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

~,ic3yal and lytilitary !ntelligenCe.

The following circular memorandum was issued yester-
day to the army :

" Horse Guards, Oct. 21.
" With a view to prevent interruption in the training
of troops to the use of the rifle musket, his Royal High-
ness the General Cornmandirg-in-Chief, after conferring
with the Secretary of State for War, has been 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-
munmti•in fur practice and exercise shall be considered
due and it-.sued accordingly upon the application of corn-
ealuding officers through the proper channel, on the
15th of March, in Great Britai❑, North America, &c.,
and on the 15th of September in the Mediterranean and
other stations where, cn account of the heat, the annual
course of training is required by the Instructor of Mus-
ket 7,. to commence on that date.

"The annual allowance of practice and exercise ammu-
nition for a regiment of 40 sergeants and SOO rank and
file is estimated to requiro magazine accommodation
for 37 half and 108 quarter barrels, and if that quantity
cannot be stowed in the magazine of the station at
which a regiment may happn to be quartered, the com-
manding-officer will in the fir.t instance apply for such
portion only as can be accommodated, taking care to
indent for the residue in ample time to prevent the pos•
sibility of interruption to the practice.
" The above arrangement bas 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
targat 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-
tion are to be duly carried out in conformity to the es-
tablished regulations.
"By command,
"G. A. WETHERILL, A.G.
"P.S. A supply of the old form of application will be
kept on hand for the present, for the use of regimetits
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 Southamp-
to-a 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 Hoaston Stewart,.
C 8., last evening, at sunset.
Her Majesty's steam despatch vessel Flying Fisb, 6,
Cownlander Dew, von unlocked at Portimouth 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 steamsloop Bulldog, 6, Commander
Gordon, was taken into tke steam basin at Portsmouth
on Monday for repairs.
The Admiralty steam yacht Osborne, Commander G.
EL R. Bower (master RN.) 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 Warri,r. The Stirling Castle is to be
employed for the future for prisoners returning from
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 lire to wear.
Col. Parker then gave the medal, which was fastened on
Corporal Harvey's breast by Serjeaut•major J. Lewis,
the senior sergeant-major of the division.
The Royal warrant authorisingthe 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 intoa bodyof 120 rank and file, with a propor-
tionate number of non-commissioned officers 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 besent to Ireland to be stationed in the several

large garrison towns. A further 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 bas 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
st ire=, Gun-wharf, Chatham, under the direction of Cap-
tain G.*tllan and Quartermaster T. 13. 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 25,000 men. Among the stores are 104 wag-
gons and carts filled with every description of mining
and intrenching tools, together with 32 pontoon wag-
gons. There is also a waggon filled witti 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 indiarubber boats, each capable of holding and
-ustaining 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,
ftwohfe2n4foftr.7ecolapainbtloe
brought
rafts,
wouldh°
present from
of sustaining
in
a surfaceKertcb, eachwhich, r 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 exoressed themselves highly satisfied with the way
in which they had been arranged. They were afterwards
banded over to Gen. Burgoyne by Capt. Allan, and they
wiil I,e deposited, with the other stores of the Royal En•
gineers, at the Casemate Barracks, Chatham.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
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. LI. Furneaux, got up steam yesterday at Sheer-
nes:+, 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 Meiampus, 42, storeship, Capt. J. Borlase, C. 8.,
&c., 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 neariy ready for being put out of
dock. Her engines are nearly ready to be put out of the
hands of the manufacturers, Messrs. Maudalay and Co.
The Terrible,
the Cyclops, 6, paddlewheel steam frigate, are being
21 guns, paddlewheel steam frigate, and
actively broeght forward at Sheerness in the fitting basin
for the steam squadron of re.erve.
The Terror, 16, floating battery,
is again preparing to
go out. on a series of experiments under comml
a
nd of
Captain E. P. Halsted. She is being coaled
sor that
purpose from the floating coal depot at the alt pan
Reach.
days to prove the po Fier
made at Shoeburyness in a few
coo
emt
ei tnt
the
hoef
the resisting ca abi•
It he reported that an interesting experiment is to be
of the monster gnu there, and aim)
~,_tofloaptin
lities of 'the floating
bertheda' withing
battery, i. 4 to be sent over there to
gun referred to, so as to prove
shot range of the monster ghall.A
to siqn)ner
batteries. The
he
1
was placed in
Admiralty and Ordnance officers.
exne
the effect of 3001 h. [shot on the
are
fleets that will be produced.
haVe been given as to the e .
rinicnts.. Various opinionsfrom. scientific men
port on Monday, to receive a false keel.
dock at Devon port,
The gunboats Suzzard, Mohawk, and Lapwing, from
The screw steam moit,r ship Forth, 12,
I Portsmouth, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday, and went
up Harnosze on Monday to be paid off.
His Prussian Msjest7'. 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, trader risk of
heavy penalty, on the sth of November.