The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

BOURSE, Sept. 14, Two o'clock.—French Threes
are at 70fr., or 7c. lower than yesterday. There
arc a great many sales of Italian Fves, which are at
49fr. 25c. or 10c. lower. Credit Mobilier shares
gain 3f. 75c., at 288 fr. 75c. Spanish Mobilier lose
3fr. 75c., at 185 fr. Credit Foncier is 1,362 fr. 50c.,
with a decline of 7fr. 50c. Comptoir d'Escompte
without change. Immobilier are quoted 130 f. No
remarkable feature in French railway shares.
Lombard lose 2f. 50c., at 387 f. 50c.

Three o'clock.—The market closed as follows :—.
Bank Share. 3360
Italian Loan 49 35
Do. end month 49 30
Mexican Loan
Do. Bonds

41 per Cents 9B
Do. end month —
3 per Cents. 7O 20
Do. end month 7O 10
Credit Mobilier 297 50
Do. end Month 296 25
Credit Ponder
Do. end month 1360
RAIL'

Spanish Threes ~.

Ifome Debt
Deferred

"AYS.

For Account.
Orleans
Northern 1166 25
Lyons and Mediterranean.. 9OO
Southern —
Western
Eastern
Sardinian —
Austrian
Lombard 387 50
North of Spain —
Saragoxa —
Boman • • —

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Sept. 9.—By the Marseilles mail, ar-
rived on Saturday night, I have received letters
from the squadron to Aug. 28. The Caledonia, and
the rest of the ships sailing under the command of
Lord C. Paget, remained at Spezzia until the 21st,
when they sailed at G p.m. for Porto Ferrajo, in the
island of Elba. The Tyrian joined them from Villa-
franca just as they were weighing, and brought the
mails and despatches to Aug. 16, with several pas-
sengers. Spezzia was very healthy when the ships
left. General leave was given to all the crews, and
they conducted themselves very well. Many of them
visited Pisa, Florence, and other places of interest.
An unfortunate man named Baxter, belonging to
the Prince Consort, was killed by falling over the
rocks near San Vincenzo. He was a most sober,
steady man, and all his money was found on him.
He was decently interred by the authorities of the
place. On the 22d the squadron practised at a
target, the Commander-in-Chief shifting the flag
temporarily to the Tyrian to witness the exercise,
after which she was sent in to Porto Ferrago. The
squadron kept at sea until the 27th, and anchored
in the evening. The Tyrian was to leave on the
28th for Villafranca with the mails. The Psyche
was expected on the 29th from Villafranca with the
mails. The squadron were in perfect health, and as
they have not visited any infected port, it is hoped
they will not meet with any difficulty in obtaining
pratique at Malta on their return about the end of
October, otherwise they will winter in some other
port. lam happy to state that no fresh cases of
sickness have occurred among the 14th Regiment
since my last report. The public health generally
continues satisfactory, with the exception of one or
two cases of cholera within the last 48 hours. Deputy
Commissary-Gen. H. B. Morse returned to Malta
in the Delta, having been telegraphed for by the
Governor. Major-Gen. Atherley left on the same
day in the Tanjore for Southampton. The tug
Prompt, of 52 tons, arrived here on the Bth inst.
from Glasgow, Lisbon, and Gibraltar, bound for
Alexandria, for service connected with the Abys-
sinian expedition.

The following notice was posted at Woolwich on
Saturday, notifying an increase of pay to the
artificers of the fleet, as follows :-" The Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty have been pleased
to announce that the rates of pay have been in-
creased as underneath, to consecutive and non-con-
secutive service men :-Chief carpenters' mates, 3s.
and 2s. 9d. per day ; plumbers, 3s. and 2s. 9d. ;
carpenters' mates, 2s. 9.1. and 2s. 6d. ; caulkers,
2s. 9d. and 2s. 6d ; first class painters, 2s. 9d. and
2s. 6d. ; plumbers' mates, 2s. sd. and 2s. 2d. ;
coopers, 2s. 3d. and 2s. ; caulkers' mates, 28. 3d.
and 2s. ; shipwrights, 2s. 3d. and 2s. ; and
plumbers' crews, is. Bd. and ls. sd. By command
of their Lordships, H. G. LENNOX."
A serious accident happened to Major Holland,
Musketry Instructor to the Portsmouth Division
of Royal Marines, on Friday morning. On return-
ing, on horseback, from duty at Bro wndown, the
major's horse shied at something in crossing Haslar-
bridge, and the gallant officer was thrown violently
against a wall, sustaining very serious injuries to
the head, side, and one arm ; but, according to the
latest accounts, he was going on favourably.
The armour-plated screw-steamship Lord Warden,
20, Capt. W. R. Rolland, tested her engines at the
measured mile outside Plymouth breakwater on
Friday last; wind, W.S.W. ; force, 3 ; a slight
gr

.ound swell; barometer, 29.95. The Lord Warden
burdens 4,080 tons, and has engines of 1,000-horse
power, nominal ; she is fully rigged, her armament
is complete, with stores for six months' consumption,
and 504 tons of coal ; draught forward, 23ft. 7iu. ;
aft, 27ft. gin. The engines are by Messrs. Mauds-.
lay, Sons, and Field ; the propeller is four-bladed,
with an increasing pitch; diameter, 22 degs. 9 secs. ;
pitch, 21 degs. 4f secs. ; length, 11 degs, 81 secs. ;
immersion of the upper edge, 3 degs. 3 secs. Six
runs under full-boiler power produced a true mean
speed of 13.496, and four runs under half-boiler
power 11.777. The trial was considered in all
respects satisfactory. The condition of the distilling
apparatus and of the engine-room telegraph was
good. Load on the safety-valve, 31.281 b ;
pressure of steam in boilers—full power, 28•llb ;
half power, 301 b ; vacuum in condensers—for-
ward, full power, 26in. ; half power, 26.81 in.;
aft, full power, 26in. ; half power, 27-81 in. ;
number of revolutions of engines--maximum, full
power, 63.8 ; half power, 53 ; mean, full power,
63.327 ; half power, 52.521. The mean pressure
iu the cylinders under full power was 19.9, and
under half power 14.6 ; the indicated horse-power
under full power was 6,706 Lorses, and half power,

4,080 horses. The temperature at 9.30 a.m. was—
on deck 66 degs., in the engine-room 73 degs., in
the fore part of stokehole 87 degs., middle 100 degs.,
and after part 85 degs. ; at 11 a.m., deck 68 degs.,
engine-room 70 degs., in the fore part of the stoke-
hole 100 degs., middle 108 dcgs., and after part
85 degs. The trial was made under the inspection
of the officers of the Steam Reserve in Hainoaze,
the engineers of Keyham, and the shipwrights from
Devonport yard. The manufacturers of the engines
were represented by Mr. Henry Warriner.
Mr. Francis J. Lory, secretary to the Commo-
dore Superintendent of Woolwich, beittg absent on
sick leave, the duties of the Woolwich yard are
performed by Mr. Charles A. Cole, assistant-
secretary.
Her Majesty's 2-gun iron storeship Hesper, 808
tons and 150 horse power, 11 years and three
months on the China station, having been brought
home by Staff Commander James C. H. Thain,
was on Saturday paid out of commission at Wool-
wich, and will be placed in the third class steam
reserve. The consecutive service men and those
who entered their names for future service were
granted 42 days' leave to visit their friends, with a
continuance of pay. The ship's machinery is still
in good condition, but the boilers are completely
worn out.

Her Majesty's ship Supply, Staff Commander
Charles Bawden, from the Mediterranean, on par-
ticular service, having discharged her war stores at
the Royal Arsenal at Woclwieh, went up to the
dockyard to return naval stores, and was taken
into basin for that purpose on Saturday.
The old 60 gun steamship Meeanee, 2,591 tons,
and 400 horse power, brought up to Woolwich
from Sheerness, having had her engines removed,
was on Saturday uudocked. She is intended to be
prepared for hospital accommodation on the China
station.

The screw steam tender Sandi'ly, at Devonport,
having been found unseaworthy, has been con-
demned. She will be placed to-day in Keyham
yard for the purpose of removing her engines. The
crew will be paid off on Friday.
The repairs of the screw steamship Lion, 60,
Capt. J. M. Hayes, C. 8., are complete, and she
would have left Plymouth last week for the North
Coast of Ireland but for the state of the weather.
The departure of the frigate Liffey from Ply-
mouth is postponed.
The screw steam gun vessel Jaseur, 5, from
Sheerness, arrived on Saturday at Plymouth to
have some defects made good prior to departure for
the West Coast of Africa.
The screw steam storeship Fox, 2, Staff Com-
mander H. A. Moriarty, C. 8., from Pembroke,
arrived on Saturday evening at Plymouth.
The Orontes screw troopship, Capt. Phelps, was
expected to arrive at Portsmouth last evening from
Queenstown, with the depot of the 2d battalion
60th Regiment.
The captain's naval pension of £BO a year,
vacant by the promotion of Capt. John Reeve,
R.N., on the Ist of July last, has been granted
from that date to Capt. William Howat.
The lieutenant's naval pension of £5O a year,
vacant by the death of Commander Richard N.
-Williams, reserved list, on the 27th of August last,
has been granted from that date to Commander
Aaron Stark Symes, R.N., on the retired list.
The funeral of Lieut. James Jameson Robertson,
Royal Engineers, Assistant Instructor in Field
Fortifications at the Royal Engineer establishment,
Chatham, who was accidentally drowned during a
sailing yacht match between the officers of the
Royal Engineers in Chatham Harbour, was cele-
brated on Saturday afternoon, with full military
honours. The funeral cortege was formed at
Brompton Barracks at two o'clock, shortly after
which hour the procession started from the barrack
square, passing beneath the Crimean Memorial
Arch, for the place of interment, at Gillingham
Cemetery. In advance of the procession was the
firing party, with arms reversed and in open
column. The body of the deceased officer was
conveyed to the cemetery on a funeral car drawn by
six horses, the shako, sword, and medals of the
deceased being placed on the coffin above the pall,
which was borne by six officers of the same rank as
the deceased. Immediately in front of the cars
were the bands of the Royal Engineers and the
Royal Marines Light Infantry, with muffled drums
and their instruments draped in crape, the bands
playing at intervals, with fine effect, the " Dead
March," from Saul, and other appropriate music.
After the body was led the charger belonging to
the deceased, followed by the relations, friends, and
other mourners on foot. The battalion of Royal
Engineers next followed, under the command of
Col. Fitzroy Somerset, succeeded by nearly the
whole of the officers belonging to the various corps
in the garrison, together with those connected with
the civil departments, the whole numbering
about 300, the officers marching in fours, each wear-
ing the customary military mourning on the left
arm, and their swords also hung in crape. The
officers were arranged according to their rank, com-
mencing with the subalterns, Major-Gen. Freeman
Murray, in command of the division at Chatham,
and Col. J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., bringing up the
rear of the procession. Along the route to the
cemetery the roads were lined with spectators, who
uncovered as the body of the deceased was borne past.
After the body had been lowered into the grave the
firing party advanced and gave the customary num-
ber of volleys over the deceased, and the procession
returned in the same order to Brompton barracks.
Yesterday an order was received at Fort Pitt,
Chatham, directing a party of the Army Hospital
Corps to proceed this morning to Netley, for the
purpose of embarking for service with the Abyssinian
expedition.
A detachment of Sappers and Miners of the Royal
Engineers has been placed under orders to proceed
from headquarters, Brompton barracks, Chatham,
to Dover, to be employed on the fortifications and
other engineering works in progress there. The
detachment will leave Woolwich in the course o
the present week.

On Friday afternoon the sth Dragoon Guards
were paraded on the Aliddlewick Farm, Colchester,
where they underwent a careful inspection by Lord
G. Paget, Inspector General of Cavalry. They
were afterwards put through the usual field move-
ments, and then marched past. The inspecting
officer also examined the barracks and regimental
books.

A magnificent military trophy in silver, consist-
ing of a testimonial cup and plateau, or centre piece,
has just been completed by Messrs. London and
Ryder, of New Bond-street, for her Majesty's 48th
Regiment, at Aldcrshott. The plateau on which
the superstructure stands represents bastions, cur-
tains and lines of fortification generally, and is
inscribed with the names of the great battles in
which the 48th took part—Toulouse, Douro, Tala-
vera, Albuhera, Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria,
Orthes, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Sebastopol, &c.

Capt. Lord Fred. Kerr, R.N., Col. E. Wray,
C. 8., and other officers of the Ordnance Select
Committee of Woolwich Arsenal, have been in
consultation for some days past, in the official de-
partment of Capt. Gordon, C. 8., Principal Super-
intendent of Military Stores, on the subject of the
pack-saddles best adapted for the Abyssinian cam-
paign. They were aided in their investigation by
Major-Gen. Willoughby, C. 8., Assist.-Commissary
Bailey, C. 8., Mr. Aspinwall, and others, specially
appointed by the War Department for that purpose.
The result of their inquiries has been to counter-
mand the shipment of those formerly ordered and
ready for despatch, and now finally pronounced ill-
adapted for the service. Consequently, the whole
of the cases containing the pack-saddles, which have
been in readiness for shipment for some days pa-it,
were yesterday ordered to be cleared away from the
wharf, and to be stored in reserve. They are to be
replaced by the species of saddle used during the war
with the natives in New Zealand, and designated
"the Otago saddle." Mr. Bailey, who accompanied
the troops as supernumerary during the war in New
Zealand, had ample means of testing the efficiency of
the saddle; and on his recommendation, and that of
Quartermaster Stafford, Military Train, the Goy
vernment have resolved on adopting the system
for the present expedition to Abyssinia. They have
also undergone a course of trial at Woolwich and
Aldershott with advantageous results. Tho War