The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-12 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SIPPING.--(T his Day.)

UNITED SERVICE IN,TITUTION.

Those who have had occasion to pass through White-
hall-yard for some consi•tei able time back must have
'been anything but the unsightly mates of
rubbish which surrounds the United Service Institution.
The public will be gratified to learn that whilst the
Board of Works are responsible for debris outside, the
curators of the Institution have been busily employed
inside in reducing to a lucidus ord• the interesting col-
lection which it contains. For the first time this
Institution received a grant of public money last year to
the extent of 4001., and the effect has been to induce the
council to regard it more in. the light of a public estab-
lishment. At all events they have not been idle, and those
who carry with them recollections of the old museum,
will be surprised and delighted with the change that
has been effected. The first step in this, as in most
other reformations, was to get rid of an incongruous and
undigested mass of material which time had collected
within the walls of the institution. Any attempt to give
the collection a general character must have only one
result—that of destroying its value as a museum specially
devoted to the illustration of military and naval sub-
jects. Accordingly whole classes of objects—interesting
no doubt in themselves, but more appropriate to the
British Museum or the College of Surgeons—have
been ejected, and their places act igned to others more
in keeping with the "style and title " of the in-
stitntion. It may perhaps be doubted whether the
principle of excision should not have been carried
further in this direction, and whether too many stuffed
birds and pinned skeletons have not bee❑ allowed to
remain. The contents, however, have been re-arranged
and distributed, as far as the building would tam, in
geographical and chronological order, beginning with
Au-traiia. The armoury is arranged not only wi:h a
view to effect but so as to afford ready illustration of
the improvements in fire arms, from the earliest attempts
to the Enfield riff -. The improvements in the steam
engine, iu naval architecture, and fortification are simi-
larly illustrated by models which are full of interest and
instruction. All the objews in the museum—and most of
vieni are highly interesting—are plainly labelled, so
that the visitor will not in future be obliged to search
:hrough a catalogue for an explanation of each article.
This is a great improvement in itself. The roofs
of the theatre and fortification-room have been coloured
under the direction of Mr. Owen Jones, and the effect.
produced is not merely that of a plea.ing chromatic com-
bination, but an apparent addition to the height of these
r..ones. 'A hen to the advantages which this institution
holds out art a museum of military and naval art, are
added those of a first-rate profe-sienal library and read-
ing room, a journal of the society, and lectures on
military subjects, it may be said to include everything
which can render it a pointof attraction, more especially
to officers of the service. Great credit is unquestionattly
due to the council-and toCeptain Bergen., the secretary
for the improvements which they haie effected.

URSE-T A MING.

The Boston (United States) Journal has the following
article on Mr. Rarey's system of horse-taming :—" We
saw Mr. Rarey in this cit 3 some two years ago, and had a
long and interesting conversation with him in regard to his
peculiar mode of subduing wild and vicious horses. Mr.
Rarey is a small and rather spare person, the only pecu-
liarity about his person being a very keen blue eye. His
method of managing a vicious animal entirely precluded
the use of force or fear, and he represented that his power
was obtained solely through certain herbs and drugs, first
subduing the deaire of the horse to injure him, and then by
inspiring the beast with affection and confidence he is en-
abled to do whatever he chooses with him. These herbs
and drugs are perfectly harmless, and, as Sir R. Airey says,
' there is nothing in the treatment but what any horseman
would approve of.' Mr. Rarey did not communicate his
secret to us ; but we have no doubt his treatment is sub-
stantially the same as that described in the following ex-
tract which has been floating through the papers of this
country for several years :
" The horse-castor is a wart, or excrescence, which
grows in every horse's fore legs, and generally on the hind
legs. It has a peculiar rank musty. smell, and is easily
pulled off. The ammoniacal effluvia of the horse seems
peculiarly to concentrate in this part, and its very strong
odour has 'a great attraction for all animals, especially
canine, and the horse himself.
" The oil of Rhodium possesses peculiar properties.
All animals seem to cherish a fondifeis for it, and it exer-
cises a kind of subduing influence over them.
" For the oil of cumin the horse has an instinctive
passion—beth are original natives of Arabia, and, when
the horse ELlents the odour, he is instinctively drawn to-
wards it.
" ' The directions given for taming horses are as follows :
" ' Procure some horse-castor and grate it fine. Also get
come oil of Rhodium and oil of cumin, and keep the three
separate in air-tight bottles.
" Rub a little oil of cumin upon your hand, and ap-
proach the horse in the field, on the windward side, so that
he can smell the cumin. The horse will let you come up
to him then without any trouble. Immediately rub your
hand gently on the horse's nose, getting a little of the oil
on it. You can lead him anywhere. Give him a little of
the castor on a piece of loaf sugar or potato.
" Put eight drops of oil of Rhodium into a lady a silver
thimble. Take the thimble between the thumb and middle
finger, stopping the mouth of the thimble to prevent the oil
from running out while you open the mouth of the horse.
As soon as you have opened the horse's mouth, tip the
thimble over upon his tongue, and he is your servant. He
will follow you like a pet dog. He is now your pupil and
your friend. You can teach him anything, only be kind to
him, be gentle. Love him and he will love you. Feed
him before you do yourself. Shelter him well ; groom him
yourself, keep him clean, and at night always give him a
' good bed at least a toot deep.
" Iu the winter union, don't let your horse stand oat a
long time in the cold without shelter or covering ; for the
horse is a native of a warm climate, and in many respects
his constitution is as tender as a man's.
" If you want to teach him to lie down, stand on his
left side ; have a couple of leather straps about six feet
long, string up his left leg with one of them round his
near, strap the other end of it over his shoulders, hold it
in your hand and when you are ready tell him to lie down,
at the same tithe gangs,. firmly, and steadily patio* on
the strap, touching him lightly 9n the knee with a switch.
The horse Will immediately lie down. Do this a few tinges,
and you can make film lie down without the strap.
" Mr. Rarey had subdued many vicious horses in diffe-
rent parts of the country, accounts of which have fre-
quently been published. Among other cases was that of
a horse in Washington, which could not be handled.
Under Mr. Rarey's tuition, in an hour and a half, he made
the horse so gentle that he rude it down the open street
without a bridle, beating a draw while seated on his back."

LONDON, March 12.—Wind this day at noon, N. to N.E.;
light breeze '.nd fine.
PORTSMOUTH, March 11, Wind
N. to E.N.E.--Ar-
rived—Robert Cottle, from the West Coast of Africa, with
crew sick of fever. Bailed—Agincourt, for Plymouth and
Melbourne ; Kottebohn for New York;which put in here on March 7, leaky, has Nuevo Le w fin,
for Bilboa. The Dolphin, from London, to Buenos Ayres,
been ashore on
the Cala Land—she has been surveyed to-day, and or-
dered to discharge.
Hinz, March 11.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Amelia, for
• Moulmein. _ _ _

MARKET NEWS.—(Taie, Day.)

CORN EXCRA.NGE.

A very moderate supply of English wheat was received
fresh up, to-day, coastwise abd by land carriage. In the
demand, however, compared with Monday, no improve-
ment took place; nevertheless, that day's prices were well
supported.
The imports of foreign wheat are under 2,000 quarters.
Good and fine samples moved off slowly, on former terms.
Low and damp qualities were very dull, and almost no-
minal.
Barley—the show of which was limited—sold steadily
at very full prices.
There was a moderate sale for malt, at full quotations.
We had a fair inquiry for oats, and good sound corn
realised extreme rates.
Beano, peas, and flour supported Monday's currency.

English
Irish

Foreign

ARRIVALS TINS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt.
I 1,770 1,510 13,930

1,810 i 6,450

Oats. Flour,
3,020 1,090

1:000 11' i- -
4,670 3190° abt

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.

To-day's market was scantily supplied with beasts, chiefly
is middling condition. All breeds moved off slowly, but
we have no change to notice in their value. In sheep, the
supply of which was limited, very little was doing, on
former terms. We had a good demand for calves, and
prices advanced 2d. per 8 lbs. Pigs and mulch cows were
very dull, but not cheaper.
Per 81bs to ell
a. d. s. d.
Inferior Beaste....3 4to 3 6
Second quality.... 3 S 310
Prime large oxen 4 0 4 2,
Prime Scots, &o. 4 4 4 61
Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 6
Second quality ...3 8 4 0)
Prime crse.-wiled.4 2 4 61

the offals.

S. d. 0. cl.
iPrimeSouthdown 410 5 2
;Largo erse. calves 4 0 4 8
'Prime small do 410 5 4
"Large hogs
Small porkers 4 2 4 4
'suckling calves 19 0 26 0
Quarter old pigs 19 0 25 0
FOREIGN surrts.

TOTAL SUPPLY.

Beasts
Sheep and lambs
154
Caves
l'igs 2lO

Beasts
Sheep and lambs
Calves
Pigs

N BWRAVEN, March 10—wind E.--
Sailed— Caradoc, for
St. Kites.

NEWUATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of meat were tolerably extensive, and sales
progressed slowly at our quotations.
Per albs iv the carcase.
s. d. s. d. d
',eel, inferior 2 10 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 6
Jo., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., middling ..... 3 8 4 0
,)o. prime large 3 8 3 10 , Do., prime .4 2 4 6
Jo., do. small ....4 0 4 2 Veal.... 3 10 4 10
Pork, large 3 0 3 8 Pork, small 3 10 4 6

DARTMOUTH, March 11.—The Alert (sloop), from
Drogheda, to Port Madoc, reported ashore, near this port,
March 8, has discharged her cargo much damaged' It is
stillAstarT-edBTwthieTene,st
rwebill,
south
abecomeplp"---
apparently
yobtvaaoeiftsq:
etlur, wreck.
big:ea:7lk .tghr eit
le reported
contact,
ne 1 • ashore
osct7,
Carmen (Spauleb barque), bound to Liverpool. She has
been abandoned at sea,
as there itre sigip of a cullisioa on her port aide. liar nau-
tical instruments have baen landed, and exertions are
being made to save sails, span, &c. (Memorandum.--The
above vessel sailed from Bristol, March 2, for Liverpool.)
............

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIPERrOOL, Friday Morning.

Wind W.
Arrived, March 11—Zephyr and
Lord Dufferin, from
New
York° ;1• Castilian, leans ; New World, and Benjamin Adams, New
Baltimore; John Ravenal, Charleston ;
Bragauza, screw ateamer, Oporto; Northern Chief,
Mobile.
Arrived, March 12.—Bonne Mere, from Nantes ; Cha-
ritie, Rouen; Leander. Maranham; Jane Anderson,
Baltimore.
Michael's; Merinoine, Pernambuco.
Off- Line. and Jameb Hunt.
Sailed, March 11—Gurdon
' 13'8130w. and Stork, for St.
A barque was seen ashore south of Aberystwith, at day.
break on the morning of the 10th instant, in a very dan.
gerous position.

(BT SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
GRAYESICND, Friday Morning.
Wind w. ; tide fourth hour's flood; fine and frosty'.
Arrived, March 11—York Town, from New York;
American Eagle, from New York ; A.melina, Galata ;
Felik, Gothalan ; MarT Igo; Cadiz ; Mary B. Rich,
Demerara; Christiana, Charente; William, Demerara;
Silurian, Great River; Flora, steamer, Oporto.
Arrived, March 12.—Progress, from Messina.
Sailed, March 12.—Emma Coln, for Callao.
DEAL, FRIDAY MORNING.

Wind N.W., moderate.
West,
London ; Julindar, from
and Myrtle, for Madras ;
AL:gPnarssotneda,i—fitorQioPujeoeralitulPeoirhfi°llt—hipea;llWßfandolph, New York, London;
Lavinia, schooner, from the North, for the Westward
(lying to).
Anchored—Aureo, from Newcastle, for Constantinople ;
Mer, from Hull, for Constantinople.
Passed, March 11--Ranger, screw steamer from London,
or Bordeaux ; Birch arm, from mwirma for Lyndon.

601tOUGH HOB.
A few parcels of fine new hops have changed hands at
fall prices. All other kinds are a dull inquiry, and lute
rates are barely supported. The market is well supplied.
New Mid and East Kent Pockets, 70s to 1203; Weald of
Kent do., 56s to 70s ; New Sussex do., 52s to Oa ; Year-
lings, 21s to 48e.

COLONIAL.
TEA.—There has been very little business doing by
private contract. At public sale 2,450 packages were sold
of China teas at about last sales rates. The Assam
qualities consisted of inferior descriptions, and hold, with
considerable animation, at extreme prices.
Soc./al.—The market remains exceedingly quiet,
holders refraining from pressing sales during the temporary
suspension of active demand. The refined market continues
very dull %rid prices are rather lower.
COF FEE. —A moderate busioeas has been transacted, and
good qualities of Plantation Ceylon fully support previous
rates. Native has been sold at fair prices.
Cocoa—Their is very little business doing and a few
lots of Trinidad have been sold at prices slightly under late
quotations.
RICE—The market is very quiet, but full rates are
current for good qualities of Bengal, which realised 9s to
9s 6d per cwt.
BEM —There is very little inquiry, but good Demerara
sells for 2s 2d proof, being a decline of id per gallon.m
SALTrETRE—Goof Bengal qualities are held for full
rates, and the market is very firm.
TALLoiV—There is a moderate business doing, but quo.
tations are not qui Juner P. Y.C. on the spot is quoted
55s 6d ; April to 533 9d ; and last three months,
523 Gd per cwt.

THE MELBOURNE WATr,RJFOREB.

On the las day of th., yea!, whic't about Mid-
Flamm -,tay in Ai,strali t, the Ya er-
works were formally opened, and Melbourne is now
supplied with a constant and, there is every rea-
son to believe, an inexhaustible supply of a pure
limpid water, of the very highest chemical quality.
The Yan Yean reservoir is an immense lake formed
by three hills and an artificial embankment. The
valley lying between these hills formerly consti-
tuted the channel through which all the drainage
of a surface of nearly 5,000 acres in extent flowed
into the rivers Plenty and Yarra. The outlet being
thus walled up, the waters have covered the whole
surface enclosed. To obviate the chance of a defi-
ciency in the supply, an open cut and tunnel have
been constructed, of the length 0f440 yards connect-
ing the reservoir with the river Plenty, whichl can thus
be turned on or stopped as occasion requires. To
prevent the danger of the water ever rising so high
as to overflow tha embankment, a by-wash has been
constructed by means of which the water, after it
has risen within five feet of the top, escapes from
the reservoir. This surplus water is carried by a
channel back into the river Plenty, so that no
waste or damage can occur. The reservoir is about
two miles in diameter, and 10 miles in circualei-
ence, and the average depth is about 19 feet. The
most important engineering work, up to this time,
is the construction of the lake wall or embankment.
The slope towards the water is 3to 1, and that on
the landward side 2to 1. At the base the embsnk-
moot measures 170 ft., and diminishes gradually
to 20 ft. at the top. A
In the centre of the embank-
ment there is a solid wall of masonry running along
its entire length, the base of which is 30 ft. of solid
stone, ditniuishng to l i ft. at the top. This pon-
derous mass has been carried 10 ft. down below the
surf ace. The necessityfor such extraordinarystrength
wilt be undeis ood from the necessity of providing
not only fur the security of the works, but for the
lives and property of the village and entire neigh-
bourhood. _ .

The reservoir is situated at a distance of 16 miles
from town, and the water is coot,. yed ihrough iron
pipes to reservoirs erected at the highest part of the
city.
The ceremonial of opening consisted of a proces-
sion which was intended to escort his Excellency,
Sir H. Barkly, to the various points at which the
c ,cks were to be turned. In consequence o' the
illuesstef the Governor, however, this duty devolved
on Major-General Macarthur, commander of the
toices. At the moment the cocks wbr3 turned jets-
of water were, set playing at the int,reeettotts of the
principal streets, and the effect was novel and
curious to Melbourne eyes. There was not much
beauty in the spectacle, but it suggested pleasant
visions of fountains to come. _

Of the importance of this great work, which may i
be considered truly a national one, one of the com-
missioners of water supply thus speaks
" With respect to the distance from whence the water
is conveyed, the Yan Yean takes rank as the fifth
among the greatest hydraulic works of the modern world ;
but with respect to the magnitude of its reservoir, and
the additional means within its reach, if ever necessary,
the Yan Yean ranks as the first in the world. I consi-
der this national work under two aspects—what it is in
itself; and secondly, the influence it will exercise
over the hydro-dynamic science throughout these
colonies. With the success of the Yen Yean scheme is
involved, not only an unlimited and continuous supply
of water for every house in Melbourne immediately (and
for its suburban localities as soon as we can obtain the
pipes from Eagland)—not only is involved a supply for
public gardens, baths and fountains (some of which foun-
tains may easily be caused even to gush out of a wall in
any of the streets), not only a supply for private gardens
and bathe, and, as a cheap means of engineering power,
on piers, wharves, and in warehmses and future facto-
ries—not only are all these advantages involved in the
success of the Yan Yean works, but that success will
incite the denizens of the gold-fields, and of the arid bush
generally, either to construct hydraulic works, by which
the water from rivers some miles distant may be carried
to a given locality, or else cause them to adopt the moat
obvious means of arresting and preserving the water so
bonutifully sent us by Providence every winter. Ido
not only allude to 'this influence with regard to the gold-
fields, but equally with a view to health in the bush, to
irrigation, and the progress of agriculture."
In point of fact, Melbourne possesses now an
unlimited supply of the purest water at an elevation
which enables us to apply it at almost nominal cost
to fountains or any other ornamental or practical
purpose, which may be deemed advisable.
The immense utility of a water supply under the
enormous pressure afforded by this elevation has
already been evidenced in the case of several fires
in the city. The first of these occurring within a
day or two of the opening of the works, furnished
a very striking illustration of the powerful means
of repressing conflagrations kOW placed at our
l disposal. Nu sooner bad the city fire-bell sounded
the alarm than a great body of flame was seen
to issue from a house in one of the principal street,
and almost in a moment afterwards the fire
was effectually put out, quenched by the vast vo-
lumes of water poured on it. The Y.n Yuan works
have been some years in course of construction,
and under all the circumstalices of the case, consi-
dering their own magnitude and the magnitude of
their cost, we may be excused for regarding their
openii4 as a great incident in our bistory.—Alel-
bourne Argus. .

MORAL RESULTS OF NEGRO EMANCI
PAlluN IN JAMAICA.

The Watchman, or Kingston Free Press, of
Feb. 4, as well as the Jamaica Morning J3lll nal,
and other West Indian papers, deny most indig-

nantly the wholesale imputations of laziness and
" beastliness" which the Times has cast upon the
free negro population. The Watchman says :
" We graait that there is much in the habits, and
character, and condition of our people to condemn
and deplore ; but we nevertheless contend—what
we are prepared to prove, and what we are sure
every unprejudiced individual acquainted with the
recent history of Jamaica must admit—that since
emancipation a most wonderful change for the better
has taken place amongst our peasantry. When we
reflect upon what slavery was, and what it made
those who were subject to its hell-born influences—
and when we call to mind what Jamaica was 30 or
40 years age, and then look around us now, we
confess that we are filled with wonder, overwhelmed
with astonishment, at the greatness and moral
grandeur of the revolution which has taken
place in this once benighted and miserable coun-
try, and at the change which has been wrought
in the condition and character of the lately
emancipated slaves. That revolution, taking all
the circumstances attending it into account,
stands unparalleled in history. What have we
witnessed in Jamaica during the last 20 years
Why, we have seen half a million of people libe-
rated from the bonds of a hard and bitter servitude,
and suddenly invested with all the rights and pi i-
vileges of free men, having previously- undergone
scarcely any preparation for the great change that
took place in their position and circumstances ; and
those rights and privileges have never been abused
by them. We have seen these people, under the
inflate/ice of Christian teaching and example, bury-
ing in oblivion the animosities engendered by long
years of oppression and cruelty, and as free
labourers, cheerfully taking the place they filled as
slaves. We have seen them struggling with the dif-
ficulties incident to their new position as freemen,
and with admirable patience and perseverance plod-
ding their way onward to tl'e comparative indepen-
dence and humble comforts of a peasant proprie-
tary. We have seen them coutributing out of
their comparatively scanty means hundreds of
thousands of pounds during the last twenty-five
years, for the building of chapels and ministers'
residences, the election of schoolhouses, and
the maintenance of ministers and schoolmasters.
And we now fiud tens of th .usands of them in con-
nection, as members and otherwise, with the diffe-
rent reigious denominations throughout the coun-
try, the greater part of whom (we speak it on the
published testimony of their vigilant and faithful
pastors) walk worthy of their nigh vocation' as
Curistians. Schools are scattered all over the land,
and to these schools they send their cluldieu to be
educated. On Sundays they throng the churches
a delivered
coa rTbnyieithaeteidtr emilluinuitshst eet r 1
alsa.etwt:(ll)o
and chapels, where hey are to be sent neatly
ri at-
tired,ties
engaging, with all the warmth characteristic
holy
day, to thye
of their nature, in the devout exercises
day, and listening
Word of Life,'
the face of all this,
liclltetunacrned, tlut act has
f
f:ergraso them
an utter failure might get those
anly
coirpa,,lt
ieo.l7ndvisai irlcleot
provedo
ald wish it so, to believe it so ; but we in J a.-
' • know that the statements in the Times re-
sinpaelectlag the condition and character of the
emancipated segioes, are just so many downright
falsehoods.
6' The people in Jamaica owe it to their brethren
in bonds, both in the United States and Cuba,
whose ultimate delivery from slavery the success of
the experiment of emancipation in these islands
must go a far way to hasten—they owe it to these
to protest against the slanders which the Times has
published against them. They ought to meet toge-
ther in every parish throughout the island, and
speak out on the subject. We ought to have de-
monstrations that will convince the Mites and the
slaveholders of Cuba and America, that the peasan-
try of J amaica are nut the uncivilised and degraded
beings they have been represented by their enemies.

that a japan tin
ANOTEIEB lIIIICNII3iIefiII CbAy the police
B RoBsEEY.--Yesterday in-
securities valued at 1 TILE ROYAL LITERAIIT FUND. We have authority
formation
bas"eLrne.ectYle":freo°mnt6oiffi'iangcab conveying it from ' to state that Lard Palmerston has consented to preside
box, marked
6,000/,, had e.
London-bridge to the Paddington railway station ; over the anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary Fund
the Loud
lovi, refs-
rd is offerod for information as to the box. Corporation on Wednesday, May 5,