The Sun.
London, England, 1870-09-23 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL? SEPT. 20.
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise .Ina
Pence
Arthur, and attended by Lady Churchill, went 1.717 tQ "-
Dhu Loch,
The Marchioness of Ely has arrived at Balmoral.

PROMOTION AND RETIREMENT IN Tfl°

ORDNANCE CORPd.
The report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Pr°‘
motion and retirement of the officers of the Ordnailef'
Corps has just appeared among the Parliamentary 131
Books. The basis of their inquiry was twofold, 1. "rlJ3t
fixed annual sum for retired full pay should be abolisil,oero
prospectively. 2. That retirement of regimental OWL °f
not being general officers be compulsory at the ag°
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sixty, on A 1660 a year. The points on which they we
required to report were the expediency of adopting eellr
pulsory periods of age or service for retiremel'i:
The expediency of permitting optional retirenow;
the cost of the measure and its bearing on other arms
the service. The committee, after a long and careff;
investigation, arrive at the conclusion that compuls°"],
retirement is inexpedient in itself, and that its adoption o'
not needed in the case of either Royal Artillery
or Royal Engineers. As to the expediency ",
.
permitting optional retirement, they approve
it, and think the general interests of the cisorP'
would be best served by the retirement of the Colonel',
who are superannuated at 60 years of age to a Reserve"'
List with a right to future promotion, but as they recour;
mend the immediate abolition of the retiring pensions °J.
£6OO a year under the existing system, they are of opillloll
that the superannuated Colonels should have th
option of taking the pension or going on the Reserve
List.

The Bishop of Manchester on Wednesday con°43;
crated the new church of St. James the Less, Great
Ancoats. His lordship expressed an opinion that in SOT:
respects it was a noble aim for 'a man to desire to Inn
money, if only he did it honestly, and with the object o
spending it patriotically; and he rejoiced that in Lan'
cashire as much or more of that high spirit existed tlia:
probably in any other part of England. The clinref
will seat 654 persons, and has been erected at a cost °
£2,500.
THE POPE.—From Rome we hear that on tile'
Feast of the Nativity of Our Lady the Pope went to 00.
Church of Santa Maria del Popolo, at ten o'clock, and iu
full state, preceded by his cross-bearer on the white Wlle
used on occasions of gala, and accompanied by the Car:
dinals the Senate, and the Bishops resident. His Haines'
looked well and full of courage and confidence, and it 104,
noticed during the High Mass at which he assisted the
he looked upward frequently and appeared to be speakips,,,
rapidly in a low voice and with remarkable earnestness,
if conversing conversing with some unseen presence. On leaving
entering the church he was most warmly acclaimed 131
the crowd.—Church Herald.

THE CITY OF RAGUSA.—Letters received ill
Liverpool on Wednesday state that the little boat, City
Ragusa, about two tons burden, had arrived safely 9'v
Boston, after a most daring and adventurous voyage from
Liverpool. The little vessel left Liverpool in June tasty
and after putting into Holyhead and Queenstown
make some necessaryrepairs, left towards the end of 0::
month for New York. Captain Buckley, in a letter,.
which reached Liverpool on Wednesday from Boston, saYSA
" God be thanked for our safety during a hard
and trying time. I am in gobd health, an
never was in better spirits." The City of Ragusa reached
Boston on the Bth instant, and her log when Plwe
lished will probably be a most interesting Ong'
The greatest number of miles made in one day was 0.7,
the least 11 ; the average speed being four knots per hoer,
The original destination of the " City " was New York
but, as she was leeking badly, she put into Boston for
repairs.

RETURN OF MR. LAMONT'S ARCTIC EXPE-1)1'
TION.—The Diana arrived at Dundee on Monday, all Neu'
five days from the coast of Norway. Mr. Lemont's inters'
tion during the past season was to test the practicability
of penetrating into the unknown regions of the far north
by way of Novaya Zembya ; but an immense accunl"
lation of unusually heavy drift ice encumbered the
western shores of that country up to the end of June, and
in forcing her way through this, the Diana had the 11215,-,
fortune to carry away one blade of her propeller, as we
as to consume such a quantity of her coal as to render
any further attempt at exploration in a northern
direction inads isable ; and Mr, Lamont therefore devoted
the remainder of the summer to hunting the walrus, the
Polar bear, and the reindeer on the coast of Novaya
Zembya and in the Kara Sea, which lies between that
island and the estuaries of the great Siberian rivers Obi
and Yenissei. We understand that Mr. Lamont ba°
brought home many curious specimens of geology an
natural history, as well as a most accurate and valuable
series of barometrical and thermometrical observations,
tending to elucidate the set of the currents in the
north-eastern part of the Arctic Ocean.—Dundee 461-
vertiser,