The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-10 00:00:00

MAY 10, 1858.

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NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

The troops attached to the East India depots,
comprising the lst battalion of infantry at Chatham
garrison, were assembled on Saturday on the gene-
ral parade-ground, Chatham barracks, for the pur-
pose of witnessing the execution of the sentence of
a district court-martial passed on Corporal John
Driver, 7th Fusiliers, who was adjudged to be re-
duced to the rank and pay of private of an escort,
for having permitted a prisoner to escape. The cor-
poral bad been sent to Manchester to receive a de-
serter and conduct him to Chatham. The deserter,
according to his statement, made some excise to
leave the room, which the corporal allowed him to
do, when the door was suddenly slammed in his
face, and the prisoner escaped. The sentence of the
court-martial having been read by the adjutant,
the corporal was marched to the front of the bat-
talion, and his stripes cut off from his arms by the
sergeant-major. The accused has been 20 years in
the service, and is decorated with the Crimean
medal.

A district court-martial, of which Col. H. Jervis,
commandant of the Ist battalion, was the presi-
dent, concluded its sitting at Chatham garrison on
Saturday, having assembled for the trial of private
John Haye, of the Chatham division of Royal Ma-
rine Light Infantry, who was arraigned on a charge
of having, while in a state of int aication, struck
with his clenched fist Sergeant J. M‘Gee, his supe-
rior officer. The court found the prisoner guilty,
and the sentence was forwarded to the proper au-
thorities for approval before it was made known.
On the occasion of the Wellesley, 72, Capt. G.
Goldsmith, C. 8., the guardship of ordinary at
Chatham, being paid off a few days since, the
whole of the pensioners were discharged. On Satur-
day an Admiralty order was received to re-enter
40 of them for further service.

The following freight ships are now taking in
war stores at Chatham dockyard for the naval
establishments—viz., the Hope, for Sheerness ;
the Sinbad, for Deptford ; and the Manceuvrer,
for Woolwich dockyard.
A fine pad lie steamship named the Princeza de
Joinville, for the Brazilian Government, built by
Messrs. John and Robert White, of West Cowes, '
was launched on Friday. She is intended for the
conveyance of mails, specie, ar,c., between Rio de
Janeiro and Rio Grande. To admit of her entering
bar harbours this vessel has been built on a very
peculiar plan, her floors being excessively long and
her draught of water very light. The builders gua-
rantee a speed of not less than 12 knots per hour.
She will draw, when laden, an average of 7ft. 4in.,
her launching draught being but 4ft, which, for her
dimensions, seems almost incredible :—Length bor.
tween the perpendiculars, 198 ft.; breadth, 31 ft. ;
depth, 18ft. 9in.; tonnage, 927. Her engines are
by Messrs. Maudslay.
The For, 42-gun frigate, fitted with screw ma-
chinery and converted to a transport, has boen
tsken down Portsmouth harbour and placed along-
side the dockyard to be dismantled.
The Duke of Wellington, 131, Ciptain Eyres,
C. 8., flag of Rear-Admiral the Hon. GOO. Grey,
will leave the steam-basin for Pc rtsmouth harbour
moorings at the end of this week
The Pacific steam-vessel will embark the Ros-
common Militia this day at Portsmouth for Ireland
to be disembodied.

The wages of the dockyard artificers at Ports-
mouth are to be forthwi h increase ls. per week.
All the artificers at Sheerness are to be hence-
forth, until further orders, put on what is termed
job and task work on unlimited earnings, and all
labourers now employed, whether on the establish-

ment or temporarily -hired, whose weekly wages do
not amount to 14s. per week, are to have their pay
raised to that sum. All extra time to be paid for.
Provisions and stores of every description are
ordered to be fottiwith taken on board the screw
steam guardship of ordinary Royal George, 102
guns, Capt. Superintendent J. C. Fitzgerald, and
the screw steam guardship of steam reserve Cressy,
80 guns, Capt. E. P. Halsted, dm If required fer
immediate service they are ordered to be
manned from the different Coastguard stations
attached to their districts. The ships now
under fitment at Sheerness, in the fitting basin
and in dry dock, are the Majestic screw steamship,
80 guile ; the Colossus screw steamship, 80 guns ;
the new screw steamship Hero, 9/' guns ; the Ter-
rible paddle-wheel steam frigate, 21 guns ; the new
screw steam frigate Emerald, 51 guns, and sundry
gunboats.
The Goliath, screw steamship, 80 guns, at Sheer-
ness, is ordered to be immediately brought forward
and fitted for the second-class steam reserve at that
port.
Mr. Peter M. K. Godfrey, late lieutenant on
board the Formidable at Sheerness, has by Admi-
ralty order been struck off the Navy List, in con-
sequence of his having deserted from his ship while
under arrest in his cabin, pending a court-martial
ordered upon him.
Her Majesty's screw steamship Archer, 10 guns,
in Woolwich basin, has been ordered to be pre-
pared for service with all possible
.despatch.
An Admiralty order bas been received at Wool-
wich directing that from this clay henceforth a por-
tion of the labourers of the dockyard shall be per-
mitted to work according to task and job ; and all
those earning 345. per week and under shall receive
an increase of is. per week.
Col. Teesdale, senior-officer of Woolwich garri-
son, has assumed the temporary command in the
absence of Col. Bloomfield on the Continent.
In the Times of Monday last it was stated that
Lieut. C. W. Sergison, of her Majesty's 93d High-
landers, who fell fighting so gallantly in forcing a
door in the inner works of the Begum's Palace,
Lucknow, on Thursday afternoon, March 10, was
the son of Mr. William Sergison, of Leamingtou.
We are requested to state that Lieut. Sergisou was
the eldest son of the Rev. William Sergison, rector
of Slaugham, id the county of Sussex.
The average number of recruits arriving at
Chatham garrison for all corps is about 1,000 per
month.

IRELAND.