The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-14 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Grand Duke Alexis, second son of the Em-
peror of Russia, arrived at the Duke of Cornwall
Hotel, Plymouth, on Thursday afternoon, accom-
panied by Admiral Boutakoff, and by Admiral
Possiett, who is in command of the Russian frigates
Osstiaba, Capt. Kramer, and Vitiaz, Capt. Green,
from Copenhagen, which arrived at Falmouth on
Wednesday. On Thursday the Grand Duke visited
and inspected the Royal Naval Arsenal at Devon-
port, through which he was escorted by Rear-Ad-
miral the Hon. James R. Drummond, the Superin-
tendent. Hence the Imperial visitor went to Key-
ham steamyard, and yesterday, attended by the
Russian Vice-Consul, Mr. William Luscombe, and
by Port Admiral Sir C. Fremantle, K.C.8., the
Prince went on board the gunnery ship Cambridge,
Capt. Charles J. S. Ewart, and witnessed shot
practice with heavy ordnance, and on board her
tender, the Foudroyant, with the rifle and Arm-
strong gun. He then went to the training ship
Impregnable, 78, Capt. Francis S. Tremlett, and
saw tIT boys go through the sword and great gun
exercise, making, shortening, and furling sails, &c.
The Port Admiral's steam tender Princess Alice
then conveyed the Grand Duke into the Sound,
where he inspected the crew of the cupola ship
Prince Albert, who worked the revolving guns.
After landing on the Shovel Rock Fort, inside the
Breakwater, the party returned to their hotel.
The screw steam gun vessel Griffon, 5, Com-
mander Duncan G. Davidson, from Sheerness,
bound to the West Coast of Africa, which arrived
at Plymouth on Wednesday, has been towed by the
Confiance into Hamoaze to have some defects made
good.

The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief has ap-
proved the following arrangements at Colchester
Capt. Scovell, 96th Regiment, to proceed from the
service to the depot companies ; Ensign Maberley,
35th Regiment, to proced to India, with draughts ;
Staff-Surgeon Toach to join the 3d battalion ;
Surgeon-Major Burke to join the Bth depot bat-
talion ; Schoolmaster Harris to join the Bth depot
battalion ; Schoolmaster Shaw of the 4th depot bat-
talion, to proceed to India forthwith to join the
101st Regiment ; and Capt. Matthews, 94th Regi-
ment, to be instructor of musketry to the Bth depot
battalion, vice Capt. Gaynor, of the 88th Regiment,
appointed to the sth depot battalion at Parkhurst.
It is expected that the head-quarters of the 11th
Hussars will embark for India on the 25th inst.
The depot of the 2d battalion of the 10th Regiment
has arrived at Colchester from the Curragh, and has
been been attached to the 9th depot battalion. Fou
officers, five sergeants, and 66 rank and file of the
depot battalion, and four officers, four sergeants, and
66 rank and file of the Bth depot battalion, have been
withdrawn this week from Languard Fort, Harwich,
having completed a course of rifle instruction.

TIIE NEGRO BOY PIANIST.—BIind Tom, the mu-
sical prodigy, who has created so great asensation through
out the United States, has arrived in England, and will,
we understand, shortly make his appearance in public.
His execution of the most difficult music is a perfect mar-
vel : blind and untaught he plays the most brilliant pieces ;
and the extraordinary retention of his memory of any com-
position he may have heard, and which he repeats with
faultless precision, bas earned for him the title of a "mu-
sical monstrosity." We hope soon to have the opportunity
of hearing him.

THE ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN HAPPINESS are
said to bo something to do, something to love, and some-
thing to hope for. There is no class in the community
who so fully combine those several essentials et
human happiness as the so-called working classes. in
earning our daily bread, enjoying the society of our
families, and resting one day in seven from all our
toil and labour, our lives are moulded in the cru-
cible of work and worship. Some ono has said
luborare est orare, that is, to work is to worship. If that
be so, then we worship six days' and culminate all the
prayers and hopes of the six days' worship on the seventh
There is no greatermistake, therefore, than to assume that
a life of toil and labour is one of unmitigated hardship
Hard it may be ; so are the rocks and mountains hard, and
in proportion to their hardness, so are they, except by
some great commotion or convulsion of nature, immov-
able! But not hard in the sense of being unproducible of
much good as well as evil. The life of the artisan is a life
of earnest labour, love, and prayer ; full it may bo of all
the stern realities of life, yet it looks forward to the
future, and fastens on eternity. The earnest life of the
operative, therefore, is pregnant with all that is worth
working for, worth loving, and worth hoping; and so
comprises all the essentials of human happiness. So let
our friends and fellow co-labourer in the vineyard of life
take courage ; sorrow endures only for the moment Qf
time called night, but joy comes with the morning