The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, 1863.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

His Grace the Duke of Somerset and Captain
Drummond visited the building yard of Mr. J.
White, at West Cowes, on Saturday, and inspected
her Majesty's screw corvette Higbflyer, which Mr.
White is repairing under contract with the Admi-
ralty. The Duke, Captain Drummond, and other
members of the Board afterwards embarked on
board the Admiralty yacht Enchantress and left for
Portland.

The Russian iron-clad battery Pervenitz left
Gravesend at six a.m. on Saturday for Cronstadt,
under steamer. On arriving off the Maplin Sands
she was tried at the measured mile, and realised a
mean speed of eight knots, with 80 revolutions of
her engines, their maximum number of revolutions
being 110. She completed a full circle in .five
minutes 15 seconds, and was found to be under the
most perfect command of her helm. Immediately
on completing her trial at the measured mile the
Pervenitz was ordered by Admiral Boutakoff, who
has superintended her construction in this country
for the Russian Government, to proceed to Cren-
stadt under steam and canvass, the General Admi-
ral to accompany her under full steam, but not to
take her in tow. We are requested to state that
her departure from the Thames for the Baltic was
hurried forward for no other reason than simply to
get her over to Cronstadt previous to the rough
weather setting in. With regard to the armour-
plates not being bolted in their places on her bow
and stern, it was never intended to place them
there until after the arrival at Cronstadt, it being
determined, from the time of laying her keel, that
she should make her first voyage without them, and
with her extreme ends as light as possible.
In accordance with Admiralty instructions to
that effect received at Chatham, the mechanics
employed on the Achilles discontinued working
overtime on Saturday afternoon, and left the yard
at the usual hour, four o'clock. The cause of this
order on the part of the Admiralty appears to
be that, although the mechanics employed on that
vessel have ostensibly been working for several
months past from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m., with only short
intervals for meals, yet, in reality, there is not a
sufficient excess of work accomplished to justify
the continuance of the system.

The Norwegian sailing corvette Ornen, 16, Capt.
H. Wedel Jarlsberg, 19 days from Quebec for
Christiana, arrived in Plymouth Sound yesterday
morning.

The following appointment and promotions were
made on Saturday at the Admiralty :—Walter H.
Brimfield, acting first class assist.-engineer, to the
Wye; David Wilson (acting), Kenneth M'Caskill,
Andrew Kennedy, Nicholas Baird, David Sharp
(acting), James M'Arthur (acting), Peter Foulis
(acting), John Muir, Ebenezer Bennett, John
Crichton, John Galbraith, Samuel M'Dougall,
Edward M'Leish, and John Frazer, promoted assist.-
engineers of the first class.

THE ARMY.
A detachment of the 75th Regiment, numbering
50 non-commissioned officers and men, under the
command of Lieut. I. S. Alifrey, left Chatham gar-
rison on Saturday for Devonport to join the service
companies, which are being raised to their proper
strength. Lieut. Allfrey rejoins the depot at
Chatham.

Orders have been received at Chatham garrison
From the Horse Guards directing Lieut.-Col.

Stewart to go out in command of the detachment o

Royal Engineers about to be despatched to the East,
for the purpose of being employed in laying down a
line of telegraph through Turkey, Persia, and Aff-
ghanistan to India. The non-commissioned officers
and men composing the detachment have been spe-
cially selected from the companies at head-quarters
who have completed their course of instruction at
the schools for telegraphy, surveying, &c., at

Brompton barracks. The whole of them have been
medically inspected, in order that none but men of
the most healthy and robust constitution may be

employed for the service. The sea kits and personal
stores have been issued to the non-commissioned
officers and men, who are in daily expectation of

receiving orders from the Horse Guards to take
their departure from Chatham.
The removals from Aldershot during the past
week have been so numerous that on Saturday,

prior to the return of the Woolmer flying column,
and after the departure of the Sandhurst column,
there was left a smaller force at Aldershot than has
been the case at any one time since the formation
of the camp. There were then left only one squa-
dron of cavalry, four battalions of artillery, detach-
ments of the Royal Engineers and Military Train,
and five battalions of infantry—viz., the 2d batta-
lion of the Grenadier Guards, the Ist battalion of

,he 6th Regiment, the 67th, 64th, and 76th Regi•

ments. The departures from camp during the
week have been as follow :—On Tuesday the Royal
Horse Guards (Blue), under the command of Lieut.-
Col. Baillie, marched from the North Camp, en
route for Windsor. On the same day the Ist bat-
talion Scots Fusileer Guards, under Lieut.-Col.
Hepburn, marched from Cove-common for London ;
and the 2d battalion Ist Royals, under the command
of Col. Holcombe, from the South Camp for Ports•
mouth, to proceed thence to India. On Thursday
the 12th (Prince of Wales's Royal) Lancers quitted
the division, after a sojourn of nearly two years at
the camp, the headquarters and six troops, under
Lieut.-Col. Oakes proceeding to Hounslow,one troop
to Hampton Court, and another to Kingston. Six
troops of the 18th Hussars left the North Camp on
Friday, the headquarters, and three troops, under
the command of Lieut.-Col. Knox, proceeding en
route for Newcastle, and three troops, under Major
Brett, for Ipswich. One squadron still remains at
Aldershott, under Capt. John Peyton, but it is ex-
pected shortly to depart either for Northampton or
Colchester. On Saturday a column, under the
command of Brigadier-General Bates, marched to
Sandhurst, where it will be encamped, until fur-
ther orders are received, near the new Staff College.
The column consisted of the Royal Dragoons,
B battery 4th brigade Royal Artillery, detach-
ment of Royal Engineers, 59th, 73d, and 87th
that
Re-
giments, and a detachment of the Commissariat
Staff Corps. Orders have been received at the
Camp for the D battery 9th brigade Royal Ar-
tillery, under the command of Capt. P. J. Campbell,
to march to-day, en route for Shorncliffe. The
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at Aldershott
Grenadier
during the week
Guards,has
from
only
Wellington Barracks, on Tuesday, under the com-
interest.the Ist
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vrneate, ,
com-
mand of Col. M. Bruce. The proceedings of the
large
Eying colon)
Russell, n which left Aldershott on Satur-
day,'r Woolmer, have been full of
andco under the command of Major-
Gen.nsisted of the Carabineers, a
detachment of Royal e Engineers,) a detachment .of
th Military Train, the G
1 tillery, Ist battalion 3d Re iattery Royal Horse Ar-
ment, Ist battalion 24th
Regiment, 2d battalion 60
ment of the Commissariat Staff
Corps. Shortly
before 5 o'clock in the morningth Rifles, and a detach-
ment
the column marched
u
at Farnham at about 6, and
colours
flying,
the 3d
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Forest and Basfield to the
of Keeper's-hi
leading.out bands
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Botfi with
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proceeded
camping ground on the top
16 miles from Aldershott. The infantry '
the halting-place at about 10 o'clock, and the cavalry,
at
Artillery, and Military Train, which did notl
leave
Aldershott till 7 o'clock, arrived very shortly
after-
wards. The plan of the encampment was as fol-
lows :—The Ist battalion 60th Rifles on the right,
ri
the 24th in the centre, the Artillery nest,3d
the d
on the right, and the Military Train the rear. on
the flank of the 60th, in a slight hollow, the Cara-
bineers were quartered, and on a knoll at the rear,
and between the quarters of the 24th and 60th, were
the headquarters of Major- Gen.Russell.' On Sunday
morning the troops were formed up in three sides
of a square in front of the general quarters, and Di.

vine service was conducted by the chaplain. On
Monday, shortly after noon, his Royal Highness
the Commander-in-Chief and Staff arrived from
London, accompanied by Lieut.-General Sir J. L.
Pennefather, commanding at Aldershott, and his
Staff. After minutely inspecting each regiment in
turn, and going over the whole of the encampment,
a sham engagement took place, the camp being
supposed to be attacked by an enemy advancing
from Aldershot. The Field-Marshal expressed his
highest approval of the manner in which the pro-
ceedings were carried out, and returned to London
about 5 o'clock. On Tuesday morning the troops
marched out to Hasiemere, a distance of five miles,
and returned in the afternoon. On Wednesday they
marched to Petersfield, a distance of about nine
miles, where they were temporarily encamped. On
Thursday the force of the column was further in-
creased by the arrival of the 13tft Hussars and the
A battery, 4th brigade Royal Artillery. On Friday
another splendid field-day took place, in the presence
of the Duke of Cambridge, Sir John Pennefather,
and their staffs. The weather has been delightful
during the whole time that this column has been
out, and the troops have greatly enjoyed the benefit
of the change.

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and irregular intervals, coming chiefly from the
enemy's land batteries. Some shots were
filed at
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Fort Johnson and at the Shell Point Battery. The
casualties in Battery Wagner yesterday were four
killed and 11 wounded. A mortar fire was kept up
on Battery Wagner every few minutes during the
night from the battery near Graham's House. On
Sunday morning the enemy sent in a flag of truce
to ask permission to bury their dead, whose bodies
lay thickly strewn in the trench and elsewhere in
front of our works. As it was supposed, that the
chief object of this request on the part of the Yankee
commander was to gain an opportunity to recon-
noitre our position, the proposition was declined,
and the duty of burying the dead devolved upon our
own men, and on Sunday uo firing occurred. The
number of bodies buried previous to the renewal of
the cannonade yesterday was 800-600 by our men
and some 200 and odd beyond our lines by the
enemy. Including those still unburied and the
wounded who have since died, the enemy's loss in
killed alone must have been nearly or quite one
thousand. The number of prisoners taken by our
troops (including wounded) was two hundred and
seventy-six. Judging from these figures, and re-
membering the well-known habit which the Yankees
have of carrying off their wounded, it seems quite
reasonable to believe that their total loss in killed,
wounded, and prisoners could not have been less
than two thousand."