The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-07 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

It will be recollected that the screw steam gun-
vessel Vigilant, 4, Commander W. R. Hobson,
bound from Sheerness for the East India and China
station, put back.to Plymouth on the Ist inst, Hav-
ing on her passage down Channel called in the first
instance at Plymouth, she left the Sound on the
15tle ult., experienced heavy south-western gales all
the way to Lisbon, and put in there on the 20th.
It is understood that a survey of her damages was
made while in the Tagus, the result of which was
that she wes ordered to return and left on the 20th.
On arrival at Plymouth she went immediately into
Hamoaze for repairs. The only damages apparent
were the loss of her starboard bulwarks, but indis-
tinct reports were current that she was rotten or
defective in other and more vital parts. The atten-
tion of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
having been frequently called of late to the fact that
ships leaving the eastern ports in an alleged sea-
worthy state either put into the Sound unnecessarily
when going down channel or put back to Plymouth
afterwards for repairs, their Lordships seem de-
termined to ascertain the true source whence these
delays arise. One of the officers of the department
of the Controller to the Navy, Mr. Joseph Large, a
constructor, has therefore been sent to Devonport
to decide on the seaworthiness of the Vigilant, and
whether she was defective when she left Sheerness,
and, if not, whether there was sufficient cause for
her return to England after having arrived at
Lisbon.

The iron screw steam troopship Megmra, 6, Com-
mander Samuel H. Henderson, having embarked

the right wing and Staff of the 23d Regiment at
Plymouth on Saturday, left at 5 o'clock in the after-
noon for Dublin.

We have been requested to state that Mr. D'Este
Fitzhugh Jerningham, midshipman, had joined the
Harrier, from the Orpheus, a short time before the

loss of the latter ship.
Rear-Admiral Austin, C. 8., was yesterday ap-
pointed Admiral Superintendent of Malta dockyard,
vice Rear• Admiral Codrington.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :--Capt. C. H. May to the Canopus;
Commander W. J. H. Grubbe to the Saseur ; Com-
mander C. Gibbons to be Inspecting Commander of
tile Coastguard, vice Cave, promoted; Commander
A. R. Owen to be Inspecting Commander of the
Coastguard, vice Pechell, appointed to the Geyser;
Lieut. G. Borlase, to the Cumberland ; Lieut. C. C.
Hassell, to the Hannibal; Lients. Atkinson and F.
G. Gambier to the Rattlesnake ; W. H. Cruice, sur-
geon to the Alecto; R. P. H. Powney, midshipman
to the Virago ; T. Waterland, chief engineer to the
St. George ; W. J. Ibbett, chief engineer to the
Pembroke ; and C. F. Serjeant, chief engineer to
the Asia, for the Urgent.

THE ARMY.
On Good Friday his Royal Highness the Dtike of
Cambridge paid an official visit to Exeter, and in-
spected the cavalry and the artillery barracks. The

former is situate near, and the latter about a mile

from, the city, on the Topsham-road. His Royal
Highness was understood to express himself very
warmly in approbation of the manner in which these
two barracks are kept. The Duke also attended di-
vine service in the Cathedral, and afterwards visited
the Guildhall, the pictures and various other ancient
features in which he inspected with great interest.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was
greeted at Plymouth on Saturday morning by a
salute from the batteries. The Commander-in-Chief,
attended by his staff, Col. Sir R. Airey, Quarter-
master-General, Col. Bingham, Deputy AOjt.-Gen.
of Artillery, and Col. Clifton, A.D.C., and by Major
Gen. Hutchinson, Commander of Forces in the West,
commenced his duties at 10 o'clock, by an inspection
of troops in the Brickfield, Devonport. Toe forces
present consisted of Capt. Drake's company of Sip-
pers, under command of Col, Owen, the sth brigade
of Royal Artillery and Capt. Addington's D field
battery, Bth brigade, commanded by Col. Shuttle-
worth ; the left wing of the 32d Regiment, the right
wing having just embarked in the Meg era for
Dublin, 10 companies of the Plymouth Division of
Royal Marines, under Col. G. Lambrick, eight com-
panies of the 73d Regiment, commanded by Colonel
Jones, and eight companies of the 75th, in command
of Col. Hadley. With the exception of some slight
errors in the movements of the Royal Marines, the
inspection gave general satisfaction. Theroyal duke
attended by Col. Jervoise, Royal Engineers, one of
the inspectors of fortifications, and by Col. Owen,
commanding Royal Engineers in the West, was
then conveyed in the Port Admiral's barge to the
Cornish side of Hamoaze, and proceeded to Tregantle
and Screasden forts, which were duly inspected. The
Commander-in-Chief returned to Crawsand-bay,
and, being received by Port Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart, embarked on board the Princess Alice (ten-
der to the Royal Adelaide), Master Richard C.
Dyer. While crossing the Sound he made a cur-
sory examination of the progress of the works
connected with the Shovel fort inside the Break-
water, and having landed at Boorsand, inspected
the forts there and those building on Staddon
Heights and at Turnchapel. When the Princess
Alice was passing the Royal Adelaide, 26, Captain
Charles Vesey, on the Duke's return through
Hamoaze, a Royal salute was fired from that ship.
His Royal Highness dined on Saturday with
Major-General Hutchinson at Government-house.
His Royal Hightess the Duke of Cambridge, who
slept at Government-house, Mount Wise, Devon-
port, on Saturday night, went on Sunday morning,
attended by his staff and Major-General Hutchin-
son, Commander of Forces in the West, to the
fortifications on the Devonport lines, and to Raglan-
barracks, which he inspected with the grounds in
front of the grand entrance, and the troops in
quarters there—viz., the left wing of the 32d Regi-
ment, three companies of the 73d, and the 75th
Light Infantry. It is reported that the grand en-
trance will be removed from the eastern facing of
these barracks to the southern facing in Cumber-
land-street. The Commander-in-Chief then attended
divine service in the military chapel, after which he
proceeded to Plymouth Citadel, attended by the
Barrackmaster-General, the Quartermaster -0057:
ral, and Colonel Jervoise, and by Coloneeslt.
gis
Col
commanding Royal Engineers intheonel
shuttle-
Royal Highness was received by
worth, Royal Artillery, and Coelobnaerolra eke through-
out. Portions of four batterelones, of the
73d Regiment. He inspectedith o
of Royal Artillery,
400 men, and all those o
73d off duty, 550 rank
and file, were exercised fin th
presence. The Duke
then visited the Bari il
of Mount Edgecumbe, at
Mount Edgecurnb
e-house, and Admiral. Superin-
tendent Thanes M. C. Symonds, at the Devonport
dockyard, and inspected the iron screw steamship
Resistance, 16, Capt. W. P. Chamberlain, and the
iron screw steamship Warrior, 40, Capt. the Hon.
Arthur A. Cochrane, in Hamoaze. In
the even
ing he dined with Port Admiral Sir Houston
Stewart, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief. Yes-
terday (Monday) mor • thug, having completed his
inspection, the Duke of Cambridge left Plymouth,
under a Royal salute from the e Cit d a ,by the South
Devon and South Western Railway for Portsmouth,
in continuation of his tour of inspection.

EXECUTION AT WARWlClC.—Yesterday naornit,g,
at 10 o'clock, Henry Carter was executed at the
county gaol, Warwick, in the presence of an immense as-
semblage of persons. The culprit was tried at the rtcent
assizes on the 28th ult., before Mr. Justice Willes, for the
wilful murder of a young woman named Alice Hinkley, to
whom he was paying his addresses, at Birmingham. He
admitted when taken into custody that he had shot the un-
happy girl. The execution took place at ten minutes after
10 o'clock, and it is understood that the culprit confessed
his crime; but as Warwick is one of the gaols from which
the press is rig rously excluded, any details are impossible
to be given.