The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-18 00:00:00

Naval ,and Military lntenigence.

The 23d Royal Welsh Fusileers, quartered at Portsmouth
and Gosport, were inspected on Southsea-common on Mon-
day afternoon by Major-General Breton, the Commander-in-
Chief of the South-West district. The regiment =sterol
upwards of 1,500 strong, and went through all the move-
ments incidental to an official inspection to the satisfaction
of the General.

The number of troops who have volunteered for the
various Indian corps at Chatham is about 800, the whole
of whom will join their depots at Chatham-barracks. •
Her Majesty's steam-vessel Wye, Master-Commander
Moore, 2 guns and 100-horse power, arrived at Spithead
yesterday from the Mediterranean. She left Gibraltar on
the 9th inst. On the 10th and 11th she encountered heavy
gales from the north-west, and lost a quarterboat, but had
fine weather crossing the Bay of Bh.cay. The Wye was
formerly the Hecla, and bought by the Government from the
North of Europe Steam Navigation Company to be con-
verted into a watertank for distilling water for the use of
the fleet, then at 13alaklava. She was fitted for this duty by
Mr. T. T. Grant, the Controller of Victualling at Ports •
mouth Dockyard, in the fall of the year 1855, and sent
to the Black Sea in the spring of the—following year,
where she has been distilling from 30,000 te•45,000 gallons
of water per day of excellent quality. The crew has hal
no other water, and there has been no sickness among
them. She left Spitbead for Woolwich to be paid off.
The Governor of Gibraltar was particularTif desirous that
the Wye should have been left there, as when she sailed he
had not more than 1,000 gallons of water-in...the garrison.
She brought home Captain Ross, R.N.;Mr:-.Goldsworthy,
R.N.. Lieutenant Butcher, R.M., invalided from her Ma-
jesty's ship Caragoa ; Mrs. Allen and son;-and Dr. Toms,
R.N ,in medical charge, on promotion. -
The Roebuck, 6. steam despatch vessel, has been taken
into the steam basin at Portsmouth to be brOught forward
for service.

The Plumper, 6, screw sloop, Capt. Richards, was taken
out of dock at Portsmouth yesterday, after repairs, and
taken under the shears to be reznasted. •
Vice-Admi,al Sir G. F. Seymour, K.C.8., struck his
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flag on board the Victory on Monday morning, and pro-
ceeded to town to be present at the marriage of his niece,
the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maid of Honour to the Queen,
to Colonel Biddnlph, Controller of her Majesty's House-
hold.

The Dee steam story transport is unloading boilers and
machinery for the new ships Diadem and Melpomene.
The urgent steam troopship, Commander Phillips, was
taken oat of the steam basin at Portsmouth on Monday,
after repairs.

A portion of the Crimean stores brought to Chatham
from Kertch by the engineer corps of the Turkish Contin-
gent is to be forwarded to Alderahott for the use of the
troops at thecamp and yesterday afternoonfour carts filled
with artificers' tools were forwarded from Chatham, in ad-
dition to which 16 of the large pontoons and 8 rafts have
also been sent to Aldershott, to be used by the Royal En-
gineers stationed there. Twelve of General Blanshard's
pontoons and six rafts have also been sent to Sandhurst,
where they will be used by the young officers. In addition
to the stores which have already been forwarded to Alder-
shott, 12 waggons and carts, laden with intrenching tools,
will be sent from Chatham this day. Nearly the whole of
the stores have now been removed from the gun-wharf and
deposited at Brompton barracks.
The Iris, 26, Capt. W. Loring, C. 8., fitting at Chatham
for the Australian station, is under orders to proceed to sea

to-morrow. .
The Diamond, 27, Capt. C. B. Hamilton (1855), is to
be paid off at Chatham this day.
The following appointments were made yesterdayat the
Admiralty :
Lieut. Richard C. Mayne, to the Plumper; E. M. Top-
per mate, to the Iris; Win. Parsons, midshipman, to the
Victnry; A. J. Erringtun, midshipman, to the Impreg-
nable; and Robert W. M. Jones, paymaster, to the Curlew.

ORDNANCE SURVEY OF GREAT BRITAIN.

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The following letter' has been addressed to the Times :

Sir,—ln your leading article of to-day on " the pecu-
niary incontinence of the Ilouse of Commons" you have
fallen into two mistakes in your observations on the Ord-
nance Survey of Great Britain, which I feel certain you
easuyrvi `
yeth ofe Scotland
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will be anxious to correct as soon as they are pointed out.
Commons oeneaslehaesf rfievceentfelyetsatenca-
tioYnoeda a
mile," and that " it will give every Scotch proprietor, at
the public expense, a better map of his 1,000 or 2,000 acres
of moor than is possessed by any English gentleman who
has not gone to great expense for such a purpose."
Now, the facts are, first, as regards the scale of the plans
of the uncultivated districts, the Treasury minute and my
orders on this subject direct " that the Highland and other
partially-cultivated and thinly-populated districts shall be
drawn on the scale of six inebes to a mile," which is only
one-tenth of the scale stated in the Tines, as applied to the
linear measure, and only one-hundredth of that scale as
applied to the area of the ground.
2. You say that the Soo, ch proprietor under the present
arrangements for the survey obtains, at the public expense,
better maps than the English proprietor can obtain at great
personal expense, the fact being that the surveys of Eng.
land and Scotland are proceeding pari pa 4,9 u, and under
precisely simile' instructions, and although in a numerical
return of the counties published in England and Scotland
ou the large scales the number of English counties appears
:mail, yet when it is borne in mind that Yorkshire alone,
the plans of which have been engraved and published on
the six-inch scale, is equal in area to the counties of Edin-
burgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, Fife, Wigton, 'Kirkcud-
bright, Ayr, and Dumfries, it will be seen that, as far
as
any objection can be made on the score of ' expenditure in
one part of Great Britain rather
than another, the English
have nothing to complain of,
The maps of every county in Ireland have been long
since published on the six-inch scale, and their great value
has never been questioned, and many important measures
connected with the improvement ofthe could not
country
be carried out without it.
I have no desire to revive in your columns the discus-
sions as to the best scales for the maps of this or any other
civilised country t the subject
d , ...as already been very fully
discussed inParliamentary committees, and in both Houses
of Parliament, and the opinions of the most eminent
set forth in
practical men conversant with the subjectn are 13
the °Scale of the
the published volume of parliamentCorrespendeto ; but I may
Survey, which has been laid before
ed are those—making
observe that the scales now adopt
he measures of the oonn-
allowance for the difference2ft
Belgium, and Bavaria,
tries—which are adopted in France,commended by the Statistical
and are those which were
it 1854 ; and I may be allowed
Congress held in Brusselsf renee to the great object in view—
to add that, haviitgareof
property, the means of facilitating
viz., the registry
antl,% proerty, the valuation of property,
the transfer of 1. au
turposes, civil and military, including
and all engineering.
1.1 and hydrographical surveys, and all
. : :
n.
-he goologloa .
'nil"' - es for which an accurate map is a necessary
• other p
- urilsales now adopted, as far as I can judge, after
. Basisb—the .
-perienco in almost every ems of engineering
ng e.- the sub.
and after a very careful consideration of
works, and
perfectly suited for the national survey.
- e There are other mistakes in your observations on the
survey which I should be happy to explain if I could ven-
ture so far to trespass on your space. Such, for
_exaemple,
-o' d:
y
as the statement that the contours are at every
I etr de-
aid as regards the survey of Lewis, alth"gli then
fend the minute details of that portion of . e surve
which was made long y,
before my appoli4ment as snperin-
tendent, the proprietor of that island, in paying a sum
to wards tie expense of the survey, on the condition that
it should be proceeded with at once, only followed the ex.
lnshire in so doin
ample of the gentlemen ofe Leijur"' yo b our obedient servant
I have the honour to b'
,y JAMES,
Lieutenant-Colonel Royal Engineers, Saperin,
tendent of the Ordnance Survey,
Ordnance Map-office, Southampton, Feb, 16.

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