The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-31 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

'The frigate-built Indianian Renown, 1,293 tons
register, Commander J. H. Taylor, R.N.R., one of
Messrs. Green's Blackwall fleet, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning from Calcutta. She sailed from
Calcutta on the 3d of February, called at Madras
on the 15th of the same month, and sailed thence
again on the 26th. She arrived at the Cape on the
11th of April, touched at St. Helena on the 22d,
and crossed the Equator on the 30th of April. Light
and baffling winds were experienced throughout the
passage until a week before the ship anchored at
Spithead. During this week she ran 1,800 miles.
The officers and troops brought home by the Re-
nown consist of Major Roberts, V.C., R.A., Major
Napper, H.M.N.A., Capt. Coulson, Rifle Brigade,
Lieut. Douglas, R.A., Lieut. Lee, 38th Regiment,
300 time-expired men from various regiments
serving in India, six soldiers' wives, and four chil-
dren. The Rev. Mr. Woodington died on board
on the 3d of March ; three soldiers also died on the
passage. The Renown was towed into Portsmouth
harbour yesterday afternoon, and will disembark
her troops at the dockyard this morning, imme-
diately after which she will sail for London, for
which port she has a general Indian cargo.
The East India ship 'Winchester, Commander G.
V. Gideon, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon,
with time-expired men and tho left wing of the 48th
Regiment on board, from Calcutta, sailing from that
port on the 12th of February, and calling at St.
Helena on the 20th of April. The troops on board
comprised the left wing of the 48th Regiment, Major
J. R. Lovett in command ; Capt. and Mrs. Drought,
Capt. and Mrs. Castle and two children, Lieuts.
Brown and Vandeleur, Assist.-Surg. Grant ; En-
signs Talbot, Ryland, Tyron, and M'Laughlin ; 14
sergeants, 10 corporals, 3 drummers, 223 privates,
9 soldiers' wives, and 4 children, with 91 time-
expired men, in charge of Captain Marshall, 19th
Regiment. The following were private passengers
—viz., Captain Boulger, 20th ; Captain Monteith,
38th ; Dr. and Mrs. Warr, Queen's Bays, &c. The
time-expired men will be disembarked this morning
from the ships at Spithead, immediately after which
she proceeds to Dover, where the left wing of the
49th land to join headquarters, the Winchester
going on thence to London to deliver a valuable
cargo of indigo. Major Lovett and the other mili-
tary officers on board, on the arrival of the ship at
Spithead, expressed in the warmest terms their
satisfaction at the accommodation that had been
afforded them and the troops under their command,
and the attention that had been paid to their wants
during the voyage home by Commander G. V.
Gideon, his officers, and crew. Four soldiers and
two seamen died on the passage home.
The Charybdis, 21, screw corvette, Capt. Tur-
nour, arrived from the Pacific, sailed yesterday
from Spithead for Sheerness, where she is ordered
to be dismantled and paid out of commission.
Since the Pembroke, 60, 1,758 tons, 200 horse
power, flagship of Commodore A. P. Ryder, Con-
troller-General of the Coastguard, has been taken
into dock at Sheerness, she has been surveyed by
the master shipwright and the chief engineer's staff,
and found to require some heavy repairs before she
is again fit for service. The whole of her guns, shot,
shell, and other War Department stores have been
unshipped and placed in stores at Chatham pending
orders from the Admiralty as to the ultimate in-
tentions with regard to her.
The screw corvette Miranda, 15, 250 horse power

(nominal), Capt. R. Jenkins, C. 8., is nearly dis-
mantled, and has been placed in the steam basin,
where she is returning her stores preparatory to be-
ing paid into the third division of the steam reserve
in the Medway on Saturday next. She has been in
commission four years and eight months, during
which she has been attached to the Australian squa-
dron. The Miranda will require a heavy outlay for
repairs before she is again placed in commission.
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Chas. R. T.
Bissell to the Excellent, for service in the Royal
Sovereign ; Jas. Jones, promoted to engineer ; Geo.
G. Smith, promoted to first-class assist.-engineer ;
Win. C. S. Hyne, clerk to the Scout ; and James
Tulloch, clerk, to the Dauntless.