The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Capt. the Duke of Edinburgh, who, accompanied
by his secretary, Lieut. Haig, arrived by the South
Devon Railway on Friday afternoon at the Duke of
Cornwall Hotel, Plymouth, left again on Saturday
afternoon by express for Windsor. On Saturday
morning Prince Alfred visited Port Admiral Sir W.
F. Martin, K.C.8., and then proceeded to Keyham
Steam-yard for the purpose of inspecting the screw
steam frigate Galatea, 26, which his Royal High-
ness will command. She is at the jetty in the South
Basin, preparing for sea. The Prince was accom-
panied by Rear-Admiral the lion. James R. Drum-
mond, Superintendent at Devonport ; Commander
Martyn, master attendant ; Mr. Moore, master
builder; Mr. Angcar, assistant; Mr. Miller, chief en-
gineer; Capt. Welles (indus),Capt. Ewart, and Capt.
Preedy, late of the Racoon. On the jetty the daughter
of a naval officer presented a bouquet of flowers to
the Prince, who then went on board the frigate, and
remained two hours, having examined her in every
part. There does not appear to be any intention to
fit her otherwise than in the usual manner. Some
delay in preparing the ship has been caused by the
postponement of this visit. The riggers are rattling
down the shrouds ; topgallantmasts are not yet
pointed, and it is supposed that she will not be ready
for commission before the Ist of January next. In
the appointment of her officers, several who served
with the Prince in the corvette Racoon will be
selected. Her first lieut. will probably be com-
mander of the Galatea. Her master, Mr. Bradley,
the surgeon, paymaster, and possibly the same officer
of marine artillery, will also join the frigate. The
destination of the Galatea is uncertain, possibly she
may be classed with those ships which in the List are
appointed for " particular service." Her last duty,
when commanded by Capt. Maguire, was in the
West Indies and the Mediterranean.

The Channel squadron, under the command of
Rear-Admiral Sir Hastings R. Yelverton and Rear-
Admiral Frederick Warden, consisting of the Cale-
donia (iron-clad senior flagship), Capt. the Hon.
Fitzgerald A. Foley ; the Lord Clyde (flagship of
Admiral Warden), Capt. Roderick Dew, C.B. ; the
Achilles, Capt. Edward W. Vansittart ; the Hector,
Capt. William G. Luard ; and the Helicon, paddle
despatch boat, Commander Morgan Singer, arrived
in Portland harbour at noon on Saturday last. The
other vessels belonging to the squadron—Az., the
Bellerophon, Capt. Edward Tatham ; the Wyvern
(turret ship), Capt. 11. T. Burgoyne, V.C. ; the
Research, Capt. Robert A. E. Scott ; the Ocean,
Capt. C. S. Stanhope; and the Pallas, Captain
Matthew Conolly, have proceeded in two divisions
to Portsmouth and Plymouth. The Bellerophon,
the Wyvern, and the Research arrived and anchored
at Spithead on Saturday morning. The Bellerophon
will now discharge her weight ballast and complete
her armament alongside Portsmouth dockyard, and
otherwise complete for further service. The Wyvern
is expected to go into dock at Portsmouth, and, in
addition to an ordinary refit, undergo extensive
alterations in some of her upper deck fittings. The
Research will also, it is expected, make good what
defects she may have in Portsmouth harbour.

We understand that Capt. Cowper Phipps Coles,
R.N., has been recommended to her Majesty by Sir
rakington for the Civil Commandership of the
Order of the Bath.

The armour-plated screw steamship Ocean, 24,
Capt. C. S. S. Stanhope (one of the Channel squa-
dron), from Ireland, arrived on Saturday morning
at Plymouth Sound and saluted the flag of Port-
Admiral Sir W. F. Martin, K.C.8., which was duly
acknowledged by the Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze.
The Reindeer, 7, 200 horse power, Commander
E. Nares, fitting at Chatham for the Pacific, re-
ceived her armament on board on Saturday, toge-
ther with her field guns, shot, shell, and other War
Department stores, from the Ordnance wharf. On
Saturday her seamen-gunners joined from H.M.S.
Excellent, at Portsmouth.
Dr. Elliott, of Warwick House, Sonthsea, Ports-
mouth, has been appointed by the Admiralty "sur-
geon and agent of sick and wounded at Soathsea
and Langston harboar," vice Sparrow, deceased.
Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., late of the
Warrior' who has been appointed to the command
of the Chatham and Sheerness Steam Reserve, has
taken up his command on board the Cumberland,
24, guardahip of the Reserve, succeeding Capt.. G.
W. Preedy, C. 8., who has been appointed to the
Royal Adelaide, 26, flagship of Admiral Sir C. 11.
Fremantle, K.C.8., at Devonport.
In consequence of the large number of applicants
for admission to the Royal navy who have been re-
jected by the stringency of the existing medical re-
gulations, the Inspector-General of Hospitals and
Fleets has called for a nominal list from the medical
officers of the Fisgard, at Woolwich dockyard, of the
number rejected, with a statement of the causes.
They are as follows:----Muscular debility, weakness
of intellect, palpitation, dyspepsia, deformed chest,
rupture, and tendency thereto, varieocele, impedi-
ment.of speech, delicate aspect, indifferent eyesight,
flat chest, deflective feet, cataract in the eye,
shal-
low chest, and other distortions of frame,
and
small
emaciated, under and over age, round shouldered,
eruption, scars, loss of fingers, chronic enlargement
of tonsils, pigeon breasted, defective nutrition,en-
en-
larged
glands, &c. As but very few of the applicants
were found totally exempt from one or more of the
above named impediments, an amended list has I
received the sanction of the Lords Conamissianers of
the Admiralty submitted by theMediealDepartment
A rumour has been current in Chatham during.
the last few days that the present Board of Admi-
ralty have it in contemplation to re-establish the
measurer's department, which, among other alte-
rations, was abolished by the late Board a year
or two since. Additional force is given to the
rumour from the circumstance of an order having
been received at Chatham last week directing the
officials connected with the departments concerned
to report to the Admiralty whether in their opinion
the office of measurer being revived at the several
dockyards would result in increased efficiency in
the shipwright department of the service. In the
opinion of the principal
officials whose recommenda-
tion possesses any weight in favour of the re-estab-
lishment of the office recently abolished.
Major-Gen. E. C. Warde, C. 8., commanding the
Woolwich district, having inspected the garrisons of
Purfleet, Enfield, Warley, Maidstone, &c., brought
his half-yearly visitation to a close on Saturday by
inspecting the Military Staff Corps, drawn up in
front of the official quarters in the Royal Arsenal,
in command of Staff-Officer Parkyn, and examining
the books, office rooms, &c. The general then pro-
ceeded to inspect the quarters of the B company, in
the Royal Engineer barracks, and went also over a
portion of the married men's rooms and the quarters
occupied by A company in the Royal Artillery bar-
racks. The two companies were commanded re-
spectively by Deputy-Superintendents Herapeth
and Gordon, to whom the general desired
the commanding officer to convey his satis-
faction of the general arrangements and the clean
and Soldierly appearance of the men, who are volun-
teers from various line regiments of the army. • The
strength of the corps present consisted of 194 of all
ranks, a few of whom, recently joined, appeared in
the scarlet uniforms of the regiments from which
they had volunteeredthe, remainder were equipped
uniforms
in the full-dress of the corps. It is iu con-
templation to raise two additional companies' next
year, for the purpose of sending detachments to
other stations. The dispersion of the corps to various
quarters, as at present, being attended with much
inconvenience and loss of time, it has been suggested
'
that a portion of the Royal Engineer barrack
king in the immediate vicinity of their duties in th,e
Arsenal, should be made over for their accommoda-
tion. It appears to have escaped the notice of
General Peel and his associates at the War Office
that this corps, strictly a military one, has merged,
by evident anomaly, under the administration and
direction of a naval officer—namely, Admiral Caffin,
the Director of Stores.
The paddle-wheel yacht Enchantress, Staff-Corn-
man ter Petley, has taken up moorings off the dock-
yard at Woolwich, to replace the Vivid, Commander
T. W. Sulivan, undergoing repairs in dock.
The War Department steam storeship Lord Pan-
rnure, Mr. Spriddle, master, sailed from Woolwich
on Saturday, laden with a full cargo of war stores
for Portsmouth, including 21 13-inch mortar beds