The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 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
the Press. Admission, is.

PROFESSOR and the Misses ANDERSON.—
Farewell season. World of Magic. Second Sight, and
the original lndian Basket Trick, in conjunction with Fre-
deric (the great) Maccabe, the unrivalled ventriloquist, mimic,
and character actor.

VREDERIC MACCABE, Ventriloquist, Mimic,
&c., in his original entertainment, " Begone, Dull Care,"
`Miss Mary May," " Early in the Morning." Balcony, 2s. ;
reserved seats, 38. ; stalls, ss. ; at fir. Austin's office, St.
James's • hall, 23, Piccadilly.
A, NIMNIO, Acting Manager.

oIIRISTY MINSTRELS, St. James's Hall.—
tvl THE Rawlinson will sing J. R.
Thomas's admired ballad, " Happy be thy Dreams," THIS
and following EVENINGS. Price 2a. 6d.
London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street.

11" 0 X F O R D.
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
SIXTY-SIX, by J. Offenbach, performed by
Misses Russell, Barrie, Walmehiley, Tyrell, Ellen Reid, Ma-
dame Maria, and Miss Fitz Henry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
Husk, and Green, with full Bandiand Chorus.
• Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Ballet, Comedy, Burlesque, by the celebrated D'Au-
bans, Messrs. Duriah and Davis, and the Misses TESSY
and SARA GUNNISS.
NONCE —The Oxford has been entirely Redecorated,
Altered, Newly, Lighted, and Ventilated, and now is one of
the most agreeable placts of resort in the kingdom.—OPEN
EVERY EVENING at Eight o'clock.
The Classical Ballet, entitled THE BRIDAL of BEAUTY,
in which the Misses TESSY and SARA GUNNISS will
make their re appearance THIS EVENING.
Admission—Area, 6f1.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

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 establishment.

Comedy, Burlesque, and Ballet by Mrs. and Mr. Randall,
Messrs. Duriah and Davies, the D'Aubans, and Arthur
Lloyd.
Director, Mr. F. Jongmans.
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All visitors to London at this season should see the above
entertainment.

3/ADAME 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 front 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. i'RITCHARD and
CONSTANCE KENT are now added.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO and MUSICAL PRO-
MENADE is lOW OPEN for the Season.

Musical Director, M. LUIGI CURTL
Manager, Mona. GRENET.

The Band plays nightly Selections from the most eminent
Composers.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock; close five minutes to 12
o'clock

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET.
Set DINNERS served, at five minutes' notice. from Four to
!Nine p.m.. at 2s. 6d., 3s 6d., 43. 6d., and 7s. each.

ELEGANT SALOON DINING ROOMS,
for Ladies and Families.
Prices on the "Carte" moderate.
Private Rooms tor Large or Small Partier.
Reading, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms.

BREAKFASTS and LUNCHEONS.
D. CAMERON.
Entrances-160, Piccadilly, and 49, St. James's-street.

140NEY ADVANCED, for any period not
exceeding three years, on personal security, one or
more sup etes being required according to circumstances, or
on the borrower's own promissory note when a deposit is
made of any available security. Apply New National Life
and Loan Company (established 1851), 181. Oxford-street,
W.C. THOMAS BOURNE, Secretary.

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Mexico of rare fra2Tance. This scent, and a thousand others
for choice, 'Zs. Bd. and ss. each. Soli by all fashionable
chemists and perfumers.— Laboratory of Flowers, 2, New
Bond-street, London.

NUR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Ileet-,,treet, has introduced an entirely new descrip-
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method does not require the extraction of roots, br 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.

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TORN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOCFI rAsTic is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the tee.h a pearl .‘ hiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the
the breath. Price Is. 61-12, Three King-court, Lombard-
street. London.

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 few
of the most recent cases :
F. P., aged 16, Mien, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeles., both parents dead.
4. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, bah parents dead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. Al 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
young" 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.

LOS AND GAIN.—On Saturday evening, about
8 o'clock, a barge laden with some 100 casks of
Guinness's XX stout was run into by a steamer at West-
minster-bridge. She shortly afterwards sank a little fur-
ther down the river and opposite to Mr. Furness's Thames
Embankment works, leaving her casks of malt liquor float-
ing on the river. The men on the embankment works
were not slow to appropriate the welcome beverage.
Casks were quickly broached and emptied into cans and
stomachs, and there was naturally a rather enlivening
scene for a while. There was a Thames police boat close
at hand, but no lives were lost, nor was any harm done
beyond the sinking of the barge, the loss of some Dublin
stout, and the inebriatien of a few navvies.

A PRETTY PICTURE.—" Indeed, there was one
particular plant, the pride of the Rook's garden,
that they (the architects of the Cathedral) had copied with
singular felicity, although they had been obliged to twist
and twine it until it had assumed the prescribed form of
the pattern. This was the polypody fern, whose matted
roots had thrust themselves into a fissure on the top of the
parapet, and whose jagged fronds, so thickly dappled with
orange spores, waved their feathery plumes in the slightest
breeze. There was but one specimen of it in the Rook's gar-
den, and he was so proud of it that one day, when he saw a
lark soaring in song ashigh and higher than the cross on the
summit of the Cathedral spire, he took up his guard on the
parapet, prepared to defend his plant from any inter-
lepers. There was also another fern in the garden—this
was the well-rue ; and although not quite so showy as the
polypody, yet it was very valuable ; for it kept its small
leaves green all through the winter. But the gayest, and
largest, and most plentiful plant in the Rook's garden was
the wall-flower, that, in the spring-time, scented the air
with the most delicious fragrance, and, with its yellow and
orange blossoms, some of which were striped with a
tawny crimson, flecked the blue sky with their golden
petals, and made a blaze of bright colour against the cold
grey hues of the tower. Whether originally sown there by
one of his ancestors, or borne thither by some upward
breeze, the Rook did not know ; but, by the time that hehad
chosen that spot for his garden, the wallflower had so re-
sown itself, year after year, that it had converted the place
into quite a little shrubbery. . . . Ho had other floral trea-
sures besides the wallflower and the ferns. There were two
or three patches of yellow stonecrop, with its vivid green
foliage and golden clusters of bloom ; there were masses of
the toad flax or roving sailor, with its ivy-like leaves and
lilac flowers ; there were clusters of the red valerian or
setwall, and of the dragon's-mouth, that made gay the
summer months with their crimson and purple capsules ;
and there was a bit of the blue blossomed borage, that may
have been a descendant of a plant that had flavoured the
cool tankard of the old monks who had once lived hard-
by the Cathedral."—Cuthbert Beck's i‘ The Rook's Garden."

THE VOLUNTEERS.
In Essex a match has taken place between the A
and B companies of the Colchester corps. The shoot-
ing was at ranges of 200, 500, and 600 yards, and
eight gentlemen shot on each side. The scores made
were as follows :—A company, 272 ; B company,
273. The Ist Essex Administrative Battalion had a
field day at Witham on Thursday ; the assembled
force mustered altogether 143. In the absencp of
Lieut.-Col. Sir Clade de Crespigny and Captain
and Adjutant de Crespigny, the command devolved
on Major Bishop. Lieut.-Col. Deshon, the new
inspecting officer for the Eastern district, was pre-
sent, and complimented the battalion at the close
of the manoeuvres. Lieutenant llill has been
chosen captain of the Brentwood company, in the
room of Mr. T. Hill, resignea. Mr. W. Russ (for-
merly a lieutenant in the Jersey Militia) has been
chosen lieutenant, and Mr. A Lewis ensign. A
challenge cup offered for competition among the
Ungar company hat been won for the fourth time
this season by Private Mott.

In Suffolk we may note the annual competition
for prizes of the Hadleigh Company :—A silver cup
of the value of £8 Bs., givel. by Capt. Rowley, was
won by Private Spooner. A challenge vase—won
in 1862 by Corporal Gan-Thin) in 1863 by Sergeant
Kersey, and in 1861 by Lient. Robinson—was won
by Ensign Freeman ; the cup to become the abso-
lute property of any member must be won by him
for two consecutive yearvand it consequently still
stands over for competition. In a return match be-
tween sides of six each, selected from the Beccles
and Harleston companies, the shooting was at ranges
of 200 and 500 yards, and the scores made were—
Beccles, 190 ; Harleston, 199. The best shots of
the Stowmarket company have had a competition
for a number of prizes. The first prize, a bronze
clock, presented by Major Tyrrel, was won by Ser-
geant S. Matthew.
The third annual battalion rifle matches of the
Ist Suffolk Rifles were shot at the Sudbury butts
on Friday. The prizes, mounting in value to £3O,
were given by Lieutenant-Colonel Anstruther,
commanding, and the cther staff officers—Major
Tyrell, Major Michell, Rev. H. B. Knox (chaplain),
and Adjutant Barnardiston. The ranges were 300
and 500 yards, seven slots at each. The firing
generally was far fron good, the wind being
vailable, and therefore unfavourable. Eight com-
panies were represented. The first prize, aggregate
score at both ranges, was taken by Corporal Fisher
(Eye), with 37 points. 300 yards only-Ist,
Private Pike (Eye), 18 points.
A fifth annual competition has taken place among
the members of the Wisbeth corps for a ladies' chal-
lenge cup ; it was won a second time by Colour-Ser-
geant Bennett. The first competition took place in
1861, when the cup was von by Corporal Tunna-
cliffe. In 1862 the cup ?assed into the hands of
Corporal Pattrick ; in 1863 it was carried off by
Colour-Sergeant Bennett, and last year by Private
Holmes. The Ist Cambridgeshire has had a com-
petition for prizes. The shooting was at ranges of
200, 500, and 600 yards, and the highest scores
were made by Private Barton, Ensign Hall, Private
Hodson, and Private Ling,,
The Huntingdon companies have had a competi-
tion for a ladies' challenge cup and other prizes. The
winner of the cup and first prize was C orporal W allis.
The first of the other prizes, to which Capt. Herbert
• was a contributor, was won by Ensign Stafforth.
In Norfolk, the 3d Norwich has just had its an-
nual prize shooting. This company possesses a chal-
lenge cup, and it was won last year by Capt. Gurney;
at this year's shooting he again stood first. There
was another contest for several money prizes, of
which the first was won by Private J. Craighill.
The challenge cup of the Aylesham corps has been
won by Corporal ; a prize given by.
Lieutenant Ernuin was secured by Private G. Dur-
rell. The Ist Norfolk battery of Volunteer Artillery
has had its annual carbine prize 4hooting at the
butts, North Denes, Great Yarmouth. The first
match was for a prize of £lO, presented by the mem-
bers for the borough, Sir E. 11. K. Lacon, M.P.,
and Mr. J. Goodson, M.P., the £lO being divided
into shares of £3, £2 10s, £2, it 10s, and £l.
There were 27 competitors, and the first share was
won by Gunner Riches, the second by B. S. M.
Baker, the third by Sergeant Cocks, the fourth
by Sergeant Page, and the fifth by B. S. M.
Mack. The second match was for a ladies' prize
of £5, divided into prizes of £1 15s, £1 ss, and third
and fourth £l. The first share was won by Cor-
poral Mack, the second by gunner Ellis, the third.
by Corporal Sackl ; and the fourth by gunner
Shimpling. Some other prizes were also com-
peted for. The Ist Norfolk Administrative
li
uhnadserin thee
tin
Gunton-park for
commandbatta-
lion of Col. Lord Suffield
and Adjutant Toke. Prizes for shooting were given
bbyatdt ALadrordoildjnln'Suffield ; the first of £2 was won by Ser-
geant
secondo Timbers,fil b y opf the Private
Company. Maidstone, of the Aylsham

The Warwickshire
Volunteers, comprising the
Coventry, Rugby, Warwick, Stratford, Nuneaton,
Saltley, and Leamington companies, and numbering
563 in all, were inspected on the Warwick Race-
common last. The reviewing officer was Lieut.-Col.
Manners, of the 6th or north-west Rifle Volunteer
Sirdistrict, Campbell, appointed for the
Midland un
now at Hythe. The rifle-
men, brigaded as the first administrative battalion,
executed the usual movements, the bayonet drill,
counties, Etdiews,ai being.d
under Adjutant Edwards, the former instructor of
the Prince of Wales, being long and well performed.
While the file firing, with a view to test their power
of keeping up a continuous fire upon a supposed
enemy, Private Charles Wright, of the Leamington
corps, standing in the rear, was struck on the right
temple by the accidental discharge of the rifle of the
front-rank man. Wright's shako was blown high
into the air, and he fell to the ground as if dead.
Staff-Surgeon Philips, of Coventry, Assistant-Sur-
geon Tibbits, of Warwick, as well as other medical
men, were at once in attendance, and it was found
that he had fortunately only suffered a flesh wound.
This was bandaged on the spot with a handkerchief,
and the use of stimulants restored him to conscious-
ness and enabled him to leave the ground with as-
sistance. The inspecting officer, after drawing at-
tention to the necessity of keeping rifles at half cock
instead of full cock when awaiting orders, prior to
firing, as had been the case in the above instance,
passed a high compliment upon both officers and men
for their efficiency, the bayonet-drill being particu-
larly worthy of commendation.
The North Cotswold Rifle Corps competition has
just come off at Chipping Campden, when the suc-
cessful shooters were :—Ladies' prizes-Ist, Private
Skey ; 2d, Sergeant Warner ; 3d, Private C.
KingzetL Town subscription prizes--Ist, Sergeant
Gallon, 15th Gloucestershire ; 2d, Private A.
Beard; 3d, Private Skey. Town extra prize—let,
Private Gallop; 2d, Private Drew. Officers' chal-
lenge cup--Private Jeffrey. Carupden challenge
eup—Private hod. The distribution of prizes took
place in the market square after the shooting, Mrs.
Kennaway, the wife of the vicar, handing them to
the successful riflemen. Later in the day there was
a dinner, at which the Earl of Harrowby presided.
An all-comers' rifle Contest took place at. Pen-
zance on Wednesday : there were 57 competitors.
Lieut. Pollard, of the Wadebridge corps, won the
first prize, £lO.
The annual prize shooting of the Barnstaple Vo-
lunteers was held on Tuesday, seven shots, at each
distance of 200, 400, and 600 yards. Corporal
Marsh made 35, the highest score, and won Sir W.
Fraser's gold medal and £2. Sergeant Seldon won
the second prize, and Sergeant Williams the third.
The chief Yorkshire Volunteer event has been the
annual three days' prize shooting of the Ist West
Yorkshire rifle volunteers on Bootham Stray. With
the exception of the last day, the weather was highly
favourable, and some capital scoring was. effected;

on the last day a very puzzling, gusty rear-wind
completely played with the bullets of the best marks-
men. The meeting has been remarkable for the
debuts of several recruits as first-rate shots. The
prize list amounted to about £lOO. The Ist East
York Rifle Volunteers shot for a silver salver, value
7 guineas (presented by Mr. Bell), at 200 and 400
yards, five rounds. There were 55 competitors, and
the prize fell to Private Bulmer, who tied with Ser-
geant Meggitt, with 35 marks, but the former had
made most bull's-eyes at the longe range, and was
by the regulations declared the winner. The Settle
(11 men) and Keighley (9 men) Volunteers con-
tested on the ground of the latter, at 200, 400, and
500 yards, when the Keighley men won with a gross
score of 300, against 280 for the Craven team.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Sept. 25.

Matters go on here very much as usual, notwith-
standing the Fenians at this and the other side of
the Irish Sea and the Atlantic. There is a good
deal of interest manifested in the proceedings of the
police against the would-be liberators of Ireland ;
but the first excitement has completely passed away,
and there is nothing more than a little extra-ordi-
nary curiosity as to who and what the conspirators
are, and what they will do or be done with, evinced
on the part of the people generally. The feeling of
the greater number would be, perhaps, best described
as a looking out for or expectancy of something
sensational either with regard to the movements of
the Government or the Fenians, or for any revela-
tions that may be made affecting the guilt of the
prisoners. There is a good deal of reticence ob-
served by the authorities in reference to the whole
affair. The name of the informer, if any, has not
leaked out; but it is thought the documentary evi-
dence in several cases will be overwhelming. The
city detectives had, it is stated, wormed themselves
into any secrets worth possessing, and it is expected
they will be able to make out strong cases, showing
how completely the Fenians here were exposed, or
were at their mercy for some time past. The police
continue to bring in an occasional prisoner charged
with high treason or Fenianism, and it appears that
-this course is having a good effect on a number of
the Associates, who are beginning to wish them-
selves well out of the affair. The excitement among
them will, I think, hardly subside until news of how
the intelligence of the arrests was received by the
" brethren" in America reached those here. An ex-
cessively warlike merchant tailor vas arrested, as I
informed you, on Saturday. In his possession were
found a bowie-knife and two revolvers, one of which
was loaded. There were also found some documents,
a drill-book, and a number of cartes de visite, in one
of which the prisoner was represented standing in
his shirt sleeves, with a belt round his waist, and in
the most approved bellicose pose, with his left hand
upon the stock of a revolver, and the right hand
grasping a formidable bowie-knife, evidently on
" murderous deeds intent." An arrest has also been
made at Parsonstown by the Constabulary, who re-
ceived on Saturday a warrant for the apprehension
of Mr. Edward E. Morrissy, a medical student, for-
merly an assistant in the,.. establishment of Mr.
Baxter, Baggot-street. Mr. Morrissy was arrested
same day and brought to town yesterday morning,
when he was handed over to the custody of Acting-
Inspectors M'Dermott and Giles of the G division,
who charged him with being concerned with the
Fenian movement.

A rather important arrest, it is stated, has been
made in Liverpool by Detectives Smollen and Daw-
son, who yesterday arrived at the North Wall from
Liverpool, having in custody George Archdeacon,
of 11, Bidder-street, Liverpool, where the pri-
soner was arrested on Saturday, charged with having
been a prominent member of the Fenian Brother-
hood. When captured he had in his possession a
number of documents relating to the " movement,"
and several copies of the Irish reuge newspaper.
A Liverpool correspondent of Saunders's .Arews
Letter gives the following particulars with reference
to George Archdeacon :

" The information which has accumulated during
the last few days inculpating certain, persons in
Liverpool in the Fenian conspiracy has at length
attracted the attention of the authorities in Dublin,
and to-day two officers of the Dublin police (detec-
tive department) arrived here for the purpose of
executing a warrant for the arrest of a man who
has long been known as the leader-in-chief of the
party in this neighbourhood, and latterly a news-
agent and agent for the Irish People newspaper.
The officers commissioned with the arrest were
Acting-Sergeants Smollen and Dawson ; and they,
having obtained the assistance of Detectives Smith
and Laycock, and the co-operation of the acting
chief of the detective force here, Mr. Superintendent
Kehoe, proceeded to Archdeacon's-house, No. 11,
Bidder-street, Islington. They found him in the
shop, and called him into the street, where they
charged him with high treason, explained their
errand, and apprehended him. Without allowing
him to communicate with his family, and with the
object of preventing any excitement in the neigh-
bourhood, they conveyed him at once to the police-
station in Dale-street, and placed him in a cell.
When he was first confronted with the officers outside
his own house he said, 'You have no right to touch
me; I am an American subject, and I have a paper in
my pocket to show it.' At the detective-office he
was again formally charged, and he asked to see the
authority for his arrest. The warrant, in which he
was charged with divers other persons for treason-
able purposes, was shown to him, and he repeated
that he was an American subject, and produced a
certificate, or what purported to be a certificate, of
his naturalisation as an American subject. After
he had been locked up the officers returned to his
house, and made a search, which was, we believe,
so far successful that they obtained possession of
most important papers. Some of these letters were
from headquarters in America, recognising him as
the delegate representing Lancashire in the Fenian
Brotherhood ;' others were communications from
Now York, London, Sheffield, and various towns
in Lancashire, showing that Archdeacon had visited
a large number of places in promotion of the ob-
jects of the movement ; others were documents re-
ferring to sums of money transmitted from America
to enable him to agitate as a Fenian agent in various
districts ; and one was a receipt for money ap-
parently received by him in support of the move-
ment, as the result of a collection made at the close
of a lecture in the Free-trade Hall, Manchester. In
the shop they found a large number of copies of the
Irish People. While they were making the search
two volunteers, in the uniform of the Liverpool
Irish Brigade, entered the shop and asked for copies
of the Irish People. A good deal is known of Arch-
deacon, and all that is known confirms the belief
that he is a confirmed conspirator. He springs from
a family once well known in Castlebar, county of
Mayo, where, at various times, his father, his brother
Matthew Archdeacon, author of some records of
"Irish Risings," and other books), and himself have
been engaged in public tuition. They
kept an aca-
demy for some years. Previous to 1848 George (the
man now in custody) removed to Manchester, where
lie became known as the leader of the Young Ireland
party. At the great meeting in the Free-trade Hall,
held to celebrate the union of the Young Irelanders
and the Chartists, when Meagher of the Sword and
John Mitchell were present, Archdeacon made a
to united action with the
speech, pledging his party
Chartists in that city. When the rebellion broke
out in 1848, Archdeacon found it necessary to get
out of the way, and he disguised himself as a priest
and got out of the country by some south-west port
in Ireland to America. For seven years after his
escape he remained in America, and it is not un-
likely that during that time he became naturalised
as an American citizen. At all events, he became
connected with the Ferdan movement ; and since
his return from America in 1855, or thereabouts,