The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-31 00:00:00

SUPPLY.

Mr. FITZROY brought up the report of the Com-
mittee of Supply, on which a discussion ensued on
various subject?.

THE SERPENTINE.

Sir J. SHELLEY complained that no vote bad been
taken for improving the Serpentine, after the plan of the
Ornamental Water in St. James'e-park.

THE LADIES' GALLERY.

Major EDWARDS called attention to the present in-
convenient state of the ladies' gallery. By an outlay of
2001. the gallery might be made to hold 42 ladies instead
of 21 as at present.
Mr. B. HOPE thought the house should first do some-
thing to improve the interior of the house. He had
heard it compared to a Swiss cottage. It certainly did
not afford that convenience and comf irt it ought after
so much money had beon expended on it.
Mr. BENTINCK hoped the house would not sanc-
tion the outlay of money for euch purposes until our
defences had been put i❑ a proper and efficient state.
The subject then dropped.
The report mac, ta)tituatcly agl tea to.
MR. DISRAELI'S SPEECH AT SLOUG

Lord PALMERSTON rose to answer the appeal
made to him on Friday night by the right hon. gentle-
man the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to his
speech on the previous Wednesday at Slough. If the
speech had been made by a person ignorant
of the difficulties of government, h would have
been excusable ; but that was not the case
here, and from the manner in which it was delivered
was likely to mislead the country. So far from Go-
vernment entering on their duty atnicht great difficul-
ties, Lcrd Derby on taking office stated in the House of
Lords that he hoped when he retired from office he
should leave the state of affairs in as satisfactory a con
dition as ho found them, and that after two dap consi-
deration and examination. So far then that was a refu-
tation of the right honourable gentleman's state-
ment. With regard to the imminence of war, as
stated by the right honourable gentleman on her
Majesty's Government taking office it was utterly and
entirely erroneous—it was, in fact, opposite to the
trut, and he expressed his surprise that the right hon.
gentleman should have made it, and especially at the
time and place where he did it. And, if true, a booth at
Slough, and before a parcel of carousing electors, was
not the place to make such a declaration, but in that
house, in committee of supply, if he knew such to be the
fact. He (Lord Palincntou) also utterly deni d the
statement that there was such danger of war in France,
and complained that the right hon. gentleman had put an
erroneous construction on his (L-rd Paimerston'e) state-
ment on a former occasion, in answer to a question put
to him in that house. He said nothing then about war,
but that we were in the most cor.fldential relations with
France, but that the insulting character of the question
put with reference to France ought not to be counte•
nanc-d. Forty-eight hours before the retirement of the
lste Government the relations between this country and
France were of the most cordial character.
[Lary SPEAKING ]

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGEIVCE.

The Duke of Cambridge went on Saturday to
Sheerness to inspect the garrison and fortifications
of that place. He proceeded immediately to the
garrison parade ground, where the field battery
occupied the left wing, the Royal Artillery the
centre, and the East Kent Militia the right wing of
the parade. The inspection commenced with the
field battery. The Duke then went on the centre
bastion, mounting 22 guns, to witness the target
practice, a target being placed at a distance of
about 1,500 yards, out towards the Little Nore.
The guns were 32-pounders, loaded with shrapnell
shell. The guns were laid admirably, every shell
bursting either immediately over or very near the
target. His Royal Highness expressed his satis-
faction at the great precision with which the guns
were laid and fuses cut. While on the parade he
requested one of the corporals to take off his cap,
technically called a Busby. He called the atten-
tion of his staff and the colonel-commandant to the
weight and the hard material of which the present
Busby is made, and informed the colonel and staff
that he was glad to say a far more flexible material
had been discovered, and that the new Busby which
be intended to introduce would only be about one-
third the weight of the present ones in use. He then
proceeded to inspect the barrack-rooms, with the
arrangements of which he expressed himself highly
satisfied. Thence he• visited the hospital. On leav-
ing the hospital he inspected the Artillery stables.
The Duke then proceeded to the dockyard, and re-
turned to the North Kent Railway station by the
Lizard, Lieut.-Commander Maunsell. He is to
visit Shorncliffe to inspect the new barracks, &c.,
erected there.
On Saturday orders were issued from the Horse-
Guards to the officers commanding the depots of
the various East India corps for the following rein-
forcements of her Majesty's troops, to embark for
India between June 24 and July 2—viz., for Cal-
cutta, 2,930 men of all ranks ; for Kurrachee, 790
men ; for Bombay, 1,130 men ; for Madras, 820
men—total, 5,670 men, belonging to variouscavalry
anti infantry corps. Orders were the same day
received at the East India-house, from the War
Department, directing the required amount of ton-
nage to be taken up for the conveyance of those
reinforcements to India.
The officers and men belonging to the Royal En-
gineers and the Esst India Company's Sappers and
Miners at Chatham are acively employed on their
field works, adjoining Brewton Barracks, in
preparing the earthworks, mines, and other preli-
minaries for some engineering operations and expe-
riments, which will shortly take place at Chatham,
and in which the Royal and East India Company's
engineers will be engaged.
Mr. H. Wake, the gallant leader of the defence
of Arrah, arrived by the last mail from• Calcutta on
sick leave.
The following is an extract of a letter dated
March 75, from a private in the 60th Rifles, on his
march from Meerut with Gen. Penny's column :
" We yesterday hada terrible sight on our march
through Gungree, the brutes (sepoys) had torn up
our dead, and stuck them up in different parts of
the plain. Those poor lifeless lumps of clay were the
men and officers of the 6th Carbineers and the 3d

Bengal Infantry, who fell several months ago."
The Marlborough, 131, Capt. Lord F. H. Kerr,
resumed his experiments in steaming the course of
the measured mile at Stokes Bay and through
Spithead on Saturday, with the screw as arranged
by Messrs. Maudslay and Field, which consists of
moveable blades, to admit of their removal if ne-
cessary, for the convenience of stowing away, and
for the be' ter facility of changing the pitch. The
trial we reported on Saturday was at the coarsest
pitch of 21, by which a mean speed of 11.215 knots
was attained with 571 revolutions. The boilers
gave an abundance of steam, and the machiery
worked, as before, faubles4y. Mr. Henry Warri-
nor, from Maudslay's, is superintending the expe-
riments for the firm. The trials will be resumed
to-day, weather favourable. . _

The'Agamemnon, 91, screw ship, Capt. George
Preedy, went out of harbour at Devonport on Fri-
day. She was swung for the adjustment of her
' compasses on Saturday, and sailed in the afternoon
of that day in company with the Valorous and Gor-
gon, steamers. The Nit.garl, Captain Hudson,
wont out of harbour on Saturday, and railed in the
evening. They will return to Plymouth after hav-
ing made some experiments on the laying of the
cable, and, having filled up with coals, will again
proceed to sea, laying the main line. The Porcu-
pine, 3, paddle, Captain H. C. Otter, which arrived
at Plymouth on Saturday, accompanied the
Niagara to render assistance, if required, in the
work of laying the cable.
Tn.. Irene,. .teatn. hoop frig•tto, Commander J.
Seccombe, left Spitheal about 3 p.m. ou Saturday
for G braltar, with the head qua! ters of the 2d Bat-
talion of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Somerset, C. B. , who did not
arrive from London until Saturday morning.
The ceremony of launching the Forte, 51 guns,
steam frigate, took place at Deptford dockyard on
Saturday afternoon, in the presence of the largest
concourse of persons assembled at that dockyard for
many years past. Among the company present
were Sir John Pakington, First Lord of the Admi-
ralty, with Lady Pakington and daughters, who
were received on their arrival by Captain Buckle,
the Captain-Superintendent of the yard; the Lord
Mayor and Lady Mayor. 5.,, Mr. Alderman and
Sheriff Allen, Admiral Hamilton, Rear-Admiral
Milne, Rear-Admiral Sir W. 0. Poll, Greenwich
Hospital ; Captain Sir W. B. Walker, Surveyor of
the Navy, Captain Lean, &c. At 20 minutes to 3
everything was announced as in readiness for the
launch, and Lady Pakington proceeded to the head
of the vessel, and, having taken hold of the bottle,
broke it over the ship, at the same time naming her
the Forte, and immediately afterwards, taking hold
of another silken cord, let it drop from her hand,
the vessel gliding in beautiful style into the Thames
amid the acclamations of the thousands gathered on
each side of the river, the bands striking up "Rule
Britannia" and the "National Anthem."
The Terrible, steam frigate, left Sheerness on a
trial of her machinery on Saturday st, attended
by the steam vessel lecuat, Com. ' der Fn ld.
The Terrible's engines acted very. isfactorily.
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Her maximum rate of speed was 11 knots 5. She
returned into harbour the samo evening and took
up moorings on the west shore.
The °emus, 14, gun sloop, Commander B. D3.Vi -
king, arrived at the Great Nore on Saturday •no Al
last. 'She anchored there, and in the afternoon was
inspected by the Commander in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral of the Red, E iward Harvey, after which
she was taken in tot.v by the Adder steam-vessel
and passed through the harbour at 6p.m. for Chat-
ham to be paid cif.
On Friday last the steam-vessels African and
Adder left Sheerness and proceeded to the Downs
to tow the Monarch, 84 guns, flag ship, Vice-
Admiral H. W. Bruce, to Sheerness. She is to be
paid off on the 9th of June next. This ship, since
leaving Plymouth Sound on Jan. 7, 1855, has
sailed over 77,000 miles, although as near as possi-
ble she has been at anchor one-half her period of
commission. The Monarch, when in lat. 50.3 S.
and long. 49.2 W. sighted an ic,b,rg on March 5,
distant about seven miles, which by calculation
must have been over 500 feet above the level of the
sea. The thermometer fell 7 deg., while the ship
remained to leeward of the iceberg.

MAY 31, 1858.