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

:MARKS.

During the last twenty-four hours a general increase in baro-
metrical pressure has taken place, to the extent of more than two
tenths of an inch at southern and eastern stations. Readings in
these islands are high and generally uniform. In northern districts
the pressure is greatest : at Ardrossan and Shields it exceeds that at
Rochefort by three-tenths of an inch. Temperature has risen in the
S.W. of Ireland, whilst on the Channel coasts a considerable diminu-
tion has occurred. The wind yesterday was strong from the N. on
our E. coasts, and north-easterly in. Ireland. In the Channel it blew
strongly from the eastward. This morning tin w.nd is ir o erste
from the E. in the west and south of these islands : at Cad e Cris Nez
a north-easterly gale is reported. Mist is prevalent on the F. coast.
The
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weather is generally cloudy. The sea is disturbed at Weymouth
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Court will return to
The Austrian sovereign
viTenhneaEfmropneiriosrel'hirainncaisfeJwosdepayhs.and
will then undertake a new enterprise. Ho has re-
solved to visit the province of Galicia about the 26th of
this month, in the hope of bringing about a definite agree-
ment with his Polish subjects. The Austrian Poles, like
the Czechs, are dissatisfied because the coareisioni which
have been granted to the Hungarians and the Croats are
withheld from them. They demand to share in the
benefits of the liberal measures which have becime law in
)ther parts of the empire. It is generally believed that
the Emperor will be able to come to terms with 1 is sub.
jects in this part of the realm ; the Poles, it is justly
argued, are too much interested in gaining German sup-
port to prove very obstinate.
The cabmen assert that the strike is going on well, and
they ta'k bravely enough of "no surrender ;" but they do
not get the public to believe them, and as to the railway
companies whom it is endeavoured to overbear, they are
supremely indifferent to the matter. The Daily Telegraph,
which seems to have constituted itself the organ of the cab-
men, assert that a large number of additional cabmen had
joined the strike on Tuesday ; but in the next paragraph
the chairman of the strike meeting is reported to complain
of the increased number of cabs which were to be seen in
the streets. This morning the strike seems virtually ovei.;
not only are a large number of cabs to be seen in the streets,
but several drivers have returned to the stands which fos
some days have been deserted. The unreasonableness of
the strike has been rendered more apparent by some
figures published in the Daily News.
It appears that at
the Euston Station of the London and North-Western
Railway a charge of ls. 6d. a week per cab is made. This
brings in a revenue of £335 Bs. On the other hand, the
company have to pay for policemen who regulate the cabs
at the entrance and exit gates, for officers who attend on
the platform to superintend the cab-rank, and for a cab.
clerk and stationery, £409 10s. 11d. So that the company
is actually £64 out of poe:et, in-,tead of making £12,000
a year. The company estimate that if they were to throw
open the station to every cabman who paid a penny they
would receive £3,000 a year. Clearly, therefore, the
present arrangement is entirely for the benefit of the
public, who should, therefore, bear the present inconve-
nience with patience.

Mr. Thomas Cook, of excursionist celebrity, write; to
the Daily News to urge that the railway companies should
organise a regular system of vehicles. "In Paris each of
the great railway companies has under its own control or
actual management a system of large and small omnibuses,
the former plying tetwixt the stations and city cen-
tres, taking up and s; ttinLif dLw.l passengers ea
route, and the latter desdatc"led to and from
any place within th of the city.
On arrival at a chief station, say that of the
Paris, Lyons, and Mediterranean, eight or ten large
omnibuses are drawn up c'ose to the baggage salon, ready
to take passengers in the various directions to which they
are appointed ; and they carry any amount of baggage.
There will also be from a dozen to twenty nice small
family omnibuses, for parties of two or three to six, ready
togoto any part of the city. A party, say of three, engage
one of these little 'busses, and a ticket is handed to them
hewing what they must pay to the driver on arrival at
destination. The charge for three persons (or for
two) is tlattkLaici, baggaje inclucled, to an/ paltst the

CATTLE KILLED BY IMPURE WATER.

The In urious and fatal results arising from the use of
impure and bad water have recently been illustrated at Col-
wick, a village in close proximity to Nottingham. Mr. Thou,
Elnor, an extensive grazier at that village, a few weeks agc
lost two valuable horses under. somewhat mysterious cir
cumstances, and seventeen head of cattle pastured in the
same field were also attacked with a serious malady, of whist
some of them died, and the others were so bad that it was
necessary to kill them. A post-mortem examination
of the carcases made by Dr. Barlow, of Cotgrave,
veterinary surgeon, revealed the fact that all the
animals had greatly enlarged spleen; and it wa.,
conjectured that the same had arisen from the
effect of some irritant poison. The loss of cattle
under these circumstances being calculated to affect
the food supply of the town, and the case
having come to the knowledge of the Sanitary Committee
of the town, Mr. Alderman Page, the chairman of the
committee, and Mr. William Richards, the sanitary
inspector, proceeded to Colwick, and having reason to
believe that the water the cattle had been drinking
was the cause of their death, obtained specimens for
the purpose of analysis. Three specimens were obtained,
one of them being taken from a pond in a field
in which the stock had been kept. They have
been duly submitted to Dr. Bedsit Truman, Castle•gate,
Nottingham. Mr. Alderman Page deserves the thanks of
the town for dealing so promptly with the subject, as,
apart from the importance of the facts revealed by this
investigation to the grazing interest, the question is one of
great moment to the general public of the town and dis-
trict.—Nottingham. Journal.

SOMERSET AND THE NINETEENTH

CENTURY.

A correspondent of a Bristol contemporary gives the
following particulars of labourers' wages in Somerset-
shire :—" I am personally aware of scores of farms where
the labourers' wages are not higher than 95., and
scarcely ever more than Bs.—and I have known 7s.—
out of which they have to allow 9d. or ls. per week for
rent. A piece of coal is an unheard-of luxury for their
hearthstones ; it could not be purchased for much less
than £1 per ton, without carriage. The fuel they use is
wood, gathered generally by the wife on her return home,
or purchased at so much the faggot from the farmer,
unless they may have been able to secure the top of a
tree, &c., &c. His grist corn he receives at 6s. per bushel;
but you may depend it is not of the best sample, and
the price is deducted from his wages. He works nearer
twelve hours per day than ten hours— any little overtime
being paid for by a pint of cider, and possibly a crust of
bread and cheese. The wages of women run from 6d. to
Bd. per day for nearly the same number of hours— not
starting so early, perhaps, in the morning, but mostly
returning with the men, after which their household duties
have to be done, if done at all. They breakfast before
leaving ; but milk is mostly a luxury to the men—lucky,
indeed, if they can secure a meal of Swede turnips, mixed
with potatoes, and fried in a little fat ; and if the pota-
toes fall short, the former alone suffices, with a little
bread and a drop of weak tea, while the hunch of bread,
with a little cheese, butter, or raw bacon, constitutes
their midday meal, washed down, perhaps, with a pint
of cider. Fresh meat ! yes, the only sight they have
of that is at the farmhouse, when after extra hard work
they partake of the meal provided for them, hardly after
the manner of human beings for eagerness. My heart has
often ached when present at the fortnightly reckonings to
bear the following interrogations :—Joe ? Yes, sir. How
much coming to you ? Let me see ; you didn't work
three-quarters of a day on Tuesday on account of the rain.
Half a day, sir. How much grist ? A bushel. Rent 2s.
Here reckons up, and hands the son of toil the magnificent
sum of 7s. 4d. to support his family for a fortnight. I
have known women proceed in the depth of winter, in the
cold, early dawn, to the turnip fields, clad in some cast-off
coat of the male sex, with the bisgay over their shoulder,
to dig turnips from the frozen soil. Ten shillings, with
ls. out for rent, is considered good wages near a railway
station of the Bristol and Exeter Railway, with the dis-
tinct understanding of no perquisites whatever. I have
heard farmers say that they are aware they rob the turnip
fields, but the farmers knowingly wink thereat, so long as
they do not rob to feed the pigs. To conclude, I know a
woman working on the same farm for years, owned by the
occupier, who arrived one winter's morning to dig turnips
at eight o'clock instead of 7.30, for which she was mulcted
one halfpenny out of her daily wage of sixpence."

Mr. Bright's speeches, edited by Professor James
E. Thorold Rogers, have been published by Messrs. Mac-
millan.

A meeting of " gentlemen 'willing to join in the
defence of British freedom, as represented in the person of
William Murphy," was held in Manchester on Monday, but it
was "strictly private." It is stated that Murphy was pre-
sent, and that the main object of the meeting was to raise a
"defence fund."

Fifteen Irishmen have been charged at the
police court, Stockton-on-Tees, with riot and assaulting the
police. They were the ringleaders of a body of Irish who
had got up a drunken row a day or two ago in the town,
and turned it into a bear-garden. Ton of tlem were sent to
prison for a month.
Among the persons charged at Liverpool the other
day with being drunk and disorderly was a woman named
Mary Herd. The bridewell-keeper, in answer to the usual
question, "Is the prisoner known ?" replied that she had
been "up" 117 times. She was committed to gaol for a
month, and the conviction was ordered to bo recorded.

A Monsieur B--, well known in Parisian life,
having recently lost every shilling at a certain sporting
club where play is carried on in Paris, went to the country,
whore his sister lent him £l5O. He won all back again, and
got a considerable sum of money in hand. He then went to
his hotel, to his bootmaker, and tailor, paid them, and made
arrangements to bo fed, clothed, and shod for ten years. He
ought to have been a Britisher for his originality.

The Leeds Express says Mr. J. S. Mill has written
as follows to Mr. Holyoake, of London :—" Avignon, Aug.
28, 1868.—Dear Sir,—l enclose a subscription of £lO to the
fund for defraying the expenses of Mr.Bradlaugh's election to
the House of Commons. Idoso in the confidence that Mr.
Bradlaugh would not contest any place where, by so doing,
he would risk the return of a Tory in the room of a sup-
porter of Mr. Gladstone and of the disendowment of the
Irish Church.—l um, dear sir, yours very faithfully, J. S.
Mill.—Austin Holyoake, EEq."

At Caldon Lowe, Staffordshire, an attempt has
been made to level a rock by a monster blurt. The rock
formed part of the limestone quarries of the North Stafford-
shire Railway Company. The rock had been perforated at
its base, a chamber five feet square having been formed at the
end of the tunnel. In this chamber 36 cwt. of powder was
deposited, and when the powder was fired the rock opened
and crumbled as if by magic. The blast was not quite so
successful as was expected, but a minor blast is expected to
complete the operation, by which, in all, some 14,000 tons
of limestone will have been dislodged.

The alleged murder of a police officer in Shoreditch
was inquired into yesterday by Mr. J. Humphrey; coroner,
at the Bull Tavern, Lever-street, St. Luke's. The deceased
is Charles Clay, the warrant officer at the Worship-street
Police-court, who was alleged to have been murdered in
Norfolk-gardens, Shoreditch, while waiting to arrest a thief.
The jury returned a verdict " that the deceased mot
his death by accidental falls, and that he was sober at
the time." The coroner read the verdict, and the
foreman said " Was sober at the time." Coroner
I have read the words to you. Foreman—We wish it to
go in, for misstatements have been made, and therefore cal-
culated to damage. Coroner—l am bound to accept your
verdict, but lam quite of a different opinion. Officer,
dissolve the court. The proceedings then terminated.

The quarterly return of pauperism for the three
months ending June 1868 shows a decrease every week from
the beginning of the quarter to the end. The number re-
lieved in England and Wales in the last week of March
was 993,646, but in the fourth week of Juno the
total had fallen to 922,563; compared, however, with
other years the return is not reassuring. In 1866 the
paupers ,in receipt of relief on the last day of June were
841,489 ; for the same week in 1867 there were 884,829 ;
and for 1868, 929,563. The metropolis is charged
with the greatest number of that dm of the com-
munity, described as "indefinite and non-productive,"
6.9 per cent. of its whole population being included under
that category. Wales comes next with 6.6 per cent. ; the
South Eastern district follows with 6.4 per cent., and York
is the lowest with 3.9 per cent.

TILE NEW ATLANTIC CABLE.—The Journal du
Havre says :—" 7he Transatlantic cable from Brest to
New York, an undertaking which appeared to commence
under such brilliant auspices, does not appear to go on so
well as the shareholders might desire. Great fear is felt
that the United States will refuse the concession—so far
as concerns that Government—to M. Erlanger, who has
committed the great crime, in their eyes, of having been
the banker of the Southern States during the rebellion."
A DANGEROUS VISITOR.—The authorities of
Trieste have issued a notice warning all persons to be
careful as to where they bathe, as at this moment there is
a large shark in the bay. One man has already been
bitten, He was smimming close to a bathing establish.
meat, when he was seized by the thigh. He cried out,
and a rope was thrown to him, hut before he could be
pulled from the water the voracious fish again made an
attack on him, breaking his leg below the knee. He was
conveyed to the hospital, but fears are entertained that
thcliwb bayP lON ApPOAcch

MURPHY A 7 MANCHESTER.

If the man Murphy is really his own adviser,
and not merely the agent of persons of higher
station and of even less principle, he must be given
the credit of considerable shrewdness in his recent
proceedings at Manchester, says a contemporary.
To hold an itinerant lecturer to bail on the charge
of using language likely to produce a breach of the
peace is not a very startling step, though the
magistrates of the Lancashire towns were a long
time making up their minds to take it in the case
of Murphy. But to hold a candidate for the re-
presentation of Manchester to bail on a similar
charge is a step the very notion of which seems to
have absolutely paralyzed the Manchester authori-
ties. It might have been expected, however, that
they would before this have convinced themselves
that the new shape which Murphy has given to his
proceedings does not in the least alter their
essential character. At present the magistrates
stand exposed to the charge of seriously neglecting
their duty. The proper course would have been
to consign Murphy to gaol until he and his sureties
had paid the sums for which they are severally
liable, and until some other of his friends could be
found to give more substantial bail for his good
behaviour. We suspect that when once this pro-
cess is found to involve serious and repeated losses,
Murphy will either be obliged to moderate his
language or find his supporters inclined to fight
shy of him. The distinction on which he seems to
rely for impunity is, it is almost needless to say,
without foundation. There is but one law for
Parliamentary candidates and for the rest of the
Queen's subjects. If it were not so, the two or
three months preceding a general election might
easily become a period of absolute anarchy. In
Ireland, for example, any number of Fenian agita-
tors might come forward as candidates for Parlia-
ment, and in that character might spout any
amount of treason with impunity. Indeed, of the
two an electioneering speech is more obnoxious
than a lecture. The latter is nominally intended
for persons who agree with the lecturer, but on
Saturday Murphy addressed himself to the electors
of Manchester generally, so that among those
formally invited to hear him were included a large
number of the very persons whom his language
was likely to provoke to a breach of the peace.
The question for the magistrates to consider is, not
in what capacity Murphy has used certain words,
but what is the nature of the words used and under
what circumstances they were spoken. Supposing
them to be satisfied upon these two points, they
need not trouble themselves about anything else.
If the notion that the law is silent during election
time once gains currency, it will be impossible for
any peaceable person to live in Lancashire during
the next three months. Murphy will no doubt
offer himself as a candidate at all the towns where
there are Irish to be provoked, and the progress
which was interrupted last year will be resumed
and completed with triumphant impunity this
autumn.

We do not say this out of any sympathy with
the rioters of Saturday. The fact that Murphy
and his abettors are infinitely the more blameable
of the two by no means exonerates the Irish mob.
The latter came fully prepared for a row, and had
actually proceeded to overt acts of violence before
Murphy came on the ground. It is only in a
secondary sense, therefore, that his speech can be
said to have produced this particular breach of the
peace. It was the result, it is true, of a great
many former speeches, but still the rioters cannot
plead that they were surprised into violating the
law. So long as even justice is dealt out on both
sides, and Murphy comes in for his full share of
punishment, we have no wish to see his adversaries
let off too easily. Murphy is virtually in the posi7
tion of a man who tempts another to commit a
crime, and though a man in that position may be
justly visited with the same severity as the actual
criminal, the latter must still bear his own burden.
To hold the Manchester rioters excused Murphy's
conduct would be to establish a principle which,
though it might do no substantial injustice in the
present case— since a broken head is a very much
smaller punishment than Murphy and Lis friends
deserve—would be capable of the most dangerous
applications. If it were understood that when-
ever a speech is followed by a riot, the speaker is
to be alone held responsible, the law which pro-
hibits language tending to produce breaches of the
peace would be deprived of an important safe-
guard. The knowledge that rioting will certainly
he punished does afford some security that it will
not be indulged in except under serious provoca-
..

tion ; whereas, if the existence of provocation were
allowed to involve impunity, freedom of speech
would be put at the mercy of any set of ruffians
who happened to dislike the particular sentiments
uttered. Only, if the rioters are to be punished
with any salutary effect, it is absolutely essential
that Murphy should not be allowed to twist the
law at his pleasure. Every Roman Catholic in
Manchester is convinced, and rightly convinced,
that. Murphy has forfeited his recognizances, and
ought before now to have been in confinement.
Unfortunately, the lower class of Roman Catho-
lics will not stop at this. They will attribute to
magisterial sympathy what is really the result of
magisterial timidity. They will assume that the
original binding over to keep the peace was a
farce, and that Murphy's impudent evasion of the
law has the tacit sanction of the authorities. If
the Manchester magistrates do not mean to take
any measures against himi for what he has done al-
ready—not merely for what he may do hereafter—
they had better have let the rioters alone al-

together.
Still, Murphy's proceedings do reveal a positive
defect in the law as it stands, or at all events as it
is administered. So long as Murphy confines his
operations to towns with a large Roman Catholic
population of a low class he can be dealt with
easily enough. He goes about defaming in the
grossest manner two classes of innocent people :
Roman Catholic clergymen and Roman Catholic
nuns. When he does this in the hearing of an
excitable Irish mob a riot follows, and Murphy can
be locked up for using words tending to provoke a
breach of the peace. But it is quite possible that
he might make the very same speech in a locality
where it would give extreme pain and annoyance
to unoffending people without there being any
danger of a riot. Suppose, for example, he were
to set up his tub outside the door of a Roman Ca-
tholic convent situated in a Protestant neighbour-
hood, and there to give an imaginary picture of
the life led by the inmates. In Murphy's bands
such a picture would be a simple collection of all
the filth which can be engendered in a peculiarly
filthy mind. The nuns might be going in and out
all day on errands of charity, and be exposed at
any time to the pollution of Murphy's obscenities
both from his own mouth and from the mouths of
such of his hearers as choose to promote the Pro-
testant cause by the same engaging methods. This
is by no means an imaginary picture. Some time
back the Roman Catholic women of Birmingham
were subjected to a systematic street persecution
in the shape of quotations from the " Confessional
Unmasked " made in the hearing by Protestant
passers-by. If these things were said of indivi-
duals they would bring the speaker under the law
of libel. Even Murphy dare not attribute to this
or that priest, or this or that nun, what ho attri-
butes without let or hindrance to such perfectly
defined classes as priests or nuns. So far, there-
fore, as their individval characters are concerned,
Roman Catholics can protect themselves ; and it
certainly does seem that when the reputation of
whole classes of unoffending subjects is attacked
in this way, it should be the part of the Govern-
ment to protect them. Mr. Murphy h reported to
have declared that Wore he had finished his lectures
he would prove to the people of Birmingham that
" every Popish priest is a murderer, a cannibal, a
liar, and a pickpocket." Surely a man who makes
it his business to inflame the minds of others by
such wild and scandalous accusations agdiast
every Popish priest should be punished, as he
would be punished had he dared to say as much of
any particular Popish priest.

Mr. E. T. Smith has issued an announcement
that during the cab strike full dress will not be roquired
either ill the otolle or dila circle of the Lyceum Theatre.

gioun, -,„ ortnbt

HER MAJESTY.

PENSION WALLIS, LUCERNE, S3pt. 7.

The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
Princess Beatrice, and Prince Leopold, and attended
by the Marchioness of Ely, Colonel PonsonLy, &C.,
drove out in the neighbourhood.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The customary brigading of the troops in garri-
son at Portsmouth on Southsea-common was on
Monday made the occasion by Lieut.-General and
Governor Sir George Buller, K.C.8., for the pre-
sentation, at the close of the morning's movements,
of distinguished service medals to a corporal and
private of the 33d (Duke of 'Wellington's) Infantry,
and to a trooper of the Dragoon Guards, forming
one of the Lieut.-General's personal escort. The
troops brigaded on Southsea-common at 10.30 a.m.,
and consisted of the C and H Field Batteries of the
11th Brigade of Royal Artillery, the 33d, 35th, and
67th regiments of infantry. After marching past
Lieut.-Gen. Buller, the infantry formed line on the
33d, the 35th sending out a strong body of skir4
mishers, with supports from the 33d, and the bat-
teries of artillery unlimbering and opening fire from
positions on either flank of the line of infantry.
The skirmishers were soon driven in, and after some
artillery and Snider fire from right to left, the in-
fantry retired in open column from rear of the
centre to a second position, covered by the artillery•
Here a second stand was made, the infantry deploy-
ing into line, and the artillery taking up a position
on the left flank with one battery and holding an-
other in reserve. The second position proved as
untenable as the first, and the force was retired by
divisions in echellon, covered by the fire of the artil-
lery. Again the infantry reformed in line in rear
of their previous position, and this time the defence
was successful, the force, after a brisk fire from
Snider and Armstrong, advancing by echellon move-
ment, the 33d and 35th in open column, with the
67th in the centre in line, and artillery on the rear
of each flank. An alarm of cavalry, the 33d and
35th forming squares, with the 67th retaining its
line formation, and deafening rolls of fire from field
artillery and rifle brought the morning's evolutions
to a finish ; when the troops having formed thre°
sides of a square, with the Lieut.-General and his
Staff in the centre, the warrants directing the pre-
sentation of the medals, forwarded from the Horse
Guards to Sir George Buller, were read by Col. G.
H. S. Willis, Corporal Charles Gifford and Private
Daniel Collins, of the 33d Infantry, were then called
to the front, and presented by Sir George Ballet
with the distinguished service medal for service le
the field before Magdala, the gallant General ac-
companying the presentation in each instance with
a few well-chosen sentences on the duties the reel'
pients had performed, and on the honours still open
to them as soldiers. Trooper Scott, of the 501
Dragoon Guards, was also presented with the silver
medal and £5 gratuity awarded by the Horse
Guards regulations fc.r long service and good al'
duct.

We are informed on reliable authority that the
announcement made by some of our contemporaries
that the 33d regiment will be presented with ne'f
colours on Southsea-common on the 15th inst. is
without foundation. No date has yet been narnea
for giving the regiment new colours, nor have the
colours yet been provided for the purpose.
On Monday Capt. T. G. Gilling, Ist battalion of
the 22d regiment, with three subalterns and 119
non-commissioned officers and men of various corps
attached to the 3d Depot Battalion, left St. Mary g
Barracks, Chatham, for the Isle of Grain, to do duty
at that station. The detachment previously doing
duty at the Isle of Grain arrived at head-quarterst
Chatham, on Monday, under the command 01
Capt. W. Glascott, 30th liegiment, and joined the
2d battalion.
Detachments of 75 non-commissioned officers Oa
men, and three officers of the Ist battalion Sth
Regiment, 85 men of all ranks ; and three officer:
of the Ist battalion 14th Regiment, one officer and
35 non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist
battalion Ist King's Royals, and 15 men and ene
officer of the 2d battalion 10th Regiment, are
dered to be held in readiness to proceed from the;
respective depots at Chatham to India to augulee
the service companies of the various corps. 'Oil
will be conveyed by the overland route. An or
ue„
has also been received at Chatham directing 70 ule7
of all ranks with three officers of the Ist battalio;
10th Regiment to be held in readiness to eu
for Japan to join the service companies of that reg
ment.
The sailing Indiamrn Corona, ear
S. Crondace, 1,200 tons, arrived at Spithead iv
r
on Monday morning, with the following °—
and troops on board from Bombay, under coutreho
with the Council for India :—Major Frederick) °
Sandys Lindesay, 3d Dragoon Guards, in Init34,
command ; Staff-Surgeon Valentine M.l\l‘gaste.
0'
M.D., V.C., in medical charge; Capt. W. •- VI
•
linghall, 35th Regt.; Capt. Wm. Blenkinsopl 0.
Chas. A. Davies and Mrs. Davies, Lieut. ll' AV,
Arthur, Cornets D. A. Grant, Arthur Coto, oic
R. M'Kay and Mrs. M'Kay, and J. F. Leroy
M'Farlane, 3d Dragoon Guards; Mr. W. C.
nie, a civilian. 173 men, 28 women, and 4' c
dren of the 3d Dragoon Guards ; 30 Inele,,loto,
women, and 22 children from various regira`
The troops were disembarked from the Corona '.r9
t
terday, the 3d Dragoons being forwarded en
headquarters at Winchester, the various deto.Jell.,
and
ments to the depots of their several regiments,
the invalids to Netley Hospital.
An Admiralty order received at Chatham 00
yard announces that the Admiralty have deco' d, 'o,
adopting throughout the service Captain 12.- Aautt
Scott's new description of gun carriage of
gear, which is to be fitted for all gun also
nine tons weight and upwards, the order with
directing that the 6k-ton guns are to be fitted 'oil
the rope winch gear. In conformity witl3fet
order, Captain Scott's gear will be used entire':ol-
- heavy ordnance, while for other ganee that
lar winches are to be used, with the different:.
of its
rope is to be substituted for chain, on account
cheapness, while, at the same time, it is suffie say'
reliable for the lighter guns. A considerable here
ing will ultimately be effected by means of guns
appliances, inasmuch as they will enable t.llB btball
to be worked with greater ease and facaltY
was possible with double the number of men
ing upon the ordinary tackle. 6 gOOl
Her Majesty's ship Eclipse, screw 5100131_ flat
1,273 tons, 350 horse power, Captain Ileuriviag
ter
vey, having had her defects made good af
Jai/ Iske
on shore off Heligoland on the 22d of
sailed from Sheerness yesterday for Bermun' roate.
ship will most probably call at Devon Port I3rl •stob
The screw (mum:loured, wooden) foieric
31, 3,027 tons, 600 horse power, CaPt• naQa
W. Wilson, seagoing training frigate fooriog °acadets, sailed from Spithead yesterday 111°r. far 04
a cruise, which may probably extend a'
tba
Malta.
Henry Belcher, ordinary seaman on bacs3l',,rie-f,
receiving ship Canopus, 8, Captain ort oar;
Hamoaze, was on Monday sentenced by ?° risooPi
tial to receive three dozen lashes and he tivote °f
three months for striking George Morh, maiee'ci
Royal Marines, when acting as sentry of t" sot
on 10
deck, on the 25th of August. The emir
of Captains Lambert, Jones, Pellew,
,10 et
~ Sharpe. been --„,,,re55-
The following appointments
tockl the
the Admiralty :—Francis Bte . Ilijaaveers
nas
ter, to the Nassau ; Robert Bone, PaYI to os
Excellent ; Lieutenant George B. to „
Bristol; Dr. Mitchell, assistant sGurogoeicieleloY to
the
Hector ; Francis E. Wolrige,
th
Pallas ; and Watit.s Corlett,
Ashlpine''
a De
Penelope. bury,
:9,
The undermentioned have been no • tioj
uubury,
cadets :—F. J. Hill, Henry C. B lobo
midshipnianr.: to
min H. Carew, C. C. Warburton, and
de B. Fisher.