The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, URSDAY EVENING, MAY 24, 1866.

FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.-
The I:IIIRTEKNTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of
PICTURES, the Contributions of Artists of the French and
Flemish Schools, IS OPEN THIS DAY.

Admission, is. Catalogue, 6d.

IN TERNATIONAI
Exim

HORTICULTURAL
lITION.

Tickets may be obtained
and at—

of the principal Nurserymen,

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happen s, New Bond-street.
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side.
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Bond-street.
Mitchell's, Bond-street.

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change.
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Westerton's, St. George's-

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CRYSTAL PALACE. -NEXT SATURDAY
HER ISIAJESIY'S BIRTHDAY.

GRAND OPER %. CONCERT, AFTERNOON PROME-
NADE, and Rockhilla Gardens, with the Great Wistaria in
full bloom. .

Half-Crown Tickets of Admission and the Guinea Season
Tiekets now ready at the Palace, at Exeter Hall, and the
following agents :
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Hall; Barker, Lower Norwood; Chappel, 50. New Bond-
street; Todhun ter. 22, Gresham-street; Blagrove. 52, New
Bond-street ; Duff, 20, Oxford-street ; Good, 60, Moorgate-
street ; Griffith, Camberwell-green; Hammond, 5, Vigo-
street; Hopwoad and Crewe, 42. New Bone-street; Prowse,
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Exchange; Marratt and Short, 62. King William-street :
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terrace, Kensington ; Key, 18, Westbourne-place, W.
NOTE. —Mdlle. Titiens, Signor Mongini, and other artistes
of her Majesty's Theatre, and Herr *hell, will appear at this
Concert Mettle. Titiens will sing the part of Lorne, in
Mendelssohn's opera of that name.

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secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

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TRA NOVELTIES for the WFIITSUN WEEK. Ope-
ratic Selections performed by Misses Russell, Barry, Fitz-
Renry; Messrs. A. St. Albyn, Hush, Bury, Dalton, and
Tivoli, with full band and chorus, conducted by Mr. F.
J ONGHMANS.

Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the most talented Foreign and English artistes.
The great Negro Trio, Joe Brown (his first appearance),
and Messrs. Duriah and Davies.

Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxcs, with separate entrance, 10s. 6d.
Open every evening at 8.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
BAKER-STREET, WHITSIIN HOLIDAYS.

NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m,

Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
:Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orehestra, Signor L. CURTL
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock. •
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

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and the Terrible, man-of-war, which accompanied
the expedition last year. But in 1865 Government
lent two ships, and it is naturally asked why only
one is sent now. The answer given--and it is not
satisfactory—is that Government has not this year
a sufficient number of vessels at its disposal. But
the five ships, at the time the splice is made
at Valentia, will present a sufficiently imposing
appearance, and though the William Cory will
perhaps not accompany the expedition all the way,
the four vessels engaged are so very efficient that
they will probably be equal to all that will be re-
quired of them. Captain Moriarty, it is believed,
will again lend his invaluable assistance in looking
after the compasses, and he will be assisted in this
department by Mr. Moodie, a young officer who
last year fairly earned his spurs in this difficult
department. Mr. Beckwith will go again in charge
of the ship's engines, and while Mr. De Sauty has
been replaced by Mr. Willoughby Smith as elec-
trician, Mr. Canning and Mr. Clifford will be once
more in charge of the all-important task of laying
the cable. Nor will it be their, fault if anything

should happen amiss. The care with which Mr.
Clifford has superintended the manufacture of the
cable is beyond all praiSe ; but the cable has not
been the only work done at Greenwich. They have
there made the grappling ropes, which are twenty
miles in length. The rope is seven and a half
inches in circumference, and is made of the
same strands as the cable, the • wire being of
steel, /tinning through the Manilla. There will
be, aka; five miles of buoy ropes for temporary use,
and not, as some of the public appear to imagine,
for the purpose of anchoring the buoys. It may be
interesting to state that the last heard of the buoys
of 1865, then intended to be of use only for three
or four days, was from the master of a French
vessel, who reported that he had met them in the
neighbourhood of Madeira, no doubt bent upon a
visit to New Zealand or intending to astonish the
minds of some Patagonian savages. The grappling
irons will be similar to those of last year but heavier,
Three kinds will be used—grapnels simple ; grap-
nels in which the cables when caught will be jam-

med ; and grapnels provided with a sharp edge on
which the weight of the cable will cut itself when
needful.

The machinery for paying out, which was so much
admired, and which did its work so well last year,
has been taken to pieces and will be set up again in
a few days with stronger frames and drums. The
old jockies and breaks will again be used, and all
will be ready before the time named for the recep-
tion of the last of the cable. But the interest will

this year centre in the new picking-up machinery.
Hauling iu will be done either at the head or the
stern if hauling in should become necessary. These
machines will have double drums, and will be made
of enormous strength. They are entirely new, and
are calculated to work up to a strain of 16 tons, and
will not give way under a pressure of considerably
more than 30 tons. They are specially constructed
with a view to be worked by a double cylinder
trunk steam engine of 40-horse power nominal. The
dynamometers—or indicators of the strain—•for the
picking-up as well as for the paying-out machinery,
will be fitted with adjusting weights, and will have
larger scales attached, so that more delicate observa-
..

tious will be attainable this year than it was possible
to take last summer. Indeed there does not appear
to have been overlooked the smallest improvement
which it was possible to conceive. It will not be
forgotten that last year, after the broken cable had
been grappled, it was more than once lost by the
imperfection of the forging of the swivels. The
heads of the swivel bolts were pulled through the
eyes, as wire is drawn through a die, and so part of
the grappling rope came up without the prize. This
year the swivel bolts have been forged with special
care. There is no fear of any such accident this
time ; and indeed there is little danger of any acci-
dent at all—or at least of any irreparable accident.
If, after the explanations which have already been
offered, any one should doubt that Captain Anderson
will be able to find the spot on which lies the lost
end of last year's cable, let it be said that it is more
than probable he will begin to grapple within a
quarter of a mile of the spot that he selects on the
chart for the purpose. The perfection to which
observations have now been brought can only be
cruically tested on such an occasion as this ; and
Captain Anderson and,Captain Moriarty are as well
qualified as any two men in the world to mark the
position on the surface of the sea directly beneath
which lies the little line destined to bear between
England and America messages to the speed of
which the usual simile of a flash of lightning is as
the speed-of an old-fashioned mail coach to that of
" the Wild Irishman" express who carries the Dub-
lin mails. But the speed of transmission through
the cable known to be within the compass of elec-
trical skill is likely before long to be further in-
creased. It may, without any breach of confidence,
be stated, that experiments are now being con-
ducted with a view to accelerating the rate at which
messages pass through the cable. We believe that
more than one plan is now undergoing a test, and
that the results are very satisfactory. No doubt
plenty of work will be found for both the cables that
may be laid ; and if the present rapidity of trans-
mission can be increased it will go far to postpone
the necessity for a third cable.—Herald.

The French Army Abandoning Mexico.

(From the New York Daily Evening Bulletin.)
A recent Parisian letter, in speaking of the mission
of Baron Saillard to Mexico, in connection with an
arrangement for the withdrawal of French troops,
says definitely that advices have been received from
Mexico by way of Havana, which leave very little
doubt that some 5,000 men will return to France in
the latter part of May. This news had the effect to
produce a ride in the French funds. And in the ad-
dress of the Corps Legislatif to tbe Emperor on 19th
Feb. the withdrawal of the French troops froth
Mexico was spoken of as an eventpreviously decided
upon. It may therefore be considered, so far as
France is concerned, that Mexico will receive no fur-
ther assistance, but at our latest dates volunteers
were being enrolled in Austria, Belgium, &c., to
take the place of French soldiers to be withdrawn.
This new phase in Mexican affairs will relieve the
United States from all apprehension of war with
any European Power, for assistance henceforth will
be individual rather than national, and will probably
result in Mexico being governed by her own citizens
at no distant day, for it is not likely Maximilian
will be able for much length of time to draw around
his throne European adventurers in sufficient num-
bers to sustain him. Money will be required in large
amounts after the departure of the French to pay a
mercenary army, and it will be most difficult of at-
tainment, either by loan or taxation. From present
indications it is likely that the attempt to establish
an empire in Mexico, without any active interfer-
ence from the United States, must fail. It has been
evident from the period when it was understood
that the rebellion would prove unsuccessful that
Napoleon could not sustain himself in Mexico. It
was considered only as a matter of time, but it was
feared that the National Government, by press-
ing affairs too rapidly, might place France in
such a position that war would be inevitable.
It became necessary, therefore, to permit Napoleon
to withdraw his troops, under an assumption that
he had finished his mission, when the whole
world knew that he had accomplished nothing. He
had, instead of reducing the Mexican debt due to
French citizens, incurred in addition a very large i
national debt.

It is as well understood to-day as it was during
the American rebellion that Napoleon sent his army
to Mexico to take advantage of eventualities which
were expected to arise in the Southern States. He
supposed he could establish an ally on our borders,
and at the proper season step in and appropriate
Texas, and perhaps Louisiana, making of them de-