The Sun.
London, England, 1866-09-25 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, EPTEMBER 25, 1866.

THE WELLINGTON, ST. JAMES'S-STREET
(Entrance 160, Piccadilly).
Set Dinners as usual. The carte varied, choice, and mode-
rate. Turtle, thick and clear, always ready.
The Billiard Rooms now conducted by J. Roberts, the
champion.
Suppers until One a.m.
Elegant Saloon Dining Rooms for Ladies.

T H 0 X F 0 -it D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W. 4 •
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited.

EXTRA NOVELTIES. Operatic Selections performed
by Misses Russell, Barry,slPitzlienry ; Messrs. A. St. Albyn,
flush, Bury, Dalton, and Tivoli, with full band and chorus,
conducted by Mr. F. JONGIIMANB.
Comedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the mo*t talented Foreign and English artistes, in-
cluding Mr. lIA.RRY SIDNEY and Mr. J. W. ADAMS.
Messrs. Duriah and Davies in their Nigger ecceatricit!e•,
c. &c. All Excursionists to London should pay a visit to
this establishment. -

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

Engagement of the talented JULIETTE and JULIA
DEL EPIER RE, Violinists to all the Northern Courts, aged
respectively nine and thirteen years. 11rdlie. Juliette will
also perform a Fantasia on her extraordinary instrument
called the Xilophone, composed of Bois et Faille. They will
appear Every Evening at Nine o'clock.

ARGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND CASINO,
Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
These elegant and popular Rooms, having been entirelyre-
decorated, are now OPEN EVEIiY EVENING for Concert
and Dancing. Conductor, Signor LUG! CURTL Manager,
M. GRENET.

Admission to Promenade, One Shilling.
Reserved Seats, Two Shillings.

AXADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
1111 • BAKER-STREET.

NEW EDITIONS.—A MARRIAGE GROUP of their
Royal Highnesses the PRINCESS HELENA and PRINCE
CHRISTIAN; also a variety of COURT DRESSES of the
most magnificent and costly description. Several life-size
Portrait Models of the most distinguished Men of the Day
are likewise to be seen.

Admittance, ls. ; children, under ten, half-price ; extra
rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.

WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL,
HOLBORN.

Under New Management.
Proprietors Messrs. Sweascy and Holland.

Grand Selections from TROVATO RE and ,MAGBETH by
50 vocalists and a band of 30, conducted by P. Cord.
GEORGE LEYBOURNE, the. Mon Comic, his first
appearance at this HaII—JOLLY HASH, ihe mirthful—
GEORGINA SMITHSON; the Characteristic Singer and
Dancer—EMMA WEST, Burlesque Actress and Serio-Comio
—JAMES 11.1.131MINGS in his Wonderful Globe entertain-
ment—Great Success of the Eighteen STAR MINSTRELS
—W. WEST (Stump Orator), Principal Comedian—Champion
Dancer, JOE ALLEN—Songs, Duets, Glees, and Choruses
by a company of first-class talented artistes never before
heard in Negro Ministrehy.
- Box-office open from tO till 4.
Doors o;en at Seven. Commence at Half-past.

CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast.

CLIOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE.
Wsrehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

THE CULTIVATION of TEA in the East
Indies is an important feature, and the EAST INDIA.
TEA COMPANY have, on account of its great strength and
exquisite flavour, promoted its sale by every means. The
Company are now selling Assam, Cachar, Darjeeling., Sra. at
the reduced duty—viz., from 2s. Bd. to 3s. Bd. per lb , and
China Teas as usual at Is. 4d. per lb. and upwards.—Ware-
houses, No. 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate.

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

"P.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.

London Offices and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C.
Established IBCB. Quotations on application.

VIALKNER'S OLD IRISH WHISKY, " Real
Malt," 19s. per gallon, is sold in bottles and jars, bear-
ing his label and trade mark. Most liberal terms are offered
to the trade for the sale of this genuine old spirit, which is
coming into universal consumption through. England.
For price lists apply at Offices, 14, Strand, London, W.C.
Established in Gratton-street, Dublin, A.D. 17S0.

JAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—l.ohdon Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the " Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, bez to announce that they are able to supply the
trade with their celebrati'd Whiskies, in casks or eases, and
to take orders in bond std for exportation, at their offices, 7,
Printinz-hone-square, London, E.C., the only house in the
square not occupied by the " Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
brincr the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reference to the "Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch 6d. per gallon and Is. per case over the next
best, and ls. 6d per gallon and 58. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old
mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL, 1862.
Sold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &o. &o.

THE " SINGER," New Noiseless Lock-Stitch
FAMILY SEWING MACHINES.
These machines combine all the Latest Improvements, and
are now ou Exhibiti NI for the first time. being an improve-
ment upon Singer's celebrated "Letter A" Family ...sewing
Machine, of which over One Hundred and Eighty Thousand
have been sol I in all parts of the world. Inspection in-
vited.
Purchasers desirous of securing the best machines yet
brought out should not fail to see them. Cata od,ues poet
free.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
Proprietors and Manufacturers of the world-renowned
"Singer" Sewing Machines.
Chief Office in the United Kingdom, 147, Cheapside,
London.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY ROME. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, w.c.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£B,OOO, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by

WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROWS NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
week. Tha poor
ndition
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
s ts, ar ea
re given
admitted,
being that
fromß rßreakfasts,
a
all parts
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
aro, for want accommodation, refusodadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has boon raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D.,1N0, 22,
lobasbury-ciauo, E.O.

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I CLOTH OVERCOATS are patronised by Travellers all over
1 the world.
LADIES' WATERPROOF TWEED CLOAKS, One
Guinea.

H. 3. and D. NICOLL,
114 to 120, Regent-street, W. ; 22. Cornhill, B.C. ;
10, Hostel- strett, Manchester; and
50, Bold-street, L.verpool.

LOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOO NI PASTIC is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price la 64—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street, London.

QPANISII FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CAN rHA.II,IDES OIL. which speedily
produces whiskers and Wickens hair, as 6d, 5s 6d, and iOs 6d;
sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 shimps.— AL MX. ROSS, 218,
High ttolborn, London, and all Chemists. •

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHI ROPO.
This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s ; sent by post for 60 stamps.
—248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

JTAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALE]. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 35 6d, 5s 6d, and iOs 6d ; sent free for 54, 84. and 144 stamps.
—Had of all Chemists. . •

CIREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
V 1 ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in effect. Price 3s 6d, 58 6d, and 108 6d ; sent by post
for 54, 84, and 141 stamps ; and all Chemists.

HAIR DESTROYER.-148,- High Holborn,
London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes
superfluns" hair from the face, neck. and arms, without effect
to the skin. Price 3s 6d, be 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent for 54, 84,
and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists.

'DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the
skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S
VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal-
lowness, dee. 2s 9d and 7s ad ; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.
—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Cue-
mists.

lIAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the
head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven
or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains
so by an occasional usimr. 10s 8d ; sent for stamps.—ALEX.
ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

Just published, 2d ; sent by the author for 3 stamps,
UGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet
descriptive of articles and means used for improving
the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 218, • High Holborn,
London.

PHINTING.—TO PROPRIETORS OF
NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print-
ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c, done on exceed-
ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing
Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of
particulars, with •stamped directed envelope for reply.
Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-
row, Savoy, Strand, W.C.

of any one class. It is not the voice of a majority,
or the hand of one great man. It-is not the power
of wealth, or the force of numbers, or the just
influence of commanding talents and philosophic
theories. It is not the oneness of sentiment by
which a great orator may bind together the hearts of
thousands. It is not'the voice of the preacher as he
argues sublime precepts on sacred authority. It is
no one thing. It is the conclusion men arrive at as
they look at one another face to face, and with the
fullest possibleknowledge of one another's characters,
and circumstances, and opinions, interchange argu-
ments on matters of practical import. Wherever
this is found there is English life, whether in the
halls of Westminster or in the humblest vestry-room.
The boast of England, and certainly its wisdom and
its strength, are free utterances ; that is, the free
utterances of men who dare to look each other in
the face, to meet eye with eye, and tongue with
tongue. The battles of the constitution are in Par-
liament, and, compared with them, all the public
meetings in the country, though good in their way,
and with their use, are but holyday making, mere
parades, scenes on a prepared stage. Our own re-
lations must be much more with the Legislature than
with any such system of one-sided demonstrations.
We appreciate them, and hope ever to do full justice
to them. If it is to depend on us, not a good word
spoken in them shall ever fall to the ground. We
reverence them as a national iastitntion. But we can
never see more than they claim, and what they claim
is only the one-sided utterance and recognition of
sentiments and facts occupying either very debatable
ground or cumbering the mere approach to the
grand argument( before us. -We should doubt whether
it be at all possible for the platform ever to gain a
more deliberative and Parliamentary character, nor
is it necessary. We have a free Parliament and a
free press, and can well allow the platform to retain
its old one-sided character. In the lines it has chosen
for itself it has still much to do ; it may contribute
materials and foster opinion, and even hasten the
settlement of Reform.

ANGLO -AMERICAN TlMES.—Foreigners accuse
the English of making a parade of Free Trade
while their institutions show little of the prin-
ciples they profess. Free Trade is advocated so
far as it suits the interests of England, who boasts
her enlightenment for the very freedom by which she
increases her gains. The free import of food abso-
lutely required, and the free export of the manufac-
tures which enables her to pay, is the extent of her
Free-Trade principles. England is a country of
close professions and close oligarchies. Notwith-
standing its eternal base of truth, the Church of
England sank to the lowest ebb through its exclu-
siveness. No matter how high the enthusiasm,
how clear the call, there was neither lot nor part in
the English Ministry to the aspirant not educated
at one of our universities and qualified for ordina-
tion through set forms. Had St. Paul existed in
the days of Wesley there was no place in the
Church for him. High talent and religious fervour
were driven to Dissent, which, but for the illibe-
rality of our institutions, would have been a tower
of strength to the Church. A heaven-born general
could only command in the British army who bad
served in that force as an ensign. No military
genius could be used in saving England in an ex-
tremity outside the regular grades of our land
forces. The heaven-born genius must be born with
a silver spoon in his mouth, or there is scarcely any
combination of accidents by which he can attain the
rank at an age to make the position useful to his coun-
try. England is covered with guild societies and crafts
so exclusive that all beyond them are outsiders.
Last week we reviewed a pamphlet written by Dr.
Hunter on the proposed " Medical Acts Amend-
ment Bill." The General Medical Council desire
to add two clauses to the act which would practi-
cally exclude all physicians not educated in Eng-
land from practising in the kingdom. The effect of
these clauses would be to make it an offence against
common law for a physician regularly qualified by a
foreign or colonial university to prescribe for a pa-
tient. Even the assumption of the title granted by
the university would render the practitioner liable
to a fine. There are in the United Kingdom 19
bodies qualified to issue licences for the practice of
medicine. Without a licence from one of these, no
foreign physician, however celebrated, could legally
practise here. The physician who attains abroad to
the greatest eminence would be unable, under this
law, to carryhis talents to the wider field of London
without returning to school and submitting to the
examination for medical students. Abroad the
English physician is received on equal terms by the
native practitioners, and the act professes to extend
the English licenses so as to be operative in all our
colonies. Thus, while it bars a Canadian
physician from practising in England, it places
the English physician on equal terms with a Colo-
nial physican in his own country. We are not
aware that any peculiar gifts have been 'bestowed
on British medical men—that their interests are
keener, their study deeper, or their practice more
extensive. if it were so they would have little to
fear from competition, while they might elevate to
a higher grade the schools of medicine abroad.
Dr. Hunter shows the comparative value of
Canadian, American, and British Diplomas, from
which he would argue that the reverse of superiority
is really the case.
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF CANADIAN, AMERICA; AND
BRITISH DIPLOMAS.

Canadian American Royal Royal
University of Coll. of Coll. of
Curriculum. New York. Physicians. Surgs.
Sessions. Sessions. Sessions. Sessions
Anatomy 2 full 2
Chemistry 2
MateriaMedica .. 2
Theory &practice
•
of medicine .... 2 2
Surgery 2 2 1 2
Midwifery & dis-
eases of women

and children ... 2
Judging by this table the Canadian and American
are superior to the English in attendance at medi-
cal lectures. Both in Canada and in the United
States a thorough examination is required in all
branches. The Royal College of. Surgeons stands
lowest in its requirements. Dr. Hunter contends
that it is but fair that England should adopt
the same liberal system in force both in Canada and
in the States. The diploma granted by a properly
constituted college should be universally recognised.
He believes that the exclusiveness of English
physicians will lead to a similar illiberal policy
abroad, and that the English profession will lose
vastly more than it can gain. Few Foreign or
Colonial practitioners seek this country as a field
for the exercise of their profession, while the reverse
is continually the case. There is no science more
studied by the human race than that of medicine.
From our cradle to our grave we are in the hands
of a doctor—a class who have most benefitted the
human race, at the same time that it has inflicted on
suffering humanity so many misfortunes. Though
surgery has advanced to an exact science, medicine
still remains veiled in comparative obscurity. The
difficulties that surround physic require the com-
bined efforts of all who have made this subject their
profession to remove. In no other can there be so
complete a brotherhood. Facts proved in one
climate should be studied and known in all, and the
freest intercourse should be encouraged to elucidate
the problems which for successive generations have
puzzled the most learned. It is not by erecting
barriers and exciting jealousy and rivalry that these
dark questions will receive their solution. An Act
which cannot fail to raise indignation in America
cannot forward the interest of the profession in
England, and we trust that Parliament will pause
before it sanctions by law the illiberal designs of
the General Council of Medical Education.

THE POLITIC AL CRISIS IN AMERICA. The
Star, noticing President Johnson's (or, as the
Star prefers to speak of him, " Johnson's ")
speech at Detroit, Michigan, in the course of his
tour through the States, says the people of the
United States have now to cope with,a second
attack upon their liberties scarcely less menacing,
and certainly not less audacious, than that which
began under Jefferson Davis. Having put down
the treason of a slaveholders'
rebellion, they have
now to deal with the treason of a despot. Indeed
it would avail but little to the American people that,
after a vast outpouring of their treasures and their
blood, they had crushed slavcowners in the field,
if after all they were to be overborne by them in
Congress. The Star has no fear for the result.
The self-styled Moses of the negro race has turned
traitor to them and to the Constitution under which
he lives, but the free and loyal American people
will do justice to the negro and remain faithful to
their country. The Advertiser holds that if the
President succeeds in maintaining the Union with-
out a renewal of civil war it will not be due to any
personal considerations, or to any individual in-
fluence from great services and high previous
standing. It will illustrate a political miracle if
with such meagre antecedents, a chance politician,
accidentally elevated to the highest place, can effect
so much.

Military aud Naval lutellience.

The following General Order on the subject of
examinations for the Staff College has been issued
from the Horse Guards, by command of the Duke
of Cambridge :
" With reference to the last paragraph of section 5 of the
' Staff College Regulations,' published with the General
Order, No. 886, dated the 23d of May, 1866, it is hereby
notified to officers of the army that the following cam-
paigns will form the subject of examination in military
history and geography at the examination for admission to
the Staff College, to be held in July, 1867:-1. Campaign
of 1812 in Russia, with a detailed account of the.passage of
the Beresina. Campaign of 1813 in the Peninsula, with
the battle of Vittoria in detail. N.B.—Candidates will be
.expected to have au accurate knowledge of the geography
of the seat of war in both campaign; with reference more
especially to military operations, and to make a rough
sketch of any portion of it that may be required, or of either
of the battle-fields named.

" Officers will receive, on application to the secretary to
the Council of Military Education, a copy of tho synopsis
of the studies pursued at the Staff College.
" By command of his Royal Highness the Field-Marshal
Commanding-in Chief,

" WILLIAM PAULET, Adjt. Gen."

A notification has been issued from the Quarter-
master-General's department, signed by Lieut.-Gen.
Sir J. Hope Grant, G.C.8., announcing that in
consequence of it frequently happening that after
the conveyance of troops coastwise the brokers of
the steamers employed prefer claims on the Admi-
ralty for the quantity of baggage conveyed in excess
of that allowed by the regulations, although it is
specified in the tender that such excess shall be paid
for by the troops themselves, his Royal Highness
the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief directs
that on all occasions on which extra baggage may
be conveyed with troops coastwise, the commanding
officer is to take such stepS as will insure the freight
for such extra baggage being paid on the spot,
before or immediately after the troops leave the
vessel. The order also states that, by direction of
the Duke of Cambridge, when extra baggage is
about to be embarked, the local military authorities
at the port of embarkation are to communicate to
the naval officers the quantity, if known to them,
of extra baggage intended to be shipped, in order
that proper arrangements may be made for its
stowage.

The Government has chartered the sailing ship
Akbar for the conveyance of reinforcements of va-
rious infantry troops to Ceylon. -

On board the twin screw ship Far East, Henry
Jones commander, which arrived at Cork on the
23d from Hong Kong, Mauritius, and the Cape,
with the right wing of the 67th Regiment, were
Col. J. W. Thomas, C. 8., in command, 323 men,
23 women, and 18 children, and the following
officers J. W. Thomas, C.B. ; Brevet-Ma-
jor R. H. Wood, wife, and four children ; Brevet-
Major E. A. Lennon, V.C.,
.wife, and one child;
Acting Paymaster, Brevet-Major W. F. Stehelin,
wife, and two children ; Surg. J. Lamprey, Lieut.
and Adjt. A. J. Poole, Capt. E. B. Knowles ;
Lieuts. R. E. E. Jarvis, L. N. Mosse, and W. D.
Lloyd ; Ensigns E. D. Thompson, J. E. Blundell,
G. W. B. Anderson, C. F. Underwood, D. M. Pot-
ter, and F. F. E. Knox. The only casualties have
been the death of one man of the Royal Engineers,
of consumption, between China and Mauritius, and
one of the 67th from the Cape. Two births oc-
curred on board. The 11th were landed in good
health at Algoa Bay. The Far East was chartered
at Hong Kong in April last to convey the right
wing of the 11th to Algoa Bay, but was detained at
Hong Kong waiting the arrival of twelve men of
the Royal Engineers from Japan until the 3rd of
June, when she left the Mauritius and Algoa Bay,
touching at Anger on the 15th, and arriving at the
Mauritius on the Ist of July, leaving again on the
7th, and reaching Algoa Bay on the 15th, where
she was detained till the 26th waiting for the 67th
Regiment, which were under canvas at
Graham's Town. She called at Simon's Bay
for stores and coals, at St. Helena for water,
and St. Vincent's for coals, having been under
steam from the Cape, meeting with north-west and
west winds in the region of the south-east trades
till past St. Helena. Since leaving St. Vincent
north-east winds had been encountered. These,
with fine weather, prolonged the passage, which was
tedious from the Cape. The vessel's bottom had
become very foul from lying at anchor so long in
Hongkong and Algoa Bay. The following vessels
spoken :—Aug. 2, lat. 33.29 S., long. 16.46 E., the
ship Oanita, from Akyab for Cork, for orders, all
well ; Aug. 3, lat. 32.19 S., long. 14.58 E., the bark
Golden Fleece, standing to westward ; Aug. 25,
lat. 4.24 N., long. 20.5 W., the ship Tangier, of
Liverpool, 43 days out ; Aug. 30, lat. 13.52 N.,
long. 22.45 W., the bark Hero of the Nile, from
Algoa Bay for London, 39 days out. The ship
White Adder was taking'in stores at Simon's Bay
on the Ist of August.
The Imperial Russian screw corvette Griden, 14
guns (uuarmoured), Capt. S. Kenarzewski, anchored
at Spithead yesterday morning from Cronstadt, en
route for the Pacific and the Amoor river, and ex-
changed the usual honorary salutes with the flagship
ofthe Port Admiral and the saluting battery of the
garrison. Mr. G. Baker, the Russian Vice-Consul
at Portsmouth, paid an official visit to the ship on
her arrival, and on leaving was saluted from the
Griden's battery with 7 guns. Capt. Kenarzewski
afterwards landed at Portsmouth, and, accompanied
by the Vice-Consul, called officially upon Lieut.-
General Sir George Buller, K.C.8., Vice-Admiral
Sir Thomas S. Pasley, K.C.8., and Rear-Admiral
Superintendent G: G. Wellesley, the Military and
Naval Commanders-in-Chief at Portsmouth. The
Griden will discharge her powder and shell into
ordnance lighters at Spithead, and afterwards steam
into Portsmouth harbour to remedy a few defects
prior to resuming her voyage to the Pacific.

The officers of H.M.S. Excellent, gunnery ship
at Portsmouth, gave a grand ball on board the
Calcutta line-of-battle ship (a vessel attached to the
Excellent for drill purposes) alongside the great
south jetty of Portsmouth Dockyard this evening.
Orders have been received at Portsmouth Dock-
yard to furnish the Admiralty with estimates of the
expense of removing the engines and boilers from
the two three-deckers Marlborough and Prince of
Wales and of the replacing of their decks. We
presume by this order the Admiralty contemplate
utilizing these vessels in another form than their re-
ported conversion to turret ships, possibly as bar-
Ty eahrceh cFairy
bar-
rack ships at Hongkong, for which, indeed, they
are admirably adapted. If this surmise should
prove to be correct the 800 horse-power engines of
both ships would of course, with certain required
alterations and repairs, become available for other
ships. The cost of the machinery when originally
' fitted must have been about £40,000 each vessel.
An order received at Portsmouth Dockyard yes-
terday from the Admiralty—one among the many
others daily received on various subjects—was in-
vested with that extraordinary degree of mystery
by the officials which is so often witnessed in the
Government yards, and which is painful alike to the
outside spectator and the sharers in the mystery.
In the present instance it turned out that the Con-
troller's department of the navy have it in contem-
plation to build a small gunboat at Portsmouth to
use up certain material which cannot be made
available for any other purpose. This was the
great mystery, therefore, which so oppressed the
official mind yesterday at Portsmouth.
The Fairy, Royal screw yacht, now in the Steam
being prepared of the probable cost of
h
Reserve at Portsmouth, has been surveyed, accord-
ing to orders to that effect from the Admiralty, and
estimates
rare
repairsand restoration to service as a Royal
otherwise, as may be deemed desirable.
was for so many years the favourite
vessel of her Majesty, the late Prince Consort, and
the younger members of the Royal Family, that now
to appropriate her to other than Royal service would
be almost an act of disloyalty. The Fairy could