The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Field-Marshal Com-
manding-in• Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on
Wednesday nest.
Yesterday, about 2 p.m., a 50. gun screw steam
frigate, bearing the Dutch flag, an3hored at the
Nore, and saluted the garrison and flagship, the
salutes being returned by the saluting battery and
the Formidable, 84, flagship of Vice-Admiral Sir C.
Talbot, K.C.B. Later in the day the vessel steamed
into the Medway and took up her moorings there.
It was then ascertained that she was a Dutch war
steamer which had sailed the previous day from
Tesel for Batavia, with instructions to call in at
Plymouth. Just before anchoring at the Nore she
appeared to have come into violent collision with a
merchant ship, by which she lost her fore topgal.
lant mast and jibboom, besides breaking her bow-
sprit, and sustaining other damage to her hull and
machinery. She will be placed in one of the vacant
docks to make good defects. This will probably
occupy some weeks.
By direction of the Admiralty a number of the
officials connected with the master shipwright and
engineer departments at Woolwich dockyard have
attended at Chatham dockyard, for the purpose of
making themselves acquainted with the method
adopted at that establishment for bending the six.
inch and other armour plates for the ironclad
frigates Bellerophon and Lord Warden.
The Assurance, 4, 200 horse power, Commander
H. B. Woolcombe, is making good her defects and
refitting in the Medway, preparatory to proceeding
to the Mediterrean.

The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan-
mure, H, T. Moore, commander, yesterday hauled
off from the wharf at Woolwich Arsenal, under
orders to proceed to Purfleet and ship 1,600 barrels
of powder for Marchwood. The remainder of her
cargo consists of guns of large calibre (sent to the
Royal gun factories to be resighted and repaired),
shot, and general war stores. Her delay at Wool-
wich has been occasioned by the necessity of un-
shipping her cargo in order to land the four 300-
pounders destined for her Majesty's cupola ship &ors
pion, formerly one of the Confederate rams, and
which was intended to be fitted out at Portsmouth,
whither her armament was ordered to bo despatched,
Their Lordships have now ordered her fitment to
be completed at Birkenhead. The guns will be
sent round specially.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Industry has
sailed from Woolwich and Deptford with victual-
ling and dockyard stores for Ascension and Rio
Janeiro.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Fox, Staff Com-
mander Thomas Pullen, was yesterday warped out
of the fitting basin at Woolwich, atter repairs, and
went alongside the coal hulk to prepare for sea.
An order has been received at Portsmouth to pay
the Vesuvius, 6, paddle, out of. commission. The
Vesuvius, has lately arrived home from the North
American and West India station, and was placed
in dock at Portsmouth on her arrival to ascertain
the amount of damage she had received by ground.
ing, some short time previously to leaving the
station, in the Bay of Islands, on the west coast of
Newfoundland, This damage has proved so exten-
sive that it was found necessary to put the ship out
of commission, and hence the present order.
Yesterday being the anniversary of the battle of
Trafalgar, Lord Nelson's flagship on that occasion,
the Victory, now and for many years past the fleg.
ship] of the Port-Admiral at Portsmouth, was
crowned with evergreen wreaths at each royal
masthead, and otherwise decorated in the usual
manner in honour of the day. It has been an esta-
blished custom for the pensioners residing in or
near Portsmouth who fought under Nelson on
d Trafalgar's day" to repair on board the Victory,
where they were received with all due honours.
This band has gradually dwindled away. Last year
it was represented by three persons, and yesterday
only one was present.
The Imperial Russian corvette Gardamack, Capt.
Pesterhouroff, sailed from Spit head on Thursday
for the Baltic, Sweaborg, and Cronstadt.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com.
mander Arthur T. Thrupp, last from Queenstown,
which left Plymouth some days since to relieve
homeward bound ships in the entrance to the
Channel, returned to the Sound yesterday morning.
The iron screw steam troopship Urgent, 4, Capt.
Samuel H. Henderson, which landed Sappers at
Plymouth, and has on board a number for convey.
ance to Ireland, is detained in the Sound by heavy
weather.

A large proportion of the officers and men forma
ing the brigades and divisions of Royal Artillery at
Woolwich have this week been granted leave of
absence and furlough to visit their friends, as the
garrison out-door exercises, have in a measure,
terminated for the season. Yesterday, in conse-
quence of the favourable weather, a brigade of the
battalion of Royal Marine Light Infantry at Wool.
with, under the command of Col.-Commandant
Hopkins, C. 8., aide•descamp, paraded for drill on
the upper part of Woolwich common, and after
marching past they performed a variety of extended
movements.

The construction of No. 11 Dock at Portsmouth
yard has at length reached that stage of progress
that it has been found necessary to remove all the
vessels from the steam basin, with which the new
dock communicates, in order to construct the dock
entrance and fit in its caisson. The vessels have
not only been removed from the steam basin, but
the water is now being pumped out of it in order
to enable the contractors to deepen the basin, level
its floor, and improve the approaches through it to
the new dock. Adventage will also be taken of the
opportunity to deepen and improve the entrance to
No. 7, the adjoining dock to No. 11, the floor of
which it is also intended to deepen as early as time
can be given to the work. This deepeuieg of the
ettarn basin and improving the entrances to the
docks which are connected with it will deprive
Portsmouth yard of the use of its steam basin
and the " Warrior" Dock for three or four menthe,
but the adoption of such a course is unavoidabh:
No. 10, on the north inlet as it is termed in some
official documents, when completed, will be a most
important addition to the docking resources of Ports-
mouth. It is 400 ft in length, 35ft wide on the floor,
and 100 ft at the coping. Up to the broad alter it is
built entirely of granite. From the broad alter it
is built upwards with seven layers of Portland
blocks having a vertical facing, and the four upper
layers being set baok in the usual manner to the

The annual inspection of the Dorset Rifle Volun-
teers took place at Malden Castle, Ddrchester, on
Thursday, before Colonel Hume and Earl Shaftes-
bury, the Lord-Lieutenant of the county; at the
conclusion of the inspection his Lordship addressed
the battalion. He said it was a matter of certainty
now that whenever they were reviewed upon those
plains they bad the praises, not olly of the Lord-
Lieutenant, but of the inspecting officer of every ono
who saw their movements. What could he add on
the present occasion to that which had fallen from
Colonel Hume, a man whose opinions were founded
upon experience and long-tried warfare in the ser•
vice of his country, and, as they saw by the medals
on his breast, had received the reward of his hon.
ourable achievements ? He (the noble lord) could
only endorse what had been said, and hoped they
would attend to his advice, and follow that of their
gallant officer, Colonel Mansel, to whom he thought
the whole county, and he might add, the whole
Volunteer service, was much indebted. (Cheers,)
Now, this Volunteer service had passed from an
experiment into a certainty. He confessed when it
commenced he had some doubts about its iperman.
ence, some doubt whether the men of England would
enter into it with so much heart and soul, some
doubt whether they would give up so much of their
time, eserifice so thuch of their pleasure, and sur-
, render so much of their property for the purpose of
maintaining this great cause—the defence of their
shores from any invading enemy. (Cheers.) This
service has now passed into an institution, an insti-
tution which no other country, as he had said be-
fore on previous occasions, but now said again, which
no other:country could possess, because no other na-
tion dared to entrust:arms and ammunition to 150,000
men without asking what they intended to do with
them. But the enemies of this country knew what
was intended to he done with them. They knew that
they were determined to defend these shores, and
had given a manifestation to the whole world that
they did not desire aggression, nor to interfere with
other men's rights and territories, but they were
determined to defend their own. They must let
him say that every one of them and every corps
represented the insignia of the Scotch Order of the
Thistle, of which probably they knew the motto,
which, in Latin, was "Nemo me impune lacessit ;"
or, in very good Anglo-Saxon, meant "You had
much better leave me alone." (Laughter.) This
was what they were saying to all nations, "We
will do no harm, but, so help us Heaven, if you come
here you will find to your cost you have mistaken
your men." But he must say, although they would
not only defend their shores, he trusted every one
would do what lay in his power, under God's bless.
ing, to make this country the refuge of the oppressed
and the asylum of those who sought its aecurity for
civil and religious freedom. Let that be the hon.
our of England, and their duty and charge together
with the defence of their families, and they would
then defend those great principles which were the
security and safeguard of the human race. (Cheers.)
But they must let him say one word respecting
their drill. Drill was the life of their movement.
Necessary it was that they should be conversant
with firearms, that they should be good shots, and
upon occasion be able to meet an enemy in many
ways; but drill was the life of the whole system.
Unless they could execute movements with precision
in the face of an enemy, all their skill, all their
courage, and all their determination would be of no
avail. He was delighted to see the manner in
which they he.d gone through it to• day, because it
showed the energy which had been devoted to this
the most trying part of the service. The drill had
tested their efficiency, and their success showed they
had undergone that drill which was necessary for
the service; therefore, from what he had seen he
was convinced that the volunteer service was now
permanent, and that there was no body of men
which would take precedence of the volunteers of
the county of Dorset. (Applause.) They must
know that there was in the Houses of Parliament a
custom called "swearing off"—that was, when a
member of those Houses had attained a certain age
(he need not say what that age was) he had the
privilege of swearing off—that was, refusing office,
either because he did not like it, or because he could
not do it. Although he (the noble lord) might have
attained that age, yet under God's blessing, he had
not reached that point when he was too old or did
not like to come among them. It was one of the
greatest prides he could enjoy, one of the greatest
pleasures he could pursue, one of the most honour-
able positions that he could ever attain, which had
been conferred upon him by her Majesty's condess
tension in being placed at the head of the Volum'
teers of the noble county of Dorset. In conclusion
his lordship said he would wish them goad morn.
ing, and hoped they would return to their hearths
and homes in happiness and peace, and there, in the
joys of domestic love, see what they had to fight for,
and so use their endeavours for their posterity to the
latest ages of their lives. (Loud cheers.)
His Lordship then distributed the prizes won at
the recent County Association shooting, after which
be left the ground amidst the cheers of the assem
bled multitude.

THE CLOSE OF TUE LIFE OF LADY HESTER
STANHOFE.—FinaIIy this eccentric lady settled at
Dar Joon, in Syria, not very distant from St. Jean d'Acre.
Whilst there, her spiritual visions assumed a distinct
shape. The Milennium was close at hand, and she was
the chosen bride of the Messiah of Nations—chosen front
before the foundations of the earth were laid—whose ad-
vent she hourly expected, and not less confidently after,
by the lapse of time and the indulgence of vicious habits,
she had withered into a smoking, chewing old crone,
whose chief occupation was swearing at the " black
beasts," her servants. Many persons from Europe visited
her at Dar Joon. The most distinguished of them was
M. Lamartine, who, in his " Eastern Travels," plentifully
bedaubs her with plaster of Paris, artistically coloured:
Lady Hester had condescended to prophecy high things of
the French poet ; her chief avowed reason for assuring hire
that he would rise to eminence in his own country being,
that although he could not pretend to an exalted instep
like her own, which a kitten might creep under, water
would flow beneath his pedal arch without wetting it.
Lamartine positively repeats this craziness as if he were
transcribing the sayings of a Plato. Lady Hester
also vouchsafed to show M. Lamartine two foals, cud..
ously marked on their backs, upon which the Messiah
and herself would make their entry into Jerusalem! The
chosen bride of the Messiah had, strangely enough, grown
oblivious of the maxims of common honesty. A pension of
£1,500 per annum . must be an enormous income at Dar
Joon, but her ladyship could not somehow or other make
both ends meet. Creditors became clamorous, and some of
the wiliest of them instructed agents in London to apply to a
court of equity for relief. The pension—at least a consi-
derable portion of it—might, they thought, be set aside for
the liquidation of her ladyship's debts. That, however,
could not bo done ; but Lord Pal.nerston, then Secretary
for Foreign Affairs (1538), apprised of the circumstance
by Colonel Campbell, the English Consul at Beyrout,
wrote to her ladyship, politely intimating that payment
of the pension would be suspended unless she would
make a bone fide effort to settle with her creditors. This
"impertinence to a Pitt" was warmly resented by Lady
fester, and, not condescending to reply direct to the
Foreign Secretary, she addressed a letter to the Queen
of England herself, threatening to give up her penFiun
and with it the name of an English subj.& and the slavery
which it entailed. As to Col. Campbell, her ladyship bad
half a mind to shoot him, either herself or by proxy ; he
having richly deserved that fate, " for having alienated
from the Queen and her country a person whom
great and small must acknowledge had raised the
English name in the East higher than any ono had
before done, besides having made philosophical researches
of every description for the benefit of mankind in
general." The final renunciati'm of the pension was,
however, postponed ; and soon a more potent creditor
than thoso who had invoked the intercession of Colonel
Campbell put in his claim. Lady Hester Stanhope died
suddenly in June, 1539. The favourite and beautiful niece
of the great 'William Pitt fills an obscure grave in the
Syrian wilderness, her only bequest to the world being the
sad mot al of leer life.—.Eceentric Zrsonagcs, by 'Mimi;
2Nosal, LL,D.

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