The Sun.
London, England, 1856-06-17 00:00:00

Naval and Military InteiligenGe.

Her Majesty's ship Nile, 91, Capt. Mundy, left Spit-
head yesterday afternoon under steam and sail for North
America.

The Queen of the South and Trent steam transports
went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday to land the
Royal Artillery, &c, they arrived with on Sunday from
the Crimea.

The steam despatch gun-boats Assurance and Sparrow-
hawk, Commanders Jones and Cress well, made a trial of
their engines and speed at Stokes Bay yesterday, pre-
paratory, it is supposed, to following the squadron under
Captain Watson.
The Otter steam-vessel, 3, Lieut. Glover, left Ports-
Mouth yesterday, with supernumeraries, for the east-
ward.

At noon yesterday the hired transport Sir Robert Sale,
No. 186, having in tow the sailing transport No. 125,
was off Plymouth Sound, up Channel. Both bad troops
on hoard. At 5 o'c'ock in the evening the Himalaya,
from the Crimea, hauled in t'wards the Sound, and,
on receiving orders from the Port• Admiral, proceeded
to Portsmouth.

The entire steam squadron sailed from Falmouth on
Friday, the following- under sealed orders—viz , Im-
perieuse, 51, Capt. Watson, C. 8., with the Victor,
Ringdove, and Intrepid, double funnel despatch boats,
and the others on a cruise, comprising the Wanderer,
Pioneer, Mohawk, and Lapwing, single funnel despatch
boats, and the Starling, Drake, Beaver, and Janus,
gun-boats. These vessels had all been fully stored
and provisioned for sea.

The iron paddle-wheel steamer Princess Alice and the
steam transport Rhadatuanthus wore yesterday admitted
into the outer basin of Woolwich dockyard.
The steam-shipTauru•, Captain George R. Langlands,
recently taken up for the transport service of Govern-
ment, and numbered 23, arrived at Woolwich yesterday
morning from Liverpool, for the immediate sbiptnent of
shot and ammunition for Quebec and Halifax. The
storing of the magazine, which is to be as spacious as
the accommodation of the ship will admit, is to be com-
menced forthwith, and during the interim the embarka-
tion of gun-carriages, shot, and Tower stores, bedding,
&c., will be carried out, when she will be moored in the
stream for the transfer of the ammunition which is de-
posited in the floating magazine, and she will most pro-
bably be ready for sea before the end of the month.
The steam transport Alice Jaokson, No. 30, has ar-
rived off Woolwich Arsenal, and has commenced land-
ing her cargo of returned Ordnance supplies from the
East. It consists of shot, shell, and other stores.
The Maria Catarina, from Funen, and three other
Swedish schooners, have arrived off Woolwich Arsenal,
and landed about 400 tons of pig iron, which is intended
for gun casting purposes.
Colonel Needham, Royal Artillery, and the officers
and gunners forming that portion of the E and W bat-
teries, lately landed at Portsmouth, arrived at head-
quarters, Woolwich, yesterday morning, with the whole
of the horses in good condition.
An esca,iading party, consisting of eight officers and
128 non-commissioned officers and privates, the whole
selected from the troops belonging to the Provisional
Battalion at Chatham, proceeded yesterday afternoon
from Chatham Barracks to the ramparts at the rear of
Brompton Barracks for the purpose of being instructed
in escalading by Colonel H. Sandham, Director of the
iloya,l Engineers' Establishment, and Major F. C. Has-
sari, R.E.

Yesterday a field battery, consisting of 5 officer., 122
horses, 184 men, 6 gun., and 11 carriages, arrived at
Liverpool, and embarked the same evening for Dublin
in the Prince and Princess steamers. The following
will also sail fr•on Liverpool for Dublin :—On the 21st,
a field battery of 5 officers, 184 men, 122 horses, 6 guns,
and 11 carriages ; on the 26th, 11 officers, 265 men,
and 138 horses of the let Dragoon Guards; on the 27th,
6 officers, 155 horses, 136 men, 6 guns, and 10 car-
riages, belonging to the Royal Horse Artillery. From
Dublin the Princa and Princess will bring 4 officers,
384 men, and 221 horses belonging to the 4th Dragoon
Guards.

The steam-ship Cleopatra arrived at Liverpool from
Dublin yesterday with the West York Rifles, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Monckton, who pro-
ceeded to Pontefract. The Cleopatra will proceed to
Dublin to-morrow with the Bth depot.
The Eugenie sailing-transport left Liverpool for Cork
on Sunday. At Cork she will embark troops of the
line and sail for Halifax.

The Great Britain steam-ship, which arrived at Liver-
pool on Saturday from Malta, with the 3d Royal Lan-
cashire and the Northamptonshire Militia from Gibraltar,
went into dock yesterday, and the troops proceeded to
their depots.
The following appointments have been made at the
Admiralty :
Lieutenant F. Harvey to the Atalanta ; Lieutenant
D. E. Orr, to the Boscawen ; Lieutenant Geo. Blake-
ley, to the Boscawen ; C. H. Roberts, midshipman, to
the Cressy ; H. E. A. Waller, midshipman, to the Bos-
cawen ; C. H. Hawkins, naval cadet, to the Tribune ;
H. R. Kelly, E. Purcell, E. A. Ward, and L. N. Mon-
crieff, naval cadets, to the Boscawen ; Henry Lamb,
acting second master, to the Boscawen ; William J.
Mayne, master's assistant, to the Waterloo ; Robert J.
Ellis, master's assistant, to the Firefly ; Hugh Croskery,
acting assistant-surgeon, to the Boscawen ; Charles E.
Phillips, assistant-paymaster, to the Formidable ; Jas.
R. Andrews, paymaster, to the Nile ; Luke Masterson,
paymaster, to the Cressy.