The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-21 00:00:00

ADDERS ON CHOBHAM COMMON.

The prevalence of adders in the encampment ground
at Chobham is more numerous than was at first sus-
pected. Several men and horses have been bitten by
them, and on Friday last two horses belonging to the
mounted patrol of the metropolitan police were so seri-
ously wounded that it had been necessary to have them
destroyed. If Chobham Common is to be henceforth the
English Champ de Mars, some means should be taken to
fill up the ruts and drain the ground a little. It may be said
that in actual warfare the field is taken as it is found,
but the men are not in actual warfare, and no amount
of " scenic " effect can dispel the ideal that they are only
playing at campaigning, in proof of which the fact of the
Guards breaking their column to avoid a pond of water
which the Highlanders marched through on Friday last,
may be instanced. Had it been otherwise, the deciders
of Waterloo are not likely to be the corps that would pick
their steps with a real enemy in front, at least the annals
of the Guards are wanting in such a precedent. The in-
cident has given rise to a deal of talk and little sense.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-HOUSE, JUNE 20.

ENTERED INWARDS.—The Denmark, from Rotterdam ;
Freundsehap, Sud westhorne ; Thea, Gravelines ; Dolores,
Lisbon ; Two Zusters, Worcum ; Esperance, Lokken ;
Santa Anna, Pernambuco ; Nancy, do. ; Esperauza, Punta
Arenas ; Parrock Hall, St. Kitt's and Nevis; Callender,
A ntigua ; Florence, Jamaica ; John Scott, Barbadoes ;
New Express, Trinidad ; Axel, New York ; Lavinia,
Arracan ; Ida, Oporto ; Persian, Leghorn ; Pomona,
Bahia ; Chaucer, Penang; Mangalore, Colombo; Florence,
St. John's, N.B. ; Eliza, Callao ; Albion, Nevis ; Clydes-
dale, Sierra Leone ; Falcon, Antigua ; Henrich, Salonica ;
Norden, Christianstad; Raphael, Nuovo; Clementina,lLeg-
horn ; Cato, St. Vincent.
ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Lady Barry-
dale, Antwerp ; Frau Gebke, Vara ; Ursula, Oporto ; L.
M. Hoedt, Copenhagen ; Sir Robert Sale, Calcutta; John
Scott, Demerara.

CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The English Rose,
for Stettin ; Johannes, Altona ; Strive, Melbourne ;
Gesina, Hamburgh ; Diligent, Antwerp ; Lelia, St.
Thomas and Nassau ; Diana, Altona ; Lady Barrydale,
Antwerp; Forerunner, Africa.

RE-APPEARANCE OF JENNY LIND.—If there be any
truth in an assertion of the Dresden Echo, the prophecy
of Meyerbeer, to the effect that Madame Lind
Goldschmidt would again appear on the stage, is likely
to be realised. The Echo says, that Jenny is to take
the heroine's part in Goldschmidt's (her husband)
" Tochterlein (Little Daughter)." Upwards of a year
since, the great composer alluded to observed to a
friend. " The Lind is sure to return to the stage, from
one of two opposite causes, love or revenge." " How
so ?" demanded the other. "Why," retorted the
maestro, " if she should be disappointed in her husband,
and not find the domestic happiness she anticipates, she
will seek for consolation and revenge in public applause ;
whereas, if she be happy, and continue to love her hus-
band, who has a turn for composition, she will seek to
satisfy her vanity and affection by urging him to write
an opera, and she will appear in the first part, in order
to insure it success, be it good or bad."—Observer.
FORGERY ON THE AMSTERDAM BANK.—On Saturday
morning that old detective officer, Daniel Forrester,
with the assistance of two persons, named Shaw and
Williamson, apprehended two Dutchmen on a charge
of attempting to procure forged notes on the Amster-
dam Bank. The capture was well contrived. It ap-
pears that one of the prisoners had given orders to a
copper-plate printer, named Whiteman, of Little Queen-
street, Holborn, to manufacture a plate according to a
good Bank of Amsterdam note. Mr. Whiteman did so,
and allowed one of the prisoners to have ten copies, but,
in the meanwhile, gave the very proper information to
the police of the order he had received, and hence the
capture of both prisoners. At the station-house the
prisoners denied all knowledge of each other.
THE AREA IN FRONT OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL.—
William Barber, of St. Paul's-churchyard, who has for
some considerable time exerted himself in the Court of
Sewers, for the purpose of getting the railings removed
from the western point of St. Paul's Cathedral, has_ re-
ceived an official note, intimating to him, in reply
the
question put to the dean, that it is the intention or a
.
authorities to open the gates for the convenience
of the
public in a few days.
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able time past been in declining health. Ile was sixty
years of age.—Proton Pilot.