The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-18 00:00:00

SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, ,Sze.

ADMIRALTY, Bth August, 1868.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD-
MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the
arrangements for the ADMISSION of persons, not already
in the Government service, to the Royal School of Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering as ADMIRALTY
PUPILS, will, for the present year, be as follows :
Candidates must not be less than 18 or more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuilding Or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected with shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded In the elementary prin-
ciples and practice thereof.
The pupils will bo selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, and numbers of marks assigned for
each, are as follows

Marks.

Pure mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura-
tion, geometry (plain and descriptive), plane tri-
gonometry, and the elements of the differential
and integral calculus .. 2,500
Applied mathematics, including mechanics and
hydrostatics ...
•1,000
Practical shipbuilding, including laying-off (for
shipwright's candidates only) '" ... 2,500
Practical marine engineering (for engineer candi-
dates only) 2,500
French ... „, 500
Elements of physic and chymisiry ••• 7750
50
English grammar and composition ... ••• "'
Geography and History ... 750
No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will be treated,
while attached, to the School, in all respects as the .Admi-
ralty pupils ; they will recaive wages the same as dock-
yard apprentices, commencing at Is. 6d. per day for six
days per week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist-
ence allowance of 3s. per day for seven days per week
while away from their homes, either at the 5.:,h00l or in
the dockyards.
Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May
—will be devoted to study at the School, and the nmaining
five months to actual work and the acquirement of practi-
cal knowledge in the dockyards.
It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagements to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in their. subsoquent career. The number of such pupils
to bo selected this year is one shipwright and one engineer.
Persons desirous of competing must forward their names,
with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which
they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing
proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, not later than the Ist September.
The candidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as engineers or shipwrights,
The examination will take place on the 28th September
and three following days.
By command of their Lordships,
HENRY GORDON LENNOX.

• THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
28, Church-row, are as follows
For Fallen Women.
Ramp- 150, Now Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205; Great Portland street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Ilenstridgo-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CQUER, See,
85 Queenitroot, gleapoide. •

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITIITION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.

coNTßißuTroNsi;ilE;;lpicorioithe homes in 1833 aro oar•
nestly solicited, which may bo sont to bankers, Messrs. Blon•
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, ; Francis Nicholls
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.

E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Easton-road, N.W.

" PAINLESS DENTISTRY 1"
A NEW PAMPHLET,
Free by post for four stamps.
yIESSRS. GABRIEL
(Established 1815.)
London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, W,
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

RACES.—MONDAY.
Tho Betting Stand Plate. Five furlongs.

Mr W. M. Lambourue's Court Card, by Fandango—M.
Philippe's dam, 4 yrs, 6st 131 b
Mr Grove's Harlington, 4 yrs, Est 2lb
Mr Thomas's Warlike, 3 yrs, Est 31b (Wyatt) 3
The following also ran :--Witchcraft, Rodivivus, Mar-
quis of Worcester, Laird of Scotland, and Hue and Cry.
Betting-3 to 1 agst Court Card, sto 1 agst Harlington,
to 1 agst Marquis of Worcester, 7 to 1 each agst Rodi-
vivus, Witchcraft, Warlike, and Hue and Cry, and 10 to 1
agst Laird of Scotland. Won in a canter by a length and
a half.

The Cooper's Hill Nursery Handicap. Three-quarters o
a mile stratght.

Mr Brayley's Arlington, by Yoltigeur - Ferrara, 7st 71b
(G. Sopp) 1
Mr PadwiclesPontus, ist 71b (Mordau) 2
Mr A. Heathcote's Amplefortb, Gst 81b (Jeffery) 3
The following also ran :—chere-et-B3lle, Nanny Thor.
manby, and R,oseeleer.
Petting-2 to 1 agst Anipleforth, sto 2 agst Pontus, 4to
1 agst Arlington, and 6 to J. agst Nanny Thormanhy.
Won in a canter by four lengths.
The Egham Stakes.

Mr Pembroke's Envelope, by Weatberbit, Queen's Head,
2 yrs, sst 111 b (£7O) (Jas. Clack) 1
Mr Jackson's Arkadi, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (£7O) Covey) 2
Capt. Ivlachell's Hailstorm, 2 yrs, sst 111 b (car. 6st Glb)
(£7O) (Jeffery) 3
Mr Chaplin's c by Dundee - Banshee, 2 yrs, Gst 91b (car.
Gst 101 b) (£200) (Kenyon) 0
Batting opened at 5 to 4 agst the Banshee colt, and
closed at 7 to 4 agst him, 2 to 1 agst Envelope, and 5 to 2
agst Arkadi. Won cleverly by three-quarters of a length.
The Runnymede Stakes. One mile straight.

Mr Payne's President Lincoln, by Koh-i-noor—YTopsail,
3 yrs, 7st 51b (Maidment) 1
Mr Grove's Harlington, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b (Kenyon) 2
Mr J. Edwards' Breach of Promise, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
(J. Edwards) 3

Distaff also ran.

Betting-7 to 4on President Lincoln, 4to 1 agst Breach
of Promise, and sto 1 agst Harlington. Won in the com-
monest of cantors by four lengths,
The Ankerwycke Stakes. Five. furlongs.
Mr Gee's Little Lord, by St. Albans Sister to Little
Lady, 2.yrs, 6st, 91b (car Est 101 b) (.£5O) (Kenyon) 1
Mr Jackson's Arkadi, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (£5O) ...(11. Covey) 2
Mr England's Juanita, 2 yrs, 6st Glb (DO) (Penfold) 3
The following also ran : —Una, Red Comyn, Pouliot,
Redbreast, Norrington, Zanina, and Kamschatka.
Betting-6 to 4 agst Little Lord, sto 1 each agst
Juanita and Zanina, 10 to 1 agst Una and Red Comyn, and
100 to 6 each agst Arkadi and Redbreast. Won by a
head.

The King John Stakes. T.Y.C.
Mr Gee's Storm King. by Lifeboat—Datara, Bst 101 b
. (including 31b extra)
Mr Padwick's Border Knight, Bst 71b (Fordham) 2
Mr Brayley's Arlington, Bst 131 b (in. 31b ex) (Cannon) 3
The following also ran :—Overture's dam filly, Belle of
Warwick, Baroness, The Baroness, Queen Esther, Young
Fenton, Spider, and Amadeu.
Betting —6 to 4 agst Border Knight, 4 to 1 agst Arling-
ton, 6 to 1 agst Storm King, 7 to J agst Amadou, 10 to 1
Belle of Warwick,:and 100 to 8 agst Overture's dam, filly.
Won very cleverly by a neck.
The Queen's Plate. Two miles and a distance.

Colonel Pearson's Cap-a-Pie, by Thormanby, —Panoply,
3 yrs, Bst 51b .(Challuner) 1
Mr Pott's Tertullus, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (H. Jackson) 2
Mr Wildman's Catiline, 4 yrs, 9st 71b (Fordham) 3

Mexico and (Marina also ran.

Betting-7 to 2on Cap-a-Pie, sto 1 agst Catiline, 7to
L agst Tertullus, and 10 to 1 bar three. Won cleverly by
,hree quarters of a length.

The Weser Gazette announces that the Preisident
of the North German Confederation has been authorised
by the Federal Council to open negociations with the
United States, Great Britain, and other countries, if
necessary, for the purpose of arranging a plan of interna-
tional legislation with especial regard to the passage of
emigrants by sea.
THE MIDWAY ISLANDS.—The Secretary of the
United States' Navy sent to the Senate on the 20th ult. a
communication in reply to a resolution in relation to the
discovery, occupation, and character of the Midway Is-
lands in the. Pacific Ocean. The islands, he says, were
discovered by Captain N. 0. Brooks, commander of the
Hawaiian bark Gambia, in July, 1859. In May, 1867, the
Secretary of the Navy directed Capt. William Reynolds,
commander of the steamer Lackawanna, to take possession,
which lie did on the 13th of September last. Capt. Reynolds,
in his report, described the harbour as formed very much
like Honolulu, as rather more roomy and safe, but with
not quite as much depth of water on its bar, which, how-
ever, appeared to be about 18 feet. Water was found oil
the island at a distance of from four to seven feet. The
soil will produce a good many. kinds of vegetables, and
choice fish were found in the vicinity.

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(From tie Gazette.)
After some months' illness one who for many
years has exercised no slight influence upon Eng-
lish politic 11 and literary life has passed away. On
Mondayght Mr. John Douglas Cook, the editor
of the
relay Review, died at his chambers in the
.a-not i
Albany. 'The immediate cause of Mr. Cook's death
was a eace of the liver which had troubled him

for many ye. us. Towards the last it culminated in
an attack of jaundice, which prostrated him so com-
pletely as to leave his friends no hope of his re-
covery. It; :may, however, be truly said of Mr.
Cook that he, ((lied from want of rest. The habit
of work was a. second nature with him. lie gave
himself, it is true, a vacation every year, but
when he was away from his paper he was
always craving: io get back to it. lie could never
be induced to go abroad beyond the reach of letters
or business cares, and he was apt to think that
the time spent in taking exercise or recreation was
time wasted—a mistake which has brought many a
laborious man to his grave. He almost invariably
passed his holiday in Cornwall, where he had esta-
blished his favourite home, and whither he had but
recently removed his library. But Cornwall was
not far enough away from London. His paper
was the idol of-his life, and it was scarcely ever out
of his thoughts. It happened this year that, for
the first time, he was unable to meet his contri-
butors on the one day when they all met together,
and the circumstance gave him great distress. In-
deed he had found himself unequal for months past
to the close and unremitting attention which his
duties demanded ; but he could never tear himself
away beyond sight or sound of his journal. Even
when his strength was gone his mind continued to
wear itself upon it.
It is common to talk of the " cynical" tone of
our contemporary; with what justice it is not our
business to discuss. But the chief editor was not
a cynic—he hated false pretences and abuses of
every kind, and was always delighted when either
were efficiently and skilfully exposed. Among
those who knew him there must be many who could
testify to the innate kindness of his disposition, to
the generous impulses which often prompted bis
actions, to the quick perception which he had of
talent in the young and unknown, and to the
patience with which he waited for the fruit of that
talent. He once said, " The only way to keep up
a staff which time and change are always touching
is to welcome young men, and never to despair of
them because their first articles happen to be bad.
Wait and see fairly what they really are ca-

pable of doing." In this respect ho was
a faultless editor. lie exacted a high stan-
dard of work, but he judged fairly of every

man's productions.

He soon found out in what

direction a writer's talent lay, and turned it to the
best advantage with wonderful skill. If he attacked

many, there were very many more whom he was
tempted to attack and spared, and his mind was
singularly free from those prejudices which might
possibly interfere with perfect freedom in the
management of a paper. He scrupulously main-
tained the character of his paper for independence
from narrow cliques, and frotn interests which those
who labour for and in the name of the public must
always disregard. The only fatal defect of a con-
tribution in his eyes was that it was not a work-
manlike production.
Beginning his career as a journalist, like so

_ •
many other men who have since risen to distinc-

tion, on the Parliamentary reporting staff of the
Times, Mr. Cook had acquired a vast amount of
practical experience in all kinds of newspaper work
before he brought his matured powers to bear on the
editorstiip of the Morning Chronicle, and subse-
quently of the Saturday Review. Only those who
are familiar with the difficulties of journalism of the
higher order can appreciate the tact, the brealth of

vi~w, the personal and genial good-humour, and the
business qualifications which enabled Mr. Cook to
place the Review, which he created, in tha very front
rank of English periodicals almost from the day
of its first appearance. The immediate success of
the Saturday Review was indeed at that time a
thing without precedent. When, about twelve
years and a half ago, its earliest numbers began to
be talked about, no journal based upon the same
plan was in existence. It was, as it has still re-
mained, a collection of political and literary
articles and essays, supplemented with some six
or eight reviews of books. Whether such a pub-
lication, unaided by the addition of news, and
unspiced by the insertion of correspondence,
could make its way beyond the narrow limits of the
more cultivated class of readers, was a matter of
considerable doubt. Nevertheless, the success of
the Saturday Review, though gradual, was steady
and substantial. Mr. Cook himself was in the
habit of attributing its influence not so much to its

general plan, as to the staff of able men whom he
be had gathered around him as editor of the Morn-
ing Chronicle, and who were his coadjutors in his
new venture. And there can be little doubt that
he was substantially right. If the writers in the
Saturday were audacious, self-reliant, contemptu-
ous, and rigid in the enforcement of their own
canons of good taste, they were unquestionably as
able, as brilliant, as well-informed, and as sound in
their literary principles, as any men who wrote for a
generation becoming daily more and more fastidi-
ous. In those days Mr. Matthew Arnold had not

imported the German word " Philistinism" for the
benefit of his generation; but it was the special,
and prominent, and avowed aim of the Saturday
Review to attack Philistinism wherever it showed
its disagreeable and presumptuous head. Above
all, it was independent, alike in its politics and in
its literary and artistic criticisms. So far as its
politics were of any definite complexion, they were,
as was natural from its origin, of the Peelite type.
In regard to the " cynicism" attributed to the
Saturday Review, it is necessary to remember that
when it started cynicism was in the ascendant
among the more cultivated classes of English-
men.

That aptness for universal unbelief, and

'or what may be described as a species of bitter

and contemptuous universal charitableness, which
was the result partly of political complications,
partly of the advance of Palmerstonianism, and

partly of the break-up of religious ideas which fol-

lowed the secession of Dr. Newman and his friends

,o Rome, found precisely the organ which it desired
ri the unimpassioned, witty, unsparing, and unpre-
udiced criticisms on men, women, and books, which

under Mr. Cook's direction appeared week by week
in unceasing flow. It was, moreover, only through

,his utter aversion from enthusiasm in its writers
'hat the Saturday exhibited that strange combina-

tion of Iligh Church ecclesiastical tastes with a
recognition of the truth of liberal principles in theo-
logy which has been its characteristic up to the very
present hour. It needed no familiarity with its
editorial secret to guess that among its numerous
writers were men Of gY sorts of opinions, political,
religious, and literary. 2-4 " favourite aversions"
were the leaders of the Evanget-i•L 4 schools, and if
it was ever cordial in any thing, it was cordial in
its dislike to men of whom Lord Shaftesbuiyis +he

typo and the leader. Yet its adhesion to the views

of such writers Its Dean Stanley and Mr. Jowett

has always been, and still is, of the coldest and most
qualified kind. On the whole, the Saturdayßertew,
under Mr. Cook's guidance, has been pre-eminently
a reproeutative journal, and, as such, has well de-
served th.power and the reputation it has gained.
Without any effort, and without the slightest de-
termination of constituting itself an " organ," it
has represented the cast of thought, the feelings,
and the temper, of the highest order of London
political, and critical, and literary life.
Mr. Cook was little seen abroad, especially of
late years; but in those circles where he was well
known be will be remembered with sorrow and
regret.

The insurgents next attacked the hall door, and endea.
voured to force it open, holding the coachman in their
front to deter the defenders from firing. After half-an.
hour's fruitless effort they retired, first swearing the
coachman to secrecy.
From the hour selected they probably believed that the
family were at church.
A working shoemaker, named Michael D. O'Halloran,
was arrested on his arrival at Cork by a late train from
Yougbal on Sunday night; on suspicion of being the leader
of the attacking party.
Other accounts make no mention of Mr. Drew and his
sons, but state that a lady, reported to be Miss Drew, or
a visitor, defended the house and fired from the window.