The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday Major-General Sir Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., commanding the forces in the Chatham dis-
trict, accompanied by Col. R. C. Moody, command-
ing Royal Engineers ; Brigade Major W. Congreve,
and other officers, embarked at Chatham Dockyard
pier on board the paddlewheel steamer Wildfire,
Master Commander G. Brockman, and proceeded
on a tour of inspection of the fortifications and bat-
teries erected at Bishop's-marsh, Folly-point, the
Isle of Grain, and Garrison-point, for the defence of
Chatham harbour and dockyard. Most of the works
enumerated are far advanced. Sir Robert Walpole
was occupied in the inspection the whole day, and
landed at the dockyard late in the afternoon.

The strength of the first division of the Depot
Brigade, Royal Artillery, at Chatham, has been
augmented by the arrival at headquarters of No. 2
Battery, consisting of six non-commissioned officers,
102 privates, one trumpeter, and 21 women and
children, from the School of Gunnery, at Shoebury-
ness.

A circular memorandum has been received at
Chatham Garrison from the Horse Guards announc-
ing that her Majesty, having been pleased to approve
the depots rejoining the service companies of regi-
ments serving at home, excepting in the case of re-
giments intended for embarkation during the pre-
sent year, the companies which form the depots are
to be entirely amalgamated with their respective
corps, and be on the same establishment as the other
companies. General officers commanding districts
in which depot battalions are quartered, will consider
them a portion of the force to be inspected and duly
reported by them in the spring and autumn, from
the Ist of April, the date of the abolition of the
office of Inspector-General of Infantry.
Yesterday a detachment of 98 non-commissioned
officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal
Marines Light Infantry, with three officers, left
head-quarters, and proceeded to the Government
rifle range at Milton, to go through a course of ball
practice prior to embarkation for sea service.
The arrangements for the launch of the iron-clad
frigate Bellerophon, 14, 1,000 horse power, which
will take place at Chatham Dockyard this afternoon,
were completed yesterday evening, upwards of 1,000
mechanics and other workmen being employed on
the frigate up to the hour for leaving the yard yes-
terday. In order to provide accommodation for the
large number of spectators who are expected to be
present to witness the ceremony a considerable por-
tion of the space at the head of the graving dock in
which the Bellerophon has been built is floored over,
and barriers have been erected to lessen the pressure.
The launch is expected to take place shortly after 1
o'clock, by which hour the tide will be at its highest.
The dockyard gates will be thrown open for the ad-
mission of the public at 12 o'clock, no tickets being
required to enable persons to witness the ceremony.
The Orontes, screw iron troopship, Capt. H. W.
Hire, was undocked at Portsmouth on Monday after
repairs, and will be again in a few days ready to
proceed on foreign troop service. As cooking for the
men on board a troopship is naturally a matter of
the greatest importance, it may not be inopportune
to observe here that there are two or more descrip-
tions of cooking apparatus now in use in the navy,
and that preference is given by the Admiralty to the
least efficient and most expensive form, the dockyard
pattern. Thus the dockyard troop galley on board
the Orontes on the ship last coming into Portsmouth
harbour was understood to be considerably out of
repair, and this was said to be owing to the large
fires required for boiling and baking the men's food.
The consumption of fuel by this galley averaged 15
cwt. daily when in full work. Indeed so difficult was
it found to obtain sufficient heat for cooking that the
fires had to be lighted by 2 a.m. to prepare the men's
breakfasts. When the ship is on a distant station,
with coals at 40s. to 50s. per ton, this large consump-
tion of fuel renders the working of this galley exceed-
ingly expensive. As a contrast to this compare one
of the simplest and most effective forms of galley
placed at the disposal of the Admiralty by private
individuals—the patented galley of Mr. Grant, the
present superintendent of the Admiralty victualling
stores at the Royal Clarence-yard, who has had un-
usual opportunities for forming a correct judgment
on the best manner of preparing food on board ship
for the soldiers' and seamen's health and comfort,
and also of economy in its preparation. One of these
galleys has been at work now for some time on
board the Duke of Wellington training ship at
Portsmouth, and has been several timesmost favour-
ably reported upon. As a proof of its capabilities, a
short time since, when the crew of the Bombay were
berthed on board the Duke of Wellington, the crews
of both ships were supplied with baked dinners and
soft bread, the latter made on board. Since the
galley has been at work on board the Duke upwards
of 45,000 rations of soft bread have been baked by
it on board for the crew. Its consumption of fuel
is only 5 cwt. per diem.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 39, Captain
Colin A. Campbell, left Plymouth on Monday even-
ing for Montevideo.
The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com-
mander Arthur T. Thrupp, from Sheerness, arrived
on Monday evening at Plymouth, where she will
receive coal and prepare for further service.
Her-Majesty's 17-gun sloop Mutine, commissioned
at Woolwich on the 9th inst. by Commander W.
H. Blake, yesterday sailed from the Royal Arsenal
for Greenhithe, to swing for the adjustment of her
compasses. Her present orders are to leave the
Thames to-morrow for the Pacific, calling at Devon-
port on her way down channel, and to remain in
Plymouth Sound a couple of days for the embarca-
tion of supernumeraries who have received orders to
join there.
By the death of Admiral Sir James Stirling, Vice-
Admiral the Hon. Sir Frederick W. Grey, K.C.8.,
a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, becomes an
Admiral ; Rear-AdmiralLord Clarence Paget, M.P.,
First Secretary at the Admiralty, becomes Vice-
Admiral ; and Captain Thomas Pickering Thomp-
son obtains the rank of Rear-Admiral.
A captain's good service pension is placed at the
disposal of the Duke of Somerset, as First Lord of
the Admiralty, by the promotion to flag rank of
Capt. T. P. Thompson.
Capt. Thomas H. Mason has received the cap-
tain's good service pension, vacant by the promotion
of Capt. O'Callaghan to be Rear-Admiral.
Capt. the Hon. Francis Egerton is appointed one
of the Queen's naval aides-de-camp, vice Captain
Wise, promoted to be Rear-Admiral.
Capt. W. K. Hall was yesterday appointed Cap-
tain Superintendent of Sheerness Dockyard, vice
Capt. Wise, promoted to flag rank.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :-.-Capt. the Han. Fitzgerald A.
Foley to the Caledonia ; William Billing, midship-
man, to the Sutlej ; John Mather, engineer, to the
Fisgard, as supernumerary ; and Herbert Pitt, en-
gineer, to the Asia, as supernumerary.

THE JEWS IN Mouocco.—The Societe de l'Alli-
ance Israelite Universelle has issued the following
note :—"Letters from Morocco contain accounts of an
event which has just cast consternation among the Jewish
population of that country. On the morning of the 2d
of April the twelve chiefs of the Jewish community
of Tetuan were imprisoned and loaded with chains
by order of the Pasha. Several of them were imme-
diately claimed by their respective Consuls, to whom
the Pasha replied that the prisoners had been ar-
rested by command of the Emperor of Morocco for having
some months before refused payment of a Moorish guard
at the gates of the Jewish quarter. The Consuls, by an
energetic persistence, obtained the immediate liberation
of their countrymen, and opposed their expulsion from
the territory of Morocco, as required by the Pasha.
The other prisoners wero to be sent to the Emperor at
Mequinez, where death was certain to await them. The
Consuls by their representations obtained a delay in the de-
parture until they had referred to their diplomatic chiefs at
Tangier. These latter addressed collectively a memoran-
dum to the Moorish Minister of Foreign Affairs to protest
against those measures, so opposed to the firman delivered
by the Emperor last year to Sir Moses Montefiore, pro-
mising to the Jews the security and protection of regular
justice ; and, above all, against the barbarity of the treat-
ment inflicted on unfortunatemen whose pretended offence
was only the pretext for a persecution which, in striking

the Chiefs of the community, menaced all the Jews. The
intervention was not without effect. Orders were given to
release the prisoners from their chains, and leave them pro-
visionally at Tetuan. Hopes are entertained that the gene-
rous protection of the Ministers assured to the prisoners
will lead to an entire liberation, and prevent a fresh viola-
tion of the laws of humanity and justice."