The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-05 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE,

The East India Company's troop-ship Eastern
Monarch, 1,700 tons burden, Commander H. Mor-
ris, arrived at Gravesend. on Monday afternoon
from Bombay, having on board nearly 200 sick and
wounded troops belonging to various regments
serving in India. During the voyage 11 deaths
occurred on board. On the disembarkation of the
troops at Gravesend on Monday evening they were
conveyed to Fort Pitt, Chatham, where they were
medically inspected. The next vessel expected to
arrive at Gravesend with sick and wounded troops
from India is the large steamer Himalaya, having
several hundred invalids on board.
Lord Lovaine, Fifth Lord of the Admiralty, yes-
terday went down to Woolwich and conferred with
Colonel Brown, commandant of the Royal Marines,
on the expediency of enlarging the school accom.
moda,tion of that establishment.
Admiral the Marquis de Lisboa and a number
of Brazilian officers in full naval uniform, belong-
ing to the fleet of small war steamers, in course of
construction at Messrs. Green's, Blackwall, and
Messrs. Pitcher's, Northfleet, yesterday paid a visit
of ceremony to Commodore Shepherd, Superinten-
dent of Woolwich dockyard.
Duke of Wellington, 131, screw, Captain Harry
Eyers, C.B , has pointel topgallantmasts, cross
topgallant and lower yard., and has shifted her
poattion to the outer corner of the steam baqin at
Portsmouth dockyard, preparatory to going out
the next spring tides.
The Marlborough, 131, screw, Capt. Lord Frei.
Kerr (flag of Vice Admiral Arthur Fanshawe), has
nearly completed her outside painting, and looks
exceedingly handsome. She will go out of Ports-
mou h harbour the next spring tides, provided her
screw is ready, to enable her to test her speed at
the measured mile in Stokes Bay. She is yet 400
short of her complement, but if necessary can easily
be made up by drifts from the guard ships.
The Victory, 104, Capt. G. H. Seymour, C. 8.,
Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, has resumed her old
position off the Hard, Portsea, and yesterday re-
took the flag of Admiral Sir George Seymour,
K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief. The noble c ld
ship looks better now in every respect than she
ever did. She is most handsomely refitted.
The Arrogant, 47, Captain L. G. Heath, C. 8.,
weighed from Spithead yesterday afternoon, and
made a trial of her speed at the measured mile iu
Stokes Bay, prior to leaving for Southampton
Water. She will moor off the great military hos-
pital at Netley.
The Ready, Thrush, and Flirt steam gunboats
were added to the others at the Portsmouth depot
on Monday. They were towed thither by the
Gorgon and Adder steimvessels, the former of
which, after casting them off, proceeded to Ply-
mouth to join the Agamemnon, and the latter to
the eastward with supernumeraries.
Her Majesty's steam store transport Rhada-
manthus, Master-Commander Sturdee, laden with
boilers and steam gear for the Lion and Orlando,
yesterday sailed from Woolwich for Portsmouth.

NEW BOOKS. —Among the literary announcements for
the ensuing season of Messrs. Hurst and Blackett, are
" Henry 111., King of France, his Court and Times,
by Miss Freer ; " Memo rs of Mdle. Rachel," "Novels
and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria," by Mr.
J,affreson ; " The Oxlnian in Tbelemarkeo," by• the
Rev, F. Metcalfe • 4. Heckington," a new novel by Mrs.
Gore ; " The Light of Other Days," by John Edmund
Reade ; " Rumour," by the author of "Charles Auches-
ter," and new works of fiction by Mr. Thornbury, Miss
Jewsbury, and the author of "Margaret Maitland," Ito,