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

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naval and Military Intelligence. •

Directions have been received at Chatham by Captain
Allen, in charge of the stores which were brought home
from Kertch by the Turkish Engineer Corps, and depo-
sited on the gun wharf, to deliver the entire stores, with
the exception of the large pontoons, to the Royal En-
giueers, 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 uneer
the sole charge of Captain Alien, and have
been empl eyed daily in examining and cleaning
the various stores, to prevent any serious effects result-
ing from their exposure to the weather. Immediately ou
the arrival of the order at Chatham for the removal of
the stores to the Royal Engineers' Barracks preparations
wete made for their delivery to the officers appointed to
receive them, and they are now in course of being re-
moved to the south gnn-shed at Brompton BarraCkre
where they are to be deposited. Oa 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 f their long
exposure in their partially unprotected state, care having
been taken to oil and cleanse from damp every article
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 tieatmeut in that city,
arrangements have been made for stationing invalid
troops iu that neighbourhood. A par yof invalids se-
lected from the 32d, 37th, 45th, 61st, 83,1, and 84th Re
giments left Chatham yesterday fur Bath in charge of
Assistaut-Surgeon Cyres 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 Enniskillen's.
The Star, 8, Commander A. Boyle (1855), was paid off
at Chatham yesterday afternoon, after being in commis-
sion four years, during which time she has been twice to
the south-east coast of America and the Falkiand 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-
traolmly daziwt.nedihaensd
toanrewoifiltbhee crew e
by
Chat-
ham, and, as she is a very old ship, it is not expected
that she will be again commissioned. lneadrybyaticalhliantg
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The Resolute, Arctic vessel, has been entirely stripped
pacdwinasorkdili
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 Poietiers, 74, at Chatham, has been towed down
to the dockyard, for the purpose of being taken into No.
4 dock, where the This veswrighsel was guardshits will this day p
co
fm the or-
breaking her up.o
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, paddlewheA steatnsloop, Com. G.
T. Mecham, now in the fitting basin at Sheerness for re-
pairs, will not be ready for sea until the Ist March next.
Most of her defects are topside damages, received :rens
stress of weather while in search of the missing ships
which belonged 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 pasage round from
Devonport•to Leith. A court martial is ordered on board
the flag--hip Waterloo, 120, Capt. Lord F. Kerr, to try
Capt. J. Fraser, and the officer of the watch at the time
Ithe ship took the ground.

REWARD FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICES.
The Board of Admiralty, in considerationof the
meritorious services fr?quently Tendered by lieute-
nants enaphyed as Admiralty agents on
board
contract steam vessels, have determined to award an
annual promotion to toe rank of Commander on Restr yid
half-pay if any lieutenant should be recommend d
the officer conducting the packet bervice at Southampton.
on the ground of general good or special service.