The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-15 00:00:00

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, lAN. 13.—APPOINTMENTS.—Liell-
tenant J. C. Peny (1828), to the Imperieuse, 60, screw
team ship, of 350 ham power, at Portsmouth.
Surgeon J.Lertlner (1838), to the Orion, 80, screw steam
ship, at Chatham.
Paymasters R. Loney (1840), to the Orion; J. Briggs, to
the Himalaya, screw steam ship, at Southampton; and B.
K. Buller, to the Conway, 26, at Cora.
Clerk C. Fisher (1830) to the Orion.
Clerks.Assistanu J. B. Adams, to the Duke of Welling-
ton, 130, strew steam ship, of 780 horse power, at Spithead
B. M. Russell, to the Melampus, 42, at Sheerness ; H. N.
Cole, and C. D. Lee, to the Orion.

A detachmeot of Royal Marines of the Woolwich
division, consisting of 1 captaia (Captain M'Arthur), I
subaltern (Lieut. Albert Hignian), 1 sergeant, 1 corporal, I
drummer, and 63. privates, is to proceed this morning from
Woolwich by the North Kent Railway to Strood, and
thence by steamer to Sheerness, where they will embark
on board the Orion, screw steam-ship, commissioned
at that port by Captain John E. Erskine. The remainder
of the Royal Marines requirtd to make up the compli-
ment for the Orion are to be furnished by the Chatham
division and artillery companies.

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Two bombardiers and 34 gunners of the Royal
Horse Artillery left the Arsenal station for London on
Friday afternoon en route for Liverpool, to embark there
for a passage to the Crimes.

Captain and and Adjutant Henry, of the Royal Horse
Artillery, has kft the ga,risoa at Woolwich for the Crimea,
having been appointed brigade-major at the seat of war in
the East, vice Adye, promoted to be lieutenant•eoloael.

On Saturday evening a large number of volunteers
for the household brigade, under the command of a colour
sergeant of the Grenadier Guards, arrived from the northern
and eastern districts, at the terminus of the Eastern Coun.
ties Railway, and were immediately marched to the Horse-
guards, and from thence to Wellington Barracks, and will
be taken to-day to the Guards' orderly-room, Horse-guards,
where they will be attested for their respective regiments.
The men are tall, athletic and young, and have volunteered
from the militia and from regiments of the line.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw
steamer Rajah, now lying in Southampton Dock, has been
taken up by government to take out wooden hat* to the
Crimea.

Her Majestfe screw steamer Himalaya will, after
being docked and repaired, be commanded by officers in her
Majesty's navy. A crew will be furnished, however, by the
Peninsular and Oriental Company, and will sail in her, sub.
jut to the laws of the mercantile marine.

The court-martial on the officers of her Majesty's
ship Tiger will be held about the 20th inst. Some of the
(Moen were expected home in the Sampson and some in the
Britannia.

The Suisse, of Bern e, states that a fresh order for
20,000 pair of wooden shoes for the army of the Crimea
has been received. The first order has been executed and
sent off.

A number of wooden barracks in planks have
already been despatched by the Lyons Railway, to be shipped
for the Crimea.

INSUBORDINATION ON BOARD THE AVON,
-CONDITION OF THE SICK AND WOUNDED
TROOPS.

PORTSMOUTH, lAN. 14.

The sick and wounded troops who have been
brought home in the Avon, steam transport, have been and
still are detained at this port under circumstances of a very
extraordinary character. The Avon arrived with them at
Southampton late on Thursday night, and receiving orders
to come into this port to land them at the dockyard, she
arrived in harbour early the following morning, and those
of them whose cases required removal to hospital were at
once taken there on stretchers. These were 18 in number.
The remainder, numbering 200 non-commissioned officers
and men of various regiments, remained on board, an
order coming down by telegraph directing the Avon to pro-
ceed round to Chatham to land them there, instead of
their being forwarded on by railway, as had been done with
the invalids from V.e Himalaya and Candis. We c.in hardly
ascertain any reason for their being sent round by water
instead of by the other more expeditious route. Arrange-
ments were in consequence made for the Avon to sail yester-
day morning, but when the time arrived the crew
refused to take hrr to Chatham; stoker!, seamen,
and all hands refuting to go. The captain and officers 01
the ship tried every inducement to alter the determine.
Jim of the men, but in vain. Their engagemt nt appears
to Lave been for the voyage out and home, terminating on
reaching Portsmouth, Southampton, or any other port in
Ragland. The captain offered to pay them extra wages
for the run round, promising as much as 41, a man, but
they were immovable, and demanded their immediate dis-
charge. The men had evidently been drinking all the
morning, and by noon many were quite intoxicated, mut-
tering to each other their determination not to do any fur-
ther work on board the vessel fur any consideration. Cap-
tain Vincent, the superintendent of the Royal Mail Com-
pany, to whom the Avon belongs, bad arrived from South-
ampton, and used his best efforts to induce the crow to take
the ship away. The exigency of the public service, and the
state of the poor troops, were urged upon them, but is
vain. It was at length found that nothing could possibly
Ile done with them, and they had to be discharged
from the ship. They accordingly collected their lug-
gage, and took it out of the weasel on to
the dockyard jetty to be searched by the Customs officers.
Most of the men were in possession of Rusin!, muskets,
bayonets, swords, and uniforms. Some had three or four
musket barrels each, the stocks, it appears, having been
used by the English troops for firewood. These articles
had been obtained at Balaklava or from Russian prisoners,
and sick and wounded British troops who had died en the
voyage from the Crimea to Scutari. One man belonging to
the Avon's crew (he was in a decided state of inebriation)
dressed himself up in a Russian soldier's uniform coat, put
on a Russian helmet, sword, and one of the bearskin knap-
sacks worn by the enemy's infantry. In this attire he
marched out of the dockyard, shouldering a musket. It is
niedless to say that he soon gathered a mob round him
when be got into the streets. Many others also girded
themselves with swords and shouldered their muskets. The
wcunded and sick troops looked on the scene being enacted
with composure and good humour, laughing loudly at the
figures some of the crew made of themselves. The
remarks of the soldiers were, however, anything
but complimentary to the merchant seamen, either
as regarded the gcod sense or good feeling they
were displaying. They appeared amazed that any body,
of seamen could so easily desert the ship they had belonged
to, and the service they had been employed in, and they
most emphatically contrasted their conduct with that of the
seamen of tho Royal Navy in the exertion the latter die-
played at the disembarkation in the Crimea, and the de-
' votien that was exhibited by the same men in rescuing the
wounded from the field of battle. It was very affecting to
' hear the warmth with which the exertions of the seamen in

conveying the fallen troops to a place of succour, and the
delicacy, care, and attention with which they handled the
poor maimed soldiers, were spoken of, and which now
seemed to be remembered the more vividly from the cir-
cumstances goieg en around.

When it became evident that the crew must be die.
charged the telegraph was again set to work, to acquaint
the government with the state of affairs, and to ask for
farther instructions. In the course of the afternoon
orders came down countermanding the voyage to Chatham,
and directing the troops to be sent up by rail, as before. It
was then too late in the day to reach Chatham by a reason-
able time of the night, and to-day being Sunday, it was deter-
mined to retain the men on board till to-morrow (Monday),
morning, and then to take them away at 7 o'clock am-
They consequently still remain on board, alongside the
dockyard. They evidently do not relish their retention in
the ship, but they submit with entire patience and with-
out a murmur to the extraordinary circumstances they
have been involved in. It is certainly a wearisome time
to them; alongside their native land they are unable to
put their fest on shore, and to all intents and purposes they
are prisoners. The officer in charge of them, Mr. Tydd,
Assistant-Surgeon of the 68th Regiment, cannot take on
himself the responsibility of allowing them, in their sick
and wounded condition, to leave the ship, as serious results
might ensue from exposure or irregularity. They are
well provided with fresh food and other requisites, and
some of the inhabitants have been very kind to them.
Mr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who resides near the dock gates,
sent in a pint of porter yesterday for each man.

This morning a party of stokers and seamen were brought
*land from the Nail ,Company's depot at Southampton,
to navigate the Avon there to-merrow.
The Sampson, 6, paddle wheel steam frigate, came into
1 harbour yosterdeb from Spitbead, for repairs,