The Sun.
London, England, 1867-04-11 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Imperial Russian, screw frigate Askold and
the corvette Variag, from the Pacific for the Baltic,
arrived at the Motherbank, off Ryde, Isle of Wight,
yesterday afternoon, and on anchoring exchanged
honorary national salutes with the Victory in Ports-
mouth harbour, the flagship of Port-Admiral and
Naval Commander-in-Chief Sir Thomas Sabine
Pasley, K.C.8., and with the King's Bastion battery
of Portsmouth garrison-.
The screw steamship Caledonia, 30, Capt. the
Hon. Fitzgerald A. C. Foley, flag of Rear-Admiral
Hastings R. Yelverton, front Ireland, arrived in
Plymouth Sound yesterday morning.
One colour-sergeant and 17 privates Royal
Marines, Wcolsvich DiVision, yesterday joined her
M ijesty's ship Chanticleer, recently commissioned
in the dockyard by Commander ►V. W. S. Bridges,
for service in the Pacific. She has received the
whole of her sea stores, and the officers and crew
have Pll joined. She is expected to take her depar-
ture in a few days.
Yesterday morning a court-martial assembled on
board her Majesty's ship Formidable, flagship of
Vice-Adiniral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8.,
Commander-in-Chief at the Nore, to try Mr. Alfred
Charles Harris, lieutenant of her Majesty's ship
Royalist, for being drunk on duty on the 22d of
March last. The Court consisted of Capt. the Hon.
Arthur Cochrane, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland
(President) ; Capt. Donald M'L. Mackenzie, of her
Majesty's ship Formidable; Capt. Stephen S. L.
Crofton, of the Naval Barrack ; Commander W. L.
Partridge, of her Majesty's ship Cumberland, and
Commander James P. Thurburn, of her Majesty's
ship Wellesley. Mr. H. Knight, of the firm of
Esse% Knight, and Arnold, Admiralty solicitors,
Rochester, was the Deputy Judge-Advocate. It
appeared from the report to the Admiralty made
by Commander Hamilton E. J. Earle, in command
of the Royalist, that the ship at the time the offence
was committed was on her passage home from the
West Indies, and that at the time when the prisoner
got drunk the weather was very threatening. The
commander thought the offence could not have
been committed under more aggravated circum-
stances, except, perhaps, before going into action.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, throwing himself on the
mercy of the Court, and urged in extenuation that
the night on which the offence was committed was
very wet, and he was relieved from duty for a few
izinutes while he went below to get a cup of tea.
He put some spirits into the tea, and when he got
on deck it told upon him, as be had previously
suffered front low fever. Very favourable certifi-
cates of character were read, extending over nearly
ten years' service. Capt. Phillimore gave the pri-
soner a good character, stating that he had served
under him in her Majesty's ship Curacoa for nearly
three years, during which time he had always found
him an active and zealous officer, very correct in his
conduct. On one. occasion he displayed great cou-
rage and.gallantry in jumping overboard at sea, and
endeavoured to save the life of a man who had
fallen overboard, although at the time he was on the
sick list. Taking these circumstances into considera-
tion, the Court adjudged the prisoner to forfeit two
years' seniority and to be severely reprimanded.
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A naval court-martial, the first held for many
years past at Woolwich, will assemble this morning
on board the flagship Fisgard, off Woolwich dock-
yard, for the trial of Richard Weatherley, Quarter-
master on board her Majesty's troopship Dee,
Master Commander George Raymond, on charges
of desertion after basing appropriated to his own
use the proceeds of a Post-office order, stolen from
one of the ship's company.

The hired transport Star of India, Capt. Hollo-
way, arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday from Bom-
bay, with a part of the 51st Light Infantry on
board, and detachments :of tine-expired men and
invalids from the Royal Horse Artillery, 3d Dra-
goon Guards, Royal Artillery, 4th, 33d, 95th,
103 d. and 106th Regiments, amounting to 259 men,
women, and children, the whole under command of
Capt. C. Kyrie Chatfield, 51st Light Infantry.
The Star of India left for Portsmouth yesterday to
disembark the troops. The following officers of
the 51st Light Infantry accompanied the troops :
—Ensigns Wynne, Turnbull, and Ruthven, and
Ensign Irving, 4th King's Own Regiment, on medi-
cal certificate. Four deaths occurred during the
voyage among the invalids. The Star of India left
Bombay on the 21th of December, 1866, experienced
very bad weather during her passage, and encoun-
tered a fearful cyclone on the 18th and 19th of
January in the Indian Ocean, in lat. 18-16 S., and
long. 67 40 E., in which she lost her bulwarks, two
of her boats, and nearly all her live .stock. The
barometer fell during the cyclone to 28 20. No
casualties occurred on board beyond a few hurts
from falls and concussions.
The depot of the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, under
the command of Capt. Garnett, has arrived at the
camp at Colchester from Canterbury. In accord-

ance with instructions from the Horse Guards the

depot of the 2d battalion of the 6th Regiment is
held in readiness to proceed to Edinburgh to join the
service companies on their arrival from Jamaica.
Brevet-Major Edmenstone and Captain Clery, 32d
Regiment, are under orders to join the depot at
Colchester, and Capts. Priestley and Metcalfe are
held in readiness to proceed to the service companies.
Staff-Surg. R. Wolsey is ordered from Dublin to
Colchester to assume the medical charge of the Bth
Depot Battalion, vice Surg.-Major J. Burke, who is
acting as principal medical officer. Staff Assist.-
Surg. Jay has been attached to the Bth Depot Bat-
talion for duty.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.