The Sun.
London, England, 1856-12-30 00:00:00

Naval anci Military Intelligence.

Lieut.• Col. H. A nderson, in command of the troops
at the invalid estaK lishment, Chatham, has received an
order for the whole of those troops belonging to various
cavalry and infan try regiments, to the number of
252 men who hal e been medically inspected by the
Board of Commissioners from Chelsea Hospital to be
discharged from C hathain on Thursday morning. In
addition to this n: umber, 29 non-commissioned officers
and men belonging to the sth Fusiliers and the 71st
Highlanders were esterday inspected at Fort Pitt Hos-
pital and pronounce id unfit for further service.
A handsomely a haled silver cup, with an address
expressive of esteem t and affection, has been presented to
Brevet-Major W. l '. Collinovood, 21st Fusiliers, by the
officers of the 14th battalion Land Transport Corps. The
officers in this address express their regret at the removal
of Capt. Coliingwo, Dd from the corps, which regret, they
say, is only lessene I by the recollection that it tom's to
his benefit. Capt. 0( illingwood in acknowledging the testi-
monial, after thank ing the officers, says he receives it as
a gratifying prOof t hat the maintenance of strict order is
not incompatible » ith the object of securing at the same
time the respect an I affection of those subject to its rules.
The Stromboli, 6, paddlewheel sloop, Commander
Burgess, arrived ;at Portsmouth yesterday from the
Mediterranean wile e a few invalids, who were landed by
the tug Pigmy.
The Clinker, 2, i-steam gunboat, Lieutenant Hudson,
arrived at Portsmosuth yesterday morning from the Me-
diterranean.

Her Majesty's vcrew block-ship Pembroke, 60, Capt.
Fraser, fitting out at Portsmouth for Coastguard ser-
vice, had her compasses adjusted yesterday.
Her Majesty's F Lip Shannon, 51, C,lpt. W. Peel, C.B ,
left Spithead yestie .day at noon for Lisbon, touching at
Plymouth.

Her Majesty's screw steamship Victor Emmanuel, 91,
got up her steam 'j es;:erday at Portsmouth to try her
engine:4 again.

The Prussian fri; ;ate Thetis, 40, Capt. Sundenal, went
into Portsmouth harbour yesterday Afternoon to have a
refit.

The acoustic sysitem of communicating from deck to
deck, or from or aloft on board ship, having answered
so well in the British navy, the Admiralty have ordered
all ships to he sui3pliel with the tubes, and the patentee,
Mr. Wm. Wolfe Bonney, has just returned from Crod.
stadt, where he Luis been fitting his tubes to the new 84-
gun steam-ship ltetuizan. All the other ships of the
Russian navy at Crenstadt are also ordered to be fitted
in the spring will; the like means of communicating, in
any weather or circumstances, orders from and to any
part of the ship.
Captain R. Farmer, late in command of the Royal
Marines serving on board the Nile, 90, Captain G. R.
Mundy. attached to the West India fleet, has been re-
lieved by Captain. G. M. Mansell, and has joined his di-
vision at Chatbain on account of ill-health.
An experimented trial having been suggested to test
the depth of water required to float the Caledonia in
Woolwich dock, the caisson was again withdrawn yes•
terday, and, the tide flawing in with rapidity, soon after
2 p.m. the vessel was observed to be afloat. Ropes were
readily adjusted, .and the warping apparatus put in mo-
tion, and she was conveyed in safety to the river and
steered across to her moorings alongside the Salsette.
In doing this the stern part of the Caledonia, drifted by
the force of the current, caught the rigging of one of
the dockyard craf at anchor, when it was feared no sea-
manship could pre :vent her Ilona grounding. However,
by dint of skilful management she was towed to her
berth and made safe without damage.
Her Majesty's iron paddle-wheel steam-vessel Oberon,
8, Lieut.-Commaider John M. Jackson (late of the Blen-
heim), has arrived at Woolwich from the Mediterranean.
She has been two. years in her present commission, durir g
which period she, was employed, first, in the Dardanelles
and the Black Sea. In June she returned to Malta,
and was engag,sd in the mail-packet service between
Malta and the Xonian Islands until the line was abo-
lished. She left Malta on the 28th of November, and
experienced a boisterous passage, in which her rudder
was washed away. She was consequently obliged to
bear up for Port Mahon, and refit to carry her home.
After shipping a temporary rudder she returned to Gib-
raltar, and having encountered a succession of severe
gales she cracked the entablature of her engines. On
the IBth inst. eke made shelter under Cape Finisterre,
where she lay at anchor until the 21st, when she again
put to sea, and reached Portsmouth at 2.30 p.m. on th
24th December. She left on the following day for Wool!
mei], but, owing t 3 the dense fog which obstructed the
navigation, she was obliged to anchor several times. She
arrived at Woolwich at 3 p.m. on Sunday. The Oberon
has brought home seven invalid seamen, and landed
several passengers at Portsmouth.

Appointments :—Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart,
K.C.8., is appointed Commander-in Chief on tho North
American and West India station ; Captain Frederick
Warden is appointed Naval Officer at Gibraltar ;
Captain Robert Craigie is appointed Superintendent of
the Royal William Victualling-yard and the Naval
Hospital, Plymouth ; Captain George Elliot and Cap-
tain Robert Smart, K,EI., are appointed paid Aides-
dc-Camp to the Queen ; Captain Hastings, Captain
R. Yelverton, C. 8., and Captain G. St. Vincent King,
C. 8., are appointed Aides-de-Camp to the Queen.
The following appointments were made at the Admi-
ralty yesterday afternoon :
Lieutenant—F. W. Bennett to the Tortoise.
Naval Cadet--Joshua Cole to the Indus.

DEEP SEA SOUNDIN.S.—A very interesting map, pre-
pared by Captain Berryman, and just finished, showing
the scundings of the ocean as taken on the United States
steamer Arctic, by order of the Secretary of the Navy,
will be suspended in the rotunda of the Merchants Ex-
change to-day. It is 22 feet in length, with a breadth
of about 18 inches, and gives a perfect profile of the
earth's surface, on the route of the proposed ocean tele-
graph between Newfoundland and the coast of Ireland,
with soundink:s at every 30 wiles, indicated by figures.
The depth of water is also shown by a colouring of blue
—the surface by a curved line, drawn on a radius of 50
feet—New York Journal of Commerce.