The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-01 00:00:00

Lives-pool on the 26th, wit a general cargo for Constan-
tinople."
The screw despatch gunboat Intrepid, Commander
Wood, having sailed! rom Woolwich on Saturday last
for Portsmouth, was swung at Greenhithe to undergo
the 'customary regulations before proceeding to sea,
when it was discovered that a considerable quantity of
water had entered from a leak, supposed to be in some
part of her bull. Information to that effect was conveyed
the same evening to the dockyard at Woolwich, and an
inspection of the vessel speedily took place. She was
towed up to Woolwich by the steamer Monkey, Master-
Commander Syndecombe, and subjected to the requisite
overhaul on Sunday, but it appears that no satisfactory
conclusion sufficient to account for the defect has as yet
been obtained. She was again ordered down the river
on trial, for the purpose of watching the working of her
screw, as it was imagined the fault lay in that direction.
The gun-boat Mastiff, No. 22, took up her moorings
yesterday off the Arsenal at Woolwich from Deptford,
to be stored with ammunition and to join the flotilla at
Portsmouth.
The gun-boat Procrie, launched at Northffeet, arrived
on Saturday at Woolwich, and was admitted into the
fitting basin yesterday morning. The gun-boat Grappler,
which arrived at Woolwich likewise on Saturday from
Blackwell, was received into the fitting basin at Wool-
wich at the same time. A new mortar float has likewise
been received at Woolwich, of the same kind as the for-
mer six, which are now ready for service. Two others
of the same class are to arrive there to mozrow.
156 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 10th
battalion Royal Artillery have been paraded at head-
quarters, Woolwich, and passed examination for foreign
service, 80 of whom, commanded by Capt. Morris, R.A.,.
are to embark in a day or two on board the transport
Estcourt for Quebec, and the remainder, 76, under the
command of Lieut. Watts, R A., will leave Woolwich,
by the Lady Amherst, for Halifax, to make up casual.
ties which have occurred in the ranks of the Royal
Artillery corps stationed in the above-named places.
In consequence of the instructions issued from the
Horse Guards great exertions are being made by the
military authorities at Chatham to have the whale of the
infantry stationed at that garrison instructed in the
theory and practice of the Enfield rifle. The whole of
the non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the
depot of the sth Northumberland Fusiliers, under the
command of Captain W. Lyons, have completed their
course of instruction in the rile practice, and are ready
to be draughted to various stations for the purpose of
instructing the troops. Yesterday Colonel Jervis, com-
mandant of the Provisional Battalion, selected 84 non-
commissioned officers and men from the various depots
at the Provisional Battalion to be instructed in the use
of Vie Enfield ride. The following were the depots
whis'i furnished men for this duty—viz., the 35th, 40th,
and 52d Light Infantry ; 75th, 83d, and 87th Royal
Irish Fusiliers. The whole of the above are relieved from
the ordinary garrison ditty and placed under the super-
intendence of Captain W. Nott, fi3d Regiment, the in-
structor of musketry at Chatham ; and, as soon as they
have obtained a competent knowledge of the rise of that
important weapon, they will be prepared to be Bent to
the several British stations for the purpose of instructing
the troops on the home service.
The following appointments were made yesterday at
the Admiralty :
W. J. Mainprise, to be Master Attendant of the
Malta dockyard ; John F. Mitchell, to bo Acting As-
sistant-Surgeon to the Hastings.
It is understood that the British German Legion,
which has been raised by Baron Stutterheim to meet
the exigencies of the war, will be sent, now that peace
has been concluded, to the Cape of Good Hope. At the
Cape they will garrison the colony, and officers and
men will receive grants of land for their military ser-
vices. Colonel Worldridge's brigade will return from
Scutari, and form part of the force at Aldershot camp
before embarkation for the Cape. The strength of the
force will muster by about the 10th of April, when all
the recruits en route will be delivered, about 9,000 men.
The justice and liberality of thus disposing of the Ger
mans is unquestionable. Most of the officers have
thrown up their commissions and pro.pects of advance.
ment i❑ the Austrian, Prussian, Hanoverian, and Bava-

rian armies for the purpose of serving England, and,
having got away with great difficulty, they would never
be received back again into their former service. And

as for the men, irthey were disbanded, thousands of
them would not be allowed to return to their homes ;
and if they attempted to go bask they would be pent).
cuted, if not imprisoned. It is a matter of goad policy
also to provide for and keep the German Legion in 'our
service, for on any future emergency, east or west, they
would be available ; and the fact of their having been
so liberhlly dealt with will have the yery best effect
throughout Germany, from which, should another
war arise, treble the number of men might be easily
recruited.