The Sun.
London, England, 1859-05-24 00:00:00

(Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Tuesday Morning.
Wind, N.N.E. ; tide, five hours' ebb ; weather ivery
fine.

Arrived, May 24—Neptune, from Dunkirk ; Jabes, from
St. Martha.
Sailed, May 24—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne; Ears-
den, steamer, for Genoa.

DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind NN E moderate.

Passed, May 2'3—Rhine, for New York ; Royal Bride,
for Bombay ; Christiana, for St. Helena—all from London;
her Majesty's steamer Pigmy, from the westward for the
River.

Passed in tow—Akbar, from Demerara for London ;
Robert Lowe, screw steamer, from London for the west-
ward.

Sailed—Trade Wind, for Leith.

Mdlle. Piccoktmini has taken passages for her-
self and suite in the Vanderbilt steamer, which is to leave
New York for Southampton and Havre on the 4th of June.
LIVERPOOL, Monday.—The Pacific Company's
mail steamship Lima sails from this port to-morrow (Wed-
nesday) for Valparaiso, via St. Vincent, Cape Verde, and
Rio._

KEW GARDENS.—The National Botanic Gardens,
containing the great palm-house, the old and new museums,
the tropical aquariam, &c., and the royal palace pleasure-
grounds, flower-gardens, and new arboretum, having been
greatly improved and adorned, are now open for the season
every week lock om one o'clock till dusk, and on Sundays
from two o'ill six. Free admission to the whole.
CALEDONIAN FANCY DRESS BALL.—This annual
fete, always one of the leading events of the London season,
and which for many years past has drawn together the
aristocracy of Scotland, has been definitively fixed to take
place on Monday, the 27th of June, as usual, at Willis's
Rooms. Already more than 40 ladies have subscribed
their names as patronesses of the ball; and the treasurer,
Sir Charles Forbes, promises that the arrangements for the
present year's festival shall surpass all that have gone be-
fore it.

INTERDICTION OF THE PERFORMANCE OF " JACK
SHEPPARD."—This once famous, or infamous, drama was
played during the last week at the Victoria Theatre, and
was announced for future representation ; but a notice has
been sent to the manager from the Lord Chamberlain's-
office interdicting the performance of the play at this or
any other theatre for the future, and requesting that it may
be withdrawn as soon as convenient.
FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning a man
employed to attend to one of the gates at a level crossing
on the North Kent Railway, just below the Strood station,
by some neglect failed to clear the line in sufficient time for
an up-train, by which he was knocked down, and his head
literally severed from his body.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—As Mr. William Bateson
Whitby, a merchant of Liverpool, was leaving the Royal
Institution in that town a few days ago, he came into con-
tact with a runaway horse and car, and was thrust so
viol ently against a lamp-post that he had to be taken to the
Infirmary. He died of the injuries he received on Satur-
day last.
F 'ATAL ACCIDENT TO YOUNG MR. FARQUHARSON,
or I INZEAN.—A fatal accident, which has cast a gloom
over a large circle of friends, occurred on Saturday last to a
you: ag student of Trinity College, Logiealmond, Perthshire,
a son of Mr. Farquharson, of Finzean. He was attempting
to ascend a steep brae above the Almond, when a tree by
wb tich he was holding gave way in his hand. His foot, as
he slipped downwards, caught in a projecting rock, so as to
thr ow him forward, head foremost, on to the edge of the
rivt Ir. The neck was dislocated by the violence of the fall,
and instantaneous death ensued,—.Perthshire 41dvertiser.

BATH RACEST(TRIS DAY).

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIt.)
LANSDOWN TRIAL STAKES.
King of the Forest
......
Felicitas

Sven ran

UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION

A meeting of the members of this institution was
held last week ; Colonel Yorke, F.R.S., in the
chair, to hear a paper read by Mr. James Fer-
gusson, on a circular system of fortification. Before
the paper was read, Lieutenant-Colonel Alcock
addressed the meeting in a few words, explanatory
of what was being done in the topographical de-
partment of the institution. He mentioned that
the several movements of the Austrian, French, and
Sardinian forces were marked upon maps of the
seat of war according to the latest intelligence. He
gave a slight sketch of what movements had already
taken place, and said that he would feel grateful
for the assistance of those members who took an
interest in the subject. Mr. Fergusson then addressee
the meeting, explaining, his system from a large
model. After giving a rapid sketch of the rise of the
bastion system, he pointed out what he considered
its defects. He said that Rivas admitted that the
length of time at which any fortress constructed
upon that system could hold out was limited,
the power of the attack being, from many con-
current causes, and from the improvements of
modern science, superior to the means of defence.
The great object he had in view in promoting the
circular system was by means of several tiers of
guns, on parallel circular lines, to bring a prepon-
derating fire on any point of attack, and thus place
the besieged more on an equality with the be-
siegers. He touched upon the great expense of
masonry as compared with earthworks, showing
that though he would allow double the price for
his earthworks, the saving would still be great.
The paper was followed by some remarks from Col.
R. Wilford, R.A., and Major Jervoise, who, after
expressing. their high appreciation of the science
exhibited by Mr. Fergusson in his system, and the
thanks due to him from officers of the two services, for
his labours on the subject, explained on what
points they differed from his views. Sir' W. Arm-
strong favoured the meeting with some observations
on the probable effect of shells fired from large
ordnance of his mode of constructon upon earth-
works. The cordial thanks of the meeting were
expressed by the chairman to Mr. Fergusson and
the officers who had taken part in the discussion.

THE BRIDE OF A WEEK RETURNS
AFTER TWELVE YEARS' ABSENCE.

We have been requested to suppress the names
in the following curious history, which has recently
transpired, or rather the last chapter, which re-
cently occurred in this country. A farmer's son,
some 12 years ago married a neighbouring girl, the
daughter of a very respectable family. They re-
moved immediately to a distant place, where they
had been living but a few days when upon his
return home one evening the wife of a week was
missing. She did not return that night, during
which he felt, of course, the utmost anxiety, and in
the morning he started in search of her. He could
only learn that she had taken the stage alone, which
led to a railroad station, some miles distant. He
followed, but at the depot he lost all traces of her.
He wrote to her former home, and published notices
in the newspapers, but could obtain no clue to her
whereabouts. He grieved in loneliness at her sup-
posed criminal act, and to escape the scene where
his week of unsullied happiness had been followed
by so great a grief, he removed to the then sparsely
settled wilderness. He here settled upon a pro-
mising piece of land, and in its cultivation and the
cares of life sought forgetfulness of the past. He
succeeded unusually—has filled offices of trust, and
grown wealthy. After a few years, his home re-
quiring attention, he married, but his wife lived
only long enough to bear him a son, and witness
the first year of the little one's existence.
A few weeks since, as the well-to-do-man of the
world was sitting by his fireside, there entered the
house a woman well clad, of fuller form, and 12
years older, but the picture of the long-lost bride
of a week, and she was accompanied by a girl of
near a dozen years.
The sober man of the world was startled, but
asked the stranger visitor to be seated. Then came
her long and agonising story. All was oblivious to
her for the first ten years of their separation. She
could tell nothing, except of one hour of returned
reason, when Ow little girl beside her, his daughter,
was brought into the world. After that long time,
fitfully, and at periods remote from each other, came
back reason and memory. She had wandered to a
distant city in a state of mild insanity; there she
fell among kind people, and was installed in a.n
insane asylum. After the birth of the daughter,
and ten years more spent within its walls,thoughts
of her youth. her home, and her husband, came
back. She slowlyrecovered, then visited her parents, •
learnt where her husband was, and flew to him. Be
sure he clasped her in his arms, and they wept upon
each other's necks. Again going before the altar
they were united, and she now presides with careful
dignity and ease over his household.
But little is said about it in the neighbourhood,
except expressions of wonder at Squire D.'s sudden
and unexpected marriage to one whom they sup-
posed to be a fair widow with whom be had recently
become acquainted.—Madison Argus, April 19.

TOSSING UP FOR A:SEAT IN PARLIAMENT.—Every
one knows that at the last election for Chippenham the
gallant Captain Boldero lost his seat. Few, however, are
aware that ho is indebted for that mischance to the un-
lucky toss up of a halfpenny I Colonel Boldero pressed
forward his experience and long tenure of his seat; Mr.
Long urged many qualifications which were not en-
joyed by the gallant colonel. How was it to be decided ?
"Go to the wall" one of them must. In this dilemma,
two eminent men stepped forward one a member
of the long robe, though not a patron of Long ;
the other an hon. gentleman, high sheriff of the county,
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producing from his right-hand trousers pocket that most
useful of coins known as the British halfpenny, he pro-
posed that the toss, and the toss alone, should arbitrate
between the parties. The sheriff, seeing no better chance
of settlement, at once agreed. One toss was to decide the
fate of the candidates and the representation of the borough
of Chippenham in the Commons Hbuse of Farliament I Up
was to spin the coin, and if it came down head uppermost
the Colonel was to represent Chippenham, and if tail, the
other candidate. The lawyer was to perform "up goes the
halfpenny ;" the lawyer exerted his utmost skill; never,
even upon Epsom racecourse, has there been seen a
more splendid toss. In due time the law of gravitation
brought the coin to the ground. Head or tail ? By all that
was unlucky for the colonel, it was tail. The arbitrators
were honourable men; they adhered to their arrangement,
and forthwith informed the expectant candidates (omitting,
as we are told, the exact means by which they arrived at
that conclusion), and after much careful attention given to
the matter, they had decided that the gallant colonel should
he the candidate who should retire from the contest. The
gallant colonel therefore did retire. Mr. Long and Mr.
Lysley (the Liberal) were returned without opposition; and
thus the representation of the borough of Chippenham was
n ,
and lost by the toss up of a halfpenny.—lieene's Bat
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Montebello, 120 guns ; the Friedland, 120 guns ; the
Souvrain, 120 guns ; the Fleurus, 100 guns ; the Navarin,
100 guns ; the Prince Jerome, 100 guns ; the Jena, 90 guns;
the Charlemagne, 90 guns ; and the Duperre, 82. I use the
term reserve, although the authorities declare the ships to
be laid up in ordinary ; for they are moored stem on to the
quay on which are their guns, arranged in order and
ticketed ready for shipment. The 'stores are all stowed
away ready at hand, and the crews are in Toulon ready to
be marched on board. The Napoleon and Elylau, accom-
panied by two steam frigates, have sailed for the Adriatic,
under Admiral Jurieu de Lagraviere."
THE GAOLER'S NUPTIALS.—The keeper of the
Ross County gaol, at Chilicothe, Ohio, went to a wedding
on Tuesday evening of last week, leaving only a servasnit,
girl to guard the building, when a man disguised i
gained entrance, and pointing a pistol at the
girl,
and two
wfi a mask
gained
frightened
pro-
ceeded
t ene d
' her into giving up 'the keys of the cells, upon h
to liberate a man waiting trial for murder,
other culprits.—few York Tribune..