The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-13 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Chanticleer, 17, screw, Commander Stirling,
made her official trial of speed, at load draught, at
the measured mile in Stokes Bay yesterday, under
the superintendence of the steam factory and re-
serve officials of Poitsmouth Dockyard. The
weather was favourable for the occasion, there being
smooth water, with the wind off shore and light.
The ship's draught of water was 14ft. forward, and
15ft. 2in. aft. Her propeller was a " Griffith,"
with a pitch of 15ft. and a diameter of 12ft. The
ship was tried first with full, and afterwards with
two-thirds boiler power, the mean of her runs under
the first-named conditions giving her a speed of 10
knots, and with the latter a speed of 91, knots. The
machinery gave the most perfect satisfaction by its
working during the trial, and the boilers maintained
plentiful a supply of steam. At the conclusion of
the trial the Chanticleer again dropped anchor at
Spithead.

The Glasgow screw frigate and the Hazard hulk
were both taken out of the steam-basin at Ports-
mouth yesterday, the first-named for her official
trial of speed at light draught, on completion of her
machinery by the contractors, Messrs. Ravenhill,
Salkeld, and Co., and the latter preparatory to the
testing of Captain Coles's model shield with its two
100-pounder Armstrongs, which has been fitted on
her decks.

Capt. H. Broadhead, commanding her Majesty's
ship Asia, and the reserve at Portsmouth ; Capt.
Astley C. Key, C. 8., commanding her Majesty's
ship Indus, and the reserve at Devonport ; and Mr.
Hickman, secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir H. W.
Bruce, commander-in-chief at Portsmouth, met in
committee yesterday at Portsmouth, by direction
of the Admiralty, to revise the regulations relative
to the reserves.

A letter, received at Plymouth from one of the
lieutenants of the new screw steam frigate Orlando,
50, Capt. Francii Scott, C. 11., dated Halifax, Jan.
23, says :—" We "saile4 from Plymouth, Dec. 24,
with a fair wind, keeping strong easterly gales for
the first four days, with the prospect of making a
splendid passage. The ship answered marvellously
well under steam and sail ; but at last the wind
chopped round, when we had bad weather from the
westward for nearly all the rest of the time. The
passage was made, however, in 21 days. We all
agree in praising the Orlando. She is a noble
vessel, and, under the circumstances of her hastened
departure, everything has gone on well."
The paddle-wheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander H. Johnstone, left Hamoaze yesterday for
Plymouth Sound. She will probably accompany
the steam-vessel Investigator, Lieutenant and Com•
mander Lefroy, part of the way to the Coast of
Africa.

The screw steam corvette Rattlesnake, 21, from
Chatham, arrived at Plymouth yesterday, and will
be placed in the first division of the steam reserve
in Haraoaze.

The Cormorant, 4, screw sloop, 696 tons, 200-
horse power, and the Racehorse, 4, screw sloop, 695
tons, 200-horse power, having had their compasses
adjusted at Sheerness, and been coaled and supplied
with stores, are now ready for the pennant.
It was reported in The Sun of the 12th inst. that
the iron screw frigate Defence, 18 guns, 600-horse
power, Capt. Powell, C. 8., after getting up steam
at Chatham for the purpose of proceeding to Sheer-
ness, was net able to do so in consequence of some
defect in the working of a screw in the " banjo,"
the nature of which could not be ascertained by the
divers, and that the casualty would most likely
necessitate the vessel being again taken into dock
to make good defects. We are, therefore, happy to
state that the cause of the delay is not of so serious
a nature, but that it was occasioned by the work-
men employed in replacing the screw having acci-
dentally dropped some bolts into the chairs of the
propellors, which one of the divers eventually
succeeded in extricating. The vessel subsequently
weighed anchor and arrived in good trim and per-
feet working order at Sheerness, yesterday, her
machinery having acted most satisfactorily. The
Defence will be coaled at once and prepared for the
pennant.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :

Lieutenant John Eliot to the Odin.

Sub-Lieutenants—Henry R. Kelly to the Odin ; George
R. Heneage, Charles Alder, Arthur L. Clarkson,and James
W. Gambier, to the Marlborough, for disposal.
Midshipmen—Arthur Bloxsome Cecil E.Danvers, Robert
H. Paul, Charles E. Gissing, and Edward Riddle, to the
Odin ; Horatio N. S. Hood to the Revenge ; F. W. E.
Keeper to the Euryalus.

Mr. H. H. P. Shanks to be Secretary to Rear-Admiral
Kuper.

Assistant-Paymaster R. Richards, to the Euryalus, as
Secretary Clerk.

Clerk—Richard Williams to the Euryalus.

THE ARMY.

The re-assembling of the classes of Gentlemen
Cadets at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich,
took place yesterday morning, on the termination
of the prolonged Christmas vacation, The occasion
being somewhat out of the usual order, his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief (now
Governor of the Academy) attended to inaugurate
the proceedings. Accompanied by Brevet-Major
the Hon. H. T. Keane, Assist.-Adjutant-General,
Royal Engineers, extra aide-de-camp, he arrived at.
Woolwich at 12 o'clock, and proceeded at once to
the academy, where he was received by Gen. Sand-
ham and the officers of the establishment with the
gentlemen cadets on parade under arms. There
were also present Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.B„ and
the garrison staff; Col. Bingham, Deputy Adjt.-
General, Royal Artillery ; and Col. Chapman, De-
puty Adjt.-General, Royal Engineers. His Royal
Highness, after inspecting the parade, proceeded to
one of the class-rooms, where the cadets had been
drawn up to hear an address from the Duke. He
informed the cadets that, by reason of the late be-
reavement, he was unable to be present at the close
of the last half-year's studies, or to
preside at the
distribution of prizes, but no sooner bad they reas-
sembled ethaemnonpgresthenemt;heAsalliidldtihnagt lie
etnh.ansahnedhCaanin:
had the highest opinion of his capabilities and judg-
ment in matters connected with military education,
and, after referring to various circumstances con-
nected with the proceedings of the last six months,
he told them that an impression had got abroad that,
not having personally censured their conduct in the
late disturbances, it was presumed he did not look
upon their offence as of any grievous import. He
would now disabuse their minds of that impression.
Whatever their grievances might have been, and
however well founded, there were legal means of re-
dress, and their insubordination deserved a far
heavier punishment than that which had been
awarded. He added, " Let bygones be bygones."
He hoped the future would fully compensate for
the past. The position of the senior cadets, or
corporals, would in future be one of great responsi-
bility. They would be held liable for any mis-
conduct in the absence of their superiors, and
would be required to inspect the quality of the daily
messes. The general mode of punishment for in-
subordination and serious misconduct would in
reat severity, but
future be not the black-hole," the designation of
which implied a punishment of g
which in reality was not so; it would be a" rusti-
cation" for a term corresponding to the nature of
the crime. This would entail a loss of steps in the
regiment to which they might be appointed, and
osomenow
i n t h
would carry witk it a permanent disgrace. This, he
said, he merely alluded to as an item of the new
regulations, a dg wasoftowhuincdherg
e
Academy, but
wraasu
aboutht
impor-
tant revision. As to the use of tobacco, that would
not be tolerated within the precincts of the esta-
blishment or the town. He would recommend
them to eschew altogether the habit of smoking.
It would not, however, in the common and the
be marked as a breach
country,
of the regulations.
He impressed upon them the rigid necessity of
serving the rules of discipline, which should form
one of the component parts of their every-day
studies. The cadets
were again marched on
parade, and proceeded to St. George's-hall for
dinner at one o'clock. His Royal Highness soon
after entered the dining-hall, accompanied as
above stated, and tested the quality of the pro-
visions) which he pronounced excellent. The
Duke and party then proceeded on foot towards

the Lower Academy, in the New-road, visit-
ing first the auxiliary Infirmary recently erectid
, ,in Mill-lane. Haviog inspected the Lower Acadenlty
' and the Horse Artillery stables,'his Royal Highness
' drove off for London at 3 o'clock. The following
' is the details bf the establishment now constituted
' according to the new regulations :—One Governor,
the Commander in Chief; one Lieut.-Governer,
Commandant Major-Gen. Sandham, R.E. ; one In-
spector of Studies, Second Commandant Col. Yorke,
R.E. ; one Assistant-Inspector of Studies, Wier C.
T. Gibb, R.E. ; 3 Captains—viz., Brevet-Majors
Thring and Fitzhugh, and Captain Hunter, R.A.;
6 subalterns—viz., Lients. 0. H. Goodenough, E,
W. Sandys, and 11. C. Farrell, RA., at the Lower
Academy, and Lieuts. H. Lewis, R.A., H. Munrce,
and Berthon, of the Indian Artillery, at the Upper
Academy; one. Paymaster and Adjutant, Major
Louth, late Paymaster Coast Brigade, R.A. ; one
Quartermaster, one Surg(s,on, one sergeant-major,
one quartermaster-sergeant, one paymaster's clerk,
sundry clerks, non-commissioned officers, drill ser-
geants, responsible under officers in the proportion
of one to every 100, cadets, one subdivision under
officer, and 3 corporals to every 30 cadets. The
company will be divided into three divisions, de-
signated A, B, and C, and each division into three
subdivisions. 45 newly-entered cadets yesterday
joined the Academy, and at the forthcoming exa-
mination, to take place in a few days, 14 of the
second or B class are expected to pass to the upper
class, when an equal number of new cadets will be
admitted.

CANON STAN-L R.P 42 87. Atitni,s,
OXFORD,

(From a Correspondent of the Free2nan.)
Dr. Stanley, the Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical His-
tory, was appointed to preach at St. Mary's Oxford, on
Sunday morning last. As the doctor is about to leave
England, to accompany the Prince of Wales, it was a kind
of farewell discourse. The Vice-Chancellor and most of
the heads of houses were present, and the senior members
and undergraduates were in great force. St. Mary's was
crowded. The text was from Heb. 1., " God spate by the
prophets." None more than the preacher valued the his,
tonic portion of the Old Testament, but its grand peculiarity
was in the teaching of the Prophets. This was the golden
hread running through all, and these teachings constituted
the very essence of revelation. These were the gradations
on the highest stops of which stood the prophets, the in-
spired teachers of the -New Testament. As theologians,
the propets taught, negatively, the Divine unity and spi-
rituality of God; and positively, justice, goodness, love
advancing from Moses, to the highest degree, is the pro-
,
phetic teachings of the New Testament, as seen in " John,
the last of the prophets." There had ever been a tendency
in men to separate morality from theology. It was not so
wtth the prophets ; they taught, with Samuel, that " to
obey was better than sacrifice." All the prophets placed
the spirit above the letter. So the Great Prophet. His
warnings were given to the religious world. The supre-
macy of the moral and spiritual over the ritual and ceremo-
nial, was the essence of inspired prophetic teaching.
Applying these views to the present, the preacher empha-
tically declared that we were not like Jewish priests
or Levites, but had to follow in this prophetical order. The
inculcation of truth, justice, and charity, should be,
as it were, a passion and deeply-felt doctrine. The
great question was, whether truth should have the first or
the second 'place. Would they see what tois true prophe-
t tic spirit was, as holding truth first, they might see it in
vAombroansed blood-stainedshutting theatesofhis
Theodosius,
in the
churchadgeaninusutetihateiodnes-
ut
of evil by Savonarola, and in the characteristics of Calvin.
Knox, and Wesley. The prophets were then viewed as
direct oracles and counsellors in special and general emer-
gencies, and in their relation to the State. They were ab-
sorbed in devotion to their country, filled with public spirit,
and glowed with indignation at oppression and wrong ;
they were the constant protectors and advocates of the
poor. Up to this point the preacher had inferentially com..
bated a great and widely-diffused error, that which 'views
the prophets almost solely as the predictors of future
events. He then proceeded to characterise the predictive
power of the prophets, its upward, forward, progressive
character, its tenacious hope, its predictive insight into the
hearts of' men ; their large and elevated views, "even now
hardly appreciated."

Beside these views of society, there was the special fore-
sight of political events in their own and other countries
They pronounced the doom of nations, and were like a
great tragic chorus of the drama of the eastern world.
Specially there was the prediction of the great personage to
come, king, deliverer, prophet, the perfect hero. This
created an expectation, the existence of which was denied
by no theological historian. Was this unparalleled expec-
tation realised P There did arise one of this nation, such
a chat acter, having all the prophetical qualities. The
preacher would not weaken the force of this great sufficient
fact by any discussions.
The prophetic spirit was a hopeful spirit, looking forward
to a certain great result. It might be far off, but the whole
creation moved to it, from the church to the individual.
To him the future was everything, the past nothing. Then
there was one more future, too often almost shut out of our
life. Glancing at that eternal future, to be happy through
the mercy of God, the preacher suggested that we might
have to sit down with some as companions there whom
we had accounted as opponents here.

We hear that neither Mr. Locke King nor Air
Baineswill bring forward their annual reform motion during
the pi esent session. In fact, except in the large and unu-
sual amount of private business to be disposed of, the mat-
ters before Parliament would be comparatively unimport-
ant.—Post.

We believe that his Royal Highness the Duke of
camblidge will be transferred to the Colonelcy of the
Grenadier Guards, vacant by the death of the Prince Con-
sort, and that he will be succeeded in the Colonelcy of the
Scots Fusileer Guards by General Sir Alexander Wood-
ford, G.C.8., Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital.
Sir Alexander is one of the oldest and most distinguished
officers in the army, and the mark of distinction now con-
ferred upon him will be cordially ratified by the whole Bei+.
vice.

It was mentioned, with reference to the American
advices, that "the State of Pennsylvania was to pay its
dividends on the Ist inst., and £500,000 would then have
to be remitted to Europe." Of this remittance, however,
only about £lOO,OOO is expected to consist of Pennsylvania
dividends. The remainder is likely to be from contractors
and others who have received consignments of European
goods, and who have been waiting payment from the Go-
vernment. To one importing house alone the Government
are stated to be indebted £400,000.
CHEMISTRY APPLIED TO ARCHNOLOGY.—SOMe
time ago two human skeletons were found at Vertheuil
and everything tended to show
(Seine-et-Oise), in stone coffins. The bones, though brittle,
were in perfect preservation,
that these skeletons had been buried many centuries ago.
111.. Couerbe, a chemist of some note, having obtained the
shoulder-blade of one of these relics of past ages, subjected
it to analysis, and found that it contained only ten per
cent. of organic matter, besides the usual mineral substances
of which bones are composed. Now, as fresh bones con-
tain 33 per cent, of organic matter, it follows that the bones
ascertainede u e
.br be
e,' centuries. n rilt
of the skeletons of Vertheuil had lost 23 per cent. of or-
ganic substances. From this fact M. Couerbe has
endeavoured to deduce the age of the bones he has exa-
mined. M. Vogelsang, ho observes, has found that bones
that had been buried 1,100 years scarcely contained any
three per cent. of organic matter disappears every hundred
organic) matter at all; whence M. Couerbe concludes that
years. Applying this rule to the bones found in the castle
of Vertheuil, he fixes the year 1110 as the probable period
of the inhumation of those bodies—a conclusion which
tallies with the archaeological observations made by M.
to divide by 3 the loss of organic matter
e will then represent the
Leo-Drouin, of the Academy of Bordeaux. Hence M.
Thishreulue,oltii.nteou'erbe admits, may be
liableiunlreiaetisosb:ocnoensiderable modifications from various
age in
bones must be differently
may
bciurrocuemdsitaniirct
desa—mtivoloirs,:frotyr isnocisilt.ancHe
affected according as they are exposed to the open air, or in-
humed his rule, for the pre-
sent, is only applicable to bones preserved in tombs ; but
further observations may, we doubt not, determine the loss
of organic matter under the different circumstances enume-
rated.

MATISHAL BUGEAUD'S RULE FOR THE WEATHER.
We (Galignani) have more than oncehad occasion to men-
tion Marshal Bugeaud's meteorological rule, by which he
used to regulate his military operations. The rule may be
briefly stated as follows :—" In eleven cases out of twelve,
the weather will be, during the whole lunation, the same
as that on the fifth day of the moon, if the weather of the
sixth was the same as that on the fifth. And nine times
out 'of twelve the weather will be like that of the fourth
day, if the sixth day was like the fourth." The Marshal
need to add six hours to the end of the sixth day,
before deciding on what the weather would be, in order to
allow for the daily difference in the moon's return to the
meridian. This rule is evidently not always applicable;
for when the sixth day differs from the fifth and fourth,lva
thore is of course no inference to be drawn,:nor is itao;
the
easy to come to a right conclusion when the weatherfivoy wavering.ears
Hfouorwthev,erfiftthh,isamndaysibxeth,
the
eayrurs
leis,
°precious one
: iaci a
b studies.l
e .
As Duringrregards
rds
Havre, a gentle-
mancareftilly observed by M. de Conine ,
when it can be applied, has been fork of
M. d© Coninck has found
the years 1857, 1859, and 1861,
Marshal rule has been found
80 lunations in which the
..
well-known for his
inmweatseoirnolaorgpi
certainly uncertain
tha
• which it has failed, and
true; four inflations
14 hinations in which it . .
Jan• 10, 1861), the rule
1859, to - ----o_was inapplicable
the year 1860, out of the 13 lunations it contained (from
Dec. 24,
r:rskia.bldeefeoronitisnvacke,tseootrsoelrovgaictiaolupsermtuarybbateiosanisa.
in nine cases, it turned out t to b true in three, and failed in
..,
mgt be recollected, however, that 1860 was a very
one. -1-'
Bugeaud's.
tUrop.cogynnurythemaerw,i‘rhiearomlesaha,

PAPERS RELATING TO MEXICAN

AFFAIRS.

We extract the following despatches and parts of
despatches from the papers presented to Parha-
ment touching Mexico, and published yesterday
morning :
" SENOR ISTURIZ TO EARL RUSSELL.
(Translation.)
" Spanish Legation, London, Jan. 18,1862.
"My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive
your Excellency's communication dated 16th inst.,
in reply to the note which I addressed you on the
13th, transmitting to you the instructions sent by
the Captain-General of Cuba to the heads of the
expedition to Mexico. In that communication
your Excellency informs me that you consider those
instructions satisfactory; but that fier Britannic
Majesty's Government could not yet understand
'why the Spanish expedition left Cuba before the
arrival of the English and French forces. I thought
I had sufficiently explained this point in my note
of the 22d of December last, but, since it still re-
quires explanation, I have to inform your Excel-
lency that, according to the despatches of the Cap-
tain-General of Cuba, the orders to suspend the
expedition, which were sent via New York, in the
hope that they would the sooner reach their desti-
nation, were not received in Cuba till the middle of
December; and that the Captain• General, unac-
quainted with the details of the treaty, and with
the point fixed for the meeting of the squadrons,
being also fearful of arriving too late at Vera Cruz,
thought it not right to delay the departure of an
expedition which had been for a long time ready in
every point. if this doubt had been mentioned at
the interview which I had the honour to have with
your Excellency on the 7th inst., I should have
already had very great pleasure in clearing it up,
as I hope will be done by this frank explanation.—
I have, &c,, " XAVIER E. ISTURIZ."