The Sun.
London, England, 1860-03-19 00:00:00

'THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCIA 19, 1860.
!IM

Two HUNDRED POUNDS REWARD.-
LOST, on Friday, the 9th of March instant. ha Oxford-
street, near to the -London and Westminster Bank, Stratford-
place, the following BANK of ENGLAND NOTES, viz.:--
£2OO
100
" 29'9'10 21th September, 1859.
100
50
50 i° 2.917
20
91 / 47
20
~ 77,54.1
20
20
20
~ 93,079,
10
10
10
10
10
6
5

23d July, 1852.

22d December, 1859.

23d January, IE6O.

27th January, 1860.

Payment has been stopped at the Bank- of England. Who-
ever may have found the said Notes, and will return the same,
or whoever will give such information as shall lead to the
recovery of the same vrithin three months from this date shall
receive the above Reward, or a proportionate part thereof,
according to the amount recovered. Information to be given
to Messrs. H. and S. Mullins, Solicitors, 7, Poultry, London,
E.C.
13th March, 1860.

ARTISTS' GENERAL BENEVOLENT
INSTITUTION,
For the Relief of Decayed Artists, their Widows and Orphans.
Instituted 1814.
Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1842, under the immediate
protection of her Most Excellent Majesty the QUEEN.
PATRox—lfis Royal Highness the PRINCE CONSORT,K.G.

VICE PATRONS.
His Grace the Duke of Buc- Right Hon. Lord Lyndhurst
clench, K.G. Right Hon. Lord Oeerstone.
His Grace the Duke of Suther- Sir John Swinburne, Bart.
land, K.G. Sir RodQric J. Murchison.
Most Noble the Marquis of Baron Lionel de Rothschild,
Lansdowne, K.G. M.P.
Right lion. Earl Stanhope. John S. Harford, Esq.
Rt. Hon. Earl of Yarborough. Jesse Watts Russell, Esq.
PRESIDENT-Sir Charles Lock Eastlake, P.R.A.

The Nobility, Friends, and Subscribers are respectfully in-
formed that the FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
FESTIVAL will be celebrated in Freemasons' Hall, on
SATURDAY, the 31st inst.
The Right Hon. W. E. GLADSTONE, M.P., in filo Chair.

PAl' OF THE ROYAL NAVY;

NEW REGULATIONS.

Lord Clarence Paget, the Secretary of tike Ad-
miralty, promulgated her Majesty's Order in: Coun-
tcif of the 22d ult. to establish the annexed z egula-
Lions with regard to the pay and half-pay, -Sc„ of
masters, &c., paymasters, &c., engineers, :and of
chaplains of the royal navy in a series of four cir-
culars, dated the 23d ult. The several circula rs are
addressed to all the commanders-in-chief, cal 'tains,
commanders, and commanding officers of ht! r Ma-
jesty's
ships and vessels, by the command of the'
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. The' long-
expected circulars were issued on Saturd By, of
which the following are copies:—
MASTERS, SECOND MASTERS, A:ND
MASTERS' ASSISTANTS.
I. FULL AND HALF PAY.
All time served as acting master, and four years
of time as second master qualified for master, will
be allowed to reckon towards increase of hill and
half pay.

Full Pay. Talf Pay,
Per Diem. Per Diem,
Masters having less than five years s. d. a. d.
service, to receive ....
Masters having more than five and
less than 10 years' service, to re-
ceive
11 6 t 6 0
Masters having more than 10 and less
than 15 years' service, to receive l3 0 .. 23 0
Masters having more than 15 and less
than 20 years' service, provided
they shall have passed for line-of.
battle ships, to receive - l5 0 0
Masters having more than 20 and less
than 25 years' service, provided
they shall have passed for line-of-
battle ships, to receive
Masters having more than 25 years'
service, to receive ..
Second masters, qualified for masters,
to receive
Second masters, not so qualified. to .. 2 6.
receive
5 0
Masters' assistants, ,vhon above 17
years of age, and with more than
two years' service in navy or mer-
chant service, to receive
All others to receive
* After three years' service, when unwell or unable to ob-
tain employmint.

11. MASTERS ATTENDANT.
Masters attendants, assistant-masters attendant,
and Queen's harbourmasters are to have the per-
manent rank of commander. No officer is to be
continued in those positions after the age of 65, but
on retirement they will receive the rank of retired
captain, and will be allowed 6d. a day for each
complete year's service in such capacities in addi-
tion to their half-pay as masters.

Time served as masters attendant, assistant-master
attendant, and Queen's harbourmaster is to reckon
as service towards increase of full and half-pay.
Masters of the fleet are to have 6s. a day in addi-
tion to the pay they are entitled to as masters, and
are to hold the temporary rank of commander, but
junior to officers of that rank.

serve, are to be entitled to the benefit of these re-
gulations.

CTIAPLAINS.
I. FULL AND HALF-P.Y.
Full Pay.
Per Diem.
s. d.

Half-Pay.
Ptr Diem.
a. d.

Chaplains having less than five 3-cars'
. service, to receive
Chaplains having more than rive and
less than. lOyears' service, to receive 11 6 .. 6 0
Chaplains having more than 10 and
lees than 15 years' service,to receive 14 0 .. 7 6
Chaplains having more than 15 anti
less than 26 years' service, to re-
ceive Is. a-day in addition for each
year's service after 15 years, but
not to exceed
Chaplains having more than 20 years'
service, to receive
• • 12 0
* Provided the; have served three years.
No alteration is to be made in the present rates
of conditional full and half-pay allowed to, chap-
lains of the Royal Navy when holding the office of
naval instructor.
11. PENSIONS TO WIDOWS.
Pensions at the following rates will be granted
to the widows of chaplains, provided the chaplain
shall have served for one year after his marriage,
and that the other conditions of the Queen's regu-
lations on this subject of pensions, not hereby an-
nulled, shall have been duly fulfilled :
To widows of chaplains under 15 years' service..£so a-year.
To widows of chaplains above 15 years' service.. 70 „To ,widows of chaplains drowned on duty. 60 ff
To widows of chaplains killed in action 70 „ •
HI. RANK.
Chaplains are not to hold any military rank; but
they are to be treated with all the consideration
due to their sacred office; the senior chaplain of
Greenwich Hospital is to be considered as the head
of the chaplains.

5 04,

IV. RETIREUENT.
Chaplains are to be allowed to retire after 15
years from the date of the first appointment, with
the half-pay which they may have earned by ser-
vice, if they had not declined to serve.
Any naval chaplains now on the list who may
prefer to remain on their present rates of full pay,
and under the previously existing regulations with
regard to half pay and retirement, are tobe allowed
so to remain, on signifying such desire to the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty.

2HE NA Tl'.

Her Majesty's gunboat Plover, constructed to re-
place the gunboat of that name sunk at the mouth
of the Peiho, steamed down to Chatham from Wool-
wich on Saturday. Mr. Rigby, of the firm of
Messrs. Napier and Co., of Glasgow, who supplied
the engines, and Mr. Dinnen, from the department
of the Surveyor-General of the Navy, were on
board to report on the efficiency of the engines.
She is to be coppered and fitted for sea at Chatham.
The Admiralty have forwarded orders to Chatham
dockyard for the following vessels now building at
that establishment to be brought forward for
launching during the present year—viz., the Atlas,
91, line-of-battle screw steamer; the Undaunted,
51, large frigate ; and the Orpheus, 22, screw cor-
vette. All three of these ships are in a very for-
ward state, several hundred hands being employed
on each of them. As soon as they are launched,
three of the six line-of-battle and other ships just
ordered to be built at Chatham dockyard will be
laid down on the same slips—viz., the Pitt, 91 ; the
Pomona, 51 ; and the Menai, 22, screw steamers.
The floating battery Trusty, 14, guns, which was
so severely handled on the recent occasion of the
experiments made on her at Shoebaryness with the
Armstrong guns, is being thoroughly repaired at
Chatham by a large number of shipwrights. The
whole of the thick wrought-iron plates with which
shs is encased, which were shattered and injured
by the effects of the shot, are to be replaced by new
ones, and these are now being forged at the smithery
Eider the superintendence of Mr. Catsell, the
master blacksmith at Chatham. As soon as the
defects have been made good and the battery com-
pleted some further experiments are to be made
against the Trusty with the long range Whitworth
guns. •
Another of the Arctic discovery ships, the North
Star, has just been broken up at Chatham dockyard
by the shipwrights hired for that purpose. Orders
have been given that the men engaged are not to
be discharged, but are to be employed in the ser-
vice of the yard.
The Castor, 36, fitting for a training ship for the
Naval Coast Volunteers, is ordered to proceed from
Chatham to Greenhithe on the 31st inst., to be
stationed in the river Thames.
The Ariadne, 26, screw, Capt. E. W. Vansittart,
sailed from Spithead at an early hour on Saturday
for Cork, and thence on a short cruise.
The Argus, coastguard screw steamer, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from the westward.
The Megfera, iron screw troopship, Commander
James Hunt, went out of Portsmouth harbour on
Saturday to Spithead to test her machinery. She
afterwards returned to the harbour to receive her
masts and complete her outfit for sea service.
The finery lieutenants on board the different
ships in Portsmouth harbour are undergoing a
course of instruction in the working of the Arm-
strong gun on board her Majesty's ship Excellent,
Capt. R. S. Hewlett, C. 8., the gunnery ship of the
port.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday
of her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa, at noon
a Royal salute was fired from her Majesty's ship
Victory, flagship of the Commander-in-Chief, at
Portsmouth, in honour of the occasion.
The naval apprentice brig Nautilus, 6, Lieut. W.
B. Grant commanding, is ordered to be docked in
No. 1 dock at Devonport dockyard, prior to her re-
moval into the Sound.
The paddlewheel surveying vessel Porcupine, 3,
Capt. Otter, and the gunboat Redwing were taken
out of No. 2 dock, at Keyham steamyard, Ply-
mouth ; on Friday, the pay-yacht Plymouth and
the gunboat Procris were placed in it. The Por-
cupine is in Keyham basin receiving coal.
The steam corvette Mutine, 17, sailed from Ply-
mouth under canvas on Saturday for Valparaiso.
The sloop Arachne, 18, Commander J. E. Mont-
gomerie, six weeks from Barbadoes, arrived on
Saturday evening in Plymouth Sound, and saluted
the flag of Port-Admiral Sir B. Reynolds, K.C.B.
Steam was got up on Friday on hoard the screw
steamship Espoir, 5, and her machinery was tried
alongside the jetty in Keyham basin. Another
trial will be made to-morrow.
The paddlewheel steam vessel Advice, N. Ray-
mond, second master, commanding, left Plymouth
on Saturday for Queenstown.
The gunboat Lark went outside Plymouth Break-
water on Saturday to try her machinery, and re-
title-led to flamoaze.

The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty:—Ambrose J. U. Breton,
master additional, to the Blenheim; James Ryley,
chief engineer, to the Megmra ; John Davenport,
acting first-class assistant-engineer, for temporary
service in the Megmra ; Thomas Gissing, second-
class assistant-engineer, to the Megmra ; George
M'Leod, acting third-class assistant-engineer, to the
Megmra ; William A. Stewart, acting third-class
assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for temporary
charge of the machinery of the Snapper.