The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-23 00:00:00

RICHMOND RACES-TUESDAY.

The Easby Stakes of 5 Eovs each, with 20 added ; two-yr-
olds. 7st ; three, Bst 121 b; certain 'penalties and allow-
ances. , About three-quarters of a wile.
Winteringham's Harvest Mell, 2 yrs, 78t 7th

1
Mr. John Osborne's Little Stag, 2 yrs, 7st ..(Whiteley) (Snowden) 2
Mr. J. Osborne's Stolen Moments colt, 2 yrs, 7st
Mr. R. E. Wilson's Bellasius, 2 yrs, 75t.... (Cr(Cp..rroll) 3
Awshaw) 4

Veterinaric;n also- ran.

Betting-5 to 4on Little Stag, 6to 4 ag-st Harvest Mell,
100 to 8 agst any other.
Won by a length; a bad third. Veterinarian did not
pass the post.

The Sapling Stakes of 10 sovs each h ft, with 50 added, for
2. yr-olds ; colts, Bst lelb ; fillies and geldings, Bst 71b;
penalties and allowances; second to receive 15 sovs. Grey
Stone in. 29 subs.
Mr. Winteringham's Appenine, 9st (Ashmall) 1
Lore_ Zetland's Revival, Bst 41b (H. Covey) 2
Sir C. Monck's Gondola, Bst 41b (Snowden) 3
Mr. Chilton's Claxton, Sat 41b ~(Whiteley) 4
Mr. Ridley's Wensley c, 881, 71b
Mr. Morris's Siva, Sat 101 b
Betting-7 to 4on Apponine. 4to 1 agst Gondola, 6to 1
agst Claxton, and 10 to 1 agst Revival.
Won by half a length; four lengths between second and
third.

The Richmond Handicap of 10 sews each, h ft, and 2
only if declared, &0., with 89 added; winners extra;
second to receive 20 soya. Once round and a distance
(about one mile and three-quarters). 29 subs, 18 de-
clared,
Mr. Osborne's Fanfaron, 3 yrs, Gst 11b.. (CrrlTrshlw) t 1
Mr. Wilkinson's Oldminster, 5 yrs, Sat 10Ib

(Aldcroft) t 2
Lord Ze,tland's Piceftdor, 4 yrs, 7st 31b.. (H. Covey) 3
Sir G. Strickland's Angelus, 3 yrs, Sat 121b„.(Arnott) 4
Masterman's Honest John, 3 yrs, 6st 111 b

(Noble) 5
Mr. Bowes's Welcome, 4 yrs, 7st 31b (Oran]) 6
Mr. Jacques's Trump Queen, 3 yrs, 6,t 31b (Marson) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Oldminster, 2 to 1 agst Fanfaron, 5
to 1 agst Piccador, 6 to 1 agst Trump Queen, 7 to 1 agst
Honest John.
A dead heat between Fanfaron and Oldminster ; Piccador
was third, beaten four lengths. Trump Queen fell, broke

TOE DUNDEE MURDER CASE.-PERTH, SATUR.
DAY, 9 p.m.—The autumn circuit closed here to-night at
9 o'clock, the last case being Grant's, from Dundee, for the
murder of his wife. After a lengthened trial the jury found
him not guilty. The verdict was received with immense
cheering both in court and in the streets. Tho crowd fol-
lowed Mr, Grant and his friends to the hotel, cheering most
enthusiastically.

BUST of SHAKSPEARE—by the American sculp-
tor Greenough.—The bust is intended to be sent to
England on the occasion of the Shakepeare festival, and
will, no doubt, produce all the effect, as a work
of art; Chat it has already done hero. The realisation of
SbaksPeare—of whom no bust exists save that at Stratford-
on-Avon—had long been a favourite dream of the artist's;
and, as is the case so often, it was by chance rather than
by choice that he was hurried into its execution. lie was
ono evening expressing his regret that no real and
thoroughly authenticated portrait, from which a bust of the
great poet could be taken, was in existence ; the only one
possessing the smallest claim to attention being the
Chandos, which bears too great a stamp of ideality for
artists to accept it without some little doubt. It so hap
pened that the lady to whom Greenough was thus address-
ing his complaint was a rich lady of Boston, Miss Joy,
whose father, when emigrating to America, towards the lat-
ter end of the last century, bore with him numberless speci-
mens of art and vertu, which had made his house in Boston
a complete museum. The lady, on hearing the sculptor's ob
servation, rather startled him by declaring that she had in
her possession, at Boston, a real and original portrait of
Shakspeara—ono over which no doubt could be thrown
—painted by Zuechero, the Court painter of Shakspeare's
time, whose portraits of Queen Elizabeth and Sir Walter
Raleigh are well known by amateurs, and whose signature
appears at the corner of this very portrait of Shakapeare
The painting was bought by Mr. Joy at the sale of various
effects and curiosities, the property of a gentleman who had
once owned much of the property belonging to an indivi-
dual whose ancestor had been proprietor of the Globe
Tavern. The tradition con7e3a d with the picture to Mr.
Joy was, that it was known to have been the Sbakspenre
belonging to the collection at the Globe, and that Zacebero
had painted it in one of the rooms of the tavern. The de-
scription, of course, fired the artist, who promised to wait
till Miss Joy's return to Boston, where elle would have the
painting photographed for his benefit. This was done, and
it is partly from this original portrait of the immortal Shak-
speare, and partly from his own conception of what the
original of that picture must have been a few years before
it was taken, that the bust just completed has been done.
It is a beautiful work, full of fire and gentleness, and, above
all, possesses the individuality which is wanting in all the
portraits of Shakspeare hithert9 seen.

her navy, (Loud applause.) Fortifications
have had their day, and ships ere now having
theirs, end though we may alter the material of
which those ships are made we never will alter the
" hearts of oak" with which they are manned.

(Loud applause.) The simple fact is, and I ask you
to endorce this opinion, that we are determined to
have the navy equipped and manned in every re-
spect sufficient to cope with any Power whose mis-
fortune it may be to be our enemy—(a laugh, and
Hear, hear), or any combination of Powers. I
can safely, simply, and truthfully assure the gallant
admiral and the officers who are our honoured guests
this evening, that the feeling which we have exhi-
bited towards them to-night is not merely the feel-
ing of the moment, and that when they leave our
port the feeling will not vanish. (Hear, hear.)
Those eflicers who came here a few days ago as
strangers will leave us as friends. (Cheers.) When
in other climes, or in other countries—wherever
duty may call them to serve—the record of their
doings will often bring back with it many agreeable
and pleasant recollections of the visit of the Channel
Fleet to Liverpool ; and we should, in fact, realise
the idea of the bard when he wrote

You may break,;ouinayruin the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will cling round it still.
(Applause.) And now, ladies, for I take the liberty
on this occasion to address you, for I know full well
your feelings for the " blue jackets" are as keen and
as sensitive as ours, and I will ask you to rise on
this single occasion and join with us in doing hon-
our to Admiral Dacrei and the officers of the Chan-
nel Fleet, (The whole compuy unanimously rose
to respond to the toast ; the gentlemen cheered, the
ladies waved their handkerchiefs, and the scene was
one of the greatest enthusiasm.)
Admiral I)9eitrs, who was received with con-
tinued appb;usa, replica as follows—You aro per-
fectly aware, es well as I am, that 3 harp been
going a tour of the British Isles, through what 1
think a very far-sighted policy of theßritist Govern-
ment. Wherever we have been wo have been re-
ceived with the greatest enthusiasm, and this has
very often set me thinking, and raised in my
mind a feeling of pride--pride that I belongeel
to a country where so much patriotism exists.
When we sailors are at sea we feel, and the best
of our men feel, inflaenced by kindness like

you and I have witnessed, for seeing is believing,
and I am sure that sight will have impressed
upon every mind two great facts which have been
very strongly impressed upon mine ; one, that for
the money which we have expended pretty largely
of late years we have value received; the other,
that in this navel architecture we are literally feel-
ing our way. (Hear.) I can speak of course upon
this subject only on second hand, but if I may ex-
press what seems to he a very general opinion
among those best competent to judge, it is more
than doubtful whether we have as yet got that gun
which is to be the gun of the future, and it is per-

haps open to doubt, splendid as aro those ships
which now lie in our waters, whether we have got
the exact mould of a ship which is to be the man-of-
I think it is our duty, as
war for the future. Now,
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members of the House of Commons, to bear iu mind

specially the tentative and experimental character
of what we are now doing. It is our duty to
grudge no outlay which is necessary for purposes
of dlicicnt defence, and that is a duty from which
assuredly we shall not shrink. It is our duty above
all to shrink from no outlay which may be neces-

nary for the purpose of experiment, but it is not

he less our duty at the same time to avoid that

Fault into which we have often fallen before, and

into which, while men remain what they are, it is

always posBible we may fall again. I mean the

7ault of being satisfied with what we have accom-

plished, of resting upon our oars, and of assuming

hat what we consider as the ptrieet model of the

day will be au equally perfect model teu years

hence. hear.) Pardon me, gentlemeu, fur

referring very momentarily to auch a bubjeet; and,

as brevity is the order of the day, permit me at

once and without further preface to return you my

:linnt on bthalf of the House of Commons.

(Applause.)
" The Mayer and Corporation of Liverpool" was
proposed by Admiral DACRES the following
terms :—lt was quite unneeessay for him to speak

of the magnificent hospitality which they had re-
ceived at the hands of his worthy friend, the Mayor
of that town. (Applause.) In Liverpool, where
every thing was carried out in the most princely

style, his Virership had excelled in his display of
hospitality ; the toll and dinPtr that he gave the

The Pioneer, 6, screw gunvessel, Commander
Robinson (acting), was paid out of commission yes-
terday afternoon alongside Portsmouth dockyard.
Of the squadron of screw gunboats and mortar
vessels attached to the three divisions of the Chat-
ham steam reserve in the Medway, nearly the
whole, constructed for the Government during the
excitement of the Russian war, chiefly by private
builders, those which upon survey have been found
unfit to be retained in the service are to be for-
warded from Chatham to Deptford dockyard to bo
broken up. Provided it be practicable the engines
and machinery of the condemned gunboats are to be
taken out before their remoN al to Deptford. A his-
tory of these gunboats and the vast sums lavished
on their construction would contain some singular
disclosures. Scarcely one of the gunboats now be-
longing to the navy has been huilt more than nine
years, and yet of the 190 which figure in the Ara vy
List fully one-half would, upon survey, prove to be
unfitted for active naval operations. With regard to
the fleet of mortar vessels lying at Chatham no orders
have yet been received, but directions have been
given to the dockyard officials to adapt them for
dockyard lighters and transports, as they may be
required. For this service their size and great
strength render them well adapted. There is still a
fleet of iron mortar vessels of large size lying high
and dry at Chatham dockyard. These are all housed
over, and each boat is carefully covered with a thick
coating of red lead. Notwithstanding the care taken
to protect them, it is believed that several of these
would upon examination be found unfit for the ser-
vice for which they were originally intended.
While the Medusa, 4, 312-horse power, paddle-
wheel steamer, was being removed from Chatham
harbour into No. 3 dock at Sheerness, a day or two
since, an accident occurred t 3 the vessel, resulting in
rather considerable damage to the hull and machi-
nery. The ship was shored up before she had pro-
perly settled down on the blocks, so that on the
water being pumped out she came down with a sud-
den crash on to the blocks. A survey was yester-
day made to ascertain the extent of the damage
done, which is estimated at from £5OO to 1;1,000.
The screw gun-vessels Alacrity, 4, 200-horse
power, and the Rcynard, 4, 200-horse power, both
just paid off into the Chatham steam reserve, are to
have the defects to their engines and boilers made
good, but previous to their being taken in hand
both vessels are to be surveyed by the dockyard
officials in order to ascertain the state of their hulls.