The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-10 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

Her Majesty's screw storeship Industry, 638 tons,
80 horse-power, Staff Commander E. S. Tonell,
arrived at Spithead yesterday from Brazil and
Ascension. She has brought home a quantity of
returned Government stores and a few seamen and
Marine passengers. The latter were landed at
Portsmouth yesterday, and the Industry will sail
from Spithead again this morning for Woolwich, to

deliver-her cargo of stores. She sailed from Ascen-
sion on the Bth of December, and called in at St.
Vincent on the 21st, on which day the Brazil mail
steamship Oneida passed. Off the Western Islands
the Industry fell in with a strong gale from the
N.W., followed by another from the S.E. After-
wards strong N.E. winds prevailed up to the time
of the vessel entering the Channel. Her Majesty's
screw frigate Bristol sailed from Ascension for Eng-

land on the Ist of December, but would call in at
Sierra Leone to }and her Kroomen.

Her Majesty's screw storeship Supply, Staff-
Commander Charles Bawden, which has been dis-

abled, was recently towed to Portsmouth by her
Majesty's ship Pallas, and has since been placed in
dock for survey. On the water being pumped out
of the dock the screw shafting was found to be
broken outside the tube. The broken length of

shafting, with the Griffiths' screw, has been removed,
and a new length of shafting, with a common two-
bladed screw, is being now fitted. When this has
been completed the ship will be reported on to the
Admiralty and undocked. As the steam factory of

Portsmouth yard is now overcrowded with work,
and the defects of the hull and machinery of the
Supply are extensive, it is anticipated that the Ad

miralty orders will be for her to proceed round to
Woolwich.

Tne Elk, composite-built gunboat, 464 tons, to
carry two guns, and to be fitted with two screw en-
gines of 120 horse power (nominal), will be launched
from Portsmouth dockyard to-day shortly before
high water.
The Pylades, 17, screw corvette, 1,278 tons, 350
horse power, Captain C. W. Buckley, V. C., recently
commissioned at Sheerness for foreign service, re-
mains at Spithead awaiting final orders from the
Admiralty.
The Royal Oak, armoured frigate, 1,000 horse
power screw engines, Capt. H. Hellyar, C. 8., has
been undocked at Portsmouth and berthed along-
side the north wall of the steam basin, in progress
of her somewhat extensive refit—if the refit is only
for one twelvemonth's commission. On Wednesday
while an attempt was being made to lower the
steam launch of this ship into the water of the har-
bour by means of one of the jetty cranes, the for-
ward eyebolt drew from the boat, and the forefoot
of the boat came down with greatforce on the stone
work of the jetty, starting all the wood ends of the
planking from the stem and rendering the boat for
the time completely useless. Yesterday the carpen-
ter of the ship and his crew were busily engaged in
repairing the damage. The boat is required to keep
night guard in Portsmouth harbour. •
The drawings and plans for a new unarmoured
improved sloop corvette, from the designs of Mr.
E. J. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, which
is to be laid down at Chatham dockyard, have been
received at that establishment from the Admiralty,
the workmen at the saw mills having been em-
ployed for some time past in cutting out the tim-
bers for the frames. The new vessel will be of
the Juno class, of about 1,460 tons burden, and is
intended to mount an armament of six heavy guns.
The drawings and models of a new unarmoured
screw corvette, of the Blanche and Danae class, to
be named the Briton, are also in course of prepa-
ration for being laid down on the only available
vacant slip at Sheerness dockyard, from which the
Eclipse was recently launched. In the designs for
the new ship Mr. Reed will combine all the latest
improvements in that class of vessel, while a
slightly additional amount of tonnage will be addel
to enable her to mount an armament of increased

weight.
The Warrior, armoured iron frigate, 32 guns,
1,000 horse power screw engines, Capt. H. Boys,
on the conclusion of her present guard duties off
Osborne, is ordered by the Admiralty to be docked
at Portsmouth to clean her hull below the water
line preparatory to making another trial of her
speed over the measured mile, their Lordships con-
sidering that the trials of speed thatthe ship has
lately made at sea have " rendered valueless the last
trial of speed she made at the measured mile in
Stokes Bay."
The following officers at Chatham garrison were
yesterday placed under orders for embarkation, to
join the service companies of their respective regi-
ments—viz., Lieut. George Bow, 2d West India
Regiment, and Ensign William Henry Gordon, Ist
West India Regiment. The Duke of Cambridge
has also granted one month's leave of absence to
Lieut. Reginald Cartwright, 2d Battalion of the
15th Regiment, and to Lieut. Archibald Glen, 2d
Battalion of the 10th Regiment, to the 4th of
February.
A military board has been held at Chatham gar-
rison, under the presidency of Col. the Hon. J. J.
Bourke, commanding the 3d Depot Battalion, for
the examination of various subalterns as to their
qualifications for promotion.