The Sun.
London, England, 1860-12-18 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

A naval co urt-martial assembled yesterday on
board her N tajesty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth
harbour, 'and! the presidency of Rear-Admiral J.
E. Erskine, t or the trial of Mr. John Moire, assist.-
engineer of the second class, on a charge of
drunkenr Less preferred, against him by his com-
raanding;officer. The court found the charge proved,
and sentenced the; •prisoner to be dismissed his ship,
and tc, be placed. •at the bottom of the list of second
clasA assistants 'for the term of one year.

Rear-Admiral Hon. F. T. Pelham, C. 8., yester-
day visited P( )rtsmouth dockyard.
The Harr:Ler, 17, screw, Commander Sir M.
McGregor, E,ailed from Spithead yesterday after-
noon, for tbue Australian station ; wind, N.E.
The Megasra screw troopship, Commander Hen-
derson, has. been placed in l Dock at Portsmouth,
to clean bottom and complete slight repairs for
further seltvice.
The Stork gunboat, tender to the Excellent
gunnery ship at Portsmouth, yesterday steamed
outside the harbour, and commenced a course of
practice from one of Sir W. Armstrong's 100-
pounder guns.

The Glasgow, 51, screw frigate, building on No.
1 slip in Ports moutk yard, has a large number of
hands engaged upon her in caulking her outside
planking and. affixing her keel. Every exertion
is being mach to bring her forward for launching
at an early -period, but no date has yet been named.
The Chanticleer, 17, screw, on the adjoining slip,
is complete in her outside caulking, and is painted
down to her water line. She will be launched

during the present inancial year. The Dryad, 51,
screw, sister vessel to the Glasgow, and the Royal
Alfred, 91, screw, sister vessel .to the Duncan, are
also progressing rapidly in Nos. 3 and 5 slips.
The screw steam frigate Narcissus, 51, having
had her valves overhauled, &c., was put out of No.
11 dock at Keyham steamyard yesterday (Monday),
and moored in the South-basin.

The screw steamship Hero, 90, Commodore Sey-
mour, was hauled yesterday (Monday) into No. 3
dock at Keyham steamyard, to be examined and
cleaned, valves overhauled, &c.

The screw steam gunvessel Nimble, 5, was hauled
yesterday (Monday) from the lock in Keyham
steamyard, into the basin, where she received her
Griffith's propeller.

The screw steam frigate Ariadne, 24, Captain
Vansittart, is now alongside the coal depot in
Hamoaze, receiving fuel.

The sailing frigate Alarm, 24, in the Devonport
dockyard fitting for a coal depot, will, on comple-
tion, be sent to Pembroke.

TILE ARM.

A return has been forwarded to the Horse
Guards by Major-Gen. C. C. Hay, the Inspector-
General at the School of Masketry at Hythe, noti-
fying the prizes which are awarded t• the troops
according to their merit in shooting, which includes
Royal Engineers, Royal Marine Light Infantry,
and regiments of the Line. It appears that 107
non-commissioned officers and privates of various
corps are to receive 3d. per day (one of these prizes
being allowed to a regiment), 761 are to receive 2d.
per day (one of these prizes only allowed to a com-
pany when at least 40 man have contended for it),
and 2,332 are to receive ld. per day extra pay ; the
latter prizes are allowed at the rate of 10 per cent.
only of the number actually exercised, and in addi-
tion to the pay are to be decorated with distin-
guishing badges. The remaining 536, out of the
total number of 3,636 men exercised with the rifle
as marksmen are not recommended for prizes, there
being 152 in excess of the number allowed by the
military regulations :-21 because the applications
for prizes were not sent in by the 71st Regiment;
37 are disqualified for having an incompetent know-
ledge of the theoretical principle of musketry ; 32
because their practice was conducted irregularly ;
7 are transferred to situations where their services
could not be made available as marksmen ; 6 men's
claims are not substantiated by registers of practice ;
7 were discharged ; 4 practised at short ranges in
the second class ; 1 was in prison when he was re-
quired for examination ; 1 for making an alteration
in a register not initiated by an officer ; 1 for prac-
tising without a knapsack; and 1 for misconduct
when at practice.