The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-01 00:00:00

iI'REPARATIONS FOR WAR

The rumour that Sir De Lacy Evans had been ap-
pointed to the command of the division under orders for
"a special service " is, we understand, unfounded.
Although the experiments recently made by Captain
Scott on the surveying expedition to the Baltic, in taking
photographic pictures of castles, forts, coast lines, and
headlands, were somewhat deficient in finish, they are
nevertheless considered highly successful for the object
in view. Some of them were executed instantaneously
from the deck of a vessel going at the rate of 10
and even 11 knots per hour ; though for the deli-
cate manipulation which the process requires he
had nothing better than a sleeping berth at his
command. Captain Scott exhibited his pictures at
the last meeting of the council of the Photographic
Society, where they excited much interest. Some Sap-
pers are now undergoing a course of training by Mr.
Thurston Thompson, with a view to the use of photo-
graphy, as already announced, in the operations of the
army in the East. We are also informed that several
new cameras are being constructed for the more conve-
nient application of this ingenious and beautiful art to
war purposes, both by sea and land. It is proposed
that the ship cameras should be suspended, like the cora-
ianstr excludingut to in insure steadiness.
from
the collodion
e
com-
pass, on a universal joint with a pendulum attached,
eTlhls odi
and that those for the field should run on wheels, with
un mechanicalpup paper
u sused i
difficultiesu th the
proCess have also been overcome.• 0 n shipboard a ca-
mera is focused from the trough of the sea, as is the cue-
tornin gunnery practice.

Lieut.-General Sir John F. Burgoyne, with a number
of officers of tho Royal Engineers, are expected to arrive
in England in the course of next week, with the plans
they have taken of the fortifications
of the Turkish dominions, at present
and strongest points
t intended to be oc-
cupied by the English and troopsFrenchFsent to the
Burgoyne will
seat of war in the East. Sir John
aken by
explain the whole of the details of the plans,
the Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers an
Lord Raglan and his staff, and the whole of the ogeer
Miners,
to
now in this country, under orders for the East, will then
s
leave for the seat of war.
Mr. Hale, the inventor of the rockets used without a
staff or tail, and whose name will be recollected in con-
nexion with a recent prosecution, has been for some time
past at Constantinople. The Hale rocket is considered
by competent judges to possess a decided superiority
over that now in the service, and it is certainly rather
an odd turn in the course of events which renders of
some consequence at the present moment to Government
an invention which only a few months ago was so nearly
bringing its owner into trouble.
Lieutenant-Colonel Garvock, of the 31st Regiment,
who has seen much service in India and the Cape, is ap-
, psointed to the staff of the Expeditionary Army.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
WOOLWICH, MARCH 31. —Seventy-two fine horses ar-
rived in the garrison here yesterday from Limerick, via
Cork and Bristol, and from the latter place to London
by railway.
Captain Bingham's company, 12th battalion, arrived
at the dockyard station of the North Kent Railway, at
one o'clock p.m. Yesterday, from Portsmouth, and im-
mediately marched up to barracks.

ROYAL SAPPERS AND MINERS.
Woomo, Itiaca 31.—The 7th covaDy, uutior