The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-10 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

It was stated yesterday at Woolwich that Major.
General Sir H. K. Storks, Governor and Corn-
mander-in-Chief of Malta, is attout to be recalled
He has been appoitited to the newly-established
post of Director-General of Supplies at the War
Department.
On Monday Major-Gen. A. J. Taylor, Inspector-
Gen. of Artillery, accompanied by his aide-de-
camp, Capt. S. L. Nicholson, visited Sheerness for
the purpose of making his annual inspection of the
First Division, Depot Brigade, -Royal Artillery,
stationed in that town. On Monday the inspection
was confined to putting the troops through the
great gun drill in the Central Battery, visiting the
barracks, schools, hospital, the new fortifications,
and inspecting the battery books. On Tuesday
the inspection was resumed. The General arrived
on the parade-ground about half-past 12, and was
received by the division, numbering nearly 400
officers and men, with the usual salute. The troops
then marched past in slow and quick time, after
which they were drawn up into line, and their arms
and accoutrements were examined. This over, the
manual and platoon exercise and a number of bat-
talion movempts were executed, under the com-
mand of Col. Crofton, the Commandant of the bri-
gade. The inspection was closed about 2 o'clock,
when Gen. Taylor, addressing the troops, compli-
mented them upon the efficient manner in which
they had gone through their drill, spoke in eulo-
gistic terms of the clean and orderly appearance of
the barracks, and expressed himself as highly satis-
fied with the result of the inspection.
The head-quarters of the 6th (Enniskillen) Regi-
ment of Dragoons, consisting of seven troops, with
the regimental band and colours, arrived in the
Thames, at Gravesend, from Bombay, in the Aga-
memnon, Capt. N. Marden, Royal Naval Reserve,
on Monday, and disembarked in the afternoon,
under the direction of the Quartermaster-General's
Staff at Chatham Garrison, and were forwarded the
same evening, by special train, to Colchester, where
the regiment is to be quartered. The strength of
the regiment is one field officer, two captains, six
subalterns, five staff officers, 33 sergeants, eight
trumpeters, and 339 rank and file, with two officers'
wives and three children, 20 soldiers' wives and 43
children. It embarked at Bombay, on the 4th of
January last, and left on the 6th, the passage to the
Thames being an unusually fine one of 91 days, dur-
ing which very fine weather was experienced. Dur-
ing the voyage three deaths and one birth took place

on board.
The Ist Dragoons have been crdered to Dublin to
relieve the 4th Dragoons, who return to England.
Yesterday the first division of the Ist embarked at
Liverpool on board the steamer Trafalgar. The
detachment was under the command of Captains
Coleman and Radford, and consisted of 7 officers,
107 men, 13 women, 19 children, and 100 horses.
The first division of the 4th will leave Dublin for
Liverpool to-day in the St. Patrick, and the other
three divisions of each regiment will interchange in
due course, the last division of the 4th leaving Dublin
on the 17th inst. -

According to the regulations of the War Depart-
ment, the n ewly-appoin ted Military Store Staff Corps,
composed of volunteers of various regiments of her
Majesty's service, employed iu Woolwich Arsenal,
are marched at working hours to and from duty,
and are exempt from the ordinary "police search-
ing," which the civilians of the establishment have
all to undergo. Consequently, much dissatisfaction
has arisen between the civil and military corps on the
superiority of privilege. For some time past, Mr.
Carnelly, the chief inspector of police there, has
1
been apprised that a system of pilfering of stores
has been discovered by the authorities, and orders
were given for renewed caution on behalf of the
police. At 8 o'clock on Sunday morning Detective-
sergeant Randall had his suspicions aroused by
the appearance of a girl carrying a box to the rail-
way station. He accosted her, and asked her what
was the contents. The girl gave her name as Sarah
Cattaway, residing at Billericay, in Essex. He
found in her possession 16 paraffin candles, Govern-
ment property. She was immediately arrested, and
from further information the house of a labourer
named John Farr was searched, where were found
205 stearine candles, 111 paraffin ditto, 75 mould
ditto, and 251 b. of soap. Farr said he had received
them from Lance-corporal Cardigan (late of the Ist
Dragoons), of the Military Store Staff Corps, with
whom he was employed in the stores. On making a
search at the lodgings of Cardigan, the police dis-
covered 131 stearine, 133 mould, 188 paraffin can-
dles, and 421 b. of soap. Cardigan having got in-
formation of the affair immediately absconded, but
he was apprehended yesterday morning at six
while in bed at No. 92, St. John-street, St. Luke's,
and was brought before the police-magistrate sitting
at Woolwich. He was remanded.
_ . _

The departure of the armoured screw frigate
Royal Alfred, 18, Capt. F. A. Herbert, with Rear-
Admiral Sir George Rodney Mundy, K.C.8., from
Spithead for the West Indies, is expected to be de-
ferred until the settlement of the present difficulty
between this country and the Spanish Government,
all orders for the reception of supernumeraries on
board, and other measures preliminary to sailing for
her station, having been suspended yesterday. The
trials of the frigate's iron carriages and slides with
the 12k-ton guns, firing full charges, off the east end
of the Isle of Wight on Monday, were most satis-
factory, all the carriages and slides holding the
immense guns well and firmly to their work, aid
without giving signs of weakness in any part.
The Lord Clyde left the Mersey yesterday for
Devonpurt, to be prepared, as was understood, for
a cruise in Spanish waters.
from the eastward and
to Fahnouth on Monday
The Portuguese sloop-of-war Due de Terceira,
boundCnm t-n a
fbodre rLAi
Lisbon,
u pe rune,:

to replenish fuel.
The screw steam gunvessel Sparrow was removed
morning from No. 3 dock at
andplac)ediii Keyham steam-yard to
D yesterdayev o npo r ('Tuesday)

be fitted for active service.

The iron screw steam storeship Megmra, 4, Capt.
j. Simpson, from Malta, March 25, and Gibraltar,
April 3, arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Tuesday).
She brought a quantity of naval stores, and about
40 invalids from various ships ia the Mediterranean.
pit:46garralwent at once into Harnoaze, and will
in all probability be placed in the dockyard for a
thorough refit, which is very necessary.
ll►e crew of the screw steam corvette Racoon,
22, Capt. R. Purvis, in Plymouth Sound, was in-

spected yesterday (Tuesday), by Port-Admiral Sir
W. F. Martin, K.C.B. She will probably sail to--

day for the Cape of Good Hope, to relieve tbe

Valorous.

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courts of justice. According to the Almanach Didot, '
a work of good authority, the number of inhabi-
tants of the Duchy is 197,280, but in a statistical
publication the number is estimated at 206,000. It
is celebrated for its iron works, pottery, woollen
stuffs, and church clocks. There are four news-
papers in the Duchy, the Courrier, the Union, the
Wort, and the Annale.s Agricoles. The town of
Luxembourg bears evidence of civilisation, for it
possesses six sheriff officers or huissiers, five
notaries, 13 lawyers, three bankers, four booksellers,
six doctors, and a photographist. The chief
town of the Duchy, the ancient Luxembourg,
has an extent of 47 square miles. The town, pro-
perly so called, the upper town, has a population of
13,700 inhabitants, and a Prussian garrison com-
posed of 5,000 men. It is picturesquely situated on
a high plateau, formed by rocks, which rise on three
sides to a peak, above Petcrsburgh and Alcette. It
is in the lower town that the industrial establish-
ments are situated. The formidable fortifications
are for the most part formed in the rocks. One
rock, called the Bock, serves as a casemate. Each
Power who has by. turns occupied Luxembourg has
augmented its means of defence, and the celebrated
engineer Vauban has left traces of his genies at
various forts. The Duchy of Luxembourg is
bounded to the east by France, to the north and
west by Belgium, and to the south by the Rhenish
Provinces of Prussia. It is the strongest place in
Europe, with the exception of Gibraltar. Several
rivers traverse the country—the Moselle, the Ab-
zeta, and the Ourthe. It is the private property of
the King, but not of the kingdom of Holland.
Prussia does not exclusively furnish the garrison.
One-fourth of it is composed of Dutch soldiers.
The Governor, however, is appointed by Prussia.
Luxembourg is a very ancient country. In the
olden times it was occupied by the Trevirians, the
Ceresians, and the Pemanians. After the first
union of Belgium with France there was a Depart-
ment des Forets, of which Luxembourg was the
chief town. At the Congress of Vienna, by a Con-
vention dated June 19, 1815, it was ceded to the
King of the Netherlands as an indemnity for his
States of Nassau, with the Duchy of Bouillon, a
grand duchy which formed an integral portion of
the Germanic Confederation. The first Count of
Luxembourg was Sigessoy, who flourished in the
middle of the tenth century. The branch of the
first Counts became extinct by the death of Conrad
the Second, which took place in 1136, and Henry
the Blind, son of Godefroud, Count of Luxembourg,
became successor to the county. The Countess
Ermesinda granted a charter enfranchising the capi-
tal. ThischarterisdatedAug.,l243. ThisErmesinda,
daughter of Henry the Blind, married Thibaut,
Count de Bar, and the House of Bar became the
third race of the Sovereigns of Luxembourg. The
fourth is that of Limbourg. It was the Emperor
Charles IV. who raised the country into a duchy in
favour of his brother, Venceslas, by an act signed
on the 13th of March, 1354. Elizabeth de Gcerlitz,
(laughter of John of Luxembourg,Duke de Gcerlitz,
son of the Emperor Charles IV., ceded that pro-
vince to Philippe le Bon, Duke of Burgundy, in
the year 1448. The heiress of the House of Bur-
gundy having married the Archduke Maximilian,
Luxembourg by that alliance passed to the posses-
sion of the House of Austria. The southern por-
tion of Luxembourg was ceded to France in 1659,
by the Treaty of the Pyrenees. It was then called
French Luxembourg, and included Thionville,
Marvette, Chauvancy, and Montmedy. By the
terms of the treaty of peace of Utrecht, Luxem-
bourg, with the exception of the portion given to
France, reverted to the House of Hapsburg, and
continued to form part with the Austrian Nether-
lands until 1795, the period when the French ac-
quired it by conquest. The peace of Campo Formio
gave them definitive possession of it, which they
maintained until 1814. In 1830 Luxembourg,
with the exception of the town and the federal
fortress and its radius, supported the revolution in
Belgium, and became incorporated with that coun-
try. This state of things continued until 1839,
at which period Holland and Belgium consented to
an arrangement, according to which, in exchange
for the Waliern portion of Luxembourg, ceded to
Belgium, a great part of Limbonrg was united to
Luxembourg as au integral part of the German
Confederation.

A frightful but at present inexplicable attempt to
murder has caused great consternation at St. Aig-
nan, near Blois. On Saturday evening piercing
cries were heard from a little girl, residing with her
father and mother, named Racine. Some neigh-
bours rushed into the room, when Racine was dis-
covered grasping his wife with one hand, while he
inflicted severe blows with a heavy piece of wood
with the other. The murderer was able to escape
in the confusion, but as he ran out of the room he
jumped, but the keeper
said, " You can let her alone. She has got enough."
The poor woman was taken to the hospital, but the
wounds on her head are so serious that she can
hardly survive. The assassin was pursued towards
othe t rh i
ever
caught
Cher,
slaughter-house
h intohold
ld
of whichh ippitated
ssmock-frock,
r heli
himself into the
river,o c k . f r 0 c k ,
and brought
him ashore. He was taken to the Commissary of
Police.
wil-tthosuaytsa:n; ‘p‘retext,
sion of Luxembourg,
The Siecle has another and more pointed
us
and
a position purely offensive to
seriousa
ona
nds
,mnwlit
maintaining
toi oauintn
ait
Loh)
gyP
right,rpu os
.sssi ae
s.
—that is to say,
France—they will provoke us formally. They will
implicitly declare war against us, and we shall ac-
cept that war with resolution, throwing the respon-
sibility of the calamities which it will engender upon
h
etttio become our enemies."
on of neighbours who
ss-
A peculiarly violent storm of wind raged all last
the
ere pride
absolutelyat'd blind
determined
night, which must have done much damage, and
e r ambition
there has been a cold strong wind all day. The
weather, however, was bright and without rain.
The Emperor has visited the Exhibition at Bil-
lancourt. He examined the unions and important
agricultural machines with great interest, and also
inspected the stables where some remarkable speci-
mens of cattle and sheep are already installed. His
Majesty deigned to express his great satisfaction
with the Exhibition generally, and promised to
come again very often when all the arrangements
for this marvellous and interesting show shall be
completed. A great many persons were present,
who
presen ,
who received the Emperor with cordial and repeated
acclamations. I repeat my advice to such of your
readers as may come to Paris to see the Exhibition
in the Champ de Mars not to fail to visit that at
Billancourt also. All will Is Lie pleased with the
show and the beauty of
the locality, and many will
be even more delighted and astoni •
shed at it than
with the Paris Exhibition.

ACCIDENT TO LORD BURY.—An accident occurred
to Lord Bury on Monday,
while trying a rifle at
the Kilburn range. The following is his own account as
extracted from a letter addressed to a near relation :
" I was trying a rifle, converted into a breechloader by Mr.
George Prince, at the Kilburn Range yesterday. I had fired
about 80 rounds, partly for precision and partly for rapidity,
with very good result, when Mr. Prince, finding his own
ammunition expended, proposed to me to try another rifle,
which he had converted on his own principle, to take the
Boxer cartridge. At the very first shot the rifle exploded
at the breech, blowing away the covering of the breech and
twisting the internal works. I found myself suddenly on
the ground, bleeding profusely, and with the cartilage of
my nose broken. Providentially my eyes escaped, but a con-
siderable quantity of powder -was blown into my face. A
doctor who was sent for soon put me sufficiently to rights to
get home. I have kept the cartridge, and the part of the
breech that was blown backwards. I was not well enough
closely to examine the rifle, but from the appearance of the
cartridge it is evident that the primary cause of the acci-
dent is the bursting of the metal base of the cartridge. I
have known several instances in which cartridges with
metal bases have made dangerous explosions at the breech,
and as this is the cartridge on which many thousand
pounds of Government money have been expended, I
think it at least worthy of inquiry whether the accident
which so nearly proved fatal to me is likely to recur or not
before they are served out to our troops. I intend to send
the burst cartridge and the rifle to the War-office for exa-
mination. I like Prince's principle with his own ammuni-
tion, but not with the Boxer cartridge."

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.—The father
of Tom Hoare, the celebrated sculler, was sailing about near
Chiswick on Monday evening, when his boat capsized, and
after trying in vain to swim to shore he was drowned before
assistance could reach him. A short time ago he saved the
life of his own son, and on Saturday last rescued three gen-
tlemoti ErQm drowning.