The Sun.
London, England, 1855-10-11 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw block-ship Pembroke, 60, Capt. Seymour,
was taken into dock yesterday at Portsmouth, to make
good sonic defects prior to proceeding (it is reported) on
service, in company with the Cornwallis, 60, Captain
Wellesley.

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The Russell, 60, Capt. F. Scott, was taken into the
steam basin at Portsmouth yesterday to repair defects ;
and the Blazer and Prompt mortar-vessels were taken
into the fitting basin with the like object.
The transport St. Vincent, No. 18, left Spithead yes-
terday evening for the Thames to be paid off.
The Porpoise mortar-vessel left Portsmouth yesterday
afternoon for Plymouth.
The Simoom steam troop-ship, 18, Capt. T. R. Sun-
van, will be taken to Stokes Bay to-day, to make a trial
of her newly-fitted engines.
The Sampson, 6, paddle-frigate, havingbeen thoroughly
refitted, is now being remasted ready for the pendant.
About 190 military invalids left the Clarence Barracks,
Portsmouth, on Tuesday evening for the invalid depot at
Chatham. They arrived recently from the seat of war
in the Crimea. The transport William Jackson brought
87, all of whom were men engaged in the attack on the
Redan of the 18th of June. Every man is wounded ex-
cept the cooks and orderlies, and one-third minus an arm
or a leg ; the men of the Edwin Fox transport, 103 in
number, are also mostly wounded. Clarence Barracks
has only a few men left in it, who are waiting for a
vessel to take them to Ireland on furlough. Five ships
have arrived at Portsmouth with invalids within the
present month, amounting in number to 750.
The Penelope, 18, paddle-frigate, Captain Sir William
Wiseman, is refitting in the steam basin at Portsmouth.
The Salamander steam-sloop has a great number of
hands employed upon her to expedite her refit at Ports-
mouth.

The Imperatriz steam-transport is expected to embark
upwards of 900 men and officers of the British German
Legion this afternoon at Portsmouth Dockyard for the

Crimea.

The Shannon, new 50 gun steam-frigate, bas a large
number of hands employed upon her in Portsmouth
Dockyard, who are progressing rapidly with her con-
struction. A good number of men are also employed on
the screw three-decker Royal Sovereign ; and the tim-
bers are all arranged and marked for commencing the
new three-decker Victoria on the slip from which the
Marlborough was launched.
The receiving ship Hibernia, 104, was towed by her
pinnaces out of Plymouth Sound on Tuesday, and sailed
for Malta, where she is to be stationed. The Havannah
is appointed to sail for South America to-day.
The hired screw transport Queen of the South, having
embarked a detachment of the Land Transport Corps,
sailed from Plymouth for the Crimea on Tuesday.
The hired bark Alert, Commander Stewart, with ge-
neral stores and provisions from the Royal William Vic-
tualling Yard, Plymouth, sailed for Balaklava on Tues-
day, _ _ . _ . .

-Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam-sloop Fury, 6, Com-
mander Ennis Chambers. 21 days from Athens, arrived
in Plymouth Sound yesterday • all well.
The Hanoverian schooner Hermena, detained in Ply-
mouth Sound on Saturday, was released by the Custom-
house authorities on Monday.
The Dee, Master Commander Pullen, has arrived at

Woolwich from Portsmouth, and is gone into basin to
receive on board a cargo of machinery for the western

yards.
Captain Vandeleur, instructor of artillery, with other
officers of the proof department in the Royal gun factory
of Woolwich Arsenal, was yesterday engaged in the trial
of four experimental 24-pounders. Mr. Fairbairn, of
Manchester, the founder of the guns, was present to

mark the result. These guns, which are of iron, were
constructed for the purpose of ascertaining the capabili-
ties of this particular class, which are subject to different
processes and are made of various mixtures. The trials
terminated favourably. It is intended to carry on fur-
ther experiments with these guns.

The following promotions and appointments, made at
the Admiralty yesterday, appeared in our third edition
last night :
PROMOTIONS.

Commanders Sanderson, Etheridge, F. L. Barnard,
and A. Phillimore, to be Captains.
Lieutenants Richard Williamst, Robert D. Stupart,
Henry A. Hollinworth, and Samuel H. Henderson, to
be Commanders.

APPOINTMENTS.
Commander E. Peirse, to the Medea, vice Phillimore,
promoted.
Lieutenant John F. Griffith, to the Pembroke.
Lieutenant Duncan G. Davidson, to the Cornwallis.
Naval Cadet C. E. Foot, to the Hawke.
Naval Cadet H. G. Fitzgerald, to the Simoom.

We believe that we can state (says the Morning
Herald), with some degree of confidence that the Lords
of the Admiralty have determined upon effecting a
change in the uniform for the officers of the Royal Navy
In future epaulettes are to be dispensed with in ali
branches of the service, and certain distinctive insignia
will be placed upon the collars and cuffs of the coat,
which will partake somewhat of the loose character of
the tunic recently introduced into the army. We are
satisfied that this step on the part of the Admiralty will
be received with satisfaction, as all who have served in
the navy well know the expense of purchasing epaulettes,
and the trouble of keeping them in order on foreign Ser-
vice. Gold lace is not to be entirely done away with,
and the report which was lately circulated to the effect
that the civil portion of the service was to have silver
lace is quite untrue. There will be no distinction made.
We are glad to find that the Wye, steam-vessel, which
for some months past has been fitted with Mr. Grant's
admirable apparatus for distilling fresh from sea water,
has been commissioned, for the purpose of proceeding
without delay to the Black Sea, there to be placed under
the orders of Sir Edmund Lyons, to be employed either
as a despatch or transport vessel, or to carry out the
original intentions of the Admiralty, in case the army or
fleet should be in want of a supply of water independent
of that which can be procured from the shore. The
letters from our correspondents in the Baltic do not
supply us with any intelligence of importance beyond
the fact that every preparation is now being made to
send home gradually all the big ships. The Lords of
the Admiralty have notified that all colliers going from
England with supplies of coals to the fleet must be at
Kiel by the Ist of November, or forfeit their contracts.