The Sun.
London, England, 1870-08-11 00:00:00

ENGLAND'S PREPARATIONS.

At the military depot in King-street, Westminster, on
Tuesday, the non-commissioned officers were busily
engaged in enlisting men for the Army Service
Corps, the 60th Rifles, and various other regi-
ments, Before midday two hundred strong and active
looking young young men had been enlisted and passed.by
the military surgeons at the Horse Guards. The greater
number were carpenters, tailors, saddlers, journeymen
bakers, and shoemakers. Nearly all these men have come
from Whitechapel and the east end. No man was enlisted
for the Army Service Corps unless he had a trade, and
was under sft. 7in. and above sft. 3in. in height. As the
day advanced, and it became known among the unem-
ployed of the working classes that the Government
intended to enlist 20,000 additional men for the army,
mechanics and labourers came in greater numbers to the
depot than in the earliet part of the day. In the evening
the crowd outside the depot became so great that it was
found necessary to procure the assistance of the police in
order to regulate them. The officers remarked that the
difficulty of procuring men was now ended.
The If estern Morning News reaffirms positively the sub-
stantial truth of the allegations concerning deficient stores
for the ironclads Northumberland and Agincourt, which
Mr. Childers on Monday night denied. " The facts
stated are notorious, and by.official documents capable of
proof ; but under a system in which strict secrecy is con-
sidered the first duty of officials, and police spies are
placed at our doors to detect the sources of our news, it is
scarcely possible to adduce absolute proof of such matters,
however true."

NEW Flortouns.—Her Majesty has been pleased
to direct that the English Minister in America, Edward
Thornton, Esq., C. 8., shall be appointed an ordinary
member of the civil division of the Second Clan, or
Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of
the Bath. Her Majesty has also conferred the honour of
knighthood upon Lord Justice Mellish, who has been
sworn in a member of the Privy Council.
A deputation waited upon the Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland on Tuesday to solicit his Excellency's aid in in-
ducing Mr. Gladstone to allow the General Synod of the
Irish Church to appoint to the vacant bishopric of
Kil-
more. His Excellency received the deputation courteously
and promised to bring the matter under the consideration
of the Premier.
A DOOMED SHIP.—A despatch from Dover, dated
Tuesday evening, five o'clock, says :—"An unfortunate •I'
merchant ship, evidently not informed of the breaking out •
of the war, is standing towards the French fleet at the
present moment with the North Geman Confederation
flag flying. Capture is very easy, if those in command of -
the fleet feel disposed to notice the vessel, and Calais and
Dunkirk are near."

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