The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-28 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Aug. 23.—Her Majesty's screw gun-
boat Foxhound, 4, Commander W. H. Anderson,
arrived on the 18th inst. from the Pirreus, with
despatches from the Commander-in- Chief and letters
from the squadron on the coast of Greece. A.t the
date of ber departure, 9.30 a.m., of the 14th inst.,
the following English ships of
.war were anchored
in Falarum Bay, outside the Pn seus :—The Marl-
borough, 121, bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral
Robert Smart, K.H., Capt. C. Fellow es ; the Tra-
falgar, 70, Capt. T. Mason ; the St. George, 84,
Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton ; the Meanee, 60, Capt.
G. Wodehouse ; the Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar ;
the Orlando, 26, Capt. G_ G. Randolph ; the Magi-
cienne, 16, Capt. W. Armytage : and the Icarus,
11, Commander N. Salmon, V.C. She brought no
political news. In the collision at the Pincus
between the English sailors on leave and the sailors
of the Greek vessel of war Hellas, six or eight of
our mon were seriously wounded, chiefly with
sabre cuts, and one man had a bullet wound in the
bead. Some of the Greeks were also badly hurt.
They were armed with pistols and sabres, the
English seamen only with sticks and the legs of
tables and chairs. The Foxhound called in at Ka-
lamata and le.oron Bay on the evening of the 15th ;
found anchored off Modon, near Navarino, her
Majesty's screw frigate Liffey, 39, Capt. G. Parker,
and discharging stores to her for the Pelican, 27,
Commander P. Brock, believed to be cruising be-
tween Zente and Patras. The Liffey reported hay-
ing seen her Majesty's ship Revenge, 73 (bearing
the flag of Rear-Admiral H. R. Yelverton, C. 8.),
Capt. the Hon. F. A. Foley, on the morning of
the 15th, courses down, bearing up for 'Dante.
At 11,30 p.m. the Foxhound continued her
route for Malta, under slow steam, using all
possible sail. She is now in the dockyard,
and it having been discovered that the dry rot
has made considerable inroads in her upper works
it is likely that a month at least will be required to
make good the necessary repairs. She is one of the
vessels which were hastily built of not properly
seasoned wood, to meet the emergencies of the late
war with Russia. Her 11Iajesty's screw frigate
Phoebe, 35, Capt. F. D. A. Fortescue, arrived at
Malta on the 17th inst. under sail, 21 days from
Beyrout, 18 from Jaffa, and 13 from Alexandria.
She is now being caulked and refitted. My last
letter stated that the Malacca, 17, Capt. G. J. Na-
pier, was to go to England. The order has since been
withdrawn. The following are her Majesty's ships
at present in Malta harbour :—The Hibernia, re-
ceiving ship (bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral 11.
T. Austin, C. 8.), the Phoebe, 35, the Malacca, 17,
the Cossack, 20, the Medina, surveying vessel, the
Foxhound, 4, the Psyche, 2, and the Growler and
the Boxer, tenders. The 4th battalion Rifle Bri-
gade, 2d battalion 15th Regiment, and Ist battalion
22d Royal We;sh Fusileers, are under orders to
leave fur Gibraltar, and will be replaced here by the
2d battalion 7th, 2d battalion Bth, and 100th Rsgi-
meats. Her Majesty's iron troopship Orontes,
Capt. Hire, will effect these changes of troops. She
is expected about the 25th or 26th inst. with the 7th
Regiment, and will return to Gibraltar with the
Rifles. She will then embark the Bth and 100th
successively, returning to Gibraltar with the 15th
and 23d, in their numerical order.
A court-martial assembled on Thursday on board
her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth, for the
trial of Thomas Kenny, A. 8., of her Majesty's pad-
dle frigate Odin, dismantling for paying out of a
com-
mission alongside Portsmouth dockyard, on a charge
of striking Mr. Goldup, boatswain of the Odin, in
one of the ship's boats. The court was composed
y
of Capt. Scott, her Majesty's ship Victor (presi-
dent); Capt. Count Gleichen, of the Racoon ; Capt.
John Seccombe, of the Duke of Wellington ; Com-
manders Curme and Phelps, of the Duke of Wel-
lington and Victory. Lord John Hay, C. 8.,
commanding ttio Odin, appeared as prosecutor.
The charges were fully proved, and the prisoner
was sentenced to receive 48 lashes, and afterwards
to be dismissed from her Majesty's service.
The Odin, 16, paddle frigate, Captain Lord John
Hay, C. 8., will be paid out of commission at Ports-
mouth this morning,
Yesterday in the steam factory of Portsmouth
Dockyard one of the Royal Alfred's armour plates,
measuring 15ft. in length, 3ft. Gin. in width, and
41in. in thickness, why successfully covered with its
coating of copper by the " Walenn" process. The
thickness of the coating was fully the sixty•fourth
of an inch, and it was deposited with a beautifully
even and bright surface, notwithstanding that a
plate had been selected by the dockyard officials
which was undercut and honeycombed on its outer
surface in a most peculiar manner. The severe trial
to which Ur. Walenn's process has been subjected
in electrotyping such a mass, and the very perfect
manner in which the plate has been coated, is the
pest possible proof of the efficiency and value of the
principle, and we trust in future to have no such
errors committed as bolting wrought-iron armour-
plates on ships' sides below the water line with
zinced bolt fastenings.
The Cadmus, 21, 400-horse power, now in the
shipwrights and engineers' hands at Chatham Dock-
yard, is undergoing a thorough overhaul and repair
which will detain her in dock several months. Her
screw, which is the common Admiralty blade, has
been lifted, and is to be altered to the Griffith's
shape by having the leading corners of the blades
cut off. The engineers are now repairing her boilers,
the Admiralty having decided on making her pre-
sent boilers last during another commission, and a
large number of defective plates have been taken
out, and are now lying about her decks. The Cad-
mus is also to be strengthened by being fitted with
additional knees, and during the time she is in the
shipwrights' hands she will be furnished with new
decks. In addition to the other repairs and altera-
tions she is to be fitted with a topgallant forecastle,
for the protection of her crew during inclemen

weather: Her repairs will involve an outlay of from
£lO,OOO to £15,000.

On the recommendation of Capt. J. K. Hall, com-
manding the Chatham steam reserve, the Lords of
the Admiralty have given directions for the requi-
site appliances to be fitted on board the Cumberland,
4, guardship of the steam reserve, for masting cor-
vettes and other smaller vessels. This will render
their,telnoval in Chatham harbour or into the mast-
.'" basin unnecessary, thereby saving considerable
expense and delay.
The Paddlewheel steamer Salamander, 6, 818
tons, 220. h
-"le Power, is ordered, when her fitting
has been completed, to be attached to the first divi-
sion of the steam reserve in the Mersey.
Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Wye, Master
Commander V. n
Roberts, went down to Wool-
wich yesterday, from the Victoria yard at Dept-
ford, laden with victualling stores for the West
Coast of
zines from theAfricaArsenal., and is to
fill in her powder maga-

THE ARMY,
An order has been received by the authorities of
Woolwich Arsenal in reference to
frmkation of
o
which were put in force on the 10,tet
hee barinstructions
the Arse-
to copy
her Majesty and the Royal family
nal pier for Germany. It requests
4 e): trect
to be transmitted to the War-office of the
memoran-
dum which was put in circulation either separately
or conjointly by the heads of departments on the
occasion. It appears doubtful whether the Queen
will return to England by way of Woolwich, c

yacht will proceed direct to whether the Royal
03burne. The temporary fittings which were

erected for the adornment of the pier are, however,

ordered to he retained in their pace until further

orders. The windows along the line of thorough-
fare in the offices and factories which were obsured

with a coating of whitewash are still in the same
state, but it is stated that should her Illsjesty dis-

trrh?.rk at Wc,alqich the regulatioris regarding visi
t,:)ra will be altogether different frog tbo3e ie.F.Twd

on her departure. We understand that the as-

sumption of power on the part of the officials has
been severely censured by the War Department,
and the subjsct is still under official investigation.
Some time before the arrival of the Royal family a
telegram from the War Department had cancelled
the local order excluding all persons from the place
of embarkation. Many of the clerks and others
whose offices were closed from the outside were then