The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-28 00:00:00

Naval and Mihaly intelligeme.

Directions have been received at Chatham by Captain
Allan, in charge of the stores which were breught home
from Kertch by the Turkish Engineer Corps, and depe-
sited on the gun wharf, to deliver the entire stores, with
the exception of the large pontoons, to the Royal En-
gineer-, with the view of their being placed in the
stores belonging to that corps. Since the articles
have been landed at Chatham they have been under
the sole elierze of Captain Allen, and have
been empleled daily in examining and cleaning
the various stores, to prevent any serious effects result-
ing from their exposure to the weather. Immediately on
the arrival of the order at Chatham for the removal of
the stores to the Royal Engineer;;' Barracks preparations
were made for their delivery to the officers appointed to
receive them, and they are now in course of being re.
moved to the south gun-shed at Bronipton Barracks,
where they aro to be deposited. On opening the casks
and boxes in which the harness, tools, and other articles
were deposited in the summer, it was found that they had
not suffered in any degree from the effects et their long
exposure in their partially unprotected state, care having
been taken to oil and cleanse from damp every articm
separately before it was deposited in the place assigned
to it. The pontoons will remain on the gun-wharf, ow-
ing to there being no place large enough to receive them.
The Duke of Cambridge having consented that a num-
ber of the invalid soldiers at the Military Hospital,
Chatham, should be sent to Bath for the purposes of
undergoing a course of medical treatment in that city,
arrangements have been made for stationing invalid
troops in that neighbourhood. A par -y of invalids se-
hcted from the 32d, 37th, 45th, 61st, 833, and 84th Re-
giments left Chatham yesterday for Bath in charge of
Assistant-Surgeon Cyrus Daniell and a wardmaster of
the Medical Staff Corps. As soon as they have suffi-
ciently recovered they will return to Chatham, when
another party of invalids will be forwarded to that city.
The following officers have joined their respective re-
giments at Chatham, for the purpose of taking the com-
mand of their depots at the Provisional Battalion, viz,
Captain J. V. H. Montagu, 10th Regiment, and Captain
F. Rhodes, 27th Enniskillens.
The Star, 8, Commander A. Boyle (1355), was paid off
at Chathem yesterday afternoon, after being in commis-
sion four years, during which time she bas been twice to
the south-east coast of America and the Falkland Islands
and back, besides being stationed for a considerable
period in the Rio de la Plata, where she did duty as the
senior officer's ship. During the time she has been in
commission the crew have been very healthy, and but
few deaths occurred on board. Two men were acciden-
tally drowned, and one of the crew was killed by falling
from aloft. The Star will be placed in ordinary at Chat-
ham, and, as she is a very old ship, it is not expected
that she will be again commissioned.
The Resolute, Arctic vessel, has been entirely stripped
at Chatham, and her rigging removed. She is moored off
the dockyard, in charge of the warrant officers, and as
soon as a place has been assigned her she will be attached
to the fleet of vessels lying in ordinary.
The Poictiers, 74, at Chatham, has been towed down
to the dockyard, for the purpose of being taken into No.
4 dock, where the shipwrights will this day commence
breaking her up. This vessel was guardship of the or-
dinary at Chatham for several years, but is now too old
for further service.
Mr. C. T. A. Noddall has been appointed master to
the Victory, flagship at Portsmouth.
The Salamander, 6, paddlewheel steamsloop, Coin. G.
T. Mecham, now in the fitting basin at Sheerness for re-
pairs, will not be ready for sea until the let March next.
Most of her defects are topside damages, received friar&
stress of weather while in search of the missing ships
which beionged to Dundee.
An Admiralty order has arrived at Sheerness to receive
the Pembroke, 60-gun screw steamship (for coastguard
service at Leith) for the purpose of her being examined,
she having been on shore on her passage round from
Devonport to Leith. A court martial is ordered on board
the flag-lip Waterloo, 120, Capt. Lord F. Kerr, to try
Capt. J. Fraser, and the officer of the watch at the time
the ship took the ground.

REWARD FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICES.
The Board of Admiralty, in consideration/of the
meritorious services frequently rendered by lieute-
nants employed as Admiralty agents on board
contract sLeam vessels, have determined to award an
annual promotion to the rank of Commander on Reserved
ball-pay if any lieutenant should be recommended by
the officer conducting the packet service at Southampton
on the ground of general good or special service.