The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-29 00:00:00

OYD'b SUIPPIN ti. —(This Day.)

LONDON, July 29.—Wind thia day at noon, N.; light
breezy and cloudy.

SOUTHAMPTON, July 28. - -Arrived—Borrussia(s.), from
Nt,,w York.

PORTSMOUTH, July 28.—Wind N.B.—Sailed—Grace
Darling, for Charleston.

PLY3IOUTEI, July 2t:,.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Marga-
retta, from Thrall. _

OFF NEWHAVEN, July2B.—Arrived—Sussex Maid, from
South AtnericA.

SWANSEA, July 28.—Sailed—Etbelbert, for Coquimbo;
Wolf, for Gibraltar. •

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning.

Wind S.E.
Arrived, July 28.—Taurus, screw steamer, from Havre ;
Forest Queen, Bombay—passed by Ramgore Reef April
18, and saw the Alehymist (before reported) on shore
there, ahan toned, nn,l half Cull of water, the natives plun-
dering her; Bombay Castle, Montreal.
Sailed, July 27.-- F. W. Burns, for Baltimore ; Sarah,
Gibraltar; Egerie, Quebec; Glencaple, Malta; Catherine
Borinnd, Dordt.

Sailed, July 28.—Tyne and Kate., for Dordt ; Chris-
:ophor Columbus, Genoa.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BR:TISH TELEGRAPH.)

GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning.
•
Wind W.E. ; tide last hour's ebb ; weather fresh, and
cloudy.
Arrived, July 28— Schwan, (s.), from Bremen; Mag.
dalena, St. Petersburg ' • Oberon, Norkoping ; Alma, Chris•
tiana; Salpen, Crcnstadt • Caroline, Riga,
Arrived, July 29 Ellen Morrow, full]. Archangel;
Elizabeth, Cronstadt ; Swallow, (e.), Tonning.
Sailed, July 29 —Kielniansegge, steamer, for Marburg ;
Panther, Bouloogne.

DEAL, Thursday Morning.

Wind N.N.E., moderate:
Passed, July 23—Eliza Ann, for Quebec ; True Blue,
Aliclnte; Sarnian Gem, Trinidad ; Catharine Elizabeth,
St. Kitt's ; Courier, Berbice—all from London.
Passed—William France (8.-s.), from the westward, for
London.

THE STORM IN THE PROVINCES.—The storm experi-
enced in the metropolis on Saturday night and Sunday
morning appears to have been felt with equal violence in
vaiious parts of the country. The wind blew a perfect
hurricane off the north-east coast, and the crews of the
vessels at sPa describe the storm as terrific ; but, the
strong gale fortunately hlewing out and not upon the
coact, no casualties of anymoreent are reported. A num-
ber of boats were destroyed at the seaside villages, but,
siteabei .
their moorings at
the Weer, but were afterwards secured. The steamship
Saturday night,
driven from
Yps night, no fishing vessels were out at
Hudson reit the town on Saturday n
nSgeve Sraatl s
night for Bremen, but
she had to put hack again and remain till Monday. The
grain crops in the neighbourhood of the north-east ports
have suffered considerably front the rain and wind. At
Harwich the gale was very vi.oleet, and continued until
three o'clock on Sunday alternoen, doing a great deal
of damage in the harbour. Two brigs were driven
ashore on the Gunfleet Sands. At Yarmouth and Lowe.-
toft a heavy gale was experienced. The Zorilda, from
Hatelepoel, with coals, foundered off the Dudgeon on
Sunday, but the crew were saved. At Portsmouth the
wind blew a hard gale on Saturday night, and on Sun-
day morning all the men-of-war at Spehead struck top-
gallant masts. At Liverpool the gale commenced shortly
before midnight, and several casualties occurred among
the shippine'. A veal-Iron ashore off the Clarence-dock,
hut came off at flood tide. A schooner sank near the
North Spit on Su .day morning, but the crew were saved
by he lileb at. Another small vessel got adrift and was
a, andoned by the crew. Some houses in the course of
erection were partly blown down, and several trees were
torn up by the roots. At Holyhead the gale was so
•trone that several vessels which had put to sea on
Saturday had to return to port. Accounts from various
inland towns represent the storm to have been extremely
violent, but all the casualties reported are of a minor
description.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT MALTA.—A lamentable
accident occurred on Saturday, the 17th of July, by the
falling in of a portion of the I') ninsular and Oriental
Company's coal stores, at the Piai it, Malta, attended
with serious loss of life. At a quarter to 11 in the
morning, when the coalmen were employed in loading
a lighter wi. h coals from No. 8 store, the wall dividing
it from the adjoining store, No. 7, neither of which is as
yet roofed, being untqval t ) the pressure of the large
quantity of coals contained in it, suddenly gave way,
and, distressing to relate, a number of the workmen who
hal not time to effect their escape were c ushed to death
by the fhllieg mass of stores, cons, and rubbish.
Twenty men were employed in No. 8 store when the
accident took place, 12 carrying coals and eight re-
moving a heap of coal dust which lay close to the
door. These ;latter eight eecai.ed, while 10 out of
the 12 engaged in removing the coal from thew
pert of the store were killed on th 3 spot,
and another
immediate re•
was so severely hurt as to render his Mime
enoval to the hospital necessary. .
As three crinolined young ladies were passaeg along
Roxburgh street, Greenock, a
withlit little, dirty, and very
Hey
who's your
rude boy loudly hailed them
fed to this exceedingly
cooper ?" No answer was vouchsa
impertinent question.
'' The most quiet place Iknow," said 'Zekiel, " is
in Miesissippi ; there s no quarrelling, nor
Woodville,
rowdyism, nor e eeteieg in the streets. If a gentleman
insults another, he's quietly shot down, and that is the
last cf it."
A correspondent of the Cotiave Gardener
says that
bright pieces of tin hung louse in cherry trees will effec-
tually scare away birds ; and for the same purpose, for
the protection of gooseberries, he winds ecarlet worsted
to and out the bushes,

TilE ENGLASEI AND FUNCEE MAILS FOR AMIRICL.—
Tao ,tearn blip Arago, Captain LirJes, left Sontbsiaipton
yesterday, fur New York, with the above wails, 170
~sengers, 550 tons of cargo, .and 25,000 doles. from
Hare,

THE ARMY.

The annexed circular re4pecting re'ig'ons instruc-
• Von in the army schoZ, has been ic.sued from the

War-office :

, ",Sir,—The Secretary of State fir War having
decided t alter the 'erms of art. 38 of the Army
School Regulations of July, 1857, so as to separate
that part which relates to religious instruction from
that part which relates to the general attendance,
and at the same time remove any doubt which may
exist as to the perfect equality and freedom of
members of all religions denominations in respect
to the former, I am directed by Major-General Peel
to forward to you the enclosed regulation which is
to.be substituted-for the article in question.
"I am to take this- opportunity of adding that
Major-General Peel is of opinion that it will tend
to promote the efficiency of army schools if, in
every regiment and garrison where there is no local
assistant-inspector, it be made the duty of some
one officer, besides the orderly officer—if possible
one who will voluntarily undertake it—to visit
- them periodically during the hours of attendance,
and to call the attention of the commanding officer
to all circumstances which he may observe, or
whiCh maybe pointed out to him by the schoolmas
tie bs susceptible of improvement. If the matter
is one which cannot be remedied by the influence
and authority of the commanding officer, the
monthly school reports furnish him with the oppor-
tunity of calling the attention of the Secretary of
State to it.—l have, &c "B. HAWES.),
To be substituted for Art. 38.
"1. The schoolmaster will open the school at
nine a.m. with the Lord's Prayer, with or without
the addition of one or more collects from the Book
of Common Prayer, or with one of the forms of
prayer which may be expressly authorised for this
pp•
"2. Re will proceed to give a collective Bible
lesson,. or .to read and explain a short pa-sage of
Hilly, Scripture taken from the authorised or Douay
version. •

" 3. The attendance of adults at this instruction
will be entirely voluntary.
"4. The parents of children who are not of the
same religious persuasion as the schoolmaster will
be at liberty to send such children to school at the
hour for comrn-ncing general instruction—viz.,
9.30 a.m., and not at the hour for opening school ;
so that tere may be no impediment to The advau
tage of religious instructon bei' g extended to such
adults and ch Idren as are desirnus of receiving it
"5. The same principle to apply to infant.
BC/100. lq.
"6. On twodays in etch week, of which Saturday
shall not be one, there wil: be an hour set apart
for specific religious instruction under clerical di-

reetinn, in wbcch the participation of the Betio .1-
master is to be voluntary. At these hours the offi-
ciating chaplains to the fore the Roman Cathol.c
clergy, and the ministets of any dr•riornina ion
belonging to places of wor4hip to which-the troops
are marched on Sunday. will be at liberty to nt.end,
and to form sepAr•te clas‘es of adults or children of
theirown respective re-r•ma4ions, ‘,ll a general notice
given previ,msly to the commanding officer, who
will direct in what place they wil assemble their
respective cusses.
." No. 7. No secular instruction, wh, ther literary
otinduitrial, is to be carried (n in the same room
during its employment for the purpose of religious
instru
Another trial of the 36 inch mortar was made

yesterday morning in Woolwich Marsh. The ex-
periments comnr need at 11 o'clock and term:nst,d
at 1.30, with a charge of 50ib. of powder, &c.,
which obtained a range, as on form-r occasions, of
about 340 yards to each 101 b. of powder. A minute
examination of the wedg-e, keys, rings, Jrci. having
been made and pronounce' " all right," a sec:md
charge of 691 b. of powder, &e., was introduced.
The second round, like the firs*, vial highly success-
ful, the range in this ins ante exc e-ling 2,000
yard., the shell al;ghting beyond the butt, in a
ditch which seplrates the marsh from the adjoin;ng
property, and c-elting a tremendous eruption of
water, black earth, &c. Accorclin (2 to the prescribed
arrangement of adding 101 b. of powder to each suc-
cessive charge, the third round contained 701 b.,
and although the monster gun had stood th I first

two rounds well, an additional r'egree of can ion
bras observed by everyone prer,ent to stand clear of
its proxi►ni►.y the instant the match was iyuited.
The effect of the third roan I was less successful, as
one of the steel cotters bri,ke asunder, and was ren-
dered unless ; but as the former experiments had
shown the necessity of being provided against a
similar casualty, the broken key was replaced, with
some sight delay, by a second, wrought
of malleable cast iron, suppcs,..!d to be
more durable. _ The mortar was then reloaded

with an 801 b. charge, and fired with apparent
success, the shell again mounting high in the air
and taking a fl;ght over 2,758 yards, con-iderably
exceeding a mile a half. The el -vition of the
mortar was frequently varied, and 'was ultimately
reduced from 48 dew. 30 min. to 45 deg. At this
stnge of the proceedings it was f until impossible to
carry on the experiments, as one of the main stays
intended to secure the various segments cfqtstitut-
ing the barrel of the mortar was b- ok-n, and one
of the principal wedges or cotters, a foot and a ba:f
in I,lngth, had escaped. The bugles were then
sounded, and Lieutenant Walton and the detach-
ment of mounted orderlies and sentries under his
command in charge of the range were cilled in and
matched off the ground, and. a committee was
formed to consult on the expediency and practica-
bility of a cmtinuation of the trial on s•ume future
OCC4BIOD.

The wives and families belonging to the sth
company, 12th battalion, Royal Arti:l,ry, who are
• now on service in India, haviDabe<n left• in 'Wool-
wich, to the number of between 30 and 40 families,
are *offering great distress in consequence of some
unaceountable irregularity in for the
vouchers necessary I,r the receipt of he allowances
mid() by the men in India. Although in regular
receipt of letters informing the poor w men of the
despatch of the monthly stuns for their benefit,
they have not been able to receive any since Feb-
ruary last.
In coniequence of the large number of troops
who have recently left Chatham to embark for
Indi.a, the duty at, that garrison has pressed so
severely on those troops belonging to the East
India depoti now stationed there that orders have
. been issued for the officers and men of the Royal
and East India Company's Engineers to take the
(-greater part of the guards every Sunday, ar d the
whole of the officers and men under rifle instruc-
' lion to take the duties every Saturday. By this
arrangement most of the regular duty men at
Chatham will obtain an additional two nights in
bed in each week.
The brigantice Gulner, with 49 military invalids
from Bermuda, arrived in Plymouth Sound en
Tuesday evening. Three soldiers died on entering
the Channel, when severe weather was experienced.
The Rev. Mr. Anderson has taken •up his
.ap-
pointment as chaplain to the Presbyterian troops
at Chatham garrison.

THE NAVY.

The Lords of the Admiralty having directed a
new 22 gun screw corvette, to be named the Or-
pheus, to be laid down at Chatham dockyard,
orders have been given for all the available hands
to be employed in her construction, that she may
be completed with all despatch. She is to be built
from designs by Sir B. W. Walker, Surveyor of the
Navy, and will be of the following proportions
Length between perpendiculars, 225 feet; length
of keel for tonnage, 179 feet 7 inches ; extreme
breadth, 40 feet 8 inches ; breadth, tnoulded, 40
feet 4 inches ; breadth for tonnage, 39 feet 8 inches;
depth of hold, 24 fact 2 inches ; burden in tons,
1,623 43'94.
The Curacia, 31, Captain J. M. Mason, has re-
ceived orders to proceed from Spithead to Mar-
'mines, to embark Lord S;ratford de Redcliffe for
Constantnople.
The Castor, 36, Captain Fleury Lyster, at Chat-
ham, has nearly eleart,il Iter,e!f of her rigging and
masts ; the paying off is to be on Saturday, when
Nhe is to he plac,d in ordinary ; her ma ines will
jr,in the Chatham Divisim,
The Victor Emmanuel, 91, Captain. Willcox,
C. 8., has her topgallant-masts pointed, and has
I eceived her complement of Marinesand'a draught
of continuous s.,rvice men from the Victory.
The Himalaya, troop ship, is now under repairs
st Keyharn. Qommanrler J. Seccombe has suc-
ceeded Commander Piers in the command of this
vessel. The latter officer returns to his old ship
the Chesapeake. During his ahsence the Chesa
peak 4 'hits been engaged with the Assurance, A, am
1111 boat in • the r-c ivory of the treasure 14. st by
k.: packet. The amount
the-wreck of the Ava mail
recovered is said to amount 0184,0001., the salvage
s good round sum to those en-
lire4lll. CllCwoimlimgainvde a
Commander ra will therefore be a con-
sideritble loser by being sent to England in corn
*liana of the Himalaya.
OFFICIAL ADMIRALTY VISIT TO PLYMOUTH.—
' The'Llrds Commissioners of the Admiralty, .it is
expected, will arrive at this Fort, on t'leir annuil
c'fir„i"iat vi.it, al wit the 9th or 10th of next month.
arn -ROYAL VISIT TO CHERBOURG.-The Lords
of the Admiralty have gran ed permis,-ion to the
naval and rni'itary offic ,ts trsiiiing at P rtsm, nth
and'ita neighbotirtiood to visit Cherbourg in the
steam store ship Urgent, of 400-horse power, and
Creole re‘i'liug at Plymouth and its vicinity in the
?team tender Avon, of 100 horse power only,
though the distance from the first-samcd port is
about half the distance from Plymouth to Cher-
bourg. The AdmuAltn i 4 wecting the Avon, no