The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

A telegraph from our Plymouth correspondent,
dated Plymouth, yesterday evening, states that five
ships belonging to the Channel squadron—the Ed-
gar, Black Prince, Defence, Hector, and Prince
Consort—were observed at noon yesterday by the
fishing boat John and Sarah. They were one league
south of the Eddystone Lighthouse, steering for
Start Point, under full steam only ; wind, E.S.E.,
a strong breeze ; weather thick. The Edgar was
leading. The Achilles, which arrived at Plymouth
from Portland on Tuesday night, continues in the
Sound, and will probably go up harbour. The
cautionary drum, indicating gales, was hoisted at
Plymouth yesterday.
The screw corvette, Charybdis, 21, 1,506 tons,
400-horse power, Capt. E. B. Tumour, from the
Pacific station, arrived at the Nore on Wednesday
evening, and exchanged salutes with the Formid-
able, 84, flagship of Tice Admiral Sir C. Talbot,
K.C.8., Nacal Commander-in-Chief. She has un-
dershipped her powder and shell, which has been
placed in the Government powder magazines, Up-
nor Castle, Chatham. The Charybdis has been
nearly five years in commission, and she will at
once go into harbour to be dismantled and paid off
into the Chatham Steam Reserve. Her guns and
other War Department stores will be landed at the
Ordnance-wharf.

The ironclad frigate .Lord Warden, 24, 1,000-
horse power (nominal), has received her iron masts,
and has commenced shipping her boilers and heavy
portions of her machinery in Chatham harbour.
Her Iron masts are the largest yet constructed for
an ironclad frigate, and are similar to those sup-
plied by the Woodside Graving Dock Company for
the Bellerophon. The length of the mainmast is
111 ft. Bin., and the diameter 35in ; the foremast is
98ft. Bin. in length, and 33in. diameter; and the
mizenmast, 84ft. 4in. long, and 22in. diameter.
The whole of the masts are hollow, and are so con-
structed as to serve as ventilators between the decks.
The Lord Warden is to be docked on the 22d inst.

The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of
May :—Lieut.-Col. J. J. Grier, 93d Highlanders.
Capts. H. Alde, 18th Dragoons ; J. G. Humphrys,
Coldstream Guards ; T. P. Mitchell, 69th Regi-
ment ; W. Forde, and F. A. Baron Hone, 2d Line
Battalion, King's German Legion,. Lieuts. K. W.
S. M. Cameron, Royal Artillery ; R. J. Bouchier,
2d Queen's Royals ; T. Benwell, 4th King's Own ;
G. Sweeting, 7th Royal Fusileers ; G. Robinson,
60th Rifles ; J. Mawby, 3d Provisional Battalion ;
D. C. Napier ; and F. Thorold, Cornet M. Kickard,
Waggon Train ; Second Lieut. L. Hagemann ;
Ensign J. Galway, 103 d Royal Bombay Fusileers ;
Ridingmaster A. Webster, Royal Artillery ; Inspec-
tor-General of Hospitals M. Thomas, Royal
Artillery. Surgeon R. Brown, M.D.

Royal National Lifeboat Association.
Yesterday a meeting of this institution was hel
at its house, John-street, Adelphi, Thos. Chapman,
Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were also
present—Sir Edward Perrott, Bart., Admiral Hall,
C. 8., F.R.S., Alexander Boetefuer, Esq., Capt. De
St. Croix, Stephen Cave, Esq., M.P., W. H. liar'
ton, Esq., and Richard Lewis, Esq., the secretary.
The minutes of the previous meeting having been
read, a reward of £26 was voted to the crew of the
Whitby lifeboat of the institution, for putting off
twice during the past few weeks through a veil.
heavy sea, and saving 15 persons, including the cap-
tain's wife and a lad, 12 years of age, from the screw
steamer Ocean Queen, of Newcastle, and 19 persons
from the barque Maria Somes, of London, both of
which vessels were wrecked on the rocks off Whitby.
A reward of £5 was also voted to the crew of the life-
boat of the institution stationed at Rosslao, Co. Wex-
ford, for going off and rescuing the crew of six men
from the lugger Peep-o'day, of Wexford, which
was totally wrecked during a strong wind
from E.N.E. on the Dogger Bank, off that
place, on the 21st of April. A reward of £4lOO.
was likewise granted to the crew of the institution's
lifeboat of Fowey, Cornwall, for putting off and re-
maining alongside the Hanoverian galliot Einbracht,
which was in distress on a lee shore in St. Austell
Bay, during a very strong wind from the S.E., on
April 30. A reward of £4 was also voted to the
crew of the institution's lifeboat stationedat Moelfre,
Anglesey, for going out and saving a man from a
ship's boat which had been carried far out to sea
during a strong wind at Redwharf Bay, on the 16th
ult. The boat had drifted a distance of five railes
from the shore when she was fortunately overtaken
by the lifeboat. Rewards amounting to £35 70.
were also granted to the crews of the lifeboats of
the institution at Pembrey, Llanelly, Cemlyn, Port-
rush, Cahore, and Scarborough for different services
during the past month. Various other rewards were
also voted to the crews of shore boats and others for
saving life from shipwreck on the coast of the United
Kingdom. A contribution of £2O had been received
from Miss Florence Nightingale, and, in sending it,
she expressed her highest admiration of the objects
of the Lifeboat Institution, and of the heroes, as she
termed them, who are ever ready to man its life-
boats. Payments amounting to upward of £2,000
were made during the past two months on the life-
boat establishments of the institution. The institu-
tion had recently sent new lifeboats to Sunderland
and Dunbar. The cost of the Sunderland boat had
been raised in the town and county of Derby by
T. Roe, Esq., the mayor ; William Peat, Esq.,
and other friends. A new lifeboat and transport-
ing carriage had also been sent, during the Past
month, to Holy Island, Northumberland. The
boat was called the Grace Darling, after the
heroine of that name. The institution had likewise
sent a new,life.boat to New Quay, Cornwall, to re-
place one previously there, which had become unfit
for service. The several railway companies had, as
usual, readily given free conveyances over their
lines to their respective stations. It was reported
that the inspector and assistant-inspector were pa"
suing their annual visits to the lifeboats of the
society on the Irish and Scotch coasts. A report
was read from the inspector of lifeboats on some
comparative trials which had recently been made at
Cherbourg with three lifeboats. One of the boats
was built in London, under the superintendence of
the institution, for the Paris Shipwreck Society ;
the two others were the invention of French persengf
and were built at Havre. The English lifeboat,
which is the result of great experience, had the ad"
vantage. A letter was read from a benevolent ladY
expressing her desire to give the institution the cost
of a lifeboat, to be called the Admiral Fitzroy. i!
was stated that the late William Hollins, Esq., 0.1
Over Wallop, near Southampton, had left theme
stitution a legacy of £5OO Consols. It was repo
that the subscribers to the Dundee People's Journal
had, through the proprietor of that journal, W. D'
Latto, Esq., contributed £BOO to pay the cost of
the two new lifeboats, and transporting carriage*
which the institution is about to station at Peter-
head and Arbroath. Many of the subscribers to
the fund are fishermen residing on the east coast of
Scotland. The Rev. E. S. Corrie has also forwarded
to the institution £2 155., being the sum collected
for it by an invalid boy, from his friends visiting
him. He is confined entirely to his couch, but he
takes great interest in the welfare of the society.
The proceeedings then terminated.