The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Conqueror, 68, screw ship, 7,845 tons, 500
horse power, Capt. William G. Luard, from China,
arrived at the Nore yesterday afternoon, and sa-
luted the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot,
K.C.8., Commander-in. Chief. She will be paid
out of commission, dismantled, and placed in the
third division of the Sheerness Steam Reserve.

The Favourite, 10, ironcased screw corvette,
2,094 tons, 400-horse power, Capt. Francis H.
Shortt, was taken into dry dock yesterday after-
noon at Sheerness for the purpose of having her
bottom scraped. It is supposed she will be shortly
put in commission.
The Tien-sien, which was purchased by the Go-
vernment from the promoters of the China expedi-
tion, under the command of Capt. Sherard Osborn,
and which since the close of the China war has been
lying, together with two of her sister ships, in
Sheerness harbour, has been purchased by Mr.
Laird of Birkenhead. A captain and crew have
been sent to Sheerness to fetch her away.
The shipwrights and labourers employed in
taking down the frame of the wooden screw frigate
Belvidera, 51, at Chatham Dockyard, have nearly
completed their work, and in the course of a few
days the whole of the timbers of that vessel, the
last of her class to be laid down at Chatham, will
have disappeared from the building slip on which
the vessel has been lying for so many years. The
timbers are to be used in the general service of the
dockyard.
The screw frigate Ariadne, 26, 3,214 tons, 800
horse power, lies moored off the entrance to No. 2
dock in Chatham harbour, in readiness for being
taken into one of the available docks for the pur-
pose of undergoing an extensive overhaul and re-
pair to both hull and machinery previously to being
placed in commission.

The hired sailing troopship Gresham, Captain
Brayley, anchored at Spithead at 9 a.m. yesterday
with military and naval invalids on board from
Hongkong and the Cape of Good Hope. She has
brought to England from Hongkong Capts. Bur-
land and Gipps, 2d battalion 9th Regiment; Lieut.
Vaughan and Surd. Black, 2d battalion 11th Regi-
ment; Mr: Deegan, Military store Department;
PUrveyor Thompson ; Staff Assist.-Surg. Adams ;
Mr. Boxer, Master. R.N., late Her Majesty's natal
agent at Hongkong, and Mrs. Baylan ; also 175
soldiers, invalids, 26 women, and 28 children, and
8 naval invalids. 45 invalided soldiers, too ill to
prOceed any further on the voyage to England,
were landed at the Cape for treatment in the mili-
tary hospital there. Staff Assist.-Surg. Ray and
35 men, 'a omen, and children were embarked at the
Cape for conveyance to England ; and at Ascension,
where the ship called after leaving Simon's Bay,
eight more invalids were taken on board. The ship
sailed from Hongkong on the 13th of October, call-
ing in at Anjer on the sth of November, and sailing
again on the following day. The Cape was reached
on the 6th of December, and the ship remained
there at anchor in Simon's Bay until the 16th.
Ascension was reached on the 28th, and left again
on the 30th. Fine weather was experienced
throughout the voyage until off the Azores, when a
fresh gale was fallen in with, which soon passed
over. The deaths during the voyage have been un-
usually numerous, 38 soldiers, two distressed sea-
men, three women, and eight children having died
on board since the ship left Hongkong. This ex-
cessive mortality, however, is ascribed to the
dysentery and fever which prevailed at the time of
embarcation; and not to any defect in the arrange-
ments on board for the accommodation of the
troops, or the sanitary condition of the ship. The
naval invalids were disembarked from the ship soon
after her arrival at Spithead, and transferred to the
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Royal Naval Hospital at Haslar, and Her Majesty's
ship Victory. The military will be disembarked
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(King's Own) of the Ist battalion of the 4th
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staff of the garrison. The whole of the non-com-
missioned officers and men composing the detach.
ment have completed the term of service for which
they were engaged, and only await the arrival of
the formal orders for their discharge fromthe Horse

Guards. The troops arrived at Portsmouth from
Bombay in the chartered troopship Talbot.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. W. F. L. Elwyn, to the
Princess Royal ; Lieut. R. H. Eyre, to the Bristol,
as supernumerary; F. Gaskell, to the Duncan, as
supernumerary; Lieut. Henry D. Macauley to the
Sutlej, as supernumerary ; J. W. Read, master, ad-
ditional, to the Princess Royal ; L. Swift, chief en-
gineer, to the Cumberland, for service in the Rod-
ney ; W. Anderson, chief engineer to the Asia, for
service in the Victor Emmanuel ; Sub-Lieut. H. D.
Eden, to the Caledonia ; F. P. Lyne, assist.-pay-
master, to the Lion ; C. L. J. Underwood, assist.-
paymaster, additional, to the Royal Adelaide ; J.
11. Wallis, assist.-paymaster, additional, to the
Hastings ; C. C. Watson, assist.-paymaster, to the
Cumberland ; J. R. Veitch, master's assistant, to
the Victoria ; and G. Paul, second class assistant-
engineer, to the Star.

The Cattle Plague.

SURREY.

Yesterday afternoon, according to previous an-
nouncement, a special meeting of the magistrates of
the county of Surrey took place at the Sessions-
house, Newington-causeway, for the purpose of
issuing new and important orders with reference to
the cattle plague.
Mr. J. E. Johnson, the chairman of the Quarter
Sessions, presided, and among the magistrates pre-
sent were the Hon. Locke King, M.P., Sir William
Jolliffe, M.P., Hon. W. Broderick, Mr. Denison,
M.P., Lieut.-Colonel M'Donald, Mr. A. Boyson,
Mr. T. Tilson (deputy chairman of Quarter Ses-
sions), Mr. R. Baggallay, Q.C., Mr. T. Best, Mr.
Grissell, Q.C.

Mr. MARSHALL, the Clerk of the Peace, read the
report recommended by the committee formed at
the last meeting as follows :—" Notice is hereby
given that by authority or order of the Lords of her
Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, dated the 23d
of November, 1865, and 16th of December, 1865,
the Justices of the Peace for the county of Surrey,
in Quarter Sessions assembled, do hereby declare
that it is expedient that from and after the Ist day
of February, and thenceforth until the 10th of
March next, no cow, heifer, bull, bullock, ox, or
calf shall be brought in any way into the county
aforesaid, with the exception of the following
parishes and places, viz. :—Bermondsey, Camber-
well, Christchurch, Clapham, Hatcham, Lambeth,
Lambeth Palace, Newington, Rotherhithe, St.
George's, St. John's, St. Olave's, St. Saviour's, St.
Thomas's, Streatham, and such parts of Battersea
as shall be occupied by the station of the London
and South - Western Railway Company at Nine
Elms, and which excepted parishes and places
are hereafter in this notice denominated excepted
parishes and places. Nor shall any such animal as
aforesaid be removed except under the conditions
hereafter expressed, over, along, or across any high-
way or public road not being- a railway from place
to place within any part of the county, with the ex-
ception of the parishes aforesaid. Nor shall any
such animal be removed from any other part of the
said county of Surrey. That it shall not be lawful
for any person to remove any one animal in contra-
vention of this notice, or other wise offending in re-
spect thereof shall be liable to a penalty not exceed-
ing £2O. Provided always that within the part of
the said county which lies beyond the limits of the
said parishes aforesaid nothing in this notice con-
tained shall make it unlawful for any person, with
the previous licence in writing of two justices of the
peace in and for the said county, to remove any
such animal from any place to any other place—
both places to be named in such licence, and to be
within the distance of five miles from each other—
for the purposes of slaughter only, within 48 hours
from the date of such removal ; nor for any person
with like licence to remove any such animal from
any land or place being in his own occupation ; nor
for any person with the like licence to remove from
any land or place in his own occupation any cow or
heifer, being his own property, to any land or place
aforesaid where a bull shall be kept, for the purpose
of such cow or heifer being served with such bull,
and bring or send back such cow to the place whence
the same shall have been so removed. Every such
licence must specify on the face of it that the jus-
tices signing the same have been satisfied that the
cattle plague is -not existing, and has not for two
months existed on the lands or places, from, to, or
through which such animals as are not intended for
slaughter are removed ; and every such licence shall
be liable to be, and may be at any time be, revoked by
justices acting in and for the said county. And fur-
ther that, by virtue of the order of the 15th of Dec.,
1865, and the 20th of Jan., 1866, nothing in this
notice contained renders it unlawful for any person
to send or carry away any one animal as aforesaid by
railway, through the jurisdiction aforesaid, from and
after Feb. 1, when this order comes into force. The
order made on Jan. 19 last shall be repealed ; pro-
vided always such repeal shall not invalidate any
license already granted, or terminate any proceedings
already commenced ; and, further, that the said ex-
cepted parishes and places will be under supervision
and inspection of the Clerk of her Majesty's Privy
Council and Metropolitan Police, who will be in-
structed to enforce any penalties which may be in-
curred."

Mr. BLACKBURN rhoved an amendment to one of
the clauses in report, " That it be lawful to remove
fat cattle for immediate slaughter within three miles
of London-bridge."
The CHAIRMAN observed that the order would
only be in existence one month, and he thought such
an amendment unnecessary, as those districts were
under the orders of the Privy Council, and the Secre-
tary of State had issued orders for the police to assist.
It was suggested that it should be lawful to re-
move calves 14 days' old from one place to another
within three miles, provided a license was obtained.
The Hon. LOCKE KING supported the resolution,
considering that it would act very beneficially to the
public and all parties.

The Hon. Mr. BRODERICK objected, contending
that it would be injurious.

Mr. BAGGALLAY followed on the same side, and,
after some discussion, the resolution was carried.

The CHAIRMAN consequently directed the report
to be amended accordingly. He likewise informed
the meeting that he had received a letter from Sir G.
Grey setting forth that Sir R. Mayne, the Chief
Commissioner, had directions to employ the police
in assisting to carry out the resolutions regarding the
cattle plague. He also said he had received a memo-
rial from the butchers residing in Camberwell,
Lambeth, Stockwell, and Southwark, requesting
the justices to modify the order made by them on
Jan. 19, giving them the same right and power as
in Middlesex. This had been considered in commit-
tee and amended in the present report.