The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29, 1865.

GREAT ST. JAMES'S-HALL.—WORLD of
MAGIC, Second Sight, and " Begone, Dud Care."
every evening at & A Day Performance. Saturday, at 3.
" The most varied entertainment in the metropolis."—Vide
the Press. Admission, Is.

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) Maccabe, the unrivalled. ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VIREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&^., in his original entertainment, 66 Begone, Dull Care,"
"Miss Mary May," " N arty in the Mornin.f." Balcony, 2s ;
reserved seats, 3s. ; stalls, ss. ; at Mr. Austin's office, St.
James's-hall, 26,
A. NIMSIO, Acting Manager.

WESTBOURNE HALL, Westbourne-grove,
Bayswater. W.

THE GREATEST WONDER OF THE DAY.

MORNING PERFORMANCE, (by Special Request) on
sATutt DAY, the 26th, and WEDNESDAY, the 30th of
August, and SATURDAY, the 2d of September.
The BABY ACTRESS, age, Two Years and Ten Days, will
Recite and Act a whole scene trom Shakspere's Play of
KING JOHN. give borne amusing COMIC SKETCHES,
and in the course of the evening a SEA SONG and DANCE
(in character). This Little Wonder is as pretty as talented.
and excels by far any juvenile prodigy that has yet appeared
in public.

From the Era, July 22, 1865.—" A genuine and remarkable
novelty is now beiatz exhibited. She is literally a baby, not
having reached the age of two years ; and is gifted with in-
telligence and powers of memory to a marvellous extent.
She recit.s whole scenes from ' King John,' A Midsummer
Ni2ht's Dream,' &0., with appropriate action and astonishing
earnestness. A more wonderful instance of precocious in-
telligence cannot well be imagined. She may be truly classed
among the wonders of the present day."

Likenessos, ts. each. Programmes and words of the per-
formance may be had in the halt during the entertainment.

In addition to the above performances, Mr. ALFRED
HOWARD'S DRAMATIC RECITALS and COMIC
SKETCHES, interspersed with Music.
Doors open at 2.30. Commence at 3. Admission, ls.; first
seats, 28.; reserved seats, 3s. Tickets may be had from Mr.
Whirley, Westbourne Hall, or of any book or music seller.

T " X F O R D.
6, OXFORD STRICRT, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell. Barrie. Walmesley, Tyrell ; Messrs. A. St.
Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmatte.

Cothedy, Burlesque. &e., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans. Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TEeSY
and SARA. GUNNISS.

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No DICE —The Oxford hae been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable places of resort in the Yingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.

• ----
The Classical Ballet. entitled TH If BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.

Admission—Area, 6d.; stalls and balcony, 18. ; private
boxes, 10s. Bd.

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 path]) ishment.
Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Durlah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
All visitors to London at this season should pay a visit to
the above establishment

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.--
Established 30 years, at the Bazaar, Baker-street.
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.
Life-size Models of DOCTOR E. W. PRITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpenee.
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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday morning at 8 o'clock the Ist Battalion
Coldstream Guards, commanded by Lieut.-Col.
Feilding, paraded at the Infantry Barracks, Sheet-
street, Windsor, and marched with drums and fifes
to the Eton side of the river, where some 200 of the
men were engaged in a succession of aquatic sports
and exercises, such as swimming, diving, and other
feats. The battalion afterwards returned through
the town, the troops singing on their way back to
the barracks a variety of popular songs. The bat-
talion will leave Windsor on Friday for New Chel-
sea Barracks.

The detachments from the 4th King's Own Regi-
ment, 15th, 20th, and 35th Regiments, selected to
augment the service companies of the Royal Cana-
dian Rifles Regiment, the particulars of which were
given in 2he Sun of yesterday, left Chatham gar-
rison at an early hour yesterday morning for Ports-
mouth, where they embark on board her Majesty's
iron screw steam transport Himalaya, 700-horse
power, with the other troops proceeding to Canada.
The departure of the reinforcements of cavalry
and infantry for Kurrachee, which was to have
taken place yesterday morning, has been again de-
layed, a telegram having been received at Chatham
garrison notifying that the chartered transport
Beaumaris Castle, in which the troops are to em-
bark, will not be ready to receive the draughts on
board until Thursday next, when the detachments
will embark from Custom-house quay, Gravesend,
prior to which the Beaumaris Castle will be in-
spected by Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole, K.C.B.
Gen. Sir. J. Pennefather's period of command of
the Aldershot Division having expired, the inhabi-
tants of Aldershot have determined to present him
with a testimonial ; 100 guineas have been sub-
scribed, which have been expended in the purchase
of a silver Cellini cup from the establishment of
Messrs. Garrard and Co., goldsmiths and jewellers
to the Crown, Haymarket. The cup bears the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Testimonial to Lieut.-Gen.
Sir J. L. Pennefather, K.C.8., from the inhabitants
of Aldershot and neighbourhood, on his retirement
from the command of the Aldershot Division, Sept.,
1865." The testimonial will probably be presented
in the course of a few days, and the General will
leave the camp about the middle of the ensuing
month, when the command of the Aldershot Divi-
sion will devolve upon Gen. the Hon. Sir James Y.
Scarlett, K.C.B.
Yesterday morning a district court martial, of
which Major W. H. Kerr was the president, assem-
bled, by order of Major-General Sir R. Walpole,
K.C.8., in the general court martial room at
Chatham garrison, for the trial of Alex. M'Cluskey,
a private, attached to the 65th company of the
division of Royal Marines Light Infantry, on a
charge of striking Assistant Surgeon William Con-
nolly, M.D., while in the discharge of professional
duties. The accused had been previously sen-
tenced by court-martial to a term of imprisonment
for a military offence of which he had been con-
victed, and it was while he was at Melville Hospi-
tal, undergoing the customary medical inspection
prior to his removal to the military prison at Fort
Clarence, Rochester, that he broke away from the
escort, and rushing at the medical officer assaulted
him in a very severe manner. Evidence was ad-
duced to show that dnring the time the prisoner
has been in the corps of Royal Marines, a period of
five years, his character and conduct have both been
very bad. A short time back the prisoner stabbed
a man during a quarrel in a public-house, for which
he was sentenced to 12 months' hard labour in
Maidstone Gaol, and on another occasion he
wounded a comrade on board ship by stabbing him
in the forehead. He has also been several times
convicted and punished by divisional and other
courts-martial. The finding and sentence of the
Court for the present offence will not be promul-
gated to the troops until the proceedings of the
Court have been submitted for approval to Major-
General Sir Robert Walpole, K.C.8., commanding
the district.

Her Majesty's screw troop ship Himalaya, Capt.
T. B. Lethbridge, sails this morning from Spithead
for Halifax and Quebec with the following troops
on board :—Royal Artillery—Major Simpson, Mrs.
Simpson, three children, and servant; Major,
Field ; Capts. Chalmers and Heberden ; Lieuts.
Pretyman, Shuttleworth, Pipon, Rawes, Allen,
Kenneway. Ist Battalion 25th—Capt. Hope and
wife, and Lieut. Dobson. 30th Regiment—Capt.
Grascott and Ensigns Goodwyn and Kemble. 4th
Battalion 60th Regiment—Capt Phillips, Mrs.
Phillips, and servant, and Ensign Cunningham.
Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade—Capt. Hyshe and
Ensign Walpole. The 4th Battalion of Rifle
Brigade—Capt. Norris and Mrs. Norris, child,
and servant, and Ensigns Hon. N. Littleton and
Viseount Cola, 2d Battalion, 7th Regiment—Liouto,

Nowell, Rochfort, and Winter, and Ensigns B.
Stuart and St. George. Canadian Rifles—Ensign
Selby. Ist Battalion, 16th Regiment—Assist.-Surg.
Kerr. 47th Regiment—Capt. Thompson, Mrs.
Thompson, and child. 6th Regiment—Capt. Grant;
Staff-Surg. Nangle, Mrs. Nangle, and two children.
Assist.-Surg. Taylor, Assist.-Cora,-Gen. Mills, Mrs.
Mills, and child. 763 men, 26 women, and 51 chil-
dren.

The operation of fixing the 8-inch and 6-inch
armour-plates which will protect the reconnoitring
tower constructed on the upper deck of the ironclad
frigate Bellerophon, 16, 1.000 horse-power, was COlll-
- at Chatham dockyard yesterday, and dur-
ing the day two of the large fore and aft plates were
safely fitted to the tower in the positions they will
occupy, the work of planing and boring the. plates
having previously been effected in the factory de-
partment of the dockyard. The port and starboard
portion of the tower—which, it may her 6 be re-
marked, is of elliptical form, with the shorter dia-
meter fore and aft—will be protected by armour-
plates 8 inches in thickness, but as this portion of the
tower will be of conical form, the chances of any
hostile shot effecting any injury to it, although ob-
viously more exposed than the other portions of
tower, are reduced to a minimum. All the 8-inch
plates have stood the bending, slotting, and planing
processes to which they have hstarbjected without
exhibiting any flaw ; indeed,' a iron from which
they have been worked appears to be of the toughest
and best description. The 8-inch plates are the
largest yet operated upon at Chatham dockyard, but
arrangements are now being completed for bending
and working armour-plates of 9 inches in thickness,
or double those of the thickness of the Warrior, with
which the sides of the iron frigate Hercules, to be
built'at Chatham, are to be encased. Even this thick-
ness of plating has been exceeded at the works of
Messrs. John Brown and Co., Sheffield, where seve-
ral thousand tons of armour-plates of no less than 13k
inches in thickness have lately been manufactured
for the Russian Government, for encasing the sea
face for the ports at Cronstadt.
The iron-cased screw steamship Lord. Clyde, 24,
built at Pembroke, arrived in Plymouth Sound on
Sunday morning, accompanied by the paddlewheel
steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt. Elphinstone D'O.
D'A. Aplin. Yesterday morning the Lord Clyde
was towed into Hamoaze, where she will be fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve. She mea-
sures 4,067 tons, and has engines of 1,000-horse
power.

The screw steam frigate Constance, 31, Capt.
Edward K. Barnard, which arrived last week in
Plymouth Sound from the eastward, is appointed to
go into Hamoaze, where she will be fitted for duty
on a foreign station, probably the West Indies.

Visit of the French Fleet to Portsmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 28.

The preparations for the reception of the French
Fleets are to-day being pushed on with increased
vigour. The naval authorities are, of course, as busily
engaged as they can be ; the military authorities are
doing everything to render their part in the pro-
ceedings of the week effective; while the civic autho-
rities are vieing with both, and not without the
hope of coming very creditably out of the contest.
They must, however, have been somewhat dispirited
when they rose this morning and found that the
weather had completely broken the bright promise
of yesterday. To the success of the civic portion of
the entertainment here, which will partake very
much of the nature of a fete champetre, warmth
and sunshine are all but absolutely essential, and
the morning held out but little prospect of either.
Rain set in at a very early hour, and continued to
fall until near noon with a quiet steadiness which
looked as if the weather was determined not to ex-
haust itself by any violent effort. The glass fell,
and with it fell the hopes which were yesterday so
sanguine. The afternoon, however, remained dry
throughout, and, although the sky is somewhat over-
clouded, the prospects of fine weather to-morrow arc
not so gloomy as they at one tine of the day appeared.
Notwithstanding the wetness of the morning,
Portsmouth wore early a lively, bustling aspect.
Troops marched through the town from different
directions, bound for Southsea-common, where, un-
der the command of
Sir G. Buller, K.C.8., they
went through a series of manoeuvres, preparatory to
the grander display which is to take place on Fri-
day. The troops were organised in three brigades,
the first consisting of the Gth and 12th Brigades of
Royal Artillery, the 3d company of Royal Engi-
gineers, and the 75th Regiment, being under the
immediate orders of Col. Paynter, C. 8., and Brevet
Major Colclough ; the second brigade, which was
composed of the Ist battalion of the 14th Regiment,
the 81st Regiment, the 87th Fusiliers, and the 52d
Light Infantry, were commanded by Col. Penny
and Capt. Butler ; while the third, which was made
up of the Ist and 2d battalions of Royal Marine
Light Infantry and the Ist and 2d battalions of
Royal Marine Artillery, were under the command
of Col. Tate, Brevet-Major Cooke acting as Major
of Brigade. The entire number of troops which
will muster on Southsea-common on Friday will, it
is expected, not be more than between 3,000 and
4,000 men, and as the cavalry will not be repre-
sented at the review, it can scarcely be made a very
imposing military display. While the two services
and the civic authorities are making their prepara-
tions on a great scale, the people of Portsmouth are
far from being content with the part of mere specta-
tors. The inhabitants of more than one street and
district have clubbed together and subscribed small
sums to defray the expenses of erecting triumphal
arches. Two very handsome structures of the kind
with transparencies attached to them are now fast
approaching completion near the railway station
on the Landport-road. It may be that not one
of the French officers or seamen, in honour of
whose visit those arches have been constructed, will
catch a glimpse of them, for they stand rather upon
the outskirts of the town ; but then their erection
serves as one among many instances to show that
the reception which awaits the fleet of our allies is
not merely official, but national in its its spirit. The
transparencies generally are more remarkable for
the fidelity with which the- designs embody the sen-
timent of the occasion than for any artistic merit in
the execution. One in particular, displayed outside
a house on the road leading to Southsea, attracts
notice by its size and the brightness of its colouring,
It represents an English sailor with the union-jack
flying from a pole which he holds in his left hand,
while with the other hand he warmly clasps the
hand of a French sailor bearing the tricolor, who
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banquet on board the
to-morrow evening will not
number more than between 60 or 70. They will dine
Zkhe e
of guests
.wellig invitedton to the
on the middle deck, which the commander of the
vessel—Captain Seccombe—is now doing his utmost
to transform into a gorgeous saloon. The guests
will consist almost exclusively of French and
English officers, and Captain Seccombe will by a
curious inversion of the laws of hospitality be in-
vited to dine on board his own ship. The Duke of
Wellington will be illuminated at the conclusion of
the banquet. •
The committee who are engaged in the organiza-
tion of the dinner, concert, and ball, which make
up the somewhat formidable programme of the en-
tertainment to be given by the Mayor and Corpo-
ration of Portsmouth on Thursday at Governor's-
green have already received for the purpose up-
wards of £2,000 ; nor have they the slightest doubt
that the much larger sum which will be necessary
to expend in order to make the municipal fetes

worthy of the national character for hospitality will
be speedily raised.

Portsmouth now contains nearly as many visitors
as'it can conveniently accommodate, and the same
may be said of Southsea and Gosport, and all the
towns in its immediate vicinity. How the thou-
sands who are yet to come are to be provided for it
,is impossible to say, unless they proceed somewhat
upon the principle of the two Irish students, who,
wishing to live cheaply and to divide their expenses,
entered into an agreement that the one should board
and the other simply lodge, an arrangement by no
Means in favour of the latter.

" The following is a list of the French officers who
will accompany the fleet which is to-morrow to lie
beside our own at Spithead :—The Commander-in-
Chief of the squadron, Vice-Admiral Count Bonet
Willaumez, whose flag will be hoisted on board the
Solferino ; Rear-Admiral Baron de la Ronciere,
who will be on board the Magenta; Rear-Admiral
Fabre de la Maurelle, on board the Normandie ;
Rear-Admiral Saisset, on board the Couronne ;
Rear-Admirals Pothuan and Meguet. The captains
are Captain Chevalier, commanding the Invincible ;
Captain Robinet do Plas, Solferino, Captain
Bourgois, chief of the staff of Count Bouet Wil-
laumez ; Captain Miguel de Riu, commanding La
Gloire ; Captain de Surville, Provence ; Captain
Sagat Dnvauroux, Heroine ; Captain de Rosen-
coate, Couronne ;_ Captain Le Bri§,Magenta ; Cap-
tain Bachme, Flandre ; and Captain Pierre, chief of
the staff of Baron de la Ronciere. Those are the
nine French vessels of the larger class, which, as we
stated yesterday, will visit our shores. There are
besides four frigates—the Caton, Captain Grivel ;
the Reine Hortense, Captain Charlemagne ; the
Ariel, Captain Perier d'Hauterive ; and the Faon,
commanded by Lieutenant Guys. The Staff of the
Minister of Marine will consist of Captain Charle-
magne, and Lieutenant de Warn. Monseigneur
Coquereau will:accompany the fleet as chaplain in
charge.