The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-27 00:00:00

Vice-Patron—

His Royal Highness tho Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BuccLEucli, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown. Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn and Co, ;
Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and at
the Hospital, from 14 till 5.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON._FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchaso of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Bread-street, and Ealing

370 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, sad 41, Lothbury, E.C. ; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flelds.

THE RESCUE E
are as fof

SOCIETY'S HOMES
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For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. wick.

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For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John's-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside,
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.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy"). may be had on application.
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. COOPER, Sec.
Queeu-street Cheapside.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke a CAMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to flt them for domestic service; and, if not other-
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. Tho Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KiNGSCOTE, Treasurer]
W. R. WARWICK, Secretary.,
Office, 121, Pall mall, S.W

PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
ffESSRS.I GABRIIEBI% DENTISTS (Established
London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-squared
64, Ludgate-hill, E.C.,
77
Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and
Brighton
have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining
their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi-
cial Teeth without springs, at MODERATE CHARGES, which
may be had free by post for four stamps.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE

VALETTA, Feb. 22.—Her Majesty's Indian steam
troopship Crocodile, Capt. Watson, which left Malta
on the sth inst. at 4 p.m., on her outward voyage,
returned here at 630 a.m. of the 16th inst. She
arrived at Alexandria from this island at daylight
on the Bth, and, after landing the troops she had on
board on the 9th, embarked on the 11th Mr. H. J.
Wilson, engineer, R.N., Mr. R. J. Willis, assist.-
paymaster, R.N., 11 other naval invalids, and a few
other supernumeraries from' the East Indian squad-
ron, and on the 12th took on board the following
troops:-46 officers, 18 ladies, 24 children, 915 non-
commissioned officers and men, 47 women, and 82
children, of the 94th Regiment. The Crocodile left
Alexandria the same day, crossing the bar at noon,
and passed the Serapis at 3 a.m. on the 13th inst.
about 130 miles from Alexandria. The Crocodile
continued her route for England on the afternoon
of the 17th inst. The troops she is taking home arc
to be stationed at Plymouth, and it would be natu-
rally concluded that she would call in there to dis-
embark them. But this is not the case; her orders
are to proceed to Portsmouth, and the troops will
consequently have to be sent back by rail to their
destination, at considerable public expense, with no
little inconvenience to themselves and unnecessary
loss of time. This is scarcely credible, after the
very recent exposure in the press and Parliament of
a similar act of official mismanagement. Her
Majesty's gunboat Tyrian, 1, Lieut. Commander E.
Church, arrived at Malta on the 16th inst. from
Candia, having been relieved on 10th inst. by the
Trinculo, 1, Lieut.-Commander de V. Sanders. In
getting under way, and while towing the Trinculo
to another berth, the Tyrian was thrown on a rock
by a sudden squall, but sbe was soon got off again
without having suffered any injury. Her Majesty's
screw frigate Arethusa, 35, Capt. R. Coote, also
arrived on the 16th inst. She was from the Piraeus,
having been relieved there by the Lord Warden, 18,
ironclad, Capt. W. R. Rolland. This vessel ex-
perienced a very rough passage up, and while royals
were being set her steel topmasts, fore and main,
went by the board. Owing to the prolonged voyage
Lord Clarence Paget was too late to attend the State
bati given by the King and Queen of Greece, but'
on his arrival lost no time in duly presenting to
their Majesties his congratulations on their recent
marriage. Ilis lordship has since shifted his flag
from the Lord Warden to the Psyche, despatch
boat, and proceeded in the latter vessel to Constan-
tinople. He is expected back in Malta about the
25th inst. Her Majesty's screw troopship Hima-
laya, Capt. S. B. Piers, arrived here from Gibraltar
on the morning of the 17th inst., having on board
the 87th Regiment (Royal Irish), under the com-
mand of Col. Lyons, for this garrison, to relieve the
2d battalion Bth Regiment (the King's), which is
ordered home, and will embark on the 24th inst on
board this vessel from the Hay wharf, in the Mar-
samuscetto harbour, where she is at present lying,
and leave in her the following morning. The 87th
are encamped at Verdala. The Himalaya con-
veyed the 74th Regiment from Kingstown to Gib-
raltar. Her Majesty's ironclad ship Caledonia, 24,
Capt. Alan Gardner, which left this island on the
sth inst., re-entered port on the 19th, having called
at Syracuse in the course of her cruise. The Lord
Clyde, 23, ironclad, Capt. Roderick Dew, which
left Malta on the same day for a cruise, returned
on the 20th instant, after visiting Naples. Letters
have been received here from her tllajesty's sur-
veying steamer Hydra, Captain Shortland, dated
Bombay, 27th of January, stating that she
was to leave that day for Aden, where
she expected to arrive about the middle of March,
and, after surveying Jack Shoal, proceed to the
Mauritius and the Cape on her return home. As
application has, however, been made to the Admi-
ralty for a survey of the neighbourhood of Suez, in
connection with the intended laying of the Anglo-
Indian Telegraph cable, it is not impossible she may
be detained in the Red Sea to carry out this work,
if no vessel be available for this purpose. Commu-
nication by the Malta and Alexandria cable continues
uninterrupted. Two foreign men-of-war have
arrived here during the week. The Norwegian
screw corvette Nordatjernen, 15, came in on the
16th inst. from Alexandria. It was this vessel which
was erroneously reported to have grounded at Myti-
lene. The German screw frigate Hertha, 21, entered
this port on the morning of the 20th inst. from
Smyrna. Her Majesty's ships in port are :—The
Hibernia, receiving ship, bearing the flag of Rear-
Admiral Kellett, C.B. ; the Caledonia, 24, the
Lord Clyde, 23, and the Enterprise, 4, ironclads ;
the Arethusa, 35 ; the Endymion, 21 ; the Cocka-
trice, 1, the Wizard, 1, and the Tyrian, 1, gunboats;
the Caradoc, despatch vessel; the Himalaya, troop-
ship. There are also the following men-of-war in
port :—The Mahmoudia, 20, Turkish ironclad ; the
Mahomed Ali, 32, Egyptian frigate ; an Egyptian
sailing transport ; the Nordstjernen,ls, Norwegian
corvette ; and the Hertha, 21, German frigate.
The first selected armour-plate of 6fin. in thick-
ness manufactured for the Captain turret-ship by
Messrs. Charles Cammell and Co. (Limited), Cy-
clops Steel and Iron Works, Sheffield, was tested
yesterday on board the Thunderer, target-ship, at
Portsmouth, under the superintendence of Capt. A.
Hood, C. 8., commanding the gunnery-ship Excel-
lent. The plate measured 16ft. in length by 38in.
breadth, and weighed 5 tons 12cwt. It was bolted
on the 40-inch timber backing of the proof-room
target bulkhead of the Thunderer, and six B.inch
spherical shots were fired at it from a distance of
25ft. All six of the shots struck within a space of
19 square inches, and the results apparently placed
the plate above the average of what are now con-
sidered " good" plates, but its classification will not
be given until it has been taken down from its pre-
sent position, and its reverse side examined. No
cracks were opened in any part of the plate, or even
in the indentations made by the shot, but the last
two 'shots fired, striking centrally where the four
previously made indentations overlapped, squeezed
up a fringe of metal which was just sufficiently torn
by the tremendous tension to which it had been sub-
jected to exhibit its tough, fibrous nature. The
greatest indentation made, as the combined results
of the six-shot blows, was 2in., and the least inden-
tation, as the result of the one-shot blow, was I.7in.
Mr. George Wilson was present as the representa-
tive of Messrs. Charles Cammell and Co. There