The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, _ NOVEMBER 15, 1854.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Neptune, 120, Coßtain Hutton, removed powder and
shell yesterday, and will go into Portsmouth Harbour.
Monarch, 84, Captain Erskine, will go into Portsmouth
Harbour to-day.
The Calcutta, 84, sailed from Plymouth for Falmouth
yesterday morning.
40 artillerymen from Plymouth garrison have joined the
Hannibal, 91, bound to the Black Sea.
An Admiralty order (by telegraph) arrived at Sheerness,
yesterday. countermanding the trial trip of the Royal Al-
bert, and she was therefore engaged swinging ship for the
purpose of adjusting her compasses. Her present orders
are to be ready to leave on Friday morning for
Portsmouth.
The Pylades will be ready for launching on the 23d
instant.
The Horatio screw steam•frigate got up steam yesterday
to try machinery in the basin, after making good defects.

service, and several vessels will be ready for departure by
Monday or Tuesclarnext.

.CHAPLAINS TO THE SICK AND WOUNDED
SOLDIERS IN THyeAST.
A correspondence has passed bet n the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, M.P., Secretary 'War, and 'the Rev.
Ernest HaWkins, 8.D., the secretary to the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign -Parts,' relative to
the attempt which the society is row making to'sendout
additional chaplains to the scat of war. Mr. Hawkins
stated that the.society would under ' e to"rnakc an allow•
ante r.t the rate of 100/. a year , very such chaplain,
•-•
provided that the Government wen guarantee.an equal
sun), with free pas9age, anal the ordi4ary field allowances.
Mr. Sidney Herbert has replied thatiae concurs in the ar-
rangement proposed, and that a free usage to Constanti-
nople or the Crimea, according to tlik demand for his ser-
vices, will bo provided for each chap ' in at the.-public ex-
pense.. The Secretary at War adds,
~ at during-the period
of,th§ employment of the chaplains' ' this capacity,.thev
i
will be subject to the same diseiplin -,and amenab.le_to the-
same authority as army chaplains.

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MISCELLANEOrS. "
On the invasion of the Crimea the transports and steam-
ships conveying the Light Divisio4, together with the
first 40 transport boats at the disembp.rkation of the army,
were commanded by Commander Boys, the
senior commander of the transport iervice in the Black
Sea.
Mr. James Marrow, late of Woolwich Factory, took tip
his appointment yesterday as superintending foreman of
the new factory works at Sheerness. This is the Brit
appointment to the new factory w4rks now being pro-
ceeded with here. Tho entire establishment will be under
the direction of Mr. George Blaxlanc4civil engineer at this
yard.
The screw stdamer New York, belonging to the Glasgow
and New York Steamship Company, which was recently
latimehed by Messrs. Tod and M`Gre4or, and is, now, ready
for sea, has been engaged k by the each Government to
convey troops to tho se of war. This splendid steamer
is. abpu 2,400 tons burtben, and will carry comfortably a
Tomlin* number of troops. British Daily Mail.
Yesterday the aetcti of Admiralty condemned the cargo
of the Russian prize Fidentia, and it will be disposed of
for the benefit of the captors.
Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty took up vessels
for the conveyance of 1,500 tons of provisions to the army
in the Crimea and at Constantinople, as also a number of
steamers for the conveyance of stores to the Crimea, 900
tone of provisions are forthwith to be forwarded to Malta
for the use of the Royal navy, and 25 tons of ordnance
stores, 19 heavy guns, and 120 tons of naval stores to Gib-
raltar.
LIVERPOOL, Wednesday.—Not only has the Royal Mail
steam-ship Europa been taken by the Government, but the
iron screw steam-ship Alps, Captain Moodie, which sailed
for Havre on Sunday, to be the pioneer of a Cunard line
from that port to New York, has also been chartered, and
will proceed from Havre to Toulon, to embark French
troops. • -
The officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates of
the School of Musketry, Hythe, have subscribed one day's
pay each to the Patriotic Fund Society.

DEATH OF MR. CHARLES KEMBLE.

It is with deep regret we announce the death of this
once distinguished actor, which took place on Sunday
last. Mr. Charles Kemble • was born in Brecknock, in
South \Vales, in 1775 ; consequently he had attained
his 79th year. when he died. Few actors of the old
school are so well remembered by the present race of
playgoers as this gentleman, whose personations of the
higher class of comedy were biought down to a compa-
ratively late date, and are still sp.)kcn of with admira-
tion as histrionic partraitnres of unique merit. The
youngest of the great branch of the Kemble family, he
shared with his illustrious brother John, and his stately
sister, the honours which attach so pre-eminently to the
name. Many of the parts which he filled may be said to
have virtually left the stage when age and infirmity occa-
sioned his retirement into private life ; and we shall pro-
bably never see the Mirabols, Doricourts, Absolutes, and
Charles Surfaces of the drama again realised with such
exquisite tact and refinement. Mr. Charles Kemble's
professional history was marked by the • usual vicissi-
tudes which :belong to the actor's career. We are
told that he originally began the-world as a clerk in the
Post-office, after having completed his education at
Dopey, in 179,2 ; but that a taste. for 'theatricals influ-
encing him, as it 'did other members of the-family, he
made his debut at 'Sheffield as Orlando in " As You
Like it," His early efforts, however, were anything
but nucceSses, and he was described by a critic of the
day as " a tall awkward youth, with a hatchet face, a
figure badly proportioned, and of wealdimbs, his act-
ing being evidently Worse than his appearanCe. About
the year 1800, however, he began to challene a diffe-
rent sort of estimate ; and joining, in 1803, his brother
Jahn in the proprietary and management of Covent-
garden Theatre; he gradually rose to that eminence as a
delineatei of polite comedy which no other actor ever
rivalled. Certain of his tragic personations were also of
unquestionable excellenCe ; and his Falconbriilge; Fierre,
Romeo, and others, are yet fondly and honourably men-
tioned. He was induced to re-appear on the stage in-
the year 1840, and play a brief round of characters ; but
the venerable actor was all but unequal to the task,
and though some of the old genius was still visible, the
trembling voice and stooping figure 'betoliened the ex-
tent of the physical decay, and the exhibition did not
long continue. For some years past Mr. Charles
/Cambia bad been the victim of an incurable deafness ;
this, however, did not prevent his taking an interest in
the art of which he was once so conspicuous an orna-
ment. To him Miss Glyn, one of the few actresses of
high and thoughtful cultivation that we now have,
owes all her elocutionary power, as regards form and
method, and we have in her a vivid reflection of the
genuine Kemble School. Mr. Charles Kemble married,
in 1806, Miss Teresa Decamp. His children, Mrs. But-
ler, Mrs. Sartoris, and the Rev. John Kemble, the emi-
nent Saxon scholar, we need hardly remark, haVe nobly
maintained the intellectual glory of the house.