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

Naval and Military Intelligence.

His Royal Highness the Ficld-Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief will hold a levee at 1 o'clock on
Wednesday next.
Yesterday, about 2 p.m., a 50• gun screw stem
frigate, bearing the Dutch flag, anchored 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
Texel 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 storeehip Lord Pan-
inure, H, T. Moore, commander, yesterday hauled
off from the wharf at Woolwich Arsenal, under
orders to proceed to Parfleet 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 Score
pion, formerly one of the Confederate rams, and
which was intended to be fitted out at Portsmouth,
whither her armament was ordered to be 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, after 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 flag-
ship 3 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 este-
b:ished custom for the pensioners residing in or
near Portsmouth who fought under Nelson on
" 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.
Pesterhonroff, sailed from Spithead 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 troop ship 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 form.
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-de.camp, 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 deepening of the
steam 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 months,
but the adoption of such a course is unavoidable;
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 altcr it
is built upwards with seven layers of Portland
blocks having a vertical facing, and the four upper
layers being set back in the usual manner to the