The Sun.
London, England, 1859-10-20 00:00:00

STAFFORDSHIRE.

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The members of the First Staffordshire Volun-
teer Rifle Corps met on parade on Tuesday after-
noon at the residence of Captain Elwell at
Handsworth. They went through various evo-
lutions in the presence of Lord Hatherton, the
lord-lieutenant of the county, the Earl of Dart-
mouth, and other gentlemen. Lord Hatherton ex-
pressed himself greatly pleased with the appear-
ance and efficiency of the corps, and warmly com-
plimented. Capt. Elwell on the progress they had
made in the short time which has elapsed since
their organi:atio3.
At a meeting of the corps on SAurday evening
Mr. R. L. Mole was selected for nomination to the
ensigncy, and the lord-lieutenant has intimated h:s
willingness to comply with the wishes of the corps

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Tuesday Capt. Elwell entertained 'CX'', 7 "ff--: 4.3',
dinner at the New Inn; Handswort '''':?L=;',!,--1.1.-.
Lioi-d HATHERTON, who was presg,
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strongly in favour of the rifle corps movement and
its extension, at the same time congratulating the
company that so much progress had been made in
Staffordshire. His lordship expreised a hope and
confidence that Parliament and i the country would
behave liberally in the matter of our national de-
fences. Whatever expenditure was made, so that
it was judiciously applied, might be regarded in
the light of an insurance, and might be the means of
saving the addition of £300,000,000 or X 400,000,000
to the national ~;.ebt. His lordship added that, when
a member of the House of Commons, he was one of
a committee sitting about the year 1818 on this
matter of our national defences ; 'and he remem-
bered a sort of confidential communication made to
that committee by Lord Castlereagh that it was the
opinion of Lord Liverpool's Government that the
navy of England ought to be twice the strength:of
that of any other country in the world. .

711 E NAVY.

The following ships of the Channel fleet arrived
in Cork harbour on Saturday :—Donegal, 101, screw
steamer; Aboukir, 90, screw steamer; Hero, 91,
screw steamer; Trafalgar, 91 ; Algiers, 91, screw
steamer; Emerald, 51, screw steamer; Melpomene,
50, screw steamer; and Mersey, 40, screw steamer.
The screw steamship Royal Albert, 121, Capt. B.
Rice, having received a new bowsprit, was warped
on Monday from the Devonport dockyard to her
moorings at Hamoaza.
The screw steam frigate Amphion, 36, Captain
Cochrane, left Plymouth Sound on Monday to join
the fleet, taking men left behind by the ships.
The screw steam sloop Encounter, 14, was hauled
out of Key ham basin on Tuesday. She will receive
the armaments of the gunboats Wenzel and Coc-k-
-chafer, and probably escort them to Chtna.
The pennant of Commander S. Skipwith, com-
missioned to command her Majesty's paddle-wheel
steam-sloop Prometheus, was yesterday hoisted on
board at Woolwich. The Prometheus has under-
gono extensive repairs, large portions of the hull
having been removed, and her timbers, overrun
with the augur worm, have been replaced by new,
for which purpose the whole of her outer timbers
were removed, having been found utterly useless.
The vessel is consequently almost equal to new.
Nineteen newly raised men from Sunderland
arrived in Plymouth on Tuesday for the guardship
Impregnable. -
His Netherlands Majesty's corvette Raynier left
Plymouth Sound on Tuesday.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty ;-:—Commander J. E. Parish,
to the Ardent, commissioned ; Lieut. C. R. F.
Boson, to the Arrogant, from the Meander; Robt.
Creighton, assist.-sure. additional, to the Fisgard ;
J. IL Tregilgas, first class assist.-engineer, to the
Weser ; W. Castle, second class assist-engineer, to
the Weser ; C. J. Martin, second class assist.-engi-
neer, to the Ciio• •J. 'Orchard, second class assist-
! en gi necn., to the P rometheui ; A. Templeton, acting
third class assist.-engineer, to the Blenheim, for
service in the Biter ; T. Wilson,-third,class assist.-
engineer, to the Queen Charlotte, :or service in the
Lizard ; T. P. Potts, third class assist.-engineer, to
the Princess Royal; G. Whiffing, acting third
class assist-engineer, to the Weser; P. Murray,
acting third Class' assist.-engineer, to the Asia, to
take temporary charge of th 4 Rainbow.