The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, T U ESDAY EVENING, SEP I'EMBE R 17, 1867.

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ARMY CONTRACTS.
Tenders will be received by the Director of Con-
tracts, War Office, Pall Mall, London, until T welvo o'clock
noon on the 26th September, for the supply of
FORAGE

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for the use of her Majesty's Troops, stationed in the fol-
lowing places, from Ist November, 1867, to 30th April,
1868.
LONDON DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, 109, Victoria-

street, Westminster:-
1. Hyde Park, Kensington 3. Hampton Court.
Regent's Park, and Horse 4. Windsor.
Guards. 5. Brighton.
2. Hownslow and Speller 6. Sandhurst.
Hall. 7. Enfield.
NORTHERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Barrack-
street, Hume, Manchester :-
7. Birmingham.
8. Coventry.

1. Bury.
2. Sheffield.

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3. Preston. 9. Northanipton.
4. Ashton-under-Lyne. 10. Weedon.
5. Burnley. 11. York.
6. Manchester. 12. Newcastle-on-Tyne.
EASTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Camp
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Colchester:
1. Colchester.
2. Ipswich.
3. Norwich.

WOOLWICH DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, Royal
Artillery Barracks Woolwich (S.E.) :-
1. Woolwich.
2. Shoeburyness.
3. Warley Barracks.
4. Maidstone.
CHATHAM DISTRICT, Commissariat Offico, Tho
Barracks, Chatham:
No. 1, Chatham.
SOUTH-EASTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office,
Camp, Shorn°
1. Shorncliffc.
2. Canterbury.

SOUTH-WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office,
St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth :
1. Portsmouth and Hilsea.
2. Dorchester.
3. Netley.
WESTERN DISTRICT, Commissariat Office, 20, East
Emma Place, Stonehouse, Plymouth :-
1. Plymouth, Dovonport, Tregantlo, and Scraesdon Forts,
Maker Barracks, and Heights.
2. Exeter and Topsham.
3. Bristol and Horfield.
NORTH BRITAIN, Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street
Edinburgh :

1. Perth.
2. Leith Fort, Edinburgh, and Piershill.
3. Hamilton.
Separate tenders must be made for each of the above-
mentioned stations as separately numbered.
Forms of tender, initialed and numbered, and conditions
of contract, may be obtained on application at the above
offices, by letter addrossod to the senior commissariat officer
of the district, or in person, between the hours of ten and
four o'clock, and no tender will be entertained unless made
upon the form so obtained.
Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up
and signed, and no tender will be noticed unless delivered
under closed envelope at the War-office, Pall-mall, Lon-
don, before twelve o'clock noon on the 26th September
instant, addressed to the director of contracts, and marked
outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies."
THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts.
War-office, Pall Mall (S.W.), Sept. 13. 1867.

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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET FIRST-OCTOBER MEETING.
TUESDAY, September 24.
Weights for the Great Eastern Railway Handicap, a
Sweepstakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for
three year olds and upwards; winners of a handicap
value 200 sovs. after Sept. 16, at 10 a.m., 71b, of any
other handicap 31b extra ; weights accumulative ; the
second to receive 25 sovs out of the stakes. T.Y.C.
(5 furlongs 140 yards). 88 subs.

Ago st Id
Cecrops ... 4 9 10
Filponnier ... 3 9 9
Volunteer ... a 9 7
Julius ... ... 3 9 4
Xi ... 4 9 4
Mr. Pitt ... ... 4 9 0
Wild Agnes 5 8 12
Bounceaway ... 3 8 12
Sultan 5 81`2
Out and Outer ... 5 8 10
Abergeldie ... 4 8 9
Lanoret 4 8 9
Dragon ... ... 3 8 9
Seville 3 8 5
Satyr ... ... 3 8 5
Treasure Trove 4 8 3
Pericles ... 3 8 2
Vespasian ... 4 8 1
Blinkhoolio ... 3 8 1
Mrs. Stratton ... 4 8 1
The Skipper ... 3 8 0
Wroughtou ... 3 8 0
Kilmeny ... 3 8 0
Bismarck ... ... 3 8 0
Staghound 4 8 0
Gardevisure :21.3
King Victor 3 7 13
Tormentor 4 7 13
Acta3a 4 712
Sea Mew 3 7 12
Lady Hester 3 7 11
Raven 4 7 11
Historian 6 7 10
Special ...4 7 10
Mount Palatine ... 4 7 9
Wolsey 4 7 9
Friday 5 7 8
Rector 4 7 7
Goojerat ...4 7 7
Monarch of the Glen 4 7 7
Armourer 3 7 6
Duchess ... 3 7 4
Pirate Chief ... 3 7 4
Chibisa 4 7 4
Tremble ... 3 -7 3

Age st lb
Tortuga ... ... 3 7 3
Chapel Royal ... 4 7 2
Panacea ... ...4 7 2
Ulphus ...4 7 0
Cerf Volant ... 3 7 0
Grand Duke ... 3 7 0
Cellina ... 3 7 0
Gazza Ladra ... 6 6 13
Mirella 4 6 13
Grey Stocking ... 4 612
Little Rover 3 6 12
Leases ... ... 3 611
Chepstow ... ... 46 11
Sir Oliver „.. 3 6 11
Freemason 3 6 10
IlEstletoe 4 6 10
Icicle 3 6 10
Kingsley ... 4 6 10
Parma ... ... 3 6 10
Maid of Masham f.. 3 6 10
Gipsy Queen 3 6 9
Aspirant ... 4 6 9
Hawthorn... ... 4 6 8
Chignon ... 3 6 8
Nimrod ... ... 5 6 8
Jena Premiere ... 3 6 7
Kidderminster ... 3 6 7
C by'Longbow, dam
by Double Cross. 3 6 7
Chiswick]... ... 3 6 7
Gladiator ... ... 4 6 6
Skysail 3 6 6
Safety ...3 6 6
Charles 11. 3 6 6
Thermometer 3 6 4
Fakir 3 6 4
bldlle. de Charolais 3 6 2
Sister to Vedette... 3 5 13
Water Cure 3 5 13
Cora ...4 512
Ardbog 3 5 11
Beauclerk ... 3 5 11
Southern Cross ... 3 (paid)
Countersign 6 (paid)

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FRIDAY.
Weights for the Newmarka Oc.to.ber Handicap, a Sweep-
stakes of 15 sovs each, 5 ft, with 100 added, for three
year olds and upwards; winners of a handicap value 100
soya (including tho winner's own stake) after Sept. 16,
at 10 a.m., 41b, of. two Met', or Mao Great Eastern Han-
dicap, 71b extra ; the second to receive 25 sous out of
the stakes. A.F. (1 mile 2 furlongs 73 yards.) 85 suba.
Age at lb Age st lb
Strathconan ... 4 9 2 Owain Glyndwr ... 3 6 10
Regalia 5 9 1 Liebe ... 4 6 10
Cecrops „. 4 810 Ines ... 3 610
Breadalbane 5 8 10 Cent Volaut ... 3 6 9
Friponnier.,. 3 8 9 Mirella ... 4 6 9
Julius ... ... 3 8 9 Leases ... ... 3 6 8
Lord Ronald ... 5 8 7 Opoponax ... 3 6 8
Abergeldie 4 8 5 Thornapple ... 3 6 7
Mail Train 6 8 3 Pirate Chief ... 3 6 7
T rocadero 3 8 2 Duchess ... ... 3 6 7
King Charming ... 5 8 2 Star of India ... 3 6 7
Duke of York 4 8 0 Barrington 3 6 7
Primate 4 8 0 Grey Stocking ... 4 6 7
Caithness ... 4 8 0 Marmite 3 6 7
Tormentor 4 8 0 Ravioli 3 6 7
Moldalvia 5 8 0 Kidderminster ... 3 6 6
Archimedes ... 5 7 12 Greenback... ... 3 6 6
Vespasian 4 7 12 Honesty ... 3 6 6
Staghound... 47 10 Leap Year... ... 3 6 5
Verulam 3 7 10 Eye-sore (late Vidi) 3 6 5
Musician ... 4 7 9 Clarice ... 3 6 4
Acton 4 7 7 Chignon ... 3 6 3
Knight Errant 3 7 7 C by Longbow, d
Blinkhoolie 3 7 7 by Double Cross 3 6 3
Flying Scud 3 7 6 Safety ... 3 6 2
Thalia ... 4 7 5 Cora 4 6 0
Cheltenham ... 3 7 5 Red Shoes... ... 3 6 0
Historian ... 6 7 4. Harpenden ... 3 6 0
Master Willie 3 7 4 Marino ... 3 6 0
Vigorous ... 4 7 3 Eglamour ... 3 6 0
Janitor 4 7 3 Red Riband ... 3 6 0
Friday 5 7 2 Eakring ... 4 5 13
Ailestury 3 7 2 Gilead ... 3 513
Sea Mew ... 3 7 0 G by Do Clare
Wroughton ... 3 7 0 Maid of Kent ... 3 512
Miss Harriette ... 4 613 Water Cure ... 3 510
Redcap 6 6 13 Charles ... 3 5 10
Wild Briar ~. 4 6 13 Ploughboy ... 3 5 7
Panacea 4 612 Southern Cross ... 3 paid
Roquefort ... 3 6 12 Bradamante 6 paid
Little Rover ... 3 6 11 Raglan .., a paid
Grand Duke ... 3 6 11 Rodomonte ... 4 paid
Proserpine 4 6 10 Countersign 6 paid
King Victor 3 6 10

two-yr-olds ; colts, Bst 101 b; fillies, Bst 71b. Three-
quarters of a mile. 14 subs.
Duke of Beaufort's f by Birdhill—The Roe, Bst 41b

(Philips) 1
Mr. F. Rowland's nd Mouse, Bst 41b (Jones) 2
Mr. Edwyn's Etiquette, Bst 71b (G. Sopp) 3

Betting-2 to lon The Roe filly. Won easily by three
lengths; bad third.

The Ladies' Plate Hlndicap, value 45 sovs. Gentlemen

ridora. Milo and a half.

Mr. Herbert's Nidderdale, by Colsterdale—Sister to
Wollaton, 5 yrs, list (llr. P. Morgan) 1
Mr. Weyman's The Colonel, 4 yrs, list 31b

" (Mr. Westford) 2
Mr. Edwyn's Needle Gun, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b (Mr. Merton) 3
Betting--7 to 4on The Colonel, sto 2 agst Needle Gun,
3to 1 agst Nidderdale. Won by two lengths ; bad third.
Selling Stakes of 3 sovs each, with 20 added ; weight for
age, with selling allowances. Three-quarters of a mile.
Mr. Thomas's Miss Skerratt, by First Lord—Miss Judy
Macan, 3 yrs, Bst 51b (carried Bst 71b) (A. Holman) 1
Mr. Weyman's Chance, 4 yrs, Bst 131 b G. So 2
Mr. Baresse's Eugenie, 4 yrs, 9st 41b (J. Adams)) 3
No betting. Won by' two lengths ; bad third. The
winner was sold to the Duke of Beaufort for 100 guineas.
Third Brecon Biennial Stakes of 10 soya. each, with 40
added; for 3-yr=old colts, Bst 101 b; fillies and geldings,
Bst 71b. Mile and a half. (9 subs.)
Lord Coventry's La Maudite, by Surplice—Maud, Bst 101 b

(J. Adams) w.o.
The Welter Cup (Handicap) of 5 sous each, with 30 added;

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gentlemen riders. Two miles.
Mr. Herbert's Stockinger, by Stockwell—Lady Evelyn,
aged, 12st 61b (Owner i 1
.M
Mr. Westford's Trapeze, 5 yrs, list 121 b ...(Mr. Morton 2
Mr. Herbert's Niddardale, 5 yrs, 12st (Mr. Gooliwin 3

Miss Skerratt and Libertine also ran.

Betting-5 to 4 agst Stockinger, 6to 4 agst Miss Skerratt,
5 to 1 each agst Nidderdale and Trapeze, and 6 to 1 agst
Libertine. Won, after a good race, by a neck.

2IMDES' OUTRAGES COMMISSION.

TENTH DAY.

MANCHESTER, Sept. 16.
The proceedings opened at the usual hour, but
there was an unusually numerous attendance at
the opening of the court, and it afterwards became
crowded. Some few ladies were present to-day, but
not nearly so large a proportion as attend during
the assizes.

It has been stated that Kay, the Manchester
delegate, who organised the outrage at Reddish, on
being informed that the Court intended to send for
him to be put under examination, made his way to
Liverpool somewhat hastily and . embarked for
America. There is reason to believe this is not
true, but that he had taken advice to be missing
long before.

There is some reason to expect the Commissioners
will complete their inquiry this week. They have
several very bad cases to take yet of outrages in
the immediate neighbourhood of Manchester. Some
bad cases of intimidation have been offered, which
they declined to hear, having decided, as far as pos-
sible, to confine their inquiries to cases only of
actual outrage. Samuel Adshead, master builder
at Ardwick, was called to give evidence, but it
appearing that what he had to say referred to
matters 12 years ago, the Commissioners decided
that he could not be examined.
William Alfred Atkin sworn. Was a machine
brickmaker in February, 1862, in Cheetwood-lane.
On a Sunday morning in that month he found the
roof of the engine-house blown off. They had been
threatened repeatedly by the Manchester union
men, but they had reason to suppose it was done at
the instigation of the master hand- rickmakers. A
Mrs. Wolgar had told him before she had heard
a master say he wished the machines at h-.
They had continual breaksdown from the hard sub-
stances being put among the machinery. They
employed non-union men, and they were beaten
several times, once in the morning as they came to
work. A letter had been sent with the drawing of
a coffin. This system continued over three years
after 1862, till his capital was done, and he gave up
business. They would not let people buy machine
bricks. A delegate was employed by the masters
and men to see who used machine bricks, and sup-
posing houses to be partly built and having to be
sold, the purchaser would not afterwards be allowed
to have bricks to finish them from master hand-made
brickmakers. The witness said the men sometimes
emptied the water from his boiler to produce a
blow-up.

Charles Hadfield said he had been a machine
brickmaker till last year. Began in 1861. Em-
ployed non-union men. Was constantly threatened
by union men as they passed the yao. Their own
men, supposed to have been bribed, let the water
from the boiler, and the machines had nuts or screws
put in them 12 or 13 times, causing breakages and
delays. Messrs. Elliott and Dickson in 1863 had
six houses pushed down because building with ma-
chine bricks. About 50 to 60 brickmakers went in
the night and were met by the police. The brick-
layers preferred machine bricks, but in consequence
of the strike at the Assize Courts they took the side
of the brickmakers, and society men refused to lay
them. Had been threatened several times. Wood,
a burner, from Durham, in 1863 had a combustible
bottle with slugs in thrown into his bedroom win-
dow, but it was laid hold off with the fuse still
burning and thrown out again before it exploded.
(The witness spoke so as to be heard only very par-
tially.) Gave up business through these outrages.
Thomas Walknen said he had been employed
four or five years ago to cart machine bricks, and
had been stopped many a time, and many a time
again. They were union men to be sure, and
they threatened him, and said they would have
his life. Once they set his haystack on fire.
This was in the back end of the summer, at 6 in
the evening, and a man dressed like a brickmaker
was seen in the yard. James Kay, the delegate,
made him pay a fine. He paid him £5 fine one
time, and another £5 afterwards. (Produced Kay's
stamped receipt for £5.) It was for carting
machine-made bricks. Had to leave off, and was
out of work eight or nine months, when the
machines were stopped. They stopped because the
brickmakers would no longer lay their bricks. Paid
the fines. o be allowed to work again. Had to go to
the Crown and Cushion eight or nine times before
it was settled. They put him out the third time,
but his master told him to go and keep teasing
them till they agreed to his fine that he might go
on working again.
John Holt, master brickmaker at Royton, near
Oldham, said he complained of a man named
Buckley not doing his work properly, and he gave
up work. Then his other men struck. He after-
wards employed non-union men, and his sheds were
set on fire and all his barrows, shovels, boards, and
other materials. They put some thousands of
needles in his clay, but the men worked the clay.
Two men got needles in their hands. One of them
has a stiff finger in consequence now. They tread
the needles into the clay and spread needles over
the mats. This was in 1859. Could not suppose
it was done by any but union men. On the night
when the place was fired he found William Burns
there, the man whom he had turned away. Burns
did not give a hand to put out the fire, and all he
did was to laugh. •
John Hay, private in the 99th Regiment, said he
remembered being in Mr. Holt's employ, and saw
the fire in 1859. Knew Thomas Jackson, a union
man, use threats towards Mr. Holt. Saw Burns at
the fire, and that he did not help to put it out.
John Smethurst said, in 1859 he was a colliery
proprietor and brickmaster at Roy ton. Ile em-
ployed union men at the time, because the union
rules were so much in favour of the men, and left
the masters so little control. The masters had a
meeting with the men, and asked them to alter the
rules, but they would not. Could not remember
the names of the men present. In June, 1859, had
about 7,000 bricks trampled upon. There were three
different footmarks on the bricks. After that kept
a watchman, and had to pay him to protect his pre-
mises. The masters had many meetings with the
unionists at Oldham about altering their rules. In
May, 1860, had about 3,000 bricks damaged, having
no watchman at the time. Ile still continued to
employ non-union men, but he gave up business in

I 1862 in consequence of the annoyances, and because
it was unsafe at nights.
William Bourne sworn—Was the present secre-
tary of the Oldham Union, and was elected two
months ago. Had been a member 12 or 14 years.
Attended the club meetings once a fortnight. Any
person had not a right to call general meetings.
There were four districts in the Oldham Union, and
district men could call general meetings. The cash
book and contribution book were one. They had
a ledger, but it was taken away last Thursday night.
It contained the names of the members. When he
was called upon by the police-sergeant to receive a
summons to attend this meeting he left the ledger,
and when he went back it had gone. Did not think
it would ever be likely to come back. (A laugh.)
It had only names in it, nothing of any harm, and
there was no reason why all the world should not
have seen it. He did not know why it should have
been taken. Had never been a council-man, but
had been a substitute. Could not tell the name of
the man he was a substitute for. (A laugh.) Did
not remember the name of a single council-man.
(The witness was cautioned he might be committed
for concealing facts as well as perjury, but still ad-
hered to his statement.) Could not tell when he
was a substitute, but it was not this year. The
discussion while he was a substitute was as to fining
a member. If a man left a job before it was finished
he was fined. If he worked for less wages, or for a
non-union master, they turned him out. Never
heard of a man being fined for working at a machine
place. They had a fine book. [He produced it.]
Had never said the book was destroyed, mind.
Mr. Pickering—Did you fine a man on his mar-
riage? They did, but could not recollect how much.
Never had filled any office but that of secretary.
Heard of a shell being thrown at Greaves, and of the
affairs at Smethurst's and Holt's. Never heard of
them at the club, and only by public report. The
club knew nothing of them. Left Holt's employ
because he would not allow them `'4d. per 1,000
extra. Never heard of Kay bringing £lOO, or of
their getting money from other unions. Had very
little connection with the union till within the last
few years. Never heard of any subscription to de-
fend the men in Jump's affair.
George Haywood, sworn.—ls president of the
Oldham Brickmakers' Club for the current six
months. Presided last Thursday at the beginning,
but the officers of this court " fot" (fetched) him
out just at starting. He had not opened the meet-
ing. Did not know who took the chair afterwards.
Saw the ledger there when he left the room and
when he returned. Did not know where it was now.
(A laugh.) The witness affected not to know any-
thing identifying the union with any outrage, and
was told to stand down. He assumed an injured
air, and said he had a wife and five children, and
asked for expenses, but was dismissed amid laughter
from all parts of the court.
Harrison M'Donald—ls the son-in-law of the
late Isaiah Greaves, and managed for him in 1859.
Heard of his being fined and leaving the union.
Remembered the union asking Mr. Greaves to em-
ploy Davenport because he would not pay a fine.
He refused. After that he had 14,000 bricks de-
stroyed. In 1859 a grenade was thrown at Mr.
Greaves as he was leaving his house, and burst
against the wall, taking a piece out of his trousers
and stocking and skin. If it had struck on the other
side of the door it would have blown him to pieces.
After that some powder was put in the cylinder, in
1865, and the engine house blown up.
John Brooks, brickmaker, at Oldham, was under
inquiry when our report left.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mier Majesty's screw troopship Serapis, Capt.
Soady, embarked at Quebec, on the 6th inst., the
4th battalion of the Rifle Brigade for conveyance
to England, and was expected to sail the same even-
ing. The battalion on the arrival of the Serapis,
now momentarily looked for at Spithead, will disem-
bark at Portsmouth, and proceed to its intended
destination, in two divisions, by the South-Western
and South Coast Railways, one division taking up
its quarters in Chichester Barracks, and the other
at Winchester.

His Italian Majesty's sailing frigate San Michele,
26 guns, Capt. the Baron de Vizy, sailed from
Spithead yesterday afternoon for Brest, Cagliari,
and Genoa. The San Michele is the sea-going
cadet training-ship of the Royal Italian Navy, and
has 114 cadets on board from the Royal Naval
Schools at Naples and Genoa. During her present
summer's cruise she has visited the various ports in
the Mediterranean, and bas also made a call at
Madeira. Her return voyage will be so timed that
she will arrive at Genoa by the end of October,
when the cadets will return to school at Genoa and
Naples for a season. During the frigate's stay at Spit-
head the cadets have paid frequent visits to the shore,
always under the command of one of the superior
executive officers of the frigate, devoting their time
to an inspection of the dockyard, with its workshops,
machinery, and storehouses ; the shipping in the
basins, and docks, and afloat ; the gunwharf and
Arsenal, Royal Clarence Victualling-yard, and the
Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar. London, the
Crystal Palace, the Isle of Wight, &c., have also
been visited by them. On all occasions of their
landing from the frigate the smart appearance and
gentlemanly behaviour of the Royal Italian naval
cadets have attracted and deserved much favourable
notice. Captain the Baron de Vizy was entertained
at dinner on the 13th inst. by Admiral Sir Thomas
Pasley, and on the 15th by Major-Gen. Sir George
Buller.

The unarmoured screw frigate Curagoa, 1,571
tons, 350 horse power, has been brought down to
Portsmouth harbour, after a fruitless attempt to
sell her by the Admiralty, for the purpose of being
docked, stripped of portions of her outer planking,
and otherwise " opened up," surveyed, and reported
upon as to her present condition and the cost
of repairing and refitting her for active service.
The estimate already sent in by the master ship-
wright's department of the yard for the work is un-
derstood to be £12,000, and if, on the ship being
surveyed in dock, it is found she can be again made
efficient for active service for the sum named, her
repairs will at once be proceeded with. On the final
completion of her repairs and refit the Curagoa will
be commissioned as a seagoing sailing and steam
training ship for naval cadets of her Majesty's
navy. The great want of such a vessel as a tender
to the cadet training ship Britannia has been often
referred to in The Sun during the past eight years.
The Curagoa was built at Pembroke in 1854, from
Navy-office designs. Her engines were manufactured
by Maudslay, Sons, and Field, and are now in very
good condition. The boilers have three years' good
work in them still as a cadet training ship, and altoge-
ther, if the real expenditure can be kept within the esti-
mate sent in, the Admiralty will make a very (air
selection in naming the Curacoa as the seagoing
training ship for the cadets of the British navy. It
is somewhat remarkable that while France, Russia,
Prussia, Austria, Italy, and America have for some
years past had their cadet training-ships afloat, and
paying visits to foreign ports and dockyards, our
own Boards of Admiralty up to the present time
have steadily refused to follow the common-sense
path which those Powers have entered in regard to
the training of naval cadets.
The Daniie, 6, screw sloop, 1,287 tons, 350-horse
power, some short time since launched at Ports-
mouth, is rapidly progressing in her outfit for com-
mission, and will be ready for her first trial of speed
at light draught of water in about a fortnight. The
Daniie has been ship rigged, and, having an excess
of tonnage over vessels of the same class and design
previously launched and commissioned, will be a post
captain's command, although his vessel will carry
but few guns to fight with. The Daniie, when first
laid down at Portsmouth yard from the designs of
the Chief Constructor, possessed the full U-form of

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fore body given to vessels previously built from the
same design—the Daphne, Amite, Nymphe, and
others ; but when up in frame the foisi-bodyW the
Daidie was taken clown again, the bows lengthened,
the U-form merged from amidships to straight
wedge lines at the bows, and the result of this rear-
rangement is that the Daniie will be the fastest ship
under steam of her class yet sent afloat by Mr. Reed.
The Terrible, 19, paddle frigate, 800-horse power,
Capt. Commerell, V.C., C. 8., sailed from Spithcad
yesterday afternoon for Gibraltar awl Alexandria.
At the latter place the crew and boats of the Ter-
rible, under the direction of Capt. Commerell, will
assist in the landing of troops and stores for the
Abyssinian expedition.
The Vernon, 50, attached to the sailing reserve
at Chatham, is intended to be converted for harbour
service at Portland, to which she will be removed.
An entry of hired hands is to be made at Chatham
dockyard, for the purpose of converting one of the
iron mortar-vessels, laid up in ordinary since the
Russian war, into a vessel for harbour service at
Portland.

Detachments of 50 non-commissioned officers and
men of the 106th Bombay Light Infantry Regiment,
and 85 non-commissioned officers and men of the
109th Bombay Infantry Regiment, from the depots
at Chatham, have been placed under orders for em-
barcation on board the Indian steam transports, to
join 'the service companies of those regiments.

Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir James York Scarlett,
K.C.8., having returned from temporary leave of
absence, resumed command of the division at alder-
shot from the 14th inst. inclusive. The following
officers have since been granted leave of absence :
Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., from the 16th to the
27th of September, 1867, on private affairs ; and
Col. Payne, C. 8., 72d Highlanders, from the 14th
of September, 1867, to the 12th of March, 1868, on
the recommendation of a medical board.

No. 22 troop of the Military Trxia will march
from Aldershot Camp this morning, and proceed to
Hilsea.

The strength of the Aldershot division is now
likely to undergo but little alteration for some
months to come, and when the 40th Regiment,
which is expected shortly, arrives, there will
be stationed at the camp for the winter nine in-
fantry battalions, or three brigades, under their
respective brigadiers. The cavalry at present at
Aldershot consists of the Ist (King's) Dragoon
Guards, the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, and
the 15th Hussars. The latter regiment is in daily
expectation of orders to proceed to Norwich, Ips-
wich, Birmingham, and Coventry.
The military medical officer's library at Aldershot
has just had a donation of 200 volumes of standard
medical and other works presented it by Surgeon-
Major Fleming, of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon
Guards, making in all 800 volumes presented by the
same donor during the past five years.

TBE "TIMES"' AND THE NEW YORK

"NATION."

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times
misrepresents the New York Nation in a way that
gives us a poor idea of his ability as a correspondent.
Writing of Admiral Tegethoffs mission to Mexico,
which has the strong sympathy of the United States,
he adds that there is one American newspaper, the
Nation, which does not scruple to justify Mexico in
retaining Maximilian's remains, and in proof of this
he gives the following paragraph : —" The Mexican
Government is still holding Maximilian's body, it
is said, for a ransom. We have always thought this
a peculiarly appropriate mode of replenishing the
treasury, and have littledoubt the Finance Minister,
whoever he is, will adhere to it. In this way the
State makes as much out of Maximilian as
if his life had been spared, and at the
same time is freed from all anxiety about him.
Low as the condition of the ' Latin race' is,
it still retains some sparks of originality."
The correspondent seems to be wholly incapable of
appreciating the irony of the remark. But if he is
in the habit of reading the Nation, we cannot under-
stand how he can fall into the blunder. The Nation's
opinion has been very clearly stated. That journal
condemned Maximilian's attempt to found a
monarchy on the ruins of a republic ; consistently,
and naturally, considering that the Nation is a
leading Republican journal. It censured Juarez
aid the Mexican people for the wanton and useless
cruelty of executing the Prince, for which no politi-
cal necessity existed. It considered Maximilian to
have displayed in Lombardy "inside the limits set
him by a wretched system every good quality of
head and heart that a ruler needs to have. Juarez's
first lieutenant, Escobedo, seems to be a pattern
savage, and any Toltec that permits him to commit
the atrocity of which he is now boasting is a dis-
grace to civilisation." Again it states, in reply to
the New York Independent (who maintained that
Juarez had the same right to shoot Maximilian tha
Washington had to shoot Andre, and that Maxi-
milian as an alien invader fairly deserved death),
that " Washington hanged Andre under the old and
well-established usage of war, which makes death the
penalty of being found in disguise inside an enemy's
lines, and which has no more application to Maxi-
milian's case than the Statute of Frauds. More-
over, invaders are nearly always aliens, and the
practice of modern warfare is to hold them as
prisoners, when taken, not to kill them. Maximi-
lian's execution, if justifiable at all, must be justified
by something exceptional in his position, and his
being an alien invader' certainly did not make his
position exceptional."

As a sample of the ironical way in which the
Nation is in the habit of expressing its opinions, we
may quote the following paragraph :—" The shoot-
ing. of Afaximilian's officers still continues. Since
1793, in France, there has hardly ever been such a
glorious vindication of republican liberty against
foreign tyrants. If Mexico is not improved by the
present process it must be a very remarkable coun-
try—that is if such a brave people needs improve-
ment. It is not every nation that would have the
courage to kill an unarmed emperor and scores of
generals inside the same month, read and publish
their dying letters to their wives, and embalm their
bodies for sale to their relatives. What makes this
great work all the more interesting is •that it is in-
tended as a protest against the ' Church Party,'
which has been at the bottom of all Mexican
troubles."

At the same time we cannot more clearly than
in its own words show what its opinions on this
subject really are :

"Those who disapproved of the execution, amongst
whom we count ourselves, did so because they felt
it would bring great discredit on the Republican
cause ; because they thought it ietnrhdewichaditiscehdapdtpliteseagrrcaaoncncese-
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of which will be the first and only sure sign that
the country has entered on a process of regenera-
tion ; and because they felt that Maximilian's death
was unnecessary, and that, being unnecessary, there
were in the circumstances under which he ascended
the throne, and in his character and antecedents,
abundant reasons for treating him with indulgence.
He enjoyed the extraordinary distinction of being
a humane and liberal Hapsburg, of having filled
many places of responsibility under the worst
government in Europe, not with credit only, but with
great benefit to all who came under his influence or
control ; and there is nothing in the code of interna-
tional morality as it now exists to make his attempt,
under all the circumstances, to reign over Mexico a
snecessaryr
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act his dteinauthsu,
and
the performances in which the Mexican leaders have
been indulging since his death, furnish, absurd as it
may seem, a better justification of his attempt than
anything in his life, because they go to show that
whatever his faults may have been he wai a civilised
man trying to reign over barbarians. To be killed
by such a political antagonist as Escobedo, and in
order to make way for such a regime as is uow esta-
blished in Mexico, would entitle a far worse man
than Maximilian to some of the honours of martyr-
dom in the eyes of a vast number of good people
who thought his coming to Mexico wholly wrong."

In conclusion, we can truly state that instead of
the Nation justifying Mexico in retaining or .Qelling
Maximilian's remains, there is not a newpaper in
Christendom that regards either course with more
contempt and disgust.

C ENT-GARDEN PRO MENADE'
CONCERTS.
COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.
EVERY EVENING, at EIGHT.
Under the solo Direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL.
Band of 100 Performers.
This Evening the Programme will include—Songs by
Madame Jetty Treffz and Mr. W. Morgan ; Solos : Piano-
forte, by Mr. J. M. Wehli ; Violin, Mr. H Weist Hill;
Violoncello, Mr. E. Howell ; Cornet, Mr. Reynolds ; and
Bassoon, Mr. J. Winterbottom ; the grand Selection from
"Der Freischutz ;" Overtures, " Tannhausser" and "Le
Pre aux Clercs ;" Valso, Polka, and Quadrille ty Johann
Strauss, &c.
Conductors--Signor BST TESINI and Herr JOHANN
STRAUSS.
To-morrow, an Orchestral and Choral Valse (for the first
time in England).
Thursday, a SPOHR Night.
Admission, One Shilling.

THEATRE ROY AL DRURY-LANE.
Sole L sesee and Manager, Mr. F. B. ChattcrtGa.
The public is respectfully informed this Theatre will Open
for the Autumn Dramatic Season on Saturday, Sept. 21.
On SATURDAY, Sept. 2', Monday, Sept. 23, and during
the week, her Majesty's servants will perform an adaptation,
by Bayle Bernard, of Goethe's romantic Play of FAUST.
Principal characters ty Mr. Phelps; Messrs. Edmund Pheli,s,
HarcJurt, Warner, Birtleman. Webb, Johnstone, Temple,
Moreland; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Mesdames Vandenhoff,
Gratton, Brougham, dro.
At the conclusion of the Play on Saturday, Sept, 2% the
NATIONAL ANTHEM will be sting.
To conclude with each evening, for the first time at this
theatre, Pocock's romantic Drama of THE MILLER AND
MI6 MAN. Characters by Messrs. Ryder, E. Phelps, Har-
court, Barrett, Rouse ; Mesdames Edith Stuart., Stafford, and
Gratton.
Scenic department under the direction of Mr. William
Beverley, Musical director, Mr. J. H. Tully-
Stage-manager, Mr. Edmund Stirling.
Doors open at halt-past 6, commence at 7 o'clock.
Box-office open from 10 till 5 daily.

1111EATRE ROYAL, lIAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manager. Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, ROMEO AND JULIET. Messrs.
Chippendale, Howe, Rogers, Compton, Kendal, Braid, Clark,
White, Coe. Vincent, Weathersby, &c. ; Mesdames Chippen-
dale, Scott-Siddons, Laws, Coleman, &c.
After which, TO PARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE
POUNDS. Mr. Buckstone.
Concluding with PERFECTION. Mr. Kendal and Miss
lone Burke.