The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-02 00:00:00

THE _PHILOSOPHY OF FIRE.

The Medical Times and Gazette says :—We are accus-
tomed
to think of fire in a house as a thing that slowly
spreads, and allows time for consideration and escape. The
report of the inquest which Dr. Lankester held on Mr.
Barrett and two of his children, who died in that lament-
able fire in Great Cumberland-street, will show how
very erroneous this idea is. Mr. Barrett walked down
stairs and opened the front door, without knowing that
the house was on fire; he returned to alarm and save his
family, and perished before he could reach the front door
a second time. If we want to see how the thing is done
on the large scale, we need only watch it on the smaller.
Hold a bit of paper or wood over a lamp. It warms,
blackens, chars, gives out gasses, becomes red hot; then
ddslaeterd
otherorganic
seems to be smouldering quietly ; when, all of a sudden,
the heat becomes sufficient to unite the gases with the at-
mospheric oxygen, a faint explosion occurs, and there is
flame• Fireman Browne, at the inquest, deposed, that
" In his opinion gas had nothing to do with the origin
of the fire." If he meant the gas which is made by
roasting coal in the retorts of the Chartered Company,
and which is brought to us in pipes, he was probably right.
But wherever there is flame there must be gas of some
sort ; and, in this case, as there has been a smell of fire in
the house, the gas that caught fire and formed the flame
that buirronuel:inasntand fitleleudttitnhge
owffhtohleeesbcoadpye ofrfonaMr. Barrett's
every room,
smothering the unfortunate man and his daughter in
hathnoeudshea'll was produced, probably, by the slow distillation o
f the pantry-floor—or of some beam
twhoerk—o.
smouldering soot of a foul chimney. Smell
compounds of.
into scientific English means just this—
hydrogen and carbon, given
A period of roasting, matter when roasted and
charredsoco oefff some
firetbae iynww:bgoanya
so
ready to explode into flame,
.4° soon as the heat is enough.
The contents of the caroPhine cans may be added to thrd
explosive material. .very. fire may be divided
es, comp
smoulder-
ing, evolution of gas, just as explosive as coal gas, and,
into two stages :.—lst.
perhaps, slow red heat of waste mt,terial. 2, The leaping
of the gas into flame. lArhen this has ._
up
is hopeless. The heat of the flame is so
, great. It blisters
and scorches with the least touch, and, where it plays stea-
dily it sets on fire in good earnest,

This, the most recent issue of Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett's Standard Library series, will be found,
we venture to say, one of the most amusing works
of the kind ever published. The subject, an e -
tremely interesting one, has never before been so
completely handled ; the author has had peculiar
facilities for acquiring information respecting it,
and the result is a volume which none, we think,
will be willing to part with till they have devoured
it to the end. Proceeding systematically the writer
commences with a disquisition on sticks and wigs;
by the former term being meant the physician's
cane, now disused, though "up to very recent times
no doctor of medicine presumed to pay a profes-
sional visit, or even to be seen in public, without
this mystic wand. Long as a footman's stick, smooth
and varnished,with a heavy gold knob or cross bar at
the top, it was an instrument with which, down to
the present century, every prudent aspirant to me-
dical practice was provided. The celebrated gold-
headed cane which Radcliffe, Mead, Askew, Pit-
cairn, and Baillie successively bore, is preserved in
the College of Physicians, bearing the arms which
those gentlemen assumed, or were entitled to. In
one respect, it deviated from the physician's cane
proper. It has a cross bar almost like a crook,
whereas a physician's waizd ought to have a knob
at the top. This knob in olden times was hollow,
and contained a vinegarette, which the man of
science always held to his nose when he approached
a sick person, so that its fumes might prctect him
from the noxious exhalations of his patient." This
stick is supposed to have been a relic of the con-
juring paraphernalia with which the healer, in igno-
rant and superstitious times, worked upon the ima-
gination of the credulous; and it differed in shape
and significance from the pole of the barber-surgeon
—the latter being adorned with stripes of blue,
white, and red, as well as a gallipot and a red rag,
"the blue representing the serous blood, the more
brilliant colour the arterial, and the white thread
being symbolic of the bandage used in tying up the
arm after withdrawing the ligature. The stick itself
is a sign that the operator possesses a stout staff for
his patients to hold, continually tightening and re-
laxing their grasp during the operation—accelerat-
ing the flow of blood by the muscular action of the
arm." The wig, also, in former times, was almost as
important as the cane, and previous to Charles the
Second's reign physicians were in the habit of visit-
ing their patients on horseback, sitting sideways on
their foot-cloths like women, but the use of car-
riages was introduced at the Restoration. A
muff was also considered essential in cold
weather, that he might preserve, unimpaired,
his delicacy of touch. Among the old
English physicians the first of any note is Harvey,
who died in 1657, and the state of medical science
at his time may be judged from the receipt of his
famous contemporary Mayerne, who was physician
to many crowned heads, called Balsam of Bats,
into which entered adders, bats, sucking-whelps,
earth-worms, hog's grease, the marrow of a stag,
and the thigh-bone of an ox, which was strongly
recommended as an unguent for hypochondriacal
persons ; whilst the principal ingredient in his
gout-powder, was " raspings of a human skull un-
buried." Sir Thomas Browne also and his son were
eminent in the seventeenth century, and the
empirical Sir Kenelm Digby signalised himself by
the discovery of the sympathetic powder which
cured wounds in the following manner :—lf any
piece of a wounded person's apparel, having on it
the stain of blood that had proceeded from the
wound, was dipped in water holding in solution
some of this sympathetic powder, the wound of the
injured person would forthwith commence a healing
process, no matter how far distant the sufferer was
from the scene of operation. For some years this
powder was a fashionable remedy, but before Sir
Kenelm's death it fell into disrepute, and the utmost
his attached servant, Hartman, could say for it of
his own experience was, that when dissolved in
water it was a useful astringent lotion for bleeding
at the nose. Of the physicians of Pope's time
Garth is, perhaps, the best known. The poet
dedicated his second pastoral to him whilst alive,
and wrote of him when dead, " If ever
there was a good Christian, without know-
ing himself to be so, it was Dr. Garth." His poem
called " The Dispensary," written to ridicule the
pretensions of the Apothecaries, was famous in its
day, though now known only by name. To him,
however, Dryden owed honourable interment,
When the great poet died, Garth caused his body
to be conveyed to the College of Physi-
cians, and started a public subscription to
defray the expenses of the funeral. He pro-
nounced an oration over the deceased at the Col-
lege in Warwick-lane, and then accompanied it
to Westminster Abbey. In the reign of Queen
Anne, the great celebrity was Dr. Radcliffe. The
death of that Sovereign was said to have been
owing to his refusal to attend her, through his
own illness, and so strong was the feeling against
the doctor that a plot was laid to assassinate him,
though one of the members, visited with com-
punction, informed him of it in the following
letter :—'' Doctor,—Tho' I am no friend of yours,
but, on the contrary, one that would wish your
destruction in a legal way, for not preventing the
death of our most excellent Queen, whom you
had it in your power to save, yet I have such
an aversion to the taking away men's lives un-
fairly, as to acquaint you that if you go to meet
the gentleman you have appointed to dine with
at the Greyhound, in Croydon, on Thursday next,
you will most certainly be murthered. I am one
otb
leo
ot
dh e;
tpheerrsoofno sr
eengagedrefore,
neither
stir
tni r theo ut
of
doors
that
day,
wee've more, who are resolved to sacrifice you toL
th
9.'4" of her late Majesty, that cries aloud for
think of exchanging your
pre-
sent abode for your home at Hammersmith,
since
,
nor any other, nor
there and everywhere else we shall be in quest of
you. I am touched with remorse, and give you
this notice ; but take care of yourself, lest 1 repent
of it, and give proofs of so doing, by having it in
my heart to destroy you, who am your sworn
enemy.—N. G." The doctor, greatly alarmed at
this epistle, kept his house, and shortly after died.
He was succeeded in popularity by Dr. Mead, who
obtained his position as much by flattery as by
skill. " The first time Radcliffe called on Mead
when in town he found his young friend reading
Hippocrates. Do you read Hippocrates in Greek P,
demanded the visitor. ' Yes,' replied Mead timidly.
fearing his rieholarship would offend the
great man. 'I never read him in my life,' re-
sponded Radcliffe, sullenly. You, sir,' was the
rejoinder, have no occasion—you are Hippocrates
himself." The reward of this compliment was that
Radcliffe recommended him to his patients, and he
made an income of £5,000 a-year. Radcliffe's
manner was by no means refined. He told William
the Third, on seeing his dropsical ankles, " I would
not have your Majesty's legs for your three king-
doms"; and he mortally offended Anne by refusing
to leave his bottle to attend her, sending word that
her distemper was nothing but the vapours. As
regards pecuniary success, that of Sir Astley Cooper
appears the greatest. The highest amount he re-
ceived in any one year was £21,000, but his income
for many years reached £15,000, and it was largest
when he lived in the city. Among notorious quacks
Mesmer takes the lead. In one year he received, in
Paris,4oo,ooo francs in fees,and the French Govern-
ment offered him an annual stipend of 20,000 francs,
together with an additional 10,000 f. to support an
establishment for patients and pupils if he would
stay in France, but he stood out for better terms,
lipshed by. Of English :quacks,
ed, about 1780, the "Temple
etum sanctorum of which the
notorious Lady
Hamilton officiated, is one of the
oGa
fnrdHa
hteahamel
t,hew,h”hainonceetshtsealbipBa n
most prominent. He Invented an elixir of life, for

The new home will be established in Marlborough
House; we could have wished a better bower for
the young couple, bat workmen are already repair-
ing the ancient edifice, and Gen. Knollys is at this
moment, we believe, Comptroller of their Royal
Highnesses' Household. The office is hardly one
for a warrior to hold, even in the house where the
greatest of warriors once dwelt in honour; but if it
be satisfactorily performed, a future day may see
that such service has won back what centuries of
litigation failed to do, the Earldom of Banbury to
the Knollyses.
The most gallant feat ever accomplished by James
the First of England (when he was King of Scot-
land) was in crossing the stormiest of seas in the
stormiest of seasons, and marrying his bride, in a
hurricane on the coast of Norway. From that lady,
Anne of Denmark, our present Royal family derive
a portion of good old Danish blood. The union of
George of Denmark with the Princess (afterwards
Queen) Anne produced but a sickly child or two,
heirs who came not to their inheritance,

Five hundred years have elapsed since England be-
held the first marriage of a Prince of Wales. Indeed,
there have only been four such marriages in England
and one abroad. The preliminaries of marriage
have often been made, but these were in such cases
carried out after the Prince's accession to the throne.
The first marriage to which we allude was that in
1361 of Edward the Black Prince with the " Fair
Countess"—the buxom, warm-hearted, regal Joan of
Kent. That was a rare love-match, albeit the bride-
groom was over 30 years of age, and his brilliant
English wife was the young widow of a former hus-
band. But there was " heart" in the whole matter.
England had known of no such hero as Edward,
from his youth up, since the days of King Arthur,
and all the realm of beauty, it is said, would have
been hard put to it to produce altogether sack a
peerless lady as Joan; a little too sharp, perhaps,
with her wit, which sometimes made good Queen
Phillipa look serious. But England loved the pair,
and the pair loved one another. What joyous house
they kept— not in Pall-mall ! but in their princely
mansion between Crooked-lane end and Fish-street-
hill ! What gay and rather costly doings—for Joan,
it must be said, was a lady who loved such doings—
went on at their palace at Berkhampstead ! what
ridings, and joustings, and laughing, and love mak-
ing, about that smaller bower they built at Prince's
Risborough ! The moat near the little Buckingham-
shire church there marks one part of the site where
dwelt together in love and mirthfulness the first of
our married Princes and Princesses of Wales.

The next case of marriage was, according to some,
a love-match too, but according to others, and far
more probably, a match of convenience, namely,
that of the fugitive Prince of Wales, Edward, son
of Henry the Sixth, with that wealthiest and most
hapless of co- heiresses, Lady Anne Neville, daughter
of Warwick, the Kingmaker. The wedding was
celebrated at Amboise, in France, with great out-
ward show of rejoicing, in which England here took
no part. A few months later, in 1471, the Prince of
Wales came hither to win back a crown for his
father and a home for his wife ; but the young hus-
band, not yet 19, fell at Tewkesbury, and the young
Duke of Gloucester, then of the same age, subse-
quently took the widow unto himself, and proved
not so indifferent a husband as romance and his-
tory would have us believe.
The next bridegroom-prince was younger still
than the last. Arthur, son of Henry VII., was but
15 years of age when, in 1501, he married that viva-
cious Katharine of Arragon, who had been six
months on her journey between the Alhambra and
St. Paul's. All London was in wild hilarity at this
Spanish match ; the city, drinking, dancing, and
dressed in its best, celebrated it by night and by
day; the Court kept up the wedding festival for a
whole brilliant, weary, and dissipated fortnight;
while the Church seemed to have tumbled from pro-
priety in the excess of its orthodox jollification.
Had this newly-married Prince and Princess of
Wales quietly gone down to young Arthur's moated
manor at White Waltham, good might have come
of it. They repaired however to Ludlow Castle,
and there the solemn young bridegroom—what
with study, and state solemnities and tiring ceremo-
nials, and Katharine, who was imposing, exacting,
super-vivacious, able to dance down a dozen of
such gallants as her husband, and always oppres-
sive—fairly died of it all in five months, as might
well have been expected.
The Dowager Princess was betrothed to Arthur's
brother Henry, in 1504, when the latter was
Princess of Wales ; but as they were not married
till after Henry's accession to the throne, in 1509,
were asntp;ilisn
on to
thist t
dhiednneoxtt
ocecsupro utsi aul st
hoef
satna
rhoefi rßarpupnas:
wick was well above the horizon.

There were love passages enough and to spare
between those periods. Prince Henry, that popular
and ill-fated son of James 1., paid homage, after a
fashion, to more than one English beauty in and
about the Court. In the midst of such pleasant pas-
time, which was very readily afforded him, and
when he was about 18, negotiations were com-
menced in reference to a marriage between him
and " Madame Clementine of France," a princess
whose first-named dowry was doubled in order to
tempt rather the Prince's father than the Prince,
who in this matter exhibited that quality of rea-
diness which indicates more of indifference or
simple obedience than a loving willingness. What-
ever it may have been, naught came of it. He was
not to occupy the old house at Ham with a bride.
Death stepped in, and as the Royal body was borne
to Westminster, the old shook their heads at the
calamity, and the young mourned—some as. if 4
brother had departed, others as if the very pink of
:
heroic lovers had disappeared for ever from

Court of Beauty.
Again, when Charles, afterwards the first of the
name, was Prince of Wales, he made that romantic
was named for his bride, and who cvio
journey to Spain, to gain a glance of the Daly who
pot so coyly
in private. This desi bis way to her
cloistered up but that Charles found
however, was
-Wales, becoming
not completed.; but the Prince of
in Henrietta Maria
ofb
King, found that consolation
attracted him when
France, whose beauty had on
an embassy of love to soother.
The love passages of ache next Prince of
Wales
who came to manhoojiana paid homa—e
g to beaut
by scandal,
are so " embroiderea that we will neyt
gor a disinherited p •
treat of them. rince Charles
Stuart was. perhaPs; the merriest, as well gned match,
8 well as the
y Although not married
Poorest. W Ile he bore the
title of Prince, one serious attempt, at least, was

And then follows Brunswick : the first Prince of
Wales of which house—he who was afterwards
George the Second—was married to the clever
Caroline Wilhelmina, at the age of 22, and long
before he was raised to that title. When created
Prince of Wales, he had already a bevy of little
heirs and heiresses about him ; and during the time
he enjoyed the title, it was the delight of himself
and wife to be in a condition of the most irritating
antagonism against the sire regnant.
Frederick, the eldest son of George the Second,
did not appear in England till after his father's ac-
cession, and his own creation as Prince of Wales.
We believe there is truth in the old story that the
Duchess of Marlborough had very nearly succeeded
in inducing him to marry her granddaughter, Lady
Diana Spenser, who, indeed, would have made as
peerless a princess as any more noble sister born in
the purple. Fate and political considerations, how-
ever, would have it otherwise; and in 1736, when
the Prince of Wales was in his 29th year, a treaty
was concluded which gave him for a wife the Prin-
cess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. Nearly two centu-
ries and a half had elapsed since a Prince and Prin-
cess of Wales had come from the altar to be greeted
by the people in England. The ceremony, accord-
ingly, raised as much excitement in London as that
of Arthur and Katharine,—but with a difference.
The Royal Chapel at St. James's is but a rabbit-
hutch compared with what old St. Paul's was ; but
though the stage was limited, the spectacle was
grand enough, in its way. The stately and grace-
ful dress of the Tudor time had indeed gone out of
fashion, and a new attire was in vogue; that of the
lady had a certain dignity, but a man in the full
Court dress of George the Second was monkeyfied.
The Prince of Wales, perhaps, bore it as easily as
any man of his day, and the Princess, save that she
was overwhelmed with excess of it, became her
dress, even in the opinion of the sternest critics in
that delicate matter. There was a banquet of course,
but the most splendid part of the day's ceremony was
the bidding "good night," at the end of it, to the
wedded pair, in their sleeping-room. There were
assembled a very mob, from King and Queen down-
ward to pages of the chamber, of the most gorgeously
and extravagantly-dressed lords and ladies, and
aristocratic swains and nymphs, that ever met to
wish happiness to a bride and bridegroom. The
former sat upon her throne-like couch, half-hidden
in clouds of muslin and of lace ; while the Prince of
Wales, in a dressing-gown of stiff costly brocade,
slipped from group to group, and fantastically
answered the greetings which saluted him by the
way. And therewith the day came to an end.
After altogether another fashion were the next
Prince and Princess of Wales made man and wife.
The eldest son of George the Third, born in 1762,
was as precocious as Prince Henry. At eighteen
he was transmitting ridiculous love-letters to Pen-
dita Robinson. At three-and-twenty he turned
from the feet of Mrs. Crouch to pay homage at
those of Mrs. Fitzherbert, a lady hard upon thirty
years of age, and already the widow of two hus-
bands. Of this lady, after a sort of wooing which
savours of the extravaganza, he became the third
husband—joined to her in holy matrimony, con-
trary to profane act of Parliament, by a venturous
Protestant clergyman, in the Catholic lady's back
drawing-room ! How this rash couple looked at
the time, and the very ring with which they were
wedded, may now be seen in the Loan Exhibition
at South Kensington.
But here was a pseudo-Princess of Wales who
was not wanted; and ten years later another was
found for the Prince, who was far less worthy, and
perhaps far more cruelly wronged. When Caroline
of Brunswick and her future husband met at the
altar, they had not seen one another before that
day. The princely bridegroom was not sober, and
the bride, despite all counsel from Mr. Harris and
the ladies, was not particularly clean. They went
" home" to wrangle—hatred dwelt where love
should have abided, and the domestic drama which
opened so gloomily, darkened as it proceeded, and
closed with a touch of deepest tragedy. There is
this remarkable in the marriage of the heir appa-
rent of George the Third, that he is the only one
who, marrying when Prince of Wales, subsequently
ascended the Throne.

In the House of Brunswick may this happier course,
thus commenced, be henceforth the rule. The coming
match has happy auspices. The Princess Alexandra,
daughter of Prince Christian of Denmark, in
addition to external and intellectual qualities, has
earned golden opinions at home, as a " good
daughter," and the Prince of Wales, especially in
circumstances of late of some difficulty, has shop's'
himself a cheerfully dutiful son. His training, i°?'
his
'sword in
and his experiences have been such as nonmown
Royal predecessors ever enjoyed, and he isiroo
of
to have profited by both. He is the first ir
the other
Wales born at Windsor since the birth
carried the
Edward who, as the third of the 12006 Kin
glory of England in war higher la il any it.lng
our
who had previously drawn thilbert) Edward,
(''
country's cause. May the later ,
prams in peace ;
in due time, make her more Ld, , y
0 following-
setting an example to all E00c; paternal home;
that which he received in hio
fair Dane—for whom
and hand-in-hand with the
ofery English household
there is already laid oP laffeot•
°ea' ion —go on through
a rich tribute of respe
wooed, and beloved : the love
a long life, happy, reap
as ever were rendered to
and the honour as tr
wa ant happiness as it is good
mortals, with 9°s., t
„, •
for mortals to ._...,

must
coo
ces:;o:hgeuDEeNvCeuE AinNDLoCnIaToYn
tLhelPmEa.g Thhtieorne.
STIBMIS • e when these unequal commercial re
ships win prove inconvenient to its inhabitants
the l'_.„b'ce when central property will exceed in price the
for its support.
ayrr:veeedfla,ook If
When
has h
ea practicallyvi e sury e
end tenants,and when suburban property will be found
rowb and
a i
so r _
of
a zo e:
t oo
dence has, in many doubtfulinetanes
•iv ibtueydoenodf
obtainporoenaciht: di
nittesfnaca culminating
t that
h wa
th this o canpo crisispi
Ra
ty. too
ualntsdofthtahte
ethnebursbusbrebyanetevimlla, a
sr edsei --
scribed above ; when we couple with these faults the fact
that diseases are nearly as rife in suburban parts as they
are in the crowded parts of cities, and more rife than in
open central situations—that the death-rate is higher, in
fact, in Kentish Town than in the rectory district of Mary-
lebone ;—if we have not exhausted the chapter of faults,we
have by exclusion thrown out any merits belonging to
suburban residences, which might at first sight seem pre-
sentable. The simple truth told, in short, all the advan-
tages that could be claimed for suburban residence, in way
of cleanliness, pure air, space, light, comfort, companion-
ship of trees and flowers, and music of the sky, are annihi-
latedare produced by the extension of the project.
suburban For your residence of to-day, is city added to city
nest year, they
an d
as the mathematicians profoundly tell us,
" things which are double of the same are equal to one an-
other."—Social Science Review.

VV
A bashful swain of 27, named Tribol, has just
committed suicide at Payre (Vienne) from the apprehen•
eon that his " ladye love" might reject his addresses.

The Warrior, on her trial with reduced boiler power
on the 26th of October, 1861, realized a mean speed,
with six boilers, of 12.080 knots, and with four
boilers, of 11040 knots. As we observed in our
report of her trial at full power in The Sun of yes-
terday, if the Black Prince was trimmed to. the
same water that the Warrior drew on her t'xial
of speed, and her propeller set Wetly to the sa
pitch, the difference in speed between the two vet-
sels would be found to be slight. Theßlack Prince-
drew one inch less forward yesterday than on Sa-
turday. A fresh wind prevailed from the N.E.,
but was off the land, and the water being in conse-
quence perfectly smooth, it had no prejudicial effect
upon the ship ; on the contrary, it was of service,.
as it assisted materially in keeping down the tem-
perature of her engine-room and stoke holes. The
ship commences swinging to-day at Spithead to
ascertain the deviation of her compass, under the
superintendence of Mr. Evans, from the Hydro-
grapher's Department, preparatory to proceeding
on her sea cruise.
Mr. Moody, assistant-master shipwright at Ports-
mouth Dockyard, has received his appointment
from the Admiralty as master shipwright of Dept-
ford-yard, vice Peake, appointed to Sheerness.
The line-of-battle screw steamer Meeanee,
400-horse power, 2,591 tons, attached to the first-
class steam reserve at Chatham, is ordered to be
brought forward for commission, with a comple-
ment of 650 officers and men, including Royal
Marines. She is to be furnished with an arma-
ment of 24 32-pounders, each of 50 cwt., on her
main deck ; 26 8-inch 65 cwt. guns on her lower
deck ; and 2 110-pounder and 8 40-pounder. Arm-
strong guns on her upper deck. In addition to
these she will be supplied with two 12-pounder
Armstrongs, and a few brass field-guns for boat
service. According to orders received at Chatham-
the Meeanee is intedded to take the plane of the
Edinburgh, 60, 200-horse power, Capt.Schomberg,
guardship at Leith. As soon as the latter has
arrived at the Nore, where she is hourly expected,
the officers and crew will be immediately turned
over to her.
The Leander, 50, 2,760 tons, 400-horse power, is
ordered to be brought forward for the first division
of the Chatham steam reserve, taking the place of
the Severn, 51, 500-horse power, Capt. Montressor,
recently commissioned for service in the East Indies
and China.
Orders have been received at Chatham for all
vessels of the class sad rating of the Columbine, 4,
150-horse power, to be furnished with four of the 8-
inch 65 cwt. guns, until the 70-pounder Armstrong
naval guns are ready for delivery, none of the latter
description of guns having yet been received at the
Ordnance stores, Chatham.
The Jaseur, 5, screw gun vessel, fitting for the
Chatham steam reserve, is being supplied with a
pair of 80-horse power condensing engines by Messrs
Laird Brothers, of Liverpool. Her armament will
consist of one smooth bore 95 cwt. gun, two 20-
pounder A rmstron gs, and two 24-pounder howitzers.
The Eurydice corvette, of 26 guns, which put
into Falmouth on Wednesday last, was towed out
of that harbour on Saturday morning, and set our
for Cronstadt. This vessel has a number of cadets
on board for general instruction.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. William Loring, C. 8., to
be Superintendent of Pembroke dockyard; Thomas
Clark, in the Cumberland, for the Cochin, con-
firmed as first-class assist.-engineer; John L. Davis,
in the Sphinx, confirmed as first-class assist.-en-
gineer; John Flintotr, in the Coromandel, confirmed
as second-class assist.-engineer ; Peter Robertson,
in the Edgar, confirmed as second class assist.-
engineer ; Arthur Moreton, in the Indus, confirmed
as second-class assist.-engineer ; Philip Blanch,
second-class assist.-engineer to the Cumberland, as
supernumerary; James Stephens, actingsecond class
assist.-engineer to the Rosario ; E. H. Brown,
assist.-clerk to the Rattlesnake; R. T. M. Macleod,
clerk to the Severn, for disposal ;A. Michell Hoar, clerk
to the Rattlesnake ; and George , clerk
to the St. Vincent.
Mr. Christopher G. Williamson and Mr. P. J. L.
inated to naval
Blackwood were yesterclaY
cadetships.