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London, England, 1864-10-21 00:00:00

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Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham, InskiTctorriten :1
of Rdyal Marines, accompanied by his aide-de-camp
Captain Travers, arrived yesterday morning at
Pearce's Royal Hotel, Plymouth. During the fore-
noon he inspected the barracks and the infirmary
at Stonehouse,and examined the men's necessaries,
In the afternoon ten companies or 36 rank and file
each, under the command of Col..Commandaat J.
EL Gascoigne, C. 8., were drilled on the Hoe, and
went through several manoeuvres, firing blank
cartridge, &t.
In consequence of the termination of hostilities
in New Zealand no additional reinforcements will
be despatched from Chatham to augment the regi-
ments serving in that colony, several of which will
be at once ordered to return home. The regiments
now in Naw Z wland are the Ist battalion cf the
12th Reg:ment, the 2d battalion of the 14'h Regis
ment, the 21 battalion of the 18th Royal Irish, the
40th Regiment, 43rd Light Infantry, 50th Queen's
Own, 57th R-giment, 65th Regiment, 68.1; Light
Infantry, 70th Regiment, and the 4,h battalion of
the h litary Triirt, besides the th:qa_ force of Royal
Artillery loyal gegineers, and the Commissariat
Corps. The. regiments which have been longest
abroad, and may therefore shortly be expected to
return home are the 65th, which embarked foe New
Zealand in May, 1846—the 70th, which left Eng-
land for Bengal in January, 1849, and was subse.
quently ordered to New Zealand—the 43rd Light
Infantry, which was despatched from New Zealand
from the -Cape of Good Hope, for which place it
left
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regiments enumerated which are now serving in
New Zealand, the 57th embarked for Corfu in 1853,
and was afterwards despatched to New Zealand,
and the Ist battalion of the 12th left England in
July, 1854.
Yesterday Mr E. I. Reed, the chief constructor of
the navy, accompanied by Mr Barnaby, assistant-
constructor, and other officials, visited Chatham
dockyard for the purpose of inspecting the Bellero-
phon, 14, 1,000-horse power, iron frigate, and the
armour-ptated frigate Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-horse
power, under construction at that establishment.
Bath vessels are now being pushed forward-as rae
pidly as the resources of the dockyard will permit,
about 2,000 mechanics and other hands being em-
ployed on them.in order to hasten their completion.
The Lord Warden has the whole of her planking
completed, and is ready for the reception of her
armour plates, the moulds for which are now being
prepared. The Bellerophon has the greater part
of her inner skin of iron plates fixed, in readiness
for the teak planking to which the 6-inch armour-
plates will be bolted. Both frigates are getting so
well advanced as to leave no doubt that they will
bs afloat next year, and ready for sea in little more
than 12 months from this date.

A court-martial assembled yesterday morning on
board her Majesty's ship Formidable, 84, flagship
of Vice.Adnairal Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8., Corn-
mander.in-Chief at Sheerness, for the trial of
Henry Knight, additional engineer of her Majesty's
ship Fisgard, for service in her Majesty's gunvessel
Landrail. The Court consisted of Capt. J. Fulford,
R.N., of her Majesty's ship Formidable, president;
Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Cum-
bey land, guardship of the k..tana reserve ; Capt. the
Hon. G. D. Keaue, additional, to the Cumberland;
Commander It. Studdert, of her Majesty's ship
Wellesley ; and Commander L. Gaussen, of her
Majesty's ship Formidable; Mr G. H. Knight, of
Essell, Knight, and Arnold, Admiralty solicitors,
Rochester, acting as Deputy Judge Advocate.
The prisoner was charged, first, with neglect.
ing his duty and absenting himself without
leave on the 7th of October instant; secondly,
with being drunk and unfit for duty on the same
day at 230 p.m. Hugh Dunlop, Commodore,
and Superintendent of Woolwich dockyard, prose-
cuted, and Mr M'Cartty Stephenson, of Rochester,
defended the prisoner. Commander W. C. Luke, of
her Majesty's ship Fisgard, Fred. Wm. Ponsonby,
secretary to Commodore Dunlop, Thomas Leaman.
Btekford, assist.•surg of her Maj,,sly's ship Fisgard,
and Ribt. Spears, asBiit,,,ngin..er of the Fisgard,
gave evidence in support of the charge, The prisoner
denied the charge, and called two or three witnesses
who spoke as to his being in liquor, bat not so as
to render him incapable of attending to his duty.
The Court found him guilty on bath charges, and
ordered him to be pl'tccd at the bottom of the list in
his present rank, and to be severely reprimanded.
The iron screw steam troopship Urgent, 4, Capt.
James H. Henderson, from Portsmouth and Wey-
mouth, arrived on Wednesday morning at Plymouth
with a detachment of Sappers, and with several in-
valids from the Channel squadron. The sappers
were landed at Devonport dockyard, and the invalids
were sent o❑ board the flagship. The Urgent was
appointed to leave Plymouth on Wednesday after-
noon for Ireland to land sappers. She was then to
I return to Plymouth to embark a detachment for
Portsmouth.

The screw steamship Donegal, 81, at Davenport,
preparing for coastguard duty at Liverpool, will,
probably be taken outside Plymouth breakwater on
Saturday to try her machinery.
Vice-Admiral Lord Somerville expired on Wed-
nesday morning at Newbold Comyn, Leamington,
where he had resided for many years. He was the
17th Baron Somerville in the peerage of Scotland.
The peerage to which the thceased succeeded in 1842
was created in 1430. His lordship was a vice-admi•
ral of the Royal Navy, the data of his commission
being May 20, 1862, but ho retired from active
service when hording the rank of captain. He mar•,
ried in September, 1833, the only daughter of Mr.
John Hayman, by whom he leaves issue two sons
and five daughters, and is succeeded in the title by
his eldest son Hugh, born October 11, 1839. His
lordship had attained the age of 77, and had for a
considerable time been in a critical state of health.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

GREAT EASTERN.

The surveyors of this company are now engaged in set..
ting out the extension of this line from Shoreditch to Liver-
pool-street, in the neighbourhood of Bishopsgate-street, and
all the necessary notices to owners and occupiers of house
property intended to be taken are now being served, some
of the property having already been agreed for. Operations
for clearing the route of the line will shortly be commenced: