The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1859.

S;ZTRACHAN and CO.'s Celebrated Domestic
Black TEA, at 3s. 2d. per lb., or 3s. in original packages
of 40 and 801bs. This Tea is particularly adapted to large
consumers, as it possesses extreme strength and roughness.
26, Cornhill, London, opposite the Royal Exchange.

WHAT are the Wild Waves saying? Keep
up your Channel Fleet, and buy your Teas of the
East India Tea Company, where sound Tea, Black, Green, or
Mixed, can be bought, in 61b bags, at 2s. per lb., and Coffee, in
the Berry, at 10d Warehouse, 9, Great St. Helen's-church
yard, Bishopagate.

EPPS'S COCOA.—Epps, homoeopathic chemist,
London.—This excellent preparation, originally pro-
duced s_pecially for the use of homoeopathic patients, having
been adopted by the general public, can now be had of the
principal grocers. Each packet is labelled James Epps,
homoeopathic chemist, London.

OINOPOLION TAVERN AND HOTEL
FOR GENTLEMEN,
Nos. 1, and 2, Brownlow-street, High-Holborn.
The Best Served Dinner in London for ls. 6d.
A Succession of Joints, &c., from One till Seven o'Clock.
Henekeys, Abbott, and Co.'s Wines and Spirits.
Private and Smoking Rooms.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Extraordinary
GENERAL MEETINGS of this Society will be held at Rad-
ley's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Blackinars, on SATURDAY.
the 19th March, and SATURDAY, the 2d April, for the pur-
pose of declaring a Bonus. and on other business.
ALEXR. MACDONALD, Secretary.

THE NAVE

The Trafalgar, 91, screw steamer, having been
completed, is ordered to be undocked during the
present spring tides, when,the Rodney, 91, is to go
into the same dock to be cut down to a two-decker

screw steamer.
The Algiers, 91, screw steamship, Captain G. W.
D. O'Callaghan, having completed taking on board
her dockyard stores, warped off from alongside the
sheer jetty at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday to
the Bellerophon hulk, the St. Vincent, 102, flagship
of Rear-Admiral Superintendent the Hon. George
Grey, shifting her berth from the Bellerophon to
the Prince Regent.
The Avon paddlewheel steam store vessel arrived
at Portsmouth on Wednesday evening from Devon-
port, and sailed again on her return yesterday.
Admiral W. Bowles, CM., Commander-in• Chief
at Portsmouth, yesterday visited the Britannia
naval cadet training ship at that port.
The Fire Queen paddlewheel steamvessel, Master
Commander Paul,.has nearly completed the repairs
to her bow in No. 7 dock at Portsmouth.

The Royal Sovereign, 131, in the steam basin at
Portsmouth, is ordered to be fitted with wire-rope
bobstays on a new principle, the end of the bobstay
fitting with an eye to a hook on the head knee.
Every exertion is being used to get the Mersey,
40, screw steam frigate, in the steam basin at
Portsmouth, ready for her trial trip as quickly as
possible. She is taking in the hollow shot• for her
10-inch main deck guns, spare spars, ke., and
coaling. Her guns and their carriages have yet to
be put on board.
Her Majesty's screw steamships now at anchor
in Pollland harbour are the Blenheim, 61; the
Liffey, 51, and the Termaknt, 31, the latter hav-
ing arrived early on Wednesday afternoon from
Spithead.
The screw' steamship St. Jean d'Acre, 101, Cap-
tain Thompson, took on board her powder in Ply-
mouth Sound on Monday, and on Wednesday was
inspected by the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admi-
ral Sir Barrington Reynolds, K.C.8., accompanied
by Captain Jerningham, of the gunnery ship Cam-
bridge, who subsequently mustered and exercised
the crew of the screw steam sloop Gannet, 11, also
in the Sound.

The paddlewheel steam frigate Leopard, 18,
Captain Wainwright, steamed from Hamoaze into
Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, and received her
powder on Wednesday.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander Dunn, was taken out of Keyham basin on
Wednesday.
The naval transport Diligence sailed from Ply-
mouth on Wednesday with stores for the Eastern
ports.
The gunboat Grappler was docked at Devonport
on Monday.
On Wednesday afternoon a telegraphic despatch
arrived at Chatham dockyard, from the Admiralty,
directing 250 additional shipwrights and thirty-
six other artisans to be immediately entered at this
establishment in order for all the available force to
be employed in hastening forward the completion
of those line-of-battle ships now on the stocks,
several other additional vessels being ordered to be
immediately laid down. The whole of the work.
men employed in this dockyard are also to be em-
ployed on task work overtime, the same as during
the Russian war.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. J. Malcolm, late flag
lieutenant to Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, promoted
to commander; Lieut. C. H. Murphy, to the Excel-
lent ; Lieut. A. R. Wright, to the Edinburgh ; H.
Campbell,
.paymaster, to the Vesuvius ; and E. S.
Peach, assistant-clerk, to the Tortoise.

firing. The method adopted by Captain Norton is
to take an ordinary large.grooved rifle, which he
places in a nearly upright position, with an inclina-
tion more or less slight. He then takes one of his
elongated rifle shots, weighing about Boz., with a
percussion cartridge attached, and this being put
in at the muzzle slides down the barrel, exploding
on striking the bottom. By this invention one man
may discharge about 20 shots per minute with the
greatest ease, the firing being in all cases vertical
and in any direction.
This morning 26 non-commissioned officers and
men of various corps, all of whom have been de-
clared unfit for further service, left St. Mary's
barracks, and were forwarded to their respective
homes at the expense of the War-office. Nearly
the whole of the men received wounds or other
injuries in their conflicts with the mutineers at
Lucknow, Cawnpore, and Delhi.

LADY HAVELOCK AND THE VETERANS OF THE
13TH.-A pleasing instance of the courtesy and
kindness of Lady Havelock, and, at the same time,
showing the interest she feels in those who have
been associated with her late lamented husband,
occurred in Bath. Her ladyship was staying
a few days ago, at Westfield Cottage, Wells-
road, and hearing that a few non-commissioned
officers and privates were located here belong-
ing to the 13th Regiment, in which Sir H.
Havelock held the rank of captain in the early
part of his military career, she kindly invited
them to visit her at her temporary residence.
The names of those who waited on her lady-
ship in obedience to this request were Sergeant-
Major Brown, Quartermaster-Sergeant Hughes,
Colour-Sergeant Duffy, Staff-Sergeant Greabach,
Sergeant Thomas Greabach, and Privates Samuel
Bicky and Henry Hall, all of whom served under
Havelock during the Affghanistan campaign, and
were present with him at the siege of Jellalabad,
where he commanded the right wing. In reply to
her inquiries, Lady Havelock was pleased to hear
that these veterans recollected her, when, 21 years
ago, she was left at Kurnawan (a frontier station
for European troops), while Captain Havelock, who
had just obtained the command of the 4th company,
proceeded on the active service of the campaign,
and listened with deep interest to the details which
they gave of the stirring engagements which took
place amongst the mountain passes of Affghanistan.
At the close of the interview, which lasted about
an hour, her ladyship expressed the gratification
she felt at meeting with the old comrades of her
husband, and, having given them her address in
London, stated that she should be happy to see any
of them there should they come to the metropolis.
The little band of veterans, each of whom was, de-
corated with three, four, or five medals, were very
hospitably entertained, and took their leave de-
lighted with the reception they had received.—
Bath Chronicle.