The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-09 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligehce.

His Prussian Majesty's corvette Amazone, Captain
Kuhn, arrived at Spithead, last from the Azores, yes-
terday morning. She is bound to Dantzic. She has
a number of cadets on board, whom the Consul (L.
A. Vandenbergh) introduced to the authorities, and
for whom he obtained permission to view the dosk
yard, dm. She saluted the national flag and the Port
Admiral, which compliments were duly acknowledged
by her Majesty's ship Victory and the garrison bat.
tory.
Her Majesty's ship Leander, 50, Captain Rioe, is
ordered from Portsmouth to the eastward to be paid of.
Her Majesty's ship Express, 6, Commander Boys,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from the south-east coast
of America station.

The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington, 131,
Captain Henry Caldwell, arrived at Plymouth oa Sun-
day.
The following troops, from the provisional battalion,
Chatham, will embark at Gravesend to-morrow on board
the Agincourt, for the purpose of joining the head-
crafters of their regiments stationed in India, viz,
431 Regiment, Captain W. Milnes, Ensign W Live-
say, and Ensign H. 0. Bateman, with 3 sergeants, 2
corporals, 4 drummers, and 25 rank and file, the whole
of whom will proceed to Madras ; 84th (York and
Lancaster) Regiment, Lieutenant F. J. G. Saunders,
Lieutenant R. Maybury, Ensign H. T. W. 0. Kenny,
Ensign R. F. Humphrey, Ensign H. Pearson, Ensign
Ely, and 60 non-commissioned officers and men of that
corps, who will proceed to join the service companies
of their regiment stationed at Rargoon.
The depot of the 79th Regiment, now at Aberdeen,
has been ordered to Furt George. The Highland Bri-
gado are to be concentrated in that Fort, it being the
intention of the War-office to withdraw the troops front
most of the barracks in Scotland, and have them placed
in forts.

The steam-transport Jackal', last from Portsmouth,
has arrived at Woolwich with a cargo of powder and
returned provisions from the East. After discharging
her powder she will proceed to Deptford to land victual.
ling stores. The William sailing-transport has likewise
arrived, and has proceeded to Deptford to clear out. Her
Majesty's steam troop-ship Resistance, Maste; Com.
mender John Huntley, has arrived at Woolwich with
100 tons of shot and a quantity of naval stores from
Sebastopol.
Taking advantage of the favourable state of the weather,
the whole of the batteries and heavy guns were yesterday
morning brought out in review order on Woolwich-com-
mon, under the command of Colonel Anderson. After
going through a variety of field movements, and firing
10 rounds of artillery, they marched past, were minutely
inspected, and permitted to return to quarters. Major-
General Sir W. F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich
Garrison, acted as field officer at guard mounting, and
after.vards inspected the recruits and the spare men off
duty, who were drawn up in battalicns on the parade
ground fronting the barracks, under the command of
Lieutenant-Colonel Burrows, Major Boothby, and Cap-
tain and Adjutant Close. The men were put through ra
series of drill practice for the instruction of a ntmber of
the cadets and junior officers who were ordered to be
prasent.
The steam-ship Pacific, Nc. 8, Captain W. C. Thomp
son, arrived at Kingstown on Sunday evening, at 4
o'cicck, from Pembroke, which place she left at 8 o'clock
the same day. The Pacific brought nine officers. 318
men, 34 women, and 30 children of the depot of the
95th Regiment; and seven officers, 327 men, 50 women,
and 58 children of the depot of the 48th Regiment. The
troops disembarked next morning.
The following appointments were made yesterday at

the Admiralty T- - -
Lieutenant C. C. Robinson, to the Fury ; d. w. G.
Dawson Darner, mate to the Jackal ; J. L. Hcpe, mid.
Shipman to the Indefatigable ; L. C. Keppel, midship-
man to the Wasp ; A. Jephson, naval cadet to tL•
Caesar; the Rev. W. Whitmarsb, chaplain to the Im-
pregnable; W. H. Williams, master to the Raleigh ;
J. Pettey, paymaster to the Hermes ; W. T. D'
ixson,
assistant•paymaster to the Cressy.

GOLD IN WESTERN AIISTRALIA.—At present we have
no confirmation of the reported discovery of gold in this
colony, and indeed no intelligence in this respect of a
later date than that which we have already published,
as received through the other colonies, with the excep-
tion of the following, which appears in the Perth In-
quirer, only a week after the first commencement of the
discovery :--" News has been received from Kojenup to
the effect that no more specimens of gold have been dis-
covered in the neighbourhood. With reference to the
gold repot ted to exist between Cardup and the Canning
Hr. Davis declines stating the exact spot until after the
Sowing season, but we presume there would be no dim.
culty in discovering the precise locality if gold in quan-
tity is really procurable."—Australian anclNew Zealand
Gazette.