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THE FIELD 
To the Public in General, and Advertisers in particular. 
♦ 
T HEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI. — Splendidly and 
Newly Re-decoratod. ondPnintc-d Interiorly and Exteriorly. - 
N.* Spring am. 10 Bull, ami Due. •'•''^' 7 , “IS” 0 " »«ri..l-d lo -Propririor Mr 
H WBBSTER. Dlrcctrc*. Madam' rELF-sTl. -Tho Lull* and Gontltmon of this 
faiablubinoDt arc rcouraud to a«ioblo In ibr Greet. room, Monday, Hor.tomhcr lllb, at 
On. o'clock, preparatory to l—u* Manage., 
R OYAL SURREY THEATRE.— Under the 
Management of Miss ROSIER, 
Loll t«cntr four nlk-hu of tbe English Operatic Scaaon, and the I ait Iwelre represents* 
loin of the moil trtumphantlt fucctwful Opcta of TIIE I’ROFHKI, which continue, to 
ntlract crowded audleneu nightly, holt twelro nlgbli of Miss Homer', pei 
Praaon and of Mr. Uorranl'i appearance previous to hla departure for Ain 
GOLDEN BBAMU, recelrcd with unanlmoui applauie. eiery tretilng t 
until further 
“MONDAY. September 4, THE PROrilF.T, . 
Ho ni ; real Skating Scenes and Coronation. John of Leyden, Mr Auguitua Brahsm . 
Zecbanah, Mr. Borranl ; Jonai, Mr Sl Albrn; Obenhal, 
Romcr ; liertha, Mia Rebecca loses Iirulfi, Mr Flumore and Mdlle. Auriol. The 
Burlesque of THE GOLDEN BRANCH Prince Humpy, Mlu Julia St. George; 
Quires. Mr. Yarnold; King Drown, Mr. O. Hummers; Princess Dump;, M lu Johnion; 
Miiraulee, Mia Fanny Reives; Fejtorello, Mill Schott ; Reglnanu, Mr. Vernon; and 
hrilUant Corpt do Ballet. F. STIRLING, Stage Manager. 
SlalD, 3i., to which bonncti are admitted ; Duxea, %. ; Pit, la . Gallery, Od. 
A STLEY’S royal amphitheatre.— 
Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke 
The New Equestrian Burlesque Eilntiagenu, produced, for the flnl time on Monday 
tail, will be acted every evening The miraculous performance of HERR CHRISTOFF 
un the TIGHT ROPE, contlnuei to eiclie both wonder and admiration ; any description 
ef hli unparalleled fcsls would appeer febuluut 
MONDAY, September 4, and all the week, an IJlilorlcal, Claulcol, Mythological, 
S uatrlan Burlesque. by Hugo Vamp, Ku, called THE SIEGE OF TROY; or, THE 
ANT HORSE AND TIIF MISS-JUDGMENT OF PARIS A fter which, the In 
credible Performance of HERR CHRISTOFF, »ho I, engaged but fur a limited period. 
The refulgent and elegant SCENES IN THE CIRCLE (eucb at " Attic; V alone can pro- 
duce) Invented and directed by Mr. William Cooke Alio the Smallm Hone In ibe 
world To conclude with >ln B. G Healey', KquetlrUn Dalle! JAellon, THE KNIGHT 
AND THE WATER LILY, «c *e Ac 
Stage Manager, Mr. W. WEST; Acting Manager, Mr. CAMPBELL; Equeetrlan 
Director, Mr Wm. COOKE, Jun. 
OYAL SURREY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.— 
Enormous Attrnctlon ! A Week of FOtcs 1 I 
MONDAY and TUESDAY, September 4 and 0, Old English Runic flporte and Pa» 
times. Maypole and Morrli Danect, Jingling Matches, Wheelbarrow Kaca, Blindfold. 
Ac Ac., by Mr II cam ore's Troupe of A ril.te. Madame Gcnlcve's TERRIFIC ASCENT 
" THE TIGHT ROPE, across the Loke, surrounded by Fireworks. Ac On WED 
NZ3DAY, September 6, Grand Dahlia and Miscellaneous FLOWER SHOW.thelaat that 
_ _ Seiueml 
In his CONTINENTAL WAR BALLOON, Rum 
will ever be he 
Grattan Cooke. 
In his CONTINENTAL WAR BALLOON, Rustic Sports, Ac. FRIDA V, Scplcrober 8, 
Ru.llo Sports, Madame Oenlore'i ASCENT ACROSS THE LAKE Grand Conrert. 
Race on the I.nVe In Washing-Tub., Extra Dand, and Monster fireworks. A Select Ball 
each evening In the Splendid New PaVIUon, Full Quadrille Band, Ac. AdmlaJon la 
* PATRON-H R.II. PRINCE ALBERT. 
O OYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.— 
Xii UNDER ENTIRELY NEW MANAGEMENT. 
COUBBE of MONDAY LECTURES SPECIALLY ADDRESSED to tlio INDUS- 
TRIAL CLA8SE8, to whioh they and lliclr Families will be ADMITTED. MORNING 
or EVENING, on PAYMENT of SIXPENCE each, cm producing a Ticket signed by 
■be Foreman or Superintendent of the Works to which they may belong. 
The FOURTH LECTURE of this COURSE will he delivered br Dr. BAGHHOFFN EE, 
F.C S . Ac , on Monday orenlng, September 4, on ELECTRICITY, Illustrated by brilliant 
experiments. 
GREAT SCIENTIFIC NOVELTIES. 
NATUREPRINTING, by Dr BACHHOFFNER. 
EXHIBITION of the MODERN GREEK FIRE, and of DUBOSCQ’9 IL 
J.UMINATED CASCADE, In addition to all the Dally LECTURES, by Messrs. 
PEPPER and BACHHOFFNER 
OPTICAL EXHIBITIONS, PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT GALLERY, Ac . Ac. 
A HAND of MUSIC, under tlie dlrretlon of Mr. WAUD, of the Royal Italian Opera. 
The Dai lighting has been rc-arrnngcd by Joint Lim.ui, Fsq. 
^ITEBSTER’S NATIONAL ACTING DRAMA.— 
y \ No. 191 THE DISCARDED SON. 
This edition contains all iho beat dramas of modem times, by Sheridan Knowles, Buck- 
alone. C. Malhows, Tyrone Tower, Mark Lemon. J. II. l'lancbO. T. II Uayly, U. Webster, 
Mrs. C. Gore, T, J Serlo, II. II I’cake, Uourrlcault. Coyne, J SI. Morion, T Morton, 
Poole, Kenney, Lovell. Mamon, C. Dance, Lover, Bayle Bernard, Mra S. C. llall, Oxen- 
ford, M. Barnett, T Parry, Ac. Each Number It Illustrated, and each Volume has a 
highly -finished Portrait of a popular Author Among the series will he found— The 
Serious Family, the Wreck Ashore, Green Bushes, Rory O'M ore, the Bridal, Ollvor 
Twill, White Hone of the Peppers, Nicholas Nlekleby, Married Life, Grace Darling, 
laaac Walton, Dr Pllworth, School for Hrandal, King O'Neil, II la Last Legs, Vfctorlne, 
Brian Dorochlne, Ihe Fortunes orNmlke, Grandfather Whllehcad, Csur tie Damn, Paler 
Wilkins, Cricket on the Hearth, Old Heads and Yoilng Hearts, Used Up, llaiulii. Sweet- 
hearts and Wives, Hcurls are Trumps, the Vicar of Wakefield, Ucluhcgnr the Mounto- 
bank, TarlufTo, the Stranger, the Man of Law, Mind your own Business, Slave Llfo, or 
Undo Tom's Cabin, the t amp at Chobham.— l’rleo Cd. 
AV. S. JOHNSON. 00, SI. Martin's lane. 
P UDLIC SPEAKING. — Members of Parliament, 
Clergymen, Barristers. Ac., nro INSTRUCTED privately in 
ELOCUTION, by FREDERICK WEBSTER, Professor of Elocution to Ihe Royal Aca 
demy of M Okie, on a principle which combines grace wlih eloquence, eradlenlcs all defects 
of speech , aulsts the memory, and Imparts fluency and a skilful arrangement of the Ideas 
in extemporaneous oratory —38, Weymouth ctreet, Portland placc. 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
RACING. 
X. S — Wednesday, 13th September. 
M. D (Leeds ).— You are right. In 1616, Broonrdo, in John Scott’s 
stable, was a great favourite for tho Selling cr 
Ever ton — Certainly ; he may he called on to stake. 
JO red .S' .S' — Y ou lose. The CtDiarowitcli is a free handicap, and entails 
no forfeit without an acceptance. 
Buby. — The hot is off 
B. T — You will know onr opinion of the chance of the different horses 
for the St. Legc-r in our neit. 
B —The odds were on him. 
Mainstay . — We do not execute commissions. 
J‘ /*. (Hull ). — We will endeavour to ascertain the date for'you. 
J) .7 —The only way is to write to the clerk of the course. 
Godfrey.— In our next number. 
AQUATICS. 
B. V. S. (Hr Alarm ). — The omission occurred owing to sudden illness, 
yet continuing. 
B. N. (Ilichmond ). — The new yacht club in the Thames for croft not 
exceeding live tons, is called the Anglesey, and will meet at the Pier 
Hotel, Chevne-walk, Chelsea. The Ranelagh, previously formed, 
assembles at theSwan, Battersea, and admits vessels of the some tonnage. 
N. — The cups won on the Serpentine will be presented at Anderton's 
Hotel on Tuesday evening next, at 8 p in. 
11 II. V .— The Novice, bearing the ling of Vice-Commodore Arecdeckne, 
is en route to Dublin. 
%• The Regattas at Starcross, Teignmouth, Falmouth, Holywood, 
Virginia, Ilan^or, Loughs Corrib and Erne, &o., are in type, together 
with communications Irom R, Y. S., Talkin Turn, W. V. (Deben), 
J. (Poole), &c. &c. 
ANGLING. 
S. — The Three Cups is the largest inu'nt Harwich. The sea-fishing is ex- 
cellent. We have no personal experience of the adjacent "fresh 
waters, ’’ but will inquire. 
M. B .— The subject of salmon will not he neglected. 
CRICKET. 
Af— The death of Lilly white was announced in the last number of “The 
Field.” 
Several scores ore in type, but deferred for want of space, including Ken- 
sington Grammar School v O P. (Blackhcath), Newark i . New York 
Club, Leeds and St. Peters, South Derbyshire and Wirksworth, Mar- 
sham’s Eleven r. Rugby, &e. 
POULTRY. 
J —We shall he happy to hear Rom you. 
South Hants Poultry Exhibition in our next. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
A. Sharp (Cardigan ). — It was an error in the Times of Saturday last re- 
tpocting the forthcoming meeting at Worcester. The days of the 
meeting are September 6, C, 7, and 8. The ichearsal tokes place on the 
4th— Monday next. 
.9u6»cri6er — " The Young Archer's Assistant ” received for review. 
J. F . — Such is our desire; and wc should feel obliged to all secretaries of 
archery clubs, when they send particulars of matches, to note dowu 
also the scores, and number of arrows shot at each distance. 
M U . — The costumes of the Janissaries may be seen at the Turkish Ex- 
hibition, Hyde-park. The corps was exterminated in 1826. 
L (G fares nut).— In military phrase, Tilbury Fort is ou the left bank of 
the Thames. 
Dramalicm ( Liverpool ). — Seventeen thousand pounds is the sum to be 
E oid to Madame Grisi and Signor Mario for a six months’ engagement 
i the United States. They will sing three nights a week. Half the 
sum has been paid in advance. 
8. (Northampton).— The average attendance on Mondays nt the Crystal 
Palace is ten thousand, including about four hundred holders of season 
tickets. 
»; the 46th Regiment possesses the Washington Masonic Bible. 
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From the Stamp Retnms, published on April 6, 1854, it appear*, that 
during the two years, 1862 and 1863, tho number of Stamps supplied to 
each of the under-mentioned Newspapers gave them an average 6ale os 
follows ; — 
FIELD 4,409 Express 2.236 
Morning Herald 4,021 Lender 2,140 
Daily New* 3,910 j Herapath’s Journal 2,060 
Guardian 8,904 John Bull 2,020 
Economist 3,837 Globe 1,926 
British Banner 3,798 | Weekly News 1,709 
Record 3,736 United Service Gazette .... 1,708 
Watchman 3,681 | Railway Times 1,011 
Nonconformist 2,097 j Atlas 1,479 
Spectator 2,860 | Standard 1,456 
St. James’s Chronicle 2,64-1 Naval and Military Gazette. 1,313 
Morning Post 2,652 j Patriot 1,304 
Sun 2,539 Gardeners’ and Farmers' 
Morning Chronicle 2,361 j Journal 752 
Britannia 2,329 | 
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London. 
NEWS OF THE WEEK. 
It ia formally announced that the fortifications of Aland 
are to be destroyed, and that Bomarsund will be evacuated. 
The future destiny of Aland has yet to be settled. Sugges- 
tions have been made tbat it should be declared independent, 
under tho protection of England and France ; and it has also 
been proposed to restore Aland to Sweden, to whom it for- 
merly belonged. The inhabitants are stated to exult in their 
deliverance from the sway of Russia. The detailed account 
of the Bomarsund operations has arrived, but it does not 
materially add to the information already possessed. It 
however, has one most gratifying feature, namely, the assur- 
ance that the loss which it was at first supposed had been 
sustained by the allies had been largely exaggerated, and 
that the number of the killed, French and English, does not 
exceed twenty-two. The origin of the mis-statements pub- 
lished by our contemporaries probably arose in confound- 
ing the losses sustained in consequence of the cholera with 
those which took place in the actions. The fate of Bomar- 
sund, and the speedy crumbling of its walls under the fire of 
the fleet, are received as good omens of similar results 
in the case of the far more important strongholds of whose 
reduction wo are now waiting to hear. The Bomarsund 
prisoners are under a convention between England and 
France to be distributed between the two countries in an 
equal manner, and we may speedily look for the arrival of 
our moiety of the captives. 
We are without any very important news from Turkey, 
except the welcome tidings that the health of the troops, 
both French and English, is improving. We have accounts 
of the ravages of the fire at Varna, and it is generally be- 
lieved that the air had been purified by the conflagration. 
Some suspected incendiaries had been arrested. The Turks 
have entered Bucharest, and were received with the 
utmost enthusiasm by the inhabitants, who exulted at 
being relieved from the presence of their Russian pro- 
tectors. The arrest of some of the correspondents of the 
London daily papers, followed by their speedy libera- 
tion, requires explanation, and we await particulars before 
offering an opinion ou the subject. The outrage will 
probably be traced to the blundering pedantry of sub- 
ordinates. 
Rumours of a great battle in Asia have been for some 
time consolidating themselves. It now appears that the 
Turks and Russians have encountered, and that six thou- 
sand had fallen ou each side. The well-contested field tech- 
nically remained to the Russians, but the loss was equal, and 
the Turks were ready to re-engage in a very short time 
after the action. We shall hear from St. Petersburg that 
the victory is more splendid than anything since the com- 
mencement of the campaign. 
While speaking of the war, we should add that the Indian 
mail brings us an account of the celebration by the natives 
of India, and the Europeans, of a day of prayer for the 
success of our arms in Turkey. All classes joined in the 
solemnity, but the votaries of each creed, of course, selected 
their own object of adoration. The Parsees, in their chant 
to the supreme Ithtoar, Bum up the evils of war with much 
precision 
Innumerable soldiers arc dying in fight, 
Their spouses are making great lamentation ; 
Their poor children are suffering distress ; 
The learned Hindus cannot even describe their misery; 
The attention of princes is directed to war ; 
A stop is put to invaluable works ; 
Universal destruction is everywhere occurring; 
There is dishonour to Thee from this destruction. 
All commerce is stopped ; 
There is fear about sending goods to other lands ; 
Conspirators have arisen and devoted themselves to plunder ; 
On these accounts immeasurable loss is occurring; 
In this manner war is the destroyer of wealth ; 
Teople are making great lamentation ; 
Wherefore, O Lord, be thou the Saviour from this ocean of 
calamity; 
Be to all the Pointer-of-the-good-Path. 
The intelligence of our Indian fellow-subjects ie great, but 
they have been fairly astounded by the commencement of 
railway traffic. The first “ fire carriage ” has begun to run 
on the Bengal line, and the excitement it has caused ia de- 
8cribedji8 unprecedented. We rather think that the lower 
orders of natives have an idea that the carriage runs, or stops, 
not by machinery, but by the will of the Governor-General. 
To return to Europe, it may be mentioned that the 
Emperor of France has returned from Bayonne to the 
capital, much benefited in health by sea-bathing. From 
Madrid we learn that further disturbances were apprehended, 
the extreme democrats evincing suspicion of the Ministers 
and a determination to resist them ; and that a struggle 
between the Government and the clubs was expected, in 
which case the National Guards and the army would stand 
by the former. Tho finances of the country are in a terrible 
state. It is said that the confiscation of the whole of Chris- 
tina’s property is to be the price of her escape. The whole 
of the Belgian Ministry has resigned office. The King of 
Trussia is stated to be still endeavouring to play the part of 
pacificator, a course of presumptuous folly which may end 
in Prussia’s losing her position as a first-rate power ; and 
assuredly, when the terms of peace come to be settled and 
the spoils of war to be allotted, the Government which has 
not drawn a sword or expended a coin in the war will not be 
permitted to join in the dictation of the arrangements. In 
Denmark a crisis has been produced by the folly of the 
Ministry, and a spirit of resistance has been aroused which 
may produce more important results than are meditated. 
The Constitutional Society, three thousand strong, had met, 
and passed a unanimous resolution to sustain the Parliament 
in impeaching the Cabinet, and to refuse to pay taxes until 
this step had been taken. 
The American mail apprizes us that the excitement on the 
subject of the Greytown outrage was subsiding, and that 
though certain journals, in order to effect a diversion in 
favour of the Ministers, were trying to get up a war-ciy 
against England, the artifioe is somewhat too transparent. 
Ten men had been killed in a riot at St. Louis. Mr. Batemau, 
the father of a couple of well drilled little American girls, 
who appeared on the English stage some time ago, and were 
actually encouraged by educated British audiences to squeak 
Shaksperian tragedy, has been trying to Bhoot a critic for 
exposing a smart bit of plagiarism on the part of Mrs. Bate- 
man. A sort of general action with revolvers took place, 
but nobody seems to have been hit, and Mr. Bateman's con- 
jugal Quixotry was rewarded with a fine of $300. 
Our own domestic records offer nothing requiring special 
note. Some exceedingly destructive fires, and some exceed- 
ingly brutal assaults — in two cases by pupils in the “school 
of manners," the army, in the others by ruffians not in 
uniform — have just occurred. The obituary of the week in- 
cludes the name of Mr. Bernal, long the chairman of com- 
mittees of the House of Commons — an able man and an ac- 
complished judge of the fine arts. 
REPORTED LOSS OF NEARLY EIGHT HUNDRED 
LIVES. 
The recent overland mail has brought intelligence which 
has led to a general belief that two very appalling shipwrecks 
have taken place in the Indian seas, both of which it is 
feared were attended by a dreadful sacrifice of life. One of 
the unfortunate vessels is known to have been a large-sized 
brig called the Hygeia, of about 450 tons, which had been 
bought up by some speculators for the purpose of using her 
as a Chinese passenger or emigrant ship to California. It 
appears that she was formerly under the Danish flag, and 
bore a different name. She had been lying at Whampoa the 
last two or three years, and on her purchase she was sent to 
Hong Kong in order to be fitted as a passenger-ship, and to 
be surveyed for the English flag. She was rejected by the 
emigrant agent, and she then left, as was understood, 
for Macao. Whether she went there has not been clearly 
ascertained ; but on the 31st of May she received on board 508 
souls, somewhere near the Green Island, and proceeded on 
her last voyage to San Francisco, her crew consisting of 
eleven hands, under the command of Mr. Dribble, the captain. 
Nothing more was heard of the movements of the brig. Last 
mail brought news of a Chinese emigrant ship, called the 
Topaz, having been wrecked upon a reef known as Pratas 
sandbank, midway between Formosa and Hong Kong, and 
that, although most of the passengers were saved, yet they 
were cast upon a wild, barren, and uninhabited island. 
Tidings were received at the same time of another vessel 
having been seen upon the island, but no description or ac- 
count of her could be given. Ou the loss of the Topaz 
being made known, and the position of her passengers and 
crew, a small schooner called tho Victoria, belonging to Mr. 
Roberts, shipwright, of Hong Kong, was despatched to the 
island on the 15th of June. She returned to Hong Kong on 
the 23rd, and reported that the second vessel which had been 
seen on the rocks was the brig Hygeia, and that no fewer than 
390 had been left to perish on the wreck. It seemed that 
the Hygeia, after beating about the coast for some days, en- 
countered a heavy gale from the eastward, and on the night 
