The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-12 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Sept. 11.

Iler Majesty Queen Victoria, accompanied ty
their Royal Ilighneises Princess Louise, Prince
Leopold, and Princess Beatrice, arrived here at six
o'clock this evening, having left Lucerne on the
evening of Wednesday, the 9th, and travelled by
way of Paris.

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE.

MALTA, Sept. 2.—The ironclad screw steam fri-
gate Prince Consort left Malta ou the 97th August
for Corfu, to join the squadron cruising under the
orders of the Commander-in-Chief on the coast of
Dalmatia, conveying, on a pleasure trip to Sicily,
Mrs. and Miss Fanshawe, Deputy-Inspector of
Hospitals Doinville and Mrs. Doraville, and Miss
Grant, the daughter of the Governor of Malta, who,
on reaching Sicilian waters, will be put on board the
Azov, mortar sailing schooner, which the Prince
Consort, carrying mails and despatches, had in tow,
and on which vessel the excursionists will be landed
at Catania, and return thence in her to Malta, after
visiting Etna, Messina, and Palermo. The New-
port, surveying steamer, which lately brought over
the same excursionists from Girgenti and Syracuse,
left at the same time as the Prince Consort for
Siculiana, on the southern coast of Sicily, to resume
her surveys, after landing Lieut. Sullivan, R.N.,
and several of her crew attacked by fever. She re-
turned to Malta on the 30th of August to land
others of the crew also suffering from fever, but
there have been no fatal cases. Her Majesty's
steam sloop Antelope left on the Ist of September
for Corfu, with mails and despatches for the squad-
ron and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Dal-
matia. The Italian steam frigate Principe Hum-
berto left Malta on the 28th of August, destination
not known, but supposed to be Sicily.
On Thursday morning the Channel fleet, under
the command of Rear-Admiral Warden, C. 13., ar-
rived in the Frith of Clyde from Belfast Lough.
The fleet, consisting of the Alinotaur, 26 ; Warrior,
32 ; Achilles, 26 ; Bellerophon, 14 ; Penelope, 10
(all screw ironclads) ; and the tender Helicon, 2,
anchored at the Tail of the Bank at 9 o'clock, and
shortly afterwards it was announced that the vessels
would be open to visitors from 12 to 5 o'clock.
Provost Grieve and the Greenock magistrates visited
Admiral Warden in the afternoon, and formally
welcomed him to the Clyde, and in the evening the
senior officers of the fleet dined with the Provost at
Levan House. The squadron, it is expected, ifill
remain in the Frith for a week, during
which there
will be a succession of public and private entertain"
ments at Greenock in honour of the visitors, and 3
grand banquet and ball at Glasgow.
An order was yesterday received at Chathamfrom the Horse Guards directing a detachment 01
35 non-commissioned officers and men of the tirdt
battalion of the Ist Royals, and 75 men of all ranks
of the first battalion of the Bth Regiment, to pro-
ceed on the 26th inst. to Malta to join the service
.
companies of their respective corps which are about
proceeding from Malta to India. Capt. J. P. Jol3°
and Lieut. G. W. Sawyer,- Bth Regiment, and
sign R. H. Derman, Ist Royals, are ordered to Pte;
ceed with the troops. The troops will be conveYet:
in the Serapis, 3, 700-horse power, Capt. J•
Soady. The detachment belonging to the Ist se's
2d battalions of the 10th Regiment and the Ist bat-
talion of the 14th Regiment, under orders to em:
bark for India and Japan, have received orders I"
be held iu readiness to embark on the 30th inst.
A contractor's trial of the engines and machinery
of the double-serew steam gunvessel Seagull, 3, was
made at the measured mile outside Plymouth Soar,
on Wednesday. The weather was fine, sea smooth,
and wind easterly, light, pressure 2. The Seagull
was built of wood in the Devouport dockyard Or
Mr. Alexander Moore, and measures 663 tODS•
engines, horizontal direct-acting, are from the manu-
factory of Messrs. A. and I. Inglis, of Glasgow, one
of whom was on board. The trial was made under
the superintendence of Capt. George W. Willer,
C. 8., of the guardship of Steam Reserve Indus, And
of Mr. Robert Nicoll, assistant to the chief engi"
neer at Keyham Steamyard. Six runs under f
ull
boiler power gave a mean of 11.2 knots per hou
and four runs at half-boiler speed produced a we°
of 10 knots. These results were considered very
0
satisfactory, the speed being; it is said,
superior e
that usually obtained by vessels of this class. Tiler_
of
were no hot bearings. The masts of the Seagull
stepped, and she had in her bunks about 100 tons
coals; draught aft 9ft. 10in., forward Bft. lin•
The

double screw is on Mangin's principle.
The 40th Regiment, now stationed at Aldershot;
is under orders to leave the Camp about the end
the present month. The head-quarters ands our
companies will proceed to Ashton, four compia
to Carlisle, and two to Whitehavem
No. 8 troop of the Military Train is on the march
from Dublin to Woolwich, and is expected to ar-
rive at the latter place about the commencement of
next week, and will be quartered there until further
orders.

SECOND ALL ENGLAND PLOUGIIING MATCO."'
Messrs. Ransomes and Sims have won the second chsel-
pion match of this season, which took place at Thanlel
Oxfordshire, on Thursday last. Their ploughman, 13arkero
did a piece of his usual first class work, and the prize vies
accordingly awarded to him against five competitors. 'lllJ,°
greatest excitement was perhaps caused by the compet'
lion for the President's special prize, in which were fil
men using Ransomes' ploughs, and thirteen those c)t
Messrs. Howard. The work was first class through° '
ibut the first, second, and third prizes were won by 1°51.6.
ansome' implements. These interesting con3Petitii°, 114,9
s cannot fail to bring out the skill of the labourer, as well
theAqNualEitcyooNfoTiewimALplesmuelnctlDE. implement. was 10
sailles-road,
the habit of constantly frequentingaAcianbaarnOt Winii°tl:Yetro-
be sitting with his
was a few days ago observed by the what
0
glass empty before hitn. " Wrbg : S
te reply. " I have but forty sous, and I anlSt
youh take ?" said the woman. "Oh, nothing more," -..11,
buy some
charcoal to stifle myself with." "Oh, that's very ici°,lisit'b
trejoined the landlady, who thought he was joking ; ' With
tztpennyworth of cord you could hang yourself, to". to
arrangement you would have some more Ware" he
spendaia in drink." " Upon my word you're right," a-,tot
drinn.anodahe spent thirty-eight of his remaining sell ~5
Saturday morning he was discovered WOW
to a tree. Colleagilore:
G LA MARMORA.-111S countryman and
eonraerial Fanti, always said, "One of these days La 31.1 -
is sure to run his stupid head against
rn
teral ;" but even Fanti never suspected that tho" Louis
head"l would have been dashed at it by the hand a 140-.,,
c apoleen. That his brow is still aching from the 0;71
ussion,and his faculties addled by the shock forms th,e,,,°,,pt
possible apology for the imprudence of his present at it
to re-open discussion on his conduct. His fault, $l3„ to
could scarcely be greater, was and is a blind subtaissi°-0
the will, and abject deference to the character, of 14°001
Napoleon. It is only a man moulded in such Weak
ants in
that could appeal to his country to review the ores of S
which he figured so disastrously, or recall Mereerieso 0
time when every bulletin from the army Prec°lg gad
cry of indignation against its general.--ffltellsdri sici
gazine.
CORNISH TICKETING. Truro,
Redruth this day 1,155 tons of copper
prodlielencTio
£3,687 35., an average of £3 4s. per ton ;
as
copper, 65 tons 8 cwt.; standard, X101195.-41'1 gress
fasllc,ompared with last week's sale of £3 15s. Ille
in the standard is considered serious. „ been ill
GREEN PIGMENTS.—Green pigments hav- •
such bad odour for years on account of their real I red
gined poisonous influence that chemists have laub:111 be
rr h ti rso triaa ir.e.;
1;1
hard to find a form cf the favourite colour that s7their
above suspicion. Success appears to have crolcoe-...600
experiments at last, for we are told that a new proPa`-tiot
of a salt of chronium yields a green colouring' Wycleff,otlf
leaves little to be desired. It is brilliant in tone, re"- iol
harmless, and possesses other requirements of ft ts
ech!: ior
character. ft will be known, when it is know°,
a
penal green."-Once a Week.. ere iti
INCENDIAIUSM IN COR,NIYS.LL.---A.tiOther aja,
West Cornwall, believed to be the work a an ioo°'. ,10-
occurred on Tuesday, about 20 tons Thehy b3it* 0
stroyed at Calestock, n.ar Truro. faritter4„ht
I,lt,cinhges
Inhltvcall t the
I!Despatches were received on Wednesday a biA
Colonial-office from the Governor of British 001'1'10
and from the Governor-General of Can tda. DesPsls t.
were sent to the Governors of tho Cape of Good frop,e,Oroj
baeleanrmaepdipoia:tedd.in several insta,nces nib
Helena, Sierra Leone, Lagos, and to the Goveraor-ar-D
of Canada.