The Sun.
London, England, 1852-08-07 00:00:00

THE SUNS LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7,

WOOLWICEI GARR/SON.
WOOLWICH, AUG. 6.—His Royal Hignuess the Duke
of Cambridge and his Serene Highness Prince Charles
of Hobeal he arrived at Woolwica at ten o'clock, A.M
and immediately proceeded t o the Common, where the
troops of the Royal Horse Artillery were drawn up, under
the command of Major Dupuis, and the befit field-batte-
ries under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Ander-
son.' The troops and batteries marched past at a
walk and trot, and the Royal Horse Artillery subse-
quently at full gallop. The batteries then proceeded to
the high ground of the Common, where they encamped,
bavicg put up their marquees and tents and foraged
their horses in the short period of fifteen minutes.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and his
Serene Highness Prince Charles of Hohenlohe
returned to the flag-staff, and witnessed the Royal
Horse Artillery go through the evolutions of a field
day. The batteries having remounted, after putting up
their twits, advanced at the conclusion of the exercises
of the Royal Horse Artillery, and went through tho
battery mauoauvres of a field day, and subsequently went
and struck their renegues and tents, which they did
with great . quickness, the whole of the tents beine
down on the ground in precisely three minutes, and all
packed up and pi,ced on the limbers in two minutes ad-
ditional, and within seven ininuees of the time they dis-
mounted the whole of the tents were lashed to the lim-
bers, and the men mounted ready for marching. The
Duke of Cambridge and Prince Hohenlohe then pro-
ceeded to the permanent camp on Woolwich-common,
and were received at the entrance by Lieutenant Colonel
Wilford, comenandieg officer of all the companies in
camp. The men had just sat down to dinner when the
Royal visitors arrived, and they entered the tents, and
afterwards inspected the camp fire-places and cooking
operations, and on leaving shook hands with Lieutenant-
Colonel Wilford, and expresssel themselves much pleased
with all they had witnessed.
When his Royal Highness witnessed the pontooning
operations with Colonel Blanchard's pontoons on the day
the recent siege operations at Chatham, he merely wit-
nessed the pontoons moved from the banks of St. Mary's
Creek into the water, and ratted by the Sappers, and it
was understood his principal object in visiting Woolwich
to-day was to witness the facilities or difficulties of
moving pontoons when required to accompany an army
during a campaign. With the view of satisfying his
Royal Highness on that point five of the infantry pon-
toons, with the requisite stages and every necssary ap-
pendage, were placed on a waggon drawn by four horses,
and two of the large pontoons, with the necessary stages
for supporting large guns, were placed on another wag-
gon drawn by six horses, and taken from the pond in the
Repository grounds to the north side of the camp on
Woolwich-common. When his Royal Hielaness in-
spected the pontoons on the waggons he was accom-
panied by Colonel Blanchard, the inventor of them, and
by the desire of his Royal Highness both waggons were
drawn across the common at a trot, and on their re-
turn he ascertained that the waggon with six horses
could be backed by the two shaft horses very easily when
necessary.
The waggons were subsequently taken back from the
Common to the Repository grounds, and on arriving
there they were taken down the steep declivity to the
banks of the pond, and up again, to show that they could
follow or accompany an army under disadvantageouscir-
cumstances. Twenty Sappers were then called forward
to show how soon the infantry pontoons could be taken
from the waggon, and the stage lashed on them ready
for service, and that was effected so quickly, under the
direction of Quartermaster Jones and Sergeant-Major
Bradford, of the Royal Sappers and Miners, that within
seven minutes the twenty Sappers had completed the
bridge, and two men taking hold of the end of each
pontoon run with it entire for some distance. The pon-
toons were separated and carried by the mon down the
declivity to the pond, and within eight minutes of the
time they commenced lashing them together again, they
were launched in the water of the pond, and twenty two
men standing on them, and the bridge or stage was con-
siderably clear of the water. His Royal Highness ap-
peared much gratified with the pontooning operations.
On returning to the entrance of the Repository grounds,
a 24-pounder garrison gun was worked by non-commis-
sioned officers of the Royal Artillery, at present under a
course of instruction, and the drawings of these intel-
ligent and remarkably clever non-commissioned officers
and others, which were afterwards shown by Lieutenant-
Colonel Hardinge, director of the Repository, and Cap-
tain Anderson, instructor, were examined with great in-
terest by their Royal and Serene Highnesses. After
partaking of a dijearter at the mess room, the royal visi-
;ors lett for town at a quarter past two o'clock P.M.

SCOTTISH NATIONAL FETE.

Yesterday the fife in Holland-park terminated, and
notwithstanding the unpropitious state of the weather,
the attendance was as good, if not better, than on the
previous day. From the heavy showers which fell du-
ring the morning, and up till two o'clock, it was late
before the games commenced, but the evening turned out
fine, the stands filled with visitors, and the whole affair
was brought to a spirited and satisfactory close. These
fetes, which have now taken place for four successive
years, have preserved their national character more
strongly in the weather which attends them than in any
other respect. If the rain has not been in constant at-
tendance, it has always managed to arrange matters so
that hundreds have been kept away from what they had
made up their minds to see. Covered stands are pro-
vided, but even the prospect of a Scotch mist, and much
more its actual presence, are quite enough to swamp
any open air amusement. The sports af yesterday
wero to a large extent a repetition of those
exhibited on the previous day, and having been
already fully noticed, it would be idle again to
describe them. It may be mentioned, however, that Mr.
Barr, in a second display of his falcons, showed them to
much Ira tter advantage, and satisfied every one of the
high training in which he hat them. He has recovered
the truant hawk of Thursday. Among the novelties
produced yesterday may be mentioned some very amus-
ing races—one called the " roly-poly" race, contested
by pairs of tumblers tumbling over each other, like
clown and
pantaloon; another, the well-known wheel-
barrow race, which excited much laughter; and, finally,
a race round the park by competitors chiefly kilted. la
the last-mentioned instance nothing at all remarkable in
the way of speed was effected, but some interest was
created by the closeness of the run. " Tossing the caber"
was introduced, and excited much attention from its
characteristic peculiarities as a sport. Of all the High-
land games it is by far the most striking, but the tall
powerfully-built men who four years ago came from
the hills to show it in its full perfection are now missed,
and the caber loses in consequence much of its import-
ance. In addition to the wrestling of the previous day,
which was repeated with even increased effect, there
was a very curious display of the pastime called "hip-
pos" by the ancient Greeks, which consists in two men
mounting on the shoulders of two others, and each pair
struggling to throw the other. The only now feature
in the dancing was the performance of " Sir Roger de
Coverley," by Mr. Flexmore's troupe, in the olden style.
In the cavalry combat, sword against lance, one of the
steeds ran away with his rider, and charged into the
throng who were in front of the " green.room" marquee.
Sundry pairs of heels were seen suddenly pointing sky-
wards, the panic causing a very general salutation of
mother earth, but happily without the slightest personal
injury. Fleamore, who had just been administering
medicine to his monkeys within, was standing among
the rest when the adversary drew nigh, but sagaciously
descrying the approaching peril, he made a furious bound
to the external top of the tent, which he bestrode for a
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It was seven o'clock before the programme was ex-
hausted, and the fete terminated. Though in some re-
spects inferior to those of previous years in others it has
proved superior to them. There were more evidences
of good management in the dispatch with which the
games succeeded each other, and the inclosed space was
much better kept than hitherto. These improvements
are, no doubt, due to the exertions of Mr. Boucher, the
treasurer.
The extraordinary feat of La Perche, described in
yesterday's notice, was erroneously attributed to she
brothers Siegrist. The correct name is the brothers
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COURT CIRCU LAR.
OSBORNE, FRIDAY.
His Imperial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburg
arrived yesterday on a visit to the Qaeen.
The Earl of Mahnesbury arrived also from London
on a visit.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and
their Serene Highnesses the Princess of Hohenlohe
and Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, drove over to
Ryde, and visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester.

His Serene Highness Prince Charles of Holten-
lobe, attended by M. Kluitipp, left yesterday for
London.

The Earl of Malmesbury bad an audience of the
Queen this morning, end Sir Ralph Abercromby, who
was presented on his departure for the Hague.
The royal dinner party yesterday included his Im-
perial Highness Prince Peter of Oldenburg, her loyal
Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Princess of Ho-
henlohe, Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, and the
Earl of Malmesbury.

His Serene Highness Prince Charles of Hobn
lohe left town yesterday for Oxford. His Serenee-
Highness visited the Royal Italian Opera on Thurs-
day evening.
The Duke of Rutland, the Earl of Straclbroke, and
the Marquis of Salisbury had interviews yesterday
with Mr. Secretary Walpole at the Home-office.
The Cambridge University Commission had a
meeting yesterday at the official residence of the
First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street.
Present—The Bishop of Chester, the Dean of Ely,
Professor Sadgwick, and the Rev. W. H. Bateson
(secretary).
Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office
yesterday to the Governors of the North-American
Provinces,. and to the Governor of Gibraltar. Dis-
Peswere received from the GOVernor3 of Malta
and " Gibraltar, and from the Governor of Victoria.

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SPORTING NOTES.
No. coraxvm.
THE WOLVERHAMPTON MEETING, EBOR
HANDICAP, &c.

NAVAL IN TELLIGENCE.
In accordance with the terms of the Order in Council
of the 25th of June, 1851, the following promotions have
taken peace to the reserved hslf.pay
Commender James Creagh (1827) to be captain.
Commander Samuel Ramsay (1828) to be captain.
Commander E. W. Pilkingtou (1830) to be captain.
Commander John T. Warren (1833) to be captain.
Commander Robert Loney (1837) to be captain.
Commander W. N. Fowell (1839) to be captain.
Lieut. Edward Robinson (1813) to be commander.
Lieut. Charles Henry Kempthorne (1813) to be com-
mander.
Lieut. Henry Cox (1815) to be commander.
Lieut. William Vicary (1815) to be commander.
Lieut. H. S. Burniston (1325) to be commander.
Captain the Hon. A. Duncombe, M.P., is staying at
Pockliugton, Yorkshire. Captain Milne is at luveresk,
Mnsselburgh.
Sir William Symonds's experimental brig Flying
Fish, 12, having been surveyed, and found so defective that
she would not be worth repairing, has been condemned,
and ordered by the Admiralty to be broken up. She is
only eight years eld.
The Admiralty order for countermanding the sale of
the Mohawk iron steamer, of 130 tons and 50-horse
po-ser, on Lake Huron, Canada, arrived too late; the
ship was sold for about 4501. Lieutenant Herbert, her
late commander, has come home, and reported himself at
the Admiralty.
The screw steam squadron, Arrogant, 46, Captain
Robinson; Highfleer, 21, screw-frigate, Captain Mat-
son; Dauntless, 33, Captain Halsted; utid Encounter,
14, Captain Gordon, was to quit Admiral Dundas's
squadron about this time and return to Spithead.
The Admiralty have ordered the 90-gun ship Algiers,
building at Ikvimport, to be adapted for sere se ma-
chinery, and to receive engines of 400-horse power.
The screw steam-sloop Niger, Commander Heath,
arrived at Queenstown on Wednesday, from the coast of
Africa. Tao Wasp is also ordered home, and both ships
are to come to Spithead.
Rear, Admiral Corry's squadron is expected to return
to Torbay, after a cruise in the Channel, about the 12th
inst. One of the frigates, the Leander, 50, Captain
King, remains in Torbay,
PORTSMOUTH, FRIDAY.—Tha Dasher steamer, Com-
mander Le Fevre, came into harbour from the Channel
Islands to be paid six months' wages.
The Daphne, 18, Captain Fanehawe, arrived at Spit-
head at half-past five o'clock this morning, with a
freight of about half a million dollars on merchants'
account. She left Valparaiso on the Bth of May, at
which time the Daedalus, 20, Captain Wellesley, was the
only man-of-war there. The Thetis, 36, Captain Kuper,
was about Vancouver's Island, going to Queen Char-
lotte's Island. The Swift, 6, Commander Aldham, was
collecting freight on the coast of Mexico, and will be
the next ship home from the Pacific station. The Am-
phitrite, 25, Captain Frederick, had sailed. The Daphne
touched at Port William, Falkland Islands, on the 2d
of June, and sailed on the 3d. The islands were im-
proving, cultivation was progressing. She arrived at Rio
on the 19th of June, and sailed a few hours after. The
yellow fever still raged, but was abating. The Centaur
steam-frigate, Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., and the
Crescent receiving-ship, were the only men-of-war at
Rio, except an American corvette and French frigate,
the latter bearing an admiral and lying at the entrance
to the harbour. On Thursday, about half-past one, the
Daphne signalled Rear-Admiral Corry's squadron off
the Start. During her commission, now nearly four
years, the Daphne has gone over about 70,000 miles of
water, and has visited the Navigator's, Fegee, Tonga,
Pitcairn's, and Vancouver's Islands. At Mazatlan, in
October last, she encountered an awful hurricane, in
which she was dismasted. Mr. Loane (Master of the
Centaur), Mr. Rundle (Engineer of the Gorgon), left
behind when that vessel left for England; and Mr. Wil-
berforce (midshipman of the Daedalus), have come home
passengers in the Daphne, which is ordered to be paid
off at Chatham, after being inspected here bcyotmhemCodmer-
mander-in-Chief to-morrow.
The Niger, 6, steam-sloop (screw), an
Heath, arrived at Queenstown on Wednesday afternoon,
from the West Coast of Africa. She left Ascension on
the 26th of June, and Sierra Leone on the 3d of July.
The Penelope, was at Ascension; the Firefly, Harle-
quin, Prometheus, Dolphin, and Spy were on the South
Coast; the Volcano, Cygnet, Alecto, Waterwitch, and
Myrmidon were in the Bights; and the remainder of the
squadron was on the North Coast. The squadron
generally was healthy, but now that the excitement of
chasing and capturing slavers is almost at an end, the
monotony of the station is much complained of, and
would be more so but for the kindness of the Commo-
dore in sending each ship once during the commission to
spend a week at St. Helena. The Niger left England
in August, 1850. She was engaged in the first attack
upon Lagos, for which, although there was some hard
fighting, no rewards or promotions were bestowed upon
her officers or crew, and she, like her colleagues, the
Harlequin, Volcano, and Waterwitch, arrived on the
second occasion just too late for participation in the good
things so liberally showered down upon those who were
present. The Niger has been remarkably healthy, and
has proved a most useful and economical cruiser; she
has sailed over 37,600 miles, and steamed exactly 6,000
besides; she has expended 996 tons of coal---about half
the usual expenditure of paddle-steamers on the same
service.
Messrs. W. F. Richards and H. L. Holder, midship-
men, passed examinations qualifying for the rank of
Lieutenant on board the Victory ou Wednesday.
The St. George merchant-ship passed this port in the
night from Sydney, and sent in passengers and mails by
a pilot. boat. She brought no news, but had on board a
freight, in gold and wool, reported to us as valued at
upwards of 250,0001. sterling.
The Vimiera emigrant ship arrived at Spithead last
evening, to embark passengers for Australia.
The Duke of Northumberland, First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, arrived at this port this evening, at a quarter to
six o'clock, and embarked in the Black Eagle steam-
yacht, which was waiting off the town sailyport to
convey him to Cowes, to be in readiness to accompany
the Queen on her Majesty's projected excursion to the
Channel Islands, Antwerp, cc.
To-day being the anniversary of the birthday of his
Royal Highness Prince Alfred, and the Court being
within the precincts of the port, the ships in harbour
and at Spithead fired a Royal salute at noon to cele-
brate the event.
The new paddle frigate Furious, 16, has been swung
in harbour to-day for the adjustment of her compasses.
The Vivid steam-packet, Master-Commander Luke
Smithett, arrived this morning from the eastward to join
the Royal squadron for Antwerp.
The armed escort to the Royal steam yachts—consists
ing of the steam-frigates Retribution, 28, Captain the
Hon. J. D. Drummond; Magicienne, 16, Captain Ram-
say ; Odin, 16, Captain Henderson, 0.13.; Sampson, 6,
Captain Jones; and Barracouta, 6, Captain the Hon. S.
T. Carnegie—got under weigh from Spithead this after-
noon, and proceeded down to Cowes. On passing Os-
borne each dressed ship and fired a royal salute. Her
Majesty will embark to-morrow about noon, weather per-

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—My observations on the various stakes at the
late Brighton meeting wPro verified, with respect to the
principal stakes, in every instance,
Hesse Homburg
having pulled my judgment through triumphantly for
the Brighton Stakes, Timid Fawn having done the like
for the Pavilion Plate, Catherine Hayes for the Biennial
Stakes, Rataplan for the 100 Soya. Sweepstakes, and
Sharavogue for the Brighton Cuo; upon which last-
named race I remarked in my last note that I could" see
nothing to deprive Pan and Sharavogue of the first and
second places." They finished first and second, Shara-
vogue winning easily. I was uncommonly near the
mark in the Trial Stakes, my choice being the Knight
of the Thistle, who ran a dead heat with the winner,
Little Sayan°, before he was beaten. In the race for the
Marine Plate, also, my judgment ran closely for Kil-
rneney; my particular choice was only just beaten by
Timid Fawn, end Ilumphery, whom I placed second,
finished third. The meting went off altogether with
great eclat. The running hoes not immediately affect
any stdc,s that are elc.s.,cl st the present time, conse-
quently comment ii useless.

Three days of next week, Monday, Tuesday, and
Weduesd are devoted to the Wolverhampton Alceting.
About half of the stakes have yet to close; of the re-
mainder one and all :how a great falling off in the
number of entries and acceitances.
The Produce Stakes of 10 scvs. each, with 20 added,
for three years old, colts Bst 61b, and fillies Sat 31b, once
round, about a mile and a furlong, looks like the pro-
perty of Mr. Flintoff with his daughter of Heron,
The Foal Stakes of 10 sous. each,
Sat 31b, the same
with 20 added, for
three years old, colts Bst 61b, fillies
course as for the preceding stake, out of its six nomina-
tions may possibly have at the outside three runners in
the Old Man, the Director, and Bermuda. The last-
named is a very doubtful starter, but if he runs he wins
—in his absence TILE OLD MAN will do the deed.
The Wolverhampton Stakes over the usual course—
three yards above two and a half miles in length—will
in all probability attract but a very small field to the
post, including Lindrick, Lady Amyott, and perhaps
Goldfiader. Alonzo at Sat 71b is completely out of his
element, distance and weight being both against him.
Lady Evelyn at 7st 10Ib has but little chance. The next
three in the scale—all belonging to one stable—look
very mischievous, Goldfinder probably being the
starter. Little George we saw enough of the other
day to settle our opinion against him. The same
remark will apply to Waterfall. Musician is a doubtful
starter for a most potent reason; if he was to figure in
the fray he would be likely to finish No. 1. True Blue
is a hopeless spec. Weathergage with his penalty will,
I fancy, stop at home. LADY AMYOTT and LINDRICK,
as the case stands, look the most like business; and in
one or other I expect to find the winner.
The Patshull Handicap (mile and a half) out of its
dozen acceptances—one of whom, Champion, is already
placed hors de combat—will probably have five or six
runners, among whom YOUNG ENGLAND will be found,
who, I fancy will be about the mark.
The Holyoake Stakes, I presume, will be appropriated
by Dawson, should Sanders' starter miss the mark.
More about this race on Monday.
As we are rapidly approaching the York meeting, it
will not be out of place to give a few hints on the Great
Ebor Handicap. Voltigeur, at Bst 131 b, will have many
friends, but, to my thinking, a moderate chance. Nancy,
at Bst, by the public is much fancied; but, it I am not
most egregiously out in my calculations, in her
we shall not see the winner. Marlboro' Buck,l
Truth, Hippolytns, Little Harry, Bird-on-the-Wing,
Grey Tommy, Frantic, Lucie, Gladiole, Gal-
vanism, Koh-i-Noor, Purser, the Varmint, and Poetess,
are no go. My Goodwood Stakes fancy, Montague, I
consider to be as well in, or in fact better, than any
other in the race, being weighted at 7st. Haricot, at Est
131 b, is sure to be in the rear of Montague, if running
is to be relied on. Sir Rowland Trenchard is not in badly
at 6st 101 b, and, to all intents and purposes, satisfactorily
settles Storyteller, Paquette, the Proctor, and Sledmero.
The High Sheriff's chance is much better than the Red
Lion's, Lindrick's, or Weathergage's. There has been
some talk about Bilberry; but notwithstanding the
feather weight of 4st which is allotted to her, I cannot
have her as a winner. In short, I consider that Mon-
tague may improve upon his Goodwood running at York,
and manage this time to finish A I.—l am, Sir, &c.,
Aug. 6. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF.

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APPOINTZENTS.
WooLwicn, AUG. 6 _Master Vincent Williams
(1841), to the Horatio, 24, screw steam-guardship, at
Sheerness.
ActinMaster 11. W. C. Wise, now a supernumerary
into
herthe
Majesty's VictorVictor flagslp ship
Portsmouth,
service is appointed
in the Fire
Queen.
The Janus steam-vessel, Commander Powell, was paid
off to-day at this port.
- Victory, at
THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MALTA, AUGUST I.—The Medina arrived last night
from Alexandria, which port she left on the 27th of
July, but no news of the Adjah had been received.
The Austrian steamer, which had waited for the India
mail, would start on the morning of the 29th.
I announced in my last the arrival at Suet of the
steamer Victoria, from Aden.
The Medusa racket left us on the morning of
Wed-
nesday last for the fleet, when she would proceed to
England. She had 32 invalids, I believe, and would take
more from the ships and Gibraltar.
The French steam-frigate Gomer arrived last night,
from Tripoli. The Pacha had manifested some alarm at
the menacing appearance of the French sleet, and after
some mock bravado, had delivered up the Frenchmen he
had held in confinement.
The Vengeance has proved the best sailer, having
beaten all the large ships; she is
Phaeton in speed. Captain Lushington is a great
sufferer from gout, and is obliged to be conveyed to the
deck in his chair.
Britannia is a happy ship. On the 13th inst. a the-
atrical representation took place on board under the pa-
tronage of the admiral, at which were invited all the
captatus of the squadron. The entertainment was most
ably sustained. The first piece was a comic drama,
en-
titled The Mock Doctor; or, The Dumb Lady Cured, and
went off amidst roars of laughter. t3eve, al songs,
Sling
in the best style, followed.
Growler steam-frigate was at Marseilles on the 21st
inst., having left the fleet two dayu before. she was
under orders to await the arrival of A. Stafford, Esq.,
who would first visit the admiral before paying his
visit to Malta.
During the time the Medusa has been on station,
about four years, she has done her duty well, and
both
her commander and the officers under his command have
made many friends by their universal urbanity and
kirdness. Lieutenant Bathurst is a lieutenant of 1838;
his father fell at Nayarit:in in come land of the Genoa,
74, and if arduous service byfather and Bon hold out
any reasonable promise for prfaomo tii in, we trust ero
to see the gallant cfficer who has ju.st quitted us pro
meted to the rank of commander.—.Fiera/d.

THE ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WEsTERN LINE, NEAR COVENTRY.— An examination of the
state of the railway at the point where the accident occurred
Brookes—hason the part of the
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so far
recovered that it is hoped he will be in such a progressive
stare that he may be speedily removed to his residence, near
Birmingham. A lady named Salt, who sat opposite one of
the deceased at the time the concussion took place, is still
in a sad state of nervous excitement, besides suffering in
various parts of the body. Mr Moir, of the Birmingham
Journal, in the carriage which suffered most materially from
the accident, fortunately escaped without injury, Mr.
Vi estley Richards, the celebrated gun maker, was in the train
at the time, and fortunately was amongst those who escaped
uninjured.
STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH AFRICA.—L 3 order
to afford a pestal communication every fourteen days to Ma-
deira and T
eneriffe, the Lords of the Admiralty have fixed
the departure of the African mail steamers for the 24th
instead of the Ist of each month. The new regulation will
come into force OR the 24th of September nest, when the
I first vessel of this line will take her deN ature.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON RACE CLUB.—FRIDAY.
The Claret Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 50 added; the
winner to give three dozen of claret to the Club. T.Y.C.
Mr. Osbaldiston ns Sanita, llst 21b (Mr. Osbaldiston) 1
Captain Rous, na Carrier, 3 yrs, lOst 51b (11.r.lBevill) 2
Lord Waterford's Roller, Ilst 111 b (Capt. Pettat) 3
Mr. Bryer's Young England, I Ist 91b...(Capt. Little) 0
Mr. Etwall's Kt of the Thistle, list 71b (Mr. Scobell) 0
Mr. La Terrier na Shropshire Witch, llst...(Elwes) 0
Capt. Rowley ea Flytrap, lOst 131 b (Mr. C. L. Fox) 0
Lord Clifden's Billy Bar, lOst 121 b (Mr. P. Williams) 0
Count Batthyany's Shepherdess, 9st 101b(Mr, Henry) 0
Betting-5 to 2 agst Shropshire Witch, sto 1 agst
Young England, and 5 to 1 agst Carrier. Won easily
by two lengths. A length between second and third,
Shropshire Witch and Knight of the Thistle close up.
Run in 1 min. 22 sec.
Plate of 75 soya., for two yrs old, ist 41b; three, 9st;
fillies and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be
sold for 200 soya., and allowances if to be sold for less.
Half a mile.
Lord W. Po a lett's Guava, ist llb (2001) (T. Smith) 1
Mr. Magenis's Janina, 3 yrs, Bst 61b(1001.) (Flatman)
Duke of Richmond's Stella, 7st llb (1001.) (J.Mann) 3
Sir J. V. Shelley na Promise, Est 1010 (1001) (Hiet) 0
Mr. 'Thelluson's Lady Gertrude, Est 101 b (1000 0
Mr. Reeves's Deerhound, 6st 131b(100/.)(T.Sherwood) 0
B.ttir,,,-5 to 4 agst Stella, 3 to 1 agst Janine' and 5
to 1 agst Guava.
A fine race from the distance between the first two,
was won by a head, SL lit a bad third. Bun in
50 sec.
The Brighton Club Stakes of 10 soya. each, la ft (handi-
cap), with 50 added; the winner to give three dozen
of Champagne to the Club. New Course.
i es) 1
Captain Archdall na Bullfinch, Wv
it 71b (Mr. avi,, 2
Captain Rous na Hesse Homburg,lostl2lb(Mr.Beviiti ,
Captain Little na Clothworker,aged,l2st(Capt.Little) 0,
Capt. Rowley's Beebee Bunnoo, lOst (Capt. Rowley) 4„
Count Batthyany's Shepherdess, 9st 410 (Mr. Henry)u,
4 to 1 each agst Bullfinch and Clothworker.
Betting-7 to 4 and 2tol on Hesse Homburg, and
Won by a
head, Clothworker a bad third. Shepherdess did not
pass the post. Run in 3 min. 29 sec.
Match 50, h ft. T.Y.C.
Duke of Bedford's Bordeaux, 5 yrs, Bst 131 b (Pettit)
Mr. Rogers's Leybourne, 4 yrs, Bst 41b (Rogers)
Betting-2 to lon Bordeaux. Won easy by a length.
Run in 1 min. 20 sec.
old,
7 Plate of 75 sews. for maiden horses; three yrsi,.
ist 71b; four, Bst 71b; five and upwards, Bst 10,D.
mares and geldings allowed 31b; the winner to be sold
for 150 soya. Bristol mile. I
Duke cf Bedford's Carrier, 3 y
yrs rs ( 3
G. Mann)
Lord Chesterfield's Infidelity f, 3 (Charlton)
Mr. Elves na Flora M`lvor, 4 yrs ...(It. Sherwood) 4
Mr. Elwes's Miss Talbot, 4 yrs
21
(Rogers) 5
Captain Rowley's Yellow Boy, 3 yrs (J. Mann)lt
, and 9 to 4 egg Infidel Y,
Betting—Even on Carrier,
filly. Won by half a length,
and third, and a neck between third and fourth. Itun2o_
1 min. 49 sec. The winner was sold by auction for 5
guineas.
f 5 sow.
Plate of 100 sovs. added to a sweepstakes 0'
a length between
fi and
each; three yrs old, 10at 71b; four, list 9113; --Y°
The
upwards, 12st; mares and geldings allowed
31b.s
if to
winner to be sold for 300 soya., and allow
tfielle9eo sovs.
be sold for less. The second horse to rene'Y-
out of the stakes. New course. insener) 1
Captain Lane's Agis, aged, llst (3001.) ...... k-,• •ttle) 2
Lord Sir j J.
Waterford tSe rilfeoiri de 3;
s' Pan,BMi ss ls
Hayes,t ( 2101 V 4.1. b. ((CCaaPPtt. 12.Ljeltstcact;an43
Mr. Elwes's Sleeping Partner, list 21b ...... ( 5
Capt. Rowley na Domino, lOst 71b (Mr. C. 1). Fox)
..„ „ Won by
Betting-2 to 1 each agst Agis and -.- a-* d third.
two lengths; half a length between second
Run in 3 min 32 sec. The winner was
guineas. stakes of
The Welter Plate of 50 soya., added to a sweed. five yrs
10 says. each, h ft; four yrs old, 13st '"'
4'oner to be
old, 13st 1010; six and aged, 14st; the
n:imembers to
sold fur 100 sous.; gentlemen riders; n-- -
carry 510 extra. 'New course. (Owner) 1
Captain Cowley's Garforth, 5 yrs, 13st 101 b.. ) 2
(Owner
Mr. Elwe's Vesta, aged, 14st ................ •
/axe Scobell) 3
Mr. Bethune na Abdallah, 13st 10lb at....;..
a 3 to 1 agst
Betting-7 to 4 and 2tol on *Vesta,. :48 a 3 min sec.
Abdallah. Won by two lengths. 11" °lost some of
An objection against Garforth for havingerruled.
his weight after passing the post was overruled.
sold
for 370
BETTING ON THE C°.
o geur t.)
EBOR HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst -af
~Itrto 100( agst Stock.
GREAT YORKSHIRE STALES.
well well (t.)
ST. LEGER.-350 to 100 agst .
to take 4to 1 about Stockwell. t the three days pro-
Our
returns must have shown that • to anything
opener
duced an amount of sport lar 6
,1 it proved we have
hitherto seen at Brighton. GoOu 2vsing considerably en-
no doubt that the committee,
bad
the winners of the
riched their exchequer by the salde
co
Optional Selling Races, will prod e is
Son,stress (t.)—offers
something better.
Their determination to go she da, that the judging,
is due to the management to a
starting, and weighing, were unmistakable. It
Chad and Sergeant
the police, under Superintendent_ e
b alert, from first to
Langley, were so thoroughly on
before the magistrates,
last, that not a single case came
ng irretproachable, and that

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THE IRISH SUBMARINE TELEGRAPHS,
(From the Expositor of this day.)
The success of the electric telegraph would have
been greatly circumscribed if means had not been
found of passing the electro current under water.
Intelligence would have been transmitted swiftly over
continents and arrested by narrow channels. The
instruments of perfecting important discoveries some-
times appear along with the invention. The electro
current can be conveyed beneath water by the aid of
gutta percha, and this singular material came into the
western markets at the precise time when it was re-
quired to accomplish this work. The wires of the
electro telegraph, when stretched on poles by the side
of railways, according to the common practice in this
country, are independent of gutta percha ; but when
they are carried through tunnels its aid is necessary.
The aerial telegraph, although common in Britain, is
Lot universally used. The subterranean system is
chiefly practised in Germany. We suspend the wires
on poles, and the Pru.sians cover them up in a trench.
The idea of messages overtaking railway trains, pass-
ing them with inconceivable rapidity, and preparing
for travellers an unwelcome reception at the end of
their journey, ha:, become a frequent subjecs or sen-
timental writing. It is not quite so startling as
those underground messages. transmitted with equal
rapidity. As the train hurries over the line, the tra-
veller has leave to imagine that his eye detects a
slight tremulousness, in neighbouring wires, although
that is entirely imaginative; but in the case of the
subterranean telegraph information of an evil deed
seems to spring out of the earth. But the telegraph
has other, more common, and more important pur-
poses to serve than that of a police assistant. It is
not always charged with messages of evil. It carries
all the more important missives of the age, and if it
ever brings a tale of danger or of war, it will as often
convey the glad tidings of safety and of peace. Its
operations and tendencies are all on the side of inter-
national friendships and amity, for it utterly anni-
hilates distance in one respect, and will maintain yet
hourly communications between the most distant re-
gions of the earth. But deep wide oceans intervene
between them, and neither the English nor the
German systems of telegraphing are practicable on
them. Science had not material whereby to
throw a bridge with poles and wires over the
Atlantic, while the subterranean system seemed
at least equally improbable. The latter,
however, afforded suggestions for a subaqueous tele-
e insulation and protection of the tele-
requisite in the subterranean sys-
ggrraapphh. wiresTh were
at by gutta percba. The
tern, and were fu
n
Y
wires had been cove
red by that strange gum, ex-
tracted from an eastern tree, and while this covering
did not interfere with the transmission of messages, it
effectually shielded the swift messenger on the tour-
should describe it with more pro-
ney, or perhaps
we
pricey as the shielde of theven fragilescie nt high
ific a
men donot
on which
that messenger travels.
always perceive E
more obvious facts connected with
the matteronthe
which they operate; and, in the first
instance, subaqueous telegraphs were proposed of
coated with gotta percha alone. That material
oW
wire,eri of resistance ; but yet, placed
possesses great P
sunk a hundred fathoms, or any
beneath the ocean,
other other number of fathoms deep, and chafed againstrocks, even the wrecks of vessels, or many other
substances, it would fail. The wire coated with
gutta percha was even, we believe, thrown over the
English channel, but it did not maintain the commu-
nication for more than twenty-lour hours. It
was now clear that the gutta percha would protect
the wires of the subaqueous telegraph, if it could
be itself secured against the
rough handling which
all invading substances experience at times from the
ocean. The latter hbjeact has been affected by galva-
spiral form. round the gutta
nixed wires twisted in
which a copper wire is enclosed. The
percha case, in
telegraph across the channel to the French coast was
put down in the month of September last. It has
now been in operation for ten or twelve months, and
the insulation of the
wire is so complete that the
communication has been steadily maintained. In
e was over te Iri
June last a telegraph
channel from Holyhearto Howth thrown
h . The distance be-
sh
tween these points is
and full sixty sixty miles, and the coast
on both sides "rocky
rough." The agitation in
favour of an Irish Atlanticsteam-packetontelegraphic matters.
Wires could easily be port caused
considerable excitement
suspended from Dublin to
Galway along the line of railway ; and, the difficul-
ties of the channel once
overcome,
re-
ceived on the west coast of Ireland intelligence
Ireland might be trans-
mittedabsolute
transmission, to London with great rapidity. The
transmission, if the line were not broken by inter-
be measured by time.
vening stations, can scarcely
The messenger would not require a second on the way
over the wide Irish bogs which are to be converted
into gold, and over the 'wider fertile lands of that
country, which require no such conversion; for they
are already more valuable than gold itself—down be-
neath that deep and often stormy channel—past the
busy towns of the north-west of England, and over
all the breadth of the land from Holyhead to Loth-
bury or Charing-cross. The Irish telegraph would
be formed—that fact was unquestionable after the
completion of the French line. Rival companies were
therefore anxious for the work, and those who carried
over the first intelligence were likely to be successful
in preserving the business.
The channel between Holyhead and Howth is over
sixty miles in breadth, and Howth itself is at a con-
siderable distance from Dublin. The cost of pre-
pared wires must be very heavy ; and where a choice
can be readily obtained, the narrow crossing of any
channel will probably be adopted. The crossing be-
tween Portpatrick on the Scottish coast, and Do-
naghadee in the neighbourhood of Belfast, is not
much over twenty miles. The channel is narrowed
to little more than ten miles between the western
corner of Argyleshire and the eastern extremity of
Antrim ; but the telegraphic wire would have to be
carried by land for many miles from Glasgow to the
point nearest to Ireland on the Argyleshire coast, and
again on the Irish coast towards Belfast for a shorter
distance, but still one more considerable than from Do-
naghadee. A company was therefore formed to con-
nect the British and Irish coast from Portpatrick.
They have adopted the subterraneous system from
Dumfries onwards through a great breadth of coun-
try, forming the south-western shoulder of Scotland
onwards to the coast. Upon the Irish shore the
Belfast and County Down Railway does not come
within ten miles of Donaghadee, and for that distance
the railway will render no aid to the telegraph.
These operations necessarily occupied considerable
time, and although now completed, yet other parties,
by a decided step, telegraphed the wider channel be-
tween Holyhead and Howth, while the northern
company were digging trenches. One day a gentle-
man called at the Gutta Percha Company's works in
London and inquired if they could supply him with
one wire, double covered with gutta percha, and
eighty miles long, within two weeks. The question
was somewhat startling. for the order, taken in con-
nexion with the time for its performance, was out of
the common line of business. It was, however, ac-
cepted, and it was accomplished. o course the
company cover telegraphic wires with gutta percha as
part of their business, while their customer probably
wished to keep his own secret, and so their depart-
ment was completed and the work delivered for some
time, and re-covered at works in Newcastleson-Tyne
with galvanised wires, before they were made ac-
quainted with its destination. This was the first
telegraphic wire which crossed the Irish Channel,
and it wrought well for some time. We have
learned, however, that it has been broken, and is
irreparable. The report has caused some anxiety
among commercial men in reference to sub-
marine telegraphs ; but the circumstances show
nothing against them. Even if wires of the descrip-
tion employed should be altogether unsuccessful, the
communications will still be formed and maintained.
The first engraving shows accurately the form and
size of the wire from Holyhead to Howth.
The telegraph wire is insulated within a double
covering of gutta percha, and the latter is protected
by twelve very small galvanised wires twisted around
it in a spiral form. The rope is only of the thickness
represented in the engraving, and has a fragile or
rather weak appearance for the rough kind of work
between Holyhead and Howth.
The villagers of Donaghadee and Portpatrick had
long been interested in the intercourse between the
two islands. Neither of these places bad a natural
harbour. The shelter afforded by them for shipping
had been almost entirely cut out of rocks. The cur-
rent in their great ferry resembled " a mill race."
The water seemed ever to be in haste to get in, or
else to get out and away again, between the narrow
points of land where Scotland and Ireland struggle to
meet. Immense sums of money, which we should
not like to count over, have been expended on this
passage for the benefit of Donaghadee and Portpatrick
in particular, and the world at large, in a more gene-
ral way. When railways and steam navigation changed
years ago, the villagers on both
this "ferry" a few
sides considered themselves very badly used indeed,
by science. They offer a practical example of the
propriety of people trusting to the "march of improve-
ment," and waiting on. Another stage promised to
restore and secure the more interesting part of the
communications between the countries to its old
channel. The two villages were to link together—
not only two islands—hut the eastern and western.
di-
visions of the earth. Then, with this renew al of their
hopes came the Holy well and Howth competition to
estruc-
destroy them. Now, however, the reported
ew
tion of the rival communicating wire hasefiven
nod the
confidence to Donaghadee and Portpa.terti
villages say
wiser class of persons in the two q
to cross the
that people cannot expect profitably decided] in
plans of nature—one of these plans being
their favour.
A more important section
of
of communica-
linesthe community ex-
press fears that the submarinesop
stoppages
and, from the
tion will always be liable.
will
et_oraP: e
r asonably
destruction of wires, will D

pensive. Neither party have any ground for the
opinions of the one, or fears of the other, in any event
which has yet occurred. The second engraving,
when contrasted with the first, will convey a better
idea of what the Holyhead wire should have been,
what the Dover one is, and the DonaghaCee one, as
we believe, will be, than any statement of the differ-
ences between them which we could make.
The telegraph in this instance consists of four
wires. Each wire is separately insulated in a double
covering of gutta percha. The double coating has
been adopted to prevent the probability of imperfec-
tions in the material. The scheme completely ob-
viates that risk; for it is highly improbable that the
deficiency would occur in both coverings at the same
point. The four wires, distinguished by the letter
Ain the engraving, being insulated by the gutta
percha B, are not brought into contact with the pro-
tecting wires ; but are wrapped with spun yarn, sa-
turated with tar, which protects them from the gal-
vanised wires 1). Ten of these wires of con-
, siderable strength end thickness are twisted round
the tarred yarn, which covers the gotta percha
in
I which the four conducting copper wires have been
insulated. The adoption of the spun yarn as a co-
vering or shield to the gutta percha prevents the pos-
sibility of accident, from the latter being chafed by
the wires. The probability of that accident is not
gceat, but stil it exists. We have seen part of a te-
legraphic wire absolutely twisted into the form of a
knot, while still the gutta percha, faithful to its im-
portant trust, maintained perfect the insulation of the
copper wire. The galvanised wires in the rope which
has maintained the communication with the French
coast for the past ten months are very strong ; and
while the weight of the first specimen was only one
ton per mile, the weight of the specimen on that sta-
tion in actual use is fully seven tons per mile.
Tshe differences between the two telegraphs are
thus apparent. The successful telegraph contains
four wires, each doubly covered with gutta percha,
wrapped in yarn carefully tarred and twisted round,
with ten thick galvanized wires forming a rope of
4 inch of diameter, and weighing over seven tons .
per The unsuccessful telegraph contains only
one wire, also doubly covered with gutta percha, but
not wrapped in yarn, and with its covering of twelve
thin galvanized wires, not more than half an inch in
diameter, and one ton per mile of weight.
The galvanized wires are unnecessary as a protec-
tion of gutta percha against the influence of ocean
water; for we have seen very thin gutta percha net-
ting immersed for five years in brine, but still as firm
and tough as on the day of its manufacture. It is
doubtful whether the material be not improved by
i the process.

We have heard that some extensive coils of tele-
graphic wire in the form of the second illustration—
the successful wire—have been ordered and are now
in preparation at the Gutta Percha Company's works.
We infer, therefore, we shall soon hear of more
sub-marine telegraphs. When ten or twenty years
have come and gone, a net-work of telegraphing will
be laid under many seas, and carried over many lands.
Intelligence will pass from nation to nation, " quick
This apparently feeble
asag agency
wlifahthneil
lightnings
thebfirsesahk." lbha erate
mankind. And while it is evolving great benefitss,,suba-
queous to
commerce, the instrument which has rendered
telegraphing" practicable, should not be for-
gotten. The " savages," we are told, who gather
this gum in the forests of oriental isles and make it
up in blocks for the market, put stones and other
useless substances in these masses of professed gum,
to increase their weight. The civilised are astonished
that the " savages" should have learned to cheat. And
yet the vice is natural. Yelp burners sometimes try
the same means of money making. A kelp owner
told us that he was greatly distressed on the subject
of Irish kelp, because it contained stones. Cheating
is even practised among civilised persons. Bat if the
" savages" are guilty of dishonesty in their gum
gathering as their help, in making sub-marine tele-
graphs indispensable, an effort should be made to bring
them out of their savage state. Their gutta percha
has been a useful discovery to Europeans, who should
try to make its discovery still more useful to " the
savages:'

THE CRYSTAL PALACE.
A gratifying spectacle it was, the erection of the first
pillar of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham; and an ex-
cellent address the chairman of the company delivered
at the dijoiner which ensued, containing many sound
truths, pithily expressed, and pleasingly illustrated.
liypercritics might object that there was something of
an anti-climax in his announcement of the Palace as the
best and biggest advertising van ever known, towards
the close of his oration. But we are in no hypercritical
mood, and are ready to admit that the company and its
chairman, in keeping an eye on the main chance, while
professing to be mainly animated by a desire to instruct
and elevate the people, only follow the example of grave
and even sacred professions.
Besides, there was much truth in what Mr. Laing said
about advertisements. They are a necessity of com-
mercial life. In our crowded population, for a man to
put his light under a bushel is to conseat to its being
extinguiabed, and perhaps himself along with it.
Choose what pursuit in life you will, you tind dozens
of competitors around you, and the public, who know no
more of the one than the other. naturally employ the
first that attracts their notice. It will never do now-a-
days to stand aloof in silent dignity till custom comes
to your door; you must pat yourself in the way of cus-
tom—push, and bawl, and snatch at it; and as only
Members of Parliament and quack doctors are tolerated
to puff themselves off from platforms and hustings, why,
advertisements are your only resource.
The art of advertising has made great strides of late.
In the days of our youth there were newspaper and
pamphlet advertisements, posting. bills and hand-bills.
In addition to these we have now peripatetics carrying
posting-bills surmounting long poles like banners, or
encased between two, after the fashion of a herald's
tabard, single or in files; advertising vans; bills stuck
up in onanibusses and second-class railway carriages; at
railway stations, and in still more curious and secluded
places of universal resort.
All is quite fair. We have many rivals now as
channels for advertisements, an they.e are daily on the
increase. The new Crystal Paac is to be in some
sort a temple to the goddess of advertisemnts, whom
we take to be no other than the goddess Fame, so
magnificently described by Virgil.
asked up in a
_Wle have even de-
tected, ere now, an advertisement 1
5 y y Ipain not, but let
speech in Parliament. 0
U 3 all start fair, Why arfe Pbrethren of the
ls. 6d. duty upon every
broad-sheet compelled to pay
t sch
ei s a an -
de co ou nir
11 other publishers of
advertisement we publish, while a
Take, for ex-
advertisements escape scot-free.es on the North-
ample, the second-class carriag
t has an av
Western Railway. Each compartmen it.
The
erage
he average
of thirty advertising bills stuck upon.
h train cannot ,be less
of thee© compartments in each _ .
600 advertisements, an
than twenty. Hero we have
wspaper proprietor's
average enough to make any ne .
up t hese b
sink
mouth water. The privilege of sticking
ng gentle
is, we believe, farmed by one enterprisi
the company and he divide the profits of the advertise-
ments. But is it consistent with fair play, or free trade,
that while they are allowed to pocket all their earnings
in this line without deduction, Government shall con-
tinue to appropriate one shilling and sixpence out of the
remuneration we receive for every advertisement we
publish? The amount of the extortion is not to be
estimated by this sum of ls. 6d. alone; the curtailment
of our advertising business ou account t the increased
charges we are obliged to make, the higher Price at
which we are obliged to sell our paper in order to make
ends meet must also be taken into account.
From every quarter we are accustomed to hear pro-
fessions of respect and esteem for the newspaper. It is
called "the beat public instructor; it is toasted at every
public
speakers, and many other dinners; to hear our
speakers, you would imagine their newspaper
dear to them as anything they own upon earth*was as
And
these are not altogether empty words. The
breakfast
table of most people in comfortable circum
be a dull affair without its morning p stances would
would feel a sad want if deprived of his The artisan
on the last or first day of the week. Theis weekly journal
sought after as an intelligent and amusing newspaper is
railway carriage, steamboat, or companion in
thing now exist. But we could dispense Stage coach—if such a
the empty praise that is lavished with much of
a little more solid pudding. We upon us in return for
delivery of many flattering. could excuse the non-
speeches, on consideration
that we received a little more substantial justice. Re-
lieve us from a tax a
are owhich no other dealers in adver-
tisements subjected.
We could say much and much that is true--upon
the gain that would accrue public from doing. us
this justice. We
havean
n honest
te
ridein our vonatleexn,
and, in fitting time and place, haver' no reluctance ttoed
to-
patiate upon its importance. But we aro
cer trjustice
put our case at present on the simple groun i
00. when
to an honest branch of industrial n
c nteerPerrespetitors in
every nerve is being strained to placer aity,
i by relieving
other pursuits upon a footing of a
clay be subjected to
any individuals among them who ;hi unequal burdens,
Impost not paid by others few:anal_
f 1 dealers in advertise-
why should newspapers alone 0.
bile their competitors are
meats continue to be taxed w
exempted? t seem a very abstruse one, and
The question doesr
nillarliainent has been muddling at
yet Parliament aft: p
rowdy without being one whit
it ever since iisli, p
solution of it than at first. Until
nearer a pracncuas
in
this matter we must continue to re-
justice is done
ecbes about newspapers—whether cm--
gard all big gory, or Radical—as better ' no 4ban
netting froin
that some rude triLes
the worship
,pay to the devil—an
.0, f concealed tear, not of cordial love.
"Pre''' 1. has secl d '
Aar. DiSrtle 1. ll CU himself Item public gaze
ever since the nomination for Bucks, and is understood
to be busy concocting his first original budget. hßut
from Mr. Disraeli we look for no relief. He is himself"
a literary man; and when literary men in
tain to office their first effort is to seek to obliterate
from
the minds of their colleagnes all remembrance o
former vocation. Mr. Diaraeli knows that he couldftheir
good service to many worthy literary men by abolishing
do
or reducing the tax upon advertisements, but he knows
once
'le-
e has D
ho would immediately be twitted with having
longed to the " press-gang" himself, and -h riot
moral courage to endure the silly taunt. i) (lily News

in the
BOTTLED FRUIT!. commission, published . .
, Sanitary • cannot be too cautious in
I appears from the report of
the Analytical , public ,
Lancet last week, that '
f thou. oplease one taste only,
the purchase 0 i,, order
preparation of cop-
sight,es manufacturers ,f,
h habit of using a
colour of the
articles
they
are
into itraprove (?) the
quality,
and even safety. It
per in order
sacrifice flavour,
sell, and thus bottled fuits,7reserves &c.,
inasmuch
teCilf
contained a
appearsconsi-
of our firsted at the. houses of
that - ° iv est - e nhdNei:i tradesmen,cwell-polishedphucrocruholdad o f
iron
in a
some - „Tuantity of copper,
vessel
be readily detected
in which the
smooth,l)
tt letdhferue lotus neg of the fluid
fruit or vegetable
previously increased by the addition of about three drops
bdoYeliblia°l'elinD;:g:bo
be
strong itric acid. On removing the iron rod from the
test tube,
of
iLit will be found coated from top to bottom with a
continuous and bright coating of copper; if the amount of
copper in the suspected article was less, the rod would be
found only partially covered. Other and finer tests are used
where the quantity is inconsiderable. The report then pub-
lishes the names of the vendors of the adulterated articles,
and the name of only one firm whose fruits and vegetables
were ascertained to be free from copper, with the exception
of greengages, which contained a trace only of the poisp.
The report concludes by an expression of regret that the
commissioners were unable to have their paper ready before,
as it might probably have deterred persons from using so
freely such a poisonous ingredient as copper in the preserva-
tion of fruits, &c.
HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EICURSION.—PORTS'
MOUTH, Aim 6.—The Vivid steam-packet, Master-Com-
mander Smithett, arrived this morning from Dover, to join
the armed steam escort to accompany her Molests' on her
cruize. Iler Majesty is expected to leave Osborne House at
noon to-morrow, on board the "Victoria and Albert, proceed-
ing
in the first instance to Guernsey and Jersey, and from
thence direct to Sheerness, where a short stay will
be
of made.
after which she will go on to Ostend to visit the Kt in:githead
Belgians. The steam squadron got up steam
attend
a"pPoo her
this afternoon, in order to be in readiness to t has pre-
veiled all day may possibly cause her -Alsjesat
e,
-1- however, the
Blajesty. 't he very rough and 'windy weathavettr:thpoast
departure fur a day or two. The above
arrangements up to this afternoon.
As Lord Ward was
AN IMPUDENT ROBBERY.
Worcestershire Archery So_
returning from a meeting
of
the
barefaced and daring robbery
ciety the other day in a car, a pone her
lie had coop car, and project-
was committed upon him.
1 waterp case of bows and
in g through the window, 3 along, some person in the
an ows, and, as the car going
street snatched the case from
topped and his Lordship pursued
eras
the car and ran off with it. The
vehicle was immediately s
the thief for some distance, when the latter entered an
orchard and escaped. EARL BROWNLOW.—We regret
RESIGNATION
we are glad to state, is not worse than
' 's health,
e of the
Ills Lordship
months past, but, in consequenc
n for some
sed on his
HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.—OnIy two farewell it has been
of
the militia, the additional labour imPbt it more
to announce the resOigrnation of our excellent lord-lieutenant-
nights will be given—viz., on Thursday and Saturday next. entolmeot
The general public will have the opportunity of visiting this lordship
with his duty to place his resignati° al
has become so oneroas, that he has tholigthe lauds
magnificent theatre, the scale of achuiiiion being reduced to consistent
'Oat i 3 termed playhouse prices. of the Qui:Lt.—Stamford Mercury.