The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TTETTPST)AY EVENING, SEPTEiIiER 17, 1863.

Caller Ou also rm.

Betting • 6t04 ea 6ailsrChi. 4 to 1 each apt Jack of
Marta and The Knave. Zack of Hearts went away • ith a
long lead, followed by bro. to Rapid Rhone and The Knave,
Whir Oa lying off, lase Bonding the two into the
straight the lot took ekes order, aad approaching the die-
taries The Knave raw into waxed place, and Odle. Oa
wee beaten. Within the distance The Knave need &long•
aide Jaw* of Hear* but never paling fairly up, was beaten
by a head; two Looks between the mooed end third.

Tall STAND PLaia (Handicap), of 5 acts. sack with 50
added, far B.r•-olds and upwards. Bed Hoare. (16 Baba.)
Mr. B Goatee's Creole, by Minalaiger—Tbe Squaw,
Syn.', est cedes! 1
Hr. W. lehlaeoe's bieekowner, 3 yea, let 111briZOove y
Mr. Wailes Newmarket. 311 re. 333 1282 • OTO.thi 3
The following also ram :—Lad Clitdea, Zara Calabria,
mußragb, Coulon, Causeaette„ Knave of Trumps, sad
13ettiag ; 4 to 1 apt Indy Clain. 5 to 1 apt Stookowner,
6 to 1 wit Creole, 100 to 15 apt Coulon, 8 to 1 apt Erin-
go-BsiO, sad 10 to 1 each eget Zone, Disdain, and New-
market. Lady Mika led fur a few strides, when she was
prod by Steckowner, who carried as the running to the
stand, where Creole heeded him and woe by half a length ;
the lams between second and third ; Lady Clain was
fourth.
LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
CESAREWITCH.
100 to 6 apt Jack of Hearts (5)
BETTING AT MIDNIGHT.
CEFLAR.EWITCH.
18 to 1 apt Jack of Hearts (t)
20 to 1 Dreamer Boy (5)
Zto 1 Umpire (t)
33 to 1 Liaises (t)
33 to 1 Apg (t)
40 to 1 Oakapple.(t)
CAMBRIDGESHIRE
100 to 6 apt Birdhill (5)
20 to 1 Oitah-'em-Alive (t)
20 W 1 Bombs (t)
33 to 1 Taxes (t)
40 to 1 Merry Hart (t)
50 to 1 ICereptoira
5" 1 Elebequar(t)
DERBY.
40 to 1 30114 Claressout
Lard Clifdee is struck oat of the Doeceeter Cop.

THIS THAMES MARINE OFFICERS TRAINING
SHIP WORCESTER.

It appears from the report of the committee to
the subscribers that this undertaking is proving highly
sucosseful. The difficulty which is experienced in providing
properly qualified officers for merchant vessels induced
mineral geotlemen well known in conaexicm with shipping
sod foreign commerce to form an association for the por-
pools of remedying in some degree this acknowledged de-
ficiency. A fallacious impression is too generally prevalent
that boys intended for marine offioers should be seat to sea
young, in order that they may lean their duty there ; to
this unfortunate error the great scarcity of properly tatined
officers for the merchant service may be chiefly attributed.
The experiment of educating boys intended for the sea on
board a training ship, having been successfully carried out
at Liverpool, it was decided to establish a similar ship in
the port at Loudon, and on application to the Admiralty (or
a mailable vessel, the lords commissioners (lamented to place
her Majarty's ship Worcester at the disposal cd this asepsis-
thou. A isominatiou to a naval cadetship has been kindly
placed at the disposal of the committee of assuagement by
Rear Admiral Lord Clarence Petit, M.P., and the Board of
Tiede allow two years passed on board the Worcester to
emit as one year of sea service ; thus • cadet having been
two years on Ward the Worcester, ma per me magas-
Mon as mooed officer after three yeare sorties at
sea. The Worcester is moored in the Thames, off Ifiritb.
The echoed we. opened for the reception of cadets as the
4th August, 1862, when 18 boys were admitted ; during the
balf-year ending Christmas, 18C, this number iftelMild to
4', *ad after the (lutetium vacation 11 boys were eataref,
so that on the 19th Jar:leery the school was re.opesed with
38 boys ; in the balf•year ending in Jon* the number
lumped to 54 ; during the Midsummer vacation there have
been catered on the books 9 more boys, and theme/0 *the&
more appliontieas • the total number entered therefore to
the present date he. been 63, evaporating the hope that •
sufficient somber, estimated at about 90, to make the ship
self-sopportiog, will noon be on board. 11 beys have left
the ship, of whom 8 have been entered on board vessels
going to lad* and the he. passed au examination for the
navy. A stateliest ef the fineacial working of the ship
from the commencement of the undertaking to the close of
the Midsummer balf/ear ahoy, that, moodiest' se the
preliminary expellees have been, some further assidance is
required to defray caste/adios liabilities. Tbe. progress to
the wrest thse has Wooded to confirm the opinions which
had bees fanned of Ike beciellts likely to malt from an
isetitutioa of this nave, end the committee hope fee the
cordial co-operatios al all who are interested is the OS-
eimay end high chereeter of the mercantile mark* of
Gnat Britain. Mr. Stephen (lave. M.P., is the treasurer
of the institution, which has its aka at 18, London-
street, E.C.

AZILIVAL our or THE MAZY ZIXION.—By the
led roan trove New York we have so waist of the arrival
torques:n[2miter last Pliliope daYi•
The vend frost Belfast Is July MS with s /ergo
number ot the mitts cpwatires Eros Lieber/ sad tie Marn.
the ysessesed whore were paid by Mr. A. T. etewart, of
New Yerk. who, to biddies to the swiftest gift of
food met ova' for the poor weavers at those kcetities.
&erten& the ala hi to take bock to Amities a *saber ot
ho cached to emigrate to the Urated Stritre. Mr.
we leers bee undertakes to lake sharps et the
presagers es their snivel at New York, sod to sid is pre-
sorts' sikiatiose
Whir tor mak ea Right require hie eashitspee.—
Nerderst
"WI laruelt al reduced duty obtalsad by pur.
tionitiewee Puri See: very abates at t 61. sad Y.
et. at *newt, ft IC. Is Oa glitellPis
WI us* &Masi lemporlal. goals is every Sows wow 11
patioNs.—llioselmsal

THE EISHOP OP WINrOESTER ON THE
HARVEST.

The following letter, relating to a thanksgiving
for the harvest, has bate sent by the Bishop to the Arch-
deacon at Winchester:
" Jersey, Sept. 11,1863.
" My dear Arebdeacoo,—On inquiry of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, I do not learn that a day of general thanks-
giving for the late harwst is expeated to be appointed with
the sanctioa of the Queen in Council.
"Under these circumetaoces, I request you will comma.
picots to the clergy of your archdeaconry my recommends.
tics that they should set apart some coevesient day la their
'event parishes for the purpose of offeriog collectively
humble thanks to Almighty God for His great goodness to
vouchsafing us the abundant harvest of the present season.
"It is probable that in most, If not in an Instances, col.
lattices will be proposed after the sermons in the churches •
and I would 'assent, as a very appropriate object, the de:
votice of the alms so given to the fund for rebuilding the
Haste County Hospital.—l am, my dear Archdeacon, your
affectionate Mead and brother, " C. Witrrox.
" The Archdeacon of Wiricheeter."

A similar letter to the Archdeacon of Surrey recommends
the New Surrey Hospital at Guildford so an appropriate
object for alms.

THE PATENT GHOST.

(From Orire a Week.)

Perceptive facul. tie', and the want of them, con-
ditties a very large part of the difference between the pro-
gress and non-progress of humanity. Those who possess
perception are the great purveyors for those without it.
The great mad have eyes, but they see not with them till
they fall into the hands of guides who direct their vision.
Why should not the guides be paid for this as much as the
Swiss guides who take people up Swiss mountains? There
was • time when the world was ignorant of the optical
effect of two stripe of glass, placed edgewise together, to
form a hollow prism, till Sir David Brewster patented the
matter, and gave the kaleidoscope to the world.
The prinmple of Mr. Pepper's popular ghost is the same
that produces giant shadows projedad on mountain mist ;
and thousseds of shadows of this kind may be seen be-
tted& smarm and sunset throughout London streets every
day- but as they happen to be common objects, nobody
heeds them. But a ghost, or ;meow vapour supposed to
resemble a human being after death, excites most people's
imaginations more or lass morbidly, and when Mr. Pepper
geed a cosmos principle to produce • ghost. all the world
ran Mad, and the dooms of producier this ghost became a
valuable source of profit for public exhibition. If amuse-
ment be • good and useful thing, Mr. Pepper has done good
service to the community. At all events he thought so ;
and therefore, in °apart with Mr. Dircks, be applied for
a patent on the bth of February, 1863. The applicatiou
was opposed, for the exhibition was • very probable one,
and every proprietor of a theatre or exhibition was in.
herded in not paper a royalty fur what was so very
Ample, after it was can pointed out. Any number might
mein their previous knowledge of an invention which
existed everywhere spontaneously, aid so up to this day no
West has been granted : whether on the ground that it is
an abstract principle and not • subject of manufacture, or
whether on account of disputes between claimants, does not
apfrOstober, 1858, Mr. Dinks contributed to the
Medan& Magazine an article, in which the optical
principle was described, and herein is evidence of
the importance to the public of giving individual
proprietonhip, in order to get • thing into public
nee. Of the hundreds of people who must have read the
paper not one sought to apply it and tura it to purposes of
mem grofit. But the Polytechnic was in want of novelty—
something to draw—end so Dinka and Mr. Pepper laid
their heads together to problem a ghost in broad daylight.
LikiN the egg of Oolumboa, everybody knew how to do it
after showing. Had the patent been quietly applied for
before making a stir probably it would have been granted ;
and we think that Mr. Dinka' previous article, five Ler
before, which the public failed to recognise or adopt,
not have been any bar to the greet. Had the public used
it Mr. Dircks would not in equity have been entitled to re-
voke his gift.
But there was an older giver than Mr. Dinka. In the
library of the Pateot-offloa gathered together by the dili-
gent, labours of Mr. Bennet Woodaroft, there is an old
Keck-letter folio volume, entitled "Pore's Natural Magiek,"
with an engraved portrait of the author, a Neapolitan, aid
impanel* a friar of the Bacon stamp, surrounded by stn.
blems of the fear denginte—Fire, Air, Barth, and Water,
with • carious " Chars," from which they spring, &ad a
figure at a very bounteous "Nature," with three pairs of
breads. This volume was printed in London, toe Thaws
Yo”g sad Samuel Speed, at the " Three Piranha," and at
the rAngei," in St. Paul's-churchyard, is 1638, being a
translation frogs the original Latin edition, ant published
at Naples 110[011 70 years previously. The following is an
extreet :

How we may see le a chamber
Thtegs that are hot.

" I thought this an artifice not to be despised • for we
may in a chamber, if a man look is, see thin; things
which were never there ; seed there is no man so witty
that will think he is mistaken. Wherefore, to describe
the matter, let there be a chamber wbereinto no other
light come, unless by the door or window where the epee.
tater looks m ; let the whole window, or part of it, be of
glass, u we used to do to keep out the cold, but let one
part he polished, that there may be a lootriarglass on both
sides, whence the spectator must look in • for the rest de
nothing. Let pictures be set over againit this window,
marble statues and such like ; for what is without will
seem to be within, and what is behind the spectator's back,
he will think to be in the middle of the house, as far hum
the glom inward, se they stand from it outwardly, and so
clearly and certainly that he will think he seas nothing but
truth. But, lest the skill should be known, let the part be
made so where the ornament is, that the spectator may not
see it, as above his bead, that a pavement may come be•
twelve above his had ; and if an ingenious man do this, it
is impossible that he should suppose that he is deceived."—
Chapin XIL, p• 370.
No doubt the Eopptian priests understood this earlier thee
Italian friars, and the Hebrews raised up "lying spirits"
in the same GA M°.

This very day I have seen some hundred ghosts, and
scores of people saw them with me, though not imperiously.
It was is an omnibus, passing from Charieg-cross to the
City. The plate-glass in the shops had dark backgrounds,
and became thus the dark chambers of Porta, and everything
that pried by was projected by the vision Into the shops.
It was a perfect phantasmagoria, and it warn the plate glass
that produced the effect, "polished like a looking-glass on
both rides." I bad °maim afterwards to eater a butcher's
shop, the front open, and a counting-house in the rear, glazed
with plate glass. Projected into this glass were dozens of
ghosts of the sheep and beeves hanging up in front. They
were so clean as photographs, and with a similar effect.
Now, this thing has been before the world in •
printed book 774 years, but no one has turned it to the ac-
count of • public exhibition till Mr. Pepper took it
in hand. No one practically aotiood it, and it was
virtually buried ; and therefore Mr. Pepper, sup-
postai he did not himself make it knows before
applying for • patent, must be regarded in the light of a
discoverer, and it is for the intoner' of the public that he
should obtain his patent, as much so as the discoverer of
any practical improvement in photography, in order to in-
duce other discoverers to do likewise. The fact that the
shadow is projected through glass, and is evanescent, in-
stead of being permanently deposited on it, and that the
Ghost is • gratification for • large sasembly instead of a
property for individuals, cannot diminish its utility.
Nothing, as we all know, is new under the sun ; but no
doubt Mr. Pepper at the Polytechnic has given something
to the public that they never had before, and he is fairly
entitled to his reward. W. Biucions ADAK&

TER Cairo OF TER FLORIDA IN LIVIRPOOL.—
TIN Liverpool Post of yesterd says :—" The crew of the
Florida are now in Liverpool. They are ninety-fire in
number, and are nearly all in a state of greet deititotion.
The paragraphs in the pro-Coefederate pavers stating that
immense sums u wages and pries mosey were paid to them
were pare fabrications. Many of the men are Irishmen—all
fine athletic fellows, full of determination. They Weft ori-
ginally taken trom the Confederate army, and, according to
their statemente, pressed on board. On their arrival at
Brest they asked for wage. ; for dur:ng eighties morithe
they received only ten dollars each. There wee no mosey
forthcoming, and, being an a 'antral port, they were bold
is their demand& Captain Malt, they say, then k
thwith magi , pot some of them in iron, beiarrleti l
ma ' them aIL Before discharging them he
gave each an acknowledgment for en= varying from
100 dole. to 130 dols. The order was signed by Paymaster
Davin and Commander !aloft. This money they were to
receive from Messrs. Freest and Co., Liverpool, and they
were ao?snpanied by an officer who paid their manage.
On arriving in Liverpool Meters. Fraser and Co. repudiated
the claim. The officer who accompanied them bad a letter
to Claptein Bullock, but has been unable to use the cep-
, taro. The men are in great distress, and are fall of anger
with every party concerned. They even threaten to ge
bath to Brest and burn the Florida. They had better sot."
Other adviossfrom Liverpool state, however, that the above
amount is totally devoid of truth. The men, we are told,
were certainly discharged from the Florida, but at this they
an not at all Incensed, because, as the repairs to the vessel
will occupy leveed weeks, there waa nothing for them to
do at Brest. The men received notes from Graffito Moffitt
to the opiate of the Confederate government is Liverpool,
staling the amount of wages due to each • but as the agent
bad sot received an commimicatios cline from Captain
Moffitt, they y decline to each the erten.
CALRDONIAN RAILWAY.—On Tuesday aft moon
the ordinary half.yearly general meeting of the shareholder,
wee held in the hall of the Faculty of Procuration, Glas-
gow, Colonel Salkeld, chairmen of the comtraresiantg.
A dividend at the rate of 54 per inst. was e

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