The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

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BALMORAL, Tuesday.
The Queen, accompanied by Prince and Princais
Christian and Princess Louise, went out yesterday
Dr. M'Leod had the honour of dining with the
Queen and the Royal family last night.
Mr. Helps left the Castle yesterday.

THE ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN.—The Inver-
ness Advertiser, in announcing the intended visit of
the Prince and Princess of Wales to Dunrobiu Castle, says
—"According to present arrangements, their royal high"
nesses and suite will make an early start from Abergeldie
on Monday morning next, and by means of special trains
on the different railways on the line of route—the Do'
side, Great North, and Highland railways—the intention
is to reach Inverness about two o'clock. Whether or not
the royal party are to luncheon at the Station Hotel has
not been positively decided, but the probability is that
half an hour wilr be Apt apart for that purpose, and they
will leave here about three o'clock for Bonar-bridge, ar"
riving at the present terminus of the railway system at or
near five in the afternoon. Here carriages will be in readi"
ness, carrying the distinguished visitors to Dunrobin Castle
in time to partake of a late dinner."

His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
and the Marchioness of Abercorn, accompanied by the
Ladies Georgiana, Alberta, and Maud Hamilton, and
Lord Claud J. Hamilton, M.P., left the Viceregal Lodge,
Dublin, on Tuesday last, for Coolattin, county Wicklow,
on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Fitzwilliam, where
they aro expected to stay till the 25th inst.
The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough are
entertaining a select party at Blenheim Park, near Wood-
stock.

The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have made
great preparations for the approaching visit of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales at Dunrobia
Castle, and a distinguished circle will assemble there at the
invitation of the duke and duchess to meet the Prince and
Princess.

The Earl Cowper and Lady Florence Cowper will
leavo his lordship's shooting lodge in Inverness-shire early
next wodk for the south.

The Earl and Countess of Longford have arrived
at their seat in Ireland from London.
The Earl of Wemyss and March left Invermark
Lodge on Saturday last for the south. On Wednesday his
lordship brought down two fine stags, right and left, and
also another on Thursday.
Lord and Lady Alfred Paget have left the
Countess (Dowager) of Listowel's seat in Ireland for their
seat in Norfolk.

Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford, Sir
Thomas Munro, Colonel and Mrs. Campbell, and the AC'
countant-General and Mrs. Russell, are among the guests
of the Earl and Countess of &afield at Balmacaan,:N.B.

DRAMATIC CLUB V. MUSIC HALLS.—This match
,erminated yesterday, at the Kennington Oval, in a draw.
Subjoined is the score :—Dramatic Club, first innings;
118; second innings, 75. Music Halls, first innings, 61;
second innings, 34.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—The annual choral festival of
the Tonic Sol-Fa Association, which has been established
for the promotion of vocal music in schools, homes, and con
gregations, was held yesterday at the Crystal Palace. The
great orchestra was crowded to iy utmost capacity by the
performers on the occasion, who constituted a considerable
assembly in themselves, numbering as many as 4,500, while
the centre transept was equally densely occupied by thou-
sands of spectators. The choir had been selected from a
largo number of evening classes and schools in London
and its neighbourhood in which the tonic sol-fa method is
taught. All the singers who took part in the festival had
obtained the elementary certificate of proficiency, one of
the requirements of which being to sing promptly and cor-
rectly at first sight the pupil's own part in an ordinary psalm
tune which had not 'been seen before the time of trial•
From this it will be conjectured that the performances
were characterised by unusual harmony and correctness.
When it is taken into consideration that the pieces sung
yesterday were then for the first time executed by the
collective body who formed the choir, it is not too much to
say that their efforts were attended by a most respectable
success. At the opening of the concert the National
Anthem was given with striking accuracy and vigour,
according to an arrangement by Mr. Henry Leslie. It is
impossible within the limits of a short notice to men-
tion the details of the performance of all the pieces
in the programme, which contained as many as 20
part songs, glees, hymns, and choruses. In,the first part,
however, the singing of " Vital Spark of Heavenly
Flame" (Harwood), "Then round about the Starry Throne"
(Handel), and the anthem, "Blessed be Thou" (Kent), de-
serve especial commendation. In the second part, the glee,
"Away! away! in early Day" (Webbe) and the part song
"Departure" (Mendelssohn), were received with great
favour, while the glee from "Oberon," "Fairy-land"
(Stevens), was given with such force and sweetness that it
was uproariously redemanded. The concert concluded
with the laughing chorus "Don't tickle me" (Martini), and
the promoters of the re-union have every reason to feel
satisfied at its results.—One Shilling Day, Wednesday,
Sept. 19.—Admissions on payment, 17,313; ditto by season
tickets, 5,634; total, 22,947.
Conlin/v. of A CONVICT WARDER.—Yesterday
Mr. W. H. Nicholson, the magistrate at the Chatham police
court, was occupied for some time in the investigation of a
charge preferred against George Brown, one of the warders
at the Chatham convict establishment, St. Mary's, who had
been taken into custody on suspicion of having for some
considerable time past been carrying an an extensive system
of obtaining money from the relatives of convicts, on the
fraudulent pretence of conveying it to prisoners to enable
them to make purchases of food and tobacco. From the
statement of. Mr. E. Turner, chief warder at the prison, it
appeared that the prisoner had been suspected for about
18 months past of fraudulently obtaining various sums of
money from the friends of convicts, but although every
endeavour was made to bring home the offence to him, so
cleverly did he carry on his nefarious plans that it was
only a few days since that detection ensued. The case now
taken against the accused was that of having received the
sum of ono sovereign from the friends of a convict named
Callaghan, alias Stephens, who was under sentence of 7
years' penal servitude for a burglary committed at a silver-
smith's at Cheltenham. Evidence was adduced to show
that the prisoner had carried on a correspondence with the
mother of Callaghan, the letters apparently coming from
her son, requesting her to send him £3. After receiving
the letters, the answers to which were requested to be ad-
dressed to "B. G.," to be left at a grocer's shop, New
Brompton, Chatham, where the accused called for them, an
appointment was made with the prisoner at the Lord
Nelson publichouse. The prisoner on that occasion stated
that the money would be expended in procuring the con-
vict "extra grub" and tobacco, and on these pretences a
sovereign was handed to him. The convict himself was
examined by Mr. Nicholson, and swore most distinctly
that so far from having authorised the prisoner to write
the letters produced for him, he had never once spoken to
the prisoner, and that the letters were not in his hand-
writing. The prisoner, who made no answer whatever to
the charge, although he had cross-examined the various
witnesses with the endeavour to show that they were mis- •
-taken in his identity, was committed for trial.

THE RIVER LEA.—Yesterday morning Mr. J•
Humphrey; Middlesex coroner, resumed at the Spotted Dog
Tavern, Poplar, an inquiry relative to the death, through
alleged impurity of water, of John Davis, aged 20 years
The deceased was mate of the barge Medway, which on
Thursday, the 6th inst., entered Bow-creek. The deceased
went on shore, and got a bucket of water from a pump•
Later he got a second bucketful from tho same pump, and
then a man told him the water would poison him. Some of
the water was boiled for the breakfast of himself and the.

captain of the barge. He also drank some of the unboiled
water from the bucket. At 3 o'clock he was seized with

violent cramps. He was taken to a doctor and treated, but
next day he died after great suffering. When he entered
Bow-creek he was a very healthyrobust young man. soma
of the water from the pump was sent, by order of the co-
roner, to Dr. Letheby, for analysation. The following i°
the Professor's report :—" The water contained 61.5 grain!
of saline matter per imperial gallon, besides 2.8 grains 0'
organic matter, and much ammonia. The saline matter, as
well as the organic, are chiefly derived from surface drain--

age, and the presence of ammonia indicates percolation
from a sewer or cesspool. The water is quite unfit for
drinking purposes, and, from the nature of the pollution, i 5
very likely to have occasioned choleraic disease, especial'y
if drank without previous boiling." Mr. M. Brownfield
said that deceased died of cholera, without doubt, arising
from impurity of the water. The Bow-crook was the very
worst part of the River Lea, and being a tidal stream, its
flow affected the surface wells of the district. Witnesg

knew a house into the cellar of which the tidal waters Pot'
colated, auctfrom which it had to be regularly pumped °u!'
The coroner having summed up, the jury returned a v°l-
- That the deceased died from choleraic disease, oce,"

sioucd by drinking polluted water drawn from a certain
pump," and they recommended that the attention of the
proper authorities should b 3 drawn to tho danger of leas'.

ing such a source of disease accessible to the public.
tiTHE HACKNEY WORKHOUSE.—At the meeting al
the Board of Guardians of the parish of Hackney, held yes-
terday afternoon at the workhouse, Mr. Turner in the chair'
the subject of the recent inquiry relative to the alleged in-
humanity of Mr. and Mrs. Driscoll, the master and matron
of that establishment, was spoken of. No steps were taken
for rescinding or confirming the suspension of these officials'
whose conduct, it would be remembered, was attributed 11.
the coroner's jury to an error of judgment. It was decided
to await the action of the Poor-law Board in the matter,
and that body has been communicated with accordingly