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-de-camp to Lieut.-General
Maollys, 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 Foo.f, 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. S. Willis, unattached,
has been appointed Assistant Quartermaster-Gene-
ral at Gibraltar, vice the Hon. F. Colborne.

Lieut. Disbrowe, 17th Regt. is appointed aide-
de-camp to Lieut.-Gen. Sir Wm. Eyre, K.C.8.,
commanding 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 3d Infantry Brigade at Aldershot-
Capt. Straubenzee, 9th Regiment, is appointed
aide-de-camp to Major-Gen. Van Straubenzee, com-
manding thetroopsin chief, vice Bellew, promoted.
Lients. Lockhart, 26th Foot, and Massey, 30th
Foot, have replaced Lieuts. J. 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
immediately. 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, June 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, Malden,
and Clifton Belle. For Madras—Clarence, Mersey,
and Bocephalus. For Kurrachee—Confiance and
Pomona. When the whole of the reinforcements
now 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 Mili,ary Train, &c. 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 an I 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 abreast, and two lines of infantry,
wearing their side arms only, were posted upwards
of a mile along the Plumstoad-road. Col. Bloom-
field, Aide-de-Camp io 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
polio-constables was stationed throughout to p, e-
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 dleagues 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
bought 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 R yal Artillery perform-
ing slowly the D3ad March in « Saul." The various
departments of the establishment of which the de
ceased was one of th.e principal members were repre-
sented by the respective superintending officers,
viz., Col. Pickering, R. A., secretary of the select
committee ; Col. Tulloh, Royal CArriage Depart-
ment ; Cot. Wilmott, Royal Gun Factories ; Cspt.
Boxer,. Royal Laboratory ; Dr. Parrett and Mr.
Coleman, Royal Medical Department ; Capt. Inglis,
RE , and Mr. Whitaker, Inspector and Surveyor
of Works ; Mr. Anderson, Inspector of Machinery ;
Mr. Mallalien' commanding the police district ;
Mr. Morris and Slr. Parkyn, deputy and assistant
storekeepers ; and the entire body of officers at-
tached to the establishment.

A committee composed of Mr. Macertney and
other members of the House of Commons recently
assembled to inquire into various proceedings con-
nected with the casing departaleet 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 pro uce has been consequently demanded
in order to bring the matter before the house. Time
bas been asked for to prepare the accounts, which
will not be ready before next session. It is s tid that
among the articles in question, and which were caet
in the Royal gun foundry, is a quantity of small
fine castings, such as busts of the Royal family of
Great Britain, France, Turkey, and Sardinia, all
cast in gun metal, as well as various tobacco jars,
warchstands, vases, and many other ornaments.
The obelisk which was intended to commernerate
the officers of the R )yal Artillery who fell in the
Crimea, and which was 1 id a=ide in the mtal-
store, the c eum;ttee have been informed,
cannot now be found. The dienvusions of the
obelisk, it has been ascertained, are a base or tibltt
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 tee
bite Russian war. It was intended to place a brass
gun trophy at each corner, beeiring two sprays of
laurel leaves pro:ruding from the muzzle. The
proposition, however, b4ore the department
after the work was completed, failed in b.e.ng ap-
proved by the Minister of War, and the obelisk was
W 4 by for the time. An illuminated clo:k pur-
chase I for the new tower, create i 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 consid, red lie neeeseary,
and did not meet the approval of the Government
then in office.

A Canadian paper stateA that Colonel De Rotten-
burg been appointed Colonel of the 100th
Regiment.

the 15th hussars, now statiane.l at Norwich and
Ipswich, are daily expe,:ting orders to proceel to
Hounslow.

A large number of men have been declared fit for
foreign service at the Colchester Camp, and a
draught of 1,203 privatcs, with commissioned and
non-comtnissi( ned officers, will leave on the Ist of
July for India.

The 13th Light Dragoons have arrived in Dublin
from Dundalk. One troop remains in the north.
It is rumoured that the regiment will, before long,
proceed to India.
Two draughts of the depots of the 611 and 63d
attached to the depot battalion in Birr took their
departure on Friday morning to join the service
companies of their respective regiments, both of
which are at pres,nt stationed at Halifax, NOVA
Scotia. Col. Crutchley, the commandant of the
garrison, and a large n timber of officers accompanied
the party to the sta ion, and iu their progress they
were loudly cheered. 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 621-1 captain, 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, Ensigns Reade and Car-
berry; 63d, Captain Hunt, Ensigns Knapp and
icknell.

The Comus, 14, Commander R. Dawkins, has
been stripped at Chatham, and returned the whole
of her store's into the dockyard. She will be paid
off at that port this day.
The Goliath, 80, line-of-battle screw steamer,
being fitted at Chatham for the first division of the
steam reserve is ordered to be completed for per-
vice by the end of the present month.
Ills Sardinian Majesty's frigate Der Geneys, Cap-
tain Meleterre from Genoa, bound for Stockholm)
on
put into Falmouth Thursday,'
to procure a pilot '
for the Baltic Sea.
nesTshehapsadbdeleent onemelmstiessaim-frigat e Terrible at Sheer-
ed by Captain Frederick
H. Glasse, C. 8., &c,
The Admiralty have 4.
PA-130111d paying off the
Monarch,
Sheerness, 8
until th e 4 puns,lCal2 th ptaiu
inst. George E. Patey, at
The Marlborough,a larg
large draught oafinboys from the
Lord Ir. H.
Kerr, received
training ship at Portsmouth on Saturday for die_
posal by the Admiral among the Mediterranean
eet.
A professional paper has allotted the command
of the Channel fleet to Rear-Admiral Koppel, and
given him afl sgship (Orion). Neither of these
guesses will be found correct, We b liOTe Admiral