The Sun.
London, England, 1867-10-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.
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Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C. 8., Inspector-Gen.
of the Royal Marine Forces, yesterday, accompanied
by his aide-de-camp, Capt. G. M. Lennox, and
Staff, went down to Woolwich from London and
took up bis usual temporary quarters at the Ro) al
Cambridge Hotel, for the purpose of carrying out
his half-yearly inspection of the division, which it is
expected will terminate on Thursday evening. The
Inspector-Gen. was received at the entrance of the
Royal Marine Barracks, at half-past 10 a.m., by the
Commandant Col. R. G. Connolly ; Cul. NV. G.
Sather, C. 8., Second Commandant, and others of
the officers in command, and was received on parade
by the entire division, consisting of employed and
non-employed men, officers, servants, and recruits,
the division being drawn up in two lines in march-
ing order, and the recruits apart. On the General
advancing towards the lines, the colours, in charge
of the junior subalterns, were unfurled, the band
struck up " God Save the Queen," and the men
performed a general salute. He then went slowly
down the lines,front and rear,after which they broke
into open column right in front. The knapsacks,
laid out at the men's feet, were then duly examined,
and the men were questioned as to any complaints

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they might wish to make, but no one replied. They
were then dismissed from parade, and the Inspector
General was escorted to the officers' mess-room.
After lunch he inspected the barracks, pay offices,
men's quarters, Commandant's and Adjutant's
offices. He was to resume his inspection this morn-

ing, the men forming upon Woolwich-common in
review order.

Several members of the Ordnance Select Corn
mittee, including Col. Freeling, R.E., and Captain
Luard, R.N., were engaged at Portsmouth yester-
day in inspecting the training of the 22-ton, or 6uo-
- gun, by Mr. Cunningham's training gear, as
applied to the gun, and proposed by him for train-
ing the heavy ordnance to be mounted in the coast
and marine fortifications. The gun has been
mounted on its carriage and slide for some consi-
derable time now, on the glacis of the new South-
sea fort, for the purpose of affording Mr. Cunning-
ham an opportunity for carrying out any experi-
mental practice for perfecting his training gear
whenever he might desire to do so. Yesterday the
experiments consisted in timing the speed of revolv-
ing the gun over to extreme angles of 90 deg., the
power required to effect this, and the precision that
could be attained with the gear in laying the gun
quickly and with nice accuracy. The results, gene-
rally speaking, were that the gun was traversed from
extreme right to extreme left by two men in 62
seconds. In ordinary laying of the gun one man
was found to be sufficient to work the training gear
—indeed, a boy about nine years old, who happened
to be looking on, was found to be quite able to move
the gun over the arc of training with quite sufficient
speed under the conditions. As a concluding test of
the power of the gear 28 artillerymen, with a 600
pounder shot, were placed on the gun slide and car-
riage, and with this extra weight one man easily
traversed the gun from side to side of the platform,
or, more correctly speaking, perhaps, from one ex-
treme of training range to the opposite. Next, the
smoothness with which the gun could be laid for
striking an object was then tested, the members of
the committee mounting the slide in succession and
laying the gun on a passing vessel off the Spit Bank
The ease and certainty with which this was effected
elicited warm expressions of satisfaction. The mem-
bers of the Ordnance Select Committee afterwards
crossed the harbour to Gosport, and visited the new
semicircular granite battery building on the Ricker
Point, at the east end of Stokes Bay. This is one of
the newest designed coast batteries intended to have
iron embrasures, and the committee appeared to be
much impressed by the evident want of room be-
tween each embrasure available for training the guns
of the battery (intended for 22 ton guns) in opposite
directions, and also by the evident want of a means
of taking into the battery, or discharging from it in
the event of damage of any kind to the gun, such
heavy ordnance.
The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the Admiralty since July Ist :
Vice-Admirals—W. Hillyar, J. Parker, R. Beans,
and J. Monday. Rear-Admirals—T. llope, H.
Schomberg, and E. B. Tinling. Captains—E. Ma-
guire, W. M'llwaine, S. G. Cresswell, E. Monday,
and J. S. Keatley. Commanders —W. Strickland,
T. Cartwright, R. Williams, J. Murray, T. P.
Evans, G. Selby, T. Boardman, W. Liardet, W. N.

Boyce; A. F. Cope, B. Hunt, J. Kenderdine, W. D.
Pridham, M. Corbyn, F. H. Vyse, W. C. Simmons,
and the Hon. R. L. P. Trench. Staff-Commanders

—A. S. Knight, C. Cleveland, M. S. S. Burney,
and W. C. Triphook. Lieutenants—F. W. Ingle-
field, and G. A. Stabb. Chief Engineer—T. L.
Walker. Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals—
W. Dines. Surgeons—J. E. Hamilton, J. Sproule,
0. J. Llewellyn, W. T. Carr, and J. Lindsay. Pay-
masters—W. Price and T. Young. Assistant Pay-

masters —C . L. W. L. Grange, J. A. P. Williams,
and J. IL F. Alston. Royal Marines—Major-Gen.
D. Campbell, Lieut.-Cols. H. Fleming and J.
Fleming, Captains H. C. P. Dyer, and E. C. Spar-
sliott.

The names of the following officers have been
removed from the official list of the Royal Navy :
Acting Navigating Lieut. A. D. Visme, Acting sub-
Lieuts. T. B. Gough, A. P. Patten, W. E. Heath-
cote, and J. J. A. Campbell ; Assist.-Surg. T. Pur-
cell, and Chief Engineer J. Hood. Royal Marine
—Lieut. J. 0. Maund (Artillery), Capt. D. Conner
(Light Infantry).
Te Admiralty Superintendent of Devonport
dockyard yesterday morning despatched the Assist.
Master Attendant, Commander Francis H. May, in
the paddlewheel steamtug Trusty, to the Eddystone
lighthouse, to render assistance to the merchant

steamship Hiogo, Capt. Baiton, which was run on
the rocks there yesterday morning. The Hiogo was
bound for Japan ; her specie, amounting to £lO,OOO,
is saved.
The hired convict ship Huguemont, which has
been taken up by the Government for the convey-
ance of a numerous party of convicts to Fremantle,
Western Australia, left the Nore yesterday, and
proceeded down Channel, after receiving on board
about 150 convicts from the establishments at Chat-
ham and Millbank. The convicts from the Chat-
ham establishment, at St. Mary's, embarked from
the dockyard on board the paddle wheel steamer
Adder, Mr. W. J. Blakey, and were in charge of a
numerous party of convict guards and wardens, all
heavily armed. Among the convicts shipped yes-
terday were a party of 15 Fenians, who were
engaged in the late conspiracy in Ireland, together
with the officers and crew convicted of scuttling the
ship Severn, and some others who have achieved
notoriety from their crimes. The Fenian convicts,
like the remainder of the prisoners, were chained
together in gangs, but it was observed that they
were kept apart from the other convicts in a portion
of the vessel by themselves. The steamer Petrel
also brought down a number of convicts from the
establishment at Millbank, for shipment on board.
the Huguemont, in charge of a strong escort and
convict guard. The Huguemont will call in at
Portsmouth and Portland to receive a number of
convicts from each of these establishments, the num-
ber she is fitted up to take out to Australia being
500. The convicts will be in charge of a military
guard, who will afterwards settle in the colony.
The newly-built screw sloop Danae, 1,287 tons,
350 horse power, nominal, machinery by H. Napier
and Sons, of Glasgow, steamed out of Portsmouth
harbour yesterday to make her trial of speed at
lightest drau,,Yht of water over the measured mile in

Stokes Bay. A part of the full boiler power runs
were made over the mile, when an unexpected and
accidental fracture took place in a small drain pipe
leading from the superheaters, most likely caused by
the " jar" from the main feed pipe, and this accident
at once put an end to all further proceedings for the
day. The ship will probably resume her trials over
the measured mile to-morrow. During the time the
ship was under way the engine worked with admirable
smoothness and regularity of action. Their revolu-
tions when under full steam pressure ranged between
92 and 94 per minute. The vibration of the ship was
quite equal to what was experienced in her prelimi-
nary run last week outside the Isle of Wight. The
Danae will be fast under steam for her tonnage, but
if the exerted power of her engines is taken into