The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

sinking the necessary foundations for the tramways
along the wharves at the dockyard, where it is pro-
posed to place the portable steam cranes to be used
in loading and unloading the various vessels arriving
at and departing from the establishment. The steam
cranes to be employed in this work are similar to

,hose which have been for some time in use alongside
;he docks in which the ironclads Achilles, Royal

Oak, and Bellerophon have been under construction.
The second squadron of the 3d Battalion of the
Military Train arrived at Liverpool yesterday, from

Quebec, in the steamer Jura. The detachment con.

sisted of 4 officers, 2 staff sergeants, 123 non-com-
missioned officers and men, 25 women, and 36 chil-
dren. They remained on board the Jura during the
night, and will leave for Woolwich this morning.

On Tuesday a preliminary inspection took place
of the troops of the 16th Lancers stationed at Col-
chester, preparatory to the annual visit of the In•
Spector General of Cavalry, which is expected to
place at the latter end of the present week,
Prince Humbert of Italy yesterday went down
to Woolwich and witnessed the manoeuvres of a

brigade field day. The proceedings commenced at
11 a,m., and were conducted by Major-Gen. Warde,
C. 8., Commandant. The Prince was attended by
Lieut.. Col. Du Plat, Equerry to the Household, and
was accompanied by the Marquis d'Azeglio, the
Italian ambassador, and two attaches—viz., the
Ducca di Somma and Capt. Cagni ; Gen. Revel,
aide-de-camp to the King; the Marquis Balbi and
Count Maffei, officers of the Etat Major. The
troops were paraded at 10.16 on Woolwich common
in two lines, as follows—The first line, consisting
of three batteries of the Royal Horse Artillery, in
command of Col. the Hon. E. T. Gage, Col. Price,
C. 8., and Major Paget, and stationed at full inter-
vals ; the let battalion sth Fusiliers, in command
of Major Lyons; Royal Marine Light Infantry, in
the centre in two brigades, commanded by Captain
Bunce and Lieut.-Col. Marriott, in quarter distance
columns. The second line consisted of two bat-

teries 2d Division Depot, commanded by Colonel
Smyth, C. 8., and Col. Middleton, C. 8., and one 40
pounder battery, and all appeared in admirable
condition. The infantry were commanded in chief
by Col. Master, C. 8., sth Fusiliers. Precisely at the
appointed hour, namely, 11 o'clock, a couple of her
Majesty's carriages, drawn by four gray horses
each, entered the garrison, containing the Prince
and suite, which was announced by firing a royal
salute, in command of Capt. Gilmore. His royal
highness was received on the Royal Artillery pa-
rade by the General and Staff, and having mounted
he was escorted to the review ground, where the
whole of the troops presented arms, and the
amalgamated bands of music played the national
air. The Prince, who is only twenty years of
age, was dressed in the uniform of a General of the
Staff. He appeared much interested in the various
field movements, and made frequent remarks to
Gen. Warde, expressing his admiration of the high
state of discipline which appeared to regulate the
proceedings, especially when the batteries, after
trotting past, changed face and returned at full
gallop without interrupting the regularity and pre•
cision of their lines. During the sham fight the
infantry retired to the rear, and the brunt of the
battla was sustained principally by the field batter
ries, in which they expended 30 rounds of blank
ammunition per gun, the 40-pounders 15, and the
infantry 15 rounds per man. The Military Train
were in attendance with their ambulance waggons;
but, notwithstanding the slippery condition of the
ground after the heavy rainfall during the past few
days, their services were not called into requisition,
as no accident of any importance occurred through-
out the morning. At 12 o'tlock the whole of the
troops advanced in front, and, having performed a
general salute, they broke off and retired to quar-
ters. The Prince, accompanied by his suite and the
garrison authorities, then proceeded to a hasty in-
spection of the Royal Military Academy, and after•

wards honoured the General and officers of the
Royal Artillery mess at luncheon. General Shaheen
Pasha, Ali Bey, SeErn Effendi, and three other
Egyptian officers of distinction, on a short visit to
this country, and vs ho were present, accompamied
by Mr. Leaking, were also invited by Gen. Warde
to join the mess table. 'rhev were met on n.rade
by a guard of honour of 100 men, in command of
Capt. Law, 13th Brigade Royal Artillery, and the
Royal Artillery band, who played a selection of
operatic airs during the repast. At 2 o'clock the
entire party proceeded to the Arsenal, where his
Royal Highness was received by the heads of depart-
ments then on duty—namely, Capt. Fraser, It A.,
Assistant Superintendent of the Laboratory ; Capt.
Magendie,Captain Instructor ; Lt.-Col. Shaw, Royal
Carriage Department; Captain Gordon, Military
Stores ; and Lieut.-Col. Campbell, Royal Gun Fac-
tories, in full uniform, according to instructions
received from the War Department to that effect.
The inspection of the Royal Arsenal occupied nearly
three hours, after which the Prince and suite re-
turned to London.
Capt. Edward Codd is to have the good-service
pension placed at the disposal of the First Lord of
the Admiralty by the promotion of Capt. Frederick
H. H. Glasse, CM., to flsg rank.
James C. Spence, engineer student of the Ports-
mouth Dockyard Steam Factory, has been appointed
by the Lords of the Admiralty a student at the
Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine
Engineering at South Kensington.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. I. F. B. Wainwright to
the Terror, vice Capt. Glasse, promoted to be Rear-
Admiral—Capt. Lord Fredk. H. Kerr to the Black
Prince,
vice Capt. Wainwright—Charles Edward
Py ne, nominated to a naval cadetship—John Stanley,
in the Pandora, promoted to acting engineer—Geo.
Thomson and Robert H. Cooper, in the Cumberland,
promoted to first-class assist.-engineers—William
C. Graham, second-class assist.-engineer, to the
Brisk—Fred. J. Baron, acting second-class assist,
engineer, to the Cumberland—Reginald J. Meek,
clerk, to the Euryalus—Alfred Smith, clerk, to the
Cambridge—Reginald C. Hodder, assist.-clerk, to
the St. Vincent—Henry R. Lloyd, assist.-clerk, to
the Achilles—Samuel J. Davis, assist.-clerk, to the
Formidable—Henry Dawson, assist.-clerk, to the
Hrwke—and Henry H. Rickard, assist.-clerk, to the
Donegal.

PIIOTO-SCITLPTI7RE,—The sitter to the photo.
sculptor is placed exactly in the centre of a circular
chamber surmounted by a glass dome, posed upon a cir-
cular platform marked round its circumference with 24
equal divisions. Around the wall of the chamber are
ranged 21 pho ographic cameras, each pointing to the
sitter, and each corresponding to one of the numbers of the
divisions on the circular platform. These cameras, duly
furnished with photographic plates, aro all uncovered at
the same instant, and 24 pictures of the sitter are taken,
representing his contour as seen from each of the positions
occupied by the cameras. The plates being removed from
the cameras, and developed and fixed in the usual manner,
the photographic department of the process is finished, and
the sitter's attendance is no more rcquir.d.-o►ice a Week.

COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.--A few counterfeit
sovereigns of a rather dangerous character have
within the last week been detected at the Bank counters.
They are made of gold, but of an inferior quality, being 2
carats grains worse than standard gold, of which the
genuine sovereigns are made ; that is to say, instead of
having 9,167 parts of pure gold in 10,000 they have only
8,138 parts,which makes them only worth about 17s. The
coins are new, but seem to have been purposely soiled to
give them the appearance of having been worn in circula-
tion. They have more of the greenish-yellow colour of
pure gold than the genuine sovereigns, with the exception
of the old George and Dragon pieces. All of them are struck
from ono pair of dies. One of these dies, the reverse, is
cracked in two places, and the coins have been touched up
by a hand-tool after striking in the press; and the effect of
the crack, which runs diagonally upwards through the
Scottish quarter of the shield, and through the E of the
" Regina," is in this way, from some of them, partly re-
moved, although sufficient remains fur the purpose of de-
tection. In the Irish quarter the harp is almost erased by
this after-manipulation, and the consequent smoothness
and want cf definition strike the eye at once. The quality
of the engraving is coarse, and does not appear to be the
work of a person accustomed to engrave coin dies. The
lettering particularly is roughly executed by an unpractised
hand ; yet, after all, the imitation is sufficiently close to
deceive on a casual inspection. The sound, which is dull
and wants the sharp clink of the true sovereign, is one of
the best means of detection to those accustomed to the ring
of the genuine metal. It is not apprehended that there
aro many in circulation, and, indeed, the whole facts point
to operations on a limited scale.
LONG .SENTENCE.--Gardiner, the New South
Wales bushranger, has ken sentenced, under three several
convictiens, and es the sentences are to take effect in suc-
cession lie is condemned to penal tervitude for 33 years.