The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

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POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUEL TREATMENT OF A WlFE,—Thornas Marshall, a
tall rough-looking fellow, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt
with assaulting and threatening his wife.
The wife—l am the mother of nine children. My husband
threw a pail of water over me in front of Mr Squire's shop,
in the Tottenham•court•road, where I hßve stood with a
stall for years, and he also told Mr Squires that I had
stolen some meat from his shop. He has illused me before
and in consequence of his illusage I had to undergo the
operation cf having one of my breasts cut off, and was in
the hospital for some weeks, and received a little assistance
from the court.
Mr Tyrwhitt—Have you any children ?
Wife—l have, and work hard to support them, and am
willing to do so as long as he does not annoy or kick me.
Mr Tyrwhitt—You are not obliged to live with such a
savage follow.

State Portraits of their Royal Highnesses,

PAINTED BY THE DORE JENSEN.

Nov ON VIEW AT M`LEAN'S, IN THE HAYMARKET.
The catalogue of the Portraits already taken of
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Prineess of
Wales must, even now, we should imagine, be very
considerable. Any one who sauntered into this last
season's exhibition of paintings at the Royal Aca-
demy, will have recognised more than one notable
addition to the number of those Portraits. But con-
spicuous among those latest attestations at once to
the popularity and to the comelinees of the Heir
to the Crown and his Fair young Bride, were the
two remarkable pictures now on view at Mr.
11I'Lean's well-known studio in the Haymarket.
They are incomparably to our mind the very finest
among all the numerous portraits of their Royal
Highnesses that have been yet produced. And
they are so—they take thus (in cur estimation) prece-
dence among all other contemporary portaitures of
the Prince and Princess of Wales—at once as works
of art and es likenesses, as" counterfeit presentments"
of the illustrious originals. They are the works,
these two noble pictures, of a Danish artist, emi-
nent,
since, in his native land,
his unquestionable
unquestionable powers, new
we might say inevitably, to
ourselves. Now that we can see them in a
thoughhn
ye t ,
right
doubtless,
h s
of
name
mnh e s
better light, and from a more reasonable dis-
tance than when we first saw them—high up, at any
rate, " above the line,"--in the Royal Academy
more distinctly than we
Ewexrheibeitnioahniewde ogtroecdonitsheen
the manifold excel-
lence of Theodore Jensen's
portraits of their Royal
Highnesses—portraits, for those reasons (namely,
the better light in which and the lesser altitude
at 'shish they are here at length displayed to
view)—portraits for these reasons, really and truly
as we may say now for the first time exhibited, cer-
tainly for the first time satisfactorily exhibited, at
Mr. M'Clears's in the Haymarket. The Prince's por-
trait, as here given, is the first that has ever been
painted not only of himself bat of any illustrious
personage whatever, arrayed in the magnificent
robes of a knight of the,Order of the Star of India !
The delicate, exquisitely pale blue (almost whitish
blue) silk robe of the last created order of knight.
hood, depending from H.R.H.'s shoulders and trail-
ing along the dais upon which he stands forth to
view in the easiest of natural attitude. Otherwise
than in this distinguishing peculiarity of his cos-
tume, the Prince is arrayed, according to his
favourite wont, in the full uniform of a British
general officer—i.e. in scarlet and gold, with other
soldierly and princely appurtenances. En-
circling the neck and pendant upon the bosom,
the star and collar of the glorious order of
Indian Knighthood already particularised.
In the companion picture, the beautiful young
Princess Alexandra, now Princess of Wales,
destined (if life be but spared to herself and her
royal husband) to become Queen Consort of Eng-
lnd—in this
companion
oug picture of our already
queenly-looking Princess, H.R.H. is robed in
Eng-
land—in
a sumptuous velvet dress "deeply, darkly, beautifully
yn
blue," that is, in other words, of the true Denmark
blue in colour, the velvet texture of the robe and
the dark richness of the colouring, Icing en-
hanced or set off by a wonderful rendericg—
thanks to the skill of the artist's magical brush—
a really wonderful rendering, in all its fairy

webwork of clouds of gorgeous lace—lace

here touched into the semblance of reality in all
the mazes of its gossamer-like embroidery. Added
to this, among the mere accessories to this sump-
tuous portraiture of the Princess, the artist has de-

plated some amongst the many marvellous treasures,
in the shape of jewellery lavished at the time of her
bridal upon the lovely young Princess—presents
from her Majesty, from his Royal Highness the
Bridegroom, from one and another of the august per-
sonages in the two Royal families then about
to be allied. A very synosure among coronets
glittering resplendently in its pre-eminence among

all these treasures ! Precious stones of the costliest

value, and these disposed in the most elaborate and ex-
quisitely tasteful settings—around the neck,upon the
bosom, pendant from the shoulder-knots, encircling
the delicate fig ge rs, twinkling at the waist
and about the stomacher ! Altogether, apart

from these mere surroundings, adjuncts, or acces-
sories tolthe interest and splendour of these
two noble portraits of their Royal Highnesses as
painted by the hand of Theodore Jensen—these

portraits, viewed simply and solely as portraits,

command at once our interest and our lasting admi-

ration for themselves. Simply as portraits, wirepeat,
they are the very best that have yet been pro-
duced, Recognising which—as who can fail to

recognise the fact, who looks upon them
with a previous knowledge of the originals
they are designed to represent —it cannot
be a matter of surprise to learn that

the list of subscribers to the engravings of these
ttiweopictaresengravings now in active prepare-
e, is a list that grows from day to day with
unaccustomed rapidity, even in the instance of

State Portraits of the highest perbonages in the
realm under the Sovereign.

"ON MODERN COSTUME."—S uch is the title given
to a brochure recently issued by E. Moses & Son, of
the _Vineries. The great object of its gratuitous publica-
tion will at once suggest itself to the mind, but the author
has so ingeniously blended the literary element with his
commendations of the firm and its manufactures, that if it
may not be pronounced to rank among.
the "literary curio-
sities of the age, at all events it is an advertising curio-
sity," even in the year '64, One thing is also certain, that
the information conveyed in its pages-,which are elegantly
written, and well interspersed with lively anecdote—cannot
be had at any shop gratis. The essay commences with a
notice of the national costumesof the Greeks, Romans,
Egyptians, &c., and comes down to our own time; the
best specimens of which may, of course, be seen in the
ver
y
back LIZ
Mincries. The following brief extracts will convey an idea
of the style and scope of the
Pamphlet :—" Our modern
fashions always run into extremes. At the beginning of
this century an amorous swain was delighted to see the
and now the waist of a young
lady of 18 is as long as that
level with her shoulders ;
--.0 vast bonnet once pro-
jected
so far in front that it was like peeping down a lane
owfahisetrofghreiastl.agdrya lnodvmeaanalmmoas,st.onrrak
came the little bonnet,
likeifyoaa stmricadllhead, threatening to fly
away at the first puff of wind. Nov— the bonnet is brought
more forward, loaded with ornaments, and raised like a
helmet with a sharp peak. The fashions changed just as
rapidly with our ancestors as they de with us." Again.
"Sometimes the fashion that is obstinately independent of
tcoaps,eoenthteheface.
Kings and Queens gives way before some trivial incident,
or changes in a moment under some sudden impulse of dis-
a physician's
dis-
gust. Mrs Turner, widow, invented the
yellow starched ruff; but as she had e
hand in the murder
of Sir Thomas Overbury, and went to the gallows with a
yellow ruff round her neck, the fashion died with the in.
ventress. Black satin was once in vogue; but, as Mrs
ManniLg wore it on the gallows, no
lady of fashion has
worn it since." "On what apparent trifles the whole cha-
racter of a costume—nay, the very character of the wearer
--may depend, when good taste is wholly departed from I
Fashion is regarded as the eole test of Propriety, If a coat-
collar be the eighth of an inch too broad or too narrow for
the latest mode, or the two waist buttons on the back of
the coat be too neighbourly or too distant, or if the coat be
too swallow-tailed, or have too broad a termination,
we
laugh incontinently at the wearer. That 'which to-day is
the perfection of propriety is to-morrow purely ludicrous.
The greatest sage or hero becomes a pitiful ' Guy,'—a figure
for a pantomime,—if his dress be out of fashion. How neces-
sary it is, then, to be careful in the choice of one's tailor I"
Several apt anecdotes are given of Gentleman George IV.
and Brummell, and the following from Lady Morgan—
we don't know which to admire the most, the cutting sar-
casm of the lady or the use to which it has now been put :
Lord Anglesea was once as great a toilet-model to the
Princeß egent (afterwards George IV,), as Beau Brummell.
Lady Morgan records an amusing conversation with his
lordship. "Lord Anglesea," said her ladyship,
"some ad-
mire you as Lord Lieutenant, some for your heroi
la ;
s but
I admire you for—" Lord A.—" For what, Lady Mor-
gan ? ' Lady M.—" For the cut of your coat. Who is your
tailor ?" In these days this question put to any remark-
ably well-dressed man is pretty sure to be met with but ono
answer—which we leave to the sagacity of the reader. A
very pleasant hall .hour, however, may be spent in the
perusal of this brochure from the Minories,
ACCIDENT AT A RAILWAY STATION.--.A fatal
accident occurred at the Chelmsford station of the Great
Eastern Railway yesterday morning. Mr.
Frank Snell
was walking along the line towards the station on the
down side, with a small hamper in his hand, and when ho
was a short distance from the station he was knocked down
by the mail train from London, which is due at 10.15 a.m.
The train passed over his body, mangling it in a shocking
manner. The driver. on seeing Mr. Snell, blew his
whistle, but the deceased, who was rather deaf, probably
did not hear it. He was highly respected in the neigh-
bourhood.

The British Archmological Association.

IrsvercH, Aug. 8.
The twenty-first annual congress of the British
Archmological Association commenced this day at
Ipswich. There was a great influx of archteolcgists
by the various railway trains in the morning, and
at three o'clock a numerous assemblage collected in
the council chamber of the Town-hall, where the
members of the association and visitors were re-
ceived by the mayor and corporation.
Among those present were—Mr Tomline, M.P.,
Mr. Cobbold, M.P., Mr Pettigtew, Mr T. Wright,
Mr Planche, Mr. Gordon Hills, Mr Levien, Mr G.
R. Wright, Mr Previte, Mr Godwin, and many
others of the leading members of the Association,
besides a number of clergymen of the neighbour-
hood, and a large sprinkling of ladies.
The MAYOR, in expressing his gratification at
the visit of the Aram )logical Association t
Ipswich, regretted they had not come some years
earlier, to have preserved from destruction many of
the ancient monuments of Ipswich, of which few
now remained. The town formed, however, an ex-
cellent centre for excursions, and objects of great
interest to the antiquary, and he hoped they would
spend an agreeable and interesting week. It would
be his endeavour and that of the corporation to give
them every possible assistance.
Lord Houghton, the president of the meeting last
year at Leeds, was unable to attend, therefore the
usual formality of resigning the chair to his Aucces-
sor was dispensed with.
Mr PETTIGREW, as the oldest vice-president of
the association, and one of its original founders, in-
troduced Mr Tomline, M.P., to the meeting as their
president. He said the time was gone by when it
was necessary to speak of the value of such asso-
ciations, as it was now generally admitted ;
and the work they had accomplished in
diffusing a taste for archwslogical researches,
and in preserving the monuments of past times,
had thrown much light on obscure parts of
the history of the kingdom. He concluded by
pointing out the special qualifications of Mr. Tom-
line for the office of their president, to which he
had been elected.
Mr. TOMLINE then took the chair, and, after wel-
coming the association to the ancient kingdom of
East Anglia—where the Roman, the Saxon, and
the Dine had left their footprints—he proceeded,
in a very eloquent address, to laud archeeologieal
pursuits, and to indicate some of the many advan-
tages that had accrued from the efforts of the asso-
ciation since their first meeting at Canterbury, 20
years ago; amongst which were the formation of
associated local societies, which aided materially to
advance the progress of knowledge. He took a
comprehensive view of the connection of arches stogy
with physical science, and of the mutual aid which
they gave to each other. The rapid progress of
knowledge at the present day, he observed, might
be in a great degree attributed to the freedom of
thought of the existing generation, for though our
philosophers and men of science do not surpass

even if they Equal, Plato or Galileo in intellectua

capacity, they possessed the advantage of greater
intellectual freedom.
Mr. COBBOLD, M,P., moved, and Mr. GODWIN
seconded, the thanks of the meeting to the presi-
dent for his able and eloquent address.
The motion was carried by acclamation.

The MAYOR directed the attention of the meeting
to a relic of ancient times that was hanging at the
top of the staircase of the Town-hall. It was a
" ducking stool," into which the female scolds of

Ipswich were formerly fastened, and dipped into
water to cool their angry passions.
The meeting was Shen brought to a close, and
the company proceeded, under the guidance of Mr.

Phipson, one of the local secretaries, to examine

some of the antiquities of Ipswich, including the
town library, an antique house, called " Sparrow's

House," the churches, and the museum.

In the evening there was a meeting at the
Assembly Rooms for reading papers and discus•

sions.

The programme for the week comprises excursions
every day to objects of interest in the neighbour-
hood. Tomorrow Bury St. Edmund's will be visited,

where the members of the association will be re-

ceived by the mayor and corporation at the Guild-
hall, and they will afterwards examine St. Mary's

Church, the Norman Tower, St. James's Church,
the Abbey ruins, Moyses Hall, and Abbot's Bridge.

The excursion will be prolonged by visits to Hon.
grave Hall, Risby, and Little Saxham, and or, the
return to Ipswich there will be an evening meeting
for reading papers and discussion. On Wednesday
there is to be an excursion to Colchester, where the

mayor and corporation will receive the are. urologists,
who will find ample occupation in inspecting the
various antiquities in the town. On Thursday
th;re will be an excursion to Parham Hall and
Chur;h, thence to Bruisyard Church, to Bennington
Church, and to Framlingham, concluding with a
visit to the
_President at Orwell Park in the evening.
The excursion for Friday includes Woodbridge,
Ufford Church, Buttry Abbey, and Orford Cestle,
On Saturday, Sue,lury, Long Melford, Lowenham,
and Hadleigh, and Little Wenham Hall will be
visited, and the congress will conclude with an
evening meeting.

The Loss of the Corinthian Steamer,

OFFICIAL REPORT.

To the Right Ron. the Lords of the Committee or Privy

Council for T:ade.

My Lords,—l have the honour to report that I have, in
conjunction with Captain Harris and Baker, as Nautical
Assessors, held an inquiry into the loss of the steamship
Corinthian, off the coast of Portugal, on the 3d of July last.
The Corinthian was an iron screw steamer, built at Greenock.
in 1855, of 1,031 tons, registered at Liverpool, and owned
by Mr James J. Bibby and others. She was commanded
by Mr John Wheaton Goff, and had a crew of 32 hands.
She sailed from Oporto, thoroughly equipped, on her home-
ward voyage on the 3d of July, at 1,45 p.m„ with a cargo
of cattle, wine, fruits, wool, &o. She bad also onboard
four passengers, two of whom were to be, if practicall'e,
landed at Vienna. The weather was clear, with a &est:
northerly wind and a strong westerly swell. After leaving
Oporto the vessel was steered a N.N.W. course for from
five to seven miles, when a course was shaped N. by E.
B. along the coast towards Vienna. The speed of the ves-
sel is variously estimated at from five to six knots. At 5.40
P.m., according to the evidence, the Raven Rock is alleged
to have been passed, but there is some little discrepancy in
regard to the distance from :it. The Raven and the St.
Bartholomew's Rocks form a dangerous group, front-
ing the coast, a little to the southward of the river
Naive. Three-quarters of an hour . after passing the
Raven Rock, and while pursuing the same course the
vessel struck. The engines were kept going a-head,
and cattle were shifted forward to bring the vessel on an
even keel, and the injection hose having been choked, the
engines necessarily stopped, and do not appear to have
been subsequently moved, and every effort to get her
off by making sail failed. About 2 a.m. he ship floated on
the rise of the tide, and sank about an hour afterwards, dur-
ing which time the tide and the westerly swell appear to
have drifted her towards the shore. No lives were lost, and
some of the live stock were saved. The evidence of all the
witnesses belonging to the vessel, who were before the court,
tends to show that the Corinthian struck upon a danger not
laid down upon any chart or mentioned in any sailing direc-
tions for the coast of Portugal. This conclusion is strongly
confirmed by the testimony of Mr John A. Perry, Com.
mender of the steamer Braganza, who on the day following
went down to the wreck to render assistance. Leaving his
own vessel at a distance of two and a half miles N. W., he
proceeded to the wreck, and found the masts' heads above
water and a portion of her taffrail visible. Having left a
lighter by her to save property, he returned. On reaching
his own ship, which had been nearly stationary, he found
that his mate had obtained irregular soundings, ranging
from 4to 12 fathoms. He then proceeded to Vienna,
and anchored outside the bar, and a pilot came on board,
who informed him that he had, in all probability, passed
over the same danger on which the Corinthian had grounded,
but a rising tide and his light draught of water had saved
him. From this it would appear that the danger in ques-
tion is well known to the local pilots. On the sth, while at
anchor, Capt. Perry, who appears to be a very intelligent
officer, teak bearings of the wreck, from which he has con-
structed a very neat chart, showing the precise position of
the wreck where she now lies, and which I now append to
this report for the information of your lordships. Upon
this evidence I have felt myself justified in acquitting the
master of the Corinthian of any default in the loss of his
vessel, and have accordingly returned to him his certificate.
In doing so I have deemed it my duty to point out to him
that, in the opinion of myself and of my assessors, he navi-
gated bis ship too near the land in the vicinity of the St.
Bartholomew Shoals; and having failed to take any bear-
ings when the vessel was stranded upon this dangerous
rock, its true position is left to this moment very doubtful.
—I have, &c., _ _ .

T. S. RAFFLES, Police Magistrate, Liverpool,
We concur in this report,

Nautical Asscesors.

THIRD EDITION

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

AMERICA.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
ARRIVAL OF THE DAMASCUS.
(Via Greencastle.)

NEW YORK, JULY 29 (Evening).
General Sherman is drawing his lines close
around Atlanta.

Hood claims a victory in the battle on Friday,
and announces that he captured 22 cannon and
2,000 prisoners.

Wheeler's cavalry has routed the Federals near
Decatur, capturing their camp.
General Hardee is operating in Sherman's rear.
Rousseau has rejoined Sherman, after destroying
30 miles ofi the Montgomery and Atlanta Rail-
road.

On Tuesday last Lee attempted to outflank
Butler's position at Bermuda Hundreds. To check
this movement tirant despatched the 2nd Army
Corps to the north bar.k of the James River, and
drove the Confederates from their breastworks, cap-
turing four guns. Ho afterwards advanced to
attack the Confederate fortifications. Fighting
continucs.

General Early is still on the Virginian side of
the Potomac at Falling Waters. The Federals are
guarding the fords of the Potomac at Williamsport.
Colonel Mulligan's death is confirmed.
The military authorities have enrolled, armed,
and equipped all the negroes in Baltimore.
The guerilla warfare continues in Missouri.
The Confederate cavalry have re-entered Ken-
tucky.

The St. Louis Democrat asserts that the Govern-
ment has received information that several thou-
sand persons, including Mr. Vallandigham, are
implicated in a scheme for the formation of La
North Western Confederacy.

The New lark, Herald asserts that a board of
naval officers has decided that the persons rescued
from the Alabama, by the Deerhound, were pri-
soners of war. The Government has approved this
decision.

The City of Washington has arrived out.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Money easier. Gold, 251. Exchange on Lon-
don Banker's Bills, 272. Stocks firm and advanc-
ing. New York Centrals, 135. Illinois, 1301.

NEW YORK, JULY 30, MORNING.
Grant has moved two corps to the north side of
the James River, and is entrenched 10 miles from
Richmond. It is reported that he has abandoned
the siege of Petersburg, and will demonstrate
against Fort Darling. _ _

Lee's movement towards Butler's rear was caused
by the movement of Grant's troops.
A large Confederate cavalry force entered Chem-
bersburg Pennsylvania) this morning.
_ _ _

Howard has succeeded Macpherson.
Money easier. Gold 2556.

LICENSED VICTUALLERS' ASYLUM,

(THIS DAY.)

The inauguration of the statue erected to the memory of
the late Prince Consort, patron of the institution, took
place to-day, with the great'st eclat, in the pounds of the
Asylum, near the Old Kent. road. The assemblage was
large and distinguished, but had the weather been more
favourable there would save been a very large addition to
the number present.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived, with
the usual punctuality, at the hour at which the interesting
ceremony had been fixed to take place, and was received
with the utmost demonstrations of respect—the ladies
waiving their handkerchiefs and the military bands in
attendance playing the national anthem.
The statue was afterwards unveiled, and an address ap-
propriate to the occasion having been presented,
His ROYAL RTGHNESS said it gave him the greatest
pleasure to attend there that day, but that feeling of plea-
sure was much heightened by the knowledge that his late
revered father took the greatest interest in the prosperity
and welfare of this noble institution. It would always be a
pleasure to him to lend his aid in furthering their praise-
worthy and laudable endeavours ; and he had to thank them
sincerely for the kind feelings they had expressed towards
the Queen, the Princess of Wales, and his infant son.
His Royal Highness delivered his short but expressive
speech in the most hearty manner, and having for a few
minutes looked earnestly upon the statue of his late father,
congratulated the gentlemen who had taken a prominent
part in the day's proceedings, and shortly afterwards re-en-
tered his carriage and returned to Marlborough House.