The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

,naval and Military Intelligence.

Admieal Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, K.C.8., Port
Admiral and Naval Commander-in-Chief at Ports-
mouth, embarked on board the Paddle yacht Fire
Queen, Staff-Commander Paul, on Saturday, and
proceeded to Osborne on an official visit to her Ma-

jesty.
The, iron frigate Warrior, ordered for commission
at Portsmouth, was undocked at that port ou Satur-
day to make room for the iron frigate Minotaur,
Capt. G. Y. Goodenough, flagship of the Com-
mander-in-Chief of the Channel Squadron, Rear-
Admiral F. Warden, C.B. The Minotaur will be
docked to have her four-bladed screw and hull below
the water inc examined, previous to making her
final speed trials at seagoing draught of water over
the measured mile in Stokes Bay.
The new screw steam sloop Dryad, 4, at Devon-
port, is ordered to be put into commission, with a
complement of 130 officers and men, for service in

South America.
It has not yet been decided to remove the engines
and machinery from the Royal Albert, prior to her
taking the plAce of the Cambridge gunnery ship in
Hamoaz:.

Her Majesty's iron steam storeship Supply, Staff
Commander Chas. Bawden, from Rio Janeiro and
Ascension (already reported in the Thames), arrived
at Woolwich on Friday morning, at half-past 4, and
;Bade fast off the Hebe coal hulk at the dockyard.

During the morning she was inspected and the crew
mustered by Commodore Edmonstone, attended by
Assistant-Secretary C. W. Cole. The Supply bas
been absent from Woolwich over six months, con-
siderably beyond her usual time, which is accounted
for by the foul state of her bottom and the defec-
tive condition of her engines and boilers. In order
to remedy the defects, she was hove over and
scraped by the mechanical means at hand at Ascen-
sion, but considerable delay was sustained in
delivering her cargo in consequence of a large num-
ber of the ship's company being on the sick list,
and a large number of ships there awaiting their

turn for discharge of cargoes, the reference being
given to chartered vessels on aecount of the high
rate of demurrage. She was also obliged to call in
at Lisbon to coal. After discharging Lr cargo of

stores at Woolwich she will be docked to make good

defects.

The Chanticleer, unarmoured screw sloop, 950
ton; 200-horse power, Commander W. S. Bridges,
sailed from Spithead on Saturday for the Pacific,
and would call in at Plymouth Sound on her way
down Channel.
The detachments of Royal Marines recently serv-
ing on board the Coastguard ships Trafalgar, at
Leith, the Revenge, at Pembroke, the Lion, at
Greenock, the Pembroke, at Harwich, the Daunt-
less, at Hull, the Donegal, at Liverpool, and the
irresistible, at Southampton, have arrived at head-
quarters, Woolwich, corresponding detachments
having been despatched to take their place. The
latter were all equipped with the converted rifles
and the improved Boxer ammunition. The supply
of the new rifles has not become general at Wool-
wich, only five companies, out of 28 companies com-
prising the Woolwich division as yet having been
armed with them. During the late practice firing
of the Royal Marines, in the Woolwich-marsh,
Lieut. Lecky, the Rifle Instructor, in his official
report, states that his detachment of 75 men fired
90 rounds per man with the new rifle, and not one
miss-tire was brought under his notice. He adds
that from what he witnessed it is his opinion that
the new equipment is not to be surpassed, nor even
equalled, and that no result could be more satisfac-
tory.
On Saturday afternoon the 2d Life Guards, com-
manded by Col. Marshall, left the Windsor Cavalry
Barracks about a quarter past one o'clock, and
marched by road to London. The regiment was
about 400 strong, and ready for active service. The
regiment on its arrival in the metropolis was to be
quartered at the Knightsbridge and Regent's Park
Barracks, and the officers and men were to hold
themselves in readiness in case any disturbance
should arise out of the Reform meeting hi Ilyde
Park this evening. .
Mr. Farnflehl, the vestry clerk at Woolwich, was
in frequent communication by telegraph on Satur-
day with Mr. Walpole, the Home Secretary, who
urged the necessity of enrolling as large a number
of men as may be found av,ailable, to act as special
constables under the existing emergency. Mr. Traill,
one of the local magistrates, sat during the early
part of the day, and was to continue the swearing
in of applicants for that purpose until this morning
at 12 o'clock. The reserve stores at the Royal
Arsenal and Dockyard were examined throughout,
in order to ascertain what amount of police staves
were at hand for arming the special constables ; and
carpenters were immediately set to work in the
dockyard, under orders to continue the manufacture
of those weapons, uninterruptedly, night and day,
until 10 o'clock this morning. No orders had been
given up to yesterday in the garrison for the dis-
posal of the troops, but it was generally expected
that as on the former occasion no men would be
allowed to absent themselves from barracks during
the day, and that the whole of the troops not en-
gaged in th. 3 necessary garrison duties would be held
in readiness if required.
On Friday a general court-martial assembled at
Chatham garrison, by order of Field-Marshal the
Duke of Cambridge, under the presidency of Col.
J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., director of the Royal
Engineer establishment, Brompton, for the trial of
private James Colton, of the 50th Queen's Own
Regiment, for insubordinate conduct. Capt. D.
Reid, Ist depot Battalion, prosecuted, and Col. J.

IL Laye, Deputy-Judge Advocate, conducted the
case. The prisoner, who is a returned convict, has
been in the service about two years, and has been
twice tried by court-martial. A few weeks since
he was sentenced to receive 50 lashes, and to un-
dergo a two yearn' imprisonment for having, while
on the p trade-ground with the other troops, at
Chatham barracks, taken off part of his accoutre-
ments, which, together with his rifle, he threw on
the ground, stating that he would never do any
more duty as a soldier. On that occasion he was
walking away from the parade ground, and on being
called back he took up his bayonet, and drawing it
from its sheath made a thrust at the sergeant of the
company, the point of the bayonet passing between
the sergeant's arm and his body. On being released
from the triangles, after receiving corporal punish-
ment, the prisoner, in the presence of the whole of
the troops, shouted out that he would murder
Sergeant-Mijor Watts before he left the garrison,
at the same time time making use of other threats
and violent language, for which offence he was
yesterday tried. The prisoner during his trial be-
haved in a most defiant manner to the Court, and
had to be kept handcuffed the whole time. The
Court found him guilty, but the sentence will not
be promulgated until it has been submitted to her
Majesty for approval.
'The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty : —Lieut. Gordon C. Young, to the
Carneleon ; Lieut. Robert T. B. Bruce, to the
Phoebe ; Lieut. Henry H. Boys, to the Boscawen ;
Lieut. James S. Tonkin, to the Impregnable ; Sub-
Lieut. Charles E. Napier, to the Prince Consort;
and William H. Bowen, assistant-paymaster to the
Minotaur, as secretary's clerk. Commander W. C.
Forsyth and Commander R. 11. Harington to be
inspecting commanders in the Coast Guard ; Com-
mander T. 11. B. Fellowes, to the Dryad ; C:aud
S. Fuller, midshipman, to the Minotaur ; J. llood,
chief engineer, to the Phcebe ; Robert Hodge, chief
engineer, to the Cameleon ; F. W. Brown, chief
engineer, to the Dryad ' • James Ilindley and John
Blight, engineers to the Phoebe ; F. T. Pendleton,
engineer, to the Dryad • W. G. Warren' engineer, to
the Caineleon ; W. engineer, to the It e-
venge ; J. Rowe, first-class assist. engineer, to the
Phoebe ; Richard
JohnGreen,firat-class assist. engineer,
to the Cameleon ;
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assist. engineer,
second class assist. engineer, to the Phoebe.

The New York papers announce the death of Mr.
Cyrus Field's father, the Rev. David D. Field, D.D., for
many years pastor of the Congregational Church at Stock-
bridge, 31assachusetts, which took place suddenly at his
resideuca on the 16th inst. Tho rer. gentle-man was
eighty-six years of age.