The Sun.
London, England, 1860-08-28 00:00:00

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THIRD EDITION ~4.

SUN OFFICE, Reven o'clock.

STOCKTON RACES.—(This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.]
PALATINE STAKES.

East Stanley
Underhand
Prophet
Throe ran.
CLEVELAND STAKES.

Dictator — •
• •
Caller Oui
3
Scrubbing Brush
Eight ran.
TRADESMAN'S HANDICAP.
1

Hepatica
2
Moorhen
3
Bivouac ..

Eight rau.

LICHFIELD IId4CES.—( This Day.)

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.]
ANSON PLATE.

Libellous
Lady Kingston
Adelaide
3
Five ran.
QUEEN'S PLATE.

Master Bagot
Defender
3
Newcastle

Three ran.

LONDON GAZETTE-(THIS EVENING).

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, AUG. 23.
The Princess Augusta Caroline, Hereditary Grand
Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz, has been pleased to ap-
point the Lady Caroline Mary Coat, to be her Royal High-
ness's Lady-in-Waiting.
FOREIGN-OFFICE, AUG. 25.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Wm
Frederick William Niebuhr as Consul at Rangoon for his
Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Oldenburgh.
CROWN- GFFICE, AuG. 28.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
County of Cumberland, Western Division—The Won.
Percy Wyndham, in the room of General Sir Henry
Wyndham, K.C.11., deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, AuG. 28.
sth Dragoon Guards—Major-General the Hon. Sir Ja.rnes
York Scarlett, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Major-
Gener eal the Earl of Cardigan, K.C.8., removed to the
11th Light Dragoons.
11th Light Dragoons—Major-General the Earl of Cardigan,
K.C.8., from the sth Dragoon Guards, toobe Colonel,
vice General Sir Henry Wyndham, K.C.8., deceased.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain Frederick
George Baylay to be Adjutant, vice Morris, promoted.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet-Colonel John Chay for
Ito be Colonel, vice Williams, removed as a General OM-
cer ; Brevet-Major George Clement Baillia to be Lieu -
1 tenant-Colonel, vice Chaytor ; Second Captain Henry
Schaw to be Captain, vice Baillie; Lieutenant William
r4Butler Gosset to be Second Captain, vice Schaw. ;
BREVET.
In consequence of the death of General Gustavus

Nicoll :
Colonel Montgomery Williams to be Major-General on
the Fixed Establishment of the Royal Engineers.
General Sir J. F. Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.8., Supei an-
merary on the List of General Officers in the Royal lingi-
neers, to be placed on the Fixed Establishment.
Colonel Thomas Coryndon Luxmore and William Faris,
retired full-pay of the Royal Engineers, having been senior
to Colonel Williams on the effective List of the Corps 0.1, the
date of their retirement, to be Major-Generals.
NOTICE.
The undermentioned days have been fixed for the Evirni-
nation of Candidates for direct Commissions in the Army,
to be held at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, viz.:—,9th
October, 1860, and 28th January, 1861.

That portion of the Gazette containing the bankrupts
had not come to hand when we went to press.

COURSE OF EXCIIANGE.—Txts DAY.
Am3terdam
MI to 3 Months. 11 16 11. 161
Rotterdam --11 16} 11 16/
Antwerp
Brussels — 25 27/ 25 30
13 51 13 51

Hamburgh
Paris
Ditto
i'larseilles — 25 371
Frankfort on Maine — 1171
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgh — 35
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan

25 171
2,5 40
25 421
117 k
V; 35
13 40
351

49
49
25 47t
25 40
25 40

49!
49i
25 55

25 45

Genoa
Naples
Messina

25 45
39}
;31
53;

Lisbon
Ororto
Rio Janeiro
New York
Foreign Gold in Bars (Standard),...per os. £3 17 9
0
Mexican Dollars
Silver in Bars (Standard) ,, 0 0 0
South American Donblons
++

IMMERSION OF THE TROOPS IN
WATER.

A medical witness was once interrogated as to
the effect upon a man's health of spending ,several
hours up to his neck in water. He replied that it
very much depended upon the previous habits of
the patient; if ho had been all his life accustomed
to be so placed, it was impossible to say how long
he might remain immersed without harm. From
the representations received during the past
week from the Curragh Camp, it would appear
that the authorities are trying the question prac-
tically upon her Majesty's Dragoons now
quartered in that well-watered locality. It is not
however, just, humane, or economical, to have such
a cavalry brigade as the Greys, and 3d and 4th
Light Dragoons, made a corpus vile, and we trust
to hear soon that there is an end of the experi-
ment. We can cagily understand that, up to a
certain point, the Government has not been so
much to blame in the matter. The calendal! has
registered the months of June, July, and August
but the weather steadily declines to be Aug
but
by any arrangement of the kind, and March
and November have alternately usurped the
place of the months composing the summer
quarter. Every one of us has been day after
day, and week after week, fondly but vainly ex-
pecting the summer which comes not, and. we
cannot blame the Government for picketing Dra-
goons in a manner which, in an ordinary season at
this time of the year, would afford no room for
complaint. However, we have now arrived at a
period when it is idle to expect matters to mend
for more than a brief period, and it is high time to
stop these experiments upon the capability of human
life to stand the most severe hardships ; and we trust
that the next week will have witnessed a break-up
of the Curragh-Camp, so far as those regiments are
concerned which cannot be hutted after the winter
fashion, and that we shall have no further repeti-
tion of the painful details with which the col UMDS
i Of
our contemporaries have been incumbered durng
the present week. If voluntary enlistment should
continue to be the means of supplying oux army
with recruits, we must not wantonly expose men
to disease and death. Already, perhaps, we have
suffered to some extent from the isolation to which
the men are subject, who are left for so long a time
in these military back-settlements, away from the
enjoyments associated with quarters in
kings be
under the old system ; and it may perhaps b
worthy of the consideration of the authorities, whe-
ther we might not with advantage confine these
monster encampments to the few summer months,
during which only manoeuvres on a large scale can.
be carried on.—Armg and Navy Uazette.