The Sun.
London, England, 1858-03-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

by letter of attorney, he shall be at liberty so to
so, provided that such a letter of attorney exprese
the name or names of the candidate or candidates
for whom such registered voter is desirous of vot-
ing, and be executed within ten days next before
such election ; and no such letter of attorney shall
be subject to any stamp duty.
XVIII. It shall be lawful for her Majesty to re-
move any member of Council from his office upon
an address of both Houses of Parliament ; and if
Parliament be not sitting, it shall be lawful for the
Council, with the approval of her Majesty, to sus-
pend any member of the Council for criminal or
disgraceful conduct ; and a statement of the fact of
such suspension an of the grounds thereof shall be
laid before both Houses of Parliament within our-
teen days after the next meeting thereof ; and un-
less both Houses of Parliament, within thirty days
after such meeting thereof, address her Majesty fur
the reversal of such suspension, the member so
suspended shall cease to be a member of the Conn-
cii.
XIX. Members of the Council not to sit in the
House of Commons.
XX. There shall be paid to each member of the
Council the yearly salary of 1,0001.
Clauses from XXI. to XXIV. (both inclusive)
provide for re-arrangement of the home adminis-
tration, reduction of establishment, superannna
tion, &c.

several presidencies and government of India as
soon as conveniently may be after such act his been
received by the Governor-General of India ; and
until such proclamation be made, all acts, matters,
and things done, ordered, directed, or authorised
in India, in the name of the East India Company
or otherwise in Telation to the government of India,
shall be as valid and effectual as if this act had not
been passed.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGE.NCE.

Her Royal Highness the Commander-in-Chief
leaves town this (Tuesday) morning, at 8 o'clock,
for Aldershot, to inspect the trovs in camp and
the permanent barracks, which have already been
occupied by the infantry and field batteries.
The following General Order was issued by the
Major-General Commanding the Forces in Ceylon,
on the departure of the Head-quarter Division of
her Majesty's 37th Regiment from that colony in
October last for service in India :

" Head-quarters, Colombo, 22d Oct., 1857.
"1. The Major-General Commanding the Forces
desires to express his satisfaction at the excellent
order in which the Head-quarter Division of the
37th Regiment embarked for India ; the soldier-
like appearance of the men, and their steadiness and
sobriety en the occasion reflect the highest credit
upon the corps.
"2. The Major-General begs Colonel Skelly and
the officers, non-commissioned officers, and soldiers
of the 37th Regiment, to accept his sincere farewell,
with his best wishes for their health, welfare, and
future distinction.

" J. R. BRUNKER, Colonel, D. A. G."
The two-company depot of the 86th Royal
County Down Regiment, under the command of
Captain H. W. Welman, is ordered to proceed
from Chatham on Thursday, and embark at the
dockyard for Cork, for the purpose of joining the
depot battalion at Buttevant.
The Director-General of the Medical Department
of the Army has directed the following changes to
be made in the staff of medical officers attached to
head-quarters, Chatham : Assiitant Surgeon Scott,
73d Regiment, to embark for the Cape of Good
Hope, to join the service companies of his corps ;
Assistant-Surgeon Slatter, 61st Regiment, and
Staff Assistant-Surgeon Seate, to embark at Graves-
end in the Abeona, in charge of troops proceeding
to Calcutta. Assistant-Surgeon Millar, 4th Foot,
to proceed to Newport ; Assistant-Surgeon Long,
Bth Foot, to Kinsale ; Assistant-Surgeon Long-
staff, 10th Foot, to Mullingar ; Assisiant-Surgeon
Macintyre, 11th Foot, to Hull ' • Assistant-Surgeon
Grey, 13th Light Infantry, to Winchester ; and
Assistant-Surgeon Bennett, 14th Regiment, to
Nam.

Orders have been received for the following
draughts to proceed from Perth to Gravesend to-day
there to embark on board the steamship Abeona,
fer conveyance to Calcutta :—viz., 26 men of the
42d Royal Highlanders from Perth, 11 men of the
93d Highlanders from Aberdeen, and some of the
79th Highlanders from Stirling. Lieutenant
Shuttleworth, 42d Royal Highlanders, to proceed
in charge.
The Engineers' and general building depart-
ments at Woolwich are at present actively engaged
in clearing the ground and making preparations
for the immediate erection of various institutions
ordered to be constructed according to the estimates
voted for that purpose. The site of the Old Kent
Waterworks in the vicinity of the Royal Marine
Barracks, as well as the residence and grounds of
General Ashmore, late Colonel-Commandant of
the Royal Marines, has been cleared and laid
out for the erection of a Marine and Naval
Hospital, on a scale suitable to the increasing
requirements of the garrison. The spot in Mill-
lane adjoining the Common, some months ago de-
signed and pronounced by the Engineer Depart-
ment as suitable for building a garrison church, is
ordered to be levelled and laid out for that pur-
pose. The locality affording sufficient space for
the depot and official departments of the Royal
Engineers, the necessary establishments belonging
to that corps, and which are at present carried on
in various parts of the garrison, are ordered to be
built thereon. The Soldiers' Institute, under the
direction of Mr. Angerstein, the Rev. Mr. Ack-
worth, vicar of Plums' ead, and the Philanthropic
Committee of Woolvvicb, who have generously
contributed the pecuniary means of setting the
establishment on a working scale, was yesterday
morning opened to sub3cribe-s. From the pub-
licity already given by the public press, various
contributions of most useful books have been re-
ceived by the committee. The house from its po-
sition near the Royal Marine, Artillery, and Mi-
litia quarters, as well as from the distribution of
its numerous chambers, fitted up as refreshment,
reading, and writing rootnP, &c., and affording
cheap and reasonable means of amusement for the
recreation of the soldier for whom it is intend.ed
as a second home, will, it is considered, render
its success little shor of a p',s'tive certainty.
Major-General Sir W. F. Williams returned to
Woolwich on Saturday, and resumed the command
of the garrison yesterday morning.
The whole of the division of Vie Royal Marine
Light Infantry assembled at Woolwich Common
yesterday morning in command of Lieut.-Col. H.
Fleming, and went through a series of battalion
movements and field drills.

The St. Vincent, 104, has stripped to her lower mast?,
and awaits the turn over to the Duke of Wellington,
131, screw, which will take up her moorings off Hard-
way. The rear-admiral superintendent's flea of the
Portsmouth I/Jciiyard flies at the mizm of the Excellent,
gunnery ship (pro tern).
The corvette which we stated would be built in No.
6 dock, at Portsmouth, will be called the Rinaldo,
screw, 17 gune. When completed she wid be "floated,"
not launched.

Her Majesty's store transp,rt Rhaiamanthu3, Master-
CJanmander Sturdee, air;ved at Woolwich on Saturday
evening laden with steam boilers, &.7., for transship-
ment for her INlaj,sty's steamship Coromandel in China.
The Imperieuse, 51, screw, will be taken into the steam-
basin dock at Portsmouth as soon as the Duke of Wel-
lington, 131, screw, hauls out.

THE CONDITION OF TIIE NAVY.

(Prom. the Morning Herald.)

The condition of our navy on the return of the
Conservative patty to power must be very interest-
ing to our reaJers. The circumstances under
which that party again forms the government of the
country are most remarkably coincident with those
under which Sir Robert Peel succeeded Lord John
Russell in 1841. It will not be forgotten that for
some time previously the government had been en-
gaged in various squabbles with foreign powers.
The Syrian difficulties had scarcely subsided ; our
relations with Francs were most unsatisfactory ;
with America we were on the verge of quarrelling,
and with China we were at open war. Singularly
enough, Lord Derby has just such another le-
gacy left him ; but happily the navy at this mo-
ment is not comparatively in the same dis-
gracefully weak condition al it was in 1841, yet
it must be confessed that it is a source of con-
siderable uneasiness to its best friends that nearly
one-third of the efficient forces of the navy is
concentrated on one station—China ; leaving
only about 28,000 officers, seamen, marines, and
boys, in the Mediterranean, West Indies, North
America, Cape of Good Hope, coast of Africa,
Brazils, Pacific ; and for the coasts of England,
Ireland, and Scotland, the transport service, the
receiving ships, depot ships, training ships, and
home ports.

Fortunately, the ships that are on foreign sta-
tions are fully and efficiently manned ; but in con-
sequence of the most unwise reductions last year,
at the cry of economy and retrenchment, we find
ourselves engaged in another China war with only
peace forces and half-manned ships at home.
We doubt not that if any real danger threatened
the peace of Europe we should have plenty of men
for the fleet ; but it must be confessed that at the
present moment we have scanty resources ; for our
best men have been sent adrift, our most intelligent
lads have been dlowed to quit the service, and all
vacancies have latterly been filled by the most in-
ferior classes.

The following lists aro made up to March 1 :
THE FLEET OF THE LINE.
SCREW SHIPS OF THE LINE.
Guns. Men. H. p. Station.
Marlborough

Duke of Wellington l3l 523 700 Portsmouth.
Royal Albert l2l 1000 500 Mediterranean.
Royal George lO2 376 400 Sheerness.

Conqueror v lOO 930 800 Mediterranean.
Princess Royal
_ . _

Hannibal
Renown

91 452 450 Portsmouth.
91 860 800 Portsmouth.

Exmouth
Nile

Cressy
Centurion

80 452 4co Sheerness,
80 750 400 Mediterranean.

Brunswick BO 750 400 West Indies.

Sansparei! .

70 620 400 China.

The Marlborough is fitting at Portsmouth to
relieve the R )Sal Albert in the Mediterranean, Ad-
miral Fanshawe succeeding Admiral Lord Lyons.
The Duke of Wellingt.)n, Royal Ge-,rge and. Nile, ar e
home-portfiag ships ; and Hannib +I, ixmouth, and
Cressy are steam guard ships at their resppctive ports,
the officers commanding being in charge of the steam
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