The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-01 00:00:00

YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.

The Sapphire, the Right lion. T. M. Gibson, M.P. ; the
Derwent, Chas. Lee, Esq. ; The Petrel, Philip Perceval,
Lsq. ; The Isis, W. H. Cosway, Esq. ; The Marina, Sir
Alex. Bannerman, Bart. ; The Nymph, Sir John Bayley,
Bart. ; The Cymba, Capt. R. H. Smith-Barry ; The Fidelio,
Chas. R. Colvile, Esq. ; The Minstrel, William Morgan,
Esq. ; The Caroline, the Hon. Quin Wyndham; The
Freak (yawl), Col. Sir David Wood, K.C.B. ; The Maria,
Col. Plunkett Burton ; The Titania, Robert Stephenson,
Esq., M.P. ; The Minx, F. R. Magenis, Esq.
A match is to come off next week between Sir John
Bayley's cutter yacht Nymph, of 51 tons, and Mr. Philip
Perceval's schooner yacht Petrel, of 64 tons.
The fashionable season is far advanced, and numerous
families are leaving, still there are a great many more
houses let than usual for October. Lord and Lady Lynd-
hurst left Gothic Hall for the season on Tuesday. Lady
Caroline and Miss Masse leave No. 5, Parade, on Saturday
"(this day) for London and Paris. Major 'Wing leaves
Grove House, to-morrow, for Bourninouth.

Philip Perceval, Esq., has taken Gothic Hall for six
months; Mr. Jerningham has taken Adelaide Villa for
eight months ; Mrs. Everfield, the Old Royal Yacht
House ; Mrs. Payne, the 2d cottage—Mr. Long, the 3d
cottage—in the West Cliff; Mr. Campbell, No. 2, Castle-
terrace ; the Hon. A. Liddell has Cambrigde House for two
months ; H. Pellew, Esq., Harriet Lodge till November ;
Sir John Bayley, Bart., has taken No. 2, Parade for three
months ; Lady Charles Townshend, No. 1 ; T. Auldjo,
Esq., has taken Sir J. S. Hippesley's house for the autumn;
Captain Edmund St. John Mildmay has York House ; C.
Stanfield, Esq., has No. 3, Parade ; John Loder, Esq.,
No. 4 ; J. Simpson, Esq., No. 6 ; P. Pigott Conant, Esq.,
No. 7 ; G. R. Stephenson, Esq., Rosetta Cottage.
The Hon. H. Petre leaves Park House on Wednesday
next.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent leaves Norris
Castle on Monday, the 17th of October, and the junior
branches of the Royal Family leave Osborne House on the
same day.

SIR GEORGE GREY.—We have great pleasure in
calling attention to the circumstance, as stated by the
managing director of the Cape Town rodlway, at a meeting
of the company yesterday, that Sir George Grey is no longer
the "late" Governor of the Cape, but is forthwith to re-
turn to resume his former position—an announcement
which will be hailed with pleasure by every one connected
with the colony, where Sir George enjoyed the greatest
popularity.

THE RECENT EXPLOSION AT BIRMINGHAM.—The
inquest upon the bodies of those killed by the above terrible
accident was commenced yesterday afternoon before Dr.
Birt Davies, the coroner ; but as the jury did little more
than view the bodies and the premises, this, with the exa-
mination of witnesses to identify, occupied nearly the whole
time prior to the despatch of our parcel. One more body
has been dug out of the ruins, and fragments of another, so
that this makes a complement of 20 killed. At the General
Hospital another of the injured is on the verge of death.
An important engineering operation is now ap-
proaching completion in the Pyrenees ; it consists in cutting
a conduit beneath the Lac Bleu for the purpose of carrying
its waters to the Adour and the plains of Tarbes, Plaisance,
Riscles, and Gera. The lake is at a height of upwards of
6,000 feet above the level of the sea, and is in the midst of
eternal snow ; its surface is about 140 acres, and its depth
nearly 500 feet.