The Sun.
London, England, 1865-05-01 00:00:00

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

Admiral Yelverton, C. 8., will probably hoist his
flag on board the iron cased ship Caledonia, 31,
Capt. the Hon. F. A. C. Foley, at Devonport, in
about three weeks. Shortly afterwards the vessel
will sail for the Mediterranean to complete the
Admiral's three years on that station. He joined
the Revenge April 24, 1864. The fittings of the
Revenge will, it is understood, be turned over to the
Caledonia. The crew of the Revenge, 600 men,
who received wages to the extent of £lO,OOO, were
paid off on Wednesday in about an hour and a half.
Excepting the foulness of her bottom, which can be
soon rectified, she is in good condition; and will pro-
bably take the place of the Blenheim, 60, at Pem-
broke. It is rumoured that after completing her
time in the Mediterranean the Caledonia will be
flagship in the British Channel.

Her Majesty's paddlewheel frigate the Terrible,
21 guns, 1,850 tons, 800-horse power, having under-
gone extensive repairs both to the hull and ma-
chinery, and been fitted for the first division of the
steam reserve at Sheerness was, in accordance with
orders received from the Admiralty, placed in com-
mission on Friday last by the master in charge,
Frederick Townsend, for Capt. Gerard J. Napier.
The terrible is to be employed on the home station,
and is ordered, in consort with the Sphynx, 6,
paddlewheel sloop 1,061 tons, 500-horse power, to
accompany the Great Eastern while laying the At-
lantic telegraph from the coast of Ireland to the
coast of Newfoundland. The following officers have
been appointed to and have joined the Terrible :
Capt. Gerard J. Napier, Lieuts. S. R. Streatfield, H.
A. Arundell, and F. J. Elliott ; Master F. Town-
send, Surgeon W. Fasken, Paymaster Thomas T.
Wise, Chief Engineer Joseph Rollinson, Assistant-
Paymaster German F. Mathew ; Midshipmen E.
Battersby, A. W. Massy, A. E. Bancroft, and C.
C. Wood ; and Assist.-Clerk John P. Braine.

The shipment of the Atlantic telegraphic cable on
board the Great Eastern at Sheerness is being con-
ducted with the greatest despatch by the manufac-
turers, the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance
Company (limited) (late Messrs. Glass, Elliott, and
Co.), and it is thought that the work will befinished
and the vessel in every respect ready to leave Sheer-
ness next month.

The Salamis, 2, paddle despatch vessel, Com-
Mander Francis G. Suttie, sailed from Portsmouth
on Saturday for Alderney, with Capt. A. Clarke,
R.E., on board, the Admiralty Director of Engineer-
ing and Architectural Works. Capt. Clarke's mis-
sion to Alderney is to inspect and report upon the
present condition of the harbour, breakwater, pier,
&c., upon which such large sums of the publicmoney
have been spent,:a.n.d which is asserted to be so faulty
in design that every recurring gale inflicts irrepar-
able injury upon it, sweeps away part of it, and de-
posits the materials beyond all recovery over the
numerous beds of rock that fringe the island.
The Geyser, 6, paddle, Commander Thrupp, ar-
rived at Portsmouth yesterday from the eastward,
with supe'rnumeraries and stores, &c., and went into
harbour from Spithead soon after her arrival.
The Waterwitch, ironcased hydraulic gunvessel,
now building under contract for the Admiralty in a
private shipbuilding yard, had her selected 4i-inch
armour-plate tested at Portsmouth on Saturday.
The plate was from the firm of John Brown and Co.,
Atlas Works, Sheffield, and proved under trial ex-
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bered the fitting basin at Woolwich during the past
ten years, was on Saturday taken up to the break-
ing up yard at Charlton,-to be disposed of for fire-
wood. ller engines during that period have been in
charge of a chief engineer and assistant constantly
kept on the books of the Fisgard for that purpose.
Capt. William King Hall; C. 8., late Capt. of the
Sheerness Steam Reserve and the newly-appointed
Captain-Superintendent of the Sheerness Dockyard,
vice Capt. Charles Wise, appointed to flag rank,
has taken up his appointment, and entered on his
duties at the yard.
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., commanding at
Woolwich, has been daily engaged during the past
week in making his half-yearly inspection as to the
interior economy of the brigades and corps in garri-
son. On Monday the. General inspected the riding
establishment in marching order, the whole of whom
were dismounted and mustered in the Riding School
for that purpose, and immediately afterwards he
examined the books, barrack quarters, &c. The
General afterwards proceeded to an inspection of the
' General Hospital, Cambridge-cottages, occupied
by married soldiers and their families, and visited
the schools there. On Tuesday he inspected the
regimental schools on the Greenhill, the books
of headquarters, and the batteries of the 4th
brigade- ----IPiyal Artillery, the barrack-rooms, kitsr
workshops, &c. edncsaasr_-he
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spectionOTlte-Coast brigade, who were drawn out
in marching order. Afterwards he went over the
divisional barracks, workshops, cookhouses, &c., and
inspected the sth brigade Royal Artillery in com-
plete marching order, and examined the books,
general quarters, &c. On Thursday he inspected
the batteries, head-quarters, and 2d division of the
depot brigade Royal Artillery, the veterinary esta-
blishment, &c. On- Friday the General inspected
Lieut.-Col. Reilly's battery, and attended a meeting
of the mess committee. On Saturday he witnessed
a course of riding by the officers and non-commis-
sioned officers in the Riding-school, and inspected
the Military Train in marching order at the encamp-
ment on the western extremity of Woolwich Com-
mon. The General will continue his inspection of
the district under his command each day during the
present week.

General Warde, with a view of giving the troops
a greater extension of privilege from barracks, has
issued an order that in future the tattoo will beat off
at half-past nine, instead of nine, as heretofore, the
rolls to be called in barracks at ten, and lights to
be extinguished at half-past ten.

Mr. Brown, a junior clerk in the Royal William
Victualling-yard, was drowned near the eastern
entrance to Plymouth Sound on Friday afternoon,
during a sudden squall. The deceased and Mr.
Gibson had hired a boat of a waterman, who was
in it with them. After she upset the three kept
themselves afloat by holding fast to the oars and loose
spars for three-quarters of an hour, until assistance
arrived, when it was found that Mr. Brown was dead.
The following appointments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Cyril W. Newall, naval
cadet, to the Caledonia ; William C. E. Baker,
second master, additional, to the Narcissus ; Joseph
F. Atkinson, master's-assist., to the Sphinx ; Allen
C. Denness, Chas. Webb, and Reginald F. Yonge,
master's-assists., to the Terrible.

THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA,

(From the Times' Correspfrndent.)
NSW YORK, April 18.

A few minutes after midnight, on Friday, the
14th of April, the telegraphic wires announced to
the people of America that the genial, kind-hearted,
honest Abraham Lincoln, President of the United
States, had been murdered in the theatre, and that
his Secretary of State, Mr. W. H. Seward, an old
man, in his GGth year, lying on the bed of sickness,
if not of death, had been fatally stabbed by the
same or some other a.q.ctsvzsin. The few people who
were stirring at the hofels and other places of public_
resort refused,to believe the intelligence. Tho story
was so impr9bahlerrid so hoititte that it was 'hard
for any one to give it credence. Hundreds who
heard of it went quietly to bed with the firm con-
viction that the morning papers would dispose of it
as a fabrication as incomprehensible as it was atro-
cious. But in the newspaper offices on that melan-
choly night there were no doubts. The news was
official, under the hand of the Secretary of War,
and was corroborated by half-hourly and still more
frequent telegrams from Washington from the re-
porters and correspondents of the various journals.
The papers were all issued at too early an hour to
convey the positive news of the President's death,
but the details they furnished of the cruel catas-
trophe were too minute and exact to leave any room
for hope that he could by any possibility survive.
Before 9 in the morning it was known all over New
York and other cities of the North that his spirit had
fled, and that after the infliction of the fatal wound
he had never spoken a word or opened his eyes, or
given a sign of consciousness or even of life, except
in the failing throbs of the heart, and the heavy
breathing of a strong man wrestling with death.
The people were stupefied with the horror of the
announcement ; but in the course of a few minutes,
as neighbour spoke with neighbour, and stranger
with stranger at street corners and places of public
resort, the stupor was succeeded by a stern, fierce,
vindictive resolve to avenge the deed, not only
upon the assassins and their accomplices, whoever
they might be, but on the whole people of the
South, in whose interest it was supposed the crime
had been consummated. Ever since the surrender
of Gen. Lee the thoughts of all, except a very few,
had been turned towards peace and reconciliation,
and the President had been urged, and if he had
lived would doubtless have needed no prompting, to
pursue a policy so congenial to his nature, to offer
complete and generous amnesty to the whole South,
from Mr. JeffersOn Davis down to the last recruit
in the Confederate army. But on Saturday morn-
ing no such feeling remained. People walked about
with knitted brows and clinched hands as if each
man felt an impulse to avenge by his own act the
crime which had brought dishonour on the nation,
and which might imperil the public safety by new
and unforeseen complications. There was an almost
universal inclination to attribute the murder to the
plots of Southern emissaries—to the scoundrels who
made raids from Canada upon Federal towns and
villages, and who undertook to burn down the city
of New York, and but little or any desire to believe
that no political party had employed or instigated
the murderers. The craving for vengeance fierce
and unreasoning was everywhere manifested. By
one accord, and without any concerted action, the
people closed their shops and places of business, and.
itch
by noon the long line. of Broadway was hung w
festoons of mourning, from almost t
every hou
ose, for
a distance of three miles. In the side stree s and
minor thoroughfares, all over theco citya
grief was exhibited in the . same manner
p pular
had been the
h .e mner ; and if
plain, unpretending Abraham
imperial representative and e of all the Empe-
rors and Kings that had ruled the world for a thou-
sand years, and had been as conspicuous for his
illustrious birth and unquestionable power as for
his virtue and goodness, his cruel and untimely
death could not have Lbeen mourned with more
spontaneous and deep-rooted affection. The ma-
nagers of the theatres announced that there would
be no performances that night, nor until after the
funeral. Wall-street suspended its traffic, and the
brokers, merchants, gold speculators, bankers, and
all the selfish multitude that haunt its busy purlieus
gathered before the Custom-house to hear or to
make speeches. One person who was silly or brutal
enough to express satisfaction at the President's
death narrowly escaped with his life from the blows
of the bystanders, and had he not run for the first
open door, and successfully closed it upon himself,
and been barricaded in by the occupants, he would
have been torn in pieces by his pursuers. The speeches
made were creditable to the hearts of the orators and
to the American people, and if they were at times a