The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

OXFORD RACES-THURSDAY.

Favoured by better weather than at Egham, this meeting
opened very successfully. The attendance was large, and
the sport of a satisfactory character, the fields being more
than respectable. The ground, however, was very heavy
in some parts, and backers were totally upset in the Prince
of Wales's Stakes and the Selling Plate, neither of the
winners being fancied.
The sport resulted as under :
The Trial Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added ; weight for
age, the winner to be sold for 200 sovs ; if for 500 to
carry 71b extra, if for 100 allowed 51b. Three-quarters

of a mile.
Mr. Beadman's Rubini. 3 yrs, Bst Slb (E 200) (J. Plumb) 1
Mr. R. G. Walker's Winchester, aged, Oat lib (£100)
(Hickman) 2
No betting. Rttbini cantered in front all the way and
won by a length.
The Prince of Wales's Stakes of 5 soya each, with 50 added,
for 2-yr-olds ; colts Bst 101 b, fillies Bst 71b, Ty inners extra ;
allowances. Half a mile.

Mr. Meredyth's Mulberry, Bst 21b .... (Payne) 1
Mr. Eyke's Gordian Knot, Bst 51b (Fordham) 2
Lord Westmoreland's Usher, Bst 51b (J. Goater) 3

Vandervelde, Folios, John Davis, Teneriffe, Verdiare,
Garotter, Confederate, Glendusk, Lady Fanny Cavendish,
and Agatha also ran.
Betting-5 to 2 agst Gordian Knot, sto 1 agst Glen-
dusk, 100 to 15 agst Garotter, 8 to 1 each agst Vander-
velde and Usher, 10 to 1 agst Confederate, 12 to 1 agst
Mulberry.
After a long delay they were despatched very unevenly,
Mulberry, the favourite, and Lady Fanny Cavendish getting
off in front, they showed the way to the distance, where
Lady Fanny Cavendish gave way, and Usher and Garotter
joined the two leaders. In a few strides further Mulberry
drew away, and won easily by two lengths. Three lengths
between second and third ; Garotter was fourth, and Agatha
and Lady Fanny Cavendish next. t2ilendusk,who brought
up the rear, was last all the way.
The Oxfordshire Stakes of 16 sovs each, 10 ft, and only 5 if
declared, with 100 added, winners extra, the second to
save his stake. Two miles.
Mr. Morris's Balham, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (Judd) 1
Mr. Mundy's Odine, 3 yrs, Get 71b (inclu. 51b extra)
(J. Grimshaw) 2
Count Batthyany's Loiterer, 6 yrs, Bst (Custance) 3
The following also ran :—Anaticulus, Tourist, Church
Militant, and Nebula.
Betting— 5 to 4 agst Balhara, 3 to 1 agst Loiterer, 4to 1
agst Church Militant, 100 to 8 agst Nebula.
Church Militant, Tourist, and Nebula lay in front, but
ran wide in making the top turn past the enclosure, and
Balham and Loiterer went on with the running,Odine being
third. The two leaders kept close company all down the
back of the course and into the straight, where Loiterer
dropped a length behind the favourite, and at the distance
the Count's horse was beaten. Odine then went after Bal-
ham, but the latter stalled her off cleverly by a neck.
Loiterer a bad third ; Tourist was fourth, Church Militant
fifth, and Nebula next.
The County Members' Plate of 3 soya each, with 30

added winners extra. Three-quarters of a mile.

Lord Bateman's Lord of the Manor, aged, Tat 91b
yrs, Sat 101 b (J. Grim(Dshaalwel
Mr. Mr. l‘ClhearreitdoYnt'he'tyircra, Barmaid,
6st 31b .... (A. Woodhouse 3
The following also ran :—Walloon, Spicebox, Margerh
Curie, Dux, and Girdle.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Lord of the Manor, 4to 1 agst Spice-
box, 5 to 1 agst Walloon, 6 to 1 agst Cynic, 10 to 1 each
agst Barmaid and Dux.
Cynic and Girdle made the running to the distance, where
Lord of the Manor went to the front and won in the com•
monest of canters by five lengths ; Barmaid and Cynic
pulled up second and third, a neck separating each; Spice-
box being fourth, and Margery fifth, Girdle bringing up the

rear.
The Selling Plate of 50 soya ; weight for age, with selling
allowances. Halt a mile.
Mr, Hodgman's Farmer's Daughter c, 2 yrs, sst 71b,
(Morris) 1

Lord Coventry's Cosette, 2 yrs, sst 71b, £3O 4
(H. 9
Grinishaw)
Mr. Fleming's Lrdy Derby', 5 yrs, ost 41b, £lOO -
(Norman) 3

The following also ran : —St. Vitus, Rest, Abernethy,
Aspasia colt, Domino, and Lady Constance filly,
Betting-5 to 4 agst Cosette, 5 to 1 each agst the Lady
Constance filly and Rest, S to 1 agst Lady Derby.
The three placed (with Rest) lay in trout to the distance,
where the latter was beaten, and the Farmer's Daughter
filly and the favourite came on, the iirst named winning by
a neck. Lady Derby was three lengths from the leaders.
The Lady Constance filly was fourth, and the Aspasia colt
nest, The winner was bought for 100 guineas, and

Mr. Fleming claimed Cosette, who goes into Nightingall's
stable.

The Freemen's Plate of 3 sovs each, with 30 added ; win-

ner's extra. One mile.
Mr. R. Walker's Colonel Crocket, 5 yrs, Bst 41b
(Fordham) 1
Mr. Abel's Camperdown, 5 yrs, Sat 61b.... (H. Bradley) 2
Mr. Adams's Wortham, 5 yrs, Bst 41b .... (J. Holman) 3
Mr. Powney's Raglan, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Judd) 4
Mr. R. Sly's Everlasting, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b ....(S. Adams) 5
Betting-5 to 4 agst Colonel Crockett, 3to 1 agst Ever-
lasting, 5 to 1 each agst Raglan and Camperdown.
Colonel Crecirett made all the running, and won by three
lengths; a bad third.

Mr. P. Brodie's Lothian's King was struck out of the
Great Yorkshire Handicap immediately on the weights ap-

pearirg.

Testing Chain Cables and Anchors.

Yesterday a number of scientific gentlemen at-
tended at the Proving-house of Lloyd's committee,
in the New-road, Poplar, for the purpose of wit-
nessing the mode designed by Mr. T. M. Gladstone,
C.E., of testing the merits of chain cables and
anchors. Several engineers, shipowners, and masters
of vessels were present, and also some ladies and non-
professionals, who took great interest in the experi-
ments. The importance of having what is techni-
cally called the "ground tackle" in a sound and reli-
able condition has been long felt by seafaring men,
inasmuch as however perfect in other respects
a ship may be, unless her cables and anchors are
trustworthy the lives and property on board may
be sacrificed, The attention of the Legislature has
been frequently called to the subject, but up to the
present time the " collective wisdom" has done
nothing to guarantee " Those that go down to the
sea in ships" that their ground tackle will be ade-
quate to its purpose. Last session, Mr. Laird,
M.P., the shipbuilder, a gentleman sensitively alive
to the importance of the subject, introduced a bill
into Parliament for the purpose of making it im-
perative on shipowners to have their chain cables
and anchors properly tested before going to sea, but
the bill underwent so many alterations in committee
as practically to defeat its original purpose, and it
was consequently withdrawn.
Lloyd's committee have, however, taken measures
which render a compulsory act of parliament almost
unnecessary. Government, the Indian Board, and
the Emigration Commissioners having refused to
charter any vessel not having a certificate that its
"ground tackle" has been tested up to the Admi-
ralty proof, Lloyd's committee have made arrange-
ments for proving all chains and anchors voluntarily
brought to their proving-house, erected last year at
Poplar, under the directions of Mr. Gladstone, their
engineer, and further arrangements are now in
progress for the erection of similar establishments in
almost all the important seaports in the country.
The Proving-house at Poplar is about 500 feet in
length, and hero a chain cable of about 75 fathoms
in length can be proved in one operation, in-
stead of having it tested as formerly by the
dilatory and less satisfactory process of testing

it in sections of from 121 to 15 fathoms, and after-
wards connecting them by shackles. By a beauti-
ful and mechanical contrivance invented by
Mr, Gladstone, and appropriately designated
" Gladstone's Dromedary," the chain, cables,
and anchors of a ship are lifted out of a barge
in the dock (or from the ship herself when
she can be brought alongside), conveyed Into the
Proving-house on a railway, which rains from the
dock into and along the Proving-house, weighed,
deposited in a trough which runs the length of
the house, and having been subjected to the re-
quired strain is coiled up and returned to the ship
from whence it was taken with a facility that seems
to set the law of gravitation at defiance. This en.
gine performed its work with an ease and celerity
which excited the admiration of all present. The
dromedary is a substantially made steam-crane,
mounted on a four-wheeled truck, provided with
means of self-propulsion as a locomotive, and also
with means for underrunning cables and driv-
ing a set of hydraulic pumps. As a crane, this
machine will lift, awing, and lower 10 tons. Sta-
tioned near the pumps, and working through a
universal joint, it will in about two minutes get up
a strain of about 300 tons on 75 fathoms of cable,
and no more than six or seven men including
enginemen, smith, and labourers, are employed
in the entire work of bringing in a cable or anchor
from the dock, testing, repairing, and redelivering
it. The process of lifting the ground tackle from
the barge, placing it on the truck attached to the
dromedary, conveying it on the railway into the
Proving-house, weighing it, testing it, and returning
it to the dock, is accomplished in a few minutes.
We have been informed that by the arrangements
at the Proving-house as much work can be done in a
day as could be accomplished in a week by the old
system. A machine for exactly determining the
amount of strain is fixed at one end of the Proving-
house, from which point a view of the whole opera-
tion is obtained. The arrangements for the preven-
tion of accidents that might arise from the snapping
of imperfect chains while undergoing the proof are
such that no casualty has occurred to any of the
operatives since the Proving-house was opened.
When a chain cable requires repairs, the dromedary
takes the forge to the chain, instead of adopting
the more tedious process of bringing the chain to
the forge. Additional works are in progress at the
Proving-house by which increased facilities for
testing will be afforded.

BULLY BoTTCI has been thus amusingly spoken
of by Mr. Charles Cowden Clarke, in his new and
interesting work on " Shakspere Characters," chiefly
those subordinate. He was, says the commentator—this
Bully Bottom—the epitome of all the conceited donkeys that
ever strutted and straggled on this stage of the world. In
his own imagination equal to the performance of anything
separately, and of all things collectively; the meddler, the
director, the dictator. Heis for dictating everymovement, and
directing everybody, when he is not helping himself. He
is a choice arabesque impersonation of that colouring of
conceit which, by the half-malace of the world, has been
said to tinge the depositions of actors, as invariably as the
rouge does their cheeks. Peter Quince, although the dele-
fadesinto a shade w, a cipher,
gated manager of the companYr
a nonentity before him; for the moment Peter announces
the commencement of proceedings with, " Is all our com-
pany here darts first tragedian, Bottom, " Yen were
best to call them generally, man by man, according to the
scrip." And when Quince does produce the scroll the other
instantly proposes something else. It is interesting to fol-
lowi cut this feature n Bottom's character—a perfect variety
in the "class" " bumptiousness," ranging under the general
g,order"" conceit." Our "first tragedian" then interrupts
the manager with—" First, good Peter Quince, say what the
play treats on ; then read the names of the actors; and so,
grow to a point." And no sooner, again, does Quince pro-
ceed to read the title of the play, than Bottom bursts in with
his comment—" A very good piece of work, I assure you,
and a merry".—merry I—it was high tragic in their estima-
tion. And then he instantly resumes his dictation--" Now,
good Peter Quince, call forth your actors by the scroll
Masters, spread yourselves." His own name coming first,
he promptly replies, "
heady. Name what part /am for,
and proceed." His part is the chief point. And when the
part of Pyramus, the lover's` part, is assigned to him, he
announces that the audience"
must look to their eyes, for
that ho will mown
storms"—" he will condole in some
measure." Great, however, as Mr. Bottom professes to be
his "chief humour (he declares) is for a
in the lover's vein,
tyrant. I could play Ercles rarely; or a part to tear a cat
in ;to make all split." Then he will play Thisbe—the
heroine—if he may hide his face ; and he will " speak in a
monstrous little voice," Then ho will play the lion : " Let
me play the lion too. I will roar, that it will do any man's
heart good to hear me. I'll roar, that I'll make the Puke
say, Let him roar again I Let him roar again I' What
an amusing caricature of self-esteem I The idea of a man
pluming himself on the possibility of being encored
in a roar. But the roaring is objected to, for that
would frighten tho ladies, and that were enough to
hang every mother's son of them. But when is
true conceit ever put to a nonplus P—and so with our
friend Bottom. Like a Chinese tumbler, however you may
thrust him from his centre, he instantly regains his posi-
tion; he is equal to all contingencies, and therefore he
answers the objection to the roaring by the amendment, that
he will so aggravate his voice, that he will roar you as
gently as any sucking dove ;" he will " roar you an 'twere
any nightingale." Nothing is proposed, but au amend-
rneat Cornea from Professor Bottom. Quince says—" We
will have a prologue; and it shall be written in eight and
six"—=that is, in alternate lines of eight and six. feet. " No,
make it two more (rejoins the dictator)—let it be written in
eight and eight." What a happy example of opposition
for opposition's sake—for Quince's was the better plan,
Peter Quince, by the way, displays the part of an expe-
rienced manager in tickling the conceit of his first trout
tragedian, and moulding it to his purpose when he de-
clares, " You can play no part but Pyramus : for Pyramus
is a sweetfaee man : a proper man !"
In the late conflagration of the woods near
Touien the extent of land jail bare was upwards of 160
; acres. A vast number of half-roasted rabbits and pen-
L , triagts wrre afterwards found on the ground.

SECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.---This Day,

OXFORD RACES-THIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
INNKEEPERS' PLATE.

Miss Lis ingstone
Queen Elizabeth

Udine

Five ran.
STRATTON AUDLEY NURSERY.
Dead heat with Glendusk and Heber.

Jane Shore

. fee 3

Sixteen ran.
PRINCE OF WALES' STAKES.

f.ufra
Tattoo
Balero

Seventeen ran.
LASTEST BETTING.
ST. LEGER.
9to 2 agst Lord Clifaen (taken)
11 to 2 bar one (offered)
12 to 1 agst Golden Pledge (taken)
40 to 1 agst Blue Mantle (taken)
50 to 1 agst Saccharometer (offered)
GO to 1 agst Sea King (offered)

The King of the Kellenes and his Subjects.

FRANKFORT, Aug. 26.
The Europe gives the following documents which
have recently been communicated to the National
Assembly at Athens :•-
IaiESSAGE OF TIIE KING OF TIIE RELLENES TO THE

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.

I thank the Assembly for the new mark of confi-
toof the legal
dence it has just exhibited towards me in proclaim-
ing me of age six monthst
exertions i n advance
show myself
term. I will use my best
worthy of that confidence.
All my aspirations impel me towards my new
country, and I shall leave here for Greece the mo-
ment that the question relating to the annexation
of the lonian Isles permits me.
In the meantime the country counts on the
patriotism and concord of the National Assembly,
(Signed) GEORGE.
1 Copenhagen, July 30, 1863.

COUNT SPONNEK TO M. RUFFO, PRESIDENT

OF THE MINISTERIAL COUNCIL,

Mr. President,—His Majesty the King of the Hellenes
has instructed the undersigned to thank you for having
submitted to him, by your letter of the Bth, the reply of the
National Assembly to the letter which his Majesty had ad-
dressed to it, and the decree which proclaimed him of
age.

-His Majesty begs you, Mr. President, through me, to be
so good as to transmit to the Assembly the royal message
sent herewith, written in the Greek language, and signed
with his own hand.

His Majesty has read with much pleasure the communi-
cation of your excellency, from which it appears that frau-
quillity is restored after the regrettable events which oc-
curred recently at Athens. By the royal message your ex-
cellency will learn the intentions of his Majesty relative to
the epoch of his departure, which is determined by political
considerations of high importance.
His Majesty instructs me, at the same time, Mr. Presi-
dent, to add that just as he has every confidence in the
patriotism and spirit of concord of the National Assembly,
so he is convinced that the Government also will find in its
devotion and the sentiment of duty the firmness and courage
necessary to repulse energetically any criminal attempt
against the law, th 3 more so as the National Guard, to the
lively satisfaction of his Majesty, has shown itself so well
worthy of its honourable appellation.

(Signed)

COUNT SPONNEK.

SHIPPING—This Day.

LONDON, Aug. 28.—Wind this day at noon—South;
moderate breeze, and fine weather.

TORBAY, Aug. 27.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Anna, from
Hamburg for Buenos Ayres.
SHIELDS, Aug. 26.—Wind S.E.—Sailed--British Con-
stitution, for Rio Janeiro.
GLOECETER, Aug. 27.—Wind SW.—Arrived—Bella
Leandra, from Monte Video. Sailed—Jane Alice, for
New York.

(B MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Friday Morning.

, .
Arrived, Aug. 27.—Diana, from Amsterdam ; Horizon,
from Calcutta ; Heriss, from Minititlan ; X X, from Gunrn-
swy; Julia, from New York ; Kilea Lass, from Jamaica ;
Flora, from Christiana ; Roaeay, from Buenos Ayes.

DEAL, Friday Morning.

„
Anchored.—Malbrook, from Shields, for Nadaskar ;
Havre, from London, for Demerara ; Excelsior, from Lon-
don. for Cape of Good Hope.
Passed.—Colomba, from Quebec, for London.
Sailed.—Gaillemo, for Montreal; Fidig, for Dunkirk.

JOBBER DAY.—One day about four years since, as
Lord P was going over a crossing in Regent-
street, the sweeper, whom he had at first disregarded, ap-
peared strangely familiar as well as importunate, and said,
" Come, my lord, you'll give me a trifle for old acquaintance'
sake." " You, indeed I Why, where can I ever have seen
you before ?" " What I don't you remember Jobber Day,
at Eton 7" Lord P— gave his old school-fellow a sove-
reign, and passed on. This Etonian came down to sweep a
crossing before he was thirty years of age. Day had been
a very popular fellow at Eton, and very rich in " leave
books" when he left; though his ideas were very
similar to those of an old fellow-collegian of ours, who said,
the last morning he spent in Oxford, " Any gentleman may
have a pick at my 13Jokii, for now I have finished my edu-
cation I never can want to set eyes on books again.'
The reason we called him " Jobber" was, that some one
heard Day's father was a large cattle-breeder--so the
fellows, never very complimentary, said he was a
Jo bber •, and Jobber Day was his sobriquet ever after. Poor
Day, I pity him, and with him many thousands like him
who "go to the dogs" from the same cause. Day was like
a man born (we used to say) with hall a bottle of champagne
in him, and who never got over the effervescence to the
hour of death.—" Cornhill Magazine" for September, ju.v;
published.

SUPERNATURAL CANDLE.—Dr. Olinthus Gregory
used to tell a curious story about a candle. Having,
late at night, to ride across some moorland, he was reluc-
tantly persuaded to take a lantern with him. After a
while, he blew out the candle ; but, to his amazement, it
righted itself. This occurred several times ; until the pious
mathematician, indignant that a candle should disobey the
laws of nature, inverted it in the socket. It continued to
burn, and burnt more brightly than ever I And a few paces
further on, his horse pulled up on the verge of a chasm,
formed by the falling in of a disused mine.—. Dublin
Utn-
versity Magazine for September, just published.
MEXICO.—A letter from Pachuca, dated June 20,
tells of a successful expedition sent from Mexico by
Marshal Forey, under the command of Col. Aymard, of
the 62d Regiment. The force consisted of 2,000 infantry,
400 horses, and a section of mountain artillery. The ob-
ject of the expedition was to obtain possession of Pachuca
and the silver mines of Real del Monte. Pachuca, which
is 60 miles from Mexico, is reached by a well-paved road
through a highly cultivated country. It was known at
Mexico that Pachuca had been fortified, and that it west
defended by 4,000 Mexicans, under the command of Gen.
Orellano. A stout resistance was consequently expected.
It was known further that the population were ill disposed
towards the French, and that they had given a most flatter-
ing reception to the fugitive Gen. Ortega. When the
French troops arrived before the gates of Pachuca, they
were agreeably surprised to find that Gen. Orellano had
decamped with his small army, and that the authorities
of the town were waiting to give up possession to Colonel
Aymard. An hour later the French officers ate the break-
fast which had been intended for Gen. Orellano and his
staff. The population of Pachuca, which is estimated at
9,000, is described as being composed of adventurers from
England, France, Germany, and America. The same class
is to be found at Real del Monte and the other mining
districts. The Juarists left behind them at Pachuca a
sum of 200,000 f., which they had not time to carry off.
The French will probably remain at Pachuca to protect
the mining at Real del Monte, from which they expect to
derive largo sums.
How YARMOUTH ROSE OUT OF THE WATERS.—
There could have been no Roman 'station at Yar-
mouth, for the very good reason that while the Roman
eagles waved over Britain, the spot on which Yarmouth
stands was not land, but sea. Like many other places
situated at the mouth of rivers, Yarmotith has sprung up
on soil partly alluvial and partly deposited by the tides and
currents of the German Ocean. It is not a little singular
that while at Aldborough and Dulwich to the south, and
at Cromer to the north, we have been- losing acres of terra
firma, year by year fcr centuries, and while old Neptune,
by eating away the cliffs, has contrived to swallow whole a
bishop's sea and the metropolis of the East Angles, here,
on the contrary, he has rejoiced to give back his stolen
property, and yearly to deposit some yards of the cleanest
and firmest sand which he had been holding in solution.
This process has been going on gradaally but surely for
nearly two thousand years, if not from a date anterior to
Christianity itself.--Once a !reek.
The Municipal Council of Toulon has just voted
a sum of 60,0001. for an Agricultural Exhibition in 1861.
The Bath Chronicle gives currency to a rumour
which is freely circulated that Mr. Sergeant Kinglake
itm-
tends shortly retiring from the Weetetn Circuit.