The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-21 00:00:00

M ONE X MARKET

ANI)
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWZLVE O'CLOCK.
ADVANCE IN THE MINIMUM RATE OF

DISCOUNT.

The directors of the Bank of England at their
meeting to-day have raised their terms of interest
and discount from 31 to 4 per cent. The measure
was to a large extent anticipated, owing to the
terms recently asked in the general money market,
and the consequent pressure of nearly the whole of
the current business upon the national establish-
ment. The announcement being expected has not
led to much discussion, but in some quarters it is
regarded with satisfaction, as it may have the effect
of checking the introduction of so many foreign
schemes.

The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are, in round figures, as under :

1863. 1862.
Great-Western £57,871 L 56,852
N ort h -Western
South- Western
Brighton.
Midland
South-Eastern 19,520 20,177
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 32,943 31,119
Bristol and Exeter6,33l 6,548
North Eastern
44,368 39,66f1
Glasgow and Soutth-Western ..... 8,407 8,143
Great Western of Canada
The above returns are generally of a satisfactory
character. On the Great Western there is an in-
crease of £1,019 ; North Western, £1,450; South
Western, £349 ; Midland, £1,406 ; Great Northern,
£1,303 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, £1,824 ; North
Eastern, £4,708; and Great Western of Canada,
£1,450. The London and Brighton, however, ex-
hibit a decrease of £527, and the South Eastern of
£656.

Messrs. Coleman, Turquand,Yonngs and Co. are
now paying, on the part of the estate of Francis
Ede, Son, and Co., a second instalment of 28.6 d.,
making, with the dividend in December last, 15s. in
the pound.

The biddings for 30,00,000 rupees (£300,000)
in bills on India took place to-day at the Bank of
England. The proportions allotted were, to Cal-
cutta 16,70,000 rupees, to Bombay 12,00,000 rupees,
and to Madras 1,30,000 rupees. The declared
minimum price was as before, ls. Hid, per rupee
on Calcutta, and ls. 111 d. on Bombay and Madras.
The applications within the limits were for upwards
of 100 lace. Tenders on Calcutta at ls. llid. will
receive about 28 per cent. ; on Bombay ls.
about 31 per cent.; and all above these prices in
full. Those on Madras will receive in full.

Two O'CLOCK.
The thirty-eighth annual meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland took place
to-day. The following dividend was declared,
viz., an extraordinary dividend of 30s. on each
£lOO share, and 12s. on each £lO share, of the
capital stock of the bank, in addition to the ordi-
nary dividend of 4 per cent.

There has been very little business in the Eng.
lish Stock Market to-day, speculation being ex-
ceedingly dull. At one time a little depression
was apparent, Consols then being 931 1 for money,
and 92 /, less the dividend, for the account ;
they have since recovered to 931 1 and 92/1 re-
spectively. The New Threes ere dealt in at 9ill ;
and Reduced, at 91: I; Bank Stock is masked
2331 235 ; the Indian 5 per Cent. Loan, 109/
1101 i India Debentures of 1864-66, 1001; and
India Bonds, 13s. to 198. prem. ; Exchequer Bills
are dull at 4s. dis. to par.
The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market are
still on a reduced scale, speculation having recently
received a check. Spanish 3 per Cents, have been
541 1; the Passive, 34/1 ; and the Certificates,
12/ 1, showing depression ; Russian 6 per Cents.,
1822, are 951 ; ditto, 1862, 921 2 ; and the 41 per
Cents., 901 911 ; Italian 5 per Cents. are 711, being
about 1 per cent. lower. Mexican have receded to
361 ; Turkish Consolides have returned to the quo-
tations of yesterday, viz., 51 ae ; and Turkish 6 per
Cents., 1862, are marked 711 1; Greek are 31/ 4 ;
and the Coupons 141 1 decline in both instances.
New Grenada are marked 161 /, and the Deferred
10/. The Confederate Loan is 1 1 prem., being
firmer.

Business in the Railway Share Market has been
rather inactive, and a further slight depression has
taken place in values. Great Northern and Great
Eaeterns have each receded about ss. to 10s.
In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the
operations have a)so been restricted. South
Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian have declined to
22: ; Great Western of Canada to llt ; and East
Indian to 109-3-.
Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
generally exhibit rather less firmness. London and
Westminster are marked 781. London and Bra-
ziiian 43, and Royal Mail Steam 63.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Bank Stock ... 235 :If
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Stock
Ditto 6 - Ce,
'

per Cent
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Ct., Oct., 1863
Ditto ditto April, 1864
Ditto ditto Aug. 1864 or 66 100 f
Dltto Bonds .£l.opo
Ditto under £l,000
Consols for Account, June 9 921
Exchequer Bills, £l.OOO 21 per Cent 4 dis par
Ditto £SOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Ditto 1843
Egyptian 7 per Cent lOOl
Greek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupns —
Ditto Account 3lf
141 1 i 1 f
Ditto Coupons
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 79 8f
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Moorish Imperial 5 per Cent 951
New Granada .............. . . ... • 164 $ it
Ditto Deferred .. . . . •
. ' ..
1011 10
Portuguese 3 per Cent, ......... —
Ditto 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, '6o' 62 491 1 I
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £St .
....
Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862
92 1 / Sardinian 5 por Cent. ...............
Ditto Account .
.......... 89
Spanish 3 per Cent ..................
Ditto Account 54/ /
Ditto New Deferred ..
Ditto Account..
Ditto Passive
Ditto Account 341 1 I 1
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 —
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858
Ditto Account 7CI a
Ditto 6 per Cent. 1862
Ditto Account .. 711 I i i
Venezuela, 3 per Cvnt
Ditto Account 241
Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862
.. 55/ 1 1
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent., Ex. 10 florins
Dutch 21 per Cent., Ex. 12 Guil 641
Italian, 6 per Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Ditto Account
THREE O'CLOCK.
1
Consols, Money
92/ f xd
Ditto Account

IMPROVEMENT IN AREOMETERS.—M. Pouillet
last week communicated to the Academy of
Sciences a new construction of the Areometer
imagined by himself. The usual instrument con-
sists, as we all know," of a glass tube with bulb at
One end, which renders it buoyant, and a few drops
of mercury in a separate compartment below the
bulb, to balance it. &aurae, the inventor of this instru-
ment, having thus prepared it, laid down the following rule
Ifioarldrasduating it, in order to determine the densities of
put the instrument into distilled water at a tem-
perature—o
tube the pfoili,ls degrees Centigrade (59 Fahr.) ; mark on the
this poi t
ertoat which it emerges from the liquid, and cal
point
Then • •
tion of immerse the instrument into a solu-
tion parts, •
mark the point et I:ll7eight, of sea. salt in 85 of water, and
ling it 15. Divide the space
the tube emerges from the liquid, cal
and continue this grasjace beta ten zero and 15 into 15 parts,
convenient. in this muhati n beyond the latter part as far as
accurately determined nner the density of a liquid will be
sinks into it, byHero
isolbserving how far the instru-
mentever simple Beaume's method. Pouillet remarks that, how-
appear, it nevertheless has a greatof graduating his scale may
cumstance that sea-salt seldom defect, owing to the cir
marksbeing often mixed up with foreign
elements
the same degree,
an influence upon its solution. Andemasents which exercise
one-thousandth par in the density
of
thaevariation of only
rise to a considerable increase or diminutio latter may give
At Pouillet has modified Beaume's methondMh y the degrees,
using
tilled water only for the graduation of the are3met dis.
er, at the
same time however modifying the shape of the •
instrument
in ft peculiar manner. His method at the same time
offer •
8 a direct method of verification for areo tme ern of all
kigs,

BRITISH POSAESSIONS.
,har. dal !ways Paid. Price. Business don,
:antic &St Lawrenc, all 60 83
stk
Gu. 5 per Dent........
'tom.,Barodatt.Cent Int ` 1( 8i tot
20 Do. New
20 Do. E. Shares..
CO tiutiaio anti Lave Win (.1( at, 5/ 6151 z
to Do. Preference
WO 3duff alo,BrantotGodrici
p. et. bds. Aug. 1, Is7'i
100 Do. do. July 1, 137 100
100 ro. do. Jute 1, 100
et 71cutta.&S. Eastn.(Li ) 100 1(8 109
at 'apeTown & Dock Seri 100 it 91 1091
stock Rastn. Bengal gu. sp. , 100 110 112
stock kart Indian. gu. sp. c. (00 11;91 1091 1091 I I
20 Do. do. G Ext 5 11
20 Do. do. H do.
stock Grand Trunk of C ariad: tot 19
100 1(o. Ist '. Bonds :1i 63 65 1341 4
100 Do. s.o. deferred.... all 18 51
100 , ,o. ttd Prat. Bon a nh 55 56
100 DJ. do d ter ed all 43 7
100 uo. 3d P ef. stock
100 Do. do. d• 1 e rr. d.... ali 33 76
100 Do. 4th Pref. s o k... all 24 26
100 Do. do deterred.-- all 21 23
stock Gt.lndiaPenin.4ua.sp.c 100 110 1101 Mt
10
20 Do. New gua. sp. a... 12 1 2
20 Do. January, 1862 .. 4 1 11
stock Gt. South.ot India (Lint
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 107 108
204 (It. W. of Canada Sharrt, all 111 12 In
201 Do. New
100 Do. 6 p.c. '73 with't opt all 97 100
100 Do. 51 p. 0. do. '77-8.. all 89 (2
10 Indian Branch Limited. 2 /1p 21
stock Madras guar.. sp. c. 100 107 (08 1071
stock
stock Do. 41 p. 0. Extenslo, 100 101 103 104 1
Dc. 4.
... 100 t 8 100
20 Do. Fifth Extension. 2
stock Melb.l orp. 6p. C. 13nd, lot _
50 Melb. & Hobson's Bay. all 49 51
100 Do. 7 p.c. Bds. alt
20 New Br unswick Cana
Class Asn 1 B all 3 6
N.llll.C'da6 p 0 Ist pi bdh 100 04 86
eta Soinde .. .... ) i
st 5 Do. Delhi •
I 'lO 1t 100 109 i 1
107 108 110
Do. do
lip 21
20 Do. Punjaub 15 11 lip
at Do. Do. r„,?; , 100 167 1(8 -
4 ock Do. Indus. St. Flo.) ( 104
10' )101 1(6
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
t n 0.0•017. p.c.Ja &Jut,
877-S1 .. . ••100 106 11.7 1061
Do. p. c. Feb.& Au, 100 (13 t( 6
! Do. p.c.Mar.& Sept 100 (03 if 6
Do. Ep. c. Jan.&July. 100 06 97 NI Do. 6 Inscribed stock 100 95 97
Cape G. llope, 6 p 0,187: 100 .11 113
Do.Ap & Oct. 1881 100 112 114
Do. 189, 100 112 114
'Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. 100 115 117 116
Ceylon, N0v.15,78. 6 p 100 (13 115
-- MAU 'tins 6 per cent .. 100 100 Iti
Natal G.,v. 6 per cent.. 130 119 111 110
N.B.Gov. 6 p.c. J a.&.1u1) (00 1061 1071
I Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. 100
'N. S.W. Gov. O p 18' 100 1021 1031
Do. sp. 0.48,1 to 100 103 1031
Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 1031 104 1031 4
'New Zealand 6 p cent. 100 112 114
iNovaScotiaGov. 6p. c.
' sterling, 1875 lOO 1061 1071
Queensland Gcv. 6p. c lOO :3 115
6. Anti G10p.c.1676.& up IV 113 115
Vlc.Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&Jul) 100 110 112 1075
Do. to 41u.0. A n.4t00t.. 100 (101 1111 1101 111

El MINES.

2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 I 4 ~iitiurit Amalgamated 22 24d
I )(won G. Con, (Tavist 1 515 525
!East Bassett (Illogan, 30 97i 10 104 5
1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 55. id ip
East Uaradon ...... 1.14. 31 334 31/ 1
East Carn Brea.... . . 8 81 8
-- E. W'l Russel Cravistk. 8.1.6 31 3f (iam.drSt.Aubyn(Gwen.) )74 11 13 dreat South Tolgus...• 17s 41 51 Wheal Vor(Helston 40 64 7
Grenville %16 •
tlerud's- root , 8.1 19
2 6
54 47
.1 ingston Downs .... 4. 7.0 24 3
(Lady Bertha
%I argaret (lJny Lelant :4 31 33
Narke Valley..
8
4 I\lyncly Iron Ore (Lim. 2k 1 4 d
New Setun 194 110 120
..Nurth I.)owns z4 2 25
!.17.t. 41 44
Forth Wheal Crotty . 2.4.9 41 5
I'ar Consols(St. Blazey 14 44 51
20 l'rovidenee(Uny Lelm. 10.6.7 .1 13
South Caradon(St.Cleer 14 400 410 4034
S. Caru Brea (Illog•an) 5.15.6 31 31
-'.Wheat Fran. allnan 18.1 .0 85 90
(Stray Park
5 'Tamar Silv.et Lead Min 4l I
Pin Crolt l9 2 )
West Basset (Illov,an) ll 12 13
- W Caradon (Liskeard 5 29 31
!West Seton
Wheal Basset (Mogan 54 (.5 70
tv heal Buller(Redruth) 5 50 55
Wheal Kitty (U.Lelant)l 2.0.6
WhealLud ott .2.10.8 5 54
Wheal hlaryAnn(rilen )i 8 154 164
Wheal Seton . 584
/250 260
heal Treiawney (Lis.)l 7 16 17
---Wheal Union 3.17 41 5

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Great
to, 4 vor
ce
thern, 5 per cent., red, at 5 per cent. Pm., 1071
Di per cent. red. at 10 per cent., 104 i
Great Western, Birmmgham gua. stock, 76
Great We-tern, Chester gua. stock, 77
orth British 5 per cent., 110
West Midland, Oxforu, Ist guaranteed stock, 1291
PREFErtENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
Great Eastern, 5 per cent., pf., 1061
London, Brighton, &c., 4 per cent., 1855, 1031
London, Chatham, &c., Metrop. Ext., B, 8 per co:11.a0
LINES LEASED A FIXED RENTALS.
London and Chatham 4. per Cent., 94
'Midland, Bradford pref. stock, 96
Northern and Eastern, 5 per cent., 571

FOREIGN RAILAYS.
Bahia and San Francisco (lim.) gua. W 7
per cent., 204
Dutch Rhenish, 17
Eastern of Fr..nce 20
N. Rail of Buenos Ayres, gua. 7 per cent., 114
Ditto (24), 3
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin),
Recite anti San Francisco (lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 17} 17
San Paulo ;lim.), gua. 7 per cent., 91
South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 221
Agra andiTnitejdOsleNrviTc-:TaIC.)KOOO4 RANKS.
Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool (lim.), 811 1 2
Anglo Portuguese Mtn.), 7
Bank
ABat tkr aoo lft a
Lsvi
oai
no,
Victoria,
4
r
Bank Quemsa, Al2clul'alii(su
t2rnr
a)1.184a;
Bank of Wales, a
British aud American Exchange C 40
lihriiatritsehreNdorßtahnAk moterica `b7a:11,0";
Chartered Bank of British
,AustraColurnila, and China, 27Mi1l
S6co • ch, and Australian Chartered, 224
ICEmnitpglyeirsiiha3l Bank (11m.), 221 2
:,Imperial Ottoman, 214 201 14 20t 1
London and Brazilian ,lirn.), 43
London, 13. Ayres. and It. Plate (11m.), 22'
London irtered Bank of Australia, 284
Lon,:on and Colonial (11m.), 44 /
London Joint t-tock, 6.
London and South African, 2t / 7
£2114
Fe,erved iss. at pm.,
sLioentrdoopn and
ad IpVrt.olivt.ni
Bankt is t e
m 75.1.),
Ditto, 1. .
Africa (lim+), 16}
omni.t esd4,
Oriental
Standard of itishSouth
Nat ismal
Bofinlk.h(7,or
rppooorl tl
Union of Australia, 544 4

DOCKS.

London, 60i 601
MISCELLANEOUS.
Australi m Agricultural, 22}
Berlin Water Worn, 8, /
Crystal Pab•ce, 34
Ditto, pref., 112}
E glish and Australian Copper, 11
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavour),
Ditto, 6 ner cent. Bonds rd. 18;0 issued 90, 2)1
Madras Irrigation and Canal, 31
National Discount Company (lim.), 9/
Oriental Inland Steam (lira.), ei
Peninsula and 0 iental Steam, 76}
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, Ilm., ;.=" ;
Ditto (4,)
Royal Mail §teana, 03

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The official trial of Messrs. Westwood, Mille,
and Co.'s new inch hydraulic press, erected in
Woolwichd 3cek2ya-
id,
for bending and preparing
armour-plates, took place on Tuesday. Ihe officials
present at the test were Sir F. Nicholson, Commo-
dore ; Mr. Turner, master shipwright ; Mr. Fric-
kett, chief engineer ; Mr. Thornton, assistant-
master shipwright ; and Mr. Tucker, foreman of the
yard ; Mr. Westwood represented the firm. The
first test consisted of trial of two 41in. armour-
plates, made hot, forming a chicknness of 9in. of
solid iron, which were placed in the press and bent
to a curve of 7-Bths in the dreadth of th 3 plates in
less than five minutes, at a pressure of 1,000 tons on
the whole surface of the piston, the pump making
about 130 revolutions per minute. In the second
trial the plates were adjusted so as to bring the
pressure near the centre of the plate. The pump
was then worked up to 1,539 tons by indicator,
bending the two slabs of iron to a curve of one-half
in their breadths. The third and last trial consisted
of a simple test of the working of the pump and the
strength of the press. The pump worked up to about
1,600 tons and exhibited no visible signs of weak-
ness. The press is fitted with an improved appara-
tus not enumerated in the former notice—namely, a
table or guide at the top of the cylinder to keep it
from rising or canting, which will enable it to be
worked up to the enormous pressure of 2,000 tons.
The Russian Government have desired Messrs.
Westwood and Co. to supply three of these presses
with the utmost possible despatch, after having in-
vestigated the capabilities of the press by a careful
inspection during its erection in Woolwich dock-
yard. Mr. Tucker, foreman of Woolwich dook-
yard, yesterday proceeded to Glasgow, by order of
the Admiralty board, to survey the three iron fri-
gates building by Messrs. Napier for the Turkish
Government. The Thames Iron Company have like-
wise entered into an engagement to build a fourth
for the same Government. They are to be of 6,000
tons each, and of the Warrior class.
A large number of hands are employed in
scraping the bottom of the iron screw frigate
Defence, and afterwards paying it over with a
coating of red lead in No. 10 dock at Portsmouth,
to be followed by a coating of Messrs. Peacock
end Buchan's preservative composition. It is said
that Messrs. Peacock and Buchan only advocate the
removal of the softened outer crust of the composi-
tion with a (lamb scraper, and that they are entirely
opposed to the method now being pursued—that
of scraping off the entire composition with sharp
steel scrapers, and laying bare the surface of the
iron, which then receives the coating of red lead.
The compositions on the bottom of the Defence
have been removed by " chipping," rather than by
scraping, and, as sailors are naturally careless in
the use of tools, they no sooner find that the com-
position in the vicinity of the rivets or under the
lands of the plates cannot be reached effec ually by
the flat edge of the scraper than they bring one of
its " points" into play, pickaxe fashion, and open
up still further the fibre of the iron and render it
the more impressionable by any chemically de-
structive action to which it may afterwards be ex-
posed. With regard to the application of red lead
to the scraped and bare iron plates of a ship's bot-
tom, it is maintained by many men of large expe-
rience in the working of iron, and more especially
by those connected with the manufacture of marine
engines, that red lead is the best preservative that
can be applied to iron which has afterwards to be
submerged in salt water. If this is a generally
received opinion among iron workers, a very diffe-
rent opinion is held by eminent chemists and other
scientific men. These gentlemen contend that an
iron ship's bottom which has had the bare iron of
its auter surface payed over with red lead " sweats"
when afloat in salt water, the result being a blister-
ing of the red lead and the deposit of the lead in a
metallic crystsltine form on the surface of the iron,
each blister thus becoming a miniature galvanic
battery, and that a corrosion of the iron fol-

lows. The Defence's case, then, appears to be
just one of those cases which can only be decided
by competent and scientific authorities, so far as
relates to the application of red lead to the scraped
and bare surface of her bottom plates. No doubt
whatever can attend the use of the sharp steel
scraper to those plates. When used simply in the
ordinary manner, the flat edge only being brought
into play, the skin of the rolled plates is torn up and
the fibre of the metal exposed to any future deterio-
rating influences, whether it be from red lead or from
anti-fouling copper compositions. Of 'hese latter, so
many are now before the public that it will require
some little care on the part of the Admiralty to pre-
vent the bottoms of our expensively constructed iron
ships being destroyed in the endeavour to discover
which physician holds the best receipt. Meantime
the Admiralty have been doing their best for some
months past to find some covering for the submerged
parts of our iron ships, and as the result- of long aisd
patiently-conducted experiments at Portsmouth have
arrived at a means of electro-coating iron with zinc
in a very superior manner. A still more important
experiment in the same direction is, however, now
beieg carried out, the results obtained from which are
expected to have a most important bearing upon the
covering and preservation of the b Atoms and armour
of our iron ships. Some three or four years back a
French invention was patented for coating iron ex-
posed to the action of sea water with an electro de-
posit of copper or brass, with the use of an alkaline
solution. The project failed in some of its'greatest re-
quirements. The metal was deposited,.but unevenly,
with a dull surface, and was soft and porous. The
defects were, however, overcome some time prior to
the date of the French method by a well-known in-
ventor, who can deposit metals on iron as hard, as
bright, or as thick in substance as may be desired.
The inventor has placed his services at the disposal
of the Admiralty, and is now officially engagEd at
Portsmouth in the construction of the batteries and
other apparatus necessary for carrying out his plans.
The screw steam gunvessel Snake, Commander
John Moresby, November 30, 1861, from China,
arrived in the Sound yesterday evening.
The Lk, 21, screw corvette, of 1,169 tons, and
250 horse power, has been commissioned at Ports-
mouth, for service on the Australian station. No
captain joined her yesterday on the hoisting of her
pennant of commission, but several names were
current as those of officers likely to receive the
command, and among the moat prominent were
Capts. Boyce and Curtis. The Lk was originally
constructed for the Admiralty by Mr. Scott Russell.
Since her last commission, however, her hull has
been almost entirely rebuilt, and her engines have
also undergone considerable repairs. Her armament
consists of 15 8-inch guns, muzzle loaders, and four
40-pounder breech-loading Armstrongs—all broad-
side guns—and one 110-pounder, breech-loading
Armstrong as a pivot forecastle gun.
Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen.
will sail from Portsmouth early this morning for
Gravesend, and will, according to present arrange-
ments, embark their Royal Highnesses the Prince
Louis and Princess Alice of Hesse at the last-men-
tioned place. She will sail for the Continent on Sa-
turday morning.

The Black Prince, 40, iron frig ite, Capt. Wain-
wright, will go out of Portsmouth harbour to Spit-
head at noon to-day, and make an official trial of
her speed at the measured mile in Stokes-bay, to-
morrow.

The following appointments were made on Mon-
day at the Admiralty:—CJmmander Arthur Barrow,
to the Cumberland; Henry J. S;anley, master, to
the Curacoa, additional, for surveying duties ; Wm.
J. Baird, surgeon, to the Cossack ; Wm. H. BE
assist.-surg., to the Cossack; Wm. H. Stull, acting
chief engineer, to the Cutsack ; Edmund J. Murphy,
first-class assist. -engineer, to the Edinburgh ; Thos.
S. Grice, first-class assist.-engineer, to the Cossack;
and Henry White (b), acting second-class assist.-
engineer, to the Cossack.
The following appointments were made on Tues-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Bouverie F. Clark,
to the Esk ; Lieut. Armand F. Fowlett, to the Co-
lumbus ; Lieut. John C. Beet, to the Orontes; Lieut.
B Foster, to the Mirlborough ; Lieut. Edmund
C. Drummond, to the Revenge ; Lieut. John Nirtt,
to the Sheldrake; Lieut. John D. V. Butler, to the
Alert; E. W. Creak, maeter, to the Eek; Sub-

Lieut. G. F. Hammick, to the Curacoa; and James
A. Cooke, acting second class assist.-engineer, to
the Fire (1.1e(.n.

THE ARMY.

The 4th battalion Military Train, tinder Lieut.-
Co►. O'Brien, is under orders to remove from
A ldershott to Woolwich early in June, when its
place will be supplied by the 6th battalion from
Woolwich, under Major de Salis.
The Middlesex, East Indiaman, Capt. Cammell,
R Nit., which arrived at Spithead on Sunday
evening from, Calcutta with the head-quarters of
the 92d Regiment (Gordon Highlanders) on board,
was towed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
Tho troops were landed by Government steamer on
the Gosport side of the harbour, taking up their
quarters in the new barracks just vacated by the
6th Foot. The disembarkation of the troops on the
day previous was "prevented by the strong N.E.
gale.