The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The armour-plated screw steam sloop Research,
4, Commander Robert A. E. Scott, from the Isle
of Wight, joined Admiral Yelverton's squadron in
Plymouth Sound on Thursday.
The armour-plated iron screw storeship Defence,
18, Capt. Augustus Phillimore, will be removed
from No. 1 dock at Keyham steamyard to-day,
when the gun-vessel Star will be placed in the dock.
The Nassau, 4, screw corvette, fitted for survey-
ing service, Commander Mayne, arrived at Spit-
head en route for foreign service.
ller Majesty's ships at Spithead now consist of
the Bellerophon, Hector, and Pallas, ironclad fri-
gates, the Gladiator, paddle sloop, the Nassau and
Cruiser, unarmed screw sloops.
Inspector-Gen. A. B. Stransham resumed his
half-yearly visitation of the Woolwich division of
Royal Marines Light Infantry, commanded by Col.
Maxwell on Friday, and terminated it on Saturday.
This will, in all probability, be General Stransham's
last inspection of the division, as the term of his
staff appointment, conferred January 9, 1862, will
shortly close, according to the service regulations,
on his attaining his 60th year. His period of office
has been marked by many improvements and re-
forms which are felt as a boon. by the whole of the
officers and men throughout the division.
We have to record the death of Gen. Sir John
Michell, K.C.8., Colonel Commandant of the sth
Battalion of the Royal Artillery, on Thursday last,
in his 85th year. The late General was descended
from a family long resident at Huish, Somerset-;
shire, and was educated at the Royal Military Col-
lege at Woolwich. He gained his commission as
Second-Lieut. in the Royal Artillery in 1798. In
the following year he was called upon to serve in
the army under Gen. Sir Ralph Abercromby and
the Duke of York in Holland. From August, 1813,
to May, 1814, he served with the army under the
Duke of Wellington in the Peninsula and south
of France, and for his services in the Peninsula
received the gold medal and one clasp for Orthes and
Toulouse, and the silver war medal with three clasps
for St. Sebastian, Nivelle, and Nive. After leaving
England in 1814 he embarked for America, and took
part in the attack of Washington, Baltimore, New
Orleans, &c., and was honourably mentioned in the
several despatches. Subsequently he joined the
Duke of Wellington's army (after the battle of
Waterloo) on the Continent, and was attached to
the Prussian army in reducing the fortresses in
the Netherlands. The late General served on the
staff of the Royal Artillery in Ireland from 1825
till 1830. From 1831 to 1836 he was in command
of the Royal Artillery in Canada, and was from 1844
to 1848 employed in command of the Royal Artil-
lery at Gibraltar. In recognition of his military
services he was, in 1831, made a Companion of the
Order of the Bath, and was nominated a Knight
Commander of the Order in 1861. He was ap-
pointed Colonel-Commandant of the sth Battalion
of the Royal Artillery in June, 1856.
Yesterday a detachment of 56 non-commissioned
officers and men belonging to the various depots
attached to the Ist battalion at Chatham arrived at
that garrison from Upnor Castle, under command of
Lieut. R. 0. Richmond, 50th Queen's Own, the
troops having been relieved by a similar detachment
selected from the depots comprising the 2d battalion
at Chatham garrison.
Commander M. Lowther was on Saturday ap-
pointed to the Dart, commissioned.

THE RESIGNATION OF BARON BETIST.

VIENNA, Aug. 22.

The following is the letter in which Baron Beust
tenders his resignation as Premier to the King of
Saxony :

" Most Gracious King and Lord,—Your Majesty
was pleased to grant my respectful request that I
might personally take part in the peace negotiations
to be opened at Berlin. I had the greater cause to
be grateful to your Majesty for this favour, as I had
asked it in order to allow no doubt to exist that I
had in no way wished to withdraw myself from the
arduous tasks imposed by circumstances, and
that I was at the same time ready to make
the attempt, by immediate and frank address, to
place what has been done byyour Majesty's Govern-
ment in its true light, and by combating many un-
founded suppositious to gain a better basis for that
negotiation. My participation has, however, been
declined at Berlin.

" As your Majesty will graciously recollect, I sub-
mitted, upon the day the peace preliminaries agreed
upon between Austria and Prussia were signed, the
question to your consideration, whether, as it then
became requisite to endeavour to arrive at au under-
standing with the Prussian Government, I might
not prove an obstacle to that understanding, which
it might be thought advisable to remove.
" The above-mentioned reply can only strengthen
me in this supposition, and 1 consider it therefore a
duty I owe to your Majesty and the country to lay
my most respectful resignation at your Majesty's
feet, inexpressibly painful although it is to me to
withdraw from your Majesty's service precisely
under present circumstances.
" A Ministerial service of upwards of 17 years
thus comes to a close. Its commencement, like its
end, was marked by a deeply-felt convulsion of our
public affairs. I feel myself free from the reproach
of having occasioned either the one or the other, but
carry the consciousness within me with regard to
both of having only fearlessly defended the right,
in accordance with the principles and opinions of my
master and King, and of having done my duty.
"May I beg your Majesty graciously to accept
my resignation, and to believe the assurance that,
mindful of the great happiness of having been per-
mitted, under your Majesty's guidance, to devote
my powers to the service of the country, I shall in
future still endeavour to show myself worthy of the
numerous and memorable proofs of confidence and
indulgence that have fallen to my lot.—With the
deepest respect, &c.,

" FERDINAND BARON VON BEUST."
The King of Saxony replied as follows :
"Dear State Minister Baron von Beust,—l re-
ceived yesterday evening your resignation of your
present functions, and I recognise, in the motives
that have actuated you in this step, the
and country
senti-
ments of faithful devotion to sovereign _
ed during your term of
you have constantly display
office.
a separation from you
" How painful the idea of
Since. my accession to
same
is to me I need hardly say.
my side,
and have given me
alike in prosperity d
afnlearning to know your great
daily opportunity
of
your energy, and your un-
alterablethe throne you have
_stdisoodastfeatr,thfully to
statesmanlike tale:int:
Your advice has always been
attachmd
well-considered, judged by the
conscientious
the matteran. under consideration, and not
personal inclination or dislike, and has frequently
by
if salutary through an experience of many
proved
yew. Our agreement as to the most important
tion was rapidly established, and equally, as question nature of
felt convinced that no influential step was taken in
matters un3er your direction without my knowledge.
I knew also that even when our opinions differed
my instructions were strictly carried out.
" The termination of a connection so happily and
so tried cannot be other than painful to me.
Although, therefore, I herewith grant your request,
Ido so only in consideration of the important
political reasons you have adduced, which demand
a sacrifice of my private wishes and feelings for the
advantage of my country, and with the assurance
that my gratitude for the great services rendered to
me and to my., lamented brother, and my feelings
of warm goodwill and sincere esteem for yourself
personally, will remain inextinguishable also underd
the change iu our relations.—With the most
ri
s-
-46 JOHN.
tinguished esteem, &c.,

ADVERTISEMENT. j —Holloway's Pills.—Palpitation of
the heart is frequently not only felt but heard, prevents
sleep, and begets the utmost dread of impending suffoca-
tion. These pills are particularly recommended for re-
moving this affection, because they strengthen the nervous
and debilitated, who aro much more liable to this malady
than other persons; and Holloway's pills so improve the
digestion, increase the action of the liver, and give activity
to the bowels, that giddiness, headache and nausea depart
as the palpitation diminishes, and the sufferer at once ex-
periences the most indescribable relief from anxiety, and
Holloway's pills form the best alterative and aperient in all
cases
goi
at, a cnodnavlal
rcoennipvech.
siert: Ts
wfheivcehrhs,aveiniilmapmo
ymeartiist
the blood and brain.