The Sun.
London, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

Naval and Milinly intelligence.

Lieut.-General the Hon. T. Ashburnham, C. 8.,
appointed to the command of the military force
about to be despatched to the seat of war in China,
left town, accompanied by several Military officers,
on Saturday evening for Alexandria, on his way to
Hong Kong, to assume his command.
Lieut.-Ca J. L. Simmons, C. 8., of the Royal
Engineers, who was the Queen's Commissioner at
thhead-quarters of the Turkish' army under Omar
Pasha, and who has received the Imperial Order of
the Medjidie of the Third Class for his distinguished
services during the late war, left town on Friday
evening for Marseilles, on his way to Constanti-
nople, accompanied by his staff. The gallant offi-
cer is now British Commissioner for the regulation
of the Turco-Persian boundary.

Mr. W. T. Doyne, C.E. late Chief Superinten-
dent of the Army Works Corps in the Crimea, has
been engaged by Col. Sandham, RE., C. 8., to
deliver a course of lectures on the principles and
-practice of civil engineering to the Engineer Oadets
under his charge.
H. M. steam troopship Transit, Commander
Chambers; embarked yesterday at Portsmouth 193
of the medical staff corps, 30 of the Royal Engi-
neers under Lieut. Campbell,' 286 of the 90th Foot,
and 119 of the 59th Regt., for China. She sails this
morning. S.r Airey, Quartermaster-General of
the Army, together with Major-General Breton,
commanding the south-west district, 04)1. Wright,
Assistant-Quartermaster-General, and Brigade
Major Nelson, minutely inspected the Transit on
the troops embarking ; they also inspected the
Himalaya, which will embark the head-quarters
of the 90th about the end of the week for the same
destination. We have already given the.names of
the, officers of the 90th who go out in the' Transit,
and Himalaya. Those of the 594 h are Captains
Montmorency and Kean, Lieutenants Hacket,.
Lawson, Drage, Cuckell, and Crosse ; Ensigns.
Shaw, M‘Mullin, Bowen, and Telford.
Yesterday troops selected from the depots at the'
provisional battalion, Chatham, consisting of 130
non-commissioned officers and men, in charge or

eight officers, proceede 1 to the fortifications near
Prince Henry's Bastion, for the purpose of going
through a course of escalading, in conjunction with
the troops of the Royal Engineers under Major F.
C. Hassard, R.E.
Second Class Staff-Surgeon E. Menzies, in me-
dical charge of the troops stationed at Tilbury
Fort, has been ordered_ to embark forthwith for
China, and Second Class Surgeon Mildmay has
been removed from Chatham to relieve Surgeon
Menzies at Gravesend.

R,ar-Admiral W. P. Wallis, appointed Com,
mander-in-Chief on the south-east coast of Amer
rice. station, hoisted his flag yesterday mornine, 021
board the Excellent, gunnery-ship, at Portsmouth,
and exchanged the usual salutes with the Own,-
mander-in-ehief, Sir G. Seymour. Mr. J. W.
Andrews, paymaster, R.N., is appointed secretary
to Admiral Wallis on board the Cumberland, 70,
fitting out at Chatham.
The Charity, steam-transport, is being laden
with stores- from the Clarence Victualling-yard,
Gosport. It is reported she will take out Rear-
Admiral the Hon. Sir F. W. Grey, K.C.8., to the
Cape of Good Hope, to relieve Rear-Adiniral
Trotter, in command of the squadron on that sta-
tion.
The steam-ship Dee, 4, Master-Commander T.
Pullen, with shipwrights from Milford, arrived at
Plymouth on Saturday.
The gun-boats Kestrel and Charon, having been
supplied with false keels, will be taken out of dock
at Devonport to-day.
The Scorpion, 6, surveying sloop, John P. Dillon,
master commanding, arrived at the Big Nore early
this morning, and was this afternoon towed to the
Little Nore by the paddle steamer Otter, Lieut.-
Commander Simpson, preparatory to being in-
spected by Captain Lord Frederick H. Kerr, after
which, she will proceed direct to Chatham to dis-
mantle and pay off.
The Terrible, 21, paddle frigate, in charge of Mr.
Andrew Douglas, chief engineer at Chatham, :re-
ceived orders this morning to hasten her fitments,
&c. The belief here is that she will be one, of the
vessels employed to lay down the telegraphic wire
between Ireland and Newfoundland.
The Cumberland, 72, Captain John Dickson, is
in No. 3 dry dock. She is caulked and painted,
and will be coppered this week, and ready to haul
out and get in her masts in about 10 days more.
Admiral Wallis has not yet hoisted his flag.
The Janus, 2, screw gtinboat, Lieut.-Commander
William K. Jones, will haul out of No. 6 dry dock
to-morrow ; and the Drake, 2, screw gunboat,
Lieut.-Commander William Arthur, will haul in to
have an additional false keel.
Royal Sovereign, 131, length between perpendi-
culars, 240 ft. 6in. ; breadth, extreme, 60ft. ;
breadth, moulded, 80ft. 4in. ; depth in engine-
room (or hold) 24ft. Bin. ; burden, in tons, 3,758,
is to be launched on the 25th inst.
The Nimrod, 6, screw despatch vessel, Commander
Dew, arrived at Devonport on Sunday morning
from Portsmouth en route to China.
The Greenwich out-pension, vacant by the pro-
motion of Captain Hillyar to flag rank, has been
conferred upon Capt. Wm. Turner.
Mr. James Rusden, master, RN., who was dis-
missed summarily from her ajesty's ship Electra
and the service on the arrival of that vessel from
the Australian station, at Spithead, .has been re-
stored to his position in the Navy List, upon his
own representation.
The screw steam-ship James Watt, 91, Captain
T. V. Anson, discharged her powder in Plymouth
Sound on Saturday, preparatory to going into har-
bour.

The freight-ships Mary Harrison and Coral
Queen are loading provisions in the Royal William
Victualling-yard, Plymouth, for China.
The mail steam-ship Candace, Commander Rolt,
left Plymouth on Friday afternoon for Madeira,
Sierra Leone, and the West Coast of Africa.
In the account given yesterday of the experi-
ments at Woolwich, the sample plates of sheet-iion
were erroneously stated as being -" three-quarters.,
of an inch in thickness," whereas it should have
been "three inches and a quarter in thickness."
The screw steam troopship Dutchman has shipped
a cargo of Ordnance stores from Woolwich Arsenal,
and is to sail to-day from the London Docks for
Malta, whence she is under orders to embark troops
for Gibraltar.
The freight-ship Samuel Gaderley, in the London
Docks, is embarking Ordnance stores from Wool:
wich Arsenal for St. Helena ; the Alice freight-ship
is shipping a similar cargo for Demerara ; and the
Annie Morice for Newfoundland.
The steam store-ship Rhadamanthus, Master-
Commander Browne, arrived at Woolwich on Sun-
day evening from Portsmouth.
The Fawn, 17, screw steamsloop; at Sheerness, is
ordered to be prepared for being commissioned
forthwith.
Instructions have been received at Woolwich
from the Commander-in-Chief, ordering a still
further diminution to be progressively made in the
numbers of the artillery regiments by reducing 172
serjeants, 2,400 rank and file, and 1,000 horses.
Pig companies thus reduced are to be continued
as supernumeraries in reserve until absorbed by the
corps. All recruiting for the service is, conse-
quently, to be suspended for the present.
- The 'Racoon, 21, steam screw corvette, now just
completed at Chathani Dockyard, has been built
from the designs of
.Sir Baldwin Walker,