The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-12 00:00:00

52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.

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.

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President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., M.P,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Stephen Cave, Esq., M;P. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
Henry E. Gurney, Esq. Abel Smith, Esq., M.P.
Samuel Morley, Esq.
COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. H. 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. Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. I Mr. R. T. TurnbulL
Treasurer—W. H. Willans, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. B.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. O. Charles, £6, Suffolk-street,
Pall-Mall East, S.N.
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-

street, N'.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 I 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 ease, 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 is 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 10r:i, and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee feel constrained to plead for those iyho
cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—la it right to make a widow and her tamily paupers for
life because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
h.lp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must
ail go into " the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the
little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doing to others as we would they should do unto us that when
these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "tuft away,"
none of us sheu'd be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe the 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
ace, 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 timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli.
ance and self-help be permanent burdens to the State.
the 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 presents 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 seho, 1 work—reading, and writing,
and 'cipherin,, 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 livin,g 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 gaper 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 Ilfe.
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 admitted 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
Forma of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary Secretary,

THE AUTUMN ALL ENGLAND PLOUGHING MATCHES.
—These interesting competitions commenced last
week, during which three matches have taken place. At
the Berkley and Thornbury Society's match on Tuesday,
Sept. 5, the only competitors were Ransome's ploughman,
Barker, and Howard's veteran ploughman, Brown, when
Brown was defeated. At the Great Sparkenhoe match on
Thursday, Barker met Brown again, also Howard's second
crack plotighman, Purser, and three other competitors,
holding ploughs of well-known makers, and was again the
victor ; while at the Kingscote match, which took place on
the same day as the Sparkenhoe, the champion prize was
awarded to Col. Kingscote's man, Baylis, holding a Ran-
some plough. Thus the three first matches of the season
have been won by men holding Ransome's ploughs.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT OBAN.—A melan-
choly accident, whereby two young men have lost
their lives, took place on Monday morning. The circum-
stances as far as we have been able to ascertain were as
follows :—An Oban gentleman, who went across on Wed-
nesday to M'Kinnon's farm, in the island of Kerrera, re-
turned in the evening in a small boat, accompanied by the
ferryman and M'Kinnon's two sons, said to be very fine
promising young men. On reaching Oban the men went
to a hotel and had something to drink;after which they re-
turned to the boat and set off on their way home. They
were heard making a good deal of noise as they crossed the
bay, from which it is feared they may have been somewhat
the worse of drink. This might be about half-past 1.1 at
night. An hour or so thereafter two persons who were
returning to Oban by the Gallanach-road, which looks
across the Sound to Kerrera, heard loud shouting at a little
distance. Supposing it to be some one shouting for the
ferry-boat, they paid no attention ; but hearing the outcry
continue they stopped to listen ; and by-and-by in the
hazy moonlight they discerned, not far from the shore,
what seemed to be two men clinging to a capsized boat.
They instantly ran down to the nearest cottage, at the
Brenda Rock, where a boat lies, and with the assistance of
a lad there got the boat launched and rowed to the spot.
By this time, unfortunately, one of the two men who had
been clinging to:the capsized boat had disappeared; the other
who turned out to be the ferryman, had drifted, with the
boat, close to the shore, which he was struggling to reach,
but in so exhausted a state that had it not been for the
assistance which was now promptly given him it is believed
that he would never have got out of the water alive.
At the moment when ho was being lifted into the boat the
younger 141‘Kinnon was seen rising to the surface a little
further out, but before it was possible to render him assist-
ance he sank and rose no more. The ferryman was carried
almost insensible to the cottage, where restoratives were
instantly applied, and a doctor sent for. He still lies, how-
ever, in a precarious state, and has never recovered so far
as to bo able to give an intelligent account of how the
catastrophe occurred. From what he said it would seem
that at the time of the accident they had been changing
oars—that the elder M'Kinnon, while stepping from one
seat to another, lost his balance, and fell into the water,
and that the other two, making a dash over the gunwale
to catch him, capsized the boat. The elder brother seems
to have gone down where he fell ; the other two, with the
ferryman, clung to the keel of the capsized boat for a con-
siderable time before their cries were heard—too late, alas!
for one of them.—Glasgow Herald.

The hired :sailing transport Mary Shephard, 950
tons register, Capt. Croot, belonging to Messrs.
Lidgett and Sons, of Billiter-street, City, has ar-
rived at Spithead from India with time-expired and
invalided troops, after a very quick passage. She
sailed from Madras on the 3d of June, and called
in at St. Helena on the 4th of August. Her troop
and passenger list comprises Major A. B. Marzack,
60th Rifles, in command of the troops ; Capts. H.
Semple and E. C. Aynslie, 3d battalion, 60th Rifles,
Capt. J. boyes, R.A., Assist.-Surg. T. D. Milburne,
in medical charge of troops; Miss Marzack and
servant ; Mrs. Aynslie, three children and servant ;
Mrs. ballet, two children and servant ; Mr. G.
Smith, A.M. and M.C.S. ; 13 invalided soldiers, 70
time-expired soldiers, 8 soldiers' wives and 18
children, 2 insane soldiers, and 5 military convicts.
One death occurred on the voyage and one birth.
The invalided soldiers were transferred to the Royal
Victoria Hospital, at Netley, yesterday, and the
time-expired men were sent on by rail to the depots
of their several regiments. The disembarkation from
the ship was effected with highly commendable de-
spatch under the personal supervision of Captain
Stewart, Acting Assist.-Quartermaster-Gen. of the
South-west District, and the ship was enabled in
consequence to sail from Spithead again by 2 p.m.
yesterday in furtherance of her voyage to London,
to deliver her cargo. Since leaving St. Helena the
Mary Shephard spoke the following vessels :—Aug.
19, in lat. 14 N., long. 26 W., the ship John Mel-
huish, 89 days from Bombay, for London ; Aug.
23, in lat. 16 N., long. 30 W., the ship Stafford, 90
days from Sarawak, for London; Aug. 28, in lat.
26 N., long. 36 W., the Dutch bark Riches, 93 days
from Ningpo, Amsterdam.

Yesterday being a fOte-day of the Emperor Alex-
ander of Russia, the Russian screw frigate now
anchored at the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of
Wight, and the Peresuett, 51 guns, Capt Kopitoff,
from Cronscadt to the Mediterranean, at noon
hoisted the Imperial Russian standard at the main,
" dressed" with flags from royal mast-heads to yard-
arms and jibboom-end, and fired a royal salute in
honour of the day. The English Channel fleet at
Spithead and her Majesty's ships in commission also
hoisted the Russian flag at the main, with the Eng-
lish naval ensign at the fore and mizen, and fired
royal salutes. The saluting battery of Portsmouth
garrison also fired a salute, as did the battery of the
Royal Victoria Yacht Club-house at Ryde. In the
afternoon a large party of the frigate's officers and
men landed at Portsmouth on a few hours' leave
ashore. The men were clean and well dressed, and
appeared• to conduct themselves, for sailors, in a very
steady and quiet manner. All wore the well-known
cap of the Russian service, common alike in all its
general appearance to_both soldier and seaman.

The Euryalus screw frigate, wooden, 500-horse
power, 35 guns, steamed into Portsmouth harbour
yesterday to dismantle and pay out of commission,
on her return to England from service in China and
Japan.

Her Majesty's Ship Minotaur.

The Minotaur iron screw frigate, 6,621 tons,

1,350 nominal horse power, resumed and concluded
her official trials under steam at light draught of
water on Saturday. The ship's anchor was weighed
from Spithead shortly before noon, her draught of
water being the same as on the previous day-23ft.
tin. forward and 24ft. tin. aft, and her safety-valve
loaded at 251 b., the immersion of the upper blade of
the screw being 6in. Rear-Admiral G. G. Wellesley,
C. 8., superintended the trial, with Commander

Brai ± of, chip_
Mr. Matthews, Mr. Penn's joint partner in the firm
of Penn and Son, represented the makers of the
engines, and was responsible for the machinery.
The furnaces were in charge of the usual steam fac-
tory party of stokers from Portsmouth dockyard,
and the steam factory and reserve officers of the
yard conducted the•trials. Six runs were taken over
the measured nautical mile course in Stokes Bay
with full-boiler power, and four runs afterwards
with half-boiler power. The following were the re-
sults :

FULL-BOILER POWER.
Run. Time. Speed of Ship.
M. s. Knots.
1 ......... 3 57 151.90
2 4 • 8 14.516
3 3 55 15.319
4 4 20 13.846
5 3 47 15.859
6 4 27 13.483
Mean speed of the ship
••• ..• ." 14.778 knots.
Mean revolutions of the engines ... ••• 54
Maximum * ditto
..• •.. 59
Minimum ditto
••• ••• 56k
Pressure of steam in boilers ... "'2s} lb.
Vacuum ... ...
...
... ... 23 ig.

RALP-BOILER POWER.
Time. Speed of Ship.
s. Knots.
4 20 13.846
5 28 10.976
4 21 13.793
4 5 27 11.099
Mean speed of the ship
... 12.406 knots.
botlers
2.
Maximum revolutions of engines... 49
Minimumditto
...of
steam
in 47
0 lb
27 in.
The engines worked throughout from the start to
the fih with astonishing
ease and smoothness, and
without a hitch of any kind occurring. A compari-
son with the performances of other vessels over the
measured mile will be here the truest test of the
value of the rate of speed attained by the Minotaur.
The Warrior, 6,109 tons, 1,250 horse power, has
been set up as the standard vessel of her class for
comparison of speed, and if we take her, in the first
instance, we find that she was tried at the measured
mile on Oct. 17, 1861, drawing 25ft. of water for-
ward and 26ft. sin. aft, having then her guns, crew,
and six months' stores on board—proceeding, in
fact, to sea on a cruise on the day following the
trial. Her mean speed of six runs with full boiler
power was 14.356 knots.
The Black twerit
shha her weights also on
ship
pll
to the Warrior, was
tried on May Prince,22
board, drawing 26ft. of water forward and 27ft. aft,
17,
and realised a mean speed of 13.502 knots with full
, 86
boiler power.
The Achilles, 6,121 tons, 1,250 horse power, was
tried on March 15, 1865, drawing 25ft., llin. of
water forward and 26ft. 11in. aft, and realised
14.322 knots with full boiler power.
The Warrior was never tried at light draught.
The Achilles was tried at 22ft. 9in. forward and
23ft. 7in. aft, but from some unexplained cause only
made 14.358 knots. The Black Prince at a light
draught of 21ft. 11in. and 24ft. Sin. made 14.213
knots. The Minotaur has, therefore, beaten both
the Black Prince and the Achilles at light draught,
but as the Warrior was never tried under the same
circumstances, she gives no opportunity for compa-
rison with the Minotaur's performance of Saturday.
If we compare the deep-draught trial of the Warrior
with the light-draught trial of the Minotaur, it will
be found that the former, with a mean immersion
of 2ft. 41in. in excess of that of the Minotaur, has
only been beaten in speed by the latter by .422, or
less than half a knot.

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The only inference that can possibly be drawn
from these facts is, that although the Minotaur has
reached the highest rate of speed of any ship of war
at the measured mile, yet her gain at light draught
is so slightly in excess of the Warrior's speed at deep
draught that the latter ship is undoubtedly the faster
of the two, and will still retain the position she has
held uninterruptedly since her first period of com-
mission by Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8.,
as the swiftest ship under steam in her Majesty's
navy. True, it may be said that the Minotaur ex-
ceeds the Warrior slightly in tonnage and displace-
ment. This, however, is more than compensated
by the increase inboiler space and length of piston-
stroke given to the Minotaur to increase the nomi-

There is much to be considered in relation to these
trials of our ships of war over the measured mile
course. At first sight the system appears fallacious
and altogether wrong in principle, the ship never
attaining the same rate of speed at sea in her after
career that she attained at the measured mile, and
which is placed against her on the Admiralty re-
cords as her steaming rate. The fact is, however,
that on the measured mile the ships are pushed to
their utmost, and all under as nearly similar con-
ditions as possible, the results giving the Admiralty
not the sea-going speed of each vessel, but the diffe-
rence in speed between each vessel, and the trials
over the mile are therefore in reality only " compa-
rative," yet they certainly afford, by deducting a
certain percentage from the rate, means of ascer-
taining pretty correctly the steaming powers of a
ship at sea. With the data obtained at the mea-
sured mile the Admiralty possess a reliable time-
table of the capabilities under steam of the several
classes of vessels which now form the somewhat he-
terogeneous fleet of her Majesty's navy. It would
certainly be very easy for the Lords of the Admi-
ralty to increase the value of our present trials of
the speed of ships at the mile by establishing a rule
that each ship the day after her trial over the mile
should run over a certain distance, measurement
being taken of the fuel burnt. From Spithead to
Cherbourg and back would be a very good distance
for the purpose. It is a very remarkable fact that,
with one exception, no ship in her Majesty's navy
ever gave a higher rate of indicated horse-power--
and very seldom has the rate been equalled—during
her period of commission on active service than that
which she exhibited on her trial over the mile. The
one exception alluded to is the Warrior. In the
early part of her commission, under the command of
Captain Cochrane, being on the skirts of the Bay
of Biscay in company with the Black Prince, the
two magnificent frigates made a fair race of it across
the Bay for Gibraltar, and on that occasion the in-
dicator diagrams of the Warrior gave her engines
an indicated horse-power of 500 in excess of what
they gave on the measured mile trial!