The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-13 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Lieut.-General Sir Colin Campbell, G.C.B , as Inspec-
tor-General of Infantry, is to have the Army Works Corps'
offices, in Whitehall-yard, for the accommodation of the
persons attached to his department on the Staff.
In our obituary of yesterday we announced the death of
Lieut.-General Francis Miles Milman, which took place at
his town residence, Berkeley-square, on Tuesday last. The
gallant General entered the army in 1800, in the Coldstream
Guards, and saw much service up to the peace. He was
appointed aide-de-camp to Major-General C. Crawford, in
1808, and was present at the battles of Roleia and Vimiera,
and was attached to the same General's staff in the retreat
of General Sir John Moore to Corunna, and was engaged
on the heights of Lugo and at the victory of Corunna. He
subsequently joined the Coldstream Guards at Lisbon, and
was with them at the capture of Oporto, and took part in
the battle of Talavera, where he was most severely wounded
and saved from being burnt on the field of battle by a pri-
vate soldier of the Guards. The deceased General was made
prisoner in the hospital of Talavera and detained in France
until 1814. The gallant general ultimately rose to the com-
mand of the Coldstream Guards. He was appointed colonel
in cbief of the 82d Regiment (the Prince of Wales's Volun-
teers) in Nov., 1850. His commissions bore date as follows:
—Lieutenant, Dec. 3, 1800; captain, April 28, 1804;
lieutenant-colonel, Dec. 25, 1813 ; colonel, July 22, 1830;
major-general, Nov. 23, 1811 ; and lieutenant-general, Dec.
11, 1851. By the death of the gallant officar another regi-
ment becomes vacant, making no less than four at the dis-
posal of the Duke of Cambridge, viz., the 12th Laacers,

the 55th, 74th, and 82d Regiments. •
It is intended to send a certain number of regiments to
Chatham garrison every year for the purpose of enabling
the officers and men to undergo a course of instruction un-
der the director of the Royal Engineers' establishment in
pontooning, the construction of temporary bridges, as well
as all descriptions of fascines and gabions, and the throw-
ing up of earth batteries and intrenchments necessary to
defend a camp, previously to their embarkation for foreign
service. With this view arrangements will be made at
Chatham for receiving about three regiments, each of about
1,000 strong, at one time, and as soon as those have under-
gone the required course of instruction, which will occupy
a few months, they will be relieved by other regiments.
Her Majesty's steam yacht Victoria and Albert, Capt.
the Hon. J. Denman, was taken into the steam basin at
Portsmouth yesterday, to bo refitted for her Majesty's
service.

The steam vessel Dasher was commissioned at Ports-
mouth yesterday by Commander E. G. flora for service
on the Channel Islands fisheries.

His Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Pluto, having been
commissioned by Lieutenant-Commander Wm. Swinburn
(1848), late First Lieutenant of the Leander, and subse-
quently in command of the screw steam gunboat Jackdaw,
was yesterday morning hauled out of Woolwich basin and
moored in ordinary, to facilitate the reception of her sea
stock, and to enter the remainder of her crew, two-thirds
of whom are engaged. She is ordered to be ready for sea on
the 18th inst. Her destination is the west coast of Africa.
The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Trident, one of the
Government line of packets engaged in carrying the mails
in the Mediterranean until that service was abolished, hav-
ing been refitted at Woolwich, is under orders to proceed
to the west coast of Africa. Commander Francis A. Close,
having been appointed to the Trident, is engaging hands,
the complement being nearly complete, and is waiting
orders for sea. She was yesterday morning taken into, No.
1 dock at Woolwich.
The gunboat Growler and the police floating station
Royalist were yesterday morning undocked at Woolwich.
The steam yacht which arrived at Woolwich in Novem-
ber to be masted and fitted for service, and which was
built for the Emperor of Japan by Messrs. Green, of
Blackwall, has been supplied with a couple of engines of
60-horse power, which were yesterday subjected to their
first trial in the inner basin at Woolwich.
His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, lieu-
tenant on board her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-frigate
Magicienne, 16, Captain Nicholas Vansittart, has left
that ship in consequence of the receipt of a telegraphic
despatch communicated through the Ambassador at Con-
stantinople. The Prinae's departure was caused by the
severe and subsequent fatal illness of his father the Prince

of Leiningen. Prince Ernest was much esteemed on board
—his seniority as lieutenant dates April 2, 1855 ; he joined
the frigate May 29, 1856. Letters received at Plymouth
from the Magicienne, dated Oct. 15, state that she was
then going to the Isle of Serpents.
The new 80-gun ship Meeanee was towed down from
Chatham yesterday by the steam-vessels Lizard and Adder
and moored at the docking moorings off Sheerness yard.
She is to be taken into No. 2 dry dock for the purpose of

being fitted as a screw line of battle ship.
Her Majesty's frigate Lucifer a:rived at Liverpool yes-
terday from Portsmouth, for the purpose of taking away
the fittings of the various transports which have been taken
up from the former port.
The mail steam-ship Ireland, Captain Perry, which left
Dartmouth at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, for the Cape of Good
Hope and the East Indies, put back to Plymouth Sound
yesterday (Friday) morning at 9 o'clock,
The new steam sawmills and the great storehouse at
Pembroke are rapidly being erected, and will soon receive
their roofs. The new building for oakum, as well as the
new foundry, will prove valuable additions to the dock -
yard. The dry dock is receiving still greater length to
meet the increased size of our men-of-war. Farther church
accopimodation is much needed at Pembroke, where at the
dockyard church there are only sittings for about 230 men,
not one-fourth of the number now in garrison.

The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty yesterday :
Captain L. G. Health, to the Melampus.
Captain H. A. Story, to the Eagle.
Captain James Willcox, to the Hawke.
Lieutenant—Charles Forbes has been appointed to the
command of the Bloodhound.

Midshipman—W. D. M. Dolben to the Indus, for
disposal.
Acting Assistant-Surgeon—F. L. W. White to the
Sphinx, W. H. Lloyd to the Impregnable, E. M
Morgan to the V►ctory.
Naval Aide-de-Camp—Captain George St, V. King
to be Naval Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty.