The Sun.
London, England, 1870-10-20 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

At a meeting of the Royal Humane Society ow Tuesday,
Mr. Lambton Young read a letter from the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty, requesting the committee to
cause Mr. J. May, gunner of the second class, now on
board her Majesty's ship Excellent, to he furnished with
duplicates of the medals which were awarded to him by
the committee for saving life from drowning in Jamaica
and Southampton in the years 1863 and 1865, Mr. May
having lost the originals through the foundering of her
Majesty's ship Captain. On the motion of the chairman,
Mr. W. Hawes, seconded by Mr. W. Pownall, the corn,
mittee, under the peculiar circumstances of the case-
granted the request.
The crew of the Cerberus, 4, iron armour-plated turret-
ship, who are to take the ship out to Melbourne, have been
giving some trouble to their officers. A degree of dissatis-
faction has prevailed among the men. The ship is lying
at Folly Point, in the Medway, a short distance
from Chatham. On Saturday the men were in-
formed that no leave would be granted on Sunday, as
several to whom leave had been given had not returned to
their duty. On joining the men were paid a month's
wages in advance. The men were aggrieved by this order,
and they went to the commanding officer, Captain Panter,
and declared that unless he revoked the order they
would refuse to do any more work. Captain Panter
pointed out to them that had the ship left when it had
been expected there could have been no leave
on the Sunday; and he warned them that if
they refused to work they must bear the
consequences. Better counsels prevailing, the men,
with one exception, shortly returned to their duty. The
man who still refused to work, Patrick Green, was
arrested on Tuesday, at Rochester, on a warrant, he
having left the ship without leave in the morning, and he
was charged before the city magistrates with disobeying
orders in refusing to work. The Bench marked their sense
of the prisoner's conduct by sentencing him to 21 days'
hard labour.

The death is announced of M. A. Lovey, late professor
of French in the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich,
and for several years French tiltor to his Royal Highness
Prince Arthur.

The French man-of-war Auverne left the River Swale
on Tuesday, leaving behind the tug steamer Two Sisters,
which was detained by the coastguard awaiting instruc-
tions from the Admiralty. The Two Sisters had on board
upwards of two hundred cases, containing rifles and cart-
ridges and a quantity of iron tubes. As there was no
direct proof of the intention to tranship, the tug steamer
was released later in the day by an order from the
Admiralty.

At a court-martial, held at Portsmouth on Tuesday, on
board her Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington, Sergeant
R. Wilkinson. R.M.A., serving on board her Majesty's
ship Donegal, was tried on a charge of stabbing Sergeant
Wilson, R.M.A., also serving on board the Donegal. The
court found the charge proved, and directed the prisoner
to be strictlyjwatched in Haslar Hospital Asylum, pond-

ing orders from the Admiralty. John West, seaman,
serving on board the Monarch, was found guilty of deser-
tion, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment with
hard labour, and to be afterwards dismissed the navy.
Thomas Davis, a marine, serving on board her Majesty's
ship Minotaur, was charged with desertion, and
sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment with hard
labour.

The 100th Regiment, which has been stationed in Man-
chester for some time, left that city on Tuesday for
Bury.

It is rumoured in Woolwich that Mr. Cardwell
has declined to legislate on the subject of the pro-
motion and retirement of the officers of the Ordnance

Corps,

It is reported that about 3,000 new Snider-Enfield
rifles, with steel barrels, are being turned out weekly
at Enfield. A progressive officer, who has heard
of this, totally condemns the manufacture of
weapons which cease to be arms of precision be•
yond 500 yards. " A grave responsibility is incurred
by expending more public money on a comparatively
inferior arm like the Snider-Enfield. The time," adds
the writer, " for refinements and further delay in at-
tempting to obtain an unattainable perfectibility in this
matter is past ; that for action has arrived."
A number of shipwrights at Chatham Dockyard have
commenced laying the blocks of a building slip for the
keel of the Raleigh, 27, 4,066 tons, 1,000 horse-power,
which is to be immediately commenced. The Raleigh is
intended to be an iron vessel, cased with wood , and
heavily armour-plated, and she will be of the Inconstant
type. _ _ _

A long circular from the War Office issued yesterday
shews the order in which Snider rifles are to be ' issued to
the different regiments of the volunteer force, but it is
necessary to state that before the 31st instant, all " Pat-
tern (1853) interchangeable rifles" at present in pos-
session of volunteer corps will have to be forwarded to
the Royal Small Arms Department, Birmingham, for
conversion.

ALIVE TO THE OPPORTUNITY.— The Portuguese
Government is expected to sign a contract with an Eng-
lish firm for a supply of Martini-Henry rifles, the first
order to be for 30,000.

WRECK ON THE SUFFOLK COAST.—The lifeboat
La.,titia, belonging to the National Lifeboat Institution,
was launched at Lowestoft on Tuesday evening, to assist
the crew of the stranded brig Glenora, of Scarborough,
241 tons, Simpson master, bound from Shields to
Ro,thester, with a cargo of coals. Fortunately the life.
boat was instrumental in rescuing the crew of seven men,
and in landing them in safety.

An active movement (says the Church Herald)
is going on amongst members of the Convocation of Can-
terbury to detach that assembly from any connection with
the scheme for revising the Scriptures in conjunction with
the 'Unitarian, Mr. Vance Smith. It is said to be probable
that Archdeacon Churton, Canon Hornby, and Mr.
Grey may together take similar action in the York Con-
vocation in the early part of its next session.
The remains of the late Lord Charles Berth
Percy have been interred at Milverton, a rural church
near to his own residence of Guy's Cliff, on the banks of
the river Avon. On the road to the church the funeral
cortege was met by a number of his lordship's tenants,
who headed the procession to the church. The Duke of
Northumberland, the Earl Percy, Lord Algernon Percy,
General Ashburiiham, and other relatives followed the
body to the grave.

Mr. A. Illingworth, M.P., has urged the citizens
of Bradf )rd to get out of the political rut in reference to
the election of a school board. Let them, said the hon.
gentleman, consider the education question in all its
bearings. If there were differences of opinion, let them
be discussed, and let the majority holding any one view
dominate in the school board. If possible, let them not
have the question solved by any side winds.
SELF-APPOINTED DELEGATES.—Thepractical illus-
trations of Republican theories are sometimes comic
enough. An amusing anecdote is told in the French
papers. The municipal council of Parizet, in
the department of Isere, had just closed a
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mayor to open a subscription list for the same purpose,
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Chamber, by several workmen employed in the neighbour-
ing dye works. One of them said, " Sir, in the name
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that five delegates have the right to depose authorities."
" You need not even be five," said the Mayor " provided you
are empowered to act. Once more I ask who nominated
you?" "We nominated ourselves," was the reply. Un-
luckily the mayor, unconvinced, found it necessary to
send the delegates to prist n to put a stop to their protests
and menaces.