The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-11 00:00:00

and lYfilitfcry intelligence.

The following officers, belonging to regiments
serving in India, have received an order from the
War-office to hold themselves in readiness to pro-
ceed to join the head-quarters of their respective
corps with the detachments for India proceeding
from Chatham garrison, viz. :—Col. A. G. Blacb-
ford, 24th Regt. • Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Otter, 61st
Regt. ; Major W. C. Mollan, 75th Regt. ; Capt.
F. Clar,k 24th Regt. ; Capt. W. Croker and Capt.
H. Mitford, 27th Enniskillens ; Capt. W. Power,
32d Regt. ; Capt. Mure, 434 Light Infantry ; Capt.
C. P. B_ettlicote, 52'1 Light Infantry ; Capt. H. J.
Robertson and Capt. J. Maguire, 60th Rifles ;
Capt. A. J. 0. Rutherford, 70th Regt. ; Capt C.
Venables, 74th Highlanders Capt. W. Nott, 83d
Regiment •, Captain S. Hughes, 84th Regiment ;
Captain Welman, 86th Regiment ; Captain W. F.
Ring, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers ; Ensign A.
Maynihan, V.C., and Ensign A. D. Corfield, Bth
Regiment ; Lieut. R. H. Travers, Lieutenant W.
B. Logan, and Ensign J. Johnstone, 24th Regi-
ment ; Lieut. A Cottee, Ensign H. M. Caine, En-
sign L W. Desboruugh, Ensign Dixon, and En-
sign Clay, 27th Enniskillens, Lieut. C. R. Ricketts
and Lieut. H. S. Stabb, 32d Regiment ; Lieut. J.
Davis and Ensign H. E. Fryer, 35th Royal Sussex
Regiment ; Lieut. J. B. B. Elliott, Ensign H. C.
Talbot, and Ensign J. E. K. Morley, 43d Light
Infantry ; Ensign W. Owen and Etis'gn S. L. Pids-
ley, 52d Light Infantry ; Lieut. H. Buck, Lieut.
E. D. Fenton, Lieut. R. F. Stoney, Lieut. C.Bag-
nall, and Ensign G. C. Sidehottorn, 53d Regiment ;
Lieut. G. B. Macqueen, Lieut. J. Steel, Lieut.
E. R. King, Hsrman, and Lieutenant J. 0.
Young, 60th Rifles ; Lieut. D. Rtid, Lieut. T. E.
Gordon, and Lieut. Wilcox, 61st Regiment ; Lieut.
C. H. Laprimandaye and Ensign W. Morrison,
64th Regiment ; Lieut. W. T. M'Gligor and Lieut
J. W. 'Madden, 70th Regiment ' • Lieut. R. E.
Deare and Ensign F. Parry, 74th Highlanders ;
Lieutenant C. C. Abbott, Lieutenant L. Brown,
and Lieut. W. H. Urquhart, 75th Regiment ; Lieut.
T. Anderson, Lieut. W. W. Young, Ensign E. J.
Fitzsimons, Ensign W. Thompson, and Ensign R.
P. Butler, 78th Highlanders ; Lieut. M. Hanley,
Lieut. J. H. Fane, Ensign W. H. M. Jackson, and
Ensign S. W. Bell, 81st Regiment ; Lieut. T. P.
Wright, Lieut. C. C. Gore, and Ensign N. Penne-
fatlitT, 83(1 Regiment ; Lieut. P. Chute and
Lieut. Du Vernet, 84th Regiment ; Lieut. T. R.
Hamilton, Dent. A. N. Wilson, Lieut. V. G.
Coates, and Ensign G. S. Jackson, 86th Regiment;
Ensign G. W. Marsden and Ensign F. F. Deve-
reux, 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers.

On Saturday the officers and men of the depots
of the 32d, 35th, 61st, 70th, 81st, and 87th (Royal
Irish Fusiliers) Regiments were formed on the
parade ground of the Provisional Battalion, Chat-
ham, after which they marched to the inner lines,
where they were inspected by Col. H. Jervis, com-
mandant of the Provisional Battalion, who exa-
mined their new clothing and necessaries. The num-
ber of troops furnished by the above depots for their
service companies in India i 3 about 500, the whole
of whom are ready for embarkation.
The Princess Charlotte, 104,. sailing three-decker,
Captain George S. Vincent King, C. 8., &c., fit-
ting out at Portsmouth as a floating barracks for
troops on the China station, is ordered to be out of
hand by the end of the month. Cabins are being
fitted up for the milititry officers who may have to
go on board her. The troops will slev in ham-
mocks each man having two blankets, which. is
considered to 4-3 a much more comfortable: way of
sleeping on board ship than oa the had boards of
the deck. The Princess Charlotte will have ac-
commodation for 1,000 men and officers, who will
be berthed on the naiddn and lower decks. The
arrangements for ventilation and other sanitary
necessities appear to have had great care bes,owel
upon them, with the view of preserving the health
of those on board. She will be stowed with as
much of the munitions of war as she can conve-
niently be made to carry independent of the neces-
sary provisions and stores for herself. She will not
mount her three-decker armament, but only a dozen
32-pounders for special service. We much doubt
whether the end of the present month will see her
nearer Spithead than she is now.

The Slelvi!le, 72, Commander Trollope, fitting
for an hospital ship for the China station at Ports-
mouth, is leaky. To discover the defect she was
docked, the dock pumped out, and wa'er enough
left in the hold of the Melville to test the permea-
tion. She remains in dock. When ready she is or-
dered to embark the head-qu trters of the 23(1 Royal
Welsh Fusiliers. SirJ. Liddell, C. 8., M. D.,F.R.5.,
Director-Genera: of the Medial Department of the
Navy, on paying his spring visit to the Royal Naval
Hospital at Ilitslar in the early part of last week,
inspected the Melville and the Marine Infirmary of
the dockyard. His inspection occupied two days,
and was a genuine one, and by no means pro forma.
The Agamemnon, screw, 91, Master-Commander
Noddal, is expected to be put out of dock at Ports-
mouth this day and to be out of hand and ready to
leave for the Thaines by this day week or earlier.
She will be manned by seamen riggers from Ports-
mouth and Devonport ordinaries, and a draught of
able seamen from the continuous service force of
the fleet.

A Russian gun, a trophy from Sebastopol, was
landed at the gun wharf, Portsea, on Friday, being
a present from the Government to the Mayor and
Corporation of Portsmouth. It is 10 feet in length,
of 36-pounder calibre, and weighs 3 tons. Its mould
is handsmne, atd it appears to have been cast in
1816. It is in good pre-ervation, with the exception
of a piece of the muzzle being knocked away. A
suitable inscription wilt be placed o❑ the piece, and
a council of the Mayor and Corporation will deter-
mine its site.
. The Beagle, 4, screw gunboat, Lieut. Hewett,
arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday from the Me-
diterranean, to be paid off.
The Devastation, 6, paddle-sloop, Commander
Marshall, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the
eastward ; and the Buffalo store vessel from the
same locality in the afternoon.
The Adventure, 6, iron steam troop-ship, Com-
mander Lacy, had her compasses adja.ted in Ports-
mouth harbour on S sturda.y afternoon, and will
embark her allotment of the troops for China this
week.

The Wallace' paddlewheel steam-tug, brought
into the service for the illeliterrauea,n arrived at
Portsmouth on Saturday night, brought home by
some of the crew of the M3lacca screw corvette.

The Spiteful, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Shoat,
arrived at Spithesd during the night of Saturday
front the Mediterranean, conveying the Fancy guu
boat, and left yeAerday afternoon for Woolwich, to
he paid off. By the Spiteful we learn that the Gla-
diator steam frigate is not far off Portsmouth, and
that the Malacca is coining home under s lit, some
derangement having occurred in 11,,r machinery,
The Amphitrite, 25, sailing corvette, Captain
Tatham ; and Devastitin, 6, steam sloop, Com-
mander Marshall, left Spithead yesterday evening
for Liverpool.

The steamers Beagle and Lynx, from the Modi-
terranean, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Friday.
The Beagle left in the evening for the eastward.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt.
C. F. Hillyar, with the paddlewheel steam tender
Thais in tow arrived on Saturday.
Capt. Williams read his commission on board the
guardship Royal-William, 120, at Devonport on
Saturday.

The steamvessel Alligator, from Portsmouth, ar-
rived at ,Plymouth on Saturiay.

The paddlewheel steam frigate Ledpard, 18, hav-
ing been repaired at Keyham, Plymouth, was re-
moved to the sheer hill in Hamoaze on. Saturday,
and will be masted to day (Monday).
An Admiralty order has arrived at Chatham for
the Winchester, 50, late flagship on the China sta-
tion, to be paid off into ordinary to-morrow. The
Winchester has been dismasted, and is almost en-
tirely stripped. Her s'ores hive been removed
into the dockyard.
The Creasy, 80 guns, Capt. R. L. Warren, was
ordered to be paid off to-morrow, but in conse-
quence of the impossibility of the pay-books being
completed at the Admiralty before Thursday next
she will he paid off on that day.
The Majestic, 80, guns, Capt. Jas. Hope, C. 8.,
is ordered to be paid oft on Friday next at Sheerness.
The new screw steam-ship Renown, 91 guns, was
taken into No. 3 dry duck on Saturday
at Sheer-
ness. The fitment of the Renown is being made
with all possible despatch.
The floating-battery Terror, 1G guns, has seen
taken. into the fitting-basin at Sheerness to befitted
with all possible despatuh.
The gunboats Wrangler, Commander Joseph H.
Marryat, from the Mediterranean, and the Brune,
Lieutenant (in char4e) Walker, of the Vesuvius, to
which shipthe Brave will be borne out as a tender,
will this day be taken
,into the fitting basin at
Sheerness. • _ . _

The Cumberland, 70 gun; Capt. J.B. Dickson,
his been put out of the basin at Sheerne3s,
now moored is the harbour. Thursday next is the
day na,lied for her departurejfor Portsmouth, where
she will remain to receive the Grand Duke Con_
stautine of Russia oa bis visit to the Queen.

The Cyclops, 6-gun paddlewheel steam-frigate,
Lieut. -Co inma-nder Joseph Dayman, is under orders
also to proceed to Portsmouth the same day, if poE-
sible. The following officers have taken up their
commissions and joined the Cyclops :—Mr. Nicholas
Giles, paymaster; Mr. Scott, master. Mr. Martin,
the late master in charge of the Cyclops, has been
c ,nsequently superseded, and is now placed on the
half-Ray 119 t.

The Vestur;uq, paddle-wheel steam-ship, Capt.
Charle3 Wise, is ordered to proceed to Portsmouth
to join the 6quadli n to receive the Grand Duke
C)ustanti re. Sit, has been out of dry dock at
Sheernele, nd e now in the harbour.

TEE CI?EDIT MOBILIER OF FRANCE.

(From the Derbyshire Courier.)

A meeting of this gigantic associatiion has re-
cently been held in Paris. The President, M.
Isaac Pereira, was the chairman on the occasion.
Every one interested in financial subjects knows
that all the prophets of evil to France designated
this project as the great Bubble of the Empire.
The year 1856 has been a trying one for bankers
and financiers at home and abroad. Now, said the
kind friends of Louis Napoleon who make use of
him as an ally in the hour of need, and abuse and
revile him when the danger is past—now this Bub-
ble will burst. "We understand," says your Lon-
don correspondent, who never yet understood that
two and two financially make four, "that the
Credit Mobilier is on its last legs."
Very well ; April 1857 arrives with its high rate
of discount, its drain of bullion, its commercial
pressure. The great Bubble, had it possessed toe
least consistency of character, would have burst long
ago. But now is the time for its yielding to " the
extraordinary pressure of circumstances," and the
" unprecedented depression of monetary affairs."
But some people never know when they are
beaten. Some enterprises are never ruined when
the Times and the believers in M. Ledru-Rollin
affirm that they ought to be.
The Credit Mobilier of France is one of those
pertinaciously and ob.tinately prosperous concerns.
It has as many commercial lives as a cat. One
would think that, like MrlMawworm, it "liked to
be abused." It is the only trading association
upon record which carries out the Scriptural
'injunction—"from him that would borrow of thee
turn not away." If its principles are financially
heterodox, its practice is worse. One would really
think that, in opposition to all sound rules of
banking, the Credit Mobilier was willing to lend to
people when they want it.

Here is a part of their report. "In 1856," it
says, " owing to the immenie impulse given to all
kinds of enterprises when peace set in, its (the
company's) task was rather to restrain than to
urge forward." Still it has done a little, in a quiet
way. "It subscribed for 10,000,0001. to the
Government Loan of 30,000,0001., it purchased
1,600,000/. of Rentes, it gave accommodation to rail-
way securities on one occasion to the extent of
1,160,0001., the average being 600,0001. for every
fortnight; in fact, the total of such sums furnished
in 1856 was not less than 28,120,000."
The Credit 3lobilier further offered to purchase
with the co-operation of some foreign levies, all the
Recite held by the Bank of France, so as enable
it to increase i.s metallic reserve ; and also to pro-
vide 8,000,0001. for the wants of all the Railways
for their loans of 1857. These propositions were
contingent on the support of other mercantile asso-
ciations, and were not met,

The financial situation of the company at pre=ent
is this, " Its transactions in cash during the year
amounted to 123,407,807/. Ita account current
with the Bank to 48,667,4511. The company had
received payments on Railway Shares and Bond 4,
producing 6,439,064, and had paid 4,986,304/. on
Share-% and Bonds.

,
‘• The total profits of the year were 609,9991.—
which woull give a dividend of 23 per cent. for the
year 1856."
This is too bad.

Whe❑ the Credit Mobilier was started we said
that if prudently managed it might do immense
good, and benefit the public, and its shareholders.
But the Times and all the financial oracles of
the nation convinced us that we were ignorant
financial fanatics.

We, therefore, declined to have anything to do
with the great French bubble.
On the failure of the ancient and honourable
est iblishment of Strahau and Paul—where our
grandfather kept his account—we invested our little
all in the Royal British Bank—the name sounded
E,)gliih and patriotic.
Now we do not complain that we have lost our
money, because what we have lost Mr. Humphrey
Brown has gained, and " the country," as Lord
Overstone assures us, "is just as rich as it was
before."

But we do say that the flourishing condition of
the Credit Mobilier of France is an unpleasant
affair. The great financial sages who advised us to
have nothing tJ do' with Louis Napoleon's mone-
tary bubbles cannot he expected to reimburse us
what we have lost, but we earnestly protest that
they should compensate us for what they prevented
us from gaining—or at the very least that they
should write the Credit Mobilier of France into the
Gccette.