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

Naval:and Military Intelligence.

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 his 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 ; Col. W. G.
Suther, 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 i❑ front. The knapsacks,
laid out at the men's feet, were then duly examined,
and the men were questioned as to any complaints
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-
mg, the men forming upon Woolwich-common in
review order.

Several members of the Ordnance Select Com-
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 600-
pounder 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 oue 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. Ilillyar, J. Parker, R. Beans,
and J. Monday. Rear-Admirals—T. Hope, 11.
Schomberg, and E. B. Tinling. Captains—R. 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.
Pridh am, 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. H. F. Alston. Royal Marines—Major-Gem
D. Campbell, Lieut.-Cols. H. Fleming and J,
Fleming, Captains H. C. P. Dyer, and E. C. Spar-
shott.

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-
Licata. 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).
The 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. Balton, 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 Iluguemont, 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 ou 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 shn is fitted up to take out to Australia being
SUO. The convicts will be iu charge of a military
guard, who will afterwards settle iu the colony.
The newly-built screw slop Danae, 1,287 tons,
350 horse power, nominal, machinery by R. Napier
and Sous, of Glasgow, steamed out of Portsmouth
h;ti_bonr yesterday to make her trial of speed at
lightest draught of water over the ►ueasured 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 outsi3e 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

consideration, together with her improved form of
bow as compared with her sister vessels previously
tried over the mile, she may not prove to be what is
generally understood as a " successful" vessel.
The hired screw transport Golden Fleece, Capt.
Smythe, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from
Woolwich, to embark stores for the Abyssinian
expedition. She will also take out with her the screw
steam launch Waterwitch, recently purchased by the
Admiralty from Mr. S. White, of Cowes, for the sum
of £750, for special service with the expedition.
Her Majesty's ships Rosario and Plover, recently
commissioned at Woolwich for foreign service re-
spectively by Commanders L. H. Versturme (Aug.,
1860) and J. A. Poland (Nov., 1863), yesterday
had their crews and detachments of Royal Marines
transferred, and are otherwise in a forward course of
preparation for sea. The Rosario was brought home
at the termination of her last commission by her
present commander from the S.E. coast of America,
and will most probably be ordered to the same sta-
tion, as the Spiteful, 6-gun sloop, by which she was
relieved, has been ordered to join the Abyssinian
expedition. The armament of theßosariois reduced
from 11 guns, on the old system, to five of heavier
calibre, and consequently her original complement
of 115 hands all told is aho reduced to 110, exclu-
sive of 1 sergeant and 10 privates Royal Marines.
The Plover, double screw gunvessel, recently built
at Deptford, has been armed with 3 guns and 80
officers, seamen, and lads of all ranks, together with
1 corporal, 2 gunners, and 6 privates Royal Marines
Light Infantry, and is now ready for final inspection.
The Prussian screw steam frigate Hertha, and
corvette Medusia, having brought over the seamen
and stokers for the new steamship Kron Prinz, now
fitting up in the Victoria Docks, and built by the
Thames Ironworks Company, yesterday left the
Thames on their return to Dantsic.

His Danish Majesty's screw corvette Dagmar, 16
guns, Capt. Kreiger, arrived and anchored at Spit-
head yesterday morning from Copenhagen, bound
to Cadiz, and exchanged the usual honorary national
salutes with the garrison and the flagship of the Ad-
miral commanding the station. Capt. Kreiger
afterwards landed from the Dagmar, and, accom-
panied by the Danish Consul, M.A. L. Vandenburg,
called officially upon Lieut.-Gen. Sir George Buller
and Admiral Sir Thomas L. Pasley at the Govern-
ment and Admiralty houses. To-day the officers of
the Dagmar will visit the dockyard and shipping in
the port.
The United States screw steam frigate Franklyn,
Flag Admiral Faragut, now lying in the Thames,
was on Monday inspected by Commodore Edmon-
stone, C. 8., A.D.C. to the Queen, who went down
from Woolwich, accompanied by his Flag Com-
mander Jackson, and paid a complimentary visit to
the gallant admiral by previous arrangement. The
frigate is accompanied by the steam tender Trobe.
Admiral Faragut is expected to visit Woolwich and
inspect the dockyard, and probably the departments
of the arsenal in a few days. •