The Sun.
London, England, 1860-07-26 00:00:00

THE NA Ty.

A new 4-gun screw steamer is ordered to be laid
down on No. 6 slip at Chatham dockyard.
The Torch, 5, Commander F. Smith, has left
Chatham harbour, and, after a short stay at the
Nore, will proceed to Sheerness.
The Immortalite, 51, screw, at Portsmouth, has
commenced masting under the sheers in the steam
basin.

The Shannon, 51, screw, left Portsmouth harbour
yesterday and steamed outside the island on her
annual trial of machinery, under the supervision of
the officers of the steam reserve.

The screw steam sloop Greyhound, 17, Com-
mander Sullivan, sailed on Tuesday evening, from
Plymouth Sound for the Mediterranean.

The War Department screw steamship Balaklava,
from Woolwich, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday
evening with shot, &c., for the gun-wharf.
The lower rigging has been placed over the
mastheads of the steam ordinary guardship Indus,
78 (sailing), at Plymouth.
The War Department steamer Lord Panmure,
T. Moore, Master Commander, from Woolwich,
has sailed from Tilbury Fort laden with 6,492 quar-
ter barrels and 100 barrels of powder and ammu-
nition, wc,lghing 230 tons, the largest amount ever
MI:glaell in bulk on board a vessel of the service.

Tier Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Indus-
try, Master Commander George J. Hodges, has
arrived at Woolwich from Rio de Janeiro; officers
and crew all well.

The following hired transports were yesterday
chartered by the War Department to ship stores
from Woolwich—via;., the Kandahar, the Liska, the
Marion, the Whirlwind, the Lady M‘Donald, the
Pt.t.-4.ivr, the Malabar, the Sarah, the Cuban, the
Britannia, and the Adventure.
The Lady Milian has arrived at Chatham, from
Quebec, a quantity of spars, masts, and deals,
for, the dockyard.
The Perseverance screw troop-ship, Commander
Power, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday, for the
West Indies. She takes out a few supernumeraries
for the ships on the station. _ _

The hired freight ships Lady Clarendon, Mar-
chioses3 of Londonderry, and Runnymede are daily
expected to arrive at Spithead, the first named
from Calcutta with a portion of the 53d Regiment
an board, and the two latter from Hongkong, with
military and naval invalids.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—John Jarvis, master, to the
Imaum ; Henry IV. Masterman, acting third class
assistant-engineer, to the Arrogant fur disposal.

TILE ARMY.

General Lord Clyde, G.C.8., arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday afternoon. After paying a visit

to the naval Commander-in-Chief, Vice-Admiral
H. W. Bruce, at the Admiralty-house in the dock-

yard, his lordship embarked on board the Sprightly,
paddle steamer, Master Commander Allen, and
proceeded to Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty.
Among the other stores to be forwarded to China
the Government has decided upon despatching

complete sets of telegraph apparatus, with the
wires necessary for about 30 miles of telegraph,
which will be laid down in the districts occupied

by the British forces. A sufficient staff of non-
commissioned officerki and men of the Royal Engi-

neers, selected from the Military Telegraph School

at the Royal Engineer establishment, Chatham,
will be sent to China to superintend the fixing of

the wires, arid to work the apparatus.

Yesterday the officers and reinforcements already
enumerated in the Sun embarked at Gravesend on
board the chartered East India troop-ship Canning,
1,021 tons, Captain S. Robertson, to augment the
Royal Artillery, 6th, 19th, 88th (Connaught
Rangers), and 97th Regiment, serving in Bengal.
The Tyburnia, another of the vessels chartered by
the Hon. Council for India, also embarked at
Gravesend yesterday a portion of non-commissioned
officers and men of various regiments who are to
proceed in her to Calcutta, and the remainder will
join that vessel at Portsmouth, the number taken
out by the Tyburnia being 400 men of all ranks.
The embarcations were effected under the super-
intendence of Lieut.-Colonel Gordon and the staff
at Chatham garrison. Both vessels will leave the
Thames to-day. _ _

The following officers and troops are ordered to
embark on board the Surrey, for Calcutta—viz.,
Ensign A. P. Hutchinson, Ensign W. H. Adams,
and 63 men of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, Ist
battalion ; Major B. Walton, Ensign B. P. Brom-
head, and 81 men of the 38th Regiment; Lieut. J.
W. Mitchell, Ensign A. F. Kidston, and 100 men
of the 42d Royal Highlanders ; Capt. T. S. Robin,
Ensign C. S. Chapman, 88 men, and an armourer
of the 54th Regiment ; Lieut. H. F. Daniell, En-
sign A. J. Buckle, Ensign A. S. Leatham, and 93
men of the 75th Regiment; Lieut. Nicholas, Royal
Artillery ; and Staff Assist-Surg. J. S. Joyner.
The Megsera, screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, embarked yesterday at Portsmouth, for
Gibraltar, Sergeant Boyd, of the Ist battalion of
the 25th Regiment, and one man of the Army
Hospital Corps. For Malta—one ensign, 2d bat-
talion of the 3d Foot, 25 men, 1 woman, and 1
child; 4th battalion Rifle Brigade—Ensign the
Hon. A. North, one man of the Army Hospital
Corps, purveyor's clerk Pring, wife and servant,
Mrs. Leggot and 2 children, wife of the late Lieut.
Leggot, 2d West India Regiment. For Corfu—
Lieut. Harrell, 2d battalion, 2d Foot ; 1 sergeant
instructor of musketry and wife ; 2 women and 1
child. The Megaera it was expected would sail
from Portsmouth last evening, calling at Devonport
to take in a quantity of bread, &c.
In consequence of the adverse state of the weather
the outdoor exercises in Woolwich garrison have
necessarily been suspended during the week. Yes-
terday the barrack field was taken up in a more
than ordinary degree through the entire course of
the lay by the trooping of the Guards, at which the
General and staff attended, and subsequently with
numerous squads of recruits, subjected to progres-
sive grades of drill. The gun park, with the whole
extent of parade facing the artillery barracks, to
which numbers of guns had been removed for the
occasion, exhibited the appearance of a battle field ;
and
.the mortar battery, manned with three 13
inch, and two 8 inch mortars, in command of Lieut.-
Col. Thompson, 6th battery, Ist brigade garrison
artillery, fired five rounds of practice, over the
usual range of 800 yards, with great proficiency.
Colour-Sergeant Richard Hailing, of the Ply-
mouth division of Royal Marine Light Infantry,
lately serving as pay-sergeant, but more recently
as a quartermaster-sergeant, in the Ist battalion,
China, has been presented by Col. Holloway, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty, with a handsome
gold watch and Albert chain, value 30 guineas, sub-
scribed by the officers of the *lst battalion Royal
Marines, lately serving in China, bearing the fol-