The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-25 00:00:00

Drury-Lane Theatre.

The commencement of the winter season at Drury-
lane Theatre has always been regarded as one of the
events of the year, and, on Saturday, evening last,
one of the largest audiences ever assembled within
the four walls of the national establishment met to
celebrate the occasion. The fact was all the more
pleasing from the circumstance that the immense
attendance was attracted by the announcement of
" Macbeth" and " Comus" for representation, as it
bore convincing evidence that the works which
charmed an English audience nearly two hundred
years ago still held their ground as firmly as the
greatest lcver of Shakspere could well desire.
The cast of characters differed somewhat from
that of last year. Mr. Swinburne now sustains
the part of Macduff, Mr. Macintyre that
of Rosse, Mr. H. Drayton Hecate, and Miss
Atkinson Lady Macbeth. On Mr. Phelps's
Macbeth it is unnecessary to dilate, for it is too
well known and appreciated. It has great vigour,
most careful study, and is read with an intuitive
perception of the poet. The mingled visionary and
determined nature of the character, with its strange
mental susceptibility and ferocious criminality, are
thoroughly understood and appreciated by Mr.
Phelps, and it is a fine Shaksperean interpretation
of the wonderful creation. The reception of Mr.
Phelps by the audience was enthusiastic. Mr.
Swinburne's Macduff was the novelty of the evening,
and it is satisfactory to find that he is imbued with
true Shaksperean appreciation and feeling. His
reading of the part was natural, and highly
artistic. Miss Atkinson's Lady Macbeth was
one of the best we have witnessed for a long
time. The music was very efficiently given ;
indeed, more so than last year, as the fine voice of
Mr. Drayton as Hecate was a great improvement
over the metallic organ of the gentleman Kilo last
year attempted the undying music of Matthew
Locke. Miss Poole and Miss A. Thomson, as the
principal female singing witches,' sang their respec-
tive scores with great effect, and the choruses were
all executed in a remarkably fine manner.

The Masque of " Comus' followed the tragedy,
Mr. Drayton assuming the part of Comus. There,
we think, he got a little out of his depth. He is a
careful and judicious vocalist, but he is by no means
a brilliant elocutionist, and the latter quality is
requisite to embodying the character of the arch
enchanter. Mrs. Vezin, as the Lady, delighted the
audience with her beautiful and tasteful reading,
and Mr. E. Phelps received great applause for his
performance of the part of the Elder Brother.
The scenery and decorations, both in the tragedy
and masque, were superb. Taken altogether, the
opening of the theatre was attended with great
success, and gave happy augury of a prosperous and
brilliant season.

THE MURDERER OF MAJOR DE VERE.—We are
informed that there is an inaccuracy in the paragraph in-
serted on Saturday respecting the execution of Currie. In
Kent criminals are executed on the first Thursday after the
third Sunday from the day of conviction, which in this case
will be Thursday, Oct. 12, on which day the execution wil
take place at 12 o'clock at Maidstone gaol.
THE AUTHOR OF " GUY LIVINGSTONE" has
arranged to contribute to Once a Week a serial tale, which
will appear forthwith. It is to be entitled " Sans Merci, or
Kestrels and Falcons."

SWISS GARDENS, SHORETIA3I.—As these cele-
brated gardens are about to close, after a most suc-
cessful season, we should advise the visitors to Worthing
and Brighton, to pay them a visit while they have the
opportunity to do so. Mr. Goodschild, the spirited pro-
prietor, having obtained a theatrical licence, has laid down
a new stage in the theatre, and has for the first time pro-
duced a burlesque, entitled "Prince Hassan." The piece
is smartly written, and contains the following plot. A cer-
tain Princess Fairstar (Miss F. Howell) being kept a
prisoner by the Uglymuggio, the gnome king (Mr. Hillier),
Prince Hassan (Miss Maria Rhodes), a knight of the usual
gallant order, leaves his home to set the maiden free,
but, unfortunately, he is caught by the Gnome
and condemned to death unless he can procure
something which his satanic majesty cannot swallow. The
Prince consults his papa and sister, King Sillibillio and
Princess Romanica (Mrs. Leicester and Mr. E. Ravens-
wood), and with the assistance of Rhoda (Miss I. Howard
they prepare the most extraordinary and indigestible dishes
the world has ever known ; but, to their utter dismay, the
Gnome not only swallows them, but, like Oliver, asks for
more—these not being forthcoming, he determines to
have Prince Hassan served up, after being well pep-
pered. Fairstar, to save her lover, and to gain time,
commences a long story, with so many improbabilities in
it, that the Gnome is forced to own he can't swallow it.
No sooner is the word uttered than his magic power deserts
him, aud, like all bad people, he is doomed to reside below
The lovers are then united, and all ends happily in a grand
transformation scene, painted by Mr. Marston, which
would do credit to one of our metropolitan theatres. The
ladies and gentlemen engaged made the most of their
parts, and a triangular combat between the gnome, Prince
Hassan, and King Sillibillio is much relished by the audi-
ence. The other amusements consist of boating on the
lake, archery, the story of the far-famed Cinderella carried
out by dissolving views by Mr. Childs and a Bal de Nuit,
where those who are fond of saltatory exercise may enjoy
themselves to their hearts' content. We understand
during the recess Mr. Goodschild intends to enlarge the
auditorium of the present theatre, and will commence the
forthcoming season with a variety of novelties, and a new
burlesque, which is to rival some of the old Lyceum
pieces.

The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress will give a
banquet to the Lord Mayor-Elect, Court of Aldermen, and
chief officers of the Corporation, at the Mansion House, on
Tuesday, 3d October. This banquet usually takes place on
Michaelmas-day, but it has been deferred this year till the
above-named date in accordance with the wish of Mr.
Alderman Phillips, who will, in all probability, fill the
office of Chief Magistrate during the ensuing year.—City
Press.

FALCONER V. CHATTERTON.—The following is the
order of the Vice-Chancellor on the opening of the
theatre:—" Let the motion stand over, and, without pre-
judice to the notice, lot the theatre be opened, with Mr.
Roxby and Mr. Phelps as stage managers. Let the money
be paid to the bank in the usual manner, but with liberty
for Mr. Baker to attend in the treasury and to investigate,
if he think proper, the accounts of the money-takers, check-
takers, and box-keepers, and other accounts of the theatre,
with liberty to either party to apply on a week's notice,
lir. Falconer himself to be at liberty to concur in superin-
tending the acting management without prejudice to his
allegation that the partnership is already dissolved."
A company is about to the formed at Paris for
establishing a lino of steamers to ply between Paris and
London. The capital is to be 5,000,000 f., which are
£200,000. Some large export houses of Paris are at the
e e
were capitalsth at it
head of the affair. A few years back a line of steamers be-
tsrn the two
made
wma.esalsdtarnteetd ;saacnedeedth, predic-
tionsoeuwgihegtothe
voyages up
and down the Seine being, from the windings
and shallowness of the river, both long and difficult, it has,
it appears, been very prosperous. The great advantage of
not breaking cargo more than compensates, it is said, for
the lose of time which the voyage by river and sea occa-
•
410126 CIADPar° d with that by railway and the channel.—
aippiny and aercantile Gazette.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Afro. 25.

The traffic on the East Indian Peninsular Rail-
way has been stopped by floods, but they have now
partially subsided, and the traffic has been resumed.

The native directors of the Commercial Finan-
cial (?) have been committed on a charge of for-
gery, and liberated on heavy bail.

JAPAN.
(By Direct Overland Telegraph.)
SHANGHAI, AUG. 21.
Advices from Japan announce that Sir Harry
Parkes is establishing a Legation at Jeddo.

TURKEY.

CONSTANTINOPLE, SEPT. 22.

The committee of the Bourse have decided that
after the next settlement, sellers of Cons°'ides will
have the right of delivering New 5 per Cent. Stock.

The Wreck Registtr and Chart for 1864.

-- Ap.

In the face of the gratifying fact that our com-
merce is year by year expanding itself by many
thousands of tons of shipping, it is a lamentable and
mortifying truth that the advance of our science and
skill does not keep pace with this expansion in
diminishing the number of wrecks that every year
play out their tragedy on our shores. With unfail-
ing progression, the wrecks and casualties, during
the past year, have moved on from mouth to month,
until the aggregate number amounts to 1,741.
So great is the number of our losses in shipping
that the admirable document of the Board of Trade,
" The Wreck Register," has become at last a publi-
cation of great importance and interest, chronicling,
as it does every year, with unfailing accuracy not
only the loss or disaster to every vessel in our seas
and on our shores, but also the number, so far as
can be ascertained, of the precious lives lost there-
from. It may be argued that this loss of life and
destruction of property are the natural consequences
of our immense and increasing commerce, repre-
senting, probably, 70,000,000 tons of shipping, and
of the value of £500,000,000. In commenting on
the facts detailed in the register, it is not our pro-
vince
to dwell minutely on the destruction of pro-
perty, as that is a matter which concerns ship-
owners, underwriters, and others, but our observa-
tions will bear more particularly on the lamentable
loss of life, although it is an encouragement to know
that we are making great and rapid progress by our
life boats, and other means, to lessen such loss.
Our life boats and rocket apparatus have multi-
plied amazingly on the coast, and in lieu of having
to lament, as in past years, the loss of 800 or 1,000
lives during the last 12 months, the number who
perished on our shores during that period amounted
to 516 only, amongst 4,000 or 5,000 persons placed
in imminent peril by shipwrecks ; the number lost
in 1863 being 620. Still, this is a large number;
and it is to be hoped that the public will continue
to support the National Lifeboat Institution, thatit
may unceasingly use every effort to reduce oven
that number. It appears from the returns that
30,261 lives have been saved by lifeboats, the rocket
apparatus, shore boats, ships' boats, and other means,
from 1855 to 1864 inclusive—a fact which is with-
out a parallel in the history of philanthropic efforts,
and that 3,619 lives were thus saved last year alone.
During the past few years this country has been
visited by terrific gales of wind ; and there is no
question that the increase of our shipping casualties
has occurred in particular gales of remarkable vio-
lence. For instance, in 1859, our shores were visited
(among other gales), with the storm which proved
fatal to the Royal Charter and 446 lives ; in 1860,
there was a succession of gales throughout the
year ; in January, February, and November, 1861,
there were fatal gales from the N. to E. and S.E.,
which alone added upwards of 460 to the number
of casualties in that year ; in 1862, the westerly
gales of January, October, and December added
upwards of 540 to the number of casualties ; in 1853,
the westerly gales of January, March, September,
October, November, and December added upwards
of 930 to the number of casualties ; and in 1864, the
easterly and westerly gales of January, February,
March, October, and November added upwards of
400 to the number of casualties.

Of the 1,741 vessels which mec with disasters in
1864, 1,431 are known to have been British ships,
and 246 foreign ships ; while the country and em-
ployment of 61 are unknown. Of the British ships,
454 only were foreign going, and of the foreign ships,
179 were making voyages to or from the United
Kingdom, and 13 were employed in the British
coasting trade, the remaining 1,095 were employed
in the coasting trade, with the exception of a few
foreign ships which were passing the coasts of the
United Kingdom, on foreign voyages, and those
whose country and employment are unknown.
Of the total number of casualties reported in 1864,
351 were casualties arising by collision, and 1,039
were casualties from causes other than collisions.
Of these 1,390 casualties, 467 resulted in total losses,
and 923 in damage more or less serious.

Of the 38G total losses from other causes than
collision, 163 only were caused by stress of weather,
89 were caused by carelessness, incompetency, and
neglect ; 39 from unseaworthiness, or defects in the
ship, or her equipments ; and 95 from various acci-
dental causes.

As usual, the number of ships of the collier class
meeting with accidents is nearly half of the whole
number of ships to which casualties happened dur-
ing the year, amounting to no less than 844 ; and
this notwithstanding the loss of 74 fishing vessels
during the various gales of 1864. It is to the un-
seaworthy and ill found vessels of the collier class
that the great number of casualties on our coasts is
due. It is worthy of notice that, of the 1,741 ships
to which accidents happened in 1864 only 136 were
steamships, only 91. exceeded 600 tons burden, and
only 328 exceeded 300 tons burden.
The tonnage of the ships is given as follows :

Vossols under 50 tons ..• •.•
11 51 and under 100 ...
17 101 „ 300 ...
301 „ 600 ...
601 71 900 ...
71
901 11 1200 ...
71 1201 and upwards ...

Vessels.
323
432
658
237

1741

The age of the vessel is also given, as before, in
the register. During the six years ending 1864,
757 casualties happened to nearly new ships, i.e.,
ships under three years of age; 3,252 to ships from
three years to 14 years of age ; 3,894 to ships from
14 to 50 years of age ; 300 to ships from 50 to 80
years of age ; 9 to ships between 80 and 90 years
of age ; 5 to ships between 90 and 100 years of age;
and 3 to ships above 100 years. _ _

The greatest number of casualties, as usual, hap-
pened on the east coast ; but the disasters attended
with the greatest loss of life on the coasts during
the six years ending 1861 occurred on the Irish Sea,
between England Ireland. These shipwrecks are
clearly defined on the wreck chart which accom-
panies the wreck register. On it is faintly repre-
sented the fearful scenes which play out their tragedy
on our shores every winter. We observe that at the
entrance of our great trading parts all over the
kingdom the black dots on the wreck chart are very
numerous; and while they indicate doleful ship-
wrecks they also tell of noble deeds performed by
our lifeboat crews in the face of death snatching
many a life from a watery grave.
The cargoes of the vessels to which casualties
happened in 1864 are given as follows .

Colliers laden 523
Colliers light ... ... 99
Iron and copper ore, &c. ... lac
S tone, &c. .;. 96
Timber ... 83
Fishing smacks ... ... 74
Other laden vessels ... 557
Vessels in ballast (not colliers) ... 134
Passengers and general cargo ... 49

Total ships ...

... 1,741

The winds that have been most disastrous to ship-
ping during the six years ending 1864 are here given ;
the westerly winds, it will be observed, being by far
the most fatal :—N, 272 ; NNE, 250 ; NE, 386 ;
ENE, 322 ; -E, ;.;03 ; ESE, 331 ; SE, 434 ; SE,
SSE, 306 ; S, 346 ; SSW, 586 ; SW, 943 ; WSW,
639 ; W, 556 ; WNW, 618 ; NW, 653 ; NNW, 315.
As regards the force of the wind, out of the whole
number of actual casualties in 1864, 794 happened
when the wind was at force 8 or under, i.e., when
a ship, if properly found, manned, and navigated,
would keep the sea and make the voyage in safety ;
and 514 happened whilst the wind was blowing from
a strong gale to a hurricane ; 9 occurred with a
variable wind ; and 73 with a wind the force and
direction of which is not known.

Happily casualties from collisions are not on the
increase either absolutely or proportionally with
other casualties. The annual average per cent. of all
collisions reported, as compared with the total num-
ber of disasters reported during the four years end-
ing 1860, is 23.98 ; and during the four years end-
ing 1864 is 22.24. But if only collisions properly
So called—i.e., collisions between two ships both of
which are under way—be taken, then the result will
be as stated below, for the four years ending 1860,
17.18 per cent., and for the four years ending 1864,
15.12 per cent. The numbers for the last three
years are as follows :-1862, 247 ; 1863, 197 ; and
1864, 213.

The waia causep of tho Q014i0133 during 164 aro re-

ported as being bad look out, neglect, and misapplication
of the rule of road at sea, negligence, parting cables, and
dragging anchors, Only seven total losses by collision,
and 81 partial losses by collision can, from the facts as
reported, be attributed to inevitable accident. The num-
ber of collisions reported in 1864, as happening in wea-
ther described as dark, very dark, hazy, or thick and
foggy, is 101; whilst the number happening in weather
described as cloudy, dark and clear, or clear and fine, was
90. Cases of collision have been reported in which no
look-out whatever has been kept, or in which the deck of
the ship has been left without any person in charge, and
the helm has been lashed down, although the ship may
have been sailing at full speed and in a much frequented
part of our narrow seas. In cases of this description the
master of the vessel ought undoubtedly to be prosecuted.
The enactments in the Merchant Shipping Amendment
Act of 1862, on the subject of collisions, and the rules
adopted by her Majesty's government and by the govern-
ment of the Emperor of the French, and accepted by all
maritime nations, have now become better known, and
will, it is hoped, lead to a diminution in the number of
collisions. We have thus attempted to analyse briefly this
important wreck register, and we have seen that death
levies a heavy toll on our journeys on the sea. We pay
dearly and suffer much.
Every one is now familiar with what is done by our noble
fleet of lifeboats, the life-preserving apparatus of the Board
of Trade, and various other means, to break the tyranny of
the stormy waves, and to give safety to the 4,000 or 5,000
poor creatures who suffer shipwreck every year on our
coasts. It is true that no man can contend with the ele-
ments. It is inevitable that shipwrecks will occur from
various causes in our seas and on our coasts ; but we,
nevertheless, maintain firmly that skill and precaution can
successfully battle with the most fearful storms to a large
extent. Sailors are a careless race, and, indeed, they must
always be so, for a calculating youth would hardly select a
sailor's life for his profession in the absence of the noble
instinct which impels our young men to make that choice.
As we have often said before, those saved by lifeboats
would probably perish in their absence in ninety-nine cases
out of every hundred. The following cases which, amongst
scores of others, occurred last winter will show clearly the
character of these lifeboat services.

On the 20th February last the Blakeney lifeboat went
out and rescued a crow of 13 men from the barque Amana,
of Sunderland, which was totally wrecked during thick
weather, about three miles east of Blakeney harbour. The
lifeboat also brought ashore five men who had previously
boarded the vessel in their own boat, and were unable to
reach the laud again in her.
About 9.30 p.m. on the 7th December the St. Nicholas
light ship was observed throwing up rockets, and a light
was seen as if from a vessel in distress on the Scroby Sands.
The Yarmouth large lifeboat was immediately launched,
and proceeded in the direction of the signals of distress,
which wore found to proceed from the Austrian brig
Zorniza, of Lucnie, which had stranded on the Scroby
Sands. Every exertion was made by the lifeboat's crew
to save the vessel, and they ultimately succeeded in getting
her off the sand, but having previously lost her rudder.
she was quite unmanageable, and again got on to the sand.
The crew, consisting of twelve men and a pilot, were then
taken on board the lifeboat with great difficulty, and after-
wards brought safely ashore. The sea was very heavy, and
one of the beachmen's yawls, the Bravo, was damaged to
such an extent in endeavouring to assist the vessel, that
her crow of seven men left her and gladly got into the life-
boat, fearing their own boat would sink.
About three a.m. on the 25th November the Mary
Hartley lifeboat was launched, and proceeded, in tow of a
steam tug, down the river to Buddoness, near Dundee, to
the rescue of the crew of a vessel reported to be in distress.
At daylight the schooner David and John, of Montrose,
was seen amongst the broken water, near No. 2 Gaa Buoy,
in a dangerous position. The lifeboat immediately
pulled to her, and with considerable difficulty got along-
side and took off the crew of four men, and afterwards
landed them in safety. The weather was very stormy.
The schooner was left at anchor, but sunk soon after the
crow had been taken off.

On the 7th December signals of "distress were observed
on a vessel near the Little Orme's Head. The Sister's Me-
morial lifeboat was launched and found the vessel at
anchor, with her mast carried away. She proved to be the
flat, Morning Star, of Carnarvon. With the assistance of
the lifeboat, the vessel and her crew of three men were
brought safely into Llandudno. It blew very hard from
S.S.W. at the time.

There are at present 150 lifeboats on the coasts of the
United Kingdom belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution and 35 to local boards. The mortar and rocket
apparatus stations now number 243, and are under the
management of the Coast Guard and Board of Trade.
During the year 1861 and the first eight months of 1865,
627 lives (besides 28 vessels) were saved by the lifeboats
of the National Institution alone, and 395 by shore boats
and other means, for which it granted rewards. A sum of
£2,297 was expended by the institution in the same period
in rewards, and ..£34,128 on its various establishments
round the coasts of the British Isles.

In the presence of facts like these, the Lifeboat Insti-
tution need have no misgiving in respect to pecuniary sup-
port, whilst it pursues vigorously and successfully the
great and national objects for the promotion of which it
was established more than forty years ago. It is gratifying
and encouraging to find that in proportion as the sphere
of the operations of the institution increases, its corn-
mittee of management and officers become deeply sensible
of their great and responsible duties, and of the high trust
which the British public has reposed in them. Its local
branches and the lifeboats fully participate in this feeling
of responsibility, and so long as this mutual feeling is
maintained and strengthened, the cause of suffering huma-
nity must be the gainer.
In conclusion, we may ask who can read the account of
the lifeboat services without endorsing the eloquent words
of Miss Florence Nightingale, when she recently said, in
sending her £2O to the Lifeboat Institution, "I can never
sco the accounts of the heroic deeds constantly performed
in this cause without feeling that the age of heroes has not
passed away ; and may God bless, as he has so manifestly
blessed, the valiant National Lifeboat Institution."

THE STRIKE OF THE PATTERN-MAKERS. —There
seems no disposition on the part of the master en-
gineers to concede the advance of wages asked by the pat-
tern-makers in their employ unless compelled to do so.
The advance claimed by the men is Bd. per day, but they
are willing to meet the masters and accept Gd. per day. A
few of the masters have given the Bd., and a few more the
6d., but the advance is generally refused, and in conse-
quence the men in the employ of Messrs. Simpson, Hay-
ward, and Tylers, Grissell and Co., to the number of about
50, were last week " drawn out" by the committee of the
trade and placed upon the strike allowance of £1 per week,
and a resolution adopted that no pattern-maker shall accept
work at any shop under 6s. 6d. per day. Should these
measures be found ineffectual to gain the advance, it is in
contemplation by the men to have a general strike through-
out the trade. The pattern-makers form a most important
body.

AN ELOPEMENT NIPPED IN THE BUD.—The pas-
sengers on the Scarborough Railway had much
amusement provided on Tuesday by an old lady who was
in search of her fugitive daughter, whom she captured at
the Malton Railway Station. The fair truant was a young
girl of much personal attraction, and is, if some reports are
to be trusted, already married. Be this as it may, it
appears she had formed an intrigue with a gentleman
whose appearance was not at all prepossessing, who
at the early hour of three in the morning had helped
her out of the window of her home at Scarborough,
the lady taking with her a stock of wearing apparel.
It was ascertained that the fugitives had taken the high
road to Malton, where they proceeded to the Globe
Hotel until a train was ready for York. By this train
(which starts from Scarborough) the mother and sister of
the truant fair one arrived, of course to the dismay of the
fugitives, whose amative journey was suddenly cut short.
The old lady showered "torrents of abuse" on the guilty
swain, and taking forcible possession of her daughter, re-
paired with her to the Globe Hotel for the second time.
The disappointed lover made the best of his way out of a
place that had grown far too lively to be comfortable, and
in due time the lady—the observed of all observers—was
not very willingly, taken back to Scarborough.—Eastern
Morriny News.
THE RUSSIAN NAVY.—Mr. Charles Mitchell, of
the firm of Messrs. Charles Mitchell and Co., iron
shipbuilders of Low Walker-on-Tyne, and his partner Mr.
Swan, have each been presented by the Grand Duke Con-
stantine of Russia, on behalf of the Emperor, with massive
gold snuff boxes set with diamonds, as an acknowledgment
of the conscientious manner in which the firm have fullfilled
their engagements to the Imperial Government in the
building of armour-plated ships, :&c. Three years ago
Messrs. C. Mitchell and Co. were commissioned by the Im-
perial Government of Russia to convert one of the dock-
yards at St. Petersburg to iron shipbuilding purposes.
Having completed their task, they entered into a contract
to build an iron-plated war vessel in the new dockyard.
Under the superintendence of Mr. Swan, 14 months after
the keel was laid, the firm finished an iron-plated vessel, the
Ne Tron Menya, of the capacity of 3,000 tons, her armour-
plating having been sent out from England. During the con-
struction of this vessel, the same firm commenced at St.
Petersburg, with a turret ship, the he Smertch, the turrets being
made from drawings specially prepared by Captain Coles.
She was launched in about eight months after her keel was
laid down. She is of the capacity of 1,400 tons, and carries
heavy armament. She has a double bottom, has twin screws
for quick manoeuvring, has a bow rudder for the same pur-
pose, and with stores, coals, and armament on board she
only draws 10i feet of water. Since she has been commis-
sioned she has been tested in the Baltic with the most
satisfactory results. She can turn in a very small space,
and can bo brought out of very narrow passages with com-
parative ease. The same firm have furnished designs for
six other turret vessels of various sizes, which are being
built upon Copt. Coles's
principle in the Russian dockyards,
a
layingo
down at St.
Petersburg tons for the
frigatence o f 3,50
Russian Government, which vessel will be of the same con-
struction as our new British frigate Bellerophon. The hull
and armour-plates will be of the best Russian iron from
Siberia, and the mo.ohinery, also, will be made out in Russia.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 22.

The Queen went out walking in the grounds in
the morning, and drove with Princess Louise in the
evening.

Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, Princess
Helena, and Princess Beatrice, attended by the
ladies and gentlemen in waiting, honoured the Brae-
mar gathering with their presence yesterday after-
noon.

Earl Russell left the Castle in the evening.
Sept. 23.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of
Hesse, Princess Ilelena, Princess Louise, and
Princess Beatrice went to a dance given by the
Prince of Wales at Abergeldie yesterday evening.
The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were in
attendance.