The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY, &a.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 26.
Her Majesty and the Queen of Prussia drove out
yesterday afternoon. Countess Blucher had the
honour of accompanying their Majesties.
Princess Beatrice drove out in an open carriage.
Prince Leopold also drove out, attended by Mr.
Legg.

Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, attended by Baroness Schenck,
Capt. von Westerweller, and Dr. Becker; and
Princess Louise, attended by Lady Caroline Bar-
rington and Lord Alfred Paget, went to London
last evening, to be present at the State Bail at
Buckingham Palace.

We are authorised to state that her Majesty's
state ball, announced for Wednesday, the 2d of July, hag
been postponed till Friday, the sth of July.

St. Giles' and the Gzeen Field&

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Will you kindly allow me a small space in
your columns to plead with your numerous readers
for a little assistance to enable us to take 300 of the
poor of St. Giles' for a summer day's excursion
into the country ? They are almost entire strangers
to fresh air, green fields, sweet-smelling flowers, and
the singing of birds. They see little else year by
year but the closely thronged courts and alleys
of their own immediate neighbourhood. They live
for the most part in miserable garrets and dark
underground cellars, not fit for a dog to inhabit.
May I not, in the name of humanity, plead for a
helping hand to enable us to give to them, our
poorer neighbours, a few hours' enjoyment outside
the smoky city. Subscriptions may be sent to in
address as under.--I am, Sir, yours faithfully,

GEORGE HATTON.
12, Compton-place, Regent-square, W.C.

Hayes, the Policem n.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Thc great interest taken by the public in
the above-namel case will not be lessened by a
knowledge of the following facts. Matthew Hayes,
the policeman who was convicted of perjury at the
Old Bailey last November, bad, at the previous
September sessions, held at ellerkenwell, obtained
the conviction of a man named Robert Lake for
alleged attempted burglary, and he was sentenced
to twelve mouths' imprisonment with hard labour.
During my inquiries into the case, in which I was
more immediately interested—that of the two lads,
Pierce and Dye--facts came to my knowledge
which made it appear that Matthew Hayes was la
the habit of getting up false charges; and that this
Robert Lake was another of his victims. All the
facts being collected, the necessary legal steps were
kindly undertaken by Mr. Shaen, of Bedford-row,
who prepared a memorial and presented it to the
Home Secretary, praying fur further investiga-
tion into the case with the view to establish the
man's innocence and obtain her Majesty's pardon'
Mr. Thomas Hughes, M.P., kindly supported
the prayer of the memorial, and I have great
pleasure in appending a copy of the reply recently
received from the Home-office.—l am, &c.,

JOHN IVORY•

53, College-place, Camden-town, June 25.
Whitehall, June 20, 1867.

Sir,—The Secretary of State for the Home De-
partment having considered the case of Robert
Lake, in whose behalf you have appealed to him,
I have the satisfaction to acquaint you that he hag
felt warranted under all the circumstances in ad-
vising her Majesty to remit the remainder of the
prisoner's sentence.—l am, sir, your obedient ser-

Pant,

T. Hughes, Esq., M.P.

11. WADDINGTON.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., Inspector-Gec•
of the Royal Marine Force,, yesterday resumed his
half-yearly inspection of the Woolwich division of
Light Infantry, when the whole division, including
gun drill, rifle practice, servants, employed men,
&c., was formed on Woolwich Common at 11 o'clock
in one battalion, and, having gone through the
usual salute, they were searchingly inspected. After
marching past in slow and quick time, in open co-
lumn of companies, and in grand divisions at com-
pany distance, they were put through the manual
and platoon exercises by Lieut.-Col. Kennedy, and
bayonet exercises, in slow and quick time, by Lieut.-
Col. Jolliffe. Col. Commandant Connolly then took
command, and put them through a most extended
and difficult series of field manoeuvres, battalion and
light infantry movements, all of which were per-
formed in a manner which elicited the marked ap-
proval of the Inspector-General. At 1 o'clock they
returned to barracks and were dismissed. The de-
tachment at gun drill were visited at 2 p.m., and
were exercised in the first three instructions by
Capt. Carrington, the gunnery instructor to the
division. The whole of the exercises were well and
smartly performed. The Inspector-General and his
Aide-de-Camp, with Major-Gen. Warde,
commanding the garrison, and his staff, dined with
Col. Connolly and the officers of the division in the
evening, at their mess quarters. The inspection
will be continued, and in all probability concluded;
to-day.
The engines of the screw steam sloop Niobe, 4,
were tried outside Plymouth breakwater on Tues-
day, under the superintendence of the Steam Re-
serve in Hamoaze. The ship burdens 1,083 tons.
Her masts and yards are complete, and she had 011
board stores for 12 months' consumption, with 227
tons of coal. Draught forward, 13ft. 9in.; aft, 17ft.
7in. The engines, by Messrs. aveßnhill and Hodg-
son, are of 300 horse power, nominal; the propeller,
Griffiths, has a diameter of 15ft., with a pitch of
13ft. 9in., and length 2ft. 9iin. Weather barome-
ter, 30 35 deg.; wind northerly, force 3 to 4, sell
smooth. Six runs under full power gave a true
mean speed of 12.079 knots, and four runs under
half power of 10.664 knots. The engines worked
very satisfactorily. The stokehold, for this class of
ship, Was comparatively cool. Load on safety valve,
301 b. Pressure of steam in boilers—full, 231-113. ;
half, 2041 b. Vacuum in condensers—full, forward,
25in.; aft, 24fin.; half, forward, 26in.; aft, 2510.
Number of revolutions of engines—full, maximum,
97k; mean, 911; half, maximum, 76; mean, 751.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Philip R.
Sharpe to the Waterwitch, commissioned ; Lieut•
Alfred E. Denny to the Duncan, additional, for
temporary service ; Lieut. Henry U. Alleyne,. ,
to the Revenge, additional, for temporary service
Lieut. Gerald A. Ellis to the Lee ; Heaver Sugdee'
master, to the Viper ; John Caldwell, surgeon, to
the Britannia ; Dr. T. Fulton, assist.-surg., to the
St. George ; Steven Sweetman, assist.-surg., to the
Ganges, for the Liberty ; Thomas H. C. Gray,
paymaster, to the Revenge, for service on shore ;
Lewis, paymaster, to the Irresistible, for service ou
shore ; G. M. Laing, paymaster, to the Duncan, for
service on shore ; Edward M. Millman, paymaster,
to the President ; Martin F. Moresby, paymaster'
to the Ganges ; W. F. Alexander, paymaster. to the
Achilles ; Thomas S. Haywood, paymaster, to the
Frederick William ; and James 11. Hewlett, chief
engineer, to the Indus, additional, for charge of the
machines of the Penelope.

DEATH OF LADY PANMURE. --We regret to
announce the death of this amiable lady, which event took
place yesterday, at Paris. The deceased peeress was
twice 'married, first to Lord Panmure, consequently 51.1°
was the stepmother of the present Earl of Dalhousie, find
secondly, to Mr. Bonamy Mansell Power, of Guernsey.'
Galignani.
A magnificent painting by Vandyke, represent'
ing Ste. Cecilia, has just been brought to light in restoring
the old church bf Caehlevoch, between Heele and Berseil
in Belgium.
John Bell, able-bodied seaman on board
Lion, aged 22 years; Catherine M•William, his wife, aged
20 years; and Caroline Nicoll, aged 20 years, all belonging
to Glasgow, were drowned off Kilereggan late on Monday
niglit'by the upsettir.g of a small rowing boat.