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ners extra. About half a mile.

Mr. Jones's Concordia, 4 yrs, 7st 51b (Payne) 1
Mr. Hartley's Alberta, 2 yrs, Est 51b (H. Clark) 2
Mr. Saxon's Jane Shore, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (Clement) 3
The following also ran:—Jassy, Bonny Lass, Imogene,
Michael Grove, Bessie, and Flyaway colt.
Betting-100 to 30 agst Bonny Lass, 5 to 1 agst Imogene,
6 to 1 each agst Concordia and Jane Shore, 100 to 15 agst
Alberta, 10 to 1 agst "any other." Concordia and Alberta
made play, followed by Jane Shore, Jassy, and Imogene.
Opposite the stand Concordia took a clear lead and won by
a length and a half. Jane Shore was third, a head behind
Alberta ; Jassy-fourth, close up, Bonny Lass and Imogen
were fifth and sixth. Michael Grove, Bessie, and Flyaway
colt the last three. _ _

A Handicap Sweepstakes of 3 sous each, with 40 added;
for all ages; the winner to be sold for 40 sous; winners
extra ; about three-quarters of a mile. 7 subs.
Mr. W. Howard's Duenna, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ...(S. Hibbard 1
Mr. J. Lowe's Tomfoolery, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ..... .(Heslop 2
Mr. Jones's Fravolina, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b ............ (o.lement 3
Mr. Saxon's Brigand, 3 yrs, Bst 7111 ............ (Midgeley 4
Mr. Pierce's Thais, 4 yrs, Bst 121 b .................. (packer 5
Betting-2 to 1 agst Tomfoolery, sto 2 agst Fravolina,
and 3to 1 agst Duenna. Brigand made play, followed by
Tomfoolery and Duenna to the distance, when Duenna
took the lead, and Brigand dropped back beaten. Fravo-
lina, on entering the cords, came up to the leaders, and a
splendid race home resulted in favour of Duenna by a short
head ; a head only separated second and third ; Brigand a
bad fourth ; Thais beaten off. The winner was bought
by*Mr. Stevens for 71 guineas.
The Culham Stakes of 10 sous each, 5 ft, and 2 only if de-
clared, with 50 added ; winners extra. One mile. 23
subs, 13 of whom pay 5 soya each.
Captain Machell's Lucky Star, 4 yrs, Bst. 121 b
(A. Edwards) 1
Mr. Bray leg's Pelios, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (inc 71b extra)
_

(A. Cowley) 2
Mr. W. Treen's Morris Dancer, 3 yrs, Est 101 b (C. Page 3
Mr. B. Porter's Devotee, 5 yrs, 7st 61b
Mr. B. Land's Eidolon, aged, Bst (Clement 5
Mr. Alwyn's Canterbury, 3 yrs, 7st 31b (U. Covey) 0
Betting-5 to 4 agst Lucky Star, sto 2 agst Devotee,
and 100 to 30 agst Pelios. Morris Dancer cut out the
work, followed by Devotee and Canterbury, Lucky Star
and Pelios came to the front, the pair having the race to
themselves, which was won by Capt. Machell's horse by a
length and a half ; Morris Dancer was a bad third. Can-.
terbury broke down during the race, and was pulled up
before reaching the post.
Match-100 Bove each, 25 ft. Half a mile.

Mr. J. Starkey's Jassy, 3 yrs, 14st .. .. . ....(Mr Duffield) 1
Mr. Floyd's Michael Grove, 6 yrs, lAst'3lb (Owner) 2
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Betting-2 to lon Jassy, who made all tho running,
and won by six lengths.

The Moscow Gazette announces that the Villa
Bermont at Nice, in which the Grand Duke Nicholas re-
cently died, as well as four other residences, occupied by
the Empress of Russia and her suite, have been purchased
by the Russian Imperial family for 2,000,000 f.

This fine iron frigate concluded her second day's
experimental firing on the 3d inst. off the east end
of the Isle of Wight, with the two 12-ton guns
she has mounted on her broad sides, and the re-
sults altogether may be deemed exceedingly satis-
factory, as proving in the most conclusive manner
that as far as the training of such guns mounted
on a ship's broadside carriages expensive machinery
is not required for the purpose, all the requisite
ease and rapidity of training being obtainable by a
few simple mechanical appliances such as Captain
Key, of her Majesty's ship Excellent, has
introduced in the fittings of the carriages on trial
with their guns in the Minotaur ; as also proving
that these same 12-ton guns may be worked by the
aid of even the few mechanical helps introduced by
Capt. Key, with as small a number of men as the
old 68-pounder (16) ; giving reasonable encourage-
ment, also, for believing that with a little further.
alteration in some of the details of fittings, and the
substitution of iron for wooden carriages, 12-ton
guns may even be carried with safety at sea on the
broadside ; reserving, however, the question of work-
ing them under certain conditions of wind and wea-
ther, and, lastly, though not least important, as
proving the strength of the decks of our Minotaur
class of vessel quite ample for carrying the 12-ton
gun and carriage and slide, and also to sustain the
shock:of its discharge at 10 deg. elevation,the greatest
extent to which the Minotaur's ports will allow the
guns to be elevated. The port gun has been chiefly
used during the two- days' experiments, the one
mounted on the starboard side not being quite com-
plete in some of its fittings, and during both days'
firing 128 rounds have been fired from it with 351 b
and 401 b charges and 1501 b round shot, 68 rounds
being fired on the first day. On the 3d inst. the ship
left Spithead at 9 a.m. with Rear-Admiral E. G.
Fanshawe, Gunnery Lord of the Board of Admiralty,
on board, and other officers, including Mr. Robin-
son, from the office of the Controller to the Navy ;
Rear-Admiral Gambier, Lieut.-Col. Alexander,
Royal Marine Artillery, &c. Capt. A.C. Key, C. 8.,
was also on board to conduct the firing ; and Capt.
A. Herbert, of the Royal Sovereign, was in com-
mand of the ship pro tern. Firing commenced on
the ship attaining a suitable position off the land
with 301 b powder charges and 1501 b round shot, at
a pole target distant 1,200 yards, the gun's crew num-
bering 16 men, the complement of a 68-pounder.
Thirty rounds were fired before the men went to
dinner, the average time of the last 20 rounds was 1
min. 17 sec., the shortest interval between the gun's
discharge being 1 min. 3 sec. After dinner firing was
resumed with the same kind of charge, and the first
12 rounds fired gave an average time of Imin. 7sec.,
the shortest interval between the gun's discharge being
the unprecedented short space, for so large a gun, of
58sec. In the firing after the men's dinner hour the
average time was Imin. 14sec., and the shortest in-
terval Imin. 7sec., but during part of this time the
gun's crew had been reduced from 16 to 14, or two
less than the ordinary 68-pounder gun's complement.
Seventeen of these last charges were 401 b. powder
cartridges, the remainder fired during the day being
351 b. cartridges. Two shots, with 401 b. powder
charges, were fired at 10 deg. of elevation to test the
effect on the ship's deck. Means had been taken on
the deck below, by means of fixed and sliding battens,
to measure the exact deflection of the deck beams, if
any, when the gun was discharged, the supports
which had been fixed when the ship lay alongside
Portsmouth dockyard having been removed before
the ship commenced her firing on the first day. On
both occasions of the gun being fired the beams de-
flected exactly 3-16ths of an inch, considerably less
than the " give" would be in the beams of a wooden
ship, and no more than might naturally be looked for
as the true spring of the iron of the Minotaur's beams.
The deck on which the guns stand has no underlie
of iron, and hence if the guns stood on the decks
simply on trucks they would doubtless cut the decks
through, perhaps by their own weight, but certainly
when fired at extreme elevation. The guns and their
carriages are, however, mounted on massive slides,
which traverse on metal racers, so that the weight of
the gun is distributed over a 'large area of deck, and
necessarily also over several beams, and under these
conditions there is certainly every appearance of
even these 10.5 inch guns, with their carriages
and slides, weighing altogethe about 17 tons,
being worked without serious danger to the ship's
deck. On a former occasion we referred to the feel-
ing entertained that the decks of the ship were not
strong enough to carry such ordnance, and the mea-
sures taken by the officials of the dockyard in shor-
ing up the deck immediately under where the guns
were mounted with some tons of timber apparently
declared the ship's weakness in most unequivocal
terms. A subsequent careful examination of the ship
by Capt. Key and his officers convinced them that
the whole affair was a mistake, and the supporting
timber shores were removed and sent ashore again,
where they might possibly be of some service. The
zeal of some of the dockyard officials had for once
outrun their discretion in attempting to preserve her
Majesty's ships. Returning, however, to the firing
from the ship's guns, it will be found that the time
between the gun's discharge was less than in the
Royal Sovereign, but this may be accounted for in
the quality of the crews employed in working the
guns in both ships, the men at the gun on board the
Minotaur having been undoubtedly a better class
of gunners than were the crews of the guns on board
the turret-ship on her late trial, and the Minotaur's
glen's crew having also the additional advantage of
a splendid fellow as their captain in the person of
the chief instructing gunner's mate of the Excellent.
It was observable, too, that the operation of loading
was, generally speaking, carried on in quicker time
on board the Minotaur than it was in the turrets of
the Royal Sovereign, but the turrets of the Sovereign
have this great advantage—that they can be kept
trained on to the enemy while the gun is loading,
whereas the carriages of the broadside gun cannot
be treated in the same way, or but to a very small
degree. For training the gun Capt. Key has two or-
dinary small winches, pickedup in the dockyard, fixed
to two temporary spars under the ship's side, between
the ports. A single rope on each side of the gun slide,
at its rear, leading through a block on the deck,
passes round the barrel or drum of each winch, and
a part of the gun's crew, after the gun has been run
out, heaving round on the winch handles to star-
board or port as directed by the captain of the gun,
give a rapid steady training to right or left that it
would apparently be impossible to equal by any
other means. These winches give the force only
for traversing the gun, its carriage, and slide ; the
movement of the whole, in obedience to the force
created by the winches, is given by two metal rol-
lers in the rear check of the slide working on a mas-
sive metal racer bolted down on the vessel's deck.
When the gun does not require training these rol-
lers are thrown up, and the slide rests dead upon the
deck. When the gun has to be trained two short
handspike levers are brought to bear upon an eccen-
tric motion connected with the rollers, and the lat-
ter being brought into position on the racer takes
the weight of the afterpart of the gun carriage and
slide, and gives the necessary traversing movement.
The gun carriage is fitted at its rear in a similar
manner, so that when the gun is in and loaded,
waiting to be run out, Nos. 1 and 2 of the gun's
crew bring the two handspike levers into use, and,
bearing down upon them, throw, by eccentrics, the
gun on its after rollers, when it is run out with won-
derful ease for so large a mass of metal. A very
excellent arrangement of the running-in tackle also
assists in this movement. If the gun gets too much
way upon her in running out, the two levers are let
go, and she is brought at once off her rollers upon
the slide, and her way thus effectually checked. Of
course these observations must be taken just for
what they are worth, considering they are only the
fruits of seeing the guns on board the
• MinotAur worked in perfectly smooth water ;

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for in both days' trial her\fti
as steady as the platform of a gun batty otilhorC
The, ,difference between daylight and darkness is
not greaterthan would be the difference in the work-
ing of 12-ton broadside guns in such exceptionably
smooth-water weather as the Minotaur has hitherto
experienced and in a sea which would give her a roll
of at least 15 degrees each way. Under these latter
conditions 12-ton guns must be tried before they
can be pronounced suitable guns for the broadside
armament of our ironclads. The chances, judging
from what has taken place on board the Minotaur,
are in favour of their successful working even in so
great a roll as 15 deg., providing iron carriages take
the place of wood, and an officer of Captain Key's
great experience is allowed to have carte blanche in
all the details of fittings, &c. ; but the trial has yet
to be made, and is at the same time of too important
a nature to permit of any great delay in its being
made. The four midship ports of the Minotaur (two
on each side of the main deck) were constructed
only for what is termed the 100-pounder rifled gun
—thatis, the 7-inch muzzle-loading shunt rifled gun,
and are therefore quite unsuitable for the 12-ton
10.5-inch gun, for several reasons. The port is
wrong in form, in the first instance, in being square.
If monster ordnance are to be fired on the broad-
sides of our ships through small ports, the ports
should be built oval in lieu of square, to allow of
extreme training and elevation being given to the
withguns. theTuhpepel:npOtar utsirll'swphoerntsthoenl g
uy give v
ise thefi dg 10 e
deg. of elevation, and that is only done by allowing
the forechase of the gun coming violently in contact
position of the port, as regards elevation from the deck,
is also unsuitable to the 12 to - n gun, the lower sill of
the port requiring to be raised some six inches, and
thus covering in the fighting bolt with armour, the
upper sill being at the same time raised, enlarged,
and rounded in outline. The cost of these altera-
tions to four ports amidships in the Minotaur's main
deck would no doubt be great, but if the ship carries
the guns at all they must be made, and greater
spate must be given for working the guns than exists
at present by closing up an intermediate port be-
tween the two guns on each side. It will be a
grand step towards the efficiency of broadside ships
if they can carry each a few of these 12-ton guns,
and a still more important step if they are found
capable of working them effectually in a moderate
roll in the Atlantic. Taking it for granted that the
broadside ships do eventually carry 12-ton guns we
may treble the weight for turrets, and say they will
carry 36-ton guns. A few on these 12-ton guns
must close our present notice of the Minotaur and
her experimental firing. It has been the custom to
call them indifferently 300 and 150 pounders, when,
in fact, they are in reality neither. They are now
being used in firing 1501 b. round shot, waiting the
decision of the authorities as to their rifling, but
they cannot be kept at this smooth-bore shooting,
owing to the softness of the metal in the bore of all
such wrought-iron coil-built guns. In illustration
of this we may state that during the recent firing
from the guns of the Royal Sovereign two rounds of
" ease" shot were fired from one of the guns in the
foremost turret, which so ploughed up the metal in
the bore of the gun that case shot will not be fired
from them again. The authorities are now under-
stood to have determined to fit the whole of the 12-
ton guns with steel tubes, rifled, reducing the
diameter of the gun's bore from 10.5 to 9 inches,
and firing a 2201 b. elongated shot with one-fifth its
weight in powder, thus reducing our 12-ton 10.5 in.
(expected) 300-pounder to a 12-ton 9in. 200-
pounder.

Royal Visit to .Aldershot, and Grand

Review.

Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, accompanied by his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur, and his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, his Serene Highness the Prince of Saxe
Weimar, the Prince of Orange, the Duke of Brabant,
and Prince Teck, visited Aldershot, when a grand
military display by the troops at the station took
place.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was at-
tended by Lieut. General Knollys, Comptroller of
the Household, and Major Grey and Col. Curzon,
and Major Kean were in attendance on the Duke
of Cambridge.
The royal party arrived by special train at Farn-
borough station of the South Western Railway at
10 o'clock, where they were received by Lieut.-Gen.
Sir W. Pennefather, commanding the Aldershot
division, and the officers composing his staff, and
proceeded through the encampment on Cove Com-
mon. The party then rode on to Bricksbury Hill,
where the division, to the strength of 8,897, had
formed up as follows :—Royal Horse Artillery on
the right in open column of batteries, the cavalry
in close column of squadrons, the field batteries in
the centre, and infantry (12 battalions) on the left
in contiguous quarter-distance column. The front
line of the troops was formed by the officers of the
several corps and regiments on the ground near the
colours, as is usual at royal inspections of troops.
The whole faced northwards. The weather was
pleasantly tempered by the breeze which prevailed.
The party were received with the usual honours.
The troops were then inspected by the royal visitors,
after which the division marched past in regular
order.

The march past was performed in a most steady
and brilliant manner, and elicited frequent marks of
approbation from the royal visitors. In the case of
the Royal Horse Artillery, cavalry, and field bat-
teries, the united bands of the Cavalry Brigade (six
in number) formed up in a similar manner, and played
those regiments past. The marching past of the
artillery and cavalry was executed in open column
of batteries and squadrons at a walk, and that of the
infantry in open column of grand divisions in quick
time. In the case of the Royal Engineer train,
the Royal visitors were evidently much pleased with
their appearance. The cavalry and artillery after-
wards trotted past in open column of squadrons,
the splendid appearance of the troops in this last
movement being very fine. The dust was raised in.
tremendous clouds. All the movements of the
troops, acting as two armies, were gone through
with a precision that excited the utmost admiration.
The field movements were concluded at half-past
two.

Immediately on the conclusion of the review, the
Royal and distinguished party proceeded to the
Guards' Enclosure, Cove Common, where luncheon
was provided in the officers' mess of the Ist batta-
lion Grenadier Guards, and having partaken of
this returned to town.

There was an immense number of spectators on
the ground, amongst whom were the Duke of Man-
chester, the Earl of Bradford, the Lord Bishop of
Winchester, Lady Pennefather, and the principal
residents of the surrounding country.

The troops were under arms more than five hours,
and but few accidents, and those of a trifling cha-
racter, occurred.

GLIICK.—The facts of Gluck's life may be told
in a paragraph. He was the son of a Bohemian
forest-guard, born and trained in an atmosphere of wild
national music. He received some education in Prague
from masters whose names are little known (Czernahorsky's
the best). He was in Vienna in the yoar 1736. When ha
was twenty years of age, ho was taken over into Italy, by
a patron whom he found there, Count Melzi, and was
placed in the hands of Sammartini (one of the greatest.
theorists of his time.) After writing eight Italian operas
for kilan, Cremona, Venice, and Turin, he was invited to
London during the disastrous year 1745. Failing to pro-
duce any effort here, he returned to Vienna, and wrote
profusely for the opera-house of that capital, to Italian and
French text, apparently- making little advance till the year
1761. In that year Gluck produced his ballet "Dom.
Juan," at Vienna, in the following year his " Orfeo,"
and six years later " Alceste," the famous dedication of
which opera to the Grand Duke of Tuscany has caused
more misapprehension, and done more mischief (this is
saying much) than any dramatic preface of apology or
attack in being—Victor Hugo's to his suppressed •' Crom-
well " not forgotten. How Gluck followed the fortunes of
Marie Antoinette, whose music-master he had been—how
invited by her to Paris, he there produced his two
Iphigenias ("en Aulide" and "en Tauride,") and his
" Armida"—how the tremendous battle ensued between the
partisans of French and Italian opera, the philosophic and
sensual connoisseurs, not, it may be, unwilling to mortify
the Austrian Princess through her protigo, are matters
familiar to every one who has looked into any history of
modern music, or any set of memoirs concerning the
stormy, feverish years which preceded the first Revolution.
.—.Dickens's "All the Year Rouad."

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DEATH FROM TILE SIGHT OF BLOOD.—AS hiss
Eliza Smith, daughter of Mr. Smith, veterinary surgeon,
WAR in the kitchen, on Friday last, with her sister and Mr.
Braithwaite, a butcher, the latter was killing a brace of
ducks, and as soon as Miss Smith saw the blood running
from one of the birds, she became very sick, and was re-
moved to a sofa, where she died almost immediately
afterwards. Death is supposed to have resulted from a
shock to the nervous system.
ACCIDENT AT TILE FINSBURY NOMINATION.—We
regret to say that an imperfectly constructed bar-
rier gave way at the hustings on the day of nomination
under the pressure of the crowd, and severely injured a
policeman of the G division, named Sexton. Tho poor
fellow, whose leg was broken in two places, was taken
immediately to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where of course
eTery attention was paid hira.