The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-29 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

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The first detachment of troops belonging to the
corps of Royal Engineers, at Brompton Barracks,
Chatham, was elected yesterday by Colonel H.
Sandham, for the purpose of proceeding to the
Falkland Islands. Lieutenant E. D. Malcolm,
Royal Engineers, is ordered to embark with the
detachment.

The crew of the Megtera 6, steam troopship,
Commander Purvis, were Officially mustered and
inspected in Portsmouth harbour on Tuesday by
Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour, K.C.8., prior
to her going to Ireland to embark troops.
The Dragon, 6, steam frigate, Captain Stewart,
C. 8., left Portsmouth yesterday afternoon for the
westward.

The Dee, steam storeship, Master Commander
Pullen, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the
eastward with machinery, and the Garnet, Handy,
and Fenella gunboats.

The Stork,-steam gunboat, is being employed at
Portsmouth to test the working of the new screw
—a French invention.

The Devastation, steam sloop, Commander Mar-
shall, arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday from the
westward with supernumeraries.
A general order has been received at Woolwich
by the commandant of the garrison, Major-General
Sir W. F. Williams, from the Secretary of the
War Department, giving instructions for all offi-
cers of the Royal Artillery indiscriminately, who
occupy apartments out of barracks, to make im-
mediate application for garrison quarters so as to
obviate the necessity of issuing sums hitherto
allowed as "lodging money." The order is con-
fined to the corps of Royal Artillery.
The night patrols of Artillery having been in-
creased by the addition of 100 picked men, under
the charge of 12 extra serjeauts, a strict watch
throughout the most obscure parts of the town
and the common is kept up from 4 p.m. until 6
a.m. on the following morning, so as to prevent a
continuation of the scandalous outrages which have
been committed there by men in the uniform of
the Roy:4l Artillery.
The life-boat constructed on a plan prepared by
Mr. Peake, assistant master shipwright at Wool-
wich, has been tested, and will be forwarded, by
the first opportunity, as a present to the Chilian
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Captain the Hon. G. T. Devereux's company, 13th
battalion.

By the demise of Mrs. Malcolm, of Clapham-rise,
the Royal Naval School at New-cross comes into
the possession of 1,0001., bequeathed by her late
husband, Mr. Robert Malcolm, surgeon, R.N., to
found an university scholarship in this school.

THE MAIL STEADIER VIVID.—A, letter from Ostend,
's Independance Beige says :
dated Saturday, in yesterday
—" This morning, at about four o'clock, the Royal Bel-
gian steamer Rubris, Captain Dufour, on the way from
Dover to Ostend, perceived a vessel making signals of
distress off Dunkirk. On getting near the commander
found it was the English mail steamer Vivid, which left
Ostend yesterday evening for Dover, and which had
broken the axle of its wheels. This accident had caused
such a complete derangement in the machinery
that the Vivid could get no further. Commander Dn.
four hastened to lend assistance; and after many efforts
succeeded in taking the steamer in tow and bringing it
on to Calais, where they arrived safely at 8 a.m. Some
minutes afterwards the Rubris left Calais, and arrived
here at 11 o'clock."