The Sun.
London, England, 1866-12-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

An order was yesterday received at Chatham
garrison directing detachments from the Depot
Brigade Royal Artillery, to be held in readiness
to proceed to Ireland to join the 9th Brigade
of Royal Field Artillery. The reinforcements are
expected to leave head-quarters for Dublin im-
mediately.

An order was received yesterday at Chatham for
the transfer to Woolwich, on the Ist of January, of
No. 6 Battery of the Ist Division Depot Brigade,
Royal Artllery, with the invalid depot of the corps.
Owing to this arrangement, the invalid and time-
expired men belonging to the Royal Artillery, in-
stead of being sent to Chatham on their arrival
from abroad, as has hitherto been the practice, will
proceed to head-quarters, Woolwich, where the
necessary documents will be prepared, and the in-
valid troops discharged or sent direct to their re-
spective stations.
On account of the despatch of great quantities of
war material and military stores to Canada, the
Military Store Staff at Quebec has been augmented
by Deputy-Assist. Storekeeper Taylor, from Alder-
shot Camp. His Excellency the General Command-
ing in that colony has also thought it desirable to
establish military store depots at Toronto, Lou don,
and Hamilton, the former being placed under the
charge of Assistant-Superintendent Russell—whose
appointment to Quebec, vice W. H. Tapp, has been
cancelled—and the latter under Assistant-Superin-
tendent Miller, from Dublin.
No. 3 Battery, 2d Brigade, Royal Artillery,
under the command of Major Talbot, has been
ordered to the North Fort at Liverpool.
The Dee, 220 horse power, paddlewheel storeship,
Master Commander G. Raymond, having discharged
a cargo of copper and other stores at Chatham, left
that port yesterday afternoon for Woolwich.
The official trial of the four cylinder high pressure
steam engine manufactured by Maudslay, Son, and
Field, for fitting on board one of the steam launches
built at Chatham, took place there yesterday. The
engines are of a nominal horse power of six, but
capable of being worked up to fully ten times that
power. There are four cylinders, each with a dia-
meter of sin., and length of stroke of Gin. The two
screws pre four bladed, and are worked beneath the
front and starboard counters of the tender. The
diameter of each screw is 2ft. 6in. only, and they are
set at a pitch of 3ft. With about 7 cwt. of coals in
the boxes, the launch, with the officials superintend-
ing the trials and the engineers and stokers on board
drew 3ft. tin. aft, and 2ft. forward. On reaching
the measured mile, near Saltpan Reach, six runs
were made at full boiler, when the mean average
speed was 7.455 knots per hour, the highest yet
attained by engines of this description. The greatest
number of revolutions of the screw per minute dur-
ing the trial was 408, and the lowest 320, the mean
pressure of steam being 801 b. The time in making
the complete circle was imin. lOsec., while with one
engine working the screw to starboasd'and the other
to port, the vessel was turned round in her own
length ; indeed, during some portion of the trials
yesterday, and in the run up to the dockyard, the
launch was steered by means of her screws alone.
The trial was conducted by Mr. 1% . Eames, assist-
ant inspector of machinery at Chatham Dock-
yard, and on its termination the vessel brought up
alongside the yard, where the engines will be lifted
out to-day, in readiness for despatch to the French
Exhibition. A similar pair of engines is being fitted
on board one of the other tenders at Chatham dock-
yard
by Messrs. John Penn and Sons, of Greenwich.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Tamar,
Capt. F.
Sullivan, C. B. , sailed from Portsmouth early yes-
terday morning for Ireland with the 71st Regiment
of Highland Light Infantry on board.
The following appointment bas been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve :—To be Sub-Lieut., Edmond
Morgan Edmond.

CHRISTENING OF THE INFANT CHILD OF VISCOUNT
AND VISCOUNTESS BURT.— On Monday morning the Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Dr. Manning, per-
formed the ceremony of christening the infant daughter of
Viscount and Viscountess Bury, in the chapel of the Ora-
torians at Brompton. His Grace was assisted by the Very
Reverend Provost Knox and the Fathers of the Oratory.
There were present on the occasion, besides many mem-
bers of Lord Bury's family, including the Dowager
Duchess of Argyll, the Earl of Denbigh, Colonel and Mrs.
Keppeli a mi l t omd
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'a jciuognd, B
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Cameron,
as representativeon'Esq"c"3le" Sir Archibald
of hls Majesty
the King of the Belgians, who was one of the sponsors,
and the Lady Katrina Coke, who was godmother. Tho
emerald a
nd god-daughter
diamonds;
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child was christened Leopoldina Olivia. His Majesty the
King of:nhte
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magnificent
wellas to Lady Bury a rich and splendid bracelet, and to
Sir Archibald Koppel Macdonald a fino ring, with the
Royal cypher in diamonds, surrounded with brilliants.

Am.vrEuß PERFORMANCE.—The second perform-
ance of the Yore Burlesque Company took place
at the Cabinet Theatre on Thursday last, and we observed
a great improvement in the acting of the ladies and gentle-
men since they first appeared at St. Martin's Hall in Sep-
tember last. They have now conquered the difficulties of
the Terpsichorian art., and also sang the songs allotted to
them. Great credit is also duo to Mr. C. De Yore, who has
the entire arrangement of these burlesques. The enter-
tainment commenced with the farce of "Mr. and Mrs.
White," Mr. Frank Chester and Miss Millie Do Vero sus-
taining the characters of Mr. and Mrs. White, and by their
comic acting kept the audience in complete good humour.
Miss Kate Dudley played the dashing widow White, and
Miss Kate Ede, Kitty Clover. After which Byron's cele-
brated burlesque of "Ali Babi, or T he Thirty-nine Thieves"
was performed. Miss Millie Do Yore played Abdalla
charmingly, and we have no doubt she will soon obtain a
good position on the stage. She is about to commence
her theatrical career on the Oxford circuit at Christmas.
The burlesque was exceedingly well played throughout,
and the dances and songs were vociferously encored. The
evening's entertainment concluded with " Boots at the
Swan," Mr. Quarles Steen playing Jacob Earwig.