The Sun.
London, England, 1866-04-05 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-Gen. A. J. Taylor, Inspector-General of
Royal Artillery, will commence his inspection of the
Royal Artillery in the Chatham district this morning.
Yesterday morning the Ist Regiment of Life
Guards, commanded by Col. the Hon. D. de Ros,

left the Cavalry Barracks, Spital, near Windsor,

about 7 o'clock, en route for the Regent's Park

Barracks. The Regiment of Royal Horse Guards

quitted the Knightsbridge Barracks about half-past
7 in the morning and arrived at Windsor at one
o'clock. The 2d Regiment of Life Guards shifted
at the same time to the quarters vacated by the Royal
Horse Guards.

An order was yesterday received at Chatham gar-
rison from the Horse Guards, directing the H bat-
tery, 9th brigade, Field Artillery, together with the
whole of their guns, horses, ammunition waggons,

Woolwich, will relieve the H battery at Chatham

garrison.

Capt. E. T. Webb, 27th (Enniskillens) Regiment,
has been placed under orders to embark at Graves-

end, in the Sydney Dacres, for Bombay, to join the
service companies of his regiment in that presidency.
The detachment of the 2d battalion of the 20th
Regiment, consisting of 71 non-commissioned
officers and men, placed under orders to proceed

to China to augment the service companies of that
regiment, embarked at Gravesend yesterday on
board the hired troopship Gresham, for Hongkong,
under the superintendence of Brigade-Major W. W.
Lynch and the officers of the Staff at Chatham gar-
rison. The name of Capt. A. N. Adams, ordered
to embark with the detachment, waswithdrawn from
the list prior to the troops leaving Chatham gar-
rison, the officer going out to China with the
draught being Ensign John Hugh Ford. Pre-
viously to the troops embarking the Gresham was
inspected by Major-General Sir Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., and Deputy-Inspector-General J. A.
Fraser, M.D., principal medical officer at Chatham
garrison. The Gresham left the Thames yesterday
evening.

On Tuesday evening the dismounted men of the
11th Hussars, which regiment is to be stationed at
Colchester for a short period before embarking for
India, arrived at Colchester and took possession of
the Cavalry Barracks. The remainder of the regi-
ment will arrive on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th, and
27th inst. Colonel Barton, C. 8., has left Colches-
ter to enter upon his new command at Dublin.
The Secretary for War recently established a
branch of his department to codify and revise war-
rants and regulations issued from the War-office.
He haS appointed Mr. J. Norman Lockyer to the
charge of this branch.

Capt. M. R. Eden, 56th Regiment, has been ap-
pointed to • the South-West Military District as
Deputy-Assist. Quarter-master-General. The ap-
pointment has been transformed in the South-
West District from a temporary to a permanent one.
The Etna, one of the old class of iron floating
batteries, built during the late war with Russia, and
since laid up in the Chatham Steam Reserve, has
been stripped of the whole of her internal fittings,
bulkheads, &c., and her machinery taken out, in
order that she may be fitted as a floating residence
for the married officers of the metropolitan police

doing duty at the dockyard, who have hithertobeen
accommodated on board the Nymph, 42. The
.Etna has been completely fitted for the service for
which she is intended, and in the course of a few
days will be taken possession of by the members
of the police force. The Nymph is to be fitted
and used exclusively as a Roman Catholic float-
ing chapel for the officers and men of the fleet.
The Bellerophon, 14, partially armoured screw
frigate, Capt. E. Tatham, is filling up with water
and stores alongside Portsmouth Dockyard. She is
being prepared for the reception of the competitive
gun carriages and slides, with their 12i-ton guns in
order to make her experimental cruise. Sir Wil-
liam Armstrong's iron carriage and slide have been
received at Portsmouth from Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
The carriage is not yet mounted in the battery of
the Bellerophon, so that it cannot be seen to the
best advantage, as all its parts are connected. It,
however, appears to possess unity of strength, sim-
plicity, and efficiency in design and construction.
The system of its compressors is similar to that
adopted by Captain R. Scott with his competitive
carriage, with the exceptions that Sir William's car-
riage slide has friction metal compresser plates where
Capt. Scott's has tapered timberbalks, and Sir Wil-
liam's compressers are self-acting, whereas Capt.
Scott's are not. The carriages and guns from the
Minotaur have been landed from her on the sheer
jetty of the dockyard, where Capt. Scott's carriage
and slide are undergoing another alteration, the c?x_ -
riage now being shortened at its rear and the slide
fitted with a transverse working lever for throwing
the toothed training wheel in and out of gear,-with
the rack way, which is now ordered to. be taken up
from the deck of the Minotaur and laid take
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deck of the Bellerophon. This will involve a good
deal of expense and trouble, which appears to be
almost unnecessary, as all the training systems fitted
on board the Minotaur, and which included Capt.
Scott's, underwent a thorough trial on board the
Minotaur—all that could be reasonably asked for,
in fact, for "training " is the slightest of all diffi-
culties to be met with in the working of heavy guns
on board ship. As, however, Capt. Scott's train-
ing system is to be given a further trial, it is to be
presumed that the same privilege will be granted
to Mr. Cunningham, Mr. Lynn, and the Excellent's
plans, all of which were tried with Captain Scott's
on board the Minotaur.
The Mersey, unarmoured frigate, 3,733 tons,
1,000-horse power, fitting out for commission at
Portsmouth, is taking on board her armament in the
steam basin. On the inaindeck she will again carry
10-inch shell guns, some minor alterations being
made otherwise. in her general armament, and the
number of her guns reduced from 40 to 34.
Capt. 11. Caldwell, C. 8., .now commanding her
's ship Asia and the Steam Reserve at Ports-
Mmoajyuetght,is about to leave England on foreign service,
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James H. Cockburn, the present commander-in-
chief on that station, to Rear-Admiral's rank under
the new regulations. Capts. G. W. Preedy, C. 8.,
of her Majesty's ship Hector, and George Hancock,
of her Majesty's ship Trafalgar, are both spoken of
as the successor of Capt. Caldwell. Capt. Preedy
is, however, very likely the officer who will succeed
Capt. George Randolph in the command of the
Steam Reserve at Sheerness, and under those cir-
cumstances the report as it affects Capt. Hancock
may prove to be correct. Among other naval
changes it is also said that Capt. Powell, C. 8., now
commanding the cadet training ship Britannia, will
be appointed to the command of the Northumber-
land, Capt. Randolph, from the Sheerness Steam
Reserve, succeeding Capt. Powell in the command
of the Britannia. Capt. Astley C. Key, C. 8., will
receive his promotion to Rear-Admiral as a matter
of course, under the new order of things introduced
by the Admiralty scheme of retirement, and will
therefore have to resign the governorship of the
Royal Naval College at Portsmouth and the com-
mand of the gunnery-ship Excellent. It is believel
that Capt. Key only gives up command of the col-
lege and Excellent to join the Board of Admiralty,
where his great experience in all matters connected
with guns and their projectiles, ships and their
armour, would render him an invaluable addition to
the Board-room of their Lordships.
In the new official Navy List, just published, some
of the copies issued by the Admiralty to the doCk-
yard officials do not contain the names of all of her
Majesty's ships from M to V, exclusive of the two
letters. In lieu of this there are inserted lists of
officers' names to be found in another part of the
book.

The following appointments and promotion have

been made at the Admiralty :—Robert Thomas
•Crispin, promoted to Paymaster-in-Chief ; Robert
Roughton, chief engineer, to the Asia, for service in
the Hannibal ; Daniel M. Browne, second master to
the Heron ; Charles N. Dobson, second master, to
the Boscawen, for service in the Ferret ; Charles H.
Langdon, second master, to the Dee ; William R.
Stevens, second master, to the Britomart ; William
Handerson (a.), surgeon, to the Wasp ; Dr. John
Brekey, surgeon, to the Cumberland, for Sheerness
Barracks ; James. Flanagan, to the Cumberland ;
Gabriel M. Egles, assist.-surg., to Portsmouth di-
vision of Royal Marines ; Henry Hadlow, assist.-
surg., additional, to the Wellesley, for service in
Chatham dockyard ; Henry Ricard, assist.-surg.,
additional, to the Seringapatam, for Naval Hospital
at the Cape of Good Hope ; Frederic Ward, masters'
assist., to the Barratouta ; John W. Hall, clerk, to
to the Duncan ; Albert J. B.Newman, second-class
assist.-engineer, to the Duncan.