The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1858.

PRIZE CATTLE SHOW- OF . SHE
SMITHFIELD CLUB. The Annual Exhibition of
Prize Cattle, Seeds, Roots, Implements, &c., commences on
Tuesday Morning; and closes on Friday Evening, 7th, Bth,
9th, and 10th December. BAKER-STREET BAZAAR,
King-street Entrance. Open from daylight till Nine in the
evening. Admittance One Shilling.

THE DERBY DAY.-CLOSES SHORTLY.
FRITH'S GREAT PICTURE is STILL ON VIEW,
at Messrs. Lep.ya it, Hayward, and Le,,mgatt's establishment,
No. 79,Cornhill. from 9 a.m. to .6 p.m. Admission, is. each
person. All tickets are available till the close of the Exhi-
bition.
N.B.—During. the foggy weather, and after dusk, the Pic-
ture is lighted by Gas.

JULLIEN'S CONCERTS.-
BOYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
LAST WEEK BUT TWO.
TO-NIGHT, at Eight Twentieth Appearance -Of—tre
celebrated Violinist, M. WIENIAWSKI. Vocalist, Miss
POOLE.—" Excelsior Valses, " CornetObligato, M. Duhem.—
The "English Quadrille" (Jullien).—Grand Operatic Selec-
tion from "Der Freischutz."—M. Jullicu's " Hymn of Uni-
versal Harmony."

DR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM,
3, TICHBOURNE-STREET (Opposite the Hay-
market).
Open daily (for Gentlemen only).
LECTURES by. Dr. SEXTON at Four and Eight o'clock, on
important and interesting topics in connection with ANA-
TOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, and PATHOLOGY (vide Pro-
grammes).
Admission ONE SHILLING.
DR. KAHN'S NINE LECTURES ON THE PHILO-
SOPHY OF MARRIAGE, &c., sent post free, direct from the
Author, on the receipt'of twelve stamps.

TTOWES AND CUSHING'S GREAT
UNITED STATES CIRCUS, -

The largest Equestrian Company in the World, numbering
Two Hundred Men and Horses.—ROYAL ALHAMBRA
PALACE, LEICESTER-SQUARE, which is thoroughly
warmed throughout by steam.
SECOND WEEK OF ELLA, the Wonder of the Age.
Two performances daily, commencing. at Two and half-
past Seven o'clock, p.m. Doors open half-an-hour previous
to each performance.
ELLA, the first horsewoman in 'the world, who created
such an• extraordinary sensation some two years: since, at
Drury-lane Theatre, will appear at each perfosmance, Morn-
ing and Evening.
The performance of sagacious horses and capricious mules,
combined with the humorous jests and actions of clever
American, Clowns, &c., &c., afford two hours of sincere plea-
sure and recreation.
Admission:—First Circle, Is. ; Pit, Is. • Boxes, 25.; Reserved
Seats, 3s. ; Stalls, 55.; Private Boxes, i 2 ; Children under 9
years of age, Half-price; Gallery, 6d. Box-office open deity
from 10 a.m. till 5 p.m., where seats may be secured. - No
fee for booking. Carriages to be in attendance at 4 and 10
o'clock p.m.

ARGYLL-ROOMS, Great Windmill street,
Piccadilly.—GßAND CASINO.-These popular and
celebrated rooms are open every evening, with R. R. Bignell's
Grand Orchestra, conducted by that great composer, Mons.
Antony Lamotte, of Paris. Leader, Charles Hall, of her
Majesty's Theatre. Mons. Boulcourt, the celebrated cornet-
a-piston player, performs nightly, with other talented
artistes, selected from the Philharmonic Concerts, and Royal
Italian Opera Houses. Selections from Ri°oletto, I 1 Trovatore,
La Traviata, Huguenots, Robert le Diable, and thenew opera
Martha. Likewise the following new music, will be played
nightly :—" The Lucknow Quadrilles," and " The Fairest
Rose of Autumn," by M. Lamotte, introducing a solo obligato
for the Saxephon, played by M. Tyler ; a New Waltz, by
Charles Hall ; Mr. Calkin's New Polka, selected from the
popular Opera " Guy Mannering ;" and the New Polka, "The
Victory," by J. 8., with a solo for the cornet-a-piston. Ma-
nager, R. R. Bignell, assisted by Mr. C. Brown, and Mons.
Grenet. Masters of the Ceremonies, Messrs. A. and J, Calkin,
Jarvis, and Birch. Doors open at half-past 8, close at ten
minutes before 12. Admission, is. to Promenade. .•
N.B.—All applications for the above band for Concerts and
Balls, to be made to Mr. William Price, treasurer, at the
Rooms,

BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK.
TO avoid disappointment &Dm the substitutionof
counterfeits, be careful to ask' for the genuine Bond's
Permanent Marking Ink ; and further to distinguish it, ob-
serve that NO SIXPENNY SIZE is, or has at any time been pre-
pared by him, the Inventor and Proprietor.
N.B.—The genuine and ORIGINAL BOND'S PERMA-
NENT MARKING INK bears the address on the label,
28, LONG-LANE, WEST SMITHFIELD, CITY.

SAFE and CERTAIN CURE.—WHITE'S
RECIPE, a certain cure for the gleet, stricture, stone,
gravel, seminal weakness, and all diseases of the kidneys and
bladder, requiring no alteration of regimen, restriction from
spirits, &c., loss of time, confinement, or hindrance from bush
ness. These pills have been prescribed to thousands, and
have never failed to effect a cure in nine or ten days. Any
chemist can prepare them in any part of the globe for eight-
pence. Price of recipe, ss.—Apply, by, letter only, E. White,
30, James-street, Covent-garden, London.

BOARD AND RESIDENCE. A Superior
Home is offered to a Gentleman of steady habits, en
gaged during 'the day, by a family residing near Regent's
Park. For a young man coming to London for the first time
this would be found a desirable residence. Terms moderate.
Referenees to be exchanged. Address, J. P., Wright's
Dairy, Granby-street, Hampstead-road,

THE WEATHER AND 7HE PARES.

COMMENCEMENT OF THE SKATING
SEASON.

During the last two or three days the weather
has been intensely cold, in fact ever since the gale
of last week the glass has indicated an appearance
Of frost. During the night of Monday, Negrctti
andZambru's patent thermometer, affixed to the
Royal Humane Society's Receiving-house, in Hyde-
park, registered only 20 deg., being 12 deg. below
freezing point. At nine o'clock yesterday morning
the mercury rose only to 28 deg., and at noon the
glass did not exceed 29 deg. The wind was north-
east. The weather was fine on Monday ; but yes-
terday (Tuesday) a dense fog overhung the metro-
polis and suburban districts. The severe frost
which has so suddenly set in has had the effect of
freezing over the whole of the ornamental waters
in the different- Royal parks and many of the canals
near London. The barometer at the Royal Humune
Society's House on Monday registered 30.17 and
yesterday 30.11
Such a sudden change in the weather, coupled
with the fact of the immense sheet of water in the
Serpentine being covered with ice in such a re-
markably brief space of time, and several thousand
persons having ventured upon the frozen surface,
caused Mr. Superintendent Williams to adopt the
most vigorous 'measures to get the parties off, as
the ice, of course, cannot at present be pronounced
I to be stabiently strong to bear so'-many thousand
persons. Should the same weather continue until
Sunday next there is no doubt entertained by Mr.
Williams that it will be able to bear as many as
may wish to disport themselves upon that river.
For the present he has put on duty a number of
icemen to warn the people frotn venturing on the
ice, but in spite of the precations thus adopted an
immense number, probably over three thousand,
principally boys, would insist upon crossing the
ice or sliding. A number of gentlemen also could
not be prevailed upon from enjoying the healthy,
but at the present time dangerous, exercise of
skating.
Up to yesterday morning -none of the Royal Hu-
mane Society's apparatus had been taken out into
the parks, from the simple season that no one was
expected to be foolhardy enough to venture at pre-
sent upon the ice, but Mr. Williams received infor-
mation that a number of noblemen and gentlemen
had commenced skating on the ornamental lakes
in the Regent's-park. In order to prevent a loss
of life he immediately despatched a number of ice-
men, and also a temporary canvas receiving-house,
made by Mr. Benjamin Edgington, Duke-street,
Southwark. This was placed on the bank of the
river and fitted up with hot-water baths, beds, &c.
A smaller tent, made by the same gentleman, be-
longing to the skating club, was also erected in
Kensington-gardens, for the use of the noblemen
and clergy and gentry belonging to the club, and
should the present weather continue, a splendidly-
appointed pavilion will be placed in the gardens,
also made by Mr. B. Edgiagton. This will be ex-
clusively for the accommodation of the members of
the Skating Club.
At the Royal Round Pond at least 400 persons
ventured on the ice, and some very graceful feats
were performed by the skaters, such as cutting out
serpents, comets, &c., and only one immersion took
place during yesterday, and that was of a gentle-
man named Emblin, residing in Kensington-square.
He broke through the frozen surface and became
immersed up to the neck, bat was soon got out, and
enabled to return to his home. The ice in the dif-
ferent parks has not been in such a fine condition
for many years,ithe surface being as smooth as glass,
and if not broken too soon by the populace will
afford good sport to those who enjoy the exercise
of either skating or sliding.
The water in the enclosure in St. James's-park
has been partially drawn off, and what remains has
been fully frozen over. Yesterday morning hun-
dreds disported themselves thereon, and although
the number of skaters and sliders frequently cansed
the ice to break, the depth of water under was in-
sufficient to drown any one, and the only inconve-
nience experienced by the more courageous was a
good clucking, with the exception of a few bruises
and cuts caused by falling on the ice.
The Victoria Park had, a greatnumber of skaters
and sliders upon the frozen waters during the day,
but nothing serious happened.
Hyde Park-corner, Grosvenor-place, and the
roads leading from Blackfriars, Waterloo, South-
wark, and London-bridges, were so slippery, owing
to the frost, that it was impossible for horses draw-
ing heavy vehicles to proceed along ; and as the
animals kept continually falling, it was found ne-
cessary to gravel the roads at certain portions of
the day.
At seven o'clock last evening the state of the
glasS indicated a continuation of the present severe
weather.

had received the silver naval medal for his ser-
vices.

Commander Edward Burt (1808), whose death
occurred at Worthing, on the. 18th inst., in the 79th
year of his age, served as midshipman of the Hydra
in action with the Confiance and Vesuve, and at the
bombardment of Havre. He was commander of the
Sparrow, and officially reported for " zeal and ac-
tivity" at the reduction of the city of St. Domingo,
in 1809 ; and was appointed one of the officers on
the out•pensions of Greenwich Hospial on the 25th
June, 1842.
The Sappho, 12, Commander Fairfax Moresby.
Letters have been received at Chatham, which give
a sad account of the loss of the ship, which unfor-
tunately stranded off an uninhabited island some
distance from Sydney. The vessel is said to be a
total wreck, and that a portion of the crew
were saved. The letter also states that Com-
mander Moresby, from the circumstances of the
loss of the ship, has become insane. It appears
that a merchant ship on passing obßerved an en-
campment on the island ; they sent a boat-nut to
see who they were, and found them to be a great
part of the crew belonging to the Sappho. The
men were in a very distressed condition, and five
or six had died from starvation, and others from
sunstroke ; those who were living said they had
been subsisting on wild cats and seeds, which they
had found on the island.