The Sun.
London, England, 1871-01-11 00:00:00

ROBBERY BY A CONVICT.

A convict named Wynne was liberated from Portland
after seven years' penal servitude on the 4th of this
month. On the night of the 7th and Bth he broke into
the houses of two warders, the prison workshop and the
Devonshire Arms Inn, near the prison, and stole a large
quantity of clothes and eatables. He was apprehended
leaving Portland on the 9th. He was committed to gaol
under remand yesterday morning.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The Japanese have instructed an English naval medical
officer, with permission from the Admiralty, to organise
sick hospitals in all the principal ports of Japan. The
patients who are infected will be subject to a compulsory
treatment and medical control.
Captain Radulphus B. Oldfield will, in all probability,
be appointed to the command of the Bellerophon.
On Monday afternoon 12 68-pounder smoothbore guns
were forwarded from the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, to Sir
W. Armstrong's factory at Elswick for conversion into
rifled ordance upon Major Palliser's principle.
In consequence of the success which has attended the
Prussian 16-pounder field guns in the present campaign,
the authorities ordered several guns of that calibre to be
made at the Royal gun factories, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.
These guns are being manufactured upon the Fraser
principle of steel and iron, they are to be rifled with
three grooves, and their weight is 13 cwt. One of these
guns has already been completed. and forwarded to Shoe-
buryness for trial.

The new schools of instruction that are to be added to
the present establishment at the School of Military En-
gineering at Chatham will shortly be begun.

The Patagonia, from the West Indies, announces that
two German vessels have been captured on the coast of
Peru by French men-of-war.

The Earl of Aylesford died yesterday morning at
his town residence, in the 47th year of his age. His lord-
ship, who represented South Warwickshire in the House
of Commons from 1849 to 1857, is succeeded by his eldest
son. Lord Guernsey, who is in his 21st year.
At the meeting of the City Commissioners of
Sewers yesterday, it was stated that during the past
quarter the officers of the Fishmongers' Company had
seized and destroyed fifty-seven tons of fish unfit for
human food. Dr. Letheby, the medical officer of health,
stated that within three weeks 4,274 tons of diseased meat
had been seized in the London markets.

THE NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION.-MAN-
CHESTER, Tuesday Afternoon.—(By Telegraph).—An im-
portant public meeting was held this afternoon in
Manchester on behalf of the National Lifeboat Institu-
tion, his Worship the Mayor presiding on the occasion.
Mr, Lewis, the barrister, and Secretary of the Institution,
specially attended on its behalf, and pleaded in eloquent
terms its claims to public support. He said that the
Lifeboat Society sought neither Government aid nor
Government control, but firmly and proudly rested on
the sympathy and voluntary support of the British public
to carry on its great and national work—a work which
resulted every year in the saving of hundreds of ship-
wrecked persons from an inevitable death. No less than
fourteen lifeboats have been presented to the institution
through the instrumentality of the Manchester branch,
and those boats have saved two hundred lives from diffe-
rent wrecks.

AN EXTRAORDINARY Sum—During the recent
severe weather one of the veteran Breydon gunners named
Thacker, but better known by his cognomen of the " Old
Stork," had the good luck to bring down at one shot five
swans, thus making one of the most successful shots on
record.— rgn Herald.