The Sun.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty:—
Commander John Ward to command the Actteon for
surveying duties.

Lieutenant John Ward (b) to be commander.
M. E. J. M. Taylor to be naval cadet.

THE ARMY.

Yesterday morning the entire battalion of the
Royal Marine Light Infantry at head-quarters,
Chatham, were drawn up under the command of
Lieut,-Colonel W. H. March, for the purpose of
hearing read the proceedings of a district court-
martial which recently assembled at Chatham for
the trial of Private Frederick Wyatt, on a charge
of desertion under very aggravated circumstances.
The prisoner, who belonged to the Chatham divi-
sion, was stationed at Plymouth, where he de-
serted, and immediately afterwards lohlisted into the
29th Foot, receiving the bounty, and thereby de-
frauding •the Government. On being sent to
Chatham to join his depot he gave himself up as a
deserter, alleging that his only reason for desert-
ing at Plymouth was his desire to get back to
Chatham.. For this offence the Court sentenced
the prisoner to be branded on the body with the
letter " D," and further to be imprisoned in Fort
Clarence for 112 days ; in addition to which Jae is
to lie-Slaced under stoppages until the sum of £4
Os. 4d., of which he defrauded the Government,
is made good. The prisoner is a man of bad charac-
ter, and has once before been punished for desertion.
In consequence of the present system of clothing
the troops having been found satisfactory, the Lords
of the Admiralty have decided on adopting a simi-
lar plan for clothing the seamen at the various
ports, the articles required being made up by the
contractors. The contract for supplying clothes to
the seamen attached to the ordinary and the other
vessels of war at Chatham was yesterday given to
Messrs. Marks, the army contractors at Chatham.
By the new arrangement not only will a great
saving be effected in this branch of the naval ex-
penditure, but, the contracts being put to competi,
tion, the seamen will be furnished with a better
description of clothing than heretofore.
The recent visits of inspection made to the bar-
racks and hospitals at Chatham Garrison by Major-
General Peel and the Commissioners for inquiring
into the state of the hospitals and barracks in
England have been productive of a vast amount
of good, and several important improvements,
which will, undoubtedly, prove of great benefit to
the soldier, have already been the result of the in-
quiries then instituted. On the Commissioners
inspecting the barrack-rooms at Chatham Barracks
it was found that, although means were taken to
air the rooms during the day, yet a proper system
of ventilating them during the night was utterly
wanting. The same defects were found to prevail
at Brompton Barracks, occupied by the Royal
Engineers ; at the Hut Barracks, where the troops
of the Line are quartered ; and at the Casemate
Barracks, occupied chiefly by the sick and wounded
troops who have arrived from India and the ea*.
vies. The result has exhibited itself from time to
time in an unusually large percentage of sickness
among the, soldiers, especially during the hot sum—
mer months, while occasionally epidemic diseases,
chiefly small-pox and measles, have broken out
among the troops. It was at first considered that
the overcrowding of the troops in the barrack-
rooms was the chief cause of the sickness, and steps
were immediately taken by the authorities at
Lchathata to reduce the number of men in each
[ room, and a camp of several hundred men was
formed at some distance from the barracks. But
the main evil was the want of proper means of ven-
tilation. This defect was brought under the notice
of General Peel during his visit to Chatham by the
Commissioners, and the result has been that orders
have been given for a thorough ventilation of each
of the barrack-rooms at the several barracks of that _
garrison. The plan proposed has received tilt
sanction of the War Department, and Messrs.
Foord, of Rochester, have been employed to erect
the necessary apparatus under the direction of Col.
Williams. The contrivance for effecting the ven-
tilation of the barrack-rooms although exceedingly
simple, has already been found to answer most
satisfactorily. At the side of each fireplace a large
square wooden shaft is erected, running from the
ceiling of the room to a point clear of the outside
of the roof. This shaft is sufficiently large to
tarry Off in a powerful current all the impure
air engendered in the barrack-room, and its capa-
city gives an average of eight square inches to
each occupant of the room. In order to obtain a
supply of fresh air to each room incisions are made
in the outer walls, which are then fitted with the
ventilating irons, placed on a slight angle, and co-
vered with perforated zinc. The advantages of
this plan are that, although a current of cold air
rushes in to supply the place of that carried off yet
the persons in the room are not in the least incon-
venienced, as the angle by -which it is admitted
prevents its pouring down on the heads of those
below. The rooms on each floor will be supplied
with a separate shaft, which will all communicate
with a square apparatus on the roof. Experiments
were yesterday made with the new ventilators,
which were found to work very satisfactorily. It
is believed that the same system will be generally
adopted throughout England.
Lieut.-Gen. J. Coryton, R.M., is to receive the
good service pension vacant by the death of Gen.
Parke; Col. A. Anderson, R.M., is to receive the
field-officer's good service pension vacant by the
promotion of Col. Brown, R.M.
Orders have been received at the head-quarters of
the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham, for
the 30th (Capt. W. H. Noble's) Company of Royal
Engineers to proceed on Monday next to Shorn-
cliffe, for the purpose of relieving the 3d (Major C.
Sedley's) Company, which, it is understood, will
shortly be sent to India.

STATE OF TRADE.

MANCHESTER, SEPT. 24.—Spinners and manu-
ra,cturers continue well engaged to order, but there
seems to be less new business offering than there
was last week. Prices are very firm at last quota-
tions, and this is more particularly the case in
yarns. The demand continues steady for the home
trade, and embraces nearly all counts and qualities,
but there is less improvement in some qualities
than in others, though in most there is still an ad-
vancing tendency in prices. The demand for India
and Germany is still moderately active. In some
kinds of cloth for India manufacturers have been
willing to sell, as on Tuesday, at rather under the
extreme— prices demanded,. but but not realised, -last
week. •
ROCHDALE, SEPT. 20.—Machinery is still run-
ning full time, contracts entered into last month
being still uncompleted. Offers to renew orders
as they run out are only accepted at slightly ad-
vanced rates. The advance is conceded on descrip-
tions wanted for autumn and winter, provided early
delivery be guaranteed, and this is insisted on in all cases where an advance is given.
LEEDS, SEPT. 21.—There has only been a mode-
rate attendance of buyers in the Ctoth Halls this
morning, and the market has not been so lively as
on Saturday. The demand has been principally
for fancy fabrics of a light texture. Ordinary
cloths have not been much dealt in.

...A.UDDEESPIELb, SEPT. 21.--Although the Cloth
Hall exhibited more than an average degree of
;oration, and appeared to be frequented by an
large number of buyers from a distance,
to transactions scarcely maintained the character
for improvement we reported last week. Low
goods, however, sold well, and for medium qualities
there was a very fair sale.

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MR. Fox TALBOT'S NEW DISCOVERY—PHOTO-
GLYPHIC ENGRAVING.—The subject of engraving steel
or copper plates by means of photography is one which
has deservedly attracted the attention of the leading men
of science both in this country and on the Continent.
S * * * * We have recently been favoured with
the inspection of some new photographic—or, to speak
more correctly, photoglyphic engravings, executed by
a new process, the result of experiments made by Mr.
11. Fox Talbot. By means of his invention common
paper photographs can be transferred to plates of steel,
copper, or zinc, and impressions printed off afterwards
with the usual printer's ink,--The Xhotographic .117cws.

The screw steamship Donegal, 101 guns, was
launched at Devonport on Thursday in the presence
of a large concourse of persons. The ceremony of
christening was performed by the daughter of Rear-
Admiral Superintendent Sir T. S. Pasley. Her
dimensions are—length from figurehead to taffrail,
274 ft. 9in. : ditto between the perpendiculars,
240 ft. ; ditto of keel for tonnage, 204 ft. 9/in.
breadth, extreme, 55ft. Sin ; ditto for tonnage, 54ft.
Tin. ; ditto, moulded, 53ft. 9in. ; depth in hold,
24ft. sin. ; burden in tons, old measurement,
3,245 35-94; ditto, new, 2,954 920-3500. She will
be fitted with engines of 800-horse power by
Messrs. Penn and Co.