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

Naval and Military Intelligence.

On Saturday 50 non-commissioned officers and
men, belonging chiefly to the let Royals, the 31st,
and the 92d Highlanders, arrived at St. Mar) 's
Barracks, Chatham, in charge of Lieutenant F. Y.
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 from 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, paid off at
Plymouth from the screw steamship Orion, 91,
late from North America and the West Indies.
The Avon is to return to-day to Devouport.
The Diligence naval transport having discharged
her cargo at Woolwich, from Gibraltar, was yester-
day docked f, :r repairs, and the harbour-service
frigate Bacchante was yesterday despatched to
Chatham in tow of the steamers Monkey and
Widgeon.
The Conqueror, 101, screw, Captain Yelverton,
C. 8., arrived at Gibraltar, on the 25th ult., from
Lisbon.

The extra riggers lent to the Agamemnon, 91,
screw, at Devonport, have been discharged to their
respective yards, the seamen being sufficient to per-
form 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
the necessary fitting's to be received at Woolwich,
so t at the system may be cariied out in her Ma-
jesty's ships. Two remarkable cases of the efficiency
of 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
her speed, as in the case of the Transat-
lattit-, narrated in The Sun of yesterday.
Wh.t 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 lagt ho
manned a boat with a full crew, and taking his
plme with them lowered it from just behind the
paddbiwhoel of the steamship Dee, the vessel being
then at full speed, has now become a matter of re-
peated practical application and utility, shown to
be the mere result of simple mechanical principles.
Mr. Clifford has
.exempiifip.4 rinaig. cme_
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 :
Lieutenants H. Hand and A. H. Webb (addi-
tional), to the Vesuvius, for disposal ; Charles G.
Jone., mate, to the Excellent ; Edward Denny,
mate, to the Cornwallis ; Henry R. J. Pearch,
acting second-master, to the 'Urgent ; C. R. K.
Smith, midshipman, to the Styx ; Walter Stewart,
midshipman, to the Diadem ; S. S. Smith, mid-
shipman, to the Hastings; C. E. D. Willcox, mid-
shipman, to the Hawke.