The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-09 00:00:00

NORTHUMREELAND PLATE.

6to 1 agst Marigold (taken and offered)
7to 1 agst Adventurer (taken)
Bto 1 agst Pilot (taken)
ST. LEGIEH.
9to 2 agst The Ranger (taken)
7to 1 agst Lord Clifden (taken freely)
10 to 1 agst Saccharometer (taken)
10 to 1 agst Queen Bertha (taken)
12 to 1 agst Avenger (taken)
16 to 1 agst Onesander (taken)
THE DERBY, 1864.
20 to 1 agst Ackworth (taken freely)

BEAU BRUMMELL'S VALET AND " OUR FAILURES."
—The story, says the Saturday Review, belongs to the time
when the taste of our fathers, under the Regent, clothed
the fashionable human neck with a majestic well-starched
gorget of white linen several inches high, upon which the
chits of the dandy solemnly reposed between two lofty side-
wings of shirt-collar. The labour of dressing for dinner
culminated in the proper arrangement of this architectural
column of cambric. It was a work of time, and at once a
delicate mental and mechanical operation, to make the cravat
yield to exactly the right hairbreadth, and take and keep the
exact classical folds which would show off to best advantage
the superincumbent visage. Any undue limpness of the
material, any impatience or indecision in the manipulation,
was sure to bring the whole concern to an unsuccmtul end.
The insufficient tie had to be thrown by, and the process of
coaxing, moulding, and tying a fresh one into shape was
begun again and again, till the fastidious wearer was satis-
fied with the complete effect. No wonder that Beaußrum-
mell's valet felt the responsibility of the situation. No
wonder if he answered the inquiring looks of an astonished
friend who met him, after his master had gone out in full
dress, tripping downstairs with a whole sheaf of rumpled
but clean neckties over his arm, with the quiet and digni-
fied explanation, "These are our failures."
A poor clergyman, grumbling to Dr. Blomfield,
that he never had got a a single thing he asked for, " And
I," said the Bishop, " never asked for anything I got."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, June 3.—The Vice-Admiral Comman-
der-in-Chief R. Smart, K.H., left this morning,
carrying his flag on board the Marlborough, 131,
Capt. C. Fellowes, The Trafalgar, 70, Capt. T.
Mason, left port shortly afterwards. These vessels
are, it is said, bound on a cruise to Corfu, and are
expected to be back in about a fortnight. The
Meeanee, 80, Capt. G. Wodehouse, is still in port.
The Revenge, 73 (flagship of Rear-Admiral H. R.
Yelverton, C. 8.), will probably leave for Corfu on
the return of the Commander-in• Chief. Vice-Ad-
miral Sir Wm. Fanshawe Martin, K.C.8., who left
Malta the week before last, in her Majesty's ship
Magicienne, 16, Captain W. Armytage, for
Merseihes, by way of Sicily and Italy, has been
seriously ill of a fever contreeed at Naples. He
was too unwell to leave the ship,which accounts for
Rear-Admiral Yelverton arriving here by the packet
instead of by the Magicienne, as expected. A tele-
gram has since been received reporting the state of
Admiral Martin's health as much improved. The
Government contract steamer line, Capt. Farmer,
leaves this afternoon for London, with the follow-
ing military passengers :—Capt. Hewitt, 2d batta-
lion 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Mrs. and Miss
Hewitt; Mrs. Montagu, wife of Colonel Montagu,
Royal Engineers, 1 child, and servant ; Lieut. Wil-
son, 2d battalion, 15th Regiment, Lieut. Dawson,
ditto, Aesist.-Surg. Hinton, ditto; Mr. Ward, Pur-
veryor's department, and son ; 1 sergeant, 32 men,
4 women, and 10 children, of various regiments ;
and two other contract passengers. A Government
survey was held on board this vessel yesterday,
when the surveyors reported most favourably on
the accommodation provided. Capt. W. Brett,
private and military secretary to his Excellency the
Governor, leaves this evening by the Peninsular
and Oriental Company's packet Massilia for Eng-
land, via Marseilles. It, is reported that his depar-
ture is connected with the proposed naval dock to
be constructed at Malta, about which papers have
been asked for in Parliament, and explanations re
quired. Capt. Sir William Fairfax, aide-de.catno
to the Governor, quitted this island on the lstinst.
by the Vectis, on leave.
A letter received by our Chatham correspondent
from on board the iron-clad frigate Royal Oak, de
scribes the performance of that vessel in the run
from Chatham to Spit head as being in the highest
degree satisfactory. After leaving the Nor° all the
fires were lighted and the vessel was put at full
speed, when, notwithstanding a strong head wind
(force 5 to 7) and a heavy rolling sea, the iron-clad
attained a speed of 11 knots an hour, and that too
against a strong breeze. The Royal Oak's ateerieg
qualities are described as excellent. Although the
sea broke completely over her bows in the run
down channel, she exhibited scarcely any pitching
or rolling. The ventilation of the ship gives the
most complete satisfaction, the engine-room, toge-
ther with the aft and forward stoke-holes, having
remained very cool.

In order to meet the requirements at Chatham
dockyard for the construction of those iron vessels
in progress, as well as those intended to be built at
that establishment, directions have been received
from the Admiralty for two additional planing ma-
chines to be erected at the dockyard by Messrs.
Brown and Co., to be used in preparing the slabs of
iron for encasing the exterior of the iron vessels.
The same firm has also received orders from the Ad-
miralty to construct a pair of overhead travellers
for lifting the armour-plates and other heavy por-
tions of the iron ships, the cost of the additional
machinery being close upon £5,000.
A notification has been received at Chatham
Dockyard that an examination of candidates for the
vacant appointment of master smith will be held at
Sheerness Dockyard on Thursday next.
The following appointments were made yes-
terday at the Ad miralty
Commander S. P. Brett to be Inspecting Commander of
the Coastguard, vice Commander C. J. Austen, superseded
at his owr, request.

Captain W. J. S. Pullen, additional to the Terror, f r
surveying service.

Captain Hon. G. D. Kean, additional to the Cumberland,
for service at the naval barracks at Sheerness.

Captain E. W. Tumour, to the Charybdis, vice Keane.
Edmund A. Rowe, paymaster, additional, to the Presi-
dent.

Sub-Lieutenant Pearson C. Johnstone, to the Edgar.
H. S. Deg, assistant-engineer, to the Cumberland, as
supernumerary,

T. C. Ford, to the Indus, for Hospital.

An ancient urn, containing 25U Roman coins,
was recently found by a labourer at Farringford,
in the Isle of Wight, the seat of Alfred Tennyson. The
coins were of brass, some of them silvered over, and mostly
of the time of Gallineup. Will this (asks the Reader)
" find".on the poet laureate's estate supply any hints for a
description of Roman Britain in his " Boadicea" or in any

other poem ?
ORIGIN OF SOME OF OUR OLD SIGNS.--The
Plum and Feathers (originally the Plume of Feathers, or
the Prince of Wales), the Cat and Wheel (St. Catherine's
Wheel), the Bull and Gate (the Boulogne Gate), the Iron
Devil (La Hirondelle), the Billy Ruffian (Bellerophon), the
Rose of the Quarter Sessions (Rose de quatre seasons),
Wnile at Chesterford, it was the permanent
annoyance of the late Dr. Blomfield every Easter-
day that a stream of carriages was passing through the vil-
lage, giving it the appearance, and too much of the reality,
of a noisy fair, while conveying the racing men of the day
to Newmarket. It was only slowly that the Jockey Club
was induced to alter the first day of the meeting to Easter
Tuesday. The Duke of York, when applied to on the sub-
ject by Bishop Howley, declined to alter his practice, but
added that," Though it WAS true he travelled to the races
on Sunday, he always had a Bible and Prayer-book in the
carriage 1"
ROYALTY IN THE RAIN.—I didn't want my boots
cleaned. I was long past any such attempt at de-
cency. O'Hone was equally reckless; and so, splashed to our
eyes, we male our way to the course. Just as wo reached
the Grand Stand, a rather shabby carriage dashed up to the
door, and a howl of damp welcome announced that Youthful
Royalty had arrived. Youthful Royalty, presently emerg-
ing in a Mackintosh coat, with a cigar in its mouth, proved
so attractive that any progress in its immediate vicinity was
impossible ; so O'Hone and I remained tightly jammed up
in a crowd, the component parts of which were lower,
worse, and wickeder than I have ever seen. Prize-
fighters, not the aristocracy of the ring; not those gentry
who are "to be heard of," or whose money is ready ; not
those who are always expressing in print their irrepressible
desire to do battle with Konky's Novice at catch-weight, or
have an " Unknown" perpetually walking about in great
coat, previous to smashing the champion—not these, but
elderly flabby men with flattened noses and flaccid skins and
the seediest o f great- coats buttoned over the dirtiest of Jerseys
—racing touts, thin, wiry, sharp-faced little men with eyes
strained and bleary from constant secret watching of racers'
gallops—dirt, battered tramps, sellers of cigar-lights and
c'rect cards—pickpockets, shifty and distrustful, with
no hope of a harvest from their surroundings—and
" Welshers," who are the parody on Tattersall's and the
Ring, who are to the Jockey Club and the Enclosure what
monkeys are to men—poor pitiful varlets in greasy caps
and tattered coats, whose whole wardrobe would be sneered

at in Holywell-street or Rag Fair, and who yet are perpe•
tually bellowing, in hoarse ragged tones, " I'll bet against
the field I" "I'll bet against Li-bellous I" "I'll bet against
the Merry Maid I" " I'll bet against any one, bar one I"
Nobody seemed to take their bets, nobody took the slightest
notice of their offers, and yet they bellowed away until the
race was run, in every variety of accent—in Cockney slang,
in Yorkshire harshness, in Irish brogue. These were the
only members of the crowd thoroughly intent on their busi-
ness; for all the rest youthful Royalty had an immense
attraction.—Dickens's "All the Year Bound."
DEPLORABLE DEATH.—Yesterday morning Mr.
H. Rafflcs Walthew, deputy coroner, held an inquiry
at the Duke of York Tavern, High-street, Shadwell, respect-
ing the death of George Crudgenton, aged 68 years. De-
ceased was a coalwhipper, and had been for some time out
of employ, and had become debilitated, from consequent
hardships, He got employment on Thursday, on board
the Bro, hers, lying in the Pool. He fainted after a few
hours' labour, and was placed by his "gang-mates" on the
kelson, while they considerately went on with his shareb ot
the work. When he recovered, he said,
hangm dtonedo;
mu
I will not see my mates imposed upon by lixotons
oyf
work," and he actually set to work and raiseds
coal. He then said, "It is all over with me, and he fell
apparently dead- Dr. Ross said that ewa sent for and
thhisat
id,aeincetwasged was dead. If he had not gones to work after
as described his life might not have been
sacrificed. The immediate cause of death was effusion of
blood to the brain from the severe labour and the heat
acting on his delicate state. Verdict accordingly.
GENERAL BUTLER.—There are reports in New
York that General Butler is to supersede General Burnside,
and that he will be entrusted with the enforcement of the
draft and the organisation of the negro regiments in the
States west of the Alleghanies. This last will be no trifling
r task, if Mr. Stanton's expectations are realised, for he
asserts that before many weeks are
passed there will be
200,000 negro troops in the service.

FIRE AT THE HOUSES OF PARMA-

MENT.

Yesterday afternoon about three o'clock the utmost
consternation and alarm were experiel:f.'4.ld by the mem-
bers of • the select committees of the Houses of
Lords and Commons sitting to consider various private
and other bills, as well as the witnesses attending them, at
the announcement that a fire had broken out in the build •
ing and was then burning. As may naturally be
supposed, a general panic ensued, and numerous
members left their other duties to ascertain the
truth of this announcement, of which they were soon
able to satisfy themselves from the strong smell of charred
wood which prevailed throughout the corridor of the
building. It turned out on inquiry that a
waiter belonging to the refreshment department
of the House of Commons, on passing from the
library to the members' tea-room, observed smoke issuing
very near to the latter from the wooden roof, and imme-
diately afterwaris the flames burst through with
great fury. He immediately communicated this
to police-constable Home, 12 C, who gave an
alarm, and obtained the assistance of the police
on duty in the other parts of the building, and
he immediately set to work, applied the hose, and turned
on the water with which the mains are constantly charged,
and applied it with such effect that the flames were soon
subdued, and no further mischief was apprehended.
The corridor leading from the House of Commons to the
Lords' committee rooms were flooded with water, and but
for such prompt means of action there can be little
doubt that the whole of the corridor, as well as
thr,se above, would soon have fallen a prey to the
flames. When the flames were extinguished, Mr.
Kelly, the acting man under Mr. G. Gurney, to whom the
ventilation of the Houses of Parliament are entrusted, made
an examination of the seat of the outbreak, when it was
found that a brick flue from the kitchen passes over the wood
roof of the corridor, and that by some means a brick had
become displaced, and by the opening and draught the heat
had communicated to the woodwork near it, and having
no doubt been for some time subjected to it, had thus taken
fire. It was deemed prudent to make a strict examina-
tion to ascertain if the fire had extended to any other
portion of the space between the wooden roof and base
alluded to, and the flooring of the corridorabove it, and seve-
ral of the officers connected with the gas department were
sent down the trapdoors to see if there were any other parts
on fire, but, after a diligent search, it was reported Gila it
had been confined to the place where it originated, and no
further danger was to be apprehended.

CRIME IN FRANCE.

A murder was committed two days ago at Perignac
(Charente-Inter ieure) by three individuals, a man, his wife,
and their son, on the person of an old woman residing in
that place. The deceased was known to be possession of
1,500 fr., and it was to obtain that sum that they strangled
her. They were however disappointed in their expecta-
tions of obtaining the money, as they only found 50fr., the
remainder being hidden in the garret. The three were
arrested, and the father has since henged himself.
The Imperial Court at Angers has just given judgment
on an appeal from a sentence of the correctional tribunal
of Le Mans, of the 24th April last, by which a young
man named Gaston D—, the son of most respectable
parents, was condemned to a year's imprisonment and
60fr. fine, for cheating at cards. It appeared from the
evidence that the prisoner, who possesses an
income of 5,000 fr. a year, has for some time past been much
addicted to gambling, and has lost and won important sums
at Homburg and other German watering places. He was
also a member of the Cercle de I'Union at Le Mans, and
was there noted as a bold and generally successful player.
In the winter of 1861, however, some members of the club
began to suspect that his winning was not always the
result of mere chance, and several persons who watched him
soon discovered that he had a peculiar manner of arranging
the cards when he held the bank at baccarat, so that he
always had the winning cards at his disposal when he
wanted them, but owing to the respectability of his friends
no one liked to expose him. Emboldened by his past suc-
cesses, he resumed his old practices this last winter, and
won considerably during February and March. On
the sth of the last-named month, when playing
with Count de C—, a cavalry officer, and six other
persons, he was caught in the act of placing cards at the
top of the pack which he had previously arranged to make
his winning certain. Count de C—, who had lost 4,000 f.,
denounced his proceedings to the president of the cercle, and
after a careful investigation of the charges against him, he
was requested to send in his resignation as a member. He
did so, but at the same time sent challenges to Count de
C— and the other six gentlemen with whom he had played
on the sth March, They all retused to meet a person who
had ;teen guilty of such dishonourable conduct, and the
whole matter having come to the knowledge of the law
authorities, proceedings were commenced against him, which
ended in the condemnation above mentioned. Against this
sentence be now appealed, but the Court, after going
through the evidence and hearing counsel, declared that it
mtitt be confirmed, and condemned him to pay all expenses.
The Court of Assizes of the Seine tried, the day before
yesterday, an hotel-keeper named Rouffignat, on a charge
of having stolen a bond worth 500 f. from the trunk of a
person lodging in his house ; he was also charged with for-
gery in having signed a false name when he sold the said
bond. In December last, Mlle. Jozeau and her sister, Mme.
Charpentier, came to Paris from Ruffec, and took up their
abode in the hotel kept by the prisoner in the Rue du Vert-
Bois. They had with them a large trunk, close by two
locks, in which was a pocket-book containing several
railway obligati, us. When they lett Paris on the
18th of December, Mlle. Jozeau observed that the
keys did not turn in the locks so easily as usual, but
she had no suspicion that any one had been tam-
pering with them, and returned home without
mentioning the fact to the landlord. In January,
however, when the interest on her bonds fell due, she
found that one of them, No. 877,734, had been abstracted
from the pocket-book. She then remembered the state of
the locks on leaving Paris, and felt no doubt they had been
picked or opened with false keys. She accordingly wrote
to Rouffignat, informing him of the robbery, but receiving
no reply she requested the railway administration to stop
the obligation if it should be presented. ohortlyafterwards
a person applied to claim the interest, and the bond was
stopped. During the inquiry which followed it was disco-
vered that the prisoner, under the •false name of Roger, had
sold it through the medium of an agent de change. He was
accordingly arrested, and, after denying all knowledge of the
bond, confessed that he found it on the floor of the room after
Jozeau's departure, and had sold it "in a moment
of irreflection." The prosecutrix, however, positively de-
clared that she had never opened the pocketbook in the
hotel, and therefore could not have dropped the bond. The
signature to the receipt given op the agent de change was
clearly proved to be in the handwriting of the prisoner, and
this, in addition to his own partial confession, fully satis-
fied the jury, who at once brought in a verdict of guilty,
and the court sentenced him to two years' imprisonment
with 100 fr. fine. _

The Tribunal of Correctional Police was engaged three
days last week in trying M. Montluc, Mexican Consul-
General in Paris; M. Rodriguez, a Mexican Professor of
languages; M. Bone, professor; M. Laverriere, professor
of agriculture ; and M. Maneyro, Mexican Consul at
Havre, on charges of keeping up secret intelligence with
persons abroad for the purpose of exciting hatred against
the Emperor Napoleon's Government. In answer to ques-
tions put by the President, M. Montluc declared that all he
had said or written war intended solely to make known in
France the real state of affairs in Mexico, and to allay the
ill-feeling which existed between the two States. Boue
and Laverriere acknowledge that they had been paid
for their writings in favour of Mexico, but pro-
tested against the charge of having acted from hos-
tility to France. M. Maneyro said that what lr
had published in the indepondance Beige was
compliance with the orders he had received from e
Go-
vernment, and that he had merely done his dontay.ini
bothpearsi:
private individual and as consul. The
tAhv t
ravity. After
demanded a conviction, but admitted that
Boue and Laverriere were notoef T
much
ge fade against
ribunal declared that
hearing counsel for the defence,
defendants
of having acted in
the charge against the
dsentotdth ujustifiedinstructions
by the evidence,
concert against
tagmai.nst France.
wa
ganeYr°' in
Pat.icions received from his Govern-
ment. It therefore acquitted them all, and ordered that
papers seized be returned. t
the

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

Australia and Mauritius, via Southampton. June 18
via Marseillees ... June 12
A3razil and Cape Verds, by British packet . July 5.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena.. June 29.
China, Penang;, and Singapore, via Southampton. June 18.
via Marseilles ...June 12
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton June 10.
India (Caleatte.), and Ceylon, via Southampton J une 18
via Marseilles June 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton June 10
via Murseiiles June 10.
P ortugal .... June 29.
Malta, Egypt., and Aden, via Southampton June 10.
via Marseilles June 12.
Newfoundland
Oporto and Vigo
U. S. and British N. America, by Brit. packet.... June 10.
by U.S. packet....
by Canadian packet. June
1102.
W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Teneritfe
Bahamas, via New York July 2.
...June 29.
MAllepftso
fWaned.stln ridtiieshs, igoclluumdibni..
gaChili, Peru,. I June 13,
California.mi