The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-21 00:00:00

LAST WEEK BUT THREE OF

ALFRED MELTON'S PROMENADE
CONCERTS.

THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.

THE GRAND VOLUNTEER NIGHT THIS EVENING.
Vocalists PAREPA, Mdlle. LANCIA, Madame
LAURA BAXTER, Miss S. COLE, Mr. WEISS, and Mr.
VE itN ON RIGBY.
Grand Selection from "Dinprah "—Grand Operatic Selec-
tion, "Robert le Diable "—New Volunteer March and Part
Song—Beethoven's BATTLE Symphony, performed by the
Orchestra and the Bands of the Victoria Rifles and the City
of London Rifle Brigade.—Overtures, Quadrilles, Polkas,
Waltzes, Galops, Songs, Solos, tc.,

Commence every Evening. at 8. Promenade, is.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.
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On Monday next an ENGLISH NIGHT.

TBEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, the nertormanoes win annul
FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LADY.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX.
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Buckstone. Slr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers ,
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &o.
With THE CRITIC: Mr. C. Mathews.
To conclude with the Ballet, BACCHUS AND ARIADNE°
Commenoe a 7

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
THIS EVENING, at Eight o'clock, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN - or. Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin,
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson.
Preceded by, each evening, the new and original farce,
entitled THE FETCHES; or, The Onconvanlence of Single
Life. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ; Mary O'Grady,
Miss Lydia Thompson.
Prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, tO commence at
• 7 Box-office open daily from 11 till 5.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI _
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Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.
Thish COLLEEN BAWNh_eatre will RE-OPEN MONDAY, September
2l
CO
m and Mrs. Dion Boucicault will re-appear in
This Drama will be played fora limited number of nights
durin, the preparation of the new American Drama, by Mr.
p. Boucicault, entitled THE OCTOROON; or, LIFE IN
LOUISIANA.
Box-office open daily.

NVERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
air. SAM COWELL every Evening at Nine and a quarter
to ElPven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE,
TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, dm., by Miss Russell,
MISS Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivoli, Mr. Morley, and a
powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs.
Harvey and French, "The Nerves " Mr. Marshall—Mr.
Wood and his talented Son and Miss Harriet Coveney.
New Opera by Aubcr, LA CIRCASSIENNE.—A Grand
Selection, arranr,ed and conducted by Mr. Jonghmans, from
this Opera will be produced, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THIS
COUNTRY, on MONDAY next. Principal Artistes—Miss
Russell, Mr. Herbert, and Signor Tivoli.

Musical Director, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is,

T HE. 0 X FORD,
6, OXFORD-STREET.
EVERY EVENING.
A Grand Selection from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Boo-
canegra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by
Itis4 Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, 'Worley,
and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame
Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain-
/cents by Messrs. M. P. Foster, Sam Collins, Harvey and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall, and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpence; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.

This DAY.—Morning, 3h.' Bm.—Afternoon, 3h. 24m.
To-Ntounow.-Morning, 3h. 37m.—Afternoon, 3h. 50m.

TIIE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1861,
THERMOMETER, IN TIER BRAM.
64—highest since noon yesterday.'
46 —lowest this morning and during the night.
61—this day at noon.
BanomETER-20.82 , a fall of of an inch since Thurs-
day.

WrxD—South-Westerly—light ; with cloudy weather,
and some slight showers.
Two o'ctocx.—Wind, South-West ; fresh, with heavy
showers.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, SATURDAY, SEPT. 21, 1881.

At length we may congratulate ourselves on

having a worthy representative of the Iron of

England fairly afloat on the great waters. The
Warrior has quitted the Thames, and is now in

the great naval station of the country, all but

ready for any work that might be assigned her.
Hitherto, indeed, all has been both smooth and

plaid sailing► for her.

One exception, indeed

must be made to the latter—for sailing, or rather

steering, out of the Thames was very crooked

work. The channel was so full of craft, which

her touch would have smashed and sent to the

bottom, that nothing but the perfect response to
the helm of the vast mass of iron saved them

from destruction, or the mighty vessel from get-

ting aground. This difficulty completely de-
monstrated one capability of the Warrior.

Should it be imperative for her to force

an entrance into an enemy's harbour, the most in-

tricate passage with depth enough of water wil

not hinder her progress. Heedless of balls, which

will rattle off her iron casing, of shells, which will

smash themselves on it, and of even molten iron
which cannot set cold iron on fire, she will hold on

her winding way till she has done the work

assigned her.

So smooth was the water all the voyage that no
fair conception can yet be formed of what will be

her behaviour in a storm. We have just had a sad

warning not to trust too much the verdict of ordi-

nary seas and rough weather, in this respect. Still

we have no fear that tha Warrior will disappoint us.

Her hold on the water, and the power of her rudder

seem to be equal to placing her in the position to
breast the hurricane like a petrel, and we shall

hope teat such will be the result of actual trial.

Lightly buoyantly she moved over such swell

as she had to encounter, and an Atlantic gale will,

we trust, only illustrate still more satisfactorily the

same qualities.

Sixteen miles an hour is the speed which may
fairly be expected of her; fourteen and a half she
has done with a foul bottom, and the launching
cleats still attached to her. With her armament
she is not a vessel to need taking up a safe distance
from an antagonist, whom she may pound at her
leisure, but her speed will enable her to overtake
the fugitives who might be but too happy to evade
her two 100-pounder Armstrongs, and her thirty-six
68-pounders of 05 cwt. The power of her arma-
ment La Gloire will certainly never test if she can
help it. One point of no little practical importance
in an engagement was established. Her small
ports—small to protect the gunners inside—instead
of keeping in the smoke, kept it out; and the
weather being so calm, the maindeck was actually
clear of smoke while the cloud still enveloped the
spar deck.

The engines seem to be beyond all praise. Their
enormous power, little short, if needed, of 6,000
horses ; their smooth and noiseless working from
the first; the consequent absence of vibration in
the solid sides of the hull of the huge vessel ; the
sinr-2!icity of the machinery, the magnitude
anti irresistible motion of whose parts approaches
the awful or :sublime, leave nothing to be desired.
'WI at this mechanical omnipotence is, may be partly
conceived from the ftset that they have to start from
a state of rest, and to impel, at a speed of 16 miles
ant hour, a total weight of ab3ut 9,000 tens, and that
too against the resistance of the water in which she
lies to a depth of 26 feet and upwards. One mighty
screw is the fish-tail through which this power ope-
rates on the element in which it is immersed, and
which Propels the giant and solid mass with a force
which, we may well believe, would send to the
bottom any a •
hip of an enemy against whom she