The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Marlborough, 131, screw three-decker, Capt. Charles
Fellowes, late the flagship of the Admiral commanding her
Majesty's ships in the Mediterranean, was paid out of com-
mission yesterday at Portsmouth. The ship was in a very
cleanly condition in every part, and the appearance of the
crew as they passed round the tables to receive their pay
was a credit to themselves and their officers. The Marl-
borough joins the third class steam reserve, but will never
again be commissioned for foreign service in her present
form as a three decked ship.
The Ariel, 9, screw sloop, Commander Chapman, was paid
out of commission yesterday morning at Portsmouth. The
Ariel has been employed on the Cape of Good Hope station
and has made some lucky captures of slave vessels. On
Wednesday the paymaster paid on board to the officers and
men the prize money due them to that date, viz., £2,680.
There yet remains a large balance of prize money to be paid
over to the Ariel's crow, which it is calculated will yield a
further payment of from £3O to £35 to each able seamen,
and to other classes in proportion. The warrant officers'
total shares of the prize money will not fall much short of
£4OO when all has been paid up, nor that of the petty officers
much less than £2OO. The Ariel will join the steam reserve
at Portsmouth, but the amount of her defects, with her
small tonnage and shallow depth, render it very probable
she will be turned over to the breaking-up dock.

The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Thrupp, sailed from
Portsmouth last evening for Devonport, with seamen and
marines paid off from tho Marlborough and Ariel.
The ordnance transport Inkerman, with ordnance stores
on board, from Woolwich, bound for Dublin, anchored at
Spithead yesterday afternoon. A message had been re.
ceived at the office of the Admiral Commanding-in-Chief
at Portsmouth that the Inkerruan had grounded en the
shoals off Ch!ehr•ster harbour, and required assistance.
The Pigmy, paddle steamer, was immediately despatched
in charge of lisivtruutent pilot W. Main (in the absence on
leave of Master Commat:der Vine), and succeeded in getting
the Inkernma off• the shoals, and atterwarils towed her up
to the anchorage at Shithead. The Inkeruien appears to
have been coming down Channel, off Bracklesom Bay, with
the wind at S.S,W., when it suddenly veered to N.W., and
then dropped to a calm. The vessel's anchor was let go,
bat it failed to hold the ship, and she eventually tailed on
the shoal. There was no sea on at the time. The loiter-
man lay on the ground, and she is not supposed to have sus-
tained any material damage.
The Glatton, iron-cased floating battery, is being broken
up in No. 2 dock of Portsmouth yard.
The masts of the screw ►team corvette Jason, 21, Capt.
Edward P, B. Von Donop, at Devonport, were removed
yesterday. To•-morrow her crew will bo paid off, and she
wall be placed in the fourth division of the steam reserve in
llamoaze.

The repairs of the iron screw steam-ship Achilles, 20,
Capt. Edward W. Vansittart, having been completed, she is
under orders to be removed from liamosze into Plymouth
Sound.

The floating steam factory Chasseur, in Chatham harbour,
having had her bottom covered with an anti-fouling com-
position; and also a portion of her hull paid over with Gis-
borne's mercurial anti-corrosive and anti-fouling mixture,
for experimental purposes, is ordered to be removed from
Chatham to Sheerness, to be employed in connexion with the
steam reserve in the Medway. Ail examination was made
yesterday of that portion of the bottom to which the Gis-
borne composition has been applied, but no accumulation
either of vegetable or animal matter was discovered on the
plates, while a coating of incipient seaweed had already
begun to take possession of the bottom treated with the or-
dinary anti-fouling composition,

The paddlewheel steamer Sheerness, 2, having been fitted
with one of the improved Lumley rudders by order of the
Admiralty, will resume her station between Chatham and
Sheerness, for harbour duty. The reports made to the Ad-
miralty of the working of the Lumley rudder on board two
of the steamers at Chatham to which it has already been
applied have been satisfactory, and accordingly their Lord-
ships have sanctioned the adoption of the invention on
board the Sheerness, it being important in a crowded and
tortuous harbour as at Chatham for the steersman to have
his vessel under complete control.
The following caution has been posted by command of
the Admiralty in conspicuous positions in the various
Government dockyards :

" Caution.—Notico is hereby given, by way of caution, 1
that any person discovered taking from any of her Majesty'
ships or vessels, without permission or authority, any stores
or provisions, however trifling in value, is liable to be pro,
scouted either for felony or unlawful possession, Seamen
in her Majesty's service committing such offences will in
addition to other punishment, be liable to be discharged
from her Majesty's service and so lose any pension to which
they:may be entitled."

A number of mechanics and artisans at Chatham Dock-
yard have just been superannuated from that establishment
by order of the Admiralty, on the new scale of pensions
laid down by the Treasury.
Ths appointment of Commander R. Stokes, master-at-
tendant and Queen's harbour- master at Chatham, a member
of the naval commission to advise the Lords of the Privy
Council on all questions arising on the salvage of ships, and
on matters relating to navigation generally, was received at
Chatham Dockyard yesterday from the Admiralty, Com-
mander Stokes filled the responsible appointment of master
of the Baltic fleet during the Russian war, and since then
he has held equally important appointments, which qualify
him for the duties devolving upon him as ono of the advisers
of the Privy Council.

The next competitive examination of candidates for pro-
motion in the Royal Dockyards will take place at Chatham
Dockyard on the Bth and 9th inst.
A large assortment of house-breaking implements, con-
sisting of steel and iron crowbars, skeleton keys, jemmies,
&c., weighing about two tons, was yesterday received in
Woolwich Arsenal from Scotland-yard, collected by the
metropolitan police during the past year. They were taken
to the scrap forge in the Royal carriage department, where
the steel pieces were broken up, and the iron ones were
beaten up into bars and blocks for use—a precaution ren-
dered necessary to prevent the possibility of their being
again converted to unlawful purposes.
Major-Gen. Straneham, accompanied by Lieut.-Col. Rod-
ney, Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. of the Royal Marines, and Capt.
Travers, A.D.C., yesterday attended at the divisional guar.
ters at Woolwich, and went through an examination of a
number:of subaltern officers from various divisions, desirous
of passing for the post of adjutant. The Inspector-Gen,
was received on parade by Col. G. B. Payne, the newly-
appointed Commandant, who assumed the duties of his post
that morning, and was attended by a numerous staff of the
division. The examination of the subalterns will be re-
sumed and terminated to-day.

The deaths of the following officers have been officially
reported at the War-office since the Ist of November :
Gene. E. B. Wynyard. C. 8., Col, of the sSth Regiment,
and G. Irving, Royal Irish Artillery. Lieut.-Gene. C. A.
F. Bentinck, Col. of the 12th Regiment, and C. Dixon,
ROyal Engineers. Col. A. D. Turnbull, Royal Engineers.
Lieut.-Col. J. R, Colebrook, Royal Engineers—Majors C.
Waller, Royal Artillery, and J. S. F. Dick—Captain
V. Jones, Lieutenants J. S. Humphrey, Royal Artil-
lery—J. D. Swiney, Royal Engineers—F, F. Leonard,
18th (Royal Irieh) Regiment—W. Ct. H.aelehanl, 6th Vet.