The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-07 00:00:00

MR. BUCKSTONE'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.

On Wednesday next, July 11th, Mr. Buckstone takes
his annual benefit at the Haymarket Theatre, and there are
few who stand less in need of any addition being made to
this preliminary announcement. The long period through
which the valuable services rendered by Mr. Buckstone as
manager, author, and actor, have been recognised by the
admirers of the dramatic art, and the ever-recurring inte-
rest with which the public hail the successive manifesta-
tions of his histrionic talents, would show at once that no
appeal of the kind could be more generally or more heartily
responded to. But the occasion will be rendered peculiarly
significant by 91r. Buckstone on this evening delivering his
Annual Address, in which the past and future progress of
the theatre under his direction will be reviewed and indi-
cated. There will be two new comedies represented, in
which Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews and Miss Amy
Sedgwick will perform, and a variety of entertainments will
be added, which will ensure a most entertaining evening.
The high estimation in which Mr. Buckstone is held will
be sure to fill the theatre this night with one of the most
brilliant and crowded audiences of the prolonged season.—
Bra.

COWES, July s.—The Prince and Princess of
Leiningen arrived at No. 1, Parade-terrace, West Cowes, on
Monday last. Captain the Hon. Joseph Denm m and
family arrived at White Rose Cottage on Wednesday.
Lord Colvile has taken No. 1, Solent-terrace; the Hon.
Mr. D. Liddell, Cambridge House. His Royal Highness
the Prince of 'Wales, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and
Prince William of Nassau visited Prince Leiningen at No.
1, Parade-terrace on Thursday.
VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO CANADA.—
It is expected that the Royal yacht will arrive in Plymouth
Sound from Spithead on Monday afternoon, that the
Prince of Wales will proceed immediately on board the
Hero, and that at daylight on Tuesday morning she will
sail for Canada. Her convoy, the steam frigate Ariadne,
from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
afternoon.

The new works of the Grand Surrey Docks and
Canal Company, comprising a deep-water dock of 16 acres,
a basin of three acres, and a lock 250 feet by 50 feet, with
a depth of water on the till of 27 feet below Trinity stan-
dard, were formally opened to-day by the admission of
several vessels, among others the Coronet, from Cronstadt,
of 872 tons register.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—A most important
advance has just been made in the science of submarine
telegraphy. On Saturday, the 23d ult., Mr. W. P. Pig-
gott laid, and satisfactorily worked, an experimental cable
between .Ryde, in the Isla of Wight, and Alverstoke, on the
main land, which cable had the remarkable peculiarity of
being uninsulated, and of having neither india rubber nor
gutta percha in its composition.—The Photographic Neu's.
VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LITERPOOL.—In ac-
cordance with instructions from Colonel M`Murdo, and
with the concurrence of the Lord-Lieutenant, Colonel
Browne, of the 4th Brigade Lancashire Artillery Volun-
teers, has arranged with the commanding officers of Vo-
lunteers in Liverpool for a review at Aintree Racecourse
on the 14th inst. All the Volunteers in the county have
been invited to attend and take part in the proceedings.
The Volunteers of Manchester are endeavouring to arrange
for a review on Newton-heath in August next, when the
presence of her Majesty. is hoped for.
THE POPE !AND HIS IRISH SUPPORTERS.—In a
letter from Rome in the Union (France) we read :—" Most
of the Irish who have come here to take service under the
Pope are fine men, and a certain number of them have
already been in the army. The passion of the Irish for
strong drink is unfortinately too well known; and three
days ago it was the cause of a painful accident. Some of
the volunteers, when in a state of intoxication, attempted to
force open the door of a monastery, in order to lake ven-
geance on a monk of whom they fancied they had reason to
complain ; but a patrol being sent against them, they were
arrested. General de Lamoriciere, who is determined that
strict discipline shall be maintained among the troops under
his command, has intimated that these Irish shall be
brought to trial before a court martial."
PREVENTIBLE RISK IN FAST RAILWAY TRAVEL-

LING.—In a report to the Board of Trade (trka
stpublished)
on the accident at Hatfield in April, when a
Great
got oil
Northern
train, after passing over a rail that had been turned,‘
the line, and Mr. Pro, a passenger, lost his ife Colonel
Yolland states that the whole weight of the train
whichs
about 100 tons, and the total weight on the wheels to
break blocks could be applied was but about 26 tons. Now
a train at Hatfield, travelling down an incline of 1 in 200'
at the rate of 60 miles an hour (a frequent rate of that
train at that point), could not have been stopped by these
breaks in less than three-quarters of a mile. Col. Yolland
says this is a very unsatisfactory condition attending fast
railway travelling, and that such quick trains ought to be
famished with an amount of break power which will enable
them to be stopped in a third of that distance, and that this
can be dons by means of continuous breaks, which aug-
ment the retarding power three or four fold. Two years
ago the Board of Trade sent to all railway companies a re-
port of the successful working of such breaks on the East
Lancashiie Railway, where a train of 90 tons, supplied
with 80 per cent. of break power, travelling at the rate of
53 miles an hour down an incline of 1 in 120, was stopped
after runninc, 235 yards. The carriage in which Mr. Pym
rode was not thrown over on its side until it was 408 yards
from the spot where the accident occurred.