The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-20 00:00:00

TUESDAT EVENIN GG MAY 20, 1856.

.P.48;ia.1 and kilizary intelligence.

The Mercury and Ceres eutteraa,rrived at Portsmouth
yesterday from the Channel Islands to r7:fit.
The Swedish corvette Lap:Tgbjelke left Portsmouth
yesterday morning for the 'Pesci,- --
The transport BO.vvari), ,No. 141, arrived at Ports-
MOW h yei4ardiy7ivith-120 Roastan guns and mortars of
heavy calibre, chiefly trophies out of the,Reclau.• •
Daring a heavy gale; of ;vial the south-west at'
Sheerness on Cressy, .6.0 gorts;icrew steam-
ship, Captain Richard L. Warren, fouled the new screw.
steam-ship Mars, and while getting steam up in the
height Of the gale carried away liar • flying-jibboom, jib.
boom, and b,lwsprit, the last breaking at the cap. She
then got in collision with the Colossus, 80' guns, screw
steam Ship, Captain the lion. Henry Keppel, C. 8., and
afterwards steamed to an anchorage berth doWer down
the harbour. A number of the gun-boats also' dragged
their anchors during the gale of Saturday and Sunday
last, but no serious damage is reported. Such was the
violence of the gale that the houses near the town pier
were scarcely approachable for the heavy sea breaking
in over the pier and emhanktuent.
The iron paddlewheel-steamer Lizard, teuder to the
Waterloo•At Sheerness, arrived at Woolwich on Satur-
day, ann landed the detachment of officers and privates
of the Royal Marines, lately serving on board her Ma-
jesty's 80 gun steam-ship Russell, Captain Francis Scott,
paid off: The detachment consisted of Captain Congden,
with two serjeants, one bugler, and 52 rank and file.
Captain W. B. T. Rider, R. 11.14 rejoined head-quar-
ters Weoiwich, yesterday, from her Majesty's screw
steam-ship Hawke, at Devonport.
The Lords of the Admiralty have instructed the Com-
mandant of the Royal Marines at Woolwich to assemble
a board of officers for the purpose of making such ar-
rangements as they may see fit for placing the marine
canteens on the same footing as those of other branches
of the army—namely, to discontinue the sale-'of spirits
and have a fixed weekly rent, instead.at,,,Ahe present
~privilege money fur every 10 Min per month.
The following appointments' were Made yesterday at
the Admiralty :

Captain N. Vansittart, to the Magicienne ; Com-
mander C. M. Luckraft, to the Coast Guard ; Lieut. the
Hoe. W. B. de Blaquire, to the Alban ; Lieut. H. A.
Claverimr, to the Caradoe ; Lieut. A. 13arrow, Lieut. F.
J. D'Aguilar, and Lieut. A. H. Webb, to the Hogue,
re-commissioned ; the Rev. J. W. Grimes, to be Chap-
lain to theWagicienne ; C. W. M‘Conoeley, to be Ma,s •
ter's Assistant to the Prometheus; W. F. Alexander, to
be Paymaster to the Magicienne ; C. P. Fielon, to be
Assistant-Payinaster to the Ajax ; J. W. Sisehman, to
be Assistant-Paymaster in charge to the Arrow.

EXAMINATION FOR MILITARY AP-

TOIIVTIVENTS.

The following " Revised prospectuts of Examinations
for Appointments for the Royal Artillery, and Admis-
sions to the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich," was
yesterday issued from the War Department :
An examination for provisional commissions in 'the
Royal Artillery will commence on Monday, the 30th
June, at King's College, Strand.
About twenty appointments will be made, supposing
a sufficient number of competent persons to present
themselves. The candidates must be between the ages
of 20 and 23 years.
At the same time, provided a sufficient number are
found qualified, about 30 admissions will be made to
the Royal Military Academy, the candidates for which
must be between the ages of 17 and 20 years.
Gentlemen .appointed will remain under instruction
until they are sufficiently advanced in scientific know-
l€dge to pass a satisfactory examination.
The appointments in both these classes will be deter-
mined by the result of a competitive examination.
The seiviscts of examination will be as follows, viz.:--
Pura and Mixed Mathematics.

Language, Literature, Geography, and History of An-

cient Rome.
Language; Literature, Geography, and History of An-

cient Greece,
Language, Literature, Geography, and History of Ger-

many.
Language, Literature, Geography, and History of

France.
Eaglish Langudge, Literature, Composition, Geography,

and History.
Experimental and-Natural Science.
Moral and Political Science.

Drawing.
Every candidate must be examined in Pure Mathema-
tics, but the choice of the other subjects, and the number
which may be brought up for examination is optional.

IR,ELAND.

DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING.
THE TIPPERARY BANE CONTRIBUTORIES,

The war of words still rages in Master Murphy's
office. Saturday was occupied with the cases of Mr
Wilson Kennedy and Mr Vincent Scully, _and at the
conclusion of the arguments the Master intimaterthat
his judgment with respect to those gentlemen's claims
for exemption would be prepared by Monday (this day).
It is said that in the event of judgment being given
against the English shareholders, the parties are pre-
pared to appeal first to the Court of Chancery, and, if
unsuccessful there, then to bring the matter before the
highest tribunal in the empire. Altogether the prospects
of the creditors do not improve, and everything denotes
the certainty of a long day before a sixpence shall be
touched in the way of a dividend.

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, SUN' orkraz, Seven o'Clock.

BATH RA.OES—(This Day )

(BY BLEOTRIO TELtGRAPH.)
LA.NSDOWNE STAKES.

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Sever' ran.
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FOURTH BIENNIAL ~srAKEs.
Stork

Colt by Newport
Five ran.
,FIFA BIENNIAL SDAKES.

Larnbourne....
Vigil

Six ran.
SO3IERSETSHIRE STAKES.
Cerva
Alonzo
Topsy 3
Seven ran.
Lord Dervventwater was scratched at 2.34.
MENIBERS' PLATE.
1
2

Freckle
\Vantage

Six ran.

LATEST BETTING.
10 to 1 agst Artillery (taken freely)
14 to 1 agst Coroner (taken to 3001)

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOT BE LORDL—(This Evening.)
The LORD CHANOZLILOR took his seat ou die woolsack
at five o'clock.

NEW PEER.

The Earl of KENMARE took the oaths and his seat
as a Baron of the United Kingdom.
Lord MONTESGLE presented several petitions pray-
ing for an improvement in the parochial school system
of Scotland.

I engaged ,in mannfacturing percussion caps or the fire-
works for the ensuing peace celebration.
THE BALLOT.
Mr. H. BERKELEY renewed 'his motion for leave
to bring in a bill to protect the electors of Great Britain
and Ireland, by taking the votes by way of ballot. He
looked upon the task he hid undertaken as one of
Sisyphian labour, and, if 'he had but', half accom-
plished it, something would have been. gained for
the caws he advocated. Since last be addressed the
'house great changes' had taken place with reference to
this• question in the opieion of hon. members of that
house. Some maintaiael their objections to the ques-
tion and some had changed them,.'and those who had
,done it woula be found for the most part to have
changed their politics, and those who had not changed
their'opinions and had riot changed their politics would
be found to have changed their_ constituents from
those large mannficturing towns and the counties, or
those rotten borough 3 that had been allowed to remain
under the Reform Bill to please the Whig nobility, and
from a participation of which they were unable to ex-
clude the Tory nobility. The ballot was not
now a party question, although it was attempted
to be made so by the Tories in that house, and it
had been made an open question by the Government.
The hon. gentleman then reviewed the progress of opi-
nion on this question within the last few, years, and pro-
ceeded to answer many of the arguments that had been
advanced against the establishmentof vote by ballot. The
present system of voting at elections was, he, contended;
unmanly, tyrannical, and unconstitutional ; and from
the manner in which it was too often exercised, it was
both brutal and demoralising to the voter. He com-
batted what he called the fallacy of the argument used
in favour of the present mode of voting—via., that the
electors held the franchise in trust for the non-
electors, and that therefore they should vote openly
that it might be known whether or - not they IlAd 00P1-
mitted a breach of that trust. 'Be "voting for A. or B
was no proof of the purity of the elector's voting, for it was
impossible to discover by it whether the elector had voted
from purity of motives or without intimidation. He
called attention to the existing state of the ballot in Ame-
rica, about which there was much misconception, and read
from documents furnihed him by Americans the practical
working of the ballot in the various states of the Union.
He also illustrated the evils of the open voting by reading
*reports of the proceedings at the recent elections of
Boston, Bath, Wells, Midhurst, and other places.
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

LONDON GAZETTE—(This Evening.)

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 29.

Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a
Drawing-Room at St. James's Palace, on Thursday the
29th May next, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Majesty's
Birth-day.

N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in
their Collars at the Drawing-Room on the 29th of May
next.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 13.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Manley
Hopkins as Consal•General in the United Kingdom for
the King of the Hawaiian Islands.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAT 14.

The Qaeen has been pleased, on the nomination of the
Right Hon. Lord Foley, to appoint Charles Alexander
Lockhart Robertson, Esq. , one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps
of Gentleman-at-Arms, vice Grange, retired.
COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Ca, alry.—Major Thomas
Rawdon Ward to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Phipps, re-
signed ; Supernumerary Major the Earl of Shelburne to
be Major, vice Ward, promoted ; Lieutenant Thos. Fraser
Grove to be Captain, vice Wyndham,rresined; Cornet
Edward Peach Wm. Miles to be Lieutenant, vice Grove,
promoted.
Northumberland Infantry Militia—George Dodd, Gent.,
to be Lieutenant.

Royal Carmarthen Regiment of Militia—Lieutenant
David Edward Jones to be Captain, vice Lewes, resigned ;
Ensign John Thirlwall to be Lieutenant, vice Thomas,
resigned; Ensign Lewis Evans to be Lieutenant, vice
Jones, promoted ; Charles Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Thirlwall, promoted ; John Swan, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Evans, promoted ; John Hughes,'Esq., to be Surgeon,
vice Lawrence, retired.