The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON Ai ONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1864.

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By WALTER TBORNBURIY.
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among the characters of the book. so vivid is the interest, so
clear the narrative "—Post.
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CANTERBURY HALL.-THIS EVENENG,
First time, an entirely new and original Optical Illu-
sion, entitled FAME Or, PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE
FOREST OF SHADOWS, with novel effects, patented by
C. Morton, and now exhibited for the first time—Prince
Thossom. Miss E. Townley—in addition to the usual enter-
tainments of the establishment, supported by the whole of
the talented company.
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Admission, Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.
Open every Evening.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-
GRAND CIRQUE IMPERIAL, EVERY EVENING,
at halt-past 7 ; MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATUR-
DAY, at 2 o'clock.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.-
The best Male tnd Female Riders—the best Trained
Horses—the Funniest Clowns—the Greatest Gymnasts—the
Moat Wonderful ELEPHANT in the whole World.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street—Great Treat for the Juveniles during the
Holidays.—The series of Models of the Kings of England,
from the Conqueror to that of her present Majesty, attired in
the magnificent costumes of their respective periods, is now
nearly complete; and in the Chamber of Physiognomy are
several new additions. Admission, ts. ; extra rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10.

ARGYLL It 00M S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During. the evenine: an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open at half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission le.
Manager, M. GRENET.

29, GEORGE-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock by a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Eng-
land, Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians, Edin-
burgh, &c., &c. Where may be seen the Astecs ; Bushman
and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant; Eng and Shang, the
Siamese Twins ; and upwards of 3,090 Models, Natural Pre-
parations, &c. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One Shilling tor Gentlemen only).

DEAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER
INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly in-
vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into
the ear, not perceptib'e, removes singing noises in the head,
and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at
public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-
street, Piccadilly,

Steam Saw Mills, near Charlton Pier, Woolwl-h.
NESSEDLA
Feb.b
111'kucATI\ITODNRaE„Whe MHARI TN Don Wwlii]iDl
17 at One precisely, the lease and plant (consisting of steam
engine and boiler. circular and vertical saws, frames, benches,
shafting-, Sic.) of the HARRINGTON SAW MILLS, now in
full work, doing a profitable and rapidly increasing business.
Particulars at the Mart, and corner of Little Carter-lane, St.

BUSINESSES. MR. ANDREW HIND'S
JANUARY LIST,
Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, Jo.,
Gratis.
Letters, enclose stamp. Particulars entered free.
Offices—Corner of LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.
HOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE a Corner SHOP, at Holloway, and Three Pri-
vate Houses adjoining, producing £94 per annum. Ground
rent £25. Price £715, or separately. Also the following :
Chelsea, four. 1,000 guineas ; ditto, £5OO and V5O; Camden-
town, two, £1,20) ; Holloway, two, £670; liomerton, six,
£135 each, lcc. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St.
Paul's.

FARM WANTED to rent, from 50 to 200 acres,
with moderate-sized dwelling-house and outbuildings,
Particulars to be sent to A. H., 15, Godliman-street, Doctors'.
commons, London.

Family Residence and Land.

MR. ANDRE* HIND has to LET a comfort-
able HOUSE, in Essex, fourteen miles from town and
two from a station, delightfully situate on high ground, and
commanding extensive views. Contains lofty drawing
room, dining and morning rooms, four best and five other
bed rooms, kitchens and cellars. Grounds comprise pleasure
and kitchen gardens, shrubbery, paddock, and meadow,
together about seven acres ; with lodge entrance, stabling.
coach house, green house, ornamental water, and bridge.
Rent, on three years agreement, £l2O ; •fixtures, £5O ; or the
lease for 18 years at £lOO. Price, with fixtures, £2OO. Cards
to view may be had at the Auction and Estate Agency Offices,
corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

HOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW BIND has to LET
a spacious HOUSE, at Brixton Tliil, containing nine
bed and reception rooms, with usual officeq, large pleasure
and kitchen gardens, Sze: Rent, £lO5. Also a large house,
furnished, and the following • —Lewisham, rent £BO ; Harrow,
£SO, dtc. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul
R.

lIESIDENCE.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has to
LET or SELL an ex,:ellent Detached HOUSE at
Hackney, containing 16 rooms, basement, &c. The neigh-
bourhood is pleas int and healthy; soil grave'. Rent, £9O.
Price, freehold, £1,600. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

IRELAND.-Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE the Lessee's Interest In a convenient Smal
RESIDENCE and 7o Acres of prime LAND, pleasantly
situate near the City of Cork, and commanding beautiful
views of the harbour and surround ng country. Good shoot-
ing and fishing. Term of lease. 91 years ; ground rent, £72.
Price, £7OO. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul s.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER
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mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, In boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
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Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green piOltage, with
110411 P.

ALE of the AUCTION MART, LONDON.
The DIRECTORS of the COMPANY of PROPRIE-
TORS of the AUCTION MART will be prepared at one
o'clock, p.m., on MONDAY, the 'oth of February next, at the
BOARD ROOM of the said Company in the Mart, to OPEN
sealet TENDERS from persons desirous of purchasing the
.premises generally known a, the Auction Mart. opposite to
the Bank of England. I.endon. Each Tender mu -t he ac-
companied with a receipt annexed to it. signed by the proper
officer of the Union .I;:.nk of London, 6eknOwledg-hq,-, that the
sum of .C.,:,(1(53 has been paid into the bank by the person
making such Tender to an account there of " The Trustees of
the Auction Mart," and no cognisance will be taken of the
Tender of any person who shall not have delivered his Ten-
der with such receipt annexed thereto into the hands of the
Secretary of the said Company, either on Saturday, the 27th
day of February next, between the hours of ten a.m. and four
p.m., or upon the morning of Monday, the 29th day of
February, between the hours of ten a.m. and one p.m., after
which last-named date and hour no Tender will be received.
The highest Tender will be accepted, provided the sum ten—
dered shall be equal in amount to or exceed a reserve price
determined upon by the Directors of the said Company, and
placed under seal prior to the opening of any of the Tenders.
If upon opening the Tenders it shall be found that two or
more Tenders are of the same amount, such amount being th
highest amount tendered, the Directors of the said Company
reserve the power of deciding which one of such two or more
Tenders shall be accepted, and of rejecting the one or more
not so accepted. A form of agreement has been prepared,
which will have to be executed by the person whose Tender
shall be declared accepted, immediately upon any such declara-
tion being made by the Directors of the said Company, and
in default of his so doing*, such person shall absolutely forfeit
to the Company the sum he shall have previously deposited
in the said bank. Copies of the said agreement, together with
copies of this advertisement, conditions of tender, and forms
of tender, have been printed, and may be had gratis on ap-
plication at the Auction Mart, or at the Office of the Solici-
tors to the said Company, Messrs. Uptons, Johnson, and
Upton., 20, Austinfriars, E.C. The moneys deposited by all
parties whose Tenders may not be accepted will be returned
to them on application at the Union Bank of London, on the
29th day of February, between the hour at which a final
de3laration may be made with respect to the Tenders re-
ceived at four p m., or on the ensuing day between the hour;
of ten a.m. and four p.m. _

The premises may be viewed by all persons provided with
tickets, to be obtained as above

By order of the Board of Directors,
G. H. JAQUES, Secretary.

Auction Mart, January, 186 t.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Duncan, 80, screw, line-of-battle ship, Captain R.
Gibson, with Rear-Admiral Sir James Hope, K.C.B„ the
future naval Commander •in- Chief of her Majesty's ships on
the North American and West Indian stations, on board,
sailed from Spithead for her destination at daylight on Sa-
turday morning. The Nile, screw line-of-battle ship, re-
turns to England with Rear-Admiaal Sir Alex. Milne,
K C. 8,, the late naval Commander-in-Chief, immediately
on the Duncan arriving out. The Duncan made a final
trial of speed at the measured mile on Friday, when she
attained a mean speed, with full boiler power, of 11 knots,
and with half boiler power 9.200 knots. The ship drew 23ft
Sin of water forward, and 52ft Sin aft. The wind was strong
from the N.W., and there was a scarcity of steam during
two of the runs, or the rate of speed would have been some-
what higher. The machinery worked perfectly, and the
Duncan enters upon her maiden cruise the handsomest,
and most probably the fastest, line-of-battle ship afloat.
The Duncan, brought to outside Plymouth Sound yester-
day morning, and having received from a steam tender su-
p

iernumerary seamen for the fleet on the American station,
continued her voyage to Halifax and the West Indies.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt• Henry W. Hire, will
embark to-day at Portsmouth 17 officers and 54 men, women
and children, belonging to various regiments serving in the
Mediterranean, for conveyance to Gibraltar and Malta.
From the latter place the Oroates will proceed on to Corfu,
where she will embark the 2d battalion of the 6th Foot,
which she will take to the West Indies, and return thence
to Spithead with the first battalion of the 14th Foot. The
Orontes is termed in official phraseology an "improved'
Himalaya. The actual difference in the two vessels is that
while the Himalaya is continually at work, the Orontes is
continually under repair. On Saturday she was tested at
the measured mile in Stokes Bay, after being fitted with a
temporary crank of her foremast engine, and attained a
mean speed of 12.336 knots.

We have to record the death of Admiral George Hender-
son, who expired on the 23d ult. at Middle Deal Kent,
aged 78. The deceased entered the navy in 1794 as part of
the retinue of Admiral Lord Bridport, to wham his father
for some time acted as secretary. While serving in the West
Indies as master's mate to the Ulysses, 44, Mr. Henderson
assisted at the captare of Tabago, in 1803. He was promoted
to the rank of lieutenant: by Sir Samuel Hood, and ap-
pointed to the Alligator, 28, which, under Capt. C. Richard-
son, forme :1 part of the force employed at the reduction of
the colony of Surinam. In this service he was severely
wounded. After the surrender cf Madeira he returned to
England with Sir Samuel Hood's despatches and strong re-
commendations, which secured him, in 1808, a commander's
commission. During the Walcheren expedition he particu-
larly distinguished himself, and for the third time was
honourably mentioned in the Gazette. He obtained post-
rank on the Ist of August, 1811, accepted flag rank in 1846,
and was appointed vice-admiral in 1855 and admiral in
1860.

The following appointments were made on Saturday at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. John B. Michell to the Meander;
George Williams, master, to the Euryalus; George Gilpin,
master, to the Indus, for the Constance ; Herbert S. Taylor,
naval cadet, to the Prince Consort; Harcourt Popham,
midshipman, to the Hector; and Wyllys H. Wyllys,
master's assistant, to the Dasher.

Cardinal Wiseman on the Warlike State of
Europe.

The following pastoral was read in all the Catho-
lic chapels yesterday by command of Cardinal \Vise.

man :

-NMl°las, by the Divine /nervy of the holy Roman
Church, of the title of St, Pudentiana, Cardinal, Priest, and
Archbishop of Westminster,—

To our dearly beloved brethren and children in Christ,
the clergy, secular and regular, and the faithful of the said
diocese,--

Health and benediction in the Lord,
We have scarcely entered on the new year before it be-
comes our duty to address you on the obligations of the
Lenten fast just about to commence.

You have been instructed from your tender age, taught,
indeed, in your very catechisms to regard the observance of
this annual ordinance as one of the earliest precepts and
practices in the Church. In fact, it bears the special title,
beyond almost any other ecclesiastical institution, of Apos-
tolical. For no one ever doubted in the ancient Church, nor
are we aware that any learned man now denies, that among
those traditions which are traceable, or referable, to the
Apostles, the fast of Lent is certainly one.
If, therefore, its conditions, however, mitigated in modern
times, are still difficult and distasteful, we may well be en-
couraged in our compliance with them by the reflection that
we share our penitential sufferings with the holiest and best
of our fathers in the faith, from the earliest ages. Indeed, a
link of their sensible and almost material character may
bring home to our minds our bond of union and unity with
the primitive Church more definitively and clearly than the
subtle and complicated connections of dogmatical teaching.
Indeed, so many doctrines on sin, penance, atonement, mor-
tification, fasting, and other religious observances now al-
most exclusively ours, are inculcated by the simple observ-
ance of Lent, that we cannot doubt that they were equally
taught and ~understood by those who not only kept more
rigidly than we this yearly fast, but who must have had no
intelligible grounds for keeping it, if their belief had dif-
fered from ours.

Wherefore, dearly beloved in Christ our Lord, let us begin
this year courageously by bearing the reproach and pain of
His Cross, during this spring season, of sowing in tears that
we may later reap in joy. For this is the order and course
which our Divine Master has prescribed. You have been
always taught that this season of Lent is one of fasting and
bodily mortification, as well as of recollection and retire-
ment for purposes and motives of higher importance than
are these practices themselves.
By these means the mind and heart are purified and
sanctified ; past sins are expiated, lesser imperfections are
corrected, command is obtained over passions, evil desires
are repressed, self-will is curbed, obedience to God's laws is
enforced, and a spiritual manliness is produced or en-
couraged, in the soul to wrestle with the trials of life, and
of the spirit, in resignation, patience, and conformity to the
sublime will of God.

Moreover, the relaxed spring of our religious duties is in
a manner wound up, and moves with new energy the me-
chanism of daily and hourly duties for the rest of the year.
During this period our prayer besomes more frequent and
more fervent, our meditation is more concentrated ; our de-
votions in presence of the most adorable sacrament, publicly
exposed, are more continuous and more recollected, our fre-
quentation of the Sacraments is better prepared, our hearing
of the Divine Word is more repeated and more docile, and
our entire mind, undistracted by the frivolous or dissipating
amusements of the outer world, is brought down to a graver
tone, and thinks more seriously, and feels more deeply on
eternal truths.

In other words, dearly beloved, since a mutual anxiety
comes over us, on entering a new year, as to who amongst us
will reach its end, and who, as some must, will drop on the
road, and be lost for ever to this earth, the Church seizes on
this solemn feeling, and matures it into a wise thought of
preparation for what may this year, and will assuredly some
coming year, befal us. Not in the spirit of timid solicitude,
still less in the superstitious terror of an imaginary presenti-
ment, but with the calm foresight with which at the year's
close a prudent man balances his past accounts, and readjusts
his future expenses, is this preparation to be made. And
thus every year will prepare for that possible event, which
may God avert from each among you, of its being your last,
These almost natural graces which the fast of Lent brings
with it are greatly increased by its almost necessary accom-
paniments of prayer and charity. That prayer which is joined
to fasting is ever commended in Scripture as peculiarly
powerful in propitiating the Divine wrath.
We surely stand much in need of such supplication at the
beginning of this new year. Its future is indeed as yet dark
to us, but it is not ominously dark ? Do not clouds, fore-
boding storms, hang round the entire horizon, in every
quarter of the heavens ? The North, in spite of winter's
rigours, see armies advancing to invade and to repel; and
we may soon hear that blood has melted and defiled the
earth's mantle of snow. And the South threatens too; dis-
satisfied within itself, agitated, divided, with its sacrilegious
thirst unslaked, with its cravings after usurpation unsatis-
fied, it is sharpening its sword for new inroads into the pa-
trimony of other States.
The East, in Europe and in Asia, is no less convulsed or
menacing. Whatever may be our political opinions,we must
all bewail the savage warfare which is depopulating and
ravaging unfortunate Poland, for which the Holy Father
has invited all to pray. And thence round the globe, through
India, China, and Japan, to New Zealand, news daily
reaches us of battle and skirmish, of destruction of cities or
massacres of men, amidst barbarians or semi-civilised races,
whose remoteness from us ought, apparently, to have been
a security against disturbance.
And in the West, from which not a broad continent
separates us, but with which rather a wide ocean connects
us, we are promised but little prospect that the year on
which we are entering will put an end to the fratricidal war
that threatens almost the extermination of a grandly hope-
ful race.

Which way shall we turn for succour or for comfort?

Let us not look around us, or turn from side to side, for
from none comes a cheering look. Let us rather" Lift our

eyes to the mountains," to the eternal hills, " whence help
will come to us. Our help is from the Lord, who made
Heaven and earth." (Ps. cxxi.) Towards God, the mighty
and strong, let us turn our hearts, in fasting and in prayer,
that from darkness Ho may bring forth light, and from
affliction gladness.

But dearly beloved, for the discharge of one part of our
duty, that which regards the Church of God, its peace and
serenity, we have a higher encouragement than any words
of ours, in a letter addressed to us by our Sovereign Pontiff,
in reply to our last filial address at the close of the last and
the advent of the present year.

" We do not doubt," such are his venerated words, " that
you continue ever, with more fervent earnestness, unceas-
ingly to pray and entreat our great and good God that he
will command the winds and the sea, and grant to His holy
Church most desirable peace and tranquillity; that He will
humble all her enemies and those of this Apostolic see, and
bring them back from the ways of impiety to the right road
of justice and salvation."

Yet, let us pray for peace, true and solid peace, only to be
gained where truth and justice are betrayed or assailed by
the return of evil-doers to the path of righteousness and
saving faith.
To these more public demands upon our earnest suppli-
cations during Lent, we need not add those which our own
personal necessities press upon us. Each one knows best
their extent, in his own case, and will apply to it the remedy
so simple, and so apt, suggested by an Archangel to Tobias.
" Bona est eratio cum jejunio," " Good is prayer with fast-
ing."—(Tob. viii, 12).
After exhorting all Catholics to have recourse to
prayer, and directing their attention to the orphan-
ages at North Hyde, to the prospects and need of
aid they required, the Cardinal goes on to say—
And now we will conclude by bestowing on you a blessing
better than our own—one transmitted to you, through us,
in the following words of our holy father, in his letter of
the 14th January :
" We in our turn most humbly implore God, the giver of
all good gifts, that He bestow upon you all things conducing
to prosperity and salvation, and that He ever pour out abun-
dantly upon you the gifts of Divine grace, which may like-
wise plentifully descend on the beloved flock committed to
your watchfulness.
" And as an augury, and surest pledge of the peculiar
benevolence with which we embrace you, we most lovingly
bestow our apostolical benediction, with the deepest affection
of our hearts, on you our dear son, and on all the faithful
clergy and laity entrusted to your care."
Given in Westminster, and ordered to be read in all the
churches and chapels of the archdiocese, on Quinquagesima
Sunday, this 7th day of February, 1864.
N. CARD. WISEMAN.
F. Canon SEABEE, Sec.

CLOCK MAKING.—" Benson's great piece of clock work
is certainly a marvellous achievement in clock making,
both as regards the workmanship, and its capacity under
difficult circumstances for time measuring."—lifechanics'
Magazine, Sept. 15, 1862. Clocks by the first artists of the
day for the drawing room, dining room, bed room, library,
hall, staircase, bracket, carriage, church, turret, railways,
warehouse, counting house, musical, and astronomical.
Church and turret clocks specially estimated for. Benson's
illustrated pamphlet on clocks (free by post for two stamps)
with descriptions and prices, enables those who live in any
part of the world to select a clock. Also a short pamphlet
on cathedral and public clocks, free for one stamp. Prize
medal and honourable mention in classes 33 and 15. J. W.
Benson, 33 and 34, Ludgate-hill, London. Established
1749. Watch and clock maker by special warrant of ap.
pointmont to ii,Rtl-1, the Prince of Waled,