The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-19 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1863,

TH.

no NOT FORGET YOUR APPOINTMENT.
—We Sup at EVANS', Covent-garden, after Jullien's

Concert.

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" Kinahan's LL Whisky."

THE TEA ESTABLISHMENT, 4 and 5,
King William-street, City, will be CLOSED on
SATURDAY, the 26111 instant,

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JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.
_LVJL • HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
TO-NIGHT, M. Jullien's BENEFIT, and positively tile Last
Night of the Season.

Immense Success of M.Jullien's mew GREAT CONGRESS
QUADRILLE.
Vocalist, Mdlle. VOLPINI.

Grand Orchestra—Three Military Band., and tall Chorus.

Conductor—M. JULLIEN.
Commence at S.—Admission, One Shilling.

M. Jullien's GRAND BBL D'OPERA on the 21st inst.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL HALL
ISLI SIGTON.—GRAND TOURNAMENT, HIP-
PoDROME, and CIRQUE. on a scale of magnificence
hitherto unattempted in aid c Juntry, will open on BOXING
DAY.

ROY AL AGRICULTURAL HALL,
ISLINGTON.—CROCICETT, the renowned LION
KING, will mike his First Appearance in London with
his wonderful troup of Lions on BOXING DAY.
Lessees—Messrs. STRANGE and JULLEYN.

'H • Er-' 0 -X-- F 0 ,
0, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Selections from the
following Operas, viz., THE SLAVE, and CLARA, the
MAID of MILAN, by Sir 11. Isishop ; also, from LA FORZA
DE I. DES i INO—Verdi ; by the following talented artistes .
—Misses Russell, Townley, Fitz Henry, almsley, Tyrrell,
and Ellison ; Messrs. Green, Huish, Kimberley, Stuart, ttc.
Also, Solos on the Violin by VIOrTI COLLINS, the
Celebrated English Violinist.
Flute by Drew Dean. Pianoforte, Miss Bryant.
And the marvellous instrument, the ORCHESTRAL
PIANO, by Herr S CHAL KENBACH, the Inventor.
Comedy, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "I, Eugene;
W. Randall, W. T. Critchfield, T. Maclitgan, and the marvel-
lous Gymnast, J. Henderson.
In rehearsal, and will be produced on Christmas E, e, sup-
ported by the entire company, a new and original rantat.,
entitled "King Christmas," written by Litchfield Moseley,
Esq., and composed by W, Meyer Lutz, expressly for the
establishment.

OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. - IM-
MENSE SUCCESS. Houses Crowded Nightly.
FRANCO/WS CIRQUE IMPERIAL. The most talented
Male and Female Equestrians, Acrobats, Gymnasts, and the
best Stud of Trick and Manage Horses in the World.

Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Day Performances on
Mondays, Wednesda3s, and Saturdays, at T 0.
Admission—Reserved seats, 35.; stalls, 25.; promenade,
; private boxes, one guinea.
Box-office open daily from Ten until Four.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
. Piccadilly.
During the Concerts given by Mons. JULLIEN, at ITer
Majesty's Theatre, the BALL will commence EVERY
EVENING at NINE O'CLOCK.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.
Admission, It.
Manager—M. GRENET.

29, GEORGE-STREET, UANOVER-SQUARE.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Lectures at 4 and 7
o'clock. 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, &e. Egyptian Mummies, unwrapped, 4,000 years
old. Admission, One bhilling tor Gentlemen only).

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for Lamberts Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are
engraved on the st imp.

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live-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting* with so much ease
Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and,may be worn
luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
3umference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
lent to the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 428., and 525. 6d.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 315. ed. Postage, is.
&n Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 6d. Postage, is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The screw steam frigate Topsze, 39, Commodore
the Hon. John W. S. Spencer, from the Pacific
station, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday morn •
ing. She left Vancouver's Island on the 27th June,
arrived at Valparaiso 26th August, left the 21st of
September, arrived at Rio Janeiro the 27th of Oeto •
ber, sailed thence the 2d of November, and had a
fine passage home. The frigate brings as passengers
two essist.•engineers, Mr. Creswell of the screw
steam gunboat Forward, Lieut. and Commeneer the
Hon. Horace D. Lascelles, and Air. Singer, of the
screw steam corvette Satellite, 21, Capt. Stephen S.
L. Croften, 33 naval and military invalids, including
Lieut. Murray, of the screw steam sloop Cameleon,
17, Commander Edward Herdinge, and Mr. Boys,
assistant paymaster; also 43 supernumeraries and
18 prisoners. No deaths have occurred on the pas-
sage home. The Topaze was put in commission by
her present Commodore on the 11th of June, 1859,
and very little change of her officers has occurred.
She has been chiefly occupied in the Pacific, and
while there ran over a course of more than 72,000
miles. The ship is in good condition and will proba-
bly go to-day from the Sound into Homaze to be
dismantled and put out of commission. She left at
Vancouver's Island the screw steam frigate Sutlej,
35, Captain Matthew Connolly, flag of Rear-Ad•
miral John Kingcome ; and at: Valparaiso the
screw steam frigate Leander, 39, Commodore
Thomas Harvey. There were no ships of war at
Rio Janeiro. The Topaze spoke on the Bth, in
lat. 10 8- S., long. 37 53 W., the ship Indies, of
Cardiff; 15th, in lat. 10 41 S., long 32 48 W.,
the ship Mandarin, showing first distinguishing
pendant 1,614 ; lat: 10 41 S., long. 32 40 W.,
the ship Witch of the Tees, showing third dis-
tinguishing pendant 1,794; and an Eng ish ship
showing third distinguishing pendant 9.233;
and 17th, in lat. 6.14 S., long., 32.4 W., ship Glen-
alva, showing first distinguishing pendant, 4,517 ;
19th, in lat. 6.44 S., long. 39.11 W., the ship James
Carthy, showing third distinguishing pendant 215.
All these ships were outward bound.

Yesterday morning about 220 boys belonging to
the training ship Impregnable, 78, Captain F. S.
Tremlett ; end about 80 from the training ship Im-
placable, 24, Commander S. B. Dolling, in Ha-
moaze, left Plymouth by the South Devon Rail-
way, on leave of absence until January 11. About
220 were bound to Paddington, the others for in-
termediate stations. The boys looked well and
seemed in high spirits.
An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham
directing the following screw steamers, which were
directed some time since to. be commenced at that
dockyard to be struck off the list of vessels ordered
to be built—viz„ the Pitt, 91, gun line-of-battle
ships; the Boadicea, M gun frigate ; the Diligence,
17; and the Albatross, 4.

By direction of the Admiralty a party of ship-
wrights and labourers, under the direction of Mr.
Bascombe, one of the foremen at Chatham dockyard,
are to proceed to Shoeburyness for the purpose of
t 11King to pieces and removing the Bellerophon
target. The plates from the target are to be re-
moved to the dockyard.

On Thursday evening Commander R. A. E. Scott,
R.N,, delivered a lecture at the Soldiers' Institute,
Chatham, on "Ironclad Ships and their Arma-
ment." The chair was taken by Lieut.-Col. T. B.
Collinson, Royal Engineers. In the course of a
highly interesting lecture, Commander Scott re-
viewed the history of English armaments from
the manufacture of the celebrated Horsfall gun,
by the Mersey Company, down to the present
period. That weapon, which the Mersey Com-
pany generously presented to the British Gover-
ment, he looked upon as the most remarkable
gun ever made, and its trial at Shoebury -
ness a short time since fully proved the enormous
power of the weapon. Glancing at the Armstrong
and Whitworth guns subsequently manufactured,
the lecturer directed attention to what had been
done, and was now doing, by other nations, and
especially by the Americans, in the way of improv-
ing their armaments. In 1852 they found the
Mersey Company manufacturing a gun with a 12in.
bore for the Government of the United States, so
that oven at that period we had been distanced by
the Americans. Subsequently, however, the most
rapid strides had been made in the manufacture of
English guns, and now they had the monster Arm-
strong guns, capable of throwing a 300-pounder
shot, and an elongated shot of double that weight.
The lecturer then pointed out the advantages aris-
ing from the use of the ordinary large muzzle•load-
ing guns when fired with a heavy charge of powder
►nd a steel shot, one of which had recently been
sent through a 51in. iron plate, and then proceeded
to examine the monster Dahlgren guns, already
manufactured by the Americans, and the still larger
guns of that character which they were now pre-
paring. Hitherto the Dahlgren guns had been made
of a weight of 71 tons, and fired with 301 b weight
of powder, which experience had proved they were
capable of using in each charge; but another de•
scription of gun was now being manufactured,
which would be fired by a 431 b charge. This gun
was, perhaps, the best in the American service, as

it could send a shot through a 41in
plate, backed
with 20in of timber. In the other cases where the
American guns had failed to penetrate the armour-
plates the backing of the vessels was torn until
there was scarcely any resistance left. In firing

the ordinary 68 Bounder naval gun
against the
target, they found that although the shot made an
indent of two inches only, the backing was corn-
p:tetsly destroyed. This was perfectly in accord-
ance with the experiments at Shoeburyness, where
it was shown most conclusively, that the more rigid
the backing the better the plate stood, or in other

ture of their monster guns, in the preparation of
which they were nosy using the Bessemer metal,
for which privilege they
had recently paid the sum
of LlO,OOO. At the close of the lecture Lieut.-Col.
Collinson, in the name of the audience, thanked
Commander Scott for the deeply-interesting address
which he had delivered.

Toe following appointments were made vcsterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Henry C. brogan, to the
Orontes; Cecil P. Palmer, midshipman, to the
Meeance ; R. R. Jaffrey, midshipman, to the A urora ;
Thomas Brown, promoted to inspector of machinery
affoat, and appointed to the Excellent, as additional
for special service at the Royal Naval College;
Michael Harris, supernumerary in the Euryalus,
confirmed as first class waist.-engineer.

The officers appointed inspecting commanders of
the Coastguard, vice Commanders Gore, B!resford,
and Webb, whose period of service has expired, are
Commanders W. L. Staniforth, Joseph Robinson
and H. C. Burleigh.