The Sun.
London, England, 1866-08-18 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The Lords of the Admiralty left Portsmouth yes-
terday morning in the yachts Osborne and En-
chantrea for Portland, under salutes from her
Majesty's ship Victory and the garrison.

The armour-plated screw steamship Lord Warden,
20, from the eastward, arrived at the Plymouth
Sound on Thursday afternoon, and was appointed
to go into Hamoaze yesterday for the purpose of
being brought forward far commission.
The crew of the screw steam sloop Sparrow, 5,
Commander St. Clair, were paid off at Devonport
yesterday. She will be placed in the third division
of the Steam Reserve in Ilamoaze.

The screw frigate Endymion, 21, 2,486 tons,
500 horse power (nominal), Mr. E. C. Smyth,
master, in charge, is completed for the first-class
steam reserve in the Medway, in readiness for her
first commission, another fine frigate, of the un-
armoured class, being at the disposal of the Admi-
ralty for the relief of one of the vessels ordered
home.

The Superb, 80, and the Nankin, 50, two of the
vessels attached to the sailing reserve at Chatham,
selected by the Admiralty to be fitted up as tem-
porary hospital ships for the reception of patients
suffering from cholera, remain in the hands of the
shipwrights and dockyard workmen, who are busily
employed in fitting them for the duty for which they
are intended. The Nankin, which is lying along-
side Chatham dockyard, is expected to be out of
hand iu the course of a few days, when she will go
to the moorings in the Medway selected for her by
the Admiralty. The Superb is intended to be sta-
tioned in the Thames, in the neighbourhood of
Gravesend. Ample provision in the way of fittings,
berths, cabins, &c., is making on board both ships
for the particular service for which they are des-
tined.

The summer inspection of the Chatham division
of Royal Marines Light Infantry will commence
this morning by Major-Gen. A. B. Stransham,the
Inspector-General.
The War Department vessel Inkerman arrived
yesterday at Woolwich from Pembroke, with a cargo
of Armstrong and other guns for repair, and other
returned stores.

Lieut. J. 11. Campbell, 109th Bombay Infantry,
has been ordered to join the depot companies of that
regiment at Chatham garrison. ,Ensign 11. W.
Paterson and Ensign S. D. Crookenden, 4th West
India Regiment, have been placed under orders to
embark for Sierra Leone, to join the service com-
panies of the regiment on the West Coast of Africa.
Staff Assist.-Surg. Maunsell has joined at Chat-
ham, for service at that garrison, and Staff Assist.-
Surg. G. E. Wills has been ordered to do duty at
the same station.

The E battery, B brigade, Royal Horse Artil-
lery, now on their march from Dublin to Woolwich,
are expected at the garrison head-quarters to-day.
The head-quarters staff from Aldershott will also
arrive in a few days. The officers of the battery
consist of Captain W. B. Saunders, in command,
Second Captains E. Vaughan and W. M. B. Walton,
Lieutenants A. F. Pickard (V.C.) and J. Bramly,
and Assist.-Surg. G. Whitla.

The Midsummer vacation of the Gentlemen
Cadets of the Royal Military Academy at Wool-
wich have terminated; the succeeding term of studies
will be resumed this morning. The whole of the
cadets assembled at the Academy yesterday, during
the day, and took over their books and various
class materials, with the exception of the 42 who
have been appointed to fill the vacancies created by
the late commissions and otherwise, and who will
enter in a few days, when the whole of the classes
will be complete for the half-year.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Lieut. John Houghton to the
Ocean; Thomas R. Pickthorne, staff surgeon to the
Saturn ; Fysher Negus, staff-surgeon to the
Hibernia; John S. Adams, surgeon, additional, to
the Cumberland, for Sheerness dockyard ; David
W. Wise, assist-paymaster, to the Royal Adelade,
supernumerary for disposal ; Henry W. Andrews,
assist-paymaster, to the Trafalgar ; William A.
Westaway, assist.-paymaster, to the Hector ; Julian
W. Tarbett, assist-paymaster in charge, to the
Dart ; and W. J. Brown, clerk, to the Fredaiek
William.

LIEBIG'S EXTRACT OF MEAT.—In the year 1847
the celebrated professor of chemistry, Baron Liebig,
undertook some researches in the nature of meat, and the
result was the recommendation of a scientific process for
preparing an extract. Since the publication of the report
the importance of manufacturing the extract on a large
set le in countries where meat is cheaper than in England
has attracted inuch attention, and as Australian oxen and
sheep are produced in vast numbers, Mr. Robert Tooth,
of Sydney, in 1865, visited Munich, and made himself
completely acquainted with Liebig's process, with the
object of putting it into operation iu the colony and ship-
ping tho extract to England and other countries. On the
return of Mr. Tooth to Sydney the manufacturer com-
menced, and now the extract of meat forms one of the most
important articles of commerce, which has only to become
generally known to ensure its use becoming almost
universal, It is impossible to over-estmato the
advantage of always having at hand the
means of producing, in a very brief space of
time beef tea for the invalid or broth for the hale and
hearty ; yet such can now very easily be accomplished by
the use of Liebig's extract of meat, imported direct from
Mr. Tooth by Messrs. Allen and Millbury, of Plough-
court, Lombard-street. Tho quantity of extract required
to produce half a pint of strong beef tea is 2s drams, so a
pretty fair criterion can be formed of the groat strength of
the extract, which is most certainly destined to entirely
supersede the old " concentrated essences, &c.," which, un-
til the present time, have been the only articles prepared
either for the invalid, the traveller, or tho many uses of
that important portion of every donieptic establiatinent—
yiz., the kitchen.