The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-02 00:00:00

Gr DE , CEMBER 2 1856.
uNDON, TUESDAY EVFMN ,

THE ART TREASU.RE3 EXHIBITION.

The executive committee have just received another
gratifying proof of the great interest, that is taken by her
Majesty in the success of the Exhibition. The following
letttr has been addressed to Mr. Thomas Fairbairn, the
chairman of the committee, by Sir Benjamin Hall :-
- - -

"Office of Works, Whitehall-place, Nov. 27.
" Sir,—l beg 'to inform you that I have received the
Queen's commands to forward, for exhibition at Blanches-
ter in 1857, the several pictures set forth in the list which
accompanied your letter of the 22d inst. I shall have much
pleasure in attending to any directions as to the exact
period when the pictures should be sent.
" I am, sir, your obedient, humble servant,
" B. HALL.

" Thomas Fairbairn, Esq."
The list alluded to is the following, of pictures from
Hamptoe.eourt
1. Raphael-Head.
2. Holbein-Portrait of the Earl of Surrey.
3. Ditto-Princess Flizabeth.
4. Ditto - Francis I. (small).
Pontormo- Venus and Cupid, after M. Angelo.
6. Vander Goes- Wings of an Altar Piece.
7. Moeller-Full length of Peter the Great.
8. Giulio Romano-Sacrifice of a Goat to Jupiter.
9. Tintoretto-The Nine Muses.
10. Ditto-Esther.
11. Francis -The Baptism.
12. Correggio-Portrait of a Sculptor.
13. Vandyck-Cupid and Sleeping Nymph.
14. Sir P. Lely-The Duchess de Grammont.
1.-+. Ditto-Lady Byron.
16. Titian-Alessandro de Medici.
17. Flemish-Portrait of a Young Man.
18. B. West-Death of Wolfe. - •
19. Ditto-Regulus.
20. Palma-Adoration of the Shepherds:
21. 'Kneller-Sketch of Louis XIV.
"22. Unknown -Darnley and his Brother.
23. Ditto Queen Elizabeth (full length).
Lord Northwick sends the following :-
1. Sebastian del Piombo-The Descent from the Cross.
2. Massacio-Portrait of himself.
3. Giergione-A Musical Party.
4. F. Francia-Virgin and Child.
5. P. Perugino-Virgin and Child, with St. Peter and
St. Jerome.
6. Conegliano-St. Katharine.
7. Pellegrino da Modena-Holy Family.
8. Raphael-The Incredulity of St. Thomas.
9. Botticelli-Virgin kneeling, adoring Infant Jesus.
10. Giotto-Death of Virgin, with the Apostles.
11. Ditto-Small.pioture
Ttie following pictures have been promised by Mr. It.
Sanderson, of Belgrave-square
1. Jacob Ruysdael and Adrian Vandevelde-An eaten
sive landscape with figures.
2. Paul Potter-Gray and Brown Horses, and a Peasant.
3. Isaac van Ostade-View of a Village, with numerous
figures.
Lord Wensleydale will send " The Expulsion," by F.
Albani, and four Scripture pictures, by B. ,da Modena.
Lord Hatherton, whose contribution of his celebrated
Hobbima we have already recorded, has promised the
following pictures :-
1. Hobbima-Grand landscape.
2. W. Vandevelde-Dutch Fleet at the mouth of the
Thames (drawing).
3. Ruysdael-Storm at Sea.
4. Trevisani-St. Francis.
5. B. Monneyer- Flower Pieces.
6. S. Bourdon-Holy Family.
7. Rubens-Nymph with javelin (sketch).
8. Canaletto-Italian buildings.
9. Hogarth-Portrait of Inigo Jones, after Vandyck.
10. Scott-View of Old London-bridge.
11. Scott--Westminster-bridge in progress.
The Earl of Chesterfield will send a portrait of Sir
Thos. Lawrence by the artist himself.
Mr. H. A. J. Munroe, of Hamilton-place, Hyde-park-
corner, the collector of a great number of floe pictures
of the ancient, foreign, and English schools, will send
the following:-
1. N. Alunno-Crucifixion.
2. Titian-=Holy Family, in landscape.
3. Guido-Europa.
4. Murillo-Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes.
5. ilogarth-T wo subjects from the " Harlot's Progress."
6. Reynolds-Kitty Fisher.
7. Wilson-The Campagna, from the Villa Diadems.
8. Ditto-His original picture of Niobe.
9. Bonnington-View in Venice (the largest picture
known of this master).
10. Etty -Female figure on the Seashore.
11. A picture by Turner.
Among the other contributors are Sir John Nelthorpe,
Bart., Mr. James Tulloch, of London, Sir Wm. Eden,
Bart., and Mr. Frederick Perkins, who sends an exten-
sive selection. _

The East India Company have intimated through their
secretary that the resources of their well-known museum
will be placed at the disposal of the executive committee.

BIRMINGHAM CATTLE AND POULTRY SHOW.

BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY EVENING,

The private view of this exMbifion opens to-►sorrow
(Tuesday). The entries in ail the classes for cattle are
remarkably good. The folioiting prizss had been
awarded :-- ,

FAT CATTLE.—HEREFORDS.
CLASS I. HEREFORD OXEN OR STEERS.
First pvize, 101., and silver medal to breeder. Exhibi-
tor— Joseph Phillips, Ardington, *Wantage, Berkshire.
Breeder Mr. Thomas Carter, Dodmore, near Ludlow,
Shropshire.
Second ditto, 5/. Exhibitor—John Naylor, Esq., Leigh-
ton Hall, Welbhpool. Breeder—Walter Maybory, Esq.,
Brecon.

CLASS 11.-REREPORD STEERS.
First prize 101. Exhibitor—The Right Honourable
Lord Hatherton, Teddesley Park. Breeder Mr. Thomas
Carter, Ticklerton Hall, Church Stretton.
Second ditto, 5/. Exhibitor —Edmund Wright, Esq.,
Halston Hall, Oswestry, Shropshire. Breeder - Mr. Peter
Davies, Bromfield, Ludlow.
CLASS 111.-HEREFORD COWS.

First prize, 101., and eilver medal to breeder. Exhibi-
tor—Mr. Edmund Herbert, Powick, Worcestershire.
Breeder—Mr. Daniel Burnett, White House, Turnstone,
Herefordshire.
Second ditto, 5/. Exhibitor and breeder—Mr. Edward
Erica, Court House, Pembridge, Herefordshire. Age, six
years.

CLASS IV.-HEREFORD HEIFERS.
First prize, 101.. and silver medal as breeder. Exhibi-
,or and breeder—Mr. George Pitt, Chadnor Court, Dilwyn,
near Leominster.
Second ditto, 5/. Exhibitor—Mr. Richard Thomas,
Ryton, Dorrington, Shropshire. Breeder—Mr. Tarte, The
Bache, Cultnington, near Ludlow. •
SHORT HORNS.
CLASS V.-SHORT-HORN OXEN OR STEERS.

First prize, 10/., gold medal, as best ox or steer, of any
breed or age, in the exhibition, and silver medal as breeder.
Exhibitor and breeder—Mr. Richard Stratton, Broad
Hinton, near Swinton.
Second ditto, 5/. Exhibitor and Breeder—Mr. Samuel
Wiley, Brandsby, near York.
CLASS VI.--SHORT-HORN. STEERS.

First prize, 10rand silver medal to breeder. Exhibi-
tor—His Grace the Duke of Beaufort, Badminton, Glou-
cestershire. Breeder—George Sainsbury, Esq., the Priory,
Corshaw, Wiltshire.
Second ditto, 51. Exhibitor and breeder—The Rev. J.
Holmes, Brooke-hall, Norwich.
CLASS VII.-SHORT-HORN COWS.
First prize, 101., and silver medal to breeder. Exhibitor
—Mr. Richard Stratton, Broad Hinton.
Second ditto, 51. Exhibitor—Mr. Joseph Phillips, Ar-
dington, near
Wantage, Berkshire. Breeder—Mr. Geo.
Game, Eastington, Northleach, Gloucestershire.
Competent for Sweepstakes.
Exhibitor and Breeder—The Right Hon. Earl Spencer,
K.G., Althorp-park, near Northampton.
Exhibitor andbreeder—Mr. Rich. Sutton, Broad Hinton,
declared the winner.
CLASS VIII.-SHORT-HORN HEIFERS.
First prize, 101.; and silver medal to breeder. Exhibi-
tor —Mr. John Armstrong, Palterton, Chesterfield, Derby-
shire. Breeder—The late Henry Champion, Esq., Hanby-
house, near Retford, Nottinghamshire.
Second ditto, 51. Exhibitoi—Mr. Jos. Phillips, Arding-
ton, Wantage, Berkshire. Breeder—Mr. Thomas Mace,
SherbOurne, near Northleach.

DEVONS.
CLASS IX.-DEVON OXEN OR STEERS.

First prize, 101., and silver medal to breeder. Exhibitor
—H.R.H. Prince Albert, Windsor Castle. Breeder—Mr.
George Turner, Barton, Exeter.
Second ditto, M. Exhibitor—Mr. Win. Heath, Lud-
ham Hall, Norwich. Breeder—His Grace the Duke of
Bedford, Dinnatoo, Barnstaple, Devonshire.

FI:ENCII RAILWAYS.

• The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a report
from M. Rouher, the Minister of Public Works, on
the railways of France, recommending that the
railway companies shall be allowed to issue new
scrip to the value of 214,000,000 f. (8,560,0001.) in
the course of the year 1857. The report is as
follows :

" REPORT TO THE EMPEROR.
Paris, Nov. 30.
" Sire,—Your Government is called upon to regulate for
the year 1857 the degree of activity to be given to the great
railway enterprises.

" I have the honour, agreeably to your Majesty's orders,
to submit to you a resume of the principal facts of tho two
preceding years, and the judgment (appreciation) I have
formed, after a careful investigation, of the resources ne-
cessary for the companies to carry' on the next campaign•

"In a report submitted to your Majesty in 1855 my pre.
deeessor stated the immense movement which, sinto 1852,
had manifested itself in every branch'of national labour,
and which especially gave so marked a development to our
railway network.

" That network (mewl), the length of which was 3,6C0
kilometres at the commencement of the revolution of Feb-
ruary, and which remained stationary during thethree years
of political agitation and commercial stagnation which fol-
lowed, was increased on the 31st of Dec.,
1854, by succes-
sive concessions, to 9,236 kilometres. The length worked
had progressed with equal rapidity. It was 1,850 kilos.
in Feb., 1848, and at the end of 1854 it was 4,647 kilos.
" The commencement of the year 1855 was marked by
new and important concessions. Districts for a length of

time devoid of any rapid moans of comrattnication have
'been{ enabled to enjoy this blessing, which in our modern
civilisation had. become an essential conditioi of prosperity,
almost, of existence, for a country.
" Provisional conventions concluded by my predecessor
with the Orleans and Grand Central Companies, and,
moreover, with the Lyons, Orleans, and Grand Central
united—conventions sanctioned at a, later period by the
decrees of the 7th of April and the 20th of June, 1855
have given legitimate satisfaction to the principal interests
of Normandy, of Bretagne, and of Central France.
"In February, 1855, when the confidence of your
Majesty deigned to call me to the office of Agriculture,
Commerce, and Public Works, the concessions realised or
finally decreed comprised a total, extent of 11,250 kilo-
metres*; a length of 4,647 kilometres was open to traffic;
and the works to be finished or completed comprised
6,603 kilometres of the lines granted.
" If this general condition of railway enterprises realised
in the present and promised for the future ever fruitful
sources of public prosperity, the works to be executed ren-
dered it necessary to employ a large portion of the savings
of the country, and imposed a hard task upon private in-
dustry.
" The Administration of Public Works had therefore
momentarily to restrict itself to a less enticing part, per-
haps a more modest bat not a less useful one—namely, to
regulate with prudence the progress of the enterprises com-
menced, and to avoid every dispersion of strength. or re-
sources by adjourning further concessions.
" The campaigns of 1855 and 1855, guided by these
views and devoted exclusively to the continuation of the
lines 'conceded, produced results the full importance of
which I trust your Majesty will appreciate.
" In the coarse of 1855 the great trunk line from Lyons
to the Mediterranean, the non-completion of which was,
under so many grave circumstances, a sort of public cala-
mity, saw the break filled up which still interrupted cir-
culation between Lyons and Valence. The Normandy line
was opened as far as Caen. The line from Bourdeanx to
Bayonne, already open to Dax, was thrown open to its
whole extent. The Chemin du Midi was finished between
Bordeaux and Tonneins. Various important sections
were, moreover, completed by the Northern, Eastern,
Lyons, and Grand Central Companies.

" The total length of the sections opened in the course of
the campaign amounted to 809 kilometres. The total
length of network open to traffic on the 31st of December,
1855, amounted, therefore, to 5,537 kilometres, while the
extent of lines unfinished was reduced to 5,713 kilome-
tres.

" The campaign of 1856 was not less productive than that
of 1853. Already, in August, the Chemin du Midi reach-
ed Toulouse ; at the end of December, or early next year,
the line from Toulouse to Cette will be open all the way.
The branch to Lyons, so long delayed by unforeseen cir-
cumstances, and the non-completion of which was seriously
detrimental to commerce, was recently opened. There is
no break now on this great line of 860 kilometres, which
unites Marseilles and Paris.

"Limoges and Niort have been joined to the Orleans
line; Fecamp and Alenfjou to the Western line; Pecan9on
and Gray to the Paris and Lyons lino ; Aix to the line
from Lyons to the Mediterranean ; Bourg to the Lyons
and Geneva line; other sections belonging to the Eastern,
Paris, and Lyons, St. Rambert to Grenoble, Grand Cen-
tral, and Graissessac to Beziers lines are already open, or
will shortly be completed.

"The total length of the sections open, or to be opened
in 1856, amounts to 063 kilometres.
"Thus at the commencement of 1857, or the ensemble of
the network of railways, comprising a total length of
11,250 kilometres, the lines worked will present an extent
of 6,500 kilometres; and there will only remain 4,750 kilo-
metres to be completed.
"It is important to state the amount of expense ren-
dered necessary by the execution of so vast an enterprise.
It is not even without interest, as information, to indicate
either the proportions according to which the expenses are
divided between the prinCipal periods which have marked
the last 34 years, or the contributive portion which, during
the same period, has fallen Upon the State.
" The years between 1823 and 1830 were for railways a
time of experiment and trial, in which the companies spent
annually on an average about 470,000 francs. The State
gave them no aid.
" In the 12 years which followed the revolution of July,

the indecision as to what system for the construction of
railways should be adopted, th,e little confidence these new
speculations inspired, paralysed their development. Thus
the expenditure on an average did not exceed 14,350,000 f.
annually incurred by the companies. They State only
came forward with an annual outlay of 270,000 f.
"The law of the 11th of Sune;lB42, gave a new impulse
to railway enterprises; from 1812 to 1847 the annual out-
lays reached on an average 85,000,000 f. for the companies
and 46,400,000 f. for the State.
" From 1848 to December, 1851, when
,politioal cares
dried up the fountains of credit, the annual outlays of the
companies fell, on an average, to 50,000,000 f., and the
sacrifices of the State to 75,000,000 f. annually.
" But, dating from 1852, when healthy confidence was
restored and new institutions gave to France safety and
faith in the future, the parts were changed. The annual
expenditure of the companies increased in a remarkable
proportion, amounting to the average of 216,000,00014
the sacrifices of the Treasury diminished no less rapidly,
and were reduced to the annual sum of 17,000,000 f., in
compensation for repayments made by the companies in
virtue of new concessions.

"Finally, under the incessant action of credit and of
keneral prosperity, the outlay of the companies reached in
1855 the sum of 430,000,000 f., and, in 1856, 458,000,000 f.,
while those of the State, deducting repayments, only
amounted for those two years to 30,000,000 f.
" The resume of these figures, which mark the progress
of public confidence, shows that the construction of the
network of French railways has, up to the present, cost
3,080,000,000 f., of which 661,000,000 f. fall to the charge of
the State, and 2,419,000,000 f. to the charge of the compa-
nies. To this outlay the years 1855 and 1856 have alone
co-operated to the enormous amount of 919,000,000 f.
" Certainly such outlays and such efforts, asked from the

country at the same time that it supported in a distant
land a great and glorious war—when it patriotically sub-
scribed to national loans of unprecedented amount—when
other works gave health and splendour to our great cities,
display the admirable activity and the powerful resources
of the empire; but they also explain and justify the pru-
dential measures adopted by your Majesty in 1855, and
your official resolve, published in the 11foniteur of the 9th
of last March, not to grant any new concession in 1856.
" It would have been as well if the spirit of speculation
had not exposed itself to a risk, by going beyond our fron-
tiers in search of new enterprises, in rendering less effica-
cious those wise precautions recently imitated by other
Powers; but, it suffices for the interests of public credit
that the attention of the Government continues to be
directed to these enterprises.
"At the present moment the general condition of the
railways is free from its heaviest charges. The completion
of the lines conceded does not demand an outlay exceeding
1,2E0,000,000f., of which 230,000,000 f. are to be provided
by the State. The delays in completing the works have
been carefully graduated by the regulations. These delays
comprise a period of ten years, and it must be further
added that the works of the sections which are to be opened
to traffic in the course of the next three years are far ad-
vanced. _ _

_____
" The increasing movement of the revenues of the com-
panies is, moreover, of a nature to inspire public confidence•
The net produce, which in 1847 was 22,000 f. per kifometre I
fell suddenly to 13,600 f. in 1851; but since 1852, and
despite the addition of secondary lines, its gradual increase
has been as follows :

Francs.
1852 .
1853
1854
" This produce received an exceptional impulse in 1855

* 684 kilometres, tho concession of which was decreed
titre eventuet, are not included iu the 11,250 kilometres.

from the Universal Exhibition, and rose to 30,300 f. ; but
if that amount is not reached in the present year the in-
crease is not the less visible on 1854, for, acco4ding to the
returns of the first three quarters, the net produce of 1656
promises to be 28,000 f. at least per kilometre.
" It is on consideration of these facts, all of thorn re-
assuring and favourable, that must he determined the im-
portance of the scrip to be realised (des valeurs a realiscr)
by the companies in 1856 ; and this determination im-
plies the solution of two questions :—What kind of scrip
shall the companies be allowed to issue ? (Qtmlle nature
de titres les compagnies devront-alles etre antorisees a
emettre ?) What is the amount they are to be allowed
to issue ?

" When your Majesty, avoiding the double danger of a
division, or of too great a concentration, in concessions of
railways to be granted to companies, constituted those en-
terprises on a broad basis, which assured to, thew a con-
siderable credit, you conceded the execution of secondary
lines to them of great importance to the populations of the
empire, even should these lines appear to be likely to be
less productive than the great lines already worked.
"The companies were authorised to procure the neces-
sary capital for the execution of these lines by moans of
loans. The interest of these loans was to be fully covered
by the revenues of the new sections; consequently, far
from troubling the economy of tho original enterprise,
they wore, on the contrary, to improve the revenues by
the sole development of the general circulation.
"If, since that period, owing to new, ,coucessions, the
Government has been able to ask itself what would be the
most suitable proportion to establish between the capital
to be realised by shares and the capital to be sought from
a loan, that examination never reacted upon the power of
issuing shares (obligations) consecrated to the profit of the
companies by their conditions of contract (cahiers de
charges). The full exercise of this peirer was never for a
moment ignored by the Administration of Public Works,
and will, consequently, still be the rule followed now.

" What is the amount of new scrip the issue of which
is to be authorised?
" The estimate imposed a delicate task upon me, for it
brought in contact different and, at times; opposite interests.
"The resources of public credit must be carefully econo-
mised, and it is necessary not to exceed the power of the
labour which the country can annually provide, without
disturbing the regular action of agriculture. Bat it must
not be forgotten that populations for a long time neglected
eagerly await the moment when the railways will touch
their districts, and that that moment has been fixed by the
Sovereign ; labour must also be provided for thousands of
workmen spread over all parts of the empire, and their
welfare maintained. Finally, it concerns the public purse,
as an interest worthy of the protection and of the sympathy
of the Government, that the large amount of capital en-
gaged in enterprises under course of execution should not
remain too long unproductive in consequence of the non-
completion of the lines in which it is invested. In the care-
ful examination to which I submitted every demand that
was made to me I have endeavoured to conciliate all these
int rats, and I firmly believe that I have given them a just
r,' `rw on by fixing at 214,000,000 f. the total sum of the
new scrip (la somme totals des valeurs nouvelles) which the
' companies shall be authorised to issue in the course of 1857.
" Independently of this sum the companies may turn to
account their disposable capital (pOurrent utiliser lour actif
disposible), the subventions of the state, the funds they
have to receive from their shares, and the obligations
already issued.
"The ensemble of these resources less by about
100,000,000 f. than the sums expended in 1856 will not the
less allow all the workshops to be in active employment,
the sections to be opened at the time appointed by the
cahiers de charges, and even the dates on certain important
sections to be anticipated.
" I, moreover, was perfectly of the same opinion as the
Minister of Finances in thinking that an issue of new scrip,
thus limited, could not came either strait or embarrass-
ment to publis credit. It suffices to be convinced to re-
member the importance of the appeals made to credit in
1855 and 1856, and the circumstances under which they
took place.
"To-day, Sire, the crisis in the price of food, still felt
painfully in some of the departments, has lost that general
character which made it so serious ; the last instalments of
the loans made by the State will be paid into the Treasury
chest in February next ; the new capital required from
savings will therefore be easily obtained. These demands
will, moreover, be successive and graduated, according to
the wants of the companies. Then, capital employed on
the territory in productive labour is soon returned, and
rapidly forms an additional saving.
"I am therefore confident, Sire, that, after having
shielded the interests of actual enterprises, it will not be
impossible for your Government for the extension of out
w aye , especially as regards the network of the north
and the lines of the Dauphine.

" I am confident that the populations of the Pyrenees
will see the realisation of the hopes consecrated by a recent
law, and that your Majesty will be able to intrust a com-
pany with the continuation of the works which, in the
idea of exalted solicitude, you gave me the order to see
carried out in the Pyrenean network.

" By thus limiting the ❑ew concessions to lines of com-
munication which are recommended by powerful conside-
rations of the general interest, by guaranteeing the exist-
ing lines against ruinous competition or rash speculation,
your Majesty will maintain the credit and the coufidenca
which are attached to ono of the principal branches of the
public fortune.
" I am, with respect, Sire, your Majesty's most humble
and most obedient servant and faithful subject,

" E. ROUHER,
" The Minister Secretary of Slate in the Department
of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works."

Navlll and rililitary Intelligence.

Alajor A. A. Nelson's appointment as Deputy-Assist.
Adjutant-General of the South-West District has ceaFed
and that officer has become Brigade-Major of the dis-
trict.

Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Hon. George A. Crof
ton, having been removed from the active to the list of
flag-officers on reserved half-pay in receipt of service
pensions, the following promotions take place upon the
flag list :
Rear-Ad tniral of the Red Sir Fairfax Moresby, K.C.B.
to he Vice-Admiral of the Blue.
R.,:ar-Admiral of the White Wm. Fanshawo Martin,
Superintendent of Poitsmouth Dockyard, to be Rear-
Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of tho Blue Thomas Bennett to be Rear-
Admiral of the White.
Capt. the Hon. Geo. Grey (1834), at present in charge
of stores at Gibraltar, to he Rear-Admiral of the Blue.
Her Majesty's steam sloop Plumper, 11, Commander
Haswell, which arrived from the coast of Africa station
on Saturday, is ordered into Portsmouth harbour, to be
paid off.
The steam despatch gun-vessel Assurance, 6, went out
of Portsmouth harbour yesterday to try her engines.
The Meteor, 16, steam battery, was taken out of dock
yesterday at Portsmouth after sundry repairs, and the
Glutton, 16, steam battery, was taken in to refit.
It is probable the Victor Emmanuel, 91, screw two-
decker, may make another trial to-day at the measured
mile in Stoke's Bay ; her last realised 11i knots.
Yesterday the volunteers from the depot of the 40th
Regiment, wiso have joined the 69th Regiment, lett
Chatham Garrison, in charge of Ensign J. Bamford,
29th Regiment, and proceeded to Weymouth to join the
service companies of that corps. The number of volun-
teers from the 40th to the 69th was 34 men. Volunteers
from the same corps for the 22d Regiment, to 22 men of
all ranks, also left Chatham yesterday and proceeded to
Gosport, under the command of Ensign W. Franklin,
126th Cameronians, to join the depot of the 22d Regiment
at that station. The number of volunteers given to various
corps by the 40th ii,giment is 200 men of all ranks.
Capt. H. 11. Goold, with Second-Lieutenants John-
son and Hamilton, of the ChAtham division of Royal
Marines (Light Infantry), are under orders to proceed
from Wooln tell to Plymouth in charge of 80 privates of
the Woolwich division, as part .complement of H.M.S.
Indus, now fitting at Plymouo for service on the
North American and West Indiaer station, to bear the
flag of Rear-Admiral Sir H. Stewart, S.C.B.
The iron screw steam storeship Industry, Master
Commander Petley, sailed from Woolwich on Sunday
with stores and naval provisions for Lisbon.
lI.M. despatch gpuboat Roebuck proceeded to Green-
hithe on Saturday from Woolwich, and Failed thence for
Portsmouth yesterday, charge of Master Commander
Allen and the officers and crew of the Admiralty yacht
Vivid, transferred for the occasion.
The Government transport Diligence, Capt. Crook,
was yesterday towed down the river from Woolwich
dockyard by the steam tender IVionkey, and proceeded
on her voyage to Malta, laden with a cargo of steam
machinery and dockyard stores.
The steam-yacht built for his Majesty the,Emperor of
Japan by Messrs. Thompson, of Blackwall, and launched
at their building, yard on Saturday, arrived yesterday
evening at Woolwich, and was admitted into the fitting
basin to be rigjed and completed for sea.
A further rem oval of gunboats from Woolwich basin is
ordered to take place by the despatch of the Fenella,
Garnet, Hunter, ar. d Handy to Portsmouth. The m 032,
r-
• tar floats Nos. 118, ,124, 125,1126, 127, 128, 131, 1
and 134 are ordered to be removed from Woolwich to
Chatham, to be placed reserve there.
The hired transport Client's was on Saturday dis-
charged from the Govertimel. employ.
The following appointment, / were made yesterday at
the Admiralty : ed the Nautilus at De-
Lieut. W. B. Grant, to comma.
vonport ; Lieut. J. W. Pike, to cot. imand the Antelope
* to the Indus ;
(commissioned); Lieut. F. A. Herbet, ' A. "A „ • '
Lieut. W. B. Stubles, to the Hermes; E. "Thers)
Assistant Paymaster to the Indus.