The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-02 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Lord Clifden's subscription for next season is full.
Lord Ailesbury's two year old colt by St. Albans out:of
Cantino has boon named Pic-nie.

Dalby was struck out of the Warwick Cup and Grand
Prix do Baden cn August 27, at 11.35 a.m.

The colt by Vedette out of Vixen was struck out of
all his engagements. on Monday last, at 9 a.m.
The weights for the Cesarewitch and Cambridgeshire
Stakes will be published on Thursday next.
Knight of the Crescent paid forfeit for all engagements
on Monday last at 6 p.m.
Bumblekito was struck out of the St. Leger on Thurs-
day last, at 9 a.m.
Mr. Barber's Corporal, 2 yrs, by Commotion out of Polly
Peachum, has been destroyed.
Mr. Jeffery, of the Post Office Hotel, Manchester, died
at Harrogate a few days ago.
ST. ALBANS.—This stallion is advertised to servo forty
mares at fifty guineas each, at Bushey Paddocks.
Mr. Ten Broeck has named his two year old filly by Nut-
bourne out of The Fawn, Pompana.
Mr. John Day's two year old Cheddington, winner of
a half mile selling race at Weymouth on Thursday, was
sold to Mr. Hope for 91 guineas.
Verity, 3 yrs, was sold by auction to Captain Machell
for 58 guineas, after winning the City Stakes at Lichfield
on Thursday.

Easby Abbey Stud Farm, now in the occupation of
Mr. W. Blenkiron, is announced to be let at Michaelmas
next.

In the list of names published in the last Calendar, Mr.
Wyndham's c by Glenmasson, out of Sabrina, should have
been Kilmun, not Milman.

Major Elwon's horses in training and brood mares, in-
cluding Plaudit, 3 yrs, aro advertised for sale at Doncaster
on Friday week.

Princess Thyra, after winning the Grand Stand Selling
Stakes, at Derby, on Wednesday, was purchased by Mr.
Lincoln for 73 guineas.

Mr. F. E. Villiers bought The Masson for 47 guineas
after winning a Selling Plato at Woymouth, on Wed-
nesday.

The monthly edition of the Racing Calendar, containing
races past to the end of August, will bo published on
Tuesday next.

George Oates has taken the house and stables on the
High Moor, Middleham:(where ho has room for 1G horses),
and has commenced public training.
On Wednesday's last Mr. Watt's steward arrived at
Watson's stable, Belleisle, td removed Strathconan,
Olmar, and Mysotis, to the care of Lund, who will in
future train for Mr. 'Pat t.

NEW MATCM-At Ascot, 1868, Marquis of Hastings's
chesnut colt by Stockwell out of Marseillaise against Mr.
P. Hobson's chesnut colt by Big Bea out of Tiara, half a
male, no weights mentioned, 1000, 300 ft.

MATcur. —At Stockbridge, 1888 (last day), Mr. J.
enson's bay colt by Little Hastings out of Mayflower,
by Newminstor, and bay colt by King of Trumps out of
Nightingale (one to the post), against the Marquis of
Hastings's chesnut colt by Thormanby out of Breeze, Bst
101 b each, 500, 200 ft.

The yearling colt by Blair Athol out of Margaret, by
West Australian from Hawise (Nancy's dam), for whom
Mr. Eastwood gave 900 gs. at the sale of the Fairfield year-
lings last week, has been renamed Blair Drummond.
LICHFIELD SUMMER MEETING, 1868.—The stewards elect
for this meeting aro the Duke of Newcastle, tho Marquis
of Hastings, and the Earl of 'Westmorland.
S. MonnAN.—We aro glad to say that this jockey, who
was very severely shaken by a fall at Tunbridge on
Thursday, is progressing favourably. Although able to
leave his bed, ho was unable to ride on Friday.
Mr. Hope purchased Choddington for 91 guineas, and
Mr. Hedley Flying Spanker for 43 guineas, after winning
at Weymouth on Thursday.
Norrington was bought by Mr. Reynolds for 80 guineas,
after winning the Barham Downs Stakes, at Canterbury,
on Tuesday; hud on Wednesday Mr. Clarkgavo 70guineas
for Bumboat, after winning a selling stakes.
Spitfire, 2 yrs, was bought by Mr. J. Denman for 205
guineas, after winning the Selling Handicap, at Derby, on
Wednesday, and Traviata, who ran second, was claimed
by Captain Machell.
DERBY SUMMER MEETING,IB6B.—The Stewards elect for
noxtyoar aro the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Newcastle,
the Marquis of Hastings, and Sir H. Dos Venus.
Mr. Chaplin's two year old colt Ligurian was bought in
for 400 guineas after having won the Members' Plato at
Derby, on Tuesday, and Premier, who ran in tho same
race, was claimed by the Marquis of Hastings.
Mr. Fleming bought Pauline, by Rataplan out of Car-
lotta, 3 yrs, for 105 guineas, at Yarmouth, on Tuesday
last; and on Wednesday, Olivia, 6 yrs, winner of the Vic-
toria Gardens Handicap, was sold to Mr. Moore of Swaff-
ham, for 100 guineas.
WINNING JOCKEYS. The following particulars of the
amounts of the leading jockeys during the present season
will no doubt be interesting:—
Not Total
Wins. Second. Third. placed. mounts.
Fcrdham
Kenyon 63 55 27 109 253
Cameron
Butler

In addition to the above, Fordham has had one French
win (Grand Prize of Paris), and Cameron six winning
counts in that country.

BROWN V. HAMILL.—To BE ROWED AT NEWBERG, ON
TILE ITUDSON SEPTEMBER 6. The match between these
men is finally made. Hamill, accompanied by Dennis
Leary, the Biglin brothers, and other boating men, C:11/10
to our office on Monday last awl drew up the articles of
agreement, which were signed by Donnis Leary on behalf
of Hamill, and by Mr. Charles B. Elliott on behalf of the
Portlander. We give them in another column. Every-
thing was satisfactorily settled. The race will be ono
which will be memorable in aquatic annals, and a vast
throng will be present to hail the victor in the great con-
test for the sculling championship of America. Both men
aro actively engaged in training, and will do their utmost
to justify the confidence of their respective friends. Next
weekwo will give further details of the progress of the match.
The brief time between the making of the match aad the
day of its occurrence will hardly put Brown in his finest
form, but he has strong hopes of victory. Hamill looks
literally the "Little Engine," and his magnificent pro-
portions would be a study for an anatomist. Hamill's
mentor is the renowned Dennis Leary, one of the craftiest
of the river gods, and the trainer of the Freshman crew
of Yale, who saved their college from a Waterloo defeat
at the late Worcester regatta. Charles B. Elliott, the
famous boat-builder who constructed the shell in which
the Harvard University crew so thoroughly laid out the
"Yale University," engineered the match for Brown.—
Wad Spirit of the Times.

CRICKE7.

JOCKEYS AND RACING OFFICIALS v. SPORTING

PRESS.

On Saturday a match which created considerable inte-
rest in sporting circles, and which, with proper manage-
ment another year, promises to become one of the most
attractive of the season, was played at the Surrey County
Ground, Kennington. It was the rAum to a match played
a few weeks back at the Dripping Patrat,:ttfirti, in which
the Sporting Press Representatives got a sound castiga-
tion. But on this occasion, having claimed to play Bush,
who, although aprofessional, is also a sporting writer, and
otherwise amended their team, they were amply avenged.
Tho jockeys were unable to muster their strength, owing
to the absence of Custance and Ifiblerd, who were pro-
fessionally engaged at Baden-Baden. Upwards of 1,000
persons paid for admission at the gate, and the largest
party of the season sat down to partake of Mr. Hill's excel-
lent dinner in the pavilion. George Fordham was the
"observed of all observers," crowds of anxious admirers
flocking round him to get a good look at him. Ile.got out:
unfortunately, in the first innings ; but during the! second,
when he booked 34 (Aiit'aut), the shouting and Inzzaing of
the spectators was intense. As will be seen by the score,
Bush proved himself a "triton among the minnows," going
in second wicket down, and carrying out his bat for 78.
Allcock also played well for his 48. In their first hands
the Press put together 167, 27 of which were extras, and
the Jockeys were all got rid of for GO. They Lhoreforo fol-
lowed on, and had obtained 54 runs for two wickets when
time was called, thus leaving the Press victcrious by 107
runs on the first innings. The following is the score :

PRESS.
Mr Gale, b Cottrell... 1
Mr Newstead, b Cottrell ... ... 2
Mr Allcock, b Cottrell 48
Mr Bush, not out ... 78
Mr Crawford, b Cottrell ... ... 0
Mr Greenwood, b Day 1
lir Sharpe, b Day ... 1
Mr Moore, b Day ... ~. 2
Mr Wosthall, jun., c Goater, b Cottrell
Mr J. Capp, b Cottrell ... 0
Mr E. Smith, absent ... „. 0
Byes, S:e. ... 27

Total ...

... ... 167

JOCKEYS. Ist Inn. 2d Inn.
Mr Leonard Day, run out ... 6 not out ... 14
Mr Welch, b Crawfurd... ... 3
Mr T. M‘George, c Gale, b
Westhall ... 7
Mr G. Cottrell, hurt, not out 4
Mr J. Goater' b Westhall ... 0 b Bash ... 3
Mr G. Fordham, c Moore, b
Westhall 0 not out ... 31
Mr W. J. Stevens, b Crawfurd... 1
Mr Gough, b Bush 18
Mr 11. Day, b Alleock 11
Mr Goldsmith, b Bush 0
Substitute, not out ... .. 0 b Bush ... 2
Byes, &o. ... 10 Wido ... 1

Total

GO Total ... 51

CROSSING 711 E A 7 LAN7IC IN A SMALL
BOAT.

The Mary Blake, from Antigua, has arrived in the river
with a seaman named Andrew Armstrong on board, the
only survivor of a crew of four of a schooner-rigged boat
called the John T. Ford, which was lost while on a voyage
from Baltimore to Paris via Havre. The John T. Ford was
about 21 tons, and of less size than the lied, White, and
Blue, but unlike her she was not constructed on the lifeboat
principle, being more of a whaleboat. Her dimensions were
19ft. length of keel, 22ft. 6in. over all, 7ft. beam, 2ft. bin.
depth of hold. She was the joint property of the master,
Gould ; Armstrong, the survivor, and two or three others,
and the citizens of Baltimore took great interest in the
success of the expedition to Paris. The John T. Ford
left Baltimore on the 22d of June, but getting short of
water, one of her tanks being damaged, she put into Halifax
on the Bth of July, and, ono of her hands leaving, Arm-
strong, who is a fisherman, joined her, and on the morning
of the 16th of July she left Halifax, accompanied by
several boats, which escorted her out to sea. Meet-
ing with strong contrary winds she had to put back, and
anchored at Devil's Island until 1 p.m., of the 19th, when
she had to shift to get better shelter in the eastern
passage of Halifax. She remained there until the fol-
lowing Tuesday, the 22d, and at 4 a.m. proceeded on the
voyage, with the wind at S.W. On the 26th they sighted
a French schooner at anchor on the banks of Newfoundland,
and went alongside about 7 p.m., and left at 4 a.m. on the
next day. They then experienced very heavy weather,
the wind being from the N. The boat laboured and shipped
so much water that the crow ware unable to keep their
clothes dry, or have any rest. Indeed there was only room
for two below, and that in rather a cramped position, so
that two of the hands were always on deck. On the 28th
July they spoke a ship belonging to Yarmouth, the Nova
Scotia. The wind was then strong at S.W., with a heavy
sea running. On the 29th, the boat being under a foresail,
shipped a heavy sea, and capsized. She righted in about a
minute, but the water damaged the bread and wetted the
stores and cicthos. Armstrong states that their condition
was then getting very miserable. On the 2d of August,
weather moderate and wind N., at 1 p.m. spoke a bark be-
longing to Shields, from Montreal for Cork, and asked for
a little bread. They could not supply any, but gave them
a bottle of rum and some tobacco. On the sth, at 4 p.m.,
the wind was strong, at S.W. and there was a heavy sea,
which struck the boat, and she turned over again. She
righted almost immediately, but unfortunately they lost
all their stock of oil and the principal part of their supply
of water, which added much to their distress, suffering as
they were severely from cramp and pains in their legs. On
the Bth they spoke a ship belonging lo Liverpool, bound to
Quebec, and obtained a supply of bread and a little oil and
tobacco. Shortly afterwards they exhausted their small
. stock of oil, and had no light for the compass or the means
to warm any food. They then cut up the boards that
secered the ballast and all the internal fittings of the boat
to burn and procure a light. On the 17th of August they
spoke a bark bound to Portsmouth from Quebec, and she
furnished them with a little bread and a few candles. Then
they encountered very heavy weather, wind from S.W. to
E.N.E., with a cross- sea. On Monday, the 19th, wind
S.S.W., they bore up for Cork, Ca pe Clear, by their reckon-
ing, being N.E., about 30 miles distant. At 10 p.m. a heavy
sea struck the boat and turned her over, and the ballast
boards having been burnt in order to obtain a light, the
ballast shifted, and all on board were thrown into the sea.
The boa tkept turning right overas the four hands struggled
to get on her until the lad Murphy got entangled between
the rigging and the mast, when she was so steadied that
the other three of the crew managed to keep a hold of her.
The craft continued in this position, two of the hands wore
on her mast and two on the side of the keel. They remained
in this position the whole of that night, frequently being
washed off and on by the heavy seas, and at 11 30 a.m. on
the following day they observed a brig bearing down to-
wards them. Armstrong states that they were all cheered
with the hopes of speedy relief, but instead of rendering
them aid she came close to them, hoisted Dutch colours,
and stood away without offering them the least assistance.
About an hour after t.liis, the mate, John Shanny,
the
ewheay
asked Armstrong to pray for him. They all prayed
together for some time, but were often interrupted by
seas washing ono or the ether of them off the
bottom of the boat. The ears of the mate were noticed
to swell very much and his eyes protruded ; ho shook
hands with his companions and kissed his wife's likeness
which he had about him. He then became greatly ex-
cited, and bit the captain's thigh. The captain
pushed him gently on ono side saying, " For God's sake,
John, don't bite me." The mato then fell back off the boat
into the water and sunk immediately. About 7 p.m. the
lad, Edward Murphy, asked Armstrong to make him in
some way fast, and ho was secured by his belt. He was not
in that position long before a sea swept him away, and he
perished, and afterwards the captain and the survivor, Arm-
strong, were washed off. Tho captain cried out " God help
my poor wife and family," and then disappeared. After
great exertion Armstrong succeeded in regaining tho boat,
but he was often swept off by the seas which dashed over
the craft, the succeedAg wave frequently washing him on
again. Tie continued clinging to the bottom of the boat.
until 4 a.m. of the 23d, when the ship Aerolite, Captain
Alleyne, of Liverpool, hove in sight, and seeing the piece

of ragged canvas on the end of an oar white Iu held up,
bore down to his aid and picked him up. \Viien_ taken on
board he was very much exhausted and alums' insensible
from the want of fool and exposure. lie waA also much
injured about the legs and other parts of his 1 ody through
being dashed so often against the bo, t. As may be
imagined his sufferings were most severe 'luring the long
period he was drifted about on the bottom of the .:raft. Ile
suffered much from imbibing salt water. Ho lept chew-
ing a piece of an old tobacco pouch, which, ;he says, at
times brought some moisture to his parched a root, lie
was fallen in with in lat. 49 5 N., long. 6 53 W. On board
the Aerolite ho was treated with every kindness, but for
which lie believes lie must have died. Oa the following,
day, the 21th, he was transferred to the schooner Mary
Blake, Captain Brown, of Brigham, from Antigua, on board
which he was also treated with every attention. On being
lauded in the West India Dock the American Consul pro-
vided the necessary accommodation for him at tho Sailors'
Home in Well-street, and in a few days ho will bo for-
warded to his native place in America.

IHE _INDIAN FURLOUGH GRIEVANCE.

(From the Spectator.)

It has always been the custom in India, as in Eng-
land, to allow officials an annual holyday of a
month That is not much, people will admit, even
when one does not work 13 hours a day—lndians,
if they work at all, work like slaves—under a ther-
mometer of 80 deg., but it was as much as the
Government could give, with due respect to the
interests of the public service. To make it a little
more, the India-house, which, when its prejudices
are not in the way, is a kindly employer, allowed
the official at his own discretion to accumulate his
holydays for three years, and, such accumulation
being convenient to the Stater which would else have
to be perpetually finding substitutes, added a fourth
month to enable the official to rejoin. This holiday,
always very dear to the services, became about 1856
almost invaluable to one particular section of them,
the experienced men who are getting near the top.
Such men in India are :usually about 44 years old,
are receiving salaries ranging from £2,000 to £3,500
a year, and have children at home just growing into
marriageable girls and collegians. To see them for
a few days, once in four years, to keep up in their
minds the recollection of the father's face, to be sure
that they are happy, to bring to their minds the
sense that they have homes, although so far away,
is to most fathers a matter of somewhat keen in-
terest. The Indians have other ties, too, odd as it
seems to the India-house, fathers and mothers get-
ting on in life—a sou of 42 presumes a father of
70--relatives of all sorts and ages, whose lives are
made the happier by seeing the Indian son, or
nephew, or brother for a few days in every four years.
Naturally, therefore, as it mattered nothing to the
State, and cost no money—the pay of that rank being
equal even to the demands of the Peninsular and
Oriental Company—the higher officers got into a
habit of running home for six weeks, just to kiss the
children, and. see the old mother, and settle any
morsel of family business that might happen to be
afloat. Will it be believed that the India-house
summarily forbade the practice ? They did not
abolish the leave, which would have been intelligi-
ble, though harsh, but they forbade officers, as if
from wanton cruelty, to use it where they pleased.
They might go to the hills, to play chicken hazard
and seduce their neighbours' wives, or to Cashmere,
or to Ceylon, or to China, or even to Egypt, but
they must not on any pretence revive family asso-
ciations or reinvigorate their constitutions by a run
to Southampton. It unsettled them, said the 15
little Moguls, made them discontented with India,
and kept up a yearning for London life and Eng-
lish country pleasures which was most injurious.
The officials, on the other hand, argued that the
evil, if evil there was, lay in the new hanker for
England, and the mental unrest it produced, and
not in the way of relieving it, and resented the
order as at once an injury and an insult. The
fifteen, however, coal not be in.-)ved, and two
years ago they went a long step further in the same
direction. Indians being also Englishmen, have
sometimes business at home, money to inherit,
fathers to bury, claims to ascertain, and it has been
for half a century a custom to recognize that fact.
If a man once in six years would write to the
Viceroy informing him confidentially why he
wanted to run home, and would, to show his sin-
cerity, sacrifice his whole pay and allowances, he
might go home for six months without loss of his
appointment. This, however, as steam improved,
became popular, too, despite the great sacrifices in-
volved, and the India-house, true to its policy of
making India as far as it can a separate planet,
abolished this also. The same Papal spirit, the
same hatred of modern life and civilization, runs
through the whole of the leave rules. They are not
in themselves illiberal ; Indian officers can if they
like stay only too long away from duty, provided
only they will stay in places where their resi-
dence is injurious to them, or will come to England
at intervals so long that on their return India seems
once more a foreign and a detestable land. They
May have 20 months' sk.k leave, and 25 months'
privilege leave, and a three years' furlough at home,
and no end of " hill leave," may in all avoid duty
for at least a fourth of their 25 years' service, but
they may not come home for short visits at decent
intervals, may not, in fact, regard themselves as
what they are—English officials serving her Ma-
jesty abroad. They are to be Indians, not English-
men, and as Indians the less they see of Europe the
better for their contentment.

We need not point out how utterly inconsistent
a spirit of this kind is with the facts of actual life.
It would be harsh even if Indians could bring up
their children in India, for it would still thwart a
natural and justifiable love of home for no adequate
reason ; but as all children are and must be sent
home, it is felt, as one great Indian officer writes to
us, as " one of those cruelties of stupidity which
irritate more than cruelties with a meaning." It is
the main cause of that fierce discontent which has
invaded Indian society, which is demoralising the
services, and which produces one immense political
evil—a habit of receiving English orders not as final
awards, as they used to be received, but as orders
from enemies intended to insult and annoy, which
honourable men must fight, if needful, by appeals
for democratic support. This spirit, which is day
by day deepening, has for result one consequence
which the India-house does not like, a constant and
most injurious criticism in Parliament—which really
does not know and cannot know whether orders,
say, about promotion, are fair or not—and another
which English statesmen cannot approve. The local
Governments become the advocates of the services
against the supreme authority, publish their orders
under a sort of protest signifying, " It is not our
fault, gentlemen, it is all those rascals at home,"
and throw on the India-house the whole odium of
every unpopular restriction. The discontent rises
almost into a monomania, till willing obedience
to England is a thing unknown, and the
hierarchy of authority is kept up, so to speak, by
a sort of physical force. It is all so utterly
unnecessary. The Indians are asking nothing
except that steam and its consequences shall be
recognised, that the close relation with England
which the India-house cannot abolish if it would
shall be regarded as a good instead of as an evil.
They are not asking for " gold spoons and turtle
soup," but for liberty to eat their own porridge out
of their own Britannia metal at the hours which
best suit their individual digestions. So far from
being immoderate, the Indians will be content with
less than their own privileges, if only they may en-
joy them in their own way. They do not ask a
revival of the old wild rules of charter leave, which
enabled an officer to live half his term in New Zea-
land or the Mauritius on full Indian allowances, or,
in fact, anything but most moderate intervals of
relaxation at home. They will give up, we believe,
the furloughs, which are really injurious to the ser-
vice, and make any concession about sick leave,
that most unmanageable of leave difficulties, if only
the Government will let them have the holyday

they are entitled to now without restrictions—will
grant, that is, one year in every five, without loss
of office, in full commutation of all other external
leav,s whatever, sick !cave, of course, being taken
when needed, but counting against the quinquen-
nial holydays. The way this would work is easily
described. John Smith, magistrate of five years'
standing, would not come home—first, because he
has not the money ; secondly, because his first baby
is only just coming ; and thirdly, because he wants
to keep a restrve of one year against sickness or
sudden neces,ity. lle would come the second five,
as he does now, but only for one year, instead of
three, and go out again with his Indian habits un-
broken for a spell of four years, made cheerful by
the certainty of return. Thenceforward he would
be able to keep up a genuine relation to home, to
parents, and to his children, and yet never be long
enough away to get out of his Indian harness, to
lose his Indian friends, or to break his
habit of Indian work. He would be a
well-paid officer in the tropics, but without
the sense of exile—would, in fact, be a happy and
contented man, instead of a most unhappy and dis-
contented one. The State would not lose a day of
his work, nor a rupee of pay, and would gain by
the whole difference between willing and unwilling
service—between an obedience rendered with a
hearty wish that orders may succeed, and obedience
rendered with a languid hope that the results may
prove disastrous enough to rid India of the Council
to which every misfortune, exaction, or failure is
now in India traced. If Sir Stafford Northcote
cares to make an Indian reputation, this,is his op-
portunity, or rather this would be, irtbe. Indian
Minister of the Crown were not olikall;suclOnatters,,
rather less influential than one of his own clerks.
The clerk might quietly recommend, but, the ques-
tion having a pecuniary side, the unhappy Minister
can only petition 15 old men, delighted with every
chance of proving that his only right is to shield
them from the smallest responsibility.
Naval and riltlitary Intelligence.

At an early hour on Saturday morning the large
caisson at the entrance to the fourth fitting and re-
pairing dock at Chatham dockyard suddenly gave
way, without any previous warning, during a more
than usually high tide, and the results were exceed-
ingly disastrous. At 2 o'clock a.m. the tide-gauge
had registered a rise of 18ft. Gin., a higher tide than
had occurred for several weeks previously, and this
circumstance might probably have been the cause of
the sudden giving way of the caisson. At a few
minutes after 2 the police-constable on duty, who
had just passed over the caisson, heard it give way,
followed by a tremendous roar of water, which
rushed into the large dock with the noise of a peal
of thunder. At the time of the occurrence the dock
was occupied by the double screw steamer Beacon,
launched a few weeks previously, which was being
fitted for sea. The first wave lifted the Beacon
completely off the blocks, as if she had been a boat,
carrying her to the head of the dock, and lifted her
stern entirely out of the water. The receding waves
carried her back again, and threw her on her beam
ends against the side of the dock wall. The acci-
dent occurred at an hour when the only workmen
in the yard were those employed in the metal-mills,
who rushed nut of the workshops under the belief
that a considerable portion of the dock had been
carried away. The noise of the water bursting into
the dock at the same time aroused the officials re-
siding in the yard. The night being very dark, Mr.
Superintendent Strength, who was promptly on the
spot with all the available police force at his com-
mand, immediately had fires of tar barrels and other
combustible materials lighted along the sid:s of the
dock to assist the workmen, while messengers were
de,p itched from the yard for the officials residing
out of the establishment and all the workmen who
could be obtained. Signals were also made for
the seamen belonging to the ships of the reserve
and those of the various ships in harbour, several
hundred of whom were soon on the spot to render
assistance. As promptly as possible the Beacon was
secured, and on the tide receding she was got safely
on the blocks and shored up, when an examination
of the vessel showed that she had been seriously in-
jured. During the whole of Saturday morning a
large body of labourers were employed in pumping
the water out of the ship, the services of the large
steam fire-engine being likewise brought into re-
quisition for the same purpose. With the assistance
of the steamers Adder and Sheerness, the Beacon
in the course of Saturday was removed to Sheerness
and placed in one of the vacant docks at that yard.
The cause of the sudden bursting of the caisson ap-
pears to be altogether inexplicable, as although it
was an old one—having been in use upwards of 40
years—it was believed to be in all respects sound.
The Admiralty would not, however, appear to place
any great reliance on wooden caissons, as wherever
practicable they are substituting iron ones at all the
dockyards. It is fortunate the accident occurred at
night, for had the caisson given way during the
day the loss of life would have been very great,
there being about 100 hands employed on the Beacon
in dock on Friday afternoon.

The contractor, Mr. Gabrielli, for constructing
the first of the three large steam basins at Chatham
dockyard having carried the excavations- to the re-
quired depth, the first brick of the flooring of the
basin was laid on Friday last, in readiness for the
formal laying of the foundation-stone, which cere-
mony it is expected will be undertaken by Mr.
Corry, First Lord of the Admiralty, on the occasion
of the approaching visit of the Board of Admiralty
to Chatham.

Special instructions were received a few days ago
from the War Department by Col. Kennedy, C. 8.,
commanding the Military Train at Woolwich, ap-
pointing him to proceed to Egypt to superintend
the purchase of mules for the transport service of
the Abyssinian expedition. Major Shervinton,
brigade-major of the corps at Woolwich, was
likewise ordered to take his departure on the
same mission, for Alexandria at the earliest
possible date, and to be accompanied by
some of his most experienced brother officers.
These were selected by the Brigade Major, from
their known judgment and experience, and were
Capt. Morrison, Capt. Miller, and Lieuts. Walsh
and Devine, some of whom were to proceed to Spain
and the coast of the Mediterranean. As this is con-
sidered the most responsible portion of the duties of
the Military Train service, they were to receive an
augmentation of £3 3s. per day. On Saturday these
instructions were suddenly countermanded, and the
War Department, no doubt regretting their gene-
rosity, ordered the attendants of Col. Kennedy at
the War-office, when he was informed that in all
matters expenditure they were desirous
of using respectingth
economy, and should have
mostrigid
to reduce the extra pay already agreed upon to less
than one-half—namely, £1 10s.
The second battalion of the 22d Regiment, Lieut.-
Col. Anderson, from the Mauritius, arrived at
Liverpool on board the transport steamer Orontes
on Friday. They touched Queenstown after being
47 days
at sea. On Saturday morning they landed
andm marched to the railway station, en route for
Newcastle-on-Tyne and Stockton. The battalion
numbered 800.

Two detachments of the sth Dragoon Guards
have arrived at the camp at COlchester from Liver-
pool. The headquarters of the regiment are ex-
pected at Colchester on Monday.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Herbert C. A.
Brand, to the Irre4s4ble, for service tender;
Lieut. T. E. Sullivan'and Brown, to the Fis-
gard, additional, as transport officers ; and Sub-
Limit. T. S. Brand, to the Charybdis.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAY'S INN-ROAD.--
The number of patients relieved at this hospital during the
week ending August 31, was 2,807 of which 906 were
new cases.

-
Mr. L. L. Dilivryn and his Constifuentia-----Tfi;
Mr. Dillwyn addressed a public meeting of
burgesses of Swansea in the Guildhall, SW,an-- Sea,s_on--, 4 .
Friday evening. The hail was densely `ko-stdedi.
The Mayor having briefly opened the proceetliim, p
Mr. DILLWYN expressed the satisfaction it afforded
him to meet his constituents at the earliest possible
period after the labours of the session, more especi-
ally as he was quite aware that some of his votes
uron the great question of the session—Reform—
had not given satisfaction to his constituents, and
had been somewhat severely animadverted upon in
other quarters. lle had been elected to represent
Swansea and its contributory boroughs in the year
1855, and had therefore sat during 13 sessions, and
up to the past session he had every reason to believe
his votes upon all the great que3tions of the day
had given entire satisfaction to the great majority
of the burgesses. 1-le had never gone to Parliament
or acted in Parliament either as a mere delegate or
a party man. lie claimed perfect lib:..rty of action,
he supported measures, not men, and was quite
agreeable to accept any good measure from any
party by whom it was offered. During the 13
sessions he had sat in the house, he did not think a
single gentleman in that hall would charge him
with having given a single vote in contravention of
the Liberal principles he professed when elected.
Nor did he remember a single vote that he would
not again record if the occasion could again recur.
Referring to the question of Reform, the hon. mem-
ber said that it was in the year 1859 it was first
brought more prominently before the public mind,
and at that time he sketched out a bill—a crude one

it might have been—which he thought would have
met the requirements of the times, and could hay e
been carried by both the Tories and Whigs. How-
ever, a bill was then introduced by Lord Derby, and
he (Mr. Dillwyn) then did his best to throw out
that bill, not, however, because it was brought in
by the Tories, but because that bill would not give
effect to those principles which he had always advo-
cated, and because he did not believe it could have
been made a good bill even in committee. Many
..sound politicians, however,. were now of opini: }.1.1
that it was unwise to have thrOWn.oathat Le.l-.
lieving it would have settled the question, -and
that the subsequent agitation would have been pre-
vented. That, however, was not his opinion in
reference to that bill. Last year, however, another
Reform Bill had been brought forward, and that
with all the strength of a Liberal Government. Ho
had never approved that bill, and that because it
had the same vice as some of its predecessors—it
excluded " class" so arbitrarily that he saw at once
a very strong agitation would spring up throughout
the country. Ilis opinion was that household suf-
frage and a very liberal lodger franchise should be
the basis of any Reform Bill that had been offered
that year by the Tories, although they at first offered
a very different bill from what they afterwards ac-
ceded to. A great meeting of Liberals then took
place at Mr. Gladstone's house, and they were then
told that the Tories were the proper parties to pass
the bill. They had the reins of the coach in hand,
and let them drive through ; and it was also said
that with the assistance of the Liberals they ought
to get a good bill out of what was offered them. He
(Mr. Dillwyn) quite agreed with that line of policy,
and he returned to the house determined to do what
had been agreed upon. But in the middle of the
Session the leaders of the Liberal party, for reasons
best known to themselves, altered their line of
policy, and they were then told that the Tories were
to be turned out of office. He and some other
Liberals did not see things in that light—they
thought the Liberal party was making a great
mistake—that their policy savoured too much of
the old Whig game of bringing up au important
question to a certain point, and when there was
a fair chance of getting the measure passed, of
shelving it and passing it over to the country for
another year. Ile firmly believed that would have
been the case with the present question of Re-
form if he and sonic few other Liberal members had
not acted as they had. Then occurred the cele-
brated " tea-room" scene. Ile attended that party
in the tea-room, and proud was he of having done
so. (hisses.) That small party saw what was to
be done. They at once said, " This question of
Reform must not be played with any longer—we
will not have this oil Whig game of throwing back
a bill just as it comes to a point." They believed
the bill could be so amended as to meet the require-
ments of the country, and they determined to try
what they could do with it and not to throw out the
bill simply because the Tories had brought it in.
He firmly believed now that had it not been for the
" tea-room party" the bill would have been thrown
out. H such had been the case the Liberals could

not have passed such a bill as they now had, had
they been united as one man, and that because it
would not have passed the House of Lords. They
might, perhaps, have done so after years of agita-
tion—of setting class against class—engendering
ill-feeling and leaving many most important ques-
tions in abeyance. Such being the case, he and
those members who acted together on that occasion
felt they could not—they dare not—throw back the
bill which had been offered them, and it was in con-
sequence of the determined action which they then
took that the Reform Bill would soon become the
law of the land. Then, again, he had been a good
deal blamed with respect to a certain memorandum
which had passed between Colonel Taylor and him-
self. lie could not see how he could be blamed for
that. Had he not acted as he did, he would have
been a fool. It should be remembered he was
going against the people with whom ho usually
voted, and therefore he felt there was a great re-
sponsibility resting upon him. He happened to be
the mouth-piece of that small tea-room party, and
he therefore wanted to know, before he gave his
support to the Tory Government, whether they
would consider fairly those points which he and the
party considered to be essential to make the bill
a good "one. He determined to ascertain
this from Colonel Taylor, and what was more,
he wanted it in black and white. He did receive
from Col. Taylor, in black and white, a distinct
and satisfactory assurance that certain leading mem-
bers of the Government (whom, however, he would
not name) were in favour of the amendments which
they thought necessary to mould the bill into a good
one. He had shown that memorandum to several
members of the house, and he believed it had a
gmeasure. Mr. Dill-
been censured for
gwoyond tdh ee anl
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edror
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yi
having thevi
not following the leader of the Liberal party. No-
body more deeply respected Mr. Gladstone, or more
appreciated him as a financer, than he (Mr llillwyn)
and yet he could hardly regard Mr. Gladstone as
the leader of the Liberal party. If a man was to be
the leader of a party he should be so in reality anil
truth, whereas Mr. Gladstone had to be coaxed
iwb
eh
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and
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tegsrenaf tneisvtdi
npdo rrtear
reunions
along, and on some occasions had voted against
measures atsruureeLs
liberty. Mr. Dillwyn then concluded by again re-
marking that he was not a party man in any re-
spect, but voted for those measures which he con-
scientiously believed advanced the true interests of
the country, let those measures come from which-
ever side they may
A vote of thanks to the hon. member for his at-
tendance and explanation that night brought the
proceedings to a close.

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