The Sun.
London, England, 1855-09-10 00:00:00

TEE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

Amoor River. The movement was not perceived
on board the English steamers in consequence of
the thickness of the weather, occasioned by the
snow and fogs. The inhabitants all moved to the
village of Avatscha, where the wife of the com-
mandant also remained, not being able to proceed
with the troops in consequence of the delicate state
of her health at that time. Before leaving the
allies destroyed all the fortifications, and erected a
fence around the graves of Admiral Price and the
English and French who fell on that occasion,
having been drawn into an ambuscade while
marching upon one of the batteries by which the
harbour was protected. It is difficult to divine
what were thereasons of the Russians in abandoning
the place. It was well fortified both by nature and
art, and the result of the first attack showed that
the place could be successfully defended even
against a larger force than the allies could muster
in the Pacific.

The Obligado, Captain De Rosencourt, left at
Petropaulovski the British vessel of war Trinco-
malee, on board of which two Russian prisoners had
been placed for the purpose of exchanging them for
a French sailor who had both his arms cut off in
the attack made on the place by the allies last fall,
and was afterwards captured by the Russians. It
is stated that he received the kindest treatment.
The British frigates Pique and Amphitrite, after
the destruction of the worki at Petropaulovski,
sailed for the Ochotsk Sea, and the remainder of
the fleet for Sitka. The English vessels will pro-
ceed to Vancouver's Island, and the French to this
port. A portion of the fleet will remain at the
north for the present, and will cruise around the
Aleutian Islands. The French steamer Prony may
be expected here in a few days. The population of
Petropaulovski, previous to the arrival of the allied
fleet, is estimated by. Capt. Rosencourt, of the
Obligado, to whom we are indebted for the above
information, to have been about 1,200.
Capt. Rosencourt brought back with him as tro-
phies a sledge used by the inhabitants in travelling
over the snow with dogs, an anchor found in Pe-
tropaulovski, a deer, and a Russian dog. The
Obligado mounts 12 guns, 32 pounders, and two
mountain hoWitzers, such as are used against the
Indians in this country, and generally carried on
the backs of mules. These were intended to be
used on land, and all the vessels of the fleet were
provided with them.

The principal object of the visit of the allied fleet
to Petropaulowski was to dismantle that place, and
deprive the Russian men-of war and merchantmen
of a shelter in case the allies should get in pursuit
of them. Heretofore, there have been about sixty
Russian merchantmen which met yearly at Petro-
paulovski, after having traded along the coasts of
Northern Asia and America, on which latter coast
the Russians have a number of trading posts.
These vessels collect very valuable furs and walrus
teeth, whalebone, some precious stones, and other
less important articles of traffic—the total value
of the merchandise collected annually being about
2,000,000 dollars. This trade was the life of
the Russian American Company, and this year
it has been entirely destroyed. The vessels
have disappeared—taking shelter probably in small
inlets of the sea in remote points. The allied fleets
searched diligently among the Aleutian Islands,
where the vessels are usually the most numerous,
but not one was to be found. It is supposed that
the allied squadron for the Chinese Seas, which
went to visit the Amoor, will likewise visit Ivan,
a port upon the Sea of Ochotsk, which next to
Petrodaulovski was the most important Russian
trading station on the Pacific.
The following description of the town of Petro-
paulovski, from a work entitled the "Directory of
the Pacific Ocean," by A. G. Findlay, may not
prove uninteresting :—" The town of Petropaulov-
ski, which is now at the head of the harbour,
stands m an amphitheatre on the slope of two hills,
which form the valley, and is simply composed of
a group of small wooden houses covered with reeds
or dry grass, and surrounded by courts and gar-
dens with palisades. At the lower part of the
town, in the bottom of the valley, is the church.
It is remarkable for its fantastic construction,
and for its roof, which, painted green, seems to
add considerably to the effect of the picture,
surrounded as it is with lofty mountains. Arrived
at the bottom of the port, you land on a plank
which holds the place of a mole, and pass
directly before a guard-house, near which is a small
battery. Turning to the left, down a good street,
broad and macadamised, after passing the Govern-
ment workshops in the centre of Petropaulowski,
and turning to the right after passing them, and
crossing a wooden bridge, you pass the church on
the right hand, and then you reach the Govern-
ment offices. These two streets are all that merit
the name. The greater part of the houses outside
' of them are placed without any arrangement and
without any attempt at convenience or comfort.
The general appearance of Petropaulovski greatly
resembles the French establishment at Newfound-
land. The appearance of the fish dryers' houses,
and the stroeg smell of fish, give a greater degree
to the similitude. The houses are generally alike
and are called Isbas (log houses), the windows are
sometimes of glass, but more generally of talc from
Ochotsk. When La Perouse visited it the inhaT)i-
tants generally lived on balagnans ; now there
is not a single one so used. There is not a
monument in Petropaulovski except one,
a simple column surmounted by a globe,
surrounded by a railing, which bears an inscrip-
tion 'To Capt. Vitus Behring,' in Russian. No
edifiee demands particular attention. In the church
the rites of the Greek Church are conducted with
great richness and solemnity. There is, besides,
an hospital and a school."'

THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THEIR
NAVIGATION.

The Channel Islands are surrounded with numerous
rocks of every imaginable shape, size, and height, above
and below the surface of the water. They look like the
jagged teeth of marine monsters, formed purposely fsr
tearing ships to pieces. Between and around these rocks
the tide forms currents, which flow in every direction,
rendering the navigation as difficult and dangerous as
that of any part of the world. This might be supposed
from the numerous vessels lost annually on those rock.,
although often commanded by pilots and natives of the
islands. So dangerous is the navigation near Guernsey
and Jersey, that the mail steamers to and from Eng-
land never reach the Channel Islands by night, and
always leave them by day. In -the daytime, how-
ever, mists, fogs, and snow storms, will often deter
the commanders of mails from attempting to thread
their way between the granite chevaux de friet.e that
surround and guard the islands. Although when there
is any wind the sea is fearfully rough in the neighbour-
hood of Jersey and Guernsey, the crews of the packets
dislike a calm because of the mists which often then
obscure the rocks ; and during fogs and storms all per-
sons on board feel grateful when the Caskets, Sisk, the
Corbiere, or any other light, islet, or headland near Jere
sey or Guernsey is made out. If the weather is thick,
the captains of the mail packets are often obliged to
come to,an anchor until it cleats off. It is curious that
in the pas-age between the Needles and the islands,
the routes taken by the packets vary from time to
time as widely apart as twenty miles. This arises
from the necessity of taking advantage of the currents,
during different winds, and states of tide, for the sake
of speed, and to avoid dangers. The most dangerous
route is through the Race of Alderney, a narrow pas.
sage close to that island. Much time is saved by pro-
ceeding through the race, but it is not often that it can
be attempted. Although 600 or 700 passengers pass to
ani from the Channel Islands and England weekly by
t in
Goodridge thelong
experienceofthewhichCaptains
steamers,have
had. They know the shape, position,
every rock and rocklet, whether
e r
g anded
water, that they have to psubmerged
they m ouram above
water,
and know, also,
the strength and direction ;the innumerable currents
they have to encounter at every particular past of their
voyage. Some time since Captain Goodridgo was
overtaken by a storm near the islands and the weather
became at length so thick thate
*vas oblied to come to an anchor. Night was coming
up his mind for a long stay. Ey looking
oinn,tnandl he made
him he fortunately made out the dim outline
e oft strhaer of
nu
sea
nm
d
of the peak of one of the rocks which studded the
eet
around him, and by this he knew precisely whereabs
he was. In the course of the night the storm and dark-
ness increased, and he heard cries of distress. sle sent a
boat's crew towards the spot whence the cries came, to
render assistance, and with much difficulty, for the boat
was nearly swamped, brought off the captain and crew of
a French vessel that was entangled among the rocks, and
was bumping violently against them. The-French com-
mander, when he got on board Capt. Goodridge's ship,
firmly believed his vessel bad by that time gone down ;
but Captain Goodridge having ascertained that she was
laden with brandy, and other floatable, but valuable,
cargo, was convinced that she would not sink, and that
when the tide ebbed, she would be found at a particular
time in a certain direction, and resolved to go in search
of her ; this intention, however, he kept to himself.
Accordingly when that time was approaclatnz he ordered
steam to be got up, and although it was pitch dark, he
threaded his way cautiously for some considerable dis-
tance, when his look-out man eung out in alarm, " A
rock ahead, sir." Captain Goodridge, however, did
not heed him, and in a moment they were right along-
side the French brandy vessel, which the look-out man
had mistaken for a rock. The surprise of the French
captain may be imagined. When it was light, Captain
Goodridge towed the abandoned vessel into Guernsey,
and the Royal Court of that island awarded him 7501.
salvage money.

A. STRAYED WIFE.—A husband thus announces the
departure feorn his bed and board of his dearly beloved :
--"rd9 wife, Anne Maria, has strayed or been stolen.
Whoever returns her will get his head broke. As to
trusting her, anybody can do as he thinks fit ; for as I
never pay my own debts, it's not likely I'll pay here:"---
NM Pik Tarr,' -

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

( From the Times of this day.)

In the address of Lord Stanley to the Manchester and
Liverpool Agricultural Society it is easy to recognise
the honest and painstaking young nobleman who went
to the West Indies for the purpose of seeing with his
own eyes the condition of the emancipated blacks and
unprotected planters. He goes into the matter before
him in proper businesslike style, stating what had been
done, what is now in progress, and what, in his opinion,
agriculturists have to look forward to. All this he does
with a rigorous exactness and a degree of simplicity and
candour very much contrasted with the more eloquent
and seductive addresses that used to be heard at these
meetings. There is evidently not the least desire to
put the best leg foremost, to avoid disagreeable topics
and unpleasant allusions. This has been done so often
that even the soft and credulous nature of the British
farmer must be proof against it. But if there ever was
a time when the truth ought to be spoken to the sen-
sitive agriculturist it is the present, when the war,
which is every day straitening most other classes more
and more, sustains the price of food at a height far above
all ordinary calculations of profit. If there is anybody
in these days who ought to be laying by for bad times, it is
the British farmer ; and as he lays by his money, so also
ought he to store up good advice. So Lord Stanley's
address is a word in season. He advises the farmers of Lan-
cashire to omit no opportunity of improvement, not to
grudge the trifling expense of a guinea sub-Tription to
the society, to look about for the very best implements,
to enter into any arrangements that may be made for
showing the use of them where the smallness of the
holding will not allow of the purchase, to prepare for
two or three farms being thrown into one for the sake
of better husbandry, to cultivate every acre that is not
wholly irreclaimable, to look for the guano nearer home
if it can be procured, and, in a word, to follow the ex-
ample of other arts and sciences, all of them ever on the
move. It is a specimen of Lord Stanley's other advice,
and of a plea with his own honesty, that he advises the
farmer to answer any questions that may be put to him
with a view to the collection of agricultural statistic:.
It has been intimated to him that our farmers wou'd not
like to let their landlords know exactly how much they
expect to get from their lands, while others think it a
piece of impertinence in the State to ask any questions
about a man's private affairs. The extreme seclusion in
which many farmers live, tho importance they enjoy in
their own little domain, and their general ignorance of
politics may excuse this objection. But they ought to
be informed that all other classes submit in more than
one way to the prying eyes of the St ite, The manu-
facturers is inspected at every turn. Besides that the
nation knows to a pound the quantity of cotton wool
imported every year ; it also knows to a yard, and a
pennywortb, the quantity of manufactured cotton goods
that leave the island. The manufacturer is bound to
make returns of the ages of his younger operatives, to
emplo; them only in such and such hours, to provide for
the youngest schools open to inspectors, and, to pass
over other minute inquiries to which he is subject, he
may be called on to lay all his books open to the Com-
missioners of Incen e tax. Se the farmers are under a
considerable m:stake if they think that they are the caly
people whose di ire toe State pry int'. But, after all,
it is the farmer who is especially intteet:d in the collec-
tion of trustworthy agricultural stet' .tics, as nobody
suffers so much by the present want of them. He sells
his crop in the dark, and is generally taken in. Such is
the tone of the advice Lord Stanley gives to the farmer,
and it deserves to be well received.

Undoubtedly some of these suggestions are very dig-
agreeable, and Lerd S anley does not take much pains
to sweeten them. For example, the hint about the
small scale of the Lanca-hire holdings will be set down
by mans- people as not only unkind, but very unpoeti-
cal. We believe that many very excellent persons
think that th smaller the farm the greater the content,
the virtue, and even the prosperity of the occupier,
till perhaps they would put their ideal of a per-
fect farm at four acres or thereabouts. Of course
it cannot be denied that small farms are more
tolerable in a dairy district, such as that round the large
towns of Lancashire ; but, under all circumstances, they
are chiefly remarkable for slovenliness, irregularity, help-
lessness, and all that is usually comprised in the idsa, of
had condition. The small farmer has not enough time,
or money, or skill for any one pursuit. Everything,
therefore, goes wrong about him. He cannot afford to
pay labourers regularly or well ; he cannot afford good
■ rrvants ; he cannot afford that cheerful, abundant, yet
emnomical home which is the best school of rural vir-
;nee. The Burial farmer is generally a very poor crea-
t'ire, a very ignorant creature', and often a very dissolute
creature, from the, ircumstauce of his riot having either
the hard teaching., of extreme poverty, the chains of ser-
vice, or the responsibility aid self-re.spect of a better con-
dition. There is no class of life in which domestic rela-
ti,,llS of an equivocal charact rso widely prevail as in that
'esti ill farmers. There is none in which education is so
little valued. There is none FO inaccessible to the higher
influences of a civiti•edc ountry. Some may be sorry to
see it altogether destroyed, tett it pmdeces little mere
than picturesque farm, tumbl -d yen walls, dilapidated
eutheuses, gates tha' have c e reed to swing, fences chat
have ceased to interfere with the movements of cattle,
bridges that are no longer safe, and ditches that
no longer favour the flow of water. If you
want hedges Vat assume the luxuriance of
thickets and harbour every variety of British
bird—if you want fields favourable for botanising, cet-
, tages that would adorn any album and cattle that a
Morland would naturally pto sketch, and, finally,
boors that a 'renters r a Wilkie w mid make a memo-
randum of. yogi will fi ti hem in the sm t 1 farms of the
dairy distric's, which send out penniless a ye threes, l ut
whose occuoit rs are still more wretched flan those ho
e sent net, We are quite sure that no landlord need
ever fr t himself for the supposed wrongs of those who
have been to look out for themselves by the union of
small farms in !arger on The process is the greatest
benefi.; to the country, to the leboerrr, and, we ere
satisfied, to the small farmers (hems lees. Lord S,anley
deserves onr thanks fel. recorrenendin 4 the process as a
public benefit in define i f the prejudices of those wile
take a picturesque view of the question.
On the other hard—a ,d it is a eery fair set-off against
this suggestion—Lord Stanley contends for the liberty
of selling land on the part o tae 1 1.11:1,,wcr. Settlements
an 1 the technicalities of teenveyas ce m eke it morally im-
possible in this country for a landowner to do what he
likes with his own. There are many situations out of
the category of common farming in which a landowner
might sell very ordinary land at 100/. an acre, if he
could do it at all or at the expense of 51. an acre
for the conveyance. No rayon can be given why
this should net be permitted. We hive heard
of a case where a town which bad been intoler-
ably dissolute and ill-conditioned in all respects dated a
very startling improvement from the time u hen a new
landowner, who had nearly all the property around it,
opened a market, so to speak, for the sale of his land
But there are many other occasions in which a landowner
waets to sell h:s land, and cannot do it, even when there
is no contrary interest in question, As Lord Stanley
says, he does not want an Encumbered Estates Act, but
if property is to become more and more involved every
year, we shall be driven to some such r, source before
many wars. Already a great deal of land and other
property of a high estimated value is quite as worthless
to its owners as if it were in another planet or had been
swallowed up in the sea. Without falling into any ex-
treme and fantastic theory about the soil, we must say
tbat it is the duty of the State to promote, by all lawful
means, its conversion to the largest profit and the
greatest variety of uses. The whole population has an
interest in it, not only that it may be made to produce
the greate-t quantity of food, and contribute most to the
national wealth, but also that it may be made the means
of the utmost enjoyment to all, 'There are very few
men who can ever attain to the occupation of land, still
fewer who can hope for the pride of,potesession ; but the
soil may be made the means of increased wealth, happi-
ness. and even security to all, and he is indeed a great
benefactor to his-country who shows how this may be
done, and himself leads the way.

A VERY MYSTERIOITS CASE.—At the bench of magis-
trates, on Monday (present—the Mayor, A. Bigge, and
IN/lontaeu Scott, Eqrs.), a female who gave her name
Sophia Baker, asked the advice of the Bench under the
following very extraordinary circumstances :—The app' -
cant stated that she went with a female friend into the
shop of Mr. Walky, East-street, oall4cl "Ye House of
Lud," for the purpose of purchasing a silk dress. An
assistant met them at the door, and politely bowed them
in. After looking at certain articles, which did not suit
her, she was about to leave, when the assistant, being de-
termined that she should be a customer, politely handed
her to another part of the shop, and showed her other
goods, and ultimately prevailed upon her to have a piece
of silk cut off for a dress, the price being 22,,. She took
out her parse, expecting to find in it two half--ova-
reigns, knowing that she had carefully placed them
there before she went into the shop ; but, to her
utter astonishment, she found the purse, which she
had fastened with a clasp, open, one of the half-
sovereigns gone, and the other loose in her pocket.
Having expressed her great surprise at the circumstance,
she said that she could not pay for the dress ; but the
assistant said it was cut off, and she must have it. The
friend of the applicant threatened to send for a police?
man ; and a considerable sensation was produced in the
shop searching for the missing half-sovereign. At
length Mr. Walley offered to take what money she had
for the dress ; and if on her return she found the half-
sovereign, she was to return it to him, but if not, she
might keep the dress. Applicant took, the dress ; and
then came to the Bench. The . chief officer of police ob-
served that this was not the first time persons had com-
plained of having their pockets picked in that shop.
eTrz sentsta nees for;
wereand, on making hiasnadppmearr.- aMerce,Wathlieey
Walley said, rather than have any disturbance he n,-
hadd,
lowed the applicant to take the dress away for the half-
applicant'sthreatened ftreie neda,l sl
iani da
pi te
lwi
eaes.
n ganit e r l‘tihras t sheßee
o] leer
tillre
man, that applicant was allowed to take the dress
away for half a sovereign, Mr. Bigge said it did
not appear to be a case in which the magistrates
could grant a warrant ; but it was a very suspicious
affair. Mr. Scott said the worst part of the case
was that Mr. Walley should have reduced the price of
the dress 60 per cent. when a policeman was talked of.
This appeared to him to compromise the matter, and
create great suspicion. Not only did it seem to corn-
promise , the case, but it also compromised the character
of the establishment. If Mr. Walley liked, he might
bring forward his men to clear his shop from that suspi-
cion which the statements of applicant and her friend
were calculated
to excite.. Mr. Walley declined to do. .
do-
so, preferring to let the matter rest where it. was.—
BriJlaon Gazette.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Bloodhound, 3, from reidle-wheel steam-vessel,
Commander Lieutenant Ethelred W. Bridge, arrived at
Sheerness on Saturday. Second Lieutenant George M.
Smith, of the Waterloo, was ordeiel to proceed with
her in charge pro tent, to Portsmouth, i■ consequence of
her commander being; under arrest, awaiting a court
martial on a serious charge, for which he will be tried
at Portsmouth. She left on Saturday afternoon fur that
port.
The Castor, 36-gun frigate, left Sheerness on Saturday
last at 7.30 a.m., assisted by the steam•vessel Lizard,
Lieut. Thomas B. Christopher in charge pro tent from
the flagship Waterloo. The Lizard was under orders to
attend her to Portsmouth if the wind proved unfavour-
able. She will there receive her final orders for the
Cape of Good H.pe.
The Neptune, 120, Capt. Hutton, St. George, 120,
Capt. Eyres, C. 8., the Malacca, 17, Capt. Farquhar,
and the Rosamond, 6, Commander Crofton, are ordered
immediately to Lisbon, the two latter steam-vessels in

attendance upon the sailing three-deckers. The Neptune
and Rosamond left Spithead yesterday afternoon, and
the St. George and Malacca will leave this day. The
squadron goes to pay homage to the King of Portugal
on his coming to the throne on the 16th inst. (Sunday
next), and to assist in inaugurating that event. The
Sanspareil, 71, steam-ship, Capt. Williams, which is to
proceed to the Black Sea to-day with mortars and muni-
tions of war, is also ord red to put in at Lisbon with the
same object. These orders were communicated to the
several captains and commanders at Portsmouth on
Saturday by Rear Admiral the Right Hon. Sir M. F.
F. Berkeley, K.C.8., M.P., who arrived from the Ad-
miralty that afternoons. The Neptune has about 900
men and boys on her books, but the St. George has not
above 600, and these, for the most part, novices. The
Sanspareil embarked upwards of .200 well-trained boys
yesterday afternoon from the various training ships at
Portsmouth, for service in the Back Sea fleet.
The Hollander steam transport, No. 223, arrive at
Spithead yesterday from the East, but without any
invalids,
The Rosamond went to Spithead on Saturday evening
to be in attendance upon the Neptune.
Th 9 Fox, 42, was docked at Portstnouthon Saturday,
to he converted to a screw storeship.
The Arabia steam-transport, No. 95, Captain Stone,
went into Portsmouth harbour on Saturday morning to
land the following officers and invalided troops : Lien-
tenant-Colonel the Hon. Robert Rollo, of the 42d High-
landers ; Captain Elgee, of the 47th Regiment, in mili-
tary charge ; Captain Macqueide, of the 631 ; Captain
Da,we,i, of the 97th ; Captain the Hoe. S. Mostyn, of
the 23d ; Captain Pedder, of the 39th ; Lieutenant
White, of the let Royals ; the Rev. Messrs. Ferguson,
Taylor, and Fraser. ; Mr. Isaacs, and a ntuaber of non-
commissioned officers and privates. The Arabia left
Balaklava on the 16th ult., Constantinople on the 24th,
and Malta on the 30th.
The Fairy Royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch,
was unlocked at Portsmouth on Saturiay.
The Duck lighter sailed from Portsmouth on Saturday
evenine with the tops, cope, crosstr-es, and other store-,
belonging to the Grampus 50-4un frigate in ordinary to
a-edst in rigging the new steam two-decker Repulse at
Perub-oke, which is to be navigated to Portsmouth to be
fitted out.
The Admiralty steamer Adder came up on Saturday
morning to Woolwich from the Downs to for :yard a de-
tachment of 50 gunners and drivers of the Royal Artil-
lery corps from Quebec. They arrived at Chatham in the
transport-ship R. L. Gillcbrest, Captain Gillchrest, un-
der the command of Lieut. Adams, R.A., and were
medically attended by Staff-Surgeon Platherwick. The
R. L. Gillchrest was 29 days out, and had no sick cases
during the voyage, with the exception of some unimpor-
tant attacks of elyeentery.
Her Majesty's steamer Alecto, 800 tons' burden, Com-
mander Phillips, left Woolwich on Saturday morning to
proceed to the coast of Africa, where she is appointed to
take up her station. The Vixen, 1,000 tons' register,
was taken out of the Woolwich basin and pieced in dock
for repairs ; and the Tartarus steamer, of 600 tons bur-
den, was undocked also, having been overhauled and
completely repaired.
The William Hutt, transport, 558 tons' burden, Da-
vid Todd, master, sailed yesterday from Woolwich for
Queenstown, to fill up her powder. She is laden with
bat saddles, carts, and military stores from London and
Deptford.
Two ships of small tonnage were brought to Wool-
wich Arsenal wharf, on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock,
to load. At 12 their full cargoes of shot and shell were
shipped, and both were ready for sea in the short space
of three hours.
The Australian Company's steam-ship Victoria, Cap-
tain Thornhill, transport So. 72, sailed from South-
ampton yesterday morning, with a large quantity of
shells, huts, and so:ie officers, for the Crimea.
The screw steam-ship Brunswick, 80, was placed in
dock at Keyham on Wednesday to receive her machi-
nery,
The steamship Perseveranee, with the 94th Regiment,
was off Plymouth at 5 o'clock on Friday morning,
bound to the Mediterranean.
The flag-ship Impregnable, 104, Captain Wise, was
inspected in Hamoaze on Friday by Admiral Parker.
A field battery of four guns and two howitzers of the
Royal Artillery, accompanied by a detachment of the
let company of the 13th battalion, consisting of between
140 and 150 men, and a large number of horses, arrived
at Yarmouth on Wednesday. They proceeded to the
Denes, where they encamped. The detachment is under
the comm-nd of Capt. Mountain anti three Lieutenants.
The camp consists of 22 spacious tents.
A miitary medical board was hell at the invalid
den et, Brompton, on Saturday, Mr. George Russoll
Dartnell, Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals, presiding, when
111 of the sick and wounded were considered sufficiently

or.rvalecent to be discharged.
IsTees have been issuA warning men who belong to
the Naval Coast Volunteers not to en;ist in the regi-
ments of the Line, the Militia, or the Es,t India Com-

patty's service, as they will thereby render themselves
liable to he imprisoriel for six months.
To-morrow a grand banquet will be given to Sir George
Brown by the inhabitants of the town and county of
Elgin, of which he is a native, in the Trinity-lodge As-
sembly Ronus, El in, to celebrate his return to his na-
tive country, and to evince their respect and admirati,.n
for his gallant services to his country. Provost Grant
will prsside on the occasion, and the Duke of Richmond
and all the ntry in the county are expected to be pre-
sent, as are also the member-4 r.f the Corporation and all
the influential residents in Elgin.
On Stiturday a party of 76 invalids, of various corps,
with one woman and two chi dren, in charge of Lieut.
G, W. Munster, 77th, with Surgeon Coles, M.D., 23d
Royal South Glocester Militia in medical charge, arrived
at Chatham. They arrived at P.irtsmeuth on Friday
night, in the steam transport Emeu, from the hospital at
Malta, which place they left on the 25th of August.
With the invalids were fear serjeants 11.-A 25 p!iviotes of
the Ambulance Urrps, who came from Balaklava. On
their arrival at the Strood station they ware received by
Lieut. and Adjutant James .13,,pe, Staffaifficer of the
Invalid Depot, and Dr. Fyffe, 30th Regiment, with a
fatigue party of soldiers, to render assistance to the in-
valids. After the necessary medical examination 17
wera selected and forwarded to the supplemental hospi-
tal, Bromptott ; two, who 'tere insane, were taken to
the hospital at Fort Pitt ; the remainder were retnovaid
in vans to the Casemate Barrack.', Brampton. During
the paarsage two soldiers died—viz , Privates Weston,
Rifle Brigade, and G?orge Spurgings, 97th Regiment.
Colour.Sergeant N. Conlin, of the 25th Rra;iitient, who
was attached to the depot, at Chatham, has received a
pension of 2s. 6d. a-day after a service of nearly 25 years;
he has als r rece'v,tal the goor'amduct, medal. Since the
25th carve from India he has received the staff appoint-
ment as S,.raeant-Major of the Garrison.
Capt. Lawrence and Lieut. Horsey, of the Royal
Marine Artillery, arrivtd at Sheerness on Saturday to
take charge of and conduct to head-quartets at Ports-
mouth the Ro;al Marine Artillery detachments serving
in the nine mortar-vessels lately returned from the Baltic.
The steam-vessel Fearless, Master-Commander Bourchier,
collected from their respective vessels and proceeded
with them for Chatham Marine Barracks. They will
leave Chatham this Morning for Portsmoa,.h.
An early inquiry is ordered to take place at Sheerness
by a committee of officers appointed by the Admiralty
and Ordnance Departments, to asc,rtain the cause of the
bursting of the mortars. We understand that all the
principal and non-commissioned officers of the Marine
Artillery, under whose charge the mortars ,w,ire when in
action, are to be present to give such evidence as may be
required of them as to the number of rounds fired fa)m
each mortar, with -the period .occupied and the weight of
charges of powder used on the several occasions.
Sergeant-Major James Phelps, 22d Regiment, died
suddenly in Plymouth Citadel on Friday afternoon. The
deceased gave orders to the bugler to sound the call fur
non-commissioned officers, and then retired to the
orderly room, where he was found alune five minutes
afterwards eKtended on his back in a fit of apoplexy.
He was a native of Glocestershire. about 31 years of age,
and had been upwards of 11 years en service in the East,
Indies, whence the regiment returned in July. His com-
mission as an ensign was being prepared at the Horse
Guards, and would have been in his possession to-mor-
row.