The Sun.
London, England, 1863-03-16 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The depot of the 74th Highlanders, at present
stationed at Aberdeen, and forming a portion of the
23d depot battalion, is to be transferred at the end
of the month to Perth. The reason for this step is
the paucity of officers' and married soldiers' quarters
in the Aberdeen barracks. In consequence of this
want of accommodation, Government are, when all
are present, paying about £2OO a month lodging
allowance.

The 7th Company of Royal Engineers, which
recently arrived at Chatham from Nova Scotia, has
been placed under orders to proceed to Dover to-
morrow morning, to be employed on the fortifica-
tions in progress at that part of the coast.
The Megmra, screw troopship, Commander S. He
Henderson, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday
from Woolwich with batteries of the 7th brigade
Royal Artillery on board, under the command of
Col. A. P. S. Green. The batteries were landed
the same day, and took up temporary quarters in
Fort Moncton. Brookhurst Fort, one of the now
and extensive works in advance of Gosport, on the
Farehaai road, is ordered to be fitted for the per-
manent head quarters of the 7th brigade.
Private lesters received at Portsmouth from her
Majesty's screw troopship Adventure, Commander
Lethbridge, dated at Sierra Leone February 20th,
announce the arrival of the ship at that place on
th 18th, in 24 days from Barbadoes, with the head-
quarters of the 3d West India Regiment, who were
landed there. During the passage the Adventure
called in at the Gambia, and landed two companies
of the 3d there, relieving a like number of the 2d
West India Regiment. After coaling at Sierra
Leone, the Adventure was to proceed to Lagos, where,
it was reported, some disturbance had taken place
among the native troops. This duty performed, the
Adventure's further orders were to proceed along the
coast, relieving other portions of the 2d West India
Regiment, with whom she would return to the West
Indies. Two companies of the 3d still remained to
be brought over to the coast from the West Indies,
and it was considered not at all improbable that the
Adventure would be detained on her arrival at Bar-
badoes to convey them to their several destinations
there, returning to the West Indies with the reliefs,
and thence home to England. The Narcissus screw
frigate, Capt. J. G. Bickford, flagship of Rear-
Admiral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.8., was lying at
Sierra Leone on the Adventure's arrival, and sailed
the following day for the Cape of Good Hope.
Hearty cheers were exchanged on the Narcissus
leaving, het ween her crew and that of the Adven-
ture, and also with the c.‘cw of the Rattlesnake,
Commodore A. P. E. Wilmot, C. 8., which had just
dropped her anchor on arrival from the leeward coast.

Public Conveyances in the Metropolis and
Infectious Diseases.
The following is a copy of the Bill to Bertlate
the Removal in hired or public Carriages of Perso-us
labouring under Infectious Diseases in the Metrc-
polie, brought into the House of Commons by Dr.
Brady and Sir Fitzroy Kelly :
Wherees an act was passed in the 24th year of the reign
of her most gracious Majesty, chapter 77, intituled "Act to
amend Acts for the Removal of Nuisances and the Preven-
tion of Diseases," whereby it was, among other things, en-
acted, that it should be lawful for the local authority for the
executing the Diseases Prevention Act to procure and main-
, tain a carriage or carriages suitable for the conveyance of
persons suffering from any infectious or contagious disease
as in the said recited act more particularly mentioned ; and
the provisions of the said act have been found insufficient
within the metropolis to prevent the conveyance of persons
so suffering in public vehicles plying for hire, and such per-
sons are conveyed in the said vehicles, to the great danger
and peril of her Majesty's subjects thereafter using such
Vehicles ; and it is expedient to make other and better pro-
vision for preventing such practices : be it therefore enacted
by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and
Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the
authority of the same, as follows :-
1. Every local authority executing the Diseases Preven-
tion Act within any part of the city of London or the me-
tropolitan police district shall, within one month after the
passing of this act, provide and for ever thereafter maintain
such and so many carriages suitable in all respects for the
purpose of being used for the conveyance of persons suffer-
ing under infectious or contagious diseases, so that the same
shall be ready and available at all reasonable times for the
use of those who may require the same, and shall at all
times hereafter provide suitable and necessary appliances to
enable such conveyances to be used; antk such carriages
shall be kept in such convenient place or places as the said
local authorities may appoint, so as to be conveniently ac-
cessible to all the inhabitants of the district for which such
authority acts.
2. It shall be lawful for such local authority, if they shall
so think fit, to fix for the conveyance of any person in one of
such carriages such charges as they may deem right, not
exceeding the amount now allowed by law to be charged by
the owner of a vehicle licensed to ply for hire within the
said districts,
3. From and after the passing of this act if any person
shall hire, use, or employ, or cause to be hired, used, or em-
ployed, any hackney carriage plying within the metropoli-
tan district for the removal of any person whom he shall
know or have reasonable cause to believe to be suffering
from any infectious or contagious disease whatsoever, or
shall personally aid, assist, or abet any other person in
hiring, using, or employing any such hackney carriage,
every such person, on summary conviction thereof, shall
forfeit and pay a penalty not exceeding CD.
4. It shall not be necessary upon the hearing of any
charge of such offence having been committed, in any such
Conviction or record of such conviction, to state or prove the
disease under which such person was suffering, but it shall
be sufficient to allege and show that such person Was suf-
fering from disease, and the person using or employing the
hackney carriage knew or had reason to behave that such
disease was infectious or contagious.
6. The half of the penalty imposed upon conviction of
any offence against this act shall be paid to the person giv-
ing information of the same.
6. All proceedings against any person for art offence un-
der this act shall be taken in accordance with the provi-
sions of an act passed in the 10th year of the reign of his late
Majesty King George IV., intitled "An Act for improving
the Police in and near the Metropolis," and the several acts
amending the same; and all the provisions of the said acts
applied relating to summary convictions shall be applicable to con-
victions under this act,t O
lie far
thereto.
7. may be reason-
ably capable of being
7. In this act, and in any conviction or proceeding under
it, the word " infectious" shall include "contagious," and
every contagious lit•ease shall be deemed to be infectious fur
the pi: pose of thii, act.
8. This act may be intituled "The Diseases Prevention
Act, 1863."
0. This act and the said recited act of the 24th year of
her Majesty's reign, chap. 77, shall be read together a:, one
act.

Such a measure is most urgently needed, and the
metropolitan public are deeply indebted to Dr.
Brady; the member for Leitrim, for having thus
brought the subject to which it relates before the
Legislature

MANUFACTORIES OF TRH WAR DEPARTMENT.--
In the financial year 1861 62 there Were employed
in these manufactories 12,118 officers, foremen, artificers,
and labourers ; and in 1862.63, 11,146. It is proposed to
employ only 7,929 in the year 1863-64. The 3,627 person employed in the gun factories in the current year 1862-63
are to be reduced to 1,688.

The Weather..--Sun Office, March 15, 1863.

THERMOMETER.
Highest since Noon yesterday .. 58
Lowest during the night .. 33
This day at N00n.....
Wind—N, •Easterly ; light. Morning dull, and cloudy
afternoon.

MARCH 16.
THERMOMETER.

Highest since Noon yesterday .. 39
Lowest during the night .. 33
This day at Noon
Wind—N.E. ; strong breeze, with cloudy weather.