The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-26 00:00:00

MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Limerick Chronicle, Dec. 21.)
Royal Artillery in Ireland—Captain Stokes's com-
pany of the 6th battalion, at Ballincolig, is ordered to
embark per steam-vessel for Woolwich, then- to join
head-quarters. Brevet-Major Bawnsley, ditto at
I3anagher, and on the Shannon, Limerick district, is
ordered to be relieved.

Two companies 69th Regiment are ordered to
march from Templemore ; one company to Borriso-
kane, and one company to Borrisoleigh.
14th Depot—Her Majesty's steam-vessel Dee,
which sailed from Kingstown for Liverpool on Satur-
day, with this depot on board, returned on the 16th,
in consequence of easterly winds and rough weather.
The troops disembarked and occupy billets till further
orders.

35th Depot—The detachment stationed at Por-
tumna with Lieutenant Henry and Ensign Morton is
ordered to join head-quarters at Nenagh. A com-
pany is ordered to march for Moneygall.
61st Regiment, Buttevant—Major Verner is in
command of two companies of 5 sergeants and 133
rank and file; at Dunmanway, under Capt. Thomas,
1 company; at Ballincollig 1 company, Capt. Bligh,
of 3 sergeants and 40 rank and file; at Millstreet, 1
company of 4 sergeants and 60 rank and file ; at
Bandon, 1 company, under Capt. Campbell, of 2 ser-
geants and 42 rank and file; recruiting, 2 sergeants
and 6 rank and file. Total effective strength, 57
sergeants, 21 drummers, and 1,063 rank and file.
Lieut:-Colonel Burnside commands.

65th Regiment, Castlebar—Major Wise is com-
manding two companies at Galway. Brevet Major
Patience is stationed with a company at Westport.
Captain Murray is at Outerard in command of a
company. Captain Smith is at Ballinasloe with a
company. Lieutenant-Colonel H. Senior is com••
manding at head-quarters. Lieutenant Cook is re-
cruiting at London.

73d Regiment head-quarters and right wing, five
companies, band and colours, Scc., under the com-
mand of Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Vander Meulen,
moved from Richmond Barracks, Dublin, to the
Royal barracks.

36th Regiment, Newry—Captain Routh's company
is stationed at Belturbet ; Captain Maule's company
at Cavan.

sth Fusiliers—Captain Guy's company is stationed
at Omagh barracks, having relieved Brevet Major
Mortimer's company of the 36th Regiment. Re-
cruiting parties of the .sth are stationed at Norwich,
Ballyshannon, and Aylesbury.
Captain Warde has joined the brigade of Royal
Horse Artillery in this garrison.
Lieutenant-Colonel Slade, 30th, went to Newport,
on Thursday, to engage barrack accommodation for
a company of that regiment from this garrison.
Captain Capel's company 15th, Brevet Major Ged-
des's and Heard's companies 30th, are in orders for
out detachment at Newport, Castleconnell, and
O'Brien's-bridge.
A detachment of the 4th Dragoon Guards is
ordered to Newport Tip, and Killaloe. The Second
Bays, detach to Mohill and Ballinamore.
Captain Donald Stewart, 92d, has arrived at Ros-
common, on appointment as staff officer of pensioners
in that district.
Colonel Alexander Munro, K.H., sth battalion
Royal Artillery, Portobello barracks, Dublin, has
returned from leave of absence.
Ensign Wemyss, 93d Highlanders, has received
leave of absence until the Ist of January, 1845.
This officer is to proceed to join the service com-
panies in Canada in spring. The regiment returns
to this country from Canada, in the autumn of 1847.
One company 67th Regiment moved from Rich-
mond Barracks to Islandbridge barracks, to relieve
a detachment of the 32d Regiment which moved from
Islandbridgo to Portobello Barracks, to relieve two
companies of the 16th Regiment under Major Brand,
which embarked for Cork to join head-quarters.
The undermentioned non-commissioned officers of
the 55th Foot, were lately admitted as out-pensioners
of Chelsea Hospital, on the following pensions :
Quartermaster Sergeant James Ryde, ls. 10id. per
diem; Colour Sergeant James Traner, for length of
service and good conduct, 2s. 3d. per diem.
Mr. James Fitzgibbon, of Kingston, Upper
Canada, who distinguished himself in the 49th Regi-
ment during the American war, and subsequently as
a volunteer officer in the Canada insurrection, has
received 2001. from Sir Charles Metcalfe, the Go-
vernor, towards relieving his embarrassments.
The " Parliamentary Committee" of the Repeal
Association has just issued a report, in pamphlet
form, upon the army estimates of Great Britain and
Ireland for the year 1844-5. This speaks intolerable
assurance for a self-constituted, irresponsible, and
disaffected junta, who are still working to destroy
that mutual alliance and consolidation of both coun-
tries, which the solemn Imperial contract of 1800
declared to be one and inseparable. The legislators
of the Conciliation-hall have analysed every branch
of our military department, from the War-office,
Horse Guards, and Mutiny Act, down to the re-
cruiting sergeant's bounty money and recruits' neces-
saries. What next—a review of the Queen's house-
hold, Privy Council, Cabinet administration and
expenditure ? Nothing more probable. We must
be egregiously mistaken if the attention of Govern-
ment is not directly turned to this audacious cabal in
the next Parliamentary session.
THE 11TH REGIMENT.--this regiment, stationed
at Brompton, near Chatham, only requires thirty
men to complete its strength. Furloughs are granted
to the well-conducted men under the authority of
his Grace the Commander-in-Chief: to those who
are allowed to proceed to Ireland and Scotland, the
indulgence of six weeks, and those in England, to the
extent of four weeks.

FRENCH ACADEMY of SCIENCES.
SITTING OF DECEMBER 16.
One of the first papers read was from M. Lefevre,
giving a description of a new break applicable to rail-
road carriages. This is about the hundredth commu-
nication received by the Academy containing new in-
has yet been made respecting
ventions of breaks, but we do not find that any report
them.
A letter was received from the Marquis de Jouf-
froy, complaining of the extraordinary delay of the
commission appointed to report on his new system of
railway. We are by no means convinced that the
system of M. de Jouffroy is so perfect as he considers
it to be, but it is impossible not to admit that his com-
plaint, considering the very great length of time that
has elapsed since the commission was named, is well
founded. If the opinion of the Academy of Sciences
on new inventions relative to subjects of public im-
portance be of any value, it ought assuredly to be
pronounced as speedily as possible. The opinion of
such a body, if favourable, is a recommendation for
inventors to which they are entitled; and, if it be un-
favourable, it is a guarantee against the adoption of
useless or dangerous innovations.
A paper was read on a new atmospheric motive
power, by M. Sy, which he calls perpetual.
A letter was read from M. Descoinbes, calling the
attention of the academy to the necessity of founding
a practical school of agriculture in every department
of France.
The Secretary announced that M. Remieu, prefect
of the haute Marne, had sent to the academy a pam-
phlet, in which he recommends the creation of a ge-
neral direction for the sciences.
Letters were read from MM. Arthur, Clerge, and
Peltier, on the electrical theory of whirlwinds, and
the effects of lightning. On this occasion, M. Arago
observed that the academy had already appointed a
commission to report on this subject, and especially
on the recent storm at Cette, which is ascribed to
electrical causes.
M. Elle de Beaumont made some observations on
a question submitted for consideration, vix., " What
relation exists between the progressive cooling of the
earth and that of its surface. Elle de Beaumont
thinks that the experiments made by M. Arago, in
the gardens of the Observatory of Paris with thermo-
meters sunk in the earth at various depths, furnish the
most essential elements which are necessary for the
solution of the problem. Availing himself of the prin-
ciples laid down by M. Poisson, in his inquiry as to
the cause of the wasting of terrestrial heat, M. Elle de
Beaumont has calculated that the annual cooling of the
surface of the globe has been greater than that of the
globe itself during a period of 38,359 years. Accord-
ing to this solution, the antiquity of the period when
our globe was entirely incandescent is of a remoteness
himclipt defieso fix
age
calculation, and shows that persons who
teof our planet by geological de-
ductions must still be very distant from a perfect
knowledge on this subject. Some recent discoveries
the
in geology have, indeed, shown that the earth is much
attempt
older than the earlier discoveries have led us to sup-
pose ; but if, as is generally believed, the globe was at
one time incandescent, the rate at which M. E. de
Beaumont calculates the progressive cooling of it, in
relation with the surface, would give to it an antiquity
far greater than has hitherto been assigned to it.
A communication of some interest to the lovers of
fat geese was made by M. Persoz. Our readers are
aware of the extent to which experiments in the fat-
tening of these birds has been carried by various pur-
veyors for the gastronomic world. M. Persoz appears
to have gone into the affair con amore, and to have
been fully imbued with the importance assigned to it.
A hundred modes of fattening geese have been con-
ceived, but most of those who have engaged in the
speculation have been of opinion that it was neces-
sary the food should contain the elements of fat
to be eliminated by the goose in the process of diges-
tion. M. Persoz is of a different opinion. He contends
that it is cf no consequence whether the food be of
the kind alluded to or not, as the goose, he says,
forms in the process of digestion fat from any food,
if it contains a certain proportion of azote. We hope
M. Persoz will also show that it is not necessary, in
the fattening of geese, to expose them to the tortures
practised by many of the feeders, such as nailing
them by the feet and confining them in a narrow
space to prevent motion. We have no objection to