The Sun.
London, England, 1865-06-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military InteUigence.

The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief will
hold a levee, at 1 o'clock, on Wednesday, the sth of
July.

Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, K.C.8., gives up
the command of the South-West Military District
and the Lieut.-Governorship of the garrison of
Portsmouth to-day to his successor, Lieut.-Gen. Sir
Geo. Buller. Lord W. Paulet succeeds Sir James
Yorke Scarlett at the Horse Guards in the offce of
Adjt.-Gen.

The military invalids and time-expired men, with
women and children, brought to England from
Madras in the sailing ship Lord Warden were trans-
ferred from that ship at Spithead yesterday by the
military authorities of Portsmouth garrison, the in-
valids being forwarded to the Victoria Hospital at
Netley, and the time-expired men sent on from
Portsmouth to the depots of their respective regi-
ments. The Lord Warden afterwards sailed for
the Thames.

Rear-Admiral George Elliot, Superintendent of
Portsmouth Dockyard, next on the list of Rear-
Admirals for promotion, has resigned his appoint-
ment at Portsmouth with the intention of offering
himself to the constituency of Chatham as a candi-
date for their suffrages in the Conservative interest
at the ensuing election. Rear-Admiral George
Greville Wellesley, C. 8., succeeds Rear-Admiral
Elliot as Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard.
Capt. Francis Scott, C. 8., Aide-de-Camp to the
Queen, Flag Captain to Admiral Sir Michael Sey-
mour, G.C.8., has issued invitations to a ball on
board her Majesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth
harbour, on the 6th proximo. She was launched at
Chatham in 1765.

Port Admiral Sir Charles Fremantle, at Devon-
port, has informed the Mayor of Plymouth that the
Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have learnt
through Lord Cowley., the British Ambassador at
Paris, that two or three French ships of war will
be at anchor in the Sound on the 17th of July,
which is the time when the Royal Agricultural
Society meet there. On leaving the Sound it is
said the French ships will visit the other principal
ports in England, while the British ships of war
will go round the coast of France.

Her Majesty's screw gun vessel Griffon, 5, 80-
horse power (nominal), Commander J. L. Perry,
was yesterday put out of commission, the crew being
paid off in the basin at Sheerness Dockyard, under
the superintendence of Capt. W. K. Hall, C. 8.,
superintendent of the dockyard. The Griffon has
been exactly four years in commission, during the
whole of which period she has been employed in the
suppression of the slave trade on the West African
coast, 18 months of which time she was cruising in
the Bight of Benin, and the remainder along the
southern portion of the coast. The number of prizes
taken by her amounted to six, including two large
vessels fully equipped for running the slaving
blockade, consisting of the Catalina, in the Bight of
Benin, and the Venus, off Ambrizetti. One of the
other vessels captured had a few slaves on board.
The crew during the time the Griffon was in com-
mission were generally healthy, only five deaths
having occurred on board, and one officer having
been invalided. On being paid off yesterday the
crew were granted six weeks leave of absence. The
Griffon goes into the third division of the Chatham
steam reserve, and before being again in commission
will require very extensive repairs.
The Menai, 22, 400-horse power, one of the
squadron of wooden steamers standing idle on the
building-slips at Chatham Dockyard, has been taken
to pieces, and the last of the timbers of her frame
have been removed. Those of the timbers which
can be made available for that purpose are to be
converted for the frame of the new war steamer
Blanche, ordered to be laid down on No. 7 slip at
Chatham.

The Naval Committee on ships' cooking apparatus
—consisting of Capt. Francis Scott, C. 8., and
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, commanding her Ma-
jesty's ship Victory ; Capt. John Seccombe, her
Majesty's ship Duke of Wellington ; Capt. Thomas
B. Lethbridge, her Majesty's ship Himalaya, have
closed their report on this subject, and for-
-yarded, it to th() Admiralty. The chief labours of
the committee have been confined to Portsmouth
Dockyard, but they have also visited the esta-
blishments of private manufacturers of the dif-
ferent firehearths in London and Glasgow, and
have otherwise sought to obtain the best in-

formation. The report recommends a complete
change in the form of cooking apparatus on board
her Majesty's ships, and also in the mode of its sup-
ply by the private manufacturer to the Admiralty.
It appears that for the past 60 years the firehearths
on board her Majesty's ships, which are exceedingly
cumbrous and built up of wrought and cast iron,
have been supplied exclusively by one firm at Glas-
gow at so much per lb. avoirdupois. This arrange-
ment the committee condemn for many reasons.
They recommend that so injurious a monopoly
should be at once abolished, and the future supply
of firehearths thrown open to the public, so that
the crews of her Majesty's ships may have the ad-
vantage of the.best possible apparatus. In referring
to the large stock of the Glasgow pattern firehearth
still on hand in her Majesty's dockyards, the com-
mittee refer to the cost as paid by the Admiralty
under the present system, to their deficient baking
capacity, to their cumbrousness and weight, and to
their great consumption of fuel. Under the head
of " conversion" the committee, in referring to the
attempts that have been made to improve the Glas-
gow firehearth by giving it additional baking capa-
city, deprecate any further attempt in that direc-
tion on the ground that the form of the firehearth
is altogether unsuitable for use in ships, and that
any further attempt to improve it would be unad-
visable, as involving a useless waste of public money.
The iron screw frigate Minotaur, 6,621 tons,
1,350 horse power,Capt. Herbert (protein.), manned
from her Majesty's ships Excellent and Royal Sove-
reign, and with two 12-ton guns mounted in broad-
side carriages on her main deck, went out of Ports-
mouth harbour yesterday, and anchored at Spit-
head, preparatory to commencing her experimental
course of practice and drill with the 12-ton guns off
the east end of the Isle of Wight. The ship is ex-
pected to make her first smooth-water cruise to-
day. Capt. Key, C. 8., of her Majesty's ship Ex-
cellent, and Governor of the Royal Naval College,
will have sole charge of the gunnery course, Capt.
Herbert being only in charge of the ship during the
time the experiments are being carried on.

EXTRAORDINARY AND PAINFUL CASE.—On Mon-
day Captain Tennent, of Rushpark, was arrested
under a warrant, charged with hating assaulted Captain
Delacherois, J.II„ his brother-in-law, at Donaghadee, on
the preceding day (Sunday). About 12 months since Mr.
Delacherois was married to Miss Tennant, and they lived
to all sppearanco happily together for some months.
Gradually, however, differences arose between them. On
Thursday week Mrs. Delacherois and her husband were
driving from Donaghadee to their residence, when the
latter, as is stated, acted in such a manner that Mrs. Dela-
cherois jumped off the car, and placed herself under the
protection of an officer of Coastguard, who, after some
difficulty, effected a reconciliation. Mrs. Delacherois sub-
sequently complained to her brother, who drove from his
father's residence to that of his brother-in-law, Captain
Harrison, J.P., with whom he went to Donaghadee. He
drove to Ballywilliam Cottage, and, leaving Captain Har-
rison with the car upon the road, he walked up to the cot-
tage and obtained an interview with Captain Dela-
cherois. Both gentlemen retired to a parlour; and, once
Captain Delacherois was inside, Captain Tennent closed
the doors, and charged him with ill-treating Mrs. Dela-
cherois. The discussion waxed warm. Captain Tennent
carried with him a walking stick, and with it he commenced
a furious attack upon Mr. Delacherois, beating him about
the head and face in a shocking manner. The blood flowed
copiously from the injured gentleman, who soon fell from
exhaustion, and became perfectly insensible. This was
only the work of a few moments. The servants in the
house were not aware of the attack on their master till it
was over. Captain Tennent then left the house, rejoined
Captain Harrison, and drove towards Belfast. Immedi-
ately after Captain Tennent left Captain Delacherois was
found lying on the floor covered with blood. Dr. Cather-
wood and Dr. Moore were in attendance as speedily as
possible, and the wounds were seen to 9) of a serious
nature. Intelligence of the affair was sent to the police
barracks, and shortly after Mr. M'Minn, J.P., accompanied
by sergeant Hick°, visited the cottage. Captain Delache-
rois then made au information, stating that Captain Ten-
nent had beaten him, not only with a stick, but with the
poker, and kicked him when he was prostrate. Capt. Ten-
nant was soon arrested, and, bail being refused by the
magistrates, ho was conveyed in the custody of the police
to Downpatrick gaol.—Beyhar Lerrer.