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London, England, 1858-11-29 00:00:00

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Among the many alterations \ 'ln • 111 'Pr_cripmeak
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that have been made in the A l'ili ' 4...7 dutidn*
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about Portsmouth garrison, the .'2 ojewo. rtßarracks
have undergone a complete renova. ~'ori., , ,The officers'
quarters and men's rooms have bec v re a. mired ; the
latter have had ventilators introdu ~!e( I into each
on General Peel's new principle; in A let, nothing
has been omitted in order to secure t i th‘ 0 soldier
health and comfort. The old cooking ;• kitchen. (a
most wretched and inefficient outhou s e) formerly
in use for the officer- —la men, has been' oi died down,
and a new one ere...at:Ll e- .... ,dery and .9 mple prin-
ciples, admirably set up and equipped '1 with every
improvement. The soldiers' kitchen has ti ew boilers
and ovens for cooking and baking their dinners ;
water pipes have been placed in the bn tiding, so
that the cook or his mate need not leave the cook-
ing-house (as in the case of the old oni ) to get
water from the pump. The women's wash ing-house
has also water conducted into the wash, ing-room,
besides wooden stands to keep their feet. from the
damp.

PRICE 4D• STAMPED, SD.

TILE NAVY.

ger Majesty's steam troop-ship Urgent, 6, Cara_
Winder M'Donald, had a party of engineers from
Portsmouth Dockyard employed upon her all night
on Friday and Saturday, to repair the defect which
compelled her to
put back to Spithead after starting
for Malta with the 2d battalion of the lath Foot.
She weighed again at siOset on Saturday, but was
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compelled to bring up agaill, some slight " fixing"
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having given out. She put to :'ea at 4. o clock
terday morning.
The Channel Squadron, consisting or• the Royal
Albert, Renown, Orion, and Brunswick, weighed
anchor on Saturday morning, and steamed Out of
Bantry Bay for Cork ; on obtaining an offing he
squadron ftt noon of the same day let off the:r
steam, and raised their propellers, and proceeded
under canvass, the Renown leading the weather
line, and followed by the Orion, and the Brunswick
leading the lee line, followed by the Royal Albert.
The wind during the whole time the squadron was
at sea was from south to south-cast, blowing fresh,
and occasionally increasing to a gale. At daylight
'of the 24th the squadron had separated owing to a
• dense November fog. The vessels arrived at Queens-
town in the following order, Brunswick and Re-
nown on the afternoon of the 24th and Royal-Albert
at 1 p.m. on the 25th. The Orion is outside of the
harbour..
rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, K, C. 13 , Corn-
Mander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has (says. the
United Service Gazette) written home to be super-
seded, his health having suffered severely from two
attacks of fever. As the Calcutta is ordered home,
it is probable the admiral will come home in that
ship, leaving the station in charge of Commodore
Edgell (an able and excellent officer); that is,
should his health not be so far re-established as to
warrant his waiting thearrival of his successor.

MILITIA.
it lnies of
The head-quarters and about seven comi
the Royal Wilts Militia will move to-morn 'Thy from.
Fort Monckton, Gosport, to Portsmouth, tl te head-
quarters going into quarters at Colewort Bt wracks,
and the rest into Anglesey Barracks, Portse a.

Rear-Admiral of the White Charles Talbot will
now succeed Vice-Admiral Sir H. D. Chads,
K.C.B. in the command on the Irish station, as we
announced some months ago. Rear-Admiral
Talbot entered the service in 1815, was promoted
to lieutenant in 1823, to commander in 1827, and

• to captain in 1830, for activity displayed in de-
' tached service. In 1831, at the insurrection of Rio
Janeiro, he rescued their Imperial Majeities, for
which service ha was presented with the Brazilian
order of Cruzero. He was captain of the Vestal in
1845, and commanded the successful expedition
against the piratical settlements in Maluda Bay,
Borneo, for which he received the especial thanks
of the Admiralty, and for his services was gazetted.
He was appointed to command the Algiers in 1854,
employed in conveying troops to the Baltic, and
• also at the blockade of Sebastopol.
Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, C. 8., and
aide-de-camp to her Majesty, Junior Naval Lord of
the Admiralty, it is reported. will succeed Commo-
rdore Sheppard as superintendent of Woolwich
Dockyard: •
Her Majesty's screw sloop Curlew, Commander
W. Horton, which arrived at Spithead on Friday
afternoon, from Gibraltar, left on Saturday morn-
ing for Devonport to be paid off.
The paddlewheel steam-sloop Virago, 6, Com-
mander X B. Dunn, despatched by the Admiralty.
from Plymouth to relieve the homeward bound, re-
turned to that port on Friday. On the 19th she re-
lieved the brig Reliance,rof North Shields, bound to
Grimsby ; spoke the Queen of Avon, 109 days from
Guayaquil, and the. Dutch barque Maria Catharina
180 days from Batavia for Amsterdam, and the
English schooner Punch, from Cephalonia for Lon-
don, and gave the latitude and longitude to the
French barque Samarang, and to several other
foreign vessels. On the 20th inst. passed several
vessels lying well up the Channel, the wind being
southerly. On the 21st the wind changed again to
south-east, blowing strong, with a heavy sea, and
the Virago ran into St. Mary's Sound, Scilly, where '
upwards of
_6O vessels were at anchor. She was 1

there until the 25th, when she put to sea with the
wind from S.S.W., leaving9Q vessels at St. Mary's.
The brig Childers, 12, Commander W. Swinburn,
which has been detained in Plymouth St:Mild by
contrary winds, was towed out on Saturday morn-
ing by the steam vessel Zephyr, and sailed. for
Chatham to-be paid off.
The screw steamship Russell, 60, 'Captain -Henry
Story, from Falmouth, arrived at Plmouth on
Friday, and on Saturday steamed into Hamoaze.