The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-20 00:00:00

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FRIGH rFuL SACRE IN NE W
ZEAL AND.

(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)
ADELAIDE, Dec. 8.

.Advices from New Zealand state that the
re-
bels had surpriEel the settlers in Poverty Bay,
where they had massacred several Euro-
pean families and committed horrible atrocities.
Men were burnt alive, children mutilated, and
the dead bodies of women thrown to the pigs.
Great mismangement is attributed to the
authorities. The colonial forces on the west coast
have retreated before the rebels, and a large tract
of territory had been abandoned.

The latest news was more encouraging.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Jan. 20.

The Correspondencia of to-day states that the
ascertained results of the elections to the Cortes up
to the present time are as follows :—Monarchists,
223 ; Republicans, 75 ; Absolutists, 15 ; doubt-
ful, 10.
The Gazette publishes telegrams from Havana
confirming the satisfactory news of the decrease of
the insurrection already received. The Gazette
adds that the insurgents were obliged to resort to
pillage in order to obtain the means of subsistence,
and were flying to the mountains.
The Gazette also publishes the electoral law for
the Antilles. Cuba is to send 18 deputies and
Puerto Rico 11 to the Constituent Cortes.

General Bahnseda entered Bayawo on the IGth
[List.

THE CAPE MAIL.
PLYMOUTH, Jan. 20.
The Union's Company's steamer Dane, with the
above mail, has just arrived off here.

NAVAL AND MILI7 ARY INTELLIGENCE

The E'k, twin screw (unarmoured, composite
built) gunvessel, Commander Algernon G. Woolton,
went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday and
anchored at Spithead, where she will receive her
ammunition previous to sailing for China. The
Hornet gunvessel, a similar craft to the Elk, Com-
mander Duncan D. Davidson, yesterday, competing
coaling in Portsmouth harbour, will sail for China
in company with the Elk, and both will be under
convoy of the Juno, 6, armed screw trans,)ort, 400-
horse power, Capt. E. Hard.inge.
The gunboat yard at Haslar, Portsmouth, ac-
cording to present orders, will be closed at the end
of March next. The yard covers a large space of
ground abutting on the shore at llaslar creek on
the west side of Portsmouth harbour, and was
created sonic years since at a very great ex-
pense for the hauling up, storing under sheds,
and the repair of gunboats, mortar vessels,
It is fitted with a hauling up slip and cradle
connected with expensively-constructed and
very efficient lines of railway running at right
angles with the entire length of 50 sheds, with their
blocks, &c., for the storing of the gunboats. A
powerful locomotive engine draws the boats up the
slipway on the cradle, and to and from the sheds in
hauling up or launching, and a fixed engine work-
ing an endless screw takes the boats in or drives
them out from under the sheds as may be required.
In addition to this there is a valuable plant on the
ground belonging to the shipwright and engineer-
ing departments, with officers' residences, &c.,
together with a large space of spare ground
within the walls of the yard, that is available

for extending the present workshops, should it
ever be found necessary to do so. Altogether, the
present gunboat yard at Haslar represents the in.
vestment of a very large sum of the public money,
and it is well worth the consideration of the First
Lord and Board of Admiralty whether some
more profitable use might not be made of so
much capitil. The very opposite opinions have been
entertained regarding the value of Haslar yard.
At this moment the demolitionists have the upper
hand, and the decree has gone firth that it is to be
officially closed on the 31st of March next, and the
50 costly sheds taken down and reino7ed to the
dockyard at Portsmouth to be employed in storing
timber. This latter proposition will at once be con-
demned if rightly understood. To do this it is
only necessary to consider the cost of the pulling
down of the 50 sheds, their removal across the
harbour of Portsmouth to the dock, and their re-
erection. There is another consideration. How
is it that now, when we have abandoned the
building of ships of war in wood for iron, we
suddenly are told that covered sheds must be
provided for the storage of timber ? Supposing,
even, for the sake of argument, that the small
quantity of timber which i❑ future will be kept in
store at Portsmouth dockyard must be kept under
cover for its preservation, surely the six building
sheds of enormous area, which have nothing build-
ing under them but a small gunvessel and a dock-
yard lighter, will hold more timber of all kinds
than can ever be required ; but, if even there should
be found insufficient there is the now vacant and •
disused ropery, of some 1,700 ft. in length, and
other old stores, that could be used on an emer-
gency—a circumstance, however, that Is never
likely to occur." _

On Monday the Ist infantry brigade at Alder-
shott, under the command of Major-General H.
Benny, and consisting of the 2d battalion Gth Re-
giment, under the command of Major Phillips ; the
2d battalion Bth, under Colonel Robertson • the Ist
battalion 25th, King's Owu Borderers, under the
command of Colonel 11. T. Walker ; and the 57th
Regiment, under the command of Colonel Butler,
formed up on the brigade parade, and thence
marched to the general guard-mounting parade,
south camp, in complete marching order.
Yesterday the Artillery division at Aldershot,
under the command of Colonel J. IL Smyth, C. 8.,
consisting of B and C. Batteries 11th Brigade Royal
Artillery, and C, 1), and E Batteries of the C Bri-
gade Royal Horse Artillery, formed up on their
divisional parade ground, and proceeded at half-

past nine o'clock to Eelmoorlhill, where they
marched past in open column of batteries at a walk
and subsequently went through numerous field
movements peculiar to that branch of the service,

returning to quarters shortly before one o'clock.
Two men fell during the exercises, and were
promptly :conveyed to hospital.

Foreign Nail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.

4.ustralla and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 30
Ditto, via Ylraeilles ....... .Ja 25

Ditto, via I'LLanaa Jtn 2S
Buenos Ayres, and Monte Video Feb. 3.

Ditto, by French packet
()ape Verds, by Brazil packet
Cape of Good Elope. Ascension. and St. Ilelena....Jan. 27.
(Mina, Penang, End Singapore, via Southampton.. Jan. 35.
Liibraltar, via Southampton Jan 16

LARGE CONSINGNMENT OF AMERICAN GAME TO
LONDON.- On Thursday a large cargo of prairie fowl or
American grouse was imported into the London markets for
sale. They were in fresh condition, and very readily ob-
tained buyers at 2s Cd to 4s per brace. They much re-
semble moor game, and form a good substitute for Scotch
grouse now the season is over. A largo consignment of
capercailzie, or cock of the wood, also arrived from the
Continent, and the poultry markets aro glutted with foreign
game. Capercailzie sold at 4s to 5s 6d each; and were in a
good state of preservation.
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