The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-27 00:00:00

LONDON GAZETTE.--Last Evenings

WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Jux 26.
2d Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant
Alexander Cockburn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
John Charles Stephen Fremantle, who retiree ; Charles
Francis Buller, Gent., to bo Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Cockburn.
Ist Dragoon Guards—Arthur Gibbings, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Watt, transferred to the 3d Dra-
goon Guards.
2d Dragoon Guards—Major Anthony M. Fawcett, from
the 9th Lancers, to be Major, vice M. J. B. Dyne, who
exchanges.
3d Dragoou Guards—Cornet William Watt, from the Ist
Dragoon Guards, to bo Cornet, vice Edward S. Obri,
who retires.
9th Lancers—Major Musgrave James B. Dyne, from the
2d Dragoon Guards, to be Major, vice A. M. Fawcett,
who exchanges.
13th Hussars—Sergeant-Major Patrick Morrisey, to be
Cornet, without purchase, vice Hone, promoted.

THE MARRIED SOLDIER.—" One who never will
rejoin" writes to the Army and Navy Gazette to give
his reasons for adopting that determination and that signa-
ture, and cogent reasons they are. He is a private Foldier
who has served long and well in India and elsewhere, and
is just married. He has brought his young wife to Chatham,
where his regiment is, and is quartered in a room with
three other married couples. There is no partition between
their beds of any kind. His wife shrinks from dressing
and undressing in the presence of throe strange men, and
they are now living on dry bread in order to save money
enough to buy a screen by Which some sort of privacy may
be obtained as the expense of ventilation. "One who never
will rejoin" says that he does not complain on his own ac-
count; ho complains on account of the women and children
of his regiment, who are treated by the military authorities
with less consideration than a farmer would treat his swine.
It appears to be assumed by them that a soldier's wife has
no morals, no feelings, no sense of decency, no respect for
herself or affection for her children : and then they appoint
Royal Commissions to inquire why good men will not en-
list, and why all soldiers, good and bad, seek to leave the
service as soon as they can.; Her Majesty was much
shocked some time since at seeing the scanty accommoda-
tion provided for the married soldiers of the Life Guards
and Blues at Windsor. What would her feelings be were
she to inspect the quarters "of one who will never servo
again" at Chatham.—Pall Malt Gazette.

SILKWORMS.—The French Academy of Sciences
has received a communicatiom from Dr. Dronke, on
the disease of the silkworm. From a series of analytical
investigations ho leas arrived at the following conclusions :
—l. That the silk growers of Touraipe (Indre, Bartle,
kc.), having observed that the leaves of the mulberry tree
which produces whitefruit are better than those of the kind
producing red, this fact may be explained by the circum-
stance that the former contain much more lime than the
latter. 2. That diseased silkworms contain very little
lime and phosphoric acid. 3. That a species of mul-
berry tree employed by a certain Berlin silk grower
seems to be much more wholesome for the worms than
other species, and it must therefore be admitted that its
leaf contains the requisite mineral substances in the best
proportion, or, in other words, that the leaf best suited to
a given breed should contain the elements of potash, soda,
lime, phosphoric acid, and eller in well-determined pro-
portions; and 4. That the proportion of the various
mineral substances above enumerated varies in the same
manner in the butterflies as well as the cocoons of
healthy or diseased silk-worms ; thus the butter-
flies and cocoons proceeding from healthy worms
containg more potash, less soda, more lime and
phosphoric acid than those of diseased ones. From these
facts Dr. Dronke argues that the quantity of lime contained
in the leaves of the mulberry tree is a highly important
element for the proper development of the worm ; and that
it is necessary to mix salts of lime with the manure
charged with potash, which is employed to correct the de-
ficiency of the latter substance in the soil in which mul-
berryat-
tains its highest development feeding on certain leaves
by
trees grow; and that a given breed
re ed of silkworms
containing the various saline substances in well-deter-
mined proportions.
LORD RICHARD GROSVENOR, M.P., AND THR
REroax Barn.—A correspondent writes :—" Flintshire is
disgusted with its member, The dictatorial and superci-
lens letter he sent to his constituents a few weeks ago in
reply to a very courteous resolution requesting him to
support the Government was an offensive missive not soon
to be forgotten ; but his conduct in voting against Ro-
form, and joining the recreant Adullamites, has intensified
the disappointment. A public meeting of the "freeholders
and other inhabitants of Rhyl" is to be held this (Monday)
evening, and we have no doubt our Welsh friends will not
fail to speak their minds. We hear that there is a wish
that Sir Stephen Glynn, Bart., brother-in-law to the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, should. become candidate.
If Sir Stephen can be induced' to stand his eau
d
be certain. s success would

COURSE OF EXCRANGE--Last• Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 131 11 14
Ditto 3 Months. 11 18} 11 181
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 47 25 60
Brussels -25 47 25 GO
Hamburg — 13 .9 13 91
'aria

L
Ditto 3 Months. 25 424 .25 47
Marseilles

Frankfort ou the Maine
Vienna
Trieste
Petersburgu
Berlin
Madrid
Cadiz

117; 119
13 5u 14 50
13 50 14 50
2q 25
6 27 6 29
431
441 41

Leghorn
Milan
Genoa
Naples

30 0 • 304,20
30 0 30 20
30 0 30 81
30 0 80 31

Th© health of Mr. Roebuck continues to improve,
although the hon. gentleman is still confined to his room.