The Sun.
London, England, 1862-10-03 00:00:00

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A field parade of the Scots Greys took place in
the Queen's Park, Holyrood, on Tuesday. It had
been ordered by Col. Griffiths out of compliment to
General Liprandi, who is at present on a visit to
Scotland. This splendidly mounted and appointed
corps were put through a variety of manoeuvres,
and elicited warm expressions of admiration from
the eminent Russian commander.

Yesterday a detachment of 105 non-commissioned
officers and gunners of the Royal Artillery, under
the command of Lieut. T. M. Hazlerigg, and in
medical charge of Assist.-Surg. D. F. de Hodgson,
M.D., arrived at Sheerness from Woolwich, and
joined the first division of the Depot Brigade. The
detachment consisted exclusively of old soldiers
recently returned from service in Canada, and they
will be distributed among the five batteries compos-
ing the brigade.
A battery of 11 32-pounder wrought-iron guns,
each of 58 cwt., was yesterday mounted on the de-
fences at the entrance to the Medway, replacing a
similar number of 32-pounders which had been
condemned by Capt. Dyer, R.A., Assist.-Inspector
of Artillery.
The winter lectures at the Royal Engineer estab-
lishment, Chatham, commenced yesterday, when
the first of the series was delivered by Capt. H.
Schaw, R.E., on " Electricity in Military Opera-
tions." The lectures will be delivered at frequent
intervals, weekly, through the winter, the names
of,:the lecturers including Professor Abel, F.R.S.,
Professor Pole, F.R.S,, Sir W. Dennison, Mr.
Fergusson, F.R.S., and the staff of instructors at
the Royal Engineer establishment.
Maj.-Gen. Sir Richard Decree, commanding at
Woolwich, yesterday assembled on parade the
Horse Brigade, the Riding Establishment, the 13th
and 15th Brigades, the Depot, and Coast Brigade
Royal Artillery, in order to their being present to
witness the ceremony of decorating and rewarding
28 non-commissioned officers and men belonging to
the corps, who were presented with various medals
and pecuniary rewards of £l5 108., and £5, by the
special sanction and desire of the Queen in Council.
A 200-pounder muzzle-loading gun, manufactured
by the firm of Sir Wm. Armstrong and Co., at Els-
wick, was yesterday received at Woolwich Arsenal,
weighing about eight tons, and was forwarded to
the proof butt to be tested for service.
The Armstrong guns tested at Woolwich this
week have met with some serious reverses by the
bursting of no less than three of the 100-pounders
during proof at the butt yesterday and the preced-
ing day. Yesterday two of these huge guns, loaded
with an over-proof charge of 2711 b. of powder, and
a 1101 b. solid shot, burst through the B coil, imme-
diately behind the trunnions. The coil and the in-
ternal tube were severed, and the portion of the
tube remaining in the breech-piece was also rent
and torn in several places longitudinally by the
concussion. The third gun was separated in the
centre of the barrel or chase and gave way trans-
versely, almost as though cut through with a saw.
Each of the guns had been fired for s,3me days past
experimentally to test the vent pieces; and one had
fired over 200 rounds. It is rumoured that the
piece system, at which the men are now employed,
tends to lessen the value of the work, which is hur-
riedly performed.

The hired transport Lincelles, Commander Gooch,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from Fremantle,
Western Australia, with the 23d Company of Royal
Engineers on board, and a few naval invalids from
the Cape of Goad Hope. The latter were transferred
from the Lincelles to the Victory flagship_ The
Royal Engineers are ordered to proceed round to
Woolwich in the ship, which was expected to sail
from Spithead at daylight this morning. They
comprise Capt. E. C. Sim, Lieut. R. G. Thorold, 5
sergeants, 8 corporals, 29 women, and 87 children,
and 1 sergeant, invalided, from the 12th Foot, wife
and 4 children. The Lincelles sailed from Fre-
mantle April 27, Simon's Bay July 20, and St.
Helena Aug. 9. Two births and two deaths oc-
curred during the voyage, which has been consider-
ably delayed owing to strong winds round the Cape
and contrary winds on nearing and in the Channel.

IZOYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTI-

lUTION.

Yesterday a meeting of this institution was held
at its house, John-street, Adelphi ; Thomas Chap-
man, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present—Admiral Sir George Sartorius, Capt.
Sir Edw. Perrott, Bart. ; George Lyall, Esq., M.P.
Admiral M'Hardy, Admiral Cator, Alex. Boetefeur,
Esq. ; Capt. De St. Croix, Capt. Ward, R.N. ; and
Richard Lewis, Esq., secretary of the institution.

A reward of £9 was voted to the crow of the
Dungeness lifeboat of the institution, for going off
on the night of the 21st ult., and after much diffi-
culty saving fourteen men belonging to the Portu-
guese barque CruzV., of Oporto. The ship had gone
on shore off Dungeness in blowing weather, after
having experienced a heavy gale of wind. The
ship's crew were in a very excited state, and about
to abandon their vessel, over which the sea was
breaking heavily, in their own longboat, when the
lifeboat, fortunately, about midnight, came up to
them. They were thus opportunely rescued from
an apparent death, for their boat could not, it was
stated, have lived in such a heavy sea. The life-
boat was reported by Coxswain Mockridge, chief
boatman of the Coast Guard, to have behaved re-
markably well on the occasion. A communication
was read from the Portuguese Ambassador, express-
ing his high satisfaction with the important ser-
vices thus rendered to 14 of his countrymen, and
stating that he would not fail to report the same to
his Government. A reward of £7 10s. was also
voted to the crew of the Rhyl lifeboat, belonging
to the institution, for putting off with the view of
saving the crew of the schooner Jameson, of Liver-
pool, which was observed suddenly to founder in a
heavy squall on the 13th ult. The schooner's crew
han taken to their own boat, and were fortunately
picked up by the Point of Ayr lifeboat. A reward of
£8 was also given to the crew of a pilot-boat for put-
ting off and rescuing at considerable risk of life the
crew of three men belonging to the schooner Dove,
of Leith, which during a gale of wind and Equally
weather had sunk off Newhaven. The crew clung
to the rigging, from which perilous situation they
were after an hour of agony saved by the pilotboat.
The coxswain of the Bude Haven lifeboat of the
society reports that he had recently fallen into a
canal at that place, and was under water for nearly
10 minutes before he was got out, when he was found
apparently dead. He was immediately treated in
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accordance with the rules of the National Lifeboat
Institution for the restoration of the apparently_ars,,l
drowned, founded on those of the late Dr.:l
op_niui;
Hail, and after about half an hour he wea..b
retored to life, and is now doing veryswt 11
mouth the
It was reported that during the p
General Sir
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institution had sent new lifeboats to Haow
Blakeney, Norfolk, and to Guetr7etyo.th
c society the
th,
G. Bowles, K.C.8., had presented
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cost of the Howth boat,
legacies had during the pa
for Blakeney. It was alasnostds
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the Lifeboat Institution : Esq.,
of Salford, £lOO
the late William Lout% xlOO ; and Mrs. Gedgp,
Dr. Turner West,
£lOO. That lady had also
bequeathed' to the institution one third
estate.
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