The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-17 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY IN7ELLIGENCE

Field-Marshal his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge, General Commanding-in-Chief, being
expected to visit Portsmouth during the present
week, the ordinary Monday's brigade of the troops
in that garrison on. Southsea-common was on tha
day conducted on an extended scale by Lieut.-Gen.
Sir George Buller. At the close of the movements
Lieut.-Gen. Buller rode to the front of the 35th
Regiment, where he presented Sergeant Crane, of
that regiment, with the medal of the Royal Humane
Society, awarded him for an act of great gallantry
in jumping into the tidal channel from off the Gun-
wharf wall, with his uniform and sword bayonet on,
to the rescue of a boy, the son of Staff-Commander
Fawekner, of her Majesty's ship Asia.
Yesterday Major-Gen. F. Murray, commanding
(.11e division at Chatham, inspected on the general
parade ground the detac:unents of the Ist battalion
if the Ist Royals and the Ist battalion of the Bth
.regiment, under orders to embark for Malta, cn
route for India.

An order was yesterday received at the head-
platters of the Royal Engineer establishment at
Brompton, directing the B troop of the Royal En-
gineer Train to proceed from Chatham this morning
co Aldershot, to go into winter quarters. The troop
will march by daily stages from Chatham to Alder-
shot, halting to-night at Dartford, to-morrow at
Lewisham, on Thursday at Richmond, Friday at
Egham, and arriving at Aldershot on Saturday.
fhe A troop, in two sections, will also leave
Chatham for Aldershot in the course of the present
week.

By direction of the Admiralty a trial has been
made in the Medway, under the superintendence of
Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.B. ;
Capt. W. P. Hall, C. 8., superintendent of the dock-
yard ; Capt. the Hon. A. A. Cochrane, C. 8., com-
manding the steam reserve, and other naval and
military officers, of a new description of life-buoy,
patented by Messrs. Welsh and Bourchier, which it
is proposed to adopt in the Royal Navy. It consists
of a light, open framework of wood, at the upper
end of which is a metal air casing, and at the lower
part a small water tank, capable of containing about
six gallons of fresh water. Two telescopic masts are
also fitted to the lifebuoy, having at their summit
two flags always flying seven feet above the level of
he sea, for the purpose of pointing out its position
from the ship. To these masts are attached two
port fires as signal lights, one being ignited by the
action of letting go the buoy, while the other is at
the service of the man when he gets into the buoy,
to show his position in a dark night. The buoy win
support a whole boat's crew by their holding on to
the floating brackets outside. The trial was made
from the stern of the Salamander, and the result was
highly satisfactory.
Her Majesty's screw troopship Simoom, Capt. J.
B. Lethbridge, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday
with the Ist and sth Batteries of Royal Artillery 00
board, comprising Capts. Wylde and Ellaby, Lieuts•
Milbury, Pipon, and Sanders, 200 non-commissioned
officers and gunners, with women and children.
The Liffey, screw (unarmoured wooden) frigate,
34, Capt. E. J. Johnstone, sailed from Spithead
yesterday afternoon for a few days' cruise in the
Channel for gun and general drill practice.
A court-martial was held yesterday on board the
flagship Royal Adelaide, in the Hamoaze, for the
trial, on a charge of drunkenness, of Navigating
Sub-Lieut. Charles Meadows Doleson, when he was
dismissed from her Majesty's service. The Court
consisted of Capt. Lambert, president; Capts. Jones,
Earle, Pellew, and Buller, with Mr. Wm. Eastlake,
Deputy Judge-Advocate of the Fleet.
A general order from the War-office announces
that cases having occurred in which Staff depart'
mental officers serving abroad have remitted large
sums of money through the military accountants for
payment in England, the Secretary of State for War
desires that it may be distinctly understood that the
intention and scope of War-office Circular No. 481
(the 28th of September, 1850,) was to extend t°
such officers the privilege previously granted to
officers serving in India only—namely, " to remit
limited portion of their pay for the benefit of their
parents, wives, children, brothers, or sisters," and
that the remittance of an officer's private funds
through the public accountants cannot be permitted
for other purposes, nor to any amount beyond that
of his monthly pay. In future no remittances i 6
excess of such amount will be issued by the We"
office.
Mr. P. Thornton, master shipbuilder at Chatham
dockyard, has resumed his duties at that establi,h-
ment, after being engaged for some time in the in-
spection of the double-screw iron armour-platen
turret-ship Cerberus, built by the Palmer Ship-
building Company, at Jarrow-upon-Tyne, for the
defence of Melbourne. The Cerberus will shortly
arrive at Chatham to be completed for sea.
The Inspector-General of the Royal Darius
Forces, Major-Gen. Oates Travers, C. 8., aec°Pis:
panied by his aide-de-camp, Capt. J. M. Lenn°,,"
commenced the annual inspection of the Woolwich
division of that force yesterday.
The practice with the 150-pounder rifled gun
converted from a 68-pounder cast-iron smooth-1)13i:
gun on the Parsons' system was resumed
yesterday
to complete the programme of firing 120 rounds Las
stated in llie Sun), 17 rounds of which had to nve
to
fired, but owing to the platform getting out
order, and there not being time to repair it bei°..A
the rise of the tide, the practice was discontinn'
13d0
after firing 11 rounds, making in all 114 rondo
that had been fired with charges of 301 b. of Per
~0
and a projectile of 1501 b. weight, besides the "to
proof rounds of 3711 b. of powder and 1501 b.
The range attained was slightly under that on
day last at the same elevation of 19 deg. The inloo
velocities taken and roughly calculated were 17v t.
feet per second, but owing to the absence of
Noble, R.A., have not been checked. The gun
der
shows no signs of weakness or deterioration 11n
the severe strain to which it has been put.
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A trial of the engines of her Majestys
Northumberland, 24, Capt. Roderick Devi', C.P:
vet;
was made outside the Breakwater, Plymouth/ do
terday, when the mean speed attained after silr r
under full boiler power was 14132 knots per
11
11. 128
and with four runs at half-boiler power ory
knots. The engines worked in a very satisfs°'

manner, indicating over 6,500-horse power.
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A naval court-martial, presided over by CaPt'
Ana
J. Kennedy, C. 8., her Majesty's ship Valiant, j,
composed of Capts. W. C. Chamberlain, js-si
B. Johnson, Liffey ; E. A. D. Brooker, Scorpio
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S. B. Spiers, Himalaya ; J. C. Soady, Seracis ; ato
E. W. Watson, Crocodile, assembled at Portsin°ll,
on Saturday, on board ner Majesty's ship Vietoap,
for the trial of Thomas Power, ordinary selll3l.nd
joiww
serving on board the Duke of Wellington trit
isop
ship,".on a charge of having thrown an open ~iO,
knife at the sick berth attendant on board the Bye,
The court found the charge proved, but, in COnsioro
ration of the youth of the prisoner, sentenced no
to the mitigated term of imprisonment for two'
in Lewes gaol, with hard labour. inen°
The detachments of the 14th and Bth to
placed under orders to proceed from Cliatba;jog
Malta will leave the garrison on Saturday rlfisitiv
for embarkation on board the Serapis .00
The service companies of the Ist and Bth itegb,„
will shortly proceed from Malta to India. tea 0
The depot of the 48th Regiment is e%Pec Tvio
arrive at Colchester to-morrow or Saturday t
officers and nine men of the 4th and Bth Denyth°
talions are under orders to proceed to the
School of Musketry on the Ist proximo. vi o'3
An order has been received at Chatham fro.ditlo
War-office announcing that, in accordance vflinset
recommendation of the Ordnance Select Cch3l33ericolt
it has been decided that shot—solid, sPb to Do
common, and 68-pounders—are in future row"
painted black, instead of red. Care must,' a6'
ever, be taken that they are not used insteau_,
tbe
inch hollow shot at stations where any store 193.`n De
latter may be remaining. The solid shotc diffe'
readily distinguished from the hollow by the
reuce in the weight. Di ICI'
His Imperial Russian Majesty's screw 5t 30
gate Alexander Newsky, 51, Capt. Kremer, terof
from Algeria, arrived in Plymouth Sound Yesfor
afternoon, and, after coaling, will
Petersburg. She has on board his Imperial .ea Di
xis ness Grand Duke Ale, who is accoulPaul
Vice-. Dziet. proceed,