The Sun.
London, England, 1856-07-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The steam transport Foyle, Capt. Wright, arrived at
Spithead yesterday afternoon from the East.
The Lady Russell steam-transport, No. 57, Capt.
Smiley, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the East,
with 164 non-commissioned officers and men, and 71
horses.

The Norman steam-transport, No. 155, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from the East, with 66 rank and file, and
58 horses of the Ist (King's) Dragoon Guards.
The Countess of Durham steam-transport, Capt. An-
drews, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the Black Sea.
Her Majesty's store-ship Tyne, Master-Commander P.
Wellington, arrived from the Brazils and the Coast of
Africa yesterday evening.
Her Majesty's ship Belleisle, 6, Commander James
Hoskin, arrived at Spithead yesterday morning from the
East with the 88th Connaught Rangers.
The following non-commissioned officers and privates,
belonging to the Provisional Battalion, Chatham, have
each been presented, by command of her Majesty, with
a silver medal, together with a gratuity in money, for
long and meritorious service:—Serrant Thomas Dwyer
and Private D. M'Laughlan, 10th Foot ; Private Wm.
Todd, 53d Regiment ; and Private John Coneen, 87th
Royal Irish Fusiliers.
An order has been received et Chatham garrrison,
directing the volunteers from the St. Helena Regiment
who arrived at Chatham, having disembarked from the
Marlborough, Indiaman, on Tuesday last, to proceed
' forthwith to join their respective regiments.
Commander Charles Stirling, 16th of June, 1856,
arrived at Sheerness yesterday, to commission the Wasp,
13 guns, screw steam-sloop, now in the fitting basin.
The African paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Second Master--
Commander Reuben Harvey, left Sheerness yesterday,
for the purpose of towing the new screw steam-frigate
Emerald, 50 guns (launched yesterday at Deptford), to
Sheerness, to be immediately fitted.
The Insolent gun-boat, Lieut.-Commander Charles H.
Smith, has returned her guns, gear, &c., to the Ordnance
department at Chatham. She has been ordered to be held
in readiness for the East India Company's service.
The railway slips at Portsmouth for taking up 100 of
the gun-boat flotilla by one trunk line and lateral
arrangement are proceeding rapidly. These vessels
were built in an unprecedentedly short space of time of
all sorts of timber, seasoned and green, and closed in
in winter, thus combining every element that has con-
duced to dry rot, which doubtless would have been at
work in a year or two, so that when wanted upon an
emergency the gun-boats would be found useless. Now,
it is purposed to "open" them, and give the seasoning
denied while building. The iron boats will be equally
benefited, as the wet and damp, while afloat, promote
rapid oxidation. The Government have been for years
contemplating the adoption of these heaving-up slips,
and Mr. White, of Portsmouth, who is laying them
down, will, by this wholesome arrangement, set their
value, cheapness, and great capacity clearly before the
world.

The following paymasters of the navy have been ad-
vanced to the several classes from the let inst. :

First Class--Robert J. Crispin, Wm. H. Dutton, K.
L. Sutherland, Edward A. Smith, Wm. H. Norman,
George H. Mowisray, W. B. Farrow.
Second Class—Wm. L. Inch, John May, C. H. Nib-
lett, W. C. P. Grant, Beresford Scott, Frederick Cleeve,
Francois J. I. Auret, James C. Aldridge, J. Lewis.
Third Class—Wm. T. Biddlecombe, Nicholas Giles,
William J. Jenkins, William H. Turner, Francis G.
Pearce, Henry C. Pool, Thomas A. Telfer, J. William
M. Ashby, and James C. Pinhorn.

AFFRAY AT ALDERSHOT.

ALDERSHOTT CAMP, JULY 13.

At an early hour this morning information was re-
ceived at the Waterloo-road terminus of the London
and South-Western Railway, that a quarrel had taken
place between the men belonging to the German Legion
and the 41st Regiment of the Line.
The circumstances which gave rise to the dispute were
these : —The German Rifles arrived on Thursday last
from Turkey, vice Portsmouth, and while the greater por-
tion of the 41,4 Regiment were away from the camp
those who were left behind proceeded to a house outside
the lines used for the sale of refreshments. Upon enter-
ing this place the 41st met a number of the German Le-
gion, and some words took place concerning some women
who were present. The quarrel becoming fiercer, some
of the Germans seized the Crimean medals which oar
soldiers had won on the field of battle, threw them upon
the ground, trampled them under foot, and by their ges-
tures threatened to serve the British soldiers in the same
way. This, as might be expected, greatly irritated the
men belonging to the 41st, who endeavoured, but vainly,
to settle matters amicably, and it soon became apparent
that the Legion was bent upon mischief.
Having followed the 41st to about the middle of the
ground between the north and south camps they began
to batter in the huts of the English, and in a very short
time nearly half a range of huts was destroyed.
The parties having reached the middle of the heath,
at the back of Price's Canteen, commenced their work
in earnest, at least so far as the Germans were con-
cerned ; for, having formed a ring, and plenty of heavy
flints being strewn over the ground, they pelted the men
of the 41st in such a manner that the blood ran from
their heads. Having obtained additional assistance, the
41st were getting the advantage of the Germans, when
the latter made off, but shortly afterwards returned with
their firearms and bayonets, and more serious conse-
quences would have ensued had it not been for the ar-
rival of a body of cavalry belonging to their own legion,
as well as another British regiment.
In spite, however, of this formidable body of mounted
men, the Germans did not desist from hostilities, but, on
the contrary, seemed to show every disposition to carry
on the warfare. The cavalry then charged the men, and
an orderly galloping up between the belligerent parties
succeeded in scattering them.
It was then found that several of the 41st Regiment
were badly injured, bat not so seriously as the German
Legion, many of whom bled profusely from the wounds
in their heads or faces. Six were taken, streaming with
blood, to the hospital of the Legion, supposed to have
been killed, but the answer given this evening was that
no man had yet died, but that the whole six before
alluded to remained in a very precarious condition, and
that several others had, during the day, been taken into
the Fame institution, they having been found to be more
seriously injured than was at firet imagined. A man
named Bishop, belonging to the 41st, received the point
of a bayonet under the fleshy part of the arm, as he :la;
attempting to protect his head.
About 9 o'clock the disorderly were marched off to the
Guard-roam, but so discontented did seine of their coun-
tryineu in sores appear that squadrons of cavalry were
cal!ed out, and they trotted round the huts at intervals
during the night,
Every precaution has been taken by those iu command
to prevent a renewal of the disturbance,