The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The partially ironclad frigate Bellerophon, 14,
1,000-horse power, Capt. Tatham, arrived at Spit-
head on Saturday, from the Nore, accompanied by
the paddlewheel steamer Medusa, Staff-Commander
Potter. She is ordered to commence her trials over
the measured mile in Stokes Bay at the end of the
present week.

The endurance trial of the experimental Fraser
gun, of cheap construction, manufactured in the
Royal gun-factories at Woolwich, terminated on
Friday last, at the Royal Arsenal butt. The gun
having been ordered to be tested, according to the
official term, "to destruction," burst at the four
hundredth round, after resisting the force of upwards
of 36 tons of metal and eight tons of gunpowder
expended in the charges fired during the trial.
Such enclaiance, it is stated, is without parallel in
guns of equal weight. On making the usual search
and examination, it was discovered after the 380th
round that the steel tube had split. The outer
portion of the gun afterwards gradually gave way
in a longitudinal direction and burst, as above
stated. _ _ _

An order has been received at Chatham garrison .
directing the reinforcements for the 2d Battalion of
the2oth Regiment placed under orders to proceed
to China to augment the service companies, to be
held in readiness to embark on the 20th inst., at
Gravesend, in the chartered troop-ship Gresham.
The d6achment will consist of two officers and 51
non-commissioned officers and men, with Capt. A.
N. Adams, and Ensign J. H. Ford.
The 52d (Oxfordshire Light Infantry), from
Portsmouth, under the command of Lieut.-Col. A.
L. Peel, has arrived at Aldershot, and taken posses-
sion of the quarters in A, B, and E lines, south
camp, lately vacated by the 92d Gordon Highland-
ers. The marching in strength was 25 officers, 25
sergeants, 25 drummers, 615 rank and file, 52
women, and 51 children.
We have to record the death, at his seat in Hert-
fordshire, of General Sir Adolphus John Dalrymple,
in his 83d year. Haying obtained his commission
at the age of 15, he served successively on the staffs
of his father—who commanded the forces Which
were collected in Germany—and of Sir Jas. Craig,
whom he accompanied on the expedition of 1805 to
Naples. During the time Sir Hew Dalrymple was
Governor of Gibraltar and commander-in-chief of
the army of Portugal he acted as military secretary,
and in after years he edited an interesting memoir
on the affairs of those times, compiled by his father.
Soon after peace he entered Parliament, and sat for
Weymouth till 1819, then for Appleby, and from
1826 until the passing of the Reform Bill for the
Haddington boroughs, After that period he was
returned for Brighton. William IV., upon his ac-
cession, named him his aide-de-camp, and he held
the same position under her present Majesty. He
was promoted to be full general in 1861. With Sir
Adolphus Dalrymple the baronetcy expires.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty : Lieut. 0. Churchill, to the
Iscarus ; Lieut. P. J. Murray, to the Wizard ; Dr.
W. J. Rankin, acting assist-surg, to the Sphinx ;
F. B. Williams, assist-paymaster in charge, to the
Cockatrice ; W. Sides, engineer, to the Doris ; and
P. Blanch, first-class assist-engineer, to the Lion.

The Cattle Plague.
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ABERDEENSHIRE.

At the weekly meeting of the Aberdeenshire Rin-
derpest Association, held on Friday, it was reported
that the cattle plague had visited Aberdeenshire
again, an outbreak having occurred at Millhill, in
the parish of Old-deer, among a fine herd of 80 head
belonging to Mr. Bruce. Those of the animals about
the illness of which there could be no doubt have
been slaughtered, as also a number of others which
had been in contact with them.

CAMBRIDGESIIIRE AND THE ISLE OF ELY.
During the past fortnight ten beasts have been
buried on Mr. Parson's Candle-end farm, Elsworth,
having fallen a prey to the disease ; there are at pre-
sent no other cases in the village. The disease con-
tinues at Swaffham Prior. At Sutton the owners of
cattle are availing themselves of the new compensa-
tion act, and are killing the animals as soon as at-
tacked.