The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-14 00:00:00

morrow.

The freight ship Forerunner sailed on Wednesday from
Woolwich, laden with Ordnance stores for the Mauritius.
The Covenanter likewise left Woolwich for the Cape.
The experimental paddlewheel despatch vessels Bawn
and Brune, intended for exploring purposes on the Nile,
were yesterday morning taken into the outer basin of
Woolwich Dockyaid. After a successful course of experi-
mental trials of speed and requisite capabilities, these
vessels have been ordered by the Admiralty to be com-
pleted for service.

The gunboats Pheasant, Ripple Quail, Prompt, Parthian,
Porpoiso, Handy, and Hunter, of the light squadron,
having undergone the necessary trials of machinery, were
yesterday morning warped into the fitting basin at Wool-
wich Dockyard.

Her Majesty's ecrew steam sloop Fawn, intended to carry
1G guns, was yesterday morning taken into No. 1 dock at
Woolwich to receive engines and be brought forward for

service.

The iron paddlewheel steamer lately employed in the
packet service in the Mediterranean has undergone consi-
derable repairs, and has been fitted in Woolwich Dockyard
with new boilers and engines of increased horse-power,
and speed. She is provided with new bulwarks and shelves,
a new lower deck throughout, and will be shortly ready
for re commission. The Vesuvius will be paid off to-day.
Her Majesty's ship Pluto, preparing for coaqt service at
Woolwich, will be out of the shipwrights' hand on Tuee-
day.

The Abyssinian and. Covenantor transports arrived at
Spitbead yesterday from the Thames to embark further
portions of the British German Legion for the Cape of
Good Hope.

The Surveying ship Acton, 26, Commander Bate, bent
sails at Portsmouth yesterday.

The Stamboul freightship hauled alongside Portsmouth
Dockyard yesterday to embark the wives of the German
Legion for the Cape.

The Raleigh, 50, Commodore Keppel, is expected hourly
at Plymouth on the way to the Cape of Good Hope and the
East Indies, where she will be stationed.

The sto eship Industry, from Woolwich with machinery
and moulding sand for Keyham-yard, arrived at Plymouth
on Tuesday.
A screw steamship of 100 guns, to be called the Gib-
rifrltar, is Ordered tobe built at Devonport.
The coal depot Jupiter having had defects made good
was taken out of Keyham Dock on Tuesday.

The wardroom and lower deck of the vengeance hulk;
at Plymouth, have been supplie 1 with stoves for the ac-
commodation of the officers and crew of the Turkish fri-
gate Paki Zuffir, now fitting for a screw in the Devonport
Dockyard.

Yesterday another draught of troops, to the number of
196 men of all ranks, received their discharge at Chatham.
The men discharged belonged to the 4th Royal Irish Dra-
goon Guards, 2d Royal Dragoons, 11th Prince Albert's
Hussars, 15th Hussars, 3d Buffs, 4th King's Own, 6th,
7th Royal Fusiliers, 13th Prince Albert's Light Infantry
17th, 18th Royal Irish, 19th, 20th, 23d Welsh Fusiliers,
25th King's On Borderers, 28th, 31st, 32d, 3 id, 35th, 38th,
39th, 41st (the Welsh), 411 Highlanders, 44th, 46th, 49th,
50th Queen's Own, 55th, 56th, 57th, 60th Rifles, 75th,
77th, 79th Highlanders, 81st, 82d, 88th Connaught
Rangers, 90th Light Infantry, 94th, 97th, and the Ist and
3d battalions of the Rifle Brigade. A large number of
those men ordered to be discharged had served in tho
Kafir war, and also in that in the Crimea, and were deco-
rated with those medals.

The whole of the disposable corps, consisting of 14
battalions of the Royal Artillery Regiment:, were yester-
day drawn up in divisions on the parade-ground of head-
quarters, Woolwich, and put through a coarse of drill and
exercise in the use of the short carbine recently served
out for general use. The junior officers of the regiment
were likewise submitted to a separate course of drill with
the now carbine. The latter exercises occupied upwards
of two hours, each officer consecutively falling out of the
ranks and fulfilling the duties of commanding-officer.

The service generally will learn with much satisfaction
that Sir Charles Wood has, in the handsomest manner
possible, appointed Captain Craigie to the office of super-
intendent of Plymouth Dockyard, vacant by the removal
of Captain Nias. Captain Craigie's public services as in-
spector general of the relief operations in Shetland during
the famine in 1851.2, and more recently as chairman of the
Transport Board, are too well known to require more than
mere allusion to them. Such an appointment is creditable
alike to Captain Craigie and the First Lord, as Captain
Craigie has no interest beyond that which his merits have
earned for him.

The following appointments were made yesterday at the
Admiralty ;

Captain Robert Craigie, to be Superintendent of the
Royal William Victualling-yard and the Royal Plymouth
Hospital, vice Captain Nias, superseded ; Lieut. George
Berlase, additional to the Royal Albert; Lieutenant John
E. Doran, to the Childers.
At the moat' ly examination of officers to qualify for
promotion, and of candidates for entry into the service,
held at the Royal Naval College, and which terminated
yesterday, the following passed :
For Lieutenants—C. Pringle, J. F. Lerion, W. A. de V.
Brownlow, H. R. E. Grey, E. M. Collier, Edward Kelly,
F. T. Thompcion,
W. II E. H. Wilkinson, P. J. Murray, A. Eaton, H. Kent, and S. Mourilyan, D. A. A. Denny,
i St. V. D. Lake.
Second Masters, R.N.,
G. Buroiston. for Masters—A. Farmer and A.
For Naval Cadetm—G,
It. Thornhill and C. M. Turner.
For Masters'-Assistants--W. T. Tredigo and H. N. At-
kinson.

UNIVERS, TY INTELLIGENCE.

UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
M.B. SZOOND EXAMINATION.-1856.
The following is a list of Candidates who
hel passe the Sec dond Examination for the Degree of M. 8.,
lately
d :