The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-25 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Major-Gen. Sir R. Dacres, K.C.8., commanding
the garrison at Woolwich, in conjunction with the
Hon. James R. Dummond, C. 8., Commodore Supe-
rintendent of the dockyard, and the authorities of
the Royal Arsenal, has issued instructions for the
solemnities to be observed in the Government esta-
blishments at Woolwich to-day, on the occasion of
the interment of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent—viz.,
30 minute guns per hour, to commence firing from
the Royal Artillery gun park battery at 16 minutes
past 4 p.m., to be followed by the guns of the flag-
ship Fisgard, stationed off the dockyard and the
Royal Artillery alternately, until 16 minutes past
6, when the Royal standard hitherto floating half-
mast high in the garrison and over the Government
offices since the announcement of her Royal High-
ness's death, will be hauled down. The battery guns
to be manned by the 3d Brigade Royal Artillery;
and the Fisgard's guns by the seamen gunners of
the ship. The Government regulations for the
guidance of officers of the army, the fleet, and the
Royal Marines with reference to the general mourn-
ing are posted throughout the establishments at
Woolwich, and are minutely carried out, not only
by officers in uniform, but universally also in the
civil departments of the State.
Minute guns will also be fired from the ships of
war at Portsmouth, and the various forts surround-
ing the Arsenal, extending from Cumberland Fort,
at the mouth of Langston Harbour, toFort Victoria,
near the Needles, at the west end of the Isle of
Wight. The time occupied in the firing
NOII be
from noon until 6 p.m.
It is arranged at Plymouth that on the occasion of
the interment of H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent
minute guns will be fired, commencing at the cita-
del to the east, and continuing on the line of forts
to Mount Wise, and probably Mount Edgecumbe,
on the west, after which the firing will be taken up
by all the ships of war in commission in the port:
The following movements are about to take
place at the camp at Colchester :—Captain Whyte
and Captain Willis, of the Ist battalion, Ist
Royals, Lieutenant Dew, of the 88th, and Ensign
Addison, of the 60th, are under orders for service
in India. Three ensigns of the 56th are also about
to join their regiment abroad. Ensign Mitchell, of
the 66th, has relieved Lieut. White, of the Ist bat-
talion, 6th Regiment, as assistant musketry instruc-
tor in the 9th depot battalion at Landguard Fort,
Harwich. Lieut. White has returned to Col-
chester.

Yesterday orders were issued by Colonel Harness,
C. 8., director of the Royal Engineer establishment
at Chatham, directing the 32d company of Royal
Engineers, under the command of Captain D. A.
Frazer, to proceed this morning to Gravesend,
there to embark on board the chartered troop-ship
Maids, 519 tons, Capt. W. Black, for St. Helena,
where they will join the Royal Artillery and En-
gineers, in order to be employed in the erection of
additional defences for the protection of that island,
the House of Commons having voted a considerable
sum for that purpose. A detachment of the St.
Helena Regiment will leave the depot at Chatham
this morning, and embark at Gravesend, on board
the same vessel, to join the service companies of
that regiment.
The Secretary of State for War has appointed
Mr. W. H. Browning, paymaster of the 3d West
India Regiment, to be paymaster at the Royal En-
gineer Establishment, Chatham, with the rank of
captain, in the room of Captain C. Wilkinson, who
has been removed from that appointment.

The 2d battalion of the 19th Regiment, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. R. Warden, stationed
at Portsmouth, were inspected on Saturday in the
Governor's-green by Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., the
Major-General commanding the south-west dis-
trict, His Lordship arrived on the ground, accom-
panied by Colonel E. Somerset, C. 8., Assistant-
Quartermaster-General; Colonel Thackwell, Bri-
gade-Major, and Captain Milligan, A.D.C. March-
ing past and the usual manoeuvres incidental to
such an occasion were gone through, at the close of
which Lord Pullet addressed the regiment in short,
but complimentari terms. The 2d battalion, 11th
Regiment, will, according to Saturday's arrange-
ments, be inspected by Lord Paulet at Portsmouth
to-day.

Her Majesty's troopship Megrera, Commander
Henderson, having been detained at Woolwich for
the repair of her boiler tubes, will embark this
morning the 2d division of the Ist brigade garrison
Artillery for Gibraltar. The wives and children
authorised to be provided with passage accommo-
dation according to War-office regulations took up
their berths on board on Saturday evening.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 25, 186 L

have been the best wisdom and kindness in him to
leave it to each citizen to decide for himself whe-
ther it is so or no.—Daily News.

OPENING OF THE STREET RAILWAI

TO BAYSIVATER.

The plan of laying down railways in streets for
passenger traffic in omnibuses drawn by horses has
for some time past been successfully adopted in
New York, Boston, and other towns in America,
and it is now about to be introduced by Mr. Train,
the patentee, in London. On Saturday the' first
line was opened, extending from the Marble-
arch to Notting-hill, and the neighbourhood was
in a state of excitement all the day. The rails are
laid down in nearly the same manner as on the
Great Western line, the iron on which the carriages
run being fixed to longitudinal sleepers buried in
the ground, but the surface of the rails is different
from those for locomotives. They consist of fiat
plates of iron about four inches broad, with a flange
on one side to keep the wheels in the track, but they
are laid level with the road, so that any carriage or
cart may cross the line, or may run along it. The
intention is, by diminishing the resistance of the
road, to enable the horses to draw a larger carriage
containing a greater number of passengers, and not
to accelerate the speed of road travelling. Three
omnibuses commenced running on Saturday morn-
ing, and continued to run to and fro at short inter-
vals throughout the day. They are much longer
and much wider than common road omnibuses.
The back and front are exactly alike, for the
carriages do not turn round, but when they :have
arrived at the end of the journey, the horses are re-
moved, with pole and harness attached, from one
end to the other, the back part of the pole being
inserted into a recess in which it is pinned. A low
platform at each end, covered with the roof of the
omnibus, serves for the entrance and departure of
the passengers, and the driver stands in front of it.
The wheels are not more than two feet in diameter,
and are solid, like those of railway carriages. They
run under the seats, so that the bottom of the omni-
bus is near the ground, and the entrance and exit
is exceedingly easy. The width of these carriages
admits persons to walk from one end to the other
without incommoding the passengers who are sit-
ting. There is room for ten passengers to sit on
each side, and there is standing room at each end on
the landing platform for six more, besides the driver
and conductor. During the trips made on Saturday,
however, there was not much regard paid to the:re-
gular numbers the carriages are intended to accom-
modate, and as many as 40 sometimes got into a car-
riage. The fares charged from the Marble-arch to
Notting-hill were 2d. each way, and the carriages
were crowded throughout the day. The omni-
buses were not allowed to run without opposition,
and at one time they were stopped for a quarter of
an hour by a waggon placed on the line, the driver
of which refused to move away, as he said he was
on his right side of the road. How such obstruc-
tions are to be avoided we are not aware, for the
carriages cannot get out of the track. At Birken-
head, where a similar horse railway was recently
opened, the cabmen purposely obstructed the omni-
buses, so as to delay their arrival in time for the
boats, and the local authorities said they could not
interfere in the matter. It is very evident that
these railways cannot be introduced in narrow
streets and crowded thoroughfares, nor is such a
plan at present contemplated. The lines proposed
-are—from Regent-circus, Piccadilly, to Kew; from
Bayswater, by the New-road, to Moorgate-street ;
from the Bricklayers' Arms to Greenwich; from
Westminster-bridge to Clapham, from Whitechapel
to Stratford-le-Bow, and from Westminster to Lon-
don-bridge, by the Borough and New Southwark.
road, Along those routes the plan might be
adopted with advantage, provided the "law of the
road" be so far altered as to prevent the obstruction
of the railway omnibuses by other carriages.
In the afternoon Mr. Train entertained a nume-
rous company, amounting to nearly 300, at St,
James's Hall, to celebrate the opening of the street
railways in London. The entertainment, which
was termed a " turtle lunch," was provided on a
very liberal scale, and Mr. Train, who presided,
introduced several arrangements not customary in
this country. He dismissed the toastmaster, as he
said the host gives out the toasts in America, and
in the order of toasts 4e placed " The Press" next
to the royal family. Another novelty threatened
to protract the entertainment till midnight, for he
observed there were 50 editors present, and he re-
quested, when one had done speaking, he would
call on some other member of the press to speak,
and so pass it on till they had all answered to the
toast. In the same manner he called on the
members of the House of Commons, and on the
authors and painters, to speak in rotation.
Among those who thus responded when called
on were Mr. Pownall, Colonel Dickson, M.P.,
Mr. White, M.P., Mr. Sala, Mr. Hepworth Dickson,
Dr. Mackie, Mr. T. T-Tond, and Mr. Crnikshank.
Mr. Train himself was very energetic, and in his
speeches in proposing the health of the Queen, of
the Prince Consort and the Prince of Wales, and of
the present American President, he was loudly
cheered. He spoke vehemently against the traitors
who had caused the existing dissensions in the
States, and hoped their heads would be made to
pay the forfeit. Many of the speakers expressed
confidence in the success of the street railways, and
the entertainment passed off in a highly satisfactory
, manner.