The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-22 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, AUG. 19.
This morning the Queen walked and drove out, accom-
panied by Princess Louise.
Prince Arthur went out shooting, attended by Lieu-
tenant Picard.
In the afternoon the Queen, with Princess Beatrice,
and attended by Lady Churchill, drove to Invercauld,
and paid a visit of condolence to the Misses Farquharson.
Princess Louise, attended by Miss Lascelles, walked
and drove out.
Prince Leopold drove out both morning and evening,
attended by Dr. Poore.

The Toronto Telegraph says that Mr. Gladstone
has actually offered the guns at the fortress of Quebec for
sale as old iron.

The death is announced of the wife of Sir Valentine
Fleming, late Chief Justice of Tasmania. She was the
daughter of Mr Charles Buckland.

Imposters who pretend to have lost limbs in some
of the recent battles on the Continent have already made
their appearance in the streets of London.

A orrespondent writes that in Ireland some un-
easiness exists as to the wheat crop, which is reported to
be blighted in several places.
The postal authorities have determined to lay on
additional telegraph wires to the North of England, and
also to Glasgow and Edinburgh, in order to supply the
deficiency which now exists.

We are informed that the Hay collection of
Egyptian antiquities will shortly be exhibited to the public
in the beautiful Egyptian Court of the Crystal Palace, a
very fitting locality. _

According to the Civilian, the examination for
three supplementary clerkships in the Civil Service Com-
mission Office, held during the last week, was attended by
120 competitors.
EXPECTED VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES
TO TEESDALE.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales,
with his suite, intend visiting Teesdale for a week's grouse
shooting at the end of the month. Great preparations are
being made f)r his Royal Highness's accommodation at
the High Ford. The Royal party are to arrive at Mid-
dleton on the 29th inst., en route for the High Ford.
Grouse are said to be very plentiful, but very strong on
the wing. —Leeds Mercury.

At a public meeting held on Friday at Birming-
ham, under the presidency of the Mayor, it was decided
to commence a general fund in that town for the sick and
wounded in the war. The money will be transmitted to
the Central London Committee, and in order that no time
should be lost, a considerable part of the amount sub-
scribed was forwarded on Friday night to the London
committee.

Amongst the persons apprehended in Paris in con-
nection with the attack upon the Barracks of the firemen
at La Villette was M. Louis Leprince, the son-in-law of
Joseph Whiteley, Esq., of Leeds. He had gone to Paris
to bring home his mother, but was in no way mixed up
with the affair, except that he had the misfortune to be
in the Boulevard de la Villette when the disturbance took
place. Yorkshire Post.
The South London Press states that another batch
of sixty-four South London tradesmen were fined on Wed-
nesday for being possessed of short weights and measures.
They consisted of thirteen chandlers, eleven oilmen, ten
butchers, five each of publicans and bakers, four each of
fruiterers and cheesemongers, three coal dealers, two each
of marine store dealers and grocers, and one each of gum
merchants, iron-founders, costermongers and leather
dealers. The total amount of the fines was £77 15s.

Our readers will learn with great pleasure (says
the John Bull) that the Archdeacon of Taunton is much
better. He has been out for some time in his Bath
chair, and on Wednesday went to an hotel at Burnham
for the sea air. He is able to write letters. Writing to
a friend he says, "It is my fifty-seventh day. I am
lying writing on my back ;." and then proceeds in his own
vigorous way to express his pleasure at the failure of the
Lectionary Bill, and his distress at the Westminster
Abbey Communion.
POSTAL CONTRACTS WITH THE UNITED STATES.
—We learn with regret that the Postmaster-General of
the United States has finally declined the offer of the
Cunard Steamship Company to carry the mails, on the
grounds that it would be unjust to the Williams and
Guion Company, with whom a contract bas been made
for two years.—Railway News.

DUNVILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest holders
of whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is r ommended
by the medical profession in preference to French brand . Sup.
plied in casks and cases for home use or exportation. Quotationm
on application to Messrs DUNVILLE & CO., Royal Irish Dis-
tilleries, Belfast ; or at thel London Offices, 4, Beaufort Buildings
Strand, W.C.

NEW YORK GOSSIP.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

NEW YORK, Aug. 3.
The great ocean yacht race, which has been an engross-
ing topic of conversation ever since the 4th of last July,
was decided at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 27th, when
Mr. Ashbury's yacht the Cambria passed the Sandy
Hook lightship one hour and seventeen minutes ahead
of her opponent, the Dauntless. The race was a superb
exhibition of pluck and speed from first to last, and Mr.
Ashbury's victory gave no pain to our townspeople. It is
true that all here expected the Dauntless to win, and the
odds were nearly 100 to N on that vessel, but the pride
of birth and a generous desire to see our countryman win
were the causes of this favoritism, and many who know
nothing of yachts, and still less of yacht building,
staked their money freely on the craft that
bore the colours of the New York Club. This
is very pardonable patriotism, and few would blame
our citizens for exhibiting it. And, as it is, the race
proves but one point, though that is an important one ; it
does not show that the Cambria is a superior vessel to the
Dauntless, it does not prove that the English system of
building is better than the American, but it does show
that both models are good, and that both vessels are
entitled to receive the highest honours from their respec-
tive nations. A difference of an hour and a quarter in a
race covering nearly three thousand miles of ocean may
almost be said to be no difference at all, and already
demonstrated that the two boats were very closely
matched and admirably sailed. The contest should not
be regarded, and has not been looked upon, in this
country at least, as an international one, and the utmost
good feeling is expressed and felt towards Mr. Ashbury,
not only by his gallant, opponent but by all American
yachtsmen. It was well understood that both
vessels could not win, and though the Englishman
has succeeded in the present conflict, that fact would
not deter our people from offering odds on the Daunt-
less were the race to be sailed again. The details
of the voyage are not very interesting, and would
hardly warrant reproduction here. But one inci-
dent of any real importance occurred, and that
took place on board of the Dauntless, where, at
7.30 in the morning of the third day out, two
of the hands were swept from the jib - boom.
The yacht lay to during two hours ; the most
diligent search was made, and no effort spared to
rescue the two unfortunate men, but all without
effect. When all hope was gone, Mr. Bennett gave the
order to 'bout ship, and the race was resumed.
The victory may have gone to the Cambria, in conse-
quence of that two hours delay, but the owner of the
Dauntless has the satisfaction of knowing that all that
man can do was done by him and his subordinates to save
the lives of the two sailors, and his defeat under these cir-
cumstances is far preferable to a victory won by the cruel
sacrifice of two fellow-men. The race for the Queen's
Cup is to be sailed on Monday next. The course is from
the Club House on Statue Island to the light ship
and return, a distance of about thirty miles. It
is announced as positive' that the Dauntless will not
sail in the Queen's Cup race, but has made an arrange-
ment with the Cambria for a private contest. The vessels
will go outside Sandy Hook twenty miles to the wind-
ward, and return, sailing under the New York Club
rules. Many other schooner yachts of the New York
squadron have either made or are making arrangements for
individual trials of speed with the Cambria, and yachting
matters will be very lively in this city for some time to
come.

Mr. Ashbury announces that he has brought over two
cups as prizes to be sailed for by the sloops and schooners,
being one prize for each class. The Cambria will be
entered in this race, that all the vessels of the New York
I Club may have an opportunity to test their comparative
speed ; but should she win a prize she will resign it to
the second yacht. The America is now on the screw dock
in the East River undergoing repairs. She will be sailed
in the race of Monday next by Captain Richard Brown,
who .navigated her in the celebrated race of 185 L Ensign
Jasper, U.S.N., has been appointed to the command, but
enough of yachts and yachting matters, which, though
very important to many, are not the only topics for New
York gossip.
The community was shocked and horrified on Friday
last by the intelligence that Mr. Benjamin Nathan, one
of the wealthiest, best known, and most universally re-
spected of our citizens had been murdered in his own
house on the Twenty-third-street, opposite the Fifth-
avenue Hotel, during the preceding night. Mr. Nathan's
family were at his country seat in New Jersey, and
he was in the city by the merest accident. At
twelve o'clock at night he parted from his
sons, and in the morning was found upon the
floor of his apartment a lifeless corpse, his
head beaten in and horribly mangled, and one hand
broken into fragments.' The police, the detective force,
and the public remain in the most entire ignorance con-
cerning the identity of the assassin, and all attempts to
discover him have thus far proved unavailing, in spite of
the enormous rewards offered for his capture. Mr. Nathan
was one of the oldest and most respected members of the
New York Stock Exchange, and many of his fellow-
members attended his funeral on Monday last, the Board
remaining closed out of respect to his memory until one
o'clock that day.
The locality where Mr. Nathan's house is situated is, as
all visitors to New York well know, the most frequented
and the most easily guarded district in the city. Within
a stone's throw of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, directly
opposite the largest of our hotels, and placed on the
busiest of our up-town streets, the fact that such a murder
could be committed in such a place, and under the circum-
stances, sent a feeling of horror and dismay into many of
the most courageous hearts. The murder was not
I committed for plunder either, the only loss being a watch,
chain and seals, and a small sum of money. This, in the
judgment of many, would indicate that revenge, or some
similar motive instigated the crime, and that the mur-
derer made away with a few articles of value that the
polic might be thrown upon a false track. But this
seems impossible when the character of the man is con-
sidered, and his standing in the community remembered.
A prominent member of many benevolent societies,
always foremost in any scheme for ameliorating the suf-
ferings of the sick, the cold, or the hungry, perfectly
happy, so far as the world can know, in all his
domestic relations, it seems preposterous that any of the
higher passions should have been the cause of the murder.
Indeed, the matter is a most perplexing puzzle, and we
may well question whether the assassin will be found.

The circumstances of the case are quite as baffling as
those of any cause celebre whose intricacies have defied the
utmost efforts of the authorities, and our detective force
is not noted for its organisation.

To the shame of American journalism be it said that
a weekly paper contained in its issue of Sunday
last an article directly accusing the son of the murdered
man of having killed his father. The assertion was based
on no evidence whatever, the laudable desire to sell
many copies of that number of the paper being the only
motive to be ascribed to the editors. It is pleasant to be
able to add that the sheet in question is the lowest of
New York papers, and that every reputable newspaper in
the city has shown up the infamy.
In this final paragraph let me mention matters of less
importance. The war in Europe affords us food for un-

limited conversation, and news is anxiously awaited.
Vicar Samuel Starrs has issued a very able document,
setting forth clearly and comprehensibly the meaning and
precise purport of the dogma of infallibility. The pro-
duction is likely to do great good in counteracting the bad
effects of many ignorant, and therefore intolerant, articles
which have appeared in some newspapers of the
Protestant Press. Emancipation Day—that is the
anniversary of West 'lndian Emancipation was
celebrated by our coloured citizens yesterday with
great rejoicing. The festivities were marked by the
utmost good order. A disastrous fire occurred last night
on the Hudson River, resulting in the total destruction of
a ferry-boat belonging to the Hoboken Company and a
Bremen barque laden with petroleum, against which the
burning steamer drifted. Fortunately the passengers and
hands in both vessels escaped without injury.
The weather has been oppressively hot, and the casual-
ties in consequence very numerous. Sunstrokes are but
too common, and thmigh everything is done to relieve the
sufferers many of the cases result fatally. Business com-
mences to revive to a slight extent.

PRINCE HAL.

On Thursday night the last train from Leeds
brought down an empty carriage, which was detached at
Batley. This by some means got away in the darkness un-
perceived, and, running down the Dewsbury incline, ran
into the train which was just about to start for Hudders-
field. The passengers were much shaken and knocked
about.

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