The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-30 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

^An-044,A.,
the -tof&l4iilit,aq from--Oae
Horse Guards, announcing that H.R.H. the Duke
of Cambridge has accepted the Governorship of the
Institution, and Major-Gen. Sandham, R.E., has
been appointed Lieut.-Governor, in succession to
Col. Wilford, late Governor of the Academy, who
has completed hisfull term of service in that capacity.
The 45th Regiment, from Aldershott, embarked
yesterday at Portsmouth Dockyard, on board the
Himalaya, iron screw steam troopship (Capt. Sec-
combe), which will sail to-day for Dublin.

CANNON AT TILE INVALIDES.

The Moniteur de l'Armee, in speaking of the
salvos of artillery usually fired at the Invalides on
the occasion of the cpening of the Legislative Ses-
sion, gives the following historical account of what
is called the " Triumphal Battery" of that estab-
lishment :—" That battery has existed since the
construction of the Hotel. The Emperor Napoleon
1., who had it rerrawcd, presented it with a great
number of pieces of cannon, the fruit of his victories.
Tho battery is nov composed of 18 guns, namely—
Cannon: Austriq, one 48-pounder and one 27;
Prussian, eight 24; Dutch, two 24; Wurtemberg,
one of 12; Venetia', one 32. Long howitzers: Two
Russian of 0 20. Nortars: Two Algerine of 0.33.
The guns are divided into two half batteries, one on
the right, and the ather on the left of the Hotel.
There are also disposed on the right and left
20 guns —viz., !6 Algerian 24-pounders ; one
Chinese, 0.156 ; oie Cochin Chinese, 0.180, and two
French, 12. The Austrian 48-pounder was cast at
Vienna in 1681. On its chase is an eagle, with out-
stretched wings, pouncing on a dolphin, darting its
beak into the heal and its talons into the sides, and
having as motto; Conquer or die.' The 27-pounder
was cast in 158 C; it has also a bird on the chase,
with the following motto in German, 'As soon as
my song resounds in the air walls will fall to the
earth before me: The eight Prussian guns formed
part of the large number of guns sent from Vienna
to Strasburg after the victory of Austerlitz,,and
were cast at Berlin in 1708, by order of Frederick 1.,
the last of the Electors of Brandenburg, and first
King of Prussic. Each gun was dedicated to one
of the Electors, whose likeness, in relief, is on the
chase. Three other guns of the same kind were
melted down during the blockade of Strasburg in
1814, to be converted into coin. The two Dutch
24-pounders were taken in the citadel of Antwerp
in 1832. '1 he Wurtemberg 12-pounder is of light
and elegant form, and 12ft. in length. The chase
is surrounded by a serpent of natural size and thick-
ness. It also bears the representation of a Prince
in full armour and of the four elements—water,
fire, earth, andair ; and also of hope, justice, faith,
prudence, andforce. There is no date or inscrip-
tion, but only the arms of Wurtemberg. The
Venetian 32-pounder bears the arms of the Re-
public, and tlo Lion of Saint Mark, holding the
Golden Book. ':hetvvoßussian howitzers came from
Sebastopol, and bear numerous marks of French
balls, but have nothing remarkable about them be-
-3o gin. The two Algerian mortars
bear. nd Zi fg
inscription, in Arabic,—' Cast by
order of Mchemed Pasha, to whom God renders easy
rouloozoougsori
everything that licundertakes."rhe 16 large Alge-
rian guns were plated at the Invalides, on the pro-
position of Marshal Chauzel, in 1830, as a trophy of
the capture of Algitrs. The two guns from China
and Cochin China are souvenirs of the briliiant feats
of arms which threv them into the possession of the
French. The two icge guns, 12-pounders, came
from the arsenal of ?ore's, in Greece. They are of
French origin, and ielonged in 1798 to the batter-
ing train of the arny of Egypt, under General
Bonaparte, but were abandoned during the retreat
of the army. They were afterwards mounted on
board one of the Egyptian vessels of war, and after
the battle of Nayarit)) were restored to France."

At the meeting of the Electric and International
Telegraph Company on the 6th of February a dividend of
3,1, Per cent, for the past half-•year will be recommended,