The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-14 00:00:00

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as soon as she has been unlocked.

leagues north of the capital. in all these places he
will probably cause them to pronounce against
Barrios and in favour of Mr. Francisco Duenas, who
has been set up by Carrera, and acknowledged as
provisional president in the departments of Santa
Ana and Sonsonate, and where he has organised a
Government.

" It will be seen that on the west and north the
capital is threatened and its communication cut off.
Cerna will undoubtedly pass on to Cojutepeque to
aid the Indians, who will gladly adhere to him, and
thence to San Vicente, where there is a complete
disaffection. If this be done, the only department
really under General Barrios is that of the capital,
for San Miguel will undoubtedly declare in favour
of that candidate for president whom they think is
strongest.
" San Salvador itself is a strong position, and can
easily be defended. The streets around the plaza
are barricaded, the people are rapidly leaving, and
General Barrios has some 2,500 men there, who
may be (or may not be) reliable. The approaches
to San Salvador are easily defensible (the Barranca
or ravine of Guaramul and the declivities of Abajo
and Milingo), but General Barrios has no 'force in
either. He seems to have determined to confine
himself to the plaza of the capital. Meantime he is
withoat resources, except the monthly assessment
on those who remain, and the sales he can make of
some confiscated goods. It is probably the inten-
tion of General Carrera to surround the capital, not

to attack it, to cause the whole country to pro-
nounce, and shut General Barrios up in San Salva-
dor alone, occupying the port of Libertad also pos-
sibly, or at any rate the road to it; if so, and no
sortie or attack on Carrera's forces is made by
General Barrios, it is hard to understand how he
can maintain himself another month.

" There are many who will regret deeply the
overthrow of President Barrios. Individually he has
many warm friends among the people of Central
America, and the wholesome reforms he has ini-

iated in the administration of affairs in Salvador

(not the least important of which was to check the
influence of the priests by making them amenable
and subordinate to the civil power) will not soon be
forgotten. The rock upon which Barrios split was
his Minister Irungary ; a man without another
friend in Central America ; a sly, sneaking, mischief
maker ; an unprincipled adventurer from Guate-
mala, whence he had been banished; a man with a
character so bad that even his family, his wife and
children living still in Guatemala, will have, and
have had, no intercourse with him. What could be
expected from a Minister with such a character but
ruin and disgrace. It is stated on very good autho-
rity that Carrera had said, if he caught Barrios and
Irungary, he would send the former to Guatemala
and give him the freedom of the city, but the latter
he would hang on the highest tree he could find
around San Salvador.
" There is no news of consequence from the other
States. Nicaragua had despatched a force to invade
Honduras, otherwise all is quiet. I also under-
stand that General Martinez, the worthy President
of Nicaragua, in view of the success of Carrera in
Salvador and Cerna in Hondurtis, is about to recall
his troops from the frontier and disband them,
that their labour may be made available in plant-
ing cotton, the season for which is just approach-
ing."

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain
his Serene Highness Prince Leiningen, arrived and
came into Portsmouth harbour at 4 p.m. yesterday
from Antwerp, whither she had conveyed her Ma•
jesty and the Royal Family.
The annual inspection by the Lords of the Ad-
miralty was commenced at Devonport on Wednes •
day by Rear-Admiral Charles Eden, C.B. He, in
company with the Controller of the Navy, !,.Rear-
Admiral Thomas Spencer Robinson, went on board
the training-ship Impregnable, 78, Capt. Francis
M. Tremlett, and her tender, the sloop Squirrel; 8,
Lieut. Arthur H. Wright, both in Hamoaze, when
the boys were exercised at the sails and guns. Sub-
sequently Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick
William Grey, K.C.8., Admiral Robinson, and the
Director of Engineering Works, Colonel Godfrey
Thomas Greene, visited the new long dock in the
Devonport yard, the works of which were com-
pleted by the contractors about two months since.
The dock proper is enclosed by a pair of iron gates,
but, between them and Hamoaze there is a apace of
50ft., the outer part being protected from the sea oy
an iron caisson. The sea can be excluded from the
the dock by the caisson only, in which case the
length of the dock is increased 50ft. There is at
present inside the caisson a quantity of mud and
rubbish ; when this is removed the dock will be
ready for use. The new long dock is constructed
on the sites of the old docks Nos. 2 and 3,
which were one inside the other. It is 437 ft. long
over all and 415 ft Gin. below, and can take in the
Warrior class of ships: On the arrival of the Agin-
court, which is larger than the Warrior, she will
probably be placed in this dock. The sheer hulk
moored outside will, it is said, be fitted with a steam
capstan, for the purpose of hauling ships into and
out of the new long dock. From the dockyard
Sir Frederick Grey proceeded to Keyham steam-
yard, where, between 1 and 3 o'clock in the after-
noon, he mustered the men belonging to the Steam
Reserve, who are commanded by Capt. William
Edmonstone, C.B. His lordship next went on
I
board the training-ship Implacable, 24, Comman-
der S. B. Dolling, and the receiving-ship Canopus,
8, Capt. Charles H. May, and inspected the crews
of both. When landing at the dockyard Sir Fre-
derick examined the new lifeboat constructed by
Mr. Turner, master shipwright of Woolwich yard,
which had been sent to Devonport to be tested.
The paddle-wheel steam-yacht Enchantress, 1,
Master-Commander J. E. Petley, from the Channel
Islands and Dartmouth, arrived at Plymouth yes-
terday morning. Instead of landing at Devonport
dockyard or Keyham steamyard his Grace the
Duke of Somerset proceeded at once to New Pas-
sage. Thence he and his colleagues, the other
Lords of the Admiralty, obtained an easy access to
the Devonport park, where they went in order, if
possible, to settle the question of a site for naval
barracks.

The screw steam corvette Brisk, 16, Capt. John
W. Luce, from the West Coast of Africa, last from
Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning.
The officers composing the Ordnance Select Com-
mittee of Woolwich Arsenal have been engaged at
the proof butt during the week in order to test the
Broadwell breach-loading principle, which they
have had under consideration for some months past.
As previously stated, this system consists of a pecu-
liarly shaped self-acting gas ring or valve, which
during the former trials was placed in the wedge
or breech block of the gun, the position and shape
of which Mr. Broadwell has since changed. The li
chief object of this week's trials, it is stated, was to
test the advantages of the alteration. The gas:ring
is now fitted behind the bore, and acts against a
bearing in the face of the breech block. The intention
of the inventor in making this alteration appears to
be to improve the facility of its application to guns
not constructed expressly for its; use. The issue
of the trials is pronounced exceedingly satisfac-
tory, and, according to the opinion freely given at
their termination, the merits of the system were
fully established, in so far, at least, as it is applica-
ble to guns of a calibre equal to an 18-pounder, with
which it had Inez tested. The method is now to
be tested in a similar manner with the 110-pounfler
or larger guns. An important feature
tion is, as in the case of a cow,— 'r.i the inven-
on steam valve, that
the greater the pre4der-
comes closud the tighter the breech be.
Po-
..gainst the escape of gas. This justi-
Lae opinion that the subsequent trials about to

His Norwegian Majesty's sailing corvette Omen,
16, Capt. H. Wedel Jarlsbeig, from Quebec, which
arrived on Sunday last at Plymouth, left ilia Sound
on N't; eduesday, and was towed back again yester-
day, in consequence of the appearance on board of
one positive and one suspected case of smallpox.
The following gentlemen passed their examina-
tion and received their certificates as acting lieu-
tenants yesterday at the Royal Naval College at
Portsmouth :—R. H. Harris and C. E. Read. As
sub-lieutenants :—A. Little, L. A. Moncrieffe, C.
A. Harris, R. Barton, L. Ching, W. B. M'Hardy,
C. J. Doxat, R. P. W. Powney, R. H. W. Cornwall,
and C. B. Theobald. As acting masters :—A. E.
Dowdall and H. V. Russell.