The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-04 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, Feb. 2G.—The screw troopship Tamar,
Capt. F. W. Sullivan, C. 8., arrived on the 19th
from Portsmouth 22 days, Kingstown 14, and Ply-
mouth, 10, with the 61th Regiment (2d Stafford-
shire), which is to relieve the 84th (York and Lan-
caster) under orders to proceed in thesame vessel to
Jamaica. The Tamar encountered very boisterous
weather in the Bay of Biscay. Having disembarked
the 64th Begimenton the 20th inst. she will embark
the 84th on the 28th inst., and sail the following
day for Jamaica, calling at Gibraltar and Madeira.
It is expected that Lord C. Paget will soon take the
squadron out for a cruise in the Malta channel for
the purpose of exercise. The Arethusa, 35, Captain
Macdonald, returned on the 21st inst. from Alexan-
dria, which port she left. on the Bth inst. The Racer,
11, Commander L. Brine, and the Endymion, 21,
Capt. C. Wake, are expected shortly, the first from
Alexandria and Suda Bay, the latter from Alexan-
dria and the Levant. The Prussian screw frigate
Gazelle, Capt. L. Renck, returned here on the 15th
inst. from Naples. The two Dutch vessels of war,
Adolf Hertog von Nassau, frigate, 60, and the Von
Speyte, 22, corvette, which lately arrived here from
Naples, and which were expected to proceed to Cadiz,
have left for Holland direct, after the receipt of a
telegraphic message from the Minister of Marine.
The corvette left on Tuesday morning early, the
19th, and the frigate on the 20th. The Caradoc,
despatch vessel, Lieut.-Com. Wilkinson, is under
orders to leave Malta on Saturday next for Constan-
tinople, calling at the Pirmus en route. The Bishop
of Gibraltar proceeds in her to Athens and other
places in Greece where there are English communi-
ties. Her Majesty's ships in port are the Victoria
(bearing the flag of the Commander-in-Chief),
Hibernia (bearing the flag of the Admiral-Superin-
tendent), Ocean, Prince Consort, Arethusa, Assur-
ance, Cockatrice, Tyrian, Caradoc, Hydra, Psyche,
and Tamar.

The screw steamship Rodney, 79, 500 horse
power, Capt. A. Heneage, flagship of Vice-Admiral
the Hon. Sir H. Keppel, K.C.8., fitting for ser-
vice in China, where she relieves the Princess Royal
os flagship, has received her officers and crew, and
has shipped her armament and the greater portion
of her war department and other sl-ores. Accord-
ing to present arrangements she will take her de-
parture from the Nore for China in the early part of
the ensuing week, calling at Portsmouth, where she
will ship the remainder of her officers and crew.
Vice-Admiral Koppel proceeds to China by the
overland route, in readiness to join his flagship on
her arrival.

The full history of the Crimean gunboats has, it
appears, yet to be written. The Naval Storekeeper
at Portsmouth having retired from active service on
the superannuation pension, a successor was ap-
pointed by the Board of Admiralty, and two
gentlemen at Portsmouth were deputed to
" take stock" of all public naval property
in the port. The persons employed upon this
duty have not yet proceeded far with their
work, but already the annexe of the mainyard, the
Haslar gunboat-yard, and slipway at Haslar many
thousands of pounds worth of stores have been
found which have no place on the Storekeeper's
books, of which no one has responsible charge, and
the original value of which has, therefore, become
frightfully deteriorated from neglect. The majority
of these stores consist of the machinery which be-
longed to the now broken-up hulls of the Crimean
gunboats. This collection of costly machinery has
been placed in a storehouse underneath Nos. 1 and 2
sheds in llaslar-yard, but, as already stated, no one
had charge of it, and therefore no one can be blamed.
The machinery of the gunboats thus stored away at
Haslar cannot have cost the country much less than
£50,000. But very little work has been had out of
any of it, yet as it now lies in the half-built store-
hous@ that has been provided for it no ordinary visi-
tor to the yard would look upon it otherwise than
as worn-out machinery and old iron.

Advices from the West India station report that
her Majesty's steam transport Simoom, Capt. Leth-
bridge, R.N., arrived at Jamaica on Feb. 1 from
Demerara, with a detachment of the 3d West India
Regt. She left Sierra Leone on Jan. 1, arrived at
Barbadoes on the 17th, left on the 21st, and arrived
at Demerara on the 21th, which port she left on the
25th. The Simoom was under orders to leave Port
Royal for England on Sunday, the 10th ult., bring-
ing home the following officers (many of them mem-
bers of the late courts-martial at Jamaica) and fami-
lies :.—Dep. Com.-Gen. Plant and family ; Capt.
Johnson, Ist West India Regt., D.A.A. General of
Volunteers; Mrs. Johnson and family, Mrs. Col.
Harley and family, Mrs. Sedley and family, Mrs.
De Pakh and family, Mrs. Travers and family, Ma-
jor Williamson, 48th Regt., Major Campbell, 71st
Regt., Capt. Maclean, Rifle Brigade, Capt. Bar-
stow, 84th Regt., Capt. Day, 28th Regt., Captain
Walters, 44th Regt., Captain Oliver, 6Gth Regt.,
Capt. Ready, 66th Regt., four men of the Royal
Artillery, one sergeant and family, A. H. Corps,
Assist.-Purveyor Fitzgerald, Dr. Dingan, R.N., and
family. The Royalist, Capt. Earle, was also to
leave Port Royal on the 10th ult. for England to be
paid off. The Doris, Capt. Vesey, arrived at Port
Royal on the sth from Honduras. The Jason had left
Honduras for Vera Cruz. The Constance and Sphinx
were at Barbadoes on Feb. 7. The gunboat Min-
strel arrived at Grenada from Trinidad on Jan. 28,
and after coaling proceeded for Barbadoes.
The arrivals and departures of troops at the camp
at Aldershot, consequent on the exchanges of sta-
tions usually made at this season of the year, still
continue. On Friday detachments of the Ist, 2d,
and 3d Battalions Grenadier Guards, and Ist Bat-
talion Scots Fusilier Guards arrived at the North
Camp, and proceeded to occupy quarters in 1 and K
lines. On Wednesd,►y the dismounted portion of No.
2 Troop, Military Train, will proceed from the North
Camp station of the South Eastei n Railway, via
Reading, to Liverpool, for embarkation to Dublin.
This troop will be relieved by No. 1 Troop from
Dublin, which will arrive at the camp by rail on the
Bth or 9th inst., and by march on the 23d inst. C
Battery, 9th Brigade, Royal Artillery, will arrive
at the camp from Leith Fort by steam and rail on
the Bth or 9th inst., and by march on April 5.
Several other changes of station will shortly take
place, the effect of which will be a considerable
augmentation to the strength of the division at
Aldershot. _ _

Colonel R. W. Lacy, 56th Regiment, has been
appointed to the command of the Ist Infantry Bri-
gade at Aldershot, from the Ist inst. inclusive.
The Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards were re-
lieved in Dublin on the 28th ult. by the 2d Bat-
talion of the same corps, under the command of
Colonel Army tage. The Ist Battalion, under the
command of Lieut.-Colonel Le Couteur, arrived
at Euston station about 10 30 a.m on Saturday
morning, and were marched to St. George's and