The Sun.
London, England, 1865-09-06 00:00:00

THIRD EDITIOAT.

SUN OFFICE, 7 o'CLocK.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE—This Da:

WARWICK RACES—Tfus DAY.
WELTER CUP.

Gen. Hess
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Principal
Five ran.
NURSERY HANDICAP.

Stoic
Grey Stockings
llionitress

Eight ran.
WARWICK CUP.

Sydmonton.
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Vixen
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COUNTY HANDICAP,

Six ran.

LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE.
ST. LEGER.
1000 to 15 agst Archmides (offered)
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The Stock Exchange Committee have this day
appointed Tuesday, the 12th inst., a special settling
day in the shares of the Peruvian Railway Com-
pany, which are not to be marked in the official
lists.

New wine of the present year was drunk at
Aubonne, in Switzerland, on August 27th. Such an
occurrence had not been known since 1822.
POLYGRAPHIC HALL—On Monday next Mr. and
Mrs. Gourlay make their debut in a new Scottish
entertainment, entitled " Mrs. M'Gregor's Levee." Mr.
Gourlay is well known as a first-rate actor, and from the
thorough artistic manner in which he played the arduous
role of " Bailie Nicol Jarvie" at Covent Garden Theatre
some few years ago, there can be no doubt that a rich treat
is in store for his patrons. As a comedian he was limited
in speech, but next week, having a clear stage, he can tell
his anecdotes in his own way, and thereby further enlighten
us as to the daily doings of our Celtic neighbours.
THE FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN THE LONDON-
ROAD.—INQUEST.--This (Wednesday) morning Mr.
W. J. Payne held an inquest in the board-room of St
George's workhouse, on the body of Jane Nathan, who
perished in the fire that occurred in her father's premises
on the night of Sunday last. Henry Jenning, conductor
of the Newington-causeway fire-escape of the Roya
Society, said that he was called to the fire in Mr. Nathan's
premises, forming two houses in the main road. No one
had then entered the houso. A police-constable was then
at the door. The fire then appeared to be in the basement
and ground-floor shops. He pitched his machine, got into
the second floor, found one child, which he got out. The
room was full of smoke and quite hot. He went in again
and got another out through the window on the right side
of the shops, and also another child. He went in search
of others, but he could not find any, and he was, owing to
the density of the smoke, obliged to get out by the back.
After some further evidence the inquiry was adjourned.
THE ALLEGED MURDER AT BER3IONDSEY.—Mr.
Carter, coroner for Surrey, held an inquest yesterday re-
specting the death of Sarah Ann Scott, who had been
kicked to death by Henry Hickman, with whom she lived.
The evidence was similar to that which was given before
the magistrate at the Southwark Police-conrt on Monday.
After some deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of
manslaughter
against Henry Hickman for feloniously kill-
ing and slaying Sarah Ann Soott. The coroner issued his
warrant for the detention of the prisoner in Horsemonger-
lane Gaol until his trial at the next sessions of the Central
Criminal Court. It was stated that the deceased woman
drank on an average £1 worth of gin every week. She was
in the habit of boiling water for the workmen in the Ber-
mondsey factories for their teas, at one penny per head.
THE MURDER OF MAJOR DE VERE.--John
Currie, the soldier, who stands committed upon the charge
of murdering Major de Vere, will, under the order of Mr.
Justice Montague Smith, be removed in the course of a few
days to Newgate, there to await his trial, which will pro-
bably take place on the 20th inst., at the Central Criminal
Court. The man Currie, it is said, entered the army against
the wish of his friends, who move in a highly respectable
sphere' of life, and who have instructed Messrs. Lewis and
Lewis, of Ely-place, to defend him.
On Sunday morning a warehouse in Dundee, be-
longing to Messrs. Armitstead and Co., was burned down.
The warehouse, which measured 100 feet in length by 70
in breadth, was filled with flax, tow, and codilla. The da-
mage, which is estimated at from £B,OOO to £lO,OOO, is
covered by insurance.—Seotanan.
The import of animals from abroad has greatly
increased this year. In the first seven months of the year
the numbers imported into the United Kingdom have been
92,116 oxen, bulls, and cows; 27,475 calves, 322,074 sheep
and lambs, and 49,422 swine and hogs.
A shark, measuring eight feet in length, and be-
tween five and six feet in its greatest girth, was caught in
the herring nets of one of the crews fishing at Wick on
Friday morning. —Scotsman.
Cholera has increased in a sudden and extraor-
dinary manner at Manduria (Terra d'Otranto). On the
27th ult. there were 80 cases, 31 being fatal. At Ancona,
from noon on the 29th to mid-day on the 30th, 33 cases
and two deaths occurred, besides eight deaths of persons
previously attacked. From the 28th to the 29th, at San-
sevro, 123 cases and 62 deaths, 19 of the latter being re-
ferable to previous attack.

DOCKYARDS OF THREE NATIONS.--England has
nine dockyards--Deptford, Woolwich, Chatham,
Sheerness, Portsmouth, Plymouth, Pembroke, and, in time
of war, Deal and Yarmouth. France has six—Cherbourg,
Toulon, Brest, L'orient, Rochefort, and Indret. America
has eight. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has an area of 63
acres, but nearly five acres must be filled in before the land
can be used. The yard is situate on an island, and has a
water front of about I,oooft. ; it has one floating dry-dock
and three building slips. Charlestown, near Boston, covers
80 acres of ground, but 16 acres of this are marsh, and must
be filled in. The water frontage that is of any value is only
about 600 ft. The yard has one stone dry dock and two build-
ing slips. Brooklyn covers a surface of 80 acres of available
ground and 40 acres of marsh that can be filled in--120
acres in all. There is at presenl an available water frontage.
of 1,200 feet, one stone dry dock, and two building slips
Philadelphia yard has only 15 acres' surface, and one acre
of this must bo filled in to be available. The yard has one
floating dry dock, two building slips, and a water front of
about 600 feet. Washington yard has an area of 42 acres,
two acres of which are marsh. There is a useful water
frontage of 900 feet with two building slips. The yard has
no dry dock. Norfolk and Pensacola yards were destroyed
by the rebels, and at present no work of any importance is
done at either of them; and Mare Island, on the Pacific, is
yet unfinished, and is used only as a place of temporary
repair. The British dockyards above enumerated contain
1,000 acres of ground, 50 building slips, and 34 dry
docks; the French Imperial yards cover 1,129 acres,
and comprises 75 building slips and 26 dry docks;
the five navy yards of the United States now in use
contain only 218 acres, 12 building slips, and four
dry docks. It is easy to refer to the "brilliant record"
of the war just past, and to thousands of miles of
coast guarded by a navy created in six weeks; but it must
be remembered that it consisted almost entirely of merchant
built craft, unsuited to naval service ; and had our enemy
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been a naval Power they would have been almost worth-
less. . . . Without the aid of private establishments our
navy would have made a very poor show in our late war.
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public works, have the vast resources of their private ship-
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owners. England, it has been calculated, could turn out war
vessels at the rate of one a day, indefinitely, of all sizes in the
proper proportions for a navy. Hard pressed as we
have been, we have not turned out one in a week.
We want a yard and works for the construction of iron
vessels, of which our Government has never built one.
We want also are-arrangement of all our navy yards. They
are for the most part badly planned. The Brooklyn-yard,
with 120 acres all told, has one dry dock, two building slips,
and 1,200 ft. of wharf front. Compare it with Deptford,
the smallest of British yards, which, with 38 acres' extent,
has two dry docks, one of them double, so as to contain two
ships at once, five building slips, and 1,700 ft. of wharf. Be-
sides these, it hits a wet basin covering more than an acre.
The want of our yards is not more space (except at Phila-
delphia), so much as it is better arrangement, and that they
should have at once. . . . England and France aro
both in trouble about their principal dockyards—
Plymouth, and Cherbourg. England has planned and be-
gun fortifications for the defence of Plymouth which are
to cost $20,000,000. But the yard is situated so near the
channel that our Monitor Dictator, or any of the other
Monitors for that matter, could steam under the shore
batteries, calmly receive their shot, and plant her 15-inch
shell in the docks, shiphouses, and machine shops of the
pard. Cherbourg is in precisely the same predicament. The
harbour is an artificial one, formed by the construction of
a breakwater, and is one of the finest pieces of engineer-
ing skill in the world. So very fine, in fact, that it cost
$40,000,000 to construct all the works at the station. But
the officers of the yard frankly acknowledged to our emis-
sary sent over by our Navy Department that a few iron-
clads could easily destroy the whole place. The French, as a
o consequence, no 1 ngeraddto the works of Cherbourg. They
bend their efforts to perfecting Brest, Toulon, and Indret.
But the English with John Bull obstinacy, work away at
Plymouth all the while, confessing that when it is done it
will be unsafe iu war.—New Fork Times.