The Sun.
London, England, 1859-04-29 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

The late intelligence relative to the continental
crisis has created considerable activity in Woolwich
Arsenal and dockyard. A Government messenger
arrrived at the Arsenal on Thursday, under special
orders to deliver his despatch into no other hands
but those of Captain Boxer, Superintendent of the
Laboratory, who was absent at the time. The de-
spatch, it appears, contained important instructions
for the hasty preparation of an abundant supply of
war materials, to be ready for any sudden emer-
gency. Yesterday morning an extra number of
hands were engaged in the Laboratory department,
and shot and shell were put in process of being
cleaned and coated in readiness for use. The heads
of departments were yesterday summoned by tele-
gram to meet in committee at the War Department,
Pall-mall. Upwards of 100,000 shot and shell and
100 siege and other guns have been delivered for
transport to Gibraltar alone during the present
month, and a corresponding number for Malta and
the lonian Islands.
The 28th and 29th companies of Royal Engineers
will embark for the Mediterranean early in the
ensuing month, the 28th, for Corfu and the 29th
for Malta.
The embarkation of the first division (four com-
panies) of the 15th Regiment for Alderney in the
Urgent screw troopship at Portsmouth on Tuesday
was postponed until yesterday, in coisequence of
orders received by telegram from the Horse Guards
to await the arrival at Portsmouth of Major Car-
thew's battery of Royal Artillery for embarkation
in the same vessel. The following troops embarked
in the Urgent yesterday:-15th Regiment, 4 com-
panies—Major A. R. Sewell I and wife, Captain J.
Wilkinson, Lieutenants J. 0. Kemmis and M. J. C.
Browne, Ensigns R. A. Mostyn, G. W. Hayne, and
E. J. Boultbee, Assistant-Surgeon J. D. Healy, is
sergeants, 14 corporals, drummers, 262 privates,
23 women, 32 children. The Artillery from Pem•
broke embarked comprised Lieutenants Anderson
and Cooke, 13 non-commissioned officers, 2 trum-
peters, 92 gunners, 14 women, and 24 children.
This battery of artillery will relieve at Alderney
Captain Vernon's battery of artillery, which will
return in the Urgent for garrison duty at Ports-
mouth. The Urgent sailed for Alderneyat five p.m.
The East Suffolk Militia Artillery have I.in.
eft
Ipswich for Portsmouth.

VALIDITY OF MARRIAGES.—An act of Parliament
was rendered necessary in the late session (passed on the
19th inst.), to make certain marriages valid whichhad been
performed in the church of St. James, Baldersby, in the
county of York. It appears that the church was erected in
or before 1857, and was duly consecrated for Divine service,
and marriages have been solemnised therein under the opi-
nion that, according to the terms of the sentence of conse-
cration, they could be lawfully solemnised. Such, how-
ever, seems not to be the case, and the act was passed to
declare the marriages to be as valid as if they had been
solemnised in the'parish church of Topcliffe. The ministers
who solemnised the marriages are indemnified, andthe
registers of the marriages or copies are to be received in all
courts of law and equity as evidence of such marriages
in the same manner as registers of marriages in parish
churches.