The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has
approved the exchange of Capt. W. S. Jemmett, 2d
battalion of the 15th Regiment, with Captain Le
Messurier, Ist battalion of the same regiment, at
Chatham garrison. Capt. 11. C. Wilkinson, 82d

Regiment, has been ordered to embark for Calcutta
to join the service companies, in the Bengal Presi-
dency. Lieut. R. Rynd and Ensign R. Blanc, Ist
battalion of the 22d Regiment, have been ordered
to join the depot companies of their corps at. Chat-
ham garrison, the latter officer succeeding Lieut.
J. Hughes, who is under orders to embark for New
Brunswick. Ensign W. M'Causland, Ist battalion
of the Ist Royals, has been ordered to join the
head-quarters of his regiment in India.
Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
' the Chatham district, attended by the officials of the
garrison staff, proceeded to Upnor Castle and in-
spected the troops of the line quartered at that sta-
tion. During the past few weeks a permanent in-
crease has been made in the number of troops
stationed at the Castle for the protection of the
magazines, armoury, and stores.
In consequence of the termination of the old
financial year, the departments of Woolwich Arsenal
commenced closing the manufacturing branches of
the establishment yesterday, in order to enable the
officials of the War Department at head-quarters to
take over the residue of stock on hand. The de-
partments will remain partially closed until Wed.
nesday, the lost time to be made up during the after
part of the week by working over hours.
The Mediterranean screw steamship Galicia,
Capt. Straughan, belonging to Messrs. J. Hull and
Co., having completed shipping 150 tons of Govern-
ment stores for Gibraltar, consisting of a steam
hammer, with boiler and machinery complete,
together with a quantity of shot and shell, yester-
day left Woolwich Arsenal for the London Docks,
to complete her cargo in readiness for departure.
Her Majesty's steam sloop Chanticleer, at Wool-
wich, formerly carrying 17 guns, and again ready for
sea, has been supplied with her new armament, con-
sisting of one 6f-ton Woolwich rifled gun, six 64-
pounder shunt three-grooved guns, one 9-pounder
Armstrong, and one 6-pounder smooth bore for cap-
tain's practice. The result of her official trial of
speed and the economy of fuel with Capt. the Hon.
A. Cochrane's patent boiler establish the great value
of the invention. Other ships, it is stated, are about
to be supplied with similar boilers.
By direction of the Admiralty the women em-
ployed in the steam rope spinning department at
Chatham dockyard are not to be discharged from
that establishment, as previously ordered, subse-
quent instructions directing that the workwomen
are to be employed five days in each week, until the
large stocks of yarn now on hand are reduced. In-
future the whole of the spinning is to be done at
Chatham, where, with the improved steam machi-
nery in use, the yarn can be produced cheaper and
with more expedition than under the old systeia. of
hand labour at the other dockyards.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Commander W. W. S. Bridges,
to the Chanticleer, commissioned ; Commander N.
B. Smith, additional, to the Victory, for service in
the Minotaur ; Lieut. G. Browley, to the Chanticleer;
11. llarris and G. Stanley, masters, additional, to the
Aboukir ; 11. Iloskin, master, to the Chanticleer ;
11. Shortt, master, to the Racer ; Sub-Lieuts. F. 0.
Powell and T. B. Lacy, to the Chanticleer ; Richd.
Bogue, F. navies, and G. Leclic, mids!;ipmen, to
the Chanticleer ; Wm. Wallace, paymaster, to the
Chanticleer ; G. J. H. M'Carthy, master's assistant,
to the Chanticleer ; 11. H. S. Andrews, assist.-pay-
master, to the Donegal ; 11. W. Batchelor, assist.-
paymaster, to the Euphrates; A. F. Gain, assist.-
paymaster, to the Asia ; C. F. Gahan, assist.-pay-
master, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary ;
F. P. Lyne, assist.-paymaster, to the Britannia ; E.
B. Pillans, assist.-paymaster, to the Junma ; R. C.
Webb, assist.-paymaster, to the Malabar; and Geo.
B. Collier, clerk, to the Chanticleer.

The Hon. and Rev. George Herbert, brother of
Lord Powis, has boon appointed by Lord Derby to the
Deanery of Hereford.

The will of Jacob Russell, Esq., of Cumberland
Lodge, Streatham-bill, Surrey, was proved, in the
London Court, on the 11th inst., by his relict and
his sons, John Addison Russell and Jacob Russell,
the joint acting executors. The personalty was
sworn under £lOO,OOO. The will is dated Aug. 11,
1865, with two codicils, 1865-6, and the testator
died, Feb. 6, at the age of 81. He bequeaths to
his wife his leasehold residence, Cumberland Lodge,
together with the furniture, except his Indian cabi-
net, which he leaves to his daughter Hannah. To
his wife he also leaves a life interest in X 20,000, which
after her decease is to be held in trust for all his
grandchildren equally. The residue of his property,
real and personal, is to be equally divided amongst
his children on their respectively attaining the age
of 21 years.
The will of William North, Esq., of Hea.thfield,
Upper Streatham, and Palace-road, Lambeth, was
proved in the London Court, on Feb. 14, by W. 11.
Withal, Esq., solicitor, Parliament-street, to whom
a legacy of £lOO is left for his trouble in fulfilling
the duties of trustee and executor. The personalty
was sworn under £40,000. The will is dated Dec.
26, 1866, and the testator died on the 2d ult., un-
married, aged seventy-six. He has divided his
property amongst fourteen of his nephews and
nieces, his sister, and three strangers in blood, in
certain specified portions.
The will of Alexis James Doxat, Esq., of Put-
ney, Surrey, was proved in London, on the 11th
inst., and the personalty sworn under £BO,OOO ; the
executors and trustees appointed being his wife,
Louisa Doxat ; his brother-in-law, Lewis Doxat,
Esq., and Lewis John Doxat, the son of the last
named. These two gentlemen are the acting ex-
ecutors, and to each of them a legacy of £5OO is
bequeathed. There are several legacies to relatives
and friends. The real estate and the residue of the
personal he leaves to his widow absolutely. The
following are the charitable bequests :—To the
Swiss Protestant Church, £3,000 ; the Society for
the Relief of Foreigners in Distress, £1,000;
the Swiss Society (Catholics and Protestants
to share alike), £5OO ; a caisse in Switzer-
land, £5OO ; the Brompton Consumption Hospital,
£1,000; the Hospital for Diseases of the Chest,
Victoria Park, £300; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital,
£5OO ; Royal Lon lon Ophthalmic Hospital, £5OO ;
Bishopsgate Ward School, £500; Marine Society,
£5OO ; Truss Society, £5OO ; London Orphan
Asylum, Clapton, £5OO ; Female Orphan Asylum,
Westminster, £5OO ; Clergymen's Widows' Society,
£3OO ; Brighton Hospital, £500; Westminster Ilos-
pital, £5OO ; London Hospital, £5OO ; Infirmary,
St. Leonard's, Hastings, £5OO ; Royal Maternity
Society, Chatham-place, £2OO ; Lying-in-Hospital,
York-road, Lambeth, £2OO ; London Dispensary,
Spitalfields, £5OO. All which legacies are to be paid
free of duty.
The wills of the undermentioned persons were
recently proved :—James Sparks, Esq., £90,000
personalty ; Thos. Pickard, Warren, Esq., £70,000;
Henry F. Walker, Esq., £50,000 ; Joseph Dart,
Esq., £45,000 ; Robert C. Taylor, Esq., £30,000 ;
Joseph Peake, Esq., £30,000 ; Charles F. Younge,
Esq., £35,000.

CARI.O BIANCONI. —But a short time has elapsed
since the death of Wm. Dargan, the generous patron of the
arts and industry of Ireland, and now another well-known
character withdraws from a career of great public useful-
ness. It is a source of universal regret that Charles Dian-
coui is obliged by failing health to retire from business,
and his immense coach and car establishment is advertised
for sale. Between 50 and 60 years ago Carlo.Bianconi, a
little friendless Italian boy, came to this country to seek
his fortune. With half a dozen English words, pro-
nounced with a strong foreign accent, counting on his
fingers one penne, two penne, the price of his small
wares, ho managed by patient industry to rise to indepen-
dence, and from independence to wealth ; he established
cars and coaches throughout the length and breadth of the
land, and was the pilot of traffic and civilisation in many a
wild and mountain district before railways or telegraphs
were ever heard of. He amassed considerable wealth,
and purchased a landed property, Longfield, in the county
of Tipperary; amid the valuable paintings and sculp-
tures with which his house is tastefully adorned, he
shows with honest pride the old pack that once con-
tained his worldly wealth, and that he carried many a
weary day on his shoulders, when, as a poor Italian pedlar,
friendless and footsore, he traversed the roads of his
adopted country. Perhaps, in memory of those toilsome
journeys of his jouth, he issued his humane orders to his
coachmen and cabdrivers never to pass a woman carrying
her child upon the road without offering her a seat, if there
was one to spare.—Correspondent of the Queen.
DRAWING THE LONG Bow.—" I say, mister, did
you see a dog come by here that looked as if he were a
year, or a year and a half, or two years old ?" said a Yankee
to a countryman at the roadside. " Yes," said the coun-
tryman, thinking himself quizzed. "Ile passed about an
hour, or an hour and a half, or two hours ago; and is now
a mile, or a mile and a half, or two miles a-head ;
and he had a tail about an inch, or an inch and a half, or
two inches long." " That'll do," said the Yankee ; you're
into me a foot, or a foot and a half, or two feet."—American
Paper.
The Court of Correctional Police has just tried
an Englishman named Mot, aged 32, for an
attempt at picking a pocket. It appeared in
evidence that a lady named Achard, in coming
out of the baggage-room of the Western Rail-
way (left bank), felt a hand in the pocket con-
taining her purse ; she turned round suddenly
and saw the prisoner withdrawing his hand and
stooping down to pick up his paletot, which he had
probably let fall on purpose. She immediately caused
him to be arrested. The prisoner gave a very con-
tradictory account of himself and asserted that he
had only been in Paris a few hours ; but ho
was contradicted by a police agent, who averred
that he had seen him at the same station twice
in the preceding week, and that he must have been
in Paris eight or ten days at least. On this the ac-
cused became confused and ended by avowing the
act imputed to him. The Tribunal condemned him
to two years' imprisonment and five of surveillance.
It is said that the Emperor Napoleon will be able
to announce OR the opening of the Exhibition this
day the cession of the Duchy of Luxemburg to
France. The Legislature had passed the Ist Article
of the bill for the abolition of imprisonment for
debt by a large majority. It is curious that this
subject should be occupying at the same
time the Legislatures of France, the United States,
and of Great Britain.
The Emperor of Russia has ordered the now
international system of maritime signals adopted in
France and England to be introduced into the
Imperial navy and merchant marine.
It is announced that the Prince of Orange and
the Count of Flanders have postponed their visit to
Paris in consequence of information conveyed to
them by telegraph that there will be no inaugural
ceremony at the opening of the Exhibition.
By a telegram from St. Petersburg, dated
Tuesday last, we learn that an Imperial decree has
been issued abolishing the Polish Iteiclisrath. Until
the work of assimilating the Polish Administration
to that of the Russian Empire is completed, all legis-
lative questions in Poland will be submitted to the
decision of the Imperial Chancery and the come
tnittee of the former kingdom of Poland at St.
Petersburg.

In order that Russian railways shall no longer
be dependent upon foreign enterprise, the Imperial
Government proposes to guarantee to Russian con-
tractors orders for the manufacture of railway
plant for a period of several years, and at the same

time to advance them one•half of the amount of the
annual contract.

The Moniteur publishes the acceptance by France
of the convention with Russia for fixing the tariff
of the telegraph through Siberia. The total chargc
for a despatch from the western frontier of Russia
to the meridian of Tomsk is 13f., and to that of
Verkhne-Oudinsk, 21f.

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