The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING; MAY 36-, -1-8-66:

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Naval and Military Intelligence.

On Monday Major-General Sir. Robert Walpole,
K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of the Chatham dis-
trict, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Major
Lynch, visited Sheerness for the purpose of making
his half-yearly inspection of the Ist battalion of the
Depot Brigade, Royal Artillery. The troops number-
ing aboat-WO men, in eight companies, were drawn
up in line, and received the General with the usual
salute, after which they were formed into companies
and inspected. After this the march past took place,
and then the Manual and platoon exercise, the whole
concluding with a number of battalion evolutions,
conducted by Lieut.-Col. Crofton, in command of
the battalion, Major Bent, and Capt. Still (the Ad-
jutant). After the inspection themen formed square,
and were addressed by the General, who expressed
his satisfaction at their efficiency and clean and
orderly appearance. A number of time-expired
men and invalids were present on the ground and
received their discharge. Col. Riddell, C. 8., Com-
mandant of the Chatham division of Royal Artil-
lery, and Col. Freeth, commandingßoyal Engineers,
were present during the proceedings. In the after-
noon took place th 9 usualinspection of the barracks,
battery, books, &c., and an investigation of any
complaints which might be made, after which the
General returned to headquarters at Chatham.

The Bombardment of Valparaiso.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)

In consequence of the 2d battalion Ist Royalsand
the Ist battalion sth Fusiliers, both stationed in Ire-
land, being below their proper strength, an order
has been received at Chatham for volunteering to be
opened for both those battalions from the depot of
the Ist battalion 10th Regt. stationed at that gar-

rison.

A notification has been received at Chatham that
the War Department has given directions for the
manufacture of a supply of the new description of
300-pounder 9-inch guns at Elswick, on Major Pal-
liser's principle. Four of the new guns are now in
course of manufacture, and others will be taken in
hand as soon as the resources of the establishment
will permit. These guns will be used in conjunction
with Major Palliser's chilled iron shot, the experi-
ments with which at Shoeburyness and elsewhere
have yielded such satisfactoryresults. The first con-
signment of the new shot will shortly be received at
the ordnance establishment, Chatham, for distribu-
tion to the various vessels of war fitting for com-
mission, as well as for the land coast defences.
In accordance with orders received yesterday at
Chatham from the Horse Guards, the depot compa-
nies of the 80th Regiment left that garrison this
morning, and proceeded to Gravesend, where they
embarked on board the steamer Lady Wodehouse,
for conveyance to Devonport, there to await the ar-
rival of the headquarters and service companies of
the 80th Regiment, now on passagefrom India. The
following officers proceeded from the garrison this
morning with the 80th depot :—Capt. J. L. IV.
Nunn, Capt. 11. Rowland, Lieuts. W. G. Trevor,
W. B. B. Christie, 11. J. Brown, and Ensigns J.
11. Alston, and W. T. Anderson. The 80th Regi-
ment left England for the Cape of Good Hope in
1856, and was subSequently ordered to India on the
breaking out of the mutiny. In consequence of the
lengthened absence from England of the 80th the
strength of the service companies has been consi-
derably reduced, but on the arrival of the headquar-
ters the regiment will be augmented by the addition
of the depot companies.
The annual athletic sports and pastimes by the
officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the
Chatham division of Royal Marines Light Infantry'
took place yesterday afternoon on Chatham great
lines, under the patronage of Major-Gen. Sir Robt.
Walpole, K.C.8., and with the permission of Col:-
Commandant J. 0. Travers, C. 8., in command of
the division.

The sailing Indiaman Star of India, 1,045 tons,
Commander Holloway, belonging to Messrs. Somes,
Brothers, and Co., of London, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning with invalided troops on board
from India. She sailed from Madras on the 19th of
February, and called in at St. Helena on the 10th
April. On the 21st April, in lat. 4 30 N., long. 21
37 W., she spoke the ship Edwin Fox, belonging to
Messrs. Gellatley, Hankey, Sewell, and Co., of
London, also with troops on board from India, and
bound for Spithead. The officers and troops on
board the Star of India will be disembarked from
the ship at Spithead this morning, and sent on to
to their respective destinations. The military list
comprises—Capt. B. L. Gordon, R.H.A., in mili-
tary command ; Mrs. Gordon, and four children ;
Lieut. Pusey, 76th Regt. ; Ensign Shepherd, 108th
Regt. ; Dr. Reed, in medical charge of invalids ;
Major Hutchinson, Madras Army ; Capt. Tytler,
Madras Army, Mrs. Tytler and family ; Assist.-
surg. Cockrell, Mrs. Cockrell, and family ; Mrs. and
Miss O'Grady (Col. O'Grady died during the voy-
age home) ; Mrs. Macartney and family; 154 in-
valid soldiers, 14 women, and 30 children for the
Royal Victoria Military Hospital at Netley. -
The Admiralty storeship Supply, Staff Commander
Bawden, arrived at Spithead at sunset on Monday
from the Mediterranean, having sailed from Malta
on the 17th and Gibraltar on the 22d inst. She
brought home a few naval invalids, a large quantity
of medical stores for Netley Military Hospital, some
packages for Capt. Chamberlain, the recently ap-
pointed captain of her Majesty's ship Asia and the
Steam Reserve at Portsmouth. After landing yes-
terday the invalids and her stores for Portsmouth
and Netley, the Supply sailed again from Spithead
for Woolwich. From Gibraltar to the entrance of
the English Channel the Supply experienced S.W.
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The 31st (Huntingdonshire) Regiment, under the
rantd hecr a. lni
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From Cape Ushant to
commandPoorftsLmicouutt-g . h-Coal.rrisEaogne,rP and at present sta-
tionedin paraded on Southsea-
common, in heavy marching order, on Monday, at
11 a.m., for inspection by Lieut.-Gen. Sir George
Buller, K.C.B. In the afternoon Sir George in-
spected the quarters of the regiment, the regimental
book, schools, &c. The result of the inspection
under arms and in quarters was highly creditable to
Col. Eager, the officers, and inen of the regiment.
The armour-plated screw steamship Lord Clyde,
24, was put out of the dock in Keyhain steam-yard
yesterday, and placed at her moorings among the
Steam Reserve in Hamoaze. It is probable that she
will hoist a pennant in the course of a few days.
The %officers belonging to the Russian frigate
Douskey, 32, now in Plymouth Sound, visited the
arsenals at Devonport and Keyham yesterday.
The Italian steamship Principessa Clotilda is now
lying at the red buoy off Woolwich arsenals,
awaiting the arrival, on her completion, in the Vic-
toria Dock, of the ironclad ram Affondatore, recently
launched from the Millwall Ironworks, and com-
missioned by Capt. Martin for the Italian Navy.

I The Principessa Clotilda, is a fine screw frigate,
with a sheltered fighting battery containinc, 20
guns. This is her first trip at sea, having been built
at Genoa. Her present Commander, Viola, yester-
day received an order of recall on promotion, and
was superseded by Commander Jambon, who ex-
pects to sail from Woolwich to-morrow, convoying
the Affondatore to some port in Italy. The crew
appointed to the Affondatore yesterday arrived at
Woolwich, and were berthed on board the Princi-
pessa Clotilda. They consist principally of Genoese
seamen, mostly young men, the two ships' com-
panies amounting to 462, all told.
The screw steam gunvessel Mullet, 5, left Plymouth
Sound on Sunday for the West Coast of Africa.
The screw steam frigate Severn, 35, Capt. Frede-
rick B. Montresor, which arrived at Plymouth from
Bombay on Sunday, landed her invalids and trans-
ferred her supernumeraries to the receiving ship on
Monday. She left yesterday for Sheerness.
The iron screw steamship Defence, 16, Captain
Augustus Phillimore, was hauled on Monday from
the sheer hulk in Hamoaze to the Devonport dock-
yard, where her crew will be paid off.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Capt. R. Dew, C. 8., to the Lord
Clyde, commissioned ; Commander W. Swinburn to
the Mutine, vice Commander Blake ; Lieut. Charles
G. Fane to the Caledonia; Lieut. Francis C. De
Lousada to the Caledonia, for service in tender ;
Benjamin H. M'Curdy, assist.-surg., to the Excel-
lent ; William P. Taylor, assist.-paymaster, to the
Black Prince ; and Thomas W. Moore, assist.-pay-
master, to the Victory.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Augustus H. B. Brad-
shaw to the Princess Royal ; Sub-Lieut. Robert J.
Hughes and Sub-Lieut. Gordon C. Young to the
Caledonia ; James N. Robinson, assist.-paymaster,
to the Britannia; Edward M. Roe, assist.-paymas-
ter, to the Medusa, in charge ; Charles E. Goulds-
bury, clerk, to the Dauntless ; and Harry S. F. Nib-
lett, nominated a naval cadet.

The text of the circular despatch of Senor Ber-
mudez de Castro to the Spanish representatives
abroad relative to the bombardment of Valparaiso, of
which a summary has been received by telegraph, is
as follows :-- " MADRID, May 24.
" Since her Majesty's Government has duly and
amply proved the justice of its position in the ques-
tions which have arisen between Spain and the Re-
public of Chili and her allies, I do not consider it
necessary to give a particular account of the resolu-
tions which the Spanish Government has adopted in
the exercise of its legitimate right. Nevertheless,
in order to represent in the clearest light the recti-
tude and generosity of its conduct, I take advantage
of the present opportunity to show that it ,ras
actuated by no impatient rancour, but impelled by
the urgent necessity to avenge the insult offered to
the national honour, when it had recourse to the
extreme measure of bombarding the city and port
of Valparaiso.

" A concise and accurate statement of the facts
which preceded and ,constituted the origin of this
determination will suffice to convince your excel-
lency that matters had reached a point in which
there was no possible means Qf avoiding or suspend-
ing this measure.

" Spain, notwithstanding the persistent refusal of
Chili to afford the moderate satisfaction demanded
by way of reparation, confined her first hostile de-
monstration to, blockading the Chilian ports in the
least rigorous manner, as is proved by the testimony
of various naval officers and foreign diplomatists.
No one is unware that our squadron avoided as much
as possible any kind of injury to neutrals, -that it
allowed the steamships of the English company to
I enter the blockaded ports, and
.carry, not only the
correspondence, but even the agents of the enemy's
Government, and that our lenity even went so far
as to restore some vessels legitimately- captured, and
finally to restrict the original extent of dn.:blockade.
While hostilities in the Pacific were reduced to this
point, Spain, ceding her right, accepted the good
offices which were simultaneously proffered by Eng-
land and France, and admitted a form of arrange-
ment which, in the judgment of both those Powers,
was equally satisfactory and honourable for both
belligerents.
"In further proof of prudence and good faith,
the Spanish Government also yielded to the request
of the United States not to undertake more serious
hostilities immediately, in order to give time for the
representative of the Union to make conciliatory
representations to the Government of Santiago.
" Spain thus rendered the sincerity of her inten-
tions patent from the outset. Free from all unjust
passion, she never entertained the desire of humi-
liating her adversaries nor of creating unnecessary
annoyance, and without admitting even the possi-
sibility of a violation of established usages, or dis-
turbing, under any pretext, the natives of the
enemy's country in the peninsula, who have en-
joyed, and at this day enjoy, complete security.
" To this noble and generous conduct Chili has
from the outset responded by a constant and im-
placable animosity.

" The Government of Santiago commenced by
prohibiting the Spanish residents from leaving the
Republic, and, contrary to every usage of civilised
nations, confined them to a certain district, prohi-
biting them also from disposing of their ample
property, whereby many of them were ruined.
Not satisfied with this unusual rigour, it sent
emissaries to all parts, charged to organise priva-
teering against our commerce ; it purChased tor-
pedoes and inflammable materials to destroy our
squadron, and it thus occasioned the explosions
which have produced such great disasters at Taboga,
Colon, and San Francisco in California. It pro-
voked us in an inexcusable manner by disloyally
taking possession of the Covadonga ; it distorted the
question in order to give it an American character,
which it never could possess ; and threatening, upon
the one hand, weak Governments, upon the other,
offering its material aid to unpopular Governments,
it succeeded in inducing three Republics with whom
we were upon good terms to declare war against us
without reason, and to cause us considerable injury
by closing against us the ports of the Pacific.
Lastly, in place of listening to the counsels of kind-
hearted impartiality, the Government of Santiago
obstinately refused for two months to accept the good
offices of France and England, and to receive their
propositions, availing itself of dilatory pretexts to
avoid categorical reply and to prolong an intolerable
situation.

" All and each of these acts of hostility would
have sufficed to justify the immediate employment
of force; but the capture of the Covadonga went
further than anything else to provoke a serious
change in the situation. After an aggression of that
character, it was indispensable promptly to employ
a remedy for these provocations and attacks, and
this remedy could only be a reparation obtained at
any price.

" For this purpose the Government communicated
its instructions to the chief of the squadron as soon
as it became acquainted with the event, and, in con-
sequence of theie orders, our naval forces went in
search of the enemy, to engage him in open and de-
cisive combat. Two Spanish frigates alone began
the attack against the squadron of allied Republics,
but their attempt remained without result, as their
adversaries had taken measures to conceal them-
selves in inaccessible retreats.
" No other resource, therefore, remained than to
appeal to a bombardment, as being the last and only
means of rendering the employment of force effica-
cious. The situation had become absolutely insup-
portable. At the end of six months of an inefficient
blockade, it is neither possible, nor just, nor digni-
fied to preserve indefinitely a useless attitude, and