The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-28 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—May I ask the public, through your valu-
able paper, what resistance could the proposed forts
Spithead, if armed with the most efficient artil-
lery, offer to an attack on my system of warfare--
vie., the forts are approached under cover of all
impenetrable fog, produced by discharging inflarnt
enable liquid, from shot-proof steam vessels of let
draught and great speed, which ignites spontane.
ously, instantly generating a dense cloud of sag%
eating vapour, enveloping the forts, rushing lil
the casemates, burning fiercely on iron in t!
muzzle of guns, or on the water, and rendering the
air in the forts highly explosive and pernicious to
life ?

Perhaps the Defence Commissioners have ar-
ranged with other civilised nations not to use 015
"barbarous and uncivilised" system of warfare, es
they term it ; if so, the public ought to know lt
before ornamenting our coast with such irnolo".
able useless structures.
Your obedient servant,
J. MACINTOSH.
June 27, 1862.

By the death of Major-General the Hon. R.
Bruce the following promotions will take place :—Colonel
the Hon. George Cadogan, C. 8., late of the Grenadier
Guards, to be Msjor-General ; Lieut.-Col. R. Jenkins,
Unattached, Staff Officer of. Pensioners at Chatham, to be
Colonel; Major G. Lefevre Dickson, late of the 30th Regi-
ment, to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; and Captain R. C•
Dudgeon, 61st Regiment, to be Major in the Army.'
Army and Navy Gazette.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—We under-
stand that the council of this society, yielding to the fre-
quently expressed wishes of many of the fellows, hal7e._ce
re
solved to repeat the experiment—tried a short time 8
with such great success—of the performance of choral music: ,
by the band of the Royal Ar(illery, in the conservatory, :::
well
South Kensington, this afternoon. The public, as well
the fellows, will have an opportunity of judging
some of our soldiers can, and do,
committed
The two gentlemen who recoet:_itoytwin
brothers
suicide together at Antwerp prove b
t resided at Brussels.
named B—, who have for a long
timefew hours before putting in
A letter addressed to a friend, employ theirl leisure hours
msah'im that they had decided
execution their design,
"Born on the same day,"
successful operations ion business.
resolved to die on the same also."
rforce in consequence of lin.'
on putting an end to theini
they wrote,
" we have
SHERHERD.—We . hare to
ch occurred on
an-
nounce the death
last,
the 22d inst., at her residence, 7,
Sunday morning. tii.
ark. The deceased was a favourite
DEATH
OF'Aoßf—Mrs, Shepherd, which
Terrace, Kenning ° P . .
as Mrs. Susan Pope, she represented for some years
achtreerses, at Astley's Amphitheatre in the days of Ducrovv?
the stately heroines of the equestrian drama, for which 6118
was peculiarly qualified by the possession of a fine command-
ing figure, and the cultivation of excellent elocutionary
powers. In January, 1837, she was married at Bermondsey
to Mr. Richard Shepherd, at present lessee of the Royal
Surrey Theatre, and her death, though at a mature age,
will occasion great regret amongst a large circle of friends
by whom she was sincerely esteemed.—Era.
DESTRUCTION OF A STEAM SAW-MILL BY FIRE'
.A fire of a very serious character broke our, at a steal).
sawmill, Bolsover, Derbyshire, on Wednesday morning'
On the previous evening the building was left safe about 11
o'clock, and on the following morning it was observed ill
dames. Assistance was speedily obtained, but the destruo_.
-
live element cou.d not be subdued until the mill was gutted.
It is supposed that the machinery got overheated, and se',
tire to the premises. The mid was in the occupation 01
Messrs. Smith; it was not insured. The amount of damage
as yet, cannot be correctly stazed.
IMPORTANT CAB REGULATION.—In consequence
of numerous complaints having been made to the Comnit! 0
sioners of Police of cabmen refusing to take a fare on r no,,
plea of being engaged, Sir R. Mayne, under the power
...!
the Act for the Regulation of Hackney Carriages, es,
and
~
Ddisl.
ected that boards, with the words
are to hang one of
engaged" be supplied to each cab,' Ethueg
(under a penalty for neglecting to do so)
' ar
us place on the
these, as the case may be, in a conspicuous
splash-boards of their respective vehicles. ageivers of which