The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-13 00:00:00

RSDAY EVEN Lv CL, MARCH 13 1856.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following highly important Royal warrant
has just been issued :-
4' VICTORIA R.
" Whereas, we have deemed it advisable to allow to
the widows and families, or to certain of the relatives
herein after specified, of officers of our army who, since
the declaration of war with Russia, have been or may
be killed in action, or who have died er may die of
wounds received in face of the enemy, within six months
after being wounded, the alternative of receiving a fixed
sum of money in lieu of such rates of pension and com-
passionate and other allowances as are prescribed by our
Royal warrant of the 15th of June, 1855 ; and whereas,
we were pleated to issue a warrant under our Royal sign
manual, dated the 23d of October, 1855, our will and
pleasure now is that our said Royal warrant of the 23d
of October, 1855, shall from henceforth be cancelled,
and that this our Royal warrant, to be administered and
interpreted by our Secretary of State for War, shall be
constituted in lieu thereof, and shall be the sole and
standing authority upon the matters herein contained ;
but shall not annul or in any way invalidate any act
heretofore performed by our Secretary of State for War
under the provisions of the last-mentioned warrant."
The following circular memorandum from the Horse
Guards, dated March 3, 1856, has been forwarded to
the military authorities at Chatham :
" The Field-Marshal Commanding-in-Chief desires that
in all regiments and corps having rifled muskets in posses•
sion, the annual course of practice, as prescribed by the
Instruction of Musketry,' may commence on the 15th of
the present month ; and a memorandum, acknowledging
the receipt of the present order, is to he inserted on the
book of the next monthly progress report rendered to the
Commandant at Hythe.—By command.
" W. F. FORSTER, Deputy-Adjutant-General."
The ship Hurkaru, Captain Clark, from Ceylon and
the Cape of Good Hope, arrived at the Motherbank yes-
terday, out 116 days. Captain Fitzjames, late Governor
of Western Australia, landed frem her in the afternoon
at Portsmouth.
The paddle-wheel stetim•frigate Magicienne, 16, Cap-
tain Vansittart, made an experimental cruise in the
Channel on Monday ; the improvement's in her engines
have been 'successful, and by the recent alterations in
theAsoilers 100 additional tone of coals can be stowed
on board. She is now in Plymouth Sound waiting orders.
The steam-transport Alps, No. 82, Captain Inglis,
from Portsmouth, with a detachment of the British
German Legion, arrived in Plymouth Sound oa Tuesday
evoking.
Yesterday morning a large detachment of the medical
staff corps, consisting of 60 hospital orderlies, left St.
Mary's Casemateebarracks, Chatham, and proceeded to
Liverpool, under the command of Captain W. C. Hamil-
ton, 88th Connaught Rangers. They embark for Scu-
tari on board the Resolute steamer. Another detach-
ment is ordered to be held in readiness for embarkation
by Captain Sunbury of that corps.
Lieutenant C. Jones, of the 60th Royal Rifles, and a
detachment of nen-commissioned officers and men, se-
lected from the depots of the provisional battalion at
Chatham, proceeded to Gravesend yesterday morning
and embarked on board the Walter Maurice, for Bom-
bay. They go out for the purpose of instructing the
troops in India in the use of the Enfield rifle.
The following officers, selected from the depot of the
40th Regiment at Chatham, will embark to-morrow on
board the Epsom, lying in the London Docks, for the
purpose of joining the head-euarters of their corps at
Hobart Town :—Lieutenant E. H. M. Tod, Ensign R.
H. Veith, and Ensign De Neniville Lucas.
Three schooners, with full cargoes of shot and shell
from the Low-moor Foundry, came alongside the wharf
at Woolwich Arsenal yesterday morning, and have dis-
charged a considerable portion of their freight, which
consists of about 300 tons.
Six of the heavy guns, forming a portion of the tro-
phies in the Arsenal-grounds, Woolwich, are ordered to
be removed thence to the Royal Artillery parade ground
on Woolwich-common.
The Admiralty yacht Vivid, Master-Commander
Allen, sailed yesterday morning from Woolwich for
Portsmouth.
Two gun-boats, the Assurance and the Traveller, will
be launched to day, at Messrs. Green's, at Blackwell,
and are to be fitted out with despatch at the East India
Docks. The gun-boat Delight, launched from the build-
ing yard of Messrs. Wigram, of Limehouse, will go
down to Woolwich on Saturday, to be rigged and fitted
for swim