The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, 1868.

AFTER Covent-garden Opera—EVANS' to
SUP.
After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP,
After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Strand Theatre
After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
London Singing and Supper Club, IL VANS', Covent-garden. Vocal
Entertainment at Eight.

MAISON DOB,EE,
THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT
AND

LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET
(One door from Regent-street),
CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c.

High-class 'Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers,
&c. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND
SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH.

On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine
p.m. to One a.m.

Manager, CHARLES CASTLE.

KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. -- DUBLIN
EXHIBITION, 1865.
This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin
Prize Medal.
It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Housds in London; by
the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at
8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina-
han's LL Whisky."

11.VIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859),
14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free-
hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
.ahle-ww-kly, monthly, 4u- quarterly-- Bills promptly discounted.
Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

OHN G °SNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
cr TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder;
gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from de-
cay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price
6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 83, Upper Thames-street, London.

.itiANFIELD'S PATENT -PICKLES are per_
1. fectly pure and uncoloured. "To be had of all dealers,
and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON. 107, Strand (corner
of Sappy-M.IA% L9Ad"'

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BELFAST,
Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.
" V. 11: IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH
WHISKY, BELFAST.
London Offices and Stores,
4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O
Established 1808. Quotations on application.

Just Published, price Is. Bcl., by post, ls. Bd., the Seconeidition,
with Addenia, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks.
REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Despatch, Public Opinion, and other
journals, recommending its universal perusal are reprinted with
this edition

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly
Sole Proprietor, Mt R. R. BictNELL.
This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment,
having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art
by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN
for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Mosca.
Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti.
Doors open at half-past 8.
Admission, is.; ReserNect Seats, 2s.

CANDLES.—If you do not want your candles
exclusively for show, but with pleasantness of appearance
require excellence of burning, buy " PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL
PALMITINE," or their "SHERWOOD PALMITINE," or their
good old-fashioned "BELMONT SPERM," or "BELMONT
WAX," or their "BEST," "No. 2," " No. 3," or "BATTERSEA "
COMPOSITE, in preference to the finest and most transparent
Paraffine candles. But if you must have the extreme trans-
parency of pure Paraffine, "PRICE'S PARAFFINE" or their
"BELMONTINE" will give it to you in perfection, and at a more
moderate price than is usually charged for any other really first-
class Paraffine Candles.

The new toilet soap "PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE,"
containing half its weight of their concentrated distilled Glyce-
rine, should be in general use in every house before the winter
comes on, because of its admirable effects in preventing chap-
ping of the hands and face. In every house there ought also to
be one of the sealed bottles of their concentrated Distilled Gly-
cerine, known everywhere as "PRICE'S GLYCERINE," and
prescribed by the most eminent medical men abroad as well as at
home, as the one only Glycerine for medicinal use whether ex-
ternally or internally.
PRICE'S FANCY SOAPS of the different sorts usually made
are excellent, and command a constantly increasing sale. The
"Solidified Glycerine" spoken of above is, however, the one fancy
soap to use.
"PRICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning
in the wide glasses are believed to be the very best Night Lights
made. "PRICE'S CHILDS' NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning
without glasses, and their different sorts of "CHAMBER CAN -
DLES" are so well known, and so generally used and appre-
ciated, as not to need any special notice here.

'LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. -AN
' EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or
Mang the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to
be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds,
confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fre-
quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable,
and admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent
Coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly be-
neficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear
of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after tak-
ing it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist,
8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all drug-
gists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. eaoh.
Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam The
name and address are engraved on the stamp.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.
AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and 'CO. have at length, with the aid
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 16s. each,
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-
street, London, E.C.

H YAM & Co.'a GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING,
66 and 67, Oxford-street, London.
For immediate Wear or to Order.
The assortment is most extensive and varied, comprehend-
ing every possible description of Attire, both costly. and of
moderate price. All the articles are designed, trimmed,
and made in strict accordance with the prevailing styles
of the day. ,

HYAM & Co.'s SANDRINGHAM OVER-
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HYAM & Co.'s SILK-LINED OVERCOATS.

HYAbI & Co.'s FASHIONABLE REEFERS.

H YAM & Co.'s SUITS.

HYADI & Co.'s MORNING COATS.

HYADI & Co.'s PROFESSIONAL ATTIRE.

HYAM & Co.'s VESTS and TROUSERS.

H YAM & Co.'s LADIES' HABITS.

H YAM & Co.'s LIVERIES.

HYAM & Co.'s HATS and HOSIERY.

YAM and CO.'S PRICE LIST for GEN-
fl
TLEMEN'S ATTIRE, Ready-made or to Order.
New Styles in Tweed Overcoats
New Styles in Sandringham Overcoats 2ss. to 635.
New Styles in Silk-lined Overcoats 42s. to 84s.
New Styles in Reefers
New Styles in Dress and Frock Coats
New Styles in Morning Cgats
New Styles in Dress and Undress Suits 42s. to 70s
New Styles in Vests
New Styles in Trousers l4s. to 255.

HYAM and CO.'S LATEST STYLES and
PRICES for YOUNG GENTLEMEN'S ATTIRE.
Sandringham Overcoats 0,0„..
Prince Alfred Reefers l6s. to 30s.
Overcoats for Little Boys l2s. to 30s.
Inverness Capes lss. to 30e.
Knickerbocker Suits Braided
Patent and Silk Velvet do 3ss. to 90s.
Harrow and Rugby Suits
Wimbledon Suits for Elder Youths
Trousers in all the New Materials
Waistcoats for all purposes

HYAM & CO.'S SELECT DEPARTMENTS.
No. 1. Gentlemen's Clothing for immediate wear.
No. 2. Bespoke or Order Department.
No. 3. Boys' and Youths' Distinct Department.
No. 4. Hats, Caps, Hosiery, and Outfit Department.

HYAM and Co.'s ESTABLISHMENTS.
LONDON-66 and 67, Oxford-street.
BIRMINGHAM-21, 22, and 23, Now-street,
LEEDS-42, Briggate, ands
DEWSBURY—Westgate.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 451,951 patients since it Was estab.
tithed at King's-cross in 18.6. Patients are admitted free.
Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard-streeq
Messrs. ROMQI2I at 4 /2;9l4TeliP 1, l'all-mall.---Hon. Sec., F. Smith,
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ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre,
Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUE.
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
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After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB.
AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT

QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS,
PIGEON CHESTS. and other Deformities, are prevented
and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S latrnovEn HYGIENIC CHEST-
EXPANDING BRACE, for both Foxes of all ages. It strengthens
the voice and lungs, relieves indigestion, pains in the chest and
back, and is especially recommended to children for assist-
ing the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, super-
seding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.
—66, Berners-street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars for-
warded.

GEOLOGY.-KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
PROFESOR TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a
COURSE of LECTURF.S on GEOLOGY on FRIDAY, January
24, at 9 a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wed-
nesday and Friday at the same hour. A shorter course will also
be given on Thursday evenings from Bto 9. First Lecture, Jan.
23. Text-Book, Lyell's "Elements of Geology." Professor
Tennant accompanies his students to the Public Museums, and
to places of Geological interest in the country.
R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal

DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER (TEA.)_
Large quantities of the very finest descriptions have
been discovered in Great St. Helen's, at the Warehouses of the

"EAST INDIA TEA CO3fPANy,3i---- --
and are going off rapidly at importers' prices. Also the most deli-
cious lialsows and Monings ever shipped from China, from 2s. 6d.
upwards. Family Tea, 25.; in half-chests, ls. 10d. Tea foi the
million, is. Id. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great
St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street.

FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O
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square.

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pound foryourcandles until you have stripped them and put
them in the scale. Some candles are right weight with-
out the wrappers, some with moderately thick wrappers,
some with very thick wrapper; and some are not nearly
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" GuLD MEDAL PALMITINE," " SHERWOOD
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TERSEA" COMPOSITES "PRICE'S PARAFFINE,"
and " BELMON TINE," and all other candles of Price's
Patmt Candle Company Limited, are full weight without
the wrappers.

POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED,
for COUGHS COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore
Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affections of the
Respiratory Organs.
Bold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World.
In Bottles only, price ls. lid., 2s. 3d., and lls. each. Established
nearly half a Century.

SATISFACTORY LETTER.
5, Wood-street, Millbank, 'Westminster,
October 5, 1867
SlR,—Some months back I had an attack of Bronchitis, which
left at times a tickling in the Throat, with other unpleasant feel-
inv. I was advised to try the BALBAII OF ANISZRD; I did 80,
and have found very great relief i it is most comforting in allay-
ing the irritation, and giving strength to the voice.
You are at liberty to
and I earnestly hope that others may benefit by it as I have
done. With many thanks from your obedient servant,
SAMUEL DEMI,
To Mr. Powell. Dean's Verger, Westminster Abbey.
4lake use of this as you think proper,
' -

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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN
Destitute Orphans are being maintained in the Albert
Orphan Asylum, Collingwood Court, Bagshot, Surrey. Funds
greatly needed for their support,
CHARLES A. WALKER, See.
Offices, 96, Cheapside, E.C.

ROYAL FitEE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate tininity of the Great Northern Railway
Terminus, King's-cross. .

Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
cethe Dake of BUCCLEVOH, K.G.
. ..
Vice-Patron--H
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, tho first to establish
the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de-
lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is 'wholly dependent for
supportao
roAisvroolltlen; at7acci.anrtgriebution and
numbers of legacies.n=pation to, and, in edam-
don to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute
hospital
sick has for a considerable period averaged between 8,000 and
4,000 weekly.
had Committee the requisite funds are capable of containing
the
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo-
t e n tseveral as
hundredt hl premisesm ore of this
beds
to maintain them. . . .. . _

Contribution; are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
Hanson, and Co., Abcburch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co.; Herries and Cp.; Ransom and
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Now_ready, in 2 vols., Svo., with Portrait,
SPIRITUAL WIV.E S.
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PAINLESS DENTISTItY.
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ESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established
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64, Ludgate-Hilt, E. 0.,
Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and
Brighton
have just published a NEW PAMPif LFT explaining their Pain-
less System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without
springs, at MODERAT6 CnAuaxs. which may be had free by post
for four stamps.

A PRUSSIAN IRONCLAD.

-1,-- --

There must, after all, be a good deal of merit in
the English system of building irouclads, when we
find year after year our chief private yards, whether
belonging to companies or individuals, have always
one or more of their slips occupied with armoured
ships for foreign Governments. The only countries
which keep pace with us in the production of iron
frigates, for the national fleet are France and Ame-
rica, and each of their systems of arming and plating
differs as much from ours as they do from each
other. Disused American ironclads, now sought
to be got rid of, can be bought in America as cheap
as old iron, and are worth very little more. France,
too, with a system totally different both from the
Americans and ours, can find no imitators either of
her style of building or style of armouring.
Whatever the cause, the simple fact remains—that
all Governments, except those of France and America,
no matter what their differences or alliances, come
to England to have their iron ships built, and even
the two exceptions we have mentioned copy our
improvements as far as they can in every particular.
Of the great private yards, such as those of Napier,
at Glasgow, Laird, at Birkenhead, Samuda, at
Blackwall, and the Millwall ironworks, there is
I hardly any which have not built ironclads for foreign
Powers, while the Thames Ironworks alone, besides
building such renowned vessels as the Warrior and
the Minotaur, have built iron frigates for the Rus-
sian, Prussian, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Greek,
and Turkish Governments. There is more than
the mere chance of patronage required to account
for this. The great fame of the Warrior, no doubt,
did much, and the fame of the John Brown armour
plates did more. But even these two causes would
be insufficient to account for the almost universal
preference shown for vessels of our construction,
and we can only find it iu the fact that by the vast
majority of Powers our plan of building and back-
ing is considered superior to what can be got
anywhere else. England would hold a different
position now if the nation were in possession
of all the armoured vessels which her private
yards have sent forth to foreign Powers; but of all
the vessels ever built here the grandest and most
formidable is the King William, now just upon
completion at the Thames Ironworks for the Prus-
sian Government. The history of this magnificent
frigate is rather peculiar. About three years ago
the Turkish Government wished for an ironclad that
should eclipse all other ironclads afloat, and be of
herself a match in fair fight for almost a squadron
of them. She was to be larger, stronger, faster,
and, above all, to carry a heavier armament than any-
thing yet attempted. These difficult conditions Mr.
Reed, with the consent of the Admiralty, succeeded
in combining, and the vessel was begun at the
Thames Ironworks and rapidly pushed forward.
Unfortunately, however, for the Turkish Govern-
ment, its promises of payment kept no sort of pace
with the work done, and payment at last altogether
failing] the frigate was left on the hands of the
Thames Company to dispose of it as they could. It
was at once offered to our Admiralty at the price the
Sultan had agreed to give for it. But the Admi-
ralty, while admitting the surpassing excellence and
strength of the vessel, hesitated about the pur-
chase, required time to think:about it, would rather
wait a little, and so on. The Thames Company,
however, did not like waiting, and offered it to the
Prussian Government, which as instantly replied by
an offer to buy it at a sum considerably higher than
at which it had been offered to the Admiralty. This
tender, if we may so call it, was taken, but hardly
had the contracts been signed when the Admiralty
appeared on the scene and wished to purchase the
frigate without further delay. But it was then too
late. The agreement with the Prussian Govern-
ment had been made, and there was no retracting. Thus the strongest plated armour ship yet built
passes into the hands of a foreign Power, and we
may possibly some day see her arrayed against our
own frigates. Woe betide any of our vessels of the
Warrior or Minotaur class which shall meet her !
The Warrior carries 4i-inch armour over half her
length, and is meant to bear 26 guns—some only
68-pounders, some 100-pounders, and four 150-
pounders. The King William, which is as large as
the Warrior, and is designed t o have her speed,
carries 8-inch armour, with a battery of 26 300-
pounders, all of Krupp's steel, all breechloaders, and
capable, it is said, of being fired, with 751 b.
charges, as often as twice in a minute.

The length of this formidable craft is 365 ft., 15ft.
shorter than the Warrior; but her breadth is 2ft.
greater, being 60ft. against the Warrior's 58ft.
This gives her a greater midship section, and there-
fore enables her to bear her ponderous armour more
easily by giving her a greater displacement ; but,
on the other hand, this same displacement makes it
more difficult to move her through the water at
high speed, especially since the King William is to
be of 6,000 tons burden, and to draw at her mean
draught load no less than 26ft. of water. The en-
gines, however, will be fully equal to their work.
They are being made by Messrs. Maudslay, and are
to be of 1,150 horse power nominal, and capable of
working up to a power of 7,000 horses. With thin
power, and guided by the ordinary calculations, it
is believed she will realise from 13 to 14 knots VI
hour. There will be no less than 40 furnaces
required to keep her going at full speed, and
these will use rather mere than 80 tons of
coals a day, and her coal bunkers only hold 700
tons. In this respect she is certainly inferior
to our Warrior class of ships, which only use 65
tons a day, and can carry 1,000 tons, so that,
with careful firing and proper husbandry of fuel,
they can easily keep the sea under steam for 20
days, or very nearly double the time which the
King William could remain out of harbour without
coaling. There is nothing very peculiar in the con-
struction of this frigate beyond that she is built
with all the improvements and modifications which
our experience in armour-clads can suggest as de-
sirable. Her construction is on what is called the
longitudinal system—that is, a series of most power-
ful wrought-iron girders, or frames, laid at inter-
vals of 7ft. apart, and passing along her completely
from stem to stern. Between these frames the
wrought-iron ribs are bolted, below the water-line,
at intervals of four feet apart; but above it, and
behind the armour, they are bolted as close as to be
within two feet of each other. Within both frames
and ribs comes another iron skin an inch thick, so
as to literally make a double ship, the inner one
being 4ift. apart from the outer. Side passages, or
wings, as they are called, running the whole length of
the structure, continue this double form up to the main
deck. Inner side of these wings form the walls of the
coal bunkers, so that even were it possible for a shot
to pass through the armoured sides of the King
William it would still have to penetrate the iron
coal bunkers and pass through Bft. of coal before it
could do any mischief to the fighting crew of the
ship. The armour is Bin. thick amidships, tapering
gradually downwards to a thickness of 7in., at 7ft.
below the water-line, It also tapers in the same'

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manner towards the bow and stern, diminishing
from Bin. to 6in., and then to 4in. The latter
thickness, however, is only used in places where it
is almost impossible a shot could strike, such as
under the counter or under the bows. Wherever it
is probable a shot could strike there is never less
than Bin. of armour and nearly always Bin., with a
powerful 10-in. teak backing and double iron skin.
Just aft the bowsprit and just forward of the
stern two immense bulkhea is, each of G-
inch armour and 18in. of teak, are con-
tinued from the lower deck up through the main
deck, and rise td the height of 7 feet above the
spar deck. On this spar deck these ponderous
protections are curved into the form of slightly
semicircular shields, each pierced with four port-
holes for cannon and loopholed for musketry.
Within these shields are to be carried four 300-
pounders, which can be used to fire straight fore
and aft or as broadside guns. Except the men pro-
tected by these shields, the ship, on going into ac-
tion, would not have a man upon her spar deck.
When we say that the main deck is of iron half
an inch thick, and the spar deck of the toughest
steel half an inch thick, that she is to be fitted with
cupola furnaces for heating red-hot shot and filling
shells with molten iron, and that though only ship-
rigged she will carry a crew of 700 men, we have
said quite enough to indicate the tremendous powers
of this great ship.
The King William could be launched to-morrow
if necessary, but it is so much more convenient, as
well as less expensive, to complete her fittings while
she is on the stocks, that it has been decided to de-
fer her launch till after the spring tides of March
next. Then she will be removed to the Victoria
Docks, and by the autumn be ready to make her
first cruise to sea, armed and equipped from stem
to stern. From first to last she will cost about
£400,000, but in strength and in armament she is
a fleet in herself.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The Crocodile, screw troopship, Captain Watson,
was undocked at Portsmouth early yesterday morn-
ing, and was berthed alongside the railway jetty,
where she afterwards received on board a detach-
ment of officers and men from the depots of the 93d
and other regiments. She will sail from Ports-
mouth this morning for Queenstown to fill up her
complement of troops for India, and will then pro-
ceed to Alexandria.

The Serapis, screw troopship, Captain Soady, is
under orders to sail from Portsmouth on Sunday
next for Queenstown to embark her next quota of
troops for India via Alexandria.
The screw troopship Simoom, Capt. T. B. Leth-
bridge, is expected to sail from Portsmouth for
Queenstown, Ireland, on troop service, to-morrow.
The Danae, 6, screw sloop, Captain Sir Malcolm
M'Gregor, will make the two trials of speed over
the measured mile, at fixed draughts of water, about
the end of the present week. After these trials have
been concluded the Danae will sail for a term of
service on the West Coast of Africa. She will be
accompanied from Spithead as far as Madeira by
the screw corvette Pylades, 17, Captain Cecil W.
Buckley, V.C., now lying at the anchorage, and
the two vessels will make a series of competitive
trials in steaming power, consumption of fuel, &c.

A very interesting trial was made of a steam
cutter, built on the lifeboat principle, at Portsmouth
yesterday by the Government officials of the Steam
Factory and Reserves. Steam launches have been,
as our readers are aware, for some time established
as a part of the fixed boat service of men-of-war of
the first and second class. The lifeboat principle
has also been, to a certain extent, adopted by the
Admiralty for steam launches, but the boat tried at
Portsmouth yesterday represents the adoption of the
principle in an improved form to a class of boat
capable of moving with great rapidity, as a means
of communication, or as a look-out vessel on coasts
or rivers, at the same time with sufficient towing
power to take charge of all the other boats of the
ship. The boat tried yesterday is designated by the
Admiralty " Steam Cutter No. 3," being the third
of the kind built for the Admiralty by Mr. S. White;
of East Cowes, Isle of Wight, and also fitted by him
with her machinery. She is 38ft. in length, 7ft. in
breadth, and 3ft. in depth. She carries a one
64-inch cylinder engine of a nominal power of
three horses, which drives one common four-bladed
screw. The engine and boiler are wonderfully com-
pact in their arrangements, and the workmanship
is all of a first-class character. The trial was con-
ducted with the same strictness in all the conditions
which govern the trials of all her Majesty's ships,
and the results gave the most complete satisfaction
to the officers who had its conduct. Six runs over
the mile gave the boat a mean speed of 6.978 knots
—the highest rate yet obtained with so small a
boat, the mean revolutions of the engine being
277.3, and the steam pressure in the boiler 651 b.
The boat made complete circles, in testing her turn-
ing powers, of 48ft. diameter, or only 10ft, in excess
of her own length. The introduction of boats of
this useful and safe description into her Majesty's
navy, we understand, is due mainly to the opinions
entertained on the subject of the boat service of
the navy by the Controller and the Chief Con-
structor.

The Earl de Grey and Ripon screw steam store-
ship, Mr. H. T. Moore, in the service of the War
Department, yesterday sailed from Woolwich
Arsenal, laden with 130 tons of Palliser and other
shells, 6i-ton Woolwich guns, bales of blankets,
rugs, &c., for distribution at Devonport. Before
taking her departure, the officers and crew were
subjected to a course of drill with the swords, sea
muskets, six-chamber revolvers, boarding pikes,
and other arms, with which they had been provided,
in order to protect and defend the ship and cargo
in case of invasion.

The old colours of the 54th (West Norfolk) Regi-
ment were deposited with appropriate ceremonial in
Norwich Cathedral on Saturday.
The regulations contained in the War. office
memorandum issued some few weeks ago, as notified
in The Sun, giving instructions to examine thework-
ing men of the Military Store Staff Corps employed
in Woolwich Arsenal, on leaving the establishment,
in the same way as civilians, were put into effect
for the first time on Saturday last. Sergeant
Major Richey, acting provost of the military po-
lice of the garrison, was in attendance on the men
being marched out for the dinner, and the first two
men called out to be searched were found to have
stores concealed on their persons. James Mande-
ville, a private of the Military Train, had possessed
himself of some pieces of leather straps, value
2s. 6d, and Charles Taylor, Depot Brigade, two
small bottles of paint and turpentine. They were
both handed over to Inspector Beard, of the civil
police, and were accused before Mr. Maude, the
magistrate. The former was fined 505., which was
collected among his comrades and paid to the court,
and the latter was discharged as not guilty, on the
plea being accepted " that being under a course of
writing instruction on wood in the arsenal he in-
tended to continue his study at the barracks." His
commanding officer attended and gave him a very
good character.

The honour of knighthood has been conferred on
Sir Charles Wheatstone, as a reward for years of devotion
to a discovery which has done more to assist the progress
of civilization and peace throughout the world, than any
other invention within the memory of man.
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PANnzt.—This gent.
)us state from supprc_
day last been gradually improving, NI hone artrid
entertained of his restoration to health.
His Majesty the King of Italy has conferregi
upon Sir John Borg the honour of a knight-cord
•4
mandership in the noble Order of St. Maurice, on thi
occasion of the ratification of the Italo-Hawaiian treaty.:
The Hawaiian Order of Kamehameha L, we understand,,
was at the same time conferred on the Italian Minister for
Foreign Affairs,.andi.on the Marquis d'Azeglio, Minister
Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary to the British
Court.

Mr. C. W. Preedy, the hon. secretary of the
Hunstanton branch of the Royal National Lifeboat Insti-
tution, has just received from his Royal Highness the
Prince of \Vales a donation of ten guineas in aid of the
" Licensed Victualler" Fund. This lifeboat station is
within eight miles of the royal residence, and the boat was
launched on Sept. 5, 1867, since which time it has saved
the lives of 31 sailors,---16 from the barque Thetis, and 15
from the barque Ifammonia.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A CLERGYALAN.
—The Bristol journals report that the Rev. Benjamin
Speke, of Dowlish, near Ilminster, and brother of the late
Captain Speke, the African explorer, has disappeared in a
very mysterious manner. The rev. gentleman left Ilmin-
ster station for London, on Wednesday week, for the
purpose of officiating- at the wedding of a friend on the
following day. He was to have dined the same evening
with a relative, but he never put in an appearance.
About 5.30 on the Wednesday afternoon Mr. Speke pur-
chased a hat in Warwick-street, but with his exit from
the hatter's shop all trace of him is lost. Advertisements
in the London papers offering £lOO reward have elicited
no response.

The English public have quite enough on their hands
with the Abyssinian expedition. The correspondent of
the Daily News says England must be prepared to provide
more than the two millions sterling modestly requested by.
1! r. Disraeli. The budget of 1869 must exhibit an
expenditure at least six times that sum. Let us
hope this is an exaggeration. According to the Times oi.
Indict the people of Bombay have read Mr. Disraeli's
"rough, but careful and confident estimate," that the er
penes of the expedition, assuming it to be over by April,
would be only four millions, with amusement. We can
assure them it causes no amusement at home. Yet them
may be ground for making merry with the ca.thuate, if the
transport service alone costs a quarter of a million a month,
It would be the worst of all extravagance to throw away
this dear-bought experience.

Sir Roderick Murchison may well be proud of pia
triumph in the dispute as to the safety of the great African
traveller in opposition to authorities like Sir Samuel Baker.
Not only is there every reason to believe the traveller

alive, but also that the story of the Johanna men was
forged in the way and for the purpose which Sir Roderick
surmised—to conceal their cowardly desertion of Living.
stone.

Both Liberals and Conservatives are on the alert in
North Lancashire. There has been no contest in that
division since the passing of the Reform Act, so that it in
impossible to say how a struggle would go were either of
the two political parties to attempt to return two men.
At present the sitting members are Colonel Wilson Patten,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and the Marquis of
Hartington, Secretary of State for War in the late Govern-
ment. The Conservatives, at all events, appear prepared.
to fight for both seats, and have selected Captain the
Hon. F. A. Stanley, second son of the Premier, and
now M.P. for Preston, as their champion. , On the
other hand, the Marquis of Hartington will endeavour
to retain the seat which he has held for nearly
eleven years. Both sides will attend to this year's regis:
tration in earnest. The novelty of a contest in North
Lancashire, combined with its magnitude, will be an
affair of national interest. The Conservatives could have
no better candidate to fight their battle than a Stanley.
At the same time, it will be remembered that in one
portion of the division the house of Cavendish is possessed
of a potent influence, and this, coupled with the general
satisfaction which Lord Hartington has given to the con.
stituency, will be a force which the Conservatives will
doubtless weigh very seriouply before they offer to encounter
it. His lordship moved the vote of "no confidence''
which expelled the Derby Government from power in
18.59, and if he could be ousted by a son of the then ejected
Prime Minister, it would be a Tory triumph of no mean
degree.

The equity barristers practising in Lincoln's Inn find it
impossible to reconcile the various statements which have
been made respecting Lord Justice Sir John Bolt. The
Solicitor's Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and the Dublin.
Mail declare that the learned judge is recovering, that he
has no idea of resignation, and that he will soon again be
enabled to take his seat in the Court of Chancery Appeal,
On the other hand, the Telegraph " believes " that Sir
John Bolt will not again take his seat upon the bench ;
while the Imperial Review is enabled to state that the
Lord Justice has placed his resignation in the hands of
the Lord Chancellor. No decision has as yet been arrived
at with regard to his successor.

The particulars of the arrest of Mr. George Francis
Train shew that when the tender of the Cunard Company
brought into Queenstown the passengers who wished to
land from the Scotia, a powerful body of police at once
went on board and seized Mr. Train, Mr. Gee, an Eng-
lishman, and Mr. Durant, an American railway contractor.
They were taken to the house of Mr. Beamish, a magi's.
trate, and Mr. Tarrant, another magistrate, having shortly
afterwards arrived, an investigation began, Mr. Train
was very indignant at having been molested, urging that
he was an American citizen, that he had committed no
offence against the laws of Great Britain upon British,
territory, and that interference with his liberty was un-
warrantable and an insult to the United States, whose
protection he claimed. Mr. Train also demanded the
charge upon which he was arrested. The magistrates
came to the determination of releasing the three prisoners.
Mr. Train proceeded with his two companions to the
Queen's Hotel, where they intended to pass the night. •

The three gentlemen had not been long in the Queen's
Hotel when two detectives arrived, and requested to be
shewn to Mr. Train's apartment. This was about mid.
night. The officers at once proceeded to search his bag..
gage, at which Mr. Train expressed great indignation.
The police found nothing beyond a bundle of papers
the contents of which have not transpired. Notwith
standing Mr. Train's protest, the police intimated that
they had orders to remain in his apartments for the
night, apparently for the purpose of keeping him under
surveillance. This they did, keeping a close watch
upon Mr. Train. In the morning Mr. Train was
informed that he was to be conveyed to Cork by the two
police officers, against which he formally protested. At
one o'clock the detectives and their captive proceeded to
Cork, arriving at two. Mr. Train was removed from the
station in a cab, still accompanied by the detectives, to the
county gaol, where he at present remains remanded
for eight days. After their discharge by the maxis.
trates Messrs. Durant and Gee were not further mo-
lested.

These proceedings, combined with the arrest of Dr.
Waters, the prosecution of the Nation for having published
seditious libels, and the removal from the Cork commis-
sion of the name of a magistrate who subscribed to the
fund for relieving the Manchester murderers' families,
shew that the Irish Executive is using the greatest vigi-
lance in dealing with the Fenian conspirators, their aidera
and abettors. A general meeting of the attorneys of Ire.
land has been held at the Four Courts, under the,
presidency of one of the new knights, Sir Richard
Orpen. A loyal address to the Crown was adopted,
expressing the strongest condemnation of the Fenian con.
spiracy, and the determination of the lawyers to supporU
the Government by every means in their power.

The Times contains a letter from " Historicus," directly
combating the views of Lord Hobart on the Alabama
question. Lord Hobart assumed that the " limited
thatthe
arbitrators
reference " included the question of the recognition of the,
Southern States as belligerents only so far as it affected
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inwhich "the
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Governmentßritish subjects" on United States commerce was said to
be directly traceable to that "unfortunate cause "—thee
recognition. Mr. Seward, indeed, demands that tha
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"whole controversy" should be referred to arbitration,
and, in the view of the American Government, the recogni.
tion of belligerency is the principal question in the corre-
spondence. "Historicus" argues that the eight and propriety
of recognising the Southern States as belligerents is not a
question on which any reasonable man has a doubt. Mr.
Seward, in 1867, says that but for the English proclama-
tion of neutrality there would never have been civil war
n the United States. "It was England that baptised the
slave insurrection a civil war ;" but " Historicus'.!ren: inds him.
that on May 4, 1861, nine days before the English proelama-
tion,Mr.Seward wrote to Mr. Dayton in Paris : "The insur-
gents have instituted revolution with open, flagrant, deadly
war, to compel the United States to acquiesce in the dis-
memberment of the Union. The United States have
accepted this civil war as an inevitable necessity." Simi-
larly, in a letter to the Spanish Minister, the American
Secretary wrote that the blockade would be established on
the principle recognised by the law of nations ; and he even
used the words "Neutral States," which could have no
meaning if war did not exist. It is simply nonsense,
therefore, to pretend that the President's Government at
that time regarded the rebellion as merely a local insur-
rection. If the United States quarrel with us on the sub-
ject, it will be, says " Historicus," because they are deter.,
miac4 to quarrel,

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THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton.
THIS EVENING, and until further notice, will be per-
formed a new and original Farce, by R. R.3ece, Esq., en-
titled 110NEYDOVE'S TROUBLES. Characters by
31..ssrs. Jos ph filing, C. Warner, J. Moiris ; Men-
dames Kate Harfleur and E. Melville. After which will
be performed the Drury Lane annual grand Christmas
Pantomime, written by E. L. Blanchard, Esq., entitled
FAW FEE 10 FU3I ; or, Harlequin Jack the Giant
Killer.
Due notice will he given of the re-appearance of Mr. Phelps in
the character of Dr. Cantwell in THE HYPOCRITE.
Doors open at half-past six, the performance to com-
mence at seven o'clock.
Morniig Performance every Wednesday and Satur-
day until Feb. 15.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Sole Lessee. Mr. Buekstone.
THIS EVENING, THE BROKEN-iIEARTED CLUB. Mr.
a-br !on, Mr. Braid, Mrs. Chippendale, Se.
To be followed by A WIFE WELL WON. Messrs. Sothern.
Sitekstone, Howe, Kendal, Rogers, Braid, Weathersby, &c., and
Rob7nson.
After which, AN UTTER PERVERSION OF THE
.3-lUf ANT). Nlos3rs, Compton, Kendal, Rogers, Clark, Braid,
Wt,athersby, Johnson, tte.; . Mesdames Burke, Wright, Dalton,

niiiTEATRE ROYAL, ADELPIII.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER.
Directress, Mrs. Alfred Mellon.
TAB EVENING, UP FOR THE CATTLE SHOW.
• After which, at 8, NO THOROUGHFARE. Mr. Fechter (his
23d appearance here), Mr. Billington, Mr. E. Neville, Mr. R.
Phillips, Mr. G. Belmore, Mr. C.V. Smith, and Mr. Benjamin
Wesytter; Miss Carlotta Leclercq (her 23d appearance), Mrs.
Alfred Mellon, Mrs. Billington, Mrs. H. Lewis, &c.
Commence at 7.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining.

Last Five Nights.
THIS EVENING, Grand Combination of the Two Great
Dramas, THE COLLEEN BAWN and THE STREETS OF
—LONDON. Mr. and Mrs. Dion Boucicault as Myles na
'Coppalcen and Eily O'Connor, and Mr. Vining as Badger.
Messrs. Dominick Murray, J. G. Shore, G. F. Neville, H. For-
roster, H. Mellon, R. Cathcart; Misses Elsworthy, E. Barnett,
Rachel Sanger, and Mrs. Addle.
Doors open at half-past 6, commence at 7.

QUEEN'S THEATRE, Long-acre.
Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan.
THIS EVENING, Jan. 21, HE'S A LUNATIC. Mr. John
Clayton.
After which will be produced (12th Time in London) Mr. H.
1. Byron's •New and Original Domestic Drama, in Three Acts,
entitled DEARER THAN LIFE. Michael Garner, Mr. J. L.

Too! e.
T ) conclude with THE BIRTHPLACE OF PODGERS; Mr;
J. L. Toole.
13oz-office open daily from Ten till Four.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh.
- THIS EVENING. at 7, OLD SALT: Messrs. Emery, James,
and Belford; Mesdames N. Moore and Gwynne.
After which will be produced a Grand Christmas Operatic
Oriental Extravaganza " THE CALIPH OF BAGDAD." Messrs.
Thorne, Janina, Turner, Murray; Mesdames A. Swanborough,
Johnstone, Harland, Holt, Newton, &c.
To conclude with OUR DOMESTICS.

HOLBORN THEATRE ROYAL.
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. Sefton Parry.
THIS EVENING, at Seven, THE FLYING SCUD. Messrs.
Atkins, Price, Garden, Arthur, Westland, Wilmott; Mesdames
Henrade, Goodall, Lennox, and C. Saunders.
After which, the Grand Comic Pantomime of VALENTINE
AND ORSON; or, Harlequin the Big Bear and the Little Fairy.
ilesdames Saunders, Goodall, White; Messrs. Garden, Odell,
ikrthur; Mdllc. Montero, Miss Ellis, Lupine, Green, and the
Great Little Rowella.

op 0Y AL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
New Management.
XIV
Sole Lessee, Mr. B. Webster; Manager, Mr. H. Wigan.
THIS EVENING, HEN AND CHICKENS: Messrs. Ashley,
Stephenson, and G. Vincent; Mesdames L. Moore and. Stirling.
After which, USED UP: Messrs. R. Sontar,Vincent, Vaughan,
and C. Mathews; Miss E. Farren.
' To be followed by, IF I HAD A THOUSAND A YEAR.
To conclude with. BETTY MARTIN: Mr. Geo. Vincent and
Miss E. Farren,

Commence at Seven.

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