The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-26 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence•

The Senior Naval Lord will see captains and com-
manders on full pay and lieutenants in command
when they call at the Admiralty during office hours,
and officers on half-pay after three o'clock every
week day, Saturday excepted.
The two 64-pounder guns made to plans of cheap
construction by Mr. Fraser, C.E., Deputy-As-
sistant-Superintendent of the Royal Gun Factories
at Woolwich, have both withstood the test of firing
2,000 rounds with charges of 81b. of powder and
641 b. shot ; and, with the exception of the usual
scoring at the seat of the charge, each gun is now
in the same condition as when issued from the factory
for proof. The Ordnance Select Committee have
therefore pronounced the result as conclusive evi-
dence, with that of former trials of heavier guns, of
the availability of the system. As these guns were
made athalf the ordinary cost of wrought-iron guns
of the same weight on the established principle, they
are prepared to recommend Mr. Fraser's plan to the
War Department for general use. With the view of
ascertaining the extreme limit of endurance of both
guns, and the precise mode of rupture, Col. Camp-
bell, superintendent of the royal gun factories, has
signified his intention of extending the trial with
increased charges until each gun has given way.
Her Majesty's 3-gun iron paddlewheel vessel An-
telope, recently commissioned by Lieut. Commander
Bruce for service on the West Coast of Africa, was
yesterday inspected at her moorings off the powder
buoy at Woolwich Arsenal, by Capt. W. Edmon-
stone, C. 8., superintendent of the dockyard, and
pronounced ready for sea. On Tuesday she per-
formed the ordinary run at the measured mile, and
is ordered to swing to-day at Greenhithe for the ad-
justment of her compasses. The Antelope is exceed-
ingly well fitted out and adapted for the service, and
is the only vessel of her size, with the exception of
the Psyche, Lieut. Corn. Bland, in the Mediterra-
nean, commanded by a lieutenant.
The arrangements for the manufacture of the new
self-exploding cartridges for the Enfield rifles about
to be converted into breechloaders are in progress in
the Royal Laboratory at Woolwich. The assistance
of the most eminent engine and tool makers of Lon-
don, Leeds, and Birmingham has been called into
requisition to supply an entirely new plant of mate-
rials and machinery, under the direction of Colonel
Boxer, so that no delay may occur in the delivery
of the stipulated amount of ammunition at the end
of the financial year, when the 150,000 or 200,000
breechloaders may be at the disposal of the War-
office for issue to the troops. Messrs. Beacock, Tan-
net, and Co., of Leeds, the well known engine and
tool makers, are stated to have accepted a contract
for the supply of a large portion of the implements.
The Russian transport Guiliach, Capt. Enguist,
from Moulmein for London, arrived in Plymouth
Sound yesterday afternoon.

The chartered troopship Agamemnon, which has
been taken up for the conveyance of the 11th (Prince
Albert's Own) Hussars to India, having been in-
spected by Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole, K. C .8.,
and certified as fit to receive her troops, embarked
at Gravesend yesterday the head-quarters of the
11th hussars, under the superintendence of Brigade-
Major W. W. Lynch, and the officers of the Staff
from Chatham Garrison. The strength of the re-
giment which embarked yesterday was 1 field officer,
3 captains, 9 subalterns, 7 staff, 41 sergeants, 7
trumpeters, and 366 rank and file, with the usual
proportion of women and children. The 11th
hussars returned from the Crimea in 1856, since
which time they have been doing duty in England.
The Agamemnon will now leave the Thames for
Bombay to-day.
The hired transport Renown will embark at
Gravesend to-morrow, for Bombay, five officers and
27 men of the 11th Hussars, two officers and 136
non-commissioned officers and men of the Depot
Brigade, Royal Artillery ; three officers and 61 men
of all ranks of the Ist battalion 4th King's Own
Royals ; two officers and 45 non-commissioned offi-
cers and men of the 26th Cameronians ; 26 men of
the 49th Regiment, and two officers and 119 men of
all ranks of the 96th Regiment, giving a total of 14
officers, 2 staff sergeants, and 408 non-commissioned
officers and men, with 48 women and 42 children.
The East Indiaman Star of India has been char-
tered by the Hon. Council of India for the convey-
ance of reinforcements to Calcutta, and will em-
bark her troops at Gravesend as soon as she has
been certified as ready to receive her draughts on
board.

The annual regatta by the officers and men of the
Royal Engineers at Chatham will be held on the
Medway, above Rochester-bridge, this afternoon, by
permission of Major-Gen. Sir Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., when various prizes will be contested by
the officers and sappers.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. R. C. Mayne to the Nassau ;
Commander J. W. Wilson to the Ganges, vice Com-
mander Stevens ; Lieut. Francis C. Vincent to the
Excellent, for service in the Royal Sovereign ;
I Lieut. Edmund F. Weld to the Lion ; Lieut. David
M'D. Smith to the Magaara ; Lieut. C. 11. Wilkin-
son to the Cruiser ; Lieut. W. F. Goold to the Royal
Adelaide ; Sub-Lieut. Alfred J. Booth to the
Cruiser ; Edward T. Mortimer, surgeon, aditional,
to the Caledonia, in lieu of an assistant-surgeon ;
Dr. A. M‘Bride, surgeon, to the Cruiser ; Frederick
Bedwell, paymaster to the Nassau ; Edmund B.
Walker, paymaster, to the Cruiser ; Dr. Samuel
Campbell, assist.-surg., to the Nassau ; John Buck-
ley, assist-surg., to the Implacable ; 'William S.
Fisher, assist.-surg., to the Woolwich division
of the Royal Marines ; William H. Stephens,
second master, to the Dee ; Francis D. B.
Smith, assistant-paymaster, to the Irresistible ;
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HEAT IN NEW YORK.—The New York Board of
Health report that in the last week of June the mean tem-
perature for the entire week, night and day, was nearly 78
deg. The thermometer reached 94. The returns made to
the Board showed 12 sudden deaths; in the city from sun-
stroke, and 12 from congestion of the brain and effects of
heat.