The Sun.
London, England, 1858-02-25 00:00:00

YATAL AND MILITARY 12fTELLIGENCE,

A Royal warrant has been issued stating that every
non-commissioned officer above the rank of corporal
serving in the regular army shall receive an addition
of 2d. to the present daily pay of his rank, and
shall have no claim to good conduct pay assigned
to the ranks below that of sergeant.
Yesterday orders were received at Chatham gar-
rison directing Major-Gen. W. H. Eden to hold in
readiness the following officers and troops to em-
bark on Saturday, at Gravesend, on board the
steam-ship Antelope for Kurrachee, for the purpose
of augmenting the service companies of their re-
spective regiments in India :—The Ist bat. 7th
Royal Fusiliers 61 non-commissioned officers and
men ; Ensign d. M. Prendergast and 16 men of the
52d Light Infantry; Ensign U. Murphy and 29 men
of all ranks of the 61st ; 13 men of the 70th ; Lieut.
R Swift and 10 men of the 81st ; 17 nien of the
94th ; and Ensign P. H. Dobbs, with 30 non-com-
missioned officers and men of the 98th.
Rear-Admiral of the White the Hon. G. Grey,
the newly-appointed superintendent of Portsmouth
Dockyard, arrived at Southsea last evening, and
will this morning proceed to hoist his flag and
supersede Vice-Admiral Martin.
The Atlas, 91, one of the large screw steam-ships
ordered to be constructed at Chatham Dockyard,
has been commenced, and will be built on the same
slip as that from which the Renown was recently
launched. The following will be the dimensions of
the Atlas :—Length between perpendiculars, 244 ft.
9 in. ; length for tonnage, 210 ft. ; extreme breadth,
55 ft. 4 in. ; breadth for tonnage, 54 ft. 6 in. ;
breadth moulded, 53 ft. 8 in. ; depth of hold, 24
ft. 6 in. ; burden in tons, 3,317.
With a desire of contributing to the comforts of
the soldiers' mess, and of remedying the acknow-
ledged evils produced by the present monotonous
system of barrack cookery, Major-General Sir
W. F. Williams, Commandant of Woolwich Gar-
rison, has introduced the newly invented appa-
ratus brought forward by Capt. Grant, R. E.
The object and advantages of the new stove having
been detailed by General Williams to his Royal
Highness the Commander-in-Chief on his late visit
to Woolwich, the Duke was pleased to approve its
immediate erection. The apparatus was yesterday
put int) full operation experimentally, when the
various processes of cooking 12 cwt. of potatoes
and other vegetables, frying, stewing, baking, dzc.,
for the supply of the three ordinary meals for
1,000 soldiers, were satisfactorily performed. A
large perpendicular oven, in accordance with the
requisite scale of the establishment, forms a most
important portion of the apparatus, the heat of
which is easily reduced and regulated by means of
a small ventilator in the door, and which likewise
serves to carry off any superfluous steam arising
from the crowded state of the oven. On the other
side of the shaft in which the oven is fixed a huge
iron plate supplies facilities for boiling, stewing,
(Ire. The fuel used on the occasion did not exceed
six bushels of coals. _ _

The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Mr. F. R.
Sturdee, R.N., commanding, arrived at Woolwich
yesterday morning from Portsmouth and Chatham,
and was ordered to prepare for a cargo of steam
gear for the western yards forthwith.
The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Gargon got up
steam yesterday morning in Woolwich basin and
tried her machinery, which, together with the
entire ship, has undergone thorough repairs.
The freight-ship Susan commenced shipping war
stores yesterday from Woolwich for Malta, and the
steam-transport Gibraltar, for Gibraltar ; the latter
vessel is to sail on the 28th inst.

A considerable reduction in the factory estab-
lishment of Woolwich Dockyard has been ordered
to meet the reduced scale of expenditure voted for
that department of the Naval service ; 40 of the
factory labourers have consequently received notices
of dismissal.

The Arrogant,46, screw-frigate, the pioneer of the
auxiliary screw fleet, is ordered to be given over to
Capt. L. G. Heath, C. B. to do duty as a coast volunteer
vessel, in lieu of the Melampus, old sailing frigate,
which is being towed up from Southampton Water
to be dismantled.

Commander J. H. Selwyn, Commander F. H.
Shortt, and Commander J. P. Luce were yesterday
promoted to the rank of Captains ; Commander G.
M. Balfour to the Syren, vice Selwyn, promoted ;
and Commander M. R. Pechell to the Wanderer,
vice Luce, promoted.