The Sun.
London, England, 1856-11-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EirE'4ING, NOVEMBER 18, 1856,

2iaval and Military inteingenoe.

Col. H. Sandham, director of the Royal Engineer's
establishment, Chatham, has received an order for the
10th Company of the Royal Engineers, under the com-
mand of Capt. F. Brine, R.E., to proceed this day to the
camp at Curragh, Kildare. A company of this corps,
together with a proportion of the staff officers and non-
commissioned officers, will also proceed at an early date
to the camp at Aldershot, for the purpose of forming an
establishment of the corps at that station.
The authorities have it in contemplation to remove the
troops belonging to the corps of Royal Engineers, and
the East India Company's Sappers and Miners now quar-
tered in the huts near Prince Henry's Bastion, Chatham,
to the winter quarters in Brompton Barracks.
The redaction of the army is proceeding at Chatham,
and, in addition to the number of troops who have already
received their discharge, nearly 300 men hare been or-
dered to be discharged on Thursday morning, and the
same'number will he inspected by the Commissioners
of Chelsea Hospital at a Chelsea board which is ordered
to assemble at Chatham on Friday. About 1,000 troops
are still waiting at Chatham to receive their discharge.
Instructions have been for warded to the officials of
Woolwich Arsenal, by desire of Lord Panmure, requir-
ing facilities to be afforded to Lieut.-Colonel Garuner,
Instructor-General of Artillery, who is charged with the
elementary education of the junior officers of the corps
in the various branches of military arts and sciences
which are carried out in the establishment—namely, sad-
dlery and harness making, carriage-building, gun-casting
and boring, shot and shell foundry, &c., for which pur-
pose they are to be permitted to prosecute their studies
during the ordinary hours of labour in the Arsenal. Offi-
cers of the artillery in general are likewise to be permit-
ted free admission to the department for a similar purport .
Arrangements have been entered into with Mr. Frau-
cis, of New York, for the adaptation of his metallic
army floating waggons for the use of the British Govern-
ment. An apparatus is ordered to be fitted out by the
War Department in the establishment of Woolwich
Arsenal for the manufacture of the waggons on the spot,
aud under their own control. Dies necessary to form
the corrugations are to be erected and worked by the
hydraulic machinery recently established there. The
process is to be commenced forthwith. Yesterday morn-
ing the whole of the available portion of the troops in
Woolwich garrison wereturnedout at 9 a.m., and headed
by Major-General Sir W. F. Williams and staff, and
accompanied by Colonel Brown, commandant of the
Royal Marines, they were marched to Blackheath, where
they were drawn up and halted. They thence prucee,ied
to Lewisham, Lee, and Eithain. The brigades of Royal

Horse Artillery, accompapied by toe band, following
the General and staff, led the march ; then followed
a battalion of Royal Marines, preceded by the b.ind.
Next to these was a battery of heavy guns liun-
bered up in marching order, the battalions ut Marines
and Artillery then following in alternate succession,
flanked by commanding and subordinate officers, the
rear of each battalion being closed by a battery of fiel.f•
pieces of artillery.
Her Majesty's ship Shannon, 51, Captain Peel, C. 8.,
returned to Spithead yesterday from Plymouth.
The Urgent, steam troopship, Com. Phillips, dis-
charged into the Spr)gbtly, steam tender, Master-Corn.
George Allen, detachments of the filth and 54th Regi-
ments, which landed at the dockyard, whence they pro-
ceeded to quarters.
The Actmon, 26, surveying vessel, Com. Bate, went
out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning arid
saluted the Port Admiral. She anchored at Spithead,
where she awaits sailing orders. Her tender, the Dove,
is also with her.

Her Majesty's steam troopship Vulcan, Corn. Fur-
neaux, went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning
to embark detachments of the British German Legion,
with whom she leaves to-day for the Cape.
The Resolute, steam troopship, Master-Commander
Stabb, went into the steam basin at Portsmouth yester-
dry to repair defects.
The Sharpshooter, 8, screw schooner, was taken out
of dock at Portsmouth yesterday, after repairs.
The Covenanter, hired freight stiip, embarked a body
of the British German Legion from the Britannia depot
ship yesterday by the Comet steamvessel.
The Stan:ll)Al' leftiPortsmonth yesterday morning with
a portion of the British German Legion for the Cape.
Vice-Admiral Sir M. F. F. Berkeley,li,C.B., Senior

Sea Lord of the Admiralty, visited Portsmouth yester-
day to inspect the new slipway works at Haslar Beach,
fur hauling up and stowing away the gun and mortar•
boat flotilla. He afterwards left fur his seat at Chichester.