The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-14 00:00:00

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
Open nightly for Promenade. There is added to the
above elegant E+tablishment a Grand Conversation Saloon,
Reading Room, and Smoking Lounge. French, Gorman, and
English papers taken in. The Musical arrangements under
the direction of Mons. Boulcourt.
The Band is composed of the best Musicians in the metro-
polis. Admission Is.—Manager, M. Grenet.

THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM ;
containing the Wonders of Nature and Art, shown by
innumerable superbly executed Models, illustrating every
part of the Human Frame, together with a variety of highly
interesting Natural Preparations, Malformations, and Mon-
strosities. 4 open daily, trom 11 to 10 (for Gentlem n only).
Admission One Shilling. Entrances 29, George-street, Han-
over-square, and 45A, Maddox-street, Regent-street, Lon-
don, W.

Explanatory Lecture every Evening at Seven. Illus-
trated and Descriptive Catalogues sent, post free, for twelve
stamps. Address the Secretary, as above.

TEETH.-By MR. ESKFLL'S INVENTION
(Royal Seal granted 17th July, 1860), Sets or partial
Sets of Teeth, exquisitely enamelled to nature, are made and
fitted in a few hours by means of his patented soft elastic and
imperishable base of the colour of the gum, to which it ad-
heres with wonderful tenacity, dispensing with springs or
unsightly fastenings, and defying detection by tne closest
observer. The peculiar attribute of Mr. Eskell's invention
is, the readiness with which these teeth can be re-adapted to
any change of the mouth (even by the wearer); and as they
act independently of all disturbing causes which affect teeth
of ordinary construction, they are guaranteed U. last a life
time, as well as for mastication and articulation. Mr.
EsK ELL'S TREATISE, which fully explains hisinvention,
post free for seven stamps.—lnspection of specimens and Con-
sultations free. Terms strictly moderate.-8, Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, London; and 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir-
mingham.

COUGHS, ASTHMA, AND INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION
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TRULY EFFICACIOUS ANT) MILD.—
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER ?ILLS, pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and dyer complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appeite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,le. 14d., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.
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* Russ-Polish Rothschild took out Troy-wt. from Ex-
chequer 1838 for Pope's mitre-and-key mint Conefalonier.
So, by wine City charter, 26 Ed. 3, the Hess Mayor Rose,
M.P. of Southampton (Tower Ordnance office-shift), for K.
John's Bd-tun,—was mock presented in November to Indian
Peter, Constable of the Tower—Angl9 Micmac flag union
The6cone-ic Parliament Succession 6ath'it, 1843 act—on
Ackerley's 1837 Siderial voice 'Cwt.' Man registrar.
tOn Luther-set 3ty of 21-July, 1521, by Leo X and Imp.
Charles V, for Paduan intermediate Heligo-land supremacy
—Sydney was made the )1 S•Melita Goza Archer,,,standard
inch bearer. Likewise, by 30 May 1814-31's Co-partner Act,
No. 64, for 2.3 Will. 4, caput-81, 92, 1832, (for Russian
Dutch Loan guarantee—on Submission of the Clergy and
restraint of appeals to Rome, on lack of justice—names 25
Hen. 8, c 19 and 8 Eliz. c 5), for 1863 marine link causes,
to avoid tedious suits—' now O.S. pending' for peace.
So, on 1825 Holy Alliance of Kings' abolition (the Malta
Caner Peru 1547 rota-crown) '29-Protector Lieut Ackerley,
a.x, as King John's Ist Montague '3l/ kin trust, was sworn-
in as Judge, at Worcester's Crt. in January, 1837 by Gold
stick archer-Wm. 4 [whose JoupAx-daughter marries the
Captain's nephew, by 2nd-branch of Dartmouth's Slane
le Fleming Chamberlayne, in Leicester Denton Coke, Hun-
/04e gate Shelley de Lisle Sydney as Fitzclarence bar'd in
heraldry, like Eaton-hall Grey-hill Egerton, by Somer-
set' half-cast],—as Malcolm 111. line of Clare Lincoln-in'-
Lacy as Pal o.":"ten of Wales-Ireland, since 1825-37 by Holy
Alliance In Ackerley's L. mint of Chester by Indian Mary
on Law Crt-tie 1820 (2d) as the fit st Civic Christian marriage
by Pomponia Grmcina = Plautus, 43 A.D. edict Claudii.
f " As Chester's Judge—like owl alone
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Hugh '"Loop'd am /,—thy 'Plautie'Cll one.
II The same illegal Isolating influence appears to have
closed against him the doors of Junior United Service Club,
on his £4.000 Co-burn discovery fraud, and U.S. Museum
membership, for holding to his Duplex official duties, and
civil law mixed church cause (of his imprisonment at Bath,
Tothill, and Merthyr Tydvil), without crime,
§ Thus, for a death riddance of Ackerley's Nfndland Bal-
timore-set Maryland, of Car. I. 1634 life-trust in Cherokee
Nation, 1730-74's Cecil rt.s. Exeter Change attaint—which
Calvin-papist Quakers Percy-Smithsonian ' peculiar insti •
tution' on Can'ng's £.Rush native by Gladstone Hs. Corn.'-
mittee, 1833-37, as Georgia's Belly ..berent war, for LIN-
COLN'S last Dec. PIRATE Army word Nation.
*God's arc J:•• *ilia' tic of pendulum in lat. 51.. 30 N. as
the 1. 30 tir to & fro in A'Noeh to like polar * declina-
tion (above 25 M.) below the pole, 29 Sept., for Poor-law
Treasury audits year, now in : : • • . 0. Style as rfiroad ' R.'
an'ver---' It. rideth round the heavens as on a horse' for
towns prefix fi* to 51. 30 flow, _Bantry, fleffisle, drunswie.
Mansion House 'Market,' London, 2 Jan. 14, 1863.

BIRTH OF FOUR LION Cum.—Yesterday fore-
noon the lioness Victoria, belonging to Manders'
menagerie, presently exhibiting in Nicholson-street, gave
birth to four cubs. The young animals are said to be very
fine specimens of the leonine family, and will form a valuable
acquisition to the collection. We understand that the
lioness and her progeny are " doing well."— Edinburgh
Courant. . _

A HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN'S AFTERNOON. The
staff of the great hospitals is utterly insufficient to
allow of their performing themselves the work allotted to
them. . . . We discover every now and then a con-
scientious physician, who tries to do his work. We once
calculated this work up in a particular instance. At half-
past six in the evening the Esculapian bee was putting on
his overcoat to return home; he had taken his scat in a
wooden-bottomed chair at 1 p.m. For five and a half hours
he had sat there, ringing his bell, calling oat " Come in,"
examining his patients, and writing prescriptions, without
a break. In the course of that period he had counted
4,480 strokes of the heart, Hate led tl 86 chests, looked at
190 tongues, asked 1,120 questions, written 336 separate
recipes, 11 certificates for clubs, 3 certificates of deaths,
and brief notes in the hospital books of 29 new patients,
giving their age, sex, occupation, duration of illness, resi-
dence, and disease. Altogether he had given advice gratis
to 224 people, and remarked that he fell short of his usual
number. Shall we describe the man at the end of his day's
work ? He was so pale that he might have played Ghost
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the troops for theirs. He restored law, order,
quiet, and peace to a city filled with the bravos
of all nations, where for a score of years,
during the profoundest peace, human life was
scarcely safe at noonday.. He illustrated with his
army the best traits of the American soldier, and
encnained the admiration of those who came to scoff.
Landing with only 75 dollars in the military chest,
he gave his country's treasury nearly half a million
of dollars, and supplied the wants of the troops at
so economical a rate that his expedition cost the
Government less by four-fifths than any other it
had sent out. He led the starving poor, and the
wives and children of his enemies, and by so doing
converted his enemies into friends. By his practi-
cal philanthropy he won the confidence of the slaves,
who hailed him as their deliverer, and aided him as
willing servants and faithful labourers. By steady
attention to the laws of health he stayed the pesti-
lence, and, a humble instrument in the hands of
God, he demonstrated the necessity that his crea-
tures should obey His laws if they would preserve
the inestimable blessings of health. This is a beau-
tiful picture, drawn by as affectionate and tender a
hand as Hamlet's when he portrayed his father.
We see the hyacinthine locks, the front like
Jove's, " the eye like Mars' to threaten and com-
mand," and all the full length graces of Hype-
rion. Nor is the picture altogether untrue, for
General Butler, whatever his ungallantry and ra-
pacity may have been, was unquestionably an en-
lightened sanitary reformer, and thoroughly under-
stood his business. But the companion picture, the
Satyr to the Hyperion, will be studied by all who
really desire to know what sort of a man was Ben-
jamin Franklin Butler, pro-Consul of New Orleans.
Mr. Jefferson Davis has drawn it in broad, vigo-
rous outlines, that all the world can recognise. For
hanging Mumford for hauling down the flag of the
Federal Government three days before Butler came
into military occupation of the city he is painted as
" a cold blooded and deliberate murderer," and as
an "outlaw and common enemy of mankind." He
is one who committed outrages and atrocities not
permitted by the rules of inteepajional law, or the
usages of civilised warfare. flellta-riSoned peace-
ful and aged citizens, unresisting captives and non-
combatants, in dungeons and fortresses with chains
.attached to their limbs, and treated the selling of
medicines to sick and wounded soldiers as a crime
worthy of savage and degrading punishment.
He encouraged his brutal soldiers to insult and
outrage ladies ; he tore helpless and inoffensive
women from their homes, and subjected them
to salitary confinement in fortresses and pri-
sons, and fed them upon loathsome rations which
had been condemned as unfit for the use of the
Federal soldiery. He sought and invented pretexts
for plundering the inhabitants of a captured city
and forced them to elect between confiscation of all
their property and consequent starvation, or take
an oath against their conscience to bear allegiance
to the invader of their country. He drove the slaves
from their plantations in the neighbourhood of New
Orleans, unless their owners would consent to share
their crops with him, his brother A udiew J. Butler,
and other officers ; and by his act of sequestration
west of the Mississippi he subjected a quarter of a
million of human beings of all ages, sexes, and con-
ditions to starvation. And, finally, he incited the
slaves to insurrection against their masters by every
license and encouragement, and actually armed
numbers of them to engage in servile war—a war
far exceeding in its horrors the most merciless
atrocities of savages. This portrait also is neither
untrue nor unlike, and Will probably go down to
posterity as that by which General Butler will be
most easily recognised in that historical picture gal-
lery where the Neros, the Caligulas, and the Alvas,
as well as the Couthons, the Marats, and the Fou-
quier Tinvilles have already found a place. History,
like Madame Tussaud, has its " Chamber of Hor-
rors," and in that niche posterity when it looks for
Benjamin F. Butler will be certain to find him.

It is likely that the Federal Government will pay
❑o attention to the charges which Mr. Davis brings
against General Butler, and that the General him-
self wit, treat them with silence if not with indiffe-
rence, But in that great and supreme court of
Public Opinion—that court the jurisdiction of which
embraces the civilised world, the indictment, of
which the counts are mercilessly stated by the
Southern President, will be tried and decided. If
the whole charge be not sustained, much of it will.
General Butler need not expcct, and certainly will
not obtain, the love even of his own Puritanical
New England, but he will certainly extort its admi-
ration for the possession and display of qualities
which would have rendered him the model Pasha
of a model Saltan.

The proclamation, or address, of General Banks
on assuming the command vacated by General
Butler is much approved as a specimen of what
may hereafter be expected of one who knows how
to combine in a higher degree than his predecessor
the suaviter in modo with the fortiter in re. The
general, who is known to have accepted this com-
mand with reluctance, and only from an imperative
sense of duty, will have a difficult task to perform.
Being one of the honestest, if not the ablest, men
whom the war has produced, every possible allow-
ance will be made for him, should he not by his
first achievements come up to the popular expecta-
tions. General Banks has no enemies ; and the only
regret among his friends is that he should have
been sent to a place where the chances of success
are so greatly against him, lie is strongly in favour
of the unity of the Republic for geographical
reasons, and writes in this sense in his proclama-
tion. All that can be said in reply to a train of
argument which facts may overthrow, if other
logic do not, is that the very same arguments drawn
from geography might be adduced for the unity of
Europe under one Government, if its map were at
this moment, like the map of North America, at the
arbitrament of the sword. All such considerations
are idle. The sword will decide in the New World,
as it long ago decided in the Old, and political geo-
graphy will assume its own lines as circumstances
may dictate. There is a social as well as a
physical geography of which General Banks takes
no account, and social geography has already
declared that the South and the. North are
different peoples) Who neither think nor act

privations, suffered the severest hardships, been
cruelly isolated from the commerce of the world
and all the luxuries and necessities of life that fol-
low in its wake, has resorted to an inexorable con-
scription, has incurred a fearful debt, and poured
out the blood of its richest and proudest sons with
more reckless profusion than the North has shown
in pouring out that of its penniless foreign merce-
naries. But it has done none of these things in
vain. It has had the great advantage of a united
people, and of the ablest generals whom the age has
produced. It has had the incentives of hate and
patriotism to strengthen the arms and inflame the
hearts of its soldiers and people. It has carried on at
fearful odds, against a powerful antagonist, a
struggle which has made it the admiration of the
world, and forced even the professed philanthropists
and humanitarians of Europe to forget the blot of
slavery on its escocheon, and to accept its
cause as the representative of the hallowed
right of self-government, combating the dictatorial
insolence of an aggressive minority. The enormous
sacrifices of the South have been fruitful, while
those of the North have been barren. Every day
that passes strengthens the cause of the one and
weakens that of the other, and, worst of all for the
North, facts not to be denied or explained away
show that the longer the war lasts the greater the
corruption, the venality, the faintheartedness, and
the treason the Federal Government has to contend
against among its own people, and the greater the
present and prospective loss of Northern liberty.
Considered under any possible aspect the actual
situation of the Federal Government, army and
finance, is not encouraging to the warmest hearted
patriot. A single Confederate steamer, the Alabama,
defies the whole naval power of a nation that has
300 war ships afloat upon the rivers and seas. The
army in the South-West is in a position of extreme
danger. Generals Rosencranz and Grant are both
checkmated by the superior strategy if not by the
superior force of the Confederates. The black flag
is raised by the Southern President, and Mr. Lin-
coln is preparing a proclamation that will certainly
provoke a servile war if the Southern slaves are not
warmly attached to their masters, or held down by
so irresistible a grip as to render the slightest at-
tempt at insurrection on their part the signal of a
general massacre of their race. Mr. Chase cannot
carry on the war without paper, he cannot print his
paper fast enough to meet the demands upon the
Government, and gold, the traitor, obstinately per -
sists in valuing itself at 33 per cent, more than the
promises to pay of the Uovernment of one of the
richest and most enterprising people in the world.
Washington is in more imminent danger of capture
than ever Richmond has been at any period during
the war, and the Confederate cavalry make success-
ful irruptions within 12 miles of the capital. It is
not surprising under such circumstances the idea of
peace should arise in minds that but a little time ago
repelled it, and that mediation, provided it be not
offered by England alone and unaided, should be
tacitly believed by thousands of sensible men to be
the best solution of a congeries of difficulties and
evils that might be otherwise insoluble within the
experience of the existing generation.
The President's Proclamation on Slavery will be
published the day after to-morrow. All hope that
he will abstain from a measure that is calculated to
provoke an insurrection of the negroes has been
abandoned. He will decree freedom to the slaves
ot " rebels," and will support slavery as a system in
" loyal States" until such States shall themselves
see fit to abolish it. He will not be supported by
the public opinion of the North and West in any
such "hull" against a planet or comet that revolves
in the far off spaces that his armies cannot penetrate.
Even New England will declare against him for
not going far enough ; while the Democratic party
in all the States, who are proved to form the great
majority of the people, have already declared against
him for going too far, and will speedily take action
on the premises, with a view of calling a National
Convention to consider a question which it is beyond
the power of Mr. Lincoln or any other President to
decide.

How the Alabama got out of Fort de France,

Martinique.

(Translated for the New York _Herald from the Diaro de
Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 10.)
The French mail steamer Tampico, from Fort de
France, Martinique, sailed just three days after the
Alabama—the famous champion of the South—had
left the harbour, humbugging the San Jacinto,
which is cruising after her. The incidents of this
deception are curious enough, and we take them
from one of the passengers for this port, in which
we place implicit reliance. The French authorities
had to keep the excessive zeal of the Yankee sailors
within bounds, as they thought themselves sure of
this prize, which has given them so much trouble
and annoyance.
The commanders of both steamers went on shore
at Martinique, and in one of their frequent meet-
ings the captain of the Alabama said to the com-
mander of the San Jacinto :

" I have no more than 160 men and 12 guns. You
have 500 of the former and 39 of the latter. 1 will
promise you not to use our guns ; I will attack you
by boarding, and take and destroy your vessel."

The captain of the San Jacinto did not wish to
accept this challenge, observing that any way he
had the Alabama secure. The captain of the Ala-
bama, without taking any notice of this bravado,
appeared to be occupied in the construction of a kind
of raft out of large bundles of dried grass and tar
in view of the Federal sailors. His first idea no
doubt was to provoke an attack ; but as the last
nights of his stay were very dark, the captain of the
Alabama, whose vessel is a screw steamer, end goes
16 miles an hour, erected some false topmasts of
bamboo canes and cocoanut tops, hoisted his lights
to make the deception more out
and under a
full head of steam passed out of port by the side of
the San Jacinto.
The illusion of the Federal captain, who took her
for one of the French transports that are every
moment entering and leaving the port, so great
that was
that he was for four days afterwards cruising"eat
out-
sider-
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of the harbour, and amusing
expectation of his prize in perspective
came to know for a certainty thatheha. withmself
hn
d been hum-
bugged, he heard also that the Alabama had burned
an AMericati schooner which had sailed from St.
Pierre.

To a question of Capt. Sartori, as to whether .
prevented the marines and soldiers from serving in
the forts of California, to which most of them were
destined, he replied, " Yes; you are to do no service
of soy kind for your Government." Lieut. Low
called for the manifests, and finding some money
on them, took possession of 8,000 dols. in Treasury
notes, belonging to Messrs. Wells, Fargo, and Co.,
and 1,500 dols. in silver Niacaragua, belonging
to Mr. Peyton Middleton, late United States'
Special Inspector of Customs in Panama, and to
his American partner in Nicaragua, Mr. E. S.
Lane. Being assured by Purser Wheeler that the
Ariel had no letter mail, he did not overhaul the
sacks, and in fact nothing in that line was dis-
turbed. Wells, Fargo, and Co.'s sacks, the private
sacks of the Panama Railroad Company, the South
and Central American and Panama mails, and even
the State Department sacks for the United States'
Consul at Aspinwall, containing his own corres-
pondence and that for other consuls, ministers, and
naval officers, came safely to hand. Lieutenant
Low ordered all the officers to give up their swords,
and all the soldiers and marines their arms, and
these were taken on board the Alabama. He com-
pel'ed Capt. Jones to bond the ship for 125,000 dols.,
the cargo for 123,000 dols., and freight for 12,000
dols., to be paid within 30 days after the establish-
ment of the independence of the Confederate States.
The Lieutenant, before he left, ordered all the sails
of the Ariel to be cut away and thrown overboard,
but no ether property was damaged or destroyed,
save the liquors of the ship, and not a dollar's worth
was taken out of her except the money. The liquors
were destroyed by request of Captain Sartori and
Major Garland, as a precaution against their own
men, who they feared might get at them in the con-
fusion, and become unmanageable, now that their
officers were disarmed. The heads of the whisky
barrels were broken in, and the liquors in the bar
thrown overboard. In this connexion it may not
be amiss to say that Capt. Semmes complained bit-
terly to Capt. Jones of the false reports he averred
had been made by the commanders of some of the
sailing vessels he had taken, particularly of the
master of the Lamplighter, who reported that the
first thing the officers and sailors demanded on
boarding him was liquor. He said that not a drop
of liquor was used by his men on that ship, but that
it was destroyed, immediately she was boarded, for
fear his men might get at it and make brutes of
themselves. Lieutenant Low ordered the Ariel to
keep company with the Alabama, and both ships
steamed toward Jamaica. At night he again visited
the Ariel, and took away with him one of her
steam valves, so as to temporarily disable the.t
engine. Of course, the Ariel drifted
was calm weather), and the Alabamanes leftabouth(er
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neatly remonstrated. For, Captain
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Jones.
~ what, in 1-leaven's name, are 850 per-
sons—a third of them women and children—to live
on there ?" He then said he would land them in
Jamaica, for he was determined to burn the ship.
He said Vanderbilt had given one of the finest
steamers in the world to the Government to run
him down, and, he would destroy everything of his
he fell in with. The next day, Monday, the valve
WEs restored, and the Ariel ordered to keep corn-
Pulp as before. Every little while the Alabama
would dart off, leaving the Ariel, on perceiving a
sail, give chase to her, and finding she was not
American, returned to her game, which she was
enabled to do, from the fact she could steam two
miles to the Ariel's one. At night the valve was
again taken out. On Tuesday the ships kept com-
pany, the Alabama occasionally going on a little
cruise after Yankee craft till half-past 10 at night,
when they made a light on Jamaica. Capt. Semmes
then informed Captain Jones that he would not put
M his passengers on shore at Port Royal, as the yellow

The Imperieuse, 51 guns, screw-frigate, Captain
Robert Gibson (acting), is expected to arrive at
Spithead from the East Indies and China about the
end of the last week in April. Her term of foreign
service having expired, she will, on arrival, be taken
into port, dismantled, and paid out of commission.
The Enchantress, paddle-yacht, of 835 tons, and
250 horse-power,fitting in the steam basin of Ports-
mouth dockyard with her engines and boilers by
Messrs. John Penn and Son, of Greenwich, will be
ready to make her official trial of speed at the mea-
sured mile in' Stokes Bay by the 21st or 22d inst.
The Prince of Wales's yacht, Osborne, has com-
menced the repairs of her paddle-shaft and other
portions of her machinery in the steam basin of
Portsmouth dockyard. The Bulldog, 0 gun, paddle-
sloop, of 1,124 tons, and 500 horse-power, has also
been taken into the basin for repairs to her machi-
nery, preparatory to bringing her forward for com-
mission.

Mr. Edward Higgens was yesterday nominated
to a naval cadetship, and Edwin R. S. Sandys,
clerk, appointed to the Russell.
Capt. Wm. Cornwallis Aldham, C. 8., has been
appointed Captain of Greenwich Hospital, in the
place of Capt. Wm. A. Willis, deceased.
Lieut. Spencer R. Huntley, R.N., was yesterday
appointed to H.M.S. Osprey.
A captain's good service pension is placed at the
disposal of the First Lord of the Admiralty,byCapt.
W. C. Aldham accepting the vacancy caused at
Greenwich Hospital by the death of Capt. Willis.,
THE ARMY.

Owing
o great difficulty which h
andothermechanicsbeenexperienced
sufficientthemasons,bricklayers,
ordinary duties at the Royal Engineer establish-
e
ment, Chatham, andat
t hin
the various stations abroad,
his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
upon the recommendation of Col. Chapman, C. 8.,
Deputy-Ad' jutant-General, has granted permission
for recruits of those trades to be enlisted as low as
sft. sin. in height. ' Orders have accordingly been
issued from headquarters, Chatham, to the various
districts, directing that the merchanics who may
offer themselves for service in the corps of Royal
Engineers are to be taken at the reduced standard.
The non-commissioned officers and men belonging
to the depot and other companies of Royal Engi-
neers who have completed their course of fieldwork
instruction,und have gone through their curriculum
at the schools, were yesterday transferred to the
various workshops at the Royal Engineer establish-
ment, in order to obtain a practical knowledge of
their duties before being despatched to India and
the colonies in the course of the ensuing summer.
The non-commissioned officers of the Royal En-
gineers who have been selected to proceed to the
various districts for the purpose of raising, men for
that branch of the service have been ordered to
lead headquarters, Chatham, on Friday next.
The Earl de Grey, Under Secretory of State for
War, made an official visit of inspection of the new
barracks et Chelsea on Monday. His lordship after-
ware Jn t over the Royal Arming Clothing Fac.
Pimlico.