The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-10 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Prince Albert is no feather-bed soldier. Let the
Scots Fusiliers prove that. His attention to his regi-
ment was most exemplary, and as Mr. Herbert
very truly remarked, very little of his 2,0001. allow-
ances did he pocket—expending well-nigh the whole sum•
in increasing the comforts and multiplying the con-
veniences of the men under his charge. They are sorry
to part with him, but his successor, with as princely a
heart as his own, is an active, zealous, and skilful sol-
dier • and the regiment will prosper in his hands no
doubt. By the way, we learn Prince Albert is, at his
own expense, about to increase the Grenadiers' band,
bringing it up in point of numbers and efficiency, to an
equality with the most renowned regimental bands in
Austria or Prussia.—Plymouth Mail.
GENERAL INSPECTION.—Major-General Sir Harry
Smith, G-.C.8., inspected the 7th and 35th Regiments
and Royal Marines, on the parade, Mount Wise, on
Monday. The gallant general appears determined to
keep the troops under his command in prime " service
condition." He took the command on the ground, and
gave the " word" himself with a voice fully equal to the
task. The various evolutions were gone through in the
most admirable style by the whole of the troops ; but
from the contracted Space afforded by the parade
ground, there was no moving the troops in a body, or
forming a continuous line.— Plymouth Mail.
The Emerald Isle, freight-ship, 537 tons, having on
board the second (head-quarter) division of the service
companies of the ht battalion 71st Regiment, for con-
veyance to Corfu, sailed from Cork harbour, for her des-
tination on the sth inst. The following are the numbers
embarked in this vessel, and the names of the officers.
Numbers embarked :-1 field officer, 2 captains, 2 sub-
alterns, 2 staff, and 222 serjeants drummers, and rank
and file, with 15 women and 13 children. Names of the
officers :—Lieut. Colonel W. Denny, Copts. F. J. C.
Halkett and H. L. Wilson, Lieut. R. C. W. Stewart,
Ensign C. Pringle, Lieut. and Adjutant J. Horne, and
Assistant Surgeon R. C. Todd. The freight-ship Flora
is hourly expected to arrive in Cork harbour, from Dept-
ford, for the conveyance to Corfu of the third and last
division of the above corps.
The following movements have taken place or are
about to take place :—One company of the 14th Foot
from Limerick to Nenagh; the 68th depot from Nenagh
to Birr ; the 16th depot from Birr to Castlebar ; the 3d
depot from Castlebar to Naas ; the 92d depot from
Naas to Galway ; and the 89th Regiment from Butte-
vant to Cork.

Major-General MTons.ld, C. 8., left his residence,
Kilcreene, near Kilkenny, on Tuesday, on leave of ab-
sence until the end of the month.

Colonel Williams, K. 13., takes command of
the Kilkenny military district until the return of Genera]
311‘Donald.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, MABCIi 9.

The Agamemnon, 91, screw, Captain Sir T. Malt
land.—A few fresh cases have discovered themselves to.
day, on board the Camperdown (receiving-hulk) along.
side.

The Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, Captain W.' H.
Henderson, C. 8., has been taken up alongside the Col-
lingwood, 80, to-day, while some alterations are made in
her moorings.
The Sidon, 22, Captain Goldsmith, and the Odin, 16,
Captain Francis Scott (paddle-frigates), will be paid ad-
vance on Friday.
The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert, Captain Cris-
pin, is in dock, undergoing her refit, which will be com-
plete about the end of June.

The Banshee, steam-packet, Lieutenant Hosken com-
manding, will be ready for sea on the 12th inst.
The hulk Menai, 28, which has been for some time a
target for the Excellent gunnery students, is now or-
dered to be taken up.
The Elfin, Royal dispatch yacht, Master-Commander
Balliston, with Captain Crispin on board, went out yes-
terday on a cruise, as far as the Southampton-water.
The Illustrious, old 74, now converting to a block
guard-ship, has stripped off three streaks of old copper
from the water-line downwards, and is busy caulking
and paying her seams. She is a handsome ship of the
old school, and powerfully built.
We have had very thick foggy weather the whole day.
Wind S.E.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 8.

The Encounter, 14, screw, Captain George W. D.
O'Callaghan, arrived this morning. She has been unsuc-
cessful in raising hands, not having any. Two boys
deserted from her at Liverpool.
The Devon, lighter, Bond, master, sailed this day,
with stores, for Pembroke.

THE SCREW-SHIP SANSPAREIL.—The Sanspareil, 81,
Captain Sidney Dacres, arrived here on Friday afternoon
from Lisbon, which she left on the 19th ult. She
steamed out of the Tagus, and under sail from thence to
Cape Finisterre. Steamed and sailed across the bay into
the English Channel, until she made the Lizard, the
wind being foul, shortened all sail, and steamed to this
port. Her performance home can scarcely be spoken of
as a test of her sailing capabilities as little or no sail
could with prudence be made. Her speed under the
canvas, power and steam, was about what would be
made by a well-conditioned frigate. She came into har-
bour on Friday evening, and is now being dismantled
and returning her sails, spars, &c., to store. It is
understood she is to receive a fourth-rate's masts, yards,
&c. Her engines are evidently not equal in strength to
the power at which they were intended to work. 54
knots are the maximum that can well be got out of them.
If they are attempted to be worked beyond this, the
vibration is so great as to cause constant apprehension
of something giving way, in fact, they are never set
in anything like motion without some portion or other
being damaged. Captain Dacres has been summoned
to the Admiralty, it is presumed in reference to the
general character of the ship and engines. It is said
that a remedy is to be found for some of her rolling pro-
pensities by the removal of all the guns from her upper
deck. To make up the deficiency in weight of metal,
which will thus result, it is proposed to place four heavy
guns on the main deck, two forward and two midships,
but this must depend upon the space the deck affords
for working them. The gunnery practice of the crew in
the Tagus astonished all who witnessed it.—Plymouth,
Mail.

WOOLWICH, MARCH 9.

APPOINTMENTS.
Master Edward Rose (1823), to the Saturn at Pem.
broke.

Clerks.—Robert T. Mason (1848), from the Ajax, 58,
screw steam flag-ship at Cork, to the Impregnable flag-
ship, at Plymouth ; W. N. Rowe, to the Horatio, 24,
screw steam guard-ship, at Sheerness.
Second Master Frank Inglis (1847), recently serving
the Castor, 50, on the Cape of Good Hope station, to
the Sidon, 22, paddle-wheel steam-frigate at -Ports-
mouth.

The Cyclops paddlewheel steam-frigate arrived at
Woolwich this forenoon from Sheerness, having brought
up to this port the masts, spars, and rigging of the Tri-
bune, 30, screw steam-frigate, fitting in the basin, with
her engines, by Maudslay, Sons, and Field. The Cyclops
was taken into the basin at high water.
The Dover steam-vessel has had her old boilers taken
out, and was taken into dock to-day, preparatory to
having new boilers put on board.

The officers and men of the—Firebrand steam-frigate,
fitted out at Woolwich, left that port in a highly credit-
able manner, honourably paying every claim which they
had incurred previous to their departure for Portsmouth
and the Mediterranean station.
Orders have been received here that the hoisting ap-
paratus of the Hannibal, 90, screw steam-ship, building
at Deptford ; the Algiers, 90, screw steam-ship, building
at Plymouth; the James Watt, 90, screw steam-ship,
building at Pembroke ; and the Nile, 90, screw steam-
ship, building at Plymouth, are to be the same in the
stern fittings of the ships, it being intended that all the
screws of these ships shall be capable of being shipped in
any of the ships of 400-horse power fitting by John
Penn and Son, and by Maudslay, Sons, and Field, and
that all the screws shall be three feet long. An arrange-
ment of this kind has long been a desideratum in the
Royal Navy, where so much diversity in marine engines
has hitherto existed that it is a matter of great difficulty
to apply the still useful parts of old engines and their
screws to any other vessel than the one for which they
were originally constructed.