The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

A memorandum from the Horse Guards states
that public notice will be given as soon as the date
of the next examination for direct commissions has
been fixed, and that the necessary communication
will then be forwarded to all candidates concerned.
Colonel Shaw's new system of gun-carriage, now
complete, was yesterday inspected by the Ordnance
Select Committee of 'Woolwich Arsenal. The gun
adapted for service without trunnions, and intended
for a course of experiments, was manmavred in the
presence of the committee and a number of expe-
rienced officers belonging to the Royal Artillery.
The gun is pointed at the port-bole or embrasure
by raising and depressing the breach only, the
muzzle resting immovably on a pinion. This im-
provement insures greater safety to those engaged
in action, as the apertures for working the guns
will with this system be considerably reduced is
dimension. The gun and carriage are now ordered
to be transported to Shoeburyness to be subjected
to a course of experiments.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—A full-length model of
George Victor Townley, who was recently tried and
found guilty of the feul murder of Miss Goodwin, but re-
ceived a respite from the capital punishment upon the sup-
position of being insane, and was afterwards sentenced by
the Government to penal servitude for life, is now added
to the Chamber of Physiognomy in Baker-street,
FEARFUL WEATHER IN THE ATLANTIC AND LOSE
OF LlFE,—News of disasters to shipping continue to
reach Liverpool every day by the effects of the recent fearful
gales in the Atlantic. A. despatch, dated New York, Feb.
24, gives the following record of shipping disasters :—The
ship Onward, Captain Sherman, from Liverpool, which
arrived here on the 20th, experienced heavy westerly gales
on her passage ; lost head sails, and received other damage.
The National Steam Navigation Company's steamer Vir-
ginia, Captain Grace, which arrived here on the 21st, reports
having encountered very severe westerly gales. On Jan.
14. in lat. 49, long. 28, in a terrifio S.W. to N.W. gale, lost
lower topsails. which were blown from the ropes, split fore-
mast staysail and main spenser, and shipped a heavy sea,
which stove a quarter-boat to pieces. A seaman, named
Egan Thompson, was washed overboard and lost. The
ship Queen, Captain Arcus, from Liverpool, which arrived
here on the 22d, was irons Jan. 1 to 30, from let. 47 to 54,
long. 30 to 45, and expefienced very heavy weather and
fearful westerly gales. The Queen passed large quantities
of wreck, and a portion of a ship's upper deck, with four
beams attached, which had apparently been formed for a
raft. The Queen also lost one man, named Thomas Manat.
A disloyal anticipation, to the following effect, we
observe in a leading article in one of our chief morning con-
temporaries : " This microscopic Royal Highness,'
kicking in the arms of his Grace of Canterbury, and resent-
ing the Jordan water with heterodox screams and plunges."
THE LEAMINGTON MURDER.— Yesterday the
Sheriff for the county of Warwick received intima-
tion from Sir George Grey that the clemency of the Crown
would be shown in the case of Ann Eatwell, who had been
engaged by her mistress at a statute fair, after being
seduced by a man who refused to marry her, and who was
sentenced to death last week for murdering their child im-
mediately after its birth. The Sw.retary of State had been
memorialised in this case to support the strong recommen-
dation of the jury that the prisoner should have mercy ex-
tended to her, on the ground that there were " grave doubts
as to the consciousness of the said Ann Eatwell at the time
she committed the offence."
HER MAJESTYS I'AGI.IOTINDS.—Ttese hounds
met at Cookhain on Tuesday, when they had a bril-
liant and severe run of three hours. The stag, after being
uncarted crossed the Thames below Marlow, and, going
direct north, passed High Wycombe, Great Missendsn,
Prince's Risborough, Little Hampden, and Wendover to
the right and left, and was finally taken at Symbol, four
miles from Aylesbury ; distance from point to point 19
miles. The distance passed over by the hounds must have
been 25.
COUNTY RATES.—A Parliamentary return,
moved for by Alderman Salomons, shows the growth of
the sums raised by authority of the Quarter Sessions in the
metropolitan. counties. In Kent the county rates pro-
duced £17,656 in 1840—in 1850 the county and police
rates produced £22,077, end in 1862, £36,291. In Surrey
the amount raised was £ 17,803 in 1840, £16,051 in 1850,
and £70.497 in 1862. In Middlesex the amounts raised was
£54,261 in 1840, £88,851 in 1850, and £143,125 in 1862. In
Essex the advance was much less—the amount raised was
£25,599 in 1840, £29,150 in 1850, and £33,661, in 1862,
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