The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-06 00:00:00

Maury Testimonial.

Yesterday evening about 130 gentlemen as-
sembled at Willis's Rooms, on the occasion of a
banquet and testimonial to Captain Maury, for-
merly of the United States navy, the object of this
tribute being to make a suitable public recognition
of the brilliant services conferred by that officer on
the cause of maritime science. Sir John Pakington
presided, and among those present were :—His Ex-
cellency the Mexican Minister, his Excellency the
Danish Minister, his Excellency Don Herberto de la
Riestra, the Minister Plenipotentiary from the Ar-
gentine Confederation, Admiral Sir John Hay,
Bart., M.P., F.R.S., General Lefroy, F.R.S., the
Right Hon. Earl Nelson, Colonel Sir Henry James,
R.E., F.R.S., Commodore Jansen, L.8.G., of the
Royal Dutch Navy. Professor Tyndal, F.R.S., the
Right Hon. Lord Richard Grosvenor, M.P., Admi-
ral Boutakov, of the Russian Imperial Navy ; Ad-
miral Young, R.N., Mr. Charles Babbage, K.H.,
F.R.S., Hydrographer of the Admiralty, Professor
Wheatstone, F.R.S., the Deputy-Master of the
Trinity-house, Captain Cowper Coles, R.N., Gen.
Walker, Mr. A. J. Beresford Hope, M.P., F.R.S.,
Admiral Halstead, R.N., Sir. W. Fairbairn, F.R.S.,
Mr. Whitworth. F.R.S., Mr. T. B. Horsfall, M.P.,
Capt. Klerker, Royal Swedish Navy, Attache to
the Swedish and Norwegian Legation, Mr. J. Laird,
M.P., the Hon. J. 13. Vivian, R.N., Admiral Anson,
R.N., Mr. James Spence, the Rev. F. W. Tremlett,

M.A., LL.D., &c.
It was the declaration of Humboldt, that to Cap-
tain Maury belonged the distinguished honour of
having founded a new department of human know-
ledge, viz., the "Physical Geography of the Sea
and the motive which actuated the promoters of last
night's testimonial appears to have been a desire that
the United Kingdom should no longer be the only
maritime power in Europe that had not publicly and
officially recognised the eminent services of this dis-
tinguished nautical geographer. The conception of
floating observatories,and the conversion of "a legion
of ships into a legion of such observatories," was
Capt. Maury's ; as was also the celebrated Brussels
Conference, held in 1853. At that Conference
England, France, Russia, Portugal, Belgium, Hol-
land, Denmark, Norway and, Sweden were repre-
sented, and one of its most eminent and practical
results was the establishment in London, by the
advice of the Royal Society, of the Meteorological
Department of the Board of Trade. It was esti-
mated by the late Dr. Buist, in speaking before the
British Association, that charts and sailing directions
for the Eastern seas, such as Capt. Maury had at
that time [prepared for the Atlantic Ocean, would
produce a saving to British commerce of from a
quarter to half a million sterling. Since that time
Capt. Maury has investigated and mapped out the
prevailing winds and currents, not only of the Eastern
seas, but of all the great oceans, and the result has
been what Dr. Buist predicted. The sailing voyage
to India and China has been shortened 15 days, to
the Equator 10 days, to California 50 days, to Aus-
tralia and back 50 days, and to other countries pro-
portionately. Maury's charts and sailing directions
which described these routes and effected this sav-
ing were published not for sale, but for distribution,
free of cost, to vessels of all nations.
After the usual loyal toasts, followed by that of

"The Diplomatic Corps,"
The CHAIRMAN proceeded to present the testi-
monial. In doing so, addressing the gallant captain
personally, he congratulated him on having devoted
his noble intellect to a purpose which had in the
result conduced so greatly to the lasting benefit of
mankind. lle then traced the history of his scientific
discoveries, and referred to the practical advantages
which the public were now deriving from them. In
the voyage of a ship from England to India or China
there was, he observed, a saving of £250. What,
then, must be the annual aggregate saving on the
voyages of all the ships of this country ? It was
when Capt. Maury's fame was at its height that
there broke out the unfortunate civil war between

the North and the South—a war in which, being a
Southerner by birth, he took the part worthy of
his character and his career. (Loud cheers.)
He then adverted to the fact, that after the war had
terminated the gallant captain was invited by the
Grand Duke Constantine to take up his abode in
Russia, and by Prince Napoleon to accept a home in
France. The testimonial now to be presented com-
menced about a year ago. Holland subscribed
about £l,lOO ; Russia sent £l,OOO ; and a large
amount was also collected in this country. And he
now, in the name of England, of Europe, and of the
guineas, a recognition of esteem,
civilised world, had to request Captain Maury to
accept a testimonial, considerably exceeding in
gratitude. (Great cheering.) He
having handed the
ss expressive of the
tga
ti ann n dadnrde
nadmmouirnattio3n„ooanOd
money to the guest of the evening in a silver casket
ocobnj
ecelut doedf
thbey
prreeasdeinn
he proposed hi. health, which was drunk with three
times three, amid much enthusiasm.

Captain MAunv commenced by repudiating the
notion that he was deserving such an acknowledg-
ment. Forty years ago, he said, it was his good
soonving
a
i n all
over the worldof thesea and fortune to cuter on a field of discovery in which the
harvest was ready to hand.
Venegryag odo n
in
a fleetb s
escat-
tered
rthe
air ; and at a
very small cost ships of all nations were converted
e ertphenomena was
into temples of science. (Cheers.) The necessity of
combination in the researches made led to the con-
ference at Brussels, and now he saw a brilliant
assemblage met to celebrate the results which had
since been achieved. In conclusion, the gallant
captain declared his utter inability to acknowledge
in appropriate terms the handsome testimonial just
presented, and said he must therefore express it
with sealed lips and the eloquence of silence.
(Loud cheers.)

Among the remaining toasts was " Our Foreign
Visitors," proposed by Lord Richard Grosvenor,
M.P., which was responded to by Commodore
Jansen, of the Royal Dutch Navy, and General
Beauregard, of the late Confederate States of
America, the latter of NI horn was greeted with
special cordiality.

The Prince, accompanied by the Crown Prince
of Denmark, and attended by Colonel Keppel and
Colonel Clifton, left the Shoreditch Station of the
Great Eastern Railway at a quarter to 11 o'clock,
in a special train, which conveyed a large party of
ladies and gentlemen to Colchester. The inhabi-
tants had decorated the town in holiday attire, and
as the princes drove through the principal streets
they were very warmly received.
On arriving at the barracks the princes were re-
ceived by the Earl of Cardigan, honorary colonel of
the regiment, Col. Fraser, V.C., and a brilliant
staff. Their royal highnesses, having mounted,
proceeded at once to the Abbey-field, where the
regiment (550 strong) was drawn up. Among the
ladies and gentlemen present at the flag-staff were
—the Duke of Sutherland, the Duke of Manchester,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Drogheda, tho
Marquis of Aftresey, the Earl of Cork, the Earl
and Countess of Harewood, the Countess of West-
morland, the Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Royston,
Lord Berkeley Paget, Lord Albert Leveson-Gower,
Lord and Lady Suffield, Lord Skelmersdale, Lord
Proby, Captain the Hon. C. Molyneux, Hon. Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Hanbury, Sir Ralph and Lady
Howard, Sir William Fraser, Mr. and Mrs. Frede-
rick Milbank and the Misses Milbank, Mr. and Mrs.
Morritt, Mr. Frederick Alison, Mr. A. Lumley,
Mr. Gurdon Rebow, M.P., General Sir Hugh
Rose, K. C. 8., Colonel Kingscote and Lady Emily
Kingscote, Colonel A. Elliot, Colonel Douglas,
Colonel Haggard, Captain Gurney, Captain Keith
Fraser, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr. Wells, Miss
Herbert, Mr. Mortimer and Miss Mortimer, Mr.
Alfred Wigan, &c.
Col. Fraser having taken command put the regi-
ment through the usual evolutions, all of which were
executed with remarkable skill and precision. The
inspection over, Col. Fraser received from the prince
high encomiums on the efficiency of his men, after
which Sergeant-Major Green and Sergeant Ash
were called from the ranks to receive, at the hands
of the prince, good-conduct medals. Col. Fraser
mentioned to the prince that both these men had
proved exemplary soldiers, and that Sergeant Ash,
who had been orderly to Lord Raglan in the Crimea,
was now riding the same horse that had, 12 years
since, carried him through the Russian war.
The Prince of Wales and the Crown Prince of
Denmark, accompanied by the staff, then rode off to
the officers' quarters, in the rear of which, under
an elegant marquee, luncheon was laid for between
200 and 300 guests. Ample justice having been
done to a magnificent hospitality,
Col. FRASER gave " The Queen," which was re-
sponded to in military time with much enthusiasm.
Then proposing " The Memory of the Prince Con-
sort," Col. Fraser said, though duty to the Sove-.
reign and sympathy for her loss enjoined its recep-
lion in silence, as officers of the 11th Hussars they
must ever retain a just pride in the association of his
royal highness's name with their regiment. Her
Majesty had graciously presented to their messrooml
a portrait of that great'prince, the memory of whom
would survive the future generations of their regi-
ment long after its colours had faded from the
canvas.

Colonel FRASER, on again rising, said—Officers
of the 11th Hussars, I stand here as your spokes-
man to propose the health of his royal higtrness the
Prince of Wales, who has to-day done us the honour
to visit Colchester and to review our regiment. We
know his royal highness boasts a long line of illus-
trious ancestry. But we also know he is the son of our
regiment. (Cheers.) He was born in the regiment,
and thus claims a birthright recognised by all mili-
tary law. (Cheers.) I ask you to couple with the
name of his royal highness that of the Princess of
Wales, who is so universally beloved that we natu-
rally assume her to be " the good and beautiful
princess come straight from fairyland." (Cheers.)
His ROYAL HIGHNESS taid—My lords, ladies, and
gentlemen, I am very grateful for the flattering
manner in which you have received the toast of my
health, and that of the Princess of Wales. I can
truly say it has afforded me great gratification to be
here to-day to witness the evolutions of your dis-
tinguished regiment, and to wish you God-speed on
your departure for India. I gladly claim the birth-
right Col. Fraser has awarded me. It is quite true
we were quartered together and served with this
regiment in Ireland in 1861, and the fact that the
regiment was once commanded by my revered father
in itself insures my lastinglinterest for its welfare.
(Cheers.) I thank you very much for your kind re-
cognition of the princess, who shares my feelings on
this occasion. It is also my pleasure and my duty to
refer to your noble and gallant colonel, the Earl of
Cardigan, whose name will be ever distinguished by
the part he took in the memorable charge of Bala-
klava. (Cheers.) He commanded your regiment
for many years, and his name can never be disso-
ciated from it. (Cheers.) With regard to your
present commanding officer, Col. Fraser, who is so
justly popular, and who has done so much for the
regiment, in proposing his health I think I can do no
better than to wish him and you all a prosperous
voyage out and a speedy return. (Cheers.)
Col. FRASER, in reply, thanked his royal highness
and the company for their good wishes. Although
it was not an agreeable thing to say good bye with
the prospect of many years' absence in a foreign land,
it was pleasant to know in their own case that the
regiment had stuck to their ship and went out as a
body. (Cheers.) They had, perhaps, lost a few
young men whose mothers preferred service nearer
Rotten-row, but there was satisfaction in knowing
they were not the lads for them. (Cheers and laugh-

ter.) One regret there certainly was—the necessity

of leaving their gallant horses behind. They had
that day mounted their horses for the last time, and

he knew many cases where the separation would be
as poignant as the parting of friend from friend.
(Cheers.) He had purchased most of these horses

himself—many of them as colts—unshod, unbroken,
and unbacked. They had had an opportunity that
day of seeing the manner in which they now obeyed

orders. But this separation, though to be regretted,

was not so painful as an instance he had found in
looking through the re cords of the regiment, by

which it appeared that on one occasion, on the

banks of the Helder, the troopers were ordered to

shoot down 150 of those noble animals which had
carried them to glory and renown because no means

of transport were at hand. In their own case hap-
pily the horses would but pass to another regiment,
and he trusted they would always go as straight to
the enemy as they had been accustomed to do with
the Eleventh. (Cheers.) Col. Fraser concluded by
proposing " The Friends of the Regiment," which

was duly responded to by Viscount Royston, M.P.,
who, in the name of the visitors, wished the regi-
ment " a happy voyage and a happier return."

The proceedings closed with a cordial toast to
The Ladies." Mr. Whyte Melville, in acknow-

Ledgment, aptly remarked that the ladies were sol-

diers to their fingers' ends, and, if deficient in drill,
they certainly never failed in dress. (Laughter.)

The Prince of Wales, after taking a cordial leave
of Col. Fraser and his brouher officers, drove with
the Crown Prince of Denmark through the ancient
town to the railway station, where a special train
was in readiness to convey their Royal Highnesses

back to London.
Col. Fraser wore during the day a magnificent
silver gilt sabre, presented to his father, Sir James
Fraser (who commanded the 7th Hussars), as part
of the spoil of Waterloo. The splendid weapon be-

(From the Special Corre.Toneknt of the Morning Herald).
COLOGNE, June 2.
If time were not very pressing I should gladly
have lingered a few days longer in Holland. In the
oapf appearancecountry
even in the language of the people
there is a remarkable similitude to
the look and speech of the men of North Britain.
There is the same quiet, calm, undemonstrative
manner ; the same determined obstinacy of cha-
racter. But while we have changed under the
unifying influence of modern agencies, the Dutch,
like the Danes, in most of their old customs, have
stood still. The similarity of language is very
striking. If you sit at a long table at Amsterdam
and listen to the hum of conversation between the
second course and the cigars
you think you hear
speaking in the wild confusion of a
dream.
recollect before I knew a word of the
rm.l Englishmen
Danish language being struck at Copenhagen by a
similar feeling, except that the Danish tongue
fcarlndreprirknoeulinkhce:eatc°4frzeyiraustitnie:miltit
and
seemed more like our own than the Dutch,
„we,thatutitewhartwraseseint:bthleed of
of English children to
r
tongue. In Denmaik you see 'the " bairns " affec-
tionately patted on their white heads and carried by
the hand on Sundays to the " kirke," and in Holland
a bill on a house tells an Englishman at once it is to
let or to "hire," for we can scarcely misunderstand
these words which so puzzle a Frenchman. Dit
Buis is to huur. Jan still waits at the tavern, pre-
serving the name for centuries, and stout men, with
broad, grave faces, say without a smile, Jan een
sneeuwballetje"—" John, a little snow-ball," which
you find means a glass of gin and a lump of sugar.
These Dutch love final idleness, and yet they are
the most industrious people in the world. Were
they a dozen feet higher above the sea, and some
two or three hundred miles more to the south, I am
sure they would bask in the sun all the summer days
as indolently as the Italians of the bay of Naples.
But they had to war with nature and with the most
terrible and persevering of foes in the pitiless sea.
They conquered, but they cannot sleep at their posts,
for that dread enemy is still at the gate. Cunningly
they contrived, too, to rule water by air, and more
than half the vast ungainly windmills you see, with
their sails like the arms of giants braving defiance to
the enemy from the walls of their castles, are used
to turn hydraulic wheels and pump the water from
the land. Their thrift is wonderful, and the quaint
old furniture of days anterior to the time of our Wil-
liam the Third is shown you in hundreds of houses,
browner, but as polished and as perfect as when it
was put down at the door from the passing canal
boat. The cleanly appearance of the serving-
women is remarkable, but I understand every one
of them puts up a little money by the year's end,
and their only extravagance is in making an annual
I visit to their village fair, or kermesse as the Dutch
call it. These gatherings are supposed to be strange
scenes of wild gaiety and dissipation. But, bless
your soul, you seldom hear a loud laugh, andnever
a loud word at such assemblies of imaginary wild-
ness. A Dutch holiday, like a great many other
good things, is probably the more keenly, because
the more silently, enjoyed. The great ambition of
the little plump serving-wench, who goes to kermesse
is to be attended by a bachelor. The handsome
lasses obtain such a companion easily enough in
'Tolland as in every other country. Plainer damsels
—I blush for Dutch want of gallantry—are obliged
to hire a beau and pay all expenses. But the most
singular instance of the national thrift, even in
love, which is generalry gefibiiiircis-that very often
two girls club together and hire between them one
handsome Jan, as an escort. But with all this, as
I commenced by saying, they are a people that love
indolence when they can afford it, a quality peculiar
to sailors and to amphibious human beings like the
Dutch. Whenever.a man makes a little fortune his
ambition is to build or buy a formal, many-win-
dowed villa near one of the large towns. He writes

--- the name of his beloved dwelling outside, and the

frequent title he gives the trim palace of his affec-
tions shows it is meant in his mind to be a very
Castle of Indolence. " Lust in rust" may be noted

as a favourite name of residence. In our language
it means literally, " Pleasure and rest." Yes, rest
after toil ; this is the Dutchman's ambition, and all
the day long you will see him idly smoking his pipe
or looking out upon the road, or wandering
slowly amid his gorgeous tulip beds. Flowers are
still cultivated, almost as a passion, in Holland.
Haarlem, to this hour, holds high rank in floricul-

ture, and though the days of the tulipomania are long
passed, and a root of the favoured flower no longer
fetches its 13,000 florins, there are rare specimens
still, which may bring their £lO apiece. Of course
the sums paid in former days for a "Server Augus-
tus" or an "Admiral Liefkenshoek" were but the
gambling prices of the strangest speculative mad-
ness on record. But at the present moment there
is something pressing upon the Dutchman's mind
besides Lust in rust, or Kermesse, or tulip-beds, or
windmills, or even the cattle-plague or cholera. It
is Limbourg. The King of Holland holds hard by
_ _

Luxembourg, but I think he would gladly give that

Duchy of the Ardennes to get his Dukedom of
Limbourg out of the German Confederation. Hol-

stein was in the Confederation, hence Prussia now
has it, or must have it. Limbourg lies still more

conveniently alongside the ambitious kingdom, and

as Schleswig will go with Holstein, and Jutland, too,

in a few years, so the rest of Holland may follow

Limbourg to round, off King William's dominions

to the German sea. Language is no impediment ;
itis only the difference between high and low Dutch.

If I had not observed it personally, I could not have

_
believed the feeling that exists at Amsterdam to-
wards Prussia, or, rather, it is fair to say, towards
the ambitious Minister of that Power. One who
properly and conscientiously performs his duty in
my capacity must not seek information among his
equals alone ; he must throw himself amongst all
classes. The merchants of Amsterdam are positively
desponding to weakness. They profess not to be-
lieve in coming war, but at the same time they
say they do not see how it is to be avoided. They
groan at the name of Bismarck, and consider him
the worst and most dangerous of men. In those
strange, subterranean beer-shops, too, where minor
clerks and working men drain the acrid fluid from
awkward glass mugs, which they scarcely see
through the vapour of tobacco-smoke, one not only
hears the same language, but may distinguish
through the haze the whitewashed walls, half
caricatures of
black-
ened with rough but cleverly-drawn car
troops
the Minister and his King, and the compelledwives and
their
of the Landwehr dragged from
the by
children by cords from before, assisted t
tea-gardens
the e
bay-
onets of the regulars behind.
they fire at a mark and call the little an Bismarck
hit hiin. I saw two
little boys fighting in
and doubly rejoice when h
th
fltryeet, and one
arck you in a great
t!"
fury said to the other,
Passing through Belgium,
I found the personal
feeling towards the Prussian Minister not to be Sc)
-
intense, but the fear
of him to be greater by far
But in
of the French Emperor himself.
than
beginning there has been a strong
Belgium from the
belief, especially in high places, that there will be
no war. Nevertheless in the kingdom of Leopold
all necessary preparations and precautions are
being quietly made. The Belgian army is not only
larger in numbers than the Dutch, but it appears to
mo to be better disciplined and better appointed.
There is much imitation of the French, even to an
exaggerated and unmanly squeezing of the officers'
waists, and the force of the two kingdoms of the
Netherlands will be sure to form an admirable con-
tingent to some great Power, though in itself, -of
course, unable to stand a month against either

Prussia or France. There see ktometo be much
ittat
~.
difference of character, too, be 'een the Dutch and
Belgians. The former would cu eir dykes, sub- .i,
80m Years
unceasingly
neocuntinryg,laynd ruin their pret t proheritr'
to preserve an independence for which therbattl4l
against the old Spaniards.
But neither the country nor the people of Belgium
is suited to a guerilla war or to any protracted cam-
paign of defence.
There r
ramparts
sis
ofinfooiAtehnaedt
wsaiennrgpdlernernealldareymriinnedgg
state point inof thethe country,
that fortress as yet bat a trap. Time in warfare is
everything, and very few of the small states com-
prehend this. But as I have given you the parti-
culars in a rough way of the Dutch army, I may as
well resolve the Belgian force into a few figures.
The artillery consists of 4 horse batteries (flying),
of 580 men ; 15 field batteries, of 1,470 men ; and
24 garrison batteries, of 1,752 men ; making a total,
with men at depot, of nearly 4,000 effective gunners,
1,507 horses, and 152 guns. The train, engineers,
&c., will add about 1,200 men to this number. Of
cavalry there are two regiments of mounted Chas-
seurs of 10 squadrons and two depot squadrons ;
four very smart regiments of Lancers—making up
20 squadrons and four depot squadrons; and the
Guides (one of the finest regiments in Europe),
consisting of six squadrons, and one at the depot.
At the Cavalry School there is also a sort of staff
of two squadrons, and there is the mounted gen-
darmerie of nine companies. A Belgian squadron
of horse counts 130 men, exclusive of officers, and
' 115 horses. The infantry is in full proportion'ate
numbers. It consists of a regiment of Carabineers
(four battalions or 24 companies), two regiments of
Foot Chasseurs .(six battalions or 36 companies),
one regiment of Grenadiers (three battalions or 18
companies), and 1-2 regiments of the lined SC bat-
`-t-Entins, divideil into- 216 companies. There are,
further, 32 battalions of reserve of 128 companies.
7r4an,sks6anmdefinl;e.
Each company of Belgian infantry counts 146 men,
exclusive of officers ; and a battalion consists of 876
may therefore thus be summed up :—lnfantry,
Artillery, 3,818
regular force of Belgium
Gendarmery,seppereend E IgB,u3ran,inn;e,rosB:;ea.C,garsva2ly;
totalaanndd
a law passed June 8,
increased in case of war to
eismoment it may be more of 86,272 fight
1852, this
Bnuut number is
inte-
resting to know the state of public feeling in Rhenish.
Prussia, from which I write, than the minute parti-
-6inn7gs!nmpeeersna.cb3or'erßBspl;;B,
culars of the forces which each State may now or
hereafter bring into the field. Amongst all whom I
have as yet met the universal and openly expressed
desire is for peace, and Count Bismarck seems
equally detested here as in Amsterdam, and more so
than in Brussels. Some few there are, who still con-
demning war, are more just in attributhig honest
and even liberal intentions to the famous Minister.
They say in his heart he wishes for an united and a
free Germany, but that he can only
accomplish his
wishes by seeming to play into the hands of the
Feudal party. This view of the Minister's character
is evidently farfetched. His birth, his early educa-
tion, his antecedents, his often expressed desire that
all great cities were destroyed as the hotbeds of Ra-
dicalism, give the lie to any justly grounded suspi-
cion of insincerity on his part. He is far too bold,
and I will say too great, a man to lie otherwise than
diplomatically ; and for my part, however I may
condemn his ambition, I honour him far more highly
than I do the men who abuse him and still have not
the manliness to pull him down—who scandalously
deplore the ill success of his would-be assassin, and
yet fear to lift au open fingeragainst him themselves.
As to the results of the conference, a minority are
beginning to hope it may result in a settlement. But
the great majority shake their heads and say, even
if the King of Prussia begins to tremble at the mon-
ster his Minister has evoked, that the public feeling
and splendid military position of Austria will render
that power too haughty to yield an inch before Flo-
rence and Berlin in her grasp.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN June 5.

The proceedings of the general court-martial on
Colour-sergeant Allearthy, 53d Regiment, for al-
leged complicity id-the Fenian conspiracy, were re-
mimed at the Royal Barracks yesterday. The entire
attention of the Court was occupied during the day
by the cross-examination of Constable Talbot. The
object of the cross-examination was to show that
the witness was himself implicated in the Fenian
coaspiracy, and therefore that his testimony was
unworthy of credit. It appeared, however, that his
participation in their proceedings was entirely for
the purpose of getting information. The difficulty
of conveying that information to his superiors he
illustrated by stating that he on some occasions had
to take ten journeys to the post-office at Carrick-
on-Suir before he could pet an opportunity of post-
ing a letter. Sometimes he posted his letters else-
where, but the direction on the cover was seldom
in his own handwriting. Nothing was elicited to
shake his testimony. The Court again adjourned.
It is stated that in pursuance of instructions from
the Commander of the Forces in Ireland another
general court-martial will be held, under the presi-
dency of Colonel Sawyer, of the 6th Dragoon
Guards, in the officers' messroom of the 85th Regi-
ment in the Royal Barracks, at 11 o'clock a.m., on
Thursday next, for the trial of a number of pri-
soners, who, we understand, are charged with com-
plicity in the Fenian movement. Lieutenant-Colonel
Mein will act as Deputy-Judge Advocate. The mem-
bers of the Court will consist of officers of the different
corps in garrison, and will be selected for this duty
by the Town Major.
The Lord-Lieutenant received a counter-deputa-
tion yesterday on the subject of Union rating. It
is a question of town against country, and Lord
Kimberley said there was great difference of opinion
between the parties as to the facts.

At the half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of
the Hibernian Bank, held yesterday, the chairman
announced a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annum free of income-tax.

LAMENTABLE A
about -
5C o'clock,CiDE a v
occurred at Guildhall, ----
Yesterday evening,
where
er
ee very
preparationslamentable
are
nowacci-
dent
being made for the reception of his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh
°llbeing presented with the freedom. o
of the City. Some fal-
ling with
a crashascaffoldingnumberosfuwddoernlyegan
who
ohwo
wereay, and
upon
and under .it at the moment were injured, more or less
seriously. Thirteen of them had afterwards to be removed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where they still remain,
suffering from various injuries. Their names aro George
Henry Holyoak,
a carpenter ; George Connor, labourer;
William Joseph Ebden and William Ebden, carpenters ;
William and Edwaid Guilby, paperhangers ; Thomas
William Heald, paper/lilt:Igoe
fra. r Theitis
Dobell, carpenter ;
Harper Heeld, decorator; .Alfred Sauptpceith,rdteocobritfoarthe; Marl;
and
William Corrick, paperhanger; George
The man William Corrick,
every stage, are only ag-
Orton, bricklayer and
n
above mentioned, had one of his legs fractured, but in th
son,confusionb d
aynB'f
dor
omw also
theirtcl e
prevailedrespectiveGlli Y s.
afterages,
of every description. but
ebl
ye r
Da tue d
Bbayr drugss
known what injuries the rest had received. S
no
stomach.
understoodDAE ztazt hEit:;:et;.Lhcp7ialibsEist::pii
as
ne
do f
llife.
a lnervous,billow,,
eaunrdaba:
Arabica Food, as proved by thousands health restoring Revalenta
been considered hopeless ; suchonsands of cases which had
pgreralvecatellyd
cough, asthma, consumption, as indigestion (dyspepsia),
hem, all gastric derangements, habitual constipation diArr-
flatulency,. haemorrhoids, liver com-
plaints,throats,nervousness
diphtheria, biliousness' fevers, sore
head and ears, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the
hysteria, rheumatism, gout, imputities, eruptions,
pal-
pitation, neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, pal-
,pasnv„,
nausea heartburn,a headache, debility, dropsy, cramps,
sinking fits, nd sickness even in pregnancy or at sea.
Pains in the pit of bronchitis,the stomach toscrofula, tightness of the chest,
ic
&C. We quote a few.— cow.
em aNcoh axl27bo.et;rverenjathineesshßooniocr
rste,
timber merchant, of Frim ley Surrey, of .hirty years' diseased
lungs, spittinzof blood, liver derangement, and partial deaf-
ness.—Cure, No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jae...,bs, of extreme
nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nerl,ollB
lancies.—Cure, Ne.. 1,77!. Lord ~tuart de Decies, Lord-Lieu-
,tenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia.--1-0.49.832.
Fitt y years' indeserlbJble agony from dyspepsia, nerVollsuess,
asthma, cough, const patter!, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and
vomiting.---Maria Jolly.- Cure No. 54,815. The Rev. James T.
Campbell, leaks ham, Norfolk, of indigestion and torpidity
of the liver, which had resisted all medical treatment.—
In tins, 115, 2s 9d; 21b, 4s 61; 51b, 11a; 121 b, 225; 211 b,
10s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London;
also Phillips, tea dealers, 8, King William-street ; likewise
at 61, GraCcchurch-street ; 4, Cheaps. ,lae ;
49, Bishopsgate-
street Within ; 63, IP, and 298, Oxford-street ; 330, Strand;
54,
Baker-street ; 103, Tottenham-court-road ; 96,
Upper
Islington, N.; Harvey, Nottinz-hill • Close
Upper-street, .:, ,
Brothers, 65, 04.,-h, -street ; and Stubbs, Queen's-terrace, St.
Joho's-wood. London; and all respectable grocers and Che. _
n;wts.-110WAre of spurious imitations.

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