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

AIR. BUCESTONE'S ANNUAL BENEFIT.

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

COWES, July s.—The Prince and Princess of
Leiningen arrived at No. 1, Parade-terrace, West Cowes, on
Monday last. Captain the Hon. Joseph Denm ,n and
family arrived at White Rose Cottage on Wednesday.
Lord Colvile has taken No. 1, Solent-terrace; the Hon.
Mr. D. Liddell, Cambridge House. His Royal Highness
the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Saxe-Coburg, and
Prince William of Nassau visited Prince Leiningen at No.
1, Parade-terrace on Thursday.

VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO CANADA.—
It is expected that the Royal yacht will arrive in Plymouth
Sound from Spithead ou Monday afternoon, that the
Prince of Wales will proceed immediately on board the
Hero, and that at daylight on Tuesday morning she will
sail for Canada. Her convoy, the steam frigate Ariadne,
from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
afternoon.

The new works-of the Grand Surrey Docks and
Canal Company, comprising a deep water dock of 16 acres,
a basin of three acres, and a lock 250 feet by 50 feet, with
a depth of water on the till of 27 feet below Trinity stan-
dard, were formally opened to-day by the admission of
several vessels, among others the Coronet, from Cronstadt,
of 872 tons register.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.—A most important
advance has just been made in the science of submarine
telegraphy. On Saturday, the 23d ult., Mr. W. P. Pig-
gott laid, and satisfactorily worked, an experimental cable
between Ryde, in the Isle of Wight, and Alverstoke, on the
main land, which cable had the remarkable peculiarity of
being uninsulated, and of having neither india rubber nor
gutta percha in its composition.—The Photographic News.
VOLUNTEER REVIEW AT LIVERPOOL.—In ac-
cordance with instructions from Colonel M'Murdo, and
with the concurrence of the Lord-Lieutenant, Colonel
Browne, of the 4th Brigade Lancashire Artillery Volun-
teers, has arranged with the commanding officers of Vo-
lunteers in Liverpool for a review at Aintree Racecourse
on the 14th inst. All the Volunteers in the county have
been invited to attend and take part in the proceedings.
The Volunteers of Manchester are endeavouring to arrange
for a review on Newton-heath in August next, when the
presence of her Majesty is hoped for.
THE POPE fAND HIS IRISH SUPPORTERS.—In a
letter from Rome in the Union (France) we read :—" Most
of the Irish who have come here to take service under the
Pope are fine men, and a certain number of them have
already been in the army. The passion of the Irish for
strong drink is unfortunately too well known ; and three
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arrested. General de Lamoriciere, who is determined that
strict discipline shall be maintained among the troops under
his command, has intimated that these Irish shall be
brought to trial before a court martial."
PREVENTIBLE RISK IN FAST RAILWAY TR AVEL-
LING.—In a report to the Board of Trade (just published)
on the accident at Hatfield in April, when a Great Northern
train, aftera
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passenger,that had
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sta'es that the whole weight of the train was
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about 100 tons, and the total weight on the wheels to which
break blocks could be applied was hut about 20 tons. Now
a train at Hatfield, travelling down an. incline of 1 in 200
at the rate of GO miles an hour (a frequent rate of that
train at that point), could not have been stopped by these
breaks in less than three-quarters of a mile. Col. Tolland
says this is a very unsatiifactory coriditipn attending fast
railway travelling, and that such quick trains ought to be
themfurnished to c
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that
thisi e
bewith stoppedan in amounta third of creak power
can be done by means of continuous breaks, which, aug-
ment the retarding power three or fbur fold. Two years
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ago the Board of Trade sent to all railway companies a re-
port of the successful working of such breaks on the East
Lancashire Railway, where a train of 90 tons, supplied.
with 80 per cent. of break power, travelling at the rate of
53 miles an hour down an incline of 1 in 120, was stopped
after running 235 yards. The carriage in which Mr. Pyln
rode was not thrown over on its side until it was 408 yards
from the spot where the 4ccicleAt occurred.

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