The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

The Duke of Cambridge will make a 'personal inspection
of the Ist Life Guards, the Royal Horse Guards, and the
12th Lancers this morning at Wormwood Scrubbs. The
several regiments will form in review order at half-past
nine o'clock. His Royal Highness will be attended by ,he
Inspector-General of Cavalry and a numerous Staff.
Major-Gen. Lord Wm. Paula, C. 8., Lieut.. Governor of
Portsmouth and general officer in command of the south
west military district, will leave Portsmouth this morning
for the Royal Military Hospital at Nutley, accompanied by
his Staff, in order to be present at the ceremony of laying
the foundation stone, by the Prince of Wales, of a memo-
rial cross in memory of the medical officers who fell in the
Crimea. A guard of honour for the occasion will be fur-
nished from:tho 26th (Cameronians) Regiment, in Ports-
mouth garrison.

A general regimental order of the Royal Artillery, pro-
mulgated on Saturday, state that the Field Marshal Com-
manding-in-Chief, in conjunction with the Right Hon. tha
Secretary of State for India in Council, has directed that an
officer of whatever grade who may in future be promoted to
a vacancy in a brigade not belonging to the branch of the
service to which he originally belonged, in consequence of
an officer in the rank above him having, before his promo-
tion, been permitted to exchange from the old Royal Artil-
lery to the late Indian Artillery, or vice versa, shall belong
to the brigade in which the vacancy actually occurs, and
not to the brigade to which be would have fallen had no
exchange been sanctioned. With a view, however, to lessen
as much as possible the hardships to individual officers who
may on promotion be thus compelled against their inclina-
tion to join a brigade not belonging to their owa branch,
his Royal Highness is pleased to direct that no exchange
shall be permitted when an officer stands within ten of the
top of the list of the rank he miy hold.
The gentleman cadets belonging to the Royal Military
Academy at Woolwich aro ordered to be at their posts on
Wednesday next, and to resums their studies on the fol-
lowing day.
The Channel squadron, consisting of the screw steamship
Edgar, 71, Capt. Geoffry T. P. Homby, flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Sydney C. Dacres, C.B. ; the iron ships Warrior, 40,
Capt. the Hon. Arthur A. Cochrane, and Black Prince, 41,
Capt. James F. B. Wainwright, with the ironcased ship
Prince Consort, 35, Capt. George C. Willes, C. 8., and the
two rams which left Torbay on Friday evening, was in the
Channel off Plymouth Sound at 8 o'clock on Saturday
morning under steam and canvas; wind, W.S.W., free.
The weather then became thick, and the ships commenced
firing, which was heard by the fishermen for two hours. The
squadron was on its way to Ireland. The gunboat Trin-
culo, tender to the Edgar, arrived at Devonport on Satur-
day, short of coal, and will follow the Admiral.
The Urgent screw troopship, Capt. S. H. Henderson, is
ordered to be completed for sea by the 15th inst. The
Urgent will bring to England one-third of the Guards now
in Canada. The remainder will embark for England in the
Himalaya.

The Wolverene, 21, screw corvette, Capt. Da Horsey,
sailed from Spithead, under canvas, yesterday afternoon for
the westward.

The Racer, 11, screw corvette, Commander Wray, sailed
from Spithead at noon yesterday for the Mediterranean.
The screw steam gun vessel, Philornel, 5, Commander
Leveson Wilmen, from th® coast mast of Africa, arrived at
Plymouth yesterday afternoon.
The Turkish Imperial frigate Estourel, Capt, Hassan Bey,
and Relepers Nusrett, Capt. Ahmed Bey, commenced dis-
charging their guns, shot, and ammunition, on Saturday, in
barges at Purfleet, for conveyance to Woolwich Arsenal,
to be stored during the period necessary for their fitment
with steam machinery at Blackwell. The two officers in
command, who speak English with remarkable fluency,
paid an official visit of courtesy on Friday to Commodore
Dunlop, superintendent of Woolwich Dockyard. The visit
was returned on the following day by Commander Towsey,
the newly-appointed officer in command cf the flag-ship
Fisgard.

Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Dromedary, Master-
Commander Alexander Brown, recently returned from the
Mediterranean, was on Saturday undocked at Woolwich,
having been cleared of an immense collection of barnacles
and seaweed, in which her sides and keel were embedded to
an almost incredible extent. In spite of the numerous in-
ventions guaranteed to remedy the evil, every application
has hitherto been ineffectual.

The chartered freightship Eastern Princess sailed on
Saturday fromWoolwich Arsenal for the Cape of Good Hope,
laden with shot, shells, powder, and other war stores.
The paddlewheel steam yacht Osborne, 2, Staff Comman-
der E. H. K. Bower, having filled up with coal, left Ply-
mouth on Saturday for Pembroke to convey the Lords of
the Admiralty to Ireland. On their return thence they will
probably inspect the naval establishment at Davenport.

The crew of the screw steam corvette Encounter, 14,
Capt. Richard Dew, at Devenport, will probably be paid off
on Wednesday.
Mr Alfred B. Sturdce, Assist Master Shipwright at Malta
Dockyard, has been promoted and appointed to Malta Dock-
yard as Master Shipwright, vice Mr W. B. Robinson, ap-
pointed to the Chief Constructors' Staff at the Admiralty.
The following appointments have been made at the Ad-
miralty :—Commander W. S. S. Blidzses, Commander W.
Spratt, and Commander B. L. Lefroy, to be Inspecting
Commanders of the Coast Guard, vice Commanders J. B.
Field, S. S. Skipwith and Palliser, whose period of service
has expired—Lieut R. S. Cbisholme, to command the
Flamer, vice Gooch, promoted—Lieut T. K. Hudson, to
the Impregnable, additional, for service in the Squirrel,
vice Wright, promoted—Lieut 11. Burnaby, to the Bien-
heim—Lient Louis Geneste, to the Irresistible—Sub Lieut
IL A. Mandeville, to the Clio—and J. B. Bradley, asoist
paymaster, to the Clio.