The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-09 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The Windsor Castle, recently launched at Pem-
broke Dockyard, will shortly be jury-rigged and
navigated round to Devonport to be placed on the
steam reserve. The following are her chief dimen-

sions Ft. In.
Length over all 246 0
Ditto of keel for tonnage 166 6
Breadth, extreme 6O 0
Ditto for tonnage
Ditto moulded
Depth of hold
Her burthen is 3,099 tons, and she will carry 100
guns—viz., on the lower deck 30 8-inch guns of
65 cwt. and 9 feet length ; on the middle deck, 30
32-pounders, 42 cwt. 8 feet ; and on the main deck
30 32-pounders, 56 cwt., 9 ft. 6 in.; and on the upper
deck 10 32-pounders, 42 cwt., 8 feet. The Windsor
Castle is far from being a fine-looking ship; she is too
short and dumpy, and cannot rank beside the splen-
did new class 100-gun vessels, such as the St. Jean
d'Acre and Conqueror. This will not be wondered
at, as she was laid down 14 years ago, when she
was designed for a first-class man-of-war, but
modern vessels have quite eclipsed her. She has
been prepared for the screw-propeller, and with her
armament must prove a powerful vessel.
We are requested to state for the information of
those having friends in the Eastern Monarch troop-
ship, bound to India, that on the 28th of July last
all on board were well.

Captain Peter Cracroft has been appointed to her
Majesty's ship Niger, vice Cochrane, invalided.

THE ARMY.

The war authorities have recently effected seve-
ral improvements in the transport of the numerous
reinforcements which have recently been despatched
from this country to India. One of these improve-
ments consists in sending several steady and expe-
rienced staff-sergeants on board each of the vessels.
This plan has been foundnecessary, as the draughts
embarked for India consist, for the most part, of
very young soldiers, and the non-commissioned
officers, it is expected, will be of great use in main-
taining proper order and discipline, and in perform-
ing the staff duties generally, during the voyage.
All the staff-sergeants so selected will receive 2s.
6d. per day, exclusive of their pensions, as long as
their services are required. After the troops they
accompany have disembarked in India they will
return to this country by the first available vessel,
for the purpose of attending other draughts out.
Yesterday the sick and wounded troops who have
arrived at Chatham from Delhi in the Waterloo,
from Kurrachce were taken from St. Mary's in-
valid establishment; to Fort Pitt, for the purpose of
being inspected by Dr. Taylor andthe medical staff
at that establishment. Although many of the inva-
lids were suffering severely from wounds or sick-
ness on embarking for England the sea voyage has
so improved them that, out of upwards of 50 con-
valescent troops, only six were found unfitted for
further service. This number, of course, does not
include the wounded soldiers admitted into Fort
Pitt Hospital for surgical treatment, nearly the
whole of whom it will be necessary to discharge as
soon as they have recovered.
We have to record the death (in his 78th year) of
Gen. T. A. Parke, C. 8., which occurred at his resi-
dence at Hythe, near Southampton. This gallant
officer was present at the battle of Camperdown on
the 11th of October, 1797, and commanded two
companies of Marine Artillery in Spain in 1812,
and three companies in America from 1813 to 1815.
He served at the attack and capture of the en-
trenched camp at Hampton, and had besides been
twelve times engaged with the enemy in boats
and on shore. His commissions bear date as
Cornet 19th of May, 1795 Lieutenant 23d of
Nov. 1796, Captain 15th of Aug. 1805, Major 12th
of Aug. 1819, Lieut--Colonel 31st of Dec. 1832,
Colonel 26th of April, 1838, Colonel Commandant
12th of Feb. 1842, Major-General 11th of Nov.
1851, and General 6th of Feb. 1857. He had re-
ceived the silver medal, and was, since June, 1857,
in receipt of the good service pension.

MILITIA.
The 7th Lancashire Rifle Regiment assembled at
Bury on Tuesday last, under the command of Lieut.
Madocks, for 21 days' training.
The Dorset Militia assembled for training at
Dorchester on Tuesday last. The regiment is re-
ported to be good condition.
The Norfolk Artillery met at Great Yarmouth on
Tuesday last for 21 days' training.
The East Norfolk Militia Artillery assembled at
Yarmouth on Tuesday for three weeks' training.
The Third or Royal Westminster Middlesex
Light Infantry will assemble for training at Turn-
ham-green on Friday, the 17th inst. Viscount
Chelsea is the colonel.

The Cornwall Rangers Militia met for 21 days'
training at Bodmin on Tuesday last.
The 2d Royal Lancashire Militia, commonly
known as the Duke of Lancaster's Own Rifles,
assembled at Birkenhead on Tuesday last, under
the command of Sir T. G. Hesketh.
The East Suffolk Militia will assemble for 21
days' training at Ipswich on Tuesday, the sth of
October.

LIVERPOOL SHIP WRECK AND

HUMANE SOCIETY.

The following interesting report has just ap-
peared, giving the award of the society's medals
and pecuniary acknowledgments to the heroes who
have saved the lives of others at the risk of their

own:—
" The present is the 19th annual report of the
committee of the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane
Society to the subscribers, and in presenting it the
committee take occasion to express the loss the
society has sustained in the death of the late Mr.
Charles Cotesworth, whose practical knowledge and
warm feelings towards those whose services in
saving life bore evidence of personal risk to them-
selves, made him a valuable acquisition to the com-
mittee, of which he was a member from its first
formation, in 1839. In the present report there
are fewer striking features than usual in the ser-
vices of those to whom rewards have been given
for their instrumentality in saving life, but the
committee have pleasure in alluding to the follow-
ing instances of courageous and energetic exertions,
though unhappily not in each instance altogether
successful, as exhibited in the case of the Earl of
Carrick, where only two lives were saved :—The
first case to which the committee would specially draw
the attention of the subscribers is that of Capt. Harri-
son, of the steam tug Enterprise, of Liverpool who,
seeing a schooner, named the Mary Johanna, on
shore on the Dutchman's Bank, Beaumaris Bay,
during a gale, Jan. 21, launched his boat, and, with
four volunteers from his crew, pulled to the bank,
but not finding sufficient water on it to take
the boat to the schooner, they carried it over
that part of the bank, a distance of about 400
yards, and launched it in a swatchway, along which
they pulled to the wreck, rescued the crew of the
schooner, and returned with them to the steamer
in the same manner. For this gallant service a
silver medal was awarded to Captain Harrison and
£4 to his boat's crew. The second case is that of
Jas. Lewis, mate of the steamer Earl of Erne, who,
on two different occasions, jumped overboard into
the Clarence basin, and saved a man and a boy
from drowning. A silver medal was also presented
to Mr. Lewis, who, in the subsequent passage of
the steamer across the Channel, was himself rescued
from a watery grave. These are the only two
medals awarded this year. The third case is that
of the intrepid exertions of two men in the Isle of
Man, named Thos. Watterson and Wm. Hodgson,
on the occasion of the loss of the steamer Earl of
Carrick; and though they only succeeded in saving
one man, who, with another, floated ashore by a
life-buoy, were the only persons saved, the commit-
tee considered their exertions so meritorious that
they remitted to Mr. Quirk £5 to be divided be-
tween them, after paying a small item to a third
Party, who was useful in another way. The ser-
vices of Watterson and Hodgson were brought un-
der the notice of the committee by Mr. H. Quirk,
of the parish of Kirkpatrick, Isle of Man, by a
letter, dated lith Feb., from which the following
is an extract :---‘ I hope I may be justified in re-
commending
two
to
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Thos.
sideration to receive some sroeCwieatyra's
offavmoeurriatbfloercobne--
ing instrumental in saving the life of John Lyons,
one of the seamen on board the screw steamer Earl
of Carrick, trading between Ayr and Liverpool,
which was lost on the 25th Dec. last, on a reef of
rocks in this parish, called Nairble Point. Those
men, upon seeing Lyons approaching the rocks,
dashed through a narrow passage, where the sea ran
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with the exception ery other soul on board,
grave,
who was saved on aolifJaves Watt, another seaman,
cases, there is still e-11°I.' Besides these three
which is the bold and anotherready escrving special notice
Morton, one of the Prince's Dock in which Wm,
into that dock, on a dark night,ock gatemen, jumped.
hearing a cry of alarm, and swam aboutmediately on
covered a man who had fallen into the tilldock, he dis-
covered
he succeeded in safely landing. ln and
whom
accounts will be found a general summary of the
services rendered by the different parties to whom
rewards have been paid ; and while no less than 37
lives have been saved in the river, on two occasionS
only were the exertions unsuccessful, so. prompt and
energetic are the boatmen and ()thug =. rendering

aid by instantly proceeding to the assistance of
persons in danger on hearing a cry of alarm.
Rewards altogether have been granted for saving
65 persons, of whom 37 were taken out of the river,
eight from the docks, one from the canal, one from
a pit, and 18 from vessels stranded near the port.
The well-known case of the steamer Sarah Sands,
on fire near the Cape of Good Hope, while convey-
ing troops to India, was brought before the society
by a member of the committee, and they would
have been well pleased to have rewarded the cap-
tain for his very meritorious conduct on that occa-
sion, but, after every inquiry, they were sorry to
find that they could not bring the case within their
rules."