The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

It is understood that the authorities at the Horse
Guards have determined on strengthening the de-
pot battalions of infantry serving in Ireland, and
that the depot battalions at Belfast, Templemore,
Mullingar, Fermoy, and Buttevant will shortly be
considerably augmented by the addition of se vera
of the English and Indian depots now attached to
the battalions in this country.
Orders have been received at Chatham garrison
directing Capt. Bomford, Lieut. Tennyson, Ensign
Bazalgette, Quartermaster Martin, one armourer
sergeant, and 68 non-commissioned officers and men
of the 29th Regt., to be held in readiness to embark
for Malta as soon as the necessary tonnage has been
taken up by the Government. A detachment of the
2d battalion 4th King's Own Regt., consisting of
officers and 50 men, placed under orders to proceed
to Malta, will now embark for Nova Scotia, to
which station the service companies are to proceed.
A draught of one officer, two sergeants, and 85 rank
and file of the 2d battalion 15th Regt., has also been
placed under orders to embark for Gibraltar, there
to join the headquarters of that regiment. A de-
tachment of the 2d battalion 20th Regt. has been
ordered to be held in readiness to embark for China,
Capt. Adams and Ensign Ford being selected to
proceed with the draught. The whole of the men
selected for embarkation have been medically in-
spected, and also officially inspected by Major-Gen.
Sir, R. Walpole.
Rear-Admiral Drummond, Junior Sea Lord of
the Board of Admiralty, and Capt. Mends, Direc-
tor of Transports, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
morning from London, and made an inspection at
the transport jetty of the dockyard of her Majesty's
screw transports Simoom, Capt. Lethbridge, and
Tamar, Capt. Stirling, both about to sail on foreign
troop service, and calling in at Kingstown, Ireland,
with the 92d and 75th Regiments, on their way
down Channel. The headquarters of the 14th Re-
-ou:cut, consisting of 10 officers, 338 men, 42
women, and 72 children, left Portsmouth at 7 p.m.
yesterday x'or Sheffield, travelling all night.
The Prince Albert, 5, screw iron turret ship,
Capt. A. Wilmsikgrst, arrived at Spithead yester-
day from the Thames. She will yeceive on board a
boat from Portsmouth Dockyard , and afterwards
sail for the Channel and Plymotrth Souud.
Her Majesty's steamvessel Sta r, Capt. W. Gor-
don, which put into Portland har,bour from stress of
weather on Monday last, sailed ai ;am for the west-
ward on Tuesday morning, the we. tither having then
moderated.
Vice-Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley 1, ins been appointed
Commander-in-Chief at Ports= suth, vice Admiral
Sir Michael Seymour, whose period of service will
expire on the Ist proximo.
The following appointments lit Lye been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander S. 7. Townsend to
the Icarus, commissioned ; Lie ,u, studdy to the

PRICE 4d.
STAMPED sd.

Doris ; Lieut. F. C. H. Dent to the Icarus ; Allan
M. Jephson, midshipman, to the Racoon ; C. 11.
Wells, paymaster, to the Icarus ; J. W. Dobbin,
surg., to the Icarus ; R. L. 11 'Morris, assist.-surg.,
additional, to the Victory, for service in the Royal
Marine Artillery ; John M. Campbell, acting assist.
surg., to the Icarus ; R. N. Hilly, assist. paymaster,
to the Cambridge ; Win. Whyliatn, clerk, to the
Icarus ; G. W. Siveright, engineer, to the Indus, for
service in the Nassau ; IL Leslie, engineer, to the
Simoom ; J. P. Lloyd, engineer, to the Sphinx;
Lieut. R. F. Britten to the Favorite ; Jas. It. Os-
born, master, to the Icarus ; Sub-Lieut. Francis H.
Haygarth to the Fa7orite ; Dr. Robert Hastings,
staff surgeon, to the Castor ; Arthur Price, pay-
master, to be secretary to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas
S. Pasley, at Portsmouth ; Alfred Mason, engineer,
to the Icarus ; Andrew Kennedy and Edwin Corbet
Legh, first-class assist.-engineers, to the Icarus ;
and William Stainer Thompson, first-class assist.-
engineer, to the Irresistible.

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

THE SECRETARY FOR WAR.

The Marquis of Hartiugton was re-elected for
North Lancashire yesterday, this course having been
rendered necessary by his acceptance of the office of
Secretary of State for War. He ly-f, no-ninated in
the Shire-hall, Lancaster, in the prrsence,of a iarge
number of persons, by Col. Wet tiegatowden , sand se-
conded by Mr. T. B. Addison, of Preston. Sir J. P.
Kay-Shuttleworth supported the nomination ; and,
after quoting statistics to show that the north of
England was not sufficiently represented as compared
with the south, emphatically insisted that, whether
their franchise was lowered or not, the county of
Lancaster would not be satisfied unless there was a
redistribution of seats, and several places of industry
in East Lancashire converted into boroughs.
Lord HARTINGTON then addressed his constituents.
After lamenting the death of Lord Palmerston,
whom he had served under as a subordinate, and
commenting upon the reproaches which had been
heaped by the press upon Lord Russell for not in
all respects resembling the late leader of the Go-
vernment, he stated that he believed the members
of the Government had given a sufficient and satis-
factory explanation as to the course they had adopted
in regard to the cattle plague, and expressed his
opinion that it would have been wiser if the House
of Commons had adhered t o the principles which
the Government first adopted of leaving the prohi-
bitions for the removal of cattle entirely in the hands
of the local authorities. It should be remembered
by those who said that the Government showed a
want of energy in this respect that it was absolutely
necessary for the Government to go along with,
and not in advance of, public opinion in this mat-
ter. Having defended the plan of giving compensa-
tion to farmers for animals slaughtered when not
affected by thcplague, he touched upon the Ja-
maica insurrection, and said—Since the election
of this Parliament there has occurred an insurrec-
tion in Jamaica. lam willing to do full justice to
the moderation and forbearance of the Opposition
in the House of Commons, who, I think, with great
wisdom and propriety have almost entirely refrained
from discussing these events until the report of
Sir H. Storks' commission is received ; but there
have been in some quarters out of doors blame at-
tached to the Government for the course which they
have taken—even for instituting an inquiry into these
occurrences at all ; and here is one of the instances
in which Lord Russell has been compared, to his
disparagement, with the late Prime Minister. It
has been said that the late Lord Palmerston would
never have deserted Governor Eyre , whethCr he
thought him right or whether he thought him wrong.
Ido not_agree in that opinion. Ido not believe
_that any man ever stood up more bravely and with-
greater courage and consistency and constancy for
his subordinate officers f he was not fully satisfied
that, in the main, that subordinate was right.
(Hear, hear.) There is enough in the papers laid
before the House of Commons to show that, whatever
may be the merits or demerits of General Eyre,
there was enough in the condition of the people of
Jamaica, both white and black, to show that an in-
quiry into the condition of the island was absolutely
necessary. (Hear, hear.) There is enough in the
published despatches of ldr. Eyre himself to show
that the measures which he took for the suppression
of the rebellion could only have been justified by
the most pressing and imperative necessity ; and it
must be satisfactory, not less to Mr. Eyre and his
friends than to his accusers, than an inquiry which
I think all admit now is necessary should be con-
ducted in a free, full, and impartial manner, and
I scarcely think it necessary to dwell upon, but
simply to ask the question whether it would have been
possible for that inquiry to be full, fair, and free if
during its progress Mr. Eyre had been left as the
sole principal representative of her Majesty
in the Island, holding in his hand almost the
entire executive power, while an inquiry which
must embrace the consideration of his own ac-

tion was in progress. Adverting to the Fenian
conspiracy, he said no man in his senses would be-
lieve that the Established Church in Ireland was the
grievance which had caused the revolt, for it was
known that the object was to establish the lowest
and worst form of socialism in the country. The
course which the Government had had to pursue was
a very difficult one, and he thought that they had
acted in time, that they had struck when it was ne-
cessary to strike, and the measures which they took
had neither been too severe nor too lenient. With
regard to Reform, his tongue was tied as to the
intentions of the Government, and he would only
say that he thought the Government, although many
had blamed them for dealing with the question this
session, had resolved rightly in deciding to deal with
it at the present time. It seemed to him that the
position of the question was not creditable or satis-
factory, and that no political party in the country
could look upon it with any satisfaction to them-
selves. He gave a history of the Reform Bills in-
troduced between 1852 and the present time, and
said that when the subject was discussed in the
House of Commons last year it was discussed with
more energy, with more vigour, and in a more inte-
resting manner than it had been for many years be-
fore. The speech of Mr. Lowe no doubt made a
great impression upon many minds, and the Con-
servative party generally hailed the speech as a most
able defence of the principles which in former times
they had held. But with that speech in their ears
the general election took place, and any one taking
the trouble to read the election addresses and the
speeches on the hustings would find that almost
every candidate on the Liberal side, and not by any
means a small number of candidates on the Conser-
vative side of the house expressed their opinion that
the time had arrived for some change to be made in
the representation of the people, although he would
admit that their promises were somewhat vague,
and their pledges somewhat qualified. Still, almost
ne pledged himself to support a Reform Bill
ieuvesryoo"„w shape or other, and he thought, therefore,
that it was the duty of the Government to take up
and deal seriously, and to the best of their power,
with the subject of reform. He must say that in
this matter the working classes had:scarcely been
fairly dealt with. He would admit that there had
been no pressure put upon the Government of the
House of Commons by the 'working classes—they
were perfectly quiet but successive Governments

had held out to them a hope that the franchise would
be extended to them, and when they had begun to
see some reasonable hope that it was about to be
extended to them the bait had been suddenly with-
drawn, and they had been told " No, we do not
think you are worthy of it" Now, he thought they
had a right to say " Either give it us as you have
promised us so often, or else say that we are not to
have it at all." He thought that the Government
had taken a wise, prudent, and manly course in re-
solving to deal with the question, and he hoped that

NEWSPAPER
WAX
ilfst
:fZ
the House of Comoro k ffl.T.Tslfrf • /). sight
AV ,
be, whether it was fon • = --'•t .e Go- •
verument Reform Bill or Ili*,wcjd r east speak
clearly and unmistakably its sentiments upon this
great and important question. He believed that on
no occasion had a Government or Parliament been
called upon to deal with more important and more
interesting questions than this Parliament would be
called upon to do. If it could only do something
for the suppression of the mutiny and disaffection
in Ireland, it would do much ; if it could only carry
out the financial reforms and the financial policy so
well begun by the late Parliament, it would do a -
great deal ; if it could settle the most perplexing
and difficult question of Reform, it would do more
than many Parliaments that had taken it up within
the last few years. (Applause.) The noble Lord
concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the high
Sheriff.

Colonel BUTLER BOAVIIES seconded the proposi-
tion, and it was cordially passed.

A banquet was afterwards held at Lancaster, at
which the Secretary for War gave an address to his
supporters.

SUNDERLAND. "
As was anticipated, the contest in this borough
was fought out with great earnestness and bitterness
yesterday. Mr. Fenwick was unable to take any part
in the proceedings through illness ; but he had a
very energetic and determined committee;who, with
a large body of supporters, wrought hard for his
return. Mr. Candlish's party were equally power-
ful. What they wanted in position they made up in
extraordinary determination and perseverance, and
never in the Parliamentary annals of the borough
have more warmth and zeal been exhibited for the
return of the respective candidates.
The polling commenced at $ o'clock in the morn-
ing, a.id t'ol'_•►wing °facial returns were published.
during the forenoon
9 O'CLOCK.
Candlish
10 o'CLocK.
Candlish
11 o'CLocK.
Candlish
Nom.
Candlish 1073 I Fenwick 992
Wednesday Night.
After 12 o'clock Mr. Candlish increased his ma-
jority. At the close the numbers were :
Candlish 1430 I Fenwick
The contest was carried on through a series of
snowstorms, but the interest never flagged. The
numbers are as large as any ever polled in the
borough.

TIVERTON.
CLOSE OF THE POLL.
Denman

The London Workhouses.

Some interesting facts relative to the management
of the London workhouses by " guardians of the
poor" have been brought to light in papers just
issued under the authority of the Poor Law Board.

It is an ascertained fact, but one not generad;
known, that the greatest diversity prevails among
the London guardians as to the amount of food
which shall be given to a pauper ; and, indeed, to
such an extent is this diversity carried that while the
average weekly cost of a pauper in one London
parish amounts to above 55., in another it is as low
as a little above 2s. This is taking classes together,
but the distinction is more marked when a particu-
lar class is taken. An " able-bodied" man in- one
union is estimated to cost for food alone something
over 3s. a week, while in another he is only allowed
food for the seven days to the cost of under 2s. On
inquiring, more curiously still, it is found that the
guardians of one union allow their able-bodied
paupers as much as nearly 120 oz. of bread a week
each, while the guardians of another give the same
class man 80oz. By the tables composed by Mr.
T. Harries, of the Poor Law Board, on the die-
taries of convicts, it is shown that at Pentonville
:Prison a convict gets 140 oz. of bread a week, and
at Millbank Prison 1500 z., so that, as regards the
" staff of life," the convict has the advantage over
- the pauper. IV-ith-- respect to meat, in-no London
workhouse is meat given every day, and the maxi-
mum amount given in any London workhouse to
" able-bodied" is below the minimum given in a
London convict prison, that minimum being 30oz.
In fact, the quantity of meat given at some of the
workhouses to able-bodied paupers cannot exceed
half this amount, calculating even the meat given
in soup, broth, suet pudding, and in every other way.
The days in workhouses are marked by the dinners.
Sunday is invariably a " meat day," when, taking
Hampstead, for instance, an able-bodied man or
woman has soz. of meat, Boz. of potatoes, and 4oz.
of bread for dinner. Monday is a " soup day," when
an able-bodied man has 6oz. of bread and a pint and
a-half of soup, and an able-bodied woman soz. of
bread and the same quantity of soup. Tuesday is a
" cheese day," when able-bodied men and women
have 2oz. of cheese with Boz. and 7oz. of bread re-
spectively. Wednesday is a " soup day," when
Monday's fare is given, and Thursday is the only
other " meat day" in the week, when Sunday's din-
ner is repeated. Friday is a " pudding day," 14oz.
and 12oz. of pudding forming the sole dinner of an
able-bodied man or woman; and Saturday is another
"'soup day." The breakfast for this class is 6oz. of
bread for men and soz. for women, with a pint and
a-half of gruel; and the only other meal is the supper,
when Goz. and soz. of bread for men and women
respectively and 14oz. of cheese constitute the third
and last meal for six days, while on the seventh a
pint and a-half of broth stands in the place of the
cheese. This is said to be a " high dietary" house,
but nearly all the other workhouses give three meat
dinners a week to the able-bodied. Children have
but two meat dinners a week in this house, 4oz. at
each meal to those below 9 years of age, and soz. to
those above. In St. Luke's, Chelsea, children under
3 years have 3oz. of meat every day, and those up
to 9 years have 4oz. six days a week. The general
quantity of meat given is soz. three days a week
to able-bodied, but St. Luke's, Old-street, a gene-
rally well-conducted workhouse, gives Goz.; at St,
1 Giles's and Bloomsbury workhouse Boz. is given twice
a week, and 4oz. of bacon on a third day. In the
dieting of the infirm and aged, and children of dif-
ferent ages, there is so great a variation in the diffe-
rent workhouses as to lead to the conclusion either
that at some the paupers generally are overfed, or
that at others they do not have more than sufficientommon
to keep body and soul together. It is
Board common
error error to suppose that the Poor.-law.
The
e aid of their medical
or
Londona t leastworkhouses.sanctions,
fdaricettarisiestihenea
Guardians, with the supposed
submit to
for approval : but this rule is
•.
rriaameß theoarddie taries, which they
ntolffiolclaelre frame
always observed by parishes under local Acts,
where the guardians frame whatever dietaries they
like, and the consequence is many of those now in
use have not been sanctioned by the central autho-
rity. It is desirable, as is shown by this diversity,
that there should be a uniform dietary for all the
workhouses in London.

n[ADVERTISEMENT.]—That the fearful annual mortality of
young children and delicate persons of all ages may be
if, instead of flying
arrested,6'°.to
apparently which, though
reality no other
and with it the dan,Or
tendency relieving the patient, have in
blindly to pills and medicines,
than that of increasing debility,
upon which the harmonlsoBufbusyii
vitai,
force of life, we were simply to study how
to inc ease theimparting
development n eowf
the a n dwpure c
framebi
ilieov,d,
depends, has been 5.:
Ildie and Infants' 'Food, the
Y plleovvaelde nbt ay IA) cr.Bb al
cra," :lid its‘
thousands of cures annually. It yields three times as mu:',ll
easily assimilated nourishment as the best meat, and for
children it ii the best substitute for human milk. Dr.
Routh, physlohn to the Samaritan Hospital for Women and
Children—the best au:liority on bIICII matters
in
vegetable his adm
subir-
-
able publication on Food, says—Amongs th
stances, th .t which comes closest t' milk in its composition
is, without doubt, Du Barry's Revaienta Arabic% Food, con-
taining both phosphoric acid in abundance and chloride ot
potassium ; it also includes casein, the same principle vi hitch
is found in milk in its constituent part 4. No wonder, there-
fore, that under its influence many children affected with
atrophy (wasting away of the body), and. marked debt ily,
have completely recovered. I have given it with the RI eatest
alvantage in such cases; and so far as I may judge from my
own experience, practice fully carries out what theory,
from a knowledge of its composition, led us to anticipate.
In tins, 11b, 2s 9d; 21b, 48 61; 51b,
4es.—Barry Du Bat ry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, lls; 121 b, 225;
London 211 b,
also Phillips, tea d2alers, 8, King William-street ;, likewise
at 6t, Graceehurch-stre.t ; 4, Cheapside ; 40, Btshommat
(1-
street Within ; 63, 159, and 298, Oxford-street • 330, t'') '
54, Upper Baker-street; 303, Tottenham-court-road; rand ;
Uppfr-street, Islington, N.; Harvey, liottino• jl; i3ad;Close96'
Brothers, 65, High-street ; and Stubbs,Queen's-terrace, -il
St.
John's-wood, London; and all respectable grocers and che-
in:Sta.—Beware 01 spurious Imitations.