The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelli;;ence.

Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh, who, accompanied
by his secretary, Lieut. Haig, arrived by the South
Devon Railway on Friday afternoon at the Duke of
Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth, left again ou Saturday
afternoon by express for Windsor. On Saturday
morning Prince Alfred visited Port Admiral Sir W.
F. Martin, K.C.8., and then proceeded to Keyham
Steam-yard for the purpose of inspecting the screw
steam frigate Galatea, 26, which his Royal High-
ness will command. She is at the jetty in the South
Basin, preparing for sea. The Prince was accom-
panied by Rear-Admiral the Hon. James R. Drum-
mond, Superintendent at Devonport ; Commander
Martyn, master attendant ; Mr. Moore, master
builder; Mr. Angear, assistant; Mr. Miller, chief en-
gineer; Capt. Welles (Indus),Capt. Ewart, and Capt.
Preedy, lath of the Racoon . On the jetty the daughter
of a naval officer presented a bouquet of flowers to
the Prince, who then went on board the frigate, and
remained two hours, having examined her in every
part. There does not appear to be any intention to
fit her otherwise than in the usual manner. Some
delay in preparing the ship has been caused by the
postponement of this visit. The riggers are rattling
down the shrouds ; topgallantmasts are not yet
pointed, and it is supposed that she will not be ready
for commission before the Ist of January next. In
the appointment of her officers, several who served
with the Prince in the corvette Racoon will be
selected. Her first lieut. will probably be com-
mandef of the Galatea. Her master, Mr. Bradley,
the surgeon, paymaster, and possibly the same officer
of marine artillery, will also join the frigate. The
destination of the Galatea is uncertain, possibly she
may be classed with those ships which in the List are
appointed for " particular service." Her last duty,
when commanded by Capt. Maguire, was in the
West Indies and the Mediterranean.

The Channel squadron, under the command o
Rear-Admiral Sir Hastings R. Yelverton and Rear.
Admiral Frederick Warden, consisting of the Cale.
donia (iron-clad senior flagship), Capt. the Hon
Fitzgerald A. Foley ; the Lord Clyde (flagship o:
Admiral Warden), Capt. Roderick Dew, C.B. ; the
Achilles, Capt. Edward W. Vansittart ; the Hector,
Capt. William G. Luard ; and the Helicon, paddle
despatch boat, Commander Morgan Singer, arrived
in Portland harbour at noon on Saturday last. The
other vessels belonging to the squadron-7iz., the
Bellerophon, Capt. Edward Tatham ; the Wyvern
(turret ship), Capt. H. T. Burgoyne, V.C. ; the
Research, Capt. Robert A. E. Scott ; the Ocean,
Capt. C. S. Stanhope; and the Pallas, Captain
Matthew Conolly, have proceeded in two divisions
to Portsmouth and Plymouth. The Bellerophon,
the Wyvern, and the Research arrived and anchored
at Spithead on Saturday morning. The Bellerophon
will now discharge her weight ballast and complete
her armament alongside Portsmouth dockyard, and
otherwise complete for further service. The Wyvern
is expected to go into dock at Portsmouth, and, in
addition to an ordinary refit, undergo extensive
alterations in sonic of her upper deck fittings. The
Research will also, it is expected, make good what
defects she may have in Portsmouth harbour.
We understand that Capt. Cowper Phipps Coles,
R.N., has been recommended to her Majesty by Sir
Pakington for the Civil Commandership of the
Order of the Bath.
The armour-plated screw steamship Ocean, 24,
Capt. C. S. S. Stanhope (one of the Channel squa-
dron), from Ireland, arrived on Saturday morning
at Plymouth Sound and saluted the flag of Port-
Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8., which was duly
acknowledged by the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze.
The Reindeer, 7, 200 horse power, Commander
E. Nares, fitting at Chatham for the Pacific, re-
ceived her armament on board on Saturday, toge-
ther with her field guns, shot, shell, and other War
Department stores, from the Ordnance wharf. On
Saturday her seamen-gunners joined from H.M.S.
Excellent, at Portsmouth.
Dr. Elliott, of Warwick liouse, Southsea, Ports-
mouth, has been appointed by the Admiralty " sur-
geon and agent of sick and woundcl at Southsea
and Langston harbour," vice Sparrow, deceased.
Capt. the lion. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., late of the
Warrior' who has been appointed to the command
of the Chatham and Sheerness Steam Reserve, has
taken up his command on board the Cumberland,
24, guardship of the Reserve, succeeding Capt. G.
W. Preedy, C. 8., who has been appointed to the
Royal Adelaide, 26, flagship of Admiral Sir C. H.
Fremantle, K.C.8., at Devonport.
In consequence of the large number of applicants
for admission to the Royal navy who have been re-
jected by the stringency of the existing medical re-
gulations, the Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets has called for a nominal list from the medical
officers of the Fisgard, at Woolwich dockyard, of the
number rejected, with a statement of the causes.
They are as follows:—Muscular debility, weakness
of intellect, palpitation, dyspepsia, deformed chest,
rupture, and tendency thereto, vari.:ocele, impedi-
mentof speech, delicate aspect, indifferent eyesight,
flat chest,- deflective feet, cataract iu the eye, shal-
low chest, and other distortions of frame, small and
emaciated, under and over age, round bouldered
eruption, scars, loss of fingers,
chronic enlargement
of tonsils, pigeon breasted, defective nutrition,n-
larged glands, &c. As
but very few of thremaoprpeliocfanthtse
were found totally exempt from one or
above named impediments, an amended list has
received the sanction of the Lords Commissilners of
the Admiralty submitted by theMedicalDepartment.
A rumour has been current in Chatham during
the last few days that the present Board of Admi_
ralty have it in contemplation to re-establish the
measurer's department, which, among other alte-
rations, was abolished by the late Board a year
or two since. Additional force is given to the
rumour from the circumstance week order having
been received at Chatham last directing the
officials connected with the departments concerned
to report to the Admiralty whether in their opinion
the office of measurer being revived at the several
dockyards would result in increased efficiency in
the shipwright department of the service. In the
opinion of the principal officials whose recommenda-
tion possesses any weight in favour of the re-estab-
lishment of the office recently abolished.
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., commanding the
Woolwich district, having inspected the garrisons of
Purfleet, Enfield, Warley, Maidstone, &c., ght
his half-yearly visitation to a close on Saturday by
brou
inspecting the Military Staff Corps, drawn up in
front of the official quarters in the Royal Arsenal,
in command of Staff-Officer Parkyn, and examining
the books, office rooms, &c. The general then pro-
ceeded to inspect the quarters of the B company, in
the Royal Engineer barracks, and went also over a
portion of the married men's rooms and the quarters
occupied by A company in the Royal Artillery bar-
racks. The two companies were commanded re-
spectively by Deputy-Superintendents llerapeth
and Gordon, to whom the general desired
the commanding officer to convey his satis-
faction of the crem;ral arrangements and the clean
and soldierly appearance of the men, who are volun-
teer::, from various line regiments of the army. The
strength of the corps present consisted of 191 of all
ranks, a few of \rVilolll, recently joined, appeared in
the scarlet
ifo
they had v oluntee irsedofthe regiments from which
; thertn remainder were equipped
iu the full-dress unifo sof the corps. It is in con-
templation to raise two additional companies next
year, for the purpose of Sending
detachments to
other stations. The dispersion of
easciobrepeest:t suggested
barracks,
iisuoteeuidsi
quarters, as at present, being attended with
inconvenience and loss of time, it
that a portion of the Royal Engineer
being in the immediate vicinity of their duties in the
Arsenal, should be made over for their accommoda-
tion. " It appears to have escaped the notice of
General Peel and his associates at the War Office
that this corps, strictly a military one, has merged,
by evident anomaly, under the administration and
direction of a naval officer—namely, Admiral Caffin,
the Director of Stores.
The paddle-wheel yacht Enchantress, Staff-Com-
man ier Petley, has taken up moorings off the dock-
yard at Woolwich, to replace the Vivid, Commander
T. W. Sulivan, undergoing repairs in dock.
The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan-
Inure, Mr. Spriddle, master, sailed from Woolwich
on Saturday, laden with a full cargo of war stores
for Portsmouth, including 21 13-inch mortar beds