The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-19 00:00:00

NAPLES

A letter of February 8 says :—" The police have
made searches at the houses of Generals Leccal
Ischitalla (the ex•minister of war), and Filangieri,
the late royal lieutenant of Sicily. A search was
also made at the house of General Filangieri's
daughter. Tricoloured placards, bearing the
inscription Viva la Costituzione, are distributed by
thousands. Arrests continue to be made among
the employes in the ministries and the army."

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The 234 Royal Welsh Fusiliers, quartered at
Portsmouth and Gosport, were inspected on South
Sea Common on Monday afternoon, by Major-
General Breton, the Commander in Chief of the
South-West district. The regiment mustered up.
wards of 1,500 strong, and went through all the
movements incidental to an official inspection, to
the satisfaction of the General.

The number of troops' who have volunteered for
the various Indian oorpS at Chatham is about 800,
the whole of whom will join their depots at Cha-
tham barracks.

Her Majesty's steam vessel Wye, Master-Com-
mander Moore, two guns and 100 horse power,
arrived at Spithead on Tuesday from the Mediter-
ranean. She left Gibraltar on the 9th inst. On
'the 10th and 11th' she encountered heavy gales
from the north-west, and lost a quarterboat, but
had fine weather crossing the Bay of Biscay.
The Wye was formerly the Heels, and
was bought by the Government from the
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company to be
converted into a watertank for distilling water for
the use of the fleet, then at Balaklava. She was
fitted for this duty by Mr. T. T. Grant, the Con-
troller of Victualling at Portsmouth Dockyard, i❑
the fall of the year 185.5, and sent to the Black Sea
in the spring of the following year, where she has.
been distilling from 30,000 to 35,000 gallons of water
per day of excellent quality. The grew has had no
other water, and there has been no sickness among
them. She left Spithead for Woolwich to be paid off.
The Governor of Gibraltar was particularly desirous
that the Wye should have been left there, as when
she sailed he had not more than 1,000 gallons of
water in the garrison, She brought home Captain
Ross, RN., Mr. Goldsworthy, R.N., Lieutenant
Butcher, R M , invalided from her Mrjesty's ship
Curagoa; Mrs. Allen and son; and Dr. Toms,
R N„ in medical charge, on promotion.
The Roebuck, 6. steam despatch vessel, has been
taken into the steam basin at Portsmouth to be
brought forward for service.

The Plumper, 6, screw sloop, Capt. Richards,
has been taken out of dock at Portsmouth, after
repairs, and taken under the shears to be remasted.
Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.B , struck
his flag on board the Victory on Monday morning,
and proceeded to town to be present at the mar-
riage of his niece, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maid
of Honour to the Queen, to Colonel Biddulph,
Controller of Her Majesty's Household.
A portion of the Crimean stores brought to
Chatham from Kortelt by the engineer corps of the
Turkish Contingent is to be forwarded to Alder-
shott for the use of the troops at the camp, and on
Tuesday afternoon four carts filled with artificers'
tools were forwarded from Chatham, in addition
to which sixteen of the large pontoons and
eight rafts hasie also been forwarded to Alder
shott, to be used by. the Royal Engineers
stationed there. Twelve of General Blanshard's
pontoons and six rafts have also been sent to
Sandhurst, where they wi!l be used by the young
officers. In addition to the stores which have
already been forwarded to Aldershott, 12 waggons
and carts, laden with intrenching tools, will be sent
from Chatham this day. Nearly the whole of the
stores have now been removed from the gun-wharf
and deposited at Brompton barracks.
The Irie, 26, Capt. W. Loring, C. 8., fitting at
Chatham for the Australian station, under
orders to proceed to sea to morrow..
The Diamond, 27, Captain C. B. Hamilton (1535),
was to lie paid off at Chatham yesterday.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :
Lieutenant Richard C. Mayne, to the Plumper ;
E. M. Tupper, mate, to the Iris ; Wm Parsons,
midshipthan, to the Victory ; A. J. Errington,
midshipman, to the Impregnable; and Robert W.
M. Jones, paymaster, to the Curlew.

A PORTABLB SCHOOL ROOM.- ..Mr. Robert Ault, builder,
of Stoorbridge, has erected at Wordsley a school room
formed in compartments, screwed together, which can be
taken to pieces and removed to any other site. It is 24
feet long, 16 wide, and 15 from the floor to the roof. The
whole is constructed of timber, and capable of accommodat-
ing 100 children. A composition has been applied to the
exterior, which renders it weatherproof. The. building
was erected for the sum of Z6O,
including a belfry and
shutters. Such a school room would be very useful where
a site or funds are difficult to obtain, or where the ground
is undermined or the population fluctuating.