The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-11 00:00:00

HAY.

SMITIMELD.—Moudow hay, XI Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£5 Os to £6 6s Od ; and straw, £2 Os to .£2 lOs per load,
tt. fair demand. -

CumnEttLAND.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 5s Od; clover,
£5 Os to £6 6s ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load.
Supply only moderate.
WHITECIIAPEL.—Meadow hay, £4 Os to £5 5s ; cloves,
£5 Os to £6 lOs Od ; and straw, £2 Os to £2 lOs per load,
Trade inactive.

AN UNEXPECTED DISCOVERY.—About one o'clock
this morning, a constable arrested two sailors on
Donegal Quay for being drunk and disorderly. On bring-
ing them to the police-office, they each gave their names
as Jack Stitt, father and son, the alleged parent being ap-
parently about 40, and the son 22 years of age. Head-con-
stable Lamb, while entering the charges, scrutinised the
prisoners closely, and, with the keenness of a practised
officer, detected something in the appearance of the
younger prisoner which induced him to subject the
young sailor to an examination by the female searcher.
Her report confirmed the head-constable's suspicion,
that the jolly young tar was a female. Denial of
her sex was no longer possible, but she still stoutly
maintained that her companion was her father, an assertion
hou ever, which there is good and sufficient reason for dis-
crediting. They report that the name of their vessel is the
Liberty, of Ayr, which was to sail early this morning from
Whitehouse. The younger prisoner's" make-up" as a sailor
in dress and figure, and cut and disposition of the hair, is
remarkably good. But her voice, which has a strong Scotch
accent, has a feminine tone, which, in conjunction with
certain other peculiarities, would lead a shrewd observer
like the head-constable to suspect her sex. The prisoners
be brought up at the police-court to-day.—Northern
Whig,
An incident which has just occurred at - St.
Pancras workhouse shows the need of some further reform
there. A man who gave his name as Hymus lately applied
at the workhouse to see his wife, who, he stated, was con-
fined in the insane ward. He was told there was no such
woman there, and was shown the book containing the
names of the inmates to convince him of the fact. He
was, however, still unconvinced, and was so very importu-
nate that an officer took him into the insane ward to show
him there was no such woman there. The scene that took
place, however, on his entering the ward convinced the
officer that the man's story was true. It appeared that the
woman was admitted in February last, on an order of Dr.
Saul, but there was no record on the books of her admis-
sion or name, although a few months ago the guardians
made a call of the house.
SOMNAMBULISM—On Tuesday night last a boy
named Alger, about Id years of ago, son of Mr.
Alger, dealer, of Brandon, narrowly escaped injury through
an unfortunale propensity for sleep walking. He had come
to Bury with his unele on Tuesday evening, in order to be
in readiness fur the market on the following day, and_
stayed at the Tollgate Inn, Northgate-road. He went
to bed at ten o'clock, and his uncle remained up some
two or three hours later, and then got into the same
bed in which the lad was lying sound asleep. All remained
quiet until about two o'clock in the morning, when it was
found that the boy had transferred himself from the bed to
the road below. Some of the inmates of the house having
been aroused, he was let in, and on an examination
being made into the circumstances, it seemed that he
had got up unnoticed by his uncle, removed the look-
ing-glass from the dressing table to the bed, then
mounted the table, drawn down the upper sash,
and leaped into the road, from a height of some 16 or 18
feet. All this was done in his sleep, but lie was rather
unceremoniously awakened by the shock occasioned by
coming somewhat violently in contact with the ground.
He alighted upon his feet, and did not appear to have suf-
fered much injury, though he was no doubt severely
shaken. It seems that he is rather given to fits of som-
nambulism, and had on a previous occasion performed a
similar feat.—Bury and Norwich Post.
THE ATLANTIC CABLES—MESSAGE FROM PRESI-
DENT JOHNSON.—At the Liverpool banquet to the
layers of the Atlantic cables a congratulatory message was
forwarded from the chairman to the President of the
United States. Yesterday, at a meeting of the council of
the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, the following reply
was read from President Johnson :—" The President of
the United States reciprocrates the friendly congratula-
tions of the banquet at Liverpool, and trusts that the people
of Great Britain ar,d America may henceforth and for ever
remember that, in the progress of human progress, they
will be held to have been, not alien.tand hostile Powers,
but kindred nations springing from one root, portions of
one race, extending the common principles of liberty and
humanity." The message was sent from Washington by
Mr. Seward to Capt. Hamilton. During a discussion on
this subject, Mr. Paterson pointed out that, so far, Ame-
rica reaped the chief benefit of the telegraphic communica-
tion, for while news or information from America cost large
sums to obtain, the American papers contained daily tele-
gr4l343o Zuropon news.

L I

RE.

Dame Perkins and her Grey Mare•

Illustrated by " Phiz." Sampson Low, and Co.
Pbiz is himself again ! With a comic pencil not
unworthy of his reputation of old, his humorous
fancy hero fairly flies helter-skelter over ditch and
over dale, " thorough brake, thorough briar," in pur-
suit of that very delightful old lady whose adven-
tures are here celebrated, in congenial rhyme, by
Mr. Lindon Meadows. Dame Perkins, thanks to
Lindon Meadows's pen and Hablot Browne's pen-
cil, emulates, in a wonderful manner, but with a
trifle more of credit to herself, both in the superior
strength of her bridle-hand and in the greater excel-
lence and tenacity of her seat, the perilous feats
performed in the saddle by that immortal citizen of
London town, John Gilpin the Haberdasher. As the
frontispiece of this most amusing volume, Dame
Perkins is pourtrayed just as he she is about to start
from her farm-house door—little dreaming that she
is bent unconsciously on "running such a rig" as the
sequel shows her to have done, and that, too, trium-
phantly. Black-bonneted, red-cloaked, market
basket on arm, forth sets the old lady, mounted on
her old grey mare, Sal, who soon, while jogging along,
comfortably drops asleep—jogging on still in spite
of her slumbers ! Presently, however, up wakes
the old mare with a vengeance ! Rat-tail rampant
—eggs flying out of basket—red cloak like a banner
—the old mare is on her hindlegs, and the old dame
on her mettle as a horsewoman ! A turn of the leaf,
however, and the cry is fairly " Hark, Forward !'
Or as that " ridiculous fellow" Eugene Rayburn
would say, " With a Heyho chivey- --and like-
wise with a harkforward, harkforward tantivy !"
—the oldmare well up to her work, and the
old Dame, too, for that matter : but otherwise
the black bonnet and red cloak rather in the
way, and the eggs of the market basket just
nowhere ! Our next view of them all is. illus-
trative—rampantly—flyingly,of " The First Jump."
Our next—drenchingly, :draggledly---of their suc-
cessful passage through the "'The Brook." Next
—a la Turpin in his ride to York—the old lady is
seen (her bonnet half off her head, one stocking
rather visible) flying the garter over the five-
barred turnpike gate, to the indignation
and amazement of the toll-taker. To crown
all and to perfect all completely in this humor-
ous record of the " strange eventful history" of
Old Dame Perkins and her grey mare, the old girl
comes splendidly in at the death in her own farm-
yard, where we behuld the huntsman presenting her
with the brush as an honour well won and nobly
well deserved. As to a table-book of merry rhymes
and brightly coloured illustrations in Hablot
Browne's lightest but happiest manner, commend us
to this laughter-moving ditty about Dame Perkins,
who is a sort of a homely Mazeppa and Gilpin and
Turpin of the feminine gender all rolled into one,
and sent out a-hunting on the back of an old gray
mare.

MUDIE'S LIST OF NEW BOOKS is as sure a guide
to the Current Literature of the age as Bradshaw
is to the rail Nay traffic of the month, or Murray to
the chequered routes of the continental tourists.
illudie's List, however, is so far better than Brad-
shaw's Guide that it is comprehensible upon the
instant, affording the reader who consults it a bird's-
eye view, almost at a glance, over a prospect which
is at once immense and wonderfully picturesque.
A catalogue more suggestive, who could wish for?
It goes directly to the point aimed at. It tells us
what the new books are—good, bad, and indifferent.
But no—the bad will be looked for iu vain there ;
for instance, no mention at all being made of Mr.
Swinburne's suppressed volume of libidinous verse.
It catalogues the works, therein mentioned, more-
over, under two heads—under their titles respec-
tively, and under the names of their authors, when-
ever those author's names are not concealed under
the anonymous. And though .3ludie's List, after
all, is, to all intents and purposes, no more than a
mere Catalogue, it is one that has about it the very
flavour and aroma of literature.

COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE.--"Naval Affairs
during the last Seven Years" is resumed, and, we
suppose, finished in this number. 'The arguments
are much the same, though the writer cannot, and
indeed does not attempt to, escape from the admis-
sion, thr t if much has been done much more has
been left undone by the late " Liberal" Board of
Admiralty. The Duke of Somerset, as First Lord,
and Lord Clarence Paget, as Secretary, had much
their own way. The one dictated and the other
justified that, " whatever is, is right." It is an old
saying among sailors that there is no Sunday in seven
fathoms water, and it was the rule or at least the
practice at the Admiralty that the Board could do
no wrong. So that many-coloured maxim passed
from the Board to the Dockyard, and in due time
got well seasoned into the system. So much was
this the case, that an " Old Salt" bet his week's grog
—the most precious item in his mind's eye—that the
foreman of the dockyard could not tell a bit of
British oak from a piece of old junk, nor could the
First Lord, for, though the High Admiral of seamen,
he-was but a landsman after all. And the Old
Salt won his bet and saved his grog, for he con-
densed a piece of salt beef into so hard a substance
that it required a chisel to discern the grain of the
wood which the foreman mistook for English oak,
for he could not tell one from the other. So it is
with the system of the Board. " My Lords" have so
ingrained their habit of irresponsibility into the old
ship that every successive board becomes a chip of the
block, and the omnipotent will of the board is a com-
mand not to be questioned, however common sense
may hesitate a doubt as to the soundness of all the
ship's timbers. Our present advocate takes shelter
under some plausible truths, and does his best to
shield the doings of the Board, with a pardonable
success. But the same high-handed management,
whether it were right or wrong, carried the day
throughout, and the good of the service was always
set up as a never-failing justification. No doubt the
transition from wood to iron has bothered the heads
of the Board, as it has partly upset " the hands" of
the fleet. But we cannot excuse the obstinacy of
men who would not see what all the world beside ob-
served and believed. Yet their eyes were opened at
the last moment, as a sudden catastrophe is said to
bring people to reason, just in time to note that
the plank is ready for them to walk ; and so what
might have been done years ago to the great saving
of cost was attempted at last at more cost. The
success of the experiment on the Royal Sovereign's
turret covered the unbelievers with confusion. Now
we have a new Board, which we hope will conde-
scend to think and learn for the good of the service
and the satisfaction of the country. The.honour and
safety of England should be paramount to all
party, be its denomination ever so pretentious or ex-
clusive. " The French Navy" is discussed at some
length, but rather in too much of the bombastic
style, for no abuse of our neighbours can add to our
glory. The French build good ships and invent
many things whieh we might copy to our profit, but
their iron-clads are as yet more fitted for fresh
water than for the storms of an unruly Atlantic. In
fact iron ships are but in their " teens." It will take
time to make a good man-of-war out of them.
" Modifications in War caused by Railways and
Breech-loading Rifles," by Capt. W. W. Knollys,
93d Sutherland Highlanders, is a good paper, show-
ing the obvious changes that must take place con-
sequent on the new inventions in military matters.
He illustrates his positions by ingenious diagrams.
" On the Organisation of a British Landwehr," or
universal militia, inscribing a half a million of men
fromlB to3o on a ballotlistsomewhat after the Prus-
sian model, is a bold, and, we must add, a very good
idea. The exposure of our present system is well timed,
and will, we hope, be of service. We commend this
paper to the especial attention of General Peel and
the Horse Guards. But we have no faith in the ac-
ceptance of any plan that will supersede the present
stiff-necked and unnatural system. Red tape is the
prevailing curse of the day, be it in the army or
navy. Nothing but a national calamity will uproot
the system which has cost so much and achieved so
little for the last half a century. There are Several
excellent articles which we have not room to specify
more particularly, such as " The Wounds of Rifle
Bullets in Battle," " Notes on British Light Drill,"
' Adventures of Edmund Leigh," " Recollections
of Sandhurst," and " A Journey, or 'Voyage; from

London to Tonghoo, Burmah," in which there is
much to interest or surprise.
MACMILLAN.—Iienry Kingsley's story, " Silcoto
of Silcotes" is continued in its accustomed strain,
growing perhaps more weird and singular as it pro-
ceeds. The Rev. Archer Gurney contributes some
" Reminiscences of Vienna," which are very well
worth reading at this juncture. " Amateurship" is
the title of a pleasant-enough paper, containing some
sensible remarks on the different degrees of study
necessary for success in art. " Hints on the Organi-
sation of Girls' Schools" treat of some of the diffi-
culties of education. Among the best of the re-
maining Mrs. Norton's story of " Old Sir Douglas"
proceeds at some length, but it is not certainly a
pleasing story, notwithstanding its undoubted talent.

There are several other papers, among the best being
a biographical sketch of Henry Hudson, the navi-
gator, who gave his name to Hudson's Bay.
TILE ST. JAMES'S.—Miss Braddon's novel having
reached its last chapters in the September number,
a new story is commenced in this part. It would
be as yet premature to judge "A Life's Mystery,"
but we very much doubt whether it will equal its
predecessor in ability or interest. " Out of Charity"
is continued, and the fair Eva is allowed to hope
that the whole story of her birth and parentage is an
error. "The Great Composers of the Last Century"
form the subject of a readable paper, especially
attractive to musicians. " Across Ross-shire" gives
a pleasant and graphic account of some wanderings
in the Highlands. " Christ Church, Oxford : its
Past, Present, and Prospective Changes," is the
title of a paper which traces the history of that dis-
tinguished college.

TIIE VICTORIA NIAGAZINE.—The continuation of
the memoir of Madame de Stael contains some in-
teresting extracts from her miscellaneous writings,
and affords some idea of their extent and variety.
" The Propriety of establishing a Female College
of Midwifery" is very ably discussed, and the im-
portance of the study of the English language, as
mental training for the young student, is the subject
of a useful and suggestive paper by Mr. Crompton.
The instalment of M. Laboulaye's treatise on the
Civil and Political Status of the Female Sex, is this
month less dry than usual, since it carries us into
the arena of history, and shows us how the right of
succession to several European thrones was affected
by the laws concerning women. _ _

THE SIXPENNY MAGAZINE.—The usual miscel-
laneous collection of tales, poems, sketches, and
other articles presents itself in this magazine, the
number being, on the whole, somewhat above the
average. " A Walk from Sheffield to Manchester "
and " Language" are among the best of the papers,
being good subjects, and well treated.
THE DAY OF REST.—" The Path of Thorns" is
finished in a satisfactory manner, and the heroine's
unfortunate course is exchanged for a brighter road.
Some entertaining line sketches are met with on
the events of domestic life. " Brompton Cemetery"
figures in the pencillings of suburban cemeteries, and
is interestingly described. " Women of the Bible"
contains a chronicle of Queen Esther. " The Philo-
sophy of an Hour-Glass" is a good sketch.

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Tuesday.

The Queen went out in the morning, accompanied
by Princess Beatrice, and attended by the Mar-
chioness of Ely, and drove in the afternoon, accom-
panied by Princess Christian.

The Duke and Duchess d'Aumale dined with tho
Queen and Royal Family.

His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Austrian Embassy have removed from Chandos House
to 18, Belgrave-square.
The Earl and Countess of Listowel's infant son
and heir was baptised on Tuesday last, on which occasion
a select family party assembled at Kingston House,
Knightsbridge.
,„.The Earl Brownlow will leave town on Saturday
next for Mcntonc.

The Dowager Countess of Lichfield has arrived
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeicy- square, from Tuabridgo

Wells.

The Lord Chancellor will give his customary
breakfast to the judges and leading members of the bar on
the 2d proximo, the first day of Michaelmas Term, at the
noble and learned lord's residence in Eaton-,square.
Previously to the reception of the several judges the
Lord Chancellor will receive the Lord Mayor elect and
the leading civic authorities, when his lordship will sig-
nify the Queen's approbation of the choice made by the
citizens of London of their chief magistrate for the en-
suing year.

Lord and Lady Elcho, since leaving Tunbridge
Wells, have been visiting in Scotland. Lord Elcho, in
consequence of a slight accident, was prevented going to
Brussels to be present with the volunteers, as ho fully
intended to have done.

Major-General Lord George Paget, the inspector-
general of cavalry, is at present in Ireland on a tour of
inspection.
The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers
have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for )Middleton
Park.
Colonel the Hon. Richard and Lady Margaret
Charteris have arrived at their residence in Bruton-street,
from their seat in Suffolk.

Sir Alexander Malet is shortly expected to return
homo from Frankfort.

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Lieutenant-Colonel William Jay, Mr. and Mr s•
John Jay, and the Misses Jay, of New York, have ar-
rived at the Alexandra Hotel, Hyde-park-corner, frovi

Paris.

TIIE NEW ACT FOR THE PURIFICATION OF TO
THAMES.—Yesterday was issued a local act, passed
in the recent session, for the purification of the River
Thames, by the diversion therefrom of the sewage of O
ford, Abingdon, Reading, Kingston, Richmond, Twickery
ham, I sleworth, and Brentford, and for the collection and
utilisation of the sewage. The preamble recites that, under
existing arrangements, the sewage of towns situate on the
River Thames above the metropolis is carried into the
river, and thereby the waters of the river are polluted, an
the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the valley of the
river below these towns are affected, and that it would b°
of great local and public advantage if the sewage was di"
verted from the river. Hence the present act, of 68 sec-
tions, pointing out the mode and manner of its operation'
There are provisions as to the disturbance of the'river, the
depths of the main pipe, also protection to the railways liu"
waterworks that maybe interfered with in carrying out the
act to purify the Thames.
COMMITTAL OF FENIANS FOR STEALING GOVEO'
RENT STORES.—Yesterday the Liverpool magistrates col°
milted for trial at the assizes the four Fenians charged wit'
stealing arms from various Government and volunteer
depots. Some curious evidence was given as to the mode
in which the prisoners communicated with each other 11
gaol, and took a room in a warehouse for the storingc",
the cases of arms, representing that the room was require
u
for the manufacture of gaspiping. One of the prisoner
s 1
who had given a false name, was identified as 111104.,
once been a member of the Liverpool Irish Voluntce'

Brigade.
A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA.—The following is
copy of a report found in a bottle by Mr. Edwar'
Spencer, on the beach at Freshwater, and now lying at
the office of Messrs. Long and Son, ship agents, Yarrnoatb'
I.W. :—" May 3d, 1866, on our way home. The curillPl
is gone. We are a complete wreck. Have seen no
lan
for 72 days. Despair has taken possession of us. Wolle%.
of hope, but lam resigned to my lot. I dare say wo
many kind sympathisers on shore. Good bye to the won
We have experienced a fearful gale.—Captain Pondersoa
t
first mate, J. Depanzie ; second mate, R. P. Marlenteo:
American ship Virgin Mary. P.S.—lf the finder of bl 4
could find the family—Mrs. Ponderson and five childreo-;
he or she would greatly oblige me by telling her our 105
and furniture is in the hands of Mr. Jaisolen, 54, Th°rtr
ton-street, Massachusetts, N.A." lO
A case of some importance was heard at 6
Liverpool Police Court, on Saturday. On the last veY7,
to New York of the National Steam Navigation
pany's ship Virginia, several of the able seamen on boo-lc
were directed to remove some coals for the purpos°
trimming the vessel. The men refused to do the sv°llo
on the plea that it did not come within the range °fitto
duties which they, as able seamen, had been engageL,'to
perform. The consequence was that the captain Undo,
pay steerage passengers for removing the coals, and he.eo,
ducted the cost of the wages of the seamen. The quest
however, was of larger importance than might be suPl)°c ,rci
for it seems that on previous occasions the men en
the Virginia and other steamershad been ordered to rell',.bo
bY:
coals, and that a combination bad been entered into 13'ea
men to refuse to do such work in future. They also declitio
to submit to the deduction of their wages as made bY
captain of the Virginia, and one man summoned the ov,-rea
to recover his full pay. The court decided that able se'l"itl,
were bound to perform all reasonable duties connected ..0$
the navigation of the ship, and that the removal of coals
work which they ought to do if requested.