The Sun.
London, England, 1869-07-26 00:00:00

AN UNREHEARSED SHAM FIGHT.

A correspondent of the Daily Telegraph gives us the
particulars of the manoeuvring against each other of two
English armies, with no knowledge on either side of the
intentions and whereabouts of the enemy. This kind of
spectacle was for the first time seen in this country last
week. It was the return of the flying column to Alder-
shot from Wimbledon that gave the opportunity. The
idea is said to have first suggested itself to Sir
Alfred Horsford, the general in command of the
column. He proposed that on his last day's march
from Chobham he should be met at some place or
other, unknown to him, by a force from Aldershot,
which should endeavour to bar his route, while
he on his side made his arrangements so as if
possible to avoid or outmanmuvre the opposing army.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge heartily
approving the suggestion, the necessary arrangements
were duly made, and the fight came off along the range
of wooded and wild open upland, called the Fox Hills,
that lie between the village of Pirbright and Aldershot.
Sir A. Horsford marched at an early hour from Chobham,
halting at Pirbright, where he massed his force, the nature
of the ground enabling him to conceal it from the view
of any enemy that might be in occupation of Fox
Hills. Pickets were posted, and patrols and scouts sent
out in search of the enemy, while waiting for
the arrival of the train that was to bring hi
Royal Highness to the scene of action, where he was to
act the part of umpire. No sooner had the train that was
supposed to convey his Royal highness passed the Brook
wood station, distant about 300 yards from Pirbright,
than Sir A. Horsford gave the order to advance on the
road that leads from the village to Aldershot, along the base
of the Fox Hills range. The distance between this road
and the crest of the hills is about two miles at Pir•
bright, but the roads and the hills gradually converg'
until they meet in the immediate neighbourhood of the
Aldershot camp. As Sir A. Horsford's column marched
along this road the cavalry pickets and patrols of the
enemy were to be seen on the heights and in the woods
immediately in front ; but, a prominent bill on the
enemy's extreme right bring apparently unoccupied.
`Colonel Baker, commanding the cavalry, and Colonel
Light, commanding the artillery, made a dash at
it with the 10th Hussars and Horse Artillery, and
took possess:on of the height in brilliant style,
holding the position against the repeated efforts of
the enemy to dislodge them, until Sir A. Horsford
brought up his infantry in support, and thus secured a
vantage ground which, in the opinion of his Royal High.
ness, the umpire, gave Sir A. Horsford " the best of it,"
and justified his advancing and throwing forward his left.
This was done ; and after some charges of cavalry on
both sides, Sir A. Horsford's field battery, which bad
moved along the road in rear of his line,
having by this time also come into action on his left,
the bugles sang truce, and the fight was ended.
At its close the left of the flying column almost
rested on the bridge of the canal which bounds
the Aldershot camp on that side. His Royal Highness
said that the flying column had the "best of it;" it
is currently reported that the attack was not expected
from the direction of Pirbright, but from that of Firmley,
where a considerable force was posted, and consequently
unable to take part in the action. The Telegraph corres-
pondent thinks such manoeuvres should be gone through
more frequently.

The Rev. Dr. Rowland Williams, the author of the
article "Bunsen's Biblical Researches," in "Essays and Re-
views," advertises in the Record for a clergyman to take
charge of the district of Bowerchalke, a portion of the
large parish of Broadebalke, of which he is the vicar. " De-
sired," says Dr. Williams, "a good preacher, with muEical
skill, and nothing od•l in doctrine. Rational or ritual eccen-
tricity objected to."

HARVEST IN THE HOME COUNTIES._ The har-
vest in the counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Berks, arm?
Bucks is following closely upon the heels of the hay.
making. Several fields of oats have been cut in the neigh
bourhood of Windsor and Staines. The wheat and barley
also are very rapidly ripening, so that in a few days the
jiarvest operations will be in full force, the prospect in
general being good, the wheat never looking more pro•

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—A return
just issued skews that the public income for the year
ending June 30 was £73,155,032 13s. 7d., of which the
principal items were Customs, £22,486,000 ; Excise,
£20,576,000 ; stamps, £9,332,000 ; and property tax,
£8,838,000. The expenditure to the same date was
£73,833,259 13s. 7d. The chief items were interest and
management of the permanent and floating debt,
;,26,636,614; army, £14,495,400; navy, £10,873,135;
Abyssinian expedition, £4,500,000; and miscellaneous
:ivil service, £8,919,202. The excess of expenditure over
Income in the year was £678,227. The balance in the
3xchequer was £4,716,584 10s. ld.

A NEW USE FOR VELOCIPEDES.—The London
Scotsman learns that velocipedes are to be provided at the
public expense for the carriage of mails in some rural
districts. Within the past few days the first machine of
the kind officially introduced in Scotland has been
supplied for the post between Cairnryan and Strati-
raer in Wigtownshire. The pattern adopted is the
invention of a person at Alusselburgh, furnished
it a moderate cost. It has three wheels, with
he seat placed low in the centre, and the action is very
,asy. From the lowness of the seat, the risk of an over-
turn is very small, and while the position of the driver is
comfortable, the lateral action of the feet gives great
power without much fatigue. It is believed that the in-
troduction of velocipedes may supersede the use of mail
gigs in many cases, the machine adopted being calculated
to go at a speed of six miles an hour under favourable cir-
cumstances.

-,-1,
lOW TO MAKE PAPER TRANSPARENT.—Artists,
architects, land-surveyors, and all who have occasion to
make use of tracing-paper in their professional duties,
will be glad to know that a new method has been promul-
gated by our clever neighboursacross the Channel for ren-
dering any paper capable of the transfer of a drawing in
ordinary ink, pencil, or water-colours, and that even a
stout drawing-paper can be made as transparent as the
thin yellowish paper at present used for tracing
purposes. The liquid used is benzine. If the
paper be damped with pure and fresh-distilled ben-
zine, it at once assumes a transparency, and per-
mits of the tracing to be made, and of ink, or water-
colours, being used on its surface without any " running."
The paper resumes its opacity as the benzine evaporates,
and, if the drawing is not then completed, the requisite
portion of the paper must be again damped with the
benzine. The transparent calico, on which indestructible
tracings can be made, was a most valuable invention, and
this new discovery of the properties of benzine will prove
or further service to many branches of the art profession,
in allowing the use of a stiff paper where, foraierly, only
slight tissue could be used.— Oace a Week.

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TIER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, July 25.
The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High•
ness Princess Christian, drove out yesterday after-
noon.

The other members of the Royal Family also
weut out.

Her Majesty, accompanied by Princess Chris-
tian, Princess Louise, Prince Leopold, Princess
Beatrice, Prince Christian, and the ladies and gen-
tlemen in waiting, attended Divine service this
morning at Osborne.

LAIEST INTELL MENUS

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW' YORK, July 24.
The steamers which leave to-day for Europe
take out $1,300,000 in specie.
The Columbia (of the Anchor line) arrived out
to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
CLOSING PRICES.
Gold closed at 1361 ; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1361; the lowest, 1351.
Sterling Exchange on London llO.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 1231.
" 1885 l2ll.
" 1867 l2OB.

10-40 cc
111.
Illinois
142.
Erie
29.

Cotton—Mid. upland 34c.
Petroleum—Standard White 32ic.
Flour, extra state, $6.20c. to $6.80c. Corn, old
mixed, 100 c.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the
week's receipts of cotton have been 3,000 bales, and
since the Ist September, and taken by American
spinners direct, 2,348,000 bales ; shipments to
England, 1,000 bales ; to France and the Conti-
nent, none ; since the Ist of Sept., 1,425,000 bales'
Stock, 38,000 bales.

QUEBEC, July 24.
The Allau (Glasgow) steamship European ar-
rived out to-day.

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.

Sir William Thomson telegraphs as follows
11.1mou, Sunday Evening.
The two sections of the cable (Brest to St. Pierre'
St. Pierre to Duxbury) have been joined for a W.
trial, and we have conversed freely with the Com'
pany's engineers at Duxbury, through 3,330 aalee
of submerged cable. During five hours to-day we
have made experiments, in the course of which
minute directions given from one end have been 111-
stantaneously executed at the other.

Despatched from Minou, Sunday evening, 10.0'

FRANCE.

PARIS, July 26.
The Official Joarnal of this morning, announcing
the completion of the French Atlantic cable, saYs:i
" The new route of communication thus opene
between France and the United States will hence
forth render their relations both more frequent and
more intimate ; it will also help to draw still closer
the bonds of friendship which now unite the tiv°
countries."

According to advices from the West Indies the
yellow fever is decreasing in those islands. A fell
cases still occurred in Guadeloupe and Martinique'
but the epidemic character of the disease was nearly
extinct.

BOURSE, July 24.—Three o'clock—The 1113 eat
closed as follows : •

4i per Cent.
End of month —
3 per Cent
End of month 7l 93
Credit Mobilier
End of month —
Credit Foncior l6BO
End of month —

Bank Shares ......2905 35
Ital'an Five 5....... 55
End of month...
".-
Ottoman Loan ... --, p. 26 5O
Do. Debt......... , r
Spanish Threes ... °0
Home Debt...... ....-
Deferred ...... ... ---
Cash
Orleans
Northern ...
1080
Lyons and Mediterranean ."
......
980
Southern..... 6161
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian Bl2k
Lombard 552k
North of Spain --
Saragossa
Roman 54

/.
.....

RAILWA-

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This DO'

BRUTAL ASSAULT LHAAMYEOSU.NG WordAIL---eo aid
Arthur,ybroiut
brutal
gl
ew hoaaniraacnt butcher and meat hawker of r e
namedr Rebecca Bullimore.
The
cemplaein,anwt,aas
vcherayrgreedspwecitthabvleioalnedntwlyelalscseaveultui7:
ducted
young woman, has care of a business at No. fit Lc4ed
East Smithfield, which it was Stated by the police 1411
others was conducted in a very respectable Ina°lreb-r.
The prisoner came there tipsy and made a great distil. b
eccentric 5-
abnece. The complainant requested him to leave, vrhticod
refused to do, and demanded of her the eae rasaid
address
of the last occupier of the premises, and 0110 laa
she
did not know. He said she did know, "d cfary-cic
her a liar used the most opprobrious language, and s.
sl
her about the head and face with his clenched fist S°"l.
times.
The Magistrate said the prisoner had been guiltid°oefrig:
brutal and unmanly outrage on the complainant, su
tensed him to two months' imprisonment and hard Iswwsio
Ho
became overwhelmed with d. a °int:33'3ll'oWe
despair when he heard the senternagce e,s oa cool .73_ 6
anld
1.
he said, "Pray make it into a fine ; I will paY a fin:', for
The Magistrate—Oertainly not. A pecuniarl 'Ll'" Do
such a gross outrage as this is not a fitting Pens"' irsel
you suppose that a great overbearing ruffian lige 9°ntait
is to ill use a slight young woman like the Co s 1•
and be maltreated with impunity ? Take the ruffian

ASSAULT BY A SOLDIER.—Henry DWESTMINSTER.IER.
H enry
rai iel i°
the Royal Artillery, was charged with violentlyasesub3-
of
Henry Hawker,
a porter at the Sloane-square stn
the I Metropolitan District Railway. too
It appears that Smith, xr- 19' 4..„%
late on Saturday night the prisoner
the
a ticket for Westminster drunk and bein raissed gn de-
train. He then walked into the booking-ofdo, ad-ci to
vas
mended his money back. This Nl.- i°s
refused, acco
. ;
the rules, and he was referred to the genera
a ti teati"o'
mt
on that he stuckk the
collector, with whom he bad a scuffle, both falling,
li(jaet
the collector severely cutting his knee. Couejtitti,
-
went about a minute afterwards to put out the li
twice
when the defendant rushed at him and struck hull 0
in the face, cutting the bridge of his nose, and (as°
upper lip ;he then ran away, but was captured. tbe
Prisoner said he was sorry'he struck the porter, but d
d lioc'el°
had just been
ejected by three persons, an
about. he
uniform
Mr •
.elle said he w . t
as sorry to se a mn
of the prisoner misconduct himself, but hele had no *WI.-
native than to inflict a fino of 10s. or 7 clay&