The Sun.
London, England, 1863-10-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1863.

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CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co., Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London.

The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home. the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

not only to avoid the dangers of the land, but the possibi-
lity of collision with another vessel. Bearing in mind the
judicious conduct of the master during several days on this
voyage while crossing the Banks, I am utterly at a loss to
account for the subsequent want of caution. But the safety
of the public demands that so grave a fault should be visited
by heavy censure, and should be followed by such a sen-
tence as shall mark the determination of the Court to pre-
vent, if possible, the recurrence of similar disasters. It is
my painful duty, therefore, with the full concurrence of my
assessors, to suspend the certificate of Mr. Andrew
M•Master, for the period of 12 calendar months from the
date of this report,—l have, &c.,

_ .
T. S. RArrLEs, Police Magistrate.
Liverpool, Oct. 10th, 1863.

Wo concur in this report,

Hy. HARRIS,
Nautical Assessors.
R. B. BAKER,

THE SOCIAL SCIENCE CONGRESS.

EDirmußear, Wednesday.
DINNER OF THE ASSOCIATION.
At 6 o'clock the annual dinner of the association was
held in the Music-hall, and was attended by from 400 to
500 ladies and gentlemen. The chair was occupied by the

Right Hon. Lord Brougham, at whose right hand sat the
Lord Provost, the Lord Advocate, the Right Hon. Joseph
Napier, Lord Ardmillan, Mr. J. A. Lawson, Solicitor-
General of Ireland ; Professor Christison, Admiral Ramsay,
Mr. C. Cowan, Mr. H. Fawcett, and Professor Archer. On

__. . .
the left were the Hon. Judge Longfield, Lord Neaves, M.
Gamier Pages, Mr. Sergeant Shee, Professor Douglas
Maclagan, Mr. Hastings, and Mr. Henry Brougham.
The Rev. Dr. LEE said grace, and the Rev. Dr. ALEX.
ANDER returned thanks.

first

Lord BROUGHAM, Wi102„9/111~sin,40 jaft,-
Was loticily have very great satisfaction
proposing "The health of her Majesty the Queen ;" and
I shall only repeat what I have said over and over again at
our festive and other meetings, that there never was a
monarch who better deserved the thanks of the people as
ruling strictly according to the Constitution. In the dis-
charge of all the duties of her eminent position she is an
example to all her subjects; and as a parent in bringing up
her family she is an example to all mothers. I have, there-
fore, great pleasure in proposing "1/er Majesty the Queen."
(Loud cheers.)

Lord BROTIGHA.M, in givingthe next toast, said—We have
drunk to the cause; I have now to ask you to drink to the
effect—l mean the effect of the good education and the

admirable training by her Majesty and the late lamented
Prince Consort, who have broughetoumpptahriesiornfsaamrielyinivaidsiouucsh,
aalwmaeystaesvelrbeedluieeveetedn.o
Theyother
sfaaymily in their position were
and therefore I shall neither, to find a contrast, go to former

times in this country, nor look abroad to other countries for
the state and the position of princes ; but I will give you at
once " The Prince and Princess of Wales and the rest of

the Royal Family," We have had a sample of the Royal
family here during the congress—a most excellent young
prince—(loud applause)—and all who have associated with
him have expressed their admiration for his talents as well

as for his modesty. (Cheers.)
Lord Buouaniot again rose and said—l have to trouble

you once more to ask you to offer your respect, your grati-
tude to our brave defenders by sea and land, the "Navy
and Army and Volunteers." (Applause.) Let no man sup.
pose that he who rejoices in this great addition to our
national forces, the Volunteers, does so from any apprehen-
sion that the peace will be broken. (Hear.) Thank God I
there is every reason to count on a lasting peace. (Cheers.)
But that is no reason why the precaution ought not to be

taken of insurance. (Hear.) When a man insures his
house he does not expect a fire. He does not do it because
he thinks a fire probable. He knows that a fire may hap-
pen from the negligence of the people in his own house, or
from the negligence of the neighbours, or by the accident of
lightning. In short, he means to take security against it
happening, or rather to be secure of not loosing if it should

happen. Now, the Volunteers, or whatever else we do to
improve our national defences, are an insurance; but they
are an insurance far superior to our insurance against fire ;
• . - _

for when I insure my house against fire, I don't in the

slightest degree lessen the chances that a fire may happen,
I only make sure that if it does happen I shall not be a
loser. But improving our national defences not only secure
us against loss by invasion,if it should happen, but it makes
it very unlikely that that invasion should take place. (Loud
cheers.) The insurance is, therefore, of a double nature
and of a double value, because it not only prevents loss if
the mischief happens, but tends to prevent the mischief

from happening. (Loud Cheers.) I, therefore, gave you
" The Navy, Army, and Volunteers."
Admiral Hain ay, Sir J. Alexander, and Lieutenant-
Colonel M'Gregor successively replied to the toast.
The LORD-PROVOST then gave "the National Associa-
tion and its President. He said,—lt would be equally
beyond my ability and beyond the limits of one toast to
attempt that comprehensive allusion to all the varied and
lofty qualities which is due to the widely-honoured name of
Henry Brougham. If I did attempt it I should have to
speak of a career which for brilliant success, the application
of extraordinary powers of Wind, for extended duration and
unabated vigour, has rarely, if it has at all been equalled in
the history of great public men. (Loud cheers.) Perhaps
not the least celebrated feature in the life of our noble Pre-
sident is that untiring determination to remain, while health
and strength permits, in lull working harness; and it as-
suredly forms a noble record that, after a professional career
which has yielded every honour due to distinguished emi-
nence, after and amid the turmoil of parliamentary life, Lord
Brougham has devoted his great energies of mind to the
philanthropic objects of this association, (Loud cheers.)
Lord BROUGHAM, in reply, after expressing gratification
at the presence of the ladies, said—lt gives me great delight
to preside over such a vast assemblage as this—all members
or the friends of members of our great national association.
(Cheers.) Now I hear it carped at in different ways. One
objection is to the name " Social Science." We have heard
that cavil at our former meetings, and it has been renewed
on the present occasion. Now, I can only say we did not in-
vent the name. Upwards of 40 years ago Mr, Mill, a cele-
brated literary man, and author of a History of Egypt, and
father of John Stuart Mill, used the term " social science"
in one of his valuable essays, But the fact is, there can be
no doubt whatever of the meaning of the expression, and
of the nature of our pursuits. (Hear.) Now, the delight
which I have in this institution and in its success is not
little. (Applause.) If anybody ask—as those who carp at
the name ask—what does it do, I will not go into particu-
lars, but 1 take my stand on one name—the name of our
fellow-member Mr. Chadwick, and I say look to his great
and successful exertions in improving the sanitary condition
of our Indian army—look at the improvements which
have arisen from his exertions at Liverpool, and after-
wards at Bradford. Look also at the great addition to
the education of the country by the adoption of the short
time process; and I say that these two instances, and all
effected by this association, are quite enough to show how
useful, practically, we have been, (Cheers.) I have seen
very great exception taken to one or two things I stated in
my opening address, and among other things exception is
taken to my having praised and recommended the Sisters of
Charity. It is said, But you recommend Catholics; you
recommend the importation from France of Catholic Sisters
of Charity, who will immediately set themselves to prosely-
tise this country. My answer is this—that in the case of
Lady Georgina Fullerton and Miss Easton we did not im-
port Catholics from France or Ireland, for they are our fel-
low-countrywomen, who happen to be Catholics, and the
only person who came from France was the sister superior.
The rest are all English Catholics, and I have seen here to-
day some most worthy persons, Sisters of Charity also, who
come from France, and they are Catholics, no doubt, but
they are Englishwomen and Scotchwomen who have been
settled in France, and have come back to this country. But
it is not to be supposed that I only praised or recommended
the Catholic sisterhood. I expressly pointed out Miss
Brownlee Byron'
8 Home Refuge for English Sisters of
Charity, and stated that they
performed all the nursing at
the North London Hospital in connexion with University
College. (Applause,)
I have also got a letter from a man
connected with America, who tells m e there is great excep-
tion taken on the part of the American_ newspapers in this
country to my differing with the United States Government
on the subject of this horrible war. It is said that I under-
rate and undervalue the emancipation of the siaz'. I Under-
value the emancipation of the slaves I (Loud and pro-
longed cheers). Why, have all the advocated of slave
emancipation done half so much for the liberation of the
slave and the abolition of slavery as I myself have done ?
(Loud cheers.) At the very beginning of my Parliamentary
life it was signalized by the Act of 1811, the one which of
passing gave me
all the many Acts I have had a hand in
the most real satisfaction, namely,the Act abolishing the
slave trade. Before the Act the slave trade Was
considered
a mere act of contral?alld; anti was punished as contraband ;
and my act
.aiseo, or rather, sank it to its real denomina-
of a cricae—and a bad crane—punishable by 14 years
transportation. (Cheers) And that act effectually extin-
guished the slave tradein as
far
" British subjects
*ere engaged in it. Then, in 1830 or 1837 I shortened
occasioned thebefore
complete liberation of the w
the period of negro
apprselneteles eshi
three orail
place. Then, I may add,d
four
years
it otherwise would WO taken
.
though it is a trifle as corapareu th these exertions, I
may add a very great personal sacrifice. I. gave up A very,
considerable estate in Barbadoes and a large estate in ta6
county of Durham, which a kind-hearted gentleman had
left me by a will which he afterwards revoked on my re-
fusing to abstain from further proceedings for the libera-
tion of the slaves, though he said in his letter in which he
called on me to abstain, " I assure you that your peasantry
on yourßarbadoes estate are better off than your peasantry
on your Durham property." (A laugh.) It was enough to
wake one's mouth water to hear of Having a good property

in the county of Durham. I should not have valued the Bar-
badoes estate so much, but I declined taking the course he
desired, and sent him a copy of a report of my friend the
Duke of Richmond's committee of the House of Lords on
slavery, after which I ceased to have any correspondence
with that excellent proprietor, and a few years afterwards
he died, and no doubt his will was cancelled. (A laugh.)
I only state these things to show that for anybody to sup •
pose that I am slow, or unwilling, or hesitating on the ques-
tions of the abolition of negro slavery is really a most mon-
strous delusion. (Loud cheers.) All my efforts were to-
wards emancipation without violence—emancipation by
change of law and change of system,—and never did I lend
the slightest countenance to acts of violence against the
slaveholder. Much as I detest slavery,and much as I pitied
those who were its victims,--and I pitied among its victims
the masters as well as the slaves themselves—never did I
raise my finger or raise my voice for an instant in support
of any violent proceeding to effect their emancipation.
Consequently when I heard of North America issuing a
m
proclamation to emancipate the slaves, I knew very well
before they confessed it that it was not for the sake of
measure
of
emancipating the slave—(hear, hear)—but for the sake of
beating
eohfostilityof, hostility, notthe
an
most detestable kind, by raising an insurrection of the slaves
against their masters, which only the much-enduring nature
aot of the
emancipation,
whites.
an a a
measure
of the negro prevented from succeeding, so that the great
mischief that was intended against the whites did not take
place. (Hear, hear.) But I must beg your pardon for
having defended myself against so ridiculous a charge,
which could only have arisen from utter delusion. They
call out for the extermination of the whites, not in order to
liberate the blacks, but to restore the Union. (Cheers.) The
Union, and not the negro, is the object of the emancipation
proclamation, and to that proclamation, therefore, I could
no give tiny kind of support, It is a most unhappy contest,
hope wWitalleontinne
raos
on the principle on which we have hitherto proceeded—of
i,terfering with neither party. (Cheers.) The Federals
are OFT with us because we don't join with them, and the
Confederates are angry with us because we do not acknow-
ledge them ; but if we were to acknowledge them we should
only prolong this horrible and miserable contest. We have
nothing to do with either one party or the other. (Hear.)
We are bound to maintain our own independence of them,
and leave them to fight it out among themselves, only
heartilypraying that their fight may be as short as possible.
(Loud cheers.) Lord Brougham again rose and proposed
64 The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, and pros-
perity to the city of Edinburgh." (Loud cheers.).

UNAPPRECIATED GENIUS.

(Professor De Morgan in the ifthenceum.)
Of the class of discoverers who square the circle, upset
e I suspect I know more than any man in
Britain. &I never kept any reckoning; but I know that one
year with another---and less of late years than in earlier
times—l have talked to more than five in each year, giving
more than 150 specimens. Of this lam sure, that it is my
own fault if they have not been 100. Nobody knows how
except those to whom they naturally resort.
Ttl:teieeyer Bys. Theye are in
inall ranks and occupations, of all ages and char-
aare very earnest people, and their purpose is
Long
fide the dissemination of their paradoxes. A great
many—the mass indeed—are illiterate, and a great many
waste their means, and are in or approaching penury. But
I must say that never,
in any one instance, has the quadra-
ture of the circle, or the like, been made a pretext for
begging ; even to be asked to purchase a book is of rare oc-
currence. These discoverers despise one another; if there
were the concerts among them which there is among
foreign mendicants, a man who admitted one to a con-
ference would be plagued to death. I once gave some-
thing to a very genteel French applicant, who overtook
me in the street, at my own door, saying he had picked
up
pocketmy forh an introduction,
; whether he picked it up in my
introduction, I know not. But that day
week came another Frenchman to my house, and that
day fortnight a French lady ; both failed, and I had no
more trouble. The same thing happened with Poles. It is
not so with circle-squarers, &c. ; they know nothing of each
other. Some will read this list, and will say lam right
enough, generally speaking, but that there is an exception,
if I could but see it. Ido not mean, by my confession of the
manner in which I have sinned against the 21 hours, to hold
myself out as accessible to personal explanation of new
plans. Quite the contrary . I consider myself as having made
my report, and being discharged from further attendance on
the subject. I will not, from henceforward, talk to any
souarer of the circle, trisector of the angle, duplicator of the
cube,
constructor of perpetual motion, subverter of gravita-
tion,
st,gnator of the earth, builder of the universe, &c. 1
receivewill any writings or books which require no answer,
and readthem when I please : I will certainly preserve
them; this list may be enlarged at some future time. There
are three subjects which I have hardly anything upon—as-
trology, mechanism, and the infallible way of winning at
play. I have never cared to preserve astrology. The me-
chanists make models, and not books. The infallible win-
ners—though I have seen a few—think their secret too
valuable, and prefer niutare puadrata rotundis —to turn dice
gaming-house; verily they have their ro-
winatradc.nlin—t a
shalla now select, to the mystic number seven, in-
stances of my personal knowledge of those who think they
have discovered, in illustration of as many misconceptions,
It.
being Atterapt by
help of the old philosophy, the discoverer
no
in possession of modern knowledge.—A poor
schoolmaster in rags, introduced himself to a scientific
friend with whom I was talking, and announced that he had
found out the composition of the sun. " How was that
done ?" By consideration of the four elements."—"What
they?"—Of course, fire, air, earth, and water."—Did
youare
not know that air, earth, and water have long been
known to be no elements at all, but compounds ?"—" What
do 2 you
The m
sir ? Who ever heard of such a thing
mean
ntion that difficulties are enigmas, to be over-
come in a moment by a lucky thought.—A nobleman of
very high rank, now long dead, read an article by me on the
quadrature, in an early number of the Penny Magazine. He
had, I suppose, school recollections of geometry. He put
pencil to paper, drew a circle, and constructed what seemed
likely to answer,
and, indeed, was—as he said—certain, if
only
this bit were equal to that; 'which of course it was not.
He forwarded his diagram to the Secretary of the Diffusion
Sooiety, to be handed to the author of the article, in case
the difficulty should happen to be therein overcome.
3. Discovery at all hazards, to get on in the world.—
Thirty years ago, an officer of rank, just home from foreign
service, for a decoration from the Crown,
d that
claims were of doubtful amount, and was
fount andt
hi trying ry
claims
told by a friend that so and so, who had got the order, had
the additional claim of scientific distinction. Now this offi-
cer, while abroad, had bethougnt himself one day that there
really could be no difficulty in finding the circumference of
a circle ; if a circle were rolled upon a straight line until the
undermost point came undermost again, there would be the
straight line, equal to the circle. He came to me, saying
that he did not feel equal to the statement of his claim in
this respect, but that if some clever fellow would put the
thing in a proper light, he thought his affair might be man-
aged. I was clever enough to put the thing in a proper light
to himself, to this extent at least, that though perhaps they
were wrong, the advisers of the Crown would never put the
letters K.C.B. to such a circle as his.
4. The notion that mathematicians cannot find the circle

for common purposes.—A working man measured the alti.
tulle of a cylinder accurately, and—l think the process o
Archimedes was one of his proceedings—found its bulk.
He then calculated the ratio of the circumference to the
diameter, and found it answered very well on other modes
of trial. His result was about 3.14. He came to London,
and somebody sent him to me. 1 happened to have on the
table a proof-sheet of the Astronomical Memoirs, in which
were a large number of observed places of the planets com-
pared with prediction, and asked him whether it could he
possible that persons who did not know the circle
better
than he had found it could make the calculations, of Which
I gave him a notion, so accurately.
He was perfectly
astonished, and took the titles of some books which be said
he would read.
5. Application for the reward from abroad. —rimy years
ago, about 28, I think, a Jesuit came from South America,
with a quadrature, and a cutting from a newspaper, an-
nouncing that a reward was ready for the discovery in Eng-
land. On this evidence he came over. After satisfying
him that mythic.. had ever been offered here, I discussed his
quadrature, which Wits of no use. I succeeded better when
I told him of Richard White, also a Jesuit, and author of a
quadrature published before 1648, under the namvin" " Chry.
sarlspis," of which I can give no account, or who
never
seen it. This White (Albius) is the only quadrat
was ever convinced of his error. My Jesuit was struck by
the instance, and promised to read more geometry—he was
no Clavius before he published his book. He relapsed,
however, for I saw his book advertised in a few days.
may say, as sufficient proof of my being no collector, that I
had not the curiosity to buy this book ;
and my friend the
Jesuit did not send me a copy,which he ought to have done,
after the hour I had given him.
6. Application for the reward at home.—An agricultural
labourer squared the circle, and brought the proceeds to
Londme, He left his papers with me, ono of which was
the copy of a letter to the Lord Chancellor, desiring his
lordship to hand over forthwith £1,000,000, the amount
of the alleged offer of reward. I returned his papers, with a
note, stating that he had not the knowledge requisite to see
is what the problem consisted. I got for answer a letter in
which I was told that a person who could not see that he
had done the thing should "change his business, and..ap-
propriate his time and attention to a Sunday school, to learn
what he could, and keep the Title children from darting
their close." I also recived a letter from a friend of the
quadrator, informing me that I knew his friend had suc-
ceeded, and bad been hoard to say so, These letters were

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printed, without the names of the writers, for the amuse-
ment of the readers of Notes and Queries, First Series, xii. 57.
7. An elderly man came to me to show me how the uni-
verse was created.—There was one molecule, which by vi-
bration—Heaven knows how I—the sun. Further vibra-
tion produced Mercury; and so on. I suspect the nebular
hypothesis had got into the poor man's head by reading,
in sonic singular mixture with what it found there. Some
modifications of vibration gave heat, electricity, &c. I hs-
tened until my informant ceased to vibrate, which is always
the shortest way, and then said, "Our knowledge of elastic
fluids is imperfect." " Sir," said he, " I see you per-
ceive the truth of what I have said, and I will reward
your attention by telling you what I seldom disclose,
never except to those who can receive my theory ; the

little molecule whose vibrations have given rise to our
eolar system is the Logos of St. John's Gospel." He went
away to Dr. Lardner, who would not go into the solar
system at all ; the first molecule settled the question. So
hard upon poor discoverers ate men of science who are
antiquaries in their subject I On leaving, he said, ,6 Sir,
Mr. De Morgan received me in a very different way; he
heard me attentively, and I left him perfectly satisfied of
the truth of my system." 1 have had much reason to think
that many discoverers, of all classes, believe they have con-
vinced everyone who is not peremptory to the verge of
incivility.
LAUNCH OF THE VALIANT.

Her Majesty's iron-clad frigate Valiant was launched
from the Admiralty yard, Millwall, yesterday. The ship
is 4,144 tons builder's measurement, and 4,063 tons by the
Nary List. The dimensions are : length over all, 280 feet;
breadth, extreme, 56 feet 3 inches ; and depth from spar
deck, 39,feet. The draught of water will be 25 feet 2 inches.
The engines by Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field, with
which the ship will' now be fitted, are 800-horse -power,
The armament on each broadside will consist of twelve 63-
pounders and three 110-pounder Armstrongs, giving a
broadside weight of metal of 1,146 lbs., and 2,292 lbs. from
both broadsides. On the slip the Valiant looked short and
dumpy, and the appearance is not wholly lost in the water.
For deep sea water the ship forms a formidable addition to
the fleet, but for war with America, Russia, or even
France, ships of half the tonnage and draft of water would
render incalculably greater service. The Valiant will
always have to lie off the coast, and in heavy weather will
be unsafe unless in mid-ocean, while a handy, small craft
could be kept off a harbour's mouth, and seek shelter at any
time behind a breakwater. But the Minotaur, the Nor-
thumberland, the Agincourt, and the Achilles are each
2,000 tons larger than the Valiant.

The Valiant, so far, has been the most unfortunate of all
our iron clads, and unless changes are effected will in all
likelihood remain the most unfortunate to the end. Quoting
from Admiral Robinson, " The Valiant should have 'been
delivered, according to the original contract, in August,
1862. The contractors failed, and requested the Admiralty
to annul the contract. Another contract was made with a
fresh party to deliver the ship in March, 1863. There is no
prospect of the work being finished for six months after
that date." If Admiral Robinson had said theta was no
prospect of the ship being finished before March, 1864, he
would have been nearer right. Much remains to be done in
the inside of the ship, the armour plating is far from being
complete, and last of all, there are the fitting of the engines
and the spars and rigging. Messrs. Mandalay and Field
have been long waiting to perform their part, and the blame
rests between the Admiralty and the Thames Shipbuilding
Company. All that we can say is that between the two the
public have been badly served, and that the public ought to
know who the offender is.
The future danger of the Valiant consists in this, to quote
an American authority on iron clad construction,—" The
Valiant is armoured with the singular deficiency of a short
distance at the water line near the bow and stern." This is
a quotation from a book published recently in New York by
the Appletons, and the deficiency may be well characterised
as singular. It is a deficiency that positively renders the
ship unfit for action, because a shell penetrating the side of
the ship before or abaft the armour at the water line could
not fail to blow the deck above into the air. At the meeting
of the Institute of Naval Architects, over which Sir J. Pak-
ington last presided, this defect was insisted on in strong
terms by Mr. S. Russell, in the presence of Mr. E. J. Reed
and Admiral Robinson, but it remains, and most deservedly
provokes American ridicule. In the Achilles the forward and
aft plating has been reserved, and is therefore unobjectionable.
Perhaps the knowledgeof this c'efectof the Valiant has some-
thing to do with the delay of the ship, because neither the
Admiralty nor the Thames Shipbuilding Company can ex-
pect auy credit from the construction of what in action
would prove a mere slaughter-house for British seamen.
The weight of metal which it is proposed the Valiant
shall deliver will considerably exceed that of the Warrior.
The Warrior's broadside is no more than 3841 b from 1::
6S-pounders. The Valiant's broadside will, however, be
less than that of the Royal Oak, the converted iron-clad,
which is 1,2561 b. from twelve 68-pounders, and four 110-
pounders. But the disparity is less real than nominal, be-
cause the 110-pounders are, it is to be feared, not trust-
worthy. They are at least guns not used so freely nor con-
fidently as the old 63-pounders, because something or other
may blow out or give way. This is a reflection of a painful
character, particularly when it is considered that as long ago
as 1845 the Mersey Steel and Iron Works manufactured for
the Princeton, American frigate, a gun still in use, with a
bore of 12ft,, by a diameter of 12in. This gun throws a
solid shot of 2101b5., and its weight is 7 tons 17 cwt. 1 qr.
Plain forging and boring would, however, not snit the Ad-
miralty and Ordnance authorities, and the consequence is
that we are behind France and America in guns, when we
might easily have outstripped them both.

Naval and. Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Warrior and Resistance, iron frigates,
steamed into Portsmouth. Harbour yesterday, and
will be placed in dock.
The following appointmentswere made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John West, engineer, to the
Asia, as supernumerary ; and William Murray, as-
sist.-engineer to the Columbine.

THE ARMY.
There was a field-day at Wormwood Scrubs
to-day at 10 o'clock before his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, as General Commanding-in-
Chief. The Ist and 2d Life Guards and the mounted
troop of the Hon. Artillery Company took part in
the evolutions.
The inaugural lecture of the course to be delivered
to the officers and men of the Royal Engineers was
given in the lecture theatre at the headquarters of
the Royal Engineer Establishment, Chatham, on
Tuesday evening.
The subject was--" On the Solu-
tion of Medi
apical Problems by Geometrical Con-
struction," and the lecturer Lieut. T. Fraser, Royal
Engineers. The following is the order in which the
course of lectures will be delivered :—Oct. 15, " Iron ;
cast iron gun metal, as manufactured at Continental
establishments. Influences of structure and compo-
sition upon the durability of cast iron ordnance.
various applications of cast iron for the production
of projectiles," by Professor Abel, F.R.S. Oct. 20,
Malleable iron, and considerations bearing upon
its conversion into ordnance and armour-plates ; cast
steel, as produced by Krupp and other German
manufacturers, by Bessemer, &c. ; homogeneous
iron, and the employment of varieties of cast steel
as materials for cannon, projectiles, Sc." by
Professar Abel. Oct. 22, "On the application of
the principles of dynamics to practical engineer-
ing," by Professor Pole, F.R.S. Oct. 27, " Copper,
and the influence of foreign metals, &c., upon its
properties; objections to bronze as a material for
ordnance ; alloys of copper with aluminium, phos-
phorus, copper and zinc alloys; ;stereo-metal,'
alloys of copper and-iron," by Professor Abel. Oct.
29, " Oa the connexion of heat with mechanical
problems," by Professor Pole. Nov. 3, " Meteoro-
logical Instruments," by Major Scott, Royal Engi-
neers. Nov. 5, "On steam and fuel,, by Professor
Pole. Nov. 10, " Lead, its impurities and their
influence upon its susceptibility to corrosion ;
small arm projectiles, their corrosion, and how
guarded against ; corrosion of lead by waters,
and means proposed for avoiding the con-
tamination of water by lead ; their merits ;
applications of alloys of lead to military ptlr•
poses ; white metal fuses, and objections to them ;
compound projectiles, their manufacture and pre-
snvation," by Prof. Abel. Nov, 12, " Mechanical
prime movers," by Prof. Pole. N0v.17, " Theory of
spectrum analysis and principal results obtained by
it; detection of very minute proportions of metals ;
discovery of the metals ccesium, rubidium, and thal-
lium ; sources and properties of these metals ; im.
portant inference drawn from spectrum analysis:,
by Prof. Abel. This lecture will be illustrated by
experiments arrbyanged by Mr. Ladd. Nov. 11, "The
Prof. Pole. Nov. 24, it Memo_
st„m_engiue,"
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and durability causes of
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stones from decay; important applications4.ol-- tkkf•ol-14.1 V)
glass; artificial stones," by Prof. Abel. 1,1111**06,N:4 4:k ,
" The steam-engine," by Prof. Pole. Dec.‘llPallti,4*KVA.-..,-t'gii
tegical operations illustrated by the canrpagti'Fori--709/4),34:
1815," by Capt. H. W. Hitchins, Royal Engineers. i ),4c-*
Dec. 3 and 8, " Telegraphy," by Mr. F. Jenkin. a S''
Dec. 10, "The dockyard, and how to see it," by
Lieut. V. G. Clayton, Royal Engineers.
Major-General Eyre, commanding the Forces is
the Chatham district, yesterday completed the half
yearly inspection of the troops under his command
by the inspection of the first division ef the depot
brigade, Royal Artillery. The division, which num-
bers about 800 men of all ranks, under the command
of Lieut.-Col. It. Talbot, was paraded in marching
order. Major-Gen. Eyre, who was accompanied by
Brigade-Major Congreve, instituted a rigid exami-
nation of the arms and accoutrements of the non-
commiosioned officers and men, during which he was
accompanied by Col. Nedham, commanding Royal
Artillery in the Chatham district. This concluded,the
line broke into open columns of divisions, right in
front, and marched past in slow and quick time, the
alignment of the divisions being well preserved, and
the wheeling distances accurately kept. The division
was then formed into five batteries, and the com-
manding officers of each examined in their know-
ledge of company evolutions and formations; bat-
talion movements were dispensed with. The in-
spection terminated with a survey of the barrack
rooms, hospital, and the other garrison establish-
ments, the whole of which were found well regu-
lated and remarkably clean, notwithstanding that
no preparation had been made for the Major-Gene-
ral's visit, which was altogether an unexpected one.
Major-Gen. Lord W. Panlet, C. 8., on Tuesday
inspected the 53d Regiment under the command of
Col. English, C. 8., on Southsea-common. Yester-
day his lordship was engaged in inspecting the
Military Hospital at Portsea.
Tit _ o, ,;he 55th Regiment statien,d
at 'Porten_ uth, will embark there for J-Idia on
board the Hougomont hired transport, on the 20th
inst. The headquarters, whose embarkation has
been delayed by the rejection of the ship Meteor,
tendered for their conveyance, will embark at
Portsmouth about the 25th inst.
The 17th inst. is the day at present named for
the embarkation of the headquarters of the 76th
Regiment for India on board the Hornet transport
at Portsmouth. The remainder of the Regiment
will embark from the same port on board the Ata-
lanta.

Mysterious Death of a Girl at Yeovil.

On Tuesday an adjourned inquest was held at the
Castle Inn, Yeovil, Somersetshire, on the body of
Elizabeth Fox, by Dr. Wybrants, and after an in-
quiry of several hours' duration a verdict of man-
slaughter was returned against Robert Slade Colmer,
a well-known herb doctor. At the opening of the
inquiry it was proved that the deceased was 20
years of age, and being a perfect stranger to Colmer
she went to his house, where she stayed a week, at
the end of which she had a miscarriage, and died.
on Sunday morning, October 2, almost suddenly.
At the opening of the inquiry on Tuesday, the 611
inst., the wife and daughter of Colmer were exa-
mined, and they stated that deceased had come to
the house complaining that she had something the
matter with her liver, that she took no medicine
whilst there, and died on the night after the miscar-
riage. Colmer has been living in Yeovil for 20 years,
has been in the habit of atiending market towns, and
was patronised by a large number of persons. His
son, Dr. Colmer, a licentiate of the Royal College
of Physicians at Edinburgh, lives with him, and al-
though he attended the young woman at her death,
he stated at the inquest that he zarely inter-
fered with his father's patients, although he had
patients of his own in the town. Colmer, sen., ie a.
man about 50, is said to have known something of
astrology, and was consulted in matters touching
recovery of stolen sheep, pigs, &c. ; but it is under-
stood ho has refused to have anything to do with
such matters for the past twelve months. However,
some extraordinary revelations came out at the in-
quest, which, if Colmer's evidence is to be believed,
proves that he has not altogether divested himself
of a faith in the superstitious. He states that ho
took the child with the after-birth, &c., and burned
them, in accordance with the superstitious idea that
such a proceeding would relieve the pains of the
young girl, and prevent inflammation setting in.
The deceased was a servant at the Rectory at
Rimpton, Somerset, her parents living in Dorset-
shire. She left the Rectory with the avowed in-
tention of going home, instead of which she went
to Colmer's house.

Amanda Coiner, daughter of the accused, a rather
good-looking well-dressed girl, wearing a white
hat and black feather, said she was in the room on
the Saturday when the deceased was confined, and
put the child into a basin. The head of it was
about the size of a snalll walnut. She did not know
what became of the child or the afterbirth. She
had never been at a confinement before, but it was
a trifling affair she should imagine.
Dr. Colmer, son of the accused, said that his
father called him to see the deceased, saying that
she was dying. He prescribed for her, and applied
galvanism with great pressure over the
lower part
of the bowels, as he considered her dying fromin-
ternalWrhenheapplied pressure the
quantity of
swellinh;wmaosr haemorrhage. gonce
reduced, and a
blood passed from her, when she threw back her
head and died immediately. He was present at the
post-mortem, and was of opinion that death was
caused by the means used to prevent haemorrhage.
His sister Amanda said deceased had told her she
had procured medicine from Sherborne to procure
abortion.
Colmer, the accused, after being duly cautioned,
said that an hour atter midnight on the Saturday
he was called to see the deceased, and believing she
was dying he sent for his son; She died in about
an hour e.tterwards. Shortly before her death he
gave her medicine and brandy. She then told him
she had miscarried. The child was in a basin, and
was about three inches long. He could not say
whether it was a boy or a girl, as he did not
ex amine it, The head was about the size of a
pigeon's egg. He took the child and afterbirth,
and burnt it. He had heard people say that it was
a common thing in the country, to burn the after-
birth. He took it and burnt it in the ashes shortly
after he saw it.
Dr. Garland stated that he made a post-mortent
examination of the deceased, in the presence of
Messrs. Tomkins, Alldridge, Colmer, Parsons, and
Coles. He found the organs of the body generally
healthy. The womb was enlarged, and in the left
and posterior part there was an extensive rupture,
which must have been produced by violence. No
medicine could possibly have produced it, nor could
any woman do it herself. It must have been done
by one or more persons. The deceased must have
been pregnant five or six months. He was posi-
tive that it was rupture of the navel that caused
death, and that she must have died soon after the
rupture took place. The injury could have been
inflicted by instruments or manipulation. The
organs were perfectly drained of blood. The
ceased was a fine and well-formed girl.
The other gentlemen who were present
of Dr.
Colmer,
examination, with the tnio
Colmer, son of the accused, gave simila
rteelziargical
Dr. Colmer asked Mr. Coles, one of.
the surgical
witnesses, a question with respect to his
ted him by
of medicine, when the Coroner interrupted at the
Sir Astley
observing that many• eminent. surgeo
others—would
Coopsr, Sir Benjamin Brodie, Ficl
az the Hall.
not degrade themselves by.passsis-
Ruth Hodges, a schoolni -at Marston, said
o a Young
she kept copa-
-1 man named John Steele, with
, she used to write letters whomfor.itslitreedeceased t

pany.
The Coroner, in addressing tho jury, explained
that the law expected every man, whether doctor,
surgeon (qualified or not), or even a " quack," with-
out tzny licence at all, to bring competent skill to
any case he undertook. If he had not
the skill ho
procure abortion
assumed. and displayed gross jam)
p ter. If a man
death, he was guilty of mansian'',..hranee, causing
attempted io.
procured abortion, end
murder, and if a medical man no was guilty of
would
killed the mother, he was
young woman was brought
law of wilful murder. If t,guilty in the eyes of the
they believed that the
to that house for the
purpose of procuring
abortion, and that it resulted
in death, they
murder. It was have to return a verdict of wil-
fula matter of great consequence,
not only to Mr,
Colorer, but to the community at
large, as two beings had lost their lives,
A verdict of
Colorerwe , manslaughter against Robert Slade
.s returned.

DETERmiNED SincinE.--Yesterday Dr. Lankes-
ter received information from Mr. Murray, the sum-
moning officer of St. Pancras, that a middle-aged woman,
named Hedges, residing at No. 3, Exeter-place, Agar-town,
St. Pancras, had drowned herself there in a water-butt. It
appeared that about a fortnight ago she married, being then
a widow, and having a large family. On Monday evening
one of the lodgers went to the water butt b get some water,
when, on getting into the yard, she saw the legs of the un-
fortunate woman projecting from the top. She called out
woman in the water-butt." Her (deceased's)
'h'unsber's a
husband took her out aud found her to be his wife. Life
Was extinct,

ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,
COVENT-GARDEN.
Under the 3lanat-r,ement of Miss Louisa Pyae and
Mr. W. Harrison.
THIS 'EVENING, W ,113ce'i Romantic Opera, THE
DES r.:RT FLOWER : Miss Louisa Pyne, Miss Susan Pyne ;
Messrs. W. 11. Weiss, 11. Corri. A. Cook, and W. Harrison.
Conductor, Mr. A. iNlellon.—Doors open at half-past Seven.
Commence at Eight.

TgENTRE ROYAL DRURY- LANE.
Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton.
GONE TO TEXAS. Mr. Walter Lacy
THIS EVENING,
and Miss Murray.
Alter which, Lord Byron's Choral Tragedy, MANFRED.
Messrs. r helps. Ryder, Rayner, M:agreson, Ward, Spencer -
Aliss Heath, 'Miss E. Atkinson, Miss Leclercq, and Mrs. E.
Falconer. Vocalists—Miss Poole, Miss titter, Miss Cicely
Miss Heywood, and Mr. Swift.
To conclude with THE DEAL BOATMAN : Messrs. G.
p,ohnore. F. Charles; Miss R. Leclercq, and Mrs. Edmund
T' al coner.

ippRINCESS'S THEATRR.—Great Success of
HERRMANN, PRESTIDIGITATEUR. HERR,
liiiiiIRRIMANN has the honor to announce that, in conse-
quence nt the Brest success and flatterin, recept-on lie has
met with, he will continue his Performances, EVERY
EVENING, until further notice.
Commencing at Eight.

LIEATRE ROYAL HAY NI ARKET.-
Sole Lessee and Manao•er, Mr, Buckstone.
THIS EVE.N TNG, FINESSE ; or, Spy and Counter Spy:
:Messrs. Alfred Wigan. Buckstone, ChippeJdale, Howe, W.
Farren, Braid, and Gordon ; Mrs. Dowton, Miss L. Angel,
Mrs. Alfred Wigan. Miss Wright, ,tc.
After which, CHARLES THE TWELFTH: lkTessrs. A
Wigan, Buckstone, Compton, Howe, and Miss L Keeley.
Concluding with TILE GALLICIAN FETE.
Commence at 7.

NEW THE ATRE-R0 VAL, ADELPrn
86e Proorlator and Manazer. Mr. B. NS'a
U bster.
: Mrs.
TFIIS EVENING, at 7, TIIE TRAGEDY QStirling.
EEN
At S, the New Drama of LEAH : Miss Bateman, supported
by Messrs. Arthur Stirling, R. Phillips, Billington, Stuart,
A. Wood, Eburne, Miss H. Simms and Mrs. Billing-ton.
Miss
To conclude with CATCHING AN lIEIRE6S :
Woolgar and Mr. A. Wood.

311 S S BATEMAN.--LENI-I.—The celebrated
young American Actress,_,Miss BATEMAN, having.
on her first appearance in the Isiew Drama of LEAR ob-
tained the most triumPhan, and enthusiastic success that has
been witnessed for many years, and the profound impression
created by her impersonationnf the character of LEAH upon
a c owded audience hsvine: been completely ratified by the
unanimous verdict and critical approval o, the entire Daily
thus, the afana2•er of the NEW ADELI'II I THEATRE has
ou to announce that M.ss BAT EMAN will appear
in the New Drama of LE.t Aft EVERY EVENING till further
notice.
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rNy AL STRAND THEATRE.
R"
Manaf.,,er,3lr. W. H. Swanborough.
THIS
EVENVIG, MIRIAM'' CRIME. Messrs. Honey,
Farselle, Belford, Turner, Miss K.Saville, and Miss Manders.
Followed by THE NIOTTO, " I'M ALL THERE." Messrs.
Honey, Turner, E. Danvers, Collier, Mesdames Ada Swan-
borough, F. Hughes, Weston, Thorne, Wallace, and Jenny
White.
To conclude with WHERE'S YOUR WIFE. Mr. Belford.
Commence at 7.

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HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
THIS DAY.—Morning, 3h. 21m.—Afternoon, 3h. 40m.
TO-woßßow.-'Morning, 3h. 58m.—Afternoon, 4h. 16m.

The Weather--Sun Office, Oct. 15, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
This day at Two o'clock
Barometer-29.63,
Wind—North; light, and hazy, with rain.