The Sun.
London, England, 1857-03-07 00:00:00

riaval and Military lntell geace.

Captain Boxer, Royal Artillery, superintendent
of the Laboratory at Woolwich Arsenal, has been
granted by Government the munificent bounty of
5,0001., as a reward fur his invention and improve-
ment of fuzes and shells which were used at the
siege of Sebastopol, and which have been adopted
in the service.

Orders were received yesterday (Friday) morn-
ing at the Royal Marine Barracks, Plymouth, for
1,000 Marines to hold themselves in readiness to
embark for active service in Chins. They will be
commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Lemon, and,
besides commissioned officers' will include 22 ser-
geants and 35 corporals. The force now in barracks
at Plymouth, including those landed from the
Retribution, is 1,600. ThV are in a very efficient
state, and are well advanced in ball practice, having
for a long time been constantly exerci-ed.
The second and last division of the 2d Dragoon
Guards (the Queen's Bays), consisting of 11 officers,
292 soldiers of all ranks, and 192 horses, embarked
on Thursday at Dublin on b -ard the steamers Tra-
falgar and Princess for Liverpool, bound to India.
A large crowd assembled on the quay and cheered
the soldiers as the steamers got under way.
Dr. Jolm Barclay, surgeon in the medical depart-
ment of Woolwich Dockyard, has received permi.-
sion from the Lords of the Admiralty to retire on
half-pay, and is to bo succeeded by Mr. William
Richardson, appointed Assi,taut-Surgeon to the
Fisgird.
The ship-building depsrtment at Chatham Dock-

yard is being Larri:d on with activity, the numb -r
of vessels of war now in course of construction at
tliat establishment giving an aggregate burden of
about 20,000 tons. In addition to t`le large screw
steam-r Renown, 91, which is completed, there are
several other vessels in a forward state, some of
which are intended to be latinchel during the pre-
sent year. Among these may be mentioned the
two screw corvettes Racoon and Charybdis, of 21.
guns each The Renown screw steamer, of 3,317
tons burden, will be launched on the 28th inst.,
when it is intended to lay down anctlier large screw
steamer on the same slip.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Cointnander B. P. Priest, to the
Himalaya; CommanderE. Chambers, to th- Transit ;
Lieut. E. D. Downes, to the Transit ; Lieut. L.
Lambert and Lieut. W. Gregory, to the Himalaya ;
the H George Fitzclareoce, mate to the Im-
pregnable ; St. V. D. Lake, mate, to the CaJcutta, ;
J. G. J. Holbrook and C. J. Wise, midshipmen,
to the Transit ; T. S. Vandermeulen, G. R Don-
kin, and A. Jephson, midQhipmen, to the Hima-
laya ; H. R. Garrett, T. M. Magney, R. A. Edwin,
G. H. Blake, E. S. Richards, And B. Moore, mid-
' shipmen to the Calcutta, for disposal ; B. Shat-
took and C. E. Pearce, naval cadets, to the 1111180.
laya ; J. H. Allard, master, to the Transit ; T. W.
Sulivan, master, to the Alarm ; J. A. B. Patch,
Emperor the Calcutta; ;
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second master, to the Himalaya ; J. H. Blaebford,
second master, to the Transit ; W. A. Stone and
0. H. C. Smith, master's assistants, to the Transit;
S. V. W. Vine, masters' assistant,
J. Sole, surgeon, to the Retribution ; David
Cour t e nay, assistant-surgeon, to
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the Himalaya ; Richard
C. Beale, assistant paymaster, to the Pembroke ;
Allen F.Gom, clerk, to the km hitrite ; Frederick
L. B. Bidwell, clerk, to the EmPperor • Joseph H.
Manley, clerk, to the Himalaya ; F. H. Alldricks,
tclheerkT,
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LToivsedall, assistant-clerk, to
the Himalaya ; and Albert ly ,
to the Amphitrite. assistant-clerk,
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