The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-02 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Barometrical pressure in the north-west has risen since yesterday,
and also in the south of England. but to a less extent. In the west
of Ire'and a rapid decrease has set in during the night, amounting to
(r3in. at Valencia : the reading at that station is now 41n. below that
at Yarmouth. The French reports have not eme in yet (eleven
o'clock). In the N. of Scotland temperature is lower, but elsewhere
h weather is generally warmer. The light winds prevailing yester•
d freshened during the night on the west coast : they backed and
ncreased to a gale from the S. at Roche's Point at live a.m.—lt still
continues. In the Channel the wind is very light and southerly.
Fog has prevailed in the S. and E. coasts: it continues at places, and
the weather is cloudy or overcast. Rain has.been general. Warnings
t S. and W. coasts.

Yesterday the officers of the Divisional Staff at
Chatham inspected the chartered ship Warwick,
which has been taken up by the Government for
the conveyance of the remainder of the 71st High-
land Light Infantry, together with a large number
of convicts from Chatham, Portsmouth, and Port-
land, for Gibraltar. The Warwick is expected to
embark her first batch of convicts from Chatham
to-morrow.

The 101st Regiment and the other troops which
arrived at Suez on the 10th ult. in her Majesty's
Indian troopship Jumna (as announced in our
columns of yesterday) will be transferred to the
Serapis ; and as the latter ship reached Alexandria
on the morning of the 29th of November, the 3d
Hussars and the drafts for other regiments which
she conveyed from Portsmouth will probably have
been transferred to the Malabar, at Suez, on that
and the following days, in which case the Serapis
may be expected to leave Alexandria with the 101st
Regiment, &c., this day, and to arrive at Ports-
mouth on or about the 18th inst.
A number of shipwrights and other mechanics
belonging to Deptford Dockyards, which is about
being closed, have been transferred to Chatham
Dockyard, and entered at that establishment.
We have to announce the death on Saturday last
of Lieutenant-Colonel William Bruce, K.H., a
Peninsular and Waterloo veteran officer. He en-
tered the 79th Regiment at an early age, with
which he served in the Peninsular from 1812 to
the end of the war in 1814. He served also the
campaign of 1815, and was present at Waterloo,
where he was severely wounded. lie was made
a Knight of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic
Order in 1837. He left the 79th Regiment for
the 48th Foot, from which he retired in November,
1841.

DOGS.—Yesterday Sir Richard Mayne's order as
to the muzzling of dogs in the metropolis expired, and
they will now enjoy the same privilege as the dogs in the
city of London.
LOCOMOTIVES.—At the close of 1867 the stock of
locomotives oi dared by the 12 leading British railway
companies was as follows :—Caledonian, 515 ; Great
Eastern, 380; Great Northern, 468; Great Western,
842 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 455 ; London and North-
Western, 1,443 ; London and South-Western, 255 ; Lon-
don, Brighton, and South Coast, 252 ; Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, 264 ; Midland, 623 ; North-Eastern,
851 ; and South-Eastern, 243. The 12 companies thus
owned between them 6,595 locomotives, the first cost of
which, at an average of .£2,500 per engine, was
£16,487,500.

California proposes to hold a World's Fair in
1870, and the Pacific Railroad agrees to carry passengers
at half fare.

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