The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-20 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

S r John Pakington and the Lords of the Admiralty com-
menced their official duties at Pl mouth on Wednesday
more& gby leaving the Diadem in "Hamoaze at half-past 10
o'clock for the guurery ship Cambridge, Capt. Jerninz-
ham. Alter witnessing target practice they visited tile
Earl of Wilton's yacht Zara, lying in Stonehouse-pool, and
then landed in the basin, at the Royal William Victualling-
yard. The First Lord was accompanied by Admiral Martin,
Admiral Milne, and Lord Lovaine, and by Mr. Secretary
Corry, Sir Baldwin Walker, and Colonel Greene. The
Board was received by Captain Superintendent Lys'er, the
master attendant, Mr. Wheeler; storekeeper, Mr. Trisco:t;
and secretary, Mr. Rogers; Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Pas-
ley, superintendent of the Devonport Dockyard, was also in
attendance. The mill, bakery, cooperage, stores, meat sheds,
&c , were closely inspected, and tie workpeople mustered.
Their lordships walked to the winter villa of the Earl of
Mount-Edgecumbe, which is adjacent, and thence proceeded
to the Royal Marine Barracks, where they partook of lan_
cheon with Col. Dwyer and the officers in the handsome new
mess-room recently openediAll the works in progress for the
extension of the men's quarters were visited. The battalion
was formed in line in the barrack square, anti the men
ruarct.ed by in review order. Their lordships expressed much
satisfaction at the steady and soldierlike appearance of the di-
vision, and, having inspected the Royal Naval Hospital, re-
turned to Mount Wise. The Beard do not intend to inspect
the Breakwater on the present occasion. The First Lord has
presented £lO to the Devonport Sailors' Home, which he
visited on Tuesday evening. After the levee in the dockyard
yesterday mornir, it was the intention of their lordships to
leave Plymouth for Cork, Holyhead, and Pembroke.
The steamship Scourge, 6, had steam up at Plymouth on
Wednesday, being under orders to proceed to sea. The Rha-
damanthus was alongside the sheer bulk on Thursday, ship-
ping jury gear for the Windsor Castle, at Pembroke. The
Himalaya was undocked at Keyhaw on Wednesday, and is
now moored in the basin.
'I he Trafalgar, 1:20, line-of-battle sailing ship, was yester-
day towed up from Folly-point into harbour at Chatham,
for the purpose of being taken into dock and cut down to a
91-gun screw two-decker. _

An order from the Admiralty was yesterday received at
Chatham Dockyard, directing that on and after the 28th
inst. the employment of the workmen by task and job is to
cease, and that the extra-exertion money now paid to the
shipwrights is to be discontinued. All persons employed
in the dockyard who now hold acting appointments are to
fall back on their former employment.
A most-formidable-looking braes siege nun, weighing
eight tons, or nearly double the size of one of our large 68-
pounders, was yesterday unshipped at the Royal Arsenal-
wharf, Woolwich, by the Lord Raglan military store-trans-
par', from Devonport, where it was landed by her Majesty's
40-gun ship Sybille, Commodore the lion. C. G. J. B. El-
liott, from China. The length and other dimensions are
proportionate to its immense weight of metal, which appears
to be of excellent quality. The calibre, or diameter of bore,
which is 12 inch, as well as the casting and entire work-
manship, display a marked contrast to the efficiency f the
art in Europe. The gun is spiked, and is abort to be con-
veyed to Windsor, where it is to be kept as a trophy cap-
tured in the Celestial Empire.
The renovation and embellishment of the funeral car of
the Emperor Bonaparte, in progress at Woolwich, are now
nearly completed, the final coat of paint and varnish being
about to be applied. Colonel Tulloh, superintendent of the
department in which the work is being carried out, and who
is at present on leave of absence, has ordered that a strict
observance of every detail laid &ma in the plans and
description which lie bas been enabled to obtain from the
pensioners who were present at the interment (one of whom
assisted in arranging the bier) be observed in its reconstruc-
tion, so as to produce a fac simile of its original form and
condition, the aggregate cost of which amounts to about
£3OO. It is supplied with a canopy of the finest black cloth,
richly ornamented with festoons, bordered with silk fringe
about four inches deep, overtopped with six superb sable
plumes, which cost £OO. The trappings will require two or
three days more to be completed. It is expected that the
two veteran pensioners who have furnished the information
will accompany the Artillery officer charged with its pre-
sentation to Paris.

Lieutenant Suther, two sergeants, one corporal, and 19
privates from the Royal Albert yesterday arrived at head-
quarters, Woolwich, to be paid oil.

2 HE ARMY.

Col. W. Morris, C.B. (17th Lancers) died on the 11th ult
at Poona, to the extreme grief of his brother officers and the
men under his command. The gallant colonel entered the
army in June, 1845, and during his professional career had
seen much service. Ile served with toe 16th Lancers at the
battle of Maharajpore : also in the Sutlej campaign in 1846,
including the attair of the Buddi wal and the actions of Aliwal
(where he waswounded) and Sobraon. During the la'e war,
at the outset of the campaign, he acted as Deputy Assistant
Quartermaster-General, but on the dee+ h of Major Willet he
resumed his regimental duties, and commanded the 17th
Lancers at the battle of Balaklava, on which occasion he was
severely wounded. He had received a medal for Maharajpere,
a medal and clasps for Sobraon, and a medal and clasps for
Balaklava and Sebastopol. On his return to England he was
presented with a sword of honour by the townspeople of Tor-
rington. In 1855, in recognition of his distinguished gallan-
try, be was made Companion of the Order of the Bath.
The following vessels have been taken up by the East
India Company for the conveyance of upwards of 2,000
cavalry and infantry reinforcements to India—viz., the
Gosforth, the Octavia, and the Alfred, for Calcutta; the
Sardinia, for Bombay; the 'Walter Mortice, for Madras;
and the Velocity, for Kurrachee.
Yesterday a detachment of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry, belonging to the Chatham division, embarked at
toe dockyard en board the Lizard steamer, and will ba
transferred to the Terrible, '2l, for conveyance to Devon-
port, to jlin the Royal Albert, I'2l. The detachment con-
sisted of 73 men, in charge of Lieut. R. J. Pascoe.

Yesterday a large patty of sick and wounded troops, to the
number of 90 men of all ranks, belonging to the 2d (the
Queen's) Dragoon Guards, 511 Fusititrs, 6th, 29th, 324
Light Infantry, 34th, 37th, 52d Light I ofantry, 53d, 64th,
With Highlanders, 82d, tiltit, 88 h Connaught Rangers, 90th
Light Infantry, 93d HighlaGders, Rifle Brigade, Royal En-
gineets, and Military Train, who have recently arrived at
st. Mary's Invalid Establi-liment, Chatham, from Calcutta,
were medically inspected at Chatham with the view of
ascertaining nose unfit for further service. Among the
invalids are several men who were very severely wounded
nt Delhi and CawupGre, and a another of whom have lost
either an arm or a leg. One if the wounded troops hai
been deprived of speech by a musket-ball, which entered his
mouth and carried away his teeth and some portion of his
mouth ; another man, beloncing to the Royal Engineers,
received no less than six huh et weunds, and five of the
bullets are still in different parts of his body, defying all
the attempts of the surgeons to extract them. Oahe invalids
50 men are in hospital, and the remainder are ordered
to be held in readiness to be discharged from the service.
A party of convalescent troops, to the number of 46 men,
with several of their wives and chil tree, left Chatham yes-
terday morning for their respecti% e homes, having received
their diecha•ge front the service.