The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-22 00:00:00

rEE SUN, LON DON, MONDAY EVENING,

Naval and Military intelligence.

't The following General Order has been issued :-
1 • " Horse Guards,- S. W,, June 19.
" His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief calls the attention of officers commanding regi-
ments, depots, and depot battalions, to the condition of
their regimental schools.
It is scarcely less essential to the godlier to be able to
read and write and keep his own own accounts than to
be acquainted with his drill. Without these elementary
acquirements no soldier is capable of profiting by the
instruction giving him in the use of the rifled musket-,
his promotion is rendered less probable, and he is de-
prived of the interest and improvement derivable from
the excellept libraries now placed within his reach.
" His Royal Highness is pleased to direct that for the
future every soldier, after being dismissed from drill,
shall attend school as a duty until he is reported upon as
sufficiently advanced in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
" With the concurrence of the Secretary for War, no
feei are to be required for this attendance at school.
" It will be desirable that commanding officers should
so arrange the duties of the men as to give, if possible,
at least four hours' attendance each week to all men of
the above class.
"No man is to be considered eligible for promotion to
corporal, unless in the field, who has not been dismissed
the above class,
"For promotion to the rank of sergeant higher quali-
fications may be expected. It is not intended at present
to lay down an absolute rule on the subject, but the at-
tention of commanding officers is called by his Royal
Highness the General Commanding-in Chief to the im-
portance of carrying the education of non-oommis.ioned
officers to a higher point than the mere acquisition of the
arts of reading and writing. With this view it must be un-
derstood that those men who avail themselves moat intel-
ligently of the means of improvement within their reach
will be generally preferred for promotion, where in re-
spect to conduct and soldierlike bearing, they are eligi-
ble for it ; and that neglect so to do will be regarded as
a disqualification. It is not, however, intended hereby
to fetter the discretion of commandingofficers in the pro-
motion of men who display conspicuous courage, or show
the tact and moral influence which give non-commissioned
officers weight with their comrades.
"By command of his Royal Highness the General
Commanding in Chief,
"G. A. WETHEEZ,ALL, Adjutant-General.
An Admiralty order arrived at the head-quarters
of the Chatham division of Royal Marines on Sa-
turday, directing the Colonel-Comariandent E. A.
Parker to furnish from the staff at present at head-
quarters 1 lieutenant-colonel, 5 captains, 1 field-
adjutant, and 12 lieutenants, with the divis'onal
band and colours, and 438 non-commissioned offi-
cers and mon, to form a battalion of Royal Marines
on the occasion of her- Majesty's presenting the
Victoria Cross to those officers and men nominated
to received that distinction. The detachment of
Marines will proceed from Chatham to-morrow
morning, the following being the officers selected to
accompany the detachment, viz.:—Lieut.-Colonel
G. Elliot, Brevet-Major H. Marriott, Brevet-
Major G. B. Rodney, Capt. D. Blyth, Capt. E. A.
Wylde, Capt. C. J. Ellis, Adjutant H. G. Elliot,-
Lieuts. C. L. A. Faimar, C. W. Carrington, J. F.
Hawkey, C. T. Daly, Lennox, E. Willis, R.
D. Kennicott, H. Wolrige, R. J. Pascoe, H. M.
Kay, and N. F. Way.
On Saturday afternoon upwards of 1,000 officers,
non-commissioned officers, and men, belonging to
the depots of the 24th, 27th (Enniskillens), 52d
(Light Infantry), 61st, 70th, 81st, and 87th (Royal
Irish Fusileers), regiments at the Provisional Bat-
talion, Chatham, the whole of whom are under or-
ders to embark for India, were drawn up on
Chatham lines, for inspection by the Commandant
of the Provisional Battalion, Colonel H. Jervis,
previously to their eaabarcatioa on board the East
India Company's vessels at Gravesend. The man-
oeuvres were performed in an efficient manner.
The Provisional Battalion will give upwards of
8,000 troops this season for the rerriments serving
in India, the whole of whom will -have embarked
before the close of next month. On the recent oc-
casion of the Duke of Cambridge Visiting Chatham
garrison his Royal Highness expressed' himself in
high terms on the appearance and excellent 'disci-
pline of the troops proceeding to India. The fol-
lowing officers of the above regiments are under
orders to embark with the detachments:—Col. A.
C. Blachford, Captains F. Clark and. W. Winniett,
Lieuts. R. H. TraversandW. B. Logan,and Ensign
J. Johnstone, 24th Regiment ; Captains W.Croker
and H. Mitford, Lieut. A. Cottee, Ensigns H. M.
Caine, L. W. Desborough, H. Dixon, and W.
Clay, 27th Regiment ; Capt. C. P. Heathcote,
Ensigns W. Owen and S. L. Pidsley, 52d Light
Infantry ; Lieuts. T. E. Gordon and W. Willcocks,
61st Regiment ; Captain A. J. 0. Rutherford,
Lieutenants W. T. M'Grigor and J. W. Mad-
den 70th Regiment ; Ensigns W. H. M. Jackson
and T. W. Bell, 81st Regiment ; Major W. F.
Ring, Ensigns G. M. Marsden and F. F. Devereux,
87th Royal Irish Fusileers.
The Commander-in-Chief has appointed Major-
General H. W. Breton, commanding the south-
west district, to lao Major-General on the Staff of
the Governor and Commander in-Chief of the Mau-
ritius. General Breton's loss will be much felt at
Portscriouth, as Lieut.-Governer of which fortress
he had earned the high respect of all the com-
munity.
The screw despatch gun-vessel Vic!or, 6, Com-
mander De Horsey, arrived at Spitbead on Satur-
day from the West India station. She left Ber-
muda on the 2d inst., and came home chiefly under
sail. The Intrepid she reports having left Ber-
muda for England ten hours before herself, and the
Pioneer was expected to arrive at Bermuda in about
two days Irons the time the Victor left, also on her
way to England. Admiral Sir H. Stewart arrived
at Bermuda in the Basilisk cn the Ist inst ,- at
which date her Majesty's ship Indus, 78, the flag-
ship, was hourly expected from Havaunah. The
Atalanta had left for England. The Victor has
proceeded to Sheerness to be paid off. On the 18th
inst., off the Lizard, she exchanged numbers with
the Royal mail steamer Parana, outward bound.
The Unite! States' steam corvette Niagara,
Captain Hudson, having completed the alterations
necessary to enable her to stow her portion of the
great Atlantic telegraph cable, left Portsmouth on
Saturday forenoon for Liverpool to ship it.
The paddlewheel steam frigate Leopold, 18,
Captain Wainwright, fitting at Devonpert, to ac-
company the Agamemnon, and assist ire laying
down tLe telegraph across the Atlantic, is ready for
sea, and will shor ly proceed for her destination.
The St. Jean d'Acre will be taken out of dock
at Devonport, to-morrow.
- The paddlewheel steam vessel Pluto, 4, Lieut.-
Commander W. Swinburne, was placed at Devon-
port on Wednesday, to repair damages sustained
near Sierra Leone.
The crew of the screw steamship Exmouth, 91,
Capt. Eyres, were paid off at Devonport on Satur-
day, and she is placed in the second-class steam re-
serve. • •

The Melville, 72, hospital ship, Commander
Trollope, went out of Portsmouth harbour on Sa-
turday, and anchored at Spithead.
Rear-Admiral Wallis, the newly-appointed Com-
mander-in-Chief of the squadron on the south-east
coast of America station, returned from leave and
rehoisted his flag on board the. Cumberland, 70, at
Spithead, on Saturday; and saluted the Port Ad-
miral. •

The Avon steam tender arrived at Portsmouth
yesterday, with men paid off from her Majesty's
ship Exmouth at Devonport. _

The Archduke Maxiniilian of Austria inspected
the Great Eastern steamship, under construction at
MiEwan, on Saturday morning.
Her Majesty's screw steam sloop Lyra was on
Saturday, received into basin at Woolwich, to be
fitted for service.

The paddlewheel steamer Vivid, late tender to
the Fisgard, was on Saturday hauled out of basin at
, Woolwich, and ordered to be docked on Monday.
• The paddlewheel steam-sloop Ardent was on Sa-
turday placed under the east shears in the inner
basin, Woolwich, to have her engines re-shipped,
after thorough repairs in the factory of that yard.
The paddlewb eel steam-frigate Firebrand, at
Woolwich, is ordered to Deptford yard, to go
through the necessary repairs in the hull.
Amongst the buildings erected in Sheerness
dockyard by the eminent firm of Messrs. Rigby, of
Westminster, stands the new testing-house, for
testing anchors and cables by hydraulic pressure.
On Friday last a mooring-chain of 3i inches was
tested at full working power —viz., 150 tons
hydraulic pressure. Everything worked admirably
to the satisfaction of the dockyard authorities.
The Waterloo, 120, flag ship, Capt. Lord F. H.
Kerr, will soon strike the flag of Vice Admiral Hon.
W. Gordon, commander-in-chief at Sheerness, the
gallant admiral's time expiring on the 30th inst.
A letter received at Sheerness from Madeira,
dated 10th May, states that the yacht Emperor, in-
tended as a present to the Emperor of Japan, left
there that day, after coaling, for Japan, via St.
Helena, Cape of Good Hope, and Singapore. ,
The paddlewheel steam-vessel Otter, Lieut.
Commander Cortland H. Simpson, arrived at
Sheerness yesterday at 11.30 from Portsmouth.
The screw steam guardship at Sheerness, Edin-
burgh, has in consequence of so .many continuous
service men claiming their discharge, issued posting
bills for the entry of leading stokers and stokers, to
carry on the duties required on board the several
divisions of vessels laid up in the steam reserve at
that port. •
The Ganges, 84, sailing ship, has been masted at
Sheerness. It is reported that she will be commis-
sioned during the present week, and that Rear-
Admiral of the Red Provo William Parry Wallis
will hoist his flag on board of her.
The screw steam sloop Malacca, 17, was put out
of the basin at Sheerness on Saturday, and towed
to her moorings by the African and Myrtle as an

advanced sh;p of the first division of the steam re-
serve.

The f •llowing appointments were made cn &tur-
d iy at the Admiralty :7—Mr. D. Dew, C. 8., Inspec-
tor of Hospital=, to the Belleisle ; I. Ilearnden,
assistant-pasmaster in charge, to the Myrmidon ;
J. V. Millett, clerk, to the Castor.