The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-09 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Lords of the Admiralty, in consideration of
the expeditious manner in which the ironclad frigate
Lord Warden, 34,1,000 horsepower,was constructed,
and the successful way in which she was launched
from Chatham Dockyard, have awarded Mr. Thorn-
ton, principal master shipbuilder at that establish-
ment, a gratuity of £5O. Their lordships have also
awarded the annual gratuity of £5O to Mr. Willing,
of ChathamD ockyard, who was the foreman employed
in the construction of the ironclad frigate Bellero-
phon, 14, 1,000 horse-power, launched a few weeks
since at that establishment.

The War Department transports Bomarsund and
Petrel left the ordnance wharf, Chatham, yesterday
for the Nore, to receive the powder and shell from
the screw corvette Orestes, 21, 200 horse power,
Capt. A. G. Gardner, on her arrival at the Nore,
from the Cape of Good Hope, to be put out of
commission.

The Charybdis, 21, 400 horse power, Capt. E.W.
Tumour, from the Pacific station, having been dis-
mantled, will be put out of commission, and placed
in the Chatham steam reserve to-morrow.

The iron screw steamship Achilles, 20, Captain
Edward W. Vansittart, was placed yesterday in the
south basin at Keyham steam-yard, to undergo

repairs.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Sphinx, 6, from
Pembroke, arrived on Wednesday evening at Ply-
mouth, having in tow the new steam sloop Amazon,
4, under charge of Commander Paul. Yesterday
the Amazon was towed into Hamoaze and placed
alongside the jetty in Devonport dockyard, to be
dismantled and completed for the first division of
the steam reserve.

Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, Inspector-General
of Royal Marines, accompanied by Capt. J. C.
Travers, aide-de-camp, terminated his summer in-
spection of the Chatham division of Royal Marines
Light Infantry on Wednesday. On the previous
day the Inspector-General had a small battalion,
selected from the companies at headquarters, ou
Chatham Lines, where they went through various
battalion movements, in which they acquitted them-
selves in a highly satisfactory manner. At 6 o'clock
yesterday morning a brigade field-day of the entire
forces quartered in the Chatham district, including
the division of Royal Marines, was held on the
Great Lines, by Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., at which Major-Gen. Stransham was pre-
sent, for the purpose of witnessing the manner in
which the Royal Marines acquitted themselves when
engaged in complicated movements in combination
with other troops. At the close of the field-day,
which, in consequence of the hot weather, was pur-
posely fixed for the early hour named, Major-Gen.
Stransham brought his inspection to a termination,
and after the transaction of official business at the
divisional headquarters, quitted the garrison.

THE SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS.—The question of
the probability of an early resumption of labour in
the Southern States is now actively discussed in all the
American papers. The New York Journal of Commerce ex-
presses the following view:—" In former times, and in
other places, the substitution of a new labour system for
an old has not been immediately successful. The living
generation seldom sees the result of such a substitution
successfully realised. It takes a long time to teach
negroes to work on a contract for their own wages. We
are inclined to think that the people of the North have been
generally misled in their idea of the amount of wages here-
tofore paid for Southern labour. Taken as a whole that
amount to each labourer was the equivalent of support,
food, and clothing in sickness and health, from the cradle
to the grave. None of the rates of wages heretofore esta-
blished on Government plantations have approximated to
this ; nor is it possible to approximate to it until some
public provision is made for the poor, the aged, the infirm,
and the sick. In short, the new labour system must involve
the provision by a public charge for that deficiency be-
tween the price paid for labour and the amount neces-
sary to support labourers and their families in all the con-
tingencies of life. The common idea seems to be that
the negroes may at once contract with their masters for hire.
But this, all accounts from all parts of the South agree iu
saying, they decline to do. The plantations are at nresont
nearly deserted. Nor is it likely that immigration will im-
mediately supply the deficiency in labour. As a general
rule, white men donot go into the Southern States to work.
They select more fruitful fields of labour when they expect
to use their own hands. Time,'therefore, must be patiently
allowed before the South can again become prosperous and
productive, and the time will, in all probability, be marked
by great distress among all classes, and great poverty, suf-
fering, and want, especially among the negroes. The latter
are now flocking to the large cities and crowding them to
excess. They generally imagine that their working days
are over. Liberty has been somehow or other mixed up
in their minds with rest from labour, and they seem to
think it eynonymous with freedom to do nothing."

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