The Sun.
London, England, 1857-10-12 00:00:00

Naval and Military intelligence.

The Duke of Cambridge has resumed his duties
at the Horse Guards after a brief absence is the
midland counties.

The screw steamship Austria, Capt. Heckman,
which left Cork at 5 p•ln. last Monday (sth), put
back to Plymouth on Saturday morning. She has
on board the 94th Regiment, nearly 800, under the
command of Lieut.-Col. Mills, and was bound to
the E tst Indies. On Tuesday morning she encoun-
tered in the Bay of Biscay a severe gale, which com
menced from the south-west, and veering round
from the north-north-west, continued all Wednes-
day. The Austria lost two anchors and four boats ;
her rigging was damaged, bulkheads carried away
fore and aft, and one soldier washed overboard. The
troops will probably be transferred to a hulk in Ha-
moaze, and the steamer will go up Cutwater for re-
pair. The same gale carried away the iron gates of
the Plymouth Great Western Docks, which weigh
64 tons each and injured the Millbay-pier ; its effects
were experienced all along the southern coast. The
following ships found shelter in Plymouth Sound on
Saturday :—The bark Golden Eagle, of Cork, Cap-
tain M`Dowell, from Cardiff for Ceylon, lost boats
and incurred other damage ; three of the crew in-
jured. The Netherlands bark Clio, Captain Wyn-
mailer, from Glasgow for Singapore ; lost boats and
leaky. The Netherlands bark Jan Van Brake!,
Captain Verhey, from Newport for Ceylon, leaky.
And the Hanoverian galliot Orion, Captain Strack,
from Constantinople, with wheat leaky.
The fallowing officers belonging to tha Indian
depots at the Provisional Battalions, Chatham,
have received leave of absence from that garris
previously to embarking for the purpose of joining
the head-quarters of their respec,ive regiments in
India :—Brevet-Major W. J. Chads, 64th Regi-
ment Lyle, 29th Regiment ; Cap-
-41\13d. Light Infantry, who pro-
ceedslndia ; and Ensign F. Pavey,
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74th Highlanders, who will also proceed by the
overland route.

appointed Adjutant at the Royal' Engineers'
Captain G. M. Stopford,s been
establishment, Chatham, in the room of Cap-
tain F. E. Cox, who has been appointed to the
Staff of the Royal Engineers proceeding to India.
Ensign Watt, of the 18th (Royal Irish) Regt.,
has boen presented with a beautiful gold watch by
therom sergeantssergant
sergeant-major
athatjor of
regiment, me
corps,
on his promotion
f,
as a token of their
high esteem.
A Cork paper on Friday announces the departure
of the Great Britain from that port, having on
board the whole of the B'h Hussars and the 17th
Lancers, besides detachments from other regiments.
We regret to announce the death of Admiral
Joseph Harrison, of Portsmouth, who died on
He WAS a gallant and
He entered the navy on the
as a first-class volunteer on board
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the Spider, in which vessel he was made a mid-
shipman on the Ist of January, 1800, and during
the short-lived peace he was employed in the
Channel and Mediterranean. In March, 1803,
he joined the Aurora frigate, and served
on the Newfoundland station until transfeired
to the Pallas, 42, Captain Lord Cochrane, in
January, 1805. He subsequently served on the
West India station iu the Merlin sloop and the
Northumberland, 74, flag of the Hon. Sir Alex-
ander Cochrane. In September, 1806, he was made
Sub-Lieutenant of the Grouper gun brig. In May
following he was confirmed to the rank of Lieut.,
and afterwards joined the Eper vier brig, and served
under some of the most distinguished officers of the
day. In November, 1809, he jollied the Achille,
74, Captains Sir R. King, the Hon. G. H. Dundas,
and A. P. Hollis, and was attached to her for nearly
six years, during which time, besides commanding
a Spanish gunvessel at the defence of Cadiz, he
served off Toulon, on the coast of Sicily, in the
Adriatic, off Cherbourg, and on the South Ameri-
can station. In 1815 and 1817 he served in the In-
constant and Semiramis frigates, respectively em-
ployed off the coast of Africa and at Portnnouth,
under the command of Sir J. Yea. He was promoted
t the rank of commander ou 14th Sept., 1818, and
commanded pro tern. the Challenger, 28-gun
frigate. In May, 1829, be was appointed to the
command of the Favourite sloop, and served a tdrin
iu her on the Coast of Africa station, during which
ho was promoted to post rank. He retired with the
rank of Rear-A.diniral in 1856.
The Leopold stain transport, which takes two
companies of Royal Artillery from Woolwich, also
takes the V field battery and the remaining portion
of the 98 h
Regiment from Portsmouth, and will
call at Queenstown for the remainder of the 94th,
all of whom she will convey to India.
The Luci'er steatnvessd, Mr. Allen, master,
R.N., of the St. Vincent, in temporary command,
left Portsmouth yesterday morning for Pembroke,
towing two lighters tort end up
ou the dredging en-
gine employed in elearisj out Milford harbour or
estuaries.

The
Rhadamanthus steam transport, Master
Commander Brown, arrived at Portsmouth in the
night of Saturday, from the westward, and left
ag tin yesterday afternoon f",,r Plymouth, with ma-
The Ganges, 84,
o!iin-ry fur the Donegal, se-ew, 101, building.
Captain ltord, fl ig of Rear-
Admiral Baynes, has bad her complement made tip
by disposage men frinn the Victory, and has tak-n
in a number of supernumerary boys for disposal
:im ng h ships ou the Pacific station. She will
sail iu a day or two.
Tee Diadem, 32, screw frig tte, Capt. Mo:irsorn,
C. 8., is ready to go to Spitheal,
manned.
A new battery is about to be erected at Stalling-
borough,and is nearly
Lincoln. It will command the channel
above and below, and will mount six guns, madeto
traverse on centres embedded in masonry. There
will be a parapet of brickwork, and the whole is to
be covered externally
with earthwork. Magazines,
barracks, and outbuildings are to b-) provided for
the accommodatim of two officers 40 men, and one
master gunner, and the area of the whole will be