The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-05 00:00:00

field fortifications depaitment at the Royal Engi-
neer Establishment, Chatham, having been ap-
pointed commanding Royal Engineer in China, is
succeeded at Chatham by Major F. H. de Vere,
who has commenced his duties.

The finding and sentence of the general court-
martial which assembled at the Chatham Division
lof Royal Marines Light Infantry., for the trial of
Sergeant Charles Wentworth, for many years senior
and confidential clerk in the divisional offices, was
promulgated to the officers and men at headquar-
ters yesterday afternoon in accordance with orders
to that effect received from the Admiralty. The pri-
soner was arraigned before the Court on a variety
of charges, all connected with forgeries and em-
bezzlements committed by him in the discharge of
the duties connected with his office. At his trial the
prisoner was proved to have received three separate
sums of £lB, £2O, and £2O from Privates Chad-
burn, Brownhill, and Landon, to be transmitted by
him to the Accountant-General of the Navy for the
purpose of procuring their discharge. These sums
he appropriated to his own use, and the men were
improperly brought forward for discharge without
purchase. The prisoner was also intrusted with the
sum of £8 4s. 6d. to pay an account owing by the
division to Mr. Windeyer, the Admiralty stationer,
Chatham, but which account was never discharged,
the prisoner forging Mr. Windefer's name to a re-
ceipt, while several of the items had been tampered
With and altered with a view of making the account
appear larger. The last charge on which prisoner
was tried was that of having embezzled the sum of £2
3s. 6d., intrusted to him in his capacity of clerk of
the divisional fund. The trial of the accused, which
was presided over by Colonel J. O. Travers, C. 8.,
with Colonel H. Marriott, the official prosecutor,
occupied nearly a fortnight. The Court found the
prisoner guilty, and he was sentenced to be reduced
to the rank and pay of a private, and to be kept in
penal servitude for five years. He will also make
good the amount he embezzled. After the sentence
had been publicly read, the prisoner was handed
over to an escort and conveyed to Millbank convict
establishment.

Gen. Sir John Wright Guise, G.G.8., Col. of the
85th Foot, died at his residence, Elmore-court, near
Gloucester, last Saturday morning. The deceased
was born at Churcham, near the Forest of Dean, in
1777, and succeeded his brother in the baronetcy in
1W34. At an early age he entered the army and
served in Egypt in 1801. In 1805 he served in
Hanover and subsequently in the Peninsula. He
receives a cross for his gallant conduct at Fuentes
d'Onor, Salamanca, Vittoria, and Nive. In 1846
he was appointed to the 85th Foot, and in 1851 be-
came a General in the army. He is succeeded in
the baronetcy by his son William Vernon Guise,
who was born in 1816.

The following appointment; have been made at
the Admiralty :—On Monday—Dr. F. W. Blake,
surgeon, to the Narcissus ; John S. Dobbyn, assist.
surgeon to the Narcissus ; James H. Martin, acting
assist.-surgeon to the Narcissus ; and Charles S.
Hills, assist.-paymaster, supernumerary, to the
Fisgard. Yesterday—Dr. Duncan Hilston, assist.-
surgeon, to the Victory; Charles W. King, assist.-
paymaster to the Achilles ; W. Blakey, acting
second master to the Cumberland, for the Adder ;
A. H. Carlyon, clerk, additional, to the Narcissus ;
and John M. King, assist.-clerk, to the Narcissus.