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

fia7al and Military Intelligance.

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

The screw steamship Austria, Capt. Heckman,
which left Cork at 5 p.m. last Monday (sth), put
back to Plymouth on Saturday morning. She has
Regiment, nearly 800, under the
command of Lient.-Cal. Mills, and was bound to
on board the 94th
•he East Indies. On Tuesday morning she encoun-
tered in the Bay of Biscay a severe gale, which corn
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 bo transferred to a hulk in Ha-
moan, 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
fol!owing 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 N etherlands bark Jan Van Brakel,
Captain Verhey, from Newport for Ceylon, leaky.
k nd the Hanoverian galliot Orion, Captain Strack,
from Constantinople, with wheat leaky.
The following officers belonging to the Indian
depots at the Provisional Battalions, Chatham,
have received leave of absence from that garris9n
previously to embarking for the purpose of joining
the head-quarters of their respeedve regiments in
India :—Brevet-Major W. J. Chads, 64th Regi-
ment ; Captain J. M. Lyle, 29th Regiment ; Cap-
tain C. R. Mure, 43d Light Infantry, who pro-
ceeds overland to India ; and Ensign F. Pavey,
74th Highlanders, who- will also proceed by the
overland route.

Captain G. M. Stopford, RE. has been
appointed Adjutant at the Royal Engineers'
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 been presented with a beautiful gold watch by
the sergeants of that regiment, on his promotion
from serg-ant-major of the corps, 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 Bth 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
Wednesday last, aged 67. He was a
gallant and
much respected officer. He entered the navy on the
25th July, 1799, as a first-class volunteer on board
the Spider, in which vessa he was made a mid-
-liepdeiatceerranean. In March, 1803,
mid-
shipman on the Ist of January, 1800, and during
he was employed in the
the
Channelshr
and lived
dM
he joined the Aurora frigate, and . served
on the Newfoundland station until transfetred
to the Pallas, 42, Captain Lord Cochrane, iu
January, 1805. He subsequently served on the
West India station in the Merlin sloop and the
Northumberland, 74, flag of the Hon. Sir Alex-
ander Cochrane. Iu September, 1806, he was made
Sub-Lieutenant of the Grouper gun brig. In May
following lie was confirmed to the rank of Lie'ut.,
and afterwards joined the Epervier brig, and served
under some of the most distinguished officers of the
day. Iu November, 1809, he joined the Achille,
74, Captains Sir R. King, the Hon. G. H. Duudas,
and A. P. Hollis, and was attached to her for nearly
six years, during which time, besides commauding
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 Portsmouth,
under the command of Sir J. Yee. He was promoted
t the ratik of commander on 14th Sept., 1818, and
commanded pro tern, the Challenger, 28-gun
frigate. In May, 1829 he was appointed to the
command of the Favourite sloop, and served a term
in her on the Coast of Africa station, during which
he was promoteclto post rink. He retired with the
r ink of Rear-Admiral in 1856.
The Leopold steam transport, which takes two
companies of Royal Artillery from Woolwich, a'so
takEa 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 Lucifer steamvessJ, Mr. Allen, master,
R.N., of tlee St. Vincent, in temporary command,
left Portsmouth yesterday morning for Pembroke,
towing two lighters to Itt end upo:r the dredging en-
gine employed in cleariiseg out Milford harbour or
stuarieze

The Rhadamanthus steam transport, Maser
Commander Brown, arrived at Portsmouth in the
night of Saturday,
from the westward, and left
Lg tin y,sterday a.lcernoon f,r Plymouth, with ma-
/Join -ry for the Donegal, screw, 101, building.
The Ganges, 84,
Capt Admiral Baynes, has had her complement made lip
by disposaqe men from the Victory, and has tak,n
i Fulford, 'g of Rear-
in a number of supernumerary boys for disposal
am ng b.; ships ou the Pacific station. She will
sail iu a day or two.
Toe Diadem, 32, screw frig Ott., Capt. Mo rsom,
C. 8., is ready- to go to Spithr.,.aii, and is nearly
manned.
A new battery is about to be erectcd at Stalling-
borough, Lincoln. It will command the channel
above and below, and will mount six guns, made:to.
travel se on centres embedded in masonry. There.
will be a parapet of brickwork, and the- whole is to.
bo covered externally with earthwork. Magazinesi
barracks, and outbuddings are to b 3 provided for
the accommodati, n of two officers, 40 mon, and one
MAElter Uunuer, and the area of the whole will bo