The Sun.
London, England, 1868-12-15 00:00:00

OBITUARY.

One of Lord Derby's field-marshals is dead—Sir
Hew Dalrymple Ross, G.C.B. He was 89 years of
age, and was senior officer of the Royal Artillery.
Born in 1779, he entered the Artillery in 1795. He
specially distinguished himself in the Peninsula. He
was present at the action of the Coa, battle of
Busaco, Redinha (wounded in the shoulder), Foz
d'Arouce (wounded in the leg), battle of Fuentes d'Onor,
sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz (dangerously
wounded in the head), action at Castrajon, capture
of forts at and battle of Salamanca, capture of
Madrid and the Retiro, battles of Vittoria and the
Pyrenees, and several other engagements. He
also served in the celebrated campaign of
1815, and was present at the battle of Waterloo.
In recognition of his services he was made Knight of
the Tower and Sword of Portugal, and received the
Order of St. Anne of Russia. He possessed the gold
cross and two clasps for the Peninsular campaign,
and in 1855 was created G.C.B. Of late he has
served at headquarters—representing the Royal
Artillery at " the Horse Guards." Very recently he
was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hos-
pital, a post which his death renders once more
vacant.

A MIDLAND BAMTE. —The Apethorpe preserves
were shot through a day or two ago by the Earl of West-
moreland, the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Carysfort,
Lord A. Lennox, the Hon. Captain Curzon, Colonel W.
Craven, Captain Johnson, Captain J. Little, and the Rev.
E. Du Pre. The quantity of game bagged was 2,330
head ; of these, 1,030 were pheasants, and 800 hares.
Tim es.

To PRESERVE MILK.—A. M. KirchoffeiZ of
Paris, has discovered a method of preserving milk. He
takes pure milk, pours it into a bottle which he closes
hermetically, and then treats the exterior of the bottle
by an operation which is secret. It is said that
the milk thus dealt with keeps like liqueur ; cold,
heat, or movement exercise no influence upon it,
and when drank it has the same taste as if it were
quite fresh. If this be correct, the process is really valu-
able. Sailors and travellers may thus have the luxury of
milk at sea without the horrid nuisance and stench of
miserable cows upon the deck ; and, as a Parisian wrote
the other day, " connoisseurs may indulge the fancy of
drinking milk which has made the voyage to and from the
Indies."

TILE VISIT OF MU. GLADSTONE TO LORD SALISBURY.

There are various rumours afloat consequent on
the visit of Mr. Gladstone to the Marquis of Salis-
bury. The most noteworthy amongst them is the
" whisper " which the Advertiser has heard. It hints
that Mr. Gladstone went to consult the noble marquis
about the recall of Lord Mayo. The London cor-
respondent of the Birmingham Post goes further,
and says that the Marquis was offered the vice-
royalty in Lord Mayo's place.

THE NEW LORD-LIEUTENANT.
It is perhaps worthy of note that among all the •
sins which they attribute to Mr. Gladstone the Con-
servative journals do not set down his appointment to
theLord-Lieutenancy of Ireland. The Dublin Evening
Mail declares that " the appointment of Earl Spencer
to the Viceroyalty is, perhaps, the best that it was in
the power of Mr. Gladstone to make. The new Lord-
Lieutenant is young, rich, little known as a party
man, and as little publicly pledged to particular
political views. ; but eminently distinguished as a
manly Englishman—an enthusiastic volunteer—a
genume associate in all popular undertakings. Ile
brings with him a countess who is known to sympa-
thise heartily in all his genial and social feelings."
This is very satisfactory. Thus ushered in it will be
his lordship's own fault if he do not win popu-
larity.