The Sun.
London, England, 1864-09-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence,

We have received the following Mediterranean
naval intelligence and movements in a letter from
our own correspondent at Malta, bearing date the
10th of September:—" Her Majesty's screw store-
ship Supply left on the Ist inst. for Gibraltar and
Woolwich, with unserviceable stores. Her Ma-
jesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Marlborough,
bearing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief, Vice-
Admiral Smart, accompanied by the screw line•of-
battle ship Gibraltar, the ironclad screw steam fri-
gates Resistance and Royal Oak, and the Orlando
screw steam frigate left on the 3d for a three weeks'
cruise, during which Palermo and other ports of
Sicily will be visited, as well as Naples, returning
to Malta by the 28th of September to receive the
visit of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty."
By direction of the Lords of the Admiralty a
number of the best of the hired mechanics and ship-
wrights at Chatham dockyard are to be removed
from that establishment to Sheerness for the pur-
pose of being permanently placed on the establish-
ment at that dockyard.
The number of workmen employed on the screw
corvette Cadmus, 21, and the screw gunvessel
Torch, 5, 80-horse power, both of which are in the
graving docks at Chatham, being repaired for sea,
has been recently increased in order that those ves-
sels may be completed and the docks prepared for
the reception of two first class frigates which are
required to be brought forward for commission. As
an instance of the urgent necessity which exists for
the speedy completion of the additional new docks
which are being constructed in connexion with and
as part of the extensive scheme for the enlargement
and extension of Chatham dockyard, it may be
mentioned that, notwithstanding the position which
Chatham has recently taken as the leading iron
shipbuilding and repairing yard, there are for all
practical purposes only two dock* available for re-
ceiving either large or small vessels of war, No. 2
dock, the largest at the establishment, being occu-
pied by the Bellerophon, building, while No. 1 dock
is altogether useless for docking purposes, the Ad-
miralty having directed its being boarded over and
converted into a factory.

The Orontes, screw troopship, 2,812 tons and
500 horse power, Capt. Henry W. Hire, made her
official trial of speed yesterday at the measured mile
in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, preparatory to
leaving England on troop service to the Cape and
the Mauritius. The ship's draught of water was
22ft. 6in, aft, and 22ft. forward, with six months'
stores and provisions on board, and 1,000 tons of
coals in her bunkers. There was a strong wind from
the south-west throughout the time the ship was
under trial. Six runs were made with full boiler
power, the mean of which gave the ship a speed of
10882 knots, and the mean of two runs made with
half boiler power gave her a speed of 8.721 knots.
The maximum revolutions of the engines were 52,
and the minimum 50. The load on the safety valve.
was 121 b. The temperatures taken gave on deck, 66;
first run, engine room, 70 deg; ditto, forward stoke-
hole, 96 deg, 92 deg, and 80 deg; sixth ran, engine
room, 72 deg.; ditto, forward stoke hole, 104 deg.,
and 82 deg. After the trial the Orontes returned
to her berth alongside the transport jetty of Ports-
mouth dockyard, in readiness for sea.
A new species of binnacle lamp, the invention of
Mr C.W. Brown, an officer of the civil service in the
Deptford Dockyard, was yesterday transferred to
Woolwich, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty,
to be inspected by Mr. Turner, master shipwright,
and the officials of the yard, and to be fitted on board
H.M.'s steam storeship Industry, on probation. The
result of the inspection was favourable, and a report
given as follows :-1. From the construction of the
reservoir no overflow of oil can take place. 2. From
the form of the reflector double the amount of light
is given. 3. There is no downward shadow, and the
illumination of the compass card is complete. The
lamp is always perpendicular, so that there is no
smoking or blackening of the sides of the lamp as
in the lamps now used. The lamp is shipped on the
top of the binnacle. Bearings of any object can be
taken by night with the greatest facility, the shade
not being encumbered by the lamp, as the light is
reflected down upon the compass card, and shows
the latter clearly and distinctly. The lamp barns
from 10 to 12 hours with a moderate consumptio❑
of oil.

In yaterday's garrison orders issued at Wool■
with it was announced that, in accordance with
orders received from the Horse Guards, the Plum-
stead Ranges, usually resorted to by the metropoli-
tan and neighbouring volunteer corps, will be re-
opened from this date for practice with shot and
small arms only.

The 31 brigade Military Train, in command of
Major J. M'Court, from Canada, arrived at the
North Woolwich station on Tuesday evening from
Liverpool, and were met by Brigade Major Sher-
vington and staff, and escorted to their quarters at
the encampment on Woolwich-common, preceded
and played up by the Royal Artillery band. The
brigade consists of Major J. M'Court, Capt. I. W.
111‘Farlan, Lieuts. G. Edwards, J. Simpson, and
Thomas Gerard Lockyer ; Ensign :Sidney Francis
Austin, Lieut. and Adjt. R. H. Powell, Quarter-
master J. Stalford ; Paymaster T. H. Ratcliff, Bri-
gade Major ; Sarg. F. Reynolds, Veterinary Surg.
J. M. Wilson, 16 sergeants, 4 trumpeters, 111 rank
and file, 30 women, 23 children, and 3 horses. The
health of the brigade was yesterday reported good.
The batteries of the 13th brigade Royal Artillery
yesterday departed from headquarters, Woolwich,
for Dover, as follows—No. 7, in command of Major
R. E. Craufurd, Second Capts. W. R. Lluelly and
H. L. Gwyn ; Lieuts. W. Matins and F. F. Bar-
ham, gunnery instructor, 110 non-commissioned
officers and men, 18 women, and 30 children. N, 1
battery, consisting of Capt. C. Johnson, Captain
and Brigade-Major C. F. Roberts, Lieuts, J. C.
Robinson and J. A. S. M. Davis, Assist-Surgeon
Robinson, 110 non-commissioned offioers and men,
15 women and 22 children ; and No. 2 Battery
comprising Major P. Dixon, Captain J. C. Lyle,
Lieuts. W. S. Brown and R. T. Farquhar, 106 non-
commissioned officers and men, 16 women, and 22
children. The batteries were conveyed by special
trains from the Royal Arsenal Station, Woolwich.
Lieut. Edward Hoare, sth Fusiliers, and 40 non-
commissioned officers and men, yesterday went
down to Woolwich, and took up quarters in the
Royal Artillery Barracks, in preparation for the
arrival of Lieut. Colonel Master, C-8., and the re.
mainder of the regiment, ordered to winter in that
garrison for duty, from the Tower.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Captain E. W, Vinsittart now
additional of the Formidable, to the Achilles, com-
missioned ; Captain J. U. Goodenough to the Vic-
tory, additional for the Victoria; Isaac Inglis,
master, to the Fisgard, for the Blenheim ; N. G.
Arguimban, master, to the Fisgard, for the Valiant;
Lieut. Walter Stewart, to the Tamar; Lieut. John
Inglis to the Achilles, for gunnery duties; Lieut.
Noel Osborne, to the Achilles; Rev. W. Gunter to
be chaplain to the Egmont, complement incomplete;
M. F. Moresby, paymaster to the Achilles ; Henry
W. Andrews, assist,-paymaster, to the Blenheim;
C. R, Watson, assist-paymaster, to the Hastings;
R. K. Heaven and Adolphe Hunter, assist.-pay
masters, to the Achilles; Edwund G. Ellis, clerk,
to the Tamar; Arthur S. Ramsey, clerk, to the
Brisk ; E. S. Peach, clerk, to the Blenhiem ; I'.
Forder, clerk, to the Achilles ; and Alfred Postance,
assist,-clerk, to the Achilles.

A "' RESPECTABLE MAN."—At the Judges' Cham-
bers, on Tuesday, an application was made to bail a mar
committed by the Egharn magistrates for burglary, on whom
was found a jemmy. It was urged that he was a "respec-
table man." Mr Justice Shee—Oh I a respectable mai,
with a jemmy. (Laughter.) The application was refused

THE SOUTHERNERS.—The army of the North it
well fed and well clothed compared with that of
the South. A gentleman, who had escaped from the Libby
gaol at Richmond, informed me that a few days before his
departure there had arrived three Confederate regiments,
whose uniforms were made of the calico, striped with gi eer
and white, which is sold as an imitation of Venetian blinds,
shoes and stockings being altogether wanting. Just pre-
vious to this, a whole brigade had entered Richmond in a
pelting rain, and had been obliged to pass the night without
shelter. The courage and fortitude with which the South
erners face every privation, the skill and daring of their
generals, the willing renunciation of everything they pos-
sess, forbid us to believe that they can ever be vanquished
All the church bells have been melted down and recast into
guns, all the cushions and hassocks converted into beds fot
the wounded, all the women's jewels and ornaments sacri-
ficed to the exigencies of the struggle,—Once a Week,

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HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL, Sept. 13:
The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise,
drove out yesterday morning,
In the afternoon her Majesty went out with their
Royal Highnesses Princess Helena and Princegi
Beatrice, attended by the Hon. Harriet Phipps.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe-Coburg
went deer-stalking yesterday in the For Est of
Invercauld,