The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-17 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY ln 7ELLIGENCE

Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, General Commanding-in-Chief, being
expected to visit Portsmouth during the present
week, the ordinary Monday's brigade of the troops
in that garrison on Southsea-common was on tha
day conducted on an extended scale by Lieut.-Gee.
Sir George Buller. At the close of the movements
Lieut.-Gen. Buller rode to the front of the 35th
Regiment, where he presented Sergeant Crane, of
chat regiment, with the medal of the Royal Humane
Society, awarded him for au act of great gallantry
in jumping into the tidal channel from off the Gun-
wharf wall, with his uniform and sword bayonet opt
to the rescue of a boy, the son of Staff Commander
iawckner, of her Majesty's ship Asia.

Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
_he division at Chatham, inspected on the general
;grade ground the detac:nneuts of the Ist battalion
A the Ist Royals and the Ist battalion of the Bth
.teginent, under orders to embark for Malta, en
route for India.

An order was yesterday received at the head-
tuartas of the Royal Engineer establishment at
drompton, directing the B troop of the Royal Ea'.
4ineer Train to proceed from Chatham this morning
,o Aldershot, to go into winter quarters. The troop
will march by daily stages from Chatham to Alder-
shot, halting to-night at Dartford, to-morrow at
Lewisham, on Thursday at Richmond, Friday at
Egham, and arriving at Aldershot on Saturday.
[he A troop, in two sections, will also leave
Chatham for Aldershot in the course of the present
week.

By direction of the Admiralty a trial has been
made in the Medway, under the superintendence of
Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.13.
Capt. W. P. Hall, C. 8., superintendent of the dock-
yard; Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., emu-
manding the steam reserve, and other naval and
military officers, of a new description of life-buoy,
patented by Messrs. Welsh and Bourchier, which it
is proposed to adopt in the Royal Navy. It consists
of a light, open framework of wood, at the upper
end of which is a metal air casing, and at the lower
part a small water tank, capable of containing about
six gallons of fresh water. Two telescopic masts are
also fitted to the lifebuoy, having at their summit
two flags always flying seven feet above the level of
he sea, for the purpose of pointing out its position
from the ship. To these masts are attached two
port fires as signal lights, one being ignited by the
action of letting go the buoy, while the other is at
the service of the man when he gets into the buoy,
to show his position in a dark night. The buoy will
support a whole boat's crew by their holding on to
the floating brackets outside. The trial was made
from the stern of the Salamander, and the result Wag
highly satisfactory.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Simoom, Capt. J.
B. Lethbridge, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
with the Ist and sth Batteries of Royal Artillery ou
board, comprising Capts. Wylde and Ellaby, Lieuts•
Milbury,Pipon, and Sanders, 200 non-commissioned
officers and gunners, with women and children.
The Liffey, screw (unarmoured wooden) frigate;
34, Capt. E. J. Johnstone, sailed from Spithev
yesterday afternoon for a few days' cruise in the
Channel for gun and general drill practice.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board the
flagship Royal Adelaide, in the Hamoaze, for the
trial, on a charge of drunkenness, of Navigating
Sub-Lieut. Charles Meadows Doleson, when he was
,
dismissed from her Majesty's service. The Court
consisted of Capt. Lambert, president; Capts-Juue°'
Earle, Pellew, and Buller, with Mr. Win. Eastlake/
Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet.
A general order from the War-office announces
that cases having occurred in which Staff depart'
mental officers serving abroad have remitted large
sums of money through the military accountants fe_r
payment in England, the Secretary of State for W,2140
desires that it may be distinctly understood that tu
intention and scope of War-office Circular No. 481
(the 28th of September, 1850,) was to extend to
such officers the privilege previously granted to
officers serving in India only—namely, " to remit,'
limited portion of their pay for the benefit of theft
parents, wives, children, brothers, or sisters," 3°l
that the remittance of au officer's private funds
through the public accountants cannot be permitte',
for other purposes, nor to any amount beyond that
of his monthly pay. In future no remittances
'°
of such amount will be issued by the War-
office.
Mr. P. Thornton, master shipbuilder at Chatham
dockyard, has resumed his duties at that establi..ll_.:
ment, after being engaged for some time in the
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spection of the double-screw iron armour- hat
turret-ship Cerberus, built by the Palmer Shthe
building Company, at Jarrow-upon-TY", for fly
defence of Melbourne. The Cerberus will shor
arrive at Chatham to be completed for sea.
The Inspector-General of the Royal Alaril3e
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Forces, Major-Gen. Oates Travers, C.D.,
Len aloft
poled by his aide-de-camp, Capt. J. I\l.ich
commenced the annual inspection of the `v°°'
division of that force yesterday. fled ell
The practice with the 150-pounder xi
th-Vre
converted from a 68-pounder cast-iron sul°°
Yesterday
gun on the Parsons' system was resumed Yes,,as
to complete the programme of firing 120 rollout; 'be
stated in Zhe Sun), 17 rounds of which bad
tit of
fired, but owing to the platform getting °,_efore
order, and there not being time to repair it :wiled
the rise of the tide, the practice was disco ° 000
after firing 11 rounds, making in all 114 r wder
that had been fired with charges of 301 b. of P° two
and a projectile of 1501 b. weight, besides tue hot.
proof rounds of 37i1b. of powder and 101hAri,
The range attained was slightly under that °`: itial
day last at the same elevation of 19 deg. - 600
velocities taken and roughly calculated were Capt.
feet per second, but owing to the absence of till
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Noble, R.A., have not been checked. The under
shows no signs of weakness or deterioration
the severe strain to which it has been put. ,s ship
A trial of the engines of her Majesty 0.1
Northumberland, 24, Capt. Roderick D°Yrtil, yea'
was made outside the Breakwater, Plylncusix runs
terday, when the mean speed attained after bout,
under full boiler power was 14.132 knots Pe1i1.728
and with four runs at half-boiler power food
knots. The engines worked in a very satin
manner, indicating over 6,500-horse power' t.
A naval court-martial, presided over b spa
J. Kennedy, C. 8., her Majesty's ship Ira] is i .
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composed of Capts. W. C. Chatuberlain,_
°rico;
B. Johnson, Liffey ; E. A. D. Brooker,
Sera
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S. B. Spiers, Himalaya ; J. C. Soady, SeraFt„oath
at P° Victory'
1 E. W. Watson, Crocodile, assembled
on Saturday, on board ner Majesty's ship
seaman,
for the trial of Thomas Power, ordinary training
serving on board the Duke of Wellington eissP
ship,lon a charge of having thrown an
°Phe ghiP
knife at the sick berth attendant on board l
cosicle-
The court found the charge proved u, t,
ration of the youth of the prisoner, sent u'oyesrS
it
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The detachments of the 14th and Bth ileglBol t°
placed under orders to proceed from _orni
of imprisonment
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fMaltanr will
embarkation leave thenn gbaorrairsdonthone Saturday
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invests
The service companies of the Ist and
will shortly proceed from Malta to ludit_ected t°o
moat for tic
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The depot of the 48th inventßeg
arrive at Colchester to-morrow or SaturnaY 410
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officers and nine men of the 4th and Bth 1-leriii_ortlig
talions are under orders to procce
School of Musketry on the Ist pro/dui°. in fora t."O
Au order has been received at Chathtee with 04
War-office announcing that, in accordancoooitteell
recommendation of the Ordnance Select s beries
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it has been decided that shot—solid, to
common i
, and 68-pounders—are n future boN
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painted black, instead of red. Care. infa"
d of
of the
ever, be taken that they are not used los
inch hollow shot at stations where any store _au Do
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latter may be remaining.
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readily distinguished from the hollow 11 theiffe,
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His Imperial Russian Majesty's
from Algeria, arrived in Plymout.
30 da9
roceed •gh°
gate Alexander Newsky, 51, Capth.sKorleinerycssterrdec,
afternoon, and, after coaling, will P
ness Grand Duke Alexis, who is ac
Petersburg. She has on board his. fincoPe_rpiaaliiiedi 14
Vice-Admiral kosiet.