The Sun.
London, England, 1855-07-02 00:00:00

office at Sheerness mails for the Baltic fleet weighing ,
more than one ton And a quarter. This is the largest
mail that has left Sheerness in any sailing ship during the
present year. She got under way at 10 a.m. on Saturday,
and left for the Baltic with a fine fre,h breezy from the
south-west.

1 A fine schooner sailing yacht (the Wildfire) left Sheer-
ness at the same time, and it is reported for the Baltic.
The following appointments were made on Saturday
at the Admiralty :—Lieutenant G. R. Miall to the
Royal Albert ; Lieutenants G. Tryon and J. D'Arcy,
to the Royal Albert, for disposal.
The following medical appointments were also settled
on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Edward Hilditcb,
Inspector of Hospitals at Bermuda Hospital, to be In-
spector of Hospitals at Plymouth Hospital ; John Rees,
surgeon, to be Deputy-Inspector at Bermuda, vice Hil-
ditch ; Alexander Nisbett, M.D., Deputy-Inspector at
Greenwich Hospital, to be Inspector at Haslar, vice Sir
John Richardson ; J. G. Stet art, M.D., Deputy-In-
spector at Malta, to be Deputy Inspector at Greenwich
Hospital, vice Nisbett ; Alexander Bryson, Deputy-
Inspector of the Fisgard, to be Inspector, to be borne
on the books of the Fisgard; T. W. Macdonald, Deputy-
Inspector at Yarmouth Hospital, to be Deputy-Inspector
at Haslar; F. Mansell, M.D., Surgeon at Haulbowline
Hospital, to be Deputy-Inspector at Yarmouth Hospital,
vice Macdonald ; John Salmon, Surgeon of the Excel-
lent, to be Deputy-Inspector at Malta, vice Stewart ;
William Bruce, M.D., Staff-Surgeon at Deptford, to be
Staff-Surgeon at Chatham, vice Sather ; John Robert-
son, M.D., Surgeon of the Saturn, to be Staff-Sur-
geon at Deptford yard, vice Bruce ; A. S. Allen,
M.D., Staff Surgeon and Medical Storekeeper at Ply-
mouth Hospital, to be Staff Surgeon at Portsmouth
yard, vice Henderson ; George Mackay, M.D., Surgeon
to the Agamemnon, to be Staff-Surgeon and Medical
Storekeeper at Plymouth Hospital, vice Allen ; William
Gunn, M.D., Staff-Surgeon and Medical Storekeeper at
Deptford victualling-yard, to be Staff-Surgeon at Sheer-
ness dockyard, vice Wilson ; William Graham, M.D.,
Surgeon of the Vengeance, to be Staff-Surgeon and
Medical Storekeeper at Deptford Victualling-yard, vice
Gunn • Thomas Frazer, St +if-Surgeon and Medical
Storekeeper at Malta,-to be Staff-Surgeon at Pembroke
yard, vice Jones ; John Munro, M.D., Surgeon of the
Queen, to be Staff-Surgeon and Medical Storekeeper at
Malta, vice Frazer; R. T. C. Scott, Surgeon of the
Royal George, to be Surgeon at Haulbowline Hospital,
vice Mansell ; Alexander Muirhead, M.D., Surgeon of
the Victory, to be Surgeon at Greenwich Hospital, vice
Ternan.

The following appointments bave been made since the
Board of Ordnance has been abolished :

CIVIL DEPARTMENTS.

Lieutenant-Colonel F. Eardley Wilmot to be Super-
intendent of Royal Gun Factories.
Captain A. Vandeleur to be Captain Instructor of
Gun Factories.

Ct,lonel A. Tulloh to be Superintendent of Royal
Carriage Factories.
Captain H. Clerk to be Captain Instructor of ditto.

Captain E. M. Boxer to be Superintendent of Royal
Laboratories.

Captain A. S. Orr to be Captain Instructor of ditto.
Captain W. M. Dickson to be Suparintendent of Royal
Small Arm Factories.

Captain T. P. Warlow to be Captain Instructor of
ditto.

Lieut.• Colonel W. H. Askwith to be Superintendent
of Royal Powder Factories.

Major J. F. Baddeley to be Captain Instructor of
ditto.

Colonel J. Bloomfield has been appointed Superinten-
dent of Drills and InspecLor of Recruits ; Colonel W.
C. Anderson, to be Colonel Commanding Field Batteries
at Woolwich; Colonel C. W. Wingfield, to be Inspec-
tor and Purchaser of Horses for the Artillery service.
The following officers of the Royal Artillery to join
the Horse Artillery, for service in the Turkish Contin-
gent :—Colonel E. W. Crofton, to command ; Captain
C. Celelough, Captain Hugh Bent, Captain E. G. Bre-
din, and Lieut. A. H. Murray.
Captain J. M. D. C'slder's company, gth battalion
Royal Artillery (N field-battery), at present stationed
at Bristol, is under orders for the Crimea.
About 400 recruits have jalned the Artillery during
the past month. A number of these belonged to the
Militia regiments.
Works of considerable importance for, the defence of
the southern coast are now in progress in Sussex, the ex-
penses of which were set down in tne Ordnance estimates
at 10,0001. From Romney, in Kent, to Newhaven,
there are 74 martello towers, which were erected when
England was threatened with invasion by the first Napo-
leon. They are about a quarter of a mile apart, about
35 feet tigh, and fitted for one gun on a dwarf traversing
platform. Each of these is calculated to hold 12 men,
and underneath are magezines'and stores. Near East-
boorne is the Langley Redoubt, mounting six 8-inch
guns ; and the circular redoubt at Eastbourne mounts
11 24 pounders. A new battery is in course of erection
at Cuckmore ; when completed it will mount six 24-
pounders. At Thatchington and Newhaven new fortifi-
cations are also being erected. The latter place is be-
coming a port of considerable importance, and at the
mouth of the harbour extensive works are in course of
construction. They are to present an angular front to
the sea; internally there will be brickwork. The batte-
ries will be composed of earthwork, 30 feet thick, rising
9 feet above the level of the eastern pier. The dimensions
of the work are 112 feet from each of the angles in the
interior. The magazines are of brickwork, and 50 feet
square. Each front of the batteries will mount three
guns of heavy calibre on swivels. At Brighton there is
a battery of six 24-pounders' and thence to Little Hamp-
ton the coast is unprotected. At the latter place new
fortfications have been just completed and armed ; six
field pieces were also placed there laSt-week for the use
of the Sussex Artillery Militia. The whole of the above
forts except Brighton are occupied by the Sussex and
Norfolk Artillery Militia..
Among the number of wounded soldiers paraded for
her Majesty's inspection on her recent vieit to the Case-
mates at Chatham, was Corporal Wro. Courtney, of the
46th Regiment, who was wounded in the head by three
Mlni6 rifle balls, entering the forehead, just as be was
taking aim over a heap of stones at the Russians in a
:Ale pit ; he also had a ball in the right shoulder, and
two in the right and one in the left leg. The whole of
these balls he received at cne time from the rifle pits. He
was employed in the outpost duty, looking out for the
Russians ; he volunteered for it, having hag. some expe-
rience in such service when he was in India. Her Ma-
jesty, on looking at his card, kindly asked him a few
questions and examined his forehead. Large pieces of
bone have come out from the places at which the balls
entered; two of the balls have been extracted. Tier
Majesty said she should keep his card and would do
something for him. He produced his greatcoat, which
was riddled with bullet holes. Her Majesty said she
hoped he would keep it, which he promised he would
do. , Courtney is a native of Brighton ; he was at Gib-
raltar-with the 44th when the Crimean war broke out,
and the 46th proceeding to the war he volunteered into
that regiment. He has been a volunteer into four dif-
ferent corps when they have been ordered for service,
and if his wounds would permit him he would willingly
volunteer again and go out to the East. He expects
shortly to receive his discharge. He was at the battles
of the Alma, Inkerman, and Balaklara, and, although
he was in the midst of those engagements, he escaped
without receiving any injury.
It is doubtful whether the 98th Regiment will pro-
ceed to the Crimea so soon a, intended, in consequence
of the non-arrival of the detachments which took pas-
sage from India in the Maidstone Indiaman and the
Lord Raglan freight-ship.

THE DEMONSTRATION- IN HYDE PARK.

The scene which took place yesterday in Hyde-park
will long be remembered by those who witnessed it.
Three o'clock was the advertised time for the proceed-
ings to begin, and, notwithstanding that Sir Richard
Mayne had had placards posted in the metropolis, an-
nouncing that the meeting would not be allowed to take
place, long before that hour Constitution-hill and the
walks in St. James's-park were literally crowded by
thousands who were all wending their way towards
Hyde-park. By half-past two o'clock there must have
beeu nearly 150,000 men, women, and children present.
Many, judging from their dress, were of the respectable
class,

The proceedings commenced by a man, whose name
did not transpire, getting up and commencing an address.
He said that he had been invited to accotrinany Lord
Robert Grosvenor to church that morning. He went ac-
cording to the printed invitation, but, instead of having
the honour of accompanying his lordship to church, he
found, after waiting some time, that his lordship had
left town the previous day in a hired carriage, because he
was afraid to take his own, lest he might be known.
Now, he would just ask if any man, with the least grain
of common sense, seeing that such was the obnoxious
nature of the bill he had introduced, dare to get
policemen.t hoefnxvioneeishetmlsoinarnTdashtnweasrtai
up in the house and assert that it was his intention to
persevere in forcing the measure down their throats ?
What was the feelingof the metropolis on the subject ? Let
any member of the House of Commons who was in favour
of pushing the bill forward look at the respectability of
that vast assemblage, who, by their presence, shoxed
their disgust at the measure, which, he had no hesitation
in saying, would ruin thousands. His lordship could
not see the necessity that existed for closing the club-
houses,. which were at all hours open for the accommo-
dation of the noh!es of the land, the clergy, and bishops,
prevent the bill passing ; and, although he did not like
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was raised. At that moment some 30 or 40 police offi-
cers came marching towards the spot, but before the
officers had time to get there the speaker had succeeded
in getting away.
A great number of men, on finding that the man was
not allowed to address them, commenced hissing and
hooting at the police, and crane cried out, "Down with
the crirhers !" This gave rieu to an extraordinary scene
of confusion,—some of the men commenced knocking
the constables' hats off, and to protect themselves, the
men were obliged to use their truncheons with consi-
derable force. A man name; 11 essell was knocked down i
by a policeman, and his hen:: '7as laid open. He was
conveyed to the Royal Humane Seciety's receiving-house,
where his wounds were dressed. A little child, six or
eight years old, was forced down by the erntiid. trArnnlpd