The Sun.
London, England, 1856-05-16 00:00:00

aaci Military intelligence.

The steam-transport Victoria, No. 72, T. Thornhill
commander, arrived at Spithead yesterday afternoon
from the East. She left Constantinople, April 28 ;
Rsnkioi, 29th ; Malta, May 3 ; Gibraltar, May 9 ;
bringing Capt. Bent, R.A., in military charge of in-
valids ; Captains Saunderaon and Renny, R.A. ; Capt.
Swetenham, 54th Regiment ; Lieut. Flemecken, of the
British German Legion ; Mr. Brabazon, civil surgeon,
in medical charge of invalids; Surgeons Howard and
Mason ; Mrs. Mason ; Acting-Assistant-Surgeon Hen-
derson (Staff) ; Acting-Assistant-Surgeon Stewart (Tran-
sport Corps) ; Dispenser Thompson ; Veterinary Sur-
geon Rollings, R. A. ; Rev. Mr. Sabin, chaplain ; Mis.
Sabin, and servant ; Rev. Mr. Pyddoke ; Mr. Steele,
clerk, War Department ; two officers of the Polish
Legion ; Mr. W. Delany ; Superior Moore and one
Sister of Mercy ; Mr. R. Allen, clerk (Transport Corps) ;
Mrs. Rogan and two children ; Mrs. Hughes and two
children ; Mrs. Moore, 266 invalids and orderlies, 92
nou.eommissioned officers, soldiers, and naval invalids,
17 civil artisans, one hospital nurse, and one man from
the convict establishment at Gibraltar.

Her Majasty's ship Orion, 91, Capt. Erskine, left the
fleet at SpAhead on Tuesday night, With four mortar-
vessels in tow, for Plymouth.

Her Majesty's ship Cruiser, 17, Capt. the Hon. G. S.
Douglas, went into Portsmouth harbour on Tuesday
evening to be paid off.

Her Majesty's paddlo-sloop, Gorgon, 6, Capt. R. P.
Crawford, went into Portsmouth harbour on Tuesday to
coax. Her new commander joins this day.
Her Majesty's ship, Edinburgh, 58, Capt. Hewlett,
C. 8., left Spitheacl on Tuesday evening for Plymouth,
with two mortai-iessels in tow.

Her Majeaty's steamer Blenheim, 60, Capt. W. H.
Hall, C. 8., went into Portsmouth harbour yesterday.
It is reported she will be the depot ship of the steam
reserve again.

Her Niajesty's paddle-sloop, Geyser, 6, Commander
Power, left Spithead yesterday morning for the west.
ward, with two mortar•vessels in tow.

Her Majesty's screw corvette Archer, 14, Capt. Heath-
cote, left Portsmouth yesterday on a cruise.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :—J. D. M'Crea to he Commander, to the
Algiers; W. H. Phipps to be Lieutenant, to the Algiers ;
T. C. Bounce to be Lieutenant, to the Sanspareil ; Rd.
Wells to he Lieutenant, to the Duke of Wellington ; J.
E. Beckford to be Lieutenant, to the Imperieuse; C. G.
F. Knowles t ) be Lieutenant, to the Prometheus ; R. B.
Beale to be Lientmant, to the Edinburgh ; R. Dawkins
to be Lieutenant, to the Esk ; A. P. Arkwright to he
Lieutenant, to the Royal George ; W. Wood to be Sur-
geon to the Rldney ; Horace H. Smith to be Surgeon,
to the Acorn ; W. J. F. Butcher to be Master's-Assibt
act to the Osprey ; G. Morice to be Master's-Assistant,
to the Acorn ; W. C. Fah bairn to be Assistant-Surgeon
(confirmed), to the Tartar ; Henry Eales to be Assistant-
Surgeon, to the Royal Marines, Woolwich Infirmary ;
J. C. Robertson to be Assistant. Surgeon, to Plymouth
Hospital; Colin M. Dundas to be Naval Cadet, to the
Monarch, for disposal ; John F. Boultbee to be Naval
Cadet, t) the Monarch, for disposal.

At the monthly examination of officers for promotion
and of candidates for entry into the service, which ter-
minated yesterday at the Royal Naval College, Ports-
mouth, the following passed :—Mates, R.N., for Lieu-
tenants—R. J. Stotherd, J. S. Keats, B. J. Cooper, D.
Stewart, G. A. Brett, R. W. D. Ahercromby, J. B.
Vivian, and H. Campbell. For Maters, R.N—J.
Mallory, A. F. Gibbons, J. S. Watts, J. H. Terry, and
R. J. N. Pearce. For Naval Cadets—A.. C. Littleton,
T. P. Gordon: J. Fellowes, H. D. Evans, C. J. White-
lock, H. G. Hesketh, and A. Masters. For Masters'
Assistants—T. M‘Kindell, W. J. Taylor, and B.
Harding. For Marine Cadets—C. J. Martin and W.
Younghusband. Four of the above are from the Pre-
paratory Naval Establishment of Mr. T. Eastman, R.N.,
Sauthsea.

A large party of Crimean invalids, to the number of
41, of whom 13 were from the hospital at Chichester,
arrived at Strood yesterday afternoon by railway from
Portsmouth, having disembarked from the steam trans-
port Severn, No. 194, Corn. Gillies. The Severn brought
home 196 invalids, in medical charge of Second-Class
Surgeon W. Poole and Acting-Assistant-Surgeon S. Job,
the whole under command of Lieut. Brooks. The follow-
ing officers also arrived with • the invalids :—Lieut.-Col.
G. Macbeth, 68th Light Infantry ; Lieut.-Col. F. C.
Aylmer, 89th Regiment; Major C. Murray, 42d Royal
Highlanders; Capt. R. Anderson, 56th Regiment ; Capt.
Armoy, Royal Artillery, besides several other officers
who came home as passengers. On the arrival of the in-
valids at the Strood terminus they were met by a fatigue
party from Chatham, who assisted the sick and wounded
to the ambulance-waggon in waiting for them. After the
usual medical examination had been made 17 were or-
dered into the supplemental hospital at Brompton, and
one insane man to Fort Pitt ; the remainder were sent
to the invalid depot at St. Mary's.
A court-martial assembled yesterday at 9 a.m., on
beard the Waterloo, flagship at Sheerness, to try
Alonzo Rodd, private, Royal Marines, late of the
store-ship Madagascar, for making use of abusive lan-
guage and striking Mr. Isaac Harris, gunner of the third
class, while in the execution of his duty, The case for
the prosecution lasted three hours. On the prisoner
being called upon for his defence, he pleaded that he bad
no recollection of the charge brought against him, stat-
ing that he was very much in liquor at the time. Pri-
soner had been four years in the corps, and called Mr.
C. Troughton Stepney de Michell, naval cadet of the
Indefatigable, in support of his defence. The Court,
after deliberating for one hour and a quarter, were of
opinion that the charge against the prisoner was fully
proved by the witnesses, and sentenced him to receive
50 lashes on his bare back with the cat-o'-nine-tails, and
afterwards to be imprisoned in the county gaol at Maid-
stone for the term of two years, during which period he
was to be kept at hard labour.

An interesting experiment took place lately at the
School of Musketry at Hythe, and one which must con-
vince the most sceptical how deadly a weapon the pre-
sent Enfield rifle must prove in the hands of men pro-
perly instructed in the use of it. S )me condemned tutu-
brils and gun limbers having been lately procured from
Woolwich, on Monday morning last one of each of these
Was taken to the target practice ground ; to the tumbril
were attached six horses with riders made of framework,
covered with canvas, stuffed with straw ; the whole the
sin of life. About the gun-carriage were stuffed figures
representing men unlimbering and bringing the gun into
action. At a distance somewhat beyond GOO yards from
the above a party, consisting of about 60 of the men
under instruction at the School of Musketry, was drawn
up in two divisions, the one extended in skirmishing
order, the other supporting. One round was first fired
by the front rank only of the skirmishing party, which
may have consisted of about 20 men, and the result was
that a bullet had passed through almost every horse, as
also through many of the riders and men employed at
the gun. The support was then ordered up to reinforce
skirmishers, and the whole fired three or four rounds
in skirmishing order which completely riddled horses,
riders, and footmen. The party was then cloyed on its
centre and retired to a distance of above 800 yards,
when volleys were fired at the supposed artillery, first
by sections, then by sub-divisions, and finally by divi-
sions, the whole with an accuracy perfectly wonderful
in short, the experiment clearly proved that in the
hands of well-skilled soldiers— men who, having been
taught the principles of rifle-shooting theoretically
and practically, have obtained a perfect confidence
in their weapon—the Enfield rifle must prove more than
a match for any field-gnns of the present day.
At an early hour on Wednesday morning the steam-ship
Caedia, with the 17th Lancers on board, was signalied
off the harbour of Dublin, and in a short time atter was
moored alongside the bulk which has been placed outside
the pier specially for this purpose. A. communication was
shortly atter received by the General, and arrangements
were promptly made for disembarking the men and
horses. The Prince, river steamer, left Merchants' Quay
at 1 o'clock, for the purpose of returning with the dis-
mounted men and baggage, while the mounted men will
arrive in Cork by the Queenstown road. The captain of
the steamer has been ordered to land the men and b
mg-
gage as nearly as possible to the terminus of the Great
Southern Western Railway, and the mounted men will
probably draw up at the same plies, preparatory to pro•
seeding by railway to Cahir, to which place the regiment
has been ordered. This gadant regiment bore a b!gbly
distinguished part in the principal cavalry operations in
the Crimea, and at the disastrous charge at Ba!aklava
was all but utterly annihilated. The 17th were for many
years commanded by the Earl of Lucan (then Lord
Bingham), who retired from active service about 23 years
back, and remained on the half-p,y het until his appoint-
ment iu 1854 to the command of the cavalry in the East.

The dividends on the Brazilian Loan of 1843 and the
Sardinian Loan of 1851 have been advertised for pay-
ment. The Spanish Financial Committee have announced
that a further auction of the foreign redeemable debt will
take place at Madrid on the 30th inst., for which pur-
pose 2,625,000 reals have been assigned by the Govan-
rnent.

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