The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The iron screw ship Black Prince, 41, Capt. Lord
Fred. H. Kerr, left Plymouth Sound on Thursday
evening, to join the Channel Fleet.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Gladiator, 6, Capt.
Francis H. Shortt, left Plymouth yesterday (Fri-
day) with a gang of riggers, under Commander
Paul, to proceed to Pembroke, to navigate the new
screw steam sloop Amazon, 4, to Devonport.
Her Majesty's screw corvette Scout, 21, 1,402 tons,
400 horse power, Capt. J. F. Tlight, fitting for the
Pacific station, is being rapidly pushed forward for
sea, and her stores, guns, &c., are being placed on
board from Chatham and Sheerness dockyards. The
following officers have received commissions in this
vessel, and most of them have already joined :
Lieuts. W. R. Kennedy, E. J. Jermain, W. E. Fitz--
gerald, and W. H. Jocelyn ; Sub. -Lieut. P. Aldrich,
E. R. Miall, paymaster ; J. Sproule, surgeon ;
W. Carmichael, assistant-surgeon ; C. L. W.
Lagrange, assistant paymaster ; J. Morris, chief
engineer ; N. Farrant, engineer ; T. M'Farlane,
first-class assistant engineer ; A. W. Fitzgerald,
second class assist.-engineer ; E. G. Whitmore,
clerk ; W. O. Bedford, assist. -clerk ; the Hon. D. O.
Murray, C. F. Naylor, E. D. Maud, E. H. Bayley,
E. Bayne, and J. N. Hurt, midshipmen ; H. W.
Saville, A. H. Coker, and E. H. Genn, naval
cadets. The guns, shot, and shell have been des-
patched from the Ordnance-wharf, Chatham.
During the past few months a number of the
junior officials, chiefly from the class of inspectors
at Chatham Dockyard, have resigneditheir appoint-
ments at that establishment for the purpose of en-
tering at Lloyd's, where their pay and position are
considerably improved. From the number of offi-
cials who have of late left the establishment under
the circumstances stated it is understood that some
regulation will be adopted by the Admiralty to pre-
vent the services of this class of mechanics being
lost to the country. Several of the established
workmen belonging to the joiners' department have
also taken their discharge from Chatham Dockyard
during the past week, and entered the service of
private firms, on account of the low wages paid at
the Royal Dockyards.

Information was yesterday received at Woolwich
by Major-Gen. Sandham, Lieutenant-Governor of
the Royal Military Academy, announcing a sad
calamity which had occurred at the gunnery range,
Shoeburyness, on the previous day to Mr. Hannay,
a cadet of the A division, senior class, who left
Woolwich on Monday last for a week's practice
there. During the experimental firing with steel
shot the cadets were ordered to be in attendance.
They were stationed at what was deemed a safe
distance, and it is stated that Mr. Hannay was
lying on the'grass upwards of 500 yards in rear of
the gun, when a fragment of the shot rebounded
and struck him on the thigh, lacerating the part and
leaving a very severe flesh wound. The sufferer
was promptly attended to by the medical officer on
the spot, and at present he is pronounced in a fair
way to recovery.

Major-Gen. Stransham, Inspector-Gen. of the
Royal Marines, yesterday resumed his half-yearly
inspection at Woolwich. Having examined the men's
necessaries and the detachments under rifle instruc-
tion on the previous day the General went over the
barrack department yesterday morning. After the
men's dinner hour, he repaired to the review-ground
on Woolwich-common, where the division was
brigaded in three battalions, Capt. Bunce acting as
Major of Brigade. The General was attended by
Capt. Travers, A.D.C., Col. G. B. Payne, the
Commandant, commanding the whole. The three
battalions went though a variety of field movements
from 2 till 4 o'clock, and at the conclusion the
General informed Col. Payne that he was glad to
see his old division again under arms that, in re-
ference to their present discipline, he had never seen
a line better formed in his life. The rudiments of
drill, he said, were well attended to. Some of the
officers he could not speak so favourably of, but the
causb of his complaint, he added, would be remedied
during the summer, after which he hoped to see
them again.

The 16th (Queen's) Lancers are held in readiness
by orders from the Horse Guards to embark for
Madras between the 20th and 30th proximo, to
relieve the Ist Dragoons. They have been inspected
this week by Major-Gen. Lord George Paget, C. 8.,
Inspector-Gen. of Cavalry.