The Sun.
London, England, 1865-11-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Admiral Sir William Bowles, K.C.8., and Rear-
Admiral Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., recently
Controller of the Royal Navy, yesterday went
down to Woolwich for the purpose of inspecting
the ironcased cased cupola ship Prince Albert,
under completion in basin there. The two Admi-
rals, accompanied by Capt. Conolly, Capt. Wilms-
hurst, and other officers of the yard, made a minute
inspection of the ship, which was apparently of
great interest to Admiral Bowles, to whom the
cupola system was a novelty. He appeared to enter
fully into the merits of Capt. Coles's invention, and
expressed himself much gratified with his visit.
After their inspection of the Prince Albert they
went on board the ironclad ram Pallas in the ad-
joining basin, which vessel they likewise inspected.
Commodore Dunlop, superintendent of Wool-
wich dockyard, attended by Commander Towsey,
Commander Dillon, and Mr. Ponsonby, secretary,
yesterday inspected her Majesty's 6-gun sloop
Spiteful, Commander Fletcher, moored at the
powder-buoy off Woolwich arsenal, under orders
for sea. Her present arrangements are--to go
down to Greenhithe to-day and remain till Mon-
day, when she will again leave her moorings at 30
a.m., and make the usual run at the measured mile.
She will then return to Greenhithe, adjust com-
passes, undergo the Commodore's final inspection,
and take her departure, calling in at Portsmouth on
her way down Channel. , It is feared, however,
that, in consequence of a defect discovered yester-
day, some slight delay in the period of her depar-
ture may be found necessary. It appears that in
practising the gunners it was found that the coping
oZ the captain's cabin interfered to a considerable
degree with the free traversing of the gun, and that
the defect will have to be made good. After the
inspection the Commodore and attendant officers
embarked on board the steamtug vessel Bustler,
Second Master Drapes, and proceeded at one
o'clock to Gravesend, to be present at the embar-
kation of the Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse,
postponed from the previous day on account of the
storms, which had yesterday totally subsided.
Yesterday the Barracouta, 6, 1,053 tons, 300-
horse power, which has been fitted for the first divi-
sion of the Chatham Steam Reserve in the Medway,
in readiness for commission, got up steam for the
first time in the great basin, on the completion of
some extensive repairs to her engines. She has been
supplied with new boilers, and opportunity has been
taken during the time she has been fitting to give
her engines a thorough overhaul. The Barracouta
is complete in her fittings aloft, and there is now
little work remaining to be executed before she is
out of hand.

The Terpsichore, 18, has a number of shipwrights
employed on her in No. 4 dock at Chatham, -where
her hull is undergoing some temporary repairs, and
the injuries she sustained on the occasion of the
torpedo experiments made good in order to allow of
her being floated out of dock and navigated round
to the Thames for the purpose of being broken up
at the yard of Messrs. Castle and Beech, Charlton.
The screw steamer Icarus, 11, 580 tons, 150-horse
power (nominal) fitting for the first division of the
Steam Reserve in the Medway, got up steam yester-
day, under the superintendence of Mr. G. Tucker,
inspector of machinery afloat, for the purpose of
testing the working of her engines. The Icarus is
nearly complete in her rigging.
The screw frigate Bristol, 35, Capt. L. E. H.
Somerset, the flagship of the recently appointed
commanding officer of her Majesty's ships on the
West Coast of Africa, Commodore G. T. P. Hornby,
left Spithead for her destination at 2 p.m. yesterday
under steam. Wind, southerly and moderate.
The Boscawen sailing two-decker boys' training
ship in Southampton Water, Commander MacLeod
B. Cockraft, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday in
tow of the Government steamers Lucifer and Echo,
to undergo repairs and a refit. The Boscawen is a
fine roomy vessel of 2,212 tons, with great beam
and height between decks. She was built from de-
signs by the late Sir Wm. Symonds, at Woolwich
dockyard, and launched in 1844.

The Royal Sovereign, 5, turret-ship, Capt. A.
Herbert, yesterday made practice from the guns in
her foremost turret off the east end of the Isle of
Wight. Captain A. C. Key, C. 8., of her Majesty's
ship Elreplltynt, conducted the firing. Capt. Cowper
P. Coles was also on board. The firing was carried
on for the further testing of the winch and chain
purchases, fitted under the superintendence of Capt.
Coles, for running the guns in and out, and con-
trolling them in all positions when being worked by
their crews. The winches and chains again an-
swered admirably. Each new trial of the Royal
Sovereign under fire, however, not only affords an
opportunity to Capts. Key and Coles to suggest
improvementg.in the details of the fittings, the gun
and carriage gear on board the ship, but also affords
valuable hints for fitting and rendering as perfect
as possible the broadside carriage, and the slides
now fitting for mounting the 12-ton guns for the
forthcoming trial on board the Minotaur.
An order was yesterday received at Chatham
garrison directing Capt. F. L. Edridge, senior cap-
tain of the Ist Battalion 20th Regt., to be placed
under orders to embark for Calcutta, to join the
service companies of his regiment in India.
On Wednesday a board of officers assembled at
Chatham garrison, under the presidency of Col. R.
C. Moody, commanding Royal Engineers of the
district, for the purpose of selecting and reporting
upon a suitable site on which to erect a block of
buildings to be occupied as quarters by the married
non-commissioned officers and men of the 3d depot
battalion of infantry. The site selected is an eligible
piece of ground between the Casemate and Hut-
barracks, and should the War Department approve
the proposed locality, the new buildings, the plans
of which are prepared at the Royal Engineer De-
partment, will be shortly commenced.
Staff Assist.-Surgeon Peppin, of the 4th Depot
Battalion, has been attached to the Bth Depot Bat-
talion, at Colchester, in consequence of the illness
of Staff-Surgeon Touch. Lieut. Whyte, two ser-
geants, and 38 rank and file of the 2d battalion 6th
Regiment, now stationed at Colchester, are held in
readiness to embark for the service companies of
their corps in Jamaica. Under instructions received
from the Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief, the
gymnasium at Colchester will be taken into use in
a few days. The staff of the gymnasium is to be
composed as follows :—Capt. Mosse, 6th Foot is to
be superintendent of gymnastics ; Serg. Calthorpe,
of the 66th, and Serg. Foley, of the 6th, ai4p, to be
first-class instructors ; and Serg. Richardson, of the
70th, Serg. Motley, of the 44th, and'Corporal Har-
vey, of the 41st, are to be second-class instructors.
New kettledrums have been presented to the
17th Lancers by Mr. G. Brudenell-Bruce and
Lady Evelyn Bruce. The drums and standards
or bannerets are of silver ; the bannerets bear
the motto of the regiment, composed of a " death's
head and cross-bones" in silver, encircled by a garter
on which are inscribed the words " Death or glory,"
surmounted by an elegantly embroidered crown ;
above is a scroll, bearing the name, number, and
honours of the regiment, the whole being sur-
mounted by an elaborated device composed of an
oak and olive branch, the rose, shamrock, and
thistle. The entire device is worked with gold, on
a blue velvet ground, edged with gold fringe.
Regimental Quarterm aster- Sergt. -Major G. Terry
has been presented at Colchester with a medal for
long service and meritorious conduct. The medal
was accompanied by a gratuity of £l5.
Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock a priyate in the
Woolwich division Royal Marine Light Infantry,
named John Gallaher, belonging to the 52d com-
pany, was publicly stripped of his facings, and was
paraded between the whole of the battalions drawn
out in double line for that purpose. He was accom-
panied to the gates of the barrack quarters to the
tune of the Rogue's March, when he was taken in
charge by an escort and was conveyed to Coldbath
Fields prison to undergo 376 days' confinement,
after which he will be dismissed her Majesty's ser-
vice. The prisoner was tried a short time ago by
court-martial for the crime of desertion and making
away with his effects. He has been in the habit, it
is stated, of prowling about the country in a state of
destitution, and when reduced to extremity he has
enlisted in various regiments under various aliases.
The Board of Admiralty gave their ready sanction
, fvr his being dismissed the service with ignomhiy.

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Thursday.
The Queen, with Princess Helena, drove in the
grounds yesterday afternoon.
Her Majesty, accompanied by the Princess Louis
of Hesse, walked and drove in the grounds this
morning.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Prussia
went out shooting, attended by Lord Methuen and
Colonel 11. Ponsonby.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse took leave of her Majesty, and, with
the Princesses Victoria and Elizabeth of Hesse, left
the Castle on their return to the Continent.

Princess Helena and Princess Louise, attended
by the Hon. Emily Cathcart, accompanied the
prince and princess to the railway station.
Their royal highnesses were attended by Baroness
Schenck and Baron de Rabenau.

The Hon. Mortimer Saaville West (Groom in
Waiting to her Majesty) also attended their royal
highnesses to Gravesend.

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The Prince and Princess of Wales.
MELFORD, Thursday.

The royal visit to Lord and Lady Alfred Paget
is to be extended a day longer than was at first con-
templated, it having been arranged that their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales should
not take their leave until Saturday.
Yesterday morning his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Proby,
Lord Suffield, Major-General Lord George Paget,
Lord Berkeley Paget, Viscount Hinchingbroke,
and Captain Barnardiston, went out shooting in
the Spelthorne-wood, about 12 o'clock. A large
number of highly respectable individuals acted as
beaters. Taking into account the unfavourable
state of the weather—a heavy gale blowing all day
—the sport was tolerably good, and a " bag" of
fair proportions was the result. In the afternoon
luncheon was served in the wood.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, with
Lady A. Paget, the Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Lady Proby,
and Lady Suffield, went out for a drive in a pair of
carriages, taking a pleasant circuit of about seven
miles, passing through Sudbury, Acton, and Great
Waldingfield, a pleasant open route. The weather
was fine, but the wind was high.
The dinner party in the evening consisted of their
Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales,
Major Teesdale, Hon. Mrs. E. Coke, Lord and Lady
Proby, Lord and Lady Suffield, Lady Parker, Lord
George Paget, Lord Berkeley Paget, and Viscount
Hinchingbrooke.
The band of the 11th Suffolk 'Volunteers, under
the leadership of Mr. Attfield, late of the Cold-
stream Guards, attended in the large hall, and
played from eight to eleven o'clock.
This morning his royal highness and party have
commenced shooting in Lineage wood.
All the decorations at Melford remain except such
as the ruthless gale of yesterday tore down, and last
night there was a partial illumination.

Departure of the Prince and Princess Louis

of Hesse.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
Louis of Hesse, with their children, embarked at
Gravesend yesterday for Germany, on board his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales's yacht Osborne.
Their Royal Highnesses and suite left Windsor at
five minutes past one o'clock, and travelled by the
South-Western and North Kent Railways, reaching
Gravesend, a distance of 52 miles, at 2.40 p.m.
When the Royal party had embarked the Hessian
flag was hoisted at the main of the Osborne, and
the yacht sailed at half-past three o'clock.

The Earl and Countess Delawarr have arrived
at Buckhurst Park, Sussex, for the winter.

The Countess (Frances) Waldegrave and the
Right Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., are expected in
town at the end of the month from Dudbrook Park, Essex.
The right hon. gentleman is expected to enter upon his
duties as Chief Secrphbry for frelanci early in the ensuing
month.

Lady Rendlesham has left town for Brighton for
a few weeks.

BANK OF FRANCE.

PARIS, Nov. 23.

The following is the return of the Bank of France
for the week ending to-day, together with the cor-
responding figures of the previous account :