The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-25 00:00:00

liaval and Military intelligence.

The Clarendon screw steam-transport, No. 5, Captain
Mitchell, arrived at Spitbead on Sunday evening from
Cadiz, where she put in on the let of August on her
way from Balaklava for Portsmouth, with 200 non•
commissioned officers and men of various regiments in
charge of horses, and 120 officers' chargers, &c. The
troops came home in her Majesty's ship Centaur, and
tee horses in the Albatross screw steam-transport. The
Clarendon, on the occasion of putting into Cadiz Bay,
had started some of her iron plates and had nine feet of
water in her hold, and was compelled to be run ashore
in Cadiz Bay (as we reported at the time on the arrival
of her Majesty's ship Banshee). She has been detained
since that time in repairing, &c. She now brings 27 of
the lower deck guns of her Majesty's ship Queen, fit-
tines for troops, horses, &c.
.i,eaan-sloop .bumleo• 6 Commander
Gordon, returned from Plymouth to SpAhead on bun-
day, having severely tested at sea, as ordered, and at all
rates of speed, Clifford's new method of lowering ships'
boats ; on one occasion 15 persons (officers and men)
were in the boat, besides all the gear. The results were
all satisfactory.
The Royal Artillery and Marines, according to a gar
neon order recently issued at Woolwich, constituting
each Monday a " marching day," were yesterday morn-
ing turned out with full equipments, and, accompanied
by three full bands of music, proceeded, in divisional
battalions, brigades, and batteries, through Nightingale-
place and over Plurestead-common, the column extend-
fig upwards of two miles. Major-Gen. Sir W. F. Wil-
liams, attended by his aide-de-camp, Lieut. 'Teesdale,
and staff; ; Col. Bloomfield, A.D.C. to her Majesty, and
superintendent of drills; and Col.-Commandant Brown,
accompanied the troops. After an hour's march thence
through Old Charlton, she cloudy state of the atmo-
sphere rendered it advisable to return to quarters. The
squadron ofjunior recruits not joining in the march were
put through a course of carbine drills and blank cart-
ridge firing on Woolwich-common.
On Saturday the freight ship Akbar was towed down
from Woolwich to Gravesend, and Col. Maclean and a
detachment cmsisting of 18 gunners of the Royal Artil-
lery Regiment, and three women for Bermuda. Tue Ak-
bar sailed from Gravesend yesterday for her destination.
H.M. paddlewheel steam troopship Dee, Master
Commander T. C. Pullen, arrived at Woolwich yesterday
morning from Poi tsmoutia and Plymouth, and has
entered the basin to reload with steam machinery for
the western yards. The speed of the Dee, it is under-
stood, has been considerably increased since the applica-
tion of the superheating steam apparatus ; notwithstand-
ing which", still greater advantages are contemplated by
the substitution of a differently shaped boiler.
The screw steam despatch vessel Roebuck, in tempo-
rary charge of Master Commander Allen, of the Admi-
ralty yacht Vivid, was yesterday morning hauled into
basin at Woolwich Dockyard, in order to receive her
guns and stores prior to her departure for Portsmouth
on Thursday.
The ceremony of warping the huge floating battery
Thunderbolt, built by Messrs. Satnuda, out of the fitting
basin at Woolwich took place yesterday morning. This
was effected in the ordinary manner employed for the
removal of ships to the river, and, from her singularly
bulky and novel construction, it excited considerable in•
terest. She then steered off under her own steam, and
was taken in tow by the steam-tenders ItonkeY and
Widgeon. Master-Commander Mugford, from is!ie Com-
modore's flagship Fisgard, and a party of riggers utjer"
took the charge of the Thunderbolt to Chatham, where
she is to be placed in reserve near Rochester-bridge. All
her internal arrangements, together,witti the application
of her machinery, &c., have been carried out in Wool-
wich basin. She is now eomple'ed in elaborate style.
The transports Olinda and Clarissa, having be-n
ordered down from the Victoria Docks to Woolwich
pier, commenced discharging their cargoes yesterday
morning, which consist of charcoal, tent flooring, mus-
kets, pickaxes, saddlery, stoves, cases of fur caps, and
bales, returned from the East.
Captain W. Mosse, 26th Cameronians, has been
ordered to embark at Gravesend on Saturday next on
board the Apollo, for Bermuda, to join the service com-
panies of his corps, for the purpose of instructing the
officers and men of that regiment in the use of the En-
field rifle. Second-Class Instructor Griffiths, now sta-
tioned at Chatham garrison, will also embark with Cap
tarn Mosse.
The non-commissioned officers and men of the 40th
depot were reassembled on the general parade ground of
Chatham barracks on Sunday, for the purpose of giving
an opportunity to those troops to volunteer who were
desirous of joining any other corp, an order to that
effect having been sent down to the commandant of the
garrison from °the Horse Guards, the 40th Regiment
being considerably above its war establishment. The
order having been read to the troops, 54 men, who from
various causes were not present on the former occ ksion
of volunteering, immediately stepped to the front and
offered themselves for various corps, the majority volun-
teering for the 11th or 99th Regiments. The 40th depot.
has thus given considerably more than 200 men to van
ous regiments which were below their prescribed esta-
blishment. As the 40th will shortly be removed from
Chatham the volunteers will be at once forwarded to
their regiments, on joining which each man will receive
the promised bounty of one guinea.
Eleven non-commissioned officers belonging to the
10th Hussars, selected by the authorities, and ordered
to be transferred to the Cape Mounted Rifle Regiment,
have b. en directed to proceed to the Provisional Batta-
lion, Chatham, where they will remain until tonnage
has been taken up for their passage to the Cape of Good
Hope, to join their new cerise,

The following memorandum from Lient-General Sir
Colin Campbell, to the officers commanding depot batta-
lions, has been issued

" London, Nov. 21, 1856.
" With respect to paragraph No. 27 in the circular
memorandum, dated " Horse Guards, Oct. 13, 1856,' in
which it is laid down that the commanders of depot bat-
talions, or their majors, shall examine the officers at least
once a week in the subjects enumerated in paragraphs 1 to
9 inclusive of the circular memorandum, dated July 4,
1851,' the Inspector-General of Infantry desires that the
commanders of depot battalions shall name one day in the
week for this examination, and, moreover, that they shall
name another day on which day the senior cs4ptain of each

depot shall, after the orderly room business i• over, proc
to examine his young or ueinstructed officers in :di detail
of their duty, not merely as to drill, but in everything
connected with the men's pay, powers of courts-martial
and generally in the interior economy of a cere:pany, a/3,i
the provisions of the good conduct warrant.' This prat•
tice will be sure to make the senior captain himself bee- ,me
well versed in all such details, and will also prepare the
younger officers for the examination of the commander of
the depot battalion.
" With respect to paragraph No. 34, Sir Colin Campbell
has ordered the following explanatory directions to be
issued on the subject, of the manner in which guard-room
and other prisoners are to be disposed of by the officers
commanding depot battalions. While giving these ex-
planatory directions it is necessary to point out to
commanders of depot battalions, as well as to the
senior captains of depots, and to all the young officers be-
longing to depots, that the object of instituting these
depot battalions is to instruct officers in the details
of their profession—a sort of knowledge which is es-
-sentially necessary to be possessed by all officers ; and Sir
Colin Campbell trusts to their good feeling and good sense
in the hogs that, they will, for their part, endeavour to
facilitate the 'moving of the machinery which has been
thought requisite for this purpose.

" The matter now in piestion is the manner of dealing
with guard-room and other prisoners, which the Inspector-
General of Infantry desires may be conducted thus :
When a soldier is confined, a copy of his crime will be
sent by the orderly serjeant of his company to the serjeant
of the guard, for insertion in the guard report.' This
, will be done within three hours after he has been made a
prisoner, should that take place before tattoo ; if after
tattoo, the crime will be sent to the serjeant of the guard
by the men's breakfast hour next morning. , This- crime
must, in either case, be signed by an officer. After the
serjeant of the guard has copied it into the guard report,
the crime will then be sent to the orderly room of the pri-
soner's own depot, where it is to arrive not later than 8.30
am.
" After each crime has been inquired into by the senior
officer of each depot respectively, the crime will be sent to
the battalion officer to be compared with the guard report,
and,as soon as all the prisoners are finally di -ooeafl of !I,
the conrmander of the depot battaliot, e,mTthat 'the punish-
ments awarded by the senior captain of each depot have
been confirmed or otherwise by the commander of tie bat-
talion, the original crimes are to be returned to the senior
captain of each depot, with the punishment marked on the
back, for entry in the defaulter book.'
" Officers corn manding companiee are not to dispose of men
after they have been confined in the guard-room. Their
powers are to be limited to suchlight offences as can reason-
ably be disposed of at the moment, without confining the
individuals—such as little breaches of company discipline,
late at parade, careless at drill, talking in the ranks, and
various complaints made by the non-commissioned officers.
After a man is made a prisoner he must only be disposed of
by the officer in charge of his depot, at the depot orderly
room, or if necessary by the officer commanding the 13.3,t-
-taboo, in the following manner :
" The prisoners will be brought to their depot orderly,
rooms each moruiug at the hour prescribed by the com-
mander of the battalion, and then- cases will be fully and
carefully gone into by the senior officers of their depots,
and in the presence of their company officers.
" The depot commanders may dispose of the light
offences by awarding punishment to the extent of what a
captain is competent to inflict, and he will write his award
on the back of the crime. Any man whose crimes appear
to deserve heavier punishment than the above, will be
taken before the commander of the b dtalion to be dis-
posed of as soon as he is prepared to receive them, by suc-
cessive depots. The depot commander and company offi-
cer will, of course, attend. As soon as the battalion com-
mander has disposed of these prisoners, and has satisfied
himself about the correctness of the punishments that
have be, n awarded by his depot commanders, the defaul-
ters will be marched away and disposed of as may have
been decided upon.
" With respect to paragraph No. 31, it will suffice that
au officer shall be present at the daily payment of his men,
and that he shall put his name at the foot of each daily
column of payments as a voucher that he saw the money
paid. The men for guard will be paid before they go on
guard in the presence of au officer, and when no money is
paid to any individual then a figure 'o' or' zero' will be
put into the square opposite his name.—By order.
" A. STIRLING, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Assistant Adjutant General."