The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-31 00:00:00

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NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRAIA'T, JAL 30.—PROMOTIoN6.—Clerks 0.
Teat (15411) and A. 0. Thomas (1849) promoted to the tank
Sr pmmusers.

- _ _,_ _ 0. L. Bridges, fiat• the
Dike of Wellingtos, UI, mew steam ship, of 700 home-
power, at Spithead, to the Geyser, 6, paddle-wheel steam
limp, of 280 horsepower, at Portsmouth ; and F. W. B. H.
Merwell, from the Doke of Welliagtoe, to the Hasulbal,
90, screw steam ship, 91460 hermit-poeess at peripert.

BAGGAGE AND LAND IRANsPORT CORPS.—Four
of this c Hirers of th.s corps base started for the East.
Colonel Iledordo and others will follow. Calomel Napier
is to remain at hums, arab a staff, to superintend the re-
cruiting and the formation of a depot at Woolwich.

PORTSMOUTH, Ji.s. 30.

The men-of-war at this port are being rapidly got
forward for service again, especially with a view to the
equipment of another D iltic Reel in the spring. The Duke
of Wellington, 131, screw ship, Captain Gordon, is progress-
ing in her refit at Spithead ; the Ajle, CO, screw, Captain
Warden, which went out to that anchorage yesterday, has
emberked her powder and shell to-day; and the Geyser, 6,
paddle sloop, Commander Dew, has filled up with coal.
These have been augmented by the Esk, screw sloop,
Captain Birch, which has gone out of harbour toiday, and
taken in her powder and shell. The other ships in bar-
boor make similar progress.
The Retribution, 2S, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, Csp-
tam Tath.m, is to have the injuries she sustained at the
attack on Sebastopol immediately repaired. While these
are going on her crew will be gr►nted leave of absence,
being paid up wages on Thursday.
The Dragon, 6, paddle-wheel sloop, Captain Willcox,
kft Spithead this morning for Plymouth.
The Sandia's, convict ship, arrived at Spithead last night
from the river, to embark prisoners from the convict prison
at this post, fur conveyance to Gibraltar. About SO were
taken out to her this afternoon in the Echo steam tug, and
she labs( quehtly sailed for her destination.
The Mem, 3, paddle, went out of harbour to-day, to try
her machinery.
The Snowdown, steamer, will sail for Balsklava to-mor-
row morning early, wits the last of the wooden huts sad
the machinery, &c., for the wharf labourers for the same
place, who go out in her, sad which she has shipped to-day.

PLYMOUTH, Tun')Ay Mown's°.

The hired strew steam transport Canadian sailed
from Plymouth Sound this morning, with troops for the
Crimes.

A larg,e quantity of hospital and medical stores
arrived )esterdey at the Southampton-docks, to be em-
barked on hosed the Severn, bound Inc the Black Sea, con-
sisting of linen ni,tht caps, sheets, flannel shins, towels,
ho.pi•al blue cloth coats, and trousers, and 10 tons of dis-
Infectirg
The master of the horse transport ship A.
wrecked at Eupatoria, has returned to England. after saving
all be could Irons the wreck. It was this ship that when on
shore was apparently about to become an easy capture by
the Cossacks, when, to the surprise of the Hussiaos, and
still mire to the astonishment of those on board the
Asis, the stranded French line-of-battle ship Henri IV.,
wrecked in the same gsle, let Ily such a shower of grape,
from her poop guns, elthe ugh the sea was washing through
her (lecke, that the Cossacks were swept back with great