The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-26 00:00:00

GRIFFITHS, Cannon-street, West.

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

PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE
BEST AND CHEAPEST.
STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, Is. 6d., 25., 2s. 61, 35.,
3s. 4d.
Most Delicious Black Tea is now only 3s. 6d. per pound.
Pure, Rich, Rare, Choice Coffee, ls. 4d.. is. 6d, ls. Bd.
PHILLIPS and CO., TEA MERCHANTS,
8, King William-street, City, London, E.C.
A price current free. Sugars at market prices.
PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within
eight miles of No. 8, King William-street, 40s. worth Car-
riage Free to any Railway Station or Market Town in Eng-
land. Phillips and Co. have no Agents, nor any connection
with any house in Worcester or Swansea.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for fitting up the TRAINING
£2,000 required.

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

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
ILL 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
£6,000, 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.
and Co 1, East ; and.
WILLIby
Ransom
WM. AMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRUIKSIIANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., M.A.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYAN, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E.C.

in its teens, we believe
the public. Is there
no way in which the country could acknowledge the long
"Before
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amu si g
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor r
THACILERAY.

The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move-
ment. Subscriptions receivable as above, or by the under-
signed as honorary secretary,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.

3, York-villas, Brixton, S.
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p- R 0 VI D ENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
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
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
Ati ea presentk fasts, nearly r
givenl 500
gratuitouslyN i Nights' Lodgings,
every
week. The poor with Suppers and
B
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they aro 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
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
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 been 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 bo 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., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus, LC.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.--
The fear of pain and dread of operation inherent to all
deter very many to whom ARTIFICIAL TEETH are of
vital importance from availing themselves of the services of
a dentist. In a practice founded in 1830, and now extending
over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled
has been obtained, enabling us to offer even the mos* sensi-
tive sufferer a system of dentistry perfect in its absolute
freedom from pain, a specialite pertaining only to our prac-
tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters
patent. This system embraces the non-interference with all
stumps, however decayed, the supporting instead of extrac-
tion of loose teeth unril they become firm and useful in mas-
tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so
that the most nervous person can be supplied without fear of
pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur-
able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, sets from 5 to 25 ge.,
warranted.

For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide
"Lancet."
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield ; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York.
Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

To-day being appointed for the celebration of her
c 4, ,
an other public establishments at Ports-
mouth will be closed for the day. The troops in
garrison will parade at noon, and fire a feu de joie
in conjunction with a royal salute from her Majes-
ty's ships of war in the port and at Spithead, and
from the main battery of the garrison.
The Italian frigate Principessa Clotiide sailed
from Spithead on Thursday afternoon for the D owns.
The unarmoured screw corvette Challenger, 18
guns, 400 horse-power, fitted out at Sheerness as
the flagship of the future commodore on the Aus-
tralian and New Zealand station, Capt. R. B. Ma-
guire, arrived at Spithead yesterday en route to her
destination.

The Stromboli, 6, paddle, Commander A. Phillips,
from South America, last from Plymouth Sound,
has arrived at Spithead, and is ordered into Ports-
mouth harbour to be dismantled and paid out of
commission.

The Terrible, 22, paddle-frigate, Capt. J. Com-
merell, V.C., fitted out to accompany the Great
Eastern on her Atlantic cable expedition, has arrived
at Spithead from Plymouth Sound.
Mr. Wm. Scamp, the Deputy-Director of Works
to the Admiralty, has recently been engaged on a
visit of inspection to the Portsmouth dockyard ex-
tension works, after an unusually long absence,
caused, we understand, by severe illness, aggravated
by close application to the duties of his office, in pre-
paring the drawings and other information for the
guidance of contractors sending in tenders for the
execution of the works. These tenders will soon be
closed, and the main portions of the works will then
be at once entered upon. Upwards of 1,000 convicts
are now daily employed on one portion of the ground
and two large brickmaking machines are kept con-
stantly at work. An immense number of bricks have
been made from the soil of the excavations, which
has been found to be admirably suited for the pur-
pose. The original and amended designs for the
works by Mr. Scamp, together with the evidence on
the subject, in two large volumes, have been de-
posited for some time in the office of the Admiral-
Superintendent of the dockyard for the information
of the officials of the yard.
The whole of the naval and military establishments
at Chatham, including the dockyard and the ord-
nance departments, will be closed to-day in honour
of her Majesty's birthday, and the workmen granted
a day's holyday. A review of the whole of the
troops of the garrison will be held on the Chatham
lines at 12 o'clock. _

head smithy
underof t hetidhneepartment. In order
The operation of forging the massive iron profs or
superintendence of
stem for the ironclad frigate Hecrchualtehsawmasdsoucckcyeasrsd-
yle fullyrst. e e
George,
feaoeyrc
gteaef effected
et atrhne
afternoon,
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to complete the forging of the stem, which is the
largest of the kind ever undertaken in the dockyard,
additional furnaces were constructed in which to
prepare the bloom, from thebest description of scrap-
iron, which was welded together by means of the
most powerful of the steam-hammers.
The Diamond, 28, sailing-vessel, at Chatham, is
ordered to be towed round to the Tyne, where she
is to be handed over to the Society for Missions to
Seamen as a school ship for seamen arriving in that
river. _

The Lords of the Admiralty have given direc-
tions for the sailing ship Belleisle, attached to the
reserve at Chatham, to undergo the necessary re-
pairs previously to being lent to the Seamen's Hos-
pital Society for the reception of cholera patients
arriving in the Thames.
The Norwegian steam schooner of war the Alpha,
Lieut. Jarlsberg, commander, from Christiania,
bound to the Mediterranean, put into Falmouth on
Thursday morning to ascertain the latest continen-
tal news as to the probability of war.

The Field-Marshal Comm- ander:in- -Chief visited
Colchester Camp on Thursday. A review of the
troops in garrison took place at Middlewick Farm,
lasting two hours. Ills Royal Highness afterwards
visited the gymnasium and the cavalry and infantry
barracks, and, having lunched with the Qfacerii of

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—" Lieut. J. R. Palmer to the
Boscawen, for service in the Liberty, tender, com-
missioned ; Lieut. W. J. Boteler to the Britannia ;
Lieut. James S. Trotter to tile Dauntless; Lieut.
Thomas M. M. Wynyard to the Pembroke, for ser-
vice in the Coastguard ; Edward Hinvest, master,
to the Trafalgar, for service in the Coastguard ; U.
Lawless, assist.-paymaster, to the Formidable; J.
Carlisle, assist.-paymaster, to the Fisgard ; IV. H.
E. Mitchell, assist.-paymaster, to the Asia ; H. C.
W. E. Batchelor, assist.-paymaster, to the Done-
gal ; W. R. Martin, master's assistant, to the
Hydra ; Joseph W. Smart, first-class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Black Prince ; Peter Colquhoun, first-
class assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, for the
Endymion.

The National Rifle Association.

Yesterday afternoon the May meeting of the
members of this association was held at WOWS
Rooms, under the presidency of his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE, in opening the pro-
ceedings, said that he had only a few facts to men-
tion. The Wimbledon meeting would open on the
9th of July. The prizes would amount to £4,020,
whereas in 1865 they amounted to only £3,935.
Consequently there was a considerable addition to
the prizes this year. The increase had been given
mainly to the Enfields—a course of proceeding
which he thought would be eminently satisfactory
to the public and to the large and increasing body
of volunteers. If anything there had been a reduc-
tion in the small bore and other prizes, in order that
something more might be given to the Enfields.
There would be 658 prizes this year ; last year
there had been 580. There was, however, a certain
risk in all this, because he was sorry to say that the
£6OO due to the Birmingham Arms Company had
not been discharged since it was ander discussion
at the last meeting. At that meeting he expressed
his strong conviction that that sum ought not to be
brought against the National Rifle Association, be-
cause there was an evident mistake in putting out
the tenders. No arrangement, however, had yet
been made, and therefore there would be some little
risk in awarding the additional prizes. But as the
funds were tolerably good--not, however, better
than they should be—the council thought they
were justified in taking the risk. At the same time
he could not help hoping that the Birmingham
Arms Company would eventually relent, in reference
to the demand which they bad made, for in so do-
ing they would act in a graceful and acceptable
manner, and in a manner, too, which would tend
to promote the prosperity of the National Rifle As-
sociation. He had to announce that the Belgian
gentlemen had appointed a committee of their own
number, and the council had placed at their disposal
a sum of £5O, to deal with as they liked. He thought
that was a very liberal way of dealing with their
Belgian friends, who were entitled to high respect
for the manner in which they treated the gentle-
men who went from this country to their meeting
last year. (Cheers.) With regard to the camp at
Wimbledon, he might state that it would be opened
on the 6th of July. The arrangements of the camp
last year gave general satisfaction, and this year he
believed they would be equally acceptable. There
was one subject, personal to himself to sq_mereAte4t
Saturday, the 2d of June. It had been said that the
council of the National Rifle Association had thrown
difficulties in the way. The difficulties thrown in
the way of the proposed review were not those of
the association, but his own. It was proposed that
10,000 men should assemble in Hyde-park, and on
looking into the matter he came to the conclusion
that there were difficulties about it which could not
be got over. There was not sufficient space for
such a large body of men. They had a brigade of
Guards there, and the extent of their movements
had been an advance of line, and a change from
right to left. That was all they could do. In addi-
tion to that, he believed that the large body of people
who would assemble on such an occasion would cora.

pletely destroy the park. He was very anxious, how-
ever, that the Earl Grosvenor and the volunteers
should not be disappointed ; and he should therefore
feel great pleasure in placing Wormwood Scrubs at
their disposal. It was not a very accessible place, as
they all knew, but there was more space there than in
Hyde-park, where a field-day would invitably prove
a failure and a disappointment to those who wished
to show off the volunteers to advantage. He thought
it right to make these remarks, because if blame
attached to any one it was to himself. At
the forthcoming meeting at Wimbledon there
would be a number of breech-loaders at
hand, from which anybody might select those most
advantageous for his own interest. They had not
adopted any arrangement about breech-loaders, but
they had found a means of conversion which he
thought would prove advantageous. He had gone
through the whole matter with Mr. Schneider, and
had come to the conclusion that nothing could be
more satisfactory than his plan of conversion. If
they could introduce conversion from Enfields to
breech-loaders, he thought they should adopt it.
He did not say that it was the best scheme that
could be adopted, but as the scheme now proposed
was the best they had seen, he thought it would be
very foolish on the part of the Government if they
did not adopt it. He would only add that the
money on hand was £2,321 17s. Bd., and that the
review would take place on the last day of the
meeting.

Captain HAWKER objected to one of the new
rules, which provided that mechanically-fitting
bullets should not be allowed in the first stage of
the Albert prizes. The rule appeared to be directed,
he thought, against ➢Zr. Whitworth. Such a rule
tended to break down the principle on which the
association was founded, and he therefore suggested
that it should be withdrawn.

Captain TEMPLER, of the 18th Middlesex, drew
attention to the 4th rule,—" For volunteer prizes
the shooting at 200 yards shall be off the shoulder ;
at the remaining five ranges it •shall be from the
knee, Hythe position, unless off the shoulder."
He hoped the officers would have instructions to
construe it liberally. He thought that something
should be allowed to kneel upon if thought ne-
cessary.

Major LESLIE advocated similar views.
Lord ELCHO assured Captain Hawker that he
was labouring under a mistake in supposing that
the rule alluded to was aimed at Mr. Whitworth.
With regard to the Hythe position, the council had
always felt that changes might be introduced in
position, but that such changes ought not to be sug-
gested by the council. There might, however, be no
limit to such changes, and convenient stools might
even be made in the form of boots.

Mr. LUX3IOOIIE7 of the Queen's Westminsters,
said he knew some men who were determined not to
shoot at an if these restrictions were insisted on.

The Earl of Duc TE said that out of GO prizes last
year 10 different rifles were used, and the Whit-
worth gun took the lead.
The Duke of CAMBRIDGE thought there might be
some inconvenience in altering the rule now that all

the circulars had been sent out.
Captain TEDIPLER said he would not press the
matter.
Captain GOODLIFF& drew attention to the mode

in
The motion was negatived.
That the opinion of
Captain BIDDER moved_,g
this meeting the amount of prize,
given in the Albert
competition should not exceed that
gives in the
Alexandra competition."
This motion led to a long discussion, and even-
,
tually it was negatived.
The amended rules submitted by the council
were agreed to.
Mr. THOMPSON said he wished to make an inquiry
with regard to the public school matches—namely,
whether it was intended that they should be put
aside to the Scottish butts ? He thought those
young shots should not be sent to a range which
everbody who had had any experience knew to be
most difficult.

Captain PAGE said no arrangements had yet been
made, but everybody complained of the Scottish
butts.

On the motion of Sir J. BURGOYNE, a vote of
thanks was awarded to the Duke of Cambridge,
which his royal highness briefly acknowledged, and
the meeting separated.

A meeting of the National Artillery Association
was held immediately afterwards—Lord Elcho pre-
siding. A series of amended rules was put and
carried. It was announced that prizes had been
given by the Queen, the Prince of Wales, the Duke
of Cambridge, the Secretary of State for War, and
the Duke of Wellington.