The Sun.
London, England, 1850-08-10 00:00:00

S N 7 AUGUST 10, 1850.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BRIGHTON CLUB RACES.--FRIDAY.
Optional Selling Plate of 50 !goys.; three yrs old, 9st 91b;
four, lOst 61b; five, 10st 101 b; six and aged, lOstl2lb.
The winner to be sold by auction fur 50 sore.; if en-
tered to be sold for 100 sovs. to carry 71b; if fur 150,
I lib; if fur 200, 141 b extra, and any surplus to go to
the Club. T.Y.C.
Mr. Shelly's f by Touchstone, out of Potentia, 3 yrs,
10,t 91b (200) (Captain Pettat) 1
Duke of Richmond's Helier Skelter, 5 yrs, lOst 101 b
(50)
Major Bringhurst na Hind ut the Forest, 5 yrs, lOst
1015 (50) (Major Bringhurst) 3

Mr. EliVes-na Cayenne, lOst 131b(1eit) (Mr. lames) 4
Mr. Carew's Buscot, lOst 131 h (100) ... (Mr. Elwe,) 5
Count Battliyany na Bastalion, 4 yrs, lOst 61n
(50) (Count Batthyany) 6
Mr. Shelly's naNeedful, 10. t, 121b(50) (Mr. Caldwell) 7
Betting-2 to 1 agst liotentia filly, 3to 1 agst Hiad
of the Forest. 3 to 1 agst Helter Skelter. and 7 to 1 agst
Bastillion.• . Won by twolengths. Hind of the Forest a
bad third.
The Brighton Club Stakes of 10 soya. each, h ft, with 100
added, for three yrs old and upwards; the second to
receive 20 soya. out of the stakes. The winner of the
'Brighton Stakes to carry 101 b extra. New Course.
(6 Subs., one of whom paid forfeit.)
Mr. Bevill na Dover, 5 yrs, llst 121 b ...(Mr. Sevin) 1
Count Batthyany na Sam Hood (Count Batthyany) 2
Mr. Carew'is'Agis, 5 yrs, llst (Mr. P. Williams) 3
Mr. Oabaldeston's Minimum, 4 yrs, lOst...(Owner) 0
Betting-6 to 4on Minimum, 3to 1 agst Agis, and 5
to 1 agst Dover. Won by twelve lengths. Minimum
took the wrong course after making the extreme turn,
or he would have won in a canter. Run in 3 min. 27' secs.
A Plate of 50 soya.; for three yrs old, 9st 10lb; four,
lOst 10Ib; five, Ilst 1 llb; six and aged, 12et 31b. The
. winner to be sold for 200 soya.; and any surplus to go
to the funds of the Club. One mile. •
Mr. HOhion niGrasshopper, 4 yrs (Mr. Hobson) 1
Mr.`Elwes' Athelstane, s,Tra .. ....(Owner) 2
Duke' of Richmond's quiver, .4 yrii • (Mr. Bevill) 0
Conht"Battliyany as Sara` Hood (Count Batthyany) 0
Mr. Carew's &mob, 4 yrs.. . (Mr. Caldwell) 0
N Captain Nita us Thibault,'4 yrd'(Mr. C. C. Brook) 0
Ifettink2 to 1 on Quiver, arid 7 to 2 agat Grass-
hopper. Won by three parts of n length. Run in 1 min.
54 sees.
The Gold Cup, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 5
soya. each; the winner of the Brighton Club Stakes to
carry 71b extra. New Course. (8 Subs.)
Mr. Carew's CEdipus, 4 yrs,' Ist (Mr. P.Williams) 0 1
Mr: Hobson's Hope, 5 yrs, llst 41b......(0wner) 0 2
Mr. Drinkald na Retail, list 121 b (Capt. Pettat) 0
Count Batthyany na The Captain, aged, lOst 121 b 0
Mr. Elwes' Seccnd Chance, lOst 41“ Mr. Elwes) 0
Mr. P.Williams na Titßit, aged,lOrt(Mr.Rowley) 0
Betting—First Heat: 6 to 4 agat Hope and Retail,
and 4to 1 agat SecOnd Chance. A. •de ad heat. Tit-bit
a bad third. Run in 3 min. 35 secs. •
Deciding Heat-6 to 4on Hope. Won by four lengths.
Run in 3 min. 29 sees.
EDGWARE RACES.—FarDAY.
The Innkeeper's Plate of 101., added to a handicap of
2 soya. each, twice round and a dim, (4 subs.), was won
easily in two heats by Mr. Thornton's Little Fanny, aged,
7st 101 b (Bailey),beating Mr. Mason's New•Foreat Doe,
4 yrs, 7st slb (Lowe), Mr. Drew's Messman, 5 yrs, Bst
7lb (Racket), and Mr. B. Sands' Sir Tatton Sykes, aged,
ist 121 b.
The Tradesman's Plate of 301., added to a sweepstakes of
5 soya. each, 2 ft. Two miles. (13 Subs.)
Mr. Sadd's Salute, 3 yrs, Est (Kendall) 1
Mr. Thornton's Highwayman, aged, 7st 10lb (Bailey) 2
Mr. Bell's Premier, 4 yrs, 7st 10lb (F. Bell) 3
Mr. J. Child's Maid of the Mi 11,4 yrs, Est ...(Neale) 4
A good race, won by a head.
The Farmers' Plate of 15 soya., added to a handicap
hurdle stakes of 2 sovs. each, twice round and a dis, over
six hurdles, was won in two heats easily, by Mr. A.
Jackson's Nell Cook, aged. lOst 101 b (Higgins), beating
Premier, 4 yrs, 9tt 10lb; Frank, 6 yrs, Ilst 91br Reality,
aged, lOst 71b; and Tommy Tittle, 6 yrs, lost 91b.

Miles
NAME OF RAILWAY. I Receipts.
opened,
1850. 1849. 1850.
RRITISII.
--
72 Aberdeen ..
37% Belfast and Ballymena ••• • • • ...• •• • • 564 621
17 Belfast and County D0wn............-264
16 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,045 1,341
14 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .. 422 582
8r44 Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • .... ••• • .. 5,011 4,521
160 Ca1ed0nian.,........... . • • • • • • • • • • • 6,226 6,842
948,% Chester and Holyhead. ••.. • • . •• .. 3,006 3,540
22 Dublin and Belfast Junction 259 361
53 Dublin and Drogheda.. • • • •
7% Dublin and Kingstown • ..... •••• • • • • 2,859 1,319
is Dundee and Arbroath •• • • • • •
31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 673 806
is Dundalk and Enniskillen- • .. • • • • • • • . 161 153
67% Last . .....
753. East Lancashire ... ..... ..
322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk •• .• • • 16,510 16,169
EasteraUnlon-• •••• •• • • •.•• •• 1,781 2,521
573¢ Ediaburgh and Glaszow .• • - •• •• 3,870 4.899
71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee.. •• 3,072 3,149
is Farness Railway ...
100 Glasgow, Paisley, and Ayr •• •• •• •• 3,454 3,334
223{ Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock •• •• 1,356 1,475
143 Great Northern and E. L.• ••• •• •• 2,385 3,389
188 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 4,414 4,332
230 Great Western •• • •
90 Lancaster and Carlisle •
245% Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ...... •• • • 14,426 16,012
39 Leeds and Thirsk •• • 971 1,249
126 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport •• •
470 London and North Western 52.031 51,492
5 London and Illackwall.• •• ••••• • • • • • 1,075 1,281
171i4 London, Brighton, and South Coast 17,350 17,027
239 London and South Western. •..••• • • 12,577 14,383
18 Londonderry and Enniskillen
113 Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c 222 222
1691% Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 5,187 6,137
9N, Manchester and South Junction-. 426 514
28 Ilarypert and Carlisle 655 587
4913( Midland •••••• • •• • • ...... •• •••• • • 23,887 24,146
50 Midland Great Western (Irish)
60 Newcastle and Car1i51e.........• .. • • 2,187 2,176
135 North British •• .. ..... •• • ••• •• 4,010 4,124
262 North Staffordshire ....... 4,796
37 North-Western ......
45 Scottish Central •. • •••• .. • 1,530 1,801
32 Scottish Midland 423 524
29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham
47 Shrewsbury and Chester •• ••• • • • 1,614 1,739
30 Shropshire Union „ 318 482
58 South Devon ••••••...•••• • • •• • • • • • • 1,884 2,248
234 South Eastern ••• • • • •• • • 12,106 16,042
75 South Wales .. •• ..
69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .• - 1,092
40 Tarr Vale .• •• • • .• •• •••••• • • • • • • 1,938 2,299
36 ' Ulster .•• • • •
13 West Cornwall ...... ............. 291 312
12 Whitehaven Junction ...... ...... 239 216
29014 York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... 14,100 15,462
256 York and North Midland. ••••• • • • • • 8,966 9,942
FOREIGN,
76% Amiens and Boulogne.
806 856
63 Montereau And Troyes 826 992
335 Northern of Franco ................ 16,073 20,021
143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) .......... 2,818 2 755
72 Orleans to Bordeaux 2,993 2,923
82 Paris and Orleans . .• • . .••. • • • . 7,390 7,066
85 Paris and Rouen
59% Rouen and Havre •••••••• • • • .• .. 2,692 3,174

A WIFE

[PRICE SD.

THE LORDS of the ADMIRALTY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HORNING CHRONICLE.
Sir,—A sound of wailing has gone forth upon the
waters, and even reached the secluded ship from whence
I indite this letter. Grief, mingled with amazement, has
taken possession of our minds upon hearing that a
band of daring innovators have ventured to lay their
hands upon the hitherto sacred salaries of the Lords
of the Admiralty, and that they have gone so far as to
recommend that the Four Junior Commissioners
should ba deprived of their residences or of 200/. an-
nually.
News has also arrived' that still larger reforms
will be recommended in high places ; but with
such matters it is not my intention to trouble you.
I am-not at present likely to visit Paris or Vienna,
and. am therefore utterly indifferent to the merits of
either ambassadorial cuisine, as well as to the in-
tensely interesting questions that may agitate Eu-
rope, in case Lord Guloseton reduces the salary of
his " chef " in proportion to his own or the Marquis
of Carabbas takes advantage of this opportunity to
abstain altogether from poisoning his guests. In
times of distress I like to help my friends ; and at
present all my sympathies are with the four unhappy
men who have come in for the tail of this economical
hurricane; and•as they never gave dinners of any
description (not even bad ones), .it cannot be. sup-
posed that the committee who recommended the re-
duction had any latent wrongs to avenge; and we
may therefore fairly assume that in this case, at
least, their decision was guided by the purest of mo-
tives.

It is not, however, likely to be submitted to with-
out a murmur. I hear the contemplated reduction
is to be opposed on the ground that the arduous la-
bours of the Board of Admiralty are even now barely
remunerated by a not disproportionate salary.
Let us examine the nature of this defence of exist-
ing salaries. It is founded solely upon the doctrine of
bard work and high wages, but it altogether forgets
to take into consideration he value bf the work when
it is performed. Work alone, without result's, is no
excuse for extravagance. Granted that the Lords of
the Admiralty toil from morning to night—that
their life is one of ceaseless labour—that at
the close of each day their minds are wearied
and their bodies exhausted, and that they have no
longer health nor heart to squabble over any desir••
able piece of patronage. What then! Labour is the
lot of thousands, and few there are amongst those
thousands who have the similar privilege of slavery
at the rate of 1,0001. per annum. The tree is known
by its fruits ; where is the result of • all this toil ?
What great and useful measures have been brought
about by so much exertion—what evils eradicated—
what benefits conferred—what tangible and practical
change effected by these mysterious midnight medita•
tions ? We ask not for the progressive steps that have
first led to convictions, ultimately to terminate in
legislation ; but we are fairly entitled to demand that
if labour be pleaded as a justification for high
salaries; that same labour should be productive of
something more than a mere parade of vis inertia. It
must be acknowledged that hard work is necessary in
order to succeed in any situation, but it by no means fol-
lows that, unaided by ability, success must be the conse-
quence. We admire the industry and perseverance
with which an urchin concocts a dirt-pie in the
streets, and the patience with which a domestic fowl
will sit and chuckle over a neat of eggs that we know
to be already addled; but in neither case do we find
the labour bestowed upon these objects rewarded in a
manner commensurate with the ideas of the principals
engaged. The boy, most probably, gets a kick in-
stead of a penny for defiling his clothes in the gutter,
and the "gallina incubans" is condemned to the spit
as a reward for her mistaken notions of maternity.
If results there be, at all events they have not at-
tained public notoriety; and in their absence we may
fairly ask, what are the duties of the Lords of the
Admiralty—whether their Lordships really are, as
they would fain persuade us, "operosi nihil agentes,"
or whether they may not be in the enjoyment of as
much relaxation and as many holidays as is con-
sistent with the position of all who would serve the
State ?

I am rather inclined to the latter belief, and so pro-
bably will be your readers, when I state my grounds
for such a conviction. Here it it—
In one of the morning journals of July 6, I find
the following announcement:—
"Captain lioustoun Stewart, C. 8., is absent from the
Admiralty, upon the Continent."
And in another of the same date, I read that—
" Rear-Admiral M. F. Fitzhardinge 13..rkeley, C. 8.,
one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and a large party of
ladies, noblemen, acdgeutlemen. eighty-four in number,
arrived at Woolwicn to-day, shortly after twelve o'clock,
by special train on the North Kent line of railway, and
were received by Commodore Henry Eden, superintend
eat, and the authorities of the dockyard. The Black
Eagle steam-vessel, Master-Commander S. B. Cook,
having her steam up, the party were conveyed
on b iard in the pinnace of the Fisgard, and
proceeded down the river to Sheerness, where they
went on board the Ocean, 80, flag-ship at that port,
and afterwards went alongside the Howe, 120, Captain
Sir James Stirling, at the Nore, where she has arrived
to be paid off at Sheerness. The master of the band
and twelve of the men of the Woolwich division were on
hoard the Black Eagle. Dancing was kept up for nearly
an hour after the vessel had arrived and was attached
to her moorings at Woolwich, at half-past eight o'clock,
P 31. The day
_being remarkably fine, the party ex-
pressed themselves highly delighted with the trip.
Commodore Eden having gone to town in the afternoon.
Lieutenant Robertson, Mr. Lang, master-shipwright,
and Mr. Ilumphrys, chief engineer, received the rear-
admiral and party on landing, and the whole of the
company left the dockyard station of the North Kent
Railway at ten o'clock, P. 31., by special train for
London."
So that, out of the Four Junior Lords of the
Admiralty, one is amusing himself abroad, and an-
other feasting and fiddling up and down the Thames
in one of her Majesty's yachts.
But surely neither of these employments can be
classed as onerous or heart-breaking certainly
not the last. Picture to yourself, Sir, " eighty-four
lords, ladies, and gentlemen," first assembling at
the Admiralty, then driving to the terminus, from
whence they are conveyed by special train to
Woolwich, received there by a Commodore, and all
the authorities bowing to the ground, on a
platform covered with half an ,acre of red baize,
conducted to the boat by Colonel Handsaw,
and the gallant young officers of the Dockyard Ir-
regulars, " Division Maritime," stepping out of it on
board the yacht to the music of the master of the
Marine band and his selected assistants, proceeding
leisurely down the river (not forgetting to touch at
Sheerness for a draught of Elliott's), visiting a
splendid three-decker at the Nore, kept there for
the express purpose of being thus honoured, dancing
all the way back, ultimately to be re-landed at
Woolwich with the same bows and baize that
awaited them on their reception, and all to be
closed with another special train. No wonder the
party expressed themselves gratified. What more
could they have desired ? The whole paragraph is
redolent of luxurious enjoyment. Cleopatra's barge
in rapid motion, with a more goodly company than
ever honoured Cleopatra with their presence ; the
Thames instead of the Cydnus, engines in lieu of
swans, Champagne substituted for pearl-water; and,
to complete the picture, Anthony himself, unchecked
by any thought of losing a world fur the sake of the
fair forms around him, indulging in pleasing dreams
of future retributive vengeance upon the heads of the
unconscious assistant-surgeons.
Sometimes, when their constitutions are enfeebled
and their energies shaken by a too protracted atten-
tion to duties of the foregoing description, their Lord-
ships condescend to exchange a seat at the Admiralty
for some less laborious and more permanent occupa-
tion in the dockyards—the Scotchinen (as might be
expected) invariably securing the first opportunities.
Thus Sir Charles Adam was translated from White-
hall to Greenwich Hospital (King Stork succeeding
to the vacant throne). Rear-Admiral Prescott first
flourished and then faded fora few months in the uncon-
genial atmosphere of the board-room, until the occur-
rence of a vacancy in the dockyard at Portsmouth gave
him an opportunity of exchanging the dust of London
for the parterres and geraniums of the Superin-
tendent's residence; and Lord John Hay, finding
it more easy to pull ships to pieces than to satisfy the
public that he was right in doing so, wisely leaves all
explanation to his successor, and, having served three
years at the Admiralty, stipulates for, and obtains,
an arrangement by which he is to be retained in
command of Plymouth for a further period of five
years, to the exclusion of 75 expectant, but de-
ceived, Rear-Admirals. Rumour asserts that ano-
ther command will shortly be filled from the
Board of Admiralty ; so that the public may
rest assured that when there are any good things
to be given away, their Lordships will not be guilty
of the folly of forgetting themselves.
In the midst of such selfishness, waste, and folly,
is it any longer a wonder that the voice of the nation,
faintly heard at the commencement through the voice
of some few Financial Reformers, and ultimately
finding strength and expression through the medium
of a Committee appointed to revise all official salaries,
should peremptorily call for some alterationte officials
in the
mode mode of conducting public business? have
h
forgotten the warning, "that if they did not reform
,hernselves, they would be reformedfrowm,
If
tthey
without
more roughly than they might wish
ce for the
Oltive, let them not neglect this Dew

immittee have not only established the principle of
reductions, but they have opened the door to further
retrenchments if found necessary ; and we have at
last the consolation of knowing that if we cannot
prevent incapables or incorrigibles from squandering
the public money, we can at all events dock their
emoluments until there will be no longer any in-
ducement for them to cling to office with that
silent pertinacity so characteristic of the tribe of
Whig " Testacem," with whom the faculty of stick-
ing and swallowing seems the object of all official
existence, as well as the best recommendation for, a
participation therein.
I am, Sir, yours most obediently,
JACK EASY.

Her Majesty's ship Geranium,
Portsmouth, August 6.

,
CO3IIIIUNICATION BETWEEN the
ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS.
One of the most marked characteristics of the pre-
sent times is the anxiety for improved intercommunica-
tion which is so pircept,ble on both sides of the Atlantic.
F4oility of lueornotion is known to be so powerful an in-
strument of civilization and so important an auxiliary to
commerce, that in all directions attention is being turned
to completing and perfecting the links in the great chain
of communication which is felt so essential to the prog,ress
of the world. The most comprehensive project of modern
timer, the connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the
Pacific, is on the point of being carried into execution,
the steamer Director having left Now York for the pur-
pose of plying from St. Juan in the Gulf of Mexico, up
the St. Juan River to Cistillo Viego, where she is in-
tended to transfer her passengers to Nicaragua, which
will convey them to the city of Granada, on the Lake of
Nicaragua, whence a land journey of twelve or
fourteen miles will bring them to the Bay of St. Juan
del Sur, on the Pacific, which they will have thus
reached without encountering the dangers and kard-
ships of the stormy passage round Cape Horn. We
believe, however, that this is not ultimately to be
the line of the ship canal, the preferable direction being
the route leading northward, from Lake Nicaragua to
the Estero Real, an inlet from the Gulf of Fonseca, as a
line for the canal can there be found of only forty-five
miles long, and which affords great facilities for its con-
struction, the greatest elevation to be overcome being
only fifty feet, and the character of the soil favourable
to excavation.
The harbour of Realgo, which would be the port for
the first route, though tolerably secure, is very small,
whereas the Gulf of Fonseca is a spacious inlet of the
sea, capable or holding with convenience and in perfect
safety any namber of vessels that any conceivable com-
merce could by any possibility concentrate on its waters.
Its entrance is between two lofty volcanoes, with very
deep water between them, and it contains the island of
Tigre, itself merely a volcanic rock, but of the greatest
importance in a political point of view, inasmuch as it
commands the ship canal which is destined to afford ac-
cess to the commerce of Europe to the whole seaboard
of the Pacific, to the teeming millions of China, and the
rich and fertile islands, hourly rising in importance, of
the Indian Archipelago, finally to be the short cut be-
tween this country and her Australasian colonies. A.
staff of surveyors have already left New York, and this
great work, which will be an enduring monument of the
energy of our times and the enterprise of the Anglo-
Saxon race, may be said to have been fairly commenced.
On the result it would be impossible to speculate. At
present, its magnitude can hardly be estimated, for the
dust of California is in all men's eyes, and the mental
vision is distorted towards those auriferous districts
where the wildest anticipations may at any time be
realised, and the leading idea in most men's minds is that
a passage across the isthmus is merely a short cut to
California and fortune; but to meet the importance of
the undertaking it is necessary to consider the popula-
tions it will connect, the resources it will develop, and
the enormous amount of commercial activity it will call
into play. Already the auri sacra lames has shaken
the superstitious horror of emigrating, which it is well
known has prevented China from sending forth her
swarming multitudes, who can barely find a scanty
subsistence upon her own soil, to people the broad
lands that lie so invitingly unoccupied in our Australian
possessions. There are many Chinese in California,
and it once that superstitious horror is fairly shaken,
as it seems likely to be, and a new generation grows up
without the fear of foreign land before their eyes, it is im-
possible to say what amount of labour may be thrown
into a market which is ever ready to receive and greedy
to absorb any quantity that it can command. The great
drawback upon the advance of our Australasian settle-
ments is the high price of labour, or, in other words,
shortness of hands; whilst, on the other hand, the po-
pulation of China is so redundant that, so precious is
land there, millions live entirely on the rivers, so that
there are probably people among them who have never
slept on shore all their lives; and nothing is more likely
to reconcile the superabundant population of that
country to quitting their native land, and seeking
subsistence elsewhere, than that rapidity, fre-
quency, and certainty of communication which deprives
a temporary expatriation of the character of an
eternal banishment, which is certain to follow the
enormous introduction of American and European com-
merce directly into the Pacific. There is one point,
however, on which we wish public attention should bo
riveted from the very first, a point of the most vital im-
portance to Europe, and that i, the dimensions of the
canal; it is necessary that the greatest care should be
taken that the canal should have both breadth and
depth to admit the largest ships and steamers, and we
must watch most vigilantly that it is not made of a size
calculated to admit the small craft of America and ex-
clude the large see-going vessels which Europe employs
in her intercourse with her colonies. Rumours are atloat
that stunething of the sort is likely to be attempted, and
though we trust that those rumours aro not founded in
fact, still it is as well that we should be on our guard to
ensure to the commerce of the world that advantage
which it has a right to obtain from one of the most im-
portant works of modern times.—Post.

EXPERIMENTS AT SIIDEBURYNESS.
The experiments carried on ut the new range on the
Essex coast on \Vedneeday last, in the presence of the
Marquis of Anglesey, Master-General of the Ordnance,
Lord Clarence Paget, Rear-Admiral M. Fitzhardinge
Berkeley, C. 8., Major. General Lacey, Colonel I)undas,
C.B , and Lieutenant-Colonal Chttlnaer, were made for
the purpose of testing two new inventions, one submitted
by Major Cnvalli, an artillery officer in the Sardinian
service, and the other by Mr. Worrondoff. Major Ca-
valli's piece of ordnance, a 32-pounder gun, is very light,
being only about three tons, including the gun carriage.
Mr. Worrondoff 's gun and carriage weighs about eight
tons. Both guns are similar in principle in loading at
the breach, and the chambers for loading held securely
by the insertion of a quoiu on the right side of the breech.
which is inserted in Mr. Worrondoff 'a gun with the
greatest ease by 01:1Q man, but in Major Cavalli's gun the
quoin had to be knocked out, which occupied longer
time betwixt the firing. The shot fired were cast
in the conical or sugar-loaf form, similar to the rifle
balls of Mr. Lancaster for long ranges. On firing,
Major Cavalli's and Mr. Worrondoff's guns, with a
charge of 101bs. of powder, and ono of the usual service
32-pounder guns, the two former were found to ranee
considerably more than two miles, and the shot frem
both guns to proceed fully 300 yards greater range be-
fore they touched the ground than the shot from the
common service 32-pounder. The same result was ob-
tained in several rounds, and the charges of powder in
Major Cavalli's and Mr. Worrondoff 's guns were re-
duced to 81bs. in each, and then tried is comparison with
the common service gun, retaining the charge of 101bs.
The result was still in favour of Major Cantles and
Mr. Worrondoff 's guns, as they, under reduced charges,
carried the shot fully fifty yards further than the 32-
pounder, with a charge of 101bs. Both Major
Cavalli's and Mr. Worrondoff 's guns were mounted
on carriages having facilities for one man loading each,
and afterwards being able to move the gun to a con-
siderable angle to direct it against a steamer passing
quickly, which is attained by elevating end depressing
screws, and by a motion from side to side. on a prin-
ciple nearly similar to the plan submitted by Captain
the Honourable W. E. Fvzmaurice, although very dif-
ferent in detail. The experiments were considered very
satisfactory, and the blaster-General, Rear-Admiral
Berkeley, and the members of the select committee were
much gratified with the result. The practice ground
had been measured off to the extent of two miles and a
quarter previous to the experiments, but the range
bring then much further, it has now been measured off,
and posts put up, to the extent of upwards of three miles.
During the preliminary trials, one of the guns met with
a shot injury at the chamber, owing, it was supposed,
to some deficiency in the casting of the metal, and when
it was sent to the Royal Arsenal to be repaired, two
inches were cut off instead of mending it, which has
proved of great service, as it is now better than it was
originally.

PRINCE ALBERT AND THE SOUTHAMPTON DINNER.
—The Mayor of Southampton having respectfully solicited
the honour of the presence of Prince Albert at the banquet
to be given by his Worship to the Lord Mayor of London,
received the following communication from the Palace :
" Osborne, Aug. 7,185 J.—Dear Sir,—l have had the honour
to submit to his Rovd. Highness Prince Albert your
letter of the sth inst. His Royal Highness regrets that the
engagements which he has already made prevent the pos-
sibility of his being present at the banquet which you pro-
pose to give to the Lord Mayor of London on the 26th inst.
His Royal Highness has heard with much pleasure of the pro-
gress of the feeling in favour of the Great Exhibition at
Southampton.—Believe me, dear Sir, sincerely yours, C. 13:
Phipps.—To the Mayor of Southampton."
ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST. ANN'S SOClETY.—Yes-
terday a half-yearly general court of the governors and donors
of this society, which was instituted in the reign of Queen
Anne, for maintaining, clothing, and educating the children
of those who were once in prosperity, whether orphans or not,
of all nations, was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-
street, to receive the report of the committee, and to elect 15
children, ten boys and five girls, from is list of 80 candidates
on the foundation of the institution; the Right Iron. the
Lord Mayor in the chair. The election of children took place,
at the closa of which the names and numbers of the sucass-
ful candidates were announced. A vote of thanks was then
passed to the chairman, and the court broke up.
A NEW SORT or POLICE.—Mr. Mason, police
superintendent
aofnLeintchoolrno,ughhas jbredustbloroedtthironued nd,lwioinacefrom
h has
been purchased for the purpose of tracking the footsteps of
sheep slaughterers, burglars, and other offenders against the
laws. Tfie animal is a very fine-looking one, though not
particularly large; he is from Ross-shire, and it is ; aid that
the cost is about 30/. We trust the animal's "scenting"
propensities
may be of some service to the police force. At
present depredations are committed with the greatest im-
punity, but it is not very often that apprehensions. takes
placc.—Local Paper.
PORTUGUESE .BUTTER.--A vessel arrived from Lis-
bon has brought a parcel of firkins of butter as a portion of
her cargo, consigned to order, the produce of Portugal.
This is an unusual article of importation from Ws south=
§tAtE, of Europe.