The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 4, 1863.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

Enlargement of the Sailors' Home.

(THIS DAY.)

The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the build-
ing for the enlargement of the Sailors' Home, situate in
Dock-street, was performed by Viscount Palmerston, K,G.
this day.

His lordship was received at the entrance of the court-
yard next to Seaman's Church by Admiral Sir W. Bowles,
the President, Vice-Presidents, and a great number of the
supporters of the institution, and conducted to the ground.
The proceedings took place under a very elegant marquee
gaily decorated with the flags of all nations, 60 feet in
height and 40 feet in length, under which sat a brilliant
assemblage of ladies. The entrance of the tent was taste-
fully decorated with a profusion of beautiful flowering
plants.

An address was then presented by Sir J. BOWLES, which
set out at length the advantages offered by the Sailors
Home, and also the great benefits that had occurred through
their establishment to the mercantile marine. The present
"Home" owed its origin to three naval officers, and was
establish, d in 1835, and since that time no less than
£1,110,980 had been received from seamen, and directed
into legitimate channels. The arrangement of the
pi esent building having been determined on, the
plans of Mr. Bracebridge had been adopted,
the cost of which will amount to £10,626, of which
sum £B,OOO had been obtained, leaving £2,000 to
be met by further subscriptions. Since the opening of the
Home, the address stated that no less than 139,180 had been
inmates.

Lord PALMERSTON replied as follows :—Sir William
Bowles, ladies and gentlemen, I can assure you that I feel
great pleasure, and I may say pride, in having been per-
mitted to take a part in this most interesting ceremony.
We are by our insular position necessarily a seafaring
nation. I may say our national independence is connected
with the skill, the enterprise, and daring courage of our
seamen. (Loud cheers.) It is needless to point out that
by the great ex'ension which the principles of free trade have
received of late years, our commercial intercourse with other
nations, carried on on everyoeean, have incredibly increased ,
and that we are now dependent upon our commerce for the
maintenance of our national industry, for the subsistence of
a great part of our population, and for the markets to which
the produce of our manufactures are destined to go. If
then nothing but commercial interests we re concerned it
would be needless to point out how greatly the strength
and prosperity of the country depend upon our seafaring
population. But there are still higher considerations
than those to point out their value, and how
much they deserve encouragement from their
fellow-countrymen. It is true that something near
30,000,000 of men could not be conquered by any invasion
that might reach these shores, but short of that we might,
if we lost the command of the seas—we might be blockaded
by the cutting off of our foreign supplies, and by the pre-
vention of our export trade be reduced to very distressing
extremities, and, therefore, in that point of veiw we ought
fully and highly to appreciate the value of our sailor fellow-
men. (Loud cheers.) Well, it is the result of their life to be
separated in a great measure from intercourse with their
fellow-men on land that they are peculiarly a simple-
minded and guileless set of men; but simple-minded and
guileless men are too often, when they come in contact with
them, the victims of men of different character. A
sailor, when he comes to port, cannot go probably to the
seat of his family ; he cannot go to his friends and relations.
He must remain in the port where he has landed, and in that
port he is exposed to every temptation, and to the loss
both of his money and his health, Well, these institutions
tend to provide him with a home. It is said, indeed, that
" his home is on the deep," but we provide him with a
home on terra firma, and it is needless to point out how
much his physical and moral interests are promoted by a
reception such as he meets with in these institutions.
(Loud cheers.) They are indeed a part of those great
social improvements which have been made in recent
times, and I may say that among them, few are more de-
serving of public encouragement, and few are more con-
ducive to the real interests of the country. (Cheers.) 1
therefore am glad, and I return thanks to those who
have given me the invitation I am glad to
be present and contribute to the foundation of
an institution which will be attended with such national

advantage.
His lordship then, with the usual honours, laid. the foun-
dation stone, which bore the following inscription :
" This chief stone of the new building in extension of the
Sailor's Home was laid on the fourth day of August, in the
year of Our Lord, 1863, and in the twenty-eighth year of
the reign of her most gracious Majesty Victoria, Queen of
Great Britain and Ireland, by the Right Hon. Lord Vis-
count Palmerston,
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the pro-
ceedings,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
BRIGHTON STAKES• •
sto 2 agst Blackdown (taken)

ST. LEGER.
4to 1 agst The Ranger (offered)
6to 1 agat Queen Bertha (taken)
Bto 1 agst Lord Clifden (take 9to
100 to 12 agst Avenger (taken)
THE DERBY, 1864.
100 to 6 agst Paris (taken)
25 to 1 agst Hollyfox (taken and offered)
33 to 1 agst Idler (taken)
50 to 1 agst Harkforward (taken)
Very little betting—time occupied with settling.

YORK AUGUST MEETING.

Weights for the Great Ebor Handicap of 100 sous, added
to a Sweepstakes of 25 soya each; 10 ft, and only 5 if de-
clared. Two miles. 73 subs.
Yrs st lb Yrs st lb
Asteroid
5, 9 8 Scamander ......3 6 3
0
Carbineer
Caller Ou
Fairwater
5 9 0 Barchettina ...... 3 6 0
Millionaire
Zetland
Joey Jones •
a 1...... 3 6 0
Carisbrook 4 8 0 Clarior .......... 3 6 0
*Buckenham
Investment
Bellman 3 5 12
5 7 10 *Marmion
Cowley
Costa
Oldminster
5 7 9 Double ........ .. 3 5 10
Turn-of-Luck
Bedouin..
4„7 8 Trust ..........3 5 10
Canary
Myrtle
Brighton
Welcome
Captain Crow
Lacydes 4 7 0 Brian Boru ...... 3 5 7
Makeshift ...
Watchman
Earl of Surrey
Citadel
Monk 6 6 13 Cape Flyaway .. 6 paid
Magnum Bonum 4 613 RiAcatcher
Anfield
My Mary
Evenband 5 6 10 Pilot 4 paid
Piccador
*Catch'em Alive
Revolt ... ....... 4 6 7 Gardener . 5 paid
1 Bonny Breast Knot 4 6 5 Doefoot
Lord Strathmore and Mr. Hawksley are subscribers, but

did not name.
• These horses having been entered without the know-
ledge of their owners will be struck out at the time pre-
scribed, unless specially ordered to remain in.
Weights published, August 1, at noon; forfeits to be de-
clared August 8, at 6 p.m.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1863.
AUGUST,
Brighten
Plymouth
25
20
Lewes
Wolverhampton
13
Reading Oxford
Wenlock
SEPTEMBER.

Devon and Exeter
Derby Summer
Weymouth
Kings Lynn 3
Warwick .. S
Leicester lO
Doncaster l5

Wordaley gl
Brecon ... . 21
Richmond 22
Monmouth ..24
Manchester Autumn ....'25
Newmarket Ist Oct. ....29
Edinburgh, &e. C1ub....30

0 CT,

Coventry
Bedford
Caledonian Hunt
Newmarket S. . 12
Novi
Worcester..

Lincoln Autumn 20
Kelso 21
Gloucester 22
Newmarket, Houghton 26

(BEE.
Shrewsbury Autumn.... 16

IRISH.
AUGUST.

Ileath,...
6 Londonderry ~. 14
Wicklow ..
11

THE BOMBAY MAIL.

By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have
received our journals and correspondence from
Bombay to July 9, and Calcutta to June 27.
The report of the arrest of Nana Sahib is con-
firmed.
The limes of India gives the following details of
the arrest :
" The news of the capture of the Nana at Aj-
mere, near the military cantonment of Nusseerabad,
is well founded. It appears he has been skulking in
the Raj pootana States during the last four months,
while we have been supposing him to be hidden in
the wilds of Ncpaul. We believe the first intima-
tion of his presence in this part of India arose
from some information supplied to Capt. Nuttall, at
Sholrpoor, when it seems the Bombay police were put
on the track. However this may be, one of these
police was present at the capture. There can be
little doubt that the man was very recently in the
neighbourhood of Poona and Sholapoor, and, as far
as our information extends, no doubt exists as to his
being the real Nana of Bithoor. We are not so certain
of the rumour that Tantia Topee has been captured
with him. Such, however, is reported to be the case ;
the man who formerly suffered death as Tantia Topee
not being, it is alleged, that leader at all, It is
certain that a considerable gang have been cap-
tured at Ajmere. The Nana, we are told, will he
sent to Bombay under a strong guard of Europeanst
and conveyed from this city for trial to Calcutta or
Cawnpore, The detachment will be under the
command of an officer of rank, and be composed of
picked officers and men.
" Since writing the above, we have heard that a
jemadar of the Bth Regiment of Native Infantry, in
company with two Bombay policemen, traced a
companion of the Nana from the Deccan to Bika-
neer; that the Nana was there found residing as a
guest of the Bikaneer Rajah; that he was allowed
to depart thence to Ajmere and there denounced,
his trackers having joined him on the road, and
introduced themselves as agents from one of the
❑eighbouring durbars. It is said the prisoner has
no want of funds, havirg several lacs of rupees at
his command, an incidental corroboration of his
identity." _ .

The following is the official report of the capture :
From Major A. G. Davidson, Deputy Commissioner of
Ajmere, to the Chief Secretary to Government, Bombay,

dated Aj mere, June, 1863.
" Sir,—l have the honour to inform you that, on the 22d
instant, a native officer of the Bth Bombay N. 1., by name
Dwarka Tewarie, brought me your letter, No. 113, of 27th
April, 1863, to the address of tne Political Agent, Jyepoor,
and gave me such information regarding the object
with which it had been written, that I thought myself
justified in opening it, and having satisfied myself that
he was acting under Mr. Forjett's orders and with your
sanction, I rendered all the assistance in rep power, and
had the satisfaction of capturing the persons indicated by
the informers, Dwarka Tewarie and Gyapershud ; and from
their statements, which have been confirmed by Mr. For-
jett's detectives, who accompanied them, as also from com-
parison with the descriptive roll furnished by Government,
and a statement made by a sergeant-major of the Royal
Artillery, stationed at Nusseerabbad, who was formerly in
the 14th Dragoons, and constantly saw the Nana at Meerut,
I have not the slightest doubt whatever that the prisoner
now in the Ajmere magazine, under an European guard of
her Majesty's 28th Regiment, is the Nana Dhoondoo Punt,
One of his companions is stated by the informers to be
Naroo Punt Bhalla Bhut, also entered in the descriptive
roll. The third person is a blind Brahmin, made use of by
the Nana to conceal his real, and to confirm him in his as-
sumed, character.
" There are two striking marks on the person of the
prisoner supposed to be the Nana, one of which is not en-
tered in his descriptive roll; this is a grooved scar under
the hole pierced in his right ear, and the other is a scar of
(as the civil surgeon certifies) either a lancet cut or a cut of
a very fine sharp-pointed bistoury, about an inch and a half
in length, and slightly oblique : and, indeed, the prisoner
corresponds in nearly every particular with the description
given in the roll, except that his hair is white, he has lost
two front teeth, and his cheeks are not so full as they were
six years ago.—l have, &c.,
"A. G, DAVIDSON, Commissioner."
The intelligence of the fall of Herat had been
received in Bombay by a telegram from Lahore.
The Government at Lahore was informed that Post
Mahommed had taken the city by storm, "assisted
by treachery within, and stratagem without."
A correspondent of the limes of India says:—
" Previous to the attack on the 26th of May it had been
given out that Dost Mahommed was at the point of death.
He had assembled his sons, nominated his successor, and
given his parting advice to all, which demonstration appears
to have thrown the Heratees off their guard, and enabled
him to surprise and capture the citadel by a sudden assault
aided no doubt by treachery within the wills. This event
ought to facilitate the solution by treaty of all remaining
diffipulties. But the course which Persia may pursue is,
perhaps, uncertain, and much may depend on that."

TERRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.

LYNN, Monday Night.

To-night, at a quarter to nine o'clock, an accident
of a frightful character occurred to an excursion
train from Hunstanton to Lynn. A bullock having
strayed on the line, the engine of the train dashed
against the animal, the sudden shock throwing six
of the carriages off the metals.
Two or three of the carriages were completely
smashed, and the occupants buried in the debris.
Assistance was promptly procured, when it was
found that five of the passengers were killed, their
bodies being dreadfully mutilated, and about twelve
others much injured. Up to twelve o'clock to-
night only two of the bodies had been identified.
The accident occurred at Gaywood, about three
miles from Lynn.

THE "FEMALE BLONDIN" DISASTER.

The following correspondence is published in the
Birmingham Daily Post :
Whitehall, July 29, 1863.
Gentlemen,—l am directed by Secretary Sir Geo. Grey
to inform you that a memorial, very numerously signed,
has been addressed to him on the subject of the death of the
unfortunate woman, who was killed in consequence of the
breaking of the rope on which she was performing at a fete
recently given in Aston Park. And I am to express Siz
Sir George Grey's hope that after this melancholy occur-
rence you will not allow a repetition of such dangerous per-
formance in the Park.—l am, gentlemen, your obedient
servant, IL WADDINGTON.

The Directors of Aston Park, Birmingham.
Birmingham, August 1, 1863.
Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt 6f
your letter of the 29th ultimo, informing the directors of
the Aston Hall and Park Company that Sir George Grey
has received a memorial very numerously signed, addressed
to him, on the subject of the death of the unfortunate
woman who was killed in consequence of the breaking of
the rope on which she was performing at a fete recently
given in Aston Park, and you express Sir George Grey's
hope that, after this melancholy occurrence, the managers
will not allow a repetition of such dangerous performances
in the park.
I am requested by the managers to say that they concur
in the sentiments contained in the memorial referred to.

The managers have endeavoured, as far as possible, to
provide healthful recreation and instruction for the people.
On the melancholy occasion referred to the managers had
let the park for a charitable purpose, and omitted to reserve
to themselves any right to control the performance.
(Signed)
WILLIAM LUCY, Chairman t 3 the Company.
IL Waddington, Esq., Whitehall, London.

AMUSING ENCOUNTER WITH A Fox.—A young
girl, about fifteen years of age, named Janet Cruik-
shank, at present herd to Mr. Gibb, farmer, Aitnock, Edin-
killie, was out one day last week in the hill, looking after
some sheep, and followed by a little black dog. It appears
the ground was infested with foxes, and the dog having
raised one of the number, gave chase, and got between rey-
nerd and his den. The latter finding himself thus refused
admittance to his own house, sought shelter behind a large
stone and based the dog by constantly running
He appeared, however, not to be much alarmed, although
round it.
so hotly pursued, and Janet fearing lest this enemy to her
flock might escape, contrived to get to a small height whence
she threw a stone so well directed and with such force that
the fox was knocked down. Reynard, however, was not
long in getting up again, but by this time he was made
aware that be had met with foemen worthy of his steel, and
advancing from behind his covert showed Janet a ease of
teeth anything but inviting, upon seeing wohafdicshetlo,nesnheseldy
claimed in her own broad Scotch, " Faigs, my lad, ye need
• -ich at me ; I'll gie ye lanchan, may be." She fulfilled
o.penin!tahattretmheenwdiolyusobldatitoexryh,
whneaitrAh;sounlehisdecualidly ate... • -,nced, crook in
to succumb. Janet now aci.- hand, and, with
a blow or two laid reynard prostral:'• Exulting at her vie.
tory, Janet proudly threw the fox over her shoulder and
commenced her march home, but finding her burden too
heavy, she was reluctantly obliged to leave the carcase in
the hill, but carried the brush in triumph to het delighted
master, who rewarded the intrepid girl foe having (I's I
.—ltiVertleBB 0014;10‘Prealr“l
BO 111!) genuine Highland pludt

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord, Vice-Ai-
miral the Hon. Sir Frederick Grey, K.C.8., Rear-
Admiral C. Eden, C. 8., Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drum-
mond, C. 8., Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., Junior Lords, and
Rear-Admiral Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., Secre-
tary, accompanied by Rear-Admiral Robinson
(Controller of the Navy), and other officials
connected with the Admiralty, leave town to-day
on their annual tour of inspection. The Lords
Commissioners go to Portsmouth to-day, and next
week go to the Channel Islands, before paying the
customary annual visit to Devonport. Preparations
have been making for some time for their reception,
and everything that is likely to meet the official eye
has undergone a thorough cleansing. It is many
years since Portsmouth dockyard presented so smart
and clean an aspect for the inspection of their lord-
ships.

The Racoon, 22-gun screw corvette, Capt. Count
Gleichen, arrived at Spithead on Sunday afternoon
from the coast of Scotland, last from Port Douglas.
Soon after arrival his Royal Highness Prince
Alfred disembarked from the corvette, and, accom-
panied by Capt. his Serene Highness Prince Leinin-
gen, who had arrived from Osborne, proceeded to
join her Majesty and the Royal Family at Osborne.
It is understood that his Royal Highness will not
rejoin the Racoon until May, 1864, as he will in the
first instance accompany her Majesty to the Conti-
nent, and afterwards proceed to Holyrood Palace
to undergo his appointed six months' course of
study. The ship yesterday discharged her powder
and shell into Ordnance lighters at Spithead, being
ordered into Portsmouth harbour to dock and repair
damages caused by striking the ground recently
when under steam in Loch Ness. Three small
ponies brought in the Racoon from Scotland were
yesterday transferred by the Pigmy, steam tender,
to the Royal stables at Osborne.
Captain H. Broadhead, commanding the Steam
Reserve at Portsmouth, and Mr. George Murdock,
inspector of machinery afloat at the same port, have
forwarded to the Admiralty for inspection the
models, drawings, and specifications of a breech-
loading gun and gun-carriage, the joint invention
of the two officers, intended to supply the want of a
heavy smoothbore gun. The gun is bored through-
out from muzzLe to breech, the circumference at the
latter end being slightly increased. The breech is
closed by a screw plug, which closes the breech
effectually by a quarter turn after the plug has
been slid into its position. The carriage on which
the gun is mounted appears, however, to be of the
most immediate importance. The difficulty expe-
rienced in working and training the 95 cwt. 68-
pounders on the main decks of our iron ships during
a cruise was found to be most serious, and it was
acknowledged that some other mode of working and
training such guns than by the bungling, slow,
handspike method must be adopted to render the
ship's maindeck guns efficient. To meet this diffi-
culty the present carriage has been constructed.
Two-cranked shafts are fixed underneath the car-
riage with the apex in front on a cup-bearing rest-
ing on the deck, the rear ends of the cranks carry-
ing metal trucks on wheels. By a side lever and
rope-fall the gun and carriage can either be thrown
on the cup-bearing and rear trucks, and thus become
a pivot broadside gun, or it can become an ordinary,
broadside gua, by lifting with the lever the cup-
bearing and rear trucks. As a pivot broadside gun,
two men on each side of a 10-ton gun with a simple
rope-fall in their hands can train it with the
utmost rapidity and nicety, and without a hand-
spike baingat all brought into play.
The screw steam frigate Aurora, 39, having had
her bottom cleaned, and having three additional
strakea of copper, was removed yesterday from
No. 1 dock at Devonport, and placed in the basin,
where she will be fitted for the First Division of
the Steam Reserve.