The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-02 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Her Majesty's steam-frigate Retribution, 28, Captain
Barker, arrived at Spithead on Saturday from the Medi-
terranean, with the Grinder, screw gunboat, Lieutenant
Hamilton, in tow, 15 days from Malta. The Retribu-
tion reported the Dauntless, screw frigate, Captain
Ryder, with the Cracker screw gunboat in tow, outside
of Portsmouth, from the Mediterranean ; they have since
made port. During 18 months' service the Grinder has
been under steam 225 days, being, as tender to Admiral
Lord Lyons' flagship Royal Albert, employed on most
important duty. She went up the Danube as far as
Galatz. She is now ordered to be paid off.
The Urgent, steam troop-ship, Commander Phillips,
left Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon with the troops
before reported for Barbadoes.
The new screw gunveseel Nimrod, 6, Commander
Dew, left Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon on a trial
cruise in the Channel.

Her Majesty's new screw-frigate Diadem, 36, was un-
docked at Portsmouth on Saturday afternoon.
The Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, Commander Gordon, was
brought into harbour, apparently not to pay off but to be
docked for repair. She was docked on Saturday to be
examined, as she bad, when towing the sailing coastguard
ship Melampus, 43, round from the Nore to Portsmouth,
got into collision with the Hanoverian schooner Ma-
thilde, from Malaga for Hamburg, on the 20th ult.
Beachy Light open off the head, , bearing north-west
half west, distant 11 miles. It appears she struck the
schooner amidships, and cut her down below the water's
edge. The commander of the Bulldog sent a lieutenant
on board the schooner, and she was run ashore at high
water on the beach at Eastbourne, where she remains
on her starboard broadside.
His Prussian Majesty's frigate Thetis,. 36, Capt. Sun-
dewal, was undocked at Portsmouth on Saturday, and
the Lucifer, steam-vessel, taken in for repairs.
Her Majesty's 4-gun store-ship Tyne, Master-Corn.
James S. Hill, and the screw steam tank-vessel Wye,
George Moore, master, were paid off at Woolwich on
Saturday..
The Algerine gun-boat, of 300 tons burden, has arrived
at Woolwich for fitment. The following vessels of a
similar tonnage—namely, the Lee, Leven, and Slaney—
are nearly completed, and will shortly follow the Alge-
rine to be fitted out at Woolwich. •
The Imperador steam-yacht, under fitment for presen-
tation to the Emperor of Japan, is ordered to be corn-
leted with despatch, so as to admit of her being for-
warded to her destination during the latter part of th.e
present month.
First-Lieutenant Arthur Ondow Lake Lewis, of the
Portsmouth division of Royal Marines Light Infantry,
received his promotion on Saturday as Captain, and is
appointed to the Woolwich division, vice Captain Mar-
ger, who is permitted to retire on half-pay.
A considerable reduction is about to take place in the
depot of the Medical Staff Corps at Chatham, the estab-
lishment of which is to be fixed at 630 men of all ranks,
including stewards, wardinasters, and orderlies.
The Renown, 91, screw steamer, just completed at
Chatham dockyard, is to be furnished with the following
armament : —Lower deck, 34 8-inch 65-cwt. guns, each
9 feet in length ; main deck, 34 32-pounders, 58
to 56 cwt., each 9 feet 6 inches ; upper deck, 32 pound-
ers, 45 cwt, each 8 feet 6 inches. In addition to these
she will be furnished with a long-range pivot 68-pounder
of 95 cwt. and 10 feet in length. She will be
launched during the present month.
The America, 59, is to be got ready for the flig of
Rear-Admiral P. W. P. Wallis, appointed to the com-
mand-in-chief of the South-East coast of America, and
when ready she will proceed to relieve the Indefatigable
at Rio, with the flag of Admiral Hope Johnstone.
The old Dreadnought hospital ship, now breaking up,
is found to be in a very rotten condition. On Friday
last, two of the men employed were on the mast of the
vessel, when Second Master Jones who was near, per•
ceived that it was giving way. With great presence of
mind he called out, " Come down directly—l want you
in the riggiug-house." The men unaware of their
danger, came down quickly, and
,in less than a minute
afterwards the mast tell with great force ; and it is
more than probable that the lives of the men were saved
by the prompt order given. A body of 120 shipwrights
and labourers are engaged in the work of demolition,
and the upper decks and cabins have already disap-
peared. The work is under contract, to be completed
by the end of March, for the sum of 8491.
Lieut. John Ward, of the surveying paddlewheel
steam-vessel Porcupine, has left Sheerness for Woolwich,
and has commissioned the new steam yacht Emperor,
for the purpose of conveying her to Japan as a present
from her Majesty to the Emperor of Japan. After de-
livering up the Emperor at Japan, Lieut. Ward will
join a surveying vessel for the purpose of carrying out
Admiralty orders for surveying certain parts of that
coast.

The Cyclops, 6 guns, paddle-wheel steam frigate, now
at Sheerness, will take on board her armament of
2 10-inch and 4 8-inch guns this day, and will leave the
basin to-morrow.
The Cumberland, 70 guns, in No. 3 dry dock at Sheer-
ness, has bad her copper entirely stripped. She is to be
thoroughly caulked out-board, and is to be ready fcr the
pendant early in May next.
The new military barracks at Sheerness for the offi-
cers' quarters are completed.

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