The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-29 00:00:00

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THIRD EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

SPORTING-THIS DAY.

NEWMARKET RACES.-THIS DAY.

SIT ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
GLASGOW STAKES.

Automaton
£5O PLATE.

Asteroid
SUBSCRIPTION PLATE.

Virago filly
Lady AbbeEs

Seven ran.
CROOME STAKES.

Newsmonger
Muter

ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10Three SOVS. Last half of Ab. M.
Hesper
Baron Munchausen
Four ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. First half of Ab. M.
Smoke
Arrogante
Antar
Seven ran. Dead heat for second place.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 Soya.
Golden Pledge .......... 0 1
Souveraine .... 0 2
Five ran.
OPTIONAL SELLING.

Stanton
Edgar

Six ran.

SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. T.Y.C.

Redpole
Knight of the Bath

Five ran.

BRETBY COURSE HANDICAP.

Nightshade filly • 0
Barehettina .. (Loates) 0

Eight ran.
Rnightahade filly walked over, and the stakes were
divided.

THE VOL UNTEER FORCE.

REPORT OF HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS.
Yesterday morning the report of the commissioners
appointed to inquire into the condition of the volunteer
force in Great Britain was issued. The commissioners are
of opinion that further/assistance should be rendered by the
government, and, as the most expedient way of regulating
the aid so as to secure the real efficiency of the force,
they recommended amongst other things the following :
" That there should be a grant from the government of 20s.
per man for every light horse, engineer, mounted rifle, and
rifle volunteer, who can produce a certificate, according to
a form to be prescribed by the Secretary of State, signed by
the commanding officer and adjutant of his corps, or by the
commanding officer and adjutant of the administrative
battalion to which his corps belongs, that he has
attended nine drills, six of which in the case of a consoli-
dated battalion, and three of which in the case of an admi-
nistrative battalion, should be battalion or troop drills, in
the course of the preceding 12 months ; that he is efficient
in drill, has been fully instructed in the manual and platoon
exercise, and, in addition to the above drills, has gone
through a course of musketry instruction to be laid down
by the Secretary of State , and also that he was present on
parade (unless absent by leave of his commanding officer
with the approval of the Secretary of State) on the day of
inspection; and an additional grant of ten shillings per
man for every volunteer who can produce a similar certifi-
cate that he has fired a certain amount of ball cartridge,
according to regulations to be laid down by the Secretary
of State. That in the case of a recruit 30 drills,
including a short course of musketry instruction, should be
substituted for the drills already enumerated, in order to
qualify for receiving such certificate. That a power should
be reserved to the inspecting officer to disallow the certifi-
cate of any man or body of men whose inefficiency may be
manifest on parade. That the existing definition of an
effective should be repealed. That divisional or brigade
field days and official inspections should not be reckoned in

the number of drills above specified. That in the case of
artillery volunteers a further grant, beyond that already
made by the Government, of 30s. per man should lw made
for every man who can produce a certificate signed by the
commanding officer and adjutant of his corps, or by the
commanding officer and adjutant of the administrative bri-
gade to which his corps belongs, that he has attended 12 gun
drills in the course of the preceding 12 months ; has been
present at the gun practice of his battery, and is an efficient
gunner ; that he was present on parade (unless absent by
leave of his commanding officer with the approval of the
Secretary of State) on the day of inspection. During the
first year of service "attendance at 30 drills, of which 24
should be gun drills, should be substituted for the condi-
tions above enumerated. That in addition to all other
allowances a sum not ;exceeding 4s. per head per annum
for each member who has been certified as efficient, in any
corps where the head-quarters are distant beyond fiN e
miles from the place of meeting of the administrative
battalion to which it belongs, should be granted

to the commanding officer of the battalion in aid
of the expenses of conveying the members of such
corps to battalion drills. That the adjutant should
be responsible to the War-office, in the event of his
being employed to act as paymaster, for all sums received
on account of such corps, and for their having been expended
strictly according to regulation, and that he should be put
on the same footing as an adjutant of disembodied militia."

SINGULAR SURGICAL CASE.

The following instance of a wound in the heart,
which did not prove mortal, is reported by Pi ofesser
Brugnoli of Bologna, in the Bolletino delle Scien:e
Mediche. In 1835, a shoemaker of Bologna, named
Pietro de Luca, received a stab two inches below
he left nipple and not far from the sternum, the
weapon penetrating the heart. He was brought to
the hospital, where he remained under treatment for
the space of 78 days, at the end of which time his
wound was completely healed, and he asked for per-
mission to leave the hospital. At that period
he was still subject to violent palpita
Lions, and by auscultation under the col-
lar-bone and the arm pit an unmistakable wheez
ing might be distinguished, which masked
the sounds of the heart. There was moreover a
double cardiacal pulsation, viz., between the fifth
and seventh, and between the third and fourth ribs.
A few months later this man was enabled to return
to his trade ; a tumour then appeared under the left
collar-bone, but disappeared through the agency of
a pulmonar ha3morragy. A long time after he was
subjected to a new medical examination on account
of another disorder, and on that occasion evident
signs of hypertrophia of the heart, with a wheezing
which covered the natural sound of the organ, were
detected. He subsequently became subject to vari-
ous bilious affections, and ultimately died in the
Clinical Hospital on the 12th of April, 1855, that is
nineteen years and seven months after the infliction
of the wound. Upon dissection, the heart, which
has been preserved in the Museum of the Faculty,
presented the aspect of an eccentric hypertrophia,
a thickened pericardium adhering to the external
surface by numerous ligaments, some of which
were encrusted with osseous concretions. The right
ventricle presented a scar of a whitish colour. The
weapon had not only perforated the pericardium,
but also the anterior face of the right ventricle, and
traversed the septum ventriculorum, wounding the
valvula mitralis, and the endocardium on the poste-
rior and opposite face of the left ventricle behind
the valvula, so that the heart had very nearly been
pierced through and through.

Importing Tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passing off inferior leaves as in the
usual kinds Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore,
always good alike. Sold in packets by 2,280 Agents.
GARDEN PATHS.—In some districts gravel is as
scarce as gold-dust, and people are put to many shifts to
make good garden paths. But the nature of the surface
material is not of so much consequence as the making a
good foundation to begin with. Coal ashes and tar, with
a sprinkling of dry ashes and a good rolling, makes a good
, firm path; so do coal ashes alone on a hard dry bottom,
and in a kitchen garden will do nearly as well as gravel.
One of the driest walks we ever trod on was at a little nur-
sery in the country, and which consisted entirely of oyster-
shells about two feet deep. But this was found to encourage
weeds of all kinds, and there was no way to keep them
down but by the frequent use of salt. Burnt clay ballast
makes a nice hard walk of a red colour, but it always gives
one an idea that building or railroad work is going url intn
place. On the south-mt coast chalk is the prevateiline
ma-
terial ; in Lancashire and Northumberland was
magnificent used.
windychiefly
weather os f small
blows upood deal of dust
thes gcentre or side of
shells, makgo'aelsias
tdoislatuyrtbhethdermain.—pGipaers:
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thate w a l
knoi s fromd e sip .
diggingln t•hiee smallabr a ease gardens
rpeol davrecet netr. cultural Cabinet.
them.—G'ar-
dener's Weekly
"Ara° Nrz"FINLAND.—The Finland jour-
THE HARVEST I-
na yuometo estimates at 530,000 souls the population
' ng from the effect of the bad harvest in the
which is out f eri
Governments of Uleaborg, Kuopio, Wasa, Tavastehus, and
saw
• t Michel. Active measures have been adopted by the
Finland Qovorument to assist tI4O necessitous inlakbitants.