The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-08 00:00:00

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TILE NAVY.

Admiralty orders have been given for the follow-
ing screw gunboats, attached to the third-class steam
reserve in the Medway, at Chatham, to be immedi-
ately fiti ed for the second division :—The Manly,
Mastiff, Potter, Thrasher, Fidget, Spey, Pigeon,
Tickler, Thistle, Linnet, and Dwarf. The
gunboats attached to the second division of the steam
reserve are being prepared for the first division,
to take the place of those despatched to the various
seaports. They are the Mistletoe, Spanker, Herring,
and Sepoy. Each gunboat will be armed with a
100-pounder and 40-pounder Armstrong gun.
The greatest alacrity is being displayed by the
officers and crew of the iron ship Defence in rigging
her and bringing her forward for sea. The whole
of her topmasts are now pointed, and it appears
evident that the work of fitting, so far as it rests
with the crew, will be accomplished with the
greatest despatch.

Yesterday the War Department transport Marl-
borough went alongside the gun wharf at Chatham,
for the purpose of shipping the Armstrong guns for
the Severn, 51, 500 horse power, one of the advance
frigates fitting to be in readiness fcr immediate ser-
vice. In addition to, eight 8-inch 65 cwt. guns, 18
32 pounders of 58 cwt. each, and 14 32-pounders of
45 cwt. each, which have already been supplied her,
the Severn is to be furnished with 1 100-pounder
Armstrong pivot gun, 4 70-pounders, and 6 40-
pounder Armstrongs. The Marlborough also ship-
ped a quantity of Armstrong conical shot and shell
for the Severn.

The Calypso, 18, sailing corvette, Capt. Frederick
B. Montressor, arrived at Spithead yesterday morn-
ing from the Pacific. She sailed from Callao Aug.
22, 1861, and arrived at Valparaiso on Sept. 16 ;
sailed thence on October Ist ; entered Magellan's
Straits on the 17th, and anchored in Port Famine
on the 19th. There the grave of Capt. Pringle
stokes, who died while in command of her Majesty's
ship Beagle, was visited and put in order. On the
following day the Calypso anchored off Sandy Point
and some stores which had been brought for the
Governor of the Chilian settlement from Valparaiso
were landed. She arrived at Rio de Janeiro on No-
vember 9th, where she remained until the 13th,
when she finally sailed for England. Fayal was
passed on December 19th, and colours exchanged
with the signal station of the English Consul, but
the weather was too boisterous for further commu-
nication. Within 300 miles of Spithead strong
easterly winds were met with, which lengthened a
passage which otherwise would have been a remark-
able good one, considering the time the ship has
been in commission and the necessarily foul state of
her bottom.

The Racoon, 22, screw, Capt. Chamberlain, has
sailed from Spithead to Chatham to pay off, &c.
The screw steamship Cecilia, Capt. Toovey, from
the lonian Islands for London, which coaled at
Plymouth on Tuesday, left Gibraltar on the 28th
of December, when the screw steamship Coasar,
86, Captain Thomas H. Mason, and two other large
ships were in port. One ship of war left for Ame-
rica on the 26th. The Caesar would have followed
on the 27th but for the severity of the weather. A
large fleet of merchant ships came through the
Straits with the Cecilia.

The screw steam sloop Stromboli, 6, Commander
Arthur R. Henry, bound to the south-east coast of
South America, is detained at Plymouth, possibly
to convey the gunboat Spider.

The screw steam frigate Plicebe, 61, went on
Monday, on a trial trip from Hamoaze to the offing
at Plymouth to try her machinery. If the intelli-
gence from America prove peaceful she will be
placed in the first division of the steam reserve at
Devonport.
The screw steam gunboats Gleaner, Tilbury,
Ripple, and Nightingale, were hauled on Monday
out of the basin in Devonport Dockyard, and placed
alongside the floating depot in Hamoaze to complete
their supply of coal. These boats are rigged, their
sails are bent, and they are ready for the first
division of the steam reserve. In a few days they
could be prepared for active service at sea. The
engines of the Heron and Trinculo will be ready for
a trial at sea in a few days.

The screw steamship Revenge, 89, which lately
carried the flag of Admiral Stuart, is now in
Hamoaze, ready, on the receipt of orders, to proceed
into Plymouth Sound.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Robert Hodge, in the Corn-
wallis, E. T. Read, in the St. George, Walter Ash,
in the Asia, for the Blazer; H. G. Pilcher, in the
Simoen, J. Matthews, in the Hardy, and J. E. Der-
rick, in the Weser, have been promoted to:Engi-
neers ; J. Weir, in the Algiers, W. Castle, in the
Alecto, and F. H. Morgan, in the Queen, have
been promoted to acting engineers ; W. Hammond,
in the Vigilant, promoted to first-class assist.-en-
gineer; D. B. Keiller and R. Sutherland, acting
second-class assist.-engineers, to be the Asia as
supernumeraries ; J. T. Rose, acting second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Cumberland, and lent to the
Formidable ; Edwin R. S. Card, clerk, to the Royal
Adelaide ; Lewis G. Hodder and John Carlisle,
clerks, to the Victory.

TILE ARMY Y.

We have just received news of the safe arrival at
Quebec of the troops which embarked in the Persia,
and at Halifax of those which embarked in the
Australasian. The Australasian took out from
Liverpool the Ist Battalion of the Rifle Brigade,
numbering 40 officers and 833 non-commissioned
officers and rank and file, including an hospital
corps of 29 men. She had also on board seven
officers and 254 men of the Royal Artillery, toge-
ther with a battery of six Armstrong guns, with
their whole train, consisting of 16 carriages. The
Australasian also carried 6,000 stand of arms, in
addition to those borne by the troops, together
with 400,000 rounds of ball cartridge. The Rifle
battalion went out under command of Lord Alex-
ander Russell, brother of Earl Russell, and among
the officers of the corps were Major the Hon. J.
Stuart, whose brother is already with Lord Lyons
at Washington, as one of his Attaches; Capt. Lord
A. Clin ton, brother of the Duke of Newcastle ;
Lieut. Lord Edward Cavendish, son of the Duke of
Devonshire; Lieut. the Hon. F. Somerville, Lieut.
the Hon. A. Pennington, and Ensign Lord Albert
Cecil. The Persia embarked the Ist Battalion of
the 16th Regiment of Foot, from Sheffield and
Weedon, and a detachment consisting of four
officers and 118 men of the Royal Engineers, under
the command of Capt. Magnay. The 16th con-
sisted of 36 officers and 823 men, besides an hospi-
tal corps of 45 men belonging to the battalion,
under command of Col. Peacock. Besides those
above enumerated there were also 70 men of the
Commissariat Staff Corps. Gen. Russell, with two
aides-de-camp, was also on board, together with
Deputy-Assistant-Commissary-Gen. Festing, and
Mr. Thorn, of the Military Store Staff.
The first division of the depot battalion, Royal
Artillery, stationed at Sheerness, has been aug-
mented by the arrival at head-quarters of 200 non-
commissioned officers and men from the division at
Warley, who have been distributed among the five
batteries composing the division. In accordance
with an order to that effect, received at the garri-
son from the office of the Deputy-Assistant-Gene-
ral, Capt. Hughes, Lieut. Spragge, Lieut. Stedman,
and 150 non-commissioned officers and gunners have
proceeded to Shoeburyness to go through a regular
course of gunnery instruction with the Armstrong
ordnance, preparatory to embarking for colonial
service. The recent augmentations which have
Royal Artillery have
place in the corps of
taken
materially strengthened the first division at Sheer-
ness, which now numbers nearly 1,200 men of all
ranks, with a proportionate number of officers.
Excepting under very urgent circumstances, all
leave of absence to officers at Chatham garrison has
been discontinued, and most of the officers who have
been granted leave of absence have joined their re-
spective battalions at the garrison. The following
officers have joined their several depots at Chatham
during the last few days, in accordance with orders
to that effect :—Capt. A. Goren, 19th Regiment ;
Capt. W. H. Ballingall, 35th Regiment ; Capt. S.
T. Sargeant, 43d Light Infantry ; Capt. C. H. Ma-
lan, 75th Regiment ; Capt. G. Betts, 81st Regiment;
t Capt. J. Sprot, 83d Regiment; Capt. W. Squirl,

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91st Regiment; Lieuts. C. L. B. Hamilton and E. '
D. Oliver, 51st Light Infantry; Lieut. D. Hammili,
75th Regiment ; Lieut. E. A. Fuller, 83d Regimen.
Ensign T. Stainer, Ensign R. H. Townsend, and
Ensign R. R. C. Hill, 31st Regiment ; Ensign W.
B. B. Burwell, 52d Light Infantry; Eneinu R. if.
F. Day, and Ensign J. O. M. Vandelenr, 75th Re-
giment ; Ensign F. Ford and Ensign. C. L. Smith,
83d Regiment ; Ensign It. I.Z. Wesley and Ensign. • ,
A. P. Maurice, 91st. Regimcnt. Leave of absence
from their respectiye depots has been granted to
Major 11. E. Jerome, V.C., 19th Regiment; Capt. .
L. H. Thomas, 91st Regiment ; Lieut. G. D. Wahab,
20th Regiment ; and. Ensign E. 0. Forsyth and
Ensign W. C. Braddon, 75th Regiment.

BEAL= OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Registrar-Generar s Weekly Return.)

In the first week of the year the deaths register( (1
in London rose to 1,367. The average number in
the first week of the ten previous years (1852-61),
corrected for increase of population, is 1,425. The
rate of mortality that prevailed last week, there-
fore, was not so high as the average. If it had been
as high, each day would have witnessed eight deaths
more than the number that actually occurred.
Next to scarlatina, which is returned in 77 cases,
and which is not now so fatal as it was in Novem-
ber, whooping-cough is conspicuous in the list of
zymotic diseases. It rose last week to 73, of which
5 deaths occurred in the north-west sub-district of
Chelsea, 4 in the first sub district of Kennington.
Of the five recorded by the Registrar of Chelsea
north-west, all except one occurred in one family,
that of a journeyman bricklayer, who lived at
16, Wellesley-grove. The subjects of so great a
mortality were children, the youngest aged five
months, the oldest four years. Typhus also exhi-
bited an increase ; it was fatal in 58 cases, 30 of
which were registered as " typhoid fever," and
among these is the death of a boy, 13 months old,
at 4, Cottage-court, Holborn, from " typhoid fever,
caused by bad drainage."
There were 158 deaths from bronchitis, 76 from
pneumonia. Both diseases, but especially the latter,
are below the average as regards their mortality.
A pensioner, aged 42, who had been a soldier,
died in the workhouse, Holborn, in consequence of
exhaustion and exposure. The wife of a shoe-
maker, aged 30 years, died in the workhouse,
Borough-road, from " privation."
Last week the births of 1,104 boys and 1,069
girls, in all 2,173 children, were registered in Lon-
don. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years
1852-61 the average number (corrected) was 1,848.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 30.126 in.
The mean daily reading was about 30 in. on the
first five days. Tha barometer rose to 30.37 in. on
Sunday, and fell to 29 68 in. on Saturday. The
mean temperature of the air in the week was 34.1
degs., which is 2.7 degs. below the average of the
same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr.
Glaisher). The weather was cold in the earlier
part of the week, and the mean daily temperature
was below the average till Thursday. The thermo-
meter fell below, or was but slightly above the
freezing point of water on five nights of the week;
it fell to its lowest point, 23.5 degs., on Monday.
The highest day temperature was 41.8 degs. on
Saturday. The range in the week was therefore
18.3 degs. The mean daily range was 8 6 degs.
The difference between the mean dew-point tem-
perature and air temperature was 3 6 delis. The
mean degree of humidity of the air was 88, com-
plete saturation being represented by 100. The
wind blew from the north-east till Friday, when it
turned to W. and N.W., but there was little move-
ment of the air. The whole amonnt of rain was
5-hundredths of an inch. Fogs were frequent. No
ozone.

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