The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-01 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

Major. General Sir H. Rose, K. C. 8., left a few
days ago to assume the command in India, pro-
ceeding direct overland to Suez, and thence to Cal-
cutta. Colonel the Hon. P. Herbert, C. 8., does
not proceed to India, the arrangements for his de-
parture being countermanded at the last moment.
The gallant colonel is now visiting in Scotland.
Major-General Sir W. Reid, the Governor and
Commander-in-Chief at Malta, who has been on
leave of absence, will leave to resume his dirties
on the 23th inst.

Atijor-General Sir W. F. Williams returned to
Woolwich on Sunday, and reassumed the command
of the garrison.

Captain Welman, 86th (Royal County Down)
Regiment, has joined the Provisional Battalion at
Chatham, and take the command of the depot of
his corps.
Captain Sir L. E. Smith, Lieut. Aldridge, and
Lieut. O'Malley, and a detachment of 54 non-cona-
misiioned officers and privates of the7lst Regiment
arrived at Balmoral on Saturday, to do duty dur-
ing the sojourn of her Majesty at her Highland re-
sidence.

Capt. Spalding, Lieuts. Pritchard, Delacombe,
Donell in, and Macey, in command of 179 rank and
file of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, doing duty
at Deptford, are to be relieved to. day by a like
number of thA Fusilier Guards, the de`achment of
Royal Marines returning to head-quarters, Wo)l-

The following depots of Scotch regiments—the
42d, 72d, 74th, 78th, 79th, and 93d—are to be
quartered at Aberdeen. Col. Moodie, R.E., has
been to inspect the accommodation the barracks at
present afford, and there is no doub that the bar-
racks must be enlarged or others built. It is satis-
fact.Ty to le tiro that recruiting is going on steadily-,
and after the harvest is glthered it is fully antici-
pated that each of the regiments named will obtain
the required complement of men.
Sir C. Wood, the First Lord of the Admiralty,
will go this morning on a tour of inspection in Ire-
land, embarking at Holyhead. After inspecting
Queenstown and other ports, Sir Coarles will make
an official visit to Pembroke Dockyard.
The en-ction of an iron shed over the new ship-
building slip, No. 5, in Woolwich Dockyard is now
completed, Iv:VI the exception of some trifling fit-
tings to the machinery. This building at present
consists of one centre span 82 feet wide by 261 feet
long, and 94 feet high to the ridge. It also contains
two side spans, each 32 feet wide by 232 feet long.
It is, moreover, in contemplation to extend the
roof by an addition of 58 feet, so as to adapt it for
building the largest class of men-of war. The edifice
is provided with three travelling cranes, which
traverse the entire length, the two intended for
operation iu side bays being each capable of lifting
7 tons, and the centre one 20 tons. The weight of
the latter, when loaded, amounts to 58 tons, and
it is worked at a height of 70 feet above the slip,
thus having abundant head-room for the construc-
tion of any &ass of ship below it. Considerable
economy in time will be gained by the advantage
of the space afforded in this shed, under which, in
cases of emergency, all the boilers and machinery
of a tress .1 may by means of the traveller be got
into place prior to the launch. The Lords of the
Admiralty on their recent visit to the yard, in ex-
pressing their approval of the wok, observed that
this was the iln,st building of the kind which they
had seen.

The Admiralty yacht Banshee, lately in atten-
dance on her Majesty, returned to Woolwich yes-
terday morning, and has commenced recoaling, in
readiness for special service. The P battery of
R )yal Horse Artillery, in command of Major
Dixon E. Hoste, C. 8., marched into heal-quarters,
Woolwich, on Saturday evening, from Norwich.
Her Majesty's ship Trincomalee, 25 guns, Capt.
Houston, has arrived at Plymouth in 61 days from
Rio Janeiro. The Trincomalee has been five years
and nine days absent from England ; out of this
time she has been 1,009 days at sea, and has sailed
over 118,000 miles ; her station has been the Paci-
fic. On the 10th July, in lat. 15 S , long. 34 W.,
she exchange' numbers with the English brig
Woodbine, running to the southward ; and off the
Island of Flores, with the English barque Guate-
mala, of Liverpool, standing N.E., Aug. 26, in lat.
49 14 N., long. 727 W. The English ship Shan-
non, of London asked to be reported as bound
from Madras for, London. _ _

The Brilliant, Capt. Paynter, arrived at Greg
nada on the 28th July, from Trinidad, sailing up
in admirable style to a central position within the
Carenage, where, perfectly sheltered from those
elemental dangers so much to be feared at this sea-
son of the year in o her West India latitudes, she
now rides at anchor within a S,ol.lt3'S throw of the
premises I,elew fort Gle'orge, lately tt...,:s:gned by the
lee .1 government for the purpose of a naval esta-
blishment—and where, too, with the mast con-
ymient nautical watering-place known in the
West Indies, and one of the best fruit and vege-
table markets immediately accessible, it is, hap-
pily, seldom indeed that we hear of the appearal ce
of any of those diseases of tropical climates so
fatal to European constitutions. These and many
other great advantages peculiar to a locality which
"nature seems to have intended fer a southern
naval arsenal," cannot fail of being more and mole
appreciated by the gallant captain whose own co. -
tect judgment has led to its selection as affording
the most suitable winter quarters for the fine ship
and brave crew under his command, and will, it is
to be hoped, ii duce oth, rs also of the Royal navy
to adopt it in a similar way, if not as a perma-
nent rendezvou-, at le as a temporary refuge in
the hurricane months.—Grenada Chronicle.

The Perseverance, screw troop ship, Commander
M'Donald, arrived at .Grenada on the sth August
from Demerara, with ono ct:mpany of the 2d
West Indian Regiap nt on board : the principal
object of her visit was to take alvant3ge of the
superior facili ies offered there for coaling, but in
which she was not successful, as the collier 3 of
the Royal Mail Company have been tardy with the
supplies ft r their depot there ; therefore she was
to start on the 10th August for Barbadoes, and
then return to England.
The Retribution, 28, paddle frigate, Capt. Bar-
ker, arrived at Valparaison on the 3d July.

ADMIRAL KEPPEL,
TO THE EDITOR.

Silt, —A s the gallant Harry Keppel bas "reached
the top of the tree," and at the prime of life, it
may be interesting to a few of your many naval
readers to know something of the school in which
that favourite of the blue jackets completei his
nautical training.
Some five and twenty years ago there was cruis-
ing in the Indian Seas a crack razes, Lt once the
pride and the terror of the station. She was com-
manded by Capt. Ilaultaut, a stfrn disciplinarian
of the old school. Amongst her crew there weie
neither " Minto men" nor " Grahamites," but each
and all of them genuine specimens of the true Bri-
tish tar. I will not intrude on your space by enu-
merating the stringent regulations to which officers
and men were subject on board this model man-o%
war ; sufficient to say they embodied a system of
discipline which the greatest Martinet of the day
would fear to adopt. " Haul-taut" was not only
one of the sternest, but the most indefatigable of
officers ; he not only performed daily the duties of
captain, first lieutenant, master, purser, and officer
of marines, but he was a real " Jack-of-ail-Trades."
He knew better how to make a spar than the car-
penter, knew more of the magazine than the gun-
ner, arid the boatswain durst not whistle but by his
signal ; even from him the blacksmith had his in-
structions how to make a hook and thimble. In
addition to all this, while at sea he did constantly
day duty as " captain of the forecastle," and from
that platform, in tones of thunder, were issued
those words of command which made sailors fly and
officers tremble. In the "queen of corvettes,"
under that autocrat afloat, served as junior lieu-
tenant (ihe beloved of his messmates and "darling
of the crew") the future hero of the Naval Brigade.
Therefore no officer, in the course of his training,
has been subjected to a severer system of naval dis-
cipline than the daring, dashing Admiral Keppel.
I remain, Sir, your obedient servant,
ONE OF HAUL TAUT'S FORECASTLE MEN.

THE CHINA SQUADRON.
A p'ivate letter from the Shannon, 51, screw
2,
Capt. W. Peel, C. 8., dated Hong Kong, July ,
so.) s :
" We left Singapore on the 23d of June, having
embarked the Earl of Elgin and suite—who live
on board of us during our mission in these seas.
We like them very much. Sanspareil
composed
shour
hourly
looked for from Singapore. A squadron,
of the Calcutta, 84, flag of Rear-Admiral Sir M.
Seymour ; Shannon, 51, screw, flag of the Right
Hon. the Earl of Elgin (red ensign at the main) •
Hornet, 17, screw, Commander C. C. Forsyth . ;
Pearl, 21, screw, Capt. Edward S. Sotheby ; In-
flexible, 6, paddle, Commander John Corbet ; and
Coromandel, sail on the 25th inst. for Japan, and
other places
months,
ft
in theaerwhich
north.
two
we expect the arrival of
sundry screw gun boats, and as soon as the com-
mander-in chief considers our force to be sufficient
we take Canton.
" Tile Alligator, with the flag of Commodore
ke Keppel,
came in last evening, from the river, to
take command during the absence of Admiral
Seymour.
" The Sybille, 40, Commodore Charles Eliot,
goes up the river to take charge.
!_5 At Hong-Kong are the Calcutta, Shannon