The Sun.
London, England, 1856-10-24 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

An order having arrived at Chatham for the discharge
of a large number of non-commissioned officers and men
irom the establishment, the troops were paraded yester-
day morning, when the names of 105 non-commissioned
Officers and men, for whose discharge An order bad been
received, were read over by Lieutenant and Adjutant
S. Pope. The men ,selected for discharge belonged
chiefly to the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 7th
Hussars, 10th Hussars, 4th (King's Own), 14th, 20th,
23d (Welsh Fusiliers), 31st, 33d (Duke of Wellington's),
38th, 41st Welsh, 42d Highlanders, 44th, 49th, 50th
(queen's Own), 55th, 56th, 68th Light Infantry, 72d
Highlanders, 77th, 79th Highlanders, 90th Light In-
fantry, and 95th Regiments, with some troops belonging
to the Rifle Brigade. Nearly the whole of these dis-
charged have seen a great deal of service. Each man
has been awarded a pension by the commissioners at
Chatham Hospital, and a considerable number wore the
o.the
VrimattnAxteclal, with three and four clasps.
The troop* ludo... Ana t
Erreineers at their
liead-quarters, Brompton barracks, hats-aus,
rr.para.tions foragrand night attack which will
tibartly take place at Oliatham, in which the whole of the
non-commissioned officers and men of the Royal En-
gineers available for duty will take part. A number of
the troops are busily engaged in preparing the explosive
materials and bluelights to be used on the occasion, but
the precise evening on which the attack will take place
has not yet been announced. The operations to be per-
formed will be under the gereral superintendence of Col.
H. Sandhatn.

Capt. F. Somerset, of the Royal Engineers, has been
directed to proceed with a number of the junior officers
of the Royal Engineers at Chatham on a tour of inspec-
ton of the principal engineering establishments in this
country, for the purpose of acquiring information con-
nected with the improvements recently made in this de-
partment of practical science, in order that the same
may be introduced into the coune of instruction taught
to the corps of Royal Engineers.
Her Majesty's steam-whip Hannibal, 91, Captain J.
C. D. Hay, C. 8., is hourly expected at Spithead from
tie Mediterranean. She will be surveyed immediately
on arrival, and, if not likely to occupy too much time in
refitting, wi l return forthwith to the Mediterranean.
Captain Prendergast, of the United States' frigate
Merrimac, paid a visit yesterday morning to Vice-Admi-
ral Sir George F. Seymour, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief at Portsmouth, and went on board his flag-ship,
the Victory, in the afternoon, on leaving which he was
honoured with a salute of 11 guns. A number of persons
went from Portsmouth yesterday to see the Merrimac.
The Catharine Harrison barque, Commissariat trans-
port No. 224, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday morning
from the East, with stores.

Her Majesty's steam-frigate Shannon, 51, Captain
W. Peel, C. 8., fitting out at Portsmouth, is taking in
her main deck armament, all 8-inch (68 pounders.)
Several ships are expected at Portsmouth from the
Thames to embark the volunteers of the Foreign Legions
for the Cape of Good Hope.
The Cmsar, 90, Capt. J. Robb, from Portsmouth,
arrived off Plymouth Sound, under canvas only, at two
o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, and having signalled
the screw steamships Exmouth, Capt. H. Eyres, and
Colossus, 80, Capt. Codrington, which were at anchor
inside the breakwater, they left under royals and joined
the Cmsar. The three lay to for some hours outside, and
sailed in the evening for Lisbon and the Mediterranean.
The Hood, 80, which was cut in half, and half
launched on Tuesday at Chatham dockyard, is to be
lengthened 40 feet, and fitted as a screw steamer. She
is to be completed forthwith.
The Goliath, 80, which has been taken into dock at
Chatham, is ordered to be completed for sea, and fitted
as a screw steamer. The Meanee, 80, is also to be fitted
with a screw.

Rear-Admiral Bowles paid an official visit (on behalf
of the board of directors of the Seamen's Hospital Insti,
tution) to Woolwich Dockyard yesterday, fur the pur-
pose of inspecting the progress of the repairs on board
the Caledonia which is in course of preparation for re-
placing the Dreadnought, at Deptford.
The freightship Alacrity, in the East London Docks,
is ordered to be ready to receive ammunition and ord-
nance stores from Woolwich Arsenal, for Cape Town.
The freightship Wigrams is embarking ammunition in
St. Katharine's Docks from the War Department, Wool-
wich, and will sail in a few days for St. Helena.
The Norman Morris is taking in a cargo of empty
shells from Woolwich, for Barbadoes.
The Director is also chartered by Government to convey
military stores, Ito. from Woolwich, to the West Indies.
The Arabian is :hipping war supplies from Woolwich
Arsenal, and will sail shortly for Demerara.
The steam freightship Brandon has embarked a supply
of ordnance stores and-ammunition fi on the War Depart-
ment,. at Woolwich, for Malta.
The Camperdown has shipped 890 tins of ammunition
and ordnance stores, from Woolwich, for Sydney.

The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty : —Lieut. W. M. Sanctum'', to the Water.
100 ; D. Lyall, surgeon, to the Royal William.

On Wednesday morning Mrs. Eden, the wife of Col.
W. If. Eden, commandant of Chatham garrison, laid the
foundation stone of a large national school, about to
be erected at Chatham in connection with St. Paul's
district church. Several of the military were present.
The school will afford accommodation for a number of
children whose parents are connected with the dockyard
and garrison.
At a general meeting of the surviving officers of the
Royal Naval Brigade, it has been decided to erect a
naonuinent in liensal•green Cemetery to the memory of
the officers and men ot that force who fell iu the trenches
before St bastopol.
In consequence of the large number of the blind and
helpless Crimean soldiers who are to be discharged from
the invalid establishment at Chatham, Brevet-Major S.
G. Banbury, commanding the depot ,:f the Medical Staff
Corps, has received an order to furnish a large party of
assistant stewards and wardmasters to take charge of
and assist in conveying them in safety to their respective
homes in various parts of the kingdom. • •

ACCIDENT AT THE ART-TREASURES PALACE, MAN•
cIiEsTER.--4!y 'tho fall of some scaffolding used in the
erectign Of ithis ,new building five or six men were
more or less injured, yesterday evening, but none of
them fatally.