The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

A portion of the Bth Brigade Field Artillery, in
command of Col. G. J. L. Buchanan, yesterday
embarked at Woolwich for Calcutta. It consisted
of the head-quarters and B Battery, in command of
Capt. Elgee, including Capt. and Adjt. Baylay,
Lieuts. L. Downes, R. Corbett, and E. Downes,
Lieut. and Riding-Master Bishop, I,nsign Guthrie,
186 non-commissioned officers and privates, and 60
women and children. The battery, having formed
upon the Royal Artillery parade soon after 1
o'clock, were inspected, after which they were played
down to the Pier by the bugle band of the regiment
and immediately stepped on board the troop-ship
Countess of Londonderry, Capt. Kinny, in a most
orderly and steady manner, and took up their re-
spective accommodation, with which the ship is well
supplied. The guns, heavy baggage, &c., were
shipped during the day. The ship is under orders
to leave Woolwich this morning by an early tide.
Two other batteries, namely the C and D, of the
same brigade, in command of Lieut.-Col. Colclough,
are under orders to embark to-day on board the
Alumbagh,
for the same destination. The batteries
are composed of the undermentioned officers, non-
commissioned officers, rank and file :—Capt. Hum-
frey, Capt. Cane, Lieuts. Stratton, Murray, C. H.
Hamilton, Harvey, A. Worry, and Hernans, Assist.-
Surg. Guinness, 300 men, and 60 women and children.
They are intended to relieve the headquarters and
three batteries of the 11th Brigade Field Artillery,
the headquarters of which are at Lucknow. The
remaining batteries belonging to the Bth Brigade
win follow next summer.

Col. E. Maberly, C. 8.., 3d Brigade Garrison
Artillery, took his departure for Southampton and
sailed for Gibraltar to succeed Col." C. J. Dalton,
in command at that garrison, and who has arrived
at headquarters, Woolwich.
Six companies of infantry, comprising the head-
quarters of the 56th Regiment, arrived at Portland
on Wednesday last from Portsmouth, under com-
mand of Col. Lacey. This is the first headquarters
of any regiment that has been stationed at Portland
since the Verne and other forts in the immediate
neighbourhood were commenced, and which have
been now so far finished as to give accommodation
to the headquarters of the 56th. It is anticipated
that in three months there will be ample accommo-
for the whole regiment if it should be necessary to
quarter them in the barracks upon the Verne
heights. The change will doubtless be very agree-
able to the troops after their recent return from
India.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Staff-Commander R. B. Batt,
additional, to the Fisgard, for the Northumberland;
Lieut. Gilbert V. Story to the Aurora; Lieutenant
Thomas H. Dickson and Lieut. Yarborough F. H.
Parker to the Princess Royal ; Lieut. Oswald P.
Tudor and Lieut. George C. C. Carter, to the
Adventure; Lieut. Charles P. G. Hicks to the
J. P. 3/PEven, master, additional, to the
Lilndus,ver oforl ;
the Satellite ; W. T. Clifton, master, ad-
ditional, to the Indus, for the Galatea ; E. Swain,
master, additional, to the Fisgard, for temporary,
service in the Northumberland ; H. Homer, mid-
shipman, to the Liverpool ; C. W. F. Crawford,
midshipman, to the Duncan ; G. C. Larken, second
master, to the Gleanero yal ; E. Kearns, second master,
to
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TROTTING gATCH FOR £50.---Yesterday the
match between Mr. Cook's mare and Mr. Tyer's trotting
cob, to trot two miles in harness for £25 a side, was decided
at Mitcham. The mare won and covered the two miles
in 7 minutes and 16 seconds.
A RAPID TELEGRAM.—In these days of constant
complaints on the score of delay against the tele-
graphic companies, it is alike novel and pleasing to report
a fact in their favour. Yesterday the first news of the
defeat of the Austrian army under General Benedek reached
Liverpool in a private telegram to Messrs. Kohn, Speyer,
and Co., merchants. This telegram was despatched from
Berlin by Messrs Kohn and Spey's agent at 10.32 a.m. and
reached Liverpool at 11 o'clock, several hours before the
same fact reached the news-rooms and newspaper offices
in the regular way. Allowing for the difference of time
between Liverpool and Berlin, the telegram occupied an
hour and a quarter in transmission—an unexceptionally
quick rate in theie times of war and general commercial
dibarauseraent, 60 far 46 Germany is concerned.

A meeting of this institution was held yesterday
at its house, John-street, Adelphi—Mr. Thomas
Chapman, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. There were
also present Sir E. Perrott, Bart., Admiral Ryder,
Sir F. 0 utram, Bart., Capt. Richards, R.N., F. R.S. ,
hydrographer of the Admiralty; Mr.W. H. Harton,
Admiral Gordon, Capt. De St. Croix, Mr. Alex-
ander Boetefeur, Admiral Bullock, and Mr. Richard
Lewis, the secretary. The minutes of the previous
meeting having been read, the silver medal of the
institution and £2 were voted to Patrick Mackell,
chief boatman of coastguard at Kinsale, in ac-
knowledgment of his brave services in assisting
to save five of the crew of the brigantine Anna,
of Kinsale, which was wrecked during stormy
weather on the Bth ult. It appeared that Mackell,
when engaged in reaching a heaving line from the
jibboom of the wreck, had to climb over very dan-
gerous rocks, from which he was in the greatest
danger of being swept away by the heavy seas
breaking over them. He was, however, with the
assistance of some country people, ultimately suc-
cessful in hauling ashore the master and four of the
crew. The thanks of the institution, inscribed on
vellum, were likewise voted to Mr. Richard Reed,
R.N., chief officer of coastguard at Kinsale, and £1
each to his boat's crew of five men, for having pre-
viously put off in a boat, at considerable risk of
life, and saved a woman and child from the same
wreck. The coastguard boat was afterwards com-
pelled to put out to sea on account of the heavy
surf breaking on the beach, and the crew had to
watch their opportunity to reach the land. A re-
ward of £7 10s. was also granted to the City of
Manchester lifeboat belonging to the institution,
stationed at Carmarthen Bay, for assisting to save
during a strong breeze and squally weather seven
.of the crew of the ship Mary Roe,`of Quebec, which
was stranded on the 17th ult., on the Cefn
Sidan Sands. A reward of £8 15s. was likewise
granted to the crew of the Crossley lifeboat of the
institution, stationed at Redcar, for going off, in re-
ply to signals for assistance, and saving two men from
the yacht Dagmar, of Middlesboro', which had got
among the rocks off Redcar, on the 17th ult. Other
cases also received rewards. The report also stated
that during the past month the institution had sent
new lifeboats to Skerries and Ballywalter, on the
Irish coast. A contribution of £320 had been re-
ceived by the institution as a first instalment in aid
of the cost of the London Sunday School lifeboat.
Wolverhampton had also sent to the institution a
first contribution of £325 in aid of the cost of a
lifeboat station being collected in that town. A
legacy of £lOO had been left to the institution by
Mr. John Graham Gilbert, of Yorkhill, and £lOO by
the late Mr. Richard Dalton, of Wigton, Cumber-
land. Reports were read'from Captain Ward, R.N.,
the inspector, and Capt. D. Robertson, R.N., the
assistant-inspector of lifeboats, on their recent visits
to lifeboat stations of the institution on various parts
of the coasts of the British Isles. During the past
two months the institution had made payments
amounting to £4,100 on various lifeboat establish-
ments. The proceedings then terminated.