The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-22 00:00:00

The Foresters' Fete.

This once great metropolitan fête, which two or
three years ago assumed almost the proportions of a
Derby-day, seems lately to have fallen off in the
numbers which attend it, and therefore, of course,
in the interest which it excites. The Foresters' Day
at the Palace used to be the great popular holiday
of the autumn, and the scene which the grounds
used to afford, when some 80,000 or 90,000 people
met in them to celebrate a great "outing" and picnic
on the most wholesale scale, was one which no other
place of amusement in the world could offer. Lately,
however, the attractions of the Foresters' Day at
Norwood seem to have fallen off—not, indeed,
among the general run of the lookers on, but, we
are sorry to say, among the Foresters themselves.
The Crystal Palace management should look to this,
and by a more liberal programme for the day's
amusement at once prevent a further diminution
from the- numbers that used to crowd to the great
day of the year at Norwood. What the festival used
to be, and what it may still be made, can be judged
from the fact that evert in spite of the diminished
numbers we have spoken of, at least 62,000 holiday-
makers were in the building and grounds yesterday
and to all outward seeming did enjoy themselves
most thoroughly. Such a concourse gathered to-
gether at one place of amusement, of course, makes
a great popular festival, and its festivity is still
further kept up when all, or nearly all, who visit the
Palace will come in vans, or carts, or "'busses."
There is no day when, considering the numbers that
attend, so small a percentage come down by rail as
on the occasion of the Foresters' Fête. Spring carts,
with eight or nine inside, and a select, but by no
means small, party on the shafts, seem to be in favour
on these occasions, except when tradition is so far de-
parted from as to allow of a whole street being driven
out bodily in four-horse vans. The rule, however,
is almost invariable, and it is that on this fete
day all visitors prefer road to raid, and apparently
any description of conveyance, no matter what its
appearance or rate of progress, is considered prefer-
able to an express train. As a matter of course,
therefore, when some 62,000 people go down to
Norwood in this fashion the effect for a time in no
way falls short of the road to Epsom on a Derby-
day. Indeed, though there is less variety in the
vehicles, which, as a rule, being carts and vans,
have somewhat an air of sameness, there is more of
novelty about their passengers than one ever sees
on any Derby-day. Every second van has, at
least, its bugler, if not its band, all the members of
which appear to play their tunes with equal diffi-
culty. Costume, too, is more diversified, for, apart
from the paper plumes which are for sheer fun
always worn on those days, some of the weaker
members of the order will persist in arraying them-
selves after what is supposed to be the style of
dress of Robin Hood, and it would be impossible to
conceive any feebler representations of that redoubt-
able outlaw than were visible at the Palace yes-
terday.
The programme at the Palace was, as we have
intimated, not on a very liberal scale considering
the occasion, but the Foresters came to amuse
themselves, and the day being fine and no less than
five or six bands going in the gardens the fun and
dancing and merriment of all kinds along the ter-
races and up and down the grounds were begun
early and incessantly kept up till dark. Kiss in
the ring seemed to be the most patronised of all
the games, and the amount of running which some
of the most popular fair favourites must have done
when they did throw the handkerchief would have
entitled them to prizes at any meeting for athletic
sports. Polkas, too, were unusually popular, and
every part of the lawns was covered either with
dancing parties or with rings, within which the
handkerchief was thrown quickly and constantly
far and near. The band of the Duke of York's
School was present, and among these fine boys
some most amusing sports were got up. The
fountains, too, p'_ayed, and a balloon went up,
though neither attracted any very particular atten-
tion; for the great amusement of all was in the
space of the grounds and terraces, where the people
between intervals of dancing feasted or made sing-
ing parties under the trees, and kept up the sports
till after dusk. The whole fete passed of with the
utmost success, and, as far as could be known
when near its close; not a tipsy man was visible
among the immense crowd, nor was there quarrel
or disturbance of any kind.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.

NOTTINGHAM, TUESDAY.

The thirty-sixth annual meeting of the British Associa-
tion, whose object is "to give a stronger impulse and
more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, to promote
the intercourse of those who cultivate science in different
parts of the British empire with ono another and with
foreign philosophers, to obtain more general attention to
the subjects of science and the removal of any disadvan-
tages of a public kind which impede, its progress," will
commence to-morrow under favourable auspices. Time
was when the sturdy pioneers of scientific investigation
had to pursue their researches and their labours in the
solitary garret or the cloistered cell—well for them if it
were not actually within the prison walls. But in these
days professors are not only free to study as they list, but
when they meet, once a year or oftener, in the light of day
and on the public platform, to eXchange greetings and to
discuss the progress made since their last muster, society
rises to do them honounfles are organised, and wherever
they go they are welcomed and lionised. This year cir-
cumstances led the association to visit Nottingham, and
there is every prospect of a successful meeting. The town
can hardly be spoken of as rich in public buildings, but
with judicious arrangements those edifices which do exist
are capable of being turned to good account, and the com-
mittee seem to have exerted themselves most creditably
with that end in view. One central feature in Nottingham
which never fails to excite admiration is the market-place,
a well-paved triangular area of five acres and a half, cele-
brated as long ago as the reign of Henry VIII. " for the
buildings on the side of it, the very great wideness of the
streets, and the clean paving of it, as the fairest, without
exception, of all England."
In its present aspect it is surrounded with lofty and well-
built houses, the fronts of which nearly all project oven the
basement story, and, being supported by massive pillars,
form long piazzas, under which aro the shops, many of
them with considerable pretensions to opulence. In the
act of crossing the noble area ono is tempted to forget for
the moment that it is not a Continental place, and to
feel half angry with the spacious front of the Exchange
for lacking that quaint tracery and elaborate carving
which distinguish the town-halls of the Pays-Bas. At
short distances from the principal streets, which are all
remarkably clean and orderly, innumerable factories may
be seen—not huge, clumsy, sooty erections, like those of
Manchester, but tall, cheerful, red brick buildings, with
some attempt at architectural display. Nottingham, how-
ever, is mainly, if not exclusively, dependent for prosperity
on its lace manufacture, and latterly trade has been the re-
verse of brisk. The state of the money market has exer-
cised a further depressing effect ; so that the visit of the
British Association is looked forward to by many not
merely as a pleasurable event in itself, but with hopeful
sensations on account of the expenditure that it will occa-
sion. To judge, however, from the bearing of the inha-
bitants, no one would imagine that distress or suffering
existed. In the evening esrecially the streets aro
and the
with comfortably if not with well-dressed persons,ta.n
prevalent air is that of cheerfulness and contenthe
c'-u.on_e°
peculiar character of the industrial manufactureest,worksi
to
proximity of large mining and other
the town, and the interesting geologicahl7fiercateatuirvebsilLf the
surrounding district, all justify the
this
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Association made of a place of ineetinrgc.ool
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ta. long, 30ft.
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wide, and 35ft. high, beautifully, descuocihatased,
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ment-room. svido an area sufficiently large for
nd lectures of the fortnight.
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peoplewhich of
was T erected°t only. a year ago, and, internally, is,
among the best proportioned in the ingdom, though ex-
ternally a deviation from the original plan has certainly
not been attended with happy effect. Probably the pre-
parations at the Working Mon's Exhibition Building aro
entitled to rank as the most meritorious feature in the
general arrangements. This "building, which originally
was only intended to be temporary, has been secured for
the town, and has been fixed upon as the place where two
soirees will be held, and is receiving comprehensive addi-
tions. The walls of the gallery have been covered with
paintings, photographs, &c., lent by gentlemen resident in
the neighbourhood, and to the original building an annexe
has been added, in which the elaborate arrangement of
artificial rockwork and cascades, flowers, shrubs, and
ferns, when illumined, as they are to be, by the electric
light, can hardly fail to afford pleasure to the guests of the
eveniug.

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LONDON GAZETTE.—Last Evening.

Aug. 21.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL,
Corps ofto Robe ycaolloEnnelg-ionoe
Colonel-Commandant,
ral Sir Harry David Jones, G.C.8., deceased.
20th Hussars—Gentleman Cadet Charles S waine Ifogge,
from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, vice A.
W. Gordon Brebner, promoted.
Royal Artillery—Second Captain Thomas Mahon to be
Captain, vice Frederick Close, removed to the Super-
numerary List on being appointed Assistant-Superiuten_
. dent of the Royal Carriage Department ; Lieutenant
William Mor,:tt Barneby Walton to be Second Captain,
' vice Mahon.

Royal Engineers - Captain Valentino Thomas Mairis to
fro Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet-ColonA Sir John
William Gordon, K.C.B.' remo7ed as a General Officer ;
Second Captain Arthur Reid Lempriera to be Captain,
vice Mairis ; Lieutenant Henry Cooper Seddon to be
Second Captain, vice Lempriere. -
Ist R?glment of Foot—Lieuteuant Robert Cosens-Weir
to be Captain, by purchase, vice John Binnie Mackenzie,
who retires; Ensign Arthur Julian Burnett to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Coseus-Weir ; Gentleman
Cadet Edward Baynes Nixon, from the Royal Military.
College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vies Burnett; Sur-
geon William Grautt, M. 8., from the 87th Foot, to be
Surgeon, vice Charles William Woodroffe, who ex-
changes.

7th Foot—Ensign Thomas John Raymond Mallock to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charles F. Powell, who
retires; Gentleman Cadet John H. C. Clarke, front the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Mallock. •
17th Foot—Lieutenant William Mogg Rolph to be Adju-
tant, vice Lieutenant Alexander Aitkin Ross, appointed
Paymaster..

20th Foot—Ensign John Lacey Morley to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Hubert Cecil Zouch de Stacpoole, who
retires ; Gentleman Cadet Charles Henry %Taber, from
the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice John Lacey Morley.
25th Foot—Captain Henry Pears to be Major, by purchase,
vice Astley Campbell Smith, who retires ; Lieutenant

John Talbot Coke lobe Captain, by purchase vice Petrs;
Ensign Hugh Gough Collis to be Lieutenant, by pur-
chase, v.ce Coke ' • Gentleman Cadet Allen Neason.
Adams, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign
by purchase, vice- Collis.
27th Foot.—Sergeant Leonard William Peck, from the
16th Foot, to be Ensign, without purchase, Nice Samuel.
Yates Worthington, deceased.
29th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Edward Pinckney Simpson
to be Captain,"by purchase, vice Martin Charles Selwyn
Tupper, who retires; Ensign William Evans to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, . yice Simpson ; Gentleman
Cadet Stephen John Stevens, from the Royal Military
College :Azt be Ensign, by purchase, vice Evans.
301 k Foot—Lieutenant E.St. George Smyth to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Captain and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles Min,r° e
aye Green, who re-es ; Ensign Neil
Bannatyne to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth ;
Gentleman Cadet Charles Robert Butler, from the Royal
Military College, to be Ensign, by purchace vice Banns-
tyne ; Lieutenant Neil Bannatyno to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant E. St. George Smyth, promoted.
34th Foot—Captain Julius D. Laurie, from the Seconded
List, to be Captain, vice Arthur Trevor Leake Chap-
man, seconded on appointment as Captain Instructor at
the Schools of Musketty.
36th Foct—Easign William Hamilton Marriott to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henry Thomas Cramer
Roberts, who retires, Gentleman Cadet John Francis
Egerton, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
3713 t
hy
Fp uo ro ct
Cs ea, p vicetan
Frederick
John Davis to be Major, by purchase,
vice F. John Nash Ind, who retires ; Lieut.
N. Dew, from the 88th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase,

vice Davis.
41st Foot—Captain Louis D'Acosta, from half pay, late
6111 Foot, to be Captain, vice John Edmund Harvey,
who retires upon half pay on appointment as Staff 01E.-
cer of Pensioners on August 20, 1866.
47th Foot—Major William George Margesson, from half
pay, late 56th Foot, to be Major, vice 11. C. Ladder,
promoted to a half pay Lieutenant Colonelcy, without

purchase.
60th Foot—Ensign Edmund Lomax Fraser to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice John William Rhodes, who

retires.
70th Foot—Gentleman Cadet Robert Henry Johnston,
from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice William Musgrave, who retires.
75th Foot—Lieut. Irving Stening Allfrey to ba Captain, by
purchase, vice Oswald William Ever y, who retires.
86th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Henry Hard-
wicke Jackson from the Royal Milita►y College, to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Edward Collins Wood, who

retires.
87th Foot—Surgeon Charles William Woc,droffe, from tho
Ist Foot, to be Surgeon, vice William Grant, KB., who

_ .
exchanges.
88th Foot—Ensign Edward Agincourt Brind, to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Frederick N. Dew, promoted,
by purchase, in the 37th Foot ; Gentleman Cadet A. I'.
Boyle, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Brind.
2d West India Regiment—Ensign Malcolm Macgregor to
be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice William Everitt
Last, deceased ; Ensign Charles Henry Tongue to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Malcolm Macgregor,
whose promotion, Is Ahout purchase, ou the 20t.. July,
1866, has been cancelled.
CAWLEY DEPOT—Captain George Silvester Davies, from
half-pay, late 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Adjutant.
STAFF—Cap:air) and Brevet-Major the Honourable L. W.
Mulles, half-pay, late Rifle Brigade, to be Fort Major at
Edinburgh, vice Brevet-Major Ramsay, Unattached,
appointed Town Major of the Western District.
ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE—General Sir George Augus-
tus We:hem'', G.C.8., Colonel of the_B4th Foot, to be

,
Governor, Vice Lieutenant-General Sir 11. D. Jones,

G.C.8., deceased.
MEDICAL DERAIITMENT.—Staff Assistant-Surgeon David
Palmer Rose, M.D., has been permitted to resign his
Commission.

HALF-PAY.
Captain and Brevet-Major William llemy Fitzgerald,
from the GBth Foot, to be Major, without purchase.
Cap;:aiu Matthew Fanning, from the 27th Foot, to be
Major, without purchase.
BREVET.
Captain and Brevet-Major Peter Stark Lumschn, Bengal
Staff Corps, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Richard Hussey Vivian, 14th Foot, to bo Major
Captain Edmund Leach, 50th Foot, to be Major.
The following promotions to take place consequent on
the death, on the 2d inst. of Lieutenant-General Sir HD-:y
David Jones, G.C.8., Colonel Commandant of Royal En-
gineers.
Major-General Henry Sandham, Royal Engineers, to be
Lieutenant-General.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Sir John
Wil-
liam Gordon, K.C.8., Royal Engineers, to be Major-
General.
Major Arthur Frederick Warren, Rifle Brigade, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel.
Captain Edward Andrew Wylde, Royal Marines, to be
Major.

ADMIRALTY, AUG. 16.
The fol7owing promotions have this day been made :
Mr. John Cooper to be Acting Engineer iu Her Majesty's
Fleet ; Messrs. Alexander Ferguson Mclntyre, Mr. John
Forr3st, Mr. James Keay, Mr. James Finlay, Mr. Edward
Ramsay, Mr. Arthur Shanks, and Mr. Thomas McFarlane,
to be Engiueere is her Majesty's Fleet.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 18 11 19
Ditto 3 Months. 12 1 i 12 2
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 571 25 62i
Brussels
13 10.1- 13 10
lirmburg
Short 25 2 25 35
1.)-• 's
._ _ _ _

..iort A,...
Ditio 3 Months. 25 W 25 55
Marseilles
Franklot: ou the Maine 1201 121
Vienna — 13 39 13 50
Trieste — 13 30 1$ L 0
Petersburgn - 27/ 28
Berlin
Madrid . — 44/ 441
Cadiz
Leghorn
27 85 28 5
Milan
Genoa— 27 90 28 19
27 80 28 9

Naples

27 85 28 10

RACING FIXTURES FOR 1866.
AUGUST.
Hastings 2l I Tunbridge
'York August 2l I Yarmouth .................. 28
Dover
Plymouth
Lichfield .22217
Weymouth
cSuutf
.........................
2299

SEPT

Warwick September
Leicester 6
Doncaster
Brecon l7
18
Canterbury
Richmond
OCT(

SMBER.
iMonmouth
Manchester Autumn 25
Newmarket Ist October 25
Walsall
I Lanark 2B

IBER.
Newmarket 2d October... 8
Hereford • .... 13
Newmarket Houghton ... 22

Hunt
NOVIMBER,
Ryl.Liooetr Northampton
......................................................
4832' 1
11
Lincolni,vi .......................
51 I
LShoaremwegutorny
1U
IRISII RACING FIXTURES.
SEPTEMBER.

C urragli
OCTOBER. 4, 5, 6

carragh l6, 17 18
.FRENCII RACING FIXTURES.
AUGUST.
Blois 26, 28 Baden-Baden 3l

SEPTEMBER.:
Baden-Baden ......... 3,5, 7 I Paris (Autumn) 23, 30
Chantilly .................. 16 I

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE--This Day.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.

GRAVESEND, Wednesday Morning.

Arrived, Aug. 21.—Norden, front Uleaborg ; Witch of
Seas, from Archangel ; Balder, from .Gothenburg ; Mill-
brook, from Croustadt ; llersteling, from Worctuu ; Try
Again, from Rostock.
Arrived, Aug. 22.—Orion and Batavier, steamers, from
Rotterdam.

Mr. George Lewis, of the firm of Lewis and
Lewis, yesterday made an application to Vice-
Chancellor Stuart for an order to inspect the books,
vouchers, &c., of 0 verend, Gurney, and Co.,
Limited, on behalf of several shareholders. The
application was opposed by the liquidators, but after
hearing the evidence and the affidavit of Mr. Oswald
Howell, accountant, the order was made for Thurs-
day next, it being shown that under the 156th
clause of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, 1862,
creditors and contributors have the right to make
such investigations of the books and papers as the
Court may think proper.