The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-10 00:00:00

ENT ENT BE Ft, WE SUP AT F,VANS' EVENINC:- THIS WEEK aft -r Alfred Mel!on's Ptorn , rtade Concerts. AT GENTERAT, (70IIIIT of PROPRTETORS, held at the BAN K of ENGLAND, on THURSDAY, the 10th 01 September, 18r13, _Resolveri — Thßt the Thanks of this Court be to the governor, Deputy-Governor, and Court of Directors of the Bank of England, for their able management of the affairs of this Corporation dm ing the last half .vear. Ordered —That the said Resolution be advertised in all the Daily 31 Jrning , and Fvening Papers. JAMES STEWART, Secy. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established ISC9. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue.... FInE DEPARTMENT. Insuran• es ,- rante both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. £2,122,828 422,401 LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. ISi nPfY per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers 011 the participating principle. The new Life business .ransacted in 1862 as follows : Policies. Am'unt In tired. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every inforwationwlll be furnished on application at the OFFICES : LONDON 5B, Threadneedle -street. $, West-end Office.. 8. Waterloo -place, Pall-mall. N ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of t‘le Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was 05 ,062, and the amo unt insured on farming stock, £1 0 ,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi s periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received sums amounting in the ag , greg,ate to £410,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Reserve appli 'able to a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those char g ed by the other principal offices making no returns to their insurers. For pro , pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey frtreet, Norwich ; and 6 , Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal In►urance buildings, Liverpoel. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 OOO,OOO. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq, EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR _ _ _ 1862. 'the Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now c alled 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 o' the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed LlOO,OOO. 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 precedog year, and in tact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sinc , the c ommencement of thi Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 105. mod •, and Of the North American business, which is kept sepa• rately, £11,097 16s. 10d. LIFE BRANCA. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to s tate the sum assured on n w policies for fhe year if 62 exceeds even that of the year IS6I by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,495 new policies issued. Until within the last hw years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which as Just 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 encour a g ement for the future to th e participating' life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the numb er re j ected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assuran ^e :Amounts to £143,281. Various degrees 40 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 inadmis sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that 1n Fire Business i±s prog,ress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in Londan or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken Plate. 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 ea - pression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for It a sphere of still greater maeni tude, oombinicg distinguished commercial success to the Office with a ler gthened career of usefulness and protection .to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE AS6OCIATION. _ . Esta)lished IS4O. TRUSTEES. Thomas Bat Inn., seq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Lif? Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. •• The Accumulated Fund exceeds It has paid in Claims .. £5',000 .. 2`0, 1 00 . , 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the Policies - £',400 11,500 23.200 56,500 Dec. 31, 1847 „ 1852 .. „ 1857 .. 1882 .. Malzinz, the total bonus additions, £96,600. Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the reduc Lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the r otcy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid tll) 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 ara 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, lloorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1863. —___ A.D. 1720. -- ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GrogOE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JouN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Wiimot Holland, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. William Wallace, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. . l ohn Carratt Cattlev, Esq. Mark Currie Close, P.sq. William Davidson, Esq. Thomas Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. !'obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Wm. Tetiow Hibbert, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this corporation on advantageous terms. In the Lite Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The - Reversionary Minus on British Policies has averaged n.early 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from She liabilities of partnership. rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual s oc k ties—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. Th e adyantag - es 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. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve is the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the , Enited Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. n OYAL FItE 1( HOSPITAL, ftheG r G ea rt Northern av's-inn ia - ro t s. i d l: , vicinity 11A, in the immediate o ;way Terminus, at King's-c"` s. atron President—The Duke of B Q U U C E C E L N E . UCH, K.G. P g o t ti e t r ic m e a the l p -Is r ci hiciple of free destitute sick, without the for malityand instant admission to the This a ti s r u s r t e h r ; E pitl a t r o dinitar tution in its most pitiable form r mid is now of sufficient of „crovernors' letters. It is i e z n , ti t r h e a ly t d w e h v i o c t h ed is to acco des m ti : P ul led by sickness and disease, ina,,onitude that, with adequate support" it may be rendered - c apable of admitting,• Into its wards a very large proportion of . the ca sua l sick of this great metropolis it requires but the liable for the reception of fluids in order to have 500 beds ava-- eatures. Moreover, these the most wretched of our felloW-Cr, medicine to more, it gratuitously affords medical advice and ,„ 1 ,. on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week The Weekly Board feel it their imperative d ti u n ty ne t d o g ra u a p k p e o a rt n , EARNEST APPEAL to the public for CO n 7 n - 0 . c ases that Fla c il o y u p tr r i e b s u e t n i t on th s ez e l ves. to enable them to admit and relieve the aistreS s— b received by th 6 `Masterman, I:sq., Nich I Co. ; Drummond and ° "'lane; also by • Hansom and Co.; Prescott, Crot , tessrs. Cou E Co. ; Henries and Co. ; • c, o , ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loel;dand Co. ; Smith, Payne, and • .„ ~,ion i t d t i w a ttg Co. ; Nisbet and Cci.reasuta, and CO. ; W Hiatus 'D and : Barclay and Co. ; In"- anu and at the Hospital. Co. eaeon, arid co, Co.;; Overend, Gurney , ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary, ..,. 1 ONEI7 ---- removal\ Leasehold -M Private PROMPTLY Gentleman upon FURNITURE (without Zet iT , l C burns from awl Freehold Property, or Reversions, .from 420 to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen pside. p A .,,, G E's BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE ACITINE•= for hand, horse, ar steam power, are the most simple and effictmt extant. —Full particulars andprices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney Place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Caonon-street, E.C., where 'they may be seen in operation daily. R . EATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ~,, ING POWDER, for which a Exhibit Medal was awarded t i ll ue t ,,iroducer at the . International on, 1862 ti.,, ••powder is quite harmless to an mal life, but Is un ne:Ted I_ 1„,. ,„n destroying Fleas. Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, ---' Goats, Mosquitos, .i.oths in furs, and every other 'Vies tot Insect ' In% l. Vi"neri Wll find this au invaluable remedy - u ct ,eas l ll their Dogs, as also Ladies fo w r heir Pet Dots. invaluable article, Whionathe c'.—iginal importer of this 1, 9 I- ! 1 :1 1 4 N I „ t -,, great a sale btilratriet t h h a e s r te to m: e pt ca ed u o u t o h n e e r d t to u pg. , rr e th eali, d a ' '. the p t ' autop a . an. a.l th rtie„ the Genuine Powder heal' the . Soi d Ah of , i 7 packets , t 1 4 er ge — Pack, - CMAS KEATINu 4 4. each, or post free for ranlip.cltNe -- ,,i la, 2s. 6d., and 45. u --"- Cilelßikt, 79, St. ~ g alra n iPS by ido Thomas li.eatim,,, 4 ' Lo, &O. .. -..... ...0.0111*. )revailed e to give ordingly, ew, 15 in upon her where it The boat ), hay ing at of the itnessing sea was ,yes were ting cha ments for superin• 3r in this vas made er. The ;e of the iage and ly, how [tient the and the inning a iling off; cond and ieveral of but sac they ha d ried them Itch the and the , ire on the 3 she had %tors was a groyne , dashing on was f the by' to render so doing eld, chi ef , L knoelon s thrown )t on the u ght wea ge, how' will, no ,rious id a verY adannted at praise essed the idencs in acuity to he coas t • pier the at it is to Nigh B e l ulty and prices 1$ gather ces were ere quite 30s to 32g )8 s to 3" i4s to 27 6 39s to 42 0 to Eng lol over the inquirl Oats at 1. show of it week• rs to 40 6 s to 320 s to 245 s to —4l 1 * *8 "16 6 18 2 "16 w " "l7 3 18 ° 'l7 3 : *. 17 3 ..17 3 15 9 , *. 17 9 apt. i ‘ f • ; pt ct. pt. 21' ) pt. ,nt. pt. 1 2' 4:it. la* ;pt. 12. Ipt. 2° ' A. s ; n P. I" . Tt. ;pt. Pt . a, )Pt 11 : ? pt . lu. pt. 24. pt. < B ' pt. 14' de it° of the mmi......' wife of rife of ster" No. 22.216 t'_' PRICE. .. STAMPED ....sd. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., NE X T 0 0 IL By Mrs. THOMSON, Author of "Constance," Sm. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. A CRUMMLES FAMILY IN FRANCE. fathers, mothets sisters The members of the Family P. Salcy brothers, uncles, and aunts—that I think ;h e aud so like one another--fathers, were so fat piece under representation, and to the last c; audience were much confused about the plot, that. everybody must turn out to be the long-10. r relative of every body else. The Theatre was esta blished on the 'top story of the Hotel de Ville, and was approached by a long bare staircase, whereon, in an airy situation, one of the P. Salty Family — a stout gentleman imperfectly repressed' by a belt— took the money. This occasioned the greatest ex citement of the evening; for, no sooner did the cur tain rise on the introductory Vaudeville, and re veal in the person of the young lover (singing a very short slug with his eyebrows) apparently the very same identical stout gentleman imperfectly re pressed by a belt, than everybody rushed out to the paying-place, to ascertain whether he could pos sibly have put on that dress-coat, that clear com plexion, and those arched black vocal eyebrows, in so short a space of time. It then became manifest that this was another stout gentleman imperfectly' repressed by a belt; to whom, before the spec tators had recovered their presence of mind, entered a third stout gentleman imperfectly repressed by a belt, exantly like him. These two "subjects," making with the money-taker three of the announced fifteen, fell into conversation touching a charming young widow : who, presently appearing, proved to be a stout lady altogether ir repressible by any means—quite a parallel case to the American Negro—fourth of the fifteen subjects, and sister of the fifth who presided over the check department. In good time the whole of the fifteen subjects were dramatically presented, and we had the inevitable Ma Mere, Ma Mere! and also the inevitable malgdietion d'un pere, and likewise the inevitable Marquis, and also the inevitable provin cial young man, weak-minded but faithful, who followed Julie to Paris, and cried and laughed and choked all at once. The story was wrought out with the help of a virtuous spinning-wheel in the beginning, a vicious set of diamonds in the middle, and a rheumatic blessing (which arrived by post) from Ma Mere towards the end; the whole result ing in a small sword in the body of one of the stout gentlemen imperfectly repressed by a belt, 50,000 francs per annum and a decoration to the other stout gentleman imperfectly repressed by a belt, po:f iotalch(l and an assurance from everybody to the provincial young man that if he were not supremely happy— which he seemed to have no reason whatever for being—he ought to be. This afforded him a final opportunity of crying and laughing and choking all at once, and sent the audience home sentimen tally delighted.—New number of " All the Year Round." , • s. • . , • • • , utito , • 1 „§- • 7 ; 2 - , - - \ `ll , ._ 01 . i • 465, • •.. < *sm. • —l - .) • f., - —e - ,:..... - i.s; re,9:1717 - j0 ? -, ~, ,S - . ,..i1• .3...6.,..;;,,A t be CO long, and to average 12ft high, Bit, i iidthi , ),• ‘ ktid, a cylinder world contain 5,760 cubi 4:lieW, - ,i%[': ; power of that quantity of hydrogen w ik!4 , q ' : :ti ..::" •=',. ' posing the silk and Whatever app ere Alt 444:(1?0,,W5AY furnished with bWeigh 2601bs,—in reed t . vc.e nearly so much,—there would still !ems' Aiftilliowe - ) sufficient to lift and sustain a man weighingltst. 4 .. ma of ordinary strength is able to lift 6,0001bs to the height of one foot in a minute, when applying his strength under fair mechanical advantages. Five miles an hour is 44011 in a minute, and 440 into 6,000 goes 13i tunes; so that the strength of one man, applied under proper conditions, would be sufficient to lilt 1311bs 4401 t in a minute. A plane sur face, moving through the air at the rate of 440 ft in a minute, or five miles an hour, would experience a resistance of 25 times .005, or •125, of a pound on every square foot; and if the plane surface were equal in extent to the largest section of the proposed cylinder, it would thus experience a total ' resistance of 141bs. la the case of the cylinder itself, owing to the paraboloidal form of its ends, the resistance wool! be a third less than this, reducing the total to %lbs. To propel this cylinder at the rate of five miles an hour would there fore require the exertion of a force c3pabie of lifting gibs 4 40 ft in a m i nute. We have seen that a man of ordinary strengthcould could lilt lailb s 410 ft in a minute. Consequently, propel the cylinder, at the speed mentioned, with great ease. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Her Majesty' s iron p add lewheel st eamvesse l Bloodhound, Lieut.-C ommander Stokes, from the West Coast of Africa, yesterday hauled a l ongs id e the eastern wharf in the outer basin at Woolwich, in order to return stores, in readiness to pay out of commission on Tuesday, the 15th i nst. Lieut. Stokes was appointed by Commodore Edmonstone to the command of the Bloodhound,on the 6th Sept., 1861, and took up his commission in the Congo river, superseding Lieut. Dolben, who returned hom e . Lieut. Stokes sailed from England in the paddle sloop Alecto, in which vessel he served as First Lieut. in Feb., 1860, and was subsequently ap pointed to the command of the Brune, in which vessel he was,present at the attack of Porto Novo, and was afterwards employed principally in the Bights of Biafra and Benin in the suppression of the traffic in slaNes, but took no prizes. In Sept., 1862, yellow fever manifested itself in several eases on board the Bloodhound, and carried off Mr. Hamp shire, the engineer in charge, and seven of the crew. The commander was likewise severely attacked with the disease, but recovered. Lieut. Stokes' services, in company with Capt. Barton, her Majesty's Con sul at Fernando Po, to assert the rights of Bri tish subjects in the Benin River, have been fa vourably reported. Captain Barton and Lieut. Stokes are the only white men who up to the present moment have been known to ascend the Elephant Mountain in Batanga, where they were attended by a numerous guard of bushmen, to whr they were objects of curiosity and wonder. Her Majesty's paddle sloop Hydra, about to re, place the Medina in the Mediterranean, and in pro gress of fitment at Woolwich, yesterday commenced coaling, in readiness for an early trial trip of h er machinery. The iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 160- horse power, is to be placed in No. 3 dock at Chatham, for the purpose of ascertaining the locality of her leak. The old line-of -battle sailing ship Duncan, 74, is partially demolished at Chatham dockyard, and in the course of a few days will have entirely disap peared. Notwithstanding that she is one of the oldest vessels of her class belonging to the English navy, most of her timbers are sound, and give but few signs of decay. In consequence of the difficulty experienced in obtaining hired shipwrights to break her up, the work has to be performed by the me chanics belonging to the establishment.. A number of workmen are employed at Chatham dockyard in erecting strong cast-iron girders on each side of No. 6 shed, beneath which the screw gunvessel Myrmidon is standing partially com pleted. These additions are made in the expecta tion that this slip will be used in the construction of one of the new iron-cased vessels which are to be commenced at that establishment. The Myrmidon, which is about two-thirds completed, will bathe only wooden vessel taken in hand at Chatham dockyard. Master W. Shepley Taylor, whose name stands at the head of the list of successful candidates passed at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, as naval cadets of the first class, was educated during thir teen months previously on board the Conway train ing ship, Commander Richlrd Mould, R.N. While in the Conway, Master Taylor gained the first cadetship given by his Grace the Duke of Somerset, K.G., First Lord of the Admiralty, the gold medal for greatest general proficiency in all subjects of training and education, and the first mathematical prize in the first class. Master Robert Findlay, who passed his examination as first-class naval cadet at the Royal Naval College at the same time, was also educated on board the Conway, and gained the second cadetship given by the Duke of Somerset. The Lord Bishop of Salisbury held a confirmation service on Tuesday at Wyke Regis, Dorset, ape. cially for the naval cadets of her Majesty's ship Britannia, Capt. R. Ashmore Powell, C.B. (cadet training-ship for her M a j esty ' s navy stationed at Portland): 72 of the y oung gentlemen presented and were confi rme d . themselves, Nov ready at all the L'braries , in 3 vo ls . , L ADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW NOVEL, " MARY LYND'AY." " 'Mary Lyndsay' is the best written and most interesting of the author's works."—Post. " It is interesting and enthralling throughout."—Sun. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TROPICAL POEMS. Now ready at all the Libraries, crown Bvo., price 65., BEAUTIES OF TROPICAL SCENERY, and Other TROPICAL POEMS. With Notes. • By the Author of " The Nuptials of Barcelona." "A volume of word pictures."—Observer. "The amatory passages are worthy of Thomas Moore."— Critic. London: Robert liardwieke, 192, Piceadriy. urADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6i. A rj Fiftieth Thousand. Contains a full Report of the Action for Libel and Verdict gained by the Editor. Stinging reply to the Critics of the Press. Letters from H.R.H. the late Prince Consort to Zadkiel ! London : G. Berger, llolywell-street, Strand, London. FGYPTIAN HALL.-MR. J. K. LORD. ,/ F.Z.S., Nial tly in his popular Entertainment, entitled "AT HOME IN THE WILDERNESS." Admission-55., 35., 25., le. T H E OXF 0 It 1), r, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. isishop's TI-1E SLAVE and Ilalevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, finish, &e., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. - - - - - - 1 he HALL has 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, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. fIANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order j to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pt pper 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 body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im w;:rovEeircniest; a aV ren eff o e , c c t I s o ) k. REPRESENTATIONS EACH All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ROYAL ALHANIBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The GIIO T 1 ! The ONLY COMI GHOST !! ! —The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corns of Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas : Principals, Miss M‘Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and Mr. Vernon Rigby. NICOSI A, the Great Violinist. wili make his Fourth Appearance in England THIS EVENIA G and Every Evening, at the ALHAMBRA. Doors oven at 7—commence at half-past 7. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill -street, Piccadilly. Th- se el , eant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated, are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season, The musical department is under the directorship of Mons. Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be called for the future "The London Band." Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET. sole Lessee, R. R. BIGNELL. Admission, is. Doors open at 8 o'clock. ESTABLISHED 1833. _ I) OWDEN'S AERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Wa ters. — Manutactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. IHE LAUNDRESSES t o her late Majesty Queen Adelaide say, that " BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN S CARCII needs but to be triel to be approved " Sole Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by Buw, London, E. RUPTURES.—By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. lITErrE'S MOC-MA IN LEVER TRUSS Y (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN -Nis GREAT XHIBITIONS OP 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Ai edical Gentlemen W ne the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of iIEIt N I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the line-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease ,nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the 'rues, 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, ls. Double Truss, Us. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. lOd. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling 01 the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are )orous, light in texture, dnd inexpensive, and are drawn on ib ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. "I hey especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchonp:,, reduced to 3s. Rd. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. 11d. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge. City, E.C. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will he received et this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, 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, 1863, to 3 st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on aptdication 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 outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart, K.C.8.. is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co , banke( s, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he luved, and where he lived and died. R O YAL NATIONAL LIF E-B OAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATnotqnss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. I RESIDENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos Baring, Fsq., M.P., F.R.S. V.?. Onpumv-CuAiumAx—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., P.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since lie beginning, of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments .n the Coasts of Engand. Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800; ,or which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and 06,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,''00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-can lazes, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous sup which the y have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which port has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom t)ceply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility that a e g o: Eta andu i t r t n u i l t y t eita gratefully al Wo ae r t- n . rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and . 1 screws practised in the management of their boa% whyli can only be effected by a large and pa, manent i m ac e ,o p ,m to e, t a lr d y t e h a e r m ne i s n tly up a h n o p l e d a in l g to an a d ll p e e l r as pe s t e u s a o t f in t g he l i jo r acknowledge the following' The 0 con tributions:—X S. d annual 50 C 0 Campbell, the MM. Mrs. G •• • • .. annual 50 0 Camp • E A, • d Me ssrs " an en •• ~ alloual 10 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, . • 13 i • .. . .. annual 11 0 Coutts an c 0.,•• • • • • • • .. 4th don 10 0 0 Her majority the Queen • • .. .. Currie, Wm., Esq. , .. .L.A.,ldtismnicrea .. K.C.B. . .... d . on. on. 25 10 1 0 0 g 1 Sir A.,K C B 9d d ,-, cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sportingi::are i nn e sw , h L i ac o k,s r ,. e d ,ov. Chief i,...c, e.,.... _, s , , , , • • • • • • .. 250 0 0 •? •• don. 3 0 0 Carilag? andifra. Harvey, Rev. G. 6, .../.. .. .. .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bar , .. .. • .. don. 15 15 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • • fl wieli • • • • • • 30 0 Smith, Mrs. George, 0 0 K.C.B. .. .. annual 2 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, n i ree • • • • .. 16 16 0 Ilbe_thankfully Willoughby d'Ereby, Thom-,s. Lady, i.p Weston-super-Mare, c . ollec o t . edl: n y n h u e a r l 5 0 0 Donations and Annu L arS d n' t s . h e 9 t n it s u l t vi ion, Messrs. Willis, re eived by the Bankers of Percival, and Co. 76, Lombard-Inti eet • Messrs. Coutts and eeth a r n s d o C i o c. . , u l s 6 t , om S St. Co.. jarn e Secretary and Bankers in the UnitedKlngdom ; e 5 9818, a Strand;treet Londonl 7 lessrs . ; Retries, a I Farquhar , t t h r e ( ~, 011 Richard Lewis, Eta Institution, 14, Min - Street, Adelp . Ignaclou, "i4 - 4:f. .' , at the Office OfautdhebYth T om... ~,~~ HOW TO FLY ! A NEW SCHEME OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. —An article in the September number of Weldon's Register, after set ting forth some new and curious arguments and calcu lations with a view to disprove the doctrine taught by the Times, that " the problem of mrial navigation will be readily solved [by means of artificial wings) whenever the pro gress of science shall place us in command of a motive power sufficiently lighter, in proportion to its capabilities, than the steam engine," and to show that, even if we had " an engine which, while capable of putting forth any re quired amount of force, should weigh absolutely nothing at all, the transport of passengers or merchandise by means of artificial wings would still be as impossible as it is at pre sent," proceeds as follows : And yet man may navigate the air if he will, and as soon as he will. To the question—" If by means neither of balloons nor of artificial wings, than by what means r I reply—By imitating, not the birds, but the fishes. The birds and the fishes constitute the only examples we have in nature of animals being able to sustain them selves in, and at the same time to propel themselves through, an element lighter than the heavier portions of their own bodies. We have seen by what means the birds do this, and that we cannot imitate them. In the case of the fishes, the matter is managed in another way. Unlike the bird in flying, the fish in swimming has no weight to bear, and so all the exertion it needs to put forth is for the purpose of propelling itself. The greater portion of its flesh and bones is of as nearly as possible the same specific gravity as the element which it inhabits, and the excess of weight of the heavier portions is balanced by means of a long narrow bag filled with some gaseous body by many more times lighter than water than hydrogen is lighter than atmospheric air. As a whole, the body of the fish is thus rendered of exactly the same weight as the quantity of water which it displaces, and it is, therefore, sustained in the water just as a balloon is sustained in the atmosphere,—and this, too, at least to some extent, by exactly parallel means, For man to navigate the air, the machine by which he does so must have thus muck in common with the balloon,—it must be as self-buoyant in the element it is to travel through as a fish is in its element. Therefore, although balloons cannot accomplish the nevi• gation of the air, it can be effected only by the aid of those light gases by means of which balloons are rendered buoyant. The object in view can only be achieved by some method of applying the lifting power of the light gases more advantageously than this is done in the case of balloons. That method can only consist in an alteration of theform of the receptacles containing the gas. Instead of being spheroidal, they must be more or less fish-shaped; they must be flattened cylinders with paraboloidal ends. In order to show clearly, by a readily intelligible illus tration, what influence this simple change of form would have, let us suppose a hundred balloons, all of exactly the same size, to be ranged in a row, like the carriages of a railway train, and let the hundred balloons be all connected with, and so all assist to support, one long, narrow car. Such a train of balloons would represent the pro posed cylinder sufficiently nearly,—especially as the " cylinder" would itself virtually consist of a number of distinct bags of gas connected together, the chief differ ence between it and the train of balloons being that in it space would be economized, and steadiness of lifting power and uniformity of motion secured, by their being no suck interstices between the bags of gas composing it as there would in the case of the train of balloons. It is obvi ous that, to the motion through it, end-foremost, of the sup posed train of balloons, the atmosphere would be able to oppose only the same amount of resistance as it would oppos e to the motion through it of any one of the balloons singly, No more force therefore would be required to propel the train of balloons than would be required to propel a single balloon, but the train would be able to lift an engine for the supply of that force a hundred times heavier than the single balloon could lift.' As the power of an engine in creases much more rapidly than its weight, there could thus b e applied to the propulsion of the train of balloons several hundred times more force than could be applied to the pro pulsion of any one of them by itself, I have said that the aerial cylinder which this article is written to suggest would consist, in effect, of a combination of a number of separate bags of gas. It would never do to make it consist simply of one huge long narrow bag, because such a bag, if filled with light gas and allowed to rise into the atmosphere, instead of floating horizontally, as the cy linder must, in order to be available as a means of navigat ing the air, would float with its longest axis vertical to the earth's surface. To prevent its doing that, the 0 9 1iter when not actually composed of a number of distinct bags; combined together, should be divided into a out—dr be higher compartments, or cells, each of which t' he t `" i _ to higher than it was wide—should be longer , a ? a l say, in the direction perpendicular W in the l ongest r t axis of the cylinder as a whole thanb thissimple direction. It will readily be seed that he y ld be that it than u horizontally. impossible ar rangement it would be secured for the cylinder to float in any oth er wa y That; such cylinder could be pro pelled, and by suc h means for the supply of motive force as w . e ha already at our command, is not a me rely speculateve opunon—an enthu siastic conviction, w hi c h may or may not b e we ll-f oun d ed w hich have long bee n es t a bli s h e d , and h lt av re e s b ts ee o n n dtastd a by actual experience thousands of times, It is based on the following establish e d f ac t s :-- ist. The weight of a cubic foot of hydrogen is 36.5 grains, a n d that of a cubi c f oot of atmospheric air 523 gra i ns . A cubic foot of hyd rogen w ill , therefore, sustain i n the atmosphere a heavy body weighing 4865 grains, being the difference between its own weight a n d th at of the ' vo lume of air which it displaco. There are 7,00 0 grains to the pound avoirdupois, and 14 5 times 486.5 is 7,054.25. Consequently 14; cubic feet of hydrogen will sustain a pound and 51'25 grains. 2d. A body moving through the atmosphere at the rate of one mile an hour, and presenting a flat surface for the atmosphere to act upon in opposing its motion, experiences a resistance of .005 of a pound on every square foot of such surface, and this resistance increases as the square of the velocity. 301. The resistance to motion through the atmosphtre is greatly modified by the form of the moving body. The form that gives least resistance is nearly that of a parabola, or a form somewhat resembling the breast of a duck or the head of a fish. The body should also taper backwards, like the body of a fish." The resistance to a paraboloid is one third less than the resistance to a plane surface equal in extent to a section of the paraboloidal body, taken at its widest part. From these data, both the lifting power of a cylinder of any given dimensions, and the resistance whioh the at mosphere would oppose to its motion, at any given speed, can be readily calculated. Let us suppose, then, a cylinder of the kind indicated to THE ARmy. The Hongoumont, Capt. Flamlnk, arrived at Fal mouth on Wednesday evening from Calcutta, and proceeded for Spithead to land time-expired troops, women and children, and some insane and con victs. She left Calcutta on the 30th of April, and experienced find weather in rounding the Cape, but met with ten days' east wind off the Western Island. Passengers —Captains Itoenbrigge and M'Gregor, Lieut. Kernin, and Assist.-Sur. Haystedt, in charge of troops; also Lieut. Cunningham, of the Madras army ; Assistant-Surgeon Kelgour, 29th Highlanders ; and Mr. M'Nair. The Adventure screw troopship, C o mmander Lethbridge, w ill em b ar k to•morrow, at Portsmouth, for convey ance t o C anada the following aggregate number of troops i n detachments Ffoorot, and other corps Guards, Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, 30th corps serving in the co l on y :-21 officers an d their families ; 453 men, 55 women , and 42 child ren. The Woolwich division of Royal Marine Light Infantry, in =land of Col. co Michell , Yesterday assembled in three battalions on Woolwich-common, and went through a field day's evolutions. The battalio „B were commanded b y Col. Travers, Li eu t.- coion g Marriott, and Lieut.-Colonel Suther, and per formed the various man oeuvres with admirable order and precision. Experimental practice is daily carried on by the Royal Artillery With the rifled guns erected on the sea defences commanding 70 the approach es t o Ch a th am harbour with the -pounder and 40-pounder Arm strong guns, in order to test the comparative effi ciency of the side-loading principle. The results hitherto obtained have been very satisfactory as regards the increased rapidity with Which the load ing and firing can be carried on. The practice is made under the personal superintendence of Col. Nedham, commanding the Royal Artillery in the Chatham district, assisted by Lieut.-Colonel Talbot, commanding the First Division of the Depot Bri gade. The large general hospital just erected at Cha tham, which is on the eve of being opened, will have a commodious ward attached for the reception of female patients suffering from Lock diseases, the expenses connectzd with which department of the establishment will be almost entirely defrayed by the Government. A considerable portion of the funds for the erection of the ho3pical has been contri buted by th e Ad m i ra l ty an d the W ar D epartment, the Govern men t at t h e sarae t i me making an run ne l grant to the hospital on the express condltiou that one portion of the hospital shall be devoted exclu sively to L oc k cases . Th is is th e first step taken by hospitals in our the Govern men t t o es t a blish Lo c k large garrison and seaport towns. . ---. THE WIGWELL HALL INTURDER..---The pOsoner, George Victor Townley, who awaits his trial for Ole wilful murder of Miss Goodwin, still. maintains the same demeanour, and conducts hj.eaself as he did before and im mediately after his co mm i ttal. He has had interviews with his legal adviser, Mr. Leech, o f th e fi rm o f Gamble and. Leech. Last week h is brother visited bin], an d on Tuesday Mr. Townley, sen., returned to Derb an d sawthe sonar. The f r i ends of Townley still correspond with y, pl.! .. hilt in terms of the warmest affectiOn; and his conduc t towards all with wh om he comes in contact is marked by i ts civility and gratefulness for any favour conferred or duty done. 1)0 4 Mercury. ,.... '. 0'.i.4 , LONDON, THURSDAY EARL RUSSELL AT DUNDEE. DUNDEE, Wednesday. The freedom of the town of Dundee was this morning conferred on Earl Rass , ll, in presence of a vast assem blage, in the Corn-Exchange, the visit of the noble earl to the town being in compliance with an invitation to him to take part in the ceremony of opening the People's Park, presented to the town of Dundee by Sir David and Misses Baxter, at the cost of about £50,000. The town council and guildry took advantage of the Earl's visit to offer him the freedom of their respective corporations. The Earl and Countess Russell, with Lady Georgina Russell and Lord Awberley, drove in a carriage and four from Mcikleour-house, Perthshire, where they were residing for the autumn, and arrived in Dundee, after a drive of 20 miles, about 11 o'clock. The noble lord was loudly cheered in the streets, which were filled with people, the day being a holiday in Dundee and neighbouring towns, on occasion of the opening of the park. Earl and Lady Russell and family were accompanied to the platform by the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of Camperdown, Sir D. Baxter, Sir David Brewster, Principal of Edinburgh University, Sir John Ogilvy, Hon. C. Carnegie, M.P., Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P., the Sheriff, the Provost, and magistrates, &c. The Cern-Exchange was crowded by the influential citizens of Dundee, who gave the noble Earl a cordial welcome. Provost Parker read the addresses of the Town COunGil, which contained the following sentences : " When we piss in review the many great measures which your Lordship has introduced into Parliament during your, long political career, and th e i mportant mea sures introduced by other distinguished men who had your hearty and powerful support, measures connected with civil and religious liberty and commercial freedom —measures which were often defeated, but which happily eventually triumphed,---we feel how large a debt of gratitude is due to your Lordship from this large and commercial community and the nation at large. " We cannot close this address without congratulating your lordship, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the peaceful relations at present existing between the Crown and all the European Powers, and expressing our great satis faction that her Majesty's Government have kept the nation from entanglement in the much to be deplored conflict still existing bet weea the Northern and Southern States of Ame rica. The constitutional principles which have been the guide of your lordship hitherto are the best assurance the nation can have as regards the future," Dean of Guild KENNEDY then delivered the address of the Guildry, which in a few words congratulated his lord ship oa his political services in behalf of civil and religious liberty. Earl RUSSELL, who was received with loud and general cheering, read the following reply :—Sir and Gentlemen,-- I receive with gratitude the freedom of the anci en t and Royal burgh of Dundee. I have come for the first time in order to add my tribute of respect to one of your most distin guished citizens, who has nobly provided for the health and recreation of his fellow citizens, and well deserves to be re membered to all time as a public benefactor. (Cheers.) The increase of large towns is a proof of increasing wealth, and the effect of prosperous industry is not without accompany ing evils. One of these evils is the exclusion of the face of Nature ; and happy is he who can give to those 44 in popu lous city pent'' a rest from exhausting toil, amid scenes which invigorate the body and turn the mind to the contem- plation of the wonderful works of God. (Cheers.) In refer ring to measures which I have contributed to promote dur ing a long course of Parliamentary exertion, you have done me too much honour. I have been happy to contribute humbly to the victory of those eloquent and distinguished men who were foremost in the cause of Catholic emancipa tion—who won for the people the great battle of the repeal of the Corn Laws. (Cheers.) With regard to the measures in which I had a more immediate part in preparing —the re peal of the Corporation and Test Acts; in frtming a plan for the reform of Parliament, and introducing a bill for the re form of our Municipal Corporations —I have been studious to build upon the ancient foundations—(cheers)—(0 adapt new measures to existing laws, and to put them in harmony with the institutions of a country justly proud of its liberty. (Loud cheers.) Thirty years of experience have shown that I have not been mistaken in my hope ; every year has strengthened our political constitution, and con firmed, as you justly observe, our domestic tranquillity. (Cheers.) As Secretary for Foreign Affairs it has been my object to preserve peace with honour. (H ear , h ear.) You may rely with confidence in the Administration of Lord Palmerston, who is so justly and universally popular-- (cheers) —for maintaining a line of strict impartiality in the lamentable conflict in America. (Cheers.) The duties of neutrality between parties violently hostile are not easily performed. (Hear, hear.) It has been, and it will be, our endeavour to exercise the powers now intrusted, or which may be intrusted, to the Crown by Parliament in such a manner as at once to defeat every attempt to enga ge our people in enterprizes inconsistent with our neutral position and to preserve for ourselves, our persons, and our property those safeguards of British law and British justice to which alone they are indebted for the security they now enjoy. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) A vote of thanks to the Provost and cheers for the Qu een and the Earl and Countess Russell closed the proceedings. OPENING Or . BAXTER PARK. At 1 o'clock the variousbodies who took part in the grand ceremony of the day met in the Barrack Park. When the line had been formed the procession marched through the principal streets to the l'cople's Park, which is situated at the north-eastern extremity of the town. The park occu pies a space of 38 acres, and is most tastefully laid out. I n the centre stands a handsome pavilion in the Italian style, built at a cost of £6,000. At each entrance are handsome lodges. The cost of the park, its embellishment, and the sum set apart by the donor for its maintenance cannot be less than £50,000. A statue of Sir David Baxter, subscribed for by upwards of 16,000 of the people of Dundee as a mark of their gratitude for his noble gift, and which was executed by Mr. Steel, sculptor, of Edinburgh, was uncovered on the occasion. Among the speakers at the opening of the park were Earl Dalhousie, the Earl of Camperdown, Sir David Baxter, and others. In replying to a vote of thanks for his presence, Earl RUSSELL, who was received with enthusiastic cheers by the vast multitude, said-- I hope you will allow me, as the youngest burgess of Dundee, to say a few words with regard to a matter which I think may tend to the usefulness of this park, for which the town of Dundee is so much indebted to Sir D. Baxter. (Applause.) I was speaking to him of a notion which has occurred to my mind, and I found it had also occurred to his, and, indeed, from his benevolence and sagacity it was not likely to have escaped him. I have been accustomed in the course of my life to pay a great deal of attention to education; and I have been told of late years by those who are occupied in education in great towns—such as Glasgow, Birmingham, and similar large towns—that there is one great difficulty they have to contend with in their schools, and that is that in those towns there is no such thing as a playground. (Hear, hear.) I think a play ground is quite as useful as a school—(laughter and ap plause)—and it is still more easy to occupy a playground in these days, when we are told by some clever philosophers that the boy who is at school three days in the week learns quite as much, if not more, than the boy who goes six, and that the boy who is at school half a day learns quite as much as the boy who is at school the whole day. (Laughter and cheers.) Whether that be true or not lam not going to say, but I think it would be a great advantage to the schools in this town if they were to ask the permission of Lord Dalhousie and the other trustees, that from time to time, at certain fixed hours, this park should be made a playground for certain games during the hours of recrea tion which the school allows. There is a very great ten dency at the present time—which is a good tendency—of bringing people together in large towns, but it has a dis advantage, and that is that the children are brought up without having the least notion of the green fields, or a game at cricket, or a game at trap-ball. (Hear, hear.) And it is quit e as essent i a l that t h e b o d y o f a b oy s h ou ld be edu cated, and hi s m i n d turne d to t h ese thi ngs , as that he hopesshould in t eaatr, being his the alphabetyen youngest t ciphers. burges ( s Applause) p D p anud myee, s am pre sumption be excused. (A. laugh.) I think it would be may ( that p there (Applause,) s e.na great pleasure to know that th e young generation of Dundee oyf pursuits , i A p those wh could enjoy the advantages of this park as much as more manly o l are the e ld ers, and able to give themse l ves t o )e needs beg to thankbetter you o n the name ussell, (Cheers.) I h ave certainly found by experienc e come to for a w if e t h an to Scotland, and place and I certainly shall recommend the pr ac ti ce to others which I have adopted myself. (Laughter and great applause.) The weather was fortunately dry and sunny, and the pro ceedings passed o ff w i t h greatdcZt. display of fireworks in th e park, and fhere was a grand illuminations in vari ous parts. it was intended to set off a large balloon, but the wind was untavourable. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE ON A CHILD. Yestordt a young man named Abraham Farrant was committed trial by the borough magistrates at Guildf or d , for a criminal and most brutal assault upon a child of two y ears old, the daughter of the landlord of the Rose and Crown public house in that town. It is feared that the poor little girl is not likely to survive the injuries she has sustained. THE ADVANTAGE OF A "POSTMAN'S lirrocii." At the Judges' Chambers, on Wednesday, an appli. cation was made to discharge a person named Onions out of custody, on the ground that the arrest had been effected by the sheriffs' officers breaking open the outer door. The officers swore they got into the house at night, after watch. log f or some time, by the dodge of a "postman's knock." The do or was opened and after a struggle the capture was made. Air. Justice Mellor refused to order the discharge, believing that the arrest was through the "postman's knocks" EVENING, SEPTE, I ,7IIER 10, 1863 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, WARWICK RACES.-WEDNESDAY. A bright autumn sun pouring down its rays with the heat of July was a welcome change after the rather chilly air of yesterday, and helped to crowd the course and stand with gay pleasure-seekers. A sale of blood stock by Messes. Bretherton and Harrison attracted a large audience to the course an tour before the races, and some of the stock fetched fair prices. Cadiz carried off the first race easily, Nebula in the Welter Cup squandering a great favourite in the person of Cheerful, who had been previously backed for the St. Leger. The County Handicap was another surprise for the gentlemen, a filly of Mr. Snewing's making all the run ning, and winning easily. The Warwick Cup brought only three horses to the post, the presence of Dr. Syntax, an extreme outsider for the Great Northern event, promising a taste of his quality. He pulled double all the way, and, taking the lead from the stand, won with comparative ease by three parts of a length. The pace was but indifferent. After the race 40 to 1 was taken about the winner for the St. Leger. The Nursery Handicap was won cleverly by Rizzio, being the second time to-day his owner's colours first caught the judge's eye —a rather unusual circumstance for Mr. Robertson. The St. Leger betting will be found below. A Sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 sovs added ; for 2-yr olds, 6st 121 b ; 3-yr-olds, Set Nib. Fillies and geldings allowed 31b. Winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile. 8 subs. Mr. Fleming's Cadiz, 3 yrs, 9st(inc. 71b extra) (Norman) 1 Capt. Gray's King's George, 2yrs, 7st 51b (inc. 7tb ex.) (Dowling) 2 Mr. Barber's The Clown, 2 yrs, 7st 51b (inc. 71b extra) (B. Taylor) 3 Betting--5 to 4 agst (at fit 6to on) King George, 6 to 4 agst The Clown, and 5 to 1 agst Cadiz. The Clown, followed by the favourite, made play to the straight, where the three closed and ran together to the distance, where Cadiz came out and won in a canter by two lengths; a bad third. The W elter Cup, value 100 soya, the rest in specie, by sub scription of 15 says each, 10 ft, and sif declared. Winners extra. Professionals 61b extra. One mile. 23 subs,, 14 of whom declared. Mr. Down's Nebula, 3 yrs, 9st 41b (Mr. W. Beville) 1 Mr. Handley's Cheerful, 3 yrs, 9st 81b (Mr. G. Thompson) 2 Major Wombell's Alcibiade, 3 yrs, Bst 131 b (in. 61e ex) (Challoner) 3 Betting-9 to 4on Cheerful, 4to 1 agst Nebula, and 7to 1 agst Alcibiade. Cheerful, with Alcibiada at his girths, made play, Nebula lying off two or three lengths until nearing the Star Close, where the favourite drew away, the latter at the same time taking the second place. On entering the straight, Nebula ran up to Cheerful, the pair coming on in company to the distance, where Mr. Down's filly took a decided lead, and won very easily by a length ; a bad thitd. The County Handicap of 10 sous each, 5 ft, with 100 sous added. Winners extra. The second horse to save his stake. Oue mile. 32 subs. Mr. C. Snewing's Barter, 3 yrs, sst 121 b (J. Grimshaw) 1 Mr. W. S. Crawfurd's Crotchet colt, 4 yrs, 7st 41b . Dale 2 Mr. R. Boyce's The Principal, 4 yrs, (J 6st 131 by) (T. Osborne) 3 The following also ran :—Aurelian, General Hess, Golden Dust, Paddy O'Rourke, Ossian, and Fletton. Several failures occurred before Mr. Marshall could get them in order. When the flag was lowered Barter jumped away with a decided lead, followed by Aurelian and General Hess side by side ; then came the Crotchet colt, Golden ietton being the Ossian, thewto anlas. o d t Padd n en yO t ' e ß ri o n urke e the straight Barter Principal F some what increased his lead, and on reaching the distance had his horses beaten, General Hess being the first to give way, followed in a few strides after by Aurelian, which left the favourite and Principal (the latter havi ng run past the pull ing up horses) in hopeless pursuit of Mr. Snewing's colt, which won in a canter by three lengths ; Principal finished a Wretched third, Golden Dust was fourth, Paddy O'Rourke fifth, and O ss i an s i x th ; Aurelian, in company w ith G enera l Hess and Fletton, were the last three. The Members' Plate of £5O; for 2 -yr-olds, Est 71b; 3-yr olds, Bst : 4-yr-olds and upwards, Bst 101 b. Winners extra. The winner to be sold for 50 sous. Lord Westmoreland's Usher, 2 yrs, 6st 111 b .. (Morgan) 1 Mr. J. H. C. Wyndham's Queen Fastrada, 2 yrs, 6st 71.13 (13 . owling) 2 Mr. Saxon's Wave, 3 yrs, Bst (Midgley) 3 Mr. W. O wen ' s M a dame Tagliafico, 2 yrs, 6st 71b (Cannon) 4 Mr. Arthur's Vulture, aged, 9at (Reeves) 5 Betting-7 to 4on Usher, sto 1 agst Vulture, and 100 to 15 agst Queen Fastrada. Vulture, in company with Queen Fastrada, cut out the work, having Wave and the favourite side by side as her immediate followers, Madame Tagliafico acting as whipper in. They ran thus to the bend, where Usher drew forward and joined Vulture, who in a few strides after drew back, leav ing Lord Westmoreland's colt in command, who won clev erly by half a length, Queen Fastrada defeating Wave by a length for second ; a bad fourth. The winner was bough,: in for 155 guineas. The Warwick Cup, value 200 soya, by subscription of 10 soya each, 50 of which will be given to the second horse, and 25 to the third, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. Weight for age, Winners extra, with maiden allowances. Two miles and a half. 24 subs. Mr ' W. Ashworth's Dr. Syntax, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (E. Taylor) 1 Mr. Cartwright's Fairwater, 5 yrs, Bst 91b ..(Custance) 2 Mr. Fleming's Magnum Bonum, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Norman) 3 In consequence of the required number of horses not starting the added money was not given. Bett ing -11 to 8 agst Fairwater, 6to 4 agst Dr. Syntax, and 4 to 1 agst Magnum Bonum. Fairwater went to the float immediately after starting, waited upon by Magnum Bonum and Dr. Syntax to the Star enclosure, where the latter overpulling Taylor, ran past his horses and came on with a commanding lead, but running extremely wide at the bend, which enabled Fairwater once again to appear in front ; but on passing the stand the young one again went to the fore, and with the favourite in close company made the rest of the running and won very cleverly by three parts of a length; Magnum Bonum finished a length and a half in their rear. After the race 1 ,000 to 30 was offered against the winner for the St. Leger. The Nursery handicap of 10 soya each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for 3-yr-olds; the second horse to save his stake. Winners extra: Three-quarters of a mile. 28 subs. Mr. W. Robertson's Itizzio 7st 21b (Whiteley) 1 Mr. Fleming's Jet colt, 6st ' lllb (11. Covey) 2 Mr. G. Lambert -n -8 a rnhurst, 7st (Morgan) 3 The following also ran :----Verbena filly, The Sea Boy, Mary Copp colt, Black position, and Diploma. Friar, Gazehound, Eleanor, Im- Betting-5 to 2 agst Eleanor, 5 to 1 each agst the Jet colt and Black Friar, 8 t o 1 each agst Farn h u rst and the Sea Boy, 10 to 1 apt Rizzi°. After several breaks away, the flag was lowered exactly a quarter of an hour after the time set down. On settling into their places the Jet colt took a clear lead, followed by Imposition and Farnhurst side by side, with Diploma, Itizzio, and Black Friar lyin g up. E n t er ing the Star en closure Farnhurst took second Place, Ri zz io going on third, with Imposition next. On reaching the distance Rizzio joined the Jet colt, the pair running locked to the stand, where Mr. Robertson's colt drew away and won cleverly by a length and a half, Farnhurst was a bad third, Black Friar was fourth, Gazehound fifth, Eleanor sixth, and Imposition next ; the three last, beaten off, were Diploma, the Sea Boy, and the Mary Copp colt. The Grand Stand Plate (Handicap) of 100 110V8, for all ages. Three-quarters of a mile. Mr. Astley's Quicksand, 3 yrs, 7,,t, 21b Grimshaw) 1 Lord Warwick's Calabria, 5 yrs, Bst 811; • . (J. O s b or ne) 2 Mr. Payne's Margery, 4 yrs, 7st 21b .. (Herbert) 3 Vulture, Miss Livingstone, Coronet, and Kennett also ran. Betting--- I to 4 agst Miss Livingstone, 4 to 1 agst Coro net, 5 to 1 sa,st Calabria, 8 to 1 agst M argery , Won by half a length ; two length s b etween t h e se cond and third. LATEST BETTING . THE LEGER. 11 to 2 agat Avenger (taken) 6to 1 agst Ranger (taken) 6to 1 agat Queen Bertha (taken) 9to 1 agst Golden Pledge (t a k en) 10 to 1 agst Lord Clifden (tak en ) 16 to 1 agst Borealis (taken) 18 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (tak en ) 40 to 1 agst Dr. Syntax (taken) HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE- MEN TS. Sept. 5, at 0 30 p.m. (to the Clerk of the Course), Dic tator, out of Northern Metropolitan Handicap, Manchester. 7, at 9 a.m., Blackdown, out of Warwick Cup. 7, at 9 a.m., Cobbler, out of Scurry Handicap, Leicester. 7, at 9 a.m., Gem of the Sea, Mr. Longfield's Garotter, and all Mr. Bryan's horses, out of Warwick engagements. 7, at 0 33 p.m., c by Young Melb ourne—Gameboy, out of Doncaster St. Leger, and Makeshift, out of the Great Yorkshire Handicap, 7, at 5 15 p.m., Heber (dead), out of all engagements. 8, at 9 a.m., Angelus, out of Doncaster St. Leger. 8, at 9 a.m., Marquis of Hastings's horses, out of War wick and Leicester engagements. 8, at 9 a.rn., Tarragona, Gordian Knot, and Captain Christie's horses, out of Leicester engagements. 8, at 9 a.m., Southampton, out of Troy Plate, Monmouth. 8, at 9 a.m., Hilly Grove, out of Licensed Victuallers' Plate, Leicester. 8, at 1 18 p.m., Mogador, out of Doncaster St. Leger. 9, at 10 45 a.m., Duchess of Sent, out of Leicester en gagements. 9, at 11 18 a,m., Sea King, out of Doncaster engagements. 9, at 2 56 p.m., Bryn Gwyn, out of Great York.shire Handicap. at 8 p,m., Leonora, out of Doncaster engagements. DONCASTER, 18G3—Doncaster should not have been in cluded among the acceptances for the Great Yorkshire Handicap. RICHMOND, 1853—Alexandra should not have b; en in cluded among tne entries for the Belsay Castle Nursery. HORTICULTURAL GARDENS. Yesterday the last fruit and flower show of the season was held at these gardens. The attendance of visitors, when the state of the weather and the time of the year is con sidered, was very good, and almost as numerous as at the exhibition which takes place in the midst of the flower show season in this fashionable promenade. The show was arranged in the long saloons which used to form the French refreshment department during the Exhibition time, and here, protected from the weather, which, as is nearly always the case in nearly all horticultural fetes, was most unfavour able, it was seen to the greatest advantage. The collection shown, though not a large one, was emphatically one of the mostexcellent in all its branches that the society has brought together for some time past, and there was scarcely one of the classes in which the specimens sent for competition were not of the highest order of merit. Messrs. Youell, of the Royal Nurseries, Great Yarmouth, showed a most mag nificent stand of cut flowers of the gladiolus, in which all the rarest and most delicately-tinted varieties of thfs splen did flower were shown in the utmost perfection of bloom. Mr. Standish and Mr. Prince also exhibited largely in blooms of the same kind, so that the united collections formed a bank of such varied and beautiful colours as only a large collection of this plant could ever display. In dahlia blooms Mr. Turner, of the Royal Nurseries, Slough, as usual dis tanced all eompetition, and it is difficult to imagine of their kind anything more beautiful in form and colour than the collections of these flowers with which he carried off all the chief prizes. Second to these, but to these only, were the specimens sent in by Mr. Reynes, of Salisbury. The dis play of phloxes, verbenas, and roses was equally remarkable for its excellence, and some noble specimens of hollyhocks attracted a great amount of admiration. The show of miscel laneous plants was good, especially in those of variegated foliage, though none in this class were sufficiently promi nent to merit a special prize. The fruit collection included almost every known specimen of hardy or hothouse plants, the plums, peaches, and grapes being unusually abundant and good. From the Chiswick gardens there was a splendid collection of varieties of grapes, which as a collection were unequalled by anything else of the kind exhibited. The pears, also, as might be expected after a season so unusually propitious to this fruit, were exhibited in their endless va rieties and in the highest perfection of size and shape. The following are the names of the chief prize-takers at this competition : Class 1-12 Hollyhocks, single flowers, distinct kinds (open)—First prize, Messrs W. Chater, nurserymen, Saf fron Walden; second do, Messrs W. Minchin and Son, nurserymen, Hook Norton. Class 2-24 German Asters, quilled, distinct kinds (open) —First prize, Mr. R. H. Betteridge, Milton-hill, near Ste venton ; second do, Mr C. Wyatt, gardener to Mr. H. Wilies, Epsom. Class 3-24 French Asters, tasseled, distinct kinds (open) —First prize, Mr 8.. H. Betteridge, Milton-hill; second do., Mr. C. Wyatt, gardener to Mr H. Willes, Epsom. Class 4-24 Gladiolus, cut spikes, distinct kinds (open)— First prize, Messrs Youell and Co., Royal Nurseries, Great Yarmouth; second do., Mr J. Standish, Royal Nurseries, Ascot. Class 5-12 Gladiolus, cut spikes, distinct kinds (ama teurs)—First prize, Mr J. Sladden, Ash next Sandwich, Kent; second do., Mr C. J. Perry, the Cedars, Castle Bromwich. Class 6-24 Phloxei, single trusses, distinct kinds (open) —First prize, Mr Chas. Turner, Royal Nurseries, Slough. Class 7-24 Verbenas, five trusses of each, distinct kinds (open)—First prize, Messrs Perkins and Son, Park Nursery, Coventry; second do., Mr C. J. Perry, The Cedars, Castle Bromwich. Class 8-48 Dahlia Blooms, distinct kinds (nurserymen) —First prize, Mr C. Turner, Slough; second do., Mr J. Reynes, Salisbury. Class 9-24 Dahlia Blooms, distinct kinds (nurserymen) —First prize, Mr C. Turner, Slough ; second do., Mr J. Reynes, Salisbury. Class 10-18 Dahlia Blooms, Fancies, distinct (nursery men)—First prize, Mr J. Reynes, Salisbury ; second do., Mr C. Turner, Slough. Class 11-18 Dahlia Blooms, distinct kinds (amateurs) — First prize, Mr H. Thorneycroft, Floore, Weedon ; second do., Mr J. Charlton, Ribworth. Class 12-12 Dahlia Blooms, Fancies, distinct kinds (amateurs)—First prize, the Rev. C. Fellows, Norwich; second do., Mr W. Corp Milford, Salisbury. Class 13—Miscellaneous, for flowers not specified (open) —First prize, Mr C. Turner, for collection of cut roses; second do., Messrs Paul and Son, do. FRUIT. Class A—Collection of Fruit, eight dishes, six distinct kinds—First prize, Mr C. Turner, Slough; second do., Mr A. Hendersou, gardener to the Duke of Sutherland. Class B —Peaches, four dishes, distinct kinds—First prize, Mr T. Dawson, gardener to Earl Cowper, Panshanger ; second do., Mr A. Henderson, gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, Trentham. Class C—Peaches, single dish—First prize, Mr J. Rust, gardener to the Right Hon. R. Suliven, Fulham ; and Mr W. Haile, gardener to Earl Lovelace, Ripley, Surrey (equal). Class D—Nectarines, four dishes, distinct kinds—First prize, Mr T. Dawson, gardener to Earl Cowper, Panshan ger ; second do., Mr A. Henderson, gardener to the Duke of Sutherland, Trentham. Class E—Nectarines, single dish—First prize, Mr G. Wil son, Gishurst-cottage, Weybridge-heath ; second do., Mr T. Bailey, gardener to Mr T. T. Drake, Amersham. Class F—Figs, three dishes, distinct kinds, 12 fruits each —First prize, Mr A. Bousie, gardener to Lord Taunton, Stoke-park. Class I—Cherries, single dish, 50 fruits—First prize, Mr S. Snow, gardener to Countess Cowper, Silsoe, Bedford shire ; second do., Mr C. Turner, Slough. Class J—Plums, 4 dishes, distinct kinds—First prize, Mr S. Snow, gardener to Countess Cowper, Slsoe, Bedford shire; second do., Mr J, Cox, gardener to Mr W. Wells, Redleaf, Penhurst. Class L--Apples, dessert, three dishes, distinct kinds— First prize, Mr A. Bousie, gardener to Lord Taunton, Stoke. pars ; second do., Mr J. Martimore, Wallington, Carshalton. Class M—Apples, kitchen, three dishes, distinct kinds— First prize, Mr S. Snow, gardener to the Countess Cowper, Silsoe, Bedfordshire; second do., Mr H. Anstiss, market gardener, Chiswick. Class N—Pears, dessert, three dishes, distinct kinds— First prize, Mr W. Wren, gardener to Mr E. Parser, Car shalton ; second do,, Mr G. Wilson, Geshurst-cottage, Weybridge-heath. Class o—Miscellaneous—First prize, Mr A. Henderson, for a box of 24 Apricots; second do., Mr G. Perry, for six dishes of Currants; third do., Mr J. Leslie, for a basket of ridge Cucumbers; fourth do., Messrs. H. Lane and Son, for a collection of Grapes in pots, and for a collection o Orchard-house Fruit Trees in pots. A FACTION FIGHT. At the Rillaloe petty sessions, a few days ago, 18 persons were summoned f or h a ving been engaged in a faction fight on the 26th ult. Two families, named Connells and Skebans, had a long-standing dispute about the right to an acre of land, resulting in protracted litigation and many collisions. They are all related as first and second cousins. The priest and the landlord vainly Bought to reconcile them ; the latter even divided the piece of land between them, but all to no purpose. When they met they fought, and at a place called Fahybridge, on the day mentioned, they had an engage ment which, both for the vigour of the onslaught and the number of casualties, completely eclipsed all that had pre ceded it. It appeared that the fight was originated by the Skebans. Among other acts it was sworn that a lad about 16 or 17 went behind Michael Connell with a stone, and felled him to the ground. The fight then raged with inde scribable fury. Pitchforks and other weapons were used, and such was the fury of the combatants that they broke the handles of some of the instruments on each other's per sons; loaded whip-handles prostrated those they struck, and stones flew in every direction. The melee ended at l e ngth more through the exhaustion of both parties than a ny other cause. Many of the combatants were left genEe less on the ground. The Clare Freeman describes the parties on both sides as belonging to the respectable class of farmers, and compris ing all ages, from the g re y-h ea d ed man of threescore year s to the young girl and boy of 16. They were all hale, heany and comfortably-dressed persons, and nearly everyone bore some marks of the savage affray i n which they had peen engaged. The magi s t ra t es sa id t h ey never saw such bruta lity in their lives. Th e prisoners were the very personsthw ho should have bee n expected to quell such a riot, and their conduct was a disgrace to the country. Sentences of from ' two months to th ree wee k s i mpr i so nment with h ard labour were passed up on th e mos t guilty of the combatants , the others were bound to keep the peace. - - FRENCH POULTRY.—Wonderful poultry of the French-Flemish country, why take the trouble to be poultry ? Why not stop sho rt at eggsin the rising i generation, and die out and have done with t P Pa rents of chickens have I seen this day , followed b y their w retched young families, scratching n othin g out of the mud with an air—tottering about on legs so scraggy and weak, that the valiant word drumsticks becomes a mockery w h ett applied to them, and the crow of the lord and master has been a mere dejected case of croup—Dickens' s last tc Uncommer cid," .~~~ B. d. "JamP" -Par k ' leria o ngest ding' ;roys& 4.9 01 of 26 earl , ?ark - 4, the Esq., [Mt, nv'S 4 112; ,ty of 1 11