The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-31 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

An Admiralty order has been received at Chatham
for the fine screw frigate Bristol, 39, 600 horse
power, now being brought forward for the steam
reserve squadron, to take the place of the Arethasa,
35, 3,141 tons, 500 horse power, in the first division
of the steam reserve, the latter frigate being in-
tended fur the pennant. The Bristol has been re-
moved into the steam basin, where her fittings are
being prepared as rapidly as the resources of the
dockyard will permit; but there are several months'
work to be effected on board before she is com-
plete. Her armament is to consist partly of the
100 pounder smooth bore guns, the 110 pounder
Armstrongs, and the old naval 6S ponn der.
The 41 armour plates from the Lord Warden tar-
get, recently tested at Shoeberyness, and the re-
mains of which were femeved to Chatham Dock-
yard, have undergone a careful inspection by the
officials at that establishment, in order to ascertain
the quality of the iron after the battering the plates
received during the trials with the 600 pounder and
other gnus. The opinion formed of the quality of
the metal is that the plates are the best of the kind
yet received at the dockyard, and when it is remem•
bared that the armour-plates in question were taken
from a stack of several hundred tons, sent in by the
Miliwall Iron Company, it is satiefactcry to know
that those in store in Chatham are in every respect
as good as those tested. The Lord Warden plates
have been removed from the Anchor-wharf to the
smithery, where they will be broken up under the
tilt hammer, and the iron used for the general ser•
vice of the yard. _ .

Capt. F. S. Tremlett, inspector of training ships,
completed his inspection yesterday of the Wellesley,
72, training ship, in Chatham Harbour.
The paddlewheel steam surveying tender B
Lieut. Horner, was placed in No. 3 dock in Devon-
port yard on Saturday to stop a leak. She was
removed on Monday, and will shortly resume her
duty on the coast.

Preparations are making at Devonport for expe-
diting the departure of the screw steam corvette
Brisk, 16, to Australia. Draughts of men are being
told off from the receiving and training ships in
Hamoaze, and it is probable that her marines,will
be sent on board this week.
The half.'yearly inspection of the troops in Ports-

mouth garrison took place yesterday on Southsea-
common. The troops formed in position on the
common between 2 and 3 p.m., and consisted of the
B and K batteries of Field Artillery, under the
command of Major Milman, the Ist battalion of the
21st Regiment, Col. Stuart, C. 8., 26th Regiment,
Col. Carey, and the 64th Regiment, Col. Shute. The
inspecting-officer, Major- Gen. Lord W. Paula t, C. 8.,
accompanied' by Col. Shadwell, Assist.-Quarter-
master-Gen., Col. Thackwell, Assist.-Adjt.-Gen.,
Col. Elliott, R.A., Town-Major E. Breton, and Capt.
St. John Panlet, Aide-de-Camp, arrived on the
ground in the front of the line at 3 p.m., and was
received with the usual honours. After the parade
ceremony of marching past had been gone through
the troops were put through a series of manceavres
incidental to a field-day on a small scale, in which
the artillery played a conspicuous part. The troops
appeared to go through the different movements
very steadily, and at 5 p.m. Lord William Panlet
brought the inspection to a close, and dismissed the
men to their respective quarters.
The Orontes, screw troopship, Capt. W. H. Hire,