The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-10 00:00:00

nephew came from sea and I invited him to come over
to the Brown Horse and see Mrs. Brandy, his cousin,
who is my daughter, and other cousins arrived and we
kept it up most jollily.
Mr. Yardley—So it appears the police-sergeant was
quite right in putting this case in a chain for inquiry,
but I see no earthly reason why a man who keeps a
beer-shop should not have a family party. The sum-
mons is dismissed.

NAVAL AZVD MILITARY iNTELLIGERCE.

Major-Gen. Wesley, Deputy-Adjutant General
of the Royal Marine Forces, made his annual offi-
cial inspection of the Light Infantry Division at
Forton, under the command of Colonel Command-
ant Hurdle, C. 8., yesterday. The troops were
drawn up on parade about 10 o'clock, and the in-
spection commenced as usual with the men's ap-
pearance and their kits. At this inspection the ser-
geants preferred a request to the Deputy-Adjutant-
General for the additional 2d. per diem enjoyed by
the sergeants of the army. He replied that simul-
taneously with the appearance of the Horse Guards'
circular last February he applied to the Admiralty
for a favourable ear to the application. As soon,
therefore, as the necessary arrangements have been,
made at the Treasury, the sergeants of the Royal
Marine Light Infantry will receive the increase of
pay so well deserved. After inspecting the barrack-
rooms, stores, offices, &c., the battalion was dis-
missed for dinner; after which they were marched to
Haslar, to be inspected in field exercises, which
will be repeated to-day, when the inspection will
terminate.
A most impudent fraud has just been detected in
the manner of serving out the meat to the troops
in Portsmouth Garrison. It appears that on the
morning of the 6th inst., the Inspector of Weights
and Measures under the corporation (Mr. Moncrief)
went to Cambridge Barracks to inspect the scales
and weights at the meat store, and found on exami-
nationthat the beam of the scale had been tampered
with by being put into a fire and lengthened,
causing a difference of 6oz. in the balance of the
scales, by which it appeared that if the scales had
not been balanced previously tip the men receiving
their meat he would have furnished to each mess
6 oz. less than their proper quantity. By experi-
ments made subsequently it has been satisfactorily
ascertained that notwithstanding the scales had
been balanced a fraud had been perpetrated on the
regiment (the 47th), to the extent of 6 oz. in every
l4ib., making daily about 331 b. Mr. Moncrief
summoned the contractor, Mr. Cheeseman, before
the Portsmouth magistrates on Wednesday, when
the evidence fully convicted him of the fraud on
the troops; he was severely lectured for so infa-
mously robi.ing the men who fought for their
bread, by Major Travers, the senior magistrate, and
fined in the full penalty of 5/.
The Black Eagle Admiraltysteam-yacht, Master
Commander J. E. Petley, returned to Portsmouth
before daylight yesterday with Prince Alfred from
Queenstown, where his Irish tour terminated with
visit to the naval establishment at Haulbowline,
over which he was conducted by Dr. R. T. C.
Scott, Surgeon of the Royal Hospital in that
island. The Prince proceeded to Osborne in the
course of the day.
The 47th Foot, comprising 4 field officers, 11
captains, 18 subalterns, 6 staff, and 864 men, leave
Portsmouth Garrison this morning at nine o'clock
for Aldershot, and the 15th Foot, comprising 26
officers and 700 men, leave Aldershot at the same
hour for Portsmouth.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamship Argo, Commander A. B. Benson, arrived
in the. Thames from Calcutta on Thursday evening
with invalid troops from India, who were landed
at Gravesend the same eying and forwarded directly
to Fort Pitt Hospital, Chatham.
The Dragon, 6, paddlewheel steamer, having
been fitted at Chatham reserve, was towed from
that port to Sheerness yesterday by the Adder and
African steamers,; she is expected to hoist the pen- ,
nant immediately.
The Scorpion, 6, at Chatham, is ordered to be
removed to the Thames to be appropriated as a
floating station for the police.
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THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPIL .•

QUEENSTOWN, JULY 5.
On the 10th June Llle Atlantic telegraph squad-
ron, consisting of the Niagara and Gorgon, and
Agamemnon and Valorous, left Plymouth. On
the 13th June, in consequence of the thickness of
the weather, combined with a strong wind, the four
ships parted company. After encountering a suc-
cession of gales they reached the appointed rendez-
vous (lat. 52.2 N., long. 33.10 W.) in the follow-
ing order ;---Valorous on the 20th, Gorgon in the
forenoon of the 23d, Niagara in the afternoon of
the, 23d, and Agamemnon in the afternoon of the
25th. During the gales the
some laat-nameain d shi re-
ceivtd slight damage, and the m cablep coil
on board her shifted her position. Ou the 26th,
under the most favourable circumstances so far as
weather was concerned, the cable was spliced, but
before five miles had been accomplished it parted on
board the Niagara ; another splice was immediately
effected, and at 5.30 p.m. the Niagara, led by the
Gorgon, started for Newfoundland, and the Aga-
memnon, led by the Valorous, for Ireland. All went
smoothly till 5 a.m. of the 27th, when the Niagara,
ceasing to receive the proper signals from the
Agamemnon, cat the cable, and, in company with
the Gorgon, returned to the rendezvous. On meet-
ing the Agamemnon it was found the cable had also
been cut on board of her in consequence of the non-
arrival of the necessary telegram from the Niagara.
On the 18th, at 7.50 p.m., the cable having been
once more joined, the vessels separated with every
prospect of success, and the cable continued to pay
out without any unusual strain. Doubts were last
disappearing from the minds of the few incredulous
ones, when, alas ! at 9 p.m. of the 29th June the
Niagara ceased to receive communications from the
Agamemnon, and the electricians, by some method
known to themselves, discovered that the cable had
parted either on boardor close to the Agamemnon.
How far this may be correct we must wait for the
arrival of the Agamemnon to deci,le. At this time
284 miles of cable had been laid down in an average
depth of 1,700 fathoms, or nearly two miles. It may
serve to give some idea of the strength of the cable
when it is known that the Niagara remained an-
chored by it for some hours, and that it ultimately
broke at a strain of seven tons. The Gorgon and
Niagara returned at once to this port, for orders,
and have just arrived. The non-arrival of the Aga-
memnon and Valorous can be accounted, for in this
way ; When the vessels parted company on the
28th the arrangement was, in the event of the cable
parting before a specified quantity had been laid
down, that the ships were to return to the rendezvous,
and the first arrival to wait a certain number of
days for the other ships. On the other band, if the
cable parted after the quantity specified was laid
down, the ships were all to return to Cork for orders.
Now the assumption that 284 miles had been laid
down was based upon the fact of the Niagara hav-
ing accomplished 142 miles, and the supposition
that the Agamemnon bad succeeded with a like
quantity. It is, however, pretty evident that the
Agamemnon had not completed the specified quan-
tity before referred to when the cable parted, and
that she and the Valorous have returned to the
rendezvous, where they will, of course, wait the
number of days agreed upon for the Gorgon and
Niagara (four days, I think) ; we need,not, there-
fore, look for the Agamemnon or 'Valorous before
the 9th or 10th inst.
The result of three attempts to lay down the •
Atlantic telegraph cable during the month of June,
1858, may be thus summed up :
First attempt failed consequent upon au accident
in paying out.
Second attempt failed consequent upon con-
tinuity ceasing.
The third, and last, cannot be properly accounted
for until the arrival of the Agamemnon, and it'
would be unfair to the Atlantic Telegraph Company
to express an opinion that would be founded liter-
ally upon nothing.