The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-16 00:00:00

their arrival in that pat or tnk world. There wer, five
convicts from the Warrior convict ship opposite the
dockyard, and one, a sailor named Cummings, who had
been employed for many years as waterman betwixt the
Unit‘ and Wye, convict-hospital ships, and the Royal
Arsenal, to convey the medical men and others back-
wards and forwards from the vessels to the shore, and
invariably conducted himself with such propriety as to
have gained the esteem of all who knew him. The
clergyman and medical officers of the convict ship sta-
tioned here went on board the Randolph yesterday, pre-
♦ious to her sailing, to give Cummings a good character,
and personally request that every indulgence should be
granted to him consistent with the rules relative to well-
conducted convicts. It may be in the recollection of
many newspaper readers, that Cummings is the sailor
who was tried for cutting off the head of a boy to whom
he was greatly attached, and the only reason he could
ever give for t)st deed was, that he considered the boy
too good to liv4 and that he could not control his actions
On that occasion—the only crime he had ever committed.
TIM ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.—An inspection and re-
turn was made during the last week of the number of
guns and stores kept in the grand depot at the Wool-
wich, always ready for service, for the information of
the Committee appointed to examine the Ordnance esti-
mates, of which Lord Seymour is chairman. It is ex-
pected that the evidence given by Major-General Sir J.
F. Burgoyne, K.C.8., Inspector-General of Fortifica-
tions, before the Committee, will cause an addition to be
made of three or four companies of Royal Sappers and
Miners, each company being in the opinion of the Gal-
lant General able to eft,ct a saving of 1,0001 per annum
on the public works on which that branch of the Ord-
nance service is employed, compared with what similar
works would cost it contracted for, and executed in an
efficient manner, besides giving the Government the be-
nefit et au excellent body of men trained to the duties of
soldiers.

The saving is calculated upon the comparatively mode-
rate pay of the Royal Sappers and Miners, including
working allowances, to that which good mechanics and
artificers receive when the public works are executed by
con tree t.

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