The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The 2d Company of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Capt. Sandford, with Lieuts. Peck and
Howard, took its departure from Brompton Bar-
racks, Chatham, on Tuesday, and proceeded to

Dover, where the company embarked or, board her

Majesty's screw steamer Orontes, 500 home power,
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Capt. Hine, for the Mauritius, to relieve the 25th
Company ordered home. The 2d was the company
of Royal Engineers which did such good service

at the International Exhibition, and the valuable

aid rendered by the officers and men was acknJw•
ledged in a general order issued by command of the

Duke of Cambridge.
The annual garrison sports by the officers, non•'
commissioned officers, and troops at Chatham took
place yesterday afternoon on Chatham Lines, under
the immediate patronage of Major-Gen. Sir Robert

Walpole, K.C.8., in command of the district. The

whole of the arrangements were under the manage■

ment of Mejor J. Buckley, the secretary, and the

committee of the Soldiers' Institute. The sports

consisted of flat and hurdle races, wide and high
jumps, throwing the hammer, shot, and cricket ball,

" putting" the stone, sack races, and various other
amusements, in most of which the officers of the
garrison took a leading part. The successful coma
petitors among the non-commissioned officers and
men received prizes varyirg from 20s to 2s, while
the officers' prizes consisted of opera glasses, riding
whips, hunting spurs, courier bags, &c. The greatest
amount of interest was taken in the sports by both
officers and men, and the number of competitors
who entered for each race was very large. The
sports were witnessed by a large number of specta-
tors beside the military, who entered into all the
I games with much keenness.
The headquarters staff and the 4th, 6th, and Bth

batteries of the 13th Brigade Royal Artillery yes•
terday left Woolwich for permanent station at
Doder. The detail is as follows ;—Col. E. B. Ham.
ley, Paymaster A. S. Murray, Capt, and Adjt. J.
M. C. Vibart, Quartermaster J. Fyfe, Snrg. G. F.
Bone, M.D., Assist.-Sorg. A. D. Gulland, M.D.,
Capt. E. T. A. Law, Lieuts. E. Bainbridge and 0.
Callaghan, Capts. W. Gilmore, G. F. S. Budd, and
Barnett; Lieuts. A. Logan and W. P. Platt; 400
nonscommissioned officers and men, 42 women, and
52 children.

The Ist battalion of the 6th Regiment of Infantry
~he Royal Ist Warwickshire) arrived at Ports.
mouth yesterday morning by special train on the
South Western Railway from Aldershot, and ema
barked on board her 11r.sjesfy's screw troopship
Himalaya, Capt. E. Lacy, for conveyance to Ply-
mouth, under the superintendence of Col. Shadwell,
Assist.-Quartermaster-General, in the following
strength :—Lieut.-Col. Lowe, C. 8., in command ;
Majors R. Unwin and S. 0. Bovill ; Capts. E. Lloyd,
H. B. Feilden, R. H. Goodwin, W. C. F. B. Ben 4
nett, R. Bolton, A. Austin, T. Bowen, J. G. Cock'
burn, and P. B. Simpson; Lients. S. T. Bowers, I.
B. Hopkins, J. Franklin, 3, B. Mac Kenna, G. W.
B. Collis, LM., H. Mahoney, Baird, and W. H.
Falcon; Ensigns Hebeler, Granville, Crisp, Edwards,
Whitworth, and Barton; Paymaster W. Wastle,
Surgeon A. P. Cahill, M.D., Assist.-Surgeon A. R.
Hudson, M. 8.; 44 sergeants, 21 drummers, 38 cor-
porals, 609 privates ; 59 soldiers' wives, and 63 chil-
dren, The Himalaya sailed from Portsmouth, last
evening, and was expected to arrive at Plymouth
about daybreak this morning. The 6th will disem.
bark from the Himalaya at Plymouth this morning,
and the 31st Regiment will embark on board the
Himalaya on Friday (to-morrow), with which she
will immediately afterwards sail for Portsmouth.
She is expected to arrive there early on Saturday
morning, where the 31st will be disembarked and
forwarded on by special train on the South Western
Railway to the camp at Aldershot.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Gladiator, 6, Capt.
Francis H. Shortt, from Cape Coast Castle, arrived
yesterday morning in Plymouth Sound. A large
ship of war under canvass, from the westward, was
then outside the Breakwater, getting up steam,
apparently intending to enter the Sound. She was
supposed to be the screw steam frigate Liverpool,
39, Captain Rowley Lambert, from the West Indies.
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TRIBUTE OF RESPECT TO A FAITHFUL SERVANT.
—Mr. Benjamin Walters, for many years the faith-
ful servant of Dr. Stanley, Dean of Westminster, who died
at the Deanery on the 21st inst., and who the previous
week lost two children, aged respectively five and seven
years, was buried at Oxford yesterday, at the Holywell
Cemetery in that city. Dr. Stanley, who travelled many
miles for the purpose of performing the last services of the
Church over the body of a devoted and affectionate domestic,
was much affected during the sad ceremony. Lady Stanley,
to mark her respect for the deceased, attended, in company
with Dr. Jacobson, Regius Professor of Divinity, as ono
of the mourners.
A HULL STEAMER ON FIRE.—On Tuesday morn
ing, about 3 o'clock, the steamer Excelsior, Capt.
Toogood, arrived at Hull from Hamburg, having on board
a heavy cargo consisting principally of shoddy and bran.
On opening the forehatch for the purpose of commencing the
discharge of the cargo, thick volumes of smoke arose from
the hold. Without loss of time the dock authorities were
informed of the circumstance, and the company's fire engine
was quickly on the spot. The police hose, as well as the
steam hose belonging to the vessel, were brought into re-
quisition, and a large quantity of water poured down the
hold. After playing on the burning cargo for about an hour
the fire was extinguished. As soon as the smoke and steam
had cleared away a number of labourers were set to work
to get out the cargo, when it was found that several bales
of shoddy and bags of bran had been destroyed, and others
partially so. Several cases were also damaged. The vessel,
which is built of iron, was very little worse. The fire is
said to have been the result of spontaneous combustion. The
crew, it is said, perceived a smell as of burning wood as the
Excelsior was crossing the North Sea.
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