The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-06 00:00:00

Naval and Military IntalligGnce.

On _Saturday 50 non-cp.mmissinned offieeri and
menp belonging chiefly to the Ist Royals, the 31e, -
34 the' 92d .Elighlanders; arrived at St. Mar) 's .4
Barracks, -Chatham,- in charge of Lieutenant F. T.
Cassidy, the 31st Regiment having been sent home
from Gibraltar •on account of their unfitness for
further service. As soon as the troops .have been
inspected by a Chelsea board of officers they will be
diScharged front the service.
Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam vessel Avon,
tender to the flag ship at Devonport, arrived at
Woolwich on Sunday evening, bringing Captain _
Charles M'Arthur, First-Lieutenant John Cairn-
cross, First-Lieutenant. Albert Higman, Second-
Lieutenant C. H. Stanbridge, and 40 rank and file
of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, ra:(1. off at
Plymouth from the screw steamship Orion, 01,
late from-North America =and the" West Indies.
Tie Avon is to return to-day to Devouport. •
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The Diligence naval transport having discharged
h r cargo at Wool wich, from Gibraltar, was yester-
day docked f r repairs, and the harb air-service '
frigate Bah nte was yesterday de-patched to •••
Chatham in tow of the steamers Monkey and
Widgeon.
f The Conqueror, 101, screw, Captain Yelverton,
C. 8., arrived at Gibraltar, on the 25th ult., from
Lisbon.
1 The extra riggers lent to the Agamemnon, 91, .
screw, at De vonport, have been discharged to their
r spective yards, the seamen being sufficient to, per-
-** m the duty required.
With a view to extending the use of Clifford's
boat lowering gear in the naval service generally,
the Lords of the Admiralty have ordered models of
tie necessary fittings to be received at Woolwich,
so t'at the system may be cart ied out in her Ma-
jesty'a ships. Two remarkable cases of the efficiency
.at the system occurred on board the screw frigate
Shannon, 51, Captain Peel. When under full sail,
and with heavy press of canvas, the boats were
lowered and lives were saved without staying
to round the ship to, or in any way slacken
I,er speed, as in the case of the Transit-
larieie' narrated in The Sun of yesterday.
What was looked on as foolhardiness in the in- "
,ventor nine months since by naval men of any ex-
perience, when in the gale of January last he
manned a boat with a full crew, and taking his
;plme with them lowerad it from just behind the
,paddlewheel of the steam-hip Dee, the vessel being
:then at full speed, has now become a matter of re-
ipeated practical application and utility, shown to
be the mere result of simple mechanical principles.
Mr. Clifford has exemplified his principle some
hundreds of times, by being lowered from vessels
of all kinds at most of our seaport and dockyard
towns from Aberdeen to Plymouth.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :--
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Lieutenants H. Hand and A. H. Webb (addi-
tional), to the Yesuvius, for disposal ; Charles G.
Jone., mate, to the Excellent ; Edward Denny,
mate, to the Cornwallis ; Henry R. J. Pearch,
acting eecond-master, to tho Urgent ; C. R. K.
Smith, midshipman, to the Styx ; 'Walter Stewart,
midshipman, to the Diadem ; S. S. Smith, mid-
diipman, to.the Hastings; C. E. D. Willcox, mid-
shipman, to the Hawke.