The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-28 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILIZARY INTELLIGENCE

The General-Commanding-in-Chief will hold a
levee at one o'clock on Wednesday next.
Yesterday 16 Ron-commissioned officers belong-
ing to the East India Company's Engineers, who
have completed a course of instruction in sapping
and mining and other engineering operations at
the head-quarters of the Royal Engineers, Bromp-
ton-barracks, left Chatham, and proceeded to the
Eist India Company's depot at Warley, having
received orders to embark for service in India.

The Lords of the Admiralty have directed a 91-
gun line of-battle screw steamer, to be called the
Bulwark, to be laid down on No. 2 slip at Chat-
ham-dockyard. Owing to the large dimensions of
the proposed steamer, the slip on which she is to
be built will be lengthened about 30 feet. The first
slip on which the Orpheus, 22, screw corvette, has
been laid down, is ordered to be lengthened in-
ward 25 feet.

The Monarch, 84, Capt. Patey, sailed yesterday
afternoon from Spithead for Sheerneis to be paid off.
The Imperieuse, 51, screw frigate, will be un
docked this day at Portsmouth and placed in the
steam basin to be completed for commission.
The Dauntless, 33, screw frigate, and the Fal-
con, 17, sloop, will go into dock this day at Ports-
mouth for refit.

The Rhadamanthus, steam storeship, Master-
Commander Sturdee, left Portsmouth on Wednes-
day evening for Plymouth with machinery and
boilers for the Orlando, 51-gun frigate.
The Lightning, 3, paddle, arrived at Devonport
on Wednesday morning from Pembroke, bringing
the caulkers who had been lent from that yaad for
duty there. She sailed again in the afternoon for
Pembroke.

From the circumstances of the long lapse of
time and the spoliation by visitors since the funeral
oar of the Emperor Napoleon was placed in the Royal
Repository at Woolwich, coupled with the fact of
there being no records nor sketch specifying the
precise kite in which the relic was received after
the funeral in St. Helena, some difficulty has been
experienced in ascertaining the peculiar species of
drapery and other ornaments with which the car
was decorated at the time, the whole of which are
now wanting. In the course of research for infor-
mation on the subject, a pensioner of the 66th Re-
giment, then under the command of Col. Nichol-
son, stationed as guard over the dethroned monarch,
has been discovered living in the Lady Grey-yard,
at Bexley-heath. This gallant veteran bears on his
person sundry scars, the result of many a hard-
fought battle in the Peninsula and at Waterloo,
and is now earning a precarious livelihood by sell-
ing watercresses, &c., in Woolwich. His name is
Jas. Cooper, and although 83 years of age, he tra-
vels about 14 or 15 miles per day to procure and
dispose of his wares, and takes his stand at the gates
of the Arsenal at 7 o'clock in the morning, amid
the ordinary hOst of costermon,gers and others who
throng that vicinity. At the reduction of the army
he was allowed to retire on a pension of 9,1. per
day. In addition to his services in the ranks he
acted as under coachman to Sir H. Lowe, in which
capacity he attended the funeral ; and on being
questioned yesterday by Col. Tulloch, under whose
superintendence the car is about to be removed for
preEentation to the people of France, he was en-
abled to state from recollection the details re-
quired.

PEMBROKE ROYAL DOCKYARD. —Cap' ain Ram-
say, superintendent of this establishment, returned
to du y on Sa.urday from an official visit to the
Admiralty. 1 his arsenal, in common with all the
others, is in a state of the greatest activity, the
workmen being employed on tho job and task sys-
tem to hasten the completion of certain vessels.
The Orland,), one of them, will be launched on th,
12th of next month, and for the purpc,Fe of rigging
and navigatit g her to Plymouth the Lightning,
steam-tender, went to that port on the 25th to
bring round a company of seamen and riggers.
yacht, in No. 8 dock, at Portsmouth,
g to be decorated
her Majesty's service during
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season. _ -
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The large screw steam frigate Mersey, 40, at
Chatham, has the whole strength of the caulkers
employed on her, in order to have her completed
fOi Munching with all despatch.