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THE SUN. LONDON, WE DN ESDAY EVENING, MAY l6, 1806.

INTERNATI 0 NAL HORTICULTURAL
FXII.IBITION, May V, Tickets £1 Is ; Nay 23, 10r. ;
~ay 24, 2s. Od. ; May 25, Is. Tickets may be obtained of the
principal I ondon Nurserymen, and of the usual London
Agents.

101 IN GOE' NELL and CO.'S CHERRY
'room rAsrt: is greatly superior to auy tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Prkte is. 61—Red Bull Wharf, u 3, Upper
Thames-street, London.

harmless and less compromised cattle. No contrac-
tor must be allowed to bring a thousand cows from
Germany, keep them for a time at Hull, carry them
across the island, and then stable them again at
Liverpool. We take more care for our oxen than
we do fcr our own flesh and blood. We set up bar-
riers against the rinderpest, but not against the
cholera. We take these emigrants from countries
in which we know the cholera to be prevailing ; we
receive them in such a condition that we may be
sure infection attaches to them, and, we leave them
to b 3 lodged in sheds or " depots" under circum-
stances most likely to bring tke aisease to
the surface. This is not giving ourselves a fair
chance. We must take our risks like other
people, and more than most other people, in pro-
portion to our trade and enterprise. But this
regular and systematic importation of the plague is
too bad. It is like bringing droves of oxen direct
from the Russian steppes and carrying them into
Cheshire. We must be absolutely plague-proof if
we can stand such a test. No doubt emigration is
a department of trade, and it is a bard thing to in-
terfere with trade ; but we have interfered with the
trade in foreign cattle ; in fact, we have upset the
meat trade altogether, rather than allow the cattle
plague to be established in England. Cannot we
do as much for our proper selves as we do for our
cows? Cannot we suspend this emigrant traffic
until the risk of fatal contagion has disappeared ?
We have no confidence in the alternative of inspec-
tion: These poor creatttres may get as far as Hull
inthout actually shoWing the disease which they
carry with them. They have not yet suffered
quite enough to bring it out. A couple of months
ago they lasted until they got half across the At-
lantic, but now they cannot hold out as far as
Queenstown, and as the weather gets hotter We may
see the outbreak in its full proportions before they
quit our shores. What we know is that they have
got the infection among them, and that when the
conditions are sufficiently favourable it will make
its appearance in the shape of cholera. They may
all seem in good health at Hull, and yet be prostrate
with cholera before they leave Liverpool. We pro-
test against any such traffic in a season like the
present. It may be convenient for the emigrants
and profitable to the contractors, but it is certainly
not consistent with the interests of this country,
and we think those interests have the first claim to
consideration.-- Times.

IIIR. ARTHUR SKETCHLEY'S New
Enterta;pment, MRS. BROWN AT HOME AND
.k lilt° A I E' EBY it V FNIN(.4 at Eight (except Saturday);
(iturday Aiternooa at Three. Egyptian Hall, Ph.:eAdilly.
rickets at the Box—office; Mr. Mit:heirs ; and all music-
iell, rs.

VR. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
and UP IV TIIK Atli, an entirely .New EnterLdn-
inent, EVERY EVENING, at +sight (except Saturday);
qaturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC BALL,
King William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa s. ails, ds ; balcony stalls, 3s. ; area, 25.;
ionphitheatre, ls.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the flail from Eleven to Five.

TZTODARE'S 433 D REPRESENTATION.-
..7 THEATRE OF MYSTERY.—EGYPTIAN —Colonel STODA RE'S celebrated MARVELS of MAGIC and
VENTRIL,,QUISM, ,s performed by him, by command, at
Windsor Castle, before her Majesty the Queen, Nov. 21, 1865 ;
and twice before 0.12. H. the Prince of Wales, June 6, 1865,
and March 10, 1866.—The New Sensation, the MARVEL of
11 ECCA. the SPHINX, and Stodsro's celebrated INDIAN
BASKET FEAT, EVERY EVENING at 8. Wednesdays
and Saturdays at 3 and 8.
may be secured in advance at the Box-office, Egyptian
Hall, open daily from 11 till 5; and at Mitchell's, 014 Bald-
street.—Admission, Is., 2s. ; stalls, 3s.
"Almost miraculous."—Vide the Times.

P H 0 X F o_ll. D,
6, OXFORD-STREET, W. _ _ _

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (Limited',
EXTRA NOVELTIES for the DERBY WEEK. Operatic
Selections performed by Misses Russell. Barry, FltzHenry ;
nessrs. A. St. Albyn, Hush, Bury, Dalton, and Tivoli, with
full band and chorus, canducted by Mr. F. JONGHMANS.

Cnmedy, Burlesque. Gymnastic, and other performances,
by all the most talented Purelun and English artistes.

The great Negro Trio. Joe Brown (his first appearance),
and Messrs. Duriah and Davies.

Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is ; private
boxes, with separate entrance, 108. 6d.

Open every evening at 8.

IurADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
L BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.
NEW ADDITIONS.—SeveraI life-size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of the late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays ; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life, of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINSOR.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.

Admittance, fs. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Rooms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
Selections from all the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARUYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTL
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL. which speedily
produces whigkers and thickens hair, Ss. 6d. ; sent tree for
54 stbmps.— ALP:X. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London.
Essay on Hair, Id.

A LEX. ROSS'S BLOOM of ROSES, 3s. 6d.,
LX_ or 54 stamps.

PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the
skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S
VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal-
fowneEs, Am:. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS,
248, High Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS'S FACE POWDER, ls., or 14
mumps.

RAIR-CURLDIG FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54 stamps. Boss's Toilet Magazine,
Is. 6d., or 20 stamps.

LIQUID ROUGE, ls., or 18 stamps.

ri REY HAIR. —248, High Holborn, London.—
i( ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in effe,:t. Price 3s. ed. ; sent by post for 54 stamps.
LADIES lIAIR DYED, from 1 guinea; Gentle-
men's, from 10s. 6d.

-w-HAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
/VOW?—That the FIERY CROSi has arrived,
bringing some magnificent KAISOW CONGOUS of delicious
flavour, and which may uow be had, at a mere commission on
the import price, of the I,_;Az.3T INDIA TEA CO 4 PAN Y,
No. 5, Great St. Helen's Churchyard, Hishopsgate-street.

PHEASANT REARING for 1866.— JAMES
CHAMBERLIN'S (opposite Corn Exchange, Nor-
wich) is the only depot in the world for proper File .D for
I'll EA SAN T FEEDING. Between 200 and 300 testimonials
of last }ear's success. Treatise on Hatching and Rearing,
with other valuable hints. posted free on application. Land-
owners, pheasant rearers, and gamekeet•ers can raise any
number of birds by using his food. The aristocracy of the
kingdom constantly use it. Gentlemen requiring game-
keepers, or gamekeepers requiring situations, are requested
to apply to Mr. James Chamberlin, wine merchant and phea-
sant food dealer, opposite Corn Exchange, Norwich.

DO you wish to SING, or have a beautiful and
powerful VOICE? If so, the "REGISTERED
EUPHONIC NOTES " are truly wonderful in their action,
and are unanimously pronounced the "Marvel of Science."
They are invaluat le to all and are guaranteed as a protective
agent in all weathers. No Singer or Speak. r should be
without them. (See opinion of the press and testimonials.)
The Euphonic Note. post free 14 stamps, in boxes 26 stamps,
direct from the sole inventor, sEAGRAVE ALGEN, 1,
Dorcas-terrace, Hammersmith-wad, London, W.

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

MEE TH.—V • R • EET H.
Messrs. ESKELL
.and SONS, old established Dentists. e
Sole inventors and P4' ntees-ot SELF-ADE! ESiVE Peru-
vian Enamel ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without the
s'ightest pain or inconvenience (for which her Majesty has
granted Royal Letters Patent). Loose teeth are fastened by
their aid. Can be worn on the most tender roots or gums
for years without removal. Mastication and articulation
per:ect. Charges strictly moderate, and within the reich of
the most economical. All operations painless. Consultation
free.
Messrs. ESKELL and SONS

attend daily at their only Establishment. 13, Tichborne-
street, top of the Haymarket. (Note the Address).

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., 31,1 t.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYAN, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E.C.

TONES' PATENT VOLUNTEER PRESS,
eysuitable tor Pub is Companies, Architects, Surveyoro,
.c.c. This press will stump card, drawing, parihment, or the
thinest p iper, by means ct a regulating wheel, which nu
other press will do.
'DIE SINKER, EMBOSSER, AND ENVEL,,PE MAKER.
WILLIANI JONES, 246, Iligh Holborn.
1,00) Puniness Envelopes, Ss. lCd.

BRIGHTON and BACK for 3s. on, WHIT-
SUNDAY, WHIT-MONDAY ant TIJN_;DAY, from
London-bridge, V ietor.a, and Kensington, at 9.0 n.m.

HASTINGS and BACK for 3s. 6d. by the
BRIGHTON LINE on WHIT-SU DAY, frum
London-bridge at 8.10 a.ni., and V ctoria at 840 a m. ; and on
WHIT-MON DAY, from Victoria at 8 .5 a.m., and London-
idge at 8.45 a.m.

PORTSMOUTH and BACK for 3s. 6d. by the
BRIGHTON LINN,' on WHIT-SUNDAY, from Vic-
toria at 7.55 a.m., and London-bridge at 8.0 a.m.

_ILMADAME RACHEL'S Gem of the Season,
PEACH BLOSSOU WASH, imparts a fair, soft. and
youthful beauty to the complexion. This costly preparation
is the leading fashionable toilet requisite of the day. This
is the gem of the season-474, New Bond-street.

" Before the emitu7 was actually in its teens we believe
that George Crinkshank was amusing the public. Is there
no way in which thi3 country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of auah a friend and benefactor ?"
THACKERAY.

The public in treneral 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-villso, Brixton, S.

STARCH MANUFACTURERS
TO H. R. 11. TILE-YRINCESS OF WALES.
G LENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used in taiittoyal Laundry,

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

lIELIO-SCENE.—This very Handsome SUN-
BLIND is more effectual in keeping out the sun than
any other, for the otvious reason that the hoods overlap ea it
other, so as to place a double layer of cloth between the sun
and window glaes ; also the wide, open space between each
hood insures copious ventilation and the great advantige of
a clear view.—R. LOWTHER and Co., 31, Regent-street,
near Piccadilly. All kinds of blinds made and repaired.

TNCLINATION to SLEEP after DINNER
IL shows a weak digestion, and it should be prevented, as
it may be readily, by taking. two or three of PARR'S LIFE
PILLS at night, or one before dinner occasionally. May be
hat of any Chemist.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for fit tmg up the TRAINING
SHIP. £2,000 required.
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge. 8, Great Queen-street, W C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly so:kited for establishing
the COCA TRY HOME. Zl,O )0 requires.
W3L WILLI 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 supportlig the 400 boys is es. imated at
£4,0 being £l5 a year for etch boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay fbr one by each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, tiigh Holbo n ; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mail East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.--
The fear of pain and dread of ope•ation inherent to all
det, r very many to whom ARTIFICIAL TEKTII are of
vital importance from availing themselves of the services of
a dentist. In a practice founded in 1830, and now ex ending
over greater part of the kingdom, an experience unequalled
has been obtained, enabling us to offer even the most sensi-
tive sufferer a bystem of dentistry perfect in its absolute
freedom from pain, a specialite f.ertaining 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 support.ng instead of extrac-
tion of loose teeth mull 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 tree. Teeth from 55. Sets from 6 to 25 gs.,
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-Dross Railway Station.

Daily attendance at 15, i'hiterriargato, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4. East-parade, Leeds; 1.4, St..Nleholus-
street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York.

Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

THE CHOLERA.

pROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
I4A, 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.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
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
are, for want accommodation' refusedadmittance, 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 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 pror—rsed, as far as the donationg 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 Rey. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus E.C.

We are glad `lo -see Iliat in bu i irouses
last night the attention of the Government was
called to the necessity of taking efficient measures
for the more effectual protection of this country
from cholera. We are not going to be unreason-
able in the matter. We are quite aware that an
absolute system of quarantine, such as is occasionally
maintained in the Mediterranean and elsewhere,
would be all but impracticable in these islands, with
our national commerce, our national ideas of liberty,
and our national indifference to danger. Still, the
necessity for action of some kind has been confessed
by the Orders of the Privy Council. It is acknow-
ledged that living cargoes of infected passengers
ought not to be poured into our towns, and yet,
while we stop, or endeavour to stop, this stream of
contagion at one point of our shores, we are allow-
ing it full flow at another. We did not allow an
emigrant ship with cholera on board to put back to
Liverpool entirely without observation, but we did
allow these very emigrants to assemble at Liverpool
by hundreds. We are now puzzled with the case,
and can hardly tell what to do. We have got the
Helvetia back on our hands, and the consequence is
she has brought the cholera back with her. Ten or
twelve of the emigrants are dead, and the doctor
who attended them is dead, and the Roman Catholic
priest who visited them died on Monday. We cannot
help all this now that the thing has occurred, but
what we could and should prevent is the system
which led to it. Let the reader just consider the
simple facts of the case as they are presented to us.
The cholera itself does really now seem so far miti-
gated or neutralised in its character as to have lost
some of its former terrors. .It does not advance
irresistibly in a certain track, spreading death and
desolation around it. It can touch a place without
settling in it, and show itself without running its
ancient course. We have had it actually present
at Epping, at Southampton, at Bristol, and now
at Liverpool, and yet hitherto it has never
become epidemic. We know, however, that even
under these modified conditions it can work the
most dreadful havoc. At Marseilles, at Toulon, at
Seville, at Ancona, its ravages were as terrible as
on any of its previous visitations. Although there-
fore we need not be afraid of its striking our coasts
and sweeping over us as in times past, we may
reasonably apprehend most serious evil from its
effectual introduction. Under these circumstances
what are we doing ? We are permitting hordes of
miserable emigrants from infected countries—
scarcely less wretched than the very pilgrims who
are said to hatch the disease in Arabia—to land on
our eastern coasts, to swarm across the island to
Liverpool, and there, after being stowed away in
baracoons till a shipfull is accumulated, to be em-
barked for American shores. We might really as
well send to the Red Sea at once for a cargo of the
original pilgrims and lodge them for a week or two
at Hull or Birkenhead. These wretched creatures
come to us with the seeds of the plague in them-,
and we know it, for as soon as they are packed be-
tween the decks of the emigrant ship it breaks out,
and has done so, not once, but three times in suc-
cession within the last few weeks. They carry
the Cholera with them everywhere they go exactly
as the Mecca pilgrims are said to have taken it
with them to Alexandria and Constantinople.
They have carried it to New York and to Hali-
fax, and now they have brought it back with
them to Liverpool. It was to be expected that they
would do so. We have opened our doors to the
plague, and have housed it ; if it does not spread,
it will only be because the better sanitary conditions
INoviotwhß,rithwtiiesshtfirond
lifeu give us a providential exemption.
trouble when experience that we cannot deal
when we have let it in, but, surely
we could have shut it out. It is not a single case
of Cholera, or a single compromised passenger, that
we have to dread; it is the importation of the
plague hot and thick in a swarming and infected
multitude. These unfortunate emigrants are col-
lected, shipped, transhipped, and despatched, all by
contract—that is, on the very terms of cheapness
most surely conducive to filth, misery, and disease.
They are brought acrossfrom the Continent to Hull,
and conveyed from Hull to Liverpool for carriage to
America, simply because, upon the whole, that is
the cheapest way of getting them from Germany to
New York. The contractor saves so much a head,
and we get the cholera. That is the bargain, and
antkthis we have a right to objectto it.
We suggest think
route should be closed for a
we hstue humbly
season. If a German must leave his country—and
Godmaywell be excused for running
awayawayhim make his voyage once for all
knowsm it—let he
from his own coasts. It seems that some of the na-
vigation companies have acted for themselves at
Liverpool, and have announced that they will take
no more of these passengers ; but other ships can
purposes of the contractors, and
all England with it, is exposed to
sboe fLoiuviel dr
pfooorb thean d
the plague. Better stop the imports at Hull. Be it
observed that at the very time we are admitting
these people we should refuse to admit their more

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*buret in the eversiug, riia Ur.
the lane towards the shore. He at thiti4rns ovs S
wearing his hat and spectacles, and they noticed
nothing singular in his manner or appoarance. One
of the women afterwards saw Mr. Blum's body, and
was sure of his identity. She also recognised him
from his portrait. Two hours later, at 8 p.m., he
was seen by a woman walking on the sands at the
back of the Royal Hotel, and she observed that he
frequently consulted his watch. It will be remem-
bered that when the body was found the watch and
spectacles were among the articles that were mis-
sing.. At the spot were the body was found, which
is about two miles from Hoylake, there are a series
pf rocks called ledstones. These rocks are entirely
covered with water at the time of the spring tides.
The body was discovered on one of the highest
points of these rocks on nonday afternoon by two
young girls, who called the attention of the fisher-
man to it. It was lying in a hollow of a rock, with
the back to the wind, the head resting on a ledge,
the knees up, the feet crossed, one hand bent near
the body, the•other at the right: The face was calm
as in sleep. The fisherman at once apprised the
'police, and the body was removed. An inquest was
held on the 'Wednesday following. The surgeon
who gave evidence at the inquest mid that life had
in all probability been extinct for about three hours
when the body was discovered, and that, although
it was possible Mr. Blum had cut his own throat,
the physiological conformation of his head was de-
cidedly against the supposition of his having com-
mitted such an act. Another medical man stated
positively, as his opinion, that any person who had
inflicted such a wound as that which appeared on
the left side of Mr. Blum's neck would have been
unable, „from the loss of blood, it Zfo himself any
further injury. The jury, not having the means of
identifying the body, returned an open verdict. Of
course, the friends of Mr. Blum at Bradford knew
nothingcirculation of ofwhat had taken place at Hoylake. After
his disappearance they made the greatest efforts, by
advertising
thein Times
policeesnotices
and other t
o newspapers,ascertain
what
and
the
had become of him ; but it was not until Tuesday
week that anything respecting him was discovered.
Shortly before noon on that day, Mr. Foggo, the
head-master of the High School, received the fol-
lowing Hunt,he theh a
d beenc superintendento mi
in
over
ve r
whomloofwpoinligcteclaetgLraemedsf,rownitthMr
com-
munication for a week previously
immediately. I have received news bypost, and have
very little doubt as to the identity of the missing
gentleman. Mr. Foggo at once went to Leeds, and
after seeing Mr. Hunt returned to Bradford and
made arrangements that Mr. Sutcliffe, formerly a
master at the High School, and an old friend of Mr.
Blum, should go over to Liverpool and determine
the correctness of the information which Mr. Hunt
had received. On the same morning Mr. Grauhan,
the chief constable of Bradford, had receiveda letter
from Mr. Hammond, superintendent of the county
constabulary at Birkenhead, stating that he had
suspended the interment of a body after having seen
the advertisement in the Times, and appending a
paragraph from a Liverpool paper, giving a descrip-
tion of the dead man, which corresponded remark-
ably with that given of Mr. Blmm in the advertise-
ment. Mr. Grauhan, without consulting the friends
of the missing man, at once replied, stating that the
descriptions did not correspond with each other.
Mr. Sutcliffe, however, accompanied by Monsieur
Landolphe, professor of languages, and Mr. Cooper,
of Bradford, who were both well acquainted with
the deceased, proceeded to Birkenhead in the after-
noon, and on the following morning they went with
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clothing, which, although soiled and saturated with
blood, they recognised as having been worn by Mr.
Blum. Next they were taken to the coffin contain-
ing the body, which they at once identified as that
of their lost friend. Deceased had two cuts, one
under each jaw, and about an inch and a half apart.
The wound on the left side was a clean cut of about
two and a half inches long, with an abrupt termi- .
nation near the windpipe ; the other was of a
similar character, 'but a little shorter. There were
several abrasions on the knuckles and on the
back of the right hand, but no other marks of
injury were perceptible. When Mr. Blum was
last seen in Bradford he had on a black silk hat
with maker's name inside, " Lee, Bradford,"
a reddish brown overcoat of light texture, a black
frock coat and waistcoat, light tweed trousers, and
elastic side boots. He had also a small gold Geneva
lever watch with gold face, number 7,213, a gold
albert guard, with a seal or pendant attached by a
steel ring, a gold signet ring with a plain white and
pink onyx stone, a gold scarf pin, and steel spec-
tacles, which he invariably wore. Ile had also a
small portemonnaie, which is known to have con-
tained several pounds, and several letters in his
pockets. When the body was found there were
missing the hat, the gold watch and chain, the purse,
the letters, and the spectacles. There was nothing
in the pockets except Bs. in loose coin and a white
pocket-handkerchief. The letter, dated the 24th of
April, addressed by the deceased to a young lady
residing in London, to whom he was engaged, affords
the only clue to his disappearance on the day named:
—" I had a strange letter from Leeds from a
stranger who is staying there on business. lie comes
from Hamburg, and wishes to see me. As it is im-
possible for me to go to Leeds until Saturdayl must
consider in the meanwhile what to do. A strange
thing, is it not?" No trace of the letter here re-
ferred to has hitherto been discovered, and most
likely it was in Mr. Blum's possession when he left
Bradford. It is surmised that the appointment
mentioned in the letter may have been altered from
Leeds to Liverpool. It is stated in the village of
Hoylake that on the morning of the day on which
the body was found two men were seen struggling
on the Redstones, and that one of them was after-
wards seen to come away alone.

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the charges in them cannot be accidentally let off.
'The needle which fires the cartridge is shielded by the
perforations, and it is only when the peg of the
trigger hammer is plunged into the cavity upon it
that the, charge can be exploded at all. Moreover,
the advantages of this method applied to artillery
should not be left unconsidered, for although the
weight of corresponding slides of charges for heavy
ordnance would be considerable, yet as horizontal
motion only is required to bring the cartridges and
shot into service, effective mechanical means could
be readily devised for this purpose; the only pos-
sible question that can arise being how far joints are
permissible in large cannon, and, in fact, whether
breech-loading artillery is possible at all, for if it be
then guns on this principle would present less me-
chanical difficulties than any of the other plans as
yet devised, while, at the same time, it would per-
mit of a stronger application of material.
Supposing the principle applied to artillery the
main advantages would be a rapidity of fire equal,
we should think, to at least two shots a minute for
very heavy guns; and if in easemates or ships, secu-
rity from danger of rifle shots from the enemy dur-
ing loading, as the embrasures would only require
to be open during the actual period of firing; and if
in the field, some_very decided advantages indeed
over the present artillery. Suppose, forexvainmgptleh,eiar
g
battery charged and taken by the enemy, the de-
fending
unsbut
troops
carrying o
beingfi theirobliged
ammunition. tto retreat,These Gale's leaving
slide guns would be useless to the enemy,
ordinary cartridges could not befiredinEven
them.
because
slightest difference in the size and cons
had the enemy adopted the same kind theotfrugettlinosn of
the slides would render the ammunition of one army
unsuitable for the artillery of the other, and so
guns might be abandoned without much danger of
their being turned, as would now be the case, upon
their rightful owners in their retreat. Again,
another point suggests itself prominently to the
mind. If ten or any other number of shots could
be fired with great rapidity without change in the
position of the gun at one spot, say of a ship's plated
side, what would be the effect of such a rapid suc-
cession of blows ? If a 600-pounder were aimed at
a ship, and struck, the damage desired would be
effected ; but if it missed the fire would be lost and
wasted. With a gun charged with one of Mr.
Gale's slides containing six 100-pound shots and
their powder charges all of them could be fired
within the space of time it would take to reload the
600-pounder, and with this advantage in Gale's
method, that if the first shot did snot strike right the
least modification of the training would bring the
gun to bear more accurately, and the second or the
third and the following shots would take effect as
intended. It is fair, then, to consider what would
be the effect produced. The consideration is a
novel one, and not by any means irrelevant, for as
six light blows of a hammer might drive home a
nail as close as one strong blow driving it home at
once, so six or more quickly-repeated blows of 100-
pound shots upon the same spot might produce a
very considerable destructive effect, which, although
it might not be equal to that of a 600-pounder
direct, might be more certain of being accomplished;
and, in the conflict of warfare, the certainty of doing
a given amount of harm is perhaps preferable to the
chance of doing a greater amount of harm or of
doing no harm at all.
Altogether the contemplation of Mr. Gale's sys-
tem raises so many new considerations and suggests
so many modifications in military operations as to
tend to carry one's thoughts into the realms of spe-
culation, and to render the keeping of them within
the boundaries of legitimate conclusions very
difficult. To hear the rapid discharg,e—as fast as
the reports can be counted—of one of these slides of
cartridges in any small arm is to realise better than
words can give an idea of the murderous rapidity of
fire which this means affords. Armed with such
weapons a single regiment of infantry would literally
and absolutely pour forth a veritable storm of bul-
lets ; for assuming such a regiment to be 800 strong,
it could certainly throw 48,000 bullets in the face of
its enemy in a single minute of time ; and, as few
men would relish facing a body of weapons which
gave him GO shots a minute as his own particular
chance of death, with a reasonable probability of an
extra and large percentage of chances against him
as his comrades fell, we only hope that this inven-
tion may be an additional link in that chain of de-
structive powers which may iu the end make war too
dreadful a game for nations to play at. However,
while a probability of battles having to be fought
remains we can well understand the appreciation of
this invention which has been expressed to the Com-
mander-in-Chief, Generals Hay and Scarlett, Col.
De Bathe, and other of our high military authori-
ties, by Mr. Gale.

The Murder of Mr. Blum.

In The Sun of Friday and Monday last an account
was given of the disappearance of Mr. James J.
Blum, one of the masters of the High School at
Bradford, on Saturday, the 28th of last month, and
the recovery of his dead body on Monday, the 30th,
in a lonely spot on the shores of the Mersey, near
Hoylake. The following particulars have since
transpired :
Mr. Blum, the deceased, was born in Germany, but
was brought up in England. His father is dead, and
his mother and sisters reside in Prussia. He was an
undergraduate- of London University, and was in-
tending to take the science degree. He has a brother
at school in London. He has also another brother,
who went under the name of Paul Bloomfield, a
sailor. He served as a soldier in the American war,
but was in Bradford in the latter part of last year.
No one then saw him but Mr. Blum, who said he
met him in the street, walked with him to a railway
station, and saw him off somewhere. .He then had
come from Hamburg. In December last, and pro-
bably not long after the occasion referred to, Mr.
Blum helped him with money-to go to Australia.
He has, however, been seen in London since, and
said he was wrecked.

It may be added that no weapon of any kind was
discovered near the body, and had the deceased com-
mitted suicide, it is stated that the rocks are too far
distant from the sands and the water for him to have
thrown anything where it could not have been dis-
covered. The wounds are both so severe as to make
it impossible for them to have been inflicted by Mr.
Blum's own hand.

On the day when Mr. Blum disappeared he at-
tended school as usual from 9 to 12 o'clock, and
after leaving met Mr. John Anderson, the singing
master of the school, with whom he made an appoint-
ment for the Monday evening following. He after-
wards called at the shop of Mr. 11. B. Byles, book-
seller, where he ordered " Babington's Manual of Bo-
tany," and took away with him the second volume of
Dickens's " David Copperfield." He next met, about
1 o'clock, inMarket-street, Mr. Cooper, of Bradford,
who asked him what he was going to do with him-
self that afternoon and evening. He stated thatafter
going home to dinner, about half-past 1, he should
have about two hours' writing ; that he should then
did not
go to the laboratory of the school and make some che-
mical experiments, and that if Mr. Coopteirlini
at the
call at his lodgings before 7 he would mtsee
performing
Theatre Royal, where Mr. Phelps was
him ,
Behrens,
that evening. After Mr. Cooper
seen at 20 minutes past Ihe was
by
3fr.but Mr. Blum cut
who stopped and spoke tosthaitming
that he was in a
short the conversation
by
yo
spare, and hastened along
Charleslit
hurry, and had no;3imide,e_
Bridge-street. It may be noticed
in the direction of
the
Lancashire and Yorkshire
that train leaves
station, which is situated in Bridge-street,
at 1 30 p.m ailwayfor
Manchester and Liverpool, and
.
that no train leaves
either
of the other
stations
any destination before 2
and 2 15. Some addi-
tional information hasbeen obtained regarding the
movements of
Ir. Blum on Sunday the 29th of
l 11April, the day following that of his disappearance
from Bradford, and preceding that on which his
body was found on the Redstones. About half-past
2 in the afternoon two young men saw a person on
the rocks, but they were at too great a distance to
be able to distinguish his features. He was without
his hat, and was apparently enjoying the sunshine.
From his movements it was conjectured that he was
smoking. Two young women, sisters, on their way

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It is very important that the brother of the de-
d
ceased, known as Paul Bloomfield, or Blumfield,
should be made aware of what has happened, as it
is thought his evidence will throw light on the cor-
respondence referred to in previous paragraphs. The
following is the description given of him :
" Short-sft. to sft. 6in. (about) ; slender, but
strong and wiry; swaggering like a real Northerner;
about 22 years old. Fought in the American war,
on the Northern side—perhaps
Hull, on
rt
aNvinlo,yhu
Would
ellasthtatye broughtaercertainly
sea. He was some kind of subordinate naval officer.
on land,
Hamburg appears to be his favourite haunt ; came
hhfvraeeovrrmye return
wtl hirkieetrtleye
written
goafows
ctaimragd towards
nate hftee:3 eeon
tnNd.heetos
shfcer
crime
here about the 20th to the 23d April. Seems
She would sail on her return passage
after that."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN A TUNNEL OF THE UNDER-
GROUND
aCwortaisttienrsnatthioesarrwivaasl
GRoIIND RAILWAY.
caused amongst the
of the trains at
Rail-
way, by a train whichllislatitoohn'clock yesterday morning, at
the King's Cross
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,oUndergroundffolrleoawteedx ef
ritoe
mßathile-
tunnel by several platelayers
all of whom were hurriedly waving their Levels, shouting,inenti
and in every way endeavouring to attract the attentio
of the driver of the. engine. It was then observed by
these on the platforms, as well as the railway servants,
that an accident had happened; and on the trnin nearing
them the last off wheel of the carriage at the end of the
train had adhering to it what to many appeared a bundle
which was rotating with the wheel. On thr3 stoppage of
the train it was found to be the body of owe of the plate-
layers engaged on the railway, and who had previously
been at worla.in the tunnel. Every exertion was made to
release the body, which was a shapele is mass, from the
wheel, but it was not for some few minus that success re-
warded their efforts, when no signs of life appeared ; in
fact it seemed as though all the bones lad been broken.
On going into the tunnel three other m en were found se-
riously injured, and were at once conve: Ted to the hospital
It is stated by those who escaped that tine men had stepped
off the line they were at work at to Billow the train to pass,
when another came in the opposite direction, and the poor
fellows were between the two. The-deceased, whose name
is John Winston, was a mug man. of good character, and
only 21 years of age.

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