The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-11 00:00:00

street. E.C,

The mode of admission to the Honse is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. Boys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and taught till
they are 11 years o' age.
With the view t o secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.
This Home was opened in April, 1864. It was designed to
take in the little ones whose charact r and circumstances
disqualify the,. for the Orphan Asylums, and whose tender
age precludes their admission to the Refuges. Such are those
who, from neglect, axe already on the road to ruin. Such are
those who have been deserted by theirnatural protectors and
left to beecome idle wanderers. Such are those whose
parents may have at one time or other received parish relief,
and who are now friendless orphans. Such are those whose
parents are breakers of the law, or. are in prison, and who
train their children in the same path. Such are those whose
evil associations have already had their painful effect, and
must lead them to a life of crime and misery.
There are now 50 little inmates from about four years of
age to 10. There is room for nearly 101, and the Committee
would joyfully see the Home filled at once ; they only wait
for the necessary subscriptions.
The Committee.fcel constrained to plead for those vOlO3
cannot thus plead for themselves ; and, referring to the cir-
cumstances of some who have been already admitted, they
ask—ls it right to make a widow and her family paupers for
liie because one of them (the naughty boy of the family) runs
wild in the streets and is beyond her control ? Is it kind to
tell her, because she has so large a family, that you will not
h-lp her to put one of them into a Home, but that they must
ail go into "the house ?" Is it doing the best we can for the
little destitute orphan to send him to the workhouse. Is it
doing to others es we would they should do unto us that when
these little ones have unnatural parents who turn them into
the streets, or force them by ill-treatment to "MR away,"
none of us shelf d be found to care for them, to speak a kindly
word to them, to befriend them, to house and clothe th.m ?
Shall we leave them still on the doorstep, passing by on the
other side, or else exclaiming "Am I my brother's
keeper?"
The necessity for an Institution for these little ones is evi-
dent from the police statis'ics, which show that in London
alone, in one year, no fewer than 311 boys under 10 years of
age, have been apprehended for various offences, 79 of whom
were convicted and punished, while the bulk, 232 were dis-
charged by the magistrates with a rebuke, as being too
young, to punish, though not too young to learn the beginnings
of crime. On the other hand. there are numbers who, but
for the timely help afforded by such an Institution, must
otherwise become paupers, and losing all ideas of self-reli-
ance and self-help, be permanent burdens to the State.
The Home for Little Boys has, therefore, been established
to rescue the little ones, to save them from the prison on the
one hand, and the workhouse on the other, and to endeavour
to make them useful members of society.
The daily routine of the Institution presents all the fea-
tures of a home, a school, and a workshop. The little ones
are cared for as children; they have their regular meals,
their suitable clothing, their hours of play and amusement,
and their singing class. They are treated as scholars ; every
morning is devoted to sem,' work—reading, and writing,
and ciphering,', and Scriptural instruction, with occasional
lessons in objects and other subjects. But they are also
trained to work. As they must all, and that at a very early
period in life, earn their living by the sweat of their brow,
they are here at once taught habits of industry. So ihe after-
noons arc occupied with various industrial occupations—
making brown paper bags for bankers, and white gaper bags
for tradesmen, and door mats and servants' kneelers for any
who will buy them; picking the coil for the mats, mending
the c other, &c. Some assist the master in the garden,
digging, planting, watering, weeding, and so forth. By
degrees they are being made useful in the house, scrubbing
and sweeping, while the elder ones clean all the boots,
knives, &c. In this way it is sought to fit them for an active
working life.

2d. By payment of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance.
All children mist be under 10 years of age at the time of
admission. Thos'e received on payment are admitted at any
thne as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be admitted free will take place as
frequently as the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Home, and of the Honorary Seoretiry,

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY.--Pre-
Pared without any mercurial Ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestlen, wind.
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, iso. For habitual
:ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, is. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The g•ennine arc a square
green package. with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

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 BUCCLEUCH. LG.
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
lestitute sick has for a con ,iderable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this ifespital are 'capable of
oontaining several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.

Confributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Mu .
Lerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coatts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co, ; W ,lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend. Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Earned and
rJo.. Liverpool and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

STANFORD SMITH, Secretary.

NEW RAILWAY SHACKLE.—Messrs. Freeman and
Grundy, of 78, Cross-street, Manchester, engineers
and machinists, invited their friends on Saturday to in-
spect a new shackle or coupling apparatus for railway
carriages, waggons, and other vehicles, which they have
invented and patented with the view of superseding the
coupling chains now in use. Every one who has travelled
much on railways has seen the system of attaching
engines and carriages now in use, which requires a man
to go in between two carriages approaching each other
in opposite directions, at considerable risk to his per-
sonal safety, to affix a link on one of the carriages
at the proper moment to a hook on the other. The risk
is well known. Great numbers of men are crushed and
maimed, if not killed, every year by the present system,
and it would no doubt be desirable to adopt an easier and
safer mode of accomplishing the same purpose. The
model of the apparatus by which Messrs. Freeman and
Grundy seek to effect this object is very simple. Each car-
riage has a reversible screw wedge and bell-mouthed cone,
so that by the working of a lever over it either may be put
in position, as wanted. Supposing two carriages approach-
ing each other, one with the bell-mouthed cone in a hori-
zontal position and the other with the screw wedge in a
similar position, they are self-acting. The wedge goes
within the bell mouth, where there are four spring catches,
which at once seize the screw and hold it, so that the coup-
ling is effected in an instant, without the intervention of a
railway servant to guide it in any way. To uncouple the
carriages a porter at either side the line is within reach of
short levers, which liberate the screw from the spring
catches, and the uncoupling is effected in an instant. For
the sake of humanity one cannot help hoping that the in-
vention may prove so successful as to meet with the ap-
proval of railway engineers and directors. In the model it
appears to Work admirably and efficiently enough.

The screw steam corvette Satellite, Capt. Stephen
S. L. Crofton, which arrived at Plymouth on Thurs-
day from Montevideo, was inspected on Friday by
.Port-Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, and on Satur-
day morning was towed from the Sound into
Hamoaze, where she will be dismantled, and her
crew will be paid off.
Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, Inspector-Gen. of
Royal Marines, completed his half-yearly duties at
Plymouth, on Friday, when the internal arrange-
ments of the division and its civil departments were
inspected. The Major-Gen. left by the South
Devon Railway on Saturday morning for London.
The last of the 8-inch rolled armour plates for the
Bellerophon was fitted in its place on Saturday,
and the orders from the Admiralty are that under
any circumstances this frigate must be sufficiently
completed by Saturday afternoon next to be in
readiness for floating out of dock during the early
spring tides on the following Monday.
The old screw liner Cornwallis, 200-horse power,
for many years attached to the third division of the
Chatham Steam Reserve, has been undocked after
having had her upper deck removed, her machinery
taken out, and otherwise altered previously to being
moored at the end of the dockyard jetty, to facilitate
the operation of docking and undocking ships.
The Calypso, 18, attached to the sailing reserve
squadron in Chatham harbour, has been surveyed
at the hands of the dockyard officials, preparatory
to being sold out of the service.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's yacht
Osborne, Staff Commander D'Arcy, after coaling,
sailed on Saturday from Woolwich for Portsmouth,
under orders for Antwerp.

The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan-
mure, Mr. Moore commander, has completed her
shipment of stores for Portsmouth, consisting of
18,000 tents, 90 tons of bedsteads and other hos-
pital furniture, and Armstrong shot and shell. She
is under orders to sail from Woolwich this morning.
Major C. B. Roche, paymaster of the depot bat-
talion at Colchester, succeeds Capt. Summerfield as
paymaster of the Ist depot battalion at Chatham.
Capt. Summerfield retires on full pay..
The division at Aldershott had a field-day on
Wednesday. The troops were formed up in line of
contiguous columns on Eelmore-hill shortly before
11 o'clock, and on the arrival of the Lieutenant-
General-Commanding marched past, the Artillery,
cavalry, Royal Engineers, and Military Train in
open columns of batteries, squadrons, sections, and
and troops respectively, at a walk, and the infantry
in open columns of grand divisions in quick time.
A sham fight followed, the force on the field con-
sisting of D battery Royal Horse Artillery ; B bat-
tery, 9th brigade, Royal Artillery ; 3d, Bth, and
14th Hussars ; A and B troops Royal Engineer
Train ; Ist battalion 13th (Prince Albert's) Light
Infantry ; Ist battalion 17th Regiment, Ist batta-
lion 21st Royal Scots Fusilier, 31st, 63d, 69th, 74th,
85th, and 92d Regiments ; and the Military Train.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at Ow 4clmiraltv:—Ca4t. J. C. Prevost to ho
additional apt. of the y2..-2,---tcr, services at
Gibraltar from date of the Procris leaving the sta-
tion ; Commander George D. Broad to the Cormo-
rant, when recommissioned in China ; Commander
H. L. Round to the Argus, Commander John W.
Webb, to the Rattler,. and Commander Charles E.
Stevens to the Perseus, to be appointed to those
ships when recommissioned in China ; Lieutenant
Frederick P. Doughty to command the Weasel ;
Lieut. Howard Kerr and Frederick W. Read, mas-
ter, to command the Manilla, to be appointed to
those ships when recommissioned in China ; Staff-
Commander J. C. Hutchings, promoted to the rank
of retired captain ; Lieut. B. S. Hamilton and
Lieut. J. F. Baker to the Revenge ; Lieut. W. W.
Smyth to the Impregnable ; Lieut. Uved ale C.
Singleton and Lieut. R. S. Hunt, to the Princess
Royal; W. L. Dodds, master, to the Bulidog ;
Haben B. Hunt, Francis 13. Christiana, and Wm.
H. James, masters, additional to the Princess Royal ;
Sub-Lieut. C. D. Ryder, to the Formidable ; Ernest
R. Rolfe, John R. Prickett, John D. Deane, Ed-
ward Goldney, William Henry Monckton, William
H. Bristow, Charles Edward Huggins, Phillip E.
Cresswell, and Herbert S. Taylor, midshipmen, to
the Princess Royal, for disposal ; Richard B. Sayce
and Richard Keown, naval cadets, to the Princess
Royal, for disposal; George F. Elliott and Ray-
mond H. Carrall, surgeons,
additional to the Prin-
cess Royal ; Frederick A. P. Haim, John N. Stone,
and George Curtis, additional to the Princess Royal ;
George H. Maunsell, Assist-
Surg., to the Salamis ;
Thomas N. W. Colahan, Assist.-Surg., additional
to the Cumberland ; William Lockhart, Assist.-
Surg., to the Helicon ; Robert Towers, Second
Master, additional to the Princess Royal ; William
R, Stevens, Second-Master, to the Dee ; and Thos.
S. H. Rapson, Second-Master, to the Dromedary.

The Volunteers•

INSPECTION OF THE SECOND SURREY ARTIL-

LERY.

On Saturday the official inspection of the Second Surrey
Artillery took place at Broomawood, the residence of Sir
Charles Forbes, Bart., on the western or Tooting side of
Clapham-common, in the presence of a large though select
body of spectators, who were admitted by ticket only into
the grounds, as well as a great number of local gentry who
were in their carriages.

Colonel Moberly, C. 8., R.A., was the inspecting officer,
and the regiment, under the command of Lieut.-Col. C. A.
Durnford, assisted by Major Jenkins and Captains Spark,
Sturges, Freshwater, M'Lean, and Thos. Porter, mustered,
320 men, and had a full battery of six nine-pounder field
guns. The ground was kept by a strong detachment of
the Second Middlesex (her Majesty's Customs) Artillery,
under command of Captain Englebach. The battalion
having received the inspecting officer in review order, the
batteries being fully horsed and equipped for field service,
the evolutions commenced. The battery formed in line at
full interval, and gave the genera salute, and marched
past in column of divisions, and then wheeled up to the
left, halted action, fronted, and fired independently. Front
limbered up, battery advanced and halted, formed column
of divisions in the rear of the right, and then formed line
on the leading division. When sufficiently to the rear the
battery formed on the right reverse, and then by divisions
left wheeled and formed lino to the left on the leading
column, advanced from the right along the front in
column of divisions, right divisions left wheel up, and
halt, action front. The battalion movements consisted of
opening the ranks for inspection, and then again forming
in close order, opened column right in front, and marched
past in quick time, left wheel into line, close column in
rear of No. 1, deploy on the leading company, quarter
distance column in front of tho left company, deploy
on the rear company, open column left in front froth close
column on the rear company, change column to the rear by
the wheel of subdivisions round the centre, open out to
wheeling distance from the rear company, right wheel into
line, and stand at ease. _

The infantry movements having been first gone through
in a very creditable manner, the field battery opened fire
with very great precision as well as rapidity, and limbered
up, and performed the whole of tho field artillery move-
ments allotted to them in a manner which elicited thegood
opinion of a number of Royal Artillery officers who were
on the ground, which was by far too circumscribed to enable
them to fully develop° the efficiency with which they had
evidently learned their gun drill and practice. After firing
some 40 or 50 rounds, until it became quite dark, the regi-
ment weal formed up in square, the battery and mounted
officers in the centre.

ColonelAszny then addressed them. He said it had

given him the highest amount of pleasure not only to have
witnessed the smartness of the regiment, but to express his
admiration of the zeal, which he felt fully assured the mem-
bers of the 2nd Surrey Artillery must have exercised, in
order to enable them to' attain the efficiency which he had,
generally speaking, witnessed that evening. There was one
little matter, to which he desired to direct attention, and
which struck him with no little amount of surprise, and
that was to see so admirably-equipped a battalion in other
respects appear, on such an occasion, on parade without
arms. The first thing an inspecting officer usually did was
to watch very narrowly not only the state, but how the
regiment he was inspecting appeared under arms. It was
an admirable weapon of warfare, of which, no doubt, they
were all aware by practice, and therefore he should have
been glad to have seen them in use, for, judging from
what he had seen, he was convinced there was sufficient
intelligence in their ranks to do anything in the world.
(Cheers.) He (Colonel Maberly) begged them not to
cheer too soon, for although he was highly pleased with,
the creditable manner in which the corps had gone
through its inspection, he by no means intended to con-
vey by the observation ho had made that they were per-
fect. They had a very great deal to learn before it could
be said they had arrived at perfection. It was only by
adopting and attending their drill as a habit that they
could hope to arrive at that climax. He (Colonel Maberly)
was well aware that volunteers could not bring their minds
to believe it was necessary that they should be drilled hi
such a way as to make them, as it were, a mere piece of
machinery, yet such was really the fact, if they desired to
make good soldiers. The reason a man usually became a
dead shot with his firelock was, because he so drilled him-
self to its use as to render it a force of habit, and-hence
force of habit became in the mind of that particular man his
duty, and he thus became, as it were, a piece of machinery,
and consequently an efficient soldier. After offering a few
further observations on the subject of discipline, and com-
plimenting the regiment again on its zeal and its smart-
ness, he called upon them to stand to their flag and stick
to their duty, and they would find as volunteers that not
only would they receive the good opinion of their friends,
but that their country would stick by them. (Loud cheers.)

Lieut.-Col. DURNFORD expressed his thanks to Colonel
Moberly for the very kind remarks he had made use of
towards the regiment, and begged to assure him that the
suggestions he had offered should on a future occasion be
rigidly adhered to. He then proposed three cheers for the
inspecting officer, which were cordially given.
Col. MABERLY was much obliged to them for this com-
pliment. It would be his duty to make a most favourable
report to the War-office, and he only hoped that the in-
specting officer another year would find them even more
perfect than he had done, although he must confess he had
never seen a smarter or better-drilled body of volunteers in
his life.

The proceedings then closed with three cheers for the
commanding officer.

THE GREAT NATIONAL BELGIAN RIFLE
CONTEST.

The second great national Belgian rifle contest, open to
all corners, is appointed to commence on the 24th instant,
under the patronage of the King of the Belgians, the Duke
of Brabant, and the Count de Flandres ; and a committee,
representing the volunteers of England, has been formed
for the purpose of making arrangements for taking part in
so interesting a competition. The aggregate value of the
prizes to be awarded amounts to about 70,000 f. The com-
petition is to be divided into two series of prizes, the first
being for military rifles of any bore, and the second for
any rifles of any bore, this latter competition to be open to
rifles of all kinds, without artificial rests. In accordance
with the programme of the arrangements, the contest will
commence at nine a.m., a salvo of five guns to announce
the opening of the meeting. :The shooting will commence
immediately afterwards at gun fire. Subsequently the
shooting is to commence at eight each morning, be dis-
continued from twelve till one, and close at six p.m. The
range will be 246 yards, or 225 metres. For competitors 1,
2, and 3, the targets are to be circular, of a diameter of 11
yard, with a bull's-eye of 71 inches. Targets to be divided
into five circles. Bull's-eye to count 5 ; second circle, 4 ;
third circle, 3 ; fourth circle 2 ; and the fifth circle one
point. When the bullet hits the line of demarkation of a
circle the point nearest the centre of the target, judging of
the centre of the bullet, will be given at the value. When
the same competiton shall have one high point and a, good
bull's-eye in the same competitionho will take the highest
prize—in the case of a tie it will be decided by the best
bull's-eye. Each competitor is to load his own rifle, and
the prizes are to be shot for in uniform. The prizes are,to
be distributed on Sunday, the 22d October, at noon at the
" Temple des Augustins," and those not distributed on
that day can be claimed at the " Tir National," on the 29th
October and 6th liv-rombora_from 10 to 12 a.m" and all
prizes not claimed on either of tlio-STY days win boroturn-ea
to the Government. It is understood that a considerable
number of our well-known volunteer crack shots have
already sent in their names to tho'London committee as
intending to take part in the forthcoming contest.