The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-20 00:00:00

aval and illilitary inteiligenee.

His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-
Chief will review the troops in Portsmouth garrison who
are under orders for China on Monday next. The town
council of the borough met in special meeting yesterday
for the purpose of resolving on an address to his Royal
Hivlinesson this his first ()facial visit to Portsmowh.

The folio wieg are the officers of the 90th Regiment
who are under orders to embark with that regiment for
China at Portsmouth on Tuesday next ;—Colonel R. P.
Campbell, C.B. ; Lieutenant-Colonel W. Purnell, Major
T. Smith (Brevet Lieutenant-C.:l.nel), Captains J. Per-
rin (Brevet Major), W. T. Tinling (Brevet Major), H.
Denison, J. H. Wade, R. IL Magenis, J. C. Rttray,
and P. A. L. Phipps ; Lieutenants N. Grahame, P. J.
Deverill, 0. W. Everet, J. J. Nunn, H. J. Haydock,
H. H. Goodrieke, C. B. Wynne, A. A. Moultrie, W.
H. L. Carlton, H. Bingham, W. Knight, H. C. rea-
cher, A. Cherry, E. C. Wynne, M. Preston, and G. E.
Perryn ; Ensigns G. 11. Agnew, H. B. Savory, A. R.
Chute, G. H. Powel!, J. F. Haig ; Paymaster S. Wil-
liams, Lieutenant and Adjutant W. Rennie, Quarter-
ma-ter D. Jackson, Surgeon A. D. Horne, and Assis•
tant-Surgeons R. W. Jackson and C. R. Nelson. The
troops will comprise eight companies, consisting of 37
sergeants, 35 corporals, 20 buglers, and 658 privates.
The Sultana sailing ship left Spitkead with troops
for the Cape of Good Hope on the 11th of November,
and arrived out on the 30th of December-49 day ; the
Culloden ditto, sailed on the same day, and arrived out
on the sth day of January-55 days ; the Stamboul
sailed on the 18th of November, and arrived at the Cape
on the 11th of January-54 days ; the Abyssinian Failed
from Shithead on the 28th of November, and arrived out
on the 25th of January---58 days ; whereas the steam
troop frigate Vulcan, which left Spithead on the 19th
November, did not make the colony until the 29th of
January----71 days. These ships conveyed the British
German Legion to the Cape to settle.
The suggestion of " S. G. 0." relative to floating hos-
pitals (says a Portsmouth correspondent) is most apt.
There is one vessel, an old 74 (the Melville), now fitting
as a hospital ship professedly for the China station, and
another, which was fitted out during the pressure of the
late war, and which is now lying in P. rtsmouth harbour
doing nothing (the Britannia three-decker), which might
be immediately pressed for the same service. She is
now an appendage to the military establishment at
Portsmouth.
Royel Sovereign, 131, screw.—The bilge ways and
puppets are being Bdt up, and every preparation making
at Port-mouth for the due launching of this noble ship
on the 25th inst. She is larger than the Marlborough.
The weatherboarding has been removed from over her
stern galleries, which shows her architectural proportions
to great perfection. The figure-head, a faithful likeness
of England's Queen, has entitled the artist (Hellyer) to
the highest conideration for so masterly a production of

skill.
Crow, 91, screw, at Portsmouth, is ordered to be re-
ported on as to the state of her machinery, and how long
before she can be got ready for service.
The officers and men belonging to the British and In-
dip depots attached to the Provisional Battalion, Cha-
tham, have commenced receiving instruction in escalad-
ing al)ng with the troops of the Royal Sappers and
Miners, under the direction of Colonel H. Sandham,
commanding the Royal Engineers. The troops of the
line are provided with escalading ladders, with which
they proceed to the fortifications near the Redan and
Prince Henry's bastion, where they are instructed in the
various maiissuvres by
the officers of the Royal Engi-
neers.
The troops at Chatham are making considerable pro-
gress in the use of the Enfield rifle, under the qualified
instructors of musketry. The whole of the officers and
men belonging to the various depots are required to go
through a course of instruction in the use of that weapon
previously to joining the service companies of their regi-
ments in India and the colonies. The following depots
havejust completed their instruction—viz., 313, 35 h,
10th, 81st, 84th, and 87th Royal Irish Fusiliers.
Captain W. E. Wallace, 26th Cameronians, who has
arrived from Bermuda in charge of a large party of in-
valided troops belonging to that corps, has been ap-
pointed to the command of the two company depot of
the 26th Regiment at
.the Previsional Battalion, Cha-
tham. _ _

The following officers of the Royal Engineers have
been stlected to embark with the 23,1. company of that

corps, under orders to proceed to China—Viz., Captain
A. R. Clarke, Lieut. E. D. Malcolm, and Lieut. G. D.
Pritchard.
The DJiphin, 3, Commander E. Webber, having been
stripped and dismasted at Chs,tham, will be paid off into
ordinary this day. During the time she has been in
commission she has been employed on the African coast.
The Terror, 16-gun floating battery, left Sheerness
yesterday (accompanied by the Otter paddlewheel steam-
vessel) fur three days, to try various experiments pro-
posed by Captaiu Edward P. Halsted, in command of the