The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-03 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The 18th Light Dragoons (Hussars) were in-
spected by Major-General the Earl of Cardigan on
Thursday at the Leeds barracks in the presence of
Lieut.-Colonel Knox, the commander, and the
other officers of the regiment. It is scarcely two
months since the formation of this regiment com-
menced, yet, with the exception of about half-a-
dozen soldiers, the full cotnplement has already
been raised. About 530 men mustered on parade,
and the Earl of Cardigan expressed himself well
satisfied with their soldierlike bearing and the ge-
neral discipline of the regiment. After the inspec-
tion his lordship examined the internal arrange-
ments of the barracks, which also met with his ap-
probation.
The following officers proceeded from Chatham
garrison on Saturday to Hythe for the purpose of
undergoing a course of instruction in the use of the
Enfield rifle at the School of Musketry previously
to joining the service companies of their respective
regiments in India—Captain A. J. 0. Rutherfurd,
70th Regiment ; Captain W. J. Anderson, 32d
Regiment ; Lieut. R. A. Eyre, 533 Regiment, and
Ensign J. T. H. Butt, 75th Regiment. A party of
non-commissioned officers and men also left the
garrison on Saturday for the purpose of being put
through a course of rifle instruction under Colonel
C. C. Hay.

In accordance with the orders of the Duke of i
Cambridge a number of officers, selected from the i
15th, 30th, 47th, 67th, '76th, 96th, asd 99th Regi-
ments, have arrived at Chatham and joined the
battalions of infantry, for the purpose of acquiring
a knowledge of the military system carried out by
the officers and troops of the various branches of
the service at that garrison.
On Saturday morning the entire battalion of
Royall Marine Light Infantry, now at head-quar-
ters, Chatham, were assembled in their barrack
square for the purpose of having read the* sentence
of a district court-martial on Private H. Cartlidge,
of that corps, who was tried on several charges of
desertion, making away with his necessaries, break-
ing away from the escort, and insubordinate lan-
guage. The prisoner, who bears a very bad cha-
racter, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment
in Fort Clarence military prison.
Lieut. Charles W. Sergison, of the 93d High-
landers, who fell at the attack on the Bagum's
Palace, Lucknow, on March 10, entered the army
in March, 1855. He carried the colours of his re-
giment for four months in the Crimea, and fought
most gallantly at the relief of the Residency at
Lucknow, and at the Secunderabagh, taking a mus-
ket and fighting as a private soldier. Had ho been
spared, he would have attained his 24th year in
June. He was the eldest son of Mr. William Ser-
gison, of Leamington, Warwickshire.
In the 12 months from April 1, 1857, to March
31, 1858, the Bristol recruiting district has fur-
nished to the East India Company's service no
fewer than 5,448 effective men. As many as 6,721
volunteered, but there ware rejected on medical
examination 1,273, or about 17 per cent. of the en-
tire number. Recruiting has at the same time been
actively carried on in the district for the artillery,
the military train corps, and the several regiments
of the Queen's regular army.
On Thursday 202 men of the 2d battalion of the
20th Regiment arrived in Clonmel under the com-
mand of Major Ord from Kingsbridge terminus, to
which they were marched on arriving from Liver-
pool. The battalion, when complete, will number
1,000 men, who will remain at Gomel until pro
perly drilled and proficient in the Miuie rifle ex-
ercise.

A Dublin paper says,—
" We are glad to announce that all idea of abandon-
ing the camp at the Curragh of Kildare, or even reducing
the troops stationed there, has been abandoned. Alder•
shot is no longer in high favour, althonzh its conveni-
ence as an English camp station, for the visits of the
Royal Family and the military authorities, will still keep
a large number of troops there. Tire great natural ad-
vantages of the Curragh, as a review and training ground,
as well as for the health of the troops, have induced the
authorities to decide upon an increase cf force, and
upwards of 7,000 men are already in camp. There will
be during the ensuing summer military evolutions on
an extensive scale, and constant training and prac-
tice for the troops. Heretofore the men were quartered
in wooden houses, but latterly some brick buildingm
have been erected, and the camp at the Curragh now
presents all the appearance of a permanent military es-
tabl shment."

The Wellesley, 72, guardship in orclinaryat Chat-
ham was re-commissioned onSaturday by Capt. G.
Goldsmith, C. 8., having been paid off the previous
day.
The Goliath, 80, screw steamer, is ordered to pro-
ceed from Chatham to Pinop-reach, where she will
remain until her services are required.
The freight ship Goodwill, George Commander,
has commenced shipping stores at Chatham for
Sheerneaa Docks ard.
The Marlborough, 131, Captain LordF. H. Kerr,
flag of Vice• Admiral A. Fanshawe, C.B.' might go
to Spithead next week if she had men. She enters
them very slowly indeed.
The Arrogant, 47, Capt. L. G. Heath, C. 8.,
went to Spithead on Friday and anchored. She will
leave to morrow for her cruising ground.
The frigate Sybille, 40, Commodore Elliott,
which arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday,
brought home Cap+. seymour, late of the Tortoise,
and about 70 invalids and superannuated seamen
and marines from the China squadron, including
Lieut. W. C. Andrew=, Camilla, Second Maser
J. H. Blackford, of the James ; Paymaster A. W.
Chitnmo, Cruiser; J. E. Kerr, clerk and engineer;
T. Lovering, E-,k ; Dr. Christie, Simoom, Cape of
Good Hope; W. Todner, engineer; and H. P.
Brenen, clerk, Merlin ; D. Irvine, mate, Tortoise ;
and H. Ball, assistant-surgeon, from Ascension.
Ten deaths occurred among the seamen and ma-
rines of the Sybille on the passage home—namely,
5 between Singapore and the Cape, and 5 be,ween
Ascension and Plymouth. The Sybille will have
been in commission five years on the 23d inst. She
has been on the China, Japan, and Indian stations,
and was present and assisted at the capture of Can-
ton on the 29th of December. No officers have
died since she was commissioned, but about 20
deaths have occurred among the men, principally
from dysentery and the effects of climate. When in
commission her First-Lieutenant, Curiae, was pro-
moted to the rank of Commander, and Mr. Web-
ber, mate, has been made lieutenant. The Sybille
has on board two large Chinese b -ass guns, one of
whicifweighs 20 tons ; they were captured in Wong-
Tong fort at Canton, and are intended for presen-
tation to her Majesty.

THE GUN-BOATS AT HASLAR.
TO THE EDITOR 017 THE SUN.

SlR,—From the commencement of the " shed
buildings at Hadar, designed for the purpose of
preserving the screw gunboats, I have watched the
progress of getting them up in place ; and having
attended also at a time when the facility of lower-
ing them was supposed to be effective, I do not he-
sitate to state that a more inefftctive and costly
contrivance wag never exhibited—it can only be
likened to the man who built a large boat in his
cellar and then found no space large enough for
the blat's egress. Toe late First Lord of the Ad-
miralty in his place in Parliament stated he was
assured that 30 boats could be launched or lowered
from their resting-place in a month ! Why, sir,
should not 30 boats be lowered in a day It is in
contemplation to continue the shed building on the
north side of the creek. Then, in the name of com-
mon sense, let such shed or cover be built in line
with the creek ; let blocks be placed on au inclined
plane, so that a powerful engine could haul them
up in place on a cradle, and I vouch for it that
the screw gunboat's crew—or say 40 men from the
guardahips or dockyard—would with counter tackle
and purchases lower the boats within a few minutes
into the creek. The whole affair is nothing more
than the common calculation of an ordinary schol-
b oy, and would be in effect the plan pursued in
ee'
cutting our largest thre d ^kersin halves, and
lowering the after bodyt-othe extent required
in lengthening, such as the Dukeo of Wellington,
Marlborough, or Prince
be borne in e r nagn thesed i t
shouldaftr
mind that
bodies, a weight of at least 1
repre-
sented, whereas the largestgu'iibooo tons was
bat.would not ex-
oinf Wales,l
lowering
ex-
ceed 300 tons ; the principle
Make what comment on these facts you''thg ntihaey please.
for the benefit of the public purse.-- .I have the
hoLour to be, Sir, your humble servant,
BLUE JACKET.
Portsmouth, May 1, 1858.

DEATH OF THE DEAN OF YOBS.—We regret to an
nounce the demise of the Very Rev. Sir William Cock:
burnt Dean of York, who expired on Friday afternoon
at Kelston, Someraetshire, of which parish he was
rector, at an advanced age. The late dean was third
son of Sir James Cockburn, eighth baronet by his Fecond
wife, Augusta Anna, daughter of the Very Rev. Francis
Ayseoogh, D.D., Dean of Bristol, and preceptor to
George 111., and brother of the- late Admiral Sir G
Cockburn, Bart., G.C.8., and of Gen. Sir James Cock-
burn, Bart., G.C.B. He was e located at St. John's
College, Cambridge, and obtained a fellowship of that
college ' • he graduated as B.A. in 1795, when he was
12th Wrangler, M.A. in 1798, and was made a D.D. in
1823. The reverend deceased was Christian Advocate
to the University of Cambridge in 1803, and was in
1822 appointed Dean of York, and in 1832 appointed
rector of Kelston. He married first, in 1805, Miss Peel,
second daughter of Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and sister of
the
late statesman ' • and secondly, in 1830 (his first wife
having died in 1826) Miss Pearce, daughter of Colonel
Pearce, of Harley-ball, Cambridgeshire. The late dean
Succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his brother,
Admiral Sir George Cockburn, in 1853. Failing issue,
the baronetcy de
the
_ Lord
upon his nephew, Sir Alexander
Cockburn,- Chief Justice of the Common Plum

THE SUN, LONDON,

AMERICA.

SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY EVENING•

The North Star steamer, of the Vanderbilt line,
Captain R. L. Tinkelpaugh, from New York for
Bremen, arrived in the river this afternoon, with
advicee to the 17th ult. She brings four packages
of specie (value not stated), and about 200 passen-
gers for this port, Havre, and Bremen.
The Royal mail steamship America, with the
mails of the 3d ult. from Liverpool, arrived out at
New York on the morning of the 16th.
Both Houses of Congress had agreed to finally
adjourn on the 7th of June. In the Senate on the
15th ult. a resolution was offered, which was laid
over, that Congress reassemble on the Ist of Nov.
A call was made on the Secretary of War for infor-
mation respecting the Utah army contracts. Mr.
Houston gave notice of his intention to call up on
the following Monday his resolution relative to a
protectorate over Mexico. The Pacific Railroad
Bill was then discussed till the adjournment. In
the House the Committee on the Kansas votes was
announced. It is the same as previously published
with the exception that the name of Mr. Howard,
of Michigan, is substituted for that of Mr. Gid-
dings. A River and Harbour Appropriation Bill.
involving an expenditure of 51,500,000 mainly to
continue works already in progress, was reported
by the Committee on Commerce. The Bill includes
appropriations for improvements at Hellgate, Dia-
mond Reef, and the Hudson River.
The Legislature was hard at work on the 16th on
the Supply and Appropriation Bills. The Broad-
way Railroad Bill was killed off in the Senate by a
vote of 18 to 13. The Legislature would probably
adjourn on the afternoon of the 17th.
The 16th was private Bill day in Congress, and
nothing of general interest occurred in either
House. The Kansas Conference Committee had
as yet done nothing, owing to the illness of Mr.
Stephens.
An important general order had been recently,
issued from the head-quarters of the army respect-
ing the forces detailed for Utah. Major-General
Persifer F. Smith has been assigned to the com-
mand of the forces operating against the Mormons,
superseding General Johnston, who will be placed
in command of a brigade. General Harney was
also ordered to Utah. The reinforcements and
supplies were to be pushed forward as rapidly as
practicable.
The remains of the late Colonel Benton were in-
terred at St. Louis on the 16th ult. Business was
generally suspended, the houses and stores draped
in mourning, and the streets crowded with spec-
tators. The hearse was followed to the Bellefon-
taine Cemetery by the most imposing procession
ever formed in St. Louis. It consisted of the rela-
tions and friends of the family, all the military com-
panies of the city, the 7th Regiment of the United
States' Infantry, under the command of Colonel
Morrison, the judges of the courts, the members
of the bar, the members of the city government, a
large majority of the benevolent societies of the
city, the Turners' Association, and an immense
concourse of citizens in carriages and on foot. The
cortege was 45 minutes passing a given point. On
the previous day the body lay in state in the Mer-
cantile Library Hall, and it was estimated that
25,000 persons visited the hall during the day to
gaze upon the features of the deceased Senator.
A gentleman whohad arrived in New York direct
from New Orleans, via the Missis i.dpi river and
Memphis, gave a deplorable account of the destruc-
tion of property by the flood in that river. He
stated that the river had pretty much, with few
exceptions, covered the country on both sides of it
all the way from the mouth of Lake Providence to
Memphis—a distance of several hundred miles.
People were seen in the upper stories of the houses,
while the lower rooms were filled with water.
Cattle were standing half submerged, while dogs
were resting on logs. In villages people were pass-
ing in boats, and moving their effects to places of
greater.safety. Even deer had been dislodged from
their coverts, and were seen swimming in the Mis-
sissippi. One fine specimen was taken while swim-
ming, across the river in front of the bow of the
boat. This flood is said to be without precedent
since the year 1844, and at many points it is said
to be greater than that. The extent of its damage
and destruction of property cannot probably la.)
known until the inundation has partially subsided,
communication with many points having been in-
terrupted or entirely cut off.
The steam frigate Susquehanna arrived at New
York on the evening of the 15th from Kingston,
Jamaica, which port she left on the 7th ult. She
had been absent about two years, during which
time she visited the Mediterranean, took part in
the Atlantic telegraph expedition, an.d had latterly
been stationed on the coast on Central America,
watching the Filibusters. While lying in the har-
bour of Greytown, on the 19th of March, the yellow
fever broke out among her crew. She immediately
put to sea, intending to visit Pensacola' but her
destination was subsequently changed for Jamaica,
being short of coal and medical stores. Before her
arrival at Kingston the disease had become epi-
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demic, and on reaching that port she bad
.155
cases. Of the whole number 17 had died, among
them Lieutenant Queen, of the Marine Corps.
Six officers and 56 of the crew were landed at Kings-
ton, and placed in the hospital there. Great praise
was given the English naval and medical officers of
Kingston for their prompt and efficient efforts to
relieve the sick. 21 cases of yellow fever from the
Susquehanna were sent to the Marine Hospital at
New York on the morning of the 16th ult., and
immediately after the health officer sent her to the
lower quarantine anchorage, to ride out her qua-
rantine probation of 30 days. Her officers and crew,
except so many as wore necessary to remain on
board as shipkeepers, were ordered to leave the
ship and take quarters on the quarantine grounds,
Where they would remain until all danger had
passed that they would be attacked with yellow
fever. Several of the sick died on the 16 di, but tte
remaining cases were doing well. No efforts were
spared by the officers at quarantine to provide for
the unfortunates. A. force of metropolitan police
was furnished to -assist the health officer while the
crew of the Susquehanna were detained at quaran-
tine.
Some details had been received at New York of
the late Indian massacre ip British Honduras.
When the Indians took the town of Beccalaw they
killed 104 persons, and took 40 prisoners. Rausoln
amounting to $4,000 was offered for the rele7se of
the latter, but it was refused, and the entire num-
ber-30 women and 10 men—were brought out and
put to death, after the persons of the women bad
been violated by the Indian soldiers.
News from Maracaibo, Venezuela, is to the Ist ult.
On the 21st of March the opponents of Monagas
overthrew the existing Government at that place,
and proclaimed ex-Governor Serrano provisional
President of the Liberaeing Assembly. The revolu-
tion was effected without bloodshed. The general
sentiment of the 'province was favourable to the
elevation of General Pasz as the executive head
of the republic. The removal fiom office of all the
employes of the late Government had been decreed,
and persons who speculated in the public funds
during the rule of Menages were to be rigorously,
excluded from appointitnts under the new admi-
nistration. The Mono gols family had taken refuge
with the French legation, whither they had taken
half a million of dollar's; and it was i-aid that the
French Minister was about to marry the ex-Presi-
dent's daughter. The Provisional Government,
however, demanded the surrender of Monagas and
his accomplice, and they were delivered up and
placed in confinement, to ba dealt with according
as their offences may be judged. From a published
statement it appears that of the Custom-hoase re-
ceipts at Porto Cabello the Monagas family regu-
larly bagged 76 per cent. The ex-President was
near defeating the ends of the patriots by means of
early information given him by a traitor named
Gavara. Caracas was brilliantly illuminated for
seven days after Menages resigned, during which
time the great number of foreign sags floating
from private residences added much to the effect of
the scone. As the streets were crowded night and
day during the week, the ladies, native and foreign,
when promenading appeared without their skirt dis-
tenders—a circumstance that is mentioned with no
little satisfaction.
The tendency of prices in the New York stock-
market on the 16th ult. was downward, from the
opening to the close. A very moderate amount of
business was transacted, and most of the operations
were on time. At the first board Virginia Stale
-Sixes declined per cent., Canton Company ie Ni-
caragua Transit 1, New York Central Vailroad f,
Hudson River Railroad 1, Harlem 1, Reading 11,
Michigan Southern (01(1)11, do. Preferred li, Pana-
ma 2, Galena and Chicago 1, Cleveland Toledo 1,
Chicago and Rock Island 2. Dulness hid been the
characteristic. of the stock-market for several days.
At the second board quite an improvement was
trvreaaal inlc
Bondsse d, wh a
per
ei
wtre
cree
upitr.le;otwt ye
lower
iv e
Pennsylvaniamark e market. lllinoiscoCal ade n
New York Central
; Erie, ; Hudson River Railroad, ; MilWairie
and Mii
Mississippi,
; Reading, I • Michigan
Southern, Old, ; ditto, Preferred, Panama,
; Galena and Chicago, ; chriceag'o ;andt:
Island, 1. After the board the tendency was up-
ward, and the market closed very firm.
The market for breadstuffs was less active, and
under the foreign news prices were dull, without
change, however, of moment in qnotations.The
quotations t rls''
cloning:--Su-
sales footed up ab 5,000t06,
within the range of thi following
perfine State, 4 doh sc. to 4 do's. 15c. ; extra
Stat©, 4 dol.?, 25c. t 4 dole. 30c ; Western and
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