The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-20 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The following General Memorandum and copy of
Admiralty Minute have been issued by Admiral Sir
Thomas Pasley, the Admiral Commanding-iu-
Chief the Spithead Review fleet :
" General Memorandum.
" Victoria, at Spithead, July 18.

" I have much pleasure in promulgating, for the
information of the flag officers, captains, command-
ing officers, and crews who served under my orders
at the Naval Review yesterday, the accompanying
Minute of the Lords Commissioners of the Admi-
ralty, communicating her Majesty's approval of the
manner in which their respective duties were pet-
formed.

" I reque:st that Rear-Admiral Weltsley, Roar- I
Admiral
.Warden, Commodore Tarleton, and the
captains and other officers of her Majesty's ships
assembled at Spithead and in Portsmouth Harbour,
will accept my thanks for their exertions and able
assistance in carrying out the arrangements con-
nected with the Naval Review, although the com-
plete fulfilment of the programme of the Review
was interfered with by the state of the weather,
which prevented the intended evolutions of the fleet
under way.
" I have further to express my approval of the
general good conduct of all classes belonging to the
fleet during their stay at this port, and to make
known to the officers and 500 men of the Royal
Naval Reserve, who volunteered their services for
the Review, the satisfaction with which I have re-
ceived from Commodore Tarleton reports of the zeal
and efficiency with which they discharged their
duties on this the first occasion of their being em-
ployed on service with the fleet.
" The accompanying Admiralty minute, together
with this memorandum, are to be read to theofficers
and ships' companies of her Majesty's ships at Spit-
head and Portsmouth. .

_
" T. S. PASLEY, Admiral.
" To the respective Flag Officers, Cap-
tains, and Officer commanding her
Majesty's ships and vessels at Spit-
head and Portsmouth. " ' July 17.

" ' The Board of Admiralty has received the com-
mand of her Majesty to notify to Admiral Sir T.
Pasley, and the flag officers, captains, officers, and
men who served under his orders at the naval review
this day, her Majesty's approval of the manner in
which their respective duties were performed.

" The Board is further commanded to express
her Majesty's gratification at the spectacle presented
to her Majesty in passing through the lines of ships
which were drawn up for her Majesty's inspection.
"My Lords direct that these commands may be
made known to the fleet.

"By command of their Lordships•

" s W. G. ROMAINE.
" Admiral Sir T. Pasley, Commander-in-Chief,

Portsmouth.' "

Admiral Sir Thos. Pasley has struck his flag on
board the Victoria as Admiral Commanding the
Review Fleet, and rehoisted it on board his own
flagship, the Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, as

Port Admiral and Naval Commander-in-Chief 01

the south west district, and the Review Fleet has
therefore now ceased to exist, and the dispersion of

the ships that formed it has already commenced.
The Phcebe, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Bythesea,
V.C., and Liverpool, 35, screw frigate, Captain J.
Seacombe, are away on detached duty, escorting the
Viceroy of Egypt across the Channel on the conclu-
sion of his visit to this country, the handsome paddle
vessel Helicon, Commander E. Field, having been
again selected as his Highness's yacht. Rear-Ad-
miral F. Warden's squadron of ironclads will leave
Spithead for Dover Straits, to act as escort to his
Imperial Majesty the Sultan on his return from his
present visit to this country. The Royal paddle
Osborne, Commander John D'Arcy, is coaling and
being otherwise prepared at Portsmouth to proceed
to Dover to convey the Sultan across the Channel

to Boulogne.
The officers and seamen of the Royal Naval Re-
serve were discharged from the several ships in the
Review fleet, in which they have been temporarily
serving, yesterday, and forwarded to their respec-
tive homes from Portsmouth by rail.
The Victoria, screw three-decker, Commander
Win. Codrington, went into Portsmouth Harbour
yesterday at high water from Spithead, as did also
the Sutlej, screw frigate, Capt. Travanon Coode,
both vessels to dismantle and pay out of commis-
sion. When the Victoria again leaves Portsmouth
Habour it will most likely be as a turret-ship—an
improved Royal Sovereign, for which her engine
power, strength of frame, and length of floor render
her eminently suitable.
The Liffey, 35, screw frigate, Capt. Gerard J.
Napier, sailed from Spithead yesterday afternoon,

on her return to Devonport.
The Warrior and Black Prince, armoured iron
frigates, both took out their ammunition yesterday
at Spithead, and will return to Portsmouth Harbour.
Capt. J. Corbet and the present officers and crew of
the Warrior—recently turned over to that vessel
from the Black Prince--will turn over to the un•
armoured screw frigate Mersey, and the last-named
frigate will, therefore, become the flagship at Cork
in relief of the Black Prince. The Warrior will be
recommissioned on the day following that of the
transfer of her officers and crew to the Mersey, it
is reported, by Capt. Lord Gifford.
The turret ship Royal Sovereign, Capt. Cowper
C. Coles, C. 8., had a cruise by herself yesterday
morning in the Channel, south-east of the Nab, and
had a little dumb practice with her turrets, under
the supervision of her energetic captain, a strong
W.N. W. blowing at the time. On the turret ship's
return to Spithead she dropped her anchor off the
eastern end of the Spit bank, in readiness to re-
enter Portsmouth Harbour, or otherwise, as may
be ordered. The vessels anchored off Stokes Bay,
as the western vessels of the two lines of the fleet,
have removed their berths to the edge of the Spit-
bead shoals. Three of these, the Water Witcb,
hydraulic propelled, and the Viper and Vixen,
twin screws, have to make a series of competi-
tive trials, off Portsmouth, in the Channel and
over the measured mile in Stokes Bay, in all
of which the Water Witch, although she
has to drive a larger midship section, with the
same engine power as the Viper and Vixen, it is an-
ticipated, will prove the victor.
The Scrapis, screw troopship, Capt. Soady, has
left Spithead for the Thames, in readiness to convey
the Belgian volunteers back t 6 Antwerp. Her sister
vessel, the Malabar, Capt. F. B. Rich, went into
Portsmouth harbour from Spithead yesterday to take
in stores previous to making her speed trial over the
measured mile, and sailing for India.
Capts. Noce and Sommers and the officers of the
Italian corvette Iride and the Danish iron-clad cor-
vette Pedre Skram, paid a lengthened visit to Ports-
mouth dockyard yesterday, and inspected the ships,
docks, basins, workshops, and other objects of inte-
rest in the establishment. In the evening, accompa.
Died by the Danish and Italian Vice-Consul, M.
Vandenburgh, they were entertained at dinner at
the Admiralty-house by Sir T. S. Pasley.
The sailing Indiaman Sussex arrived at Spithead
yesterday with military invalids on board, for the
Royal Victoria Hospital at Netley, from Calcutta.
An order was yesterday received at Chatham gar-
rison directing a detachment of 38 non-commissioned
ofil era and men of the Royal Artillery, from the
head-quarters of the Ist division of the depot bri-
gade, to be placed under orders to embark in the
Indian steam transport Malabar, 3, 4,173 tons, 700
horse power, Capt. F. Rich, for service at the Straits
Settlement of Malacca, with the other troops about
to be despatched to that station. The detachments
will embark on the 21 inst., should the Malabar be
ready to receive them by that date.
The chartered steam transport Sea:Queen, Capt.
Seymour, belonging to Messrs. Seymour and Co., of
London, having already a heavy cargo from the
docks, yesterday sailed from Woolwich Arsenal,
after shipping in one of her compartments 14 121-
ton siege guns, with their iron slides, carriages, plat-
forms, &c., to complete the armament for the new
batteries on the bastions of the island of Malta. She
also took in 6009-inch Palliser chilled shot and other
stores at Woolwich, and called at the powder maga-
zine off Gravesend, where she filled in her powder
compartment with 500 barrels of powder. She was