The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-04 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE! Naval and

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

DEATH OF THE EMPEROR MAXIM'.

LIAN CONFIRMED.

PARIS, July 4.

The committee of American residents in this
capital, charged with organising the fete celebrat-
ing the anniversary of American independence,
have resolved that the fete shall not be held on ac-
count of the death of the Emperor Maximilian.

Ltelligence.

The 2d Regiment of Life Guards, commanded by
Col. Marshall, left the Windsor Cavalry Barracks
at an early hour this morning for London, in order
to take part in the review which will be held by her
Majesty the Queen to -morrow. The troops were ac-
coutred as for active service, and marched by road
to the Knightsbridge and Regent's Park Barracks,
where they will be quartered during their stay in
London. The dismounted men are to proceed from
Windsor to town by special train on the Great

Western line. The 2d Life Guards will have the
honour of providing escorts for the whole of the
royal party upon the occasion of the review. The

regiment will leave London early on Saturday morn-

ing and return to Windsor.
In reference to the assembling of a special com-
mittee from the War-office, appointed to meet in
the official quarters of Col. Campbell, superinten-
dent of the Royal Gun Factories at Woolwich, to

investigate the chargesrecently made by a draughts-
man suspended for a dereliction of duty, who at-
tempted to falsify and depreciate the advantages of
the new gun of cheap construction some time ago
adopted by the Government, a written communica-
tion was received yesterday from Major-Gen.s St.
George, C. 8., director of ordnance, stating that the
result of the investigation had been highly satisfac-
tory, and that the manner in which the accounts are
now kept is creditable alike to all concerned. Mr.
Fraser, C.E., the deputy-assist.-superintendent,
who has so successfully introduced the system of
cheap construction, is to be informed that Sir John
Pakington, the War Secretary of State, has decided
on awarding him, as a first instalment, iu recognition
of the advantages accrued from his invention,
the sum of £5,000, to be paid forthwith.
It was also announced at the same time
that an instalment of £lO,OOO was ordered to
be paid to Major Palliser, 7th (Queen's Own) Hus-
sars, with an additional £5,000 next year, by way
of a second instalment, as an encouragement and
stimulus to promote the continuance of his eminent
services, which have, so far as regarded the economy
and efficiency of his chill system, produced such
valuable results.

Her Majesty's screw iron troopship Serapis, Capt.
John Soady, was yesterday handed over by the
Thames Iron Works Company, and left the Victoria
Docks for Greenhithe, to adjust compasses, and pre-
pare for the transport of the Belgian Volunteers to
England. She was conveyed down the river by
three steam tugs. She is to take her departure on
the 9th for the Scheldt, she will embark the Volun-
teers at Antwerp, and land them at Gravesend on
the 11th. The hydraulic iron-plated gunboat Water-
witch was taken out of the fitting basin at Wool-
wich and proceeded down the river a few minutes in
advance of the Serapis, also to adjust compasses
at Greenhithe to prepare to join the squadron at
Spithead. Colour-Serg. Madwick, in charge of the
corporal and 18 privates, Royal Marines, Woolwich
division, appointed as a detachment to serve on
board the Serapis, followed in her Majesty's ship
Bustler, Master Commander Draper.
The amalgamated bands belong to the Royal
Engineers and Royal Marines at Chatham, that of
the Royal Marine Artillery at Portsmouth, and the
divisional band of Royal Marines Light Infantry
at Woolwich have been engaged for the past three
days at Woolwich in a joint rehearsal of their parts
to be performed before the Queen on Friday in Hyde-
park. They mustered yesterday morning on the
barrack parade, amounting to 174 musicians, in-
cluding drummers, &c. They performed from 9to
12 o'clock, the selection of slow and quick marches
intendedforthereview,concluding with the National
Anthem.

Capt. Rochfort Maguire, who recently returned
to England from his command as Commodore of the
second class on the Australion station, owing to ill-
health, died at the Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar,
on Saturday last, and was buried in the hospital
cemetery yesterday. Capt. R. Maguire entered the
navy from the Royal Naval College in November,
1830, passed his examination in 1835, and served
as mate on board the Wasp, 16, during the opera-
tions on the coast of Syria, and was severely
wounded at the capture of Sidon, where by his gal-
hint behaviour he gained his lieutenancy. Captain
Maguire's commands as post captain were the
Galatea, screw frigate, on the West India Station,
and the Challenger, screw corvette, as commodore
of the second class on the Australian station, from
which he was compelled to invalid owing to the state
of his health.
Six good-conduct medals have been presented to
non-commissioned officers and men at the camp at
Colchester. Each of the recipients will also be pre-
sented with a gratuity. Lieut. Savile, 2-18th Regi-
ment ; Lieut. Tawke, 32d Regiment ; Ensign
Brook, 94th Regiment ; and Lieut. Gillespie, 96th
Regiment, havebeen examined by a board of officers,
and qualified for promotion to superior rank.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. T. Morgan and Lieut.
W. Sherbrooke to the Malabar ; Lieut. E. Fletcher
to the Royal George ; Lieut. H. J. F. Campbell to
the Canopus ; Lieut. J. Enderson to the Victory ;
Sub- Lieut. J. Maycock to the Malabar ; Sub-Lieut.
W. Henn to the Lee ; H. Chalke, navigating Sub-
Lieut. to the Malabar ; S. Dickens, midshipman, to
the Minotaur ; H. Glassbrook, midshipman, to the
Victory ; W. Breen, naval cadet, to the Daphne ;
W. Crawford, surgeon, to the Fisgard, for tem-
porary service ; E. A. Rowe, paymaster, to the Con-
stance ; R. L. Belt, assist.-surg., to the Malabar ;
and T. T. Riordan, assist.-surg., to Haslar Hospital.

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TOM Tt

HER MAJESTY, &c.

WINDSOR CASTLE, July 3.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Beatrice, drove in the grounds yesterday

afternoon.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse rode on horseback, attended by Colonel
the Hon. A llardinge.
Prince Leopold went out driving, attended by
Mr. Legg.
Her Majesty the Queen, the Queen of Prussia,
Prince and Princess Louis of Ilesse, Prince Leopold,
and Princess Beatrice, went out in the grounds this
morning.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis
of Hesse left the Castle this afternoon for Marl-
borough House, attended by Baroness Schenck and
Captain Von Westerweiler.

Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Countess
de Paris, attended by Madill). Boerio, have left the Claren-
don Hotel for York House, Twickenham.

His Excellency the Turkish Ambassador, accom-
panied by M. E. Musurus, will arrive at the Turkish
Embassy in Bryanston-square, from Paris, this morning.
His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador and
the Countess Apponyi, in consequence of the recent sad
news as to the fate of the Emperor Maximilian, have for a
time declined all invitations.

The Sultan and the Corporation of London.

His Highness the Sultan having honoured the
Corporation of the City of London by accepting
their invitation to an entertainment, on the occasion
of his approaching visit to this country, most costly
preparations are being made by the civic authorities
for the occasion, which will probably be on Thurs-
day, the 18th of July, though the day is not defini-
tively fixed. The invitation of the city was conveyed
through Lord Stanley, the Secretary of State for
Foreign Affairs, and promptly accepted by his High-
ness, the reply being made through Lord Lyons.

The entertainment will be in the nature of an
evening reception, as being most in unison with the
wishes of the Sultan. It will be given in the Guild-
hall, and an address of congratulation and welcome
in the name of the Co-poration, and on the part of
the citizens at large, will be presented to his Highness
in a casket of gold. This part of the ceremony will
be followed by a grand concert and ball, the enter-
tainment concluding with a supper. The occasion
being in itself altogether unique, the history and
traditions of the Corporation of London, replete as
they are with examples of the entertainment of
crowned heads from time to time, scarcely afford a
precedent for it, but the authorities have resolved, so
far as in them lies, to render it in every respect worthy
of the illustrious visitor, and of their ancient renown
for munificent hospitality. With this view they have
appointed a committee coxisisting of more than half
the magistrates and of the representatives from the
25 wards into which the city is divided, to make the
requisite arrangements and to conduct the reception,
and have voted an unlimited amount of money. The
invitations will be about 3,000 in number, and will
include the Prince of Wales and other members of

the Royal family, the whole of her Majesty's Mi-
nisters and great officers of State, Peers, members of
the House of Commons, and foreign Ambassadors,
among other persons of distinction. To-day, at a
meeting of the Common Council, Mr. Deputy Fry,
the chairman of the Entertainment Committee, will
move a resolution, pursuant to notice, to the effect
that upon the occasion of the visit of the Sultan an
address be presented to his Highness in a gold bc,o%
of the value of 100 guineas.
Meanwhile most elaborate preparations are being
made in anticipation of the event at Guildhall. A
stately reception saloon is in course of erection in the
open space in front of the hall and leading to it,
from a design by Mr. Horace Jones, the city archi-
tect, and in other respects the hall itself is being
adapted and adorned for the occasion. The re-
ception saloon, which is of the most solid materials
and workmanship, will be 100 ft. long by about
60ft. wide, and be disposed in two floors, with a
handsome facade and verandah towards King-street,
Cheapside. The upper floor will be approached by
four easy flights of stairs at each corner of the new
building, and supported on rows of lonic columns.
It is intended to be used as a supper room on the

occasion, and will be of a size sufficient to accom-
modate 600 guests at one time. A double staircase
will also lead to the upper story through the en-
trance to the Law Courts, and the whole of the
approaches to it will be ornamented with fountains,
statuettes, and choice flowers. Two of the Law
Courts are likewise being so adapted as to afford ac-

commodation for about 300 more guests at supper.
The handsome and spacious apartments on tho
ground floor, after having served the purposes of 3
reception saloon, will be made available for danc-
ing later in the evening, as will also the great hall
itself, which has been restored and embellished at
immense cost within the last few years.
At" the eastern end of the Guildhall a dais is being