The Sun.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The iron armour-plated ship Northumberland,
26, 6,621 tons, 1,350-horse power, Staff-Commander
R. B. Batt, was on Saturday swung at her moor-
ings in the Medway, for the adjustment of her com-
passes, under the direction of the officials connected
with the Hydrographic Department of the Admi-
ralty, previously to proceeding round to Devonport,
to be completed for commission. The Northumber-
land will be navigated from the Nore by a number
of officers, seamen, engineers, and stokers from the
Steam Reserve in the Medway. There is compara-
tively little more remaining to be completed on
board the Northumberland in the way of fittings,
&c., before she is ready for the pennant.
The Rodney, 78, 500-horse power, Mr. W. H.
Harris, master-in-charge, will be ready for being
commissioned by the end of the ensuing month,
when she will proceed to China, as the flagship of
Vice-Admiral the Hon. Sir Henry Keppel, K.C.8.,
relieving the Princess Royal, which returns to Eng-
land.

The War Department steamship Lord Panmure,
Master Commander Spriddle, has taken in a heavy
cargo of war stores, composed of 160 tons of Major
Palliser's shot, a number of 9-ton guns, 250 rec-
tangular powder cases, 150 quarter-barrels of lead
balls, 220 quarter-barrels of ammunition, &c., and
will sail from Woolwich Arsenal this morning, by
the early tide, for Devonport ; and the Alma and
Raglan, Master-Commanders Mountfield and
Wilkins, in the same service, are shipping similar
cargoes at Woolwich for,Portsmouth, Devonport,
and Milford Haven.

The Royal gun factories at Woolwich are engaged
night and day with orders now on hand for the pre-
sent financial year 1866-7. The sum required for
the department in the estimates of the ensuing year
will be about £600,000.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. George J. Anstruther to
the Achilles ; IValter H. Worsfold, master, to the
Charybdis ; John G. Oakshott, chief engineer, to
the Cumberland, for service in the Severn ; John
B. Swann, paymaster, to the Indus, additional, for
the Euphrates; Henry Sewell, paymaster, to the
Asia, additional, for the Jumna ; E. R. Chamber-
lain, paymaster, to the Fisgard, additional, for the
Serapis ; Robert F. E. Morison, paymaster, to the
Charybdis ; Richard Harbord, assist.-paymaster,
to the Charybdis ; George Roe, John Watson (B),
Alfred Mason, Thomas Summers (B), Richard
Mockett, and Thomas Spence, engineers, to the
Bristol ; Owen Douglas, :Edwin L. Carte, John
Wendover, and Thomas Barnes, first-class assist.-
engineers, to the Bristol ; John R. Harney, first-
class assist.-engineer, to the Fisgard, for the Vivid;
Thomas Weeks and Frederick Simley, second-class
assist.-engineers, to the Bristol ; Edward A. Smith
and Macleod G. C. Mallard, assist.-clerks to the
Charybdis ; Commander Andrew J. Kennedy to
the Lord Clyde, vice Barnardiston ; Lieut. Archi-
bald Little to the Charybdis ; Dr. Jno. C. Messer,
surg., to the Charybdis ; Charles H. S. Douglas,
second master, additional, to the Victory ; and
Dr. Thomas Cann, assist.-surg., to the Charybdis ;
and Claude Hunter nominated a naval cadet.

WOLVES IN SEARCH OF AN ASYLUM. —A consi-
derable invasion of wolves has been noticed for some time
past in the forests of Belgium. For many years these
animals had not been seen in such numbers in the Ardennes.
This emigration is attributed to the late war between
Austria and Prussia. The wolves, hunted from the forests
of Germany and Bohemia by the movements of the troops
and the thunder of the cannon, went to seek in Belgium
order, peace, and daily food.