The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-20 00:00:00

Naval and Illintaxy Intelligence.

The Duke of Cambridge, as General Command-
ing-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday at the goal
Guards, when there was a numerous attendance °1
c,ffiseers.

The following depots at the Provisional Battaliciiii
Chatham, will furnish nearly 2,000 commissioned
officers and men for• the head-quarters of their
corps serving in India, the whole of whom bale
received orders to hold themselves in readiness for
embarkation, viz. :-Bth (the King's), 10th, 21.,t"
27th (Enniskillens), 29th, 32d, 35th (Royal Ste"
sex), 43d (Light Infantry), 52d (Light Infantry)'
53d, 60th Rifles (Ist Battalion), 61st, 64th, 'lt"
74th (Highlandess), 75th, 78th (Highlanders, 81,"
83d, 84th, 86th, and 87th (Royal Irish Fusiliers 7
On Wednesday- portions of two regiments Ors
barked at Kingstown for foreign service. The firs
of these detachments, consisting of the bead-W.1;31;
ters of the 77th Regiment, some companies of wtit
bad set sail for Australia on the previous day '-
the Palmerston transport, went on board the Qt
well. The Orwell is a fine vessel of 1,200 of tolls
register, but of at least 1,500 tons actual bnrdee'
The second detachment consisted of portions of the
95th Regiment, which embarked in the Polonaise
for the Cape of Good Hope. The Beecheroft is °a
her way front Cork to Kingstown, where she
hourly expected to take on board the head quarters,
of the 95th Regiment ; she has been detained
by contrary winds.
The whole of the officers, non-commissioned
Officers, and gunners off duty, forming the ReY,
Artillery garrison at Woolwich, were on Thurat
drawn up in three battalions on the garrison parail,
under the chief command of Lieut.-Col. G.
Barker C. 8., at 2 p.m.,. and were marched to W°d°
with Common for the purpose of brigade driirt".l4
periodical inspection of the corps. The proceedi7r,
were those of a general field-day, and were Poi,
formed in a style satisfactory to the officersin COO.
mand, who expressed their satisfaction to the ll°
commissioned officers. The Royal Horse Artillery,
dismounted, were likewise marched to Wooln,
Common, and put through a course of foot Pkr.tio
and sword exercise, under the command of Oar
and Adjutant A. iotteux Calvert. 0 Pt"
Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, ecio
the Hon. Joseph Denman, left Jersey on Wild
morning last, and anchored early on the follew4v,
day at Glengariff, at the upper end of Bantry' ;16
south-west coast of Ireland, having averageurobe
knots across, notwithstanding a heavy sea.- ;0%
captain and officers having 'pent a few hours t 3
the beautiful scenery there, the yacht left 800
o'clock for Queenstown, where she arrive:looj
same evening at 9 o'clock. Nothing can el; IS
the satisfactory performance of the state vessel 00
was supposed she would leave for LiveWe°
Tuesday evening. " for
The Princess Charlotte, 104, barrackihiP hor
Ch=Cr.nt?" Kinmr. C.B. left Portsmouth

-ma, captain mg, lett Yoi„ed.
bour yesterday morning, and anchored at Spit'o,
She is laden with a great quantity of stores,
for the China fleet.
The Niagara's alterations for stowing the g
Atlantic telegraph cable will be completed at Ilia
mouth this day, and she will leave forthwith
Liverpool. h
The sailing-transport Gowird, Capt. Bone-, A'
been ordered to Woolwich, where she is
mg 58 tons of traversing platforms from the
tary Store Department for Malta. to go
The freightship Euphrates is under orders .to
to Woolwich from the Docks to ship ammuni
for Algoa Bay.
Her Majesty's paddle steam sloop Ardent, pi
been undocked. at WooNiel:4, and hauled into Ile
00
to continue the necessary ,repairs. She is "
going a thorough refit. the
The Bishop of London has issued a notice t°
effect that it is bis intention to hold a military °woo
firmation in the Garrison Chapel at WoOlwiell
Monday, the 13th of July. to
The fine sailing ship. Medina, belongioga et
Messrs. James Baiues and. Co., has been 0%00
Liverpool for the conveyance of the head-q0,,.r
of the 50th Regiment, under Col. Waddy,
Kinaston for eolombo. ter°
eotices have been posted in the Undervgl ,er
room, Liverpool, inviting tenders for the c°11,;08
ance of troops from Malta to Liverpool, rettl'
with exchange regiments. -
The new iron screw. steamer Dalhousie' ,)ty
tons burden, has sailed for 'Madras. This. it for,
. first of two fine steamers.. to *leave our eilae-06'
India. They were selected by the son' both
India Company for steam-transports, and wet" Tlie
built by Denny and Rankin, of Dumbartoo•
i.por
Dalhousie, so called in honour of the ex-Gol7%dtb,
General, is 230 feet in len-gth,. 30/ feet brek-votsf
fl
and 16i feat in depth .of hold, steams
and her consort is the Prince Arthur. - Iwo)°,
The launch of the Melpomene at _Periloo'
Dockyard is to take place on the Bth'off frig
next. She is a, screw frigate pierced for 6u,, 'dote+
and has been adapted from a 60-gun sailingnitig
for which she was originally laid down. PI"`" t/0
been cut in half, she has been lengthened tfi. hol
extent of 321 feet in the midship • section, all ,terti
received an additional length of 13 feet at thetin
and 5/ feet at the bows. She is about 240 Id-,rti
length, and her beam will enable her t 0 cool
heavy • ordnance. The construction of th° rto'
monster frigate, the Orlando, of 50 guns; i 8 A
ceeding.
Lieut. G. S. Bosanquec was yesterday apP°l
to the Melville. aet
By private letters which have been receilloort
Chatham from officers on board the Harpy ste6 cer
Commander G. A. Brine, it appears that that ,0 it
sel was still lying at the Piraeus, Athens, whet
0
was expected she would remain three v3„°l- die
longer. At the date of the letters (June lv/ tip°
Harpy was expecting to go on a few weeks' criiio
among the islands in the Archipelago, after 8(
she would again return to Athens.
with tae
The Duke and Duchess de Montpensier, 00
Princesses, will shortly pay a visit to the 040'
of the Vrench at Claremont. Their Royal d
nesses have left in a Spanish war steamer) anlioll4
hourly expected at Plyinouth, where preP3r;iitilr
have been made for the reception of these ""
guished visitors. •