The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-19 00:00:00

Na,vai and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's screw mortar-ship Forth, Capt. Lord
John Hay, tried her speed at the measured mile in Stoke's
Bay on Friday evening, which was deemed satisfactory.
Her Majesty's corvettes Cossack, 21, Capt. Cockburn,
and Tartar, 21, Capt. Dunlop, left Spithead on Friday
night for a cruise of a few days in the Channel.
Her Majesty's steam troop-frigate Transit, 6, Corn-
Mander C. It. Johnson, left Spithead on Friday night
for the Crimea, to bring home troops.
The Australian steam transport is ordered to revictual
ad recoal, and return to the Crimea for other troops.
(Her Majesty's steam-sloop Basilisk, 6, Commander
Crofton, lett Spithead on Saturday for West India and
North America station.
Her Majesty's ship Euryalus, 51, Capt. G. Ramsay,
C. 8., went out of Portsmouth harbour on Saturday, and
rejoined the fleet at Spithead. She will sail in a day
of two for the West Indies and North America.
' Her Maja.-ty's ship Pylades, 21, Cap. D'Eyncourt,
was docked at Portsmouth on Saturday for repairs.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Prometheus, 5, Commander
W. Hope, was undocked after repairs on Saturday at
Portsmouth. She has orders to take out supernutue-

ries to the sqoa,elron on the coast of Africa. I
, Her Maje.ty's steam troop-frigate nt,,gwra, 6, Com-
ander Johnston, was docked on Saturday at Ports-
outh for repairs, &c.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Hecla, 6, Commander
plin, left Plymouth Sound on Friday for Hamoaze, to
!,ke good defects.
The screw st3nin blockship Ajax, GO, Capt. F. War-
n, went from Plymouth Sound on Wednesday into
runaze. the crew unbent sails on Friday ; they will
paid off en Wednesday, and the ship re-commissioned.
The screw steam-sloop Archer, 14, Captain E. Heath-
te, went from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on
turlay.
The screw steam-corvette Satellite, 20, was placed in
lie basin-dock at Devonport on Saturday, a leak having
en discovered in the vicinity of the shaft.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Virago, 6, was placed at
r sailing moorings, in Hamoaze, on Saturday, when
.r crow got up lower yards and topmasts.
The screw steam-ship Algiers, 90, Capt, H. J. Cad-
gton, and the screw steam ship Orion, 91, Capt. J. E.
rkine, from SpitheaJ, arrived at Plymouth on Satur-
l. and are appointed to go 11 pto Hainoaza to-,lay.
The head-quarters of the 3d Jagers, British German
_.ion, was removed on Saturday from Maker Heights '
Davenport ; and the depot of the 66th Regiment was
' listened the same day from Devonport to Maker
eights.
Tue Driver, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam-sloop, Com-
i,. nder E. Chambers, arrived at Sheerness on Friday
i• 4.1. t from Portsmouth, with Nos. 5 and 17 mortar-
rissels in tow. The Driver is ordered to be taken into
fitting basin to make good defects, and she is to be
tired for foreign service forthwith.
The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steam-ship, Capt. Richard
C, Warren, has received orders to land her main deck
i d lower deck guns, and to be taken into dry dock at
3 eerness to make good defects.
The gun-boat Seagull, lately commanded by Lieute-
-1 nt Montague, F. 0. Reilly (promoted to the rank of

cinamander), was on Saturday last, at Sheerness, turned
offer to the surveying department, and the seamen and
marines discharged to the flagship Waterloo.
Lieutenant John H. Lloyd, late in command of the
Russian prison ship Devonshire, has received an Admi-
ralty order to proceed to Southampton, being appointed
as Admiralty agent of transports at that port. He left
Sheerness on Friday last to commenze his duties forth-
with.

The gun-boat Thistle, at Sheerness, late Lieutenant-
Commander David Spain (promoted to the rank of com-
mander), has also been turned over to the surveying de-
partment.
'The following pendants are now flying at Sheerness :
--:'he Waterloo, 120 guns, flag ship ' • the Formidable,
84 guns, guard ship of ordinary ; the Hawke, 60 guns ;
the Colossus, 80 guns ; the Royal George, 102 guns ;
the Cressy, 80 guns ; the Merlin, 6 guns ; the Firefly,
4 guns; the Driver, 6 guns ; the Cuckoo, 3 guns • the
Locust, 3 guns ; the gun-boats Mayflower, Bullfrog,
Hasty, Griper, Traveller, Julia, Ruby, Tickler, Thistle,
Erne, Pelter, Sepoy, Carnation, Herring, Mastiff, Saud-
fly, Magnet, Liveiy, Thrasher, Spey, Seagull, Manly,
Plover, Spanker, Insolent, Louisa, Cochin' Shamrock,
and Mistletoe, and the mortar-vessels Nos. 5 and 17.
.The Vigilant, 4 guns, screw despatch gun-vessel, 200-
horse power, Commander William Armytage, has ar-
rived at Sheerness from Blackwell. She is to be taken
into the fitting basin to complete her equipment forth-
with for immediate foreign cervice.
:The Mari, 80 guns, new screw steam-ship, of 400-
hor-e power, is ordered to be brought forward with al;
possible despatch ; a number of the factory engineers
and workmen are at present engaged upon her.
At Admiralty order has been received by Captain
G. Goldsmith, superintendent of Chatham Dockyard,
directing that the hands belonging to that dockyard
lately employed about the smaller vessels be forthwith
rknslerred to the large class of vessels now building a
that establishment, in order to thex completion at, a
early period.
The Acorn, Commander A. W. A. Hood, is ordered
to be fitted for sea at Chatham. A detachment of the
Royal Marines Light Infantry, belonging to the Ciao-
ham division, joined this vessel on Saturday.
The Cadmus, 20, steam screw-corvette, built in th,
fist slip at Chatham dockyard, is completed, and will b.
liunched to-morrow afternoon.
Col. EL, Jervis, commandant of the provisional batta
lion, has received an order from the War-office, direc--
, 'him to hold in readiness the undermentioned officer
.0 proceed with the detachments to ludia, in addition t:
those previously ordered—viz., Lieut. W. Taylor, 29a,
Regiment, and Lieut. H. Robinson, 43d Light Infantry.
Her aajesty'li steam-sloop Rattler, Commander W

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owes„ 12'4 from Mina and the Bast, lollies, was'
O'.11"On Saturday at Woolwich.
. Th a army-30.0.1p Rtim2yniedo, v:ith full.conglement
of hat xvis,,s,iled. on Sivturilay from.Gravo,selicl fur,Ati,sti a-
lia' a .\liirdil-PottlitioOtith.' • - •- ' •
c •
..24ilA,O•iurere•actece last Week ells-charged
from tL gun factory department in Woolwicti,,A.reenal.
The j ituseiarticpbies- been- Tel/roved iifornfitim
tDial sqt, o.e vrtte-A:a6i,,,i Wodl?.•,feh anii stored 'he
uus are 'to be cutup. and, after-gob:lg Certaiu
analyti,xi)Wpiattesi, Gvilt, be . melted. and tx•-
itish gun-r p•,,etitiOrteg,fs:4ng,pgrio:ee.3.-
I.The fe:P'!4••.tv,i/vg appeintnisat, weve, milli on Satot,•dly at
'ttio to Li•;!•Utrlatit
ltbi)eVnl.l64Y':l.A.".,Dent,44
-. to, he Lieeititawt4octleoNiger ;
C. Ray, t•.o Ci..-:!enaet to the '..lligei'; Boploier,
lity • Fawelin.er, 'LQ.,
;
;.A.E trX.; e 2,2, thetlatten ;D.
Ponder, tc. be 177.4occir:ci ltrast,r to the Pcmpine; 13a-
trick, to be....SuTgeon, to 01 N-g•qr Liomax,•to he As-
tjsLant-Stillg eoii to the: Doke of..Wellir•gton ; C. H. Chitrra-
berg, to be A issistant-Surgeon to the-Witolwich Marines ;
Fre:l.:,LeoD •to be Clerk to .the 'Vest-wins yt S.
C. Hill, to ht• Clerk to Niger ;S. E. Poquatz,
,lidshipin pit te the Virago ; and S. Huntley, to he Mid-
el,jonoatu t the Taria'r,• • ' • '
On Satn 'I; day the men forming the consolidated cavalry
depot at,Q oteebpry, censisting of :the let
,(Royals) and
t.ll (Err niskilen) Dragoons, were inspected by. the
Inspector-Ck eneral of Cavalry, the-Earl of Cardigan. His
lordsf4o by Colonel Cotton and an-
other inspecting.. officer., 'The" day. was fine, thtingh
coldkatni.tiA 2 troops looked praecZney well and healthy.
There w era many among the.n wearing the Crimean.
tru.dal. iais lordship_ arrived at the barrack's ',at 'eight
o'clock. •'''VE ..e men were•--then paraded in review order
in the mac 41AXercisl field, by the Bide of. the Militiry
hospital, an d went through the whole of the move-
meats of ac fit ,14-day in a hianner that drew forth expres-
slUns of apfmt aval on the. punt of the Inspector-G4neral.
Having
nd,procee'del to the stables. At eleven
re..fo, rated the line,, the troops advanced in
parade order, a
a generi parado on foot took place, and carbine
Lend Csriligan minutely inTected ,the men,
ancl.,ir_tade_nnmet inquiries. as -to the date of their
enlistnient &ha oti, jet particularev- His lordshlp appeared
to take especial not. ice of all the men whose breasts were
adorned with the Ctimean medal, and invariably made
some inquiry re,pectiug them. Among the men so no-
ticed was Joseph Jones; a bugler in the Balaklava eharge.
On Friday evening the troopship Norman arrived at
Kingstown, 'having on board the remainder of the Bth
Hussars, numbering 83 men and 53 horses, under the
commandtic Lord Killeen. The Cleopatra transport
arrived on Si cturday, having the Roscommon militia on
boarl, from M•terwick-ond`iveed, via Liverpool. This vet-
eel will, take .back a regiment of Ecglish- militia from
Dubliri 41e;
it own country.
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