The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN6i, NOVEMBER 4, 1861.

FORTIFICATIONS OF NEW YORK.

This State will csmmence work at once, and not
wait for Congress to act. Appropriation will be
made out• of the city treasury. Volunteers will be
accepted, a home guard will be formed, and before
the Ist of November the following forts in this city
and harbour will be greatly strengthened, We have
at the Narrows :

Guns. Men required.
Fort Sandy Hook 341 .. New Jersey Narrow 1000
Fort Tompkins 7O .. Staten Island ditto 1
200
Redoubt Tompkins 26 .. Ditto ditto
Fort Hamilton 76 ~ Long Island ditto) .
880
Redoubt Harailton . . 50 . . Ditto ditto
Fort Richmond l4O .. Staten Island ditto
Battery H udson 50 .. Ditto ditto 1 1080
Battery Mortar lO .. Ditto ditto
Fort Lafayette 76 .. Long Island ditto 370
Fort Columbus lO5 . Governor's Island
.op-
Castle William 7B .. posite New York
800
Ditto ditto
South Battery l4 ..
Ditto ditto
Fort Gibson
Fort Wood
Fort Schuyler 3lB .. Entrance of Sound .. 1250
Fort at Willett's
Point , 195 ..

Ditto ditto 1336

1641 . 7346
These fortifications have already cost 3,660,964
dollars, and they require about the same sum to
complete them thoroughly. The works will all go
on now, and the men will be at once placed in the
defences.

.RECO V_ERT of the JOURNAL of AL OLPLIE
SCR-LAGINTIVEIT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—l rejoice to have it in my power to make
known to geographers and other men of science,
that 'Lord William Hay, now employed as Civil
Commissioner in Cashmere, and who has been in-
defatigable in his endeavour to throw light upon
the fate of Adolphe Schlagintweit, has at length
succeeded in possessing himself of the journal of
that most adventurous explorer.
It will be in the recollection of many of your
readers that, quiting his brothers Hermann and
Robert, who traversed the Karakorum and Kuenlun
chains to Eltchi, near Yarkand, Adolphe, pursuing
his travels on a more western meridian, succeeded
in passing considerably further northward than his
brothers, when he was beheaded by a robber chief
in front of Kashgar, and on his road to Kokand.
Lord William Hay, in a letter dated the Bth of
September, thus writes to his brother, Lord Gif-
ford,' who has authorised me to make the facts
known to the public :
(' You will be glad to hear, and please communicate the
intelligence to friends and those who are interested, that I
have succeeded in recovering, and have now in my posses-
sion, Adolphe Schlagintweit's journal, containing 135 pages
of closely written notes, accompanied by what is confi-
dently asserted to be the poor fellow's skull. The last
entry in the journal is dated the 11th of August (1856), a
few days before he was beheaded."

The surviving brothers will thus be enabled to
enrich their work, now in the course of publication,
by descriptions of a region never visited in modern
times by any other scientific traveller.
Your obedient servant,
RODERICK I. MURCHISON.
Belgrave-square, Nov. 2.

Lord Clarence Paget, M.P., accompanied by
Capt. the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., left the Admiralty,
Whitehall, on Monday, for Weymouth, in order to embark
on board H.M.S. Warrior, the noble lord and the other
gallant officer being anxious to obtain a personal knowledge
of the seagoing properties of this noble frigate.
The Earl and Countess Manvers have arrived at
the Clarendon Hotel from Thoresby-park.
Viscount and Viscountess Sandon leave town
to-morrow for Brighton.
Lord and Lady Norreys will leave Croxteth
Park, where they have been staying on a visit to the
Countess of Sefton, in a few days for Brighton.
Col. and Lady Caroline Towneley and Miss
Towneley arrived in town on Saturday from Croxteth Park.
Her ladyship and Miss Towneley leave town to-morrow for
Brighton.
ILLNESS OF SHERIDAN KNOWLES. —The Northern
Tf7tig states that this gentleman, who has abandoned the
stage for the pulpit, is suffering from severe illness in the
neighbourhood of Belfast.
The scientific meetings for the present week are
—This day—Entomological, 8. Architects, 8. Tuesday—
Photographic, 8. Wednesday—Geological, 8 : Bone Caves
of Lund Viel, Herault, Marcel de Serres ; Petroleum
Springs, N. America, Dr. Gesner ; Volcanic Phenomenon,
Manilla, Mr. Veitch ; Land Animals, Coal Measures, Nova
Scotia, Dr. Dawson. Thursday—Linnean, 8. W. African
Tropical Orchids, Dr. Lindley; Structure of the Anther,
Professor Oliver; Gentianaie, Dr. Greisbach. Chemical,
8: Action of certain Gases on Alkaline Peroxides, Mr.
Harcourt ; Results of Analyses of Coppers, Messrs. Abel
and Field ; Occurrence of Bismuth in Copper Minerals, Mr.
Field. Friday—Astronomical, 8.
THE OUTWARD WEST INDIA MAILS.--SOUTH-
A.MPTON, Nov. 2.—The Royal Mail Company's steamship
Atrato, Captain Woolly, sailed hence this evening, with the
fortnightly mails for the British and foreign 'West Indies,
Mexico, the Pacific, California, and Central America. She
took out 230 passengers, including the Archbishop of Trini-
dad, Secretary to Captain Panter, Ensign Chisolm, Captain
Mulliner, Assistant-Surgeon Michael, Hon. G. Solomon,
and the Hon. J. Salomon. The Atrato took on freight
specie in silver, £5,947; diamonds, £1,200; jewellery,
£455; French jewellery, £7,580 ; also a full cargo of Eng-
lish and French merchandise.
THE MAILS.—LARGE SPECIE EXPORTS.—On
Saturday the Cunard Royal Mail steamer Niagara was des-
patched from Liverpool for Boston, with the North Ameri-
can and United States mails, £20,400 in specie, and 70 pas-
sengers. The next mail despatches from the Mersey will be
by the Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's
steamer City of Manchester, and the Quebec and Montreal
Royal Mail steamer Norwegian, the former sailing on 'Wed-
nesday with mails for the United States, and the latter on
Thursday with the Canadian and United States mails.
SNOW STORM.—The first snow of the season fell
on Saturday morning between seven and eight, and fell in
large quantity for about half an hour, the size of the flakes
being unusually great. The after part of the day was fine
but unusually cold. The wind ranged between W.S.W.
by W. and W.N.W. by W. Yesterday the weather was
beautifully dry and cold, with the wind at N. to N.E. Last
night the mercury fell 3 or 4 degrees below freezing ; but
this morning the wind veered round to S.W., with rain,
which still continues.
We (Army and Navy Gazette) understand that
Major-General
K.C.8., will probably suc-
ceedommand of the troops in the
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lonians Islands.

Among other announcements of the week is Mr.
Martin's, who, on behalf of the National Choral Society,
states intentions of giving concerts at Exeter-hall during
the winter to audiences exclusively composed of military
officers and soldiers, who must all appear in regimentals—
the explanation of the step stated being a deal 3 to promote
a taste for choral music in the army.
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF A MAN WHO SAVED
THE QUEEN'S LI7E.—On Saturday night, Mr. Bedford, the
Westminster coroner, held an inquest at St. George's Work-
blase, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, on view of the body
of John Turner, aged 54, an imbecile inmate of the above
workhouse, who, about three weeks since, accidentally fell
down some steps and sustained injuries which caused his
death on Tuesday last. The evidence elicited from the son
of the deceased was of a somewhat extraordinary character,
and excited considerable interest. James Turner, the witness
alluded to, deposed that his father was formerly a licensed
victualler, and landlord of the Fox, at Highgate-hill. He
was the man who, in 1837, saved her Majesty's life under
the following circumstances :—On the 6th of July of that
year the four horses of the Queen's carriage, containing her
Majesty and the Prince Leiningen, took fright on the top
of Highgate-hill, and dashed down the steep. His father,
at the risk of his life, got the wheel horses by the head just
in time to enable her Majesty to jump out. On the follow-
ing day deceased attended Buckingham Palace, in answer
to a summons from Sir H. Wheatley, who gave him £lO,
and requested him to put up the royal arms to commemo-
rate the circumstance, which he did at a cost of £2O.
Witness' said that he was also informed that her Majesty
would always be his friend. He had since made constant
applications to the Prince Consort, but he had no further
recognition of his services. This so preyed upon his mind
that at last he became an imbecile, and an inmate of that
workhouse. The Coroner was of opinion that her Majesty
could not be aware of this, and the jury returned a verdict
of "Accidental death."
THE NEW ORDER OF BANKRUPTS.—It appears
from the Gazette lists published in our journal of Saturday
and*Tuesday last that 143 additional bankrupts were made
last week. Amongst them are classes of persons who have
not hitherto been brought under the cognisance of the
Court of Bankruptcy, but who will be accoided that privi-
l.ge in future. Looking over the list we find that eight of
the now bankrupts do not declare themselves of any trade
r‘e nrofession, three are " gentlemen," one secretary to an
insurance office, one solicitor to an insurance company,
three commission agents, one mercantile agent, one clerk in
the 'War-office, two schoolmasters, one land surveyor, one
inventor, one law clerk, three commercial travellers, three
farmers, one journeyman printer, one house agent, one
solicitor, three surgeons, two journeymen carpenters, one
chemist, one journeyman joiner, and one ship broker, Of
the bona fide traders who appear to have been most unfor-
tunate there are seven licensed victuallers, three butchers
three clock manufacturers, three cotton manufacturers
four lineudrapers sever; Wilers and four bakers.