The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-11 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

According to present arrangements it is expected
that If R.H. Prince Alfred will leave England for
Halifax about the 20th inst., to rejoin his ship, the
St. George, on the conclusion of his leave of absence.
The Handy, 2, screw, 40-horse power, nominal,
Lient. Commander J. H. Glover,
_ng at Ports-
mouth for service as tender to ikeiiriogant, 40,
screw, flag of Commodore Ed monston e, on the West
Coast of Africa station, was masted at Portsmouth
dockyard yesterday. She is fitted with ventilating
tubes and slides (on the plan suggested by the ven-
tilating committee, now holding their meetings and
consultations on the best mode to be devised for
ventilating her Majesty's ships) and which, from
their simplicity and apparent freedom of action, are
expected to prove a great success.
The Himalaya, screw troopship, Capt. John Sec-
combe, is ordered to take in alongside Portsmouth
yard 900 tons, preparatory to further troop service.
The Shannon, 51, screw, steamed out of Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday, under command of Capt.
H. Broadhead, commanding the reserve at this port,
and tested her machinery in Stokes Bay, returning
again to the harbour at the close of the trial, every-
thing working satisfactorily.
Her Majesty's steam storeship Supply, Master-
Commander Balliston, sailed yesterday from Wool-
wich to be adjusted at Greenhithe, for Malta. Her
cargo consists of victualling and general naval stores.
The screw steamship Renown, 89, Capt. Arthur
Forbes, from the Mediterranean, which arrived on
Monday morning in Plymouth Sound, received
orders in the afternoon to proceed to Spithead.
Yesterday morning those orders were counter-
manded. She will go up Hamoaze, where her crew
will be paid off. The Renown will then be placed
in the third division of the steam reserve.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Firebrand, 6, Com-
mander J. M. Bruce, the crew of which have suf-
fered so fatally in the West Indies from yellow
fever, arrived yesterday in Plymouth Sound. She
left Halifax Aug. 22, and on the 29th encountered
a gale, in which her mainyard a/A one lower deck
port were carried away. The Firebrand lost alto-
gether by yellow fever one assist.-paymaster, two
assist.- engineers, a boatswain, and 47 petty officers
and seamen. The crew are now in good health. In
Halifax harbour a gunner fell overboard, and was
unfortunately drowned. She brings home 16 in-
valids, including Assist.-Surgeon C. L. Cunningham,
of the gunboat Steady, 5; Sub-Lieut. W. M. Mor-
gan, Nile, 90; and Mr. J. Brown, engineer of the
floating battery Terror, 16, at Bermuda. The Fire-
brand left at Halifax the screw steamship Nile, 90,
Capt. E. K. Barnard, flag of Rear-Admiral Alex.
Milne; the screw steamship St. George, 86, Capt.
the Hon. F. Egerton ; the screw steam frigate Dia-
dem, 32, Capt. J. H. Cockburn ; the screw steam
gunvessel Steady, 5, Commander H. D. Grant, which
arrived on the 22d. Aug.; the paddlewheel steam
sloop Spiteful, 6, Commander C. F. Wilson ; and a
French squadron, consisting of the Admiral's ship
Bellone, two frigates and a gunboat. Up to the
time of the departure of the Firebrand the Spite-
ful's loss by yellow fever amounted to 24 deaths.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—E. T. Ryan, assist.-surg.,
additional, to the Nile ; H. J. L. Turnbull, midship-
man, to the Trafalgar. W. A. Beckles, C. T.
Bewieke, A. Dalgesh, and J. B. Pulford have been
nominated to naval cadetships.
The following young gentlemen passed as naval
cadets in the order given at the September examina-
tion at the Royal College, Portsmouth, W. A.
Kingscote, W. N. Hood, W. F. Roch, W. N. Diggle,
G. J. Bower, W. A. D. Acland, L. S. Dawson, E.
W. Hodgkinson, C. S. Donner, E. A. W. West, G.
Izat, H. S. Gough, NI. Squire, G. A. Holt, A. Cook,
A. E. M'Murdo, J. S. L. Long, E. J. Pretyman, H.
Wilkinson, A. Pigott, A. W. Cox, G. L. Langley,
J. H. Innes, A. R. H. M. Maxwell, L. A. Parkinson,
H. G. Ratcliffe, T. H. Sumpkins, T. B, Howard, O.
H. H. Bentley, W. H. Winter, S. B. Darley, F. C.
T. Bosanquet, W. L. H. Browne, H. C. Carre, C
H. Wright, NI. Gladstone, W. J. Smyth, E. R. F.
Kitson, R. Mackworth, A. F. M. Leaver, F. L. W.
Coxwell-Rogers, H. M. K. Hamilton, F. Reed, and
C. R. Craigie.
The following are the names of those wl.w2pa J.
for master's assistants :-1. C 5 , Dobson . S.

The annexed General Order, issued by the Com-
ina:ader-in-Chief in India, and published there on
thetitibiAation of No, 3 battery 14th brigade Royal
Artillery for England (now arrived at Woolwich),
Was yesterday read on parade to the battery by
Gen. Sir R. Dacres, commanding the garrison :
"Head-quarters, Calcutta, March IS.
" The 3d battery 14th Brigade Royal Artillery's gallant
and important services in the late campaign in India entitle
it to a special Mention in general orders on its departure for
England.
" The battery formed' part of the column which, under
the heroic Sir H. Havelock, fought its way from Allahabad
to Lucknow, without tents, in a heavy monsoon; neither
the state of the ground which had become a swamp, nor the
difficulties of bullock draught, and imperfect equipment,
consequent on the pressure of the times, retarded their
rmesaorclaht,inon of thisordimim's bvehreadinbatthteery.
least degree . the efficiency and

" Led by Lieut.-Col. Maude, whose talent and courage
gained for him three honourable distinctions in one cam-
paign, the devoted gallantry of the battery overcame diffi-
culties very rarely encountered by Artillery, and they fought
their guns in, the open against a heavy and intrenched bat-
tery at the bridge of Lucknow, the scene of the then. Capt.
Havelock's noble exploit, as successfully as they had done
in their first actions at Puttehpore, Pandoo. Naddee-bridge,
and Cawnpore.

"The battery returns accompanied by the sincerest ap-
probation and good wishes of the Commander-in-Chief and
of the army to England, where they will receive the vel-
come which is due to soldiers who have added another bril-
liant page to the annals of their illustrious corps.
" By order of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief,
"E, HAYTHORNE, Colonel Adjutant-General,
• Her Majesty's Forces in India."
_ _ _

On Monday Col. the recently ap-
pointed commandant of Colchester Camp, held the
first field day with the Indian depots which has
taken place since his appointment. The newly-ar-
ranged battalions, comprising 1,700 men, assembled
in full force upon the extensive parade ground, and
executed all the ordinary military evolutions of a
field day in a prompt and satisfactory manner. The
greater portion of the soldiers now in camp consist
of young men who have seen no service. On the
staff of the several depots may be found an unusual
number of veterans, bearing, in addition to the Cri-
mean medal, decorations for distinguished conduct
in the last Indian campaign. With such a body
of men as drillmasters, and especially with a large
staff of officers who have seen active service abroad,
the troops could not fail to be in the high state of
efficiency they exhibit at this present moment. We
formerly referred to Col. Guy as an officer of 50
years' service. This was a mistake, he having en-
tered the army on the 23d Sept., 1824, so that his
term of service has been only 37 years.
The arrangements for the subdivision of the de-
pot brigade of the Royal Artillery into three bri-
gades having been completed, several additional
alterations are about to be carried into effect for the
more complete working of the new corps. The first
depot will be stationed permanently at Woolwich,
which will remain the headquarters of the brigade,
under the command of Col. Kennedy, The second
sub-brigade will be stationed at Sheerness, and the
third at Warley, the latter having been given up as
a station for the Royal Artillery. In accordance
with the new system the promotion of non-commis-
sioned officers belonging to the depot brigade will
be confined to each brigade having a separate roster,
instead of, as heretofore, embracing the entire
strength of the depot as it originally stood, previous
to the reorganisation. This decision on the part of
the authorities will prove of considerable benefit to
the non-commissioned officers generally, as promo-
tions will be more rapid, and the chances of ad-
vancement less precarious. It is also intended to
further augment the strength of the depots at
Warley and Sheerness by the formation of an
additional battery at each of these stations. The
depot at Woolwich will, as heretofore, receive all
the correspondence and returns rendered periodi-
cally by brigades, which will be forwarded, after ex-
amination, to the Horse Guards. A separate Staff
will be required at each station, the appointments
to which are under consideration.

Yesterday the 23d company of Royal Engineers,
which has only recently arrived at Chatham, from
China, was inspected at the headquarters by Col.
H. D. Harness, C. 8., Director of the Royal Engi-
neer establishment, after which- it marched to the
railway station at Chatham, and proceeded to
Shorncliffe. The 23d company left headquarters
in charge of Lieut. Talbot, and Lieut.-Col. Graham,
V.C., who commands the company, will join at
Shorncliffe. The 34th (Capt. Gordon's) company
of Royal Engineers marched into Chatham garrison
yesterday, from Shorncliffe, to be augmented to its
full complement of 100 men of all ranks, prior to
embarking for Bermuda, to relieve the 26th com-
pany.

The detachment of the Depot Brigade, Royal
Artillery, which has been stationed at Shoebur3 -
nese since the Bth of July last, for the purpose of
going through a complete course of instruction at
that school of gunnery, arrived at Sheerness yes-
terday, under the command of Capt. Hutchinson,
Indian Artillery. Capt. Hutchinson returns to
Shoeburyness, where he is required during the im-
portant experiments which are now in progress.
Yesterday Lieut.-Col. J. C. D. Morrison and a
recruiting party of non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Marines, left head-quarters, Chat-
ham, and proceeded to Chelmsford for the purpose
of raising men for that branch of the service.
• Major-Gen. Eyre, commanding the Chatham dis-
trict, having given permission for the troops at that
garrison to compete for the prizes which are to be
contended for at the Kent county rifle contest to-
day, under certain regulations, a number of the
best shots among the non-commissioned officers and
men of the Royal Engineers, the battalions of in-
fantry, and the Royal Marines proceed to Maidstone
this morning to contest their skill in rifle firing
against the entire county.

REPAVING OF CAREY-STREET, LINCOLN'S INN-
PlELDs.—Yesterday, pre.)arations for re-paving Carey-
street, Serle-street, and Portugal-street, Lincoln's In-
fields, were commenced. The two last-named streets will
not be disturbed until the paving of Carey-street is restored,
The contract has been taken by Messrs. Jewell and Pratt,
who have also obtained those for the Strand and other
streets within the Strand district.
ENGLISH COAL, AND HUMAN POWER..—Pro-
fessor Rogers estimates that nearly-one-sixth of the total
annual produce of our coal mines is used for the produc-
tion of mechanical power alone, from which a power equal
to that of 66,000,000 able-bodied men is obtained. Each
acre of a seam yielding 3 feet of pure fuel is equal to about
5,000 tons, and possesses a reserve of mechanical* strength
equal to the labour of 1,600 men during their whole
life; and each square mile of the same bed contains
8,000,000 tons of fuel, which is equal to 1,000,000 men
labouring through 20 years of their ripe strength. Upon
the same calculation, the total annual coal production of the
United Kingdom (65,000,000 tons) is equal to the strength
of 400,000,000 strong men, or more than double the num-
ber of adult males now upon the globe.—Mining Journal.
CURIOUS MODE OF PAYING MUSICIANS.—Some
musicians and theatrical singers about two years ago left
France to seek their fortune, and after many journeyings
chance took them to the Hervey Islands, part of
Cook's archipelago in the Pacific. One of them, a
female, has just written the following curious letter
to her aunt, who resides in Paris :—" The king
of these islands, Makes Guame, has three times attended
our concerts. He is perfectly black, and thinks so highly
of his own colour that he has an image of Christ fltli!
cross, which had been placed in his palace by somelcasesl,°il,_
aries in 1857, painted black. Our concert-room is
.a M a m
received l ,2do 01 Psiontie
but the smell remains. The manner
which fish were salted and dried. The fish have dribs
illnoNopecie, we
are remunerrAted is singular. There. being
l
no cash,
are paid in kind ; and the king hunfstehe,si:
bears his
has given us engraved gourds. Oneo
it ill serve as a pro-
file,sugar-
and I keep it for you, as w-w. -c.
ija consisted of
basin. In the last concert,
an u
duo of ' Norma,'
!Th eared,
ve
13:
„Air des Praises,' I r eceived for
an act from
°Lieuncretia,' the air, ' Alt ! quel
obfdshel's of bananas', 126 pumpkins,-
it)hiaeisdirrindki,e
3tnr drinking
pigs,s o song
id`Annaa
2t
anturkeys 44 fowls, 1 000 cocoa-nuts,
my part
apples, 120 n
In France all these things; would be
:north 4,000 f., and 4,000 f. for five airs is a pretty sum ;
oarangccounes.t. I hear, however, that a ;speculator
but fn this place it is not easy to turn what we have
from a neighbouring island is about to come hi ;re to offer
us money for what we have received. Unfortt irately, en,
attendant his arrival, I am obliged to employ my fruits and
i vegetables n. feeding my livestock,"

CIEORGE HOBSON respectfully invites the
N-A attention of Gentlemen to his new Autumnal Coatingc
Trowsei•ings, and Waisteoatinp,,s. The new Shooting Suits,
£1 Me. to .C^. 3s. The superfine West of England `goaded
Black Cloths for Beaufort and Frock C ate, £2 15e. to £3 3s.
Excellence with Economy.
GEORGE tiOBSON, 57, LOMBARD-STREET.

ALFRED MEL
ONCT,ON'S
TS. PROMENADE
CER
THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN.
Sidlle. FLORENCE LANCIA, Mme. LA' RA BAXTER,
and Herr FORMES, every Evening.
TO-MORROW (Thursday) an ITALIAN NIGHT. First
appearance of Mdlle. VASCHETTI (from La Scala, Milan,
and other Continental Theatres).
On Friday next, a WE 3ER NIG HT.
On Saturday next, a VOLUNTEER NIGHT.
Commence at 8. Promenade, is. ; Amphitheatre Stalls,
ls, 6d. ; Boxes, 2s. 6d. ; Private Boxes, £1 is., and tos. 6d.
Conductor, Mr. ALFRED MELLON.

h. EA TR ;..1. 0 Y AL, itAYMAItKET.
Lessee, Mr. J. B. Backstone.
TriTS EVENING, the performances will commensc with
THE SUN AND THE WIND. Miss Fanny Wright, the
Leclereqs, &c.
After which, a new Comedy, entitled THE SOFT SEX.
Mr. C. Mathews, Mr. Backstone, Mr. Compton, Mr. E.Villiers,
Mrs. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Wilkins, &c.
To conclude with PAUL PRY. Mr. C. Mathews.
Commence a' 7

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Manager—Mr. Edmund Falconer.
EVERY EVENING, at Eight o'clock, the new and suc-
cessful comedy, WOMAN; or, Love against the World.
Characters by Messrs. Walter Lacy, Addison, Herman Vezin'
J. Robins, Mrs. Charles Young, Mrs. Weston, Miss Murray,
and Miss Lydia Thomson. •
Preceded by, each evening, the new and original farce
entitled THFETCHES ; or, The Onconvanrinarye,e
oof,BSraindgyle,
E
Lite. Tim O'Reilly, Mr. Edmund Falconer ;
Miss Lydia Thompson.
prices as usual. Doors open at half-past 6, to Commence at
7 Box-office open daily from lt till 5.

NEW THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.-
Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.

This Theatre will RE-OPEN on MONDAY, September
23, when Mr. and MIN. Dion Boucicault will re-appear in
THE COLLEEN SAWN.

This Drama will be played for a limited number of nights
during the preparation of the new American Drama, by Mr.
D. Boucicautt, entitled THE OCTOROON ; or, LIFE IN
LOUISIANA.

Box-office open on Thursday, Sept. 19.

CANTERBURY HALL CONCERTS,
AND FINE ARTS GALLERY.
Mr. SAM COWELL every Evening at Nine and a quarter
to Elcven.—Also, Grand Selections from TROVATORE,
TRAVIATA, NORMA, MARTHA, (Itc., by Miss Russell,
Miss Ernst, Mr. Herbert, Signor Tivo;i, Mr. Morley. and a
powerful Chorus. The Comic department comprises Messrs.
Harvey and French, "The Nerves " Mr. Marshall—Mr.
Wood and his talented Son--and Miss Harriet Coveney.
Musical Diroctor, Mr. Jonghmans.
Admission—Hall, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, Is.

TH E 0 X FOR D,
6, OXFORD-STREET.

EVERY EVENING.

A Grand Select' mi from Verdi's new opera, " Simon Hoc-
Canegra" (now produced for the first time in this country), by
Mis. Russell, Messrs. C. Greville, Tivoli, Greene, Morley,
and Herbert ; also from Verdi's " Macbeth " by Madame
Enderssohn and the entire Company. Full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Varied Comic entertain-
ments by Messrs. M. P. Foster, Sam Collins, Harvey and
French (the Nerves), E. Marshall. and W. Randall. Hall,
sixpenee ; Balcony and Stalls, one shilling. Private Boxes,
10s. 6d.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
Tsie DAY.—Morning, 6h. sm.—Afternoon, 6h. 30m.
To-monnow.-Morning, 6h. 59m.—Afternoon, 7h. 34m.

THE WEATHER.-SUN OFFICE, SEPTEMBER 11, 1661

THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE.
64 —highest since noon yesterday.
47-10-west this morning and during the night.
62—this day at noon.

BAROMETER-30.0.
WlND—South-East—light; with fine weather. The
wind was North and East this morning.

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THE SUN.

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1861.

The Emperor of AUSTRIA may have his affair of
" the Seven Bishops." In his case, indeed, it is but
one, but then he is an Archbishop, a Prince
Primate, a Lord-Lieutenant of the county, President
in that capacity of the county committee—a kind of
local parliament which manages the local business
of each county in Hungary ; and, to add to all, a
Catholic and a Prelate looked up to by the Catholics
of Hungary with a reverence not inferior to that
felt for the Pope himself. He is also in very ad-
vanced age—in fact, tottering on the brink of the
grave. He was always regarded as friendly to the
Court of Vienna. hitherto, and at least as a man of
mild and yielding temperament. And this is the
man whom the SCHMERLINGS and the RECHBERGS
have driven to Hungarian Radicalism—or rather
we should say to join them, at the side of M.
DEAK, in the interests of Hungarian Conservatism
both civil and ecclesiastical.
What will Mr. ROEBUCK say to this ? What
would he say at home if Queen VICTORIA could, by
the advice, of whom shall we say—of Mr. ROEBUCK
himself—so boldly assail all the old institutions of
the country, as not merely to arouse the
resistance of JOHN BRIGHT, Mr. GLADSTONE,
and the House of Lords, but to induce
the quiet and aged Archbishop of CANTERBURY—
who is not very unlike in temper and years to
his brother of Gran—to deliver a public protest
against the illegal doings of his Sovereign.. It is
really nothing less than this which the Emperor of
AUSTRIA has done. The Prince-Primate of Hungary,
" with one foot in the grave," with nothing to hope
or fear from man, has, after five months' absence
by attendance at the Pesth Diet—thoroughly in-
formed therefore in all the details of the controversy
--returned home to the County Committee of which
he is the President, and in opening the Committee
of hjs County of Gran has made a completely
rational speech, endorsing with his venerable name
the acts and policy of his country's Diet.
He firmly took its ground of historical rights,
declared that the Hungarians honoured their consti-
tution of a thousand years like a " holy relic"—and
that, though the Diet had failed to attain the end
it had in view, its labours would remain indelibly
engraved in the records of their fatherland_ Hun-
gary, he said, could not renounce her independence ;
powerful voices had been uplifted for it in the
Iteich.srath to which they could not send
repretientatives ; but, though none were to step for-.
ward to their aid, " the holiness of the right and
of thb truth. 'Sufficed for a confident anticipation,
that sooner or later, a happy solution of the question
would be arrived at." He declared his belief that
Hungahereditary—
ry's old constitution could not
succumb so long as the nation, itself did not with
sinful hand destroy it ; and he believed that on
that basis a reconciliation Nvitri,the throne must be
at last obtained.

to 'assure her that
If Eagland needed anything
linngs,,ry was right and the 'EMPEROR `and his
ambitiovs Germans Mere Nholly wrong, We know
no fact, 'which could do it tmore certainly than what
we have now mentioned. The movement must be
a national one which unites every Alagyar peasant-
with the highest nobles 'and-'ecclesiastics. in the
The Enperor has 'taken the 'course not
only of entire illegality, but of extreme linpoPa-
larity. No classes in IL:unary stand by him. Ile
has ali..s.nateci all that is best in tha country. The,
report now is that he is intending to try the elec-
tion of a Diet according to the unrevised laws
prior to those of fB4B. These laws are, however;
no longer laws, and it the elections are ordered
thri Irßngarians cad, if they choke, refuse to
elect, or refil-f'l to acknOiv.Wge,
,the :authority of
those whom a 'few,creatures of 'the Emperor,
Ruth
as
Can
choose. 'everywhere he founi, may,
to 5,,b32,n07ea p
parallel would be for our Queen
eadtibianient. and issne her writs, as'
they va ere imni
case the ixtt)e..or the Reform Bill, in which
c ulty a PuisratA. would. 'find no diffi-
Pur asin
8 a seal. 'for bis advocate.