The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-13 00:00:00

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The Winehoster, 50, Captain Granville Gbowar Lock,
11"
was to have gone out of Portsmouth ,
obu to tuhtenwild
bwfaosne;lFuraildl equally
Friday.
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to
wt9ith
India,Yog
tsko drats of soldiers to the Cape.,
Lora and Lady Stafford, Lord and Lady Kildare,
Lord Otho Fitzgerald, have been down at I;ortsm anal
Gtitri
paying a short visit to Captain G. G. Lock, of the
Winchester. The aristocratic party, with Captain
Crispin, of the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, Colonel
Yea, Captain Wainwright, &c., dined with Captain Lock
at the George Hottl last evening.
Commodore Eden paid a visit to the Sailors' Home,
at Portsmouth, on Monday last, and was pleased to
express his satisfaction at the working cf this admirable
institution.
Admiral Sir Hyde Parker has given a donation of
and Captain lloorson has given a third donation of 104
to this establishment.
Yesterday the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navi-
gation Cumpany'a steam-ship Madras came up to this
harbour from Southampton and embarked troops (about
300 men, women, and children) from the Royal Clarence-
yard for the Channel Islands. A private company's ship
coming into this port (where there is supposed to be a
squadron of ready-for-sea-going steamers, only waiting
orders to move anywhere) to do the duty of transport-
ing her Majesty's troops the short distance named has
excited much surprise, and is the theme of general com-
ment. But such a steam-vessel as the Madras a.' worth
a squadron of Mega2ras, Birkenheads, or Hydras.
The Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, has rece!ved
orders to compktte to five months' provisions for ssea
service.
The Farious new steam-sloop is ordered to be fitted
out at this port.
DEvoxPora, MAY 11.—The Rev. Frederick Waldron,
chaplain and naval instructor of the Amazon, 26, Cap-
tain Charles Barker, recently returned from the East
Indies, and paid off at Devonport, has been struck- off
the list of the chaplains and naval instructors of the fleet.
TEE CHANNEL FLEET.—The officers on leave has a
received instructions to rejoin their respective ships on
the lath ins'. The desertions of seamen since the arri-
val of the fleet at Cork have been numerous. If these
have been confined to the men of bad character, the loss
to the service is not very great.
Commander W. 11. Dobbie, of the Buzzard, steam-
sloop, fitting hero, arrived at this port on Monday last,
and on the following morning reported himself to the
Commander-in-Chief;
The Retribution, steam-iiigate, Captain Frederick
Warden,
will sail fi-om hence, for Lisbon, as soon as the
weather moderates.

The Horatio, steam-guardship, Captain the lion. S. T.
Carnegie, left this port tor Sheerness, on Tuesday after-
nonr.

Woonwrcu, MAY 12.—The launch of the Agamem-
non, 90, originally intended to take place on Friday, the
21st of May, will now, by official orders, take place on
Saturday, the 22d instant. A very excellent arrange-
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no scaffolding or seats being allowed on anryptaerthwhere
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a view of the vessel can be obtained of a ea
than five feet, and, consequently, a fine greater
urn
rupted view may be obtained by thousands of personsnter-
standing on the dockyard battalion parade ground. The
launch will take place on the day named between two
and three o'clock lean
The Torch steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander
Chimmo, tender to the Herald, was inspected in the
basin yesterday afternoon, by Commodore Henry Eden,
and the result was highly gratifying to the gallant su-
perintendent of Woolwich dockyard. The officers of the
Herald and Torch have been selected for their intelli-
gence and enthusiasm for discovery, and the surveying
service in which they are to be employed in the South
Seas. The Torch went down the river at eight A.M.,
having Mr. Taplin, second assistant to the chief engi-
neer, on board, to witness and report on the working of
her engines.
The Herald, 28, Captain H. U. Denham, left Wool.
wich shortly before five o'clock this afternoon, with the
good wishes of all, for the successful result and safe re-
turn home from her enterprising voyage, when her mis-
sion has been completed—Captain Denham, with his
uniform pleasing manner, having allowed every person
who belonged to the dockyard, or who were wily visi-
tors, to go on board, and thousands avfiled themselves
of the opportunity, while the Herald remained at her
moorings in the river. Mrs. Denham and family were
present on board daily, to do the honours of the open
table which the captain kept for the entertainment of all
who visited on board end took an interest in the expe-
dition. Among the visitors yesterday were Mrs. Boyd
and a favourite sister of Mr. Boyd, of the Stock Ex-
change, their purpose being to give Captain
Denham a number of handkerchiefs, on which
has been printed allusions to the family, and
Captain Denham will see that they are distributed among
the savages of the Solomon Islands, that , some of the
islanders may unwittingly be the means of communi-
cating to Mr. Boyd, if he is still alive, the knowledge
that his relations and friends hero have not ceased to
hope for his safety.
Although the mission of the Herald is one of peace
and useful discovery, Captain Denham has prepared his
vessel to resist any attack which may be made by the
natives—the armament of, the vessel coasisting of one
12-pounder brass howitzer, weighing 6 cwt. and 201 b.,
two long 9-pounders, and two 3-pounders, on the spar
deck; and six 32-pounder carronadea on the middle deck.
The signal guns have teen changed for trumpets, in
order to avoid alarming the natives, and the half of the
arms of the crew are to be returned into store, and Mini 6
rifles substituted in their stead. The captain has also
revolving pistols, which would astonish the natives if
they venture to make any attack on the expedition.

SERVANTS.' ROYAL PROVIDENT AND
BENEVOLENT' SOCIETY.

The fifth annual meeting of this society took place
yesterday, at the office, in Great Marlborough-street,
Harry Chester, Esq., in the chair.
It appeared from the report, which was read by the
Secretary, that during the past year 16,4111. 13s. 7d. had
been paid by servants to the provident fund of the so-
ciety, 12.164/ 19s. 9d. being on account of new contracts
for Government annuities. The total amount paid by
servants to the provident fund of the society since its
commencement has been 43,3211. 9s. 6d., the greater
of a
n successful
to notorious
uh_ 0
portion of which has been for annuities. The society
negotiates these annuities entirely without expense to
the servant, which is not the case with any of the savings-
banks through which annuities can be bought. In the
registry department the progress of the society ap-
peared to have been equally satisfactory, 2,883 servants
having been provided by it with places since the publi-
cation of the last annual report. The total number of
engagements, from the opening of the registry in No-
vember, 1850, to the sth of Apia, 1852, has been 4,059
—l,lOB being male servants, and 2,951 female servants.
The home for female servants out of place appeared to
have produced highly satisfactory results, the number of
inmates having been much larger than during the pre-
vious year. particulars
The report also gave the
prosecution for false-character giving, which was lately
undertaken by the society against an old
offender, who went by the name of Mrs. Ahuaasndtcl.
The statement of accounts was then read, and di-
rectors end ti astees for the ensuinr,
,:, yearappointed;
and, after a few observations from the Chairman,
pointed
out the fact that the society
more than one-third of the whole number negotiated
which had been granted by savings b of annuities
paro-
chial societies since the passing of the Act, and
broke U. 0 the
meeting
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EXTRACTING GOLD FROM QUARTZ.
TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIICUS.
Sir,—On Saturday last you noticed as " a new process"
the separation of gold from quattz "by fusion." May I take
the liberty of stritMg, through your columns, that this pro-
cess is not new ; moreover, that it has been practised in this
country for run), years, both in Sheffield and Birmingham?
To such perfection is this rut carried that the
3g Englishrue:
liners a*e in the habit of importing the waste ore froniferiess,
Mexico, Lima, and La Plata, after it is crst aside as tj'e
although worked by the cheap hand of slavery By thee
of
fusion process (in the trade called smelting) half an ounce
ton of
the precious metal can be
p tiel
rofitably extracted fFo_m. in any
ore. Coal at 10s. per ton,
the relative Trine of I
part of the world, will therefore. give a near approach to the
expense of the smelting process. top, the refiners'
As a worker at the furnace of Messrs. 41
of Birmingham, I can assurel man would desire.t
is as perfect as any practical or theJr9t
r_ a hundredweight
of ten grains of precious metal are 106 L"
this
of scoria.
readers " to state that
is
What is of most value to your
nwithout infringing pa-
process can be workedany Poej:dieetly,
tents or registrations.-ours you thatc the e 4 "
SErrimU 3 l'lEssx.
fusion process"

42, Chat

•eet, Marylea

DESTRUCTION OF TVS CRYSTAL PALACE.—In con-
sequence of many thousands of persons in the United Sing.
dom having been unable to obtain a copy of the Great
Exhibition Chart, printed in colours, and presented by the
proprietors of the Weekly Dispatch, to their subscribers and
the public, in the months of January and February last, a
simple diagrams the number of persona
re-issue has been determined upon, to take place on Sunday
next, May 16th. The Chart, which has undergone a careful
trhelitsivoinsiteshows
ghibition daily, the amount of money talten
I at the various entrances, the quantity of refreshments coo-
sumed ; the names of the noyai Commissioners; an account
of the origin of the Palace, and its dimensions in feet.
order that every individual in the county may possess this
statistical reflex of curious and interesting results, to mark
the demolition of the building, and to serve as a memento
of its existence, the Chart will be delivered gratis to every
subscriber and purchaser of the Dispatch on the dav stated.
The Dispatch is published at four o'clock every Saturday
morning, in time for the first railway trains leaving Londoto
n,
and for the morning mails. Early orders should be given
all newsvenders in town or country; or
will to Mr. R. a
copy J. Wood
of
,
No. 139, Fleet-street. The news agents have
the Chart with every Dispatch of May 16th.
A MARTYR TO SCIENCE.—We lately reported the
Historyw ILat
death of Dr. Ellenberger, a French physician at Prague, in
consequence of an experiment he made on himself with
poison, against the effect of which he contended he had dia.-
covered an infallible antidote. DI. Menii,re related, in the
After relating
of showing them if s c,ronw,eals
Gazette Medicale, some of there xperiments of which be tae
and a witness while travelling i Germany with 1. Orfil
During their visit to the Museum of Natural
to perform an
Prague, they were introduced to Dr. Ellenberger,
happy at having an opportunity
ments with the antidotes against vegetable poisons,1 ---r--
apothecary for 15
par-
ticularly strychnine and morphine. A
vari-
ous trials he had made on himself, he pro
decigrammes (13 grains) of acetate of the
immediate experiment. lie sent to an apothecary
it had been examined by Pd. Orfila, morphine, which, after
he put on his tongue and swallowed, , and declared to be pure.
present. One minute to the great alarm of all
same quantity of a white afterwards he swallowed about the
effect whatever on him. powder, and the poison produced no
same experiment on animals He related that he had made the
with the same result. aals and on plants, and invariably
with strychnine, andHe appears to have done the same
time, when he always with impunity, until the last
THE
NEWunfortunately lost his lifts.—Lancet.
for granting ZEALAND CONSTITUTION.—The Bill
Zealand arer ~ •
'‘‘-eNT
liar been printed; it atenk to 82 dames.

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