The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-15 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intellit;ence.

The War Department steamship Earl de Grey
and Ripon returned to Woolwich Arsenal yesterday
morning from Devonport and Bull's Point, laden
with old army stores. She experienced some very
severe weather in the Channel, but suffered no
damage. Mr. Moore, the master in charge, reports
a schooner-,rigged vessel sunk off the Nore, with her
masts only visible.
Extra men are placed or the repairs of the screw
steam corvette Racoon, 22, at Devonport, to pre-
pare her for sea.
Her Majesty's naval storekeeper in Woolwich
Dockyard, Mr. 0. B. Piers, having terminated the
six months' leave of absence granted him by the
Board of Admiralty with a view to recruit his im-
paired health, has obtained an additional week's
leave to arrange his affains• before retiring from the
service on superannuation. Mr. Piers will be suc-
ceeded by Mr. Walter Scott, senior clerk, now doing
the storekeeper's duties in Mr. Piers' absence.
Lieut. C. F. La Coste, two sergeanta„ one corporal,
one drummer, and 27 privates belonging to the Royal
Marines Light Infantry, have left Woolwich for
Devonport, for service on board her Majesty's 22-
gun screw corvette Racoon, 1,467 tons, and 400..
horse power, to be commissioned in all probability
by Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh.
A court-martial assembled on Tuesday on board
the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze, to try Mr. Fredk.
Wheeler, engineer, borne on the books of the Indus,
on a charge of drunkenness on Oct. 20. The Court
consisted of Capt. Preedy, president, and Capts.
Napier, Seccombe, Stanhope, Somerset, and Daw-
kins. After a lengthened inquiry, the Court con-
sidered the charge proved, and, as the prisoner bad
been previously charged with a similar offence, he
was sentenced to be dismissed from the service.

The troops in garrison at Woolwich yesterday
began to practise the route marching ordered to be
carried out during the winter, in the place of field
drills. They commenced marching out at nine
a.m. in separate brigades and divisions, taking
various directions along the high roads, over
Blackheath, Lewisham, Eltham, Welling, and sur-
rounding villages, according to the selection of the
respective commanding officers, an officer of each
division taking sketches of the march. The weather
was most favourable, and the troops, who returned
to
quarters shortlye before the dinner hour at one
to have benefited by the exercise,
which 18 ordered to take place weekly, weather per-
mitting, with football exercise at intervals.
The proceeding and finding of the district court-
martial which recentlypresaipresidency
enassembled at Chatham garri-
son, under the of Lieut.-Col. Fitzroy M.
H. Somerset, Royal Engineers, for the trial of Ser-
geant Thomas Harris,
have
elir)-roorn clerk, 106th
Bombay Light Infantry,
the troops. The prisoner deserted at promulgated to ,
at Colchester on 1
re-enlisted
-:thelOth of May, 1865, and subsequently
at Chatham in the 109th Bombtrelnitfly
receiving
the name of William II VII ry Bienyki,:.antry, under
the additional bounty. lie was speedily promoted
and again made orderly-room clerk, wiilo
Irinii Nagtoted
discovered that he was a deserter from the 106th
Regiment. The Court sentenced him to 8-1 days,
hard labour in the military prison, Fort Clarence,
Rochester, and ordered him to be placed under
stoppages until the bounty money of which he had
defrauded the Government was made good.

THE LATE ACCIDENT TO A SPORTSMAN.—Captain
Fox, of the Grenadier Guards, who was thrown from his
horse, after attending the meet of tho Bramharn-moor fox-
hounds, and received serious injury, is progressing satis-
factorily. The latest reports are of a favourable cha-
mfer.