The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1865.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Bight, and " Begone, Dull Care,"
every evening at 8. A Day Performance, Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, is.

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original Indian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&c., in his orio•inal entertaiument, "Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," "Early in the Morniug. ' Balcony, 2s. ;
reserved seats, Ss. ; stalls, Ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, 23, Piccadilly.

A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

HT0 X FORD.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The oxford and Canterbury trail Company (limited).
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by.
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmealey, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Ma-
dame Maria, and Miss Fitzlienry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, and Green, with full Bandland Chorus.
.Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Bale+, Comedy, Burlesque, &n, by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TEiSY
and SARA GUANISS.

NO VICE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable places of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.
The Classical Ballet, entitled THE BRIDAL of PEAUTY,
in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will
make their re appearance THIS EVENING.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL,
KO KO RI KO.
This wonderful entertainment, having proved the greatest
hit ever made, will be repeated EVERY EVENING, in ad-
dition to the Operatic Sele3tions, supported by the whole
talent of the establishment,

Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.

Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.

NEW ADDITION'N.—In accordance N ith the season, the
Exhibition has been entirely re-embellished. The whole of
the ancient Court Dresses of the most costly description,
faithfully copied from the most minute pictures, have been
renewed. Modern Court Dresses of the most splendid de-
scription, selected from the first houses in Paris and London,
and prob.mbly never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Slxpenoe.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is No W OPEN for the Season.
Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Manager, MODEL GRENET.
The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock.

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IMRE, Hampstead. Offices, 77, CornhilL
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
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I
R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., m.r.
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
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the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and, educates them for domestic
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inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
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eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
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who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully receiv by the bankers, Messrs
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R. SWEETTNG, Hon. See.
CHARLES NASH. Sea

British Association for the Advancement

of Science.

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Binmmaum, Friday.
The members of the Association, before dispersing to their
homes in all parts of the kingdom, yesterday made a series
of excursions to Dudley and South Staffordshire, to exa-
mine the geological features of the district and inspect its
great manufacturing establishments. Nearly 1000 persons
in all took part in these trips, a large proportion of the
number being ladies. The whole of the excursionists,
headed by the President and Sir Roderick Murchison, left
Birmingham by the London and North-Western Railway
shortly before 9 a.m., and arrived at Dudley in about three
quarters of an hour. They were there received by Mr. F.
Smith, the Mayor, and other gentlemen, and immediately
escorted through the shady avenue that winds round the
base of the precipitous Castle-hill to the entrance of the
famous limestone caverns, which were specially illuminated
for the occasion by order of Lord Dudley, the proprietor
of the grounds. The way to this subterranean region lay
down a small flight of stone steps. On entering, the eye
of *the visitor met the word " Welcome," traced in luminous
characters with oil lamps. A band of music preceded the
party, and they had advanced but a few paces under ground
when a scene of singular grandeur burst upon their view.
A long vista of magnificent chambers and galleries, high-
arched and vaulted like a colossal crypt, was revealed to
their delighted gaze by the light of 10,000 candles and nu-
merous coloured lamps, the strange weird beauty of the
spectacle being enhanced by the reflection of the conti-
nuous rows of lights in the dark waters of a canal a mile
in length, which runs along the lower side of the caverns,
and used to afford the miner a convenient mode of trans-
porting the excavated material to the pit's mouth. This
Acherontic stream was fenced off for the protection of
the visitors, who, notwithstanding the innumerable
glowworm• like lights that twinkled along both sides
of the uneven and sometimes narrow path by which they
groped their way into the cavernous recesses, might easily
have missed their footing, and perhaps have needed the
friendly aid of the dark boatman who could be discerned
paddling about and putting the finishing touch to the illu-
minations as the bewildered visitors invaded his murky do-
main. The caverns appeared to be divided into three distinct
galleries, parted from each other by jagged edged columns
and huge masses of dark limestone rock. The lowest gal-
lery of all, through which the canal runs, is the grandest
and gloomiest. The second rune parallel to the brat, and le

Isituate on an irregular ledge, and into it at distant intervals
a stray beam of sunlight struggles for admittance through
the cloister-like openings or shafts connecting it with the
third or uppermost gallery, which has been excavated down-
wards from the surface of the hill, and is not therefore,
strictly speaking, a cavern at all. The whole series of gal-
leries, with their endless succession of massive pillars, but-
tresses, and arches, have been hewn out of the solid lime-
stone rock in the course of many ages by the hand of the
sturdy miner, who now, finding this vast subterranean
quarry pretty nigh exhausted, has sought more productive
fields hard by for his adventurous labours. The caverns are
nearly a mile in extent, but the excursionists contented
themselves with penetrating scarcely one half this distance.
A halt having been made in a spacious chamber—where
the lofty rock showed the peculiar slab-like stratification
of the superincumbent rock to great advantage.
Professor PHILLIPS took up his position on a jutting
ledge overhanging the dark canal, where a temporary ros-
trum had been placed, and addressed a few words to the
assemblage. He said that the hill in the interior of the
rocky base of which they were standing was not always the
property of the Dudley family. It belonged in former times
to an ancient, numerous, and distinguished family, from
which it had descended lineally to a gentleman now by his
side, who had of right taken possession of the old "King-
dom of Siluria." (Cheers and laughter.) " Therefore," ex-
claimed the President, "0! chief of Siluria, rightful de-
scendant of the trilobites, deign to tell us something of
your ancestral domain." (Cheers and laughter.)
Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, thus invoked, said it was 16
years since he had last addressed an assemblage in those
caverns, when he had on his right M. Drouyn de Lhuys,
then the first Ambassador of the second French Republic,
and now Prime Minister of the 'second French Empire.
That distinguished statesman on that memorable occasion
made his first speech to the English people in their own
tongue through the same speaking trumpet which he now
held in his own hand, and which he would now use him-
self if his hearers thought he could not otherwise make
himself audible. (No, no, and laughter, amid which Sir
Roderick laid aside the instrument.) M. Drouyn de Lhuys
told his audience that he had then seen both the inside and
the outside of England, and that he really could not say
with which of the two he was most gratified. (Cheers and
laughter.) Sir Roderick then proceeded to relate how he
had discovered " the Kingdom of Siluria" in the strata

lying under Montgomery, Radnor, and Salop ; how he had
verified it in Germany, Norway, Sweden, and beyond the
Ural Mountains; how, in admiration of the gallant Came-
tacus, the ancient King of the Silurian race, he had
adopted the name of Siluria for his geological discoveries
in their district ; and how in Dudley the strata, upheaved
as it was among the coal-measures, was broken and dislo-
cated, probably by volcanic action, being made up of com-
plete disjecta membra. Yet it was, nevertheless, surpass-
ingly rich in the fossils of Siluria—perhaps presenting to
the geologists more perfect specimens than ',the rocks of
any other region. He then explained the "dipping" of
the rocks on either side of the caverns, observing that
through their being " tilted up" man was enabled to
delve among them almost without cost or trouble, and
to obtain a supply of limestone that was practically
inexhaustible. Sir Roderick next referred to the proba-
bility of fresh coal-measures existing in that neighbour-
hood. There was, he said, no natural connexion between
the Dudley limestone and coal. The Dudley limestone was
part of his Silurian kingdom, and in no part of that king-
dom was there or could there be any coal which was formed
from decayed vegetation. The Silurian rocks were far be-
neath the coal-measures. The Old Red Sandstone or Permian
of South Staffordshire had been confused with the New
Red Sandstone, whereas the two were perfectly distinct and
greatly separated. As to their future supplies of coal, his
firm belief was that under all the rocks mapped as Permian
around that coalfield they would find thickeror thinner coal.
Twenty years ago he came to the conclusion, not upon mere
theory, but after observation, that there was coal under the
Permian, and that it could be found at a depth of 600 or
700 feet at the most. Not only so, but he had induced Lord
Dartmouth to sink for it, and that nobleman found it two
miles away from the edge of what was called the coalfield,
and two miles nearer to Birmingham than any existing
coalpit. The coal found there was not a thin, worthless
seam, but the 10-yard coal ; and although Lord Dartmouth
was obliged to cease working it because the people of West-
bromwich did not like to find their houses sinking beneath
them (a laugh), the fact remained that there was an untold
store of coal lying under the Old Red Sandstone.
Throe cheers having been given for the King of Siluria,
the visitors threaded their way out of the caverns, and
ascended the Castle-hill. While toiling under a blazing sun
up this acclivity they could not help contrasting regretfully
thokcool atmosphere of the grotteealttgrhaciltist left with
that of the sultry error air. Most of the party, however,
climbed the narrow winding staircase leading to the parapet
of the keep, of which only two turreted round towers and
the connecting wall between them now remain to tell the
tale of its ancient grandeur. From the parapet what once
must have been a splendid prospect is commanded ; but no
landscape can retain more than half its natural charms that
is encroached upon by the "black country," of which this
is the very centre.

The excursionists now divided off into several separate
sections, one of which went to inspect the ironworks and
collieries at Tipton ; another to visit Cannock Chase ; an-
other to b 3 conducted over the Bessemer steel works of
Messrs. Lloyd, Foster, and Co., and other establishments at
Wednesbury; another to Stourbridge, to see the glassworks
at Amblecote, and the ironworks of Mr. W. 0. Foster,
M.P. ; another to Round Oak, to visit the ironworks of
Lord Dudley ; and another to Oldbury and Westbromwich,
to witness certain specialities in " puddling" at the works
of the Eagle Company.

Tho section led by the President and Sir Roderick Mur-
chison adhered throughout the day to a geological pro-
gramme. From the Castle-yard they bent their steps towards
the Wren's-nest, a hill about a mile and a half from Dudley,
which derives its name from its peculiar conformation,
having a curious nest-like hollow on its summit. Taking a
hurried glance at the Priory ruins on their way, they speedily
reached the hill, which is chiefly remarkable for its lime-
stone caverns. Picturesque and scientifically interesting
as these are, however, they are but secondary to those under
Dudley-castle, already described. They have been dug
downwards from the surface, and vast openings, clad with
verdure towards their summit, admit the broad daylight
into their rocky recesses. Under one of their finest arches
the President's party mustered to hear a brief lecture on
the geology of the district, illustrated with diagrams, deli-
vered by the Mayor of Dudley. This discourse concluded,
some of the savans went in search of fossils, and considered
themselves particularly fortunate if they found a tiny tri-
lobite the size of a pea. The good folks of Dudley know
the value of these primmval relics, and have by this time
tolerably well denuded their rocks of their best and most
accessible specimens, so that many a zealous geologist
whose hammering yielded but small results was fain to buy
with money what he could not win by labour if he desired
to carry away some trophy of his visit to these regions.
The party then returned to Dudley and inspected a rich
mineralogical and geological collection displayed in the
local museum.

By the liberality of the Mayor and a committee of his
townsmen, who seemed bent on giving the savans a perfect
ovation, an excellent dinner was provided for them in the
large hall of the Mechanics' Institute. His worship pre-
sided, and, after the usual introductory toasts, proposed
" the Health of tho President of the British Association,"
expressing the delight which the people of that district felt
in entertaining such distinguished men of science.
The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.

Professor PHILLIPS returned thanks and warmly ac-
knowledged the kindness which he and his fellow excur-
sionists had received from the people of Dudley.

Alderman COCHRANE gave "the Health of Sir R. Mur-
chison," and expressed the satisfaction with which, after
the rather desponding tone adopted by Mr. Jukes on the
subject, of their future supplies of coal in the Midland
Counties, he had listened to the reassuringlanguage held to
them that day by so pre-eminent a geologist as " theXing
of Siluria."

respect and affection for the Pre-
aretisoPr! lie and Professor Phillips,
Sir. R. liuncinsoN, in acknowledging the compliment,
ssipdoeknetvoefrythfeeßelriintigslliyAssof hiocis
he said, were joint founders of that association, which had
now attained such influence and popularity, and he might,
he thought, look upon himself and his friend Professor
Phillips as a sort of Siamese twins. (Cheers and laughter.)
Reverting to a subject which lay near to the heart of the
Dudley folks—viz., their future coal supply—he said that
some persons had gone away from Mr. Juke's lecture with
the impression—an erroneous one, he thought—that Mr.
Jukes wished to dissuade them from boring through the red
sandstone in search of coal. They might rely upon it that
immediately under the great mass of red sandstone—the

lower or old red sandstone of his own Silurian system, and
called Permian—and particularly under the old red' sand-

stone which surrounded the immediate Dudley district,
they would in future find great and productive coal-fields.
(Cheers.) Sir Roderick spoke of the pleasure with which he
had listened to the lecture delivered by his worship--the
first chief magistrate chosen by Dudley since its recent in-
corporation as a municipality—observing that at Bath last
year the Association found a model Mayor, at Birmingham
this year it found a perfect Mayor,and that day it had found
the most perfect Mayor of all—viz., one who was himself a
geologist. (Cheers and laughter.)

The health of the Mayor was drunk with the greatest
cordiality, and, in returning thanks, his Worship remarked
that he did not see why Mayors, who had some reputation

for turtle, should not have a reputation for trilobites aswell.
:Laughter and cheers.)

" The Health of the Foreign Visitors," proposed by the
Bev. C. Evans, of Birmingham, and responded to bySignor

de Negri, wound up the list of toasts, and the excursionists
shortly afterwards returned to Birmingham.

The arrangements for the day, which to all parties passed
off most pleasantly, were made by the South Staffordshire
Local Committee of the Association, and reflected the
greatest credit on their management and liberality.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE•

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EAST SOMERSET.

The report states that the traffic returns for the
half-year ending June 30 last shows a very slight
increase over the amount received in the correspond-
ing half of last year. The gross earnings amounted
to £3,153, which, after deducting the fixed sum of
£1,032 applicable for interest on debenture debt and
rent charges, leaves £1,272, or 60 per cent. of the
balance to the Great Western Campany, and £B4B
or 40 per cent., to this company. Out of this sum
the directors advise that a dividend be declared on
the preference shares at the rate of 3 per cent. per
annum, free of income tax, leaving the remainder to
go towards the liquidation of the balance due to the
bankers on income accounts. They propose the con-
tinued application of such dividend towards the
liquidation of the liabilities on capital account, and
to credit the account to each preference shareholder
with the amount of his dividend, for which a prefe-
rence share shall be issued in his name when the sum
so credited shall amount to £lO. The capital account
shows a total receipt of £156,104, and a total ex-
penditure of £148,263, leaving a balance of £,2,159
due to bankers.

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

Cattle Disease.

MEETING OF THE CATTLE TRADE ASSO-

CIATION.

A meeting of cattle salesmen was held yesterday, at Mr.
Rudkiu's, Salutation Tavern, Newgate-street, when an
association was formed nudely the title of the Foreign
Cattle Trade Association, and Mr. Charles Hicks was
elected chairman of the association for the year ensuing.
A meeting of salesmen was held in the same place some
time since, when a committee was appointed to obtain in-
formation as to the nature and outbreak of the cattle
disease.

The secretary of that committee, Mr. IRWIN, now re-
ported that they had met from time to timo, and particular
attention had been bestowed on the cargoes of cattle from
Revel, in which they had received much assistance from
Messrs. Honck and Baker, who were personally connected
with the importation. It was proved to the satisfaction of
the committee that the cattle in question were shipped at
Revel in a state of perfect health, were in the same condi-
tion on their arrival in England, and that no case of infec-
tion could in any manner be ascribed to any part of this
cargo. Having made the preliminary inquiries, the com-
mittee applied to Sir G. Grey to receive a deputation for the
purpose of discussing the question of the origin of the disease
and the means best adapted to repress it. Tho deputation
having been appointed for the 19th, was on that day received
by Mr. Waddington, and during an interview of about two
hours the matters were fully discussed in the presence of
Professor Symonds and Mr. Helps, secretary of the Privy
Council, during which time the views of the committee were
most courteously received by Mr. Waddington. The effect
of the interview had been that relations of a satisfactory
character had been established with the Government, which
the committee believed would prove of great eventual. ser-
vice to the trade. In addition to frequent communications
with the Home Government, the committee, in the interest
of the general body, had addressed itself to the Russianand
French authorities, requesting assistance to substantiate
facts in the interest of the foreign cattle trade, and to cor-
rect errors which bad been made for want of more practical
information. The committee having thus opened a sphere
of usefulness, in laying down the honour which had been
entrusted to it, hoped the Foreign Cattle Trade Association
would follow out and improve the opportunity, and they had
no doubt but that a combined action of all members of the
trade would not fail to place the commerce in foreign cattle
upon a certain and satisfactory foundation.
The report having been received,

Mr. Brewster was appointed deputy-chairman.
A committee of ten gentlemen was then elected to draw
up a code of rules to be presented at a future meeting of
the association.

Mr. John Irwin, of 1. and 2, Fenchurch-street, was ap-
pointed secretary, and
The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the
secretary.

The Cholera in Constantinople,

(From the Levant Herald.)

Though the hope of the total disappearance of this

epidemic has not been literally realised, the return
of the capital to convalesence is, perhaps, as rapid
as can be reasonably expected. The decrease in the
mortality during the week has been relatively much
greater than that of the previous seven days, and,
with continued improvement in the temperature,
the absolute exhaustion of the malady may now—if
no unforeseen cause of its revival intervene—be re-
garded as certain within the interval between this
and our next publication. A statement of the death
returns of the week will best show how great has
been the falling-off in the mortality as compared with
the number in our last report. On the 30th, the
official reckoning was 33 ; on the 31st, 25 ; on
Sept. 1, 17 ; for the 2d, 19 ; for the 3d, 16 ; and
for the 4th, 9. But for the relaxation of the rigid
veto against the sale of certain kinds of green fruit,
and the consequent over-consumption of grapes,
there is reason to believe that even this last small
return would have dwindled down to a solitary case
or two, of which examples may probably still be
expected for ten days or a fortnight to come, like
the last straggling shots on the outskirts of a battle-
field, long after the main carnage is over. That
the evil, however, is now virtually past is testified
by per"h"a'p's` higher autiforityThan that-of:211F-ufilelar
returns. The birds, which of every find, fiom the
sparrow to the sea gull and kite, absolutely disap-
peared from the capital within a week after the
outbreak of the disease, have, during the
past week, nearly all come back. This singular
incident of the visitation appears to have escaped
general notice ; but the fact that these feathered
health-inspectors are again amongst us is conclu-
sive as to the returning salubrity of the atmosphere.
From the provinces the news is equally favourable.
The official reports from Smyrna, Salonioa, Varna,
Kustendjie, and Trebizond, tell of the rapid abate-
ment of the malady at all these points, and warrant
hope of its entire disappearance from the whole
within the next 10 or 15 days. This happy poverty
of incident in connection with the epidemic during
the week gives us room to notice an absurd corres-
pondence which has been foisted on the Times, and
through it on Galignani, by the credulous friends of
some local English observer, who is described by
14s sponsor as " a resident whose avocations pre-
vented his leaving the spot at which he had been
stationed. This (continues the correspondent) was
in the midst of the pestilence, mid in close proximity
to the hospitals recently established by the Govern-
ment. He professes himself to have been an obser-
ver uninfluenced by the panic almost universally
prevalent, and the statements he makes are, there-
fore, untinged with the excitement which fear pro-
duces." Some extracts are then given, and the
article concludes as follows :—" Detailed contradic-
tion of such statements as these would be waste of
space, but to place our contemporary on its guard
against further stuff of the kind, we may briefly
characterise the whole as a tissue of the most absurd
exaggeration. The writer may have meant it for a
study' after Defoe or Boccacio, but he should at
least have kept within the decent range of the facts.
The visitation has been bad enough-0 our own
columns have honestly testified—but at no time has
its ravages been half so horrible as this courageous
young gentleman would have his anxious friends at
home believe."

In view of the now proximate disappearance of
the epidemic, and of the consequent close of its
present functions, the Medical Commission has ad-
dressed the following report to the Grand Vizier
On the 16th of last July your highness, the illustrious
interpreter of the noble intentions of our august Sovereign,
appointed the Extraordinary Commission of Public Health,
and assigned it the duty of combatingby all possible means
the pest which had invaded the capital. Your commission,
during the six weeks just elapsed, has occupied itself in
undertaken conquering the
na
large
scale; b y m measures Ire
the
es formo hstt
adenp.suabblliec prehealth,
ven_
e s;
hospitals,
t he establishment of houses of refuge,
ambulances,tiveineasur
&c. ; by the organisation of a service
of domiciliary assistance ; in short, by all the means of
which the utility, under such circumstances, is undoubted.
These measures preserved the healthy, relieved the suffer-
ing, saved many from being victims, and re-established the
courage of the population bytheirresults. Allthe measures
taken by your commission during the first period of its
action have received the high approval of your highness.
They will be forthwith brought to the notice of Europe and
of the scientific world, as well asthe resultsobtained, to the
glory of our august Sovereign and of his enlightened Go-
vernment. Meanwhile your commission considers itself
happy to be able at present to inform your highness that
the epidemic, combated in spite of its extreme virulence,
driven back step by step, is in full retreat from all its posi-
tions. In a short time the last trace of its odious pre-
sence will have disappeared from our beautiful capital
The relieved people will bless the inexhaustible benevo-
lence of its powerful monarch. Your commission
finds itself on the point of entering on a new period
of its existence, much more important than the
former, and much more difficult to bring to a successful
issue. Before entering upon it, all the members of the com-
mission feel the necessity of informing your highness that,
up to the present time simple instruments of the will of
your highness, they have throughout endeavoured to be-
come imbued with your unconquerable energy. Your high
intelligence and your sure penetration have been their
guides in this painful struggle. We attribute the success of
the measures of the commission solely to your highness, for
more than once, exposed to hostile and unjust criticiswve
should have abandoned the struggle but for the generous
support of your highness and the powerful enouragement
which at different times you have afforded us through the
agency of our vice-president. No one is ignorant that the
scourge under which we have groaned for two months has
for the fourth time visited our capital, and that on each of.
its former appearances, though its virulence was much less,

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(it remained in the country a long peri I qtfniitit****,, 1:-17-4
the object of the second phase of th eptiei,e4oo:; " ::*7Q:1,4,'4_,
commission to prevent the evil from t -iiiieic . ''
gering, as heretofore, and to set in ties .a. 11.. - .
means to hi. lei. __ , ....,;urrence and return o -kir e
members of your commission lastly consider itithei ty,'
before separating, to indicate to the Imperial Government
the general measures of public health without which a me-
tropolis so large, and in such constant communication with
countries which have the fatal privilege of spreading or
engendering epidemic diseases, would be at every moment
exposed to imminent perils. The intelligence of your
highness will guide us in this last duty. Many praise-
worthy and laudable acts of devotion have been stated
to your commission during the painful crisis we have
just passed, which it will hereafter bring under the no-
tice of your highness. But it would be wanting in its
most sacred duty if, before terminating its present re-
port, it omitted to pay a just tribute of sincere and warm
acknowledgment to the indefatigable activity, the zeal, and
the wisdom of its honoured president, Mehemed Enda
Pasha, Minister of Police. This high functionary has from
morning till night, and at every hour of the day, afforded
his personal aid, and that of his administration. his ex-
ample and counsels have been a constant and valuable sup-
port to us. The commission has, at the same time, great .
satisfaction in calling to mind the constant zeal of the
Mustechar of the Police, Remzi Effendi, who has assisted
at many of the most laborious meetings ; and the remark-
able readiness, good will, and intelligent energy of the
commander-in-chief of the gendarmerie, Muetapha Pasha.
But the commission cannot sufficiently praise the perse-
vering devotion, the indefatigable zeal, the conduct, and
the intelligence shown by the police force—that excellent
body which does so much honour to its chiefs." '''

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

DONCASTER RACES -FmiaY

The last day of Doncaster was as successful as any of
the " off " days in point of attendance, though it was an
evident relief to all when the racing was concluded. The
enervating nature of the weather during the week, and the
feverish excitement prior to the St. Leger, have rendered
the Doncaster week one of the most exhausting of the sea-
son. The sun was even more powerful than on any of the
previous days of the meet/11r as tlia'heat came pouring
down, as it were, and almost suffocated the " ring." The
programme for the final day contained eight events for
decision, but a walk over for the Sweepstakes of 200 sovs,
over the St. Leger Course, by Archimedes, reduced the
actual sport to seven races. It was imagined that Gladia-
teur would be unopposed for the Doncaster Stakes, but Mr.
Chaplin determined to run Breadalbane. It was then ar-
ranged between Count Lagrange and Mr. Chaplin that
Gladiateur should walk over and the stakes be divided ; but
a third candidate appearing in Reginella, the numbers were
hoisted for a race. Gladiateur carried a penalty of 101 b for
his victories, and some infatuated individuals imagined this
would give Breadalbane a chance ; but although making a
semblance of a race at the distance, he was in difficulties
immediately the Frenchman increased the pace, and the
Leger winner won in a canter by three lengths, amidst
great cheering from the Tykes, who are positively enthu-
siastic in their admiration for Gladiateur. Ten went to the
post for the Town Plate, and Lord Douglas and Gulnara
were equal favourites at 4 to 1, while Salliet was in great
demand at 6 to 1; but the favourites were all out of it at the
distance, and the issue was left to Blue Mantle and Effie.
Capt. Lane's horse seemed to have all the best of it, but
would not struggle a yard when called on by Daley, and
Effie won by a length. Nineteen of the forty-three on the
card for the Nursery went to the post, Crown Prince,
Raunds, and Staghound being warm favourites. Sweet
Anne was also supported at prices down to 9 to 1, and cut-
ting down her opponents 200 yards from home, she can-
tered in a winner three lengths in front of Crown Prince.

The talent laid odds of 6 to 5 on Trapeze agst White Duck
in the Park Hill Stakes, but Lord Glasgow's filly won
cleverly by three-quarters of a length. The Scurry Stakes
produced an exciting race between Lady Abbess and Lady
Sophie, the latter winning cleverly by half a length. The
Cup resulted in a match betweenAckworth and Hippolyta,
odds being paid on the Marquis of Hasting's representative,
who won after a splendid race by a length and a half.
The following are details of the running :
The Don Stakes of 50 sovs. each, h. ft. for three-yr-olds ;

colts, Bst. 101 b.; filles, Bst 71b. Last mile. 8 subs.

Lord Stamford's Archimedes, Bst 101 b (Carroll) 1
Lord Falmouth's Reginella, Bst 71b (T. French) 2
Betting-100 to 15 on Archimedes.
The non-favourite made the running to the Red House,
where she was headed by Archimedes, who won in a canter
by three-quarters of a length.
The Doncaster Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 100 added, for
three-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 61b. ; certain

winners extra ; the owner of the second horse to receive

50 sovs out of the stakes. Last mile and a half. 73 subs.
Count F. Lagrange's Gladiateur, 9st 61b (in. 10 lb ex.)
(H. Grimshaw) 1
Mr. W. I'Anson's Breadalbane, Bst 101 b (Custance) 2
Lord Falmouth's Reginella, Bst 61b (T. French) 3
Betting-5 to lon Gladiateur.
They were together for a few strides, when Breadalbane

took a clear lead, Gladiateur going on second, and Regi-
nella last ; the Frenchman, however, soon being eased
-atuppcd-n.orn, and a mile from home 17e ginella ford the
pace and on sufferance took a long lead, which she held
till within a quarter of a mile from home, when she retired
beaten, and Gladiatur and Breadalbane came on into the
straight close together. At the distance Griinshaw let out
the Frenchman, who at once quitted Mr. Chaplin's horse
and won easily by three lengths ; Reginella, was a bad
third.

The Town Plate (Handicap) of 100 says, for three-yr-olds

and upwards. Red House in.
Mr. Jackson's Effie, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Whiteley 1
Captain Lane's Blue Mantle 5 yrs, Bst 81b (J. Daley 2
Mr. J. Stephenson's Sallist, ,3
yrs, ist 101 b (Morris 3
Mr. T. Thellusson's Lord Douglas, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b _

_ .
(Fordham) 4
The following also ran :—Molly Carew, Little Gentle-
man, Gulnara, Gazza Ladra, Cadiz, and Fair Melrose.
Betting-4 to 1 each agst Gulnara and Lord Douglas, 6
to 1 agst Salliet, 10 to 1 each agst Blue Mantle, Cadiz, and
Molly Carew, 12 to 1 each agst Fair Melrose and Little
Gentleman, and 100 to 8 agst Effie.
The disinclination of Blue Mantle to approach his horses
caused some delay at the post, but upon the flag being
lowered the lot got away on good terms, Salliet having
Gazza. Ladra and Gulnara as her immediate followers, at
once made play, the next division being headed by Blue
Mantle and Effie till reaching the bend, where Gazza Ladra
gave way, and Salliet at the distance was joined by Effie,
and Blue Mantle, who ran as soft as usual, being de-
feated by a length ; Salliet finished third, a neck in the
rear of Captain Lane's horse, Lord Douglas close up was
fourth, Gulnara a good fifth, Molly Carew and Gazza
Ladra next, Cadiz last a long way in the rear.
The Nursery Plate (handicap) of 200 sous, for 2-yr-olds.
Last mile.

Marquis Sweet Anne, 7st 71b (J. Grimshaw 1
1.
Crown Prince, Bst 101 b ...(Goater 2
Mr. Wallace's Shamrock, Est bib (Kenyon 3
The following also ran :—Raunds, Queen Mary, Marco
oarrdiso f
Westmoreland'slHastings'
_
Spada, Miss Williams, The Czar, Haphazard, Cecrops,
Hawkswell, Terror, Diadem, Strathfieldsaye, Staghound,
Violent, Gold Pen, Royal Tartan, and Polka.
Betting-5 to 1 agst Crown Prince, 6to 1 each agst
Staghound and Raunds, 9 to 1 agst Sweet Anne, 10 to 1
each agst Royal Tartan and Haphazard, 100 to 6 each agst
Czar and Strathfieldsaye, 20 to 1 agst Queen Mary, and 25
to 1 apt Polka.

Shamrock jumped off with the lead, followed by Raunds,
Gold Pen, Marco Spada, Sweet Anne, and Staghound.
These composed the front division to the Red House ;
Sweet Anie, Crown Prince, Shamrock, and Raunds draw-
ing away abreast from these points to the distance, where
Sweet Anne quitted her opponents and won in a canter
by three lengths ; a similar distance separating second and
third ; Queen Mary and Raunds ran a dead heat for fourth
place, a head in the rear of Shamrock ; Royal Tartan,
Terror, and Hawkswell were next ; the last two being
Staghound and Violent.
The Park-hill Stakes of 50 sovs each, h ft, for three-yr-
olds ; fillies, Bst 101 b ; certain winners extra ; the owner
of the second to receive 100 sovs. SL Leger Course.

Lord Glasgow's White Duck, Bst 101 b ....... ..(CustanCe) 1
Mr. E. Brayley's Trapeze, Bst 101 b (Cannon) 2
Betting: 6 to 5 on Trapeze.

They ran in close company at a slow pace to the T.Y.C.
post, where Trapeze took up the running, but upon en-
tering the straight was joined by White Duck, who came
out at the centre of the stand enclosure, and won cleverly
by three parts of a length.
The Scurry Selling Stakes of 5 sovs each, with 50 added,
for two-yr-olds and upwards ; weight for age, with sell-
ing allowances. Red House in. 5 furlongs 152 yards.
7 subs.

Lord Westmoreland's Lady Sophie, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (.£5O
(Kenyon 1
Mr. Robert Osborne na Lady Abbess, 5 yrs, Bst 71b (.£5O
(Whiteley 2
Marquis of Hastings' Sisyphus, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Z5O
(J. Grimshaw 3

Betting opened at 6 to 4 on but closed at 5 to 4 agst
Sisyphus; 2 to 1 agst either of the others.
Lady Abbess made play into the straight, where Sisyphus
was beaten, and Lord Westmoreland's filly challenging
Lady Abbess at the commencement of the enclosure, won
by half a length ; three lengths separated the second and
third.

The winner was bought in for 265 guineas.
Mr. Osborne claimed Sisyphus, and the Marquis of
Hastings Lady Abbess.

The Doncaster Cup, value 300 sovs ; three-yr-olds, 7st ;
four, Bst 51b ; five, Bst 121 b ; six and aged, 9st 21b ; mares
and geldings allowed 31b; certain penalties and allow-
ances. Cup Course, about two miles and five furlongs.
Marquis of Hastings' Ackworth, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Fordham) 1
lhron llothschild's Ilippolyta, 4 yrs, Bst 21b (Daley) 2
Betting.-6 to son Ackworth.
They ran together till reaching the distance, when Hip-
polyta seemed to havo the best of the struggle, which was
close and exciting till half way up the enclosure, where
Ilippolyta tired, and Ackworth drawing away, won cle-
verly by a length and a half.
A Sweepstakes of 200 sovs each, h ft, for three-yr-olds ;
colts, Bst 101 b ; fillies, Bst 51b ; the whiner of the Derby
or St. _Leger to carry
71b extra.
Lord Btamford's Archimedes, Bst 101 b (Carroll) WM.

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