The Sun.
London, England, 1858-07-26 00:00:00

MILITABY AND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

Major Nasmyth, unattached, has been appointed
Brigade Major at Sydney, vice Captain Kent, 77th
Regiment, who has left with his corps for India ;
and Captainllare, 40th Regiment, is made Brigade
Major at Victoria.
Several additional regiments of Militia are to be
embodied, and the men,when properly drilled, will
be invited to volunteer to regiments of the line.
The 6th Dragoons is to have an establiehment of
791. men. The service troops are to consist of 491,
and the bounty to volunteers to the regiment is to
be increased from 20s. to 30s. each man.
Orders have been issued by the Horse Guards
for the embarkation, about the 3d of Aug. of 2,352
men, to join their service companies in India.
The 47th and 65th Regiments of Bengal N.I. are
now on their passage to China, as an augmentation
of the force at prevent stationed in that country.
The 6th Inniskilling Dragoons and 11th Hussars
are to embark immediately for service in India.
Colonel C. P. Ainslie, 14th Light Dragoons,
commanding at Kirkee, has been ordered to proceed
immediately to Gwalior, to assume command of the
Second Brigade of the Central India Field Ft roe
under Sir Hugh Pa sr, in consequence of the retire-
ment of Col. Chas. Steuart, of the same corps, from
ill health. The latter officer is now on his way to
Calcutta from Calpee on the way to England, on
medical certificate.
The Admiralty yacht Osborne, Mr. Geo. Bower
master, steamed up the river on Saturday, from
Sheerness, at 11 p.m., and disembarked Sir John
Pakington, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
accompanied by Lady Pakington and his private
secretary, at Woolwich, and proceeded on her re-
turn to Portsmouth. The other members of the
Board continued their voyage by one of the river
steamers to London. Sir John and Lady Paking-
ton, after leaving Osborne, paid a hurried visit to
the Black Eagle, moored in the river, and on land-
ing at the dockyard pier they were received by Com-
modore Shepherd and the officers of the yard.
Capt. Maunsell and a company of the Antrim Rifles
on duty in the yard turned out under arms and
paid th 3 customary honours.
For some weeks past a large proportion of the
men's wages in the Royal Gun Factory Department
of Woolwich Arsenal has been withhold for income
tax stated to be due on over-work, &c., during the
pa't three years. The men, whose weekly,pay
amounted to 355. and 28s. were accordingly allowed
but Bs. and 7s. for nine consecutive weeks, which
has caused considerable inc ,nvenience, and in some
cases severe distress. -A statement c f the circum-
stances having been laid before Gen. Sir. W. Cod-
rington, one of the members of the borough, by
Mr. Graham and some other members of the local
board of health, a notice has been posted in the
Royal Arsenal stating the amount of money re-
ceived from that department in liquidation of the
claim, amounting in some cases to 13/. per man
The notice concludes by informing the men that,
pending instructions from the War-office, no fur-
ther sum will be deducted on that head, and if it
should be proved that any ovcrplus had been re-
ceived it will be refunded.

Capt. C. 0. Baker, of the Chatham Division of I
Royal Marine Light Infantry, has been ordered to
be hold in readiness to embark on board the screw
steamer Victor Emmanuel, 91.
The contractor for meat to the troop in Ports-
mouth garrison, whose conviction (the second) for
cheating the soldiers of their weight by false scales
we reported about three weeks since, committed
another fraud upon the troops a day or two after,
but which was not adjudicated upon until last
Thursday. It appears that on the morning of the
11th inst. Lieut. W. H. Roberts, of the Royal
Horse Artillery, stationed at Hilsea, near Ports
mouth, examined, by weighing against weights in
possession of the barrack department, the weights
used by the contractor for the men's meat in
weighing the daily rations, and found that the 71b.
weight was 7oz. light, the 141 b. nearly loz. light,
and two other weights also light. The 41b. weight
(the one most in use) was not to be found. This
weight, however, was received the next morning by
the Hilsea orderly on his way to Portsmouth from
one of the contractor's men. The orderly stated
that the weight was taken from the cook and
secretly conveyed out of the barracks by the
butcher. On Thursday last the contractor was
summoned before Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis and
Capt. J. Breadmore, two of the county justices, in
petty sessions, at Fareham, on the information of
Superintendent Harvey, the Inspector of Weights
and Measures for the Fareham district, when, upon
proof of the 71b. weight being 6:loz. light, he was
convicted in the full penalty of 51., with costs ; he
was also convicted in a like penalty, with costs, for
using unstamped weights.
The Advice paddlewheel steam vessel, tender to
the Nile, 91, flagship of Rear-Admiral Sir Henry
Ducie Chad=, K. C. 8., commander-in-chief on the
Irish station, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday
with volunteers from the Howe, Hogue, and Pem-
broke, steam block ships, for the Ctesar, 91, Capt.
Frederick, at Spithead, which has completed her
complement. The Advice, after discharging the
men, returned.

The -Royal.Sovereigir, - ni, 800-bores-power,
3,u in
the steam reserve at Portsmouth, R.
.Taylor,
chief engineer, got up steam on Saturday in the
steam basin, and proved her boilers and the work-
ing of her machinery.
It is not true that Rear-Admiral Lord E. Russell
has been appointed to succeed Vice-Admiral Stop_
ford as superintendent of Malta dockyard.
The Hydra, steam sloop, Commander R. V.
Hamilton, was warped out of the fitting basin at
Sheerness on Saturday last.
The Argus, steam sloop, Commander H. F. W.
Ingram, has been put out of the fitting basin at
Sheerness, and is being coaled.
Tito greatest activity prevails in Sheerness-yard
throughout all branches
in bringing the respective
{fitted ships naw being for the pendant forward with
all possible despatch.
The Castor, 36, frigate, has returned nearly the 1
whole of her stores into Chatham dockyard, and is
now being stripped and having her internal fittings
removed. She is expected te
be Satur-
day next, when she will be placed
off onin
as
Attachedha
vessels in ordinary at Chatham. Dutrhemg t time reserve of i
she has been in commission she w
to the Aft jean and Cape of Good Hope stations,
and
chiefly
the craw have been generally very healthy.
The screw steamship Orion, 91, Capt. E. D'Eyn_
court, was paid advance wages at Plymouth on
Tuesday, mustered and inspected on Wednesday,
and Sailed on Friday, OD a cruise for a few days,
previous to proceeding to Spithead.
The screw steamship Brunswick, 80, Capt. E.
°lnmanney, at rived at Plymouth on Friday from
Ir.land. •
Tike paddlewheel steam vessel Firefly, 4, Com-
mander G.
after a 1„,„
V' Day, arrived at Plymouth on Satur-
day, ° passage from the west coast of
Africa—she left again the same evening for the
eastward.

The naval half-pay officers at Plymouth having
applied to the Admiralty, the paddlewheel steam
vessel Avon, 3, second muter Palmer, has been
placed at their service for the purpose of visiting
Cherbourg.

Val OYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT.
Ltf GARDEN, NEW THEATRE.

FRA DIAVOLO.
TO-MORROW (TUESDAY), July 27, will be performed
Anber's Opera, FRA DIAVOLO.
Zcrlina, Madame Bosio ; Lady Allcash, Madlle. Marai ;
Il Marchese, Signor Gardoni ; Lorenao, Signor Neri•Baraldi ;
Matteo, Signor Pobnini ; Boppo, Signor Tagliafico ;
Giacomo, M. 7.elger ; and Lord Alicash, Signor Ronconi.