The Sun.
London, England, 1845-10-25 00:00:00

ORDNANCE CORPS.

Royal llorse Artillery, Portobello-barracks, Dublin-1
troop, consisting of Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, commanding
Captain Pestor, Second Captain Taylor, First Lieutenants
Cator and Pack. Strength, 2 staff- sergeants, 3 sergeants, 3
corporals, 2 bombardiers, 59 gunners, 19 drivers, 1 trumpeter,
1 farrier, 1 shoeing-smith, 1 wheeler, 1 collar-maker, 13•
officers' chargers, 70 troop horses.
A troop, consisting of Lieut. Colonel Cobbe commanding,
Brevet Lieut. Colonel Higgins, Lieuts. Hon. F. Saville,
Goodenough, and Brandling, 2 staff serjeants, 3 corporals,
1 b_gmbardier, 48 gunners, 20 drivers, 1 farrier, 1 trumpeter,
1 shoeing-smith, 1 wheeler, 1 collar-maker, 15 officers' horses,
8 riding horses, 39 draught horses, with field battery.
Rifle Brigade, Depot Ist Battalion, Pigeon House Fort,
Dublin—The draught consisting of 1 serjeant, and 30 rank
and file at Cork, are ordered to embark on board of the Java
freight ship, 1,175 tons, for conveyance to Corfu. Captain
Murray is ordered to proceed out to the service companies
at his own expense, he having exchanged with Captain
Reynard, who is reported sick in quarters.
A general court-martial will assemble at Limerick, on the
23d in,tant, at the Castle Barracks, for the trial of such
prisoners as shall be brought before it. Lieut. Colonel B.
Trydell, 83d Regiment. President. Fourteen members, to be
composed of officers serving in the Limerick district. Major
Stoyte, 24th Regiment, Acting Deputy Judge Advocate.
INSPECTION OF THE WOOLWICH DISTRICT OF PENSIONERS.
—Tuesday morning No. 1 company of the Woolwich district
of pensioners was inspected by Captain Forbes, the com-
manding officer, in the Royal Artillery barrack field, where
they went through their military manoeuvres with the utmost
precision and regularity, and the body of men presented a
very soldier-like appearance. A great number of spectators
assembled to witness the military evolutions of the pensioners,
who evidently showed that they were ready and willing to
resume arms in the cause of their beloved Sovereign, should
their services be required. The two battalions consist of 350
men, selected from the whole body of pensioners of the
Woolwich district.
THE LATE GENERAL Norr.—The neglected and disordered
condition in which the grave of General Nott is suffered to
remain in St. Peter's Churchyard, has recently called forth
from strangers who had been to visit the spot expressions by
no means complimentary to the inhabitants. A stranger of
some distinction, and apparently of military rank, visited the
grave a few days since, and was not a little shocked and
chagrined at the absence of the slightest memento that
could have distinguished it from the humble memorials of
mortality around. It is said of Voltaire that he built God a
church, and laughed his word to scorn. A splendid monu
meat is projected to the memory of Nott, while the remains
of the hero lie neglected, and only rescued from obscurity by
the hallowed association of the soldier's grave.—Carmarthen
Journal.

THE POTATO MURRAIN.
(From the Medical Times.)
" Quid quisque vitet, nunqnam homini satls :
Cant= est in horas."—HonAcs,
" Latet anguis in herba."—VIROIL.

We make no doubt that our readers will readily hear what
we have to say upon a matter very important at this time
both to the pub3ie and the profession—the present " disease"
amongst potatoes. It concerns us to inquire into the subject,
as well from an interest which we feel in the fate of the poor,
who will be the chief ,sufferers by the calamity, as from a de-
sire we have to ail the ',rise working of an efficient system of
hygiene, by stating the baA effects which we have known to
follow the use of this depraved food.
The "potato murrain," as it has been ridiculously called, is
said to be comparatively new in this country, but has been
known in America for many years past. During the present
season it has visited us to so serious a.n extent as to cause
considerable anxiety for the physical welfare of that class of
people who are in a great measure sustained by potato-food.
The " disease" has prevailed more or less extensively
throughout the land; the salubrious atmosphere and kindly
soil of Ireland have not exempted that country from the
visitation, and it has swept with various severity through
the continent, but purticularly in Belgium, Germany, and
Holland.
As the matter interests everybody, so we find that almost
everybody has got an opinion upon it. In the midst of the
mass of speculation, it is not to be wondered at that a good
deal of folly as well as falsehood shold be let loose upon one's
credulity and wonderment. There are a certain class of
people yclept philosophers, and we fear we must include in
that very large class another scarcely less capacious, we mean
the soi-ilisant sect of chemists, who are able to see and ready
to swear anything. Give them a subject with a crotchet in
it, and they will have an explanation ready in no time. The
one will prove, by a series of reasoning as difficult to refute
as to comprehend, that such and such causes are at work,
and, ergo, that such and such consequences must follow; the
other will prove the precise opposite, and confirm the truth
of his theory by chemical analysis, carried out with such de-
cimal minuteness, that, like the lote tree in Mahomet's seventh
heaven, there is no going beyond it. The one silences you
with an awful profundity that neither himself nor anybody
else can fathom ; the other knocks you down, or rather
tries to do, with ultimate analysis and the talismanic name
of Liebig. There are some people with whom this system of
illustrious humbug operates like mesmerism, but we old-
fashioned folks don't belong to the class of greedy gullibles,
and we feel little inclined to trust either the words or the
figures of one-half of the Giessen-bitten boys of the present
day, without something more than their own proof, per se, of
the integrity of what they utter.
To return to our subject, as one upon which philosophic,
microscopic, and chemical speculation are magnificently rife
just now, we find all sorts of theories propounded to account