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

No. 22,869.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
THE LADY OF WINBURNE.
13y ALICE KING, Author of "Eveline," &c.
" This work is much better than either of the author's for-
mer stories, pleasant as they were. Miss King gives us in
this book a very interesting plot, and kee;:s the interest alive
with a well-sustained wybtery. It Miss King can go on im-
provin" at the rate evidenced by The Lady of Winburne,' a
day will come when she will not want troops of readers."—
Examiner.

Eurst and Blackett,l3, Great Marlborough-street.

Sold by Simpkin, Mar hall, and Co., price 74., in cloth 13d.,
a New Work on the Teeth, entitled
PURE DENTISTRY, and WHAT IT DOES
FOR US. by A. E:,:IiELL. Grosvenor-street, W.
" From the great success of the previous work on Dental
Surgery by the same uthor we anticipate the above will be
read with avidity by all classes who are interested in discri-
minating between pure and meretricious dentistry."
John C. Clements, Little Pultency-street.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1865.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, 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, ls.

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) 3laccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

ILIREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
ac., in his original entertainment, "Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s ;
reserved seats, is. ; stalls, is. ; at Ur. Austin's office, St.
James's hall, 28, Piccadilly.
A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall,
Piccadilly.—The only original and veritable legitimate
CHRISTY MINSTRELS Every Night at 8, Saturdays at 3
and 8, retaining all the specialties and old favourites who
originally created the reputation of the Company. Fauteuils,
55.; stalls, Is ; unreserved seats, 28. ; gallery. Is. Tickets at
Austin's, 28, Piccadilly.—Manager, Mr. Frederick Burgess.

GLASS, CHINA, EARTHENWARE, and
CHANDELIER a HOW ROOMS.
Notice of Removal In consequence of the late Fire.

JDEFRIES and SONS' Temporary SHOW
• ROOMS.
16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITECFIAPEL,
Five Minutes' walk from their Late Establishment,
147, HOUNDSDITCH.

HEOXF O R D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmesley, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Ma-
dame Maria; and Miss Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, Evans, W. Williams, and Senora Tivoli and Spagnoli,
with full Band and Chorus.

CRYSTAL and BRONZED CHANDELIERS, New Designs,
for the Dining and Drawing-room, either for
Gas or Candle.
_ ___

T DEFRIES and 16 and 17,
• COMMERCIAL-STREET.

PETROLEUM LAMPS and WALL LIGHTS, MIRRORS
(for India).
T DEFRIES and SONS, 16 and 17,
tl • COMMERCIAL-STREET.

TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS.
Newest Patterns, Correct Measure.
DEF RIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17 ,COMMERCIAL-ST REEL

ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES,
For 12 Persons, £1 18s. 6d.
I- DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

TABLE GLASS, CHINA, and EARTHENWARE.
CLUB, MESS, and FURNISHING ORDERS for the above
GOODS promptly executed.

J -- - -
DEFRIES and SONS supply Designs and
• Pattern Books Free.

Works—LONDON and BIRMINGHAM.

SWEET OPOPONA X, PIESSE and LUBIN'S
new Perfume.—OPOPO "AX is a native flower of
Mexico of rare fragrance. This scent, and a thousand others
for choice, 'Zs. 6d. and ss. each. Sold by all fashionable
chemists and perfumers.— Laboratory of Flowers, 2, New
Bond-street, London.

TOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
'Jr TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder ; gives the teeth a pearl ti hlteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the
the breath. Price is. 61-12, Three King-court, Lombard-
street, London.

OSBORNE'S

DR. CULVERWELL'S GRAND TURKISH
BATHS,
3, Great Marlborough-street, 3 doors from Poland-street,
Ladies every Monday.
Gentlemen all other days, 2s. each ; 15, One Guinea.
Also opposite the Post-office, 19, St. Martin's-le-Grand

MADAME RACHEL'S Matchless ROYAL
ARABIAN TOILET OF BEAUTY gives youth and
beauty, grace and elegance, to persons wrinkled, scared, or
aged, as on the grea trial (Rachel v. Carnagie) it was then
proved beyond a doubt that Rachel was an is the sole pro-
fessor of the beautiful art of which her name stands the
marvel of the age. All other persons presuming to style
themselves enamellers, and who are vending injurious and
destruct ye compounds in imitation, commit a gross fraud on
the public. —47 A., New Bond-street.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S 1110 C-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFEtITED AND EXHIBITED IN TIIE GREAT
:XIiIBITIONB OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to oe the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of 11 ERNI A.
File use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its affects,
s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
,ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Iloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
nd closeness that it cannot; be detected, and may be wore
/firing sleep. A descriptive circular may lie had, and the
truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the air-
iumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
-eta to the naanufucturer,

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Balle►, Comedy, Burlesque, &c., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA GIINNISS.
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NO LICE.—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 BEAUTY,
in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will
apoear THIS EVENING.
The HUNGARIANS— The Brothers and Sister KIRALFI
will have the honour of introducing their National Dances
in ea stume every 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, Mons. Alex-
andre, mimic, and the Sisters Dashwood, their first appear-
ance. _

Director, Mr. F. Jongma.ne.

All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,.
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant asslort
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obehsks,u k.
stands, heautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &C., in Pali!.n ,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar,
_4Ol
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, AIL"'
ralogist to her Ilaiesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
II INERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly fudlitate
the interesting study of DIINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINId-
RkLOGY is given by 111.r.TENNANT,F.G.S., at 149. Strand.

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-PRESIDENTS.
Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P. 1
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.

COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. I Rev. H. M`Sorley.
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. W. J. MaxwelL
Mr. A. D. Chapman. I Mr. Alfred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. I Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lyeett. Mr. R. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. 11. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.O
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 16, Suffolk-street,
P4ll-Mall East, S.W
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-
street. E.C.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and the Hon.
H. Cowper at Tring.

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 madebytwo 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.

31[ADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.-
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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 hope 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.

NEW ADDITIONS.—In accordance with 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 probably never equalled or surpassed, are now on view.

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

Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.

Open from 11 a.m. tilllo p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—G RAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is No W OPEN for the Season.

Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTI.
Manager, Mons. GRENET.

The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Donn open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock.

Sir BULWER LYrrON 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

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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

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was to test the effect of those formidable implements
of destruction of which so much was heard during

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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
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hear.)
in my part of the
county, in the exhibition the other day at Hertford,
Ido 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
lnsietentilgte sheepish.
hobutrhitsn I take that as a compliment to the
neighbouring
sheep. (Laughter.) And I believe there are pre-
go back they will be able to find Mr. Disraeli, and
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pass from this part of the
subject, with regard to our meetings and exhibitions,
allow me respectfully to make a suggestion, or rather
repeat that which I threw out at Hertford the other
newspapers
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

she progress of the late gigantic conflict in America.

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matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes • it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles, 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes
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Highness the Princess of Wales.

The mode of admission to th.e 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 o. age.
'With the view t o 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, 1864. It was designed to
take ta the little ones whose charact r and circumstances
disqualify them for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those
who, from neglect, are already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by their natural 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
would joyfully see the Home filled at once; they only wait
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these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them inton
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to " run away,"
none of us shell' d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe th,-m ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, Passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming "Am I
my brother's
keeper?"
The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statistics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
acre, 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 the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand, there are numbers who, but
for the tiniely help afforded by such an Institution,
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli-
ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
'1 he Home for Little Boys has,
therefore, been established
to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of' society.
The daily routine of the Institution pr-sents all the fea-
tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones
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 scho,l work—reading, and writing,
and ciphering, and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in objects 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, Ave. 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 adiaitted free will take plane 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 spplication for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary,

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to iho 12 now in operation.
s Last ye
eaecr no fewer
wanthan 405f5FpuoNorD,
sfrainenddrloeosms,
,ymoundinfgema
total n
et
3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
wetr erj ted Irom
of the most recent cases:
F. v., aged 16, Mien, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
i. 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. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. 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 £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, he went down the line,
and a train had to bo 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,
4, you —, 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.
The 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.

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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 fur
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-
pedoes 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 and power. 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.
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long, and lft. in diameter, while the latter were no
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
for firing, in an instant there rose from the placid
bosom of the river high into the air a large column
of water, in shape and action much resembling
those great waterspouts occasionally witnessed by
sailors in mid-ocean,
and to which, though very
beautiful to look upon, they do their best to give a
wide berth. The splendid volumes of snow-white
feathery spray soared quickly to a height of little
poaewn ee
less than 200 feet, and then fell gently again in ex-
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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.
But the most interesting experiment of the day

PRICE 4d.,
STAMPED sd.'

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, played the
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
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
doing 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 drawl-
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 afford the 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.