The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-21 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The undermentioned battalions of the Grenadier
Guards, under the command of Colonel Bruce, were
inspected by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-
Chief, in Hyde Park, yesterday :—the 2d battalion
commanded by Colonel Prince Edward of Saxe-
Weimar, C.B. The battalions were formed into
line, in review order, to receive the Commander-
in-Chief, at 10 a.m. His Royal Highness, accom-
panied by his staff, arrived on the ground at the
hour appointed, and was received with a Royal
salute. He then rode clown the line, and inspected
the men, after which he took up his position at the
saluting post, and the battalions marched past, first
by companies in slow time, and afterwards by grand
divisions in quick time. They were then formed
into line, and put through the manual and platoon
exercise and the usual evolutions of a field-day.
The review lasted about two hours, and at its con-
clusion his Royal Highness expressed himself en-
tirely satisfied with the appearance and steadiness
of the troops. The battalions were then marched
to their respective barracks and dismissed. The
ground was kept by a detachment of the Royal
Horse Guards.

Her Majesty's troopship Orontes, Captain H. W.
Hire, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the
Mediterranean. She sailed from Dublin with the
29th Regiment for Malta, where she arrived and
landed the regiment on Ist inst., receiving on board
the 2d battalion of the 22d Regiment. The Orontes
next proceeded to Gibraltar, - where the troops had
landed to wait the arrival of the hired sailing,
transports Davenport and the Star of India to con-
vey them thence to the Mauritius. The Orontes
sailed from Malta on the 6th inst., and from Gibral-
tar the 15th inst., bringing to England the following
troops and passengers :—Assist.-Surg. Greaves,
R.A., in medical charge of troops on board; Capt.
J. C. Moore, 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade ; Capt.
Pike, 86th ; Lieut. Keane, Ist Battalion 9th ; Lieut.
Grove, 15th; Capt. Parry, 32d ; Paymaster Brig-
ley, R.A., Lieut. Clarke, R.A., Capt. Vardon, Lieut.
Butler, Lieut. and Mrs. Eliot and child, Lieut.
Davies, R.E., Col. and Mrs. Fulton, child and ser-
vant ; Sir James, Lady, and Miss Cochrane; Col.
Romer, R.A., Capt. Rick, R.N., on promotion from
H.M.S. Chanticleer; Mr. White, her Majesty's
Consul at Tangiers, and Miss White ; Commander
Harvey, R.N., H.M.S. Hibernian, Mrs. Harvey and
children; Lieut. Mil-lardy, R.N., on promotion
from H.M.S. Resistance ; Mr. Barnet, naval cadet,
invalided, from H.M.S. Caledonia ; Mrs. and Miss
Frome, Mrs. Anderson and servant, Mrs. Sugden,
Mrs. Greetham and children, Mrs. Waller, Mrs.
Cleveland, Mrs. Hilman, Mrs. Joynson, Mrs. Ham-
shaw ; 91 non-commissioned officers and men, with
7 women and 8 children, invalided troops for.Netley
Hospital ; 82 non-commissioned officers and men,
with 14 women and 19 children, to join the depots
of their respective regiments ; 15 naval invalids and
time-expired men, and 22 convicts from Gibraltar.
At Malta were left her Majesty's ships Chanticleer,
Racer, and Assurance. The fleet sailed from Malta
for the Balearic Isles on the Ist inst. At Gibraltar
were her Majesty's ships, Caledonia, Procris, and
Redpole. The Orontes brought home a number of
old guns and stores, but, with the usual dockyard

foresight, the vessel is not fitted with a single ring-
bolt or any special means for securing returned guns
on her decks, and serious accidents may occur some
day when the ship meets with a breeze for the want
of proper precautionary measures for the security of
such exceptional weights about her decks.
On Wednesday the Trafalgar, 74, arrived in
Great Yarmouth Roads, and landed a number of
coastguardmen who had recently undergone their
annual training. The Trafalgar was accompanied
by a squadron of cruisers and the Magnet gunboat.
The Porcupine also anchored in the roadstead on
surveying service.

The Arethusa, 35, screwsteam frigate, 3,141 tons,
500 horse-power, Captain Reginald J. J. G. Mac-
donald, recently commissioned as one of the experi-
mental squadron for the purpose of testing the
relative merits of engines, was inspected at her
moorings in Sheerness harbour on Wednesday last,
by Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Talbot, K.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore. He expressed
to Capt. Macdonald his extreme gratification with
the condition of the ship and the sailor-like bearing
of the officers and crew. On Thursday the Are-
thusa was taken in charge of Commander Barrow,
of the Steam Reserve, for what was intended to
have been her final trial, previous to her departure
from Sheerness ; but owing to the defective state of
the Indiarubber valves of the air-pumps, she was
compelled to return to her moorings, where she will
be thoroughly overhauled, after which the final trial
will take place—probably in the course of a few
days. The working of the engines was in every
other respect highly satisfactory.
The Octavia, 35, frigate, Capt. C. F. Hillyar,
was officially inspected yesterday at Spithead by
Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the Naval
Commander-in-Chief and Port-Admiral at Ports-
mouth.