The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-12 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.

WHITEHALL, AUG. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Colonel William
Cartwright and Lieutenant-Colonel John Woodford to be
Inspectors under the "Act to render more effectual the
police in counties and boroughs in England and Wales."

WHITEHALL, Ati. 11.
The Queen has been pleased to give and grant unto the
under-mentioned officers her Majesty's royal licence and
permission that they may accept and wear the Military
Order of Savoy, conferred upon them by his Majesty the
King of Sardinia, as a mark of his Majesty's approbation
of their distinguished services before the enemy during
the late war, viz.:—
Lieutenant-General Sir William John Codrington,
K.O 8., the Grand Cross of the said Order ; and unto

Major-General Sir Harry David Jones, K.C.B.
Major-General Sir Richard James Daeres,
Major-General Sir Henry William Barnard, K.C.8.,
Major-General Sir R. Airey, K.C.8., and
Major-General Charles Ash Windham, C 8., the Cross
of Commander of the First Class of the said Order.

The Queen has also been pleased to give and grant unto
the under-mentioned officers her Majesty's royal licence and
permission that they may accept and wear the Order of
St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, conferred upon them by his
Majesty the King of Sardinia, as a mark of his Majesty's
approbation of their distinguished services before the
enemy during the late war, viz. :
Lieutenant• General Sir Cohn Campbell, G.C.8., the
Grand Cross of the said Order ; and unto
Major-Gen. Sir John Lysaght Pennefa.ther, K C. 8., and
Colonel Lord William Paulet, C. 8., the Cross of Com-
mander of the First Class of the said Order ; and to
Colonel the Hon. George Cadogan.
Colonel Thomas Montague Steele, C. 8.,
Colonel the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert, C.D.
Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blane, and
Commissary-General Sir George Maclean, K.C.8., the
Cross of Commander of the Second Class of the said Order;
and to

Deputy Commissary• General William Henry Drake,
C. 8., the Cross of Officer of the said Order.

[This Article is substituted for that which appeared in
the Gazette of Friday last, the Bth inst.]
WAR DEPARTMENT, WHITEHALL-GARDENS,

AuG. 8.
Notice is hereby given that the officers and men in her
Majesty's army, named in the supplement to the London
Gazette of Friday, the Ist inst., as having received her Ma-
jesty's permission to accept and wear the insignia of the
several classes of the Legion of Honour, conferred upon
them by his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and who
have not already received such insignia, are requested to
apply for the same to Henry Elliot, Esq., War Depart-
ment, Pall-mall, between the hours of 12 and 4 o'clock
daily, commencing on Monday next, the 11th inst.
The insignia for such non-commissioned officers and men
as have been nominated to the sth Class of the Order, and
who are now serving with their respective corps, will be
delivered to the officers commanding those corps, or to such
officers as they may depute to receive them, with a view to
their distribution,

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 8.
The Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through
the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a de-
spatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, contain-
ing a copy of an Imperial Decree opening the Custom-
IkOnstof Wissembotirg (Bas ithin), for the importation of
hides,. at sf. per 100 kil.; thread, of linen and hemp; ma-
chpieces.inery (machines mecaniques), complete or in detached

WAR DEPARTMENT, PALL-MALL, Atm. 12.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Brevet-Colonel John Hill
to be Colonel, vice Clarke. retired upon full-pay ; Brevet-
Colonel Collingwood Dickson, C. 8., from the Supernume-
rary List. to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Hill; Second
Captain Edward Taswell to be Captain, vice Rogers. re-
tired on half-pay ; Lieutenant Ferderick Thomas Whin-
yates to be Second Captain, vice Taswell ; Lieutenant
John Henry Blackburne to be Second Captain, vice F3r.
mer, placed on
the Supernumerary List ; Brevet-Major
John Singleton to be Captain, vice Mowbray, retired on
half-pay ; Lieutenant William Noel Waller to be Second
Caon.
ptain,
T.--Co
vi"Sllongn el Robert Clarke, retired full pay of the
'
Royal
Artillery, to be Major-General, the rank to be ho-
norary only.

NOTICES TO MARINERS.
ATLANTIC OCEAN—FRANCE.
Pontaillac Light. River Gironde.
The French Government has given notice that on the
10th July. 1856, a light, alternately red and white (each
colour lasting twenty seconds, without intervening eclipse),
was exhibited from the summit of a wooden tower erected
on the high ground of Pontaillac, situated near the en-
trance and on the north bank of the River Gironde, on
the west coast of France.
The tower is 104 feet high, and the light 177 feet above
the level of water, and should be visible 15 miles in clear
weather. It stands in latitude 43 deg,. 33 min. 10 sec.
N., longitude 1 deg. 3 min. 42 sec. W. of Greenwich.
north channel leadinginto the Gironde is lighted
already by three lights, exclusive of that of Cordouan ;
one on Point de la Coubre, the snood on Point de la Fa-
laissea.ilainndg tteirtechitridonoen._tce tower of Terre Negre.
north channel at nittht,neitering the Gironde by the
bringndt
whiteathe wlhi
Terre Negre on with the red aoni. white fixed
ofifx e d
Pontaillac,lightof
and keep them so until the P
N.N. E. , then alter course immediaetelZ Coubre light bears
revolving light of Cordovan, until 3', and steer for the
lights on Point de la Fatale() "and Terre
have brought the
Steer for and keep these lights in onrereolsildre in one.
Light bears S.S.W., after which alter course toCordovan
S.E. by S.
[All courses and bearings are magnetic. Var. 20
deg.
45 min. West.]
By command of their Lordships,
JOHN WARRINGTON, HydrogTapher.
Hydrographic Office, Admiralty, London, July 21.
This Notice affects the following Admitilty Charts :
Ushlut to Finisterre, No. 64 ; Sables d'Olonne to the Gi-

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., Com-
mander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, paid a visit yesterday
to the French Commodore Barbet, on board the corvette
La Faune, at Spithead, where he was received with all
honours, and saluted, with his flag at the fore. S:r
George also visited the Austrian frigate Radetzky, where
similar honours were paid him.
Her Majesty's ship Melville, 72, in ordinary at Ports-
mouth, is ordered to be commissioned, to take the place
of the Minden (hospital ship) at Hong Kong.
Her Majesty's ship Royal George, Captain Robinson,
landed by gun-boats and tender the 824 and other troops
yesterday evening at Gosport and Portsmouth, and they
proceeded to quarters.
Yesterday Crimean invalids, to the number of 104
men of all ranks, belonging to various regiments, were
medically inspected at Fort Pitt Hospital by Dr. J. R.
Taylor, preparatory to their going before a Chelsea
board of officers to receive their discharge.
The finding of the court-martial which was held at
Chatham barracks on Tuesday last for the trial of Pri-
vate William Dowell, 32d Regiment, on a charge of
having wilfully blown off his right band at Chatham
with the view of being discharged from the service, ha,
been made known to the troops at Chatham, having re-
ce-ted the approval of his Royal Highness the Cow-
rna4der-in-Chief. The prisoner is sentenced to 163 days'
imprisonment, but he is not to be discharged from the
service.

The Limerick papers announce the death of Staff-
Surgeon Augustus Henry Cowan, who had been attached
SA chief medical officer to the Depot Battalion in Lime
rick since its formation. Dr. Cowan had seen much ser-
vice with the British army in the East Indies and in
China. He was formerly attached to the 48th Regiment
and a!so to the 7th Fu-ileers. He received his commis
sion as surgeon of the second-class July 2, 1841. Dr.
Cowan war. on Tuesday last proceeding to the military
hospital in the New Barracks, the approach to which i,-
at present intersected by a ditch about three feet deep,
in which waterpipes with plugs are being laid for the
protection of the barracks from fire. While attetnptin?:
t) cross this cutting be fell in, and received severe in
jury, with a severe shock to the nervous system: He wag
removed to his residence, where was assiduously at-
tended by Dra. Hanlon and Gore, but expired at 4
o'clock on Friday morning.
Tbemethod invented and introduced by Mr. Waller-
lied, late member of the United States' Congrees, for
superheating steam, having been submitted to variou
processes during the last six months in the dockyard at
Woolwich, has at length assumed a practical form.
During the series of experiments to which the system
was subjected it appears that various improvements sug-
gested themselves from time to time to the engineer de-
partment there. In this manner it was considered ad-
visable to prolong the trials, and thereby, if possible,
render the system complete. Prior to the late voyage of
the Dee to the Western coast of England the machinery
was fitted up with the appurtenances necessary for the
final test of the system with its stipulated improvements.
The apparatus was at work the whole voyage, which
was specially extended as far as Land's-end point and
back to Woolwich, at the increased speed of from 7 to 9
knots an hour, the resultof which exceeded anticipation.
It is understood that the average economy realised in
fuel amounts to about 35 per cent. The apparatus con-
sists of a number of iron pipes being carried along the
front of the tube plate, and extending into the chimney,
into which the ordinary steam passes, and which grad u•
ally becomes superheated to about 500 deg. It is then
alloyed, or mixed with the ordinary steam, in about
equal proportions, bringing the temperature cf the
mixed steam to about 340 deg., in which state it is ap-
plied to the purposes of the machinery. The system of
simply superheating without mixing the steam has been
known for some time past in France, and has been at-
tempted on
many occasions, but without success, which
is attributed in to great degree to the imperfection of the
French machinery, which is less complete than u
In the first course of experiments adifficulty or own.
existed—
namely, the burning and consumption of the wadding.
After many fruitless attempts, this difficulty was at
length got over, thus rendering the method perfect.

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