The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-23 00:00:00

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 supporting the 400 boys is es 'mated at
£4,0,0, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
low promised to pay for one bly each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and'West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothbury. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, fall-Mall East ; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOU RUSKIN, Esq., ILL.
vicn-rnEsznENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYA.N, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Iluth, Esq,
RANKERS.,
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E.C.

" Before the century was actually in its teens, we believe
that George Cruno, was amusing the public. Is there
no way in whtct hank
country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor r-
TIIACICERAY.

The public In general I.; invited to co-operate in this move-
mentned as . SubicriPtions
secr re
4aceivabie as above, or by the under-
hone: ary ry,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.

8, York-villas, Brixton, S.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, 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 th©
nights in tho, bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. Tho 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, refused admittance, 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 lie required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the vur-
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, tbe prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf-
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT p.p., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus, E.C.

It nitvsb ho Lorne in mina that /u thu theatre of
war there are three rivers of the name of Neisse.
They are all, either directly or indirectly, affluents
of the Oder, and are therefore not unlikely to be
confounded with one another. The most westerly
of the three is that which flows past this town. It
rises in Bohemia, passes by Zittau, forming near
that town the defile by which Napoleon in 1813
penetrated into Bohemia, flows by Ostritz, Gorlitz,
Priebus, and Muskau, communicates with the Spree
by the Cottbus Canal, and finally falls into the
Oder. The next river of this name towards the east
is an affluent of the Katihach, itself an affluent of
the Oder. This Neisse is distinguished as the
Wuthende, or raging Neisse. It rises near Hohen-
friedberg, celebrated for the victory gained in 1745
by Frederick the Great over the Austrians, passesby
Jauer, and joins the Ratzbach about seven miles
above Liegnitz. It was between Jauer and the
confluence of these two streams that the battle
of Katzbach was lost by Macdonald in 1813.
The Neisse river which runs past the fortress of
Neisse, the present head-quarters of the Crown
Prince, rises in the mountains south of Glatz,
passes by that fortress, and by Neisse, and
joins the Oder about 12 miles below Brieg.
It is to this river that the principal defiles leading
through the Riesen Gebirge into Central Silesia are
due. The Prussian advanced guards occupied
Dresden last evening, and Prince Frederic Charles
has thus gained possession of the line of railway
which forms the lateral communication through
Saxony. The advance has yet been unopposed ; the
Austrian General still tarries behind the mountains.
Great movements have been going on among his
troops, but no indication of an advance has as yet
been given. Now, it appears as if the Austrians
will have a difficult task before them should they
attempt to deprive the Prussians of the advantages
which the latter have already gained, for Prince
Frederic Charles is this morning firmly fixed in
Saxony, and has evidently no intention of allowing
his hold on this country to be lightly shaken off.
The general course of events in the occupation
of Saxony has been as follows :—On the evening of
the 15th, when the Saxon Government had rejected
the Prussian ultimatum and knew that the army of
Prince Frederic Charles was concentrated on the
frontier, means were adopted to impede as much as
possible the advance of the Prussian troops. Saxon li
pioneers were set to work upon the railways which
ltad from the frontier upon Dresden. Of such rail-
ways there are two, that which follows the valley
of the Elbe and joins the Leipsic line at Riesa,
and that which from Gorlitz leads by Bautzen upon
the capital of Saxony. At nightfall the Saxon
pioneers commenced their work, but in the dark,
and, under constant apprehension of being broken
in upon by the Prussian advanced guards, they made
The rails were taken up, but
nor twisted, nor broken
immediately available. At 11
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railway brandies to Leipsic and Chemnitz across the
Elbe, near Ricza, was set on fire by means of petro-
letim. Its destruction was not accomplished, for
only
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ande t hwhole bridge
wase
evening
of the next
day.
While the work of demolition went slowly on
in Saxony heavy masses of Prussian troops were
drawing together and closing down to the very
frontier line of that kingdom. Between Gorlitz
and the border on the west Prince Frederic Charles
marshalled three strong corps d'armee, while near
Strehla on the north General Von Bittenfeld
divided his force into three columns, so as to ad-
vance with a broad front and as quickly as possible
on the railway junction at Riesa. During the few
dark hours of the short summer night the last pre-
parations for the invasion were made; the main bodies
of the troops were all collected together about mid-
night, and the soldiers piled arms to rest and wait
for dawn. Few slept, a dull and heavy murmur
continually rose from the crowded columns, and told
the subdued but deep excitement which pervaded
the hearts of the men; and this excitement was not
without a cause, for all thought the Austrian was in
Dresden, and that theie would be a battle on the