The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-20 00:00:00

Naval -and Military intelligence.

The Shannon, 50-gun frigate, the most modern and
heaviest of her class, and of 600 horse power, bas been
commissioned at Port-mouth by Captain W. Peel, C.B.
She will have a complement of 560 men.
The Seahorse, 12, mortar ship, Capt. Heath, C. 8.,
left Portsmouth for the westward on Thursday.
Her Majesty's ship Agamemnon, 91, was taken into
the steam basin at Portsmouth on Thursday for repairs.
The Cruiser, 17, Commander Fellowee, bent sails at
Portsmouth on Thursday.
The Powerful, 84, Capt. T. L. Massie, now at Chat-
ham, waiting to be paid off, is ordered to be stripped, her
shot and shell taken out, and her guns to be landed at
the dockyard. As Coon as her crew have been paid off
she will be put out of commission and placed in ordinary.
The Meanee, 80, lying at Chatham, i 3 ordered to he
fitted with a screw and brought forward for sea.
The Leander, 50, Capt. E B. Rice, recently arrived
at Chatham from the Mediterranean to be paid off, has
commenced being stripped and having her fittings re-
moved. Her crew are waiting the orders of the Admi-
ralty to be paid off.

On Thursday the trial of the engines of the new screw
steam corvette Scyl'a, 21 gun, 400 horse p,wer (nomi-
nal), took place in the fitting basin, at Sheerness, utricr
the ,uperintendence of Mr. George Blaxland, civil engi-
neer, Mr. Hartry, and Mr Wigsall. She made 60 revo-
lutions per minute with 201 h. pressure, and a vacuum of
26 ; her speed by calculation is 12 knots per hoer. The
engines in every part worked admirably, without the
slightest symptom of a hot bearing. She will very
shortly he ready for the pendant.
A court-martial has been crdered to be held on-board
the Wat.-rloo fla,ship at Sheerness, this day. The pro-
secutor is Mr. John T. Caddy, sur.zeon of the D'nio,
against ttv.r of his brother officers belonging tO the gun-
room mess of that ship. The charges are for unaffeer-
like condcct and scandalous behaviour towards the pro•
secutor. as a member of the same mess.
Toe Bnrotas is being . stripped, preparatory to her
cre,v being paid off at Sheerness.
The Terror floating battery has• been pot out of the
basin at.S.leerness, and moored at S.dt Pan reach, in
ordiPar v.

The Devon, 2d master Joseph Rowett, commander,
has sailed trorn"Sheern'ess for Devor port.
Two paddle-wheel despatch gunboats, the Baum and
the Bruee, have just been completed at Messrs. Scott
Russell's, at a ce:t of 10,0001. the pair. They were yes-
terday morning sent down to•WoolWich to be subjected
to some eeperlineneal trials..
The klaybrough traneprt, No. 18d, and the Enter-
prise. No 124, arrived as Portsmouth on Thursdayfrorn th 3 Crimea, with stores,
Ti e transport Calliope, on Thursday ordered up from
Woolwich to enter the Victoria Decks, laden with a full
cargo of peat aed chareoa', returned from the Crimea,
was y esterday morning ordered back to Woolwich ar-
senal to discharge.
The transports Ohio, the L'onerd 1) .bbin, the Wm.
Wallace, and the Isabella gi,gh arrived yesterday morn-
mg at Woolwich with returned Ordnance stores from
the East. The Isabella Bligh is laden with 750 tons of
powder and ammunition.
A number of flue young men yesterday morning pre,
sented themselves for enrolment in the c:Jrps of Royal
Artileery at head quartere, Woolwich. Recruiting parties
are stationed at Leeds, Lincoln, Carlisle, and Leith fort,
in order to supply the casualties which ee in the re-
giment, e Lich tarc cur
e kept up to 20,000 strong. The
deaths, desertians, &r., calculated at about 40 per week,
are soueht to Le renewed by recruiting from the ages of
18 to 22.

180 men of the Royal Artillery arrived at
collig barracks on Tuesday. They bad been for some
weeks on the rout-, having marched from Woolwich to
Liverpool, crossed by eteaukr to Dublin, marched 04 to
Cork, and thence to Dalliocollig. They have but re-
cLntly rttnered from the Cr: men, and most of them wear
Tte barracks at B6.lliocollig were never known
to be so full as they are at present. Thy are occupied
solely by arti,itryinen, of whom about 530 are stationed
there. Diets are also a large numbor of horses, guns,
antlaance at id woruunition waggons, spare wheels, and
other tielft requi•thes. The tn:n are very fine-looking
fellows, in a tii,,r,:tri;h state of efficiency, and are kept
ecn:.tantly exenising. Tr:a whole are under the medical
charge of Dr. Itonwree.
The foliowiiig appointreen's were made yesterday at
the Ailtniralty':—Nl. W. 14. Parker (confirrm-d), as
Master, in seniority, Nov. 19, 1855 ; Wm. Anderson
(confirmed), as Assistant-Surgeon of 6.anspareil,Augsst
31, 1855.