter circular round on Sunday morn ing to prevent people attending, and containing threatening notices—a measure which only served to show the little hold they have on the Roman population by increasing the attendance. At four o'clock the piazza and church of the Lateran were crowded with persons of all ranks and classes. Every window, wall, and gallery within sight of the line of procession was occupied, and wh e n it issued from the Basilica, headed by the clergy of the seven great churches, of the Maria Mag. giore, Maria in Cosenedaro, Maria in Traste vere, St. Lorenzo in Damaso, St. Lorenzo Fuori le Muore, St. John Lateran, and St. Peter's, and followed by committees, guilds, religious orders, bodies of clergy, and thousands of people of every grade joining in the chaunt of the litanies, it would be difficult to imagine a more picturesque scene. There was a spirit of enthusiasm among those fol lowing the procession that was very striking from its depth and reality. A number of Poles were very conspicuous by the rather gesticulatory fashion of their devotions. They had attempted to make a demonstration of it by going barefoot and keeping in a separate body, but this was very wisely pre vented by the authorities, who refused to allow anything liable to be diverted from a simple act of prayer for peace and a speedy settlement of vexed questions either in Poland or Italy. The Pope did not assist himself, but wes represented by the Car dinal Vicar. The picture was carried from the Lateran to the Esquilene down the Via Bumerna tans, and was placed in St. Maria Maggiore, where it remained some days, end has been already visited by thousands of persons. The P,pe went in full state to the church of St. Maria del Popolo this morn• ing, and was looking well The cardinals end house hold attended him, and there was great cheering in lie crowd on the Piazza and all down the Ripetta ,rough which he passed. MEMORIALS NOW IN PROGRESS. THE MEMORIAL TO WEDGWOOD, The Chancellor of the Exchequer has promised, if his engagements permit, to lay the first stone of the Wedgwood Memorial at Burslem, on the 20th October. The Committee of Council contribute £5OO in aid of the building. The Potteries district has honoured itself by taking up the fame of its great benefactor in a thorough way. The recently placed statue of Wedgwood, by Mr. Davis, is, we are glad to see, only an instalment of gratitude. TIIE MEMORIAL TO THE HARTLEY SUFFERERS. A plain but massive monument is about to be erected in Hartley churchyard over the graves of the sufferers by the Hartley calamity. The names of the 204 men and boys who lost their lives so terribly will be inscribed on it, with a suitable inscription recording their fate. The work will be executed by Mr. Elliot, of Hartley, from a design by Mr. A. Dunn, architect, of Newcastle,—Building News. THE MEMORIAL TO MULREADY. The memorial to Mr. Mulready already alluded to in our columns is to consist of a tablet on his tomb at Kensal Green, to be supplemented by a statue in the National TICE MEMORIAL TO HAMPDEN. A memoral, consisting of an obGlisk eight feet high, sur mounted by a Maltese Cross, is to be erected by public sub scription to John Hampden, in the field at Stoke Mandeville, where the first assessment for ship-money was made. An inscription, as follows, will be placed on the cross:—" For these lands, in Stoke Mandeville, John Hampden was assessed in twenty shillings, ship money, levied by com mand of the King without authority of law; the 4th of August, 1635. By resisting the claim of the King in legal strife ho upheld the rights of the people under the law, and became entitled to grateful remembrance. ilia works on earth ended after the conflict in Chalgrove Field, the 18th of June, 1613, and he rests in Great Hampden Church." We may record this as a singuiar improvement in taste over the fact that several professed lovers of Hampden did not scruple to dig up a body they believed to be his and m utilate it, in order to decide how he was killed.- 41thenceunt. THE MEMORIAL TO THE LATE LADY CANNING, designed by Mr. 0 : G. Scott, has been erected over her grave. It is of Sicilian marble, composed of a massive plinth supporting a coffin-shaped, horizontal slab, the top of which is wrought with a floriated cross ; a shield of arms is placed on either side of the stem of the cross. At the head of the tomb a tall stone rises, wro u g ht at the to p into a richly .carved cross, having an appropriate inscription beneath it. SUGAR FROM SERPENTS' SKINS.—In 1861 M. de Luca made some experiments, from which it ap peared that the skins cast off by silkworms might be trans formed into sugar. The same chemist has sent in a paper to the Academy of Sciences, in which he describes a similar Process for changing serpents' skins into sugar. These skins contain a small quantity of a substance resembling the cellulose of plants, soluble in ammoniuret of copper, and transformable into glucose, which reduces the tartrate of copper and potash, awl ferments under the influence of yeast, yielding thereby carbonic acid and alcohol. Concen trated sulphuric acid and a solution of potash are the best re-agents for depriving serpents' skins of their nitrogenous matter; the residue, although very refractory to chemical agents, may nevertheless be transformed into fermentable glucose, recognisable from its property of reducing the tartrate of copper and potash. Thus, M. de Luca boiled 50 grammes of serpents' skins in a litre of water containing 40 grammes of caustic potash, the skins having been pre vionsly treated with concentrated sulphuric acid. The liqaid having been allowed to cool, a great deal of water was added, and the undissolved residue was several times washed by decantation, and then treated with ammoniuret of copper, whereby an alkaline Isolation was obtained which, on being neutralised by hydrochloric acid, yielded a white precipitate; this, heated in slightly acidulated water, re duced the tartrate of copper and posh, thereby showing that it was glucose, or the base of sugar. In another some what similar operation, glucose was obtained which fer mented iu contact with yeast, producing carbonic acid and alcohol. The former was coipletely absorbed by caustic potash ; the alcohol extracted from the solution by distil lation, and insulated by means of crystallised carbonate of potash, was nearly pure, since it would burn without leav ing any residue ; rubbed between the hands it evaporated, emitting an agreeable smell, though still partaking of that of animal matter. From all this it may he concluded that serpents' skins contain a very small quantity of sugary matter or glucose,— Galignani. " smashing" line seems to be chiefly with bad half-crowns. As recently as Fridayayouth was committed by the borough magistrates for trial at the sessions for having passed three counterfeit half-crowns —two of them to a poor widow; and on Saturday last four men, well-known to the police, were brought before Mr. F. I. Welch, at the public office, on a charge of having passed three and attempting to pa ss one , other base half-crown at the house of Mrs. Upton, licensed. victualler, Bradford-street. They described themselves as. Wm. Thornton, brass-custer, Bull-ring ; Edward Jones,, stamper, Mass. house-lane ; David Swift, striker, Thorpe street , and William Jones,. stamper, Icknield-port-road. Mr. Dickens defended Swift.' From the evidence it ap peared that on Friday evening,• at about seven o'clock, five or six persons, amongst whom were the prisoners, were in the liquor shop of the prosecutrYx . The prisoners in the course of the evening successfully 1, assed three counterfeit half-crowns, one for gin, another ale, and a third for andasked Thornton, f some sherry. Th ey receive d a goo d th mount of change in genuine money f or th e i r b ate co i ns. A t length one of the half crown ners, r w e e ha b n e g li e e . ve,t i h r r s u ewd p ° w a vi n h o o t h hader h alf w Upton re ceived the rest of the b a • so money ' ,the coin, examined and, discovering it to be a counterfeitn one, called out her son, and s a nd told him that she had taken thr e e eother co o ins , from the prisoners. He at once locked into the till and find - ing. three bad half-crowns, went r oun d the counter r a,-td en deavoured to arrest the four men. The latter, however, made a desperate resistance, and all, with the exceP Heat of Th orn ton, got away. 'The prisoner havin g b een takenieta adjoining room. a police-constable was sent for. Before the' arrival of an officer, however, the three men who had escaped returned, in company with five or six other men, an d at tempted to rescue their captured companion—but the son of the landlady, not willing to liberate his prisoner, seized a good strong poker, and laid it about his assailants pretty freely. At this point a police-officer came to the scene of action, but no sooner did he make his appearance than all Thornton's gallant rescuers ran away, Thornton was then. quietly handed over to the officer, and removed to the po lice station, On the following morning Detective Serjeants Mountford, Seal, and Robinson, from a description they had received of the men who had escaped, apprehended the two Joneses at a lodging• house in Mssshouse-lane, and Smith at a house of ill-fame in Thorpe-street. The whole of the prisoners were now clearly identified by the prose cutrix, and they were remanded for a week in order that the depositions may be sent to the Mint authorities, who in the meantime will consider the advisability of a prosecution at the sessions. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea ; very choice at 3s. 4d. and. 4s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 48. Sd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. ELECTION OF LORD MAYOR.—The citizens of London have been cited to attend at the Guildhall on the 29th inst. for the purpose of proceeding to the election. of a Lord Mayor for the year 1863-64, in succession to Mr William Anderson Rose, whose term of offico will expire on the Bth of November. The Lord Mayor, sheriffs, and other civic officials, will attend Divine service in the parish church of St. Lawrence Jewry, where a sermon will be preached by the Rev. J. Lupton, M.A., minor canon of St.. Paul's, and rector of St. Michael's Queenhithe. At the Guildhall the following gentlemen "below the chair" will be put in nomination ; Mr. William Lawrence, alderman of Bread-street Ward, elected 1855 ; Mr. Warren Stormes Hale, Coleman-street, 1856; Mr. Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Farringdon Within, 1857 ; Mr Thomas Gabriel, Vintry, 1857 ; Mr John Joseph Mechi, Lime-street, 1858 ; Mr Edward Conder, Baasishaw, 1859 ; Mr James Abiss, Bridge Within, 1859; Mr James Clarke Lawrence, Wal brook, 1860. The following aldermen, below the chair, are ineligible, inasmuch as they have not served the office , of sheriff:—Mr Thomas Dakin, Candlewick, 1861; Mr Robert Bosley, A Idersgate, 1861; Mr Sells John:Gibbons, Castle Bayard, 1862 ; Mr Sydney Waterlow, Langbourn, 1863. The livery will, no, doubt, return Mr William Lawrence and Mr W. S. Hale, upon which tile Court of Aldermen will select Mr Lawrence as the Lord Mayor for the ensuing year. He carries on the business of a builder in Lambeth. EMIGRATION—PLYMOUTII, Sat urday.—The ship Derwentwater, 567 tons, Capt. Thompson, belong ing to Messrs. Richardson Brothers, of St. Helen's-place, arrived here this morning, the first of several ships which have left London within the last ten days for Plymouth, but have been detained in the channel by heavy weather. Sho is bound to Canterbury, New Zealand, with a full general cargo and 16 passengers, including Mr. Harper, son of tho Bishop of Canterbury. The ship Duncan Dunbar, 1,37 , 1 tons, Capt. J. B. Swanson, built by the late Mr, Dunbar ex pressly for the trade, now the property of Messrs. Gellatiey, Monkey, and Sewell, of Leadenhall-street, arrived in tb.e Sound this afternoon, bound for Sydney. She has a com plete cargo, including 150 tons of railway iron, a large quan tity of Burton and other ales in cask and bottle, and an un usual proportion of furniture, carriages, &c., belonging to the passengers, one of wbous has 150 measurement tons. On deck there are three choice bulls, seven cows, 12 merino sheep, &c. The Duncan Dunbar has, as usual, many pas sengers, there being no less than GO in the chief cabin, be sides those in the steerage. Among the former are several old colonists, Mr. Land and family, Mr. George Thorneand family, Mrs. Carr and Son, and Mrs. Henderson, who has been here several days. It is intended that the Derwent water and the Duncan Dunbar shall sail for their destina- lion this evening. The Dover Castle, Capt. J. M. Ayles, belonging to Messrs. Green, of Blackwell, bound to Mel bourne, received Mr. Glum, her pilot, off Exmouth yester day. She is expected every hour. The Ida, Capt. Laws, with Government emigrants for Sydney, is due here on the 14th, and the Northumberland, Capt. Hawkings, for South Australia on the 21st. All these ships are despatched hence b y M r . Wilcocks. The total number of passengers and emigrants who have left this port during the quarter ended J u no 30 is 2,090, being 995 more than in the parallel quar ter of 1562. Of these 107 went to Canada, 833 to New South W a l e s, 250 to Victoria, 389 to Queensland, 19 to South Australia, and 467 to New Zea land. SHOOTING DESERTING SUBSTITUTES.—The exe- cution of the five deserting substitutes from the 118th Pennsylvania—Charles Walter, Emile Lai, John Reannese, G. Kuhn, and John Folany —took place yester day afternoon, at 20 minutes to 4 o'clock, within the lines of Col.Sweitzer's brigade, before the'Fifth Army Corps. The condemned were paraded, with hands manacled behind, accompanied by their priests, beforo each regiment in turn, preceded by their coffins and by a band playing a dirge. Tho diff eren t regimental bands either joined in as they passed or the drum corps beat a muffled roll. On reaching their graves each man was seated on his coffin, and Captain Orme, Provost-Marshal of the First Division, read the several sentences, preceded by long and tedious charges and specifications. Through this trial of patience the agonised men appeared resigned. Their eyes were vacant and glazed, with a general idea that a marshalled host of men was before them, and that a few stood near by. They fixed their vision on no one person or thing, they were ab sorbed in their fate. Walter was a Jew, and was attended by the Rev. Mr. Szold, Rabbi of the Gnebshalon Congrega. tion in Baltimore. Lai and Reannese wen Catholics, and attended by the Rev. C. L. Egan, of St. Dominick's,Wash-. i ng t o n, in lace canonicals. Kuhn and Folany wee e Gor man Protestants, and were administered to by the Rev. W. O'Neill, chaplain of the 118th Pennsylvania. Walter, much agitated, stood up and recited in Hebrew after the Rabbi the Penitential Psalms and Voices of the Penta teuch, swinging his body rapidly backward and forward. The rest knelt, while their priests knelt and prayed. At the close the Rabbi kissed Walter, Walter kissed him in return, and crossing over to Folany, with whom he had been intimate ; also kissed him. The men again sat on their coffins. Their eyes were bandaged with white cloth. Fifty men, in two ranks, stood before them. A rapid "Ready, aim, fire I " was given, and they simultaneously foil back ward on the coffins, placid lumps of clay. Reannese, Kuhn, and Folany ran off and fell upon their faces. The two former bi eathed for a few moments, though insensible. Ten men fired at each, one of the ten muskets being unloaded, as is customary. An argument for precedence in the proces sion took place between the Rabbi and the Catholic priest. The latter claimed the first rank as representing what he considered the first of churches. The former asserted his right as acting for the eldest of faiths. The provost-marshal decided in favour of the Rabbi. Another argument took place between Gens. Sykes and Griffin. Tho court-martial ordered the execution between the hours of 2 and 4. The troops of the sth corps had not all arrived till long after 3. Griffin, in whose division the transaction was to occur, said if 4 o'clock struck before their arrival he would feel himself to be murdering them to allow their death. Sykes, com manding the corps, did not see the point in the same light. The tarrying regiments, however, came up before the time had elapsed. Four of the culprits weremarried. Folany was single. Walter's wife lives in New York, and interceded with the President, but. to no purpeee. The families of the rest live in Europe. They had all hopes of pardon till the procession commenced.—New York, 2ribune. SUICIDE THROUGH DlSTRESS.—Yesterdey Mr. John II nmphrrys, the coroner, held an impiest at the Bell Tavern, Chureb-lene, Whitechapel, respecting the death. of James Ilartley, aged C 6, a coachman. The deceased lodged at No. 42, Church-lane, Whiteehapel, and had been out of employment for a considerable period, which fact preyed on his mind. The deceased was a widower, and went to bed about e leven o'clock on Thursday night. Oa the following morning the deceased did not make hi s appearance as usu a l , when the landlady opened his room door, and f o un d him i n a sitting position on the floor with a rope round his neck. When medical assistance was procured life had gone. After some further ev id ence , showing that deceased had been desponding and h a d threatened his life, the jury returned a verdict of " Suicide while of unsound Ada." 7 re- not iktly wera spot tion, ther um- luso hem ken. wed Son anti Lrge the this 'ha os iaol iut Ms Ile --t4 13a