The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-22 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Colossus, 81, (screw), Captain the Hon. H.
Reppel, C. 8., senior officer of the gun-boat flotilla,
went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning and
anchored at the Motherbank.

The Blenheim, GO, Captain W. H. Hall, C. 8., was
removed out of the steam basin yesterday at Portsmouth,
and got up steam to try her engines preparatory to re-
joining the fleet at Spithead.
The Coarger and Skylark steam gun-boats were re-
moved from docks yesterday, and the Cockchafer and
Cheerful took their place.
The Fury, 6, paddle-sloop, was taken into the fitting
basin at Portsmouth yesterday, to fit for sea.
The Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander Hall,
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday afternoon to
refit.

The Wanderer, 8, screw gun-boat, Commander Luce,
is being fitted for sea with the utmost despatch at Chat-
ham. She is of 670 tons, and is to be armed with two
Lanca-ter guns, GS-pounders, of 95 cwt. each, which
will be worked on pivots the foreside of the funnel, one
on each side, also one pivot 32-pounder of 56 cwt., to he
carried forward ; the other two are to be light 32-
pounders. The Alohawk, a sister vessel, has also ar-
rived from the contractor, and the Sparrowhawk is
shortly expected ; also the Assurance and Cormorant.
The whole of these vessels are to be ready so as to take
part in any operations which may ensue in the Baltic
or elsewhere this spring. Eight mortar-vessels are
also ordered to be fitted out at Chatham for the like
service.

The finding of the Conrt•martial which sat on board
her Majesty's ship Victory on Tuesday, for the trial of
Commander Crang and Mr. Green, the master of her Ma-
jesty's eteatn•sloop Perseverance, for getting that vessel
aground on Portland Bill on the 7th inst., was " that
the charge had been proved, and that both officers be
severely reprimanded, and admonished to be more care-
ful in future.

The steam transport Alps, No. 82, Captain Robert
Inglis, arrived at Spithead yesterday from the East. She
left Constantinople on the 4th inst., with Lieutenant
Nutting, of the 19th Regiment ; Capt. Harness, Turkish
Contingent ; Major Lewes (Deputy Assistant-Quarter-
master•General) of the 3d ; Civil-Surgeon Glover ; Capt.
Swinton, 3d Dragoon Guards ; Civil-Surgeon Bowden ;
Staff-Surgeon Barrow (in charge of invalids) ; one pri-
soner of the 93d Highlanders ; one woman, one serjeant
of Turkish Contingent, and two civilians. On the 16th
the Alps passed the steam-ship Europa with the floating
battery Glatton in tow, for Lisbon and England.
The Calcutta, 84, Captain James J. Stopford, from
Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Wednesday, and is
appointed to go into Hatuoaze immediately, to be fitted
for the flag of Admiral Sir M. Seymour, Commander-

in-Chief iu the East Indies.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Gorgon, 6, Commander
R. B. Crawford, from Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth
on Wednesday.
The screw steam-ship Orion, 91, Capt. N. Erskine,
went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sound on Wed-
nesday.
The screw steam-frigate Euryalus, 51, Capt. G. Ram-
say, was warped from the basin-dock to her sailing
moorings in Hamoaze, on Wednesday.
During the visit which the Lords of the Admiralty
paid on Saturday last to Woolwich Dockyard, fur the
special instruction of the gun-boats, it was suggested by
Mr. Green, the master of the despatch vessel Coquette,
that a handing and return scuttle should be cut on the
lower deck of that glass of war-vessels, so as to form a
direct communication from the handing-room to the
upper deck, which plan would considerably facilitate the
supply of powder, it being at present conveyed the entire
leugth of the store-room and lower deck. The proposi-
tion having been found useful, was immediately approved
by their lordships, and it has been ordered to be carried
into effect. Every exertion is being made by the officers
and men of the Coquette to get ready for sea.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—Commander W. E. A. Gordon, to the
Hermes ; Commander De C. A. Agnew, to the Frolic ;
Commander Thomas Cochran, to the Conflict ; Noel
Osborn, acting mate, to the Victor ; St. W. D. Lake,
acting mate, to the Coquette ; Herbert D. Walker,
master's assistant, to the Arrogant ; Arthur Adams,
surgeon, to the Sparrowhawk ; L. B. Chitty, clerk, to
the Belleisle.
Commandersand W. J. B. Marsh, N. S.
Nolloth, Chamberlain C n'orytohave been promoted to
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the rank of Captain.
Lieutenants J. P. Palmar, C. J. P. Glinn, J. S.
Rundle, and J. E. F. Risk have been promoted to the
rank of Commander.

JUSTICE IN Row.—ln the Wensleydale debate upon the
life peerage Lord Campbell in self•exculpation declared
that he had privately lout "distinctly stated to his noble
and learned friend (the Lord Chancellor) that he should be
obliged to make a row about it when Parliament met."
Who, out of the major circle of the peerage, could ever
believe that a live, hereditary peer could, just like a
policeman, talk of a " row r What then will ba the
amazement of merely common people to learn that even
the awful Lord Chief Justice of England has, iu the
security of private life, been beard to " dem his buttons,"
an 1 to " dakh his Rig."--Punck.