The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-31 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steam store-ship Resolute, Mr. Pentreath
master, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday morn-
ing, left Constautinople Jan. 4th, Malta the 10th, and
Gibraltar on the 22d. She has about 30 passengers,
among whom are Major Kirby, 9 lth Regt. ; Dr. Brush,
Scots Greys ; Major Winnenberger, German Legion ;
Capt. Brown, and Mrs. Brown, Turkish Contingent ;
and Colour-Sergeant Partridge, 2d West York Militia,
on duty at Malta ; also several naval prisoners sent
home for want of accommodation in the East. At Malta
the Resolute took in tow her Majesty's screw steam
store-ship Urgent, Commander Chas. G. Phillips, her
engines being out of order. Two days after, when the
tow-ropes were cast off, the Urgent got up steam, and,
although the Resolute fired guns, waited some time at
sea, and remained 2 days at Gibraltar, nothing more was
heard of her, and it is concluded that she went back to
Malta. The machinery of the Resolute is out of order,
which has caused several detentions on the passage.
Between Malta and Gibraltar she spoke the barque
Arctic Hero, and off Cadiz the troop-ship Albion, No.
23, both homeward bound. At Malta the crew of the
screw steam-ship Royal Albert, 121, flag of Sir Edmund
Lyons, were taking out her guns preparatory to the com-
mencement of her repairs, which will occupy some time.
Orders have been received at Devonport that on the
arrival of the screw steam-ship Algiers, Capt. Charles
Talbot, from Malta, she is to be taken into Keyham docks
to have defects made good.
The screw steam-corvette Cossack, 20, Capt. Jas. H.
Cockburn, was to leave Plymouth yesterday for the
Mediterranean.
It having being discovered that the mainmast of the
sloop Ferret, 6, Commander C. T. Leckie, was sprung,
the orders for her departure from Plymouth to Ports-
mouth were countermauded, and she went alongside the
jetty at Devonport on Tuesday for repair. her crew
will be paid off on Saturday.
The Pioneer has been fitted at Pembroke dockyard
for navigation round to Portsmouth. She is a sister
ship to the Flying Fish, and the following are her prin-
cipal dimensions :—Length between perpendiculars,
200 ft. ; length of keel for tonnage, 1791 t. bin. ; Breadth
extreme, 30ft. Sin. ; breadth moulded, 291 t. sin. ; depth
of hold, 14ft. bin. ; burden, 872 tons. Her engines are
being prepared for her, and she will at once be commis-
sioned as a despatch gun-boat.
The Government gun-boats Manley and Magnet were
launched on Tuesday, at Sunderland, with their boilers
and engines on board. In a few (Joys they wilt be at the
service of the Admiralty, ready for sea. The two suc-
ceeding ones, the Mastiff and Mistletoe, are progressing
fast towards completion, and will also be launched within
a fortnight.

The gun-boat Herring arrived yesterday morning at
Woolwich, from Messrs. Pitcher's, and is to be rigged
and fitted for irtruedia,ta service.
The paddle-wheel steamer Rhadamanthus, Master-
Commander E. P. Cole (lately appointed), in the service
of her Majesty's dockyards, has returned to Woolwich,
to embark boilers and steam-machinery for the west.
A number of schooners, sloops, and small craft are
lying alongside the Arsenal-wliarf, at Woolwich, land-
ing their cargoes of mixed shot from the Scotch foun-
deries. The Capricorn, Grimsby, Alert, Selby, and
Mary of Carnarvon have discharged since Monday about
700 tons of the same description.
The following promotions have been notified to take
place in Woolwich dockyard :—Mr. H. G. B. Johnston
is to succeed Mr. Burr in the capacity of first-class clerk.
Mr. A. B. Pike will fill the vacancy created by the pro-
motion of Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Flower is to fill the
post of Mr. Pike in the Master-Shipwright's office.
A party of the Royal Marines arrived last evening at
Chatham Barracks from Portsiuouth,-froth on board the
Colossus.

By the Royal mail steam-ship Atrato, which arrived
at Southampton on Tuesday night with the West India,
Mexican, arid Pacific mails, we learn that a court-
martial was held at Bermuda some time last month to
try Commander Corbett, the master, and mate of her
Majesty's brig Wolverine, which was wrecked near
Greytown in October. Commodore Kellett, C. 8., was
president of the Court. After a careful examination of
the witnesses, &c., Commander Corbett and the master
were acquitted, but severely reprimanded, and admo-
nished to be more cautious for the future. The mate,
who was in charge when the brig got on shore, was dis-
missed from her Majesty's service.
The following are the particulars respecting ber Ma-
jesty's vessels-of-war Ftationed in the West Indies :

Jan. 10, at Port Royal, the Termagant, Commodore
Kellett, arrived from Port-an-Prince Dec. 28 ; the Power-
ful, the Imauro, and the Daring arrived on the Ist, and
sailed on the 9th inst. for Montego Bay. The Argus was
cruising to the northward ; the Eurydice arrived from
Bermuda on Dec. 29, and sailed Jan. 2 for Greytown to
relieve the Espiegle. Buzzard, at Jacmel on the 11th
inst., and the Malacca, at St. Domingo ; Jan. 4, the
Arab and Espiegle, at Greytown ; Jan. 11, at Barba-
does, the Vestal and Mariner. cruising ; Jan. 10, at
Havannab, the Hermes ; Jan. 14, arrived at St. Tho-
mas's, the Medea, turn Bermuda. On the 7th, the Bos-
cawen, with Admiral Fanshawe on board, was towed
nut of harbour by the Medea, and sailed for Barbadoes.
Jan. 8, at Bermuda, the Cornwallis and Pembroke.
Jan. 4, the American corvette Saratoga, 22 guns, ar-
rived at St. Thomas's from St. Domingo, and sailed on
the 9th for Mart;nique. The United States' frigate
Cyane was at St. Donlingo. At Greytown, on the 4th,
were the United States' frigate Potomac, with the flag
of Commodore Paulding, and the United States' frigate
Fulton. .lan. 15, arrived at St. Thomas's, a Danish
corvette, 16 enne, from St. Domingo ; Jan, 13, at Gua-
daloupe, the French frigate L'tnhigenie, 64 gun., Con-
tre-Atniral liernoux (who was on shore sick), and the
brig Le Duconedie, 20 guns.