The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-15 00:00:00

India stations and the Pacific. Among her
passengers were Deputy-Inspector-General of Hos-
pitals and Fleets Henry J. Domville, C. 8., M.D. ;
Captain Burgoyne, V.C. ; the Rev. 11. Lowry (ap-
pointed to the Constance), Lieutenant Marsdon,
and Mr. 11. Langworthy, assistant-paymaster, ap-
pointed to the Terror. The Urgent left at Madeira
on the 2d the screw steam sloop Rosario, 11, Com-
mander George Palmer, en route for Australia, and
an American frigate bound to Colon, with supernu-
meraries for the American squadron in the Pacific.
The Urgent was expected to leave Bermuda for
Jamaica and Colon on the 17th of December, and
to return in about seven weeks, when she would
proceed direct for England. Captain Barnard,
late of the Constance, goes in the Urgent to
Jamaica for passage thence to England. The super-
numeraries for the squadron in the Pacific will
cross the isthmus to Panama. Mr. A. Smith, assis-
tant-plynuster from the Royal Alfred, is appointed
acting-paymaster of the. Urgent, vice Wagstaff,
invalided.

The troops whose arrival was announced in Ihe
Son of yesterday in the troopship Crocodile, Capt.
‘Vatson, disembarked at the Portsmouth Dockyard
yesterliy, and were focw4rded to their respective
destinations, as alrea ly announced. The CrocoJi:e
commenced coaling yesterday afternoon, and is or-
dered to have any defects made good, so as to leave
Portsmouth on the 21st for Queenstown, there to
embark the 92d
.11ighlauders for Alexandria. She
will, however, be -docked to-morrow, to have her
•bottom cleaned and examined, as it is in a very bad
state, principally occasioned by the length of time
she was lying at Alexandria on her first trip, and
by which her speed is very much decreased. On her
first run of 3270 miles she burnt 625 tons of coals,
giving a speed of 5.28 miles per ton. After lying
five weeks at Alexandria, in a run of 3,027 miles
she burnt 853 tons of coals, at a speed of only 3.54
miles per ton. It is understood that the docking
and cleaning of the ship will not cause any deten-
tion or cause any departure from the original day
fixed for her leaving (the 21st).

Her Majesty's iron screw steam storeship Industry,
Staff Commander E. C. T. Youel, on particular
service, was yesterday hauled into basin at Wool-
wich to discharge dockyard stores from the Pacific,
ou her arrival that morning, and the dockyard craft
Devon, from Devonport, made fast alongside the
dockyard wharf, laden with naval stores and the
furniture and baggage belonging to Capt. Francis
H. May, the newly-appointed Master-Attendant
of the yard, who yesterday returned to Woolwich
from leave of absence to commence his duties.
Capt. George Biddlecombe, C. 8., the former Master-
Attendant, is, we regret to state, detained at the
official residence at Woolwich by a very severe at-
tack of indisposition, which is feared may prevent
his being moved for some weeks.
The four batteries of Royal Artillery, 11th brigade,
detailed in The Sun of yesterday as having landed
from the troopship Crocodile, arrived yesterday at
Woolwich by the half-past two special train. They
were met at the station by the regimental band,
which accompanied them to the barracks, where
they took up the quarters assigned for their use in
the west wing. A battery of the 21st brigade now
on their passage, also from India, is expected at
Woolwich on or about the 17th inst.

A general court-martial is ordered to assemble at
Chatham garrison this morning by order of the
Duke of Cambridge, for the trial of Captain J. H.
Tennant, 45th Sherwood Foresters, on a charge
of absenting himself from his regiment without
leave. The Court will be presided over by Col.
J. L. A. Simmons, C. 8., commanding the Royal
Engineers.

The following detachments of non-commissioned
officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers left
bead-quarters, Chatham, yesterday to augment the
forces of Royal Engineers serving at various sta-
tions :—Lieut. R. Althorpe, and 24 non-commis-
sioned officers and sappers for Aldershott, to join
the 3d and Gth companies ; 13 non-commissioned
officers and men to Cork, to join the 20th company ;
eight men to join the 25th company at Dover; eight
men to the Curragh, to join the 28th company ;
four men to Portsmouth, to join the 29th company ;
two men for Weymouth, to join the 26th company 5
and one non-commissioned officer to Woolwich, to
be attached to the Bth company.
The batteries of the 11th Brigade Royal Artillery,
from India, now quartered at Woolwich, have taken
up a portion of the sentry and other duties, in con-
junction with the garrison troops, upon whom the
night watch and additional guard have fallen for
same weeks very heavily. On account of the num-
ber of reinforcements which have been supplied to
foreign and out stations, the garrison at Woolwich
has been considerably reduced, and the marching in
of the batteries gave much satisfaction. The de-
tachments told off for night duty will now be relieved
more frequently, the same detachment for some
weeks past having been necessarily called out for 24
hours' guard three times per week.
Messrs. Kirk, contractors to the War Depart-
ment, yesterday commenced erecting a lauding
stage and pier on the Thames bank in the Royal
Arsenal marsh, for the purpose of discharging build-
ing materials for the construction of seven bomb-
proof magazines, with a view of insuring an addi-
tional precaution against accidents in the preparation
of live shells. The Victoria Hospital, built by the
Messrs Kirk for the Government at Suez, and for
which the materials were sent from Woolwich, was
handed over on the Ist inst. for use.

Her Majesty's screw gunvessel Ranger, 5, 80
horse power, Commander William A. Gambier,
arrived at the More yesterday from the West Coast
of Africa, last from Ascension, and saluted the flag
of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Naval
Commander-in-Chief, which was returned from the
Formidable, flagship. She afterwards steamed into
the Medwayfor the purpose of being dismantled and
put out of commission. The Ranger was commis-
sioned on the 28th February, 1864, by Commander
W. E. Gordon, now :of the Peterel, 3, 150 horse
power, and during the whole time she has been in
commission she has been attached to the squadron
on the West Coast of Africa. She has lost a num-
ber of her original crew from sickness, and of the
officers who left England in the Ranger only Lieut.
D. 11. Bosanquet and Mr. F. A. Codd, Assistant-
Paymaster, return with her. After being inspected
by the Vice-Admiral Commanding-in-Chief, the
Ranger will be dismantled and put out of commis-
sion.

ller Majesty's ship Buster and Monkey, Masters-
Commanding Draper and Sinithers, continue their
alternate night guard off Woolwich Arsenal and
Dockyard ; and, in addition, the iron paddlewheel
vessel Lizard, 340 tons and 150-horse power, Lieut.-
Commander Stanhope G. Price, is stationed to pro-
tect the powder magazine at Erith, and the gun-
vessel Espoir, 5 guns, 428 tons, is doing similar
duties at Purfleet.

Her Majesty's Indian troopship Jumna arrived at
Bombay on the 10th inst., with the Ist battalion of
the Gth Foot and other troops who embarked in the
Crocodile at Portsmouth and Queenstown last
month ; all well.
The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Henry Carr Glyn to the
invalided ; Lieut. D. 111‘D. Smith
Doris, vice Vesey,
to the Beacon; Lieut. W. Otter to the Gladiator;
W. J. Talbot, midshipman, to the Defence ; Navi-
gating Sub-Lieuts. George S. Ralph and Edward
Kearns to the Megaara ; Wyllys IL Wyllys, navi-
gating midshipman, to the Royalist; J. C. Bailey,
acting assist.-surg. to the Blanche ; William H.
Charlesworth, acting zusis%-surg., to the Defence ;
Dr. James IV. Fisher, acting assist.-surg., to the
Royalist ; Matthew F. Ryan, acting assist.-surg.,
additional, to the Royal Adelaide; Joseph Lindsay
and John Lll‘Carthy, acting assist.-surgs., additional,
to the Victory ; and Reginald Bridger, nominated
a naval cadet. Percy
0. Presgrave, assistant-
paymaster in charge, to the Plover ; J. S. Striven,
assist.-paymaster, to the Warrior ;. Arthur S. C.
Clarke, assist.-paymaster, to the Excellent ; Frede-
rick F. Morgan, surgeon, to the Defence ; Charles
11. Slaughter, surgeon, to the Royalist ; Gerald
Molloy,/surgeon, to the Blanche.; Peter Wood, chief
engineer, to the Defence; Thomas E. Buckle, Aaron
11. Symes' and John Brown, engineers, to the De-
fence ; John Agates and Thomas Summers, engi-
neers, to the Beacon ; Edward M'Leish and Thos.
Carter, Ist class assist.-engineers, to the Defence ;
Joe Bates, Ist class assist.-engineer, to the Beacon;
John Moysey and Joseph N. Tierney, acting 2d
class assLito engineers, to the Defence.