The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-06 00:00:00

LONDON, SA rURDAY EVENING, JUNE 6,

A-WIDOW LADY, thoroughly acquainted
with the rontine of Housekeeping, Scc., Is desirous of an en-
esgement as Domestic Companion to a Lady or Gentlemen, or to
take charge of Two or Three Children, where one or more s^rvants
are kept. A comtortab'e home the chief consideration. The Lady
is itt present in the country, but references in and near town will be
given—Address Q.Z., 4, slse-lane, E.C.

OTTOMAN RAILWAY FROM %MYRNA
TO AI DIN.
NoTICE I: lIERERY GIVEN, That no Application for Shire
in this Company will be received after WED.NE :13.1Y next, the
10th inst. By order of the Directors.
June 3, 1857. J. L. ELKIN, Secretary.

TOLL REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Chitirm,n, WERBEItt INGRAM, E.q., M.P., 198, Strand.
.11 copy of the Map and Statement submittal to Lord-Palmerston
by the Deputation (which was headed by 1 ord Robert Grosvenor,
M P.) forw .riled post free. Toll-payers are particularly requested
to forward their subscriptions to the Treasurer, Mr Thomas Slater,
High stre.tt,liensine-ton. J. E. BRADFIELD, Hon. Sec.
T, 11 Reform Central Office, 19, Strand, June 5..
•

ST. JOHN DEL REY MINING COMPANY.
—The Twenty-seventh Anneal GENF.II a. MEETING of
the Proprietors of the St..lohn Del Hey NI Whig -Company will be
It 1,1 at the Company's Office, No. 8, Token House Yard, on If RI-
DAY, the 19th June, at Two o'clock precisely. At this meeting,
one Director, 11. W. SCHNEIDER, Esq., M.P.. will go out by ro•
tation, but is eligible to be re-elected.
JOHN IInCKIN, Managing Director.
8, Token louse Yard, 20th May, 1857:

LEGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
sOCIETY, No. 10, Fleet-street, London.
2D JUNE, 1857.

Notice is hereby given, that the transfer Books of this Society
will be c'tye I from the 13th instant to the 30th instant (Inclusive),
nreparatory to the payment of the Dividend on the Capital Stock of
The Society for the current year, which Dividend will be payable on
Wednesday, the first day of July next, and following day, between
the hours of Eleven and Two o'clock. '

By order otthe Board. - • ,
JOHN NET rLETON, Secretary.

THE PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL
BENI' FIT ASSOCIATION—Notice is hereby given that,
pursuant to. a Requisition in that behalf, and in conformity with the
Act of Parliament of the 10th George the 4th, c. 56, sec. 9, and the
Rules of the Provident Clerks' Mu.ual Benefit Association, a
SPECIAL. GENERAL MEETING of the Members of the said Asso-
ciation Is hereby Convened; and that the same will be held at the
I ondoa Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the city of London, on Wed-
nesday, the 21th of June next, at 5 o'clock in the aPernoon, for the
purpose of making new rules, and of altering, rescinding, and repeal-
ing certain of the exlaing rules of the said Association.
WSr. THOS. LI NFORD, Secretary to the said Association.

Copes of the proposed new rules will be furnished to members ap-
plying at the chief office, 15, Moor,gate-street, on and after the 10th
inst.
15, Afoorgate-street, London, E.C., June 1, 1857.

ARE you GOING TO-THE HIGHLANDS,
unrivalled for scenery, famous in story and song? If so,
make a note to call at (when in the capital of the beautiful No th)
ft.CDOUGALL'S WAREHOUSE, high•street. Inverness. There
only can the varied products of the Highland +, natural and industrial,
be seen. In his extensive rooms Macdougall has gathered together,
all the best productions of the Highland looms in Tweeds, Tartans,
Liuseys, Plaids, Shawls, Dresses, the favourite Highland Cloak,
Fl ra 'Macdonald ditto, &c., &c., with the best native Jewellery
(Cairngorms, Pearls. &c.) ; the pretty products of the Skye, Lewis,
and Gairloch Looms and Knitting-needles; the Home-made, Undyed
Plaids of Ord Sutherland, and Avoch ; the Souff-boxes, Coups,
Bickers of the Cullolen Carvers, &c. Side by side with all this he
has placed all the necessary Clothing, of every description, for Deer
Stalking, Grouse Shooting, and for Tourits, &c. Visitors to his
Rooms can at once compare the varied products of the three King-
doms.—D. Macdowtall, Inverness.
P.S.—Macdougall and his patterns of Tweeds, &c., may be seen at
21, Brener•street, Regent-street, from 2 to 6 o'clock, until the 10th
July, when he returns to Inverness.

2200 REWARD.—HUMPHREY BROWN,
of No. 2, Little Smith-street, West-
minster, LATE M.P. FOR TEWKESBURY.
A WARRANT for the APPREHENSION of the said
HUMPHREY BROWN has been Issued by one of the JUDGES
of the COURT of QUEEN'S BENCH, upon an EX-`IFFICIO
INFORMATION filed by HER MAJESTY'S ATTORNEY-
GENERAL; and it being supposed that the said HU PIIREY
BROWN Is endeavouring to avoid Arre+t, a REWARD of 2001.
will be raid to any Person giving SUCH I', FORMATION as shall
lead to the APPREHENSION of the said Humphrey Brown.
IIUMPHREY BROWN is about 50 years of age, of middle sta-
ture (about 5 feet 8 inches), rather stout, but not corpulent, bald,
with round face and small features, of sallow complexion, with small
whiskers and dark restlels eyes. Dresses generally in body coat,
and has a prompt and quick manner.
Information to ho given to Inspector Field, Eldon-chambers.
Devereux court, Temple, or to Messrs. J. and J. 11. Linklater and
ITackwood, 17, Sise•lane, London, the Solicitors having the conduct
of the prosecution.

DEATH OF MI?. BRIMLEYO, OF TRINITY
COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

It is our melancholy duty to announce the death
on Friday last, of Mr. G. Brimley, librarian of
Trinity. College, Cambridge, in the 36th year of his
age, and after at least seven years of great suffering,_
undergone with gentleness and resignation. Mr.
Brimley, besides being .a distinguished scholar,
noted for the extent and variety of his erudition, was
one of our most discriminating critics, and a writer
whcse style was as pure and as finished and grace-
ful as that of any English- author since the .age of
Queen Anne. Owing to the system of anonymity,
his name was little known without the circles of
literary men and artists in London, and the various
universities ; but his reputation stood high within
its narrow limits, and his opinions were considered
by the best men as of the greatest value on all sub
jects of philosophy and taste. For many years
back his writings were the grace and ornament of
the Spectator and Fraser's Magazine. The Spec-
tator, more especially, can boast of having given to
the public the most finished literary gems from his
pen—condensed, vivid, crystally expositions of his
views on the leading questions of the day, in
philosophy, poetry, and politics. It frequently
stretched the limits of its articles to the
utmost to permit of his finishing his expo-
sitions in single papers—such papers as he only,
could write, with thinking enough for review arti-
cles compressed into a few columns of print. The
leading pecularities of his style—its compactness
and clearness—were due in part to his physical con-
dition, which forbade every waste of power, but
principally to his impatience of the slightest ob-
scurity in expression, and mastery over onr lan-
guage. The literary articles which he contributed
to the Spectator in 1853 and 1854 would of them-
selves, if collected, form a valuable contribution to
our literature and solid monument of his power.
Few readers of that paper can have forgotten the
ability of the reviews from his pen in these years
of -the works of Goethe, Carlyle, Bunsen, Comte,
Thackeray, Bulwer, Dickens, Tennyson, and the
two Brownings. Nor can any lover of poetry have
missed reading his charming essay on Tennyson in
the first volume of the Cambridge Essays—the only
essay of his yet published bearing his name. These
papers exhibit a rara power of analysis, of faithful,
of penetrating, critical appreciation. In all of them,
too, there was a heartiness and geniality of tone
which lent them an indefinite charm. Mr. Brimley
was in easy sympathy with every class of mind
and this appeared. in his writings, as in his life it
led him to be regarded as one of the kindliest and
most loveable of men. That ono so truly gifted
should have been so cruelly circumstanced as to
have been prevented embodying his thoughts and
feelings in permanent literary forms, wilt bo re•
grated by every friend of English literature.
Scotsman.

DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL SIR
WILLIAM LEWIS HERRIE.', C. 8., K.C.H.

We regret to . announce the death of the above
distinguished officer, wh ) had, during almost the
whole of long life, devoted all the gallantry and
all the energy that he possessed to the service of
his Sovereign and his country, both in a military

and a civil capacity.
Sir Wm. [lorries was the second son of Colonel
Herries, who was among the first to set the ex
ample of raising volunteer regiments to supply the
place of those soldiers whom England spared for
her great war. He was, therefore, the youngest
brother of the late right hon. J. C. Herries. , Sir
William joined the army in 1801. In September,
1806, be accompanied the 9th Dragoons to
South America. He served as a brigade-major
in the expedition against Buenos Ayres. In 1809
he was aide-de-camp to Sir Eyre Coote in the
Walcheren expedition and was actively employed
in the siege of Flushing. 4. He served on the
quartermaster-general's• staff, to Which he was
appointed by the Great Duke, then Lord Welling-
tan, from the capture of Sir Edward Paget, whom he
accompanied to Spain, as aide-de-camp until
the end of the war. He was present at
the battle of Vittoria, the siege of San Sebastian,
and the passage of the Bidassoa. On the 14th of
April, 1814, in the famous sortie from Bayonne,
Sir John Hope had his horse shot under him, and
lsy disabled by his- great weight, exposed to a
heavy fire. Sir William- and his brother aide-de-
camp, now Major-General Moore, rushed forward
to his rescue ; but, before they could move the
enormous weight that they had to deal with, a ball
struck Sir William on the knee and his companion
on the arm. All three were taken prisoners, and
Sir William had his leg amputated the next morn-
ing. This event closed his military career, at least
his career in active service. Subsequently he served
as. Quartermaster-General in the lonian Islands, as
Comptroller of Army Accounts, and as Com-
missioner and-Chairman of the Board of Audit,
from which he retired in 1854. He was also a
Commissioner of Chelsea Hospital ; and on his re-
tirement from the chair of the Commissioners of
Audit he received the colonelcy of the 68th Regi-
ment. In all these duties, which he performed in
the course of a long and a very active life; bm.did
his work honestly, well, and not only wit4-e, praise-
worthy zeal for the public service, 'out with an
uniform consideration for those T;
served under
IL;ht for much-of their
him, and who depended on
happiness and welfare,

From the London Gazette of Last Night.

PORP REGULATIONS-MARSEILLES.
NOTICE TO SHIPOWNERS AND MASTERS.
BOARD OF TRADE, JUNE 5

The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade
have received a despateh from her Majesty's Acting Con-
sul at Marseilles, inclosing a letter fivim the Prefet of
that Depsrtment, notifying that, in consequence of the
Chamber of- Commerce having called his attention to the
abuses which exist in the settlement of average expenses,
from the false statements often made .by masters
of merchant vessels, he (the Prefet) has, in virtue
of a law, passed on the 2nd of July, 1856, decided
that in future the regulation shall be enforced compelling
masters of all vessels, and of whateier flag, if called upn,
to submit their log books to an officer of the Customs, im-
mediately on arriving at the Port of Marseilles, in order
that such officer may sign the page wharethe writing ends,
and thus prevent the master from making any further ad-
dition thereto after his arrival in port.
Shipmasters trading to the port of Marseilles are accord-
ingly hereby cautioned to have their log books properly
written up before their arrival in pert and to produce
them when 'asked for, as, in case of damage to ship or
cargo, serious difficulty may otherwise be experienced in
the settlement of average.
WHITEHALL, MaY 18.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Wates, of
Gravesend, in the county of Kent, Gentleman, to be a
Commissioner to administer oaths in tho High Crurt of
Chancery in England.
WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 5.
16th Regiment of Foot—Major-General Cecil Bisshopp,
C. 8., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General T. E. Napier,
C. 8., removed to the 71st Foot.
71st Regiment of Foot—Lieut.-General Thomas Erskine
Napier, C. 8., from the 16th Foot, to be Colonel, Tito
General Sir James Macdonell, G.C.13., deceased.

WAR-OFFICE, JuNt 5.
6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. Frederick
Augustus Weatherley, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, vice John Wynter James Gifford, who ex-
changes.
7th' Dragoon Guards—Cornet John Richards Welstead
to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Walker, who retires.
Ist Dragoons—Clermont Costobadie, Gent., to be Cor-
net, by purchase, vice Peyton, who retires.
4th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant John Wynter James
Gifford, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant,
vice Weatherly, who exchanges ; Cornet Douglas Fyfe
has been permitted to resign his commission.
Bth Light Dragoons--Lieutenant John Puget to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Reilly who retires.
Ist Regiment of Foot—Captain John Martin Brown,
from half-pay, Ist Foot, to be Captain, vice John Edward
Sharp, who exchanges.
2d Foot—Ensign James Wharton Harrel to be Lieu-
tenant by purchase, vice Steele, who has retired ; Henry
Waring, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Harrel.
14th Foot—Surgeon Joseph Hamilton Dwyer, from the
34th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Chalmers, who exchanges.
23d Foot—Quartermaster James Darker, from half-pay
of the late sth Regiment British German Legion, to be
Quartermaster, vice William Honey Smith, who retires
upon half-pay.
34th Foot—Surgeon W. K. Chalmers, M.D., from the
14th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Dwyer, who ex.c4aNes.
43d Foot— Capt. T. Horan, from the 84th Foot, to be
Captain, vice R. M. Pakenham, who exchanges.
53d ioot —Ensign Josoph C. Smythe to be Lieutenant,
' without purchase, vice Miller, deceased.
54th Foot—Lieut. Charles Fitzroy Barnett to be Cap-
tain, by purchase, vice Bourne, who retires ; Ensign Geo.
Cronyn to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice B irnett; Jas.
Chute, Gent., to bo Ensign, by purchase, vice Cronyn.
71st Foot—Ensign Clifford Stirling Trotter has boon
permitted to resign his commission.
78th Foot—Ensign Edward Jackson Fitziinons to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sinclair, whose promotion,
by purchase, on the 17th April, 1857, has been cancelled.
84th Foot—Capt. Robert Maxwell Pakenham, from the
43d Foot, to be Captain, vice Thomas Horan, who ex-
changes.
94th Foot—Captain J. L. M`Andr,3w, from half-pay,
Unattached, to be Captain, vice W.n. H. Dore, who ex-
changes.
Rifle Brigade—Major and Brevet-Lientenant-Colonel J,
R. Glyn, from half-pay Unattached, vice William Harry,
Earl of Errol, who exchanges ; Captain M. Dillon, from
half-pay of the Rifle Brigade, to be Captain vice Brevet
Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Glyn, promoted to the Substan-
tive Rank of Major under the Royal Warrant of the 6th of
October, 1854.
2d West India Regiment—Lowden M'Adam De Lancey,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ogden, who re-
tires.

DEPOT BATTALION.
Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. R. Alexander George
Dalzell, from half-pay of a D3pot atttalion, to be Lieute-
nant-Colonel, vice Brevet-Cdonel John T. Hill, who ex-
changes.
UNATTACHED.—Captain aad Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Ju-
lius Richard Glyn, from the Rifle Brigade, to have the
Substantive Rank of AI ijor, under the Royal Warrant of
Gth October, 1851.

COMIIISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS.
County of Norfolk—Charles John Palmer, Esq., to be
Deputy-Lieutenant.
Regiment of Royal Perthshire Rifle Militia—Lieutenant,
Joseph-Stewart Ponder to be Captain, vice Coudie. re-
signed.
sth or Royal Eltherne Light Infantry Regiment of Mid-
dlesex Militia-- Lieutenant Deane John Hoare to be Cap-
tain, vice Lloyd, resigned; Robert Bothwicke, Esq., to
be Captain, vice Captain Beckham resigned.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Trinity Term, 20th Victoria,
4th June, 1857.
This Court will on Saturday the 13th, Monday, the
15th, Tuesday the 16th, Wednesday the 17th, Tuesday
the 23d, Wednesday the 24th, Thursday the 25th, and
Friday the 26th days of June instant, hold sittings, and
will at such sittings commence with the country new
trials then pending in the new trial paper, after which the
Court will proceed with the special paper, and if there be
any time remaining the crown paper will then be taken.
The Court will also hold a sitting on Saturday the 4th
for the purpose of giving judgments
odnayly.o_f
BJyulty exhencout

BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.
David Meyrick, boot maker, Cardiff, Glamorganshire,

BANKRUPTS.
James Shaw, grocer, Southover, near Lewis, Juno 22,
at eleven. and July 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers; Cro wdy, Ser-
jeant's Inn, Fleet-street.
Charles Knowsley, draper, Exeter, June 18 and July 16
at one, at the Exeter District Court. Hirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter; Friend, Exeter.
James Hoggins, auctioneer and tobacconist, Strand,
June 19, and July 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lee, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Stopher, Cheapside.
John Frederick Goodcred, wine merchant, Piccadilly,
Juno 18 and July 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Lewis,
Piccadilly.
Samuel Grottick, hatter, Blackfrisrs•road, Juno 17, at
ono, and July 15, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Stansfold, official assignee; Norton, Son, and ]lam, New-
trod, Bishops,rato.
SCOTCH SEQEUSTRATIONS.
John Brown, shipowner, Glasgow.
William M'Corkindale, grocer, Rothasay.
Peter Skeen, architect, Crieff.
George Miller, woollen manufacturer, Alva, Stirling.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth victoria, cap. 32, fo
the Week ending on Saturday, tho 30th day of May, 1857.
(NUE DErAsTmENT.

Notes Issued ...... •• 23,801,395

Government dobt 11,015,100
Other securities...... 3,459,900
Gold coin and bullio❑ 9,321,395
Silver bullion • • • • • • ••

£23,801,39:5

£23,801,395
MA.II3IIALL, Chief Ca3hler.

Dated the:4th day of June, 1851
BANKING DE,

:P,ULTMENT.

Proprietors' 'capital .. 11,553,0001
Rest ................ 3,302,357
Public deposit 5 (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ing's Banks, and
Dividend Accounts) 6,264,41 9
Other deposits v..... 9,225,549
icvenDay and other
_or
8i115........308
.•••

Government securities
(Includg.Deed Weight
Annuity) . 10 326,131
Other securltles...... 18,302 575
Notes .• ............ 4,723,920
Gold and silver coin.. 706,007

£34,058,6331 $34,058,633
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated the 4th day of June, 185'

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAIt.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending June
2, 1857, exclusive of the. Duties of Cubtoms paid on
payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Greit
Britain : s.
From the British Possessions in America 45 0}
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius 43 8}
Average of the abovo descriptions.

COURSE OF EXCHANGF.—YzsTERDAy.
xmstordeim •• ...• ...... 11 18 Gibraltar •• .• ..•• •• •• ••
:Ditto, threo months .. 12 14 Leghorn —.. .. .... •• .• 29 70
Rotterdam •• •• •• •• •• •• 12 % ,Gotioa ..... ••••• ...... 25 85
Antwerp —••••••.• •• .• 25 52% Kilan •• .• .• .• .. ....••
Brussels .• •• •• •• •• •• .• 25 52l Venice.............. ...
Ganaburgh ...• •• •• ••.• 13 81,4 Naples ••• ..„.......•• •• 43
Altona .. •• •• •• •• •• •• .• • • Palermo .• .. ...... —•• 13014
Paris.. ......... 25 35 3te.*lna
Ditto, three months .7 25 75 Llebon, .. . .... 52%
Pdarseilles ...........„ 25
.75 Oporto ........ .. ..
Bourdeaux ...• ••••.• .. •• Rio Jaleiro ..... .• • ....
Frankfort-on•Nlalne •• .• 1193 ,Buenos Ayres...
Berlin •• •• • • .... • • New York,6o days' sight
.......... •• .... 10 ild Philadelphia
Viennaie5............ 10 37 PRICES OF RULLTorr, PER 01.
PetenbUrg ............ 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9
Aalrid .........., .. 487 Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0
Cadiz ..• ~.. „ „ .... 49% ltteiii,'Sn Dollars .... 0 0 0
Barcelona .... •• ..., • • ! New DollaTB ~.,.. 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville .• .• .• .. .• .• ...• i Silver in tars ...... 0 0 0

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—The variable temperature of the English climate exer-
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Malta.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A letter was received on Thursday, dated Horse
Guards,
_June 2, forwarding orders to the 50th
(Queen's Own) Regiment, now stationed in Dublin,
to embark on or about the 17th inst. for Colombo,
Ceylon, in the ships Captain Cook and Medene.
Ti.e following will be the strength that w'll embark
--viz., 35 officers and 730 r ink and file. The
undermentioned officers will embark—viz.. Col. a.
Waddy, C. 8., Lieut.-Cul. E. Wears, Majors G.
Hibbert and A. Q. E. Lock.; Cant'ains J. Purcell,
R. M. Barnes, T. Hebelen, D. W. Topper, G. W.
Bunbury, E. C. Antrobus, and J. Thommon ;
Lieuts. W. T. Hickman, M. S. M. K. G. A.
Clarke, R. H. P. Doran, T. D Lee, the Hon. C.
0. Chetwynd, C. A. F. Creagh, E. Leach, F. Falk-
nor, C. F. Young, the Hon. B. Chiches'er, and C.
W. Isclell ; Ensigns F. B. E. Allhuson, W. H.
Wilson, C. It. King, W. M. Thisfield, H. E. Meyer,
G. Edge,- and G. Barker ; Paymaster J. Nowlan,
Adjutant R. G. C. Goff; Quartermaster J. Turner,
Surgeon P. S. Warren, M.D., Assistant-Surgeons
E. G. Nott and G. F. Davies.
The Princess Charlotte, 104, sailing three-decker,
Capt. G. St. Vincent King, fitting for China, was
taken out of the fitting-basin at Portsmouth yes-
terday. She will fill up with stores and provisions
for China. She has already upwards of 500 tons of
shot on board, but such is her capacity that she is
equal to double the quantity, besides a vast amount
of sea stores, camp equipage, and hospital comforts.
Flag Captain George Henry Seymour, C. 8., of
the Victory, guard-ship, mustered and inspected
her crew, on board her berthing hulk, Bellerophon,
this morning, at 11.30.
The Volcano steam vessel, floating smithery,
Master-Commander Hockley, left Spithead for
China, on Thursday.
The Vesuvius, 6, paddle sloop, Capt. Wise, and
her tender tho Bune, left Spithead yesterday for the
coast of Africa station, where Capt. Wise will be
senior officer, relieving Commodore Adams, who
comes home in the Scourge.
The Melville, hospital ship, Commander Trol-
lope, is at length found to have a rotten sternpost,
which may account for her leakage.
The Hosting', 60, Capt. Mends, C. B , went out
of Portsmouth harbour again yesterday, to try her
machinery, kc., after which she returned to her
moorings. She will shortly sail as a coast-guard
station ship for Liverpool.
The Fairy and Elfiu, royal yachts, were taken
into dock yesterday, at' Portsmouth, to receive a
re-embellishment for her Majesty's summer service.
The Urgent iron steam troopship, Commander
C. Phillips, will, if ready, be paid off at Ports-
mouth this day. She has had a large quantity of
coal to unstow, which has detained her.
The steam troopship Dutchman, Jas. Kavanagh,
master, has arrived at Woolwich Arsenal from
Malta and Gibraltar (last from Portsmouth), and,
after clearing out the remainder.of her cargo, con-
sisting of shot and shell returned from Gibraltar,
she Iv)]. be discharged the Government employ.
The freight-ship Runnymede, 1,800 tons burden,
laden with war, Tower, and victualling stores, em-
barked at Deptford, took in a quantity of live stock
from Woolwich arsenal, and sailed yesterday for
Hong Kong.
The steam troopship Mauritius has shipped her
complement of stores, , and is expected to leave
Deptford to-day to embark troops from tho west
for Hong Kong.
The screw steamship Agamemnon, 91, Master-
Commander C. T. A. Noddall, passed Woolwich
yesterday, and was moored in the basin dredged
for that purpose at East Greenwich.
Mr. J. H. Coombe has been appointed master's
assistant to the Blenheim, and S. T. Partridge
master's assistant to the Melville.
• -An order has been received at Chatham for Capt.
Welman, 86th Regiment, to hold himself in readi-
ness to embark for India, to join the head-quarters
of that corps stationed in Bombay.
A detachment of the 4th (King's Own) Regi-
ment, under the command of Capt. Eccles, consist-
ing of two lieutenants (Lloyd and Bromhead), 8
servants, 4 corporals, and 130 men,• embarked at
Dublin on Thursday to join the depot of the regi-
ment at Colchester.

WOOLWICH, JUNE 5.

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The whole of the Woolwich division of Royal
Marines assembled on the Common this afternoon
for inspection, by the Colonel-Commandant, and
drill and rifle practice. The men were drawn up
on the hill skirting Shooter's-hill-road, and went
through the various elevations, and fired successive
rounds with the utmost precision. The Royal
Artillery in garrison also assembled on the Com-
mon this day for shell practice.
An exchange of companies has been sanctioned
between Lieut. A. Robinson, of Captain Hardy's
company, sth battalion, and Lieut. W. R Barlow,
of Captain Cleaveland's company, 13th battalion,
Royal Artillery.
Mr. Hamilton Browne, by permission of the
Admiralty, has conducted experiments in the fac-
tory department of the dockyard, in order to test a
newly-invented process for facing iron with copper.
It is stated that the process, which is likely to
prove successful, will effect a considerable saving
in the manufacture of various articles required for
the naval service.

CHATHAM, JUNE 5.
The Warspite, 50, which has been in dock for
some time for the purpose of being overhauled, is
ordered to be completed and the whole of her de-
fee's made good.
Considerable activity prevails among the ship-
wrights employed on the Hero, 91, and the Hood,
90, in consequence of an order received from the
Admiralty for both these vessels to be completed
and brought forward for launching at the earliest
possible period. The Hero is nearly completed.
The MerNey, 40, has had a large number of addi-
tional shipwrights placed on her, the authorities
being anxious to have her completed and launched
during this year. She is to be fitted with engines
of ,000 horse-power.