The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-01 00:00:00

IMBER.

Hampton 9l, 22
Western (Ayr)........22, 23
Hendon 23, 24
Monmouth... 23, 24
Newmarket Ist 0ct....28, &c.
Lanark... 29, 30

IBER.
Cheltenham 19.21
Curragh l9, 20, .21
West Drayton 2l, 22
Hereford 2l, 22
Monmouth 23, 24
Newmark..t Irtou ...25, dro.

Shrewsbury 15, lice.
Leamington Hunt 23, &c.

PORTUGAL.

Lisuos, Jan. 29.

The London, Belgian, Brazil, and River Plate
Royal Mail Steamship Company's steamer City of
Limerick, Captain Smyth, from Falmouth on the
Gth inst., arrived at St. Vincent on the 16th inst.,
and sailed on the 17th inst. for Rio de Janeiro and
the River Plate.

AMERICA.

QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 30.

The Guion steamship Colorado, from New York,
arrived here at 11 a.m. to-day, with 37 pasEengers.

The Helicon, 2, paddle (unarmoured, wooden),
despatch vessel, Commander E. Field, was taken
into dock at Portsmouth yesterday to have a false
piece affixed to the rudder, and to have ohe copper
cleaned, preparatory to rejoining the Channel
squadron.

LAMBETH PALACE GROUNDS. —The Archbishop of
Canterbury wtote to Mr. Arthur Arnold on Monday last
with rekrence to his request that several acres of these
ground 3 should be given up for the purposo of public re-
creation and sanitary improvement, stating that the subject
is still under consideration.

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THE 11 EA .17,TH OP THE 2L4 VY

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13ritish Navy for the twelve months ending June 30,186,3.
Dr. Alexander Mackay, whose introcluctcry report is date,'
Jan. 15, EGO, states that during the period referred to th-
heali:h of the navy may be considered to have bee.
very satisfactory. Compared with the average taken for..
period of twelve years, there was a reduction in the ratio c!
cry:es entere,l on the sic!: list in the total force equal ti
of alortality to the extent of 31 pz!
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:(1 lower thr-n in the sloops, gun-vessels, and
The total nuulh2r of deaths during the year its

M 3, of wilom 420 were occasioned by disel•se, and 13S by
wounds, injuries, and drowning. The total death rate was
11 per I,OOJ, which is below the average rate of mortality
of the total force, taken for 12 years, to the extent of 37
per 1,000.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

AItMY AND NAVY CHANG

The professional papers are full of important new..
They fully confirm our statement, which was ques-
tioned by the Globe, as to the withdrawal of a largo
number of troops from the colonies. The Army and
2Vary Gazette says that " the withdrawal of troops
from certain of our colonies in reduction of the
garrisons to be maintained in them " has been de-
cided upon. The staff will bo Lreduced, the 4th
West India Regiment disbanded, the Canadian
rnd Ceylon Eiles reduced. The Broad Arrow
says that the policy of concentrating the military
forces of the empir3 as far as possible in the mother
country was fully confirmed at Tuesday's Cabinet
Council ; and as s'on as the -weather will permit, one
regiment of cavalry, five of infiintry, and seven bat-
teries of artillery will bo wleulnwn from Nazi'_:
Anieri;:a. As regar:is the army at home, the Engine r
Train is to he abolished, though the evipment will
be kept u;). The Milit:try Trim is I) be re,r.,,Trinised.
It is prub•Lble that the cavalry wd; b re,)r,:f.talsed
sTiadron sp:tem Ili :t the grades of
o,1;1 ensign wi.l ho ed, ;yid
siibaltcras largely
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important questions in srtillery an
eii;,r7.-ncer matti.rs will be referred, inJead of tlie
decisiens being I,3ft to the indivilnri he,:ds of
dep..lrtments. The Conne:l will consist of Lori
Northbrook, Captain -Vivian, Sir 11. Stot-La, and.
Colonel .I!ilward.

The changes in the navy are no 1 ss serious ana
organic. I.Mr. Childeis's acheme for reducin,, e.7;:pen-
diture is said to be ail bat comy lete. and will embrace
the following changes :—The abolition of the office of
admirals and captains superintendent of the dock-
yards from March :11 ; the abolition of all unimpor-
tant foreign commands, and the ruhstitution of flying
fladrons under rear-admir,d3 ; and, 11.7 cording to
the United Sem:cc Gazete, the abolition of the
_Royal Naval Reserve. There are to be changes also
tire administrative departments. Mr. Pecby will,
it is said, retire from the post of Account.mt-General.
Mr. WiritEn has already retired. Lord Camperdown
wall probably have a seat at the Board of Admiralty,
is ithout, pay, in order that he may carry on certain
investigations into the victuall:ng department. When
the new patent is iss7.ed he will take the place of Mr.
Trevcly:n (are we to infer that Mr. Tre•.-elyan's
speech about the Duke of Cambridge has led to his
retirement from office It is rumoured that
Admiral Frummord w:ll return to the Board, and.
there is much eke in the way of speculation which-
we need nryt repeat.

THE VOL UNTT

"II ippophylaa " 11. rit s :in to the Times tin the
subject of the Volunteers, ani r2fers to the ra:s.:er
of Colonel Loyd Lindsay. He admits that the
Colonel is well qualified to plead the cause of the
volunteers, but does not consider that he has refutA
the statement that the volunteers enter the
category of paid soldiers if they accept any
payment for their services. He thin' s that
if the money is to be invested for military pur-
poses at all, it will be more profitable to invest it in
a s:nall number of regrlar soldiers than in a larger
proportion of paid volunteers. " Hippophyho;. "
also disagrees witle Colonel Lindsay about the para-
ph ern olia which are required for a defensive
force, and draws this deduction from the
Colonel's letter, that the volunteers themselves
recognise the difference betv-.een volanteerin; and
soldierhig to be the same as tir.t between;.
.piemc
and a eamp-,ign. lie concludes his remarks wth the
assertion that the ta:;payers, who are already over-
weighted, object to give more money in support of
such picnics, even when accompanied with competi-
tive sharpshooting for Mllg3 and vases. They had
rather that the. volunteers should be supported on a
voluntary bas:s, as their name they should be.

THE DRADI•'ORD rETIT:ox.

Overend, Guriiek, and Co. ceased in Februarfl,
.and that, thorgh the .worlis were carried on in the
name of C. J. Mare and Co. to the end of that year,
he had nothing whatever to do with them. He regrets
that Mr. Chapman permitted himself to use the word
" depredations " in connection with him (Mr. Mare),
and utterly repudiates the justice of any such expres-
sion. In conclusion, he states that the property
handed over to Overend, Gutney, and Co. in 1862 was
full value for the sums they had lent upon it. The
other communication is from Mr. Stefanos Xenos,
who simply says that his answer will be in the hands
of the public in a few days, when the world will be
able to judge who committed the " depredations."
The plot appears to be more complicated than ever.