The Sun.
London, England, 1868-01-04 00:00:00

NA VAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

In accordance with an order issued by Colonel J.
W. S. Smith, C. 8., commanding the Ist Depot
Battalion at Chatham, the whole of the officers and
men of the battalion wereheld in readiness through-
out Thursday night to turn out of their quarters for
duty whenever their services might be required.
The officers and men were accordingly on the alert
throughout the night, but no order was given for
them to leave their quarters. All the principal
military posts in the garrison are strongly guarded
by a line of sentries, while guards aro placed
within most of the Government establishments
which are deemed to require special protection. By
direction of General Murray an extra supply of
coal has been issued for the use of the troops on
guard.
The examination of candidates for commissions
in the corps of Royal Artillery and Royal Engi-
neers, under the regulations dated Horse Guards,
January 1, 1867, commenced on Thursday at
Chelsea Hospital before Major-Gen. Napier, vice-
president, and the members of the Council of
Military Education.
A War Department order was yesterday made
known at Woolwich, prohibiting the transport of
arms and ammunition, in bulk, by the same
ship. Orders have been given to remove the whole
of the wooden store sheds in and about the vicinity
of the Tower, as it has been apprehended that the
inflammable nature of the materials might be a
source of temptation to the evil disposed.
Her Majesty's Indian troopship Euphrates left
Suez for Bombay on the Ist inst., with the Royal
Artillery and draughts from various regiments,
which were conveyed from Portsmouth to Alex-
andria in the Serapis.
A rumour has been current for some days past
that two vessels supposed to belong to the Feniaus
had been seized by the naval authorities at Wool-
wich as contraband. It having created some
alarm, and correspondence, and inquiry in the offi-
cial departments, the authorities request that a
direct contradiction in the newspapers may be
given to the rumour, which is without founda-
tion. It may have been ascertained to have origi-
nated in the fact that two vessels which had ascended
the river had loitered about the offing under what
was pronounced at the time " suspicious cir-
cumstances," and were questioned by the river
guard. They, however, proved to be the French
brig of war Beaumanoir, mentioned yesterday, and
the chartered transport Annie Forster, from Quebec,
with condemned arms and ammunition. Captain
Crudelle, of the Beaumanoir, not being sufficiently
acquainted with the regulations of the Thames, had
taken up his berth to ship ammunition opposite the
Royal Arsenal without first reporting his arrival to
the senior officer in command at the station. The
Beaumanoir, having shipped her ammunition, left
Woolwich yesterday on her return to Cherbourg.
The Annie Forster was ordered up to the Surrey
Canal, and her arms, consisting of 666 cases, con-
taining 25 rifles each, wore yesterday removed in
barges to Woolwich, to be disposed of by War De-
partment orders.
The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—J. T►tlock, assist.-p iy-
master, to the Victory, as secretary's clerk; Aubrey,
A. Tauvel, assist.-paymaster, to the Dauntless; W.
Trew, assist.-paymaster, to the Cumberland ; W.
J. Brown, assist.-paymaster, to the Royal Adelaide,
as supernumerary ; F. R. G. Wright, assist.-pay-
master, to the Frederick William ; George. B. Hill,
staff-surgeon, to the Rodney ; Dr. James Paterson,
surgeon, additional, to the Pembroke ; Dr. Arthur
J. Ireland, surgeon, additional, to the Royal George;
Edmund M. Russell and G. E. Tremaine, assist.-
psymasters, additional to the Mersey.

RES FOR 18C8.

TARY.
Nottingham Spring ..., 25
Derby Spring
(_31'21.

Margate
Epsom Spring Meeting 24
Croxton Park
Northampton

IL.
Knighton ll
Abergavenuy .. •.• 16
Catterick
Lewes Spring
Tbirsk
Curragh April 2l
Newmarket Ist Spring 27
AY.

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Salisbury l4
Bath
Croydon Ist Summer
Harpenden
Epsom Summer

...—.
1 Hampton
Bibury Club 23
Curragh June
Stockbridge
I Alexandra Park 3O
'LY.