The Sun.
London, England, 1857-07-23 00:00:00

UIISDAY EVENING, JULV 23. to b 7.

Va7ai and Ml!lvry inteitgenue.

His Royal Highness the General Comm •:nding-
in-Chief will hold a levee at ono o'clock on Mon-
day next, the 27th inst. .
A review took place at 10 o'clock this morn-
ing at Wormwood Scrubs of t':e Ist and 2d Life
Guard, by Major-General t')e Earl of Car&gan,
the Inspec'or-General of Cavalry. To enable the
whole of the two regiments to be-present, the duty
of the Horse Guards was taken at 6 o'clock last
evening by the 11:h Hussars.
Her Maje-sty's yacht Victoria "and Capt-.
the Hon; -Joseph Denman, will embark his Royal
Highness the Prince Consort and suite on Sunday
afterno)n hex,, and convey him to Antwerp, to be
present at the marriage of Archduke Ferdinand
Maximilian of Austria with the daughter of the
King of the Belgians.
Captain George Ramsay, C. 8., we believe, is
selected to succeed Captain Smart as Superinten-
dent of Pembroke dockyard.
The .0 wen. Glendower and Ram:lien freightship3
sailed from Shithead for Kurrachoe yesterday morn-
ing with the troops before mentioned.
The freigbtship Whirlwind arrived at Shithead
yesterday to embark a portion of the 19th Foot for
. •
The Alnwick Caatle fre:ghtship embarked yester-
day the following offikers and men of the 19th Re-
giment for_ Indiaeut,-Coloncl G. 0. Mundy,
Major C-. B. Jennings, o,aptailks Massey, e!ay,
Sheaffe, Lambert:, arid Bayley ; Lientniants Goren,
Kirke, Dalton, Forbe3, and Moffatt ; E3signe
Arla,garr, :Knox, Biddolph, Rew, Isles, and Frith ;
Assistant-Surgeon Webh, Lieut. G. Baldwin, 19
Borgeaflts, seven drummers, 18 corporal F, 358 pri-
vates—total,. 422. She went out to Shithead yes-
terday, ar:d sails thence this morning.
The William Hammond freightahip embarked the
following troops yesterday at Portsmouth for India:
—Captain Stehelin, Lieut. Gorton, Ensigns Bern-
ford, and Sh idwell, three, corporal, and 83 privates
of the- 29th Regiment -; Lieutenants Buck, Bag-
nall, aed Davern, two corporals, and 120 privates
of the 53d Regiment ; 20 privates of the firat
battalion of the 60th Rifles • and A.‘,,sisant surgeon
Smith, of the 19th Regiment.

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Our Sou,harripton correspondent informs us by
elec,ric and international telegraph that the Golden
Fleeee and Lady Jocelyn stoomers have been
chartered to Government for the conveyance of
troops to India, in consequence of which there will
be n ) departures of the Eoropean and American
Company's ships for the Braz.ls on the 4th -of
August and.the 4 h of September.
The Est India Company's tr.-;Opship- Alfred,
Pope commander, has arrived at G avesend with
120 non-commi,sioned officers and men belonging
to the 9th Royal Lancers, and the 52d Light In-
fantry, under the command of Major R. M. Bee,
10th Fool., and Lieutenant G. L. Flamstead,
521 Light Infantry; Captain Loredale, 15th Native
Inrantry, and-Lieutenant-Colenel H. Bingham,
als ) came home with the troop?. The Alfred
sailed froar._Caloutt t- 7th of Mareb; -au d
anchored at St. 11,1ena on the 31 of June leaving
on the following day. The vessel had a tedious
paszae of 135 days. Daring the voyage six
soldiers and one'of the crew died on boarl. -
Four hundred officers—non-commis4onecl officers
and men of the Woolwich division of Royal Ma-
rines—are under orders for China,-and active pre-
parations are now making for their departure.
The screw steamship B)hiana is under survey, at
Liverpool, -with tho view of being taken up by
Government for the conveyance of troops to China.
The Lords of the Admiralty pail thir official
annual visit of inspection to C!)a,thain dockyard
yesterday. The party consisted of Sir Charles
Wood, G.C.8., First Lord, Rear-Admiral 11.
Eden, Captain A. Milne, Sir Baldwin Walker,
K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, and Colonel
G eon. Their lordships slept on bo)rd the
Black Eagle off Oila'ham dockyard, the
Black Evie having unfortunately taken the
ground while steaming up the Medway on Tuesday
evening, and at 9 o'clock yesterday morning landed
at the Queen's stait e, where a gnarl of honour of
the Royal Marine Light Infantry, under the coin-

'nand of C4pt. C. J. Ellis, with their band and di-
visional colours, received their-durd4bips. with the
usual honours. The Board were received by Cap-
tain G. Gol !smith, C. 8., Superintendent of
Chatham D &yard, and -Ve various officers of the
establishment. Their lordships, accompini d by
the officers, proceeded to inspect the various ships
in course of building and now in dock. They first
examined the Ilero, 91, screw steamer, building on
No. 2 slip. This vessel was commenced in 1854,
and is so far completed that she is expected to be
launched during the pre,ent year. She will be
fitted with machinery of 600-horse power. They
next visited the Goliath, 80, in dock, undergoing
alterations to fit her for a scr w steamer. Their
lordships afterwards inspected the Charybdi.4, 21,
screw stem-corvette, commenced in March of last
year, and hid clown on the same slip as that from
Which the Severn, 51, sailing frigate, was hunched ;
the Irresistible, 80; screw steamer(buillino); and
the Hood, 90. Their lordships spent some time in
examing the Mersey, 40 screw steamer, which will
be the longest frigate in the navy, her-length being
337 feet. She is being completed with all despatch,
and will be supplied with engines of 1,000 horse-
power. After inspecting the slip on which the
large screw steamer Atlas, 91, is to be Jail down,
their lordships visited the ropery,
mast-house, smithery, saw-mills, and other por-
tions of the establishment. On leaving the
establishments the visitors proceeded to in-
spect the Fite of the large new steam-basins,
which are promed to be built at the extreme
eastern end of the yard, the drawings and plans of
foundations of the pr.-,pos?el new dooks vvi.l be ex-
which wore explained to their lordships. The
the inspected
cavatehdabvyintlherectounrvniecdts.to Leoocridiyeaorfd,the Admi-
ralty,the various improvements now b&rag carried on at
that establishment, the most important of which is
the construction of the large tidal basin, the length
of which is 400 feet. No. 3 dock is also bring

lengthened 80 feet, which will give its extreme
lsngth 325 feet. The construction of both the
docks is being carried out by
Messrs. Rigby,
After inspecting the several improvements now in
progress at Chatham Dockyard, their lordships
ordered the whole of the persons e
Inp!oyed in the
establishment to be mustered, which having been
done, they were inspected by their lordships, who
granted th,,m a hilf-d,ty's holiday. On leaving the
Dockyard their lordships proceeded to the Marine
Barracks, where the whole of the Chatham division

of ri oyal Marine and Light Infantry, at present at
head-quarters, with their band and colours, were
drawn up in the Barrack-squire, under the com-
mand of the Commandant-Col. E. A. Parker. The

detachments of Marines under oriers to embark for

China, numbering about 400 officers and men,
were formed on the right of of the division. After
inspecting the library, barrack-rooms, mess-rooms,
&c., their lordships visit d Melville Hospital, and
in the afternoon returned to the Admiralty.
Her MajP.sty's steam-sloop Gorgon, Commander
George W. Towsey, last from the Mediterranean,
was yesterday morning admitted into basin at
Woolwich and placed under the sheers in order to
land her cargo, which consists of 250 packages,
among which are some Colossal statues in marble of
horses, &c., weighing eight or ten tons each, exca-
vated by the officers and crew of the Gorgon among
the ruins of the ancient city of Halicarnassus, in
Asia Minor. Among the smaller discoveries are
some highly preserved mosaics, friezes, &c., the
whole of which are about to be deposited in the
Briti,h Museum. The Gorgon having been upwards
of three years in commission is under orders to be
paid off at Woolwich.
The Lady Ediugton steamer called at Woolwich
yesterday morning and shipped a couple of Russian
guns, trophies of the late war, for Galway, which
have been presented by Government, to betrected
in the most public thoroughfare of that town.
Master Commander Noddall and the ( fficers of
her Majesty's ship AgarnoalP9n, with the officers
of Woolwich dockyard connectedwith the shipment
of the telegraphic wire, are to be entert iined at
dinner to-day at Belvidere-honse, the residence of
Sr Culling Eardley, at Erith, prior to the depar-
ture of the Agamemnon from Greenwich.
The brigade of Royal Horse Artillery under the
command of Colonel Wood, and the field batteries
in command of Colonel Teesdale, were put through
the manoeuvres of a field-day yesterday on Wool-
wich common.

rifle practice still
in rifle
seven miles
continues at Fg
roefsit)hweateg arrriEsoanst,

from Pembroke where a camp for the summer has
been established, and detachments in turn sta-
tioned there for the practice. The annual training
of the coastguard has commenced at the dockyard,
the men having been for the purpose drawn in from
the various btati,)ns. Their practice at the great
guns has been very good, the broad waters of the
haven giving ample scope for the firing.
Lieutenaot G. R, Mull has been appointed to