The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-20 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, AUG. 18.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by their Royal
Highnesses Princess Louise, Prince Arthur, Prince Leo•
pold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived at Balmoral at half
past three o'clock this afternoon.

The suite in attendance consisted of Lady Churchill,
the Hon. Mary Lascelles, Sir Thomas Biddulph, Sir
William Jenner, Colonel Maude, Lieutenant Pickard, Mr.
Sall, and Dr. Poore.

THE WINNER OF THE QUEEN'S PRIZE.
The shooting for the Queen's Prize at Shoeburyness
closed yesterday morning. The winners were the first detach-
ment of 3rd Middlesex, who made four direct hits
and one ricochet in the five rounds, being the score of
34 made on Thursday evening. The practice was made
with a 40-pounder Armstrong breech-loader at a twelve-
foot target at 1,500 and 2,000 yards fired at alternately.

A LARGE PURCHASE OF PORT. —Several rumours, none
'of which have stated the real facts, have been floating
about the market lately about a sale of •considerable
magnitude of rare old ports, the growth of the late
Baron Seixo, whose lodge at Villa Nova contained 2,500
pipes of, port at the time of his death. In order
to give our readers the facts of the case, we made
inquiries of the buyers, Messrs. W. and A. GILBEY to
ascertain the full extent of their purchase. We are in-
formed that they had bought of the trustees of the late
Baron Seixo, 1,225 pipes of port, consisting of about
equal proportions of 1834'5, 1840's, 1847'5, 1858's, and 1863
vintages, part of wtlich has already arrived, and the re-
mainder is being shipped.— Wine Trade Review.
WORKMEN'S INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. The
number of visitors yesterday (Friday) was 6,144.
An order has been forwarded to Devonport to
bring forward immediately all the ironclads now at that
dockyard, including the Iron Duke, the Audacious, the
Hotspur, the Invincible, and the Vanguard. - Western
Morning' News.
Lord Dunglas, son of the Earl of Home, and heir
to the title and ancestral estates in Lanarkshire, Ren-
frewshire, and elsewhere, was married on Thursday to
Miss Grey, daughter of Captain Grey, R.N., and niece of
Sir George Grey.
The Civil Service Commissioners have issued the

regulations for the competitive examinations by which in
future persons are to be selected for temporary employ-
ment as writers, thereby saving a large expenditure for
highly paid officials who are engaged in mere clerks'
duties.

It has been asserted that Count Benedetti has

been in England, on an important mission, because he
was among the passengers from Dover to Calais a few
nights ago. This rumour is founded on the fact that a
son of the count's has just returned to France to take
arms in the Garde Mobile.

The five hundred men required to augment the
strength of the Army Service Corps have been readily
obtained in a week, and are now hard at work on the
parade ground learning their setting-up drill. It is ex-
pected that an order for the raising of another 500 men
will be issued in a few days.

The Admiralty have directed that in future the en-
gineer students at Chatham Dockyard who may lose any
time during their period of six years' servitude are to make
up the time thus lost before they will be granted their
certificates to enable them to be appointed assistant-en-
gineers in the Royal Navy.

TRADE IN THE SOUTH OF IRELAND.-Sir Peter
Tait has again received very extensive contracts, and at
the present time a large number of operatives are kept
constantly employed in his factory at Boherbuoy. This
intelligence leads the Limerick Chronicle to tell the opera-
tives of that city that there is now ample employment for
every female who is anxious and able to earn her living.

One of the results of the war can hardly have been
looked for—namely, an increase in the demand for silk
products. The Standard says that all the workshops'of
Lyons and Roanne have been invited to furnish large
quantities of silk gauze for the manufacture of cartridges,
the preparation of which has not slackened, notwith-
standing the supply of 125 millions now in store.

The experiments, at Chatham, with the new pon-
toon, the, invention of Lieuteuant Blood, of the B Troop
of Mounted Engineers, having been so successful, the
authorities have directed that eighty boats (four bridges)
are to be immediately made. For this purpose a number
of artisans belonging to the Corps of Engineers have been
set to work to make them.

The Board of Trade has received a report from
one of the crew of the British ship Elizabeth Fleming,
twenty-seven tons, which was burned in lat. 39 N., lon.
16 W. After the fire had raged for a time all hands took
to the boats, and remained by the ship all night. At
daylight they shaped their course for Madeira, and were
picked up by the ship Jerusalem, of Aberdeen, for Mel-
bourne, which took them to about fifteen miles off
Madeira, where they again took to their boats. They
reached Funchal on July 17.

On the 12th of March last the American ship
China, Silas Weeks master, whilst on a voyage from New
Orleans to Liverpool, fell in with the British ship C. C.
Horton, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, bound from London
to Boston, and in a sinking condition. After laying by
her for some time the China succeeded in receiving all
hands (20 in number) on board her and landed them at
Liverpool on the 24th of March, during which time the
rescued persons were very kindly treated. In recognition
of these services the Board of Trade have awarded Captain
Silas Weeks a binocular glass.
THI: VOLUNTEERS AND THE BREECH LOADERS.

—Lord Elcho has written a letter to the London papers,
in which he says that since he recommended the immediate
arming of the volunteers with the Snider he has thought
the matter over with Mr. Cardwell, and has been satisfied
that, though there are 300,000 Sniders in store, 100,000 are
required to meet the pressing wants of the army, navy,
militia, and pensioners, and of the remaining quantity
many are wanted for Canada. He is is assured, however,
that in the event of volunteers being called out they
would be armed with the Snider, and that, as it is, they
will be served out gradually in time for the Queen's Prize
next year to be shot for with breech-loaders.

THE QUESTION OF MEDIATION.—Writing on the
chances of mediation in the interest of peace between the
powers now at war, the London correspondent of a Man-
chester paper says it is pretty certain that at this stage
the Prussians would demand not only a pecuniary indem-
nity, but a cession of territory. Those in favour of
mediation forget that though the French army has been
very hard hit, the strain on the strength and resources
of the French nation has not yet been half so great
as on the German side. From all we hear it is evident
that the tremendous efforts already made by the Germans
—particularly the Prussians—will be felt for years. All
business is at a standstill—society is disorganised, and in
many places the marks will be visible for the lifetime of
the present generation. It is this which has enabled them
to strike such tremendous blows at their adversaries.

THE HOME SECRETARY. A writer in the
Manchester Courier . says :—" There is an impression
abroad that Mr. Bruce is to retire from the Home Office
where he will be succeeded by Mr. Forster. It is so
obvious a change, and so much demanded in
the public interest, that it is pretty sure not
to come to pass. Even the ministerial prints
allow Mr. Bruce to be a failure both in Parliament
and at the Home Office, though they console themselves
with the reflection that he is the only failure. Cer-
tainly he is the biggest failure, though everybody con-
cerned in or acquainted with military affairs will tell you
that Mr. Cardwell is infinitely a more costly one for the
country. The truth is Mr. Bruce ought never to have
been placed in so responsible a position. An Under-
Secretaryship was the full extent of his calibre, and even
his friends were doubtful whether he had the temper, the
accuteness or the firmness for a big place like the Home-
office. His career there has been a constant succession of
failures. He has promised more measures and withdrawn
more than any of his predecessors within my memory."

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