The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-30 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The headquarters of the 31st Regt., consisting of
19 officers, 404 non-commissioned officers and men,
49 women, and 60 children, under the command of

Lieut.-Col. Eagar, embarked yesterday at noon on
board the screw steamship Avoca (on her ordinary
passenger and goods traffic between London, Ply-
mouth, Falmouth, and Dublin) from Portsmouth
Dockyard, for conveyance to Ireland. The left wing
of the regiment will follow the headquarters to Ire-
land on Thursday next. The 31st has been rather
a popular regiment during its stay in Portsmouth
garrison, and the embarkation and departure of the
headquarters yesterday was witnessed by a large
number of friends of the officers of the regiment.
Admirals Sir T. Pasley and G. G. Wellesley were
also present at the sailing of the Avoca. It is a
somewhat remarkable fact that not a man of the re-
giment was on the sick list at the time of the head-
quarters' embarkation.
'The remainder of the 56th Regiment embarked on
Saturday at Portsmouth on board the merchant
steamship Preussischer Adler, which the same after-
noon sailed for Portland and Weymouth. After
disembarking there the 56th the Preussischer Adler
will receive on board the remainder of the 67th Re-
giment, for conveyance to Queenstown, sailing for
that port from Portland this morning.
Letters received on Thursday by our Chatham

correspondent announces the arrival at Quebec on
the 12th inst. of her Majesty's steam transport
Orontes, 500 horse power, Capt. W. Hire, with the
2d battalion of the 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, from
Gibraltar, on board. The regiment, on disembark-
ing, was to proceed to Montreal. The 2d battalion
of the 17th Regt., which had recently arrived at
Montreal from Halifax, had been forwarded by
steamer to Toronto to strengthen the garrison at
that station. The 47th Regt., which had been sta-

tioned at Toronto, had received orders to proceed

down the country, and. embark on board the
Orontes, for conveyance to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

The order for the return of the Ist battalion of the
25th (King's Own) Borderers to England had
been countermanded, and at the despay,th of the
mail the regiment was encamped at St. Helen's
Island, where it was to remain during the summer..
The departure of the 30th Regiment from Canada
had also been countermanded, and
.instead of that
corps proceeding to Jamaica to relieve the 2d Bat-
talion of the 6th Foot, orders had arrived out direct-
ing its detention in Canada. The whole of the offi-
cers and men were to be employed, in conjunction
with the Royal Engineers, in the construction of
additional defences and in strengthening the fortifi-
tions at Point Levi, opposite Quebec.
The Star of India, hired troopship, having been
inspected by Major-Gen. Sir R. Walpole, K.C.8.,
embarked the following officers and troops at Grave-
send on Saturday, under the superintendence of
Brigade-Major W. W. Lynch and the officers of the
Quartermaster-General's staff at Chatham, for con-
veyance to Bombay, to augment the various corps
serving in that Presidency—viz., 7 men and 2 women
of the 3d (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, from
Canterbury; 51 non-commissioned officers and men,
7 women, and 7 children of the Royal Horse Artil-
lery, from Maidstone; 108 non-commissioned officers
and gunners, 12 women, and 15 children of theßoyal
Artillery, depot brigade, from Woolwich ; 78 non-
commissioned officers and privates, 10 women, and

2 children of the Ist battalion Ist Royals, and one
master tailor, one man, and 10 women of the 45th
Regiment, from Chatham ; 15 men of the 103 d
Royal Bombay Fusileers from Shorncliffe ; and 3
men of the 108th Madras Infantry, from Gosport.
The following are the officers who embarked with
the above troops :—Cornet G. Watson, and Cornet
J. Stuart, and wife, 18th Hussars ; Capt. C. E. New-
port, wife and child, Lieut. W. C. Black, and Lieut.
J. Rudford, Royal Artillery; Capt. C. B. Steer,
Lieut. J. B. Keith, and Ensign B. G. Booth, Ist
battalion Ist Foot ; Capt. R. A. Taylor, 103 d Fusi-
leers; and Staff-Assist. Surg. Robertson, M.D., in
medical charge ; giving a total of 10 officers, two
officers' wives, and one child, 268 non-commissioned
officers and men, 33 women, and 52 children. The
Star of India left the Thames yesterday.

The following officers and men of the 11th (Prince
Albert's Own) Hussars, have embarked on board
the chartered troopship Agamemnon, at Gravesend
for conveyance to India—viz., Major Annesley, in
command ; Capts. E. Harnett, A. P. Garnett, R. J.
Somers, Lieuts. R.H. Verschoyle, G. C. Cheape,
L.
B. Cole, Cornets C. H. Currey, F. Shuttleworth,
Lord C. G. A. Hamilton, G. W. W. Richardson,
Paymaster J. A. Dyer, Adjt. St. John S. Taylor,
Ridingmaster E. Corbett, Quartermaster Teenan,
S•urg. G. Pain, Assist.-Sorg. 0. Barnett, and Vet.-
Surg. C. Percivall, together with 11 staff-sergeants,
26 sergeants, 7 trumpeters, 5 farriers, 25 corporals,
349 men, 6 officers' wives and 7 children 59 women
and 63 children. Col. Fraser, V.C., Capt. Cuning-
hame, Capt. Tempest, Lieut. Delacour, and Lieut.
Preston all proceed to India overland. The follow-
ing officers of the 11th llussars have proceeded with
a portion of the regiment in the Renown :—Lieut.
M'Loughlin and Cornet Apperley.

A circular has been issued from the Admiralty,
dated July 20, stating that the Lords Commissioners,
having had under their consideration the pay and
position of inspectors of machinery afloat, and of en-
gineers in the Royal Navy, haVe been pleased, under
the authority of her Majesty's Order in Council of
July 6, 1866, to create a new rank of chief inspector
of machinery afloat ; such officers to rank with pay-
masters in chief and secretaries to admirals of the
fleet ; and to be paid full at the rate of £1 7s. sd.
a day, or £5OO 7s. id. a year. These appointments
will be held by the three inspectors of machinery
afloat for the steam reserve, whose pay will be in-
creased to £5OO 7s. ld. a year accordingly ; and by
the two assistants to chief engineers in the steam
factories, whose salary of £4OO a year will be in-
creased to £5OO. The full pay of other inspectors
of machinery afloat will be L
increased to £1 4s. Bd.
a day, or £450 3s. 4d. a year. Their Lordships have
also, under the authority of thesame Order in Coun-
cil, granted ordinary pensions of £4O a y
widows of engineers in the event of their notar t
beingo the
entitled to the special rates of pension established
for those whose husbands have been slain in action,
drowned, or killed on duty, or have died from the
effects of any injury or disease caused by extraordi-
nary exposure or exertion on service within six
months after being first certified to be ill, and also
compassionate allowances according to the follow-
inw scale for the children of engineers :—£s to £lO
a year, ordinary compassionate allowance ; £6 to
£l2 a year if the father was drowned or killed on
duty, or died from injury or disease caused by ex-
traordinary exposure or exertion on service, within
six months after being first certified to be ill ; £8 to
£l4 a year if the father was killed in action, or died
within six months of wounds received in action. The
same regulations are to be followed in awarding
these pensions and compassionate allowances as in
the cases of widows and children of other officers.
A naval court-martial assembled on Thursday on
board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth,
y of Capt. E. Tatham, her Ma-
jesty's ship Bellerophon,cii
Griffith
for the trial of Second-
Lieut. M. R. M. c
on charges preferred by
Capt. D'O. Aplin
for disobedience of orders
given him by Capt. Aplin, the cmm officer
of ocer
of the ship. The Court fowld the charges proved-
,
vseedr_,
and sentenced Lieut Griffiths to lose
vice and to be dismissed from theltawdioator.
The iron screw steamship Achilles,
sdoved e 26, Captain
em from
Edward W. Vansittart, which Was:
the long-dock at Devonport on Wed
lying- at Moorings on the west shore at 717'...isolnozew.
'When the Achilles was placed in dock it was Stated
that one of her cylinders was split. This was not
the fact. One or two of the ribs, or division pieces,
in the side-valve ports were cracked through con-
traction, a casualty which is usual with all large
castings. These cracks were soon repaired, and the
Achilles is now waiting orders.
The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, at Devon-
port, was removed from Dock No. 2 at Keyham
steamyard on Friday, and is under orders to be got
ready for active service. it is reported that Prince
Alfred, will be appointed to command her. The
Galatea had a burden of 3,227 tons, and has engines
of 800-horse power.
Four Palliser guns were on Saturday tested with
perfect success at the proof butt ill the Royal