The Sun.
London, England, 1857-05-05 00:00:00

Naval and Military Intelligence.

It is w:th infinite satisfaction we-are enabled to
announce that the Lords Commissioners of the
Board of Admiralty have rescinded the regulation
which prevented any blue jacket, excepting con-
tinuous service men, from entering on board h r
Majesty's ships of war. The ships now fit ing f,r
China will be manned forthwith by the "right sort
of stuff." Commanders and lieutenants are busy.
entering lots of A.B.'s at the several rendezvous.
Toe foilow:ng general regimental order has been
issued from the Adjutant General's Office, Royal
Artillery, Woolwich, signed H. P.allist.r, assistant-
adju. ant-general :
With reference to the War-office circular, of
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tho 9th of April, 1857, commanding officers of ar-
tillTy are reques-ed to call upon the officers in
command of companies doing Larrison duty under
their orders, to furnish, with the least possib'e de-
lay, the names of two gunners and drivers whom
they would recommend to be employed as artificers
on the conditions therein laid down.

" The men to be selected must have completed
all their drill F, and it is to be understand that their
employment as artificers is not in any way to in-
terfere with their instruction as artillerymen, or
their promotion to the rank of non-commissioned
officers.

" The names of the men to be selected are to be
transmitted to this office by officers commanding
Royal Artillery at each station or district."
Yesterday the troops belonging to the Provisional
Battalion at Ofmtham who were selected from the

Indian depots f r that duty were marched to the
forfifications nesr Prince Henry's bastion, under
the command of Captain L. N. D. Hammond, 90th
Light Infantry, where they went through a variety
of e=calading operations with the troops of theßoyal
Engineers,. who are under the command of Col. H.
Sandham, direct, r of the Royal Engineers establish-
ment. The following officers were in charge of the
escalading party :—Captain W. F. M'Lesn, St. He-
lena Regiment ; Tient. J. W. Madden, 70th Reqi-
mitt ; L'eut. R. E. Date, 74i li Highlanders ;
V. G. Cotes, 86th Regiment; Ens,gns W. Thomp-
son and R. P. Butter, 78th Highlanders. Tile
whole of the troops beton:dug to the Indian depots
at Oh-Altana are undergoing a course of instruction
in esc dading, in order to be made acquainted with
those operations pr-vionsly to joining the service
companies of their corps in India.
It has been deemed advisab'e that the troops in
garrison at Pembroke should be encamped this sum-
mer at a short distsnce from the dockyard, and for
this purpose land has been selected at a place called
Fresh water-ea Qt—a spot about seven miles from
Pembroke. The customary tenders for tlie supply
of firewood and straw for bedding are to ba
ately sent in, so that by June it is likely the trot pa
will be under canvas. The place fixed upon is ex-
ceedingly open and healthy, and adjacent to the
coast, so that there is every probability of the health
of the tD ops being properly kept up. Freshwat,r-
east was the spot. selected for then,wmu4cetry drill,
in which the soldiers will doubtless be properly
initiated.

Accounts from Malta to the 29th April announce
the appearance off that port, on the afternoon of the
23d, of the Royal Albert screw steamship of the
line, bearing 'he flag of Admiral Lord Lyons, ac-
companied by the Brunswick, the Centaur, and the
Conqueror screw steamships of the line, prece led by
the Curicoa and the Vigilant screw steam gunboat,
which two lastment ioned vessels en tered Valetta har-
bour on the same afternoon, leaving the others in
the offing, where they still continue ; but it wa=
reported that they would enter the harbour on the
30th ult.
The following movements have been made at the
port. :—..
ler Majesty's steam corvette the Desperate
arrived on the 24th from Syra, and the Ariel on the
28th; from the Piraeus.
Her Majesty's screw steam gunboat the Snake
left for England on the 23d.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's E 3 eant-
packet Colombo arrived on the 22d from Alexan-
dria; and left on 'the 23d for Southampton.
Captain Lyon arrived on the 22d in the B -trys-
thene steamer from the Levant, in which vessel
Earl Ducie and Capt. Poll left for Marseilles on the
same day.
The Vectis, Peninsular awl Oriental Company's
steam-packet, arrived from Alexandria on the 23d,
and lett for Marseilles on the same morning.
The Teneriffe screw steamer arrived from Alex•
andria on the 28th, and left on the 29th for Liver-
pool. This vessel brought a confirmation .of the ar-
rival at Suez on the 12th from Australia of the
steamer European, with the welcome intelligence—
already t -legraphed—that, besides her own mails
and passenge.s she conveyed those of the longover-
duo Oneida.
The Etna arrived at Malta from Alexandria with
these mat's and passengers at 1 a.m. on the 29th,
and transferring such as were for the ouerland route
to the Cambria, this latter was ready to start for
Marseilles at 4, but had to wait for her bill of health
until 5.30 a.rn. Tie Etna proceeded onwards to
Gilraltar and Southampton on the same morning
at 10.

The Napoleon 111. and' the Csledonia; screw
steamers, arrived from Leith and Gibraltar on the
27th, to the comignmeut of the Russian consul,
bound for Odessa.
The Killarney screw steamer, from Glasgow
reached Malta on the morning of the 29th.
The Bustard, 2, screw-gunboat, Lieut. T. B. Col-
linson commanding, was at the Capeof Good Hope
on Fi-b. 4, on her way from England for Chins. A
letter fr, m her of the above date says—" We had
a very fine passaam to this place—most beautiful
beautiful !weather, and only 3 days' rain ; but we
were detiitiel 17 days at Ascension on account of
the Fury steamsloop, Com. Locke, having to repair
her rudder, and that has thrown us behind ; but
the Cruizer, 17, Corn. Fellowes, and her gunboats
are only 10 days' sail before us, and the Inflexible,
' 6, Corn. Corbett, and Starling, gunboat, a mon h.
The Plover, 2, stesm-gunboa., Lieut. Stewart, and
Opossum, 2, ste rm-gunboat, Lieut. C. A. Camp
bell, are here wa.ting for the Highflyer, 21, Capt.
Shad well, C. 8., which is at Nita , landing Guvern
ment nerney.
Tile Victory, 104. Capt. Seymour, C. B. flag of
Vice-Admiral Sir G. F. Seymour, .c. doin-
mandei-ie-Chief at Portsmouth, was " paiddowu"
yesterday.
The Amphitrite, 25, soiling corvette, Captain
Tatham, W4B inspected at Portsmouth by Captain
Sir T. Maitland, C. B , of the Excellent, yesterday,
after which she went to Spirhead, saluting as she
passed on ton ards the anchorage.
The Agamemnon .91, screw, flitting at Ports-
mouth to _assist in laying down the Atlantic tele-
graph cable, under the command of Mr. Noddal,
IVla4tur, R.N., has topmasts painted, and is p2o-
gr'ssing rapidly in her rig.
Assistance, 6, iron screw troop frigate, Com-
mander W. T. He'ith, is to be ready fir sea on the
12th instant, and to receive on board the 82d Regi-
ment for service in China. On reference to our

10 we find that the Assixtln, e brought from the
nnea, and larded at Port,mouth dock) and on V:e
17th of May, 1856, 880 men and 105
hors,%; tle
made another hip, and art ivtd a • e2ond. .time acthe dockyard on' the 15th of August, 1856, with
801. men and 14 horses, thus showing her advan-
tages as a troop frigate as to ;- ccommothfon and
.speed. .

The Adventure, 4, screw st ram trlopship, Com-
mand- r Lacy, got up her stem in the steam-basin
at Portsmouth yesterday, to try her machinery
preparatory to being reported ready for. service.
The Winchester, 50, Cip.ain T. Wilson, has
been heeled up to the eh Ahern Dockyard, where
the crew are busily engaged in stripping her and
removing her stor s into the dockyard, previously
to the ye4s4 heing.paid off and placed in ordinary.
The Mersey, 40, the large tai frigate building
At Chatham Dockyard, iS progressing rapidly, and
a'ready some idea can be formed of her immense
size. She will be the longest steam frigate in the
service, being consider ably longer than the Royal
Sovereign, 131, recently launched at Portsmouth.
The following are the principal dimensions of the
Mrs y :—Length over all, 336 ft. 6in. ; length
between perpendiculars, 300 ft. ; length of keel for
tonnage, 264 ft. 4in. ; extreme breadth, 52ft. ;
breadth for tonnage, 51. ft. 3in. ; breadth moulded,
50ft. Bin. ; depth of hold, 19fr. 10in. ; burd in,
3,726 70-94 tons. Her engines will be of 1,000
horse-power; .
Two large vessels which have been nearly con-
structed at Chatham will be launched during the
present year ; they are the H rod, which was ori-
ginally designed as a sailing vessel, but has been
altered to a 90-gun srew steamer, an the Charyb-
dis 21, screw Stearn corvette, which was commence&
i last y=:at, fi'Mn idle—tTeTsigns tit Capt sin
Sir B. Walker, Surveyor of tie Navy.
Tile paddlewheel steam-frigate Furious, 16, Capt.
Sberard Osborne' arid the screw steam sore-situp
Hosper, Master Commander James Hill, stied
from 'Plymouth yesterday afternoon for Grine, with
two despatch . boats and 12 gunboats—viz., the
Surprise, the Cormorant; the Algerine, the Lee, the
Banterer, the Lem, the Kestrel, the Drake, the
Janus, the Firm, the Watchful, the Woodcock,
the Sleney, and the Leven.
The Cressy, 80 guns, screw steamship, Captain
Richard L. Warren, was inspected yesterday in
harliour at Sheerness by the Comunander-in-Cuiet.
the Hon. William Gordon, Vice-Admiral of the
White and Commander-in-Chief of all ships arid
vessels in the rivers Thames and Medway. The
gallant admiral expressed himself highly satisfied
With the efficient state of the craw. The Cressy
left theißosPherns in company with the Majestic
on the 11th Feb. last. She sighted the Lizard on
the afternoon of the 24th April, having previou-ly
to that time experienced variaVe winds and calm
weather. She then fell in with strong easterly
winds ; in consequence of which steam was got up
on the afternoon of the 28th April, and arrived at
Spithead the same night ; lift Spithead, under
steam, on the 301 r April, and arrived at the Great
Nore on the 2d May, at about 7 p.m. ; came into
harbour yesterday. She brings home large quan-
tities of surplus ammunition, stores, slops, earth-
ing, d-c., for the return of which some time will
be occupied beyond the usual time for returning
her own stores.
On the coast guard cutter Curlew being placed
in on the ebb dry yesterday morning, the only
bodies found in her were—Mr. W. Shepherd, late
second mate, in command ; E. White, mariner ; W.
Redding, mariner ; and Joseph Matthew, first-class
boy. There are now missing—A Swiney, mariner ;
H. White, gunner; and Win. Weeller, ordinary
mariner.
The gunboat Mayflower left SheerneSs yesterday
on a trial of her engines, after being repaired by the
engineer et ifl of the Edinburgh, wtio are daily em-
ployed on board the factory steamveesel
Capt. E. P. Halsted. To-day the Manly gunboat
goes out, and on •Wednesday.the Phcenix, all of
which vessels have been repaired under the superin-
tendence of the inspecting engineer of the steam
squadron of reserve, Mr. Langley.
The paddlewheel tl oepship Dee, Master-Com-
mander T. Pollen, was yesterday morning admit lei
into basin at Woolwich, on her return.from
Ply-
m iuth and Portsmouth. She landed at Woolwich
the following officers and privates of the Royal
Marine Corps, ,discharged from her Majesty's 70,
gun fiag,,hip Boscawen, Rear-Admiral Fanshawe,
late on service in North ;America and the West
Indies—namely, Captain H. G. J. Davies, First
Lient.'nant W. A. Delacombe, and 46 rank and
file, from Plymouth. Instruction's were issued
from the Acleuiralty to the chief engineer of the
Dee, on her departure from Wool teich,to note do wu
with special care the working of Mr_ Wethered's
superheating apparatus, fi'ted on hoard, as it is the
desire of Government to be furnished with a de-
tailed and final report thereon. The system has
' been h tiisfaetory throughout the lengthened trials
to which it has been subjected, the rate of economy
averaging about 35 per cent. in the consumption of
fuel.

Her Majesty's ship Rhadamanthus, having been
supplied with a set of new boil,-rA, and having un-
dergone the neessary repairs of machinery, &-.,
was yestei day morniug place 1 wider the shears in
th- inner basin, Woolwich, ti have her funnels
applied..
The piddle-wheel steamer Monkey, having had
h r machinery and boil-r unshipped, is ordered to
be surveyed in Woolwich lia-in.
Mr. Morris, Deputy Mil. tiry Storekeeper of
Woolwich Ars-nal, accompanied by a committee of
ersgifieer officers, yesterday morning inspected a
number of military stlre-h uses, adjoining the site
facing the Artillery Baraack4, on which it is pro
posed to raise a garrison church and quarters, with
a view to their removal forthwith. It is in c intern-
plation to erect a museum in the lo:ality, in order
to store the Russitn guns and other trophies cap-
tured in the Crimea.
The following promotions and appointments were
made yesterday at the Admiralty :
Clmtna,ideri—Thomas C .chran (1851), meetly in
command of the Mariner, 12, sloop, on the North
American and West India station ' • and Edward K.
Barnard (1852), recently in command of the Racehorse,
14, sloop, in the East Indies, have been promoted to be
captains.
Lieutenants—JamPs B. Veitch (1847), recently serving
in the Arrogant, 46. screw, in the Baltic ; Henry
Harvey (1847), recently serving in the Hawke, 6Q,
screw, in the Baltic ; and John Henry Howard (1847),
recently serving in the Hydra, 6, paddle, at the Cape of
Good Hope, have been promoted to be commanders.
Master—Henry A. Martin, to the Leopard.
Second Master—Clement Hirtz,3l (acting), to the Vcl.
cano.
Master's Assistant—Henry Kooken, to the Boscawen.

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