The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

An order was yesterday received at Chatham garrison
from the Horse Guards, directing 100 non-commissioned
officers and men to be selected from the detachments of
Royal Engineers under orders to India, the whole of whom
are to be held in readiness for immediate embarkation,
under the command of Capt. W. S. Burton, now in charge
of the 37th depot company, The order directs that the
non. commissioned officers and men required to proceed to
India are to be selected from the sappers and miners who
have completed their course of instruction in field engineer-
ing and have passed ihrough the topographical and sur-
veying schools, rho men are to be supplied with their sea
kits, in order that they may be ready to embark as soon as
the order to that :fleet has been received from the Horse
Guards.

In consequence of the misunderstanding which has arisen
with respect to tie order issued some time since relative to
the infliction of corporal punishment in the army and the
classification of soldiers in the first and second class, a
general order ha: been issued from the Horse Guards, and
promulgated at Chatham garrison for general information,
in which the Field-Marshal Coromanaing in-Chief directs
that a soldier consicted of habitual drunkenness shall be
degraded to the second class, and if again convicted within
12 months shall suffer corporal punishment.

The 3d, 27th, and 333 companies of Royal Engineers,
serving at Gibraltar, and the 30th and 31st companies, at
Malta, having been reduced in their numbers from dis-
charges and men who have been invalided, orders have been
received at headquarters, Chatham, directing the required
number of non•commissianed officers, sappers, and buglers
to be selected from the depot c,mpanies to augment those
companies to their full strength. The men selected were
inspected at Brompten Barracks, yesterday, and are to be
held in readiness to embark forthwith.

Major General Wards, C. 8., commanding the garrison
at Woolwich, yesterday Geld what is termed a dismounteo
field day, to be repeated weekly, and paraded the whole of
the brigades of Royal Artillery on the Barrack-fild, where
they underwent a thorough inspection and marched past.
The General was attenced by his aide-do-camp, Captain
Williams ; Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General, Capt.
Nangla ; Brigade Major Hay, and other officers.

The Earl of Dunmore, Lord Abinger, and other officers
on leave in England iron their respective battalions of the
Guards in Canada have received orders not to rejoin their
battalions.

Col. J. R. Farquharson is about to retire from the Scots
Fusilier Guards.

The third battalion of the Grenadier Guards, under the
command of Colonel the Prince Edward cf Saxe Weimar,
C. 8., will leave London on Tuesday next for the camp at
Aldershot, to relieve the second battalion of the Coldstream
Guards, under the command of Colonel Stepney, C. 8., for
a month's duty.
The Italian screw steam frigate Prince Umberto, 50,
Capt. S. Bou, from Cderbourg, with a number of naval
cadets on board torinstruction, arrived in Plymouth Sound
on Wednesday afternocei, bound to New York.
The screw steam frigate Narcisssus, 39, flag of Sir B.
W. Walker, last from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth
Sound on Wednesday. She was appointed to go into
Hamoaze yesterday, to be dismantled and placed in the
third division of the Stearn Reserve. Her crew will be paid
off in a few days.

The paddlewheel steam vessel Bulldog, 6, Capt. Charles
Wake, accompanied by the gunboat Delight, was appointed
to leave Plymouth yesterday for Bermuda, via Halifax.
The two Turkish lint. of-battle frigates Estourel, Capt.
Hassean Bey, and the Relepers Nusrett, Capt. Ahmed
Bey, yesterday entered the Thames and moored at Purfieet,
together w:th her Majeity's convoy, the paddlewheel slool,
Geyser, Com. A. T. Tbtupp, who, proceeded to Woolwich
in his gig, and reportet himself to the Commodore Supe-
rintendent of the dockyard. The Geyser was immediately
ordered to return to Polsmouth. The Turkish frigates, it
is stated, are about to bt stripped and docked at Blackwall,
to be fitted with steam tachinery at Green and Wigram's.
The crews will probably be berthed on board a couple ot
hulks at Woolwich dining the conversion of the ships, the
Turkish Ambassador hiving seat a requisition to the Board
or Admiralty for that pirpose.
The following appohtments and promotions have been
made at the Admiralty:—Lieut. Philip R. H. Parker,
Lieut. Paul Sterr, and Lieut. John Hope to the Curagoa—
Lieut. A. T. Brooke, t. the Duke of Wellington—Lord A.
C. G. Lennox, midshipman, to the Edgar—and W. Wise.
man, midshipman, to the Curagoa—Henry Dyer, PaYntas •
ter additional, to the St. George—J. 11. Hewlett, chief
engineer. to the Indus, for the Encounter, when paid off—
assist—engineer, to tke Indus, for hospital treatment—Go
Pt M Knight, assist,engineer, to the Bulldog—J. Adams,
T. Ludlow, assist,-entineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary
G. J. Weeks, assist,-engineer, to the Himalaya—T. F.
Shelley, of
:the Ash, J. Taylor (B), of the Salamin,
George Purkes, and J. E. Warner, of the Marlborough,
promoted to be first dam assist..-engineers—A. J. Tout, ot
the Jason, J. Nelson,
of the Rinaldo, J. Ferguson (B), of
the Forte, G. Quick, of the Rattler, and J. Lurie, of the
Hesper, promoted to be acting first class assist.-engineers,
Commander W. B. lirmston, to the Styx, vice. Hon. W. J.
Ward, promoted—Charles A. Pritchard, paymaster, to be
secretary to Sir Charles Fremantle—and W. J. Hubbard,
assist.-clerk, to the Urgent.

Alarming Incident in a Railway Carriage,

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Mr Thomas Beard, the well-known solicitor of Basing-
hall-street, on Tuesday evening last, entered the half-past
nine o'clock train from Fenchurch-street to Snaresbruok,
where he resides. In the same compartment of the carriage,
we presume a first-class, were several persons, but all
alighted at the Stratford station. Just as the train was
again starting a man entered, closed the door, and sat down
being in the further and oppo-
site corne
and wearing a black and white
et hl neatoics ke thick-net, oeyt ,
r. This person wan rather tall, proportionately
heldthseomoetthheinr.g about
attewveor faeretticilne
leather, and appeared to be
straw hat slouched over his forehead. In his right hand,
length, about the thickness of an ordinary ruler or an iron
:hdtri)sesMsed side,r ;ißn
he
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thinnerbar. I at t wcanse eenncda s etdh ainn
it was its owner appeared determined to keep it
safe and lout of sight, for after the cursory
view obtained as he enteren he kept it completely behind
him, and apparently:his hand on it. " Isn't the train late ?"
he asked, " j think it is," was the reply. " What is the
right time?', Mr Beard took from his waistcoat pocket a
gold lever watch, suspended by a chain of like material, but
at the same instant the extreme folly and incautiousness of
such an act struck him so forcibly that he mechanically
replaced it. He looked up—his companion had not risen,
but was yet nearer by a foot, from the corner —his right
hand still behind lain", and his eyes fixed upon the chain
Mr Beard felt exceedingly uncomfortable. " Strange thing
that murder of Mr Briggs in the railway carriage ?" "Yes, ,
very." "Do you think there was more than one in it, eh ?"
" I can't ay.,' Anything fresh about it to-day, eh ?"
This afforded what for the instant appeared a good, oppor-
tunity, and flinging an evening paper to the stranger Mr
Beard replied, " Look for yourself," at the same time fully
resolving to open the door of the carriage, if not to spring
from it while his interrogator opened the sheets of the jour-
nal—but he was disappointed. The man took up the news-
paper with his left hand, slid along the seat, his right
hand being still behind his back. until he gaadually
faced his travelling companion, threw the paper down
without looking at it, and saying, "I can't read—getting
too of d," placed his left arm completely across the
window frame. There they sat, the stranger lean-
ing for ward until his left hand was within six inches of
Mr Beard, find his attention still fixed on the gold
chain. Not for a second had that gentleman's
eyes, from tbz time he had taken out his watch, been
averted from t tat much-feared right arm, ever in the same

position, and its owner's face, which, despite the slouched
hat, was now more discernible. Not another word passed.
Mr Beard would not leave his seat, although ho momentrily
expected to be grasped or struck. It was on the side of
the much-coveted, but yet distant platform ; and when there
he could give an alarm, if prevented from getting out of the
carriage. Still his position was becoming unbearable, and
the recollection of the recent horrible murder on the same
line of railway rendered him almost powerless. He was
becoming postively ill ; gradually, very gradually, he got
his hand as without a motive on the window space ; the
whistle sounded; not a movement betokened his intention
to leave; the train eased; stranger inclined slightly back;
the platform was reached ; "Low Station" was sounded by
the guard and porters; and as one of the men passed Mrß.
started up, twisted the handle of the door at the same mo-
ment, and was out, and the next was in an adjoining com-
partment well occupied, from which as the train again
moved forward he observed the wearer of the slouched hat
walking hastily away as though in quest of some one. On
arriving at Snaresbrook, Mr. Beard made a communication
of what had occurred to Mr Wooten, the station-master,
and has since done so to Mr Superintendent Howie, K
division of police, so thoroughly convinced is he that a
murderous outrage was purposed, and would have been per-
petrated but for the plan he had adopted, or had ho pro-
ceeded further in the carriage he first occupied.