The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-24 00:00:00

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of a strong westerly gale. She will resume her
voyage as soon as the weather moderates.
The Bee, lighter, was to have been launched
yesterday at Portsmouth, broadside on, but the
operation was postponed on account of the tides.
She will be launched in about a.fortnight.
The Duncan was, on Tuesday, as on the previous
day, unable to make her intended trial of machinery
at Stokes Bay, on account of the unfavourable state
of the weather for such experiments.
Practice will take place to-day at Fort Cumber-
land, near Portsmouth, from 12 and 25-pounder
Armstrong guns. Two 100-pouniler Armstrongs,
and also two 40-pounders are daily expected to
arrive at the fort, to enable the men detailed for
service on board the -Warrior to undergo a course
of practice previous to embarkation.
It having transpired that there had been fearful
mortality on board her Majesty's steam sloop Fire-
brand in the West Indies, from fever, we take the
opportunity of giving publicity to the annexed
details of the deaths between the 6th ult. and the
10th inst., from the corrected list furnished to the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty up to the
12th inst. :-
" June 6, William Christie, second class or' ;nary
seaman, aged 19, Aberdeen, Scotland ; June 1 •
C. Birch, second class bov, 16, Woodbridge, Sufic.,
John Kenward, second class boy, 16, Southsea,
Hants; and Henry Hands, leading seaman, 22,
Ashland, Chichester, Sussex; June 20, Richard
Jordan, stoker, 25, Seaford, Sussex ; Henry Burn,
second class boy, 16, Plymouth, Devon ; and Charles
Hyston, gunner Royal Marine Artiller , 23, "1 em-
plemore, Ireland; June'-21, Ed a end,
ordinary seaman, 18; John Rogers, ordinary sea-
man, 22 ; and John M'Carthy, quartermaster, 41, at
Port Royal Hospital, Jamaica ; June 29, Richard
Duke, second class ordinary seaman, 19, Thames
Ditton, Surrey ; July 1, Edward Wheatly, first class
boy, 18, Walworth,-London ; July 2, Andrew Bain,
boy, first class, 18, Leith, Scotland; Charles W.
Wheeler, second class boy, 16, Jamaica ; and
Henry C. Long, second class boy, 15, Chelten-
ham, Gloucester ; July 3, Seth Canning, gun-
ner, Royal Marine Artillery, 27, Edmiston, Wilts ;
and William J. Smith,
musician, 42, Brighton,
Sussex • July 4, Richard Cunningham, sergeant,
Royal 'Marine Light Infantry, 33, Manchester ;
John Akearn, ordinary seaman, 23, London ; and
John Hall, bugler, Royal Marine Light Infantry,
42, Woolwich, Kent ; July 5, Thomas Wright, pain-
ter, 20, Barking, Esset ; and John Burcombe, pri-
vate, Royal Marine Light Infantry, 38, Bath,
Somerset ; July 6, John Bradley, stoker, 37, Lon-
don ; and Thomas Young, private, Royal Marine
Light Infantry, 22, Dublin, Ireland ; July 7, Samuel
Hirdle, second-class ordinary seaman, 19, Woburn,
Beds ; July 8, J. W. Pocock, first-class boy, 17, Lon-
don ; George Harris, gunner's mate (pensioner), 41,
Falmouth. Cornwall; Edward J. Pet herick, boat-
swain, third-class, age and place of birth unknown;
and Frederick Long, leading seaman, 35, Ealing.,
Cambridge ; July 9, William Foster, captain fore-
top, 24, Greenwich, Kent ; H. Spinks, stoker, 26,
Greenwich, Kent ; and Thomas Brown, gunner,
Royal Marine Artillery, 20, Rowley, Staffordshire ;
July 10, Edward Y. Wilcox, assist. third-class en-
gineer, age and place of birth unknown ; July 11,
Robert Wiseman, second-class (supernumerary) boy,
16, Finsbury ; July 12, Wm. Hill, Ist class (super-
numerary) boy, 17, place of birth unknown ; Geo.
Williams, second-class (supernumerary) boy, 16,
Westminster, Middlesex ; and M'Allister, assistant-
engineer, 26, Renfrewshire, North Britain."
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :-Lieutenant J. H. Glover, to
the Arrogant, for service in the Hardy tender ;
Lieutenant Hugh B. Hamersley, to the Bulldog ;
Lieutenant H. St. J . de Robeck, to the Hastings ;
N. H. Ward, E. Winkham, and F. A. Gardner,
midshipmen, to the Bulldog ; A. G. APKechnie,
midshipman, to the Cadmus ; John L. Wilson and
W. E. Darwall, midshipmen, to the Nile ; W. E.
B. Atkinson, W. L. H. Clark, and E. Payne, naval
cadets, to the Nile, for disposal ; Martin Magill,
assist: surgeon, to the Sanspareil ; John Mulvany,
acting assist.-surgeon, to the Sanspareil ; J. H.
Dalton, master's assistant, to the Bulldog; and C.
Brent, master's assistant, to the Sanspareil.

THE ARMY.

Major-Gen. J. Bloomfield, R.A., Inspector-
General of Artillery, accompanied by his Aide-de-
Camp, Col. Teesdale, R.A., arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday, and, attended by Col. Dunlop, C. 8.,
commanding the Artillery in the South-west dis-
trict, commenced an inspection of the battery sta-
tioned in the garrison. The men paraded in heavy
marching order and marched to the Governor's-
green, the mustering ground of the garrison, where
arms were eventually piled. The guns on the
western face of the town works were manned, and
blank firing took place from the 32-pounders, with
ordinary drill from 8-inch howitzers and guns of
other calibres.
The contract for the construction of the new fort
at Eastney on the line of beach lying between
Southsea Castle and Fort Cumberland, has been
secured by the Messrs. Smith of Pimlico, who have
been engaged for some time in the building of
docks and other large works in Portsmouth,
Messrs. Smith's staff have taken possession of the
ground on which the fort is to be erected, and have
commenced the preliminary works,
An order has been issued from the Horse Guards
by the Deputy-Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery,
calling on commanding officers of the Royal Artil-
lery to prepare a statement of stores required for
the year 1862-3 for various services, so that due
provision may be made in the Estimates for the
above period.
A notification has been issued from the Horse
Guards that there are vacancies at the Normal
School, Chelsea, for army schoolmasters, and any
non-commissioned officer who may be desirous of
becoming a candidate will be permitted to undergo
the examination.
Under the new regulations,
sanctioned by her Majesty, the army school-
masters are to be divided into three classes, the
first class receiving 7s. per day, the second
ss. 6d., and the third 4s. The first-class
schoolmasters will be appointed warrant officers,
wiAngftesreal2el:
and rank next below commissioned officers ; and
other schoolmasters will rank with the non-com-
missioned officers. Promotion from one class to
another will be made by his Royal Highness the
yeais' service the army schoolmasters will be
—First class, 3s. 6d. per day ; second
third class, 2s. 6d.
Cambridge,pension
according
class 3s. ;
The large suite of mess-rooms
built at Brompton-
barracks, Chatham, for the allowed Duke
of
a
officers of the Royal
and Indian Engineers
having been completed, his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who is
Colonel-in-Chiefof the
Sir John F. Burgoyne, G.C.8., Inspector-General
of Fortifications, and other distinguished officers of
the corps of Royal Engineers will dine together in
the new building on the occasion of its
opened. t o merit
the ofnollyl 0.
being
Orders have been received at the head-quarters
of the Royal Engineers, Chatham, directing the 31st
nd men
company of Royal Engineers, the officers a t
n.
of which have completed their course of pon oo
ing and field-work instruction, to go through the
The Duke of
annual course of rifl i
Den directions for the officers
Cambridge has also g
who have not
and men of the Royal Engineers
hrough a course of rifle instruction to be put
gone t
through one at once.
Colonel Say, late of the East India- Company's
Service, has been appointed commandant of the
Artillery depot formed at Warley-barracks, near
Brentwood, in the room of Col. Leslie, resigned. A
considerable force has now assembled at Warley from
various points, but the non-commissioned officers
and men of the Engineer corps will proceed
direct
from head-quarters at Chatham, and embark at
Gravesend forlndia, instead of being transferred as
hitherto to the Warley depot.
the

The Deanery of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope,
has been conferred upon the Rev. John Mee, M,A., of
Christ's College, Cambridge, clerical secretary of the Drithal
and Forein )3ible Society. i