The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-26 00:00:00

VAVAL AND MILITARY NTELLIGENCE.

On Saturday a general court-martial, of which
Col. Eimbirst, commanding the Ist bat:alion, was
president, wse.mbied et Cua- ham bar, acks, for the
trial of Ensign Thomas S. Mitchell, 80th Regiment,
on several charges of disgraceful conduct, and being
found in a state of intoxication when on duty. The
Deputy-Assistant A dj a tant-G en eral,
J. W. Reynolds, officiated as Deputy Judge-Advo-
cate. The Court niet at 12 o'clock, but although
a telegraphic devatch had been forwarded by the
President to Shorncliffe, where the prisoner is sta-
tioned, ordering him to be pr.sent, he did not
attend ; and, atter waiting for some time, the mem-
bers of the court a Ijourued till to-m .rroir at half-
past 10. The prisoner has only been in the regi-
ment about two years.

Recruiting for the various Indian regiments is
proceeding in the most satisfactory manner. Last
week the number of recruits who k.ined the Indian
depots at Chatham was close upon 700, a number
altogether unprecedented. In addition to these
intelligence has been received that there are up-
wards of 500 recruits at the various recruiting dis-
tricts waiting to bs forwarded to Chatham, where
they are expecte I to arrive during the present
week. The supply of recruits comes chiefly from
the London, Midland, and Northern districts, the
neighbourhood of Liverpool having furnished a
large number.

On
Saturday an order arrived at Chatham garri-
son from the War-office, directing four officers
selected from each of the three depot battalions to
proceed to the School of Musketry, Hythe, with
the view of qualifying themselves as instructors of
musketry to their respective regiments in India.
The following officers have joined their respective
depots at the Provisional Ba'talions, Chatham,
previous to embarking for India :—Capt. G. W.
Stacpoole, 18th Royal Irish, who takes the com-
mand of the depot of that corps ; Lieut. W. S. C.
Pinwill, 27th Emaiskillings ; and Ensign H. M.
Harding, 7th Fusiliers.
The Colchester camp wi ll con tribute strong d taught a
to the regiments in India when the troops which
are being instructed in rifle practice on the Clac-
ton marshes have acquired the necessary profi-
ciency. The force in camp is divided into two
battalions, and comprises 94 officers and 2,068 rank
and file. The percentage of sick is rather large,
but there was odly one death list week. About
70 recruits have arrived within the I,st few days,
and some of them ‘t.ppf-ar to be young men of edu-
cation and comparatively good position in society.
As many as 150 recruits have joined the 15th
Hussars since the Lt of September. The head-
quarters of the regiment are at present at Norwich.
Another troop of the regiment will, it is expected,
be stationed shortly at Ipswich, and another also
at Norwich.

The Cyclops, 6, paddle frigate, Captain Pullen,
left Spithead yegerday morning for the Red Sea,
where she will be employed in laying the electric
cable. She is fully armed, and }l'es her full com-
plement on board. She ka Maury's improved
lowering apparatus for `',:ounding. After fulfilling
her reiesiou in the tied Sea she will go on to the
China station. and place herself under the orders of
Rear-Atatral Sir Michael Seymour.
-s'lich anxiety was expressed at Falmouth yes-
terday relative to the non-arrival of the fast de-
Apatch steamer Caradoc, having on board the
Siamese Embassy, which left Malta on the 12th
inst. She ought to have made the passage com-
fortably in nine days, but it is feared she has en-
countered the brunt of the late gales, and has
been either injured or compelled to bear up for
some port of safety. The authorities at Ports-
mouth are prepared to pay every attention to the
Siamese Ambassadors, and the Commander-in-
Chief, Sir G. Seymour, has his steam yacht con-
stantly in readiness to carry him out to Spithead
immediately on the arrival of the Caradoc.
Captain Alexander Milne, and Captain Sir
Bald win Walker, K.C.8., have been staying at the
Portland Hotel, Southsea, during the past three
days, while they inspected the steam fleet in re-
serve and made observations upon the trial of the
Diadem, the steaming performances of which in
com.p4rison with her horse power have so signally
disappointed the expectations of her designers.
Lieutenant Brown and two non-commissioned
officers to the Oxford Militia, garrisoned at Wool-
-"rich, proceeded to Hythe on Saturday, in pur-
suance of an order issued from the Horse Guards,
for the purpose of going through a course of in-
struction in the Enfield rifle, about to be distributed
to the regiment. Captain Spalding, Woolwich
divistoti of Royal Marine Light Infantry, was on
Saturday despatched on recruiting service to Derby,
to relieve Major Elliott, who is ordered to join
head-quarters previous to embarkation. The smiting
transport Isabella Blythe arrived at Woolwich on.
Saturday, laden with victualling stores from Dept-
ford, and having embarked Captain Gore, one sub-
altern, appointed from the Royal Military College
at Woolwich, and a detachment of 50 nou-com-
missioned officers and gunners, for the reinforcement
of Captain Anson's company of the 2d battalion
Royal Artillery in the Mauritius, she proceeded on
her voyage. 1

The list of new class screw frigates, to carry 32
and 50 guns respectively, ordered to be laid sown
at Woolwich, containitg the names of the Anson,
the Repulse, an 1 ae Baross-I, has been increased
by the addition '•fa fourth vessel, to be named the
Bristol.

His Excell,tiey the I_,-,rd Lielf.enant of Ireland
Las appointed B, eva-Major Hume, 55th
=tent, vice CAltr.w pe, res'gned, to be extra Aide-
de-Camp ; and Ciptain Tito uas Esmond.,, I alf-pay
3.Bth Regiment, t, be extra Aide-de-Camp, vice
Vesey, reAped.
The steam guuboats Forward and Skipjack,
Lieutenants Bel ketey and Murray, now at Ports-
mouth, are ordered to be re td.y fur sea by the end
of this month. They will be sent to the coast of
Cuba.

Tue Urgent, 6, iron screw steam tro .p frigate,
Commander Macdonald, went on Friday lait to
Stokes Bay for a trial ..f her engine, which worked
admirably, and produced a speed of 12 knots an
hour.

The Brazlian corvette Imperial Marinheiro,
Captain Alvin, remains at Shithead. H-,r captain
and officers were en.ertaineft at the Gove7nment-
house, Port-mouth, on Ililla.y night, by Major-
General the lion. Sir J. Yorke Sciali::t, K.C. B.
The Brazilian and Neth-rlanda consuls were also
invited and a g dliut general cire!e.
The following appolntini-nts were made on Satur-
thy at ;he ..Idiniraity :
Lieut. H. Davies, to be lieutenant commanding
th© Forward, vice Lieut. Berkeley, sup,lrseded ;
Lieu,. Charles G. G. Percival, to the Heron ;
Lent. J. H. Coxton, to the Coiiflic ; Edward F.
Craven, mat-, to the Cyclops ; J. O'Brien Sc
naval cadet, to the V d ,rous ; R.b rt Stev
surgeon-superinten lent, to the LAdy .I\l•Naughe.t
convict ship ; E. C. Abbott, master's assistant, to
Heron ; H. Lindquist, master's assistant, to the
Persian.