The Sun.
London, England, 1854-05-05 00:00:00

M.-ORDNANCE.

The total of the Supplemental Estimate is 742,1321. ;
and the following analysis shows the additional votes
that are to be taken :

Vote I.—For the purchase of horses 30,0001. will be
asked ; for pay, and for additional pay and allowances
on foreign service, 21,3331. These sums, with 2,0001.
for travelling expenses, &c., amount to 53,3331.
Vote ll.—The total is 96,734/. ; barrack supplies
being set down at 30,0001., great coats at 44,6211., and
boots, shoes, &e., for troops in the field, 22,1131.
Vote IV.-- For salaries and allowances to clerks at
home stations 2,0001. are required.
Vote V.—Under the head of wages, 104,190/. will be
asked for. With the exception of 5,0001., the whole is
to be expended in the different establishments at Wool-
wich, the laboratory department alone absorbing 72,6731.,
and the carriage department 20,0001.
Vote Vl.—By far the greatest portion of the whole
sum now to be voted is comprised under the head of
"Stores." For miscellaneous stores at Woolwich,
225,3801. are proposed, and for the same description of
articles at the Tower, 100,000/. ; for timber, 40,245/. ;
for small arms, 30,000/. ; and for iron ordnance, &c.,
33,0001. The total sum asked under this head is
455,875/.

Vote Vll.—For special engineer services in connec-
tion with the expedition, 20,0001. is required, and
10,0001. for the erection of barracks at Aldershott.

Taking the three estimates together, we shall have—
Navy £4,553,731
Army
Ordnance 742,132

Grand total .

£5,595,863

MOVEMENTS OF TIIE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE.

" There's luck in leisure," says a Scotch proverb.
With the sentiment of this sapient maxim his Royal
Highness of Cambridge is profoundly embued. Appointed
to a command in the army of the East, he received his
route and set out from London on the 10th of April. In
Paris he spent ten days, dining, dancing, and seeing
sights. His departure was at last fixed for the 20th, and
on that day he did actually get again into motion, but
not, as was at first given out, for Marseilles. His Royal
Highness had made up his mind to deviate a little from
the straight road, in order to come in for a share in
the junkettings at the marriage of the Emperor of
Austria. At Vienna, accordingly, other ten days were
pleasantly if not profitably spent. On the 30th his de-
parture from Vienna is telegraphed. " Surely he is now
going straight to Constantinople or the Danube." Alas !
how little do those who indulge in such illusions know
of the duke. Corfu, the scene of many pleasing remini-
scences, lay too temptingly in his way. Mariners of the
old time might as well have attempted to pass the Syren's
Isle without landing, as the duke to steam past Corfu
without stopping to take a friendly dinner or two with
Sir Henry Ward. How long Corfu may detain him it
were vain to conjecture, or whither he will betake him-
self on leaving it. The only other possible house of call
between there and Constantinople is Athens ; the Court
there can scarcely be in a condition at present to afford
a pleasant reception to a stranger. It is, however,
possible that the Duke may find out some other stage
to halt at. As a contrast, Prince Napoleon, it is true,
after having made his way to Zante against a stormy
head-wind, started again, without a moment's delay, for
his destination, But these parvenu Bonapartes aro pro-
verbially headstrong and hasty. The scion of our royal
stock knows better bow to maintain that leisurely pace
which is coisistent with royal dignity.—Daily News.

SOUTHAMPTON, Thursday, May 4.—A visit to the
Southampton Docks would at the present moment
amply repay the connoisseurs in naval architecture, and
others interested in ocean steam navigation. The four
finest steam-ships in the world are now moored in the
Tidal basin, and represent the greatest achievements
hitherto effected in the construction of these gigantic
means of sea locomotion, both by screw and paddle-
wheel methods of propulsion. The former is represented
by the Himalaya, Simla, and Colombo, and the latter
by the Atrato. These four ships represent an aggregate
of 11,410 tons, and 2,550-horse power. The General
Screw Steam Shipping Company's steamer Cape of Good
Hope arrived here this morning from Constantinople.
She brings no news. This steamer took out to Constanti-
nople a considerable quantity of Government stores. The
directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company have just issued a notice to the shippers
to various parts of the world by their steam-ships, that
in consequence of the continued enhancement in the price
of coals and the rates of coal freights, and in the other
items of expenditure connected with the navigation of
their steamers, they are under the necessity of increasing
the rates of freight, which are in future to be charged
60s. per ton measurement to Lisbon and Gibraltar, in-
stead of 503., as heretofore ; and Hs. per ton to Malta,
Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople, instead of 80s.
as heretofore. A step of the same sort and on similar
grounds was taken a few months since by the directors
of the West India Mail Company, who raised from Si.
to 61. per ton their scale of freights to the West India
and Brazilian ports.