The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-22 00:00:00

2111 S DAY'S ShIPTINCI.

LONDON, June 22.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather, but rather
cloudy.

DEAL, June 21.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Neptune, from
the River, and sailed for Quebec ; Frenchman, from the
River, and sailed for Port Phillip ; Cana, from the River,
and sailed for Madras.

PLYMOUTH, June 21.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—Ma-
lacca, screw steamer, from Malta, with damage to her
engine.

PORTSMOUTH, June 21.—Wind
Majesty's ship Argus, for Sheerness.
CARDIFF, June 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Old Eng-
land, for the Cape of Good Hope.

HARTLEPOOL, June 21.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Con-
fucius, for Singapore.

SWANSEA, June 21.—Wind S.—Balled—Hampshire,
for Cuba.

Or? PLYMOUTH, June 21.—Arrived—Jessie, from Port
Natal.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, June 21—Hibos, and Larvig, from Drobak ;
Crispin, from Guernsey; Harriett, from Oporto; Albion,
from Jamaica; Anna Bernbina, from Nykiobing ; Julia,
from Guernsey.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Passed—Patrician, for Calcutta ; Echo, for Algoa Bay ;
Corrie do Treste, for Leghorn ; Malvina, for Cardiff—all
from London.

THE ROYAL FAMlLY.—Messrs. Sohn and Charles
Watkins, of Parliament-street, photographers to the Queen,
had the honour of attending at Buckingham Palace yesterday
morning, and taking portraits of their Royal Highnesses the
Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, Prince Louis of Hesse,
and the Count of Flanders. Messrs. Watkins have also
recently taken sittings, among many others, of the following
eminent personages :—Their Royal Highnesses the Prince
de Soinville, the Dukes de Nemours and d' Aumale, the Duke
of Richmond, the Marchioness of Ely, Earl Grey, the Earl
of Sefton, the Earl and Countess of Caithness, the Countess
de Grey and Ripon, Viscounts Lismore and Enfield, Lord
Edward Russell, the Bishops of Carlisle and Worcester,
the American Ambassador, the Attorney-General, General
Peel, M.P., and the Misses Peel, Professors Owen and
Faraday, and the Rev. Charles Kingsley.
TERRIFIC BOILER EXPLOSION NEAR BRADFORD.
—Yesterday morning, a boiler of 40-horse power exploded
with a loud report at the Bowling Dyeworks, scattering
devastation around. The boiler was one of three, con-
structed upon the Cornish principle, and placed side by
side, at one end of the works and close to the pattern
dyehouse. The boilers were used for the purpose of sup-
plying steam to the vessels in this part of the dyehouse.
The destruction of property was very great. The boiler
itself was torn from its seat. A great portion of it was
carried a distance of twenty yards, and quantities of the
bricks and other debris were scattered in all directions.
• The roof of the firing-up house was blown off, and the
partition wall and part of the roof of the dyehouse ad-
joining were also blown down. One large stone was
carried a considerable distance and dropped through the
roof of the house of Mr. Wilson Sutcliffe, the formanorrThe
Mcssrs Ripley and Son, the owners of the
works.
stoker had fortunately left the boiler-house
at the
of explosion. Many of the work-people !I the dyehouse
Two,
one named
had very narrow escapes from injury moment
William Rouse, an old man, and s •
young man, Isaac
scalded and Brooke, were very severely otherwise injured
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working conditien.
By the death of Major-General Monies
the following promotions will take place—Col. L.A. During
to have the rank of Major-General; Col. Joshua Simmons
Smith to be Major-General; Lieut.-Col. J. M‘Neill Wal-
ter, C. 8., 35th Regiment, to be Colonel ; Major W. S.
Aslett, Royal Marines, to be Lieutenant-Colonel • and Cap-
tain Adam Campbell, Staff Officer of Pensioners, to be
Major in the Army,-4rmy and Aravy gazette.

BRITISH TROOPS 1N BRITISH NORTH
AMERICA.

A writer in a contemporary says :—lt is
notorious that a great number of desertions take
place annually from the regiments stationed in
British North America, which is supposed to arise
principally from the monotony of a soldier's life,
and the prospect held out to soldiers of being highly
remunerated for their labour in the United States.
To be well paid, however, they must work hard ;
consequently, over and over again deserters repent
having deserted, and would return to their regi-
ments were they not prevented doing so by the fear
of undergoing severe punishment.
If the Government, theretbre, were to allow
soldiers stationed in British North America, under
certain well-considered regulations, to find work for
themselves by turns within a short distance of
the head-quarters of their respective regiments—
when not required for military duties of import-
ance—l will venture to predict that desertion
would, comparatively speaking, altogether cease.
Soldiers, moreover, thus employed, would be
always ready to rejoin their colours on the shortest
notice. Many years ago I was assured by Mr.
Belcher, now no more, who, in the beginning of the
present century, was a merchant at Halifax, in
Nova Scotia, and at the same time a member of
the Legislative Council of the Province, that he
himself had at that period many soldiers in his
employment, as also had other merchants in their
employment, and that desertions were then of very
rare occurrence, probably owing to that system.
A reference to the Nova Scotian records of that
period would prove this to have been the fact, and
such a good example might now be safely followed
throughout British North America.
Allow me to add that every soldier thoroughly
drilled, and otherwise instructed in his various
military duties, would become more efficient as a
soldier in the field, were he allowed occasionally to
work at his trade, than if compelled to pass a me..
notonous life in a barrack-yard, open to the con-
stant temptation—rarely resisted—of injuring his
health by resorting, during his leisure hours, to the
canteen or the public-house.
It should also be observed that such a plan
would be an economical one, irrespective of its
checking desertion, as it would enable the Govern-
ment, by stopping a soldier's pay when. not doing
duty with his regiment, to have a greater number
of soldiers in British North America ready for any
emergency than the Government can have for the
same amount of money expended under the actual
system. Moreover, many soldiers on their dis-
charge might become permanent settlers in those
colonies ; and, as militiamen, assist in drilling their
comrades.