The Sun.
London, England, 1867-03-11 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt.
S. B. Piers, steamed into Portsmouth harbour on
Saturday from Spithead, and made fast alongside
the transport jetty of the dockyard, to await orders
for her embarkation of troops. Her intended first
service is foreign, but she is available for the tran-
sport of 1,300 troops at a trip to Ireland.
Her Mljesty's gunboat Goshawk, under the com-
mand of Lieut. Martin, arrived at Whitehaven on
Friday night from Liverpool, and now lies in the
harbour.

On Saturday morning a court-martial assembled
on board H.M.S. Formidable, flagship of Vice-Ad-
miral Sir B. W. Walker, K.C.8., Commander-in-
Chief at Sheerness, to try Mr. Charles Gribble,
assist.-paymaster on board the Formid ible, for ser-
vice in the Naval Barracks, on the charge of being
drunk and incapable of performing his duty on the
2d of March. Capt. D. M'L. Mackenzie, of H.M.S.
Formidable, presided. Various witnesses deposed to
seeing the prisoner drunk about 10 o'clock on the
morning of the 23 inst. He put in a written defence,
denying he was incapable of doing his duty, and
certificates of character were read extending over a
period of 12 years' service. The Court found him
guilty, and sentenced him to be dismissed the ser-
vice. Another Court, composed of the same mem-
bers, was held on Charles Whitelock, sub-lieut. of
H.M.S. Virago, for being drunk on board that ves-
sel on the 26th February. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, alleging in extenuation of the offence that
he had but just come out of the hospital, and that,
having been a total abstainer for two years previ-
ously, the little drink he took overcame him. Com-
mander Bingham, the prisoner's superior officer,
stated that he had always done his duty in a most
officer-like manner, and to his entire satisfaction.
Certificates of character extending over 10 years'
service were read. The prisoner was sentenced to
lose one year's seniority, to be dismissed the Tirago,
and to be severely reprimanded.

' A notification has been received at Colchester
from the Adjuant-General, directing the depot of
the 2d battalion 6th Regiment (together with 50
rank and file, transfers from the 2d to the Ist batta-
lion) to be held in readiness to move from Colches-
ter to Ireland on receipt of a route from the Quarter-
master-General. The depot, under the command of
Capt. Philipps, and consisting of Lieuts. Nugent,
Morland, Grant, and Carey, Enaigns Sullivan and
Monsergh, and about 150 non-commissioned officers
and men, will join the regiment in Ireland on its ar-
rival from Jamaica. The Field-Marshal Command-
ing-in-Chief has approved the depot 83d Regiment
joining the 4th depot battalion from Dublin, the regi-
ment being about to proceed on foreign service.
The E and G batteries of field artillery of the 9th
Brigade of Royal Artillery, stationed at Hilsea,
Portsmouth, are held in readiness to embark for
Ireland at an hour's notice should their presence
there be found requisite from any further develop-
ment of the Fenian disturbance. Both batteries
have been busily engaged during the past week in
practising with shot and shell from their 12-pounder
breech-loading Armstrong field pieces. Aregiment
of infantry on the strength of Portsmouth garrison is
also held in readiness to proceed to Ireland at
equally short notice should their services be required.
The Royal Marine Artillery at Portsmouth now
muster 1,200 men in barracks, and, as they are spe-
cially fit for cost artillery duties, we would suggest
that 900 out of the 1,200 should at once be formed
into an artillery brigade, and despatched to Ireland
to protect the coasts.
The following appintna:uts wcro ma le on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Lieut. G. J. C. Purcell, ad-
ditional, to the Fisgard, for the Crocodile ; Lieut.
the Hon. F. Murray, additional, to thr Fisgard, for
the Serapis ; Lieut. A. F. M. Meyer, additional, to
the Fisgard, for the Euphrates ; Lieut. J. F. Lenon,
additional, to the Fisgard, for the Jumna ; Lieut.
A. H. Barnard, to the Himalaya ; and Lieut. J. L.
F. Paul, to the Liverpool. The appointment of
Lieut. G. F. Purdon. to the llimalaya, has been
cancelled.

The United States monitor Miantonomah and the
iron-cased frigate Augusta have just returned to
Marseilles from Villefranche and Toulon.

THE LATE " ARTEMUS WARD."—The remains
of Mr. Charles F. Browne, better known as
"Artemus Ward," were buried on Saturday iu Kensal-
green Cemetery. Tho body had been conveyed from
Southampton to the house of Mr. Charles Millward, of 9,
Malden-crescent, Prince of Wales-road, Kentish-town,
whence it was carried on Saturday at a quarter-past 1.
The hearse was followed by four mourning coaches and
several private carriages, containing soma of the friends
of the deceased. On its arrival at Kensal-green Cemetery
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Mr. Charles Millward, Mr. Andrew Halliday, Mr.
Tom Hood, and Mr. J. L. Toole ; in the third,
the American pall bearers, Major Charles Temple
Dix (son of the United States Minister to France),
Mr. Lawrence Barnett of 'low York, Mr. A.
Chadbourne, of California (Artemus Ward's schoolfellow),
and Mr. Edward Curtis, of Now York; while in the fourth
were some English literary friends. Next followed the
carriage of the American Minister with the Secretary of
the United States Legation, and then-the carriages of the
general company. The coffins are of zinc, lead, and Eng-
lish oak, covered with black cloth, bearing the following
inscription, as suggested by the deceased,—" Charles F.
Browne, aged 33 years, known to the world as Artemis
Ward.'" After the service had been performed the friends
of the deceased proceeded to the lower chapel, where they
wore addressed by Mr. Lowton and Dr. Spencer Hall. A
memorial will be placed in the cemetery at a future
time, and probably the remains will bo taken to Ame-
rica for reinterment. By his will the deceased gentle-
man loaves the bulk of his property to his mother,
Whose age is sixty-two. A noble library, formed by his.
uncle, Calvin Browne, is bequeathed to the best boy in
the school of his native village, Waterford, Oxford County,
State of Maine. He provides that his page, an intelligent
lad, shall be put to a printer's—the first in America—for
two years, " to learn the value of learning," and to find out
what lie has missed ; and that afterwards he shall receive
a collegiate education. The property bequeathed to Mr.
Browne's mother is on her death to revert in trust to Mr.
llorace Greely, of New York, to be applied for the founda-
tion of an asylum for aged and decayed printers, of who:3e
craft he was. He has appointed as his executors Mr. T.
W. Itobertson and Mr. E. P. llingston ; the latter accom-
panied him in his travels, and has been for some time his
secretary.