The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-29 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE

Yesterday morning, at 10 o'clock, the Grenadier
Guards were mustered in Hyde-park and reviewed
by his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, at-
tended by Col. Seymour, Lord Rokeby, and a nu-
merous staff of officers.
The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Lord
Burgbersh and Colonel Foster, went to Aldershot
yesterday and reviewed the whole of the troops at
the camp. There are now upwards of 6,000 men
under canvass, including artillery, &c.
The 2d Life Guards and 11th Hussars are ex-
pected to arrive at Aldershot in a few days. it is
also rumoured that her Majesty will inspect the
troops about the sth of July.
The ceremony of presenting a set of new colours
to the Ist or Chatham Division of Royal Marine
Light Infantry took place yesterday morning in the
presence of a large number of spectators. The en-
tire battalion of the division, numbering upwards
of 600 strong, asiembled on their parade-ground at
12 o'clock, under the command of Colonel W. H.
Parke, the commandant of the division. The old
colours of the division were presented by his late
Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, iu the. year
1827, at which time he was Lord High Admiral,
his Royal Highness considering that it was the
highest compliment he could pay to so distinguished
and valuable a body of men. The old colours were
yesterday borne to the front of the division for the
last time by Second Lieutenants R. J. Pascoe and
H. M. Kay, being guarded by a colour-guard of 100
men, under the command of Captain E. S. Browne,
the senior captain of the division. Shortly after 12
o'clock Vice-Admiral of the Red E. Harvey, Com-
mander-in-Chief at the Nore, accompanied by
Major-General S. R. Wesley, Deputy Adjutant-
General, Royal Marines, with Captain Q. Gold-
smith, C. 8., Superintendent of Chatham Dock-
yard, arrived on the parade ground, and was
received with a general salute. The old colours
were then advanc-2d to the front and saluted by the
entire division, after which they were neatened off
the ground, the band playing "Should auld ac-
quaintance." After the new colours had been nu-
furled and laid across the drums, the cerc merry of
wh it is termed "consecrating" them was performed
by the Rev. Allen Fieldir4r, M.A., Chapl iin of
Chatham Dockyard. Admiral Harvey then took
the colours and handed them to First Lieutenants
C; Stark and F. S. Boxer, briefly remarking that
ho felt highly honoured in being deputed by the
Lords of the Admiralty to present the new colours
to so distinguished a corps, who would make it their
pride to keep them unsullied. The colours were
then saluted by the entire battalion, and trooped
with the bandand guard, after which the ceremony
ended, and the battalion was dismissed. The eld
colours will be taken to Greenwich Hospital, where
they will be preserved.
The embarkation of the large number of rein-
forcements which the authorities have determined
on despatching to India is still pros e ling at Graves-
end. Yesterday the Commandant of Chatham
Garrison proceeded to Gravesend for the purpose
of inspecting tho.e vessels which have been taken
up for the conveyance of troops. The first vessel
inspected was the Blenheim, Cept. J. F. Atkinson.
She is a fine vessel of 1,400 tons, and will embark
the following troops for Calcutta this day—viz ,
one officer and 230 men of all ranks of the 23d R
Welsh Fusileirs' ftoin Chatham ; 138 men of the
Ist battalion of the 60th Rifles, and 30 men of the
2d Battalion 60th Rifles, from Winchester ; 2 offi-
cers of the 77th Regiment, from Jersey ; and 1
officer of the 6th Foot, from Colchester ; total, 3
officers and 398 men. The Merchantman, 1,018
tons, will embark the following troops fur Calcutta:
—33 men of the sth Fusiliers, 134 men of the 6th
Foot, 152 men of the 34th Regiment, and 24 men
of the 38th Regiment, Item Colchester . total, 343

Lieut.-Colonel Congdon, Capt. Webb, First
Lieutenants Delacombe and Lane, Adjutants Ellis
and Fraser, G sergeants, and 100 rank and file of
the Woolwich division of the Royal Marine Light
Infantry were yesterday ordered to be in attend-
ance in Deptford Dockyard at 2 p.m. to form a
guard of honour for the reception of her Majesty
on her visit to the Great Esstern. The Queen's
colours were borne by Lieut. Lane. Colon 1
Hamilton Fleming, Acting Commandant of the
division, likewise attended her Majesty at Dept-
ford. The Admiralty yacht Vivid, in c)mmand of
Commodore Shepherd, yew erday proceeded to
Deptford in the service of the Court.
Admiralty instructions were yesterday received
by Commodore Shepherd, at Woolwich, to ascer-
tain the amount of extra moorings necessary to be
laid down at Greenlithe for the temporary station
of the seamen's floating hospital Dre,idnought,
ordered to be removed to a purer atmosphere.
The steam-frigate Penelope, 22, Capt Sir Wil-
liam Wiseman, arrived at Spithead, yesterday from
the Cape of Good Hope, which she left Anr.l 16 ;
arrived at St. Helena May 3, and sailed the 7th ;
arrived at Ascension the 13th, and sailed the 15th.
At St. Helena were the United States corvette
Portsmouth, the American barque Chameleon,
and the English ship Saladin. The ship Napoleon
111. was under repairs, and about t-) be hove down.
A sad accident occurred on board the Penelope on
firing the salute yesterday noon in honour of her
Majesty's Coronation-day. The 8-inch gun at the
pert gangway, by some means unexplained, was
fired before the man charged with loading it bad
withdrawn from the muzzle ; the consequence was
the man was blown into the sea ; on being re-
covered it was found that Lis hand was blown off
between the wrist and the elbow. He was sent off
immediately in the ship's cutter to Haslar Hospital.
The Victor Emmanuel freightship wss surveyed
at Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday by the medic )1
and other authorities preparatory t ) taking in her
troops this day for India, as before reported.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Captain Sir G. Broke, to the Centurion, vice
Captain Fanshawe, invalided ; Commander F. H.
Stevens and Commander A. R. Henry,' to be In-
specting Commanders of the Coastguard ; Lieut.
F. S. Stevenson, to the Scourge ; .Lieut. J. W.
James, to the Illustrious, from the Bullfinch; T.
Brado ridge, Paymaster to the Scourge ; C. W.
Harris, Paymaster, to the Victory and E. Loney,
444:atap,t-urgeo, to the Ca=