The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-28 00:00:00

THE NAVY.

VALETTA, Aug. 25.—Her Majesty's ship Marl-
borough, 131 guns (bearing the flag of Vice-Admi-
ral Sir W. Fanshawe Martin, K.C.8.), Captain
Houston IV. Stewart, C. 8., left port on the after-
noon of the 19th inst., in tow of the Terrible, 21,
Capt. F. H. H. Glasse, C. 8., for Naples, whither
she had been preceded by several line of battle
ships and smaller vessels of the Mediterranean fleet.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Himalaya, Capt. J.
Seccombe, with the third Brigade of Royal Artil-
lery, for Malta and Corfu, arrived on the 19th inst.
from Gravesend and Gibraltar. She brought for
this garrison Col. Maclean, 28 officers, and 638 men,
and for Corfu, Col. Wright, 17 officers, and 348
men, besides women and children. Two days pre-
viously the Malta division of the sixth brigade,
which is to go home in the Himalaya on her return
from Corfu, was placed under canvas, to make room
for the division of the third brigade which is to re-
lieve it. The Himalaya, after landing the troops
for Malta, left on the 21st inst. for Corfu. She also
took up with her several officers who had been
awaiting passage. Her Majesty's
H. Howard,gunboat Mohawk,
4, Commander E. came in on the 19th
inst. from Beyrout, and the Renown, 91, Capt. A.
Forbes, left on the following evening for England,
taking with her invalids, &c., from the station and
the remainder of Capt. Drake's company of Royal
Engineers, in all amounting to 415 persons, includ-
ing women and children. The Frenchlmperial yacht
La Reine Hortense, having on board the Count and
Countess of Montebello, left on the 19th instant
for Constantinople, and the Russian screw frigate
Gromoboi, took her departure on the following day
on her return to Beyrout. The only men-of-war in
port are the Hibernia, 'receiving ship, bearing the
flag of Rear-Admiral H. J. Codrington, C. 8.; the
Medina, 4 ; the Recruit, 6 ; the Mohawk, 4 ; and
the Hearty tug."
Instructions were received at Chatham dockyard
yesterday that the iron mail-clad steam frigate De-
fence, 22, will leave the Tyne for Chatham on the
7th Sept., and may therefore be expected to arrive
in the Medway on the following or the succeeding
day. Immediately on her arrival she will be docked
and fitted iu order that she may be got ready for sea
with the least passible delay, Her armament has
already arrived from Woolwich, the following being
the number of Armstrong guns she is intended to
mount :—Main deck, 16 100-pounders, and 4 40-
pounders; uppe r deck, 2 100-pounders, pivot guns.
The Defence, on. her arrival at Chatham, will be
commissioned by Capt. R. A. Powell, C.B. (1855),
late of the' Boscaven, 70. Capt. Powell is known to
be a most zealous and persevering officer, and his
appointment to the Defence has given very general
satisfaction.

Intelligence has been received at Chatham of the
loss, off Shoebriryness, of the Admiralty transport
Dove, which struck on the sands and immediately
went down: ¶f he Dove had arrived at Chatham
with a portion (of the stores taken out of the Hussar,
44, which was set on fire by the Armstrong shells
off Shoeburynet3s. Immediately on the intelligence
being received, a number of hands were despatched
from Chatham. and Sheerness dockyards to render
assistance and to endeavour to raise her.

THE ARMY.

The following General Order has just been issued
from the Ree:miting Department to Cavalry Regi-
ments at home and abroad :

" Horse Guards, S.W., Aug., 17.
" Her Majesty having been pleased to approve of
the Cavalry being reorganized and classified as be-
low, and the standard of recruits for this branch of
this service mvised, his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in Chief directs that the following
regulations 'be strictly adhered to until further
orders, viz.:--Heavy.-4th and sth Dragoon
Guards, and :Ist and 2d Dragoons; from 5 feet 8
inches to 5 feet 11 inches. Medium.-Ist, 2d, 3d,
6th, and 7th. Dragoon Guards, sth Lancers, 6th
Dragoons, Kt, 12th, 16th, and 17th Lancers; from
5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 9 inches. Light.-3d, 4th,
13th and 14th. Hussars (late Light Dragoons), 7th,
Bth, 10th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and 21st
Hussars ; from. 5 feet 6 inches to 5 feet 8 inches.
Age, not under 18 nor exceeding 25 years.
" By command of his Royal Highness the Gene-
ral Commanding in Chief,
" JAMES YORKE SCARLETT,
" Adjutant-General."

The 58th Regiment is about to leave Sheffield for
Scarborough, to be relieved by the 16th Regiment.
Lieut.-Col. Hood and the officers of the 58th were
entertained a few days since at dinner by Lieut.-
Col. Lord Wh.arncliffe and the officers of the Hal-
lamshire Rifle Corps at the Angel Hotel, Sheffield.
On Monday the depot of the 37th Regiment left
the Camp at Colchester en route for Pembroke.
In consequotice of several reports having been
made to the authorities at the Horse Guards of offi-
cers of Royal Engineers having neglected to dis-
charge their eiecounts for rent of quarters before
quitting the stations to which they may have
been attached, an order has been issued from the
office of the Deputy-Adjutant-General, by direc-
tion of the Duke of Cambridge, to the effect that
under no circutastances is an officer of Engineers
to leave the station to which he belongs without
first paying the rent for his quarters. Com-
manding officers of Royal Engineers will be held
responsible that this order is carried out, _ .

The depot of the 73d Regiment, which has been
quartered at Chatham for some time, left that gar-
rison yesterday and proceeded to Chichester, in
order to allow of the depot of the 2d battalion of the
4th (King's Own) being removed from Chichester
to Chatham, in accordance with the arrangements
decided on by the Duke of Cambridge, to concen-
trate, as far as practicable, the depot companies of
the Ist and 2d. battalions of regiments at the same
stations. The 73d depot left Chatham under the
command of Cupt. A. H. Godfrey,
On Monday evening, while some men were en-
gaged in one off the small detached rocket factories
in the Plu instead-marsh, adjoining Woolwich
Arsenal, a young man named Pickering was in the
act of punching holes in one of the rocket metal
cases, when it suddenly exploded with the report of
a 12-pounder gun, shattering the unfortunate man's
left hand in a„ shocking manner, and rendering ampu-
tation of the fore-arm immediately necessary.
Another of his companions was seriously injured and
scorched about, the face abd body. About 37 years
ago an uncle of the injured man met with his death
from an accident caused in a precisely similar man-
ner. It is to be regretted that means have not been
suggested to remedy the necessity of this danger-
ous operation..
The coroner's jury in the case of Jas. Bradshaw,
the private in the Royal Marines, shot by a Volun-
teer at the P lumstead-marshes while acting as a
marker, have found that his death was purely ac-
cidental. In. giving their verdict to that effect, the
jury begged the coroner would notify to the War
Department their impression that the main cause
of the accident was the unprotected form of the
mantlet, or small iron sheds for the protection of
the markers. They strongly recommended that
the form now in. use should be discontinued. It
appears that the• mantlet in which the man was
struck with the 'bullet was four yards out of the
straight line of fixing, and 15 yards in rear of the
target, which conveys the idea that some reckless
or awkward firirg must have been practised at the
time. The poor :fellow who has met with his un-
timely death was within 10 months of his super-
annuation, and the facts are so intimatelyknown
to the members of the jury, they urged the coroner
in his official ca•pexity to lay the distressed condi-
tion of the widow and family before the authorities
at the Admit alt y, in the hope of obtaining some
consideration fc it ihem.