The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-15 00:00:00

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BOHEMIA.

PRAGUE, June 15.

Prince Napoleon, accompanied by the Mayor of
the town, has visited the chief objects of interest
in Prague. He has received the principal inhabi-
tant's, among whom were Drs. Pollaky and Rieger,
the leaders of the national party, and also a deputa-
tion of the Czech working men's association.
The Prince returns to Vienna to-day.

SERVIA.

BELGRADE, June 15.

Fresh arrests have taken place here. Addresses
to the Provisional Government are continually
arriving from all parts of the country giving in the
adhesion of the different municipalities to the pro-
posed election of Prince Milan as the successor of
Prince Michael. The British Ambassador at Con-
stantinople has expressed to the Provisiocal Govern.
ment his regrets at the late assassination.

BOURSE, June 13.—T1
closed as follows :

Tee o'clock.—The marke

1j per Cent.
End of month

Bank Shares
Pan Loan —
End of month — --
Mexican Loan 22
Do. Bonds
Spanish Threes 39 50
Home Debt —
Deferred

3 per Cent
End of month 7O 50
Credit Mobilier
End of month 302 50
Credit Fonder l5lO
Ead of month —

RAILWAYS.

Cash
Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean .........
Southern..... 597
Western
Eastern .
Sardinian
Austrian .
Lombard .
North of Spain
Saragossa
Boman

44
5611
378

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Major-Gen. Frome, R.E., the newly-appointed
Inspector-General of Works, has just completed his

tour of inspection of the extensive lines of defence

around Portsmouth. In making this inspection his
attention was called to what is considered the weak
point in the general plan of the defences encircling
the port and arsenal—the absence of any work at
the entrance of Chichester harbour; and is under-
stood to have been much impressed with the neces-
sity for remedying this omission by the commence-
ment of the fort on the west sid) of the harbour's
entrance, as has been for some time contemplated
by the War Department and recommended by Royal
Engineer authorities. Lord Clarence Paget on one
occasion, during a debate in the Tiousa of Com-
mons on the fortifications, from his place in the house
as Secretary to the Admiralty, called the attention
of the House to the fact that from the base of
Portsdown-hill and the cast flank of the Hilsea
Lines to the entrance from sea into Chichester har-
bour there was not a single gun or foot of constructed
defence to bar the march of an enemy upon Ports-
mouth Dockyard and Arsenal. This grave defect
in the general scheme was understood by the Royal
Engineer officers at the time the works now in course
of construction were adopted, and they recommended
the erection of a work on the west side of the en-

trance of Chichester harbour, but, strangely enough,
this recommendation has been, for some unexplained
reason, allowed to fall through, although discussed
by the Royal Commission on the National De-
fences. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge has long been aware that the unguarded en-
trance to Chichester harbour affords an enemy the
means of taking the whole of the Portsdown and
Hilsea positions in reverse, and, as already observed,
of marching upon Portsmouth without a single
foot of constructe I defence to bar his progress.
Elle visit of General Frome in his official capacity
as Inspector-General is now, however, likely to hurry
)a the commencement of the fort contemplated by
the War Department, as the negotiations for the
purchase of the necessary land on the south-
eastern extremity of Hayling bland, which have
been before the Secretary of State for War for some
time, are, it is understood, now being brought to a
conclusion. The absence of any defensive work at
the entrance of Chichester harbour would be, in the
opinion of military men, fatal to an attempted defence
of Portsmouth. What is required is simply a work
of such moderate strength as
draughttaswo dbevaebssleeltso check
the the advance of such light
enemy would attempt to force the passage in, and,
above all, to act as a protecting fort to the sub-
marine mines with which we should undoubtedly
line the shoals and approaches to the Channel's
entrance.

The iron fort constructei at Shoeburyness, re-
presenting a section of the Plymouth breakwater
fort, will undergo an experiment on Tuesday next,
the 16th inst., to test its capabilities of resisting shot
aced from the 12-inc'i, 10-inch, 9-inch, and 7-inch
Woolwich rifle gun, and 15-inch Rodman's gun, at
a distance of 200 yard 3.

Staff-Sergeant APCutcheon, 21st Brigade Royal
Artillery, was found dead in his quarters yesterday
at the barracks,Woolwich, and is supposed to have
committed suicide by taking poison. He returned
from India about three months ago, and family
matters are sail to b 3 the cause of his committing
suicide. He leaves six children.

A grand ball will be given by the Commandant
of the Woolwich Garrison, Major-General E. C.
Warde, C. 8., in the Royal Artillery Theatre, at
the barracks, on Wednesday, when his Royal High-
ness Prince Arthur is expected to be preseet.
A competitive examination for appointments in
the R)yal Navy was held on board the flagship Vic-
tory in Portsmouth harbour on Wednesday and
Thursday last. Thirteen candidates presented
themselves. On Friday the following names were
made known as those of the four successful aspirants
for the vacant appointments: 1. Mr. Wm. Maclean
(passed from Eastman's Royal Naval Academy,
Sluthsea) ; 2, Mr. F. B. Pritchard ; 3, Mr. J. G.
Matthews ; 4, Mr. B. G. L. Evans.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieutenant Mather Byles, to the
Hibernia; Lieutenant Thomas S. Jackson, to the
Lord Warden ; Lieutenant Malcolm M'Neile, to the
Cambridge ; Commander W. L. Partridge, to the
Hibernia, vice Commander Norcock, whose period
of service has expired ; Commander L. IL Ver-
sturme, to the Vixen, commissioned ; Henry M.
Harrison, assistant-paymaster, to the Royal Ade-
laide, as supernumerary ; and John R. Childs, no-
minated a naval cadet.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY
EVENING.

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Owing to the crowded state of our columns on the above
evening the following promotions wera uwtvoidably post-

poned :--

56th Foot—Lieutenant Albert Greenland to be Captain ;
Ensign Frederick William Vans Leckie to be Lieuten-
ant ; John one, Gent., to be Ensign ; Staff-Assistant
Surgeon Edmund Maurice D. Fitz Gerald, M.D., to be

As3istant-S urgeon.
GOth Foot—Ensign William Forster to be Lieutenant;
Ensign Arthur Pepys to be Lieutenant ; Ensign Wm.
Mitchell-Innes to be Lieutenant; Ensign Godfrey A.tell
from the 77th Foot, to be Ensign; Staff-Surgeon Wm.

Macnamara, M.D., to be Surgeon.
61st Foot -Lieutenant Francis J. W. P. Long to be Cap-
tain ; Ensign Reginald \V. J. Burton to be Lieutenant ;
W. Mends F. Trotman, Gent., to be Ensign.
77th Foot—Major Henry Kent to be Lieutenant-Colonel
by purchase, vice Brevet-Colonel the Han. A. 0. C.
Chichester, who retires upon half-pay ; Captain William
Neweuham Morris Orpen to bo Major, by purchase,
vice Kent ; Lieutenant Percy Kirk to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Orpen ; Ensign John Frederic Ifornby
to be Lieutenant, by purehasP, vice Kirk; Gentleman
z Cadet Gedfrt.y Astell, from the Royal Military College,
-lb be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hornby.
Blth Foot -Lieutenant Reginald William Peckitt to be
Captain; Ensign William Fleming nets° Smyth to be
Lieutenant ; George Lycett Engledue May, Gent., to bo
_ _

Ensign.
98th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Herman Adam Gordon
to be Adjutant.
106th Foot—Lieutenant William Ainsworth to be Adju-
tant.