The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

CONTRACT FOR TALLOW.

Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
Somerset-place, 20th July, 1857.
THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britair,
aid Ireland, DO HEREBY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 4th August next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with .itch oersons as may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich with

160 Tons of RUSSIA or ENGLISII TALLOW.

A distribution of the tallow and a form of the tender may be seen
at the said office. No tender will he received after Two o'clock on the
day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends or
an agent for him duly authorised in writing.
Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty,
and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Tal
low," and must he delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied
by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering, in the sum of 2,C00/., for the duo
performance of the contract.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-Road.
Patron—The QUEE N.:

Founded 1828.
The sick poor are admitted on their own application alone. No
recommendation is required.
During the past month (June), 8,278 received the benefits of this
Charity, either as out or in-door patients, and since its foundation to
31st Dec., 1856, the number relieved is upwards of 580,000.
The Committee entreat AID to enable them to continue this great
work of charity.
Treasurer and Banker—John Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane.

CANCER HOSPITAL, London and West
Brompton.--Becretary's Office, 167, Piccadilly.—This Institu-
tion has been established exclusively for the treatment of the poor
afflicted with cancerous diseases. Out-door patients to attend at 167,
Piccadilly, on Tuesdays, at 2 o'clock. In-door patients are admitted
at the Brompton Estal,lishment, for one month, and for a longer
period if recommended by the medical officers. The number of per-
sons under treatment as in or out-door patients have averaged for
the lAst.three years about 400 cases each year. Since the founolation
of this Hospital in 1851, 1,799 poor persons, suffering under every
form of this dreadful malady, have received the benefits of this
Ch9rity. A Weekly Board manage its affairs, and every informa-
tion connected with the Institution may be obtained on application
to the Secretary. Contributions to enable the Committee to continue
this great work of benevolence are urgently solicited, and may be
paid to William Loxham Farrar, Esq., the Treasurer, 66, Lincoln's-
inn-fields; Messrs. COutts and Co., Strand; and at the Secretary's
()dices, 167, Piccadilly. _ _

Ey order.
W. J. COCKERILL Secretary.

CANCER TIOSPITA4

The fifth annual meeting of the friends and sup-
porters of this excellent charity, was yesterday held
At the offices of the charity, Piccadilly—Mr. Oliver
Farrer in the chair. There were also present, Mr.
W. L. Farrer, Dr. Marsden, Mr. Withal!, Mr.
Hallswell, Dr. Knox, Mr. ex-Sheriff Cottrell, &e.The report of the committee congratulated the
friends of the institution upon its increased useful-
ness, and stated that the secretary daily received
letters of thanks, from the patients who had been
treated in the hospital. As the institution became
more known the number of patients increased, and
the committee had therefore to enlarge the extent
of their accommodation for indoor patients. The
premises which they at present occupied at Bromp-
ton could be easily enlarged ; but as the owner of
them could not give the institution a satisfactory
title, the committee had purchased at the cost of
4,5001., a piece of ground opposite the Consumption
Hospital, on the Fulham-road, about one acre in
extent, and with a frontage of 135 feet. On this
area it was resolved to build a new hospital from de-
signs gratuitously furnished by Mr. Mocat3, capa-
ble in the first instance of accommodating fifty
pAfents, but which. can be enlarged to meet the
wants of 300. This building will, it is expected,
cost 6,000/,
and Miss Burdett Coutts has advanced
a loan of 3,000/. 'for that purpose. The total re-
ceipts for the year, including a balance of 1831. 6s.
7d. from the previous audit, and about 1,3101. in
donations, amounted in all to 3,1961. 19s. The
expenditure for the same period was 3,0641. 13$.
81., leaving in bands a balance of 1321. ss. sd.
The funded property of the institution at present
amounts to 3,2001. in the 3 per Cent. Consols. The
surgical report having forcibly deprecated the use
of caustics, and insisted upon constitutional treat-
meet in the cure of cancer, gave the following ',sta-
tistics of the working of the institution from its
commencement to the 31st Dec last :

Out-patients, Males, 190... Females, 1,279 Total, 1,469
In-patients, Males, 84... Females, 289 Total, 373

Males, 274,..Females, 1,568 Grand total, 1,542
Of the outpatients discharged with disease arrested or
relieved
Discontinued attendance, in consequence of residing at
too great a distance from London, and not having the
neceseary means to enable them regularly to atterd ;
or unable to attend
Died at their owe residencies 194
At present under treatment
Of the in-patients discharged with disease arrested or
relieved 295
Successfully operated on
• Died .... 40
.......... •At present under treatment
The several reports having been adopted, the Chair-
man, Dr. Marsden, Mr. Nelson, and other gentle-
men, strongly advocated the charity, after which a
building fund was opened, and largely subscribed
to in the room, towards the erection of anew hospi-
tal. After a series of votes of thanks to the com-
mittee, the medical officers, the treasurer, and the
chaplains, who gave their services without fee or
reward, the proceedings terminated in the usual
manner.

given at Lloyd's that her Majesty's Govern-
AN EXTRAORDINARY BATOR OF CONVICTS.—Notice
require a ship immediately to carry 400 male
chmoaensnvtbiCtesnfrom England to Freernantle, Western Aus-
tralia. Among the 400 will be found Sir John Dean
Paul, Straban, and Bates, tha fraudulent bankers ; Rob
Qon, the Crystal Palace forger ; Redpatb, who committed
the forgeries on the Great Northern Railway Company ;
and Agar, the convict who gave evidence against
Tester, Burgeon, and Pierce for the great gold robbery
on the South-Eastern Railway. The notorious bank
forger, Barrister Saward, alias Jem the Penman, the
Putter up of all the great robberies in the metropolis for
the last 20 years, also goes out in this ship, which will
leave England on the 25th proximo.
THE CONVICT JEMMISON.—This woman, who was con-
victed at the recent York assizes of the murder of her
child at Moorsholme, under very painful circumstances,
will undergo the last penalty of the law on the Bth of
Aug., unless previously reprieved. The convict is occa-
sionally overwhelmed with grief, but she does not al),
oear to realise the awful position in which she stands.
%Le is watched night and day by female attendants,
L And the prison chaplain, the Rev. T. Sutton, ministers
Ito her spiritual necessities in every possible way.

Captain George R'imsay, C. 8., we believe, is
selected to succeei Captain Smart as Superinten-
dent of Pembroke dockyard.
The Owen Glendower and Ramilies freigbtships
sailed from Spithead for Kurrachee yesterday morn-
ing with the troops before mentioned.
The freightship Whirlwind arrived at Spithead
yesterday to embark a portion of tho 19th Foot for
India.

The Aln wick Castle freightship,mbarked yester-
day the following officers and men of the 19th Re-
giment for India :—Lieut.-Colonel G. 0. Mundy,
Major G. B. Jennings, Captains Massey, Clay,
Sheaffe, Lambert, and Bayley ; Lieutenants Goren,
Kirke, Dalton, Forbes, and Moffatt ; Ensigns
Magan, Knox, Biddulph, Rew, Idea, and Frith ;
Assistant-Surgeon Webb, Lieut. G. Baldwin, 19
sergeants, seven drummers, 18 corporals, 358 pri-
vates—total, 422. She went out to Spithead yes-
terday, and sails thence this morning.
The William Hammond freightship embarked the
following troops yesterday at Portsmouth for India:
—Captain Stehelin, Lieut. Gorton, Ensigns Bern-
ford and Shadwell, three corporals, and 83 privates
of the 29th Regiment ; Lieutenants Buck, Bag-
nall, and Davern, two corporals, and 120 privates
of the 53d Regiment ; 20 privates of the first
battalion of the 60th Rifles ; and Assistant-surgeon
Smith, of the 19th Regiment.
Our Southampton correspondent informs us by
electric and international telegraph that the Golden
Fleece and Lady Jocelyn steamers have been
chartered to Government for the conveyance of

troops to India, in consequence of which there will
be no departures of the European and American
Company's ships for the Brazils on the 4th of
August and the 4th of September.
The East India Company's troopship Alfred,
Pope commander, has arrived at GI avesencj with
120 non-commissioned officers and men belonging
to the 9th Royal Lancers, and the 52d Light In-
fantry, under the command of Major R. M. Best,
10th Foot, and Lieutenant G. L. W. D. Flamstead,
52d Light Infantry; Captain Lovedale, 15th Native
Infantry, and Lieutenant-Colonel 11. Bingham,
also came home with the troops. The Alfred
sailed from Calcutta on the 7th of March, and
anchored at St. Helena on the 3d of June leaving
on the following day. The vessel had a tedious
passage of 135 days. During the voyage six
soldiers and one of the crew died on board.
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Eden, Captain A. Milne, Sir Baidwin Walker,
B.C. 8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Colonel
G. een. Their lordships slept on board the
Black Eagle off Chatham dockyard, the
Black Eagle having unfortunately taken the
ground while steaming up the Medway on Tuesday
evening, and at 9 o'clock yesterday morning landed
at the Queen's-staire, where guard of honour of
the Royal Marine Light Infantry, under the com-
mand of Cspt. C. J. Ellis, with their band and di-
visional colours, received their lordships with the
usual honours. The Board were received by Cap-
tain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., Superintendent of
Chatham Dockyard, and the various officers of the
establishment. Their lordships, accompanied by
the officers, proceeded to inspect the various ships
in course of building and now in dock. They first
examined the Hero, 91, screw steamer, building on
No. 2 slip. This vessel was commenced in 1854,
and is so far completed that she is expected to be
launched during the present year. She will be
fitted with machinery of 600-horse power. They
next visited the Goliath, 80, in dock, undergoing
alterations to fit her for a screw steamer. Their
lordships afterwards inspected the Charybdis, 21,
screw steam-corvette, commenced in March of last
year, and laid down on the same slip as that from
which the Severn, 51, sailing frigate, was launched ;
the Irresistible, 80, screw steamer (building) ; and
the Hood, 90. Their lordships spent some time in
examing the Mersey, 40 screw steamer, which will
be the longest frigate in the navy, her length being
337 feet. She is being completed with all despatch,
and will be supplied with engines of 1,000 horse-
power. After inspecting the slip on which the
large screw steamer Atlas, 91, is to be laid down,
their lordships visited the ropery,
mast-house, smitb.ery,and saw-mills, metal-mills,
other por-
tions of the establishment. On leaving the
establishments the visitors proceeded to in-
spect the site of the large newsteam-basins,
which are proposed to be built at the extreme
eastern end of the yard, the drawings and plans of
which were explained to their lordships. The
foundations of the pr .;posed new docks will be ex-
cavated by, the convices. The Lords of the Admi-
ralty, having returned to the dockyard, inspected
the various improvements now being carried on at
that establishment, the most important of which is
the construction of the large tidal basin, the length
of which is 400 feet. No. 3 dock is also being
lengthened 80 feet, which will give its extreme
length 325 feet. The construction of both the
docks is being carried out by Messrs. Rigby.
After inspecting the several improvements now in
progre3s at. Chatham Dockyard, their lordships
ordered the whole of the persons employed in the
establishment to be mustered, which having been
done, they were inspected by their lordships, who
granted them a h cif-day's holiday. On leaving the
Dockyard their lordships proceeded to the Marine
Barracks, where the whole of the Chatham division
of voyal Marine and Light Infantry, at present at
head-quarters, with their band and colours, were
drawn up in the Barrack-square, under the com-
mand of the Commandant-Col. E. A. Parker. The
detachments of Marines under orders to embark for
China, numbering about 400 officers and men,
were formed on the right of of the division. After
inspecting the library, barrack-rooms, mess-rooms,
&c., their lordships visit d Melville Hospital, and
in the afternoon returned to the Admiralty.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Gorgon, Commander
George W. Towsey, lait from the Mediterranean,
was yesterday morning admitted into basin .at
Woolwich and placed under the sheers in order to
land her cargo, which consists of 250 packages,
among which are some colossal statues in marble of
horse=, &c., weighing eight or ten tons each, exca-
vated by the officers and crew of the Gorgon among
the ruins of the ancient city of Halicarnassus, in
Asia Minor. Among the smaller discoveries are
seine highly preserved mosaics, friezes, &sc., the
whole of which aro about to be deposited in the
British Museum. The Gorgon having been upwards
of three years in commission is under orders to be
paid off at Woolwich.
The Lady Edington steamer called at Woolwich
yesterday morning and shipped a couple of Russian
guns, trophies of the late war, for Galway, which
have been presented by Government, to be erected
in the most public thoroughfare of that town.
Master Commander Noddall and the officers of
her Majesty's
ship
dockyardA g acomnnemeentoend with the shipment
, with the officers
of w.
of the telegraphic wire, are to be entert tined at
dinner to-day at Belvidere-house, the residence of
Sir Culling Eardley, at Erith, prior to the depar-
ture of the Agamemnon from Greenwich.
The brigade of Royal Horse Artillery under the
command of Colonel Wood, and the field batteries
in command of Colonel Teesdale, were put through
the manceuvres of a field-day yesterday on Wool-
wich-common.

The drilling of the garrison in rifle practice still
continues at Freshwater East, about seven miles
from Pembroke, where a camp for the summer has
been established, and detachments in turn sta-
tioned there for the practice. The annual training
of the coastguard has commenced at the dockyard,
the men having been for the purpose drawn in from
the various stations. Their practice at the great
guns has been very good, the broad waters of the
haven giving ample scope for the firing.
Lieutenant G. R. laiall Jam been appointed to

We regret to announce the death of Admiral J.
Bullen (1841), which mournful event occurred at
Bath, on the 17th inst , in the 97th year of his
age. He was born Aprill4, 1761, and entered the
navy in Nev.,
1774, as midshipman, on board the
Pallas' 36, Capt. Hon. W. Cornwallis, with whom
he cont;nued to serve, in the 50 gall ships Isis,
Bristol, and Chatham, and 64 gun ship Li n, on
the coasts of Africa and North America, and in
the West Indies, until 1779. During that period
he was present, in the Isis, at the attacks on Red
Bank and Mud Fort, in Oct. and Nov. 1777 • and,
as master's mate of the Lion, to >k part, July 6,
1779, in the action between Vice-Admiral Hon. J.
Byron and the Comte d'Estaing off Granada, on
which occasion the latter ship was fearfully cut up,
and endured a loss of 21 killed and 33 wounded.
Mr. Bullen, who had been promoted to the rank
of lieutenant, March 6, 1778, shortly aft'rwarJa
joined the Hinchinbroke, 28, Capt." Horatio Nel-
son, whom he accompanied in 1789, in the arma-
ment against Fort St. Juan, on the Spanish Main.
He then returned to the Lion ; and, on being lent
to the Prince George, 93, he participated as officer,
in charge of half the middle gun-deck, in Rodney's
victory over the Comte de Grasse, April 12, 1782,
after a glorious conflict, in which the Prince Geocge
occupied a very conspicuous position, and: had 9
meu killed and 20 wounded. On the 6th Feb , 1793,
he was appointed to the Agamemnon, 64, Capt.
Horatio Nelson, actively employed in the Mediter-
ranean ; and, -September 11 followine, to the Vic-
tory, 100, flag ship of Lord Hood, at Toulon. At
the defence of the latter plebe against the revolu-
tionista he held for three weeks the volunteered
command of Fort Mulgrave, where the bursting of
a 36-pounder killed and wounded every one pre-
sent except himself and Captain Walter Serocold.
In the Proselyte frigate, with the view of rescuing
300 Spanish and eapolitan troops, who would
otherwise inevitably have fallen into the hands of
the French, he was last, when Toulon was evacu-
ated, to quit the harbour ; and so impracticable
had his escape, in consequence of his voluntary act
of humanity, been considered, that Loyd Hood, in
the dispatches he was about to send home, had ac-
tually returned the Proselyte as lost. During the
early part of the siege of Basti, in March, 1794,
Captain Bullen served as a volunteer under Capt.
Serocold, who had superseded him in the Prose-
lyte, out of which ship they were both burned by
red-hot shot, and towards the close of the opera-
tions he commanded an advanced battery. His
services throughout were reported by Nelson in the
highest possible terms. He invalided in July of
the same year, and was afterwards, in the course of
1796, appointed as a volunteer to the Santa Mar-
garitta of 40 guns and 237 men, Captain Thomas
Byam Martin, and as commander and acting cap-
tain to the Scourge, sloop, and Alexander, 74, in
the first of which ships he assisted in the manage-
ment of the main-deck guns, and distinguished
himself by his meritorious conduct at the recapture
on June 8, near Waterford, of the Tamise, of 40
guns and 306 men, of whom 32 were killed and 19
wounded, while of the British only two were slain
and three wounded, after a close and gallant action
of twenty minutes. Captain Bullen, who was ad-
vanced to post rank -November 24, 1796, subse-
quently commanded, for want of ability to procure
a ship, the Lynn Regis district of Sea Fencibles
from September 26, 1804, until the disbandment of
that corps in 1810. He has since been on half-pay.
He became a rear-admiral August 28, 1819, a vice-
admiral November 12, 1840, and a full admiral
November 23, 1841. By Admiral Bullen's death
his half-pay is saved to the country, for there is no
promotion consequent upon his decease.

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OP
ENGLAND.

SALISBURY, Wednesday Evening.

About a quarter to one o'clock a special train
brought his Highness the Prince Consort to the
Salisbury station of the South-Western Railway
from Osborne. The Mayor having slid a few
words of welcome to the Prince, which were cour-
teously acknowledged, his Royal Highness entarel
a carriage, and accompanied by Captain De Ros
and his worship drove rapidly off to the show-
ground, where he was received by Lord Portman
and other members of the council of the Royal Agri-
cultural Society, and by them conducted through
the yards. His Royal Highness's visit lasted about
two hours, and his chief attention was devo`ed to
the stock departments, in several of which he is an
exhibitor. At the close of his tour of inspection be
proceeded to the episcopal palace, where he partook
of luncheon, returning to Osborne in the evening.
Although his visit wasa brief and strictly private
one, the populace bad turned out in large numbers,
and the streets were thickly lined the whole distance
from the station through the city to the show-yard;
and all along the route his Royal Highness was
received with the respect which is due to the hus-
band of our Queen.

Of the collection of stock generally it may be
observed that it is on the whole very good, espe-
cially in the horse, shorthorns, Southdown, and
Cotswold departments.
The Duke of Richmond's sheep met with an
accident on their way to the show, by a spark from
the engine to which the waggon containing them
was attached, igniting the straw and severely
scorching them. They, however, made their ap-
pearance in the pen allotted them, and, although
somewhat disfigured, received a commendation
from the judges.
The following is the award of the judges of imple-
ments :

AWARD OF THE JUDGES OF IMPLEMENTS.
Henry Clayton (of Atlas Works, Londow, for a grass
mowing machine-151.
Wm. Dray and C for ditto, 51.
Wm. Newzm Nicholson, for hay-making machines—
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Barrett, Exall, and Andrewes, for ditto-31.
Smith and Ashby, for ditto-21.
Henry Attwood Thompson, for ditto-11.
James and Frederick Howard, for a horse rake-31.
Ransornea and Sims, for ditto-31.
Barnabus Urry, for ditto-21.
Smith and Ashby, for ditto-11.
William Langford Fisher, for ditto-1/.
R. Garrett and Sans, for Chambers's broadcast manure
distributor-81. •
Holmes and Son, for a manure distributor (dry)-51.
R. and J. Reeves, for ditto ditto-51.
Isaac James, for a liquid manure distributor -2/.
R. Hornsby and Sons, for a drill for general pur-
poses-51.
R. Garrett and Sons, for ditto-31.
Holmes and Sone, for a corn and seed drill-71.
R Hornsby and Sons, for a drill for small occupa-
tions-2/.
R. Garrett and Sons, for ditto-21.
R. Hornsby and Sons, for a drill for ridge and flat
work, for turnips, &c.-
R. Garrett and Sons, for ditto ditto-21.
R. Garrett and Sons, for a liquid drop drill--41.
Burgess and Key, for a reaping machine-101.
A. Crosskill, for ditto-61.
Lord Kinnaird, for ditto-41.
R. Garrett and Sons, for a horse hoe-31.
William Smitb, for ditto-21.
Hugh Carson, for ditto-11. 10'.
Priest and Woolnough, for ditto-2/.
•E. H. Bentall, for ditto-11. 10g.
T. Milford and Son, for a light waggon-21. '
John Kiddie, for ditto-21.
A Crosskill, for ditto-21.
John Gifford, for ditto-21.
Isaac Jams, for ditto-11.
George Milford, for ditto-11.
William Busby, for a light cart-21.
T. Milford awl Son-21. •
James Woods, for ditto-21.
A. Crosskill, for ditto-11.
J. and F. Howard, for ditto-11.
T. Milford and Son, for a crankled axle cart, 4/.
William Busby, for ditto-41.
A. and T. Fry, for ditto-3/.
Alfred Crosskill, for ditto-2/.
SILVER MEDAL.

R. and J. Reeves, for an economical drill for dry
manure and seeds.
Thomas Pain, for a paring plough.
Samuel Rowsell, for an American iron-pointed horse
rake.
Cottam and Cottam, for a collar bar for iron hurdles.
Perreaux and Co., for an India-rubber pump valve.
Hill and Smith, for a wrought-iron sheep trough.
H. Carson, fora cheese press.
Cockey and Son, for a cheese-making apparatus.
T. Milford and Son, for a light cart.
In addition to the above prizes not less than 41
articles of various descriptions are highly com-
mended, and 21 commended.

ETON COLLEGE.—The examination for the prizefounded
by George Totane, Esq., for the best mathematician in
the school has been conducted this year by Mr. E. J.
Routh, M.A., Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge.
The prizen.an is the Hon. Lyulph Stanley. The follow.
ing are the select in order of merit :—Smith. K. s_
(asAisient-master's senior prizen3ap), Hoare, max,---Oar.
ter, K. S., Mozley, mi. K. S.,
Routledge—Bosanquet'
Powell, Phillpotts, mi. K.S., Marindin, Follett,
ma , Bagge, ma. The assistant-masters junior prizemen
aze Daman and Puller, mi.

Captain HUDSON, in responding, said every effort
should be used by himself and his officers to lay the
cable successfully, and he hoped that it would
never grow shorter until they reached the stations
at each side the Atlantic. (Cheers ) I believe (he
co itinued) we shall have no failure—l believe we
shall carry the cable out safe, because I have belief
in that overruling Providence. It is watching over
us ; and I have no doubt when the cable is carr;ed
across the Atlantic, and wh'n the electric wires
carry the news from one country to another, it will
be the means of moralizing the merchants of both
nations. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) That is i❑
respect of their wild specula' ion. (Oh !) The ad-
vantage of talking to each other in the way of trade
will make all the. difference. (Hear, hear.) Yes,
the truth ought to be spoken. No men will be
ruined by great hazarding, by the wild specula-
tions of putting fortunes in their pockets in an hour.
They will be content to plod about the world's
buiiness, as I and my brother officers have done
here for a period of many years, and I am sorry to
say that we are no richer than when we began.
(Hear, hear.) In conclusion, Captain Hudson
proposel "The health of the Chairman, Christo-
pher Bushell."

The toast was most warmly received.
The CHAIRMAN returned thanks in eloquent
terms, assuring the assemblage that the honour of
having been appointed to preside on such an occa-
sinn would be one of his proudest remembrances in
after life. In a suitable introduction he then pro-
posed "The Members of Parliament for the Bo-
rough of Liverpool and the County of Lancaster."
He paid a personal compliment to the members
severally, and attributed their absence to the pres-
sure of Parliamentary business.
The toast was duly honoured.
The CHAIRMAN next, in an appropriate introduc-
tion, proposed "The Mayor of Liverpool," which
was also most cordially received.
The next toa-t was "The Captain and Officers of
the ships Agamemnon, Susquehanna. and Leo-
pard."
_ _

Captain SANDE; of the Susquehanna, briefly re-
sponded, and delecrated his duty in that respect to
Mr. Riddenhouse:the purser of the vessel.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The Chairman
and Directors of the Telegraph Company," coupling
with it the name of Mr. Maxwell.

The toast having been dnink with all the honours,
Mr. MAXWELL responded. He said that he; as
a director, bad never allowed himself to doubt of
the success of the undertaking ; and if ever a doubt
could by possibility arise it would have been ban-
ished by the fact that two of the most powerful and
enlightened Governments of the world had given
their sanction and their aid to it.

The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Electricians,
Engineers, and other officers of the Atlantic Tele-
graph Company."
Mr. BRIGHT returned thanks, and in the course of
his speech said, he had every reason to believe that
within three weeks of the present time they would
be able to send a message from her Majesty to the
President of the United States. The announce-
ment was loudly cheered.
The CHAIRMAN next proposed "The Manufac-
turers •f the Atlantic Cable."

Mr. NEWALL, of the firm of Newall and Co., re-
turned thanks. He gave a history of the undertak-
ing of the contract by his firm and its fulfilment
wzthiu the given time, and spoke in the most san-
guine terms of the success of the enterprise.
The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Merchant
Service of England and America," which was re-
sponded to in happy terms by Captain Judkins, of
the Persia, and Captain Lowber of the Ericsson.
The next toast " The manufacturing and Com-
mercial IntereAs of Great Britain and the United.
States ; may the existing ties of commerce, lan-
guage, and relationship be further strengthened by
the prompt application of the discoveries of science
and art," was responded to by Mr. L. Heyworth
and Mr. J. H. Macrae.

" The Vice-Presidents and Honorary Secretary"
was responded to by Mr. P. H. Chambers, Mr.
Macrae, and Mr. J. Finch.
" The Ladies" was the last toast, but was, never-
theless, duly honoured.
The company separated shortly before 12 o'clock.
Jolliffe's band was present during the evening,
and its masterly performance of the various pieces
of music introduced was warmly admired.

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH

INDIA.

The following letter has been sent at his request
to Lord Palmerston, as embodying the views of a
deputation which waited upon him some days since:
" My Lord, —I have the honour, by your lord-
ship's desire, to submit in writing the representa-
tion which we were permitted to make at a per-
sonal conference this morning relative to the esta-
blishment of an electric telegraphic communication
between England, India, and China, to be even-
tinily extended to Australia.
The, ass niation represented by the deputation
was the first to propound the line of telegraph to
India by the Red Sea ; but, although the proposal
was favourably entertained at the India-house, it
did not receive such encouragement from the Trea-
sury as to induce them to carry it out, and they
therefore contented themselves with deputing an
agent to Constantinople to obtain the necessary Sr-
mans.

" While the agent was prosecuting the negotia-
tion, another project was started by another party
for the establishment of a telegraphic line to India,
down the Valley of the Euphrates, and met with
favour at the Treasury. A conditional promise
was made of a subvention of 12,0001. a-year, and
the Hon. the Court of Directors likewise aided the
scheme by engaging to continue the line at their
own expense, by laying a submarine cable from the
head of the Persian Gulf to Kurrachee.

" The agent returned at the beginning of the
present year from Constantinople with all the con-
cessions necessary for the construction of the line
from Alexandria to India, but the association found
an insuperable obstacle in their path in the inter-
mediate subvention of the Euphrates line. If within
the last 12 months since this subvention was con-
ceded any substantive progress has been made in
that line, or it the difficulties of construction bad
been proved of less amount, the necessity of the pre-
sent application might in reason have been ques-
tioned ; but no such progress appears to have been
the
w
made, and no opposing obstacle removed, hi
nets-sits of immediate telegraphic communication
has been rendered painfully apparent by the late
disastrous tidings from our Eastern empire.
" The Euphiates Valley line must necessarily
pass through nearly 1,000 m
lles of country inha-
biten by barbarous tribes,
al ways at feud with each
other, and beyond the control of their nominal ru-
lers. In a communication ren y
published
in the
Times it is stated that the Council
of Tanzimat at
Constantinople has refused to sanction a telegraph
through that valley,
on the ground that the Turkish
Government was unable to protect it. At the same
time the establishment of a police by foreigners for
its maintenance would not be permitted by the
Sublime Porte. It has been suggested ithat some
of the influential tribes might be induced to protect
it, in consideration of a yearly payment, but acom-
munication with our dependencies and colonies in
the East is a matter of too great importance to be
left dependent on the caprice or cupidity of savages.
There, appears, therefore, little, if any, hope that a
telegraphic line can be established through Meso-
potatnia with any chance of permanent security un-
til the projected railway has been completed.
" Under these circumstances the Red Sea Asso-
ciation desm it important to the national interests
again to submit their plans to her Majesty's Go-
vernment.

" They have obtained the necessary concessions
of the Turkish and Egyptian authorities for the
establishment of a telegraph through Egypt and
down the Red Sea. They propose now to lay a
submarine cable—which will he under their own

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the Dardanelles to Alexandria, for which a conces-
sion has been obtained from the Porte, will be con-
structed without delay, either by this as' ociation
singly or in conjunction with an Austrian company.
"The members of this association are prepared
to complete the telegraph from Alexandria to India
in a period of from eight to 15 months from the
time when the assistance of Government is secured
and the preliminary arrangements are made. As
the distance from Suez to Men is less Oen half
the distance from Suez to India, the line to Aden
might be completed within a very short periol, and
that port is only a weeks' sail from Bombay ; the
cost of the line is estimated at 800,0001 ,—that is,
at the rate of 160/. per mile upon 5,000 miles. This
is considered as the maximum expense, but, as the
most heavy item of expenditure consists in the sub-
nurine cable, it is not impr ibable that the experi-
ments now in progress with two different descrip-
ti els of cable—the one from England to America,
the other from England to Denmark—inay issue in
reducing the cost below the present estimate.
" The substantial assistance of Government is
esiTntial to the commencement of operations, as it
would be impossible without a guarantee to raise
the necessary capital. The association would there-
fore venture to ask her Majesty's Government and
the East India Company for a guarantee of 6 per.
cent., or 48,0001. a-year, to commence fr nal the
completion of the line and the transmission of the
first through message, with the undeistanding that
all Government despatches shall have preference as
to time, and be conveyed at the same rate as pri-
vate messages, and that all receipts, from whatevtr
source, shall he appropriated to satisfy the guaran-
tee, which will cease and determine as soon as the
amount has been entirely liquidated.
"The present proposal is male in no spirit of
hostility to the Euphrates Valley line, but simply
from a conviction that circutmtances will not justify
the postponement of a telegraphic communication
with India till the railway down the Euphrat s Val-
ley has been completed, and that the Red Sea line
offers the permanent advantages of immediate
construction and permanent freedom from inter-
ruption; but the establishment of a telegraph
by which daily communication can be held
with India in a few hours appears to be a mat-
ter of such vital importance that even the con-
joint encouragement of both lines—that of the
Euphrates and that of the Red Sea—may not ap-
appear altogether unworthy the consideration of
her Majesty's Government.
" I beg permission to enclose a map, which ex-
hibits the course laid down by the association.
" I have the honour to be, my Lord,
"Your Lordship's faithful and obedient servant,
"j. C. MARSEIMAN, Chairman.
"7, Kensington Palace-gardens, July 15."

STEAM v. SAIL

The following letter has been addressed to the
editor of the Times :

Sir,—No period of our Indian history can have
been more critical than the present. Its influence
over our national destinies c annot be too highly
estimated. This empire is in a state of perilous
revolt, while the event of the awful drama seems
to depend on the wisdom and energy of the men
now at the head of public affairs. More than one
member of the Cabinet has ventured to assert in the
House of Commons that sailing vessals would make
as quick a voyage to India as steamers, and this
monstrous assertion remains uncontradicted. The
First Lord appears to have b. en unaware that
screw men-of-war used even as sailing vessels are
faster than hired transports.
Every schoolboy knows that th-ra is a region
about the Equator of constantly recurring calms,
in which vessels are sometimes detained for weeks.
The writer once fell in with au American c'ipper
schooner that had been almost motouless for 27
days. She was not 40 miles from the limits of the
variable winds, and but for the supply of water
from his ship her crew might have perished in the
calm. It is true our screw vessels do not usually
carry more than six or seven days' fuel for full
steaming. Less than two dap,' half storming
would take a ship through the region of calms.
The rest of the fuel could be used when calms cc-
cuffed in other quarters, and, asthese are generally
met with in narrow belts only (except at the Equa-
tor), a short ran takes a vessel into the stea ly
breeze again. A sailing vessel bound to India
is obliged to make a long stretch to the west-
ward to get into a position to take ad-
vantage of the " Trades," while the steamer
boldly takes the direct course, so that, allowing
for difficulties under every possible circumstance,
the latter must make her naszage in much less time
than the former. Who does not know the impor-
tance of minutes in war? Ut on minutes may de-
pend the mightiest interests of nations. Here are
weeks to be thrown away, troops disorganized, and
subjected to contagion and disuse from long con-
fioemetit in sailing vessels by the suggestions of
common sense and experience being disregarded
which are followed in every private enterprise ;
but where an empire of some hundred and eighty
millions, and even our own position as a first-rate
Power, depend, on the plans adopted, and the
promptitude with which those plans are carried out,
we are, by a short-sighted and erroneous system,
doomed perhaps to witness a recurrence of a series
of mistakes and catastrophes worse than those
which characterized the late war. If the Events
occurring in India are such as to require the im-
portant military measures in progress, they demand
equally extraordinary exertion en the part of the
navy to take out troops as expeditiously as possible,
and in the most effective condition. If sufficient
bounties are given good sailors, enough to man
20 sail of the line could be entered in a week.
Take the main and lower deck guns out of the
ships, man them with able seamen (half the war
complement ; the soldiers will temporarily serve
as marines, as they have often done before). Each
of the larger screw line-of-battle ships could easily
convey 1,500 troops, and with a few of the larger
steamers in the service, or even hired steamers if
necessary, a fresh and effective army could be
landed in India in ten weeks from the time of
departure.
There is another and more rapid mode of coal-
veying troops, which might soon be made available
under urgent circumstances, which at once presents
it-elf to the mind.

As this is a question of civil war in our own t'.‘r-
ritories, there would be .no difficulty in obtaining
permission for our troops to cross the Isthmus of
Suez, the territory of a friendly Power. Elec ricity
and steam would give notice for the necessary pre-
parations being made to move and feed the troops
to the shores of the Red Sea. The rapid poital
means of communication would convey order to the
Government at Bombay t 3 forward every disposable
vessel, for the re-embarkation of the troops, and in
six or eight weeks our men are in India. _

All the necessary gear for fitting out the ships
from England is ready in our dockyards. With the
men from the ships in commission at home, those
from the various dockyard, and, if necessary, extra
men hired from the class of riggers in our great
seaports, the ships might be rigged in a week ; the
carpenters in the mean time would be setting up the
troop-fittings, other hands stowing the hold with
provisions, &c., and, if very hard pushed, a squa-
dron with the troops on board may be under weigh
in one week from the moment of commencing pre-
parations. Hundreds of smart, sailor-like officers
are longing for employment, abundance of men
are to be had, steamships of all classes are to be
; ne Beyonded by dispute
de cisio the h
we hi ercishis i
m found in the royal naval yards as well as in the
merchant service.
moutons. The welfare of our country for ages to
come may bee n
arrived at within a few days. Eyen h
siic
nnhours are of in-
estimable value, but red tapeismwith , its insepa-
rable inefficiency, threatens to render useless our
boundless means and to risk he loss of our Indian
empire. Under present ci •
rcumstances we are strong
or weak in reference to India as we employ time.
Ten thousand troops added to our actual reliable
force there, • • •
arriving within ten weeks from sailing,
would be ten times the value of 15,000 in 14 or 15
weeks hence. Ten thousand men embarked •in screw
or steam vessAls capable of containing 15,000, the
spare space being appropriated to coals, the power
of speed thus gained' would be of more value than
the extra 5,000, who could follow in any manner most
convenient to arrive in time to clinch the nail which
the 10,000 would have so materially assisted in
driving home.
If so many " Barnacles" have accumulated around
our war steamers as to prevent their efficiency in
time of emergency, why tax the people to maintain
such expensive machinery for the

"Royal game of goose,
More for ornament than use

01. otuErLsilitinps:lfNVisaTrEAwmh.en
Let us rather return to the time previous to our
required.—Your obedient servant,
seventh
HA.:l::::RAhraireNvani
London, July 18.

DWELLINGS OF THE LABOURING CLABUS.—At Ken.
sington, on Tuesday, an influential meeting of the inha-
bitants of the locality was held at the new Vestry-ball,
for the purp,:;se of making more extensively known the
otjects of the Kensington association for providing im•
proved dwellings for the labouring classes. The Duke
of Argyll presided, and was supported by the Von.
Archdeacon Sinclair and Dr. Waddilove.

E R MAJESTY'S THEA.TRE.
FAREWELL PERFORMANCES AT
REDUCED PRICES.
THIS EVENING, THURSDAY, July 23,
LA TRAVI ATA.
Violetta, Madlie. Piccolomini ; Alfredo, Sig. Giuglini ;
Germont Giorgio, Sig. Beneventano.
Between the ti a Divertissement, in which Madlie.
N. Taglioni and M. Charles will appe.i.r.
To conclude with the new Bal'et Diverliss ment of
MARCO SPAD
Madame Rosati, Mdlle. Katrine, M. M ssot, Signori Bontti,
Cecchetti, and Ronzani.
PRICES:
Pit Tier, Grand Tier, and One Pair. £
2 12 6
Two Pair
Ralf Circle 1 1 0
Pit Stalls
Gallery Boxes.
Gallery Stalls 0 3 6
Gallery Side Stalls 0 3 0
Pit 0 3 6
Gallery 0 2 0
No free list.—Applications to be made at the Box-office of
the Theatre. Doors open at 7, jpera to commence at half-
past 7.

ER MAJESTY'S THEATRE
Farewell Performances at Reduced Prices.
To accommodate the families of non-subscribers, and to
open the opera to all who may desire to visit it before the
final departure of the Company, the close of the season will
be followed by a short series of EXTRA PERFORMANCES,
at reduced prices, in the course of which each of the favou-
rite Operas will be once represented with the same cast- as
during the subscription, and Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO,
and Rossini's CENERENTOLA will be presented for the
first time this year.
The Extra Season commenced on MONDAY last, the
20th inst., and will be continued every day in this and the
following week.
The following arrangements have been already settled :
THIS EVENING, July 23—LA TRAVIATA.
FRIDAY, July 24—LA CENERENTOLA. Fourth Act
of I MARTIRI.
SATURDAY, July 25— IL DON GIOVANNI.
The entertainments in the Ballot will combine the talents
of Madame Rosati, Ma,dlles. Katrine, Bosehetti, and Marie
Taglioni. .

Prices as above.

THEATRE-ROYAL,DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
OPEN EVERY EVENING.
GREAT EQUESTRIAN AMERICAN and CONTINENTAL
COMPANY.
Firices—Pit and Promenade, ls; Boxes, 2s. 6d , 25., and Is.
ed. ; Galleries, 6d. Doors open at half-past 7. Commence
at 8.

JACK THE GIANT KILLER, with novel effects.

ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
THIS EVENING will be performed
Shakespere's Play of
TfIE TEMPEST.
Preceded by LIVING TOO FAST.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET
Lessee—Mr. J. B. Buckstone.

TIIIS EVENING, to commence at Seven o'clock. with
the new and greatly successful original Comedy, entitled
VICTIMS, in which Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. Howe, Mr. Wiliam
Farren, Miss Reynolds, &e., will appear.
After which, by general desire, oho late Douglas Jerrold's
comedy of THE HOUSEKEEPER.
To conclude with a now Ballet, THE GLEANERS.
Orchestra Stalls (which may be retained the whole of the