The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-27 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-Gen. J. 0. Travers, C.D., Inspector-Gen•
of the Royal Marine Forces, yesterday resumed his
half-yearly inspection of the Woolwich division of
Light Infantry, when the whole division, including
gun drill, rifle practice, servants, employed men,
&c., was formed on Woolwich Common at 11 o'clock
in one battalion, and, having gone through the
usual salute, they were searchingly inspected. After
marching past in slow and quick time, in open co-
lumn of companies, and in grand divisions at com-
pany distance, they were put through the manual
and platoon exercises by Lieut.-Col. Kennedy, and
bayonet exercises, in slow and quick time, by Lieut.-
Col. Jolliffe. Col. Commandant Connolly then took
command, and put them through a most extended
and difficult series of field manoeuvres, battalion and
light infantry movements, all of which were per-
formed in a manner which elicited the marked ap-
proval of the Inspector-General. At 1 o'clock they
returned to barracks and were dismissed. The de-
tachment at gun drill were visited at 2 p.m., and
were exercised in the first three instructions by
Capt. Carrington, the gunnery instructor to the
division. The whole of the exercises were well and
smartly performed. The Inspector-General and hIS
Aide-de-Camp, with Major-Gen. Warde, C. 8.,
commanding the garrison, and his staff, dined with
Col. Connolly and the officers of the division in the
evening, at their mess quarters. The inspection
will be continued, and in all probability concluded,
to-day.
The engines of the screw steam sloop Niobe, 4,
were tried outside Plymouth breakwater on Tues-
day, under the superintendence of the Steam Re-
serve in Hamoaze. The ship burdens 1,083 tons.
Her masts and yards are complete, and she had on
board stores for 12 months' consumption, with 221
tons of coal. Draught forward, 13ft. 9in.; aft, 17ft•
7in. The engines, by Messrs. aveßnhill and Hodg-
son, are of 300 horse power, nominal; the propeller,
Griffiths, has a diameter of 15ft., with a pitch of
13ft. 9in., and length 2ft. 94in. Weather barome-
ter, 30 35 deg.; wind northerly, force 3 to 4, sea
smooth. Six runs under full power gave a true
mean spe=d of 12.079 knots, and four runs under,
half power of 10.664 knots. The engines worked
very satisfactorily. The stokehold, for this class °f
ship, was comparatively cool. Load on safety valve'
30:b. Pressure of steam in boilers—full, 2311 b•
half, 20i1b. Vacuum in condensers—full, forward,
25in.; aft, 24kin.; half, forward, 26in.; aft, 25lu'
Number of revolutions of engines—full, maximum'
97i; mean, 941; half, maximum, 76; mean, 75F
The following appointments were made yeste„,,,r-
day at the Admiralty :—Commander Philip
Sharpe to the Waterwitch, commissioned ; Lieut.
Alfred E. Denny to the Duncan, additional, Or
temporary service ; Lieut. Henry U. Alleyneo.
to the Revenge, additional, for temporary service I
Lieut. Gerald A. Ellis to the Lee ; Heaver Sugdefc;
master, to the Viper ; John Caldwell, surgeon, _
the Britannia ; Dr. T. Fulton, assist.-surg., to th
St. George ; Steven Sweetman, assist.-surg., to the
Ganges, for the Liberty ; Thomas H. C. Gr3y
paymaster, to the Revenge, for service on shore
Lewis, paymaster, to the Irresistible, for service °Dr
shore ; G. M. Laing, paymaster, to the Duncan, f°
service on shore ; Edward M. Millman, paymast'r.'
to the President ; Martin F. Moresby, paymastel_'
to the Ganges ; W. F. Alexander, paymaster. to
theo
Achilles ; Thomas S. Haywood, paymaster, to
•f
Frederick William ; and James H. Hewlett, club%
engineer, to the Indus, additional, for charge of t
machines of the Penelope.

DEATH OF LADY PANMODE.—We regret '7,
announce the death of this amiable lady, which event too;
place yesterday, at Paris. The deceased peeress
twice married, first to Lord Panmure, consequently
was the stepmother of the present Earl of Dalhousie, 313
secondly, to Mr. Bonamy Mansell Power, of GuernsoY•
Galignani.
A magnificent painting by Vandyke, represent"
ing Ste. Cecilia, has just been brought to light in restors°l
the old church of Cachlevoch, between Heele and 130'
in Belgium. S.
John Bell, able-bodied seaman on board 11-;-• a
Lion, aged 22 years; Catherine M.Williaui, his wife, age
20 years; and Caroline Nicoll, aged 20 years, all belorlgil
to Glasgow, were drowned off Kilcreggan late on goad"
night by the upsetting of a Small rowing boat.