The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military intalligiiii6-43,

The following circular memorandum was issued Seste!•
day to the army:—

"Horse Guards, Oct. 21.
" With a view to prevent interruption in the training
of troops to the use ,)f the rifle musket, his Royal High-
ness the General Commanding-in-Chief, after conferring
with the Secretary of State for War, has bean pleased to
command that the directions at page 109 of the 'Queen's
Regulations and Orders for the Army' be cancelled,
and that henceforth the whole yearly allowance of am-
munition for practice and exercise shall be considered
due and issued accordingly upon the application of com-
manding officers through the proper channel, on the
15th of March, in Great Britain, North America, &c.,
and on the 15th of September in the Mediterranean and
other stations where, in account of the heat, the annual
course of training is required by the Instructor of Mus-
ketry, to commence on that date.

" The annual allowance of practice and exercise ammu-
nition for a regiment of 40 sergeants and 800 rank and
file is estimated t.) requira magazine accommodation
for 37 half and 108 quarter barrels, and if that quantity
cAnnot be stowed in the magoz ne of the station at
which a regiment itiay happen to be quartered, the corn-
inand:ng-otficer will in the first instance apply for such
portion only as can be accommodated, taking care td
indent for the residue in ample time to preveet the pos-
sibility of interruption to the practice.
" The above arrangement has rendered an alteration
in the prescribed printed form of application necessary.
"A copy of the revised form is enclosed, and a fur-
ther supply can be obtained on application, in the usual
manner, to the War Department, Horse Guards.
" When a corps is quartered at a station, where the
target practice range does not extend to 300 yards, no
ammunition is to be demanded for practice at that sta-
tion, but the preliminary drills and theoretical instruc-
ttion are to be duly carried out in conformity to the es-
tablished regulations.
"By command,
"G. A. WETHERALL, A.G.
" P.S. A supply of the old form of application will be
kept on hand for the present, for the use of regiments
not yet armed with the rifled musket."

Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., Captain
Peel, of the Shannon; Captain Seymour, of the Victory;
Captain Stewart, of the dragon, &c., went to Sauthamp-
tol Water in the Fire Queen steam yacht yesterday, to
see the Merrimac American steam frigate.

Her Majesty's steamship Shannon, 51, Captain Wm.
Peel, C. 8., will go to Spithead about Monday next.
Her Majesty's steamship Hannibal, 91, Captain Hay,
struck the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart,
C 8., last evening, at sunset.

Her Maje-ty's steam despatch vessel Flying Fisb, 6,
Commander Dew, was undocked at Portsmouth yester-
day, and the Sealark naval training brig taken in for re-
pairs.

The Raleigh, 50, Commodore the Hon. H. Keppel,
C. 8., is alongside the Victoria hulk, taking in her guns,
provisions, and stores.

Her Majesty's steameloop Bulldog, 6, Commander
Gordon, was taken into the steam basin at Portsmouth
on Monday for repairs.

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The Admiralty steam yacht Osborne, Commander G.
H. R. Bower (master R.N.) was taken into dock at
Portsmouth on Monday to be re-embellished and have
sundry improvements (the suggestion of her commander)
perfected.

The Stirling Castle and Briton convict hulks in Ports-
mouth harbour discharged their prisoners yesterday by
railway for Woolwich, where they are to be berthed in
the Defence and Warrior. The Stirling Ca.stle is to be
employed for the future for prisoners returning from fo-
reign parts, whose terms have nearly expired, for the
purpose of keeping them separate from the other pri-
soners. She is to be removed to the vicinity of the Port-
sea prison, and the Briton will be broken up.
Yesterday an interesting ceremony was witnessed at
the Marine Barracks, Chatham—that of the presentation
of a silver medal, with a gratuity of 101., which had been
awarded by the Lords of the Admiralty to Corporal W.
Harvey, 29th company of Royal Marine Light Infantry,
for long service and meritorious conduct. The whole of
the troops having been formed into square, Corporal
Harvey, who has been in the service for 22 years, was
called to the front, when he was addressed by Col. E.
A. Parker, the second commandant, who expressed the
gratification afforded him in presenting the medal, which
be trusted Corporal Harvey would long live to wear.
Col. Parker then gave the medal, which was fastened on
Corporal Harvey's breast by Serjeant-major J. Lewis,
the senior sergeant-major of the division.

The Royal warrant anthorisingthe augmentation of the
corps of Royal Engineers has been received by Col. H.
Sandham, director of that corps, at their head-quarters,
Chatham. The whole of the companies will be completed
and formed into a body of 120 rank and file, with a propor-
tionate number of non-commissioned ufficers to each com-
pany. As soon as the augmentation of this important
branch of the service has been effected several of the com-
panies will be sen t to Ireland to be stationed in the several
large garrison tavns. A turther increase of companies will
also take place at the military stations abroad, to which
the Royal Engineers will be sent from Brompton Bar-
racks. This latter arrangement has been decided upon
in order to admit of increased accommodation being
given at Chatham to the young soldiers joining this
corps, where every facility has been rendered for their
instruction in the several branches of engineering science
previously to their joining their several companies, so
that each company may have an equal share of skilled
mechanics in the several departments.

The whole of the stores which were brought from
Kertch and the East by the Turkish Contingent En-
gineer Corps having been deposited at the Ordnance
store., Gun-wharf, Chatham, under the direction of Cap-
tain G. Allan and Quartermaster T. B. Thornett, General
Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.8., R.E., Inspector-General of
Fortifications, visited Chatham yesterday afternoon for
the purpose of inspecting the stores and receiving them
from the Turkish Engineer Corps, it having been ar-
ranged that they shall be deposited with those of the
Royal Engineers. Some idea of the immense quantity
of stores brought home from the Crimea and deposited
at Chatham may be formed from the fact that it has
taken the non-commissioned officers and men of the
Turkish Engineer Corps nearly three months to deposit
them in the store places at Chatham. The waggons
containing the articles brought home extended upwards
of one mile and a quarter, and required 400 horses to
draw them, there being a complete equipment for an
army of 26,000 men. Among the stores are 104 wag-
gons and carts filled with every description of mining
and intrenching tools, together with 22 pontoon wag-
gons. There is also a waggon filled with photograph
apparatus, and another with every requisite required for
the electric telegraph, including voltaic batteries and
about ten miles of telegraph wires. In addition to the
stores enumerated there is a printing press, upwards of
100 tents, most of them made of waterproof materials,
10 large indiarnbber boats, each capable of holding and
sustaining 30 persons, 22 officers' tents, nearly 10,000
shovels and pickaxes, besides every other description of
tools, some of them quite new. There is also an immense
quantity of harness and everything required to supply
the wants of an immense besieging force. Among the
stores, also, are 64 of Gen. Blanshard's large pontoons,
brought home from Kertch, which, when formed into
rafts, would present a surface each raft of 24 ft., capable
of sustaining a weight of several tons, and over which a
body of troops and ammunition could be conveyed. Gen.
Sir J. Burgoyne and Major G. T. Graham carefully in-
spected the whole Of the stores, over which they were
conducted by Capt. Allan and Quartermaster Thornett,
and expressed themselves highly satisfied with the way
in which they had been arranged. They were afterwards
handed over to Gen. Burgoyne by Capt. Allan, and they
will be deposited, with the other stores of the Royal En-
gineers, at the Casemate Barracks, Chatham.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :7_
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Lieut. W. A. V. Boyse, to the Coastguard service ;
G. F. S. Jeayes, Midshipman, to the Gladiator ; W. F.
Law, Second-Master, to the Blenheim.
The Vulcan, 6, screw steam troopship (iron), Comman-
der J. i 3. Furneaux, got up steam yesterday at Sheer-
ness, and at 11 a.m. proceeded out of the basin ; she
steamed to Saltpan Reach to complete coaling, prepara-
tory to her going out on a trial of her engines and ma-
chinery, all of which has undergone very extensive alte-
rations. She will be ready for a trial trip on Saturday
next.

The Melampus 42, storeship, Capt. J. Borlase, C. 8.,
&u., was paid off yesterday at Sheerness. The Marines
proceeded to Chatham barracks by the steam vessel
Lizard, Lieut. Commander T. B. Christopher, yesterday
at 10 30 a.m.

The Wellington, late stcreship for ordinary service,
now fitting for Coastguard for the Hull station, is all
ready for coppering in No. 1 dry dock, and her crew are
progressing in her rigging and equipment at Sheerness.
The Nimrod, 6, screw steam gun vessel, in No. 2 dry
dock at Sheerness, is nearly ready for being put out of
dock. Her engines are nearly ready to be put out of the
hands of the manufacturers, Messrs. Maud3lay and Co.
The Terrible, 21 guns, paddlewheel steam frigate, and
the Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, are being
actively brought forward at Sheerness in the fitting basin
for the steam squadron of reserve.
The Terror, 16, floating battery, is again preparing to
go out on a series of experiments under command of
Captain E. P. Halsted. She is being coaled for that
provemen t
theis power te
be
made at
purpose from the floating coal depot at the Saltpan
Reach.
It i reportedsshoeb
u rtyhnaetsasni
ninateferewstdinagysetxoperi
of the monster gun there, and also the resisting
floating
battery, coaaptaibni-
liatitetsery, of the floating oabetinsgenbtaottveerriest.herTehteole berthed within l
Etna,
shot range of the monster gun referred to, so as to prove
the effect of 3001 b. 'shot
,on the hull. A. committee of
Admiralty and Ordnance officers are to superintend the
experiments. Various opinions from scientific men
have been given as to the effects that will be produced.
The screw steam mortar ship Forth, 12, was placed in
dock at Devonport, on Monday, to receive a false keel.
The gunboats Buzzard, Mohawk, and Lapwing, from
Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, and went
up Hamoaze on Monday to be paid off.
His Prussian Majesty's steam corvette Dantzic, Capt.
his Highness Prince William of Hesse, five days from
Gibraltar, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Tuesday
morning.
The large screw steamer Jura, having refitted at
Liverpool, will sail from that port on Thursday for
Gibraltar, Malta, and Corfu, with men, women, and chil-
dren belonging to various regiments.
The fine sailing ships Sultana and Culloden are being.
fitted at Liverpool under the superintendence of Captain
Bevis, R.A.,
and Mr. Benest, for the conveyance of
men composing portion of the German Legion to Algoa-
bay. The vessels must be at Portsmouth, under risk of
heavy penalty, on the sth of November.