The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-02 00:00:00

of the 2d Division of the Depot Brigade, Royal Ar-
tillery, to be transferred to the Ist Division Depot
Brigade, the latter being below its complement.
Capt. Forgit, 2d Battalion King's Own Borderers
Regiment, has received orders to proceed from
Chatham to Ceylon to join the service companies of
his regiment.

The deaths of the following military officers have
been reported at the War-office since the Ist Dec. :
—Field-Marshal his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, K.G., G.C.8., G.C.H. ; Gen. Sir E. Whin-
yates, K.C.8., Colonel-Commandant, Royal Ar-
tillery ; Lieut.-Dens. G. E. Gowan, C. 8., Colonel-
Commandant Royal Artillery ; J. A. Phillips, Royal
Marines, and J. M'Haffie, 60th Rifles ; Major-Gen.
J. Fitzmaurice, K.H. ; Cols. A. Murray, 87th Royal
Irish Fusiliers ; and C. J. Gibb, Royal Engineers ;
Majors W. A. Armstrong, 109th Bombay Infantry;
and R. Jellicoe, Paymaster ; Capts. H. R. Brown-
low, Royal Artillery; F. Fowke, Royal Engineers ;
R. P. Henry, Royal Marines ; E. S. Charlton, J.
Bennet, and C. Grant (Quartermaster). Lieuts.—E.
Fursdon, 2d Battalion 9th Regt. ; T. Pepper, 3d
Dragoon Guards ; J. M. Fortescue, 103 d Royal
Bombay Fusiliers ; and H. W. Desbarres. Ensign
R. L. Haydon. Quartermasters—P. Boylau, 2d
Battalion 9th Regiment ; and C. Kettyles, 2d Bat-
talion, 25th King's Own Borderers. Assist.-Sur-
geons—J. Rutherford, M. 8., Staff ; and J. H. N.
Bracken. Staff Vet.-Surg.—E. H. Steed.
The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the Admiralty since the 20th
of September :—Admirals W. J. Mingaye, J. 0.
Brien, and H. Stanhope. Vice-Admirals Sir. H. T.
Austin, K.C.B. ; the Hon. G. J. Cavendish, and
Sir T. R. T. Thompson ; Rear-Admirals E. R. P.
Mainwaring, C. Reele, and H. W. Kitchen ; Capts.
R. H. Risk, M. Donellan, M. H. Sweney, T. R.
Sullivan, R. H. H. Pigot, A. F. Elphinstone, C.
Greene, J. Sykes, G. Dougal, Lord F. C. P. Beau-
clerk, W. Robson, T. C. Gaussen, E. Robinson, J.
Karslake, J. Dewar, J. Bulkeley, W. H. Cooke,
R. S. Simmons, J. B. Boultbee, G. E. Patey, R.
Davis, W. Crellin, J. E. Pasco, C. March, C.
Ackerley, J. Stewart, and W. Lord. Lieuts. H. G.
Hale, J. G. G. M'Hardy, H. F. Campbell, 0.
T. Lang, and S. M. Weston; Sub-Lieuts. W. E.
Ewbank and R. B. Evans; Master C. Albert ;
Chaplains, Revs. J. Cooper and T. Ferris, M.A. ;
Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals, S. Irvine,
M.D. ; Surgs. A. M'Clure, M.A., A. Telker, H.
Gamble, M.D., T. Johnson, M.D., B. Bynoe, T. J.
Lawton, C. Roberts, M.D., and C. G. Wolfenden ;
Assist.-Surgs. J. Wyse and J. Stott ; Paymasters
J. Singleton, C. Beaumont, B. Fenn, and J. M.
Hope ; Assist.-Paymasters F. A. Pountney and S.
Sugden ; Second Master R. Godden. Royal Marines
Light Infantry—Lieut.-Gen. J. A. Phillips ; Capts
R. P. Henry, T. L. Wells, F. A. P. Wood and A,
Higman ; Second Lieuts. G. Phillipps and W.
Hammond.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—W. P. Braund, master, to the
Irresistible, vice Balliston, whose period of service
has expired ; Charles T. S. Keveron, staff surgeon,
to be staff surgeon of Devonport Dockyard, vice
Dr. Frazer, retired ; John Hill, Henry Coad Jones,
and Frederick Lewis, engineers, to the Duncan,
additional for disposal ; Thomas G. Woodfield,
David A. Campbell, and David Anderson, first
class assistant-engineers, to the Duncan, additional
for disposal.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 18
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 12.
Brazil and Cape Verde. by British packet Jan. 4.
Ditto, by French packet
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena Jan. 21.
China, Penang, and Singapore, via Sou thampton Jan. 2.
Ditto, via Marseilles . Jan. 27.
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 27.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 2
Ditto, via Marseilles
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Jan. 11.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 5
Mauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles. .Jan. 5.
tstewfoundland
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet ....Jan. 3
Ditto. by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton
Ditto, via Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Jan. 5 .
West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Teneriffe ..Jan. 10.
West Indies and Pacifio (except Bahamas, Cuba,
and Mexico Jan.
Cuba and Mexico Jan.
Bahamas, via New 'York. Jan. 11.
Bermuda, ditto Jan. 17

IMPOVERISHED CONDITION OF THE S u TH.—
The Times' correspondent, writing from Charleston,
South Carolina, paints the following doleful picture
of destitution in South Carolina :—" Although 1 have
little expectation that the account which I have
given you from time to time of the impoverished con-
dition of these States will bo credited by any one
'who has not seen the country, still the truth must be
told that poverty—nay, absolute destitution, outside the
large towns —is the prevailing state of life throughout
Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The country
is swept clean of everything useful to man. The traveller
may pass over hundreds of miles of cleared and cultivated
land without seeing a horse, or sheep, or cow. "On what,
then, are the people subsisting ?" it may be asked. They
live on what they can get from day to day, and any one
who is travelling in the South at the present time will find
that this dietary arrangement is a very bad one to do hard
work upon. Nobody who attaches any importance to
sleeping in a bed or getting a good meal, say once in 24
hours, ought to come to the South at present. A stray
"cracker," or dish of hominy (a hateful mess, as mixed in
dirty hovels), is all that can be looked forward to with any
certainty in the country districts. The inhabitants, how-
ever, have now time and attention to turn to the game,
which abounds in incredible profusion, owing to the four
years' immunity which all descriptions have enjoyed. The
sportsmen of the South had other work for their rifles and
shot, and now within twenty miles of this city herds of
deer may not unfrequently be seen running across the
roads. People, however, who are accustomed to sit down
to a good dinner every day may as well give up the attempt
to understand how the Southerners lived during the war,
or how they are living now. Upon the theory that regular
food is necessary to support life, the Southern States ought
now to be nearly depopulated. Until a man is driven very
hard indeed he has no idea how very little will keep life
in him, and even now the South is a most favorable field
for any one desiring to make experiments in that direction,
But it is a land of luxury compared with its condition during
the war." Immigration from abroad is the favorite hope of
the South Carolinians, according to the same correspon-
dent :—" A hundred miles away from the coast white labor
might, apparently be tried with fair promise of success in
almost all of the Southern States. So say some authori-
ties, while many planters to whom I have put questions
on this subject would exclude Louisiana and Alabama
from the list of States in which white labor might be made
serviceable. Certainly, every help and encouragement
would be given to emigrants from Europe, and there are
many who would have less to dread from the heat of the
South than from the extreme changes and severe winters
of the Northern and Western States. As I stated in my
letter to you from the Shenandoah Valley, a finer field than
VirginiaEnglisho
r emigrants could not be desired; but
t would
them to wait until some arrangements
i be for
as
well
for
for receiving them have been mad 3. The stream has been
flowing north too long for the interests of emigrants them-
selves, and it would be a benefit to them and to the country
generally if it were now turned southward. The Vir-
ginians would be glad to have them, and they would be
sure of good employment now that they have not slave
labour to compete with. The planters in North and South
Carolina are afraid that black and white could never be
induced to work together, but emigrants fresh from abroad
are not found to have that uncompromising aversion to
the negro which is common among the laboring classes in
the North. In Virginia black labour could be dispensed
with altogether without much trouble; but there must
always be a large admixture of it in the other States,
although the planters would fain do without a class which
they hold to be improvident and untrustworthy if they
could. Certainly there is no part of the world where
English emigrants, above all others, would find a heartier
welcome and better prospects opening before them than at
Virginia, notably in the Valley. Former letters will, per-
haps, have contained sufficient information on this subject,
and I recur to it now only because of its great importance
to the South. It wants new blood, and it would like to
get it straight from the motherland if it could.
DEATH OF VICE-ADMIRAL HERRINGHAM. —The
death is announced of Vice-Admiral William Allan Her-
ringham, which occurred on the 27th ult., at the age of 75
years. Ho was one of the few surviving officers who took
part in the glorious battle of Trafalgar, having been at the
time only two years in the navy.
THE NORTH RIDING ELECTION EXPENSES.—A
county contest in an election is no trifling matter, espe-
cially if that contest be in a large county. The expenses
incurred in that at North Riding have just been published,
and they are, to use Dominic, Sampson's word, " prodi-
gious." The expenses of the two Conservative candidates
are set down in the sheriff's return at £14,684; those of
their opponent, Mr. Milbank, at £13,289. Thus, in ono
election only, no less a sum than £27,973 were expended.