The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-05 00:00:00

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HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime,
under 10 years of age.

President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., M.P,
VICE-PRESIDEN TS.
Stephen Cave, Esq., 111:P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M,P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

commirTEz.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. 11. M'Sorley.
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 1:6, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.W.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-

street. E.C.

The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years of age.
With the view to secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
This Home was opened in April, 1884. It was designed to
take la the little ones whose charact r and circumstances
disqualify them for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the Refugee. Such are these
who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by theirnatural protectors and
left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Such are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 10), and the Committee
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away,"
none of us shou d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe them ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, " passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming Ara Imy brother's
keeper?"
The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police static ics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
ape, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young to punish. though not too young to learn thebegillning,
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The
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are cared for as children ; they have their regular meals,
their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every
morning is devoted to echo 1 work—reading. and writing,
and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in otjects and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early
period in lite, earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So the after-
noons are occupied with various industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white i aper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them ; picking the coil for The mats, mending
the c othes, &c. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing
and sweeping-, while the elder ones clean all the boots,
knives, &c. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active
working life.
2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance.
All children must be under 10 years of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be achaitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the, annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full ; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of childrenmay be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary secretary.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in fire years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases
F. P., aged 16, ftllen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
K A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H.. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. Al W. aged 17, fallen. both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

DELAYING A TRAIN.—On Tuesday the Gains-
borough magistrates fined a farmer named Fowler X 7 10s.,
including costs, for a breach of the byelaws of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. He came to
the station drunk, and assaulted the station-master at
Gainsborough. After the assault, ha went down the line,
and a train had to be delayed until he could be discovered.
He was found lying near a bridge, quite close to the rails,
in such a position that had the train been allowed to go on
he must have been killed. He had even then to be
forcibly held back while the train passed.

A GAOL WARDER STABBED AY A PRISONER AT
HULL.—On Monday at the Leeds Town-hall, Joseph
Webster, a prisoner now undergoing a sentence of 18
months, in Armley Gaol, was charged with stabbing War-
der Walker. It would appear that Walker had to report
the prisoner a fortnight ago, for whistling during service
in the chapel, and for the offence Webster was sentenced
to three days' solitary confinement. Yesterday morning, as
Walker was engaged in watching the prisoners in chapel,
Webster rushed upon him, and stabbed him in the right
arm, with his carpet-weaving knife. The prisoner at-
tempted a second blow, using the words to the officer,
4c you I'll murder you," but two prisoners who were
marching behind him seized his arm until further assist-
ance arrived. The knife was found to have been recently
sharpened, and pointed at the end. Walker's wound was
found to be an inch long, and extending down to the bone.
Tho prisoner, upon being duly cautioned, said—" I have
nothing to say, only that Mr. Walker reported me for
whistling, and I did not whistle. When the warders took
me down into the cell they knocked me about, and kicked
me against the wall. There were four of them, and they
did it for four or five minutes to me." The prisoner was
committed for trial at the sessions, on the charge of un-
lawfully wounding.

Yesterday the 24th annual meeting of the Tring
Agricultural Association was held in the grounds
attached to the Royal Hotel, Tring Station, which
attracted a considerable number of the agriculturists
and the gentry. There was a show for an unusu-
ally valuable collection of prizes, competition running
over a great variety of subjects, ranging from the
best cultivated farm at one end of the scale, to the
production of the railway porters' gardens at the
other, the interval being filled up with prizes for
ploughboy matches ; exhibitions of sheep in all their
varieties of condition and many varieties of breed ;
an exhibition of swine, in few varieties of breed and
none of condition, obesity being common to all ;
mangold wurtzel, turnips, turnip-cutters, and
ploughs ; and last of all, but 'really by no means
the least in importance, that selfsame horticultural
display madeby two or more of the porters employed
at the station, and having allotted to them a small
piece of the wayside waste as an amusement and at-
traction in their frequent but minutely separated
intervals of leisure. One of these exhibited Scotch
kale, Brussels sprouts, savoys, onions, small salad,
potatoes, turnips in several varieties, radishes in five,
celery in several, vegetable marrow, pumpkins, and
some other articles which memory at the time of
writing does not recall. Another porter had a
similar display. The judges having discharged
their duties,
The dinner took place in the large room of the
inn. Mr. F. J. Moore, of Woodcock-hill, presided,
having among his supporters the Right Hon. Sir
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P., the Hon. H.
Cowper, M.P., Alderman Copeland, M.P., Sir
Astley Cooper, Bart., Mr. R. Bright, the Rev. Jas.
Williams, Sir J. H. Seymour, Bart., &c. The re-
past was an excellent one; and an abundance of
venison and game was sent by Earl Brownlow, the
Earl of Lonsdale, and the Rev. Mr. Williams, of
Tring Park, to the provider of the dinner.
On the removal of the cloth the usual loyal and
patriotic toasts were given.
In returning thanks for' The Volunteers,"
Captain LONGMAN drew attention to the altered
circumstances brought about by the volunteer move-
ment in England. The Swiss, he said, were for-
merly considered the best shots in the world ; now-
adays they came to Wimbledon, and after two days'
competition they had to pack up their traps and
leave without doing anything. (Laughter.)

Sir ASTLEY COOPER proposed the " Health of the
County Members," which was received with loud
cheers;

Sir BULWER LYTTON rose, and was most enthu-
siastically cheered. When the applause had sub-
sided the right hon. baronet proceeded-,--Mr. Chair-
man and Gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure to
be present amongst you on this occasion, and in the
non-political sense adverted to by my hon. friend
Sir Astley Cooper. He does, indeed, slightly re-
mind us that the last time my hon. colleague and
myself were here it was in the relation of rival can-
didates ; but we must both rejoice to find to-day
that the tables are turned upon our constituents,
and that is they, and not we, who on this occasion
are rival candidates for the prizes of honourable am-
bition. (Hear.) Permit me to observe that we too
can be more liberal minded towards you than you
were towards us, because we can cordially congra-
tulate the successful candidate, and sincerely sympa-
thise with the defeated candidate, without pausing
to inquire if he be Whig, Tory, or Radical.
(Laughter.) Gentlemen, it is the great charm of
these meetings that we so readily lay aside all the
acerbities of political feeling, and meet as friends
and neighbours around those whom a little time ago
we might regard as excited opponents ; and if ever
there was a time in which this suspension of party
feeling might be natural it is in this holiday interval,
before the meeting of Parliament, at a time of pro-
found peace abroad, and when, whatever difference
there might exist amongst us as to the policy that
should be adopted at home, those differences, so far
as we can foresee, do not appear likely to be of a
nature to create any great degree of bitterness
amongst such Englishmen as I see to-day, who I
am convinced are equally proud of their country
and equally accustomed to unite their different no-
tions of what may be best for popular freedom with
a regard to the necessary safeguards of a constitu-
tion. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, I had much plea-
sure in looking at your exhibition to-day. Of
course the part of Hamlet was left out of the show
—(laughter)—the stock were not there. (Hear,
hear.) But what I did see reflects great credit on all
parties concerned. Everybody must agree that it
was a remarkably fine exhibition of roots. (Hear,
hear.) With regard to the pigs, in my part of the
county, in the exhibition the other day at Hertford,
I do not remember to have seen a black pig. I think
they were all white pigs. Now we come to the other
extreme ; and I think I shall be able to give to my
friends in the north of Hertfordshire a good account
of the Berkshire pigs I have seen to-day. In fact, I
saw two sows, I think they were twins, as handsome
as I think Providence will permit sows to be.
(Laughter.) Nor can I omit a passing word with
regard to the sheep. Our rev. friend who has spoken
with so much eloquence and feeling (alluding to a
pun perpetrated by a rev. gentleman in returning
thanks for the clergy), said the exhibition looked a
little sheepish. I take that as a compliment to the
sheep. (Laughter.) And I believe there are pre-
sent on this occasion several gentlemen from the
neighbouring county of Bucks, and I hope when they
go back they will be able to find Mr. Disraeli, and
to tell him that his distinguished and famous cross
of the Cotswold and the Down have been received
here with enthusiastic welcome, and have gained a
triumphant success. (Laughter.) But, whatever
may have been the deficiency of our own cattleshow,
you have contrived to-day to have an unusually fine
exhibition of that useful animal called man—(laugh-
ter)—of that order of created beings for which
Members of Parliament are returned, and not these
more innocent, but we flatter ourselves less intelli-
ef:toi
nmg s this
gent, races, which in the Latinised language of the
" bovine" and " ovine."
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pexahrtib
ns(uljebwajusepgcath,ptwieerr.sth regard to our meetings exhibitions,
thens,
allow me respectfully to make a suggestion, or rather
repeat that which I threw out at Hertford the other
day, and which was received there with considerable
favour ; and that is, why we cannot contrive on
stated occasions--I thought once in two years
—perhaps it might be still oftener—unite the
various societies in this county at present meeting
for agricultural purposes. It is clear that we should
have more numerous attendances, more extensive
exhibitions of stock and implements, competition on
a more extensive area. (Hear, hear.) I now ap-
proach with pain and reluctance the subject which
is on all our minds—l mean the great calamity of
the cattle plague. I know it is a subject upon
which the wisest man must hesitate before pro-
nouncing a very decided opinion as to the origin of
the disease, as to its nature, and still more would he
hesitate before pronouncing what was the most
effective remedy. As to the origin of the disease,
we find that our Government is at variance with the
French Government, I believe with almost every
other Government on the Continent, which Govern-
ments are pretty well united in ascribing the origin
to Russia, a theory which has many authorities in
its favour in many countries. With regard to the
nature of the disease we have contradictory opinions.
We were first told that it was a kind of typhus, and
that it affected only horned cattle ; now we know
that it affects also sheep, and that sheep and horned
cattle can communicate the disease the one to the
other. Mr. Tattersall even says that horses are
susceptible to the disease. Professor Gamgee, who
is an authority, says that that is quite a mistake ;
that horses are not, and cannot be, susceptible to
the same form of disease. We have, then, these
various authorities on the subject, and it would be a

practical imposture for a layman, a non-professional
man, to profess to be wiser in the matter than those
who have devoted their lives to a study of cattle
diseases. But I have observed with regard to these
remedies that the best authorities agree as to pre-
ventives. All say that a copious use of vinegar, part
internally and part externally, washing the mouths
and nostrils of the animals, is most efficacious. We
have also been told that in cases where rock salt
has been largely given to cattle the disease has not
been attended with fatal results. When infection
has made itself apparent we have found two
modes resorted to of combatting the atmo-
spheric infection, the first by the constant use of
chlorine, the second by having recourse to the prac-
tice of large bonfires. The other day at Marseilles
cholera broke out, and the people immediately had
recourse to large fires ; and the result has been
published by the authorities, that from the time that
they had recourse to those large fires the bills of
mortality had largely and rapidly decreased.
Beyond this we have no data to go upon ; and we
must resign ourselves to the hve that medical
science will not long remain in the dark as it is at
present. It is idle to suppose that our only safe-
guard is in the indiscriminate slaughter of animals
having the 'symptoms of the disease. To add
famine to pestilence is surely not that which would
entitle us to call Government our protector, or to
accept science as our guide. (Hear.) The most
sovereign remedies in human suffering are popularly
called "kill or cure ;" but this, it seems, is " all
kill" and "no cure." I have too much confidence
in the scientific skill which characterises the age in
which we live to believe that this state of ignorance
can long last, and I say that the worst counsel in
affliction is that which advises us to despair.
(Hear.)
The right hon. baronet proceeded to say that the
steps to be taken to remedy the cattle disease must
be left to Government, and recommended the Local
Cattle Disease Insurance Company, and then re-
turned thanks for the honour bestowed on him.

Mr. COWPER briefly addressed the meeting, ex-
pressing his concurrence in the rule which forbad
the introduction of politics at their meetings, and
thanking the electors and inhabitants of the county
for the kindly manner in which he had always been
received.

The meeting after this became convivial in the
ordinary sense of the term.

Experiments with Torpedo Shells,

Yesterday a series of experiments of some inte-
rest in connection with the new appliances of naval
warfare took place, in the presence of the Duke of
Somerset and other members of the Board of Admi-
ralty, at Chatham. The object of the experiments
was to test the effect of those formidable implements
of destruction of which so much was heard during
the progress of the late gigantic conflict in America.
The invention which was tried yesterday, with the
aid and sanction of the Lords of the Admiralty, is
due to the skill of Mr. Wood, an officer of the
United States' Navy, in conjunction with that of Mr.
G. W. Beardslee, another American gentleman, who
is now in this country, and who personally superin-
tended these experiments. Mr. Beardslee had been
engaged at Chatham for about a week previous in
making the necessary preparations, and on Satur-
day last he deposited one of his large test torpe-
does in the mud and sand off Gillingham Point, in
the Medway, at the entrance to Chatham harbour,
there to remain until yesterday in readiness for
demonstrating that prolonged submersion would
not impair its explosive force. Near the same spot
lay moored the hull of the Terpsichore, an old
wooden 18 gun sloop of some 500 tons burden, which
the Admiralty had placed at Mr. Beardslee's dis-
posal, as a sort of corpus vile, upon which he might
work his will; and not far off again from this devoted
craft were ranged at intervals several specimens of
torpedoes of varying destructive power, the efficacy
of which was to be tested by less costly as well as less
practical operations than the blowing up of an actual
man-of-war. It should be explained that the tor-
pedees used yesterday were of two kinds, the one
called " electrical buoyants," and the other "percus-
sion," these respective names indicating the agency
by which the explosion of the shell is produced.
They were in both cases formed of hollow water-
tight cylinders, made of wrought iron, and varied
in size andpower. The largest were constructed to
receive a charge of 4401 b. of powder, and the smallest
for a charge of 681 b., the former being 9ft. or 10ft.
long, and lft. in diameter, while the latter were not
above a third of that length, though of nearly an
equal diameter. To each torpedo, or shell, a cylin-
drical float is attached to give it buoyancy ; and
when it is desired to submerge the shell to any par-
ticular depth before firing it, the rope connecting
the two can be easily untied and adjusted.
The morning being very foggy, there was consi-
derable doubt for some time whether the trials would
come off that day ; but the sky clearing about noon,
and the sun shining out with all that unclouded
brightness for which the weather during the last few
weeks has been so remarkable, it was determined
that the operations should proceed. This decision,
however, was arrived at at an hour when the tide
was ebbing fast—a circumstance somewhat unfa-
vourable for the full effect of the intended experi-
ments. It was about 2 o'clock when the Admiralty
yacht Wildfire, having his Grace the First Lord
and a distinguished party on board, steamed
from the dockyard pier for the scene of action,
about a couple of miles distant, and situate in
the broadest and prettiest part of the Medway.
Having taken up an excellent position for view-
ing the experiments at a few hundred yards
from the barge on which Mr. Beardslee and his
assistants were stationed with their electrical ap-
paratus for igniting the shells, the signal was
given for commencing. At a spot indicated by a
pole bearing a red flag had lain submerged 15 feet
deep in the bed of the stream, as already stated,
since last Saturday, one of the largest-sized torpe-
does, charged with 4401 b. of powder. A boat's crew
was despatched from the operator's barge to establish
electrical communication with this sunken shell.
This preliminary completed, and the train all ready
column
resembling
of water, in shape and action ranch
for firing, in an instant there rose from the placid
bosom of the river high into the air a large
to a height of little
those great waterspouts occasionally witnessed by
sailors in mid-ocean, and to which, though very
did volumes of snow-white
they do their best to give a
bwifeaeadtuehtebiryfeulrthatop.raloynoakoeaurpveodlnen quickly
less than 200 feet, and then fell gently again in ex-
quisitely graceful curves into the vortex whence
they had risen, leaving no trace of themselves behind
save a slowly expanding circle of bubbling, foaming
water, the muddy, yeasty aspect of which showed
that the river had been stirred to its lowest depths.
The spectacle reminded one forcibly of a display of
the great fountains of Sydenham, but was of course
upon a much grander scale, and necessarily of far
briefer duration. The explosion of the next large
torpedo produced effects but slightly different from
those just described, except that it was accompanied
by a far more deafening report, that fragments of
the cylinder were sent spinning high above the top-
most wreaths of delicate, feathery spray, and that
the rare beauty of the too transient display more
strongly contrasted with the after turbidness of the
seething waters. Several other experiments of a
similar nature followed, the only variation in their
results being that sometimes the huge bodies of
water tossed up were thrown laterally and diago
nally rather than in a vertical direction, and con-
sequently produced wider circles of foam and mud
than their predecessors. It is needless to say that
any one of these powerful explosions must have
proved most dangerous, if not absolutely fatal, to
any even of our largest ships of war which might
have come within their influence.

Dut the most interesting experiment of the day

still- remained to be performed. We, of course,
allude to the proposed blowing up of the Terpsichore,
which was destined soon to executequite as fantastic,
though not as happy, a movement as any associated
with her name. Being, however, a vessel literally
without a history, never having once been put in
commission since the day she was brought from the
private yard at Blackwall where she was built to rot
in the Medway like so many of her companions, there
is little room for the indulgence of sentiment, about
her ignoble doom. Yesterday, with the full leave
and licence of our Board of Admiralty, our " Ame-
rican cousin," in friendship, not in wrath, playedthe
part of her executioner ; and in the opinion of not a
few of the spectators many more vessels of her class
might, -with advantage to the public, be handed over
to the same inglorious fate. Useless in life, their
death might at least promote the ends of science.
But let us hasten to describe more particularly the
mode in which she at all events made a nominal gap
in our Navy List. Two 75-pounder torpedoes having
been placed at a depth of some 7ft. below her keel,
towards her bows, and the signal given for trans-
mitting the electric spark to their contents, a dull
report is suddenly heard, accompanied with a visible
upheaving and convulsive quivering of her whole
frame. Simultaneously there is a loud and painful
I clanking and rattling of chains, as though every ounce
of iron on board felt the death-agony ; cascades of
water thrown on to her deck by the force of, the
explosion are seen rushing out again from her
scuppers ; and in much less time than it takes to
tell the tale--for the whole thing is an affair of
seconds—the Terpsichore is unmistakably settling
forwards. In another moment her stern stands up
at an acute angle, and her bow sinks deeper and
deeper. Not a fragment, however, of her timbers,
is seen to be detached from the rest of her bulk,
not a splinter has been shot up into the air or
has fallen off into the water, and she appears to be
going down bodily. The mischief she has received
would seem to be a broken back ; for she still con-
tinues to go down by the head, until in about five
minutes from her first premonitory groan she lies
fast aground in the Medway mud on an even keel,
with the tide, now down to three-quarters ebb, up
to within a few inches of her port-holes. There is
not now enough water entirely to drown her, or she
would infallibly be engulfed; but she is irretrievably
wrecked, and the rising tide will in a few hours not
leave a solitary trace of her visible. She will have
to be raised by lighters and beached, so as not to
obstruct the navigation. Some of the uninitiated
spectators were perhaps a little disappointed because
there was not a more showy and, so to speak, thea-
trical denouement. They had expected possibly to
see the devoted craft shivered to atoms, and a thou-
sand fragments flying swiftly through the air. But
the torpedoes did their fatal work without any such
superfluous parade; and it requires no great powers
of imagination to call up before the mind's eye the
terrible scene of confusion and despair which such a
sudden stroke would create in a ship of war equipped
and manned for actual service. Hardly a soul on
board, one should think, could in that case have
been saved.

It appears pretty plain that vessels of war would
find a channel or river planted with these treache-
rous implements very awkward navigation, as by
running foul of one of them that is fired by percus-
sion they might at any moment experience the fate
of the Terpsichore. With regard, however, to boats
going in under an enemy's fleet and quietly depo-
siting these destructive explosives there, it could
hardly be done at all if a sharp look out were kept,
except under cover of a dense fog or a dark night ;
and it seems tolerably clear that under such circum-
stances the operation would be about as hazardous
to the assailants as to the assailed.

After the catastrophe the Admiralty yacht
steamed round the sunken hull to make a closer
inspection, and after one or two minor experiments
the party returned to Chatham. The public will
doubtless await with considerable interest the pub-
lication of an official report of the experiments.
There were many practical and scientific gentlemen
present to witness the operations, and among them
were Sir Charles Talbot, Admiral of the Nore ; Sir
Robert Walpole, Commandant of the Garrison at
Chatham ; Capt. Stewart, Superintendent of the
Dockyard; Col. Boxer, from Woolwich, &c. Mr.
Donald M'Kay, of the United States, whose con-
nection with the invention is well known, attended
on board the Wildfire, to affordthe Duke of Somer-
set and the rest of the party every information they
might require. The Admiralty tender Adder was
placed at Mr. Beardslee's service, and every other
facility for conducting the experiments was offered
by the officials of the dockyard and garrison.

Alpine Tourists.

(Prom a Correspondent of the Times.)

BEAU RIVAGE, LAKE LEMAN, OCt. 1.

It happens to us after an Alpine tour as at the
close of the more earnest and momentous journey
of life. With health and wealth we are apt to go
at too great a rate, but we are equally sure to look
back at our course with regret; and to rue the con-
sequences of our excessive speed. There is some-
thing depressing in our first descent from a high
mountain region. It is a coming down in life. We
miss the elastic air, the commanding view, the vast
solitude, the silence made audible by the incessant
yet unobtrusive music of wind and wave. Alone
with Nature in her loftiest array of beauty, we have
enjoyed a few days of unalloyed bliss ; and when
we come to the end we wonder why those days
were so few, what it was that brought us down
with such precipitance, that prevented our linger-
ing about spots with which we fell so madly in
love at first sight. But all this repining comes
too late. It is in the nature of all mountain
travellers to live fast. It is a race from col to col,
from Zermatt to Aosta, from Courmayeur to
Chamouni, and on to the end of the chapter. It is,
in too many instances, a task which fashion imposes ;
a duty to be got rid of with as little loss of time as
a stout pair of legs and a long purse can contrive.
It is easier to devour the Alps than to digest them.
Most tourists come, conquer, but do not see.
" Where have you been to-day, Bob ?"—such is the
conversation current at the Riffieburg. " Up to
the Weiss Thor." " Well, and how did you like
it ? Had you a view ?" " Hum haw ! Let me
see. I say, George, hadn't we a view ?" " Why,
not much of an one," puts in George : " on the
Italian side it was just a mass of mist, but the sky
was clear on the side of Switzerland." " All I
know is it was tough work, all over ice and snow,
and so let us look after our supper."
That may, after all, be only an extreme case, and
there are certainly many to whom the Alps afford as
much pleasure as toil. Some of the Alpine Club
men bring all the resources of art and science to bear
on their summer enjoyment. Their books, descrip-
tive of the great European chain, geologically, hydro-
graphically, &c., are read with interest at home and
abroad. Their sketches of the panoramas from the
Crammont or the Becca di Nona decorate the
dining-room walls of the hotels of Courmayeur
tarry
rarnryd
Aosta. For all that, however, the men who
on any spot more than one evening and one
th one
e morning may be set down as exceptions. v
gene-
rality every day has its appointed task, and all their
ingenuity consists in contriving to do the business
of two days in one. The English traveller takes
along with him a good stock of money, justly look-
ing it as the best of alpenstocks. Wherever he can
ride he calls for horses or mules ; along carriage
roads he goes upon wheels. He may well wish to
achieve the whole round of Switzerland, but that is
no reason why he should go over the whole of it on
foot. Even when walking a knapsack is irksome to
him ; hethinks, not withoutreason, that he does quite
enough if he carries himself. Hence is John Bull
so popular among guides, carriers, and horse hirers,
who see so much more of his cash than of that of
his neighbours. All he is chary of is time, and by

Your German tourist, on the other hand, is more
Gasthof.is to be founeddd'Tinweguitt.wl:
consistent, patient, methodical. He does the busi-
ness thoroughly ; he has laid his plans beforehand,
before he quitted Halle or Heidelberg. He reckons
days, gulden and kreutzer ; he sets out on foot, as a
general rule ; shoulders his wallet, and brandishes
his orthodox piked staff. He has no occasion for
carriers. He has his knapsack ; omnia bona sua
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secum portat. He seldom troubles guides ; his trust
wheretngi
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ehla
releevryte atleh-nekabduntrt
osoevenciwonhkn_e,
is in his Belpetch or Baedekes,'.who describe every
tedious minuteness, lead him " five minutes to the
and across the grove," till they bring him to the
nahyiics; belovedra character, and genial Baierische bier, his Kreuz Zeitung and
,filthisat constant burden on the shoulders,
doubt whether the Alps can be seen to the best
sentimentality o f
plodding
all that dust and heat, and beer and tobacco, and
scanty linen, and sore feet, have not a crushing
caedssavanuttalerienh
effect on the nerves, deadening the very sense of
the beautiful. I have met a great many of these
worthy pilgrims, generally in couples, like Fran-
ciscans in olden times, and the dull, vacant, fagged
look with which they stared at us and exchanged
a friendly " Guten tag," as we pushed past them on
our saddles or in our einsplinner, convinced me
that there was little room left in their souls for any
other sensation than that of painful toil, and
that they were mere martyrs to an idea, carrying a
principle to those extremes which border on absur-
dity. The Germans play on the Alps the same part
they have assigned to themselves in every walk of
science, art, or literature. They do the heavy work
—do it from choice or earnest conviction. Nor is
this the case of the race between the hare and the
tortoise. When the time comes for a really ardu-
ous ascent, where all men are brought on a level
and must betake themselves to their natural means
of locomotion, to their mettle and bottom, then the
walking powers of the jaded German by the side of
those of the fresh, well fed, and appointed English-
man bear the same proportions as the lumbering
pace of a pack-horse to the dashing action of a first-
rate hunter. 'Look to the Alpine exploits of the last
score or two of years, you will find that Mount
Blanc, Monte Rosa, the Jungfrau, Wetterhorn, &c.,
have almost invariably been achieved by the racing
Briton, not by the painstaking Teuton. But if
taking matters easy were the best way of seeing
Switzerland, then the beau ideal of a traveller
would be your Italian lounger. He comes across
his great mountain barrier, generally over the
St. Gothard or Simplon, boxed up in the in-
terior of a diligence, crowded to suffocation, espe-
cially in a year in which the cholera scares him
away from the dear haunts of his noisome city.
DoWn he comes on Lucerne, Geneva, or Zurich, as
if his mission were to the cities, not to the moun-
tains of Switzerland. Down he sits at the tables
before his beloved Café du Lac, sipping iced
lemonade, gazing at the mountains, and indulging
small but endless talk with his fellow-traveller,
commenting on the rich head of hair, neat ankle,
and satin skin of the English or Yankee girl tripping
past him. To that bench and that table he is
nailed from morning to late at night, or if he looks
for diversion, he seeks it at the barber's shop, where
he goes through his scanty toilet rites; or on the steps
of his hotel, where he gets his boots blacked. It is not
that he would, enervated as he is supposed to be,
lack energy or even physical strength for manly
exertion. I know a young Neapolitan who has been
up Monte Rosa. Another achieved Mount Cervin
the other day. It is with the Italian a matter of
Cui bono ? Something like Asiatic indolence lurks
about these descendants of the Pelasgic race. Ex-
traordinary stimulus -is required to rouse an Italian
into unusual exertion. The normal state of exist-
ence is for him rest and leisure, and idle drink and
drowsy talk. He does not like toil nor court peril
for its own sake, not he. The mountains look as
well—nay, look better—seen from bass to summit
than from top to bottom. The Italian carries but
little linen with him, and he requires a change of
shirt every time a walk brings the dew of heat and
fatigue on his brow. Mountain climbing may be all
very well in deep winter, but in the dog days !
Bah ! Si va tutto in aqua Si suda come bestie

Your Frenchman exhibits a somewhat different
temperament from his Greco-Latin cousin. Am-
bition, the point of honour, will allow him no rest.
His nature goads him to imitation, easily roused
into emulation. He must keep on equal terms with
his neighbour, excel him if he can. He tears him-
self for a week or two from the glitter of the
Boulevards, from the roulette and the sirens of
Baden. You have him in full bloom at Bale and
Lucerne. His tourist's costume is unexceptionable.
It has cost him time and thought, and long
consultations with ,his tailor. The Frenchman
of this class is a peculiar being, a mixture of fhe
Anglomaniac and the Anglophobist. He apes those
he hates. He is great on the race-ground ; reads
Le Sport; suns himself in the light of Count
Lagrange's triumphs. Like Napoleon at Waterloo,
he closes his fist, and exclaims, "Nous les tenons, ces
Anglais!" On his first reaching Lucerne he makes
a dash at the Righi, storms it au premier abord, as
Porsena, King of the Rasena, took the Janiculum,
on the first onset. There is no end to his noise and
gesticulation on the platform at the Kulm. In good
wind, well braced, and put in high spirits by that
easy success, he is "up to anything." He has high
courage and dashing impetuosity, no doubt, and for
a short spell you may expect from him any great
deed. He takes the first icy pass or snowy peak
that is described to him as worthy a brave man's
trial. Up at it he goes as he would at a Parisian.
barricade. Fire and quicksilver are to him instead
of sound bone and muscle. He keeps pace with the
stoutest John Bull, or, may be, even distances him ;
but with that first victory he is satisfied. He comes
down to Interlaken or Chamouni with a shrug and
a sneer. He has been on the Alps ; there is nothing
in them ; there are some scores of such snowhills as
the one he has topped, and there is only one Boule-
vard des Italiens in the world. When people talk
to him again of peaks, passes, and glaciers he will
say, "Je fus la. Connu ! Sont-ils ennuyeux, ces
touristes!"

Such are some of the specimens of Alpine travel-
lers that I have happened to come across as they
crowded together at one of these many 4g Hotels des
Quatre Nations." There are other varieties, such as
the Spaniard, less enterprising even than the Ita-
lian ; the Yankee, more bent on doing, more at a
loss what to do, than the Briton ; the Russian, a
aocuniodust2thmeoirquehususebsa;n:se'
laboriousness. Then there are the women df all
these different races; the English ladies, very nearly
cross between English energy and German drudging
outnumbering, often outdoing, sometimes disdain-
fully dispensing with, their gentlemen; the Ger-
mandeadweightcurious,
necks, affectionate, sentimental, given to ejacu-
lations and Clasping of hands ; the French
loqur
Italian signoras, bilious, out of sorts, subdued, out
of their element ; then swarms of boys and girls, in
everybody's way, always on the brink of precipices,
with breathless nurses and
grumbling flunkeys damesf:espa ueineg,
lea,
pre-
tending
to try to keep them out of mischief. Family
parties on the high mountains are chiefly English
and Germans. But your French and Italians go
about unencumbered. Their " impediments " are
either left at home, or made to tarry behind at those
great nurseries of hotels at Interlaken, Thun,
Lucerne, or Lake Leman, where the noiseis dinning
and the confusion bewildering.

SUICIDE BY A VOLUNTEEB.-11r. Edward Bartlett
Solomon, a corporal in the 12th (Truro) Duke of
Cornwall Royal Volunteers, shot himself on Tuesday
morning. Deceased was clerk in the employ of Messrs.
Smith and Roberts, solicitors, of Truro, and about half-
past nine o'clock went to thoir office, and, proceeding to a
small lumber-room, he attached a piece of cord to the
trigger of his rifle, which he kept there, and shot himself
through the heart, He was in his 49th year, and has left
a widow and several children wholly unprovided for. At
an inquest held on the body the jury retunted a verdict
of temporary insanity.