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London, England, 1848-10-07 00:00:00

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sth Royal Irish Hussars, New Bridge—Captain
thompsou's troop at Kilkenny will march for New ''Bridge; to join head-quarters, on being relieved by a
troop of the 7th Hussars. Major Rcdojph de Salis is-
commanding three troops at Leinster Muse, Dublin.
Lieut.-Colonel Strewell is commanding.
f3th Light Dragoons, Langford, is held in readiness
to move to Dundalk, to relieve the 6th Dragoon Guards,
detaching two troops to Belfast and Bethturbet. Lieu-
tenant Colonel Knox is in command. ,Two troops are
at Ballinrobe, one troop at Castlebar, and a detachment
at Sligo.
Royal Artillery, Porto Bello Barracks, Dublin.—A de-
tachment, consisting of Major Tonakyns and Lieutenant
Thrupp, sth battalion, 3 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, and
30 gunners and drivers, proceeded from Dublin by rail-
way Co Bagnalstown, Oct. 2; and marched to Kilkenny
same day, to relieve a detachment of Captain Flude's
company.

A-cleinehment, consisting of Captain Fluae, Licrtt.
Young, of the 7th battalion, .3 sergeants, 1 .trumpeter,
and 35 gunners, marched from Kilkenny to Clonmel,
Oct. 3, and arrived on the 4th to relieve Captain Tul-
loh's company.
A detachment of Captain- Tulloh's company, with
Second Captain Dodsworth, Lieut. Carthew, Ist batta-
lion, 4 sergeants, 1 trumpeter, and 37 gunners and
drivers, marched from Clonmel to Kilkenny, Oct. 5, mud
arrived on the Bth, to relieve a detachment of Maj.&
Tomkyn'a company.

INFANTRY.
34th Depot, Nenagh —Two Ensigns are ordered to em-
bark to join the service companies in the West Indies.
38th Depot, Boyle—Captain Story is ordered to e'm-
bark for Halifax, Nova Scotia, to join the service com-
panies. Brevet Lieut. Colonel Campbell is commanding.
47th Regiment, Limerick—Two companies marched
from Adare, Oct. 4, to Limerick, a'nd joined head-quar-
ters same day. Lieut.-Colonel Dundas is commanding.
Two companies are stationed at Rathkeale.
66th Depot, Kinsale—A draft of 1 captain, 2 lieu-
tenants, 2 ensigns, 2 sergeants, and 75 rank and file, is
ordered to embark at Cork for the West Indies, there to
join the service companies. Captain Trench is stationed
at Charles Fort with a company. Major Sir William
Gordon, Bart, is commanding.
75th Regiment, Kilkenny—A company marched, Oct.
3, to Castle Comer, and- arrived same day, relieving a
company of the 83d Regiment.. Lieut.-Colonel Hallifax
is commanding.
83d Regiment, Fermoy—Captain Ainslie's company
marched from Castle Cotner for Fermoy, Oct. 5, and
will arrive and join head-quarters on the 11th, on being
relieved by a companß of the 75th Regiment. Lieut.-
Colonel T 3 dell is comthanding.
88th Regiment (Connaught Rangers) Deciit, Tis.alee
—A draft ofil captain, 2 ensigns, and 135 rank miff' file,
is ordered to embark for Barbscloes, to join their ser-
vice companies. Two companies are stationed at Kil-
rush and Newcastle, and a detachment at Abbeyfeale.
Major Irwin is commanding.

ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOL
WOOLWICH, OCT. 6.—Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas
Downman, C. 8., R.C.H., commandant of the garrison,
Major-General Lacy, R. 4„ and several members of the
select committee assembled in the square of the carriage
department at ten o'clock, A..sr., to-day, to witness expe-
riments with Mr. Haig's feeblest forges for field battery
and mountain service. The experiments commenced by
banking up a fire in one of the fanblast forges, mounted
on the rear of a field battery ammunition carriage. The
axle of a light 6. pounder field battery gen-carriiige pre-
viously broken into two pieces was then p/aced, in the
fire, and in thirty minutes they were brought to an ex-
cellent welding heat, and welded together in a most sub-
stantial manner by the workmen in four minutes. The
axle of a heavy 6-pounder gun carriage previously broken
into two pieces was then placed in the trough of the
forge, and the fire being very bright, the piec s, although
larger than those used on the first trial, were brought
to a welding heat in 25 minutes, and strongly welded
together in an 'additional 4i minutes. The officers
of the select committee appeared very satisfied with the
result. It may be mentioned that axles of these sixes
had never previously been mended when broken in the
field, as the usual camp forges had not the_pg_wer of bringing iron of such dimensions to a weldiTlrbeat.
Formerly each troop had a camp forge attached, requir-
ing a carriage and horses &elusively for its own use,
but Lieutenant-Colonel Colquhoun has so adapted Mr.
Haig's invention that each gun may now have its camp
forge, which will not add above 1 cwt. 1 qr. to the am-
munition carriage, and can be made ready for use in
half the time of the camp forges, and are not so liable to
get out of order. A boas been placed in front of the
ammunition boxes for the smiths' and farriers' tools, and
the arrangements appear very complete and efficie for
field service. The members of the select committee en
inspected the operation of a small fanblast forge, only
weighing about 701bs. weight, including all appendages
and working tools, adapted for conveyapce over moun-
tains on the backs of mules when required. In this
experiment the fire was brought to a rsa heat in about
a minute, and in about four minutes brMht two pieces
of rods Of iron three-quarters of an inch diameter to a
welding heat, and they were joined firmly in little snore
than one minute. A. horseshoe was also brought teA
sufficient red beat for being formed into any shape in
two minutes. There were several other fanblast forges
tbhoet hsalmaregeprainndcipsre, a
not
different modifications,
considered necessary
ifferent modifications, all on.
to try them, the advantage of those tested being evident
llbuwtitiht was
There were also in the square several fanblasts with
large
discharging intended for the use of sappers
andmi ers in
on s pipesueti n g field works, and although oc-
cupying but little room they are capable of melting five
cwt. of metal in an hour, and: will prove of great ad-
vantage on foreign stations.

ZOOLOGICAL RECRkATIONS. BY W. J. BRODER
ESQ.—A second edition, with additions, of
this enter-
taining work has just appeared. "Zoological Recrea-
tions (says the. Magazine of Natural History, is a
pleasant book on a delightful subject, belonging to a
class far too rare, in which White, of Selborne, Knapp,
Waterton, Darwin, and Gosse, have earned laurels.
The chief object of this class of works is to please
while they instruct, to enliven as well as to enlighten.
In the same list with the authors specified above, the
writer of this work may be placed. Mr. Broderip'u
writings have indeed done much to diffuse a taste for
natural history.; in the work before us he delights us
with mr.ny pleasing chapters on birds and beasts. The
work w ill prove instructive to many a scientific man as
well at; amuse his leisure hours. We have no doubt it
will c;herish, as well as awaken, a love for natural
history.,"

SELECTION OF BUILDING STONE.—The
,importance
of us4l, care in the selection of stone for building pur-
poses v ..as not felt till 'recently; the fact that the same
quarry • of whatever stone it may be will supply a bad as
well. a s a good material was uunoted, and the result is
that is zany modern structures are in a state of oblitera-
tion. Blackfrisrs- bridge, built of Portland stone, began.
to shot v symptoms of decay before it was finished. Se:
veral n zodern churches, built -of the same material, retain.
little o r none of their origir.al carving, and some of the
moulai dip in ;he arches Hyde Park-corner are all to
pieces. We could even point to a building of the same.
material not y(t finished, where, in spite of more tben
usual care, stones hose crept in which are not likely to
enduri 2 any time;
quarri es do f'urni. eh stone
yet we all know that the Portland
h stone as lasting and as good us any
we citi i obtain. The appointment of the commission to
select stone for‘
.the Houses of Parliament, end the
ing et the subjic et,
re-
port v /filch tbele published* have led to a different feel-
advszt rage, and cannot fail to be productive of
~,; ,hi towledge is now wanted, and that can bu
,;°b,h,'"we"On'y oy easeful inquiry and diligent investim.
I/O?"
CHANGE o F NAME.—By a notification in the Eon-
don. Gazette o f October 3, it appears that her Majesty
has been gra( :iously pleased to give to J. Arthur Jones,
of Llanarth, EN., her toyal license and authority that
ha and his b: rothers and sister (viz., Arthur Js.metz Jones,
ofn
r-L
Roy al Welsh Fusiliers; Edmund P'hilkp Jones,
'r cbert Jones, and Mary Louisa Jones), and
their issue , may take and use the name of Herbert in-
stead of t'
the lineal aat of Jones. Mr. Herbert, of Llanerth., is
male descendant of Gwylim ap Shenkin lier•
ben, Lor
-o
.1 of Gvrarin Du, who was the lineal desorAnulant
of Hert
Chamberlain to, Henry 1., being a romark-
able it canoe of an uninterrupted male &Cent 047:nearly
sever " b undred
, and fifty years.

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' THE AR MY.
NT RESC • he following account has
• = ed us from the Maur ills by the last _packet:—
" Captat :rpm Wilman, of the sth Fusiliers, in com-
pany with Captain Colquitt, Mr. Bellew, 7•Jr. Home, aid
Mr. Fitzgerald, of the same regiment, were on a boating
expedition. When about four miles from shore, a squall
came on and upset the boat. Captain Milmaikswitm on
shore, and returned with a boat and rescued the-others,
who had been five hours and a half clinging to the boat
that bad upset. Had it not been for Milman they would
doubtless have perished, as it was half past fen o'clock at
night when they were picked up. Fortunately there
were no sharks about-at the time, those parts. being noto-
rious for their numbers."

Ist, or K CAVALRY.
marc Kin Dragoon
.rds Cahir—A troop
hedrom Rath Dragoon
for Linicriek9Oct. 5, Lieutenant-
Colonel Henkey coinnianding.
6th (Carbineers) Dragoon GUard3, Dundalk, is held
in readiness to move from Dunclijk to Dublin, on being
relieved by the 13th Light Drazoons from Longford.
• Brevet Major Jones's troop, at Beliurhet, and Captain
Sawyer's troop, at Belfast, will march for Dublin to join
. head-quarters, and wits be relieved by two troops of the
13th Light Dragoons. Captain Mackinnon and Lieut.
Polhill are on leave of absence. Colonel JacksOn,
is on leaVe to Oat. 14. Lieutenant-Colonel Hoy Com-
manding.
2d Royal North British Dragoons (Scots _Greys),
Athlone—ThiS corps is held in readiness to move from
Athlone to Longford, to relieve the head-quarters'of the
13th Light Dragoons, detaching a squadron to Ballin-
robe, one troop to Castlebar, and one troop to 'Sligo.
' Fon& trbops are stationed at Galway, Gort; Ballinasloe,
and .Loughree. Lieutenant-Coloncl Ricketts has re-
turned from leave of 'absence and resumed the com-
mand, . Cornets Cockburoe and Bowtrice are oneleave
to Oct. 14. Major Griffiths will pracaed from 'bort to
Ballinrobe, to take command of the s'cjaadrati. •
4th'Queen's Light Dragoons, New Bridge, will march
from New Bridge to Athlone, to relieve the 2d Royal
North British Dragoons, detaching. four tropps,to'Gort,
Galway, Ballinasloe, -and LOUghrea. These-troops are
stationed.at Waterford, Carrick-on-Suir, and.Pilltown.
Lieut.-Colonel Load Augustus Paget is coramitmling.
Major Fain is on leave to 0ct.14.
7th Queen's Own 'Hussars, Porto l3ello Barracks,
Dublin, is, held in readiness to more from Dublin tb
New Bridge, to relieve the 4th Light Dragoons, de-
taching three "troops' to Waterford, .Carrick,-on-Suir,
and Tullamore. Lieutenant-Colonel Shirley com-
manding. Captain the Marqatiaof Worcester is on leave.
to Oct. 31.