The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-08 00:00:00

AUG UST 8, 1870.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The United Service Gazette says—Several of the Metro-
politan Volunteer Corps have received orders to return
their Enfield rifles into store, the War Office being about
to replace them with breech-loaders of the Snider pattern.
We are given to understand, upon excellent authority,
that the three hundred thousand breech-loaders stated by
Mr. Cardwell to be in store are not in store in the ordi-
narily accepted sense of the word. It scarcely has occurred
to Mr. Cardwell, though it is not less a fact, that large
deductions will have to be made from that number for
arms which are in Canada and other colonies. The actual
number in the United Kingdom available for instant issue
is, we believe, very much short of 300,000. Captain Cow-
per Coles has, with the permission of the Admiralty,
again proeeeded to sea in her Majesty's turret-ship Cap-
tain. As Portland has besome a place of great naval im-
portance, the Admiralty intend to purchase a plot of
laud there, with the view of establishing a naval store-
yard for the supply of her Majesty's ships.
Colonel Sir Henry Havelock, V.C., C. 8., Assistant
Adjutant-General Dublin Division, has been removed to
the Irish headquarter staff, Dublin Castle, in the same
capacity, it having been decided to amalgamate
the two branches of the Adjutant-General's Depart-
ment in Dublin. The Army and Navy Gazette says that
Second Captain and Brevet-Major H. Le G. Geary.
14th Brigade Royal Artillery, has been selected to fill
the newly-made appointment of Brigade-Major of the
Royal Artillery in Ireland.—Brigadier-General E. Selby
Smyth, we learn from Mauritius, assumed command of
the forces in the colony, in succession to Major-General
E.C.W.M. Milman, deceased, on the 13th of May.—The
Curragh season will close at the very latest by the 15th of
September, but most probably by the end of the present
month. Captain C. J. Hubbard, Grenadier Guards, has been
appointed an extra aide-de-camp to Lord Napier, K.T.,
Governor of Madras, vice Ensign the Hon J. S. Napier,
92nd Highlanders. The two vacant surgencies of recruiting
districts, those of Inverness and Dublin, have been be-
stowed upon Surgeon-Major J. Crerar, half-pay, late of the
106th Light Infantry (Inverness), and Staff-Surgeon D.
J. Doherty, late 18th Royal Irish, Dublin.-- The Channel
Squadron, under the command of Vice-Admiral Sir
Hastings Yelverton, K.C.8., is now, with the exception
of the Monarch, fairly at sea once more. The Plymouth
contingent started for the rendezvous on Thursday
evening.

The Broad Arrow says the new mode of recruiting is
without bounty, the better pay of the soldier is now in
itself an inducement to join the army. Lieutenant-
General the Right Honourable Sir William Mansfield,
G.C.8., G.C.S.I.' held a levee at the Royal Hospital, on
Monday, of the Staff in Dublin, and Heads of Depart-
ments, consequent upon his assuming com-
mand of the forces in Ireland.— We understand
that large orders have been sent out to Calcutta,
for supplies of saltpetre. The consignments are to agents
in this country, and at the Mincing-lane Sale Rooms it
was said that the orders were on behalf of the British
Government, who stand in need of cartridges. Con-
sidering, however, that the above information emanates
from public, sale rooms, we should be inclined to view the
demand for saltpetre thus early, as the result of specula-
tions by individual City firms, and not as direct orders
from the War Office. It will be remembered, however,
that at the time of the Crimean war, Govern-
ment orders for saltpetre were sent out to Calcutta,
and the shipments were made to Waltham Abbey.—The
Ist Battalion 19th Foot will be brought home from India
this year.— The Royal Engineers at Chatham are very
busy completing the earthworks which are to be em-
ployed in the extensive siege operations on Monday
(to-day). The whole of the troops in garrison will take
part in the mimic battle, and four or five Volunteer
corps from London are also expected to be engaged
in it.

The death is announced of Miss Annie Parker, for
many years one of the chief actresses at the Theatre
Royal, Dublin.
Nature hears that the French army encamped in
the environs of Metz have been surveyed from a Prussian
balloon with the greatest ease.

It is rumoured that a baronetcy will be conferred
upon Mr. Alderman Besley, the present Lord Mayor, at
the termination of his year of office.

At the end of the Army List Ibr the current month
the following announcement is made :—" The Secretary
of State for War acknowledges the receipt of six pounds
(£6) as an anonymous remittance."

According to the Church Times a fresh prosecution
has been commenced against the Rev. Mr. Mackonochie
by the Church Association, the crime laid to his charge
being an act of reverence.

The second battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, under
Colonels Fletcher and Moncrieff, had a field-day on the
north bank of the Thames, near Eton, on Saturday
morning.

The Edinburgh Courant says it is in contempla-
tion to present Sir George and Lady Campbell with a
testimonial in connection with the candidature of the hon.
baronet at the last Glasgow election.

The appointment to the Recordership of Brsitol is
not yet announced, but it is generally believed that the
Attorney-General will take it to himself, as his predeces-
sors have done.—Law Times.

The John Bull says that a layman in the diocese
of Gloucester and Bristol, has offered to the Bishop the
sum of £l,OOO towards a fund for meeting at once any
educational needs that may exist in the diocese.

Mr. Spurgeon, when laying foundation stones,
disdains the use of the silver trowel as unworthy of a
true workman, and with an ordinary implement does a
quarter of an hour's hard work, and actually and posi-
tively lays the stone.—Squth, London Press.

The Irish Laud Bill is law, and we congratulate
our legal brethren in Ireland upon the mighty boon that
has been bestowed upon them. How long will it be before
the English lawyers aro favoured with the like prize.
Law Times.

• with
CRYSTAL PALACE.—In connection the • vv ar
Court a very large and interesting pictorial map of the
seat of war, on a scale of two inches to the mile, has been
hung in the centre transept. A very guod idea of the re-
lative positions of the head-quarters of the different armies
may thus be obtained.

THE CHINA TEA RACE.-1 he race from China
with the new spring teas between the EH King and
Diomed steamers, both of which left Hango on the 4th
June, and came via the Suez Canal, has been decided in
favour of the EH King. . She arrived in the river on
Thursday. The Diomed arrived in the Downs on Friday
morning.

The Middleton Volunteers (says the Manchester
courier) have proved their patriotism by nearly all of
them signing a memorial for presentation in the proper
quarter, .offering their services if required for the protec-
tion of our shores during the war.

- We are informed that Mr. Brassey, father of Mr.
Thomas Brassey, M.P., and principal of the firm of
Brassey, Fell, and Co., the great railway contractors
and engineers, dangerously ill, and is not likely to
survive. - '

Saturday was the anniversary of the birth of
H.R.H. Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Edinburgh,
the second son of Her Majesty the Queen. His Royal
Highness, who was born at Windsor, on the, 6th of
August, 1844, is therefore 26 years of age.

The erection, of the New Law Courts will soon
to commenced. The Royal Commission has signed the
report approving of the plans for the building. The
ground will be cleared immediately ; and probably in
about three weeks preparations will be made for laying
the foundation.

A. meeting of commanding officers of volunteers is
to be held in the rooms of the National Rifle Association
on Monday next, to arrange the details of the ceremony
connected with the reception of 4he Elcho Shield at the
Guildhall by the Lord Mayor, who has consented to
take the custody of it for the present year.
REPORTED RESIGNATION OF MR. BRIGHT.—The
London correspondent of the Dublin Express states that
Mr. Bright has now peremptorily insisted that he should
be allowed to resign. The vote of £2,000,000 for an
increase to the defences of the country is stated to be the
immediate cause which led the right hon. gentleman to
take this step.

The statement which appeared in a London even-
ing paper on Friday that Inspector Brennan had been
arrested and executed as a spy by the Prussians is a
hoax. There is not the slightest truth in the rumour.
The inspector, who has been on the continent, is now
on his way home.

At the Manchester assizes, on Friday, £175 was
awarded to Sarah Jane Taylor, bazaar keeper, as com-
pensation for injuries sustained in a collision on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway in November last. A.
foreman bricksetter was also awarded £4OO as compensa-
tion for the loss of his legs, through the negligence of the
defendants' servants.

The vicarage of Ashton-under-Lyne, which is
worth about £l,OOO a-year, has become vacant by the
death of the Rev. George Cheturde, who had held it fifty-
four years, having been nominated by the Eail of Stani
ford and Warrington in 1816. The nomination of a
successor rests with the present earl. Mr. Cheturde was
also the rector of the small living of Chilton, Bucking-
hamsihre, in which he resided.

The remains of the I-ion. Francis Charteris, eldest
son of Lord Elcho. were interred on Thursday in the
church-yard of Aberlady. The funeral was strictly
private. The funeral of the deceased was attended by
the relatives and friends, including Lord Elcho, Lady
Elcho, the Earl of Wemyss, Sir George Grant Suttie,
Colonel Charteris, &c.
The thermometer in London at 8 a.m. stood at
61, the barometer at 29'95. The pressure was consider-
ably higher on all coasts, the rise amounting to a quarter
of an inch at Pembroke and Plymouth. The lowest read-
ing was at Valentia. At Nairn the temperature rose no
less than eight degrees. The winds are generally light
and south-westerly. In London the extreme direction
was W. The weather is fine, and the sea calm. Rain
has fallen in the south-west.