The Sun.
London, England, 1856-08-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military

'mice.

Her Majesty will give the annual, fete at Osborne to the
royal yachts' crows, the labourers on the estates, and
others, to-morrow. The hand of the 22d Regt. and of the
Portsmouth division of the Royal Marine Light Infan-
try are ordered to be sent over to play on the
Her Majesty announced her intention to Major:Gen. Bre-
ton, the governor of Portsmouth, commander-in-chief of
the south-west district, of visiting the camp at Brown-
down, near Gosport, yesterday afternoon, and inspect-
ing the British German Legion there encamped under
canvass. One of her Majesty's carriages were sent
from Osborne for the Queen's accommodation, but the
weather was so exceedingly foul and the sea so heavy
that the Royal visit could not he paid.
Major-General Breton entertained at the Government.
house, Portsmouth, on Tuesday night, the Sardinian,
Dutch, and Austrian officers of the ships of those nations
now at Spithead ; also Brig:olier-General Woolridge and
the commanding officers and staff of the British German
Legion, Colonel Forster, R. E , Cslonel Eyre, R.A. ;
Colonel Rayruonds of the Depot Battalion, Winchester;
Colonel Evelegh, of the 20th Regiment ; Assistant-
Quartermaster-General (Lieut.-Coionei) Wright-
De-
puty-AQsistant Adjutant-General Nelson (Major), Town.
Major Breton, the foreign Console, &a.
Her Majesty's ships Rodney, 90, Captain Wilson;
Pembroke,' 60, Captain Seymour, C.B. ; and Furious,
16, iCaptain Loring, C. 8., were all paid off at Ports-
mouth yesterday ; and the Transit, Commander John-
son, will be paid off to-day.
A general court-martial assembled at Haslar Barrack,4
Gosport, on Tuesday morning, to try Lieut. B. A. M'ar-
ray Deane, of the 221 Regiment, on charges preferred
against him by his commanding officer, Colonel Bo',.leau,
the substance of which are—For having voluntarily
given a guarantee to liquidate certain debts on behalf of
his father-in-law, Paymaster Barlow, of the mid regi.•
went, and for being a defaulter in failing to LUlfil the
same ; also for deficiencies in certain funds of the regi-
ment during the time he was Acting Paymaster ; also
for having tors, or permitted to be torn, out of the led.
ger the acccunt of the said Paymaster Barlow. We are
of course prohibited by the etiquette of sucta: tribunals
from publishing anything further until the sentence is
known. The trial may last a fortnight.
Her Majesty's ship Algiero, from Queenslown, arrived
at Spithead yesterday morning, and her '.ilajesty's ship
Seahorse, from Malta, Gibraltar, and Lieson. Her dates
from the latter place are the 11th inst. She bring news
of the bread riots there on the 10th inert, She has on
board, from Malta, Capt. Peddy, Lienits. Furlong and
Dickson, and 133 non-commissioned officers and men,
the depot of her Majesty's 41st Regiment, •
Yesterday morning a detachment of 114 non-commie-
sioned officers and men left St. Mary's Casemate Bar.
racks, Chatham, for the purport, of joining their respec-
tive depots in England and Ireland. The detachment
included men from each of the follawing regiments—viz.,
6th Dragoon Guards, 7th (Quoenrs Own) Light Dra-
,oons, 12th (Prince of Wales's) Lancers, 2d Royals, 4th
(King's- Own), 9th Foot, 13th (Prince Albert's) Light
Infantry, 30th, 33d (Duke of Wellington's), 41st(Welsh)
Regiment, 42d Royal Highlanders, 46th, 55th, 63d,
68th Light Infantry, 69th, 79th Highlander?, 89th, 93d
Highlanders, and 97th (Earl of Ulster's? Regiment. The
whole of the above troops had been sent to the Invalid
Depot, Chatham, on account of sickness or wounds re-
ceived, and were so far recovered as to be able to rejoin
their respective regiments. The draught, which proceeded
to the camp of Aldershot, was under the command of
Captain J. V. H. Montagu, 10th Regiment.
A draught of Crimean invalids, numbering 8 serjeants
and 52 rank and file, were examined at Fort Pitt Hospi-
tal, Chatham, yesterday, by Dr. J. R. Taylor, C. 8.,
Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals, when those men
who were considered unfit for further service were or-
dered to be inspected by a Chelsea Board previously to
their being discharged.
From inquiries made at the Garrison Hospital yester.
day it was ascertained that the whole of the men injured
by the explosion of a mine during the siege operations on
Tuesday are progressing favourably. A court of inquiry
was held yesterday at the Adjutant-General's-office,
Brornpton Barracks, to inquire into the cause of the ac-
cident.
The following officers and non-commissioned- officers
belonging to the Royal Sappers and Miners at Chatham
have been presented with the Cross of the Legion of
Honour by the Emperor of the French for distinguished
conduct in the Crimea :—Lieut. W. C. Anderson, Cu-
lour Serjeant Stanson, Colour-Serjeant Macdonald,' and
Corporal Collins.
Recruiting for the Royal Artillery has been suspended
until further orders. The party at Bristol, under the
G.
command of Captain T. Millward, has been ordered to
join head-quarters at Woolwich, and Captain Millward
to join his field battery at Weedon.
The ship Williams, from Kerte!), arrived in the Med.
way on the 19th inst., having on board the whole of the
engineer equipment belonging to the Turkish Contin-
gent. The gunpowder which was on board has been
safely deposited in the powder magazine.
300 men belonging t4e the Provisional Battalion, from
the 64th, .74tb, 78tb, 83d, and 86th depots, were in-
spected yesterday by the coroman•lant 'of the Garrison,
and, as the whole are young soldiers, each man was fur-
nished with the regimental account-book and the Ar.
tidies of War. They left Chatham for Gravesend yes.
terday morning, to embark on board the ship Earl Bal.
carres for B )inbay, to join their service companies in
that presidency. 14 officers embark with them, under
the charge of Capt. Douglas Hastings 78th Highlanders.
The usual nurabter of women and children will embark
with the draught-.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
Lieut. H. C. Lees (additional), to the Royal Albert ;
Lieut. W. T. Lee (additional), to the Scourge ; R. Ste-
venson, Surgeon, to the Mermaid eonvict-ship • A.
Adams, Surgeon, to the Actmon ; J, E Pritchard, Sur-
geon, to the Sparrowhawk ; J. E. Stokes, Midshipman,
to the Inflexible ; C. S. Shockboroogh, Midshipman, to
the Actmon ; E. Hotham, Naval Cadet, to the Exmouth;
and H. B. Berners, Naval Cadet, to the Calcutta.
Capt. Thompson's sth Company of the 6th Battalion
Small-arms Brigade, Royal Artillery, commenced their
march yesterday morning from Woolwich, en route for
Liverpool, where they are to embark for Ireland. The
officers who accompany the brigade are Capt. Thompson
in command, Capt. Owen, Lieut. Daubuz, and Lieut.
Cuthbert, about 139 non-commissioned officers and pri-
vates, and a similar number of horses,

THE INUNDATIONS IN FRANCE.

The following is the lastcorrespondence between
the Lord Mayor and the Prefect of the Seine, re-
lative to the recent inundations in France and the
subscriptions raised here for the relief of the suf-
ferers :

"Marsion-honse, Aug. 12, 1856.
"Mon. le Ptget, —I forwarded to you, on the 25th
ult., a sixth contribution of 100,000 francs, on account
of the English subscription for the relief of the sufferers
by the inundations in France, and I then stated that
I had some hopes of being able to send you a round
sum to liquidate the accounts of the subscription. It is
with great pleasure that I have now to inform you
that I have this day directed Messrs. Rothschild
Brothers to remit to you 165,000 francs, which will
make the English subscription amount to the sum of
765,000 francs. This is the whole of what I shall have
to send you, excerpt a balance of some thousand francs.
"In thus terminating our account s, I feel highly gra-
tified, Mons. le Prefet, to see the fraternal sentiments
with which we are inspired towards you, and which are
destined henceforward to unite our rations more
closely, so well appreelatel. The subscription opened
for this purpose at the Mansion-heuse, in which ber
Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to take
a part, has been nobly supperted by our fellow citi-
zens ; and whilst the bankers, merchants, annuitants,
and large commercial companies contributed to it to
a great amount, persons in a humbler sphere of life also
evinced their sympathy in the cause by the contribution
of less considerable sums.

" The provinces, also, have most honourably followed
the initiative of the City of London, and you will see by
the list I shall send you immediately, that Manche&
ter, Leed,, Bristol, Nottingham, and other provincial
towns have greatly augmented our subscription by their
contributions, in order to present a rational offering to
you. The a'liance, cemented on the soil of the Crimea,
'is not merely a political alliance, but it is .a bond of
sympathy and friendship which, I hope, will never be
.riven asunder.

" For myself, M. le Prdfet, I rejoice to find myself in
a position to aid, officially, so good a work, so much the
more as this opportunity has enabled me to renew with
you the friendly relations that I begun last year.
" Receive, Mous. le Pr6fet, the assurance of my
greatest respect, &c.,
" DAVID SALMONS, Lord Mayor.
" Mons. le Prefet de la Seine."

"PARIS, Aug. 18, 1856.
"My Lord,—l received the letter by which you did
inform me MM. Rothschild Brothers were encharged to
pay me 165,0001. for the account of the English volun-
tary contributions, made in aid of the sufferers by the
late inundations in France, *which sum bears the total
subscription to the even sum of 765,000 f.
" I could not, my Lord, find enough expressive terms
to say how much I am affected by
so large a sympathy;
I could even say so unanimous, since all classes,•from
the common worker and the boy in .school to your be-
loved and glorious Queen, were anxious to relieve our
unfortunate countryn eo.
"Indeed, we may row speak to each other as united
by friendship, for we were so in peace as in war, in glory
as in misfortune ; and your Lords.hip is right in saying
the alliance cemented in the Crimea is not only a politi-
cal alliance, but a sympathttic and friendly tie, which
we hope shall never be Lroken efi%
" I congratulate myself upon these geLerous offerings
having passed through the hands of an honourable man,personally
to appreciate merit and
hoefawrthr anld Ileparnayedyour Lordship to accept the number-
less thanks the voice of my country will exclaim after
am, my Lord, your most affecticnate and
Bar 13" on AusmANN.
dev“oTteod' ‘
his Lordehip, David Sa.coal‘on.„,
Lord Mayor of London."

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE ROYAL ARSENAL, WOOL•
WlCll.—Yesterday forenoon a sad accident occurred to
one of a party employed in the timber yard bolongiug to
the carriage department. The unfortunate man was a
wheeler by trade, Lamed Malings, and apprars to have
met his death in the following manner :—The party bad
been engaged removing timber from trucks and stacking
it, when by some unlooked-for casualty several of the
logs rolled eft', and one of them struck the unfortunate
man and broke his neck, He was instantly conveyed to
tie hospital in the Arsenal, but life was extinct. The
deceased had but recently returned from the Crimea,
where .he had through the war followed the Name WAN