The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-11 00:00:00

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carriers.

" EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES,"
sold in boxes 2s. each. Thicker candles intended for those
who will not burn thin.

" SHERWOOD ECONOMIC BED LIGHTS,"
In packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use
where cheapness 1. a great object, will be found an improve-
ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less.
Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, ls. and 28. 6d each;
reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each.

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Camphor and Glycerine Soap
GLYCERINE.
Price's Glycerine" may be
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Prica's Patent," from 6d.
upwards. Impure Gly cerine
has been sold on the state-
ment that it is "equal to
Prices."

' SOAPS.
Soap, with a pleasant scent.
contains trice's Glycerine.
•, fo tender skins in winter.
SHERWOODOLE
Cleans gloves and removes
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Perfumed, in capsuled bot-
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SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
HO VIE, Hampstead. Office,,, 77, Cornhill.
PATRON - The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
Capt the Hon. Francis Maude The Rev. Canon "lamp!)
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R.V. I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants .ervice and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service, and provides a home free of • expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
Tne Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasi g applications through the
recent storms and less f life at sea, and to enable them
even ually to obtain premises more commensaratt w th the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Mew, No. 77, Curnhill.
R. SWEETING, Hon. Sec.
CHARLES NASH, Sec.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected trom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five•years. Here are brief details of a tew
of the most recent cases :
F. V., aged 16, fallen, 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.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., sized 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S. aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents
M. K., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
K, K,, aged 18, fallen, both parents (lead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both part nts dead.
31. 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
oung 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.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-in.n-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, KG

President—His (l race. the Duke of BUCCLEUCH,
This Hospital, foundi I in the year I£o.B, 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 con •icierable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mae-
ertnan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by rdessrs. 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 hams, Deacon, and. Co. ; Overend. Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-btreet ; I. Barned and
Co., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFQIiI) SMITH, 1600retitry.

The usual meeting of this Board was held yesterday at
the offices in Spring-gardens. The President, J. Thwaites,
Esq., took the chair at 12 o'clock.

The cash statement for theFINANCE current week shows a total
general balance of £684,853 16s. 4d.
THE WELLINGTON CLOCX. TOWER, LONDON-BRIDGE.
A letter was read by the Clerk from Mr. Stirling, the
clerk of St. Saviour's, Southwark, stating the necessity of
removing this clock tower for the accommodation of the
traffic of the metropolis, and that accordingly Mr. Bennett
had removed his clock. The telegraph company had inti-
mated that they would be prepared to give up possession in
a few days, and the district board now offered to present
the tower to this Board, provided they would erect it in a
more convenient locality.
Mr. HARRIS moved that the matter be referred to the
Streets Committee.—Agred to.

WIMBLEDON EARS BILL.
The Streets Committee brought up a report recommend-
ing a petition to Parliament against this bill, and that it
be referred back to them to take the necessary steps for
supporting the same. The report was adopted.

PRESERVATION OF FORESTS AND COMMONS.

Mr. DOULTON, M.P., pursuant to notice, moved a resolu.

tion to the effect that ;, it was advisable to preserve the
forests, commons, and open spaces in and near the metro-
polis, and that it be referred to the Streets Committee to
collect and adduce such evidence before the select commit-
tee of the House of Commons on the subject as may tend
to promote so desirable an end, and to report tho heads of
such evidence to the Board."

Mr. LE BRETON seconded the motion, which after a brie
discussion was agreed to.

THE KENSINGTON vESTRY-OIIARGES AGAINST THE
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The Clerk of the Board read a letter from Mr. Green, the
clerk of the Kensington Vestry, to the following effect :
"Kensington Vestry, Vestry-hall, Clerk's
Department, Feb. 9, 1165.
am directed by the Kensington Vestry to for-
ward to you the annexed extract from the minutes of their
proceedings, and to request you will have the goodness to
lay the same before the next meeting of your Board.—l
am, sirs, yours, &c.,

"R. GREEN, Vestry Clerk.
J. Pollard, Esq., Clerk, Metroplitan Board
of Works, Spring-gardens."

" Extract of the minutes of the proceedings of the Ken-
sington Vestry on Wednesday, the Bth February, 1865
William Harris Hunt in the chair :

44 The vestry then proceeded to consider the report of
the Main Drainage Committee of the Metropolitan Board of
Works on the evidence given before a committee of the
House of. Commons on the sewage of the metropolis, and
some statements which have been made in the metropolitan
vestries and district boards in reference thereto.
" Whereupon it was moved by Mr. Richardson that
this vestry, fully admitting that some of the charges made
against the Metropolitan Board of Works are destitute of
foundation, and that others have been successfully rebutted
by evidence, does not consider it necessary to offer any
opinion either in favour or against the policy adopted by
that Board ; but the members of the Kensington Vestry de-
sire to place on record the high sense they entertain of the
ability and integrity of their representative, Mr. Freeman.'
" The motion was seconded by Mr. Sparrow.
" Tho following amendment was then moved byMr.Brown
and seconded by Mr. Watts :

That thii meeting is of opinion that the said report is
of an incomplete and unsatisfactory nature, and that such
charges ought to have been investigated by an impartial
tribunal, and not by a private committee of the Board, who
without giving notice to the parties making such charges
in order that they might have had an opportunity of sub-
stantiating the same, did adjudicate upon them, and acquit
the Board and its engineer of all blame.'

"A division being called, the vestry divided, whereupon
the Chairman announced the result of such division as fol-
lows :—For the amendment 5, against it 50.

" The Chairman then put the original Motion, and de■
dined the same carried, with one dissentient."

The Field-Marshal Commander-in-Chief will hold
a levee at 1 o'clock on Wednesday, the 15th inst.
On account of the crowded state of the garrison
at Woolwich Lieut. Parker and a detachment of 50
non-commissioned officers and men of the local
division of Royal Marine Light Infantry yesterday
left head-quarters for Deptford, and orders were
received from the Horse Guards, to hold in readi-
ness the Ist battalion sth Fusiliers, in command of
Col. W. C. Master, C. 8., to proceed to Dublin at
an early date. The battalion was yesterday mus-
tered in full strength on the Royal Artillery parade,
in command of Major Bigge, to the number of 750
of all ranks. The departure of the regiment from.
Woolwich will be generally regretted, on account of
its temperate and well-behaved conduct during its
stay in the garrison.
Two experimental trips have been made this week
at Plymouth by the ironcased screw steamship Zea-
lous, 20, 3,716 tons, and engines of 800-horse power.
She was tested on both occasions under the superin-
tendence of Capt. W. Edmonstone, C. 8., of the
guardship of the steamship Indus, and the Govern-
ment engineers from Keyham steamyard, on the
part of the Lords of the Admiralty, and of Mr.
Warrener on the part of the manufacturers of the
engines, Messrs. Maudslay, Sons, and Field. At
the measured mile on Wednesday two runs only
were made, as the weather subsequently became too
thick to distinguish the marks with accuracy. Each
run occupied the same time-4 min. 50 sec., equal
to 12.416 knots. The wind was from the north-
west, with a force of from two to three, and the
sea was smooth. On Thursday the weather was
perfectly clear, the wind from the north-west, with
a force of from four to five, and the sea was smooth.
Under full power she made six runs, which pro-
duced a mean rate of 12.596 knots ; under half -boiler
power four runs gave a mean of 10.193 knots.
These results were considered very satisfactory.
The Zealous is rigged, but her armament is not on
board. She had only 40 tons of coal ; her draught
is 21ft. Bin. forward, and 22ft. aft. The load on the
safety valve was 201 b., and on the boilers 201 b. ;
vacuum in condensers fore and aft, 24in. ; half-
power, 25 ; revolutions of engines ; maximum, 58
mean, 56 ; half power, 48 and 47i ; weather baro-

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meter, 30.40. From the time of moving the tele-
graph the engines were stopped in 13 seconds ; she
started ahead in seven, and stopped in 20 seconds.
The temperatures were taken at noon—at 2 p.m.,
and at 4 p.m. ; on each occasion they were—on
deck 42 deg., and in the engine room 56 deg., in
the fore stoke-hole 96 deg. The engines are consi-
dered to have worked very satisfactorily ; there were
no hot bearings, and the boilers'did not prime, and
gave an abundance of steam. The screw of the
Zealous is four bladed, in diameter 19ft., and pitch
24ft. It was constructed by Messrs. Maudslay and
Co., according to their mode. The engines are
similar to those on board the Gibraltar and De-
fiance. She was placed.on Friday in the steamyard
at Keyham, to be fitted for the first division of the
steam reserve in Hamoaze.

The paddlewheel steam vessel Medusa, Master
Commanding John H. Allard, left Plymouth on
Thursday evening, having in tow the hull of the
old sailing frigate Indefatigable, 50, for Liverpool,
where she is to be converted into a reformatory ship
for boys.

The screw steam gunboat Landrail left Plymouth
on Friday for the West Coast of Africa.
The name of Gen. Sir J. W. Sleigh, who is just
dead, is associated with many of the leading mili-
tary engagements of the country. The deceased
general was born at Hanworth, Middlesex, in 1780,
and, having received his education at Winchester
School, entered the army in 1795, and was constantly
employed regimentally for a period of 47 years. In
1839 he became colonel of the 9th Lancers, and in
1854 attained the rank of general. In 195 he served
in Flanders, and in 1799 in the campaign in North
Holland and the Helder, being present in the actions
of the 10th and 19th of September, and the 2d and
6th of October. He served in the Peninsular War,
1811-12, at the siege of Badajos, the battle of
Salamanca, at Elbodon, and the cavalry affair at
Tories. At Waterloo he commanded the 11th
Dragoons, and succeeded to the 'command of the
4th Brigade of Cavalry, which he held on the ad-
vance to and the taking of Paris. In Paris 1819 he
aceompanied his regiment to India, and commanded
the cavalry at the siege of Bhurtpore, 1825-6. After-
wards he received the thanks of Parliament for his
gallant and meritorious conduct. His next appoint-
ment was that of Inspector of the Indian Cavalry,
after which he became Military Secretary to the
Governor-General (Lord William Bentinck). This
led to his being placed as Major-General of Divi-
sion on the Staff at Bombay, and he remained there
for three years. On returning to England in 1839
he was made Inspector-General of Cavalry. The
deceased was a K.C.8., a Knight of the Bavarian
Order of Maximilian Joseph, and ; had medals for
Waterloo, Bhtirtpore, Salamanca, and other places.

DEPUTATION TO THE HOME SECRETARY.
Yesterday, a deputation waited upon Sir G. Grey
at the Home Office, with a view to request him to
rescind the orders issued by him, respecting the
working of traction engines excepting during the
hours of 12 o'clock at night at 8 in the morning,
which was highly prejudicial to the agricultural
interests.
The deputation was introduced by Lord Kinnaird
and among the many gentlemen present were the
following members of Parliament :—Mr. Malcolm,
Col. Sykes, Mr. Grosvenor Hodgkinson, Sir J. C.
D. Hay, Bart. ; Messrs. W. Lawson, Jas. Mackie,
R. Hodgson, the Hon. A. Kinnaird, Lord Harris,
Sir Geo. Dering, Bart., Mr. G. S. Beacroft, &c., &c.
There were also several justices of the peace, and
many landed proprietors and tenant farmers in at-
tendance.
Lord KINNAIRD, addressing Sir George Grey,
said that no doubt he was aware that a large and
influential meeting had been held respecting the
restriction which he (Sir G. Grey) had ordered
upon traction engines. His lordship had the hon-
our of presiding at that meeting, and a resolution
was passed deprecatory of the order restricting the
passage of engines on the highways, excepting
during the hours of night. Lord Kinnaird then said
that he had no doubt that Sir George Grey felt
bound under the Act of Parliament of 1861, to press
the certain restrictions contained in that act ; but
he had found that by the use of traction engines in
the daytime no accident had ever occurred, and he
hoped that the act would be amended.
Sir G. GREY said that by the sth clause of the
Locomotive Act of 1861—not as a general clause—
if it was shown that there was wear and tear, and
breaking up of the roads by the use of locomotive
engines, and inconvenience and danger attendant
thereon, the magistrates of the county, on represen-
tation thereof, would cause him to put the act in
force, and, if only upon danger, he must fall on the
clause, and restrict the hours of the use of the
locomotive to night. There had been a strong
representation from Agbrigg, in the West Riding
of the county of York, to the effect of the
danger attending the daylight working, and the issue
of the order was prompted by what he had received
from some of the justices, and on which he felt it,
was to the public interest to enforce the restriction
of the law. If, however, they found it possible to
take their engines on the roads without smoke or
noise, the order would at once be revoked. In his
own immediate neighbourhood a horse had been
frightened by one of those engines, and the life of
a magistrate had been thereby sacrificed. How-
ever, if any means could be adopted whereby in-
convenience and the frightening of horses could be
prevented, it would be a great advantage. Mr.
Wells, who was employed on the new buildings, had
said that he was employing engines without noise or
smoke, and he hoped that such was the fact. He
thought the question was one that should go before
Parliament.

Sir JOHN ',HAY here presented a memorial signed
by eight magistrates and 98 landholders.
Sir G. GREY said he had received a memorial from
the Steam Ploughing Company, but he could do
nothing until they could show that the act required
modification, which would then rest with Parliament.
Lord KINNAIRD said that the modification had
come from the magistrates, way wardens and others,
and one chief constable, they had been told, had
never himself seen a traction engine on the road.
Sir G. GREY—Yes, and others had said that they
hed seen four or five traction engines on the road,
and that the horses became frightened,
and thereby
rendered the road dangerous.
Several other gentlemen spoke upon the subject,
showing that the agricultural and mining interests
were highly oppressed by the restrictions n
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Sir G. GREY said that in the day there might
1,000 people out, but in the night there might not
be more than five, and he would ask if on a winter
night, when they closed their labours at 5 o'clock,
and wished to go to another field, would they not
remove the en engine.
A tenant farmer
replied that they should not, but
said itwould be hard if in the day they had finished

memorial of the inhabitants of Cornhill on tt.
ject, and to adopt such I)l2:l:sures as may be d
necessary for the better proLetion of the pro
of the citizens.
This will now have become the more imp,
necessary in consequence of another burv;l,.
the city early yesterday morning, and of a tea
bery—the third within the last four years on
same premises—in the warehouse of Mr. Batt,
merchant, at 126, Lower Thames-street, about, the
very time at which the burglary in Cornhill was
being effected. Mr. Jacob Herman Epstein, a
leather merchant, has recently taken premises at
11, Newgate-street, and stocked them with a
large quantity of material in the way of his
trade. During Thursday night his warehouse was
broken into and thirty-five dozen of skins of
the value of about £7O stolen. The thieve.s are sup-
posed to have concealed themselves in the upper
part of the premises, which was undergoing repair,
after the workmen had left for the day, and to have
bided their time until Mr. Epstein's warehouse was
closed for the night. Failing to pick the lock they
cut bodily away with a centrebit the part of the
door to which it was fixed, and so entered the place.
There they broke open and ransacked the desks, but
without finding any money, and then decamped
with the 35 dozen skins. These were of very con-
siderable weight and bulk, and probably a cart or
cab was used in removing them ; and yet the thieves
escaped with their booty unchallenged by the police,
which is the moral of the story. Again 22 packages of
tea, worth £BO, were stolen from the warehouse of
Mr. Batten, in Lower Thames-street, between last
Saturday evening and Monday morning. On two pre-
vious occasions, in February, 1862, and again in
February, 1864, a cartload of tea in chests was
stolen from the same premises. The warehouse of
Mr. Batten adjoins that of Messrs. Keeling, and on
Saturday or Sunday last, as in February,:lB64, the
thieves entered the premises of Messrs. Keeling,
and cut through a partition wall of brick 18lin.
thick on one occasion and 14in. on another, to get
at the warehouse of Mr. Batten. There is also a
rumour that about 2,600 gallons of brandy have
recently been stolen from a bonded warehouse in
Lower Thames-street, in the occupation of a
private firm of wharfingers, the revenue on which
alone will amount to a large sum and be lost to the.-
Custom-house.
Up to last evening the thieves in Mr. Walker's
case were still at large. The reward of £l,OOO
continues to be offered for their apprehension and.
conviction.

Foreign Mail Packet List•

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton.. • Feb. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pao.et Mar. 6.
Ditto, by British packet .......... . Feb. 2'.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... •Feb. 18.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton Feb 18,
Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 1'
Falkland Islands ..................
Gibraltar, via Southampton . • • • "Feb. 11,
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton..., Feb. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles • ....Feb. 12.
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Feb. 1/.
Ditto, via Marseilles ....Feb. 20.
Mauritius, via Southampton ...........
...
.......... • FeU. 11.
Ditto, via Marseilles. ...........
Newfoundland ........................................Feb.Mar' 8.
............ l5.
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship ... ... • .Mar. 6.
to Lisbon .............
United States and British North ..
.....
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.....
Bri-
tish packet ............ America., by
Ditto, by United States. ......... .. ....... ...Feb. 23:
tcn ...... packet, via •Southamp-
.....
Ditto, via Cqrk ...................
Ditto, by Canadia.n• .............
• • ......
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Vest Coast 01 Africa, Packet, via Londonderry.. Feb 17.
Vest Indies and Madeira, and Toneriffe ... .. Mar. '3.
and Mexico.. - - Pacific (except Bahallas, Cuba,
Feb. 13.

Bahamas, via.
New York
Bermuda, ditto
Cuba and SirXiCO

Mar. 9.
Feb. 15.

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