The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-14 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday detachments of the Ist Dragoon Guards,
Scots Fusileer Guards, 2d Royals, 3d Buffs, 4th
King's Own, 7th Fusileers, 9th, 12th, 15th, 22d,
24th, 25th, 34th, 35th, 51st (King's Own Light In-
fantry), 58th, 60th (Rifles), 67th, 75th, 76th, 83d,
94th, and the Rifle Brigade regiments, to the num-
ber of 92 men of all ranks, left St. Mary's invalid
depot, Chatham, having been discharged from the
army owing to their unfitness for further service.
Eoch man received his discharge documents at the
railway station, the pensions awarded being in all
cases proportionate to the length of time the dis-
charged soldiers had been in the service.
An announcement was yesterday received at

!hatham that the head-quarters and service com-
panies of the 75th and 83d Regiments, the depots of
which are quartered at that garrison, have been
placed under orders to return home from India to
England. The 75th Regiment has been nearly 13
years in India, having embarked for Calcutta on the
7th of May, 1849. The 83d Regiment embarked
for Bombay on the 11th of January, 1849. The Ist
battalion of the 6th Regiment, which left England
for the Cape of Good Hope in 1846, and was subse•
quently despatched to India, and the 92d High-
landers, which proceeded from the Mediterranean
to India, have both been placed under orders to
return home during the present year. The 92d
Highlanders left England for Corfu in March, 1861.

THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY.—ALLOT-
MENT Of ESTATES AT NEWARK.—A novel proceeding in
connexion with the land allotment system of the Conserva-
tive Land Society took place at the town of Newark-upon-
Trent on Wednesday, in the form of a local allotment of
two estates lately purchased by the society in that thriving
town, one being situated in the Northgate, and the other
in the neighbourhood of Beacon-hill. A very numerously
attended meeting took place in the Town -hall, presided over
by Mr. Foottill, the Mayor, and a deputation attended from
the executive committee, consisting of Viscount Ingestre,
M.P., the Hon. and Rev. W. S. Talbot, CJionel Brownlow
Knox, M.P.; and in the unavoidable absenu. through ill-
ness of Mr. Gruneisen, the secretary, Mr. Henry Smith,
the solicitor. A very full statement of the system of the
society having been offered by the members of the deputa-
tion, on the motion of Captain Parker, R.N., seconded by
Mr. Samuel Fretwell, a resolution was passed by acclama-
tion, expressing approval of the objects and confidence in
the Conservative Land Society. The allotment of the two
estates was thin proceeded with. The holders of rights of
choice having been first allowed the customary option of
selection, the local members had their free liberty of choice,
The business was not concluded until a late hour.
LIVERPOOL AND LONDON INSURANCE COMPANY.
—The 27th annual meeting of the shareholders of this com-
pany was held in their chief office at Liverpool yesterday.
Mr. Grant, chairman of the directors, presided. From the
report read by the secretary it appeared that there was an I
increase in the fire department of £16,105, and on the life
department an increase of £54,477. The reserved surplus
fund is £216,421, and the total undivided profit £144,218,
the total funds of the company amounting to upwards of
£1,311,905. The directors reported that despite the very
serious losses in London and elsewhere last year the pro-
gress :of the company had been very satisfactory, and
enabled them to pay the same dividend as they had done in
previous years.
LAMBETH BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the

half yearly meeting of the shareholders in this company
was held at the Westminster Palace Hotel ; Lord Torring-
ton in the chair. The chairman moved the adoption of the
directors' report, and congratulated the shareholders upon
the fact that the bridge would be completed in less than
nine months from the date of their act of incorporation, and
the day it was delivered to the lessee they would receive
two months' rent in advance. Tho arrangement with the
gas company he considered as most satisfactory. The
motion having been seconded, was unanimously approved

of. The remuneration of the directors was then fixed at
£3OO per annum, that of the secretary at £lOO per annum,
and that of the auditors at £2l per annum. The retiring
director having been re-elected, the proceedings terminated
At the conclusion of the meeting the directors and share-
holders were taken to see the works, vhich fully bore out
the representations of the engineer, Mr. Barlow. The piers
combine with lightness of appearance great solidity. Each
cylinder is 12 feet in diameter, and they (those which are
complete) are lined from bottom to top with a wall of brick-
work, the walls of which are about four feet thick. The
opening is to permit of the inspection of . the structure,
should that be hereafter thought necessary. It will take
2,000 years to wear off the metal cylinder, and it is consi-
dered that the brickwork will remain sound for 4,000 years
more.

THE FALL OF HOUSES AND Loss OF LIFE AT
HACKNEY.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Humphreys opened
en inquest at the Pembury Tavern, Dalston Rise, on the
bodies of Jacob Kettoridge, aged 31 ; Alfred Rathbone,
aged 12; and John Fuller, 33, who lost their lives by the
fall of two newly-constructed houses belonging to Mr. T.
Amos, situate in the Amherst-road East, under the cir..
cumstances reported in our yesterday's impression. The
inquiry excitel great interest, and amongst those present
were the government inspector, Mr. Amos (the owner of
the property), and Inspectors Bywater and Bowler. The
jury having viewed the bodies, several witnesses were exa •
mined, but few, if any, facts were adduced in addition to
those which have already appeared. The inquiry was ad-
journed, in older that the premises may be examined by a
disinterested surveyor. On inquiry last evening we ascer-
tained at the German Hospital that none of the sufferers
there had expired, although some of them still remain in a
precarious state. The medical staff of this valuable institu-
tion have been unremitting in their exertions in endeavour-
ing to alleviate the sufferings of the poor creatures.
ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY. • On Wednesday
last Mr. Job West, of Hackney-road, caught in two hours,
while angling in Kent, five jack, of the respective weights
of 281bs, 181bs 14ozs, 81bs 9ozs, Olbs sozs, and slbs sozs.
Total weight, 701bs loz. The largest (281bs) he had to
land with his hands, having no gaff-hook with him,