The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-27 00:00:00

THE SUN,'i LONDON, TUESDAY EVEMNC4, AUGUST 27, 1861

the means. But we must think that the moral
obligation of cherishing the family and social affec-
tions by as frequent intercourse as practicable, is
as important, and even as beneficial, as that of
worship. We remember a question asked by
high authority, " He who loveth not his brother
' whom he hath s'cn, how shall he love GOD whom
he hath not seen ?" And how we ask is family
attachment to be sustained, especially amongst the
less educated, without opportunities of frequent in-
tercourse. Towns fifty or sixty miles out of London
now, require railway accommodation on all the days
on which Highgate, Hampstead, and Notting-hill
require omnibus accommodation ; and proportion-
ately, to the same extent. In all the discussions
therefore, arising from this accident, we hope
the tendency will rather be to liberate railway
managers from restrictions, than to interfere with
that unspeakable boon to the many—the excursion
train.

ARRIVAL. OF HER 1114.TEST1

AF KILLARNEY.

The royal train left Dublin at 12.55 yesterday,
and arrived at Killarney at half-past six. At all
the stations along the line great crowds assembled,
whe greeted the royal party with loud cheers as the
train passed. At Portarlington the train stopped
for five minutes. A guard of honour of constabu-
lary was drawn up to receive her Majesty, who was
loudly and repeatedly cheered. At Mr. Kemmis's
shore lodge a tasteful arch had been erected, covered
with evergreens. At Thurles a great demonstra-
tion took place. The station was crowded to suf-
focation by the tenantry of the surrounding dis-
tricts, who welcomed her Majesty with a cheer
such as the Tipperary boys only give. The station
was most tastefully decorated with evergreens, and
each engine in reserve and all the switches were
also decorated.

At 6.30 p.m. the anxiously-expected train
arrived at the Killarney station. The crowds
gathered in the vicinity of the railway station to
have the earliest opportunity of seeing and hailing,
as they were eager to do, their gracious Sovereign.
Her Majesty was conducted to the carriage by
Lord Castlerosse. A guard of honour of the 18th
Royal Irish were drawn up, and 40 of the Ist Royal
Dragoons.
The Queen seemed greatly impressed and highly
pleased with the enthusiasm of the people. The
cortege passed the grand entrance of Kil-
larney House, and went down the picturesque
road towards Rosse Island, when they
entered Killarney demesne by the keeper's
gate, under a triumphal arch. At Presgate Valing,
the drive in this beautiful demesne, the Kintore
tenantry, with their families, were congregated.
The Queen was most friendly in her manner, and
also very animated. She stood on the terrace for
some minutes looking around on the magnificent
scenery before her eyes, and she shook hands
warmly with the host and hostess amid great
cheering. She entered the mansion leaning on
Lord Castleroase's arm, and the Prince Consort fol-
lowed with Lady Castlerosse. The royal standard
was run up the flag-staff on the top of the tower.
The town was illuminated at night, and there
were general rejoicings at the railway, where a
very large company sat down to dinner in the
great room. The health of her Majesty was pro-
posed and enthusiastically received.

Lady Willoughby Gordon and Miss Gordon have
returned to town from Guy' s-cliffe, Warwick.

Mr. and Lady Augusta Milbank have been enter-
taining, at Barningham-pack, Yorkshire, the Marquis and
Marchioness of Carmarthen and a select family circle.
Mrs. Patten-Saunders, the Princess Ova Orloff-
sky, and Miss Saunders have arrived in Warsaw to join his
excellency. Captain W. H. Patten-Saunders is expected
to arrive from England. _ _ _

THE FOREIGN-OFFICE.—The business of the
Foreign-office will be carried on at No. 7, Whitehall-gar-
dens, on and after to-day, the 27th inst.
It is stated that the Secretary of State for India
has ample funds in hand to meet all possible wants up to
the end of the year, even if the railway companies should
find it necessary to apply for aid. At the same time an in-
creasing expectation prevails that these companies will be
able to raise enough for their requirements without appeal.
ing to the Government.
A leading merchant at Calcutta, upholds the
favourable view of Indian finance expressed in former com-
munications. Making full allowance for the revulsion in
the opium market, the writer still believes that the accounts
for the current year will show a surplus equal to that origi-
nally anticipated. He disagrees from the conclusion of
Mr. Laing that the income-tax is a failure, because the re-
ceipts from that source have exhibited a monthly augmen-
tation, but it would be anomalous to suppose that an impost
which depends so greatly on the honesty of the population,
and which even in England is shown by the nature of the
returns to be a cause of extensive demoralisation, can ever
be really successful with the Eastern race.
The owner of the ticket which has won the prize
of 100,000 f., at the Amiens lottery, is a resident at Havre,
but though he took the precaution to write down the num-
ber, he has mislaid the ticket, without the production of
which, he cannot, of course, receive the prize.
M. Edouard de Triqueti, son of the well-known
artist of that name, has just died in Paris, after three
moaths' illness, owed by injuries received in the chest
from the shaft cf a carriage, when attempting to stop a
runaway horse in the Rue St. Lazare.
LYCEUM THEATRE.—Yesterday evening a new
farce from the indefatigable pen of Mr. Falconer, entitled,
"The Fetches; or, the Onconvanience of a Single Life,"
was represented for the first time. It is a piece of very
slight pretensions, vanifestly suggested by Mr. Erskine
Nicolls' well-known picture bearing the latter title. The
design is to illustrate Irish peasant life in its most outrage-
ously ludicrous aspect, but the farce has little importance
beyond what it derives from the humorous acting of Mr.
Falconer in the character of Tim O'Reilly, "a handy boy
with a shillelagh, but a bad fist with a needle," and the
lively, agile, and expressive dancing of Miss Lydia Thomp-
son, who personates 0 certain Mary Brady, a village belle,
and executes an Irishiig to perfection. _ _ _

THE WAR IN )11IERICA.—The commercial ad-
vices from New York strengthen the supposition that the
war must be brotught to a termination by the difficulty of
providing fur its enormous cost, The expenses of the
Federal Government ire daily increasing, and now amount
to £250,000 per day. For the moment, however, the Se-
cretary of the Treasury had obtained enough to meet the
demands upon hint, the banks of New York, Boston, and
Philadelphia having agreed to subscribe for about
£3,000,000, entering, it is reported, at the same time, into
some agreement with regard to the furnishing of a further
total of £22,000,000 between now and December. This
advance is to be on Federal notes bearing interest at the

rate of 7 3-10 per cent., having three years to run, with
the option to the holder of converting them into United
States 7 per cent. bonds for 20 years at par, or 6 per Cents.
at 901. Apparently, however, it is the conviction of the
best observers that if the war continues all the banks, not-
withstanding the magnitude of their present stocks of
gold, will have to suspend, and that it cannot be carried on
upon a specie basis. The defeat of General Lyon was
calculated to create great discouragement, since the recent
hopes of the Federalists had in a great degree been founded
on the rapid successes of that officer in Missouri. Although
at the departure of the present steamer the rate of exchange
was slightly less firm, an early improvement was expected
from the fact that the orders now arriving from England
for breadstuffs were at limits below the New York prices.
ALARMING ROCKET EXPLOSION AT WOOLWICH
ARSENAL.—Yesterday afternoon ut 3 o'clock an explosion,
which was fortunately unattended with loss of life, although
two men were seriously injured, took place in one of the
sheds attached to the laboratory department of Woolwich
Arsenal. Since the last fatal explosion, when several lives
were sacrificed, these sheds have been built perfectly de-
tached, with roofs of corrugated iron, and means of rapid
egress provided. It appears that three men were at work in
a shed, one of whore, named William Pickering, had a rocket
in process of manufacture in his hand, when by some means
the missile exploded with a loud report, shaking the build-
ing to its foundation, and passing completely through the
iron roof. Pickering and a man named Charles Munden,
being much injured, were instantly conveyed to the in-
firmary, and attended by Drs. Briscoe, Burton, and Cole'
man, when it was found that the left arm of Pickering was
so injured as to render amputation necessary, which opera-
tion was performed. Munden was also much burned, but

both sufferers are now doing well.
WATER. SUPPLY IN PARIS:--According to the
report made by the commission of inquiry relative to the
waters of the Dhuis, it appears that Paris is one of the
places most poorly supplied with water, the quantity being
only 90 litres per head per day, whilst the nominal quan-
tity is unsidered to be 150. Rome is the most highly
favoured in this respect, receiving 944 litres per head every
day; next comes in succession as regards quantity, New
York, 568 litres; Carcasonne, 400; Besancon, 246 ; Dijon,
240; Marseilles, iB6; Bordeaux, 170; Genoa, 120; Glas-
gow, 100 ; London, 95. Deducting from the quantity for
Paris of 90 litres, the quantity expended for public foun-
tains and watering streets, &c., there only remains 35
litres of water per day for each inhabitant,