The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-14 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The screw steam frigate LiVerpool, 39, Capt.
Rowley Lambert, from Gibraltar February 28,
arrived at Plymouth on Monday morning. She
brings the ships' companies of the Firefly and
Cockatrice, and Lieut. Lacken, of the 32d Regi-
ment, stationed at Gibraltar. The Liverpool left
in port the gunboat Skylark, Captain J. C. Pre-
vost, and spoke off Cape Spartel the screw steam
frigate Topaze, 31, Capt. William M. Dowell, C. 8.,
bound to the Pacific, but which was said to be
going ',into Gibraltar in consequence of the ap-
pearance of smallpox among the crew. On. Sun-
day last the Liverpool spoke the Alexandrine,
from Foo-chow-foo, with tea, and the Postilion,
from Calcutta, both bound to London.
The iron paddlewheel steam vessel Oberon, 2,
Lieut.-Commander Edmund H. Verney, at Ply-
mouth, having made a satisfactory trial of her
engines, will now require some minor defects to
be made good, when she will proceed to her
station, the West Coast of Africa.
The screw steam frigate Galatea, 26, was towed
on Monday from her moorings in Hamoaze to Nei'
ham steam yard, where she will be docked and fitted
for the first division of the steam reserve.

The trials of the Bellerophon, iron screw frigate,
14 guns, 4,270 tons, 1,000-horse power, Capt. J
Tatham, are fixed to commence over the measured
mile in Stokes Bay, near Portsmouth, on Thursday,
the 15th inst., weather permitting, under the super-
intendence of Capt. 11. Caldwell, C. 8., command'
ing her Majesty's ship Asia and the Portsmouth
Steam Reserve.

A court-martial assembled on Monday morning
on board the flagship Royal Adelaide, in Hamoaze,
for the purpose of trying Mr. E. A. M. Chaffers,
assist.-paymaster of the Doris, for being drunk on
board the said ship on the 28th of February last.
The Court consisted of Capt. C. J. F. Ewart, Capt.
R. Drew, Capt. Aplin, Capt. Tremlett, and Capt.
V. Baker. Mr. William Eastlake, Deputy-Judge-
Advocate. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and it
being on record that he had before been on proba-
tion under a charge of intemperance the Court ad-
judged him to be dismissed from her Majesty's
service.

The following appointment has been made in the
Royal Naval Reserve : —To be Sub-Lieutenant:
Charles Greulich.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Common Jury.)

HODGE V. HODGE SIMMONS AND SYMONDS. a
Dr. Dean, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwicke appeared
for the petitioner, and Dr. Stinks for the respou"
dent, who entered an appearance, and denied the
adultery. The co-respondent entered no aPPe3f'

ante.
From the evidence it appeared that the petitionerr
was a builder, and lived at a place called Stoke, lie%
?lymouth. The acts of adultery deposed to we
of the most flagrant character, and committed underr
circumstances of a very revolting description.
Some witnesses were called with a view to
credit the testimony of the witnesses for the peti-
tioner, and counsel having addressed the jury'
His Lordship summed up very carefully.
The jury, after a short consultation, found 111
verdict for the petitioner on all the issues raised'od
His Lordship then pronounced a decree nisi,
condemned the co-respondents in the costs.