The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-15 00:00:00

DUTCH-RHENISH.

The receipts for the fortnight ending Oct. 31
amounted to £13,843, and for corresponding period
of last year to £14,428, showing a decrease of £585.
The receipts since the commencement of the present
book year, May 1, including► the above, amounted
to £136,997, showing a decrease as compared with
the corresponding period of last year of £29,613.
The working expenses for the fortnight amounted
to £4,851, or 35.04 per cent. of the receipts, and for
the corresponding period of last year to £5,448, or
38.49 per cent., showing a decrease of £596. The
working expenses from May 1 last to October 31
amounted to £54,049, or 39.46 per cent. of the re-
ceipts, and for the corresponding period of last
year to 35.76 per cent.

Naval and Military Intelli;ence.

The War Depart-mentS steamship Earl de Grey
and Ripon returned to Woolwich Arsenal yesterday
morning from Devonport and Bull's Point, laden
with old army stores. She experienced some very
severe weather in the Channel, but suffered no
damage. Mr. Moore, the master in charge, reports
a schooner-rigged vessel sunk off the Nore, with her
masts only visible.
Extra men are placed on the repairs of the screw
steam corvette Racoon, 22, at Devonport, to pre-
pare her for sea.
Her Majesty's naval storekeeper in 'Woolwich
Dockyard, Mr. 0. B. Piers, having terminated the
six months' leave of absence granted him by the
Board of Admiralty, with a view to recruit his im-
paired health, has obtained au additional week's
leave to arrange his affairs before retiring from the
service on superannuation. Mr. Piers will be suc-
ceeded by Mr. Walter Scott, senior clerk, now doing
the storekeeper's duties in Mr. Piers' absence.

Lieut. C. E. La Coste, two sergeants, one corporal,
one drummer, and 27 privates belonging to the Royal
Marines Light Infantry, have
_left Woolwich for
Devonport, for service on board her Majesty's 22-
gun screw corvette Racoon, 1,467 tons, and 400-
horse power, to be commissioned in all probability
by Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh.
A court-martial assembled on Tuesday on board
the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, to try Mr. Fredk.
Wheeler, engineer, borne on the books of the Indus,
on a charge of drunkenness on Oct. 20. The Court
consisted of Capt. Preedy, president, and Capts.
Napier, Seccombe, Stanhope, Somerset, and Daw-
kins. After a lengthened inquiry, the Court con-
sidered the charge proved, and, as the prisoner had I
been previously charged with a sizpilar offence, he i
was sentenced to be dismissed from the service.

The troops in garrison at Woolwich yesterday
began to practise the route marching ordered to be
carried out during the winter, in the place of field
drills. They commenced marching out at nine
a.m. in separate brigades and divisions, taking
various directions along the high roads, over
Blackheath, Lewisham, Eltham, Welling, and sur-
rounding villages, according to the selection of the
respective commanding officers, an officer of each
division taking sketches of the march. The weather
was most favourable, and the troops who returned
to quarters shortly before the dinner hour at one
o'clock, appeared to have benefited by the exercise,
which is ordered to take place weekly, weather per-
mitting, with footbaallnedxfiercdis. e at intervals.
The proceedings
which recently of the district court-
martialasseomfinbLlFd at Chatham garri-
son„under the presidency t.-Col. Fitzroy M.
H. Somerset, Royal Engineers, for the trial of , orderly room Ser-
geant Thomas llarris
clerk, 106th
Bombay Light Infantry, have been ptreomulgated to
quelnntflayonlrtcrehon
Colchester
ted
the troops. The prisoner deserted
a
the 10th of May, 1865, and subsequently
at Chatham in the 109th Bombay
under
the name of William I-Icnry Bleukinsop, rye ceiv-
-1
the additional bounty. He was speedily promoted
g
and again made orderly-room clerk, when it was
discovered that he was a deserter from the 106th
Regiment. The Court sentenced him to 84 days'
hard labour in the military prison, Fort Clarence,
Rochester, and ordered him to be placed under
stoppages until the bounty money of which be had
defrauded the Government was made good.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO A SPOItTSMAN.—Captain
Fox, of the Grenadier Guards, who was thrown from his
horse, after attending the meet of the Bramharn-moor fox-
hounds, and received serious injury, is progressing satis-
factorily. The West reports are of a favourable de-
ader.