The Sun.
London, England, 1856-09-08 00:00:00

Naval and Military Inteilig ewe,.

The following circular memorandum bas just been
circulated to the army at home and abroad :
" Horse Guards, Aug. 25, 1356.

" His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in•
Chief is pleased to direct, with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War, that Staff Officers of the En-
rolled Pensioners will in future assume command of offi-
cers who may be their juniors in the army only when the
whole or any portion of their own force in the garrison
in which they may be located is called out for duty or
for exercise under arms. "By command,
" W. F FORSTER, Deputy Adjutant-General.
" Hislßoyal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief has approved of the subjoined memoranda to re•
gnlate medical attendance on clerks attached to the civil
and military departments of the army :
" Ist. All clerks employed in the military and civil de-
partments of the army, their wives, families, and domestic
servants, are to be considered entitled to professional at-
tendance from army medical officers, and to medicines
from the public stores, provided their place of residence
shall be within one mile of the chief military hospital of
;he station, such attendance, &c., however, to be ex--
tended only to children under 14 years of age ; and it
should clearly be nnderstood that medical attendance
cannot be claimed for the wives of those holding the above
appointments in cases of parturition, unless in eircum
stances where the services of neither a midwife nor ac-
coucheur can be procured. The domestics of the families
specified requiring medical advice must attend at the •
military hospital at fixed hours, unless the nature of
their ailments should render confinement to the house
necessary.
"2d. Office-keepers, permanent labourers, and per-
sons permanently attached to the civil and military
branches of the army, to be considered as entitled to
medical attendance and medicine ; but the wives, chil-
dren, or domestics of these persons are not to be con-
sidered as possessing any claim to attendance or medi-
cine, unless in localities where the services of civil prac-
titioners are not available.
"3d. Each department must furnish to the principa',.
medical officer of the station, on the last day cif every
month a nominal list of all the individuals en%itled to
receive medical attendance, which list should specify the
precise occupation of each person contained in it, and
no person will be considered as having a claim b)r medi-
cal attendance whose name is not periodically furnished
as above proposed, and who does not reside within the
prescribed distance of one mile from the chid military
hospital of the station."

Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell, G-..C.8,, has
left town on a tour of inspection in the midland coun-
ties, as Inspector-General of Infantry.
The Herefordshire (the well-nown East I adiaman),
freight-ship, Captain W. Stevenson, arrived. at Ports-
mouth on Saturday with 725 non-commissioned officers
and men of the Land Transport Corps, under the com-
mand of Capt. W. P. Collingwood, of the 21st Fusiliers,
who were wrecked in the Spartan, steam tray sport, on
the coast of Tunis, on the sth of July. The following
officers also arrived in her :—Capts. H. A. Hunt, J.
Leggatt and Mrs. Leggatt, A. Watson, ani l Quarter-
master M'lntyre, of the 13th battalion ; Cap ts. Gran-
ger and Gibeon, Adjutant Mitchell, Quaff termaster
Greenway, and Surgeon Muschamp, of the 1-4th batal-
lion of the Land Transport Corps, with Staff' Assistant-
Surgeons H. Brook ; also Lieutenant Porter a ad Ensign
E. S. Mason, with the reserve depot of the 18th Re-
giment, consisting of 65 men and six horses. The
troops are all in good health, and there has been
no sickness of moment during the voy age. The
Herefordshire has had rather a tedious. passage
owing to calms and head winds slaw she left
Malta on the 29th of July. The officers speak eery
highly of the ship, the comforts they experienced on
board, and the unremitting kindness and attention paid
to all by Capt. Stevenson and his officers.
The Sultana steam transport, Capt. Taylor, from
Smyrna and Malta, arrived at Spithead on Saturday,
with the remainder of the British Swiss Legion, 207 men,
19 officers, under the command of Major de Wiplow.
The White Eagle, steam transport, the arrival of which
at Spithead we merely reported on Saturday, brought
from the East Major Stock, of the Turkish Contingent;
Capt. Lacy and Cornet Robinson, of the Land Transport
Corps ; Assistant• Surgeon Eaton, Dispenser Harris, the
Rev. E. Morgan, Roman Catholic chaplain, Purveyor
Howard, Purveyors' Clerks White, Monck, Simpson,
Wrench, Johnson, Garrington, Walker, Richards,
Moore, Goderich, Cooper, and Macfarlane ; Medical
Clerks Macken and Searle, 46 invalids of various regi-
ments, 5 assistant-stewards, 11 assistant-wardmasters,
and 67 orderlies of the Medical Staff Corps, 2 of the Land
Transport Corps, 1 civilian. Quartermaster Sergeant
Glover, R.A., died on the Ist Aug. One sergeant, 1
corporal, and 21 men, of various regiments, embarked
at Gibraltar.

Her Majesty's ship Leander, 50 guns, arrived at Spit-
head yesterday from the Crimea.
The screw steam-ship Conqueror, 101, Commander C.
Fellowes, was appointed to leave Plymouth yesterday,
for a cruise in tue Channel, to exercise her crew.

The screw steamship Exmouth, 90, Capt. Harry
Eyres, got steam up at Devonport on Friday, to try her
engines.

The crew of the Cambridge, 78, at Devonport, got up
lower and topsail yards on Saturday.
The screw steam-ship Sanspareil, 70, Capt. Astley C.
Key, having had her copper examined and repaired, was
taken out of dock at Devonport on Friday, placed at
her sailing moorings, and commenced receiving stores.
The screw steam guard-ship Ajax, 60, was taken into
dock at Keyham, Plymouth, on Sat urday, to have de-
fects made good ; and the paddlewheel steam•vessel
Advice was taken out.

The transports Nos. 21. and 23 went from Plymouth
Sound into Hawoaze on Friday to discharge their scores.

His Belgian Majesty's schooner Louise Marie, 10,
Capt. Van Haverbelle, from Mogadore fur Antwerp, put
into Plymouth Sound on Saturday.
The Wasp, 13 guns, screw steam-sloop, Commander
Stirling, ou Saturday, at 3.15 p.m., saluted the flag of

the Commander-in• Chief, the Hon. Wm. Gordon, and
left Sheerness under steam for the Brazils, calling at
Portsmouth for her final orders.

The Vulcan, 6 guns, screw steam troopship (it an)Com.
mander James H. Furneaux, is ordered to pay down her
crew, and to refit at Sheerness for immediate service.
The fullo wing ships and vessels now form the steam
reserve squadron at Sheerness, under the command of
Capt. Halsted: First division--The Edinburgh, 60
guns, guardship, Capt. llalited ;" chief engineer and
superintendent of steam machinery Mr. F. Pearce ; the
Cyclops, 6 guns; the Sandfly gunbaat ; the idayflower
gunboat, the Palter gunboat, the Spanker ganbcat,
the Ruby gun-boat, the Magnet gun-beat, the Erne gun-
boat, the Carnation gun-boat, and the Louisa gun-boat.
In the second division are the following ships and ves-
sels :--the Hydra, 6 guns ; the Russell, 60 ; the Phcer.ix,
6 ; the Terrible, 21 ; the Firebrand, 6 ; the Hawke, 60 ;
the Royal George, 102 ; the Argus, 6 ; the Scylla, 21 ;
the' Trusty, 14, floating battery ; Horatio, 12, mortar
ship ; the Terror, 16, floating battery ; and the following
gunboats :—the Bullfrog, the Dwarf, the Fidget, the
Cochin, the Hasty, the Julia, the Sepoy, the Tickler,
the Manly, the Griper, the Mastiff, the Mistletoe, the
Traveller, the Spey, the Fly, the Surly, the Thrasher,
and the Herring.
The following gun-boats are orlered to be paid off at
Sheerness immediately :
The Sandfly, 60-horse power, Lieutenant-Commander
Beville G. W. Nicolas ; the Mayflower, 60-horse power,
Lieutenant-Commander G. M. Temple ; the Pelter,
60-horse power, Lieutenant Commander H. L. Round ;
the Spanker, 60 horse power, Lieut.-Commander G. S.
Bosacquet; the Ruby, 60-horse power, Lieut.-Com-
mander H. G. Hall; the Magnet, 60-horse power, Lieut.-
Commander C. J. Rowley; the Erne, 60-horse power,
Lieut.-Commander J. D'Arcy ; and the Carnation, 60-
horse power, Lieut.-Commander P. Saumerez. Those
vessels, when paid off, are to be placed in the steam sqoa-
drou of reserve of the first class, ready for immediate ser-
vice when required. It is reported they are to form part
of the Coastguard squadron, and are to be recommissioned
and ready by the Ist of October next, that being the day
the Coastguard Act of Parliament will come into full
course of action, and further that they are to be in charge
of masters' assistants and under the inspection of a post
captain in command on their respective stations.
The following is extracted from a private letter, dated

Sierra Leone, 13th of August :
"The Merlin, 6 guns, paddlewheel steam-vessel, Com-
mander C. W. Buckley, arrived here from England, via
Madeira and Cape Verde, July 24, and sailed this morn-
ing for a cruise off the Pongas, relieving the Myrmidon,
3 guns, iron paddle-wheel vessel, Lieut.-Commander De
Robeck, which vessel comes down here to coal, at. d then
takes supernnmeraries down to Commodore J. Adams,
who is at Loando in the Scourge, 6 guns, paddlewheel
steam-ship. Lieut. Shaw is waiting at Fernando Po to
resume the command of the Myrmidon, Lieut. De Ro-
heck, going to join the Scourge. The Prometheus, 5
guns, paddle-wheel steam sloop, Commander Charles W.
Hope, is off Lagos. The Alecto, 5 guns, paddle-wheel
steam-slnop, Commander J. Hunt, has gone to join the
commodore with the mails.
The Heels, 6 guns, paddle-
wheel steam-ship, Commander Elphinstoue D'O. D'A.
Aplen, left this on the 27th of July to join the commo-
dore. The Firefly, 4 guns, paddle-wheel steam-vessel,
Commander G. F. Day, arrived hero on the 4th August
from England to Madeira under sail, and remains here
in command of the northern division. The Blood-
hound sails to-morrow to cruise of Cape Mount. The
at Fernando Po to go to
oop, Commander
8-gun brig, Com. IL Need, is ENPVni n.gn3HlaPn.edlir:aTelwh2eelLl,giuninns:rte, fisettrienwg
ex-
pected here on her way home every day. The coast is
very healthy, as is.also Sierra Leone. The Bloodhound
went down off the Melicomi River on the 7tb, to try and
save a French bark, laden with ground nuts, abandoned
by her crew, she having sprung. A leak. The Blood-
hound's crew found the vessel sunk in three fathoms wa•