The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228,

CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of
the BIRTH of SHAKSPRA.RE, at Stratford-upon-
Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert
N. C. Hamilton, Bart-, K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv-
ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the
account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Sturbridge
and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks,
Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and
Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs.
Smith, Payne, and Co , Messrs. Hanburys and Co., or Messrs.
Glyn and Co., bankers, London,
The Tercentenary Committee in submitting the subscrip-
tion list to nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers
of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee
rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only
the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to
all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his
home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died.

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

(Inoorporated by il-oi;1-Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PnEsIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CITAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., 11LP.R. DEPUTT-CrIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman,., EFs., FS., V.P.
APPEAL. q .R.S., V.P.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
the beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England. Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-cart iages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom.
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully
tributions:— acknowledge the following con-
Fier Majesty the Queen .. annual 50 o. 0
Campbell, the -

the
Cler Hon. Mrs. G. .. annual 5 0 0
k, Colo nel R.A. .. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co., , Messrs., Bankers .••
.. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq.,
.. • . .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justice . . don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sportinfr, Carriage . 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs.
.. don. 3 0 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart.
.. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B.
.. • .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich 3 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship • • _ 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .

• • . annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
ceived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand ; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by a'l the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the Unitedlilngdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills.—
Distempers of the Skin.—The readiness with which Hollo-
ware unguent removes all obstructions in the circulation of
the vessels, and lymphatics explains their irresistible in-
fluence in healing old sores, bad wounds, and indolent
ulcers.
diately weii
To ensure the desired 'effect the skin surrounding
the diseased parts should be fomented, dried, and ireme-
PluitY to the foul blood, and strength to the weakened
rubbed with the ointment. This will give
nerves _the only conditions necessary for the cure of all
those ulcerations Which render life almost intolerable. Ne
sooner is the ointment's protective power exerted, than the
destructive process
begins. New ceases, and the constructive business
painful excavated pitT health
growths appear to fill up the lately
-

The Admiralty have directed temporary roofs to
be erected over the stacks of timber deposited at
Chatham dockyard, in order to preserve them from
the effects of the weather until required for use in
wooden shipbuilding. This latter contingency,
however, appears to be exceedingly remote, as the
whole of the bands are at present employed, and
will be employed for some years to come, in the con-
struction of those iron and iron-cased vessels which
are already ordered to be built at Chatham.
Mr. 0. Lang, the master-shipbuilder at Chatham
dockyard, has within the last few days sent in a
formal application to the Admiralty, requesting to
be relieved of his appointment, and for permission
to retire from the service. Mr. Lang is one of the
most eminent shipbuilders in her Majesty's service,
and during his comparatively brief career as master
shipbuilder has designed and superintended the
construction of nearly all the finest and best of our
modern vessels of war. He was the constructor of
the Royal Oak, the pioneer of the squadron of iron-
clads which has turned out so complete a success. His
step has created considerable surprise, not unmixed
with regret. We have reason to believe, however,
that Mr. Lang is firm in his intention to retire from
the service, which, in consequence of some recent
important appointments at the Admiralty, has be-
come distasteful to him. It was yesterday an-
nounced at the dockyard that a reply had been
received from the Admiralty accepting Mr. Lang's
resignation, but requesting him not to quit the ser-
vice until the completion of the iron frigate Achilles,
the construction of which he has superintended up
till now. It is probable that Mr. Lang's retirement
will be followed by that of others at some of the
dockyards.

THE ARMY.
Oa Tuesday afternoon there was another removal
of troops from the camp at Aldershott, which has
been rendered necessary in consequence of the great
scarcity of water which has this summer been ex-
perienced there. One hundred and eighty-nine
non-commissioned officers and men of the D brigade
of Artillery, with 92 horses, left for Shorncliffe
Camp until the winter quarter, when the supply of
water is usually greater than in the summer months,
and when they will return to their old quarters. A
movement is to be at once set on foot to procure an
adequate supply, either by an arrangement with the
water company of the town of Aldershott or by the
sinking of new artesian wells within the precincts
of the Camp.
Still further removals of troops are
daily expected.
The number of troops at Alder-
shott was never so small since it has been a camp as
it is at present.

Col. T. G. Greene, director of engineering and
earchitectural
twh
eo r
victualling
t ua and
nMr.g
department,Charles Richards,arrived
Tuesday evening at Moorshead's Royal Hotel,
Devonport. The Duke of Somerset,K.G, First Lord,
and the other Lords of the Admiralty, in the paddle-
wheel steam yacht Enchantress, 1, Master John E.
Potley, were expected to arrive at Devonport yes-
terday evening, and to commence their annual
inspection to-day. Their lordships dine on Friday
at Mount Wise with Port Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart, K.C.B, the Commander-in-Chief, and in
the evening patronise a ball in favour of the
Royal British Female Orphan Asylum, which will
be held in the new mess-room of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry at Stonehouse. On
Saturday, at 11 a.m., the Duke of Somerset will
hold a levee for the reception of s') officers in the
office of the Admiral Superintendent Thos. M. C.
Symonds, C. 8., at the dockyard, Devonport.
Detachments of the 18th Hussars are expected to
arrive at Norwich, Ipswich, and Northampton bar-
racks to-day or to-morrow. The headquarters of
the regiment will be at Norwich. Some of the 112 en
have already arrived. The regiment succeeds the
sth Lancers at Norwich, Ipswich, and Northampton.
The Royal Stuart, hired transport, disembarked

NEW YORK, July 31.
The conscription is to be enforced in the city as
well as throughout the State of New York. In New
Jersey the Governor has made an attempt to render
it unnecessary by resorting to the old system of
voluntary enlistments and high bounties—but his
success is problematical. In New York the system
has been twice tried, the last time unsuccessfully,
and is even now in operation without perceptible
results. And as the Government has actually put the
whole machinery of the law into motion throughout
the New England States, it is compelled, by regard
for its own dignity, not to be, or seem to be, turned
from its purpo,se in the principal city of the Union
by the dictation of the mob. Consequently, it is ex-
pected, after a futile attempt on the part of the State
authorities to raise the quota required under the Act,
that the draught will be ordered to recommence.
The Republican prints loudly proclaim the fact, and
urge upon the Government the utmost rigour as
well as vigour in carrying out the law. Apprehen-
sive of disturbance, or, as many affirm, anxious to
provoke it, the Administration has sent either three
or four gunboats to the North and East rivers, so as,
in case of need, to command any of the lateral streets
of the city in which disturbances may break out;
and poured into the neighbourhood all the Federal
troops it can spare from other service. The emigrants
from the Old World, who in continually increasing
numbers arrive in the New, no sooner land at Castle
Garden than they see before them all the means,
appliances, and paraphernalia of war. The green-
sward of the Battery, where Castle Garden stands,
is covered with the white tents of the soldiery.
There are 12 pieces of artillery on the ground ; the
lean, scraggy steeds of a whole regiment of cavalry
are tethered to a rope, ready for immediate service;
and two regiments of infantry bivouac on the
square. Should Charleston ever be occupied by a
Federal force, it will scarcely present an appear-
apse more like that of a captured city than that
which the lower part of New York presents at this
moment. The sentinels pace to an fro, and allow
no one to penetrate their lines, turning the nursery
maids and children and the usual stream of pedes-
trians out of their precincts, with a brutal insolence
of speech and demeanour that bespeaks the rowdy
class from which they sprang—a " rowdyism" in-
tensified and aggravated by their war training,
and that does not promise, in case of collision be-
tween troops and people, any such fraternisation
of the military with the insurgents as the world has
so often seen in the street revolutions of Paris and
other European cities. The design of the Admi-
nistration to override local authority is glaring.
Disappointed in Gen. Wood, who was too honest,
and in General Harvey Brown, who was too indis-
creet to play into its hands, it will doubtless find
some strong and unscrupulous military tyrant who
will take advantage of the first symptoms of riot or
insurrection to declare the city under martial law.
The object is openly avowed by all the " shoddy"
contractors, negrophilists, war " Christians,"
doctrinaires, emancipationists, and zealots who
usually support the Government. The favourite
candidate for the office is General Butler. And as
it is highly probable, if he should accept it, that he
will irreparably ruin his present fair prospects for
the Presidency, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Stanton, and all
the other Presidential candidates in the Cabinet,
may not only see no objections to his appointment,
but may gladly give him the chance to serve their
purposes, and damage his own reputation by one
and the same process.
Persons whose houses, shops, and other property
were destroyed during the late riots have sent in
claims of compensation to the amount of 451,266 dols.,
equivalent, at the present depreciation of greenbacks
as compared with gold, to about £70,000 sterling.
But the list is far from complete. The negro claims
have not been investigated ; and the stage and om-
nibus companies whose traffic was stopped for four
days intend to demand compensation for the whole
amount of the earnings which they did not receive,
in Consequence, as they allege, of the failure of the
municipal authorities to keep the peace. The claim,
it appears, will be resisted for the reason that, it
allowed, the fashionable jewellers, haberdashers,
and other retail traders of Broadway, who were
compelled during the same interval to close their
establishments, might, with as good a plea of equity,
demand compensation for their lost custom. The
operations of the draught, when resumed, will have
to be carried on in booths or hustings in the open air,
it having been found impossible to hire premises for
the purpose in any part of the town; so fearful are
property-holders and occupants that new scenes of
incendiarism and pillage will be the result of any
attempt to make men soldiers against their will.
The conscription—enforced or unenforced—
threatens to be the test question of the war. If un-
enforced, Mr. Lincoln and his party will be defeated
in the field for want of soldiers, and in the Council
for want of that popular support without which no
Government can live, Government
least of all a
that expires like the Parliaments of England by the
operation of the law that brought it into being. If
enforced, the chances provoke civil
are that it will
strife in all the States where the Democratic party
is in the majority, and that it will be so extensively
evaded in the States where the Republicans are in
the ascendant as to become
virtually a nullity. In
New England, where it has
not been contested with
violence es in New York and the North-West, the
prudent a nd "canny" people seem to have discovered
that there are other and better means of aveiding
unpalatable military service than by taking up arms
in the streets, plundering
shops, burning down
orphan asylums, and hanging
inoffensive negroes.
Persuasion being better than force in their estima-
tion, they have resolved to persuade the medical
gentlemen of their villages, towns, and cities to tes-
tify to their physical incapacity to perform military
duty. According to a Connecticut journal, the
Hartford Times, the exemptions by surgeon's cer-
tificate of draughted men since the commencement
of the draught in New England amount to the
enormous proportion of 73 per cent. The amount
of fee given for this service is variously estimated.
If a man be very poor—and the surgeon also—a
glass of whisky is sufficient honorarium to offer and
accept. But as a general rule the price varies with
the worldly circumstances of the person
"who will
not be a soldier," and ranges from 1 to 20 dols. The
would-be exempt is stripped, and if the surgeon finds
a greenback between the man's toes, under his arm-
pit, behind his ear, between his teeth, or elsewhere,
the matter becomes as clear to his capacity as it was
previously to that of him who does not wish to risk
his life for his country, and the business is settled to
the mutual satisfaction of doctor and patient. But
the dishonesty does not answer its purpose, the
Government having resolved to treat all such cer-
tificates as of no avail, and to admit of no exemp-
tions but such as are signed by its own appointed
army surgeons. The figures prove, nevertheless,
how little real heart there is in the war, even in
New England. In one of the municipal districts of
the city of Boston, out of 1,135 conscripts submitted
to examination last week, 937 were exempted,
either on the ground of foreign citizenship, physi-
cal incapacity, or error in the enrolling lists, which
included boys under 18 and men over 45 years of
age. Another batch of 70 paid 300 dols. each as
the exemption fine ; 108 provided Substitutes ; and
ten, being too strong for exemption, and too poor to
pay for substitutes, were compelled to do duty, or
suffer the penalty decreed against desertion. Nor
do these numbers,appear to
unfavourable as they
the Government in its hour of need, convey the
whole extent of the evil. A regular business of
"substitution" has been organised throughout New