The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-04 00:00:00

ItoTAL NAVAL, MILITARY, EAST
eTz,,IN DIA , and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCR
17, ye''Y (Established A.D. 1837, under Royal eatronage),
aterloo-place, London, S.W.
ARTHUR R. HAMILTON, Secretary.
.........s..Llgents wanted in towns not yet represented.

CLBONUS YEAR—SPECIAL NOTICE.
ERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIEE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Established 1824.
'the pi
ghth Bonus will be declared in January, g
p4rticip-Profit Policies in force on the 30th June, 1866, wil
°efrote Prat'', 8) that persons who complete such Assurances
oDe flue 30th next. will share in that Division, although
Tabi:milltn only will have been paid.
of at, Bof Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obt fined
9 of the Society's Agents, or of
13, GEORGE CUTCLIF FE, Actuary and Secretary.
James's-square, London, S. W.

-1.1-DIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.
TifftINDIA OFFICE, MIN lat June. 38136.
lOv r - Tia HEREBY GIVEN, that an EXAMINA-
+ANI of CANDIDATES for 30 Appointments as ASSIS-
;Ice ozr,S, trRGEONS in her Makiesty'aandian Medical :Fer-
4Seg. "'ut be held at Cheleea Hospital on the 6th August,
clae4'te:i” of the regulations for the Examination of Candi-
°SFtiirTgether with information reffarding the pay and retir-
ar, y'anoes of Indian Medical Officers, may be obtained
West,P,'etion at fhe Military Department, India Office,
'll,ler, s.w.
T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary.

PARIS.
qRAND HOTEL DU LOUiTRE.—
p
art n
nEstablished in 1855.—Situated in the most Central
B.ris, Rue de Rivoli and Place da Palais Royal
—Six
1°01; Bred Bed-rooms at from 31r. to 20fr —Sixty Sitting-
,Tablyt from 4fr. to 20fr.—a zichly-decorated Dining Saloon
Ileoills ate at six o'clock—Publicoffee and Dining
loChoice Wines—Dinners served h h carte
abotahofnanhg
r oins and the private apartments Re di
vErgation Saloons also Saloons for Musical, Wedding,
D rties all New spapers and Serial Publications
!,4111e1„'„—Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms—
Biath-rooms—Carriag-es on the Dremises —first-
to riv t
th a e Equipages at command -Omnibuses Bp
i
;10ce e railway st itions— stal Letter-box—Telegr
leakr'y
all andl ang nigt—
es.
hPhotograph Studio—a staff of servants
uag

StASITN
suet "E) Tourists', or Rifle TELESCOPE,
pute, a-.at to the Lord Bury," will show a flag-staff 2)
church clock 10 miles, or hits on a targct over a mile,
earrinLosther. With srmg, £2 100.—W. LAWL EY, 78,
u-street, E.C.

WTern°l\TD-HAND THEODOLITES (by
t-tbatical-e,ahsetson.pand Simms), Levels, Staffs, Sextants, INlathe-
entagraphs,. LAWLEY, 78, Far-
-1„..„..e..1/411°4,
a-nistprese. i. Illustrated Cataloger, nearly 100 pages,

,C,OND-lIAIND MICROSCOPES, Object
►l'otk •fuisse, Objects by Ross, Smith and Reck, Ship and
tin. et ehronometers,Watches, &a W. LAWL e:Y, 78, Far-
thiPetilk-nreet. Illustrated Catalogue, nearly 100 pa,es,

~„COND-HAND OPERA and RACE
IeeiILASSES by Voigtlander, Stereoscopes, Hydrometers,
t.tv...ea.l Apparatus Mnnesium Lamps,
1(0 78, Farriadon,-street. Illustrated Catalogue, nearly
Pay
three stamps.

GREAT_ LUXURY FOR THE SUMMER.
4114./.RINSON and CO.'S PATENT SPRING
IATTRESS, cool, comfortable, and economical.
190 ATKINSON and CO.,
200, 201, 206, 208, and 210, Viestnfnster-bridge-
.
road, London.

A
A1...-EAUTIFUL DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE,
,VY IT,II Illustrative Sketches of CABINET
13'41).„-v URNITURE and DECORATIVE UPHOL-
ketc-t, sant free per post or given on application. The
44 ecirresponding to the List, is marked in plain figures.
Clore fficient representative will wait upon the Nobility,
0: and Gentry in any part of the kingdom.
ATKINSON & CO.,
trpT, CABINET MAKERS.
-"-OLSTERERS, LINEN DRAPERS, AND
HOUSE AGENTS,
19..
NST2ER
202 204. 206, 208, and 210,
BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON.
yIIE CURTAINS OF A HOUSE
tho give uldthe tone and character to its appearance.asons. They
ATiti.enanged with the changing se
hPli StockN and CO. are prepared with the earliest
174,41„ of Curtains—the new Pekinette Stripes for
8111in'l.P(1 Dining Rooms, Pekin and Persian Cloths,
'vat' 14ace and Leno with all the new Designs in this
8 OhilltZeB.

ATKINSON & CO.,
W.Th...t°B, 200, 202, 204,206, 208, and 210,
-e,NTAIINSTER BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON,

REPLETHE SPRING STOCK OF CARPETS,
.1.111 t?
SaNISHED with the Newest Designs from
r° best makers, comprises FELTS, KIDDER 4
q1,.."487 VELVET PILE, AXMINSTER, and
•
ery
-° or 01,,„r1d of material for covering ball or passage,
""11 Cork Carpet, Linoleum, and Kamptulicon.

ATKINSON & CO.,
wri2oo, 202 204, 206, 208, and 210,
- 4'S bIINS TER' BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON.
1111 Q
RIPTI ONS for the WIDOW and
VIM r-i'-`4I,I)REN of the late Captain R. IL GRONOW,
of the Grenadier Guards, and Author of " Recol-
Lari°B-"xaud Anecdotes," " Celebrities of London and
hs-m l'ffs'e' Captain Gronow, who lately died in Paris,
t'marrieg widow- and four young children, by his second
r%lliaermi eatterly destitute, without means to defray his.
hrutiowlDenses. or even to purchase bread. Captain
e b disinherited by his father, in favour. of
desr;",,er, clergyman,and the small income which
istate from the interest of a sum charged on the familyi;eased with his life : while the sums ho received
Prop, time for his " RecollOctions" were expended
t4t11113. g E(141 f for the increasing
.expenses of his young
°f
.uarn Tinder these distressing circumstances the friends
.
Ilapeol knonow in Pars came to her aid, and
fthey now
u 5 the liberality of her late husband's nin
titril)l,„atid also to the readers of his Reminiscences, forer
%len"°118 to enable her to maintain and educate h
n'
6 eriPtions received by Messrs. SMITH, ELDER, and
1111(?4, Oornhill, and 45, Pall.mall ; and by Mes_srsm. Cox
Ettreet. 11XX \Toon, Array Agents, Craig's-eourt, Parma enr,

14,1`1.0 MORE PILLS OR ANY OTHER MEDICINE.
__ _ _Li BARRY'S delicious health-restoring InvalidS'
•1,0_,, aim Infants' Food, THE REVALENTA ARA_BelnTit,
tieriile,.!'ip three times PA much assimilating and stregth..gesg_
shraent as the best meat, and restores., perfect
)._ll, strong nerves, sound lunge, healthy liver, refreshing.
,LICeA), functional_ regularity, and energy to the most diem-
iNd or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually in-
qsstion (dyspepsia' ), cough, asthma, consumption, ha-
11,11a1 constipation, diarrhoes2 all gastric derangements,
ii`:lllorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency,nervous-.
, bill. es, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria,
chtto..., ousia . .
'4,4e:as, colds, influenza, noises n the head
Eye, ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions,e
All Trial neuralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidi
1414ittion, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy,r cramps,
klakrB, nausea and sickness even in gn ev o laa'l fits, bronchitis, scrofula,
and between
the chest,
tti la the pit of the stomach and between the. shoulders.
\'alitile naost digestible of all foods and suitable for in-
Pcre9 and infants in ell complaints.
216
°I the quote a few out of 62,000 _
years' liver cora-
-1)11;4, -Alarchioness de Brehan, of ‘itith `,,' a-sting away, debility, seven years' No.
58'
:tlnt -„llrvnus palpitation all bad digestion, con-
nervii_
_usness, irritability,
Over, .
from the Right Hon.
nitat. -4eeplessness, and the mos.t intolerable nervous
con-
the Li". Cure No. 71, of dysPepsr,
of
lb:14 Stuart de Deems, Lord Lieuhtenant of the county
benefit from your
cells'v ter:ord :--1 have derived nine Naitntr,.t food.—Stuart de Decies, Dromana, 'Cappoquin,
t011t.44.1,Pbe1l
IP. Q 37 'V aterford. Cure No. 54,816, from the Rev. James
Nor-
, Syderstone Rectory, near Fakenham, tilts I; In all cases of indigestion, and
sider it the
neaC'er is more than usually affected, 7 con makes it
particularly when
flow ?' all remedies. It regulates the bile, and
any
41%014 „canes Vuich would not admit of mercury. in
of the
IL4llea 'l3 Short, a healthy flow ol the bile is one
use you
ieask,' of best symptoms. You can make what y
es
le;of this communication.—l am, gentlemen, J_ tnna_
Ititi, aPPbell. Cure No. 52,422.—8 ridge House, Frin
lungs,
ill'llll.°Y i— Thirty-three years' diseased.
iiii..gn
?ollt e eat of blood, liver derangement, deafness,hsingi .. i
ghtßi: Constipation, debility, shortness of bra ,
tb and
Arabic-. My
11„11te,'Ilave been removed by your Revalenta. Am .
hear-
i't ' liver stoma h h and ears are all right, my .
t-
-4ticePesfeet, and tnye ; "d'
very is a marvel to all my aconam2
r'lf
L.-44111es RoDerrt:,eTiniberMerchant. Cure No. 49,08u351
lies,, fife
Years' describable agony from dyspepsia,nery
.e. -
IlesA thrtia, h constipation, flatulency, spasms, sr_lnicre
11.0.--, aim ,s,n__.,. g , .
Norfolk. u
J of Lynn,
1ae,12..11R1 g a
'Li ni
• Marih of extremenervousn?es,
tertestion,
tr
.lizabet Jabs,
w _spirits, and nervous fances.
tliareri,l,,,,_°. 56,k erjsrae ill Laxton,Leicester, of two years'
9d ; 21b ,
44. 64"'• The food is solda in canisters, 11b. 2f3 ,
lib:,
eN.. 4; 121 b., 21s •, 241 b., 40s. Super-refined quality,i and
NI; 1)., 12s 51. b 225. • 101 b. 335. The IMb., 12 b.,
tz ~i.,.Tsit,els! ri:iage on l receipt of Order,Post-office
~,It
~_.t' Ph.11,-; a Beaarzy and Co-, 77. Regent-:street,reeLt ;
Wig at i-Ps, Tea Dealers, 3, King Willlam: 8i5h0p5..,...t.
..,...t. -.,, grace 1----
gtr,--street 9.urcb-street , ,
• 4 Cheaide , 49, ._ _ _
r ano ; ,Within ; 63, 150 and 298,
Oxford-street , 330,
r,°4l. •nn o.,pper Baker-street N.;• 103 To
ttenham-court-
'lo ' -", kiPPer t 'Notting-hill .
Harvey, ,
tett.% trothe -
sareet, Islington Qt 4%, st .;:8,, 6,5, High-st radon • d Stubbs, Quegn .S
d all respectable
Ovire
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*44 011emiste.—Beware of spurious imitations.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to th. 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 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 five years.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen .street, Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail!
way Terminus, King's-cross.

Patron—her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice• Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, E.G

President—llia Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH. K:G.

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 ou voluntary contributions and Itqa,cies.
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
i,OOO and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Commiitz'.a
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received b- the Treasurer, Edward Has
,erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Harries a. d Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; Wdliams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.: Illsbet and Co.. Berners-street I. Barned and
Ca., Liverpool i and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

fiTANIPPILD BIEITIT, Secretary.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON-
TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
the COUNTRY HONE. £l,OOO required.
WM. WILLI&NS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge. 8. Great Queen-street. W.C.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
Ore hundred and fifty areow in the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
0,000, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one bay each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburr. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East ; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL'
TO
GEORGE CRUIRSHANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., M, A.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYA.N, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, B.C.

"Before the century was actually in its teens we believe
that George Cruisshank was amusing the public. Is there
no way in which the country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor ?"
THACKERAY.

The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move-
ment. Subscriptions receivab!e as above, or by the under-
signed as honorary secretary,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.

3, York-villas, Brixton, S.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Slippers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfast; are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
receives no, remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, 'and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refused admittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £l,OOO has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22
Finsbury-circus, E.C.

America and the Commercial Crisis.

It has been suggested that among the results of

she ,commercial crisis in this country will be a simi-

lar crisis in America. Such an idea, however, is
based on the erroneous assumption, that the course
of our trade in America is the same as in former
periods when the commercial interests of the two
countries were so intertwined that the least shock
to one was felt with extreme sensitiveness in the
other. The experience acquired in the years 1825,
1837, 1847, and 1857, fails, therefore, to indicate
the commercial future of 1866. A small amount of
consideration will suffice to show bow complete is
the contrast between the problem now presented
and that which was solved in former years.
Prior to the civil war, the chief basis of the com-
merce between the Northern and the Southern
States, as well as between America and England,
was the cotton crop, of which the great central mart
was New Orleans. In 1860 the exports of that city,
being about two ralllious of bales, were equivalent
to those of all the other Southern cities put toge-
ther. From that centre were distributed through-
out the South-Western States all the goods which
a prosperous and rapidly-augmenting population
required from English and Northern manufacturers ;
and those goods were paid for in cotton. The com-
merce was, however, by no means simple and direct.
It passed through many hands, and was compli-
cated by intermediate operations before reaching
the last stage, at which Mississippi or Arkansas cot-
ton was exchanged for the products of Manchester
or Sheffield, of Boston or Lowell. The commodity
of the planter was generally sold by the city factor
in the South in order to repay advances made to
the grower before the crop was in the ground. These
advances were obtained from the local banks, all of
which were largely engaged in exchange business
with the North and with England. The cotton sold
by the factor was paid for by bills of exchange
drawn on credits issued chiefly by English bankers
and merchants ; and City readers are familiar with
the names of the great houses known as " the three
W.'s," which were made conspicuous by the enor-
mous amounts of their commitments for American
acceptances in the panic of 1837. The supplies
furnished to the Southern States by English manu-
facturers were not, however, sent directly to the
consumers. The North had secured for itself almost
exclusively the monopoly of foreign commerce ; and
our .own exports were shipped to New York, for
consignment to importers, who in turn sold to the
Southern merchants the goods sent into the interior
for distribution among consumers. But this trade
was also dependent upon cotton. The New York
buyer paid the Manchester seller with the proceeds
of remittances from the New Orleans dealer. The
New Orleans dealer was paid by the factor, who
got his money from bills drawn on the Liverpool
cotton merchant or London banker, discounted by
local banks, and remitted by them either directly or
via New York. These and similar operations were
in constant progress, not only between the two great
cities which we have taken as examples, but through-
out the whole seaboard of America, and every port
in Great Britain ; and the relations of the great
commercial houses were so intimate that the con-
necting chord vibrated at either end from the
slightest shock at the other. The whole fabric was
liable to topple over whenever any serious injury
affected its main basis, cotton. A heavy fall in
thatcommodity
iverpool was, during the pre-
valences tbusiness
panics, ;
precursor
off
the
system at,
we have described, the certain
extensive bankruptcy in America. The
disaster reacted with fatal effect on English houses
so that men
whoconnectedlook
with Transatlantic
o
with-
out further reflection, jump at once to the false con-
clusion, that the like results must now follow the
recent enormous decline in the value of cotton at
Liverpool. This decline is not over stated at £l6
nly to theh y
ohistory
of former
a bale. With an estimated stock of a million bales
on hand, it amounts to £16,000,000—a loss that in
former times would have fallen Chiefl-
y on America,
which then sent us nine-tenths of our cupply. But
of the stock now in England only about two-fifths
are American ; so that the total is at once brought
down to £6,400,000, of which it is known that the
United States will lose only a portion, variously
estimated at from one-half to three-quarters—too
small an amount under any circumstances to pro-
duce serious effects, and the consequences of which,
in the altered state of trade, must be absolutely in-
significant.
The commerce of the United States since the
close of the war has no resemblance, so far as this
country is concerned, to that which prevailed at the
antecedent period. When the sudden and vastly-
increased demand for our manufactures was shown
by the returns of the Board of Trade, there were
not wanting alarmists to represent so safe and
timate a business as a subject of distrust. The
writer of the money articles in a prominent con-
temporary used ail his efforts to depreciate Ameri-
can credit ; but, while commenting on the deficiency
of the United States -exports, he omitted from his p
calculations the most important of all the items—

cotton ! The truth is now apparent that, ex-
hausted as the South was after the struggle of four
years, there remained in the country cotton to
the amount of nearly 2,500,000 bales, instead of
1,000,000 or 1,200,000, as the first accounts
stated. At the enhanced value of the commodity,
that quantity fairly represented, when our ex-
ports were so suddenly increased, £32 per bale,
or the enormous aggregate of £80,000,000 ; and
a very large proportion of the crop has been sold
at that rate. The South, utterly bare of the com-
monest necessaries of life, required a complete
renewal of all that is needed to clothe, to shelter,
and to feed, and of everything employed for the
purposes of agriculture or locomotion. On the
capital of £80,000,000 thus reserved there was
no lien or subsisting engagement to impede a
free disposal ; and the fund was accordingly used
for the legitimate purchase of the manufactures
in New England and Old England in a manner
and to an extent which startled the Times, but
which was thoroughly satisfactory to all who
understood the change that had been wrought
in the commercial relations between the two
countries.

If, then, 400,000 bales of American cotton in
Liverpool are affected by the recent fall in price,
the effect will simply be, that reclamation will
be left in the hands of the Liverpool factors
against the shippers for any excess of their ad-
vances over the price now obtainable for the
consignments to them. But there are no out-
standing letters of credit, no vast exchange
operations, no excess of trading, no commercial
interdependence now existing; and we are tho-
roughly persuaded that there is no reason for appre-
hending -.any present disastrous effect to our com-
merce or monetary affairs from our relations with
the United States. That a few houses on the other
side, under special circumstances, may feel incon-
venience from the difficulties that have pressed on
us so severely, is to be expected ; but there is no
ground whatever for anticipating any effect suffi-
ciently extensive to react adversely on British com-
merce or finance. The American Treasury at the
last accounts held about £27,000,000, of which
£15,000,000 was in gold. Of titis sum it disbursed
on the Ist instant over £4,000,000 in payment of
dividends, £900,000 of which has already been re-
ceived, and more will soon follow. So little ground
is there for regarding the United States with appre-
hension, that it is quite possible that country may
furnish substantial aid towards the speedy restora-
tion of confidence and the complete recovery from
the panic that has recently prevailed.—Telegraph.

Naval and Miltary Intelligence.

_ .-..-.._............-...----

The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke of
Edinburgh, Prince Teck, the Duke of Cambridge,
and suite, are expected at Colchestyr camp to-mor-
row. His Royal Highness is making the visit for
the purpose of inspecting the 11th Hussars previous
to their departure for India. An entertainment
will be given by the officers of the 11th Hussars to
the royal visitors.

The 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regt., at Alder-
shott, under the command of Colonel Mackirdy, is
under orders to hold itself in readiness to leave the
camp at an early date. The headquarters and five
companies of the regiment will proceed to Jersey,
three companies to Alderney, and two companies to
Guernsey. The 69th will ))e relieved at Aldershot
by the 48th Regiment, from Shorncliffe.
Several batteries of artillery are under orders to
proceed to Aldershot, among which are the E and
G batteries, 9th Brigade, which will march from
Hilsea to-morrow to IVoolmer. where they will en-
camp, and proceed to Aldershot on Wednesday.
The Battery, B brigade, Royal Horse Artillery, from
Wool wiclt, consisting of one officer, 185 non-com-
missioned officers and men, 30 women, 50 children,
and 147 horses, is expected to arrive at Aldershot
about the middle of the present month.

Gardening around the huts at Aldershot Camp
has become the occupation of many of the soldiers
in their leisure hours, and the monotonous appear-
ance of some of the lines will soon be relieved by the
various annuals which are the favourites of horti-
culture. The soldiers who like to cultivate flowers
naturally wish to make the most of their patches of
ground, but it is found that there is some danger
of damaging the huts by the indiscrimate garden-
ing around them, and in consequence the Lieut.-
General commanding has desired that all officers,
non-commissioned officers, or soldiers who obtain
permission to make gardens round their huts will
leave a space of about six inches between the hut
and the mould, in order to prevent the wood decay-
ing and the hut becoming damp. .
It is expected that the first gand field-day of the
season at Aldershott will be held in the Long Val-
ley on Thursday, and that the troops will be under.
arms at an early hour. Several cavalry field days
have lately been held, but none in which the whole
division has taken part.

A general order, signed by Major-Gen. Lord W.
Paulet, K.C.8., Adjutant-General, has been issued
from the Horse Guards by command of the Duke of
Cambridge, announcing a new code of regulations
for the admission of candidates to the Staff College.
The amended order directs that all applications to
study at the Staff College roust be made while the
officer making it is present and serving with his
regiment, through the commanding officer. No
application from an officer on leave will be enter-
tained. Although only one officer can be spared
from a battalion at a time for the purpose of study-
ing at the college, this will not necessarily prevent
a battalion sending more than one to compete at an
examination if circumstances admit of their absence
from their regiment. The principle under which
officers are allowed to enter. the Staff College
being that of pure competition, :candidates who
may be found qualified at any examination, but
who, from want of a sufficient number of va-
cancies, cannot then be admitted, will not have any
claim to subsequent admission without undergoing
another competitive examination. Only one officer
at a time can belong to the college from a battalion
of infantry or a regiment of cavalry, and only
four officers at a time can, be admitted from the
corps of the Royal Artillery. Fifteen vacancies
will be offered for competition annually, two of
which may be filled by officers of the Royal Artillery.
The next examination of candidates for admission
to the Staff College will commence on the 23d
of July, before the Vice-President and members of
the Council of Military Education.
In the list of officers present at the Royal Artil-
lery dinner, on the 24th ult., for " Lieut.-Col. Kem-
mison" read " Lieut.-Col. Kennion."

An Admiralty order has.been received at Chatham
dockyard announcing that their lordships have de-
cided on-making a considerable increase in the pay
of the dockyard labourers employed at that estab-
lishment. In future superior hired labourers will
be paid at the rate of 3s. per day, the order direct-
ing that in case the proportion of wages spent on
this rate of pay is very materially increased the most
inefficient hands are to be discharged. There is
little doubt that this increase in the rate of pay will
bring a far different class of labourers into Chatham
dockyard; the great majority of those now em-
ployed at that establishment are old army and navy
pensioners, who from their age, absence on pension
days, for drill, and other causes, are -ill-fitted for
the work they have to perform.
The armour-plated ship Prince Consort, 21,
Capt. George O. Willes, C. 8., recently employed
on the coast of Ireland, is now at DeKonport, fitting
for service in the Mediterranean.

The crew of the screw steam corvette Jason, 17,
in Plymouth Sound, were mustered and inspected
on Saturday by Port-Admiral Sir H. Fremantle,
K. C.B. _ _

The screw steam corvette Satellite, 17, was placed
on Saturday in Keyham Steam-yard for the purpose

of being prepared for the first division of the Steam
Reserve in Hamoaze.
Her Majesty's ship Vestal has made her trial trip
outside the harbour at Pembroke, and her engines
worked most satisfactorily. The maximum speed
attained was 13i knots, and the vessel showed
excellent sea-going qualities. Her engines are of
300 horse-power, and were manufactured by Mauds-
ley and Co., of London.
Her Majesty's ship Nassau, fitting out at Pem-
broke Dock, has also made her trial trip, which was
in 'every respect satisfactory. She is a handsome
little vessel, and is intended for the surveying ser-
vice.
The Chinese Commissioners Pin, and his son,
Yo-ho, and their friends and suite, now on a visit to
this country from Pekin, on Friday drove down to
Woolwich, accompanied by Major Brine, R.E.,
Major Dick, Major D'Estrange, Mr. Hart, Mr.
Hughes, and Mr. Ilannen, for the purpose of paying
a visit of ceremony to Lieut.-Col. Gordon, R.E.,
with whom they were acquainted during the period
of hi; command of the Chinese Contingent. After
lunching at the residence of Capt. Gordon, C. 8.,
Principal Superintendent of Stores, the whole party,
with the exception of the Chief Commissioner Pin,
proceeded to an inspection of the departments of
the Royal Arsenal. Their first visit was to the
Royal gun factories, where they were received by
Lieut.-Col. Freeth, Second Commandant, and ac-
cording to War Department instructions they were
admitted to a thorough inspection of the manufac-
tory. They witnessed the working of one of the
12-ton steam hammers, and the formation and
welding of a huge gun coil, which occupied about
three-quarters of an hour. Passing hurriedly through
the Royal carriage and shell departments they re-
turned to Capt. Gordon's, where the whole party
re-entered their carriages and returned to London,
simply calling at the dockyard and inquiring for
the Captain-Superintendent without alighting.
Two' only of the Chinese appeared to understand
our language.

It was on Friday announced in Woolwich Arsenal
that an official memorandum had been received
from the War Department stating that, at the de-
sire of Col. Clerk, Superintendent of the Royal Car-
riage Department, whose period of office will
expire at the end of the present month, he will be
reinstated for a second term of five years.
The War Department steamship Lord Panmure,
Commander H. G. Moore, sailed yesterday from
Woolwich with all despatch, laden with a cargo of
160 tons of shell, shot, and guns, and 216 barrels
of powder for Portsmouth.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Staff Commander G. H. Blakey,
to the Saturn ; IV. Gill, chief engineer, to the Lord
Clyde ; Dr. Hart Gimlett, surgeon, to the Lord
Clyde ; Archibald G. Colquhoun, assist.-surgeon,
to the Lord Clyde ; William S. Fisher, assist.-
surgeon, to the Fisgard, for service in the Marine
Infirmary at Woolwich ; William Giles and George
William Robins, engineers, to the Lord Clyde ;
George Deans, engineer, additional, to the Cale-
donia for the Trinculo ; John Frederick Hatters-
ley, first-class assist.-engineer, additional, to the
Caledonia, for the Trinculo; Robert Anderson (B)
George Bartlett, and John Robert Ecroyd, first-
class assist.-engineer to the Lord Clyde ; Lieut.
Charles IL Farquharson and Lieut. Henry R. Ber-
ners, to the Petrel ; -William J. Grandy, master, to
the Petrel ; John C. Solfleet, master, to the Done-
gal ; James Diddle, master, to the Asia ; Charles
C. Scott, master, to the Trafalgar; Sidney Smith,
second master, to the Orontes ; Albert R. Won-
ham, second master, to the Ganges, for service in
the Liberty ; John W. J. O'Malley, surgeon, to the
Petrel ; Alfred IVhifan, paymaster, to the Petrel;
Chiules Hetherington, Alexander Bothwick, and 1
Charles A. Dewar, engineers, aciditiknfil, 4..-N the
Sutlej ; and William Lawson, secon&elass assist.
engineer, additional, to the Sutlej.
The undermentioned have been nominated naval
cadets :—William J. Auton, William H. Edyvean)
and Arthur C. Middleniass.