The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-18 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

VALETTA, July 14.—Her Majesty's paddlewheel
despatch vessel Psyche, 2, Lieut.-Commander A. R.
Blane, which left Malta on the 22d ult. for the
Adriatic, returned to this port on the sth inst. The
Victoria, 102, screw line-of-battle ship, bearing the
flag of the Vice-Admiral Commander-in-Chief, the
Right Hon. Lord Clarence E. Paget, C. 8., and the
Royal Oak, 35, ironcased frigate, were at Patras on
the 3d inst. The Resistance, 16, ironclad, had either
left, or was on the point of leaving, for Naples.
Lord Clarence Paget intended to leave in the Vic-
toria for Corinth, thence cross over the Isthmus,
where he would meet the Gibraltar, 81, and proceed
in her, together with the captains of the respective
ships, to Athens, to have an audience of the King.
The Gibraltar would then leave for Malta to refit,
the Arethusa having been sent to the Piraeus to re-
lieve her. The Enterprise, 4, ironcased sloop, Com-
mander Rowley, which was at Ancona when the
Austrian fired into the Italian fleet, has been or-
dered into Trieste. The Racer, 11, screw corvette,
Commander L. Brine, is at Corfu. The Assurance,
4, Commander Pym, took the last mail from Malta
to Patras, where the Commander-in-Chief was ex-
pected to return about the 9th inst. The next mail
will be taken by the Psyche, now in port. The
Wizard, 2, Lieut.-Commander Murray, arrived at
Patras, from Malta, on the 3d at noon, and is ex-
pected back here to-morrow with despatches.
Deputy-Inspector-Gen. C. A. Anderson, Chief Me-
dical Officer of the Royal Naval Hospital at Malta,
has been offered the post of Senior Deputy-In-
spector-General at Haslar, and has signified his
willingness to accept the appointment. The Italian
paddle-wheel corvette Archimede, 6 guns, arrived
here on the sth inst. from Naples, and is likely to
remain here some time, with the view, it is sup-
posed, of exercising a wholesome check on persons
in this island who are suspected of making clandes-
tine shipments of arms and ammunition for Sicily,
with treasonable intentions against the present
Italian Government. The boats of this vessel
having been observed making soundings in the port,
the attention of the Italian Consul was drawn to
the subject, and the commander of the Archimede
was informed that such a practice was contrary to
the port regulations. The Italian commander is
perhaps unaware that charts with all the soundings
of Malta harbour can be had from any bookseller
at the cost of a few shillings. In my last letter I
informed you that a quarantine of seven days had
been put by the Malta Government on arrivals from
Liverpool. Before there was even time for this
term to expire the Government cancelled their pre-
vious order, having in the meantime ascertained
that no cases of cholera whatever existed at Liver-
pool. Our Chief Secretary to Government, Sir
Victor Moulton, leaves to-day by the Marseilles
packet, to meet Sir Henry Storks in London.
The unarmoured screw frigate Mersey, 3,733
tons, 1,000 horse-power, nominal, of engines, made
an official trial of her machinery at Stokes Bay,
near Portsmouth, under the superintendence of
Capt. W. C. Chamberlain, commanding her Majess
ty's ship Asia and the Steam Reserve at Portsmouth,
on the completion of her repairs and refit for com-
mission.

The hired sailing transport Charlemagne, belong-
ing to Messrs. John Lidgett and Sons, of London,
has arrived at Portsmouth from the Thames, and
will embark detachments of troops to-day for con-
veyance to Calcutta.
The iron turret-ship Wivern, 4, Capt. Hugh T.
Burgoyne, V.C., is preparing at Devonport for ser-
vice on the North American station.
The iron turret-ship Prince Albert, 4, Capt.
Arthur Wilmshurst, will be taken from Plymouth
Sound into Hamoaze to receive some alterations.

Yesterday morning steam was got up on board
the American national iron-clad turret ship Mian-
tonomah, Capt. Beaumont, and it was expected that
she would leave the Nore for her contemplated visit
to the Baltic.

The officers of the Ordnance Select Committee of
Woolwich Arsenal yesterday terminated a course of
firing to test the efficiency of Col. Boxer's improved
breechloading cartridges. They are adapted so as
to suit and be perfectly applicable to the various
grooves of each kind of musket to be used in the
service with a rifling of •577 bore. The following
have been used in the experiments with a satisfac-
tory result :—The Enfield and naval rifles, the ar-
tillery carbine, and the Lancaster rifle. An order
has, in consequence, been received from General
Peel, advising Colonel Boxer . to prepare an un-
limited amount of these cartridges for the gene-
ral service of the army, as Colonel Dixon, supe-
rintendent of the Royal Small Arms' Fac-
tories, has stated his intention of forwarding to the
Military Store Department at Woolwich, with the
joint assistance of the various contracts about to be
issued, not fewer than 150,000 breech-loaders be-
fore the close of tke present year. The strength of
the cartridge-filling branch of the Royal Labora-
tory is consequently to be augmented by some 500
or 600 lads and girls. The department, during the
Crimean war, was organised so as to be carried out
on an extensive scale in the Plumstead marshes,
and on a principle to exclude, with ordinary care,
the possibility of much danger, each shop being
separated by a high mound of earth, and a plentiful
supply of water being ready at hand. The most

complete arrangements are also) made for the com-
fort of the young people employed. A spacious
garden surrounds the little territory of shops, which
produces an ample supply of vegetables at a cheap
rate, and, together with a moderate provision of
meat and bread, under careful and well directed
supervision, mess dinners are provided at a few
pence per head. In the evening the young people
are conducted in gangs to their respective abodes,
and are reassembled similarly each morning with
great care and punctuality.
The five troops of the C brigade Royal Horse
Artillery, in command of Col. Huyshe, recently re-
turned to headquarters from India, have been horsed
and equipped for ready service, and yesterday un-
derwent inspection at Woolwich by Major-General
Warde, C.B. The horses appeared to be already
under perfect control, and the men, who have all
returned from an extended furlough granted them
to visit their friends, appeared well up in their bri-
gade duties. After inspecting the men and the
acc9utrements, recently supplied from the Royal
Arsenal, the General, attended by his staff, took up
a position in front, and the batteries marched by in
slow and quick time. The men were in drill cos-
tume, and performed the marching past remarkably
well.

Yesterday the following troops embarked at Go-
vernment quay, Gravesend, on board the chartered
transport Beaumaris Castle, for Calcutta, for the
purpose of augmenting the Royal Artillery serving
in the Bengal Presidency,—viz., 9 sergeants, 14
corporals, 4 drummers, and 268 men, with 34
women and 40 children, of the Depot Brigade,
Royal Artillery, together with the following officers :
Capt. H. C. Hammond, 46th Regiment; Capt. R.
Aislabie, Lieut. B. Raikes, Lieut. J. E. Josselyn,
Lieut. V. H. Walker, and Lieut. Robert de
Marylski, Royal Artillery ; Ensign Harvey R. S.
Foley, 42d Royal Highlanders ; Ensign A. P.
NJules, 91st Highlanders, and one army school-
master ; the whole under the medical charge of
Assist.-Surg. C. A.Mannsell, M.D., Royal Artillery.
The hired transport St. Lawrence embarked at
Gravesend yesterdaythe following officers and troops
for conveyance to Calcutta to join the service com-
panies of their respective corps :—Capt. J. Walker
and 63 non-commissioned officers and men of the
Royal Artillery ; Lieut. A. J. Harrison, Lieut. H.
W. L. Paddon, Ensign A. H. Morgan, and 115
non-commissioned officers and men of the Ist bat-
talion of the 7th Royal Fusileers, together with 13
women and 10 children, the whole in medical
charge of Assist.-Surg. A. S. Russell, M.D., Royal
Artillery. The whole of the above troops embarked
yesterday under the direction of Brigade-Major
W. W. Lynch and the officers of the Quarter-
master-General's staff at Chatham Garrison, the
Beaumaris Castle and the St. Lawrence having
previously been inspected by Major-Gen. Sir
Robert Walpole, K.C.B. Both vessels will leave
the Thames to-day, 24 hours elapsing after the em-
barcation of the troops to allow of their settling
down on board before proceeding to sea.

The screw unarmoured sloop Cruiser, 5, 752 tons,
60-horse power nominal and collective, of engines
(a vessel of six knots measured mile speed, and ab-
surdly allowed to carry guns and figure on the
official Admiralty " Navy List" as a fighting ship)
yesterday steamed out of Portsmouth harbour and
made a trial of her machinery, under the supervi-
sion of the officers of the steam factory and reserve,
on the completion of her outfit for commission.
A naval court-martial is ordered to assemble on
board her Majesty's ship Victory, at Portsmouth,
to-morrow, Thursday, for the trial of Commander
Hunter and the officers and crew of her Majesty's
late screw sloop Amazon, for the loss of that ship
by collision with the merchant screw steamer Osprey.
The iron armour-plated turret ship Wyvern, 4,
Capt. Hugh T. Burgoyne, V.C., got up steam yes-
terday, and went outside Plymouth Sound. She
will probably go back to Hamoaze.

'The sailing brig Sealark, 8 (tender to Impreg-
nable), Lieut. J. N. Croke, left Plymouth Sound
yesterday for the Channel, to drill and exercise the
boys.

The Russian frigates Ossliaba and Vitiaz, which
have been at Falmouth for the last few days, left
yesterday afternoon for Lisbon, &c. Salutes from
her Majesty's ship Ganges and Pendennis Castle
were given and returned by the Ossliaba.

After repeated experiments with the newly-intro-
duced wrought-iron gun carriage and platform,
made on the Woolwich Arsenal design, an order
was granted by the War Department for the manu-
facture on that principle of 32 carriages and plat-
forms to serve that number of 9in. and 7in. guns, to
supply a demand from Halifax. The order is now
complete, and will be shipped from Woolwich
shortly for its destination. The advantages of em-
ploying wrought-iron in the place of wood are
stated to be that it is less likely to splinter when
struck by an enemy's shot; that the carriages for
heavy guns are lighter than those of wood, and
that a constant supply of the necessary material
can always be obtained from the Thames Iron-
works and other establishments at hand. A diffi-
culty has been frequently experienced in purchas-
ing well-seasoned wood. The mechanical arrange-
Iments for depressing and elevating the gun, fitted
to the more solid material, are also less liable to
derangement and become less affected by the severity
of the weather. The Royal carriage department
officials have now received instructions to commence,
on an extensive scale, the construciou of wrought-
iron carriages to furnish the whole of her Majesty's
ships of the fleet. The establishment will be increaed
for that purpose, and the work will be urged on as
speedily as possible. The Ordnance Select Com-
mittee of Woolwich Arsenal have recommended
that the principle on which the new carriages are
to be built shall not be confined exclusively to
the Arsenal system, but shall embrace por-
tions of other inventors' methods. The elevating
and depressing apparatus will be on Sir William
Armstrong's principle, the running-out gear on that
of Capt. Scott, and the general construction of the
carriages on that of the Royal Arsenal. As the work
progresses the carriages are to be issued to the whole
of the ships in commission, so as not to interfere
materially with existing arrangements.
Mr. George Turner, master shipwright in Wool-
wich dockyard, appointed in July, 1859, yesterday
resigned his post, on superannuation, at his own re-
quest. He is to be succeeded by Mr. W. Ladd, from
Deptford yard, now on leave of absence.
The 31st Regiment, stationed in Portsmouth gar-
rison, will embark from that port for Ireland, ac-
cording to present arrangements, on the 27th inst.
This regiment will then have changed its quarters
six times within two years. There can be no ade-
quate reason for pursuing such a course—a course
detrimental to good order and discipline, entailing
heavy cost to the country,and ruinous to the married
officers in the regiment.

THE PRUSSIANS IN HANOVER.—At Hanover Gen.
Falkenstein has seized on the military chest containing
285 thalers in silver, 300,000 in gold, and 20,000 in paper,
He has also mado a rather large requisition of horses.

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