The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-05 00:00:00

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL. DEC. 4.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Veterinary Surgeon Thorn-
ton Hart to be Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class.
4th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Herbert Sewell to be
Veterinary Surgeon of, the First Class.
13th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon William Varley to be
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class.

14th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Dawson to be Veteri-
nary burgeon of the First Class.
15th Hussars—Veterinary Surgeon Martin Mence to be
Veterinary Surgeon of the First Class.
18th Hussars—Cornet Frederick Charles Hooper to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice William Owen Whiteside,
who retires—George Watson, Gent., to be Cornet, by
purchase, vice Hooper.
Coidstrearu Guards—Ensign Arthur Farquhar. from 62d
Foot, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Charles Walter Lee- Mainwaring, promoted.
7th Regiment of Foot—Francis Wingfield Douglass, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice John Hosack, trans-
ferred to the 14th Foot.
10th Foot—George Hood, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,

vice Jasper N. Anderson, tranferred to the 76th Foot.
4th Foot—Lieutenant Frederick Gerard Amstrong to be
Captain, by purchase, vice George J. Newman Beamish,
who retires—Ensign John Daly to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Armstrong—Ensign John Hosack, from
7th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Daly—William Brown
Churchward, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Charles Curtis, who retires.
23d Foot—Captain Frederick Chandos Clifton, from the
3d West India Regiment, to be Captain, vice Hewett,
who exchanges.
58th Foot—Quartermaster Sergeant Daniel Munro, to be
Quartermaster, vice Patrick Hopkins, who retires upon
half pay.
621 Foot—Thomas Hamilton Forsyth,
Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Arthur earqutaar, promoted in
tins Coldstream Guards.
76th Foot—Ensign Jasper :Nicene Anderson, from 10th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Alexander, promoted—Lieu-
tenant Edward Le Breton Butler to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant L. E. O'Connor, promoted.
82d Foot—Lieutenant Charles Neville to be Adjutant, vice
Lieutenant Edward Snow Mason, who resigns the ap-
pointment,
84th Foot—Ensign Andrew George Saunders, from the
Military Train, to be Ensign, vice Knight, promoted.
88th Foot—Lieutenant H. Garrett Moore to be Adjutant,
vice Lieutenant Thomas H. Cuthbertson, who resigns
the appointment.
92d Foot—Ensign David Papillon, from 12th Foot, to be
Ensign, vice Arthur Bryce Murray, deceased.
104th Foot—Lieut. Horace Moule Evans to be Adjutant,
vice Lieut. Archibald Logan Douglas, promoted.
107th Foot—The surname of the Assistant-Surgeon ap-
pointed from the Staff, Nov. 17, is Dustan not Dun-
stan,
3d West India Regiment—Captain Charles Hewett, from
23d Foot, to be Captain, vice Clifton, who exchanges.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT—Staff Assistant-Surgeon Robert
Graves Burton, M.D., has been permitted to resign his
Commission. The services of Staff Assistant-Surgeon
James Samuel Currie Collier have been dispensed with,
from 14th November, 1863.
VETERINARY DEPARTMENT—Veterinary-Surgeon of the
First Class William Thacker, from 10th Hussars, to be
Staff veterinary-Surgeon, vice Matthew Poett, de-
ceased.
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At Chatham the wind blew with great violence from the
westward and northward up till nearly 12 o'clock on Thurs-
day night, when it fell, and the night became fine and clear.
The mercury rose rapidly until it reached last night 31.95
In the harbour all the vessels rode out the gale in safety
with their topgallantmasts struck and their yards pointed
well to the wind. While the storm raged the waves were
washed completely over the caissons at the entrance of the
docks, causing considerable inconvenience to those working
on board the ships under repair. Fears were entertained
that the roofs over some of the building slips would be de-
stroyed, but beyond some broken glass they escaped unin-
jured. The force of the wind when the gale was at its
height was 201 b. to the square foot.
At Lowestoft the steamer Norfolk, Capt. Bolland, from
Rotterdam for Harwich, with cattle, &c., in the service of
the Great Eastern Railway Company, was forced into the
harbour, having been blown to leeward of her port. She
came in in want of fuel, and with 25 sheep, four calves, and
ene cow dead. The steamer, which experienced very heavy
weather, is discharging her cargo. The brig Herald, of
Whitby, Capt. Shaw, from London for Hartlepool, in bal-
last, drove on the Mouse Sand about 5 p.m. on Thursday,
and commenced filling with water. The crew remained
with her until 9 p.m., when, as the vessel had nearly filled,
they took to their boat, and were picked up about midnight
by the schooner Pilot, of Goole, which brought them into
the Lowestoft Roads, The crew were landed by the tug
Powerful, and will be forwarded to their homes through
the agency of the Shipwrecked Mariners' Royal Benevolent
Society.
At Beccles a granary belonging to Mr. J. Crisp, near the
railway station, had one of its sides forced in, and a portion
of the roof blown off. Charles Oxborough, a bricklayer,
who haditaken shelter from the fury of the hurricane, was
killed, and a boy was seriously injured.
The various mail steamers between Southampton, Havre,
and the Channel Islands have been more or less retarded by
the violent weather. The South-Western Company's fine
new steamer Normandy, which was due at Southampton
from Jersey and Guernsey early on Wednesday evening, did
not arrive till between 8 and 9 o'clock on Thursday night.
She behaved admirably in this heavy weather, and on her
arrival in dock the passengers presented Capt. Harvey with
an address of thanks for " the sterling qualities of a true
British sailor displayed on this, one of the most terrific pas-

sages ever known between Jersey and Southampton." Dur
ing the voyage several large ships were passed, some laying
to and others running under bare poles, and some were no-
ticed with their topmasts gone.
At Portsmouth, last night, the gale had subsides in a
strong breeze from W.N.W., with the barometer slightly on
the rise at 29.40. The readings on the barometer there
taken at 10 a.m. for the past days have been as follows :
Dec. 1, 29.7 ; 2, 28.98 ; 3, 29.25, it having fallen to and
fallen from 2952 in the intervening time ; Dec. 4, 30 38. In
this last reading it will be seen the mercury rose 11-tenths
above an inch in 24 hours.
At aristol, on Thursday, a stone weighing 141 b. was dis-
lodged from the tower of All Saints' Church, Corn-street,
and was blown down into a crowded thoroughfare, but for-

tunately without doing any harm. At Clifton a chimney
stack fell, killed a horse, and broke a waggon to pieces, but
the driver escaped. At Abbot's Leigh, near Bristol, a man
in the employ of Sir W. Miles, M.P., was at work in a ditch,
when a tree fell on him and fractured his legs. At Weston-
super-Mare the gale was very violent. The sloop Gleaner
went on shore at Breane, and became a total wreck. The
Mary had to run into Uphill, with sails torn to ribands, and
with loss of her boat ; and damage was also done to the
fishermen's boats in the bay.
The gale was so sudden at Watchet that three boats, with

two fishermen in each, went out in a comparative calm
about two miles to fish with cod nets. One of the boats,
however, was upset, and both men were drowned, while the
others experienced the greatest difficulty in reaching the
shore.
At Taunton 50ft, of a chimney 100 ft. high, erected at Mr.

Pollard's steam saw works, was blown down with a tremen
dolls crash, falling on and breaking in a workshop, in which
five men were at work. Two of them escaped, while the
other three were seriously injured.
At Birmingham the gale of Thursday did considerable
damage, and caused accidents by which many persons were
injured. At a manufactory in Birchall-street, a chimney
belonging to some premises adjoining was blown down and
fell through the roof of a warehouse, A man and several
women were injured. One unfortunate girl was dead when
extricated from the mass of bricks and other material. The
anemometer at the Midland Institute showed that the pres-
sure of the wind at 7 o'clock in the morning was 201 b on the
square foot; a little before 8 it had fallen back to 111 b ; at
9 it was 2311 b ; and soon after 10 it had again fallen to 131 b.
At 10 45 it was 1911 b, and at 12 o'clock the pressure was
25111 s full. It so remained for nearly an hour, and then gra-
dually declined. In the storm which occurred on the 21st
of February, 1861, the greatest pressure of the wind in Bir-
mingham was 311 b on the square foot; but at that point it
appears the instrument was broken down by the violence of
the gust.
At Holyhead the storm appears to have been felt more
severely than on any other part of the coast. The Elisabeth,
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the weather whether she and three other ships lying
near her, whose names were not ascertained, would not be-
come total Wrecks. The Westbourne, Capt. Armitage, from
Liverpool for Honduras, having lost one of her masts, came
into collision with a bark in the same condition and sank;
The crew were seen from the ship Confluence, against which
the Westbourne ran, to take to the boat, but in a few minutes
the boat swamped, and all were drowned. The body of the
captain has been found. The Hibernia, from Workington
for Dublin, came in during the gale and cast two anchors.
Both cables broke and she was driven to the rocks on the
south side of the bay. She yesterday morning had not
broken up. Her crew waded to the shore at low water. The
Climax, of Fowey (?), has min on the Salt Island. The
Industry, from Liverpool for Ostend, was abandoned by her
crew, but afterwards some of the men of the mail steamer
Connaught boarded her and brought her into port. The
Pearl, of Fowey (P), is wrecked. The crew were saved. The
fate of the Harmony, from Air for Drogheda, and her crew
was remarkable. About 7 o'clock on Thursday night, she
was driven rapidly towards the lee shore. She passed close
to the end of the Great Eastern
jetty, from which the mail
steamers take their departure, and in a moment four of the
crew gave a leap for life, and reached the jetty. One boy
only remained on board. About 2 o'clock on Friday morning
Constables Toohill and Hughes, of the Anglesey police,
were sent by the inspector along the shore to see whether
any persons might be in want of assistance. They heard
the poor boy on board the Har.mony hallooing for help. By
means of a rope they pulled him ashore through a tremen-
dous surf, and in about lo minutes afterwards the ship
broke in a thousand pieces. The mail steamer Leincester de-
layed her departure from 2p.111. yesterday till 3 a.m. to-day,
when she received the night mail from London. Strenuous
and most successful exertions were made during Thursday
night by the lifeboat to save the lives in jeopardy. The
same lifeboat, manned by the same crew, brought 47 men
ashore from the different ships in the course of 12 hours.
The gale abated at Shields during Thursday night, and
yesterday the weather was bright and clear, with a fresh
wind from the W.N.W. As the bar is in such excellent
condition through the improvements made by the Tyne
Commissioners in the summer, the depth of water enables
laden vessels to sail much earlier in the tide than hereto-
fore, and from 6 o'clock yesterday morning until half-past
11 o'clock in the forenoon coal-laden vessels, mostly for
London, were leaving the Port as fast ae the steam tugs

pleted 2 2-3 d miles of sewers, of sizes varying from
3ft. 9in. by 2ft. 6in. to 4ft. 6in. circular, at an esti-
mated cost of about £38,000, or £3,000 more than

reported last month.
"The northern outfall sewer is not quite com-
pleted, the weather having been unfavourable to
the work at the apron of the river, which can now
only be proceeded with at certain periods of the
tides. A small portion of the embankment also re-

mains unfinished. The total cost of the work done
by Mr. Furness under this contract is about
£635,000, of which £1,500 is due to the progress
made in the past month.
" Mr. Furness's contract for the northern outfall
reservoir is progressing satisfactorily. The arches
are being turned in three of its compartments, and
the puddle and embankment are being formed over
them. The penstocks, 32 in number, are all fixed

in the wall nest to the substructure. The estimated
value of the work done is about £125,000, being
£20,000 more than at the date of my last monthly

report.
" Mr. Webster is making fair progress with the
southern outfall works at Crossness. The total cost
of the work done is estimated at £168,700, £7,200
being for that executed in the past month.
" Upwards of two miles of the main southern low
level sewer have now been completed by Mr.
Webster, at an estimated cost of about £74,000, of
which £7,000 is due to the progress made last
.month.
" The whole line of the Bermondsey branch of the
southern low level sewer, with the exception of the
Spa-road junction and penstock chamber, is com-
pleted, by Messrs Aird and Son. Its total length
is nearly three miles, and its estimated cost is
£83,500, or £1,500 in excess of my last monthly
report.
"The works at the Southwark new street are
being pushed rapidly forward in order to get that
important line of thoroughfare open to the public
throughout its entire length, from the Borough to
the Blaekfriars-road, by the end of the present year.
Mr. Pearson, under his contract for the completion
of the street between the Blackfriars-road and
Great Guildford-street, has constructed about 1,534
feet of the subway, 1,620 feet of the sewer, 840
feet of area wall, 198 vaults, and about 3,000 feet
of pipe connexions. These and other minor works
amount in value to about £19,500, being £3,500 for
the work done in the past month.
Engineer (Signed) "I. W. BAZALGETTE,

THE FATAL ACCIDENT AT ISLINGTON.
The Superintending Architect (Mr. Vulliamy)
presented the following report :
"Fall of House, west side of Islington-green.
" I have to report that an inspection of the pre-
mises has been made on the 27th ult., before the
ruins had been much disturbed, when the fact that
the front wall fell upon its own base, or perpen-
dicularly, and net inwards, as represented in some
of the newspapers, was clearly discernible.
" The building was for a public house on the site
of an old one, and was being rapidly hastened
to completion before the cattle-show on the 7th
of December. From the district surveyor's
clerk, who was present, the following particulars
have been gathered :—Mr. Mosely received notice on
or about the 22d of October, so that in a month and
five days the building was completed in carcase, and
some of the sash frames were being fixed. The
frontage is 36 feet, and the wall which fell went up
through four stories. It was 18 inches thick in the
basement, and had piers in the ground story sup-
porting brestsummers 14in by 12in, with a flitch of
iron in the centre. These brestsummers had five
points of support, and they were built in cement."
Mr. VULLIAMY, the architect, proceeded to state
that after a careful examination of the circumstances
connected with this unhappy affair, he was de-
cidedly of opinion that over-haste was employed,
not only in completing the building, but also in fol-
lowing up the other works, which would necessarily
cause a great jar upon the unset and green brick-
work.
A letter was then read from Mr. W. Mosely, the
district surveyor, in which he attributed the failure
to the want of a due and sufficient settling of the
mortar and cement, from the state of the atmos-
phere, the rapidity of the execution of the works, or
the vibration of the scaffolding, or perhaps the whole
combined. It is only fair to Mr. Mosely to state
that he claims to be exonerated from all blame in the
transaction.
The whole subject was referred to the Streets and
General Purposes Committee for a report.
The Board then adjourned.

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Naval and Military Intelligence.
THE NAVY.
The Warrior, 40, iron frigate, Capt. A. Cochrane, C. 8.,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday evening, and
joined the Edgar, bearing the flag of Admiral S. C. Dacres,
C. 8., commander in chief of the Channel Fleet, and the
Resistance, 16, iron frigate, Capt. Chamberlain, at Spithead
anchorage. Messrs. Trachsell and Clayton, patentees of the
ozone gas, with which the engine room and screw alley of
the ship is partially lighted, have received orders from the
Admiralty to complete the lighting of that part of the ship
on their system. Capt. Cochrane soon after the arrival of
the ship in port applied to the Admiralty for an order for
lighting the ship throughout, or nearly so, on Messrs.
Trachsell's system; but the Admiralty have declined to ac-
cede to his request, owing, it is said, to the contents of are-
port, forwarded for their information by the chemical assi6-
taut of Portsmouth dockyard, ascribing explosive powers to
the gas, together with other properties dangerous to human
life. Now the chief qualities claimed by the patentees for
the ozone gas are its perfect non-explosiveness and its free-
dom from sulphur or other vapours that can be deleterious
to life if inhaled in confined spaces, and the numerous expe-
riments which have been carried out on board the Warrior
fully confirm these conclusions.
During the recent cruise of the Channel Fleet round the
coasts of the United Kingdom much valuable information
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form and most apposite in character, selected from the many
kept on board the representative ship of our iron-dads—
the Warrior. The consumption of coal from July 11 to Oc-
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Sound at its conclusion, for the various purposes, was as
follows—Lighting fires and getting up steam, 186 tons ;
keeping fires banked, 35 tons ; in evolutions and experi-
ments, 82 tons 10 cwt.; distilling water, 72 tons; culinary
purposes, 21 tons 5 cwt.; keeping station with squadron,
663 tons 10 cwt. The total expenditure was thus 962 tons
5 cwt. The number of hours the fires were lighted was
1,406 ; the number of hours steam was up, 604 ; the number
of hours the screw was actually working, 341; the total
quantity of fresh water distilled in gallons was 127,000 ; the
total distance the ship went in knots, by log, was 2,286 ; the
maximum power of engines exerted was 3,186 horse power,
and the minimum 73'5 ; the number of days was 35. The
most striking feature in these figures is the reduction of the
working power of the monstrous engines of the Warrior to
73 indicated collective horse power, the engines at the time
making 10 revolutions, and the ship going 2 knots. This
is probably the greatest feat yet accomplished with marine
engines of large power. Friction in this instance can scarcely
be said to have existed at all. As an example of a record
of an entirely opposite kind we give the following, which
relates to the number of visitors received on board the War-
rior at the various ports visited. The numbers were—At
Yarmouth, 15,000 ; Sunderland, 24,285 ; Leith, 47,049 ;
Invergordon, 4,500 ; Orkneys, 2,000; Lough Foyle, 35,000;
Greenock, 41,100 ; Belfast, 21,500 ; Liverpool, 57,400 ; and
Dublin, 20,000. There was also received on board at the
various ports from yachts and small vessel, of which no
exact record was kept, an estimated number of 30,000. The
grand total was thus 301,634. The greatest number of
visitors on board in one day was 14,273, at Sunderland, and
the greatest number of steamers alongside in one day was
194.
The Steam Reserve Commission still remain at Ports-
mouth, and yesterday were engaged in receiving evidence in
the room set apart for their use in the offices of the steam
factory.
The Duncan screw liner, at Portsmouth, is being hurried
forward for commission as the flagship of Admiral Sir
James Hope. Mr. Crichton, the newly appointed chief
engineer, has joined. The pennant, it is expected, will be
hoisted on the Ist of January, 1864.
The Wasp, 17, screw, Commander W. Bowden, fitting
out at Portsmouth for foreign service, was swung yesterday
for the adjustment of her compasses, and is expected to go
out of harbour to Spithead to-day, where she will take in
her ammunition and complete stores previous to leaving for
her destination.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty :—Matthew Barker, engineer, to the Russell—
Hubert F. Roe, assistant paymaster, to the Victory—T.ll%
L. Bowling ant James K. Bell, assistant paymasters, addi-
tion, to the Edgar—John H. Mooney, assistant paymaster,
to the Royal Oak—and George T. T. Che)ney, assistant
paymaster, to the Ajax.