The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-07 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Captain E. W. Blackett, of the Rifle Brigade,
has been appointed aide-decamp to Lieut.-General
Knollys, commanding the Aldershot Division.
Captain G. J. Peacocke, of the 16th Foot, has
ceased to be aide-de-camp to Lord Seaton; and
Brevet-Major Hume 53d Foot, has resigned the
appointment of aide-de-camp to the Lord-Lieut.
Captain G. A. Morgan, 55th Foot, has succeeded
to the vacant office of Major of Brigade to the 2d
Infantry Brigade at Dublin.
Brevet Lieut.-Col. G. H. S. Willis, unattached,
has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster-Gene-
yal at Gibraltar, vice the Hon. F. Colborne.
Lieut. Disbrowe, 17th Regt., is appointed aide-
cio.cierop to 'Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm. Eyre, K.C.8.,
comuiseding a division in North America, vice
Robertson, promoted.
Major _Rowland, half-pay unattached, is to be
Brigade-Major to Major-General Lawrence, C. 8.,
commanding the ad Infantry Brigade at Aldershot-
Capt. Straubenzee, 9th Regiment, is appointed
aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Van Straubenzee, com-
manding thetroops in chief, vice Bellew, promoted.
Lieuts. Lockhart, 26th Foot, and Massey, 30th
Foot, have replaced Lients. T. P. Campbell, 30th
Foot, and Manners, 97th Foot, as recruiting offi-
cers in the York district.
Capt. J. L. Thursby, 22d Foot, has succeeded
Capt. E. G. Gordon, Scots Fusilier Guards, as aide-
de camp to Major-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Y. Scar-
lett, K.C.8., commanding the south-west district.
Orders have been issued to the officers in com-
mand of the several cavalry and infantry depots of
those regiments serving in India, directing them to
hold in readiness reinforcements to the number of
about 10,000 men of all ranks, to embark for India
imnaediately. The following reinforcements are or-
dered to be held in readiness to embark on the dates
mentioned, viz.:-2,930 non-commissioned officers
and men, for Calcutta, June 26 ; 1,130 men of all
ranks, for Bombay, Juno 29 ; 820 men for Madras,
June 30 ;
and 790 non-commissioned officers and
men, for Kurrachee, June 24. Tonnage has also
been taken up for the conveyance of 1,100 of the
:East India Company's troops to Calcutta during
the month of July. The following is the correct
list of the vessels taken up by the East India Com-
pany, up. to Saturday, for the conveyance of the
numerous reinforcements to India :—For Calcutta
—Holmsdale, Victor Emanuel, Blenheim, Mer-
chantman, Tyburnia, Brunelle, Alnwick Castle,
John Duncan, Sir Robert Sale, Harvest Home,
and Violet. For Bombay—Earl Balcarras, Maldon,
and Clifton Belle. For Madras—Clarence, Mersey,
and Buceplalus. For Kurrachee—Confiance and
Pomona. When the whole of the reinforcements
Mow about leaving England have arrived in India
the number of Queen's troops in that country will
be nearly 100,000 men.
The whole of the disposal troops in Woolwich
garrison were on Saturday mustered on parade in
front of the Royal Barracks, consisting of the
Horse and Foot Artillery, the Royal Sappers and
Miners, the East Kent and Oxford Militia Regi-
ments, the Milioary Train, Arc. to attend the fune-
ral of the late Mr. Francis Pellatt, principal mili-
tary storekeeper of Woolwich. They were marched
down to the official residence of the deceased at 3
o'clock and took up their position in the following
order. The funeral party of 300 men of the Royal
Artillery, with arms reversed, formed the advance
party,- four abrenst, and two lines of infantry,
wearing their side arms only, were posted upwards
of a mile along the Plumstead-road. Col. Bloom-
field, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen and senior officer
in command, accompanied by the garrison staff,
-was in attendance, and a large body of officers not
on actual duty were also present. A body of 150
polies-constables was stationed throughout to pie-
serve order. An immense number of artisans and
labourers of the Arsenal, together with a large con-
course of other persons, four abreast, assembled in
the rear. The immediate friends and c illeagues of
the deceased ranged themselves in and about the
house and courtyard. At 4 o'clock three rolls of the
muffled drums announced that the corpse was being
brought forth. Accordingly the coffin, borne on
the shoulders of six gunners of the Royal Artillery,
was placed on a gun carriage, drawn by six horses,
on which were laid the cocked hat and sword of the
deceased. The mourners and pall bearers having
taken up their position, thesolemn train commenced
its march, the band of the Royal Artillery perform-
ing slowly the Dead March in " Saul." The various
departments of the establishment of which the de
ceased was one of the principal members were repre-
sented by the respective superintending officers,
viz., Col. Pickering, R.A., secretary of the select
committee ; Col. Tullob, Royal Carriage Depart-
ment ; Col. Wilmott, Royal Gun Factories; Capt.
Boxer, Royal Laboratory ; Dr. Parrett and Mr.
Coleman, Royal Medical Department ; Capt. Inglis,
R.E , and Mr. Whitaker, Inspector and Surveyor
of Works ; Mr. Anderson, Inspector of Machinery ;
Mr. sommanding the police district ;
Mr. Morris and Mr. Parkyn, deputy and assistant
storekeepers ; and the entire body of officers at-
tached to the establishment.
A committee composed of Mr. Macarinoy and
other members of the House of Commons recently
assembled to inquire into various proceedings con-
nected with the casing depart:neat of Woolwich
Arsenal, it having come t-) their knowledge that a
large amount of labour had not been satisfactorily
accounted for. A return of the past year's ex-
penses and pi o ; uce has been consequently demanded
in order to bring the matter before the house. Time
has been asked for to prepare the accounts, which
will not be ready before next session. It is said that
among the articles in question, and which were cast
in the Royal gun foundry, is a quantity of small
fine castings, such as basis of the Royal family of
Great Britain, France, Turk-y, and Sardinia, all
cast in gun metal, as well as various tobacco jar;
watchstands, vases, and many other ornaments.
The obelisk which was intended to commemorate
the officers of the Royal Artillery who fell in the
Crimea, and which was 1 id aside in the metal-
s-tore, the c ummittee have been informed,
cannot now be found. The dimensions of the
obelisk, it has been ascertained, are a base or tablet
5 feet square, from which the upper part forms a
pyramid, 25 feet above the base. The latter con-
tains on its four sides the names, in raised brass
characters, of the Artillery officers who fell in the
late Russian war. It was intended to place a brass
gun trophy at each corner, bearing two sprays of
laurel leaves protruding from the muzzle. The
proposition, however, laid before the department
after the work was completed, failed in being ap-
proved by the Minister of War, and the obelisk was
laid by for the time. An illuminated clock pur-
chased for the neff tower, created upwards of two
years ago in the Royal gun factory department at
an enormous cost (it is said 9001.), is also lying in
One of the Royal Arsenal stores for the same reason
—that the expenditure was considered unnecessary,
and did not meet the approval of the Government
th n in officr.

A CamadiAli paper stater, that Colonel De Rotten-
-burg l.ai been appointtd Colonel of the 100th
It-giment.
Tne 15th Hussars, now stationer! at Norwich and
ai e daily expeAing orders to proc;el to
Hounslow.
A large number of men have been declared fit for
foreign si.rvice at the Colchester Camp, and a
draught of 1,263 privat,-s, with coMinisslowcl and
nou-cominimi ned officer <, will leave on the Ist of
July for Julia.

Tho 13t)1 Light D. a...goons hive arrived in Dublin
lien) Dundalk. Ono trc:op remains in the north.
It 44 rumour-id that the regiment will, before long,
---p-,6ciee 1 t) India.
Two draughts of the depots of the 62d and 63d
attached t ) the depot battalion in Birr took their
departure on Friday morning to join the service
co op.tnie3 of their respective regiments, lyith of
• wh'cri are at pros nt s•at.oned at Halifax, Nov)
&et:id. Col. Ci ritch'ey, the commandant of the
garrison, and a ittr4e n umber of officers accompinied
the p'irty to the sta ion, and in their proArass they
Were loudly cheer,-d. Both officers and men expect
that their regiments will shortly be ordered to
India, and many of them expressed their desire for
active service there. The draughts consisted of,
from the 62d-1 e tptain, 2 subalterns, 2 sergeants,
and 40 rank and file ; from the 63d-1 capt tin and
3 subalterns, and 114 rank and file. The following
are the officers who have left, viz. :-62d, Captain
Hughes, Lieut. Elliott, Ensivns Reade and Car-
berry; 63d, Captain Hunt, Ensigns Knapp and
Bicknell.

The Corms', 14. C.,mmand,r R. Dawkins, has
been stripped at Chatham, and returned the whole
Of her stores into the dockyard. She will be paid
off at that port this day.
The Goliath, 80, line-of-battle screw steamer,
being fitted at Oat ham for the first division of the
steam reserve, is ordercd to br, comple•ed for ser-
"vie by the end of the pr,-?sent month.
Its Sardinian Majesty's frigate Der Genoys, Cap-:
Jai
ele t-r re from Genoa, bound for S•ockholni,
put Fahnouth on Thursday, io procure a pilot
for the Baltic; Sea
rhFrap:tl3l„enweto, st;ea.m.frigtte Terrible at Sheer-
ness'a IL th„,,, c.dare,oned by Capt tin Frederick
The Admiralty iia;k;
Monarich, 84 vuumeapja'iZ.l6ll3d paying off the
Sheerness, until the 12,h inFt
q:orge E. Patey, at
The Marlborough,
131, Caroain Lori F. H.
Ken., received a large dran2ht of boys 'from t
di h
s-
e
Portsmouth on Saturday for
training- ship at
posal by the Admiral among the Mediterranean
eet.
A professional paper hiss allotted the
Command
of the Mann& fleet to Rear-Admiral Keppel, and
given him a 11 igship (Orion). Neither of these
guesses will is e found con epf. Web lieve Admiral