The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Prince of Wales has announced his intention
to inspect the 11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars
previous to their departure for India. About 60
rank and file, 12 women, and 36 children of the
96th‘Regiment have arrived at the camp at Col-
chester from the Cape of Good Hope, and have
been attached to the Bth depot battalion, pending
the arrival of the depot from Belfast. Captainsand
Kirkwood and Tulloch, Lieutenants Houghton
Gillespie, and Ensigns Broughton and Durand are
the officers expected with the depot..
Thy sailing IndiamanmeEssdrriGFelioax,tiey, Commanderllauey,k
Monson, belonging to
Sewell, and Co., of London, arrived at Spithead
yesterday morning, with troops from India inva-
lided from various of her Majesty's regiments serving
in the Bombay Presidency. She sailed from Bom-
bay on the 3d of February, and called in at St.
Helena on the 7th of April. Light airs and calms
predominated throughout the voyage until reaching
soundings, not a reef having been taken in of the
ship's canvas up to that time of her sailing from
Bombay. On striking soundings, however, the
ship met with heavy easterly gales, which detained
her in the chops of the Channel for 12 days. The
troops brought home comprise—Capt. Preston (in
military charge) and Lieut. Kyle, 45th Regiment ;
and Staff Assist.-Surg. Stafford, in medical charge ;
Lieut. Kershaw, Bengal Native Infantry, 138 non-
commissioned officers and men, for the Royal Vic-
toria Military Hospital at Netley, R ith 14 women
and 31 children. Fifteen invalid soldiers and
one child died on board since leaving Bom-
bay. Mr. Good, a private passenger, also
died on board on the 17th of February.
The invalided troops were disembarked from
the ship yesterday morning at Spithead by a Go-
vernment steamer and conveyed to the Royal Vic-
toria Hospital at Netley. The Star of India is bound

to London, but remained at Spithead up to sunset
last evening, detained there by a strong south-east
wind, and world have to remain so until the wind
changed, or the arrival of a steam-tug to her assist-
ance from the Thames.

The unarmoured screw frigate Liverpool, 35, 600-
horse power, Capt. John Seccombe, just completed
at Portsmouth in her refit for further service, made
an official trial of her speed over the measured mile
in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on Tuesday, in
accordance with orders issued to that effect from the
Admiralty. The ship is complete in every respect,
and ready to proceed from Spithead to sea at an
hour's notice. On weighing her anchor from Spit-
head for the trial ground on Tuesday morning her
draught of water was taken at 21ft. 3in. forward,
and 23ft. 2in. aft. Coals in bunkers, 360 tons.
Six runs were made over the measured mile, with
full-boiler power, and four runs with half-boiler
power. The full-power runs gave the ship a mean
speed of 10.050 knots, and those at half power
8.204 knots. The wind was light, and water quite
smooth. The Liverpool is one of the handsomest
of the old school of wooden frigates, but the results
of her trial will not compare favourably with those
of our ironclads of similar power and tonnage. The
Pallas, for instance, is very greatly superior to the
Liverpool in speed (three knots), all points in rela-
tion thereto being fully considered, although the
engines of both ships have been supplied by the same
makers, and are of the same nominal horse-power.
The Challenger, 20, unarmoured screw corvette,
Capt. R. B. Maguire, sailed from Spithead yester-
day afternoon for Australia and New Zealand, where,
on arrival, Capt. Maguire will hoist his broad pen-
s nant as commodore in command.

The Severn, 35, screw frigate, 2,767 tons, 500-horse
power, arrived at Sheerness yesterday morning from
Plymouth. To-day she will be taken into the large
basin of the dockyard and dismantled. In about ten
days she will be paid out of commission, and placed
in the third division of the Steam Reserve. The ship
brought home about 90 supernumeraries and time-
expired men from the East Indies, including Assist.-
Paymaster Smith, of the Jaseur ; Assist.-Paymaster
Cox, of the Valorous ; Messrs. Taylor, Bolt, and
Fox, clerks, from Ascension ; Mr. Capes, naval
cadet, of the Octavia ; Mr. Hughes, engineer, of the
Vigilant ; and Mr. Blondin, engineer, of the Tamar.
The Severn was commissioned at Plymouth by her
present captain in July, 1862, and has been in com-
mission nearly four years. On the 22d of the fol-
lowing September she left Plymouth for Bombay,
where she arrived on the 13th January, 1863. She
then visited the Persian Gulf, Aden, Ceylon, the
Straits of Malacca, Trincomalee, and Madras. In
July, 1864, she was relieved on the East Indies
station by Admiral King, and ordered to China and
Japan. After visiting Hongkong and Amoy she
proceeded to Yokohama in the November of that
year, aad arrived in Japanese waters too late to
take part in the affair of Simonosaki. She next
visited Yeddo, the capital of Japan, where she re-
mained six days. The Severn left Yokohama in
April, 1865, arrived at Trincomalee the same year,
where she received orders for home. She then pro-
ceeded to Bombay, where she was relieved by the
Octavia, Commander Hillyer. On the 23d January
she left for England, touching at the Mauritius,
which she left on the 25th of February, Simon's Bay
April 4, and Ascension April 22. While off the
Cape, in a gale of wind, she lost her starboard
quarter boat, her foretopmast, and main yard, which
delayed her three weeks to make good the damages.
She was off Scilly eight days before her arrival at
Plymouth ; but owing to the prevailing east winds
she could make no headway. She came home from
the Cape under sail, with the exception of two days,
and while in the Channel did not get up steam till
the morning of the day before that on which she
arrived at Sheerness.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—C. G. Johnston, master, to the
Lord Clyde ; W. B. Mainprise, paymaster, to the
Lord Clyde; Alfred P.FrLeeomrdanc alynddeM;
HfreednrOy:xtlaain.nd.,
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missioned ; John Bruce, engineer, to tlohre
engineer,
to service in the Star ; William M. Tay
to the St. George ; John Dows, first-class assist.;
engineer, to the Petrel ; and Henry M. G. Pellew,
acting second-class assist.-engineer, to the Petrel.

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