The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The commodore superintendent and officials of
Woolwich dockyard yesterday received instructions
from the Admiralty Board to be in attendance. at
Gravesend on Sunday afternoon next in order to
direct the arrangements for the embarkation at that
port, for the Continent, of the Prince and Princess
of Prussia (Princess Royal of England) and family,
who will take their departure in the royal yacht
Osborne.

The hired transport Ruth has 'commenced ship-
ping at Woolwich the remainder of the hutting
materials prepared for use in Bermuda, a former
cargo having been shipped in the Lady Milne.

Instructions have been received at Chatham
dockyard directing a mortar vessel to be fitted up
and attached for training purposes to each of the
training ships for boys and lads at the various ports,
consisting of the Wellesley, 72, at Chatham ; the
Boscawen, 70, at Southampton ; the Implacable,
24, and the Impregnable, 78, at Devonport ; and
the St. Vincent, 26, at Portsmouth. The principal
use to which the mortar boat will be applied will be
that of teaching every lad on board the ships named
to swim, which art will in future form a portion of
the education of every boy entering the navy.
The iron-cased frigate Favorite, 10, 2,094 tons,
400-horse power, Capt. F. IL Shortt, was yesterday
completed by the shipwright department, and, in
accordance with orders previously issued, will be re-
moved out of the steam basin to-day and placed at
anchor near the west shore, near the Medway. She
is fully complete in the various departments, and
only awaits the reception of her guns and sea stores
to be ready for active service whenever required.
Some delay will, however, arise in consequence of
no definite determination having been arrived at as
to the character of the armament she will mount,
no orders having been received at the Ordnance
Department, Chatham, respecting the description
of guns to be supplied to her.
The Cornwallis, old 60-gun screw two-decker,
had a number of shipwrights and other workmen
employed up to a late hour last evening in cutting
away her fore foot and a portion of her keel, in order
that she might be in readiness for being floated out
of No. 3 dock at spring-tide to-day. She is intended
to be sunk n'ar the jetty at the entrance to the
1 Sheerness steam basin to facilitate the docking and
' undocking of ships, for which purpose she has been
razed, her upper deck taken off, and the whole of
her internal machinery and fittings removed.
Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Bristol, 35
guns, Capt. L. E. H. Somerset, flagship of Com-
modore Hornby, left Portland Roads, for the West
Coast of Africa, shortly after noon on Wednesday,
the 29th inst. She had been detained since the
Sunday previous by.-the heavy gales which have
been prevalent in the Channel since she left Spit-
head.

Garrison Serg.-Major Bailey, who has for some
time past been under arrest on the charge of de-
frauding the non-commissioned officers' mess, of
whichle was president, of the sum of £63 17s. 3d.,
has been examined by a court of inquiry at the
Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich. He has been
acquitted of fraud, but has been relieved of the pre-
sidency of the mess, and ordered to refund the
amount in default forthwith.

The half-yearly examination of the gentlemen
cadets by the Council of Military Education will
commence to-day (December 1) at the Royal Mili-
tary Academy at Woolwich, and will extend over a
period of 12 days, after which arrangements
will be made to prepare the classes for the usual
duties preparatory to the visit of the Governor, the
Coimander-in-Chief, for the distribution of the
prizes, &c.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—The Rev. Henry Glasson, chaplain,
to the St. George ; Robt. H. C. Hebden, second
master, to the Victory ; Charles N. White, mas-
ter's-assist., to the Tamar ; and William Stainer,
master's-assist., to the Spiteful. Mr Baldin 11. Wake
has been nominated a naval cadet.