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 the Seaman's Church by Admiral 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. Bo WLES, 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 alterations of the
present 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' ensicn which the principles of free trade have
received of late years, our commercial intercourse with other
nations, carried on on every ocean, 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 partof our population, and for the markets to which
the produce of our manufactures are destined to go. If
then nothing but commercial interests were concerned it
would be needless to point out how greatly the strength
and prosperity of the country derend 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 cu 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, K.G."
The singing of the National Anthem concluded the pro-
ceedings.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK AUGUST MEETING•

- - - - -
Weights for the Great Ebor Handicap of 100 soya, added
to a Sweepstakes of 25 soya each; 10 ft, and only 5 if de
dared. Two miles. 73 subs

Yrs st lb
Asteroid 5 9 8
Carbineer
Caller Ou
Fairwater
Millionaire
Zetland
Joey Jones „, 5 8 2
Carisbrook 4 8 0
*Buckenham
Investment
Bellman 5 7 10
Cowley
Costa
Oldminster
Turn-of-Luck
Bedouin 4 7 8
Canary
Myrtle
Brighton
Welcome
Captain Crow
Lacydes 4 7 0
Makeshift .
Watchman
Earl of Surrey
Citadel
Monk 6 6 13
Magnum Bonum 4 6 13
Anfield
My Mary
Evenband 5 6 10
Piccador
•Catch'em Alive
Revolt .
Bonny Breast Knot 4 6 5

Yrs at lb
Scamander .. 3 6 3
M. Philippe. a 6 2
Fantail 3 6 2
Barchettina 3 6 0
Eleanor 3 6 0
Golden Pledge . • 4 6 0
Port Royal •••• 6 0
Clarior 3 6 0
M ainstay 3 6 0
Plover 3 5 12
*Marroion . 3 5 12
.oakapple
Melrose
Double
Chaff ••••"3 5 10
Trust
Michael Scott
Newchurch 3 5 10
Merry Maid •
Trojanus
*Liston gelding 3 5 7
IBrian Bora
Ashmore
Lady Maria • •
Luna
Haddington • •
Cape Flyaway •
Rt.tcatcher
Adventurer 4 paid
Truant
Pilot ..........•• 4 paid
King Charming .. 3 paid
Ondine .......... 3 paid
Gardener ......•• 5 paid
Doefoot ........ 5 paid
Rawksley are subscribers, but

Lord Strathmore and Mr.
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.

Murder of a Traveller in Switzerland,

BERNE, July 31.

A murder took place here last week which for-
tunately is to be reckoned among the rarities in our
peaceful Swiss valleys. The occurrence of such an
outrage, however, has filled men's minds with in-
dignation and horror.
A traveller from Hanover, llermann Quensell,
councillor of the tribunal at Hildesheim, lett Zinal,
in the Valley of Anniviers, on the morning of the
23d. He was accompanied by the guide, Baptiste
Petre, and intended to cross the Col de Torrent to
Evolena. After they had passed the Col, about
noon, Petre drew the attention of the traveller to a
heap of stones, thrown up in the form of a breast-
work by the wayside, which had not occupied that
position a few days before. Some steps further on
lay a powder-horn and some bullets. The guide
but the traveller treated
expressed apprehension,
his fears with derision. At this moment a shot was
fired from behind the stone-heap. The bullet struck
the councillor in the arm and grazed Petre's breast,
another bullet immediately after shattering the
latter's arm. The traveller ran down the mountain
to Evolena us fast as his wound would permit, fol-
lowed, says the guide, by two or three more shots.
One of the robbers then came up to the guide and
took from him the traveller's knapsack, behaving,
however, with some humanity to himself and doing
him no further injury. The body of the unfortunate
councillor was found the next morning pierced by
three bullets and robbed of all valuables.

A general hunt after the robbers took place, re-
sulting in the capture of four out of the six who,
according to the guide, were concerned in the
attack. The prisoners are natives of this canton.
Five of the robbers belong to the same family, one
of them having already served years in a convict
chain gang, and subsequently taken to the moun-
tains as a poacher. Tne arrest- of the other two
malefactors is expected shortly.

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 Nep tut, We believe the first intima-
tion of his presence in this part of India arose
from some information supplied to Capt. Nuttell, 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 io 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 Europeans,
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
neighbouring durbars. It is said the prisoner has
no want of funds, having several lass 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 tae 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 try power, and
had the satisfaction of capturing the persons indicat-d 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
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 surpriso 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 remainipg
difficulties. Lut 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 conaplelely
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 Gay wood, 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 Si!
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, H. WADDINGTON.

The Directors of Aston Park, Birmingham.
Birmingham, August 1, 1863.

Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
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 subjeot 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 Paik, 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 to the Company.
H. Waddington, Esq•, Whitehall, London.

AMUSING ENCOUNTER WITH A Fox.—A young
girl, about fifteen years of age, named Janet Crui.
shank, at present herd to Mr. Gibb, farmer, Aitnock,
killie, was out one day last week in the hill, looki after
some sheep, and followed by a little black dog. I t appearsan
the ground was infested with foxes, and thebdtowgehenrie:.
raised one of the number, gave chase,
nerd and his den. The latter finding himself
behind a large
admittance to his own house, sought shelter
fining round it.
stone and hilted the dog by constantly
aiomed,
although
He appeared, however, sot to be
' wales% this enemy to her
go
thus refused
so hotly pursued, and Janet fearintgo a
small height whence
d with such force that
flock might escape,
she threw a stone so We
11 directediteynard, however, was not
the fox was knocked dowif•
but
pi' this time he was made
contrived togaant _
long in getting up ago.'3' .- wen worthy of his steel, and
aware that be had naet with. toevert
showed Janet a case of
advancing from behil.id
.hr con c,r, se` gm which she ex-
,t Fsigsi my lad, ye need
claimed in her own broad
• ye laucha'n, may be." She fulfilled
I'll.
na 'ouch at me ;
teeth anything but inviting,
gie
a tremendous battery of stales and
opening
her promise by InSgc'otcft
with such deadly effect that the wily old lox had eventually
ally
to succumb. Janet now advanced, crook in hand, and with
or two laid reynard prostrate. Exulting at her vie.
a wtobryl Janet proudly threw the fox over her shoulder and
commenced her march home, but finding her burden tun
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 fot having displayed
so much genuine Highland plunk,—inverness Courier.

ECOND EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

BRIGHTON RACES-MIS DAY.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
BRISTOL PLATE.

Deerfoot
Neophyte
2
Fanatic
3
Ten ran,
Deerfoot was objected to, but the objection was overruled.