The Sun.
London, England, 1862-08-18 00:00:00

THE SON LONDON, MONDAY EVE NINO, AUGUST 18, 1862.

The Prince of Wales has been grouse-shooting
since the 12th, over a range cf hill and dale on the opposite
side of the Dee. This proierty is held by her Majesty
under lease from Mr. Farqtaarson. His Royal Highness
is considered a capital shot, though not quite so keen a
sportsman as Prince Alfred. The deer-stalking grounds
belonging to her Majesty and the Prince of Wales extend
in a line joining Abergeldie from Balmoral to Birk Hall, a
distance of nearly eight miles.—Court Journal.

Viscount Palmerston left London on Saturday
for 'Palmer Castlo, Kent,

The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs.
Gladstone have left Hawarden Castle for Penmaenmaur,
Conway .
His Serene Highness Prince Henry of Reuss
has arrived at the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street, to
visit the International Exhibition.
The Duke and Duchess of Bisaccia La Roche-
foucauld have left the Clarendon Hotel for Paris.

The Duke of Devonshire and Lady Louisa
Cavendish have arrived at. Bolton Abbey from Holkar

The Countess of Clonmel and the Ladies Scott
have left Farrance's Hotel for Ireland.

The Marquis of Hartington, M.P., goes out in
the Great Eastern to New York this voyage. The noble
marquis proposes to make a tour in America, and is likely
to be absent several months.

We are happy to learn (says the United Service
Gazette) that Captain Willes Johnson, Bart., member for
the Montgomery boroughs, has so far recovered from his
alarming illness as to be able to return to his seat in
Wiltshire.

DEATH OF A VICTORIA CROSS OFFICER.—Mr.
Thomas Reeves, V.C., gunner, R.N., died last week at
Portsmouth. This heroic young man, for he was only 34,
had just been superannuated upon the miserable pittance of
25 a year, but only lived to draw one quarter's payment.
—United Service Gazette.

A letter from Verona has the following :—" The
Austrian forces at present in Venetia, including the garri
sons of the forts, amount to 120,000 men, from which it re-
sults that more than 30,000 men have received permission
to return to their homEs. It appears that the Austrian
Government is at last preparing to realise a grand project,
of great importance for the prosperity of Venetia, the exe-
cution of which had until now always been frustrated by
different obstacles. The upper part of the province of
Verona is principally composed of arable lands, which in
consequence of the dryness of the country cannot be culti-
vated, In 1857 the Government of the Archduke Maxi-
milian charged the engineer in chief Toncole to draw up a
plan for the removal of that defect, and at length, in its
sitting of the 18th July, the central committee decreed the
execution of the proposed project, confiding the direction of
the works to the abovementioned engineer, and authorising
the payment of the necessary sums out of the territorial
funds.

THE GREAT EASTERN.—On Saturday the Great
Eastern left Liverpool for New York. The crowds which
thronged down to the pier heads were as numerous as when
first the big ship entered the river. The Great Eastern
slipped her moorings at two o'clock, and in passing the
landing-stages she fired her farewell salute of four guns.
Owing to the character which this vessel has established
for herself as a passenger ship, emigrants have been eager
in securing berths, while shippers have participated in the
eagerness of emigrants, and the consequence is that up to an
hour before she started the stevedores were basy taking in
cargo. As a proof of her appreciation by passengers, we
may just mention that the Great Eastern took out on Satur-
day about 900 passengers. As the Cunard steamer Persia
sailed the same day a good deal of speculation is going on
as to which vessel will arrive first at New York.
SOUTH WALES RAILWAY.—The report of the
directors recommend the payment a dividend, at the rate of
n per cent. annum.
SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY.—It is generally un-
derstood that the dividend to be paid by the South Eastern
Railway for the present half-year will be at the rate of 41
per cent., or a trifle more than was paid et the correspond •
ing half of the lU st year.
SALISBURY AND YEOVIL RAILWAY.—The report
of the directors to the meeting on the 22d inst. states the
earnings for the half-year ending June 30 to be £21,099 14s ;
the earnings for the corresponding half-year of 1861 were
£18,773 lls ; showing an increase of £2,326 3s. After de-
ducting working expenses, interest, and all other charges,
the accounts now presented show a balance of £7,466 14s 9d ;
the balance on revenue account from last half-year is £2,068
15s ; total, £2,535 9s 9d. The dividend of 6 per cent. to be

paid to the preference shareholders will require £2,395 14s
ld, leaving a balance of £7,132 15s Bd. The directors pro-
pose to declare a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent., which
will require £6,440 4s 10d; and there will be carried for-
ward to the credit of the current half-year's account £699
103 10d. The shareholders are aware that, by an agree-

ment with the London and South-Western Company, the
debentures issued by the company to the extent of L 130,000
were guaranteed under the common seal of both companies.
The London and South-Western Company have now intl.
mated that, on the expiry of the debentures, their seal will
not be available for those required to replace +hem. This
has necessitated an increase of one-half per cent. In the
interest agreed to be paid on those debentures which fell due
during the last half-year. The directors have given orders
to the contractor to proceed to double an additional length
of railways, and the works for that purpose are accordingly
In active progress between Wilton and Dinton.
ROYAL ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITAL, OXFORD -
STREET.—Yesterday, (Sunday) morning the Rev. M.
Kinsey, M.A., the Chaplain and lion. Secretary to this In-
stitution located in Oxford-street, and established for the
cure of club feet, spinal, and other deformities, ably advo-
cated its claims upon public support, in a sermon which he
preached at Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury, in which he
showed that there was a great increase in the number of
patients, in the last year exceeding by upwards of 500,
those of the preceding year, and that the total number
benefited was nearly 30,000, which included adults dis-
charged with straight and useful limbs, after having been
unable to walk or even stand for nearly 20 years. There
are about 2,000 now under treatment, the numbers daily
increasing, and at least 120 waiting for admission—very
severe cases which could not be received for want of funds.
The Rev. Minister made a powerful appeal for aid, which
resulted in a liberal collection.
THE FIRE AT MR. CORONER CARTER'S. —We
regret to state that the son of Mr. W. Carter, the coroner
for. East Surrey, has expired from the effects of the injuries
he received at the late fire in the Blackfriars-road. It seems
that he received the best surgical assistance that could be
obtained, but tetanus supervened, and the unfortunate
gentleman expired on Sunday afternoon. It will be remem-
bered that the deceased was the innocent cause of the fire
by reading in bed.
A MILL DESTROYED BY FIRE NEAR STOCKPORT.
—We (Manchester Examiner) received information on
Friday evening, that the mill of Mr. Thomas Radcliffe,
candlewick manufacturer, Damstead Mill, near Stockport,
was totally destroyed by fire early on Friday morning.
From 150 to 200 hands will in consequence be thrown out
of employ. The mill was partially insured.
THE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE NEAR HYDE PARK.
—On Saturday Dr. Lankester, the coroner for the central
division of the county of Middlesex, opened an inquest at
the St. Andrew Tavern, Baker-street, Portman-square, on
the respective bodies of Mr, Barrett and his two daughters,
who lost their lives at the fire in Cumberland-street, Hyde-
park. Some formal evidence having been taken, the learned
coroner said that the court was in possession of the identity
of the deceased. He had fixed the inquest so early that the
bodies might be sworn to ; and, that having been done, he
thought the case was of too serious a character to be hurried
over. He was now enabled to grant an order for their in•.
terment, and the jury would be able to make an inspection
with him of the premises in which the unfortunate creatures
perished. He would also endeavour to get a larger room
to hold the inquiry in. The coroner and jury then pro-
ceeded to view the ruins, and from the examination made,
and the way the fire had travelled, there seems little, if
any, doubt but the misfortune commenced in the back room
on the basement, and rapidly extended up the massive stone
staircase leading from the hall to the drawing-room ; and
that while the father was endeavouring to pass his daugh-
ter out of the door he met with an obstruction, as it was
bolted ; and while trying to unfasten it the flames encircled
them, and they both dropped on the floor and perished.
The inquiry was adjourned until Friday next.
TWO CHILDREN KILLED ON A RAILWAY.—An
accident of a very distressing character occurred on the rail-
way at Amington, near Tarnworth, last Saturday, by which
two children lost their lives. They were named Geo. Henry
Lawrence, aged 13, and Harriet Elizabeth Lawrence, aged
3 years, and were the children of an agricultural labourer,
living near the railway at Amington. Wm. Lawrence said,
at the coroner's inquest—l am a labourer, and the father of
the deceased. They were brought home on Saturday
afternoon. The boy was quite dead, but the girl lived till
nearly midnight. Jas. Ratcliff said—l am a gatekeeper on
the Trent Valley Railway. I was on duty at the Aming-
ton crossing on Saturday afternoon. I saw the deceased
at the crossing; I would not let them pass as a train was
approaching. After the train had gone by I went to the
signal on the opposite side, and saw another engine and
tender coming on the down line. I shouted to the children
to stand still; my back was then towards them. On per-
ceiving that the engine had shut off steam, I turned and
saw the two children lying on the line. I lifted them on
to the bank. II enry Smith deposed—While acting as fire-
man on the engine in question, I observed a little girl run
on the line, and a little boy ran and caught hold of her to
The engine then struck them. I first saw
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hour. The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death,"
at the same time urging very strongly on the company the
great necessity of providing bridge accommodation at this
crossing, which is near a very sharp curve. The children
were buried at Tamworth on Wednesday afternoon. A
large number of persons assembled to witness their funeral.
—Stajordshire Advertiser.
Oranges, which were introduced into New South
Wales soon after the colony was founded, are now exported
thence to the value of £BO,OOO a year.