The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Yesterday morning the 2d Battalion of Scots
Fusilier Guards, commanded by Col. Stephenson,
0.13., left the Sheet-street Barracks, at Windsor,
for London, and Eastbourne. The main body of
the battalion marched to the Windsor station of
the Great Western Railway, and left for town in
a special train of 16 carriages at 10 o'clock,
arriving at Victoria at 11 30 a.m. The strength
of this portion of the battalion amounted to 13
officers, 509 men, 74 women, 96 children, and five
horses. A smaller detachment left at 10 o'clock
by the South Western Railway for Eastbourne.
The Ist Battalion Scots Fusiliers quitted
the Victoria station, Pimlico, at 10 o'clock, in a
special train of 15 carriages, under the charge of Mr.
A. Higgins, divisional superintendent of the Great
Western Railway, and arrived at Windsor at half-
past 11, the train being drawn by a new and power-
ful engine called the Bulkeley, after Capt.Bulkeley,
one of the directors of the line. The strength of this
battalion amounted to 14 officers, 533 men, 55
women, 78 children, and 3 horses. It was under the
command of Col. Meyrick, the pipers and drums and
fifes being in attendance, but not the band. The
battalion on leaving the train marched through High-
street to the Sheet-street Barracks, where it now
occupies the quarters vacated by the 2d battalion.
The Royal Alfred 18, armour plated screw frigate,
Capt. F. A. Herbert, fitting out at Portsmouth as
the flagship of Vice Admiral Sir G. R. Mundy,
K.C.8., is having the 12 ton guns of her mai❑ deck
central battery mounted from the masting sheers of
the yard, and will be ready for sea by the end of
March.

The Nelson, screw line-of-battle ship, 2,736 tens,
500 horse power, has been masted in the ship basin
at Portsmouth, on the commencement of her outfit
for proceeding to Australia as a boys' training ship
at Victoria. The Nelson's outfit will cost about
£42,000, and will be defrayed by the colony. She
will be ready to proceed to Victoria about the middle
of June next. Her engines and boilers are in perfect
condition, having been most carefully preserved
since they have been placed in the ship.

Workmen were engaged on Thursday in laying
down under No. 1 building shed of Portsmouth
dockyard tho keel of the unarmoured screw sloop
Sirius, 1,268 tons, 350 horse power. The Sirius ap-
pears on the navy estimates for 1867-8 for advance-
ment in building during that building to 6-Bths of
her tonnage. She will be a sister vessel to the Danae,
Tenedos, Sappho, and Blanche.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. A. H. Byng, to the Virago,
vice Tupman ; W. C. Bicknell, master, to the St.
George, additional, for service in the Coastguard;
Dr. W. WK. Saunders, surgeon superintendent of
the Norwood convict ship ; Abraham Hamilton,
second master, to the Hydra; Charles T. Deal,
and G. Simpson, engineers, to the St. George ; D.
M'Vean, engineer, to the Black Prince, for the
Advico ; A. Purvis, engineer, to the Trafalgar ; J.
A. Wilson, engineer, to the Trafalgar, for tenders ;
C. S. Jordan and J. G. Sampson, first-class assist.
engineers, to the St. George, for tenders ; and W.
J. Owens, acting second-class assist. engineer to
the Indus, for the Liffey.

MARKETS.—This day.

COVENT GARDEN.

The supplies of fruit and vegetables are seasonably good
and quite equal to the demand, which is by no means ac-
tive at our quotations.

FRUIT—Pine apples, 6s to 8s; grapes, 4s Od to 85 Od;
apples, 4s Od to 8s Od ; chestnuts, lOs to 185 per bushel ;
oranges, 2s 6d to 75 ; lemons is to 8s per 100.
VEGETABLES—Cauliflowers:2s to Cs Od ; cabbages, 2s to
38 0,1; turnips, 5s Od to Gs Od ; carrots, 6s Od to as Od per
dozen bunches; onions 4s to 5s Od per bushel ; celery,
is Gd to 2s 0(3; horseradish, 4Od to Gs Od ; and forced
rhuburb, 6d to is 6d per bundle.