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THE ST-I‘l LONDON, TLTESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12, 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
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and character actor.

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Albyn, Husk, and Green, with full Band and Chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jongbmans.
Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, Aro., by the celebrated D'Au-
bans, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA. GULi...NISS.

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NOTICE.—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 Miss TESSY GUNNISS will make her re appear-
ance THIS EVENING.

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

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Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.

Director, Mr. F. Jongmaus.
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.

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Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

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. Hues, R.A., Assist.-Surg. T. D. Milburne,
in medical charge of troops ; Miss Marzack and
servant ; Mrs-. Aynslie, three children and servant ;
Mrs. Hallet, 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
consgiquence 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 fête-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 tattery 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.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
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MENADE is NOW OPEN for the Season.

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Manager, Mons. GRENET.

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and complexion beautiful beyond comparison. -47 A, New
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Continent and Brighton.

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.

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Works—LONDON and BIRMINGEAX.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new descrip-
tion of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires,
or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth
as not to be distinguished from the originals by the closest
observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will
be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This
method does not require the extraction of roots, or any pain-
ful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are
loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastica-
tion. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful
in mastication.

AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1802.
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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail.
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLE UCH. K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing, several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Bias
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott. Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W 'Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; T. Barned and
. Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFORD SMITE,. 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 ploughman, 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, hi the island of Kerrera, re-
turned in the evening in a small boat, accompanied by the
ferryman and WKinnon'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 11 at
night. An hour or so thereafter two persons who were
returning to Oban by the Gallanach-road, which looks
across the Sound to Kerrere, 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 Rook, 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 tothe capsized boat had disappeared; the other
who turned out to be the ferryman, had drifted, with the
boat, close to the shore, which ho 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 he was being lifted into the boat the
younger M'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 be 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.

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nal power from 1,250 to 1,350-horse. When the
Minotaur takes on board all her armament, stores,
and crew—completes, in fact, in every respect for
sea service and then goes over the measured mile, it
will be no hazardous prophecy to say that her speed
will be found to be half a knot under that of the
Warrior's.

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!

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Treaty with the United States. Should it be denied.
as seems most likely, they will doubtless endeavour
to console themselves with the reflection that the
Americans, having but little lumber of their own
except in Maine, in which it is being rapidly ex-
hausted, must purchase the excellent lumber .of
Canada, let it cost what it will, that a heavy duty
paid upon it will have to come ultimately out of the
pockets 'of the American consumer, and that, all
things considered, the Federal Government, by re-
fusing to renew the treaty, will punish the American
people far more severely than they will punish the
Canadians. In addition to this they may, perhaps,
remember that the United States are not the sole,
although they maybe the best, customers for Cana-
dian lumber ; and that the present very consider-
able lumber trade of the province with Great Britain
is susceptible of indefinite increase ; and may pro-
bably be stimulated by the new and more cordial
relations which may grow up between the old coun-
try and the new if the scheme of Confederation be-
tween all the provinces be completed, and work half
as well commercially as it is expected to do politically
by those who have faith in it.
The ruthless destruction of the forests in the
United States, which has virtually compelled the
Americans to come to Canada for their timber,
ought to warn the Canadians of a danger that now
menaces the lumber trade. The forests of Canada,
stretching out, as they do, for hundreds and thou-
sands of miles byond the regions where agriculture
is profitable, or even possible, are popularly believed
to be inexhaustible. But, considering the accidents
to which the forest is liable, this popular belief,
where it leads to popular action, is pregnant with
danger. In dry hot summers the lucifer match of
a trapper or a lumberman dropped by accident,
or thrown carelessly upon a bunch of withered
grass, or a heap of last year's leaves, has often
kindled a conflagration which has consumed
hundreds of square miles of valuable timber. And
not only accidental fires, but those kindled by
settlers to burn down the forest patches which it is
too laborious and too costly to clear by the axe,
make tremendous havoc with the northern forests.
If emigrants always settled upon land available for
agricultural purposes, the damage done to the forest
would be more than compensated by the agricultural
gain. But such is not always the case in Canada,
and the fires in the forest have been so numerous
and so disastrous both from accident and from the
rough and ready mode of clearing unprofitable land
by the torch, to discover whether it were profitable
or not that in November, 1859, the Crown Land
Department of the Canadian Government became
alarmed, and instituted an inquiry into the subject
by circular addressed to the principal merchants
engaged in the lumber trade, and to the leading
lumbermen and settlers in the wilderness. The re-
sult was an almost unanimous expression of opinion
that more valuable timber was annually destroyed
by fire than found its way as lumber to the markets
of the world, that not above one-half or one-third
of the number of these fires could be attributed to
accident ; and that all the rest were the direct result
of the incendiary method adopted by settlers to clear
their lots for the plough. It furthermore appeared
that the Canadian Government was itself greatly to
blame for disposing of large quantities of Crown
lands for the purposes of farming, which were no-
toriously unfit for agriculture ; that the settlers,
after they had burnt the timber, too often discovered
that their land was worthless, except for the propa-
gation of the pine ; and, at the earliest opportunity,
removed disgusted, after having done all the mischief
in their power, to more fertile regions—perhaps out
of Canada altogether into the United States.
In addition to these sources of evil, the luinber-
men, trusting entirely to the supposed inexhausti-
bility of the forests, never take the slightest pains
to grow new timber in the districts they have
despoiled. The consequence is that it every year
becomes necessary to explore new streams through
the wilderness, on the banks of which timber may
be found, and on the waters of which it may be
floated down to market; that the lumber establish-
ments are thus pushed further and further from the
Ottawa, the St. Maurice, and the St. Lawrence, and
that the price of the commodity steadily advances.

One ancient lumberman, who had been in the busi-

ness 40 years, and with whom I had a long conver-
sation on the subject on board the steamer from
Montreal to Quebec, expressed it as his decided

opinion that, at the present rate of clearing by the
legitimate mode, and at the present rate of accidental
destruction by fire, the forests within 800 miles to

the north of the St. Lawrence would be entirely ex-

hausted within 20 years. Another lumberman
thought 30 years the utmost possible length of time

which the forests would " hold out " under the

present system. Mr. Gilmour, whose opinion on
the subject is entitled to more weight than that of

any other man in Canada, has recently issued a cir-
cular, entitled, "Matters for Consideration relating
to the Lumber Trade, and the Settlement of the

Country, and the Jurisdiction of the General and

Local Governments regarding the same, in the
event of the proposed Confederation of the Pro-

winces being established." in this document, while
admitting the urgent necessity of opening up the
country to bona fide settlersrand of disposing of the
Crown lands in such a mode as to attract the agri-

cultural population of the British isles to Canada,
he condemns the practice, too prevalent, of clearing

for the mere sake of clearing, and of allowing far-

mere to be deceived into the purchase of timber

lands which under no circumstances of expenditure

of labour or capital, could be made anything but a
source of disappointment to an agriculturist who
expected to live on the proceeds of his farm. Mr.
Gilmour states, as the result of his experience and
observation, that a very large portion of the public
lands of Canada which remain unsold in the pine
section are of this inferior quality. What seems to

be wanted is to get the lumberman into such regions,
and to keep the farmer out of them—not alone for
the sake of the farmer, but for the sake of the reve-

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nue which the Government derives from the lumber

trade, and with a view to the proper development
of the real wealth of the country and the rescue of
thousands of square miles of forests from ruthless

The telegraphic wires have just transmitted from
Quebec to this remote city the fact that the Cana-
dian Government, which summoned the Legislature
in extra session to deliberate upon the grand scheme
of Confederation, which has found favour with

Downing-street, has just decided, after a few days'
talk upon minor matters, and no small amount of
ministerial and personal recrimination, to adjourn
until the spring of 1866 the discussion of all the

questions involved, except the purchase of the north-
western territory. Whatever may be the case else-
where, this embryo capital takes the matter very
quietly, is not at all surprised, not at all offended,
and, it may be said, does not appear to be at all

concerned. If Confederation be pushed, well and

good; if Confederation be adjourned sine die, well
and good. Such is the prevalent temper of the
public mind. Perhaps, if it should turn out that
the Canadian Legislature are resolved to purchase
the rights of the Hudson's Bay Company to the

North-Western regions for a million sterling by a
Canadian loan guaranteed by Great Britain, the
interest to be paid by the Canadian people, the
prevalent apathy may give place to a warmer feel-
ing. To touch an Englishman's pocket was once
thought to be peculiarly dangerous. But if one
may judge the Canadians by the same test it is still
more perilous to touch theirs on any pretence what-
ever, and more especially with reference to the pro-
ject of Confederation. If England desires us to

confederate " let England pay the cost." The

statesmen of Canada do not argue in this manner ;
but it requires no lengthened stay in the country
for any one to convince himself that such is the
feeling of the great mass of the Canadians, both
French and English, who ever give themselves the
trouble to think upon the subject.