The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-19 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Letters from Malta to the 13th of May, mention
the arrival and departure during the seven days
preceding of the following screw steamers :—The
'Christina; - frein -Liverpool, for Alexiiiidietra- and
Beyrout ; th© Andes, from Liverpool, for Syra and
Constantinople; the Egyptien (French), from Bey-
rout and Jaffa for., Marseilles ; the Sovereign from,
and fresh departure for, Tunis. Our correspondent
gives the following account of movements at the
port of Valetta :--
"The Persian, from Liverpool, for Alexandria,
passed Malta without communicating, save by
signal, on the Bth.
" The. Waldersian, from Tunis, Mona9tier, and
Sfar, with Mihomedan pilgrims, for Mecca.
" The Dutchman screw steamer arrived on the
10th from Gibraltar to receive on board, and con-
vey
to that port the remainder of the 31st regi-

ment.

" The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Pere., Captain Soy, with the London mails of
the 4th, reached Matta from Southampton and
Gibraltar on the evening of the 12th, after a splen-
did run of seven days 16 hours frbm the former, and
only three days and ten hours from the last men-
tioned port, w;th 90 passengers, among whom are
several officers proceeding to China, and a large
freight of specie for that place and India. She ex-
perienced light winds and fine weather nearly
throughout the voyage.
" The Indus and Euxine, belonging to the same
company, both full of cargo and passengers, arrived
from Alexandria on the morning of the 13th ; the
former was to leave on the same afternoon for
Southampton, and the latter left in the forenoon
for Marseilles with the Indian mails.
" Her Majesty's steam-frigate Curacoa was to
leave for Tunis on the 15th to embark some mosaic
pavements, recently discovered in the vicinity of
Carthage y the Rev. Nathan Davis, intended to
be lodged in the British Museum. • •
"The several military messes are vieing with each
other in entertainments and banquets to Admiral
Lord Lyons, who will, it is reported, before proceed-
ing to the coast of Spain, pay a visit, with the re-
duced squadron tinder his orders, to the King and
Queen of Greece, who lately sent an aide-de-camp
to meet him at Syra, to signify their hotpa that he
would visit Athens."
It is currently reported that Admiral Sir Charles
Ogle will shortly be promoted to be Admiral of the
fleet—a du3tiucion which has been in abeyance
since the death of Admiral Sir Thomas Byam
Martin, G. C. B.
The Admiralty State yacht Osborne, Commander
G. H. Bowes, (master, R.N.), is ordered
to leave Portsmouth on Monday next with Flag-
Captain G. H. Seymour, C. 8., of her Majesty's
ship Victory, for Cherbourg, to be in attendance
upon his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Con-
stantine, Lord High Admiral of the Imperial. Rus-
sian Navy, whom she will embark on the evening
of the 28th inst. with a riuite of 16 aide-de-camps,
'for Osborne : .presentAte--7arrangrementris-efor
the Grand Duke and staff to leave late on the even-
ine• of the 28th, so as to arrive at Osborne early on
the morning of the 29th.
Mr. Cooper, Master, R:N. of her Majesty's ship
Brilliant, and Mr. Mallard, Master, R.N., of her
Majeay's troop-shin Perseverance, came home in
her Majesty's ship Eurydice, from the West India
station.

The Channel during the past week has been
crowded with a large number of homeward-bound
ships detained by a long continuance of easterly
winds, but for the past three days the wind has
come round southerly and westerly, and enabled
them to make their ports of destination.
The corps of Enrolled Pensioners belonging to
the Woolwich division, under the command of
Co' onel Forbes, commenced their half-yearly course
of drily yesterday morning on Woolwich-common.
The drills are to be continued on each consecutive
morning until the end of May, the assembling to
take place in the fullowiug order :—Two days to be
allotted for the separate drill of each company and
four days for the entire force. The Deptford divi-
sion, under the command of Major Warde, will
join the Woolwich division on the 28th inst., for
the porpose of going through a three days' bat-
talion drill.
The whole of the battalion force of Royal Artil-
lery otherwise off duty were yesterday drawn up on
the review-ground at Woolwich, in command of
Brigade-Major Shaw, Colonel Burrows, Colonel
PlApotts, and the various Colonels of Division, to
be inspected and drilled in anticipation of a visit
from the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia to
Woolwich Garrison. The troops having marched
past were distributed over the field in distinct com-
panies, under the command of their respective
officers, and underwent a lengthened series of ma-
noeuvres. The corps of Royal Marines, under the
command of Colonel-Commandant Brown, also
went through a thorough field-day's exercise.
The troops composing the sth battalion of Royal
Military Train, doing duty at Woolwich, have been
installed into the quarters recently occupied by the
disbanded battery companies at the encampment
on Woolwich, the horses occupying the airy and
commodious camp stabling erected there at the
period of the war with Russia.
The 3d battalion of the 60th Royal Rifles, being
below its prescribed establishment, 87 men of the
Ist battalion at Chatham. have been transferred to
that corps, and are under °ram to join that bat-
talion at Dublin.
An order has arrived at Chatham garrison, di-
recting that the names of the following officers are
to be removed from the list of those officers under
orders to embark for India with the detachments
proceeding from the Provisional Battalion :—viz.,
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel C. J. Otter, 61st Regi-
ment ; Captain W. Power, 32d Regiment ; Lieu-
tenant D. Reid, Gist Regiment ; Lieutenant M.
Hamley and Lieutenant J. H. Fane, 81st Regi-
ment.
The Ist Royals (Ist battalion) the 18th Royal
Irish, and the 51st (the King's) Light Infantry are
all under orders to proceed from the camp at the
Curragh to Dublin to releive the 4th (King's Own),
the 77th, and the 95th Regiments, about to em-
bark immediately for foreign service.
Captain William Ramsey has been appointed to
be superintendent to the packet-station at South-
ampton, in the room of Captain M‘Dougall, who
has obtained his flag rank.
Captain John Robb has had the "good service"
pension conferred on him by the First Lordoti of Oa
of
Admiralty, rendered vacant by the promon
Captain M'Dougall.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :
Lieutenant A. D. Norse,
to the Royal William ;
J. S. Vivian, master's-assistant, to the Princess
Royal ; W. A. White, assistant-surgeon, to the
Virago ; R. Gilmour, acting-assistant-surgeon, to
the Princess Royal ; Gerald Molloy, acting-assist-
ant-surgeon, to the Cumberland ; Hamilton M.
ole, clerk, to the Leopard.

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THE NA PIERS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sra,—l am rrther surprised to find in yqv
ir-; PA P ER
m
nal a letter from Colonel Wood to e s e
without my answer. You will feel it
• SIA
fair that I ask for the insertion of the w
pondence, which I must say Idid not t pc-pit - v•`(---4
Wood would have thrown upon,me for ulc.L.
The following is what he calls my
went
" Scinde House, May n s
" Sir,—Being without personal knowledgetrthe
particulars of the first Sikh war, beyond what news-
papers and officers' publications have furnished, I
cannot pretend to discuss the questions mooted by
you. I have merely set down from my brother's
journal what his views were. Very possibly he
may have been misinformed on some points, and
it is for those who know better to point out er-
rors ; but you will observe that he gives many
facts as reports, and says expressly that there were
two stories.

" His animadversions, political and military,
must go for what they are worth, and subject to
antagonistic criticism. •
" Your statement of the force under' Littler
means, [ presume, the number on paper, and
also, I suppose, the garrison left in Ferozepore,
because all published accounts that I have seen
give him but 6,000 on the field of battle.
" As to the absence of treachery among the
Sikhs, that also is in direct opposition to all pub-
lished accounts of the war and to all reports of the
war. However, I have no means of giving a well-
founded opinion on this head, and do not offer any
positive assertions as to special points.
But on the general view I must oppose you so
far as to think the number of troops engaged at
Moodkee and Feroshashur, the scarcity of ammu-
nition during the campaign, and the necessity of
detaching Harry Smith, &c., do not—the great
force of the Indian armies and great resources •
the Indian Government considered—indicate suffi-
cient preparation for a war so long expected, and so
formidable. There are two ways of summing up
a campaign.
"If my memory be accurate, I think Lord
Gough's despatch said the enemy first opened a can-
nonade on the. British camp at Moodkee, and that
the advance of two miles was made after that.

"Lord Ellenborough assured me that the bridge
equipage at Ferozepore was his doing.
" With this avowal of my inability to discuss the
campaign in detail, I must leave my brother's state•
ments to take their chance, simply remarking that,
being called upon, as he was, to take command, it
is probable that he was not much misinformed.

- cc I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
"W. NAPIER, Lieutenant-General.
"Colonel and Adjutant-General Wood, &o."

" Royal Hospital, Dublin, May 11.

"Sir,—l am obliged to yoU for yOur letter of
the Bth. You are correct in presuming that the
force stated by me to have been stationed at Fe-
rozepore was the number on paper. The returns
show there to have been 10,472, and., the force Sir
John Littler brought to Ferozeshuhur on the 21st
was not more than half that number, but so ably
did he effect this movement that at 12 o'clock on
that day the men at the advanced pos•s of his own
army were not aware that he had left Ferozepore
for e purpose of joining the Commander-in-Chief.
"It was, as you state, Lord Ellenborough who
ordered the bo sts to be prepared at Bombay on
which we crossed the Sutlej, but he had left India
before they were completed.
"I have not by me a copy of Lord Gough's de- •
spatch on the Battle of Moodkee, but I was close
to his. Lordship when the first shot was fired by
the Sikhs ; it struck the ground and bounded over
his lordship's horse ; we were at that time some
distance in advance of where our videttes had been
posted.
"I find, on looking at my letter to you of the
7th, that there is a clerical error in the number of
miles the British army is stated to have advanced;
it should have been 200, not 250, Lord Gough's
head-quarters having been at Umballah when the
first Sikh war broke out. With this slight
alteration I conclude that you will not object to
my publishing that letter, as you say `vary pos-
sibly he (Sir C. Napier) may have been misinformed
on some points; and it is for those who know better
to point out errors.'
"I remain, sir, your most obedient servant,
"B. B. WOOD, Colonel.
"Lieutenant-General Sir W. Napier, K.C. B."

" Scinde House, May 12.
" Sir,—l am glad to find that my surmises were
correct on the points I alluded to in my letter.
"I cannot possibly have any objection to your
making the correction you propose in your own.
letter. I presume you mean to publish my answer,
from your notice of a particular passage.
" I remain, with thanks for the explanation you
have afforded,

" Your obedient servant,
_ "W. NAPIER..
" Col. Wood, C. 8., Deputy-Adjutant-General."

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Du I understand Colonel Wood to say, or
mean, that " due preparation was mule by the
Governor-General of India :to meet the contingency
of a war with the Sikhs ?"

If so, how was it that the Commissariat arrange-
ments were not, even in progress on the 13th of
December, 1845—the date of the proclamation
At the trial of the contractor, Lallah Jooteeper-
sad, in Agra (1851), Major-General Parsons, the
Commissary-General, was asked by the Lallah's
counsel,—

" How came there to be such delay and confu-
sion in providing stores and food for the army 1"
" Because the Governor-General never expected
the Sikhs would cross the river (Sutlej). His lord-
ship told me this on the 12th of December," was
General Parsons's reply.
But, sir, let us refer to the ptoclamatiou of the
late Lord Hardinge, dated the 13th of December.
We shall find the following passage. It does not
suppcnt Colonel Wood's view of the case :
" The Governor-General in Council sincerely
desired to see a strong Sikh Government re-
established in the Punjab able to control its
army, and to protect its subjects. He had
not up to the present moment abandoned
the hope of seeing that important object effected
by the patriotic efforts of the chiefs and people of
that count y."
It struck me on reading the blue-books, that
Lord Hardinge's " apology" for so disastrous,
bloody, and expensive a war was grounded on the
fact that his lordship was "not prepared for it."
However, according to Colonel Wood's defence of
his late uncle, it would seem that I, in common
with all India, was greatly mistaken.
At a moment's notice the lower and middle pro-
vinces of India were stripped of their troops and
left utterly defenceless. Staff officers, old and
young, were withdrawn from civil employ and hur-
ried to the scene of action. All was disorder, con-

fusion, and panic. This, lam now given to under-
stand, was the result of " due preparation."
I hive no desire to meddle with this controversy
which in no way concerns me ; but I think it only
due to the public, to the memory of the late Sir C.
Napier, to Lord Gough, and to the reputation and.
veracity of the late Lord Hardinae, that Colonel
Wood's letter should not go unreftited.
I have the honour to be Sir,
Your obedient servant,
Broadstairs, May 18. PHOCION.

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