The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-29 00:00:00

Naval and IYlllitary Intelligence.

On Saturday morning the 2d battalion of the
Rifle Brigade under the command of Colonel Hill,
arrived at Liverpool from Aldershott, and em-
barked on board the steamers, Royal William,
Windsor, and' Prince, for Dublin, and in the even-
ing the 79th Highlanders, which had also arrived
from Aldershott, embarked from the same port for
Dublin in the steamers Duchess of Kent, Princess,
and Duke of Cambridge.
The sailing ship Duchess of Kent, which has been
chartered and fitted at Liverpool, sailed from that
port on Saturday evening for Kingstown, where
she will en2ibark the head-quarters of the 50th Re-
giment for Colombo.
220 non-commissioned officers and men of the
35th (Royal Sussex) Regiment will embark at
Gravesend, on Wednesday, on board the Bucepha-
lus, Commander W. F. Peppercorne, for the pur-
pose of joining the service 'companies of that regi-
ment in Calcutta. The following officers are under
orders to embark with that detachment :—Captain
W. Patterson, Lieutenant J. Davis, Ensign H. E.
Fryer. and Ensign Dillon, 35th Regiment, and
Ensign G. C. Sidebottom 53d Regiment.
The Princess Charlotte, 104, Captain G. St. V.
King, C. 8., left Spithead on Saturday in tow of
the steam-frigate Leopard, 18, Captain Waiu-
vvright, for China. As she was proceeding down
the Channel, she was met by the Avon, sent to re-
cal her, and she went into Plymouth Sound. She
will be the first three-docker that has ever crossed
the Line.

Tho Cumberland, 72, Captain Dickson, flag of
Rear-Admiral Wallis, Commander in-Chief of the
South-East Coast of America Station, put into
Plymouth Sound on Friday, for a chain messenger,
and sailed on Saturday for Rio Janeiro, to relieve
the Indefatigable.
The new screw corvette Pelorus, 21, made a suc-
cessful trip on Thursday from Ply mouth Sound to
the Eddystone. '
Tt.e Spanish frigate Isabella .1a Catolica, Briga-
dier Eugenio Salsedo, which disembarked the
Duke and Duchess de Montpensier on Tuesday at
Plymouth, sailed from that port on Saturday for
Ferrol.
The screw steam-ship Vulcan, 6, Capt. J. H.
Furneaux, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday. She
left Table Bay April 26, touched at St. Helena May
9, arrived at Ascension May 15, sailed on the 19th,
arrived at Fayel June 16, and left on the 18th.
The Vulcan has b ro ught invalid soldiers and seamen,
and others who have completed their service on the
Cape station. There are 210 rank and file, 16 wo-
men, and 51 children, under Lieut.-Col. G. King,
13th Regt ; also Capt. Smith, Royal Engineers,
Capt. H. E. Jones, 6th; Lieut. Cook, 73d; Major
Horsby, 80th ; Capt. Hall, 89th ; Lieut. Burke,
Cape Mounted Rifles ; and Dr. Barker and Dr.
Macdonald. The seamen include 12 officers, 22
petty officers, 49 seamen, 4 boys, 23 marines, 8
women, and 11 children. Spoke, ay 27, in lat. 8
26 N., long. 17 56 W., her Majesty's storeship In-
dustry, 2, Master Commander G. J. Hodges, 21
days from England; June 6, lat. 21 2 N., long. 31
61 W., the English ship Mauritius, from Greenock,
28 days out, for Demerara ; June 26, passed a sail-
ing ship, showing third distinguishing pendant over
No. 2,541 ; and June 27, an English bark, third
distinguishing pendant over No. 1,290. She was ,
commissioned in Jan., 1853, and has been chiefly
employed on the Cape Station. She left Plymouth
Sound yesterday morning for Portsmouth.
The West Block Point battery, erected at the
entrance of Milford Haven, for the defence of the
roadstead and the Royal Arsenal at Pembroke
dockyard, has been completed. It mounts six guns
of heavy calibre, and from its position will prove a
very effective defence. The Rev. J. M. Campbell,
M.A., has received the appointment of chaplain to
the dockyard, which he holds from the close of the
last month. The various contracts are progressing
in the dockyard under the direction of Mr. Batton,
the representative of Mr. E. Smith, of Woolwich,
who has sent to Pembroke for volunteers to
finish -the erection of the Victoria Military Hos-
pital, at Netley, where the masons have for some
time struck work. A large number of masons have
in consequence left for Netley, and a number of
others have also volunteered. Masons have ar-
rived from Ireland, but good masons are still re
quired for the works in progress at Pembroke
dockyard.
The Arab, 12-gun sloop, Commander Richard
B. Pease, arrived at Sheerness yesterday from the
North America and West India station ; she
saluted the flag at 8 a.m., which was returned by
the flagship Waterloo.
Vice-Admiral E. Harvey, C. 8., &c., arrived at
Sheerness on Friday on a preparatory visit pre-
vious to hoisting his flag there.
An Admiralty order arrived at Sheerness on Sa-
turday for the Ganges, 84-gun ship, to be commis-
sioned for sea, and to have a complement of 720 in
crew. The order is to fit her for the reception of a
flag officer, with accommodation foran admiral and
his officers. Au extra number of artificers were
put on Ilex immediately.