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

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SUP I'EMBER 2, 1867'.

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WARWICK RACES, 3rd and 4th September, 18G7.

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THE SCULLING CHAMPIOSSIIII).

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BROWN T. HAMILL.—To BE ROWED AT NEWBURG, ON
TILE HUDSON SEPTEMBER G.—The match between these
men is finally made. Hamill, accompanied by Dennis
Leary, the Biglin brothers, and other boating men, came
to our office on Monday last and drew up she articles of.
agreement, which were signed by Dennis 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 one
which will b 3 memorable in acquatic annals, and a vast
throng will be piesent 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 ecntidence of their respective friends. Next
week we will give further detailsof the progress of the match.
The brief time between the making of the match ard 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, cue of the craftiest
of the river gilds, and the trainer of the Freshman crew
of Yale, who saved their college fron; 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.—
Wilkes' Spirit of the Times.

CIUCKE7I--
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JOCKEYS AND RACING OPPICIALS 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 rcturn to a match played
a few weeks back at the Dripping Pan at Lewes, in which
the Sporting Press Representatives got a sound castiga-
tion. But on this occasion, having claimed to play Bush,
who, although a professional, is also a sporting writer, and
otherwise amended their team, they were amply avenged.
The jockeys were unable to muster their strength, owing
to the absence of Custanco and Hiblerd, who were pro-
fessionally engaged at Baden-Baden. Upwards of 1,000
persons paid for admission at the gate, and the largest
party of tLe 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. He got out:
unfortunately, in the first innings ; but during the second,
when he booked 34 (not out), the shouting and huzzaingof
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 wore extras, and
the Jockeys were all-got rid of for GO. They therefore fol-
lowed on, and had obtained 5t runs for two wickets when
time was called, thus leaving the Press victorious by 107
runs on the first innings. The following is the score :

PRESS.
Mr Gale, b Cottrell... 1
Mr Newstead, b Cottrell ... 2
Mr Alleock, b Cottrell ... ... 48
Mr Bush, not out ... 78
Mr Crawfurd, b Cottrell 0
Mr Greenwood, b Day
Mr Sharpe, b Day ... 1
Mr Moore, b Day ... ... 2
Mr Westhall, jun., c Goater, b Cottrell ...
Mr J. Capp, b Cottrell 0
Mr E. Smith, absent ... 0
Byes, etc. 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
Mr G. Cottroll, hurt, not out ... 4
Mr J. Goater, b Westhall ... 0 b Bush ... 3
Mr G. Pordham, c Moore, b
Westhoff 0 not out 31
Mr W. J. Stevens, b Crawfurd... 1
Mr Gough, b Bush ... 18
Mr 11. Day, b 21.11 cock 11
Mr Goldsmith, b Bush ... 0
Substitute, not out ... 0 b Bush ... ... 2
Byes, etc. ... 10 Wide ... 1

Total ... GO Total

CROSSING 7IIE A 7 LAN 7 IC IN A, SMALL

Tho 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 Bed, 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. Gin, over all, 7ft. beam, 2ft. 6in.
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, one of her hands leaving, Arm-
strong, who is a fisherman, joined her, widen 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 crew were 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 al 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 clothes. 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. 0 n
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
secured 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, Cape Clear, by their reckon-
ing, being N.E., about 30 miles distant. At 10 p.m. a heavy
sea struck the boat nod 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 boat kept turning right over as 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 crow managed to keep a hold of her.
The craft continued in this position, two of the hands were
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 this, the mate, John Shanny,
asked Armstrong to pray for him. They all prayed
together for some time, but wore often interrupted by
the heavy seas washing one 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; he shook
hands with his companions and kissed his wife's likeness
which he had about him. Ho then. became greatly ex-
cited, and bit the captain's thigh. The captain
pushed him gently on one side saying, " For God's sake,
John, don't bite me." The mate 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 he 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. The captain cried out " God help
my poor wife and family," and then disappeared. After
great exertion Armstrong succeeded in regaining the boat,
bqt he was often swept off by the seas which dashed over
the craft, the succeeding wave frequently washing him on
again. Ho continued clinging to the bottom of the boat
until 4 a.m. of the 23i1, when the ship Aerolite, Captain
Alleyne, of Liverpool, hove in sight, and seeing the piece

of ragged canvas on the end of an oar whit ) he held up,
bore down to his aid and picked hint. up. "When taken on
board he was very much exhausten and alr Lost insensible
front the want of fool and exposure. Ho was also much
injured about the legs and other parts of his body through
being dashed so often against the ba t. As may be
imagined his sufferings were most sevt tv, during the long
period he was drifted about on the bottot t of the craft. lie
suffered much from imbibing salt water. He kept chew-
ing a piece of an oil tobacco pouch, wY ich, ho says, at
times brought some moisture to his pat-et od throat. He
was fallen in with in lat. 41 5 N., long. 6 W. On board
the Aerolite he was treated with every kindikess, but for
which 11,, believes he must have died. 0.1 ilk) following
day, the 21th, he was transferred to the schooner Mary
Blake, Captain Brown, of Brixhant,.from Antigua, on board
which ho was also treated with every attention. On being
landed in the West India Dock the American Consul pro-
vided the necessary accommodation for him at the Sailors'
Home in Well-street, and in a few days ho will bo for-
warded to his native place in America.

HIE 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
bolydays for three years, and, such accumulation
being convenient to the State, 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 son 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
e% 11, if evil there was, lay in the new hanker for
Engla:id, and the mental unrest it produced, and
.4.4 the way of reliieving
,re,lented the,
order As at once an it)jury and an insult. Thel
fifW.Lui -however, could not be moved, 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 solong that on their return India seems
once more a foreign and a detestable land. They
may have 20 months' sick leave, and 25 months'
privilege leave, and a three years' furlough at home,
and no end of " lira 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 sec 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
c 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 hate 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
leaves whatever, sick !cave, of course, being taken
when needed, but counting against the quinquen-
nial holy days. 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 rest rye of one year against sickness or
sudden necmity. Ile would come the second live,
as he dors 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. lie 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 alai 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, if the Indian
Minister of the Crown were not on all such matters
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 Military 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
bad 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 sides of the
dock to assist the workmen, while messengers were
!dezpatchecl from th.aprd for. the officials residing
scut of the establiAmat and all the workmen who
!.lould be obtained. SVals were also made for
the seamen belonging`' 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 bad been seriously in-
jured. During the whole of Saturday morning a
largo 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 &aeon
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, ou 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
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tfCol. K
tehneniredgyenaet-
rosity, ordered the attendants
the War-office, when he was informed that in all
matters respecting expenditure they were desirous
of using the most rigid economy, and . should have
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
and 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 Irresistible, for service in tender;
Lieut. T. E. Sullivan and G. S. Brown, to the Fis-
gard, additional, as transport officers ; and Sub-
Lieut. 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.