The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-23 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The steam-transport Khersonese, No. 10, arrived at
Portsmouth yesterday from Gibraltarand Lisbon.
Her Majesty's stea'n mortar-ship Forth, 12, Captain
Lord John Hay, C. 8., is ordered to leave Portsmouth
for Plymcutb, and will sail as soon as the weather (very
rough yesterday) moderates. It is said that she will
take a cruise in the Channel with a small squadron of
gun• boats.
The transport Belgravia, No. 105, arrived at Ports-
mouth on Saturday from the Black Sea, with 194 men
and the officers of the 39th Regiment.
The Mayflower, Lieut.-Commander Grenville M.
Temple ; the Carnation, Lieut.-Commander Philip San-
marez ; the Insolent, Lieut.-Commander C. H. Smith ;
and the Plover, Lieut.-Commander Keith Stewart, gun-
boats, on Saturday were ordered to be taken into the
basin at Sheerness to refit and get ready for immediate
service.

The Mars, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, sent from
Sheerness to be docked at Chatham, is ordered to bo
ready to be put out of dock by the Ist of July next, and
Captain Hall, late of the Hecla, is oersted to be under
orders to hoist his pendant on board the Mars, when she
is ready for commission.
Captain Halsted, lately appointed to command the
steam reserve at Sheerness, took up his commission on
Saturday on board the Formidable, 84 guns.
The following vessels are being fitted in tie great
basin at Sheerness :—Scylla, 21 guns, screw st. am cor-
vette (recently launched) ; the Persian, 12 gun sloop ;
the Firefly, 4-gun paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Captain
11. C. Otter ; the Wildfire steam-vessel, tender to the
Waterloo ; the Fearless steam-vessel, tender to the For-
midable; the Vigilant, 4 guns, new screw steam-vessel,
Commander William Arinytage ; and the new floating
battery, Terror 16 guns. There are also fitting in dry
docks the Nimrod, 6 guns, new screw steam gun-vessel ;
the Wasp, 14 gun., screw sloop ; the Bridiant, 20 guns ;
the Lizard, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Com-
mander T. B. Christopher ; and one new mortar-vessel.
The Lizard will be pot out of dock to-morrow.
The Elk, 12. gun sloop, and the Acorn, 12-gun sloop,
now fitting at Chatham, have been victualled from the
department at Sheerness, and are ordered down to Black-
stakes to take in powder, shell, rockets, &c., and after
swinging for the adjustment of their compasses to pre-
pare for their immediate departure on foreign service.
The Germania, from Cork to Weymouth, with the Ist
Devon Militia on board, after remaining off the Land's
End in a thick fog for 20 consecutive hours, ignorant of
her exact position, suddenly, on the afternoon of the
13th, found herself on the rooks Senning's Cote,
Land's End, and was inimminent danger of being lost
with her freight of 600 persons, but the captain's admi-
rable presence of mind, aided by some Cornish fisher-
men, succeeded in getting the ship safely off. The regi-
ment were all on deck, but the officers were on the
instant at their pust,, and oe ing to their control not a
man moved, and not a voice was heard save those of the
captain, the look-out, and the pilot fisherman The
officers of the regiment addressed a letter to Clptain
Neynaber, previous to disembarkation, expressing their
appreciation of the admirable self-possession displayed
by him on that occasion, adding also a hope that if ever
they should again be placed in similar peril they might
have to trust, under God, to a heart equally stout and
courteous. Tk e Germania arrived at Spithead yesterday
morning from Cerk with 16 officers and 450 men of the
4th Middlesex Militia. She went into harbour yester-
day, and the troops will disembark this morning.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenant E. A. P. Stubbs, to the Victory ; J. A.
Parks, master to the Acron ; Alfred F. Gibbonr, second
master to the Magicienne ; John 11. Perry, second
roaster t) the Tribune ; Archibald M'Clatchie, surgeon
to the Brilliant ; C. 11. T. Russell, naval cadet to the
Calcutta.

Upwards of 250 candidateA have passed the required
examination at Sandhurst College, and are now waiting
for commissions in the army.