The Sun.
London, England, 1866-01-18 00:00:00

President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and I ~.ractee.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
ro,taining several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite muds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas
errnan, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; IlArries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W.lliaras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.: Nisbet and Co , Berners-street ; I. Barned and
. Liverpool ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5.
STANF'OItIt NT TT 1-1, Secretary.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making* a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in fire years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. v., aged 16, Mien, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeles4, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
3. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged t 5, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, failen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. E.„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. B. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged IS, fallen, both parents dead.
(he new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of e to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, `ts, Queen 'street. Cheapside; ur by Messrs
Barclay and Qo., Lombuditreet.

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Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.

Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide

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Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
948, Strand, London • 15, Whitefriargate,Mull ; 10, Norfolk-
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Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

Foreign Mail Packet List

MAILS DUE.

Australia and New Zealand, via Southampton Jan. 18.

Ditto, via Marseilles Feb. 13.
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet Feb. 4.

Ditto, by French picket Jan. 22.
Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St. Helena... Jan. 21.
China, Pen..ng, and Singapore, via Sou, hampton Jan. 18.
Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 27.
Falkland Islands

Gibraltar, via Southampton Jan. 27.

India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton.... Jan. 18
Ditto, via Marseilles . ... Jan. 27
India (Bombay), via Southampton.. Jan. 26.

Ditto, via Marseilles Jan. 20
lifauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via 3larseil.e3 Feb. 7.
Newfoundland ..4 Jan. 17.

Portugal

Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet . .Jan. 25.

Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-
ton

Ditto, via Curk

Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry.. Jan. 10.
West Coabt of Africa. Madeira, and Tt•neriffe . , • .Feb, 11,
West Indies and Pacifio (except Bahamas, Cuba,

and Mexico Jan. 29,

Jazz. 29. Cuba and *** . ****

VALETTA, Jan. 12.—Her Majesty's despatch
yes:4cl Psyche leaves to-day, at one o'clock, for
Marseilles, with Major Clarke, R.E., Director of
Admiralty Works, who is returning to England.
The order for her departure for the conveyance of
this officer was received by telegraph from the Ad-
miralty, and will entail a cost of fuel of between
£2OO and £3OO. The Meeanee, 60, is under orders
to proceed home to be paid off, and will leave for
Spithead next week. The Chanticleer, 17, expected
from Patras, will also go home shortly, to be put
out of commission. The Tyrian, 2, gunboat, went
to Tunis a short time ago to inquire into the state
of the lighthouse on the Cane Rock, the keepers
having signalled for assistance from her Majesty's
ship Meg2ra when passing the spot on her home-
ward voyage, being in want of water, which was
supplied to them. The Tyrian is expected back in
a few days. The telegraph steamer Hawke picked
up the faulty part of the Malta and Alexandria sub-
marine cable on the afternoon of the 10th inst., and
was to lay a new piece of cable the first fine day.
Her Majesty's ship Pelican, 17, was in attendance
upon her, and on the completion of the repairs was
to proceed to the coast of Syria. General Sir C. T.
Van Straubenzee, K.C.8., left Malta on the 9th
inst., in the Italian packet, for Italy, on his way to
England.
Commodore Superintendent Dunlop, of Woolwich
dockyard, accompanied by his naval secretary, Mr.
F. W. S. Ponsonby, yesterdaylispected her Ma-
jesty's screw corvette Archer, lying at the powder-
buoy, off the Royal Arsenal, and mustered the crew
under arms. The Archer will proceed to the dock-
yard this morning, and will be hauled into basin to
be dismantled and pay off her crew.

The iron cased frigate Royal Alfred, 18 guns,
3,726 tons, 800 horse power, under the command of
Commander Brett, the officer commanding the
steam reserve at Portsmouth, steamed out of Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday and gave her engines a
four hours' working under full steam pressure, pre-
paratory to her official trial of speed at light water
draught over the measured mile. The engines were
in charge of Mr. Warrener, of the firm of Mauds-
lay, Field, and Co., the makers, and the trial, on
the part of the Admiralty, was conducted by Mr.
Ward, assistant to the chief engineer of Ports-
mouth dockyard, and Mr. Murdoch, inspector of
machinery afloat of the steam reserve. The ma-
chinery of the Royal Alfred consists of a pair of two
cylinder engines, the cylinders having a diameter of
82in. and a stroke of 4ft. By their performance
yesterday they gave ample promise of the Royal
Alfred attaining a rate of speed on her trial equal to
other ships of like tonnage and engine power.
The iron frigate Minotaur, Capt. Herbert, of the
turret ship Royal Sovereign,
in provisional com-
mand, weighed her anchor at Spithead at 9 a.m.
yesterday, and proceeded out south of Dunnose,
Isle of Wight, on her first day's trial of her three
12- ton guns, and their broadside competitive pat-
tern carriages, under the supervision and direction
of Capt. Key, commanding the gunnery ship Ex-
cellent. The Minotaur returned to Spithead and
reanchored there shortly before sunset.
The Simoom, screw troopship, Capt. T. B. Leth-
bridge, was removed from the steam basin of Ports-
mouth dockyard yesterday, and berthed alongside
the harbour transport jetty. To-day she is ordered
to steam outside the harbour, and give her new en-
gines, manufactured for her by the steam factory
department of Portsmouth dockyard, a preliminary
trial of three or four hours without going over the
measured mile.

George Sloggett, shipwright of Pembroke dock-
yard, having been detected during the late annual
examination in using papers previously prepared,
and surreptitiously introduced into tho room in
which the examination was held, the Lords Com-
missioners of the Admiralty hive ordered him to be
suspended from pay for 14 days, and not to be al-
lowed to compete for promotion for two years. The
above announcement is ordered to be promulgated
as a caution throughout her Majesty's dockyards.
The following officers of Royal Artillery, who
have been gazetted to commissions in the- corps of
Royal Artillery, are ordered to join the head-
quarters of the first division of the Depot Brigade,
viz., Lieut. Gamble, Lieut. Freeth, Lieut. Cress-
well, and Lieut. Nutt. Lieut. Smyth is ordered to
join the I-1 battery, 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery,
at Brompton Barracks, Chatham.

The organisation of the newly-formed Military
Store Corps, which will shortly supersede the pre-
sent staff of junior officials and workmen at all the
ordnance establishments at Chatham, is now being
proceeded with, the head-quarters of the corps being
fixed at Woolwich. The new system will come
into operation on the Ist of April, the first day of
the financial year, when the whole of the workmen
and other hands who have for years been employed
at the military store department, Chatham, will be
discharged. The ordnance departments, with the
factories, workshops, and the whole of the stores,
will then be handed over to the officers and men of
the newly-raised corps, which will be organised on
a military footing. The present officials will be re-
tained in their existing rank, and will receive cor-
responding commissions in the Military Store
Corps. Of the existing workmen, those above a
certain age and length of service will receive a su-
perannuation allowance, and the remainder be
awarded gratuities according to their length of ser-
vice.

The garrison orders of last night at Woolwich an-
nounced
the intention of General Warde, command-
ing the district, to resume to-day the marching-out
drills, which have been suspended during the Christ-
mas vacation. The whole of the available troops in
garrison are under orders to parade this morning at
an early hour, and proceed in divisions along the
most frequented thoroughfares in the vicinity of the
garrison, the officers being directed to sketch the
most striking portions of the landscape which may
attract their notice. They will be accompanied by
the various regimental bands of music, and are or-
dered to return to quarters for the men's dinners at
1 o'clock. Gen. Morris, of the United States army,
has expressed his desire of joining Gen. Warde, and
accompanying the troops in their march out.
On Sunday last, the 14th inst., a dinner was given
by Capt. Lord Rosehill to the non-commissioned
officers, drummers, and privates of No. 5 company
of the 2d battalion Scots Fusilier Guards, stationed
at Shorncliffe Camp, the occasion being to celebrate
the christening of the infant son and heir of Lord
Rosehill, who belongs to the company. After dinner
the usual loyal toasts, the health of Lord and Lady
Rosehill, and the health, long life, and happiness of
their son and heir were drunk with great enthusiasm.
Sir John M'Gregor, 1.C.8., the distinguished
military surgeon and physician, died on Saturday
last at Ryde, Isle of Wight, at the age of 74. He
was the second son of Mr. Duncan Macandrew, of
Culross, county Perth, N. 8., and assumed the name
of M'Gregor instead of his patronymic in August,
1863, the family being descended from the M'Gre-
gore of Rora, the name having been changed after
the rebellion in Scotland in 1745. After his educa-
tion at the University of Edinburgh he entered the
medical branch of the army in 1809. He served in
the expedition to Walchcren in 1809, and in second
division of the army in the Peninsula, under Lord
Hill, from 1811 to 1813. He served in the Presi-
dencies of Madras and Bombay, twice in Bengal,
and in the island of Ceylon, and for more than two
years as principal medical officer in Hongkong. As
before stated, he entered the medical department as
hospital assistant on June 27, 1809 ; became assist-
ant-surgeon,Feb. 15, 1810; regimental surgeon, April
30, 1822; staff-surgeon, July 7, 1846; deputy inspec-
tor-general, Oct. 21, 1853, and was for some years
stationed at Madras in that capacity before his retire-
ment. Sir John was made an honorary physician
to her Majesty in August, 1859, and was, in recog-
, nition of his eminent professional services, created

The following promotions and appointments were
yesterday made known at Woolwich :—Col. Pierre-
pont H. Mundy, of the 4th Brigade, Royal Artillery,
to the Royal Horse Brigade, vice Col. William
Robert Nedham, promoted to a general officer ;
Capt. Arthur T. G. Pearse, adjutant of the 4th
Brigade, to the Horse Artillery, under orders to sail
for India on Saturday next, to join the B Brigade,
to which he is attached ; and Cant. Robert Sand-
ham, of the 4th Brigade, to succeed Capt. Pearse
as adjutant. The officers of the 4th Brigade yester-
day assembled in a body, and having expressed their
unanimous regret to Capt. Pearse on his approach-
ing departure from among them, presented him with
a valuable embossed silver inkstand as a testimonial
of their esteem and affectionate regard.

The Cattle Plague.

BUCKINGHAMS HIRE.

The adjourned Quarter Sessions for the county
was held on IN ednesday, at Aylesbury, Sir T. F.
Fremantle presiding. The returns of the several
inspectors were laid before the court, from which
it appeared that the number of cases had been—for
the week ending December 30, 48 ; week ending
January 6, 25 ; week ending January 13, 25. The
number of recoveries had increased during the past
week from nine to 11. Only two districts in the
county were reported as exempt, but in these it was
stated that isolated cases had occurred. In the Brill
division, the Duke of Buckingham said he knew of
one case before the inspector was appointed, and in
the second division of the Desborough hundreds a
case occurred about a fortnight ago. The Duke of
Buckingham said that two new cases were reported
last night at Maidsmoreton, in a portion of the
Buckingham district hitherto free. The Duke of
Buckingham also mentioned a case in his neighbour-
hood, in which eight cows which had not bad the
disease, but had been in contact with diseased beasts,
were inoculated with matter from diseased animals.
Up to the present time they appeared to be doing well.