The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Urgent, screw iron troopship, Capt. E. H.
Henderson, sailed from Portsmouth yesterday at
10 a.m. for China with a large number of naval
officers, seamen, and Marines on board, for service
in the gunboats and other of her Majesty's ships
now serving in the Chinese and Japanese seas. The
list of naval officers going out in the Urgent for
this service includes Capt. Hickley, R.N. ;
Cameron, Rose, Anson, Kent, Grenfell, Griffith,
Crosbie, and Broxham ; Master John Tulley, Pay-
master J. M. Blyth ; Second-Masters Hedden,
Packer, Fox, and Ridden ; Assist.• Surgs. H. R.
Ryall, R. Nelson, E. W. Lesly, H. Hansford,
Eugene Van Meru, and C. G. Wodeworth ; Chief
Engineer E. M. Avoy ; Engineers Young, Foster,
Cohan), Sanders, Murray, and Green ; 25 assistant-
engineers, 8 warrant officers, and upwards of 50
seamen and Marines. The Urgent will call in at
Plymouth Sound on her way down Channel ; and at
Loando, the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Singa-
pore, and Ceylon, during the outward voyage.
The machinery of the ship since her arrival at
Portsmouth from foreign service in August of last
year has undergone considerable repairs, and im-
portant modifications have been made in the over-
head arrangements of the boiler-room and stoke-
hole. The engines have had new condensers and
air-pump, and a general overhaul and repair of all
other parts. New boilers were also required, and
a set which had been lying in the dockyard for
some time, marked " Furious," were appropriated
for the purpose, the said Furious being now a coal
bulk converted from a once formidable paddle
steamer. In putting the new boilers on board the
Urgent, the Steam Factory engineer officers im-
proved upon the old arrangement with one funnel,
where the uptake covered in more than one-third
of the entire length of the boiler-room, substituting
two funnels placed athwartships, and each with its
own separate uptake from the boilers on that side
of the ship. By this new arrangement the ventila-
tion has been vastly improved, there being now a
free opening to the upper deck from the stokehole
throughout its entire length, much to the health and
comfort of the men in charge of the fires. On the
ship making her trial over the measured mile in
Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, a few days since, six
thermometers were hung in the stokehole from for-
ward to aft, and between the sets of boilers, at
about the height of a man's shoulders, from which
readings of the temperature were taken each mile.

The temperatures on the second, fourth, and sixth
miles may be considered as most correctly represent-
ing the true heat of the stokehole at an exceptional
time, such as the trial of speed, when the furnaces
are made to burn all the coal they can, and on the
day of the Urgent's trial the returnsfrom her stoke-
hole thermometers were as follows, commencing
from forward, and ending aft :—Second
48, 80 (middle of stokehole), 82, and 62 deg. ;
fourth mile-66, 52, 84 (middle of stokehole), 92,
and 74 deg. ; sixth mile-64, 52, 85 (middle of
stokehole), 95, and 75 deg. A special report on the
rearrangement of the Urgent's boiler-room, and the
results so far obtained, might possibly be valuable
even to "My Lords" for future reference and

guidance.
The Industry, screw storeship, Staff-Commander
Youell, arrived at Spithead early on Friday morn-
ing from Ascension, and sailed again in the after-
noon for Woolwich. A few invalids brought home
by the Industry from Ascension were landed at
Portsmouth.

The Speedy, screw gunboat, tender to the Dasher,
sailed from Portsmouth yester6y for the Channel

Islands.

The Tamar, screw iron troopship, Capt. Francis

W. Sullivan, C. 8., will sail from Portsmouth on
Monday for Kingstown, Ireland, with a detachment
of the 84th Regiment and a few naval supernu-
meraries. From Kingstown the Tamar will pro-
ceed to Malta with the 64th Regiment and the de-
tachment of the 84th, landing there the 64th, and
proceeding thence to Jamaica with the 84th
Regiment, which now forms part of Malta garrison.
From Jamaica the Tamar will return to Queens-
town, Ireland, with the 6th Regiment of Foot.
The Medusa, paddle steamer, Staff-Commander
Thos. Potter; sailed from Portsmouth yesterday for
Sheerness with supernumeraries for the unarmoured
screw line-of-battle ship Rodney, now fitting as the
flagship of Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Kep-
pel, K.C.8., the appointed successor of the present
Commander-in-Chief a her Majesty's Fleets in
India, China, and Japan.
By the death of Gen. Sir J. Freeth, K.C,13:,
Lieut.-Gen. E. F. Gascoigne, Colonel of the 69th
Regiment! becomes full General ; Major-Gen. C. C.
Hay, Inspector-Gen. of Musketry, becomes a Lieut.-
Gen. ; A,nd Col. li. Hope Graham, C. 8., Inspecting
Field Officer of the London Recruiting District, a
i‘lajol•-: Oen i!ral ;
The following aiitiolnitoente were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. IC re 6115, to the St.
Vincent, additional for service in the Mania tender,
-ntt Fittmaurice, promoted, the appointment of
Lieut. W. L. .E, IYrlsh having been cancelled ;
Lieut. Seymour Spencer Smith W be Flag-Lieut.. to
Rear-Admiral Wellesley, C.B. ; Sub-petit, An-
and Sub-Lieut. Keppel
Sub-Lieut. G. R. C. Eyres, Sub.
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11. V. S. .Dorrien,
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naval cadet, id fki Pa.,lfsteft ) H. 0. Pray, clerk,
additional, to the Royal Alfred.
The undermentioned gentlemen have ball Polni-
intteti raval cadets :—Patrick Black and Herbert
M. licath6ate,
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The Prince of Wales and Prince de Teck left
Sandringham on Thursday afternoon for a couple of days'
shooting at General Hall's box, Six Mile Bottom, near
Newmarket.

SOLUTION OF THE HUNGARIAN QUESTION.-
According to information, received from a source
which we have reason to regard as perfectly reliable, the
long-pending differences between Hungary and the Court
of Vienna hare been satisfactorily adjusted. A separate
Hungarian Ministry has been conceded, and the nomina-
tion of its members is almost complete. The now Ministers
will enter upon their functions as soon as the Reichsrath
Extraordinary is assembled. It will then depend on the
wisdom and moderation of that body and the Diet for
Hungary to make the understanding arrived at complete.
In view of this much-to-be-desired result it is of paramount
importance that the G erman party, as well as the Centralists,
should renounce their assumed attitude of opposition, and
resolve upon taking part in the election of representatives
to the recoutly-convoked iteicherath,